Iowa State Bystander

IOWA VOL. 7. Send money by post free order, money order, express or draft, to the Iowa State BYSTANDER Publishing Company. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the public. "Brevity is the soul of wit," remember. We will not return rejected manuscript, unless accompanied by postage stamps. Lowest prices—Mason's. The Enterprise Cafe. 314 West Third. SUNDAY DINNER. 25c. Turkey with Cranberry Sance Roast Beef Apple and Lemon Ple HARBISON GOULD, JR., MGR. Your Patronage is Solicited. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER CITY NEWS Easter Bonnets Ready—Mason's. Mrs. Warrisk and brother James Porter have gone to Greenfield to attend the funeral of their mother. J H. Mixon, Jeweler, No. 316 West Third street. Tunes Pianos and repairs organs. At the home of Mrs. E. B. Bradley, 1910, North Seventh street, "Fragments" was the subject of paper. Easter will be observed in all the churches of the city, with special services, and with such declaration as the occasion requires. Mr. & Mrs. James Woods entertained at dinner. The Messrs. and Mesdames John McClain, Wm. Hampton, Miss Cora Smith, and the Messrs. Claude Harris and T. E. Woods. WRITE The African Monarchs of America. They have something to tell you. Sioux City, Iowa. The Knight Templars are preparing a program for Easter Sunday, at 3:30 o'clock, at the A. M. E. church. The pastor, Rev. Phillips, will preach the sermon. Mr. Geo. I. Holt will direct the music. The Sunday school will have a special program, commencing at 2:30. The singing society, under the direction of Prof. Holt, rendered a beautiful selection last Sunday afternoon, at the A. M. E. Sunday school. E. W. Thompson will be chief usher at the band concert Monday night. His aids will be Rollin Weeks, Lee Blagburn and Fred Stanton. ENTRIES Bice Compom Baked Sweet Potatoes Sweet Corn Lettuce with Dressing Ice Cream and Cake The H. B. S. was entertained by Mrs. Smith. The program was not carried out in full, owing to the absence of some of the members. Business of importance to be transacted next week; so all are requested to be present. The Circle will meet with Mrs. Wilburn, East Side, 14th and Lyon street. The Circle was visited by Mrs. Wilson of Oak street. CHAS. F. WEST. (Formerly with Dr. Rood) HAS OPENED A Billiard AND Pool Room 304 W. Grand Ave. Choice line of CIGARS AND TOBACCOS. Best Milliners on Earth—Mason's. Mr. Geo. Harris, who has been in Chicago for the past several months, returned last Thursday. He says D. M. is good enough for him. It is said that R. N. Hyde will deliver one of his interesting addresses at the band concert, Monday night. Don't fall to hear it. Miss Zella Davis read a paper at the Ladies' Aid society of the M. E. chureh at their meeting last Tuesday afternoon. WE WANT colored organizers for the best thing on earth for colored people. African Monarehs of America, Sioux City, Iowa. Mr. Willie Mash was in our city this week. His friends was glad to see him. Mr. Claude Harris, now a resident of Des Moines, wishes to state to the Keokuk correspondent, "Buffalo—" in regard to the item in last week's issue, that he has no such anxious desire to visit Keokuk; for any time he has such a desire, he has $5.10 ready and as there are no special drawing cards there for him, he will take his time in making his visit to the Gate City. The Oklahoma Opportunity is a book descriptive of the Kiowa, Commanche 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 SEBATHIAN, G. P. A., Chicago. MALLY FOR REPRESENTATIVE Under the head of announcement cards appears the name of P. F. Mally, who is a candidate for one of the members of the legislature, from Polk county. Mr. Mally is the only real farmer candidate. He comes from Delaware township, which is in the 4th Supervisor district, and that district has not had a member since Hon. B. B. Lane was representative, while all the other districts have had one since that time, and it would be fair and in keeping with the custom to give the Fourth district the farmer member of the lower house. Mr. Mally is an honest, hardworking and highly esteemed farmer. He is one of the pioneers, having come to this county thirty-five years ago, where he has remained ever since, working on the farm. He was born in Clayton county, Iowa, in 1854. His parents died while he was a boy, and he had to struggle for his own livelihood, also that of his mother, and by his push, energy, good judgment, has made a success in life. He has never before asked for a county office, but has always worked for the success of others and the g. o. p. He asked the support of the colored voters with his other supporters. If elected he would make a good conservative representative. THORNBURG FOR SUPER- INTENDENT. Thus far in the political field as for superintendent of public instruction for Polk county, there is only one man, and that person is Prof. Z. C. Thornburg, who is superintendent of the Capital Park Public schools. Professor Thornburg is a life.long republican and has been a resident of this county, where he has received the most of his higher education, having studied and prepared for an instructor, and he has taught in this city for the past eight years; five pears at Oak Park and three years at Capital Park. He is a young studious enthusiastic teacher and is in close touch with the educational interests of both county and state and if nominated and elected will make an excellent superintendent. He is an energetic young man and deserves your support. JUDGE BISHOP FOR THE SUPREME BENCH. The above cut is a true likeness of our much beloved Judge Chas. A. Bishop, of the Polk county bench, who it a candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa, subject to the decision of the State Republican convention. There are but few, if any, better liked or more highly esteemed judge on the district bench in Iowa, than Judge Bishop. Wherever he is known he is liked and Des Moines is entitled to one of the Supreme Judges, as the term of Hon. Josiah Given's expires this year, and it is his successor that all are striving for. Judge Bishop is a learned man in the legal profession. He is a good PETER H. BURGESS orator. He came to Polk county many years ago, where he has been practicing ever since. He was elected one of the judges of this district in 1898, and by his fairness, firmness and good judgment has made one of the best judges in our district; his decisions are seldom ever appealed from, and but few reverses in the supreme court. He is an active republican worker, and will have the hearty and unanimous support of the seventh congressional district. He is a friend to the colored people if they only manifest a desire to do right. His sister, Miss Bishop, has taught school in the colored college for several years, the La Monge college, in_____. His many friends all over the state are working very hard for his nomination. THE INDIAN AND THE NORTHWEST A handeomely illustrated book, just issued, containing 115 pages, of interesting historical data, relating to the settlement of the great northwest with fine half tone engravings of Black Hawk, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud and other noted chiefs; Custer's battle ground and ten colored map plates, showing location of the various tribes dating back to 1600. Price 58 cents per copy. On sale at ticket office, Ciblcago & Northwestern Railway, 401 Walnut st. Home Shaving Parlors Under 609 W. Looust. 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. AGood Cough Medicine for Children. "I have no hesiancy 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 always 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. BYSTANDER. CAPTAIN WILKINS FOR REPRESENTATIVE. REPRESENTATIVE. The many friends of Captain J. E. Wilkins, and especially his comrades, will be glad to learn that he has announced his name as a candidate for the legislature, subject to the republican county convention. He was born in Washington county, Pa., and moved with his parents to Ohio, in his infancy, and to Illinois in 1860, where he enlisted in the army as a private in company I, 112th Ill., and nobly served his country in the time of need to suppress the rebellion and preserve the Union. He served with his regiment till the close of the war, except the long eight months that he spent in Libby prison, escaping from prison he joined his regiment during the Atlanta campaign. In 1871 he moved to Iowa, and to Des Moines in 1881, where he entered the mercantile business as a partner with Mr. Dockstader, on the East Side of of the river, recently retiring from business. His sons are operating a large department store on the West Side. Captain Wilkins is well qualified for the office he seeks. He has been a member of the City Council for several years and his vote has been in favor of the laboring class. He is a friend of the colored man and a republican worker. 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 tickets, or add-vers. Geo. S. Batty, G. P. & T. A., Marshalltown, Iowa. Explosives Confined and Unconfined. There is a widespread misapprehension in regard to the devastating effect of high expositives. When unconfined the effect even of large charges of them upon structures is comparatively slight. At the naval ordnance provoking ground, so long ago as 1884, repeated charges of dynamite, varying from five pounds to 100 pounds in weight, were detonated on the face of a vertical target consisting of eleven one-inch wrought-iron plates bolted to a twenty-inch oak backing, until 440 pounds of dynamite had been so detonated in contact with it, and yet the target remained practically uninjured, while at Braamfontein the accidental explosion of fifty-five tons of blasting gelatin, which was stored in railway vans, excavated but 30,000 tons of soft earth. Thus at Fort Lee, on the Hudson, but two tons of dynamite placed in a chamber in the rock and tamped brought down 100,000 tons of the rock; at Lamberis, Wales, two tons and a half of gelatin dynamite, similarly placed threw out 180,000 tons of rock, and at the Talecan Mawr, in Wales, seven tons of gunpowder placed in two chambers in the rock dislodged from 125,000 to 200,000 tons of rock. The Ages of Men. A great man does not always attains a ripe old age; in fact, hardly half of the greatest men of modern and ancient times have reached the limit of age set by the Bible. Among statesmen: Mirabean was 42; Pitt, 47; Caesar, 55; Richelleu, 57; Cromwell, 59; Frederick the Great, 74; Disraell, 75; Bismarck, 83; Talleyrand, 84. Of great conquerors: Alexander the Great died at 32; Napoleon at 51; Hannibal at 83; Mariboround at 72; Blucher at 76; Wellington at 83; Xenophon at 86; Moltke at 91. The age of the decease of philosopher was: Spinola, 44; Descartes, 53; Aristotle, 62; Socrates, 81; Linnaeus, 70; Copernicus, 70; Gallileo, 78; Kant, 79; Plato, 82; Newton, 84; Humboldt, 89. The longevity of great writers, poets, varies from Byron, 36, to Sophocles, 90. To painters death came at ages varying from Raphael at 37 to Titian at 99. Caleb Powers and Number '13.' Powers, the Kentuckian convicted of complicity in the murder of Goebel, may be excused if he put some faith in the idea that thirteen is an unlucky number. He was nominated for office June 13, 1899; arraigned July 13, 1900, as one of thirteen conspirators named; was defended by thirteen lawyers; his sweetheart was the thirteenth witness; the evidence showed that 1,300 soldiers were ready to defend him; he gave Culton $1,300 to pay the expenses of the mountaineers; he took $1,300 with him when he fled; the evidence closed Aug. 13. --- ALL NEXT WEEK. 705 Locust Street. KEOKUK CURLS. The long awaited and much talked of debate on the woman question occurred Thursday evening, at the A. M. E. church. The question as stated, was "Resolved, that the women of the Nineteenth Century make better wives and mothers than the new woman of the "Twentieth Century Woman." The affirmative was represented by Mrs Bells Bannister and Mr. B. L. Anderson, the negative by Mrs. Ophelia Wilson and Mr. A. W. Draine. Both sides made telling arguments and declared themselves with force and eloquence for their respective parties. The question was given a thorough atting and the search-light of intelligence was brought to bear heavily on the subject. The debate was so close and interesting that the judges forgot their duty and sat as listeners instead of judges, and at the finish they decided it a tie. The evening were interposed with excellent musical selections by F. D. Fields' orchestra. The Athenian Ladies' Quartet and the Brooklyn club' Mixed Quartet, all of whom were well received. The judges were Rev. Timothy Reeves, Messra. C. H. Williams and D. W. Anderson. This excellent and enjoyable affair was under the management of the Ladies of the stewardess board. The people of Dos Moines are wondering why "ye editor" continues to wear his looks of such exceeding great length. Herein lies the cause. Our gifted editor hath of recent date taken unto himself a most beautiful and excellent wife, hence he hath now become portical and philosophical as is wont to be the case when a queen doth rule the home. Mr. "Peter Jackson" will please "just to keep less quiet." The funeral of Henry A. Alexander was held at the Pilgrim Rest church last Sunday, conducted by Rev. D. Phelps. Mr. Alexander was an old and respected citizen who had resided in Kookuk for many years. There was a large course of sympathizing friends to pay the last tribute of respect to one who had finished the course. The husband of Mrs. Starks, who was the guest of Mrs. French D. Bland during the holidays, died at Jacksonville, Ill., March 6th. The various clubs of the A. M. E. church begin to rally their forces for the final effort to wipe out the church debt in June. Some of the captains have a knife up their sleeve and declare they are going to "clean up." Miss Ada Smith of St. Joseph, Mo., is in the city, the guest of friends and relatives. Eldora Fosey, formerly with Chattens' Minstrels, is spending a few days in the city. Miss Jessica Cooper, one of Keokuk's popular young ladies departed Wednesday morning, for Chicago, to visit with friends. The Royal Millinery Co 610 Walnut Street. Makers and Designers of Fashionable Ladies' and Children's HEAD GEAR Easter Comes Early this Year Let us Make Your Hat OF SPRING MILLINERY E BRADLEY XT WEEK. Just Street. "Harry Johnson has left the city of Keokuk, Iowa, where he will accept a position with the U. S. Government."—Milwaukee Cor. to Freeman, of Indianapolis. MARSHALLTOWN ITEMS. On March 20th, at 3 o'clock a.m., occurred the death of Bro. Elsa Jones, of dropy, after about 18 months of illness. Bro. Jones was born near Wheeling W. V., in 1849; moved to Iowa, 1879—and located near Iowa Falls, and came to Marshalltown in 1886, and has been a good citizen as this community ever since. He leaves a wife, one child and a host of friends to mourn his loss. He was buried Thursday the 21st. Rev. Nickerson of the Second Baptist church officiating who preached a powerful and wonderful sermon on the confidence of a christian. There was one thought came to my mind in the meeting Sunday afternoon while Mr. Stone and other white friends were talking, they told of the advancement of some of the race, and told us that it takes hundreds of years to make a race of people—blamed us for some of our short cumings, all of which I admit but not once did any of them say to the owners of our many manufacturing concerns who now has employed a colored man to open their doors, and give us the same chance for work as our whitebros, for work is what we want, and an equal chance with every race to earn an honest dollar and we won't be forced to beg then for money to build churches, so often. The choir rendered some choice selections, and with proper instructions in the most difficult parts will be able to make a good showing. The duet sang by Miss Clara Wilkerson and Miss Lulu Gilmore wrs grand, but the chorus was weak. Mrs. G. L. Suter has the mumps. Miss Lucy Crawford, who has been very ill for some time is reovering very fast. The members of the Second Baptist church held services in the First Baptist church held services in the First Baptist Sunday afternoon for the purpose of raising money to pay the debt on their church, and after an elegant sermon by the pastor, and a few remarks from Mr. Stone, county attorney, and Mr. Van Law and Egermayer, they succeeded in raising between four and five hundred dollars. Special credit is due Rev. Nickerson, who has worked hard to raise the entire amount. Mrs. Rice, of Gilman is visiting in our our city, having her ears operated upon Mr. James Thompson has sold his place and will move to Chiesgo next month. Mr. Frank Miller has bought Mr. Thompson's place, and will move in soon. Mr. E. M. Williamson has bought the property at one time owned by Mr. Abe Bryant. Millinery Co out Street. --- No. 41. --- NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL Des Moines, March 20, 1901. J. F. Vincent, owner of the Des Moines stock yards, has had a conference with William Agar, who is to manage the local branch of the Agar Packing company, on the advisability of the Agar Packing company buying its product through the yard instead of sending out buyers to take the stock from local shippers. It is understood that it was practically agreed they will co-operate in an effort to build up a market in Des Moines. The policy agreed upon is that for the time being the Agar company will not only buy stock on the Vincent market, but will send men into the country to make purchases with a view of turning shipments from the territory surrounding this city away from Chicago and Omaha. When stock commences to move this way it is the intention to take these buyers off the road and to make all purchases through the Vincent yard. It is believed that with a demand for 2,000 hogs a day and as many fat cattle each week in Des Moines a respectable market can be built up at this point and that other buyers representing Chicago and Iowa packers will come to the Des Moines market to furnish competition and allow hogs. The creating of a local market for fat cattle it is believed will also tend to increase the demand for stock cattle, a large number of which are sold each year on the local market, and bring them to Des Moines. City Physician Schiltz, in an interview said: "If the people of Des Moines do not rouse themselves to the necessity of taking precautions against infection, half of the population will be down with the smallpox before another month has passed. I speak more particularly of people who have not been vaccinated. Vaccination is the only remedy and my advice to the public is to begin at once. Out of all the cases of smallpox we have had, only 8 per cent were patients who had been vaccinated, and of this 8 per cent none of the patients had been vaccinated during the past fifteen years and many of them went as far back as twenty and twenty-five years ago. The other 92 per cent who had or have the smallpox have never been vaccinated. Not more than 20 per cent of the people of Des Moines have been vaccinated. I believe, now that there is a possibility of an epidemic, that employers should insist on their employees being vaccinated and insisting on it to the point of discharge if they fail within a reasonable time to present a certificate of vaccination. Otherwise there is a strong probability of their places of business being quarantined, in the event that one of their employees catches the disease. The public school buildings should be fumigated every week and thoroughly washed out with germ destroying solutions. The street cars should also receive the attention of the board of health and every care should be exercised to prevent infection." Smallpox has crept into the schools of this city and orders have been issued by Superintendents Hiatt and Sheakley closing every door for one week. Reports coming in to the office of the secretary of the state board of health indicate the small pox epidemic is serious at Mason City. Seven persons have died recently of the disease. This is the largest number of deaths to be reported from any one point in the state since the outbreak last fall. The number of deaths in Iowa, however, is larger than generally supposed. Seventy-five persons are estimated to have died from small pox in Iowa since last October. Two deaths have just been reported from Atlantic. Another death was reported from Thurman. In the meantime, the number of cases reported daily to the board of health continues large. Justice Tris has notified every proprietor of every establishment in which slot machines are worked that the operation of such a machine is gambling, and unless stopped at once he will issue warrants for arrests, according to the statute prohibiting gambling. This notification has resulted in the closing of every machine in West Des Moines. A general canning plant will probably be established in Des Moines in the next few weeks with a plant attached for the manufacture of cans and boxes and a capacity for putting up a couple of million cans of vegetables and fruits each year. It will probably be located on the Rock Island tracks this city and Valley Junction. The city council has directed the purchase of Tracy Home for a small-pox and contagious disease hospital. The hospital costs $6,000. $30,000,000 IN CLAIDIS: Aggregate Amount Wanted by Americans Is Enormous. Washington, March 28.