Iowa State Bystander

Chas. Roy and wife of Algoona is a fair visitor. B. J. Shepard of Clive has purchased ten acres more of beautiful land. Mr. Andy Jeffers of Knoxville is at the fair ground this year serving meals. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Champion spent Sunday at Clive the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Richardson. J. P. Parks of Ames a student at the agriculture College at Ames is a visitor in our city this week. Mrs. James Johnson left last Friday for Kansas City, after visiting four weeks with her husband here. Mrs. Robert Good will visit Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Jacobs and Mr. and Mrs. D. Roy during Fair week. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRO- TROTIVE ASSOCIATION OF IOWA. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE MOST WORSHIPFUL UNITED GRAND LODGE OF IOWA, A. F. & A. M. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year..... $1.50 18 months..... 75 Three mouths..... 50 All subscription payable in advance. J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by post, office order, money order, express or draft, to the IOWA STATE BYSTAN- nium Publishing Company. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the pub- le. "Beverity is the soul of wit," remember We will not return rejected manuscript, un- less accompanied by postage stamps. Mr. Andy fair ground Mr. and M. Sunday at C. C. H. Richa J. P. Park agriculture our city this Mrs. Jam for Kansas weeks with Mrs. Robb Mrs. H. E. D. Roy dur Mrs. B. J. Holmes gave a young folks party last Tuesday evening, in honor of Miss Goldie Murray of Lincoln, Neb All had a good time and went home well pleased. Mr. James Shackelford a student at Simpson College at Indianola is in our city visiting at the State Fair. He has just returned from his home in Henusey Okalahoma, his parents have good crop and like their new home well, crops are better than first reported. Mr. Chas. Ruff is on the sick list this week. Miss Lizzie Dickens will soon leave for Denver, Colo. H. C. Perkins has gone to St. Paul for several weeks visit. Frank Johnson has been enjoying a vacation this week. Miss Alice Simms has returned from an 8 weeks' visit with her parents near Tuskegee, Ala. While there she visited the Tuskegee Normal School, where she was a student. She was much surprised to see the fast developments. She had a pleasant visit. Messrs Joe and Sam Weeks of Ottumwa have recently sold their barber shop at that place and moved to our city to live. They are brothers to our worthy citizen, Jas. R. Weeks. We wish them success in our growing metropolis. Cupid says that the wedding bells will ring here early in September. A blending of the East and West city. The Thompson Fair Ground shop will check packages and take laundry for Mungers' Laundry Co. When in Oskaloosa, Iowa, stop at Mr. Peter Williams, No. 216 North A street, for good meals and room. Whereas: It has pleased the Almighty to remove by the relentless hand of Death' Mr. Emanuel Stanton, a beloved husband and father; Be it resolved:—That it is the sense of the Christian Working Club, of which the bereaved wife is a faithful and conscientious member, to deeply mourn her loss. Be it further resolved:—That we extend our heartfelt sympathy to the family in this their hour of affection. We commend the wife and fatherless children to Him, who sticketh closer then a brother, and tempers the wind to the shorn lambs and hears the ravens when they cry. Be it also further resolved;—That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family, published in the Iowa State Eystander, and be spread upon the minutes of this club. Special Train Excursion to Spirit Lake and Okeboji. Via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y on Saturday and Sunday, August 31st and September 1st. Special free program at Milwaukee Beach, Arnold's Park, as follows: Grand concert and musicale will be given in the new pavilion at 1:30 p. m., free to holders of excursion tickets. Baseball game at 2:20 p. m., Sioux Falls vs. Flandreau. General admission free to holders of excursion tickets. Admission to Grand Stand 25 cents. Five large excursion steamers on Okoboji Lake, the Okoboji, QUEEN IOWA. ILLINOIS and HIAWATHA. 25 cents for the round trip. The finest steamboat dock on these lakes has just been completed at Milwaukee Beach, and all excursion steamers make their landings there. The special train will leave Des Moines at 4:30 a. m. Sunday, September 1st, and returning will leave Arnold's Park at 7:0 p. m. the first Excursion ticket will be good going and returning only on special train. Round trip rate from Des Moines $2.00. This is an excellent opportunity for a nice outing and all excursionists are assured a pleasant time. For further particulars apply to Ticket Agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul By. --- --- VOL. 8. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE BYSTANDER PUBLISHING COMPANY, FIFTH AND LOCUST. ROOM 405 MARQUARDT BLOCK. IOWA 'PHONE 890. CITY NEWS The public schools open September 3 Harding Ice Cream is always best and suits the people. Phones 647. 762 Ninth street. Little Daisy, the daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Brown of 1019 Crocker street is very sick. The excursion which was to be given last Thursday was posponed until Sept. announcement later. J H. Mixon, Jeweler, No. 312 West Third street. Tunes Planos and repairs organs. Mr. Andy Thompson of Decatur City arrived in our city Thursday to visit his sons, John L. and Edward W., and other relatives and friends. Mr. J. H. Jett of Cleveland, O., arrived in our city Saturday to remain indefinitely. His wife has been here for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Gould have charge of the meals at the Thompson barber shop on the Fair Ground this year. They invite every one to call and take meals with them while on the grounds. Rev. R. Jackson, assistant pastor of the First African Baptist church, will preach Sunday morning from Isaiah 80th chapter and 23rd verse; subject: "God's Judgment." Evening subject: "Faith in God's word," 5th chapter of St. Luke. Miss Goldie Murray, after a very pleasant visit of several weeks with her aunt, Mrs. Wm. Fletcher, returned to her home in Lineoln, Neb., last Tuesday morning. The Eureka Social club gave their first dancing party at Union Park last Wednesday evening. Kromer's orchestra furnished music, and a pleasant evening was spent. Miss Flossie Wright of Marshalltown arrived in the city Thursday to visit for a few weeks with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Herbret R. Wright of 1068 B street. Mra Dora Dungee still remains quite sick at Mercy hospital. It will be remembered that she tell with a lamp in her hand about three weeks ago, and was badly burned about the hand and arm. "Through the month of June and; July our baby was teething and took a running off of the bowels and sickness of the stomach," says O. P. M. Holliday of Deming, Ind. "His bowels would move from five to eight times a day. I had a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house and gave him four drops in a teaspoonful of water and he got better at once." Sold by all Druggists. STATE BYST DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1901 RESOLUTIONS Selma C. Pierce. Mrs. G. Windsor. H. Crayen. Mr. J. H. Shepard is on the sick list this week. NECROLOGY. JAMES RHODES On last Thursday, August 15, the sad news came to our office of the death of Mr. James Rhodes, at his home on Eleventh and Center streets.. He had been a sufferer from an operation preformed at the Mercy hospital, about two months ago, from which he never recovered, and was taken to his home about three weeks ago. The deceased was born in Keosaqua, Iowa, August 14, 1880 where he was raised up and educated in the public schools. He came to our city only a few years ago, but has made many friends and was liked by those who knew him. He was a member of Charity Lodge No. 2192, under whose auspices the funeral was conducted, held from the Corinthian Baptist church. The services were preached by Rev. S. Bates Sunday at 2:00 o'clock. A large crowd gas present, and the Odd Fellows were in full regalia, and laid him to rest in Woodland. EMANUEL STANTON. No dout the announcement of the death of Mr. Stanton, one of our well known citizens, will be a surprise to many. He died Saturday, August 17, while he had been sick yet, it was not thought dangerous, but complication of deceases set in and death was the result. He was born in Brookfield, Mo., December 25, 1852; moved to Iowa several years ago, sattling in this city, where he worked at the barber's trade. He leaves a wife, three children and a host of friends to mourn his death. The funeral services were held at the Corinthian Baptist church, conducted by Rev. Dr. Dulin. The remains were laid to rest in Woodland cemetery. THE DELINEATOR. We have just received the September number of the Delineator, a high class fashion magazine for ladies, it also has some of the best literary notes and household hints that can be produced, and every home should have one. It is published by the Butterick Publishing Co., New York. One of the articles is "The Meaning of Home." A very practical article regarding Home and Family Life, by Professor Ellen M. Richards, appears in this number of of The Delineator. The first sentence is "The house is but the shell of the home, a shell ment to enclose and protect, not to crush it." These few words give an idea of the breadth and sympathy with which Professor Richards discusses the subject. SHANNON & MOTT CO. For some years Des Moines had no flour mill that kept up with the pace of the city's rapid advancement. A few years ago two enterprising men organized a company known as the Shannon & Mott Co., to operate a flour mill. To-day they have done as much in advertising our city as any other one manifacture. The FALCON FLOUR, their leading brand, is known and appreciated far and wide. It is through them that Des Moines is now permitted to hear the great lecturer, Mrs. Jaret McKinzie Hill, editor of the Boston Cooking School Magizine, next week, 27, 28, 29 and 30, atOur Circle Hall on 8th and Locust street, over city public library. No doubt the woman and cooks will appreciate this rare opportunity and attend each lecture each day. See add on page eight. The Iowa Great State Fair August 23 to 31. (Concluded from last week.) Arriving in Davenport, a city controlled by foreigners, principally Germans. It is a city of more then 40,000 people and there are over 200 saloons. It has nice broad street and fine public buildings. There are about 500 colored people here. They own two churches; Rev. Christy has charge of the A. M. B. church and Rev. Burton of the Baptist; there are two colored restaurants. Mr. Hill operates one and Mr. Anderson the other. Mrs. E. Green operates a hand laundry. There are also two saloons; Mr. Lynsy Pitts runs one. Mr. B. H. Berry conducts a tonsorial shop; also Mr. B. G. Warrick. They seem to be doing well. Mr. Jas. Flounory is a calciminer and plaster and is doing well. Mr. A. D. Corbin is a carpet cleaner and calciminer. Mr. John T. Mabry, an enterprising and industrious young man, is City Scavenger. He succeeded the late J. E. Roberts. Mr. Mabry is much interested in secret orders and is secretary of the Odd Fellows society of Iowa. He had the misfortune of loosing two of his horses. Mr. McGaw, Mrs. Potterfield, Alex. Roberts and the Buseys are some of the pioneers of Davenport. In Muscatine, known in fame as a watermelon section. Here you can see loads and loads of melons, acres upon acres in those large sandy bottoms. Being here only four hours I could secure but little information of interest to the public. There are more colored gardeners or farmers here then any part of Iowa I have yet been. I can only name a few, nearly all of them are doing well. Mr. Martin Lee, who lives in the south part of Muscatine, has 80 acres of garden farm. He has recently bought another 80 acres just across the Misissippi river in Illinois. He has a branch road running to his house and ships his melons direct to the eastern markets. Mr. Seay is a successful gardener and owns a valuable farm. Mr. Nelson Carr, Joseph Carr and I. P. Johnson are successful gardeners. Mr. Greenway owns a first-class barber shop and a nice farm. Mr. Richard Haney sprinkles the streets. Dr. Tombly is still hustling along there are two barber shops. We were soon off to the Twin cities of the North, arriving there the next morning. I had traveled through four states; Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota; reaching St. Paul first, 30 minuets later I stopped at the large Union depot in Minneapolis, where hundreds of trains pass through each day. The first real large building that attracted me was the West Hotel, covering a half block, 10 stories high, and gorgeously built. The next sight was the Guaranty Building, covering a quarter block, 12 stories high, 222 feet high when in the tower. It is the home of 1500 tenants. Six passengers elevators carrying daily from 12 to 15 thousand people. The Lumber Exchange eclipse them all. It is a large beautiful busy metropolitan city. There are four church—A. M. E., Baptist, Episcopal and Catholic Mission. Mr. J. L. Neal is very successful in real estate and has a first class office in the Guaranty Building. Mr. Morris is practicing law. Mr. Henry Roberts is clerk in the drug store at the West Hotel. He has a very beautiful and valuable home with an interesting wife and two bright boys. Mr. J. E. Reid, the editor of the American Advance, which is not running at present, is a very affiable and genial gentleman to meet. The De Temple and Brighton hotel are the leading hotels run by colored people. Mrs. Redmonds manages the Brighton and her husband conducts a barber shop. The Blackwell saloon is the only first- class colored saloon in the city. owned by Joe B. Blackwell, a former citizen of Iowa. He is doing a land office business, and has a very costly and beautiful saloon. He handles a cigar brand known as the Blackwell's Best with his picture on the box. He subscribed for the BYSTANDER so he might know more about the Hawkeye state. Miss Eva Robinson, one of our Des Moines girls, is looking well. In St. Paul Mrs. Wm. Mash is living, she thinks of all that is good Iowa is the best. Mrs. Della Patterson is here and her mother Mrs. Gus Comley, who has been very sick, is gaining a little in health. She may not be home before October. Lawyer McGee is doing well. This is all now. CEDAR RAPIDS BUDGETARIAN. The A. M. E. Sunday Sunday held their annual picnic, Monday at Beaver's Park, quite a large number attended and a most enjoyable time was spent by all. Miss Cleo Van Camp entertained a few friends at her home on last Monday evening in honor of Mrs. E Emery of Chicago those present report a pleasant time. Mrs. Chas. Gable has returned from a business trip to Chiego. The coneert given bp Mrs. A. Ford with the assistance of the Sunday School scholars for the benefit of Rev. Bass on the 15th inst. iwa quite a success she having cleard $24.00 for which she thanks the publie, the children appeared well in their different parts. Sunday is quarterly meeting, P. E. Bundy will not be present. Rev. Bass will be assisted by Rev. Ford with the services. This is the last quarterly meeting in this conference year all the members should not fail to be present. Miss J. A. Clay invited a few friends at a reception on the 16th first at her home in honor of her guesq Miss E. Emery, muslo and games were indulged in until a late hour when refreshments were served by the hostess assisted by others. All present report a pleasant time. Mr. S. Terry will speak at the prayer meeting Wednesday evening at which time a vote will be taken for his recommendation for local preachers' license. Success to brother Terry. Rev. Rudy of the Christian Church filled the A. M. E. pulpit Sunday evening presenting to the congregation a most elegant discourse, the their rendered special music. The M.sons gave a social at their hall Tuesday evening the 20th. Mr. Chas. Searcy of Des Moines stop over one day last week the guest of his parents. CLINTON ITEMS Bethel A. M. E. church of Davenport will give another excursion to this city on the steamer J. S. Thursday Aug. 29th. Rev. P. P. Taylor spent last week with his family. The stewardess gave a social at the church Monday evening, those present an enjoyable time. A. A. Bush and family, Mrs. C. V. Bush and daughter, Mrs. Green and son of Chicago spent Sunday in Davenport. S. C. Smith is in Chicago on business this week. Mrs. M. O. Culberson is reported as being quite ill. Quite a number are preparing to go to Chicago to attend conference. Mrs. Missouri Allen has through her attorney commenced proceeding against her husband Lewis E, Allen for divorce. Subscripte for the Bystander the only race paper in the state. BURLINGTON SAYINGS. The Courts gave a lawn social and baby show Wednesday night at the home of Mr. John Brooks, the lawn and parler were a model of art and skill. Five babies entered the prize contest, Lola Gox won first prize a beautiful gold ring and Lorenzo Early won second a set of beauty pins. Miss Francis Lewis left for Chicago Saturday night. Among those who spent a few days in Mt. Pleasant during fair week were Mr. and Mrs. Clay, Misses Smith, and Cooper they report a nice time. Mrs. J. Ivy and mother Mrs. Edmund, left Thursday night for Fulton, Mo. to visit a few weeks visiting relation. Miss Lewis sister of Mr. G Williams is in town on a short visit. Rev. Douglass and congregation of the First Bastilist church spent Sunday in Ft. Madison to help Rev. Underwood in his services. The Bright Angel Lodge will give a moonlight excursion Thursday on the St. Nautilus and Barge. Fine music will be rendered. There is a movement on foot to estab- I No.11. Mah an Industrial school in Iowa A meeting was held Aug. 15th with the following persons passent; Dr. T. Reeves of Kokubk Mrs. B. Higgins of Burlington, Mr. S. Lee and Mrs. Allen of Burlington and Mr. E. Carter of Buxton. Dr. Reeves was elected president and Mrs. Allen secretary the movement was endorsed by Booker T. Washington and is meeting with the most hearty approval of all. Word was received here Monday that Prof. J. Lane a well known educator and the principal of the Louisiana, Mo., color, ed schools, died of consumption aged 38 years. He was an excellent instructor and the news of his death will be received with much grief by his many friends, the remains were taken to Sedalia Mo., where the funeral will be held Monday afternoon conducted by the Masons of that city of which he was a prominent member. DANISH PROVERBS Even crumbs are bread. Opportunity makes the thief. Paint praise is akin to abuse. Short flax makes long thread. Power often goes before talent. Death does not blow a trumpet. Gray hairs are death's blossoms. Praise a fair day in the evening. Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow. A short cut is often a wrong cut. New comers are always welcome. Every bird needs its own feathers. Let every bird sing its own note. Trust everybody, but thyself most. We must suffer much, or die young. Every man thinks his copper is gold. Every wind is against a leaky ship. Unwilling service earns no thanks. A woman's first counsel is the best. He that courts injury will obtain it. He who flees proves himself guilty. Do not wade when you see no bottom. It is bad to lean against a falling wall. Better the child cry than the mother sigh. We must sow even after a bad harvest. An ill-tempered dog has a scarred nose. Never let fools see half finished work. Even he gets on who is drawn by oxen. Big words seldom go with good deeds. It is folly to fear what one cannot avoid. He is easy to lure who is ready to follow. Little sorrows are loud, great ones silent. Riches are often abused, but never refused. Every fool thinks he is clever enough. Under white ashes lie often glowing embers. A thankless man never does a thankful deed. It is the raised stick that makes the dog obey. It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten. WISE AND OTHERWISE. Love and philosophy are sworn enemies. Old age commands respect—except in poultry and jokes. Some men are in advance of their age, but women are always a few years behind it. The failure of a bank may not upset the depositor, but he is apt to lose his balance. You have to give some men a sound thrashing before you can command their respect. No matter how erect a general may be he is apt to learn more or less on his staff. The girl who used mucillage to keep her hair in curl has been much stuck-up ever since. Perhaps some people talk to themselves because they find it impossible to interest any one else. In order to retain her youth and popularity all a girl has to do is acquire a fortune and remain single. The average man does just as many queer things when he isn't in love as when he is, but they are less conspicuous. What a merry old place the earth would be if it were to lose its atmosphere. All bodies would then lose their gravity. Says a rural editor: "We trust our subscribers will pardon us for appearing a day late this week. Our wife borrowed our scissors to cut our son's hair." The present constitution of the state of New Jersey, adopted in 1844, has remained unchanged for fifty years and remains practically the same as when first adopted. The term of the governor of New Jersey, which expires in December, is three years, and New Jersey is now the only state in the country which adheres to the three years' term. FRANCE OUT WITH TURKEY M. Constana, French Minister, Says Sultan Broke Hla Promise. Constantinople, Aug. 22.