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IOWA On the Iowa Central Railway's excursions every Tuesday until April 30th, 1901 at lower rates (single trip) than ever before offered. Tickets also sold to points in Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and British Columbia at unheard of low rates. For full particulars call on Iowa Central ticket agents, or address, Geo. S. Batty, G. P. & T. A., Marshalltown, Iowa. Some time ago Attorney L. E. Williamson had J. B. Rush, an attorney-at-law, arrested for perjury, false swearing as to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bloomfield, in which Williamson was saying to get possession of chattel property which was mortgage. The trial was had before Justice Christa and Rush was bound over to the grand jury. On Friday night of last week after the Brotherhood Band had been rehearsing for some time, F. G. Goggins, the musical director was summoned to another room, and on his return he found that a new musical stand had been placed where his old one was. In a few words John Wingo in behalf of the band presented it to him. As the professor was taken by surprise it was several minuets before he could respond. The stand was designed and made by Ed. Lee a member of the band. The Enterprise Cafe; under control of The Enterprise Investment Company, will open its doors to the public Saturday 16, at 314 West Third street, the apartments formerly occupied by the Elite. It will be under the management of Mr. Harrison Gould Jr., with a capable culinary of assistants. The formal opening, with music, will be at the Sunday dinner, on March 24. Mr. Chas. F. West, who has been with Dr. Rood for the past seven years has opened a billiard and pool room at 304 West Grand Avenue, where he would be pleased to have his friends call and see him, as it is the only first olass billiard and pool room owned by a colored man in the city. No doubt it will be highly appreciated by all lovers of those games. AGood Cough Medicine for Children. "I have no hestiancy in recommending Chamberlain's Cough Remedy," says F. P. Moran, a well known and popular baker, of Petersburg, Va. "We have given it to our children when troubled with bad coughs, also whooping cough, and it has alwrys given perfect satisfaction. It was recommended to me by a druggist as the best cough medicine for children as it contained no opium or other harmful drug." Sold by all Druggists. Home Shaving Parlors Under 609 W. Locust. ...WE SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE... Mr. A. L. Lyttle of Milwauke, who is a private nurse of Mr. Milligan of the Milwaukee & St. Paul RY. Co. is in our city, stopping at the Savery hotel. Mr. Lyttle is a very intelligent gentleman and a thorough nurse. A NEW RESTAURANT. The Enttrprise Investment Company has opened a restaurant, see the announcement elsewhere, more will be said about it next week. We are glad to see the company doing so well and we earnestly hope that their new investment company will be a success. There is plenty of room for a good restaurant. 1 VOL. 7. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE BYPASSANDER PUBLISHING COMPANY, FIFTH AND LOCUST. ROOM 403 MARCHE LOUK. IOWA PHONE 899. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE ANSO-AMERICAN PRO- TECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF IOWA. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE MOST WORSHIPFUL UNTERD GRAND LODGE OF IOWA, A. P. & A. M. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year..... 81.60 six in mths..... 77 three months..... 50 All subscription payable in advance. J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by post fax order, money order, express or draft, to the Iowa STATE BYSTAN- publishing Company. We will not return rejected manuscript, unless accompanied by postage stamps. CITY NEWS Mr. Joseph Hopkins of Ottumwa was a Capital City visitor this week. Mrs. Daniel Roy has been quite sick with the rheumatism this week. J H. Mixon, Jeweler, No. 316 West Third street. Tunes Pianos and repairs organs. Mrs. Wm. Fletcher left Wednesday morning for Lincoln, Neb., to attend her mother who is very ill. Mrs. G. W. Denney who has been confined to her home by sickness for the past fortnight is able to be out again. WRITE The African Monarchs of America. They have something to tell you. Sioux City, Iowa. A very heavy sleet and snow fell over all parts of Iowa last Sunday. It was one of the severest storms ever witnessed in the state in Mareh. MARRIED—Last Tuesday at the court house Mr. Geo. Goines of Saylor mine mirried Miss Carrie Propp of this city. They left at once for Saylor mine to make their future home. Mrs. Nina Scott of St. Paul, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. McCracken of Mt. Pleasant, spent last Sunday in our cit the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Coalson, 2018 Center street, before returning home. Miss Mattie Barksdale gave a birthday party Monday evening at 818 Eleventh street, it being her 18th anniversary. A very pleasant time was had. Refreshments were served after which all departed for their homes. The H. H. of R., No. 339 of G. U. O. of O. F. will meet the first and third Thursday in each month, promptly at 8 o'clock. The hall will be put in readiness by the next regular meeting night, March 21, and all members are urgently requested to be present. Mrs. W. T. Buckner gave an informal dinner party last Wednesday afternoon, from 2 to 5 p. m. in honor of Mrs. Carrie Owens-Howard. Among those present were Mesdames Jas. Woods and Clifford Williams. An elegant repast was served. Mr. and Mrs. W. Jefferies of Knox- ville were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Buckner of 751 W. Tenth street, last Sunday. Mrs. Jefferies is a sister of Mr. Buckner, and she has just recently been married. They returned home Monday. The members of the Ladies' Sewing Circle met at the home of Mrs. R. N. Hyde last Friday afternoon. The Mesames H. McCraven, J. H. Mixon, and J. B. Rush assisted Mrs. Hyde in serving luncheon. Several visitors were present. A number of Mr. Henry Stanton's friends assisted him in remembering his birthday last Tuesday evening. The evening was very pleasantly spent in conversation and with music. Refreshments were served at 10:30. At a late hour all departed, declaring they had been loyally entertained and wishing Henry many happy returns. WE WANT colored organizers for the best thing on earth for colored people. African Monarchs of America, Sioux City, Iowa. GERMAN REMEDY Cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Male and Female Weakness Send $1.50; German Medicine Co. Des Moines, Ia. STATE DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1901. Miss Minnie Weeks will marry Mr Frank Woodward to-morrow. W. H. Clark of Evans passed through our city this week en route to Fraser, where he will remain awhile. Rev. Philip Aklis Hubert, D. D., financial secretary of Wilberforce University and an Alumnus of Durham University, England, is in the city, the guest of J. Frank Blagburn, who will be remembered as an Alumnus of Wilberforce. Bob Armatrong, Iowa's champion heavy weight pugilist, formerly of this city, who now has charge of training Jim Jeffries, arrived in our city this week for a short visit with old friends. He says that Jeffries is without a doubt the champion heavyweight fighter of the world, and is able to defend the belt. GO TO CALIFORNIA. Rush Bound Over to Grand Jury —TRY THE— Formerly the shop of T. E. Barton. A NEW BESTAURANT. There will be a meeting of the Colored Lincoln Republican League of Polk county held in the court house, Monday evening, March 18. Officers will be elected for the ensuing year and other business of importance transacted. This meeting is called for members and those who wish to become members. Meeting will be called to order at 8:30 sharp. C. S. RUPP, Chairman of Ex. Committee We had hoped that editor Morman of the Mitchellville Index would be induced to become a candidate for representative, from Polk county, but it does not seem as though he will allow his name to be used. Mr, Morman is one of the best journalist in the county, and by his wide acquaintance, liberal views and sound judgment would make a valuable member of the House, and again, he is a friend of our race if they respect themselves. Our good friend W. W. Taylor, editor of the Utah Plaindealer of Salt Lake City, is a candidate for Minister to Liberia, subject to the President's appointment. Mr. Taylor is qualified and would make a good representative. He is president of the Western Negro Press Association. There is no reason why the great West should not be represented. Dr. J. A. R. Crossland of St. Joseph, Mo., one of the leading colored republicans of Missouri, is a candidate for Recorder of Deeds at Washington, D. C. We understand that President McKinley has stated that Hon. H. P. Cheatham will be retained. While we would like to see the doctor succeed, but think it unwise to turn Mr. Cheatham down when there is no cause. Indiana also had a strong candidate. Boys let us deal fair with others who are entitled to the second term. CHAS. F. WEST, (Formerly with Dr. Rood) HAS OPENED A Billiard AND Pool Room 304 W. Grand Ave. Choice line of CIGARS AND TOBACCOS. Your Patronage is Solicited. PRACTICAL ADVICE. A stitch in time saves nine. Never let a child sob itself to sleep. An egg beaten up in milk is a good pick-me-up. Sponge black silk with spirits to revive it. Soot covered with salt is easily brushed up. If broken wash the bruise and apply vaseline. Apply arnica to a bruise if the skin is unbroken. A hot bath taken, at night affords refreshing sleep. Lemons stowed separately in dry sand keep fresh. Dry hair turns gray sooner than moist tresses do. If your clothes catch fire instantly roll on the floor. Crawl out of a room where there are smoke and fire. When you want to cut whalebone, warm it by the fire. Sufferers from dyspepsia should not drink while eating. Cut glass needs scrubbing with warm water and soap. Brushed cloves kept among furs frighten moths away. When the dirt is removed rinse it well with cold water. The busy housewife should get an hour's sleep in the afternoon. If possible, hold a wet towel to your face while escaping.—Boston Journal RING FREE M To introduce our line of Watches, Jewelery, Silverware, etc., we will send absolutely free this elegant 14K Gold Filled Ruby and Pearl set ring. Write how you may obtain one. Apex Supply Co. P. O. BOX 737 DES MOINES, IOWA Subscribe for the Bystander. ```markdown ``` CEDAR RAPIDS BUGETARIAN. Sunday we were snowed in again Church services had to be entirely abandoned in the evening. T. W. Stepp arrived in the city Thursday from Des Moines on im- portant business. While here he was the guest of G. H. Wade. Miss Emma Boyd of Muscatine is visiting Mrs. J. Clay. Quite a number of our people atten- ted the Black Patti show here on the 8th. The employees of the B., C. R. & N. shops are on a strike and have been for about a week. We are sorry there has been such a misunder- standing as several of our men were employed there, and we trust there will be a reconciliation between them and a company so the men will be at their former places of work. The sympathy seems to be on the employees' side, as the company desired they should do piece work which would not be beneficial to them, hence the strike. Miss Ella Martin, accompanied the High School Glee club, of which she is a member, to Springville last week to sing at the teachers' convention. Opal Lavura was quite sick the past week with bronchitis. FRAZER ITEMS. There were no services at our church Sunday on account of the deep snow. Luther Allen left last week, for his old home in Braidwood, Ill. Luther says farming is better than working in the mines. Mrs. Mattie Shelton's sister, Cora, arrived Saturday from Omaha, Neb. Mr. and Mrs. T. Gibson are on the sick list. Miss Della Hunter celebrated her fourteenth birthday Wednesday the 6th. Quite a number of the young folks were present. Refreshments were served and at a late hour the guests departed for their homes leaving Della many useful presents. What is the matter with Saylor, as we do not hear from her any more? Wake up Saylor. If you are sick and in need of medicine call on Dr. Morris Taylor for some of Dr. Swan's remedies. Mrs. Mabel Coleman has accepted the agency for the Pure Food company. On account of the snow storm Rev. E. Roey could not fill his appointment at Fort Dodge, for which he reelt very much disappointed. There was quite a stir on our streets today on account of the mines being idle and also the election of the school directors. We do not know the successful ones, although the writer hopes that J. M. Thomas and Wm. Phipps will be successful. SIOUX CITY. S. A. Miller, the Baptist missionary of Des Moines, filled the pulpit at M. Zion Baptist church last Sunday. Mr. Miller is an able speaker and a nice large congregation greeted him. He left Monday morning for Clarinda Iowa. R. Heins left on last Wednesday evening for his old home at Richmond, a., to try a change of climate for the benefit of his health. Mr. Heins has brothers and sisters there who were very anxious to have him come, thinking it would do him good. Mr. Heins was paralized nearly three years ago and the physicians here had given him up. Those on the sick list are Mesdames Norris and Thomas, Mr. Ed. Askew and the agent. P. E. Bundy preached two very fine sermons quarterly meeting Sunday morning and evening. Rev. Clark preached the sacramental sermon at 3 o'clock. Love feast and quarterly conference Monday night. The mock trial on last Wednesday evening at the church was all that could be asked on such literary occasions. Jas. Washington acted as judge, B. Yussum was prisoner, J. Morgan plaintiff, and J. W. Norris, G. C. Carr and P. D. Brown attorneys. Owing to some misunderstanding on the part of the committee on arrangements for the program for the Frederick Douglass memorial exercises which took place on last Sunday evening only a few were prepared to take part. We hope they will have better success next time. Mrs. E. Grant read an excellent paper on the life of Douglass and Rev. Clark and J. W. Norris came up amply as well with their addresses. A choir was to have been organized last Thursday evening. What happened to it? We have tried to treat all alike. The little personal differences are forgotten when it comes to political affairs. We wish and have tried to place one and all in the best light possible; honor to whom honor was due, regardless of who they were. If an item is too old when the writer learns of it, of course it is not sent in. We very seldom get an item from any one but we have read items and advertisement in the paper that were not peniled by the correspondent. There are some, we must say who on every occasion and at all times remember that the Bystander has an agent in the city and respect her as such. The sooner we as a people get above the mean petty things and come together as a race, the sooner will we become a people. Mrs. H. Whitton and son have gone to Eufala, Ala. E. Smita has gone to Yankton, S. D., to visit his mother. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Sturgis entertained Mr. Miller at dinner Sunday. CLINTON BRIEFES The weather was very disagreeable Sunday, rain, snow and sleet prevailing off and on during the day. It was certainly a March day. Robt. Moreland is feeling much easier at this writing. Owing to the inclement weather the trustee rally was postponed from last Sunday until next Sunday. Mrs. Wm. Harley of Chicago is in the city, called here on account of the illness of her brother, Rebt. Moreland. A debate will take place at the People's theater on the evening of March 29, between Prof. J. W. McNe. of Iowa City and R. D. Smith of this city. The subject to be discussed is, "Resolved that railroads are more beneficial to American commerce and trade than ships." It was argued at Iowa City two months ago and on account of some dissatisfaction it was decided to try it again. We heartily endorse the editorial published in a recent issue of the flystander, relative to unauthorized persons contributing items for publication. It really places the newspaper management in an embarrassing position to receive communications from outside people, and especially when persons have been appointed to look after their business. They hate to cast such articles aside, yet they are under no obligations to publish matter thus contributed. In sending these communications the rights of others are infringed upon and the press is used to give the contributor a little cheap notoriety they otherwise would not get. So long as our papers allow this to go on just so long will this kind of work continue. If those people would read the editorial in question a hint to the wise would be sufficient. NEWTON NOTES. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Walden are at home to their friends on are farm east of the city. Miss Amber Moore is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. W, Walden at tea last Saturday evening, Miss Clara Miller is visiting friends in Conax this week. Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson have gone to Davenport to make their future home. Earl Hudson is at home for an extended visit with his parents. George Lucas of Ewart was the guest of Newton friends last Sunday. The literary entertainment at the church last Saturday evening was a pronounced success. Sunday was quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church. Presiding Elderundy was present. Clay Cunningham has accepted a position with E. Lambert on the dray line. DAVENPORT Charles Berry, who was operated on at the Red Cross hospital several days ago, is able to be around again, which we are very glad to note. Rev. Dr. Barcay, D. D., of the Central M. E. church this city, spoke of Rev. L. E. Christy at the Bethel A. M. E. church Monday evening, the 11th inst. Rev. Barclay is quite a speaker and is a man who possesses great knowledge. There was a house and lot raffled off February 20 at 5 cents per chance and the lucy number was held by James Wagner, a colored man. Mr. wagner sold the house and lot for $60, as the place was down in the German settlement and Mr. and Mrs. Wagner did not care to live down there. We are certainly glad of Mr. Wagner's success as he is a colored man and also a worthy man. J. T. Mabry will resign the janitorship at the city hall April 1 to take charge of the city scavenger works, to which he was appointed two weeks ago. The city council confirmed the appointment at their last meeting, March 6. The city council at its last meeting ordered several streets to be paved this summer. That means we will have lots of work here this year. The B., C. R. & N. railroad has accepted the city ordinance to elevate its tracks through the city and expects to complete the work by this time next year. The Iowa Telephone company has accepted the city ordinance to place its telephone wires under ground in the down-town district and expects to start to work on it in a few days. They are also going to erect a new telephone quarters at the corner of Main and Sixth streets. The following officers were elsed by Eureka lodge, G. U. O. of F., March 12 for the ensuing quarter: J. T. Mabry, N. G.; Wm. Brown, V. G.; D. S. Johnson, E. S.; H. McGaw, N. N. G.; J. M. Thomas, P. N. F.; and T. Harper, N. F. The following were appointed by the N. G. elect: T. Lindsay, R. S. to N. G.; A. B. Woods, L. S. to N. G.; Wm. Hart, R. S. to V. G.; J. J. Jones, L. S. to V. G.; P. Thompson, I. G.; S. Miller, warden Mrs. W. D. Parker is expected home from Galesburg, Ill., tomorrow, March 13, where she has been visiting for two weeks. A. B. Woods, head waiter at the Kimball House, received his money from the insurance company Monday for the loss he sustained by fire a few weeks ago. Rev. M. J. Burton left Tuesday night to attend the executive board of the Iowa Baptist association which convenes in Fort Madison. KEQKUK TRUMPET Thursday evening the Golden Link club was at its best, and afforded social amusement of a high order to its host of invited guests. The committee in charge consisted of the Misses Lena King, Belle Aiken, Florence Clark and Mrs. Sallie Robinson and they covered themselves with glory by the efficient manner in --- No. 39. which they provided dainty delicacies to tickle the palate. The menu was replete with good things for the satisfaction of the inner man. Preceding the four-course service an excellent program was rendered. His holiness the bishop of Iowa preached at the Church of St. Mary's the Virgin Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. His sermon was directed to the duty of Christians during lent. The grand lodge of Odd Fellows will host its annual session in this city beginning Tuesday, July 16, and continuing five days. The north side gentleman who lives on Fifth street must keep out of the territory of the Bystander rounder, otherwise he may "have to hurry." Charles Salisbury is thinking of making a trip to Salisbury and Keystone, Mo., in the near future for the benefit of his health, but Mrs. Teabeau thinks he is hardly strong enough to stand the trip. Attorney W. G. Mott, who has been located at Davenport, returned to his native city for a short visit with relitives recently. Some of the Keokuk people would like to know what has become of the "Movable Calk Horse Shoe Co." The revival meetings at the A. M. E. church have closed. Rev. D. Phelps and his people are holding a church bazaar. Rev. Green of Missouri is in the city assisting Rev. T. T. Ward in his revival effort now in progress at Pilgrims Rest Baptist church. CHURCH AND CLERGY. The Rev. 4. G. Fitzgerald, D. D., has been pastor of the Third United Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, for 25 years. The Rev. C. S. Abbott, pastor of Christ church, Newark, N. J., has completed a quarter of a century as pastor of the church. The Rev. A. C. Eggleston of Windsor, Conn., has accepted the position of financial secretary of Wesleyan academy at Wilbraham, Mass. He has been a trustee of the academy for many years. BITS OF INFORMATION. Egypt exported last year 65,000 tons of sugar, 55,300 of which went to America. In Pennsylvania the trolley is carrying the mail and thus planting the star routes. The agricultural output of the state of Colorado for 1900 will approximate $90,000,000 in value. It is estimated that 135,000 Americans who visited Europe last year spent there $60,000,000. FRILLS OF FASHION. Variations in children's gowns blossom out from time to time, even though they are very slight, and small girls rival their mothers in their ambition to keep up to date. Soft wool materials make up very prettily in this way. In figured French flannel the collar may be made of the same and trimmed with rows of narrow braid or velvet ribbon. Skirts of the small gowns are usually plain, but the older girls have some sort of trimming, either tucks, stitched bands, ruffles or velvet folds, stitched on. The long-waisted mode, in which the waist-line rounds down low in front, is conspicuously evident among the gowns for girls over 10 years of age, and the small gowns for dainty little girls of 6 imitate this fashion as much as possible by having the long waist all around. Guilme dresses, which never seem to go out of style, are suitable for all ages, from 6 to the more mature years of middle age. Bolero jackets are very popular in the kingdom of small costumes, and the attempt to produce the effect of stole ends is seen in one little gown, where narrow lace reverses are carried down the entire length of the front, as shown in the illustration. Another pretty effect is made by two box plaits in front, one at either side from the yoke to the hem, and two in the back, giving a long effect to the waist, which is defined with a narrow velvet belt ending in small velvet rosettes at either side of the front on the plaits. The skirt gathers on to the waist between the plaits, which apparently are a continuation of those in the waist. A sailor collar of lace covers the shoulders in the back and opens in front over a roke of tucked white silk or batiste. Thin gowns of point d'esprit for party wear are variously trimmed with ruches, ruffles, lace insertion and rows of colored satin ribbon. A pretty feature of the small girl's costume is the coat and hat to match.