—The Spanish war claims commission, of which former Senator William E. Chandler of New amphshire is president, has received from the state department a full list of the claims against Spain, growing out of the insurrection in Cuba, which were filed in the department up to the 15th of the present month. These claims are all those of American citizens, for under the treaty of Paris the governments of the United States and Spain undertook to adjust claims of their own citizens. The grand total of these claims is about $30,000,000 and included in the list are five claims in excess of a million dollars. The largest single claim is that of John W. Brock on account of property losses estimated at $2,162,514. Mrs. Ruz, widow of the dentist who was killed in a Havana prison, is a claimant for $75,000. THE NEWS IN IOWA THE NEWS IN IOWA OLD MAN CLAIMS A PLOT. Thomas Watts, of Des Moines, Says HIs Children Dared Him. Children Duped Des Moines, March 27—Thomas Watts, an aged man, has through his attorney, Judge Spurrier, brought suit for the recovery of his property, consisting of real estate. In his petition he names John C. Watts, James Watts, Mary Watts and Lizzie Watts as his children; A. D. Reddish, his son-in-law, and Hazel Reddish, his granddaughter, all of them defendants. He alleges that on or about August 20, 1898, being then an aged man and desirous of making a will, he sat down with his son-in-law, Mr. Reddish, to make out the instrument: that Reddish, when the instrument was completed, stated that in order to make it legal, it would have to be signed by himself and recorded. He further claims that since then, when in need of money, he discovered that the supposed will was an absolute conveyance or deed to all his carefully possessions to A. D. Reddish, and that since then, (he Reddish) has attempted to convey a part of the real estate to his daughter, Hazel Reddish. For the reasons enumerated, he sues to have the deed set aside, and the property restored to him, on the grounds that he did not intend to deed the property. The property is worth $10,000. MRS. FOSTER FOUND GUILTY. Convicted of Attempt to Take the Life of Her Hip band. Algona, March 27. —The jury in the case of Mrs. Foster Foster found the defendant guilty of assault with intent to commit murder, and recommended that the judge impose a light sentence. Clarence Robinson, the accomplice of Mrs. Foster, was convicted a week or more since, and given a seven years' sentence in the penitentiary for shooting Fred Foster, the Algona barber, on the night of February 9. Mrs. Foster confessed before her husband and signed a written statement, that she had urged Robinson to make an effort to kill her husband. Later it appeared that Mr. Foster had forgiven his wife and an effort was made to deny her confession. This, however, failed when the case came to trial. One of the sensational features of Mrs. Foster's trial was the appearance of Robinson on the stand, and his recital of his intimate relations with the defendant. Without the least embarrassment he told of his weekly calls upon Mrs. Foster while her husband was away at his barber shop, and of their conversation pertaining to their getting Foster out of the way so they could go away together. CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN. Seems to Be Absorbed by the Harriman Syndicate. Des Mones, March 29.—There are not lucking indications that control of the Chicago Great Western will soon pass from President Stickney and the English bondholders allied with him to the Herriman syndicate. Vice President Oppenheim is quoted as confirming the report of the probable transfer of the Great Western to the great syndicate. Mr. Oppenheim stated that negotiations were pending which may result in the road being absorbed. In the event of the control of the Great Western passing to the Herriman syndicate it is the general opinion that the Northwestern will be given control of the southern part from Oelwein to St. Joe and Kansas City, thus giving the Northwestern a long desired connection with Kansas City, while the Chicago-St. Paul part of the system would be given over to the Illinois Central. This would place the Northwestern on even terms with its great competitors, the Burlington and Milwaukee & St. Paul, for southwestern business via the Kansas City gateway. MAY BE DOUBLE MURDER. Aged Couple Near Ft. Dodge Badly Assaulted by Fknown Men. Ft. Dodge, Iowa, March 27.—Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Dinen, an aged couple living a few miles from this city, are lying at the point of death as a result of a cowardly assault upon them by two unknown men at 8 o'clock last evening. Mr. Dinen answered a knock at the door and upon opening it was thrown down and clubbed over the head by his assailants. Mrs. Dinen came to her husband's aid and was struck in the face and terribly beaten. When their work was finished the men turned away and disappeared. The deed was evidently not prompted by a desire to rob, as nothing was taken from the house and it was probably actuated by a secret enemy. Mr. Dinen stands well in the community, and the cause for the act is a mystery. Both victims are over 80 years of age, and their condition is exceedingly critical. The surrounding country is aroused, and the vicinity is being scoured for trace of the assailants. Damage Suits Being Settled. Damage suits being sent. Daveyport, March 27.—If the plans of attorneys do not miscarry the now famous damage suits against the Glucose Sugar Refining company for the death and injury of men who were in the boiler explosion on the night of November 29, 1900, will be settled soon and the Glucose company will pay Victor Keiffer and administrators of estates of four men who were killed, $5,000 each. Five suits of $20,000 each against the company were transferred to the federal court. The result is they will very likely be settled for the sum named above in each suit, each party to the several suits paying his or her own costs. The Glucose company has offered to settle on these terms. The suits grew out of the explosion of boilers at the factory of the Glucose Sugar Refining company in the west end of the city. Shot by Mistake Burlington, March 28—Jake Decker, the night flagman at the Main street crossing of the Burlington railroad, was accidentally shot by Morris Dowling in the little shanty near the crossing about midnight and died shortly afterward. Dowling was passing his revolver to Decker for inspection when in some unaccountable manner the weapon was discharged and the ball crashed through Decker's mouth. RAILROAD ASSESSMENT. Total Assessment Shows an Increase of $1,073,685 Des Moines, March 25.—The railroad assessment was ended Saturday, with an increase of $1,157,473 in the valuation of the railroad property in the state, and a decrease of $83,799. The net increase in assessment was $1,073,683, or practically $1,000,000. This apparent increase is in reality a decrease over the 1900 assessment when the gross earnings of the two years are compared. In 1900, the assessment was 92.8 per cent of the aggregate gross earnings of the preceding year. The new assessment is but 90.9 per cent of the gross earnings. In other words, the seeming increase is real decrease of nearly 2 per cent. The resolution of Secretary Martin to make a substantial increase in the assessment was not acted upon. The total increase in the assessment of Northwestern property was $422,038. At the present time the Northwestern pays but little more than 2 per cent of its gross earnings out in taxes. The Great Western, the Rock Island and the Burlington systems pay about 3 per cent. The taxes on the increased assessment of the Northwestern will not rise to 3 per cent of its gross earnings. The total increase of the assessment on the old lines was $558,348. The total increase on new lines was $299,125. The bulk of the increase on new lines is placed on the Rock Island. There is no increase on the old line of the Rock Island system save on that part of the Gowrie division which was completed in time last year to bear the assessment. It was then assessed at $2,500 per mile. The gross increase on the old part of the Gowrie division is $24,650. The increase on the Rock Island system due to assessing the newly completed road of the Gowrie division is $213,400. The Burlington system is left practically unchanged. There is a large increase in the main line assessment of the Great Western. The principal increase on old lines that does not fall on the Northwest that does not fall on the Dubuque Sioux City a part of the Illinois Central system and on the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul. The total increase on the Dubuque & Sioux City is $151,943, and on the Milwaukee system is $110,455.50. The total assessment as made in 1900 was $16,605,510. The total assessment this year fools up to $47,621,193. The percentage of increase of assessment is less than 2 per cent leaving out of the question the increases made by reason of the assessments on new lines. AGED MISER ROBBED OF GOLD. Thieves Secure a Sack Containing Six Hundred Dollars in Gold. Vinton, March 26.—Word comes to town of the robbery of Hugh Brody, an aged and miserly farmer residing ten miles northeast of here near the village of Marysville. Mr. Brody is about 90 years old, and came to this county in the early days of its settlement, and by the hardest industry and utmost frugality had amassed quite a fortune, most of which he has invested in lands. For some little time rumors of his hearding gold have been in circulation and now comes the report that one sack, containing $600 in gold, is missing. Just when it was taken is not definitely known, but it has been within a very few days. A few years ago Marietta Spalding, an aged and miserly lady residing in the timber three miles east of here, was robbed of $1,200 in gold, which she had boarded up in denying herself the comforts of life. In that instance masked men entered her home, bound and gagged her and her son and rainsacked the premises until the money was found, but in the case of Mr. Brody the theft was committed during a brief illness. SHORTAGE AF PARNELL. Inspector Finds Postmaster at that Place $3,900 Short Iowa City, March 29.—C. E. Stewart, United States inspector of postoffice, has discovered a shortage of $2,000 in the money order department of the postoffice at Parnell. He visited the office and in making his inspection discovered that about $2,000 had been taken in in the department which had not been accounted for. Mr. Stewart begin making a search through the office and found hidden away in various places about $700 in bills, still $1,300 short. Mr. Stewart reported his finding to the postmaster, who was considerably surprised, but when shown the books and accounts went out and raised the required amount of money, inspector Stewart is working on the case and the guilty party, whoever it is, will be prosecuted. Swift After Express Robbers. Swift After Express Robbers. Burlington, March 28. - Superintendent Swift, accompanied by two detectives, was in the city on a new scent in the daring robbery of $20,000 from the Adams Express company of a few months ago. It is reported that the detectives have obtained from Montgomery. Ward of Chicago a complete list of the persons to whom the particular catalogue was sent, pieces of which made up the dummy package used to displace the original. They are now tracing down every man, woman or child who received one of these catalogues, and expect in that way to find where the dummy was manufactured. Superintendent Swift said that they did not despair of ultimate success and were confident that the daring robber would yet be placed behind prison bars. Bank Robers at Riverside. Cedar Rapids, March 28. The savings bank at Riverside was broken into early yesterday morning. The burglars drilled through the steel doors of the vault, but the inner safe resisted their efforts. They secured only a small sum of money from the cash drawer and escaped on a hand car towards Iowa City. There is no clue. Cost Him Dearly. Ft. Dodge, March 26.—Mrs. Sophia Oleson was awarded $10,000 damages, the entire amount of her suit, against John Anderson for breach of promise. Defendant claimed that he had been ready to marry Mrs. Oleson at any time she saw fit, and also that she was a woman of bad moral character. NEWS IN GENERAL SITUATION IN KOREA. Russia and Japan Watching Each Other Like Angry Animals. New York, March 27.—The Rev. S. L. Baldwin, recording secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Missionary society in this city, who was in Korea in the early part of 1898, while on a tour devoted to the inspection of missions, said today of the Korean situation: "When I was in Korea it was just at the time relations between Russia and Japan were much strained, as they are today. Russia's efforts then to oust McLevey Brown were the cause of the crisis, as at present. At every port where I was, if there happened to be a Russian man-of-war, there was sure to be a Japanese war vessel also. If the Russian vessel left the port, the Japanese vessel immediately got up her anchor and steamed away in the same direction. The Japanese were evidently keeping very close watch upon the Russians everywhere. Several times, also, an American gunboat dropped in and seemed to be keeping very well posted. "If the present situation should develop into war, Japan should certainly have the moral support of the United States, Great Britain and Germany. If she does not have that moral support—which sometimes counts for nothing—it will be because the three governments in question are blind to their own interests and indifferent to the demands of humanity. The United States in particular should be willing to assume a proper share of the responsibility. We have too often in the past let England do the whole work, and then come in ourselves for a full share of the benefits afterwards." TURKEY IS TOTTERING. Ottoman Troops Defeated by Arab Insurgents. London, March 28.—Advices received here from Constantmople are to the effect that affairs are rapidly reaching a dangerous pass there. Turkish finances are in an inextricable confusion. All government salaries are from six to eight months in arrears. Upward of a million Turkish pounds are due for war material, while the military expenditure is daily increasing in order to cope with the rebellion in the province of Yemen in southern Arabia and the possible rising in Macedonia. There is no doubt that the Ottoman troops received a severe check at the hands of the Arab insurgents, who in a manifesto denouncing the sultan proclaimed his brother, Mohammed Reshad Effendi, to be sultan with the title of Mohammed V. The young Turks party have adhered to the Arabian proclamation and the opening enmity to Abdul Hamid, the sultan, has spread to the palace and the sultan's advisers. Izzet Bey is said to be preparing for flight. The patrols of Constantinople have doubled. Mohammedans and Christians are arrested hourly and large numbers are daily shipped to Asia Minor. A tension between Bulgarians and Mussulmans in Macedonia is extreme. It is reported that another band of marauders has crossed Bulgaria into Macedonia. TORNADO HITS BIG CITY Twenty-five Killed and Many Injured at Birmingham, Ala. Birmingham, Ala., Mar. 27.—Shortly before 10 oclock yesterday morning a fearful tornado, traveling in an easterly direction, swept over the southern part of this city. The number of killed is estimated at twenty-five, of whom five are white. The destruction of property is placed at a quarter-of a million dollars. Eighteen bodies have been recovered and scores of injured have been removed to the hospital. Among the dead are the Dr. G. C. Chapman, of the firm of Tally & Chapman, who conduct a private infirmary in this city, and the wife and infant child of Hon. Robert J. Lowe, chairman of the democratic state executive committee. The storm struck the city in the extreme southwestern quarter and plewed its way eastward, leaving a path 150 feet wide through the entire southern section, extending from Green Springs on the west to Avondale on the east, and continued its course until its fury was spent in the mountains beyond Irondale, a small town six miles east of the city. A terrific rain storm followed the wind, and greatly retarded the work of relief. Fully five hundred houses were demolished or damaged, and the total property loss is estimated at $350,000. GREAT BRITAIN PROTESTS. Now Aligned With America and Japan Against Russia. Washington, March 28.—The British government has protested against China's making a convention with any power to change territorial or financial affairs until the present troubles in that country are concluded. The fact of the British protest was made known here for the first time yesterday by a dispatch from one of the foreign offices of Europe. It says that the protest was made through Sir Ernest Satow, the British minister at Peking. It does not state when the representations were made, but from the fact that the dispatch was received in Washington yesterday it was taken that the protest occurred within the last few days. Although the Russian agreement is not specifically referred to, it is said to be clear that the British action is directed against the Russian agreement. The language used appears to be similar to that used by Secretary Hay in the American protest. The effect of the British action is to place the United States, Japan and Great Britain in formal opposition to the signing of a convention in China with any power pending the settlement of the Chinese troubles. The course of Great Britain is the more significant from the fact that that government and Germany have a written alliance relating to Chinese affairs. Lincoln, Neb., March 29.—The republican cause nominated J. H. Millard, president of the Omaha Nationa bank, of Omaha, for the long term and Governor Charles H. Dietrich for the short term for the United States senators from Nebraska. Prior to this Rosewater and D. E. Thompson the two leading candidates, withdrew and the two men nominated were named as a compromise, Dietrich being suggested by Thompson and Millard by Rosewater. Yesterday at noon Millard and Dietrich were elected by the joint session. Each received 70 votes, the entire strength of the republican members of the legislature. Governor Dietrich's election to the United States senate will raise Lieutenant Governor Savage to the office of governor, which the former will vacate on his qualification as senator. STORY OF THE CAPTURE Suffering of Funston and Companions on the March. Manila, March 29.—Aguinaldo, who was captured by General Funston and brought to Manila on the United States gunboat Vicksburg, was brought ashore at 3:10 p. m. yesterday and taken before General MacArthur at the Malacanang palace. He talked freely, but seemed ignorant concerning recent events. He appeared to be in good health and was even cheerful. He lunched with the officers of General MacArthur's staff, and was then escorted to the Anda street mil. General Funston gives out the following story of the capture: "On the night of March 8 the party who were to go after Aguinaldo embarked on the United States gambot Vicksburg. It was originally intended to take cascades from the island of Polillo and to drift to the mainland, but a storm arose and three of the cascades were lost. This plan was abandoned. At 2 a.m. March 14 the Vicksburg put her lights out and ran in sore twenty-five miles south of Casiguran, province of Principe. The party landed and marched to Casiguran. The Americans had never garrisoned this place, and the inhabitants are strong insurgent sympathizers. Having arrived there the ex-insurgent officers, ostensibly commanding the party, announced that they were on the way to join Aguinaldo between Pautobung and Baler; that they had surprised an American surveying party, and that they had killed a number, capturing five. They exhibited General Funston and the other Americans as their prisoners. The insurgent president of Casiguran believed the story. Two of the Lacuna letters, previously conceived, were forwarded to Aguinaldo at Palanana, province of Isabella. General Funston and the others were kept imprisoned for three days, surreptitiously giving orders at night. On a small quantity of crackers and corn, the party started on a ninety mile march to Palanan. The country is rough and uninhabited and provisions could not be secured. The party ate small shell fish, but were almost starved. Wading swift rivers, climbing precipitous mountains and penetrating dense jungles, they marched seven days and nights, and March 22 had reached a point eight miles from Palanan. They were now so weak that it was necessary to send to Aguinaldo's camp for food. Aguinaldo dispatched supplies and directed that the American prisoners be kindly treated, but not be allowed to enter the town. On the morning of March 23 the advance was resumed. The column was met by the staff officers of Aguinaldo's body guard, which was ordered to take charge of the Americans. While one of the ex-insurgent officers conversed with Aguinaldo's aide, to warn General Funston the rest who, with eleven Macabees, were about an hour behind. Having received this warning General Funston avoided Aguinaldo's detachment and joined column, avoiding observation. The Tagalos went ahead to greet Aguinaldo and the column slowly followed, finally arriving at Palaman. Aguinaldo's household troops, fifty men in neat uniforms of blue and white and wearing straw hats, lined up to receive the newcomers. General Funston's men crossed the river in small boats, formed on the banks, and marched to the right and then in front of the insurgent greedlers. The Tagalos entered the house where Aguinaldo was. Suddenly the Spanish officer, noticing that Aguinaldo's side was watching the Americans suspiciously, exclaimed: "Now, Maceabebes, go for them." The Maceabebes opened fire, but their aim was rather ineffective, and only three insurgents were killed. The rebels returned the fire. On hearing the firing, Aguinaldo, who evidently thought his men were merely celebrating the arrival of reinforcements, ran to the window and shouted, "Stop that foolishness; quit wasting ammunition." Hilario Pacido, one of the Tagalo officers and a former insurgent major, who was wounded in the lung by the fire of the Kansas regiment at the battle of Caboose, threw his arms around Aguinaldo, exclaiming: "You are a prisoner of the Americans." Colonel Simeon Villa, Aguinaldo's chief of staff; Major Alumbra and others attacked the men who were holding Aguinaldo. Placeio shot Villa in the shoulder. Alumbra jumped out of the window and attempted to cross the river. It is supposed that he was drowned. Five other insurgent officers fought for a few minutes and then fled, making their escape. When the firing began, General Funston assumed command and directed the attack on the house, personally assisting in the capture of Aguinaldo. The insurgent body guard fired, leaving twenty rides. Santiago Barcelona, the insurgent treasurer, surrendered without resistance. When captured, Aguinaldo was tremendously excited, but he calmed down under General Funston's assurance that he would be well treated. General Funston secured all of Aguinaldo's correspondence, showing that he had kept in close touch with the sub-chiefs of the insurrection in all parts of the archipelago. It was also discovered that Aguinaldo, January 28, had proclaimed himself dictator. Manila, March 28.