—The French ambassador, M. Constans, has notified the sultan's first secretary that all diplomatic relations between France and Turkey are broken off and that the ambassador has informed his government to this effect. M. Constans communicated direct with the sultan that the latest transactions were transacted with the sultan personally. The ambassador justifies his action on the ground that the sultan broke his direct, personal promise, given to M. Constans at an audience in the Yieliz palace Thursday, regarding the purchase of the quays and the settlement of the disputed French claims. The foreign minister also gave formal assurances that the agreement should be carried M. Constans held that it is impossible for France to continue diplomatic relations with Turkey. WILL KEEP HANDS OFF. United States Will Merely Act to Protect Citizens in Colombia. Washington, Aug. 22.—Secretary of State Hay left Washington and has gone to Canton, where he will have a conference with President McKinley on the situation in the northern part of South America and on the Isthmus of Panama. The situation will be thoroughly gone over, and a line of action will be mapped out to meet any emergency that may arise. In its general outlines the administration's policy is well understood in Washington. 'there is to be no interference in the internal affairs of any of the South American republics, nor is there to be any intervention in international affairs without the consent of both parties, to any controversy unless such interference or intervention becomes necessary for the protection of life and property of citizens of the United States, and the fulfillment of obligations assumed by this government under the treaty of 1846. This is the policy of the United States in its bearing on the southern republics. In its bearing toward the nations of Europe it is just as clearly defined. The Monroe doctrine is to be upheld, and the United States, while refraining from meddling with the affairs of these countries, will insist that Europe shall do the same. The policy of non-intervention will speedily become one of vigorous intervention if any European country undertakes to take a hand in the difficulty. Dr. Martinez Silva, minister from Colombia, states in the most positive manner that neither he nor his government has any suspicion whatever of the motives of the United States, and they feel certain that under no circumstances would this government go farther than to fulfill its treaty obligations if the situation should unhappily require such action. "We feel," said he, "that we can trust implicitly in the high sense of right and justice of the American people." Senator Pulido, the charge d'affaires of the Venezuelan legation, was equally as emphatic in his assurances that his government did not distrust the United States. No news of any kind was received from any of the countries involved in the recent disturbances yesterday. This is regarded at the state department and at the legations as an indication that the situation is no worse. Both the navy and state departments were gratified to learn yesterday afternoon that the battleship Iowa had sailed from San Francisco for Panama. This assures the president of a force adequate to cope with any situation that is likely to arise there. No orders have yet been issued for an increase of the naval force on the east side of the isthmus. THIRTY AND DROWNED. Steamer Capsized in Ohio River, Near Paducah, Ky. Paducah, Ky., Aug. 21.—During a very severe storm the steamboat City of Golconda capsized while trying to land at Crowells, six miles from this city. The boat turned over while the passengers were at supper. There were about sixty persons there in the middle and thirty-five drowned or are missing. Capt. Jesse Bauer and Pilot E. E. Peck succeeded in rescuing many people. Captain Peck states that when the boat struck there was no time to escape. She went down on her side in ten feet of water and a few clung to a yawl and reached shore. After the wind had subsided somewhat those of the crew who had escaped rowed to the wreck but found no one and of all the women on board only Mrs. Hayden, wife of the engineer, is known to have been saved. The City of Golconda plied between this city and Elizabethtown, Ill. A row of lifeboats was valued at $2,500 and had been in the trade sev. Capt. Jesse Bauer said: "In my opinion the people in the cabin were drowned instantly as I did not hear a scream come from the cabin. Usually in such accidents a steamboat will rock back and forth several times before turning over but the Golconda went over without any on this, and it all occurred so quickly that it is a wonder that any of us got out alive." **Beer Lighting Force Reduced.** London, Aug. 21—In a dispatch dated July 8 and detailing the condition of affairs at the front at that time, Lord Kitchener says: "There are no more than 13,500 Boers now under arms. Although they are not able longer to undertake extensive operations, their apparently untreatable situation, food enable them to maintain an obstine resistance without retaining anything or defending the smallest portion of this vast country." Since this dispatch was written the losses of the Boers have brought their forces down to about 11,000. THE NEWS IN IOWA THE NEWS IN IOWA ACCOUNTS ARE PERFECT. Experts About Through With Books of Medical of Control. Des Moines, Aug. 82—Philip H. Skinner and William H. Hedges, the expert accountants appointed by the executive council, have practically completed the examination of the accounts in the board of control office. The report will be filed with the council in a short time. It will show the accounts of the board are in a perfect condition. The experts are greatly pleased at the condition of things in the board of control office. "There are some details of the system of accounting," said Mr. Skinner, "that might perhaps be eliminated, but it is questionable whether they could away with and at the same time the same moral effect show on the warriors superintendents could be preserved. "The system is perfect. I doubt if three men could be found in the state who would be more competent and would transact the affairs of the board more harmoniously than they. There is absolutely no politics in it. Part of the employees in the board's office are democrats and part republicans. They are selected solely with regard to merit so far as I can ascertain. The system of buying supplies through bidding is a means of receiving a great saving in the state. It is the quality of the food, particularly the meats, that is provided for the minutes of the institutions, is better than you or I buy on the market for our own use. The board is in close touch from its office here with all the affairs of the institutions. If a dozen spools of thread are bought for an institution, the board can tell from its office here just how many spools ought to be on hand from the time of the purchase until the goods are consumed. The only thing needed to make the board of control law perfect is to have it extended so far that it is sans dependent prow in the county institutions are cared for in state institutions and under the board of control's supervision. I doubt whether there is a state in the union that has a system superior to the one in Iowa." GILMAN'S CRIME RECALLED. Des Moines, Aug. 20.—When the legislature appropriated $5,500 to make up the shortage of Dr. H. A. Gilman, former superintendent of the hospital for insane at Mt. Pleasant, on account of his embezzlement of funds belonging to the patients it was thought that the loss of the reimbursement would be almost total, but a displeased awner matric just received by the board of control to the effect that a dividend of seven per cent had been declared on the estate of Wr. Gilman and the state's share of this dividend is $362.36. The fact that the payment is a dividend declared on the estate since the property of Dr. Gilman went into the possession of George H. Spahr, who was appointed by the court as executor, is very encouraging in that it gives promise that the state may eventually be fully reimbursed. Arlon Murder In a Mystery. Denison, Aug. 20.—The coroner's jury in the Arion murder case has brought in its verdict. Beyond establishing the identity of the murdered man as J. H. Love and obtaining information as to the means by which he was killed the inquest brought nothing high. The县 is the murderer and the case is a decided mystery. The officers have not given up, but at present there is but small hopes that the guilty party will ever be arrested. Feared McKinley Would Name Another. Canton, Aug. 21.—C. Barber, postmaster at Grand Mound, this county, a well known citizen, committed suicide by shooting himself in the woods a mile from the town, and the body late last night. It is said that worry over fear of losing the postoffice to the act. Glyves $30,000 to a Church. Cedar Rapids, Aug. 23.—Mrs. T. M. Sinclair has decided to dedicate a $30,000 church to the Third Presbyterian church of this city as a memorial to her late husband. Work will begin at once on the building, which will accommodate 500, with Sunday school rooms for 400. Boy Steals His Last Ride. Cedar Rapids, Aug. 23—E. M. Babcock, aged 16 years, was killed. He stole a ride from the Union station for about fourteen blocks and jumped off. His head struck a rail and was split open. He lived but a few min- Music Bed on Railway Denison, Aug. 23.—The Northwestern flyer train No. 1 ran over an unknown man near this place. He had evidently gone to sleep on the track. His body was mangled so that it had to be picked up in pieces. Hull Postoffice Robbed. Hull, Aug, 23.—The postoffice here was burglarized. The safe was blown to pieces by three explosions and $47+ in stamps and $150 in money taken. **Boy Is Washed From a Raft.** Sioux City, Aug, 23.—Ernest Porter, aged 10, was washed from a raft in the Missouri river by waves from a steamer and drowned. Kmilu McLain, Honorary Iowa City, Aug. 23.—Judge Emlin McLain was elected president of the American Association of Law Schools at Denver. St. Louis College Brings Salt Des Moines, Aug. 19.—The Still College of Osteopathy, located in Des Moines, has secured an injunction in the federal court at St. Louis restraining the parent institution at Kirkville and other osteopathic institutions from circulating stories about the Des Moines college to the effect that it has been excluded from the association of colleges of this character and other tales tending to damage it. Suit has been entered for $50,600 damages. Enthusiasm will lead a man to do things that common sense could not drive him to attempt. Des Moines, Aug. 17.—The state fair, which opens on the 23rd, and continues to the close of this month, promises to be the very best ever held in the state of Iowa. The entries already indicate that the fair will be in show condition earlier than common, and as one of the best day's programs has been arranged for Monday, the 26th, the probabilities are that the "big day" will come off very early in the last week of the fair, and as Monday is Des Moines day, and many excursions will enter the city that day over various roads, and as the very best fireworks program ever presented will be on Monday night it is possible that Monday will be the big day of the fair. In addition to this being Des Moines day, all children for fifteen years will be admitted on Monday free. This should be an inducement to parents, not only in Des Moines, but in the state at large, to attend the fair early and get the benefit of the free admissions. There will be the finest display of stock seen in recent years and there will be acres of machinery and exhibits in all lines, with the possible exception of the agricultural and horizonal departments, will be full to overflowing. Special attention has been given to the free amusements and there is variety and quality to please all. Public comfort has been provided for, the best camp ground of the country, or of the United States being offered free. Catalogues and bulletins free by addressing the secretary, Des Moines. BIG COUNCIL BLUFFS FIRE. Union Pacific Transfer Company Suffers $100,000 Loss Council Bluffs, Aug. 21.—Fire at the Union Pacific transfer yards in the southwestern part of this city last evening caused a loss estimated at $75,000. Sparks from a passing engine set fire to the roofs of the sheds and when discovered by the clerks in the office of the company covered scarcely a square yard. Everything was as dry as tinder and before the company's department had gotten out the blaze was beyond control and the city companies were called out. When they arrived the fire was spreading east and west along the long sheds company and it was found impossible to do more than to keep the fire from spreading to other buildings in the neighborhood. One thousand two hundred feet of sheds and $1,000 worth of freight being transferred was burned. The tracks of the company were lined with hundreds of cars and it was impossible to get many of them out before they too were burning. Thirty or forty of them were burned to the trucks, as was also the merchandise with which they were loaded. Half a hundred more were badly burned. The present it is impossible to give any reasonable estimate of the loss, but it is estimated all the way from $50,000 to $100,000. PIERCED BY A LINE STICK: Engineer Has a Piece of Moulding Driven Through His Breast. Ft. Dodge, Aug. 23.—Frank Bender of Waterloo, an engineer on the Illinois Central, was probably fatally injured here. He was switching in the yards. His cab failed to clear a box car, and the collision forced away a strip of moulding from the car. It sprung upward and struck Bender in the breast, and passed clear through him. In his agony, he had shown the throttle and the engine sped down the track, colliding with a freight, doing considerable damage, Bender was also burned about the shoulders and arms. Threat Was Burglar's Undoing Fort Douge, Aug. 23.—A burglar entered the residence of O. F. Cady and awakened Margaret Cady while removing a valuable ring from her finger. She was admonished to keep quiet or have her head blown off. A stern demand for money and valuables brought a scream from the lady, awakening the entire household. The burglar escaped through an open window, tearing down the curtains as he went. Two Sisters Drowned Maquoketa, Aug. 21.—Bessie and Hazel, aged twenty-one and sixteen, daughters of William Reeve of this city, were drowned in the Maquoketa river today. Their bodies were found two hours later clasped in each other's arms in nine feet of water. It is a sad story, but an other, who lost his wife but a few years ago, is prostrated with grief. Serious Accident. Dubuque, Aug. 22.—John Miller of Pittsburgh, Penn. was seriously injured while Pawnee Bill's show was in progress. In the exhibition a loaded cannot exploded and destroyed Miller's eyes and necessitated the amputation of one hand. It is doubtful if he will recover. Suicide of a Canal. Cedar Rapids, Aug. 22.—Because the drouth had killed his crops and made his financial burdens unbearable, Wesley B. Holub, living a mile east of Prairieburg, shot himself through the head. He was 33 years of age and leaves a wife and two children. Mrs. Nettie Sanford-Chapin Dead. Marshalltown, Aug. 21.—Nettie Sanford-Chapin, a widely known Washington newspaper correspondent and for many years prominent in Iown W. R. C. and W. C. T. U. circles, is dead, aged 76 years. Iowan Suicides in Ontario. Omaha, Aug. 17.—John W. McBride, aged 55, was found dead in his room at the Midland hotel with the gas turned on. It was evidently his intention to commit suicide. A note, bearing his name, was in his pocket and also a copy of the Columbus Safeguard, a newspaper published at Columbus Junction, Iowa. Republican State Central Committee. Des Moines, Aug. 17.—The meeting of the republican state central committee to effect organization has been called to be held at the Savery hotel club rooms in this city August 23. NEWS IN GENERAL SERIOUS RACE WAR IN MISSOURI. Negroes Being Lynched or Driven Out for Alleged Crimes. Pierce City, Mo., Aug. 21.—For nearly fifteen hours ending about noon yesterday, this town of 3,000 people was in the hands of a mob of armed whites, determined to drive every negro from its precincts. In addition to the lynching last night of Will Godille, accused of the wanton murder Sunday afternoon of Miss Gazelle Wild, and the shooting to death of his grandfather, French Godley, the mob today cremated Pete Hampton, an aged negro, in his home, set the torch to the houses of five blacks, and, with the aid of state militia rifles, stolen from the company's arsenal, drove dozens of negroes from town. After noon the excitement died down, the men gradually dispersing, more and lack of negroes upon whom to wreak their hatred than for any other cause, many of the negroes who fled from the city are hiding in the surrounding woods, while others have gone greater distances in seeking safety. Every negro has left the town except a few railroad porters known to be respectable, but who must also leave. The citizens of Pierce City say that as negroes have committed such crimes in the last ten years, none shall live here in the future. The same feeling already existing at Monett, four miles east of Pierce City, it may be necessary for the road to change all porters in Springfield hereafter. It is now believed that the man (Gouldy) launched was not the real culprit. A negro named Starks under arrest at Tulsa, I. T., across the border here, tullies exactly with the description of the murderer. He is held there awaiting identification. Unless the man is brought back here, it is believed there will be further trouble. If brought here, he will surely be lynched. Another suspect, Joe Lark, is under arrest at Springfield, Mo. STRIKERS REMAIN OUIET. Steel Officials Gratified Over Resumption of Star Tin Plate Plant. Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 23—Aside from the partial equipment of the Star plant of the American Tin Plate company and the preparation for its immediate resumption of business, there were no special developments in the strike situation in this city yesterday. No further trouble occurred at all other strike points quiet reigns. The Amalgamated people point with pride to the conduct of their members in restraining themselves from violence when they see non-unionism being marched into the mills to take their places. The incident at the Star plant yesterday morning is given as an example of especial significance and to use an Amalgamated official's statement that the mills have been educated to the knowledge that their strongest weapon in such cases is silence and submission until it is demonstrated that the mills cannot be operated successfully without the aid of the skilled men now on strike. The steel men, on the other hand, are highly pleased with their success in manning the Star plant, and say that they have not molested it will be but a short time until all of their mills will be in full operation. While the strikers claim that four of the new men at the Star plant have deserted the company and say that others would leave if they could get out of the mill. Superintendent of operations at the mill has 100 men at work; that none have deserted and that the men can go and come from the mill as they please. FRANCO-TURKISH AGREEMENT. Warship Cassard Has Started for Constantinople. Paris, Aug. 23—The Matin announces that the French second class cruiser Cassard has started for Turkish waters and that a naval division is ready to follow. The approaching visit of the earar to France largely overshadows the interest taken in the Franco-Turkish incident. The apathy of the public is reflected by the comments of the newspapers. They generally express confidence in a peaceful settlement of the dispute. According to the foreign office officials yesterday afternoon there was no news and no change in the situation of the Turkish imbroglio. This, however, was noticeable—the offices of the Turkish embassy were present. While reasserting that no naval demonstration is contemplated, they refuse to confirm or deny the truth of the news contained in special dispatches, saying that three battleships and a cruiser which arrived at Toulon yesterday morning are taking coal provisions on board. They said they had no information on the subject. INTERVENTION IS PROBABLE. Czar Said to Be About Ready to Take Action on Transnational War. Brussels, Aug. 23.