Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. 8. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE BYSTANDER PUBLISHING COMPANY, FIFTH AND LOCUST. BOOK 600 MANQUARD BLOCK. Iowa 'Phone 600. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE AYRO-AMERICAN PRO- TATIVE ASSOCIATION OF IOWA. GENERAL PAPER OF THE MOST WORSHIPFUL UNITED GRAND LODGE OF IOWA, A. P. & A. M. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year.....$1.50 Six months.....75 Three months.....50 All subscription payable in advance. J. L, THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by post, post office order, money order, express or draft, to the Iowa STATE BYSTAND Publishing Company. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the pub- liser. 'Brevity is the soul of wit.' remember We will not return rejected manuscript, unless accompanied by postage stamps. CITY NEWS The fishing party was not as well attended as it should have been. Mr. W. H. London of Muchakinoek was an over Sunday visitor in our city. Mrs. J. L. Thomposn spent this week in Albany, Mo., at the parental home. H. R. Wrlight, who was recently admitted to the Bar, was in the city this week. Miss Phylena Langford left Tuesday for Oaceola to visit with her father and friends. J H. Mixon, Jewelor, No. 312 West Third street. Tunes Pianos and repairs organs. Some fresh paint and new paper has imyroved the appearance of the interior of John Wingo's barber shop. Mrs. J. D. Hardin of 762 West Tenth street, who has been very sick for several weeks, is convalescent. Mr. Chas. A. Harding of Chicago is in the city this week visiting his mother. Charles is looking well. H. S. Clay, who has been to the lakes with a fishing party, returned this week delighted with his outing. Mrs. Annie Hall has had her boarding house painted and re-papered, which makes it vary attractive. Many of the parents and friends were at the A. M. E. Sunday School last Sunday to hear the children's programme. Mrs. W. H. Humburd returned last Tuesday, after a very pleasant visit of two weeks with her cousin, Mrs. Summers of Chicago. The H. B. S. will meet with Mrs. W. H. Warricks, 915 street, June 27. All members are earnestly request ed to be present. We re in debt to Mrs, James Higgins for the well prepared report of the Grand Court that was run in our last issue. Mrs. Higgins is a splendid writer. Harding Ice Cream is always best and suits the people. Phones 647. tf 762 Ninth street. Mrs. Keene and little son of Canton, Mo, arrived in the city Monday for an extended visit with her daughter, Mrs. H. Gould. All kinds of New and Second hand furniture and Household goods, Stoves and Carpets. Repairing done at The Royal Six are preparing for another good time to all their friends; this time a grand picnic. The invitations will be out in the course of the next fiw days. The Rev. T. W. Lewis of Milwaukee Wia., was in the city this week visiting with his sister, Mrs. Martha Bass, and other relatives. From here he went to Fayette, his former home, where he will spend several days. The Masons of Albia are preparing to give the Masons of this jurisdiction a royal reception while in their city attaching the Grand Lodge, which convenes in Albia July 8, 9 and 10. A large delegation from this city will attend. King Solomon Commandery will lead the parade Thursday the 10. One and one-third fare for the round trip. Mesdames Palmer and Banks returned last Monday from Burlington where they reported having an excellent time. Quite a number of Clarinda people were in our city Thursday on an excursion. When in Oskaloosa, Iowa, stop at Mr. Peter Williams, No. 216 North A street, for good meals and room. Miss Gertrude Hyde of 1336 West Grand Ave., entertained a few friends last Monday. Mrs. Richard Wright of Marshalltown, an evangelist, who has been very succesful among the Holiness people, attended their camp meeting here this week. For room and board go to Mrs. Powell & Son Boarding House, north-west corner of Second and Grand avenue. Bates are reasonable. They also serve ice cream. The concert to be given at the Corinthian Baptist church next Monday evening, under the management of A. Burwel an others, promises to be good with new and novel features. Don't miss it. In the last report of the milk inspector Hummell for the month of May at Burlington, of the 21 dealers Mr. S. L. Tigg, the only colored man, shows 40 per cent above the others for the best milk. Richard Windsor of 1177 W. Seventh street, is remodeling his house by adding another story and putting in bath and a furnace. He will spend over $1,000 in improvements, and when completed he will have as nice a home as any one in the city. The report of the Grand Matron, secretary and Treasurer shows that the Grand Court, H. of J. is in better condition then it has ever been in its history in this state. Its growth in the way of increase of membership and finance has been wonderful in the past year. These ladies under the leadership of their Grand Matron, Mrs. L. R. Pulmer, are doing a noble work. Dr. J. M. Wilson, of this city, has returned after spending several weeks at Colfax Sanitarium and pleasure resort. Dr. H. C. Bennett, M. D. M. E., one of the officials of the National College at Lima, Ohio, of which Dr. Wilson is a graduate in Electro-physics and Therapeutics, says Dr. Wilson is worthy of being a medical doctor and has recommended him to the president of a medical college for graduation. All those who wish to go on the excursion to St. Paul, providing we can get the same rates that were secured last year, please send their names to the BISTANDER, but do not send your names unless you intend to go. We cannot get rates to Chicago to attend the Conference. For that reason we will try to run the excursion to St. Paul. Any one outside of the city that wishes to join the excursion may send their names. We will be glad to have you. For further particulars, address William Coalson, Des Moines, Iowa. On last Monday evening at 8:30 o'clock occurred the marriage of Mr. Gus Watkins to Miss Effle Mitchell, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Gould, where the bride has resided for several months. We had hoped for the happy event, but we did not expect it so soon. Only a few friends witnessed the ceremony; Rev. L. J. Phillips officiating. Mr. Watkins is a blacksmith and has a good business, and if we are to judge the future by the past he is sure to make a success. Miss Mitchell came to our city about two years ago highly recommended. She attended school in Colorado. The bride wore white organdie and carried white carnations. The groom wore the customary black. They will be at home to their friends at 1319 Park street, after July 15. Lowest rates to Chicago via the C. M. & St. P. Ry. Ask anyone the best and quickest route to Chicago, combined with the greatest comfort Electric lighted vestibulated limited leaves Des Moines Union Depot at 9:40 p. m. daily Dining car serving brieffast A la Carte in the morning. Train arriving at Chicago at 8:30 a. m., enabling travelers to make all connections for the east. Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Ticket office 410 Walnut. tf There has been several communications received at our office this week that will not be pub- lished, owing to the absence of the editor. DEDICATION OF THE CORINTHIAN BAPTIST CHURCH. June 23, at 3:00 p.m. Music by the choir. Scripure reading, Rev. Dr. Dulin. Prayer, Rev. L. J. Phillips. Music by the choir. Preaching of dedication sermon by Rev. J. H. Jones of Otumwa J. H. Jones of Otumwa. Response. Rev. Kephart of U. B. church, Rev. E. P. Bartlett, State missionary, Rev.' L. J. Phillips of St. Paul A. M. E. church, Rev. Walker First Baptist church, Rev. Richardson Calvary Baptist church, Rev. Dr. Dulin, Rev. Holmes, Burn's M. E. church, pastor of Forest Avenue Baptist church and Rev. Bates, pastor of Corinthian Baptist church. Prayer, Rev. Richardson Music by the choir. Benediction. Rev. J. H. Jones. DO WE WANT A CODORED COMPANY? Now is a good opportunity for our people to organize in this state a company and get attached to the State Guards. It will be remembered at one time we had one of the best drilled companies in the state, and many of the members of that company have never been satisfied with the way in which that company was disbrnded. All Iowa was proud of Company E. Why we hove said the chahces were good if we had a company to get into the State Guards is that both companies, A and H, have been mustered out, leaving the State Guards short two companies. We would like to see a good company of young men formed at once in Des Moines, Keokuk, Ottumwa, Oskaloosa, or any other place that have enough good men to form a company, and apply to Governor Shaw and General Byers to be mustered in. There is nothing quite so grand as a military company skilled in the manual of arms or the field movements. Men have many reasons for wanting to see a good company in the state and we will assure the first compano that will organize, that they will find all the assistance and encouragement from the best people, they want. There is a number of young men who could take such a company and soon have it second to none. FORCE WAY THE FRONT. Boulder, Colo., has the distinction of being the home of the only chief telegraph operator of a railway in the United States who is a colored man. S. B. Mackey, the chief operator of the Colorado and Nortwestern railway, not only fills the position of head of the telegraph department of the road, but he is equally efficient as train dispatcher and private secretary to General Manager Culbertson. He is a stenographer and typewriter of special ability and his gentlemanly address and ability in everything he undertakes have made him highly popular among citizens of Boulder. Mackey is a native of Greenville, Pa., where he was educated in the public schools. After graduating from the high school he pursued a special course of studies at Teal college. Since arriving at Boulder he has found time to study Latin and French and next fall he will enter upon a special course in the State university. He is now 29 years of age, active, energetic and wide awake to the interest of his employers. Recently he undertook the issuance of an elegantly illustrated pamphlet upon Boulder county. The title of the publication is "Picturesque Boulder and Gems of Boulder County." We must repeat what we have said before that is, we want to publish all the news that is sent to this office, but we trust our agents and friends will not send matter that will reflect on any one or try to pick a quarrel. Such articles will never help the race in the minds of the reading people. Last week such an article got in the paper, and it is but fair that we publish the reply in this issue. Please do not ask us to do so again. THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE TO MET IN CHICAGO. After full consideration and consultation with the officials of the National Negro Business League and friends throughout the country, it has been decided to call the next session of the League to meet at Chicago, Ills., Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 21, 22 and 23. It is generally conceded that the meeting held in Boston last August was one of the most successful gatherings ever held in the history of the race, and that it gave an encouragement and impetus to the race in all lines of business in a way that is now apparent in all parts of the country. Any person engaged in any commercial enterprise or properly delegated to represent any individual or individuals engaged in commercial enterprise, is entitled to membership under such regulations as may be adopted. Women as well as men engaged in business should be represented. It is strongly urged that Local Leagues be established in every part of the country where no such leagues now exist and those already organized be strengthened wherever necessary, and that these local leagues send delegates, so far as possible to the National organization, and keep in close touch during the year with the officers of the National organization; that these local organizations hold meetings monthly as far as practical; that everything possible be done in these local organizations to discourage complicated and useless parliamentary machinery, and that parliamentary and technical discussions be avoided, as far as possible, with a view to concentrating time and strength on the real objects of the organization. It is the desire of the officers of our people as well as of the perpersons engaged in business. These photographs should show both outside and inside views as far as possible, and they should be forwarded to the President of the League at Tuskegee, Alabama, as early as convenient. The time has come for the race to take a long step forward in establishing itself permanently and more generally in the business of the community where it resides. Let no legislation or attempted legislation discourage or dishearten us. There should be no doubting or halting. Every move should be a forward one. To gain recognition and success we may have to struggle harder and longer than others, but out of the very struggle we shall gain a strength that we can get in no other way. The influence and power of intelligence, high character and high standing in the business world, are sure to place the race in the end in a position where it will be honored and treated with justice in every part of the land. Let our watchword constantly be, "FORWARD." Booker T. Washington, President, Tuskegee, Alabama. T. Thomas Fortune, Chairman, Executive Committee, 4 Cedar Street, N. Y. E. E. Cooper, Secretary, 459 C Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. IOWA'S BEAUTIFUL LAKE REGION Lake Okoboji and Spirit Lake most favorably reached by the quickest route, the C. M. & St. P. By. New summer schedul now in effect. Two fast express trains each way daily with dining cars, serving all meals enroute, A la Carte. Excursions and low rates now in effect. Ticket office 410 Walnut. Train arrive and depart from Union Station. tf ```markdown ``` MUSCATINE. Sunday was quarterly meeting. The presiding elder was not present. Rev. Gordon preached morning and afternoon and i the evening a rousing gospel meeting was held. Mrs. Leora Jordon is sick with inflammatory rheumatism. The cantata was a success. Everyone participatinw was at his best. The audience was well pleased. A neat little sum was raised towards Rev. Gordon's salary. Mrs. Wm. Davy spent Friday in Davenport. Miss Florence White leaves Saturday for Burlington to visit her aunt Mrs. Lemuel Reed. All persons indebted to the Bystander please remit. Subscribe for the Bystander. (Last week's items.) Sunday June 16 will be quarterly meeting. Little Esther Baines is sick with the measles. Mrs. H. Hull arrived in the city Saturday to join her husband, who has been working here the past few months. The canatata Belshazzar's Feast will be rendered at the A. M. E. church Tuesday evening, June 11. Mr. J. Thompson and Miss Alice Phoenix went to Milwaukee on an excursion Saturday evening. Mrs. W. D. Parker of Davenport arrived in the city Monday evening. She will assist in the cantata. She is the guest of Miss Alice Phoenix. Mr. S. Barnes went to Wilton Friday to visit a friend. Miss Cora Phoenix of Moline is visiting her mother Mrs. P. Townley. She will assist in the cantata. All deliquent subscribers please pay up. NEWTON Mrs. John Hale and son Roy have gone to Oregon, Mo., where they will make an extended visit with relative and friends. Miss Clara Miller is the guest of capitol city friends. Mrs. Mattie Lewis and little daughter returned to their home in Rockford, Ill., last Wednesday. Misses Clarence Miller, Jesse Welden and Miss Eldora Green attended the funeral of Mr. Ed. Goode in Grinnell last Sunday. Mrs. Thomas Watson has been quite ill, but is improving. Mrs. L. M. Conte and children of St. Louis are visiting at the pleasant home of Mrs. Moore. We are glad to welcome Mr. Anderson Watson home again after an absence of several months in Baxter. Miss Jennie Green of Des Moines is the guest of Miss Rosa Pillow. is the guest of Miss Rosa Trow. Messrs. John Miller and R. Hudson have made some splendid improvements to their homes. Mrs. Walter Taylor has returned to her home in Des Moines. Marion Mayes and Clarance Miller were Colfax visitors last Saturday evening. Mrs. Olay Cunningham has been dangerously ill with heart trouble, but is gradually improving. Children's day was observed by the A. M. E. church last Sunday evening. A most excellent program was rendered. Each participant reflected much credit upon himself. We regret that Miss Lettie Miller does not improve much. Miss Eldora Green will leave for San Francisco, Cal., in a fortnight to attend the Epworth League convention. She will also visit her sister, Mrs. Frank Shirley, in Phoenix, Ariz. There are several strange young men in our city at present, and we are glad to see some of our young ladies making their stay so pleasant. MT. PLEASANT Mrs. J. Shepherd was called to Keokuk last week on account of the illness of her sister. Nettie Nunlly has recovered from the measles. The M. M. S. met at the A. M. E. church last Thursday afternoon. The ladies are making preparations for their bazaar. Mrs. Pride and children of Chicago visited relatives and friends Sunday and Monday in this city. The Stewardess board gave an entertainment last Thursday night at the A. M. E. church. The H. V. D. C. gave a "Rose Soiree" June 6 on the spacious lawn and in the beautiful parlor of the Misses Bartlett. Rows of Japanese lanterns hanging between the elm and evergreen trees made the lawn nearly as brilliant as the parlor. The chief object of the ladies being to give their friends an enjoyable time and also to make expenses, the small sum of 10 cents per plate was asked. About 50 responded to the invitation issued. The dining room was the most attractive place, as from the several corners were dropped diagonally focusing in the center of the room and suspending almost to the center of the table. In the links of the chains were white and red roses, green foliage and white and red ribbons. A fountain of roses in the center of the table met the suspending chains, No. 2. IOWA. while huge bouquets were sitting in the corners of the room. The silver and floral decorations made a beautiful scene in the gas light. Each guest had a rose pinned on them before leaving the dining room, so that the hostess would know who had been served. Strains of music from a corner