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VOL. 8. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE BYSTANDER PUBLISHING COMPANY, FIFTH AND LOCUST. ROOM 405 MARQUARD BLOCK. IOWA "PHONE 800." 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. One year..... $1.60 Six p mths..... .75 Three mouths..... .50 All subscription payable in advance. J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by post office order, money order, express or draft, to the Iowa STATE BYSTANDER Publishing Company. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the pub. "Brevity is the soul of wit." remember We will not return rejected manuscript, unless accompanied by postage stamps. CITY NEWS Mr. J. C. Williams is working for E. G. Pratt. A. W. Forney of Colfax spent Sunday in the Capital City. Mrs. Geo. Morton has been quite sick but is improving. Mrs. H. Fitch was reported to be worse yesterday. She is very low. H. R. WRIGHT, Attorney at Law, room No. 212 Iowa Loan & Trust Bldg. Geo. Logan, our East Side candidate for market master, is gaining every day. The colored people are standing up noble for Judge Prouty and political liberty. Mrs. J. L. Thompson spent last Monday in Webster City visiting her sister who is very sick. Mrs. J. H. Davis was called to Glasgow. Mo., last. Monday to attend the funeral of her cousin Mrs. Baston. The third monthly informal of the Missionary society Tuesday March 4. These informals have become very intesesting, Miss Delphia Norris, who has been visiting friends and relatives in Mt. Pleasant, returned home the latter part of this week. Mr. Thad S. Ruff, our West Side candidate for market master, is working very hard and is making votes every day. We trust that the white voters will vote for him. Mr. Chas Richardson is a little better A large crowd and an isnpiring congregation greeted, the pastor at St. Paul's church Sunday morning, and after delivering the message of salvation, one person joined. The Silly Star club met at the home of Mrs. Wm. Buckner Thursday exening. All members are requested to meet next Thursday evening at the same place; business of importance. MRS WM. BUCKNER, Pres. MISS GERTRUDE McCRAVEN, Sec. Don't forget to give me a call. Equal Rights Barber Shop and Bath Rooms, 320 West Third street. Bath rooms open until 12 on Sundays. CHAS. J. Roy, Prop. The Prouty managers have selected nine or ten colored men as delegates on the Prouty list and the Hull men to our knowledge, have only selected two. This alone shows who is our friend. The Eureka social club entertained a few of their friends at the home of Mr. H. W. Hughes Tuesday night. What was played until 9 o'clock when refreshments were served, after which dancing was enjoyed. The club will give a masquerade party ere long. I am the local representative for the Colored American Magazine; any one wishing to subscribe please drop me a card and I will call. J. FRANK BLAGBURN, 202 W. Fourth Street. GUS MORRIS Hay, Feed, Coal andStraw 99 CENTER ST. Phone 697. [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. ROE FOR JUSTICE OF PEACE. Among the many aspirants for justice of the peace of Des Moines Township is our young friend, Zell G. Roe, who came to this city in 1880, 22 years ago, where he attended the public schools and later graduating from the High School of this city. In 1896 he entered the law department of Miss Lennie Russ, a highly respected young lady of La Crew, Ia., is visiting in our city. A vote for Judge Prouty for congress means a vote for a friend of all classes, irrespective of color or nationalities. Mrs. Harry McCraven after a very pleasant visit of two weeks with her parents and friends in Oskaloosa returned home this week accompanied by her youngest sister. The pastor of St. Paul's church spoke to a large congregation at 7:30 p. m. Sunday on "The saying of the great." Miss Fannie Hardrick read a paper on "Feasts," after which as was announced the congregation was served scriptural quotations, neatly placed in green paper, which very much resembled lettuce or salad. Mrs Joseph Shepard sang very sweetly "The Holy City, LOW BATES VIA C. M. & ST. P. RAILWAY. Home Seekers Rate first and third Tuesday of each month to many points in West, Northwest and South. Settlers Rates every day in March and April to points in Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and California. Settlers rates to Minnesota and North Dakota March 10th, 11th, 13th, 25th, April 1st and 9th. Call at or address City Ticket office 410 Walnut street for all information. Mr. Canaday wishes to correct the statement which is being circulated that he lost his limb while in the army and is drawing a large pension. The fact is that he lost his limb about 29 years after coming out of the army, Sunday night is Douglas night at St. Paul's church. The pastor will speak on Fred Douglas and his message to the Twentieth century. Mrs. Mary Coalson and Mrs. Lucy Birney will sing a duett; Mrs. Lucy Blagburn will sing a solo and Mrs. Violo Furgerson will recite Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem on Fred Douglas. Captain Hull claims that he is a friend to the colored people. His record does not prove that to be true. A few years ago two of our young colored ladies passed the civil service examination in a class of thirty, of which they were almost the highest on the list, and the records show that over twenty-five new clerks have been added and those colored girls' names have been evaded. Again, a young colored man from the East Side took the highest rank in civil service examination for the Military Academy, and he was turned down and a white boy recommended in his place. You need not take our statement, but the records show these facts—yet he is a friend. Colored voters, think and act wisely on primary day. SMITH FOR ALDERMAN. But few men are better qualified from age and experience for alderman from the Second Ward then A. L. Smith, who was born in Ohio in 1836; came to this city in 1874, receiving his schooling in Ohio. He has been a contractor and builder for the past 15 Drake University from which he graduated in the class of 1899. He has always been an active republican worker, never held any office. His many friends are working hard for his success. He is strong among the the colored voters as he is their friend, and if elected will treat all people alike. years; always been a staunch republican worker, and when the civil war came, he a young man, offered his service, joining Co. C of the 123 Ohio Infantry; and perhaps the only man in Iowa who spent the summer of 1856 with John Brown in the great Kansas struggles. He no doubt is a true and tried friend of the colored people and merits their support. His friends are working hard for his nomination. GROSS FOR CITY TREASURER It is a pleasure for us to present the name of our young rising republican friend Harry F. Gross for city treasurer, for his second term. He has filled the office the past two years with such signal ability, a business-like administration, that every good citizen approves and will show their approval by nominating him by acclimation, and his election will perhaps lead the republican ticket which is indeed a very high compliment for such a young working republican. PERRY FOR CONSTABLE. G. S. Perry, one of our well-known and highly respected citizens, is a candidate for constable of Des Moines township for his second term. He was born in Maine in 1833, and when the civil war came he enlisted in Co. A, Maine's first, served 3 years and 9 months, and was in many hard battles. After the war, in 1867 he came to this county, going on a farm, awhile he was in the mercantile business in South Dakota and various other places. He is secretary of the Fremont Society and was a delegate to the first republican national convention that nominated Freemont for president; and he has been an active republican worker ever since, a true friend of the colored race at all times and merits their support for his second term. --- MR. E. CHAVANNES. Candidate for Alderman Third Ward. At a meeting held in Highland Park a few nights since the citizens of that precinct determined to make an effort to elect to the city council a man who would not ignore their requests that some improvements be made, and some of the money which they contribute each year to the city finances be expended in that part of the city. The home of one of the best known colleges in the state, has been wholly deprived of sewers, and only meagerly supplied with water maines. It's citizens are not politicians on partisans of any faction, but believe that they should be given consideration, commensurate at least, with the amount of taxes which they pay each year for the maintenance of our city government and its necessary expenses. A mass meeting was called, and attended by the Republicans of Highland Park, regardless of their affiliations with the candidates for mayor or for congress. Mr. Chavannes was the unanimous choice of this public meeting and is presented by the citizens of Highland Park as their candidate for alderman of the Third Ward. He is a man of unquestioned integrity, of unblemished reputation, and a successful business man, and his nomination would be a matter of recognition deserved by one of the best sections of the city, and his election would be a credit to the ward. A FEW OF THE MANY REASONS WHY THE COLORED PEOPLE ARE NOT SUPPORTING HULL THIS YEAR. If we, in common, with many other of the leading, active colored workers have been asked once why it was that so many of the colored people are against Captain Hull this time? we have been asked a hundred times. Among the many reasons which is perhaps the chief reasons: That he no longer considers his colored constituents when in congress. Second, that he has never to our knowledge introduced one measure or even made one speech in defense of the colored race during his eleven years service while in congress. Third, when a colored committee waited upon him and asked him to come to Webster Hall and speak at a mass meeting of colored citizens in regard to the lynchings and burnings of the colored people in the South, his reply was in substance: That he did not have time and could not take that matter up now in congress, because it would offend the south and we could not secure the more important financial measures. Fourth, he did not recommend our colored man, Mr. Ed. S. Willett as captain of the colored company which enlisted in the Spanish American war, but did recommend Mr. Amos Brandt, a white man who secured the commission. Fifth, he cannot show but one colored man that he has been appointed to anything from this district during his eleven years in congress. Sixth, when a colored man passed the highest in a competative examination for the Military school he found some excuse to not appoint him. Seventh, when two colored girls took the civil service examination in a class of 30, they standing near the top the post-office records shows that over 20 has been put on and no colored girl. This is only a very few of the many reasons why an honest race-loving man cannot support Captain Hull any longer, although they have loyally supported him for different offices for thirty years. MT. PLEASANT NEWS. The revival at the Second Baptist church continued through three weeks with great interest and attendance. Rev. J. A. Benjamin, of Keokuk, assiseed the pastor by preaching and appealing to the unsaved. The number of conversions where four and three were reclaimed and the church was spiritually revived. Rev. Douglas, of Burlington, and Rev. Wilson, also of Keokuk, assisted in the meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Arbuckle, enta-tained Rev. and Mrs. F.C. Bolding and Rev. Ed. Wilson, at dinner, one day last week. The members of the Baptist church and some friends met at the pastors home and pleasantly surpaired. Rev. J. A. Bingaman, Mrs. Bolding, with a few appropriate remarks, presented him with the donations consisting of groceries and things needful for the table. Rev. Bingaman in response expressed his gratitude for the donations and hospitality shown him. The made many friends while here. Misa Delpha Norris has returned to Des Moines. Mr. Henry Clay has returned to Kentucky, his former home. A son of Mr. Adam Smiler and a daughter of Mrs. Johnson, on Lee street, whom the parents have not seen since the days of slavery, arrived in the city last week for a visit at their respective homes. Mr. Gertrude Mosley has returned from Oskaloosa. Mr. Calvin F. Cair has returned to Omaha, after an extended stay here. Invitations are out for the celebration of Mr. Henderson Tansilis twenry-third anniversary, March 1, 1902. The second anniversary of the I. K. S. club was celebrated Feb. 20th, at the home of Messrs. Mason and Taylor. On account of the illness of Mrs. Burnaugh, it was not held at her home, as was formerly intended. About thirty were present, besides the members. Music and games were the principal features of the evening. In one of the parlors while pleasant conversation held supremacy. In the other refreshments, consisting of bread and butter, salmon, salid, pickles, coffee, ice cream and cake and salted peanuts were served. Miss Lennie Rass, of LaCrew, passed through the city Tuesday, on their way to Des Moines. She stopped off a few hours with Mrs Clay Reed. MUSCATINE NEWS. Musatine subscribers did not receive any paper week before last. Mrs. Leono Jordan is quite sick at her home, on East Seventh street. Your correspondent was on sick list last week, hence no news. Rev. Taylor arrived home Saturday evening, after a pleasant visit with his family in Clinton. Mrs. Edward Barnes is on the sick list. Mr. Arthur Manley who has been quite sick with throat trouble, is improving. Mrs. Wm. Woodson entertained at dinner Sunday. Mesdames Ousley, Groomes, Miss Ousley and Messrs. A, Brooks, S. Barnes, R. Patterson and Edward Groomes. The "Don't Care" club will give a ragtime entertainment at K. P. Hall, March 10th. Mrs. Fannie Groomes delightfully entertained a number of friends at a mask valentine party last Friday evening. The occasion being her birthday anniversary, Miss Hellen Johnson was awarded the prize as being the neatest appearing lady present. She was dressed as a bride. Mr. Ed. Bainsreceived the "booby" prize. He represented Uncle Sam. The evening was spent in games, music and social conversation. The guests were served with a delicious and beautiful repast, consisting of five courses. The favors of the hostess were dainty and pretty little valentines. The guests departed at a late hour, voting Mrs. Groomes a royal and charming entertainer. The trustees will give an entertainment at the church, Wednesday evening. All delinquent subscribers, please, oh! please, have the money ready when the agent calls this week. Quartelry conference will be held Wednesday evening, at the parsonage. The Dunbar society met the first of the month and elected officers. President, Mrs. Balnes; Vice-President, Miss Florence White; Secretary, Miss Alice Phoenix; Treasurer, M.s.F. White; Sargeant-at-arms, Mr. S. Barnes; Grand Counselor, Rev. Taylor; Matron of Table, Mrs. White; Visiting Matron, Mrs. Peter Towley; Musical Director, Miss F. White. The society will meet at the parsonage next Friday evening. Ask Wm. Brooks, Wm. Shackleford and Robert Evans what they were doing Sunday afternoon. SIOUX CITY ITEMS. There will be revival meetings at the A M. E. church beginning Sunday. Mrs. A. L. Morgan was called suddenly home Wednesday, to be at the bedside of her sister, who is seriously ill in Kansas City, Kansas. Rev. W. H. Speese was called to Yankton, S. D., Friday, to perch the funeral of Mrs. Sarah Chase, one of Yankton's oldest colored citizens. She died at the age of eighty-three years and leaves a daughter and other relatives to mourn her. Miss Leona Miller left for Willburn, Minn., Friday morning, for a short visit. Mr. M. Mullen, of St. Paul, Minn., arrived in our city, Thursday, for a short visit with Miss Edith Watkins, and left for home Laturday. Those on the sick list are, namely: Messrs. B. Crawford, Fred. Baker and Mrs. Esther Whidden and Miss Myrtle Ross. The Ladies' Improvement society, met with Mrs. Rev. W. H. Speese, last Thursday afternoon. Mr. Joseph Baker went io Yankton, No. 38. Friday, to attend the funeral of Mrs. Chase. The masquerade social, given at the Mt. Zion Baptist church, Friday evening, was a success both socially and financially. The prize offered was won by Mrs. R. Grant and Miss Mary Thompson, Mrs. R. Grant represented a sister of Charity and Miss M. Thompson, Maid of all works. There will be an entertainment on the Twelfth of March, at the Mt. Zion Baptist church for the benefit of the trustees. At the residence of Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Carr, a Hard Time social will be given for the benefit of the deacons and trustees of the Mt. Zion Baptist church, in the near future. There was a Kentucky oyster supper given at Mr. and Mrs. Boston Yussum for their own benefit, Monday night. A good time was had by all. The Ladies' Sewing circle will meet with Mrs. Maggie Thompson, Thursday afternoon. OTTUMWA NEWS Rev. Rhinehart assisted with the services at the A. M. B. church Sunday. The Second Baptist church is holding revival meetings. Mr. Charles Mayor of North Marion street has been ill the past week with la gripe, but is much improved. Mrs. John Junkins' residence caught fire Friday afternoon but was extinguished with but little loss. Mrs. Henry of North McClaim street has been confined to her home for over two weeks with a severe attack of the quinsy. Mrs. Hattle Benton is suffering with an attack of la gripe. Mr. Zach Dodd of West Main is still improving, and his many friends hope that he will soon be able to be among them. He has been ill with lung trouble for over a year. Mrs. M. Owens of W. Mill street has been slightly indisposed for the past few days. Mr. Frank Henson entertained the West End Whist and Checker club at the home of of his mother Mrs. Chas Taylor, on North Marion. Quite a number were out and after a very interesting game refreshments were served. The club adjourned to meet with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stevens on Maple street. Mrs. Zach Taylor of South Ottumwa is ill. Miss Burnine Davis rendered a solo at the Catholic Bazaar last week, which was highly praised. Mr. John McDavis has resigned his position as chef of the Depot hotel. Mr. Will Frdelan has secured a position at the La Clede hotel as night clerk. NEWS FROM BUXTON. Mr. Butler of the Albia Republican was a Buxton visitor Saturday. Atty. Woodson was an over Sunday visitor with us. Miss Stella Humbles has returned from her visit to Muohakinock. Prof. and Mrs. A. R. Jackson entertained at dinner Sunday Mrs. Patton of Boone, Mr. and John T. Washington and little Miss Burnice. After a most delightful repast, consisting of all the good things of the season, every body retired to the parlor where the professor entertained on the piano, rendering some of his choice selections. It was late in the evening when the guests retired, declaring they had a most enjoyable time. Prof. Jackson has composed a march called the W. A. Wells, dedicated to our popular merchant here. The piece is rich in harmony and truly classical. The professor has arranged all the parts and intends to have it published, retaining the copyright. Every theme of the piece is original and we predict for it a roar in the musical world. The Buxton cornet band has ordered new uniforms. Mrs. Terry of Boone is here, called here by the serious illness of her son-in-law Mr. Paris Smith. Will Washington of "Muchy" is visiting friends in Buxton. A new bell is ringing in the belfry of St. John's A. M. E. church. Paris Smith is a little better at this writing. Last Sunday evening at St. John's A. M. E. church the subject was "Child Training." Misses Trueman, Owens and Long, teachers in