—The Independence Belge prints a dispatch from Copenhagen, which says: Surrendered in Russian circles that the czar has decided to broach South African intervention to Emperor William and President Loubet. He considers the time opportune for friendly mediations." The paper adds, under reserve, that the czar, during his stay in France, will receive Mr. Kruger in private audition, before him a direct statement of the Boer position, with the view of formulating a plan for action. Leaves Wife to Duras a Lopes St. Louis, Aug. 21—Dr. Louis Kuapp, aged 40, a practicing physician of this city, has forever separated himself from his wife and four children, and will become isolated from the world, to nurse Dong Gong, the Chinese leper, who was found here two weeks ago. The doctor, who is a graduate of a Detroit medical college, took final leave of his family yesterday. With his patient and prisoner as his only companion, Dr. Knapp will live in a three room frame house at quarantine until the necessity for his services are ended. Against Colombia. Willemsted, Curacao, Aug. 23.—Via Haytil cable, from Stemetsi steamers have transported 800 men from Maracaibo to Coro, under the command of General Davila, who defeated and captured General Hernandez, to invade Colombia near Rio Hacha and to support General Uribe-Uribe. The Venezuelan authorities have also sent ammunition to that point. General John Pietri, leader of a revolutionary movement that was about ready to start, was captured near Magdalena, in the state of Carbo, while on his way to Caracas, Guarani was taken to Caracas, immediately set at liberty by President Castro. Colon, Colombia, Aug. 23.—The Colombian government is now enforcing a strict censorship. SIXTY-FIVE DROWNED. Steamship Islander Struck an Ice here and Sunk. Victoria, B. C., Aug. 20...United States Consul Smith of Victoria, who was a passenger on the Queen from jounea to Victoria, gleaned the following story of the wreck of the steamship Islander which struck an iceberg off Douglass Island last Thursday, from the survivors, forty of whom were passengers on the Queen. The Islander left Skagway for Victoria on Wednesday evening, the 12th, at 6 p. m., with 125 passengers and a crew of sixty-one men on board, and ten to twelve stowaways. All went well, the steamer making her usual record of 15 knots an hour until at 3 a. m., on Thursday morning when Juneau was passed and the south of Dixie Island was breached. Then suddenly the steamer encountered an obstruction said to have been an iceberg and stopped with a jerk which aroused many of the sleeping passengers. "Pilot LeBlonde was in charge of the steamer at the time and went immediately to the dining room where Captain Foote was having breakfast and notified him of the trouble soon too. The water rushed forward in great volumes and the pilot advised that the vessel be beached, not over half a mile distance, at once. To this the captain objected, saying the beach was too abrupt. He thought there was no immediate danger, but would withdraw to a few miles further doubtless he knew there was a good loading. "The captain assured the passengers there was no immediate danger and that they could go back to bed, and sent the first officer down to examine. That officer reported there was great danger and urged that the vessel be beached at once. The first officer ordered the boats let down, but this order was countermanded by the captain, who, however, of the situation and allowed the first officer to get down the boats. Meanwhile the passengers appeared on deck and a rush was made to the purser by those who had given him treasure for safe-keeping. Purser Bishop handed all out except two bags of $10,000 each, which were not claimed and went down with the vessel." Among the passengers lost were Mrs. Governor Ross of Dawson, child of the doctor and John M Duncan of Victorin. The doctor was seen with a life preserver about him, but no one saw Mrs. Ross, and it is thought that Duncan lost his life in a futile attempt to resue Mrs. Ross and family just as the steamer si: TOWNS WRECKED BY WINDS. Lives Wiped Out in Oklahoma's In'ant Filipos. El Reno, O. T., Aug. 23.—A wind and rain storm, amounting to almost a tornado, nearly demolished the new town of Anadarko. W. P. Lewis of Weatherford, Texas, and John Antone of Paris, Texas, were killed by falling buildings and a number of others were injured, while about twenty buildings were almost completely wrecked, and hundreds of tents and great quantities of merchandise were seized the prairie. Dr. Mase of Wichita was killed in his tent by an unfinished house blowing down on him. John Antone was killed in the lodging tent and grocery store of his sons, located just west of the postoffice. The postoffice building, a rudely constructed affair, collapsed and fell over the tent. Antone's three sons succeeded in getting out, but their father was caught by a large timber and crushed to death by the side. Levis was found in the tail by the side. loom building been erected on the corner of Tenth and C streets. He leaves a wife and three children. He was a painter. Dan Warren, a young man, was injured while standing in a tent near by Levis' place, being knocked from his cot by a timber. Mississippi Treasury Short. Jackson, Miss., Aug. 23.—Governor L. Longino has issued a statement of the condition of the state treasury showing that on August 15 he found therein by actual counting $677,840 when the books called for $404,460—shortage of $162,621. Treasurer Stowers was, however, allowed credit for bills, drafts etc. amounting to $55,000 leaving the shortage $107,621. Bullion Robber Sentenced. Martinez, Cal., Aug. 23.—Jack Winters, the man who got away with $20,000 in gold bullion from the Selby Smelting works and afterwards confessed, was sentenced to fifteen years at sent to Sun Coutin but the request was refused. He was taken to Folsom today. Battleship Iowa 2013 San Francisco, Aug. 21.—The battleship Iowa sailed yesterday afternoon for Panama. Washington, Aug. 21.—The navy department of has been informed of the sailing of the battleship for Panama. She will stop at Acapulco coal. The distance from San Francisco to Ipanama is 3,274 miles and the trip will occupy about twelve days. In walking a mile a man uses seventeen and a half tons of energy. An ordinary day's work contains 300 tons. Des Moines, August 23, 1991. Iowa consumed 563,103 barrels of petroleum in the two years ending June 30, 1991. This, according to the official reports of the fourteen state oil inspectors, it is remarkable that in handling nearly 564,000 barrels, only 770 barrels should have been to be bad oil, or testing under the standard fixed by the state. But the official reports show that was the case. Only 770 barrels were rejected during the biennium, and in the year ending June 30, 1991, only 133 were rejected. During the same period, 239 barrels of gasoline were rejected for illumination purposes. For inspecting these 564,000 barrels of oil, the oil inspectors collected fees amounting to $82,302.60. retained $31,033.74 of this for themselves, being their salary, which is limited by law to $100 per month each. For expenses, however, another $27,900.43 was retained by the inspectors. The state treasury received from this source $23,457.28. The percent of expenses of the fees received during the biennium was 33.90; the fees paid to the state treasury to the total amount of fees collected was 28.50. Of the rejections of oils, S. H. Bauman was responsible for 115 barrels, J. B. Bishop was responsible for 130, C. H. Hare for 154, C. F. Gullison for 4, J. O'Keefer for 116, M. M. Pickel for 239, and L. Weinstein for 12. Superintendent R. C. Barrett of the department of public instruction has prepared a circular to county superintendents in which he urges that the greatest care be taken in securing an accurate school. The federal census of Iowa, taken in shows there are 767,870 children of school age in the state. The school census for the same year reports but 731,154. Mr. Barrett calls attention to this and says a difference of 36,716 in the two reports is good evidence that someone has done careless work and a sufficient argument that more accurate account should be made this year. The circular urges that the time fixed by the statute for making the enumeration be strictly followed. Section 278 requires each director to take the census between the year and 10th days of September in each year, by the 15th day of September to report the list to the secret'ary of the school township, who is required to make a full record of the list prepared by the director. The law requires all persons between the ages of 5 and 21 years who are residents of a district to be included in the census of that district. Careful inquiry is emphasized. It is specified in the charter that a child in one of the charitable or reformatory institutions must be ennumerated in the district in which his parents reside. But if the child is in the institution to remain permanently, having no guardian, his residence is in the district in which the institution is located, and he should be enumerated therein. The prevalence of the drink habit at the Soldiers' Home is the chief obstacle in the way of good discipline among the innates, according to the biennial report of Commander C. C. Horton to the board of control. "The drink habit is the root of nearly all our troubles at the some," says the commandant. The percentage of drunkards is less at this writing than at any time during the history of the home. The new pension law which provides for the withholding of pensions from those twice convicted of drunkness has resulted in a number of this class taking their discharge, and has proved in a general way beneficial to the best interests of the home." The commandant Horton says the discipline at the home is good, though making it plain if it were not for the liquor habit the government would be more easy. His report is for the biennial period ending June 30, 1901. Attention is called to the need of a number of new improvements and new buildings in the coming biennial period, the cost being $57,000. The flourishing condition of the state treasury was indicated when the governor's office checked up the accounts therem. Over a million dollars in general revenue was found on hand. The total of all the funds in the treasury reached nearly $1,800,000. The balances were as follows: General revenue on hand.$1,052,457.55 Agricultural college enment ..... 652,735.89 Special Iowa State college revenue ..... 31,295.96 Agricultural college addition endowment ..... 25,000.00 Swamp land indemnity ..... 10,718.18 Special university revenues ..... 2,384.74 Permanent school ..... 63.34 meant Special Iowa State college revenue ... Agricultural college addition endowment ... Swamp land indemnity ... Special university revenues Permanent school .. Assistant Attorney General Van Vleck has rendered an opinion to J. B. Hungerford of Carroll, one of the board of trustees of the Iowa State College of Agriculture at Ames, to the effect the trustees must pay their own expenses if they go on a trip to eastern educational institutions. It appears the trustees had planned a jacket and concluded to go east to colleges and universities and gather inspiration for plans for the new building that will be asked for at the next session of the legislature. Conger Reaches Peking. Peking, Aug. 19.—Edwin H. Conger, the United States minister to China, has sarrived here. **Strike in Clark's Mines.** Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. 21.—The United Verge, probably the richest mine in the world, which brings its owner, Senator Clark of Montana, $12,000,000 a year, is idle, because the copper king will not grant his men an eight-hour day. About 1,000 men are affected. When presented with the demands of the men a few days ago, Clark said: "I will not grant my men an eight-hour day. I would rather let the grass grow up in the streets of Jerome." Firm language is used in a conversation between partners. PHILLIPS THE NOMINEE Ex-Mayor of Ottumwa Nominated for Governor by Democrats, Des Moines, August 22.—After winning in the committee on resolutions and preparing in declaration which contained no reference to the Kansas City platform or to national issue in any graine, that element of the Iowa democracy which is desirous of getting rid of the 16 to 1 issue, met detent on the floor of the convention yesterday afternoon. By a vote of 601-35 to 548-2-5, the convention adopted a minority report signed by Walter H. Bufler, Claude Porter and John J. Searley, prefixing to the resolutions reported by the majority a preamble specifically reaffirming allegiance to the Kansas City platform. Mr. Searley, security report compliance with instruction received from the first district caucus. It was almost 11 o'clock yesterday morning when Chairman Huffman of the state central committee called the democratic convention to order. He briefly announced the purpose of the convention, then called upon Rev. J. N. McCash to deliver the invocation. A selection by the band followed after which Mr. Huffman introduced E. M. Sharon of Davenport, who, he said, would preside. The address of Temporary Chairman Sharon was a model of discretion and diplomacy. Not one word was used to criticize him, but trusts and imperialism were the least vigorous terms to the plaudits of the assembled delegates. He criticised the colonial policy of the administration and hinted at carpet-bagging. He demanded that senators be elected by the direct vote of the people and that the constitution be amended if necessary, to accomplish this end. That part of the address which deals with state issues is as follows: "The republican party is the same in the The republican party is the same in the The idea of the statutes of Iowa is that all M. B. HON. THOMAS J. PHILLIPS. state as in the nation. The tensions are the same whether at Washington or Des Moines, but for thirty years—since the days when its honest leaders passed away—a party held together by a chronic appetite for the spoils of power has been able to hold state and our first experiments as a colonial power, have given to the world the most powerful government, misconduct in office, grand larceny and embezzlement of public monies. The first men sent out with the credentials of man leaders have been accused of jails or brought out embezzlers and thieves. The democratic legislators have snowed to the point that the state officials and the attorney general of the state has found the duties of the office more onerous a year on account of the state's "The republican party for years in the face of protests of democrats, in the face of attacks of the right, against the demands of honest followers of their party, have refused to abolish the police, and have allowed the people through these offices to be robbed to the extent of thousands of dollars. The police office might be given as a reward for party service. They have kept up the corollary of the guarantee that the same work could be done at from 25 to 50 per cent less by the police, and that even these prices were not large enough to satisfy the rapacity of republican leaders. The printer is accustomed to charging over $5,000 per excess of excessive rates. The mulet law is another example of republican policy, deflected as the policy of prohibition in '89 and '91, it decided to take a 'step backward and desert the police, and still offers for republican state wide ineffective prohibition, a license that would determine their position in regard to the cities, towns and villages of the state to determine their position in regard to theposed a system for the control of the traffic that objectionable parties might be kept from the police, and a safe-guarded that while it became a legitimate occupation and industry, its abuse irresponsible parties might be provided with. "The republicans in order to hold within its ranks the liberals and the prohibitionists apart from the government and feudal imagination the hybrid of a mulet tax law, through which they were enabled to prohibit the prohibitionists exhibition and the liberals the manufacture and sale and the saloonkeepers a license to violate a law of the state by paying a mulet tax. It has the tracking feature of a license system and there all anology ends. The power to license presupposes the power to under the mulet tax of the part the mulet Under the mulet tax may or women direct from Fort Madison or Anamasa. If a saloon and the only thing the municipal power can do—its local option, is the right the board of supervisors to assess an additional tax against the property occupied. The property occupied may be ten or twelve feet on the bank of a gully and the tax can never be collected, but the person operating in strict accordance with the provisions of the republican law, the unnecessary to discuss the success or failure of the maltreatment or the maltreatment. The facts are familiar to you all. In Scott county we have a cost in the matter but in the interests of the community like to have some provision for the entire state that would wipe out the drug store business executives or drunkenness. "The demand for state affairs equality of taxation for its citizens—that the corporations of the state hear that the corporations of the state hear that the assessment of corporation property, which assesses value of individual property is largely increased. In Scott county the assessed valuation of property during the last ten years has increased to $12,000 per mile of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific company in the county, and $10,000 for the southwestern division in 1900. The assessment of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Paul, Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Division remained at the same valuation. In 1900 the assessed valuation of lots and lands in the county were assessed at $8,000,000. During these ten years the betterments of railroad property have been greater in proportion than the improvement of farm lands and city lots. In no other way by the increased selling value of roads. According to the report of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway commission the funded debt of the Rock Island amounted to $22,080 per mile, and the value of the road, according to the property, $51,974 per mile. It is said that the C, R, I & B Railway company is one of the ear of the executive council. "The valuation of individual property of the state has steadily increased during the last ten years, and the assessment has increased from $5,319 in 1908 per mile in 1900 taxable value, while the earnings have increased from $4,522 per mile in 1891 to $5,697 in 1900. There can be no doubt that the executive council charged with the assessment of corporate property. The idea of the statutes of Iowa is that all property for purposes of taxation shall be valued at its fair market value. Your property is so valued. If your farm be mortgaged, it is worth $10,000. If your farm is worth-or-if you are able to sell it $10,000 subject to the mortgage-it is the duty of the assessor under the law to put the property in the possession of the corporation is mortgaged or bonded for $20,000,000 and its stock which represents the equity in the property is worth $20,000,000. The body to value it for taxation at the $10,000,000 value. "Railroad lawyers with political influence ought not to be able to induce the executive to permit the railroad to pay 99 per cent of that sum. The same rule applies to telegraph, telephone and express mail, and every other corporation having valuable water companies, street railway companies and every other corporation having valuable railway companies, carrying a ship should be assessed the value of their stock. It is the only legal, the only just and equitable method of assessment that the court must hold. The supreme court of Michigan recently held that the Detroit Street Railway company should not over and above the value of its tangible property as represented by its tracks, ties and other equipment it holds. It does business in any locality. Its right to do business in different states—to tax the property, express mail, telegraph or sleeping car company doing an interstate business, express company, telegraph or sleeping