Iowa State Bystander

STATE BYSTANDER. IOWA GUS MORRIS Hay, Feed, Coal and Straw 919. CENTER ST. Phone 697. VOL. 8. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. PUBLISHED WEEKLY FRIEND BY THE BYSCHLER BROOKING COMPANY, FRIENDS AND LOCUST. ROOM 405, MARQUARDT BLOCK. IOWA 'PHONE 899. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN PHOTO COLLECTION ASSOCIATION OF IOWA. TROTIVE ASSOCIATION OF IOWA OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE MOST WORKSIRFUL, UNITED GRAND LOUGE OF IOWA, A. F. & A. M. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year. $1.50 Six moths. .75 Three mouths. .50 All subscription payable in advance. J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by post free order, money order, express or draft, to the IOWA SCAZE BYSAN- TER Publishing Company. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the pub- le. "Brevity is the soul of wit," remember We will not return rejected manuscript, un- less accompanied by postage stamps. CITY NEWS Mrs. H. Fitch is very much improved. Clinton Shaving Parlor, 202 W. 4th wants your patronage. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dvis entertained some friends at six o'clock dinner Tuesday. J. H. Mixon, Jeweler, No. 312 West Third street, tunes Pianos and repairs Organs. Mr. Rufus Hoskins returned Monday from Kahoka, Mo., where he spent a few days visiting relatives and friends. James Jones, the ex-check weighman for the Saylor Coal Co., has been suffering with the rheumatism the past week. Rev. D. J. Tate of Pella who preached Sunday at the Corinthian Baptist church was a BYSTANDER caller Monday. All members of North Star lodge No. 2 are requested to meet at their hall Tuesday evening, Jan. 21, by order of the W. M. Several have already taken advantage of the BYSTANDER's low rates and have sent in their dollar for one year's subscription. Don't forget to give me a call. Equal Rights Barber Shop and Bath Rooms, 320 West Third street. Bath rooms open until 12 on Sundays. CHAS. J. ROY, Prop. Mrs. Mollie Watson, who has been visiting her sister at Webster City will arrive in this city Saurday to remain over Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Nelson Watkins of Albany, Mo. When in Oskaloosa, Iowa, stop at Mr. Peter Williams, No. 216 North A street, for good meals and room. The successful colored employees in the legislature are: In Senate—Janitors, Jeff Logan of Des Moines, Rev. P. S. Irwin of Chariton and Mr. Wm. Thompson of Otumwa. In House—Janitors, R. N. Hyde of Des Moines, Nathan Meddleton of Webster City, E. Ross of Sioux City, Fred Wright of Davenport. The Twentieth Century S. S. L. Club met last Tuesday evening with Misses Maple and Alice Morton. Rev. Griffith was a club visitor. "The ladies decide to suspend meetings of the club until the 11th of February, on account of the series of meetings which Rev. Griffith expects to begin Sunday evening next. PRES. MRS. L. GOOGINS. GOR. Sec. MRS L. CANNADAY. W. I. Swain's Nashville Students played at the auditorium Thursday night of last week. G. P. Lowery is the musical director. If the features of the performances were as good as the musicians they would have a strong company. Prof. Lowery rendered his cornet solo in a very artistic manner. He responded to the encore by playing Aunie Laurie with variations. He certainly is an artist with the cornet. 919 CENTER ST. Phone 697. Miss Mary Rollins of Kansas City arrived in the city Wednesday morning for a visit with her nephew and niece Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Fisher whom she has not seen for eighteen years. She will probably spend the balance of the winter with them. There was a wreck on the C. & G. W. R'y last Tuesday at Lorimor. The dining car was attached to a freight train and was being put in position to attach it to the passenger train, and in some way it became detached and crashed into the the. passages train, injuring all of the employees on the dining car. J. H. Rogers and Mr. Hawkins of this city were on the car and received some painful injuries. The car was completely demolished. KEOKUK NOTES. The Blind Boone Concert Co., appeared at the A. M. E. church Friday evening to a large and appreciative audience. There was no noticeable improvement in Boone's playing and his execution was of the same order as that of former years, however a new star appeared with the company in the person of Miss Marguerite Ward who is the vocal soloist, and her initial appearance in this city was well received. Miss Ward is the possessor of a flexible, rich, contralto voice and has perfectly mastered it. Her first selection, "The Tale of Life" at once scared for her a favor-ble impression among Keokuk's musical critics and she gracefully responded to several enchores. Miss Ward is a product of Glasgow, Mo., and this is her first season of concert work. Mrs. Lydia Moss Jan. S. All report a pleasant time. The funeral of Mrs. Anna Shortridge was preceded at the Baptist church by Rev. Burton Jan. 7. She leaves a husband and and two small children to mourn her. The Shakespeare club met with Mrs. Sarah Weathers last week. Mr. and Mrs. W. Baker and Mrs. B. Baker have returned from their holiday visit to Galesburg, the guests of Mrs. Ella Elsey. Mrs. Ruth Richardson has been on the slist list. Sunday afternoon the Tri-City literary congress met at the Third Baptist church. A good program was rendered consisting of solos, recitations and papers from the different members of the different places—Rock Island Moline and Davenport. The Mt. Zion Baptist chapel a musical social Tuesday night. The basket social at church Friday evening was both socially and the R. Ealy was auctioneer. Mr. Edward Ross, one citizen, who went to be given the position as clock rohm for the housewives. We congratulate success. Mrs. Rev. W. H. Speece ill. Those on the lick is Mesdames J. W. Norris, W. Watkins, M. Thompson and Yussum. There will be a drawing A. M. D. Church Thursday. TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE WORLD BY GAS ENGINE IGNITION. Joshua Strothers, residing at 952 W. Thirteenth street, has invented an automatic electric igniter for gasoline automobiles. It dispenses entirely of all expense of ignition of the present day, such as hot tubes and batteries. Gas engine ignition is and has been a problem of the day, but it is at last solved by a Negro inventor. Ignition up to this day in time is very expensive, imperfect, and the mode of same unreliable. This machine is designed to generate a current of electricity directly from the motion of the engine of sufficient strength to explode gasoline in same. Mr. Strothers has been working on this machine for several years and after several trials, having made two others, the one now seems to accomplish even more then the inventor claims. It was patented last March. Mr. W. H. Humburd, one of our warthy citizens is interested and pushing the young inventor who is 18 years old. We are sorry that at this time we cannot print a cut of the inventor or the invention. CORINTHIAN CHURCH NOTES. The ladies of the Sewing Circle have purchased for the church a very fine organ which is highly appreciated by the entire congregation. The installation services were held last Sunday at 3 p. m. and were as follows: Opening hymn led by Mr. S. F. Thomas; Prayer Mr. Clarence Brown; Scripture Lesson, Rev. D. Hhelps; Installation Sermon, Rev. D. J. Tate of Pella; Music, Choir; Welcome to the City, Rev. S. Johnson; Solo, Miss Anna Rhodes; Welcome to the church, Rev. S. Bates; Music, Choir; Address, The Relation of a Church to its Pastor, Rev D. Phelps; Address, Pastor; Benediction, Rev Phelps. The services were conductee by Rev. Bates and were well attended and full of enthusiasm. And you wont go to waste for lack of proper food. Cooking to order in home style. Choice Line of Cigars and Tobacco MRS. I. M. JONES Prop. 318 W. Third Street. A. M. E. CHURCH NOTES. Sunday was a big day at the St. Paul A. M. E. church, being the second quarterly meeting by the Presiding Elder, Rev. J. W. Malone of Muscatine. The services were well attended all day and at night as usual the large congregation completely filled the church. The Presiding Elder was at his best one might say, and from the way he preached Sunday night especially, he reminded the old citizens of his sermons 25 years ago when the people trembled beneath his eloquence. Elder Malone is seventy-one years old and his sermons are as powerful as they were years ago. There were two accessions Sunday, making twenty-one who have joined the church in three months. The stewards raised $200.00; the Trustees $70.70; the S. S. under Mr. J. H. Shepard, $70.00; gave the same to the Trustees; the Missionary Society raised $90.00; Sewing Circle $12.00; Stewardess Board $6.50; the literary society $13.00 and the Deaconess $4.50. Rev. P. H. Hubbard, general financial secretary of the A. M. E. church, suddenly died at his home in Philadelphia this week. He is known in the General Conference as the "$1.00 money king." Will say more next week. The Blind Boone Concert Co., appeared at the A. M. E. church Friday evening to a large and appreciative audience. There was no noticeable improvement in Boone's playing and his execution was of the same order as that of former years, however a new star appeared with the company in the person of Miss Marguerite Ward who is the vocal soloist, and her initial appearance in this city was well received. Miss Ward is the possessor of a flexible, rich, contralto voice and has perfectly mastered it. Her first selection, "The Tale of Life" at once scurred for her a favor ble impression among Keokuk's musical critics and she gracefully responded to several enchores. Miss Ward is a product of Glasgow, Mo., and this is her first season of concert work. The previous issue of the Bystander would have us believe that Gov. Shaw is our new Secretary of State. Take off your leather specks Bro. Thompson, go way back and take another drag from your corn cob pipe and then sit down. Three ladies were honored with requests to play the piano at the Boone concert but not one would respond to the wishes of that vast audience, but sat as silent as a sphinx. Here indeed wa an opportunity for the rendition of valuable services to this great gathering of representative colored and white citizens, but our girls of boasted ability refused to lift Keokuk and the raca into a higher atmospherr of social intelligence. Everybody says "good mornin Carrie, howdy do this mornin?" We understand that Mr. C, A. Harris has laid aside "The Honeysuckle and the Bee" and now sings "Hark from the Tomb Dead Coon." The choir of the A. M. E church is preparing a song service to be rendered January 26. There has not been a wedding in Keokuk for so long that people have almost forgotten how to act at one. From all indications the twentieth century youth is rather timid. It is said that Mr. Charles Teabeau has been examining all the railroad maps in Keokuk trying to figure out the shortest walking distance between Keokuk and some Missouri polts. The Bystander scribler would suggest that he also figure the running distance. Mrs. Ella Haley entertained Nellie Wilkinson, Mrs. Anna Bettis, Mr. J. W. Smith and Alonzo W. draine at a six o'clock dinner last Sunday. Miss Mable Nare will leave for Colorado Tuesday morning for a lengthy stay with her sister Mrs. Caldwell. Rev. Bingaman spent last week in New Borton assisting Rev. McClelland in revival meeting. Reports meeting success. The Seventh street church is preparing to give a combination telephone and sock entertainment Tuesday evening. Mr. Henry Stefferson of Hilton is in the city the guest of Rev. Bingaman, and will be treated for his eyes at hospital. Mable Blind is very sick at her home on Morgan street. Mr. Frank Robinson, the district deputy master of the T. B. F. of Quincy and of state of Illinois, was in the city several days on business and left for his home Tuesday morning. A certain lady on North Third street will have to tell her gentleman friend to "take a seat way back and set down" if her friend appears from St. Louis. DAVENPORT. Mr. Ered Wright left for Des Moines last week in hopes of obtaining a position at the state house. Rev. Cal Mannering Williams of Oberlin, Ohio, the eagle evangelist. is holding a series of meetings at the Third Baptist church. Rev. Williams was once a resident of Des Moines. The A. M. E. church held children's services. Mrs. Hattie Foster who has been quite sick is improving very fast and is able to sit up. The Sunday School of the Third Baptist church elected the following officers. Mrs. H. M. Hughes Supt.; Mrs. Lydia Moss Sect.; Mrs. R. Battles Asst. Sect. Mrs. B. Baker Tresurer; Miss Bessie Rogers Librian; Miss Nora Allen Asst. Librarian, Teachers, Mrs. F. Baker, Mrs. Hoskins, Mr. Scott and Mrs. Hughes. The Violet club meets with Mrs. Allen on Main street, Jan. 15th. Mrs. Ben Bright has just returned from her Xmas outing to Colfax. She reports a very pleasant time. Mrs. Mary Rogers who has been dangerously sick is reported better. Her many friends will be glad to hear of her recovery. Mr. Ben Berry has been called out of town on account of the illness of his brother Charley. Miss Mabry, cousin of J. T. Mabry, is in our city and will make it her home. She is staying at the residence of Mrs. James Thomas on Harrison street. The ladies and friends of the Toussaint L'Ouverture club met at the residence of Mrs. Lydia Moss Jan. 8. All report a pleasant time. The funeral of Mrs. Anna Shortridge was preached at the Baptist church by Rev. Barton Jan. 7. She leaves a husband and two small children to mourn her. The Shakespeare club met with Mrs. Sarah Weathers last week. Mr. and Mrs. W. Baker and Mrs. B. Baker have returned from their holiday visit to Galesburg, the guests of Mrs. Ella Elsey. Mrs. Ruth Richardson has been on the side list. Sunday afternoon the Tri-City literary congress met at the Third Baptist church. A good program was rendered consisting of solos, recitations and papers from the different members of the different places—Rook Island Moline and Davenport, after which the president Mr. Scott introduced Rev. Williams who gave us many encouraging remarks. BURLINGTON SAYINGS. Don't forget to have your subscription renewed for BYSTANDER. Mrs. Laura Veal is still on the sick list but is some better. Rev. W. W. Williams of St. Johns A. M. E. church was agreeably surprised on last Wednesday evening at his home on Washington street, by the members and friends of his congregation. Mrs. Peter King of West avenue is on the sick list. Messers John Veal and Dean have removed to their old stand on Washington street and are always ready to meet any of their old friends who chance to call. The choir at St. Johns A. M. E. church is gradually improving and under the instruction of the present chorister we look for good results. Rev. William is conducting a series of meetings at St. Johns A. M. E. church this week. The members of the Industrial Musical club are again holding regular meetings. Mr. Peter Johnson of 1507 South Fifteenth street is on the sick list. It is hard to convince some people that in union there is strength. Mr. Ed Johnson who is at present Manager of Burlington's leading shining parlor, 201 Jefferson street, extends a cordial invitation to all to call at his place of business or good work. Mr Wash Graham has returned from a visit with her sister Mrs. J. Johnson of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. James Dean is slowly improving at the pest house and will no doubt be out in a few days. The kall given by the J. H. & D. club at Labor hall Monday the 6th of January was a success. ALBIA NOTES. Monday evening a surprise party was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Butler on Mr. Butler. Quite a large crowd was present. All report an enjoyable time. Mr. Elmer Tolson, Mrs. Soudan and Ollie Tolson of Foster was in town attending court a few days of this week. Mrs. G. A. Davis went to Garden Grove to be with her daughter Mrs. Martin Sickness was the call. Mr. Waren Taylor of Hilton was in town this week. Woodson & Brown have a case in court in Albis this week. Mr. S. E. Franklin entertained at dinner Sunday Rev. Ed. G. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Butler, Mrs. M. F. Ward, Mr. and Mrs Burton, Mr. Monroe Davis and Miss May Davis. Special to Bystander. Jan. 9.—At the residence the reception was given by Mr. and Mrs. Brudus of Colfax in the honor of Mrs. L. B. Bright of Davenport and Miss Ida Bright, the guests of twenty-five and supper was served by the young men of Colfax, Mr Chill Mr. Miller and Mr. Brudus. The farewell address, Mrs. L. B. Bright in honor of host, hastest and friends. Responded by Mrs W. B. Battles of Colfax. A desirable time was spent. SIOUX CITY ITEMS If you are not a subscriber for the SYSTAANER begin aight with the New Year and subscribe. The M. T. Zon Baptist church had a grand rally Sunday. The services were well attended all day. There will be quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church Sunday, Jan. 19. Presiding Elder Malone will do present. Mrs. Lucy Wright of Yankton, S. D., spent a few days in our city he guest of Mrs. F. Baker. Arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chares. Watkina a fine baby girl, mother and daughter doing nicely. The Ladies' Singing Club, under the leadership of Mrs. C. A. Dean, will sing at the Grace M. E. church Morningside in the near future. There were five candidrites introduced to Mr. Goat in the Decature lodge. A. F. & A. M. Monday night. The Mt. Zion Baptist church will give a musical social Tuesday night Jan 14. The basket social at the A. M. E. church Friday evening was quite a success both socially and financially. Mr. R. Ealy was auctioneer. Mr. Edward Ross, one of our worthy citizens, who went to Des Moines has been given the position as janitor of the cloak robm for the house of representatives. We congratulate him upon his success. Mrs. Rev. W. H. Speece is dangerously ill. Those on the lick list are namely Medesana J. W. Norris, B. Yussum, C. Walkins, M. Thompsoe and Mr. Boston Yussum. There will be a drawing social at the A. M. D. church Thurscay evening Jan. 16. DR. A. G. EDWARDS Physician and Surgeon. IOWA PHONE 1081 MUTUAL PHONE 466 (Office) Miles' Drug Store OFFICE HOURS: (9 to 10 a.m. (2 to 4 p.m. (7 to 9 p.m. Over 764 West Ninth Street. Judge Has a Good Voice. William Jefferson Pollard, known as "the stouter of all Missouri," is now judge of the Fourth District Court of St. Louis. His voice, which is described by an enthusiastic local paper as "weird, wonderful, witching, powerful as the bass profundo, penetrating as Gabriel's silver trumpet, and sweet as an Aeolian harp," won him the position of reading clerk in the Missouri State Assembly, and in many city and state Democratic conventions. He was also one of the reading clerks in the Democratic national convention at Chicago in 1896. Fillipinos Make Good Servants. An army officer who recently returned from our Pacific possessions says: "The Filipinos, whatever may be their faults, make the best servants in the world, if you can cure them of petty thievery. Overcome that, and you have an ideal servant. At home here we are confronted everlastingly by the servant-girl proposition. Bring the Filipino men here and the servant girl will be a dead issue. The men are small, active and not afraid of work. They could be trained to do general housework, just as the Chinese do out on the Pacific coast." Watch Given by Walter Raleigh. Among the bequests of the late Dr. Edmund Croker of Lusnabrin House, Pallow county, Waterford, Ireland, is a gold watch which Sir Walter Raleigh gave to the infant son of Richard Croker, the direct ancestor of Dr. Croker, in 1589. Sir Walter was sponsor to the infant son, who was named Walter, and to whom the watch was given. Until a few years ago the watch kept excellent time, although the case was worn to the thinness of silver paper. Fend Exista in Wyoming. Wyoming has 35,000,000 acres of good grazing lands. There are about 1,000,000 cattle and 3,000,000 sheep in the state. Between the cattle men and sheep men exists a feud that not infrequently leads to murder. Sheep, as you may or may not know, feed in so close order that when a flock has fed over a range, not a spear of grass remains. Cattle browse at random, and leave behind more than they eat, so that the range may provide sustenance for two or three herds, one following the other. France Carrying a Heavy Load. With a national debt of $6,000,000,000 and a population practically at a standstill, with a costly standing army and an expensive navy, France is staggering under a heavy load. Perhaps her shoulders are strong enough and broad enough to bear it, but the crash may come some day despite French confidence in the stability and financial resources of the republic—Baltimore Sun. Estate Delays an Undertaking: At the time of his death the late Puvis De Chavannes was at work on a series of frescoes for the Pantheon. The painter Cazin, who was intrusted with the completion of the work, died in his turn. The frescoes are now to be finished by one of Puvis De Chavanne's favorite pupils. **Teo Radical for Arkansas.** The Hot Springs citizen who shot two men because they refused to drink with him pleads self-defense. But even in Arkansas it is hardly to be assumed that a man who declines to take a drink is so dangerous a madman that the safety of others depends on his being shot on sight.