our city schools, took part in the subject. The subject was well handled and many important facts were bought out. Mothers and trainers of children who attended this service will surely profit by many of the things said. The choir took an active part in the services and rendered well many choice selections. Every body was highly pleased with the subject and the singing of the choir. A few critics were present who never are pleased with any thing. We find these poor fools who are too dull to do any thing themselves, but always stand ready to find fault. Subseribe for the Bystander. ```markdown ``` All the great nations seem inclined to swear off. Real contentment is not in staying still, but in getting further along. The good roads movement seems to have got stuck in the mud or a snowdrift. Sousa has written a novel. Now it's up to Ruddy Kipling to organize a brass band. With some people it is easier to die for their country than to be polite to their neighbors. Taking out insurance against small-pox has become a craze in London. The sore-arm kind is good. If government employees may not lobby for more salary some of them will be left without anything to do. Safe blowers got $50,000 in cash out of the Lemon Bank at Acworth, Ga. Add another squeezed lemon to the list. Many an irritable man envies Andrew Carnegie's ability to throw a whole library at the head of a tormentor. It is not on record that King Edward asked Mr. Schwab if he was going to have time to run over for the coronation. Egyptian soil is so fertile that a square mile of it can support 923 persons if they don't all stand on the same spot. Now the millers are talking of forming a national organization; of course its object will be the reduction of the price of flour. Has anybody figured out how much the melancholy Danes on our new West Indian island possessions are going to cost us? Panama is again trembling in her boots lest she be obliged to down large doses of Gatling and Maxim syrup of the unscoothable brand. A Sloux Indian has committed suicide for love. At last the Sloux seems to have been reached by the broadening influence of civilization. Mrs. Soffel's folly in helping the Elddies to escape cannot be charged up to her sex, for hundreds of just as silly men are writing notes to her now. The statement by Gov. Taft that the Filipino women are far superior to the men will be made much of at the coming convention of suffragists in Washington. Fifty lawyers have offered to defend the woman who let the Biddles out of jail. Few of them, however, will succeed in getting their names in the papers. One reason why this country succeeds better than some in Europe is that it hunts down brigands and never looks on idly while they exact ransom for captives. "General" Pearson's threatened battle of New Orleans, if it ever takes place, may be as spectacular but it will hardly be as successful as the one engineered by Old Hickory. An Illinois parson wakened a man who had been asleep for thirty-six hours; but it is only fair to state that the reverend gentleman did not use a sermon as the reviving agent. The London Sun has sued Arthur Balfour for slander because he said in an interview with him appearing in that paper was pure fabrication. Thus the journalistic worm has turned at last. Woman suffragists in this country are planning to issue a woman's postage stamp to stick on their letters next to the serene countenance of George Washington. If they do George will stand for it. Sparrows attacked a Maryland farmer and he was seriously injured. For this pleasant little tale the world probable is indebted to the man who kills off the Delaware peach crop, he having found time to take a run over into Maryland. The Chinese government has dismissed the European professors from the imperial university on the score of economy. The money is needed for elementary schools. If this be the wisdom of Confucius, Confucius ought to be enthroned among the prophets. For the truth thus recognized is universal and as applicable to Chicago as to Pekin. Frank Gould built, at a cost of $50,000, a kennel for the rearing of blooded pupils. Helen Gould has taken the kennel, cleansed it of the pups and changed it into a cooking school, a circumstance most gratifying and showing a difference in Goulds. Robert McCarthy of Elkton, Md., was 105 years old the other day. He is a pensioner of the civil war, and attributes his hale old age to the habit of drinking whisky every day since 1818. Robert probably draws another pension from the whisky trust. THE NEWS IN IOWA INDIANS A MENACE. Governor Asks Legislature to Make Apparisonal of $7,000. Des Moines, Feb. 26.—Messages to both branches of the general assembly were received yesterday morning from Governor Cummins relative to the Tama Indian reservation and the evident lack of authority for the protection of the people of Iowa on account of the inability of the Indians to destroy the disease infestations and clothing. The message is accompanied by a letter from President Linn of the state board of health detailing the situation. A bill was introduced in the senate by Garst making an appropriation of $7,000 to pay the Indians for the property necessary to be destroyed by the Indians to move the danger, which bill is earnestly recommended by Governor Cummins. Dr. Linn's letter calls attention to the fact that protests are coming in from citizenz living near the reservation against the continuance of this peril and petitions are numerous asking that action be taken. Up to present time the reservation have been reopened to the reservation, but with the opening of the hunting and trapping season they are getting restless and have already made trips to the nearby towns. Many of those who have recovered from a siege of the disease are wearing the same clothes they wore at the time of their illness. It is believed that all the tepes and wild animals occupied the area and that disease germs to transmit the small pox with increased virulence over the state, in a more malignant form than has been known anywhere but on the reservation. NEITHER LIKELY TO LIVE. Brother and Sister Found Insensible in Home Clinton, Feb. 27.—James Farrell and sister Gertrude, who reside on a farm near De Witt, this county, were found by neighbors, garged, bound and beaten into insensibility by robbers sometime during the night. The discovery was made at noon. An empty chloroform bottle and a handkerchief saturated with chloroform indicates Farrell and his sister were first placed under the influence of the drug, before the door was closed and completed the resistance being offered, the victims were brutally assaulted. Overturned furniture indicated a terrible contest. One of Farrell's arms was broken in two places and there were numerous cuts and bruises on his body. His sister was also badly lacerated and bruised. At a late hour neither had regained consciousness and it is expected both will die. In this event no description of the robbers will be secured and their escape will be possible. The pachy body to their identities. The Farrells are well-to-do, but live in a lonely section of the country. The mother was away on a visit, leaving her son, aged 30, and daughter, aged 22, alone. SUFFERAGE GIVEN A BLOW. House Committee Averse to the Joint Resolution. Des Moines, Feb. 28.—The house committee on constitutional amendments, by a vote of 8 to 3, yesterday recommended for indefinite postponement the joint resolution for an equal suffrage amendment. The following was the vote on the motion to postpone indefinitely: Ayes—Sweet, Temple, Blakemore, Barkley, Barker, Gilchrist, Langan of Clinton and Walters, 8; nays, Blink and Walters, 8; nays, Tennant—Kerr, Payne and Rome. The committee devoted an hour and a half to the consideration of the resolution. It heard a number of arguments for suffrage by Mrs. Adeliade Ballard of Hull, president of the Iowa Equal Suffrage association; Mrs. Anna M. Enworthy of the W. C. T. U., Mrs. Nellie Nelson, secretary of the Iowa Equal Suffrage association; Mrs. M. J. Coggshall of Des Moines, Senator Allyn, author of the resolution in the senate, and Judge C. C. Cole of this city, Miss Daisy Deighton, who is the head of the legislative committee, was at the hearing. Mrs. John T. Merrill of this city spoke against suffrage. S F E B L O W N AT CAMBRIDGE Robbers Blow Open Safe in Large General Store Cambridge, Feb. 28—Robbers entered C. S. Larsons store at Cambridge, Story county, and blowing open a safe took there from $100 in cash, with which they made their escape. A team belonging to Thomas Wilson, a resident of Cambridge, was also found to be missing and it is believed that the robbers escaped with the stolen horses. A horses are bags, and fain. A posse has been raised to scour the country for the robbers. Two men, one tall and light completed and the other a small man are suspected. Must Pay Ransom or Be Tortured. Must Pay Ransom or Be Tortured. Boone, Feb. 28—Engineer Tom禹recon is in receipt of a mysterious letter from Clinton in which the anonymous writer demands $2,500 under penalty of imprisonment for torture. The ransom is demanded at once though a significant feature of the weird proposition is that no locality is suggested as to where the money is to be placed. The address given is 1318 Third street, Clinton, and the detectives are now making a search of that vicinity. Tom禹recon is much wrought up over the matter. He believes the writer fully intends to kill him, while he will not make the payment exacted, a close watch is to be kept on the matter with a view of making an arrest. Young Farmer Killed. Iowa Falls, Feb. 25.—J. M. Butler, a young farmer west of this city, was instantly killed as the result of the breaking of a tumbling rod on a power wood saw, a piece striking him on the head. He was a newcomer here, his former home being at Great Bend, Kan. Contact With Live Wire. Burlington, Feb. 23—Charles Payne, member of the fire department, was killed at this place by coming in contact with a live wire. BRUCE WILL WAIT AWHILE. Meantime Emmert Will Hold Contested Seat. Des Moines, Feb. 28. A decided change of sentiment regarding the Bruce-Emmert contest for a seat in the senate was developed at the session of that body yesterday. Senator Emmert had put home, satisfied that he would be unsecured. The three republicans on the contest committee had agreed on a report adverse to him and seating Bruce. The democrat in the senate, disgusted and not at all resigned, had about given up the fight. They asked only that the democrats on the contest committee be at least permitted to nile an explanation of their position and have it in the journal. Because this privilege was opposed by the majority of the committee the whole case was rejected. The committee, Senator Emmert telegraphed for to come back to his seat and the entire affair seems about as far from settlement as ever. The question came up on the senate floor yesterday morning when the contest committee reported. The majority, composed of Crossley, Smith and Molsberry, republicans, favored seating Bruce, republican. The minority, Ball and Lyons, dissented and presented a dissenting report declaring that Pleasant township, Cass county, should have been thrown out and Emmerd should have been seated. The minority in a carefully prepared statement written by Senator Ball, discussed the question. When the reports were filed the minority asked that its statement be printed in the journal. The majority of the committee opposed this on the ground that the minority report was not a plain statement of dissent, but an argument and a presentation of some of the purported evidence. Against this there was a vigorous argument by Healy, Trewin, Porter, Parger, Dowell, Blanchard and others. It became evident that the disposition of the body was to give the minority a fair showing. Points of order and questions of precedence and even constitutionality were raised in rapid succession. The debate took place in a very evident that action would be almost impossible Porter moved that the whole matter be sent back to the committee. This carried viva voce and the question will not come before the senate again till next week. REFORMATORY BILL PASSES. Senate Votes to Establish a New In- stitution for Iowa Cities. Des Moines, Feb. 26.—The Iowa senate yesterday passed with only eleven dissenting votes, the bill to establish a reformatory for men in Iowa. The measure went through as originary, drawn by the state government to it. This is the billathered by the state board of control, it was drawn up after consulting the laws of the other states, and is looked upon by lawyers of the upper body as well nigh perfect from a legal standpoint. It is practically the same bill which did not get through two years ago. According to its provisions, as soon as the act goes into effect the state board of control will convert the penitentiary at Anamosa into a state reformatory for men, transferring to age 18 and age 65 of age. Those under 31 years of age who are serving their first term in the penitentiary for any crime less than murder are to be retained in the reformatory, where skilled instructions in mechanical arts will be employed to teach them, and otherwise assist in the process of reformation it is expected that the judge will not obligate it shall be the duty of the district judges to sentence all persons under the age of 31, convicted of any felony except murder, and no previously convicted, to this institution. There is an elaborate system of parole provided by which the state board of control is to be guided, and what is considered one of the strongest features of the bill is the fact that violations of parole issued to inmates of the reformatory will send the court to the maximum penalty of his former crime without regard to previous sentence. Every effort to amend the bill failed, except the striking out of the provision removal of convicts to the reformatory when the penitentiary at Ft. Madison becomes overcrowded. The bill originally provided that prisoners so transferred should be treated as other inmates of the reformatory, but it was amended to leave them assigned to the prison at Fort Madison. The bill carries an appropriation of $30,000 with which to make the transfer of the prisoners and open the reformatory. SHAW ON WAR CLAIM. Secretary of Treasury Wages Government Representative is Coming. Des Moines Feb. 26.—Governor Cummins has received the following telegram from the Secretary of the Treasury Shaw relating to further consideration of the Iowa civil war claims: Mr. Adrian Sizer, the representative from Iowa, the director of the war department, will be in Des Moines on Thursday morning next to take up the case of the claim of the state of Iowa in the civil war matter." The arrival of this government representative has been expected ever since it was agreed that an officer should be sent to Iowa to evaluate it was entered in the general deficiency bill to go before congress. It was stated at the governor's office yesterday that Capt. J. L. Sothrop of Sioux City, who had charge of the claim for the state, will be summoned by the governor to go over the items of the claim with the Washington representative. A representative from the government is assurance that there will be no delay in rounding up preliminaries with regard to allowing the claim. Murder Near Keokuk. Keokuk, Feb. 27.—William Mulliken, a very wealthy farmer, was assassinated at his home, six miles north of here. The murderer fired through a window, the bullet striking Mulliken in the head. In the process, he killed the murderer man owned large farms near here and much city property, including a prominent intel. THE LEGISLATURE. Des Moines, Feb. 24—Senate.—The senate passed a large number of bills, among them the following: To make subject of prosecution for malicious mischief the destruction of apparatus belonging to electric railroads, it having been held that prosecutions under the present law can only be for interference with steam roads; providing that actions against the treasurer of state shall be against the treasurer as an officer of the law; providing that an officer of its bond in cases in which suit is brought to recover taxes alleged to be illegally collected; providing that the state board of medical examiners may issue certificates to practice medicine in Iowa to physicians who come from other states, without examination, providing that such other states, Iowa physi- logical the same; amending the statute 3386, to prohibit beneficiaries enjoying property benefits by murder; giving sheriffs compensation for lodging as well as dieting prisoners; removing the limit on fees charged for the filing of articles of incorporation by the secretary of state; providing that notices required to publish four weeks in the same week each week for four weeks in succession; requiring settlements of the treasurer and auditor of state to conform to the appropriation period. House.—The house devoted the bulk of the time to considering the subject of exempting the property of soldiers of the rebellion and Mexican war. After discussion and profound wrestling with amendments it finally passed without dissent the committee substitute for house file 77 by Donahue. Des Moines, Feb. 25.—Senate.—The Emmert bill, establishing a reform for men at Anamosa was passed. A bill was introduced establishing a board of examiners for osseous diseases. There is understanding that the state board of medical examiners will not oppose the measure. It removes osteopathes from the charge of the medical board. House.-Cummings' bill, increasing the salaries of judges of the supreme court hereafter to be elected from $4,000 to $5,000, was taken up and passed by a vote of 80 to 8. The bill originally provided that the salaries should be raised, to $6,000, but was amended by the committee on compensation of public officers. Secor's bill requiring the county auditor to furnish all blanks to permit holders and drummers to use same, was also passed. Wilson's bill, repealing the law requiring music to be taught in the public schools, was indefinitely postponed. Jenks' bill, appropriating $22 per month for nine months in the year for the maintenance of each inmate of the school for the deaf and dumb at Council Bluffs, was passed. Des Moines, Feb. 26—Senate.—Senator Trewin made a resolution memorializing the Iowa delegation in congress to support the Nelson-Carliss bill giving the interstate commerce commission additional powers. The Iowa state senate passed a resolution for the submission of the woman suffrage amendment to the reconciliation Wednesday, by vote of 28 to 16, without a word of debate. Senator G. S. Allyn of Ringgold county was in charge of the bill, but contented himself with moving its passage after reading the Colorado official endorsement of the measure. No other senator evidenced a desire to speak. The senate defeated the bill to abolish days of grace. Senator Healy gave notice of his motion to reconsider the issue on Tuesday. He moved the reconsideration because the law takes the parole away from the governor and lodges it in the board of control. House.—When the senate resolution memorializing congress to pass and requesting the Iowa delegation in congress to vote for the Hoar bill in restriction of injunctions issued during strikes was taken up by the house Wednesday, Dunham of Delaware offered a substitute expressing confidence in the delegation and whatever action it may take with reference to this subject. An extended debate during which republican members attacked and defended Senator Hoar resulted in the adoption of the substitute, and a to-do list. All bills passed were the following. By Furry, providing a jail sentence or a fine as one of the penalties for perjury; by Edwards, requiring telephone and telegraph companies to report to the executive council instead of to the auditor of state for purposes of taxation. Des Moines, Feb. 27.