Iowa State Bystander

IOWA Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the pub. "Brevity is the soul of wit," remember We will not return rejected manuscript, unless accompanied by postage stamps. WRITE America. you. Sid The By Madam Dennie was hostess of the H. B. S. R Thursday afternoon. After the business session, the programme was called for. The responses were very entertaining. Gen. Grant's life was the afternoon study; viewing him as a soldier and a president. The meeting was thrilling and full of life. The circle will be entertained by Mrs. Woodson, at the home of Mrs. Jackson, next Thursday afternoon. Married—Last Thursday evening at 11 o'clock, Mr. Chas. Scarey to Miss Ida Buckner, at the residence of the brides home. Only a few friends were present. The bride is one of our charming young ladies, well known in the city, and the groom is working in the employ of the Rock Island Ry. Co. We wish them a happy and successful voyage through life. There was a very pleasant surprise party given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Morgan. 906 Oak street, Thursday, in honor of her son, Lawrence Morgan, and also Edie Williams by Miss Mattie Barkdale and Mr. Bert Williams. Games were played after which refreshments were served. They departed for their homes after enjoying a pleasant time. The Sacred Concert given last Sunday evening, under the auspices of the A. M. E. Church choir, was fairly well attended, considering the short time to advertise it. The singing was good and each member did very well. As we printed the programme last week, we will not take the time to reproduce it again. The remarks by the pastor, Rev. Phil, ips, was interesting and instructive. Much credit is due to Prof. Holt and Wm. Coalson, for their hard work to make it a success. The G. U. O. of O. F. of America have their annual sermon preached at the Corinthian Baptist church, on Eleventh streenth, second Sunday in May, 1901, at 3 p. M. Sermon will be preached by Rev. Bates. Will leave Odd Fellows hall, corner 6th and Walker streets, at 1:30 p. m., march north on Sixth to Locust. west on Locust to Ninth, north on Ninth to Center, west on Center to Eleventh, north on 11th to church. H. Eight, N. G.; Brown, V. G.; George Gates. P. S. The Brotherhood Band will head the parade. CHAS. F. WEST. (Formerly with Dr. Rood) HAS OPENED A --- --- VOL. 7. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER PUBLISHED EVERY FRIIDAY BY THE BRYANFAMER PUBLISHING COMPANY, FIFTH AND LOCUST, BOOM 65 MARQUAND BLOCK, IOWA 'PEON' 800. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRO- TATIVE ASSOCIATION OF IOWA. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE MOST WORSHIPFUL UNITED GRAND LODGE OF IOWA, A. F. & A. M. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year ..... $1.50 Six months ..... .75 Three months ..... . All subscription payable in advance. J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by post, foe order, money order, express or draft, to the Iowa STATE BYSTAN- A Publishing Company. CITY NEWS Today is Arbor Day. Lowest prices—Mason's. Mr. Green Irwin, of Leavenworth, Kansas, is visiting in the city. Mr. Lee Blagburn has accepted a position with the McArthur Drug Co. Mrs. James Woods has been confined to his room the past week by illness. Miss Ionia Sanford, of Oskaloosa, is in the city; she expects to spend the summer here. William Harding left Sunday night for Chicago, where he expects to spend the summer. Miss Zoe Richardson, of Clive, spent Sunday in our city, visiting friends. She is improving in health. WE WANT colored organizers for the best thing on earth for colored people. African Monarehs of America, Sloux City, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Humburd gives a reception this evening, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Weeks. J H. Mixon, Jeweler, No. 312 West Third street. Tunes Pianos and repairs organs. A special bill of fare served at The Enterprise Cafe, every Sunday from 1 to 6 p. m., for 25c. Also ice cream and sake. 314 Third street, Des Moines. Mr. Edward Weeks made a flying trip this week to Moberly, Missouri. The result of his trip will be explained next issue. The Mesdames W. M. Mash and N. Browns and daughter, of St. Paul, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Curtley, of 1716 E. Maple street. Mrs. C. J. Tolliver nee Green, of Rock Island, Ill., spent Sunday in our city. She attended the Sacred Concert. Returning to Newton. Mrs. May Thompson nee Lewis, passed through the city last week enroute from her old home, Colfax, to her present home, Omaha. Miss Eiffie Mitchell, who arrived here from a visit to her parents home, in Chandler, Oklahoma, is dangerously sick at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Gould, on Third street. H. LaShe, the slack wire artist, left Monday, for Topeka, Kansas, where he will become a member of the "Coontown 400." There will be several colored delegates to the Polk County Republican convention, May 4th. Among those who have been selected at the caucuses are Henry McCravena, Jefferson Logan, N. E. Morton, A. Smith, Geo. H. Cleggett and J. Robinson. There will be several from the country. The Oklahoma Opportunity is a book descriptive of the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Reservations in Oklahoma to be opened this summer, with 2,000,000 acres available for public settlement. This publication contains complete information as to soil and climate, a sectionized map of the district, conditions of entry and the Act of Congress opening the Reservation. The Great Rock Island Route is the only line running to and through the reservation. The Oklahoma Opportunity and the Western Trail, giving more facts of interest to Homeseekers will be sent free by JOHN SEBARTIAN, G.P. A Chicago. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1901. Spring Hats are ripe—Mason's. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Prampkin, who has been visiting in our city for several weeks, left last Monday for Topeka, Kansas, where they will join the "Coontown 400" company. Mr. James Johnson returned last Friday, from Kansas City and Springfield, Mo., where he spent three weeks visiting with his wife and friend. Miss Sadie Miller, recently of Keokuk, who has been very sick at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Buskner, 753 West Tenth street, does not improve very much. Her mother arrived last week from Keokuk. WRITE The African Monarchs of America. They have something to tell you. Sioux City, Iowa. The Bystander is sorry to accept the resignation of our Keokuk correspondent. Although with us but a short time, get his letters were interesting. Our corpse of newgatherers are a very bright, active set of young people, and we regret to lose any of them. The Republican primaries are tomorrow, Saturday, from 1 o'clock to 8 p. m. Every voter should be out. Best Milliners on Earth—Mason's THE SACRED CONCERT Billiard AND Pool Room 304 W. Grand Ave. Choice line of CIGARS AND TOBACCOS Your Patronage is Solicited. Spring Bonnets ready—Mason'a. is the title of a new booklet descriptive of these states, a copy of which, with a new map of the Columbia River region, will be mailed on receipt of six cents in postage by W. B. Kulskern, 23 Fifth Ave., Chicago, Ill. MR. HAFNER FOR SUPER VISOR. The name of Mr. Adam Hafner, one of the oldest and highly esteemed citizens of Polk county, is a candidate for member of the County Board of West Des Moines or First Supervisor district. Mr. Hafner has made Des Moines his home for forty-three years, and has seen and assisted the growth of our city from a small town to a large city. He has held a few of the smaller offices for years and has always performed his duty with honor, honesty, and to the interest of the masses. He is and has always been an active republican worker. He is well qualified and would make a good supervisor. Mr. Hafner is a tried friend of our race, as shown that when he was Marshal. He appointed the first colored policeman in this city—Mr. Geo. Johnson. He now solicits your support (to-morrow) Saturday at the primaries. MOTHER Special to the Iowa State Bystander: What is to be thought of her, who followed us with heart and prayer, who lived in our lives and sorrowed in our grief, who spoke no dialect but that of love. Who welcomed us coming and blessed us in going. Go where we may, nothing is far to a mother. She girdles the whole globe with her love, and encircles her child if he be on the face of the earth. Oh how the battles of life drive our thoughts back to the old homestead. Though the world be against us, friends and associates forsake us, we can go to mother, who is ever the same. Would we but go and sit around the old hearth that light and love swept, and how could we leave that spot without remembering one form, that bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. Where is the artist, and where is brush and paint that can lend the coloring to the old homestead and mother. Now, when weary of the world that is so unfeeling and tired of men that are so hard and selfish, it is then our souls become untuned and discordant, and some unknown power we seem to hear the well remembered tones of a voice long silent, she who watched over us, loved us, protected and defended us. All from love, deep pure fervent love. There is neither, heights, depths or bounds to a mother's love. It is the most perfect reflection ever thrown back from the mirror of a human heart, which creates that yearning of the heart which can never be erased. Backward, turn backward, Oh time in your flight, Make me a child. But since we cannot call her back, and how well do we remember the tired look so full of love and patience, and remembering our ingratitude, we sometimes think that our hearts must have been stone not to have been moved by that look. With humility we acknowledge. What her life could not do her death shall effect for she is through with this world of sorrow and has joined that innumerable band. Where in sweet communion blend. Heart with heart and friend with friend. In a world that never shall end. Mrs. A. O. Smith. IS NOT WORTHY TO BE GOVERNO Among the many honorable and distinguished men who have been talked of for governor of Iowa this year, there is nothing to our knowledge to preclude us from voting for any which may become a candidate, but among the avowed and announced candidates there is one already in the field whom we feel it our duty to oppose, because of that gentleman's former utterance, and it is Senator W. H. Herriman, whom we think should not receive the support of the colored voters of Iowa, nor of any voter who believes in honesty, justice to all classes and color. This is the first time the Bystander ever came out and told its readers not to support a man who claimed to be a republican. Our reason is this: Mr. Herriman has said in substance that he did not intend to vote for any colored man for any office where a white man would be under him or subject to him, for they could not get along without trouble. He said further he did not think it policy to elect a colored man to any clerical place. He uttered these words when he was in the state senate, and some of his friends went to him in the interest of Attorney George H. Woodson, of Muchainkook, who was a candidate for file clerk of the senate, and only one vote was necessary to have elected him. It is not because he did not vote for Mr. Woodson, but because of the principle and the reason he gave. Why, if one colored man fails as a clerk it is no sign all others would fail. Hundreds of white clerks fail and they select others in their stead. Let us at least have public men who are consistent and fair. Miss Jessie M. Jeffers is able to be out again. Mrs. Frances Tomlin is a little lame from running a nail in her foot. Miss M. Jeffers was laid up last week with rheumatism. The two Mr. Spears, Taylor and Richmon of Chariton was in our city on last Sunday visiting friends and getting acquainted with the nice looking girls. W. P. Bird isn't very well at this writing. The smallpox is very nearly all gone. Messdames Tomlin and Bird visited at the home of Mrs. C. Jeffers this afternoon. N. Tomlin was out to church this evening. The Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman is to write the life of D. L. Moody. Bishop Edsall has just completed a highly successful mission at Jamestown, N. D. Tomkins Avenue Congregational church of Brocklyn raised over $27,000 for missions during the year. The death roll in the Congregational ministry in Great Britain was unusually heavy during the year 1899. A congress of the history of religions will be held at Paris, France during the first part of September next year. The receipts of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, for the year make a total of $38,000, of which $17,000 is from pew rents. The annual council of the South African churches was held at Graaf Relnet, and owing to the preoccupations of the war, only thirty-eight delegates attended. Since his resignation from the Church of the Pilgrims relief from care has conducted to a marked improvement in the health of the venerable Dr. R. S. Storm. KEOKUK SIFTINGS. The Bystander man herewith desires to thank the many kind people who have assisted him in his weekly news report, and especially is he obligated to Mrs. Emma Teabeau, Mrs. French D. Bland and Miss Bertha M. Hunt, whose courtesies he acknowledges with becoming reverence. To the able editor of the Bystander the Keokuk correspondent expresses his high appreciation of the valuable attention given the Keokuk column and offers thanks in abundance. Business affairs compel the Keokuk pencilpusher to resign this pleasant and fascinating calling to seek "new fields and pastures green." Mr. Paul Davis departed last Monday for Burlington, where he is now located. Mr. Charles Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Triplett are now residents of the capital city. Mr. Louis Lcee, superintendent of the A. M. E. Sunday school, was elected delegate to the Sunday school convention which meets in Cedar Rapids. The funeral of the sister of Mrs. James Scott was held at New Boston last Sunday. The patience of Brother Armstrong was taxed to its fullest extent at church last Sunday night. "Young America" had become too obstreperous and Rev. Armstrong had to give him a private interview. It is a beautiful trait in a young man to give his sister particular attention. There is a young man in Keokuk who sets an example that inspires admiration and he lives on West Morgan street. Mr. Charles Mills, of Quincy, Ill., will be the principal pianist in the musical to be given by Company D May 21. Miss Carrie Turner has been elected delegate to the grand session of the Society of Christian Endeavor, which meets in Cincinnati during the month of June. Charles S. Sayer, the playwright and author, presented his new drama, "Darkness and Dawn," at the Institutional church in Chicago Thursday and Friday evenings of last week and was scored an immense hit. Over 100 people were used in the cast, it being necessary to use the scenery from Hopkins theater. Marion Kooke, manager for T. M. Thompson, a large importer of fine millinery at 1658 Milwaukee avenue, Chicago, says: "During the late severe weather I caught a severe cold which kept me awake at night and made me unfit to attend my work during the day. One of my millers was taking Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for a severe cold at that time, which seemed to relieve her so quickly that I bought some for myself. It acted like magic and I began to improve at once. I am now entirely well and feel very pleased to acknowledge its merits." For sale by all Druggists. SOLID GOLD RING FREE. and illustrated catalogue. APEX SUPPLY CO., Des Moines, Iowa The petit jury for the May term of the United States federal court for southern Iowa has been selected and we notice the names of several leading and good men of our race drawn. Among them are McDowell, H. A. Armstrong, H. H. Lewis, of Mikhinkoock, John L. Thompson of Des Moines. Last year Rev. C. R. Brookins was selected, which was the first colored man to be selected for many years, to our knowledge. BOSTON MASS To the editor of the Bystander: To be without your paper for even so short a time as the few weeks it did not come to our reading room revealed to us fully the great need such a paper supplies. We fully realize how much it cost to satisfy the many needs as ours. Such being brought to our editors doubtless every day and trust that we shall be able soon to be of some help and not a burden. We are grateful to you for your kindness. The home of our association is in a house of fifteen rooms, of which two are large parlors wherein socials are given and on Sunday afternoons we have song service with addresses, where we meet representing all classes to teach and to be taught. From this alone some good has been done and all are greatly hopeful that more will be done, as it seems to be the very pride of most of the people. The basement of the house is used by our ladies' auxiliary as a laundry in which they give employment to a few of their members and others. Their ambition and purpose is to enlarge this business so that aside from giving employment to a larger number of their members they will be able to give some assistance to young women and girls who come to our city from other parts without any special preparation. This is to protect them as well as to help them. We have ten rooms fitted up for lodging purposes, with special care for those who visit our city. Our reading room with its race journals, its library of race literature and with several pictures of the toilers and builders of the race on its walls is a source of profound pride to all and the opening up of a new field of instruction also the stimulating of an ambition which must be felt ere long for good in our community. Please do not forget to come and see us when you come to our city. Yours thankfully and hopingly. The Young Men's Educational Aid Association. Reduced Rates to Food Exposition at Waterloo, Iowa, and Return. Via the North-Western Line. Tiekets will be sold for the above exposition to be held April 22 to 27. For dates of sale, etc., apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R'y. PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. Buffalo, N. Y., April 15, 1901. Iowa State Bystander, Des Moines, Iowa. Gentlemen: Learning from many sources that the colored people were to be well represented during this summer in attendance at our exposition, it became a subject of importance to provide suitable accommodations. After consulting with a number of representative colored citizens of Buffalo, we learned that the colored people throughout the country felt that this city was not very hospitable toward them. Realizing that with proper organization the colored stranger could receive as hospitable and courteous treatment as the white visitor we called together the representatives of the colored people. After carefully canvassing the situation and on their recommendation we have appointed Mr. A. M. Thomas, a colored lawyer of this city, to look after the interests of the colored visitors to this city. Thorough organization of the accommodations among citizens is to be effected and you may say to your people that no fear need be felt in regard to the question of finding suitable accommodations and receiving courteous and respectful treatment. We send this information feeling that through your valuable paper it would be made known to the colored people and thus prove that the exposition does not purpose to slight in any manner this portion of our countrymen and visiting strangers. Thanking you in advance for distributing the information, we are, Kensington, Middlesex. Sigourney, Iowa, April 23, 1901. J. L. Thompson and J. H. Shepard: Dear Sirs—I believe I will have to have the Iowa State Bystander come another year. It seems to me that I can't do without it. You will find enclosed $1.50 for one more year. The people are busy here now. Yours fraternally, Thomas H. W. Benton. 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 a unheard of low rates. For full particulars call on Iowa Central ticket agents, or add-ons, Geo. S. Batty, G. P. & T. A., Marshalltown, Iowa. CHURCH AND CLEARQY. KEQKUK SIFTINGS: Caught a Dreadful Cold. To get new customers to test our Watches, Jewelry, Silver ware, Etc., we will send FREE gifts to your stone ring, with first order for goods, selected from our catalogue. Your choice of THE QUINE, ENERALDAL or OFALS Send postal card for Ring capo ```markdown ``` --- No. 45. Buy Your Millinery at a Millinery Store. THE Royal Millinery Co., 610 Walnut Street. Makers and designers of fashionable headgear for Ladies and Children Popular Prices SAYLOR. We are having very fine weather out here now. Mrs. Lee Shaw returned home from a three months' visit with her mother in Macon, Ga., recently. She reports a fine time. She also visited Tampa, Fla., Nashville, Tenn., Atlanta, Ga., and several more of the large cities. She says to the boys and girls up north, they call themselves up to the times, but they are left behind. They ought to go south and take lessons from those young people. Thomas Magregory met with a serious accident Sunday evening. While coming home from hunting he was telling his friends of the game he had caught and leaned upon his gun it was discharged, shooting himself in the right arm. He shot most of the muscle off but we are glad to say that he is improving and we hope he will continue to do so. Mrs. Addie M. Blossom Jenkins and John Rook were visiting in Carbon-dale Monday with Mrs. Winbrush and friends. E. M. Hendrick gave a lecture to the young girls on teaching or duty Monday evening. We have elected delegates for the convention to meet in June at Davenport L. G. Garrett and Miss Fannie Burrell. Miss Josie Patten of Mashalltown was visiting in our city last week. We had a fine base ball game out here Sunday. J. S. Madison's and W. M. Daniel's ball teams crossed bats Sunday. Mr. Madison reported in the paper a few weeks ago that he was going to sweep the country with his nine, known as the big potatoes, but we think when he gets done with W. M. Daniel's team, known as the little potatoes he will have to buy his boys all new broms to sweep away the snow. Explosives Confined and Unconfined. There is a widespread apprehension in regard to the devastating effect of high exposures. When unconfined the effect even of large charges of them upon structures is comparatively slight. At the naval ordnance proving ground, so long ago as 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 accident explosion of fifty-five tons of blasting gelatin, which was stored in railway vans, excavated but 20,000 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 Talcen 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 limits of age set by the Bible. Among statesmen: Mirabean was 42; Pitt, 47; Caesar, 53; Richelleu, 57; Cromwell, 59; Frederick the Great, 74; Disraeli, 75; Blismarck, 83; Talleyrand, 84. Of great conquerors: Alexander the Great died at 32; Napoleon at 51; Hanibal at 83; Marlborough at 73; Blucher at 76; Wellington at 83; Kenophon at 86; Mottke at 91. The age of the decease of philosophers was: Spinola, 44; Descartes, 53; Aristotle, 62; Socrates, 61; Linnaeus, 70; Copernicus, 70; Gallileo, 78; Kant, 79; Plato, 82; Newton, 84; Humboldt, 89. The longevity of great writers, poets, varies from Byron, 86, to Sophocles, 90. The painters death came at ages varying from Raphael at 37, to Titian at 92. Are you going to entertain? If so you will need invitations, call and see our samples our prices are the lowest --- Viennese Diverse Club A "Ladies' Divorce Club," of all things in the world, has been established in Vienna, and the members wear as a badge a silver ring bearing the strange device, "Humanitas." There is much speculation as to whether they mean to imply that they show their humanity by emancipating their husbands, or that in the interests of womanity they humanely band themselves together to break the matrimonial fatters when they become irksome to wives—Chicago Tribune. Monument to Pasteur The model for the monument to Pasteur, which is to be erected in his native town, represents besides a statue of Pasteur a figure personifying science, who is holding a wreath of laurel toward Pasteur and a woman holding two small children, who are supposed to have been saved from death by Pasteur's discoveries. M. Auton Charles, the sculptor, is making progress with it, and it is said to be very effective. 