Iowa State Bystander

IOWA CITY NEWS Henry Gaiter was on the sick list last week. ```markdown ``` VOL. 8. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE BYFESANDER PUBLISHING COMPANY, FIFTH AND LOCUST. ROOM 501 MANQUARD BLOCK. IOWA 'PHONE 809. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRO- TECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF IOWA. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE MOST WORSHIPFUL UNITED GRAND LODGE OF IOWA, A. F. & A. M. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year . . . $1.50 Six mths . . . 75 Three mths . . . 50 All subscription payable J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by post office order, money order, express or draft, to the Iowa STATE BYSTAN-ER Publishing Company. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the public. "Brevity is the soul of wit." remember We will not return related manuscript, unless accompanied by postage stamps. Clinton Shaving Parlor, 202 W. 4th wants your patronage. Hayes Bell, senior member of Bell Bros., has been very sick with the pneumonia for some time. J. H. Mixon, Jeweler, No. 312 West Third street, tunes Pianos and repairs Organs. Mr. and Mrs. John Glass entertained Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Thompson at dinner last Sunday. An elegant dinner was served. Mrs. Anna Hall entertained Mrs. Nelson Watkins of Albaty, Mo., Mr. Gus Watkins and wife at dinner last Sunday. Don't forget to send in your order for the BESTAMDER while it is only $1.00 for twelve months. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Ruff entertained at dinner Sunday afternoon. Covers were laid for twelve. It is said that invitations will soon be out announcing the marriage of some prominent society people. Miss Mable Whitmer and Miss Carrie Field of Spain are in this country visiting relatives. They are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Lewis of Clive. Artist Tabernacle will give an entertainment at Odd Fellows hall, corner of Sixth and Walnut, Monday, Jan. 27. Come and have a grand time. 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. Mr. Rollen Weeks spent last Sunday in Oskaloosa visiting friends. While there he was the guest of Miss Effie Finley. He reports a very pleasant time. Des Moines girls look out. Herbert Clark, son of T. A. Clark, who returned to the city last week to finish with his class in the East Side High School, will graduate in June. He is very ambitious to secure a good education. The Eureka Social Club weet at the home of Mr. H. W. Hughes, 939 West Eleventh street, Wednesday evening, the 20th inst. The election of officers will be held on that date and all members are requested to be present. By order of the President. Mr. George Logan, son of Jeff Logan, is a candidate for Market Master, subject so the decision of the Republican convention. Mr. George Logan was born and raised in this city and has a host of friends who are giving him their loyal support. Mr. and Mrs. Powell entertained about 20 of their friends last Monday evening in honor of Mrs. Hawkins of Milwaukee, who has been their guest for several weeks. Whist and dancing was enjoyed until a late hour then refreshments were served. The Iroquois Social club met Thursday at the home of Miss Gertrude McCraven and proceeded to elect the following officers: President, Miss Bessie Jackson; Vice President; Gertrude McCraven; Secretary, Louise Clay; Ass't. Secretary, Bulah Allen; Treasurer, Francis Walker. Miss Gertrude Hyde chairman of program committee. The club will meet next Thursday with Gertrude Hyde, 1326 Grand avenue. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1902. Mrs. Nelson Watkins left last Monday to spend a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Ida Johnson of Webster City. Mrs. Mollie Watson uncompained her. Mrs. Geo. Morton gave a elaborate dinner last Thursday in honor of Mrs. Hawkins of Milwaukee. Those ladies present report an enjoyable time and acknowledge Mrs. Morton as a first class hostes, The La Chid Wrinkles were enjoyed by all. Mr. and Mrs. G. D. McDonal entertained Mr. and Mrs. Powell and a few other friends in honor of Mrs. Powell's friend, Mrs. W. Hawkins of Milwaukee, on Thursday evening Jan. 16, from 8 until 13, at their cozy cottage, 1188 West Second and University avenue. The house was beautifully illuminated with gas lights. Mr. W. H. Scott, one of our well know citizens, who has been in poor health for some time, became partially unbalanced in mind and wandered away from home last Saturday in a demented condition. He was found near Valley Junction Monday and was taken home where he is receiving the care of the best physicians. It is to be hoped that he will soon recover. Patronize the Clinton Shaving Parlor, 202 West Fourth St. BARBERS: BARBERS: HENRY CURTLEY S. K. MORGAN. When in Oskaloosa, Iowa, stop at Mr. Peter Williams, No. 216 North A street, for good meals and room. A COLORED REPUBLICAN LEAGUE ORGANIZED. Pursuant to call about 40 colored republican voters met at the court house last Friday evening and organized a league, after a great deal of discussion and parliamentary tactics. The committee on permanent organization reported the following officers which were adopted: President J. F. Blagburn; Vice President, Clifford Williams; Secretary, John L. Thompson; Treasurer, E. T. Banks. Executive committee R. N. Hyde, H. R. Wright, A. L. Smith, Tracy Blagburn and Chas. Bradford. The league is composed of some of the leading young men of the city. It will in all probabilities be made a member of the National League, only dealing with state and national affairs. CITY ELECTION. The approach of spring brings with this year the biennial election of city officers in every department. The various offices are eagerly sought after by a large number of candidates, all of whom we presume are good men, well qualified for the office they aspire for. But the voter who make up his choice should consider well many things. First he should lay aside his own preference if there seems to be other aspirants better qualified. Then too he should see that all interest will be represented. He should see that men of high ideals good morals and temperate in habits are selected. The progress and intelligence of our city demand this. Therefore voters you should be very careful in making your selection; do not let greed, money or other things change your vote. DR. A. G. EDWARDS. Physician and Surgeon. IOWA PHONE 1061 (Office) MUTUAL PHONE 460 Miles' Drug Store OFFICE HOURS: 8 to 10 a. m. 2 to 4 p. m. 7 to 9 p. m. Over 764 West Ninth Street. M. B. FOR MAYOR OF DES MOINES. It is with some degree of pleasure which is a true likeness of Alderman Jas date for Mayor of our city. Elsewhere the principles which he states for the p Mr. Patrick was born in Ohio, 1836 where he worked on a farm as a farm Lincoln issued his proclamation, calling and cement our Union. He was on their service; enlisting in Co. F of Thirte a half years—during all of the time of the war he settled in McGregor, Ia., who and remained there 25 years. He then the wholesale hardware house of Patricio 1900. He then went in with the Dempse Four years ago the Republicans elected again in 1900 for his second term. His dealings has made him the most populus punctual, faithful, believes in having cle every respect; an advocate of organized city in every department. He is broad, race; as he often says that the slavery in the civil war to emancipate the slave deal justly by all classes and will work city. His many friends will appreciate render him. It is with some degree of pleasure that we are able to present this cut, which is a true likeness of Alderman James P. Patrick, who is a strong candidate for Mayors of our city. Elsewhere will be found the platform or a few of the principles which he states for the public. Mr. Patrick was born in Ohio, 1836; came to Fayette county, Iowa in 1857, where he worked on a farm as a farm hand until the civil war came and Lincoln issued his proclamation, calling for volunteers to suppress the rebellion and cement our Union. He was one of the gallant young men who offered their service; enlisting in Co. F of Third Infinity May, 1861 and served four and a half years—during all of the time he was with Grant and Sherman. After the war he settled in McGregor, Ia., where he went into the hardware business and remained there 25 years. He then moved to Des Moines and established the wholesale hardware house of Patrick & Luthe where he remained until 1900. He then went in with the Dempstry Manufacturing Co. where he is now. Four years ago the Republicans elected him Alderman of the Second ward and again in 1900 for his second term. His high integrety, honest purpose and fair dealings has made him the most popular of any of the councilmea. He is punctual, faithful, believes in having clean streets and an up to date city in every respect; an advocate of organized labor and protecting the interest of the city in every department. He is broad, high minded and a friend to the colored race; as he often says that the slavery question was the cause of him enlisting in the civil war to emancipate the slaves. He will if nominated and elected deal justly by all classes and will work for the advancement of our progressive city. His many friends will appreciate any support the colored voter may render him. Mr. J. G. Beck, one of the well known and active republican workers of this city, is a candidate for City Assessor. He was born in Boone county, Iowa in 1868. His parents moved to this city the same year where young Beck grew up to manhood, receiving a good common school education, later he attended the Business college. He has always worked in coal mining businesses, either wholesale or retail. He was appointed first deputy city assessor under Mr. French, where he has served for 4 years, and if experience amounts to anything then Mr. Beck ought to be selected. He is familiar with every detail of the work and would make a good man. He is an active republican worker; has always been found fighting for the g. o. p. and other candidates, and now his friends think it is time to reward him. He has been a delegate to different city, county, congressional and state conventions. If elected he will see that the colored race shall be represented as a deputy assessor. He earnestly solicit your support. Take Your Meals at the PEOPLE'S SHORT ORDER LUNCH ROOM 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. Plan for Reducing Flesh. The newest plan for reducing the flesh exacts no particular self-denial. Those who are anxious to try its effects need renounce only water with their meals. But 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. ```markdown ``` more that we are able to present this cut, James P. Patrick, who is a strong candidate will be found the platform or a few of public. came to Fayette county, Iowa in 1857, a hand until the civil war came and for volunteers to suppress the rebellion of the gallant young men who offered Infintry May, 1861 and served four and he was with Grant and Sherman. After here he went into the hardware business removed to Des Moines and established Kick & Luthe where he remained until Entity Manufacturing Co. where he is now him Alderman of the Second ward and high integrety, honest purpose and fair war of any of the councilmen. He is can streets and an up to date city in labor and protecting the interest of the high minded and a friend to the colored question was the cause of him enlisting. He will if nominated and elected for the advancement of our progressive he any support the colored voter may SEPARATE RESOLUTIONS Washington Dec. 13. — Wide misapprehension exists as to the the relation of the Moody and the Crumpacker resolutions for dealing with the Southern representation problem. It has been assumed that they amounted to practically the same thing, when in fact they are almost opposites, as may be seen by the effect of the two on the Southern members. Mr. Crumpacker's resolution assumes, without further inquiry, that disfranchisement of the colored population in the Southern States is a fixed fact, and proceeds to apply a reduction of representation accordingly. Mr. Moody's resolution is one of inquiry as to the constitutionality of the Southern Constitutions presenting reduction of representation only as an alternative, in case the South is found to be ingenious enough to accomplish these disfranchisements without violation of the Federal instrument. He is now willing to take for granted that the existing Southern plans are necessary or to accept the situation as something with which the Federal laws must be put into harmony. Southern Democrats have never been afraid of the Crumpacker resolution, because they could at once ask the Northern representation how they new the extent of unconstitutional disfranchisement, and what they proposed to do. The Moody resolution, however, has stirred them to united action, and conferences are already in progress. Mr. Underwood of Alabama, who recently gave up a place on the Ways and Means Committee to go on the Committee on Rules, did so, it is understood, for the purpose of leading this opposition. The Southern men as a rule realize the terms of the Louisiana Co. situation much better than Northern men do, and are less inclined to have its meaning laid bare in Congressional debate. They fear that they cannot hold their ```markdown ``` BYSTANDER. Northern Democratic associates in a cantest over an inquiry into the Louisiana instrument, which however, is merely typical. John R. Thayer, for example, a Democratic member from the Worcester district, is not certain that he shall follow Mr. Underwood in this battle. Mr. Thayer says that the stupidity of the Southern people in bringing this issue so squarely to the attention of Congress passes all bonds; he thinks they could have found ways of "controlling" the Negro vote, without flying in the face of the Federal Constitution. He believed the Louisiana Constitution would be held by the United States Supreme Court to be in violation of the Federal Constitution and that this should be the settlement of the question. The attitude of Southern Republicans is always interesting in such controversies. They are much more favorable to action on the lines now proposed than they were toward the Force bill of a decade ago. Repaesentative Dayton of West Virginia typifies their feelings when he says that while his state is now Republican, if there should be a 'slip up' any year, the Democrats would promptly utilize their power to eliminate the Negro, just as has been done in Maryland. Mr. Dayton is accordingly very earnest for action on the Moody resolution. Chicago, August. 5, 1901. TO ALL WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN GPEEETING: Reposing special trust and confidence in the Masonic Ability, prudence and integrity of the Illustrous Isaac L. Brown of Marshalltown, Iowa, he is hereby appointed and commissioned as the Illustrous Deputy for the state of Iowa, with full power and authority to organize temples of the Mystic Shrine and consisteries of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of the 32nd degree, and Councils of Royal and Select Masters of the Cryptic Rite, and to do all other acts for the advancement of the order, and report the result of his work from time to time of the undersigned. All commissions and appointments of all other deputies for the state of Iowa, except the Illustrous Isaac L. Brown, 33, is hereby revoked and annulled, and it is hereby understood and directed that the Illustrous Isaac L. Brown, 33, will have the exclusive control and chagre of all the work in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Mystic Shrine and Cryptic Rite in the state of Iowa, and is hereby further authorized and empowered to visit all the consisteries and temples and councils of Royal and Select Masters in the state of Iowa, and give them proper instruction and revive the work and set the temples and consisteries and Counsel into active work and to hold a special election of the above named bodies and forward a report of the Officer's Election to the undersigned. The next session of the United Supreme Council will be held at Springfield, Ohio, August 4, 1902, at which time and place representatives from all the consisteries and temples and Councils in the state of Iowa are requested to be present. JOHN G. JONES, 33. Sup. Grand Commander and Imperial Grand Potentate. 910 CENTER ST. No. 33. OSCEOLA BUDGETARIAN. Our city was visited by a heavy snow storm on the 20th. Mr. Jno. Bryant has returned from a very pleasant visit among relatives at Gallatin, Mo. Albert Harris is visiting his mother, Mrs. Amanda Williams, at this writing, which is quite a treat to both, as he has not been home for over three years. Our schools and churches have been closed for a week owing to the smallpox scare. The Dixle Concert company are now making a successful tour through South Dakota. George Bryant of the "Nashville Students," made an over Sunday visit with his parents last week. Rev. Wade went to Chariton last Saturday to officiate at the wedding of Mr. Charles Shelton mira Pitts at the home Mrs. A. Snelton. We wish couple much success. Roy Bryant returned from his visit in Des Moines last week. He says there is no place as dear to him as Osceola. Mr. Charles Washington passed through our city last week enroute to his home in Cleveland. He had been up to Des Moines attending to business. The King's Daughters and Sons met at the parsonage Monday evening. It being visitors' night, quite a number were present. A very interesting debate was listened to, subject, "Resolved, That Woman is Man's Superior," the Daughters taking the affirmative and the Sons the negative. After much discussion the judges decided in favor of the affirmative. Mrs. Joe Wilson and daughter, Ora, were in from the country Monday. Rev. Wade and wife will spend Sunday in Cleveland, where he will conduct services Mrs Joe Williams is considerably indisposed at this writing Andy Jackson informs us that he will spend next Sunday with his best in Des Moines. We wonder if he will. We were very much pained to learn of the sad demise of Mrse. M. O. Culberson of Cinton, and extend to the bereaved family our heartfelt sympathy. FORT MADISON. Mesdames P. Bowman, G. Mack awef G. Jackson entertained Thursday, January 16, at the home of Mrs. Bowman, 219 Walnut street, Mrs. L. White assisting in receiving the guests. The decorations of the parlor and dining room were carnations and smilax. The dining room was lighted with small candelebra, which presented a very beautiful appearance. The menu was very elaborate and was served in four courses: First course, chicken salad, salte almonds and wafers; second, oyster patties and pickles; third, ham and hot rolls; fourth, fruit ice cream, chocolate cake, marble cake and coffee. The reception was enjoyed by all who were fortunate enough to be present. Rev. J. D. Mills, who has been visiting friends and relatives in Glasgow, Mo., has returned. Rev. J. Underwqod went to New Boston and assisted Rev. O. McClellan in the revival. That young lady on Firth street would "hush" if Mr. Robert Scott would make his appearance. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Rush entertained in honor of Mr. Aljournal McGruder Monday evening at their home on Fifth street. Mr. A. M. McGruder departed Tuesday for Chicago where he will make his future home. Why is it that a certain young man on Fifth street is seen so much in the vicinity of 1024 Fourth street? We would like to know if a certain young lady still thinks that "absence makes the heart grow fonder." Mrs. L. White, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. P. Bowman, will depart for her home in Kansas City Thursday. Presiding Elder McDonald, who spent several days in the city this week has gone to his home in Macon City. Subscribe for the Bystander. MARSHALLTOWN NEWS R. J. Wright is spending a few days in Des Moines on business and visiting his sons, Lawyers H. R. and Col. F. Wright. Mr and Mrs. George Young, who have been visiting friends and relatives in the cast, have returned home after a pleasant visit. Miss Clara Wilkinson received the sad news of her father's death, Mr. Samuel Wilkinson of Vinton, Iowa, Sunday evening. She left Monday to attend the funeral. Mr. Albert Jackson, steward as the Pilgrim Hotel, expects to attend the Dudley Business college in the near future. Rev. Arthur of Oskaloosa, who has been filling the pulpit of the First Colored Baptist church, leaves for his home Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. Reed Warren chaperoned a skating party Tuesday evening which was one of the most enjoyable events of the season. Mr. Henry Flippino, who has been employed by Mr. Henry Pappe the last years, has been appointed assistant clerk in his large clothing house. Mrs. George Suitor, who has been sick the last ten days, is very much improved. Mrs. Howard of Albion is spending a few days in the city with her daughter, Mrs. George Suitor. RACE ECHOES. Mrs. Nancy Griffin a colored woman of Milbun, N. J., is 103 years old. The largest saddlery and harness store in Natchez, Miss., is run by a colored man. Three-fourth of his customers are white. The management of the Northern Pacific railroad has issued an order that hereafter no colored waiters shall be placed on the dining cars where the other employees are white. There has been considerable trouble on that road between the colored and white help. A civil service examination for mail carriers and clerks was held in Atlanta, Ga., recently, and out of 125 applicants, 26 were colored. Only 14 of the whole number passed, and 12 of these were colored. Mr. Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute was recently offered One Thousand Dollars per week for as many weeks as he would accept to lecture under the auspices of a northern lecture bureau. Owing to the absorbing character of the work at Tuskegee he has been compelled to decline the offer. —Colored American. To the Republican Voters of Des Moines: I am a candidate for the republican nomination for mayor of Des Moines. Should I be preferred over other candidates I pledge myself to stand for a progressive and economical administration of the affairs of the city. Whatever knowledge I have acquired from many years' experience in business and public office will be devoted to the best interests of Des Moines. I favor the value of taxation to the lowest point consistent with the necessities of our growing city, and such a distribution of the city's income as will insure clean streets. I stand for the employment of home labor in all public works and for the enforcement of the eight hour laws enacted for the benefit of the wage earners. I shall at all times stand ready to assist the organizations of our patriotic citizens in their efforts to inquire to locate here, and encourage liberal treatment those already established. I shall stand for just and equal taxation within the limits of our city and shall oppose the grant of franchises for the use of our streets for private gain except for adequate compensation. I stand for the wise enforcement of all laws and for the minimizing of criminal lawlessness. It will be my earnest endeavor to improve the morals and efficiency of the police department and favor the enactment of state laws placing the various city departments under civil service regulations always, providing that the method of selection of any civil service commission shall be consistent with home rule. Yours respectfully, J. P. Patrick. He Conceals Antique Statuary. Stanford White is one of the largest collectors of antique statuary in America. Not only is his house in Grammar 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. Chile Seeks Steamship Line Senor Salvador Cañfero 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 of a quarter of a million sterling in 20,000 shares, a subvention to be granted on condition that the steamers should be armed as cruisers in war time. Paul Du Challu's Explorations Perhaps the only living explorer who is equally familiar with the dark places of equatorial Africa and the "land of the midnight sun" is Pan Du Challius. The mysterious fascination of the "dark continent" lured him from an east African counting-house when he was quite a young man, and he was away four years, returning with a live gorilla as a trophy. Then he went far north, and his fascination of manner and kindness of heart won him hundreds of friends. Had seen enough of show, An Oklahoma paper tells of a farmer who went to town and thought he would trent 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 is written. "I have went home." Falth and Works. One day recently a Berkeley student in one of Professor L. Dupont Syle's 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 row. I shall have no faith in it after this." "My dear fellow," said Syle, "what you need is not faith, but works."-San Francisco Wave. Talented Princess. The most interesting member of the Danish Court is the Princess Waldemar. She is an artist, her special line being 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. "Ucile Sam's" Marine Hospitals. The government owns and operates twenty-one marine hospitals and operates two additional hospitals in leased buildings (New York and Dutch harbor, Alaska). There are besides 115 relief stations, where patients receive hospital or dispensary treatment. Swedish Dynamite Gun. A Swedish officer named Elimin 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 "newer-wasers." Persian Ladies Dress Like English. The British consul-general at Mestad reports that the Persian ladies are adopting the English style of dress, and that all articles of ladies clothing are in great demand there. Saved Half Kis Wages One 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 gsked, "What color is it?" MUTUAL PHONE 624 IOWA PHONE 644 Even crumbs are bread. Opportunity makes the thief. Faint praise is akim 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 one. New comers are always welcome. Every bird needs its own feathers. Let every bird sing its own note. Trust everybody, but thyself most. We must suffer much, or die young. Every man thinks his copper is gold. Every wind is against a leaky ship. Unwilling service earns no thanks. A woman's first counsel is the best. He that courts injury will obtain it. He who flees proves himself guilty. Do not wade when you see no bottom. It is bad to lean against a falling wall. Better the child cry than the mother sigh. We must sow even after a bad harvest. An ill-tempered dog has a scarred nose. Never let fools see half finished work. Even he gets on who is drawn by oxen. Big words seldom go with good deeds. It is folly to fear what one cannot avoid. He is easy to lure who is ready to follow. Little sorrows are loud, great ones silent. Riches are often abused, but never refused. Every fool thinks he is clever enough. Under white ashes lie often glowing embers. A thankless man never does a thankful deed. It is the raised stick that makes the dog obey. It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten. WISE AND OTHERWISE. Love and philosophy are sworn enemies. Old age commands respect—except in poultry and jokes. Some men are in advance of their age, but women are always a few years behind it. The failure of a bank may not upset the depositor, but he is apt to lose his balance. You have to give some men a sound thrashing before you can command their respect. No matter how erect a general may be he is apt to learn more or less on his staff. The girl who used mucilage 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 Fastouing 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, coolie or shopman, will generally stick to his bargain, even if the result to him be loses. Ingenuity. The following ingenious mode of crossing a river was once displayed by a kaffir, who had for some time stood watching the vain attempts of a party of soidless 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 avagues, 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 philosophy as we do at those of others happiness would to me. OFFICE AND YARDS 416 SEVENTH STREET. 