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IOWA VOL. 7. DES MOIN Mines. Prompt Delivery. Market 320 Sixth Avenue COAL. WAY COAL CO.. Iowa 977. 212 W. 7th Street. Both Phones. Prom Boston Market 320 CLEAN COAL MIDWAY CO Mutual 56. {PHONES} Iowa 977. 212 Both Phones. Prompt Delivery. Boston Market 320 Sixth Avenue CLEAN COAL, MIDWAY COAL CO., Mutual 56. {PHONES} Iowa 977. 212 W. 7th Street. Heating Stoves, Cook Stoves. Butter and Egg Market Howard Case AND Co Props. 502 Sixth Avenue. "Everything Known In Music." Rissler Music Co. General Short hand Reporter. DES MOINES, IOWA. 218 Iowa Loan and Trust Co. Building. Iowa Phone 294. H. B. BURRUS, President JEFFERSON LOGAN, Treasurer R. N. HYDE, Secretary J. H. HILL, Vice President Movable Calk Horseshoe Co. 118-120 Grand Avenue. BOARD OF MANAGERS J. H. HILL, Des Moines, Ia. JEFFERSON LOGAN, Des Moines, Ia. R. N. HYDE, Des Moines, Ia. H. B. BURRUS, Des Moines, Ia. BOARD OF DIRECTORY JAMES HILL, Marquisville, Ia. JAMES FERGUSON Saylerville, Ia. E. ROEY, C. C. JENKINS, Fraser, Ia. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware her pleasing Christmas gifts at Fourth and Walnut Sts. is attractive as the goods Save time, trouble, money, from our extensive Holiday Stock. All are invited to come..... Diamonds, Watches Jewell and other pleasing Christ S. JOSEPH, Fourth and Our Fair Prices are as attractive as the g and get the best by choosing from our extensive ...All are invited to Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware and other pleasing Christmas gifts at S. JOSEPH, Fourth and Walnut Sts. Our Fair Prices are as attractive as the goods.Save time, trouble, money, and get the best by choosing from our extensive Holiday Stock. All are invited to come. JUST JUST MUNGER'S IRON SHIRTS TO FIT Munger's Laundry, 211-213 Ninth Street. Branch Office, 509 Mulberry Street MEAT MARKET 806 EAST TWELFTH. IOWA PHONE 484. ALFORD ANDERSON. Photo Novelty Co., 208 Sixth Avenue MANUFACTURER of paint and high grade photographic work. Minature photos made for any kind of jewelry. Photographs enlarged, copied or taken. Each man having years of experience in his profession, we are prepared to do your work. A. MARCOVIS, Dealer in Hardware &, Tinware, Also Second-hand Stoves. Reprint Stoves a Specialty. 770 W. Ninth St., Des Moines, Ia. Mutual Phone 1274. SEVENTH AND WALNUT. Piano Sale This Week. Frank M. Van Pelt, 11 ```markdown ``` DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1900. Do You Know That we carry the largest stock and the greatest variety of choice Meats in the city? A trial will convince you Our prices are right. We guarantee you courteous treatment. GUS REHKOPF'S ... Prescription Druggist, NEAR STREET CAR WAITING ROOM, 208 Sixth Ave., Des Moines, Ia. CASH OR TIME 417 W. Ninth Street. MILLINERY. MISS SUSIE BRADLEY. 705 Locust. Florentine Block. Families Supplied with First- Class Fresh Country Butter and New Laid Eggs Every Week. Milk, Cream and Butter Milk a specialty. MUTUAL PHONE 1238 —GIVE US A TRIAL— SKATES! SKATES! SKATES! Barney and Berry's Patent Lever. L. H. KURTZ, 308 WEST WALNUT. "Be Sure You're Right." There's an old motto we apply to all work done here, before it is allowed to go out— "Be sure you're right, Then go ahead." We are careful that all work is as it should be before you receive it. Shall we send our wagon for a trial bundle from you? Champagne & Son, Launderers. Iowa Phone 171. Call and See R. N. BROMLEY Christmas Gifts At Wholesale Prices! Diamond Jewelry, Gold Watches, Cut Glass, Novelties, Rings, Broaches, Chains and Buttons, Tie Pins, Opera Glasses, Silver and Silver Plated Ware. PIANOS Wholesale From Retail Price 25 per ct. Discount (until Jan. 1, 1901) on the following makes: $500 Knabe & Co. Piano for $350. Crown Piano, (HAS MANY TONES) Schiller Piano, (USED IN MUSICAL CONSERVATORY'S.) Emerson Piano, (ESTAB. 1849—75,000 IN USE.) Ludwig Piano, (UNLIMITED GUARANTEE.) 12 other good makes of Pianos at $125, $150, $175, $212.50, $262.50—SAVING $100 to the purchaser. Will sell any Piano, $15 cash down, and $10 monthly payments. Cheaper Piano at $5 per month. An Easy way to get an Xmas Present. EDWARD H. JONES. WHOLESALE PIANOS, JEWELRY. 505 LOCUST STREET. A BUNCH OF CARNATIONS CHRISTMAS GREETING CHRISTMAS ON THE DESERT 1990 Wholesale PIANO From Retail Price 25 per Jan. 1, 1901) on the follow- $500 Knabe & Co. Crown Piano, (HAS MA- Schiller Piano, (USED Emerson Piano, (ESTA Ludwig Piano, (UNLIMI- 12 other good makes of Piano, $262.50—SAVING $10 Will sell any Piano, $15 cash do- Cheaper Piano an An Easy way to get an Xm EDWARD WHOLESALE PIANO 505 LOCUST ST A BUNCH CAR CHRISTMAS I was raised on HARDING'S Ice Cream. 762 W. NINTH ST. 'Phones 547. New Meat Market. ... W. A. ANDERSON... 1012 CENTER STREET has opened a New Meat Market. He carries all grades of meat and delivers to any part of the city. You will need some cards for the holidays. If you can not spare time to come to our office call up Iowa phone 899 and give your order. --- TWO NORTHS AND TWO SOUTHS To one, whom is a stranger in our country, it is pleasant and inspiring to hear of we Americans speak of our country, as one country, one flag, one race, happy and united. Iu some respects this may be true, but in many it is not so. There are two Norths, one selfish, grasping corrupt and lawless composed of anarchist, strikers and trusts, the other North is unselfish liberal, pure and just composed of philanthropist patriots and benefactors. There are two Souths, one proud quarrelsome, vindictive unmearciful composed of murders, lynchers and mock aristocracy, there is another South gener- S. WILLIAMS, STE 794. 1812 CROCKER STREET L, WOOD AND FEED. kels' Great Store HEADQUARTERS FOR Day Novelties Every Day. Open Evenings Until 9 o'clock. J. W. Eade, Sec'y. John E. Petree, Vice Prest. Chas. J. Engleen, Treas. Holm Drug Co., GO TO H. S. WILLIAMS MUTUAL PHONE 794. 1812 CROCKER STREET FOR COAL, WOOD AND FEED. Large Crowds Every Day. Open Evenings Until 9 o'clock. Kirkwood House Pharmacy, And 601 E. Locust Street, ... Telephones Kirkwood House Phas Mutual 1120, Iowa 185 601 E. Locust Street, Prescriptions Higgins Sixth and Gr The Finest Lin Markwood House Pharmacy—Des Moines, Iowa. Annual 1120, Iowa 158. E. Locust Street, Mu. 1122, Iowa 159. Scriptions a Specialty. Ins Pharmacy and Grand Avenue. West Line of CANDIES Telephones Kirkwood House Pharmacy—Des Moines, Iowa. 1189 Iowa 158 601 E. Locust Street, Mu. 1128, Iowa 150. Prescriptions a Specialty. Higgins Pharmacy Sixth and Grand Avenue. The Finest Line of CANDIES STEAM DYE WORKS. Office 211 Sixth Avenue. Nearly Opposite Street Car Waiting Room. DES MOINES, IOWA. Satisfaction Guaranteed on all our Work. French Dry Cleaning a Specialty. Gents' Clothing Cleaned, Repaired and Dyed. All Orders by Mail Promptly Attended to. D. S. WOLLENSKY The Photographer for Colored People. It is not every Photographer who takes pains to give the colored people a satisfactory picture. I have made a practice of it and I give satisfaction to most of the colored people. Prices reduced for the next twenty days. My $6.00 pictures for $3.00. I want you all to give me a all. First premium at Iowa State Fair five times. I. W. KRAMAR. Sundays open until 4 p. m. THE EARLY MUSIC HOUSE. 315 SEVENTH STREET. Guitars, Mandolins, Banjos, Etc. Lowest Prices— Best goods in the city. CASH OR PAYMENTS. ous, merciful, chivalrous and law abiding, composed of philanthropist benefactors, patriots and law abiding. The last North and South are the united North and South or at least should be, it is our kind and when it begins to labor to destroy the evil and jealous sentiment of the other North and South, when this is done greater achievements will come to America then ever before. The past must be forgotten, new ties formed and based upon love honesty, purety, equality and justice, each man must be judged by his morals and qualification and not upon his past condition. Then we can exclaim, this is one county, one flag, one nation and one race. --- --- Phone 617. CHICAGO No. 27. IN THE CITY. THE KIMBALL CO.'S ANNUAL HOLIDAY A house full of Pianos, ranging in price from $157.00, up. Organs in endless varieties. Some secondhand Organs, from $5.00 to $25.00—easy payments. Mandolins, Guitars and Violins, at prices lower than any place in the state. Sheet music from 1 to 19c. All kinds of Musical Novelties, especially for Holidays sale. We are boring with a big auger this week. Come and see the chips fly. 407 West Walnut street. W. H. WER, Manager. CHRISTMAS. Befor another issue of the Bystander Christmas will have come and gone forever, never again to be enjoyed in this century. But as we think of men to deepen with each passing year. Since we last stood at this our annual and customary festival last year our planet has carried the human race around the sun 500 millions of miles, and each December ask the sun to look down upon a greater and better human race, larger cities, greater achievement better homes and richer fields. Must the human race stand still? This scenes of barbarism, lynchings and oppression must give way to scenes of friendship, enlightenment and reason. Peruasion, liberty and justice are a higher art than prejudice, jealousy and ignorance. Yet some of the American people, especially in the Southern section of the United States, we are sorry to say, have not risen to that higher conception of universal brotherhood and due respect for all: but we hope when they meet around their festival table this Christmas that they may reflect and think and make a change for the better, so that the whole American family may pass from the old to the new century with our newly acquired island brothers and march onward and upward, that we may rejoice more and be merry each Christmas. May sunshine and plenty bless us all, and each, the poor and the rich, shall be happy. M. [Picture of a man with a mustache and a bow tie, wearing a dark suit and a white shirt. The background is a solid black oval.]] ```markdown ``` HON. DAVID S. PAULER There are few men in Iowa who are more widely or favorably known than David J. Palmer, who was born in Washington Co., Pa., in 1839, and came to Iowa in 1856. When the civil war began, he enlisted in Company C, Eighth Iowa infantry, and saw as much service as any other man. At Shiloh he was shot through the breast, producing a wound that would have been fatal to most men, and was taken prisoner. He afterwards escaped and was discharged on account of disability. He came home, but before the wound had entirely healed he recruited a company which became Company C, Twenty-fifth Iowa. In June, 1863, for gallantry at the seige of Vicksburg he was promoted lieutenant colonel, and [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit] HON. MILTON REMLEY. In that part of Virginia which is now West Virginia, Mr. Remley was born in 1844, but became an Iowa in 1855. Twelve years later he graduated from the collegiate department of the Iowa State University, and afterward studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1868. In partnership with his brother, Judge H. M. Remley, he practiced law at Anamosa until 1874 when he moved to Iowa City where he gained a position in the front rank of his profession. In 1894 he was elected attorney general and today ranks with asah found HON. M. H. BYERS. In military affairs Iowa has always enjoyed an enviable reputation, and under the regime of Adjutant General Byers this reputation has been enhanced. General Byers was born in Ohio in 1846 and came to Iowa in 1853. At the age of 17 he enlisted in the Twenty-ninth Iowa, serving through the entire civil war, after which he returned to Iowa and farmed until 1871, when he filled appointive positions for three years. He was elected county recorder in 1878, holding from that time chiefly commanded the regiment until the war ended. He served two terms as county auditor of his county, and later made a most valuable member of the state senate, achieving golden opinions as chairman of the committee on agriculture. Governor Shaw appointed him to fill the unexpired term of the pate Major Davidson, railroad commissioner. Again he proved his fitness for an office of trust and received the unanimous nomination of the state convention for the office in 1898, and again last fall. Few men have more real friends. His unassuming manner, uniform courtesy, and absolute fairness, have gained for him the esteem and confidence of those of all parties, races and classes. 1910 the foremost jurists of the west. During his incumbancy of office many important questions have arisen and his opinions have been endorsed by the best attorneys. He was married in 1869. Of his four children the eldest son is an attorney at Iowa City. A daughter, Mrs. Walter D. Lowell, resides in Des Moines, while a younger son and daughter are in school. Although Gen. Remley's term soon expires there are none who believe that he will be permitted by the people of Iowa to remain long in private life. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph of a person's face, but the details are not clear. Therefore, no text can be extracted from this image. that office for three terms, and while mayor of Glenwood inaugurated water works and electric lights. General Byers was captain of a military company for eleven years and is chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias and as Masonic officer he has gained laurels. In 1895 he was made major of the Third regiment. As adjutant general he has brought Iowa into prominence in military circles, and his record is full of honor to himself. THE MASTER THE COURT OF THE UNION It is with much more than ordinary pleasure that we refer Governor Leslie M. Shaw, who, among all the historic executives of the state, has never suffered by comparison with Governor Shaw, who was born in Vermont in 1848, and his boyhood days were spent on a farm. He received his preliminary education in the country schools. He afterward spent two terms at the local academy and then taught school for several years. In 1869 he came to Iowa and by working on a farm, teaching and selling nursery stock, saved enough to graduate at Cornell college in 1874. In 1872 he married Miss Alice Crawshaw, a most estimable young lady, at Comanche, Clinton county, having in the meantime graduated at the Iowa Law College. He located at Denison and soon rose to the front rank in the legal profession. Governor Shaw has achieved high honors and gained confidence and esteem not only in his own state, but far beyond its borders. Though always consistent republican, prior to 1896 he had taken no active interest in politics other than to work and speak for the party; but in that year his reply to Bryan's fallacies brought him into prominence as an orator, and his services have been in demand ever since. In 1897 he received the 1 PROF. W. H. COUNCILL. W. H. Council was born in Fayetteville, N. C., in 1848, and was carried to Alabama by the traders in 1857, through the famous Richmond Slave Pen. In Alabama he worked in the fields with the other slaves. He is a self-made man, having had only a few school advantages. He attended one of the first schools opened by kind northern friends at Stevenson, Ala., in 1865. Here he remained about three years and this is the basis of his education. He has been a close and earnest student ever since, often spending much of the night in study. He has accumulated quite an excellent library, and the best books of the best masters are his constant companions, as well as a large supply of the best current literature. By private study and almost incessant study he gained a fair knowledge of some of the languages, higher mathematics and the sciences. He was Chief Enrolling Clerk of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1872-4. He was appointed by President Grant Receiver of the Land Office for the Northern District of Alabama in 1875. He was founder and editor of the Huntsville Herald from 1777 to 1884. He founded the great educational institution, Normal, of which he is president and has been for nearly a quarter of a century. He read law and was admitted to the Supreme Court of Alabama in 1883. But he has never left the profession of teaching, although flattering political positions have been held out to him. He has occupied high positions in church and other religious, temperance and char- --- nomination for governor. It was predicted that he would give the state a business administration, and the prediction has proven true. In 1890 he was renominated by acclamation. His strong and impartial administration has popularized him with all classes. He presided at the Indianapolis sound money convention in 1898, and has often been called upon to speak before important gatherings in other states, only recently making the chief address at the Washington centennial, and there gaining new honors. He is an unassuming, approachable, courteous gentleman, characterized by the highest sense of honor, and his popularity is so great that it will not be surprising if he be made the recipient of continued and higher honors. In a remark which he made in a speech at Denison in 1897 regarding the republican party may be found an index to his own character: "Read all of the platforms of the republican party from the first in 1856 to the last one and you will find the same love of liberty, the same sympathy and personal interest in the poor of earth, whether that poverty has been enchained or self-imposed, whether it is traceable to parental influences or to a want of those characteristics which, measured by human estimates, insure success." THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. PAUL'S itable organizations, and has no mean standing as a public speaker. Prof. Councill has traveled quite extensively in Europe, and was warmly received and entertained by the Hon. W. E. Gladstone and His Majesty, King Leopold, of Belgium. And thus by earnest toil, self-denial, hard study he has made himself, built up one of the largest institutions in the South and educated scores of young people at his own expense. Prof. Councill is proud to be known as a friend to Africa. He is co-operating with Bishop Turner in the redemption and civilization of that continent. Normal, under Prof. Councill, is educating native Africans for this purpose. He has received the degree of Ph. D. from Morris Brown College. Prof. Councill will speak for the first time in Des Moines next week before the Iowa State Teachers' Association. HON GEO L. DOBSON One of the most widely known men in public life in Iowa is Secretary of State Geo. L. Dobson. Mr. Dobson was born in England September 24, 1851. In 1864 his parents came to Illinois, where he spent the next four years. In 1868 the family moved to Wisconsin, and in 1869 to Fort Dodge, Iowa. In 1872 he moved to Sac county. In 1876 he married Miss S. A. Wate, an estimable and popular lady of Sac City. Soon after he entered the law department of the Iowa State University, where he graduated in 1878. He practiced law at Sac City M. HON. F. F. MERRIAM, AUDITOR. That the scriptural saying, "A prophet is not without honor save in his own country" does not always hold good is shown by the career of Hon. Frank F. Merriam, who has been the recipient of many honors, not only by the people of his county, but of the entire state. Mr. Merriam was born at Hopkinton, Iowa, in 1865, and has lived there practically all of his life. He grew up on his father's farm, experiencing the ordinary joys and sorrows of farmer boys. He attended the district schools, and when older taught in them. In 1888 he graduated from Lenox college, and immediately after was elected principal of the Hopkinton school, which he successfully filled for three years. He was then made