—New York Sun Orange Free State Flag. The Orange Free State flag is a simple rectangle of vivid orange. An orange tree in full fruit is the most distinctive feature of the arms of the Orange Free State. Beneath the tree are on one side a lion and on the other a number of oxen. An ox-wagon similar to that on the Transvaal arms and three suspended horns complete the whole. "Spes Bona"—good hope—is written underneath the arms of Cape Colony, the chief feature of which is a lion rampant. A figure of Hope surmounts the shield, the "supporters of which are a couple of native animals." ```markdown ``` The British Government Refuses to Accept the Senate's Action. Washington, March 12.—The long expected answer from the British government to the state department communicating the action of the senate upon the Hay-Pauncefote treaty has been returned. Lord Pauncefote called at the state department and read the document to Secretary Hay. It was, in form, an instruction from Lord Lansdowne, the British minister of foreign affairs, to Lord Pauncefote, and of this instruction he left a copy with Secretary Hay. The secretary and the ambassador were closeted for half an hour. London, March 13.—The foreign office officials are netted at the statement cabled here that no opening is left for further action in the case of Great Britain's reply to the United States notification of the senate's amendments to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. It is pointed out that Great Britain's reply invites further proposals from the United States. Moreover, the foreign office understands that something of this sort is already contemplated in Washington. A representative of the Associated Press has been officially informed that there is no desire on the part of the British government that the matter should be dropped. They confidently expect further negotiations, and hope for a satisfactory conclusion, though this does not lessen their resistance in the integrity of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty until both signatories consent to its abrogation. ANGLO-RUSSIAN CONFLICT. A Clash of Arms Is Narrowly Averted at Tien Tsin. London, March 14.—Friction has arisen at Tien Tsin between the British and the Russians over a piece of land alleged to belong to the railway company and to have been in possession of company for some years. According to dispatches from Tien Tsin, the Russians assert that this land is part of their new concessions and, therefore Russian property, Mr. Kinder, manager of the railway, began to make a siding, but was stopped by the Russian authorities. He applied to the Canadian McDonald, referred the matter to General Barrow, British chief of staff in Peking, who replied: "Carry on the siding with armed force if necessary." Guards were put on the line by the British and the work continued. General Wagasak, the Russian commander, protested and said the thing would not have been done if the Russians had had as many troops as the British, adding that such matters should be left to diplomacy. Colonel Mcbonald again communicated with General Barrow, who telegraphed: "Continue the siding." General Wagasak, very indignant appealed to the Russian minister at Peking, M. de Giers. CONGER STARTS FOR HOME. Foreign Ministers at Peking Bid Him Farewell Peking, March 12—United States Minister Conger left for Iowa this morning. All the foreign ministers bade him farewell at the railroad station. Besides the foreign representatives a large crowd gathered at the railway station to bid the minister and his family farewell. Washington, March 12—Mr. Conger today telegraphs as follows: "Peking, March 11—I leave Peking today for America. Squires is left in charge. (Signed) "Conger." Thus it appears clearly that Mr. Rockhill is not in any sense a successor to Mr. Conger as United States minister at Peking at this time, but simply a special commissioner, limited in his functions to the negotiations with the Chinese government and the other ministers for a settlement of the trouble growing out of the Boxer uprising. NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE John Henderson Expiates His Crime at Corvidae, Tex. Corsicana, Texas, March 14, John Henderson, a colored man of this state, who outraged and murdered Mrs. Younger, the wife of a farmer living near here, several days ago, after making a complete confession, was burned at the stake by a mob in the presence of more than 5,000 persons. Henderson had been taken to Hillsboro in fear of the mob that gathered in this city soon after his arrest. The officials in charge of the negro started to take him to Fort Worth for safety. When the train reached Hasaie the officers were overpowered and the negro taken from them by citizens of the county who had gone there for that purpose. Henderson was then brought here, and with proof of his guilt he confessed. Preparations were made to put him to death by fire. The town was filled with people, most of them armed, and the sheriff could do nothing. THE NEWS IN IOWA FOUND A BIG FORTUNE. Farmer Unearths a Lot of Money in a Argument Wall. JUDGE HAYES DIES SUDDENLY Ex-Congressman Suecumbus to Angela Pee- Whale Nudging to Webbairn toris Visiting in Michigan. Marshall, Mich., March 15.—Judge Walter Ingalls Hayes, of Clinton, Iowa, died here very suddenly of angina pectoris at the home of the late Charles T. Gorham at 10 o'clock last night. Judge Hayes was born in Marshall in 1842 and attended the funeral of General Gorman yesterday. Last evening he had been calling on some old friends and neighbors and when he reached the Gorman home, about 9:40 p. m., he sang immediately upon a couch, complaining of a pain in his side. He was unconscious until relieved by death. He practiced law here directly after the close of the war, going to Clinton late in the sixties. He was an ardent democrat and served in the national house of representatives three terms from the second district of Iowa. At present he was serving as circuit judge in his home district. JOHN STOVAL REARRESTED Alleged Express Robber, Who Broke Jail, Crowded in Crawford County. Captured in Crawford County Denison, March 13.—John Stoval under indictment for the Manilla express robbery, which he received from the denison jail, has been recaptured six months after the birth of Manilla by Sheriff Bell and two constables. He was found at the house of his uncle, Mr. Pointer, and the capture was the result of three days' hard work on the part of the sheriff and numerous scouring parties. Stoval is now at Manilla and in the custody of the sheriff and will be brought back to Denison. It is said that there is reason to believe his confederates have already taken the stolen money from its hiding place, and that there are others besides those now under indictment who are implicated in the affair. Rend to Be Built Traer, March 14.—The Dubique & Toledo railroad project is being renewed and a second survey is expected soon. A preliminary survey was made a year ago. The projected purpose is to build from Dubique west and south, crossing Benton and Tama counties, and terminating at present at Toledo or Tama, but ultimately extending to Des Moines. Judge Struble of Toledo is one of the projectors and of course desires the line built to terminate at Toledo. Dubique businessmen are specially anxious to get the outfit such a line would afford on account of jobbing trude. They are now raising money with which to make the survey. Smaller in Powerhick Grinnell, March 15—Because a doctor diagnosed smallpox as "Cuban itch" the people of Hartwick, in the southern part of Poweswick county, have been wrestling with the disease since January, and the disease has been spreading all over the county. The schools and churches of Brooklyn have been closed. Smallpox has invaded Grinnell, and there is no telling where it will stop. Upon recommendations of outside physicians and County Attorney Talbott, a strict quarantine is now in force. The Lutheran college at Jewell Junction has been quarantined on account of smallpox. Several students escaped before the quarantine was declared. Starts a Skunk Farm Sioux City, March 15.—A skunk farm is being established near this city by S. nuchards of Leeds. He will raise the odoriferous animals in order to reap a profit off the sale of skins and on. There is little demand for the rest of the animal's anatomy. John F.riel tried skunk raising for profit near here several years ago, and after the first year has been trying to exterminate the progeny of the pairs used in stocking the farm. The business is a profitable one, but not a pleasant occupation, if one's nasal senses are overly acute. FIRE AT THE UNIVERSITY Medicine and Literary Departments Reduced to Ashes. Iowa City, March 12.—Fire at the state university Sunday morning cost the state $250,000 and badly crippled the work in the big school. The college of medicine and the literary department buildings were destroyed by fire, which raged for two hours. At present there is no theory to explain the cause of the fire. The medical school building was deserted, and there was but a few pupils in the literary school. Extraordinary efforts were necessary to save adjoining buildings. Work of the university will be much hampered by the destruction of the recitation rooms. The college of medicine will close in three weeks, and arrangements have already been made to continue the work of these classes without interruption, but some of the literary classes will experience difficulty in pursuing their work. This is the second hard blow the university has sustained recently. About three years ago the library building was burned. It was stored with thousands of valuable documents and books, none of which was saved. The loss was irreparable, as many of the books cannot be replaced. Since that disastrous fire extraordinary precautions have been taken to prevent similar destruction at the university. Classes were held as usual in every department of the university Monday morning, room for those dispossessed departments being made in the dental building, the homeopathic medical building, Science hall and Close hall, the home of the University Christian association. COST THE STATE A LARGE SUM University Fire Loss Will Aggregate Nearly $150,000. Iowa City, March 14.—Through the efforts of Prof. A. V. Sims the valuable 100,000 pound cement and iron testing machine was saved to the university, as under his direction a stream of water was kept playing on it for over three hours. He was also the means of saving the engineering library of 750 volumes, valued at $2,600. Mr. Wright, the superintendent of the college of liberal arts building, had all the plans and records pertaining to the new building in the basement of south hall, but they were saved entire. Dr. Biering lost a valuable pathological collection, which represented twenty years of labor in collecting, and a similar collection cannot be procured for any amount of money. A conservative estimate made by Secretary Haddock is as follows: 45,000 30,000 10,000 1,600 8,000 8,000 1,000 40 30 50 300 75 25 25 260 Medical building ..... $ South hall ..... Bacteriological collection ..... Physiological apparatus ..... Medical microscopes ..... Medical museum ..... Dr. Bierring, books, slides, etc. Dr. Whitses, books ..... Dr. Dean, books ..... Prof. Wilcox, books .. Prof. Sims, private equipment Students in engineering ..... Medical students ..... Dr. Harriman, books ..... Other losses ..... Fully 30 per cent can be safely added to the above amount in order to cover the total loss. FARMERS FINED $500. Two Men Who Attempted to Wreck a Northwestern Train. Traer, March 12:—William Haack and William Joens, two farmers living a few miles from this place, have each been fined $500 in the district court of this county. The crime of which they were charged was attempting to wreck trains on the Northwestern railroad. A few weeks ago they placed obstructions on the track three times in one night, but did not succeed in wrecking a train. A railroad detective was sent to the neighborhood and succeeded in getting a confession from them that they were guilty of the acts. Their only explanation was that they wanted to see what the engine would do when it struck the obstruction. It is generally thought the two men did not realize the extent of their crime. Shot Through the Lungs. Omana, March 14—Lloyd Brooks, son of George H. Brooks, a farmer living near Maple Landing, was engaged in cleaning his shot gun, and supposing it to be empty, when in some manner the gun was discharged, the load or shot passing through a door and into the person of Miss room. One shot penetrated her lungs, Miss Baker was brought to Omana for treatment and her injuries are not regarded as fatal. Gilbert With the Crowd. New York, March 13.—Heikes, Gilbert of Spirit Lake, Iowa, Crosey, Fanning and Parmalce, five of the best trapshots in America, met in competition at Inter-State park, near Queens, L. I., and the result was one of the most remarkable contests ever held in the United States, ined in breaking twenty-five chick birds without a miss, making 125 in all. This is a world's record. Mr. Fuller Will Accept. Cedar Rapids, March 15.—W. E. Fuller, of West Union, will accept appointment as assistant attorney general made by president McKinley several days ago. The story of his declaration was without authority. An article of his acceptance has been made on the authority of his sou-in-law. Crazed by Blood Poisoning Dubuque, March 15--Miss Kate Loes ran a needle into her arm, making a slight wound which resulted in blood poisoning. She has now been removed to the asylum. The physicians say that her insanity is the result of nervous prostration brought on by blood poisoning. Saw Mill Blew Up. Marshalltown, March 11.—The boiler of a portable saw mill exploded at Montour, hurling L. G. Carter a hundred feet and probably fatally injuring him. Harry Smith was badly scaled and had his leg broken. NEWS IN GENERAL MOURNING FOR THIRTY DAYS. Proclamation Issued by the President So Directs "Executive Mansion, Washington, March 13, 1901.—Mrs. Benj Harrison, Indianapolis: In the death of General Harrison the country has lost a distinguished statesman, a devoted patriot and an exemplary citizen. The people of the nation mourn with you. You have the heartfelt sympathy of Mrs. McKinley and myself in this hour of overwhelming sorrow in your home. William McKinley." Washington, March 15.—The national capital is in mourning today for ex-President Harrison. Flags are at half mast, not only upon all public buildings but upon the hotels, stores and many of the private residences. The act of 1893 inhibits the draping of public buildings in black, as was the custom formerly upon the death of General Harrison, directed McKinley was deeply affected by the death of General Harrison, directed that the doors of the executive mansion be closed to visitors and denied himself to callers except those who had business of urgent importance, immediately upon receipt of the news last night he decided to attend the funeral and the Secretary Cortelvou left Washington tonight. At 10:30 yesterday morning President McKinley issued a proclamation formally notifying the people of the country of the death of their former chief magistrate and directing the observance of a period of mourning for thirty days. In pursuance of this proclamation the flags on every public building in the United States, at every army post in the United States, Cuba, Hawaii, Philippines and Porto Rico and on every American warship will fly at half-mast for thirty days. LEFT HOMELESS BY THE FLAMES. Five Thousand People Rendered Destil- l in Kentucky. Cloversport, Ky., March 15.—The bursting of a natural gas pipe at midnight started a fire that destroyed property worth a half million dollars. The greater part of this little town was completely wiped out and over a thousand persons, about half the population are homeless, and were in great distress until a special relief train from Louisville reached here during the morning. The heaviest loser is the American Tobacco company, which lost two large steamers and one million pounds of tobacco. The company's loss has not been estimated. Bucket brigades were formed and men and women alike fought the flames valliantly, but to no purpose. Exhausted women and children huddled in little groups, wherever sheer could be found from the biting cold of the night and early morning. Neighboring towns were asked for assistance in fighting the fire, but before it could be rendered the high wind had swept the flames through the place, making the devastation complete. PENS THE SULTAN Consul Gummere to Pay a Visit to Little Morocco. New York, March 15.—A special to the World from Washington says: The cruiser New York will stop at Tangiers on the way to Manila and take on board Consul General Gumere, who will be conveyed to the nearest port to the Moroccan capital. The consul general is to demand that the sultan settle the claims of American citizens against his government. The New York will await the return of the consul general. The sultan recently liquidated one claim against his government but there are a number of other claims still pending which he has shown no disposition to settle. The consul general could make the trip from Tangiers on merchant vessels plying in those waters, but it has been the policy of the administration to impress the sultan by a naval demonstration in Moroccan waters. Most of the claims grew out of interference by Moroccan government officials with commercial agents of American business concerns. The amount involved is not large, but a principle is at stake. ST. LOUIS WAITS TILL 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition to be Postponed a Year. St. Louis, March 13.—In the last congress the clocks which told of legislative days were stopped. It was Monday, March 4, according to the calendar which all the world, save the District of Columbia, accepted when the world's fair bill was passed. But, according to the clocks which fixed legislative days for the senate and house of the congress, it was Friday, March 1. The bill appropriated $5,000,030 to help celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of Louisiana. This event of world-wide significance occurred April 30, 1803. But if the date of the purchase of the territory is celebrated, St. Louis will have to stop the clock. The world's fair will not be ready for visitors in May, 1903. Nobody is authorized to make this announcement, because the corporation which will have control of the fair has not yet been formed. It is simply one of these things the world's fair promoters and the St. Louis public know and do not talk about. CARNEGIE'S VALEDICTORY. Magnificent Gift Accompanies His Business Retirement. Pittsburg, March 15.