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Another pretty effect is made by two box plaits in front, one at either side from the yoke to the hem, and two in the back, giving a long effect to the waist, which is defined with a narrow velvet belt ending in small velvet rosettes at either side of the front on the plaits. The skirt grackers on to the waist between the plaits, which apparently are a continuation of those in the waist. A sailor collar of lace covers the shoulders in the back and opens in front over a yoke of tucked white silk or batiste. Thin gowns of *pour desprit* for party wear are variously trimmed with ruches, ruffles, lace insertion and rows of colored satin ribbon. A pretty feature of the small girl's costume is the coat and hat to match—New York Sun. Human Nature Exemplified. Human Nature Exemplified. An Atchison father who has a lazy worthless son sent him adrift on Saturday at noon, saying he never wanted to se him again. The young man mother carried on in a pitiful way, but the father was inxorable, the young man must get out and shift for him self. The young man went away saying he would return a rich man someday and make his father ashamed of himself? His mother said he was a noble boy, and swooned. That night at 6 o'clock the kitchen door opened softly, and the young man came in carrying a small armful of wood. When supper was ready he took his usual place at the table, and ate with his six customed appetite. The father sat nothing, but the mother waited on his son with unusual care, as though he had returned with the fortune he had talked about at noon—Atchison Globe "I am a constant reader of the 'Review of Reviews,' and appreciate it very highly indeed. I think it a very important part of my library, and practically a necessity for one in public life" J. B. Boraker, U. S. Senator, Canis. "It is one of the best and most satisfactory publications of the day" -Charles W. Fairbank, U. S. 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Savage's new book, "The Passing and the Permanent in Religion," the author tries to make clear the great positive elements of religion which cannot pass away. Henry James was recently told that Sarah Grand, the novelist, says she was 14 years old before she ever learned to read or write. "She hasn't learned to write even yet," he remarked. Edmund Gosse is about to become a publisher. His first venture will be a collection of the poems of his friend Austin Dobson which have been written since July, 1899, when the last edition of his collected poems was published. The new book will contain about thirty pieces, among them being poems on the war and on the late queen. Mr. Gosse intends to charge $3.20 for each copy. A new book on "Modern Strategy", which is said to be a work of importance, will be published soon. It is the work of Capt. Walter H. James of the British army. It is a treatise on the strategy of today and deals with the effect which railroads and telegraphs and the increase of newspapers have had on war. The campaigns chosen to illustrate it are chiefly taken from the Napoleonic wars and those of recent times. At the end of the book a chapter has been added on the effect of modern weapons upon tactics. IN A NUTSHELL. 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. --- ADDRESSED BY DOLLIVER JUNIOR SENATOR TALKS TO THE LEGISLATORS. Des Moines, Jan. 23.—Following is the address of Senator Dolliver before the joint convention which had just re-elected Senators Allison and Dolliver to the United States senate: "Mr. President: Senators and Representatives of the United States are here to receive me to have the opportunity for a few moments before the convention for the purpose of acknowledging me—an honor which I shall always cherish as the highest distinction of my life on our one and only one continent, but you have given me a great opportunity, and by the strength of all the ambitions and purpose of our country through you the great consonance in behalf of which you have acted, to be diligently faithful so far as in me lies in their service. "It is a fortunate thing to represent a state like ours, and have a distinct leadership in the affairs of the American people. Its leadership is no new thing, but it has had a distinct state into the Union. In so far as it depended upon individuals we owed our unbroken heart to our now grown venerable in our service this day for the sixth time honored. Our public service has never lost sight of the land marks of common sense. It has been broken even when many states of the union have looked upon us with more or less question. The state of New York announced its willingness to repudiate at least a part of the public treasury of the United States. When the following the wild notions of Geo. H. Pendleton and Samuel F. Gray, the state of New York, admitted to the favor of the resumption of special payment and well ordered government in the United States. When the state of Massachusetts was chained to the triumphal charter of Gen. Benjamin Franklin, it was being admitted to be historic prestige in that commonwealth, this state of ours was quietly going into the missions of any kind whatsoever. And so it is to me gratifying to be called upon to serve for a commonwealth with a word like "We have for more than a generationorneared our mission in behalf of the economic system whichwe inherited from our fathers, which in ourthought we brought to our attention the present day miracle of industrial and commercial progress.We have interest asmany of the communities had in the scheduleof the protective tariff the state of Iowahas enacted to protect the prosperity of the American market placesan adequate reason for its faith in the principlesreceived for its faith in the principlesnever have been a time and there never will be a time when an Americanindustry masterpiece with foreign competitors will not find among our people the spirit of encouragement of the United States and yetnobody is any longer blind to the fact thatAmerican states have rutes of duty, which in 1897, wereregarded as reasonable and were, in fact,reasonable and commercial development of our industrialand commercial life, become unnecessary,and our statute books today no longer a shieldfor American labor, but they have in manycases been the source of our offense I believe that I speak for the average judgment and good sense of the whole community of Town when I say that these defects in our laws ought to be-s�reflected, and I express a confidence that the congress of the United States will be able, in a spirit friendly to the principles upon which the protective tariff rests, to correct these defects in a business-like way, unless we are compelled to admit that congress has become helpless in the presence of questions like "William McKinley, standing almost in the presence of the shadow of martyrdom, uttered a plea for the protection of truth and soberness. I believe the opportunity will come to me and to my dismay, in the present situation of our national affairs and give expression and effect to the opinions proposed by this final taking off. His name stands for a new era in American affairs, an era that will be forever associated with his leadership and the nations of expansion of our commerce, an era of reciprocity, not only with our neighbors near us, but with all nations of the world and the islands of the sea. The hand that killed William McKinley was not aimed at him. Nobody could think of such a thing as killing that gentle and kindly man. It was aimed at our institutions, at our government, at our laws, at all government and at all law. They killed poet McKinley, but they never touched the institutions of the United States. They are invulnerable; they are imperishable. We did not know and we did not care when the hour was that the reins of authority applied to them. He had the hands of another, but I said, sure, that without distinction of party, we rejoice together with the millions of our countrymen that when his hand fell from the helm that is passed to that man of course and of sturdy manhood, that sturdy soldier of the United States—Theodore Roosevelt. "And now I desire again to thank you and to wish this session of the general assembly the full measure of success, and for the administration of Governor Cummins inaugurated under circumstances so suspicious of place famous and memorable in the annals of Iowa." The atmosphere, if compressed, would make a sea thirty-five feet deep around the globe. An interesting lawsuit will soon be tried in Seattle. A telephone girl refused to connect a subscriber with the fire department when he desired to give notice of a fire which had just broken out. A loss of $60,000 was incurred, and the insurance company and the owner of the property are about to sue the telephone company for the damage sustained. A novel system of adornment for rooms has been perfected by a London Electrician. The walls are lined with panels of transparent glass, which faced a thick, dark-colored picture, though which filters subdued electric light. The effect is the same as the light of a stained glass window, and is quite artistic. There is no glare, and the pictures can be chosen according to the taste of the owner of the room. The maddest man in Kansas is a gentleman named Martin, of Holton. He's such a rabid prohibitionist that he wouldn't use whiskey to kill bedbugs. Almost every day he receives word that some Kansas City or St. Joseph whiskey house has sent him a jug of liquor by express. He never calls at the express office for it, but other parties call and sign for it, using his name, and trot off smilingly, anticipating a delirious jag. Change the Orthography. Several of the Swiss cantons have officially decided to adopt the simplified French orthography introduced by the French ministry of education some months ago. THE NEWS IN IOWA NEW PRIMARY LAW. Senator Crossley Introduces a Com- prehensive Measure. president. Des Moines, Jan. 23—Senator Crossley of Madison has introduced a bill providing for the nomination of officers and the election of delegates to political conventions by a primary election. All political parties are to participate in this election, which is to be held the first Friday in June of each year. The voting places and judges and clerks of election are to be the same as for the election, held in November. Where registration is required the primary election is to constitute a day of registration. Tickets for the election are to be prepared by the county auditor and the names of all candidates are to be filed with him at least ten days before the primary election day. If the candidates are to be voted on in more than one county they are to be filed with the secretary of state, he is to transmit them to the county auditors. All of the ballots for all political ballot votes to be voted in the county are to be separated but after the count is completed they are to be replaced in the box. The returns for the different parties are to be sealed and returned to the county auditor the same as in general elections. The county auditor is to certify them to the chairman of the county central 4 committees of the different parties. Theventions that are to be received the number of votes are to be declared the number of votes are to be declared the nominees of the party. In case of a die the matter is to be determined by lot. Delegates to the county convention are also to be voted on at the primaries. Candidates for nomination to state offices are to pay to the secretary of state upon the filing of their names, the sum of $15 candidates for district offices, the sum of $15 candidates for county office if it be voted for in only one county they are to pay $10 to the county auditor. The county is to bear all the expenses of the primary election. No party having cast less than 2 per cent of the total vote is to be allowed to participate in the primary election and no party having cast 10 per cent of the vote is to be allowed to place its nominees on the election ballot by petition. INSURANCE LAW INVALID. Curative Act of the 28th Assembly of No Effect. Des Moines, Jan. 23.—Judge Prouty stated to counsel yesterday that he would declare unconstitutional the curative insurance law, passed by the last Iowa state legislature, which provides that the amount due on policies and shares of the stock shall be considered as debts of the insurance corporations and deducted from the assessment, and which was passed as a remedial act to the former law that made double assessments and taxation against insurance companies possible. The decision, which will be handed down in a few days, will give its of its kind in state being a test of the insurance law of the Twenty-eight general assembly, and an appeal will be taken to the supreme court to get the higher court's ruling on this question of taxation of insurance companies and insurance policy and share holders. The decision will effect about $5,000,000 worth of insurance moneys and credits of individual share and policy holders in Des Moines alone, to say nothing of the great moneyed interests throughout the state that will be effected, the decision therefore being one of the most important of the past two years. The decision will be hand ed down in the cases brought by the judge in the insurance court of Des Moines against the board of supervisors and the board of review of the city council, which cases were consolidated and tried to Judge Protty. The decision will leave the insurance companies of the state no better off than they were before the last legislature passed the curative act, as under Judge Prouty's decision the insurance companies must still pay their state taxes and the shareholders, who form the company, must pay the taxes on the individual accounts he to them as members of the company. It will be another effort will be made by the present legislature now in session to grant relief to the insurance companies of the state and straighten out the taxation muddle. CHARLES THOMAS SET FREE. Des Molnes, Jan. 22.—Charles Thomas, charged with the murder of Maoel Scofield, was discharged by Justice Duncan upon the conclusion of the presentation of the state's testimony. When Judge Spurrier announced that the state had made its case and rested, William McFenny, for his defender, a motion to dismiss the motion was as follows: "Now comes the defendant, Charles Thomas, and moves the court, the state having rested, for a dismissal of the information. "First. Because the evidence in this case falls to establish the allegation of the state that Mabel Scofield was murdered. "Second. That if the evidence does establish the act Mabel Scofield was murder, the state has failed to show that reasonable grounds exist for believing that she was murdered by this deferent." Justice Duncan ruled in the first portion of the motion only; that he was satisfied that evidence had not been submitted to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that that a crime had been committed, or to create presumption of guilt, sufficiently to warrant him in committing the defendant. He ordered the action dismissed and the defendant discharged. Gas Kills Smith's Father. Council Bluffs, Jan. 18.—George F. Smith, father of Congressman Smith of this city, was found dead in his room at the Ogden hotel. He is supposed to have been accidentally suffocated by gas, a half open fixture being placed in the room. He was 74 years of age and leaves two sons and a daughter. He was a building contractor in this city for many years, but has lived in retirement for some time. Artificial wood, made from pulp, is coming into use. By this patented process excellent imitations of oak, mahogany and rosewood are produced. LEGISLATURE AND STATE OFFICERS VISIT UNIVERSITY. Des Moines, Jan. 24.—Two hundred and twenty-five members of the legislature and others left Des Moines on the 7 a. m. Rock Island train for Iowa city. Ninety per cent of the members of the legislature took advantage of the train coming the passengers were Gov. A. B. Cummins, Senator Jonathan R. Doliver, Lieutenant Gov. John Herrriott Speaker Eaton, Chancellor William Bayard Craig of Drake university and others. Upon the arrival of the train Governor Cummins, members of the legislature and guests were escorted to the opera house headed by the battalion. Half way from the depot the marching party met the students of the university, with regents and members of the institutions formed a double line reaching to the opera house, the law and medical departments leading. The opera house seats only 400 people and hundreds who desired admission were turned away. The members of the legislature were seated on the stage, other guests on the main floor, and the students as usual as possible of the students in the balcony. On the stage, in addition to Governor Cummins, were President McLean and members of the faculty, Senator Dolliver, Chancellor Craig of Drake university and President William F. King of Cornell college. During the exercises a large banner hung from the balcony starring the legislators in the face and bearing the words, "$250,000 for a New Medical Building." The need for a new building to replace the structure used by the medical college destroyed by fire March 10, 1901, was emphasized by W. I. Babb, president of the board of regents. In the reviewing the history of the building. President McLean called the eleventh convention of the State university to order, after which S. A. Swisher presented Gov. Cummins with a gavel made from wood taken from the first capitol of the state. The governors made a brief speech, talking less than 20 minutes, and then introducing Senator Dolliver, speech, talking less than ten words, and then introducing Senators Dollis and McCain, who also briefly and in a happy vein. He said: "I have labored with the president of this institution to get the president of the United States to come here. He has other engagements. I also labored with him in trying to get the greatest unofficial man in the United States—Grover Cleveland—to come here. He had an engagement in South Carolina. I happened to deliver this new building of our years ago, and now after all this unselfish devotion I find myself basely betrayed and the work of making a speech again thrust upon me. "I know you do not want a long speech. With that banner staring me in the face I realize that you do not want to hear from me but want a chance to get at the men who sit behind me—members of the legislature." Dollive then spoke of the debate the bluntness of the word, but to the world, Speaker Eaton, Senators Garst and Junkin, Representatives Temple and Chancellor Craig spoke briefly congratulating the university on the successful completion of the building. At the conclusion of the exercises the procession formed and marched to the building, where the curred the formal opening of the building, after which luncheon was served at the Kirkwood hotel. During the afternoon a reception was held in the new building and the guests visited the buildings of the university and other points of interest in Lee City. During the afternoon, also, the residence was held at his residence in honor of Governor Cummins and members of the legislature. Returning the train left Iowa City at 5:17 p. m. CITIES HAVE POWER. May Compel Bicycle Riders to Carry Lights, at Night. Des Moines, Jan. 24.—The right of cities to enact ordnances regulating the privileges of vehicles on streets is upheld by the supreme court in the case of Des Moines vs. W. S. Keller, the defendant having been convicted of a violation of the city ordinance requiring bicycle riders to carry a light after dark when riding on the streets of the city. The defendant was fined the minimum amount under the city regulations and the case appealed to test the validity of the ordinance. The court says: "That a municipal corporation has absolute control of its streets is generally conceded, and it is equally true that it may enact such regulations, the use thereof as shall be necessary in its judgment to protect the public. * Bicycles are now generally treated as vehicles having a common right to the use of the highways. "The noiseless, swift and light character of a bicycle distinguishes it: from all other vehicles used on the highways. In the night on a paved street it is silent as death, it glides along without any of the noise made by horses drawing a carriage. Its approach is generally unheralded and pedestrians who are called upon to cross a street are usually without warning of its proximity until a swish' advises them that it has passed. "A requirement that bicycle riders use lamps during the night is but a just and reasonable exercise of control and public highway for the protection of others whose rights there are as great as theirs." We are all caught offender than we imagine. Smith's Debts Count Up. Cedar Rapids, Jan. 21.-Up to the present time the debts of W. A. Smith, the missing dalryman of this city, up to the amount of $12,904.54, and yet there are more to follow. Suits have been commenced in the superior court, the district court and the federal court, the latter asking that Smith be declared a bankrupt. A receiver has been appointed and all his property attached in Linn, Benton and Johnson counties. Efforts to find him have been fruitless. A man's income is not so important to him as his out go. Washington, Jan. 20—Senate—Debate on the Philippine tariff will begin in the senate tomorrow. On behalf of the majority of the committee on the Philippines, Chairman Lodge today reported the measure and gave notice that he would call it up at 2 o'clock tomorrow. Rawlins, of Utah, acting for the minority of the committee, offered a substitute for the bill of the majority and announced that he would submit some remarks on it at the conclusion of Lodge's statement in support of the majority's report. During the greater part of today's session the measure providing for the establishment of a department of communication under consideration. An effort was made by Nelson, of Minnesota, to secure a vote, but the opposition to many of its provisions became so strong that the effort had to be abandoned. House.—The time of the house of representatives was occupied today in general debate on the urgent deficiency appropriation bill. An item in the bill carrying $500,000 for a military post at Manila precipitated a debate, in which the ablest cases in both sides of the house took part. A semi-humorous speech by Clark, of Missouri, elicited a reply from Cannon, of Illinois, which in turn drew the fire of De Armond, of Missouri. Others who participated were Richardson, of Tennessee; Grosvenor, of Ohio; Alexander, of York; Grow, of Pennsylvania; Willimson, of Illinois, and Underwood, of Alabama. Washington. Jan. 21.—Senate.—For nearly three hours today the senate had under consideration the Philippine tariff bill. The measure was made the unfinished business and probably will hold that position of preference until it shall have been voted on finally. The bill was chaired by Lodge, of Massachusetts, chairman of the committee on Philippines. He scraed it in a free-hand way the reasons which had actuated the majority in presenting the measure and urged strongly its enactment into law at an early date. He explained with some minuteuteness the necessity for the legislation the bill concluded with an appeal to the senate and to congress to deal with the questions relating to the Philippines as they might arise, and to keep clear of vague words and vague promises, which were likely to be misinterpreted and to raise false hopes in the minds of the Filipinos. and in impassioned efforts to the besieged congress not to give mortgages on an unknown future, Rawlins, of Utch, delivered a vigorous speech in support of the minority substitute, in which independence was promised to the Filipinos so soon as a stable government could be established in the Philippines. His discussion of the general Philippine situation moved much of the ground that has been gone over during the past two years. Throughout he was accorded careful attention. As a conclusion to the debate for the day Bacon, of Georgia, sharply criticised the secretary or war for an alleged violation of the law in issuing an order permitting warfare as a defense against the militant in the commerce between the United States and the Philippines. House.—In the absence of other pressing business, the house managers are allowing the widest latitude in the debate on the urgent deficiency bill now before the house. The irritation gag, or the adversity or retaining control o. the Philippines were the main topics under discussion today. The speakers were Sibley, of Pennsylvania; Dinsmore, of Arkansas; Newlands, of Nevada; Mondell, of Wyoming; Robinson, of Indiana; Kerns, of Illinois; Jones, of Tennessee; Van Dyke, of Missouri, and Green, of Pennsylvania. Washington, Jan. 22.—Senate—Debate on the Philippine tariff bill was not continued in the senate today, no member of the body being prepared to proceed with the discussion of the bill, and the establishment of a department of commerce was under discussion for nearly two hours. Little progress was made with it, as, while the debate disclosed no objections to the main features of the bill, there was a disposition on the part of the Senate to give it careful consideration. House.—Some of the old partisan fire was injected into the proceedings o. the house today when the item in the urgent deficiency bill appropriating $500,000 for a military post at Manila, which he wrote in the book *Speeches* for speeches in opposition to the Philippine policy of the administration for the last three days, was reached. Cannon, in charge of the bill, confessed that the appropriation was subject to a point of order and it went out. In lieu thereof he offered an armament sum for "shalter and protection" of the officers and enlisted men of the army on duty in the Philippines. This the chair held to be in order and it at once became the subject of a very spirited debate in which Richardson, the minority leader, Williams of Mississippi and the chancellor were accused against the chairman of the appropriations committee. Partisan applause rang out on each side to cheer the respective champions and there seemed to be a solid line-up on each side of the political aisle. Cummings, a New York democrat, voted with the republicans, turning angrily on his political brethren as he did, and with clenched fist in their faces cried out that he hoped he might be elected to protect an American soldier. The vote on the adoption of the amendment stood ayes 127, nayes 100. A huge shark was recently captured at East London, South Africa. When ripped open, the monster, which measured eighteen feet long, was found to have recently swallowed a British soldier. The man's body and uniform were intact, save for a small portion of one shoulder, which had been cut off. An automatic photographic machine takes your picture in twenty seconds, and passes out the card to you. A five-cent piece dropped in a slot sets the machine in operation. A perfectly proportioned man should pounds for every foot of his height. Washington, Jan. 28.—Senate—An effort was made in the Senate today by Mason of Illinois to obtain consideration for a joint resolution which he introduced, extending the thanks of congress to Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley "for his brave and able conduct while in command of the American fleet at the victorious battle of the Battle of the Atlantic." The resolution was not successful. Mr. Mason's resolution, in addition to the thanks of congress provided that Admiral Schley should be presented a sword, that bronze medals commemorative of the battle of Santiago should be distributed among the officers and men "under the command of Schley during said battle" and that $10,000 be appropriated to meet the expenses of the resolution. On motion of Hale the resolution was referred to the commission员 nailing the resolution introduced yesterday by Teller providing for intervention on the part of this government in behalf of the Boer commandant, Scheepers, sentenced to death by the British South African authorities, was postponed indefinitely, as Scheepers already has been executed. Teller made a brief but caustic speech on the course of Great Britain in the Boer war and declared that if the facts of this case were as he understood, "Queen Belle was Scheepers to death, is guilty of a vile assassination." The department of commerce bill was under consideration during the greater part of the session, but no definite progress made. House.