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IOWA --- VOL. 7. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE BYSTANDER PUBLISHING COMPANY, FIFTH AND LOUST. ROOM 400 MARGIN WITH BLOCK. IOWA PHONE 890. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRO- TECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF IOWA. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE MOST WORSHIPFUL UNITED GRAND LODGE OF IOWA, A. F. & A. M. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year ..... $1.50 Six moths ..... 75 Three mouths ..... 50 All subscription payable in advance. J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by post, office order, money order, express or draft, to the Iowa STATE BYSTANDER Publishing Company. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the pubi- c. "Brevity is the soul of wit," remember We will not return rejected manuscript, un- less accompanied by postage stamps. CITY NEWS Mr. William Harding has returned from Kansas City. Mrs. Emma Harris, who was quite sick the first of the week, is improving. What are you going to have new for Easter? is a very prominent question now. J H. Mixon, Jeweler, No. 316 West Third street. Tunes Pianos and repairs organs. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Blagburn entertained at dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Jacobs. The Brotherhood Band will give a concert at Websters hall on Monday evening, April 1. WRITE The African Monarchs of America. They have something to tell you. Sioux City, Iowa. Mrs. Amanda Burns of Omaha, Neb., is the guest of her friend, Mrs. Eliza Wood, 623 East Locust street. Mrs. Burns was formerly of Des Moines, having lived here some eight years ago. A number of young people gathered at the home of Mrs. W. T. Buckner last Tuesday evening, in honor of Miss Alice Morton's 18 birthday. A pleasant evening was spent in social games and conversation. Mr. E. T. Banks, who was to lecture in the first degree to the members of the Masonic lodge last Thursday evening, has postponed the date until next Thursday, March 28. All members are requested to be present. It is a great pleasure to the members and friends of the A, M. E, church to have the old choir back again to furnisd music. We trust that they will reorganize and continue to use their beautiful voices in rendering music at the services as they have in days gone by. NOTICE—The members of the Annie Murray Aid Society will please meet at the home of Mrs. Howard McCraven Wednesday afternoon, March 27th. This society has been invited to take part in a reception to be given at the K. P. Hall the 30th. Rev. P. A. Hubert, D. D., financial secretary of the Wilberforce university preached at the A. M. E. church last Sunday morning and evening. He is proficient and well learned and is worth while to go to hear. He will deliver a special lecture, which is very fine, in this city soon. we do not know the date or place. The Oklahoma Opportunity is a book descriptive of the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Reservations in Oklahoma to be opened this summer, with 2,000,000 acres available for public settlement. This publication contains complete information as to soil and climate, a sectionized map of the district, conditions of entry and the Act of Congress opening the Reservation. The Great Rock' Island Route is the only line running to and through the reservation. The Oklahoma Opportunity and the Western Trail, giving more facts of interest to Homeseekers will be sent free by JOHN SEBATTIAN, G, P, A., Chicago. The H. B. S. was pleasantly entertained by Mrs. Palmer. The leaders of the different departments gathered some very wholesome thoughts from the president, which will be of great benefit in the future. We are glad to say that the H. B. S. is in a fine condi- A STATE BYST DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1901. tion, both from a financial and literary standpoint. The studies and the method of studying are meeting the approval of all. The Circle will meet with Mrs. A. O. Smith next week, 316 Fifth street. The discussion was postponed until week after next, which will be led by Mrs. Palmer, followed by Mrs. Smith. The Enterprise Cafe has just opened and is now prepared to serve its patrons in first-class style. Sunday there will be a grand opening dinner, served from 12:30 to 2:30. Music will be furnished by a mandolin club. WE WANT colored organizers for the best thing on earth for colored people. African Monarchs of America, Sioux City, Iowa. The Mesdames J. P. Hamilton, J. D. Hardin and the Misses Julia Graham and Nina Hamilton occupied a box at the Auditorium last Tuesday evening to see Fra Diavolo presented by the Wilbur-Kirwin Co. There is hardly ever a week pass unless there is a concert, dance or some kind of an entertainment given. You have tickets and dodgers printed, why not let the BISTANDER do your printing? Some say that they didn't know that we did printing. If you don't know call up Iowa phone 899. GO TO CALIFORNIA. 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 add-resses, Geo. S. Batty, G. P. & T. A., Marshalltown, Iowa. The Busy Bee Sewing Circle of the A. M, E, church met at Mrs. Bowmers last Friday afternoon with a good attendance. The meeting was called to order by the president, Mrs. Warrick; prayer was offered by Mrs. Rivers, Mrs. Bowmer was assisted in serving lunch by the Mesdames Hodges, Soward and Rivers. All the members are very much interested in their work. The Mesdames Williams, Woods, Dunn and McClain were visitors. We printed programs this week announcing that a Dramatic play will be given at Webster's hall Monday evening, April 8th, under the direction of Mrs. F. G Goggins, for the benefit of the Corinthian Baptist church. The play will be Joe Ruggle or The Girl Miner, in 4 acts. Weeks and Woodward Nuptials. Last Saturday night at 8:30, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Woodward, occurred the wedding of their son Frank to Miss Minnie Weeks. When the Messrs. Ed. Williams and L. B. Morgan with their mandolin and guitar begin playing "O Promis Me," the bridal party made their entrance; Miss Nellie Leftridge was the maid of honor and Mr. Edward Weeks, brother of the bride, acted as best man. The bride looked very beautiful attired in cream colored silk, and carrying a bouquet of roses. The groom wore black, which made him look very attractive. The ceremony was performed by Rev. L. J. Phillips, pastor of the A. M. E. church. The bride was one of the popular young ladies of the city, and by her examplelary way and amiable disposition has a host of friends. The groom enjoys a large acquaintance and is a very stern and progressive young man. After congratulations were said one of the most elaborate wedding supper that has been served this year was served. May happiness and joy be theirs is the wish of their many friends and the BYSTANDER. AGood Cough Medicine for Children. "I have no hesitancy 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. -TRY THE- Home Shaving Parlors Under 609 W. Locust. ...WE SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE... Formerly the shop of T. E. Barton. GERMAN REMEDY Cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Male and Female Weakness Send $1.50; German Medicine Co. Des Moines, Ia. M. B. HON. A. R. DEWEY. CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE So many good and great things are true so much has been said concerning him that at this time since we cannot possibly say ed. Judge Dewey is a veteran of the late time from Cleveland, Ohio, during that time. He received a part of his libr (the school of Garfield). He came to Waslington county, Iowa, in 1868, wmember of the Washington county bar first company in the state malitia and wn one time a brigadier on the governor's the law. Judge Dewey holds a certifica Keokuk. He has been an the district beively elected the third time, and during reversed but once by the supreme coun opinions have shown the work of a pure have commanded the respect of his Free Masonry he has received every h from the lowest station to the highest Ex-High Priest, and acknowledged to be jurisprudence in the state. Judge Dewey will come to the convening district backed by the intricate first from every section of the state. The D may have all this world but give us Dew and factional fights among candidates i selves with seizing every opportunity to now looks as though the warry of the for Dewey." But over and above Judge Dewey's the claim of his locality for the Suprem candidate has every reason to expect the test for reasons already given and Judge Amendment, and the people of this state preciation of their constitutional liberty elect Judge Dewey for the supreme ben. Hon. Geo. H. Woodson who is in J the colored citizens of the state should account of the man's eminent fitness as adherence to the holy rule of equal just and all, black or white. CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT. So many good and great things are true about the subject of this sketch and so much has been said concerning him that one hardly knows just what to say at this time since we cannot possibly say it all in the brief space and time allotted. Judge Dewey is a veteran of the late civil war, having enlisted the second time from Cleveland, Ohio, during that memorable struggle for the Union. He received a part of his liberal education from Hiram college, (the school of Garfield). He came west after the war and settled in Washington county, Iowa, in 1868, where he still resides, and has been a member of the Washington county bar for over thirty years. He organized the first company in the state malia and was commissioned its captain, and was at one time a brigadier on the governor's staff. Aside from his ripe learning in the law. Judge Dewey holds a certificato as M. D. from the Medical College of Keokuk. He has been an the district bench for ten years, having been successively elected the third time, and during all this time Judge Dewey has not been reversed but once by the supreme court for an erroneous instruction. All his opinions have shown the work of a pure, able, careful and humane jurist, and have commanded the respect of his fellow associates. In the high order of Free Masonry he has received every honor within the gift of the Iowa craft from the lowest station to the highest office, being Ex-Grand Commander and Ex-High Priest, and acknowledged to be one of the best authorities on masonic jurisprudence in the state. Judge Dewey will come to the convention with the full support of his fighting district backed by the intricate first and they expect strong reinforcement from every section of the state. The Dewey men in the sixth district say "you may have all this world but give us Dewey." They will spar shy of all contests and factional fights among candidates for other offices and will content themselves with seizing every opportunity to insure the success of Judge Dewey. It now looks as though the war cry of the sixth will be "anything and everything for Dewey." But over and above Judge Dewey's fitness and popularity in the state and the claim of his tocality for the Supreme Judgeship, his friends feel that their candidate has every reason to expect the place he seeks without a serious contest for reasons already given and Judge Dewey's famous opinion on the Titus Amendment, and the people of this state could not show a higher degree of appreciation of their constitutional liberty and civil rights than to nominate and elect Judge Dewey for the supreme bench. Hon. Geo. H. Woodson who is in Judge Dewey's district declares that the colored citizens of the state should support Judge Dewey, not only on the account of the man's eminent fitness as a jurist, but for his humanity and strict adherence to the holy rule of equal justice under the law exactly alike for one and all, black or white. SMALL POX HERE AGAIN About one month ago our city was excited over a case of small-pox in the county jail and city jail, but every precaution was taken and fumigation was used to prevent the spread, but again this week Chas. Murrow, Deputy County Treasurer, was taken sick with it, and two other members of the same office are at home sick. As this is the busiest tax-paying month of the year and many people have been in that office in the last few weeks there is quite a little excitement. It seems strange, last year it was among the colored people principally and some white people called it the "nigger" dessease, even asked the street car company not to allow colored people to ride on the cars, now it is among the white people entirely. We had better ask the street car company to keep the white people off for we are afraid of that white man's disease. A GOOD JOB. We have been notified that our agent at Davenport, Mr. John T. Mabry, one of the leading young men of north-eastern Iowa, has been appointed city scavenger by the Mayor, to succeed the late J. QUE OF SUPREME COURT. due about the subject of this sketch and what one hardly knows just what to say it all in the brief space and time allot- civil war, having enlisted the second memorable struggle for the Union. rural education from Hiram college, west after the war and settled in where he still resides, and has been a for over thirty years. He organized the was commissioned its captain, and was at staff. Aside from his ripe learning in unto as M. D. from the Medical College ofench for ten years, having been successall this time Judge Dewey has not been set for an erroneous instruction. All his able, careful and humane jurist, and yellow associates. In the high order of honor within the gift of the Iowa craft office, being Ex-Grand Commander, and one of the best authorities on masonic institution with the full support of his fight- and they expect strong reinforcement wemen in the sixth district say "youey." They will spar shy of all contests for other offices and will content them-insure the success of Judge Dewey. It sixth will be "anything and everything fitness and popularity in the state and the Judgeship, his friends feel that their one place he seeks without a serous cone Dewey's famous opinion on the Titus he could not show a higher degree of ap- and civil rights than to nominate and each. Judge Dewey's district declares that the support Judge Dewey, not only on the a jurist, but for his humanity and strict vice under the law exactly alike for one E. Roberts, who recently died. We knew that he had been appointed sometime ago, but he did not enter upon his duties until last week. We congratulate him and wish him success—politeness, honesty and good character will eventually succeed. We received a beautiful calendar from Booker T. Washington's school, printed in their institution. It has a bird's-eye view of the Tuskegee institute and in one corner is an excellent half-tone of Prof. Washington. The workmanship is nice and in every way first-class calendar for business offices. New Service for Homeseek and Settlers. Tourist Car service for persons enroute to the South, South-west and California is inaugurated by the M. K. & T. Ry. from Kansas City. Tourist car leaves Kansas City every Tuesday at 9:05 p. m. on M. K. & T. train No. 11 running through to San Francisco via the Waco Flatonia Route. This route is through the beautiful Indian Territory, Central and Southern Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California and will be found a great convenience for Homesekers and Settlers enroute to Oklahoma, Texas, Lonisians, Old and New Mexico, Arizona and California. The cars in this service are' of the --- GENERAL OPENING OF SPRING MILLINERY MISS SUSIE BRADLEY ALL NEXT WEEK. 705 Locust Street. latest Pullman pattern of Tourist Cars and are quite as comfortable as the Standard Pullman Sleepers and are in charge of Tourist Agent and have regular Pullman porter to look after the comfort of passengers. For further information address, T. B. Cookerly Dist. Pass. Agent, Des Moines, Iowa. A number of Coalfield people were in Albia to attend a trial on last Monday. Rev. W. A. Searcy preached at Coalfield on Sunday. On Monday evening the A. M. E. church people gave a social. Messrs Zoch. Taylor and Reese Underwood of Hocking spent Sunday in Albia. The A. M. E. church and Sunday school people will meet on Wednesday to prepare a program for Easter Sunday. FT. MADISON NEWS The ice has nearly all moved out and the mills will soon begin their season's work, thus giving employment to many idle people. Mr. Geo. Hackney, of Braidwood, Ill , was a guest of Miss Polly Dandridge. His hostess gave an informal reception at the home of her sister, Mrs. Harper. Mr. Hackney returned to his home declaring Fort Madison a pleasant place to live. The session of the ex-Board of the Iowa Baptist Association held at the Second Baptist church, was a very business like, and profitable one. The officers feeling that much had been accomplished. The report Missionary, Rev. S. S. Miller, was the best and most encouraging submitted in years, and all rejoiced to hear of the efforts made and success attained by the faithful worker. The reception held at the Marquette, in honor of the visiting ministers, was a promoted success. The musicale and literary numbers were exceptionally fine, each participant gaining marked favor with the audience. About three hundred persons being present. The scene of rich costumes and animated faces will be long remembered by many. The Sewing Circle deserve unstinted praise for their difficult task so successfully performed. Mrs. Geo. Wallace, Moline; Messrs. Monroe; Pleasants; McCain, Denmark and Mr. Scott, New Boston, were in attendance. We are glad to note the recovery of Mrs. A. Jackson from a very severe case sickness. Mr. Barney Davis is a candidate for baptism at the Baptist church, having been lately converted to the faith. This makes ten awaiting a favorable opportunity. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Higginbotham, have moved to their home on Spruce St., and Pastor and Mrs. Underwood are housekeeping at 213 Third street. The Baptist S. S. is making elaborate preparation for Easter. A cantais entitled "The Day or Day" will be given by the little folks. The ministers was entertained at dinner at the following houses: Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Sanders, Mr. and Mrs. Frazier and Mr. and Mrs. Winfrey. Pastor Underwood will fill the pulpit at Hocking, the 24th, and Rev. McClellan will preach at both services at the Baptist church here. Rev. Goodwin has closed his special services at the A M E. church. He goes to his home at Shelbina, Mo. Rev. D. J. Tate is attending school in Pella. The Sunday schools are arranging an Easter program. The Queen of Iowa Tabernacle will give a cake-fair and a reading contest here Saturday night, at Burgess hall. Every one is invited. Admission, 10c. The school directors held a meeting in the school building, Monday night. Elden Steele is said to be the only hastling news boy of this city. ALBIA NOTES. EVANS NEWS. OF SPRING MILLINERY DAVENPORT REPORT. Rev. M. J. Burton has returned from Ft. Madison, where he went to meet the executive board of the Iowa Baptist association which met there the 14th inst. The ice has started to move away on the Mississippi river, and work has also opened up some, and expects to be open in full by April 1st. Mrs. George Ball has returned to her home in Chicago, after spending nearly a month in our city. She made a number of friends while here. We learn that there is several strangers in the city, but have not as yet learned the names of and of them. Mrs. I. Matthews returned home last week, after quite a visit in the East. We have also learned that Mrs. Matthews and her husband are going to move to Evanston, Ill., some time this month. Mrs. J. S. Roberts leaves this week for Chicago to visit with her friends, Mrs. Anna Shivers and Mrs. Georgia Ball, for several days. Mrs. Anna Parker returned home from Galesburg, Ill., last week, and has been laid up with sore throat ever since. Those who owe for the Bystander will please have their money ready, as the agent will be around about April 1st, so you have plenty of time to get ready to pay your subscription. At this writing Mr. A. D. Corbin is doing some patching and whiting in his flats on West Tench street, cor. Ripley. MT. PLEASANT NEWS. Revival meetings were started at the A. M. E. church, Sunday. Mrs. Wyett, of Keokuk, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Burnaugh has returned home. Misses Ora Fitzgerald and Lyda Wicks are able to be out again after a severe illness. Mrs. Reed, Mrs. Mason and Miss Nora Bartlett have been confined to their homes with legrippe. Mr. J. M. Watts gave a dance at the Opera House, last week. Mrs. Harriet Page, who has been in poor health for more than a year, was worse last week, than usual. Mr. and Mrs. Allred Coalson have sold their property on Hamlin street and moved into their beautiful new residence on Oak street. The H. V. D. club met at the home of Mrs. Grandison, last week, when the rest of the officers were elected. Miss Mason was elected chaplain; Mrs. Grandison, critic; Misses Hester and Nora Bartlett and Ione Mason, apprilled a committee on programmee. The club will take up the studies of history and literature in connection with their other work. The Misses Brown's who have been visiting relatives in the city, have returned to their homes. Mrs. Lulu Shelton is slowly improving. Miss Mary Moseley, who has been suffering from an enlargement on one side of her face, has had an operation performed on it, and is getting along very nicely. Public schools are enjoying their spring vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Wilbur have moved into the Fidler property on East street. CHAS. F. WEST. (Formerly with Dr. Rood) HAS OPENED A Billiard AND Pool Room 304 W. Grand Ave. Your Patronage is Solicited. Booker. T. 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. ```markdown ``` No. 40. --- --- TROOPS TO WITHDRAW. Russia and England Agree to Settle Elsewhere. London, March 22.—In the house of lords yesterday the foreign secretary, Lord Lansdowne, announced that Russia and Great Britain had agreed to withdraw their troops from the disputed territory at Tien-Tsin and reserve the question of title and proprietary rights for subsequent examination. Lord Lansdowne supplemented the announcement by explaining that the dispute concerning an extensive area on the left bank of the Pei Ho river, which the Russians occupied in the autumn and claimed by right of conquest. Subsequently, the government was informed that China and Russia and reached an agreement placing the area under Russian occupation. The area, however, comprised plots belonging to the northern Chinese railroad and was therefore part of the security of the British bondholders. The line was part of the railroad recently transferred by the Russians to Field Marshal von Waldersee, who re-transferred it to the British. The necessities of the allies required the construction of a siding on one of the plots referred to, and the presence of British workers on the plot was treated as a trespass on Russian territory. It was subsequently alleged that the Russian boundary marks had been removed by the British. In those circumstances the government March 16 telegraphed to its representative in China that it thought the rights of the British or Russian troops to occupy the disputed points could be best settled by Field Marshal von Waldersee, as the commander-in-chief, and General Gasselee (the British commander) was instructed to request the field marshal to settle the immediate differences, reserving for future examination the question of the validity of the alleged rights. General Gasselee was also instructed to refrain from using force except to repel aggression. On March 20, the alleged removal of the Russian boundary pillar occurred and the government instructed the British minister at Peking, Sir Ernest Satow, that Great Britain was ready to refer the facts to Field Marshal von Waldersee, on the understanding that if either side was found to have committed an irregularly it should apologize to the other. The government added that the construction of the siding should continue under whatever conditions the field marshal thought fit to impose. Lord Landsdowne was glad to say he had heard from the British ambassador at St. Petersburg that the Russian foreign minister, Count Lamsdorff, had proposed that they should agree to reserve all questions of title and proprietary right for the examination of the two governments, and that in the meanwhile orders be forthwith sent for the withdrawal of the troops of both sides of the disputants. Great Britain entirely concurred and thought the withdrawal should be carried out to Field Marshal von Waldersee's satisfaction. AVOIDS REGRETTABLE DISCUSSION. British Government Will Not Investigate South African War. London, March 19.—In the house of lords, the premier, Lord Salisbury, replying to inquiries on the subject of an investigation into the conduct of the war in South Africa, said the government had not made any promise to institute an investigation. He feared that a bill and equitation bill and the removal of the same species of regrettable discussion as occurred during the exchange of speeches between Lord Wolesley and Lord Lansdowne. Still, if the government was urged to make an inquiry, it could not refuse without casting suspicions upon the army. Lord Roseberry wished to know when the government had washed its hands of the inquiry and who had promised it? Lord Salisbury suggested the appointment of a preliminary commission to inquire into the promise, whereupon the subject was dropped. PERU PAYS AN INDEMNITY. Fourteen Hundred Dollars for Putting an American Citizen in Jail Washington, March 20.—The United States minister, M. Dudley, at Lima, Peru, has cabled the state department that the government of Peru has offered to settle for $1,400 the Fowkes claim. He was immediately instructed to accept the offer. The claim originated in 1894. William Fowkes was an American merchant living at Tunbez, and the military authorities subjected him to a forced loan and imprisoned him for twenty-four hours. A claim was preferred against Peru for $3,000 on his account, but that government preffered 3,000 soles (a sole being equivalent to forty-eight cents) and the claimant expressed his willingness to accept that sum. Betha's Brother Killed. London, March 22.—A special from Cape Town dated March 20 says that Commandant Philip Botha was killed in the recent fighting at Lydenburg. A dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dated at Pretoria, March 20, says: "Philip Botha, a brother of the Boer commander-general, was killed on the Doornburg. His two sons were wounded. "The Boers of the Orange River colony have disbanded and scattered. DeWet is in the neighborhood of Helibron." War of Deviatation Hafeking, Basutokand, March 20. General Bruce Hamilton's force, which is swooping over the southeast portion of Orange River colony, has reached Wepener, where the troops found heavy stocks of grain and cattle. They carried away as much as possible, but destroyed 3,000 bags of grain. The houses at Wepener were found to be intact. THE NEWS IN IOWA THE NEWS IN IOWA The Great Western Secures the Mason City & St. Louis. New York, March 20.—President A. F. Stickney of the Chicago Great Western railroad stated that the company had purchased from J. J. Hill, of the Great Northern railway, all the outstanding stocks and bonds of the Mason City & Fort Dodge railroad. The terms of purchase are not stated. The road will be held as a proprietary line of the Chicago Great Western and not incorporated into the system. The purchase includes the coal fields near Fort Dodge, owned by the Webster County Coal company. The purchase of the Mason City & Fort Dodge railroad will give the Chicago Great Western a line to Fort Dodge and connection with coal fields there. By construction of a new line from Mason City to Manly Junction connection will be made with the company's St. Paul line, and another new line will connect with the company's Chicago division. The Mason City & Fort Dodge railway extends from Mason City to near Fort Dodge, about ninety miles, and was built some years ago by President J. J. Hill. There are $1,380,000 of bonds outstanding and $229,000 of stock. WAS BLACKMAIL Des Moines City Council Cannot License Npt Machines. Des Moines, March 21.—Slot machines cannot be licensed. Such is the opinion of City Solicitor Mershon and Assistant Strock, just filed with the city clerk. They say the slot machine license ordinance is void. This means that any of the automatic devices which give a stipulated article in return for deposit of a penny or nickel can be operated without license fee being paid to the city. It also means that the slot machine ordinance or license now in force is of no effect and that the two or three thousand dollars received by the city from slot machine owners was obtained without any right legal or moral. Those who paid were in reality paying blackmail to the city and those who did not are just that much ahead. The city aldermen were fully apprised of the legal status of the slot machine license ordinance when it was adopted, but it was carried through on a wave of enthusiasm created by the receipts from the gambling and houses of prostitution license. WORKRIED OVER A MURDER. One of the Chief Witnesses in Hossack Caso Loes His Mind. Indianola, March 21.-W. F. Haines has been committed to the hospital for the insane at Clarinda by the local board here. He is said to have lost his mind on account of the Hossek murder case. He was a prominent witness before the coroner's jury and also before the grand jury, and has allowed the matter to weigh so heavily upon his mind as to derange it. His testimony, however, is a part of the records of the grand jury. He was a near neighbor to the Hossack home, and it is thought by some that he was in possession of some facts not yet revealed before either jury. This is a sad situation, and if his testimony is as important as it was thought it would be its absence is likely to have quite an effect upon the trial, which is likely to take place at the coming term of court, commencing March 26. TWO IN CRITICAL CONDITION. Other Victims of Grand Junction Wreck Are Acting Along Well. Grand Junction, March 21. —The victims of the Rock Island wreck near this place recently have all gone to their homes excepting Mrs. J. Hall of Stuart and David McKeen of Pomeroy. Mr. McKeen, who is 72 years of age, is still in a critical condition and his chances of recovery are doubtful. Mrs. Hall, a widow, was moving from Stuart to Sibley, Iowa. She was accompanied by her daughter, who went through the wreck without a scratch, being one of the few passengers who escaped injury. Mrs. Hall is at the home of Father P. C. Kenney, where she has the best of care, but she will probably not be able to go to her destination for several days at least. The Grand Junction patients, namely: Miss Weddle, Dr. Kirby and Colonel Luther, are all getting along as well as could be expected, considering the nature of their injuries. McGarry to Be Retired. Dubuque, March 22.—John McGarry, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of W. O. Lavake, will have his second trial next month, April 5 having been set as the time. The murder of Lavake took place about three years ago, and at the May term of the district court following the murder McGarry was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. There were flaws in the ruling of the court and the instructions to the jury, and consequently the supreme court reversed the case and sent it back for re-trial. Found Dead In a Box Car. Ottumwa, March 20. Herman Mitte, a cobbler living in this city, was found hanging in a box car in the Milwaukee yards in this city. His body was suspended by means of a small hempen rope which was fastened to a mail in the center of the car. The deed was probably committed some time during the night, as the body was rigid when found, and identified by a police officer. M. W. A. for $2,000, which was in his pocket, payable to his father, Carl Mitte, Bramshoeing, Germany. He was 44 years of age. Conger's Ness in Marry. New York, March 21.—The announcement is made, through advice from Peking, China, that Miss Mary Conger Pierce, niece of Minister E. H. Conger, is to marry Lieut, Harold Hammond of the Ninth infantry, Mr. Hammond's home is at Rushville, III. He is a graduate of West Point. Miss Pierce is an orphan and has been a member of the Conger household for some years. MANY PASSENGERS ARE INJURED. Passenger Train on Rock Island Jumps the Track. Grand Junction, March 19.—The C. R. I. & P. passenger train No. 201, bound for Fort Dodge, jumped the track going at full speed about two miles north of Grand Junction, issued, it is supposed, by the kinking of the rails, as no other cause was apparent. The passenger and mail cars are lying on their side in a shallow pool of water. The tender is also overturned, the engine sticking to the track. A large number are hurt, a few seriously. Drs. Lowery, Kirby, Workman, Kester and Scarborough offered their services and went to the scene of the wreck. An improvised stretcher was made by connecting two hand cars together by nailing a farm gate to them, and the three most seriously hurt, were taken to Grand Junction, where all possible help was tendered them. Following is a list of the wounded: Celia Webble, Patton, Iowa, seriously hurt, arm broken; Mrs. Hall, Stuart, Iowa, badly hurt; A. M. McKean, Perry, Iowa, foot hurt; C. F. Ladloff, Des Moines, slightly hurt; W. L. McKean, Ft. Dodge, hurt about head; David McKean, Pomeroy, seriously back internally; Lee Voy, Des Moines, back hurt; W. D. McKean, Des Moines, nose hurt otherwise badly shaken up; E. C. McKee, Des Moines, cut ear eye, not seriously; I. W. Yoyom, Des Moines,肩 on leg; Joseph Staffer, Tiskilwa, Ill., hurt on head, not serious; Fred Bullen, Des Moines, back hurt, not serious; William Ballantyne, Des Moines, arm cut; back hurt; F. F. Luther, Grand Junction, hurt internally; Richard Wiltse, Grand Junction, face cut; O. B. Grant of Ft. Dodge, Iowa, superintendent of the Mason City & Ft. Dodge railway, severely. Many others whose names could not be learned were more or less injured. The engineer, fireman and brakemen escaped with slight injuries, and did noble work in rescuing others from the wreck. DES MOINES PACKING HOUSE. Killing Will Probably Begin the Second Week in April. Des Moines, March 22.