—Two communications from Andrew Carnegie, which are officially made public, tell of the steel king's retirement from active business life and of his donation of $5,000,000 for the endowment of a fund for superannuated and disabled employees of the Carnegie company. This benefaction is by far the largest of any created by Mr. Carnegie and is probably without a counterpart anywhere in the world. The fund will in no wise interfere with the continuance of the savings fund established by the company fifteen years ago for the benefit of its employees. In this latter fund nearly $2,000,000 of the employees, savings are on deposit, upon which the company by contract pays 6 per cent and loans money to the workmen to build their own homes. Pending the Arrival of Gen. DeWet Hostilities Cease. New York, March 14.—A special dispatch from Pretoria to the Journal and Advertiser, says: Pending the arrival of General DeWet, a general armistice has been declared. General Botha has been in conference with General Kitchener and Sir Alfred Milner for several days and all three desire to consult DeWet. DeWet is hurrying north through the Orange river colony in obedience to Botha's summons. He passed Brandfort last night. On his arrival a conference will be held here. There is joy today, caused by the hope that the last gun has been fired in the Boer war. GEN. HARRISON DEAD. Ex-President's Death Due to an Attack of Pneumonia—Sick a Week. Indianapolis, Ind., March 13.—General Harrison died at 4:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon without regaining consciousness. His death was quiet and painless, there being a gradual sinking until the end came, which was marked by a single gasp for breath as life departed from the great statesman. General Harrison had been unconscious for hours before his death, the exact time when he passed into a comatose state being hard to determine. The sudden illness of the general recalled to many persons that he had been in public more this winter than for many years, and it was remembered, too, that he had never before appeared so willing to discuss subjects of general interest. On New Year's day he made a notable address at the dedication of the Columbia club building and since that time has been conspicuously in the public mind by reason of the things he has been saying in a series of articles in the North American Review. General Harrison was in perfect health last Wednesday and, contrary to common report, was not suffering from a cold or from illness of any sort. He was in full possession of the vitality and vigor which has characterized these later years of his life to a remarkable extent. Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock he went down town to the law office of Miller & Elam, where he remained for about an hour and a half talking with friends. He walked all the distance to get the benefit of the exercise. He returned from the afternoon walk without even feeling fatigue and in the evening went to one of the neighbors to make a short call. He then came home, and after talking with his wife and playing with baby Elizabeth for an hour, retired early. Thursday morning he awakened with a pain in his chest which, at first, was hardly noticeable, but later gradually grew worse until Mrs. Harrison became alarmed and the family physician, Dr. Henry Jameson, was summoned. He pronounced it simply a cold; and at the time feared no alarming results. Then the uungs became rapidly affected and the illness was complicated with intercostal neuralgia. Saturday his condition was serious, but not such as to cause particular alarm. Sunday for the first time the physicians began to have fears for the recovery of the patient, but said little to the public about the seriousness of General Harrison's condition. The next day it was announced to the newspapers and to the public that the illness was more alarming than was at first supposed and there was danger that the general would never recover from the attack. Since Monday morning his condition has gradually grown worse. None of General Harrison's children were present at his death. Neither Colonel Russell nor Mrs. McKee had reached the city, though both were hurrying on their way to the bedside of their dying parent as fast as steam would bear them. Elizabeth, the little daughter, had been taken from the sick room by her nurse before the end came. From one who was present at the bedded he is learned that the allegations of cruelty and injustice dealt out by England to the Boers in their struggle for liberty had been a subject for thought in the mind of General Harrison. To his friends he had often spoken of the puy and shame, as he viewed it, that the brave and sturdy farmers of South Africa should be robbed of their country, of all they have in the world, and forced to submit to terrible miseries in resisting the oppressions of a world power. General Harrison, it is stated, would have liked nothing better than to come out frankly and strongly and say to everyone who would hear what he thought of England's cruelty; it was in his mind constantly; but he believed that an ex-president should observe the same proprieties of speech which are observed by a president of the United States. He was at all times careful to say nothing which could be misconstrued or twisted into a seeming regard of the high office which he once held. In his semi-conscious condition, when the sentinels of discretion and propriety had gone from their posts and the mind of the man was wandering, he began to speak of the Boers and their hopeless struggle for national life. His voice was weak and trembling, his thoughts were not connected, but the listeners bending over him could hear words of pity for the dying farmer republics. Boers Still Balding Adelaide, Cape Colony, March 15.—Kritzinger's commando is working northward and has eluded three British columns. It passed here on both sides of the town without attacking. A Beer patrol captured four native scouts and shot three of them. Kritzinger's men have carried off all the horses in the Albany district, for which, as they were registered, Great Britain will have to pay 10,000 pounds. The raiders were civil to the inhibitants of the district, though they commanded the horses and food. They did not indulge in the wanton destruction of property and in many cases offered cash for the the food they obtained. Des Moines, March 15, 1901. Adjutant General Byers has returned from Washington, where he attended the inaugural ceremonies. While in Washington he practically concluded arraignment for obtaining a battery of light artillery for Iowa. He expected to arrange for equipping the guard with magazine rifles and for the payment of the claims due Iowa on account of the Spanish-American war expenditures. On account of the confusion incident to the inauguration, he did not look after the rifles or the claims and will make a trip to Washington later on for this purpose. He was assured, however, in the ordinance department that a requisition for guns would be honored without delay. He expects on the return of the governor to forward a requisition for four Hotchkiss pieces. Professor C. A. Cumming of the capitol improvement commission, in speaking of the work before the commission, mentioned the fact that a crack had been discovered in the east wall of the state house. An examination, he said, had disclosed there was a long crack near the entrance, running from the foundation to the second story. He said this discovery had given the commission some concern, but it did not appear anything could be done to better it. He said the engineer at the state house thought he could detect a rising and settling on each side of the break, caused by the changes in the weather and their effects on the foundations. The members of the state board of control decided to reject the proposition of Nebraska to send some of the prisoners to this state to be cared for until its burned penitentiary can be replaced. The question might have been decided differently had it not been for the fact that Nebraska has learned that it could care for its own prisoners. Governor Shaw has appointed Henry B. Hawley of Des Moines as a commissioner to the Pan-American exposition. The governor is required by legislative act to appoint five commissioners to look after the interests and exhibit of Iowa at the exposition. Mr. Hawley is a native of New York and of the vicinity of Buffalo. He has relatives living there now. He contemplates getting up an excursion to the exposition next summer, and hopes to be able to bring about a representation of the resources and products of the state. This is expected to prove difficult because of the absence of any appropriation to that end by the general assembly or by the state agricultural department. The expert accountants, Phil H. Skinner and William Hedges, who are going through the accounts of the different offices at the state house, have just finished work in the office of the clerk of the supreme court. The next offices to be examined will be those of the adjunct general and superintendent of schools. It will be some weeks, it is expected, before the experts begin an examination of the accounts in the office of the board of control. NOT SO STIFF NECKED. British Policy in South Africa Considerably Modified. London, March 13.—The Daily News makes the following important statement: "We understand that the government has greatly modified the unconditional surrender policy. We believe Lord Kitchener has been authorized to offer amnesty to both the Boers and the Boer leaders, except where treachery is clearly proved. Cape rebels only are to be punished by disfranchisement. "Loans are to be granted to the Boers for rebuilding and restocking their farms; and, finally, the government will offer to establish some kind of civil government as soon as all the commandees have surrendered. "Its form will probably be that of a crown colony, but with an important concession which Sir Alfred Milner advises, namely, a council including Boers of position like General Botha, General Lucas Meyer and Mr. Schalk-Burgerer." CHINA MAKES AN APPEAL Asks the Powers to Protect Her From Russian Hands. London, March 12.—The Times publishes a dispatch from Shanghai, dated March 11, saying: "It is reported upon trustworthy authority that Russia has notified China that unless the Manchurian convention is signed at an early named date, she (Russia) will withdraw the convention and substitute harder terms in its place. Li Hung Chang declares he is powerless to resist, and has appealed to the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan to intervene in China's behalf. "Considerable unseiness, in consequence of the extreme friction, is believed to exist between the Yang Tse viceroys and Li Hung Chang." OPPOSITION TO DECAPITATION Long List of Minor Officers May be Tried for Conspiracy Peking, March 13.—A general meeting of the foreign ministers was held yesterday at which the reports of the committees were heard. Regarding more punishment of the Chinese connected with the Boxers, there is strenuous opposition against demanding many more heads, but a list containing the names of ninety-six minor officials will shortly be presented to Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang urging that they be tried for complicity in the outrages and punished, when found guilty, in such a manner as the Chinese, themselves, see fit, except in the case of six men, who, the ministers think, should be executed. Confronted by a Big Deficit. London, March 14.—With the naval estimates presented in the house of commons yesterday evening, the budget for the comunity year shows an expenditure of upward of 181,000,000 pounds against 150,000,000 for last year. Unless the revenue is increased the statement of Sir Michael Hickle-Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, will show a deficit of nearly 54,000,000 pounds, the largest ever estimated. In the Fowler's Snare BY M. B. MANWELL CHAPTER X.—(Continued.) "Better send the young people to bed, it is now daylight almost," suggested the elders, and they carefully avoided looking at each other. That some terrible calamity had happened even Lady Jane, whose first fear had been that the bride had run away, was fully convinced. "But, Lella, you will stay by me?" quavered the mistress of the house, suddenly transformed into a broken-down old woman. "I will, dear aunty," gravely said Lella. "I shall see little Syb safe in bed, then I shall return to you." Lella Desmond, slenderly graceful, soft and caressing, womanly to the finger-tips, was yet one of those loyal, strong natures we turn to lean upon in the "day of trouble." Gervis gave her one look of reverence, then he placed his arm round that mother for whom he and this "perfect woman, nobly planned" had sacrificed themselves so fatally. Every hour was bringing home to him the terrible blunder he had made in his life. Love between man and woman was God-given, to be prized as sacred; but under the specious pretext of sacrificing himself for the good of his house, he had torn love from his heart, and then sold that empty shell for gold. That it had been a bitter, sinful bargain he now knew. Perhaps this impending calamity which he was helplessly waiting for the new day to discover might be heaven's punishment for what he had done. It was still and quiet in the old house. There was a lull of expectancy until the daylight should come to allow action to be resumed. In Leila's room it was silent as the grave. Beside the white-draperied bed knelt Leila herself. She was praying, with frightened tears now no one was by to see them—praying earnestly for the hapless girl who had shadowed her life. That something dire had happened Leila instinctively knew; but all she could do was to pray for help from above. "Leila! Sis!" A hoarse, shrill voice made her spring to her feet. Close at her side stood Syb, shivering in her little blue dressing-gown, her face working convulsively. "I can't keep it from you any longer! I dare not, though I do hate her so!" the deformed girl was saying, her teeth chattering as much from terror as from cold. "Speak, Syb!" Lella gripped the thin wrist, her breath coming thick and fast. Syb knew, then! "I heard a cry, a smothered scream from the old oak chest, as I walked round the gallery; but I hated her so that I would not speak before! And when I saw you, through the open door between our rooms, praying with sobs, I knew it must be for her. So I must tell, and you'd better be quick!" Syb slipped to the floor in a swoon. But Lella was already gone. With flying feet she was rushing downstairs from the third floor, where her bedroom and Syb's were. "Gervis! Gervis! Come, and come quickly! Bring Barnes!" When she had reached the gallery she shrieked loudly. Her voice, sharp with fear, rang through the old house and made Gervis leap to his feet. "It's Leila! She has found out something! Mother dear, stay here, I pray you!" He pressed Lady Jane back on her seat. "No one knows what we have got to face!" "Bring Barnes! Oh, be quick!" Leila's voice cried again in an agony of haste. Barnes, the white-haired old butler, was stiff and rheumatic. It seemed as though he would never reach the top of the wide, crimson-covered staircase, and yet the old man was doing his best, though Gervis would fain have dragged him up two steps at a time. "Where are you, Leila?" he hoarsely shouted. "Here! here! Quick!" Round the curve of the gallery they found Leilla, tearing frantically the holly and moss decorations from what had been a bank of greenery. The blood was trickling down her hands and wrists, as the holly tore them cruelly. But, unconscious of pain, Lella continued to pull, until the old black-oak chest, which had been the foundation of the green bank, was displayed. "Press the spring. Barnes! Nobody in Temple-Dene knows the secret but you. Press, for Gladdy's dear sake!" panted the girl, madly beside herself. "Whatever——" Barnes was beginning, and fumbling with his spectacles. "Man, do as you are bid!" shouted Gervis, catching the infection of Leilla's frenzy. And he dragged Barnes forward. Something in his blazing eyes made the old man pull himself together. He stooped forward. With shaking hands, he felt along the carvings; but how slow he was! The watchers caught their breaths and shivered. "Tis in the shamrock, I do mind me. 'Tis lund to be in the shamrock, the spring," he was muttering. In an instant Leith was on her knees, and there, among the carved leaves and flowers of oak, was a single dainty saamrock. It was the spring! Pressing it hard as she could, the carved lid clicked as it opened about an inch. Then Gervis, with strong arms, forced it back on its hinges, and a muffled cry broke from his lips. CHAPTER XI. Lying huddled in the musty chest was a little figure in gleaming silver brocade, stained here and there with bunches of crushed holly berries. It was Gladdy, stiffened and immovable, but with widely opened, round blue eyes. That she was dead was the first muttered thought of both Gervis and Lella. "No! 'Tain't death!" quickly said old Barnes, glancing at their white faces. "See ye, Mr. Gervis, there's a row of air-holes down each side o' the chest. I saw 'em made myself in the old squire's time, purpose-like, in case o' this very kind o' thing that's happened now!" But Gervis was not listening. He and others who had rushed to the gallery were carefully lifting the small, stiffened form. A mounted groom had already been dispatched for a doctor. "But something must be done at once," said Gervis, as they laid the unconscious girl on an Indian rug on the polished floor of the gallery. Somebody was trying to force brandy through the marble white lips. "Not a drop will go down! What are we to do until the doctor comes?" pitlessly cried Lella, who, kneeling down, had slipped her arm under the little sunny-brown head. "Fetch Mr. Ansdoll!" commanded Gervis, with a sudden inspiration. Surely the American could give some help in the pressing emergency, otherwise, what was the value of his so-called scientific reputation? Mr. Ansdell! Everybody then remembered that, oddly enough, the scientist had not been once seen during the hours of anxious search. It was curious, to say the least of it. And still more curious did it appear that no Mr. Ansdell hurried to the gallery in answer to the summons. "Never mind, here's your Doctor Goring himself, which is better," ejaculated Lady Jane, who had struggled upstairs more dead than alive from sheer fright, and looked on helplessly. "It's a trance!" at last pronounced the doctor, a young man, with all the latest medical and scientific theories at his finger-ends. "She has been hypnotized! Who has done this mischief?" There was no answer, and Doctor Goring went on wrathfully: "Somebody has got to answer for this night's work! The poor young lady has been brought to death's door, evidently, by some vile experiment. Now, then, clear out of this every one of you! Execuse my bluntness, Lady Jane, but this is not a moment for polite speech. I've got a life to win back if I can, and I can't have a crowd round me. Your ladyship can remain, and, yes, I must have Miss Desmond, if I've anybody." One by one the spectators departed from the gallery, and the young medical enthusiast set to work, with the result that in a quarter of an hour Gladley feebly opened her lips and smoke. "I want Lella," was the whisper. And when she saw that it was Lella herself who was supporting her head the bride's round eyes closed contentedly. "She will sleep now. We must carry her to her bed," said Doctor Goring, well satisfied. "You are wanted, sir, at once," came an urgent whisper; while Gervis, lifting his wife in his arms, carried her away. "What! another case?" The doctor wheeled around, and he was silently beckoned to the quarter of the house known as the bachelors' wing. Lying back in his chair in front of a writing table, and grasping a folded paper, was a dead man. The room was in perfect order. There had been no assault, no murder, no suicide, so far as one could judge at the moment. But that death had entered the half-open stare of the black eyes, the dropped jaw, and the marble hue of the long, lean fingers gripping the sheet of paper spoke all too clearly. Little wonder that Paul Ansdell had failed to join in the search for the missing bride, failed to obey the summons for his helpful skill. "Ie has been dead quite a couple of hours," said Doctor Goring gravely, secretly wondering what would be the outcome of this double tragedy. "You must keep this business from the ladies as long as you can," he said, turning to Gervis, who had been hastily sent for. "There must be an inquest, of course; and, meantime, I should take possession of that folded paper. See. I've managed not to tear it. You'd best lock it away until you hand it to the coroner, Mr. Templeton." "Why," gasped