superintendent of the Postville school, but at the expiration of the first year resigned to become editor of the Hopkinton Leader. He was elected a member of the Twenty-sixth general assembly, and re-elected to the Twenty-seventh, making an enviable reputation in his legislative career. In the Twenty-sixth he served as chairman of the committee on compensation of public officials, and at a special session was appointed one of three to investigate seventeen state institutions, and in the Twenty-seventh he was The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph of a building with a dome and a tower. and Newell until 1891. During that time he was mayor of Newell for five years and a member of the school board for nine years. He was also a member of the Twenty-first, Twenty-second and Twenty-third general assemblies, where he acquitted himself with honor and credit. In 1891 Mr. Dobson removed to Des Moines, and at the state republican convention in 1896 received the nomination and was elected. In 1898 he again receive the dnomination by acclamation. Mr. Dobson has conducted the office in an ideal manner. He brought into its management legal ability and sound business methods, and has given universal satisfaction. His official reports are perhaps the best that have ever been made. Mr. Dobson is an eloquent and effective speaker and his campaign in Nebraska during the recent election added inurels to his reputation and convinced his fellow citizens that his political career will by no means terminate with the expiration of his present position. Mr. Dobson is also engaged in business, being president of the National Life and Loan company, and it is worthy of note that he enjoys a standing in the business world quite as high as he does in political circles. Joshua Strawther, electrician, 952 West Thirteenth street. Electrical repairs of all kinds. Medical, dental and surgical instruments a specialty Dynamos and moters, light, etc. Give me a call. chairman of the important committee on appropriations. He was nominated for state auditor at the republican convention of September, 1898, and so satisfactorily did he discharge the duties of his office that his nomination for that position was an assured fact at the last convention. While Mr. Merriam has always been a staunch republican, his absolute fairness, high sense of honor and uniform courtesy have gained him a host of friends among all parties and classes. THOS. H. GRUBR When Supreme Court Clerk Jones found it necessary to appoint a deputy to succeed Mr. Emmett Brown, he appointed Mr. Thos. H. Grubb. There is no question but that Mr. Grubb's appointment was an excellent one, and that he will continue the same satisfactory service that has always characterized Mr. Jones' office. Mr. Grubb is from Columbus Junction, where he has been deputy postmaster. He is well known and esteemed and the people who do business with the supreme court are to be congratulated on his appointment. Mr. Grubb acquitted himself with honor as a member of the 51st Iowa. J. S. M'QUISTON. J. S. MQUISTON. No other official in Polk county is more generally known and popular than John S. McQuiston, who will soon retire from the auditorship. He was born in Saylor township, Polk county, five miles north of Des Moines, March 22, 1860. He attended the county schools and afterward graduated from the East Des Moines high school. He was treasurer of the East Des Moines school district for five years and deputy county auditor of Polk county for two terms, when he was elected auditor and gave such satisfaction that he was twice re-elected. On the expiration of his term he will enter upon his duties as deputy treasurer of the state, to which he has been appointed, and for which his record shows him to be admirably fitted. Mr. McQuiston is a plain, unassuming gentleman, genial and courteous, with a host of friends, and undoubtedly the future holds for him additional and higher honors. HON. C. L. JONES Although Mr. Jones was born in Kentucky, he has lived in Iowa so long that he is a genuine Hawkeye. He was born in 1837, removed to the territory of Iowa in 1842, locating in Louisa county and in 1850 removing to Washington county. He is essentially a self made man. When only twelve years old he was thrown upon his own resources and very successfully did he fight the battle of life. He was educated in the public schools and in Washington college and afterward went through a thorough course in the study of law and was admitted to the bar. In 1861 he enlisted in Company H, Second Iowa Infantry and was honorably discharged from service in the fall of the same year on account of injuries received in the service. In 1894 he was unanimously nominated for clerk of the supreme scout and so satisfactory did he discharge the duties of the office that he was re-nominated in 1898. It is universally conceded that he makes one of the most efficient clerks that ever filled the position. His legal training has peculiarly qualified him for the office and his genial courtesy has made all those who have business at the supreme court his friend, whether politically or not. As it is the general wish of all those who have business with the supreme court that Mr. Jones continue in office, he will be a candidate in 1902 and his nomination is certain. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF BIGHT OF REDEMPTION. To Margaret A. Warr: You are hereby notified, that the following described real estate, situated in Polk County, Iowa, to-wit: Lot Five (5) in Block "A" of the town of Mitchellville, Polk County, Iowa was sold for the taxes of 1896 on the sixth day of December 1897 to W. H. Boyles 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 expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said land will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated this 13th day of November A. D. 1900. Daniel T. Patton. By Geo. Harnagel, his agent. A Sad To Co CHAPTER V.—(Continued.) The sick man turned a startled look on her. "What do you mean, little one? Tell me, Jasmine. Have you any reason for saying this?" "None," she answered, gently patting his thin hand, "but that kind of instinct which you once said to me, daddy, all women have. I don't like him; I mistrust him. Is it not strange? There are some people, now"—she paused, and a little soft color crept into her cheeks—"that one feels could help one, would never betray one, could keep one's secrets as they would their own." "Yes,' said David Lloyd, "that is so. There is that young lawyer, now—what is his name?'—Enderby; I think I could trust him. But you are wrong about Lyndon, Jasmine; he is my friend. Now it is time for my medicine, is it not?" Jasmine went away for it, and after giving it to him, sat down by the fire. There was a soft light in her eyes, a kind of tremulousness on her mouth, as she looked into the flickering flame. Of what was she thinking? Who can say? The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. But she did not forget her household duties. She ran away presently to get the early tea which her father liked more than any other meal. Suddenly she heard a falnt cry, and running to her father's side she found him lying back in his chair, a ghastly color like that of death overspreading his face, his eyes open, but fixed and glazed, his lips apart, and a slight froth upon them. His whole appearance was a terrible one; but Jasmine had seen it once before—the night on which she had gone for Doctor Lyndon. She looked for a basin of warm water, and put his stiff hands into it, as if with an idea that that would do him good. As she did so a knock sounded on the door. She flew to it, and opened it to see Paul Enderby. It was Sunday, the day on which he had promised to come. "Oh, Mr. Enderby," she exclaimed, "father is terribly ill! Will you come in?" He followed her, and was shocked to see the terrible condition of her father. Jasmine continued her operations, loosened the neckband of the dressing gown, and chafed his hands with her own trembling ones. "Shall we lift him into bed, and I shall run for the doctor?" said Enderby, in a whisper. "No, no—not Doctor Lyndon!" she exclaimed, with a sudden energy that startled him. "But, if you do not mind helping me, we could lift him into bed." Enderby, with great gentleness, did so. Then he stood aside, wondering, as he had often done before, why he came always to be a helper of this man and his daughter; it was while Jasmine hung over her father, doing what she could for him with such womanly and almost motherly solicitude, that Enderby saw in her now a woman, not a child. Suddenly the dreadful look passed from the sick man's face, and he began to talk in a strange, rambling, incoherent way. "Yes, yes, Lyndon—just so, that's what we must do. Keep it quiet, of course. But he—what is his name?—Sir John, Sir Matthew—no, no I've forgotten!—he'll help me. He won't see harm come to me. And then there's Jasmine, my little one. Oh, whatever happens she must be cared for and looked after, and she must come to me. See here, this is how we'll—we'll—" His voice trembled away in coherently. Jasmine, her face very white, and wide terror in her eyes, turned to Enderby. The young man's heart ached at the agony in her appealing look. "Has he ever been like this before?" he asked in a low voice. "Only once," Jasmine whispered, "and that was the night I met you. Oh, it is terrible!" "What can we do? You don't wish for Lyndon. Shall I get another doctor?" Enderby asked. "No; he would be so put about over it when he became conscious." She moved to the foot of the bed, for the incoherent babblings were now lower, and Enderby followed her. Suddenly she looked up with terror in her face. "It is awful to think it," she said, whispering—and he could see her lips twitching nervously—"but I—I am afraid of Doctor Lydon. I don't trust him. Can it be—oh, I dare not say it!" Paul started violently, and he felt his own pale face. Could there be anything in the vague suspicion and mistrust of this man? He felt he must know what Jasmine thought; so much depended upon it. He laid his hand on her arm. "Miss Lloyd, will you trust me sufficiently to tell me what you mean? You have some reason to dislike, to distrust Doctor Lyndon? As I told you, I know him—a little. Perhaps I might be able to help you if I knew what you fear." Jasmine stole to her father's side. A woman's strength and love frequently helps a men over the weak places of life. We may look on life as an empty dream, but an empty coal bin is apt to make it a chilly reality. Men Windows Soothing Syrup. For soften teething, softens the grums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, curse wind colds. a bottle. Electric trains will next year make the trip between Chicago and Milwaukee in three hours. TIME TO GO SOUTH. For the present winter season the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company has improved its already nearly perfect through service of Pullman ventibulated sleeping cars and elegant day coaches from Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis and Chicago, to Mobile, New Orleans and the Gulf coast, Thomasville, Ga., Pensacola, Jacksonville, Tampa, Palm Beach and other points in Florida. Perfect connections made with steamer lines for Cuba, Porto Rico, Nassau, West Indian and Central American ports. Tourist and home seekers' excursion tickets on sale at low rates. Write C. L. Stone, General Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky. for particulars. Some men are more polished than their shoes would indicate. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & O.A., and business in the City of Toledo, County of Oakland and for the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRAKK J. CHENEY. Born to before me in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1838 [REAL] A. W. GLEASON. Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and does directly on the blood and mucus of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & CO., Toledo, O. Gold by Druskers, 75c. Ball's Family Pills are the best. How grateful one feels for a kindly, sympathetic word. Good Temper In a Jewel. Preserve it, as well as your clothes, by using Maple C ty Self Washing Soap. Love lightens labor if we work systematically. You take no chances when you buy Buzz Bleaching Blue. This famous article makes clothes whiter than snow. Refuse imitaNona. Those who don't impose on you find fault with you. Christmas Holiday Excursions. The Minneapolis & St. Louis R. 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GREEN'S BOSCH, B.E. K. K. ALDIN, A. He was asleep. She came back to Enderby, and made a motion to him to follow her to the window. "I know you will not betray us," she said in a low voice. "Perhaps you have guessed my father has some secret weighing on his mind. I do not know what it is; he has not told me. But I know this: my father is a good man, and he has never done anyone a wrong in his life. Doctor Lyndon knows his secret; I can see that. My father trusts him, and takes everything the doctor prescribes. He hardly takes any food; that is because Doctor Lyndon says he must not eat much, and that is making him so weak. And the doctor gives him a medicine—it is marked "Hypophosphates" on the label. He had taken a dose of that—the last dose in the bottle. The last time he was ill like this; and that he had today is the last dose in the bottle. Is not that strange?" It was starnge—very. Enderby's face, grave and pale, was slightly turned from Jasmine; but she saw it, and a sudden, overwhelming terror moved over her. In her agitation she seized his hand. "You think it—strange?" she said. "Oh, I must save him! I must save him! Help me, dear God—help me!" Passionate sobs broke her voice, and she shew herself on her knees, covering her face with her hands. Enderby looked down at her, strange emotions stirring him. Then he bent down and raised her up gently. "Don't give way like that, my child! We shall save him, no fear of that. I shall tell you what I will do. I have a friend, a doctor. You must persuade your father to see him. As for the bottle, you must let me have it, and we shall soon know the truth. And in the meantime, be brave and strong, and take care of your father; and on no account give him anything prescribed by Doctor Lyndon." With a sudden impulse the girl selzed his hand again, and this time snatched it to her lips. "May God bless and reward you for ever and ever!" she murmured, broken. And then, as if ashamed of herself, turned away, while a warm blush drowned the pallor of her face. CHAPTER VI "Yes, there is nothing else for it. I must refuse Sir Henry's offer, and Cecil will be lost to me forever," said Enderby to himself, as he walked away from Burdon mansions. It was nearing the hour for evening service, and church bells were already ringing a clangor of loud invitations over all the great city. Enderby was a church-goer. He was not one of the class, so common among college-bred and cultured young manhood, who consider a religion a superstition, and have renounced the belief that there is any God who ruleth the earth; and he felt at this moment, which seemed like a crisis in his life, a strange desire to be guided in his course of conduct by something higher than human wisdom or counsel. He went into Westminster Abbey, and remained throughout the service. The psalms seemed strangely applicable to his own use. "Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? or who shall rest upon Thy holy hill? "He that bath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done evil to his neighbor, and hath not slandered his neighbor—" "He that swearth unto his neighbor and disappointeth him not, though it were to his own hindrance. "He that hath not taken reward against the innocent." Enderby bowed his knees humbly with the rest of the congregation, and from his heart went up a truly earnest prayer: "Help me, O God, to do the thing that is right, even though it be to my own hindrance! Guard me from ever seeking a bribe against those who may be—nay, who I feel sure—are innocent." He wrote to Sir Henry Lennox that night: Dear Sir Henry: Will you allow me to withdraw my acceptance of your most kind and generous offer to take me as your junior in a certain case that is pending? I find I cannot conscientiously take the case in hand. I can only trust to your generosity not to ask my reasons, which are private ones. Again thanking you for your kindness, yours very sincerely, PAUL ENDERBY. He had promised not to disclose his acquaintance with the man calling himself David Lloyd, and he meant to keep that promise until he was freed from it. Enderby had gone straight from Burdon mansion to his friend Doctor Bunthorne, and asked him to call upon David Lloyd, merely saying it was a case in which he was interested, though the Lloyds were little more than chance acquaintances, and promising to call in on the doctor and hear his report. On Monday he met Sir Henry at the Law Courts. The great lawyer looked pale and worn; Enderby had never seen him look so old or so spent a man. "You do not look well, Sir Henry. Why don't you take a holiday?" he said. "If I were your doctor I should insist upon it. The brain needs a rest as well as the body, and you give yours absolutely none." "I am all right," said Sir Henry, "a little impatiently for him; he was usually so patient even in dealing with stupid witnesses or dogmatic 'learned brothers,' that it was a common legend among the barristers that the Queen's Counsel had never been seen out of temper. "So you don't wish to make a name for yourself in the Browlow Pearl case, Enderby? Have you heard anything about it from—from any one?" "Sir Henry, I am not at liberty to reply to your question," replied the young man, with the slightest shade of hesitation. "May I ask you again, as I asked in you my letter, to generously leave the matter as it is? I shall never, believe me, forget your kindness in making me an offer which, if I could have accepted it, would have been so advantageous to myself." Sir Henry turned aside for a moment; but when he looked around again the momentary expression of irritation had passed from his face. "For whatever reason you have refused, Enderby," he said, "I am sure it is one that does honor to yourself. The man who can refuse to take fortune's tide at the flood, when he knows it will lead on to fortune, because conscience forbids him to do so, is a man who, perhaps, may not succeed in this world, but whose failure, if he fails, is more glorious than the success of others." "Thank you, Sir Henry," said Enderby, flushing a little. The praise of such a man as Sir Henry was worth something, for he was one whom Paul Enderby admired and revered with all his heart. How had he been deceived by such a man as Dundas Lyndon? Enderby asked himself the question again and again. In his own mind he had arrived at what seemed a likely enough solution of the mystery of David Lloyd. Dundas Lyndon was in some way connected with the crime with which Lloyd had been accused, and was working upon the gentle and unsupricious nature of the latter in order to get an inconvenient and dangerous witness out of the way. Enderby hardly knew how deeply he was interested in the case until he discovered that he had almost forgotten an engagement he had in the evening, at which he expected to meet Cecil Lennox. She was there, surrounded by a bevy of admirers, as Enderby approached, and looked very lovely in her exquisite Parisian confection of primrose and pink. Enderby's pulses beat quicker as she turned her brilliant smile upon him. She extended her hand, and in a few minutes he and she were alone. "So you are to be my father's junior in a great case that is coming