--The Des Moines & Liverpool Packing plant which has been lensed for a term of years by the Agar Packing company of Chicago, will commence operations two weeks from the coming Monday. William Agar, resident manager of the company, has arrived in the city and makes this announcement. He comes in advance of the opening day in order to superintend the erection of the machinery for the beef department of the big packing house, which has arrived at the yards. Mr. Agar will also devote his time to organizing the force to be employed at the house during the present season. It is expected at this time that the house will make its first killing Monday, April 8, a week in advance of the time predicted by Mr. Agar upon his last visit to the city. This means that active work will be commenced at once in organizing the force at the house. But few people will be brought here from Chicago, possibly not over five at the most, to take positions in the packing house. Nine-tenths of the people employed at the house will lay at Des Moines. SMALL POX. AT DES MOINES. Ca e in County Treasurer's Office Causes Courts to Adjourn. Des Moines, March 21. On account of the discovery of a case of small-pox in the county treasurer's office and the knowledge that another clerk in the same office is suspected of being affiliated with the same disease, the petit juries in three divisions of the district court have been excused from further duty until April 8, and the grand jury, which had just been empanelled, has taken a recess until April 1. A exculpation was held by a majority of the members of the board of supervisors with the four district judges, Pronty, Holmes, Conrad and Bishop, and it was decided to extend the time when penalties for non-payment of taxes attach one month, until the first of May. The court house will not be closed for the present. MURDERED FOR HIS MONEY. Farmer Residing Near Rose Hill Found Dead With Revolver Near Film. Oskaloosa, March 19—41. H. Drake, a wealthy bachelor farmer residing four miles from Rose Hill, was found dead at his home, with a bullet hold in his head. A revolver was lying by his side, giving the appearance of suicide, but the neighbors suspect play, and are of the opinion that the farmer was murdered for his money, and the revolver left by his side to cover up the crime, and leave the impression that he had killed himself. Mr. Drake is known to have been in the habit of keeping considerable money about his person or at the house, and this furnishes the motive for the murder theory, he is not known to have been despondent, and had everything that his comparative wealth could procure for his wants. Wreck on the Milwankee Boone, March 20.—Local passenger train No. 37 of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad was wrecked six miles south of here near a small town named Luther. It was in charge of Conductor Wolverton and Engineer Lynch. Owing to the road having no engines here, it is impossible to get full details, but it is known that several persons were badly injured and one killed. The entire train left the track. Bedfield Creamery Burned. Redfield, March 21.—The cremery at this place was entirely destroyed by fire. The origin is as yet unknown. The fire began in the north end and with a strong wind from the north was soon beyond control. Nothing of value was saved. The cremery was owned and operated by Swartz Brothers and was valued at $5,000, with insurance of $2,000. Reduce4 His Shortage Marshalltown, March 21.—Mayor Pierce succeeded in raising $2,000 of saloon taxes collected by him Jan. 1 and paid it over to the city treasurer. His alleged shortage now amounts to $1,330, according to a statement of the citizens' committee. Running a sewing machine might be properly termed a home run. NEWS IN GENERAL ALARM IN HIGH CIRCLE'S. Special Precautions Taken for Safety of the Czar. London, March 20.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Express says: "Three hundred arrests were made today (Monday). The minister of justice was fired at last week, and the life of another minister has been attempted." St. Petersburg, March 20.—The Official Messenger, which publishes an account of the recent disorder in various Russian cities, and of Sunday's outbreak in St. Petersburg, says of the latter: "When the crowd, which numbered 3,000, became turbulent, the Cossacks and police were summoned. The demonstrators retreated to the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kasan, pelting the Cossacks and police with various missiles. "The students attempted to display red and white flags bearing various descriptions. On one side of the cathedral the crowd came into violent collision with the Cossacks and police. A portion retired into the cathedral, behaving noisily and smoking cigarettes, although the smoke was going on, until force expelled. "Altogether 200 male students, 377 women, mostly students, and forty-two persons were arrested. A police commissioner, twenty policemen, four Cossacks, and thirty-two rioters, male and female, were wounded." All the higher schools of the city are closed and all the police headquarters are filled with arrested persons. Others in custody who had been confined temporarily in the military riding schools, were taken to various prisons today in inmubuses. They were cheered by the students as they passed. A remarkable feature of the demonstrations has been the prominent part taken by the women of the higher classes of the university. Serious riots occurred in St. Petersburg today on the occasion of a solemn mass in the cathedral of Our Lady of Kasam for the occasion of the soul of M. Dorpiloff, the minister of public instruction, whose shot and fatally wounded by Kurpitch. The police fired their revolvers, and it is rumored that five students were killed and eighty others were seriously or slightly injured. Russia Denies Great Britain's Right to Interfere in Manchuria. St. Petersburg, March 21.—Answering a question of the correspondent of the Associated Press, a competent official said: "It is not true that Russia has yielded to the representations of any of the powers and modified her demands respecting Manchuria, because no representations have been made. Every tentative attempt to address the Russian government on the subject of pour parlers with China has been categorically declined. Russia is a great power, and has the right to hold negotiations with any other government, and no other power has the right to interfere. Tentatives made in a friendly spirit have received a friendly answer. But, plainly stated, Russia cannot reserve inquiries regarding the above. "Regarding the above pour parlers, the results will doubtless be made known later." The informant of the correspondent of the Associated Press admitted that the power rebuffed was Great Britain. He was not willing to discuss details respecting Mongolia and Turkestan, but he repeated that Russia abides by the august declaration and desires to safeguard the railroad and her 10,000 kilometer long frontier. The informant of the correspondent ridiculed the talk of military conflict at Tien Tsen. He said: "There is a misunderstanding about certain lands which the English authorities pretend belong to the railway company. Russia has expressed her willingness to examine the question. "The claim of ownership before the Russian occupation is established will end the discussion. If diplomacy is unable to settle the controversy, Russia is willing to submit it to arbitration, perhaps to the Hague tribunal, or to some other arbitrator. After England captures De Wet, perhaps she will have the courage for a military conflict in another quarter of the world. While he is promenading around the British forces, it is hardly probable that England will seek trouble elsewhere." BOTH REJECTS PEACE OFFERS. Declines to Recommend Terms Offered by Kitchener to Boers. London, March 20.—Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the 20th secretary, has informed the house of commons that General Botha has rejected the peace terms offered him. General Botha, Mr. Chamberlain said, had conveyed the information in a letter to General Kitchener, in which he announced that he was not disposed to recommend the terms of peace General Kitchener was instructed to offer him, to the earnest consideration of his government. General Botha added that his government and its chief officers entirely agreed with his view. The issuance of parliamentary papers to the negotiations between Lord Kitchener and General Botha is delayed. General Botha's refusal to accept the terms of peace offered him is commented upon with an evident sense of relief. The idea that Lord Kitchener initiated the negotiations, instead of General Botha, as and been supposed, is unpalatable to the British press. The Daily Mail, under the editorial caption of "Our Rejected Suit," asks why the government instructed Lord Kitchener to sue for peace after the murder of the peace envoys, and concludes as follows: "Let the war be pressed to the utmost and let further reinforcements be prepared, for they may be needed, but, above all, let us have no more 'nerotisations.'" Minister Conger Sall. London, March 19.—A dispatch from Shanghai announces the sailing of United States Minister Conger. The condition of Li Hung Chang has improved. British and French Having Preliminary Troubles. New York, March 20.—A dispatch to the Herald from Tien Tsin says: The Russian General Wogaek has declined a compromise, suggested by Count von Waldersse. The tension here is increasing and a conflict may be expected at any moment. The troops of all nations are under arms. The situation at the railway station remains the same, although the temper of the hostile troops is, if possible, more disquieting than before. French troops are taking part in the trouble, despite the efforts of their officers to maintain a neutral attitude. Many groups of French run through the British settlement yesterday afternoon shouting "Down with the English!" and a number of fights took place, several ending in bloodshed, as the French always carry side arms. Finally three French soldiers attacked Captain Boger, of the British army, and pulled him out of his rickshaw. The captain defended himself with his fists and had knocked down one of his assailants, when a number of Sikhs came to his rescue. General Campbell then turned out all his troops, drove the French out and set pickets around the settlement, with orders to admit no French soldiers into the concession. BOERS NAME TERMS. Willing to Cease Fighting on Certain Conditions. London, March 22.—A correspondent of the Times, who is near Bloemfontein, gives the report that General DeWet, General Botha and two other Boer commanders, addressing a force of burghers at Senekal, Sunday, said they were still able to continue the war, but were ready to accept annexation on condition that the British would guarantee joint education in Dutch and English, liberty to retain sporting rites on license, indemnity to the amount of 3,000,000 pounds for burned farms, no franchises for natives and amnesty for all beligerants still in the field. General DeWet, according to the correspondent, has gone north to the Transvaal, after ordering a suspension of active operations until his return. The Daily Chronicle, professing to be able to give an outline of the negotiations between Lord Kitchener and General Botha, says: "The chief obstacle to a settlement was Lord Kitchener's refusal to grant complete unresty of the leaders of the rebels in Cape Colony. He offered self-government on the lines of Jamaica, immediately upon the cessation of hostilities, with legislative bodies partly elected by the burghers. "The government agreed to provide 1,000,000 pounds to compensate the Boers for property destroyed and articles commandeered by the Boers on command, provided the signatures of the officers who commandeered the goods were forthcoming. He also offered to grant loans on easy terms for rebuilding and restocking farmsteads. "Moreover, he agreed that the children should be instructed in English or Dutch at the discretion of their parents. The government undertook to no make claim on church property or funds of the hospitals or upon private investments." "No burgher for either state was to be allowed to possess a rifle except by special license. "General Botha was generally in favor of these conditions, but he dissented strongly from a proposal to give the full privilege of citizenship to properly demienced and registered blacks. He was also greatly concerned about the position Jewish capitalists would occupy in the country and was told that Jews and Christians would enjoy equal rights, no distinction being made in the matter of concessions." ALLIES STILL FAR APART Indemnity Question Prevents an Agreement at Peking. Washington, March 21.—Another communication was received yesterday from Special Commissioner Rockhill touching the complications that have resulted at Peking from the efforts of the various powers to reach a uniform basis for their indemnity claims, but there is nothing to indicate that an agreement is nearer than it was when the subject was first taken up by the ministers. Although the state department is more than ever convinced that its suggestion looking to the reference of the entire subject of indemnities to The Hague commission is the true solution of the difficulty, that proposition having been definitely rejected early in the negotiations, is not now before the ministers. No precise instructions have been sent to Mr. Rockhill within the last few days on this point, owing principally to the absence of the president from Washington. It is presumed that, now that the president's attention is again directed to the subject, there will be more complete definition of policy. RUSSIAN GENERAL IS FIRM Insists that British Must Abandon Ground Already Occupied. New York, March 21. A dispatch to the Herald from Tien Tsin says: Count von Waldserse, while here yesterday had long and separate conversation with the English and Russian commanding generals. He orally renewed the propositions which had been made by telegraph and which Russia had declined to entertain. General Wogack declined to discuss the question of ownership until the British had withdrawn from the ground claimed by Russia and occupied by his forces. General Campbell stated that under his instructions he could not withdraw from the position. The deadlock, therefore, continues. Count von Waldserse is visibly depressed at the failure to arrange the question, the seriousness of which he seemed fully to realize. After an hour he returned to Peking. There has been much fighting between French and British soldiers, but up to the present time there has been no serious results. Noticeable Among the Weak and Ailing. SPRING THE TIME DEATH REAPS ITS LARGEST HARVEST. There is a Way of Eluding the Grim Destroyer. Every Spring it is noticeable how many people are taken away that we have been accustomed to see in our daily life. Statistics show that at no other season of the year does so many deaths occur. Especially large is the mortality among weak and sickly people. The reason for this is apparent. The body that is weakened by age or disease has much to contend with during the Winter months. Insufficient exercise frequently has been taken. Too much starchy and fatty foods have been eaten. The system has been allowed to become run down, and when Spring comes with its bright, sunshiny days, older people will begin to realize that their vitality has become very low. The same thing is true of people who are naturally sickly and weak. This is the season of the year when even a strong person feels at his worst. That tired, restless feeling is experienced by too many. There need not be as many deaths this year as usually take place. A little care will ward off many Spring funerals. If one is weak or allying they should take time by the forelock and take Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. This great medicine has been in many cases, and will continue to be, the means by which the black angel of Death has been driven from the threshold. It dispels the grim destroyer in a scientific way, for it purifies the blood and gives strength and vitality to the nerves. It tones up and restores to a healthy condition all of the great life-giving organs of the body. Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy will enable those who take it to throw off little lilts that prove dangerous only when they attack a system already wasted and weakened. From many people, who have experienced benefit from this greatest of all life-lengtheners, comes the following from the famous General Longstreet of 1217 New Hampshire Ave., Washington, D. G. He says: "It gives me great pleasure to add my testimony with many others for Dr. Greene's Remedy, which I have used with highly beneficial results, and I am able to recommend its virtues from experience. I have used it for catarrh and have derived help." Mr. Wellington Hynes, Elizabethtown, N. Y., writes: "I feel it my duty to tell much good Dr. Greene's Nervura has done me. I was so run down that I could not sleep at night and everything worried me. I had no appetite and could not work, my head ached all the time and there was an all-gone feeling in my stomach, and I was always looking on the dark side of everything. 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On one of Queen Victoria's earliest visits to London, she observed to her friend, the then earl of Albemarle: "I wonder if my good people of London are as glad to see me as I am to see them." He pointed to the letters V. R. woven into the decorations and said: "Your majesty can see their loyal cockney answer. 