of one of the parlors, furnished by Mrs. Hackley, Miss Myra Carter and Myrtle Taylor and Mr. J. L. Bartlett floated onto the lawn the entire evening. Rrefreshments served were red and white ice cream, strawberries and cakes. The dining room decorations were made by Mrs. M. Burnaugh and Miss Agnes Mason. The Daughters of the Tabernacle and the Children's Tent had their annual sermon preached Sunday at the A. M. E. church by Rev. Ferribee. George H. Mason was able to attend church Sunday, but he is not well vet. SIOUX CITY. The Masons gave their annual banquet Monday evening. Only the Mason's and their families were in attendance. The Odd Fellows gave a grand entertainment on the 20th at their hall. Sunday was quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church. While the presiding elder was unable to be present the meeting was exceptionally good. Quite a number took sacrament. Mr. Beverly Clark left for Chicago, Ill. Tuesday evening, where he expects to enter the Conservatory of Music for the summer, to study voice culture. Mr. Clark has a fine bass voice. Mrs. A. Thomas and her little daughter Pearl have gone to Yankton to visit friends. The Daughters of the Tabernacle was set up in this city last Monday evening by Rev. Wilson and wife and Mrs. Pettit, the order has twenty-seven members. After all business had been disposed of the society tendered a banquet to all members and assistants. Children's Day at the A. M. E church on last Sunday. Quite a neat little program was rendered by the children. Little Viola Carter is quite sick. Little Johnnie Norris met with quite a serious accident last Saturday at Morning Side, where he had gone to visit the children of Rev. Clark. The children attended a picnic given by the Baptist Sunday school (white) and in running and TWO-Bystander playing little Johnnie ran into a barb wire fence, cutting great gashes in his cheek and forehead. He was brought to town and a physician sewed up his cuts. He is getting along nicely. The Odd Fellows are preparing to send a delegate to represent them at the grand order of Odd Fellows which convenes soon. We have not learned yet who their delegate will be. Mrs. Sadie Norris received word last week that her mother was quite sick at Burlington. Mrs. Norris immediately telegraphed and received the reply that she was better. Messrs. Dowdy and Smith came down from Yankton on the excursion Sunday. ROCK ISLAND AND TRI CITY. Mr. and Mrs. Busey and sister Mrs. Day gave an informal dancing party last Thursday evening at Wagner opera house in honor of Mrs. Saun- ders of Michigan, who departed for her home in Chicago Monday. About 120 of the elite of the tri-cities were present. Everything was prepared to make the affair an enjoyable one as well as one never to be forgotten. Refreshments were served from small tables in the halls. At 2 a. m. m. al departed with the same opinion as of old, that Mr. and Mrs. Busey cannot be excelled as entertainers. Col. Wm. R. Manning of Newton was the guest Tuesday of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Toliver. John R. Lemme, who resigned his position on the railroad, can now be found at the Pantiorium. Sunday the different Sunday schools held their Children's day exercises. Those we attended in Moline were very good and spoke well both for the children as well as for Miss Ritchie, who trained them. Thursday evening about eight couple will meet at the home of Mr. E. Joplin for an evening at whist. All are eagerly awaiting the event, as some are anxious to decide the championship of the tri-cities. The young men of Moline are expecting to organize a club this week for the purpose of giving a celebration in the near future. Quite a number are planning to attend the Pan-American exposition this summer. THE NEWS FROM BUXTON. The New England city is becoming a popular city. The 150 houses now in course of erection are nearing completion. The basement for the new Methodist church is now being dug and in a very short time the foundation walls will be up. Rhuben Gaines has nearly completed his blacksmith shop. (Continued on page 8) --- ```markdown ``` PINGREE DIES IN LONDON Ex-Governor Succumbs to Severe Intestinal Trouble. London, June 19.—Ex-Governor H. S. Pingree of Michigan died here last night at 11:35. His son was the only one present at the time. The attending doctor left Mr. Pingree's bedside at about 11:15, promising to return shortly. H. S. Pingree, Jr., who had been taken at his father's bedside for four days, and who has not removed his clothing during his notice a sudden change in his father's condition. He had hardly reached the patient's bedside when his father died peacefully, without warning and without speaking one word. The body of the late Mr. Pingree will be embalmed and taken to his home. The diagnosis by London specialists of the cancerous infection of the intestine left which Mr. Pingree left practically no hope for the patient's recovery. Toward the end of his illness Mr. Pingree suffered great pain and weakened rapidly. He was unable to retain nourishment. His mind, however, remained fairly clear. During the whole of Tuesday he was propped up kept alive by injections of trichine and drugs administered to lessen his pain. Detroit, Mich., June 10—Hazen Center Pingree was born in Denmark, Me., in 1840. In 1862 he enlisted in the First Massachusetts heavy artillery and served until the war when he located in Detroit, embarking in the manufacturing of shoes. In 1889 the republican party nominated ex-Governor Pingree for mayor of Detroit and he was elected by over 2,000 majority. He was re-elected in 1891-'93-'95, by increased majorities each time. In 1896 Mr. Pingree was selected as governor of Michigan by 83,000 plurality, running ahead of the national ticket by 408 votes. He was re-elected by 83,000 plurality, and served out his term, which expired in 1900. Last March he started on the trip to South Africa which resulted in his death in London. SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS Chaffee Tells of the Work of the Allies in China. Washington, June 21.—The report of Major General Chaffee on the campaign in China is being prepared for publication at the war department. Among other matters it contains special reports upon the Russian, Japanese, French and British troops; also reports on equipment, supplies, etc., of foreign troops and reports on different expeditions. These reports were made by United States officers, and from a military point of view are of considerable interest, but nearly all the main facts have heretofore been published. Some of General Chaffee's comments are interesting. At one point he says: "For about three weeks following the arrival of the relief column at Peking the condition in and about that city and along the line of communication was made for the city of the rounding camp foraging in the rounding camp and seizure by soldiers of everything a man might have, as vegetables, eggs, chickens, sheep, cattle, etc., whether being brought to the city or found on the farms; indiscriminate and general shooting of Chinese in city, country and along the line of March and river—all this did not tend, as was natural, to gain for the troops the confidence of the masses, with whom it is certain we have no quarrel, but were in need of their labor. It is safe to assume that the enemy has been killed since the capture of Peking, fifty harmless cookies or laborers on farms, including not a few women and children, have been slain. No doubt the Boxer element is largely mixed with the mass of population, and by slaying a lot, one or more Boxers might be taken in." General Chaffee speaks of the restraint he placed upon the American troops. The Japanese commander also made it known that war on all classes was not intended. General Chaffee says he opposed entrenchment until unless booting was prohibited. This was agreed to and he thinks but little looting has been done there, though articles have been offered from the Forbidden city. Indiana Lose Their Care. Washington, June 21—Justice Bradley in the equity court denied the application of Lone Wolf and other Indians for an injunction against the secretary of the interior to restrain him from opening the Kiowa, Comanche and Bosque counties for a settlement. Without going into the facts the court held that the question was purely a political one, with which the court had no power to deal Secured by Northwestern. Washington, June 21.—The government's interest in the Sioux City & Pacific Railway company was sold at auction at the treasury department for $1,872,000 cash and a credit of $250,000 for the transportation of mail and troops. The sale was made to the Chicago & Pacific company, which has been operating the Sioux City & Pacific for some time. Mrs. Kennedy Guilty of Murder. Kansas City, June 17.—The jury in the Kennedy murder case brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree and fixing Mrs. Kennedy's punishment at ten years in the penitentiary. Johnson Would Not Be Governor. Hamilton, O., June 15.—The Hamilton Democrat published the following dispatch in reply to statements that ex-Congressman Tom L. Johnson would accept the democratic nomination for governor: THE NEWS IN IOWA ing Claims in Webster County. Fort Dodge, June 19–N. Mr. Stanford, a special agent representing the land office at Washington, is in the city to investigate claims regard to the swamp and its claims which are now in process and which a settlement by the government. The history of the swamp land claims dates from the time when the United States government made a grant of swamp lands to the state of Iowa and the state patented these same lands to the counties in which they are located. Later the government sold some of these lands which it had previously made. Of the state, and in this manner it comes about that the county are a number of lands in Webster county the title of which is in doubt, both the present incumbent of the land and the county, one having a clear title by grant from the state and the other by direct purchase from the government. On account of this state of affairs the county has entered pleas for indemnity, and it is these pleas which Mr. Stanford is here to tigate. It is known that of the lands which were deeded to the state by the government as swamp lands are not swamp lands, and if this is found to be the case with regard to any of the property upon which claim for indemnity has been made, the claim will not be allowed. There are about twenty pieces of property in Webster county and all of these are to be visited to discover whether or not they were swamp lands at the time of the grant. The counsel pointed E. R. but as nothing was the contract was annulled in 1898, and since that time the matter has rested. Mayor Bennett has been appointed by the board of supervisors and empowered to represent the county in dealing with the land office at Washington. CATTLE HAVE RABIES. State Veterinarian Makes a Bad Find In Carroll County. Carroll, June 19.—Something of a sensation has been created in Carroll county by the discovery that a mad dog had been at large in the vicinity of Manning. State Veterinarian Gibson was called to Manning and consulted with reference to innocuous animals. He also learned of a brittle Heinrich a cow owned by William Merritt and pronounced it suffering from hydrophobia, and the symptoms shown were identical with those exhibited by several other cows which had died before the veterinarian was called. The board of health for the township ordered all dogs to be tied up or muzzled. A stock has already been about $200 on necounc of one dog which was afflicted. WAR DEPARTMENT MOVES. Prepares for Establishment of Army Rest of Mines. Washington, D. C., June 19—Capt. Reuben S. Turner, United States infantry, quartermaster, will superintend the construction of buildings at the military post to be established in Des Moines. Orders issued at the Adjutant general's office yesterday directed that the commanding officer of Columbus barracks, Ohio, designate an officer on duty at that position, receive Cap. will proceed at once to Des Moines to assume charge of construction of public buildings for the military post to be established at that city under a recent act of congress. BRETAL MURDER OVER AN INSULT George Burghduff of Union Killed by a Section Boss. Marshalltown, June 19.—George Burgduff, aged 30, of Union, Harding county, has been murdered by M. O. Clemons, a section foreman on the Iowa Central. Clemons alleges that his victim insulted his wife. Burgduff's skull was fractured by an iron rod in the hands of Clemons, his eye was gouged out and his brain penetrated. Clemons has been arrested. Big Land Deal in Madison County. **Big Land Dear in Madison County.** Winterset, June 20.—The biggest land deal that has been made in Madison county for many years has just been made. In J. Shirley, the老板, the estate dealer, he buying the R.P. Bruce farm of 414 acres, one and one-half miles west of Winterset, and paying for it $60 per acre, a total of $26,460. This is said to be the best piece of land in one body and owned by one man in Madison county, Mr. Bruce entered this land in 1851 to 1853, and has lived on it continually since. The farm is clear of incumbrance, and Mr. Bruce is selling out to quit work. Fatal Lightning Stroke Wellman, June 20—John Crult, a prominent farmer, was struck by lightning and instantly killed on his farm near here. His dead body was found by his wife, who became alarmed when his team returned home alone. He was 38 years old and was married only last February. Murdered Then Burned! Greene, June 20.—Mrs. Louis Busse, living nine miles south of here was found in her house dressed and partly burned. It is supposed she was murdered by the house set afire, and the houses were scattered all over the floor. Saloonkeepers Enjoined. Sioux City, June 21.—As a result of the work of the Anti-Saloon league and the excursion on the Milwaukee which brought about 4,000 people to Sioux City, five saloonkeepers have been enjoined from selling liquor any longer. "Mose" Is to Be Married. Des Moines, June 15.—Mose Jacobs, the veteran newsboy, who has amassed for himself a fortune by his own efforts, is to be married and settle down in life, forsaking the streets for a cigar store, periodicals and papers, and the comforts and happiness of a cozy home of his own. Miss Lizzie Clara Byoir of Omaha and Mr. Jacobs of Des Moines will be married on Thursday, June 27. Mose is finishing a handsome office on Fifth street, just north of Walnut, and will occupy it in a few days. The man who does a little and does it well does a great deal. THE GUBERNATORIAL NOMINATION Des Moines, June 20—Returns to date show that the republican county conventions thus far held have resulted as follows: For Cummins instructed— Boone ..... 29 Buena Vista ..... 14 Hancock ..... 12 Lyon ..... 9 Polk ..... 64 Sac ..... 15 Story ..... 21 Woodbury ..... 26 Curroll ..... 12 Powerhiek ..... 17 Sioux ..... 16 Ida ..... 9 Plymouth ..... 15 Dickinson ..... 8 Dallas ..... 19 Winnemuga ..... 11 Kosuth ..... 17 Greene ..... 15 Pocahontas ..... 12 Hamilton ..... 17 Jasper ..... 20 Marion ..... 16 For Cummins, uninstructed Oliver ... 13 Grundy ... 11 Humboldt ... 12 Total for Cummins ... 433 For Trewin, instructed Lewis ... 40 For Harriman, uninstructed— Hardin ..... 20 Black Hawk ..... 26 Total for Harriman ..... 112 For Conger, instructed— Madison ..... 14 Uninstructed— Adams ..... 10 Union ..... 13 Appanoose ..... 19 Marshall ..... 25 Wayne ..... 12 Taylor ..... 15 Fremont ..... 12 Page ..... 18 Clarke ..... 10 Palo Alto ..... 7 Clinton ..... 28 Keokuk ..... 18 Total ..... 187 The Cummins forces claim Marshall's 25 delegates, besides scattering delegates among the other uninstructed delegations, but the opposition concede but 15 of the Marshall delegation. ATTORNEYS WAST REFORMS Will Ask General Assembly for Needed Legislation Des Moines, June 21.—As a result of the state meeting of county attorneys three important legislative measures will be pushed in the next legislature by the members of the association. The legislative committee of the state association was instructed to work for: "A law prohibiting boards of supervisors from making contracts with tax ferrets for more than 15 per cent and under law. "The creation of commissions to draw the jurors at each term of court for the next term instead of having them drawn by the county officers, as at present. "A law excluding persons who have expressed opinions on cases from serving on juries and not leaving it at the discretion of the court as at present." Officers of the association for the ensuing years were elected as follows: Prosecutor, D. W. Tedford, Cerro Gordo county; vice president, J. E. Wichman, Hancock county; secretary-treasurer, John McLennan, Polk county; recording secretary, W. J. Taft, Humboldt county. EDDYVILLE BADLY BURNED. Losses in the Business Section Will Approximate $17,000. Eddyville, June 20.—Fire which was discovered in Stedfert's restaurant between 12 and 1 a.m. caused a big loss. Its origin is still a mystery. There is no fire apparatus in the town and the bucket brigade was helpless to prevent the rapid communication of the fire to adjoining frame buildings. It burned furiously for two hours, when it had consumed everything in its direct path and was prevented from spreading to the newer and better portion of the business district. Among the places of business wiped out were True's grocery, Kusik's meat market and Kusik's confectionery store, Stedfert's restaurant. De Tarr & Kuisuit's confectionery store, Dickson's grocery. In addition to these buildings the Methodist church and vacant buildings belonging to J. W. Struber and J. W. Cowley were destroyed, as was also the residence of the latter. The total loss will approximate about $17,000 about half of which is covered by insurance. Fatal Crossing Accident Denison, June 19—W. D. Luney and his 16-year-old son were the victims of a fatal crossing accident. The son was instantly killed, his body being thrown against the pilot and carried 600 feet before the train was stopped. The pilot was thrown about the head and face, and was thrown forty feet from the track. Pearl Valued at $300. Dubuque, June 18.—A pearl valued at $300 has been picked out of the river here. Although weighing only 1.2 ounces, the extreme purity sets it at a high figure. tirl Killed by Lightning Hawarden, June 18.