7 Refuse Rightful Honors to Negress. Refuse Rightful Honors to Negress. Miss Zipporah Marcella Joseph, a colored girl, ranks all others in the graduating class at the manual training school, Denver, and therefore should be valedictorian. Her classmates do not like this idea, and are supported in thus drawing the color line by some members of the faculty. The matty has assumed a plague threat, in due to serious trouble in the school. Endurance of Chitian Horses. Endurance of Civilian Horses Chilian cavalry horses have been put through a remarkable test of endurance. Twenty-one officers mounted on their ordinary chargers rode 250 miles in three days, covering $1 miles the first day, $1 the second, and $8 the third. The route was over rough mountain roads in some places 3,000 feet above the sea level. All the horses were hired in Chil. Promoter of Liberal Ideas In compliance with the terms of the will of Professor Noble, the Norwegian inventor who left $500,000 "for the promotion of liberal ideas throughout the world," three fortnightly magazines are to be established in France, Germany and England respectively. Maitrie Labori, who defended Captain Decyfus, is to be editor in chief of the French magazine. --- There will be only one building at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo designed in its entirety by a woman, and that one is the structure which will represent the states of New England. The woman whose brilliancy as an architect has gained for her this honor is Miss Josephine Wright Chapman of Boston. Chaing. Dishes. The chafing dish is among the most ancient adjuncts to the culinary department of all nations. It was in great demand at the grand feasts given by the wealthy citizens in ancient Rome. Some of these dishes have recently been found among the ruins of Pompeii. They are of exquisite workmanship. Tunnel of Tunnels. London is being so rapidly honeycombed with underground railways that the government is beginning to realize that a great comprehensive plan must be laid out, unless the site of London is to become a tangle of tunnels and tubes, each with its own ends and interfering with all the rest. Czar Has Twenty-Seven Physicians. The czar of Russia has twenty-seven physicians, and they are all selected from the medical celebrities of Russia. There is a first physician-in-chief; they come ten honorary surgeons, two oculists, a chiropodist and honorary chiropodist, two court physicians and three specialists for the czarina. Toronto's Memorial to Victoria. The citizens of Toronto, Ont., have decided to place an organ in Massey hall as a memorial to the late Queen Victoria. Committees have been appointed to canvass the city for the necessary funds. It is estimated that the instruments and the accompanying tablets will cost $30,000. Healthier Northern Climate St. Paul and Minneapolis, it is said have the lowest death rate of any cities in the United States. St. Paul, with a population of 163,632, has a death rate of 10.73, while Minneapolis, with a population of 262,718, has a death rate of 11.63 per thousand inhabitants. Plastic Runs Underground. The River Platte during the summer is dry along the greater portion of its course. The water runs underground only an occasional pool appearing or the surface. By digging almost anywhere in its course a supply of fresh cool water may be obtained. Fenua of Amazon Rezion. Professor J. H. Steere has been sent to the Amazon to make a collection of the fauna of that region for the Pan-American exposition. The specimens collected are to be prepared on the spot instead of being preserved in alcohol. THE NEWS IN IOWA STOCK YARD YARDS. Des Moines Yards Will Hereafter Be controlled by the Aces. Des Moines, April 25.-J. F. Vincent has leased his stock yards property to the Agar Packing company for a period of years at a stated cash rental. Possession is to be given at once, and the Agar company will immediately put men to work building a runway for stock from the yards to its packing plant. Neither Mr. Vincent nor the Agars would give out the details of the transaction. Mr. Vincent said: "I still retain title to the property, but have severed my managerial relations. I have leased the property to the Agars, and until that lease expires will have nothing to do with the property but to collect the rents." It is understood that the future policy of the Agars with reference to the conduct of the yards will depend entirely upon the decision of the railroad commissioners in the case brought by Mr. Vincent against the Rock Island to compel it to deliver stock consigned to the yard to the Des Moines Union road to be switched to the yard. If a favorable decision can be obtained in this case, it is more than probable that the Agars will conduct the yard as a competitive market for all grades of stock but hogs fattened for the packing market, fine, will reserve the right to control the market in so far as this class of stock is concerned, but will carry on a regular market in stock hogs and all kinds of cattle, from stockers and feeders up to the best fat steer stuff. They will also continue to operate a portion of the yard as a feeding in transit point for such shippers as may desire to use it. IN HANDS OF RECEIVER. Riegelman Mining Company, of Des Vaines, in trouble. Des Moines, August 24- R. H. Lyman has been appointed receiver of the Riegelman Minery company upon the application of Henry Riegelman, president of the company. His bond, which was fixed at $25,000, was furnished by the American Bonding and Succruy company of Baltimore. Mr. Lyman has taken charge of the store and will immediately proceed to dispose of the stock, fixtures and furniture and other property of the company. In the application for receiver Mr. Riegelman states the assets of the company are $17,000 and the liabilities $90,000. The capital stock is $50,000 paid up. Of this Mr. Riegelman holds $53,300. The remaining $16,700 is held by M. Riegelman and Mrs. M. Riegelman—Henry Riegelman's father and mother—and Ben Hirschland. Henry Riegelman's brother-in-law. The application for receiver states the $90,000 is for borrowed money and debts on merchandise. It is understood something less than $30,000 is owed in the form of notes held by the Des Moines Savings Bank. Most of the remaining creditors, it is understood, are eastern firms. CATTLE THIEVES CAUGHT. Wholesale System of Stealing and Shipment in Boone County Ends. Boone, April 25. Though not all in custody, it is admitted that the gang of cattle thieves which has been operating in central Iowa is about broken up by the identification of a carbon of cattle shipped to Chicago from Kelley, S. E. Carter has been arrested and bound over to the grand jury on the charge of grand larceny. His bond is fixed at $1,000. Pat Judge of Cofaxy township missed tea head of cattle a short time ago. He notified the sheriff and a lookout was kept for the thieves. A few nights ago the feace of Ira Luther's ranch was torn down, and twenty-three head of cattle were stolen. Mr. Judge discovered that cattle had been shipped from Kelley on the same night under suspicious circumstances. It developed that S. E. Carter was the man who shipped the cattle and that they were Luther's. He was at once arrested MURDER AT LE MARS. John Jesson Killed in a Quarrel With Three Companions. Le Mars, April 24 - A bloody tragedy was enacted in Washington township about eight miles from Le Mars. John Jessen is the man who was killed and Henry Steffen, William Beaver and Peter Peterson were arrested by the sheriff. Steffen and Beaver are charged with doing the killing and Peterson as being accessory. The tragedy is due to a quarrel. Jessen leaves a wife and five children. Baby Girl Is Hanged. Earling, April 24. The three and a half year old daughter of John MeBride, who lives three miles north of town, met death in a tragic manner. She, with a number of other children, were playing in the hay mow, and in trying to climb down she fell and the scarf around her neck catching on a nail, she was choked to death before assistance could reach her. First Work Begins Mason City, April 25. Ground was broken yesterday for the National Memorial university of the Sons of Veterans, and the work of equating will begin at once. The contract for the baning was her recently to the Northern Building company of Minneapolis, for $50,000. This does not include heating, plumbing or lighting. McFarland Home Burs. Des Moines, April 24. Ex-Secretary of State W. M. McFarland's fine residence at 1905 Arlington avenue was destroyed by fire at 2 o'clock a.m. The magnificent library, one of the finest in Iowa, is a charred mass of ruins. The entire line of furniture, except the piano, is also lost, making a total, with the house, of about $15,000. Affections Were Alienated. Fort Dodge, April 24—Mrs. Otto Korth has brought a suit for $5,000 against William and Caroline Korth and Mrs. Louis Hackbarth for the alienation of her husband's affections and a separate suit for $10,000 against Mrs. Hackbarth for slamder. The Korths were married on January 7 of this year, but have never lived together. MAJOR CONGER ARRIVES Has Not Changed His Position of Two Months Ago. San Francisco, April 25.—Edwin H Conger, United States minister to China, accompanied by his wife, daughter, Laura, and niece, Mary Pierce, arrived from China yesterday on the steamer Nippon Marinations and the necessity of giving Owing to quarantine regular personal supervision to the landing of his baggage, Mr. Conger did not reach his hotel until six o'clock in the evening. Mr. Conger's arrival here was awaited with considerable interest, not only on account of his connection with events in China, but from a political standpoint. There was a great desire to know what position Mr. Conger would assume with regard to the coming gubernatorial nomination in Iowa. To a representative of the Associated Press, Mr. Conger, when asked if he cared to make any expression on the governorship matter, said: "I do not wish to make any public declaration at this time. I have not yet had time to read the correspondence which has met me here. So far as I am at present advised, I see no reason to change my position as expressed about two months before I left China. I received two telegrams from the United States. One asked me if I were a candidate for governor. I answered: "I am not." The other telegram asked whether I would accept the nomination if tendered to me. I replied that I would accept if the nomination came to me, but that I was in no sense a candidate. "I do not care to, nor will I give anything further in the matter until I reach Des Moines. I do not know what the situation in Iowa is, and do not care to say anything definite until I am fully advised. My present intention is desire to return to Chicago and finish my work." Des Moines, April 26. A Register correspondent, at San Francisco, quotes Major Conger on the gubernatorial nomination as follows: "I could not refuse it. The people of Iowa, my friends especially, have always given me 'all I asked and I cannot be insensitive to the high honor and compliment contemplated in such a proposition. This is all I care to say at this time." TRY HERSON FOR DIMORALITY Church Trial at Easter April 30 Will Grinneil, April 24.—Prof. Geo. D. Herron will be tried by the Iowa Congregational association, but not on the charge of heresy and socialism. He will be accused of "condemn unbecoming a Christian and a gentleman." The report appearing in a Chicago paper that Herron was to be tried for heresy is a mistake, as he will be arranged for immorality. Rev. E. M. Vittum, who for two years has been pastor of the Grinneil Congregational church, one of the leading churches in Iowa, said: "Mr. Herron has been in the association and church eight years, what Mr. Wentworth, Mr. Herron's agent, please to call heresy was as well known five years ago as is the case now. But we hope the public will not accuse us of trying a man for heresy and socialism when the only charge is that of immoral conduct." The association will meet at Baxter April 20, at which time the matter will be brought up. The method of procedure will be this: Charges will be made, and a church, probably the Grimmell church, will be instructed to form a council. In the making up of this council Professor Herron will be invited to join. ARTEMES LAMB IS DEAD. 'Millionaire Lumberman Passes Away at San Diego, Cal. San Diego, Cal., April 24. —Artemus Lamb, a millionaire of Clinton, Iowa, died yesterday at the Hotel Coronado of drops. While on his way here three months ago Mr. Lamb was injured in a railroad incident in Wyoming and his death is attributed to the injuries then received. His remains will be sent to Clinton tomorrow. Ganton, April 24. —Artemus Lamb was injured in a railroad wreck on the Union Pacific railway near Rock Spring, Wyo., last winter. His wound did not heal and finally heart trouble and drops set in, which resulted in death. Lamb was at the head of the firm of C. Lamb & Sons, lumber dealers. He was also president of the Iowa Packing company and of the People's Trust and Savings bank. He was one of the best known capitalists. He came to Clinton in 1856 and became a member of the firm of C. Lamb & Sons in 1885. He was 61 years old. GREAT WESTERN TO OMAHA Plans Announced at Ft. Dodge by Presid- dent Stickney. Fort Dodge, April 26,--President A. B. Stickney of the Chicago Great Western, who arrived here with other officials yesterday, said: "We plan to build a line from Fort Dodge to Omaha and will begin work on construction immediately. A Line to Sioux City will branch from the Omaha line and will run into Fort Dodge over the same track." The statement made by President Stickney is considered positive information of the Great Western's plan. The Omaha line from Fort Dodge will leave this city on a new $300,000 steel bridge over the Des Moines river, 3,000 feet in length and 120 feet high. THEY MEAN LUSINESS. Believed Crusade Against Salmon at Durbane Wilt. Bear Fruit. Dubane, April 24—As a result of Archbishop Keane's recent pro-announcement against the saloons it is authoritatively stated that a large number of Dubane saloonkeepers will close their saloons Sunday. The saloons here have never paid any attention to the mule law farther than to pay the license regularly, which they did under prohibition. The matter of closing Sundays and nights has never troubled the average liquor dealer here. Tell a dignified individual to pull down his rest and you raise his choler. NEWS IN GENERAL NEWS IN GENERAL FARM IMPLEMENT TRUST. The Flow Trust Will Include All Other Farm Machinery. New York, April 26.—The Journal of Commerce says: "It is learned in this city that the report from Chicago that plow manufacturers have decided to form a $50,000,000 consolidation is only partly correct and that the present plans, instead of being merely for a consolidation of the plow industry, contemplate a consolidation which shall include every branch of the farm machinery trade, with the exception of mowers and reapers. The reported capital of $50,000,000 is said to be a minimum figure. The new company, if organized on the present lines, it is said, will be in a position to manufacture all kinds of farm implements from a hoe to a thresher, with the exception above noted of mowers and reapers. "Among the largest concerns which are understood to favor the present plan are Deere & Co., Moline, Ill.; Parlin & Orendorf, Canton, Ill.; Rock Island Plow company, Rock Island, Ill.; Standard Harrow Co., Utica, N. Y.; Syracuse Plow Co., Cleveland, O.; Y.; Empire Plow Co., Cleveland, O.; Hench, Dromogld & Co., York, Pa.; Aultman & Taylor, Mansfield, O.; Stoddard Mfg, Co., Dayton, O.; Bissel Plow Co., South Bend, Ind.; Morrison Mfg, Co., Fort Madison, Iowa; Buffalo Mfg, Co., Buffalo, N. Y.; O. S. Kelly Co., Springfield, O.; Kansas City Hay Press Co., Kansas City." KINGS SLAYER GOES INSANE. dresci, Assassin of Humbert of Italy Magnolia Unbelated. Paris, April 25. A dispatche to the cappel from Rome says that Bresel, the assassin of King Humbert, has become mad in consequence of the ill treatment of his patrons. Bresel, according to a report current following his conviction, was to be placed in an upright position in a 30ft-shaped hole in a rock, with an opening only a foot top, and was there to spend his time for life. The place of confinement was to be so small that he could not sit down nor exist himself in any way except by pressure of such parts of his body as could be touched against the damp sides of his prison. His food was to be lowered to him twice a day and was to be of the plainest sort, barely sufficient in quantity to keep him alive that he might suffer further torture. It was expected that he would go insane under this treatment, but a failure to unbalance his mind would result in his removal to a pit in which slimy reptiles would be allowed to crawl over him, the close confines of his cell preventing his resistance. BOTH OFFICERS ARE DEAD. defaulting Bank Officials at Vancouver Canada, Solelie. Vancouver, Wash., April 24—Charles Brown and E. L. Canby, president and cashier of the First National bank of Vancouver, which was closed Saturday by the comptroller of the currency, committed suicide two miles from this city by shooting themselves with a revolver. Bank Examiner Maxwell discovered a shortage of $81,000. The cause of the failure at this time was the checking up of the books by Examiner J. W. Maxwell, who surprised the officials with a visit. The accounts were gone over in a general way, but it did not need a thorough examination to tell the bank expert that there was something wrong. Accordingly Canby was ordered to keep the doors closed. All the defauteurs said in reply was that Maxwell was the first person to detect them. LL HUNG CHANG IS CENSURED. Special Edict from the Chinese Imperial Court. London, April 24.—A dispatch from Peking says that Li Hong Chang has been censured severely in a special edict because, after the French and Chinese had agreed upon the boundaries, the Germans, who have no concern with this matter, march west and threaten the Chinese. The edict, it is said, orders Li Hong Chang to prevent the expedition, and says that if he fails the responsibility for the consequences will rest upon him. The emperor in the edict says that Vicegoys Liu Kun Yi and Chang Chih Tung were appointed joint negotiators with Li Hong Chang and Prince Ching, but that Li Hong Chang spurs their opinions. Hereafter, it is aided, Li Hong Chang must consult with them on all important matters. CONGER WOULD DECLINE. Confidential Friend Says He Does Not Want to Be Governor. Vancouver, B. C., April 25.—The Shanghai Mercury publishes a statement ostensibly from a confidential friend of Minister Conger, explaining that his application for leave was due to the fact that having spent the last three years in Peking, he desired a furlough at this time to avoid spending the summer at the Chinese capital. In granting his application for leave, it is said, Minister Conger was congratulated by the secretary of state upon the result of his labors. It is added that Mr. Conger would feel obliged to decline the nomination for governor of Iowa because he had no desire to retire permanently from the work which will still be necessary before the Chinese question is finally solved. 10WA MEN ARE PROMOTED Named as Lieutenants in the Regular Army Establishment. Washington, April 25.—The secretary of war has made public the names of the 588 men selected for first and second lieutenants in the regular army under the army reorganization bill. All of these men have had service in either the state or national volunteers or in the regular army. They have been ordered for examination and should they pass will be appointed. Those named from Iowa are: Francis H. Lincoln, Fred Shiras, Edward A. Kreger, Joseph Matson, Frank S. Long, Guy G. B. Hanna, W. H. Point, William E. Parvin, Edward W. Clark, Wilson G. Heaton, Robert T. Crawford, George A. Densmore. Says He Is Not a Candidate for a Third Nomination. Lincoln, Neb., April 28—In a statement given publicity last night W. J. Bryan says in effect he has no intention of seeking a third nomination for the presidency. Mr. Bryan's announcement is in answer to an article in an eastern paper speculating on his future plans as a political leader. Mr. Bryan said: "I am not planning for another presidential nomination—if I were I would not be editing a paper; if I ever become a candidate again it will be because it seems necessary for the advancement of the principles to which I adhere, and that does not now seem probable. I shall, however, take an interest in politics-for several years yet, if I live, and can be relied upon to support those who as candidates advocate democratic principles and who can be trusted to enforce them if elected. "I have no enemies to punish. No matter what a man may have said or done against the ticket in 1896 or in 1900, that man becomes my friend the moment he accepts democratic principles. Neither have I any disposition to reward political friends at the expense of our cause. No matter what a man may have said or done for the ticket in 1896 or in 1900, that man becomes an opponent the moment he turns against democratic principles. Political battles are fought, not in the past or in the future, but in the present. The herefore cannot be recalled and the hereafter cannot be anticipated, but the now is all important." KILLED ARE NUMEROUS Two Hundred Killed and Injured in an Explosion in Germany. Frankfort, Germany, April 26.