'We are.'" A Kansas City policeman, recently appointed on the force, made the startling discovery that a jeweler's show window was broken. Examining it closely, he exclaimed: "Begorre, this is more savyrious than OI thought ut was! It's sorry on both sides!" 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No, Maude, dear, a sliding scale is no a machine for weighing ice. Ask you grocer for Rusx Eleaching Hine. Do not be deceived by fraudulent imitations. See that the name Russ appears on all packages. Competition is the life of trade and sometimes the death of it. Dyeing is as simple as washing when you use PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Many a small man has a large heart—and vice versa. A PRETTY COMPANION CHAPTER I. The gas was turned up to its full height and flared noisily in the front parlor of a lodging house in the suburbs of London. Just underneath it, so that the bright light illumined the varying shade of her auburn hair, saw a girl, with the advertisement sheet of the Daily Mail laid upon the table before her. One finger passed rapidly down the columns. "I wish I were a cook, Neville. Here are cooks required of every size and shape, no limit to either age or sex, apparently. I could get a dozen situations tomorrow if I could roast a joint properly, and I could earn a fortune if I could do made dishes." should win for her the situation she so longed to obtain? "I shall send her my prettiest photo, Neville," she said, after her brief survey. "You don't even know the sex of the advertiser. It may be a wildaway advertising darkly for number two suggested her brother. Janetta laid down her pen in some alarm. "I don't care," she said; "I shall write and send my photo and references. The answer will tell us a about it. I think it's a very rich maid, with a poodle and a parrot. shall probably have to wash the poodle, and play pretty Poll wi The brother that Janetta Howard addressed was a good-looking lad about 19 years old, with dark appealing eyes, and closely-cropped curly hair. The face was spotted by the purposeless, weak mouth and the characterless chin. He reclined in an easy chair, and was smoking a pipe, with his hands thrust deep into his trouser pockets. "What nonsense, Jennie! As if I should ever consent to your going out as a common servant! Besides, I don't believe you could do a red herring properly." "Given a good fire and a toasting fork, I would evolve the way to do the herring," retorted Janetta merrily. "But that I dare not draw out our last penny of capital I would go in for a series of cooking lessons, come out at the top of the tree, and take a place as cook in a high family, I tell you. I would not adopt the title of 'lady help.' I'd be cook, and rule my kitchen with a rod of iron." And she clenched her hand, as if she really gripped the rod of which she spoke. "And, failing this, what do you propose to do?" asked Neville lazily. "Anything that offers," replied Janetta quickly, resuming her search through the paper. "It is quite clear that, if you are to accept this chance of a stool in an accountant's office, I must supplement your salary in some way; you can't live on it." "I need not accept it; I can wait for something better." "Wait until we come to our last penny, in fact!" cried Janetta impatiently. "No, Neville; you must take this clerkship, and I must get something and help you all I can. You know I'm ready enough to do it; but"—with a little break in her voice—"you'll keep steady, dear, when I'm gone?" Her tone implied that the boy's past had not been altogether blameless, and he started to his feet, as if stung by her words. "I know I've been a beast, Jennie. I've wasted a lot of money; but if I hadn't had such bad luck I should have won it on the last Derby." "That's just it—you'd no right to risk it," replied Janetta despairingly; "but you'll leave it alone now—you must promise me to try and keep straight. I think it would break my heart if you turned into a drinking, betting man like father!" The last words were brought out sadly and reluctantly, briefly telling the tale of the present low ebb in their fortunes. "He's dead; you need not bring up his sins against him," said Neville, rather sulkily. "And I would not, except that I love you so dearly that I must give you one word of warning. You've nobody else, you see," said Janetta, with a smile that was almost a caress. "Let me see, where was I? Bent upon finding that wonderful situation that is to make both your fortune and mine," she continued, with an effort to regain her usual light-heartedness. "What do you say to this?" "Wanted immediately, a young lady as companion, good-looking and good-tempered. Photo must accompany every application. References required." "Humbug!" ejaculated Neville, from the depths of his easy chair. "Come and look for yourself, if you don't believe me," said Janetta, with laughter in her eyes. He rose and peeped over his sister's shoulder. "Why, yes! it's there safe enough. It's a hoax, of course. You won't be green enough to answer it?" "This very night," said Janetta brightly—"at least, if you honestly can assure me that I fulfill the requirements. I'm not old at two-and-twenty, am I?" "I'm averagely good-tempered, and could attain perfect self-control if an occasional outburst meant a loss of situation. And"—as she spoke she glanced at the common little mirror above the mantel shelf—"don't mind my feelings, tell me truly; am I good looking enough?" "Oh, as you will, you'll do," replied Neville, with the bluntness of a brother. The face that the mirror reflected was framed in a cloudy mass of hair, set like an aureole round the daintily-polished head. Hazel eyes, half veiled by the long lashes, looked wistfully from under level, clearly-defined eyebrows; a creamy complexion; and a smiling mouth, whose half-opened red lips disclosed the whiteness of the small, even teeth, completed the picture. Beauty was the one possession left to Janetta, and tonight she prized it more than she had ever done before as a possible means to an end. What if the simple fact that she was pretty CHAPTER I. should win for her the situation she so longed to obtain? "I shall send her my prettiest photo. Neville," she said, after her brief self survey. "You don't even know the sex of the advertiser. It may be a widower advertising darkly for number two," suggested her brother. Janetta laid down her pen in some alarm. "I don't care," she said; "I shall write and send my photo and references. The answer will tell us all about it. I think it's a very rich old maid, with a poodle and a parrot. I shall probably have to wash the poodle, and play pretty Poll with endless lumps of sugar, and get my fingers well packed in the process. There! my letter is at any rate short and to the point. Will it do?" she said, tossing it to Neville. "A man could not have put the thing better. Old maid or widower, I would close with you at once if I were the advertiser. You write a short note and a pretty hand." "Very well, we'll go out and post it," said Janetta, stretching out her hand for her hat. "May good luck attend it!" She received an answer by return of post. The pointed handwriting in which the letter was written was of the style prevalent about 40 years ago. "An old maid! Look at the writing!" cried Janetta triumphantly, as she opened the envelope. "There is a modern brevity about it," said Neville, peeping over her shoulder. "Read it out, there's a dear." "Dear Madam: I think you seem likely to suit me. The salary I offer is £60 pounds a year; but I shall be willing to raise it at the end of the first quarter if we find we get on together. Will you come for a month and see how you like it, beginning on Monday? "Can you leave by the train which starts from Paddington at 2 o'clock? I shall be sending to Northcliff Station meet a friend, and you could come by the same carriage. Wire reply. "Believe me, faithfully yours. "(Miss) Clarice Seymour." (Miss) Clarice Seymour. Janetta and her brother burst into simultaneous laugh when she finished the letter. "Either the woman is a lunatic or it's a hoax," said Neville. "I'll go and see for myself. It's too good an opening to miss. Sixty pounds a year for doing nothing, apparently. No mention even of the poodle or the parrot. Anyhow, it's a genuine place. I've looked it out in the 'Gazettecer.' Thus it came to pass that, on the Monday following, Janetta and Neville paced up and down Paddington station together, both their hearts too full of the approaching separation to trust themselves to speak of it. Instead, they talked of trivialities, watched the other passengers as they hurried down the platform to the train, commenting idly upon them. "Look, Neville! what a handsome man that is getting into the first-class carriage not far from my humble third. If he were a girl, and applied for my situation, I should not have a chance, should I? He's so very good looking!" The man in question turned, as if he had heard the remark, glancing at the brother and sister, who had come to a halt before the carriage in which Janetta had placed her rugs. The glance was but momentary. He signed to the porter, who followed him, to hand in his belongings, jumped into the carriage, and closed the door. "I believe he heard you, Jennie," said Neville quickly. "If he did it can't matter. We shall never meet again, and it can't be the first time that he's heard his good looking," said Janetta, with a little laugh. "Oh, Neville, I must get in! I don't know how to say good-by. I will write tonight. Good-by, dear; good-by. Jump in a minute, I must kiss you, and you'll keep steady, for my sake?" The last words were said in a whisper. "All right, don't bother!" said Neville, horribly ashamed of the fact that there were tears in his eyes. CHAPTER II. In a few minutes more the train was puffing slowly from the station, and Janetta, who had craned her neck from the carriage to obtain a farewell smile from Neville, sank back into her corner, with plenty of time before her in which to consider her prospects and her fellow travelers. The latter were singularly uninteresting, with the exception of a little girl not more than two years old, who sat just opposite Janetta, regarding her with thoughtful eyes. "Pretty," she said presently, stretching out her arms to come to her. And Janetta, with a reassuring nod to the mother, stood the child by the window and talked to her for the first hour, only handing her back to her natural guardian when the little thing was tired out, and showed signs of dropping off to sleep. A glance at her watch told her that she could not be many miles from her destination, and she looked out of the window to notice the sort of country through which they were traveling, fancying that in the fast-fading light of the February afternoon she could catch the shimmer of the sea in the distance. CHAPTER II The thought had scarcely framed itself before she was conscious of a curious swaying to and fro in the carriage, then a shivering vibration ran along the train as if the brake had been applied with unwonted force; and, before she could do more than read the awful alarm that was written upon the faces of her fellow travelers, there came a crash and a total cessation of movement. The earth itself seemed tottering under her, and she was thrown from her seat to the floor. She was too stunned for a few minutes to realize in the least what had happened; but when at last able to collect her senses, she knew that there must have been an accident, the nature and character of which she was incapable of gauging. The air was alive with sounds more or less distressing—the hissing of the engine, the shouts of the engine driver, the piercing shrieks of women, and close to her, making itself heard above the din, the pitiful, frightened wall of a little child. "Poor little dear! it must be the little child I was talking to," said Janetta, trying to raise herself on to her knees so as to see better what had happened to her fellow travelers, and much relieved to find that her own limbs were whole and sound. The carriage was jerked off the rails and was pitched half over on its side, and the struggles of others to free themselves were beginning to be unpleasantly felt when, from her kneeling posture, Janetta caught a glimpse of the man whom she had seen getting into the first-class carriage a little beyond her own at Paddington. "Hallo!" he said, with a pleasant smile. "You seem to want help here. Don't be frightened; I don't think there is much harm done, barring the smashing up of a carriage or so. No! don't struggle behind there! Ladies first, please. I must help you out through the window, as the door is jammed, and beware of broken glass." "The child first," said Janetta, with quivering lips, who had laid hold of the little frightened heap that had been propelled right under the seal opposite to her own. "Hand her out, please!" cried the man, depositing the child high up on the bank near by. "She's scared out of her wits, as well she may be. Now give me your hands, and place your feet on the handle of the door; I'll keep you steady as you climb through and lift you out." Janetta obeyed every direction swiftly and dettly. With her arm about the child, Janetella sat and watched the strange scene with dazed, bewildered eyes. The huge engine, which had run off the line, stood half embedded in the bank at the side, snorting and puffing as if indignant at finding himself in such an ignominious position. Men with scared faces hurried hither and thither; women stood in groups along the line, sobbing in helpless terror. The mother of her little charge lay stretched at full length on the grass close by, borne thither by the strong arms of her rescuer, who seemed almost the only man who kept full possession of his senses, except a fair-faced, fair-haired young doctor, who hastened forward towards the prostrate figure, kneeling by her and feeling her pulse with professional calm. "Fainted, that's all," he said, looking up at the man by his side. Then a quick glance of recognition passed over his features. "Why, Merivale, you here?" he exclaimed. "On your way to the George, I suppose?" From a certain hardening of the voice Janetta gathered that, for some reason unknown, the fair-haired doctor did not like the handsome stranger, whose fine physique and pleasant bearing seemed so attractive to herself. (To be continued.) "TELEPHONE EAR." Operators Say Answering Calls Does Not Affect the Heading. Chicago girls who listen to the click in the telephone receiver for eight hours every day in the week laugh at the idea that their New York sister operators are getting a "telephone ear," or a deafness, from the constant snapping of the call signals, says the Chicago News. "A 'telephone ear,'" remarked one girl who has operated a board in the central office for three years, "is the most acute one in the world, and the more noise there is in the phone the more trained our cars become to detect what is being said." "There are a great number of girls in this office," said the chief operator. "I sat at a board myself for several years, and I never heard a girl complain that the sound of the phone affected her hearing in the least. I know it never did mine." In speaking of the effect of the click on an operator's hearing A. S. Hibbard, the general manager of company said: "I do not care to say that the New York people are wrong in their contentions that they have had cases of deafness due to the sound made in connecting and disconnecting the telephones, but it sounds improbable to me. We have had the signal system in Chicago for about five years. Almost every phone in Chicago now calls the main board without twisting a crank, and yet I have never heard of a complaint." A kitten has been brought up on an exclusively vegetable diet by a family of vegetarians. The result is that it will not touch animal food and it pays no attention to rats or mice. Almost any evil can be remedied if you face it fearlessly and honestly try to remove it. ```markdown ``` The Great Natural Fertility of the Soil in Manitoba, Assinibola, Saskatchewan and Alberta. What Has Been Done by Premier Greenway, Himself a Leading Farmer. Hon. Thomas Greenway, Premier of the Province of Manitoba, one of the foremost farmers of Western Canada, writes an excellent article to the press, from which the following extracts are made: The writer came to Manitoba from Ontario in the autumn of 1878, and has ever since been engaged in agricultural pursuits. From the day, nearly twenty-two years ago, when he selected his homestead, he has had unbounded faith in the country as a place where farming can be successfully carried on, if pursued upon proper lines. There is a large number in this province who should rather be called "wheat-growers" than farmers. On account of the facilities, natural advantages, and therefore cheapness with which wheat can be grown, no doubt many have done exceedingly well by raising wheat only; still, it is far from ideal farming. Not only will such a course, if persisted in, have the effect of causing the land to run out, as has been the experience of those who pursued the same plan in the wheat-producing prairie States to the south of us, but it is far from being the most profitable course to adopt. This fact is already being demonstrated in Manitoba. Let the farms in this Western country be managed upon the lines which were successful in the Eastern Provinces, and much more can be done here in a given time than was ever done in the East. The probabilities of failure are practically nil. Upon the farm there should be found horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry, according to the ability of the farmer, with respect to his means and the extent of his holding. The wanton waste which has hitherto been practiced by many farmers, that of burning vast quantities of excellent fodder after threshing is done, should cease; it should all be used upon the farm and converted into the old, sensible kind of fertilizer manure, and afterwards be returned to the soil, so that what has been taken from it by the crop may be restored. Although admitting that the great natural fertility of the soil in Manitoba and the success that has attended the growing of wheat after wheat for years upon the same land have a tendency to make such a course as the one mentioned tempting, yet, if continued, wheat growing upon the same year after year is undoubtedly a mistake. The writer knows of no country that offers advantages so great to the agriculturist as does Manitoba. The various branches of farming can be carried on successfully, as twenty-two years of practical operations and observations of what others are doing have proven. To those desiring to make new homes for themselves, the low price of some of the best lands in the world (although rapidly advancing in price this year) offers still great opportunities. To all such the invitation is cordially given to "Come and see." There need be no poor people here. There is land for all who choose to come, land upon which happy homes can be established, and from which ample resources can be gathered against old age. All that a man needs to achieve competence in this domain is common sense and industry. With these qualifications he is bound to succeed. For information regarding free homestead lands, apply to any agent of the government whose advertisement appears elsewhere in these columns. In the ladder of success there are many rounds of failure. The next time you have a pain, no matter what kind, remember Mud's Lightning Pain Killer. It cures. 