—General Frederick Funston's daring project for the capture of Aguinaldo in his hiding place in the province of Isabela Island of Luzon, has proved completely successful. Aguinaldo was captured there on March 23. The United States gunboat Vicksburg, E. B. Barry commander, with General Funston and Aguinaldo on board, arrived here this morning. Sometimes during the month of January from his hiding place in the province of Isabella, Aguinaldo wrote letter anathematizing the sub chiefs who had taken the oath of allegiance to the United States. Later Aguinaldo ordered insurgent forces in southern Luzon to join him at a rendezvous in Isabella province. The rebel officer intrusted with these orders secretly negotiated with the Americans. On securing necessary information, General Funston planned Aguinaldo's capture, and with General MacArthur's authorization, proceeded two weeks ago to make the attempt. General Funston, with Sgeon Major Harris, Captain Newton of the Thirty-fourth infantry, Lieutenant Admire of the Twenty-second infantry, Lieutenant Mitchell of the Fortenth infantry, six veteran scouts and a company of native scouts, a picked men, embarked on the gunboat Vicksburg and were landed on a remote beach above Baler. It was arranged that Aguinaldo's emissary with the native scouts, should pass themselves off as insurgent troops who, having captured General Funston and others, were taking them as prisoners to Aguinaldo. At the right time, when brought before Aguinaldo, General Funston was given a signal, when the tables were to be turned and Aguinaldo was be seized. Six days' march into the interior were contemplated. Treachery was considered possible, but every precaution was taken. The troops in New Viscaya and New Ecija and the gunboats, Vicksburg and Albany were to co-operate with General Funston's force. General Funston's plans were carried out almost to the letter. Aguinaldo's hiding place was found, Funston and the other Americans were conducted into Aguinaldo camp. The signal was given and the Filipino leader and his immediate retainers were captured and escorted back to the ships. Troops from the ships and from the nearest garrison had advanced as closely as possible to Funston's destination, and in the party on their return with Aguinaldo in order to prevent a rescue. The dangers of the expedition are hardly be overestimated. General Funston and his companions trust their lives to the Filipino seacons the American service. Had even one of them proved disloyal and sword to Aguinaldo in advance, entire American party might have been ambushed and captured. There was some fighting at Aguinaldo's capture, and before a Vicksburg was reached on the retrip, but the details have not been given out. The provise of Isabella, whose capture of Aguinaldo occurred on the Island of Luzon, aboard miles northeast of Manila, and seventy-five north of Balearic eastern coast, which place was memorable by the capture, the gunboat Yorktown in April Isabella province is wild and untainous, especially along the coast where the high range known as Grand Cordellinas Orient, extends 100 miles or more, the highest point of the range being but a few feet from the shore. Rugged trails some places but a foot or two width, lead across the mountain streams, and where these over their bank-trails are waist-deep mud. It was to this uninviting trict that General Funston and small band were sent a short ago. It was a part of the isis that had never before been vis-oy American troops. Washington, March 28.—The nature of Aguinaldo will be a source great satisfaction to the press and to his advisers. Coming so after the surrender reported General MacArthur of prominent印ono officers and the successful tribulation of civil government the Taft commission, they feel the end of the rebellious war in the islands is near at hand. Whe the expected collapse of further position which it is confidently lieved will follow, the hope is pressed that it will not be necessary to maintain a large standing at in the islands as is now contemptible. The disposition of Aguinaldo, that he has been apprehended, be an interesting one for the administration to determine. The pability of his capture at any time always been kept in view, and future has been a matter of informal discussion by the officials. I not believed, however, that any vite line of action was ever demined upon in regard to the man. The attitude of the government a long time past, had been one comparative indifference to Aguinaldo's capture, it having been demined to crush the rebellion with regard to his whereabouts. His cent activity in directing the care of operations against the Amer forces probably brought about recent change in this attitude. As the leader of an insurer against the United States government, Aguinaldo may be tried or executed, a lesser punishment may be to him by executive clemency, complete amnesty extended. With the question of punishment with military authorities, it is be led the president will make the utter one for determination primacy by the authorities here. Boers Near Queenstown. Queenstown, Cape Colony, Mar. 36. The guard here has been cut out owing to reports that a force Boers is near the town. Business been shut down in order to allow employees to man the trenchers forts day and night. The Boers are said to be twenty miles off alleged to have crossed the rail near Drummond. a pelleasant pouch is large enough to hold seven quarts of water. The mother of Governor Beckham in Kentucky has a remarkable record, that has the unprecedented distinction of having been the mother of a governor, the daughter of a governor, the sister of a governor and the cousin of a governor. A careless waiter, while opening a bottle of cider in a Paris restaurant, so held the bottle that the cork ruffled Mille. Andree in the eye, causing the loss of sight in that organ. She sued, and the restaurant proprietor was fined five thousand francs. Women in Austria are never put in prison. A female criminal, no matter how terrible her record, instead of being sent to jail, is conveyed to one of the convents devoted to that purpose, and there she is kept until the expiration of the term for which she Deep sorrow for a deed dog was shown in Wichita, Kansas. It was a better, and for years had accompanied the owner on hunting expeditions. The animal died, and was buried in expensive coffin, with a satin pillow on which to rest its head, and the coffin was covered with flowers. NFARLY GONE. Mr Julia A. Mallahan, of Owsoo, Mich. Has a Very Narrow Escape—The Doctor Had Little Hope. Owsoo, Mich., March 25.—(Special.) -Elite Rebekah Lodge, No. 2, I. O. O. F. of this town,came very nearly licing the esteemed and capable secretary. Mrs Julia A. Mallahan. Mrs Mallahan caught a severe cold last winter, and like many others, failed to recognize the dangerous possibilities until it had settled in her kidneys, and left her with very severe bearing down pains and almost constant backache. It al- most carried her off. Mrs Mallahan sits the story this way: "I caught a cold last winter, which I neglected until it settled in my kid's, causing severe bearing down pains and almost constant bachache. My health had previously been so good that I paid little attention to these symptoms, until the disease had gone far that my doctor entertained but a slight hope of my recovery. "Fortunately one of our Lodge Memories mentioned Dodd's Kidney Pills. For description of the cures they had sounded like a fairy tale, but I sent for a box, deciding to give them a trial. I soon found that she had but half the story of what they could do. I bless the day I first tried them, and have nothing but the highest praise for them." Many very valuable lives have been buried by the timely use of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and not a few of these have been in Owosso and other neigh- boring Michigan towns. There seems to be no case of kidney trouble or macha-che that Dodd's Kidney Pills will not cure. They are 50c. a box, six boxes for 10. Buy them from your local regist if you can. If he cannot sup- p you, send to the Dodds Medicine any, Buffalo, N. Y. Kansas editor apologizes for a geographical blunder, which made say that a bride appeared in hirt sleeves." "We wrote 'short sleeves,'" explains the editor, "as min as we know how." goughing Leads to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist today to get a sample bottle free. Sold in and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; days are dangerous. Only the bettering of the heart brings true wisdom. - Pichte. A WOODEN BOWMAN Two Big Pains seem to be the heritage of the human family everywhere, viz: Rheumatism and Neuralgia but there is one sure and prompt cure for both, viz: St. Jacobs Oil PISO'S SURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL USE FAIRS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION A PRETTY COMPANION By Louise Bedford. CHAPTER II—(Continued.) CHAPTER II. (continued.) "I'm sure I don't know how I shall get on there tonight. I don't know where this frolicsome engine has chosen to deposit us, but we must be at least 10 miles away from Northcliff." Janetta gave an involuntary start; the man's destination was the same as her own. "You can take my dogcart, if you like. It's at a house hard by. I've a case there that will detain me for the night," rejoined the doctor curly. "Thanks, ever so much. I believe I'll be off then. Your patient is opening her eyes; the rest of the passengers seem sorting themselves. Let me see, there's a child that belongs to this woman somewhere." And, glancing round, he saw Janetta, faithful to her trust, seated on the bank with the child he sought in her arms. "Let me relieve you of your burden," he said, a certain tenderness in his voice as he looked at the little child. "There, don't cry"—to the little one—"mammy's all right." He carried it off as gently as a woman would have done; then he returned to Janetta, standing by her with a certain hesitation. "I have turned up a friend here who kindly offers his dogcart to forward me to my destination. Can I be of any service to you? I expect there will be a train presently to carry on the passengers. Is it an impertinence to ask where you are going?" Janetta rose, with a feeling of stiffness in her limbs and some unsteadiness of motion. The shock had half dazed her. "I'm going to the Grange, Northcliff" she said. "How very odd! I'm bound for the same place. Under the circumstances, we had better go on together. I'll speak to Drake about it. Sit down again a minute. You look as if the accident had been too much for your nerves," he said, smiling pleasantly. "Kindly tell me your name, and I'll see that your luggage and my own are forwarded to us later." "I'm Miss Howard." "Thank you. Then I'll see if there is luggage for the names of Howard and Merivale to be rescued from the debris, and then we'll get on as fast as we can. As Miss Seymour is delicate, it might be serious if she heard rumors of an accident to our train before we arrived. "Invalid!" ejaculated Janetta, as her companion hurried off to complete his preparations; "and I should not wonder if this Mr. Merivale were a nephew of the old lady. Very likely has expectations!" Once fairly started in the brisk evening air, Janetta's courage and spirits began to revive, and she could hardly help smiling at the curious position in which she found herself, seated side by side with a complete stranger in a borrowed dogcart, going to a lady of whom she knew absolutely nothing but the name. "It is certainly a curious coincidence that you and I should be bound for the same house," began Mr. Mervale; "but it is still more curious to me that, often as I am down at the Grange, I have not heard your name mentioned before." "That is easily explained. I answered Miss Seymour's advertisement for a companion, and she is kind enough to give me a trial. We have not met." said Janetta simply. Her companion turned quickly, and, in the half light, gave a swift, scrutinizing glance, accompanied by a smile, of which Janetta found it hard to explain the meaning. It was half amused and half incredulous. He made no sort of comment upon her explanation, but turned the conversation rapidly to other channels. "He knows all about that eccentric old lady's advertisement," she thought. Mr. Merivale chatted away so agreeably on many topics and the ten miles' drive passed so quickly that Janetta gave a little start of astonishment when Mr. Merivale pointed with his whip to the twinkling lights of the little harbor, and told her that they were within half a mile of their destination. It was quite dark as they drove through the cobbled streets of the little town; then, by a sharp ascent, they climbed the hill just outside it, and, turning into a drivegate set open to receive them, drew up at the door of a long, low, irregularly built house. Mr. Merivale jumped to the ground and threw the reins to the groom, gently lifting Janetta out of the cart. The next instant they were admitted by an extremely smart parlormaid into the low, oak-panneled hall, where a dog-fire blazed cheerly on the hearth. A lady of between sixty and seventy, whose gown rustled as she moved, advanced to meet her. "Allow me to introduce Miss Howard," said Mr. Merivale. CHAPTER III. Janetta's heart sank. The stern features of the lady to whom she was introduced scarcely relaxed into a smile, and a cold hand held her own. "Come in, Miss Howard. Your train must have been very late; we expected you more than an hour ago." "There was an accident. The train ran off the line, I think, and we were landed, Mr. Merivale and I——" "Captain Merivale," corrected her listener. Janetta glanced round quickly to see Jaintain Merivale had followed, and He smiled and lifted his hat. CHAPTER III was listening to the correction; but he was nowhere to be seen. "We had not met before. I did not know that he was Captain Merivale by intuition; but he was very anxious that you should not be frightened on his account, Miss Seymour. He told me that you were not strong." A smile crossed the narrow face—a mirthless smile. "I am not Miss Seymour. It is many years since any one troubled himself to consider my feelings. I am Mrs. Mortimer, Miss Seymour's lady housekeeper. Until lately I believed myself also to be her companion; but I dull, apparently, and getting old. I'm not enough for her, and I am to be supplanted by you." Janetta stretched out her hands eagerly, appealingly, a great sorrow filling her heart for the woman before her, with whom the world had evidently dealt so hardly. "Not supplanted," she said, "only supplemented. I don't know what Miss Seymour's wants may be, but let me help you any way I can. I don't care what I do. You can put me into the way of things, tell me my duties, and give me a hint when I make a mistake." "You will have no duties," replied the elder woman coldly, looking at the outstretched hands, but not taking them into her own. "You are young and good-looking; they are the only qualifications which Miss Seymour seems to require. She will see you, she says, after dinner. Shall I show you to your room?" Janetta followed her up the thickly-carpeted stairs into a room so luxuriously furnished that she could hardly believe that it was the one intended for her, except that her fur coat had been already carried up there, with such other possessions as she had with her in the carriage. She found Mrs. Mortimer still alone when she went downstairs. "Captain Merivale dines tonight with Miss Seymour in her boudour," she explained as she led the way into the dining room. "Sometimes Miss Seymour is well enough to dine with us, but today she has been over-exciting herself, and was so tired that I advised her remaining upstairs." Janetta would have liked to have asked a hundred questions about Miss Seymour, but the presence of the parlormaid and the forbidding manner of her companion made her curious. They had scarcely returned to the drawing room before a message was delivered to Janetta to demand her presence in Miss Seymour's room. "You can show Miss Howard the way to your mistress' room, Mason," said Mrs. Mortimer. And Janetta followed the maid. She was ushered into a sitting room more perfect in detail than any she had ever entered. It was a general sense of beauty and luxury that struck her at first, for her attention centered itself at once upon its only occupant, a fragile, fair little lady, quite young, who lay upon the couch that was drawn near the fire. She raised herself to a sitting posture, and held out her hand with a smile of welcome. "I'm afraid you must come to me, Miss Howard, I'm too tired to get up to greet you. Sit down near me, will you? I sent Harry off to the smoking room, as I told him I wanted to talk to you alone for a bit." Janetta shook hands, seated herself in the easy chair to which Miss Seymour pointed, and wondered if she dreamed. This, then, was the Miss Seymour she had pictured as an eccentric old maid, devoted to poodles and parrots! Even her views about Captain Merivale needed readjusting. Clearly he was not a nephew with expectations! More probably a cousin, possibly a lover. The thoughts passed rapidly through her mind until, raising her eyes, she was conscious that she was being watched eagerly by her companion. There was something intensely attractive in the face that looked into her own. It must have been very pretty until ill-health and delicacy had written their lines on it. Even now the shape of it was charming. The flaxen hair that waved on the forehead was abundant and beautifully dressed, the folds of white silk and soft-falling face were becoming arranged round the tiny throat; but oh! how delicate she looked. Something of the pity that Janetta felt must have found expression in her face, for Miss Seymour broke the silence with petulant laugh. "You are sorry for me, like every one else—I read it in your eyes; but I'm not going to die. I'm going to get well, or all the doctors lie." "I devoutly hope you will, and quickly," replied Janetta gently; "and you must tell me what I can do to help you. I'm sure I could carry you, you are so light and small." Miss Seymour broke into merry laughter. "I don't want you for hard labor. I wonder if you thought it was a lunatic who put that advertisement into the paper? Harry declared that nobody in her senses would answer it, but many did. "I had over two hundred answers, so many that I would not even open them all. I liked your photo. I thought you were pretty and looked true, so I told Mrs. Mortimer to take your letter and answer it, as if from me, and to return all the others. "It was Doctor Drake's suggestion the man you saw at the train tonight Harry tells me that he scented the accident from afar, and was on the scene almost directly it happened. He is called clever, but he does not cure me. "Well, he found me crying one day, and he said I ought to have some one bright and young and good-tempered about me. You can't call Mrs. Mortimer any one of those things, can you?" Janetta did not answer; she felt that the remark was in bad taste. "I shan't like you if you look shocked every time I'm flippant. Where was I? So I advertised, half in fun and half in earnest, and of course Mrs. Mortimer is very cross, although it won't make the smallest difference in her lot, except that she will have to give orders for another place to be laid at every meal. "She is perfectly invaluable in her way—housekeeper, chaperon, companion, everything rolled into one; but she is occasionally depressing." "You will give me something to do?" said Janetta, when Miss Seymour came to a pause. "Not the things that Mrs. Mortimer has done for you, it might hurt her feelings." "Oh, you will not have much to do. You will be 'cheerful when I am sad, and kind when I'm cross; and you won't offer to read aloud unless I ask you, and you will talk when I want you to talk; and, above all things, you won't try palpably to amuse me." "Nothing bores me like that; and I do hope you can arrange flowers nicely. Mrs. Mortimer makes bouquets as round as pumpkins, and is so annoyed when I criticise. "I wonder," she said, with a rapid change of subject, "how you liked Captain Merivale? I'm engaged to him, you know, and he has come to stay here for a little bit before he