—Louisville Courrier-Journal. ```markdown ``` No. 32. First Lake Superior Ore. The first discovery by white men of the iron ore of the Lake Superior region was made September 16, 1844, near the eastern end of Teal lake, in northern Michigan, by William A. Burt, a deputy surveyor of the general government. In June, 1845, the Jackson Mining Company was organized at Jackson and in the same year it secured possession of the celebrated Jackson iron mountain. The ore from this mountain was first used in a bloomery at Jackson and afterward in 1847 and subsequently in bloomeries in northern Michigan. In the Woman Suffrage States. The four states in which woman suffrage is established, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, are noted for the radical changes which they made in declarations of political preference. In 1896 the fusionists carried Colorado by 134,000 majority. A year later they had 3,900. Utah gave Bryan 33,000 majority in 1896, and four years later went against him by 2,100. Wyoming was carried by the Republicans in 1892, by the fusionists in 1896, and by the Republicans again in 1900—New York Sun. Establishment of Dlyores: Establishment of Divorce. Divorce was established in Germany in 1875. From 1881 to 1885 the yearly number of divorces was about 8,000, while of late years it exceeds 10,000. In England divorce was established in 1857. During the years 1858-1862 the annual number was about 200; in 1849 about 550; in 1898 about 650. In Austria, where only non-Catholics can apply for a divorce, the number of demands for divorce increased 25 percent in four years, and in Belgium, about 20 per cent in four years. Plague in Many Lands. The plague during the year has been reported in the following countries: Cape Colony and Egypt, in Africa; Arabia, the Argentine Republic, Australia, Brazil, China, England, Formosa, Germany, Hawaiian Islands, Japan, Madagascar, Paraguay, Philippine Islands, Mauritius, Portugal, Reunion, Russia, Scotland, Straits Settlements; Turkey and Wales—probably a wider dissemination than has ever been known in the history of the world. Cost of New York Police Cost of New York Police. The police department and the board of education continue to be the New York city departments requiring the largest expenditure of public money. For 1902 the appropriation for the police department is $11,350,000 and for the school department $19,-263,000, subject to a reimbursement by the state of $1,200,000, which will bring the school expenses this year to $18,-000,000, approximately. Reminder for Forgetful Persons. Conspicuously posted near the exit of a Rumford Falls (Me) dry goods store, is the query in bold print, "Have you forgotten anything?" In the half dozen old years that the sign has hung there it has saved innumerable return trips for forgotten parcels and done away with months of worry on the part of customers with short memories. Chicago Law Field, La Crowded. There are said to be from 8,000 to 10,000 men in Chicago who have been admitted to the practice of law, but only about half of them are actively at work in the profession. The others have gone into mercantile and financial employments, in some cases from necessity, and in others from choice. Drinks Electricity in Water A New York man says he drinks electricity in water and it has made him ten years younger in a twelve-mouth. It restored his teeth, his sight, his hair, his lost vitality. He declares that a glassful of the water as he prepares it will produce sufficient electric force to ring a small bell. "Observation Automobiles." A line of "observation automobiles" is to be run in Washington, D. C., for the benefit of visitors. Each vehicle carries twenty-two passengers and will be accompanied by a lecturer on points of interest at the capital. The fuel is kerosene and the motive power steam. To Offset Heat at St. Louis. An air-cooling system on a vast scale is to be tried at the St. Louis exposition. Great fans will bring down a current of cold air from a height of 800 feet above the earth and pour it over the grounds on hot days. Sapitary Inspection for Dolls. In view of the instinctive fondness of little girls for kissing their dolls, the Lancet thinks more attention should be paid to the source of the material used in making and stuffing them. Italian Emigration to America. Italian statistics show the emigration to America has reached the figure of 160,000 annually. About half of these return eventually to Italy; the rest remain in the United States. ```markdown ``` NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL Des Moines, Jan. 16, 1902. A decisions rendered in Judge Holmes' court is of much interest to tax collectors and tax payers. It is in regard to the constitutionality of chapter 50, of the acts of the Twenty-eighth General Assembly, relative to the manner of collecting taxes on property not previously listed or assessed, as, for instance, where through oversight no record had been made of a certain property, by reason of such oversight, taxes have not been collected upon the property. Under the decision, the assessor may, upon finding that such an error has been made, go back as far as five years and levy such assessment as is equitable for each year of that time. Attorney General Mullan has received a letter from F. E. Rittman, auditor for the war department in the federal treasury department, in which it was stated that the claims filed by the state of Iowa for interest on its war bonds and war warrants would be disposed of by the court of claims. It has been expected by Mr. Mullan for someone to settle the case settled in the treasury department directly, but that they would be referred to the court of claims for adjudication. More especially has this been the case since the appointment of Governor Shaw as secretary of the treasury, as it was anticipated that the governor would not deem it best to permit the department of which he to be the head to pass on claims from his own state. It says, however, the course to be followed is indicated plainly in the statutes and that the law supposes that these claims shall be adjusted by the court of claims. The Continental Biscuit company, whose officers decided several weeks ago to establish a mammoth factory in Des Moines from which to handle its Iowa trade, has closed a deal with F. M. Hubbell, Son & Co. for a site and will commence work of construction at once. The city of Des Moines, according to the present plans of the local committee on arrangements, will be strenued with natural corp badges when the State G. A. R. encampment is held here May 21, 22 and 23, the dates fixed on yesterday. It is the intention to enclose the corps of the rebellion with foliage plants set out in the parks, on the river front, in the yards of private homes and wherever opportunity offers. The statement of the conditions of the state and savings banks of Iowa at the close of business December 10, has been issued from the office of Auditor of State Merriman. It shows a steady increase in the business transaction at the publication of commission by the last one issued. The last one issued showed the condition at the close of business September 30 of last year. At that time there were 495 state and savings banks in Iowa. At the close of business December 10 there were 501 banks transacting business, 281 savings banks and 220 state banks. The amount of money in the state banks of Iowa at the close of banks September 30, 1901, was $120, 466,645.42. At the close of business December 10 the amount on deposit was $121,852,942.76, an increase of nearly a million and a half of dollars. The Lincoln hussars of this city will shortly hand in their equipment to the adjutant general, as recommended by Col. J. A. Olmsted, the inspector general, in his report. The hussars are practically a defunct organization, and, according to Col. Olmsted's report, could not legally use the state's equipment. At a joint caucus of the members of the senate and house to select trustee of the Agricultural College to succeed L. B. Robinson, of Harlan, James H. Wilson, of Adair county, better known as "Pralie Jim" Wilson was named. The other candidates were the present incumbent, L. B. Robinson and Silas Wilson of Atlantic. Senator Hazleton was chairman of the caucus, and Amos M. A. Geary, secretary. The votes were cast in the caucus, and Mr. Wilson was elected on the first ballot, the result being as follows: James H. Wilson, 6; L. B. Robinson, 2, and Silas Wilson, 2. For the first time in the last six years the state auditor has been notified of the sale of Iowa school lands. He received notice that 160 acres in Allamakee county had been disposed of. No information was given as to whom the land had been sold to or as to the price it brought. The sale was reported and blanks asked for making returns regarding it. The state auditor has just transferred the other half of the school funds to Winnebago county. The transfer amounted to $1,800 and was transferred from Cedar county. This makes about $200,000 in school funds which Winnebago county has on hand, and the county is still asking for more. The eighth biennial session of the Pioneer Law Makers' association of Iowa, will convene in Des Moines in the state historical building, at 10 o'clock a. m., Wednesday, February 12, 1902. If we measure an adversary wrong the undertaker will measure us right. Session II St. Paul, Minn. J. N. Governor Van Sant has issued a formal call for an extraordinary session of the state legislature, to assemble Tuesday, Feb- fuary 4. The call sets forth that the tax commission appointed at the last session to revise and codify the laws relative to taxation has completed its work, and its report is now ready for submission. The session is therfore called upon to consider this report and enact such tax laws as may be deemed best. Vienna has a school for waiters, with a three years' course. Among the subjects is French. SURPLUS IS A FICTION. Treasurer Gilbertson Says It Will Be Gone in Three Months. Des Moines, Jan. 15.—Treasurer of State G. S. Gilbertson yesterday stated that the apparent $655,117 surplus in the treasury of state will be wholly dissipated before the legislature adjourns by reason of the ordinary depletion on account of regular appropriations. Members of the legislature have been figuring that the assembly would have at least $1,000,000 surplus which might or could be making extra ordinary appropriations for the fair at St. Louis, for the educational institutions, for capital improvement, for new buildings for the state, etc. All appropriation estimates had been made on the basis of the surplus, and the announcement that there would be no surplus at the opening of the appropriation year in April created consternation. Every time the discussion must be scaled down, if the state does not wish to create a deficit. Treasurer of State Gilbertson said to the members of the assembly who called on him: "There is now in the treasury $655,117.75, as against $795,752.48 on this date in years past. We do not present the excess of appropriations made two years ago which have been drawn out in the last half of the biennial period. In the matter of state contracts, the work is not paid for until it is finished. This will result in very large expenses. I estimate that when the appropriation accounts now outstanding are satisfied the state will be about even and the surplus will have entirely displaced. In March we may collect $75,000 in insurance taxes and thence $75,000 in an oven balance in the treasury. I cannot give the legislature assurances." DECISION IS VERY IMPORTANT. Persons Listing Property With Real Estate Men Must Watch. Rockwell City, Jan. 15.—The decision handed down by Judge Elwood in the case of White & Hoskins, real estate dealers of this place, against J. I. Benton, a farmer living near here, will be of general interest to land owners and real estate men as well. Some time ago Benton placed his farm in the hands of several agents for sale on the usual terms of commission, if sold. Afterward Benton sold the farm himself to F. F. Hunter, and notified some of the agents of the sale, but did not notify a White & Hoskins person of the fact that a sale of the land had been made, plaintiffs showed the land the following day to B. E. Sebern and succeeded in making a sale. When Benton informed them that he had sold the farm the day before they demand J's their commission on the ground that they had not been notified and that they had made sale in good faith, according to the terms of their agreeable treaty to the refused to pay $4,000. Defendant consumer objected claiming that he had agreed to a deal prior to the date of the sale made by plaintiffs. Judge Elwood took a different view of the matter, however, and decided that plaintiffs had made a bona fide sale and were entitled to their commission. Cornea of a Rabbit Grafted to the Eye of a Man at Clinton Clinton, Jan. 15—Dr. Paul Walter of this city, performed an operation here which will be watched with interest by scientific men from all parts of the country. He removed the cornea from the eye of a Belgian hare and placed it on the eye of Wm. Strickell of Anamasa, who had his eyes injured by a premature explosion in a California gold mine a number of years ago. One eye was completely destroyed by the explosion and the cornea of the other was so badly damaged that he was only able to distinguish between night and day. The cornea of the Belgian hare and as far as appearances are concerned, the operation was successful, although it will be three weeks before it will be known whether or not Strickell will be able to see. It is said to be the first operation ever performed to restore the entire cornea. The hare from which the eye was taken was strapped to a board, to which its ears were nailed. In order to insure success it was necessary to remove the corner from the rabbit's eye while it was alive and graft it as quickly as possible to the eye of the man. The operation was witnessed by a number of physicians and newspaper men. NAMED BY THE DEMOCRATS. Thayer and Sorley are Nominated For the Senate. Des Moines, Jan. 16.—The democrats of the house and senate met in joint caucus at 5 o'clock-yesterday afternoon and nominated for United States senators to oppose Senators Allison and Dolliver, Judge E. H. Thayer of Clinton and John J. Searley of Burlington. A significant feature of the caucus was that harmony prevailled and the factional strife on the money question was not in evidence. The question of Senator. Robert was decided not to nominate a candidate for state printer or state binder, for the reason that the democratic party is opposed to both of those offices. Mettie Given His Liberty. Cedar Rapids, Jan. 16.—Charles Mettle, who was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary at Anamossa for attempting to blow up the home of Attorney Cron, has been pardoned by Governor Shaw after serving eighteen months. A Miner Killed. Ft. Dodge, Jan. 13.—James Burgess, a coal miner employed in the mine of the Webster County Coal company, at Lehigh, was killed by the discharge of a blast. Burgess went up to see why the blast did not explode, when it went off, shattering his left side and infaring him terribly. Burgess lived five hours after the explosion. He leaves a widowed mother in deafitude circumstances. A bachelor always wonders what is the matter with a baby when it isn't crying. Hate is a low-grade powder that flashes in the pan. BIENNIAL DOCUMENT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Resume of All Men Freed From The Pen During The Last Two Years By Gov. Shaw. Des Molnes, Jan. 16.—Governor Leslie M. Shaw yesterday transmitted to the Twenty-ninth general assembly his biennial report of pardons, reprieves, commutations and suspensions granted during his term which closes today, the report being a part of and accompanying the biennial message of the governor to the general assembly. The report is made in accordance with the requirements of section 16, article 4, of the constitution of Iowa. The report is very lengthy and covers nearly one hundred pages of closely typewritten matter. This greater length is required because the governor during the term has taken occasion to restore to citizenship a large number of paroled prisoners, who were released from the penitentiary during his first term and even as far back as the terms of several of his predecessors. In many instances the men restored to citizenship did not know that they did not have all the rights they first had. In some instances a paroled convict of Iowa was residing in a New England town of several thousand people and holding an elective office of responsibility and emolument, not knowing that he could not legally hold such an office until he had been restored to citizenship. The large number of names appearing in the report are therefore accounted for to a large degree. During the term the governor found it necessary to revoke suspensions of forty-five prisoners in which he had misplaced his confidence, ordering their return to the penitentiary. A brief synopsis of the number of cases touched on in the report is as follows: Full pardons 8 Pardons, where previously paroled 81 Commutations 13 Remissions of fines, etc. 53 Remissions of forfeitures and judgments 5 Suspensions of sentence 244 Suspensions from industrial schools. 11 Revocations 45 Applications for pardon to general assembly 13 Total number of cases covered in TWO SENATORS NAMED UNANIMOUS ACTION BY REPUBLICAN JAN COACUS. Each made a Brief Address Expressive of His Appreciative of Honor. Des Moines, Jan. 15. The joint caucus of the republicans of the house and senate of the Twenty-ninth general assembly, held in the hall of the house of representatives last evening, by a unanimous vote nominated William B. Allison and Jonathan P. Dollier to succeed themselves in the United States senate. The honor conferred upon Senator Allison is unprecedented. He was nominated for the sixth consecutive term. Senator Blanchard placed Senator Allison in nomination and Senator B. Allison in nomination of Senator Dollier. There were several seconding speeches in each case. Both Allison and Dolliver spoke briefly after their nominations, expressing gratitude for the trust repressed in them. Senator Allison spoke with specially deep feeling and referred earnestly to the weighty problems which confront the government and the responsibilities which confront the members of the Senate. The only addition to renaming Bernard Murphy for state printer and Howard Tedford for state blinder, nominated John R. Carter of Sioux City for editor of the code supplement. KEANE'S FIRM STAND. Archbishop Goes Into Dubuque City Politics Dubuque, Jan. 16. — Archbishop Keane has promulgated a platform upon which he will stand for the coming city election, the archbishop denouncing the present administration and declaring that Bacchus and Venus now reign here. The archbishop's platform contains five planks as follows: First—Saloons closed on Sunday; no back doors. Second—Saloons closed every night at 10 o'clock. Third—No selling of liquors to persons under 21 years of age. Fourth—No selling of liquors to persons that are known to be drunkards or to become abolished. Fifth—The absolute abolishment of the wine room. The archbishop stated that he did not desire to appear in the role of a dictator, nor did he wish to work a hardship against any saloonkeeper, but in the same breath he declared that the saloons of Dubuque are being conducted with unbridled license and that a check would have to be put on them. In a word, he is in favor of enforcing the rules, that is, enforcing about the adoption of the five planks mentioned above than he is about the presence of curtains on saloon windows and the customary saloon lunch. The archbishop is now looking about for some level headed man that will be available for the office of mayor. He can be depended upon to put his platform into effect—one that will not "flunk" after election day. Mrs. Eva Ryan Dies of Grief. Codar Rapids, Jan. 16—Mrs. Eva Ryan and George Smith are dead under rather mysterious circumstances. Mrs. Ryan, a well known character of this place and her lover, George Smith, lunched together, after which Smith became violently ill and died. The Ryan woman grieved over his death to such an extent that on the following day she was found in an unconscious condition from the effects of poison. She died a short time afterward. The difference between a job and a position seems to depend on the galary. THE LEGISLATURE. Des Molines, Jan. 13.—Senate The senate was called to order at 10 o'clock by Lieutenant Governor Milliman. After the report of the committee on credentials the members present took the oath of office. The election of permanent officers, on motion of Senator Hubbard of Woodbury, was next entered upon, the nominees of the senate caucus being elected as previously announced without exception. Senator W. F. Harriman of Hampton, was chosen president pro tem of the senate, after which the permanent officers of the senate were sworn in office, and the senate was fully organized. motion of Crossley, upon motion of notifying the house that the senate was duly organized and on motion of Harriman a committee was appointed to notify the governor that the senate was ready to receive any message which he might desire to make. The former committee was Senators Crossley of Madison; Townsend of Monroe; and Closson of Marshall. The committee name of the senate was not notified by Senators Moffet, Bishop and Mardis. On motion of Senator Hayward it was voted to hold a joint session of the houses, Tuesday, January 14, at 2. p. m., for the purpose of canvassing the vote or governor. Notice was given that the seat of J. M. Emmert of Estherville, was contested by James E. Bruce. On motion of Trewin, the contest was referred to a committee of five to be appointed illiterate governor; another contest was filed in the Thirty-fifth district. Thos. F. Nolan as, P. W. Crawford, incumbent. This was referred to a similar committee. Adjourned. House.—The house executed formal organization by electing the officers agreed upon by the republican caucus. The election of W. L. Eaton, as speaker, was made unanimous, the democrats having endorsed his candidacy. Papers in the Fields case from Pryor, who ordered Bliley, secretary of state with the house. Upon motion by Teachout, the speaker was authorized to appoint a committee of five memoirs to make arrangements for the inauguration of governor and lieutenant governor. Before the session adjourned, Mr. Eaton named as such committee Teachout of old Marshal, William Gilchrist of Humboldt-Pochontas, Nagle of Van Buren and Whiting of Ida-Monona. Des Moines, Jan 14—Senate—The feature of the morning session of the senate was the discussion which arose over the Bruce-Emmert contest. Senator Ball, one of the leading democratic members, brought the matter up in an effort to give Senator Emmert, a democrat and the present incumbent, an opportunity to answer the special committee to whom the contest papers of James Bruce, republican contestant, have been referred. Senator Hubbard and other republicans at first thought this an effort on the part of the democrat to arouse the special committee to whom the contest papers of James Bruce, republican contestant, have been referred. Senator Hubbard and other republicans at first thought this an effort on the part of the democrat to arouse the special committee to whom the contest papers of James Bruce, republican contestant, have been referred. Senator Ball's only idea was to give Senator Emmert a fair showing, and the matter was agreeably adjusted by the adoption of a resolution referring the contest to a special committee and providing for the filing of an answer by Senator Emmert with this committee. The only other matter of importance was resolution, providing for a recourse of three days when the assembly adjourns Thursday afternoon for the inauguration ceremonies. Joint Session.—A scene such as has not been witnessed in Iowa for a third of a century was presented in the house chamber today when Governor Shaw read his message to the two houses assembled in joint convention. Through the efforts of the governor's friends, who considered it would be a fitting tribute to the man who is about to be secretary of the treasury, $10 government extended an invitation to personally present his message before the joint convention instead of merely filing it, as has been the practice since the time of Governor Stone. Senators Allison and Dolliver were present. The session then proceeded to canvass the vote on governor and lieutenant governor. The discovery of an error of 1,000 votes in the official returns from Dallas county on lieutenant governor brought proceedings to a sudden stop. The mistakes were E. Burgeson, deputy commissioner, who is entitled to $15. The result of it was the adjournment of the joint body until 2 o'clock tomorrow in order that the error might be corrected. Des. Moines, Jan. 15—Senate. A resolution providing for four policemen, three clerks in the document room, twelve jailors, three elevator tenders, two assistant bill clerks, one clerk in the supply department and a mail carrier, was adopted. A contest case, from Dubuque county, were ordered filed with the special committee already provided for. Adjourned. House. Senate resolution providing for additional employees was adopted. Cendall of Monroe introduced a resolution providing that no appropriation measure should be considered by the house unless indorsed by three-fourths vote of the members. The measure was enacted before February 20. It went over. The message of the governor on pardons was presented to the house. Joint Session.