—The consideration of the urgent deficiency bill, which has been under debate in the house since Monday, was completed today, but owing to the lateness of the hour passage of the bill was postponed until tomorrow, so careful effort will increase the pay of rural free delivery carriers from $500 to $600 per annum. Hill of Connecticut made the motion to increase the appropriation for this purpose. It was resisted by Cannon and Loud, chairman of the postoffice committee, on the ground that the method was irregular, but the members with rural constituencies supported it, and it was adopted, to 109. COLOMBIAN REVOLUTION. Quiet Once More Prevails in the Started City. Panama, Colombia, Jan. 23.—All is quiet here. Gen. Herrera, the revolutionary leader, informed Capt. Mead, of the United States cruiser Philadelphia, that he came here to prevent the Colombian government using the steamer Lautaro against the Liberals. He has accompanied this, and thereafter has affectionately joined seventeen wounded in yesterday's engagement. The number killed cannot be precisely ascertained. Of the government forces five men were killed and four wounded. The exchange of prisoners was responsible for Monday's disaster to the government. From the former the revolutionists heard of the plans of the government. The Lautarato's christening pump was out of order and she had been unarmed when attacked by the Padilla. The Padilla, which was recently painted white so as to deceive the government officers as to her identity, advanced unrecognized to a spot about 300 metres from the Lautarato. She then began firing at the Lautarato. The position of the latter prevented her from using her blades forward but she returned the Padilla's fire with her small after-guns. Her gunner, however, was the first man killed. The foreign crew of the Lautarato refused to obey orders. General Alban, who displayed great courage, was shot off the steamer's deck. General Garcia, a veteran officer, has been appointed uncle of the succession of General Alban. Senior Arjona is the civil governor. It is believed that the revolutionary warships were damaged. GETS SCHLEY APPEAL. President Receives Document Containing 35,000 Words Washington. Jan. 23.—Admiral Schley's appeal to President Roosevelt for a reversal of the findings of the court of inquiry was taken to the white house by his counsel. It is a document of about 25,000 words, and although information concerning its contents is denied both by white house officials and by Admiral Schley's attorneys, it is understood to contain a series of reasons why it is held that the court erred in finding the admiral guilty on all but one of the counts in the precent. There is good authority for the statement that President Roosevelt will consider the appeal on the merits of the case and will not attempt to take the ground that it is not his duty to take the case, but assert that the proceedings were regular. It is also known that the president has set out to read all the testimony offered before the court and all the official dispatches bearing on the case. The legal phases of the case the president will turn over to the general knowledge of the investigation, but the question of the quacacy of the testimony and of the justice of the verdict the president intends to settle for himself. South African War. Pretoria, Jan. 23.—A few days ago a party of thirty-five natives were cutting grass at Lindique Spruit, escorted by twenty-five imperial yeomanry. The party were surprised by 160 Boers and a rather resistance, in which six of the Boers and one of the British force were killed, were forced to surrender. Four of the unarmed natives were shot in cold blood. Lack of sense is too often charged up to lack of confidence. LINE OF POLICY IS FIXED. Washington, Jan. 20.—The democratic steering committee of the house reached a decision today on a line of policy to be recommended to the caucus of the minority of the house. The committee also agreed to request Representative Hay of Virginia, chairman of the democratic caucus, to call a caucus for next Friday night for the purpose of passing upon the report of the steering committee. Just above some of the new-fangled washbasins a push-button regulates the supply of water. Des Moines, Jan. 23, 1902. The first copies of the second biennial report of the board of control have just come from the binder and will be distributed to members of the legislature at once. The report has heftorefo been quite fully reviewed. The volume is a valuable one of 72 pages. The part of the report dealing with the Iowa State college at Amherst has been modified in accordance with the understanding reached between the trustees and the bo.rd. Chapter two of the report on state farms contains much interesting matter relating to the state farms. Attention is called to the fact that the amount of land owned by the state in connection with its institutions is very small. This leads the board to say: "But evidently those in whom the land is secured land for state institutions did not realize the possibilities of the future, and in this respect they were not different from others, for who could foretold forty or fifty years ago the land subject to entry at $1.25 an acre, would at the opening of the twentieth century be in demand at prices ranging from $40 to $80, and even more per acre? Judge Kinne of the board of control is preparing a map redistricting the insane districts of the state. This is preliminary to the opening of the Cherokee hospital. Des Moines may be transferred from the Mt. Pleasant district to the Cherinda district. The educational legislation sought by the teachers of the state at this session of the general assembly was set in motion at a meeting of the legislative committee of the Iowa State Teachers' association at the Savoy. Approval was given by the committee to measures allowing graduates of institutions required standard licenses to teach; to compulsory education bill; to a bill the establishment of rural high schools; the consolidation of rural independent districts into school townships, and the transportation of pupils in such townships; to the idea contained in the bill providing for the election of the city superintendent for a fixed term of office; to the establishment of more normal schools, and to several other educational propositions. The members of the committee at the meeting were Superintendent A. W. Stuart of Ottumwa, Superintendent S. H. Sheakley of Des Moines, chairman of the committee, Prof. J. J. McConnell of Cedar Falls and Superintendent O. J. McManus of Council Bluffs. Superintendent Barrett was also present at the meeting. Mrs. Evelyn H. Belden, of Sioux City, has arrived in Des Moines and taken charge of the opening work for suffrage in the legislature. She will be here several days and will assist Miss Daisy Deighton, of Shenandoah, in getting acquainted with the members. She will also assist in the preliminary work, using her influence to secure the appointment of men on the constitutional amendments committee who are known to not so well against suffrage. It is not her intention, all of the session, but she will be here from time to time. She did not intend to be here at all, but was sent for by the workers here in order to assist in getting the work started. The board of health, at its recent session, through its legislative committee, considered the legislation that will be advanced this session. An increased appropriation, totaling $10,000, would be funded for to enable the board to do additional work. The increase will suffice to pay a state bacteriologist; for which office provision is wanted. More severe penalties for violation of the quarantine laws will be sought. The board wants the legislature to clear up the present doubtfully worded sections of the code relating to how the expenses shall be between cities and counties. It is understood the state board of health will not directly attack the osteopaths, but will await the introduction of a bill which it is said, the osteopaths will present regulating osteopathic practice. This bill will be examined by the legislative committee of the board of health and if it is not suitable modifications will be urged. The board feels obligated to implement the practice on the state and that the legislature ought to regulate it. Dr. A. M. Linn made a verbal report to the board showing the Tama Indians had nearly all recovered from smallpox and that a part of the wickleups of the tribe had been burned. The county auditors in state convention at Des Moines, endorsed J. F. Wall, of Mt. Ayr, for auditor of state. They refused to go on record as asking the legislature for an increase in the salaries of county auditors, although they believe the present system is unjust. The supreme court holds that John McGregor, the man who first came into fame by his attack on the character of Governor Shaw, must pay $1,500 damages to William H. Rule of Crawford county, for malicious prosecution. Governor Cummins issued his first proclamation on the 20th. It is for the purpose of setting apart January 29, the birthday of the martyred president, as a time for the giving of donations to help build the proposed McKinley monument at Canton. At a joint caucus of the members of the senate and house to select trustees of the Agricultural College to succeed L. B. Robinson, of Harlan, James H. Wilson, of Adair county, better known as "Prairie 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 his mus Boysen secretary. Ten votes were cast in the caucus, and H. W. Wilson the result being as follows: James H. Wilson, 6; L. B. Robinson, 2, and Silas Wilson, 2. The Diamond Bracelet Author of East Lynne, Etc. The afternoon of a hot June day was drawing towards evening, and the great world of London—for it was the height of the season—was beginning to think of dinner. In a well-furnished dressing room, the windows being open for air, the blinds drawn down to exclude the sun, stood a lady whose maid was giving the touch to her rich attire. It was Lady Sarah Hope. "What bracelets, my lady?" asked the maid, taking a small bunch of keys from her pocket. "None, now; it is so very hot, Alice," added Lady Sarah, turning to a young lady who was leaning back on the sofa, "have them ready displayed for me when I come up, and I will decide then." "I have them ready, Lady Sarah?" returned Miss Seaton. "If you will be so kind. Hughes, give the key to Miss Seaton." Lady Sarah left the room, and then the maid, Hughes, began taking one of the small keys off the ring. "I have got leave to go out, miss," she exhained, "and am going directly. My mother is not well, and wants to see me. This is the key, miss." As Miss Seaton took it, Lady Sarah reappeared at the door. "Alice, you may as well bring the jewel box down to the back drawing room. I shall not care to come up here after dinner; we shall be late as it is." "What's that about a jewel box?" inquired a pretty looking girl, who had come from another apartment. "Lady Sarah wishes me to bring her bracelets down to the drawing room, that she may choose which to put on. It was too hot to dine in them," "Are you not coming in to dinner today, Alice?" "No. I walked out, and it has tired me, as usual. I have had some tea instead." "I would not be you for all the world, Alice! To possess so little capability for enjoying life. No, not even for you, Alice." "Yet if you were as I am, weak in health and strength, your lot would have been so smoothed to you that you would not repine at or regret it." "You mean I should be content," laughed the young lady." "Well, there is nothing like contentment, the sages tell us. One of my detestable school room copies used to be "Contentment is happiness."" "I can hear the dinner being taken in," said Alice; "you will be late in the dining room." As Lady Francis Chenevix turned away to fly down the stairs, her light, rounded form, her elastic step, all telling of health and enjoyment, presented a marked contrast to that of Alice Seaton. Alice's face was indeed strangely beautiful; almost too refined and delicate for the wear and tear of common life; but her figure was weak and stooping and her gait feeble. Of exceedingly good family, she had suddenly been thrown from her natural position of wealth and comfort to comparative poverty, and had found refuge as "companion" to Lady Sarah Hope. Colonel Hope was a thin, spare man, with sharp brown eyes and sharp features, looking so shrunk and short, that he must have been smuggled into the army under weight, unless he had since been growing downwards. No stranger could have believed him at ease in his circumstances, any more than they could have believed him a colonel who had seen hard service in India, for his clothes were frequently threadbare. A black ribbon supplied the place of gold chain, as guard to his watch, and a blue, tin-looking thing of a galvanized ring did duty for another ring on his finger. Yet he was rich; of fabulous riches, people said; but he was of a close disposition, especially as regarded his personal outlay. In his home and to his wife he was liberal. They had been married several years, but had no children, and his large property was not entailed; it was believed that his nephew, Gerard Hope, would inherit it, but some dispute had recently occurred, and Gerard had been turned from the house. Lady Francis Chenevix, the sister of Lady Sarah, but considerably younger, had been paying them an eight months' visit in the country, and had now come up to town with them. Alice Seaton lay on the sofa for half an hour, and then, taking the bracelet-box in her hands, descended to the drawing rooms. It was intensely hot; a sultry, breathless heat, and Alice threw open the back windows, which, in truth made it hotter, for the sun gleamed right thwart the leads which stretched themselves beyond the window, over the out-buildings at the back of the row of houses. She sat down near the back window and began to put out some of the bracelets on the table before it. They were rare and rich; of plain gold, of silver, of pearl, of precious stones. One of them was of gold links, studded with diamonds. It was very valuable, and had been the present of Colonel Hope to his wife on her recent birthday. Another diamond bracelet was there, but it was not so beautiful or so costly as this. When her task was done, Miss Seaton passed into the front drawing room, and threw up one of its large windows. Still there was no air in the room. As she stood at it a handsome young man, tall and powerful, who was walking on the opposite side of the street, cuft her eye. He nodded, hesitated, and then crossed the street as if to enter. crossed the street as it to enter. "It is Gerald!" uttered Alice, under her breath. "Can he be coming here?" She walked away from the window hastily, and sat down by the bedeked table in the other room. "Just as I supposed!" exclaimed Gerard Hope, entering, and advancing to Alice with stealthy steps. "When I saw you at the window, the thought struck me that you were alone here, and they at dinner. Thomas happened to be airing himself at the door, so I crossed and asked him, and came up. How are you, Alice?" "Have you come to dinner?" inquired Alice, speaking at random, and angry at her own agitation. "I come to dinner!" repeated Mr. Hope. "Why, you know they'd as soon sit down with the hangman." "Indeed, I know nothing about it. I was in hopes you and the Colonel might be reconciled. Why did you come in? Thomas will tell." "No, he won't. I told him not. Alice, the idea of your never coming up till June! Some whim of Lady Sarah's I suppose. Two or three times a week for the last month have I been marching past this house, wondering when it was going to show signs of life. Is Francis here still?" "Oh, yes; she is going to remain here some time." "To make up for—Alice, was it not a shame to turn me out?" "I was extremely sorry for what happened, Mr. Hope, but I knew nothing of the details, Lady Sarah said you had displeased the Colonel, and after that she never mentioned your name." "What a show of smart things you have got here, Alice! Are you going to set up a bazaar?" "They are Lady Sarah's bracelets." "So they are, I see! This is a gem," added Mr. Hope, taking up the fine diamond bracelet already mentioned. I don't remember this one." "It is new. The Colonel has just given it to her." "What did it cost?" "Do you think I am likely to know? I question if Lady Sarah heard it herself." "It never cost a farthing less than 200 guineas," mused Mr. Hope, turning the bracelet in various directions, that its rich diamonds might give out their gleaming light. "I wish it was mine." "What should you do with it?" laughed Alice. "Spout it." "I do not understand," returned Alice. She really did not. "I beg your pardon, Alice. I was thinking of the colloquial lingo familiarly applied to such transactions, instead of to whom I was talking. I meant to raise money upon it." "Oh, Mr. Hope!" "Alice, that's twice you have called me' Mr. Hope.' I thought I was Gerard' to you before I went away." "Time has elapsed since, and you seem like a stranger again." returned Alice, a flush rising to her sensitive face. "But you spoke of raising money. I hope you are not in temporary embarrassment." "A jolly good thing for me if it turns out only temporary," he rejoined. "Look at my position! Debts hanging over my head—for you may be sure, Alice, all young men, with a limited allowance and large expectations, contract them—and thrust out of my uncle's home with the loose cash I had in my pockets, and my clothes sent after me." "Has the Colonel stopped your allowance?" Mr. Hope laid down the bracelet from whence he had taken it, before he replied. "He stopped it then, and I have not had a shilling since, except from my own resources. I first went upon tick; then I disposed of my watch and chain, and all my other little matters of value; and now I am upon tick again." "Upon what?" uttered Alice. "You don't understand these free terms, Alice," he said, looking fondly at her, "and I hope you may never have occasion. Frances would, she has lived in their atmosphere." "Yes, I know what an embarrassed man the Earl is, if you allude to that. But I am grieved to hear about yourself. Is the Colonel implacable? What was the cause of the quarrel?" "You know I was to be his heir. Even if children had come to him, he had undertaken amply to provide for me. Last Christmas he suddenly sent for me, and told me it was his pleasure and Lady Sarah's that I should take up my abode with them. So I did, glad to get into such good quarters, and stopped there, like an innocent, unsuspicious lamb, till—when was it, Alice?—April. Then the plot came out. They had fixed upon a wife for me, and I was to hold myself in readiness to marry her at any given moment." "Who was it?" inquired Alice, in a low tone, as she bent her head over the bracelets. "Never mind," said Mr. Hope, "it wasn't you. I said I would not have her, and they both, he and Lady Sarah, pulled me and my taste to pieces, and assured me I was a monster of ingratitude. It provoked me into confessing that I liked somebody else better, and the Colonel turned me out." CHAPTER II Alice looked her sorrow, but she did not express it. "And since then I have been having a fight with my creditors, putting them off with fair words and promises. But they have grown incredulous, and it has come to dodging. In favor with my uncle and his acknowledged heir, they would have given me unlimited time and credit, but the breach is known, and it makes all the difference. With the value of that at my disposal"—nodding at the bracelet—"I should stop some pressing trifles and go on again for awhile. So you see, Alice, a diamond bracelet may be of use even to a gentleman, should some genial fortune drop such into his hands." "I sympathize with you very much," said Alice, "and I wish I had it in my power to alld you." "Thank you for your kind wishes; I know they are genuine. When my uncle sees the name of Gerard Hope figuring in the insolvent list, or among the outlays, he—Hark! can they be coming up from dinner?" "Scarcely yet," said Alice, starting up simultaneously with himself, and listening. "But they will not sit long today because they are going to the opera. Gerard, they must not find you here." "And get you turned out as well as myself! No! not if I can help it. Alice"—suddenly laying his hands upon her shoulders, and gazing down into her eyes—"do you know who it was I had learned to love, instead of—of the other?" She gasped for breath, and her color went and came. "No—no; do not tell me, Gerard." "Why, no, I had better not under present circumstances, but when the good time comes—for all their high-roped indignation must and will blow over—then I will! and here's the pledge of it." He bent his head, took one long, earnest kiss from her lips, and was gone. Agitated a'most to sickness, trembling and confused, Alice stole to look after him, terrified lest he might not escape unseen. She crept partly down stairs, so as to obtain sight of the hall door and make sure that he got out in safety. As he drew it open, there stood a lady just about to knock. She said something to him and he waved his hand toward the staircase. Alice saw that the visitor was her sister, a lady well married and moving in the fashionable world. She met her and took her into the front drawing room. "I cannot stay to sit down, Alice; I must make haste back to dress, for I am engaged to three or four places tonight. Neither do I wish to horrify Lady Sarah with a visit at this untoward hour. I had a request to make to you and thought to catch you before you went in to dinner." "They are alone and are dining earlier than usual. I was too tired to appear. What can I do for you?" "In one word—I am in pressing need for a little money. Can you lend it me?" "I wish I could," returned Alice; "I am so very sorry. I sent all I had to poor mamma the day before we came to town. It was only £25." "That would have been of no use to me; I want more. I thought if you had been miserising up your salary you might have had a hundred pounds or so by you." Alice shook her head. "I should be a long while saving up a hundred pounds, even if dear mamma had no wants. But I send to her what I can spare. Do not be in such a hurry," continued Alice, as her sister was moving to the door. "At least wait one minute till I fetch you a letter I received from mamma this morning in answer to mine. You will like to read it, for it is full of news about the old place. You can take it home with you." (To be continued.) TRIMMED HAT FOR "MERIKY." America Too Big for an English Woman and She Returned One day a stout person penetrated from the laundry to the drawing-room door, hastily pulling down the sleeves over her scarlet muscular arms. "If you please, Missus," she said, "doost'a think th' young lady as is so clever at trimmin' th'ats a'd be so kind as to trim me oop one? A' ardly like to ask, but hoo's that kind a' howt a'd try." The young lady, a visitor in the house, was greatly taken with the idea, and the dolly tub was left to itself for a time while Eliza expounded her views, which were definite, as to choice among the prevailing fashions. When the work of art was completed she expressed high satisfaction. "A wanted to lukl well wen a' goes over there to my son and 'is family, d'yo see?' "Over where, Eliza? "Why, over at Meriky, Missus; a'm going to see un just now. A' meant to las' year, but a' couldna save quite enough for th' passage money; now wi' wi' washin' all winter that's a' right, so a'm gain' over in th' Teutonle week after next to 'ave a look round at them aw'. There's my sister's 'usband out too since last Barnaby, and my neebour as well. While work's been slack in town, folks they'd they'd tr yh' other side." So Eliza tried the other side, too, but not finding it to her liking, returned to Milltown and reappeared at the wastub with as little in the way of travelers' tales as any one who ever left her native land—Nineteenth Century. Reforms in Old Mexico. President Diaz is said to be considering plans to check the trusts in Mexico. One of the greatest of these is the great Mexican lottery, with drawings once a month in the City of Mexico. Does Diaz contemplate any interference with that? - St. Louis Star. The Diamond Bracelet Author of East Lynne, Etc. CHAPTER III. "Alice left her sister standing in the room and went upstairs. But she was more than one minute away; she was three or four, for she could not at first lay her hand upon the letter. When she returned her sister advanced to her from the back drawing room, the folding doors between the two rooms being as before, wide open. "What a fine collection of bracelets, Alice!" she exclaimed, as she took the letter. "Are they spread out for show?" "No," laughed Alice; "Lady Sarah is going to the opera, and will be in a hurry when she comes up from dinner. She asked me to bring them all down, as she had not decided which to wear." "I like to dress before dinner on my opera nights." "Oh, so of course does Lady Sarah," returned Alice, as her sister descended the stairs, "but she said it was too hot to dine in bracelets." "It is fearfully hot. Good-by, Alice. Don't ring: I will let myself out." Alice returned to the front room and looked from the window, wondering whether her sister had come in her carriage. No. A trifling evening breeze was arising and beginning to move the curtains about. Gentle as it was, it was grateful, and Alice sat down in it. In a very few minutes the ladies came up from dinner. "Have you the bracelets, Alice? Oh, I see." Lady Sarah went to the back room as she spoke, and stood before the table looking at the bracelets. Alice rose to follow her, when Lady Frances Cheneyx caught her by the arm and began to speak in a covert whisper. "Who was that at the door just now? It was a visitor's knock. Do you know, Alice, every hour since we came to town I have fancied Gerard might be calling. In the country he could not get to us, but here— Was it Gerard?" "It-it was my sister," carelessly answered Alice. It was not a true answer, for her sister had not knocked, but it was the readiest that rose to her lips, and she wished to escape the questioning. "Only your sister," sighed Frances, turning to the window with a gesture of disappointment. "Which have you put on?" inquired Alice, going toward Lady Sarah. "These loose fancy things; they are the coolest. I really am so hot; the soup was that favorite soup of the colonels, all capsicums and cayenne, and the wine was hot; there had been some mistake about the ice. Hill trusted the new man, and he did not understand it; it was all hot together. What the house will be tonight I dread to think of." Lady Sarah, whilst she spoke, had been putting the bracelets into the jewel box, with very little care. "I had better put them straight," remarked Alice, when she reached the table. "Do not trouble," returned Lady Sarah, shutting down the lid. "You are looking flushed and feverish, Alice; you were wrong to walk so far today; Hughes will set them to rights tomorrow morning; they will do till then. Lock them up and take possession of the key." Alice did as she was bid. She locked the case and put the key into her pocket. "Here is the carriage," exclaimed Lady Frances. "Are we to wait for coffee?" "Coffee in this heat," retorted Lady Sarah. "it would be adding fuel to fire. We will have some tea when we return. Alice, you must make tea for the colonel; he will not come out without it. He thinks this weather just what it ought to be; rather cold, if anything." Alice had taken the bracelet box in her hands as Lady Sarah spoke, and when they departed carried it upstairs to its place in Lady Sarah's bedroom. The colonel speedily rose from the table, for his wife had laid her commands on him to join them early. Alice helped him to his tea, and as soon as he was gone, she went upstairs to bed. To bed, but not to sleep. Tired as she was, and exhausted in frame, sleep would