goes out to India. He is ordered to the front." "He was very kind," replied Janetta. "I scarcely know how I would have got here without him." "We were engaged before I had the fall from my horse which has made me what you see me," went on Miss Seymour, twisting her engagement ring round and round upon her anger, so that every diamond in it caugit and reflected the light in a thousand rainbow-colored hues. "It's hard luck that I lie here helpless like this, isn't it, when there is such a life of happiness before me? I'm going to get well, but it's long to wait. Now you can guess how much I shall need cheering when Harry goes abroad. He's very good to me, and declares he's never dull when he comes; but you will try to make it more cheerful for him. If you wait a little while he'll be up again. "You will not need an introduction after that long drive in the dark. He was pleased with you, because he said you were the only woman in the accident who did not scream." Janetta laughed. "Terror does not take that form with me; it makes me feel incapable of uttering a sound. I expect I was just as frightened as any body else." "Well, at any rate, you kept it well under," said a voice behind her; and, looking round, Janetta saw that Captain Merivale had entered the room unperceived. (To be continued.) PURE-FOOD LAW. Kentucky Tests Show Fruit Jelly Made Wheats of Clay The General Assembly of Kentucky recently enacted a law providing for the inspection of food products sold in that state, and intrusted the work to the agricultural experiment station. The station submitted a report showing that fully 40 per cent of all samples of food taken were adulterated. Some of the adulterants used are in jurious to health; others have been put in to cheapen articles of food. As examples of the former, the inspectors found so-called "fruit jellies" made wholly or in part of glue and artificial coloring and flavoring matters. They found salicylic acid, sometimes in large quantities. In tomato catsup, preserves and other food products which were sold as pure, and formaldehyde and other preservatives in milk, which perhaps in some cases was fed to infants. The most striking example of all is in the case of essence of pepermint and essence of cinnamon. These extracts contained wood alcohol, a poisonous substance, as one of the ingredients. In the preparation of these essences a mixture of wood alcohol and common alcohol was used in place of common alcohol, presumably to avoid the government tax on alcohol. This condition of affairs is by no means confined to Kentucky. Equally flagrant instances of adulteration are reported in the publications of other stations engaged in the inspection of foods and from many other sources. Goat Frightened the Negroes Some boys in Macon, Mo., recently fed the contents of a box of sedilliz powders to a goat belong to a family which had recently moved into the neighborhood. Then taking it for granted that he was thirsty, they led Billy to a near-by trough and permitted him to drink heartily. Soon the fizzing began and the goat tore down the street toward the woods at a reckless pace. Some negroes living several miles out of town claim to have seen Old Nick himself, as they verily believed, rushing along the road in broad daylight. His majesty resembled an enormous goat, they said, but they recognized him as the devil, because he was spitting fire and brimstone. The increase in membership of the New England Cremation Society during the past year has been larger than for several years. Mrs. J. Key, High street, Des Moines, has discovered a harmless and inexpensive remedy for the tobacco habit, by which her husband and hundreds of friends have been cured. Any druggist can put it up. Prescriptions and directions free for stamp to pay postage. Nature made a mistake in creating men who live for themselves alone. In the Spring, take Garfield Tea. This wonderful Herb Medicine purifies the blood and gives new and vigorous life to systems depleted by the trying winter season. A successful man is entitled to less praise than the man who makes another effort after each failure. Are You Using Allen's Foot Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. The greatest waterfall is Niagara, which sends over 32,000,000 tons of water an hour. Lane's Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. Work kills fewer men than the worry of having to listen to other people's troubles. The best Laundry Soap. Is Maple City Self Washing Soap. Just try it and see. All grocers sell it. Loafers seem to have a grudge against men who are busy. H INHERITANCE IN WESTERN CANADA Indian Reservations and Other New Dis- tricts to Be Opened Up This Year. In the Great Saskatchewan Valley and the Fertile Plains of Assinibolia. To the Editor, Dear Sir: The past three or four years have demonstrated to a large number of Americans the value of the grain-growing and ranching lands of Western Canada. Tens of thousands have taken advantage of the offer made by the Canadian government as well as of the exceedingly low prices asked for lands by the railway, colonization and other companies. The experience of those who have been settled there for some little time is of a highly gratifying character. So much that the Canadian government, who has control of the immigration into Western Canada, has decided to open up some new districts this year in the well known Saskatchewan valley and also in the fertile plains of Assinibioa. These Districts are probably the most productive in the entire West and in close touch to largely settled communities as well as being situated on some of the most important lines of railway. They are within easy reach of markets, schools, churches and other social advantages. In some of these districts lands may be homesteaded as well as purchased outright at very low prices. Now as to what can be done on these lands. The evidence of the settlers in the neighborhood of the lands now about to be opened for settlement (some of them being located in one of the best Indian Reservations) goes to show that the very best results have followed even most indifferent methods. Cases are given where farmers having gone there with most limited means, barely enough to erect a small house and break up a little land, have in three or four years time become prosperous, all debts paid and money in the bank. The soil in the Districts mentioned, Assinibioa and Saskatchewan, is a rich black loam, fifteen inches to three feet deep. As a settler says, "It appears like the accumulation of decayed vegetation and ashes for centuries (the sub-soil is a stiff, putty clay)." On this soil it is possible to raise from 40 to 50 bushels of wheat to the acre, oats 75 to 100 bushels, all of which bring good prices at the local market. For mixed farming these new districts are probably among the best in Western Canada. Stock fatten easily on the wild grasses. Hay is plentiful, and prices splendid. Another settler writing to a friend in Iowa says: "The climate is all that could be desired, plenty of rainfall in summer, with no hot, dry winds. On the 28th of September I saw prairie flowers in full bloom, sweet corn, potato and tomato vines that had not been touched a particle with frost, and the winters are milder than those in the State from which I came. After the holidays the winter sets in clear and cold, with plenty of snow for good sleighing; no high winds or blizzards are known. Horses live out all winter and pick their own living, while cattle live all winter in open sheds and around the hay ricks. Wheat, oats and barley are the principal grain crops. Potatoes and all other roots and vegetables do well, the yield being enormous as compared to those in the States. Wild fruits, such as strawberries, raspberries, cranberries, gooseberries and all varieties of currants yield in abundance. As a reader of your valuable paper for a number of years, I feel that I should inform you of the progress and advancement being made in Canada within the past few years, and the inducements and advantages that will follow settlement in Western Canada. Those who desire information can do as I did, and apply to any Agent of the Canadian Government, whose name I see appears in advertisements appearing elsewhere in the columns of your paper, and when writing ask particularly about the Saskatchewan Valley or Assinibioa Districts. Yours truly, Old Reader." A good mirror tells the truth, no matter oz whom it reflects. --- STORIETTES Dr. Milan Soule writes that hypnotic suggestion has enabled him to afford complete or partial relief in several instances. An accomplished and well known medical man gravely assured him "that he had frequently cured his wife of seasickness after the acute stage had passed by compelling her attention while he slowly read aloud the first chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew." Once when an enthusiastic young chairman at a large meeting in Harlem, New York, was making an earnest and sincere, but very flattering speech in introducing the late Henry George, the latter wrigled and writed as though his character was being aspersed instead of praised. Unable to bear it longer, he suddenly leanced forward and poked the chairman in the back with a walking stick he had found beside him. The chairman, in a flood of bellowing eloquence, chopped off in the middle of a word, looked behind him, had a whispering conference with the philosopher, turned back to the audience and said quietly: "Mr. George don't want me to get off the rest of that," which tucked the assemblage into spasms of laughter. The New York Sun's Peking correspondent says that once during a dry season in China, the viceroy, Earl Li Hung Chang, called on the American minister, Mr. Conger, and spoke of the weather. "Yes," said Mr. Conger, "it seems to be dry everywhere. It is dry in my country, too. I read in one of the papers the other day that in many places in West the people were praying for rain." "What!!" said the earl, "do your people pray their God for rain?" "Oh, yes," said the minister, "they often pray for rain." "And does their God send it when they pray for it?" asked the earl. "Yes, sometimes their prayers are answered and sometimes they are not." "All the same like Chinese joss, hey?" said the earl, with a grin and a chuckle. To produce a cashmere shawl of the best quality requires the constant labor of four persons for an entire year. A tunnel 1,800 feet below sea level and twenty-five miles long has been planned between Vaqueros bay, Spain, and Tangiers, Africa. 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. Pickets also sold to points in Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and British Columbia at unheard of low rates. For full particulars call on Iowa Central ticket agents, or address Geo. S. Many, G. P. & T. A., Marshalltown, Iowa. Many a woman is forced to stand up for her rights in a crowded street car. Home-Speakers' Excursions: On the first and third Tuesdays of each month the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway will sell round-trip excursions and other points on its line to a great many points in South Dakota, North Dakota and western states at about one fare. Take a trip west and see the wonderful crops and what an amount of good land can be offered. Each rail information as to rates, routes, prices of farm lands, etc., may be obtained by addressing F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ill. The most of our mistaken come from being in a hurry. ToCALIFORNIA 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 Ft. 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 the low rate tickets. Is a Railway System Comprising 2,500 Miles of Superb Roadway Built and Equipped in the Most Approved Manner of Modern Railway Construction. The Passenger Train Service of the "BIG FOUR ROUTE" provides 200 Passenger Trains per day, requiring for their operation 20 Dining and Café Cars In addition to which Sixty Pullman Sleepers are in Continuous Service on the "BIG FOUR" and its Through Car Lines. WARREN J. LYNCH. W. P. DEPPE, Gen. Pass. & Ttl. Art. G. A. G. P. & T. A. CINEMASINTE FOR SLEEPLESS ONES. Borham the proper time for refreshing The old tradition that the hours of sleep before midnight are hours of "beauty sleep" means only that late hours take away beauty. Thousands of night workers will testify that eight hours of sleep from 10 to 16 is worth ten hours taken after retiring at 4 wollock in the morning. Darkness is the proper time for the sleep that does the most good. It is not well to sleep in a room in which plants are growing. Their food is carbonic acid gas. If they can live there the room is a bad place for you to sleep in. Besides, plants use up a good deal of oxygen and give off emulsion and pollen irritating to the human system. The soundest sleep is during the first three or four hours after going to bed. This has been ascertained by scientific experiment, though most people think they sleep soundest just before the time when conscience tells them to get up. Insomnia often comes from overeating. A little dieting may do good than a lot of doctors' prescriptions. More persons suffer from overeating than from overworking. Long, deep breathing kept up as long as possible by will power is the most generally recommended remedy for occasional sleeplessness. The main aim in such cases is to keep the mind from thinking. This is sometimes accomplished by the strain of keeping the eye fixed on some point in the ceiling or keeping the will fixed on the effort not to move even the smallest muscle. Monotony will put any man to sleep in spite of himself. Most psychologists acknowledge that deep study of any subject just before going to sleep may result in something like a revelation as to some phase of the subject, the mind through unconscious cerebration accomplishing wonders without the assistance of the will. Passages to be memorized should be repeated several times before going to bed. Sometimes the sleeplessness of children is owing to excitation of the digestive organs. In that case it is a good plan to allow only vegetable foods at the evening meal. LIVING EXPENSES Provisions Are Cheaper Now Then They Were Thirty Years Ago. The interesting disclosure is made that the cost of living is less in the United States today than it was in the 1860. Carefully compiled statistics show that articles cost $100 then cost $75 now. It is true that a few things are more expensive, but commodities consumed generally by families, such as breadstuffs, sugar, rice, salt, woolen and cotton goods, boots and shoes, and silk and rubber goods, are considerably cheaper now than they were thirty years ago. All manufactured goods, with hardly an exception, are cheaper, mainly because of improved processes of manufacture which enable the maker to reduce the cost to the lowest point, says Leslie's Weekly. The development of our vast arable territory in the west, northwest and southwest, and the striking results of irrigation, when applied to what were formerly considered desert lands, have increased our crop supplies more rapidly than the increase of population. Despite the dire predictions that prices of wheat, corn and cotton must inevitably advance because little land remained to be cultivated in the west and south, the fact is that millions of acres are still awaiting tillage. In Texas alone an area almost as extensive as that of the original thirteen states is virgin soil. The emigrant may have to go farther and work harder to establish a homestead in the United States, but Uncle Sam is still rich enough to give every able-bodied, industrious newcomer a chance to own a farm. Here's a Worried Citizen. This is an age of hustle, bustle and sweat. A man hustles from early dawn until the katydids sing in the twilight for three meals a day and a place in which to lie awake at night and worry about it. If he doesn't overwork he is called lazy, and if he does overwork he goes crazy. He toils and eaves through the days of his youth so that when he grows old he can wear a silk hat and sit on the knee of luxury, but when his hair turns to snow and his whiskers grow thin and gray in life's late afternoon, he finds he has been victimized and grievously bunked by his own calculations, and that rheumatism and poor relations have shattered all his dreams and punctured his long hopes.—Dallas City (Ill.) Review. Making of Watch Glasses Watch glasses ought not to be expensive, and are not. In the production of common watch glasses, the glass is blown into a sphere about a meter in diameter, sufficient material being taken to give the desired thickness, as the case may be. Disks are then cut out from the sphere with the aid of a pair of compasses, having a diamond at the extremity of one leg. There is a knack of detaching the disc after it has been cut. A good workman will, it is said, cut 6,000 glasses in a day. Had Handled $50,000,000 A remarkable record was that which had been gained by the late John兰来堡, for 33 years cashier of the government printing office at Washington and an employee of the institution in some capacity since its establishment. His record lay in the fact that as cashier of the printing office he disbursed more than $50,000,000 and without the disallowance or suspension of a single account turned in by him to the auditors of the treasury. Miss Mattie Snoddy is visiting in Oksaloos, this week. Grand Master Dickerson, of Muchaki-nock, was in Albia, Saturday, looking after lodge business. Mrs. Josie Meadows is learning dress-making. Albia Junior class of the high school gave an entertainment Friday evening, which was very nice. Miss Nellie Gayson is a member of this class. She acquitted herself very冠创ably. The A. M. E. Sunday school pupils are preparing to give an Easter entertainment on Easter Sunday, at the church. Mrs. Buns, of Lucas, is visiting with her son, Ira, and Mrs. V. S. Jones, this week. A social will be given at the Masonic hall, on Saturday evening, for the benefit of the A. M. E. church. MUSCATINE NEWS. Mr. and Mrs. Carr are both sick. Mrs. Carr is improving but Mr. Carr is not so well. Mrs. Rozetta Watts celebrated her seventy second birthday anniversary last Tuesday, afternoon a week ago. An elegant 4 o'clock dinner was served by Mr. Groomes. A pleasant time was spent by all present. The guests departed vowing Mrs. Wotten a royal entertainer. Mr. Jacob Lamb had the misfortune to get his right hand injured in a button machine. The mask social given at the A. M. E. parsonage, Friday evening, was a success socially and financially. There were three prizes given, one to the nearest costume worn by Miss Helen Johnson, one to the most comical costume, won by William Walker; one to the best performer on the program worn by Dollie White. Every one enjoyed themselves. Miss Lelia Johnson arrived home from Muchakinock, Thursday noon. Miss Alice Macey and assistants are progressing nicely with the cantanta, entitled "Belsbazzar's Feast." Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, the Young People's Temperance Union held a meeting at the A. M. E. church. Stirring addresses were delivered by J. B. Downey of this city, and Mr. Wahl of Morely, Iowa. The singing was rendered by the A. M. E. choir. In the morning and evening the pulpit was occupied by preachers of the U. B. conference, which was in session in the city the past week. Dr. Townmble spent a few days in West Liberty on pressing business. The Dunbar Club will meet at the A. M. E. parsonage Friday evening. All delinquent subscribers are requested to have their subscriptions ready, as the agent wishes to collect all back dues by the first of April. Mrs. Edward Barnes and children contemplate a visit to Wilton next week. Mistress Loe is on the list. LEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Sketch of the Career of the Mon. D. dial H. McMahon. The birthplace of Col. D. H. McMillan, the new lieutenant governor of Manitoba, was in the county of Ontario, near the town of Whitby, in the Province of Ontario. The years of his boyhood and early manhood, however, were spent in the town of Collingwood. He received his education in the public schools and the collegiate institute of that town and in the city of Toronto. His early ambitions were largely towards military life; and it was his cherished desire to enter the British army. He took a course of training in the military schools of Toronto, where he was eminently successful, obtaining first class certificates in both the infantry and the cavalry schools. He was identified with military organizations in Ontario for a number of years, and served there during the Fenian raids at Niagara in 1864, and at Port Colborne in March and Fort Erie in June, 1866. In 1870 he was selected for the position of captain in the first Red River expedition under Colonel Wollseley. The young captain remained in Winnipeg with the force for a year, and returned to Ontario in the summer of 1871. Coming to Manitoba again in 1874, Mr. McMillan engaged in Winnipeg in the milling and grain business, with which he remained connected from 1875 until three or four years ago. He built, in 1870, the first flour mill ever erected in the province; and, in the following year, exported to Minnesota the first shipment, as a commercial transaction, of Manitoba's wheat. He did not, meanwhile, lose his interest in military matters, but was ready for active service whenever troops were required. He was major of the Ninethe Battalion until just before the Northwest rebellion in 1885, when he resigned, intending to give up military affairs; but when the trouble broke out, the old martial spirit was revived, and he organized, along with Col. Scott, the Ninety-fifth Battalion, and went with that force to the Northwest. He was then senior major, but was afterwards in command of the battalion—Monreal Herald and Star. VERY LOW RATES TO CALIFORNIA PORT HOWEI TO CALIFORNIA AND FUGIT, SOUND. Via the North-Western Line. Tickets on sale each Tuesday until April 30. inclusive. Shortest time en route. Finest scenery. Daily and Personally Conducted Tourist Car excursions. For tickets and full information, apply to nearest ticket agent, Chicago & North-Western R'x. STATE OF IOWA, OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF STATE. Annual Certificate for Publication. Des Moines, Iowa, March 1st, 1001. Whereas, The American Fire Insurance Company, located at Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania has filed in this office a sworn statement of its condition on the thirty-first day of December, 1900, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4, Title 9, of the code of Iowa, relating to Insurance Companies; and whereas, said statement shows that the said Insurance Company has complied with the laws of this State relating to insurance. Therefore, In pursuance of law, I, Frank F. Merriam, Auditor of State, do hereby certify that said Insurance Company is authorized to transact the businesses of Fire Insurance in the State, by Agents properly appointed, as required by law, until the first day of March, A. D. 1902. I further certify that the statement shows— 1st. The actual amount of paid-up Capital of said company, Dec. 31, 1900 to be..... $ 500000.00 2d. The aggregate amount of Assets of said Company, Dec. 31, 1900. to be..... $ 2477060.00 3d. The aggregate amount of Liabilities of said Company, including the amount required to safely reinsure all outstanding risks, Dec. 31, 1900, to be... 4th. The aggregate Income of said Company for the year 1900 to be..... the year 1900 to be..... $ 1433708.98 5th. The aggregate expenditures of said Company for the year 1900, to be... $1600216.07 In Testimony Whereof, I have here- unto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of my office the day and date above written. FRANK F. MERRIAM, Auditor of State. STATE OF IOWA, OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF STATE. Annual Certificate for Publication. Des Moines, Iowa, March 1st, 1901. Whereas, The American Fire Insurance Company, located at New York in the State of New York has filed in this office a sworn statement of its condition on the thirty-first day of December, 1900, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4, Title 9, of the Code of Iowa, relating to Insurance Companies; and whereas, said statement shows that said Insurance Company has complied with the laws of this State relating to insurance. Therefore, In pursuance of law, I, Frank F. Merriam, Auditor of State, do here by certify that said Insurance Company is authorized to transact the business of Fire Insurance in the State, by Agents properly appointed, as required by law, until the first day of March, A. D. 1902. I further certify that the statement shows— 1st. The actual amount of paid-up Capital of said company, Dec. 31, 1900, to be..... $ 400000.00 2d. The aggregate a- mount of the Assets of said Company, Dec. 31, 1900, to be..... $1423971.04 3d. The aggregate amount of Liabilities of said Company, including the amount required to safely reinsure all outstanding risks, Dec. 31, 1900, to be..... 4th. The aggregate Income of said Company for the year 1900 to be..... 5th. The aggregate expenditures of said Company for the year 1000, to be... $ 1044508.28 In Testimony Whereof, I have 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. Proposed Highway for Bicycles A perfect highway from New York to San Francisco, in as near a straight line as it is possible to make it, with a width of 120 feet, for the use of automobiles and bicycles, as well as for the use of the farmer, is a thing that the Automobile club of America will try to bring about. The subject was seriously discussed at a banquet, in honor of members of the National Highway Commission, at the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York, when plans were made and the route announced. Besides a direct path from New York to San Francisco, passing through Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and Ogden, the club wants a highway along each coast. Congress will be asked to appropriate one-third of the expense, and the states, counties, townships and cities en route will be asked to pay the rest; the owners of property benefited to donate the right-of-way. The club and highway commission have on their list of membership the names of some of the foremost men of America. YOUNG AND OLD MANSFIELD Waning And they NEED To consult skilfull Specialists like Drs. Fellows & Fellows, that the strength, vigor and power of Manhood may be restored to them. SPEMATORRHEA Is a diseased condition of the sexual organs of the male, where they are weak as to permit of a relaxation of the muscles, ducts and fabers, as to allow a leakage of seminal fluid This loss saps the vitality, undermines the constitution and wrecks the general health. Nine men out of every ten suffers in this way. VERICOCELE Is an enlargement of the veins of the scrotum, it is very painful and if permitted to enlarge, will gradually grow worse, and finally rob a man of his power. IMPOTENCY This condition which renders a man useless, as his power is now gone, may be removed by so strengthening the entire sexual organs as to fully restore the desired vigor. PRIVATE DISEASE All secret, nervous, chronic, infectious and private disares of men, whether acute or sub-acute, speedily and permanently cured. Consultation and examination free. Write or call today. Home treatment sent by mail or express. Drs. Fellows & Fellows. DES MOIMES, IOWA. Cor. Fourth and Walnut Streets. Over Iowa National Bank. 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. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & c. Anyone sending a sketch and description may question the accuracy of the information is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents free of Obligation, free of requiring patents. Patents taken through Mumford & Co. receive special notice, without c.Arg., in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms $4 a year; four months, $1. Sold by all new dealers. MUNK & Co. 36 18 Broadway. New York Branch Office, 65 F. St., Washington, D. C. An Honest Medicine for La Grippe George W. Waitt, of South Gardiner, Me., says: "I have had the worst cough, cold, chills and grip and have taken lots of trash of no account but profit to the vendor. 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Burlington Route $29.25 TO CALIFORNIA Tickets will be sold at this very low rate every Tuesday until April 30, and at the same time proportionate rates will be made to the Puget Sound District. is the most attractive and interesting way to California, passing through Colorado by daylight so as to see] all the magnificent mountain scenery. We run Pullman tourist sleeping cars through to the coast. They are thoroughly comfortable and very inexpensive. Ask for particulars. F. L. GANNAWAY, City Passenger Agt. Des Moines, Iowa. EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT MUNGER'S LAUNDRY is the best in the city. Try them and be decided. Marye Office 211-815 NINTH St 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. NELSONS STRAIGHTINE THE LATEST DISCOVERY FOR WARMING KNOTTY. KINNY. CURLY HAIR STRAIGHTE STRAIGHTINE is a safe, certain and reliable preparation. It is absolutely free from preservatives and must jure the most delicate head. It not only straightens the hair, but removes Dandruff, the roots of the hair, and falls out. Cutting out a rich, long and luxurious head of hair, Cures all kinds of scalp disease. Straightine is richly perforated for the toilet. It has been tested by thousands with the unanimous verdict that it is safe for at least 30 cents in stamps. Address, NELSON MANUFACTURING CO., Richmond, Va. Subscribe for and read the Bystander. LLL CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT, nthian Bal ‘Church —sitnat ra crouse nee eh Slee rar ita; MenngaT. School: at 1 soot . 7 FM aton, Pastor, vant A. M. B<-Comnerof Second and.Conte sere: Pencping a a Sunany Beet stale, zpvorts League at Senoel freaoaing ge Pi 1 4. Phillipe grican Baptist Church—Corner Sct 5) sigs, Areas Bata! Gov Komack Paste, eet For ye. Bung schoo! £3) B Broeching SAE" Houston, ‘superintendent! Ba, og Peopie's meeting 7 P. «2, preaching foe. : sues a, B:cEast Second aad, Dee Moines ors, Ma chday services, preaching at 1100 Foe eet ye Sunday, Sohook at, 13:0 Bre Cine mectig, eanenaay pm Braver tuto, Hor. Gr. olen, pastor, ASCE Molinos streer, sent Nebo Baptist Charch=¥, Second street, Mount XeP%. oust and Graod aveate—Sunday etree aking att a te unday School teriee. Dremehscintendent, one Johnson, 82 Ra sWiem. Mov. d: H Bal, pastor, Je Baptist Church Misgion—Sit Tate art Oe aoe Prenchloe it's ore school 9:00 a Ta; preaching wi mee “aby, JB. Winbush, pastor, <ECRET ORDERS. Ree rege let ee th at Masonic North, SMmursaay in each month at Masonic Brat Thoradey Wore arene, J. He Shep Ball Pear aetaonnpeon aszetacy, viomoy Commandery, No, 6,--Meets wig, S108 Cr aureday We bach muon Se a read Juckaon, MG. oer oe rt, No, 3—mevta S¢ a rooure, Wo, Smeets Second. Monday Nom Comoath a Mavonio ball, Mrs. 3H Fae me at aes Fed dackeon, are ir ; Mt Olire Court, No. Meets First, Thursday Ore Cont, NP aMuaotl hal, Me Suns eee ene ise Wore Majors, aecro or ar Lodge, No. 2192, GU. 0. of 0, Fm natty Peet Becond and ‘Talra Pussany each wet se Felows nal on West Siete mest At seecia D Bua, NG Bhan BB. reste, No. 8 of GU. 0. of 0. ¥.—Con: vot Be Ngeae aud alia fourogay in ewe woh gem occas ek eg Beat Breer ars. be Winiams, W. nt aod Lasies of flonor of the Ward N anit ade Modgesmects every, ‘Monday Fo viar Websters Hall, corner of, ‘eats Sete Mk Mess EA. Wond. Proctor _ S'sidan Sonmaon, Secretary ea nes MOINES PASSENGER TRAINS ©.R, 1 &P., GOING EAST. vs perane teams vy @longo Limited, ......*9 38 pal BB cba epren a inl, 48 bm Aiba ce Miguttaed 320 Rh oy Bapregy ccc a Dn Bee: eRe. 0 Ra GLP, CONG WEST. tmamn.. we Denver Limited... 3 am EN Niggeetted ease 8 tab press 13 pm | ee sacky Mountain Limited.”o4 00 am pment ee Ha am e ORL &P. TO KEOKUK. PU1:90 @M.eee ee veeeeeBIGON.......--0+-. 685 PMD ONG Be aang DES MOINES & FORT DODGE. 43s pn Buthven Mall & Expross..1210 pm 8 us. Mure and Rott Dodge. =: 448 DE 96 pt mune and Se Lous.) Dee UB 2E- get Bt‘ane ing Flyer -8 90 am ‘WINTERSET BRANCH. pment Millcen ruc dB 4 ame apron, 20 Bm BB Beco HIME LL a CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN-NORTH ss pm._,Chloago and St. Pan tim..830 pm 516 vm. Siege and St: Paul Bx. (890 tim iis ON in Ohtes soeclat 7290 am GMICAGO GREAT WESTERNSOUTH saoam.--Maneas Clty Limied..07 0 am Bam ay Ream ak am oo Regn expres a6 pan GHIGAGO BURLINGTON & QUINCY bei 15 prm...Albie avd Burlington Pass..*8 15 pm igi AM AR Pansclget = 200 Sk HBRExitle Atcommadaton. "895 am EEOKUK & WESTERN PASoHNGKR TRAINS LEAVE QSTATION, sam Mall and Express «120 pan Mall and Bxprese,.” 635 am ‘CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN hs pm....-.Sloux cls, N. & W......019 am I eeigeade Spectal S440 pm Te ego Lip ed. 5840 Dan peg ath Sakote Limited 393 kan Hg). Ghleago Bxprons.7 0 am 7 Ph Ohlone Spectal-i05 am Hee Sane eprontc 810 am (FB Ros Ghengo ketprenn 94 pm “Bad at:.2! Omaha & Pa: Bxpress "800 am WABASH KAILWaY / Ais am....,.St. Lonis Passenger..... 14 pm 1B pic Se boas Masten S490 bm | GM ana St, P.—Fonda Line. “rm pm. Storm Kako Bxpress.. 403 pn 1B Paciwoute'k Slow Ghy bias an oie St P-BOONE LIME 138 pm... Boone Matt and Express «24 ip bn 'Rait und Express. .20 aon 1 Be law aed 0080 ba ite aso “Given Express .21100 am 9 pic cBlous City @ Sunaina “Daily. {Dally. ail often tralae datiy except Bando Broad Vestibuled First-Class Sleepers ij DAILY— Between Chicago and Sanfrancisco SS WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. ar Leave Chicago on Big 5 at 10:00 p.m. All the best scenery of the Rocky Moun- tains and the Sierra Nevada by day- light in both directions, “ Those cars are carried on the limited trains of the Great Rock Island Route, Denever and Rio Gtande (Scenic Route), Rio Grande Westera nd Southern Pacific. Dining Car ServiceThrough Buffett Library Cars. JOHN SEBASTIAN, G, P. A., Chicago. CALIFORNIA AND THE NORTHWEST On every Tuesday in February, March and April the Iowa Central Railway will sell one way Settlers’ and Colo nists’ exenrsion tickets to points in California, Oregon, Washington Mon- tana, Idabo and British Columbia at very low rates—lower than ever before. Tickets for California points sold on Tuesdays will be honored for passaze in Tourist Cars of the Iowa Central Railway on Wednesdays of euch week. Por fol particulars call on Lowa Cen- tral ticket agents, or address Geo. S. Batty, G. P. & T. A, Marshalltown Ia, NERVOUS WEAKNESS CURED ~ VARTUM, JA ® ® French treatment ° for both sexes that ts positively. guaranteed to cure IMPO- ENCY ‘vitality and vigor, restoring the desires, ambitions and aspirations of youth and health, fitting for success and happiness in business; professional, social and married life. $2 a package ‘or 3 for 5. Ask your druggist, but. re- fasecheap substitutes, Sent anywhere repaid on Fooelpt of price and guaran- Food by the Tdi Drug Company, Elgin. Tilinois. Retail and wholesale by J. R. Hurlbut Co., Des Moines, Ia. Full line or Rub- ber Goods name what you want. SHANK BROS., Funeral Directors 517 Mulberry St. Telephones 686, 688 and 669. DES MOINES, - IOWA. New Service for Homeseek and a Settlers, ‘Tourist Car service for persons en- route to the South, South-west and California is inaugurated by the M. K. & 1, Ry. from Kansas City. Tourist car leaves Kansas City every Tuesday at 9:05 p. m. on M, K, & T. train No. 11 ranhing through to San Francisco via the Waco Flatonis Route. This route is through the beautiful Indian Terri- tory, Central and Southern Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California and will be found a great convenience for Homeseekers and Set- tlers enroute to Oklahoma, Texas, Lonisiana, Old and New Mexico, Ari- zona and California, ‘The cars in this service are’ of the 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 furth- er information address, T. B. Cookerly Dist, Pass, Agent, Des Moines, Iowa, PRACTICAL ADVICE. Astitch in time saves nine. Never let a child sob itself to sleep An egg beaten up in milk is a goo! pick-me-up. Sponge black silk with splrits t revive it, Soot. covered with salt is easit) brushed up. If broken wash the bruise and ap ply vaseline. ‘Apply arnica to a bruise if the siir ts unbroken. A hot bath taken at night afford: refreshing sleep. Lemons stowed separately In dr3 sand keep fresh. Dry hair turns gray sooner thar moist tresses do, It your clothes catch fize instantls roll on the floor. ; Crawl out of a room where ther are smoke and fire. ‘When you want to cut whalcbone warm it by the fire. Sufferers from dyspepsia sould 19 drink while eating. Cui glass necds scrubbing — with werm water and soap. Bruised cloves kept among fu7s frighten moths away. When the dirt is removed rinse i well with cold water, ‘The busy housewife should g2t ar hour's sleep in the afternoon, Ae possible, hold a wet towel to your face while escaping.—Roston Jounal TRICK OF VOICE. mow Guo Lawyer Keeps the Judge rom sleeping. ‘Tiere is said to be a lawyer in Phil- adelphia who possesses a trick of the voice to which a certain measure of his success in United States Supreme court practice is due, The trick consists In waking a judge. Whether It is a com- mon practice for the high dignitaries of the federal supreme bench to in- duige in a nap in the course of a long and tedious argument, such happen- Ings are not unknown, and it is well for an able logician of the bar to be prepared for it. The trick of waking a sleepy judge would seem to be some- thing in the nature of slamming a law book under his nose or connecting his personality with the current of an electric battery. But the trick is ex- plained as purely a matter of sound involved in the skillful control of the voice, It is said that a barrister prac- ticed Inthe art ang rhetoric of address- ing the bench can gather all the waves of sound from his throat into a focus and deposit it in the orifice of the judge's ear with the general effect of a bomb, The trick, however it is ac- complished, is said to have been worked repeatedly with sticcess on the late Judge McKennan, whose habit of going to sleep on the bench was once a no- toridus subject of comment in the liti- gation over the Berliner telephone pat- ents. This queer trick of the voice, while it is said to be the peculiar prop- erty of one celebrated lawyer, is prob- ably attempted often with varying suc~ cess by others.—Philadelphia Record. EXCURSION RATES TO WINTER RESORTS Via the North-Western Line. Excur- sion tickets are sold daily, with favor able time limits, to numerous points in the West and South at reduced rates For tickets and full information, apply to agents Chicago, & North-Western By MT. PLEASANT NEWS. Mrs, Berry Greeaup, of Fuirtield |t¢ vis. iting iene and relatives in the city. 7 Miss ‘Mary Mosley and Master Carl Soelton have gone to Ottumwa, Miss Molly Nunley arrived in the sity last week from St, Louis She will make this her future home, ‘Mr. Arthur Dortab, of Ottumwa spent Sunday here with home fulks, A Mite Missionary society has been or- ganized with Mes Joho H. Vernbee as president; Miss Harriet Taylor, secre- tary; Mrs, Mrs, Wealey Trimble, treas- urer. The socicty met ned Thursday af ternoon with Mrs, Ferribee,: A very enjoyable time was had by all present, ‘Small articles were made and sold. Music was furnished by Miss Carter & Mosley and Rev. Ferribes. ‘Mrs. Ferribes was assisted in serving by Mesdames Anderson, Logan, Clay and Misses McGregor and Mason. Mr, J. J. A. Carter was very pleaeant- ly surprised by a gold watch seat to him by hisson, J. H. Carter. FRASER. Mr. Dick Johnson has a bruised ankle, and has not been able to work for two or three weaks. Mr. Ed Manuol is able to go around on erutehes, ‘Mrs. Cora Bryant was called to Saylor ‘Wednesday on account of tae illness of her mother-in-law. ‘Mr. and Mrs, Hill atrived im our city Wednesday and left the same day taking with them their niece Miss Carrie Wallro, Mr. Datney Jennings is still very sick, ‘Mr, Calvin Thomas of Saylor was in our city this week on business, CLINTON ITEMS. Mra, P. P, Taylor is improving from her recent illness. ‘Mrs. J.P. Culberson is visiting rela- tives in Keokuk. ‘A musicale will be given on Wednesday evening, April 3d, by Mrs. Estella Emer- ‘son, assisted by her pupils; the proceeds to be devoted to the Trustee fund of the A. M. E church, Bethel church cholr is busy rehearsing for Easter. ‘Mrs, L, E, Allen wason the siok list last week, but is some better now, SIOUX CITY T'TEMS. My subsoribers are still complaining about their papers, ibis four weeks since some have hada paper. Mr, P. D. Browa say he will not pay for the paper if he does not get it, Messrs. C.F. Williams 0. W. Moore, J. W. Norris, Jas. Wash- ington are all complaining. I hope you will be kind enough to let one know what the trouble fs so I can explain matters to them eatisfaetorily. ‘The Stewards gavea very succerstul entertainment at the church on last Wed- nesday evening. They realized quite a neat little sum. ‘The constant cry is what is the matter with ‘the Bystander? Did you get your Bystander, and I want to sce tho agent, The agent has made inquiries as to the failure of-the subscribers of Sioux City to reoeive their papers, Rev. Mr. Wilson, of Omaha, filled the pulpitat Mb Zion Baptist ohurch, Sun- dap evening. ‘The Rev. Reverend preseb ed an able sermon, Great preparations are being made by the two churches toward their Esster program, ‘Tho ladies Improvement society of the A. M. E. church gave thelr sories of en- tertainments on the 26th and 27th. Those who were on the sick list since our last writing sre Mesdames J. W. Norrie, B. Yussum, Hattie Thompson, K. Herns and Mr. G. Furgerson and the agent, Mrs. T. A. Clark is getting along splendidly since her return froma the hos- pital. Mrs, H. Pettis has returned from Spring- field, Ill, where sho had been called to the bedside of ber sister. Mr. E. A. Comey isin the city with his afmily. Rey. Mr. Wilson, of Omaha, Neb., has been called by the members of Mt. Zion ‘Baptist cburch. The Rev. has the matter under consideration, which will be settled in two weeks. ‘Special to Bystander. A POEM SUBJECT—“HEADS UP." Don't kick and whine, Just get ir line With the fellows who've grit and pluck; Don’t frown and scrowl, Look glum and growl. Stop prating about ill luck. Lift up your head, Don’t seem half-dead. Stop wearing a wrinkle face; Give something hope Sufficient scope, ‘And joys will come apace. S, L. Tarnr, | Boone, Iowa, | DUBUQUE NEWS. Sunday was quarterly meeting and the attendanoe at church was large. Miss Bessie Aaron is very sick at he home in East Dubuque. Mrs. Lou Christopher who has been or the sick list, has improved. Mr. Will Glaes, of Omaha, is visiting ic our city. Mr. J: M. Logan 1s improving. ‘Mfr. James Brooks is on the sick list. Rey. Speese left last week for Nebraska. a ‘wife socompanted him as far 28 Chi cago. ‘DANISH PROVERBS. ' Even crumbs are bread. y Opportualty makes the thief. Faint praise is akin to abuse, Short flax makes long thread. Power often goes before talent. Death does not blow a trumpet, Gray hairs are death's blossoms. Praise a falr day in the evening. Alone in counsel, alone in sorror-. A short cut is often a wrong cut. New comers are always weleorie, Every bird needs its own feathers, « Let every bird sing its own note. ‘Trust everybody, but thyself most. We must suffer much, or die young. Every man thinks his copper is gold. Every wind is against a leaky ship. Unwilling service earns no thanks. A woman's first counsel is the best. He that courts injury will obtain it. He who flees proves himself guilty. Do not wade when you see no bot- tom, It is bad to lean against a falling wall. Better the child cry than the mother sigh, ‘We must sow even after a bad har- vest, An ill-tempered dog has a scarred nose. Never let fools seo half finished work. e Even he gets on who is drawn by oxen, Big words séldom 9 with good deeds, It is folly to fear what one cannot avoid. He is easy to lure who fs ready to follow. Little sorrows are ‘loud, great ones silent. Riches are often abused, but never Tetzsed, Every fool thinks he is clever enough. ' Under white ashes lie often glowing embers, A thankless man never does a thanik- ful deed, It Is the raised stick that makes the dog obey. It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten. WISE AND OTHERWISE. Love and philosophy are sworn ene- mies, Old age commands respect—except in Doultry and jokes. ume men are in advance of thelr age, but women are always a few year: behind it. ‘The failure of a bank may not upset the depositor, but he is apt to lose his balance. You have to give some men a sound thrashing before you can command their respect. "No matter how erect a general may be he is apt to learn more or less on hi: staff, ‘The girl who used mucilage to keep her hair in curl has been much stuck- up ever since, Perhaps some people talk to them- selves because they find it impossible to interest any one else. In order to retain her youth and pop- ularity all a girl has to do is acquire a fortune and remain single. ‘The average man does just as many queer things when he isn’t in love as when he is, but they are less con- spicuous. What a merry old place the carth would be if it were to lose its atmes- phere. All bodies would then lose their gravity. 