on!" she said, still smiling upon him. "I am so glad! I congratulate you beforehand. It is the beginning of fame for you, and you will go up the ladder so quickly once you have started the ascent." Enderby's face fell, and a shadow came upon his brow. "Sir Henry told you so much, Miss Lennox? But did he not tell you that I had refused his generous offer?" Cecil started. "Refused! You can't be in earnest, Mr. Enderby! Refused such an offer! Why, it will be the making of your fortune! This case is a celebrated one, my father says. What possible reason can you have for refusing?" Coquetry of Cuban Women Coquetry or Cuban Women. There is an innate coquetry about a Cuban woman that shows itself even in the least prominent of bows she ties. Her clothing is always dainty, and is frequently adorned with the needlework of her own fingers. Her gown may be nothing to look at twice, but her linen is something exquisite, and no other people rival them in cleanliness. In many ways the Cuban woman of today promises much for the future, but there are now strongly marked limitations, and this trip has revealed many of them to her. For instance, she never before thought much about physical culture, and those people who are blessed with gray hair are strongly reminded of the American women of yore, with whom it was the proper thing to faint, and a waist that measured over eighteen inches was a source of continual mortification. That is just about where these dwellers of the tropics are now in the scale of physical perfection. Their muscles are flabby, their chests thin and the splendid set-up of the American girl is never seen. They do not stand straight. It is not possible when they lace as they do and wear such thin shoes. In fact, they do not wear shoes as a rule, but a sort of little house slipper that is only intended for Turkish rug wear. Wonders of the Telephone. Sound does not travel along a telephone wire; the sound heard in the receiver is produced through the agency of electricity, the velocity of which depends on the source whence it is generated and the conductor along which it travels. There is certainly a limi to the distance to which telephone messages may be sent, but every yea sees this limit increased. Many long distance lines are in use, as, for instance, from New York to Chicago Lines are sometimes run under water; there is now, and has been for some time, telephonic communication between London and Paris. The Home of Mrs. Lizzie N. Brewer at Westerly, R. L. Wheat-O 2 lb. package costs 15c. Two packages for a quarter. Your Grocer Sells It. In a letter to Dr. Hartman concerning the merits of Pe-ru-na, Mrs. Brewer writes, among other things: Westerly, R. I. "Dear Dr. Hartman—I find Pe-ru-na a sure cure for all cataract affections so common in this part of the country. It cures a cold at once. There is no cough medicine that can at all equal Pe-ru-na. As for la gripe, there is no other remedy that can at all compare with Pe-ru-na. "I am among the sick a great deal in our city and have supplied many invalids with Pe-ru-na, simply because I am enthusiastic in my faith as to its results. I have never known it to fall to quickly and permanently remove that demoralized state of the human system which follows la gripe. "In all cases of extreme weakness I use Pe-ru-na with perfect confidence of a good result. In cases of weakness peculiar to my sex I am sure that no other remedy can approach in good You can't always tell what's in a bottle by reading the label. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it A man never knows how badly he feels until he gets his doctor's bill. There is but one Ruse Bleaching Blue. Three times within a year the counts have suppressed fraudulent imitations. Sold by all grocers. Don't speak of heart hunger as if beef steak and potatoes would cure it. Garfield Tea is an invaluable remedy for all forms of bowel and stomach disorders; it will cure the most obatinate case of chronic constipation. No one is as impudent as the fiddler when he presents his bill. Don't Get Footsore! Get FOOT-EASE Don't Get Footwear! GET FOOT-EASE A certain cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. Cures Frost-bites and Chilblains. At all Druggies and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. It's queer that everybody likes the square man 'round. Don't Spoll Your Hands And your temper by using inferior soaps. Maple City Self Washing Soap is pure. Try it. All grocers sell it. More beautiful than many stars at night is the countenance of a happy woman. Louis'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 500. The dead past does not always bury its dead. There Is a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery-stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-fourth as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cents and 25 cents per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O. Never leave your work for other people to do. I am sure Plso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago—Mrs. TROS. ROBINB. Maple Street. Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. A "statesman" may be heavy physically, light mentally. "Gonova" Tableta are guaranteed by the Kidd Development Center to sell the baby's examinations of the urinary system, bladder, etc. internal with injection. Per mail $3, or 2 for $5. Potential and wholesale of J. H. Harbutt Co. Deserves to carry a full line of syringes, hot water bags, etc. Sad is the condition of a mortal who has outlived the happy hours of romance. results the action of Pe-ru-na. Incents all the bad symptoms to which females are subject. The irregularities and nervousness, the debility and miseries which afflict more or less the women from girlhood to change of life, are one and all met and overcome by this excellent remedy. I wish every young lady in our city could read your book. "Mrs. Lizzle M. Brewer." Pe-ru-na will cure the worst cases of catrarch. La gripe is acute epidemic catrarch, for which Pe-ru-na is a specific. Mrs. J. W. Reynolds, New Lisbon, Chio, suffered for many years with chronic catrarch of the lungs, head and throat; continuous cough; many physicians failed to cure. Permanently cured by Pe-ru-na. Thousands of testimonials could be produced. A valuable treatise on catrarch sent free by The Pe-ru-na Medicine Company. Columbus, Q. OKLAHOMA! OkLAHOMA! Near Granite; good, level, rich, black land, im-proved, $4.00 to $10.00 per square foot. 900 improved; has a good drainage system. These lands will double in price in one year. Address C. N. Oliver, 838 Good Block, Bea Moinnes, LA. DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE It Cures Cold, Coughs, Sore Throat, Croup, Influenza, Whoping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the questions, after taking the first dose. Sold by dealers everywhere. Large bottles 25 cents and 60 cents. In Pullman's finest Compartment Drawing Room, Library, Observation and Dining Cars—all Vestibuled—with the celebrated OPEN TOP CAR "CHILLITTLE" OPEN TOP CAR "CHILLITILLE" for Observation in the Mountains and Canyons and Dining Car in the Tropics. A delightful trip of 33 days with Three Circle Tours in the Tropics of the South of Mexico and a visit to the Ruined Cities. All exclusive features of these itineraries of leisurely travel and long stops—The Special Train starts Tuesday, January 22, from Chicago. TOUR OF PUERTO RICO. Special Pullman Cars leave Chicago Thursday, January 17, and Thursday, February 14, at 9:30 a. m., connecting with the splendid new steamships Ponce and San Juan sailing from New York the second day following. Individual Tickets sold for other sailing dates, alternate Saturdays. TICKETS INCLUDE ALL EXPENSES EVERYWHERE. These select limited parties will be under the special escort and management of The American Tourist Association. Reau Campbell, General Manager, 1423 Marquette Building, Chicago. Itineraries, Maps and Tickets can be had on application to Agents of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. W. N. U. Des Moines, No. 51-1900 Ee ys EE RS eT FET der veernce MUNN saieauaneh inti eaten acta es sitar ae niania NLA Mr ES TT iS ai agit a isi en \ fj Ce eer eee Ean megs ee N ee SOUT Die: Some SesamNcy vcr MC rinpared Meech TOE ene re ete a LM OM eee Ta re SCHL x fl ¥ TNs aver Sa ye v < e af ea aba aaa . Tec % Menor et en > i \ BE f @ Sea uc eee ¢ Sous ; : > ' 2 oh TT Se ee ee so ‘W. B. PORTER, Pres. : - : ; ag ae WL TETLEY, See, & Tress, DES MOINES FUNERAL REFORM ASSOCIATION. us west Locust Street.@ stickness and death always bring misery, and frequently financial embarrassment. The cost of first-class funcrals has constantly grown until it falls with crushing weight upon people in wmioden > rate circumstances. Death comes to us all, and the wise man provides in advance for mecting the expense of his own funeral or the members of his family. The Des Moines Funeral Reform ‘Asociation has been organized for the purpose of providing first-class funerals for its members at a moderate cost, and thus avoid hardship, Any person may become a member of ‘the Associ) ation for a period of ten years for the sum of $1.00, and as such member will be entitled, in case of death in his family, to a well-trimmed casket, the use of a hearse, five hacks, the underta’ | ker’s services and chairs, and the sum of $45. Do not rob ycurself or the living members of your family for the purpose of having a respectable funeral, but join this Association and get the: best the city affords at the small cost specified above. ‘ S Bi Fig inca cas Soma 2 peer ta, a ee Ser BR got | nel Saves (we: ee aA ee eee ne als ea e 2 afte SEE i 2S beans ae at) sill Rat oe es aie eae BN ts ae pie esa eS 5 = z = eS a ot ee fii Goes oteey ee ane agar ous ses = = Gs ge oe Ae Sate oer aa ao ea RPL ea Sere NS Tis Ne > Rae CONS ae ee eee erage ey Se eR 2] PS. sa ecg Ue Pay pee es os Ve eees ul ae eos pes ES Ras Sag wey Une, Cl Sager “ ss PEAT VAP coral Oe x bE rete See anion Paes ea sae ie eEN ea nibh sa SDP Rint RS KO ee Eo eos Ce gee Se ses ae Ee he aero: Gea? oS oi . eee of Poe eo es EE Siena ra Tee ae geese ae: eae mE GS See eae UD Poe et a a ed es Sawa il ees : te 2 Hime aus parte s cSer Rrra cn Se a al Ae Raa aM ees Buk [ge Tate Ss Say Rp Bare uy eae Ba ae i ise ee : esp eat: ee = ee Sees pe al aes oe a 4 Eee est che : : a = oe) eee P oe ane 2 Sus) 2 RSS fe fecen es ean iS 5 ay EN ah eo ae ia ae s Soy A =<. aS S:,,-2 EG USC pe oe oe eee eo a ap oe! eis aaa Weer Pe RA TSS apes eee We SSR Pepe NS SiS a LD) eee ht fires 4 ban BE eee: ota ae Bais Pie ae ae EES SES eae ore Se gia | ie ea Se, beet Co Sey ee Be SEC ‘ Gis oe ee VSlaGe. Sb core cee: se Cs er Toe ne Lo ead Poe ye a ne he ts Se a 2 ips! LoSns y Cotta es ee Os “a et Z Ty Ep. ss oe: 2 iG ae o - Bre widget LBS S eit sg hee ae Ar So ae Paes 2h 7 nee 8 |e a OS Poa ea whe < PP pg tigt Se ace fs Se ae) ee eee 6 ca Uae - Z pneu OO SpE ae ene ac Sage Eg | APS Ue ca ORR oe ps Oe a eee ee a Aen ia eee oe a a ae eee ad Bee ie oe sae ee See ue Bone Si a oe Tae aeUper ahr eee in Recs ee Lee nats a ud poet ee Zep alae ea) Nau Pe Pgs: eee io ee ee eee rel oa Say ‘ E ao ne 3 vee a a PO, 59 Gee ASIN OP cae x wes OS BE GS et BE sah Meee Victae eee ce eee EVOLULLON OF TUSKEGEE. It was last May, 18 years ago, that Prof Booker T. Washington (then w- Amown, now s0 noted) went into the black belt of Alabama, and founded what is now known as the “Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute,” at Tuskegee, Ala., then a little hamlet. The story of this institution reads more like a romance or an Egyptian fairy tale than a real fact. | Prof. Washington first rented a shanty church with himself as teacher anil 30 pupils. It has now become cne of the most successful educational insti- tutions in America. It now has $300,000 worth of prop- erty, with no mortgage: 52 build- ings, nearly all erected with student labor; 2, 267 acres of land; $5 officers and teachers; and an attendance the year past of 1,164 students—$01 young jmen and 363 young women. ‘The stu- dents came from 24 states and terri- tories and from Cuba, Porto Rico, Africa and England. More than 1,000 others applied for admission, but were turned away because of lack of dormitory facinties. ‘truly a inost re- markable evolution! ‘Tuskegee seeks to teach the digni- ty of labor to its students, and af- fords them the best possible oppor- tunity for the development of their mental faculties, emphasizes system- atic industrial training, and fosters the habit of right thinking and right living. The idea is kept constantly in mind that the need of the great masses of the negro race is a system of education which shall enable them to hold on to the basic and funda- mental employments, without which no people can hope to win a perma- nent place, either of respectability, wealth or power. For this reason in- struetion in 26 industries, largely of the south, is given, in connection with thorough normal and religious train- ing, as follows: Agriculture, black- smithing, brickmasonry, ‘carpentry, carriage trimming cooking, dairying, drawing—architectural, free hand and mechanical—plain sewing, house- keeping, harness making, plastering, plumbing printing sawmilling, found- ing horticulture, laundering, machin- ery, mattress making, millinery, nurse training, painting shoemaking, stock raising, tailoring, tinning and wheel wrighting. ‘The officers of the school are: Booker T.- Washington, principal; Warren Logan, treasurer; John H. Washington, director of industries; J. D. McCall, directress of academic de- partment; George W. Carver, director agricultural department; Major J. B. Ramsey, commandant; Mrs. L. L, Kenniebrew, lady principal. The heads of the several departments are competent, worthy men and women, who have had every advantage at the foremost academic and technological schools of the country. The whole constitute an aggregation of perhaps one of the best equipepd and most thoroughly consecrated body of workers in the cause of negro educa- tion in America. The intellectual and social atmosphere of these teacher: is remarked by every visitor who tar. ries a moment at Tuskegee to get au §nsight into its workings. Onur job department motto is prompt service, good work and low pricer, ‘A tris} will convince you. To 8 EF Gardner: You are hereby notified, that the fol- lowing described real estate, situated in Poik County, Iowa, to-wit: Lot Fifty-nine (59) in T. M. Walker's Ad: cition to the City of Des Moines, Iowa, wis sold for the taxes of 1305 on the seventh duy ot December 1897 to W. H. Keyle; that the certificate of sale thereof has been assigned to and is pow owned snd held by Daniel. Pat. ton, and that the right of redemption willexpire. anda Treasurer's Deed for said Jand will be made unless redemp- tion from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. Youwill govern yourself accordingly. Dated this 24th day of October A. D. 1900. Daniel ‘I. Patton, ‘By Geo, Harnagel, his agent. ‘To Margaret A. Warr: You are hereby notified, that the following deseribed real estate, situ- ated in Polk County. Iowa, to-wit: Lot Six (6) in Blocks “‘A” of the town of Mitchelieville, Pollt County, Iowa, was sold for the taxes of 1896 on the sixth day of Decembar 1807 to Daniel ‘Y, Patton; that said Daniel T. Patton is stili the owner and holder of the cer- tifleate of purchase issued in pursuance of said eaie, and that the right of re demption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for ssid Jand will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated this 13:h day of November, A D. 1900. Daniel T. Patton. By Geo, Harnagel. his agent. : NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT GF SEORUPTION To Thos, Mitenell and ‘T. P. Daniels: You are hereby no’ified that the fol. lowing described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, to-wit: Lot Nine (9) in Block *-N’":n the town of Mitchellville, Polk County, Lowa, was sold for the taxes of 186 on the sixth day of December 1897 to W. H. Boyle; that the certificate of sale thereof bas been assigned to and is now owned and held by Daniel T. Patton; and that the right of redemption will expire, and Treasurer's Deed for said laod will be made, upless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. Yon wilt govern yourself ac- cordingly. Dated this 13th day of November, A. D. 1900. Daniel T. Patton. By Geo. Harnagel, his agent. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF ‘REDEMPTION. Jo Sophia Lundquist: Yoa are hereby notified, that the following described real estate, situat- ed in Polk County, Iowa, to-wit: Lot Fourteen (14) in Block Fve (5) of Haw: thorne Grove, now included in und form. inga part of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold for taxes of 1808 on the ‘Sixth day of Deeember, 1897 to Danie T. Patton; that said Daniel T. Patton is still the owner and holder of the cer: tifleate of purchase issned in parsuance of said sale, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said land will be made unless recemp tion from such sale be made withix ninety days from the date of complete service of this notice. You will goverr yourself accordingly Dated this 24th day of October, A. D 1900, Danie! T. Patton, By Geo, Harnagel, his agent. W OF THE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. [ ERG SSE ORT ENG Sd ee le eS Your are hereby notified, that the following described real estate, situated in Polit County, Iowa, to-wit: Lot Eleven (11) in Biock “N" in the town of Mitchellville, Poll County, Towa. was sold for the taxes of 1896 on the sixth day of December 1807 to Daniel ‘f. Patton; that said Daniel T. Patton is still the owner and holder of the certificate of purchase issued in pur- snance of said sale, and that the right of redemption will expire, an a ‘Trea- surer’s Deed for said land will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within binety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourselfaceordingly. Dated this 13th day of November, A. D..1900. Daniel T. Patton, By Geo: Horosgel, his agent. THE MIRACULOUSCURES Have Already been Effected by the British Doctors at Rooms 204 & a05 Marquardt Blk. They . are giving their Service Free for three Months to all Invalids who call Before Jan r2th Owing to the large number of inva lids who have called upon the British ‘Doctors at the office room, 204 and 20: “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 January 12th. These services will consist not only of consultation, examination and ad- vice,but also of all minor surgical op- erations, ‘The object in pursuing this course is to become rapidly and personally ac- quainted with the sick and afilicted, and under no consideration whatever will any charges be made for any ser- vices rendered for three months, medi- cine excepted, to all who call before January. 