—Pearl, the 13-year-old daughter of W. A. Brest, living ten miles southeast of Hawarden, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. She was standing beside someone when the holt entered the chimney and flashed a stovepipe. The rest of the family were uninjured. Crazed Over Religion Oskaloosa, June 18—Chas, Hoffmire, a prominent farmer of Mahaska county, committed suicide at Union Mills, by hanging. He was mentally deranged on account of religious affairs. NEWS IN GENERAL hating Against the United States. Washington, June 19.—The Russian ambassador, Count Casini, has communicated to the state department that in consequence of the action of the American government through a treasury order of March 9, applying tariff restrictions against Russian petroleum imported into this country, the Russian minister of finance, M. Dewett, has issued an order, dated June 7 inst., imposing the high tariff rate of the Russian schedule on American white resin or callin, galapot, white resin, under article 52 of the Russian tariff law and increasing the rate on American bicycles under article 173 of the Russian law. This action is entirely aimed from that taken in view. Russian sugar and is a new development the discriminatory duties imposed on the government and retaliatory duties imposed by Russia. The order of the Russian minister is to take effect next Friday, and two weeks from the date of its issuance. At the state department it is stated that the imposition of a duty on petroleum was not a matter within the discretion of the secretary of the treasury, but was made mandatory by the Dingley tariff act, which reets the laws of the country for the purpose of imposing a duty on petroleum imported from the United States, this government in compliance with the law imposes a duty on Russian petroleum. In no sense, it is stated, can this duty be regarded as an unjust discrimination against Russian petroleum, as that country the initiative of the United States had Russia not taken this step, her petroleum would have been admitted to this country free of duty under the terms of the tariff act. In his reply to Count Cassini's note, which was transmitted to the treasury department, Secretary Gage protests against the implied contention that this government's action was a discrimination against Russia, and adds: "I beg leave to submit for your consideration the question whether the measure now adopted by the imperial government is not compatible with the rights of the United States nation, existing commerce and navigation with Russia." According to the Russian view, the duty laid against Russian petroleum is inexplicable, from the fact that no Russian petroleum comes to this country. The only article of the kind received here is said to be that mixed with Belgian paraffine. It is said that the American trade in bicycles and the resins specified is quite large in Russia, so that the increased duties will bear heavily upon these branches of the American trade. THE TARIFE WAR SITUATION Now Up to the United States to Make the Next War Washington, June 20.—The situation as to the retaliatory tariff war between the United States and Russia is such that the next move must be made by the United States if the contest is to be pursued. Secretary Gage, in his letter, raises the question whether the Russian government has not infringed upon the rights of the United States upon an Article I of the treaty commerce with Russia of 1832 reads: "No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the United States of any article the product or manufacture of Russia, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the empire of Russia of any article the product or manufacture of the United States nation or are so liable to be imposed by the United States being the produce or manufacture of any foreign country." By levying maximum duties on United States bicycles, resins and machinery and especially designating them as United States products, the Russian government has, it is not doubted, made just such a discrimination as is provided against in this country, and has not raised it, however, whether by our action in levying a duty on petroleum and especially describing it as such, the United States has not also violated this article. There is no penalty article in the treaty, but under the common practice of international law a country may denounce the role of a treaty agent. It is justified that such provisions have purposely broken. If such extreme action is taken in the case there will be no trade treaty between Russia and the United States, and so far as Russia is concerned, the maximum tariffs, which are practically prohibitive, would apply to all imports from the United States. On the other hand, Russia is regarded as discrimination, the United States government may, by existing law, exclude any or all imports from Russia. Danish West Indies London, June 20.—The Copenhagen correspondent of the Daily Mail cables his paper, saying the United States has sent another note to Denmark in the matter of the sale of the Danish West Indies, to the effect that if Denmark is not willing to sell the islands, the United States must demand that Denmark fortify and garrison the islands of St. Thomas and the islands which were located in the Nicaragua canal. The situation is regarded seriously here, as Denmark cannot dream of undertaking the erection of fortifications and the maintenance of garrisons, which would cost several millions. Senator Platt to Retire. New York, June 17.—The Tribune says: Senator Platt will retire from the United States senate at the end of his term in March, 1903. The information was obtained last night at the Fifth Avenue hotel. Mr. Platt is feeling better and stronger than usual, and his determination has not been hastened, it is understood, on account of poor health. It is expected by his friends that he will make public some day this week his reasons for laying down his office at the end of the term. Our duty may seem irksome, but we should not shun it. BOERS ADMINISTER HARD BLOW. Victorian Rifles Surprised in Camp and Nearly Annihilated. London, June 18—All England has been stirred again by the news of a dissastrous defeat of British arms in South Africa. Lord Kitchener cables that only fifty men out of 250 Victorian mounted rifles escaped in an attack. The British public is growing impatient at the apparent lethargy in the operations in South Africa. Nearly all the reports of the past two months show that the Boers each time were the aggressors and the British suffered more or less severely. London, June 18—Lord Kitchener has cabled from Pretoria as follows: "The enemy crept up to within short range and poured a deadly fire into the camp, killing two officers and sixteen men, and wounding four officers and thirty-eight men, of whom twenty-eight were slightly wounded. Only two officers and fifty men escaped to General Beaston's camp. The remainder were taken prisoners and released. Two pompoms were captured by the enemy. Full details have not yet been received." GEN. FRENCH IN PERIL. Mrs. Botha Says Her Husband Captured the British Leader. Berlin, Junt 21.-The Rheinische Westphalische Zeitung, published at Essen, says it has the tax authority of Mrs. Botha for the statement that General French was captured by the Boers some time ago and released on parole. "The unscrupulous British general," the paper adds, "regardless of his pledge of honor, broke his parole and escaped. He did not, however, be captured by the Boers, he had not within touch of the British lines the keen burghers caught up with him, recaptured him and brought him back to General Botha." General Botha, continues the story, ordered the British cavalry leader to be shot, and the sentence was about to be carried out when a message came in hot haste from the British commander-in-chief, Lord Kitchener, imploring the Boer committee to delay the execution and offering to release 000 Boers from the prison camp at Scone, to secure General French's release. On these conditions, the story concludes, the British general was set at liberty. (For a considerable period nothing was heard of General French, who had been so active in the early part of the operations in South Africa. Reports of his capture by the Boers received in some quarters as though credence was to be given them. Recently, however, it was announced that the British cavalry leader had been recuperating at Durban. Within the last two weeks he has been sent to take charge of the operations Company, that the killing Boer commandoes under Kritzinger and Fouche.) NEW GOVERNMENT JULY 4. Civil Authorities Will Take Charge in the Philippines. Washington, June 21.—Civil government will be established in the Philippine islands on July 4. Judge William H. Taft will be designated as civil governor. He will remain at the head of the Philippine commission, which is to be continued. The order creating him civil governor will be issued by the president through the secretary of war. Further details regarding the new government are yet to be worked out. The Fourth of July is not selected with a view of having an extraordinary inauguration of the new government, but simply because that is the great American holiday and is by law by law, administrative what is believed to be an auspicious event in the history of the Philippines. It is probable that members of the Philippine commission will have charge of the different departments of the government. LATEST RAILROAD RUMOR Very Improbable Story That Government Will Acquire Lines. Denver, June 20.—The Times says: A gigantic scheme is under way to transfer the railroads of the United States to the government. A western financier who returned to New York took over where he investigated the rumors afflicting social circles, asserts that the report of pending government ownership is general. He declares that within a few years the Rockefeller, Harriman, Vanderbilt, Gould and Morgan interests would turn over to the government every line of railroad in the country, the government to pay the total valuation at $10,000,000,000, a string of banks to be controlled by the same interests and to financier the deal. William Thinks Peace Assured Cuxhaven, June 20.—At the conclusion of the regatta held on the lower Elbe a dinner was given on board the Hamburg-American yacht Victoria-Louise, at which Emperor William made a speech. His majesty told his hearers that he deduced from recent events in China the guarantee of Europe was assured for long years to come. For the mutual esteem and spirit of comradeship created by the united action of the allied contingents. Chinese Troops Barred From Peking **Chinese Troops Barred From Peking.** Peking, June 19—The foreign ministers of China to assent to the request to allow 3,000 Chinese soldiers to come to Peking now. They consider that it would be unwise to permit such a step to be taken, before the latter part of August, by which time the international troops, with the exception of the legation guards, will have left the city. Conger Is Made a Doctor Medford, Mass., June 21.-The degree of Doctor of Laws has been conferred by Edwin H. Conger, representative of the United States in China, by Tutt's college. NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL Des Moines, June 19, 1901. At a regular session of the state executive council the question of leasing meandered lake beds, according to bids that have been received since Secretary Davidson was nominated to make the leases, was taken. Five beds were leased in Hancock and Wright counties, two for $50 each and three for $25 each. The lake bed at Storm Lake was leased to the city of Storm Lake, which wanted the land in order that the summer resort at that point would not be polled and that being put under citation. The land was wanted to Storm Lake at a nominal sum. It was stated by a member of the council that when the state gets absolute and undisputed to these lands, they will be disposed of to Storm Lake in order that a permanent park may be established in that city. Referring to an interview given out by himself recently in which he alluded to the need for an epileptic colony, Judge Robinson of the board of control said there were at least 500 epileptics in the state institutions and probably more. There are at least 250 at Glenwood. "If the number keeps on increasing as it has," said Judge Robinson, "something will have to be done by the state. The epileptic and insane require different treatment. The general plan in case an epileptic colony was established, would be to have it in the country where the patients would have plenty of air and light and exercise. The insane can stand confine. They should have a different diet from the insane, and in particular should be given less meat. Where the epileptics and insane are together, it is impossible to discriminate in diet properly. In many other respects, too, the treatment should be different." In the district court R. M. Richmond was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary at Ft. Madison at hard labor. Richmond is the man who represented himself to be an agent for a theatrical company and was pretending to book girls to sing the chorus of an opera company at Buffalo in the same position. In this way he succeeded in getting possession of their money. He was sent up for larcency of $17 from Effie Sutley of this city. Several eastern papers having recently mentioned Senator Allison as the most available man in the republican party for the presidency, Governor Shaw sent the following telegram to the senator, who is temporarily at Washington: "I notice with much satisfaction that the country is taking kindly to the mention of your name for the presidency. I hope you will encourage its use. I will be able to give my ability. Let Iown and the nation rally to you as never before. Do not say no." Senator Allison, on the other hand, when questioned by Washington newspaper men, declared that he positively would not be a candidate, and suggested Governor Shaw Judge Deemer of the supreme court has denied the application for injunction in the bill board case at the Frankel corner. He sustains the lower court and the city, holding that the bill board is a nuisance and the city council had no authority to grant it. He says such encroachment as a bill board on a public street for prioness is a purpuresture, and a law a nuisance against a public give permission to erect the bill board he says it had not the power, and that the permission was simply a license which could be legally revoked. The directors of the Des Moines, Nevada & Eldora Electric Railway company have ordered a contract made for the grading of the trolley line from Des Moines to Nevada. "The contract provides for grading the road all the way from Des Moines to Nevada," said President Polk. "This does not mean that the road will be completed to Nevada this year. We may not be able to lay the track more than twelve or fifteen miles out of Moines this season, but the grading to go on requires that a part of way can be acquired. It is the intention of the company to extend the line beyond Nevada, through Zearing to Eldora. The grading is to begin at once." The governor has endorsed to the treasurer of state drafts to the amount of $0,628.55, indemnity money remitted from the United States treasury because of swamp lands in the county of Webster erroneously sold by the United States. The payment was for lands sold by the government subsequent to the grant of 1850. The purchase price is figured at $1.25 per acre. A sweetheart is a charming fancy, but a wife is very apt to be a solemn fact. Great Fire in Russian Shipyard. St. Petersburg, June 15.—A fire at the Galleys Island ship yards consumed the slips, the cruiser Witjas and other vessels, the government and other oilings there, a large stock of timber. The flames also leaped the Neva-Fontank canal, destroying several military warehouses filled with supplies. According to Novoe Vremya, twelve persons lost their lives in the flames. The damage done amounts to 10,000,000 roulies. Love is responsible for a lot of earthly misery by being elsewhere when wanted. TWO GODS A boy was born 'mid little things, Between a little world and sky— And dreamed not of the cosmic rings Round which the circling planets fly. He lived in little works and thoughts, Where little ventures grow and plod, And paced and ploughed his little plots And prayed unto his little god. But, as the mighty system grew, His faith grew faint with many scars; The Cosmos widened in his view— But God was lost among the stars. Another boy, in lowly days— As he—to little things was born, But gathered lore in woodland ways, And from the glory of the morn. As wider skies broke on his view, God greatened in his growing mind; Each year he dreamed his God anew, And left his older God behind. He saw the boundless scheme dilate, In star and blossom, sky and clod, And as the universe grew great, He dreamed for it a greater God. —Sam Walter Foss. Chronicle of the Sawdust. 