not come to her. She was living over again her interview with Gerard Hope. She could not in her conscious heart, affect to misunderstand his implied meaning—that she had been the cause of his rejecting the union proposed to him. It diffused a strange rapture within her, and though she had not perhaps been wholly blind and unconscious during the period of Gerard's stay with them, she now kept repeating the words: "Can it be? can it be?" It certainly was so. Love plays strange pranks. Thus was Gerard Hope, heir to fabulous wealth, consciously proud of his handsome person, his herculean strength, his towering form, called home and planted down by the side of a pretty and noble lady, on purpose that he might fall in love with her—Lady Frances Chenixy. And yet the well-laid project failed; failed because there happened to be another at that young lady's side, a sad, quiet, feeble-framed girl, whose very weakness may have seemed to place her beyond the pale of man's love. But love thrives by contrasts and it was the feeble girl who won the love of the strong man. Yes; the knowledge diffused a CHAPTER III. strange rapture within her as she lay there at night, and she may be excused if, for a brief period, she gave range to the sweet fantasies it conjured up. For a brief period only; too soon the depressing consciousness returned to her that these thoughts of earthly happiness must be subdued, for she, with her confirmed alliments and conspicuous weakness, must never hope to marry as did other women. She had long known—her mother had prepared her for it—that one so afflicted and frail as she, whose tenure of existence was likely to be short, ought not to become a wife, and it had been her earnest hope to pass through life unloving and unloved. She had striven to arm herself against the danger, against being thrown into the perils of temptation. Alas! it had come insidiously upon her; all her care had been set at naught, and she knew that she loved Gerard Hope with a deep and fervent love. "It is but another cross," she sighed, "another burden to surmount and subdue, and I will set myself, from this night, to the task. I have been a coward, shrinking from self-examination; but now that Gerard has spoken out, I can deceive myself no longer. I wish he had spoken more freely that I might have told him it was useless." It was only towards morning that Alice dropped asleep; the consequence was, that long after her usual hour for rising she was still sleeping. The opening of her door by some one awoke her; it was Lady Sarah's maid. "Why, miss! are you not up? Well, I never! I wanted the key of the jewel box, but I'd have waited if I had known." "What do you say you want?" returned Alice, whose ideas were confused, as is often the case on being suddenly awakened. "The key of the bracelet box, if you please." "The key?" repeated Alice. "Oh, I remember," she added, her recollection returning to her. "Be at the trouble, will you, Hughes, to take it out of my pocket; it is on that chair under my clothes." The servant came to the pocket and speedily found the key. "Are you worse than usual, miss, this morning?" asked she, "or have you over-slept yourself? "I have overslept myself. Is it late?" "Between nine and ten. My lady is up, and at breakfast with master and Lady Frances." Alice rose the instant the maid had left the room, and made haste to dress, vexed with herself for sleeping so long. She was nearly ready when Hughes came in again. "If ever I saw such a confusion as that jewel box was in!" cried she, in as pert and grumbling a tone as she dared to use. "The bracelets were thrown together without law or order—just as if they had been so much glass and tinsel from the Lowther Arcade." "It was Lady Sarah did it," replied Alice. "I would have put them straight, but she said leave it for you." I thought she might prefer that you should do it, so did not press it." "Of course her ladyship is aware there's nobody but myself knows how they are placed in it," returned Hughes, consequently. "I could go to that or to the other jewel box, in the dark, and take out any one thing my lady wanted without disturbing the rest." "I have observed that you have a gift of order," remarked Alice, with a smile. "It is very useful to those who possess it, and saves them from trouble and confusion." "So it do, miss," said Hughes. "But I came to ask you for the diamond bracelet." "The diamond bracelet!" echoed Alice. "What diamond bracelet? What do you mean?" "It is not in the box, miss." "The diamond bracelets are both in the box," rejoined Alice. "The old one is there, not the new one. I thought you might have taken it out to show some one, or to look at yourself, miss, for I'm sure it's a sight for pleasant eyes." "I can assure you it is in the case," said Alice. "All are there except what Lady Sarah had on. You must have overlooked it." "I must be a great donkey if I have," grumbled the girl. "It must be at the very bottom, amongst the cotton,' she soliloquized, as she returned to Lady Sarah's apartments, "and I have just got to take every individual article out to get at it. This comes of giving up one's keys to other folks." Alive hastened down, begging pardon for her late appearance. It was readily accorded. Alice's office in the house was nearly a sinecure; when she had first entered upon it Lady Sarah was ill, and required some one to sit with and read to her, but now that she was well again Alice had little to do. Breakfast was scarcely over when Alice was called into the room. Hughes stood outside. "Miss," said she, with a long face, "the diamond bracelett not in the box. I thought I could not be mistaken." "But it must be in the box," said Alice. "But it is NOT," persisted Hughes, emphasizing the negative; "can't you CHAPTER IV belleve me, miss? What's gone with it?" Alice Seaton looked at Hughes with a puzzled look. She was thinking matters over. It sooned cleared again. "Then Lady Sarah must have kept it out when she put in the rest. It was she who returned them to the case; I did not. Perhaps she wore it last night." "No, miss, that she didn't. She wore only those two——" "I saw what she had on," interrupted Alice. "But she might also have put on the other without my noticing. Then she must have kept it out for some purpose. I will ask her. Wait here an instant, Hughes, for, of course, you will like to be at a certainty." "That's cool," thought Hughes, as Alice went into the breakfast room, and the colonel came out of it with the newspaper. "I should have said it was somebody else who would like to be at a certainty instead of me. Thank goodness it wasn't in my charge last night, if anything dreadful has came to pass. My lady don't keep out her bracelets for sport. Miss Seaton has left the key about, that's what she has done, and it's hard to say who hasn't been at it. I knew the box had been ransacked over." "Lady Sarah," said Alice, "did you wear your new diamond bracelet last night?" "No." "Then did you put it into the box with the others?" "No," languidly repeated Lady Sarah, attaching no importance to the question. "After you had chosen the bracelets you wished to wear, you put the others into the box yourself," exclaimed Alice. "Did you put in the new one, the diamond, or keep it out?" "The diamond was not there." Alice stood confounded. "It was on the table at the back of all, Lady Sarah," she presently said; "next the window." "I tell you, Alice, it was not there. I don't know that I should have worn it if it had been, but I certainly looked for it. Not seeing it, I supposed you had not put it out, and did not care sufficiently to ask for it." Alice felt in a mesh of perplexity; curious thoughts, and very unpleasing ones, were beginning to come over her. "But, Lady Sarah, the bracelet was indeed there when you went to the table," she urged. "I put it there." "I can assure you that you labor under a mistake as to its being there when I came up from dinner," answered Lady Sarah. "Why do you ask?" "Hughes has come to say it is not in the case. She is outside, waiting." "Outside now? Hughes," called out Outside now! Hugues, her ladyship; and Hugues came in. "What's this about my bracelet?" "I don't know, my lady. The bracelet is not in its place, so I asked Miss Seaton. She thought your ladyship might have kept it out yesterday evening." "I have neither touched it nor seen it," said Lady Sarah. "Then we have had thieves at work." "It must be in the box, Hugues," spoke up Alice. "I laid it out on the table, and it is impossible that thieves—as you phrase it—could have come there." "Oh, yes, it is in the box, no doubt," said her ladyship, somewhat crossly, for she disliked to be troubled especially in hot weather. "You have not searched properly Hugues." "My lady," answered Hugues, "I can trust my hands, and I can trust my eyes, and they have all four been into every hole and crevice of the box." Lady Frances Chenvei laid down the Morning Post and advanced. "Is the bracelet really lost?" NAPLES BREAKFAST VENDORS. They Make the Morning Air Vocal with Their Calls. The air of Naples becomes vocal with the characteristic calls of the breakfast vendors. "Hot, hot, and big as apples!" shout the sellers of peeled chestnuts. These are boiled in huge caldrons in a reddish broth of their own making, which is further seasoned with laurel leaves and caraway seed. A cent's worth of the steaming kernels, each of which is as big as a large English walnut, is a nourishing diet that warms the fingers and comforts the stomach of troops of children on their way to school, or rather to the co-operative creches, or nurseries, where one poor woman, for a cent a day each, takes care of the babies of a score of others who must leave them behind to earn the day's living. Meantime dignified cows pass by, "with measured tread and slow," shaking their heavy bells and followed by their beguiled offspring, whose business it is to make them "give down" their milk at the opportune moment, and to let the milkman take it. Nothing can be funnier than this struggle between the legitimate owner, the calf, and the wily subtractor of the lacteal treasure. Although tied to his mother's horns with a rope long enough to reach, and even lick her bag, but not to get satisfaction out of it, his bovine wit is often sharp enough to give the slip to the noose and elude the vigilance of the keeper, occupied, perhaps, for the moment in quarreling with some saucy maid servant over the quantity of milk to be paid for. The scene which ensues is worthy of the cinematograph. As a sequel calf's tail is nearly pulled off, but he has spoiled the oppressor's game for one day, anyhow.—The Century. Call a man a donkey and he is apt to kick. THE NEWS FROM BUXTON. (special to the INSTANDER) Foot. and Mrs. A. R. Jackson are the pros. and parents of a little baby girl. W. K. Washington of Muchaknock oga at Sunday in Baxion. Mrs. C. G. Southall who has been very all is slowly improving. Miss Anna Terry of Boone is here visit- ing her sister Paris Smith. W. A. Wells & Co., are filling four big lea houses—preparing for the hot weather of the summer. There was a large attendance at St. John's A. M. E. church Sunday. Rev. Williamson preached an excellent sermon and the choir sang beautifully. The services at the Baptist church were well attended and everybody enjoyed the services of songs and sermons. Sunday at 6 p. m. Rev. Williamson joined in holy wedlock Mrs. Wiston to Mr. Scott, both of Buxton. Mrs. Thomas Patton spent Sunday at the Morris home on Maine street. Recently we learned that Mr. Simon Terry of Cedar Rapids is to take up the ministry. Mr. Terry is well known to us and many others here. We are pleased with Mr. Terry's step and are satisfied that he will make one of the best ministers in the conference. Success to Bro. Terry. Paris Smith is improving rapidly. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Sears have a fine baby boy. MT. PLEASANT NEWS. T. L. Burnett is employed in the barber shop of S. H. McCracken. Mr. J. Mosley was taken to Kookuk Mound to have an operation performed on one of his feet. In trimming a corn on his little toe not long ago he cut too deep and blood poison has resulted from it. The concert given by Blind Boone at the University chapel Jan. 17, was highly appreciated by all who attended. The proceeds were for the Epworth League at the M. E. church, yet a number of Boone's people attended. The Stewartess Board gave an entertainment Thursday evening for the Presiding Kidar. The young people are taking advantage of the fine weather and a number of skating parties are being given. The friends of Mrs. Clay Reed were pleased to see her out Sunday. Mrs. Lulu Shelton was baptised at the First Baptist church Sunday afternoon by Rev. Rolling. Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church Feb. 2. ALKIA NOTES. On Saturday evening the W. W. society of the A. M. E. church gave an entertainment at the A. M. E. church. Messers. Warn Taylor, P. A. Reed Michel and Mrs. Maggie Gordon of Hilton were in Alba this week. On Wednesday evening the young people of Alba gave a dance in the Masonic hall. All present report an enjoyable time. Mr. Will Green of Buxton has been in Alba a greater part of this week. Mr. H. McDonald of Pueblo, Colo., has been in Alba a part of this week. On Sunday afternoon Mr. and Mrs A. F. Butler entertained at dinner Mrs. Grayson, Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Burton, Mrs. M. F. Ward, Mr. Monroe Davis. A Prominent Chicago Woman Spedks. Prof. Roxa Tyler, of Ghicago, Vice President: Illinois Woman's Alliance, in speaking of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy says: "I suffered with a severe cold this wister 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 recoveral, saved a doctor's bill, time and suffering, and I will never be without a special medicine again." For sale by all Druggists. Original Meaning of Prejudice. Prejudice was originally nothing more than a judgment formed before-band, 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. 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 sapped down in the back." The cardinal thanked her gravely, but as soon as she left laughed heartily at her mistake. ANNOUNCEMENT CARDS. Please announce my name as a candidate for Mayor of Des Moines, subject to the republican city convention. James P. Patrick. I hereby announce my name as a candidate for City Assessor, subject to the republican city convention. Jacob G. Beck. The Republican league (colored recently organized, will meet next Monday evening at the court house, on Third street, for the purpose of adopting constitution and by-laws as reported by committee. All colored voters are invited to come and join the league. J. FRANK BLAGBURN, Pres. JOHN L. THOMPSON, Sec. ORIGINAL NOTICE. In the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk county: Birdie Gay vs March Term, A. D. 1902. Jo Hn Gay To John Gay: You are hereby notified that on or before the 8th day of February, A. D. 1902, 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 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 and make defense thereto, on or before the 4th day of March, A. D. 1902, which is the second day of the said March of 1902 term of court, which is held at the court house at D. C. Jones, in Polk County, Iowa, where it will be rendered against you and decree rendered thereon as prayed for in the petition, dated this 11th day of January, A. D. 1902. J. B. RUSH, Attorney for plaintiff. 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's Addition to town of Polk City, Iowa, was sold for the taxes of 1855, 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. L. Sands. The compensation will expire and a Treasurer's 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. D., 1901. J. W. REIGEL, LONGER DAYS. Now the days are growing longer And it seems so much like spring. And sometime I sit and listen For to hear the sparrow sing. Winter's here but soon will leave us And we know the next is spring. There we will all sit and listen To the sparrows as they sing. Now the nights are getting shorter As the spring comes rolling in, An the song we've heard so often. If we live, we'll hear again. And I guess we'll go a fishing When we see our pretty spring. And we'll have our same old pleasure As we hear the sparrow sing. Now, the spring seems to come faster As we in our years deline; Now the trees will soon be budding And the bees *πill* hum around. Think of me my corinne darling When I'm layed beneath the ground But before I close this poem I will dedicate to you, While with thee I loved you darling, But to me you were untrue. H. J. PIERCE. Minneapolis, Minn Sullivan's Instruments Sold Well. Sixteen of the violins and violon-cello 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 for Joseph Guarronic. COLD INDEED. Some of the Oud Tricks of Liquid Alk Liquid air is, perhaps, the coldest thing in the world. It is so sold that a cake of ice is like a fierce fire as compared with it, for a kettle of liquid air placed on a cake of ice will boll just as water bolls over a hot fire. It frees mercury so hard that one can drive nails in it. The story is told that Mr. Charles E. Tripler, the experimenter in liquid air, recently took a quart can of the remarkable substance with him on a visit to a friend. On the way he stopped in a restaurant to eat a beefsteak. The waiter brought in a hot broiled steak and placed it in front of Mr. Tripler. As soon as the waiter's back was turned Mr. Tripler hastily opened the can and exposed the meat to the liquid air. Instantly the steak was frozen hard as a rock. When the waiter came back his customer complained that the steak was frozen. So the waiter called the head waiter, and the head waiter blamed it all on the cook and the cook was at a loss to explain, and the result was that the frozen steak was taken back into the kitchen as a mysterious curiosity. 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This is the week of prayer and Friday will be observed as fast day. The cottage prayer meetings will be held every afternoon next week. our city this week to inspect the tabernacle of this place. Messrs. ...bert Williams and Theo. Lashly gave a party at the latter's home Saturday evening to thirty young people. All had a jolly good time. The ladies pleasure club met with Mrs. F. A. Hackley Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pettit and Mr. and Mrs. James Chatten have gone on the road with a troupe called "The Rival Coons." There was a surprise party Wednesday night on Mr. B. Yussum. The evening was spent with instrumental and vocal music. It was a late hour that welcomed them home. Mrs. E. Grant has taken up her work as superintendent of the A. M. The Sunday School officers for the ensuing year were elected Tuesday evening. Superintendent, I. A. Lone; assistant superintendent, Mrs. Jackson; secretary, Madeline Fox; treasurer, C. W. Alder; teachers, Mesdames Woodard, Holmes, Jackson, Woods, Beckley, Misses Draine, Turner, Messrs. Chris and Alden, Dr. Peterson; organist, Miss Carrie Lowe. CLINTON. The trustees of the A.M. E. church are arranging for a course of entertainments to be given in the near future. Mrs. Belle Stepp left for her home in Chicago Saturday after a brief Mrs. Pincie Newsome left for her home in Elgin last week after several weeks' stay in Clinton. G. W. Luckey visited in Clinton the past week. Rev. Searcy is conducting a series of protracted meetings at his church this week with fair success. He is assisted by Rev. Higgins of Moline. Clinton experienced a beautiful fall of snow on Monday, the heaviest of the season, although it was not very heavy. It gives the city a charming whimsy. R. D. Smith is taking a course in arithmetic, grammar and penmanship in the Clinton Business college. SIOUX CITY NOTES. We are glad to note that Rev. W. H. Speese is at his post once more. Presiding elder Malone held quarterly-meeting at the A. M. E. church Sunday. There was a full attendance to all the services. The ladies of the Mt. Zion Baptist church tendered Rev. Allen W. Maggette a surprise party Friday night in honor of his birthday. The social was a success, and quite a sum taken in. The famous Canadian Jubilee singers were at the M. E. church Monday evening and sang to a large and appreciating house. Mrs. Lucy Wright and Mrs. James Parsons have returned to our city to reside permanently. Mr. John Wilson of Pierre, S. D., is visiting in our city, shaking hands with old friends. Those on the sick list are: Master Charlie Carter, Mr. Thomas Ferguson and Mr. Daniel Whidden. The I. G. D. of the Knights of Labor, J. H. Johnson of Omaha is in HALF PRICE Coal King KEQKUK SPECIAL CLINTON. SIoux CITY NOTES AUNDRY 8c 2c 4c 531-533 Sixth Ave. Coal Is King of High Grade Coals in the City COLFAX LUMP Xth Ave. Low Phone 49. Mutual Phone 4359. our city this week to inspect the tabernacle of this place. Messrs. . . .ert Williams and Theo. Lashily gave a party at the latter's home Saturday evening to thirty young people. All had a jolly good time. The ladies pleasure club-met with Mrs. F. A. Hackley Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pettit and Mr. and Mrs. James Chatten have gone on the road with a troupe called "The Rival Coons." There was a surprise party Wednesday night on Mr. B. Yussum. The evening was spent with instrumental and vocal music. It was a late hour that welcomed them home. Mrs. E. Grant has taken up her work as superintendent of the A. M. E. Sunday school after an absence of twelfth grade. Mrs. J. W. Norris entertained at dinner Monday afternoon Elder Malone, Rev. A. W. A. Magett and Mr. and Mrs. John Morgan. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH KEEUK ICWA. Corner of Fruiten and Blenclair Street Pastr F. J. Petersen D. D., Residence 1318 Fulon Street. Services: Preaching 10:20 m. and 7:20 p. m. Class: Overseeing 10:20 m. and 7:20 p. Induction 10:30 p. m. Class: Meeting Wednesday 7:30 p. m. Class: Meeting Friday 7:30 p. m. All are welcome to these service. TRICK OF VOICE now One Lawyer keeps the Judge from Slicing There is said to be a lawyer in Philadelphia who possesses a trick of the voice to which a certain measure of his success in United States Supreme court practice is due. The trick consists in waking a judge. Whether it is a common practice for the high dignitaries of the federal supreme bench to indulge in a nap in the course of a long and tedious argument, such happenings are not unknown, and it is well for an able logician of the bar to be prepared for it. The trick of waking a sleepy judge would seem to be something in the nature of slamming a law book under his nose or connecting his personality with the current of an electric battery. But the trick is explained as purely a matter of sound involved in the skillful control of the voice. It is said that a barrister practiced in the art and rhetoric of addressing the bench can gather all the waves of sound from his throat into a focus and deposit it in the orifice of the judge's ear with the general effect of a bomb. The trick, however it is accomplished, is said to have been worked repeatedly with success on the late Judge McKennan, whose habit of going to sleep on the bench was once a notorious subject of comment in the litigation over the Berliner telephone patients. This queer trick of the voice while it is said to be the peculiar property of one celebrated lawyer, is probably attempted often with varying success by others—Philadelphia Record --- HALF PRICE CARRIER PIGEONS. Their Use on Land and Sea Is Steadily Increasing. Here is a new word for you, colum bophilism. It means raising and training messenger pigeons. Within the last few years this industry has grown wonderfully. The governments of Belgium, Germany, France and the United States are training these birds to serve as messengers from army stations. The United States makes use of them more especially from ships. Nearly every one of our big ships carries a coop of homing pigeons, as they are called, which are released as occasion demands, and almost without exception the birds go with unerring swiftness to their home on shore, carrying a tiny tube fastened to one leg, which contains a message written on the thinnest of paper. They can be depended upon to go a hundred miles at a speed of fifty miles an hour when they are three years old. Special attention has recently been paid in France to the use of carrier pigeons by the cavalry. The bird is placed in a wicker tube lined with hair to deaden the effect of the jolling. Three such tubes can be carried in a basket, which is attached to the rider's shoulders in the same way as a knapsack. The bird's feet are drawn up and its wings are folded when it is placed in the tube, and a light form of folding cage is carried, in which the birds can rest and eat during a halt. Twelve men are sent every year from the French cavalry ranks to attend a course of instruction in the treatment and handling of pigeons at the military pigeon station at Vangirad. 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 resumes the journey.—Little Chronicle. BLACK SKIN REMOVER. REGISTERED AT PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2. Guaranteed to do what we say and to be the "best in the world." One box is all that is required if used as directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A PEACH-LIKE complexion obtained if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a mulatto person perfectly white. Inforty-eight hours shade or two will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin in spots but bleaches out white, the skin remaining beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples or bumps or black heads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Small pox pits, tan, liver spots removed without harm to the skin. When you get the color you wish, stop using the preparation. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER 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. Trophoid Killing British Soldiers. During the first three months of this year there were, among the British troops in South Africa, 6,258 cases of typhoid fever, 1,060 of which proved fatal. --- ROCK ISLAND AND TWIN CITY NOTES. (Last Week's Items.) Born to Mr. and Mrs. Walkup in Moline, a baby boy. Mother and child dole well. No wonder grand-mas and grandpa Inchram are all smiles. Mrs. L. Moss entertained the Toussaint L'Overture club at her cozy home. 1715 Harrison street, D. veenport. Business of the club discussed from 2 to 4; reception of guest from 4 to 6. The guests of the club were Meadames W. Baker, Windsor and Chesterfield. The ladies of the club rendered an interesting program. The hostess served an elegant three course luncheon; each guests plate being adorned with two carnations. The whole club felt encouraged by the kind remarks each visitor made. Mrs. Foster will entertain the club the 22, at her home in Daveport. Mr. Will King of Galesburg was a Sunday guest again of Miss Farrell. However all are glad to see the young man as won numerous friends while here. Mrs. John King entertained at a whist party Tuesday evening in honor of he cousin Mrs. Cornelius of Chicago Heights. The hostess served a dainty lunch, such as she has a reputation for. At a late hour the guests departed, having expressed themselves as having a delightful time. The Ladies Aid Society of St Paul's A. M. e. church in Moline gave another of their fine 'possum suppers at the Art gallery Wednesday evening the 15th inst. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Moss will entertain a number of friends Thursday evening in honor of Mrs. Cornelius. Cards will be the order of the evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Lemme have gone to Chicago to remain indefinitely. Mr. Burt Bradley, a former Moline young man, was married to Miss Minona Lovett of Pittsburgh. Pa., last week. Miss Lovett it will be remembered spent the summer of 1900 in R. I. We wish them much happiness. (This Week's Items.) Mrs. Cornelius, who has been visiting with her aunt Mrs. Calloway and cousin Mrs. Jao. King' returned to her home in Chicago Heights last Saturday. Mr Wm. Moore of Forty-second street and Eleventh avenue has exchanged his home for another on Thirty-ninth street and Thirteenth avenue. This is a splendid change, as it will give him a nice seven room house and we will be four blocks closer to his work. We enjoy seeing our race securing nice houses for themselves. Mr. and Mrs. Moss entertained six couple as a whist party Thursday evening in honor of Mrs. Cornelius. The houses' first prize was won by Mrs. S. Kays; gentleman's prize was won by C. J. Toliver. An elegant luncheon was seaved by the hostess at ten o'clock. At a late hour the guests dispersed, each considering the host and hostess among the best entertainers in Davenport. Proposed Highway for Bicycles. Proposed Highway for Bicycles. A perfect highway from New York to San Francisco, in as near a straight line as it is possible to make it, with a width of 120 feet, for the use of 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 Waldford-Astoria, in New York, when plans were made and the route announced. Besides a direct path from New York to San Francisco, passing through Chicago St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and Ogden a club wants a highway along each coast. Congress will be asked to appropriate one-third of the expense, and the states, counties, townships and cities en route will be asked to pay the rest; the owners of property benefited to donate the right-of-way. The club and highway commission have on their list of membership the names of some of the foremost men of America. 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 Druggists. Must Buy Off Girl's Parents. In Turkestan every wedding engagement begins with the payment of a substantial consideration to the girl's parents. It a girl jilts her lover the engagement gift has to be returned, unless the parents have another daughter to give as a substitute. 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 unit to endure a soldier's life. Sultan Doctor Kebir is devoted to the study of chemistry and has given me 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 aliment so long as they are not of a Rosett Reneated Intrusion. 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 said, in a firm, mellifluous voice, "Tell, the gentleman that I am not at home." J. P. Morgan's Dreamm in Boyhood. "The dream of my boyhood days," observed J. Pierpont Morgan to a friend recently, "was to be a farmer and have the fittest 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 perquade 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 end 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 Detected in Turkey. In Turkey the partridge is detested because once it betrayed the prophet to his enemies, and its legs are red 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 Punishment 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 wel las compelling them to sign contracts while under the influence of anaesthetics. Carnegie's Cost 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 escutcheon, Scotch and American flags are the supporters, and below is the legend, "Death to Privilege." Wheat for Seml-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 $86,000. 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. Food Exists in Wyoming. Wyoming Exists 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 feed 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. An army officer who recently returned from our Pacific possessions says: "The Fillipinos, 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 Fillipino 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." No Fashion: Many Styles. No Fashion; Many Styles. As if to prove conclusively the infinitive 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 Survive. 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 if 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 looting of a carriage is intensely disagreeable. Cocoaputa at Their Heat Before the shell of the coconut he 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 "Renbon." 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 gulleless 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, if 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 kindiest 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 1,660 acres, he bequeathed to the Methodist church. Gain of Some Cities. In the ten years between 1800 and 1900, Passaic, N. J., gained 113 per cent in population; Butte, Mont., 184; Superior, Wis., 160; Newcastle, Pa., 185; Seattle, Wash., 83; 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. Obiected 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 brater has supplanted it in popularity. COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED MACHINERY OF THE LEGISLA- TURE NOW IN WORKING ORDER. The standing committees of senate were announced by Lieutenant Governor Herriott on the 21st. In announcing the committees, Mr. Herriott spoke as follows: "Senators, pursuant to your directions and the procedure of the senate heretofore, I have assigned you the task of the transaction of the necessary work of the session. The lists are now submitted. Respecting the assignments I desire first to submit a suggestion regarding a rearrangement of the committees in the matter of the senate, I have assigned you the task of certain changes and additions made; and, third, to indicate the purpose in view in the make up of the committees. "By custom the order of mention in their first announcement has been taken as a signification of the importance of the committees. At each legislative session temporary and fluctuating interests have induced presiding officers to shift their order more or less. This naturally has resulted in some contusion and ill-assortment of the senate. Other are not grouped together, but are scattered here and there in the list. Thus the committee on schools, No. 11. appears between the committees on insurance and banks: that on educational institutions. No. 22, is flanked by public health and military. Later, the committees of the 23, are between federal relations and elections. The rank of the committee pertaining to our industries and commerce is not less illogically as amorted, the order being: Agriculture, No. 14; labor. No. 15; mines and mining. No. 16; commerce. No. 31; manufactures. No. 32; and horticulture and forestry. No. 33. It is now were a judge, so far as from the order of constitution, manufactures and commerce are matters of little concern to the people of Iowa. "A better arrangement would present the committees in groups comprising those assigned related subjects, and group following group in the order of relative importance. After the committees of ways and means, it is suggested that those appropriations is suggested that those interests to the industries and labor interests of the state follow, then those on business corporations, then those on city, county and state affairs and institutions, and finally political and miscellaneous committees. While it is within the discretion of the president under your grant of authority to make such remarkable changes, it has not deemed it advisable, but submits the matter as entity of your consideration." "In harmony with the recommendation just made the committee on agriculture has been enlarged and advanced. The predominant interests of the farmers, the farm, dairy and garden and industries subsidiary thereto and the advancement of the welfare of those devoted to them is the chief concern of this body. The great wealth of the farmers in the district Iowa has attained in the raising of cereals and stock, both on this continent and abroad, the large number of state and local institutions and societies supported assisting farmers in the promotion of agriculture makes appropriate the action here taken. "In the past few years there has developed a marked popular interest in our public affairs, of these educational institutions have greatly increased. The desirability of promoting them, the importance of extending the usefulness of our training programs, the need of public commission, and the needs of our state and historical libraries at the capital have led me to enlarge the committee on "libraries," and the committee should be advanced to the group comprising the state's institutions. "The committee on rules has been increased from five to nine in number, and the committee on fish and games from "A new committee has been created to consider matters connected with telegraph and telephone companies. The increased use of telephones in our towns and cities has created a host of problems. The granting of franchises, the rights of companies in our streets and highways, the location of poles and wires and the general regulation of such service are more particular legislative consideration. Mindful of the fact that you come to this chamber as representatives of the people who support our state government will provide information to us with their property, the majority of the membership of the two ranking committees in particular have been selected with a view to reform the changes in our revenue laws which are more likely to be made. For several years there has been an increasing popular demand for reform in our methods of assessing corporate property for taxation, especially the proposed proposed taxation of the price options of the party whose adherents prevail in this assembly the contests were equally made on this issue; numerous resolutions were adopted calling for such administration to be made to the country. In the�ing of the retired but the full valuation of their property; and the nominations for state offices were generally made in harmony with the statements of the party. The results of the rank and of the party. The committees on ways and means and judiciary that have most to do with the consideration of revenue measures have, therefore, been composed for the most of the House's Annual Yearly Voting, will prescribe definite and uniform procedure which shall guide and assist our administrative officers in assessing railroads and thereby reduce the lowest annual value of the课目. The�'s annual preferences or prejudices in this important work of government or the perversion of an essential power. All views have been recognized and some who may oppose to the final rule to the existing status have been included in the make-up of the committees. "Aside from selecting a favorable majority of each committee that will be concerned with such reform measures and presented medicate, let alone dictate, what precise form or what the character of the needed legislation should be. This, as I conceive my duties, would be to go beyond my province as your presiding authority perhaps unnumerable for me to say that I shall be in full sympathy with any well ordered measure. THE MOST PRECIOUS PETALS. Lithium, worth more than $1,100 a pound, is used only in medicine, its salts being valuable in rheumatic affections. Titanium is peculiar in being universally diffused in nature, even in flesh, bones and muscles of animals containing traces of it. Molybdenum, worth $1.44 a pound, is used in metallurgy. Molybdenum steel possesses the rare quality of preserving its hardness even when heated to red- having such needed retorts in view that may be agreed upon, but no little preoccupation with the present law warrants ma in urging the desirability of substantial modifications in the directions indicated." The following is the list of senate commons. The committees as named by Leutenant Governor. Herright is as follows: Governor Hertortt is as follows: Junkin, Healy, Lewis, Hayward, Classen, Griswold, Lister, Brighton, Crossley, Tre- nant, Hornhog, Hornhog, Gorter, Porter, Emmery, Biddy Judicary-Senators Healy, Blanchard, Trewin, Hobart, Hazelton, Hubbard, Lister, Dowell, Moffitt, Crawford, Whipple, Courtright, Molesberry, Ball, Townsend, Lions, Appropriations-Senators Garst, Harrman, Alexander, Allyn, Smith of Mitchell, Hopkins, Bachman, Moffitt, Harper, Maytag, Spaulding, Brooks, Fitzpatrick, Wilson, Lyons, Appropriations-Senators Harrman, Classon, Brooks, Crossley, Hopkins, Arthaud, Allyn, Spaulding, Hogue, Griswold, Junkin, Garat, Maytag, Wilson, Young of Lee, Smith of Des Moines, Smith of Hobart, Craig, Classon, Mardis, Arthaud, Smith of Mitchell, Griswold, Hubbard, Bachman, Fitzpatrick, Hopkins, Hartshorn, Townsend, Porter, Smith of Des Moines, Hayward, Blanchard, Hazelton, Brighton, Hubbard, Mardis, Junkin, Crawford, Harper, Dowell, Young of Washington, Wilson, Smith of Des Moines, Suppression of Interemance-Mards, Fitzpatrick, Hazelton, Smith of Mitchell, Young of Washington, Spaulding, Fitzpatrick, Brooks, Winne, Young of Lee, Tallman, Lyons. Congressional and Judicial Districts-Hazelton, Bachman, Mardis, Lister, Fitzpatrick, Hirman, Mardis, Bachman, Molesberry, Lambert, Lyons. Constitutional Amendments and Suffrage—Craig, Allyn, Blanchard, Healy, Molesberry, Bishop, Courtright, Molesberry, Bishop, Lambert, Insurance—Smith of Mitchell, Hobart, Allyn, Hayward, Mofft, Lister, Hazelton, Whipple, Maytag, Townsend, Emmert, Schools—Crossley, Trewin, Hopkins, Moffit, Lister, Fitzpatrick, Molesberry, Whipple, Ball, Townsend, Bishop. Banks—Alexander, Hazward, Allyn, Household of Wellington, Brooks, Lewis, Wilson, Tallman. Building and loan—Griswold, Mardis, Healy, Bachman, Crossley, Harper, Courtright, Winne, Townsend. Telegraphs and telephones—Hayward, Banks, Household of John, Trewin, Whipple, Maytag, Brooks, Porter, Lambert, Bishop. Labor—Brighton, Mardis, Alexander, Maytag, Classen, Smith of Mitchell, Harper, Lyons, Lambert. Lincoln House of Arthaud, Blanchard, Dowell, Bishop, Craig, Griswold, Fitzpatrick, Townsend, Porter. Senatorial and Representative Districts Hubbard, Hazelton, Hobart, Lister, Household of Wine, Maytag, Ball, Lyons, Young of Lee. Highways—Classen, Craig, Bachman. Spauling, Hazelton, Hartshorn, Lewis, Young of Lee, Tallman. Corporations—Hobart, Blanchard, Lister, Household, Hartshorn, Whipple, Hogue, Tallman. Compensation of Public officers—Lister, Griswold, Smith of Mitchell, Spaulding, Hartshorn, Porter, Smith of Des Moines. Public Health—Bachman, Allyn, Moffitt, Hayward, Dowell, Molesberry, Crawford, Young of Washington, Emmert, Wilson, Smith of Des Moines. Educational, Educations — Courtright, Arthaud, Alexander, Craig, Healy, Tallman, Emmert, Ball, Townsend. Military—Moffitt, Classen, Bianchard, Crawford, Harper, Young of Washington, Porter, Tallman, Wilson. Pharmacy—Hopkins, Emmert, Hayward, Junkin, Hubbard, Garst, Bachman, Wilson, Bishop. Penitentiaries and pardons—Whipple, Hubbard, Brooks, Young of Washington, Crawford, Bishop, Young of Lee. Printing—Allyn, Brighton, Trewin, Mardis, Griswold, Courtright, Lambert, Tallman, Bishop. Federal relations—Crawford, Craig, Hogue, Hartshorn, Lewis, Young of Lee, Smith of Des Moines. Charitable institutions-Flatziptack, Hobart, Junklin, Crossland, Hogue, Hopkins, Harper, Lyons, Porter, Sections-Memorials, Harriman, Junklin, Lewis, Courtright, Tallman Townsend. Claims-Hartshorn, Garat, Spaulding, Crawford, Lewis, Emmert, Young of Lee, Lewis, Emmert, Alexander, Arthaud, Dougherty, Hogue, Baugh Manufactures-Maytag, Smith Hayward, Bishop, Wilson. Public Buildings—Brooks, Mardis, Gart, Wine, Emmert. Rules — Lewis, Brighton, Trewin, Hiley, Gart, Dowell, Lyons, Ball, Porter. Horticulture and Forestry—Spaulding, Crossley, Harriman, Ball, Smith of Des Moines. Public Lands—Hogue, Craig, Wilson. Public Libraries — Dowell, Hopkins, Alyn, Crossley, Trewin, Hesley, Gart, Lambert, Ball, Smith of Des Moines. Fish and Game-Lambert, Blanchard, Classen, Winne, Bishop. Engrossed Bills-Young of Washington, Alexander, Hartshorn. Enrolled Bills—Winne, Trewin, Townsend. The standing committees of the house, as announced by Speaker Eaton, are as follows: Ways and means—Temple, Hughes, Clarke, Graft, Cowles, Sokol, Wright, Head, Hillsinger, Sweet, Wilson of Buena Vista, Buchanan, Barkley, Stuckslaager, Ralston, English, Carden, Gilchrist, Mings, Larrabee, Freeman, Greene, McClurkin, Walden, Willett, Dodds, Whiting, Kowalnik, Judiciary, Clarke, Temple, Hurn, Dunham, Lyman, Kendall, Edwards, Payne, Jones, Wilson of Washington, Furry, Kerr, Warren, Hillsinger, Sweet, Barker, Campbell, Hamann, Sweeney, Cummings, Gilchrist, Marshall, Springer, Langan of Clure, Wickman, David, Davon, Appropriations—Hughes, Cowles, Stuckslaager, Graft, Payne, Hurn, Wilson of Washington, Hasselquist, Patton, Hawk, Boysen, Wise, Crouse, Warren, Jenkins, Tachout, Mattes, Flennik, Greeley, Pipher, Langan of Crawford, Nagle, Secor, McClure, Koontz, Jaeger, Frudden, Colclor, Railroads and commerce—Wise, Kendall, Hurn, Boysen, Hasselquist, Edwards, Sokol, Stuckslaager, Aderin, Black, Elker, Kerr, Reservey, Bealer, Calderwood, Donohue, Kolthoff, Pipher, English, Barker, Christlanson, Fields, Walden, Keagy, Nichols, Prochord, Robinson, Crukshank, Municipal corporations—Carter, Temple, Sweet, Furry, Lyman, Clarke, Buchanan, Mann, Lyman, Blakeman, Jay Jones, Sweeley, Meservey, Bealer, Hamann, Teachout, Jaager, Koontz, Marshall, Frudden, Langan of Clinton. Chopin's mother, like himself, was very delicate. Schumann's mother was gifted with musical ability. Gounod's mother was fond of painting and music. Raleigh said that he owed all his politeness of deportment to his mother. Wordsworth's mother had a character as peculiar as that of her gifted Banks and banking-Wilson of Buena Vista, Jesta, Jenks, Head, Wendy, Wendy, Hilsingen, Barkley, Walden, McClurkin, Greesley, Calderwood, deen, Pritchard, Pritchard, Davenport, Hulshmidt, Frudden, Whitting, Haven, corporations-Temple, Jesta, Joona, Kesgy, Christianson, Fields, Mattes, Donohue, Campbell, English, Langan of Clinton, Hertzek Senatorial district—Hilsinger, Hurn, Brown, Payne, Walden, Nichols, Fiteniken, Payne, Walden Representative districts = Hasselquist, Temple, Stratton, Slain, Blakemore, Dobouche, Dobouche, Glochist, Pritchard, Langan of Crawford, Fritschmidt, Springer, Hasselquist, Graft, Hasselquist, Buchanan, Wilson of Washing- teach, Teachout, Sweet, Cummings, Koontz, Jaeger, Frudden. Coburn, Sokol, Kendall, Rome, Townsend, Coburn, McClurkin, Flenknen, Calder- ley, Nichols, Leech, Walters, Huffschmidt Constitutional amendments — Sweet, Temple, Kerr, Blakmore, Barkley, Roome, Payne, Black, Barker, Fields, Willett, Willett, Langan of Clinton, Walkers. Public health-Elker, Hawk, Townsend, Roome, Anderson, Head, Leech, Cassel, Langan of Clinton, Springer, Walters. Retriment and reform-Townsend, Hassallquist, Crouse, Jones, Balley, McCulkin, Creeley, McClurkin, Moore, Kouzt, Hertert Women's sufrage - Roome, Wilson of Buena Vista, Hasselquist, Payne, Coburn, Marshall, Miller, Baker, Christianson, Marshall, Davenport. State university-Payne, Hingler, Carr, Larrabe, Flenniken, Glichtrist, Hammann, Leech, Nagle, Koontz, Dodds, Whiting, Patton, Crouse, Cowles, Carter, Bailey, Cassel, Kolthoff, McNie, Nichols, Powers, Pritchard, Greene, Secor, Mordhorst, Hullson, Public libraries-Barkley, Kendall, Kerr, Wilson of Washington, Wise, Roome, English, Larrabe, Fliper, Crulkshank Pardons—Wilson of Washington, Townsend, Kerr, Eiker, Edwards, Payne, Sweet, Warren, Dunham, Anderson, Hasselquist, Hamann, Larrabee, Teachout, McClure, Dodds, Springer, Davenport. Insurance—Warren, Edwards, Blakemore, Patton, Wilson of Buena Vista, Townsend, Dunham, Clarke, Hughes, Keagy, Bailey, Fenniken, Pipier, Pritchard, Barker, Carden, Willett, Mordhorst, Walters, Whiting. Enrolled bills—Lyman, Clarke, Sweet, Dunham, Carden, Greeley, Davenport, Springer. Building and loan—Walden, Graff, Lyman, Stuckslager, Jenks, Wise, Hughes, Hamann, Nichols, Campbell, McClure, Nagle, Marshall, Utterback. Dominic Manufacture—Patton, Anderson, Stratton, Wise, Cassel, Powers, Carden, Greene, Moore, Jaeger, Dodds, Utterback. County and township organizations—Blakemore, Jenks, Sokol, Cowles, Christianson, Keagy, Kolthoff, English, Langan of Crawford, Jaeger, Davenport, Hertert. Hawk, Hawk, Cowles, Edwards, Keagy, Robinson, Scoler, Meservey, Walden, Nagle, Barker, Cheney, Glchrist, Greeley, Lovers, Lovers, Koontz, Whiting, Colchie, hippopot Roads and highways—Coburn, Black, Carroll, Cary, Crawford, Stratton, Wright, Fleuklem, Bulley, Calderwood, Cassel, Kolthoff, Larrabe, Powell, Patterson, Stratton, Walters, Colcio, Utterback, Mordhorst, Walters, Animal Industry — Crouse, Patton, Walters, Patterson, Colcio, Utterback, Powell, Kling, Moore, Mordhorst, Utterback Schools—Kerr, Stuckslager, Temple, Cowles, Payne, Wine, Stratton, Elker, Warren, Wilson of Buena Vista, Furry, Warren, Wilson of Buena Vista, Furry, Warren, Pilber, Crulkshank, Jaeger, Huffschmidt, Springer, Moseley, Townsend, Wilson of Buena Vista, Carter, Jones, Robinson, Domohue, Campbell, Carroll, Townsend, Wilson of Crawford, Willett, Hertert, Whiting Penentilieries--Sokol, Stratton, Jones, McClure, Nike, Cheney, Kling, McClure, Crulkshank Telegraph, Telephone and express-Edwards, Warren, Mattes, Robinson, McClure, Larrabe, Hamann, Greene, Nagle, Secor, Huffschmidt, Koontz, Huffschmidt, Davenport, Colo Horticulture--Secor, Wilson of Washing- ton, Cassel, Greene, Whiting, Morrorths Industrial schools—Boysen, Furry, Elker, Christianson, Moore, Teachout, Donohue, Carden, Whiting. Military-Moore, Wilson of Washington, Hughes, Black, Payne, Barkley, Larrabee, Cheney, Greeley, Barker, Donohue, Utterback, Frudden. Soldiers' and Orphans from-Cummings, Graff, Lyman, Blakemore, Head, Moore, Leech, Springer, Fish and game-Cruikshank, Hilsinger, Hurn, Wilson of Buena Vista, Crouse, Robinson, Barker, Colcio, Frudden Hospital for the insane-Graff, Hawk, Leech, Willett, Marshall, Fields, Institute for the feebleminded—Black, Bailey, Boyes, Cheney, Wright, Hertz Federal relations Jaeger, Furry, Baird, Baird, Campbell, Freeman, McMurchie, Crinkshank Agricultural college--Greeley, Sokol, Dunham, Stuckslager, Head, Pfinger, Dunham, Secor, Underwood, olsk, Kolthoff, Mattes, Jaeger, Walters, Coliclo. Institute for deaf and dumb-Jenkens, College for Hearers and Langer, Langan of Crawford, Lesch, Prichard. Grossers跋 bills-Langan of Crawford, Flett, Millett, Nagle, Fields, Fipher, Huffsmild. Judicial district—Sweeley, Jones, Edwards, Moore, Pibber, Walters, Langan of Clin- Rules—Koontz, Stuckslager, Temple, Cummings, Marshall, Springer, Mr. Speaker. Minsman, Springer, Mr. Speaker. JT OSTEN HARRENS IT OFTEN HAPPENS— That women fancy they are pretty through men's flattery. That men figure as masters who are fit only to be followers. That men become supersensitive because of too much petting. That men are given choice positions just to prove their incapacity. That women wilfully misconstrue statements to suit selfish ends. That women take on consequential airs through men's polite greetings. That a woman's disposition is made THE LEGISLAURE. Des Moines, Jan. 21—Senate—Shortly after the senate was called to order Mr. Herriott announced the standing committees of the senate. The senate then proceeded to election of two United States senators. Senator Blanchard nominated Senator Allison for the term and Senator O. of Clinton for the democrats. Senator Allison received 36 votes and Thayer 10, while four were absent. Senator Allison was declared duly elected on the part o. the senate. Senator Hubbard then nominated Senator Dolliver for the short term and Senator Lambart nominated John J. Seerley of Burlington. Dolliver received 36 votes and Seerley 10, four being absent or not voting. Mr. Harriott then declared Senator Dolliver elected to the United States senate on the part of the senate. He introduced the introduction of bills and concurrence in house messages, the senate adjourned until 10 o'clock Wednesday. House—The house proceeded at once to the election of United States senators. Dunham of Delaware, nominated Senator Allison for the term and the nomination was seconded by Hamann of Davenport. Langan, of Clinton, nominated Judge Tayer, of Clinton, and Dodds, of Des Moines, seconded the nomination. The vote resulted: Allison, 82; Tayer, 16; absent, 2. The speaker pro tem then declared William B. Allison elected on the part of the house to the United States senate for the term beginning March 4, 1903. Tanner Clarke, nominated Jonathan Prentiss of Delaware, enduring March 4, 1903, in a brief eulogistic address. Kerr, of Grundy, seconded it. Jaeger, of Des Moines, seconded by Walters, of Tama, nominated John O. Seerley for the short term. The vote stood: Dollierv, 83; Seerley, 16; absent, 1. Senator Dollierv was thereupon declared duly elected to the United States senate for the term named on the part of the house. Jones, of Mahaska, announced a concurrentitution, which was adopted, providing for a meeting with the senate in joint January 22, for the election of United States senators. Later the senate concurred in the resolution. At 5 p.m. the speaker announced the standing committees of the house. Des Moines, Jan. 22—Senate— Aside from the introduction of bills, no important business was transacted. Bills were introduced to fix the county superintendent's salary at $1,500; to create a commission to fix the boundaries or western Iowa; to repeal the law requiring lists of building and loan stockholders to be furnished assessors; to reduce the interest on county warrants from 6 to 5 per cent; to make the park commission laws applicable to cities of 22,000 in order to take in Burlington. The appropriation bills for the state are introduced in both houses as follows: State normal, $175,600; state university, $363,000 and $350,000 additional annual support; agricultural college, $340,000 and $500,000 annual additional support. House.—The house voted to permit the introduction of petitions only when the subject of them is being considered. Bills were introduced in the house as follows: To substitute electrocution for hanging; to elect supervisors by counties instead of supervisor districts; to enact a primary law; to require the state treasurer to deposit state money not less than $10,000; to establish a normal school at Knoxville; to establish reformatories at Anamosa. Kendall introduced several very important mining bills. Joint Session—William B. Allison, of Dubuque, and Jonathan P. Dollier, of Fort Dodge, were at a joint session of the senate and the house of the Twenty-ninth General Assembly held at noon today in the hall of the house of representatives, elected over E. H. Thayer and John J. Seerley to the United States senate, the former for a full term of six years, and the latter for both 1908 and the latter to fill out the unexpired term caused by the death of the late John H. Gear, which began March 4, 1901. The vote was the strict party vote. Five members were absent, leaving but 145 votes in the two houses, of which Allison and Dollier received 119 and Thayer and Seerley 26. At the joint session, John R. Carter, of Sloux City, was elected chairman of the sole supplement of the Murphy, of Vinton, state printer, and Howard Tedford, of Mt. Ayr, state binder. The vote on these officers was practically the same as that on United States senator. TAFT WANTS SMALL TARIFF, Wants Barely Enough Revenue to Meet Expenses. San Francisco, Jan. 24.—Referring to the Philippine tariff in a speech before the Union League club prior to his departure for the east, Gov. W. H. Taft is reported to have said: "I know from reading your papers and talking with some of your merchants that you are anxious to have free trade between the Philippines and America. In many respects that would be an admirable arrangement. If it were possible to run the government of the Philippines without the indirect taxation involved in levying customs duties, it would gratify the commission much if conspicuous take off altogether the tariff imposed, by the Dugley hill. All we desire is to have money enough to run a good government. My view is that as soon as trade is established and avenues opened, a small tariff will form a very slight obstacle to the course of business between the Philippines and California. Eleven Bad Men Escape Prison. Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 21.—Eleven of the most desperate prisoners in the United States penitentiary on McNeil's island made their escape and are still at liberty. It was the most daring and successful jail break ever attempted in this state and the character of the men implicated makes it doubtful whether they will be retaken without loss of life. Hushbacks in Lunbury, Prussia, must be home at 11 o'clock at night, or pay a fine of about $2.50, half of which goes to the complainant, who is usually the wife. AUSTRIA PROPOSED IT. Asked European Governments to intervene to Prevent War. Vienna, Jan. 22.