—One of the most disastrous explosions on record occurred yesterday in the electro-chemical works, near Griesinicin, where smokeless powder is manufactured. Most of the boilers exploded. The noise was so tremendous that it was heard at great distances, including Frankfort and Mayence. The factory immediately became a mass of flames and a northeast wind carried the sparks to neighboring villages, where several houses were set on fire. Eighteen cylinders, each containing about 100 weight of smokeless powder, were in the room where the explosion occurred. Troops were immediately ordered to Griesheim to prevent the fire spreading to the large benzine reservoirs nearby. Fire brigades from every place in the neighborhood hurried to the scene, but owing to the dangerous nature of the disaster and the fear of a renewal of the explosions, the greatest difficulty was experienced in stopping the progress of the flames. Only after five hours of strenuous effort was the conflagration to some extent controlled and the danger passed, so as to make it possible to begin the work of extricting the bodies. It is expected that nearly 200 persons have been killed or injured. IDENTIFIED BY EDDIE CUDAHY. The Kidnapped Roy Says James Callahan Took Him Away. Omaha, April 26—In the trial of James Callahan for the kidnapping of Edward Cudahy at the opening of court yesterday young Cudahy identified Callahan, and it was positive and absolute. "You may state whether the dark man who put a pistol to your head and made you a prisoner, and who guarded you most of the time in the house and who walked down the street with you and bade you good bye when you were released was one and the same person?" asked General Cowin. "It was the same man." "Who was that man?" "Jim Callahan." "The defendant here in this case?" "Yes, sir." He thought it hardly possible for there to be another voice like Callahan's. CUBAN CONSTITUTION COMMITTEE Officially, Received Upon Their Arrival at Washington Washington, April 25.—The commission of five delegates of the Cuban constitutional convention, consisting of Domingo Mendez Capote, Petro E. Betancourt, Rafael M. Portnondo, Diego Tamayo and Pedro Gonzales Llorente, who were sent to Washington to confer with the president regarding Cuban relations with this country, arrived here yesterday, together with an interpreter and representatives of the Havana press. They were met at the station by Assistant Secretary of State Hill, Assistant Secretary of War Sanger, Captain Sawtelle and Lieutenant Overton, of the United States army, detailed for that purpose, and escorted to the Shorcham. Later they held a conference with Secretary Root and General Wood. JAPAN SCENTS RUSSIAN PLOT. Furious Over an Alleged Pretext to Secure Possession of Korea. Jobe, Japan, April 25.—Excitement previous here over the report that the Korean government has arranged to borrow 5,000,000 yen (82,500,000) from a Franco-Russian syndicate. It is believed that the syndicate has consented to advance the money provided the Korean government is willing to pledge the customs as security; to grant various valuable mining concessions and to lease Chiu-kai-wan harbor to the concessionsaires. The Japanese are furious at this move, against which they are in hopes the powers will protest. They consider the loan merely a pretext that brings Russia nearer the object of its ambition—the possession of Korea. Says Tolstol Must Depart. London, April 25.—A special dispatch from Vienna says the earr has signed a decree expelling Count Tolstoi from Russia and that the decree has been served. Promises do not grow on persimmon trees nor expectations on oleander bushes. MILITARY RULE ASSAILED Afrikanders Say Course in Africa Day Bring Loss of South Africa. London, April 26.—J. X. Merriman, the former treasurer of Cape Colony, and who is now a representative of the Afrikanderbund in England speaking against aggression and militarism at a meeting of the League of Liberals, said military law, the abnegation of all law, was established in Cape Colony. The newspapers he asserted, had not heard of the treachery and espionage going on. Respectable people, he charged, were committed on the evidence of natives alone. They were brought up and fined for harmless observations, called seditious, and the town guards harried them. These things, he said, created greater irritation and indignation than actual violence. The press, he added, was deliberately stopped, and four editors had been sent to jail. The fruits of this policy would be bitter, "as the memory of these insults burned the hearts of the people." Mr. Merriman detailed instances of the punishment of the Dutch under military law, usually on the testimony of natives and employees. Martial law and censorship throughout Cape Colony, he asserted prevented the people of England from knowing the hardships of the Dutch. As an Englishman, Mr. Merriman man and, he viewed the policy pursued in Cape Colony with the blackest dismay. If persisted in, South Africa was lost to the British empire. The only thing that could save it was recognition that the people wanted self-government and were determined to have it. J. W. Samer, the former commissioner of public works of Cape Colony, said the camps in which the floer women and children were kept were guarded by seutries with loaded rifles and fixed bayonets. A majority of the women had been placed in them against their will. Their homes had been burned and their possessions had been taken. He had tried, he said, to get the military authorities, through the government of Cape Colony, to permit 200 or 300 women and children camped at Port Elizabeth to be liberated, food and shelter having been promised them by the town, but the military authorities refused the request. Resolutions opposing annexation and crown government were adopted by the meeting. FRESH ALARM FOR GREAT BRITAIN Deat in Consols Indicates a Shift of Financial Greatness. London, April 25.—The aggressive eagerness of the United States to absorb as much as possible of the new issue of British consuls is causing a great stir in English financial circles. Not only the brokers but the editorial writers of all classes are having a go at the matter. Some of these welcome the invasion of the yankees as supplying a healthy financial and economic stimulus, while others bemoan what they profess to believe the irrevievable decline of England's monetary supremacy. Just how much of the new war loan of £60,000,000 sterling ($300,000,000) will go to the United States remains to be seen. J. Piepfort Morgan and his associates have already taken care of $50,000,000 of the issue and will probably stop with that amount. They think that all the other American bidders combined will scarcely get more than $5,000,000. Commenting on the placing of consols in the United States, the Liver Commencing on the placing of con- firmation in the United States, the Liver Bogal Pool (NY) "It is an event of immense financial and economic significance. It shows that the balance of indebtedness is being changed. The United States is becoming Great Britain's creditor, and the change of relationship will necessarily have a very different effect on trade. It may influence the international financial position. "If London's pre-eminence as the financial center of the world is lost and New York shares the position with London the new situation will be decidedly less favorable than the old to British financial and commercial supremacy." POWERS FROWN UPON VENEZUELA. That Country Fast Becoming a Pariah Among Nations. New York, April 25.—Three powers says a Washington special to the Times, have already signified to Venezuela that they will not respect the decisions of her courts and that certain decrees issued by her executive are null and void. Two other powers are about to issue the same notice to her, if they have not already issued it, and others are expected. In short, Venezuela is fast assuming the place of pariah among the nations. The nations referred to as having already issued notice are the United States, Spain and Germany. Great Britain and Holloman are the two nations which are about to issue it. The United States has gone further than the other powers, for in the case of the asphalt dispute she has served notice on Venezuela that she reserves the right to "review" the decisions of that country's courts. The matter which has aroused this action of the nations relates to the asphalt case and to old grievances. The most striking thing about it is that there is absolutely no concert of action; there has not been even a suggestion from one power to another, and yet the five powers named are taking this course spontaneously. BURLINGTON STOCK AT 200. The Absorption Offer Made by the Hall Syndicate Boston, Mass., April 26.—The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy directors at a special meeting voted to submit to the stockholders of the road a proposition from the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads to take control of the Burlington. The offer for the Burlington stock is $200 per share for not less than two-thirds of the whole amount, to be paid for in 4 per cent bonds of the two negotiating roads, the stockholders being given the privilege of taking part cash. A PRETTY COMPANION By Louise Bedford. CHAPAER VIII—(Continued.) "Tell me everything she said," Jacetta answered, with a sickening dread at her heart that Mrs. Mortimer had guessed at or listened to what had passed between her and Captain Merlholt. "She says that you are declining me all the way round—that you are the most awful firt, and she can prove it." "Her first charge may be dismissed on that score, at any rate," Janetta said, a little bitterly. "The man I sent away just now—who, it is true, had had more than enough to drink—was my only brother." Janetta's head drooped with shame as she made the confession. **as** she **you** poor darling! "cried Clarice try to possess herself of one of Janetta's hands; but the girl hold them sold in front of her. "Not yet," she said sadly—"not until you know everything. Go on." "She said that you are deliberately setting your cap at Doctor Drake; that you made an appointment to meet him the day Harry left." "It's a lie!" said Janetta desperately. "I met Doctor Drake that day by pure chance and I stopped to ask him if he could advise any method of treatment that would hasten your recovery. Anything else?" "You carry conviction, as you always do," Clarice said, leaning back on her pillows. "I don't think I will even hint at her last charge; it is altogether too impossible." "I must hear it," said Janetta hoarsely. "She said you tried to make Harry false to me. Oh, dear, it's too shameful and wicked even to mention such an accusation to one so true as you are." There was a long pause; then Janetta lifted her head and looked full into Clarice's eyes. "In all my intercourse with Captain Merivale I never said one word to him that I would have been ashamed for you to hear." Clarice gave a little sigh of relief. "I knew it, dear; but, just to satisfy me, tell me straight out that you did not care for him except as a friend. Only to please me, not because I doubt you?" A shiver shook Janetta from head to foot. She tried to speak, but though her lips moved no sound passed them; then she threw herself sobbing at Clarice's feet. "You are so good, so dear, I'll tell you all the truth, come what will. I do love Captain Merivale. I didn't know it, I didn't even guess it until the day before he went away; then I knew—but he doesn't. Nobody knows but God and you, to whom I now confess it in bitter repentance. I didn't mean to do it, and I have vowed on my knees that I will never see him again—never again! That is why I went away the morning he left." The words came fitfully between her sobs. She could hear Clarice's breath coming and going in broken gasps. "And he?" she asked at last. "Has he given you any hint as to his feelings for you? Am I to believe that you have given your heart away unasked? Did he tell you he cared for you?" "He said he might have cared——" "If I had only been dead or out of the way," said Clarice, in a cold, hard voice. "There is no help for it, Janetta; I'm afraid we must part. Our lives have unfortunately clashed." Janetta rose and left the room in silence. CHAPTER IX. Sleep was far from Janetta's eyelids that night. She did not even attempt to court it. She sat on hour after hour, still wearing her evening dress, with her chin resting in her hands, and gazed, with eyeballs that ached and throbbed, into the fire, trying to read the future in the dying embers. "Mrs. Mortimer may feel satisfied with her work," she said, half aloud. "She and Mason between them have hunted me down." She rose to her feet as she spoke, for she heard a sound as of some one moving gently about, and she went swiftly to Clarice's room to see if she were awake. A fresh wave of repentance swept over her, for Clarice's fair face, with the traces of recent tears upon it, was pressed against the pillows; but, to Janet's unutterable thankfulness, her regular breathing and fast-shut eyes showed her to be asleep. She crept from the room, shutting the door behind her, and returned to her own; and then her heart stood still, for from behind her door stepped a man with a mask on his face, who rapidly shut the door and set his back against it, and Janetta caught the sound of a pistol lightly clicked. "Now, my dear," said the burglar, quite softly, "don't scream. One scream may cost you your life. I only want a few minutes' talk with you, so that you and I can come to a good understanding. Sit down and take it easy. There can be no manner of good in making a fuss." Janetta stood, trying to steady the crembling of her limbs by resting her hand on the table. She very well knew that her own life and that of her friend might depend upon her keeping self-control. "What do you want?" she said presently. "Much, my dear, or I shouldn't be CHAPTER IX here," replied the burglar, in the same even tenes. "First, all the money you have; next, all the money she has." He nodded in the direction of Clarice's room. "And then her jewels. She's got 'em quite handy, I believe—not even locked up in a safe." Janetta had moved across the room, conscious that her every movement was watched by the burglar's eye. She went to a drawer and threw him her purse contemptuously. "You're a plucky one," said the man, catching at the purse she shew; "but it's best with a feller like me to keep civil. Three pounds ten," he continued, counting out the contents of the purse, and throwing it back empty, in exact imitation of Janetta's own gesture. "That's very little, my dear; what have you got besides?" "Not a farthing," said Janetta; "you are at liberty to look." The man, still keeping a wary eye on Janetta, came and tossed over her drawers, pocketing a bracelet or two, and taking her little watch from its stand, with many exclamations of disgust that his body was so small. "I'm wasting my time here; now we'll go to the other one," he said roughly. Then Janetta's enforced self-control broke down. "Not you—not you!" she pleaded passionately. "She's very delicate; a sudden shock might kill her, and it would be bad for you if it did. I'll creep into the room and bring you out everything of value in it." The man stood with his back against the door. "I don't trust a woman, much less a pretty one; you've some dodge in your head." "I swear my only object is to save Miss Seymour's life, and, in so doing, probably your neck as well," retorted Janetta. "She's asleep. I could get her money and jewels without waking her." "You shall do it on one condition," said the man, with a brutal laugh. "I'll stand at the open door and cover you with my pistol. If I see you playing me false in the slightest degree, going near the window, or trying to rouse the house, I'll shoot both you and her, remember." "I've given my word; I'll not play you false," said Janetta. He opened the door and let her pass before him, with a mock bow, following close upon her heels. Janetta wondered if the thumping of her heart would wake Clarice; it sounded like a cannon in her ears. She took the precaution of slipping off her shoes at Clarice's door and set it wide, so that the burglar in the doorway had command of her every movement. At the opening of the wardrobe where her jewel case was kept, Clarice turned and moaned in her sleep, and Janetta paused, her finger uplifted for a moment; but the next instant she was satisfied that Clarice had dropped off again. So quick and deft was she that to collect every article of value in the room did not take her more than five minutes. "We'll go back together, my dear, and just look 'em over," said the burglar, with his hand on her arm, pushing her before him. "I'll leave the cases and such for a keepsake. I always do the thing handsome when I get hold of an obliging female like yourself. Thirty pounds in gold! Yes, I understood as she'd had a little cheque cashed tonight; and these jewels haven't been overrated! They are first-class. Now, my dear, you'll swear to me, honor bright, that the old one hasn't anything worth my waking her up for! The less people awake over this business the fewer to tell tales, eh?" He was retreating rapidly down the staircase with his spoils carefully packed away in a black bag; and he saw Janetta's eye travel towards the gong that hung half-way down the stairs. "No, you don't," he said, reading her meaning. "If you make any effort to wake the house I'll silence you for good and all! You'll give me ten minutes' start, and then you can set the town crier at work if you like." "Now, a word before we part. Tell your parlor maid to look better after her windows. That big one in your drawing room was not even latched. I didn't have to break a pane of glass. Ten minutes, mind! On second thoughts, you'd better make it a quarter of an hour, as far as you can guess it without your watch." Janetta stood breathless at the top of the stairs, watching the burglar pass out of sight into the drawing room. Much must still depend upon her silence. She turned at last to go back to her room, when, to her horror, she saw Clarice, in dressing gown and slippers, hurrying towards her with a lighted candle in her hand. Janetta caught her in her strong arms, almost lifted her back into her bedroom, and locked the door behind them. "For heaven's sake, keep quiet, dear! Our lives may depend upon it!" she whispered. And then, as she placed Clarice in a chair, the light grew blurred and dim, and Clarice's white, frightened face seemed receding into the far distance; there was a singing in her ears, a cold hand clutching at her heart, and Janetta fell fainting to the floor. About 12 o'clock that same night Doctor Drake's night bell pealed nols- CHAPTER X. Ty, to be answered almost immediately by the Doctor's head thrust out of an upper window. "What's up?" he inquired with characteristic briefness. "Mrs. Eddy's baby, sir—fits; don't think you'll find it alive when you get there," replied the messenger with a curtness that rivaled the Doctor's. "Mrs. Eddy of Westbourne?" Mrs. Lady, by Westonbrook. "Yes, sir. She caught me as I was passing, and begged me very particularly to tell you." "All right. I'll be off in ten minutes," said the Doctor, closing the window, not in the very best of tempers. He had been up for three nights running, with the result that his groom had a violent chill, and must not, in common humanity, be disturbed. "I must put my own horse into the dog-cart and drive myself, unless," thought the Doctor, with rather a grim smile, "I wake up that worthless dog who is asleep on my surgery sofa. It would do him no end of good to drive five miles out in the night air. He shall help me to harness the horse, and can hold him for me at the other end; and on the road I'll talk to him and let him hear a piece of my mind." Needless to say, the "worthless dog" referred to was Neville, whom Doctor Drake had taken in according to Janetta's request; but, determined not to pamper the youth, had offered him a resting place upon the couch in his surgery, which Neville had accepted rather shamefacedly. "Wake up, will you?" said the Doctor, putting his hand on the lad's shoulder. "You can help me if you like. My groom is ill, and I am sent for into the country; I want a hand with the horse." "All right," said Neville, looking round him with rather dazed eyes. His sleep had sobered him, but he could not remember clearly where he was. "You'll do now—you are fairly sober," continued the Doctor, with blunt frankness. I'll lend you a great coat; the nights are cold." In a few minutes more they were ready for the start, and presently the dogcart passed at a rapid rate up the hill on the side of which lay the Grange, standing out white and clear in the moonlight. The Doctor pointed at it with his whip. "That is where your sister lives." "I know—I was there last night," said Neville. "I though it more than probable that you did not remember anything about it," replied Drake, not unkindly. "You may think me a queer fellow to bring you out with me like this in the dead of night. I did it partly for my own convenience, but more that I may give you a word or two of warning. I know little enough of you—only that you came half-seas-over to my house last night, and that you are giving that sister of yours a bad time of it. I'm older than you are—ever so much, some fifteen years I should think; and it seems a pity to me that a young fellow like you should be going straight to the bad." The Doctor said much more in the same strain during the drive, and Neville had time for reflection as he walked the horse up and down the road whilst the Doctor watched by the cradle of the baby, whose life he was so anxious to save. Perhaps for the first time in his life he was thoroughly ashamed of himself. No man had hitherto troubled himself to put the boy's conduct before him with such unvarnished simplicity as the Doctor had done tonight, and Neville was considerably taken aback by the picture. "I've been a perfect beast," he said; "but there shall be an end of it from tonight!" He repeated the assertion to the Doctor when at last they were upon their homeward way. In All Ages Women Have Been Dazzled by Rich Gem. In all countries and in all ages women seem to have inherited a love for precious stones, and it is no wonder that these gems are popularly supposed to exercise some subtle magnetism that influences their natures. This inherent passion may account in a measure for the recent craze for some mascotic jewel, a survival of medieval superstition. Upon impressionable people certain gems appear to wield a potent influence. Who has not listened to weird tales of some heirloom talsman, which, when lost or stolen, presaged the ruin of a noble house? A person with a vivid imagination might even believe in the theory of the Fythagoreans, who formulated the doctrine that inanimate things are endowed with souls. Certain evolutionists of today trace the origin of man back to stones, asserting that in their adamantine bosoms they contain the all-pervading essence of spirit, and that the spark emitted from their crystalline hearts is the revelation of the imprisoned soul within. From time immemorial jewels have served as propitatory offerings at holy shrines, as token of amity from one crowned头 to another, as mystic messengers of affection between distant friends, as pledges of constancy exchanged between plighted lovers. Men have blood and died, kingdoms have crumbled, families have been rent asunder, husband and wife parted over the disputed possession of some coveted jewel. Perhaps poor Marie Antoinette, of ill-starred memory, might have kept her pretty head upon her shoulders had it not been for the unfortunate affair of the diamond necklace. Women in all ages have succumbed to the temptation of gems. Faust bartered his soul for the love of a woman; Marguerite sold hers for a gem-starred bumble.