12th. ‘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 frantely and kindly told so, also advis- ed against spending your money for useless treatment, Male and female weakness, catarrha! deafness; also cancer without pain o1 cutting; all skin diseases, rupture and all diseases of the rectum are pvsitively cured by their treatment. | Dr. J. Boyd, the chief consulting sur geon’ of the institute, is in persona Sane Ovriex: Hours: Ee may tour SPECIAL NOTICE—If you canno call, send stamp for question blank fu home treatment The lowa 5rate Br-TANDER will b on sale at A. F. Tervalon’s cigar store ~—_COLFAN ITEMS. The ladies are making large prep- arations for Xmas. ‘They will have a tree for the little children on the zath. Rev, Basfield of Newton was in our town last Tuesday. Mrs. Robertson has returned from her visit. in Oskaloosa. Mrs, Sam Dean is at home from her visit at Saylor. Mr. Leo Welker spent Friday in Colfax, the guest of his mother, Mrs. Battles, Miss Margette Coleman, one of Col- fax’s students, will leave Friday for her home in Muchakinock. Mrs. John Smith left for Saylor ‘Tuesday. She will visit her mother in Colom before returning to Colfax. Mr. Turner is still on the sick list. Mr. Douglas is able to be at work again, Some of the Mineria gents are ex- peeted to be entertained by some of the Colfas ladies. Mrs, N. Battles will entertain the B. Sewing Cirele Thursday afternoon. Miss Nora Dysart expects to enter- tain friends from Des Moines during the holidays. Merry Xinas to all, MUSCAVINE NEWS. Mr, Louis Greenway, who has been quite sick, is slowly improving. Mrs, Nannie Drown visited at the home of Rev, Gordon last week, Mrs, Edward Baines will leave ‘Thursday mormng for Wilton to at- tend a reception. Mrs, Edward Groomes entertained at supper, Sunday evening Mrs. F. Walker, Misses Emma Boyd, Cora Vhoenix, Nellie Loyd and Nola Walk- er and Messrs, Heary Seay and Jef ‘Thompson. Mrs, Louise Robertson of Cincin- nati, 0., arrived in the eity last week and will make this her future home. Mrs. W. A. Searcy of Albin is ex- pected next week to spend the holi- days, the guest of Mesdames White and Carr, Mrs. Drown and daughter, Miss Helen Johnson, are visiting in’ Much- akinock. Mrs, Edward Baines entertained at supper Sunday evening Mrs. Lee and Miss Gertrude Lee and Mr. William Sehackelford. Mr. Edward Lee is on the sick list. ‘The entertainment last week was a success in every way. There were several booths éreeted and a supper, consisting of chicken pie, chicken sandwiches and coffee, was served by Mesdames Townley and White: Mes- dames Groomes and Gordon told your fortune for a dime. Misses F. White and IH, Johnson had the candy booth. A short programme was rendered. ‘There was a voting contest for a set of china plates, the contestants be ing Mrs. Baines, Misses Ance Maxie and Florence White. Miss White was the winner. Everyone pronounced it a enjoyable affair. Dr, Peter Townley spent a few days in West Liberty last week. On Friday evening, December 21, the voune men will give a “Batehe: lor's” entertainment. So girls get your dimes ready. We heard them talking of chicken, so we suppose they will have chieken pie. It prom: ises to be the “swellest” affair of the season. ‘The head ones are Willian Schackelford and Edward Lee. Sunday, December 23, will be ladies’ day.” ‘They will have a fine programme in the evening. Three More Days Left to Buy 2 Christmas Gcods At The Fire Sale At Fire Sale Prices. ..- Che Leader Store, ... 518 EAST LOCUST. a 4 Bargains! 2 for 1.0-piece por i i Dib ee ™ aie eran = hae? ¢ for Flat Me Shi: is : 358 for Porcelain Cups that oan price 980. wae: for Wool Fla Shi i 3 eee i Se jannel Shi V: 5 Be, Sten Porcelain Beg Cone— eal sions crest 2 2 for black Mercerized__ Silk a daa RAE BS Shirt Waists—former price 5 5 3c cers. BOC for black dauieen enboath Hy A i for all-wool Eiderdow) 8 8 gc Parlor Lamps that were| gfe S30"E ormer price ae : ‘ rr Flannelette Wri pper B were 02. 81°78 tor Goll sicivte. tra pete . . : : eo sft olf Skirt: hi ‘i Fige irae cone ma] Sect aS m8 Skirts reduced in proporti 4 z . a, ji a ni ap oportion. qa B igo iz Pont Ton ww] 8445 fr iaes ttn lM 5 a m Qc cach for Glass Sauce Di 248 te mene: i Dishes. $2 48 for Boucle C: ir Boucle Capes—-30 ii EL gic {2% Oise Berry ieee were Gres he tlncecy eo, ae EB 1.98 for Misses Jackets—sold up © Ic for Decorated China Cups and | 95 for Mi z % scare See aoe Bos eh ieee Golf Capes that 6 x ecorated ani Giltea| SOC a pair for Ladi $ : 28 ¢ Sine reorated an Guited Qo n pale for Ladies $1.25 Mocha 3 a a 10c a pai i g Be for Childs’ Cups and Saucers, ioe eae Gr iad J Went teed adies’ . ; oo jc meck- 2 9B f0r Dots—were doo. Ge for Ladies’ 10¢ Handle q x 2 Ms 1a) cerchiefs BB for nate eve ss 75c a pair for Ladies, felt sppes E 5 B0e . weet, price 81.25." ee ols, Games, Wooden Tos: Zee 4 jpg Chairs for Children: Rocking Tomer pres #800 — Horses, Toy Trunks,1ron Wagons, | OOS for Men's Sleds, Go-C Sea. sco dress Shir i fuss Ga ‘arts, Doll Carriages, | 69C for Men's $1.00 di obs Grokinole Beards, Drums, ‘Tuilet| 25 tor Men's te Chien ee Ei Gallet end Cn Bexen Albame [oe coe ov % ft es. Alb for Men's $5 0001 cq Fancy Dishes, in fact everything | $4275, for Men's 88.00 Ul fen 5 jem lay Uno tore tan be|-$4-98 for Men's all-wool aie eit of us at 500 on the ella. | $4 48 for Little Bi i‘ Bl And itis Ty Sareat Serpe) wth opie So eS .98 choice of any 83 dereare any to trade with us. We are selli : Bi ee Birchatie $1.00. Weare open till 10 p.m. € svete aire e he , p.m. Goods delivered : TH ORE. EXCURSION RATES TO WINTER RESORTS Via the North-Western Line. Excur- sion tickets are sold daily, with favor able time limits, to numerous points in the West and South at reduced rates For tickets and full information, apply to agents Chicago & North-Westerb Ry. SHANK BROS., Funeral Directors. - 517 Mulberry St. Telephones 636, 688 and 669. DES MOINES, - IOWA. Harris-Emery Co. Suggestions for Gifts FOR MEN We have an excellent assortment of silk handkerchiefs for men, and all the new ones are included in the line. 25c for 20 inch colored border silk handkerchief. 48c for a better 20-inch colored border handkerchief. 25c for a 22-inch silk initial handkerchief. 48c for a better 22-inch silk initial handkerchief. 50c for a 20-inch fine silk handkerchief, ½ and 1 inch hems. 75c for an extra fine 22-inch silk handkerchief, ½ and 1 inch hems. $1.00 for extra fine 22-inch silk handkerchief with 1 inch hem. $1.00 for a fine 24-inch silk handkerchief with 2 inch hem. $1.50 for an extra fine 24-inch silk handkerchief, ½ inch hem. Linen Handkerchiefs. We are showing an endless assortment of linen handkerchiefs of all grades and qualities selling from 5€ all the way up to $1.50 each. 25€ for pure linen handkerchiefs, extra fine grade, ½% and 1 inch hems, very shear, $2.75 a dozen. 12 |-2€ each for men's linen handkerchiefs, nice grade of linen, all widths hems, soft finish. 12 |-2€ for men's Japonette handkerchiefs with silk initial, nice and soft. 25c and all the way up to $1.50 for the finest assortment and the best values in men's neckwear in the city. Our stock is the largest in town, nothing but entirely new goods and shown in endless variety of patterns, colorings, etc. Each price a bargain price. 25 $c$ up to $1.25$ a pair for the newest and noobest things in men's fancy hosiery. The patterns were never prettier and the prices never more reasonable. 48 $c$ for extra fine cotton and lisse thread fancy half hose, fully seamless, fast color, dots, stripes, heavy stripes, or new Jacquard and the popular vertical stripes. THE MEMORIAL OF THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN, N.Y. JOHN H. HARRIS BOOKER T. WASHINGTON KEOKUK KULLINGS. Anticipated Rounds of Merry Hope penings—Reliefs to Society —Hopeful Literature A large and brilliant assemblage will greet the Masonic fraternity of this city at their annual banquet Thursday evening, December 27, 1960. The program is replete with pleasure and literary thought and is one of the most beautiful and appropriate epitomes of social functions seen in this city in many a day. It consists of instrumental renditions by the unrivaled Rutledge Saxaphone Orchestra, the Masonic Address by the Worshipful Master, vocal selections by Mr. F. D. Fields, and a season of pleasure seeking with light hearts and elastic toe. The introductory effort of Mr. B. L. Anderson, the master of ceremonies will be a magnificent climax of rhetorical skill and a deep interest is centered in the appearance of this young Ciero. The committee of arrangements headed by Mr. A. J. Fields has put forth somehelican efforts in behalf of this elaborate fete and the result of its endeavors is evidenced by the illustrious conclave of visitors whose presence is assured. The following is the program in full: The Union lodge, No. 1, of Keokuk will celebrate the anniversary of St. John the Evangelist Thursday evening, December 27, at the G. A. R. hall. The programme is an address, "Masonry As An Educator," by Mr. A. W. Draine, W. M.; vocal solo, "My Little Georgia Rose," Mr. F. D. Fields, Mr. B. L. Anderson, master of ceremonies. Music by Rutledge Saxaphone orchestra. There are eighteen dance numbers. The committee on arrangement consists of A. J. Fields, B. L. Anderson, C. W. Williams, D. W. An- --- Silk Handkerchiefs. Neckwear. Fancy Hose. Mufflers and Dress-shirt Protectors. 39c up to $3.00 for mufflers. Everybody body wants a muffler of some kind, and we have a stock that will please you. The shapes are all new, among them the la Mouchoir, which is the proper thing for men. Men's Gloves. Our stock of fine, gloves for men is now at its best. We are fully prepared to take care of your glove demands during the holidays. We carry such celebrated makes as Dents, Barrins, Adlers, Meyers, and Warniers. $1.25 for men's heavy English walking gloves of good Cape goat, warranted against imperfections. Shades of tan and brown, regular $1.50 goods. Sleeping Garments For Men. 48c up to $5.00 for night shirts. We have everything in silk, sateen, outing flannel, French flannelette, heavy twill, fine muslin, etc. Sizes for everybody, lengths for everybody, prices for everybody. $1.98 for the regular $2.50 grade of men's heavy French flannelette Pajamas, new line of patterns, fast colors. $3.50 up to $5.00 for men's silk and wool Pajamas. A rich line of colorings. The most comfortable sleeping garment made. $1.50 for men's heavy French flannelette night robes, full 56 inches long, extra wide, the most generous width robe ever made, full line of patterns. Suspenders. $1.00 a pair for men's pure silk web suspenders, new goods, packe- ed one pair in a box, heavy gilt and oxidized buckles, warranted not to tarnish. Hose Supporters. 48c for the regular 75c hose supporters of extra fine grade silk webbing in big range of colorings, most imported patent. Men's Shirts. 45C and all the way up to $1.50, each price, a lower price than the same grade is sold elsewhere for extra fine Madras and percale shirts, tig range of colorings and patterns. derson, A. A. Bland and Edward Martin. The floor committee are F. D. Fields, F. D. Bland and Wm. Gross. Mrs. Emma Teablan will entertain several guests from abroad on the occasion of the Masonic anniversary, among them being Miss Parker of Springfield, III. Miss Rhoda M. Johnson, Mrs. Monday, Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Golden, of Quincy, III. will be in attendance at the Masonic banquet. Miss Bertha Hunt has returned from an extensive and enjoyable visit in M. Pleasant. Miss Ada Smith, of St. Joseph, Mo. will be the guest of Miss Fannie Wilson during the festivity of the Masons. Mrs. G. C. Bannister, who has been numbered among the sick, is again able to resume her duties in the household affairs. Mrs. Young, of Peoria, Ill., is expected as the guest of Mrs. French D. Bland on the event of the Masonic social festival. Miss Allie Akers of Keytesville, Mo., and Miss Leslie McDonald, of Salisbury, Mo., will be entertained at the home of Miss Bertha Hunt during the Mason's season of pastimes. Mrs. Frank Robinson will entertain three gentlemen guests at her home on account of the Masonic gleeful function. Numerous receptions are booked by the Gate City ladies for the visitors attending the Masonic banquet. It is generally whispered that the ladies of Keokuk will throw open their homes to their gentlemen friends New Year's day. Miss Bertha Hunt's gentleman friend, Mr. Mason, of Mt. Pleasant, passed through the city Tuesday enroute to St. Louis. Useful Gifts FOR LADIES Useful Gifts FOR LADIES $9.85 for Golf Capes, 36 inches long, extra full, made of all wool Scotch steamer rugs, kersey strapped, new shaped reveres, and capes that ought to be selling at $12.50. $2.50 for 36-inch Opera Capes, 136 inch sweep, made of fine light weight kersey in tan, castor, blue and red, lined throughout with quilted taffeta silk, fur on the collar, front, and all around bottom. $1.38 and up to $5.00 for fancy gowns, put up one in a box, some very elaborately made of cambric, mousselline and nainsook, trimmed with lace and embroidery. $3.95 for imported novelty French waistts that sold for $5.00 and No present is so safely and certainly satisfactory as a present of fine handkerchiefs of every kind, size, style and price. Note the immense space in our man isle which we are devoting to the handkerchief trade. Incidentally note these prices: 2 *c* for fine cambric handkerchiefs, full size, ½ inch hem, would be cheap at 5c. 25 *c* for ladies' pure linen hemstitched and embroidered edged handkerchiefs, worth 35c. 89 *c* Ladies' all pure linen hemstitched embroidered edged handkerchiefs, also mecklin and valence lace trimmed handkerchiefs, very shear goods, equal to the $1.00 handkerchiefs PICTURE BOOKS See what Subjects 5c will buy. Adventures of A B C "Apple Pie" Domestic Animals Wild Animals Robinson Crusoe Little Red Riding Hood Painting Book of Domestic Pet 3 Little Pigs Jack and the Beanstalk The 3 Bears Bailey's A B C Tom Thumb Landscape and Marine Cinderella Painting Book The Silly Hare Miss Sadie A. Benthan, of Edina, Mo., will return home to assist in the royal reception to be given by the Masons December 27. ALBIA NEWS. Mrs. Maggie Dean, of Colfax, was an Albia and Hocking business caller Monday of this week. Rev. King, of Ottumwa, preached at the A. M. E. church Sunday. He was in Albia visiting old time friends. Rev. Woulden of Hocking preached at the A. M. E. church Sunday morning. Reese Underwood and Zack Taylor of Hocking spent Sunday in Albia. The Odd Fellows of Albia made three new members on Saturday evening at their hall. The Old Main Convention, a play, will be played in Albia during the holidays by the young people. They hope to make this play a success. All are invited to attend. Memorial services for Bishop Moor will be held at the St. John A. M. E. church Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. The sock social December 18 was a success socially and financially. The St. John's A. M. E. church will have a silver dollar rally January 6. Mrs. Cora Magor, of Chicago, Ill, arrived at the home of her mother and brother, Mrs. S. Clark and J. H. Perry, on December 11, very sick, but better at this writing, and will make her home with her mother and brother. There will be an entertainment given for the benefit of the Baptist church by Mrs. L. Edmonds, December 2. Miss Eunice Wilson will attend the meeting of the Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Board of the Iowa Baptist Association at Centerville, Iowa, December 27. Moulten Graham spent Sunday in Keokuk with relatives and friends. Mrs. G. W. Brown was called to Chicago by telegram to the bedside of her sick son. Mr. Rufus Brooke is still very ill. The wedding bell will ring the 25th of December. Mrs. L. Cooper was very ill but better at this writing. Miss Goldie Cowden is somewhat indisposed. Rev. Higgins and wife are expecting to go to Des Moines to spend Christmas with their daughter, Mrs. L. Parmer. Mrs. Ella Morris is somewhat indisposed this week. The Financial Club will meet with Mrs. H. Arm's Thursday evening. Mrs. C. Wilson will take her departure in a couple of weeks for Chicago to visit. KNOWSTHAT MUNGER'S LAUNDRY is the best in the city. Try them and be decided. Maine Office 211-215 NINTH St. Branch Office 504 MULBERRY St. PidONE 579. ALBIA NEWS BURLINGTON. FVERYBODY Harris-Emery Co. $6.00. You will find them on a big table near the elevator with a $3.95 price on them. **59c** and all the way up to $5.00 for Dressing Sacques for Christmas. There are pinks, blues and helthrope, ete, all ribbon and braid trimmed, all styles, qualities and prices. **$3.95** and all the way up to $10.00 for fine all wool Eider down Bath Robes, good and full, all colors, some trimmed, some plain. **$5.95** for silk petticoats, made of $1.00 taffeta with wide bottom ruffle of accordion plaing, trimmed with an extra dust ruffle and an under flounce. We have them in all colors and black, a regular $7.50 skirt. 48c for large assortment of fine handkerchief, with Mexican drawn work and the bending and lace effects. These compare with the style shown elsewhere at 69c. 48c for ladies' pure linen hemstitched and enveloped edge handkerchiefs, extra value. $1.19 for ladies' pure linen handkerchiefs—stitched and with French embroidered edge—we really should be selling them at $1.50 each. 48c and at all prices up to $1.19 for ladies' extra fine linen handkerchiefs with real lace, hand embroidered and burnt on edges. See what Subjects 1 Oc will buy: 1. The Wonderful Performing Dogs. 2. Feet and Wings. 3. Four Footed Friends. 4. Starry Flag A B C 5. All Baba or the Forty Thieves—linen 6. The Children in the Woods—linen. 7. Goody Two Shoes 8. The Story of Robin Hood 9. Robinson Crusoe 10. Circus Fun 11. Mother Goose 12. Comical Pets 13. Child's First Book 14. Monkey's Circus 15. Vi,it to the Circus JULIAN B. ROBINSON FREDRICK DOUGLASS CEDAR RAPIDS RUDGETAPLAN CEDAR RAPIDS BUDGETARIAN. Everyone is wondering what Santa Claus will bring them. David Wayne is in Chicago for a few days' stay. Mrs. Fred Martin, of Minneapolis, is expected in the city to spend the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Martin entertained at one o'clock dinner on the 9th inst. Mr. David Mayne. Memorial services of the late Bishop Moore will be held at the A M. E. church, Sunday the 23rd. Rev. Bass will be assisted in the service by Rev. George L. Wade. The church will be draped for the service and remain so thirty days. The Christmas tree and exercises will be held Monday evening at the church. Every one come out and hear the program. Mesdames Ben Hawkins and Geo. Wade are expecting to attend the Twentieth Century Club's banquet at Muchakinock on the 28th. The A. M. E. choir rendered some choice selections at the service Sunday evening from their new anthem books. Ardith Anulena, the infant of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Morgan, was quite sick last week but is better at this writing. Mr. Frank Sadler, who had his foot crushed in the round house some shown elsewhere. 35c for underskirt. The celebrated Whittendon make. Heavy grade, worth 50c. 50c for fine quality kid mittens such as sell regularly for 65c, 85c, and $1.00. 25c for children's gloves and mittens —big lot of assorted styles— worth from 29c to 45c. Toys! DOLLS! Our great basement place in the city to buy all that children's eyes and think the prices are from than is offered elsewhere Our great basement Toy Store is the greatest place in the city to buy toys and dolls--we have all that children's eyes and hearts could wish, and think the prices are from 10 to 25 per cent less than is offered elsewhere. What 5c will buy here. Walking Turtle, White Poodle Dogs, Musical Tops, 20th Century Horns, Musical Rubbbr Balls, Fancy Money Banks, Celluloid Rattlers, "Cricket on the Hearth" Games. Climbing Mice, Drawing Slates, Large Metal Tops, Globe Balls, Metellaphones Undressed Dolis. Large size- undressed Dollls, 15-33 cm values- at each 10°C Kid body, bisque head Dollls— goat 15c THE WASHINGTON POST time ago is able to be out without the use of his crutches. We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Among the tens of thousands who have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for colds and La gripe during the past few years, to our knowledge, not a single case has resulted in pneumonia. Thos. Whitfield & Co., 240 Wabash avenue, Chicago, one of the most prominent retail druggists in the city, in speaking of this, says: "We recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for a gripe in many cases; as it not only gives prompt and complete recovery, but also counteracts any tendency of a grison to result in pneumonia." For sale by all Druggists. All Druggists guarantee every bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and will refund the money to anyone who is not satisfied after using two-thirds of the contents. This is the best remedy in the world for la grippa, coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough and is pleasant and safe to take. It prevents any tendency os a cold to result in pneumonia. Toys! DOLLS! TOYS! <u>Dollls!