25c. Mending watches and clocks is one way to improve time. Coughs tell you that there is something wrong in the throat or lungs. It is the cause, not the cough, that you must look after. Morley's Honey Fectoral searches out the cause of trouble, it heals the inflamed surfaces, stops the irritation, loosens the cough and cures you thoroughly. Sold by agent in every town. 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A friend, who had medical advice on tap, prescribed a mixture of coal oil and vinegar as a certain cure for debility. The sucker tried the remedy for a week, and a coroner's jury decided that it caused her death. The castor oil plant is quite ornamental. In temperate climates it grows much larger. Although the color from it is not disagreeable to human beings, it drives away mosquitoes and other insects. In Maracibo it is freely planted before doorns and windows. --- C. 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 compiled 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..... 2d. The aggregate amount of Assets of said Company, Dec. 31, 1900, to be..... 3d. The aggregate amount of Liabilities of said Company, including the amount required to safely reinsure all outstanding risks, Dec. 31, 1900, to be... risks, Dec. 31, 1900, to be. $ 222907,58 4th. The aggregate Income of said Company for the year 1900 to be $ 1433708,98 the year 1900 to be..... $ 1433708.98 sth. The aggregate expenditures of said Company for the year 1900, to be... $1000216.07 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. 1 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 a- mount of the Assets of said Company, Dec. 31, 1900, to be..... $1423971.64 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.. $1111763.08 4th. The aggregate In- come of said Company for the year 1900 to be..... $ 999069.56 5th. The aggregate ex- penditures of said Company for the year 1900, to be..... $1944598.89 for the year 1900, to be... $ 1044508.28 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. Subseribe for the Bystander. To CALIFORNIA To CALIFORNIA CHEAPLY and COMFORTABLY! Tourist sleeping car leaves Kansas City 9,05 p. m. every Tuesday via MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS RAILWAY: runs through without change to San Francisco, via Fourt Worth, San Antonio and Los Angeles. Sleeper rate, $5.00. Ticket rate Tuesdays in March and April, from Kansas City, $25.00. FORGET NOT that it runs Tuesday, being date of sale of low rate tickets. CEDAR RAPIDS BUDGETARIAN. From present indications spring is not very far off. Miss Josephine Williams very elegantly entertained at tea at her home 1418 Third avenue, Thursday evening, Mesdames Mary Bowlin and W. H. Raspberry. Easter Sunday will be observed at the A. M. E. church both by the Sunday School and church. Miss Jennie Swanson of Washington, D. C. is visiting her cousin Mrs. Etta Clay. Rev. Wade filled the pulpit at the A. M. E. church Sunday morning. Rev. Bass officiated in the evening. The strike at the B. C. R. & N. shops has not been settled at this writing. David Gable is meeting with wonderful success as a chiropodist. We hope he may continue so, as he is a deserving young man. The Stewardess met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Geo. H. Wade to arrange for an entertainment for the pastor. SAYLOR ITEMS. Saylor is flushing and work is good. Mr. and Mrs. Burrell were in town shopping Saturday. The snow on the 10th stopped Saylor boys from going duck hunting. Mrs. Addie Jenkins is on the sick list. Mr. James Garrison was hurt to-day in the shaft, by lifting cars. There will be a swell entertainment at Saylor church Saturday night the 23. The Saylor boys have organized a base ball team for the season. J. S Madison is manager. He expects to sweep the country with his team. Our Sunday School is preparing to give a big concert the middle of next month. L. G. Garret, our superintendent asks the superintendents of Des Moines schools what is the matter with them that they don't visit our school. I wonder if they are too high-tone to visit us coal miners. Tell them that they must remember that Saylor is yet young, but her school is second to none in the state. Our pastor, Rev. Haggard left last week for Ft. Madison to attend the Ministerial Board. E. M. Hendricks and L. G. Garrett visited your city Sunday and report a good time. Mr. Branch was hurt in the bank last week, but is able to be about again. □ No. Fraser, Saylor is not sick Fraser says it was too bad to have services on the tenth. Excuse us this time we were sick. CLINTON ITEMS. Mrs. P. P. Taylor is considerably indisposed at this writing. Her friends hope her illness will be of short duration. Great interest is manifest over the coming debate between Prof. McNeil of Iowa City and R. D. Smith, of this city. T. W. Stepp, at home again, after a prolonged stay in Des Moines, working at his profession. He reports great success in his line. Damons orchestra played for a military ball in Morrison, on Friday night. This city was thrown into deep gloom Friday morning, when the news reached the city that Ex-Congressman Walter I. Hayes had suddenly passed away, in Marshall, Michigan, whither he had gone to be in attendance at the funeral of a relative. He was an attorney of wide renown at one time holding the judges chair of the Seventh district. His funeral took place Monday afternoon. The bars of Scott, Jackson and Clinton counties, being in attendance, besides a large number of friends from Davenport. We are informed that T. W. Stepp has associated himself with G. H. Wade, of Cedar Rapide. We wish them all the success possible in their business venture. The Stewardess are planning for an entertainment in the near future, more of which will be said later on. N. E. Stewart occupied the pnlpit at Bethel church, on Sunday evening. KEOKUK TIDDLEWINKS Keokuk has suffered much in the last few years, by the removal of its many pretty girls. Thursday Mrs. Miller and her two charmingly sweet and lovely girls, Missee Elizabeth and Sarah, departed to make their home elsewhere. Mrs. Miller and Miss Elizabeth will reside in Hannibal, Mo., and Miss Sarah will make her home with her cousin in Des Moines. Miss Elizabeth Miller is well and favorably known in the Missouri city, and her presence is of keen delight to the young people of the city of Bluffs. The young people of Des Moines will find in Miss Sarah Miller an amiable and prepossessing little lady with a characteristic smile that delights even the most fastidious. It is said that Mr. Claude A. Miller wants to come home, now the thing we wish to know is, "has she got another fellow you see." Mr. Lanklin of Springfield, Ill., was the guest of Miss Kittie E. Owens, last Sunday. The sister of Mrs. Frank Robinson recently died in Macon City, Mo. Miss Jessie Hooper, one of Jacksonville's fairest young ladies who has moved in Keokuk society during the winter is soon to depart for Chicago and then some young men will be wondering where they "are at." Mr. French D. Bland expects to enter- M. Hon. Cassius M. Dowell, attorney-at-law and Ex-member of the legislature, has announced his name as a candidate for State Senator of Polk county, subject to the republican convention. Mr. Dowell is one of our popular young men who is highly esteemed and well liked by all who know him. He was born only a few miles south of this city in Warren county on a farm, where he attended the common schools, later he entered Drake University, graduating from the Iowa college of law in 1888, admitted to the bar the same year, and entered the practice of law with the firm of Balliet, Dowell & Parish, now tain some of her charming lady friends, of Quincy, Easter. For the information of Mr. Charles Williams, it might be well to say that Hannibal is just sixty miles south of Keokuk, located on the West bank of the Mississippi river, in the county of Rails and State of Missouri, and the fare is $1.80 by train. Other modes, cheaper. Messrs. Joseph Henderson of Omaha, and Wm. 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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. the firm of Dowell & Parish. He is a good lawyer and conversant with the live topics and issues, an excellent campaigner, a good speaker and has worked hard for the party each campaign. If he is selected Polk county will make no mistake, for he is able and deserving, and without doubt one of the leading young men of the county. 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M.; Sunday School; at 10:00 ft. clocking on 1010 ft. Sunday School. St Paul A. M. E.-Corner of Second and Center Street; preaching at 10:30 a. m.; Sunday School at 3 o'clock; Eworth Learn at 9 p. m.; preaching at 8 p. m. L. J. Phillips, pastor. First African Baptist Church — Corner School and Fourth street; preaching at 10:40 a. m.; Lomack pastor; preaching at 10:30 a. m.; Sunday school 3:30 p. m.; preaching at 8 p. m. H. M. Housen; superintendent; Young People's meeting 7 p. m., preaching 8:00 p. m. Burke M. E.-East Second and Des Moines street; preaching at 11:00 p. m.; 4 p. m. Sunday School at 19:30 Priest and Class meeting, Wednesday 8 p. m. All are welcome. C. W. Holmes, pastor. 80 Des Moines Street. Mount Nebuchadnei Baptist Church — E. Second street, between Lacust and Grand avenue—Sunday preaching at 11 a. m.; Sunday School 13:30 p. m., Superintendent; preaching at 8 p. m. Rev. J. H. Bell, pastor. Tubercle Baptist Church Mission — Situated between Lacust locust street. preaching at 11 a. m.; Sunday School 9:00 a. m.; preaching at 8 p. m. Rev. J. R. Winch, pastor. SECRET ORDERS. North Star Lodge, No. 9, A. F. A. M.—Meets First Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall, Fourth and Court avenue. J. H. Shepard, W. M. J. L. Thompson, secretary. Em. of Solomon Commandery, No. 6.—Meets Second and Fourth Thursday in each month at Masonic hall. Fred Jackson, M. C. G. H. (Greggr, Rec. Naomi Court, No. 3—meets Second Monday in each month at Masonic hall. Mrs. J. H. Shepard, matron; Mrs. Fred Jackson, secreary. Mr. Olive Court, No. 4—Meets First Thursday in each month at Masonic hall. Mrs. Susan White, matron; Mrs. Flora Majors, secreary. Charity Lodge, No. 2192, G. U. O. of O. F.—Meets First, Second and Third Tuesday each month at Odd Fellows hall on West Sixth and Walnut streets. D. Burns, N. G.; F. Brown P. S. H. H. of R. No. 339 of G. U. 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You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated this 13th day of November. A Patton, by Geo. Harnagel, his agent. CALIFORNIA. Broad Vestibuled First-Class Sleepers DAILY— WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. Great Rock Island Route Leave Chicago on Big 5 at 10:00 p.m. All the best scenery of the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada by daylight in both directions. These cars are carried on the limited trains of the Great Rock Island Route, Denever and Rio Glande (Scenic Route), Rio Grande Western and Southern Pacific. Dining Car ServiceThrough Buffett Library Cars. JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A. Chicago VIRTUMA is a French treatment for both sexes that is 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 $3. You do your druggist, but re-use the substitute. Don't 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 or 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 estate is described as follows, to-wit: 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, 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 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. PHILIPS, Lawful holder and owner of said certificate. NELSONS STRAIGHTINE The LATEST DISCOVER? FOR MAKING KNOTTY, KINNY, CURLY HAIR STRAIGHT BEFORE AFTER STRAIGHTINE is a safe, certain and reliable preparation. It is absolutely free from all injurious chemicals, and cannot inadvertently straighten the hair, but removes Dandruff, stimulates the roots of the hair, keeps it from falling out, and produces a rich, long and shiny scalp. It is also an excellent scalp diseases. Straightine is richly perfumed, and is in every vienian elegant article for the toilet. It has been tested by thousands of users. It is the best preparation mode. -Price. 25 cents at drug s ores, or sext by mail to any address for 30 cents in stores. Address. NELSON MANUFACTURING Co. Richmond, Va. Agents wanted. Write for terms. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: 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 J. owner of said certificate. 15 GIS. FOR A POSTAL We have published this year the finest catalogue of seeds, plants, etc., ever issued by any western dealer. 100 pages, hundred of illustrations, elegant or covered plates. We deal in MIM PRICES. These books are expensive, costing us about 15 cents each, but we will mail one to you you mention this paper. A postal request is sufficient. YOU NEED GO. DEMORE, IOWA. NOTIGF TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa, Polk County, ss: To Hiram-Wells Do: You are hereby notified 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 (6) Block Twelve (12) White's Riverview, 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. PHILLIPS, 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 1890w hich 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-wit: 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, PHILLIES, 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. 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 thirty-eight (138) Lakeside Addition 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. 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 Bettie 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 a gripe. We are glad to note her improvement at this writing. Rev. Underwood was called to Denmark to preach 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 capacity at both services and all could claim "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 pathology. Monthly Stoppages, Female irregularities, Suppressed Menstruation, obstructions and suppressions, from whatever course, or send free medicine until cured if guaranteed lot does not relieve. Sent on receipt of price, $2 a package or 3 for $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, towit: Lot Thirty-three (33) Block Two (2) Glendale 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. Coskey 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, with redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. Z. P. Lyman, and the Treasurer of Polk County ss: 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 agents, or address Geo. S. Batty, G. P. & T. A, Marshallown 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 1901. For full particulars call on Iowa Central ticket agents or address, Geo. S. Baty, G. P & T. A., Marshalltown, 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. 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 Trhune. 