Gervis, as he caught sight of the close, upright handwriting. "my wife wrote that! What villa.ny is this? See here!" "It was the last will and testament of Gladys Templeton, and, in correct legal form it assigned everything the testator possessed to Paul Anadell of Montreal, revoking all former wills and codicils. The document was duly signed, and the signatures and addresses of two Americans were appended. Not a flaw was there from beginning to end of the deed. "You hold the key that unlocks the whole of this night's mystery," briefly said the young doctor. "This unfortunate man must be a reckless adventurer, whose wits have put in his hands a most dangerous weapon. He is, we will discover, a criminal hypnotist, a so-called scientist, seeking some tool to further his own ends. Yes; yes; you'll see we'll find out that's what he is—was, I mean," said the medical man. He was right in his surmise, as the inquest brought out, bit by bit, partly from papers belonging to the dead man, partly from the unwilling evidence of Gladday, who had been more or less under hypnotic influence since the night of the fire in the snow-shed. As for the villain's own death, it was proved to be from natural causes, and due to long-standing heart disease, that caused a breakdown at the crucial moment of his career. But the jury's verdict was the popular one—"By the visitation of God." Flye years have passed away. So many changes have happened to Temple-Done and the Templetons that Lady Jane has come to look back upon the days when she wore faded silks and lived a sorely pinched life as the happiest she has known. Today she no longer wears her favorite blue, for Francis Templeton has gone to his grave, his heart eaten out by the melancholy nothing would dispel. So Lady Jane wears widow's weeds and has learnt the old lesson that "contentment is great gain." The dainty American bride, so fragile and highly strung, never managed to weather the repeated shocks to her frail system. Like a broken flower she withered, until decline set in. In Lella's tender, supporting arms, her weak hands clinging tight round Lella's soft throat, Gladdy died peacefully. "Take care of my Gervis, Lella. You will do it better than I," with the wondrous intuition of the dying she whispered at the last. And now that the years have gone round, Gervis begins to think it is time Lella was taking care of him. Between the two there is a perfect understanding, and by and by their wedding bells will ring out; for though "sorrow endureth for the night, joy is bound to come in the morning." CHILD POLITICS. The "Junior Republic" Alarm the City of Delray Detroit is learning that the "junior republics" established in the various schools of the city, which at first thought was a fine thing, is having evil results. The mayor protests and shows a condition that is hardly beneficial. The citizens of these junior republics, for example, ballotted recently on such questions as these: Do you favor city ownership of the street railway system at the appraised value of $17,500,000? Do you favor the appropriation of $150,000 for the erection of another high school building? Do you favor expansion? (this involving a discussion of the Philippine question.) But more than this the "junior citizens" developed so rapidly as to become lobbyists. Children were asked to interview aldermen or school inspectors to urge appropriations for schools. In short, the junior republics did not confine themselves to theory, but got into practical politics with a unanimity and dispatch that was something appalling. The Detroit Free Press protests that innocent children that are already struggling against ninety-nine fads in learning to read, write and cipher, ought not to have their heads further muddled by an attempt to master the methods and processes by which the people of the country are governed.—Indianapolis News. Food's Lowest Daily Cost. By actual experience the Ruskinites, a colony of socialists near Waycross, Ga., have demonstrated what is probably the lowest possible daily cost of food. They live at an actual cost per capita of less than 10 cents a day. Of course this could not have been accomplished except through co-operation. Everything they consume is bought at wholesale in large quantities and is cooked in the community. In the community dining room tables are set for 300 people. Those who do not wish to eat with the crowd are allowed the privilege of purchasing company stores and cooking them at home. Ancient Dead in Philadelphia The first deed conveying property to the proprietor of Pennsylvania, William Penn, is written in old Dutch, and is now preserved in the city hall. The property was what is now known as Lemon hill, including the mansion and the Schuylkill river front, where the old Fairmount waterworks was located. There Penn kept his barge and some rowboats, the barge carrying an admiral's pennant. It is said there is only one man in Philadelphia who can read this deed. It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction. H. W. Paecher. A MONEY MONARCH J. PIERPONT MORGAN, KING OF FINANCIERS. The Capital He Now Controls Is Estimated at $800,000,000—An Architect and Builder of Trusts—His Luxurious Pleasures. It did not require his recent deal with Carnegie to make J. Pierpont Morgan a money monarch. He was a king of financiers before he made his latest collossal investment in steel and iron. This transaction simply strengthens his position in the world of finance, makes him in America what the Rothschilds are in Europe, and clothes him with as great power for good or evil as to his fellow beings possessed by any absolute monarch. As the master mind of the railroad interests of the country, the giant of the iron and steel trade, the guiding genius of the coal business, and a commanding factor in electrical enterprises of various kinds, he controls money enough so that by a single act he could precipitate a financial crisis that would shake the United States treasury to its very foundation. He and his interests can make or avert war. The magnitude of his power was referred to in a New York court the other day when his personal counsel, Francis Lynde Stetson, asserted that, if he chose, Morgan could influence our J. PIERPONT MORGAN. greater markets in any way he desires. It is fortunate for the country that he is a conservative financier and an honorable man. The wealth at his command is estimated at $800,000,000. Of Wealthy Parentage. J. Pierpont Morgan was born rich. The proverbal silver spoon was waiting for him when he made his appearance in the home of Junius Morgan, a banker at Hartford, Conn. That event occurred sixty-four years ago. Reared amid luxurious surroundings and educated at the University of Goettingen, Germany, young Morgan inherited $10,000,000 upon the death of his father, who had while his son was growing to manhood become a partner of the famous George Peabody of London, and of the Drexels in New York. A natural financier, young Morgan cultivated his inheritance so that it grew rapidly. As the senior partner of the banking houses of J. P. Morgan and Co., New York; Morgan, Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia, J. S. Morgan & Co. of London, and Morgan, Harjes & Co. of Paris, he was a power in the financial world years ago. The first great deal in which he displayed his genius for managing gigantic operations that has since astounded the world was in 1876, when he organized the syndicate which took the issue of $200,000,000 of 41% per cent government bonds when the national debt was refunded. His Railway Operations. Then he turned to railway management. He organized the first Joint Traffic association, brought the Pennsylvania and New York Central to friendly terms, reorganized the West Shore, put the Philadelphia & Reading on a good basis, reorganized the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Northern Pacific & the Erie, made the Great Southern railway a prosperous corporation, and would have prevented the insolvency of the Baltimore & Ohio but for the violation of one of the agreements made with him by outside parties. All these transactions brought many millions to his bank account. He is one of the giants of the coal trust, which has given him many more millions. By his management of the money syndicate which handled the $62,000,000 bond issue of the Cleveland administration, he is reputed to have made $20,000,000. It was he who created the steel trust, of which by Carnegie's retirement he now becomes the head. The coffin trust is one of the creatures of his great brain, and in electricity he brought about the formation of the Edison company and the General Electric. An idea of his tremendous power may be gained by considering the statement that, with the exception of the Erie and the Pennsylvania, he controls all the avenues of commerce and enter New York city, including the ferries. He has under his direction 19,028 miles of railroad, employing 80,000 men. It was Morgan who consolidated the Western Union Telegraph and the American Bell Telephone companies. He has a vast interest in the Chinese and Japanese carrying trade, and he owns stock in industries in the Orient. Into none of these enterprises has Morgan gone like a speculator, taking chances. He knew his ground before he moved. Finance is to him a great science which he understands perfectly. Jay Gould, knowing his power, feared him. The Vanderbilt bins now to him. He believes in himself and enjoys his power. He is graff and emphatic in speech, and to all persons with whom he is unacquainted, he is as inaccessible as the Czar of Russia. The men in his employ find him as stiff a disciplinarian as Blucher or Von Moltke in their armies. And yet no places in New York are more eagerly sought after than clerkships in his house. Only capable young men are admitted, and he never engages a clerk at less than $1,000 per year. His Private Life: Morgan's life, outside his business, has luxuries that a king might enjoy. He drinks the rarest of wines and his special brand of cigars cost him $1.25 each. He has spent $60,000 on dogs. His favorite amusement is yachting. He gave the New York Yacht club a club house worth $100,000, and it was his racing yacht, the Columbia, which kept the American cup on this side of the water. Another yacht, the Corsair, cost him $300,000. He paid $7,250 for a pair of carriage horses recently. A Mazarin Bible in two volumes cost him $25,000. Among his philanthropic acts was the gift of $1,000,000 for the building of the New York Lying-in-Hospital. DANISH WEST INDIES. Their Position Gives Them Value for Uses of Naves. Three small dots on a map of the West Indies, two of them directly east of Porto Rico, the third and largest southeast of the island, represent the Danish West Indies. It is not an imposing group. Altogether the three islands have barely one-tenth the area of the state of Rhode Island. Their combined population is but a little more than thirty thousand, mostly negroes. Frequent earthquakes shake them, and hurricanes sweep over them. Sugar, rum and tobacco are the chief products; but there is so little prosperity among the people that it costs Denmark to take care of them more than she gets back in revenue. Small and unimportant as these little islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix are, the United States came near buying them from Denmark more than thirty years ago, and recently has made a new offer for them. It is not the size of the islands nor their fertility which gives value, but their position. St. Thomas lies less than forty miles from the eastern coast of Porto Rico. It has an excellent harbor, which would be useful as a coaling and naval station. When the canal is cut across the isthmus, the possession of these islands by the United States will be more important than at present. The inconvenience of having them in the hands of some rival and possibly hostile power would be very great. These, presumably, are the considerations which have led to a renewal of the negotiations for the purchase of the group. Both houses of congress must act before the arrangement can be completed, so that the policy will be adopted, if at all, only after a full discussion of its advantages and disadvantages.—Youth's Companion. FIRST MINERS' UNION. The recent growth of unionism the coal miners of this country, resulting in higher wages, shorter hours and better conditions in every respect, recalls the early efforts of coal miners to organize. The first miners' union in America was formed at St. Clair, Pa., in 1867. John Siney, an intelligent miner, got the workers together and urged upon them the benefits of organization. The meetings were secret, as the operators were opposed to unions of any description. A union was formed, however, but it met with all kinds of opposition from the bosses and it was a continual struggle culminating in the great strike in the latter '60's. Thousands of miners were out of work, and there was great distress throughout the country, coal selling in JOHN SINEY. Founder of the first miners' union in America, many places at $16 to $18 a ton. John Siney did not live to see the anthracite coal miners in one great organization as at present, but he always predicted that it would come some day and that the much-abused miner would get his share of the profits of the mines. Ancient Records in China In the Temple of Confucius at Pekin are a number of stone tablets covered with inscriptions, which were discovered by the Chinese in the eighth century before Christ, and which, undoubtedly, belong to a much earlier period, which have been carefully preserved since the time when they were found. It is believed that the destruction of the magnificent library of the Han-Lin College, or national academy, which stood just north of the British legation in Pekin, and which was destroyed by fire by the Boxers during the recent siege, has been a loss to the world comparable only to the burning of the Alexandrian library. --- ROOSEVELT ADMIRES THE PICTURES. Applauds the Union Pacific Enterprise - Its Souvenirs and World Map Amaze the Vice President. Dr. George L. Miller, the Omaha pioneer and the veteran editor, who was the guest of Vice President Roosevelt while he was en route across Nebraska, discussing the trip, said: "The extraordinary interest that the vice president of the United States manifested in the Map of the World, which the Passenger Department of the Union Pacific presented to him, is readily explained. That map is the very largest thing in world pictures, and appealed to Roosevelt as nothing else could. It presented a bird'seye view of the sections where today centers the interest of the civilized world. Then, too, it was a pretty tribute he paid to 'The Overland Route' pictorial advertising when he observed that the literature issued by the Union Pacific embodies all that is artistic in word and picture painting. "I was much amused at the surprise manifested by Colonel Roosevelt when he discovered that he could stand on the rear of the fast dying 'Overland Limited' train and observe the rear view without encountering a single particle of dust. This was the first proposition of the kind he had ever encountered. True, he had seen some eastern roadbeds saturated with oil and rendered in a way dustless, but here was a roadbed in its natural state, giving forth absolutely no dust. He asked me a great many questions about the Sherman granite gravel and the manner in which the Union Pacific is ballasting its main line with the product. "The Map of the World, the souvenir showing the various points of interest along 'The Overland Route' in colors, and the instructive little volume showing the fossil collections and deposits of Wyoming and other handsome literature presented by the representative of the Union Pacific Advertising Department to Colonel Roosevelt on this occasion, he assured me he would preserve with much cure." "The advertising departments of the great western railroad systems are fast building up a distinct literature of their own. In an artistic sense, these souvenirs and booklets are quite desirable. I may say that in my collection made from all parts of the United States I have nothing that will compare with the matter presented to me by the representatives to the Union Pacific." "These were the words of Vice President-elect Roosevelt in discussing the maps and illustrated souvenirs presented to him by a representative of the Union Pacific passenger department while he was on route from Denver to Omaha over "The Overland oRute". Continuing, Vice President Roosevelt said: "These were superb specimens of the landscape artist's skill and the writer's clever arrangement of stories, embodying in all that is artistic in word picture and painting. Wherever one travels, the fame of "The Overland Route" goes. One good thing I have observed about the literature of the company is that it tells the truth. It advertises the trains on the Union Pacific lines to make certain time and certain connections, and when the traveler starts on his journey he finds the train service is just as stated." Colonel Roosevelt was greatly interested in the Green river views and declared the pictorial features of the famous region wer true to life. "Here is another thing," continued the vice president, "where accuracy is appreciated. Of course "The Overland Route" is probably better known than any railroad line in the world, but the Union Pacific seems never at a loss in presenting vividly the many scenes and incidents connected with this great system, and indeed now interwoven in the history of our country. This map of the world, for instance, is simply marvelous. It is brought absolutely up to date, and its completeness is most amazing. These pictorial souvenirs I believe are worthy of a place in any man's library." Editorially, the Atlantic Monthly for March, calls vigorously upon the administration to give the country the facts about the Philippines and no longer disguise what is going on there. CONFEEDERATE REUNION. Memphis, Tenn., March 10.—At a recent meeting of the general executive committee of the Confederate reunion for 1901 a committee was appointed to join with the several commercial bodies of Memphis to visit Washington and invite President McKinley to be the guest of the city of Memphis on the occasion of the reunion in May next. The committee will leave for the national capital in a few days. As the time for holding the reunion approaches the several committees are becoming more active. The city is being canvassed by the committee on hotels and accommodations and every available room is being registered. A. D. Langstaff, secretary of the commissary committee, a sub-organization of the general committee in charge of Confederate reunion arrangements, has been very active in the past week or so in the discharge of the duties assigned to him. He is engaged in planning ways and means for caring for the Confederate veterans when they come to the reunion. Many of the commands will very likely bivouack in order to observe strict army regulations and if this should prove true they will have to be cared for for the same as if they were in actual service again, but with more care for their comfort. The commissary committee is to look after these matters. Mr. Langstaff announces that it is the purpose of the committee to have the means of caring for every Confederate veteran whether he is able to pay his own way or not, and they will do so if it is possible. They want it understood that the commissary committee is not organized to look only after those who are able to pay their own way, but to look after the rest as well. The National Magazine for March contains an article written by Mrs. Nation while in jail at Topeka, in which the saloon smasher sets forth her mission. --- MARRIED WITHOUT COAT. But He Had to Wait Fifty Years for His Bride's Consent. The whirligig of time that eventually makes all things even made it possible for both Thomas Hartigan and Susan Thompson to keep their vows that prevented them for half a century from marrying, and yet permitted them, only a week ago, to wed after all. Fifty years ago Thomas Hartigan, in a sort of boyish prank, declared that he should marry in his shirt sleeves. His bride, Susan Thompson, went to the church on her wedding day, never thinking that her lover was serious in what he said, but when he appeared at the altar and declared that he should never marry except in his shirt sleeves, then she said she would never marry him if he did not put on a coat. So there was no wedding. All this happened in the Cascade valley, near Renva, Pa. After winning wealth in California Hartigan returned to the Cascade valley three years ago. Susan Thompson was still there. They talked of marrying, but each was still firm in the declaration in regard to the shirt sleeves they had made 50 years ago. Last summer the shirtwaist man appeared. Thomas Hartigan decided that if he wore a shirtwaist at his wedding he would be fulfilling his vow of marrying in his shirt sleeves to the letter. Miss Thompson decided that fashion had given the shirt waist the dignity of a coat, and that she could marry a man wearing a shirt waist without breaking her vow never to marry Tom Hartigan unless he wore a coat. And so they were married, and Tom Hartigan wore the most elaborate