</u> $1.30 for wool dress patters, full seven yard lengths, English checks and mixtures, worth $2.75. $1.75 for all wool dress patterns, novelty mixtures, regular price $3.50. TOYS! Dolls! Toy Store is the greatest toys and dolls--we have and hearts could wish, and in 10 to 25 per cent less What 10c will buy here: Iron Road Carts, Games, many styles, Dog Carts, solid iron. Large Dolls, Flying Birds, 4 Chime Rattlers, Picture Blocks, China Set—dishes, Spring Tops, Laughing Donkey, Musical Roller, Dying Pigs, Baby Rattler—celluloid. Dressed Dolls. ! CHICAGO CITY LIFE & CULTURE *12 p.m. Albany & Ironton Expo 5:30 p.m. 5:55 p.m. Chicago & Ironton Expo 6:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Albuquerque Convention 6:45 p.m. LIFE & WIRELAND 10:05 a.m. Nail & Fashion 12:50 p.m. 6:05 p.m. Nail & Fashion 12:50 p.m. LIFE & CULTURE & CITY LIFE 6:15 p.m. Sioux City N & W. 9:00 a.m. 1:10 p.m. Colorado Special. 1:40 p.m. *11:30 a.m. Chicago Limite. 10:00 p.m. 10:55 a.m. Dakota Limite. 2:00 a.m. *15:55 p.m. Chicago Expo. 7:00 a.m. 45:40 a.m. Chicago Night Express. 49:00 p.m. 51:00 m. Chicago Special. 11:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Fastest Train. 19:40 a.m. M & ST & DUNDA LINE. 11:05 a.m. Funda 13:15. 4:00 p.m. 5:45 p.m. Fonda & Stuca City Ln. 9:45 a.m. M & ST & I-CCNE TIME 11:50 a.m.—Boee Mail and Express—3:40 a.m. 7:55 p.m.—Mail and Express—8:40 a.m. 4:50 a.m.—Chicago Limited...11:15 a.m. *Daily. †Daily. All other trains daily except Sunday CALIFORNIA. Broad Vestibuled First-Class Sleepers DAILY— Between Chicago and Sanfrancisco WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. Great Rock Island Route Leave Chicago on Big 5 at 10:00 p.m. All the best scenery of the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada by daylight in both directions. These cars are carried on the limited trains of the Great Rock Island Route, Denver and Rio Gande (Scenic Route), Rio Grande Western and Southern Pacific. Dining Car Service Through Buffett Library Cars. JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A., Chicago. NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL Des Moines, December 21, 1900. A strong attack on the experiment stations of the state was made by W. M. Bomberger of Harlan, retiring treasurer of the Horticultural society in a paper on "Correct Information," in a paper that body. Mr. Bomberger said the funds absorbed $3,500 of the funds allowed the society in recent years and had given the public only prejudiced local ideas. He maintained that in all ways the funds of the society had been improperly used. The treasurer held that the system of experimenting as carried out the state was not contemplated in the paper, butmit the question to the attorney general but a motion to that effect was ruled out of order. Swift & Co., the big pork and beef packers who have operated a distributing branch in Des Moines for a number of years, have branched out in the dressed poultry business and have about perfected arrangements for making Des Moines one of the big centers in this department of the business. They are now employing theirids as packing and packing as high as 3,000 poults, most of them chickens, but many of them turkeys. These fowls are shipped to Chicago, where they are placed in cold storage until sold. Adjutant General Byers, who has just returned from Washington, says that the war department will not furnish the Iowa national guard with Winchester rifles, but has promised to supply Krag-Jorgensen rifles at government expense within six months of the war, be completely equipped before the annual camp next August. General Byers announces that these camps will be of two regiments each, one in the eastern end of the state and the other in the west. The guns will not come out of the state's allowance from the government, but will be extra. Governor Shaw has received word from Minister Conger that he has secured one of the cannon with which the Chinese sought to destroy the foreign legations and would give it to the historical department of Iowa. The governor was asked whether the state would pay the freight from Washington to Cameroon and replied that it would. Minister Conger cannon was one which was on the wall of Peking during the seige and has been very much sought. Local Belgian hare raises and Des Moines poultry fanciers have joined hands in an effort to secure for Des Moines the permanent location of the annual shows of the Iowa Poultry and Pet Stock association. Several days ago the poultry meet met and arranged to contribute $400 to a guarantee to secure the show for Des Moines and the Belgian hare people accepted a proposition to contribute a like amount provided the poultry men will make up another $200, making the total guarantee to be expended for prizes, medals, etc., $1,000. This proposition was accepted and a committee will attend the annual meeting of the society next week and submit the proposition. Iowa has been deficient in the display of its poultry and pet stock resources in the past and the shows have as a general rule been of a local character. There is state association, its shows have already been held in small towns and they have attracted little or no attention, while the number of exhibitors has always been small. It is the belief of the local promoters of the project that if the show can be secured for Des Moines the association can be put on its feet and will also absorb the smaller or district associations and result in the giving of annual exhibitions in Des Moines of a character sufficient to attract the best display from all parts of the state as well as from neighboring states. The state board of medical examiners has refused to grant certificates to practice to graduates of the Still Osteopathic college of this city. The board claims the college does not meet the requirements of the board; that its instruction is only elementary, especially in anatomy. The college management claims that it does meet the legal requirements, but that the board, composed of physicians, is prejudiced and will always keep the requirements beyond its reach. A suit is now pending to compel the board to recognize the college. The law permits osteopaths to practice without certificates, as there is no penalty. Members of the board expect it will be held unconstitutional; as it is class legislation. A DAILY PAPER FOR $2.00. On December 28th, the fifty-fourth anniversary of the admission of Iowa into the union, the Daily Iowa Capital will be offered for $2.00 for the year 1901, by mail only. This is what the Capital calls a bargain day, and may never be offered another year. You can also get the paper at this price by paying us the old score and remitting $2.00 for the new year. Write your letter and mail your check for $2.00 on December 28, and send the name to Lafayette Young, Des Moines, Iowa. Send for sample copy and terms to agents. Eldorado, Kao, Dec. 19, Judge Shinn has agreed to admit Jessie Morrison to bail in the sum of $3,000, pending her second trial for the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle. To Allow Army Cantessa: Washington, Dec. 20.—The sub-committee on the senate committee on military affairs will report a complete substitute for the Hull army bill while I nuch or the language is the same as that of the house measure there are numerous changes. The house canteen provision was amended to as to permit the sale of beer at the sant pr THE NEWS IN IOWA BAD STABBING AFFRAY. Marry Love the Victim of Toughs at Webster City. Webster City, Dec. 20.—A serious and perhaps fatal stabbing affray occurred at the river east of the city, Harry Love, whose home is in Illinois, was on the ice with his friend, C. T. Williams, accompanied by a well known Webster City lady. The trio were made the target for the jeers of a crowd of young toughs, and started to leave the ice, Williams, and the young lady being in the lead. The crowd surrounded Love and finding he was separated from his friends he began fighting his way through. He closed with two of them and was struck across the head with a skid at the same time being held in the left side. The crowd penetrated the kidney at one of the hotels and in a previous condition. Ellis Holman, a boy 16 years of age, has been arrested charged with being implicated n the assault. The boy admits having had an open knife in his hand when Lowe struck at a boy named Will Baxter. Holman went to the rescue of his companion, and, while he denies having stabbed Love, he says it is possible that he may have fallen on the knife. ARSON AND MURDER. Estherville Citizen is Arrested on a Grave Charge Estherville, Dec. 19—Fire destroyed the residence of John A. Freeman and wife at about half past six a.m. In the ruins was found the charred body of Mrs. Freeman, all dressed. Mr. Freeman states that he got up, fixed the fire and went out to do the chores, and that he left his wife in bed asleep, as she was not feeling very well, and therefore, he was out. The fact of her being found with all her clothes on, the fire being fiercest in the bed room, and Mr. Freeman's statements being contradictory, has aroused a suspicion of arson and murder, and accordingly he was arrested and placed in jail pending the coroner's inquest and other developments. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman were married only last week, and both were in life. Mr. Freeman is an active church worker, and has charge of a biblical class, of which he is an able instructor, being well versed in the bible. BLOW TO SALOON MEN. Eliquor Injunctions Not Abrogated by the New Code. Des Moines, Dec. 21.—The supreme court handed down a decision of vital importance to liquor dealers throughout Iowa. It holds that the adoption of the code of 1897 did not operate to abrogate injunctions against liquor dealers, and that the injunctions are still in full force. The case is entitled State vs. Mark Chiesa. Chiesa is a Des Moines liquor dealer against whom an injunction was obtained prior to 1897. After the adoption of the new code he resumed operations. An attempt was made by the anti-saloon league to seize such assets and hold that the old injunction had been rendered inoperative by the adoption of the new code. This decision is reversed by the supreme court. GAVE HIM 20 YEARS. Eliza Booker, Colored, Sentenced in Otc. Ottumwa, Dec. 18.—Elza Booker, the colored rapist, was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. He is the man who had a military es- sacre from Ottumwa to Albia two weeks to to save him from an Albia mob. Shot by His Brother Clinton, Dec. 21.—Two boys, Henry and Herman Finker, sons of a farmer near Dixon, Iowa, were shooting at a mark on the barn door. The older, Henry, went into the barn to look after the target, when the younger fired the gun and went through the barn, struck the forehead, passing downward through the skull and into the brain. His condition is serious, but he is still alive. The boy shot is 16 years old and the one doing the shooting is 13. Celebrates 191st Birthday Des Moines, Dec. 21.—Noah Brookway Bacon celebrated the hundred and first anniversary of his birth Wednesday. Many of his friends called on him to edgratulate him on his good health and spirits. Mr. Bacon was born in Westmoreland, Oneida county, N. Y., December 19, 1798. In 1821 he moved to New York, where he 1843 moved west. Most of his life he has been a farmer. Mr. Bacon is a small, compactly built man. His habits have always been good. Chet Rowe a Free Map. Grinnell, Dec. 20.—Friends of C. W. Rowe in Malcom have received word that he has been released from Beem prison, Mexico, after serving six years. Rowe was treasurer of Poweshiek county, and a week after he went out of office it was discovered that $40,000 was also missing. Pinkerton detectives located Rowe in Mexico City, where he had opened up a saloon with his brother, and also bought some real estate. Is Up to Carnegie. Ottumwa, Dec. 19.—Arrangements have been completed in the city by which the Ottumwa Savings bank will furnish the money necessary to purchase the Daggett property, upon which the Carnegie library will be placed. Move Against Des Moines Drug Stores. Des Moines, Dec. 16.—The crusade of the State Anti-Saloon league against the drug stores in Des Moines, which are accused of violating the liquor law, has begun. Rev. H. H. Abrams, state organizer of the league, applied for temporary injunctions against proprietors of four drug stores. If they are convicted they will be permanently enjoined from being projected to all the penalties of the prohibitory law. It is understood that similar prosecutions will be begun in other parts of the state. CONFESSES TO HIS CRIME John Freeman, of Webster City, Burned His Wife to Death. Estherville, Dec. 20—John A. Freeman, before the coroner's jury yesterday, confessed to having pounded his wife into unconsciousness, saturated the bed upon which she lay with gasoline and setting fire to it. When Mrs. Freeman's body was found it was burned to a crisp. Tuesday morning, about 6:30 a.m. Freeman, who lived with his wife in the northeast portion of the city, came hurriedly to his neighbor, A. Severson, and told him to come to his house, only a few rods away, that his house was on fire. He asked by Severson where his wife was, Freeman said he did not recognize she was in the house. The two then made repeated efforts to rescue her, but could effect no entrance to the bedroom on the first floor, where she was supposed to be. After the house was nearly burned to the ground the flames were put out and it was then discovered that Mrs. Freeman was burned to a crisp as she lay in an apparent natural position in bed. Freeman was placed under surveillance and at the corer's inquest he was on the stand for full four hours. He maintained his nerve and told an apparently consistent and straight story, though he was pressed hard by the rigid examination given him by Acting County Attorney N. J. Lee. The inquest was adjourned until yesterday morning when after hearing the testimony of neighbors of the Freemans, the husband was again brought from his cell to an answer further questions concerning the death of his wife and the burning of his house. He then announced to the coroner's jury that he had killed his wife. A most startling confession followed, to the effect that he had knocked his wife unconscious with a shoe and pushed her head against the dresser. Then placing her on the bed he saturated a handkerchief with chloroform and placed it over her nose and mouth, covered her with a blanket, sprinkled the bed and surroundings with gasoline, set fire to the bedclothes and went to the barn. When the fire had made sufficient heat the husband and anything that would lead to any detection of the crime he called his neighbors as already related. He stated also he and his wife had engaged in disputes recently over many matters and that she entertained recently a fixed belief that he intended leaving her, which he said, in fact, he did intend. He had planned to go in the country for a day or so, he said, on the morning of the crime and she remonstrated him, and he bloody angered at her, contemplated the acts stated. The couple had been married but six months and both were near the age of fifty. Freeman is unusually intelligent. COUNCIL 18 CONSERVATIVE. Allows Ames Enough for Temporary Needs. Des Moines, Dec. 21.—At a meeting of the executive council held on a Northwestern train between Ames and Des Moines last evening, following a visit of the council and others to the ruins of the main building of the university, the trustees taken on the request of the trustees for an appropriation out of the $35,000 providential contingent fund. The council unanimously decided to allow repairs amounting to $3,500 to be made on the main building and to permit a temporary structure, containing a fire alarm, to be erected. The probable cost of the improvements contemplated will range from $12,000 to $15,000. WHERE WILL THE GROWTH END? Remarkable Progress of Iowa's Dollar Dollary Des Moines, Dec. 17.—The recent enlargement of the Des Moines Daily News to eight pages appears to be only the beginning of that wonderful newspaper's growth, many of its recent issues having been twelve and even sixteen pages. The astonishment among publishers at this growth is increased by the fact that the subscription price of the Daily News is $1 a year, 75 cents for six months, 50 cents for three months. Attempted Highway Robbery. Clinton, Dec. 21.—News comes from Sabula that an attempt was made there to rob Mr. and Mrs. Otto Flor on their way home. They were driving through a lonely and dark place, where they were to rear and plunge. A man was seen holding the horses by the bridles, and Mr. Flor applied the whip, but could not drive the horses ahead. He had purchased a pitchfork, and with this he prodded the horses till they had away, knocking the man down. For a Pearl Button Factory. Clinton, Dec. 21.—Articles of incorporation have been filled here for the Clinton Pearl Button company, with a capital stock of $10,000. The stockholders include several bankers and other business men. The management will be in the hands of practical button men. The company is authorized to buy and sell shells, pearls, slugs and new beacon banks. The provided will equip a large plant that will employ fifty people. The factory will be ready for business as soon as the ice goes out in the spring. Malicious Prosecution Charged. Sioux City, Dec. 17.—There was an unexpected ending in the district court of the $2,000 embezzlement case against William Brower of Voville. The prosecution, after finishing its evidence, asked that the case be dismissed. Immediately afterward the prosecuting witness, George Coleman, manager of the Eureka Mercantile company of Moville was served with notice of a $25,000 damage claim. The main witnesses against Brower became all muddled up in their efforts to prove that Brower "knocked down" $2,000 of the company's money in his year of employment. NEWS IN GENERAL NEWS IN GENERAL COLONY IS IN A TURMOIL. Boers Are Now Overrunning British South Africa. London, Dec. 21—Since Lord Kitchener's dispatch fully confirming the invasion of Cape Colony and expressing a hope not to capture, but only to "drive them north again," not a word has been issued officially as to the situation in South Africa. Considerable activity is now manifested at Aldershot. A large draft of mounted troops will be ready to start for South Africa January 6, while others have been notified to hold themselves in readiness for the same destination. According to the Cape Town correspondent, the Daily Mail the morning report, sitting in Colebury was obliged hurriedly to remove to Cape Town with the records and documents, owing to the vicinity of the invading Boers. The Coleesburg district," say the correspondent, "is seething with anti-British excitement. A rejuvenescence of rebellion is perceptible in the districts immediately south of the Orange river. Tuesday morning, a fight was proceeding at Philipsown, presumably with a command which crossed at Sand Drift: Cape Town, Dec. 21. The invasion of Cape Colony is spreading. It is reported that the Boers have occupied Coleesburg, south of Philippolis and near the Orange River Colony frontier. The people here are much disturbed. A mixed force of 1,000 men was dispatched north yesterday evening. BOERS RAID CAPE COLONY Two Separate Commandoes Invade British Territory. London, Dec. 19.