27 FLORENCE KINGSTON HOFF- MAN. (Copyright, 1901, by Daily Pep Story Pub. Co.) Few people seeping within the quiet room where little Mrs. Cronin rocked her sick baby could have recognized her as the original of the flaming posters with which the town was literally plastered. These portrayed a highly colored female standing erect upon two ferocious lions with the Stars and Stripes waving above her head. Yet they were meant for her, and like the renowned Dr. Jackeyll and Mr. Hyde, Mrs. Cronin lived two different lives as widely antipodal as theirs. Plain Marie Blee, before her marriage, though known to the circus world as Mille Terephine Bellefortaine, she had been as proud as a queen to become Mrs. Cronin, for though all of her colleagues voted Jim a slow one and a very poor match for the brilliant mademoiselle, it was just that very stolidly and tranquil affection which most endearled him to his little wife. Jim was a keeper in Robinson's Giantic Menagerie, and day after day he went patiently on with his work, cleaning the animals' cages and doling out their rations, without one single learning in his honest soul for any more ambitious position, while he did it all so quietly that the savage brutes needed his presence no more than that of the files buzzing through their cages. He and Marle were married in the spring and had been blissfully happy for a year on Jim's modest earnings, which, though not munificent, were simply sufficient for their simple needs, but when the blue-eyed baby came to "Oh, Take Them Away!" The Original of the Flaming Posters. complete their happiness. Marie found in this new responsibility a stimulus for further activity, and when the little boy was five months old, she insisted in spite of Jim's protests on going back to her work. Little Jimmy was a sturdy chap who never gave them a moment's anxiety; they got a good woman to take care of him, and with her mind thus relieved, Marle fell back naturally into her old lines, though Diabolo and Cerberus, her former charges, proved less tractable than of yore, having been used for a year and a half to the brutal ferocity of Signor Baratti, recently dismissed for drunkenness; but she got on pretty well after a time, the lions learned once more to obey her milder methods, and as she snatched little Jimmy to her breast each day after the performance, every kiss upon his rosy cheeks encouraged her to work on for his dear sake. During her performances Jim was never very far away, for those were his off-duty moments, and though two big guards stood always at the gate of the lion cage, whose interference had never yet been necessary, it seemed to the honest fellow that his whole happiness hung by a single thread, and in his loving heart truly he died daily. And now the baby had fallen ill and though his nurse assured them it was nothing serious and that spasms were quite common with teething children, Marie felt as she watched the little form lying quite still across her knees, or again twitching convulsively while her heart almost stopped beating, that she simply couldn't leave him. But, alas! When she presented herself before Mr. McGrath, sole manager and proprietor of the show, one glance into his fishy little eyes convinced her in advance that any appeal to his sympathy would be useless. "Leave ye off from the matiny, is it? Now, I'm awful sorry, Mrs. Cronin, but it ain't to be thought of. 'Biz is biz,' that's my motto. You and them lions is my most drawin' card, and if 'twas to git about you wasn't gin' to perform, we might as well close the circus, for we shouldn't take in a fiver—" here he spat copiously and conclusively. "I'm real sorry the kid is sick," he added, seeing her whiten and tremble before him, "but I guess he'll pull through, and you ain't in the ring over a half hour any way." How could she explain to this man that her courage was all gone, that every nerve in her body seemed to quiver and snap, he wouldn't understand, and with a sickly faintness stealing over her, she dragged herself round to the dressing tent and struggled to get into her gaudy tights. Mother Meachin, who took charge of the wardrobes, eyed her pityingly. She'd had children herself long ago, and as she saw how Marie shook and trembled, and hearing the band, knew that in a few minutes more she would be called, she pressed a flat, black bottle upon her, saying, with real kindness: "Take a swallow, dearie; it'll hearten ye up a bit; you are all shaken' like a leaf." But Marie, only after a sip, thrust it from her, saying, faintly: "No, sank you, Mozzer Meachin; it make me feel more seek" and then as the well-known music struck up and she knew that her hour had come, the old woman heard her whisper to herself: "Oh! bon Dieus des Miserables, protege-mol de ces betes feroces pour l'amour de ton Fils unique," thus she prayed. As she bounded into the lion cage, with feet that felt heavy as lead, she noticed that, for the first time, both guards were absent, and once more the deadly nausea seemed to steal over her. But Jim was there, and he smiled encouragingly. She struggled to overcome this hitherto unknown fear, and prepared to put the lions through their paces. Cerberus was tractable enough, but Diabolo, always uncertain in his temper, was unusually impatient this afternoon. But the performance went on to all intents and purposes just as usual, and with heartfelt thankfulness Marle braced herself for the last feat, — a wild dance over and among the lions, ending in a final tableau as she unfurled the Stars and Stripes to the tune of "Hall Columbia." She gave a cut with her whip to force the lions into recumbent positions, when just as she made her first pose between them, a huge mastiff, which, unnoticed by its owner, had been creeping nearer and nearer to the cage, now sprang at the bars, barking fiercely. If you have ever seen this happen as I 'have, you already foresee the result; if not, I can hardly picture to you the wild fear, panic and the fury of the lions. Still and trembling for one brief instax they rushed at each other and, before Marle could change her position, she lost her balance and fell heavily against the bars while the shock dislodged the tiny pistol always in her belt, and flung it far beyond her reach. Then the lions turned upon her, their eyes wild with fury. "Cerberus, Diabolo," she shouted, as she struck at them with her whip, trying in vain to fix them with her eyes. But it was useless. Three times they chased her round the cage while the audience held their breath. "The guards!" gasped the people, "Oh! God, the guards," their absence being now noticed for the first time. Ah! but the audience had forgotten Jim! Snatching the long-handled fork (kept for emergency), he dashed at the cage, jabbing and prodding the lions with its stinging prongs. Nothing but the knowledge that he must be outside the cage-door to open it for Marle, kept him from dashing in among the lions, whom he seemed to fear no more than ants. Then, as for one instant driven to the end of the cage, they turned again upon Marire, Jim flung the door wide open—she dashed out—and the heavy iron swung to again, but not before Diabololo's clawshad fastened upon Jim, ripping his arm open from shoulder to wrist, and almost tearing it from its socket. As he sank upon the ground a bleeding, unconscious mass, Mr. McGrath and the delinquent guards hurried to the spot. The audience rose to a man, and for a moment panic seemed inevitable. But the thought in every mind that it was probably all over Jim did not quiet, but the efforts of the managers and as several doctors hurried from the crowd, and Jim on a hastily improvised litter, was borne from the tent, followed by Marie, herself bleeding from several wounds, the tinsel and gauze almost torn off her back, many women and even mess sobbed aloud. When the lacerated arm had been dressed and the fractured shoulder set, the doctors turned their attention to Marie, telling her that it might have been so much worse, for though Jim's left arm would be useless for many months (they feared, though they never hinted it, forever), his iron constitution and sober habits would hasten and insure his recovery. Marie's injuries were mere flesh wounds, painful, but in no wise dangerous, and though the doctors momentarily expected a total nervous collapse, she pulled herself together in a way marvelous to behold, seeming to have eyes, ears and thoughts for no one but Jim. The next day, as Jim lay faint and weak but conscious upon his bed, with Marie sitting beside him and Jimmy's cradle close by, Marie said, bravely: "It is zat you are now to worry about nosing, my Jim, me, I will work for bose while you and ze bebe get well." Jim smiled faintly, as she leaned over him lovingly, but his well hand closed with astonishing strength over hers, as she said firmly: "That's as it may be, Marie, but you'll have to work at something else, for though I've lost one arm, maybe, I've still got the other, and you and me has quit the circus business for good. No," as she seemed about to interrupt him, "I've said my say, and though I don't put my foot down often, it's down this time for keeps." I am still at this juncture that their good and audibly handed Marie a letter addressed to Jim in a queer, uniformed hand, and while Marie held it for him, Jim, with difficulty, read ar follows: I'm a plain feller and no salent, but I do admire a brave man when I meet him, and I never see a neater job than ye and I never see a gal's yer wife, and if ye ever leave the lion act again I say ye don't deserve to keep her. As ye may be a bit short till I can see you I must take a role which I shan't ever miss a play made on the trak last week. And ye Jabbing and Prodding. needn't never try to thank me, for I shall be miles away when you gile them for me. FRIEND. The letter held five clean bills of one hundred dollars each, and little Jimmy crowed with delight as the pretty green things fluttered down upon the counter-pane. A Beauty' Hint Mme. Sarah Bernhardt regularly indulges in a sponge bath, which, she says, affords exquisite refreshment to tired muscles and jaded spirits. She finds it an excellent auxiliary in preserving her apparently perennial charm. It consists of half a pint of alcohol, two ounces of spirits of camphor, two ounces of spirits of ammonia, five ounces of sea salt, and enough boiling water to make one quart. The whole should be agitated thoroughly, then rubbed into the skin with the bare hands. It is excellent to bathe the neck and shoulders before donning evening dress. Mildred Trevanion BY THE DUCHESS. CHAPTER IV—(Continued.) "Don't be alarmed," said the new-come, "it's only me, and not the long-expected come at last in the shape of the midnight marauder—I like my grammar, don't you, Mildred? How are you old boy? Glad to see you. Had no idea I should first come upon you scooping with my sister in the moonlight, but accidents will happen. Are they all quite well, Milly?" "Quite well," Miss Trevanion answered, feeling rather disgusted and sore about the moonlight innuendo, and indignant that Denzil should stand there silent and allow it to pass for granted; "but you need not accuse me of flirting so soon, Charlie. I am not given that way, as you know, and Mr. Younge came out merely because he felt the night warm." "Just so," said Charlie. "Odd how one always does feel the night warm when there's a girl on the balcony! And so," glancing through the bright red curtains that concealed the room, "you have been going in heavily for society tonight. I can see Mrs. Deverill, and a fat young man, and your father, Younge, and my pretty Jane," and Sir George eloquent on Southdowns, and here, to excite my curiosity, the end of a blue silk dress, and there—I say, Mildred—come here. Who is the young person in tights?" "That's young Mason of the 10th," said Miss Trevanion, "and though he doesn't intend it, his slots always seem too small for him. The blue dress you see belongs to Frances Slyverton." "Oh, does it!" exclaimed Charlie, turning away abruptly. "Come in and show yourself" suggested Denzil. "You can't think how awfully glad they will be to see you. It was only yesterday your mother was complaining about the short leaves of absence you get, and your coming now so unexpectedly, will enhance your value doubly." "My dear fellow, consider—I'm in morning costume," protested Charles, gayly. "Would you have me throw discredit on the house of my father? Why, these Deverillis are so nice they would not know exactly how to treat a fellow who could so far discard appearances as to turn up at half-past nine in a gray tweed. Mildred, I will bid you a fond good-night, and be visible again some time tomorrow, when you have gently broken the news of my arrival. Is my old room appropriated by anyone? Can I have it? "Never mind your room yet," said Mildred, "do you think I can let you go again so easily? No, come in this moment when I desire you, and show yourself to the company in general. I would not miss mamma's look of surprise and delight for anything; so I must insist on your obeying me—and, besides, you look charming in gray, Come, darling—do." "Well, on your head be it, if Mrs. Deveril retires in confusion," Charles murmured, and followed his sister obediently into the warm, handsomely furnished drawing-room. Miss Sylverton, sitting just inside the window, looked up with a sudden start as he passed her, and, crossing the room to where his mother sat, laid his hand lightly on her shoulder. He was not a handsome young man—was, in fact, the plainest Trevianion of them all—but the action he used toward his mother was full of such tender, beautiful grace as might have belonged to the most polished courtier of the olden days. Lady Caroline turned, and half cried aloud in her intense surprise and joy. He was her eldest-born, the beloved of her heart, and she welcomed him accordingly; indeed, every one seemed only too glad to see more Charles Trevanton's fair, sunburnt face, and hear his honest, happy voice, unless perhaps Miss Sylverton, who, once her astonishment at his sudden appearance was at an end, appeared to lose all interest in his presence, and went back to the rather onesided flirtation she was holding with "the man in tights." "How d'ye do, Miss Sylverton?" Charles said presently, and Frances put her hand coldly into his. "Have you been getting on pretty well? You cannot think how happy it makes a fellow to be heartily welcomed after a long absence, as I have been welcomed by you." "I cannot say how long or how short your absence has been." Frances restorted, "as I have had no means of remembering when it was when you went." "Whose fault was that?" he said, gently. "Was it mine?" There was just a suspicion of tears under the long dark lashes. "I don't think I ever forbid you to come and say good-by at Slyverton, did I? "No, not exactly, perhaps; but there are more ways of forbidding than those expressed in words. I have a dim recollection, a faint idea, that somebody told me, a few months ago that she hated me." "And I dare say she will tell you so again before she dies," returned Frances, with a little, low, happy laugh; "meantime I am very, very glad indeed, Charlie to see you home again." "Are you, Frances?" said Charles, softly. After that, the young man in close fitting raiment got very little of Miss Sylverton's society. CHAPTER V. It was just at this period that Miss Trevionan became aware of a certain failing of Eddie's about which she had hitherto been ignorant. It came to her knowledge in this wise: One hunting morning during the chilly early breakfast, at which she always presided, her father having a prejudice in favor of the coffee administered by her fair hands, it so happened that the post arrived rather more than twenty minutes before the usual hour, and consequently the various letters were handed to the assembled men to peruse at their pleasure, while getting through the agreeable task of devouring cold game-pie. "Two for you," said Sir George, and he flung Eddie a brace of missives that fell a little short of his coffee-cup, and lay with the black sides turned upmost. One had a large square envelope, and a crimson splashing crest and coronet, singularly unfeminine, which attracted general attention for a moment. Mildred, idly toying with a teaspoon, looked up a minute later and noticed that the lad's face had grown wonderfully dull and pale for him, and that he was staring at the now open letter with a pained gravity unusual in his case. "Has she bowled you out, Trevianon?" asked young Cairns, with a gay, thoughtless laugh, from the far end of the table, where he sat near two other men of his regiment staying at King's Abbott for a few day's hunting. "Regularly knocked over, eh? You look like it." "Not quite so bad as that." Eddie answered, the dejected expression disappearing altogether from his countenance with such rapidity that Miss Trevanion, still watching, concluded her fears had been groundless and dismissed the incident, as meaning nothing, from her mind. Later on, toward the evening, however, wandering leisurely up-stairs to dress for dinner, and having occasion to pass through the picture gallery, beyond which lay many of the bedrooms, her own amongst the number, she beheld Eddie at a distant window, his head pressed against the painted glass, his entire attitude suggestive of despair. Even as she looked there arose before her a vision of broken bread and half-cut pasties, with much plate and china, and a gaudlily-crested envelope lying in their midst. She went up to him and laid her head upon his shoulder. "Anything the matter?" she asked, lightly enough, not anticipating any real trouble. He turned and faced her, thereby displaying a countenance betokening anything but that inward peacefulness commonly supposed to come from the possession of a quiet conscience. "Why, Eddie," Miss Trevionan exclaimed, "what is it? What has happened? Why are you standing here alone?" "Nothing has happened," returned Eddie, in a voice that perfectly suited his face, and so was lugubrious in the extreme; after which he most ungratefully turned his back to her. "Surely you will tell me," she expostulated. "It can be nothing so dreadful as your manner seems to imply. Come, Eddie, speak to me; perhaps—who knows?