—Senate. The senate passed the bill to appropriate $7,000 to buy supplies for the Tama Indians, whose blankets, etc., have been burned on account of infectious disease. This money will be refunded by the general government. Senator Harper brought up the biennial elections constitutional amendment. Senator Hubbard explained that the resolution is in precisely the form it was formerly. The resolution was adopted, forty voting for and Bishop, Crossley, Hogue, Spaulding and Wilson voting against. Senator Lewis said he was opposed to biennial elections is not opposed to submission. Senator Bridges invited提名 Patrick, Hobart and Townsend were absent. Senator Trewin resumed his argument for reconsideration of the measure creating the reformatory at Anmosa. Following his address copyright attacked the constitutionality of the measure. House.—Whiting called up Hogne's bill to compel railways to furnish freight cars. This bill was passed by the senate but was recommended for definite postponement by the house committee on railroads. The bill was recommitted. The bill by Cummings increasing the salaries of district officers to $3,300, making up the bill originally placed the salary at $4,000, but was amended by the committee on compensation of public officers, making it $3,300. Cummings spoke at some length in favor of the bill. Hughes moved to amend by making the salary $3,500. The amendment carried by a vote of 37 to 33, bringing the head boards of health power to enforce quarantine and in necessary to remove the parties infected, forcible removal to be upon order of court, and the costs be charged to the person quarantined if financially able: if not county to pay and tax one-third to township where case existed, was passed. TURKEY MUST PAY CLAIM. United States Takes Steps to Collect Money Paid to Brands. Constantinople, Feb. 28. —It is understood that the United States will soon takes steps to obtain a reimbursement of the sum ($72,500) to brigands as a ransom for Mrs. Elen Stone and Mme. Tsilina, holding Turkey responsible inasmuch as the capture of the missionaries was effected on Turkish soil. This question of responsibility may have serious developments, since Turkey emphatically disclaims responsibility and lays the claim on Bulgaria TILLMAN RESENTS "LIE" ENGAGED IN FIST FIGHT WITH M'LAURIN IN SENATE. McLaurin Draws Blood From Tillman's Nose and Both Senators Are Declared in Contempt. Washington, Feb. 24.—Washington's birthday was signalized in the United States senate by a fist fight. The day set apart by the nation to afford the American people opportunity to pay fitting tribute to the memory of the first president was the occasion of one of the most sensational scenes ever enacted in the senate chamber. The two senators from South Carolina were the active participants in the affray. Mr. Tillman in the course of a speech upon the Philippine tariff bill made serious reflections upon the honor of his colleague, Mr. McLaurin. In brief, he charged that his (McLaurin's) vote in support of the ratification of the treaty of Paris had been cast through the exercise of improper influences. His statement was developed in a colloquy between himself and Mr. Spooner of Wisconsin. Mr. Tillman at first declined to mention names, but when the Wisconsin senator reminded him that he owed it to himself, the senator and to the comrade the man. Mr. Tillman indicated that he referred to his colleague from South Carolina. Little imagining that his words were likely to be prophetic, Mr. Spooner remarked sententiously: "I will leave the senator to fight that out with his colleague." Mr. McLaurin was not in the chamber at the time, being engaged in committee work, but he was sent for and appeared just as Mr. Tillman concluded his speech. Pale as a sheet, Mr. McLaurin arose to address the senate speaking to a hospital patient, man privilege, and then denounced the statement made by his colleague as a "willful malicious and deliberate lie." Scarcely had the portentious words fallen from his lips when Mr. Tillman, sitting a few seats from him, with Mr. Teller of Colorado between them, sprang at him. Mr. McLaurin, who had half turned toward Mr. Tillman, met him half way, and in an instant the two senators, having swept Mr. Teller aside, were engaged in a fight with Mr. McLaurin received heavily now on the head, while Mr. Tillman got a bad punch on the nose, which brought blood. Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms Layton sprang over desks to reach and separate the combatants and himself received several blows. He got between them finally, and by main strength wrenched them apart. Senators Warren of Wyoming and Scott of West Virginia, two of the most powerful men in the senate, leaped to his assistance and pinioned the arms of the belligerent senators and forced them into their seats. Intense excitement prevailed in the senate and galleries, which were thronged with people who had been attracted by the spirited debate. Everybody was on his feet. Not a word, however, was spoken. Senators stood about the chamber, for the moment helpless and pale to the lips. Finally order was restored partially and in the midst of intense excitement the senate went into secret legislative session. For two hours the senate discussed the event behind closed doors. When the doors were opened it was made known that both the South Carolina senators, by unanimous vote, had been declared to be in contempt of the senate. They were permitted, by a vote of the senate, to make apologies to the senate. The statements were listened to by both the senators and the people in the galleries with breathless intercourse. Scott Hillman left the capitol when adjournment was taken for recess and did not return for the night session. Senator McLaurin was in the chamber about 8 o'clock, but left early. Neither senator, when seen at his home, would make a statement. THREE JOWANS MURDERED. They Were Members of the Earl Family and Lived in Louisiana Welsh. a. Feb. 25—it has been discovered that five of the memb ers of the Earl family, living three miles from here, have been murdered, and that the head of the household has disappeared. No search has yet been made for his body, although it is generally believed that he has been killed. His wife had the whole front of her face mashed in with some blunt instrument. One of ner sons had been shot through the head, and the throats of three others had been cut. None of the family ad been seen in the house, and it is thought that they were killed in the night. There is no clue to the perpetrator of the deed. The Earls originally came from Iowa. Boer Delegates Arrive. New York, Feb. 26.—Among the passengers who arrived yesterday on board the steamship Rotterdam, from Rotterdam and Boulogne, were Messrs. Wolmars and Wessels, Boer dele-gerant (D) Dr. Bruyn, secretary of the Boer embassy. They will remain in this city for a few days and then proceed to Washington. BANQUETS TO PRINCE HENR Millionaires and Editors E tertain Royal Visitor and Hear Speeches. DRINK TO EMPEROR'S HEALTH German-Americans of New York an Kaiser's Brother an Ovation, at Whe He Speaks of the United States an Brilliant Country. New York, Feb. 27.—Fo rthe first time in the United States in 120 years the health of a sovereign was drunk by Americans with all royal observers yesterday. The floor of Sherry's observatory room was littered with broken glass after the toast of "The Kaleen at the luncheon in honor of Prince Henry, given by the richest man in the world and attended by the chief of finance and trade and the most scientists and inventors of America. The royal purple carpet, specially made for this festival, was ground full of the snapped glasses in which the Emperor's health had been drunk. The Prince met the genus of America, and for once the talk was not compliment and courteous froth, but the Prince after the formal function gathered about him such men as Pierpont Morgan and Thomas A. Bickerson and had them tell him how America had won its pre-eminence in industry. It was the most characteristic feature of Prince Henry's stay in New York. But the millionaires' banquet was openly one of the big things of the day. It began at noon, for the Prince had to have some rest after the social exertions of the day before. Another feature of the day was the torchlight parade of the German Americans, which the Prince reviewed from the balcony of the Arion Club. Teen thousand of the former subjects of the royal visitor's brother married before the Prince, who gravely smiled each battalion as it passed, and in the club the visitor made a serious litle speech, in which he made his hearsay to be as good Americans in this country as they would have been German in the Fatherland. And still, the day's feasting and speech-making was not done. Later in the evening the Prince attended the press dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria at which Herman Ridder was toastmaster, and at which editors from all over the country responded. There were twelve hundred at this banquet, and to them Prince Henry made another speech, and for the first time formally made known the purpose of his visit.' He came, he said, to cement the friendship of the two countries, and he added significantly that, if America ever cared to extend her hand, she would find it heartily grasped across the sea. And, leaving his hearers to digge this hint of alliance, Prince Henry drove back to the imperial yacht to prepare for his journey, with the escort of cavalry clattering faithfully about his carriage. Ohio Local Option Bill Passed. Columbus, O., Feb. 27.—The house yesterday passed the Beall municipal local option bill by a vote of $2 to $1. The bill provides for local option elections in municipal corporations on petition of 40 per cent of the qualified electors. The advocates of the bill claim it will pass the senate. The house also passed the Willis bill imposing a tax of 1-100 per cent upon the outstanding capital stock of corporations. Tiffany Will Filed. New York, Feb. 27.—The will of the late Charles L. Tiffany has been filed for probate. The estate is divided among the widow and children, with a few minor legacies to relatives. No schedule was filed, but the value of the estate will amount to more than $2,000,000. Victory for Women in Iowa. Des Moines, la. Feb. 27. The woman an suffrage measure introduced by Senator Allyn passed the upper house of the Legislature by a vote of 28 to 16, with six members absent or not voting. The house two years ago passed, but the Senate afterward killed, a similar bill. Operation on Judge Ide. Yokohama, Feb. 8, via Victoria, B. C., Feb. 27. - Judge H. C. Ide, one of the Philippine commissioners, has undergone an operation at the United States naval hospital on his backbone, which was injured some time ago when the commissioner was thrown out of a carriage. Mine Fire Extinguished. Vancouver, B. C. Feb. 27.—The me which has been burning for several months in the Extension mine on Vancouver island is now extinguished. A search is being instituted for the bodies of the seventeen men who perished in the mine at the time of the explosion. To Be Marshal of Arizona. Washington, Feb. 27. — President Roosevelt has decided to appoint Myron McCord, former member of the House of Representatives in Wisconsin, marshal of Arizona in place of Benjamin Daniels, whose commission recently was revoked. Want Colored Cadets. Washington, Feb. 27.—A committee of Baptist colored ministers has petitioned President Roosevelt to appoint one colored boy each to West Point and Annapolis. He gave no definite answer. MUSCULAR SORRENESS. 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Our physician he strongly recommended Herpilec to me and after three or four appointments he came in again quite thick. I used to be very nervous, but now I see you I have cause to praise Newbrue's Herpilec. MRS. MARY GEROVIC. For Sale at all First-Class Drug Stores. The Diamond Bracelet CHAPTER XI.—(Continued.) "Even than my love; Alice, you like me more than you admit. Unsay your words, my dearest, and give me hope." "Do not vex me," she resumed, in a pained tone; "do not seek to turn me from my duty. I—I, though I scarcely like to speak of these sacred things, Gerard, I have put my hand on the plough; even you cannot turn me back." "Tell me one thing, Gerard; it will be safe. Was the dispute about Frances Chenevix?" He contracted his brow, and nodded. "And you could refuse her! You must learn to love her, for she would make you a good wife." "Much chance there is now of my making a wife of any one." "Oh, this will blow over in time; I feel it will. Meanwhile—" should just as we meet the dead. "How are you said, holding our tion." "Lady France to you for Frances return. Hope for his tinned she in a oring him with of courtesy. He caught he Fanny, but our at least mine in that you were." "You are a cried she, "to getting me to wter and all the beginning "My affect "Meanwhile you destroy every hopeful feeling I thought to take to cheer me in my exile!" was his impatient interruption. "I love you alone, Alice; I have loved you for months, truly, fervently, and I know you must have seen it." "Love me still, Gerard," she softly answered, "but not with the love you should give to one of earth, the love you will give to Frances Chenevix. Think of me as one rapidly going; soon to be gone." "Oh, not yet!" he cried in an imploring tone, as if it were as she willed. "Not just yet; I hope to see you return from exile. Let us say farewell while we are alone." She spoke the last words hurriedly, for footsteps were heard. Gerard smatched her to him, and laid his face upon hers." "What cover did you say the book had?" demanded Frances Chenevix of Gerard, who was then leaning back on the sofa, apparently waiting for her. "A mottled? I cannot see anything like it." "No? I am sorry to have given you the trouble, Fanny. It has gone, perhaps, amongst the 'has been.'" "Listen," said Alice, removing her hand from before her face, "that was a carriage stopped. Can they be come home?" Frances and Gerard flew into the next room, whence the street could be seen. A carriage had stopped, but not at their house. "It is too early for them yet," said Gerard. "I am sorry things go so cross just now, with you, Gerard," whispered Lady Frances. "You will be very dull over there." "Ay; to hang myself, if you knew all. And the bracelet may turn up, and Lady Sarah be sporting it on her arm again and I never know that the cloud is off for me. No chance that any of you will be at the trouble of writing to a fellow." "I will," said Lady Frances. "Whether the bracelet turns up or not, I will write you sometimes, if you like, Gerard, and give you all the news." "You are a good girl, Fanny," returned he, in a brighter accent, "and I will send you my address as soon as I have got one. You are not to turn proud, mind, and be off the bargain, if you find it's offensive." Frances laughed. "Take care of yourself, Gerard." So Gerard Hope got clear off into exile. Did he pay his expenses with the proceeds of the diamond bracelet? The stately rooms of one of the finest houses in London were open for the reception of evening guests. Wax lights, looking innumerable when reflected from the mirrors, shed their rays on the gilded decorations, on the fine paintings, and on the gorgeous dresses of the ladies; the enlivening strains of the band invited to the dance and the rare exotics emitted a sweet perfume. It was the West End residence of a famed and wealthy city merchant of lofty standing; his young wife was an earl's daughter and the admission to the house of Mr. and Mrs. Lady Adela Netherleigh was coveted by the gay world. "There's a mishap!" almost screamed a pretty looking girl. She had dropped her handkerchief and stooped for it, and her partner stooped also; in his hurry he put his foot upon her thin, white dress, she rose at the same moment and the bottom of her skirt was torn half off. "Quite impossible that I can finish the quadrille," quoth she to him, half in amusement, half provoked at the misfortune. "You must find another partner, and I will go and get this repaired." She went upstairs; by some neglect, the lady's maid was not in attendance, and too impatient to ring and wait for her, down she flew to the housekeeper's parlor. She was quite at home in the house, for she was the sister of its mistress. She had gathered the damaged dress up in her arms, but her white petticoat fell in rich folds around her. "Just look what an object that stupid——" And there stopped the young lady; for instead of the housekeeper and lady's maid, whom she expected to meet, nobody was in the room but a gentleman—a tall handsome man. She looked thunderstruck; and then slowly advancing and staring at him as if not believing her own eyes. "My goodness, Gerard! Well, I CHAPTER XII should just as soon have expected to meet the dead here." "How are you, Lady Frances?" he said, holding out his hand with hesitation. "Lady Frances! I am much obliged to you for your formality, Lady Frances returns her thanks to Mr. Hope for his polite inquiries," continued she in a tone of plque, and honoring him with a swimming ceremony of courtesy. He caught her hand. "Forgive me, Fanny, but our positions are altered at least mine us; and how did I know that you were not?" "You are an ungrateful—raven," cried she, "to croak like that. After getting me to write you no end of letters and all the news about everybody, beginning 'My dear Gerard', and ending 'Your affectionate Fanny', and being as good to you as a sister, you meet me with 'My Lady Frances!' Now, don't squeeze my hand to atoms. What on earth have you come to England for?" "I could not stop there," he returned with emotion; "I was fretting away my heartstrings. So I took my resolution and came back; guess in what way, Frances, and what to do." "How should I know? To call me Lady Frances,' perhaps." "As a clerk; a clerk to earn my bread. That's what I am now. Very consistent, is it not, for one in my position to address familiarly Lady Frances Cheneyix?" "You never spoke a grain of sense in your live, Gerard," she exclaimed, peevishly. "What do you mean?" "Mr. Netherleigh has taken me into his counting house." "Mr. Netherleigh!" she echoed in surprise. "What, with that—that—" "That crime hanging over me. Speak up, Frances." "No; I was going to say that doubt. I don't believe you guilty; you know that, Gerard." "I am in his house, Frances, and I came up here tonight from the city to bring a note from his partner. I declined any of the reception rooms, not caring to meet old acquaintances, and the servants put me into this." "But you had a mountain of debts in England, Gerard, and were afraid of arrest." "I have managed that; they are going to let me square up by installments. Has the bracelet never been heard of?" "Oh, that's gone for good; melted down in a caldron, as the Colonel calls it, and the diamonds reset. It remains a mystery of the past, and is never expected to be solved." "And they will suspect me! What is the matter with your dress?" "Matter enough," answered she, letting it down, and turning round for his inspection. "I came here to get it repaired. My great booby of a partner did it for me." "Fanny, how is Alice Seaton?" "You have cause to ask for her. She is dying." "Dying!" repeated Mr. Hope in a hushed, shocked tone. "I do not mean actually dying this night, or going to die tomorrow; but she is dying by slow degrees, there is no doubt. It way be weeks off yet; I cannot tell." "Where is she?" "Curious to say, she is where you left her—at Lady Sarah Hope's. Alice could not bear the house after the loss of the bracelet, for she was so obstinate and foolish as to persist that the servants must suspect her even if Lady Sarah did not. She felt, and this spring Lady Sarah saw her, and was so shocked at the change in her, the extent to which she had wasted