shirt waist that the store-keeper in Renova could get in Philadelphia. So the male shirtwaist has not lived in vain. WOMEN MAY WOO. So One of Them Thinks, and Expresses Herself. Of course women have to dispose of themselves in marriage, but should the woman ever propose? asks a masculine writer. Sometimes, even when it is not leap year, they should. There is first of all the case of queens; they must do so, and very prettily did Queen Victoria fulfil the task, says the Washington Post. But the sex is so good-na'ured in helping lame dogs over a stile! An Irish girl did it in this way. She thought that her boy was slow in coming to the point, so she said, "If I were you, Jack, and you were me, we'd be married long ago." Another shy man said to the lady of his choice: "I wish we were on such terms of intimacy that you wouldn't mind calling me by my first name." "Oh," she answered, "your second is good enough for me." Shakespeare's herolines are remarkably ready to take the initiative in this most serious business. Helena demands the hand of Bertram as the price of her wonder-working prescription. Desdemona hints broadly that she is to be had for the asking. Mirandada tells her patient logman that she is his wife if he will marry her. Olivia says to her lover's masquerading messenger: "Would you undertake another suit, I rather hear you to solicit Than music from the spheres!" Then, finding Sebastian himself more pliable than his fair double, she fetches a priest to make sure of him while he is in the humor. Juliet, caught thinking aloud, declares her willingness to lay her fortunes at Romeo's feet if he will but say when and where the holy man shall make them one. Refining Petroleum. The refining of petroleum is an interesting process. The petroleum is put into a tank, under which is a slow fire, burning the gas from the oil itself. As the latter warms up, the vapors pass through a long pipe, and are cooled in the process, condensing it into liquid again. The first thing that "comes over" is a gas which is used as a fuel in the works. Next, the varying grades of naphtha; next (the product becoming heavier and heavier all the time), the gasoline grades, then the low-test kerosenes, then the high-grade kerosenes. Then comes a long list of heavier oils, ending with the heaviest and thickest of lubricants. There is left in the tank paraffine and a black, dense, sticky substance which is little more than asphalt. From these bl-products, after the refining of oil, are made more than 150 substances of value, including such familiar things as dyes, soap, vaseline, ointment, and chewing gum. Molten Wood in France Molten wood is a new invention by Mr. de Gall, inspector of forests at Lemur, France. By means of dry distillation and high pressure the escape of developing gases is prevented, thereby reducing the wood to a molten condition. After cooling off the mass assumes the character of coal, yet without showing a trace of the organic structure of that mineral. This new body is hard, but can be shaped and polished at will; is impervious to water and acids, and is a perfect electrical non-conductor. Great results are expected from this new discovery. United States Consular Reports. Passion Play's Financial Results Oberammergau has been casting up the accounts of this year's Passion Play. There were forty-eight performances and 200,000 visitors, who paid $300,000 for admission. The profits of the village from lodgers, the sale of trinkets, etc., were between $750,000 and $1,000,000. Munich and Bavarian railroads have also profited, the latter showing a surplus of $2,500,000. EXCURSION RATES TO WINTER RESORTS Via the North-Western Line. Excursion 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-Western EMERALD MINES. They Were Lost for Centuries, but Have Bene Re-discovered. What are known as the emerald mines of Cleopatra lie in the mountain range that extends for a long distance parallel to the Red sea and a few leagues west of its coast, in a latitude rather south of Eofu, on the Nile, say the Geographical Journal. This, like some other parts of the region—such as the porphyry quarries of Jebel Dokhan—was far better known than it is now, and more thickly people, about twenty centuries ago, and only during the present one, so far as we know, have isolated explorers at long intervals found their way into the treasure house of ancient Egypt. When its rulers first used the emerald for personal adornment is uncertain. Whether the large, clear stones which, according to ancient authorities, ornamented the Egyptian temples were really emeralds is a matter of dispute, but as this gem—owing to its regular shape, which is commonly a six-sided prism—and its beautiful tint stands less in need of the laplidary's art than many others, it probably formed part of the regalia of princes at a very early period. That it was known to the Romans is certain, and the mines now revisited to send their treasures to the gem cutters of the capital. Ever since then the stone has been highly esteemed. These mines of the northern Ethal seem to have remained untouched since the decline and fall of Rome caused them to be deserted. To Mr. MacAllister, the workings are only small passages, hardly more than burrows, excavated in the emerald-bearing cyst and sometimes extending for a long distance. Many scattered ruins may also be seen—dwellings, watch towers and tombs, besides those of fen settlements. In these, no doubt, the mining population used to live, and the difference in style suggest they were occupied for a long time. Some are mere hovels, very roughly built; others show a more careful construction, while a third group are well finished. Mr. MacAllister also found three rock-cut temples, for the soft stone lends itself to that kind of architecture. He thinks that their pillars, though very primitive in style, indicate Egyptian designs, with traces of Greek influence. One, indeed, contains a crumbling inscription in that language. Broken pottery, sometimes ornamented, is abundant, but there is no evidence that the neighborhood attracted visitors for any but business purposes. Notwithstanding this, there was in those times a settled instead of a nomad population, and travelers once must have been rather frequent, for in one place many drawings of persons, animals and tribal marks are scratched upon the rocks. Some of the figures evidently are much older than others, but as a whole they recall to memory the Sinaitic inscriptions which some forty years ago were believed to be memories of the wanderings of the Israelites. COLD INDEED. Some of the Odd Trikes of Miquil Air Liquid air is, perhaps, the coldest thing in the world. It is so sold that a cake of ice is like a fierce fire as compared with it, for a kettle of liquid air placed on a cake of ice will boll just as water bolls over a hot fire. It freezes mercury so hard that one can drive nails in it. The story is told that Mr. Charles E. Tripler, the experimenter in liquid air, recently took a quart of the remarkable substance with him on a visit to a friend. On the way he stopped in a restaurant to eat a beefsteak. The waiter brought in a hot broiled steak and placed it in front of Mr. Tripler. As soon as the waiter's back was turned Mr. Triple hastily opened the can and exposed the meat to the liquid air. Instantly the steak was frozen hard as a rock. When the waiter came back his customer complained that the steak was frozen. So the waiter called the head waiter and the head waiter blamed it all on the cook and the cook was at loss to explain, and the result was that the frozen steak was taken back into the kitchen as a mysterious curiosity. A new steak was broiled for Mr. Tripler and this one he ate with much relish Subscribe for the Bystander. CHEAPLY and COMFORTABLY! 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Grand Forks, N. D. STATE OF IOWA, OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF STATE. Annual Certificate for Publication. Des Moines, Iowa, March 1st, 1901. Whereas, The American Fire Insurance Company, located at Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania has filed in this office a sworn statement of its condition on the thirty-first day of December, 1900, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4, Title 9, of the code of Iowa, relating to Insurance Companies; and whereas, said statement shows that the said Insurance Company has complied with the laws of this State relating to insurance. Therefore, In pursuance of law, I, Frank F. Merriam, Auditor of State, do hereby certify that said Insurance Company is authorized to transact the business of Fire Insurance in the State, by Agents properly appointed, as required by law, until the first day of March, A. D. 1902. I further certify that the statement shows— 1st. The actual amount of paid-up Capital of said company, Dec. 31, 1900 to be..... $ 500000.00 2d. The aggregate a- mount of Assets of said Company, Dec. 31, 1900. to be..... $2477069.00 3d. The aggregate a- mount of Liabilities of said Company, including the a- mount required to safely reinsure all outstanding risks, Dec. 31, 1900, to be.. $2229708.58 4th. The aggregate In- come of said Company for the year 1900 to be..... $1433708.98 5th. The aggregate ex- pendents of said Company for the year 1000, to be... $1600216.07 In Testimony Whereof, I have here- unto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of my office the day and date above written. FRANK F. MERRIAM, Auditor of State. Subscribe for and read the Bystander. STATE OF IOWA. OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF STATE. Annual Certificate for Publication. Des Moines, Iowa, March 1st, 1901. Whereas, The American Fire Insurance Company, located at New York in the State of New York has filed in this office a sworn statement of its condition on the thirty-first day of December, 1900, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4, Title 9, of the Code of Iowa, relating to Insurance Companies; and whereas, said statement shows that said Insurance Company has complied with the laws of this State relating to insurance. Therefore, In pursuance of law, I, Frank F. Merriam, Auditor of State, do here by certify that said Insurance Company is authorized to transact the business of Fire Insurance in the State, by Agents properly appointed, as required by law, until the first day of March. A. D. 1902. I further certify that the statement shows— 1st. The actual amount of paid-up Capital of said company, Dec. 31, 1900, to be..... $ 400000.00 2d. The aggregate amount of the Assets of said Company, Dec. 31, 1900, to be..... $ 1423971.64 3d. 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A perfect highway from New York to San Francisco, in as near a straight line as it is possible to make it, with a width of 120 feet, for the use of automobiles and bicycles, as well as for the use of the farmer, is a thing that the Automobile club of America will try to bring about. The subject was seriously discussed at a banquet, in honor of members of the National Highway Commission, at the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York, when plans were made and the route announced. Besides a direct path from New York to San Francisco, passing through Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, and Ogden, the club wants a highway along each coast. Congress will be asked to appropriate one-third of the expense, and the states, counties, townships and cities en route will be asked to pay the rest; the owners of property benefited to donate the right-of-way. The club and highway commission have on their list of membership the names of some of the foremost men of America. 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The Corinthian baptist Church —Sitated on 10 A.M., between Crooker and School Sts. Presching; at 11 A.M.; Sunday School; at 19 o'clock Presching. Presching; Rev. S. Bates, Pastor. St. Paul A. M. E. —Corner of Second and Center Street; presching at 10:30 a.m.; Sunday School at 3 o'clock; Epworth Learns at 9 p.; presching at 8 p.m. L. J. Phillips, pastor. First African Baptist Church —Corner School and Fourth street; Epworth Learns at 10:30 a.m.; Sunday school 3:30 p.m. M. E. H. Mousten; Superintendent; Young People's meeting 7 p.m.; presching 8:00 p.m. Burke M. E. —East Second and Des Mothers street; presching at 11:00 p.m.; Sunday School at 19:30 Prayer and class meeting, Wednesday 8 p.m. All are welcome. Rev. C. W. Holmes, pastor. Mount Neese Baptist Church —E. Second street, between Lincust and Grand Avenue—Sunday presching at 11 a.m.; Sunday School 19:30 p.m.; Superintendent, Presching at 8 p.m. Rev. J. H. Bell, pastor. Tabernacle Baptist Church Mission —Sitated over 000 East Crooker street. Presching at 11 a.m.; Sunday School 9:00 a.m.; presching at 8 p.m. Rev. J. R. Winnburst, pastor. SECRET ORDERS. DES MOINES PASSENGER TRAINS C. R. I & F. , GOING EAST. DES KUNSTS BANCH. 6 35 pm. Runaway Mall & Express. 12 10 pm. 6 35 pm. Runaway Mall & Fort Dog. . . . 4 45 pm. 8 15 pm. Minn. and St. Louis. . . . 9 00 pm. 4 55 am. St. Paul and Miln. Flyer. . . 9 00 am. WINTERSET BRANCH. 11 30 am. . . . Mall. . . . . . . . . 4 40 pm. 8 50 pm. . . . Express. . . . . . . 7 40 am. 8 50 pm. . . . West. . . . . . . . 7 40 am. 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M & ST F-BOONE LIME Boone Mall and Express. 3 40 pm 7 10 pm Mall and Express. 7 40 am 4 50 am Chicago Limited. 19 40 pm 4 50 am Chicago Express. 19 40 pm 12 45 pm Sioux City & Omaha. 20 00 am *Daily, *Daily. All other trains daily except Sanday NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. To Margaret A. Warr: You are hereby notified, that the following described real estate, situated in Polk County, Iowa, to-wit: Lot Six (6) 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 Daniel T. Patton; that said Daniel T. Patton is still the owner and holder of the certificate of purchase issued in pursuance of said sale; and that the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said land will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated this 13th day of November, A D. 1900. Daniel T. Patton. By Geo. Harnagel, his agent. CALIFORNIA. Broad Vestibuled First-Class Sleepers DAILY— 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 ServiceThrough Buffett Library Cars. VIRTUMA is a tenon treatment for both sexes that is positively guaranteed to cure IMPOTENCY vitality and vigor, restoring the desires, ambitions and aspirations of youth and health, fitting for success and happiness in business; professional, social and married life. $2 a package or 3 for $5. Ask your druggist, but refuse cheap substitutes. Sent anywhere prepaid on receipt of price and guaranteed by the Kidd Drug Company, Elgin, Illinois. Retail and wholesale by J. R. Hurlbut Co., Des Moines, Ia. Full line of Rubber Goods name what you want. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: To W. M. Crowley Do.: You are hereby notified that on the 7th day of December, A D. 1897, the following described real estate situa- tured in Polk county, Iowa, was sold for the taxes for the year 1896 which real real estate is described as follows, to-wi: Lot Four (4) Manns Fifth Addition to, and now forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That the same was, at such sale, purchased by Guy Hunter and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and by the said Hunter the certificate was duly assigned to J. H. Phillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer, a Deed for said property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. J. H. PHILLIPS, Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE State of Iowa. Polk County, ss: To Emma T. Kennedy; You are hereby notified that on the 7th day of December, A. D. 1896 the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, was sold for taxes for the year 1895 which real estate is described as follows, to-wit: Lot Five (5) Lytle's Subdivision, now forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That the same was, at such sale purchased by J. H. Phillips and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. J. H. PHILLIPS, Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa. Polk County, ss: To J. M. G. Carmichael: You are hereby notified that on the 7th day of December, A. D. 1897 the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa was sold for taxes for the year 1896 which real estate is described as follows. to-wit: Lot Two hundred and thirty-five (235) Block Ten (10) Home Park, Addition to, and now forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That the same was, at such sale, purchased by G. M. Taylor and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and by the said Taylor the certificate was duly assigned to J. H. Phillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. J. H. PHILLIPS, Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. NELSONS STRAIGHTINE The LATEST DISCOVERY FOR MAKING KNOTTY, KINKY, CURLY HAIR STRAIGHT BEFORE AFTER STRAIGHTINE is a safe, certain and reliable preparation. It is absolutely free from all injurious chemicals, and cannot injure the most delicate head. It not only allows you to maintain your hair, it stimulates the roots of the hair, keeps it from falling out, and produces a rich, long and luxurious head of hair. Cures all kinds of scalp diseases. Straightine is richly perforated and is used for the toilet. It has been tested by thousands with the unanimous verdict that it is the best preparation made. Price, 25 cents at drug stores, or sent by mail to an authorized dealer. NELSON MANUFACTURING CO. Richmond, Va. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: To.R. F. Cameron, W. C.M To B. F. Cameron and W. C. Moore: You are hereby notified that on the 7th day of December, A. D. 1897 the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, was sold for taxes for the year 1896 which real estate is described as follows to-wit: Lot one hundred and twenty (120) Block Four (4) Home Park. Addition to and now forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That the same was, at such sale, purchased by C. M. Catheart and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and by the said Catheart the certificate was duly assigned to J. H. Phillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. J. H. Phillips, Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. 15 GIS. FOR A POSTAL We have published this year the finest catalogue of seeds, plants, hundreds of illustrations, elegant colored plates, and a variety of FRUITS. These books are expensive, costing us about 18 cents each, but we will mail one to you is sufficient. Better write for it today. JOA SEED GOOD. DEN MOREZ. IOWL. NOTIGF TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: To Hiram Wells Do: You are hereby notified that on the 7th day of December, A. D. 1897 the following described real estate, situated in Polk county Iowa, was sold for taxes for the year 1896 which real estate is described as follows, to-wit: Lot Six (0) Block Twelve (12) White's Rivierway, Addition to, and now forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That the same was at such sale, purchased by L. B. Callender and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and by the said Callender the certificate was duly assigned to J. H. Phillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made; unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. J. H. PHILIPS, Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: To A. B. Shafer: You are hereby notified that on the 7th day of December, A D. 1897 the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, was sold for taxes for the year 1899 wih high real estate is described as follows, to-wit: Lot Fourteen (14) Block Two (2) Vorse's 1st Addition to Easton Place, and now forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That the same was, at such sale purchased by G M. Taylor and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and by the said Taylor the certificate was duly assigned to J. H. Phillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. J. H. Phillips, Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: To J. G. Caton Do: You are hereby notified that on the 7th day of December, A. D. 1897 the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, was sold for taxes for the year 1896 which real estate is described as follows, to-wits Lot Twenty-five (25) Block Seven (7) York's Choice, Addition to, and now forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That the same was, at such sale, purchased by G. M. Taylor and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and by the said Taylor the certificate was duly assigned to J. H. Phillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate, and the right of redemption will expire and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within nidety days from the completed service hereof. J. H. PHILLIPS, Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. We want you to subscribe for the Iowa STATE BYSTANDER. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: To J. G. Caton, Do: You are herby notified that on the 7th day of December A. D. 1897 the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, was sold for taxes for the year 1896 which real estate is described as follows, to-wit: Lot Twenty-six (26) Block Seven (7) York's Choice, Addition to, and now forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That the same was, at such sale, purchased by Guy Hunter and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and by the said Hunter the certificate was duly assigned to J. H. Phillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate, and the right of redemption will expire and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. J. H. PHILLIUS, Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: To Warren C. Johnson: You are hereby notified that on the 7th day of December, A. D. 1807 the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, was sold for taxes for the year 1896 which real estate is described as follows, to-wit: Lot One hundred and thirty-eight (138) Lakeside Addition now forming a part of the city of Des Moines. Polk county, Iowa. That the same was, at such safe purchaser by L. B. Callender and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and by the said Callender the certificate was duly assigned to J. H.-Phillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate, and the right of redemption will expire and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. J. H. PHILLIPS, Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. FORT MADISON NOTES. The executive board of the Iowa Baptist Association meets with the Second Baptist church next Wednesday. The church people have made arrangements for the entertainment of the ministers, and a good session is anticipated. A grand reception on Friday night will be given, under the auspices of the Ladies' Sewing Circle, Mesdames Amanda Bias and Bette Lewis, who have been very ill are rapidly improving. At one time both lives were dispaired of. A ten pound girl has arrived to brighten and gladen the hearts of Mr. and Mrs. Clay Smith. Rev. Goodwin, Missionary of the Missouri conference of the A. M. E. church, filled the pulpit of the A. M. E. church Sunday and Monday night. Rev. Goodwin is a good preacher and an affable christian gentleman. We shall be glad to have him with us again. Mrs. Eiza Jackson has been very ill with la gripe. We are glad to note her improvement at this writing. Rev. Underwood was called to Denmark to presch. the funeral sermon of Mrs Green Jackson. Mrs. Jackson was one of the oldest and most respected citizens of the little town. She has been a sufferer for years. She leaves a husband, the only survivor. Mrs. Scott and son, Sam Hand of New Boston and Miss Grace Pleasant of Denmark were Sunday visitors. Sunday was a gala day at the Baptist church. At 7:30 a.m. the pastor baptized seventeen candidates and at the morning service, fifty communicants observed the ordinance of the Lord's Supper. The little church was filled to its utmost at both services and all could exclaim "I was glad when they said unto me; let us go unto the house of the Lord." Miss Lottie Yeiser returned from New Boston Saturday. She reports a pleasant visit. Mr Fred Henry goes to Moline, Ill., next Saturday to visit his brother Charles. LADIES DON'T WORRY "Dr. Le Dues Genuine French Female Regulator" is positively guaranteed and mailed by Kidd Drug Co., Elgin, Ill., to remove and relieve pathological Monthly Stoppages, Female irregularities, Suppressed Menstruation, obstructions and suppressions, from whatever course, or send free medicine until cured if guarantured lot does not relieve. Sent on receipt of price, $2 a package or 3 for $5.00 Retail and wholesale of J. R. Hurlbut Co., Des Moines. Full line of Rubber Goods; name what you want. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa, Polk County ss: To E. Oaks: You are hereby notified that on the 6th day of December, A. D. 1897 the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa, was sold for taxes for the year 1896 which real estate is described as follows, towits: Lot Thirty-three (33) Block Two (2) Glengale Addition to, and now forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. That the same was, at such sale, purchased by W. A. Tris and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and assigned by him December 28th 1897 to J. S. Coskery who assigned March 5th 1901 to Z. P. Lyman, the lawful owner and holder of said certificate, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. Z. P. LYMAN, Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. Subscribe for the Bystander CALIFORNIA AND THE NORTHWEST On every Tuesday in February, March and April the Iowa Central Railway will sell one way Settlers' and Colonists' excursion tickets to points in California, Oregon, Washington Montana, Idaho and British Columbia at very low rates—lower than ever before. Tickets for California points sold on Tuesdays will be honored for passage in Tourist Cars of the Iowa Central Railway on Wednesdays of each week. For full particulars call on Iowa Central ticket agent, or address Geo. S. Batty, G. P. & T. A. Marshalltown Ia. SHANK BROS. Funeral Directors 517 Mulberry St. Telephones 686, 688 and 689. DES MOINES, - IOWA. TO THE NORTHWEST Greatly reduced one-way settlers rates will be in effect via the Iowa Central Railway during February, March and April 1001. For full particulars call on Iowa Central ticket agents or address, Geo. S. Baty, G. P & T. A., Marshaltown, Iowa. EVERYBODY 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. PHONE 579. Fines Women Patrons of Bucket Shops. Six women and four men, accused of patronizing a bucket-shop in the Rialto building, were fined the costs by Justice Martin yesterday. One of the women, who gave her name as Maria Jones, attempted to leave the courtroom without paying the costs. Detective Wooldridge saw her and he pursued and overtook her at the door. He took her to a cell, where she was kept until she paid the necessary amount—Chicago Tribune. Diamond Polishing Tedious Work Diamond polishing is a lengthy process. The workmen sit at long tables with their backs to the light and have in front of them small iron wheels revolving with terrible rapidity—1,500 times a minute. The rounded diamonds are dipped in oil and diamond dust, soldered to a handle and placed against the wheel. The many sides of the stone are given here and it is a tedious process. Barratry Case Is Not Pushed. When the charge of barrary, which means the encouragement of lawsuits, made by W. Van Kirk against Attorney Robert E. Cantwell came up for hearing before Justice Severson yesterday a nonsuit was entered by the complainant. Cantwell, it is said, advertised to conduct bankruptcy cases free of charge for any city employees who were in debt to money lenders.—Chicago Journal. Round to Join the Army. A recruit for the British army was taken to be sworn in recently by the magistrate. Everything was going swimmingly till the magistrate asked the man, "Have you ever been in prison?" At this the man looked startled, but quickly recovering himself, he blurted out, "No, slr, I have never been in jail, but I don't mind doing a few days if you think it necessary." A Kaffir Newspaper It is not generally known that the Kaffirs of south Africa, popularly supposed to be a tribe of wild savages, publish a newspaper. It is called the Imvo and has for its editors Tengo Jabalale and Mr. Makubalo. Contrary to the reports of the leanings of the Kaffirs in the present war, the Imvo strongly sympathizes with the Boers. Clothes Brushes In Care The South Chicago Street Railway Company has introduced into its cars whiskbrooms and clothes brushes. These useful articles are placed in a small cabinet in the forward end of the car, within easy reach of the passengers, with an announcement beneath notifying travelers that the brushes are at their disposal. Nine Barrels of Stamps. A dealer has purchased nine barrels full of United States stamps, but this mammoth transaction has not created a ripple on the market. There are no brattleboros, St. Louis, New Haven—nothing but plain every-day stamps, and the dealer intends to sell them by the thousand. They will come in handy to decorate furniture. Treaty Elm. A monument now marks the place where stood the famous tree in the environs of Philadelphia, Pa., under which William Penn negotiated the treaty with the Indian chiefs, of which it has been said that it is "the only one ever made without an oath, and the only one never broken." Tolstol's Daughter Assist Count Leo Tolstol is assisted in his literary work by his two daughters Tatjana and Marcha, who have more than ordinary talent. "However great I may be or not be as a novelist," said Tolstol recently, "I am much greater as a correspondent, because my two daughters write all my letters." Growth of Book Publishing During the past few years the book publishing industry has increased, like all others. In 1897 and 1898 the industry was at a low ebb, less than 3,000 new books being put on the market in either year; but in 1899 no fewer than 6,000 books were published in this country. Germans Won't Save Birds. The feeling in Germany against the wholesale slaughter of birds in Italy is getting very bitter. This year very few swallows have come from the south, and it is feared that in a few years the) will be practically exterminated. Gotham Might Not Approve. Gotham might not approve. It is said that Commissioner Peck hesitated to offer champagne to his guests at the opening of the United States pavilion at the exposition, "as he was afraid that it would not be approved in New York." A. Billion Dollars Employed A good English authority estimates that $1,000,000,000 foreign capital is now. operating in Russia in manufacturing, industrial, steamship and other enterprises. Prince of Wales Studying Law. The prince of Wales still pursues his law studies most systematically. He was chosen a bencher of the middle temple a number of years ago. Great Britain's Insane. For the last ten years there has been an increase of 2,000 annually in the number of Great Britain's insane. --- Please announce my name as a candidate for one of the members of the House of Representatives from Polk county, subject to the decision of the republican convention. REMEMBERANCE (Special to the BYSTANDER.) 'Twas forty and six years ago today In the state of old Virginia, A mother and father with joy did say, Behold our new born infant. Yes, it was a baby and boy Its parents pride and joy Though not the first, they loved it more Because, it was a boy. We will not trace his youth with its sorrows and its joys. For we must skip these truths As not with other boys. For when I tell you all, You will not care a straw; For the one of whom I speak Is, my own dear papa. LUTHER H. S. BROWN. 516 Walnut street, City. ALBIA NOTES. Mrs. Stella Davis and little daughter came in from Hocking Firiday. Mr. Davis joined them here Saturday and they depended for their home in Des Moines. Messrs. Geo. E. Taylor and Geo. H. Woodson of Oskaloosa and Muthaskinock were in Albia looking after business. Both contemplates moving to Alibi some time in the near future. A social was given for the benefit of the A. M. E. Church Saturday evening. We had quite a sheet and snow storm here Sunday. The Trustees of the church will give an entertainment and festival on the 21. Miss Bessie Aaton who has been on the sick list has improved. Mr. J. M. Logan, who is sick at Mercy hospital, is slowly improving. Little George Jones and Pattie Martin are on the sick list this week. Black Patti played to a fair audience the 9th. Mr. Greene of Lancaster is visiting in our city. Owing to the disagreeable weather last Sunday the attendance at church was small. Mrs Blanche Marshall of Belle Plain is visiting relatives here. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Sketch of the Career of the Hon. D. Delal H. McMillan The birthplace of Col. D. H. McMillan, the new lieutenant governor of Manitoba, was in the county of Ontario, near the town of Whitby, in the Province of Ontario. The years of his boyhood and early manhood, however, were spent in the town of Collingwood. He received his education in the public schools and the collegiate institute of that town and in the city of Toronto. His early ambitions were largely towards military life; and it was his cherished desire to enter the British army. He took a course of training in the military schools of Toronto, where he was eminently successful, obtaining first class certificates in both the infantry and the cavalry schools. He was identified with military organizations in Ontario for a number of years, and served there during the Fenian raids at Niagara in 1864, and at Port Colborne in March and Fort Erie in June. 1866. In 1870 he was selected for the position of captain in the first Red River expedition under Colonel Wollseley. The young captain remained in Winnipeg with the force for a year, and entered to Ontario in the summer of 1871. Coming to Manitoba again in 1874, Mr. McMillan engaged in Winnipeg in the milling and grain business, with which he remained connected from 1875 until three or four years ago. He built, in 1870, the first four mill ever erected in the province; and, in the following year, exported to Minneapolis the first shipment, as a commercial transaction, of Manitoba's wheat. He did not, meanwhile, lose his interest in military matters, but was ready for active service whenever troops were required. He was major of the Ninetieth Battalion until just before the Northwest rebellion in 1885, when he resigned, intending to give military affairs; but when the trouble broke out, the old martial spirit was revived, and he organized, along with Col. Scott, the Ninety-fifth Battalion, and went with that force to the Northwest. He was then senior major, but was afterwards in command of the battalion—Montreal Herald and Star. Counting Years in Japan Mr. B. Maychatake, a young Japanese who has been studying in Chicago, gives an explanation of the method by which time is reckoned in the chrysanthemum land. The Japanese year begins on our January 1, but instead of counting from the birth of Christ a reckoning is made from the reign of Japan's first emperor, Zimu. Our 1901 is the year 2561 in Japan. When a new ruler mounts the throne a distinctive name is given to his reign and a sort of petty calendar is kept of the years of his government, just as we keep track of the age of our republic, writing in legal documents: "Year of our word 1901, and of the independence of the United States the 125th." The name for the present mikado's rule, which began thirty-three years ago, Is Meiji. This word is pronounced Mayzee, and means "peaceful government." Therefore, the current year in Japan is Meiji 34 as well as Zimu 2561. --- CDNGRESSMAN MEEKISON GIVES PE-RU-NA A HIGH ENDORSEMENT. J. CONGRESSMAN MEEKISON, OF OHIO. Hon. David Meekison is well known, not only in his own State, but throughout America. He began his political career by serving four consecutive terms as Mayor of the town in which he lives, during which time he became widely known as the founder of the Meekison Bank of Napoleon, Ohio. He was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress by a very large majority, and is the acknowledged leader of his party in his section of the State. g four consecutive the town in which the time he became the founder of the Napoleon, Ohio. He Fifty-fifth Congress majority, and is the mer of his party in his e. carried the otherwise of this rising states- which its insidious ap- ous grasp, was his foe. For thirty successful warfare alien enemy. At last Miss Carrie Thomas of this country. They have come to regard Pe-ru-na as indispensable to their success. Their profession is so exacting that it re- quires perfect health in every particular. They regard Pe-ru-na as their friend and safeguard. Many letters are received from this class of people. Miss Car- declaration, but he He called a vasion of P mer and sa- "There is between the kilometers Manchurian poured, cor- threatening invasion was Russia wou- d and there Only one flaw marred the otherwise complete success of this rising statesman. Catarrh with its insidious approach and tenacious grasp, was his only unconquered foe. For thirty years he waged unsuccessful warfare against this personal enemy. At last Pe-ru-na came to the rescue, and he dictated the following letter to Dr. Hartman as the result: "I have used several bottles of Pe-ru-na and feel greatly benefited thereby from my catarrh of the head. I feel encouraged to believe that if I use it a short time longer I will be able to fully eradicate the disease of thirty years' standing. Yours truly. "David Meikison." Many people can tolerate slight catarh affections. A little hoarseness, a slight cough, a cold in the head, or a trifling derangement of the digestive organs, do not much disturb the average person in his business. But this is not true of the public speaker or stage artist. His voice must always be clear, Every man makes the mistake of thinking he can foot his wife as easily as he used to fool his mother. 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Hence the popularity of Pe-ru-na among the leading actors and actresses of this country. They have come to regard Pe-ru-na as indispensable to their success. Their profession is so exacting that it requires perfect health in every particular. They regard Pe-ru-na as their friend and safeguard. Many letters are received from this class of people. Miss Car- They have come to regard Pe-ru-na as indispensable to their success. Their profession is so exacting that it requires perfect health in every particular. They regard Pe-ru-na as their friend and safeguard. Many letters are received from this class of people. Miss Carrie Thomas, in speaking of Pe-ru-na, says: "I have used Pe-ru-na with splendid results. Would not be without it. No money would hire me to have a settled cold or chronic cough, or hoarseness. Catarrh is the most dreadful thing that could happen to one of my profession. Pe-ru-na is my shield and protector against this most undesirable disease."—Carrie Thomas. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Obto. STORIETTES. During the recent trial of certain members of the Belton Park club in England, who were charged with illegally employing a number of youngsters as caddies who should have been at school, it was stated that the caddies were given luncheon and tea. "Why did you give them tea?" the judge asked. The witness replied that it was usual to give caddies tea. "Ah," said the judge, thoughtfully, "I presume that makes them tea caddies." On the occasion of the last visit of P. T. Barnum to England, George Augustus Sala presided at a dinner given in honor of tae famous showman. In the reception room all were invited to welcome the guest of the evening, when Mr. Barnum came in beaming, and, shaking hands with the chairman, said, with a strongly marked Yankee accent: "This is indeed a surprise to me." "Did you hear that?" Mr. Sah whispered; "wry, he arranged for the gimmer himself." While walking in the suburbs, the bishop of Norwich met a little girl of about eight or nine, who asked: "Oh, please, sir, will you open this gate for me?" The bishop, smiling on the desure little maiden, held back the gate for her to pass through, and when she thanked him with a sauce, he asked if she was not big enough to open the garden gate herself. "Oh, yes, sir," she replied, sweet: "but, you see, the paint is wet, and I should have dirtied my hands." Shortly after the Chinese exclusion act was passed, the secretary of state received a letter from Pennsylvania, signed by a Chinaman. The writer said that he had been interested in this legislation, and that he fell within the conditions of this act. He had come to this country under false pretenses, and hence he should be deported to China immediately. The request was so strange that the secretary of state ordered an investigation. The agent reported a few days later that the Chinaman's statement about the way in which he entered this country was correct, and that he should be deported. There was just one drawback to this programme, however. The Chinaman had been convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Lazy men are like theories. They seldom wor. A man has more chances for fines than fine charges. RUSSIAN MINISTER TALKS. He Makes Clear the Position of Russia in Regard to Her Interests in Manchuria—Why the Russian Troops Stay in That Land. Washington, D. C., March 15.