-Chicago Chronicle. SCHI P CATARRH AND ITS SYMPTOMS. Catarrh is an inflammation of any of the mucous membranes of the body. It is marked by the usual signs of inflammation and, as the word implies—being derived from a Greek word meaning to flow down—by a more or less profuse discharge. Catarrh may be acute or chronic, and the latter, as will be explained later, may be either atrophic or hypertrophic. Acute catarrh unfortunately needs no description, for it is only too familiar to us all as a cold in the head. In this case it is the mucous membrane of the nostrils which is inflamed. The most obvious symptoms are swelling of the membrane, which may be so great as to close the nostrils completely, and a profuse discharge. When acute catarrh attacks the pharynx or larynx we have a sore throat, and if the inflammation extends still farther we have bronchitis. In the latter case the most evident sign is a cough, due either to the presence of a mucous discharge, or to irritation caused by the air passing through the inflamed bronchial tubes. In young children the inflammation in the larynx causes much swelling, and this gives rise to the difficult breathing and hoarse voice which characterize one form of croup. If catarrh attacks the stomach it causes severe ingestion, and when the intestinal mucous membrane is affected the most prominent symptom is diarrhoea. Conjunctivitis and acute inflammation of the ear are the expressions of catarrh of the eye and the drum of the ear. In chronic catarrh the process is less active; there is usually little or no pain, but the discharge is profuse and thick. In hypertrophic catarrh the mucous membrane becomes permanently thickened, but in atrophic catarrh it is thinned. Atrophic catarrh is not really an inflammation, but rather the result of a previous inflammation which has destroyed the mucous membrane, leaving in its place merely a thin skin, covering the surface, but answering none of the purposes of a mucous membrane. A catarrh may be caused by anything that acts as an irritant to the mucous membrane—dust, sulphurous, ammoniac, or other strong fumes, undue dryness of the atmosphere, and so forth, in the case of the air-passages or eyes; indigestible food, alcohol, and so forth, in the case of stomach or intestines. Often the inflammation is due to the action of microbes, which are probably always present, but can work harm only when the soil has been prepared for them by mechanical injury, or by congestion caused by a chilling of some portion of the surface of the body. A LESSON FROM AMERICA. During the Paris exposition an American firm obtained permission to drive an artesian well in the Bois de Vincennes near Paris. The city of Paris has two artesian wells which required respectively nine and six years to be driven. The American well was sunk to a nearly equal depth, 1,935 feet, last summer in two months. The French were surprised at the rapidity of the work, as well as by the homeliness and simplicity of the apparatus. The American company has since offered to donate the well to Paris as an addition to its water supply, and some of the French scientific journals express the hope that "the practical lesson which the new world thus offers gratuitously will not be without its fruit." A PAIR OF RUNAWAYKITES: Two kites, which were the leading members of a flight of five sent up last summer from the Royal Aeronautical Observatory near Berlin, broke away from their companions, and, dragging a long wire which touched the ground and extended two miles behind them, fled before the wind almost 100 miles before they were brought to the earth. The resistance of the wire trailing over the land sufficed to keep the kites properly presented to the wind, and their lonely journey lasted through an entire night. When the kites started on their remarkable break for liberty they were at a height of more than two and a half miles. CARRIES A BOW OF BRICKS. The invention shown below is a device for picking up a row of bricks quickly and transporting them with EVICE FOR CARRYING BRICKS. safety. The device consists of a turnbuckle provided with threaded sockets at the ends, in each of which is journaled a screw-threaded shaft. The one at the left in the drawing is bent downward and flattened to form a grip, and the one at the right end is a clevis. In this clevis is uvivated an L-shaped lever, which is flattened at the short end to form the opposite grip for the row of bricks, the long end being back over the turn-buckle and provided with a grip for carrying in the hand. In operation the turn-buckle is set to spread the grips apart until the desired quantity of bricks can be picked for each load. Then the flat grips are dropped over the two end bricks of the row, the handle meanwhile being lowered and the hand grasping the turn-buckle. As soon as the carrier is in position an upward pull on the lever clamps the grips over the bricks and binds them together with such force that they can be transported without danger of dropping. A patent on this device has been granted. STAMP AFFIXING MACHINES. In large offices, where thousands of letters are sent out every day, some HIGH-SPEED STAMPING APPARATUS sort of a stamp-affixing machine is a necessity, and the more accurately and rapidly it will do its work the better as it is often desired to catch a mail with a batch of letters written late in the afternoon. By the old hand method of affixing the stamps it would require the whole office force to do the work, but shown herewith is a machine which the inventor claims will require next to no attention, the only aid necessary being a boy to feed the stamps. If the latter could be had in a long strip instead of ten in a row the machine would take care of itself after once started. The machine is designed to be run by a small motor or other belt power, but it may also be operated by foot or hand power. The envelopes are placed in the upright tube on the right, and are fed across the intervening space to the rollers by an endless belt, which is perforated at intervals, and forms, together with the rollers and side-walls, an air cell. From this cell a tube leads to a suction fan, which, being set in motion by the starting of the machine, creates a partial vacuum inside the belt chamber and thus holds the letters firmly on the belt by drawing air rapidly through the perforations. The stamps are suspended in a tray in conjunction with a narrow feed roller which transfers the stamp past the moistener and delivers it to the envelope at the right instant. The machine is also adapted for the placing of gumed labels on envelopes, and may thus be utilized as an addressing machine. MUSICAL BEETLES: The researches of Mr. C. J. Gahan show that while the structure of the musical or stridulating organs of beetles is extremely simple, they sometimes possess contrivances for varying the pitch. The general structure of such an organ is a hard surface covered with striations, over which some other member of the body furnished with a rasping edge or area is rubbed. When the striated surface is divided into parts with finer and coarser markings, variations of pitch can be produced. The organs occur in various species on the head, the legs, the wingcases and the hind body. The katydid and the cricket, which produce musical tones in the same way, do not belong to the beetle family. SCIENTIFIC NOTES: New Scalping Machine Some two years ago a resident of Boston, Mass., devised a new spinning machine, which he took with him to Bradford, the center of the spinning industry of Great Britain. There, added by local engineers and experts, he improved his appliance, which is now in active operation. It is capable of spinning a variety of materials, such as asbestos and peat moss, as easily and readily as wool, and when completed it is difficult to determine the original nature of the fabric. Use of Ice in Brazil Consumption of ice in Brazil is constantly increasing. This is due principally to the demand for ice in restaurants, hotels and other public places. Foreigners are most insistent in their calls for ice. Our consul at Santos is of the opinion that an ice company would prove a profitable undertaking in that place, the use of ice being practically unknown in the fish, vegetable and meat markets. He also thinks the American refrigerator would sell well in Brazil. Scalloped Eggs. Chop four hard-boiled eggs quite fine; sprinkle the bottom of a buttered baking dish with crumbs; sprinkle over one-half the eggs; make a white sauce with butter, milk and flour; season with salt and pepper; pour some over the eggs; sprinkle over two-thirds of a cupful of cold meat minced; cover with remalning eggs and sauce, and spread over the top buttered crumbs. A friend's faults may be noticed, but not blamed. --- LITERARY NOTES. "The King of Honey Island," a story of the war of 1812, by Maurice Thompson, author of "Alice of Old Vineennes," comes from the press of G. W. Dillingham Co., publishers, New York. The scene of the story is laid on the gulf coast, near New Orleans and the Pearl river region, Kirk MacCullough, who had abducted the granddaughter of a traveling preacher, has hidden his identity in the name of Pierre Rameau, and is king of Honey Island, the rendezvous of a bold band of robbers who had reaped a rich harvest along the gulf coast. The story of his undoing is a very interesting one. The book ends in a most unique and satisfactory manner, and will be pleasing to all who have read "Alice of Old Vineennes." The story throughout is complete with dramatic adventure. "The Successors of Mary the First," by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, is an amusing satire of the servant problem by one of the most widely read authors of the time. It is the experience of a family with a number of servants—of various nationalities, degrees of illiteracy and shades of incompetence. The resulting perplexities and tribulations of the mistress, her wrestlings with the intelligence offices (which she found to be densely unintelligent) and with various societies for improving servants and protecting mistresses, call out some of the author's most delicious satire and cleverest irony. The book has been written with evident zest and enjoyment, a circumstance which accounts for its highly entertaining quality. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, Baker-Trisler Co., Des Moines. In honor of the 75th birthday of The Youth's Companion the publishers have issued a handsome "75th Birthday Souvenir." It contains a series of striking maps and suggestive facts, showing the vast growth of the nation and of the nation's foremost family weekly since the day in April, 1827, which saw the first number of the first volume of The Youth's Companion come from the press. "The Story of Eva," by Will Payne, author of "Jerry the Dreamer," "The Money Captain," etc., is a story of Chicago life and a novel of character—the hero an eastern man and the heroine a western woman. Its pictures of various phases of life in the lakeside city are discriminating and entertaining, which the development of the man and the woman forms a story of dramatic power and great spiritual insight. It is daring in its treatment of topics usually forbidden, but it treats them with considerateness and dignity, and carries a powerful moral; and it is marked by high artistic quality. Houghton, Millin & Co., Boston and New York, and faker-Trisler Co., Des Moines. "Old Bowen's Legacy," by Edwin Asa Dix, is a new book by a young author whose first novel, "Deacon Bradbury," published a year ago, is already in its eighth edition. Like "Deacon Bradbury," the new story is a study of New England character and conditions, the scene being laid in the same fictitious village—Felton, Vermont. It is a serious work, though by no means without its lighter touches; and the picture it presents of the typical folk of a rural community, while imaginative in conception, is photographic in detail. "Old Bowen's Legacy" is the dying bequest of a miser who, till death stood at his elbow, believed in the innate depravity of mankind, but was persuaded by the village lawyer to reconsider his harsh judgment, the result being that his entire fortune ($5,000) was willed with his last breath to three trustees, to be disposed of unconditionally, in a lump sum, for "an unmistakably worthy object." Fortunately for the trustees, "they were each blessed with a tolerably large and appreciative sense of humor." The unfolding of the plot occupies the year allowed them for the making of a choice; and their decision is calculated to surprise the superficial reader. The Century Co. New York. "Miss Pritchard's Wedding Trip," by Clara Louse Burnham, is a story of continuous interest, and has the delight of many surprises. The heroine is a New England spinster disappointed in an early love and required in an original fashion. The man she loved dies and intrusts to her his daughter, who so much resembles her father that the trip to Europe on which Miss Pritchard accompanies the girl assumes for her the semblance of the wedding journey she had long since planned to take with the girl's father. It is a pleasant fancy happily carried out. It ends with a real romance, in which Miss Pritchard has a hand, helping to make her ward happy. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. Baker-Trisler Co., Des Moines. "Penelope's Irish Experience," by Kate Douglas Wiggin, is the story of the experience in Ireland of Penelope, Francesca and Salemina, the same fun-loving two of unconventional travelers who made such amusing excursions through England and Scotland. The quality of the book defies definition. It is all spontaneous fun, innocent mischief and pure sentiment—elusive in definition but most certain in entertainment. The three friends visit picturesque localities and out of the way places, every turn of the road making its contribution to their joyous progress. The narration is mostly of travel and sightseeing, but there is also a sprightly romance in which Salemina falls a victim to an Irish love. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, Baker-Trisler Co., Des Moines. "Under the Redwoods," by Bret Harte, is a collection of the author's most recent short stories—incomparable of their kind, and told with all the delightful charm that characterizes Mr. Harte's writings. The volume finds additional interest in its "Bohemian Days in San Francisco," a chapter of fascinating autobiography. Sailors, globe-trotters, Indians, Chinamen and vagabonds are his men, and, as of old, some charming girls and women are found among his characters. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. Baker-Trisler Co., Des Moines. Heaven never helps a man who is victim of that tired feeling. EE ih , Re ) Sennen ra _ " J i i ‘ SS carmen pe SS PE ase cna a Sone Cran er ABER ERLE Smo Nee ne ee Soe ee oe oe en Tt 08 Ea a ne CB pee Ce eee AO a er ea Nee ae Bae ois eee Bot Pe CC ie has DAVENPORT. ‘There was an entertainment at Bethel A. M. E. church Tuesday night, April 6, etre in connection with the jssionary society. ‘There was a very large crowd present but those who came had a nice time. ‘Mrs. Dora Weathers was removed from her home last week to Morbonia hospital to have an operation. per- forméd, and on Tuesday of this week the operation occurred, and we are glad to report that at this writing she is resting very nicely and we also hope that she wil soon be able to return to her home. Wednesday, April 19, was couneft ‘meeting night, and the following off- cers were appointed and confirmed dor the year beginning Moy ist: Hon. ‘Henry Theunen, city attorney; Frank Kessier, chief’ of police; “John C. Piening, chief of fire department, John T. Mabry, city scavenger, Henry Sass, city sexton. ‘The different com- mittees were all reappointed as the mayor seemed to be well satisfied with the service they had given to the people since Inst April. ‘The Ladies’ Sewing circle of the ‘Third Baptist church is holding 9 fair this week. It ix expected that ‘a very large crowd will visit the fair before it closes. ‘On Monday, the 22nd, there was social given at the residence of Mr. and Mrs, McGaws on Harrison street for the benefit of the trustees of Bethel A. M. E. chureh, A nice crowd turned out and a neat sum was real- ized, for which the trustees are very grateful to the public. ‘The ladies of Bethel A, M. E. church will hold their annual bazar some time in May, and the pastor, Rev. [. E. Christy, has announced to the pub- lie that one of the many features will be a baby show. ‘Mrs. W. D. Parker is a very proud woman these days. It is all for a new carpet Mr. Parker presented her last week with a beautiful flower in it, and it certainly is worthy of being proud of. ‘Mr, and Mrs, MeEMand have rented a house on Scott and Tenth streets and exepet to move into it in a few days. It is a very nice house and also a good location. "The Rock Island road has begun eleration on its tracks down at Seott street, and are coming rapidly toward the city. EVANS. ‘The impression made upon_ those who have seen the Niagara falls is that they never cease to fall even when weary eyes have discontinued to gaze upon them. ‘The Galilee Baptist chureh and Sunday school is alive and continues to move with its wide awake pastor at the head of the column. ‘The ans- iliaries of the church seem to be in touch with the spirit of their work. The B. Y. P.U. and Women's Cirete are proving to be connecting Tinks to the general church work, The pastor will periorm ihe right of bap: tism on the second Sunday in May, which is expected to be a high old day in Evans. Rey, Tate scons to be much inter- ested in his school work in the Cen- tral college at Pella, Mr. D. W. dack- son, president of the BY. V. vis always on time with his Bible and topic card Not less than three delegates wili go from Evans to the Sunday sebool convention. ‘The young people are still getting married in our town, ‘The latest are Mr. Douglas to Miss Maud Steel and Mr. J. IL. Scott to Miss Amanda John- son, WANTED—TRUSTWORTHY MEN AND women to travel abd advertise for old estab Titles house of solld financial standing, Sal ary, ea) a your and expenser, all pryable in cath, No canvassing required. Give refer Gnces ald enclose self addresred stamped en- Yelope, Address Manoger, 25 Caxton Hldg., Chicago. Northern Wisconsin Railway Farm Lands for Sale. ‘The North-Western Line has for sale in Northern Wiseonsin, at low prices and eusy terms of payment, about 350,- 000 aores of choice farm lands. Early buyers will secure the advan- tage of locations on the many beauti- ful streams and lakes, which abound with fish and furnish a never ending and most excellent water supply, both for family use and for stock. Land is generally well timbered, the soil fertile and easy of cultivation, and this is rapidly deyeloping into one of the greatest. sheep and cattle raising regions in the Northwest. Chicogo, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minne- apolis, Duluth, Superior, Ashland and other towns on ‘The North-Western Line” furnich good markets for stock and farm produce. For further par- tloulars address: Geo. W. Bell, Land Commissioner, Hudson, Wis., or G, 1. MacRae, Assistant General Passenger Agent, St. Paul, Minn. Russell Sage as = Farmer. A handsome but simple frame house at Lawrence, Long Island, surrounded by some five acres of land, Is the quiet retreat where the tired Wall street magnate, Russell Sage, has enjoyed his summers for many years. Here he is a typleal Long Island farmer in old clothes and straw hat. Many a man farming for a baze living could gain {nformation in his own business trom Russell Sage. He has no use for ow chids, and costly fads, but he watches the development of every field within @ radius of many niles about his country home. In the stable are halt & dozen horses, raised and broken to harness by the great financier, and he showe the dclight of a toy in hitching them up and driving over the country roads. There arc a goodly nuntber of domestic pets. It may be said that there are two Russell Sages, oxe tho financier familiar to New York, the other the man of leisure in his coun- try ‘home. Bc ‘a o ” bes | “THE NATIONAL as re A Our Leader in Sa | Roadsters and eS ee aN Pe 8) | Racers..... Ca7—al4iN ———— Al] i, . Their reputation cells oe = them, and they are the Buying a “NATIONAL.” most attractive, reliable apc ann oe wheel in the market COLUMBIAS, ‘ STEARNS, $40 to $50. RAMBLERS “THE IOWA” Soe cre With “M & W” tires at Baseball Suits, Shoes, Mitts, Etc. $20. Ammunition, Guns, Fishing Tackle, Ect. GENERAL SPORTING GOODS. HOPKINS SEARS Co. gth and Locust St. SOD OD GV SDIDIDOHDIDSOHDIDIDIDID D DHD OD’ ) Buy For Your Home } what ever you need and then meet your bill with small ! weekly or monthly payments. Furniture, Carpets, / Gasoline stoves, Refrigerators, Curtains, Rugs and kitchen | utensils are sold | On Our Easy Payment Plan | at this store and we guarantee that our ‘Payment” prices | | are the same as our cash prices. Everything we sell is i high grade. Nothing cheap or shoddy in the store. eee : | | - CHASE & WEST, — General Housefurnishers. e64030303006002090009600000-000000. ———————————————————— MUCHAKINOCK, I DS Sicuninen, We are glad that the weather has taken on the phase of spring at present. ‘Those on the sick list are John E. Harris, Geo, Willis and Mrs. Newton Cary's little daughter Cleopatra. We had several visitors from Bux- ton this week, viz, Mrs. Mays, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Roberts, Mrs. Maggie Nicholas and quite a num- ber of young men, Invitation are out announeing the marriage of Miss Mary Sneed of Bax- ton to Mr. Arthur Wright of Hock- ing. ‘They were residents of our city a nuimber of years, hence our town will be well represented on the evening of the marriage. ‘The mines are running about half time now and we hear considerable complaint from men that were pre- viously making from $3 to $5 per day. ‘ney ‘should “have remembered the old adage “Make hay while the sun snines.” Mesdames Abe Chapman and Efe Boyers were Buxton visitors last week. Mrs. Chas, Southall and two child- ren of Buxton are visiting in our city at this writing. 