5 Says a rural editor: “We trast our subscribers will pardon us for appear: ing a day iate this week. Our wife borrowed our scissors to cut Gur son’s hair.” EARLY STRAWS OF FASHION, The drooping hats will be much scer in the spring. Tucks will be very much in evi dence the coming spring and summer Mixed cloths are very much seen— that Is to eay, black with a liberal pep: pering of white, gray with white, anc pastel blue, Gowns are made long on the show- der, yokes and collarettes are. ru down long on the shouiders, or th shoulders are trimmed, Cashmeres will be, popular the com- ing spring, and all the women a Nice and Monte Carlo are wearing the light pastel shades in cloth an¢ the pale pinks, blues and beiges, a: usual, It {3 really too early to tell whether the furore for gold will run over int: another season. We must wait and see if we feel gold when the summer days come, Cravats are secn on the new cloth gowns. For slender women nothing can be prettier for the spring than the bolero: with basque backs, consisting of thre little pieces on each side, one over th other and rounded at the ends. Above these pieces is a belt—Katharine de Forest’s Paris Letter in Ladies’ Home Journal DOCTORY OURSELF. ‘“ @onova” Tablets are mailed and guaranteed, “by Kidd Drug Company Slgin, Ill., to cure all forms of diseases of Urinary organs, and system, Bladder, ete., including ‘Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Whites, Lucorrhoea, unnatural dio charges, irritations and uleerations of the uripary organs aad mucous mem- branes never gives stricture, harmless and painless. An internal remedy with injections combined; only one in the world. Sent per mail on receipt of price, $3 pernackage or 2 for. Don's fool “with cheap substitutes. Retail and wholesale of J. R. Huribut Co,, Des Moines, Ia, Full line of Rubber Goods; name what you want, WEIGHT AT SARATOOA, ee rt eee ee Famous Spa, Never before at Saratoga have larga women—women of stature and weight or elther—been as much in style a during the present season, Men whe have been visiting Saratoga for thirty years solemnly affirm that never dur ing the whole time were there so many women who weighed from 176 to 20¢ Pounds as are on view this season There is also expert testimony to be Secured that never have there been #0 many ovedresssed women and auch a vast display of diamonds, turquotae and marquise rings. One of the wo. men guests at the Grand Union hotel 4s conspicuous for both her welght and height. She {s at least six feet three Inches tall and weighs 175 pounds, She is also accounted the most taste- fully garbed woman in Saratoga, for in spite of her immense proportions she is most admirably and suitably gowned, both morning and evening. ‘The other large ladies who sit on the Piaazas of the Grand Union hotel are dying to find out the name of her dressmaker. A well known actress, who is herself well advanced in the heavy-welght class, said the other evening that she had never seen a Jarge woman who was so properly at- tired. “Iwill find out her dress- maker,” she said, “because I need her. Bhe must be a wonder.” Oldest Native of Minols. Mrs. Lucinda Anson, of Centralia, UL, fs believed to be the oldest native born citizen of Illinois. She was born in the old village of Kaskaskia in 1813 and for elghty-seven consecutive year: thas made her home in this state, In the early days her father kept a tavern in Waterloo and there she met many Prominent men in the early history of the state, She was well acquainted with Governor Ford; and when La. tayette toured the country she handed him a glass of buttermilk of her own churning, Another claim to distine- tion is that she is distantly related by marriage to “Old Anse,” the former baseball celebrity. Mrs, Anson remembers that when she was a girl there was constant dan- ger of violence at the hands of the Indians, One favorite plan on the art of the savages was to cover them- selves with bark and lle down on 2 woodpile until its unarmed owner ha¢ come near‘enough to shoot. To pre vent the success of this scheme it wa: the habit of the carly settlers to look out the window each morning and count the number of sticks in the pile before venturing out of doors If extra sticks were discovered in the counting a few rifle bullets were usual- ly sufficent to dislodge the Indian ‘Mrs. Anson has be2n a widow for more than fifty years, and is still in goo¢ health—Chicago Tribune. Stealing » Steam Whistle, A gentleman who has a steam mil In Waldo, Mass., purchased a large steam whistle, which he carried home and placed on his mill. A number 0! Boys conceived the idea of stealing this whistle—“just for a lark,” they said. The owner, hearing of thelt plan, remained in his mill all night Bixty pounds of steam was kept up About midnight the boys put in an appearance and climbed upon the root of the building. Just as one applied @ wrench to the whistle, Mr. Sanborn opened the throttle wide and there went up into the stillness of the night such a screech as was never before heard jn Waldo. People jumped from their beds in a fright and wondered what was up, The boys tumbled off the roof of that mill as though shot and departed as rapidly as their legs could carry them, while Mr. Sanborn fired a gun after them to hasten their retreat. The whistle is still on the mill, , Warketing Hints. ‘When ordering meats remember that beef, when boiled, loses one pound of weight in every four, and when roast- ed eighteen ounces. Mutton loses even more than beet. This should be thought of where much meat is used. Meat should always be hung, for by this means air circulates all around and keeps it sweet, In very hot weather a wipe with a cloth once or twice a day, with a sprinkling of pep- per or flour, will tend to keep it, and {t only slightly tainted, a wash over with vinegar and water, or borax and water, will generally remove all un- pleasant flavor. A Tork 120 Years Old. In the village of Bodru a Turk nam. ed Ismail, said to be 120 years old, frequently walks to Bartin, ten miles distant, to sell eggs. He has had 34 wives, the last of whom he just mar- ried. ‘The bride is 63 years his junior, and the martiage was celebrated with much solemnity,to the sound of drums and fifes and of volleys from fire. arms. The whole village was en fete. ‘The wedding procession included all the male progeny of the patriarch bridegroom, consisting of 140 sons. grandsons and great-grandsons, neat te “eo thea: An aesthetic English Vicar ai Wembley will not allow the wore “died” to be put on the tombstones of the people buried in the cemetery. He insists on phrases like “departed this lite" or “passed away” or “enteref Into rest,” and says that “died” is » tenial of the Chistian teaching of im mortality. atsiois dazthan cia umiaaniiinaeie One of the features of the Labor day selebration at Leavenworth, Ka:., was that of a mine superintendent riding at the head of his eight hundred strik- ing miners. [ANNOUNCEMENT CARDS, | is Pleasé announce my name as” & 'can- didate for one of the members of the ‘House of Representatives from Polk ‘county, subject to the decision of the republican eonvention. eo Emory H. Exoutsn, Please announce my oame 98 a candi~ date for State Senator of Polk eounty, ‘Fnbject to the Repubilcan County Conver” , tion. Cassius M. Dowxin. Thereby announce my name as. a.cem- ‘didete for a member of the Legislature, subject to the decision of the republican county convention, P. F. MAILY. ~ Plenee sinnoutice my naine as a candi- date for a member of the Legislature of Polk county, subject to thedecision of the repnblican convention, i J. E. Wier. L hereby authorize the ansouseemest of my name as a candidate lor County Superintendent of Public Schools, sul jeot to the county convention. %. O, THORNBURG. ‘Will you please announce my name an 28a candidate for member of County Sa- pervieor from Lee township, subject to they Fepublican voters of said townr¥ip. Joun Lovarincn Please announce my nameas a candi- date for member of the Legislature, snb- ject to the republican convention, W.H. Heatoy. DOGS WEAR SHOES. Alaskan Animals hold Up Fest te Have Shoes Pat On, In Alaska shoes for dogs have beem introduced. The use of stoes for animals in the far north country is not merely out of kindness to the dogs. It is a matter of necessity, for one af the greatest dangers to travelers in Alaska is that the dogs which draw aledges or transport goods freeze their ‘feet by contact with tho ice, This ‘sometimes renders the animals practt- eally useless and leaves the traveler without means of transit over the flelds of ice, Before the introduction of the shoes It was the custom to wrap the feet of the dogs in cloth, but thia was a poor measure at best, as the cloths often came off, leaving the poor Deasts *mprotected. ‘The cloths alse tnterfered with the free locomotion ef the dogs. Since the gold fields opened more dogs have been used and great apeed in travel has become necessary. The dog's shoo was invented to meet the requirements. The lacings are at the back to givo free play to the dog's legs. The wonderful intelligence ot these faithful animals is shown by their readiness in taking to the shoes. ‘They become so accustomed to them that they are uneasy without them, On the trail the dogs have frequently been known to come to the driver im the morning and hold out their legs ‘to have thelr shoes put on. If the 'ghoes happen to be laced too tight, they will whine and make their dis- comfort manifest, wagging their talle for joy when the laces are fixed te their liking. A Newsboy Evancelet, St. Louis has a newsboy evangelist ‘His name is Earl Jamison and he te 11 years old, Several weeks ago young iar] went to one of his neighbors ané asked him if he could not use his barn for religious services. His re quest was granted and every evening since meetings have been held by the young evangelist, except on Sunday aights. Earl does the preaching an@ praying and leads the singing. His service continues about an hour an@ he generally has a falr-sized congre- gation. Those who attend, both young and old, are impressed by the fervor of the youthful preacher, Earl is » sturdily built little fellow, with light hair and frank, fearless manner, Hie serious mien Is like that of a white haired judge. He is a good talker ané ean quote the scriptures freely. He has collected money during his evam gelistic career for the famine-strickem people of India. Sc alc? Carolyn King, daughter of Generaa Charles King, has been accorded am unusual honor. Miss King finished her course at the Sorbonne in June, and then entered for competition Im the Alliance Francaise, which meets every summer and confers its diplo- mas on such foreigners as can pass its rigid examinations after attending lee- tures and submitting essays on several of the standard authors and dram- atists, Mollere, Racine, Corneille, La Rochefoucauld, and J, Rousseau were assigned to Miss King, and it was her essay on Corneille which was givem first place unanimously by the judges BITS OF INFORMATION. Egypt exported last year 65,000 tons of sugar, 55,300 of which went te America, In Pennsylvania the trolley is carry- ing 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 Amesi- cans who visited Europe last year gpent there $60,000,000, CHURCH ANDO CLERGY. ‘The Rey. 4. G. Fitzgerald, D, D., has ‘deen pastor of the ‘Third United Pres byterian church, Philadelphia, for % years, ‘The Rev. C. 8, Abbott, pastor of Christ church, Newark, N. J., bas com- pleted a quarter of a century as paster of the church The Rev. A. C. Eggleston of Winé- sor, Conn., has accepted the position of financial secretary of © Y"-steyas academy at Wilbraham, Mass. ile has Deen a trustee of the academy for many years. --- 1 Filipino Insurgent Chief a Prisoner in Manila. STAFF TAKEN WITH HIM. Entire Party Captured by Gen. Funstor and Brought to the Capital of Luzon on Board the Gunboat Vicksburg—May Mean End of Rebellion. Manila, March 29.—Aguinaldo is a prisoner. He was brought to Manila this morning by General Funston, by whom he was captured in Isabella Province, about six days' march inland from the east coast of Luzon, north of Baler. Aguinaldo was captured on March 23, in the country near Casiguran, nine miles from Baler. All members of his staff were taken prisoners at the same time and were brought with him to Manila on the gunboat Vicksburg, arriving this morning. Funston started on the expedition which resulted in the capture of Aguinaldo three weeks ago. He had with him a company of natives, and was assisted by Captain John Newton of the Thirty-fourth Volunteer Infantry, Lieutenant Admiral of the Twenty-second Infantry, Lieutenant Mitchell of the Fortieth Volunteers, and Surgeon Major Harris. The expedition was conveyed by the gunboat Vicksburg and the cruiser Albany to a landing place on the east coast of Luzon, north of Baler. Revealed by Filipino Officer. Revealed by Filipino Officer. The rebel chieftain's hiding place was revealed by a Filipino officer, who turned over to Governor General MacArthur a letter from Aguinaldo. The letter ordered the Filipino officer and other leaders of the insurgent forces in southern Luzon to meet him at a designated rendezvous in Isabella Province. General Funston at once proposed to head an expedition to Isabella Province in an effort to capture Aguinaldo. After much discussion Governor General MacArthur consented and preparations were begun. Funston's plan of operations was unique. After being landed on the east coast Fuston and his four companions were to play the role of prisoners in the hands of the natives, who were to represent themselves to Aguinaldo as loyal Filipinos. When brought before Aguinaldo the latter was to be seized by Funston's native troops and made a prisoner. The adventure was a desperate one, as its success or failure depended on the faithfulness of Funston's native soldiers. They were Macacabes, who have been loyal to the United States almost from the day the American troops landed. They were worthy of the trust imposed on them, as proven by the success of the enter prise. --- Fonston's Plans Succeed. Funston's plans went through as well as they had been planned. Aguinaldo fell into the trap, was made a prisoner, and was brought to Manila in the gunboat, Vicksburg, which remained cruising off the east coast of Lazon for that purpose. Found in a Wilderness. The Province of Isabella, where the capture of Aguinaldo occurred, is on the island of Luzon, about 200 miles northeast of Manila and about seventy-five miles north of Baler, on the eastern coast, which place was made memorable by the capture of Lieutenant Gillmore and his party from the gunboat Yorktown in April, 1899. Isabella Province is wild and mountainous, especially along the coast where the high range, known as the Grand Cordillenas Oriente, extends for 100 miles or more from north to south, the highest points of the range being a few miles from the shore. Rugged trails in some places but a foot or two in width led across the mountains, frequently crossed by rushing streams, and where these overflow their banks the trails are waist deep in mud. It was to this uninviting district that General Funston and his small band went a short time ago. It was a part of the island that had never been visited by American troops. GENERAL FUNSTON'S CAREER Life of Aguinaldo's Captain Has Been Full of Adventure. Gen. Frederick S. Funston, the captor of Aguinaldo, is a native of Ohio, although he is a Kansan by education. His life has been one long story of adventure and outdoor life. He was born in New Castle, Ohio, in 1863, and went to Kansas when he was 16 years old. In March, 1893, he set out on an Alaskan trip on a commission given him by Secretary J. Sterling Morton to collect botanical specimens for the department of agriculture. He was in Alaska eighteen months, and in that time he traveled farther than any white man ever traveled there before. On his return from his Alaskan trip General Funston spent a short vacation in New York and tried to make a living at newspaper writing. Funston was wounded three times in Cuba, once through an arm, once through the lungs, and once his horse fell upon him, fracturing his thigh. From this wound he was lame when he left Kansas with the Twentieth. Of the experiences of Funston in the Philippines much has been written. His most noted exploit was at the battle of Malolos. Future of Aguina'do Washington, March 29. The attitude of the government for a long time past has been one of comparative indifference to Aguinaldo's capture, it having been determined to crush the rebellion without regard to his whereabouts. His recent activity in directing the course of operations against the American forces probably brought about the recent change in this attitude. As the leader of an insurrection against the United States government Aguinaldo may be tried and executed, a lesser punishment be meted to him by executive clemency, or complete amnesty be extended. While the question of punishment rests with the military authorities, it is believed the president will make the matter one for determination primarily by the authorities here. Four Jailed for Robbery. Newark, O., March 29.—Four men were arrested at Thornville shortly before noon on suspicion of being the men who robbed the Somerset bank. One of the quartette was arrested at Thornville and another close to the village, while two were caught on the Sandusky, & Hocking railroad between Burkett crossing and New Salem station an hour later. They are in the village prison surrounded by an armed guard, while the officers are discussing where to take them. Two officers are now out after the fifth man, whom they hope to capture in a few hours. A reward of $1,000 has been offered for the capture of the robbers. Save Negro from Lynching: Galesburg, Ill., March 29.—An attempt was made here last night to lynch Ed. Jackson, the negro desperado, who is charged with murdering Charles B. Rowe, a Burlington engineer, Sheriff Matthews and a force of armed men guarded the jail against the mob, which was composed of several hundred men and a few women. The prisoner was hurried out of the jail secretly and sent to Monmouth for protection. In order to satisfy the mob a committee of their own choosing was permitted to search the jail. As soon as it became known that the prisoner could not be found the mob dispersed. Epidemic of Pest Is Feared: Des Moines, Ia., March 29.—Mayor Hartenbower has issued a proclamation requesting that all public schools, theaters, churches and other places of public assembly be closed on account of the prevalence of smallpox. Several new cases were discovered today, and the disease is certainly spreading. It is conservatively estimated that there are now at least 200 cases in Des Moines now. All the cases are in mild form, and no deaths have occurred. The public schools have been closed in the West Des Moines district. Car Line Fights Boulevard. Marion, Ind., March 29.—Bonds in the sum of $115,000 for the purpose of building a boulevard from this city to the national military home was advertised and was to have been sold, but suit to enjoin the commissioners from selling the same was filed in the Circuit court late in the evening. Forty-eight had been received and a premium of 3 per cent was offered. The Union Traction company, which would have been greatly injured by automobile traffic, was responsible for the suit. Engineer Slain in Wreck Appleton, Wis., March 29.—A collision on the Northwestern road at Little Rapids about 3 p. m., between a north-bound passenger train and a heavy freight, resulted in the death of the passenger engineer, besides several injuries sustained by a number of others. The dead man is Harry Jones, Milwaukee, engineer of passenger train. Many others, the extent of whose injuries have not yet been ascertained, were conveyed to hospitals in Green Bay. Miners and Operators Agree. Massillon, O. March 29.