—Further indiscriminate execution of Chinese will not be countenanced by the United States. Moderation not only in demands but in the infliction of punishment by the Chinese authorities is now sought by President McKinley and Secretary of State Hay. Special Commissioner Rockhill having cabled the state department for specific instructions in the matter of the punishment of provincial officials, whose heads are sought by the German and other diplomatic representatives. Secretary Hay wired him this afternoon that the president desired him to use his influence in behalf of moderate punishments. Mr. Rockhill will not demand any further executions, but will leave to the Chinese authorities the infliction of such penalties as they may see fit to impose upon officials and persons charged with complicity in the anti-foreign outrages. To Prevent Rupuure of Powers. To Prevent Rupure of Powers. The attitude of the United States is similar to that of Russia. The report published this afternoon that the Russian minister had broken the concert by his refusal to join in demands for further punishment is not believed either at the state department or the Russian embassy. Mr. Rockhill will also object to the proposal for additional executions, but this objection will not, it is believed, result in a rupture. The authorities propose to continue their efforts to preserve the concert. Casalol Talks of Manchuria The Russian ambassador, Count Cassini, talked during the day concerning the reiterated reports as to Russia's designs on Manchuria. He said he was not authorized to make any official declaration on the part of his government, but he gave his individual views. He called attention to the Chinese invasion of Russian territory last summer and said: "There is a great stretch of border between the two empires, about 8,000 kilometers in length, and over the Manchurian border the Chinese forces poured, committing depredations and threatening Russian interests. This invasion was of such a character that Russia would have been justified then and there in declaring war against China and taking Manchuria. Such a course would have been justified by every principle of international law, and the right of Russia in this respect could not have been doubted by any other nation. If Russia had been disposed to exercise this undoubted right she had the military force on the ground ready to execute it. But Russia did not at that time take Manchuria, and in that very fact is the best answer to the present reports of Russia's purposes to absorb Manchuria. If she did not choose to take Manchuria when the opportunity was open and clear, why should there be any step in that direction now? "Why are Russian troops in Manchuria?" is frequently asked. Why are German troops, British troops, American troops and other troops in Pekin? There seems to be no surprise about this latter condition, and yet it is exactly parallel to the presence of Russian troops in Manchuria. In each case depredations were being committed, foreign interests were in jeopardy and each nation sent its troops to give due protection to the lives and property of its people and to prevent the recurrence of disorder. In Manchuria the Russian civil engineers at one time were driven away from work along the Trans-Siberian railway, with its spurs southward to Port Arthur and eastward to Vladivostok. It was necessary to give adequate protection to these engineers and to the railway as well. There was not the slightest question as to the right of Russia to construct the line across Chinese territory, and with this authority came the necessity of protecting the line and the interests connected with it." THE TREATY IS ABROGATED. The Clayton-Bulwer Fact Broken by Great Britain. Washington, March 13.—The president is still poring over the reply from Great Britain. It was explained to him from Hay's view, and the question is still unsettled as to what, if any, step shall be taken to re-open negotiations. There is good authority, however, for the statement that Secretary Hay will be asked to make representations to the British foreign office to the effect that even if the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is not void, it is validable by reason of its violation in several instances by Great Britain. Secretary Hay, if the president determines upon this line of action, will thus be forced back to the position held by his predecessors Frelinghuysen and Sherman. In view of probable negotiations to prove that Great Britain has violated the Clayton-Bulwer treaty in such a manner as to make it violable, it will be of interest to recall the most fligrant case of violation. At the date of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty there was little settlement of British subjects in Balize on the Central American coast which had no form of government. In 1859 Great Britain concluded a treaty with Guatemala which Great Britain called "Her Britannic Majesty's settlement in the Bay of Honduras." In 1862, during the civil war, Great Britain declared her alleged possessions "a colony of the British crown." This has been held by nearly every American statesman to have been a clear violation of that clause of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty which says that neither the United States nor Great Britain shall occupy or fortify or colonize or assume to acquire any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast or any other part of Central America. It is thought now that if the United States demonstrates forcibly to Great Britain her violation of the treaty it will cut from under the British foreign office any possible ground for friction when congress at its next session denounces the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and wipes it off the records. YOUNG MEN DRUG A GIRL. Brooklyn Aroused Over a Crime Resembling the Boschsteiner Case. New York, March 14.—Mary Paige, 16 years old, living with her parents in Brooklyn, was drugged and mistreated by three young men who met her as she was leaving church Sunday night. She was found unconscious in a stable twelve hours later, and was not aroused until eight more hours had elapsed. According to the story told by the girl, she had just left St. James procathedral in Jay street, at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon, when she was met by three young men known to her slightly. Directly in front of the entrance to the church the girl was induced to enter a blind alley, known as Chapel alley. At a turn in it her hands were seized by one of the three young men, while another placed a cup containing some liquid to her lips and made her drink. She lost consciousness soon after. Dr. Glideon D. Hobart, who was called to attend the girl, says that she was given some narcotic poison that produced comatose condition in which the girl was found. At a late hour last night the girl's condition was said by Dr. Hobart to be serious. George F. Abbott, aged 17 years, was arrested yesterday afternoon, for complicity in the attack. He denied his guilt, but was identified by the girl as the one who had placed the cup to her lips. NO CHANCE TO REFCRM. American Investigator Says Europe's Prison Methods Are Inhuman London, March 15.—D. E. Tobias, a colored student from Brown university, is in London at present completing his investigation of the prison systems of Europe. Mr. Tobias said: "The European method of dealing with criminals smack of mediaevalism. It gives absolutely no thought to the possibilities of reforming the offender against society. It is strictly inhuman and punitive. England's practice of preventing all spoken intercourse among prisoners is a heinous barbarism. I find even here distinctly defined national prison systems, but they have not felt the touch of modern prison science. The United States has a separate system for each state. In other words, it is without any national prison system, yet it leads the world in the science of penology. Its reformatories are not only a blessing to the criminal classes of the United States, but a great credit to the country." DAILY MARKET REPORT. Chicago Board of Trade Wheat ... Open. High. Low. Close. March ... .73% .74% .73% .74% April ... .74% .74% .74% .74% May ... .75% .75% .74 .75% Corn— March ... ... ... ... ... .39% May ... .41 .41% .41 .41% Oats— March ... ... ... ... ... .24% May ... .24% .25% .24% .25% Pork— May ... 14.97% 14.52% 14.97% 15.52% July ... 14.75 14.90 14.75 14.90 Lard— May ... 7.62% 7.72% 7.62% 7.72% July ... 7.75 7.77% 7.75 7.77% Sept. ... 7.77% 7.82% 7.77% 7.82% S. ribs— May ... 7.37% 7.50 7.37% 7.50 Sept. ... 7.42% 7.47% 7.42% 7.47% Plainfield, N. J., March 15. A trolley car bound for Elizabeth jumped the track near Westfield while running at a high rate. It turned completely over, rolled down an embankment and landed upside down. Six women and three men passengers, were injured, two of the women seriously. Babe a Cigarette Flend. New York, March 14.—Samuel Heller, three years old, of No. 173 Orchard street, who, according to his mother's statement, is a cigarette flend, came near setting the house on fire yesterday. After smoking a cigarette he tossed it on the bed, setting it on fire. Mine Workers In Session: Hazleton, Pa., March 14.—President Mitchell called the United Mine Workers' convention to order at 9 o'clock. The report of the committee on credentials showed the presence of 600 delegates, representing 318 local organizations. Cochran Submits to Operation New York, March 14.—W. Bourke Cochran has had an operation performed on his throat to relieve an affection which, it is feared, might impair his voice. It is said to have been a complete success. Burglars Taken After a Great Fight. BOLD OUTLAWRY IN MICHIGAN. Bullets Fly by the Hundred in Franct's Woods, Near Farmington, Until Bandits Taylor, Williamson and Smith Raise White Flag-All Injured. Farmington, Mich., March 15.—Three burglaries for whom a posse hunted all morning were captured in Joe Francis' woods, three miles west of this village, shortly after 1 o'clock p. m. They gave their names as John Taylor, "Jim" Williamson and George Smith. They were in a badly used-up condition. Williamson had been shot through the back, head and one elbow. Smith was wounded in the back and legs and Taylor in the face and the legs. The trio made a desperate resistance and only surrendered when they had become exhausted. The chase was kept up relentlessly by the big posse. The burglaries were tracked from cover to cover and every time a member of the posse got within range he let go with rifle, shotgun or revolver. Finally the thieves took refuge in the Francis woods. Their pursuers, who by this time numbered 400, were quickly gathered and a constant fusillade was kept up, the firing being indiscriminate. The hunted men were game and kept their revolvers working constantly. Finally there was no response to the shots that were being fired by the posse. Then a white flag was shown. Deputy Sheriff C. H. Richmond, under cover of posse guns, advanced to hailing distance and was informed that the gang would surrender. The posse then swarmed upon the men and they were quickly handcuffed by Richmond, Marshal White and J. W. Brewster, son of the sheriff. The men were then driven to this village, closely guarded by their 400 pursuers. They were taken to rooms in the second floor of the Allen house to have the wounds dressed before being taken to jail at Pontiac. The wildest excitement prevailed when the captured men were brought into the village. More than 1,000 shots had been exchanged between the posse and the burglaries. It is not known how seriously wounded the men are. Some of their wounds were made by fine shot and others by bullets. The crowd about the hotel became so threatening that the officers decided to take the prisoners to Pontiac at once. As a Detroit & Northwestern electric car was about ready to leave for the county seat the officers slipped out of the rear door of the hotel, each prisoner being handcuffed to a deputy. They got clear of the hotel and started down the road when a cry was raised that the prisoners were escaping and the crowd, led by a man from Northville, came swarming down upon the officers and their prisoners. Although the prisoners were going along peacefully the Northville man led an attack upon them. The officers tried to protect their charges, but they were roughly handled before the car was reached. The deputies were handicapped by having only one hand free. As soon as the men boarded the car it was started off at quick speed and soon left the howling crowd behind. They were safely landed in Pontiac jail tonight. DOINGS OF THE LAW MAKERS. Wednesday, March 13. Both reapportionment bills were defeated in the house. The congressional bill lacked two of the necessary majority; the senatorial bill lacked eleven. A spark of life is held in each by the usual motions to reconsider. The outlook for any kind of reapportionment at this session is now dark. Representative Curtis has introduced a resolution for sine die adjournment April 19, which will probably be passed, and in which the senate will vote to approve it. It leaves a month more of the session, barely time for the appropriation and other emergency bills. Reapportionment having had its chance other questions will now get the attention due them. MICHIGAN Wednesday, March 13 The oleomargarine men who were here to tight the passage of the bill to prohibit the coloring of imitation butter met with defeat when the house passed the Goodland measure. The farmers made the bill and won by a decisive vote. The bill now goes to the governor, and there is no prospect of his voting it. WISCONSIN. Wednesday, March 13. The bills providing for the appointment of at least one woman on the board of university regents and the board of normal school regents respectively were favorably reported by the senate committee on education and are likely to pass. The assembly killed the bill providing for the use of white women on country roads and Spirttso bill killing for the payment for sheep killed by dogs. The new military bill prepared by the adjutant-general was ordered to the third reading. Young Woman Bells the Mait. Chattancoga, Tenn., March 15.—The postoffice department here has been notified by Inspector Keyes of the arrest of Miss Mary Bolton, assistant postmaster at Stockville, Tenn., on the charge of robbing the mails. She is described as a beautiful young girl, and is the daughter of the Rev. Joseph Bolton, who is a preacher of high standing. She confessed the crime and turned over a quantity of stolen goods Sister of the Czar to Wed. St. Petersburg, March 14.—The Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, the youngest sister of the czar, has been bethrothed to Prince Peter Alexandrovitch of Oldenburg. Dated Beginning of Year from Opening of Spring WHEN ALL THINGS IN NATURE START AFRESH. Some Other Things in Which the Ancients Have Given Us Points. The ancients began their year with the advent of spring. How much more appropriate thus to begin the New Year with the new life of nature in the awakening spring. At this season all processes throughout the natural world start afresh. The ancients also showed their sagacity and appreciation of the great changes and active processes of springtime, by realizing that this is also the time for renewed life and energy in the human system. They well knew that the blood should be cleansed from impurities and the nerves re-invigorated at this season. Hence the establishment of the custom of taking a good spring medicine. This most sensible and healthy custom is followed by almost everybody at the present day, few people of intelligence venturing to go through this trying time of change from winter to summer without taking a spring medicine. The unanimity on this subject is a settled fact: the only question hereto MR. STOUGHTON L. FARNHAM. fore has been in regard to what is the best thing to take. The people have now become unanimous in their decision that as a spring tonic and restorative. Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy is pre-eminently the best. Year after year Dr. Green's Nervura blood and nerve remedy has proved itself the surest, most positive and reliable remedy. Made from pure vegetable medicines, it invariably cleanses, purifies and enriches the blood, making the blood rich and red, and at the same time, by its invigorating effects, giving strength, power, vitality and energy to the nerves. In fact, Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy has proved itself the most perfect of medicines and just what everybody needs for a spring remedy. Try it this spring. Mr. Stoughton L. Farham of Macster, N. H., says: "Some time ago I was troubled with lassitude and a feeling of fatigue. did not have the ambition to do anything that demanded unusual physical exertion. "I was recommended by a friend to try Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. I took two or three bottles and am prepared to say that. I did me good. I can recommend it as a tonic, as I know it helped me." Remember Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy is recommended by physicians, in fact, it is a physician's prescription, the discovery of the well-known specialist in nervous and chronic diseases, Dr. Greene, of 35 W. 14th St., New York City, who can be consulted free of charge, personally or by letter. *A thing is not necessarily true because it is new.* A Remedy for the Gruppe Physicians recommend KEMPS BALSAM for patients afflicted with the gripe, as it is especially adapted for the throat and lungs. Don't wait for the first symptoms, but get a bottle today and keep it on hand for use the moment it is needed. If neglected, the gripe brings on pneumonia. KEMPS BALSAM prevents this by keeping the cough loose and the lungs free from inflammation. All druggists, 25c and 50c. All family trees are more or less shady. Chotera morbus has killed many a child. Mull's Lightning Pain Killer will cure this disease. 25c at druggists. Analogy is merely a method of convincing without proof. Sweat and fruit acids will not discolor goods dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Wealth makes kleptomanias; poverty makes thieves. If Your Clothes Look Yellow If Your Clothes Look Yellow wash them with Maple City Self Washing Soap. It will make them white again. The greatest cowards kick the dead lion most heartily. 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. An egg is best when fresh, but it's different with an office boy. You take no chances when you buy Russ' Bleaching Blue. This famous article makes clothes whiter than snow. Refuse imitations. Don't measure a well until you get to the bottom. Mrs. Wimlow's Soothing Syrup. For children teaching, softening the quins, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colds. Use a bottle. Men inherit their own past and devise their own future. Don't ache, use Hamlin's Wizard Oil. Rheumatism, neuralgia and all pain banished by it. See your druggist. Some valentines were scented and others were merely sent. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take LAXA OIL OMO QUINNIE TABLETS. All druggists refund the cost to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on the box. Mr L. O. Howard, the distinguished catologist, felt somewhat flattered at receiving one day a letter from a gentleman asking him to send a copy of his report. Mr. Howard replied promptly, and asked to which particular report his correspondent referred. The answer came: "Am not particular which one you send. I want it for a scrap book." Before marriage men and women argue; after that they dispute. He conquers twice who upon victory overcomes himself. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs—Wun. O. Endsley, Yanburen, Ind., 10, 1000. If men were like clocks, they could all go on tick. Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. H. Green's Boss, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy specialists in the world. Read their advertisement in another column of this paper. Adversity is apt to bring a man out especially at the knees and elbows. That awful pain! Internal or external. Bull's lightning Pain Killer instantly cures. Safe for invalids and children. 25c. The hair dresser feels no compunctions about dying an old maid. Makes Washing Easy. Maple City Self Washing Soap saves time, saves work and saves your clothes. Just try it once. A fool in one thing is usually a fool in another. By taking Garfield Tea, the danger of contracting La Grape is lessened, for the system is cleansed, the blood purified and the digestion perfected by this great herb cure. The sharper a man is the harder it is to make a tool of him. Don't Get Footsore! 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 Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. The man who is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else. Home-Seekers' Excursions. On the first and third Tuesdays of each month the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway will see round-trip excursion from Chicago to nine points on its line to a great many points 'In South Dakota, North Dakota and other Western and Northwestern states. We will also see the wonderful crops and what an amount of good land can be purchased for a little money. Further information as to rates, routes, prices of farm equipment, beijing tours and agent F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ill. A great nation is made by worthy citizens. James Harold, a veteran of the police department, who was placed upon the retired list four years ago, was seated on a bench in Portsmouth square in San Francisco meditating on the lively times of days gone by, when he was joined by one of the vagrants who infest that quarter. The stranger said he found it impossible to get work, and suggested that the present economic conditions were a full justification for crime. Harold took the fellow to task for his logic, when I left Ireland sixty years ago, and the veteran, "I had sixpence in my pocket. Since then I have never seen without money." "Oh, you're liking through your hat," replied the stranger, "and to prove it, I'll bet you fifty cents you cannot now a twenty-dollar piece now," harold accepted the wager, and drawing a fifty-cent piece from his pocket, was about to place it in the hands of stakeholder, when the stranger grabbed the money and started to run. Harold was too quick for him, however, and before the fellow could get away he landed once or twice on his neck. The stranger showed fight, and Harold with his cane beat him into submission. The offender was taken to the city prison, where, under the name of Matthew Dalton, he was booked on a charge of petty larceny. ON VERGE OF INSANITY. Mr. E. A. Deacon Tells of a Case Where a Lady Was in This Serious Condition, but Was Saved. East Randolph, N. Y., March 11.