4. T, Cannady and family and Jas. Smith and family moved to Buston this week. Don't forget to ell on J.P. Sheffy when in need of any- thing in the restaurant. line, The prospeets are that the citi- zens of Buxton wal have three churches built. shortly. Miss Annie Willis, the postmistress at Buxton, made our city a short visit last. week. E. A. London has been promoted to the position of assistant head clerk with W. A. Wells & Co. The Swedes are preparing to move to Buxton, ‘Three or four families have already moved their houses, Rev. Wiliamson preached two very interesting sermons Sunday and his congregation gave a very liberal col- lection. od Geode Gibils Dendien eid Semen Hees Powers, the Kentuckian convicted of complicity in the murder of Goebel, may be excused it he put some faith in the idea that thirteen is an unlucky number, He was nominated for office Tune 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 seidiery were ready to defend him; he gave Culton $1,300 to pay the expenses of the mountaineers; he took $1,200 with him when he fled; the evidence closed ‘Aug. 12. ‘A Testimonial from Old England, “I consider Chamberlain's Cough Remedy the best in the world for brou- chitie,” says Mr. William Savory, of Warrington, England. “It has saved my wife’s life, she having ,been a martyr to bronchitis for over six years, being most of the time confined to her bed. She is now quite well.” Sold by all Druggiste, A MILE A MINUTE, igh Speod by » Troiley Car in Phila dolphin, In whatever other respects Philadel- ghia may be slow she has a trolley car which sweeps through the city in the gray hours of dawn and which, taken day by day, is swifter than anything tise of {ts kind or class in the world, jays the New York Sun. It starts from the heart of the city just after the aewspapers are out of press and tears away through the silent streets in a northerly and westerly direction, up and down hill and along valleys, with decasional stops to throw out bundles antil twenty-seven minutes later it ests on the northern summit of Chest- rut hill, fourteen and three-quarter miles away. This is at the average tate of thirty-five miles an hour, in- cluding at least one stop every three- fourths of a mile. Sometimes on its route it has run a mile in a minute and an cighth and it has made the dis- tance in twenty-five minutes, includ- ing the stops, which is just the sched- ule time of the steam express trains for practically the same distance between the same places, though on neither the Reading nor the Pennsylvania rait- ways do the trains make any stops. Sometimes, as on market day, there are interruptions, when sleepy teams get on the lines of metals, and occa- sionally another trolley car gets be- bind time and doesn’t give it the right of way promptly, but despite the occa- sional delays, for two yea:s, In all conditions of weather, facing rain or snow, with mechanical incidents ad- verse to its career, it has male on an average thirty-five trips out of thirty- five on time and only once has it bea longer than forty-five minutes in cov- ering the distance. On that occasion the wreck of a hay wagon was on the road and for this the Eagle Flight trolley was not responsible, From the fact that this car carries the morning newspapers for distribution it might be thought to be a journalistic enter- prise in Philadelphia, but this is not the case. It is an experiment by the Union Traction company to test the maintenance of high speed and the evenness of schedule time under con- ditions peculiarly favorable for secur- Ing exact factors for all the problems it is sought to solve. Every trip is ob- served by electrical experts, the induc- tion is estimated, the power measured, the state of the metal, the thermomet- rical and barometrical conditions noted a8 well as the humidity and fog at the different elevations along the line, ana when 1,000 trips have been made the data thus gathered will be considered, with a view of formulating a result to be applied in such directions of econ- ‘omy and accelerated speeds as may be opened up. White wos e Visitors About 900 persons a day o. av. erage visit the white house the y a: round, The number rises som tin: to 1,500 to 2,000, and the hou s Zor vis itors are not many, being trom 10 a. m te2 p.m. In spite of this consteu! tread the beautiful old-gold figured car et in the east room looks as well a when it was first put down, Mm ALIKE f NY i ee S Peel their ge 7 _ POWER ie Zw SS. a rd Waniag es pe) And they To consult skilfull Specialists like Drs, Fellows & Fellows, that the strength, vigor and power of Munhood may be restored to them. Is @ diseased condi- SPBRMATORRHGEA 12.5 <igoued cond organs of the male, where they are weak as to permit of a relaxation of the muscles, ducts ane fabers, as to allow a leakage of seminal fluid. This loss saps the vitality. undermiries the-con- stitution and wreous the general health. Nine men out of every ten suffers in this way. Is an enlargement of the YBRIGOGELB loa eplargementof she very painful and if permitted to en- large, will gradually grow worse, and fioally rob a man of his power. This condition which ren- | INPOTERCY, THs condition which rx, power is now gone, may ‘be removed by 80 strengthening the entire sexual or- gans as to fully restore the desired All secret, nervous. and private diseares of men, whather. acute or sub-acute, speedily and per- manently cured. Consultation and ex- einination free. Write or call today. Home treatment sent by mail or ex- ee 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, KAN SAS & 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 tiekets. Subecribe for the Bystander. a 50 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE ‘Trape Marks Desicns. Conyniaurs: ac. gully cororiatt cur Shien free wheter es Siren is atl etic’ communi Seneca Uae aon ortega paca Setutents taken throug Munn & Cor socetve Scientific American, iia cee Norte 361Broadeay, HAW TOI UN & Co, seroma New Yor Via the North-Western Line. Tickets on sale each Tuesday antil 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'y. AS TRUE AS GOSPEL. There is always compensation. Out angels go out that our archangels may ome in, Unhappy 1s the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable. It is poor wit who lives by borrow- img the words, decisions, mein, inven- tions and actions of others. What an absurd thing it 1s to pase over the valuable parts of a man, and fx our attentions on his infirmities. Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the publi¢ stock of hon- est, manly principle will dally accumu- late, A greater value should be set on baving received instructive and useful lessons than of possessing great store of wealth; for the latter fs transitory 600d, the former is durable. There is scarcely a generalization for.one sex whicn doer not apply equal ly to the other, so verfectly alike ip @ature are men and women. ‘ihe dif ference is only {n circumstance THE LQ 5 CoN io. CAR MONTHAT UN YAO LY J —~ CA" ZD hae PAT Pe ‘ Bou ~<as oa Wi ? THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REV'EWS fs the one tmportant magazine in the world giving fa Its ptctures fis text, {a tts contributed articles, editorials and departments, a comprehensive, timely record of the world’s current history. 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This is the active subsctip- lon season, Make application at once, naming yout telerences. : ‘ Price, 25 cents a number. $2.50 6 year, THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY, “IS Astor Place, : New York City, ty. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE lowa State Bystander THE OLDEST COLORED JOURNAL IN IOWA and the leading paper in the North-west, * It Goes Into 5 percapa dae : 2 Foreign Countries. * Agents in 24 towns in Iowa and corres- } pondenee ftom many different states, LADIES DON’T WORRY. “Dr, Le Dues Genuine French Fe- male Regulator” is positively guaran: teed and mailed by. undersigned to cure and relieve abnormal patholog ‘eal Monthly Stoppages, Female irregu- taritias, Suppressed Menstruation, ob- structions and suppressioos, from what ever course, or send free medicine until cured if guaranteed lot does not relieve. Sent on receipt of price, $9 a package or 8 for 85,00 Retail and wholesale of J. R, Hurlbut Co,, Des Moines. en eRe | Buslinston ‘ cnn “ | oh $29.25 . TO 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. By way of Denver and Salt Lake City is the most attraetive and inter- esting way to California, passing through Colorado by daylight so as to cee) all the magnificent | mounrain scenery. ‘We run Pullman tourist sleep- ing cars through to the coast. ‘They are thoroughly comfort- able and very inexpensive. Ask for particulars, PF. L. GANNAWAY, City Passenger Agt. Des Moines, Iowa, EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT: MUNGER’S LAUN. DRY is the best in the city, © Try them and be desided. Maine Office 211-215 NINTH gp Branch Office 604 MULBERRY st, PHONE 579. ————— TO THE NORTHWEST. Greatly reduced one-way settlers rates will te in effect via the Iowa Central Railway during February, March and April 1901. For full” par- ticulars call. on Towa Central ticket agents or address, Geo .8. Batty, G. p &T, A., Marshalltown, Iowa, . « ‘ ei a <2 08 MAKING! rt Rn CORLY tA i so . a F AY Mm ef %, i I Vj i i MEN Gol q \\. ees ae’ Pic ete. | Cerone rer | STHeCepuation “iis abasic ges from alt injurious hemleals ang canoe fet Foc te oat dueate beet at ane Straightens the hair, but removes Dendrutl fine ear esac eae hie Izurfose bed of baie "Cures at Vitae Foaba\ aud sin every woy an elegant artis for the toilet. 1t has been tested you. fezda lit the taninous vert Wat ten preperation made. Pic, 28 nts eer ecste cae ltean ate MANUFACTURING CO., Richmond, Var, SperAgeate wanted. Write for arma.-px i Subscribe for and read the Ly- stander. CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT. The Corinthian baptist Church — estimated at 11th St. — is the Crocker and School St. preschool at 11 A.M.; Sunday School; at 12 o'clock Preschool at 7 P.M. Rev. B. Bates, Pastor. St. Paul A. E. M.-Corner of Second and Center Streets. Preschooling at 8 p. m. School at 8 o'clock Preschool at 8 p. m. L. J. Phillips, pastor. First African Baptist Church—Corner School Fourth streets. Rev. F. Lomack pastor, Preschooling 10.30 a.m.; Sunday school $ 2.30 m., Mr. M. E. Lomack, superintendent; Young People's meeting 7 p. m., preschooling 8 p. m. Beresa's E. E. East and Des. McKee's E. E. Sun. as services, preschool at 11:30 a.m. and 4 p. m. Sunday School at 12:00 Prairie and Class meeting, Wednesday 8 p. m. All are welcome. G. W. Holmes, pastor, Coplee street. barnaclem Baptist Church, Mission - Estimated over 600 East Loststreet. Preaching H. m.; Sunday School 9:00 a.m.; preaching at 8 p.m. Rev. J. R. Winbush, pastor. SECRET ORDERS. DES MOINES PASSENGER TRAINS C. R. I & P., GOING EAST. ARRIVEE 9 20 am ... Chicago Limited. ... *9 25 am 4 90 pm ... Day Express & Mail. ... 4 45 pm 11 15 am ... Night Limited. ... *12 01 am 12 31 am ... Day Express. ... *12 45 am 9 10 am ... Night Limited. ... *9 00 am C. R. I & P., GOING WEST. 8 20 am ... Denver Limited. ... *8 35 am 9 55 am ... Night Limited Express. ... 6 40 am 4 00 pm ... Day Express. ... *4 15 pm 3 55 am ... Rocky Mountain Limited. ... *4 00 am *11 40 am ... Fleet Mail. ... *11 40 am C. R. I & P. TO KEOKUK. 11 30 am ... Eidon. ... 6 55 am 3 50 am ... Kookuk. ... 7 10 am DES MOINES & FORT DOGE. 6 35 am ... Ruthven Mail & Express. ... 12 10 am 10 45 am ... Tara and Fort Dodge. ... 4 45 am 18 15 am ... Minn. and St. Louis. ... *0 00 am 4 60 am ... St. Paul and Minn. Flyer. ... 8 30 am WINTERSET BRANCH. 11 30 am ... Mall. ... 4 40 am 10 45 am ... Express. ... 7 30 am 6 40 am ... Freight ... 8 49 am CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN--NORTH 8 16 am ... Chicago and St. Paul Lim. ... *8 30 am Chicago and St. Paul Ex. ... 8 30 am *2 38 am ... Twint Cities Special. ... *2 30 am CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN--SOUTH 6 50 am ... Kansas City Limited. ... *7 00 am 11 30 am ... Night Express. ... 8 49 am CHICAGO BURLINGTON & QUINCY *12 15 am ... Albia and Burlington Pass. ... *15 am 5 40 am ... Albia Passenger. ... 8 00 am 7 00 am ... Albia Accommodation. ... 5 45 am KEOKUK & WESTERN PASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE Q STATION. 10 35 am ... Mall and Express. ... 12 40 am 5 40 am ... Mall and Express. ... 8 25 am CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN 8 15 pm ..... Chicago City, New. ..... 9 10 am 9 15 pm ..... Colonel City, New. ..... 9 10 am *6 40 am ..... Chicago Limited. ..... *9 30 am *6 40 am ..... Dakota Limited. ..... *9 30 am *7 20 pm ..... Chicago Express. ..... 7 00 am *7 20 pm ..... Chicago Special. ..... 11 08 am *7 20 pm ..... Chicago Special. ..... 9 10 am *7 20 am ..... Chicago Express. ..... *4 40 am *10 50 am ..... Onabua & Pa. Express. ..... *8 00 am WABASH RAILWAY 8 15 am ..... St. Louis Passenger. ..... *6 45 am 9 15 pm ..... St. Louis Eastern Ex. ..... *6 30 am C. M. and St. P. - Ponda Ex. 7:30 pm.....Storm Lake Express.....4.05 am 10:55 pm.....Ponda & Sioux City Lim. 9.05 am C & ST B-POONE LIME 13:25 pm.....Boone Mall and Express.....4:05 am 14:00 pm.....Miami City.....7:40 am 4:00 am.....Chicago Limited.....19:40 am 11:00 am.....Chicago Express.....11:00 am 10:00 am.....Chicago City & Omaha.....2.00 am *Daily.* †Daily. All other trains daily except Sandy CALIFORNIA. Broad Vestibuled First-Class Sleepers DAILY— Between Chicago and Sanfrancisco WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. Great Rock Island Route Leave Chicago on Big 5 at 10:00 p.m. All the best scenery of the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada by daylight in both directions. These cars are carried on the limited trains of the Great Rock Island Route, Denever and Rio Glande (Scenic Route), Rio Grande Western and 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 Colonists' excursion tickets to points in California, Oregon, Washington Montana, Idaho and British Columbia at very low rates—lower than ever before. Tickets for California points sold on Tuesdays will be honored for passage in Tourist Cars of the Iowa Central Railway on Wednesdays of each week. For full particulars call on Iowa Central ticket agents, or address Geo. S. Batty, G. P. & T. A. Marshalltown In --- VIRTUMA is a French treatment for both sexes that is positively guaranteed to cure IMPOTENCY vitality and vigor, restoring the desires, ambitions and aspirations of youth and health, fitting for success and happiness in business; professional, social and married life. $2 a package or for $5. Ask your druggiat, but refuse cheap substitutes. Sent anywhere prepaid on receipt of price and guaranteed by the Kidd Drug Company, Elgin, Illinois. Retail and wholesale by J. R. Hurlbut Co., Des Moines, Ia. Full line of Rubber Goods name what you want. SHANK BROS., Funeral Directors 517 Mulberry St. Telephones 666, 688 and 659. DES MOINES, IOWA. New Service for Homeseek and Settlers. Tourist Car service for persons enroute to the South, south-west and California is inaugurated by the M. K. & T. By. from Kansas City. Tourist car leaves Kansas City every Tuesday at 9:05 p. m. on M. K. & T. train No. 11 running through to San Francisco via the Waco Flatonia Route. This route is through the beautiful Indian Territory, Central and Southern Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California and will be found a great convenience for Homesekers and Settlers enroute to Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Old and New Mexico, Arizona and California. The cars in this service are of the latest Pulman pattern of Tourist Cars and are quite as comfortable as the Staudard Pulman Sleepers and are in charge of Tourist Agent and have regular Pulman porter to look after the comfort of passengers. For further information address, T. B. Cookerly Dist. Pass. Agent. Des Moines, Iowa. PRACTICAL ADVICE. A stitch in time saves nine. Never let a child sob itself to sleep. An egg beaten up in milk is a good pick-me-up. Sponge black silk with spirits to revive it. Soot covered with salt is easily brushed up. If broken wash the bruise and apply vaseline. Apply arnica to a bruise if the skin is unbroken. A hot bath taken at night affords refreshing sleep. Lemons stowed separately in dry sand keep fresh. Dry hair turns gray sooner than moist tresses do. If your clothes catch fire instantly roll on the floor. Crawl out of a room where there are smoke and fire. When you want to cut whalebone, warm it by the fire. Sufferers from dyspepsia should not drink while eating. Cut glass needs scrubbing with warm water and soap. Bruised cloves kept among furs frighten moths away. When the dirt is removed rinse it well with cold water. The busy housewife should get an hour's sleep in the afternoon. If possible, hold a wet towel to your face while escaping. -Boston Journal TRICK OF VOICE. how Oae Lawyer Keeps the Judge From Sleeping. There is said to be a lawyer in Philadelphia 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 common practice for the high dignitaries of the federal supreme bench to indulge in a nap in the course of a long and tedious argument, such happenings 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 something 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 explained as purely a matter of sound involved in the skillful control of the voice. It is said that a barrister practiced in the art and rhetoric of addressing 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 accomplished, is said to have been worked repeatedly with success on the late Judge McKennan, whose habit of going to sleep on the bench was once a notorious subject of comment in the litigation over the Berliner telephone patients. This queer trick of the voice, while it is said to be the peculiar property of one celebrated lawyer, is probably attempted often with varying success by others.—Philadelphia Record. EXCURSION RATES TO WINTER RESORTS Via the North-Western Line. Excursion tickets are sold daily, with favor able time limits, to numerous points in the West and South at reduced rates For tickets and full information, apply to agents Chicago & North-Western By SEEDS A GOOD garden gives health, pleasure and pro- speration to the population so nurturing as working with the fresh soil. It adds strength to the body, rests the mind, and the pure air and air, and greatly improves vital life to the blood. It is a pleasure to watch and assist the work of nature in producing vegetables and fruits. It is your family expenses this year by having a garden. Good seeds are the first requalate and the most nutritious seeds. They are the very best and purest which can be obtained. Also lawn grass seed, bulbs, harry rose, etc. Call or send for a copy of our large catalogue. Pro Miles, Iowa. IOWA SEED CO. The Best Remedy for Rheumatism QUICK RELIEF FROM PAIN. All who use Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism are delighted with the quick relief from poin which it affords. When speaking of this Mr. D. N. Sinks, of Troy, Ohio says: "Some time ago I had a severe attack of rheumatism in my arm and shoulder. I tried numerous remedies but got no relief until I was recommended by Messrs. Geo. F. Parsons & Co., druggists of this place, to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm. They recommended it so highly that I bought a bottle. I was soon relieved of all pain. I have since recommended this liniment to many of my friends, who agree with me that it is the best remedy for muscular rheumatism on market." 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. Guimpe 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 rushes, 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. Grave Filling Device. A device for use in constructing graves, the invention of Henry D Cameron, of Burlington, Iowa, is designed to fill the grave with earth after the coffin has been lowered, and to conceal as far as possible the actual throwing of the dirt upon the coffin the most trying termination of the grave ceremony to the bereaved mourners. It consists of a receptacle, with detachable sides and bottom, and a gate in the latter so arranged as to be capable of being opened to allow the contents to fall. The front is a flexible curtain, extending from the top to the gate, and designed to prevent the earth within from being seen. This receptacle is filled with earth previous to the ceremony and carried to a convenient point. When all is over and the grave is to be filled, the receptacle is placed over it, and the gates opened, thus gently closing the last sad scene in a much more fitting manner than the seemingly cold-hearted return of the earth with a epade. COLD INDEED. Some of the Old Trikes of Liquid Air Liquid air is, perhaps, the coldest thing in the world. It is so sold that a cake of ice is like a fierce fire as compared with it, for a kettle of liquid air placed on a cake of ice will boil just as water boils over a hot fire. It freezes mercury so hard that one can drive nails in it. The story is told that Mr. Charles E. Tripler, the experimenter in liquid air, recently took a quart can of the remarkable substance with him on a visit to a friend. On the way he stopped in a restaurant to eat a beefsteak. The waiter brought in a hot broiled steak and placed it in front of Mr. Tripler. As soon as the waiter's back was turned Mr. Tripler hastily opened the can and exposed the meat to the liquid air. Instantly the steak was frozen hard as a rock. When the waiter came back his customer complained that the steak was frozen. So the waiter called the head waiter, and the head waiter blamed it all on the cook and the cook was at loss to explain, and the result was that the frozen steak was taken back into the kitchen as a mysterious curiosity. A new steak was broiled for Mr. Tripler, and this one he ate with much relish. CAPT. GEORGE BEALL, Chief of Capitol Police, Des Moines, Iowa. This is what Captain Beall says to day: Dr. C. M. McLane. My Dear Doctor. "After cataract had bledied my boyhood days and cursed my manhood, and after it had produced a chronic infection when all the other doctors had treated me, you took hold of it and cured me, I have not had a pain or ache or sign of cataract for seven years, and I want the world to know it." Very respectfully yours, GEORGE BEALL We refer the afflicted to people we have cured, among them: H. C. Harris, of Harris, Emery, Dry Goods Co.; Roy, Dr. Wirt, Dr. St. John's Lutheran Church, Des Moines, Jaws. The treatment at $8.00 per month includes all medicines for the cure of Cataract, Deafness, Hay Fever, Bronchitis, Asthma, and all afflictions of the Hose, Throat, and Lungs; also Bitemphus, Liver, Bowl, Kidney, and Bladder troubles. Consultation free by mail to McLane's Monograph on Deafness. Consultation Blank and Symptom Sheets with Dr. B. K. Aitken. Any Activity May Be Great Value to the Afflicted. The book also contains hundreds of testimonial letters from cured patients. 