—The house and senate met in joint convention at 2:30 p. m. and concluded the canvass of the vote on governor and Heutenant governor. The vote was found to be as follows: On governor: For A. B. Cummins, 226,802; for T. J. Phillips, 143,783; for A. U. Coats, 15,659; for Affair of No Consequence. Washington, Jan. 14.—Secretary Long received the following cablegram from Commander Edward D. Barry of the gunboat Vicksburg, in answer to the department's inquiry regarding the recently reported clash at Niu Chwang between sailors of the Vicksburg and Russian soldiers: "Ying Yang (no date)—Secretary Navy, Washington: Nothing serious: crew orderly. (Signed.) "Barry." Worry often comprises things that never comes to pass. A girl does not need a musical ear to like "hims." James Baxter, 3,463; for L H. Weller, 780; for E H. Conger, 1; scattering, 1; total, 390,489. On heutenant governor—For John Herrritt, 277,171; for G. E. Ferguson, 142,583; for A. B. Wray, 13,095; for W. A. Jacobs, 3,391; for Perry Engle, 766; total, 387,011. Des Moines, Jan. 16—Senate. The senate session this morning was devoted entirely to a farewell of Lieutenant Governor Milliman, who has been presiding officer of that body during the last two sessions. The following resolution was adopted by a rising vote: "Resolved, That our sincere thanks be, and the same are hereby, most cordially tendered to Lieutenant Governor J. H. McCormick, of efficient and kindly manner in which he has presided during the opening days of the Twenty-Ninth general assembly. "We recognize that he possesses the indispensable attributes of a valuable public officer, among which are honesty, ability and faithfulness." "Realizing that his duties as president of this senate will terminate this day, we extend to him our good wishes for his future prosperity and happiness. During consideration of the resolution Senator Porter occupied the chair and addresses were made by Senators Harriman, Lambart, Jumelian Blanchard, Crossley, Garst, Hayward, Bishop, Tallman, Lister, and Trewin. After the ceremonies attending the inauguration the senate reassembled. Lieutenant Governor Milliman called the senate to order and, after a brief address, presented his successor, Lieutenant Governor Herriott, and conducted him to the president's chair. The retiring lieutenant governor spoke as follows: Senators: At the beginning of the session of the legislature, the assembly the state treasurer was burdened with an indebtedness of nearly $500,000, while you begin to pay a surplus of over $600,000. The wise and comprehese measures enacted by the two legislatures discharge of duty by the executive officers of the state, have wrought this remarkable time that we may remember that all things desirable and necessary may be accomplished with the men. During the period now under consideration parishism and local interests have been subordinated to the public; the gentlemen composing the general assembly that their good work be thus noted. The past and present opportunities, the future laden with possibilities. Genators, I cannot sever my relations with you without attempting to express to you my understanding of the status of the class of forbearance, show me during my four years of service as president of the senate. When I recall how patiently each senator has overlooked what they have done and how he is one and all have approved such rulings as were helpful in the dispatch of fairness. I am persuaded that nowhere may be found about the person's courteous gentlemen. I receive from the office of the senate, the relationship of the president of the nation, the treatment of admission and friendship toward every senator has during such service been a member of this body, and the other of which is not made has failed in doing his duty to the state and his constituency. It is due to you that I say, "Well done, servants of the people, and my position it was given me to show of your work." Of future legislation by you I feel no apprehension, and trust the future in your case. I am not a person who has not been a member of such happiness and sadness which go often fail to the lot of man. Emotions too deep for interest and too deep for interest in the person who has not done you to read in my eyes as I look into your faces and from my handclaps as I bid you good-ness to my name. I am very much so that you are always always may play the blessing of heaven attend you always. Lieutenant Governor Herriott's address to the Senate after taking the chair was as follows: Senators: In entering upon the duties of the office, I have been honored me, it is both a duty and a pleasure to acknowledge my fellow citizens have honored me, it is both a duty and a pleasure to acknowledge presiding president, Lieutenant Governor J. C. Millman, and by the members of the senate, that I have been able to indicate though I have not been able always to indicate a favorable response to your requests or requests, that I have been no less considerate. It is, I assure you, my sincere wish that my conduct as your guarding officer will not alienate your good will. It is, however, but prudence for me to ask for leniency in your judgments as it has been done with our duties and with ourness affixes and administrative duties and but little with parliamentary bodies and their procedure. If, therefore, it happens that I am asked to hold a public hearing, I ask but the presumption of good intention be accorded me. I shall do my best to expeditie business and deal fairly with you and among you. Shall we proceed with business? No business of importance was transactional and the senate adjourned till Tuesday. House. After a spirited debate and after several unsuccessful attempts to amend, the Kendall resolution introduced yesterday, providing that all bills carrying appropriations should be introduced before February 20, except by a three-quarters vote, was passed by the house this morning. The passage of this resolution was the feature of the session, and the only important work done by either house during the day. The object of this resolution is to get all bills before the appropriation committee at the earliest possible date, that they may be reported back by the committee and time given the time for approval of the measures. Ex-Governor Larrabee was present during the session this morning and was introduced to the house. He spoke briefly, not desiring to interrupt the discussion on the Kendall resolution then pending. The house adjourned until 1:15 and then convened preparatory to the joint session. It met to adjourn after the inaugural observances. The house, like the senate, yesterday accepted an invitation of the trustees of the state normal school to attend the dedication of the new building at Cedar Falls January 30. "I wonder why they haven't started any yellow journals in Cuba yet?" "I don't believe there are enough Americans there to support one." The general—Was Colonel Bragg bounced bullets began to fly? The major—'Cool?' He was bawled cold he shivered a leaf. Numerous girls talk faster than they are wont to walk. "Henry, how is the plot of that sen novel running?" "Well, just as chapter there is a terrible storm, and the passengers are afraid the boat will go to the top." "You mean to the bottom." No; this is a submarine boat." Jones—"How on earth does Bluffman manage to get credit for his clothes at that swell tailor's?" Brown—"The tailor found out that he lived at the Hotel. Magnificent." Jones—"But does it it to carry it of with, the hotel people?" Brown—"suppose they judge him by his clothes." Keep off an honest man's toes and he will be a true friend. CORN KING IS SERIOUSLY EM- BARRASSED FINANCIALLY. Compiled to Close His Deals on Board of Trade at Great Loss, Chicago, Jan. 15. "Corn King" Geo. H. Phillips, unable to meet 10 per percent margins on rye, is seriously embarrassed financially. Mr. Phillips gave out a statement in part as follows: "The amount involved in my trouble of today is about $60,000. My custo- mers had their tradea well margined and if the trades closed out today bring a fair price I can meet all my obligations. "I was long about 1,200,000 rye, 5, 000,000 wheat and 600,000 corn and oats. Saturday a member of the board interested in breaking the rye market sent notices calling for an extra margin of 10 per cent on rye. "This naturally caused selling orders Monday and the report of the member mentioned, finding the market bare of orders, forced the market down 3 cents. This was done in a moment, and the news flashed all over the newsfeed consternation among holders of rye contracts, many of whom sold on a weak market. A decline of one cent in wheat coupled with rumors reflecting on my strength resulted in unusually heavy calls for margin. I was for the moment unprepared and the only alternative line was to close out. I have no excuses to offer and no complaints to make." Phillips opened negotiations with elevator men before the opening of the board yesterday in an endeavor to dispose of his rye outside the May rye negotiation through and May rye closed March 6 at 63%. Opened at sales from 61 to 60. The whole Phillips line was dropped into the market. Brokers acting for Armour & Company, however, brought nearly all of it and the market in consequence rallied sharply to 65c. COMPLIMENTS EXCHANGED Messages Between Roosevelt Art Emperor William Berlin, Jan. 13.—In connection with the proposed trip of the Hohenzollern to the new York, Emperor William, will embark on a voyage, in English, *t*President Roosevelt; "I am most gratified by the permission for Miss Roosevelt's performing the christening ceremony of my yacht. It gives me great pleasure to announce to you that I have ordered my yacht Hohenzollern to cross over and be present at the ceremony. My brother, Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia, will appear as my representative and will be able to express to you once more my sincere feelings and friendship for the United States and their illustrious head." (Sirhead) "William I. R." President Roosevelt replied as follows, in German: "Yours majesty's intention to send over your yacht, Hohenzollern to attend the christening by my daughter of your new yacht is a source of great pleasure and satisfaction to me. I can assure you a hearty welcome for your brother, Admiral Prince Henry, to whom I shall personally express my sincere feeling of esteem for your majesty, as well as my best wishes for the Queen of the Coast." (Sirhead) "Theodore Roosevelt." GORMAN IS RE-ELECTED. Returns to Place in Senate He Lost Four Years Ago. Annapolis, Md., Jan. 15.—Former United States Senator Arthur Pue Gorman was yesterday re-elected to occupy the place in the senate which he lost in the general elections four years ago and regained in November last. He received every democratic vote in both branches of the general assembly, the only absentee in either branch, being Representative Charles county. Congressman William H. Jackson was the republican nominee. The vote stood: Senate, Gorman 17, Jackson 9; house Gorman 51, Jackson 43. Foraker Re-Elected. Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 16.—The senate and house met in joint session yesterday and re-elected Jos. B. Foraker to the United States senate. Senator Foraker had practically no opposition, the division being purely partisan, the democrats supporting Hon. Charles H. Baker of Cincinnati. Every republican present passed his vote for Senator Foraker. Miss Robertson, daughter of John Robertson, a hotel keeper at Dinsdale, and Miss Mutch, daughter of Jas, Mutch, a farmer near Dinsdale, drove to Traer. On their return home their horse became frightened at some boys skating under the bridge over Wolf creek near Taer. The bit of the horse's bridle broke. Miss Robertson jumped from the buggy and in doing so broke one leg above the knee and the other below the knee, the bones protruding through the flesh. The break was badly splintered and the doctor says she will be lame for life. Miss Mutch remained in the buggy, with her for five miles. She escaped without any injury. The girls are about 1/1 year of age, and both were experienced in handling horses. Charters and Warson, tax ferrets, who are overhauling the tax books of Dubuque county, have through attorneys filed a petition asking the court to reopen the estate of the late Henry L. Stout, which was closed recently on approval by the court of the final report of the executors. The claim is made that $30,000 back taxes are due, running several years. The untaxed property it is claimed is shares of stock in Knapp, Stout & Company. "I'm so glad I'm dead," said the shade of George Washington to the wrath of Benjaman Franklin. "Why, my liege?" "I. I were alive, they might court-martial me for compelling Cornwallis to surrender." Tourist (after his first drink of Bloody Gulch whiskey)—"Thunder and lightning! Gimme a chaser, quick!" "Wot d'y want—water." Tourist—"No: linseed oil!" We all caught offener than we imagine. She—"And were you successful with your first case, doctor?" He—"Ye-yes. The—er-widowed paid the bill." ELOQUENT ADDRESS DELIVERED AT DEB MOINES THE GOVERNOR SUGGESTS NEED-ED CHANGES IN TARIF. The Government Should Take a Hand In Settling the Labor Problem. Suggests Many Changes in the Law Governing Railway Taxation. Senators, Representatives and Fellow Citizens are encouraged to deep appreciation of the confidence and good faith of my fellow man, and I am solemnly taken of the obligation. I have undertaken and the responsibilities I have as a The honor of the office I now enter is outranked by but one of all the places of trust and distinction known to the institutions of the public; and if its duties were as difficult as its honor is great, it would have lit the people of the office of their own, and their assistance of or my own; but, happily for you and for me, government in this state has attained a climax of steadiness which gives me courage to begin the work so generous committed to my hands. While the problems of organized society are not less intricate, we have no need to be working with it, but it is still unbelievable, not unknown to us; it is still true that the case with which the laws are executed in this state is a superb testimonial to the sound character of its people. The men and women of Iowa are, I believe, beyond all their fellows, either of this country or any other law, by holding yielding that time and time, in the order of ordinarily credit to ordinances, the enforcement of statutes, which makes the enforcement of statutes, the preservation of peace and the maintenance of order a task so light in comparison with the labor attending the duties of a chief executive in many parts of the world, that one may with confidence and hope, take up the work incident to the office with which I have been inوبست It is with mingled sentiments of pride and joy that we have been able to maintain conditions which surround and sustain its institutions may appear and disappear. races may develop and wither away, but we have been able to maintain them, and again be doubted. the student of state republic may be free, just strong, and end time and our people will be ground in all time and our people will be ground in which the demonstration has been made. The story of the marvelous transition of the United States from a populist strength we now exercise, is in every memory, and need not be retold. The history of the United States has a populist strength which has raised us above all the nations of the earth, has been the theme of so many books, and is always in our ears. The wonderful prosperity of the people is a theme so fascinating that charm and detail only makes the romance of manhood, so courage of our high standard of manhood, so courage of our high standard of free institutions, is so manifest the success of our scences need no supplement. I therefore check a natural tendency to present myself with these plain statements. The men and women of the United States have progressed meticulously, intellectually and socially than was ever before touched by the mightier physical and material development than was ever before known; and especially than was ever before touched by the mightier physical and material development that has more illiteracy, justice, government that has more illiteracy, justice, government that the world has any other government that the world has any other government. These observations, however, do not mean that we come have victories to be won and will be crowded with opportunities to be eminent in an inspiring retrospect to a hopeful future. Mrs. Jonkyns — "I see Mrs. Hoetong is going to have 'King Lear' at her next private theatricals." Mrs. Newell is going to have "The affected thing. Do you know, I don't believe he's a real king at all." Willel had swallowed a penny, and his mother was in a state of much distress. "I want my sister in the next room, 'send for a doctor. Willel has swallowed a penny.' The terrified boy looked up impolingly. "No, mamma," he imposed the minister. "I exclaimed, 'mother.' Yes, because papa says our minister can get money out of anybody." These suggestions would be idle if there were no practicable remedy for the obvious wrong. There is no hopes of attaining uniformity through state legislation. The state in which the greater number of these companies is organized secures a revenue from them more than sufficient to defray the expenses of its state government, and seems easily convinced of the justice of its laws. I believe the question is a national one, and that the time has come to nationalize it. I recognize the difficulty of amending the constitution of the United States; but I know that whenever the people are sufficiently in earnest, it can, and will be done. Before corporations which are to do business throughout the country, and in which the people of one state are quite as much interested as the people of another, are permitted to organize, they should be compelled to show that their capital stock has been paid for in money, and that the real value of the property they acquire is as great as the stock which represents it. I am unable to agree that we can cure thems, but that we can treat them biosystems, by publicity. Their affairs are already sufficiently public so that every intel- lectual who is interested in what they are composed, what they are doing, and what they are earning. It is well to be careful not to be distracted by and submit to examinations, but if we are to limit our regulation to mere publicity, the attention we are bestowing upon the subject. I recur to an expression of a moment ago, "must rely to regulate the prices of the products of industry, for I cannot consider with it that every product would be driven if competition were eliminated. I sincerely hope that we will find monopolize or unduly restrict the field of a profitable business; and if these corporations, however large, can be put and manipulated, we believe that industrial monopolies cannot curtail. In pursuing the subject one step further, I am led to observe that if we accept the prices of the products we will preserve the people from undue exactions, we must see to it that if we cannot least be certain that we do not artificially exclude it. We have limited competition in the industry, and we must be well believing, that the general interests of the people would be better served by development, even though in so doing the American price rose higher than the foreign price; he would every commodity manufactured here upon a American level, so we have, even if it seems plain that whenever a consolator of the United States of America commodity stiffens competition at home, or when a consolator of the United States of America fairly stiffens, then it is the imperative duty of congress to immediately remove the artificial advantage of general revision of the tariff; to advocate of general revision of the tariff; to impose the republic if possible, but of the world if necessary. I regard the consequences of the importort product, as infinitely more disastrous than the consequences of foreign importort product. Permit me also a brief consideration of the importance of the question. Once I need hardly reiterate my profound conviction in the wisdom of the policy of the United States, but to equalize the conditions under which manufacturing has been established States and the conditions which have existed in the United States are more deeply indented to this doctrine for the gratifying position we hold in the United States. Now, as we have reason. Situated as we have been, the paranoid Smith—"What became of your friend Brown?" Jones—"Dead, poor fellow. Died by hanging. Smith—"What became of your friend Brown?" Jones—"Yes; hanging around saloons." "I say, is this here the novel you advised me to read?" said the cabman to the librarian. "Yes," replied the librarian. "that's the one." "Well, let's the cabman, you just take it back. There's nine people in the first four chapters who hired cabs, and each of 'om, when he got out, flung his purse to the driver." "We want that cabman, you literature. I'll go to Jules Verne and get it pure." amount object of maintaining high protective duties has been to enable us to profitably produce that which we have consumed, and that which we have produced, which are the birthright of the population and the laborers. The point of view, however, has somewhat changed, and we are now feel our own product of the industry, and we are now manufactured products; and we must look, this time, for all the things we consume, but to the things we export. Our tariff is greater, whether we may be limited to to give the greatest possible amount of work to our own people, whether the product of them is more or less intended for home foreigners. We have come gradually to feel that there is little large effect on our decision of our markets with respect to many of the commodities we are naturally fitted to produce; and we must keep our eyes through our own development, not to a part of the employment, not to all of all the men and women of America. This, I submit, is the spirit in which we are now we can make trade that will enlarge our markets; that is to say, increase the amount of work to be done in the United States. This should be made to the thought some particular industry is controlled by the production. While we shall hold fast to central principles, we are not blind worshipped by a tariff schedule. Protection was established in the United States. Reproprietary that takes without giving is an idle dream and is contradiction in terms; and if its scope embraces only non-value, the precautionary of the future I cannot resist the conclusion that some changes might well be made, not through the medium of reciprocal