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. Bound to Join the Army. A recruit for the British army was taken to be sworn in recently by the magistrate. Everything was going swimmingly till the magistrate asked the man. "Have you ever been in prison?" At this the man looked startled, but quickly recovering himself, he blurted out, "No, sir, I have never been in jail, but I don't mind doing a few days if you think it necessary." A Kafir 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 Jabalire 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 Brashes in Cars. The South Chicago Street Railway Company has introduced into its cars whiskbrooms and clothes brushes. These useful articles are placed in a small cabinet in the forward end of the car, within easy reach of the passengers, with an announcement beneath notifying travelers that the brushes are at their disposal. Nine Barrels of Stamps. A dealer has purchased nine barrels full of United States stamps, but this mammoth transaction has not created a ripple on the market. There are no Brattleboro, 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." Talbot's Daughters Agust. Count Leo Tolstoi is assisted in his literary work by his two daughters, Tatjana and Marcha, who have more than ordinary talent. "However great I may be or not be as a novelist," said Tolstoi recently, "I am much greater as a correspondent, because my two daughters write all my letters." Growth of Book Publishing. During the past few years the book publishing industry has increased, like all others. In 1897 and 1898 the industry was at a low ebb, less than 3,000 new books being put on the market in either year; but in 1899 no fewer than 6,000 books were published in this country. Cormans Wonku 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 they will be practically exterminated. Gotham Might Not Approve. It is said that Commissioner Peck hesitated to offer champagne to his guests at the opening of the United States pavilion at the exposition, "as he was afraid that it would not be approved in New York." A. Billion Dollars Employed A good English authority estimates that $1,000,000,000 foreign capital is now operating in Russia in manufacturing, industrial, steamship and other enterprises. Prince of Wales Studying Law. 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 --- ANNOUNCEMENT CARDS. 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. EMORY H. ENGLISH. Please announce my name as a candidate for State Senator of Polk county, subject to the Republican County Convention. CASSius M. DOWELL. HOCKING ITEMS. We are carring on revival meeting here but are having very little success. Rev. Biningham of Muehskinou is assisting Rev. H. C. Green with the revival meeting. He was the guest of Mrs. W. B. Burns and Mrs. Connaway while here. Every one seems to be glad when Rev. Biningham comes to our town. Mr. and Mrs. Grandison will soon move to Hilton to occupy the new boarding house that is being built there. We are sorry to have them leave, but with them success. Mrs. Eduer Young has returned home from Evans, where she has been visiting her mother. Mrs. Bessie Taylor has come to assist Mrs. Grandison in her new boarding house in the near future. Mrs. Sallie Bellfort and trustand are rejoicing over a fine girl that arrived at their home Monday morning. Look out for the wedding bells that will ring soon. We are expecting to have a nice program for Easter Sunday. It has been very muddy in our little city since the snow has left and the river has broke up and the man can pellled to go around via the wagon bridge to and from work. Mr. Morris Taylor celebrated his forty-sixth birthday, Saturday night. Quite a few were present, and an enjoyable time was had. Mrs. Hunten's entertainment given at her home. Saturday night, was a success. Brother W. H. Clark, lieutenant minister, formerly of Evans, visited our town last week, and preached for us Friday night, and also filled the pupit Sunday, a.m. and p.m., when he delivered three able sermons to quite a congregation. He also had the pleasure of reading to our church, sister Mary White and sister Carrie Walloo, which feeling the good he has done, we feel glad to turn to Bro. Clark, a vote of thanks. Sister Walloe is a candidate for baptism; to this we extend an invitation. Coll again Bro. Clark, we would be glad to see you. Mr. Ed. Manul, who drives the spike team in mine No. 1, was very badly hurt Monday morning. He was caught between the coupling of two cars. No bones were broken. Rev. E. Rcey will fill his pulpit in Fort Dodge, Sunday. BURLINGTON BRIEFLETS We are having some beautiful weather now and the winter has gone. Mrs. Ross' of Moormouth spent a few days with hearsen Mr. Charles Thompson, and returned home Saturday. Mr. Bert Johnson has returned home after a long absence from the city. Mrs. Cardas Wilson has returned from Chicago. Rev. Buxton of Davenport stopped in our city with the Wilton family a day, enroute to Ft. Madison. Miss Eunice Wilson has been very sick, but is better at this writing. Mr. Clem Welsh is very sick at the Burlington hospital with typhoid pneumonia. The social that was given by the King's Daughters at the residence of Mrs. May Johnson was a success. the death of Miss Bertha Brown occurred. Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock at Mt. Pleasant insane asylum, She was born Nov. 12, 1883, and was 17 years 4 months and 4 days old. Miss Bertha was a bright and intelligent young lady. The cause of her loosing her mind we have not learned, but has brought sorrow over the Burlington people. "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh, and blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord." The sermon was conducted by Rev. Higgins at the A, M. E. church, Monday at 2:30 p. m. She leaves a father four aunts and a host of friends to mourn their loss. The pall bearers were [Misses Goldie Cowden, Myrtle Drake, Geneva Smith, Demora Smith, Lenora Cooper and Bessie Reid. The young people of the Union Baptist S. S. are preparing for Easter exercises at the church. Mother Langford taken seriously sick last Saturday. Mrs. Henry Cooper was taken very sick while at church lest Sunday. CHURCH AND CLERGY. The Rev. S. 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 Wakeleyan academy at Wilbremham, Mass. He has been a trustee of the academy for many years. --- --- Just at present the fellow with in- fluenza doesn't object to losing hisria. A Month's Text Free If you have Dr. Smith, write Dr. Shoop Raele, Dr. Smith, for six bottles of Dr. Shoop's Restorant, request paid. Send as money. Pay $5.50 if cured. A system of insurance against strikes prevails in Austria. Holders of polices are indemnified if strikes occur in their establishments, whether voluntary, forced or sympathetic. The cost of a policy is three or four per cent of the annual pay roll. The indemnity is fifty per cent of the wages paid for the week preceding the suspension of work. A flying wedding recently took place in a Nevada town. In order to catch a train, the bride and groom, minister and witnesses were all bundled into a hotel omnibus, and the ceremony was performed while the driver whipped his horses to the railway station. "it was a close squeeze," says the ambiguous report, "but they caught the train, and everybody was happy." A young man in Manchester, N. H., groposed marriage to a lady of that city, and was rejected. He angrily demanded why he was refused. She manifested her indignation by emphatically declaring: "Because you are just one degree above a monkey." He rushed to a mirror, gazed at his reflection, and, perhaps, being convinced that he bore some resemblance to an ape, he dashed his fist through the glass and fled from the house. MADAME BAVEAS TESTIFIES. A Distinguished Lady After Travelling Can Six Years in Search of Health, as Does Find It in Dodd's Kidney Pills Hot Springs, Ark., March 18.—(Special)—This popular resort numbers among its patrons many of the world's most distinguished men and women, but none more so than Madam Isabelle Milen Baveas, Life Governor of the Free Masons Grand Lodge of England. Madam Baveas, like most of the other visitors, came here in search of health. She was not disappointed, but her cure was not found in the virtue of the baths, but in a few boxes of Dedd's Kidney Pills, a remedy which she found on sale here, and which is being used and with wonderful success by a number of the visitors to Hot Springs. She says: "I traveled almost constantly for the past six years in the interests of my Society, and my health gradually became broken down, through the change of food, water, climate, etc. The doctors told me I had diabetes and advised me to go to the Springs, as they could do nothing for me. While there my attention was called to Dodd's Kidney Pills by a fellow sufferer, who had been greatly benefited by using them. "I protracted by her experience and bought a box, and then another, and so on until I had used seven boxes. It is with gratitude that I state that they cured me completely, and I am now able to take up the duties of life once more. I am very thankful for what Dodd's Kidney Pills have done for me, and as a grateful woman shall never hesitate to recommend them to anyone suffering with Diabetes." The vary satisfactory experience of this distinguished woman should be an encouragement to all similar suffer- ers. Dodd's Kidney Pills are 50c. a box, six boxes for $2.50. Buy them from your local druggist if you can. If he sanct supply you, send to the Dodd's Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. It is a misfortune for a woman never to be loved, but it is a humiliation to be loved no more.—Montesquieu. A Remedy for the Gripne. **Physicians recommend** KEMPS BALSAM for patients afflicted with the gripe, as it is especially adapted for the threat 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 rough loose and the lungs free from inflammation. All druggists, 25c and 50c. Soap is one of the few things that should be handled without gloves. THE GENUINE TOWER'S TAKE FISH BRAND POMMEL SLICKER BLACK OR YELLOW WILL KEEP YOU DRY NOTHING ELSE WILL LOOK FOR ADOVE TRADE MARK. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTES. CATALOGUE'S FREE DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE At Cure Cotton, Coughs, Sore Throat, Group, Influenza, Wiping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, and a cure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excellent effect, after the first dose. Sold by dealers everywhere. Large bottles 25 cents and 50 cents. BRITISH APOLOGY EXPECTED Czar's Movements Toward Coren Causes Reported Mobilization of the Mikado's Squadrons—Fleet Said to Have Sailed—Great Britain May Yield. London, March 22.—General Wogack, the Russian commander at Tientsin, has demanded not only the withdrawal of the British troops from the disputed territory at the railroad siding but an apology for the removal of the Russian flag. General Barrow, the British commander, refuses to either withdraw his soldiers or to apologize, and in so refusing he has the support of his government. British reinforcements are being sent. Such is the information cabled to the Daily Mail from Pekin yesterday and prominently displayed in the columns of that paper this morning. Russia's Proceedings in Corea. The Daily Mall's correspondent from Kobe also sends a disqueting dispatch. He says under yesterday's date: "Russia's proceedings in Corea are now open aggressive, and it is believed that she is about to make further demands in connection with Masanho." This dispatch lends an added importance to yesterday's dispatch from Shanghai, which said: "A dispatch to the China Gazette from Tokio, March 20, says that all the Russian warships in Japanese waters have sailed for Corea and that the Japanese squadron is mobilizing for an immediate departure to the Corean coast." British Send More Troops. The situation at Tientsin seems to have taken on little change. Neither side has yielded and Count von Waldserse has returned to Pekin, after failing to effect a compromise. In the meattime the British troops are being reinforced. Ninety British marines arrived there from Taku on Tuesday night, replacing the detachment of Indian troops which has been guarding the disputed land. The Welsh Fusileers were expected to arrive there yesterday. Australian troops were dispatched to Tientsin from Pekin yesterday by special train. Russian Press Not Alarmed St. Petersburg, March 22.—The Russian press is not alarmed about the Tientsin affair. There is no mention of it in the official agency's dispatches, but the London correspondent of the Novoc Vremya characterizes the dispute as unimportant. Another London correspondent quotes a French diplomat as saying that an Anglo-Russian war is impossible, and Russia need only threaten to support the Boers to bring Great Britain to her knees. Favors Russo-Japanese Alliance. Favors Russo-Japanese Alliance. The Novosti advocates a Russo-Japanese alliance which will assure Japan her present possessions and a large market for her industrial products in Russian territory, where they will be protected against Anglo-German competition. In conclusion, the article declares this alliance is as important in the Orient as the Franco-Russian alliance is in the Occident. The Novosti apparently regards the Russo-American understanding as permanent, as the paper does not mention American competition in Russian territory, which is stronger than the Anglo-German competition. Think England Will Yield Berlin, March 22.—In German official circles it is asserted that a satisfactory adjustment of the Tientsin matter may be expected. The press does not consider the incident vital. All the papers express a belief that Great Britain will yield. THE RUSSIANS STAND FIRM. General Wogack Saves the British Troops Must Withdraw. Tientsin, March 21.—The situation is hourly becoming more strained, as British troops are being hurried into the disputed territory despite the instructions received from St. Petersburg by General Wogack, that the British must withdraw. Ninety British marines have arrived here from Taku to take the place of East Indian troops, who have been guarding the railway sliding and who are accused of having acted with pusillanimity in the face of the Russian advance. A body of Welsh fusiliers is expected to day-to-re-enforce the British guard. A special train is also bringing a force of Australians here. No attempt has been made to continue the work which provoked the hostile action of the Russians. Count Von Waldersee has endeavored vainly to effect a compromise. "There will be no compromise none is possible," says General Wogack, and the field marshal who came down from Klao-Chou expressly to volunteer his good offices, retires to Pekin bitterly disappointed. General Campbell says nothing, but his troops still mount guard over the strip of land on which Russia says they are trespassers. General Wogack speaks frankly, and the issue he makes plain is an ultimatum: "Withdraw or fight." Russian troops are on the move from Port Arthur to Tientsin. The statement sent to American papers yesterday to the effect that a compromise had been effected was sent out from London. There was no truth in it whatever. Great Britain must back down or flight is the way that it looks now. TROOPS FIGHT A MOB. A Serious Conflict Occurs at Marseille, France. Marseilles, March 22.—There was a serious conflict here between the striking dockmen and the troops, resulting in the fatal wounding of a gendarme and the injuring of many strikers and soldiers. During the disorders the panic spread to the townspeople, and stores, restaurants and cafes were hurriedly closed. The Rue de la Cannebiere and the other leading thoroughfares of the city were deserted. It was feared that the mob, which was charged by mounted gendarmes and hussars, would attempt to pillage. A crowd numbering 2,000 burst through a cordon of infantry along the dock side. The cavalry charged and drove the strikers back. A volley of stones was then thrown in all directions and a brigadier, two gendarmes, a hussar and several infantrymen were injured. One gendarme was stunned, thrown from his horse and trampled upon by the cavalry. He was removed to a hospital, where he lies in a critical condition. The soldiers were greatly exasperated, but their officers succeeded in controlling them. DOINGS OF THE LAW MAKERS. Wednesday, March 29: Much of the time in the house was given to the fight over the bill which relates to the disconnection of territory from cities and villages. All of the many amendments offered by the opponents of the bill were voted down and the bill was advanced to third reading. The light bill comes up for a vote. The purpose of the bill is to give discretionary power to a city council or village board over the disconnection of territory. At the meeting of the Knox county board of supervisors at Galesburg the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Whereas, We believe the passage of the hard-roads bill now before the legislature would greatly increase our state taxation and create a lien upon our property from which we would receive no adequate benefit; therefore, "Resolved. That this board is opposed to any legislation granting state aid for the construction of any degree taking from local authorities the care or control of country roads." WISCONSIN Wednesday, March 20. The Stevens' primary election bill was ordered to third reading in the lower house of the legislature at 7 o'clock after an all-night session, during which the house was in a deadlock. It was the hottest contest the Wisconsin legislature all the political offices of the state were here, among them practically all the federal officeholders, who are making an organized fight against the bill. United States Marshal Tom Reid of Apleton, United States Internal Revenue Collector, Judge of Minneapolis, United States District Attorney W. G. Wheeler of Jamesville and United States Revenue Collector J. G. Monahan of Darlington were here directing the fight. DAILY MARKET REPORT. # Chicago Board of Trade Wheat— Ojen. High. Low. Close. March ... .75½ .76 .75¼ .75¼ April ... .75½ .76½ .75½ .76½ May ... .76½ .77¼ .76¼ .76¼ Corn— March ... ... ... ... ... .40 May ... .41½ .41½ .41½ .41½ Oats— March ... ... ... ... .24½ May ... .25½ .25¼ .25 .25½ Pork— May ... 