—I shall be able to help you." "Nobody can help me," said Eddie. "Nonsense! It isn't like you to be so down-hearted—is it? and I can generally assist everybody, you know; so let me try with you. You will confide in me, dearest, will you not? Indeed I cannot be happy while you look so miserable." "Just so," broke out Eddie at last, with the reckless scorn people generally indulge in when conversing with their best friends—that is when their best friends have succeeded in driving them into a corner—and of course you will have no difficulty in putting your hand in your pocket now this moment and giving me three hundred pounds on the spot. "Oh, Eddie, what is it you mean?" Miss Trevion asked, now thoroughly frightened, ready money being an article very scarce and difficult of attainment in the Trevion household, and Sir George's private affairs and general "hard-uppishness" being well known to the elder members of the family. "I mean that I have been gambling and have lost three hundred pounds," Eddie said. And then Miss Trevallion felt that the trouble was a very real trouble, indeed. She could not speak to him for a moment, and so kept silence. Presently he spoke again. "There is nothing to be done, Mildred, that I can see," he went on—nothing. I have no means of paying this money, and so I suppose the sooner I proclaim myself a blackguard and get out of the country the better for you all." "Do not say that," Mildred said. in a low voice. "Is there no way of managing it? Let us think well before we give up in despair." "There is no way," he said—"none." I have long overdrawn my years al- CHAPTER V. --- lowance, and the governor is too hard up to advance, even if he would, another fifty—to say nothing of what I want. Besides, Mildred, I—I could not bear to tell him of it; he has so often warned me against gambling on account of that wretched old story about Willoughby Trevanion. I think it would almost break his heart if he fancied the family curse had broken out again in me, and—oh, Milly, I swear to you I never meant it. "All came about so suddenly, so miserably. I had always been proverbial for my luck, until that evening at the viscount's rooms, and then I lost my head, I think; and the worst of it is Poyntz is just now so deceased used up himself that he can't afford to wait." "For how long has this—this gambling been going on?" Poyntz乃 asked. "About a year and a half." "And how have you managed to pay your debts during all that time?" "I never lost much before, and, when I did, was always sure to win it back again the following night. That was the evil of the thing, you see; it drew me on, encouraged me, until I felt I couldn't lose, and then in the end, as I have told you, my luck deserted me, and left me as I am now, hopelessly in debt, and dishonored, and so on," wound up the poor boy with a miserable choking sensation in his throat. "Oh, dear, what can the matter be?" sung bonny Mabel, at the top of her clear, sweet voice, the words, singularly appropriate, albeit unmeant as they were, echoing merrily through the chamber as she came swiftly toward them through the gathering gloom. Her advent, unexpected as it was, left Eddie and Miss Trevianion speechless. "Why, you two," she said—"are you struck dumb that you both stand there so silent in the twilight? Has the 'holy friar' of our establishment appeared unto you and deprived you of the organs of speech? Mildred, you remind me of some stricken saint, leaning in that position, with the painted light of that window falling full upon you in such a dim religious ghostly sort of manner; while Eddie—Good gracious, Eddie, what's the matter with you?" Miss Trevionan glanced at her brother, and he said: "Oh, tell her—there is little good in keeping it secret now, when every one will know it soon," and so "the queen" was enlightened forthwith and, contrary to all expectations—as she was generally the most easy-going of the Trevianons—was supremely indignant on the spot. "Well, I have never heard anything so disgraceful," declared that august young personage, when the recital was finished to the last word—"never!" And, if anyone but you had told me of it, Mildred, I should not have believe d them. I think"—to Eddie"you ought to be thoroughly ashamed of yourself, when you know poor papa is in such difficulties, and no earthly way of getting out of them. No, Mildred, I won't stop; it is useless to shake your head at me behind his back; I mean to say just what is on my mind—and I think too much could never be said on such a subject. You may spend your life glossing over other people's faults, but I am not an angel, and cannot; besides what is to be done? How the money is to be paid I cannot imagine, I'm sure; and, in fact, I have no patience with him!" concluded Mabel, slightly out of breath, but with a finishing touch of scorn that would have done credit to a parliamentarian. (To be Continued.) Farms Can Be Made to Pay. A professor in Cornell university has been discussing in print the question whether a farm can be made to pay. He thinks it can, but with some mental reservations on the subject of what it means to have a farm "pay." He says of one of his early experiences with his farm: "Half of country life is in the living. It is in the point of view. It is in the way in which we look at things. Thoreau rejoiced when it rained because he knew that his beans were happy. One day my man was agitated because the woodchucks were eating the beans. He would go to town at once and buy a gun. I asked him how many beans the woodchucks would probably destroy. He thought from one-eighth to one-quarter of an acre. Now, one-quarter of an acre of field beans should bring me a net cash return of $3 or $4. I told him that he could not buy a gun for that money. If he had a gun he would waste more time killing the woodchucks than the beans would be worth. But the worst part of it would be that he would kill the woodchucks, and at daylight morning after morning I had watched the animals as they stole from the bushes, sniffed the soft morning air and nibbled the crisp young leaves. Many a time I had spent twice $4 for much less entertainment. My neighbor thought that I ought to cut out the briers in the fence corner. I told him that I liked to see the briers there. He remarked that some folks are fools. I replied that it is fun to be a fool." Let children know something of the worth of money by earning it; overpay them if you will, but let them get some idea of the equivalents; if they get distorted notions of values at the start they will never be righted.—Talmage. The tooth often blites the tongue, and yet they keep together. Despise not. a small wound. a poor kinsman or an humble enemy. SHOT AND SHELL Honor is not in honour. Good morals make the best manners. A man must be greater than his work. Bridling sin is like harmonising serpents. The church that upholds the world cannot uplift it. The devil never misses the church business meeting. Greatness is not in being lifted up but in growing up. The kingliest are those who are kin to the king of Kings. If the Gospel is impracticable here, then heaven is impossible there. Christ would not shield you from storm, but he can save you from wreck. They who live on public opinion will probably die of popular opprobrium. It is sad when we are not on good enough terms with God to call Him Father. He who is crowned by his conscience care not if he is condemned by the crowd. He who resolves to be better, expecting to fail, surely he shall not be disappointed. The spendthrift who is always spending upon himself is as selfish and mean as the miser. The man who places the highest things first will be the first to get the highest place. It is folly to ask pity for your pains as long as you continue to make your couch on the devil's thorn bush. God will reward some according to the sheaves they bear and some according to the seed they have scattered. Deeds are the only measure of our days.—Ram's Horn. SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY Heed not the blusterer; beware of the silent man. A new-born habe has no past and its future is uncertain. Teeth resemble verbs; they are regular, irregular and defective. Absence may increase true love, but it is rough on the counterfeit. A miser is a great lover of generosity—in everybody except himself. Women either love or hate; there is no happy medium in their affections. With the exception of success some people willingly forgive anything in a friend. No man's ability should be rated by what he finishes and not by what he attempts. Few men have sufficient confidence in their own veracity to believe all they say. Adam was probably created in the afternoon—at least it was a little before Eve. The more blunders a man makes the more expert he becomes in, framing apologies. The coat of a horse is the gift of nature. The coat of a donkey is often the work of a tailor. A lot of different tools come under the head of sin, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. Old men often give advice to young men—and they also give up money to confidence men occasionally. A wise old tiller of the soil speaking of the relative value of grains says grains of common sense are the most valuable. It is folly to attempt to please everybody. It matters not in which direction a man faces he must of necessity turn his back on half the world. The farmer of today reads the papers and refuses to invest in "gold bricks," but he steps up to the polls and votes for the candidate who promises the impossible, just as he always did. WHEN SUMMER COMES. Tucks will again be in evidence. Lace gowns will be worn as of yore for both day and evening. Hip yokes, both deep and narrow, will be a feature of skirts of gowns. Dotted muslins in solid colors with contrasting dots will flourish in feminine favor. White duck or butcher's linen will be used for the shirtwaist for strictly tailor-made wear. Crushed raspberry and dark and light faded blue will be the popular shades in colored shirtwaists. Lovely edgings and insertions from Vienna, Lyons and Paris will charmingly adorn warm weather toilettes. Practical gowns will be of chambray, linen crash, denim and other firm wash goods, trimmed with white or colored pique or embroidery. White and tinted chiffon, in the forms of various kinds of flowers, some with jeweled centers and petals simulating dewdrops, will be used on handsome evening round hats. Soft chips and Neapolitan straws which can be manipulated easily into any shape are promised features of millinery.—Philadelphia Times. CHURCH AND CLERGY. The Rev. A. G. Fitzgerald, D. D., has been pastor of the Third United Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, for 25 years. The Rev. C. S. Abbott, pastor of Christ church, Newark, N. J., has completed a quarter of a century as pastor of the church. The Rev. A. C. Eggleston of Windsor, Conn., has accepted the position of financial secretary of Wesleyan academy at Wilberham, Mass., he has been a trustee of the academy for THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Theory and Practice—Cause and Effect Values—Necessary Apology—Employment Confidence—Frailty of Arbusm—"Practical" Art, Etc., Etc. Tie by the things that make us tired. The things we are really bored. For if we were for these we never should know the bliss of rest. These lines the poet wrote and sold. Then quickly as he could. And with the coin thus got he hired. A man to saw his wood. —Detroit Journal. Cause and Effect. Teacher—"Tittle boys will be punished if they tell lies." Small Boys—"Not if they don't git ketched."—Detroit Free Press. Values. Gabby—"There goes a man who is worth a million." Numskull—"Not to me. What makes him so valuable?"—Columbus author State Journal. Xenomycin Analogy He—"Nearlywed is always talking about his wife's money." She—"That's very strange." He—"Not so very. You just ought to see her."-Smart Set. Environment Confidence "You trust me thoroughly, don't jot, Kellie!" "Of course, Edgar; but, tell me, are the installations on this diamond ring all paid off?" - Chicago Record. Vexility of Axioner. "Constancy of purpose is one potent factor in success." "Oh. I don't know; I've often accomplished big things by merely chancing my mind." — Detroit Free Press. H Temp Level 7 Critic—"Not a bad sketch of landscape, but haven't you laid out more than enough of it in water?" Artist—"Not a bit of it. The picture is for a client who made his money in stock watering operations." — Duson Transcript. Three Keywords Related "Is there anything more nonsensible than your poetry?" asked the very candid friend. "Oh, yes!" responded the great magazine editor, "we are going to publish love letters of famous men"—Chicago News. (2) The following statements are true. She—"You say girls are always in a hurry to get married." He—"Yes; that's precisely what I say." She—"And yet you claim they are always late when it comes to the wedding." Wanted V Sport "Tommy," exclaimed mamma, "I'm surprised at you. You should always strive to set your brother a good exam ple." "Aw, what for?" retorted Tommy; "he's too small a kid to know anything about rithmetic."—Philadelphia Press. --- He — "Mrs. Cashley has all the money, yet she and her husband seem to be perfectly in harmony." She — "They are, too. You're watching all the time to get a chance to spend her money, and she's watching him all the time to keep him from it." —Detroit Free Press. All Hi Kault, of Course. Mr. Grumpsps — "The gentlewoman says a woman should make herself as attractive to her husband after marriage as she did before." Mrs. Grumpsps — "Ha! My father always gave me plenty of money to make myself attractive with. You don't!" - Stray Stories. A Shocking Inference. "Do long as I can make the songs of a nation, I care not who may make itsaws," remarked the man of trite utterances. "Great Scott!" exclaimed the man who wields an axe, "you don't mean to tell me you wish you were the poet taureate!"—Washington Star. Too Late. He "And so you refuse me?" She "I do." He "Then, proud beauty, know the truth. I am the inventor of a successful dish-washing machine. Only one will ever be made, and the woman who carries me will have it. Ah, haf Farewell!"—New York Weekly. They Agreed. "Mr. Carnegie is the greatest and most sensible philanthropist the world ever knew." "I agree with you, sir. And now may I ask your business?" "I am a bookseller. And you?" "I am a maker of hardwood books shelving." - Cleveland Plaindealer, A Hot Time Ahead For Him: "I want you to try to like me," she said, addressing the motherless child, "for I am going to take your mother's place. I am going to be your new gamma." 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Don't be deceived by misrepresentations made by interested parties, who may in the past have charged you twice what we are charging for the same service, but call on us at 1115 Locust Street, see our service, and be prepared to provide intelligently in case of a need in our line. W. B. PORTER, President. W. L. TETLEY, E. J. FLYNN, Undertakers. The cost of first cl moderate circumstances bers of his family. The Des Moines Funeral a moderate cost, and thu the sum of one dollar, a hearse, five hacks, the u Don't be deceived by m the same service, but call of first class fun accumstances. Death family. Les Funeral Reform ist, and thus avoid the dollar, and as s rucks, the undertak received by misrepres e, but call on us at 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communities strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Times, $3 a year; four issues. Sold by all nurembers. MUNN & Co. 38 Broadway, New York Branch Office. 625 F St. Washington, D.C. EXCURSION RATES TO WINTER RESORTS Via the North-Western Line. Excursion tickets are sold daily, with favorable 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 BEFORE. Recognizing the fact that there are many hair-straighteners now on the market, and of these are frauds pure and simple, we honest statement to the colored race the year 1871 our late secretary, Mrs. circumstance, acquired the receipt for Or purchase to any extent until 1875, when met with marked success. After a thor that time it was pronounced an honest, was claimed for it, and worthy in every member of the colored race, because the long and straight, soft and fine, and as be whenever a genuine article appears up number of people who imitate and make people's goods. Seeing our marked success the market, offering hair-growers and hair worthless, causing the hair to fall out a and scalp, and the colored people are b which are filled with animal fats, and do these let us sound a warning—be careful be deceived by flaring advertisements and Hair Tonics. BE M E COLOR King or AFTER fact that there are many SO-CALLS on the market, and knowing to live and simple, we wish to make the colored race through the secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, the receipt for OZONO. It was not until 1875, when it was put off. After a thorough test by a pronounced an honest, legitimate race worthy in every respect of the race, because they found it to oak and fine, and as beautiful as an article appears upon the market, it imitate and make capital out of our marked success, numerous hair-growers and hair-straighteners hair to fall out and doing great colored people are buying these animal fats, and do the hair more warning—be careful what you use in advertisements and big words. BE NOT DECEIVED TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. King of all Hair Tonics, "OZONO." Recognizing the fact that there are many 50-CALLED hair-growers and hair-straighteners now on the market, and knowing to a certainty that many of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make a straight-forward, honest statement to the colored race through this great paper. In the year 1871 our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through a fortunate circumstance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or purchase to any extent until 1875, when it was put upon the market and met with marked success. After a thorough test by the colored people of that time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy, true to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every respect of the confidence of every member of the colored race, because they found it to cause the hair to grow long and straight, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, whenever a genuine article appears upon the market there are always a number of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of other people's goods. Seeing our marked success, numerous firms have entered the market, offering hair-growers and hair-straighteners, many of which are worthless, causing the hair to fall out and doing great damage to the hair and scalp, and the colored people are buying these spurious compounds, which are filled with animal fats, and do the hair more harm than good. To these let us sound a warning—be careful what you use on your hair. Do not be deceived by flaring advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics OZONO. which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee, we will forfeit $50.00. Now, we ask you lately agree to forfeit $50.00 if you are a if they were not true to all we claim for several years under this guarantee, and who has used Ozone has been satisfied in 20,000 people are to-day using our recommends Ozone as the King of all H take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, H some Hair. It will make short, harsh his head of all itching, worrying scalp o and Scurf can not live after Ozone has been from falling out. It will restore gray hair hair long and soft. Now, right here, let us make a statement remedies to straighten hair, but when the you to use hot irons. Friends, do not use life of the hair, and cause it to drop out outside assistance. Nothing but Ozone straight forever. You can stop the use iron-clad guarantee to do all that. Now, we ask you a plain question: $50.00 if you are dissatisfied with all we claim for them? We are a guarantee, and we are glad it has been satisfied in every respect today using our preparations, as the King of all Hair Tonics. On Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, like short, harsh hair long and short, worrying scalp diseases. Itch after Ozone has been applied. I will restore gray hair to its nature it us make a statement. Many hair, but when they send the Friends, do not use hot irons; they use it to drop out. Ozono strangely but Ozono is necessary, can stop the use at any time. which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit $50.00. Now, we ask you a plain question—would we absolutely agree to forfeit $50.00 if you are dissatisfied with our preparations, if they were not true to all we claim for them? We have advertised for several years under this guarantee, and we are glad to say that every one who has used Ozono has been satisfied in every respect. 