car company doing an interstate business, federal government be charged with putting a fair valuation upon the entire property of the state, justly among the states for local taxation. "Ex-Senator Edmunds says: 'Unequal treatment of all forms of tyranny.' The people of this state agree with him. Just government ceases when even a dozen corporations or individual pays less than his share. Taking one single dollar unjustly is no better than highway robbery, it is a crime on the part of the 'it should be the work of this convention of justice.' The republican party will never assessment of all property for purposes of settle this question in the state of Iowa. The republican party will notvention in favor of it, but they are unable to accomplish it. Horace Boles tried to do the same in Iowa, but the council and he failed. Senator Cheshire has tried to get a republican legislature to provide for a relief in the election of Mr. Cumins, there is no promise in the platform on which he is seeking election. The fight against the relief in the election of Mr. Hubbard was a fight between rival railroads. The railroads which John Herrlott the railroads that were kicking' seek to get the favor of the executive council by placing one of their attorneys on their court. The railroads that were theirs and their interests, have not been taken into ac --- State Issues count, and no word has escaped Mr. Cummins before or since he won his great fight between the railroads whose attorney he is not and the property of the farmers and factories and lot owners of the state." The attorneys were then announced as follows: State Central Committee—First, N. C. Roberts of Fort Madison; Second, Charles Carr of Manchester; Third, Carr of Manchester; Fourth, Senat. A. L. Ackerman of Cresco (hold over); Fifth, A. E. Jackson of Tama; Sixth, S. F. McConnell of Bloomington; Seventh, S. F. McConnell of Mohes (hold over); eighth, A. W. Maxwell of Sevirmount; Ninth, S. B. Morrison of Houghton; J. H. Quick of Woodbury (hold over). HON. E. M PETER H. M. H. HON. F. M. SHARON Resolutions—John J. Soreley of Burlington, M. Highee of Foulkau; Fourth, H. C. Bishop of Elkader; Fifth, M. R. Jackson of Tipi; M. Highee of Foulkau; Journey, Seventh, Walter H. Blauk of Claude Porter of Centerville; Ninth, W. F. Feverel of Harlan; Tenth, John L. Power ofarroll; Eleventh, Herrick Q. Cuewke. Burden, First, H. F. Mackenzie of Cumberland; Second, Brent M. Quackenport Third, W. S. Porter of Hardi; Fourth, Elmer Benton of Clayton; Fifth, John Eaun Alba; Sixth, Brent M. Quackenport Third, W. S. Porter of Hardi; Fourth, Elmer Benton of Clayton; Fifth, John Eaun Alba; Seventh, Lee Evans of Madison; Eighth, Ben Widener of Corning; Ninth, J. 1930 1930 P. HON. JOHN M. REDMOND D. Goss of Atlantic; Tenth, D. A. Roy of Humboldt; Eleventh, Frank Harvey of Moorland. Permanent Organization—First, P. J. Hanley of Washington; Second, C. A. Caldren of Muscatine; Third, John B. Wade of Butterfield; Fourth, John B. Wade of Fifth, J. Green of Story City; Sixth, W. C. Anderson of Oskaloosa; Seventh, James McNell of Warren; Eighth, J. W. Freeland of Oakland; Ninth, Red Oak; Tenth, E. C. Jordan of Boone; Eleventh, James Parson of Rock Rapids. Vice Presidents—First, John F. Leach of JOHN S. PETER H. M. B. JOHN S. MURPHY Henry; Second, G. W. Ball of Iowa City; Third, F. P. Hagerman of Bremer; fourth, W. H. Moeder of Howard; fifth, A. T. Jewery of Marshall; sixth, John W. Jones of Brooklyn; seventh, J. S. Cunningham of Knoxville; eighth, J. F. Shepherd of M. Arv; ninth, R. M. Harris of Missouri Valley; tenth, W. M. Thompson of Rutland; eleventh, A. P. Cramer of LeMars. At 2:15 Temporary Chairman Sharon called the convention to order and report of credentials was heard and adopted. --- The report of the committee on permanent organization recommended John M. Redmond of Cedar Rapids for permanent chairman and that the remainder of the temporary organization be made permanent was adopted. Mr. Redmond on taking the chair, said among other things: I desire to thank you for this unexpected help you gave your time here this afternoon by making a speech. I want to say, however, that this is one of the greatest gifts I have received. My youth up have I been a democrat, I have been a democrat because I believe the I. SHARON. democratic party is an organization, not one forced by force but possessed of a conscience. The democratic party of Iowa today, and that is that there may be peace and harmony in the country. The first democratic candidate since the war, and I cast my last ballot for the man who, and the democratic president (great and prolonged applause) and saved us the disgrace of having the republican stump speaker videolining the election, and the constitution of the United States. Mr. Redmond again thanked the convention and made ready to sit 1. down. There were cries of "Go on! Go on!" from the audience, and the chairman after ascertaining that the committee on resolutions was not ready to report, spoke ten minutes longer on the issues of the day and eulogizing the party. The majority report of the committee on resolutions was read by Chairman Cleveland. In effect it MURPHY. adopted the democratic platform in a general way with no specific reference to silver. Upon its reading, Walt Butler gained the floor and presented the minority report, which was an out and out endorsement of the Kansas City platform and free silver. No sooner had he read the first sentence relating to silver than half the delegates were on their feet wildly cheering the reader and the minority report. Mr. Butler followed the reading by a short and decisive address in favor of the Kansas City platform and free silver. D. W. Hamilton, of Sigourney, at the close of Mr. Butler's remarks offered a second minority report in which he stated that issues were paramount though none of the principles of the national platform should be repudiated. Walt. Butler immediately rose to a point of order declaring that a second minority report could not be adopted. He was sustained by the tone of his statement that tute was declared in order and balloting began after order had been restored. The majority report follows: We, the democrats of Iowa, in convention We, the democrats of Iowa, in convention assembled, do hereby declare and adopt the following resolutions: "Resolved. That the fundamental principle of democracy, "equal rights to all and speci- ties to all," must be applied to the subject of taxation. The democratic party believes that the burdens of taxation should be borne equally by all taxable prop- erals. The democratic party assembly to formulate and urge the adoption of such a law as will compel the adoption of such a law in corporate and individual property alike without favor or exemption of any interests. We demand economy in the administration. We demand a fair tax law, the enactment of a local option law, the abolition of the offices of state printer and state binder and the contracting for a state with the lowest responsible bidder. "We cordially invite all honest men of the state to unite with us in securing the enactment of these principles into law. The state is the one and the same as the majority report, with the following preamble: We, the democrats of Iowa, in convention assembled, hereby reaffirm the principles of the democratic national platform adopted during our July 19, 2010, and without surpassance of our policies, we believe loyalty to our national policies, we believe this campaign to be particularly one that should be declared out of order, was as follows: We, the democrats of Iowa, in convention assembled, make the following declaration of principles: that in this campaign state issues are paramount while not retracting or repudiating any past declarations of the state, and that in this time, wading questions of national politics, to address ourselves to the redemption of Iowa from republican misrule. In all other respects, same as majority report. The motion to substitute the minority report for the majority report carried by a vote of 669 3-5 to 550 2-5. After the announcement of the adoption of the Butler substitute, Judge Wade moved to substitute for the preamble of the platform as amended the Quick resolution presented by Mr. Hamilton. The chair HON. C. P. A. HON. C. A. WALSH. ruled that the motion could not be entertained since it proposed a substitute for a substitute. Pamunium may be rapidly deceiving when their feet decaworing to convince the chair that the substitute having been adopted became the report of the amendment and was subject to amendment, adoption or rejection by the convention. Other motions similar to Judge Wade's were offered but unheeded. During the discussion some one moved to proceed with the nomination of a candidate for governor. The motion was put and carried. Then the discussion of Judge Wade's motion was resumed. E. M. Sharon gained the chair's attention and after insisting on the properness of the motion renewed it. The chair then announced his final decision. It was that the Butler substitute, having been adopted, it became the platform of the convention. Final action had been taken and it could only be tampered with through a motion to reconsider. Mr. Sharon insisted that a substitute had simply been adopted for the original report and that the report as amended through the substitute had never been adopted by the convention. The chair held to his ruling and Mr. Sharon appealed. The point of appeal was then rendered the business had indeed the convention had voted to proceed with the nomination of a candidate for governor and that nothing else could be taken up. The point of order was sustained. Before the nomination of a candidate for governor was begun Cato Sells gained the floor. He asked unanimous consent to present a resolution to the convention. There cries of "no," "no." Mr. Sells then explained that his resolution dealt with the taxation question, but the delegates persisted in refusing him a hearing and he retired with his manuscript in his hands. The committee then proceeded to the nomination of a ticket. Judge Caldwell of Tama county nominated H. J. Stiger of Toledo, and John R. Lewis of Ottumwa nominated Thomas J. Phillips, former mayor of Ottumwa. The first ballot resulted: Phillips, 526; Stiger, 562; Weaver, 20; Redmond, 13; Ball, 10. On the second ballot Phillips was nominated by a vote of 554 to 589 for Stiger. When it came to the nomination of the lieutenant governor several names were presented, among them that of Cato Sells of Vinton. G. E. Ferguson of Logan, Harrison county was put in nomination, Lou Gening of Mills county was named, but he took the stage and declined the honor. W. T. Davis of Fremont county was nominated but declined. All other names having been withdrawn, Mr. Ferguson was nominated by acclamation. There were three candidates for superintendent of schools, Samuel D. Whiting of Johnson, William D. Johnson of Iowa county, superintendent of schools at Carroll, and Logan Steece of Des Moines county. Mr. Johnson was nominated on the first ballot, by the following vote: Whiting, 2231; Steece, 84; Johnson, 5241. Fred White was nominated for railroad commissioner. Mr. White declined. He said he was physically unable to attend the governors and did not believe any democrat there desired to put any more burdens on him. A. C. Brice of Taylor county was nominated for the office by acclamation. A committee of three, consisting of John Green of Jones, John M. Lewis of Wapello and J. J. McMahon of Tama was named to notify Mr. Phillips of his nomination. It was 7:30 when the proceedings were brought to a close. THE CANDIDATES T. J. Phillips candidat for governor, is superintendent of the Whitebreast Fuel company mines in Iowa and Illinois. He is a practical miner, having commenced as a miner's assistant when 7 years old. He rose by merit through successive stages to his present position with the Whitebreast company. He served one term as mayor of Ottumwa and is reputed to have given the city an education. He is said to be popular among the miners and laboring men, where he is best known. George E. Ferguson, candidate for lieutenant governor, is editor of the Logan Nucleus and is one of the best known of the younger newspaper editors of the state. He was born in Marshalltown in 1866. In 1870 his family moved to Carroll county. He received a bachelor's degree from the Winging schools. Later he learned the printer's trade and worked in Manning and Council Bluffs. In 1893 he went from the Council Bluffs Globe to Logan, where he took charge of the Nucleus, which he has made a highly successful paper. In 1894 he A. WALSH. was chosen chairman of the Harrison county democratic central committee. The year before the democrats polled 1,400 votes in the county, the Democratic vote in under his direction of the campaign increased to 1,800; and in 1895 it was 2,300, and in 1896 3,200. Mr. Ferguson was a delegate to the national democratic convention in 1896, and secretary of the state convention at Dubuque, the same year. John Shortley, of Perry, Dallas county, was born in Wisconsin in 1851 on a farm and attended the rural schools and farmed during his boyhood days. He drove a team to Iowa in 1868 and lived on a farm near New Hampton, Chickasaw county. He farmed and taught school in his older years. He took him into Upper Iowa university, where he graduated from the law class in 1874. He was in the same class with ex-Governor Jackson and Judge Carr of Manchester. He began practice with Judge Scott of Brooklyn and continued four years, when he went to Perry, where he has since resided. He was in partnership with H. H. Cardell, now deceased, for a number of years. Mr. Shortley was a very successful. He was formerly a republican but went over to the democrats about twelve years ago on the tariff and other questions and has been a consistent democrat ever since. W. B. Johnson, candidate for state superintendent, is a resident of Iowa county, but at present employed as superintendent of the Carroll public schools. He stands well as an educator. A. C. Brice, candidate for railroad commissioner, is one of the best known residents of Taylor county. He was appointed consul to Matanzas, Cuba, by President Cleveland and served until after the close of the Spanish-American war. During the trying times which succeeded the bitter up of the time he rendered distinguished services, the secret and otherwise, to the government and received especial mention from the state department for his work. Mr. Brice is an old soldier. Mexico's jurisdiction extends to more than thirty islands. There is consent in a smile, while a laugh is often a refusal. ```markdown ``` --- THE CANDIDATES. EVANS NEWS. Fifty dollars worth of repairs have been put on the Golliffe Baptist shurse. The labor was done by volunteers. The least estimated cost of the repairs including the labor done by friends is $80 00 all of which is paid up to date. Rev. D. J. Tate goes to Whatheeer to attend the English River Baptist Association the 22, where he will speak on the Mission weak of the colored Baptist of America. Mrs. Tate will accompany him and will sing. The Iowa Baptist Association meets here the 4th inst, Rev. Hall will be present, the delegates will stop with Mr. and Mrs. Ellis. Mr. Sam Jackson gave Rev. Tate a ham of meet cost $3.55. There will be an entertainment at Burgess Hall Saturday night in the interest of the church. The Willis home has been nicely repaired! Deacon Barbers house is the center of attraction on the East Side of the town having taken on new color and many other repairs. Rev. Tate has been elected manager of the College boarding hall of Pella. Mr. James Reeves, bad and accident at the mines by fall of slate. Mrs. James' cousin has arrived. DAVENPORT. (Special to the BYKDIMM) A good rain Sunday and freshing every thing nicely. Mrs. B. Baker has returned from Galesburg where she has been visiting her daughter and report a pleasant time. The choir of the Third Baptist church gave a lawn social at the residence of Mrs. F. Baker and was largely attended. Mr. Stewart of Ft. Madison is in the city visiting a few days. Mrs. Minnie Wade of Galesburg is the guest of Mrs. E. J. Saunders. The Ladies Violet Social Club have there outing at the easy residence of Mrs. F. Baker Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. R. Bally of Canton, Mo. have moved to Davenport to make it there future home. Mrs. S. J. Wagner and Mrs. Wmly Weathers left Friday on the boat for Keohuk to attend the Missouri association ALBIA NOTES. Miss Mable Parker has returned from her trip to Omaha, where she has been visiting several weeks. The Daughters of Taber gave a picnic in Perry Grove Saturday. Quite a few attended and all report a good time. In the evening they gave a social in the Odd Fellows hall. Mr. E. Martin of Garden Grove spent Sunday in Albia at the home of his wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Davis. Mesdames Reese Underwood and Geo. B. Taylor attended the Daughters of Taber picnic Saturday. Messrs. Wright, R. Underwood and Will Oliver of Hilton attended the Daughters of Tabor social in Albia. Saturday evening. There has been quite a number of strangers in our town the past week. Mr. Geo Hollingworth and family are out camping for a few weeks. Mr. Ross Johnson has had a severe attack from over work and it is feared he will go insane. Rev, and Mrs. Waldon of Hilton were in attendance at the D. of T. social Saturday evening. Mr. Kimbrere of Keokuk is visiting his sister. Mrs. Tom Davis this week. NEWS FROM BUXTON. Special to Bystander. Our city is still in the front ranks of the busy ones. On the 11th the corner stone of the new A. M. E. church was laid. Owing to the appearance of rain a great many were kept from attending, but as it was several hundred people attended the services. Rev. Wilson (white) of Bussy preached in the morning. At 2:30 p. m. the Odd Fellows, headed by the B. C. Band, marched to the church, where the corner stone was laid by them. Hon. Geo. H. Woodson delivered the oration of the day. His address was one of eloquence and sound doctrine. The choir rendered some fine music, as did also the Buxton Cornet Band. Over One hundred and thirty-five dollars was raised. Several new families have moved to Buxton. The A. M. E. ebureh is nearly finished. It is in all a beautiful structure and those who planned it deserve much credit for their wisdom. Mr. W. D. Rhodes, better known as "Temp," and Miss Lena Dairy of Oskaloosa were quietly married Wednesday evening. The marriage took place in Oskaloosa. Born to Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Mease, a baby girl; and now Charlie wears a 2x4 smile. Say Fred, why don't you send in something from Beone? Boone is a good town and I know something is going on there. Now Fred write the news and send it to the BYSTANDER. Mr. Linfied Willis who has been slak is better. The A. M. E. choir of Buxton is invited to sing in Albia, Sunday, the 25th, at Rev. Searoy's grand rally. G. G. Southall expects to change his residence in a few days. There is talk of little Joe Tate playing clarionet in the choir, but it is doubted by some who say they knew 'em Bronsted Highway for Bicycles. Proposed Highway for Bicycles A perfect highway from New York to San Francisco, in as near a straight line as it is possible to make it, with a width of 120 feet, for the use of automobiles and bicycles, as well as for the use of the farmer, is a thing that the Automobile club of America will try to bring about. The subject was seriously discussed at a banquet, in honor of members of the National Highway Commission, at the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York, when plans were made and the route announced. Besides a direct path from New York to San Francisco, passing through Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and Ogden, the club wants a highway along each coast. Congress will be asked to appropriate one-third of the expense, and the states, counties, townships and cities en route will be asked to pay the rest; the owners of property benefited to donate the right-of-way. The club and highway commission have on their list of membership the names of some of the foremost men of America. Ingenuity The following ingenious mode of crossing a river was once displayed by a kaffir, who had for some time stood watching the vain attempts of a party of scissors to cross the stream at a time when to ford it was attended by considerable danger. After smiling at their efforts with that sardonic expression remarkable among these savages, he quietly raised a heavy stone, placed it on his head and then walked, with perfect ease, through the torrent to the opposite side. Sober Second Thought. Tom—"Was it hard to tell Miss Autumnal you loved her?" Jack—"Not half so hard as it was to explain matters after I got sober."