treaties, but directly. I said recently in a public address, and I repeat it, that there is one condition which the consumers of this country will not endure. They are patriotic enough to see American goods sold in foreign markets cheaper than they are sold at home, if the purpose is to establish a trade or to unload an unexpected surplus; but they will not tolerate, as a permanent trade policy, the selling of goods abroad at a less price than they are sold at home." It is believed that there are lines of industry in which this practice is likely to become permanent, and if congress so fuda, it ought, and I doubt not will, declare they no longer need the fostering care of protective duties. In no other way can we render justice to all our people. is another thought which is directed more to the creation of a wholesement than to the enactment of laws, to which I must draw your attention. He who honestly makes his right to safe, keep, whether it is, does not fail to do so; he is the same thing as a fault of wealth, and especially associated wealth, which ought to receive the serious consideration of those who have the welfare of their country at heart. Wealth gives to him who owns or controls it, it gives to him who goes to the will; it gives him power to end schools found libraries and receive want; but it also gives him power to seduce and coerce his fellow men and this power should be most seriously scrutinized. Wealth, and especially incorporated health has many things that it should always be remembered that among them it not the right to vote. Corporations have, and ought to have, many privileges; but among them is not the privilege to sit in political conventions or occupy seats in legislative channels. Corporations, such as the commonly expended in every form from participation in political affairs. Here at least, the rich and the poor, as individuals, should meet upon a plane of absolute equality. The conscience and intelligence of the nation must be at least the sole factors and determining what our laws shall be and who shall execute them. At this point I must be permitted to refer specifically to one phase of corporate innovation that ought to especially to this year under the righteous indignation of honest men. The professional lobbyist has, and has the right to do so, to be a strenuous as the strenous as the strenous as a strench in the nostrils of a decent communalism. It is to be driven by the lush of scorn, pursued by the penalties of the law from the presence of every off-the-skating man who is aStatistician of the Republic. Do not understand me to suggest that the halls of legislation are the same as the other elements of the individual or the corporation. The right of petition is as sacred as it is venerable and is high in the world. It is not a vocation or complaints of all who are inter- "Why did you murder your wife?" asked the missionary of the canannical king, "Because you put no doylies under the finger-bowl at the table," howled the savage. Wife I am going down town this morning to try and match a piece of silk. "Husband—"Very well, my dear; I'll tell the cook to save some dinner for you, and I'll put the children to bed myself. "Would you rather have something else than a piece of cake?" asked the kind neighbor of little Freddie, who had run an errand for her. "Yes, ma'am," said Freddie, promptly; "I would rather have two pieces." tested in public affairs should be made known with absolute freedom; not only so but the right to a fair and impartial hearing before appropriate committees should be sedulously preserved. The lobbyist, however, who is for anything or against anything for hire, whose mission it is to promote one measure or defeat another, who harms the chambers of legislation and talents its atmosphere with his corrupt designs, who sends for members for interviews in the cloak room, who carries a tally sheet and watches the roll call, who shadows the members at their homes and hotels, injecting at all hours and all places his poison into the public service, is a criminal whose approach is an insult, and to whom the doors of the e-applicant should never swing inward. Even as Christ scouged the money changes from the temple at Jerusalem, so you semators and representatives will scourge the lobbyist from your sight and hearing. TAXATION. The most flagrant defect in the execution of taxation is the escape of so exigent a part of the personal property within our jurisdiction from the view of the person to whom it is adopted to bring it to light can not be said to be permanent in its character, and, in order to be construed, must be entrusted with the duty that conspires to perform. Final relief will come. I believe that the tax dodger's growth of a sentiment that the tax dodger ought to be, and will be, a quickened process, makes the duty of the tax payer much more commanded the truth and sincerity. In deal with the assessor that is practiced in all cases, that there ought to be imposed a reasonable penalty upon the failure to list taxable morals, the tax payer forfeits his title to them, the failure to conceal conceals, and there is no stringency, would, in such cases, invade natural right. The penalty should be determined with reference to the degree of enforcing the law, and if we had apology of enforcing the law, and if we had doubt not that it would aid naturally the development of a sense of duty to the state of society with many persons, to be dead or dormant. My observation reveals another weakness which may well engage the attention of the general assembly. A casual examination of the reports of the state board of review and the many of the assessors of the study, which are their property, is probably true that personal property is a bear. It's just measure of taxation, partly through the weakness of the convenience of both of assessors; but the more serious charge to be thought against them, or some of them, is their disloyalty. The state-wide which requires that the true of its property shall be made the basis of its assessable value. In my judgment, the compensation provided for assessors is much and more useful than when economy of that kind prevails, and they do not earn the meager salary which the others lows. The effort to make taxation just and uniform begins with the assessor, and the general assembly cannot render a greater service the state than by diligently inquiring where it may be of any method of selecting assessors that will now be yield better results than are in the case of this. While it is not within the province of this address to make specific recommendations of the legislature, I earnestly hope that in the end of the times the Twenty-ninth general assembly will take time to consider this vital point in our system of taxation. Minister—"I am sorry I didn't see you at church yesterday, Tummas." Tummas—"Well, ye see, it was siccan a wet day it wisna fit tac turn oot a dog in. But I sent the wife, sir." Mrs. Flynn—"An' phwat's yer son Molke doin' now, Mrs. Casey?" Mrs. Casey—"Shure, Molke ain't doin' anything, Mrs. Flynn. He's got a government job." He—"Ah, those days of our young love! You remember that afternoon you promised to meet me, and didn't come? How I raved!" She—"Just like a man! And there I was suffering agonics trying on that dress you liked so much." with respect to net earnings, the inadequate earnings have much reason to believe that the railway companies with the various railway companies, earnings with the various railway companies, earnings in order to derive from the gross earnings, ought to be declared by statute; and railway companies as will enable them to railway companies as will enable them to net earnings upon their gross earnings. With net earnings upon their gross earnings, with respect to those railway companies with respect to those business in two states or more, there are insufficient earnings in the gross and net earnings thus ascertified to the gross and net earnings the way of a just assessment would disap St. Louis EXPOSITION. There will occur next year at St. Louis the celebrations of the 1895 and the specials of the people of Iowa than other in the history of America. We were very interested in the exposition which took place in the fall of 1895, and we shared that interest with the whole nation. We were much concerned in the Columbian Fair at Chicago in 1893, but we shared that the people of North America. The centenary of the American era was what is commonly known as the "Louisiana Purchase" relates peculiarly to those states which comprise the territory then acquired. The glitterful clowning of the common-wealth claim for her the highest among the states. The commemoration of the act which gives us our title to state the name of the state, the republic of the earth, the event which gives us our name of the year, the year of the year field of Stars and Stripes from which our star blazes more radiantly than any other, ought not to be allowed to pass unmanned by the human chastity of every man and woman in the state. It at St. Louis is known to be the most of the greats and greats of our splendid commonwealth. VICKSBURG MONUMENT HISTORICAL BUILDING The state has made a beginning in the erection of an historical building. In the erection of that important and essential department of the government which is to be housed and the considerations urge the completion of the duties at the earliest practicable moment. The state which I believe meets the approval of all the members of the subject, must be delayed until the building is completed, is no adequate repository for the collection of documents, and other things that relate to the state. As time passes on much that is now inaccessible, and much that is now in the state destroyed, I am not permitted at this time to undertake the most interesting branch of state affairs; must content myself with earnestly urging the speedy completion of the work so well accomplished. LAW OF NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS will be introduced into the general assembly to cover the law peculiar to negotiable instruments covering the law peculiar to negotiable instruments in the attempt to create uniformity throughout the United States upon this imminent climation to motion the matter at this time. in an age like ours, when commerce is the business relations of the people which the business relations of the people couple of another, as with their own citizenship and when we reflect that law is but a law, and when we reflect that law is but a law, who are to be governed by it, the diversity of the laws of several states upon so similar a exchange is a reproach to a civilized people. the final moral remedy must be in extending the statute to enact a statute that will be general in its application, the principal of the republic, but in view of the difficulties that lie in the way of an amendment to the American Bar association, about three years ago suggested an effort to secure concrete action for the proposed statute. The proposed statute was prepared and been adopted by three or four states, and will unquestionably, during the present period, favored by several of the others, with no radical objections from the well known principles controlling Smith: "Hello! Fine day! Are you out walking for your health?" Smith: "Yes; I am going to the doctor." When a workingman has a job, the presumption is that he is an honest man, and when he is not, the presumption is the other way. Street car conductor—"How old is that boy, madam?" Lady—"Why do you conductor—"Because it's a fair question. A Mrs. O'Rourke (to charitable old Mr. Hartwell, who is giving away a long life to you honor; sure, I'll never a googe again, but I'll think of yes!" the subject, and I confidently believe that trust in the institutions and the provisions, it earns hope that it will be able to be used in the educational Assembly, and that before many years all of the great states of the Union will be able to use the resources of the sources of state pride, the most important of our educational equipment and the pieness of our educational equipment and the strengthened the country for comparison between our people and any other for education and training. We have been so well contented with laurels that the ethical and ethical vigilance is the price of other things that thereto, it is unfortunately not worth the must gird up our loins and quicken our step. With respect to our common and high schools in which we are more deeply interested than in any other institutions of society, I cannot now speak, inasmuch as it would be impossible to intelligently treat the subject within the limits of this address. I beg, however, that senators and representatives will make themselves familiar with the well-entitled statements made by our superintendent of public instruction during the late meeting of the teachers' association, and with his report to the governor. I have been greatly impressed with the recent discussions and I believe that there is an imperative demand for a full and comprehensive review of the whole subject at the hands of the legisl NORMAL SCHOOLS Of the three educational institutions directly in charge of the state, I refer first to the state education department, which would be impossible to exaggerate the concern we all feel for the proper training of teachers. The mere possession of the knowledge that is to be taught is not the most important thing to be taught, but the necessity of training the teacher to accept as an established fact that the Fails is inadequate to accommodate those who should and who can take the course. The lack of the knowledge of the disabilities of poverty can be ploiled in defense of the failure of the state to furnish the make this defense, and I condomently predict that the session of the general assembly would be without supplying a wint so keenly felt. The Iowa State College, and a culture and Mechanic Arts holds, and ought to hold a high place in the affections of the people who are free of the service of the tobacco, size of its true position in the society learning and culture that day has gone on, and at the present moment one of the best examples of the culture of agriculture, of the mechanic arts, and of kindred things known to the United States. It is the same way that it is presented in the United States, and confronted all its competitors, which have not confronted all its competitors. It is easy to find out how much it has been to the front, and now enjoys a chance of trustees, honors upon its board of trustees, and the new group of science and agriculture and anoolous pursuits have in recent years received a large number of the most powerful progress in the learning which relates the development of the industry. Other forms of education are, and the daily is doing more, and will do it to the money into the pockets of the farmer, the state of the country, and the other branch of educational training. Other forms of study and research are, and the study of the learning of the form of the form pays its dividends in the knowledge, zeal, and devotion of the present science, and the culture, all of which he is employing the same, and the equal is equal, will in my opinion, do more to provide a material 'welfare' of the people of the State of the State of the work of any officer of the government, and to the degree of the service of the people of the country. It is our duty to add him in practical, improvements and experiments in every practiceable use of the education, and be never more favorably in circumstances and if should, both as to buildings and supplies at least an even-strengthened that it may have of like character. Emotors and representatives, I concluded with the thought of being the state of the country as an officer of the state, with the thought of being the state of the country as an officer of the state. It is the quality of our men and the wealth that has made the republic of the United States a healthy country and the present of our country. But it will be unexplored, but it remains would still be unexplored and unhood of America, the more and more hard of other nations. If we would preserve and increase the honors we already wear our own盔, we must see to it, no child shall be born without hope; no boy or girl nature without care, and no man or woman, if they are the only one to be made, they must have its protection, but men and women will work more than property, even to the people who are appointed to the position of the humanities, and to the test of their attitude of humanity, let us bring every legislative or executive act. Hate is a low-grade powder that flashes in the pan. Numerous girls talk faster than they are in walk. She—“And were you successful with your first case, doctor?” He—“Ye-ye-es. The—er—widow paid the bill.” I wonder why they haven't started any yellow journals in Cuba yet? "I don't believe there are enough Americans there to support one." The general Colonel Bragg cool when the bullets began to fly? The major—“Cool? He was so blamed cold, he shivered like a leaf. The difference between a job and a position seems to depend on the salary. A bachelor always wonders what is the best with a baby when it isn't crying. Toward the latter part of Dante Gabriel Rossett's life he rarely left his house and garden and preferred to see his friends and acquaintances by appointment. Woe betide the too intrusive stranger. It is said that one day an enterprising man called, duly armed with a letter of introduction, and the servant was nearly yielding to the impulsive stranger, whereupon the painter of "Dante's Dream" leaned over the banister and, in a firm, mellifluous voice, "Tell the gentleman that I am not at home." J. P. Morgan's Dream in Boyhood. "The dream of my boyhood days," observed P. Pierpont Morgan to a friend recently, "was to be a farmer and have the finest stock in the world—the dolce far niente of the farmer's life was my fancy." "Well, you have your farm and your stock—to say nothing of stocks," retorted the friend. "Well, but I am the man of all work, and I haven't got the dolce far niente; and can't buy it either, big a price as I might be willing to pay for it."—New York Times. Sailors Want to Keep Warm. Crews of several big oil tankers now at Point Breeze have appealed to the consuls of their various countries for assistance to secure the electrical heating of the vessels, and have made threats to desert unless their condition is ameliorated. No fire of any kind is allowed on board of these vessels. Most of them have electric plants for lighting and the sailors argue that heating arrangements can be installed cheaply (Gamblers Are Superstitious. Habitual gamblers are perhaps the most superstitious persons in the world. They invariably carry little portable mascots in their pockets, and it would be impossible to persuade them to enter into a game of chance if by some inadvertence their mascots were not with them. Lumps of lead, coins, snake rattles, locks of hair, cauls, bits of bone, hairpins, are some of these charms. Fairy Tales Becoming Reallities. The century is beginning with the great achievement of wireless telegraphy. With what it will pass passes the imagination of man if progress into the secrets and resources of nature continue at the same rate. We have already realized in common business life some of the wonders of the ancient fairy tales.—Baltimore American. The Partridge Detested in Turkey. In Turkey the partridge is detested because once it betrayed the prophet to his enemies, and its legs are detested because they were dipped in the blood of Hassan. If a man kills a panther he is imprisoned for twenty-four hours and then is handsomely rewarded. The crane is respected and it is a crime to kill it. Tricky Dentist's Enthancement A Berlin dentist was sentenced the other day to five years' imprisonment, a fine of 1,000 marks ($238) and five years' loss of titles and privileges, for overcharging, cheating and injuring his patients as well as compelling them to sign contracts while under the influence of anaesthetics. Carnegie's Coat of Arms. Andrew Carnegie's coat of arms shows a reversed crown surmounted by a liberty cap. A weaver's shuttle and a shoemaker's knife are upon the oscuchon, Scotch and American flags are the supporters, and below is the legend, "Death to Privilege." Wheat for Semi-Arld Districts. Wheat-growing in the semi-arid districts of the west has been rendered less uncertain, it is thought, by the introduction of macaroni and several other varieties of wheat, which have already given promise. New York's Civil Service. Next year's appropriation for the civil service commission of New York city is $26,000. The state expends for the same purpose $40,000 of which $2,450 is for printing and $11,000 for postage. Early Definition of Saunterer. A saunterer is believed by some etymologists to have originally signified a man without lands, such a person naturally wandering to and fro in search of employment. Doctors in Congress. There is one physician in the present senate and four physicians in the present house of representatives. There is one clergyman in the present house of representatives. Population's Rate of Increase. Such has been the increase in population in civilized countries that the space occupied by one person a century ago must now contain three. Should Chinatown Be Burned? Chinatown, in San Francisco, according to the president of the board of health, should be burned. As it is at present, it cannot be rendered sanitary except by total obliteration. Most Buy 05 Girl's Parents In Turkestan every wedding engagement begins with the payment of a substantial consideration to the girl's parents. It a girl flits her lover the engagement gift has to be returned, unless the parents have another daughter to give as a substitute. ORIGINAL NOTICE. In the District Court of the State of iowa, in and for Polk county: kirdin Saw vs John Gay March Term, A. D. 1002. To John Gay: You are hereby notified that on or before the 8th day of February, A. D. 1002, there will be a petition on file in the Clerk's office of the district court, in and for Polk County, Iowa, claiming of you a divorce from the bonds of matrimony that is now existing between you and plaintiff, on the grounds of desertion without a cause, and such other relief as may be just and equitable, and unless you appear to have been defrauded on before noon of the 4th day of March, A. D. 1002, which is the second day of the said March of 1002 term of court, which is held at the court house at Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, default will be rendered against you and decree rendered thereon as prayed for in the petition, dated this the 11 day of January, A. D. 1002 COLD INDEED. Some of the Old Trikes of Liquid Air Liquid air is, perhaps, the coldest thing in the world. It is so cold that a cake of ice is like a fierce fire as compared with it. For a kettle of liquid air placed on a cake of ice will boil just as water boils over a hot fire. It freezes mercury so hard that one can drive nails in it. The story is told that Mr. Charles E. Tripler, the experimenter in liquid air, recently took a quart of the remarkable substance with him on a visit to a friend. On the way he stopped in a restaurant to eat a beefsteak. The waiter brought in a hot broiled steak and placed it in front of Mr. Tripler. As soon as the waiter's back was turned Mr. Tripler hastily opened the can and exposed the meat to the liquid air. Instantly the steak was frozen hard as a rock. When the waiter came back his customer complained that the steak was frozen. So the waiter called the head waiter, and the head waiter blamed it all on the cook and the cook was at a loss to explain, and the result was that the frozen steak was taken into the kitchen as a mysterious curiosity. A new steak was broiled for Mr. Tripler and this one ate with much relish He Collects Antique Statuary. Stanford White is one of the largest collectors of antique statuary in America. Not only is his house in Grammarcy 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. AS TRUE AS GOSPEL There is always compensation. Our angels go out that our archangels may come in. Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable. It is poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mein, inventions and actions of others. What an absurd thing it is to pass over the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attentions on his infirmities. Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest, manly principle will daily accumulate. A greater value should be set on having received instructive and useful lessons than of possessing great store of wealth; for the latter is transitory good, the former is durable. There is scarcely a generalization for one sex which does not apply equally to the other, so perfectly alike nature are men and women. The difference only in circumstances. A Prominent Chicago Woman Spedks Prof. Roxa Tyler, of Chicago, Vice President Illinois Woman's Alliancin speaking of Chamberlain's CougI remedy says: "I suffered with a severe cold this winter which threatened to run into pneumonia. I tried different remedies but I seemed to grow worse and the medicine upset my stomach. A friend advised me to try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and I found it was pleasant to take and it relieved me at once. I am now entirely recovered, saved a doctor's bill, time and suffering, and I will never be with out this splendid medicine again." For sale by all Druggists. An Old Lady's Mistake. Cardinal Gibbons was formerly a frequent visitor to Cape May and usually took long walks morning and afternoon by the seashore. He always wore his cardinal's skull cap of scarlet silk, of which an inch or so showed below the rim of his silk hat. One afternoon while he was on the board walk an old lady stopped him and said: "Excuse me, sir, but the lining of your hat has suppied down in the back." The cardinal thanked her gravely, but as soon as she left laughed heartily as her mistake. Burlington Route N. DAKOTA SOUTH WYOMING COLORADO CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT The Corinthian baptist Church —sitated on 11th st. between Crookee and School St. School at 13 o'clock School; at 8 o'clock Preaching at 7 p. M. Rev. S. Bates, pastor. St. Paul A. M. E. —Corner of Second and Center School at 13 o'clock; Epworth Learn at p. m.; preaching at 8 p. m. L. J. Phillips, pastor. First African Baptist Church —Corner School Preaching 10.50 a.m.; Sunday School 9.20 p. m., Mr. M. E. Huatean. Superintendent: You people's meeting 7 p. m., preaching 8.00 p. m. Burns M. E. East and Des Moines street —Sunday services, preaching at 11:00 p. m.; Sunday School 9.20 p. m., Prayer and Class meeting, Wednesday 8 p. m. All are welcome. Rev. C. W. Holmes, pastor. 290 Des Moines street. Mount Nebo Baptist Church —E. Second street. services, preaching at 11 a.m.; Sunday School 19.30 p. m., Superintendent, Rose Johnson. Preaching at 8 p. m. Rev. J. H. bell, pastor. Tabernacle Baptist Church Mission —Sitated on 11th st. between Crookee and School St. School at 13 o'clock School; at 8 o'clock Preaching at 7 p. M. Rev. J. R. Winnbur, pastor. SECRET ORDERS. North Star Lodge, No. 9, A. F. A. M.-Meets First Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall—Fourth and Court avenue. J. H. Shepard, W. M.; T. S. Ruff, secretary. King Solomon Commandery, No. 6.—Meets Second and Fourth Thursday in each month at Masonic hall. Fred Jackson, M. G.; G. H. Ciegott, Rec. Naomi Court, No. 3—meets Second Monday in each month at Masonic hall. Mrs. J. H. Shepard, matron; Mrs. Fred Jackson, secretary Wt. Olive Court, No. 4—Meets First, Thursday of each month at Masonic hall. Mrs. Susan White, matron; Mrs. Flora Majors, secretary. Charity Lodge, No. 292, G. U. O. of F. F. —Meets First, Second and Third Tuesday each month at Odd Fellows hall on West Sixth and Walnut streets. D. Burns, N. G.; F Brown P. S. B. H. of R., No. 339 of G. U. O. of F. —Convenes the first and third Thursday in each month, promptly at 8 o'clock. Mrs. B. J. Holmes, M. N. G. Mrs. G. L. Williams, W. R. Knights and Ladies of Honor of the World No. 176 Victoria. Lodge—meets every Monday evening. Webster's Hall corner of Tenth Center streets. Mrs. E. A. Wood, Proctor Mrs. Rose Johnson, Secretary. What a Gun Did A girl named Ackerman, aged 14 daughter of an English laborer, has just completed her education. She has never missed being present since the school was opened, and in completing her 3,451 attendances is said to have walked 6,000 miles. She has passed every standard successfully and in the three subjects on first grade drawing obtained "excellent" prizes in free-hand and model, as also in the three stages of the specific subjects, literature, domestic economy and animal physiology, and in one stage in physical geography. She has also obtained 26 other prizes for good attendance, sculpture, knitting, etc Dairies of New York. Outside of the business of supplying New York with city milk, the farmers of New York state have an investment of $43,450,000 in cows, and a corresponding amount in dairy farms and fixtures—an amount not less than $150,000,000. Nelson's Straightine Broad Vestibule First-Class Sleepers DAILY- Between Chicago and San Francisco Great Rock Island Route veave Chicago on Big 5 at 10:00 p. m. I'll the best scenery of the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. by daylight in both directions. 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For terms blanks etc. Consultation free and confidential, person- SEMINAL WEAKNESS AND SEXUAL DEBILITY, producing loss, pimples and blistering on the skin, shades of blood to the head, pains in back, forgetfulness, basilisking, sion to society, loss of sexual power, loss of manhood, eudurea, or coercion, radically, and permanently cured by our VARICOCELE method in from five to fifteen weeks. We an- 76 Counties in Iowa 29 States in the Union 2 Foreign Countries. No Fashion; Many Styles. As if to prove conclusively the infinite number of ways in which a comparatively simple thing may be done, note the various fashions in which men hold their cigars in their mouths. Every man seems to work out his own way of smoking a cigar, evolving it slowly from the first time, when he placed it carefully in the middle of his mouth and blew the smoke out as if he were whistling. There is no accepted conventional standard; no fashion, but many styles—New York Post. Where Sedan Chairs Surprise Will it be believed that the Sedan chair still exists in a bustling town not far from Paris—in Orleans? In this pretty city, says a Paris newspaper, especially on Sundays at the hour of mass, the classic Sedan chair, as it was known to the gallants of the Eighteenth century, is borne through the streets by robust carriers, its occupants being aged people and invalids, to whom the jolting of a carriage is intensely disagreeable. Cocoanuts at Their Best BOSTONS AT Their Best. Before the shell of the coconut becomes thick and hard and while the meat is soft and about the consistency of clabber, many of the nuts are gathered and sold upon the street corners of South American cities and in the drink shops. The nuts are cut open with a machete. The milk proves a most refreshing drink, while the meat is eaten with a spoon, or more often with a silver cut from the shell. The Imitation "Bronben." The imitation "Reuben," clad in a linen duster and carrying a carpet bag, no longer fools the people in New York streets. Time was when such a man, if he had a guilleless expression, and concealed his advertising dodge long enough, could collect a crowd anywhere; nowadays, people who are much in the streets have become too "wise."—New York Press. Coffee a Barometer Drop a lump of sugar in a cup of hot coffee, watch the bubbles rise without disturbing the coffee. If they collect in the middle the weather will be fair. If they adhere to the cup, forming a ring, rain will fall. If they separate, floating in unfixed position, it is a sure sign of changeable weather. Picnickers, watch your cup of coffee in the morning. Kind to the Negroes. R. B. Weddington, a Union county, North Carolina, farmer who died recently, lived in the kindlest relations with the negroes, and in his will he gave three tracts of land to three of his faithful colored servants, leaving money to others. The remainder of his estate, amounting to 1,600 acres he bequeathed to the Methodist church Gain of Some Cities. In the ten years between 1890 and 1900, Passaic, N. J., gained 113 per cent in population; Butte, Mont., 184; Superior, Wis., 160; Newcastle, Pa., 185; Seattle, Wash., 88; Waterbury, Conn., 60; St. Joseph, Mo., 96; East St. Louis, Ill.; 95; Jacksonville, Fla., 65, and South Omaha, Neb., 222 per cent Self-Supporting Students It is worth noting in these days that in the graduating class at the University of Vermont this year was a young woman who supported herself doing housework through the entire four years' course, and a young man who supported himself by working at his trade of stone-cutter. Britain's Population and Ours. Forty-one and one-half millions of people are now crowded into the United Kingdom. A similar density of population in the United States would mean a total population in this country, excluding the dependencies, of about one billion thirty-six millions. Objected to Being in Novel. Dan Godfrey, the famous British band-leader, has recently obtained damages for libel from a publisher and a woman author for putting him into a novel, also an injunction against the further publication of the book. British Coal Fields. South Wales raises more coal than any other part of Great Britain, nearly 29,000,000 tons a year. Twenty-seven millions come from Midland collieries and 26,000,000 from York and Lincolnshire. Odd Advertising in Chicago. The following advertisement appears in a Chicago paper: "Young men having a large circle of friends exerting their influence can obtain their fall clothes free of charge. Address, etc." Demand for Meerschaum Pipes. Among retail dealers, it is said that the demand for meerschaum pipes and holders has greatly decreased in the last few years. French brier has supplanted it in popularity. The Mother's Favorite. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the mother's favorite. It is pleasant and safe for children to take and always cures. It is intended especially for coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough, and is the best medicine made for these diseases. There is not the least danger in giving it to children for it contains no opium or other injurious drug and may be given as confidently to a babe as to an adult. For sale by all Druseists. BILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY. It costs less to agree with a phoo: than to differ with him. All men owe much more to chance than they are willing to admit. Men who lov the least to make mummy, luv the most to spend it. Old age iz a perch whare all the akes, sorrows and ills ov life cum tc roost. Obstinacy mite be excusable in a wize man, but wize men are never obstinate. The best friend and the worst enemy than enny man has got iz his confluence. Luv, which is simply the result ov fear, will turn to hate the fust good chance it gits. There is nothing that God luvs more, and nothing that makes us all feel better, than thankfulness. The man who won't profit bl the experiences ov others, ain't a going to profitt match bl his own. Take all the folly and foolishness out ov this world, and there would be but little excitement, and no fun at all in living in it. When the bottom does fall out of a simply comik fool, he all goes to pieces in such a way that he never can be mended agin. All human natur luvs to tak the chances. Thare is grate fun in seeing how near you can go to a mule's heels without gitting highstared. I have no doubt thare iz a perfecktly honest man in the world sumwhear, but I will travel 250 miles to see him, and giv 10 dollars for the sight after I git thare. To lie well a man must have a greasy tongue, a level face, and abuv all a smart memory, so that he can tell the same ile at least twice allike out ov 3 times. A true kritick iz like a bee; he hunts for funny, and nothing else, wherever he lights—Josh Billings in New York Weekly. HOUSEWIFE SUGGESTIONS A few drops of turpentine in hot starch add luster to ironed linen. Arrowroot tied in a thick cotton rag and boiled with linens and cottonns imparts an odor to them that is pleasing. English pottery with Dutch mottoes seems an anomaly and rather incongruous, but the effect is quaint and attractive. Candlesticks with strange birds and beasts appeal to the eye. Silk and linen are woven together to make the handsomest table damask. Sometimes the goods is brought out in mauve, gold and white and an especially pretty pattern was all in soft rosy pink. A shelf supported by brackets and from which falls a curtain is a good scheme to conceal a radiator. Then the shelf may be embellished by a large brass or copper pot or a few pieces of bric-a-brac. To avoid wrinkling bodies and jackets they should be hung on frames such as men use for their coats, winding the frames first with cloth or silk, upon which, if desired, orrish or other sachet powder may be sprinkled. Little, used matting, as in spare chambers or upper summer rooms, should be swept very clean, then wiped with a cloth wrung out of sweet milk. Do this once a year—it keeps the straw live and to a degree pliant. If the milk wash is used in a living room or on a plaza; follow it by wiping with very hot clear water to keep the floor from drawing files—Chicago News. PEOPLE'S QUEER WAYS. In the extreme north and extreme south of England some remains can be traced of the old style of harvest home, which was usually celebrated during September. The emblem of it was the kern-baby, or, as it is called in the north, the kern-dolly, a tiny sheaf made of the last stalks of grain cut, tied with bright ribbon and carried home by the harvest queue, to be afterward hung on the wall of the great straw barn, while the harvesters feasted on boiled mutton and potatoes and home-brewed beer and then danced till morning. A party of Bedouin Arabs, with camels, horses and donkeys, which camped for some weeks at the zoological gardens in Vienna, took with them, when they left for Trieste, seven Viennese brides, to whom they will be married with Arabian rites upon reaching their destination. All the women had property. Thirty others who wanted to take up a desert life were rejected because of their poverty. A traveler in Abyssinia writes: "We here found quite a new currency—thin bands of iron, 2 feet long, 1 inch wide, sixteen of which go to the Abyssinian dollar. They are called 'dorma.'"—Chicago News. ITEMS OF INTEREST. South Dakota has more Indians (11,000) than any other state. Of the territories Indian Territory has 56,000 and Arizona 25,000. The common measure of road distance in Greece is the pike, threequarters of an English yard, 1,000 pikes being about 750 yards. The orange tree is very fruitful; a single tree will produce 20,000 oranges fit for use. A good lemon tree will produce 8,000 lemons. By the advice of eminent oculists, the authorities of Munich have decided no longer to use gas or petrolum for lighting school rooms. A curious custom prevails in Korea. If a man meets his wife in the street he ignores her presence and passes her as if she were a stranger STEAM LAUNDRY Cuffs..... Iowa Phone 839. Coal Is King We carry the choicest stock of NUMA BLOCK AND Retail Office 515 W. Six King Corner of Fourteen and Blondiau Streets Pastor F. J. Peterson D. D. Residence 1318 Fulton Street. Services: Preaching 10:30 m and m 2:30 p m Prayer 10:30 m and m 2:30 p m Endeavor 9:30 p m Prazer Meeting Wed 9:30 p m Prazer Meeting Wed 7:30 p m All welcome to these services. how One Lawyer keeps the Judge from Slewing There is said to be a lawyer in Philadelphia who possesses a trick of the voice to which a certain measure of his success in United States Supreme court practice is due. The trick consists in waking a judge. Whether it is a common practice for the high dignitaries of the federal supreme bench to indulge in a nap in the course of a long and tedious argument, such happenings are not unknown, and it is well for an able logician of the bar to be prepared for it. The trick of waking a sleepy judge would seem to be something in the nature of slamming a law book under his nose or connecting his personality with the current of an electric battery. But the trick is explained as purely a matter of sound involved in the skillful control of the voice. It is said that a barrister practiced in the art and rhetoric of addressing the bench can gather all the waves of sound from his throat into a focus and deposit it in the orifice of the judge's ear with the general effect of a bomb. The trick, however it is accomplished, is said to have been worked repeatedly with success on the late Judge McKennan, whose 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. Beat Out of an increase of His Pension. A Mexican war veteran and prominent editor writes: "Seeing the advertisement of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, I am reminded that as a soldier in Mexico in '47 and '48, I contracted Mexican diarrhoea and this remedy has kept me from getting an increase in my pension for on every renewal a dose of it restores me." It is unequalled as a quick cure for diarrhoea and is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by all Druggists. BLACK SKIN REMOVER REGISTERED PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2. Gunran- ted to do what we zay and to be the "best in the world." One box is all that is required if used as directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A PEICH-LIKE complexion obtained if used as direct to turn in skin of a black or brown pale face of a shaded head. A black or brown person perfectly white. In forty-eight hours a shade of two will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin to the face of the head. The skin is more wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples or buraps or black heads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Small pox pits, tan, liver spots removed by the skin of the skin. Not yet yet to get the color you wish, stop using the preparation. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER. That goes in every one dollar a box is enough to make and one's hair way from and stretch, and keeps it from falling out. Highly performed and makes the hair soft and easy to comb. Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes is a new shade of the one of the three. ANY PERSON SELLING is thrown in free. Any person sending us one dollar a letter or Post Office money order, express money order or registered letter you will send it through the most popular prepaid or if you want it sent C. O. L., it will come by express. 25c. extr. In any case where it fails to do what we claim, you will require money or send a box free of charge. We get so that no one will know con CRANE AND CO., 122 west Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. PORECAST OF FASHIONS. A fuchu 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 Davonshire 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? Gracie 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 carrier have been ordered to wear shirt waists, they are not forbidden to deliver mail in wrappers. Trophial Killers 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. Shirts ..... 8c Collars ..... 2c BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH BKOKUK, IOWA. TRICK OF VOICE. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER Coal 531-533 Sixth Ave. Coal Is King Of High Grade Coals in the City COLFAX LUMP Sixth Ave. Low Phone 49. Mutual Phone 1359. 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 auto mobiles 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, where 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 to 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 members the names of some of the foremost men of America. Their Use on Land and Sea Is Steadily Increasing. Here is a new word for you, columbophilism. It means raising and training messenger pigeons. Within the last few years this industry has grown wonderfully. The governments of Belgium, Germany, France and the United States are training these birds to serve as messengers from army stations. The United States makes use of them more especially from ships. Nearly every one of our big ships carries a coop of honing pigeons, as they are called, which are released as occasion demands, and almost without exception the birds go with unarring swiftness to their home on shore, carrying a tiny tube fastened to one leg, which contains a message written on the thinnest of paper. They can be depended upon to go a hundred miles at a speed of fifty miles an hour when they are three years old. Special attention has recently been paid in France to the use of carrier pigeons by the cavalry. The bird is placed in a wicker tube lined with hair to deaden the effect of the jolting. Three such tubes can be carried in a basket, which is attached to the rider's shoulders in the same way as a knapsack. The bird's feet are drawn up and its wings are folded when it is placed in the tube, and a light form of folding cage is carried, in which the birds can rest and eat during a halt. Twelve men are sent every year from the French cavalry ranks to attend a course of instruction in the treatment and handling of pigeons at the military pigeon station at Vanguard. The sense that guides the pigeon back to its home is as much a mystery now as it ever was. When set at liberty, it immediately rises in the air in a spiral, higher and higher, as if getting its bearings, the away it goes in the right direction. A nightfall the bird goes into camp water, and early next morning resume the journey. Little Chronicle. Sullivan's Instruments Sold Well. Sixteen of the violins and violoncellos owned by the late Sir Arthur Sullivan were recently sold for $1,800. The greatest prize realized for any one of the instruments was $850, which was paid for a violoncello by Joseph Guarnerius. 