9 $5 Per Month DOCTORY OURSELF "Cerea's" Tablets are mailed and guaranteed by Kidd Drug Company Elgin, Ill., to cure all forms of diseases of Urinary organs, and system, Bladder, etc., including Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Whites, Lucorrhoea, unnatural discharges, irritations and ulcerations of the urinary organs and mucous membranes never gives stricture, harmless and painless. An internal remedy with injections combined; only one in the world. Sent per mail on receipt of price, $3 per package or 2 for $5. Don't fool with cheap substitutes. Retail and wholesale of J. R. Hurlbut Co., Des Moines, Ia. Full line of Rubber Goods; name what you want. Low Rates to California and Back this Summer. An illustrated book, which will be of much interest to all who are expecting to take advantage of the low rates to California this summer, at the time of the Epworth League Convention, to be held in San Francisco in July, has just been issued by the Chicago & North Western Railway. Much valuable information is given relating to the state, variab route, etc. The rate via this line will only be $50.00 for the round trip from Chicago, with corresponding low rates from other points. Copy of this book may be had free upon application to W. B. Knisker, 22 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, Ill. ORIGINAL NOTICE. James Dillingham Plaintiff vs. Elizabeth A. Dillingham Defendant In the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk County May Term, A. D. To Elizabeth A. Dillingham: To Liza Bettin A. Dillingham. You are hereby notified that on or before the 25th day of April, A. D. 1901, the petition of plaintiff in the above entitled cause will be filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk County, Iowa, claiming of you an absolute divorce on the grounds of inhuman treatment. For a more specific statement see petition on on file, and unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the next term, being the May term of said Court, which will commence at Des Moines on the 6th day of May 1901, default will be entered against you and judgment and decree rendered thereon. Dated this 11th day of April, 1901. WILLIAM A. MARSH. I. E. WILLIAMSON. Attorneys for Plaintiff. YELLOWSTONE PARK Facts like these talk and if you contemplate taking advantage of the low Epworth League rates to San Francisco next July, $59.00. Chicago back to Chicago via either Ocean or Shasta route from San Francisco to Portland, you are entitled to know that on similar occasion three years ago, 95 per cent of the Christian Endeavorers returning by way of Portland used the Northern Paci Ry, and more than half this number visited Yellowstone Park, which is reached by rail from Livingston, Montana—a point on the main line of the N. P. R. less than two hours ride by rail from Cinnabar, at the entrance to the park. This is the railway that runs the famous "NORTH COAST LIMITED"—the Crack train of the Northwest. Send 6 cents in stamps to Chas. S. Fee, St. Paul, Minn., for Wonderland 1901 and an Epworth League map folder and decide for yourself as to the route you will use. 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-hoter quinys, pains in the side and chest, glandular and other swellings are quickly cured by applying it. Every bottle warranted. Price 25 and 50 cts. For sale by all Druggists. Votes Counted by Tickets Under the Pennsylvania election law votes are not counted for the candidate, but for the ticket or tickets on which his name appears. In the Chester county election all parties agreed upon Joseph Hemphill for common pleas judge, and this is the way the official vote was declared: Joseph Hemphill, republican, 8,162 votes; Joseph Hemphill, democrat, 4,371 votes; Joseph Hemphill, fusion, 1,643 votes; Joseph Hemphill, scattering, 374 votes. In '1840 Capt. Beall's days seemed to be numbered. His friends had given him a Captain's stripes during the war, and who later became a Chief of Police was replaced by Captain Beall. He did not die; he was curated by Dr. McLean's New Treatment. The family doctors and his friends were visiting monument of What Dr. McLean 606 Walnut St., Des Moines, Iowa. CLINTON. Wm. Henderson and wife recently visited their daughter, Mrs. Mitchell, in Futon. Quarterly meeting will be held the first Sunday in May. The rumage sale held last week for the benefit of the trustees of Bethel church we hear netted a fair sum. Robt. Moreland, who has been quite ill for several weeks past, we regret to say is gradually growing weaker. His friends fear the end is not far off. The rites of baptism were conferred upon him on Sunday afternoon, the 14th, Rev. Peterson officiating. We are glad to hear of Messrs. Stepp & Wade's success in their chosen profession. Rev. P. P. Taylor, after several weeks' absence from the city, is at home again for a short time with his family. We are sorry to hear of the serious illness of Cassius Clay, who is threatened with pneumonia. Friends in Clinton were recently surprised to learn of the marriage of Miss Emma Sayles of this city to a gentleman residing in Dixon, the event having taken place last October. While congratulations may be quite late we extend the same nevertheless. The election of delegates to the annual Sabbath school convention to be held in Cedar Rapids in May will be held on next Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Damon left Sunday morning for Chicago. Cinton's representative business men, Messrs. Hancock, McNeil, Allen and Culbertson, are preparing for a good season's work in their several lines. The Bystander agent is about ready to start on his rounds, so be ready to meet him. Henry Cook remains quite feeble. Bishop Grant writes he cannot visit our city until July. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Sketch of the Career of the Hen, D. Valer H. McMillan The birthplace of Col. D. H. McMillan, the new lieutenant governor of Manitoba, was in the county of Ontario, near the town of Whitby, in the Province of Ontario. The years of his boyhood and early manhood, however, were spent in the town of Collingwood. He received his education in the public schools and the collegiate institute of that town and in the city of Toronto. His early ambitions were largely towards military life; and it was his cherished desire to enter the British army. He took a course of training in the military schools of Toronto, where he was eminently successful, obtaining first class certificates in both the infantry and the cavalry schools. He was identified with military organizations in Ontario for a number of years, and served there during the Fenian raids at Niagara in 1864, and at Port Colborne in March and Fort Erie in June, 1866. In 1870 he was selected for the position of captain in the first Red River expedition under Colonel Wollseley. The young captain remained in Winnipeg with the force for a year, and returned to Ontario in the summer of 1871. 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 Minneapolis the first shipment, as a commercial transaction, of Manitoba's wheat. He did not, meanwhile, lose his interest in military matters, but was ready for active service whenever troops were required. He was major of the Ninetelth 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. Caused by a Cow's Tail. Lock Haven (Penn.) Spe. Philadelphia Inquirer: Mrs. Joseph Ross, of Pleasant Gap, met with a most peculiar accident. When she went into the barnyard to do the milking a cow switched its tail, which caught in the handle of the milk bucket. The hook on the bucket handle caught in the palm of Mrs. Ross' hand. Then the heifer started to run, dragging Mrs. Ross about the barnyard until she was seriously if not fatally injured, the hook at last releasing her after tearing completely through the hand from the fleshy base of the thumb diagonally across to the little finger. --- ANNOUNCEMENT CARDS. Please announce my name as a candidate for member of the Legislature, subject to the republican convention. W. H. HEATON. Please announce my name as a candidate for County Treasurer, subject to the republican convention. JOHN MCKAY, Sr. I am a candidate for renomination for second term for Supervisor First Supervisory District, subject to republican primary and convention. FRANK T. MORRIS. In answer to a petition signed by prominent East Des Moines business men, W. W. Wise has consented to run for the nomination of county supervisor, subject to the will and pleasure of the republican county convention. CEDAR RAPIDS The sociable given by the stewardess was a success both socially and financially. Quite a good many were in attendance. We would have enjoyed being in attendance at the sacred concert given by the Des Moines Sunday evening last, because judging from the program we feel safe in saying it was first-class in every respect, and a credit to our race. Keep on Des Moines you are all right and coming to the front again. Little Willie Diggs died at his home on H. street west Friday morning last. His funeral occurred Sunday from the A. M. E. church, conducted by Rev. Bass. Mrs. Ford preached an able discourse Sunday morning. Those who failed to be present missed a rare treat. The collections taken up Sunday at the A. M. E. church by the Stewardess were very good. Rev. Bass is quite busy this week securing places for delegates during the district conference and convention. Next Sunday is quarterly meeting. The presiding elder will not be here on Sunday but during next week and will preach one evening. Mother Ingleman was able to be out Sunday after a severe spell of illness. Will those who are indebted to the Bystander and who call please call on the agent, 1022 South First street, and settle as far as possible or notify her and she will call at once. The next time W. J. goes after his marriage license he must be sure and have the required amount to purchase the same. Miss Mary Crawford is reported better at this writing. Mesdames Bailey and Horn left Friday night for their home in Otumwa. John Forrester is quite sick at his home on Oak Hill. The S.S. Board met Monday night with Mrs. Della Marshall on South Seventh street. Yes "the plum is ours." but Des Moines, we know you hated to let the Parlor City have the convention, and yet you must remember that ere long Cedar Rapids will be the leading city in the state, the capitol city not excepted. You may beat us playing ball, but you did not get the convention. Miss Cleo Van Camp, who is with the "Hottest Coon in Dixie" writes that she is meeting with continued success. The A. M. E. choir will give an "Up-to-date" sacred concert in the near future. So we would advise you to keep your eyes and ears open, so as to not miss a treat. The Chiropodist seems to be in steady demand nowadays, in fact he is busy at all times. Those having an occasion give him or have him give you a call. Yes, we know you like to read the Bystander. Then why not let us send it to your address for a year or six months. 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. --- FIVE CASKETS TRANSFERRED. Remains of the Martyred President Taken Up by Trustees of the Monument in Presence of Prominent Illuminais—Casket Not Opened. Springfield, Ill., April 26. Without ceremony the body of Abraham Lincoln was transferred yesterday afternoon from its temporary vault on Monument Hill, in Oak Ridge cemetery, to the tomb in the reconstructed national Lincoln monument. The transfer was officially witnessed by the trustees of the monument and by the Lincoln guard of honor. In addition to these and several distinguished guests a crowd of 300 people assembled in spite of the secrecy maintained and witnessed the removal. Along with the body of the president the caskets containing the remains of his wife, his three sons and his grandson were transferred from the temporary vault to their final resting place. The body of the emancipator was placed in the marble sarcophagus, where it rested when the unsuccessful attempt was made to steal it on the night of the general election in November, 1876. In crypts at the rear of the tomb are immured the bodies of the other members of the family, with two vacant crypts reserved for the bodies of Robert T. Lincoln and his wife. Lincoln's Relatives Absent. While no blood relation of the president witnessed the transfer, several relatives of Mrs. Lincoln were there, Including Mrs. A. S. Edwards, the surviving sister of the president's wife; Mrs. Edward D. Keyes, a niece of Mrs. Lincoln, and several of her grandnephews. The transfer was made without special incident. Considerable time was taken in the removal of the nine tons of stone that capped the vault where the bodies lay. Even after these immense slabs had been removed with a steam derrick, it was found necessary to demolish one side of the vault before the bodies of the president and Mrs. Lincoln could be raised from the bottom. Without opening, the caskets were then conveyed to the tomb and placed in their respective crypts, the president's remains being left till the last. Among Those Present. The members of the board of trustees in charge of the transfer were Governor Yates, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Alfred Baylliss and State Treasurer Williamss, besides the members of the Lincoln Guard of Honor, which was organized after the attempt to steal the president's body. The prominent persons present were Senator Cullom, former Governor Tanner, Secretary of State Rose, former State Treasurer Whittimore, Attorney-General Hamlin, Lieutenant-Governor Northcott, Adjutant-General Reece, C. C. Brown, Lincoln Dubois, John W. Bunn, Joseph P. Lindley, Major E. S. Johnson, Colonel N. B. Wiggins, E. F. Leonard, Enoch Payne, Colonel James Babcock, Clinton L. Conkling, George N. Black, Judge S. P. Wheeler, F. W. Tracy and Clark E. Carr, of Galesburg, besides many members of the general assembly. The monument will be rededicated Oct. 15 next, upon the twenty-seventh anniversary of the original dedication. Aside from the altitude of the shaft, which has been lengthened twenty-one feet and nine inches, the reconstructed monument is identical in outline with the original. The principal change in the pile has been made under ground, the foundation now resting on the solid rock at the base of Monument Hill. Silk Girls Win a Victory. Scranton, Pa., April 26—The four months' strike of the silk girls was terminated by the soft silk workers of the Saquoit voting for the resumption of work. The hard silk workers will do likewise today and the girls at the other mills will follow the example. Bishop Hoban, as mediator, is responsible for the end of the strike. In resuming work the girls are granted many concessions. An advance of from 8 to 12 per cent is made; chairs on which to eat their lunches instead of the dirty floor are provided. They are allowed one of their own number to measure the silk and other minor concessions. Maine Man Rugs Amuck Portland, Me, April 26.—George H. Brainerd, a foreman electrician, without apparent motive murdered the engineer who was directing the work upon which he was engaged and another employee, fatally wounded another of his subordinates and shot a fourth, who, however, may recover from his wound. He then endeavored to shoot the deputy marshal who arrested him. The dead are: I. H. Farnham. The wounded: Earle Buxton, James Wadsworth, Elmer Z. Lane. Earthquake In Portugal Lisbon, April 25.—A slight earthquake shock was felt here at 3:30 p. m. A violent shock was experienced at Algarve at 4:30 p. m., during which several persons were thrown down and bruised. Kiramen on a Strike. Askabula, O., April 25.—The fire department at Conneaut refuses to work. The members claim that if a call of fire is sounded they will not answer it. The row is due to the refusal of the council to confirm Thomas J. Gough as chief. HILLIS SCORES HERRON. Tells Why He Refuses to Meet the Socialist on the Platform. New York, April 25—The Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hills, pastor of Plymouth church, has issued a statement as to why he would not meet Prof. George D. Herron at the Get-Together club and it has caused a sensation. Dr. Hills does not refuse to sit on the same platform with Prof. Herron because of the latter's religious views, he says, but because of his conduct toward his wife and family. Dr. Hills said: "I do not wish to be unkind, but there are sins so grievous, so bald, vulgar and crass in their persistency and their virulence that they consume the marble of charity. "Consider the conceded facts in the case. This man marries a young woman, and is the father of four children, almost babies; forms a friendship with a young, unmarried woman from whom he accepts money to buy his clothes, hats, shoes, and travelling expenses; against his wife's protest goes abroad with this woman friend and her mother for a year; returns to tell his wife that he has ceased to love her, but loves another, and persistently urges his wife to obtain a divorce. When the wife is asked by the judge if there is any obstacle to their living together, she replies, 'No, except in my husband's mind.' "This man's spokesman and bosom friend in New Haven, justifies the father's desertion of the four children by saying the woman friend gave the wife $100,000 to give her husband up to her. Mrs. Herron's friends assert that the amount paid was only $60,000. "Now, some money was paid Mrs. Herron, or else it was not. Suppose no money was paid her. Why has he not denied the statement to save the honor of the mother of his children? If any sum of money was paid his wife by this woman friend, then this man sold himself, and whether for Judas' thirty pieces of silver or $60,000 makes no difference. "The first supposition leaves him a coward in not defending his babes' mother. The second leaves him a monster, and his friends may take their choice." LARGE STEAMER AGROUND. Vessel on Berle Rock, Off Maine, May Be the Drumkin York, Me., April 25.—Just before 9:30 o'clock this morning the fog which had hung over the water all the foremom lifted for a few minutes and a large steamer was seen to be ground on Berle rock, about a mile west of Boone island. Her name could not be made out. After about five minutes the fog settled down as thick as before. It is believed this is the British steamer Drumlinel, bound from Hamburg for Portland, previously reported stranded on Bib Rock ledge, not far from Berle rock. New York, April 25.—Owing to the dense fog several Atlantic liners, reported passing Fire island yesterday, have not yet reached their docks. The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, sighted yesterday, has not since been seen. Other vessels due are the Anchoria and the Siberian, from Glasgow, and the Teutonic and the Georgian, from Liverpool. Steamer's Cargo on Fire. Queenstown, April 25.—The British steamer Ontario, Capt. Brenton, from Hull. April 18, for Boston, is putting back with her cargo on fire. A tug has gone to her assistance. It is expected that she will anchor at noon. Mother 8ess Child Brown Circleville, O., April 25.—Yesterday Mrs. Frank Irwin, with her four-year-old child in her arms and leading her six-year-old daughter, attempted to cross Little Walnut Creek on a foot log. The log turned and precipitated all of them into the water. The mother, by almost superhuman efforts, saved herself and the four-year-old child, but the six-year-old daughter was swept away by the torrent and drowned. Twenty New Oil Concerns. Austin, Tex., April 25.—Twenty oil companies were chartered yesterday, with an aggregate capital stock of $7,000,000. Among the charters is the Mecca Oil company of Beaumont, capital stock $500,000; directors, M. D. Shaw, B. W. Leyton, of Wapakoneta, O., and C. N. Haskill of Ottawa, O. They will drill for oil in Chambers, Newton, Orange, and Jefferson counties. Romagnoll Is Found on Ship Bremen, April 25.—Rudolf Romagnoli, alias Romanlso, alias Langwick Muller, who, the German police say, was chosen by the anarchist circle in Paterson, N. J., to assassinate Emperor William, was arrested on the North German Lloyd steamship Halle, which arrived at Bremerhaven roads from Buenos Ayres early this morning. He is now securely confined awaiting his trial. Senator Clark Is Beaten Salt Lake City, Utah, April 25.—The long legal fight for the possession of the abandoned Oregon Short Line right of way through southeastern Nevada and southwestern Utah between Senator W. A. Clark of Montana and the Oregon Short Line, representing the Harriman interests, has been settled in favor of the Oregon Short Line. Court Admits "Czar" Read New York, April 25.—Thomas B. Reed, former speaker of the house of representatives, was admitted to practice yesterday in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Certain Evidence Against Alleged Murderer Ruled Out. FACT WANTED, NOT OPINION Day of Sensational Developments In the Noted Cambridge Trial - Druggist Titus Testifies to Seeing the Fatal Struggle - What Victim Sald. Cambridge, Mass., April 26.—Professor Charles R. Eastman of Harvard on trial for the murder of his brother-in-law, Richard H. Grogan, Jr., July 4, gained a critical point today. Judge Gaskill of the superior court, before whom the trial is proceeding ruled that evidence in the form of repetitions by witnesses of statements alleged to have been made by Grogan as he was dying was not admissible in a certain form, which tended to convey the opinion and not the fact as to whether Grogan had been "killed" or "murdered." The decision came about in this way: After Walter D. Titus, a druggist, who claimed to have seen the encounter between Eastman and Grogan, had testified that he had heard Grogan say, "Charles, you have murdered me." Lottie Broughton was called to the stand. She was asked to repeat what she had heard Grogan say, her testimony having already gone beyond the point where it had been shown that Grogan was wounded. Mr. Elder, attorney for the prisoner, interposing, said he anticipated the answer to be "Charles, you've murdered me," and to it he objected as incompetent evidence on the plain ground that it was Grogan's opinion, not a specific declaration of the dying man. On the same ground he objected to evidence already presented, which in effect was opinion and not bare statement of fact. Attorney General Knowton took the opposite ground, but the decision was against the government in almost every particular, the exception being that the identical words objected to were allowed to stand in the direct testimony of Mr. Titus. Day of Sensational Developments. Day of Sensational Developments. The entire day was full of sensational evidence, beginning with that of Druggist Titus, who saw the encounter between Eastman and Grogan. Titus said that while passing the rear of the Clark estate in Sambridge July 4, he heard groans, followed by the words: "Oh, don't! oh, don't!" Looking over the fence witness saw two men struggling. At length one broke away, saying: "Charles, you've murdered me!" These words were repeated, and then the man threw up his hands and ran toward the house. The taller man, who was Eastman, followed slowly. He had an old-fashioned revolver in his hand. Titus, under cross-examination, said that when he saw the two men struggling they were standing side by side in a gateway three and one-half feet wide with their faces turned away from him. He admitted that anything he saw of the men after they parted must have been seen through the pickets of the fence, which run from either side of the gateway. He said that the defendant appeared to be dazed. Several persons who live in the neighborhood of the Alvan Clark estate told of excitement following the shooting and of hearing eries of "Help! Murder!" Another Important Witness. The concluding witness, and the one whose evidence is expected to be very important, was Belle Bryan, the housekeeper for Mrs. Grogan. Her story has not proceed far enough to disclose the government's strength at this point in its chain of circumstances. BRING PLEA FOR CUBA. Island Delegates Arrive and Will See President McKinley Washington, D. C., April 26.