—Inquiries made by the Associated Press at the Austria-Hungarian foreign office confirm the essential points of the statement made by Lord Cranborne, the British foreign under-secretary, in the house of commons, yesterday. The dynamic relations of Austria with Spain, the queen regent being an archduchess of Austria, led Austria before the declaration of war between Spain and the United States to begin a peace ganda, which was not only English but carried throughout Europe. France was ready to second the efforts of Austria, but Germany and Russia maintained a passive attitude. Great Britain was at first disposed to sign the proposed note, but after a confidential report from Washington, declined either to sign such a note as the Austrian and amassed steps. After to take any and all steps. After France made direct representations at Washington, but ceased their efforts after the declaration of war, from that time forth relying on the efforts of the pope, who was backed by the tacit approval of all the powers. SENSATION FOR RAILWAYS INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION MAKES A REPORT. Declares the Interstate Commerce Law Cannot Be Enforced, But Has No Remedy. Washington, Jan. 24.—The annual report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which was transmitted to Congress yesterday, renews the declaration made in previous reports that in its present condition the act to regulate commerce cannot be enforced. As to remedial legislation, the commission renews the statement made in its previous annual report, that it "has little to suggest and nothing new to propose." The feature of the report is the almost sensational report of the relations existing between the railways and comparatively few heavy shippers. Referring to the commission's recent investigations into the amount of packing house products and of grain and grain products, the report says: "The facts therein developed are of such a character that no thoughtful person can contemplate them with indifference. That the leading traffic officials of many of the principal railway lines, men occupying high positions and charged with the most important duties, should deliberately violate the statute law of the land, and in some cases agree with each other to do so. In the absence by them to destroy vouchers and to so manipulate bookkeeping as to obliterate evidence of the transactions; that hundreds of thousands of dollars should be paid in unlawful rebates to a few great packing houses; that the business of railroad transportation should to such an extent be conducted in open disregard of law, must be surprising and offensive to all right-minded persons. Equally startling at least is the fact that the owners of these packing houses are so much about the commercial world, should seemly be so eager to augment their gains with enormous amounts of these rebates which they receive in open distance of a federal statute." That there are pallating circumstances under which railway traffic officials act, the commission is not unmindful, and the opinion is expressed that existing laws should be so amended that railway managers who desire to observe them can do so without risk of sacrificing their property. The application of the remedy; the report says, is fraught with dangers to the public, and it should not be applied unless the public is fully protected. In view of those great combinations, which have been formed and are now forming, by which railway competition, which upon the present theory of the law should be secure just and reasonable rates and facilities, will be largely eliminated, some method should be provided by which the government can exercise in fact that control over railway rates and operations which courts without number have asserted, that it possesses and which many persons suppose that it now exerts. The commission believes that the law should be amended upon some correct theory and some workable basis. In view of the gross violations of the act, the commission suggests that if it is not possible to amend this law in its more essential features, it ought at least to be possible to deal with those coercive features of the act which are intended to prevent practices of this character Gen. Scheepers Already Executed. New York, Jan. 23.—It has been discovered that through a cable error an Associated Press dispatch announced that the death sentence upon Commander Scheepers, of the Boer army, the kitchener, and that he would be executed next Saturday. The fact is that he was executed on last Saturday, January 18. Senators By Direct Vote Washington, Jan. 23.—The committee on the election of president and vice president of the house has made a favorable report on the bill for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. The report follows literally that of last year and presents the advantages of popular election of senators. Georgia has twenty counties in which saloons are permitted and 117 counties in which the sale of liquor is prohibited. Tung Fuh Siang Executed. London, Jan. 21.—The Shanghai correspondent of the Standard says that, according to trustworthy reports received from Peking, General Tung Fuh Siang, the notorious anti-foreigner, whose execution was recently ordered by the Dowager Empress, was decapitated on Jan. 15, at the yammen of the governor, at Shan-Si, in Kan Su province. Japanese women officiate as barbers in Honolulu. The people often needs a change of people, the people need a change of preacher. WHAT SETTLERS IN SASKATCHEWAN VALIEY HAVE TO SAY. Formerly from the United States, Rosethern, July 8th, 1900. Frank Pedley, Esq. Superintendent of Immigration. Sir:—We, the undersigned settlers in Saskatchewan, Township 43, Range 6, beg to submit the following letter. We came from Springfield, Bonhomme County, S. Dakota, in the spring of 1899, and settled where we now reside. We had considerable crop last year we put in on new breaking, and it was very good, and this year, 1900, our crop is excellent. Our wheat will yield about two bushels to the acre, the oats and barley are also very good, and our potatoes and root crop all that could be desired. We consider this a fine country and are glad we came, as our prospects could not be better. A poor man will get a start in this country much quicker than in Dakota. We are, yous respectfully, John H. Schultz, H. A. Goshen, S. Gorn, H. Dirks, C. D. Unry, P. Unry, and A. Ratzilf. All from South Dakota, U. S. A. One thing a wise man learns to judge is an interrogation point. Miles of Potatoes. Everybody knows that the John A. Salzer Seed Co. La Crosse, Wis. are the largest seed potato growers in the world, so when their President, Henry A. Salzer, recently purchased 21,000 acres more of ideal potato land, all wondered what for. Well, it is for potatoes—miles and miles of potatoes. Being daughters of Eve, young ladies are of course partial to twilight. Sure to be arrested! Any ache or pain by Hamlin's famous Wizard Oil. Your druggist sells it. Poets may be born, but as a rule cooks are in demand. PUTMAM FADELESS DYES are fast to sunlight, washing and rubbing. Sold by druggist, 10c. per package. A person who gives nothing is like a tree without fruit. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and Feb. 10, 1900. The fool who had much, wanted store and lost all. FITTS Permanently Curred. Not on or overnermess after first day of school. FREE $2,000 trial bottle and treaties. Dr. E. H. Kunz, Ltd., 813 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. When you break a good resolution don't try to patch it up. It is easier to make a new one. Homeseekers' Opportunity. On the first and third Tuesdays of January and February, 1902, the Iowa Central will sell homeseekers' excursion tickets to points in Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and elsewhere in the South, Southeast and Southwest, at One Fare plus two dollars for the round trip, with final return limit of fifty dollars. The Iowa Central is the acknowledged short line to the North, Northwest, West, South and Southwest and has first class equipment, through chair cars and sleeping cars with fast time. It lands the home-seekers in the best sections. For full particulars call on ticket agents, or address, Geo. S. Batty, G. P. & T. A. Marshalltown, Iowa. The crying need of some of us is real tears. "Not in the Trust" This is a favorite expression with persons who have goods on hand that they wish to sell to the public. But their goods are not always good. Neither have they a right at all times to claim that they are "not in the trust." As a matter of fact they generally are in the trust. Trusts know the advantage of advertising their goods as "not in the trust." It helps them to sell an inferior article that they may pay dividends on watered stock. The Defiance Starch company has no false stock on which to pay dividends. They simply manufacture the best starch that is made anywhere in the world, and sell 16 ounces for ten cents. Ask your grocer for it. Made by Magnetic Starch Co., Omaha Neb. The kleptomaniac regards things from an abstract point of view. KANSAS CROPS. The secretary of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture has just tabulated in comparative form statistics obtained from the U. S. Department of Agriculture year books. The tables are brief and graphic and calculated to surprise those who have looked on Kansas as a semi-arid state. Kansas ranks first in the value of wheat and corn raised for the five years 1896 to 1900, inclusive, and also for the year 1900 alone; first in the value of wheat alone raised in 1900; the value of wheat alone raised in 1900 for the same period; second, in the value of wheat and corn raised in 1900 per capita. The same authority gives the number of bushels of corn raised in Kansas in 20 years as 2,996,985,308, and the number of bushels of wheat raised in same period as 691,297,613. They are truly useful figures. In part they show the solid basis of value on which the securities of the Santa Fe railway rest, for the Santa Fe is to Kansas what the Pennsylvania railroad is to Pennsylvania, the chief transportation agency, with lines ering the state more generally than any other. A new booklet on the resources of Kansas is being prepared by the Santa Fe passenger department and will be ready for distribution early in the year. The booklet will contain statistics for the year 1901. Money can't always make the mare go in time to lift the purse. FOR BALE - Summer County, Kansas, wheat, corn, soybeans, hay, cattle, Write for list. Wellington Land Co., Wellington, Kansas. When community of interests meets community of interests, then comes the tug of war. COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED List of the Men Who Will Shape the Legislation of the Present Session. The standing committees of senate were announced by Lieutenant Governor Herrriott on the 21st. In announcing the committees, Mr. Herrriott spoke as follows: "Benators, pursuant to your directions and the procedure of the senate heretofore, have assigns to the necessary work for the transaction of the necessary work of the session. The lists are now submitted. Respecting the assignments I desire first to submit to the committee of the committees in the matter of their rank; second, to set forth the reasons for certain changes and additions made; and, third, to indicate a view in addition of the committees. "By custom the order of mention in their first announcement has been taken as a significant of the rank and importance of the institution, the temporary and fluctuating interests have induced presiding officers to shift their order more or less. This naturally leads to a diversion of the assortment in rank. Committees related to each other are not grouped together, but are scattered here and there in the list. Thus the committee on schools, the committee on insurance and banks; that on educational institutions. No. 22, is flanked by public health and military. Later charitable institutions, the committee on elections and elections. The rank of the committee pertaining to our industries and commerce is not less illogically assorted, the order being: Agriculture, No. 23; commerce, No. 16; commerce, No. 31; manufactures, No. 32, and horticulture and forestry. No. 35. If one were to judge solely from the order of mention manufactures and commerce, the lack of little concern to the people of Iowa. "A better arrangement would present the committees in groups comprising those assigned to work with the group in the order of relative importance. After the committees of ways and means, judiciary and appropriations it is suggested that those committees be assigned to the interests of the state follow, then those on business corporations, then those on city, county and state affairs and institutions, and finally the state affairs. While it is within the discretion of the president under your grant of authority to make such rearrangement he has not deemed it advisable, but submit the matter as worthy of your congratulations." "In harmony with the recommendation just made the committee on agriculture has been enlarged and advanced. The predominant interests of our citizens and taxpayers are the agriculture and industries subsidiary thereto and the advancement of the welfare of those devoted to them is the chief concern of this body. The great wealth which they represent, in the raising of cereals and stock, both on this continent and abroad, the large number of state and local institutions and societies supported or assisted by the state for the promotion of agriculture makes appropriate the development of our public libraries. The number and influence of these educational institutions have greatly increased. The desire of the public to extend the usefulness of our traveling libraries and the work of the library commission, and the needs of our state and historical libraries at the capital have led me to enlarge the committee and this committee should be urged this committee should be advanced to the group comprising the state's institutions. "The committee on rules has been increased from five to nine in number, and the committee on fish and game from three to five. "A new committee has been created to consider matters connected with telegraph and telephone companies. The increased use of telephones in our towns and cities and the increased a host of problems. The granting of franchises, the rights of such companies in our streets and highways, the location of poles and wires and the general regulation of such service are matters that require particular legislation." "Mindful of the fact that you come to this chamber as representatives of the people who support our state government by contributions of taxes or other forms of income, we are members of the membership of the two ranking committees in particular have been selected with a view to reformative changes in our revenue laws which the people have indicated they demand in our laws. We are an increasing popular demand for reform in our methods of assessing corporate property for taxation, especially the property of railroads. In the recent conference we have presented in this assembly the contests were squarely made on this issue; numerous resolutions were adopted calling for such modification of our laws as would insure the railroad property; but the full valuation of their property; and the nominations for state offices were generally made in harmony with such sentiments variously expressed in the committee on ways and means and judiciary that have most to do with the consideration and revenue measures have, therefore, been composed for the most part of the committee on ways and means will prescribe definite and uniform procedure which shall guide and assist our administrative officers in assessing railroads and thereby reduce to the lowest possible levels the personal preferences or prejudices in this important work of government or the perversion of assessorial power. All views have been recognized and some who may oppose statutes have been included in the make-up of the committees. Aside from selecting a favorable majority of each committee that will be concerned with such reform measures, I have not presumed to indicate, let alone, that precise form or what the character of the needed legislation should be. This, as I conceive my duties, would be to go beyond my province as your presiding officer. It is perhaps unnecessary for me to say that I shall be in full sympathy with any well ordered measure THE MOST PRECIOUS PETALS. Lithium, worth more than $1,100 a pound, is used only in medicine, its salts being valuable in rheumatic affections. Titanium is peculiar in being universally diffused in nature, even in flesh, bones and muscles of animals containing traces of it. Molybdenum, worth $1.44 a pound, is used in metallurgy. Molybdenum steel possesses the rare quality of preserving its hardness even when heated to redness. having such needed referees in view that may be agreed upon but without the administration of the present 14w warrants mo in urging the desirability of substantial modification of the directions indicated. The following is the list of senate committees: mitertee: The committee as named by Leventan Guerin-Herrsig, la. as follows: Governor Herritt is as follows: Junkin, Healy, Lewis, Hayward, Classen, Griswold, Lister, Brighton, Crossley, Trewin, Arthaud, Hastarhorn, Hogue, Porter, Judicary-L Senators Healy, Blanchard, Trewin, Hobart, Hazelton, Hubbard, Lister, Dowell, Moffitt, Crawford, Whipple, Molesbury, Bull, Townsend, Porter. Appropriations—Senators Garst, Harriman, Alexander, Allyn, Smith of Mitchell, Hopkins, Bachman, Moffit, Harper, Maytag, Spaulding, Brooks, Fitzpatrick, Wilson, Agriculture—Senators Harriman, Clasen, Brooks, Crossley, Hopkins, Arthaud, Allyn, Spaulding, Hogue, Griswold, Junkin, Garat, Maytag, Wilson, Young of Lee, Smith of Des Moines, Smith of Des Moines, Hobart, Craig, Classen, Mardis, Arthaud, Smith of Mitchell, Griswold, Hubbard, Bachman, Fitzpatrick, Hopkins, Hartshorn, Townsend, Porter, Smith of Des Moines, Hobart, Craig, Bachman, Hayward, Blanchard, Hazelton, Brighton, Hubbard, Mardis, Junkin, Crawford, Harper, Dowell, Young of Washington, Wilson, Smith of Des Moines. Suppression of Interemance—Mards, Fitzpatrick, Hopkins, Hartshorn, Smith of Mitchell, Young of Washington, Spaulding, Fitzpatrick, Brooks, Winne, Young of Lee, Tallman, Lyons. Congressional and Judicial Districts, Hazelton, Blanchard, Moffit, Lister, Fitzpatrick, Brooks, Mards, Bachman, Molesberry, Lambert, Lyons. Constitutional Amendments and Suffrage—Craig, Allyn, Blanchard, Healy, Molesbury, Bishop, Courtright, Molesbury, Bishop, Lambert, Insurance-Smith of Mitchell, Hobart, Allyn, Hayward, Mofft, Lister, Hazelton, Whipple, Maytag, Townsend, Emmert, Schools—Crossley, Trewin, Hopkins, Moffitt, Lister, Fitzpatrick, Molesberry, Whipple, Ball, Townsend, Bishop. Banks—Alexander, Hayward, Allyn, Hopkins, Young of Washington, Brooks, Lewis, Liljong, Jimmy, Mills, Liljong and loan—Griswold, Mardis, Healy, Bachman, Crossley, Harper, Courtright, Winne, Townsend. Telegraphs and telephones—Hayward, Hopkins, Healy, Junkin, Trewin, Whipple, Maytag, Brooks, Porter, Lambert, Bishop. Mines and mining—Arthaud, Blanchard, Dowell, Bishop, Craig, Griswold, Fitzpatrick, Townsend, Porter. Senatorial and representative Districts Liljong, Liljong, Hobart, Lister, Griswold, Molesberry, Winne, Maytag, Bell, Lyons, Young of Lee. Highways-Glassen, Craig, Bachman. Spaulding, Hazelton, Hartshorn, Lewis, Corporations-Hobart, Blanchard, Lister, Hazelton, Hubbard, Harriman, Whipple, Hogue, Tallman. Members of Public officers-Lister, Griewold, Smith of Mitchell, Spaulding, Hartshorn, Porter, Smith of Des Moines, Public Health-Bachman, Allyn, Moffit, Hayward, Dowell, Molesberry, Crawford, Kiley, Emmert, Emmert, Wilson, Smith of Des Moines. Educational, Educations — Courtright, Arthaud, Alexander, Craig, Healy, Tallman, Emmert, Ball, Townsend, Military-Moffit, Classen, Blanchard, Crawford, Harper, Young of Washington, Frye, Harper, Emmert, Pharmacy-Hopkins, Emmert, Hayward, Junkin, Hubbard, Garst, Bachman, Wilson, Bishop. Pententiaries and pardons—Whipple, Hubbard, Brooks, Young of Washington, Crawford, Bishop, Young of Lee. Printing-Allyn, Brighton, Trewin, Mards, Griswold, Courtright, Lambert, Tallman, Bishop. Creatives—Crawford, Craig, Hogue, Hartshorn, Lewis, Young of Lee, Smith of Des Moines. Charitable institutions - Flitzpatrick, Hobart, Junkin, Crossley, Hogue, Hopkins, Harper, Lyons, Porter. Elections - Molesberry, Harriman, Junkin, Lewis, Courtright, Tallman Townsend. Claims - Hartshorn, Garst, Spaulding, Crawford, Lewis, Emmert, Young of Lee. Commerce - Harper, Griswold, Alexander, Arthaud, Dowell, Hogue, Ball. Manufactures - Maytag, Smith Hayward. Public Buildings—Brooks, Mardis, Garet, Winne, Emmert. Rules — Lewis, Brighton, Trewin, Healey, Garset, Dowell, Lyons, Ball, Porter. Horticulture and Forestry—Spalding, Crossley, Harriman, Ball, Smith of Des Moines. Public Lands—Hogue, Craig, Wilson. Public Libraries — Dowell, Hopkins, Alyn, Crossley, Trewin, Healey, Garet, Phipple, Lambert, Ball, Smith of Des Moines. Fish and Game—Lambert, Blanchard, Classen, Winne, Bishop. Engrossed Bills-Young of Washington, Alexander, Hartshorn. Enrolled Bills—Winne, Trewin, Townsend. The standing committees of the house, as announced by Speaker Eaton, are as follows: Ways and means—Temple, Hughes, Clarke, Graff, Cowles, Wilson of Buena Vista, Buchanan, Barkley, Stuckslager, Kendall, English, Garden, Glichrist, Cummings, Larrabee, Freeman, Greene, McCormick, Wilden, Willett, Dodds, Whiting, Huffschmidt, Judiciary-Clarke, Temple, Hur, Dunn, Jones, Wilson of Washington, Furry, Campbell, Hamann, Sweley, Cummings, Gilchrist, Marshall, Springer, Langan of Appropriations—Hughes, Cowles, Stucks-lager, Graft, Payne, Hurn, Wilson of Washington, Hasselquist, Patton, Hawk, Boysen, Wise, Crouse, Warren, Jenks, Teachout, Mattes, Flenniken, Greeley, Pipher, Langan of Crawford, Nagle, Secor, McClure, Koontz, Jaeger, Frudden, Colclo. Railroads and commerce—Wise, Kendall, Hurn, Boysen, Hasselquist, Edwards, Sokol, Stratton, Anderson Black, Elker, Kerr, Meservey, Bealer, Calderwood, Donohue, Kolthoff, Pipher, English, Barker, Christianson, Fields, Walden, Keagy, Nichols, Pritchard, Robinson, Cruikshank, Marshall, Mordhorst. Municipal corporations—Carter, Temple, Sweet, Furry, Lyman, Clarke, Buchanan, Dunham, Boysen, Blakemore, Payne, Jones, Sweeley, Meservey, Bealer, Hamann, Teachout, Jaeger, Koontz, Marshall, Frudden, Langan of Clinton Chopin's mother, like himself, was very delicate. Schumann's mother was gifted with musical ability. Gounod's mother was fond of painting and music. Spohr's mother was an excellent judge of music, but no musician. Milton's letters often allude to his mother in the most affectionate terms. Raleigh said that he owed all his politeness of deportment to his mother. Wordsworth's mother had a character as peculiar as that of her gifted Banks and banking-Wilson of Buena Vista, Jenks, Head, Wise, Lyman, Sweet, Walden, McClurkin, Greeley, Calderwood, Nagle, Robinson, Teachout, Freemark, Carden, Pritchard, Crulkshank, Davenport, Walden, McClurkin, Bainbridge, Private, corporations-Head, Temple, Jenks, Roome, Coburn, Keegy, Christanson, Fields, Mattes, Donohue, Campbell, Brien, English, Langan of Clinton, Hertert Labor-Buchanan, Temple, Jones, Carter, Hawk, Blakemore, Kendall, Calderwood, Nolia, Robinson, Sweley, Jaeger, Crulkshank, Mordhorst Claims - Stuckslager, Carter, Head, Walden, McClurkin, Bainbridge, Bealer, Cheney, Christianson, Cummings, Langan of Crawford, Leech, Hertert Compensation of public officers—Hurn, Barkley, Carter, Townsend, Clarke, Buchanan, Bealer, Barker, Christianson, Cummings, English, Fields, Donohue, Keagy, Langon of Crawford, McClure, Willett, Dodds, Marshall, Springer. Suppression of intemperance—Stratton, Hawk, Hurn, Patton, Townsend, Wright, Black, Anderson, Robinson, Powers, Langon of Crawford, Mattes, Nagle, Kling, Dodds, Davenport, Mordhorst. Printing—Anderson, Patton, Blakemore, Wilson of Buena Vista, Hilslinger, Boysen, Wilson of Washington, Lyman, McNe, McClure, Pritchard, English, Kling, Cielo, Hulschmidt. Elections—Cowles, Anderson, Jones, Kerr, Head, Sweeley, Hamann, Cassel, Campbell, Freeman, Greene, Kling, Herter, Langon of Clinton. Congressional districts—Furry, Wilson Washington, Washington, Larrabee, Hurn, Kerr Leech, Buchanan, Hawk, Warren, Clarke Graff, Haselquist, McClure, Jenks, Mekes, McKenzie, McKenzie, McKenzie, Sweeney, Crukshank, Frudden, Whiting, Walters, Uttack, Hidinger, Hurn, Crouse, Wright, Jenks, Carter, Cowles, Payne, Walden, Nichols, Flenniken, Freeman, Greely, Dodds, Heath, Haselquist, Temple, Stratton, Black, Blakemore, Coburn, Cummings, English, Anderson, Donnellan of Crawford, Hufschmidt, Springer Mines and mining-Kendall, Graff, Haissquist, Buchanan, Wilson of Washington, Hawk, Lyman, Warren, Mosevery, Holley, Cummings, Koonz, Iager, Frudden Pharmacy—Hawk, Roome, Townsend, Coburn, Sokol, Kendall, Eiker, Epipher, Wood, Mattes, Nichols, Leech, Waiters, Hufschmidt, municipal amendments — Sweet, Temple, Kerr, Blakemore, Barkley, Roome, Perry, Black, Barker, Fields, Gilchrist, Willett, Langan of Clinton, Public health—Eiker, Hawk, Townsend, Roome, Anderson, Head, Leech, Cassel, Wood, Mattes, Nichols, Langan of Clinton, Springer, Waiters Retrenchment and reform—Townsend, Hasselquist, Crouse, Jones, Balley, McNie, Cheney, Greeley, McClurkin, Moore, Koontz, Hertert. Women's suffrage — Roome, Wilson of Buena Vista, Hasselquist, Payne, Coburn, Gilchrist, Moore, Bailey, Elker, Christianson, Marshall, Davenport. State university—Payne, Hilsinger, Carter, Elker, Edwards, Meservey, Greene, Larrabee, Flenniken, Gilchrist, Hamann, Leech, Nagle, Koontz, Dodds, Whiting. Agriculture—Wright Black, Blakemore, Patton, Crouse, Cowles, Carter, Bailey, Cassel, Kolthoff, McNie, Nichols, Powers, Pritchard, Greene, Secor, Mordhorst, Hulschmidt, Utterback. Public libraries—Barkley, Kendall, Kerr, Wilson, Wilson, Wise, Wise, Wise, Dealer, Dealer, Dealer, Crulkshank, Crulkshank, Crulkshank, Washington, Townsend, Kerr, Eker, Edwards, Payne, Sweet, Warren, Dunham, Anderson, Hasch, Warren, Warren, Warren, McClure, Dodds, Springer, Davenport, Insurance-Warrant, Edwards, Blakeau, Townsend, Dunham, Townsend, Dunham, Clarke, Hughes, Keagy, Bailey, Fenniken, Pipher, Prithe, Bailey, Fenniken, Pipher, Willett, Mordent, Walters, Whiting, Enrolled bills—Lyman, Clarke, Sweet, Darden, Carden, Greeley, Davenport, Springer. Penitentiaries-Sokol, Stratton, Jones, McCure, Crinkshank, Neen, Chley, McCure, Crinkshank Telegraph, telephone and express—Edwards, Buchanan, Stucks�ager, Coburn, Warren, Mattes, Robinson, McClure, Larabee, Hamann, Greene, Nagle, Secor, Flenniken, Gliehrist, Walden, Koontz, Hufschmidt, Davenport, Colclo. Horticulture--Secor, Wilson of Washing- ton, Cassel, Greene, Whiting, Morphorst. Industrial schools--Boysen, Furry, Elk- ing, Teachout, Teachout, Donohue, Carden, Whiting. Military-Moore, Wilson of Washington, Hughes, Black, Payne, Barkley, Larabee, Terback, Frudden, Frudden Migraff, Graft, Lyman, Blakemore, Head, Calderwood, Prifichard, Bealer, Cheney, Fish and Game-Crusinskank, Hilsinger, Hurn, Wilson of Buena Vista, Crouse, Fish and Game-Crusinskank, Hilsinger, Hurn, Wilson of Buena Vista, Crouse, Robinson, Barker, Colcio, Frudden, Hospital for the insane-Graff, Hawk, Leech, Willett, Marshall Institute for the feebleminded-Black Babey, Boysen, Cheney, Wright, Hertert, Federal relations Haber, Campbell, Jaeger, Furry, Henry, Campbell, Freeman, McClurkin, Cranktusk Agricultural college—Greeley, Sokol, Dunham, Stuckshager, Head, Phlger, Dunham, Stuckshager, Head, Phlger, Ols, Kolhoff, Mattes, Jaager, Walters, Coloic, Stats for deaf, and dumb—Jenks, Graff, Roome, Powers, Kling, Langan of Crawford, Leech, Pritchard. £grossed bills-Langan of Crawford, Filbert, Filtlett, Nagie, Fields, Pfizer, Hufschmidt Judicial districts—Sweele, Jones, Edwards, Payne, McNie, Nichols, Bealer, Moore, Pipher, Walters, Langan of Clinton. Rules-Kontz, Stuckslager, Temple, Nagle, Kendall, Moservey, Cummings, Marshall, Springer, Mr. Speaker. IT OFTEN HAPPENS That women fancy they are pretty through men's flattery. That men figure as masters who are fit only to be followers. That men become supersensitive because of too much petting. That men are given choice positions just to prove their incapacity. That women willfully misconstrue statements to suit selfish ends. That women take on consequential airs through men's polite greetings. That a woman's disposition is made THE LEGISLATURE. Des Molines, Jan. 21—Senate—Shortly after the senate was called to order Mr. Herriott announced the standing committees of the senate. The senate then proceeded to election of two United States senators. Senator Blanchard nominated and Senator Allison for use. In term and Senator Olmert nominated Judge E. H. Thayer of Clinton for the democrats. Senator Allison received 36 votes and Thayer 10, while four were absent. Senator Allison was declared duly elected on the part o. the senate. Senator Hubbard tnen nominated Senator Dollliver for the short term and Senator Lambart nominated John J. Seerley of Burlington. Dollliver received 36 votes and Seerley 10, four being absent or not voting. Mr. Herriott then declared Senator Dollliver elected to the United States senate on the part of the senate. He then to introduction of bills and concurrence in house messages, the senate adjourned until 10 o'clock Wednesday. House.