—Chicago News. If we could only look at our own troubles as philosophically as we do at those of others happiness would come easy. COLD INDEED. Some of the Old Trikes of Liquid Air Liquid air is, perhaps, the coldest thing in the world. It is so sold that a cake of ice is like a fierce fire as com- pared 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 experi- menter 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 wafter brought in a hot broiled steak and placed it in front of Mr. Tripler. As soon as the wafter's back was turned Mr. Tripler hilt opened the can and exposed the meat to the liquid air. Instantly the steak was frozen hard as a rock. When the wafter came back his customer complained that the steak was frozen. So the wafter called the head wafter, and the head wafter 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 curiosity. A new steak was broiled for Mr. Tripler and this one he ate with much pellet Counting Years in Japan Mr. B. Mayehatake, a young Japanese who has been studying in Chicago, gives an explanation of the method by which time is reckoned in the chrysanthemum land. The Japanese year begins on our January 1, but instead of counting from the birth of Christ a reckoning is made from the reign of Japan's first emperor, Zimu. Our 1901 is the year 2561 in Japan. When a new ruler mounts the throne a distinctive name is given to his reign and a sort of petty calendar is kept of the years of his government, as we keep track of the age of our republic, writing in legal documents: "Year of our Lord 1901, and of the independence of the United States the 125th." The name for the present mikado's rule, which began thirty-three years ago, Meiji. This word is pronounced Mayzee, and means "peaceful government." Therefore, the current year in Japan is Meiji 34 as well as Zimu 2561. Jelly for Meat Course. ▲ jelly will often add much to a meat course, and may sometimes be used in place of a third vegetable. With mutton or venison use currant jelly; cranberry with turkey or chicken. Wild duck is improved by serving sour grape jelly with it. Pork and goose, serve apple sauce, and with boiled chicken, grape jelly. Fastest on Home Stretch. A statistician has discovered that the average business walk in New York is a mile in twenty minutes, and the church-going walk is a mile in twenty-five minutes. The fastest walk is that of the homeward-bound Brooklynites, a mile in eighteen minutes. Heart, Women on Safety The Connecticut house of representatives took a recess recently in order to give Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker an opportunity to address the members on woman suffrage. She was given a respectful hearing and was heartily applauded, but the measure was defeated as usual. Dr Charles Hose, of Sarawak, after many experiments, has formed the theory that the disease berl berl arises in tropical regions from the consumption of molly rice. Dr. Strangeways Pigg of Cambridge has expounded the theory in England. "My baby was terribly sick with the diarrhoea," says J. H. Dosk, of Williams, Oregon. 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E. —East Second and Des Moines School —Sunday services, preaching at 11:00 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday School at 12:30 Prayer and Class meeting, Wednesday 8 p.m. All are welcome. Rev. C. W. Holmes, pastor. Preaching at 8 p.m. Rev. S. Bates, pastor. Mount Nebo Baptist Church —E. Second street, between Lucust and Grand Avenue —Sunday service, preaching at 11 a.m.; Sunday School 12:30 p.m., Superintendent; Rose Johnson. Preaching at 8 p.m. Rev. S. Bates, pastor. Tabernacle Baptist Church —Mission —Situated on 11th St., between Crocker and School Sts. Preaching at 11 a.m.; Sunday School 9:00 a.m.; preaching at 8 p.m. Rev. J. R. Winnburst, pastor. SECRET ORDERS. North Star Lodge, No. 3, A, F. A. M.-Meets First Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall, M. J. L. Thompson, secretary. Shepard, W. M. J. L. Thompson, secretary. Ring Solomon Commandery, No. 6-Meets Second and Fourth Thursday in each month at Masonic hall. Frud Jackson, M. C.; G. H. Clegge, Rec. No. 3-meets Second Monday in each month at Masonic hall, Mrs. J. H. Shepard, matron; Mrs. Fred Jackson, secretary. Mt. Olive Court, No. 4-Meets First Thursday in each month at Masonic hall, Mrs. Susan White, matron; Mrs. Flora Majors, secre tary. Charity Lodge, No. 3192, G. U. of O. F.-Meets First, Second and Third hall on West Sixth and Waltstreet streets. D. Burns, N. G.; F. Brown P. S. H. H. of R. No. 339 of U. U. of O. F.-Convenes the first and second hall on West Sixth and Waltstreet streets. D. Burns, N. G.; F. Brown P. S. H. H. of R. No. 339 of U. U. of O. F.-Convenes the first and second hall on West Sixth and Waltstreet streets. D. Burns, N. G.; F. Brown P. S. Knights and Ladies of Honor of the World No. 178 Victoria Lodge-meets every Monday evening at Versailles Hall. A. Wood. Proctor. Mrs Rose Johnson, Secretary. CALIFORNIA. Broad Vestibuled First-Class Sleepers DAILY- Between_Chicago and Sanfrancisco WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. 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Crockett's new book, "Love Idylls," will be published soon. It will be uniform in size with "An Englishwoman's Love Letters." Maurice Thompson's "Alice of Old Vincennes" is to be published in Great Britain, as is also "The Story of Eva," the Chicago novel by Will Payne. Few persons are aware, even in England, that a privately printed collection of unpublished writings from the pen of Robert Louis Stevenson is about to be issued. In Dr. Minot J. Savage's new book, "The Passing and the Permanent in Religion," the author tries to make clear the great positive elements of religion which cannot pass away. Henry James was recently told that Sarah Grand, the novelist, says she was 14 years old before she ever learned to read or write. "She hasn't learned to write even yet," he remarked. Edmund Gosse is about to become a publisher. His first venture will be a collection of the poems of his friend Austin Dobson which have been written since July, 1899, when the last edition of his collected poems was published. The new book will contain about thirty pieces, among them being poems on the war and on the late queen. Mr. Gosse intends to charge $3.20 for each copy. A new book on "Modern Strategy," which is said to be a work of importance, will be published soon. It is the work of Capt. Walter H. James of the British army. It is a treatise on the strategy of today and deals with the effect which railroads and telegraphs and the increase of newspapers have had on war. The campaigns chosen to illustrate it are chiefly taken from the Napoleonic wars and those of recent times. At the end of the book a chapter has been added on the effect of modern weapons upon tactics. IN A NUTSHELL. in size, not counting colonies, the European powers stand in this order: Russia, Austria, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy. Imiteration from Europe. More immigrants are said to be arriving from Europe this year than ever before. Most of them come from southern Europe and Scandinavia. Italy furnishes the largest quota this season. Most of them are coming west to work on railroad extensions of the Burlington, Union Pacific and Great Northern. Italians, it is said, are the best track workers that can be obtained, and they are replacing the Chinese heretofore employed by the railroads on the Pacific coast. Latest End of Critic The latest fad of critics, the New York Press says, is to rebel against the names of months. They point out that it is absurd for Europeans and Americans of today to dedicate one-sixth of the year to the memory of Julius Caesar and Augustus, to name a third after heathen gods and goddesses, to have two months of doubtful nomenclature, and to designate the remaining four by misleading numericals, September being obviously ninth and not seventh in order. "Papering Up" Silk Goods. Silk goods should not be folded in white paper, as the chloride of lime used in bleaching the paper will impare the color of the silk. Brown or blue paper is better; yellow India paper is better still. Silk intended for dress should not be kept in the house long, as lying in folds causes it to crack or split. White satin dresses should be pinned up in blue paper, with coarse brown paper on the outside, sewed together at the edges. Lord Chancellor of England. Lord Halsbury, the Lord Chancellor of England, is the son of Dr. Stanley Lees Giffard, who was editor of the London Standard for twenty-seven years. His grandfather, a noted Dublin politician of the union period, John Giffard, had for more than a generation the sole editorial control of the Dublin Journal, which had been started and for fifty year edited by George Faulkner, the friend of Swift and Chesterfield. Orange Free State Flag. The Orange Free State flag is a simple rectangle of vivid orange. 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Beall did not die; he was awarded by Dr. McLean's New Treatment. The family scouted to the friends' wives and gave them years of his living monument of what Dr. McLean FORECAST OF FASHIONS. A fichu effect of Hamburg is pretty on a wash frock. Lawn collars with colored borders are the latest fad. Very long waisted effects are now the fashion for small children. Black grenadines, both plain and figured, are offered in great varieties. A popular style of trimming for the street and everyday hat is the draped silk scarf. Gainsborough and Duchess of Devonshire hats appear among the high-priced millinery. Rich, dull black is exceedingly becoming to golden-haired, fair-complexioned women. Embroidered pongees appear beautiful in the excellence of their fiber and needleworked design. Costly netted fringes add greatly to the grace of the sweeping, clinging gowns of soft fabrics. Long, unlined sleeves are again the mode of evening gowns. They are made long over the hands. Entire gowns of crape for either the street or the house are exceedingly handsome, and always becoming. Plaited and flounced skirts will be worn the entire summer season for morning, afternoon and evening. French challis and sheer nun's velling are two very favorite materials in the preparing of the summer outfit. Black and white is perhaps the most favored combination of the season, and some lovely effects are to be seen in simple materials. All waists have a becoming fullness at the front and skirts are extra full at the bottom. Puff effects are also noticeable on the sleeves. Striking-looking parasols are those made of silk of broad pronounced stripes, running around the upper part of the parasol, while the lower part is of chiffon and silk. Mercerized sateens, which very closely resemble satin foulard, and soft silk and linen mixtures in dainty colorings, striped, dotted, and plain of surface, are among the favored materials for shirt waists for morning wear this spring. HAPPY TIT-BITS. "Poor Matie, her marriage was a disappointment." "Was it?" "Oh, yes; she didn't get half the nice presents she counted on." "You are not addicted to any kind of athletics, are you?" "Athletics?" Gracious man, I earn a good living for a family of seven. "The doctor says I must go away for a change of climate," said Mrs. Dukane. "If that's all you need," replied Dukane, "stay right here, and the change of climate will come to you." "Wait a minute," she said to the young man. Now, the young man, being a wise party, immediately went to the telephone and told his friends he would possibly be with them in two hours. Mistress—Bridget I am tired of your carelessness. Only look at all that dust lying about on the furniture; it is six months old at the very least. Mald (very dignified)—Then it is no fault of mine. You knows, very well, mum, that I have been with you only three months. WHAT THE LAW DECIDES. A loan made to a married woman on her credit, although she gave notes therefor payable to her husband, which are void, is held in National bank vs. Tyndale (Mass.), 51 L. R. A. 447, to sustain an action at law against her estate upon the common counts for money lent or money had and received. Bona-fide residence of the plaintiff in a suit for divorce is held, in Bell vs. Bell, U. S. Adv. Sheets 551, to be necessary to give jurisdiction of a suit for a divorce against a resident of another state, and a recital of facts necessary to give jurisdiction is held not to be conclusive on the courts of another state. Actual notice of proceedings for divorce in a court of the state which has always been the domicile is held, in Atherton vs. Atherton, U. S. Adv. Sheets 544, not to be necessary to bind a non-resident defendant if reasonable efforts to give her actual notice are required by the state statutes and are actually made. ODDS AND ENDS. There are now fifty-eight factories, with 250,000 horse-power in the French Alps. The number of Japanese at present living in the United States is estimated at 35,000. The population of the German empire includes 3,000,000 who use the Polish language. The Neodesha (Kas.) Register has a report of a shale bed that shows the prints of horses' feet, shod. In New Hampshire the state government pays a bounty on dead grass-hoppers at the rate of $1 a bushel. "Tartar" morocco is the leather of which the new card cases and purses are made. The colors are delicate and artistic. Although the letter carriers 'ave been ordered to wear shirt waists, they are not forbidden to deliver mail in wrappers. Godmother on Wholesale scale. Ex-Empress Eugenie of France is not only godmother to the children of an immense number of personal friends, but also to 3,384 of her husband's subjects who were born on March 16, 1865, the day that her son, the ill-fated prince imperial, first saw the light. 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Low Rates to Caliterma 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 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 KNOWSTHAT MUNGER'S LAUNDRY is the best in the city. Try them and be decided. Maine Office 211-215 NINTH St Branc Office 504 MULBERRY St. PHONE 579. CHEAP ROUND TRIP HOMESEEK- ERS' RATES—VIA NORTHERN PACIFIC RY. On the first and third Tuesdays of each month, up to and including Sep- ber, the Northern Pacific Railway Co. will sell, to points on its line west of Little falls, Minn. round trip tickets at the rate of one fare plus $2.00. For full partielure, address G. D. Rogers, D. P. A. N. P. R., 503 Locust St. Des Moines Ia. Chas. S. Fee, G. P. & T. A., St. Paul, Minn. SHANK BROS., Funeral Directors 517 Mulberry St. Telephones 686, 688 and 689. DES MOINES. IOWA. He Collects Antique Statuary. Stanford White is one of the largest collectors of antique statuary in America. Not only is his house in Grammary park, New York, a veritable museum of Greek and Roman art, but the lawn is now filled to overflowing with other examples. Odd Names in Virginia One county of West Virginia has among its political subdivisions the Slab Fork, the Marsh Fork, the Shady Spring, the Clear Fork and the Trap Hill districts. Another has the Pipe Stem and the Jumping Branch districts Queer Japanese Custom At the birth of a Japanese baby a tree is planted that must remain untouched until the marriage of the child. When the nuptial hour arrives the tree is cut down and the wood is transformed into furniture. Educator Goss West Dr. Max Farrand, who has resigned the professorship of history at Wesleyan university to accept a similar post in Leland Stanford, Jr., university, was prepared for college at the Newark (N. J.) academy, and was graduated from Princeton university with high honors in 1892. He took a two-years' post-graduate course at Princeton, and then went to Germany, where he studied for two years more. Includent in Bontelle's Life Nathaniel M'Kay, formerly a Boston shipbuilder, but now a hotel-keeper in Washington, says that the late Congressman Boutelle of Maine was deeply in love with Mrs. Hazen before she became Admiral Dewey's wife, and that her refusal to marry him had much to do in bringing on the mental collapse from which he suffered at the time of his death. Mascagni Weare Bracelets. Mascagni is one of the men who wears bracelets, and they are not confined to his arms, but ornament his ankles as well. The creator of "Cavalleria Rusticana" is said to be passionately fond of jewelry and numbers many splendid and valuable rings given to him as well as bought by his own money, among his personal effects. NEWTON NOTES. Mrs. A. Hays has been on the slek list but is better at this writing. Mrs. J. B. Lucas of Grinnell accompanied by her two children Henry Violet were the guest of friends here last Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Clem Miller has returned from her visit in Burlington. Mrs. Gus Renfrow was the guest of Miss Eldora Green last Sunday. The families of Messra Cabbell, Oliver and Johnson of Collax attended the Wild West show last Saturday. Mrs. Jason Green has returned from her visit in Rock Island and her many friends are pleased to see a great improvement in her health. A jolly crowd of our young people pinched at Collax last Sunday. Mrs. Olay Cunningham have gone to Ft. Madison to visit friend. Mrs. Maggie Carter and children have returned to their home in Somerlett, she was accompanied by her sister Miss Ella Mays. Last Thursday evening Rev. and Mrs. Basfield entertained a large number of their friends in honor of their guest Mrs. Detwiler of Otumwa, the evening was spent in music and games, after refreshments were served the guest departed all reported a nice time. On Friday evening complimentary to Mrs. Maggie Carter, about thirty young people were entertained by Mr and Mrs. Tom Hughes at their pleasant home on South Street, the mandolin club furnished the music. Rev. C. R. Brookins of Muchakinoek was a Newton visitor Friday. DAVENPORT. Hello, Bystander office, we are alive once more. Mrs. Braxton of Chicago who has been visiting Mrs, J. S. Roberts has returned home. Miss Mason of Monmouth, Ill., is in the city the guest of Miss Mable Hill. Quite a large crowd was up from Galburg last week on the excursion run by the Modern Woodman of America. Hon. John L. Thompson of Des Moines and Editor of the Bystander was in the city Aug. 8, looking after the interest of the Bystander, Mr. Thompson is a young man that attends strictly to business and we are proud of him and another thing John L. was looking very well when he was here of course I am a man writing this and his wife wont care. Quite a number of young men have come to Davenport this summer and we hope they will remain as we need them. John T. Mabry expects to take a trip across the state in September on a pleasure trip and as he is a District Grand Secretary of the Grand United order of Odd Fellows, he expects to visit as many lodges as possible in order to get acquainted with them. Mr. Lindsay Pitts is the most successful business man in Davenport among the colored people. Mr. Ben Berry is still Davenport most popular colored barber and we like Ben to Rev. Samuel Bates of Des Moines was one of the most conspicuous of all the delegates who attended the District Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows in Albia last month. Rev. Bates preached the memorial sermon and worked faithful for to get the Grand Lodge to meet in Des Moines next year but brother Eubanks and brother Kinney of Ft. Madison beat him to it, Rev. Bates, D. J. Tate Nickerson, J. H. Jones and Rev. Bingamon are the most successful Baptist Minister of Iowa. The Odd Fellows have, leased a hall on Second and Brady streets where they hold their meetings at now. Miss Mary Humphery who has been sick for quite awhile is improving niely. Those who promised to send their subscription to (J. L. Thompson at Des Moines will please remember the same and send it at once. MT. PLEASANT NEWS Miss Delpha Norris of Des Moines is visiting with her aunts Mesdames Reed and Trimbles. Mr. J. H. Carter has been called home from Keb on account of the serious illness of his mother. Mrs. Jane Burnaugh was called from Des Moines on account of the illness of her sister Mrs. Mary Carter. Clay Reed and son Harry have returned from Keosauqua. Misses Lizzie Lennie Russ of LaCrew attended the fair here one day. They were the guests of Mrs. Clay Reed. Miss Smith and Clay and Cooper of Burlington were the guests of Miss Hattie Taylor last Thursday. Messrs Chas. and Harrison of Moline Ill. spent fair week in Mt. Pleasant. Mrs. George Strathers of Des Moines is visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. Mason. Mrs. Tina Reed. Johnson and children of Keosauqua are visiting her parents. Messrs Buckner and Thompson of New Mrs. Beckley was up last week from Keokuk. Last week was the Henry county fair although the fair was not as good as usual there was quite a number of colored people