—The miners and operators have reached an agreement. The new scale goes into effect April 1. The operators gained some alterations in the working rules, but all changes representing dollars and cents are in the miners' favor. The most important are an advance of 2 cents a car for shack, reduction of 10 cents per keg in the price of powder and a reduction of 10 cents per ton in the price of house coal to miners. Refuses to Meet Miners. New York, March 29.--J. Pierpont Morgan refused today to meet publicly the officers of the United Mine Workers of America and discuss the differences in the anthracite coal region. He stated his belief there would be no strike and said he would do all in his power to avert a clash with the work- Captain Hobson to Marry Greensboro, Ala., March 29.—Alabamans are greatly interested in the engagement of Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, United States navy, to Miss Emile Griggsby of New York. The date of the marriage is not yet known, but that it is soon to occur is not denied at the home of Captain Hobson here. Feverner Train In Ditch Utica, N. Y., March 28.—The passenger train leaving Utica on the Delaware, Lekwanna and Western at 9:50 last night went into the ditch on account of a washout three miles south of Norwich. The engine and cars now lie six feet under water. One passenger was hurt. Burgiars Rob and Kill. New Orleans, La., March 29.—John Favalona and his daughter Annise were discovered dead in their home on Perdito street. They had been murdered by burglars, and the assailants ransacked the premises after killing their victims. EXPECTS FINISH OF MEXICO Some Citizens Look to Annexation as Fate. RESPECT UNITED STATES. Edward A. R. Green, Son of the "Richest Woman in America," After a Long Tour of the Southern Republic, Tells Impressions. Chicago, March 29.—Edward A. R. Green, son of Mrs. Hetty Green and president of the Texas Midland railroad, says that among the better classes of people in Mexico there is a growing belief that Mexico is destined eventually to be absorbed by the United States. There is also an increasing sentiment favorable to this idea, Mr. Green says. Mr. Green is at the Great Northern hotel with a party of friends, after completing an 11,000-mile railroad journey through Mexico. During the trip, which took a month, the party traveled over every mile of standard railroad track in the republic, and Mr. Green is loud in his praises of the natural wealth of the country and the fine opportunities offered there for investments. He also spoke at length of the sentiment in favor of annexation. Cheer Uncle Sam on the Stage. "I had a striking illustration of this," he said, "in connection with a circus exhibition in the City of Mexico. There is to a conference of all nations there next fall, and one of the features of the show was a representation of the different nationalities paying their respects to the president of Mexico. They all came in, one after another, and saluted the president, who was seated in his chair of state. When Uncle Sam came, however, he calmly proceeded to oust the occupant of the chair and occupy it himself. It was a rather startling proposition to me, but my surprise was vastly increased when the audience burst into wild cheering, thus showing in the sincerest manner possible their entire approval of the operation. I had run across the sentiment before among the more educated and prosperous classes, but was not prepared for any such expression of sentiment as this. There is another element which is opposed to this suggestion and would like nothing better than to see the fortunes of Mexico joined with those of Spain. This element is among the peons and more ignorant classes, who look with horror upon the possibility of their country becoming a part of the United States. It is in the larger cities that you find the former classes, where American ideas are making rapid progress, and where the English language is steadily becoming more common. When, however, you get out into the country, you find the others, who speak nothing but Spanish, and who want nothing but Spain. Expect North American Unity. "Among the progressive people there is a great admiration for the wonderful progress and power of this country, and a belief that it is certain to stretch out in the future and take in all the North American continent. They believe that in this way there will come a development of the great resources of Mexico that would be impossible if it preserved its own national autonomy. There is a belief that Mexico by itself can never reach that degree of prosperity that it could if it were a part of the great republic to the north. There can be no double of the wonderful natural wealth of that country. We traveled altogether about 11,000 miles, and I was continually impressed with this fact." Mr. Green confirmed the reports as to the scarcity of silver dollars in Mexico, saying it was exceedingly difficult to secure them. He intimated that his trip had something to do with possible investments on a large scale, but was unwilling to go into details. He will remain in Chicago two or three days, and then return to Terrell, Tex. his home. DOINGS OF THE LAW MAKERS. Wednesday, March 27. The house positioned to April 1 consideration of the steering committee resolution on April 25. The senate passed a resolution for a simile adjournment on May 3 and sent it to the house, where it was held on the speaker's table, which means that it will be actioned till it shall please the speaker to take it up. Governor Yates sent the following nominations to the senate this morning: William Olin Forbes of Cook county, for member of the state board of health, to succeed L. Adelsberger of Monroe county, resigned. Thomas J. Clark of Adams county, for commissioner of the Southern Illinois penitentiary, to succeed Thomas W. Scott of Wayne county, resigned. William P. Smith of Platt county, for member of the state board of live stock commissioners to succeed James H. Paddock of Sangam county, resigned. Emil G. Hirsch of Cook county, for member of the state board of charities, to succeed Emil Danning of Cook county, resigned. The appointments went over to to-mor row. WISCONSIN. Wednesday. March 27. In the presence of both houses of the legislature and with Governor La Follette presiding, Professor S. M. Babcock, professor of agricultural chemistry, assistant director, and chief chemist of the agricultural experiment station of the University of Wisconsin, was formally presented with the medal given him by the state of Wisconsin for giving to the world his many inventions in dairy machinery, particularly the Babcock milk test. Another American train crew thrown into jail at Jaurez, Mex., because train killed a Mexican. Government's attention to be called to situation. THOUSANDS OF FAIR WOMEN HERALD PRAISES FOR PERUNA. Catarrhal Dyspepsia and Nervous Prostration Make Invalids of More Women Than All Other Diseases Combined. Miss Anna Prescott Mrs. — F.J. Lynch Miss Marie Coars It's all in the Quality When you buy a piece of Wetmore's Best Tobacco you get your value in good tobacco. The best Burley leaf grown, the purest flavoring known, carefully prepared and skillfully blended. No premiums can be offered when the worth of the tobacco is all in the quality. Ask your dealer for Wetmore's Best. The tobacco that sells on its merit. Made only by M. C. WETMORE TOBACCO CO., ST. LOUIS, MO. The Largest Independent Factory in America. Peruna is the woman's friend everywhere. It is safe to say that no woman ever used Peruna for any catarral derangement but what it became indispensable in her household. Letters From Women. Every day we receive letters from women like the following. Women who have tried doctors and failed; women who have tried Peruna and were cured. Miss Katie Klein, 6125 Bartmer avenue, St. Louis, Mo., writes: "Peruna has done me more good for catarrh than the best doctors could. I had catarrh so bad, but after taking Peruna it is entirely gone, and I feel like a different person." Miss Anna Prescott's Letter. Miss Anna Prescott, in a letter from 216 South Seventh street, Minneapolis, Minn., writes: "I am sincerely grateful for the relief I have found from the use of Peruna. I was completely used up last fall, my appetite had failed and I felt weak and tired all the time. My druggist advised me to try Peruna and the relief I experienced after taking one bottle of wonderful. I continued its use for five weeks, and an glad to say that my complete restoration to health was a happy surprise to myself as well as to my friends."—Anna Prescott. A constant drain of nervous vitality depleting the whole nervous system causes the mucous membrane surfaces to suffer accordingly. This is the condition called systemic catarrh. It very nearly resembles, and there is really no practical difference, between this condition and the condition known as neu- An enemy is a man who injures you and then refuses to forgive you. Senator Vest has been handicapped with poor health for some time, nevertheless his mind is one of the brightest in the senate. One day recently, he sank into his chair, saying to his neighbor, "I am an old man, and I'll never get over this." "Come, come, Vest, brace up," replied his neighbor; "brace up and you'll be all right. Look at Morrill over there; he's nearly ninety and as spry as a man of forty." "Morrill! Morrill!" said Vest. "He's set for eternity. They'll have to shoot him on the day of judgment." rasthenia, or nervous prostration. Peruna will be found to effect an immediate and lasting cure in all cases of systemic catarrh. It acts quickly and beneficially on the diseased mucous membranes, and with healthy mucous membranes the catarrh can no longer exist. Peruna a True Friend to Women Mrs. F. J. Lynch, writes the following from 324 S. Division street, Grand Rapids, Mich: The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O. Gentlemen—"I carnelyly recommend Peruna to any suffering woman, as it cures quickly. Last year I had a most persistent cough which nothing seemed to cure. Two bottles of Peruna"did more for me than all the doctors seemed to do. In a couple of weeks I found myself in excellent health, and have been enjoying it ever since. Hence I look on Peruna as a true friend to women."—Mrs. F. J. Lynch. Peruna is equally efficacious in curing catarrh of the throat as in curing systemic catarrh or catarrh of the stomach. Catarrh is essentially the same wherever located. Peruna cures catarrh. Peruna Makes You Feel Like a New Person. Miss Mary Coats, a popular young woman of Appleton, Wis., and president of the Appleton Young Ladies' Club, also speaks in glowing terms of Peruna. A letter recently received from her by The Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, Ohio, reads as follows: "I am glad to call the attention of my friends to Peruna. When that languid, tired feeling comes over you, and Politeness, like beefsteak, is better underdone than overdone. Representative John M. Alein, of Mississippi, once heard a pitty funeral sermon delivered by a negro preacher over a defunct darkey. The dead man had been fond of attending gay parties, where he whistled and danced, and these practices the preacher did not approve, so he said: "My brethren and sisters we are here to pay our last sad respects to our departed brother. Some say he was a good man and some say he was a bad man. Where he has gone to we can't tell, but in our grief we has one consolation, and that is—that he is dead!" your food no longer tastes good, and small annoyances irritate you. Peruna will make you feel like another person inside of a week. "I have now used it for three seasons, and find it very valuable and efficacious."—Miss Marie Coats. Diseased nerves are traceable directly to poor digestion, and poor digestion is directly traceable to catarrh. With the slightest catarrh of the stomach one can have good digestion. Very few of the many women who have catarrh of the stomach suspect what their real trouble is. They know they belch after meals, have sour stomach, a sensation of weight or heaviness, a fullness, irregular appetite droppings, gnawing, empty sensations, occasional pain—they all know this; but they do not know that their trouble is catarrh of the stomach. If they did they would take Peruna. Peruna cures catarrh wherever it is cated. As soon as Peruna removes catarrh from the stomach the digestion becomes good, appetite regular, nerves strong, and trouble vanishes. Peruna strengthens weak nerves, not by temporarily stimulating them, but by removing the cause of weak nerves—poor digestion. This is the only cure that lasts. Remove the cause: Nature will do the rest. Peruna removes the cause. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. Queen Victoria's relations to her long succession of prime ministers would furnish an interesting theme for a large chapter in the history of her reign. That she was not ad all partial to Mr. Gladstone is well known. "He talks to me as if I were a public meeting," she is reported to have said. With Disraeli she was on the most cordial terms, even of personal and almost intimate friendship. he was an adroit courtier, and said in the last year of his life to Matthew Arnold: "Everyone likes flattery, and when it comes to royalty, you should lay it on with a trowel." A Help for Fruit Growers. Anything that will save the orchards from savages of insects and give to growers of fruit satisfactory results for their labor and expense is deserving of investigation and trial. Realizing the importance of any method or device to this end, a representative of this paper has been looking into the claims of the Haseltine Moth Catcher that does away with all expensive spraying outfits with their poisonous solutions, which have frequently destroyed valuable live stock. The cost of operating the Moth Catcher is only one-sixth the cost of spraying. The well known fascination of a light for moths of all kinds is utilized by the inventor, S. A. Haseltine, to clear the orchards and gardens of insect pests in the most effectual way—by catching the moths before eggs are laid, so there are no worms hatched to destroy fruit or vegetables, or to breed more pests for another year. The Moth Catcher is made by placing two polished reflectors at right angles, with a torch in the center. The whole is then placed over a pan or tub partly filled with water on which floats a little kerosene oil. The torch is lit at or around sundown and the light, multiplied many times by the reflectors, attracts the moths. They strike the reflectors and fall into the coal oil which kills them instantly. A recent visit was made to the orchards of Central Missouri and investigation made furnished conclusive evidence of the utility of the Moth Catcher. Four orchards were experimented with in one locality. No. 1 was apart and at a distance from any other orchard. No. 3 lay between and immediately adjacent to Nos. 2 and 4 Nos. 1 and 3 were protected by Moth Catchers and were not sprayed, while Nos. 2 and 4 were thoroughly and repeatedly sprayed, but were not protected by traps. The fruit in Nos. 2 and 4 showed (at packing time) sixty per cent damaged. In No. 3 only fifteen per cent was damaged, and even this small per cent is shown to be caused from the proximity of the other orchards that were not "trap-protected", because the fruit in No. 1 was perfect, there being scarcely any damaged specimens in the entire orchard. Wormy apples were placed in closed glass jars with a little earth, and when the coddling moths were hatched, they were found to be the same kind as those taken from the Moth Catchers in the orchards and at the apple houses, where the coddling moths were hatched in large numbers among the old apple barrels and boxes. The cheap, safe and reliable "trap" will prove a boon to all orchardists from Maine to California, and will make profitable a pleasant occupation that has hitherto been remunerative to a less degree than it deserved. The cost is only $1.00 for the protection of an acre, and the improved quality of fruit on a single tree would amply repay the cost. The Central Farmer of Omaha, Neb., has been made general agent for sale of the device and through descriptive circulars and otherwise will make known its merits on application by mall. The atmest success will be hoped for, as anything that will preserve the fruit trees and their product will tend to enrichment of the country and the happiness and health of its people—20th Century farmer. They Are Not the Most Nutritious for Children. Many mothers allow their children to live almost entirely upon starchy foods, simply because they prefer puddings of every variety to the more substantial dishes. The mother argues, "Well, let him make his dinner on the pudding, if he prefers it; it certainly is as nutritious as anything else on the table." But it should be remembered that these foods that are pure starch, as corn starch, or corn flour, so-called, and all those that thicken in like manner, contain but little proportion of nutriment, being less sustaining and also more difficult of digestion than stale bread. In all bran, and also gluten, gum, sugar, calose and saline matter, especially the phosphates, in proportion to the starch, are to be preferred. If the child has formed a taste for puddings until the appetite craves these alone, and no other form of food seems desirable, the puddings can at least be varied, and need not necessarily be made only from starchy foods; plain fruit puddings—with stale bread for a foundation—all sorts of custards, and eggs and milk form a good substitute. He who lives without restraint will die without honor. Many a sickly fly has spoiled a healthy appetite. George F. Gilman, the millionaire who has just died at Black Rock, Conn., was noted for his eccentricities. His house had neither bell nor knockers and there was not a clock in it. His aversion to the thought of death was such that he would neither talk nor read about it, and rather than meet a funeral he would turn and drive back. One of his business methods was to require each one of his 285 tea stores throughout the country to send him $1 daily. DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE It Cures Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Group, Inbuenza, Whoooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma, certain cure for Consumption in first stages, in advance in advance in advance, once. You will see the effect, after lasting the first dose. Sold by dealers everywhere. Large bottles 25 cents and 50 cents. Breeding Ideal Type. It seems to us that there is a great deal of false doctrine going the rounds of the press and institutes on the subject of breeding, and the explanation is evidently to be found in lack of familiarity with the laws of breeding as set down by scientists who have studied the matter properly. We are led to make the above remarks by seeing such statements as the following: "If you want to breed good hogs of ideal type then pick a big, slab-sided sow and breed her to a short, stub-and-twist boar." Anon: "If your sows are plainly deficient in one respect go out and find a boar that is abnormally good in the point where the sow is deficient and he will counteract the bad fault of the sow." That means that he will beget pigs that are unlike himself at the same time unlike the sow or in other words prove to be the sire of pigs that are a sort of compromise between the two abnormal types of the sow and dam. Now this is utter foolishness. Like produces like in as much as nature through the law of heredity transmits to progeny the type and characteristics of the parent which have become fixed characters of the parent's family. This heredity is possessed equally by the sire and dam if each has been as long bred in line hence the mating of the two but blends too similar tendencies and the product is but a repetition of the characters of the two or a composite of both. The big, slab-sided sow referred to is no more a perfect ideal of what a hog should be in appearance than is the short, stub-and-twist boar. Two bad factors joined do not make a third good quantity. The bad sow and the bad shaped boar will impress upon the progeny when mated the character of that parent which is bred with most prepotence. It may be that the boar is more prepotent then the sow in which case the progeny would take most after him and so be short and of the stub and twist character, or if the sow was most prepotent the pigs would take after her peculiarities. There would at least be no certainty that the blending of the two different types would effect the creation of a third entity of superior type to that of either sow or boar. This being the case what is the good of trying such experiments? Given the fact that there is an ideal hog, and each breeder has his ideas as to ideal, the way to perpetuate that ideal or to build up towards its creation and permanence is not to mix two different types hoping to establish a third better one to select an ideal type as a pattern then mate sows and boars that have each the most perfect development of the various points entering into the formation of that given type. The sow and boar should be of the same type; both should be as perfect as possible in every point of the type but neither should be abnormal in any respect, for abnormalities are apt to be sports of nature, hence not transmissible, while known family characteristics, fixed in the family by long breeding in the same line, will repeat themselves in the progeny so long as they are kept pure and untainted. Taking what has been said into consideration it is then seen that in seeking out a boar to counteract the bad type and characteristics of home sows the boar chosen should be of as perfect shape as possible with a pedigree behind that shape which promises that the said shape is not accidental but fixed and likely to be prepotently transmitted to his progeny. Such a boar should be bred to sows that are as like him as possible if his type is the ideal one of the breeder. If the sows do not suit the breeder then it is better to get rid of them than to damage the breeding effects and values of the ideal boar by insulting him with such mates. We assert boldly that if it be necessary to blend two different types of any animals every breeding season to get a third and more desirable one the breeding operations will perpetuate a tribe of animals lacking prepotency and fixed type. Some of our readers may want to know the easiest methods of determining butter and oleomargarine. Two methods follow: Put a small piece of the suspected article into a tube of not more than three-eighths of an inch in diameter and then heat it slowly until it is all melted and begins to boll. If it is butter, the bubbles will fill the diameter of the tube and run up to the top without bursting. If it is oleomargarine, the bubbles will be smaller in size, will burst almost immediately upon forming, and about the only result of the boiling will be the sputtering of the stuff. A little experimenting with known butter will assist one in understanding the exact difference between butter and oleomargarine when boiled in such a tube as suggested. Another test, which requires more practice and skill, is as follows: Take a very small piece each of butter and oleomargarine, about the size of a pinhead, and place in separate spots on a clean piece of glass. A drop of ether placed on the butter will assume a wavy but somewhat regular outline, while a drop placed on the oleomargarine will have a rugged outline very much like the appearance of a cogwheel with the coqs sharpened to a point. The would-be winner of prizes in poultry shows must inform himself as to the requirements in prize winning birds. He must know something about the points his birds will make. He must be able to settle the question whether his fowls are exhibition specimens or not. Otherwise he may find himself at the show with birds that will stand no chance of winning anything, but whose entrance fees have had to be paid just the same. Most men are bad.