—"The Boers have raided Cape Colony at two separate points, 100 miles distant," says the Cape Town correspondent of the Daily Mail. "One commando advanced upon Philipstown, between Colesburg and Kimberley. The other, supposed to be Herzog's commando, crossed the Orange river between Odendal and Burghersdorp, its objective point apparently being Gradock. "General MacDonald is engaging the invaders, who have no guns, twenty miles west of Burghersdorp. The latest news is that they are being slowly forced back to the Orange river, where a warm reception is being prepared for them." The contemplated Thanksgiving service in St. Paul's cathedral in connection with the return of Lord Roberts from South Africa, has been honored by giving "to its being deserved to defeat a general Thanksgiving until the close of the operations in South Africa." Lord Salisbury's gloomy reference to South Africa at the conference of the national union of conservative associations causes much heart-burning. The conservative press, reluctant to admit that the situation is peaceful, accuses of the premier's needless pessimism. The Daily News asks whether Lord Salisbury's utterances foreshadow the news of another reverse, and it suggests that the government has received dispatches from Lord Kitchener asking more troops on the ground that the war, instead of being entering upon a new and difficult phase. All the papers are urging the government to do everything possible to support Lord Kichener. There are rumors current that the government is not able to respond to the appeals from South Africa to send out more regulars. The news editorially denouncing the "misguided leniency toward the Boers" says: "Such a concentration of Boers as brought disaster on General Clements' force would not have been possible had we carried on the war as we had been, and we would have been war as it would have been carried on by any other civilized nation." British Press Comment London, Feb. 21.—Nearly all the morning papers have editorials on the action of the United States senate in connection with the Hay-Pauencefote canal treaty. They express regret, rather than surprise, at the supersession of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and unanimously declare that it will be impossible for Great Britain to accept the amended treaty. "The senate has struck a serious blow," says the Daily News, "at the fundamental principles of good faith among nations, at its own reputation and at the very constitution of the great restitution." "Thankful," says the Daily Chronicle, "that the senate stopped short of amendments obviously designed to wreck the whole proceedings. We believe that a compromise is still possible, as the resources of diplomacy are not yet exhausted." There is a strongly evident desire to do everything reasonable, as the Daily Chronicle suggests, to meet the views of the Americans in all the comments. Several papers, however, consider out of the question that the British government should be for a moment accept or discuss the amended treaty. The Times makes no comment. Turks Killing Christians. London, Dec. 20.—A dispatch to the Daily Express from Vienna reports recent Moslem excesses against the Christian population in the central provinces of Turkey, where 200 Christians have been killed. Cleveland Endorses Harrison's Views. Cleveland Eudorse Harrison's Views Princeton, N. J., Dec. 19.-Former President Grover Cleveland was asked by the Associated Press correspondent if he had seen Mr. Harrison's speech at Ann Arbor. Mr. Harrison, a liberal liberal synopsis of it in some of the papers and regard it as the best deliverance yet made on the subject it discusses." Heavy, Are Active. Capetown, Dec.17.-Seven hundred Boers have crossed from Orange River Colony into Cape Colony, near North, and have reached Kapland. THE CUDAHY KIDNAPING Omaha Packer Mulled for for $25,000 by Kidnapers. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 21.—Twenty-five thousand dollars in gold was the price paid by Edward A. Cudahy, the millionaire packer, for the return of his son, Edward Cudahy, Jr., who was abducted by a gang of kidnappers last Tuesday night. Wednesday about noon, and several hours after the letter had been left in the front yard at the Cudahy residence, the boy was taken to Mr. Cudahy there. It came through the mails and contained a proposition to return the boy, safe and unharmed, provided the sum of $25,000 was paid that night. In the letter were full directions as to where the money was to be left and the assurance was given that the missing boy would be to return home within a few hours of the time the cash was received. A consultation was held at once and the mutter gone over in detail. Plans were discussed for capturing the bandits when they should make their appearance at the rendezvous that had been designated, but one after another they were dropped as being impracticable. Finally, impelled by the strain under laboring, Mr. Cudahy decided to comply with the terms offered and ransom his son. The money was secured by a trusted messenger, who was sworn to secrecy, and was brought to the Cudahy residence. It was all in gold. After dinner Mr. Cudahy had a buggy of his horses harnessed to a light buggy, and, taking the money in it with him, which it had been stipulated of which it had been stipulated it should be left. In his buggy he carried a red lantern, and was quite alone. Leaving the house he drove five miles west of town on the Sherman avenue road until he came to a white lantern that was hanging on a short stick by the side of the road. This was the place where he was to leave the boy's ransom, and eighting him to the stick bearing the white light. Then, without seeing any one, he returned to his home. In the meantime the captors of the boy had seen the red light coming up the road, and as soon as the buggy had disappeared again in the direction from which it had come, they visited the spot, took away the money and prepared to keep faith with the father of the boy. The lad was bundled into a hack and set down close by his father's house about 1 o'clock yesterday morning. Where he had been he was unable to leave the house until a mate by the few observations he was able to make he thought he had been taken about five miles south of South Omaha. The cunning of the gang who had the boy in keeping and their thorough knowledge of the geography of the city are evidenced in the plans they laid. Close by the place where Mr. Cudahy was directed to leave the ransom for his son the river apperches the road, watch that the man is road, watch for the millionaire and saw his red light from a boat. As soon as he had driven away and they had satisfied themselves that no others were lurking near, they probably clambered up the bank, obtained the sack of gold that had been left for them, made their way to the boat again and without leaving any telltale footprints. There is absolutely no clue to the identity of the men who spirited the young man away, although the police have been working incessantly on the matter ever since it was first reported to them. Whether he will be able to give the police any information that will lead to the capture of the outwits who him prisoner for over twenty-four hours remains to be seen later on. The boy says that he was seized first by two men, who told him that he was a fugitive from the reform school and that they were deputy sheriffs from another county. They placed him in a closed carriage and with his baby shirt in his head, with which they gripped him. Then he took him, according to his best judgment, to a lonely cottage west of South Omaha, where he was chained to the floor and there kept a prisoner until put in a hack and returned to his home this morning. He was at the cottage guarded by two men and provided with sufficient food. Next night Mr. Cudahy announced he would pay $25,000 reward for the apprehension of the abductors of his son, $5,000 for one and $15,000 for two of them. ROOT APPROVES ARMY POST SITE. A Cavailry Post Is Now Assured for Des Moines. Washington, Dec. 21.—The army post site in Des Moines has been approved. Representative Hull yesterday called at the war department, witnessed the approval and received assurances from the General Miles he would recommend the establishment of a cavalry post on the site also. Usually these posts are started with two companies, but in this case a full squadron (four companies) will be stationed at the post as a beginner, and Mr. Hull has the assurance of the major general that it will soon develop into a regimental post. Call no woman old until she has ceased to throw apple-parings over her right shoulder. It is stated that the men who live on the mountain ranges of California are notable for their remarkably retentive memories. A Minneapolis widow fitted up a room in her house, where for months she nightly communed, or thought she did, with the spirit of her dead husband. Then a dashing young physician laid siege to her heart. Among other good advice he said to her: "It is your duty, Emma, to turn your attention from the dead, and seek happiness with the dead, and the happiness has been dismantled and the widow will soon be cheered by a living husband. An escaped lunatic whilte up his time in Racine, Wis., by taking the civil service examination. In dentally he took the highest grade. Our Nation's Wealth. The material wealth and strength of our nation, from the most useful of all metals, just as the wealth of a human being lies in a useful stomach. If you have overworked yours, try Hostetter's Stomach Biters. It will relieve the clogged bowels, improve the appetite and cure constipation, dyspepsia and billiousness. Office seeking is neither a trade nor profession; it's a disease. Best for the Bowels. No matter what ails you, headaches to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just cents on the table. CASCARETS Cary Catholic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. stamped on it. Beware of mitaions. Cows, it appears, have most accommodating appetites and diets. When a cow is milked, Cary Catholic was credited with, allowing a mackintosh, it drew from Oaern Gordon, then the well known witty censor of Christ Church, London, the expression of a hope that its milk would be waterproof. At one of the railway construction works in Glasgow, the other day, a Roman Catholic clergyman, who takes a great interest in the members of his flock engaged at the outing, saw one of them entering a "pub." He halled him, but Pat simp' looked and walked in Waiting Hill, where the clergy man accosted him thus: "Pat, didn't you hear me calling?" "Yes, your rivince, I did, but—but I had only the price of one." One day, at a large family dinner, Pasteur called the attention of those present to the danger of imbibing germs while eating fruit, and to impress the necessity of caution upon his hearers washed his bunch of grapes in a glass of water. After he had finished the grapes and had forgotten his little speech, being thirsty, he had taken a nap, and grapes had been washed, thereby arousing much merriment among the irreverent youngsters present. · HER HEART WAS TOUCHED. FOLSOM, Custer Co., South Dakota Dec. 15.—(Special). Mrs. H. D. Hyde has given for publication a letter ex- pressing her unbounded gratitude to Dodd's Kidney Pills for the double cure of herself and little daughter. Mrs. Hyde has been troubled with pains in her heart for over three years and for a long time her little girl suffered from weak kidneys. The grateful lady does not seem able to find words strong enough to express her gratitude. She has written the following: I cannot say too much in praise of Dodd's Kidney Pills. They are the greatest kidney and heart medicine ever used. I had been troubled for over three years with a severe pain in my heart, which entirely disappeared after I had taken a few doses of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I also gave them to my little girl, whose kidneys had been weak, and she commenced to improve from the very first dose. Dodd's Kidney Pills are certainly a wonderful medicine. I would be pleased to have this, my statement, published, as I feel it my duty to let others know just what the Pills will do for them. MRS. H. D. HYDE. Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure 50c a box. All dealers. He who talks too much destroys his own meaning. Garfield Tea produces a healthy section of the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowls; it purifies the blood, thus protecting the system against disease. Some women make more fuss over a sickly rubber plant than other women do over a teething infant. Coughing Leads to Consumption Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist today and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. Girls, to manage their husbands right, should be tip-top housekeepers. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUINIE TABLETS. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure E. W. Grove's signature is on the box. No. Have you noticed the individuality in a footstep? A people to kill the hair and turn it gray. PARKER'S Hair Balsam reserves color and life. IKNEDEROS, the best cure for corn. Ickets. The man with a profitable business is to be congratulated. C. H. Crabtreat, De Minas, Iowa, will on request explain all about the Gladiator Gold-Mining company; extremely interesting; write me. Speak well of the quick as well as the dead. A Colonel in the British South Africa Army says that Adams' Tutt Frutti was a blessing to his wife matching. Our sympathies should not unfit us for business. Sweat and fruit acids will not discolor goods dyed with PUTNAM FADELLE DYES. A pat on the back may mean more than one thing. Some men are more generous to a fault than a virtue. You Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease Free Write to-day to Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y., for a FREE sample of Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures sweatful skin, an aching feet. Makes new or light shoes. Available. tain care for Chilblains and Frost-bites. At all drummers and shoe stores. 25c ec oe Ferner ee teen NCC ane eer cree ren MOR ee ee FER ae ot asm kD EVERY FRIDAY BY THE BYSTANDER Peiemanin waranty, riria oso Locuer, Sunes mov Kh MaRQUAMDE BLOCK, NO Dua eonn to UGUEMMAL PAPER OF TRE AFRO-AMERICAN PRO- (UPR hlen smocistion or ows (GePeaL YAPIR OF THE MOCT WORSHIFTUL Pt tide Laven or Tors, Ge f gPBRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Se Fea cnoe ie scc sess cose sseerecee ALD eet ee es De aNeubeosipiion pavatie ia savas, ‘ek, THOMPSON, EDITOR, jc. SHEPARD. MANAGER, “Tgand money by post: Mice order, money order, ‘eareas or dralt, to the lows Starx BYSTAN- ‘pan Publishing Company, ve amimencations must be writen on one alde of ue payer only end'be of interest tothe pub fe, ‘Brevity is the soul of wit,” remember ea wil not revara rejected manuscript, ens srompanted by postage stamps, ee IOWA'S LADING COLORED PAPER. ——— _ CITY NEWS Christmas Gif. © -Obt What beautiful weather. oe Js the matter wit} sne Bystande:? Meo — {Bed Mr, Jones’ planoadd on the rat pege. a | MMe extend to all our readers @ Merry | Metry Coristmas. FO a: Mis. LR Palmer was in Omabe for Sade days this week, ore So © Mra. E. 8, Morgan who has been very : ‘alok is improving. 0 —————__— © Wenley Fields expects to go to St. “Lotila during the holidays. Be ees _S Window Glass—Dawson’s Hardware. oo "Mise Mable Bass of Clive is yisiting “in the eity this weeks. ~ | Midway Cosl, 212 W. Tbh street, both © Phones, “Holiday Bargato’s you can't forged at _ Wolf's, 319 Waleut. Se > Skates repaired—Dawson's Haréware <8. F, Canady of Oskaloosa was a Gapitol City visitor ‘this week. _2Ghas. Seymore ‘leaves Saturday for B: ‘k to visit friends and relatives ee $$ “WRITE The African Movurchs ot ‘ Awerica. They have something to tell you. Sioux City, Ia. a ptm Holiday Bargaln’s you oan’i forgetat © Woil's, 319. Watout. oo = Bleysles repsired—Dawson's Hard ane = Bubseribe for the Breraxpes and ‘send in your $1.00. while the holidsy rate fs on. ee Mr. H. E. Jacobs the foreman of the < Bystander office has been confinéd to ‘his room this week by ilness. _* fieck Smatth—Dawson » Hardware, i "Holiday Bargain's you can’t forget at Wolf's $19 Walovt, MB, Jackson who has boon quite sick ‘Wwe much improved that he is able to be © wp end out égain, which pleases his friends. 34H, Mixon, Jeweler, No. 316. West “Third, street, Tunes Pisnos and re- _paira Organs, & Chas. Roy arrived Monday from |Mason City to spend the holidays ;with {Bis purente, itis rumored that he will take a bride with bim on his wreturn. eh ae 7. Mr. sud Mrs 1, M. Jones of Enst \Dea Moines street entertained Mrs.\B. “Butts and femily at dinner last Sun- \asy, Be Mrs. Isabella Claughton who left for Denver, Colo, is reported she will soon “anatry & gentleman who used to be a resi- “dent here, © Mrv; Joule Waldon neo Whitsets of ston formally of Indianapolis, fad, petit a fow days in our city the guest” of Mr: sod Mrs. J. L. Thompson. ‘Mlire. Allee Newton who is the office uy at R, N. Hyde Electric Fan Carpet will spend Christmas in Burling ton, ) Frank Johnson left last Thursdsy Bight for Chicago where he will visit ra few days. ae G. H. Young formerly of this aity but now of Sioux City passed ‘Ahrough this city laste Wednesday en- foute to Peoria, Ill, to visit friends ‘and relatives during the holidays. a WANT colored organizers for “the Dest thing on earth for colored re ‘African Monarchs of America, Oity. Ta. & Ol Heaters—Daweon's Hardware. The best Xmes present you oan get fg the Breranpen, one year for One Dollar, : We were unable toget the cuts of the Board Directors of the Enterprise Investment company for this issue so ‘they will appear in our New Year edition. 