20,000 people are to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono as the King of all Hair Tonics. Ozono will positively take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Troublesome Hair. It will make short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, and Scurf can not live after Ozono has been applied. It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair long and soft. Now, right here, let us make a statement. Many firms are advertising remedies to straighten hair, but when they send the preparation they tell you to use hot irons. Friends, do not use hot irons; they will burn up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop out. Ozone straightens without any outside assistance. Nothing but Ozone is necessary, and the hair stays straight forever. You can stop the use at any time. The good effects on the hair are seen in a day or two after the first application. The price of Ozone is 50c. a bottle - 4 boxes do the work. We make this liberal offer, which is good at any time: Cut out this coupon and send to us, enclosing with it the sum of One Dollar, and we will forward to you four large boxes of Ozone and one large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, which makes black skin bright, rough skin soft and pliant, and cures all skin diseases. Also removes all facial imperfections, and actually removes small-pox pits. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food-Nature's great beautifier-removes wrinkles, moth patches, freckles, and all facial blemishes; makes the old look young and the young look younger. We will also include one package of our celebrated Scalp Soap, which is also available CHEMICALJY.PURE_ and no soap but a pure soap should ever 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, variable 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. EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT MUNGER'S LAUNDRY is the best in the city. Try them and be decided. Maine Office 211-215 NINTH St Branc 1 Office 504 MULBERRY St. PHONE 579. BE NOT IN COLORED PER ing of all "OZO TRADE-MARK AFTER. are many 80-CALLED hair-growers and stet, and knowing to a certainty that many, we wish to make a straight-forward, race through this great paper. In Mrs. S. M. Moore, through a fortunate or OZONO. It was not offered for sale when it was put upon the market and thorough test by the colored people of est, legitimate remedy, true to all that every respect of the confidence of every she found it to cause the hair to grow as beautiful as an April morning. Now, as upon the market there are always a make capital out of the merits of other success, numerous firms have entered and hair-straighteners, many of which are out and doing great damage to the hair are buying these spurious compounds, and do the hair more harm than good. To fulfult what you use on your hair. Do not cuts and big words. Buy the King of all gantee to do all that is claimed for it, or you a plain question—would you abssoare dissatisfied with our preparations, am for them? We have advertised for and we are glad to say that every one od in every respect. Our preparations, and every purchaser all Hair Tonics. Ozono will positively良, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Troublesh hair long and straight. It will cure alp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, as been applied. It will stop your hair hair to its natural color, making the statement. Many firms are advertising Mr. W. S. Whedon, Cashier of the First National Bank of Winterset, Ia., in a recent letter gives some experience with a carpenter in his employ, that will be of value to other mechanics. He says: "I had a carpenter working for me who was oblige to stop work for several days on account of being troubled with diarrhoea. I mentioned to him that I had been similarly troubled and that Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy had cured me. He bought a bottle of it from the drug-gist here and informed me that one dose cured him, and he is again at his work." For sale by all Druggists. EPWORTH LEAGUE AND 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.ic Ry, and more than half this number visited Yellowstone Park, Are you going to entertain? If so you will need invitations, call and see our samples our prices are the lowest Oregon, Washington and Idaho 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. Kniskern, 22 Fifth Ave. Chicago, Ill. DECEIVED PEOPLE OF A Hair Tonic ONO." BEFORE. be used on the scalp. And, lastly, to prove package of Anti-Odor, a positive cure for Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and smells and odors arising from the human The actual value of this Grand Aga have it for $1.00, simply to introduce how public in general from imitations of our have placed upon our coupon our Trade Hair and the other head Long Hair. The this trade-mark, and it is registered in the if the coupon has this trade-mark on it, only the coupon having the two heads or refer you to the Editor of this paper or to mond, Va. We have thousands of testim lish. Here is a sample of one: REVED OF AMERICA. Tonics, O." And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will put in a pint for, a positive cure for Sore Throat or Mouth, all forms of thibialis, Sore and Frosted Feet; also removes all lesing from the human body, such as feet, arm pits, etc. e. of this Grand Aggregation is $4.00, but we let you apply to introduce honest goods. In order to protect the from imitations of our goods, and to avoid mistakes, we our coupon our Trade-Mark, one head showing Short head Long Hair. The U.S. Government has granted us it is registered in the Patent Office at Washington; so this trade-mark on it, you will make no mistake. Use ing the two heads on it. As to our responsibility, we wor of this paper or to the Metropolitan Bank of Rich- e thousands of testimonials we have not space to pub- ple of one: Company: " are at liberty to state in any newspaper that I have have it my most hearty recommendation. I have been me good to recommend honest goods. MAGGIE B. PROCTOR, Box 114, Fairfield, Texas. After using OZONO a short while only, I am glad to say body straight and growing finely. be used on the scalp. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will put in a pint package of Anti-Odor, a positive cure for Sore Throat or Mouth, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet; also removes all smells and odors arising from the human body, such as arm, pits, etc. The actual value of this Grand Aggregation is $4.00, but we let you have it for $1.00, simply to introduce honest goods. In order to protect the public in general from imitations of our goods, and to avoid mistakes, we have placed upon our coupon our Trade-Mark, one head showing Short Hair and the other head Long Hair. The U.S. Government has granted us this trade-mark, and it is registered in the Patent Office at Washin gton; so if the coupon has this trade-mark on it, you will make no mistake. Use only the coupon having the two heads on it. As to our responsibility, we refer you to the Editor of this paper or to the Metropolitan Bank of Richmond, Va. We have thousands of testimonials we have not space to publish. Here is a sample of one: Dear Sirs,—You are at liberty to st used OZONO, and give it my most hea fooled so often, it does me good to recom Here is another: Gentlemen,—After using OZONO a s that my hair is already straight and grow A last word. OZONO is absolutely cause a beautiful and luxurious growth. you can use it to secure a glossy long "OZONO." Send us $1.00 at once, and day we receive your order. BOSTON 816 Dear Sirs,—You are at liberty to state in any newspaper that I have used OZONO, and give it my most hearty recommendation. I have been fooled so often, it does me good to recommend honest goods. Gentlemen. After using OZONO a short while only, I am glad to say that my hair is already straight and growing finely. MISS BESSIE POWERS, 883 Missouri street, Toledo, O. A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and cause a beautiful and luxurious growth. If your hair is already straight, you can use it to secure a glossy long growth. Buy only the genuine "OZONO." Send us $1.00 at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we receive your order. BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 810 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and cause a beautiful and luxurious growth. If your hair is already straight you can use it to secure a glossy long growth. Buy only the genuine "OZONO." Send us $1.00 at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we receive your order. Boston Chemical Co., I enclose you $1.00, for which please send at once 4 Boxes of Ozono, worth $2.00. 1 worth 50c. 1 Bottle Electrical Sh (1 pint) Anti-Odor, worth 50c. 1 Total, $4.00. Name. Street..... County..... If you want 4 lots like above, send $8 no coupon, let her write her name on a p when you send your order. Kono, worth $2.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth 50c. 1 Package Odor, worth 50c. 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth 50c. House, No. City. State. is like above, send $8.00. If you have a friend who has write her name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon order. 4 Boxes of Ozono, worth $2.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner worth 50c. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth 50c. 1 Package (1 pint) Anti-Odor, worth 50c. 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth 50c. Total, $4.00. Name,, House, No. If you want 4 lots like above, send $8.00. If you have a friend who has no coupon, let her write her name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon when you send your order. Boston Chemical Company : UP DOWN EPWORTH LEAGUE AND 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.ic 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. MISS BESSIE POWERS, 388 Missouri street. Toledo, O. NERVOUS WEAKNESS CURED 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, by providing, fitting for success the happiness in business, professional, social and married life. $2 a package or 3 for $5. Ask your druggist, but refuse cheap substitutes. Sent anywhere prepaid on receipt of price and guaranteed by the Kidd Drug Company, Elgin, Illinois. Retail and wholesale by J. R. Hurlbut Co., Des Moines, Ia. Full line of Rubber Goods name what you want. Burlington Route Why Not a Trip To Colorado Next Summer? The price for a round trip ticket on certain days will be less than half fare. Call and see me about it? We are doing everything possible this year, by making unusually low ticket rates and running unusually fast and comfortable trains, to make it convenient and not too expensive for people of moderate means to spend their vacation in the Colorado mountains. There is no country in the world like Colorado for invalids and others in search of rest and pleasure. The pure, dry climate has the most astonishing permanent effect on the health and spirits of visitors, and especially is this so in the case of those from that part of the country near to the level of the sea. Ask for our handbook of Colorado. All about the resorts, hotels and boarding houses, with prices; also a fine typographical map. F. L. GANNAWAY, City Passenger Agt Des Moines, Iowa. A Sprained Ankle Quickly Cured. "At one time I suffered from a severe sprain of the ankle," says Geo E. Carey, editor of the Guide, Washington, Va. "After using several well-recom mended medicines without success, I tried Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and am pleased to say that relief came as soon as I began its use and a complete cure specially followed." Sold by all Druggists. WANTED—TRUSTWORTHY MEN AND WOMEN WITH WORKING HOURS leached house of solid financial standing. Salary. $750 a year and expenses, all payable in cash. No canvassing required. Give references and enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. Address Manager, 350 Caxton Bridge, Chicago. Subscribe for and read the Bystander. COLD INDEED. Some of the Odd Tricks 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 walter brought in a hot broiled steak and placed it in front of Mr. Tripler. As soon as the walter'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 walter came back his customer complained that the steak was frozen. So the walter called the head walter and the head walter blamed it all on the cook and the cook was at a loss to explain, and the result was that the frozen steak was taken back into the kitchen as a mysterious curry. A new steak was broiled for Mr. Tripler and this one he ate with much relish --- ALBIA NOTES. Mrs. Howard Snoddy returned Friday evening, after spending a week in Des Moines attending the D. of T. convention Mrs. Henrietta Underwood attended the eleventh annual session of the Heroines of Jerico in Burlington last week. Mrs. Ethel Thomas and her two children from Muchakinock visited with relatives in Albia this week. Mr. T. S. Griffith returned to Albia this week after a few weeks sojourn in Buxton visiting friends. LADIES DON'T WORRY. "Dr. Le Dues Genuine French Female Regulator" is positively guaranteed and mailed by undersigned to cure and relieve abnormal pathological Monthly Stoppages, Female irregularities, Suppressed Menstruation, obstructions and suppressions, from whatever course, or send free medicine until cured if guaranteed lot does not relieve. Sent on receipt of price, $2 a package or 3 for $5.00 Retail and wholesale of J. R. Hurlbut Co., Moines. Special Train Excursion to Spirit Lake and Oceanside Spirit Lake and Okoboji Via the Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul R'y. on Sunday, June 23. A very attractive program has been arranged for the day at Milwaukee Beach, Arnold's Park, as follows: Grand Concert and Musical Program will be given in the new Pavilion at 1:30 p. m., free to holders of excursion tickets. Baseball Game at 2:30 p. m., Manson vs. Mason City. General admission free to holders of excursion tickets. Admission to grand stand, 25c. Five large excursion steamers on Okoboji Lake, the Okoboji Queen, Iowa, Illinois and Hiawatha. 25 cents for the round trip. The new West Okoboji (Lake Park) Pavilion and Restaurant at Milwaukee Beach will be open for the first time on this occasion. This is the finest excursion resort pavilion in the west, just completed, and contains a fully equipped restaurant and entertainment hall $6 x 90 feet, which will be used for lectures, concerts, etc., also for dancing. The finest steamboat dock on these lakes has just been completed at Milwaukee Beach, and all excursion steamers make their landings there. SPECIAL NOTICE. Sleeping cars will be attached. Reserve space through nearest agent. Rate for double be-th accommodating two people, $1.50 each way. All visitors are promised a pleasant time. The special train will leave Des Moines at 10:30 p. m., on Saturday, June 22d, and returning will leave Arnold's Park at 7:30 p. m. Excursion tickets will be good going and returning only on special train. Round trip rate from Des Moines, $2.00. For further particulars apply to the Ticket Agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Paul R'y. BY EXPERIENCE COOKS.... Short Orders and Meals. Nice Furnished Rooms By Day or Week.... 221 S. Market St. Ottumwa, Ia. Less Than Half Rates to California. Chicago & North-Western R'y. Tickets sold July 6th to 13th; return limit August31st. Special train party, personally conductee, will leave Chicago 11:50 p. m., Tuesday, July 9th; leave Omaha 6:00 p. m., Wednesday, July 10. Parties can join en route. Stops will be made at Denver, Colorado Springs, Glenwood Springs and Salt Lake, passing en route the finest scenery of the Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains. The party will be limited in number and under personal direction of the Tourist Depriment, Chicago & North-Western R'y. Send stamp for illustrated itinerary and map of San Francisco to W. B. Kniskern, G. P. & T. A., 22 Fifth Ave., Chicago, Ill. 7-13 WONDERFUL GEYSERS OF YELLOWSTONE PARK. No Other Region in the World Abounds such a Variety of Attractions. In such a Variety of Attractions. The most wonderful scenery in the world is in Yellowstone National Park, the great natural curiosity shop of the universe. Nowhere else, within equal bounds, are found so many natural wonders grouped, almost as if by design, for the special convenience of sight-seers. The wonders of the Alps and the Himalayas, could they be gathered together and compressed into an equal space, could not hope to rival in grandeur, in variety nor in number, the attractions of the Yellowstone. Were all the attractions except the geysers removed, the region would still be famed world wide, drawing nature lovers from all countries to witness the exhibitions of unequalled power of those matchless giants, which, with a roar that may be heard long distances, spout columns of seething water high into the air, sustaining them there for varying lengths of time. Old Faithful, with a regularity that begot its name, at intervals of 65 to 75 minutes, sends up a huge column of water 150 feet into the air, remaining active for four minutes. Giant, with a deafening roar, spouts 250 feet every third day for 90 minutes, while Giantess, at longer intervals and with slightly less power, maintains activity for twelve hours at a stretch. Many others, at intervals ranging from five minutes to several days, spout water to varying heights, remaining active for periods ranging from one second to an hour or more. In all, there are thirty-three members of this interesting Geyser family of sufficient importance to deserve special mention. Twenty-eight of these are in Upper basin, and when several of them, with their rainbow tints, spouting at once, the scene is indescribable. Other scenes of grandeur that abound in favored