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. In the Manchester district alone 8,000 out of 11,000 men who offered themselves for military service were certified unfit to endure a soldier's life. Salton, Doctor Himself The Sultan of Turkey is devoted to the study of chemistry and has given a good deal of time to the study of medicine, a study which he first took up because of fears that his life was in danger from poison. He new doctors his own ailments so long as they not of a serious malaise. CARRIER PIGEONS 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 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 Boy story-Writers' Reel 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. Transveal Gets New Stamps First Transvaal Gass New Stamps First. The first stamps to be issued by the British government bearing the imprint of King Edward IV 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 mall 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 Policewoman Uniforms Canon Hobson, the founder of the policeman's district association, has been 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 country, 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, cents." The other, of real coral, unmarked, was marked, "Rag 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-Suit 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 original autograph. Traveling with Ox Tsama 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 prank 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 $233,42,000. The debt of Chicago is $26,000,000, of Philadelphia $43,000,000, and of Boston $51,000,000. The oldest cities have the largest debts. AND OTHER REMARKABLE CASE Which the Doctors Failed to Care or Understand. A Medical man as a rule dislikes to acknowledge the value of a proprietary medicine—in fact, professional etiquette dehails him from doing so. Yet there are many eminent physicians, those most advanced in their professions, who give full credit to the great curative properties of St. Jacob's Curie Compound from the fact that it is borne by an old and reliable company, proprietors of St. Jacob's Oil, from the formula of a brother physician, who to-day stands in the front ranks of the most eminent medical men in London, and on account of its intrinsic merit, it is largely prescribed by the medical profession; but, in the case which we are to relate, the attending physician called it "rubbish," but, as it turned out, Mrs. Nettleton tells the doctor that "rubbish or not, it saved her life." The profession graphically relates the particulars of her own case, which will doubtless be of interest to many of our lady readers: "I had been an intense sufferer for many years from dyspepsia, liver and kidney troubles, when a little pamphlet was placed in my hands, and, although at that time I had been bedridden for more than six months, I determined, after reading some of the wonderful testimonials thereof of cases similar to mine, which had been completely cured by the timely use of Vogeler's Curative Compound, to try some, especially as my doctors fused to even benefit me, and, never given up in the past, I never being well at it. It is most interesting, and, in fact, marvelous to relate, that the very first dose of fifteen drops relieved me. It was not long before I was able to get up and about; three months from taking the first dose I was enjoying better health than I had been for fourteen years. I continued well until a few months back, when I was taken ill again, my troubles being dyspepsia and constipation. I had a doctor attending me for a month, but continued to grow worse, until I again found myself by old medicine, Vogeler's Curative Compound, which I immediately sent for and took in place of the doctor's medicine; at that time I had not had a movement of the bowels for five days, but Vogeler's Curative Compound, soapy and creamy, made me a second time, but, of course, this attack was not as bad as the first, yet I fully believe I should not have been alive today had it not been for Vogeler's Curative Compound. If I had only thought to have taken it when my last illness took place, I should not only have been saved much suffering, but a 715 doctor's bill." Mrs. Nettleton said: "I have recommended Vogeler's Compound for indigestion and eczema, and in any case it has proved a cure beyond doubt. Mr. Swinbank, our chemist, has sent me the names of no end of people who have been cured by Vogeler's Curative Compound. By the way, the proprietors have so much luck and dance for London physician's advice, that they will send a sample free to any person sending name and address and naming this paper." St. Jacob's Oll Co, 205 Clay Street Md. Md. Mrs. Nettleton is a confectioner, in the Brighton Road, where she has been established many years, and is honored and respected by all classes. Her statements as regards Vogeler's Curative Compound may, therefore, be regarded as reliable evidence of its great value. The public, however, may look upon this remarkable statement as one of the many which are particularly from grateful people all over the world, who have been cured of various malades by the use of this wonderful remedy, which is the result of an ancient physician's life-long experience. These people are nearly always representative and well-known citizens. The native Indian tribes of Alaska number 29,536, a gain of 4,182 in ten years. The Santa Fe has in preparation a book on the Indians along its lines. The material is being gathered and arranged by an expert ethnologist, and although the primary object of the book is to advertise the workers and interesting features of the Southwest the book is expected to have a definite scientific value and great care is being given to the accuracy of the subject-matter and illustrations. A Kansas girl who recently lost her voice has received twenty-seven offers of marriage. Jay—"Yes, sir; when I was in New York a sharper robbed me of fifty dollars," Jay—"You call a policeman?" Jay—"Well, I thought fifty dollars was enough." Tourist (after his first drink of Bloody Gulch whiskey) "Thunder and Gulch whiskey" "A shaken cock!" "Gulch tender" (dissatisfy) "Wot'd yer want—water." Tourist "No, I nlseed off!" Manager—"Be careful not to make the plot of your novel to complicated." Author—"Why not?" Manager—"Well, you know before it is dramatized the plot will all have to be taken out." "You don't know how to make love!" sincered the Gentleman of the Old School. "No," laughed the Gentleman of the new school: "I leave all that to the women! I have need only to make money!"—Life. "Where there are any pretty dresses in the play?" "Oh, yes. The poor deserted wife, who had to take in sewing for a living, suffered agonies in a lovely white silk gown with chiffon ruffles, and a dream of a pearl-colored plus opera clack lined with white GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. GOVERNOR SHAW'S LAST MESS SAGE TO THE LEGISLATURE. Read Before The General Assembly On The 14th of January. To the Senate and House of Representatives of Iowa. The constitution of this commonwealth requires the governor to the General Assembly the condition of the state, together with such recourse as may be necessary to obedience to this mandate I have the honour to submit the following: Total government revenue during the last term, July 1, 1890, to July 1, 1901, agreed to $5,120,003.54 added to this treasury balance July 1, 1890. 445,002.37 Total revenue. . . $5,065,001.01 Outstanding. . . $5,065,001.01 of the beginning of the term. . . $20,708.85 during the term. 4,420,103.70 $4,450,002.05 Balance. $1,114,158.00 Balance..... $1,114,159.88 Outstanding warrants June 50, 1901..... 29,728.31 Balance in the treasury June 50, 1901..... $1,143,883.17 At the close of business Dec. 31, 1902, there was in the treasury 780,527.75 The following is a partial list of the applications that will be urged at your instructions: For institutions under the management of the State or the excess of ordinary operating expenses..... $ 648,000 The payment of regents of the State University as including No. fear building. For State historical society (including $1,500 additional annual allowance) allowance) ..... building ..... For armies board of health (add- honal annual allowance of $2,500) For bureau of labor statistics ..... For bureau of labor statistics ..... For state, library commission (add- honal annual allowance of Institution information ..... 2,000 $3,000) ..... 10,000 For new normal school ..... $74,700 Total. In the two accounts asked in the foregoing list are all needed, and it would be gratifying if they could all be granted. In the case of this session of the general assembly cannot grant them all without incurring an additional cost, and therefore submitted with but this suggestion, that if any additional buildings are added, a permanent character. For many years the policy prevailed of building should do so long in the root did not leak, nor the walls cave. A wise depreciation would be a new hospital for the insane at Cherokee, the Liberal Arts building at Iowa City, and a new hospital for the insane at Cedar Falls are excellent in character. Those competent to judge have used this character with the hospital for the insane at Cherokee: "The work may be performed with a plaster and more completely equipped hospital, but it has none better than the commodious buildings of modern architecture, and of strictly fireproof construction, has passed, let it be In this connection, I desire to endorse most heartily the recommendation of the board of control that the state architect be relieved from designing educational buildings. I am of the opinion that designs for all public buildings should be thrown open to competition, and the plans before selection examined by men of recognized ability, and of national reputation. The buildings hereafter to be erected should be such as will stand the test architecturally, as well as mechanically, not only of this, but of subsequent, centuries. The work of no one man will meet these requirements. A building admitable in itself may not harmonize with those already erected—a consideration of great importance. Neither will success in one instance afford a guaranty against signal failure in the next. Architecture is expression and therefore educational. Even the sacred writings contain the language and characteristic expressions of more than sixty authors, each inspired, and their value and interest is largely enhanced thereby. Our state education department should be liberally dealt with. It takes money to build a university with institutions that are the recipients of donations aggregating millions of dollars of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts at Ames. The University of Chicago expects to sponsor the construction of an animal husbandry, believing there is no place where such work can be done. It is an endorsement that should commend the institution to the very favorable consideration. During the past year, both the State University Mechanic Arts lot useful, though not valuable, buildings, Temporary relief was used for the faculty, and the faculty资金, wisely provided by the last general assembly, Commodities and personnel, to the annual School is overcrowded. The attendance (over 2,000) in the annual School is cared for with best results under one management. Two years ago I recommended schools to be equipped and put in operation from time to time as the finances of the location of four, in view of the fact that every student must be located at the location of four. In view of the fact that every student must be located at one time without serious difficulty. The attempt way defended it as usual. In this connection, I again call attention to the rural districts. The average country school teacher receives less than $25 per month, and in any other northern state, and less than in several southern states. It must be that the state for the public schools is especially unfortunate that the rural schools are of such a character that the average farmer boy leaves at fourteen or fifteen years of age, painfully apparent in ten years, if it is not painfully apparent in ten years. If it is not painfully apparent in ten years, the schools will meet the demand or cure the eell. I planed for those who begin at five years of age and continue until graduation with a child from a rural community. I have in previous communications discussed this belief and considered consideration. I have received consideration—wise consideration. I think—from the superintendent of public instruction. I believe with that certain consideration—wise consideration. In some hotels the louder the gon the less there is to eat. When asked what he thought of a certain captain who frequented the Essex links, a scotch caddie said: "Weel, weel, weel." The captain, a good gaufer, but he's awful' nerra—awful' nerra. "Narrow! What do you mean Donald?" "Weel, sir, it was this way, the captain carried his clubs up tae the house, he says: 'Donald, will ye hae a draw' and I said: 'I do be vera pleased,' so he gets the bottle, an' he pourin' awa' intae a glass, an 'I want to be stopped,' says: 'Stop! stop!'—he be stopped." traditional township schools with provision for conveying the pupils to and fro at public expense will afford greater relief than any other proposed system. If to this could be added at an adequate salary, to be chosen in the same manner as the capital capital and was not a significant drift and responsibilities, it would revolutionize our school system. For good. The salary should be fixed by law or the position would be left to the lowest bidder, as our rural schools largely are at present. It is feared that some of the teachers will be little of the current status. The economy is generally condened if the compensation is low enough. Neither can very much be expected of a county superintendency under a system that invites considerations of availability only. If these changes were made, some of you gentlemen might not have to pay for any other tax. The third, we can't believe your political lives if by so doing you shall serve and save the youth of Iowa. They will have no committee on legislation. Other interests will be represented. I appeal to you, gentlemen, directly. Much of the evil so manifest is the resultant of a wave of secundity. It is not automatically right to care about the impression that some The members of this commission have performed their duties so thoroughly and have so patriotically given their time to the work, that I recommend that they be reimbursed for the expenses incurred in excess of the amount allowed by the act creating the commission of the purchase and cessation. The centennial of the purchase and cessation to the United States in 1803 of the larger portion of our national domain west of the Missouri river is to be commemorated by what promises to be the most extensive exposition the world has yet seen. With the stable rate of rest as a result of the determining the path of Iowa shall take in this event. Wisely, this state contributed little to the TransMississippi exposition in 1808, nothing to the Pan-American exposition in 1901, and nothing to the South Carolina and West Indian exposition which is now an progress. But I am of the opinion that the people of this country will approve such provision for the Louisiana Purchase Centennial exposition as will leave no doubt in the minds of visitors that Iowa constitutes an important part of that priceless acquisition. Something worthy of the state, or nothing, should be our motto. Certainly there ought not to be created a The government has recently established a National Park at Vicksburg, and the two new 100-kmไป 100 km, in the Commission to locate the position of the thirty-two Iowa regiments and other organizations which took part in that memorable siege, and to recommend such legislation as the two of the two regiments, which are positions thus ascertained by worthy commemorate the valor and services of Iowa soldiers in the campaign and siege of the rebuilding of the Commission was due to point and has first its own which is submitted to your honorable body with the recommendation that it be published in suitable form for distribution. The commission has also been updated to 100 for the erection of suitable monuments. I am of the opinion this amount is not excessive. A larger proportion of Iowa troops took part in this siege than in any other series of war. It is not to be considered that in any otherர், from Iowa were there engaged than from any other state save Illinois. Visitors ought never to leave this park doubling the bottom of the Iowa soldiers or the protection of Iowa people, but I�grade in the famous charge at Balklava lost a sixty-three per cent, and Tennyson has immortalized their valor. The Twenty-second-year charge of the rebuilding of the rebuilding during the siege lost from fifty to over seventy per cent, and it will now be the privilege of the Twenty-ninth General ascertained by the two of the two rebuilding. The executive council recommends to the general assembly such a modification of the statutes of the state as will allow the board of review to adjust the assessment of all property at the same time, and it suggests the following ways in which this may be done: Either the railroads might be assessed primarily by the railroad commissioners (who, in view of their duties should be the better prepared than any one else of judge of the relative value of the several roads), and then the executive council adjust all assessments at the July meeting; or the time of assessing railroads, if left with the executive council, might be changed from March to July, so that the whole subject should be before the council for adjustment at the time. This action was not taken for the purpose L. R. Stockwell, the popular actor, says that some years ago in Chicago when Peter Jackson, the colored pupil of the Cabin, "Bill Nye was to have lecured at the Baldwin theatre, but was greeted by so small an audience that he excused himself and went over to hear Jackson talking of the past. After a performance Stockwell met Nye in the lobby of the theatre, and exclaimed: 'Hello, Nye! What did you think of Peter, Nye!' responded the humorist, dryly, 'but I was great, but Uncle Tomically he is the worst I ever saw.' of escaping responsibility, but in view of the fact that the present and previous railroads annually in the month of March and equalize annually in the month of July following. It does not contemplate a revision of the railroad assessment already thought. Justify the recommendation. In March, 1899, the railroads were assessed at the previous year, but in July following it was found that real estate had been foreclosed. Before, in March, 1901, while the railroads were assessed July it was found that real estate had been assessed $14,000,000 higher than in 1890. Vided for the employment of a parole clerk in the office of the chief executive. This proval of the policy which has grown up in the state of granting conditional pensions; I have been able to investigate to some extent the practical workings of the parole clerk. During the ten years prior to the commendation of my administration, in addition to full pardon and commitment to the coefficient, 134 of which had been released conditionally, most of them in the very recent past. On this reversion of the time, the only one reversion had been invested, and the number have been investigated, and the number have been, their conduct, and their standing, have been careless and required to have very little or no effect in the process of a factor-three report, and to these have granted full and unconditional pardon and restoration of their responsibility. The mostیله of the new committed has not yet expired. Eleven are dead or insane. Only meager reports, not sufficient to justify action, were secured from the current information. The most likely received from fourteen have been unable to locate or get any reports from twenty-eight. It does not follow, however, that of those who have been held in place. The report received from the fifty and more to whom full pardon has been granted were most gratifying. Several wrote using letters, and the mostیله of the most Water and Trusted position with prominent business houses and industrial corporations. One was the number of an official position and a capacity of a New England city of more than 100,000 inhabitants. Many were reported to have become industrious citizens and were on the second end of the system of the munities in which they reside. The investigations made by the bureau of the state are of great importance, and the report will be found interesting and valuable. More information is available in facts asserted and reported lead to the belief that it would be well to make all the factories nearly 10,000 other factories in the cities and towns, and to furnish the technical conditions of many of the factories is well night alarms to warn of the danger of this general assembly. The department should be clothed with authority as nurse made incumbent upon the commissioner to protect employees from the danger of fire, and to enforce adequate fire-scapes and wholesome sanitary conditions. The report shows that a large number of children, some as young as ten years of age, are ill and over hours, and the faces of many of them tell a sad story of overwork and over hours, the employment of children under a certain age, and the object so much to the fact of child inborn as to its character and duration. There is limitation, and the bureau should be clothed with well-built, ample display of its permanent Two years ago I called attention to the number of insured lakes that had number of insured lakes was in dispute. The state claim title to those lands. I had to protect the rights of the state by appropriate legislation. Certainly nothing A story is told of a naval officer, who had been charged with some slight offense and ordered under arrest, presented proof of his unfitness without but without his sword: "I can't arrest you," exclaimed the captain, "unless you come prepared to submit your sword to me!" The officer explained that unfitness from home put that it was on the way. "Then go and get one," was the reply. So the officer skirmished among his brother officers until he obtained a sword. Returning, we put under arrest according to the regulations. ought to be done to interfere with what is still of the opinion, it would be wise to great these thunders to some one or more of the dealers in paint oils, supposed to be worth several hundred thou-ler. Experience has shown that the provision client can insist on is to protect the public. The most vile and worthless adulterations are readily sold to dealers in paint oils should be required to dealers in paint oils should be required to each sale, and proper penalty should be provided for the sale of adulterations un- The act of congrese which admitted the western boundary of this commonwealth as the middle of the main channel of the western boundary of this commonwealth of the river has changed, and there is considerable territory formerly in this state has given rise to much controversy, and to some litigation. At the last session of the mission was authorized, the same to be appointed when the legislature of Iowa braska law provides for three members to be appointed by the governor to receive thirty days, and the sum of $2,000 was appropriated to defray the expenses of this state in the hope that a permanent office in the hope that a permanent office by the states interested therein, and by the congress of the United States, this state have been called to mourn the death of