16.55 16.90 16.50 16.90 July ... 15.50 15.55 15.40 15.40 Lard— May ... 7.85 7.92½ 7.82½ 7.87½ July ... 7.87½ 7.87½ 7.82½ 7.87½ Sept. ... 7.92½ 7.95 7.85 7.95 S. ribs— May ... 7.70 7.72½ 7.67½ 7.70 July ... 7.67½ 7.70 7.65 7.67½ Chicago Train Is Wrecked. Terre Haute, Ind., March 22—The Florida special on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad, which left Chicago at 11 o'clock a.m., ran into an open switch at Sixth avenue, this city, at 3:40 p. m. The engine tipped over and four of the six cars were derrailed. Fireman Sam Cardeman, aged 20, of Chicago, who was killed, was on his first trip. Engineer Titus was uninjured. None of the passengers was hurt, except the baby of T. J. Delahunt, agent for a brewing company. The child will probably recover. The track was torn up for a block. Disfranchisement Bill Wins Annapolis, Md., March 22. The new election bill, having for its object the practical disfranchisement of most of the 50,000 illiterate voters of the state, passed the senate shortly after midday. It was immediately sent to the house, where all the amendments made by the senate were concurred in, and the bill passed. It is now ready for the governor's signature. Tenor Singer Killa Himself St. Louis, Mo., March 22. -H. Charles Humphries, tenor singer, leader of the choir at the Second Baptist church, and a well-known society man, committed suicide in his studio. No cause for the act is known. Tennessee Town Burns Nashville, Tenn. March 22.—A special to the Banner says, Tiptonville, Lake county, was almost destroyed last night by fire. The loss is estimated at $75,000 and is partly covered by insurance. Find No Monarchist Plot. Rio Janeiro, Brazil, March 21.—The court of assizes has discharged from custody several persons who were arrested on a charge of being implicated in a monarchist plot. KISS HELD UP BY SMUGGLING Incoming Tourists Must Withhold It Until Passage. Must New York, March 21.—The rigorous enforcement of the rules for the examination of baggage and other effects belonging to passengers on incoming trans-Atlantic liners proves most offensive to passengers who would not willingly cheat Uncle Sam out of a cent. Under the rules passengers are now forbidden to greet by a kiss or handshake members of their families or friends until the customs officials have finished the examination of their baggage. Indignant protests from press and public have proved of no avail. Among the latest victims of these new rules is former Representative Ben T. Cable of Rock Island, Ill. Mr. Cable, with his wife, their daughter Susiana, and their son Philo, returned yesterday from Paris, where they had been living during the past four years. All their household goods, horses, carriages, etc., were brought over on the same ship. His wife's and his daughter's trunks were ruthlessly overhauled. Some of their gowns were pronounced "too new" by the inspector and Mr. Cable was forced to pay duty on them. It is said he will appeal to the federal court in Chicago for a reversal of the inspector's decision. Postoffice Safe Robbed Oberlin, O., March 21.—The Oberlin postoffice was robbed early this morning. A young student has charge of the postoffice building, a large two story brick in South Main street, and he was sleeping there at the time of the robbery. When found this morning he was bound and gagged and lay unconscious in the middle of the postoffice floor. The doctors say he must have been drugged. The large safe was demolished and the doors of the vault were blown off, but the inside of the safe was left untouched. The amount of the loss will not be known until the inspector arrives. Three Boers Are Shot. Capo Town. March 21.—J. P. Minaber, S. Minaber and J. A. Neuwoudt were shot at de Aar last evening for treason and murder in pursuance of the sentence of a court-martial. The death sentence was passed a week ago in connection with the wrecking of a train near Taasbosch, by which five men were killed. Gen. Kitchener confirmed the verdict. The garrison was paraded and the prisoners were led out at sunset. Death was instantaneous. A Dutch minister and relatives remained with the prisoners till the end. Two others concerned in the train wrecking were sentenced to five years at penal servitude. Many Lives Are in Peril. Mary Lives are St. John, N. F., March 21.—A furious blizzard has been sweeping the whole seaboard since last night. This morning the sealer Southern Cross, which arrived here yesterday, was forced into the harbor of Perlican, in danger of swamping on account of the heavy load of 26,500 seals on board. Much anxiety is felt for the remainder of the sealing fleet, which must have felt the full fury of the gale. In such event, with over 400 men scattered about the ice fields, disaster might ensue, as only too frequently happens. The anxiety will not be relieved until another steamer arrives with later re- Navigator Willing to Return Phoenix, Ariz., March 21.—A dispatch from Fort Wingate says that no difficulty will attend the roundup of the Navajo Indians on the Grand Canyon reservation. The Indian police say the Navajos are all willing to return to the reservation. The work of removal will likely begin to-day. A strong force of soldiers at Wingate will be ready if trouble occurs. Wabash Will Build Extensions St. Louis, Mo., March 21.-The stockholders of the Wahash railroad company held a meeting yesterday and authorized the officers to build a branch from Toledo, Ohio, 57 miles to Montpelier, Ohio, and from Fort Wayne, Ind., 27 miles to Butler. Ind., to purchase the property of any company that may hereafter build along the same route. Mh Paige Is Still Du New York, March 21. Mary Paige, the 16-year-old girl, who accuses three Brooklyn youths of drugging and abusing her, was better yesterday, but she was not able to appear in the Adams street police court when the prisoners were arraigned. The young men were held in $3,500 bail each until next Tuesday. Bristolbad to Rockford Girl New York, March 21.--It was announced in Brooklyn yesterday that Harold l. Pratt, youngest son of the late Charles Pratt, is engaged to marry Miss Harriet Barnes of Rockford, Ill. Miss Barnes is a graduate of Smith college, and Mr. Pratt is a graduate of Amherst. The date of the wedding has not yet been announced. Was a High Roller Newark, N. J., March 21.-Charles L. Roller, who is reported to have disappeared recently after swindling the business men of Newark out of $100,000, has been arrested at Los Angeles, Cal. He managed to raise the $100,000 by means of notes, some of which are declared to be forgeries. Cyclone at Sterling, III Sterling, Ill., March 21.—A cyclone five miles north of here wrecked twenty farm buildings, two school, houses, one church, and killed a number of cattle. AFTER-EFFECTS OF LA GRIPPE. THE arter-effects of the grip are often disastrous. It is commonly known to the medical fraternity that the numerous ailments and complications which follow the grip are apt to be more serious than the acute stage of the disease. Some people have the grip very lightly. They may be confined to the house only a day or two and yet a long train of disagreeable, disabling symptoms follow. All sorts of tonics and stimulating remedies have been devised to meet this condition. None of them can compare in results with Peruna. Every one who has had the grip ought to take a short course of Peruna. Read what the following people have to say about it. 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. Washington, Feb. 4, 1853. The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O.: Gentlemen—"I have taken Peruna now for two weeks, and find I am very much relieved. I feel that my cure will be permanent. I have also taken it for la gripe, and take pleasure in recommen ding Peruna as an excellent remedy to all fellow suf- Congressman Howard. 1990 ferers."—M. W. Howard. Congressman Howard's home address is Fort Payne, Ala. Grip Produces Catarrh. Henry Distin, the inventor and maker of all the band instruments for the Henry Distin Mfg. Co., at Williamsport, Pa., writes: 1441 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa., May 6, 1899. Dr. S. B. Hartman, Dear Sir:—"I write to inform you that I had a bad attack of la gripe last December which lasted more than three months and which left me with catarrh, when several of my friends advised me to try your wonderful medicine, Peruna. I began with a bottle the first week in March and it certainly did me a great deal of good. I was so well satisfied that I purchased another bottle and followed your directions, which you furnish with every bottle, and I am glad to say that it has cured me. I shall certainly recommend the Peruna to all my friends." D. D. Wallace, a charter member of the International Barber's Union writes from 15 Western ave., Minneapolis, Minn. "Following a severe attack of la girose I GRIP CAUSED NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA seemed to be affected badly all over. I suffered with a severe backache, indigestion and numerous ills, so I could neither eat nor sleep, and I thought I would give up my work, which I could not afford to do. "One of my customers who was greatly helped by Peruna advised me to try it, and I procured a bottle the same day. I used it faithfully and felt a marked improvement. During the next two months I took five bottles, and then felt splendid. Now my head is clear, my nerves are steady, I enjoy food, and rest well. Peruna has been worth a dollar a dose to me."—D. L. Wallace Address Dr. Hartman, Presi Columbus, Ohio. The burglar makes hay while the sun doesn't shine. Pain relieved, sickness prevented, by timely use of Wizard Oil. Keep it always in the home. After the bawl is over the weary father many have a chance to get a little sleep. When You Buy Ink get Carter's and you will get the best every time "Inklings" free. Carter's Ink Co., Boston. The man who is aware of his imperfections is almost perfect. Don't drink too much water when cycling. Adams' Pepshn Tutti Frutti is an excellent substitute. About the only thing anger improves is the arch of a cat's back. Piso's Cure cannot be too angry spoken of as a cough cure.-J. W. O'Brien. 322 Third Ave., N. Minneapolis, Minn. Jan. 6, 1900. One way to kill time when there is snow on the ground is to sleigh it. Do Not Spoil Your Clothes by using inferior soap. Maple City Self Washing soap gives the best results. Try it. All good grocers sell it. The bank towel is a sort of financial crash. When you go to our bluing insist upon having Russ' Bleaching Blue and not an imitation. Sold by all grocers. You can't always judge a man by the cigars he gives to his friends. There are a great many Remedies, but there is one CURE for a poor complexion: that is Garfield Tea which cures by purifying the Blood, thus Removing the Cause. A bad horse is like a poor play; it can run and it won't draw. Conghling Leads to Consumption Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist today and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. A man seldom does his best unless he is working for himself. Some vocalists on the stage are guilty of murder on the high C's. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Dr. Kline's 900 fits and treaties. Dr. E. H. Klink, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. The gloomyest mountain doesn't cast a shadow on both sides at once. "Virtuama" Tablets cure "brain-fag." nervous restraint and physical debility in men and women. "Virtuama" Great Geriatric for weak people. "Can't be cured" cheaper. Mailed by Kidd Drug Co. Elgin, Ill. J. R. Hurbtun Co. Des Moines, Iowa, or Boston. Who carries a full line of syringes, hot water bags, etc. Always speak the truth—even if you have to use a long distance telephone. Washington, April 24, 1900. The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O. Gentlemen—"About two months ago I was taken very very ill with la gripe and was obliged to go to bed. I took three bottles of Peruna with very beneficial results and was able to leave my bed in a Frances M. Anderson. "About two months ago I was taken very very ill with la grippe and was obliged to go to bed. I took three bottles of Peruna with very beneficial results and was able to leave my bed in a Frances M. Anderson, week, and regained my usual strength very soon. I have nothing but the highest praise for Peruna and recommend it to those similarly afflicted wherever I can."—Frances M. Anderson. Grip Poisoned Her Blood. Mrs. T. W. Collins, Treasurer of the Independent Order of Good Templates of Everett, Wash., writes: "After having a severe attack of la gripe I continued in a feeble condition even after the doctor called me cured. My blood seemed poisoned. "I also suffered with dyspepsia, and had either to starve or suffer from what I was eating. A neighbor who was using Peruna praised it so high that she induced me to try it, and I soon found this was what I really needed "I could soon eat my regular meals with relish, my system was built up, my health returned, and I have remained in excellent strength and vigor now for over two years."—Mrs. T. W. Collins. Miss Alice Dressler, of 1313 N. Bryant ave., Minneapolis, Minn., writes as follows concerning Peruna: and was partially cured, but the bad after-effects remain ed through the summer and somehow I did not get as strong as I was before "In the fall I caught cold after getting my feet wet and attending a lecture in a cold hall, and suffered a relapse. Catarrh of the throat and head followed, and as I was in a weak cordition physically previous to this, took but little to break me down completely. One of my college friend who was visiting me, asked me to Peruna and I did so and found me and more than I had expected. It only cured me of the catarrh, but stored me to perfect health."—Alk Dressler. Love never finds a burden too heavy for it to tackle. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury. As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derangethe whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is tenfold to the good, you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo, O. contaus no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure before you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Drugists, price 75¢ per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Many a family protopgraph album holds a lot of empty mugs. Mr. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softness of the gums, reduces its inflammation, always pain, cures wind colic. 23c a bottle. Good talkers are plentiful but good listeners are hard to find. Some cough remedies hide a cough; they drug it into silence, but the irritation stays in the lungs to cause trouble. Morley's Honey Pectoral soothes, heals, strengthens and cures thoroughly. The cough stops because the cause is removed. Price 25 cents. Ask your druggist. An enemy is a man who injures you and then refuses to forgive you. Very few escape attacks of sore throat, pleurisy, etc. Use Mull's Lightning Pals Killer. A sure and safe remedy. 25c. Some young men dress so loud they can't hear themselves think. I CURE FITS FREE A Full-Size 81 Treatment of Dr. O. Philes Brown's Great Remedy for Fits, Eclipse and all Narcissus Ailments. O. PHILIPSE BROWN, 98 Broadway, Newark, N.J. DrBull's DrBull's all Throat and Lung Afections. COUGH SYRUP Get the genuine. Refuse substitutes. IS SURE Salvation Oil cures Rheumatism, is & 25 cents OKLAHOMA OFFERS FREE HOME to $50,000 people or lands, soon to settlement. Opportunity of a lifetime. THE MOWA CHEF, devoted to information about these lands, will contain proclamation during dates per opening. One $1.00; 0.05 cents, 6 inches per foot. MORGAN'S MANUAL, (Complete Settler's Guide) with section map $1.00. MANUAL, MAP and CHIEF, six inches $1.50. For sale by Book and New Dealers, or address DICK T. MORGAN, Perry, O. L. PISOS'S CURE FOR CURES WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use six inches. Sold by druglights. CONSUMPTION Nervous Prostration. A Noted Boston Woman Describes its Symptoms and Terrors.