mountainous regions pass in endless review before the enchanted tourist, all sense of fleeting time being lost in their admiration. Travel to the park, following improved transportation facilities, has greatly increased in recent years. Leaving the Oregon Short Line at Monida, Montana, after a pleasant ride through changing scenes from Ball Lake City, comfortable stage coaches run to and through the park, making the trip at easy stages in five days, four of which are spent among nature's wonders, and the other among delightful scenery. Good hotels are conveniently located in the park for sight-seers, where one may stay indefinitely, at very reasonable cost. AN INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY. From our back door. From our back door, Like billows tossed upon the shore. The prairies dip, and fall, and rise, And in the distance kiss the skies. The corn rows stretch in long array; The apple trees, with burden gay, Overshade, and all the dear old flowers Ton loved in childhood's sunny hours Lift and nod their faces fair. and with their fragrance fill the air. Come from the city's dust and heat, Come from the clamor of the street, And sit and watch the clouds piled high, Forming their pictures in the sky, When the long summer day is o'er, At our back door. The agricultural department is training to experimental florists a plant that is a wonderful novelty. It has been named the artillery plant. It grows to a height of twelve fifteen inches and is covered with colored buds. They do not blossom. When a shower comes or water is released by the moisture, the buds swell rapidly and explode loudly and a tiny ring of smoke rises. When a large plant, covered with hundreds of buds, is sprinkled, they all explode simultaneously and a considerable cloud of smoke can be seen. It might have been more appropriate to have named this strange plant the Rose-velt. NEW FAST TRAIN TO COLORADO Via Missouri Pacific Railway. The Missouri Pacific Railway is now operating double daily service from St. Louis and Kansas City to points in Colorado, Utah and the Pacific coast. Trains leave St. Louis 9 a. m., and 10:10 p. m., Kansas City 6 p. m. and 10 a. m., carrying through sleeping cars between St. Louis and San Francisco without change. Excursion tickets now on sale. For further information address Company's agents. H. C. TOWNSEND, G. P. & T. Agent, St. Louis, Mo The Scenic Route to California. Don't make a mistake and select any other route than the Burlington when you go to California at the time of the Epworth League meeting in July. The Burlington with its connections forms the Scenic Line of the World. It takes you through the very heart of the Rockies, past all the glorious mountain scenery of Colorado and Utah. Come back by way of Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and Billings. Costs a few dollars extra—and it is worth it. Beautifully illustrated folder giving full information about this, the greatest holiday opportunity ever offered, will be mailed on request. Tells what there is to see on the way to the coast, where to stay in San Francisco and the places in California which you cannot afford to miss. J. Francis, General Passenger Agent, Omaha, Neb. Comic operas usually find their audiences in tiers. 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 strange how stupid some people seem to be. Movement Having Support of Bryan Is Started. Design Is to Get Organization to Name a Presidential Nominee -Platform Adrocates Public Ownership and Income Tax-Initiative and Referendum. Kansas City, Mo., June 21.—"The allied third party movement," which its promoters hope will result before 1904 in a national organization strong enough to name a presidential nominee, was launched here in the afternoon. It was the outcome of a conference of reformers from the ranks of the old parties, and its principles are said by some to have been adopted with a view of fitting the views of William J. Bryan. The conference was called by Lee Merriwether of St. Louis, who with twenty-two other St. Louis leaders in the public ownership party of that city came to Kansas City yesterday on a visit to Mr. Bryan at Lincoln, where the intentions of the delegation had been laid before the Nebraska statesman. Mr. Bryan, it was stated, had expressed sympathy with the movement, if he had not gone so far as to support it. At the conference there were represented populists of all persuasions, public ownership advocates, free silver republicans, socialists, single-taxer and Bryan democrats. It was stated that it was proposed to form a third party in Missouri, which should finally be taken up by the dissatisfied in the old parties from other states. A committee on organization was appointed and instructed to report in the evening. The committee, which represented each element present, submitted the following set of resolutions as the new party's principles and they were adopted: Public ownership of all public utilities, as railroads, telegraphs, etc. While awaiting the legislation necessary to secure public ownership, rigid control of freight and passenger rates and severe penalties for rebates and other discriminations by railroads. Taxation of railroads and other public utility corporations in the same proportion as the value of farm and other property. Direct legislation by the initiative and referendum to the end that the people may initiate good legislation and veto bad legislation. A graduated income tax to the end that wealth, which receives government protection, shall bear its just share of the cost of government. That whatever is used as money shall be full legal tender, issued by the general government in sufficient volume for business purposes, and that volume fixed in proportion to population. Just election laws throughout the state. Home rule for cities and abolition of the present system of using the police as a standing army to carry primary elections in the interest of dishonest politicians representing still more dishonest special privileged corporations. Election of United States senators by popular vote. BASEBALL GAMES. After Another Big System. Cleveland, O., June 21.—The Everett-Moore syndicate has gone after another big system of inter-urban trolley lines. This will mean a clean sweep from Port Huron to Pittsburg. Three states will be included in the spider-like trail and more than 2,000,000 people will be within reach of the line controlled by the system. Negotiations, it is learned, are under way by which the Mahoning electric system will be absorbed by the big syndicate. The Mahoning system is considered one of the most valuable pieces of inter-urban traction property in Ohio. It has about 40 miles of track passing through Warren, Niles, Girard, and Youngstown. The present Pennsylvania terminal is at Greencastle, Pa. The company owns franchises and rights of way to Pittsburg. JOHNSON'S WASHING POWDER B.J.JOHNSON SOAP CO. MILWAUKEE, WIS. C-SIMILE OF PACKAGE What Do the Children Drink? Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared hastheir grades of coffee, but costs about 1/4 as much. All grocers sell it. 15c and 22c. It is better to practically demonstrate instead of theorizing. Our conduct at all times should be of such character that we would not have to apologize. It is better to be honestly mistaken and own up than to blindly continue in the same course. Once when the new bishop of Stepeney, the Right Rev, Cosmo Gordon Lang, was dining with Queen Victoria at Osborne, her majesty asked if it was true that he had so large a number of helpers. On being assured it was so, she asked whether it would not be wise to discharge three curates and marry. But the vicar replied: "Well, madam, if I disagree with my curates, we can part; but if I were to disagree with my wife, it might end in my having to leave my parish." During the last year or two the craze for after dinner speeches at festive gatherings of well known authors in London has been a little overdone. So recently the New Vagabonds petitioned their committee for a dinner without speeches, and the evening was a huge success. As a solemn warning to intending speakers, there was printed on the programme the following quotation from a mysterious composite novel, by different members of the club: "I reckon," said the Sorrowful Stranger, as he sadly drew his revolver and eyed the Would-Be Orator—I reckon to wrasse with this yer dinner in peace; and if so be you wants to make a speech, that'll be a fun'ral tonight, and you'll be the corpse's nearest relation." There were no speeches. A Pike County Miracles Velpen, Ind., June 17.—Wm. O. B. Sullivan, a farmer of this place, and who is a brother of ex-Representative Sullivan of Pike and Dubois counties, has had a remarkable experience recently. Mr. Sullivan is 49 years of age, and has been a citizen of Pike County for 30 years. For two years, he has suffered much with kidney trouble and rheumatism. His shoulders and side were very sore and stiff, and his back was so bad he could hardly straighten up at all. He had palpitation of the heart, and a smothering which was very distressing. He used three boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and is as strong and well as ever he was. He pronounces his cure a miracle. Mr. Sullivan's statement of his case is startling. "A month ago I was a cripple. Today I can do a hard day's work every day, and have not a single ache or pain." Dodd's Kidney Pills have done some wonderful cures in Indiana, but none more miraculous than that in the case of Mr. Sullivan. Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.—H. W. Shaw. Ladies Can Wear Shoe One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. 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Exclusive Factory Agent. O CO., Before Buying a CARPET think about RUGS! 5 sizes,up to x1x2f --- Work is progressing nicely on the Perkius hotel. The foundation is complete for B. F. Cooper's drug store, so be quiet girls, you can soon have soda water to drink. The population of our city will soon be increased by fifty people. Mrs. J. W. Riggs and Miss Nealy Brown have returned from the capital city, where they attended the grand session of the Daughters of Tabor. Buxton has had an addition to its musical circles by a male quartet composed of Ben Tate, John T. Washington, W. H. London and Lewis London. Mrs. W. H. London was a Buxton visitor Monday. This is all now. Please be prepared to meet the Bystander collecting agent. Editor of the Bystander—Special: I wish to write to many friends for whom I have profound respect. Leaving Des Moines last December, arriving in Denver in 18th of the same month, I found the climate very congenial and healthful, the air pure and delightful and the people kind and hospitable. One can stand upon the dome of the capitol and look out upon the snow-capped mountain of Pike's Peak. At first I was quite lonely, thinking of my many friends that I had left behind. After being here awhile I have met and made new friends. But I can never forget those of you to whom I was so closely related. I am pleased to see that many of the colored people have launched out into business for themselves. Many enterprises are springing up. The schools and churches are doing great work for the cause of the human family. This is a state of education. The schools of mine, law, medicine, pharmacy, business, common schools and others makes it a state of education. Since coming to Denver I have taken a better half and have nothing to regret. My little daughter Myrtle and little boy Andrew are still living with me and like here well. The public schools closed last week with much success. Several colored young men and women graduated. The population of of Denver is 160,000. The women suffrage in politics is much felt in our city, state and national elections. I believe in woman suffrage. I never understood it before coming to Colorado. We also have an orphan and old folks home. What a noble cause this is? I was sad to hear that many of my dear friends have parted this life, but while it is our loss I hope it is heaven's gain. Yours truly. Isabella Cloughton Barber. FRASEB Rev. E. Roey has returned from Davenport, where he attended the convention. He reports of having a grand time. J. S. Eale and Richard Johnson have their new saloon open and are having a good trade. A while back the superintendent of the Saylor Sunday school, L. G. Garret, said that his Sunday school was coming to the front. We wonder what was the matter that they could not be seen or heard June 13, 14 and 15 at Davenport. As we once said before Fraser has seen better days, but we have not missed representation. A donation party of about sixteen persons gathered at the home of Mr. D. Jennings Friday night at about 9 o'clock, and at a late hour the jolly crowd left for their homes leaving Mr. Jennings' table loaded with eatables. Mrs. Phoebe Taylor is on the sick list. CLINTON Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dodson entertained at tea Thursday evening June 13th a few of her friends in honor of Mrs. Mary Williams of Chicago, Ill. An elegant repast was served and each one enjoyed himself nicely. Those present were Mesdames Williams, Stepp, Taylor, Cooper, Sayles, Greenlee and Miss Anna B. Cooper. Mrs. Mary Williams returned to her home in Chicago Friday after a pleasant two weeks' visit with her mother, Mrs. Henrietta Brown on Eleventh avenue. Damon's orchestra discoursed delightful music at Sturges' drug store on Saturday evening. M. O. Culberson is performing the duties of sexton of the First Presbyterian church. Active work has commenced on Clinton's public building. In a few months the citizens can pride themselves on having a building equal to any in the state or vicinity. Children's Day was a success financially, over $5.00 being realized. After years of earnest endeavor to own that which has sheltered himself and family for years Mr. Wm. Dodson informs us that he has at last paid the last dollar on his Elm street home. We rejoice with him in his good fortune. F. E. McNeil is preparing to increase his working capacity in the Candy Kitchen by enlarging a portion of his work room. B. F. Cooper of Muchy is in the city visiting his parents before going to his home in Buxton. He is the same old Frank as of vore. EVANS Our town and Sunday school missed the pastor, wife and Bro. O. B. Smith, superintendent, who were absent last week attending the Baptist State Sunday school convention at Davenport. Rev. Tate returned to Pella Monday night and delivered his graduating oration to about 800 white faces. The Central university seems to be proud to have the privilege of regis- tering the first colored graduate on their record during its 48 years of existence. Our delegates reported a pleasant and successful convention. The services at the Baptist church Sunday were regular as usual. In the afternoon Rev. Williams of Oskaloosa preached a sermon to be long remembered to the Knights and Daughters of Tabor. Bro. James Reeves, pastor of the Second Baptist church of Oskaloosa, backed his pastor up by filling the pulpit of the Gaillee Baptist church Sunday night. Our pastor will begin at once to prepare for the entertainment of the association, assisted by members and friends in the community. EMERALD MINES They Were Lost for Centuries, but Here Beneath Bedrock. 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 Eufa, on the Nile say be 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 peopled, about twenty centuries ago, and only during the present one, so far as we know, have isolated explorers at long intervals found their way into the treasure house of ancient Egypt. When its rulers first used the emerald for personal adornment is uncertain. Whether the large, clear stones which, according to ancient authorities, ornamented the Egyptian temples were really emeralds is a matter of dispute, but as this gem—owing to its regular shape, which is commonly a six-sided prism—and its beautiful tint stands less in need of the 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 Ethaleb seem to have remained untouched 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 settlements. In these, no doubt, the mining population used to live, and the difference in style suggest they were occupied for a long time. Some are mere hovels, very roughly built; others show a more careful construction, while a third group are well finished. Mr. MacAllister also found three rock-cut temples, for the soft stone lends itself to that kind of architecture. He thinks that their pillars, though very primitive in style, indicate Egyptian designs, with traces of Greek influence. One, indeed, contains a crumbling inscription in that language. Broken pottery, sometimes ornamented, is abundant, but there is no evidence that the neighborhood attracted visitors for any but business purposes. Notwithstanding this, there was in those times a settled instead of a nomad population, and travelers once must have been rather frequent, for in one place many drawings of persons, animals and tribal marks are scratched upon the rocks. Some of the figures evidently are much older than others, but as a whole they recall to memory the Sinaitic inscriptions which some forty years ago were believed to be memories of the wanderings of the Israelites. Give Filling Devices 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 sc arranged as to be capable of being opened to allow the contents to fail. 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 apade. 