away, that she brought her to town by main force, and we and the doctors are trying to nurse her up. It seems of no use." "Are you also staying at Colonel Hope's again?" "I invited myself there a week or two ago to be with Alice. It is pleasanter, too, than being at home." "I suppose the Hopes are her tonight?" "My sister is. I do not think your uncle has come yet." "Does he ever speak of me less resentfully?" "Not he; I think his storming over it has only made his suspicions stronger. Not a week passes but he begins again about that detestable bracelet. He is undesirable persuaded that you took it, and nobody must dare put in a word in your defense." "And does your sister honor me with the same belief?" demanded Mr. Hope bitterly. "Lady Sarah is silent on the point to me; I think she scarcely knows what to believe. You see I tell you all freely, Gerard." CHAPTER XIII. Before another word could be spoken en Mr. Netherleigh entered. An aristocratic man, with a noble countenance. He bore a sealed note for Mr. Hope to deliver in the city. "Why, Fanny!" he exclaimed to his sister-in-law, "you here? "Yes; look at the sight they have made me," replied she, shaking down her dress for his benefit, as she had previously done for Mr. Hope. "I am waiting for some one of the damsels to mend it for me. I suppose Mr. Hope's presence has scared them away. Won't mamma be in a fit of rage when she sees it, for it was new tonight." Gerard Hope shook hands with Lady Frances, and Mr. Netherleigh, who had a word of direction to give him, walked with him into the hall. As they stood there, who should enter but Colonel Hope, Gerard's uncle. He started back when he saw Gerard. "C—a—can I believe my senses?" stuttered he. "Mr. Netherleigh, is he one of your guests?" "He is here on business," was the merchant's reply. "Pass on, Colonel." "No, sir, I will not pass on," cried the enraged Colonel, who had not rightly caught the word business. "Or if I do pass on, it will only be to warn your guests to take care of their jewelry. "No, sir," he added, turning to his nephew, "you can come back, can you, when the proceeds of your theft is spent! You have been starring it in Calais; I hear, how long did the bracelet last you to live upon?" "Sir," answered Gerard, with a pale face, "it has been starving rather than starring. I asserted my innocence at the time, Colonel Hope, and I repeat it now." "Innocence!" ironically repeated the Colonel, turning to all sides of the hall, as if he took delight in parading the details of the unfortunate past. "The trinkets were spread on a table in Lady Sarah's own house. You came stealthily into it—after being forbidden it for another fault—went stealthily into the room, and the next minute the diamond bracelet was missing. It was owing to my confounded folly in listening to a parcel of women that I did not bring you to trial at the time; I have only once regretted not doing it, and that has been ever since. A little wholesome correction at the penitentiary might have made an honest man of you. Good-night, Mr. Nethereleigh! If you encourage him in your house, you don't have me." Now another gentleman had entered and heard this; some servants also heard it. Colonel Hope, who firmly believed in his nephew's gult, turned off peppery and indignant; and Gerard, giving vent to sundry annephewlike exlustres, strode after him. The Colonel made a dash into a street cab and Gerard walked towards the city. Lady Frances Chenevix, her dress right again, at least to appearance, was sitting to get her breath after a whirling waltz. Next to her sat a lady who had also been whirling. Frances did not know her. "You are quite exhausted; we kept it up too long," said the cavaller in attendance on the stranger. "What can I get for you?" "My fan; there it is. Thank you. Nothing else." "What an old creature to dance herself down!" thought Frances. "She's 40, if she's a day." The lady opened her fan and proceeded to use it, the diamonds of her rich bracelet gleamed right in the eyes of Lady Frances Chenevix. Frances looked at it and started, she strained her eyes and looked again; she bent nearer to it and became agitated with her emotion. If her recollection did not play her false, that was the lost bracelet. She discerned her sister, Lady Adela Netherleigh, and glided up to her. "Adela, who is that lady?" she asked pointing to the stranger. "I don't know who she is," replied Lady Adela, carelessly. "I did not catch the name. They came with the Cadogans." "The idea of your having people in your house that you don't know!" indignantly spoke Frances, who was working herself into a fever. "Where's Sarah, do you know that?" "In the card room, glued to the whist table." Lady Sarah, however, had unglued herself, for Frances only turned from Lady Adela to encourage her. "I do believe your lost bracelet is in the room," she whispered in agitation. "I think I have seen it." "Impossible!" responded Lady Sarah Hope. (To be continued.) KICKING A BILL OUT. Document Actually Kicked Out of House Summary Sir John Knight, a stout old Tory member for Bristol, who in the year 1693 proposed to kick a bill out of the house of commons, got into sad trouble. It was a measure for the naturalization of foreign Protestants, and Sir John, in the course of a violent invective, exclaimed: "Let us first kick the bill out of the house, and then let us kick the foreigners out of the kingdom," this observation being aimed at William's Dutchmen. If not at the king himself. But what Sir John only proposed to do with this bill the commons actually did with another obnoxious measure in 1770, says Good Words. The peers had presumed to alter a money bill by striking out a provision which offered a bounty upon the exportation of corn. The commons, indignant at the treatment of their deputation, who had been contumaciously ejected from the peers' chamber, and further incensed by the fact that on another occasion Burke had been kept waiting three hours at the door of the upper house with a bill sent up by the commons, took the present opportunity to show in emphatic manner that there was at least one privilege on which they would not allow the peers to encroach. The amendment was promptly rejected, and with it the bill. The speaker tossed the document over the table, and members of both parties, as they went out, kicked it toward the door. A Machias, Me., house which was built in 1765 is receiving its third coat of shingles. RISING WATERS DARKEN CITY Lancaster, Pa., Electric Light Plant Rendered Useless by Floods. EASTERN RIVERS ON RAMPAGE. Fairmount Park Drives at Philadelphia Are Under Water—Portions of Long Island Are Inundated—Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge Banked High with Ice. Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 27—Residents of Columbia were in a state of terror last night. The worst flood in many years is being experienced. The ice on the Susquehanna river broke yesterday afternoon and passed down stream. Then the water began to back up, and soon had risen nine feet. The water entered the boiler room of the electric lighting plant, putting the town in darkness. The tracks of the Columbia and Port Deposit railroad are submerged. The large sand dredging trestle has been washed away. Water surrounds the city pumping station. The lace mills will be damaged and the two rolling mills of the Susquehanna Iron company put out of operation. The Conestoga is pouring a great volume of water into the river at Safe Harbor. The stream is higher than it has been for thirty-five years. It damaged the electric light plant, darkening the streets of the city last night. Water at midnight was pouring over the great steel bridge of the Pennsylvania Railroad company which spans the Susquehanna from Columbia to Wrightsville. Philadelphia, Feb. 27.—The Schuylkill river was sixteen feet above its normal level yesterday and is rapidly rising. The mill district of Manayunk, a suburb of this city, is under water, and many of the factories situated along the banks of the river are inundated. A breach forty feet wide has been made in the Flat Rock dam opposite Manayunk by tons of ice which were swept from the upper Schuylkill. The Fairmount park drives skirting the stream are several feet under water, and the streets in the section of the city bordering on the Schuylkill have been transformed into lakes. An ice gorge has been formed, at Gray's Ferry bridge in the lower river, and this is hourly being enlarged by immense floes driven through the break in Flat Rock dam. Should the ice fall to pass out into the Delaware river there is danger of a disastrous freshet along the entire length of the Schuylkill in this city. The high water is due to the warm rain which fell all of Tuesday and Tuesday night. The mountains in the mining regions were covered with snow to a depth of three feet, and this is rapidly melting, greatly swelling the streams which empty into the river. New York, Feb. 27.—Floods which have been caused throughout Long Island by the heavy snowfalls and rains of the past ten days became serious yesterday. Travel is much impeded and in some cases service on the Long Island railroad has been temporarily abandoned. In consequence of the large quantities of sand and depth of water that covered the tracks at several points west of Westbury, all castbound and west-bound trains of the main line and Port Jefferson branch were tied up. The Hospital for Contagious Diseases, on Kingston avenue, Brooklyn, was flooded. There was six feet of water in the boiler and engine rooms and it was impossible to make fire in either of the boilers of the engines. Huntington, W. Va., Feb. 27.—The Ohio river is twenty-six and one-tenth feet and rising rapidly. All the West Virginia streams are still rising. Ten thousand saw logs were swept out of the Guyandotte river by the breaking of booms and other damage is reported. Springlike weather prevails. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 27.—A gale of unusual severity, accompanied by the worst sandstorm for years, has been blowing in this locality since yesterday morning. Considerable damage has been done to smoke stacks and the roofs of houses in the city, and business during the afternoon was entirely suspended. San Diego, Cal., Feb. 27.—Storms on the coast of lower California have been so severe that steamers have been unable to land at any of the ports. Hagerstown, Md., Feb. 27.—James Densmore and Roy Snottler were drowned in the flood in Anietlamp creek at Roses Hill, near Funkstown, while trying to drive across the stream. Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 27—Indications at midnight were that the big ice gorge in the Allegheny river may let go early this morning or during the day sometime. The first sign of a general break-up in the gorge occurred about noon yesterday just below Kittanning. The ice cracked in a number of places at this point, extending from bank to bank. The breaking of the ice made a noise that could be heard for miles and resembled thunder. Pacific Steamer Wrecked. Tokyo, Feb. 7, via Victoria, B. C., Feb. 27.—The new steel steamer Knight Companion was wrecked near Katsura on the southeast "corner" of the Japanese coast Feb. 2. Details are menger, but it is reported that, while the passengers and crew to the number of 109 are safe, the vessel will be a total loss. Miss Stone at Salonika Salonika, Feb. 27.—Miss Stone and Mme. Tsilka and baby have arrived here, well and cheerful. They will start without delay for Constantnople. Notorious Filipino Leader in the Hands of the Americans. Washington, Feb. 27—Gen. Chaffer has notified the War Department that Lieut. Stribler of the Philippine scouts captured Gen. Lucban on the 22d inst. The prisoner is confined at Laguan. Another capture is recorded in the same dispatch, namely, that of William Dunston, said to be a deserter from Co. C, Eighth infantry, who had in his possession a lot of arms and ammunition and all of the tools necessary for the making of ammunition. He was captured by Second Lieutenant Pratt, First infantry, at Caghayan, on the island of Samar. The lieutenant also destroyed the Cuartel and the factory, and killed eleven soldiers, besides capturing all of Dunston's correspondence. The officials of the War Department regard the capture of Lucban as the most important military event since Aguinaldo's capture. He was run down on the island of Samar. The place of his confinement is a tiny island in a bay on the north coast of Samar. Ask Receiver for Paper Company. St. Joseph, Mich., Feb. 27—Nelson E. Funk, Secretary Kaufman Funk and Walter Funk have filed a petition in the circuit court asking a receiver for the Western Book and Paper company of this city. The liabilities will reach $35,000, while assets consist of a brick building and accounts collectable amounting to only $2,000. The bill charges President Moore of Chicago with having "arbitrally and tyrannically" changed the combination of the safe so that Secretary Funk could not gain access to it. London, Feb. 27.—For the first time since his accession King Edward yesterday appeared on the race course. He went to the Kempton park steeple-cally" changed the combination of the chases to see his Grand National candidate, Ambush II, run in the Stand steeplechase. Ambush II won the race and its victory was followed by a scene of wild enthusiasm. The distance was two miles and a half. Injured in Natural Gas Explosions. Kokomo, Ind., Feb. 27.—A natural gas explosion wrecked the home of Mrs. Harriet Achey, and Mrs. Achey, Mrs. Ida Achey and Mrs. Blanche Barrington were buried in the ruins. The women were terribly injured and probably will die. This was the third natural gas explosion in this city in a week. The ground is saturated, the odor being perceptible everywhere, as the large mains are leaking. Boiles Indorsed for Congressman. Marion, III, Feb. 27—The congressional contest in the Cairo district has been settled so far as the Williamson county Republicans are concerned. Senator C. P. Burnett and Judge W. W. Duncan have withdrawn from the race and Marion Boles has been indorsed as the choice of the home candidates. Mr. Boles was chaplain of the Ninth Illinois in the Spanish-American war Hoopeston Arson Case on Trial Hoopeston Arbor Case on Trial. Danville, Ill., Feb. 27.—One hundred and eighty witnesses have been subpoenaed in the case of Benjamin Oppenheim, the Hoopeston clothier charged with arson, whose trial began yesterday in the circuit court. Last fall a fire which commenced in the basement of Oppenheim's store destroyed it and several adjoining buildings in Hoopeston. Insane from Human Rite. La Crosse, Wis., Feb. 27.—Snapping like a mad dog, Ernest Olson, night marshal of the village of Galesville, was committed to the Mendota insane asylum, crazed from the effects of a human bite. Olson arrested Henry Brenker for being drunk. While on the way to the lock-up Brenker bit Olson in the hand. Prosecute Butterline Dealers. Chicago, Sept. 27.—To stop the sale of tons of butterline for butter each week in the Chicago market the state pure food commission has begun the prosecution of all dealers against whom evidence can be found. Twenty-one suits were brought yesterday before Justice Richardson by Assistant Food Commissioner R. M. Patterson. Gulity of Bribery. Grand Raids, Mich., Feb. 27—Henry A. Taylor was convicted in the superior court of bribing city officials and of conspiracy in connection with the water contract with the city. The jury deliberated thirty-two hours before reaching a verdict. Boers Bush British Line London, Feb. 27.—Lord Kitchener reports that 600 Boers driving cattle rushed the outpost near Botha's Berg, Transvaal Colony, the night of Feb. 23, and that some of them got through. The Boers left fifteen dead and six wounded on the field. Lynching at Nortonville, Ill. Jacksonville, Ill., Feb. 27. — Woodford Hughes was shot by a mob early this morning at Nortonville, a small town in the southern part of this county, six miles from a railroad. Hughes was accused of attempted murder, and had been warned to leave the town. New Jersey to Fight Mosquitoes. New York, Feb. 27. — After a long and humorous debate the New Jersey assembly has passed the mosquito-exterminating bill by a vote of 48 to 9. The bill appropriates $10,000 for the purpose. The money is to be expended by the state entomologist. Roosevelt to Take a Vacation. New York, Feb. 27. — President Roosevelt has decided to spend a week in April fishing trout in the Allegheny mountain streams of Garrett county, Maryland, sixty miles west of Cumberland. CITY. PRIMARIES, MARCH 7. 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. Please announce my name as a candidate for Police Judge, subject to the Republican Convention. I, L. Silvara. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for City Treasurer for my second term, subject to the city primaries. Harry F. Gross. Please announce my name as a candidate for Alderman of Fourth ward, subject to the decision of Republican Convention. R. Van Dyck. Please announce my name as a candidate for Alderman of the Fifth ward, subject to the republican convention. Robert Turner, I am a republican candidate for the office of Police Judge, and I want your vote. E. F. Saltenback. Please announce my name as a candidate for Alderman of Fifth ward, subject to the decision of the republican convention. John Harley. I am a candidate for the office of Police Judge, subject to the republican primaries. L. B. Callender. John H. Hill announces himself as a candidate for city assessor, subject to the republican convention. Please announce my name as a candidate for alderman of the First ward, subject to the decision of the city primaries. B. F. Prunty. John W. Budd, at the request of his friends, has announced himself as a candidate for the nomination of city engineer, subject to the republican primaries. I hereby announce my name as a candidate for alderman of the Second ward, subject to the decision of the republican primaries. John Connolly. I hereby announce my name as a candidate for Alderman of the First ward, subject to the decision of the city primaries March 7th. J. F. Calkins. I hereby announce my name as a candidate for Alderman of the Second Ward, subject to the decision of the republican primaries. A. L. Smith. I hereby announce my name as a candidate for Alderman at Large, for West Des Moines, subject to the decision of republican city primaries. Geo. M. King. Having been in the exclusive practice of the law for the past nineteen years in Des Moines, I will be a candidate for the office of city solicitor, subject to the Republican city convention. W. A. Connolly. Please announce my name as a candidate for alderman of the Fifth Ward, subject to the city convention. Wanson. COUNTY. PRIMARIES, MARCH 7 The friends of Judge Holmes has announced his name as one of the candidates for Judge of the District Court, subject to the republican convention. C. P. Holmes. I hereby announce my name by the request of my many friends, as a candidate for Congress from the 7th Congressional District. S. F. Prouty. Mr. Crom Bowen is a candidate for judge of the district court. The name of James A. Howe is before the republican voters of this county for one of the judges of this district. The name of W. H. McHenry is announced as a candidate for judge. The name of Hugh Brennan is announced as a candidate for Judge of the district court. The only East Side candidate for such a place. I am a candidate for District Judge, subject to the decision of the republican county primaries. W. H. Bailey. I hereby announce my name as a candidate for the office of District Judge, subject to the decision of the reublican primaries and convention. L. Kinkead. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of district judge, subject to the decision of the republican primaries. Nelson Royal. I am a candidate for the office of district judge, subject to the decision of the republican primaries and convention. John J. Halloran. Please announce me as a candidate for the office of County Recorder, subject to the decision of the republican county convention. I hereby announce my name as candidate for County Recorder, subject to republican convention. Grant Henry. Please announce my name as a candidate for Justice of Peace of Lee Township, subject to the county convention. G. J. Lynch. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election for the office of Justice of Peace, subject to the republican convention. W. A. Tris. I am a candidate for County Attorney, subject to the republican county primaries. A. L. Steele. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-nomination as Justice of the Peace of Des Moines Township; having served one term. F. E. Duncan. Mr. W. H. Canaday announces himself as a candidate for County Recorder subject to the will of the republican county primaries. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the position of Constable of Des Moines Township, subject to the primaries to be held on March 7. J. F. Johnson. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for county clerk, subject to the action of the republican primaries. B. F. Coffin. Benjamin J. Fuller announces himself as a candidate for justice of the peace of Des Moines township, subject to the will of the republican primaries. I hereby announce my name as a candidate for Supervision of the Fourth district for my second term, subject to the convention. Chas. W. Britton. I hereby announce my name as a candidate for Constable of Lee Township, subject to the convention. John M. Dailey. Please announce my name as a candidate for County Recorder, subject to the decision of the republican county convention. F. A. Tomlinson. Please announce my name as a candidate for County Coroner, subject to the republican primaries. Dr. W. H. Crydeler. Sold at all drug stores. Price, 25c. in large cans. Complete One Month's Treatment. If your druggist does not keep it he will get it for you, or we will mail it to any address, securely wrapped on receipt of 30c. in stamps or silver. For testimonials and full information, address Please announce my name as a candidate for Constable of Des Moines Township, subject to republican county primaries. O. C. Riddle. Please announce my name as a candidate for County Recorder subject to the action of the republican primaries. Frank G. Arthur. ALBIA NOTES. Mr. and Mrs. Reese Underwood, and Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Rood of Hilton spent Sunday in Albia. Mrs. G. A. Davis and Mrs. Ward were Hilton visitors Sunday. Some of the Alkis people assisted in an entertainment in Hilton Saturday night. The young crowd of boys and girls gave a dance in thr Masonic hall Saturday evening. A few visitors from surrounding towns were present. Mrs. Moss Johnson has been quite sick this week. The minester of the A. M. E. church and quite a number of his members held prayer services with grandma Burton Tuesday evening. CLINTON ITEMS. Mrs. F. E. McNeil is confined to her room on account of illness. Hve. P. H. Taylor returned to Muscatine last week, after a pleasant visit with his family We understand another Ladies' Soesley was organized on Monday afternoon, as auxiliary to Bethel church. The annual election of trustees for Bethel A. M. E. church was held on Monday night. The following being elected for the ensuing year. J. T. Culberson, M. O. Culberson, A. L. Meadows, S. C. Smith, A. A. Bush, Fred. Aikens, Wm. Henderson. At the close of the election the trustees held a short session for organisation. Fred Aikens being elected Treasurer. Geo. H. Woodson has been secured for a date in April, to give one of his celebrated addresses on the entertainment course of the A. M. E. church, given under the auspices of the trustees. TRICK OF VOICE. Snow One Lawyer Keeps the Judge From Sleeping. There is said to be a lawyer in Philadelphia who possesses a trick of the voice to which a certain measure of his success in United States Supreme court practice is due. The trick consists in waking a judge. Whether it is a common practice for the high dignitaries of the federal supreme bench to indulge in a nap in the course of a long and tedious argument, such happenings are not unknown, and it is well for an able logician of the bar to be prepared for it. The trick of waking a sleepy judge would seem to be something in the nature of slamming a law book under his nose or connecting his personality with the current of an electric battery. 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His first venture will be a collection of the poems of his friend Austin Dobson which have been written since July, 1899, when the last edition of his collected poems was published. The new book will contain about thirty pieces, among them being poems on the war and on the late queen. Mr. Gosse intends to charge $3.20 for each copy. A new book on "Modern Strategy," which is said to be a work of importance, will be published soon. It is the work of Capt. Walter H. James of the British army. It is a treatise on the strategy of today and deals with the effect which railroads and telegraphs and the increase of newspapers have had on war. The campaigns chosen to illustrate it are chiefly taken from the Napoleonic wars and those of recent times. At the end of the book a chapter has been added on the effect of modern weapons upon tactics. IN A NUTSHELL. in size, not counting colonies, the European powers stand in this order: Russia, Austria, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy. Filipinos Make Good Servants. An army officer who recently returned from our Pacific possessions says: "The Filipinos, whatever may be their faults, make the best servants in the world, if you can cure them of petty thievery. Overcome that, and you have an ideal servant. At home here we are confronted everlastingly by the servant-girl proposition. Bring the Filipino men here and the servant girl will be a dead issue. The men are small, active and not afraid of work. They could be trained to do general housework, just as the Chinese do out on the Pacific coast." Judge Has a Good Voice William Jefferson Pollard, known as "the stouter of all Missouri," is now judge of the Fourth District Court of St. Louis. 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Jones: You are hereby solicited the 20th day of February, A. D. 1902, the pition of plaintiff in the above entitled cause will be filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Folk County, Iowa, claiming of you an absolute divorce on the grounds of wilful desertion. For full particulars see the petition when you appear thereto and defend unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the next term, being the March term so said Court, which will commence a Des Moines, on the 3rd day of March 1903, default will be entered against you and judgment and decree rendered thereon. Dated this 29 day of January 1902. I. E. WILLIAMSON. Attorney for Plaintiff. 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. MAGN 56. Paul A. M. E.—Corner of Second and Center Streets. Preaching at 10:30 a. m.; Sunday School at 3 o'clock; Epworth League at 7 p. m.; preaching at 8 p. m. L. J. Philips, pastor. First African Baptist Church—Corner School and Fourth streets. Rev. R. E. Houston; preaching 10:30 a. m.; Sunday school 9:30 p. m., Mr. M. E. Houston; superintendent; Young People's meeting 7 p. m., preaching 8:00 p. m. Burn's M. E.—East Second and Des Moines street.; Sunday services, preaching at 11:00 a. m. and 4 p. m. Sunday School at 12:30. Prayer and Class meeting, Wednesday 8 p. m. C. W. Holmes, pastor, 300 Des Moines street. Mount Nebo Baptist Church—E. Second street, between Lucent and Grand avenue—Sunday service, preaching at 11 a. m.; Sunday School 19:30 p. m., superintendent, Rose Johnson. Preaching at 8 p. m. Rev. J. H Bell, pastor. Quincy Baptist Church Mission—Situated over 605 East Avenue, m.; Sunday School 9:00 a. m.; preaching at 8 p. m. Rev. J. R. Winch pastor. North Star Lodge, No. 9, A, F. A. M.-Meets First Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall on Fourth Avenue, J. H. Shepard, W. M.; T. S. Ruf, Courtney, J. Ring Solomon Commandery, No. 6 - Meets Second and Fourth Thursday in each month at Masonic hall. Frud Jackson, M. C.; G. H. Clegrett, Rec. Naomi Court, No. 3 - meets Second Monday in each month at Masonic hall, Mrs. J. H. Shepard, matron; Mrs. Fred Jackson, secretary. Mr. Olive Court, No. 4 - Meets First Thursday of each month at Masonic hall, Mrs. R. A. Wilburn, matron; Mrs. Georgia Middgett secretary. Olivia Court, No. 2192, G. U. O. of O. F.-Meets First, Second and Third Tuesday each month at Odd Fellows hall on West Sixth and Walnut streets. D. Burns, N. G.; F. Brown P. S. H. H. of R., No. 393 of G. U. O. of O. F.-Concludes first and third Thursday in each month, promptly at 8 o'clock. Mrs. B. J. Holmes, M. N. G. M. G. L. Williams, W. R. Knights and Ladies of Honor of the World No. 178 Victoria Lodge-meets every Monday; evening Webster's Hall corner of Tenth Court; Mrs. F. A. Wood, Proctor Mrs. Rose Johnson, Rec. Corner of Fourteen and Blondau Streets, Pastor F. J. Peterson D. D, Residence 1818 Fulton Street. Services Preaching 10:30 m and 7:30 p m. Class 19:00 o'clock at 2:30 p m. Marian Endearce 6:30 p m; Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7:30 p m; Class meeting Friday 7:30 p m. All are welcome to those services Chile Seeks Steamship Line. Senor Salvador Cafiero has presented to the Chilean government a project for a new fast line of steamers between the Pacific and Mediterranean ports, with headquarters at Valparaiso and a capital 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. Excellence discriminate justly between mechanical construction is wisely judge their work. LITIES OF A FAMILY SEWING-PERFECTLY COMBINED IN . STABILITY— so that it will wear the longest with the least repairs. STYLE— so that it will be an ornament to the home. WAYS GOOD WORK. maintain their supremacy the Singer trade-mark aion. MANUFACTURING CO. ITY IN THE WORLD. The Standard of Excellence The average woman cannot discriminate by machines, so far as their mechanical concerned, but she can always wisely judge. ALL THE ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF THE MACHINE ARE MOST PERFECTLY SIMPLICITY— so it can be easily adjusted, and won't get out of order. SPEED— so that it will do the most work with the least effort. SINGER SEWING MACHINES SINGER WORK IS ALWAYS GREAT This is why Singer Machines maintain the all over the world, making the Singer reliable guarantee of perfection. THE SINGER MANUFACTURE OFFICES IN EVERY CITY IN THE The average woman cannot discriminate justly between machines, so far as their mechanical construction is concerned, but she can always wisely judge their work. ALL THE ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF A FAMILY SEWING MACHINE ARE MOST PERFECTLY COMBINED IN . . . SIMPLICITY— so it can be easily adjusted, and won't get out of order. SPEED— so that it will do the most work with the least effort. SINGER SEWING MACHINES STABILITY— so that it will wear the longest with the least repairs. STYLE— so that it will be an ornament to the home. PEOPLES STEAM LAU Shirts.....8 Collars.....2 Cuffs.....4 Iowa Phone 839. 531-5 AUNDRY .8c .2c .4c 531-533 Sixth Ave. Shirts.....8c Collars.....2c Cuffs.....4c Iowa Phone 839. 531-533 Sixth Ave. Coal Is King C. E. Myers & Co. 56-58 Clapp Block. Coal and ...Coke... DES MOINES, IOWA. We carry the choicest stock of High Grade Coals in the City NUMA BLOCK AND COLFAX LUMP Retail Office 515 W. Sixth Ave. Iowa Phone 49. Mutual Phone 1359. 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. In the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk county. John E. Mason vs. Cora E. Mason. March term A. D. 1902 To Cora E. Mason: 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 that is now existing between you and plaintiff, on the grounds of desertion without a cause, and such other relief as may be just and equitable, and unless you appear and make defense thereto, on or before noon of the 4th day of March of 1902 term of court which is held at the court house at Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, default will be rendered against you and decree rendered thereon as prayed for in the petition. Dated the 28th day of January A. D. 1902. J. B. RUSH, Attorney for plaintiff. ORIGINAL NOTICE. In the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk County. Katherine Bullard vs. James H. Bullard March term, A. D. 1902. To James H. Bullard: 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 that is now existing between you and plaintiff, on the grounds of desertion without a cause, and such other relief as may be just and equitable, and unless you appear and make defense thereto, on or before noon of the 4th day of March, A. D., 1902, which is the second day of said March 1002 term of court, which is held at the court house at Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, default will be rendered against you and decree rendered thereon as prayed for in the petition. Dated the 28 day of January A. D. 1902. J. B. RUSH. Attorney for plaintiff. The Corinthian baptist Church — situated on 11th St., between Crocker and School Sts. Prescingt; at 11 A.M.; Sunday School; at 12 o'clock Preaching; at P. M.; at 12 o'clock B pastor; at 11 B pastor. SECRET ORDERS. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURGH KEOKUK. IOWA Chile Seeks Steamship Line. J. B. H. TOMLINSON FOR RECORDER. Mr. F. A. Tomlinson of Grimes, Webster township, is a strong candidate for the office of county recorder. He was born in Ohio in 1847; came to this county in 1878, settling in Webster township where he has remained every since, and by his hard work and good judgment he has made a success at farming. He is a staunch republican; has been a delegate to many county and state conventions. Never held an elective office, and now is the only candidate from the farm that is asking for any county office this year, and it is generally conceded that the country is entitled to some recognition. His many friends are working very hard for him. He is a friend to the colored race. J. H. CONNOLLY FOR ALDERMAN. The friends of Mr. John Connolly has brought him out as a candidate for alderman from the Second Ward. He was born 43 years ago and has spent 27 years in Des Moines, which no doubt makes him familiar with the needs of our growing city. He is a stereotypy by trade and at present journal clerk of the State Senate. He has always labored for the republican party; was an active worker for Hon. A. B. Cummins; and has been a delegate to many county and state conventions. He is young, ambitious, able, and courteous to all, and will if nominated and elected make a strong councilman. His friends are working hard for his nomination. What a Fun Did A girl named Ackerman, aged 14, daughter of an English laborer, has just completed her education. She has never missed being present since the school was opened, and in completing her 3,451 attendances is said to have walked 6,000 miles. She has passed every standard successfully and in the three subjects on first grade drawing obtained "excellent" prizes in free-hand and model, as also in the three stages of the specific subjects, literature, domestic economy and animal physiology, and in one stage in physical geography. She has also obtained 26 other prizes for good attendance, sculpture, knitting, eta AS TRUE AS GOSPEL There is always compensation. Our angels go out that our archangels may come in. Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable. It is poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mein, inventions and actions of others. What an absurd thing it is to pass over the valuable part of a man, and fix our attentions on his infirmities. Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest, manly principle will daily accumulate. A greater value should be set on having received instructive and useful lessons than of possessing great store of wealth; for the latter is transitory good, the former is durable. There is scarcely a generalization for one sex which does not apply equally to the other, so perfectly alike in nature are men and women. The difference is only in circumstances. { KING FOR ALDERMAN AT LARGE Geo. M. King, one of our well known and highly esteemed Des Moines men, is a candidate for alderman at large from West Des Moines. He was born in our city in 1868, and was raised and educated here. After finishing the city public schools he took a business course at the Capital City Commercial College and later attended the Drake University. He lives in the Second precinct of the First ward, where he has always been. He is just finishing his second term as city engineer and has discharged the duties to the satisfaction of all; having just made some specification for city grades and bridges, he is also perfectly familiar with all the sewers, bridges, curbing and grading in the city, which will no doubt give him information that will be helpful to the council. In fact his knowledge of the engineers depratment will be valuable. He is an honest worthy young man and friendly to the colored race and will be glad to receive their support. Chinatown, in San Francisco, according to the president of the board of health, should be burned. As it is at present, it cannot be rendered sanitary except by total obliteration. PETER H. BURTON Our highly esteemed citizen Mr. Herman Swanson of the East Side, is a candidate for alderman of the Fifth Ward. He was born in 1862; came to Des Moines 20 years ago and has been employed by one company all that time. Twenty years for the Des Moines Ice Co., which is certainly evidence of his honesty, fidelity, worth and qualification. Eor the past 10 years he has superintended the outside work of the Ice Co. He has never asked or held an office; has been a life long republican and is a friend to the colored man, and has never made any distinction as to race or nationality in hiring his men. He is polite, sociable, careful and painstaking and soicits your support in his behalf. L. B. CALLENDER, Candidate for Police Judge M. B. J. F. JOHNSON. Candidate for Constable of Des Moines Township. HARLEY FOR ALDERMAN. Mr. John Harley, a highly esteemed citizen on the East Side is a candidate for alderman of the Fifth ward. He was born in Indiana in 1843; came to Iowa in 1846 and to Polk county 53 years ago and has lived in the Fifth ward 37 years. He is a harness maker by trade and has a shop at 225 W. Third street, where by his hard honest work and close attention to business he has made a success. He has always been a good republican; never asked or held an elective office in this city. He is well qualified and would make an excellent man for city councilman. An Atchison father who has a razorworthless son sent him adrift on Saturday at noon, saying he never wanted to as him again. The young man's mother carried on in a pitiful way, but the father was inexorable, the young man must get out and shift for himself. The young man went away saying he would return a rich man soon day and make his father ashamed on himself? His mother said he was a noble boy, and swoooned. This 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 customed appetite. The father said nothing, but the mother waited on her son with unusual care, as though he had returned with the fortune he had talked about at noon—Atchison Globa CONNOLLY FOR CITY SOLICITOR. The friends of W. A. Connolly has presented his name as a candidate for city solicitor. He is an Iowaian by birth; attended the State University at Iowa City, graduated from the law department of the University in June 1882, and was admitted to the bar by the Supreme and Federal courts—came to this city 19 years ago and has been practicing every since. He has been connected with two medical colleges of this city where he has held the chair 17 of medical jurisprudence for 7 years. By his honest integrity and legal ability he has been successful in his chosen profession. He has never held an elective office. Four years ago he was a candidate for the same office and carried the entire business section of the city, was second in the race, and was only beaten by the slate that was made. He is a staunch republican worker and has always helped others to office and now his friends feel as though it is time for him to hold an office. He is a true friend to the colored people and solicit your vote. ARTHUR FOR RECORDER. Frank G. Arthur has announced himself as a candidate for County Recorder. Mr. Arthur has always been active in politics, having been Secretary of the Republican County Committee three years ago, and is at present the treasurer of the committee. He was deputy recorder the past three years and is well qualified for the office, and is entitled to pro- PETER H. BURKE motion as an acknowledgment of faithful service, both in office and to the Republican party. Mr. Arthur was reared and worked on a farm in Deleware township, taught school winters and is being strongly supported by the farmers of the county, who insist that he is entitled to the office and believe he will be the next Recorder. He has been a resident of Polk county for the past twenty-five years. He will no doubt treat the colored people fair if he is successful. 