from other towns. Mrs. Mary Carter is very ill with typhoid fever at her home. The M. M. S. of the A. M. E. church had their bazar last Thursday and Friday evening. Mrs. Higgins of Burlington addressed the audience Friday evening. The Knights and Daughters of Tabor celebrated their university Aug. 45th at Thompson park. Mrs. Eliza Smith entertained a number of ladies at five o'clock dinner last Friday in honor of Mrs. Boaer, Mrs. Ivy of Burlington was also present. Mrs. Martha Burnugh entertained Mrs. Boaer and daughter at dinner Friday noon. Mt. and Mrs. T. L. Burnett entertained Messrs Lee Ford of Oskaloosa, Geo. Golden of Quinny, Stanton, Jackson and Taylor of Des Moines and Dortch and Misses Myra McCracken Rosa Dortch and Hattie Taylor Wednesday evening. Ice cream and water-melon was served. Miss McCracken entertained Miss H. Taylor, H. Dortch and Mr. Dortch in honor of Misses Smith, Carpenter and Meadames Clay and Cooper. There was a dance at June's Hall Friday night. The "Summer Fete" which the H. V. D. club were to give the 22nd or 29th for the benefit of the pastors and their wife has been called off since the club is held in such high esteem by some people. A MILE A MINUTE. Eight Speed by a Trolley Car in Philadelphia We want you to subscribe for the Iowa STAYBANDER. CAUSES SURPRISE. Connecticut Man Declares His Assessment In Much Too Low. Robert M. Bruce, one of the millionaires of Greenwich, Conn., a former cotton broker and a friend of E. C. Benedict, has caused surprise by appearing before the board of assessors of the town and asking them to have his assessment raised 50 per cent, says the New York Sum. He said that he had never paid any attention to the making out of his list of taxable property, leaving it with the assessors. He had looked the master up recently and had decided that he was not paying all that he should into the town treasury and he asked for the raise. The assessors promised to comply with his wishes and it is understood that they will raise the taxes of all other millionaires there to some extent. Mr. Bruce's example is the subject of much comment. For many years past Greenwich has raised $90,000 by taxation, and has spent $30,000 more than it raised. The debt has rolled up to nearly $400,000. The town appointed an investigating committee and the members reported that more money must be raised by taxation. Fixing up the taxes last fall was put over until next spring. The assessors figured up the amount of taxable property and an increase of the tax rate seemed probable. Persons who have looked up the matter say that there appears to be one law for the poor man and another for the rich man. The law says that each property owner must put in a true list of the real value of all property, real and personal, but the general rule among persons of moderate means has been to pay on 60 per cent of all value. The millionaires in some instances have not paid on 10 per cent of the property. Work of Livingstone's Daughters. The two surviving daughters of Dr. Livingstone recently opened the extension of Livingstone College at Leyton, England, founded eight years ago for training in medicine and surgery those missionaries about to depart for far away stations where they would be called up to play the part of doctors as often as that of the priest. It was because Livingstone himself was such a splendid example of the medically trained missionary that the fine college at Leyton was erected to his memory. Boy Story-Writer's Honor A monument to the late Rev. Elijah Kellogg, the preacher and writer of books for boys, is projected in Maine, and three towns are laying claim to its location-Portland, the city of his birth; Brunswick, where he was educated, and Harpswell, the little seacoast town where he preached for so many years and where he died. Some of his friends suggest that the monument be erected in Portland and memorial tablets be placed in Brunswick and Harpswell. Transvaal Gets New Stamps First The first stamps to be issued by the British government bearing the imprint of King Edward VII, will be a complete set for use in the Transvaal, says a London newspaper. The government designers are now at work on the pattern, which is understood to be a profile of his majesty on a background of deep carmine. At the same time the imprint of the King when Prince of Wales has been used by one or two of the colonies. One Woman In Business A Chicago broker recently found a postal card in his morning mail reading as follows: "Dear Sir--Please buy me five thousand shares of People's Gas at 95 cents and sell the same at $1.15. After deducting your commission you may remit the balance in a registered letter. Yours respectfully, Mrs. Bland. P. S.-My future patronage depends upon the promptness with which you act in executing the above order." Married Each Other Often John and Mary Burkett, of Kokomo, Ind., began marrying each other about forty years ago, and have kept it up at intervals ever since. They have had three divorces and four weddings, neither having wedded another in the meantime. Kokomo also reports another couple, Henry and Myrtle Mohn, who have been married to each other three times, and are now living happily. Waves Checked by Nets. Baron Benvenuto d'Alessandro, an Italian, has invented a means of checking the force of waves by means of nets made of waterproof hemp. One recently tried with success at Havre was 360 feet long and fifty feet wide, with meshes eleven inches apart. The nets will break the waves at sea, and will also be a bulwark for hydraulic works against heavy surf. Policeman's Christian Association Canon Hobson, the founder of the Policeman's Christian association, has arrived at New York. This association was founded eighteen years ago in a cellar in Liverpool. It had three members at the start, but today has over 100,000 throughout Great Britain and her colonies. He comes over to visit his sister in Fulton, Oswego county, New York. Real Coral the Cheaper A store in New York which makes a specialty of fancy articles for woman's wear recently displayed in a window two chains of coral beads. One was of round, smoothly polished beads and bore the legend, "imitation coral, 65 cents." The other, of ragged, uncut coral, was marked, "Real coral, 25 cents." Wheat Belt Around Wichita The Kansas wheat belt centers around Wichita. Within a hundred-mile radius of the town fully 60 per cent of the wheat of Kansas was raised, while in seventeen counties of southern and central Kansas 50 per cent of the yield was reaped. In northern Kansas but little wheat is raised. Damage-Sult Lawyer's Wealth: A lawyer named Patterson died a few days ago in Brooklyn, leaving about $1,000,000, nearly all made by conducting damage suits in cases of accidents and personal injuries, the defendants being chiefly street railroad and similar corporations. Poems by King James I. An interesting literary discovery is reported from Oxford, where a number of hitherto unknown poems by King James I. have been found in the Bodleian library. They are stated to be undoubtedly genuine and bear the royal autograph. Travelling with Ox Teams. A novel vacation trip is being taken by Banker Jenkins and a party of eleven friends, from Carrollton, Kas. They are traveling across the state of Colorado in an old-style prairie wagon behind relays of oxen spans. University Extension for St. Helena. St. Helena is to have a university extension. The Cape University is going to send examiners to the island for the young Boer prisoners who are studying to enter the university. Debts of Four Great Cities New York City's debt is now $283., 042,000. The debt of Chicago is $26., 000,000, of Philadelphia $43,000,000, and of Boston $66,000,000. The oldest cities have the largest debts. ```markdown ``` Fish 210 Years Old. There are some goldfish in Washington which have belonged to the same family for the last fifty years and they seem no bigger and no less vivacious today than they did when they first came into the owner's possession. A few of the fish in the Royal Aquarium at St. Petersburg are known to be 150 years old and the age of the sacred fish in some of the ponds attached to the Buddhist temples in China is to be counted by centurions if we are to believe the priests. Strawberry Vinegar. Put two quarts of strawberries into a stone jar and pour over them one quart of good cider vinegar. Cover and stand aside for two days, then drain off the liquid without mashing the berries, pour it over a quart of fresh fruit, and stand as before. Do this once more, the last time straining through a muslin bag. Now add one pound of sugar to every pint of this liquid. Boll slowly five minutes, skim let stand fifteen minutes, bottle and seal. A Very Novel Watch In Zurich a very novel watch has just been made. It forms the cup or heart of a jeweled flower, which is intended to be worn as an ornament. The flower itself can be opened or closed by touching a tiny spring, and when it is closed the little watch is not visible. When a lady wearing such an ornament desires to know the time all she has to do is to touch the spring, whereupon the flower opens and the watch is revealed. A Major's Experience Major Scott, says the Jimtown Annians, being suddenly awakened last night, found five snakes in bed with him. The major jumped out of the front window and climbed a tree. He had not been there long before a hurricane blew the tree down; the tree fell on the house, smashed the roof, demolished the bed, and killed all the snakes. The only damage the major suffered was having a couple of his legs broken. Peter Cooper's Way. The unveiling of the Peter Cooper tablet in the building that was named for him in New York not unnaturally reminds us of the fact that there was something good in the good old days, not the least of which was the philanthropist who did what he could for the race without boasting of it, and who even sought to hide the bulk of his gifts from the public eye.—Philladelphia Inquirer. Dublin University Honors American The honorary degree of doctor of laws has been tendered by the University of Dublin to Hannis Taylor of Mobile, formerly United States minister to Spain and author of "Origin and English of the English Constitution" and of "International Public Law," and he was requested to be present in the city of Dublin, Ireland, in order to receive it in person on June 27. Mexicans Adhere to Sender Candles are extensively used in Mexico, owing to the great expense of petroleum. A bookkeeper may be seen making his entries in a great ledger by the light of a single candle. A Mexican printer can work with a candlestick stuck carelessly into one of his boxes, and two tailors in the small shops can be seen sharing the rays of a single dip. Money and Sweetheart Gone For five years Miss Bertha Hoyt and Ernest Bixby of Bridgeport, Conn., were engaged to be married. Ernest gave his sweetheart a part of his weekly earnings to save for him. Two months ago burglaries broke into the Hoyt residence and stole the money. Now the sweetheart has eloped with another man. Money Returned to Subscribers: A great many persons were much put out by President McKinley's inability to keep his New England engagements. In Worcester, Mass., for instance, 300 tickets at $10 each had been sold for the banquet projected in his honor, and the money was returned to subscribers. Showcase Manufacture Among other lines of manufacture in which Baltimore leads the world is that of making showcases, and not only does Baltimore's output exceed that of any other city on the globe, but it was also one of the first to construct this useful article. Barley Production Of the 2,080,000,000 bushels of barley produced by the civilized countries of the world Russia produces by far the largest amount. Next in order comes Austria, which is followed by Germany, the United States, England and Spain. Studying Our Commercial Methods. Loo Chin An, a high Chinese official and a commissioner of commerce, arrived in San Francisco recently, sent by his government to examine the commercial methods and history of this country. Hired Twelve Extra Firemen. Three passengers who left New York on the steamship St. Paul recently paid for twelve extra firemen in order to keep a dinner engagement in London the next Wednesday evening. The Oldest Lifeboat South Shields, England, is said to possess the oldest lifeboat in existence. It has been in use since 1830, and by 1850 of it 1,028 persons have been rescued. Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 23—Oflicers of ‘the Amalgamated association seemed to have settled down to a purpose. ‘They say that they will wait for the ‘trust to make overtures for peace. This walt, according to some, will be quite -a long one. Others express the belief ‘that {t will be shorter than most per- sons expect. |. John Bindley, president of the Pitts- “‘purg Chamber of Commerce; Joseph ‘Bishop, secretary of the Ohio Board -of Arbitration, and Frank Caldwell, said to be a representative of the steel “combine, have gone to New York, how- ever, to try to mediate the differences Detween the steel workers and the ‘Wnlted States Steel corporation. Pres- 4dent Shaffer says he invites peace, and 4s prepared to accept any honorable terms of settlement. He says he is fully satisfied with the way the strike ‘is progressing, however, and believes athe workmen will be victorious in the vend. Firebag Story Untrue Regarding the attempt made to fire ‘the plant of the Monongahela Tinplate mill in the South Side, it was said that ‘the very fact that a leak in a gas pipe in the mill was so open that an ac- cumulation of gas would be impossible, wave the story a fishy flavor. No at- tention was paid to it. It was report- ed that some one was believed to have cnocked off a gas cock in one of the gas pipes of the mill and allowed the ‘ax to escape and then threw a lighted newspaper in the vicinity. Had it ig- mited the gas, it is said that no harm sould have come from it. John Sternsdorff, who claimed to have been among the strike breakers ‘brought to the Monessen mill by the famous Alabama Joe, was at Amalga- amated headquarters today. He said that the crowd were gathered in Rich ‘mond on the ground that they were “wanted to work in a new mill and no amention was made to them of a strike Boing on. He declared that he escaped Zrom the plant at the first opportunity and came to Pittsburg. Two others came with him. Sternsdorit said that he was a rougher ina mill in Rich- mond and would never work fn a nons ‘anion mill under the conditions exist- Sing in Monessen, He believed that ethers Would quit. Willing to Aspitrate, When Sheffer of the Amalgamated asgoclation was asked for a clear state- ment regarding the position he held on further peace efforts, he said: “] am willing to leave this whole “question to arbitration, but T am not secking arbitration. I believe that this ‘trouble is going to be settled. Neither side wanted to carry tls fight Indefin- itely. They cannot destroy the Amal- gamated association, and oven should ‘they do so all the other trades unions In the country would take up the fight where we left off, and continue ft until a Settlement was forced from the trust. T believe, however, that as soon as Hoth sides cool down a little there will be a disposition to talk peace and ar- Sitration.” ‘The Amalgamated officials say that uring the last fow weeks over 150 em- ployes of the Carnegie mills have been discharged for no reason except that they belonged to the new lodges of the Amalgamated association. They claim to have plenty of evidence to prove this. Ask Poilee Protection. “rhe police department was asked ‘or police protection for _ three <carloads of non-union workmen, who arrived at the Union station, Pitts- ‘burg, at 2 o'clock Thursday morning. ‘The request was made by officials of the Amoriean Tin Plate company. The men are intended for the Star tin amill, Twelfth street, two blocks from the Union station. ‘There was a small riot at the Penn- ssylvania Tube works last night. Somo Horeigners collided with a dozen eiti- Zens they mistook for strike breakers ‘Phe police stepped in and restored peace before any one was hurt, Later a number of arrests were made, DAVIS STILL HAS HOPE. ‘Bre6i Fender Does Not Despair of In- dvelng ifen to Strike, Chicago, Aug. 22.—Vice President Davis of the Amalgamated Association has gone to Joliet, thoroughly disgust- ed and discouraged in bis efforts to in- ‘duce the South Chicago stool workers to strike. He says he kas not given ‘up Eope of holding a big mass-meeting next Sunday, at which a vote to strike ‘will be passed. He may bring with him Jabor leaders from the prison city. ‘The meeting that Davis called for yesterday afternoon was a fizzle. It ‘was postponed until evening, but even thes the gathering was not a, success, Instead of the sixty men that Were ex- ‘pected ozly twenty-five came and many ‘of these stayed only long enough to express their opinions. ‘The officers uf the two lodges have issued a statement to the public. Davia had been positive that he “could szcure forty men who were en- thusiastie enough to vote for a strike. With theze forty he Agured that he could badly cripple the [linois steel plant. ‘Among the mcn who want to Lake- ‘SHRME MEDIATORS EAST Board of Arbitrators and Trust Representatives to End War. “THEY WILL SEE J. P, MORGAN. “Gecretary Tighe Thinks South Chicaco MIM Men Will Go Out Before End of Week — resident Shaffer's Views— Satkae Davelopacente. mde hall during the evening. there ae ‘aa onking. but they were unwilling to go out un- less the majority did. Independent ac- tion, upon which Davis had based bis hopes, was decidedly against the in- elinations of the men. ‘The Iilinols Steel company’s offictals deny that any men have struck, and that only a few are absent from sick- néss. Davis, on the contrary, main- tains that six men came to him and announced that they had struck, and were ready to assist him in any way possible. He gave them their instruc- fons, ad they went out to work among the men. A reply has been received from Pres- ident Shaffer in regard to bis coming to South Chlcago. He seid that he did not think he eould come. himself, but that if possible he would send Vice- President John Morgan to address the ase meeting. Tho prospect does not look encour- aging,” said Davis, before leaving for Jollet “From expressions of senti- ment that hed come to me, I was con- fident that forty men could be socured who would be willing to join their fel- ows in striking for the good of organ- {zed labor. Bot find. they” are oD- posed to going out by twos and threes nad alee BREAKS WITH TURKEY. Prides adnoadcas’ THAI AM Dipiomatte soe aces Ga Constantinopel, Aug. 22. — The French ambassador, M. Constans, has notified the sultan’s first secretary that all diplomatic relations between France and Turkey are broken off and that the ambassador has informed his government to this effect. ‘M, Constans communicated direct with the sultan because the latest ne- gotiations were transacted with the sultan personally. ‘The ambassador justified his action on the ground that the sultan broke his direct personal promise, given to M, Constans at an audience in the Yil- diz palace Thursday, regarding the purchase of the quays and the settle- ment of the disputed French claims. The foreign minister also gave for- mal assurances that the agreement would be carried out, so, in view of his double breach of faith, M. Con- stans holds that it is impossible for France to continue diplomatic rels- tions with Turkey. ‘Aw Wikeiead Sattar, Southampton, Aug. 22.—A. Bendon, coxswain of the flagship Chicago, died Saturday night of asphyxiation. Ar- rangements were made to bury the coxswain ashore, but the local coroner declined to accept the statement of the ship’s doctor, which was certified by the captain, and refused to permit tho landing of the body without a post- mortem examination and an inquest. The Chicago therefore had to put to sea to bury the deceased officer. It Is allezed that the action of the coroner, which was most discourteous, is being considered by the officers of the Amer- ican embassy. A Russian View. St. Petersburg, Aug. 22.—The Novoe Vremya says: “President Castro 1s evidently desirous of declaring war upon Colombia in order to strengthen his weakening authority. What will be the outcore of all this complicated affair It is difiewt to say. Possibly war may result, after all, between Co- lombia and Venezuela. In that case we must expect thet the United States will not fail to intervene in this quarrel between two of its neighbors.” Woods tekatd ‘Seub te 3A, Omaha, tieb., Aug. 23.