—The house proceeded at once to the election of United States senators. Dunham, of Delaware, nominated Senator Allison for the long term and the nomination was seconded by Hamann of Davenport. Langan, of Clinton, nominated Judge Thayer, of Clinton, and Dodds, of Des Moines, seconded the nomination. The vote resulted: Allison, 82; mayer, 16; absent, 2. The speaker pro tem then declared William B. Allison elected on the part of the house to the United States senate for the beginning March 4, 1908, people of Clarke, nominated Jonathan Prentiss Johnson, of the term ending March 4, 1907, in a brief eulogistic address. Kerr, of Grundy, seconded it. Jaeger, of Des Moines, seconded by Walters, of Tama, nominated John J. Seerley for the short term. The vote stood: Dolliver, 83; Seerley, 16; absent, 1. Senator Dolliver was thereupon declared duly elected to the United States senate for the term named on the part of the house. Jones, of Mahaska, announced a concurrentation, which was provided for a meeting with the senate in joint committee at noon Wednesday, January 22, for the election of United States senators. Later the senate concurred in the resolution. At 5 p.m. the speaker announced the standing committees of the house. Des Moines, Jan. 22.—Senate—Aside from the introduction of bills, no important business was transacted. Bills were introduced to fix the county superintendent's salary at $1,500; to create a commission to fix the boundaries or western Iowa; to repeal the law requiring lists of building and loan stockholders to be furnished assessors; to reduce the interest on county warrants from 6 to 5 per cent; to make the park commission laws applicable to cities of 22,000 in order to take in Burlington. The apportionment bills for the state agricultural association were introduced in both houses as follows: State normal, $125,600; state university, $363,000 and $150,000 additional annual support; agricultural college, $340,000 and $50,000 annual additional support. House.—The house voted to permit the introduction of petitions only when the subject of them is being considered. Bills were introduced in the house as follows: To substitute electrocution for hanging; to elect supervisors by counties instead of supervisor districts; to enact a primary law; to require the state treasurer to deposit state money at not less than per cent; to establish a parish school at Knoxville; to establish reformatories at Anamosa. Kendall introduced several very important mining bills. Joint Session—William B. Allison, of Dubuque, and Jonathan P. Dollier, of Fort Dodge, were at a joint session of the senate and the house of the Twenty-ninth General Assembly held at noon today in the hall of the house of representatives, elected over E. H. Thayer and John J. Seerley to the United States senate, the former for a full term of six years began on January 4, 1909 and ended to fill out the unexpired term caused by the death of the late John H. Gear, which began March 4, 1901. The vote was the strict party vote. Five members were absent, leaving but 145 votes in the two houses, of which Allison and Dollier received 119 and Thayer and Seerley 26. At the joint session, John R. Carter, of Slous City, was elected editor of the pole article. Bored editor of the Murphy, of Vinton, state printer, and Howard Tedford, of Mt. Ayr, state binder. The vote on these officers was practically the same as that on United States senator. TAFT WANTS SMALL TARIFF. Wants Barely Enough Revenue to Meet Expenses. San Francisco, Jan. 24.—Referring to the Philippine tariff in a speech before the Union League club prior to his departure for the east, Gov. W. H. Taft is reported to have said: "I know from reading your papers and talking with some of your merchants that you are anxious to have you become a business Philippine American. In many respects that would be an admirable arrangement. If it were possible to run the government of the Philippines without the indirect taxation involved in levying customs duties, it would gratify the commission very much if congress would take off altogether the tariff imposed by Dingley Bill. All we desire is to have very enough to run a good government. My view is that as soon as trade is established and avenues opened, a small tariff will form a very slight obstacle to the course of business between the Philippines and California. Eleven Bad Men Escape Prison. Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 21.—Eleven of the most desperate prisoners in the United States penitentiary on McNell's island made their escape and are still at liberty. It was the most daring and successful jail break ever attempted in this state and the character of the men implicated makes it doubtful whether they will be retaken without loss of life. Husbands in Lunbury, Prussia, must be home at 11 o'clock at night, just a few miles away from 2:25 of which goes to the complainant, who is usually the wife. AUSTRIA PROPOSED IT. Asked European Governments to Inter- evee to Prevent War. Vienna, Jan. 22—Inquiries made by the Associated Press at the Austria-Hungarian foreign office confirm the essential points of the statement made by Lord Cranborne, the British foreign under-secretary, in the house of commons, yesterday. The dynamic relations between Austria with Spain, the recent being an archduchess of Austria, led Austria before the declaration of war between Spain and the United States to begin a peace propaganda, which was carried on not only in England, out throughout Europe. France was ready to second the efforts of Austria, which welcomed and Russia, which held a passive attitude. That Britain was at first disposed to sign the proposed note, but after a confidential report from Washington, declaimed either to sign such a note as the Austrian ambassador proposed or to take any further steps. Afterwards Austria and France made direct representations at, and afterwards efforts after the declaration of war, from that time forth relying on the efforts of the pope, who was backed by the tacit approval of all the powers. SENSATION FOR RAILWAYS INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION MAKES A REPORT. Declares the Interstate Commerce Law Cannot Be Enforced, But Has No Remedy. Washington, Jan. 24.—The annual report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which was transmitted to Congress yesterday, renews the declaration made in previous reports that in its present condition the act to regulate commerce cannot be enforced. As to remedial legislation, the commission renews the statement made in its previous annual report, that it "has little to suggest and nothing new to propose." The feature of the report is the almost sensational report of the relations existing between the railways and comparatively few heavy shippers. Referring to the commission's recent investigations into the amount of packing house products and of grain and grain products, the report says: "The facts therein developed are of such a character that no thoughtful person can contemplate them with indifference. That the leading traffic officials of many of the principal railway lines, men occupying high positions and charged with the most important duties, should deliberately violate the statute law of the land, and in some cases agree with each other to abolish the statute law necessary by them to destroy vouchers and to so manipulate bookkeeping as to obliterate evidence of the transactions; that hundreds of thousands of dollars should be paid in unlawful rebates to a few great packing houses; that the business of railroad transportation should to such an extent be conducted in open disregard of law, must be surprising and offensive to all right-minded persons. Equally startling at least is the fact that the owners of these railroad companies were known throughout the commercial world, should seemingly be so eager to augment their gains with enormous amounts of these rebates which they receive in open defiance of a federal statute." That there are palliating circumstances under which railway traffic officials act, the commission is not unmindful, and the opinion is expressed that existing laws should be so amended that railway managers who desire to observe them can do so without risk of sacrificing their property. The application of the remedy; the report says, is fraught with dangers to the public, and it should not be applied unless the public is fully protected. In view of those great combinations, which have been formed and are now forming, by which railway competition, the government can exercise its law, is greatly relied upon to secure just and reasonable rates and facilities, will be largely eliminated, some method should be provided by which the government can exercise in fact that control over railway rates and operations which courts without number have asserted, that it possesses and which many persons suppose that it now exerts. The commission believes that it will be obliged to deal upon some correct theory and some workable basis. In view of the gross violations of the act, the commission suggests that if it is not possible to amend this law in its more essential features, it ought at least to be possible to deal with those coercive features of the act which are intended to prevent practices of this character Gen. Scheepers Already Executed. New York, Jan. 23.—It has been discovered that through a cable error an Associated Press dispatch announced that the death sentence upon Commander Scheepers, of the Boe army, and headed by General Kitchen, and that he would be executed next Saturday. The fact is that he was executed on last Saturday, January 18. Senators By Direct Vote. Washington, Jan. 23.—The committee on the election of president and vice president of the house has made a favorable report on the bill for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. The report follows literally that of last year and presents the advantages of popular election of senators. Georgia has twenty counties in which saloons are permitted and 117 counties in which the sale of liquor is prohibited. Tung Fuh Siang Executed. London, Jan. 21.—The Shanghai correspondent of the Standard says that, according to trustworthy reports received from Peking, General Tung Fuh Siang, the notorious anti-forlinger, whose execution was recently ordered by the Dowager Empress, was decapitated on Jan. 15, at the yammen of the governor, at Shan-Si, in Kan Su province. Japanese women officiate as barbers in Honolulu. The people often needs a change of role, so the people need a change of preacher. WHAT SETTLERS IN SASKATCHEWAN VALIYE HAVE TO SAY. Formerly from the United States. Rosthern, July 8th, 1900. Frank Pedley, Esq. Superintendent of Immigration. Sir:—We, the undersigned settlers in Saskatchewan, Township 43, Range 6, beg to submit the following letter. We came from Springfield, Bonhomme County, S. Dakota, in the spring of 1899, and settled where we now reside. We had considerable crop last year. we put in on new breaking, and it was very good, and this year, 1900, our crop is excellent. Our wheat will yield about two bushels to the acre, the oats and barley are also very good, and our potatoes and root crop all that could be desired. We consider this a fine country and are glad we came, as our prospects could not be better. A poor man will get a start in this country much quicker than in Dakota. We are, yours respectfully, John H. Schultz, H. A. Goshen, S. Gors, H. Dirkrs, C. D. Unry, P. Unry, and A. Ratzilev. All from South Dakota, U. S. A. One thing a wise man learns to jodge is an interrogation point. Miles of Potatoes. Everybody knows that the John A. Salzer Seed Co. La Crosse, Wis., are the largest seed potato growers in the world, so when their President, Henry A. Salzer, recently purchased 21,000 acres more of ideal potato land, all wondered what for. Well, it is for potatoes—miles and miles of potatoes. Being daughters of Eve, young ladies are of course partial to twilight. Sure to be arrested! Any ache or pain by Hamlin's famous Wizard Oil. Your drugist sells it. Poets may be born, but as a rule cooks are in demand. PUTMAM FADELESS DYES are fast to sunlight, washing and rubbing. Sold by drugists, 100. per package. A person who gives nothing is like a tree without frut. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and Feb. 10, 1900. The fool who had much, wanted store and lost all. FITS Permanently Curbed. Noted or nervous-scare first day at work. FREE $2,000 trial bottle and treat. Dr. R. H. Kluke, Ltd., 931 Arch St. Philadelphia, Pa. Don't break a good resolution don't try to patch it up. It is easier to make a new one. Homesekers' Opportunity On the first and third Tuesdays of January and February, 1902, the Iowa Central will sell houseseers' excursion tickets to points in Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and elsewhere in the South, Southeast and Southwest, at One Fare plus two dollars for the round trip, with final return limit of twenty-one days. The Iowa central is limited to short line to North, Northwest, West, South and Southwest and has first class equipment, through car seats and sleeping cars with fast time. It lands the home-seekers in the best sections. For full particulars call on ticket agents, or address, Geo. S. Batty, G. P. & T. A. Marshalltown, Iowa. The crying need of some of us is real tears. This is a favorite expression with persons who have goods on hand that they wish to sell to the public. But their goods are not always good. Neither have they a right at all times to claim that they are "not in the trust." 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Kansas ranks first in the value wheat and corn raised for the five years 1906 to 1909, inclusive, and also for the year 1900 alone; first in the value wheat alone raised in 1900; fifth in the wheat corn raised for the same period; second, in the value wheat and corn raised in 1900 per canna. The same authority gives the number of bushels of corn raised in Kansas in 20 years as 2,995,985,308, and the number of bushels of wheat raised in same period as 691,297,613. These are truly wonderful figures. In part they show the solid basis of value on which the securities of the Santa Fe railway rest, for the Santa Fe is to Kansas what the Pennsylvania railroad is to Pennsylvania, the chief transportation agency, with lines covering the state more generally than do those of any other company. A new booklet on the resources of Kansas is being prepared by the Santa Fe Railway department and will be ready for distribution early in the year. The booklet will contain statistics for the year 1901. 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It is safe, sure and never falling. 25c & 50c. ACTS LIKE MAGIC! CONQUERS PAIN is what the farmer in the Southwest is doing while you are trying to keep your family and your stock from freezing. If you are interested in securing a home in a country where outdoor work is done the year around, write for a free copy of the handsomely illustrated pamphlets, Homes in the Southwest, Glimpses, and Through Texas with a Camera. They describe the country along the St. Louis Southwestern Railway in Arkansas and Texas, and will help you find a better place to locate. L. E. SAUPP, T. P. A., St. L. S. W. E'y, E.W. Le BEAUVEK, G.P.T. A., St. L. S. W. E'y, S10 Equitable Building, St. Louis, No. $3.00 W. DOUGLAS SHOES $3.50 UNION MADE. THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOE MAKER. Sold by 68 Douglas Stores and the best shoe designer everywhere. CAUTION! The genuine have name and price on bottom. Notice increase of sales in table below. 1998 = $14,360 Pairs. 1909 = 809,182 Pairs. 1900 = 1,259,754 Pairs. 1901 = 1,566,720 Pairs. Business More Than Doubled In Four Years. THE REASONS: W.L. Douglas makes and sell more men's $2.00 and $3.00 slugs than any other two men. The world is wide with $3.00 and $2.00 shoes placed side by side with $3.00 and $2.00 shoes of other makes, are going to be just as good. They will outwear two pairs of ordinary $1.00 and $2.00 shoes. Made of the best leathers, including Patent Corona Kid, Dorone Colt, and National Manager Co. Fast Color Systems and Always Black Hooks used. W.L. Douglas $4.00 $6th Edge Line cannot be equalized. Shots by small $5.00 extra. Gaming Free. W.L. Douglas, Brockton, Mass. Less Work for You USE TRADE MARK AN HONEST, PURE TALL THE CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY, HAS NO EQUAL. DEFIANCE TRADE MARK DEFIANCE IN QUALITY & QUANTITY STARCH 16 OZ. REQUIRES NO COOKING PREPARED FOR LAUNDRY PURPOSES ONLY MANUFACTURED BY MAGNETIC STARCH MFG CO OMAHA, NEB. REFERENCE FOR THE FILMS THESE GOOD. USE OF FILMSTUDIO INFORMATION Defenses Cannot Be Gured by local conditions, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the mucus. It is hard to cure deafness, and that is by consti- tion of the defenses. Deafness is caused by an informed condition of the mucus. Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed and it is imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed the result, and unless the inflammation can be normal condition, hearing will be destroyed. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh. One case is an inflamed condition of the mucus surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case (guesses are earnest) that cannot be bequeared to the Aloha Cure. Send for circulars, free. J. GIENYEN & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists. 70. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The dog who does not love his owner is very rare. DO YOUR CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW? If so, use Russ Bussell to make them white as snow. All grocers. 100. Laughing at a man's alleged funny story will please him more than the telling. Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 20.—For many years we have been carving a reputation that is rare. it is UNIVERSALLY praised! This reminding us of the disease; those to search in search of health; it is made of HERBS that cure in Nature's way—by PURE; it cleanses the system, purifies the blood and establishes a perfect action of the digestive organs. It is equally good for young and old. All Sufferers From Rheumatism should try MATT J. JOHNSON'S 600S. Guarantee goes with it. Try it. Most men think they are more important than their neighbors. Stops the Cough and Wakes the Sickness Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c. If a woman is heartless it is the fault of some man. OKLAHOMA 500 HOMESTEAD CLAIMS DICK T. MORGAN, ERIE O. G. T. Buyer's Guide Send for my list of fine FARMS and K. GRIMSLBY, Lyon County. A. GRIMSLBY, Bushong, Kansas. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives cases. Book of testimonial and 10 DAYS' treatment FREE. D. H. H. K. GREENS' SONS, Box R, Alanta, GA. Are you married if not, why not marry and爱她最 We will give you the best wedding dresses that twelve ladies who wish to marry. Are you married? We have from 100,000 to 500,000 in cash. Have you made your wedding dresses for your own love? Send for all and take your choice. Exactly offers are made. CONSTITUTA CORRESPONDENCE GLUE, Drawer 877, Lancaster, Pa. WRAGG TREES We Grow Them So we can guarantee them. All the varieties are from our nurseries. HANDMAKER HIGH catalogue on request. THE OLD RELIABLE. .CENTRAL NURGERIES. J. WRAGG & SONS CO., WAUKEE, IOWA "ALL WRIGHT-FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY" WRIGHTS INDIAN VEGETABLE Core, Hairwigs, Constipation, Chills and Fever, and all Ill. Knees Complaints. All Drugs. Price 35 cent a Baz. WRIGHTS INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS CO., New York. RED RIVER VALLEY FARMS for sale at low- est prices. Good grows from $8 to $27 per acre for according to loca- tion and improvements. Write for list and mail. Many of these farms will double in value in 12 months. F.W. FLANDERS, Warren, Minn. Cashier First Nat. Bank CLOVER Largest growers of Clover, Timothy and Grasses. Our northern grown Clover, fruiting from June through August, has properties, has justly become famous. SUPERIOR CLOVER, bu. $.80; 100 lbs. $.80 La Crassia Prime Clover, bu. $.68; 100 lbs. $.20 Samolus Clover, Timothy and Grasses and great Catalog mailed for 6c postage. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. LA CROSSE, WIS. , Less Worry, too! nd "C" Soap BEAUTIFUL PREMIUMS FOR THE WRAPPERS. PREMIUM LIST MAILEE FREE. SEND FOR IT. SOUTH OMAHA, NEB. Defiance Starch is the cheapest laundry starch one-third more for the same money, and it's the best starch made, too the best in the world-16 ounces for 10 cents. If your grocer does not keep it send us his name and we will send you one trial package. WANTED—OIL AGENTS Good vehicle conversions, to sell, on land, paid line of Lubricating Oils, Grease, Belting, Roof, Barn and House Paint, White Lead, etc., either exclusive- or as a side line, locally, or traveling on commi- tory. The Industrial Oil & Supply Co., Cleveland, Ohio. GOVERNOR CUMMINS WANTS FULLER INFORMATION. Introduced List of Questions to Execu- Des Moines, Jan. 20.—At the meeting of the state executive council Friday Governor Cummins introduced a resolution embodying a list of questions as to additional information desired from the railroads to aid in their assessment and taxation. Saturday...e council made slight changes in wording of the questions, added question No. 9 referring to gross earnings and added the questions by unanimous vote. As adopted they are as follows: AS TO GROSS EARNINGS. 1. Do your books show your gross earnings business originating and terminating within this state, distinct from other earnings? 2. If so, state the amount in detail, using the form provided in the book. 3. Do your books show your gross earnings upon business originating in this state, distinct from other earnings, originating elsewhere and terminating in this state, distinct from other earnings? 4. Do your books show the amount in detail, using the form provided in the schedule. 5. State also the gross earnings of the Iowa lines upon the business mentioned in line 4. State the length of haul in Iowa as compared with the haul elsewhere, using the form shown in line 6. Do your book show your gross earnings upon business neither originating nor hauling, but passing over your Iowa line or some part of it. Separate from other earnings? 7. If so, state the amount in detail, using the form shown in schedule 6. 8. State also the gross earnings of the Iowa fines upon the business mentioned in question 6, computed upon the basis of the total amount of fines collected with haul elsewhere, using the form shown in schedule 6. Books or records do not show definitely or specifically the information requested in the preceding interrogatories, from what source did you secure the information upon which you based your investigation or report to the executive council for the year 1901, and upon what basis were your compounded instructions. Instruction—The above questions are intended to apply as a whole to your road in this state, without regard to divisions or branches. AS TO OPERATING EXPENSES. 1. Explain fully the basis used in arriving at the several amounts stated under this instruction. 2. Prepare a schedule 7 of your annual report to the executive council for the year 1901. 2. In the items under the heading C, in section 10 of your cost of renewals or the excess of cost over former construction? 3. What has been the cost of the renewal of your building excess of the cost of former construction? 4. State how much you have charged in schedule 7 for new siding and for raising or lowering it below crossings at grade in cities or towns BETTERMENTS. 5. How much did you expend for betterment from your gross earnings during the Year? 6. What is the cost of the new construction? 2. How much did you expend in all for betterments during the year ending December 31, 1901, and how was the excess over the amount saved from carriage produced? INFESTER IND. NY 1. What has been the average interest charge per mile on the bonded debt of your entire system, paid during each of the three months before this report? 2. What has been the average dividend paid per mile of your entire system during each of the three years last preceding this report? COMPARATIVE VALUES. 1. The average value per mile of your line in this system is less than the average value per mile of your entire system? State fully your reasons for the answer given. SECOND SHOCK SEVERE. Additional Houses Razed in Chilpancino, Mexico. City of Mexico, Jan. 20.—Chillpancalgo, the capital of the state of Guerrero, has had two days of indescribable panic and conservation, when Friday there came a repetition of the earthquake shock of Thursday, razing to the ground many houses spared in the first earthquake. The people are camping out in the alameda and in the fields. Hundreds of families are runing huts destroyed include the barcocks of the town, the taliation, from which the soldiers were marched out quickly, thus saving their lives. The school buildings are all wrecked, but luckily the children were all saved, their teachers having rare presence of mind and giving the order for them to march to the street when the first trembling of the earth began Thursday. The parish church, which was being repaired, having been injured in a recent earthquake, was destroyed. When the shock began it was nearly filled with worshippers who fled in dismay, women being knocked down by men. Fortunately all had galmed the street when the heavy stone arches fell in. It is believed that every one escaped though soldiers are reoccupied. Women were knocked down by great heaps. Governor Mora and his secretary escaped from the state palace in time to save themselves, and proceeded to aid the wounded and panic stricken populace. The statue of General Nicholas Bravo was thrown down, and the town government building so badly cracked that its fall is momentarily expected. The church of San Mateo, in one of the outer districts was nearly destroyed. Among the dead already found are four young men and two young girls. The list of gravely wounded is a long one, including many prominent citizens. At the town of Clipa many buildings were wrecked and three persons killed outright. Women were injured in the buildings of Tixla and Michalchil many buildings were cracked. At Igula several buildings fell in and there was general wreckage in shops. At Zumpango del Rio three persons were badly injured and the prison, town hall, schools and courts are wrecked. The whole region affected by the earthquakes of Thursday and Friday has been the seat of marked seismic movements for several years. Lynch Not Go to England. Paris, Jan. 20—Colonel Arthur Lynch, the recently elected member of the house of commons for Galway City, who is said to have fought on the side of the Boers in South Africa, in an interview with a representative of the Associated Press today, denied that he had tried to go to England for the opening of parliament. Colonel Lynch said he had not left Paris for the good reason that he appreciated the fact that he would not be allowed to reach his goal—the house of commons. The fool who had much, wanted more and lost all. THE CHILDREN ENJOY Life out of doors and out of the games which they play and the enjoyment which they receive and the efforts which they make, comes the greater part of that healthful development which is so essential to their happiness when grown. When a laxative is needed the remedy which is given to them to cleanse and sweeten and strengthen the internal organs on which it acts, should be such as physicians would sanction, because its component parts are known to be wholesome and the remedy itself free from every objectionable quality. The one remedy which physicians and parents, well-informed, approve and recommend and which the little ones enjoy, because of its pleasant flavor, its gentle action and its beneficial effects, is—Syrup of Figs—and for the same reason it is the only laxative which should be used by fathers and mothers. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy which acts gently, pleasantly and naturally without gripping, irritating, or nauseating and which cleanses the system effectually, without producing that constipated habit which results from the use of the old-time cathartics and modern imitations, and against which the children should be so carefully guarded. If you would have them grow to manhood and womanhood, strong, healthy and happy, do not give them medicines, when medicines are not needed, and when nature needs assistance in the way of a laxative, give them only the simple, pleasant and gentle—Syrup of Figs. Its quality is due not only to the excellence of the combination of the laxative principles of plants with pleasant aromatic syrups and juices, but also to our original method of manufacture and as you value the health of the little ones, do not accept any of the substitutes which unscrupulous dealers sometimes offer to increase their profits. The genuine article may be bought anywhere of all reliable druggists at fifty cents per bottle. Please Mrs. J. Kay, A. W. High street. Des Moines, Iowa, has discovered a harmless and inexpensive remedy for the broken teeth in the cured her husband, and hundreds of other. Any drugstreet can put it up. The prescription and directions sent free for a stamp to pay postage. Some men think that by doing nothing, they are doing right. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Strup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain. Curve wind collet. See a bottle. Actions speak louder than words, but they don't lie as loud. ALL UP-TO-DATE MOUSEKEPERS-USE COOKING PILLS. It smiles clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. Love may not be blind at the start, but it is never apt to see its finish. TO KILL THE DANDRUFF CERM. Is the Only Possible Way of Having a Permanent Cure. If you see a woman or a man with luxuriant glossy hair, you may be sure neither has dandruff to amount to anything. In nearly every woman and man there is thin, brittle hair, they owe it to dandruff. There are hundreds of preparations that "claim" to cure dandruff, but not one but Newbro's Herpicide tells you that dandruff is the result of a pernicious ingestion to the skin, and that permanent cure of dandruff and its consequent falling and baldness can only be had by killing the germ; and there is no other preparation that will destroy that germ but Newbro's Herpicide. "Destroy the cause, you remove the effect." There are forty counties in Texas the residents of which have to seek legal advice in other counties, as they have not a single attorney of their own. Bennet Burleigh, the noted English war correspondent, reports a suggestive conversation between a British office and a lawyer in Newbro's "dog of truth." The former asked: "When do you think the war will be over?" "Oh," replied the other, "when you people are able to catch a horse with an ox-wagon; not before." Not so many years ago, there was a veteran teacher in the Boy's High school, who often made his classes wince under the lash of his bitter sarcasm and ready wit. One day a little half-starved, yellow cur strayed into the school, and the boys thought they saw a chance to express their feelings toward "Fussy," who was busy in another room. The frightened mongrel was picked up, quickly fitted with a pair of large spectacles, and placed on the teacher's chair. "Fussy" entered the room, walked to his desk, calmly surveyed the work of his pupils, and then, turning to them, please did: "my absence, I see you have held a business meeting and elected one of your number chairman." These are Plain Words. Marshfield, Mo., Jan. 20th. Mr. J. F. King of this place makes the following statement: "I have suffered untold agony for twenty years with Lame Back and Acute Kidney Disease, and in that time have never been two days together clear of misery, and for some of the time I could not walk a step or even sit up. "Last spring, after trying many doctors and every remedy that could be thought of, I began a treatment of Dodd's Kidney Pills. The good results were almost immediate and for the last seven months I have seen more comfort and pleasure than I have for twenty years before. "Any one with Kidney Disease or Lame Back that will not try Dodd's Kidney Pills deserves to suffer." No, Maude, dear; by floating population we do not mean the people who are in the swim. A woman seated at a desk, writing in a notebook, with a portrait of a woman in the background. Miss Marion Cunningham, the Popular Young Treasurer of the Young Woman's Club of Emporia, Kans., has This to Say of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: — Your Vegetable Compound cured me of womb trouble from which I had been a great sufferer for nearly three years. During that time I was very irregular and would often have intense pain in the small of my back, and blinding headaches and severe cramps. For three months I used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and aches and pains are as a past memory, while health and happiness is my daily experience now. You certainly have one grateful friend in Emporia, and I have praised your Vegetable Compound to a large number of my friends. You have my permission to publish my testimonial in connection with my picture. Yours sincerely, Miss MARION CUNNINGHAM, Emporia, Kans." $5000 FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE LETTER IS NOT GENUINE. When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrhea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloating (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous prostration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, "allgone," and "want-to-be-left-alone" feelings, blues, and hopelessness, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. CAPSICUM VASELINE (PUT UP IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES) A substitute for the toothpaste or mustard or most delicate skin. The pain-allevying and curative qualities of this article are wonderful. We use the toothpaste on cues and curate it in such a way that it is the best and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external counter-irritant, and all rashless and all rashless, neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim to be true. Many people say it is the best of all your preparations. *Price: 15 cents, at all druggists or other dealers on the street. You will receive you a tube by mail. No article should be accepted by the public unless the same carrier is not genuine. OHSSEBROUCHING CO., LTD. 17 STATE Street, New York City If it is fact that Salzer's Seeds are grown in more gardens, and not in the pots, they are better for this: SALZERIS BEDS NEVER FAIL. No matter how poor the soil or infilment the weather, Salzer's Seeds are better for this. They grow over 6,000 acres, and because they make the following unprecedented edible: 150 Kinds for 150, Postpaid, 20 kinds of rare tropical Radicans 150 kinds of 16 sours gloriosa Tomatoes for one 150 splendid Heep sours for one 16 counts. above 150 sours, which will nurture your garden basket full of magnificent flowers and lots of rare vegetables, together with our great variety of the easiest vegetables and farm sours for 10 but 10 cuts. In stamps, MW mail 7 Harry Brewery Blooming Garden Bases, postal, 50s; MW mail 7 Harry Brewery Blooming Garden Bases, postal, 50s. frozen, hardly as on-18 - the 13 postcard for $1.60. Our great catalogue, positive worth $10 to every wide awake reader, is on sale upon receipt of 10, postage, or with above 150 cents for but 10, postage. JOHN A. SALZER SEED COMPANY, La Crosse, Wis. THE CONTENTED FARMER is the man who never has a failure in crops, gets splendid returns for his labors, and has best so- lutions FARMS IN THE WESTERN CANADA FREE we give to the settlers on the lands of Western Canada, which compi- prises the great grain industry. Muntilton, Assiniboia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Exceptional advantages and low wages of fare are provided to all applicants for grants land. The handsome forty-page Atlas of Western Canada sent free to all applicants. Apply to F. Peclow, Supt. of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to N. J. Barclochie, Canada Gov- ernment Account 4201. (212) 620-2222. GALLSTONES CURED immature relief and permanent cure. No operation. DR. W. C. PAYK, Marshallown, Iowa. W. N. U., Des Moines, N. 4.—1902. Never Fail TRADE MARK. THE PAST QUARANTEES THE FUTURE THE FACT THAT St. Jacobs Oil Has cured thousands of cases of Rheumatism, Gout, Lumbago, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Sprains, Bruises, and other bodily aches and pains, is a guarantee that it will cure other cases. It is safe, sure and never falling. 25c & 50c. ACTS LIKE MAGIC! CONQUERS PAIN is what the farmer in the Southwest is doing while you are trying to keep your family and your stock from freezing. If you are interested in securing a home in a country where outdoor living is popular, for a free copy of the handsonally illustrated pamphlets, Home in Texas Through Texas with a Camera. Through Texas with a Camera, along the St. Louis Southwest Ranch in Arkansas and Texas, and will help you find a better place to locate. L. K. SAUPP. T. P. A. St. L. S. W. Bly K. K. SAUPP. T. P. A. St. L. S. W. Bly 180 Knotable Builders, St. Louis, MO. $ 3.00 W·L·DOUGLAS SHOES $ 3.50 UNION MADE. THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOE MAKER. Sold by 88 Douglas SHOES and the best shoesied jersey everywhere. CAUTION: Keep gloves have name and price on bottom. Notice increase of sales in table below. 1538 = 149,706 Patrs. 1899 = 893,188 Pairs. 1900 = 1,259,754 Pairs. 1901 = 1,566,720 Pairs. Business More Than Doubled in Four Years. THE REACTIONS: 1. And sell more mugs $6.00 and $5.00 shoes any other two man's in the world. 2. Outwear two man's in the world. 3. Side with $0.00 and $2.00 shoes of other makes, outwear two makes of ordinary $8.00 and $8.00 shoes. Made of the best leather, Including Patent Corona Kid, Corona Colt, and National Kangaroo. Bax Color Patent and Jerry Blush. Hook and W. L. Douglas $4.00 "Gill Edge Lines" cannot be equalled. Observation Small Patent, or Lines, Gaited Edge Lines. W. L. Douglas, Hrockton, Mass. Less Work for You USE Diamond TRADE MARK AN HONEST, PURE TALLE THE CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY, HAS NO EQUAL. DEFIANCE TRADE MARK DEFIANCE IN QUALITY & QUANTITY STARCH 16 oz. REQUIRES NO COOKING PREPARED FOR LAUNDRY PURPOSES ONLY MANUFACTURED BY MAGNETIC STARCH MF'G CO OMAHA, NEB. 25 CTS FISO'S CURE FOR BUBBLE WHITE FILLED FURS. Best Dough Strip. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by drugrists. CONSUMPTION by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the car. There is only one condition of the car, which is a constitutional remedy. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the ear, a rubbing of the nose or the nose you have a rubbing or irritation in the ear, and when it is entirely closed deafness can be taken out and this tube inflammation can be taken out and this tube inflammation can be taken out and this tube inflammation can be caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucus surfaces. give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Death or Injury. Hall's Hall's Catcatch Curse. Send for circumstances. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Tolso, O. Sold by Yale University. Hall's Pillars are the best. The dog who does not love his owner is very rare. DO YOUR CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW? It is so, use Russ Bleaching Blue. It will make them white as snow. All grocers, 100. Laughing at a man's alleged funny story will please him more than the telling. Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 20. For many years Garfield Tea, the Herb Cure, has been curated all the time. It is UNIVERSALLY praised! This remedy presents unusual attractions to HERBS that make it make HERBS that cure In Nature's way—by removing the cause of the disease; it is HERBS that cleans the air; the blood and establishes a perfect action of the digestive organs. It is equally good for young and old. All Sufferers From Rheumatism should try MATT J. JOHNSON'S 600S. Guarantees goes with it. Try it. Most men think they are more important than their neighbors. Steps the Cough and Cake Hall's Pillars are the best. Largive Bromo Outline Tables, Price 25c If a woman is heartless it is the fault of some man. OKLAHOMA 500 HOMESTEAD CLAIMS DICK T. MORGAN, ERIE D. OYE, N.Y. Buyer's Guide Send for my list of fine FARMS and CHEFS in Lyon County. L. A. GRINSLBY, Bashong, Kansas DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY, gives cases. Book of testimonials and 30 DAYS' treatment FREE. DR. H. H. GREEN'S SONS, Rev. E. Atlanta, Ga. Are you married? If not, why not marry and greet us welcome to our beautiful descriptive office! ladies who wish to marry. Away from it, they lady from our beautiful office. They may seal from these names for $400 each, we offer Send for all and take your choice. Earlier-tests are from our nurses. The most illustrated catalogue on request. THE OLD RELIABLE. ..CENTRAL NURSERIES.. J. WRAGG & SONS CO., WAUKEE, IOWA "ALL WRIGHT-FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY" WRIGHT PILLS INDIAN VEGETABLE Cove Headshade, Constellation Calls, Lily Pearl, and All Hite Cove Headshade, Constellation Calls, Lily Pearl, and All Hite WRIGHT INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS CO., New York. RED RIVER VALLEY FARMS for sale at lowes prices. Good farms from $8 to $7 per acre recording to location and import rates for list and map. Many of these farms will double in value in 18 months. F.W. FLANDERS, Warren, Minn. Gather First Sat. Saak CLOVER Largest grower of Clover, Timothy and Grasses. Our northern grown Clover, for wide areas, has just become famous. SUPERIOR CLOVER, bu. $5.90; 100 lbs. $9.60 La Crosse Prime Clover, bu. $5.60; 100 lbs. $9.20 Samples Clover, Timothy and Grasses and great Catalog mailed you for $c postage. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. LA CROSSE, WIS. u, Less Worry, too! nd "C"99 Soap BEAUTIFUL PREMIUMS FOR THIS WRAPPERS. PREMIUM LIST MAILER FREE. SEND FOR IT. OW SOAP. SOUTH OMAHA, NEB. Defiance Starch is the cheapest laundry starch—one-third more for the same money, and it's the best starch made, too—the best in the world—16 ounces for 10 cents. If your grocer does not keep it send us his name and we will send you one trial package. WANTED—OIL AGENTS Good reliable, energetic men, to sell our high grade line of Lubricating Oils, Grease, Betting, Root, Barn and House Paint, White Lead, etc., either exclu- ly or as a side line, locally, or traveling on commu- sion. The Industrial Oil & Supply Co. Cleveland, Ohio. GOVERNOR CUMMINS WANTS FULLER INFORMATION. Introduced List of Questions to Executive Council And That Body Gives Endorsement. Des Moines, Jan. 20.—At the meeting of the state executive council Friday Governor Cummins introduced a resolution embodying a list of questions as to additional information derived from railroad to aid in their assessment and assessment. Saturday the council made slight changes in wording of the questions, added question No. 9 referring to gross earnings and adopted the questions by unanimous vote. As adopted they are as follows: 1. AS TO GROSS EARNINGS. 2. Do the earnings upon business originating and terminating within this state, distract from other earnings. 3. So, state the amount in detail, using the form shown in schedule 6. 3. Do your books show your gross earnings and terminating elsewhere, and upon businesstesting granting elsewhere and terminating them. 4. If so, state the amount in detail, usurp the amount, and terminating elsewhere, and upon businesstesting granting elsewhere and terminating them. 5. If so, state the amount in detail, usurp the amount, and terminating elsewhere, and upon businesstesting granting elsewhere and terminating them. ing. You form shown in schedule 1. State form shown in schedule 2. Iowa lines upon the business mentioned in schedule 1. computed upon the basis of the length of the line, the number of lines the haul elsewhere, using the form shown in schedule 2. Do your books show your gross earnings upon business neither originating nor running in this state, but passing over your own business part of it, separate from other earnings? 7. If so, state the amount in detail, using the form shown in schedule 6. 8. State also the gross earnings of the Iowa lines upon the business mentioned in question 1. State the length of haul in Iowa as compared with the haul elsewhere, using the form shown in section 1. If your books or records do not show deficiencies or specifically the information requested in the preceding interrogatories, state the length of haul in Iowa as compared with the mation upon which you based your answers given in schedule No. 6 of your annual report to the executive council for the year 1901, and the computations made? The above questions are intended to apply to what you base this state, without regard to divisions or branches. 9. OPERATE EXPENSES. 1. Explain fully the basis used in arriving at the several amounts stated under readings 1, 2, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, L, and J. In section 1, you charge the cost of renewals of the cover for former construction? In the items under the heading C, in section 1, you charge the cost of renewals of the cover for former construction? That has been the cost of the renewals, including C, the schedule 7. In excess of the cost of former construction? 4. State how much you have charged in section 1, and how much for raising or lowering trucks above or below crossings at grade in cities or towns? 1. How much did you expend for hotter meals during the year, ending December 31, 1901? 2. How much did you expend for hotter meals during the year, ending December 31, 1901? 2. How much did you expend in all for betterments during the year ending December 31, 1901, and how was the excess over the amount you expected to receive? INTEREST AND DIVIDENDS. 1. What has been the average interest charge per mile on the bonded debt of your entire car loan? What has been the average of three years last preceding this report? 2. What has been the average dividend paid per mile on the bonded debt during each of the three years last preceding this report? COMPARATIVE VALUES 1. Is the average value per mile of your line in this state as great or greater or less than the average value per mile of your entire system? State fully your reasons for the answer given. SECOND SHOCK SEVERE. Additional Houses Razed in Chilpancingo, Mexico. Paris, Jan. 20 — Colonel Arthur Lynch, the recently elected member of the house of commons for Galway City, who is said to have fought on the side of the Boers in South Africa, in an interview with a representative of the Associated Press today, denied that he had tried to go to England for the opening of parliament. Colonel Lynch said he had not left Paris for the good reason that he appreciated the fact that he would not be allowed to reach his goal—the house of commons. The fool who had much, wanted more and lost all. THE CHILDREN ENJOY Life out of doors and out of the games which they play and the enjoyment which they receive and the efforts which they make, comes the greater part of that healthful development which is so essential to their happiness when grown. When a laxative is needed the remedy which is given to them to cleanse and sweeten and strengthen the internal organs on which it acts, should be such as physicians would sanction, because its component parts are known to be wholesome and the remedy itself free from every objectionable quality. The one remedy which physicians and parents, well-informed, approve and recommend and which the little ones enjoy, because of its pleasant flavor, its gentle action and its beneficial effects, is—Syrup of Figs—and for the same reason it is the only laxative which should be used by fathers and mothers. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy which acts gently, pleasantly and naturally without gripping, irritating, or nauseating and which cleanses the system effectually, without producing that constipated habit which results from the use of the old-time cathartics and modern imitations, and against which the children should be so carefully guarded. If you would have them grow to manhood and womanhood, strong, healthy and happy, do not give them medicines, when medicines are not needed, and when nature needs assistance in the way of a laxative, give them only the simple, pleasant and gentle—Syrup of Figs. Its quality is due not only to the excellence of the combination of the laxative principles of plants with pleasant aromatic syrups and juices, but also to our original method of manufacture and as you value the health of the little ones, do not accept any of the substitutes which unscrupulous dealers sometimes offer to increase their profits. The genuine article may be bought anywhere of all reliable druggists at fifty cents per bottle. Please CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. is printed on the front of every package. In order to get its beneficial effects it is always necessary to buy the genuine only. A Cure for the Tobacco Habit. Mrs. J. Kay, A. W. High street. Des Moines, Iowa, has discovered a harmless and inexpensive remedy for the tobacco habit, which has been used by many people. Any drugstreet can put it up. The prescription and directions sent free for a stamp to pay postage. Some men think that by doing nothing, they are doing right. **Hirs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.** For children teething, softening the gums is essential, always pain, curse with cocoa. 25% a bottle. **Actions speak louder than words, but they don't lie as loud.** **ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS.** use Russ Bleaching Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. Love may not be blind at the start, but it is never apt to see its finish. **TO KILL THE DANDRUFF CERM.** In the Only Possible Way of Having a Permanent Cure. If you see a woman or a man with luxurious hair, you sure neither has dandruff to amount to anything. In nearly every case where women and men have thin, brittle hair, they owe it to dandruff. There are hundreds of preparations to treat dandruff, but not one but Newbrore Herpicide that you that dandruff is the result of a germ burrowing into the scalp, and that permanent cure of dandruff and its consequent failing and baldness can only be by dipping the hair, and there is no other preparation that will destroy that germ but Newbrore Herpicide. "Destroy the cause, you remove the effect." There are forty counties in Texas the residents of which have to seek legal advice in other counties, as they have not a single attorney of their own. Bennet Burleigh, the noted English war correspondent, reports a suggestive conversation between a British officer and a German soldier under a flag of truce. The former asked: "When do you think the war will be over?" "Oh," replied the other, "when people are able to catch a horse with an ox-wagon; not before." Not so many years ago, there was a veteran teacher in the Boy's High school, who often made his classes wince under the lash of his bitter sarcasm and ready wit. One day a little half-starved, yellow cur strayed into the school, and the boys thought they saw a chance to express their feelings toward "Fussy," who was busy in another room. The frightened mongrel was picked up, quickly fitted with a pair of large spectacles, and placed on the teacher's chair. "Fussy" entered the room, walked to his desk, calmly surveyed the work of his pupils, and then turning to them, pleaseantly said: "In my absence, I see you have held a business meeting and elected one of your number chairman." These are Plain Words. Marshfield, Mo., Jan. 20th—Mr. J. F. King of this place makes the following statement: "I have suffered untold agony for twenty years with Lame Back and Acute Kidney Disease, and in that time I have never been two days together clear of misery, and for some of the time I could not walk a step or even sit up. "Last spring, after trying many doctors and every remedy that could be thought of, I began a treatment of Dodd's Kidney Pills. The good results were almost immediate and for the last seven months I have seen more comfort and pleasure than I have for twenty years before. "Any one with Kidney Disease or Lame Back that will not try Dodd's Kidney Pills deserves to suffer." No, Maude, dear; by floating population we do not mean by the people who are in the swim. A woman seated at a desk, writing on a sheet of paper, with a portrait of a man in the background. Miss Marion Cunningham, the Popular Young Treasurer of the Young Woman's Club of Emporia, Kans., has This to Say of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: — Your Vegetable Compound cured me of womb trouble from which I had been a great sufferer for nearly three years. During that time I was very irregular and would often have intense pain in the small of my back, and blinding headaches and severe cramps. For three months I used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and aches and pains are as a past memory, while health and happiness is my daily experience now. You certainly have one grateful friend in Emporia, and I have praised your Vegetable Compound to a large number of my friends. You have my permission to publish my testimonial in connection with my picture. Yours sincerely, Miss MARION CUNNINGHAM, Emporia, Kans." $5000 FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE LETTER IS NOT GENUINE. When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrhoea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloating (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous prostration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melanolem, "allgone," and "want-to-be-left-alone" feelings, blues, and hopelessness, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. CAPSICUM VASELINE (PUT UP IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES) A substitute for and superior to mustache or curly hair. The most delicate skin. The pain-alaying and curative qualities of this article are wonderful. Relieve headaches and scalp. We recommend it as the best and safest external counter-irritant in the chest and external ear. It is also useful in the chest and all rheatic, neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim to be true. Many people in the household. Many people say it is the best of all of your preparations. *Price 16 cents, at all drugs, unless you have a chest or back pain in your stumps we will send you a tube by mail. No article should be accepted by the public unless the same care is given to you. No genuine. CHSEBROUGH AFG. CO., 17 State Street, NEW YORK CITY. In it is fact that Salary's Seeds are grown in more garden, and the seeds for this are Salary's ZEROS NEVER FAIL. 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