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 automobiles and bicycles, as well as for the use of the farmer, is a thing that the Automobile club of America will try to bring about. The subject was seriously discussed at a banquet, in honor of members of the National Highway Commission, at the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York, when plans were made and the route announced. Besides a direct path from New York to San Francisco, passing through Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and Ogden the club wants a highway along each coast. Congress will be asked to appropriate one-third of the expense, and the states, counties, townships and cities en route will be asked to pay the rest; the owners of property benefited to donate the right-of-way. The club and highway commission have on their list of membership the names of some of the foremost men of America. --- SENATORS UNABLE TO FIX PENALTY They Fail to Agree on Punishment for Tillman and McLaurin. REFERRED TO SUBCOMMITTEE. Democrats Demand That No Favor Be Shown to Either Senator, Holding That Both Are Equally Gully—Suspension Opposed on Political Grounds. Washington, Feb. 27.—The tangle in which the United States Senate has involved itself since the Tillman-McLauri fist fight of last Saturday is an engrossing topic in legislative Washington. Even Prince Henry is momentarily forgotten by the grave and perplexed statesmen. The Senate is doing no business—has been a nonentity for two days, and it is getting deeper into the mire. No light is in sight. The sessions of the committee on privileges and elections yesterday indicate the pitfalls ahead. The Republican senators would punish Tillman more than McLaurin and the Democrats would mete out to both belligents the same dose of justice. Joseph W. Bailey of Texas, one of the new senators, who is on a sub-committee appointed yesterday by Chairman Burrows of the committee on privileges and elections, says he would favor expulsion rather than suspension, because expulsion would be constitutionally permissible. The other members of this sub-committee are Senators Burrows, Foraker and Hoar, Republicans, and Senator Pettus, Democrat. The subcommittee is expected to plan a compromise scheme which it will present to the full committee Friday. There is small hope that, if a compromise plan is adopted by the subsidiary body, it will be favored by the regular committee. Senator Pritchard of North Carolina, in championing Mr. McLaurain's cause, threatened to oppose any agreement which contemplated a like punishment for both the disgraced senators. Mr. Pritchard believes Mr. McLaurain should be censured and Mr. Tillman required to make an abject apology. Mr. Bailey declares that suspension is not to be thought of; other senators side with Mr. Pritchard and many with Mr. Bailey. "Suspension would mean temporary expulsion," said Senator Bailey in speaking of the matter. "It would prohibit South Carolina replacing the offending senators with other representatives. It requires a two-thirds vote to expel a senator and he may be replaced by the governor of his state immediately. If suspension is to be permitted a majority vote only would be required. A majority then would have at its power to accomplish all the penalties of expulsion and more." Senator Bailey pointed out the case with which in case of a nearly equal vote on the question the majority might suspend two or more senators to make up the necessary two-thirds such as the existing condition demands in his opinion. He also said the Paris treaty was ratified by a very close vote, and applying this interpretation to that situation he asked, "Would not a majority of the Senate have been able by simply suspending a sufficient number of members for a week to secure the required two-thirds vote and ratify that treaty?" From all the evidence at hand it appears that the Democrats are anxious that the Republicans shall not show McLaurin any favor over Tillman. The Democrats think, it is reported, that the Republicans like McLaurin for various reasons and do not like Tillman for other reasons. The Democrats say that if the Republicans favor McLaurin the other side of the Senate will not, and hence it will insist on no discrimination being made to ease the disgrace in store for the junior senator from the Palmetto State. This feeling among the two parties as represented in the Senate was clearly brought out at the sessions of the committee yesterday. In the free discussion of the matters the Republican members virtually proclaimed their belief in the justice of showing McLaurin greater moray than Tillman should get. Washington. Feb. 27.—Lieutenant Governor James H. Tillman, a nephew of the senator, sent the following telegram to President Roosevelt: A short while ago I had the honor to address your excellency a letter requesting that on the occasion of your visit to Charleston you present a sword to Major Micah Jenkins of the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, of whose gallant services you spoke so highly, your words being engraved on the scabbard. You accepted the invitation, for which we thank you. I am now requested by contributors to the sword fund to ask that you withdraw said accentance. JAMES H. TILLMAN. Late Colonel First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry and Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. Lieutenant Governor Tillman is said to have explained the sending of the dispatch in this way: "It is with much regret that I am directed, or rather required, to send the telegram I did, especially in view of the fact that I am so closely related to one who but a few days ago was subjected to an at- front which was seemingly, or at least the people who contributed to the purchase of the sword think, unwarranted." **Collector Refuses to Obey Orders.** Washington, Feb. 27.—Some time ago the Secretary of the Treasury received information to the effect that J. K. Ivey, collector of customs at Sitka, had instructed his deputy at Alauska not to permit Canadian vessels presumably about to engage in pelagic sealing to obtain supplies at that port. The collector was informed that if such orders had been given they must be rescinded. Yesterday the department received a telegram from Mr. Ivey, saying: "My instructions were not against vessels engaged in alleged legal seal fishing, but against Canadian vessels actually engaged in pelagic sealing, which is illegal and criminal when committed within the marine jurisdiction of the United States. My Americanism will not allow me to rescind an order which gives Bri.sh subjects privileges within our marine jurisdiction which are denied to our own people." McKinley Memorial Fund. Washington, Feb. 27.—There was a meeting here yesterday of the trustees of the McKinley National Memorial Association, which is engaged in raising a fund for the construction of a memorial at Canton, Ohio. Treasurer Herrick and secretary Ritchie made reports and returns were received from state and territorial auxiliaries. While reports from some sections were not encouraging, the trustees on the whole are much pleased with the results thus far obtained in the effort to raise the amount needed, viz., $650,000. This figure, it is explained, comprehends the establishment of an endowment fund, the proceeds of which are for the care, guarding and preservation of the memorial. Rural Delivery Fight: Washington, Feb. 27.—Monday the fight to have the rural mails delivered by contract will be taken up in the House of Representatives, under the leadership of Mr. Loud, chairman of the postoffice committee. This decision was reached by the House yesterday. Mr. Loud is persistent in his efforts to remove from the government pay rolls the names of all rural free delivery carriers, and he attempted to do so by an amendment to the regular postoffice appropriation bill. The friends of the existing service have formed an opposition and assert that about two-thirds of the members of the House will vote against the contract proposition. Philippine Bill In Conference Washington, Feb. 27.—The House sent the Philippine tariff bill to conference, non-concurring with the Senate amendments. The Democrats sought to amend the amendments by reducing the rate of duty and declaring that the United States should re-qualify all claim to the archipelago, but all their propositions were defeated. Mr. Tawney of Minnesota made a personal explanation regarding Gov. Toole of Montana, saying that in formally classing the governor as an opponent of Gov. Van Sant in the railroad merger case he had been under a misapprehension. The Senate transacted no business. Agree on Census Bill. Washington, Feb. 27.—The conferences of the two houses of Congress on the bill creating a permanent census bureau reached an agreement yesterday. The bill as agreed upon embodies most of the amendments made in the Senate though some of them are retained in modified forms. The Senate provision placing all employees at the time of the signing of the bill except unskilled laborers under the provisions of the civil service law is retained. The provision requiring future appointments to be made under the civil service law was modified by the conference so as to make the requirement applicable only to permanent appointments. Washington Notes. Washington. Feb. 27—Governor Taft continued yesterday his statement before the insular committee of the House. He emphasized the need of increasing the appropriation for permanent military posts. He said there should be a thousand more American teachers in the island, and stated it would be desirable for Congress to guarantee the bonds to be issued for the purchase of the poor land, so it would secure a low interest rate. The proposed limitation of work to eight hours a day on government contracts was again before the labor committee of the House, representatives of several large concerns doing government work appearing in opposition. Senator Mason left here at noon yesterday for Chicago, where he will deliver an address to-night before the Hamilton Club. Captain Robert Field, Fifth Infantry, has been ordered to Chicago to serve as a member of the examining board, relieving the judge advocate. The Illinois Democratic delegation in the House selected Representative George P. Foster of Chicago as the Illinois member of the Democratic national committee. Capital Punishment for Burglars. Asheville, N. C., Feb. 27.—Two burglars were hanged yesterday. They were Frank Johnson, white, and Ben Foster, colored. Four men were convicted of the crime, but the sentence of death in the cases of two was changed to life imprisonment by the governor. Congressman Brick Benominated. Congressman Brick renominated Plymouth, Ind., Feb. 27—Abraham Lincoln Brick was renominated for congress yesterday by the Republican convention of the Thirteenth district for his third term. CONGRESS Washington, Feb. 24.—Senate. After eight hours of tumultuous debate today the senate, shortly before 7 o'clock this evening, passed the Philippine tariff bill by a vote of 46 to 26, a majority. They told Tillman and McLaurin, the two senators from South Carolina, who on Saturday last were declared by the senate to be in contempt because of their fight in the chamber, were not permitted by voice or by vote to participate in the proceedings. The question as to their right to vote precipitated a sharp debate lasting nearly two hours. Then, in a vote of 46 to 26, Washington, considered vigorously for the right of the two senators to cast their votes and he was sustained by Patterson, democrat, of Colorado; Bailey, democrat, of Texas, and other democrats. They held that even though the two senators actually were under arrest and in the custody of the sergeant at arms, they could demand that they be allowed to vote, as the state has demanded to the state. Foraker, Aldrich and other democrats held that the senators clearly could not participate of the senate until they had purged themselves of contempt and the senate had removed the ban placed upon them. The president pro tem, held that the two senators could not vote and he was sustained by a majority of the senate. They were offered to the Philippine bill McComas and Wellington of Maryland became involved in a controversy, during the course of which the latter declared that if McComas should make his statements outside of the senate chamber he would brand them as a malicious falsehood. He was called to order promptly and resumed his seat amid considerable excitement. The senate was offered to the Philippine bill but except those offered by the committee, only one, an amendment restricting the operation of the sedition laws enacted by the Taft commission, was passed. The amendment of Foraker, fixing the rate of duties levied upon products coming into the United States from the Philippines at 50 per cent of the Dingley rates, instead of 75 per cent, as fixed in the Taft commission, it was offered a large republican vote. Had the democrats voted for it as a party it would have carried, but many democrats voted against it. House.—The house today passed a bill to divide Texas into four judicial districts and also the Tawney resolution calling on the secretary of war for information concerning the transfer of sugar lands in Cuba since the American occupation. It then transacted some business pertaining to the District of Columbia, and later took up the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. Washington, Feb. 25.—Senate.—The most important development today in connection with the Tillman-McLaurin episode of last Saturday was the act of Senator Frye, president pro tempore of the senate, in ordering the clerk of the senate to restore the names of the two South Carolina senators to the senate roll. If the present plan is carried out this act will be followed by the adoption by the senate of a resolution endorsing the act of the president, pro tem in ordering their names erased and suspending the two senators for some definite time. The senate adjourned within fifteen minutes aft. r it convened. House. —The house today passed the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. It was the fifth of the regular annual supply measures to be sent to the senate at this session. No amendments of importance were adopted. The feature of the day was the speech of Richardson, of Alabama, in reply to Corliss speech a few days earlier in favor of the construction of a Pacific cable by the government. The question of reforming the consular service was ebbed at some length, but no amendments on that subject were offered. Washington, Feb. 26. —Senate. —Immediately after the senate convened Burrows, of Michigan, chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, was recognized. He said that the committee was in the midst of the consideration of a very important question, a decision upon which had not been reached. By instruction of the committee he requested the senate adjourn. Without objection the motion was carried and the senate adjourned. House.—The house today sent the Philippine tariff bill to conference, non-concurring in all the senate amendments. The democrats sought to amend the amendments by reducing the rate of duty and declaring the United States should relinquish all claim to the archipelago, but all propositions were defeated. Tanner of Minnesota, made a personal explanation regarding Governor Teole of the senate, asking the governor to classify the governor as an opponent of Governor Van Sant in the railroad merger case he had been under a misapprehension. The ways and means committee divided on party lines today on a motion to non-concur in the senate amendments to the Philippine tariff bill, the democrats voting against the motion, which prevailed. LAUNCHING OF "METEOR." President and Prince Henry See Boat Take the Water. New York, Feb. 26.—Before the luncheon given on the imperial yacht, Hohenzollern, yesterday, in honor of President Roosevelt by Prince Henry of Prussia, a golden bracelet with a picture of Kaiser Wilhelm in diamonds was presented to Miss Alice Roosevelt. It was the emperor's gift to the young lady as sponsor for the new yacht "Meteor." The presentation was made by Prince Henry on behalf of his brother, the emperor. The prince made a brief speech and the young lady thanked him very much. The bracelet is of very handsome workmanship and the protrait of the emperor is in excellent condition. New York, Feb. 26.—In a dazzling rain and in the presence of a brilliant assemblage, amidst cheering and the roar of cannon the German emperor's new schooner yacht "Meteor" was launched from Shooter's island ves- today. Unlike the weather the arrangements were perfect and no untoward incident marred the occasion. The president, Mrs. and Miss Roosevelt, Prince Henry and the distinguished party accompanying them were enthusiastically cheered on arriving at the platform built just back of the bow of the Meteor. Without delay after greetings had been received the German forward and taking hold of a silver covered bottle containing German champagne broke it on the side of the vessel. Immediately she seized a silver axe and severed the rope which released the weights holding the "Meteor." The vessel went gracefully into the water with the American flag breaking out at the taff rail. American and German national airs were played and from the scores of craft containing exhibitionists came out of the water during the evening. At the luncheon on the Hohenzollern queince addressed the president as follows: "Mr. Roosevelt, you are here on board as guest of his majesty, the German emperor, and I really believe that it is the first time that a president of the United States of America has ever been on board of his majesty's ships. Please God it may not be the last time. I wish to thank you heartily for the reception I have had from the first day I landed up to this moment, and it is my since I have been a strong feeling of personal friendship arising between us. May it extend to the benefit of our two great nations. I propose three cheers for Mr. Roosevelt." (National anthem played.) The president arose directly to answer, saving: "I wish to express my hearty thanks for the kind words your royal highness has expressed on my benalf and I wish you to understand that it is no empty compliment when I say that your royal highness has already won a genuine place in our affections and in your life. I highly appreciate the fact that his majesty, the German emperor, has sent you to the American people, and I thank you personally that you have taken a step which naturally must knit closer together the two great nations, whose friendship means so much for the future welfare of the entire world. To express finally a personal wish of my own, I look forward with great pleasure to the day that I will be bestowed with the capacity as admiral on board one of your battleships." (Cheers for the prince.) MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD. Prince Henry Attends Exercises in the House. Washington, Feb. 28.