—Eight swarthy, lightly chal little men, two of them with old-fashioned knitted scarfs around their necks, shivered here until their teeth rattled as they hastily made for cabs to take them from the Pennsylvania station to the Shoreham hotel. They were the Cuban commissioners, five in number, an interpreter and editors of two Havana newspapers, who came to Washington to persuade President McKinley to suspend the operation of the Platt amendments. The party comprised Domingo Mendez Capote, president of the Cuban constitutional convention; Rafael Portonado, Diego Tomayo, Pedro Gonzales Llorente, Pedro E. Botancourt, commissioners: Pedro M. Entenza, official interpreter, and Senior Starling, editor of El Mundo, and M. M. Coronado, editor of La Discussion, a newspaper that was suppressed by General Wood, because it published a cartoon of the governor-general that he deemed offensive and subversive of good order Noted Indian Scout Dead Baker City, Ore., April 25.—W. W. Tripp, an old resident of this city, is dead here from neuralgia of the heart. He was a noted Indian scout, and was at the Little Big Horn when Custer and his troops were slain in 1876, taking an active part in that memorable campaign. Couldn't Enlist: a Spiele Bunker Hill, Ill., April 25.—John Dealer, 20 years old, committed suicide last night by hanging himself in his father's barn, near Chesterfield, Ill. The young man wanted to enlist in the navy, but his father objected. Plan Reception for Milne London, April 25.—A movement has been started by the British Empire League to entertain publicly Sir Alfred Milner on his return home. If Your Stomach makes life miserable, its your own fault. Dr. Greene, the discoverer of Dr. Greene's Nervura, will tell you why this is so, and just exactly how to cure the whole trouble. This information and advice will cost you nothing. Write to Dr. Greene, 35 West 14th St., New York City. 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. STORIETTER. "What is the meaning of the saying, 'Comparisons are odious?' asked the youngster, "It means," replied Mr. Cumrox, "that it is very bad form to simultaneously call attention to a man's standing with the commercial agencies and his ratings on the tax collector's books." Senator Mason leaned against the weather map in the marble room of the senate one day recently and wiped off half the weather report for the United States at one swoop. The weather man saw what happened and began to jump about wildly. "What's the matter?" asked Senator Mason. "Nothing," replied the weather man, "except that you have the climate for all of the United States west of the Mississippi on the back of your coat." Once, when twitted on his small size by a statesman of the strenuous type, the late William Erarts retorted: "That remark proves what I have always asserted—that in your eyes, measures were more important than men." To another critic, who found fault with this habit of stringing out a whole paragraph without a break, by the use of paranathetical clauses, he said, cheerfully: "I have noticed that criminals object to long sentences." How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's treatment. F. J. CHENEY & CO. Props, Toledo, O. Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions he carries out to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Drugs, Tolcó, O; Waldman, Klinman & Marvin, Wholesale Hall's Catarine Cure is taken internally, netting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 750 per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Failure is one of the things that are spoiled by success. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starch contains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. It is frequently courtship before marriage and battleship after. Consuming Leads to Consumption Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist today and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dangerous. Some of the wealthiest planters in the West Indies live on coffee grounds. A Colonel in the British South African Army says that Adams' Tutt Frutti was a blessing to his men while marching. Money talks, but the calamity howler doesn't want to give it a chance. 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, 35c. Sample sent FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Lots of men know how to cure hams, but are unable to pro-cure them. When You Buy Seed Insist on getting Maple City Self Washing Soap. Your grocer has it or will get it. He who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart. If everyone knew how good a remedy was Hamlin's Wizard Oil its sales would double in a day. To civilize a man you must begin with his ancestors. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starch contains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. You can't eat the kernel and raise another crop of nuts from the shell. HARVARD When a cheerful, brave and light-hearted woman is suddenly plunged into that perfection of misery, the blues, it is a sad picture. It is usually this way: She has been feeling out of sorts for some time, experiencing severe headache and backache; sleeps very poorly and is exceedingly nervous. Sometimes she is nearly overcome by faintness, dizziness, and palpitation of the heart; then that bearing-down feeling is dreadfully wearing. Her husband says, "Now, don't get the blues! You will be all right after you have taken the doctor's medicine." But she does not get all right. She grows worse day by day, until all at once she realizes that a distressing female complaint is established. She has been feeling out of sorts for some time, experiencing severe headache and backache; sleeps very poorly and is exceedingly nervous. Sometimes she is nearly overcome by faintness, dizziness, and palpitation of the heart; then that bearing-down feeling is dreadfully wearing. Her husband says, "Now, don't get the blues! You will be all right after you have taken the doctor's medicine." But she does not get all right. She grows worse day by day, until all at once she realizes that a distressing female complaint is established. Her doctor has made a mistake. She loses faith; hope vanishes; then comes the morbid, melancholy, everlasting blues. She should have been told just what the trouble was, but probably she withheld some information from the doctor, who, therefore, is unable to accurately locate her particular illness. Mrs. Pinkham has relieved thousands of women from just this kind of trouble, and now retains their grateful letters in her library as proof of the great assistance she has rendered them. This same assistance awaits every sick woman in the land. hope vanishes; then comes the morbid, lasting blues. She should have been told she was, but probably she withheld some the doctor, who, therefore, is unable to or particular illness. has relieved thousands of women from trouble, and now retains their gratefulry as proof of the great assistance she has This same assistance awaits every sick She loses faith; hope vanishes; then comes the morbid, melancholy, everlasting blues. She should have been told just what the trouble was, but probably she withheld some information from the doctor, who, therefore, is unable to accurately locate her particular illness. Mrs. Pinkham has relieved thousands of women from just this kind of trouble, and now retains their grateful letters in her library as proof of the great assistance she has rendered them. This same assistance awaits every sick woman in the land. Mrs. Winifred Allender's Letter. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I feel it my duty to write and tell you of the benefit I have received from your wonderful remedies. Before taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, I was a misery to myself and every one around me. I suffered terrible pain in my back, head, and right side, was very nervous, would cry for hours. Menses would appear sometimes in two weeks, then again not for three or four months. I was so tired and weak, could not sleep nights, sharp pains would dart through my heart that would almost cause me to fall. "DEAR MRS. PINHAM—I feel it my duty to write and tell you of the benefit I have received from your wonderful remedies. Before taking Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable Compound, I was a misery to myself and every one around me. I suffered terrible pain in my back, head, and right side, was very nervous, would cry for hours. Menses would appear sometimes in two weeks, then again not for three or four months. I was so tired and weak, could not sleep nights, sharp pains would dart through my heart that would almost cause me to fail. My mother coaxed me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable Compound, but it, to please her I did so. The first bottle he'd me so much that I continued its use. I am now well and weigh more than I ever did in my life."—MRS. WINIFRED ALLENDER. Farmington, Ill. $5000 REWARD deposited with the Nati which will be paid to a testimonial is not genuine writer's special permission REWARD Owing to the fact that some skeptical people have found some time questioning the genuineness of the testimonial letters we are constantly publishing, we have deposited with the National Trust due to the belief, which will be paid to any person who can show that the above testimonial is not genuine, or was published before obtaining the writer's special permission.—LYDIA E. PINKASM MEDICINE Co. I afflicted with *Thompson's Eyo Water* $5000 REWARD Owing to the fact that some skeptical people have from time to time questioned the greatness of our work, we are constantly publishing, we have deposited with the National City Bank, of Lynn, Mass. $,000,000, who paid any person who can show that the testimonial in a genuine manner was published before the writer's special permission—LYDIA E. PENHAM MEDICINE Co. Miss Jennie Benedict, a confectioner, has been elected a member of the Louisiana board of trade. She is the first woman to join that body. IN 3 OR 4 YEARS AN INDEPENDENCE ASSURED EGACY IN FARMS IN EASTERN If you take up your home in Western Canada, the land of plenty illustrated pamphlet It is usually this way : MRS. SWINIFRED ALLENBER I CURE FITS FREE A Full-Size $1 Treatment of Dr. O. Fleiss Brown's Great Remedy for Fibrosis Fits in the Arms O. PHELPS BRONN, 91 Broadway, Nassau B. L. B sprinkle salt on a wine stain and pour hot water through it until it is gone. IF YOU HAVE Bend no need to Dr. Shoop, Bacile, Wine, for you to sit bottles of Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic tissue, press paid. If cured pay $5.50, if not it is trec. The doctor is quick to realize that practice is better than theory. Oliver Wendell Holmes was once present at a gathering where he chanced to be seated near the refresh- ment table, and noticed a little girl looking longingly at the table. In his kindly way, he said, "Are you hungry, my child?" She replied bashfully in the affirmative. "Then why don't you take a sandwich?" he asked. The little maid responded: "Because I haven't any fork." The autocrat quoted, smilingly: "Fingers were made before forks," and to his intense amusement she answered: "Not my fingers." A story of Queen Victoria's humor is recorded in connection with the framing of the bulletin announcing the birth of the present king. After the usual statement, the bulletin ran thus: "Her majesty and the prince are perfectly well." When this was shown to the queen by the prince consort previous to its publication, she said, with a laugh: "My dear husband, this will never do." "Why not?" asked the prince. "Because," said the queen. "it conveys the idea that you were also sick there." Thereupon the queen edited the bulletin in this way: "Her majesty and the infant prince are perfectly well." HUSBAND AND WIFE. A Veteran of the Civil War Tells an Interesting Story. EFFINGHAM, Ill., April 22. (Special)—Uriah S. Andrick is now 67 years of age. Mr. Andrick served through the whole of the Civil War. He was wounded, three times by ball, and twice by bayonet. When he entered the service of his country in 1861, he was hale and hearty, and weighed 198 pounds. Since the close of the War however, Mr. Andrick has had very bad health. For fifteen years, he never lay down in bed for over an hour at a time. He had acute Kidney Trouble, which grew into Bright's Disease. His heart also, troubled him very much. On Oct. 18th, 1900, he was weighed, and weighed only 102 pounds, being but a shadow of his former self. He commenced using Dodd's Kidney Pills on the 20th of last December, and on Feb. 20th was again weighed, and weighed 146 pounds. He says: "I have spent hundreds of dollars and received no benefit, until on the 20th of December last, I purchased one box of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I am cured, and I am free from any pain. My heart's action is completely restored. I have not the slightest trace of the Bright's Disease, and I can sleep well all night. I was considered a hopeless case by everybody, but today I am a well man, thanks to Dodd's Kidney Pills. "For the last sixteen years my wife has been in misery with bearing down pains, pains in the lower part of the abdomen ar.1 other serious ailments. When she saw what Dodd's Kidney Pills were doing for me she commenced to use them. She now feels like another woman, her pains have all disappeared and her general health is better than it has been for years. "She is so taken up with Dodd's Kidney Pills and what they have done for us that she has gone to Mr. Cornwall's Drug Store and bought them for some of her friends for fear that if they went themselves they might make a mistake and get something else." There is something very convincing in the honest simple story of this old veteran and his wife. Dodd's Kidney Pills are the only Remedy that ever cured Bright's Disease, Diabetes or Dropsy. They never fail. A novel Parisian toy is a little whistle which emits a whine that passes into a juvenile shriek and winds up with the plaintive exclamation of "Mamma! Mamma!" Already the streets of Berlin are resonant with the wails of these droll toys. 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 stick headache. Price 25 and 50c. There are a large number of people that think they are among the elect If Your Clothes Look Yellow fresh them with Maple City Self Washing Soap. It will make them white again. Spring fever germs are looking for work. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.-J. W. O'Brien, 322 Third Ave, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. Man is an epitome of the world. Filay. SOZODONT Tooth Powder 25c MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY OF EXPERIENCE AND OUR GUARANTEE ARE BACK OF EVERY WATERPROOF GILLED SLICKER OR COAT BEARING THIS TRADE MARK. TOWER'S TRACK ON SALE EVERWHERE. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. BOTH GOGUES FREE. SHOWING BULK LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS. A.J.TOWER CO.BOSTON.MASS. 41 FISH BRAND PISOIS CURE FOP CUIRS WHERE ALL LESSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL Des Moines, April 25, 1901. The state executive council has prepared and sent out blanks to the county auditors of the state to be filled out with abstracts of personal property assessments of 1901, real property assessments and assessments of railroad and express properties. These abstracts are to be returned to the executive council before the third Monday in June. Upon them the council will sit as a board of review to equalize the assessment of property in the state as between the different counties. At the meeting at which these blank abstracts were formed by the council it was discovered that the law regulating these instruments is defective. It provides that the schedules of assessments of real properties shall be returned by the auditors as "corrected by the county board of review." This provision is omitted as to the personal property assessment as made by the assessors only and not as finally corrected by the local board of review. The council, by resolution, decided to require statements as to the personality on a basis similar to that used for the really abstracts, although there is no law for it. The blanks as formed, therefore, require the report on the personal assessments as corrected by the local boards of review. Any other sort of return would be valueless. Another defect in the law relates to the telephone and telegraph property assessments. It requires the council to assess these properties on the day that it meets as a board of review to equalize the assessment of other properties. As a result the statement as to assessed valuations is incomplete until after that date, when the state council needs the information. An effort will be made in the next legislature to have these defects remedied. According to Professor Samuel Calvin, state geologist, Iowa will never develop an El Dorado or a Bcaumont, nor will it become noted as a natural gas region. Professor Calvin declares in emphatic terms it is hopelessly absurd to believe that discoveries of considerable quantities of oil, gas or gold can be made in this state. The ninth annual administrative report of the state geologist has just left the hands of the state printer. It will appear as a part of volume XI of the reports of the Iowa Geological Survey, which it is expected will be completed in June. Professor Calvin's report, consisting of thirty pages, is given over almost entirely to an effort to expose the fallacies contained in the idea that Iowa soil is a repository for oil, gas or the precious metals. Professor Calvin does not take up the alleged discovery of petroleum at Greenville, but his verdict on the subject is so sweeping and so general that it cannot be otherwise than applicable to the Greenville case if the views on which it is founded are correct. The board of control will not open the women's reformatory at Anamosa for the present. There is not a sufficient number of women eligible for the place under the law to make it possible for the board to open the institution without going to much expense other than would be covered by the returns from the per capita support fund. The chief difficulty appears to be that the age limit has been placed too low. As in the case of Mitchellville, women over 16 years of age cannot be received at Anamosa. There are plenty of applications for the committal of women over 16 years, and when the legislature meets an effort will be made to amend the law as to permit the admission of women under 22 years of age. It has not been found necessary to transfer any of the girls from Mitchellville to Anamosa, the more unmanageable ones having been held in check by the knowledge that they were likely to be transferred to the industrial reformatory if they trespassed too seriously on the regulation. It is supposed the failure of the legislature to make the age limit of inmates at the industrial reformatory at Anamosa, was not intentional, as the result of this seeming defect is to make the new institution practically useless. Governor Shaw has received a proclamation from the governor of Texas containing regulations adopted by the live stock sanitary commission of that state, according to which cattle shipped from Iowa and several other states mentioned in the resolution will not be received in Texas for breeding or dairy purposes unless the cattle and the herd from which they originated have been examined and found free from tuberculosis. A permit or a bill of health must be presented from a veterinarian of the United States bureau of animal industry or a veterinarian under the live stock sanitary board of the state from which the cattle are shipped. The resolution will be of great interest in Iowa, as large shipments of cattle from this state have recently been made to Texas. The deputy auditor of state has written a letter to the president of the state university stating that a hearing will be granted a committee from the board of regents in regard to the right of the university to the funds for which a requisition was refused by the auditor of state recently. The auditor has made a request for an opinion from Attorney General Mullen and this will largely determine the result of the hearing. The amount in controversy is about $5,000 and it represents the unexpended balance of funds upon which the university draws before the new code went into effect. The auditor holds that the appropriations made under the new code were lieu of all others and that the treasurer of the regents has no right at this time to what was left of the old fund. Most people have the church instinct in their blood. Every man is all right in his way, but a lot of them are right in the way of others. "I Cheerfully Recommend Peruna to All Who Want a Good Tonic and a Safe Cure for Catarrh." Prominent members of the clergy are dorsement. These men find Peruna from catarrh of the vocal organs who speakers, and general catarrhal debt clergyman. Among the recent utterative virtues of Peruna is the followi D. D., of Baltimore: "I take great pleasure in ack Peruna. At the solicitation of cheerfully recommend your Peruna and a safe cure for catarrh."—Jat of the clergy are giving Peruna their unqualified en- find Peruna especially adapted to preserve them local organs which has always been the bane of public catarrhal debility incident to the sedentary life of the the recent utterances of noted clergymen on the cura- is the following one from Bishop James A. Handy, measure in acknowledging the curative effects of acclimation of a friend I used your remedy and and your Peruna to all who want a good Tonic catarrh."—James A. Handy. Prominent members of the clergy are giving Peruna their unqualified endorsement. These men find Peruna especially adapted to preserve them from catarrh of the vocal organs which has always been the bane of public speakers, and general catarrhal debility incident to the sedentary life of the clergyman. Among the recent utterances of noted clergymen on the curative virtues of Peruna is the following one from Bishop James A. Handy, D. D., of Baltimore: "I take great pleasure in acknowledging the curative effects of Peruna. At the solicitation of a friend I used my remedy and cheerfully recommend your Peruna to all who want a good Tonic and a safe cure for catarrh."—James A. Handy, OTHER NOTABLE CURES. A Husband Escaped the Pangs of Catarrh of the Lungs. Most Cases of Incipient Consumption Are Catarrh. A. H. Mrs. Edward Stevens of Carthage, N. Y., writes as follows: "I now take pleasure in notifying you that my husband has entirely recovered from catarrh. He is a well man today, thanks to you and Peruna. He took six bottles of your medicine as directed, and it proved to be just the thing for him. His appetite is good and every thing he eats seems to agree with him. His cough has left him and he is gaining in flesh, and seems to be well every way. I hope others will try your medicine and receive the benefits that we have."