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 cremost men of America. WANTED—TRUSTWORTHY MEN AND women to travel and advertise for old cushion labeled with gold or silver accents and expenses, all payable to meah. No conversing required. Give refer cause and enclose addressed message value. Address Manager, NB Carton Bldg. CLUB LIFE IN CHINA. Club life in China is not an innovation from the west. For centuries the rich Chinaman has had his club, and as a rule it is quite elegant an affair as are the aristocratic clubs of New York and Chicago. Most of the large Chinese cities, such as Canton and Pekin, contain a club for mandarins and rich men with pretensions to rank. Some have a political taint some are merely social, but all have one peculiar feature. This is a room or oratory set strictly apart for religious exercises. In the oratory the image of a Chinese god is placed From time to time members of the club enter the sanctuary to offer their devotions. Apparently it is no uncommon thing at the beginning or successful ending of a great enterprise—such as, say, the murder of an enemy or the consummation of a political conspiracy—to see a Chinaman hastening from the secular part of his club bearing a rich offering or a prayer for the god in the club sanctuary. He observes his devotions with a gravity that bears witness to his sincerity. Some devout Chinamen visit the god the moment they enter the club building and again prostrate themselves the last thing before leaving. The club god is not usually a war divinity, but now, in the centers where the "Boxers" hold sway undisturbed it is more than probable that the "Boxer" god has been placed in all the clubs. Arctic Night Icebergs dotted the blue surface of the sound, and far into the haze of Baffin bay we could see them drifting southward. The air was as still and clear as on a quiet, moonlit winter night at home, and the level sun rays streamed through in a glory of Italian pink. Enfolding all, as was the "peace that passeth knowledge," like the serenity of a soul that has won, through toil and storm, the strength and poise of enduring calm. It was well-nigh overwhelming. In ill-disguised necessity we turned from the vision to the sight of heaps of crumpled dead birds in the boat, and talked of shooting, and agreed that nowhere in the world was there promise of better sport than here. Then silence fell again. In spite of us, our eyes were drawn outward; and through all the peaceful beauty we felt once more the poignancy of its awful purity. He would be a man of spotless soul indeed and of assured faith who, seeing the stainless loveliness of the scene, would feel no pang. Not one's self only, but one's world same there, as into the presence of the great white throne, and stood condemned in a stillness that was unbroken.—From "With Arctic Highlanders," by Walter A. Wyckoff, in the September Scribner's. About Slate Pencils. Slate pencils were formerly all cut from slate just as it is dug from the earth. Pencils so made were objected to on account of the grit which they contained. To overcome this difficulty a scientific man devised an ingenious process by which the slate is ground to a very fine powder, all grit and foreign substances removed, and the powder bolted through silk much in the same manner as flour is bolted. The powder is then made into a dough and this dough is subjected to a heavy hydraulic pressure, which presses the pencils out in the required shape and diameter, but in lengths of about three feet. While yet soft the pencils are cut into the desired lengths and set out to dry in the open air. After they are thoroughly dry the pencils are placed in steam baking kilns, where they receive the proper temper. English Learn from America The ice habit is making rapid progress in Great Britain, says Marshall Halstead, United States consul at Birmingham, due largely to the incessant clamor for ice in hotels and public places by the thousands of traveling Americans. Not very long ago the attendants of public places in England where nearly everything except ice was provided, would be insulted if one complained because ice could not be had. Today all first class places have a few small lumps swimming in a glass dish, and you pick these out with sugar tongs; and in country inns and even in second class public houses they apologize for not having it. Eminent in Letters at 49. Dr Adolph Harnack, for many years professor of ecclesiastical history in the University of Berlin and the author of "The History of Dogma," has just been elected rector of the university for the ensuing year. His election was opposed by the orthodox party, which objects to his somewhat liberal views, but the selection of this eminent scholar, whose services as the historian of Christian dogma are appreciated in both hemispheres, is warmly approved by the whole body or German scholars. He has attained this eminence at the exceptionally early age of 49. About 500 persons a day average visit the white house the year round. The number rises sometimes to 1,500 to 2,000, and the hours for visitors are not many, being from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. In spite of this constant tread the beautiful old-gold figured car pot in the east room looks as well as when it was first put down. DOCTOR YOURSELF. "Gonovae" Tablets are mailed and guaranteed by Kidd Drug Company Blogin, Ill., to cure all forms of disease of Urinary organs and system, Bladder, etc., including Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Whites, Lucorhoea, 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 3 for $3. Don't fool with cheap substitutes. Retail and wholesale of J. R. Hurlbut Co., Des Meines, Ia. Full line of Rubber Goods; name what you want. 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Sold by grocers everywhere. 1 Work is progressing nicely on the Perkins hotel. The foundation is complete for B. F. Cooper's drug store, so be quiet girls, you can soon have soda water to drink. The population of our city will soon be increased by fifty people. Mrs. J. W. Riggs and Miss Nealy Brown have returned from the capital city, where they attended the grand session of the Daughters of Tahoe. Benton has had an addition to its musical circles by a male quartet composed of Ben Tate, John T. Washington, W. H. London and Lewis London. Mrs. W. H. London was a Buxton visitor Monday. This is all now. Please be prepared to meet the Bystander collecting agent. Denver, Colo. Editor of the Bystander.—Special: I wish to write to many friends who whom I have met in the past year, visiting Des Moines last December, arriving in Denver the 18th of the same month. I found the climate very congenial and healthful, the air pure and delightful and the people kind and hospitable. One can stand upon the dome of the capitol and look out upon the snow-capped mountain of Pike's Peak. At first I was quite lonely, thinking of my many friends that I had left behind. After being mobile and having friends, but I can never forget those of you to whom I was so closely related. I am pleased to see that many of the colored people have launched out into business for themselves. Many enterprises are springing up. The schools and churches are doing great work for the cause of the human family. This is a state of education. The schools of mine, law, medicine, pharmacy, business, common knowledge and education. Since coming to Denver I have taken a better half and have nothing to regret. My little daughter Myrtle and little boy Andrew are still living with me and like here well. The public schools closed last week with much success. Several colored young men and women graduated. The population of of Denver is 190,000. The women suffrage in Colorado is much the same as it was in national elections. I believe in woman suffrage. I never understood it before coming to Colorado. We also have an orphan and old folks home. What a noble case is? I was sad to hear that many of my dear friends have parted this life, but while it is our loss I hope it is heaven's gain. Yours truly, Isabella Cloughton Barber. FRASER Rev. E. Roey has returned from Davenport, where he attended the convention. He reports of having a grand time. J. S. Eale and Richard Johnson have their new saloon open and are having a good trade. A while back the superintendent of the Saylor Sunday school, L. G. Garrett, said that his Sally School was coming to the front. We wonder what was the matter that they could not be seen or heard June 13, 14 and 15 at Daevnport. As we once said before Fraser has seen better days, but we have not missed representation. A donation party of about sixteen persons gathered at the home of Mr. D. Jennings Friday night at about 9 o'clock, and at a late hour the jolly crowd left for their homes leaving M. Jennings' table loaded with eatables. Mrs. Phoebe Taylor is on the sick list. CLINTON Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dodson entertained at tea Thursday June 13th a few of her friends in honor of Mrs. Mary Williams of Chicago, Ill. An elegant repast was served and each one enjoyed himself nicely. Those present were Mesdames Williams, Stepp, Taylor, Cooper, Sayles, Greenlee and Miss Anna B. Cooper. Mrs. Mary Williams returned to her home in Chicago Friday after a pleasant two weeks' visit with her mother, Mrs. Henrietta Brown on Eleventh avenue. Damon's orchestra discoursed delightful music at Sturges' drug store on Saturday evening. M. O. Culberson is performing the duties of sexton of the First Presbyterian church. A world visit has commenced on Clinton's public building. In a few months the citizens can pride themselves on having a building equal to any in the state or vicinity. Children's Day was a success financially, over $5.00 being realized. After years of earnest endeavor to own that which has sheltered himself and family for years Mr. Wm. Dodson informs us that he has at last paid the last dollar on his Elm street home. We rejoice with him in his good fortune. F. E. McNell is preparing to increase his working capacity in the Candida by charging a portion of his work room. B. F. Cooper of Much is in the city visiting his parents before going to his home in Buxton. He is the same old Frank as of vore. EVANS Our town and Sunday school missed the pastor, wife and Bro. O. B. Smith, superintendent, who were absent last week attending the Baptist State Sunday school convention at Davenport. Rev Tate returned at Sunday night and delivered his graduating oration to about 800 white faces. The Central university seems to be proud to have the privilege of regis- tering the first colored graduate on their record during its 48 years of existence. Our delegates reported a pleasant and successful convention. The services at the Baptist church Sunday were regular as usual. In the afternoon Rev. Williams of Oskaloosa, bereaved husband, will be long remembered to the Knights and Daughters of Tabor. Bro. James Reeves, pastor of the Second Baptist church of Oskaloosa, backed his pastor up by filling the pulpit of the Gallilee Baptist church Sunday night. Our pastor will begin at ooches on Sunday morning of the association, assisted by members and friends in the community. EMERALD MINES. They Were Lost for Centuries, but Have Been Rediscovered. 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 Be 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 populated, about twenty centuries ago, and only during the present one, so far as we know, have isolated explorers at long intervals found their way into the treasure house of ancient Egypt. When its rulers first used the emerald for personal adornment is uncertain. Whether the large, clear stones which, according to ancient authorities, ornamented the Egyptian temples were really emeralds is a matter of dispute, but as this gem—owing to its regular shape, which is commonly a six-sided prism—and its beautiful tint stands less in need of the laidary'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 use to send their treasures to the gem cutters of the capital. Ever since then the stone has been highly esteemed. These mines of the northern Ethal seem to have remained untouched since the decline and the fall of Rome caused them to be deserted. According to Mr. Macallister, the workings are only burrows, excavated in the emerald-bearing cyst and sometimes extending for a long distance. Many scattered ruins may also be seen—watches, watch towers and tombs, besides those of fish 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-utile temples, for the soft stone lends itself to that kind of architecture. He thinks that their pillars, though very primitive in style, indicate Egyptian designs, with traces of Greek influence. One, indeed, contains a crumbling inscription in that language. Broken pottery, sometimes ornamented, is abundant, but there is no evidence that the neighborhood attracted visitors for any but business purposes. Notwithstanding this, there was in those times a settled instead of a nomad population, and travelers once must have been rather frequent, for in one place many drawings of persons, animals and tribal marks are scratched upon the rocks. Some of the figures evidently are much older than others, but as a whole they recall to memory the Sinaitic inscriptions which some forty years ago were believed to be memories of the wanderings of the Israelites. Grave Filling Service 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 sc 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 scene in a much more fitting manner than the seemingly cold-hearted return of the earth with a spade. Proposed highway for bicycle 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 Waldford-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. WANTED-THUSWORTY MEN AND women to travel and advertise for old estab literals, 780 and 780 and expenses, all payable to seah. No canvassing required. Give refer cases and enclose self-addressed cotton Bldg. @lisoeg. Address Manager, 386 Carson Bldg. CLUB LIFE IN CHINA. Mendaries and Rich Men Congregate o Social Means Club life in China is not an innovation from the west. For centuries the rich Chinaman has had his club, and as a rule it is quite as elegant an affair as are the aristocratic clubs of New York and Chicago. Most of the large Chinese cities such as Canton and Pekin, contain a club for mandarins and rich men with pretensions to rank. Some have a political taint some are merely social, but all have one peculiar feature. This is a room or oratory set strictly apart for religious exercises. In the oratory the image of a Chinese god is placed. From time to time members of the club enter the sanctuary to offer their devotions. Apparently it is no uncommon thing at the beginning or successful ending of a great enterprise—such as, say, the murder of an enemy or the consummation of a political conspiracy—to see a Chinaman hastening from the secular part of his club bearing a rich offering or a prayer for the god in the club sanctuary. He observes his devotions with a gravity that bears witness to his sincerity. Some devout Chinamen visit the god the moment they enter the club building and again prostrate themselves the last thing before leaving. The club is not usually a war divinity, but now, in the centers where the "Boxers" hold sway undisturbed it is more than probable that the "Boxer" god has been placed in all the clubs. Arctic Night Icebergs dotted the blue surface of the sound, and far into the haze of Baffin bay we could see them drifting southward. The air was as still and clear as on a quiet, moonlit winter night at home, and the level sun rays streamed through in a glory of Italian pink. Enfolding all, as was the "peace that passeth knowledge," like the serenity of a soul that has won, through toll and storm, the strength and pulse of enduring calm. It was well-night overwhelming. In ill-disguised necessity we turned from the vision to the sight of heaps of crumpled dead birds in the boat, and talked of shooting, and agreed that nowhere in the world was there promise of better sport than here. Then silence fell again. In spite of us, our eyes were drawn outward; and through all the peaceful beauty we felt once more the polignancy of its awful purity. He would be a man of spotless soul indeed and of assured faith who, seeing the stainless loveliness of the scene, would feel no pang. Not one's self only, but one's world came there, as into the presence of the great white throne, and stood condemned in a stillness that was unbroken—From "With Arctic highlanders," by Walter A. Wyckoff, in the September Scribner's. About Slate Pencils. Slate pencils were formerly all cut from slate just as it is dug from the earth. Pencils so made were objected to on account of the grit which they contained. To overcome this difficulty a scientific man devised an ingenious process by which the slate is ground to a very fine powder, all grit and foreign substances removed, and the powder bolted through silk much in the same manner as flour is bolted. The powder is then made into a dough and this dough is subjected to a heavy hydraulic pressure, which presses the pencils out in the required shape and diameter, but in lengths of about three feet. While yet soft the pencils are cut into the desired lengths and set out to dry in the open air. After they are thoroughly dry the pencils are placed in steam baking kilns, where they receive the proper temper. English Learn from America. The ice habit is making rapid progress in Great Britain, says Marshall Halstead, due largely to the incessant clamor for ice in hotels and public places by the thousands of traveling Americans. Not very long ago the attendants of public places in England where nearly everything except ice was provided, would be insulted if one complained because ice could not be had. Today all first class places have a few small lumps swimming in a glass dish, and you pick these out with sugar tongs; and in country inns and even in second class public houses they apologize for not having it. Eminent in Letters at 42. Dr Adolph Harnack, for many years professor of ecclesiastical history in the University of Berlin and the author of "The History of Dogma," has just been elected rector of the university for the ensuing year. His election was opposed by the orthodox party, which objects to his somewhat liberal views, but the selection of this eminent scholar, whose services as the historian of Christian dogma are appreciated in both hemispheres, is warmly approved by the whole body of German scholars. He has attained this eminence at the exceptionally early age of 49. White Loving Valter About 900 persons a day, average visit the white house the y are round. The number rises sometimes to 1,500 to 2,000, and the hours for visitors are not many, being from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. In spite of this constant tread the beautiful old-gold figured car pet in the east room looks as well as when it was first put down. DOCTOR YOURSELF "Gonovs" Tablets are masled and guaranteed by Kidd Drug Company Egin, Ill. to cure all forms of diseases of Urinary organs, and system, Bladder, etc., including Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Whites, Lucornrhoea, 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 account of price, $3 per package. Don't buy and institutes, Retail and wholesale of J. R. Hurlut Co., Des Meines, Ia. Full line of Rubber Gooda, name what you want. 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