—At noon yesterday in the great hall of representatives, in the presence of President Roosevelt, Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the German emperor, the members of the cabinet, the justices of the supreme court, the general of the army and officers of the army and navy who have received the thanks of congress, the ambassadors and other diplomatic representatives of foreign countries, the senators and representatives in congress and a large number of distinguished officers, John Hay McKinley's premier, pronounced an eulogy upon his dead chief. Four times before, national memorial services for presidents who have died in office have been held in this hall, two of them, like this one, in commemoration of chief magistrates who have fallen by the hand of assassins. George Bancroft, the historian, pronounced the eulogy on Lincoln, and Blaine was Garfield's orator. It was eminent that he was the first president of sorrow for the lamented McKinley should take place in the forum which had echoed his voice, in the arena where he won his spurs. A striking coincidence was the twentieth anniversary of that on which the peerless Blaine, in the same hall, delivered his eulogy upon the martyred Garfield, and, stranger still, the subject of yesterday's memorial service was the chairman of the committee on that occasion. Who then could have dreamed that the man who escorted the then president of the United States and the orator of the day to their places was destined to be honored, like Garfield, with the highest place in the gift of his country, was to meet his sad fate and was himself to be the next martyred president above those open grave the nation had been laid to rest in one year ago, less five days, at the head of an imposing civic and military procession McKinley passed triumphantly along Pennsylvania avenue for his second inauguration. Six months later the tragedy occurred at Buffalo and another but different sort of procession tenderly bore his body through the streets to the rotunda of the capital, where the brief funeral service was held, and the tributes of the nations of the earth about his bier bespoke the universal sorrow. Yesterday, once more with uncovered head, the nation paid its last tribute of respect and publicly expressed its living grief. MISS STONE WAS RELEASED. Captive American Missionary Finally Freed by Turkish Brigades Constance,imple. Feb. 25. Miss Stone has been released and arrived at Strumitza, Macedonia, at 3 o'clock Sunday morning. Nobody at Strumitza met Miss Stone, as the brigands had given no indications of where they proposed to release the prisoners. Mme. Tsilka and baby were released at the same time. The first news of the release came from Dickinson, the American consul general at Salonika. Miss Stone will proceed to Salonika at once. Shaw Makes an Address. Chicago, Feb. 28.—Secretary of the Treasury Shaw was the principal speaker at the banquet of the National Business League, held last night at the Auditorium. His subject was "Commerce and Industries of the West," and his utterances were received with much attention, it being one of the first public speeches made by him since his appointment to his present office. Poor Jonah must have felt considerably down in the mouth after being taken in out of the wet. NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL Des Moines. Feb. 25, 1902. Auditor of state Merriam has received word through Judge Carr of this city that he advised the protesting foreign insurance companies which are engaged in a controversy with the state department, to withdraw their protests. These were filed with the treasurer of state when payment was made of the $3½ per cent tax imposed for the privilege of transacting business in the state. Four of them also accompanied the application to the auditor for certificates permitting them to transact business in the state. Auditor Merriam claimed that such protests would vitiate the receipts for tax and refused to issue the certificates until they were withdrawn. This would cut the companies, ten in number, off from Iowa business. The house committee on agriculture decided to recommend for passage the Townsend bill which provides for the draining of land without infringing on the property of others. This bill provides for the condemnation of land needed for drainage ditches. The house committee on railroads oy a unianomis vote voted to recommend for indefinite postponement the Hogue bill, compelling railways to tough freight cars to all shippers alike and striking out the clause giving the companies the right to plead inability to furnish cars when they were asked for. Several attorneys and superintendents of railways appeared before the committee and spoke against the bill. Senator Hogue spoke for it and made a strong effort to secure a minority report. Some of the members of the committee he was counting on were not present and it is possible a minority report may yet be filed. The members of the committee present were unanimous against the bill, however. The committee by a vote of 16 to 6 divided to 16 and the committee for passage the Blanchard bill providing for the levying of a tax of 5 per cent for interurbans. Senator Blanchard appeared before the committee and presented the matter. Some opposition developed, but the sentiment in favor of the bill was overwhelming. State Treasurer Gilberston has authorized a denial of the recent interview with him, in which the state treasurer was made to commit himself to the stocks and bonds method of railroad assessment in Iowa. Judge Spurrier will take up the Mabel Schofield case before the grand jury when it convenes early in March. That this is his intention was stated by him in an interview. "We have some good evidence, and the league will not be required to effort to settle this question," he said. Asked if the present grand jury had refused to go into the case, Judge Spurrier said: "The present grand jury was crowded out of the case—that is, they had other new cases too important to set aside in order to take this one up, and as it promised to be of considerable duration, it is well they did not try it." During the month of January Polk county received $1,191.21 as royalty on the coal mined on the county farm by the Des Moines Coal and Mining company. This is the largest amount ever received by the county in royalties for one month. The money goes into the county pauper fund. Little or nothing is heard about the proposal now before both houses to repeal the statute for taxing the express companies by the Cheshire method and to substitute for it the same system that is used in assessing the telephone and telegraph property of the state, being a method embodied in a bill presigned by Senator Blanchard and instituted for the Cheshire bills on the same subject in the last general assembly. The bills to repeal the Cheshire-act and enact the substitute have just been introduced and have not been acted upon by the committees as yet. Comment and reports strengthen the impression that Senator Emmert is going to be deposed from his seat for the Cass-Adair district, and that Bruce will be seated. The action of the contest committee is almost everywhere interpreted as meaning this. Senator Emmert was elected on the face of the returns by one majority and received the certificate. The contest committee has made a painstaking investigation and count, and its members declare that the report will represent their best judgment, reached as fairly as possible. They have absolutely declined to indicate their decision in advance, but senatorial rumor is that the seat will go to Bruce. That there will be other railway assessment bills before the legislature before many days is definitely understood. There is talk that Senator Trewin may introduce one in the upper house, an inflexible stock and bond proposition, and make a contest for it in the committee. It is known that in both senate and house are members now preparing to present measures of the same character, and it will be no occasion for surprise if Representative Larrabee introduces his measure any day. If he does, a copy of the same bill will probably be presented in the senate at the same time. Just what effect this scattering of the forces friendly to legislation may have is a good deal discussed. But that The action of woman on our destiny is increasing.—Beaconsfield. My bookie entering doctor's office)—"Shue doon ondk Ol have appindictia." Zv. Smith—"Nonsense, man! You haven't money enough for that." Skipper—"Prince Henry of Prussia is to be in this country only two weeks." Skapper—"Yes, that is what makes me think he intends to write a book about us." Mrs. Browne—"And who is the president of your club now, Mrs. Malaprop?" Mrs. Malaprop (proudly)—"I am the present encumbrance, just now." it is going to be a feature in the situation is not doubted. The senatorial redistricting bill has made its appearance in the senate, being presented by Senator Hubbard, chairman of the committee. Instances of there being fifteen counties, having one senator each, as at present, have their isolation are Jasper, Jackson, Marshall and Jackson and Clayton. There are no districts of more than three counties. The bill makes many changes in the districts and distributes the senator as follows: Districts one county each—Polk, Scott, Dubuque, Wapello, Maska, Linn, Woodbury, Lee, Des Moines, Pottawattamie, Districts of two counties—Dallas, Guthrie, Warren, Madison, Marshall, Harrison, Clayton, Allamakee, Story, Boone, Cass, Shelmy, Sloy, Plumy, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Henry, Washington, Louisa, Muscatine, Jefferson, Van Buren, Appanoose, Davis, Page, Fremont, Montgomery, Mills, Crawford, Audubon, Keokuk, Iowa, Monroe, Jackson, Johnson, Cedar, Webster, Calhoun, weshiek, Jasper, Delaware, Buchanan, onona Hardin, Wright, Hamilton, Black Grundy, Fayette, Chickasaw, Howard Winneshiek, Hancock, Koutsu, Tannia Benton. Districts of three counties each.—Clark, Lucas, Wayne, Decatur, Ringgold, Union, Adams, Adair, Tiror, Bremer, Buler, Franklin, Mitch, Cherokee, Palo Alto, Emma, Clay Cherokee, Palo Alto, Emma, Dickin son, Sac, Carroll, Greene, Lyon O'Brien, Osceola, Bunea Vista, Humboldt, Pocahontas. REFORMATORY BILL PASSES. Senate Votes to Establish a New Institution for Iowa Convicts. Des Moines, Feb. 26.—The Iowa senate yesterday passed with only eleven dissenting votes, the bill to establish a reformatory for men in Iowa. The measure went through as origination, but the important amendment to it. This is the fathered by Senator Emmert and endorsed by the state board of control, it was drawn up after consulting the laws of the other states, and is looked upon by lawyers of the upper body as well high perfect from a legal standpoint. It is practiced by the same bill which did not get through two years ago. According to its provisions, as soon as the act goes into effect the state board of control will convert the penitentiary at Anamosa into a state reformatory for men, transferring to Ft. Madison, S.C., in 1915. Those under 31 years of age who are serving their first term in the penitentiary for any crime less than murder are to be retained in the reformatory, where skilled instructions in mechanical arts will be employed to teach them, and otherwise assist in the process of reformation it is expected to effect. After the reformatory its esculpents are to the duty of district judges to sentence all persons under the age of 31, convicted of any felony except murder, and no previously convicted, to this institution. There is an elaborate system of parole provided by which the state board of control is to be guided, and what is considered one of the strongest features of the bill is the fact that violations of parole issued to inmates of the reformatory will send the maximum to Ft. Madison to deliver the maximum if their former crime without regard to previous sentence. Every effort to amend the bill failed, except the striking out of the provision removal of convicts to the reformatory when the penitentiary at Ft. Madison becomes overcrowded. The bill originally provided that prisoners so transferred should be treated as other inmates of the reformatory, but it was amended to leave them subject to the same prisoner object to Fort Madison, the bill carries an appropriation of $20,000 with which to make the transfer of the prisoners and open the reformatory. SHAW ON WAR CLAIM Secretary of Treasury Wires Governe ment Representative is Coming. Des Moines Feb. 26—Gorcum Mammins has received the following telegram from the Secretary of the Treasury Shaw relating to further consideration of the Iowa civil war claims: "Mr. Adrian Sizer, the representative from the war office of the auditor of the war department, will be in Des Moines on Thursday morning to take up the case of the war of the state of Iowa in the war matter." The arrival of this government representative has been expected ever since she was agreed that an officer should be sent to Iowa to audit the claim before it was entered in the general deficiency bill to go before congress. It was stated at the governor's office yesterday that Capt. J. L. Sethrop of Sioux City, who had charge of the claim for the state, will be summoned by the governor to go over the items of the claim with the Waste Department, presentative, presentative from the government is assurance that there will be no delay in rounding up preliminaries with regard to allowing the claim Fire at Onawa Onawa, Feb. 25.—The Sioux City and Pacific depot here was totally destroyed by fire. Most of the contents was saved, but the building was entirely destroyed. It stood some distance from the main part of the town and the water conduits do not extend to it, so water could do would to it, and by see it burn. It is supposed a defective flue was the cause of the fire. The loss is between $5,000 and $6,000. Poor Jonah must have felt considerably down in the mouth after being taken in out of the wet. knew in out of it. The value of Spain's mineral production in 1900 was $57,174,511. About the only thing left for Emperor William, in his efforts to gain American popularity, is to come out for Schley. Shortly after Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, R. A., was knighted, he and Lady Alma-Tadema gave an "at home" at St. John's Wood. Everybody present was congratulating them and one lady was very proud. "Oh, dear, glad to hear of the honor you have received. I suppose now that you are anighted you will give us painting and live like a gentleman." MISS VIRGINIA GRANES Tells How Hospital Physicians Use and Rely upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM!—Twelve years continuous service at the sick bed in some of our prominent hospitals, as well as at private homes, has given me varied experiences with the diseases of women. 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Crumper of Manchester, Washenau County, Michigan, paid a visit to Alberta last summer and saw there a Mr. Shantz, one of the good old Pennsylvania stock, who had come recently—some seven years ago—from Ontario with $24 in his pocket. He has certainly prospered, as he now over seventy head of cattle, has a good loghouse framed over; also a good barn, and in all-respects looks a thrifty and well-to farmer. He had some good crops of oats and barley. After spending some days in Calgary and Edmonton they returned to Regina, Assinibola, and looked around the country north to Lumsden and Balgonie, where the crops appeared very promising and heavy; continuing up the Regina and Long Lake road they came to Saskatoon on the crossing of the South Saskatchewan River. Of this district they say: "The country here pleased us better than any we have seen. We drove out eighteen miles in a northwesterly direction through the Smith settlement. This is a wonderful district; the growth was splendid; all kinds of grains and roots were perfect. The older settlers had good buildings of all kinds and looked very prosperous; in fact, we came to the conclusion that we had found what we were looking for, a good country. While the nature of the soil changes and is in some parts light, in others stony, and again heavy, generally speaking it leaves nothing to be desired. Hay and water are also in abundance and wood can be found along the river slopes and islands. We have decided to locate there and shall certainly advise our friends to do likewise. We also trust that this report may have the effect of drawing the attention of land seekers to this district, and can honestly advise all such to locate there. They will find a good thing. As farmers ourselves, from a good district in Michigan, we have come to the conclusion that, properly farmed, western Canada will grow almost anything." Ask for information from any agent of the Canadian government. As people lose innocence they find experience. LITTLE FALLS. Eastern capitalists connected with the Westinghouse Electric Company lately bought the splendid Water Power at Little Falls, Minn., and are now arranging to build a new power plant in the country. The balance of the water power, transformed into electricity, will be utilized for large mills and factories in Little Falls, and for some time to come the mills will be turned towards this city because of the mature and vastness of these improvements. We own the best business property in the heart of the city, and residence lots near the mills and factories or depot and business district will be located near the new trolley lines, and 2½, 5 and 10 acre garden tracts inside and adjoining the city limits. This unplatted property will shortly be reociled by the city street car system, and the cost of office will be undivided into city lots and blocks. More money will be made in Little Falls real estate during the next years than in any other location. We acquired our holdings for Little money years ago, before the Water Power was improved and before the paper mill, the Weyerhauser syndicate and the Weyerhauser syndicate had not yet located here, at a time when the recent developments above occurred to could not possibly afford to give others a chance. You can come in on the ground floor by at once addressing Washington Ave. S, Minneapolis, Minn. or HENNIS Layman, Little Falls, Minn. PRESIDENT CORDIALLY WELCOMES THE GERMAN PRINCE. He Thus Returns the Call of the Prince at the German Embassy. Washington, Feb. 25.