Hon. John H. Gear—legislator, a most conspicuous character in Iowa native in congress, and United States senator—a most conspicuous character in Iowa native in congress, and United States senator with greater verity. "His was the servant of the people. He never held position that was not worthy of a position of which he was not worthy, or in which he failed signally to honor those who More recently our people were applied at the violent death of the best beloved of rulers and the most honored of men. William McKinley, president of the United States, is shall not weary you, gentlemen, with the help of the reason to respond to the problem of the character. The immortal words used by Lincoln concerning Washington, and which have been repeatedly reiterated as applicable to their author, can now be said of McKinley: To add brightness to the sun and light to the name of theologist in allike impossible. I look at them, it is, in solemn way pronounce the name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on. Such a trinity of names blesses not the animals of any country but ours, and no other people cherish such a priceless legacy of influence. To fill the vacancy by the death of Senator Gear, Honorable Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver, of the city of Fort Dodge, was, on the twenty-second day of August, was printed a senior of the United States from the state of Iowa for the remainder of the term that expired on the third day of March last; and on the twenty-fifth day of February, 1001, Mr. Dolliver was appointed for the term beginning on the fourth day of March following, to hold this the general assembly shall elect. Thomas B. Hanley, of the city of Hipton, was on the eleventh day of January, 1901, commissioned a member of the board of regents of the State, under the席位, to fill the positions of the staff of the city of Mortimer, on the occasioned by the death of Mortimer A. Higley, the commission taking effect January 8, 1901, and continuing until this meeting of the general assembly. The state is in a flourishing condition. Her name is the most important part of the discontent anywhere on among any class, it is not manifest. While our population is increasing, the court records indicate that crime is decreasing. Fewer persons were sent to the pententown during the last year than in any other, save one, in the last quarter of a century. The relations between capital and labor have been exceptionally cordial. The needs of violence have been now. The record has been held for the years of the time when more were carried by an illegal exception to more than a decade. Justice according to law, the distinctive feature of Anglican liberty, is the recognized rule of our people. When no name of the office of the first of the first history of my state, rejoining in her present greatness, hopeful for her future, and in the full confidence that the conservative wisdom of your honorable body is presented and is not in the line of the good and cure that which may be correction, all submit the foregoing. Rosetti Resected Intrusion. Toward the latter part of Dante Gabriel Rosetti's life he rarely left his house and garden and preferred to see his friends and acquaintances by appointment. Woe betide the too intrusive stranger. It is said that one day an entertaining man, a day entertaining a woman with a letter of introduction, and the servant was nearly yielding to the impulsive stranger, whereupon the painter of "Dante's Dream" leaned over the banister and said, in a firm, mellifluous voice, "Tell the gentleman that I am not at home." J. P. Morgan's Dream in Boyhood. "The dream of my boyhood days," observed J. Pierpont Morgan to a friend recently, "was to be a farmer and have the finest stock in the world—the doce far niente of the farmer's life was my fancy. "Well you have your stock, your stock—to say nothing of stocks," retorted the friend. "Well, but I am the man of all work, and I haven't got the doce far niente, and can't buy it either, big a price as I might be willing to pay for it"—New York Times. Sailors Want to Keep Warm. Crews of several big oil tankers now at Point Breeze have appealed to the council to provide assistance for assistance to secure the electrical heating of the vessels, and have made threats to desert unless their condition is ameliorated. No fire of any kind is allowed on board of these vessels. Most of them have electric plants for lighting and the sailors argue that heating arrangements can be installed cheaply. Gamblers Are Superstitious. Habitual gamblers are perhaps the most superstitious persons in the world. They invariably carry little mobile devices in their pockets, and it would be impossible to persuade them to enter into a game of chance if by some inadvertence their mascots were not with them. Lumps of lead, coins, rattles, locks of hair, cauls, bits of bone, hairpins, are some of these charms. We are all caught offender than we imagine. "Henry, how is the plot of that sea novel running?" "Well, just at this chapter there is a terrible storm, and when you go to the top." "You mean to the bottom." No; this is a submarine boat. Jones-"How on earth does Blumematter that swell sailor's for his clothes at that swell sailor's?" Brown-"The tailor found out that he lived at the Hotel Magnificent." Jones-"But how does he manage it to carry it off with the hotel people?" Brown-"And they judge him by his clothes." FOUND AMERICANS BUYING LAND AT BAKKATOEWAN, WESTERN CANADA. A Michigan Farmer Vills Saskatoon and Is Well Planned. Mr. S. K. Lent is a delegate sent from the farmers of Allegan County, Michigan, to Western Canada, to report on the prospects for successful settlement. His report is as follows: I went from Winnipeg to Edmonton, thence east one hundred miles by road, onto the countryside of the vicinity a rich, blue beam, varying from 12 inches to 3 feet deep; the crops are simply something enormous; wheat and oats by actual measurement often standing five feet in height. I have been a farmer for forty years, and consider myself a fair judge of the yield of grain, and I saw wheat that would yield 50 bushels per acre, and oats that would yield 100 bushels per acre; no one one done, and the garden and garden track, in no country have I ever seen their equal for all kinds except corn and tomatoes; the nights being too cool for these to ripen well. As a stock country it has no equal. East of Edmonton, on the head waters of the Vermillion River, I saw hay meadows containing from 10 to 100 acres, the grass standing 4 feet high, and when often cut 3 to 4 tons of grass for the farm, passed through some fine locations, namely, Wetaskin Lacombe and other points. From McLeod I went to Regina, shence to Prince Albert, 247 miles north of the main line. For the first fifty miles is fine farming country, but the next hundred miles is more of a country, with a farmhouse, Rostherne and Duck Lake I found some very fine farming country, so good that I found a party of Americans from Minnesota buying land for themselves—one party buying 12 sections, and the other 20 sections of land for themselves, which they proposed to improve at once. I have traveled over twenty-three different States and Territories in our Union, and never in my life time have I ever seen such magnificent crops and especially as a stock country. The French use only one-third as much sugar, head for head, as the English. 16 kan. Ware. Buy inferior goods and the dealers will treat them. But if you want Distance Starch go to your grocer and will sell you a 16 ounce package for ten cents. The only premium that goes with it is the merits and quantity. At your grocers. Made by Magnetic Starch Co. Omaha, Neb. None other "just as good." Holliness is never under the necessity of advertising itself. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH, the only 16 oz. packages for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starch contains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. A mother's love is something that cannot be explained. FOR SALE - Sumner County, Kansas, wheat, corn, soybeans, corn flour. Write for list. Wellington Land Co., Wellington, Kansas. We are all caught offender than we imagine. The true furniture of life is made in the factory of drudgery. SOZODONT TOOTH POWDER The best that Money and Experience can produce. 25° CURE YOURSELF OF CATARRH at Cost 10 Cents a Month. Sund 60 Cents for Recipe. H. B. LISLE, 738 W. Huron St., Chicago, III. RED RIVER VALLEY FARMS for sale at low, est price from $8 to $27 per acre and improvements. Write for list and map. Many of these farms are homebuilders. F.W. FLANDERS, Warach, Milton, Calhoun Fork Lake. OKLAHOMA 500 HOMESTEAD CLAIMS DICK T. MORGAN, El Reno, O. T. DROPSY NEW DISOVERY, gives cures. Book of testimonial and cure samples. Dr. H. H. GREEN'S CO., Box X, Atlanta, Ga. IOWA FARMS. 400 acres farms from town of 18,500. colling pasture land, $0.00 per acre. 400 acres. Pontiac Co. well improved, $0.250 have farms in nearly every county in state. J. A. SNYDER. Rooms 107-9 Manhattan Bldg. Des Moines, I. WESTERN CANADA'S Wonderful wheat crop for 1901 now the talk of the Commercial World is by no means phonon- gious. The Mantouls and districts Manitouls and districts shewan and Alberta are the most wonderfi tries in the world. It is stock raising they also make. Thousands of Americans are annually mak- ing their own wheat. Move Westward with the tide and so acquire a farm and home in Western Canada. Arts and settlers. The handsome forty-pare Alms of Western Canada sent to all appl. in administration of Immigration, Ontario, Canada. to N. Bartholomew, Canadian Government agent, 868 Fifth St., Deskholme, Iowa. BIG COURTS QUERES WHERE ALL LINE FAILS. Bost Cough Trap. Good Use. Use in time. Sold by drugstore. CONSUMPTION 2010.05.14 BLESSING IO HOUSEWIVES. Omana Product that is East Winning Public Favor. without making any undue clamor it it or seeking the aid of capital- ier or the Commercial club, the man- ufacturers of Defiance Starch started business in Omana a little over a mago, and troopers have have reached achieved triumphs. The local patrons, who is induced to try it by reason of its is purely a home industry and en- prise, have discovered an article manufactured right here in their dist superior to any starch ever be- used by them. However, excellent re- there, however, excellent rea- tioners and jobbers are giving reference to the product of this com- pany aside from any consideration of home patronage idea. "Defiance arch" is unequalled for excellence it is fast supplanting other starches mong careful use throughout west of Chicago. It is true that the progressive and energetic management of the company doing some strenuous and effective work in acquainting the public with its superior quality by expending from $5,000 to $6,000 per month in advertising, but, after all, "the proof of the pudding is the eating," and it is from the excellent results obtained by those who have been induced to use it on trial that this splendid Omaha production obtains its widest and most profitable publicity. It has taken well from the need that the factory is being taxed to meet the demand, while the company keeps twenty-five salesmen on the road and is shipping its goods to every state and territory west Chicago. "Defiance Starch" is pronounced to be not only the best starch on the market, but the least expensive to the consumer. It is a cold water starch and needs no cooking. Yet for that class of goods where who bolled starch is required, this same *Defiance Starch* excels the ability to boll a lump starch. It gives a better finish, works easier, goes further, therefore costs less. Not only this, the lump starch will blow out and freeze out, which is not the case with "Defiance Starch." The ingredients are such that no chemicals, the presence of which in any other starch compounds has proven injurious to linens, are required in its manufacture. A constant nothing can ensure in its delightful use the most delicaté fabric, which must commend it highly to those who have had their garments ruined by the use of other starches. "Defiance Starch" contains ingredients that remedy all the objectionable features of other starches. It will not blister, nor does it break the fabric. It does not stick to the iron during the process of froning and does not bump up with the fabric. It gives a beautiful, stiff and durable finish to fabrics and makes them look new. Possessing so many points of superiority over rival preparations, and avoiding so many of the latter's faults, it is somewhat surprising to note that one can secure for the same amount money one did more of. Of course, the article that of an other, Heretofore starch consumers have been paying ten cents for a twelve-ounce package of starch. A package of "Defiance Starch" weighs sixteen ounces and costs no more. Its manufacturers offer no chromosus no premise, but the starch offers a better starch than any other, and one-third more of it. Having utilized every medium of excellence which modern ingenuity has devised in the preparation of its product, this Starch Manufacturing Company offered their "Defiance Stararch" with the most firm conviction that it would give perfect satisfaction, and the results of a year's work have proven that they made good use of a desirable commodity is sold by the use of premiums, but "Defiance Stararch" stands on its own merits. Its makers guarantee all consumers that dealers are authorized to take back any starch that a customer claims to find unsatisfactory in any way.—Omma Examiner, November 23. SOME SCOTCH PROVERBS Fools' haste is no speed. Little sad is soon mended. Gude watch prevents harm. Great barkers are nae biters. Never quit certainty for hope. A hasty man never wants woe. Every shoe fits not every foot. An ill plea should be well plead. A man is a lion in his air cause. Nothing so bold as a blind man. A sorrowing bairn was never got. A wilful man should be very wise. Forbid a fool a thing and he'll do it. I like na to make a tall o' a pleasure. Many irons in the fire some may cool. A gude word is as soon sald as an ill one. Be the same thing that ye wah be ca'd. Nae great loss but there is some gain. I cannot sell the cow and have the milk. As ye mak' your bed sae ye maun lie down. Force without forecast is of little worth. A blithe heart makes a blooming visage. Better an empty house than an ill tenant. If it can be nae better, it is weel it is nae waur. A gudge tale is na the waur to be twice told. He that wad eat the kernel maun crack the nut. Gentility sent to market will not buy a peck o' meal. Before you make a friend, eat a peck of salt with him. He that seeks trouble, it were a pity he should miss it. He was scant o' news that tauld his father was hanged. Some men are born poor, some achieve riches and some mary extravagant .omen. Jones—"How on earth does Bluffman manage to get credit for his clothes at that swell tailor's?" Brown—"The tailor found out that he lived at the Hotel. Magnificent." Jones—"But does he need it to carry it off with the hotel people? Brown—"I suppose they judge him by his clothes." An actor named Wright, who was once impersonating the First Gravedigger in "Hamlet," prepared to take the house by storm by incasing his person within a dozen or more walstcoats of all sorts of shapes and patterns, and operated of digging the grave for the "fair Ophelia," Wright began to unwind by taking off walstcoat after waistcoat, which caused uprightous laughter among the audience. But as a waistcoat himself of one waistcoat, Paul Bedford, playing the Second Gravedigger, incased himself in the cast off vests, which increased the salvos of laughter, for as Wright was getting thinner Paul grew fatter and fatter. Wright, it is said, felt himself outdone, kept on went on with the grave and went on with his part quite crest-fallen. Several years ago, a colored Baptist minister who was anxious to be appointed to a vacancy in a Georgia church, went to one of the old residents and asked him what he should preach about in his trial sermon. He would be the proper rearing of children, who in that section were greatly neglected. When the would-be pastor arose to preach the next morning, he started out this way: "I'm gwine to preach to you today on de subject of chilluns. You ain't rainsin' 'em right. Instead of de benn' he school dey is right. He fight' dey marbles, and de benn' is bitterly again de las one of dese acts because it says in two or three places: 'Marble (marvel) not I say unto you.'" SCIENCE SETTLES IT. Dandruff is Caused by a Germ. That Saps the Hair's Vitality. It is now a settled fact that dandruff is caused by a germ. Failing hair and baldness are the result of dandruff. Dr. J. Beardsley, Champaign, Ill., got hold of a germ in November. Norbro's Herpicide—the only one that kills the dandruff germ. He says: "I used Herpicide for my dandruff and falling hair, and am well satisfied with the result." Do I buy a Herpicide for Urbana, Ill., I have used it with excellent results. I shall prescribe it in my practice." Herpicide kills the dandruff germ. Physicians as well as the general public say so. People say things every day they should not, and hear from them a month or two afterward. WHEN YOU GO TO BUY BLUING, Ask for KISS Bleaching Blue. Made by the Buss Company. South End, Ind. Some people are never satisfied unless doing what they should not. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starch contains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Even a liar respects veracity in the other fellow. "I'm so glad I am dead," said the shade of George Washington to the wrath of Benjaman Franklin. "Why, you might court-martial me for compelling Cornwallis to surrender." "Henry,\how is the plot of that sea novel running?" "Well, just at this chapter there are a tiger storm, and mississippi areas are trapped to alive, you go to the top." "You mean to the bottom." No; this is a submarine boat." Old gentleman—"Why do you shed such bitter tears my boy?" Boston Child pausing in a griee—"Reilly, mississippi areas that tear off as to their brackish quality from off their lachrymose emissions. I have never heard of saccharine tears." Mrs. Goodsole—"Why, Johnny, are you just going home now? Your mother's been looking for you all afternoon." Johnny—"Yes'm, I know." Mrs. Goodsole—"Just think how worried she must be." Johnny—"Oh, she's near the end of her worryin.' I'm just beginin' mine." The visiion—"Horrors! The lightning express wrecked and totally destroyed by fire!" Young artist—"Hurrah! Good!" The visiion—"Are you crazy?" Artist—"No, but I expressed a drawing on that train, and I valued it at fifty dollars. Now the express company will have to pay for it." "Hmi!" exclaimed Mr. Goldie, after reading his morning post, "that boy's college education is making him too smart." "What's the matter?" asked Mrs. Goldie. "I wrote him the other day that I thought it would be kinder for me not to remit the check he asked for. Now he writes: 'Dear Father—I shall never forget your unremitting 'kindness.'" Detroit, Mich., Jan. 13.—A sensational statement is made by Mr. Benjamin Major, whose home is at the corner of Jane and Hurlbut Ave., this city. Mr. Major says that he has found a remedy which will positively cure all Kidney and Bladder troubles. He suffered himself for a long time with these diseases in the most painful form, and during his illness experimented with a great many medicines without getting any relief. Finally he tried Dodd's Kidney Pills, and to his great joy was cured completely. The statement he makes seems to have ample confirmation in reports being published every day of wonderful cures by this remedy. A fool can ask more quetions in seven minutes than a wise man can answer in seven weeks. Mother Gray's sweet Powder for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Childrep's Home in New York. Cure Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 20,000 testimonials. At all drugings, Sample FREE. Address Allan S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Few of the world's great men were born in palaces." CONGRESS. Washington, Jan. 10.—House—The house spent the day considering the bill to create a permanent census bureau. While the general sentiment was in favor of a permanent bureau, there was a strong opposition to the bill as drawn, on the ground that it was not well matured. There also was an overwhelming demand for a provision to place the present employees of the census bureau under the protection of the civil service law, the bill should be accompanied with instructions to report back a bill containing a plan for a detailed organization of a permanent census bureau and including also a provision to place the present employees of the census bureau under the protection of the civil service. The fight to recommit was made under the leadership of Burkett of Nebraska, the new memoir of the appropriation committee. A bill was passed by the Mrs. McKinley the free mailing privilege during the remainder of her life. The house then adjourned until Monday. Washington, Jan. 13.-Senate.—In the senate today Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota, called up the bill providing for the establishment of a department of commerce. He explained the necessity which he said existed for the passage of such a measure, and was piled with questions by several senators who asked him time later whether he allowed for looking into the merits of the measure. Mr. Teller criticised that feature relating to the transfer of the geological survey, while Mr. Hale said that the bill provided for a department which ultimately would be one of the largest in the government. He called by Mr. Nelson. The senate was in executive session for an hour and a half. House.—The house of representatives spent the day in general discussion of the pension appropriation bill, the first of the annual budgets. The debate took a wide range. Grosvenor, of Ohio, and Hepburn, of Iowa, denounced a report presented to the last G. A. R. encampment criticising the course of themselves and other memorial organizations for "emerence" bill, which was defeated at the last session. They explained that their opposition to the bill was due to the incorporation in the bill of a clause which had not been endorsed by the G. A. R., placing veterans of the Spanish war in the preferential class. Rixey, of Virginia, caused something of a stir on the democratic side by advancing a proposition to open the doors of national soldiers' homes to veterans of the war and to state confederate homes. Richardson, of Alabama, was the only democrat who joined Rixey in support of it. Washington, Jan. 14—Senate. For the first time this session the Philippine question was touched on in the senate today. The interest taken indicates that it will occupy the attention of the upper branch of congress for some time when the tariff bill is reported. The Philippines was the subject of an address by Hoar of Massachusetts, who spoke on his resolution introduce yesterdays applying the amendment of a senate committee to investigate the administration of those islands. Hoar spoke at some length regarding the unreliability of statements which have been made from time to time regarding the situation in the Philippines and the causes which led to the outbreak. He urged that there should be a place where any senator in his official capacity could go and ask for two witnesses to prove the correctness or inferences to the facts which were lightly illusired. Lodge, Hoar's colleague, said he regarded the resolution as a reflection on the Philippine committee, of which he was chairman, and the necessity for the latter would cease were this resolution to be adopted. His committee, he said, was perfectly able to handle any investigation which might be conducted. Carmack, democrat, agreed with him. The discussion was leading rapidly to an opening of the whole Philippine question on what was needed tomorrow. Mason of Illinois made a speech in favor of reincrochivity with Cuba and discussed the protective policy generally. House.