—Mrs. Edward Stevens. When the catarrh reaches the throat it is called tonsilitis, or laryngitis. Catarrh of the bronchial tubes is called bronchitis; catarrh of the lungs, consumption. Any internal remedy that will cure catarrh in one location will cure it in any other location. This is SOZODONT for the TEETH 25c Can't Sleep you ever have that feeling of oppression, like a weight on keeping you awake nights with a horrible sensation of the cold perspiration break out all over you? That's with it night after night, until their reason is in danger, this fearful ailment is in the stomach and bowels, and a sufferer sweet, refreshing sleep. Always insist on g air t' thim hobo-mobo t Did you ever have stomach, keeping you that make the cold per ates suffer with it night Did you ever have that feeling of oppression, like a weight on your chest, or a load of cobblestones in your stomach, keeping you awake nights with a horrible sensation of anxiety, or tossing restlessly in terrible dreams, that make the cold perspiration break out all over you? That's insomnia, or sleeplessness, and some unfortunate suffer with it night after night, until their reason is in danger and they are on the edge of going mad. The cause of this fearful ailment is in the stomach and bowels, and a Caascaret taken at night will soon bring relief and give the sufferer sweet, refreshing sleep. Always insist on getting CASCARETS! asca BEST FOR BOWELS THEY WO DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE. It Cures Cold, Coughs, Sore Throat, Croup, Influenza, Whiping Cough, Breathitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. Use twice, so the expectant wife after taking the first dose. Sold by dealers everywhere. Large bottles 25 cents and 60 cents. W. L. DOUCLAS $3 & $3.50 SHOES UNION MADE. The real worth of my $3.60 and $1.99 shoes compared with the one I paid at $4.99, is equal at any price. Bests in the world for men. Goodguy's Welt Hand-Sewed Process), than any other manufacturer, prove that my stitching is not not true. Any one who can prove that my stitching is not true. *Take an substitute!* Instruct W. J. Douglas, with name and price stamped on bottom. Your dealer should keep them; I give one dealer exclusive side in each town. If he does not keep them and will not get them for you, order two. You will receive one order for each Over 1,000,000 satisfied wearers. New Spring Catalog free. Over 1,000,000 satisfied wearers. W. L. DUGGLE, Brooklyn, Mass. Can't Sleep? BEST FOR BOWELS AND LIVER. why Peruna has become so justly famous in the cure of catarrhal diseases. It cures catarrh wherever located. Its cures remain. Peruna does not pallitate; it cures. Mrs. Frederick Williams, President of the South Side Ladies' Aid Society of Chicago, Ill., writes the following words of praise for Peruna from 973 Cuyler ave., Chicago, Ill.: for Peruna from 1973 Cuyler ave. Chicago, Ill.: "My home is never without Peruna, for I have found during the past six years that there is no remedy that will at once alleviate suffering and actually cure, as Peruna does. Four bottles completely curd me of catarrh of the head of several years' standing, and if my husband feels badly, or either of us catch cold, we at once take Peruna, and in a day or two it has thrown the sickness out of the system."—Mrs. Frederick Williams. MARIA DELA SALVADOR "I have had frequent opportunities to observe the wonderful curative effects of Peruna especially on persons suffering with a congested condi- tion of the head, lungs, and stomach, generally called catarrh. It alleviates pain and soreness, increases the appetite and so soothes up the entire system that the patient quickly regains strength and health."—Mrs. W. A. Allison. 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. Simplicity, strength and purity combined in Garfield Tea, the herb medicine that cures constipation and liver troubles. A bore is a man who has nothing to say and insists upon saying it. There is but one Russ' Bleaching Blue. Three times within a year the courts have suppressed fraudulent limitations. Sold by all grocers. Parents first teach a child to talk, then try to teach it to hold its tongue. King Victor Emanuel of Italy will visit London next May, it is announced. Do Your Feet Ack and Bury? DO YOUR Feet Ache and Burn! Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y. Add a few drops of ammonia to the blue water to whiten the clothes. Take Garfield Tea for constipation; it has this to recommend it: it is made from health-giving herbs and it surely cures. Laws, like sausages, often cease to inspire respect when we learn how. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starch contains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Electrocution might be appropriately called a capital climax. Make a Washing Easy. Maple City Self Washing Soap saves time, saves work and saves your clothes. Just try it once. Vanity sometimes spoils a multitude of real virtues. You take no chances when you buy Russ' Bleaching Blue. This famous article makes clothes whiter than snow. Refuse imitations. You may be unable to oblige, but you can at least speak obligingly. Spring Cleaning Made Easy. Much of the terror of Spring Cleaning may be avoided by good management. Settled weather should be selected for the work, and every thing necessary provided before hand. Ivory Soap will be found best for washing paints, floors and windows; it is harmless and very effective in making the house clean and fresh. ELIZA R. PARKER. Beauty is as beauty does, but justice is just as it is. Are You Interested in the Northwest? Cut out this advertisement, mention paper in which it appeared, enclose with 10c in silver to address given and Home and Garden, illustrated, monthly, will be sent you free for one year. Regular price, 50c. Address Home and Garden, Newspaper Row, St. Paul, Minn. Woman is a conundrum that man never seems to give up. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES produce the fastest and brightest colors of any known dye stuff. If you don't refer to a young lawyer as a legal light he is apt to be quite put out. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children toothing, softens the pains, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. That poultry should never be eaten until twelve or fifteen hours after it is killed. "Goneow" Tablets are guaranteed by the Kidd Drug Co. Elgin, IL, to cure all diseases and inaminamide. Tablets are available with infection. Per mail order, 2 for $5, Retail and wholesale of J. k. Huribut Co. Des Moines, Iowa, who carry a full line of syringes, not water bags, etc. No, Maud, dear, the financial news is not written in money syllables. Ask your grocer for DEFLANCE STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starch contains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Borrowing is but one step above begging. A. H. --- Sudden and Severe attacks of Neuralgia come to many of us, but however bad the case St. Jacobs Oil penetrates promptly and deeply, soothes and strengthens the nerves and brings a sure cure. FREE COUPON POCKET MAPS IN COLORS-Complete booklet of Iowa, Delaware, and Commissioners map, showing new rail routes, population of towns by last census, congressional districts, etc., folded to vest pocket size, in handsome cover, sent for two seventy cents and this coupon. Address MERCHANTS IN COLORS INS. CO., Des Moines. REWARD will be paid for access to the KID-NE-OIDS business, weakness, loss of vitality, obliterated kidney bladder and urinary disorders that can not be cured by KID-NE-OIDS the great kidney, liver and blood medicine. 50s at all Dr肾脏, the simple, mean NEOIDS. TOWNSEND PLEASURE & COMFORT GO HAND IN HAND G & J Dattachable Double Tube Tires are high-grade and work well in all weather, rigid, lightweight and easily relied on, required tools required. When a puncture occurs just remove the outer cover, patch the inner tube, replace the inner tube, and cheapen it to pay to buy G & J Tires first and avoid the necessity of a change. Catalogue for the Tire Company G & J Tire COMPANY Ingolpholls, Inc. ToCALIFORNIA 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. W. N. U., Des Moines, No. 17—1901 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. ```markdown ``` Their Use on Land and Sea Is Steadily Increasing. Here is a new word for you, columbiophilum. 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 jolting. Three such tubes can be carried in a basket, which is attached to the rider's shoulders in the same way as a snapsack. 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 cat 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 Vangtard. 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. We want you to subscribe for the Iowa STATE BYSTANDER. DOGS WEAR SHOES. Alaskan Animals hold Up Feet to Have Shoes Ft On. In Alaska shoes for dogs have been introduced. The use of shoes for animals in the far north country is not merely out of kindness to the dogs. It is a matter of necessity, for one of the greatest dangers to travelers in Alaska is that the dogs which draw sledges or transport goods freeze their feet by contact with the ice. This sometimes renders the animals practically useless and leaves the traveler without means of transit over the fields of ice. Before the introduction of the shoes it was the custom to wrap the feet of the dogs in cloth, but this was a poor measure at best, as the cloths often came off, leaving the poor beasts unprotected. The cloths also interfered with the free locomotion of the dogs. Since the gold fields opened more dogs have been used and great speed in travel has become necessary. The dog's shoe was invented to meet the requirements. The lacings are at the back to give free play to the dog's legs. The wonderful intelligence of these faithful animals is shown by their readiness in talking 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 in the morning and hold out their legs to have their shoes put on. If the shoes happen to be laced too tight, they will whine and make their discomfort manifest, wagging their tails for joy when the laces are fixed to their liking. A Newaboy Evangelist St. Louis has a newboy evangelist His name is Earl Jamison and he is 11 years old. Several weeks ago young hair went to one of his neighbors and asked him if he could not use his barn for religious services. His request was granted and every evening since meetings have been held by the young evangelist, except on Sunday alights. Earl does the preaching and praying and leads the singing. His service continues about an hour and he generally has a fair-sized congregation. Those who attend, both young and old, are impressed by the fervor of the youthful preacher. Earl is a sturdy built little fellow, with light hair and frank, fearless manner. His serious men is like that of a white- haired judge. He is a good talker and can quote the scriptures freely. He has collected money during his evangelistic career for the famine-stricken people of India. Honored as an Exorist Carolyn King, daughter of General Charles King, has been accorded an unusual honor. Miss King finished her course at the Sorbonne in June, and then entered for competition in the Alliance Francaise, which meets every summer and confers its diplomas on such foreigners as can pass its rigid examinations after attending lectures and submitting essays on several of the standard authors and dramatists. Mollere, Racine, Corneille, La Rochefoucauld, and J. Rousseau were assigned to Miss King, and it was her essay on Corneille which was given that piece unanimously by the judge. ALBIA. Miss Henrietta Jones and Mrs. Nora Grayson made a business trip to Oskaloosa this week. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Butler visited a few days of last week in Des Moines, returning Tuesday. Sunday was quarterly meeting in our church. Quite a large congregation turned out all day. Mrs. Ethel Thomas and two children from Muchakinock visited a few days at the parental home in Albia. A social was given Saturday evening at the A. M. E. church for the benefit of the church. A number of colored men are employed at the ballast pit a mile from town. Quite a few strangers are on our streets throughout the day. EMERALD MINES. They Were Lost for Centuries, but Have Moved Radiated. What are known as the emerald mines of Cleopatra lie in the mountain range that extends for a long distance parallel to the Red sea and a few leagues west of its coast, in a latitude rather south of Eofu, on the Nile, says the Geographical Journal. This, like some other parts of the region—such as the porphyry quarries of Jebel Dokhan—was far better known than it is now, and more thickly people, about twenty centuries ago, and only during the present one, so far as we know, have isolated explorers at long intervals found their way into the treasure house of ancient Egypt. When itsrulers first used the emerald for personal adornment is uncertain. Whether the large, clear stones, according to ancient authorities, ornamented the Egyptian temples were really emeralds is a matter of dispute, but as this gem —owing to its regular shape, which is commonly a six-sided prism—and its beautiful tint stands less in need of the lapidary's art than many others, it probably formed part of the regalia of princes at a very early period. That it was known to the Romans is certain, and the mines now revisited used to send their treasures to the gem cutters of the capital. Ever since then the stone has been highly esteemed. These mines of the northern Ethal seem to have remained untoned since the decline and fall of Rome caused them to be deserted. According to Mr. MacAllister, the workings are only small passages, hardly more than burrows, excavated in the emerald-bearing cyst and sometimes extending for a long distance. Many scattered ruins may also be seen—dwellings, watch towers and tombs, besides those of ten settlements, in these no doubt, the mining population used to live, and the difference in style suggest they were occupied for a long time. Some are mere hovels, very roughly built; others show a more careful construction, while a third group are well finished. Mr. MacAllister also found three rock-cut temples, for the soft stone lends itself to that kind of architecture. He thinks that their pillars, though very primitive in style, indicate Greek influence, one. indeed, contains a crumbling inscription in that language. Broken pottery, sometimes ornamented, is abundant, but there is no evidence that the neighborhood attracted visitors for any but business purposes. Notwithstanding this, there was in those times a settled instead of a nomad population, and travelers once must have been rather frequent, for in one place many drawings of persons, animals and tribal marks are scratched upon the rocks. Some of the figures evidently are much older than others, but as a whole they recall to memory the Sinatic inscriptions which some forty years ago were believed to be memorials of the wanderings of the Israelites. WANTED-TRUSTWORTHY MEN AND women to travel and advertise for old estab salehouses, $750 a year and expenses, all payable in cash. No canvassing required. Give refer enc and enclose self-addressed stamped en- cumber, Address Manager, 385 Carson Hid, Chicago. CAUSES SURPRISE. Connecticut Man Declares His Assessment Is Much Too Low. Robert M. Bruce, one of the millionaires of Greenwich, Conn., a former cotton broker and a friend of E. C. Benedict, has caused surprise by appearing before the board of assessors of the town and asking them to have his assessment raised 50 per cent, says the New York Sun. He said that he had never paid any attention to the making out of his list of taxable property, leaving it with the assessors. He had looked the matter up recently and had decided that he was not paying all that he should into the town treasury and he asked for the raise. The assessors promised to comply with his wishes and it is understood that they will raise the taxes of all other millionaires there to some extent. Mr. Bruce's example is the subject of much comment. For many years past Greenwich has raised $90,000 by taxation, and has spent $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 pit 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, rest 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. Fists Bring Made at a Railroad Power House. Test for the elimination of the smoke nuisance, and a revolution in method of combustion, are under way at the Fourteenth street power, house of the Illinois Central railroad, says the Chicago News. Fed by automatic hoppers, a battery of boilers is being operated by the consumption of coal dust. Fires that burn with the fury of volcanoes rage under them, while from glass peepholes arranged at every point of vantage, combustion experts watch the developments. As though to complete the suggestion of a volcano, the fires produce no cinders. Streams of lava form in a small pool on the door of the ash pit, and are removed in a solid mass from time to time. Apparatus that is under test is the property of the Schwartzkopff Coal Dust Firing company, a German concern. Schwartzkopff, a son of the famous Teutonic torpedo maker, made the first steps toward perfecting the system, which was completed by the discoveries of Arthur C. Hesselmeyer, an American attached to the German navy. The European concerns immediately purchased Mr. Hesselmeyer's ideas, and he is now in Chicago conducting the actual tests that are being made by award Trumbo at the railroad p. y. Illinois coal of a cheap g. e is reduced to a fine powder and by eans of a draught is automatically fe into a combustion chamber. Only the faintest suggestion of smoke trails at away from the tall chimney, and it is asserted that the customary pressure of steam being maintained, with a large saving of fuel. FACTOR IN POLITICS. New Federation of Australia Must Here- after Be Considered. Australia is to Great Britain the most valuable of all her colonies, writes Hugh M. Lusk in the North American Review. The external influence of Australia in the south Pacific is bound to make itself fit before long. Those who know Australia best will have the least doubt that she will find means are long to use that influence for purposes beneficial to herself. Her people were far from pleased with what was done in the case of Samoa; and it is safe to say that no such policy of concession will ever command the assent of united Australia. The sphere of her first interests will, for the present, be confined mainly to the Pacific and Indian oceans to the south of the equator. She will be interested in the Loyalty group, where France is established, and in the New Hebrides, where she is very anxious to establish herself. She will be solicitous about the Solomon islands, part of which are at present recognized as German territory, and she will take a very deep interest in the future of New Guinea, part of which belongs to Germany, and the rest, beyond the British section, is understood to form part of Holland's great but little used estate in the eastern archipelago. These will undoubtedly be Australia's first cares, but she will not be content with these for very long. Slam, French and southern Chilga and Borneo are natural marts for her trade, which in the next ten years will be a rapidly increasing one, and, in relation to all these, she will expect to exercise large influence Immense Herring Traffic The annual North sea herring voyage, which begins off the Northumberland coast, has resulted, on the completion of the first stage, in a catch of over 50,000 crans of herrings, valued at about £70,000. A cran contains, according to size, from 600 to 1,000 fish. As the fish move southward, the big fleet of several hundred sail follows, and it is now making its headquarters at 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 348,000 herrings were landed, and as this year steam fishing boats have largely replaced selling vessels, it is expected this great total will be far exceeded, for in a single week 12,000 crans have been taken on the northern grounds, giving a return of over £14,000 to the fishermen. Most Tongues Have No Bible The terms of the Arthington bequeat of a great sum of money to the various missionary societies has resulted in the distclosure of the fact that there are hundreds of tribes without a version of the Bible in their tongues, in spite of the splendid efforts that have been made. It is estimated that there are 2,000 languages and dialects in the world, and the British and Foreign Bible Society have had the Bible, the New Testament, and portions of the scriptures translated into a little over 400 of them. That leaves, roughly speaking, 1,600 different tribes and peoples who have not the word in their own language or dialect. Many of these tribes live in Central Africa, others in Siberia and "Holy" Russia. Dentist's Sponge in Windpipes 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 Finney had eleven teeth extracted under ether by Dr. Griffiths, and when efforts were being made to restore him to consciousness he sprang from the chair, fell back and 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 Press. CAMPAIGN EXPENSES. in National Collections the Heaviest Outlay Is Near 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 1894 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 Hosts 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, as is follows: On September 27, 1854, the Arctic came into collision with the French steamer Vesta and was sunk, only a few of her passengers being saved; on January 23, 1856, the Pacific sailed from Liverpool with 240 persons on board, including the wife of Mr. Collins, and was never heard of afterward; the Atlantic was broken up in New York in 1879; the Adriatic, built at Greenpoint, N. Y., by Steers, was sold to the Galway company, and was afterward used as a coal hulk in England; the Baltic was in the government service during the civil war as a supply vessel, and was afterward sold at auction; her machinery being removed and sold as old iron, she was converted into a sailing ship and used as a grain carrying vessel between San Francisco and Great Britain until 1880, when she was broken up. When the civil war began the New York and Havre Steam Navigation company, to which the Fulton and Arago were chartered, was withdrawn; the Arago was then sold to the Peruvian government, while the Fulton became a United States transport vessel for awhile, but she soon became useless and was broken up.—New York Weekly. Benjamin Harrison's Lunch. Ex-President Benjamin Harrison, one of the ablest men who has figured in our public life, has always been handicapped by his unresponsive, cold manner. When he was in the senate, at Washington, D. C., in the early '80s, he always brought his luncheon to the committee room. He carried it in his coat pocket and would eat it while he went on with his work. One day when he got it out as usual from his pocket he looked it all over ruefully, for it did look rather flat and dubious. He finally remarked to those near by that he guessed he must have sat on it accidentally. 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