5 Mr. ©. J. Perry our electrician will leave this week for Chicsgo where he Will ake his home, his family will not join him until later, We ate sorry to see Mr. Perry goas we need more skilled labors. At the coming Masonic Banquet next Thureday everybody 1 expected tobe seated at the table by nine o'clock a picture of the table will be taken before the banquet is served and while the guest are at the table. Tickets can be secured of E. ‘T. Banks at the Court House after Monday the 2th inst Sleds, Sleds—Dawson’s Hardware. _ THE ELITE Restaurant, 314 'W. Third street. Best 15¢ meal ‘in the ejty. A trial will convince s E. G. MoArge Prop. WHAT SOCIRTY AND CHURCH PEOPLE | ARE DOING. ‘The Pastor and offieers of the Burn’s ME. church have disposed of thelr property at KE. Second and Des Moines street and purchased alot at W. Ele venth and Crocker atreets, they are having a house moved to their lot and will remodle it eo they can hold ser- vices, One of the best sermons that has been heard, for sometime was the one that was delivered at the Y. M. C. A, auditorium last Sunday night by Mra Rev. L. J, Phillips, A number of society people have re. ceived invitations from the ‘Twentieth Century Club of Muchakinock to at- tend their banquet that will be given on the 28th inst, Mr. A. R. Jackson is president of the club and the Messrs B.F. Cooper, Lewis Perkins aud John T. Washington sre members of the invitation committee. A party was given at the home of Mr. und Mrs, Lewis 16th and Des Moines street Thursday evening 8 very pleasant ‘tiie was had by all present, Miss Gertie Hyde of 1396 W. Grand Avenue will entertain this evening io honor of Miss Bernice Collins, On last Tuesday evening Mrs. Uourtney of West 5th atreet gave s birthday party for her son Richard Colston from eight toelevon, A five course lunch was ser- ved after which all departed for home, reporting « delightful evening. ‘The Willing Worker Club better known asthe Bowing Circle of the Corithian Baptist ehurch met with Mre, Jones East Des Moines, alter working, lunch was served by Mrs. Jefferson and Mrs, Jones, Mrs. Jefferson, President and Mrs. L, M, Blakey, Secretary. One of the most beautiful home weddings of this year was the marringeof the eldest daughter of Mr, and Mrs, C. S. Stewart of 1019 W, 25th street, Be 6 Genora to Mr Harold Wilson Hughes at the home of the bride last Wednesday at high non ‘The relatives ot the contracting parties. Messrs and Mesdames C. 8. Stewart and W. Hughes formed semi-circle and ot the elock was striking twelvethe Loben- grin wedding march was played-by. Miss Leona Dawson, little Ethel the sister of the bride was.the flower girl and pre- ceded the bridal party, she was the only attendant, Rev, L. J. Phillips performed the ceremony in » very Impressive manner. The house was deoorated with palms, ‘The bride was attired in white swiss mull and.carried a boquet of white chrysanthems, She was borned and rais- ed in this eity and has always been one of a" teaders in soolety, is a talented musi- jan is handsome and possesses a loving disposition, ‘The groom is a product of our ity. “eisagraduate in the West Des Moines High Schoo! class of 1898 and was immediately employed by W. L. White's Shoe Company where he worked until he taken the Civil Servies examina. tlon.and was employed asa city carrier and fs working in thatoapacity now. He is an exemplary young man. Those two young people starts out in life under the most favorably auspices ever given in our city, the Bystander with their many friends wish them a bappy life anda suc- cessful union. ‘The presents were good and useful, they will bo at home alter January 14th, ab 2014 Center sticet. AMUSEMENTS. ‘The Owen's Ministrel Company, will be the attractions at the Mirror Opera House for three: performances, ‘Thurs- day, Friday and Saturday night of this woek, they will be assisted by the Brotherhovd Band of the sity. ‘There will be no performances at the Anditorium until therfirst of January, it being closed for repairs. The Hottest Coon in Dixie was bill to play at the Grand this week, but for some reason their engagement has been canceled, . Weather Strips—Dawsons Hardware, BROTHERHOOD BAND. ‘The manager of the sbove named band invited the Bystander, reporter to attend their rehearscls and was pleased tolearn that they are making such rapid progress, they have a mem- ership of sizteen pieces, Mr. F. 0. Goggins is the musical director and Mr, John Wingois the manager, they will make thelr debut at the Mirror Opera House this: weelr, don't fail to hear them. In speaking of the band maneger Wingo sald we have ordered uniforms, and the band in # prosperous condition, ‘They will give a concert in i near future. ROSCOE CONKLING BRUCE, Enables Harvard to Win Inter-Col- legiate Debate With Yale in Two ‘Annual Contests—Ilis Chi- cago Address. Roseoe Conkling Bruce, the only son of the late Senator i, K. Bruce, is a young man of whom we have at ways expeeted much, but who bids fair to transcend the expectations of all those who expect most of him. He ig now a student at Harvard univer- sity and has distinguished himself particularly during the past two years in oratory. In the college de- bate between Harvard and Yale last year he did much to win the decision for Harvard. In the debate between those two colleges last week Harvard again got the decision, and the news- papers speak in the most eulogistic terms of the part taken by Mr. Bruce. The New York Sun's report says his effort was one of the most brilliant in the history of intercollegiate de- bate. The writer heard Mr. Bruce speak in Chicago last September and he was charmed by his finished oratory, his polished manners, his fullness of information and logical presentation of his facts, No one who heard him gpeak in Chicago doubted for a mo- ment but that a new and very strong force in the hope and effort of the race stood before the audience. Mr, Bruce possesses the rare qual- ity ef modesty—the stamp and su- preme charm of true genius. 1 al- ways admired this quality more than any other in the character of Mr. Frederick Douglass, as well also in that of Senator Bruce; it is also this quality in the character of Mr. Book- er T. Washington which is most ad- mired and oftenest referred to. There ix nothing whatever of pedantry in the language or manners of young Bruce. He is faultlessly natural and self-possessed from every point of view. T. Thomas Fortune. ANNUAL BANQUET NORTH STAR LODGE, NO. 2, DES MOINES, Nan © eens Coat ar Bre Programme. Speeches of five min- utes: “Masonry and Its Beauties,” J. ¥. Shepard, W. M., master of ceremonies, “The Court,” Mrs. L. R. Palmer, grand matron. “Sir Knights,” Geo. H. Cleggett, P. G.M. Solo,-G. I. Holt. “History of Colored Masonry,” E. T. Banks, treasurer. “Our City,” J. L. ‘Thompson, secre- tary. “The Relation of Masonry to the Church,” Rev. S. Bates. “Our State,” Geo. H. Woodson, Muchakinock, Towa. “The Grand Lodge,” I. L. Brown, grand master. M Duet, Mesdames Coalson and Blag- burn. * “The Ladies,” Mr. Joseph L. Woods of Marshalltown. ‘Annual banquet of North Star lodge, No. 2, at Turner hall, West Eighth and Cherry streets. Arrangement committee—Wm, Coal- son, H. J. Pierce, Chas. Bradford, 1, D. Woods, F. T. Banks, C. L, Petti grew, T. 8. Ruff. Reception committee—J. L. Thomp- son, RN, Hyde, Jefferson Logan, Geo. I. Holt, M. F, Fouche. Invitation committee—J. Frank Biagburn, H. E. Jacobs, C. A. Harris. MENU Celery, Mixed Pickles, ‘Turkey, Cranberry Sauce, Hain, Escolloped Oysters Cold Meats Potato Salad Bread and Butter Ice Cream Assorted Cake Bananas, Grapes, Coffee and Cream A SOUTHERN PAPER CALLS AT- TENTION TO THE STRIDE THE NEGRO 15 MAKING. “It will not do,” remarks the At- lanta Constitution, “to ignore or sneer at the work for negroes being carried on. We have it to meet, and the quicker we meet it, the better. The progress of these colored insti- tutions should stir us up to do some- thing more than we have been doing. The figures show that since 1825 2,414 negroes have been graduated from colleges, most of them since 1870, and for the last six years an average number of about 130 a year. Listen to this: ‘Ninety per cent of those graduated in southern colleges remain and work in the south, while fully 50 per cent of those graduated in the north go south and labor where the masses of their people live.’ Not only do we retain 90 per cent of those educated black people, but 50 per cent of those educated north come back—a compliment to the south as the best place adapted to them, but a menace also, unless we arouse and keep our white boys in front of the procession!” A TOE CORN {a a little thing, but the pain and grief from it is great. ‘You have never used the EMBRALD CORN CURE, or you wonld not have that corn, It cures hard or soft coms, bunions, callouses, etc. Itleaves anew soft smoothe skin and gives you ease and comfort. 10¢ a bottle. SHELDON’S PHARMACY, +10th and Center Sts. THE LADIES AND; WHA7 THEY SAY. Mrs. J. H. Shepard, well we have started our Court ont with a new tife and prospects of afew new members. Mrs) Wm. Conlson, it keeps me huet- ing all the time, am so sorry to see the cold weather, Mrs, L, Wilburn, well I declare I fave'nt seen you for a year, Mrs, Lucy Wagburn, what do you think of my boy? Mrs, Denney, Minneapolis Isall right but Des Moines is my old stand by, I would not mind living in the West though. Mrs. Col. Milligan, well the smail- pox season is coming again, but there is one thing certain, they won't get me. Mrs. I. E. Williamson, this is my busy season and I have not time to talk newspaper business now, Mrs, Jno. L, Thompson, I am just getting over that horrid. old bicycle ac- cident, you know I was frightened. Mrs. G. H, Cleggett, I am pleased to to see the Ladies Court, starting up with such bright prospects. Miss Bess Stewart, all I have got to say now is, good by girls. Miss Mary Bell, well, well this music business is taking up to much of my time, | Miss Zella Davis, I thought sure he would be here last month, I am so dis- ‘appointed. Mrs, Fred Jackson, truly I ment to be there, but for got all about it. | Rev. Mrs, Phillips, the church is the place for our young people, and the sooner they reslize it, the better it will be for them and the cities in which they live, A SUCCESSFUL RALLY. ‘The first church rally inauger- ated by the new pastor of the A. M. E. church. Rev. L. J. Phil- lips was quite successful consid: ering the adverse diffisulties they labored under. ‘The total amout of actual cash turned over tothe officers was nearly 450.00 dollars, the pastor and members was jubi- lant as they ate certain that with- in a few months more of united work they would be able to liqui- date the entire debt. Sunday evening services at the Y. M. C. A..Auditorium was well attended Mrs, Rev. L. J. Phillips preached and her sermon was one of the best ever heard by a woman, it was cloquent forceful and instruc- tive, We ask to publish it but did not receive the manu- script. IOWA GIRL RECEIVES A GOOD APPOINEMENT. Miss Esa, Damon formerly of Clinton Ia., but now of Chica- go, who has been a substitute clerk in the Post-office of that city for severalmonths, was ap- pointed on the 6th inst., toa per- manent position in the Post-office at a salary of $600.00 per year. She was assigned to the money order division, being the first col- ored women that has been assign- edtothat division. We congrat- ulate Miss Damon on her promo- tion and wish her continued suc- cess. It isvery hard to keep an Iowan from receiving good posi- tions, / AVI AR STRER. The young people of Saylor are ar- ranging to give a grand concert De- cember 26, Rev. Haggard, who has been visit- ing in Ottumwa, returned home De- cember 16. : Mrs, Pritchard is able to be stirring around again. ‘Mrs, Hill is very ill. Mrs. Roach is expecting to take flying trip to Thurbur, Texas, Xmas. Saylor Sunday school says they saw the best September in the state. It is always trying to do something for the good of the school. Mrs, Jemfens is preparing to enter- tain Mrs. Johnson of Fraser, Iowa, Xmas. Mr. J. Madson is expecting to spend Xmas in Nashville, Tenn. ‘Mr. & Carter will spend Xmas in the state of Mlinois. Mr. L. G, Garret says he has got the best teacher in the state of Iowa for the Sunday school. Don't forget our grand Xmas tree on Monday night. Skates, Skates—Dawson's Hardware. EXCUSION RATES FOR THE HOLIDAYS. EXCUSION RATES FOR THE HOLIDAYS. Via the North-Western Line, Excur- sion tickets will be sold at low rates to points on the North-Western System east of the Missouri River within 200 miles of selling station, December 22, 23, 54, 25, 31and Janusry 1, good re- turning until January 2, inclusive. Apply to agents Chicago and North- Western R'y. D er ran ec oe is | ee . Vanue | a Pt | te oe NS) Say ey oo a |: ae eae Ty ae ia Ee 4 F ees | Nie ong Fe Do a be ie : y| : ; i ; 4 ¢ ; © ae HON. JOHN COWNIE. Governor Shaw's appointments on the board of control have met with general approval, and the appointees have shown that the governor made no mixtake. Of the members then ‘appointed, Hon. John Cownie, of Towa euunty, was born in Seotland in 1844, and came to Iowa in 1856. He has been one of the most prominent stock breeders and shippers in the’ state for over 30 years. When 18 years old Mr. Cownie began to make his own way. He rented land and by teaching school for 15 winters and farming the rest of the year he Jaid the foundation for material progress. Me has advanced from adirector- ship through the position of viee president to the presidency of the State Agricultural society. In 1804 he was made superintendent of the machinery department of the state fair, and for the first time in its ION. JOHN HERRIOTT. In the life of John Herriott every boy who is born without a silver spoon in his mouth may find much to encourage him, Mr. Merriott’s ¢ areer shows what it is possible for energy, industry and perseverance to accomplish. “He comes of Scotch ancestors. who emigrated from the vieinity of Edingurgh a century ago and settled in Marytand and Peinsyl- vania, He was born in Herriotsville, near Pittsburg in 1844. When eight years old his father died and at thir- teen he went to work in a black- smith’s shop. He was one of the first to respond to the call for sol- diers, enlisting in 1861 and serving until’ the close of the war, when he removed to Scott county, Towa. In 1872 he removed to Guthrie county, his present home. Five years later he was elected county treasurer and served two terms. He proved such a capable official that in the state convention of 1894, he received the nomination for state treasurer and so successfully discharged the duties of the office that in 1896 he was re- elected and again in 1898 he was re- nominated by acelamation. During his political and private life, Mr. Herriott has gained hundreds of steadfast and has strikingly demon- strated the fact that a young man with no other resource ‘than those which nature has endowed him may, it he will, prosper in business and rise to high political honors. TO FRIENDS OF LADIES’ PLEAS: URE CLUB. 40 the Editor of the Bystander: We, the members of the Ladies’ Pleasure Club, wish to deny the ac- cusations made ngainst the members of this club by some of the ex-mem- vers, in the last issue of your paper. Our club was organized for the pur- pose of giving social entertainments and not for the purpose’ of courting notoriety or picking to pieces the characters of anyone. It has been our desire in giving these entertain- ments to surround. ourselves with the better class of people and we have always taken a positive stand against admitting improper charac- ters into our enterainments and will continue to do so, it matters’ not how much ill feeling it engenders. Mrs. Hardin as president of the club never assumed any duties that did not be- long to her'and the members of this club are perfectly satisfied with her as their president and have always loyally supported her in her efforts to make the club a social success. ‘The person who signed herself The Important Me in the article referred to last week, charges us with being intimately associated with her for the past year and exchanged and en- joyed hoxpitalities. ‘To the above we plead guilty, and in reply will say that had we known in the past what we know now we would not have chosen her for an associnte. Two of the ex-meinbers claim that their resignations were not accept: ed the evening they visited the resi- dence of Mrs. Hardin. In making the statement they knew they were stating something that was untrue, as one of their number so conduct: ed herself in such an improper man- ner that it was necessary for Mr. Harding to foreibly eject her from his premises. Mrs. J. D. Hardin. Mrs. J. P. Hamilton. Mrs, Clara Blagburn. Miss Minnie Weeks. ‘Miss Nina Hamilton. THE TUSKEGEE NEGRO CONFER- ENCE. Its Objects and Aims—Need of Great- history it more than met expenses, yielding the society a revenuo’ of $1,100. "Mr, Cownie is a leading mem- ber of the Improved Stock Breders’ Association of lowa, and of the Draft and Coach Horse Association, ang is an extensive contributor to the lead- ing farm and stock journals. ‘Though a strong party man, Mr. Cownie has never sought political honors, and was not a personal applicant for his present position. Mr. Cownie and his confreres have made the | oid a sues cess. He is a successful Lusiness man, farmer and stock raiser, and is. in every way most magnificently equipped for the duties of his pres- ent office or any other. Eleven years ago he started the Cownie Glove Co,, fn Der Moines, on a small scale, and now employs 135 workmen and eleven traveling salesmen, The active man- agement of the businss now lies with his son, Mr. J. H. Cownie, er Economy and Foresight. The annual Tuskegee Negro Con- ference will meet at the Tuskegee Institute Wednesday, February 20, 3901. ‘Ten years have passed since the first conference was held and there are many evidences that show the good influence of the movement on the masses of our people, ‘The Ne- gro Conference is working along spe- ‘cific and well defined lines; it is seek Jing to make the negro himself and ‘improve his own condition, mater- jially, morally and intellectually, The ways in which the Negro can do this are first, to raise his food supplies at home; second, to get out of debt and make no more mortgages; third, to stop loafing around town on Sat urday in idleness and drunkenness; fourth, to oppose at all times the ex- cursion habit; fifth, to have at least two rooms to his house; sixth, to prolong the school term by having a private supplement fund; seventh, to buy honies and farms. There are the primary objects and aims of the Negro conference and they can be accomplished without the aid of any political party, without forever com- plaining aboiit prejudice and with- out leaving this country. Wise economy and foresight are greatly needed by our people. Ex- travagance is and has always been a curse to the race. As a rule, the Negro is inclined to spend whether he has anything to spend or not and generally his hard earned earnings go for things which he does not ab- solutely need. ‘This year especially while cotton is bringing ten cente a pound there will-be a great temp- tation to live extravagantly. Let this not be the ease. Instead. of spending our surplus money ‘for things we don’t need, let us buy Ian@ repair our houses or put our money, in the bank, For the past few yeara times have ‘been hard and the col- ored farmers have got far behind. They have learned as never before the burden of mortgages and renta. ‘These ard times are sure to come again unless we profit by past ex> periences and put something away for a “Rainy Day.” The Negro Con- ference advises every Negro to prac~ tlee economy and become ‘an inte- pendent self-respecting land own- ing American citizen. Will you profit by this advice or will you continue in the old rut? For further information about the Negro Conference address, Booker ‘T. Washington, ‘Tuskegee, Ala, How to Cure Croup. Mr. R. Gray, who lives near Amenis, Duchess county, N. ¥., says: “Chamber- lain's Cough Remedy is the best medi- cine I have ever used. It is a fine children's remedy for croup and never fails to cure." When given us soon ae the child becomes hoarse, or even after the eroapy cough has developed, it wil? prevent the attack. This should be borne in mind and a bottle of the Congh Remedy kept at band ready for instant use as s0on as these symptoms appear, For sale by all Draggiste. The Best Plaster. 4 piece of funnel dampened wit Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and bound ta the effected parts is superior to any plaster. When troubled with lame back or pains in the side or chest; give give it u trial and you are certain to be more than pleased with che prompt relief whwh it affords. Pain Balmaleo cures theumatisin,”) One application gives relief, For sale by all Druggiste iY 5 Pe Senne TARE: meme arate veel ei i eee ceili me . o pitted sctaiaanalT. se 3 LTT TT ne oe Na PR RSM Me cr nie ont Ne REE Sad PROM ee Rae ee ARRa eee meee Nee rT ee Tee ONT oe a ee Gea wei hie i Baoan tho ea elena Vas aM i \ ‘eee sa cl se ag Ca li Sah i OEE TO ae GAR Tn ee aan Toe eo ee f : Bunn: ; aE hyn TSS See Coes OE oo ta ete . ¥ : y i eon Pea RMEIror TNH LUNI CT ¥ ‘RUGS FOR CHRISTMAS. Glegant Patterns. Choice Colorings. New Designs. 27x54 Perisian Welton Rugs. Oriental Patterns, - - - $1.25 27x54 Fringed Velvet Rugs, New Patterns, - = - $1.29 Easles, 48¢. Filled Screens, $1.25. Foot Stools, 48c, 69¢ and 75¢. 