—Bras. Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.—Longfellow. Bowels Don't Move? Caused by over-work! Over-eating! Over-drinking! No part of the human body receives more ill treatment than the bowels. Load after load is imposed until the intestines become clogged, refuse to act, worn out. Then you must assist nature. Do it, and see how easily you will be cured by CASCARETS Candy Cathartic. Not a mass of violent mercurial and mineral poison, but a pure vegetable compound that acts directly upon the diseased and worn out intestinal canal, making it strong, and gently stimulating the liver and kidneys; a candy tablet, pleasant to eat, easy and delightful in action. Don't accept a substitute for CASCARETS. Physicians assert that baked potatoes are more nutritious than those cooked in any other way, and that fried ones are the most difficult to digest. Russ' Bleaching Blue makes Brown mustlin white in a day. All grocers sell the genuine Russ. Refuse limitations. Sold by all grocers. He who tastes every man's broth often burns his mouth. We thank you for trying Wizard Oll for rheumatism or neuralgia, then you will thank us. Ask your druggist. A slip of the tongue is often more dangerous than a slip on the ice. WOMEN MUST SLEEP. Avoid Nervous Prostration. If you are dangerously sick what is the first duty of your physician? He quietes the nervous system, he deadens the pain, and you sleep well. Friends ask, "what is the cause?" and the answer comes in pitying tones, nervous prostration. It came upon you so quietly in the beginning, that you were not alarmed, and when sleep deserted you night after night until your eyes fairly burned in the darkness, then you tossed in nervous agony praying for sleep. MRS. A. HARTLEY. You ought to have known that when you ceased to be regular in your courses, and you grew irritable without cause, that there was serious trouble somewhere. You ought to know that indigestion, exhaustion, womb displacements, fainting, dizziness, headache, and backache send the nerves wild with affright, and you cannot sleep. Mart Hartley, of 321 W. Congress St., Chicago Ill., whose portrait we publish, suffered all these agonies, and was instantly cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's case. Her case should be a warning to others, her cure carry conviction to the minds of every suffering woman of the unfailing efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. SEAFARING MEN KNOW THE VALUE OF TOWER'S FISH BRAND OILED CLOTHING IT WILL KEEP YOU DRY IN THE WETTEST WEATHER LOOK FOR ABOVE TRADE MARK ON SALE EVERYWHERE CATALOGUES FREE SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS. A. J. TOWER CO. BOSTON, MASS. by scrubbing clothes all day. Use Maple City Self Washing Soap and make washing day easy. All grocers. A London bootblack displays this sign in sight of his patrons: "If you like my work, tell your friends; if you don't like it, tell me." Thirty minutes is all the time required to dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Nothing circulates so rapidly as a secret. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall O. Catarrh Care. GRENYE & CO. Props, Tecledo O. We the undersigned, have known P. J. Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga- mble made to him. a girl to other beau. to which fe- regular Eighth. Ill. Regulator" to on prompt- titude of A. H. goods carried. do with- PUTNAM FA staining the hands or spotting the vessel ors silk, wool or cotton at one boiling. sent by mail, postage paid. Don't Mo drinking! No part of the human body rea- until the intestines become clogged, refuse- sibly you will be cured by CASCARETS. So but a pure vegetable compound that acts d g, and gently stimulating the liver and Don't accept a substitute for CASCARETS. I'm bring a surgeon...eweler's Weekly. "I have gone 14 days at a time without movement of the bowels. Chronic constipation for every over the place we are in this condition; I did everything I heard of but never found any relief until began using CASCARETS. I now have from one to three passages daily and if I was rich I would give $1000 for each movement; it is such a relief." AYLMR I. HUNT, 160 Hussey St., Detroit, Mich. More Information. Tommy-P what do they put—steer in FOR BOWELS AND LIVER. Every man makes a mistake of thinking he can fool his wife as easily as he used to fool his mother. If You Have Rheumatism Send no money, but write Dr. Shoop, Inc. Wife, box 143, for six bottles of Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic Care, express pay. If cured pay $5.50; if not it is irrec. Judicious silence is an eloquent indication of wisdom. Dear Loving Friends, How's This? The fellow who wears glasses doesn't always make a spectacle of himself. If you wish to have beautiful, clear white clothes ask for Russ' Bleaching Blue. Refuse imitations. Sold by all grocers. All the world's a stage—and most of the occupants are supers who play thinking parts. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wolf coud. Sce a bottle. It's safer to cook at any rate than to rate at any cook. Indigestion is a bad companion. Get rid of it by chewing a bar of Adams' Pepsin Tutti Frutti after each meal. Many people take your advice—but few of them make use of it. Now that the Winter season is past, it is well to cleanse the system and purify the blood with Garfield Tea—an Herb Medicine good for all. The more trouble some people have the more they want to borrow. Don't Do Unnecessary Work Use the great labor-saver, Maple City Self Washing Soap. All grocers sell it. The petroleum wells of Russia average 900 feet in depth; those of the United States 500 feet. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take LAXATIVE BROMINE TABLETS. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grow's signature is on the box. Lazy men are like theories. They seldom work. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.-John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. It doesn't always pay for a girl to have too many strings to her bean. The largest proportion of the lilies to which formes are liable is the Dairy Drug Co. guarantee. 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Spring is the time of year when one should fear an attack of fever, especially when the system is depleted, one should dread any severe illness. The vitality is at a low ebb. There is less power of resistance to throw off disease, and it is on this account that fatalities are so much greater during the spring months than at any other time of the year. There is but one way to ward off such dangers, and that is to fortify the The struggling young doctor realizes that patients are virtues. County Rights for Sale Cheap to produce your own wine. With the Wheeler Angel Swee with the Wheeler Angel Swee This is a little wander. It separates surecatch, mixed grape, farmers' grade, it grades it running it through. Farmers and farmers' can make it. Write for particiates to HIRSCH BROTHERS, 2717 Reed St., Milwaukee, WI staining the hands or spotting the vessel. Colors more goods than others and colors silk, wool or cotton at one boiling. 10c per package. 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A friend advised me to take Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, which I did with the most satisfactory results, for the trouble has entirely disappeared, and I can now rest comfortably nights and have none of my former misery from the burning, itching sensations." Remember Dr. Greene's advice will be given to any one desiring same absolutely free if they will write or call upon him at his office, $5 W. 14th St. New York City. If afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water CUREFITS FREE A Full-Site 81 Treatment of Dr. O. Pharmacy for Fits, Epilepsy and all Nervous Diseases. Address O. FIELDS BROWN, 08 Broadway, Newburgh, K.Y. OKLAHOMA OFFERS FREE HOMES to 60,000 people on 3,000,000 acres of lands, soon to open to settlement. Opportunity of a lifetime. WE THE CHEF, MIGH. Information about these lands, will prompt proclamation fixing date of opening. One year a $1.65 mo. 60 cents; five cents per copy. MORGAN'S MANUAL. Compiled by section may $1.00. 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The great Russian pianist Ossif Gabrielomitsch, in a recent interview in the Chicago Cronicle, has the following good word for the musical genius of the Negro. He said: "One thing that I cannot understand," he said, running his hands through his hair, "is the manner in which the America people regard the Negro. In my country, we had slavery long before it was introduced into the United States, but with its abolition all feelings of caste vanished and today the sons of former serfs are eligible, if they are fitted, to the positions of highest trust in the nation. And we are not regarded as a republic, either. "Then, again, the colored man is really superior to the white man in one way. He is a born musician. I have found that music is nearly always the expression of the highest intellectuality, and the Negro is really one of the first musicians in the world. His ear is true and his songs are beautiful, appealing to the senses as perhaps but few compositions of other races do. His songs are not savage or barbaric, but some of them are really grand in their conception." 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 releive the pain. It also cures sprains and bruises in one-third the time required by any bites, treatment. Cuts, burns, frost-biter pain, quins, 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. Are you going to entertain? If so you will need invitations, call and see our samples, our prices are the lowest CAUSES SURPRISE. Concisective 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 Sum. 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 Bruce's. For many years past Greenwich has raised $30,000 by taxation, and has spent $30,000 more than it raised. The debt has rolled up to nearly $400,000. The town appointed an investigating committee and the members reported that more money must be raised by taxation. Fixing up the taxes last fall was put over until next spring. The assessors figured up the amount of taxable property and an increase of the tax rate seemed probable. Persons who have looked up the matter say that there appears to be one law for the poor man and another for the rich man. The law says that each property owner must put in a true list of the real value of all property, real and personal, but the general rule among persons of moderate means has been to pay on 60 per cent of the value. The millionaires in some instances have not paid on 10 per cent of the property. Remarkable Cures of Rheumatism. From the Vindicator, Rutherford, N. C. The editor of the VINDICATOR has had occasion to test the efficacy of Chamberlain's Pain-Balm twice with the most remarkable results in each case. First, with rheumatism in the shoulder from which he suffered excruciating pain for ten days, which was relieved with two applications of Pain Balm, rubbing the parts afflicted and realizing instant benefit and entire relief in a very short time. Second, in rheumatism in the thigh joint, almost prostrating him with severe pain, which was relieved by two applications, rubbing with the linemen on retiring at night, and getting up free from pain. For sale by all Druggists. FRILLS OF FASHION. Variations in children's gowns blossom out from time to time, even though they are very slight, and small girls rival their mothers in their ambition to keep up to date. Soft wool materials make up very prettily in this way. In figured French flannel the collar may be made of the same and trimmed with rows of narrow braid or velvet ribbon. Skirts of the small gowns are usually plain, but the older girls have some sort of trimming, either tucks, stitched bands, ruffles or velvet folds, stitched on. The long-waisted mode, in which the waist line rounds down low in front, is conspicuously evident among the gowns for girls over 10 years of age, and the small gowns for dainty little girls of 6 imitate this fashion as much as possible by having the long waist all around. Gulpem dresses, which never seem to go out of style, are suitable for all ages, from 6 to the more mature years of middle age. Bolero jackets are very popular in the kingdom of small costumes, and the attempt to produce the effect of stole ends is seen in one little gown, where narrow lace reverses are carried down the entire length of the front, as shown in the illustration. Another pretty effect is made by two box plaits in front, one at either side from the yoke to the hem, and two in the back, giving a long effect to the waist, which is defined with a narrow velvet belt ending in small velvet rosettes at either side of the front on the plaits. The skirt gathers on to the waist between the plaits, which apparently are a continuation of those in the waist. A sailor collar of lace covers the shoulders in the back and opens in front over a roke of tucked white silk or batiste. Thin gowns of point d'esprit for party wear are variously trimmed with ruches, ruffles, lace insertion and rows of colored satin ribbon. A pretty feature of the small girl's costume is the coat and hat to match.—New York Sun CARRIER PIGEONS. Their Use on Land and Sea Is Steadily Increasing. Here is a new word for you, columbophilism. It means raising and training messenger pigeons. Within the last few years this industry has grown wonderfully. The governments of Belgium, Germany, France and the United States are training these birds to serve as messengers from army stations. The United States makes use of them more especially from ships. Nearly every one of our big ships carries a coop of homing pigeons, as they are called, which are released as occasion demands, and almost without exception the birds go with unerring swiftness to their home on shore, carrying a tiny tube fastened to one leg, which contains a message written on the thinnest of paper. They can be depended upon to go a hundred miles at a speed of fifty miles an hour when they are three years old. Special attention has recently been paid in France to the use of carrier pigeons by the cavalry. The bird is placed in a wicker tube lined with hair to deaden the effect of the jolling. Three such tubes can be carried in a basket, which is attached to the rider's shoulders in the same way as a knapsack. The bird's feet are drawn up and its wings are folded when it is placed in the tube, and a light form of folding cage is carried, in which the birds can rest and eat during a halt. Twelve men are sent every year from the French cavalry ranks to attend a course of instruction in the treatment and handling of pigeons at the military pigeon station at Vangiard. The sense that guides the pigeon back to its home is as much a mystery now as it ever was. When set at liberty, it immediately rises in the air in a spiral, higher and higher, as if getting its bearings, the away it goes in the right direction. A nightfall the bird goes into camp near water, and early next morning resumes the journey.—Little Chronicle. A girl named Ackerman, aged 14, daughter of an English laborer, has just completed her education. She has never missed being present since the school was opened, and in completing her 3,451 attendances is said to have walked 6,000 miles. She has passed every standard successfully and in the three subjects on first grade drawing obtained "excellent" prizes in freehand and model, as also in the three stages of the specific subjects, literature, domestic economy and animal physiology, and in one stage in physical geography. She has also obtained 26 other prizes for good attendance, sculpture and knitting, etc. Pacific Bldg Mode at a Railroad Power House. Test for the elimination of the smokeuisance, 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 chinders. Streams of lava form in a small pool on the door of the ash pit, and are removed in a solid mass from time to time. Apparatus that is under test is the property of the Schwartzkopf Coal Dust Firing company, a German concern. Schwartzkopf, 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 tactical 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 fee into a combustion chamber. Only the faintest suggestion of smoke trails away from the tall chimney, and it is asserted that the customary pressure of steam being maintained, with a large saving of fuel. FACTOR IN POLITICS. New Federation of Australia Must Here- after. Be Considered. Australia is to Great Britain the most valuable of all her colonies, writes Hugh M. Lusk in the North American Review. The external influence of Australia in the south Pacific is bound to make itself 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 these for very long. Siam, French and southern China and Borneo are natural marts for her trade in the next ten years will be a rapidly increasing one, and, in relation to all these, she will expect to exercise large influence. Immense Herring Traffic. The annual North sea herring voyage, which begins off the Northumberland coast, has resulted, on the completion of the first stage, in a catch of over 50,000 crans of herrings, valued at about £70,000. A cran contains, according to size, from 600 to 1,000 fish. As the fish move southward, the big fleet of several hundred sail follows, and it is now making its headquarters at Grimsby, whence its operations will shortly be transferred to Yarmouth and Lowestoft, 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 348,060 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 bequeath 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 Siberin and "Holy" Russia. Dentist's Sponge in Windpipes Deustt's Sponge in Windpulse. Sponges which are used in surgical operations once in a while are left in the bound, and then death is bound to ensue son or later. A young English collier named Flunney had eleven teeth extracted under ether by Dr. Griffiths, and when efforts were being made to restore him to consciousness he sprang from the chair, fell back and 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 CAMPAIGN EXPENSES in National Contests the Heaviest Outlay in Years the Close 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 galling 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 put 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. One of his colleagues—one who had recently been ignored by Harrison—spoke up impulsively: "Well, by Jove, Harrison, if you've sat on it, I'll bet you a sixpence it is frozen solid," and of course a shout went up from the whole committee. Harrison took the joke kindly and joined in the laugh. Shot an Exulting Englishman. The British and the Boers at Pieters Hill were crouching behind bowlers scattered over a wide surface. The moment a man on either side emerged from his cover he was at once the target of the enemy's bullets. A Boer, partly, it seemed, in bravado, made a sudden sally to join a neighbor. An Englishman who had long watched the rock and was becoming sick with hope deferred, took aim and brought the daring one down. So delighted was he with his luck that he threw himself on his back behind the shallow shelter of his bowler and kicked his heels into air. 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