—Two Severe Cases Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A.DELE WILLIAMSON. "I am so nervous! no one ever suffered as I do! There isn't a well inch in my body. I honestly believe my lungs are diseased, my chest pains me so, but I have no cough. I am so weak; at my stomach, and have indigestion terribly, and palpitation of the heart; am losing flesh; and this headache and backache nearly kills me, and yesterday I had hysterics. "There is a weight in the lower part of my bowels, bearing down all the time, with pains in my groins and thighs—I can't sleep, walk, or sit, and blue—oh goodness! I am simply the most miserable of women." This is a most vivid description of a woman suffering with nervous prostration, caused by inflammation or some other diseased condition of the womb. No woman should allow herself to reach such a perfection of misery when there is no need of it. Read about Miss Williamson's case and how she was cured. $5000 ENWARD. — We have deposited with the National City Bank of Lynn, $5000, which will be paid to any person who can find that the above testimonial letters are not genuine, or were published before obtaining the writer's special permission. LYDIA E. PINHARE MEDICINE CO. DeWolf Hopper, the popular comedian, was once a witness in a suit for slander, and the opposing counsel in the court room said: "You are an actor, I believe?" "Yes," replied Hopper. "Is not that a low calling?" "I don't know; but it's so much better than my father's that I am rather proud of it." "What was your father's calling, may I ask?" "He was a lawyer," said Hopper. The late Dr. Creighton, bishop of London, once made a visit to Father Stanton's church in High Holborn, a most ritualistic organization. The service was not quite to his liking, but Father Stanton talked so fast that he did not have a chance to say anything until he got into his carriage to go away. Then he remarked: "I like your service, Stanton, but I don't like your incense." "Very sorry, my lord, very sorry," replied Father Stanton, submissively, "but it is the very best a can get for three shillings and sixpence a pound." In his speech in congress answering Senator Hale's conciliatory effort in behalf of the subsidy bill, Senator Tillman indulged in a picturesque metapron wuch was received with applause by every one on the floor. When Senator Hale found that his arguments were falling faint, he lost his temper and said one or two rather awkward things, at one time hinting that if Tillman wanted ti* to fulminate against the bill he might have "Fulminate!" snapped out Tillman; "does the gentleman from Maine take me for a box of matches, or a gun-cap? Perhaps it is a flash of lightning, and if it is, let me tell him that I want plenty of time to grow some forks. I don't want to spend all my time making common sheet-lightning." Canon H. D. Raunsley, whose memories of the Tennysons" was reviewed at length in the Argonaut of January 28th, while in this country a year ago, visited the Paul Revere School, in Boston, built and equipped by one of our patriotic societies, and having among its other ornaments fine pictures of George and Martha Washington. The canon prefaced his remarks by questioning the children about the "Father of His Country," and as no information was volunteered, simplified his questions by assembling whose picture it was. To his consternation, there was at Nervous P A Noted Boston its Symptoms a Severe Cases O Pinkham's Vege ADELE WILLE "I am so nervous! no one isn't a well inch in my body. are diseased, my chest pains me am so weak: at my stomach, am palpitation of the heart; am I and backache nearly kills me, "There is a weight in the loo down all the time, with pains can't sleep, walk, or sit, and blu the most miserable of women. This is a most vivid descrip nervous prostration, caused by diseased condition of the wom No woman should allow her of misery when there is no Williamson's case and how she Two Bad Cases of Nerv "Dear Mrs. PINKHAM; —I was suffering such tortures from nervous prostration that life was a burden. I could not sleep at all, and was too weak to walk across the floor. My heart was affected so that often I could not lie down at all without almost suffocating. I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and it worked like magic. I feel that your medicine has been of inestimable benefit to me." Miss ADELE WILLIAMSON, 196 N. Boulevard, Atlanta, Ga. $5000 ENWARD. We have deposit which will be paid to any person are not genuine, or were public mission. first no reply. Then a wee maiden in the rear of the room raised her hand. "Well, Euphemia," said the much-releived teacher, "tell the gentleman who it is"—and Euphemia in a shrill treble, responded: "Buffalo Bill, sir: A Russian military paper tells of a lieutenant who overheard a sergeant giving a recruit a short lecture upon his duties. "The military service," said the sergeant, "requires little prayer to God, and a strict attention to the orders of a superior." Somewhat astonished at this singular definition of military duty, the officer ventured to ask the sergeant for his authority. Whereupon the sergeant produced an ancient volume, containing the following: "The military service requires little; prayer to God and strict attention to the orders of a superior." It is said that the kaiser, at a recent review in Berlin, reprimanded old General von Meerscheidt for losing his mind at a critical moment. "If your majesty thinks that I am getting too old, "I beg of you to allow me to resign. "No, no," replied the kaiser, "you are too young to resign. Indeed, if your blood didn't course through your vens so fast, you would be a more useful army leader." On the evening o that day the kaiser and the general met at a court ball. The general was talking to some young ladies. "Ah, Meerscheidt," cried William, "that is right; get ready to marry. "take a young wife, then that excitable temperament of yours will vanish." The general bowed low as he retorted: "I beg to be excused, your majesty! A young emperor and a young wife would be more than I could possibly stand." The storm which raged in regard to the authenticity and authorship of "An Englishwoman's Love Letters" is not yet spent. A statement that Oscar Wilde was the author of them comes by way of a so-called authenticated cablegram in the New York Herald. But the question of the author's sex is usually considered settled by the internal evidence. It is simply said that no man could ever have written them. At any rate, the incident is closed in so far as Oscar Wilde is concerned, for now the publishers of the authorized edition, Messrs, Doubleday, Page & Co., go so far as to say that he did not write them. Prostration. A Woman Describes and Terrors.—Two Fured by Lydia E. Notable Compound. LIAMSON. Never suffered as I do! There I honestly believe my lungs be so, but I have no cough. I I have indigestion terribly, and losing flesh; and this headache and yesterday I had hysterics. Lower part of my bowels, bearing in my groins and thighs—I be—oh goodness! I am simply ion of a woman suffering with my inflammation or some other ab. Self to reach such a perfection need of it. Read about Miss he was cured. Vorous Prostration Cured. "I had nervous prostration terribly, caused by female weakness. I suffered everything; was unable to eat, sleep, or work. After a while I was induced to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and I really began to improve on taking the first bottle. I continued to take the medicine, and am now better in every way, and feel like a different person. I am simply a well woman." MRS. DELLA KEISER, Marienville, Fo- led with the National City Bank of Lynn, $5000, who can find that the above testimonial letters had before obtaining the writer's special par- LYDIA E. PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL Des Moines, March 22, 1901. Attorney General Mullan has handed down an opinion to the auditor of state holding that promissory notes taken for rent should not be listed by the holder and assessed as credits and moneys. It is specified in the code what classes of property are to be taxed and among them is named obligations for rent not yet due, under the holding of the attorney general are clearly obligations for rent not yet due and being such obligations are exempt from taxation. If, however, such notes have been sold or disposed of by the original payee and are in the hands of a third party at the time of the assessment they should be assessed to the holder as moneys and credits Des Moines banks at the last call of the Clearing House association made the best showing in their history. There is exactly $17,202,518.00 on deposit in the different banks of this city, as against about $1,000,000 two months ago. The report shows that there is loaned from these banks $12,133,634.41 and cash on hand to the amount of $5,545.50 or practically six millions. This remarkable showing shows that Des Moines is forging to the front as a commercial center. According to the bankers the big increase in deposits is not due to any new firms or accounts, but a steady increase in business in the city. Of course some of the money, the 17 millions of deposits, belongs to the country banks who do business in this city. But it must be remembered that also the loans which amount to 12 millions, are not all chargeable to Des Moines Judge Holmes has overruled the demurrier in the case of Jennie E. Day against Polk county. This is a continuance of the tax ferret case, which has been in the courts for several months. Judge Prolyt made a decision some time ago, in which he legalized the action of the ferrets and decided the amount that was due from the estate. Mrs. Day then filed a demurrier, claiming that the property in question had been transferred to her, but that it was not in her possession at the time the assessor made the assessment for 1897. The court has now overruled this demurrier and declared that the assessment should have been made. The supreme court will meet Tuesday, April 9, for the purpose of finishing up the business of the January term. The court will confine itself to handing down opinions, and the session will be considered as an adjourned one of the January term. The business will be concluded in three or four days. The first of the Chinese cannon which were secured by Minister Conger for the state and shipped to Iowa several months ago have reached Des Moines. The cannon was on the wall at Peking during the siege and is regarded as a great prize for the state. It will probably be placed in front of the historical building. At the meeting of the state board of control with the state institution superintendents at the capitol, Warden wolfers of the state penitentiary of Minnesota read a paper favoring the indeterminate sentence for criminals. Warden Hunter of Anamosa endorsed the view of Warden Wolfers favoring the indeterminate sentence. Mr. Wolfers called attention to the fact that there is a wide variance in sentences for similar crimes. The system of statutory sentences forces the state to adopt the doctrine of punishment rather than reformation. It should be the individual, and not the crime, that fixes the tenure of the sentence, for the object of the government should be to reform the criminal. The duty of the state is to the criminal, to save him, that society may be protected. Warden Hunter said that sentences for the same crime have varied in the record of 100 cases at Anamosa from 4 mouths to 15 years. Of 100 paroles issued by Governor Shaw, but 3 have been useless. The parole is but part of the grade system. The indeterminate sentence is the completion of the grade system, which has been adopted in all first-class prison institutions in the country. It permits a criminal to work his way out of prison, to earn his freedom and respect, to reform, and it affords absolute protection to society. The National Prison association advocates the indeterminate sentence. It is learned at the office of the state board of health that there is no authority in law giving councils the authority to order general compulsory vaccination. The executive committee of the State university board of regents, accompanied by President MacLean, appeared before the executive council and asked for help in the emergency caused by the recent fire at the institution. It was decided to appropriate $15,000 from the contingent fund to help the college of medicine and the other departments of the university which suffered from the fire. 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"Major" Taylor, the Afro-American bicyclist, will race in Europe during July and August of this year. Mr. Wm, V. Jefferson, a prominent young attorney of Chicago, has been nominated by the republicans of the South town of Chicago for Clerk. --- The February issue of Werner's Magazine contained an article of twenty-two pages and 46 portraits on "The Expressional Power of the Colored Race," considering those of the race who have won distinction in oratory, public speaking, lecturing, public reading and writing, and on the concert, oratorio, operatic and theatrical stage. --- The Ladies' Home Journal for February says: "The first enancipator of the slaves, John C. Fremont, never received any honor of gratitude from the Negro race; a daring soldier and a Major-General, he lived in poverty for twenty five years without a pension; the man who had given a vast realm richer than Golconda to his country, he died, not owning a single foot of ground to leave to his children." --- Booker T. Washington's life story, "Up From Slavery," which has been an interesting feature of recent issues of the Outlook, will be published by Doubleday, Page & Co. The story cannot fail to hold attention, both for itself and for the light it throws on various aspects of the "Nagro problem." It is the work of a man of force and intellect, who by sheer will power and force of character, has made himself the leader of a race. Mr. Washington, who is now at the head of one of the greatest educational institutions of the south, started out twenty five years ago a penniless boy, sleeping under the sidewalks in Richmond. He is now intrusted with the supervision of an institution of wealth and standing, holds an honorary degree from Harvard university and is generally recognized as the most valued authority upon the peculiar questions relating to his race. CAU3ES SURPRISE. Connecticut Man Declares His Assessment In 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 $30,000 more than it raised. The debt has rolled up to nearly $400,000. 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GANNAWAY, City Passenger Agt. Des Moines, Iowa. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. S.ate 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, to-wit: Lot Thirty-four (34) Block two (2) Glendale 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 B. S. Walker and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and assigned by him January 31st, 1901 to Z. P. Lyman, the lawful owner and holder of said certificate, and the right of redemption will expire and a Treasurer's Dead for said property will be made, unless redemption be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. Lawful holder and owner of said certificate If troubled with rheumatism give Chamberlain's Pain-Balm a trial. It will not cost you a cent if it does no good. One application will relieve the pain. It also cures sprains and bruises in one-third the time required by any other treatment. Cuts, burns, frost-bites, quinny, pains in the side and chest, glandular and other swellings are quickly cured by applying it. Every bottle warranted. Price 25 and 50 cts. For sale by all Druggists. 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 supplanting 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 $60,000,000. Caused by a Cow's Tail. Lock Haven (Penn.) Spe. Philadelphia Inquirer: Mrs. Joseph Ross, of Pleasant Gap, met with a most peculiar accident. When she went into the barnyard to do the milking a cow switched its tail, which caught in the handle of the milk bucket. The hook on the bucket handle caught in the palm of Mrs. Ross' hand. Then the heifer started to run, dragging Mrs. Ross about the barnyard until she was seriously if not fatally injured, the hook at last releasing her after tearing completely through the hand from the fleshy base of the thumb diagonally across to the little finger. --- Fats Doing Made at a Hallroad Power House. Test for the elimination of the smoke nuisance, and a revolution in method of combustion, are under way at the Fourteenth street power house of the Illinois central railroad, says the Chicago News. Fed 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 clinders. Streams of lava form in a small pool on the floor 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 toward Trumbo at the railroad p. y. Illinois coal of a cheap gree is reduced to a fine powder and by cans of a draught is automatically le into a combustion chamber. Only the faintest suggestion of smoke trails away from the tail chimney, and it is assorted 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 felt 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. These will undoubtedly be Australia's first cares, but she will not be content with thesus for very long. Siam, French and southern China 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 15,000 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 Grimsby, 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. Most 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 Windpipe. Sponges which are used in surgical operations once in a while are left in the bound, and then death is bound to ensue scor or later. A young English collier named Finney had eleven teeth extracted under either by Dr. Griffiths, and when efforts were being made to restore him to consciousness he sprang from the chair, fell back and died. 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. 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 $300,000 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. Incidents Concerning Beginning of a Line of Boats. 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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