—The City Council had the School Board hauled to jail in a patrol wagon _ be- cause the patrons of learning refuse to testify before the Council, which Is making an Inquiry into the Board of Education's affairs. ‘The School Board replied that. the fines to which it is legally entitled were used in the Council’s corrupt practices. The Council replied by stating that as a result of the inquiry, which the Board refused to attend, the Council now places the educators under arrest by virtue of the ordinance that gives the Council the right to summon wit- nesees, 5 Mob Bight Dowleites, Chicago, Aug. 28—Eler Mercer of Dowie’s Christian Catholic Church and Louis Christianson, the follower of Dowie who allowed his wife, who was burned in the South Chicago fife sev- eral weeks ago, to die without medical attention, and six women “disciples” were welcomed to South Chicago last night with several cases of rotten eggs and baskets of spoiled vegetables when they attempted to hold a meeting at Ninety-second street and Commercial avenue. Gea Niaae ebod: CAmaiee Bivecks. Ashland, Oregon, Aus. 23.—The stage on the Ager-Klamath Falls route was held up by highwaymen ten miles east of Ager, Cal., this morning. They se- cured the Wells, Fargo & Co. express treasure box and the United States mail, Prescott, Ariz., Aug. 22—The stage between Camp Verde and Dewey was struck by lightning. One horse was instantly killed and the driver was badly burned, while all the passengers were more or less shocked. WM Wisgien Arain te Marrs. Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 23.—A telegram recelved by the News and Observer announées that Miss Mary Lilly Kenan and H. M. Flagler will be married at ‘Wilmington next Saturday. No fur- ther particulars were given, Yale's Law Schoo! Dean Ih New Haven, Conn., Aug. 23.—Profes- sor Francis Wayland, dean of the Yale law school, is seriously ill at his Srealdaote ta Uke. cits, SILVER WINS QUT TN TOW Democrats Reatfirm the Kansas City Platform. AMEND COMMITTEE REPORT. 4. J, Phillips of Ottumwa Is Nominated for Governor Over IU. J. Steiger by Close Vote—A Lively Battle Over the Mss ational Platform: Re Te eee ng nn rate ty: a Rallroad Commissioner....A. C. Brice Superintendent Instruction........ coe dacesnssconsgs ogee Toba Des Moines, Aug. 23.—Silver won in ac Democratic state convention neve ‘The vote for reatirmation of the Kan- sas City platform was 661 3-5 and the ote against it 5c8 2-5. For nead of the Bate ticket the yote was even closer 3. J. Phillips of Ottumwa betng nom nated for governor on the second bal- lot by a majority of only six over H J. Steiger of Toledo. ‘The test on the plaform came on the | motion of the silver men to substitute a plank of reaffirmation for one of si- lence, as reported by a majority of the resolutions committee. The question wwas not debated, except that former Congressman Walt Butler pleaded for the issue when he moved the adoptico of the substitute. Following isthe text of the vie- torious substitute for the preamble re- Ported by the majority. "AWe, the Democrats of Iowa, ia con- vention assembled, hereby reafirm the principles of the Democratic na- tional platform adopted at Kansas City, July 5, 1900, and without surrendering Our convictions or abating our loyalty to our national polieles we Delleve this campaign to be particulariy one that should be confined to state issues.” ‘John Lewis of Ottumwa. nominated Mr. Phillips for governor, and Judge 3. R. Caldwell of Tama named Mr. Steiger. No other nominations were mate formally, but when the ballot wvas taken other names were added bY elegatious. ‘The frst ballot resulted as follows: Phill << sshpcssuussienicty ie BBs Bele a ae Jol M. Redmond of Cedar Rapids. 20 J.B. Weaver of Colfax.cr-s-----. 18 Georse W. Ball of Iowa Clty -...-. 10 ‘On the socond ballot Mr. Phillips ve- ceived 50514 votes to 58014 for Mn Steiger. ‘The ticket was quickly completed. E. ‘r, Ferguson of Logan was nominated for eutenant governor” by scclama- tion, and for judge of the Supreme Court, John Shortley of Perry was Court, son LEAVES $8,000,000 TO A NIECE. Recentric Dr, Henry Dolan Dies, Leaving Omly One Near Metattve. New York, Aug. 23.—Henry Dotan who died in this city a few days ago, Ieft an estate valued at $8,000,000. He liad no near relatives here and his property is to o, it is understood, to his niece, Mary L. DeForest of Irving, Marshall county, Kansas. She is the daughter of his only brother and Is an old woman now with several growa }fons and daughters. | De, Dolan was past §0 and eecenti{e. He was also philanthropic, the negroes being his especial favorites when it came to dis- pensing charity, and ho always gave with a free hand. It is e:timated that hie gave away hundreds of thousands ef dollars, Dr. Dolan for the last thirty years had been a recluse, living most of the time at the Union club, of which organization he had been a member since 1862. Practically all bis fortune is in New York real estate, SCHLEY’S OBJECTIONS AGAIN UP Correspondence Relative to Admirat ac Alcs “4a aks elton “hak Secretary Hackett and other naval of- ‘ficials were in conference today on the of Admiral Howison as a member of of baseball at Farmersburg yesterday of the decisions. Jenning’s skull is He is an ex-convict and served a term for attempted manslaughter. Manila, Aug. 23.—The United States transport Thomas, having on board 690 teachers, has arrived, but their land- Ing bas been delayed by a typhoon. ‘The teachers will probably get ashore tomorrow. Preparations have been made to give them a great reception. ‘The government has prepared a tem- porary barracks, on the exposition grounds, for their accommodation, Larned Ts Tennls Champion. Newport, R. 1, Aug. 23.—W, «A. Lar- ned won the national lawn tennis championship tournament here, defeat ing Beals G. Wright 6-2, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4. Mildred Se A Grevanion idly wandering away. She stooped ‘and placed her hand upon his heart, Dut failed to detect the faintest beat. Bhe drew her fingers across his fore- hhead—cold and damp with the chilling wintry wind—but to her it seemed touched by the cold hand of Death. ‘A terrible feeling took possession of her. Was he dead? Was he speech- ics, deaf, blind, beyond love, life, hope, for evermore? Litting his kead onto her lap ana pushing back the hair from his beau- tiful forehead, sue murmured to him tenderly, almost reproachfully, half believing the cruel voice he had loved 50 well on earth would recall him even from the grave. But there was no an- wer. She looked up wildly. Would nobody ever come? How long they were— how long! And, when they did come, would it, perchance, be ouly to tell her that help was needies—that he was indeed dead, as he appeared— Lifeless within her very arms. Oh, to speak with him onco more, it only for a moment—Just for so long ‘as {t would take to let him know how well she loved him, and to bes on her knees for his forgiveness! ‘Why did he lie so silent at her teet? Surely that calm, halt smile had no sympathy with death. Was she never to hear his voice again—never to seg the loving tenderness that grew in his eyes for her alone? ‘Was all the world dead or insens!- ble that none would come to her call, while perhaps each precious moment was stealing another chance from his Ute? This thought was maddening; she glanced all round her, but as yet no one was in sight, And then she began to cry and wring her hands. “Denzil, speak to me!” she sobbed. “Denzil—darling—darling!” Lord Lyndon, shortly after the accl- dent had occurred, turning round in his saddle to discover whether Miss Tre- yanion was coming up with them, and not sceing ker, raised himself in bis stirrups to'survey the ground behind, and bebeld two horses riderless, and sonicthing he could not discern. clearly upon the grass. . “Sir George, look!” he called to his companion, “What is it—what has happened? Cen you see Mildred? He waited for nothing more, but putting spurs to the astonished animal under him, rode furiously back, leav- ing Sir George to follow him almost as swiftly. ‘And this was what they saw. Lying apparently lifeless, with one arm twisted under him, In that horvi- ble, formless way a broken limb will sometimes take, lay Denzil Younse, with Miss Trevanion holding his head upon her lap and smoothing back bis hair, while she moaned over him words and entreaties that’ mado Lyndon’s heart grow cold. “Mildred!” he eried sharply, putting his hand on her arm with the inten- tion of raising her from the ground; but she shook him off roughly. “Let me alone,” she said; “what have you to do with us? I loved him. Oh, Denzil, my darling speak to me—speak to me.” “What is the meaning of this?” Lyndon asked hoarsely. “Trevanion, you should know." ‘Sir George, who was bending over the prostrate man, raised his eyes for a moment. “I suppose, as sho says tt, it fs true,” he answered simply. “But I give you my word of honor as a gentleman, T was unaware of it. All I know‘is that she refused him long before you pro- posed for her—for what reason I am as ignorant as yourself. It has been her own secret from first to last.” ‘As Sir George spoke, Mildred looked up for the first time. “Is he dead?” she asked with terri- ble calmness. "No, no—I hope not; a broken arm seldom kills,” answered her father, aurriedly, drawing the broken limd from beneath the wounded man with great gentleness. “Lyndon, the bran- ay.” Lyndon, who was almost as white as Denzil at the moment, resolutely put- ting his own grievances behind him for the time being, knelt down beside Sir George, and, giving him his flask, bogan to help in the task of resusci- tation: “How will it be?” he asked in a’ whisper. “we can only hope for the best. But I don't like the look on the poor Iad’s face. I have seen such a look before. Do you remember little Polly Stuart of the Guards? I was on the ground when he was killed very much in the same manner and saw him lying there with aeab- that marl Of stranse: ealie halt CHAPTER XVI “His heart!” cried Miss Trevanion, suddenly. “His heart! It's beating!” She raised her eyes to her father’s as she gave utterance to the sweet words, and Lyndon saw all the glorious light of the hope that had kindled In them. Her white fingers were pressed closely against Denzil’s chest; her breath was coming and going raptur- ously at quick, short intervals; her whole face was full of passionate, glad expectation. “So it 1s," eald Sir George, excitedly. “Lyndon, more brandy.” So life, struggling slowly back into Denzil’s frame, began its swift course ‘once more for him; while for Lyndon, turning away sick at heart and misera- ble, its Joys and promises were but as rotten fruit, ending in bitterness and mockery. CHAPTER XVII. It was late the same evening, and Mildred sitting in her mother’s room, with one hand clasped {a Lady Caro- line's, was gazing idly into the fire, seeming pale and dejected in the rea light of the flame, that ever and anon blazed up and sunk, and almost died, and brightened up again. Yet in her heart there was a great well of thank- fulness, of joy unutterable—for had not the doctor. fully an hour before, declared Denzil out of any immediate danger? a "Up to that moment Miss Trevanton bad remained in her own apartment, not caring to encounter the gaze of curious observers—now walking fever- ishly backward and forward with un- spoken prayers within her breast, now sitting stunned and wretched, waiting for the tidings she yet dreaded to hear. But, when Lady Caroline came to tell her all was well for the present, she could say nothing; she only fol- lowed her mother back to her own room where she fell upon her knees and cried as if her heart would break. Suddenly the door opened and a ser- vant stood revealed. “Lord Lyndon's compliments to Miss Trevanion, and he would be glad to see her for 2 few minutes in the north drawing room,” he said, and Un- gored for a reply. ‘“{ will be down directly,” Mildred answered tremulously, and’ when he had withdrawn turned nervously to- ward Lady Caroline. “Oh, mother,” she said, ‘what can I say to him? What must he think of me?” “Have courage, my darling,” whis- pered Lady Caroline, “and own the truth—plain speaking is ever the best and wisest. Afterward he will forgive you, Remember how impatiently I shall be waiting here for your return.” “Ot course he will understand that it is now all over between us?” Mil- @red asked, halt anxiously, as she reached the dcor. “Of course he will,” said Lady Caro- Une, with a suppressed sigh. How could sho help regretting this good thing that was passing away from her daughter. "Now go, and do not keep ‘him ia suspense any longer.” So Mildred went; but, as she passed ‘the threshold of the room that con- {tained Lord Lyndon, a sudden rush of ‘memory almost overpowered her, car- ‘rying her back, as it did, to that other ‘night, a few short weeks ago, when ‘she had similarly stood, but in how ‘different a position in the sight of the ‘man now standing opposite to her. Thea she had come to offer him all that was dearest to him on earth, now ‘sho was come to deprive him of that boon—was standing before him, judg- ed and condemned as having given away that which In nowise belonged to her. She scarcely dared to raise her head, but waited, shame-stricken, for him to accuse her, with eyes bent sorrow- fully downward, “[ have very little to say to you,” sald Lyndon, hoarsely, in a voice: that was strange and cold, all the youth being gone out of it, “but I thought it better to get it over at once—to end this farce that has been playing so long.” No answer from Miss Trevanion— no movement—no sound even, beyond a slight catching of the breath. “Why you should have treated me as you have is altogether beyond my fathoming,” he went on, "Surely I could never have deserved it at your hands. When I gave you that paltry money a few weeks ago, I little thought it was accepted as the price of your affection. Affection! Nay, rather toleration. Had I known it I would have flung it into the sea before it should have so desraded both yourself and me. Had you no compassion— no thought of the dreary future you were so coldly planning out for us both—I ever striving to gain a love that was not to be galned—you per- petually remembering past days that contained all the sweetness of your life? ‘There—it 1s of small use my re- proaching you now; the thing is done, and cannot be undone, You have only acted as undreds of women have act- ed before you—ruined one man's hap- pines completely, and very nearly wrecked another's, all for the want of a little honesty.” He made a few steps forward, os though to pass her, but she arrested him by laying both’ her hands on lus arm, “Oh, Henry, forgive me!” she ex- claimed, with ‘deep emotion. “You can not Ieave me like this. I know I have ‘been had, wicked. @ecelttul. ta evaer: ee por eh stnore (8 8 re eae pois eaaet te aia re nate a euler sae ston of the dl ss au By ce ioe sara they ° mic eat per qrranf H eugar-ont Ato awalle fame back | sfaPisard | young. 5 some me Some and Fe wet Lay cet sine, Nae Pe ye poli eMsoth SPO ANSI ke ‘way, Dut, ob, forgive me! No—eg mistake me. I know well you Reyer marry me now; and” 1 her-volce—"nelther could I ever we you, having once shown you my 80 ‘there can be no miscor, about that. But it you knew en thing—how wretched I was, how leas, how essential it was thar money should be procured, how ¢ rible {t was to me to have to it, and how just and right a thing) seemed to give you myself in‘ change, having no other means ot Payment—you might perhaps pity Could you only have seen into heart, you would have read there bed Teal was my determination to be t to you, to make you a gocd wite, love you eventually as well as 1 io —that other.” She broke down here and coven her face with her hands. And Lyng who had never learned the art of bet ing consistently unkind to anything. felt his wrath and wrongs melt away altogether, while a choking sensatiay arose in his throat. : He forgot all his own deep injuries, and, taking the pretty golden heat between his hands, he drew it dow, upon his breast, where she began tg cry right heartily. 4 “Mildred, how could you do it?" hy whispered, presently, in a brok volce. “Had you hated me you coull have done nothing more cruel. Child @id you never think of the conse. quences?” * “I know I have behaved basely tp you,” sobbed Mildred. “But I nevet thought that this would be the end All might have turned out so different. ly, had—had this day never been.” “I shall never cease to be thankts} that this day did come,” he answered, earnestly, “Better to wake from a happy dream in time than rest uncon. selous until the waking is too late Bitter as it {s to lose you now, and ‘no one but myself can guess how bit ter that 1s, would It not be far worss to discover that my wite had no sym pathy with me, no thought akin ty mine?” He paused for a moment asf then he safd, sadly, “It seoms a hi thing for me to say, but yet—oh, Mil dred, I wish we had never met!” “Is there nothing I can do to make it up to you?” she asked, despairing. ly. “No, there s nothing,” he answered, regretfully; “all that could be said ot done would not obliterate the past You are crying still, Mildred,” raising ‘her face, and regarding it mournfully; “are you so very sorry then, for yout ‘work? And yet a few plain word: would have prevented all this. Tel mo—when returning the money, whlet you insisted on doing after you grand-aunt's death, why did you no then honestly speak the truth? Wai not that a good opportunity?” “Oh, how could I do it then?” sh asked, turniag away her head, with Uttle shiver of distaste; “that would have appeared so detestable jn vy eyes. What! "she csciinen a your kindness gratefully wh was in sore need of it, ‘and then when J had no further want of it, throw you off without the slightest compunction’ Surely you would have thought that a very unworthy action?” “Still it would have been better than this,” he answered, gloomily, begin- ning to walk slowly up and down the room, while che stood weaving her fingers restlessly in and out, watching him, Poor Mildred, the bitterness of her remorse just then made half atone ment for her sin, With a heart ai once affectionate and deeply feeling {t was to her the intensest agony tc see Lyndon so crushed and heart. broken, and know {t was her ows handiwork, For a few milnutes there was silene: except for the faint sound of Lyndon’ footsteps as ho paced heavily to anc fro on the thick carpet. At length she cotld bear it no longer. ies (To be continued.) F 0 ds ool a handy E cozODONT Li Saee LIQUID intel ta HALL & | soz000NT Li jasse LIQUID intel ta HALL & | SEAL Lyd [4 is / 8 ep KS H 7 alee Raa ‘AgtO Don Don't do Let Ai fe sypatmen orice © Ser oun ‘will not give Sime: For 2b ce | LEO Pt orn re, eee era eee \ Geriala Wena seen fora W F : r Ps jo0D Fase Preaches for Wer Husband. Wearied and almost ready to. col- lapse from overwork, Rev. Mr. Clegg of Tannersville, Pa., on a recent Sun- day evening permitted his wife to oc- cupy his pulpit, and the congrega- tion that listened to the discourse was greatly pleased. “Sin came into the world by'my sex, and it Is my duty to get all the sin out of the world T can,” said Mrs. Clegg in her sermon. She conducted her entire service for her husband and her sermon was in- teresting from beginning to end. The announcement that the minister's wife was to preach brought out a very large congregation and late comers stood two deep in the corridor. Rev. D. W. Lecrone, the Lutheran pastor of the village, dismissed his evening service in order to hear Mrs. Clegg. He was Invited to a seat on the plat- form and accepted. Pastor Clegg, who is an Englishman, introduced his wite to the congregation, ‘entta of Oho “Ausibaiee of ae An interesting matter, from a sclen-~ tific point of view, in connection with the death of Queen Victoria, 1s the dis- tance at which the sound of firing was heard when the fleet. saluted as. the body was conveyed from Cowes to Portsmouth. Letters in the English Journals of sclence show that the sounds of the guns were heard in sev- eral places at a distance of eighty-four miles, and that at a distance of sixty miles the concussions were sufficiently intense to shake windows and to set cock pheasants to crowing as they do during a thunderstorm. There ap- Dears to have been but little wind to Interfere with the propagation of the sound.—New York Post. 