—Special.)—Mrs. E. A. Deacon of this own is Vice-President of the local Women's Christian Temperance Union. She is a lady of splendid capabilities, and these she has always directed towards the uplifting of humanity. What Mrs. Deacon says is accepted in East Randolph without question. No one has ever doubted her truthfulness or honesty of purpose. Mrs. Deacon says: "My attention was first called to the remarkable curative value of Dodd's Kidney Pills, through the cure of a literary lady who was a friend of mine, and who from mental overwork was on the verge of insanity. After the failure of her physician to help her, her husband was advised to have her try Dodd's Kidney Pills, which she did with gratifying results. She used five boxes before she was completely cured, but at the end of two months' treatment, she was her own happy, brilliant self once more. "Feeling languid and worn out myself, I thought they would perhaps be a help to me, and I am very glad to say that two boxes made a new woman of me. I feel ten years younger, am in the very best of health, and appreciate that it was entirely through the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I give them highest indulgence." These cases are becoming very common in Cattaragua County, and many ladies have had experiences similar to those of Mrs. Deacon and her friend. What Dodd's Kidney Pills have done for these suffering women, they will do for anyone who gives them a fair trial. They are 50c. a box, six boxes for $2.50. Buy them from your local druggist if you can. If he cannot supply you, send to the Dodd's Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A woman says there is no pleasure in suffering if it must be done in silence. The world is a prison from which no man need hope to escape alive. FOR WEEKS FILIPINO PRISONER Illinois Man Has Numerous Escapes and Captures. San Francisco, Cal., March 14.—John L. Fox, a private of company A, 30th volunteer infantry, who returned with his regiment yesterday on the transport Hancock from Manila, spent half the time in the Philippines as a prisoner in the hands of the Filipinos. From Jan. 18, 1899, until the 1st of September of the same year, young Fox was held by the semi-barbarous natives in mountain fastnesses, with no knowledge of his whereabouts nor of the intentions of his captors concerning his own disposition. He escaped several times, only to be captured again and threatened with summary punishment if he again attempted to get away. He had reason to believe that the threat might be carried out, for a fellow prisoner named John Kenney, from Illinois, also a private of the 30th, was deliberately shot by the Filipinos for attempting to escape. Private Fox is from Woodlawn, Ill, and served in Cuba before going to the Philippines. On Jan. 18, 1899, fifty men, comprising a pony train, were suddenly surrounded by a large number of armed Filipinos at the mouth of a ravine near Santiago hill in the southern Luzon. Most of the men fought their way out, but Fox, Fred Mason of Company C, Corporal Bonham and Private Miller of the 37th regiment. Private Charles Worthington of Company C and Private Edward Walls of company B of the 30th were captured by the enemy. They were released by Gen. Gallus and turned over to the Americans at Santa Cruz seven months after their capture. 30TH IS HOME FROM MANILA The Volunteer Regiment Reaches San Francisco. San Francisco, Cal., March 14.—The transport Hancock, bearing the Thirtieth volunteer infantry, made up almost wholly of men from Illinois and Michigan, reached port today, 22 days from Manila. Among the cabin passengers was Brigadier General James R. Campbell, who returned to San Francisco to await orders. Campbell is the former Democratic congressman from the Twentieth Illinois District, who, after reorganizing the Ninth Illinois regiment for service in Cuba, resigned his seat in congress and has since been a stanch upholder of the policy of the administration. When the Thirtieth United States volunteers was organized he was made a lieutenant colonel, and when he went away to the war in Luzon the regiment that went with him included 350 men who had served under him in the Ninth Illinois. Last January he was appointed as brigadier general of volunteers. The Thirtieth, as it came back, is made up of twenty-six officers and 738 men. Thirteen hundred men sailed away with the regiment, but over one hundred died from wounds and disease, many were sent home because of disability incurred in the service, and many others remained in the Philippines, some to go into business, take civil positions, and a few to re-enlist. WANT A NINE-HOUR WORK DAY Eastern Machinists Are Preparing to Enforce Their Demand. New York, March 14.—The announcement is made by the officers of the New York district of the International Association of Machinists that, beginning with this week, meetings of machinists will be held in all the eastern cities to prepare for the nine hour demand of the machinists, which goes into effect in May. James O'Connell, president of the International Association of Machinists, who has come east, will speak at all the meetings. A feature of the demand which will affect 160,000 machinists is the fact that it is made in behalf of the non-union as well as the union machinists, and that the union allows its members to work in harmony with non-union men as long as union conditions are observed Love Makes Him Mad. Pensacola, Fla., March 14—George Dahlin, 10069 Indianapolis avenue, Chicago, has become demented as the result of a hopeless love. Last summer Dahlin had typhoid fever. He fell desperately in love with his nurse, but the match was opposed by his parents and broken off. Dahlin's health began to fall and he now talks constantly of suicide and imagines he will be lynched. Britain's Great Deficit. London, March 14.—With the naval estimates presented in the house of commons yesterday evening, the budget for the coming year shows an expenditure of upward of £181,000,000 against £150,000,000 for last year. Unless the revenue is increased the statement of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, will show a deficit of nearly £54,000,000, the largest ever estimated. Three Men Are Killed. Trenton, N. J., March 14.—The boiler of engine No. 633, on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, exploded this morning while the engine was pulling a coal train, near Mud Run, and three men were killed. They are: BRAKEMAN ROBERT M'MULLEN. all of Pittston. Henry Raab Passes Away. St. Louis, Mo., March 13—Henry Raab, ex-state superintendent of public instruction for Illinois, died at his hime in Belleville to-day of pneumonia, complicated with heart weakness. He had been ill two weeks. THE DUTY OF MOTHERS. What suffering frequently results from a mother's ignorance; or more frequently from a mother's neglect to properly instruct her daughter! Tradition says "woman must suffer," and young women are so taught. There is a little truth and a great deal of exaggeration in this. If a young woman suffers severely she needs treatment, and her mother should see that she gets it. Many mothers hesitate to take their daughters to a physician for examination; but no mother need hesitate to write freely about her daughter or herself to Mrs. Pinkham and secure the most efficient advice without charge. Mrs. Pinkham's address is Lynn, Mass. MISS PFALK GRAF Mrs. August Pfalzgraf, of South Byron, Wis., mother of the young lady whose portrait we here publish, wrote Mrs. Pinkham in January, 1899, saying her daughter had suffered for two years with irregular menstruation — had headache all the time, and pain in her side, feet swell, and was generally miserable. Mrs. Pinkham promptly replied with advice, and under date of March, 1899, the mother writes again that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her daughter of all pains and irregularity. Nothing in the world equals Mrs. Pinkham's great medicine for regulating woman's peculiar monthly troubles. When you forget there are others you are nearing a burned bridge. A Colonel in the British South African Army says that Adams' Tuttl Frutti was a blessing to his men while marching. The average man's ambition is to lower his record. 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Washington has received a letter from Andrew Carnegie announcing a gift of $20,000 for the erection of a library building for Tuskegee institute. The building will be erected entirely by student labor. The great Russian pianist Ossif Gabrielomitsch, in a recent interview in the Chicago Cronicle, has the following good word for the musical genius of the Negro. He said: "One thing that I cannot understand," he said, running his hands through his hair, "is the manner in which the America people regard the Negro. In my country, we had slavery long before it was introduced into the United States, but with its abolition all feelings of caste vanished and today the sons of former serfs are eligible, if they are fitted, to the positions of highest trust in the nation. And we are not regarded as a republic, either. "Then, again, the colored man is really superior to the white man in one way. He is a born musician. I have found that music is nearly always the expression of the highest intellectuality, and the Negro is really one of the first musicians in the world. His ear is true and his songs are beautiful, appealing to the senses as perhaps but few compositions of other races do. His songs are not savage or barbaric, but some of them are really grand in their conception." ```markdown ``` James G. Brooks, private messenger of Omaha's mayor, inherits a fortune. Michael Ferrell, an Irishman, took a fancy to the boy for his bright and honest disposition, and legally adopted him. After receiving a common school education, the boy was put into the mayor's office by his adopted father, where he proved himself useful. Mr. Farrell owned a large ranch in Dakota, and while there last month attending to affairs he suddenly died. Small bequests were made to several Catholic institutions and a few friends, the remainder of his property and $10,00 in cash being willing to his adopted son, James G. Brooks. Are you going to entertain? If so you will need invitations, call and see our samples, our prices are the lowest CAUSES SURPRISE. Connecticut Man Declares His Assessment Is Much Too Low. Robert M. Bruce, one of the millionaires of Greenwich, Conn., a former cotton broker and a friend of E. C. Benedict, has caused surprise by appearing before the board of assessors of the town and asking them to have his assessment raised 50 per cent, says the New York Sun. He said that he had never paid any attention to the making out of his list of taxable property, leaving it with the assessors. He had looked the matter up recently and had decided that he was not paying all that he should into the town treasury and he asked for the raise. The assessors promised to comply with his wishes and it is understood that they will raise the taxes of all other millionaires there to some extent. Mr Bruce's example is the subject of much comment. For many years past Greenwich has raised $90,000 by taxation, and has spent $20,000 more than it raised. The debt has rolled up to nearly $400,000. The town appointed an investigating committee and the members reported that more money must be raised by taxation. Fixing up the taxes last fall was put over until next spring. The assessors figured up the amount of taxable property and an increase of the tax rate seemed probable. Persons who have looked up the matter say that there appears to be one law for the poor man and another for the rich man. The law says that each property owner must put in a true list of the real value of all property, real and personal, but the general rule among persons of moderate means has been to pay on 60 per cent of the value. The millionaires in some instances have not paid on 10 per cent of the property. DOCTORY OURSELE. 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Beds by automatic hoppers, a battery of boilers is being operated by the consumption of coal dust. Fires that burn with the fury of volcanoes rage under them, while from glass peepholes arranged at every point of vantage, combustion experts watch the developments. As though to complete the suggestion of a volcano, the fires produce no cinders. Streams of lava form in a small pool on the door of the ash pit, and are removed in a solid mass from time to time. Apparatus that is under test is the property of the Schwartzkopff Coal Dust Firing company, a German concern. Schwartzkopff, a son of the famous Teutonic torpedo maker, made the first steps toward perfecting the system, which was completed by the discoveries of Arthur C. Hesselmeyer, an American attached to the German navy. The European concerns immediately purchased Mr. Hesselmeyer's ideas, and he is now in Chicago conducting the actual tests that are being made by award Trumbo at the railroad company. Illinois coal of a cheap g e is reduced to a fine powder and by eans of a draught is automatically fe into a combustion chamber. Only the faintest suggestion of smoke trails away from the tall chimney, and it is asserted that the customary pressure of steam being maintained, with a large saving of fuel. FACTOR IN POLITICS. New Federation of Australia Must Here- after. Be Considered. Australia is to Great Britain the most valuable of all her colonies, writes Hugh M. Lusk in the North American Review. The external influence of Australia in the south Pacific is bound to make itself fit before long. Those who know Australia best will have the least doubt that she will find means are long to use that influence for purposes beneficial to herself. Her people were far from pleased with what was done in the case of Samoa; and it is safe to say that no such policy of concession will ever command the assent of united Australia. The sphere of her first interests will, for the present, be confined mainly to the Pacific and Indian oceans to the south of the equator. She will be interested in the Loyalty group, where France is established, and in the New Hebrides, where she is very anxious to establish herself. She will be solicitous about the Solomon islands, part of which are at present recognized as German territory, and she will take a very deep interest in the future of New Guinea, part of which belongs to Germany, and the rest, beyond the British section, is understood to form part of Holland's great but little used estate in the eastern archipelago. Those will undoubtedly be Australia's first cares, but she will not be content with these for very long, Siam, French and southern Chiba and Borneo are natural marts for her trade, which in the next ten years will be a rapidly increasing one, and, in relation to all these, she will expect to exercise large influence. Immense Herring Traffic The annual North sea herring voyage, which begins off the Northumberland coast, has resulted, on the completion of the first stage, in a catch of over 50,000 crans of herrings, valued at about £70,000. A cran contains, according to size, from 600 to 1,000 fish. As the fish move southward, the big fleet of several hundred sail follows, and it is now making its headquarters at Grisburn, whence its operations will shortly be transferred to Yarmouth and Lowestow, where the fishing continues until Christmas, and affords employment to many thousands of both men and women, says Tit-Bits. Last year at Yarmouth alone no fewer than 348,000 herrings were landed, and as this year steam fishing boats have largely replaced sailing vessels, it is expected this great total will be far exceeded, for in a single week 12,000 crans have been taken on the northern grounds, giving a return of over £14,000 to the fishermen. Moat Tongues Have No Bible. The terms of the Arthington bequeat of a great sum of money to the various missionary societies has resulted in the disclosure of the fact that there are hundreds of tribes without a version of the Bible in their tongues, in spite of the splendid efforts that have been made. It is estimated that there are 2,000 languages and dialects in the world, and the British and Foreign Bible Society have had the Bible, the New Testament, and portions of the scriptures translated into a little over 400 of them. That leaves, roughly speaking, 1,600 different tribes and peoples who have not the word in their own language or dialect. Many of these tribes live in Central Africa, others in Siberia and "Holy" Russia. Dentist's Sponge In Windpins Sponges which are used in surgical operations once in a while are left in the bound, and then death is bound to ensue scon or later. A young English collier named Finney had eleven teeth extracted under ether by Dr. Griffiths, and when efforts were being made to restore him to consciousness he sprang from the chair, fell back and dled. Sponges had been placed in his mouth to absorb blood from the gums, and one of them, which was left in his mouth by inadvertence after the extractions had been made, entered the windpipe and caused suffocation.—New York Press. CAMPAIGN EXPENSES. in National Contents the Heaviest Outlay Is Near the Closest. The most expensive work of a national campaign is done during the last three weeks before the election. Every doubtful state and city is closely watched by men prompt to discover every change in the political tide, and money is transmitted in large sums to the localities in which it is believed it will produce the best results. A few days before the election in 1888 West Virginia received $44,000 from the democratic national committee and the Republicans sent $50,000 to the same state. About the same time the Democrats sent $100,000 into Indiana; and three nights before the election Chairman Quay of the Republican national committee sent $200,000 from New York to trusted lieutenants in Fort Wayne, Ind. A fortnight before the election in 1896 the Republicans became doubtful about Iowa, says World's Work. Chairman Hanna at once resolved upon a personal canvas of every doubtful voter in the state. He proposed that every voter not classed on the polling lists either as a downright Democrat or a downright Republican should be visited by some zealous and tactful member of the Republican party. Before election day the thousands of such men in towns, in cities and in the country were sought out and appealed to by the Republicans most likely to win them; and this canvass is said to have cost the Republican national committee more than $200,000. Reckoning all the expenses in all the states, it may be roughly estimated that a presidential campaign, including also congressional, gubernatorial and lesser campaigns, causes the total expenditure of perhaps $20,000,000. EARLY STEAMERS. The Collins line of American steamers was established in 1847. Two years later, on April 27, 1849, its first vessel, the steamer Atlantic, sailed from New York. The line was withdrawn in 1857, soon after the government had refused to renew the mail contract with it. The history of its steamers briefly told, is as follows: On September 27, 1854, the Arctic came into collision with the French steamer Vesta and was sunk, only a few of her passengers being saved; on January 23, 1856, the Pacific sailed from Liverpool with 240 persons on board, including the wife of Mr. Collins, and was never heard of afterward; the Atlantic was broken up in New York in 1879; the Adriatic, built at Greenpoint, N. Y., by Steers, was sold to the Galway company, and was afterward used as a coal hulk in England; the Baltic was in the government service during the civil war as a supply vessel, and was afterward sold at auction; her machinery being removed and sold as old iron, she was converted into a sailing ship and used as a grain carrying vessel between San Francisco and Great Britain until 1880, when she was broken up. When the civil war began the New York and Havre Steam Navigation company, to which the Fulton and Arago were chartered, was withdrawn; the Arago was then sold to the Peruvian government, while the Fulton became a United States transport vessel for awhile, but she soon became useless and was broken up.—New York Weekly. Benjamin Harrison's Lunch. Ex-President Benjamin Harrison, one of the ablest men who has figured in our public life, has always been handicapped by his unresponsive, cold manner. When he was in the senate, at Washington, D. C., in the early '80s, he always brought his luncheon to the committee room. He carried it in his coat pocket and would eat it while he went on with his work. One day when he got it out as usual from his pocket he looked it all over ruefully, for it did look rather flat and dubious. He finally remarked to those near by that he guessed he must have sat on it accidentally. 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