—Rarely in its history has the white house been the scene of a more brilliant spectacle than yesterday when President Roosevelt welcomed to the United States Prince Henry of Prussia. Ever since the announcement was made that the prince would visit this country as the German representative of his brother, the German king, the members of the administration have taken a lively personal interest in the arrangements for his reception. The matter has been the subject of frequent discussion at the meetings of the cabinet and the details of the plans for the entertainment of the royal visitor have constantly been rehearsed and approved. It was the president's wish that, avoiding all ostentation, the prince be given a cordial welcome. So far as federal authority controls in the matter that plan has been carried out. The prince met the president and the welcome he received was genuinely hearty and open handed and he, in turn, met the president of the American people. Nothing could have been more important than the president's greeting to the German prince, and it was returned in kind and in full measure. It was 10:45 o'clock when the escorting cavalry carriage swung through the east gate and at a brisk pace passed up the broad driveway to the white house. Here at the word of command the column broke into single rank, facing the main entrance. And escorting cavalry carriage passed the gate and with that snap and precision which has made the Second regiment famous, every sabre flashed from its scaband and came to the position of "present." A detachment of marines headed by its famous band had taken place at the right and left of the main entrance, facing north. The first carriage containing the prince, secretary and Rear Admiral drove up a rapid move that it passed under the porte cochere, the marine band struck up the German national air which was continued until all the company had left their carriages. At the carriage door the prince was met by Assistant Secretary Pearce and the German ambassador, Who saluted and presented to him Major McCawley of the main corps, dress uniforms of the artillery in dress uniforms who saluted and led the way into the mansion between two lines of marines with arms at salute. Walking on the left of the prince was Secretary Hay and following him came Admiral Evans, the German ambassador, General Corbin and the members of the prince's suite. The party was conducted through the main lobby into the red parlor, thence into the east room and from there the prince alone was conducted through the green room to the blue parlor where the president was waiting to receive him. In conformity with diplomatic etiquette the president received the royal visitor in private and with without necessary by the fact that there is none in the United States no representative of the German nation of sufficient high rank to present a prince of the blood royal, a brother and personal representative of the German emperor. At 11:40 a. m. President Roosevelt returned Prince Henry's visit. He drove to the German embassy in an open landau with Col. Bingham. The president was met at the carriage by Ambassador Von Hollenben and ushered him in the drawing room where there was an exchange of amenities. The president and the prince remained together for about fifteen minutes. THIRTEEN WERE KILLED. Third Disaster of the Year on Park Avenue. New York, Feb. 24.—For the third time since New Year's day Park avenue, this city, was the scene of loss of human life. First was the collision in the New York Central tunnel at Fifty-sixth street and Park avenue; second came the dynamite explosion in the Rapid Transit subway at Forty-first street, and the third, Saturday, was a fire which started in the Seventy-first regiment armory, at Thirty-third street, and then spread to the Park Avenue hotel, where thirteen persons were killed and many injured. It was the worst hotel fire since the Windsor was destroyed. The fire was first seen at about 1:20 in the morning, in the armory, and in a remarkable short time that building was affame from end to end. The firemen made their way as best they could through the streets, deep with slush, and did all possible to confine the fire to the armory; but after they had been at work an hour the discovery was made that the hotel was on fire. The hotel was crowded with guests who had come to attend the festivities in honor of Prince Henry. More than 500 persons were in the hotel. The fire was confined principally to the fifth and sixth floors near the elevator shaft. About the time the hotel was found to be on fire the lights went out and the corridors were filled with smoke. The guests, unable to find their way through the darkened hallway, jumped from windows or ran directly into the flames-swept portions of the building. It is this fact that accounts for the large loss of life, although the hotel was not destroyed. A good wife makes a good husband.—French. The president has cut out the handshaking feature at the White House, but the knee-shaking by visiting officeholders is still painfully plentiful. Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife, bring peace to the house.—Shakespeare. Mrs. Susan Pennock, of St. Louis, Mo., is only 21 years of age, yet she is the mother of six children—three girls. Her mother bore 24 children, among them pairs of twins. 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It is a money maker. Try it for 1902. Catalogue tells. SPELTZ The great cereal, producing from 60 to 80 bushels of grain and 4 tons of hay good as bread. We are the introducers. TRIPLE INCOME CORN How would 20 bushels per acre you at the present prices of corn? Wet, Salzer room works will produce this for you in 1902. Catalogue tells. Wet, Salzer room works will produce this for you in 1902. Catalogue tells. We have the largest range of fodder plants found in any catalogue in America. We have the finest varieties, the biggest yields and the highest quality of the fodder plants. Our Pen Gat gives 80 tons of hay per acre in six weeks after sowing. Our Pen Gat gives 80 tons of hay per acre in six weeks after sowing. Our Pen Gat gives 80 tons of hay per acre in six weeks after sowing. Our Pen Gat gives 80 tons of hay per acre in six weeks after sowing. We warrant our grass mixtures to form a nutrient crop of hay one year still where planted. (Over 2,000,000 pounds sold the past few years). VEGETABLE SEEDS We are the largest growers. Under our own care, and up a lb. We have a troubled stock of the vegetable seeds, such as cabbage, corn, cabbage, green beans, making vegetables. Our seeds are money makers, the kind the market garden also farmer wants. For 10c—Worth $10. Our great catalog with a large number of rare farm seed. We have market to you every year in 1902. In 1902, these seeds are positively worth $10 topsat nat. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., La Crosse, Wis. Pe-ru-na is known from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Letters of congratulation and commendation testifying to the merits of Pe-ru-na as a catrurn remedy are pouring into the news. The Hartman is receiving hundreds of letters daily. All classes write these letters, from the highest to the lowest. The outdoor laborer, the indoor artisan, the stewardess, the preacher—all agree that Pe-ru-na is the catrurn remedy of the age. 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Write for the newspaper. CAPSICUM VASELINE (PUT UP IN COLLAPSIBLE TURNS) A substitute for and superior to mustard or mustard-like dress, and more delicate skin. The pain-allying and curative qualities of this article are wonderfully effective, and the gentle headache and seduction we recommend it as the best and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external pain for painless or numbness and gout. Platens. A trial will prove what we claim to be the best of all preparations in the household. Many people say "it is the best of all of your preparations." Price 16 cents, at all drugstores or other dealers, or by sending this amount to us in postage stamps. We would prefer that you should be accepted by the public unless the same carrier is not genuine. CHEBSHENE MFG. CO. 17 State Street, NEW YORK CITY. SALZ BROAD The greatest grass of our farm is our Broma yield 6 tons per acre. Every farmer ought to plant Catalogus tellis. SPR The great cereal, producing from hay, wheat and trumpet INCORP. Well, Salzer nox seeds will produce Fodder Plants, Grass. We have the finest variety in America. We have the finest variety in America. Our Glacier Incorp. sweet cropper. Our Glacier Incorp. sweet cropper. Our Toosite is good for 80 tons. Herbicide Incorp. helps to grow at 10, a pound possible. We form a nutrient crop of hay on 40000 pounds of our seed. VEGETABLES We are the largest producer of only Do. We have a tremendous stock of earliest pear, sweet corn, radish. Be making great pear, sweet corn, radish. We are making great pear, sweet corn, radish. These seeds are positively worth For 100—World Our great catalog with a large number of stamps. These seeds are positively worth JOHN A, SALZER SEED La Crosse, WI HAS NO EQUAL. DEFLANCE TRADE MARK DEFLIANCE IN QUALITY & QUANTITY STARCH 16 OZ. REQUIRES NO COOKING PREPARED FOR LAUNDRY PURPOSES ONLY MANUFACTURED BY MAGNETIC STARCH MFG CO OMAHA, NEB. --- ally in the house. Hartman he says: STATE OF OREGON, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, SALEM, May 9, 1898. The Pe-r-u-na medicine in my family for colds, and it proved to be an excellent remedy. I have not had occasion to use it for other ailments. Yours very truly, W. M. LORD. It will be noticed that the Governor say he has had occasion to use other ailments. The reason for this is, most other ailments begin with a cold. Use Pe-r-u-na to promptly cure colds, he protects his family against other ailments. This is certain what he says. States should do. Keep Pe-r-u-na in the house. Use it for coughs, colds, in gripe and other climatic affections of winter, and there will be no other ailments in the home with a copy of Dr. Hartman's free book entitled "Winter Catarrh." Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohp. OKLAHOMA 500 HOMESTEAD CLAIM DICK T. MORGAN. Im. Reno, G. GALLSTONS CURER Im. gastroenteritis and d. pernicious equired. Dr. W. C. FAYNE, Marshalltown, Iowa. PREVENT CONTAGIOUS DISEASES with a GERMOR-POKEY ARTICLE ONLY. $1.00 Postpaid Volo Chemical Works, - Chicago GREGORY SEEDS Relied upon in the commercial World by no means pleasurable. In Manitoba and districts of Alberta, chewan and Alberta are the most wonderful trees in the world. In stock raising they are making this their home, and they succeed in the new laws and privileges of home ownership. Atlas of Western Canada sent free to all applicants. Apply at the Immigration, Ottawa, canada or to N. Bartholomew, Canadian Government Agent, 306 Fifth St, Deskolonw, low. W. N. U., Des Moines No. 9, — 1902 ALZER'S SEEDS MUS INERMIS the century. We are the introducers and the man of the seed industry. We have made many hay and nots and lots of pasturage beers per year. We are a agriculturist in wood. It is a moss maker. Try it for 100. BLTZT 60 to 80 bushels of grain and 100 acres. We are the introducers. THE CORN You at the present prices of corn? it for you in 1807. Buying bells. BESSEM AND CLOVEN Institutes found in yeahhone the bible's leaders and the bible's producers accept the 04 Granny's ass of hay per of great lovers our Thousand minute earth and sweet and tittle arent our grass mixtures to every each water planted. years). CROWS Mus seed at but 600, and up a vegetable seed, such as vegetables and may also gravy makers, the kind the market. In $10. You have farm seed out of but 100. In $10 get a market. ED CO., The kind the market. There are no premiums with Defiance Starch, but it is the best starch in the world and 16 ounces for 10 cents. Other 10c starches weigh 12 ounces. Buy "Defiance" and you get one-third more starch and better starch. If your grocer does not keep it send us his name and we will send you one trial package free. --- The Negro Republic of Hayti will celebrate its one hundredth anniversary in 1904. There is talk of the colored citizens of Augusta establishing a savings bank of their own. Garus C. Bolin, a colored lawyer of Poughpeepsie, N. Y. has been honored by election of life membership in the Buffalo Historical Society. Bishop W. E. Derrick, D. D., has been invited to preach the 355 anniversary sermon of the great Cathedral at Canterbury, England, one of England's oldest churches, on July 24th, '02. The only medal of honor recommended to be given, for gallantry during the Spanish war, goes to Sergt. Major Edward Lee Baker, Jr., of the Tenth Cavalry, "for distinguished gallantry in action at Santiago, Cuba, July 1 1898, in leaving cover and rescuing under fire a wounded comrade from drowning in a stream in front of Santiago." Roscoe Conkling Bruce, who graduates at Harvard in June, has been employed by the Tuskegee Institute and will take charge of the academic work at that institution in the fall. A friend of the institute has recently given the money for providing two sets of bath houses, one for boys and one for girls, to contain shower baths and swimming pools. Lincoln, Nebr.—The report that there is or has been opposition in the senior class of the University of Nebraska or among any of the students or faculty members here to Booker T. Washington as commencement orator next June is entirely false. Mr. Washington was the spontaneous and unanimous choice of the senior class committee appointed for the purpose of selecting the commencement orator, and this choice was ratified by the class with absolute unanimity. There was not a single negative vote or voice. The faculty never interferes in such selection and used no influence in this case, but, so far as known, is satisfied with the choice. Rarely here or at any university are speakers selected so completely without opposition. No color line is drawn in this university. E. BENJAMINE ANDREWS, Chancellor OSCEQLA BUDGETARIAN. The public schools opened Monday, after being closed for four weeks, owing to the small pox scare. The churches are still closed, and will be until the 1st of March. Rev. Wade and returned from Cleveland, Tuesday, after a few days visit in Cleveland, where they were attending to their church work. Their members and friends of Cleveland surprised them with a donation party, Monday evening, bringing them a good supply of groceries and dry-goods. There were about fifty present. Refreshments were served by the sewing circle, and a pleasant time was enjoyed by all present. The Cleveland people say they will never let their pastor want for nothing. The Donation was given at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. Poston. There will be a grand concert given at Cleveland, on the 24th, under the management of Mrs. Goo. Wade and Mr. Richard Oliver. Miss Matilda Langford was on the sick list last week, but is convalescent. Several of our young men will attend the concert at Cleveland, on the 24th. The young people enjoyed a bob-ride out to the home of Mr. J. Wilson's Sunday. They spent the day out there returning home Sunday evening. A pleasant time was reposted. Mr. Harry Wilson is convalescent after a spell of illness. The Kibge Daughters and sons are preparing for a concert to be given at the church in the near future. TRAIN TOOK ITS OWN PHOTOGRAPH. A large, handsome engraving, 18x28 inches, has been made of "The Burlington's Number One" while going at 60 miles an hour between Chicago and Denver. It is the best picture of a train in motion ever taken, and "the train took the picture itself." This is explained in a folder which will be sent free on application. Price of large engraving 20 cents. Postage stamps will do. Address P. S. Eustis, General Passenger Agent, C. B. & Q. Ry., 209 Adams street, Chicago. 3-37. M. B. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE Iowa State Bystander THE OLDEST COLORED JOURNAL IN IOWA and the leading paper in the North-west. It Goes Into 76 Counties in Iowa 29 States in the Union 2 Foreign Countries. Agents in 24 towns in Iowa and correspondence from many different states. There are but few better known young men then Mr. John B. 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The long-waisted mode, in which the list line rounds down low in front, is conspicuously evident among the gowns for girls over 10 years of age, and the small gowns for deity little girls of 6 imitate this fashion as much as possible by having the long waist all around. Guilme dresses, which never seem to go out of style, are suitable for all ages, from 6 to the more mature years of middle age. Bolero jackets are very popular in the kingdom of small costumes, and the attempt to produce the effect of stole ends is seen in one little gown, where narrow lace sleeves are carried down the entire length of the front, as shown in the illustration. Another pretty effect is made by two box plaits in front, one at either side from the yoke to the hem, and two in the back, giving a long effect to the waist, which is defined with a narrow velvet belt ending in small velvet rosettes at either side of the front on the plaits. The skirt gathers on to the waist between the plaits, which apparently are a continuation of those in the waist. A sailor collar of lace covers the shoulders in the back and opens in front over a yoke of tucked white silk or batiste. Thin gowns of point d'esprit 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. office has benefited the city very much. He is a hard working republican and has been a delegate to many county conventions. He is a friend to the colored people and always treats them with respect. He will no doubt be nominated by acclimation and elected by an increased majority. BE FOR THE Bystander THE DEST ORED NAL IN IWA er in the North-west. ies in Iowa s in the Union n Countries. in Iowa and corres- any different states. 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 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. Gallivan's Instruments Sold Well. Sixteen of the violins and violoncellos owned by the late Sir Arthur Gallivan were recently sold for $1,800. The greatest prize realized for any one of the instruments was $850, which was paid for a violoncell by Joseph Guarperius. Britains Degenerating Physically- According to Arnold White, an English critic, the inhabitants of the British Isles are degenerating physically. He bases his conclusions on the results of recruiting for the Boer war. In the Manchester district alone 8,000 out of 11,000 men who offered themselves for military service were certified unfit to endure a soldier's life. Baltan Doctors Himself. The Sultan of Turkey is devoted to the study of chemistry and has given a good deal of time to the study of medicine, a study which he first took up because of fears that his life was in danger from poison. He new doctors his own alliments so long as they are not of a serious nature. Dog Parted the Fencers. A friend, accompanied by his colle, recently called on M. Prevost at the artist's studio in Paris. After an hour's chat the men decided to fence a while. Scarcely had the bout begun when the dog, thinking his master attacked, flew at is host, knocking him down and out in short order. 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NOTICE Notice is hereby given that at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Dempster Manufacturing Co., held in Des-Moines, [Iowa], on the 20 day of January, 1902, it was resolved to give the Board of Directors authority to increase the capital stock of the said corporation to $150,000, and that Section 1 of Article 3, of the First Amedment to Articles of Incorporation be stricken out and the following adopted as a substitute thereof, to-wit: "The capital stock of this Corporation, to-wit, Dempster Manufacturing Co., authorized to be issued, is One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000 00), divided into fifteen hundred (1500) shares, of which three-fourths (3/4) or eleven hundred and twenty-five (1125) shares shall be known as common stock and one-fourth (1/4) or three hundred and seventy-five (375) shares may be issued as preferred stock." Signed by the Dempster Manufacturing Co., at Des Moines, Iowa, this 28th day of January, A. D., 1902. DEMPSTER MANUFACTURING Co. By A. R. DEMPSTER, President. By J. H. COCHRANE, Secretary. Original Meaning of Prefjudice. Prejudice was originally nothing more than a judgment formed beforehand, the character of such judgments being best indicated by the present meaning of the word. State Proud of Miss Kellar. Miss Helen Kellar is an Alabama girl. She was born in Tuscumbia, and the people of Alabama have always been proud of her wonderful career.