—The house continued the debate on the pension appropriation bill today and devoted much time to the proposition advanced by Rixey of Virginia to open the doors of the soldier's home to ex-confederate veterans. Two notable speeches were made in support of the proposition, one by Gardner, a Michigan republican, and the other by De Armond, a Missouri democrat. De Armond's eloquence aroused both sides of the house. The republicans, with the exception of Gardner, took part in the discusso of Rixey's question, with met with much opposition on the democratic side on the ground that it was utterly impracticable. Lamb of Virginia read a number of telegrams from prominent exconfederates of Richmond protesting against it. Washington, Jan. 15—Senate. A spirited discussion was precipitated in the senate today by some remarks submitted by Hale of Maine in respect to bills relating to the formation of a naval reserve which he introduced. He took strong ground against the organization of a naval reserve, his comments being construed by some of the senators into a reflection upon volunteer soldiers in the half dozen officers were on their feet in an instant to defend the volunteers and the national guard of the various states and the debate took so wide a range that senators went back in their references to the days of the revolutionary war to seek illustrations for their arguments. While no action French Minister is Spunky Pekin, Jan. 11.—The French minister, M. Beau, refuses to present his credentials until China fulfills certain demands of the French government. The joint audience of the foreign and new Chinese ministers which had been arranged has been postponed because of M. Beau's action. His colleagues are discussing whether to support him or not. A repetition of the Turkish incident is considered possible. A Kanzas girl who recently lost her voice has received twenty-seven offers of marriage was possible at this time, it is likely that the discussion upon the measures, should they be reported, will be very lively. No business of special importance was transacted, the time of the senate being consumed by matters of routine. House.—The house today passed the pension appropriation bill, which has been endorsed for three days, and then adjourned until Saturday. The resolution prepared by the special committee on the McKinley memorial exercises providing for an address by Secretary of State John Hay in the hall of representatives, February 27, was adopted. January 28 has been fixed as the date for the republican joint caucus to ratify the action of the district that has been nominated by the members of the university and trustees of the other two educational institutions. Washington, Jan. 16—Senate. The senate today for a brief time had under consideration the bill creating a department of commerce, and the discussion tended to show that the measure will have to be amended in many parliaments before it can be approved by the senate. Serious objections were raised to the transfer to the proposed department of several important bureaues now a part of other departments of the government. It was pointed out that if the bill as reported became a law it would create the greatest department of the government, and that the secretary of commerce would be required to preside over the secretary of the Treasury. Notice of several important amendments was given. A large number of uncontested bills and private pension measures were passed. OFFICERS TAKE THE OATH CUMMINS AND HERRIOTT ASSUME THEIR NEW DUTIES. Thousands Watched the Progress of the Parade From the State House to the Auditorium. Des Moines, Jan. 17.—At ten minutes after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon A. B. Cummins of Des Moines and John Herriott of Stuart took the oath as governor and lieutenant governor of Iowa and their predecessors, Leslie M. Shaw of Denison and J. C. Milliman of Logan, retired from office and became private citizens. The exercises accompanying the induction into office of Mr. Cummins and Mr. Herriott were characterized by unusual vigor and degree of the pomp and circumstance that obtains on such occasions, even on the democratic soil of Iowa. The day's programme consisted of a parade from the capitol to the Auditorium, exercises at the Auditorium, including Governor Cummins' inaugural address, and a reception at the state house in the evening. In addition to these was the formal assumption of office by Lieutenant Governor John Herriott, following the farewell address and retirement of Lieutenant Governor Millman. The exercises were carried out in the new perfect weather and in the presence of great crowds of enthusiastic spectators gathered from Des Moines and from all quarters of the state. The military features of the day were imposing. The battalion that took part in the parade contained four of the crack companies of the state in addition to the local company. The starting of the parade the state house was accompanied by inspiring ceremonies. The senators and representatives assembled in their respective chambers at 1:15 and thence at 1:30 proceeded through the east door of the capitol to carriages in waiting. At the head of the procession walked Governor Smith and Doewood, the battalion of troops had been drawn up along Eleventh street facing the state house. As the two distinguished citizens walked side by side down the state house steps, the trumpets sounded loud and clear the general's march, and the troops saluted by coming to a present arms. The soldiers waded a ward the first gun of a general's salute of seventeen guns re-echeed from Scott's Heights, south of the capitol. The troops were then moved to Ninth street and Grand avenue and the carriages were filled as rapidly as possible by the members of the assembly and others who were to take part in the parade. The parade from the state house through the principal business streets immediately preceding the inaugural ceremonies at the Auditorium was one of the most pretentious ever seen in Des Moines. Thousands of people thronged the streets along the line of march and waited patiently for an hour in the biting weather for the parade to pass. Governor Cummins and Governor Shaw returned to the state house together. The two were taken there in E. Rawson's large garage by the four-in-hand that driven them to the Auditorium. Governor Cummins remained in the office of the chief executive for an hour or more. A number of his friends called and extended their congratulations. Governor Shaw, after remaining in the chief executive's office for a short time, left the state house. Foraker Re-Elected. Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 16.—The senate and house met in joint session yesterday and re-elected Jos. B. Foraker to the United States senate. Senator Foraker had practically no opposition, the division being purely partisan, the democrats supporting Hon. Charles H. Baker of Cincinnati. Every republican present passed his vote for Senator Foraker. A story is told of a naval officer, who had been charged with some slight offense and ordered under arrest. He presented himself in full dress uniform, but without his sword. "I can't arrest you," exclaimed the captain, "unless you come prepared to submit your sword to me!" The officer explained that unfortunately he had not received his sword from home, but that it was on the way. "Then go and get one, was the reply. So the officers until he obtained a sword. Returning, he handed it to the captain, and was put under arrest according to the regulations. SALZERS New 20th Century OATS FRESH YIELD 300 BUS. PER ACRE CLEAR THE TRACK! Here we have nothing like it on earth. Salzers' New 20th Century Oats to the coke carton, prices the largest yield ever. The feed in Salzers' oats are bred to produce. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken the lead in the production of Kinds tootl. Salzers' were the best. How do you like that? Making oats from grain is an easy process. Our Century Oats are 60 companies and revolutions cut by growing an expert database of favors to report yields of 1802 running from $07 to $00 bushels per acre. Price is 15 cents a bushel. But in the winem and berry fields, the price is your neighbors the coming fall for seed. It will surely pay you. Salzers' Marvel Wheat—42 bus. per Acre The only rye wheat on earth that will yield a paying crop north, cast south, and weaken it any time in the north. We also have the co-adapted Macro- nut bran, yielding on our farm. 60 bushels per acre. SPELTZ The most marvelous cornel and hay food on earth, producing from 60 to 80 bushels of grains and 40 of rich hay per acre. VEGETABLE SEEDS We are the largest powers and our stock of cutlery. Maine Great corn and all money making vegetables are everywhere. Prices are very low. Oat seed 60 ounces and up a pound. Catalogue tells. For 70c—Worth $10 Our great catalogue contains full description of our Beardless Harley, yielding 100 bushels, our Trade In Record. Con going 600 bushels, our potatoes, yielding 600 bushels per acre; our grass and clover mixtures, producing 8 tons of magnificent hay; our Peanuts, with the taste of hay and treasuring the 60 loss of green fodder per acre. Salzers' great catalogue, with 10 farm seed samples, worth $10 to get bakers' advice you on quality of 100. postage. JOHN A SALZER SEED CO. LA CROSSE, WISG. 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For full information call on ticket agents or address Geo. S. Batty, G. P. & T. A., Marshaltown, Iowa. The hotel runner doesn't run the hotel. In Winter Use Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. Your feet feel uncomfortable. a powder. Your feet cold and damp. If you have Chillin' feet, try Allen's Foot-Ease or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. The man who hesitates may be lost, but the man who never hesitates is hard to find. **ALWAYS USE RUSS BLEACHING BLUE, acknowledged the leading biting.** Made by The Russ Company, South Bend, 1nd. Lucky is the girl who marries the best man at the wedding. No family, shop, ship, camp or person should be without Wizard Oil for every painful accident or emergency. Do your duty and don't make any fuss about it. It is the empty wagon that rattles. Mrs. Winston's Soothing Syrup. 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I first noticed it by being irregular and having very painful and scanty menstruation; gradually my general health failed; I could not enjoy my meals; I became languid and nervous, with gripping palms frequently in the groins. "I advised with our family physician who prescribed without any improvement. One day he stid..." Try to find a doctor who did not didactic God; the next month I was better, and it gradually built me up until in four months I was cured. This is nearly a year ago and I have not had a pain or ache since." BONNIE DELANO, 2348 Indiana Ave., Chicago, IL 60040 forfeit if above testimonial is not genuine. Trustworthy proof is abundant that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saves thousands of young women from dangers resulting from organic fertilizer of the meens, ovarian or womb troubles. Refuse substitutes. afflicted with sore eye, use "ALL WRIGHT-FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY" ROMAN EYE BALSAM FOR WEAK, EYES AND EYELIDS INFLAMED Price 25 Gents. All Dewgists. WRIGHT'S INDIAN VEGETABLE PILL CO., New York CAPSICUM VASELINE A substitute for and superior to mustard or any other plaster, and will not blister the most delicate skin. It will be used in the article you are wonderful. It will stop the toothache at once, and relieve bends and cracks in the teeth. It will be the best and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy. It will be used in the household for rheumatic, neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim to be the best in the household. Many people say "it is the best of all of your preparations." Price is the best of all of your preparations. By sending this amount to us in postage stamps we will be no longer be accepted by the public unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not genuine. 17 State Street, New York City. W. N. U., Des Molines, No. 3, 1902. 20th Century OATS THE BUS_PER ACRE EAR BACK! ware—nothing like the oats. 20th the oak, caribee bree farmery. The oak, caribee bree product. The U.S. Dept. instructed over 400 million bees to produce you like that. **Plan for Reducing Flesh.** The newest plan for reducing the flesh exacts no particular self-denial. Those who are anxious try its effects renounce only water with their meals. They are required to make up for the water they avoid at meals by the amount to be drunk during the day. Not less than two quarts of water is the daily allowance. The results are soon noticed and are said to be as lasting as those of any other method of reduction. New Glacier Yosemite There are reports of a wonderful new kind of bear called the "Japanese White Mammoth," grown in fattogara County, Texas. It is of giant size, and is said to yield 87 barrals to the acre. Original Meaning of Prejudice. Prejudice was originally nothing more than a judgment formed beforehand, the character of such judgments being best indicated by the present meaning of the word. State Proud of Miss Kellar. Miss Helen Kellar is an Alabama girl. She was born in Tuscumbia, and the people of Alabama have always been proud of her wonderful career. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION You are hereby notified, that the following described real estate, situated in Polk County, Iowa, to-wit: Lot Thirteen (13) Block B, Des Moines Co. Addition to town of Polk City, Iowa, was sold for the taxes of 1895, 1896 and 1897 on the fifth day of December, 1898 to J. L Sands. That the certificate of sale thereof has been assigned to and is now owned and held by J. W Reigel, and that the right of repayment, Trustee Deed for said land will be made unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the date of completed service of this notice. You will govern yourself accordingly. Dated Seventh day of November, A. Dated, 1901. Owner of certificate Owner of certificate Chile Becks Steamship Line Chile Seeks Steamship Line. Senor Salvador Cafiero has presented to the Chilean government a project for a new fast line of steamers between the Pacific and Mediterranean ports, with headquarters at Valparaiso and a capital and a number of million sterling in 20,000 shares, a subvention granted on condition that the steamers should be armed as warships. Immigration 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 trest to work on railroad extensions to 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 Critics 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. "Paperling 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, in 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. Freeman's Nevada Farm Daniel Freeman, of Sage county, Nevada, owns and occupies the first farm given away by the United States government under the homestead act. His original entry of 160 acres has expanded to a farm of 1,200 acres. Of Interest to Investors. British consols draw more interest than United States 2 per cents, but are at a discount of 7 per cent, while our 2 per cent bonds command a premium of 8 per cent. Had seen enough of show. An Oklahoma paper tells of a farmer who went to town and thought he would treat himself by attending an opera. He went up to the ticket window and planked down a $5 gold piece and asked for a good seat. The show was the "Forty Thieves." The ticket agent shoved out a ticket and a dollar in change. Picking up the dollar the farmer started out of the building. "Hold on!" called the ticket seller, "you've forgotten your ticket." "Keep it, dern yer," replied the farmer. "I don't care to see the other thirty-nine." A Patrick Henry in Congress. For a number of years Mississippi has sent a Patrick Henry to congress. He does not claim, as many Patrick Henrys do, to be the only and sole lineal descendant of the immortal patriot, but he comes from that famous branch of the family just the same. Mr. Henry is the nephew of Patrick Henry, who represented the seventh district in the last two congresses. For nearly 100 years the eldest son in the Henry family has been named Patrick in honor of the great Virginian—Washington Times. The Teacher Failed. In a school for colored children there was a little boy who would persist in saying "have went." The teacher kept him in one night and said: "Now, while I am out of the room you may write 'have gone' fifty times." When the teacher came back he looked at the boy's paper and found the task completed. Fifty times had the little darky written the words "have gone." But al.s, upon the other side of the paper as written. "I have went home." Faith and Works. One day recently a Berkeley student in one of Professor L. Dupont Styles' classes came into the recitation room so late that the English teacher made a mild remonstrance at the extreme tardiness of the young man. "Professor," replied the young fellow in excusing himself, "my watch was slow. I shall have no faith in it after this." "My dear fellow," said Styles, "what you need is not faith, but works."—San Francisco Wave. Talented Princess. The most interesting member of the Danish Court is the Princess Wald-tmar. She is an artist, her special line beings scenes from animal life, and judges declare that, if she had been stimulated by necessity, she might have rivaled Rosa Bonheur. She is to be found in her studio every morning, brush in hand, and clad in a long painter's blouse, at 7 o'clock, absorbed in her favorite occupation. Reading for the Blind. Representative Dayton of West Virginia recently introduced a bill in the House providing that books, pamphlets and other matters in raised characters for the use of the blind shall be transmitted through the mails to blind readers and returned to depositories free of charge. This matter must be sent in unsealed packages not weighing over seven pounds. Californians Scorn Pennies. They haven't any use for pennies in California. In Los Angeles they circulate a little, owing to the fact that many Eastern people have made that town their adopted home. Everywhere else in the state these small coins are scorned because they are thought of too little financial significance. Arizona's Application for Statehood. The application of Arizona for admission to the rights of statehood is based less upon its growth in population than in wealth and manufactures. By the census of 1870 the investment in manufactures in Arizona was only $150,000. In 1880 it was $270,000, in 1890 $615,000, and last year $10,100,000. The government owns and operates twenty-one marine hospitals and operates two additional hospitals in leased buildings (New York and Dutch harbor, Aiaska). There are besides 115 relief stations, where patients receive hospital or dispensary treatment. Swedish Dynamic Gnn: A Swedish officer named Elmellin has invented a dynamite gun, which is said to be capable of piercing double the thickness of steel penetrable by any other known gun. The gun has been bought for the Swedish navy. Classified as to Church Attendance. Justice Philmore of England, the other day declared that modern church-goers are "oncers," not "twicers," while non-church-goers are either "has-beeners" or "never-wasers." Persian Ladies Dress Like English. The British consul-general at Meshed reports that the Persian ladies are adopting the English style of dress, and that all articles of ladies clothing are in great demand there. Of the large dry goods stores in Montgomery, Ala., is owned by a colored man who began life as a porter and made it a rule never to save less than half his wages. Possibly Green or White. A Kansas City man's full dress suit was stolen one night recently and the detective who was sent to investigate the case asked, "What color was it?" MUTUAL PHONE 624 IOWA PHONE 644 DANISH PROVERBS. Even crumbs are bread. Opportunity makes the thief. Faint praise is akin to abuse. Short flax makes long thread. Power often goes before talent. Death does not blow a trumpet. Gray hairs are death's blossoms. Praise a fair day in the evening. Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow A short cut is often a wrong or 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 sligh. We must sow even after a bad harvest. 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 door soot. 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 man be he is apt to learn more or less on his staff. The girl who used nuclage 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 Fastening Penny. When you engage a servant or make a bargain in China it is not considered binding until the "fastening penny" has been paid. Although his bad faith is notorious in some matters, yet, to do him justice, when once this coin has been paid by you the Chinaman, coole or shopman, will generally stick to his bargain, even if the result to him Ingenuity. The following ingenuous mode of crossing a river was once displayed by a kafir, who had for some time stood watching the vain attempts of a party of soldiers 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 those 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. 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 so be 455." OFFICE AND YARDS 416 SEVENTH STREET. Cheaper Than Ever TO COLORADO AND UTAH Daily to Sept. 10th, 1901. VIA THE GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE ROUND TRIP RATES FROM Chicago to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo $25.00 Aug. 1 to 10 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. 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It will be uniform in size with "An English- woman'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, 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! an size, not counting colonies, the European powers stand in this order: Russia, Austria, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy. White List for Managers New York, like London, is to have a "white list" of the theatrical managers. An organization calling itself the Women's anti-vice committee has come into existence, and its avowed purpose is to protect the chorus girl. The manager who is on the list will be there because the committee will have decided that he treats chorus girls of his company properly. Public placarding with the aim of public boycott will be the fate of the manager who does not get a certificate of high moral rating—Chicago Tribune. ```markdown ```