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The commission appointed the candidate of the military authorities, but all the other officers appointed are natives, with the exception of Lieut. Curie, who was appointed treasurer. A typhoon is threatening, and the commission therefore shortened its session, and is making haste to reach Aparri, province of Cagayan, by sea before the storm breaks. FIRE AT HARBOR SPRINGS. Michigan Summer Resort Suffers Loss to Extent of $50,000. Petoskey, Mich., Aug. 22. — Fire started at 1 o'clock this morning in J. W. Acheson's big bakery restaurant at Harbor Springs, the county seat of this county, five miles from here, and rapidly swept through the business portion of the city, causing a loss approximating $53,000, about three-fourths insured. The stores and stock of A. N. Smith, grocer; Bert Smith, restaurateur; W. F. Allerton, saloon, were entirely destroyed. Residence flats above the stores were occupied by resorters, who escaped with their lives, losing practically all their effects. There were several narrow escapes, but no lives were lost or serious injuries reported. Petoskey's fire department responded promptly on a special train and saved the department store of Foster & Burke, worth $75,000, which was only partially damaged, and the dry goods house of Ben Segal, on the other side. It is the most disastrous fire in the history of Harbor Springs and, coming when the city is full of resorters, it is specially unfortunate. HAY SEES THE PRESIDENT. Secretary of State Confers with McKinley at Canton. Canton, O., Aug. 23.—Secretary of State John Hay has reached Canton to confer with the president on a number of matters demanding consideration in the state department. He had planned to complete his work here in time to take the 1:35 Pennsylvania train for the east, and, unless another route can be found that will permit him to catch the same Washington train at Pittsburg, he will leave at that time. While the conditions existing in Colombia and Venezuela were doubtless reviewed by the president and secretary, it is understood that there is not in the conditions anything at present calling for action other than has already been taken. LEE DID MEET COCKRAN. English Officer Denies Recent Story Sent from London. New York, Aug. 22.—Capt. Arthur H. Lee, formerly military attache at the British legation in Washington, who is in the city, having arrived on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, when reminded of a story from London that he had refused to shake hands with W. Bourke Cockran when they were introduced said: "I did not decline to meet Mr. Cockran, as has been reported, but I could not refrain from reminding him that I had heard him deliver a very eloquent address in Washington at a pro-Boer meeting. That was all." Hinrichle Shaken in Health, Springfield, Ill., Aug. 23.—William H. Hinrichsen, former congressman and secretary of state, was one of the passengers on the Alton "Hummer," which was wrecked near here early this morning, and the effect of the shock has caused him to become seriously ill again, when he was just recovering from his recent attack. St. Thomas, Aug. 23.—Heavy southly gales swept the islands of Barbados, Dominica, Martinique and Saint Vincent on Tuesday. At Saint Vincent the damage was particularly heavy, as many shipping lighters and wharves were destroyed by the waves. Mrs. Beckham May Die. Louisville, Ky., Aug. 23.-Mrs. J. C. W. Beckham, wife of the governor, is very low. Relatives have been summoned and physicians have gone from Louisville on a special train. Hays May Go to Grand Trunk New York, Aug. 22.-It is reported in railway circles, avers the Times, that Charles M. Hays has been asked to return to the Grand Trunk railway as vice-president and general manager. MADE STRONG AND WELL. 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France bought $800,200 worth of toys of Germany in 1900. Largest proportion of lilis to which females are viable is the direct result of an irregular menstrual cycle. The first trimester of lilies, *Dusin's Female Regulator*, to keep the diseased periods regular and bring them on promptly $2.5 for lilies, 10 for daisies, 10 for horticulture, 10 for Mosines, and 10 for Des Moines. *Legitimate rubber goods* carried. You can't judge a man's business capacity by his belt-line measurement. Ask your cooker 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. SOZODONT for the TEETH 25c female weakness; had spells of flowing that exhausted me so that I feared I would lose my mind. I suffered untold agony with my back, the pain extending down my left leg. My pain was so severe that my moment—so no one need wonder that I recommend Peruna so highly, for it cured me entirely of that. Not a sign of pain has returned, and that will soon be two years now. "I am glad that there is a way I can speak, trusting that many a sufferer will read my testimonial, and not only read but believe." - Mrs. Wm. Henderson. FOR WOMEN ONLY. Free Treatment During Hot Weather by Dr. Hartman. By the assistance of an experienced staff of physicians, Dr. Hartman proposes to direct the treatment of several thousand women, for one reason or another are alling. Each patient sends name, symptoms, and a short description of previous treatment, and are entered in the doctor's books as regular patients. The treatment is directed from time to time as may be found necessary by the doctor, without charge. Every letter and name is held strictly confidential, and in no case will any one be published except by the express wish of the patient herself. These cases are treated with the same care and belief as the private patient of a regular family physician. 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When visiting Buffalo, do not fail to see the Canadian Exhibit at the Pan-American. W. N. U., Des Moines, No. 34-1901. $3.00 W.L.DOUGLAS SHOES $3.50 UNION MADE For More Than a Quarter of a Century The reputation of W. L. Douglas $3.00 weak has excelled all other makes sold these prices. This excellent reputation has been combined with the excellent shoes have to give better satisfaction than other $3.00 and $3.50 shoes because his reputation for the best $3.50 shoes. The standard has always been placed so high that the weaver receives more value for his money shoes than he can get elsewhere. $3.50 shoes that he can get elsewhere. W. L. Douglas sells more $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other two manufacturers. W. L. Douglas $4.00 gilt Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes are made of the same high grade leather used in $5 and $6 shoes and are just as good. Bold by the best shop dealers everywhere. With name and price stamped on bottom. 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The 58th Year will open September 10, 1981. Catalogue, BAY, A. MORRISSEY, S. C. S., President. ST.MARY'S ACADEMY Notre Dame, Indiana. INDIRECT INFORMATION Conducted by the State of the Holy Cross, Charleston 1855. Through English and Classical education. Regular Collegiate Degrees. In Preparatory Department students carefully prepared for Collegiate course. Physical and Chemical Laboratories well equipped. Conservatory of Music and School of Art. Gymnasium under School of Gymnastics. Catalogue free. The 47th year will open Sept. 5, 1901. Address DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEMY, St. Mary's Academy, Notre Dame, Indiana. HOPELEDA COLLEGE. Hoppeleda, O. 4100-973- a plan to earn 11 F. H. rare trees, see catalog. Rev. Brown of Kansas preached a soul stirring sermon last Sunday at the Second Baptist oureh. Miss Eliza Brown is quite sick. Jeff Garlan is better at this writing. Noah Pomeuton is very sick. Mrs. Don Brown gave a birthday party a pleasant time is reported. Mrs. Drake and Burt Boling are on the sick list. OTTUMWA NEWS. Mr. Horace Massey left Thursday for Indianapolis, Ind., for a short stay. Mrs. Hurst of San Antonio, Texas is in our city visiting Mrs. Horace Massey Mr. Z. Taylor has over-halled his home on the South Side, and it is more beautiful then ever. Mr. and Mrs. Horad passed through our city last Saturday enroute to their home in Cleveland, O. Mr. and Mrs. Horad has been visiting friends in Nebraska. Several of the Ottumvans are on the sick list this week. There was a grand time at the Turner's hall Wednesday night. The colored people did not turn out all night. We hope that they will do the same again. Mrs. A. B. Camady is up again, but is still very weak. Mrs. Franklin, hwo live in Highland Center, is up again and getting along nicely. Miss Carrie Spicer will be married to night, August 20. Samuel Weeks and Wm. Weeks departed Monday for Des Moines. The Weeks brothers had a good business here, and many friends will regret the loss of them. They will make Des Moines their future home. We wish them good luck through their lives. Mrs. S. E. Holton is on the siek list. ROCK ISLAND & TWIN CITY NOTES Last week grandma Richtie's condition was of such that her reacovery was thought to be impossible. We are pleased to note this week that she has improved wonderfully; and her many friends, both white and colored rejoice with the family that such has occurred The members of the F. D. S. club in Moline have been requested to give a musical entertainment in the opera house. They are preparing to give it Friday evening. We were pleased to meet our old Des Moines feiend, Mr. C. Clifton Lewis, on the streets of Roola Island last week. Editor Thompson, of the Bystaader, was a visitor in our city and Moline last week. Ye scribe did not have the pleasure of meeting him, though calling at Mr. Buseys at the same time. Sunday was Quarterly meeting day in Moline. Rev. McDowell was assisted by Presiding Elder Geo. Gaines of Chicago. Miss Mable Hill of Davenport and her visiting friend Miss Mason of Galesburg were visitors in Moline Sunday. August 22nd, Rev. McDowell's church will give a trolley party out at Prospect Park. Cars have been secured to accommodate four hundred persons of the Tri cities. Mrs. Jason Green of Newton has returned to her home, after a very pleasant two months visit with her daughter. The great attractions of this week Rock Island are the M. W. A's river carnival and picnic—Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday—and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The three nights carnival promises to be one of the finest illuminations ever seen on the Mississippi this far north. Owing to the rain last Thursday the crowd was much smaller on the excursion to Clinton. Those who did go however had a lovely time. While there the residents entertained their friends in various ways. At Prof. Damons Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Toilver, Mrs. Jason Green, Mrs. M. L. Heddin, Mrs. James Toliver and Mrs Green of Rock Island were highly entertained by Prof. and Mr. Emerson of Clinton furnishing music on piano and violin and Mr. Will Turk of Molline singing. BITS OF INFORMATION Egypt exported last year 65,000 tons of sugar, 55,300 of which went to America. In Pennsylvania the trolley is carrying the mail and thus supplanting the star routes. The agricultural output of the state of Colorado for 1900 will approximate $90,000,000 in value. It is estimated that 135,000 Americans who visited Europe last year ment large $60,000,000. About 900 persons a day v erage visit the white house a round. The number fives so thin to 1,500 to 2,000, and the four fives itrons are not many, being from 1.5 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 a when it was first put down. how One Lawyer keeps the Judge from sleeping. There is said to be a lawyer in Philadelphia who possesses a trick of the voice to which a certain measure of his success in United States Supreme court practice is due. The trick consists in waking a judge. Whether it is a common practice for the high dignitaries of the federal supreme bench to indulge in a nap in the course of a long and tedious argument, such happenings are not unknown, and it is well for an able logician of the bar to be prepared for it. The trick of waking a sleepy judge would seem to be something in the nature of slamming a law book under his nose or connecting his personality with the current of an electric battery. But the trick is explained as purely a matter of sound involved in the skillful control of the voice. It is said that a barrister practiced in the art and rhetorle of addressing the bench can gather all the waves of sound from his throat into a focus and deposit it in the orifice of the judge's ear with the general effect of a bomb. The trick, however it is accomplished, is said to have been worked repeatedly with success on the late Judge McKennan, whose habit of going to sleep on the bench was once a notorious subject of comment in the litigation over the Berliner telephone patients. This queer trick of the voice, while it is said to be the peculiar property of one celebrated lawyer, is probably attempted often with varying success by others.—Philadelphia Record. DES MOINES PASSENGER TRAINS C. R I & P. . GOING EAST. ABRIVE 4 30 pm.....Chicago Limited....*4 30 pm 4 30 pm.....Day Express & Mail.....*4 30 pm 11 16 pm.....Night Limited.....*12 01 am 18 31 pm.....Day Express.....*12 48 pm 9 10 pm.....Hawkeye Limited.....7 00 am C. R. I & P., GOING WEST. 8 30 am.....Denver Limited.....*6 35 am 8 30 am.....Night Express.....*6 35 am 4 00 pm.....Day Express.....*4 15 am 3 55 am.....Rocky Mountain Limited.....*4 00 am *11 40 am.....Fast Mail.....+11 49 am C. R- I & P. TO KEOKUK. 11 30 am.....Eidon.....6 55 pm 3 50 pm.....Keokuk.....7 10 am DES MOINES & FORT DODGE. 6 35 pm.Ruthven Mail & Express.....12 30 pm 8 19 pm.Minn and D. Louis.....*9 00 am 6 45 am.St. Paul and Minn. Flyer.....8 30 am WINTERSET BRANCH. 11 20 am.....Mall.....4 40 pm 8 50 pm.....Express.....7 20 am 6 40 pm.....Freight.....8 45 am CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN-NORTH 8 15 pm.....Chicago and St. Paul Lim.....*8 30 pm Chicago and St. Paul Ex......8 30 am *2 23 am.Two City Special.....*2 23 am CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN-SOUTH 6 50 am.Kansas City Limited.....*7 00 am 14 30 am.....Day Express.....*11 40 am 7 50 pm.....Night Express.....8 45 pm CHICAGO BURLINGTON & QUINCY *18 15 am* . Albia and Burling Passage. *35 15 am* 5 40 pm* . Albia Passenger. 8 00 am 7 00 pm* . Albia Accommodation. 5 45 am KEOKUK & WESTERN PASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE Q STATION. 10 35 am* . Mail and Express. 12 40 am 10 35 am* . Mail and Express. 8 35 am 7 30 pm .. Storm Lake Express .. 4 05 am 5 30 pm .. M. A. M. T. B. N. B. LIME, L. M. 1 25 pm. Boone Mall and Express 3 40 pm 7 10 pm. Mall and Express 7 40 am 4 50 am. Chicago Limited 19 40 am 40 am. Chicago Express 11 00 am 12 45 pm. Slick City & Omaha 400 am *Daily. †Daily. All other trains daily except Saxon Cheaper Than Ever TO COLORADO AND UTAH Daily to Sept. 10th, 1901. VIA THE GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE VIA THE ROUND TRIP RATES FROM $25.00 Aug. 1 to 10 $34.50 July 10 to 31 Sedt. 1 to 10 Aug. 11 to 31 Similar reduced Rates on same dates to other Colorado and Utah Tourist Points. Rates from other points on Rock Island Route proportionately lower on same dates of sale. Return Limit October 31, 1901 The Superb New Train Rocky Mountain Limited Leaves Chicago daily at 1:00 p.m. arriving Denver 4:45 p.m. Colorado Springs (Manitou) 4:30 p.m next day. ONLY ONE NIGHT OUT See your Agent for details and Colorado literature or address JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A, CHICAGO. IOWA'S BEAUTIFUL LAKE REGION Lake Okoboji and Spirit Lake most favorably reached by the quickest route, the C. M. & St. P. Ry. 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. SHANNON & MOTT Co... HOW TO GET TICKETS. Tickets to these lectures are given free of charge by all grocers to purchasers of FALCON FLOUR, one tickets with every sack. Admission can be had only by these tickets and they will not be sold. Two of these lectures will be given each day--one from 10 to 12 forenoon and one in the afternoon from 2 to 4. SHANNON & MOTT CO., DES MOINES, IA August 27,28,29,30 HOW Tickets to these l chasers of FALCON be had only by these These Tickets are Two of these lectu and one in the aftern SHANNON A MINISTER'S GOOD WORK. I had a severe attack of bilious colic, got a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy, took two doses and was entirely cured," says Rev. A. A. Power, of Emporia, Kan. "My neighbor across the street was sick for over a week, had two or three stools of medicine from the four days without relief, then called in another doctor who treated him for some days and gave him no relief, so discharged him. I went over to see him the next morning. He said his bowels were in a terrible fix, that they had been running off so long that it was almost bloody flux I asked him if he had tried Chamberlain's Golic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and he said, 'No.' I went home and brought him my bottle and gave him one dose; told him to take another dose in fifteen or twenty minutes if he did not find relief, but he took no more and was entirely cured." For sale by all Druggists. Grave Filling Device. A device for use in constructing graves, the invention of Henry D. Cameron, of Burlington, Iowa, is designed to fill the grave with earth after the coffin has been lowered, and to conceal as far as possible the actual throwing of the dirt upon the coffin, the most trying termination of the grave ceremony to the bereaved mourners. It consists of a receptacle, with detachable sides and bottom, and a gate in the latter 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 sad scene in a much more fitting manner than the seemingly cold-hearted return of the earth with a spade. Sweetmeats for Wives. At the "stag dinner" of the Fishmongers' company in London each man gets a casket of sweetmeats to carry home to his wife. And the outside caskets make neat workbaskets. Cloud Stood, Report Was Tasted, Eto. An extract in style from the modern novel: "This cloud that tried to stand in the way of their youthful joy was only a false report whose bitter taste could not splinter the radiance of their happiness." Typhoid Killing British Soldiers. During the first three months of this year there were, among the British troops in South Africa, 6,258 cases of typhoid fever, 1,060 of which proved fatal. Professional Beggar Leaves Fortune. A professional beggar of Budapest, who died recently, had amassed the very comfortable sum of £42,000. This he bequeathed to the University of Pressburg, where he had made much money in his early days by swindling, farmers as Motormen. Nearly all the motormen employed on the new trolley lines in Buffalo are young Canadian farmers. The railway officials say they are the most satisfactory of all their employees. The stuctor a good medicin up because in danghtors his are not OUR CIRCLE HALL has been chosen as the place for Mrs. Jaret McKenzie Hill's lectures. It is one of the few places in the city large enough to accommodate the crowd of women that will attend. The location, Eighth and Locust streets, over the city library, is convenient to allparts of the city. PRACTICAL ADVICE. A stitch in time saves nine. Never let a child sob itself to sleep. An egg beaten up in milk is a good pick-me-up. Sponge black silk with spirits to revive it. Soot covered with salt is easily brushed up. If broken wash the bruise and apply vaseline. Apply armice to a bruise if the skin is unbroken. A hot bath taken at night affords refreshing sleep. Lemons stowed separately in dry sand keep fresh. Dry hair turns gray sooner than moist tresses do. If your clothes catch fire instantly roll on the floor. Crawl out of a room where there are smoke and fire. When you want to cut whalebone, warm it by the fire. Sufferers from dyspepsia should not drink while eating. Cut glass needs scrubbing with warm water and soap. Bruised cloves kept among furs frighten moths away. When the dirt is removed rinse it well with cold water. The busy housewife should get an hour's sleep in the afternoon. If possible, hold a wet towel to your face while escaping.—Boston Journal EARLY STRAWS OF FASHION, The drooping hats will be much seen in the spring. Tucks will be very much in evidence the coming spring and summer. Mixed cloths are very much seen—that is to say, black with a liberal peppering of white, gray with white, and pastel blue. Gowns are made long on the shoulder, yokes and collarettes are run down long on the shoulders, or the shoulders are trimmed. Cashmeres will be popular the coming spring, and all the women at Nice and Monte Carlo are wearing the light pastel shades in cloth and the pale pinks, blues and beiges, as usual. It is really too early to tell whether the furore for gold will run over into another season. We must wait and see if we feel gold when the summer days come. Cravats are seen on the new cloth gowns. For slender women nothing can be prettier for the spring than the boleros with basque backs, consisting of three little pieces on each side, one over the other and rounded at the ends. Above these pieces is a belt.—Katharine de Forest's Paris Letter in Ladies' Home Journal. Britains Degenerating Physically. According to Arnold White, an English critic, the inhabitants of the British Isles are degenerating physically. He bases his conclusions on the results of recruiting for the Boer war. 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