715 Walnut Telfer’s 715 Walnnt. RACE ECHOES. |,,°,°%,'82, 20% interesting tel anes ised ass ties eee The Alabama State sair meet: at Birmingham soon. This yea for the first time a Negro building will be erected. eee Richmond, Va. hasa_ shir factory that employs 200 colored girls and an iron woike that em- ploys 300 colored men. eee “Mississippi gets $25,000 from what-is known as the Morrill fund. Alcorn A. & M. college gets $13, 375.andthe A. and M. college gets $11,525. z : eee ‘There are 17,480 coloaed barbers in the United States 5,000 of.whom own and run their own shops. eee In Macon, Ga., the white péople, in opposition to the pop~ ulation, rent more real estate than does the colored man. The Ne- grocs owns more property in pros pertion. eee -M. W. Thurston is superinten~ dent ofa silk factory in Fayette. ville, N. C. in which 200 hands are employed, only two of whom are white and they are especially engaged to instruct. eee W.H. Lewis, an Atro-Ameri can coach of the Harvard foot balt team is to day the most famous foot ball strategist in America~ The success of the Harvard eleven in their contest with that of the University of Pennsylvania on -\Soldiers’ Field, Caimbridge recently by a score of seventeen to five, settled that fact for all time. : eee The Negro bank in Birmingham anda wholesale and retail dry goods establishment at Mont- gomery by aNegro are proving -to be the best argument possible against a constitutional ic es: tee , S. Coleridge Taylor of London, the semi African musical prodigy, | stands alone in his class as the foremost operatic writer of ihe sige. The race can well afford to feel proud of Mr. Taylor and re-| jeive in his splendid achievements. | as eee A farm of 600 acres valued at $7,000 has been donated to the Methodist church by William Stewart and wife of Urbana. ' Ill, the-proceeds of which are to be de voted tothe education of colored people in the black belt of the South. : eee * There are two colored men who are interual revenue collectors in State where the revenue is high it pays tohold the positions. Col. H. A. Rucker of Atlanta and Gen Joseph E. Lee, of Florida are the men. : eee + Major Taylor the colored bicy~ clist of Worvester, has signed agreement to race in Europe dur- ing Jnly and August of next year. cee - James Beasley, a sailor of New York, has been awarded a medal and his share of salvage by the German government for saving the crew and vessel, William Lenk which was in a sinking con- dition in the south Atlantic. Beasley carried a rope through a raging seaby whicethe crew was saved and the vessel safely towed to the port, One of the most interesting books of the season is one just is sued by small Maynard & Com. pany, Boston. The work is by Max Bennett Thrasher and it is on Tuskegee. The introduction is by Principal Booker T. Wash. ington. There are eighteen colored Bap tist churches in the city of Rich- mond, Va., there Methodist churches, one Catholic one Epis: copal, seventy- nine colcred teach- ers in the public schools but no colored principals. All the prin- cipals are whitp, Hon. Edward P. McCabe the only colored man ever elected to the position of auditor of the state inthe north, he having served two terms in that capacity in Kan sas, is the present deputy =p and territorial superintendent ot public education in Oklahoma. There are several eolored men who are county clersks in that territory. THE ONE-SIDEDNESS OF HUMAN wae AATURE, “The mind may be regarded as a force, the result of nervous action, and characterized by the ability to perceive sensations, to be conscious, to understand, to express emotions and to will in accordance therewith.” We see from this how great the mind is. Upon the mind depends the doing of all deeds, be they good or evil.“ All thoughts must originate in the mind. and the will to put them into action must begin there. It is a gift of God, second only to the soul. “While the Soul is immortal and our spiritual life, the mind is the great power back of it which gives the man the desire to care for his soul. ‘The soul is the gift of God which entitles the man ‘to eternal existence with his Creator, but if ‘the iind does not will to obey the Divinity, the soul is powerless to ‘save him, This fact that the mind is the mas- ter of man so far as his habits are concerned—controlling all of _ his actions and thoughts—is too often not appreciated. We too often think that when we have trained’ our mind in all the learning of the ancients and the sciences and philosophies of our own time, we have completely mas- tered ourselves and are able’ to go out into the world and be true men, But if our ininds have not been train- ed to grasp both sides of a question we have seriously erred—we are not ready for “complete living.” ‘The mind in inany cases has been misused, it has been developed only in part. In certain funetions it has been allowed to attain a growth which is, in comparison with — its growth in other functionse, abnor- mal. Vhychology teaches ts * that one function of the brain, which is the physical instrument of the mind, may be so wreatly developed that all others will seem insignificant, and almost useless, and that the person's character will be greatly modified. ‘The mind was intended to bring forth lofty Ideas, to have high thoughts and aspirations. Adain, in the gar- den, was to exercise his mind” by thinking on the glory and purity of his God. His mind was to dwell on the beauty and grandeur of all na- ture around him and to see God in all things. The heavens were to de- clare, unto him, the glory of God and the firmament’ to show his -handi- work. | Adam was no more than a man— ‘an experimental man—and showed only human abilities. He soon be- gan to worry because he had no one like himself With whom he could éon- verse. It is true that all animals and birds were friendly to him: it is true that all nature bloomed for his benefit, but his weak nature saw only his own loneliness. And so in: stead of having lofty thoughts. his mind was filled with discontent and even harshness towards his Creator God gave him a companion, but ther he aspired to become like God, anc was still not contented. ‘The mind has been | debased by many things and is often unable te see inore than one phase of a ques tion, War has been a pawerful fac tor in this mind debasement. Ever before the declaration of war there grows up between the two nation: a feeling of envy and hatred whic) is always debasing to the mind. Bot} on the field of battle and in th camp life there are many evil deed: done, all of which tend naturally tc lower the soldier. All debasing | forces, _ working through centuries, have caused the mind to be narrow. Even scholars are, iu many respects, narow-minded ‘There is a tendency to think that there is no good in a man simply be: cause we do not like him, or we think that there is no good in a church or a society or a race with which we are not connected. | In politics this one-sidedness often (often) leads to bloodshed, always leads to strife, of words if not of arms, A democrat is not willing to admit that there is any good men in the republican: party, nor will a re- publican believe that the government can be suecessfully run under a dem- ocratie administration. No thought is given to the man as a man, but if he belongs to a'party other than the one with which-they are affiliated he is at once declared unworthy. They cry, as did Nathaniel, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” — * It would not be so bad if it stopped here; but it is carried into religious matters and is often the cause for the division of friends. We know that, in early English ” times, . the Catholies almost regarded the’ Prot- estants as anti-christs, and that the Episcopalians thought that all the other churches were evil institutions, ‘The names which were given to some of the churches attest to this fact. ‘This feeling has, to a certain extent, extended to our own times. All de- nominations are not friendly to each other. The reason for this, if search- ed for, would no doubt be’ prejudice. ‘This feeling also exists among the races of the world. As it is in poli- ties and religion, so it is universally. ‘This one-sidedness, this prejudice has done more to destroy or prevent the friendly feeling which should exist between the races, than any other one evil. Everybody thought him- self to be better than a Nazarene, and so the term “Jesus of Nazareth,” when used by his enemies was a very bitter invective. Many who are worthy of better things are by this feeling kept back from them, The man is not measured by his. indivi- diial worth, but is considered as be- longing to a certain race. The word “Indian” has long been a synonym, for ignorance, savagery and vice. “In the same way, a negro, no matter what his qualifications are, is not thought of as a man, but as a negro. lf by great efforts he raises himself to prominence, he is thought of, not us a great man, but as a great ne- evo, If he does something unworthy ihe whole race is censured, ‘There is a remedy for this nar- rowmindedness, If when the child's mental functions are growing we teach him to investigate before pass- ing his opinion, and to form a habit of examining a case from all points before judging, this prejudice will in time disappear. But habits ean be formed later in life if the person has a determination to form them. The thinking good thoughts and the doing of good deeds may at first seem hard but will soon become re- flex actions—will become habits. Our daily lives are but “bundles of hab- its.” Why not then make them such habits that we shall be unable to have a one-sided view or do a selfish thing? Wm. B. Lowery. Cedar Rapids, Towa. INTERESTING LETTER FROM TENNESSEY OKLAHOMA. Dear Editor:—You see by my letter that we are now moved to our new home in Hennessey, we have only been hear a week 60 Lcan’t hardly tell you so very much about our litile city. Our cars came through in good shape, Papa is having his barn built 20330, It is the second best in town and assoon as it is finished we will commence our house, we live six blooks from town, there are over two hundred colored people living hear hey have their own sohvols and churches there areas many or more colored people living in the country that owns two or threehundred ucres of land with fine houses and barns and stock of all kinds, there is one family North of town is putting up a seven hundied doliar house, Mr. Goodone ownes a grocery store and has been In business hear for nine years, there are two colored barber, Mr, Carvat isone of the owners, Every day the People come from ten to twenty-five milles to trade, they have two flour mills seven elevators, fifteen hotels acd res turants, ten dry good stores three depatt- -mentstores, five meat markets, four hard /warestores, six livery barns and nine saloons, of course this is not all the ctown Set. There areabout thirty-eight hundred inhabitente here, there are twelve new residents going up here in var neigbbor- hood, people moving in every dar, we never look up but what we see from three tofour and ten to fifteen teams coming in there are so many emigrant waggons. ‘Mama and I went up town Saturday and we bad to walk single file ,to get along honestly there are su many people hereon ‘Monday sathere are in Badford on Satur. day,;thera are six passenger trains daily and exoursions every first and second ‘Tuesday of every month. Papa bas meet good many people here, The land here islevel for miles, and we certaialy have gotatovely home, We nave had beauti full weather every day since we came. Papa would like for you to please send the Bystander. Will close for this. time. Mattie Shackelford, Are you going to entertain? If so you will need invjtations, call and see ‘our samples, our prices are the lowe 8 A x Me, yi s => es Ba | Peay ff 4 nN <P MG NY OE SS JUHN G. JONES. In the beautiful and enterprising city of Ithaca in the State of New York, John G. Jones of Chicago, first saw the light on the 18th day of September 1849. Since 1855, he has been a resident of Chicago. He isa eelf made man and has record of honesty, ability and industry, and dur- ing the time, since his nomixation and his election as » member of the Legisia- ure, from the Fifth Senatorial Districte in Chicago. He 1s practicing attorney a the Chicago bar, and has tried almost every kind of acase known in the law. ‘So popular was he that he ran 5,000 votes abead of President McKinley in has Dise trict, and was elected over his opponent by over 83,000 votes, Mr. Jones is an eminent free mason, and is authority on Masonic Law. He was tho first colored mason in the United States to have ths Mystrio Shrine Degreaconferad upon him, and is the first colored mason in the World to have conferred upon him the high and sublime order of Knights of tho Red Cross ,of Constantine, which is the highest branch of free masonry now in the World. He is president of the National Federation of Labor of colored men inthe United States, and is the supreme head of the Scottish Kite of Col- ored Free Masonry in the United States, The Supreme Council of Scottish Rite of Spain and Greece have extevded him an invitation to visit their sudreme couneil in 1901, Mr, Jones isa leader of a move- ment which has colled for a conference of a number of prominent colored men, who are leaders of the Republican party to meet in Washington, D.C, March 2th, to discuss some matters relative to what is the best interest of the colored «people in tho United States, and call upon Presi- dent McKinley and present an address to hint on the subject. BOONE NEWS. Mr. Jerome Dorsey was a Des Moines visitor last week. ‘Mr, and Mrs, S. L, ‘Terry were the guests of Mr. Kelly at dinner Sunday. Miss Bessie Coleman of Indianola will spend the holidays in Boone, ‘Mr. John Scark was on the sick list last week but is better at present. Harry Moss of Chicago paid a short visit to his sister Mrs. Wm. Robinson lost. week, ‘The A. BM. #. church and Sunday School contemplate having & nice time Christmas, all are cordiglly invited to at- tend as an excellent programme has been arranged. Annumber of -the young people have received invitations to the banquet to be given in Muchakinock the 28th, Mr. 8, L. Terry will be the orator of the day at the Emaneipation Celebration, which will beheld in Newton the first of January, : MARSHALLTOWN ITEMS. ‘The roast was delivered, easy riled, talked shop, talked fight, could say wat he pleases, every one else must hold his breath for the space of one hour. “Oh, well, man wants but little here below. ‘Mr. and Mrs, Warn entertained the preacher at dinner Sunday. Mrs, L. HL. Johnson is quite sick at this writing. ‘ Mr. Samuel Howard, of Albion, has made us several visits here of late. There are a great many prepara- tions being made for those wonder- ful Xmas and New Year's dinners, Don't get mad if you don't get a bid. ‘The health of the colored people of our city is good this winter, and some of them are saying that they don’t care if it don’t snow for ten years. Mr. George Marshall passed through our city enroute south via. the Towa Centrai Railway. There is no man, I don't care how smart he is, can win a bad man or break him of bad ways by getting him in a crowd and referring to him as a “thief,” a “drunkard,” or any- thing else.’ But set him a good ex- ample and if there is any man left, he will také the hint. Mr, and Mrs. Charles Gilmore, Jr. are rejoicing over the arrival of a baby girl. Mother doing well. ‘Mrs, Brown as a book canvasser is a success. She sold nearly forty books for Xmas. ‘There has been quite a number of strangers stopped off here the last week looking for work, and they would see the smoke from the gli- cose, and when told what place it was he said it had the smell of brim: stone, and left town on the first train. Mr, and Mrs. Flippings live so far on the west side of town that we don’t see them only once every a days, but when last scen they were both’ well and doing nicely. ‘There will be a dramatic elub or. ganized here about the first of the year. CORRECTION. Editor of Bystander—Déar Sir: Having noticed a false statement rela. tive to our church in your last week's ih fonvenient Drug Store. Our new building was designed especially for our iN use and modeled after the most modern metropolitan plans, y "The stock will include everything in the line of drugs and drug sundries. It has been selected with especial attention to quality and completeness. ° ° Prescriptions. | We have all the toilet necessities, the sick room helps, and simple home remedies usually found in a drug store, but we wish to call your particular attention to our prescrip- tion work. If medicine is to cure disease it must be good’ medicine; only the best is good enough. FINE CONFECTIONARY. . Gunther, Allegeetti and Purity Candies, Box Candies especially suitable for the Holidays. Imorted and Domestic Cigars. We have only the best. brands, and keep them in perfect condition. y ' J 606 W. WALNUT STREET. i oo j A HINT FROM OLD SANTA! BS as to what will be” best” appreci= oF eS SOY ated by rich and poor alike at! 4d ‘a QE ‘ glad Christmas season:should oa NG Eyl | surely be worth considering. Old rnd we i/) Santa says: Buy a barrel or ip (Ce yeh ari, sack of FAL(ON Flour for your- y * Wess self—for some one else as_ well— “angi }and make a lot of people happy, fs Z Pea | for Falcon flour is the best made, BEER Me lig int a Made and guaranteed by Sp Aiea |SHANNON & MOTT CO. Seva arenes Des Moines, Iowa. $15 $15 315 $1815, a; Suit or Overcoat, ,. Made to Order and to Fit. as ss NO [MORE $15 NO LESS. #5 is A Thousand Styles. © A Single Price. ee : 2 : oa Glassgow Woolen Mills Co., > a $15 710 WALNUT STREET, “$15 Open Every Evening, DES_MOINES. $15, S15 S15 S15 S15 $15 $15 Som. - WE WISH TO MAKE YOU A PRESENT . 3 OF A VOLUME OF ay =I “The Story of My Life and Work,” « * y By BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, fo I Pr Tuskegee Normal and Industrial | : Yes rica regni Ee ore tae Nests ces La SES. ___ This valuable work is published int one large P< ES volume of over 400 pages) and beautifully illus; YY 7) B ANA \y trated with more than 50 original drawingsand nl PSH NN \ \S photo-erigravings — size 6 by 814 inches. , Ty) | AN snes ensue are apamts, waaay 7 RUAN a rbiniadn of atrial near fompunity, Woatae ES \\ CE ee eet 5 Te J. L. NICHOLS & CO., Naperville, I, issue, we take occasion to correct it, Our church has not engaged in a re- vival for several months, but we have in our midst a distinguished minister in the person of Rey. W. 'l. Nicker- son, who has been conducting a cam- paign of gospel education. We are glad to say that his efforts have been eminently successful. He came to us highly recommended, and we believe that he is the right man in the right place. He has not told any jokes on drunken deacons or dancers, but he has fearlessly de- nouneed sin of all kinds in unineas- ured terms, Your reporter has never heard him. Since an injustice has been done us by the items referred to Second Baptist Church. ‘Mrs. T. H. Cobbs, Sec’y. Metchaltiown: Towa: 50 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE’ © ‘Trave Marks Desicns Be ec qgumeseine ware oe, Bee miata eee ters Ss aS te hae le sean iene Scientific American, - ieee eemegad ee ieee fiWieneecioia 361Broadway, WN §.G0,2ersrern New Money to Loan by the +4 on personal, chattel and other secur. ties, Everything private. Loans can be renewed upon payment of exten- sion, Easy, payments, monthly oF weekly. "I.E, WILLIAMSON, 18-30 Business Manager. 211 4vh, stroct, Des Moines. N 7 A S > FOR MAKING’ ING rT KING CURLY HR St KNO" ae. ol we ae aN Mi EZ) “y Non i i a wae Pac eee! Ce a. 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