Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDE IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE BYSTANDER PUBLISHING COMPANY, FIFTH AND LOOCUT. BOOK ON MAY 10, 1990, LOCK. IOWA. PHONE 800. O FREAKAL PAPER OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRO- TECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF IOWA. OFFICAL PAPER OF THE MOST WORSHIPFUL UNIVERSAL GRAND LODGE OF IOWA, A. P. & A. M. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year. $1.50 Six months. .75 Three months. .50 All subscription payable in advance. J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by post 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- l. "Brevity is the soul of wit." remember We will not return rejected manuscript, unless accompanied by postage stamps. CITY NEWS Easter hats are ready.—MASON'S. Leo Welker of Golfax was in the city last Sunday. Mr. John Glass taken seriously sick Wednesday evening. John Wingo is at the Mercy Hospital receiving treatment. Wolf's, 419 Walnut—Grand Millinery Opening. In purchasing articles for Easter, don't forget our advertisers. The Old Maid's Convention next Thursday night at the A. M. E. church. Mrs. A. C. Fisher is dangerously ill appendicitis, at her home 1335 Mulberry street. H. R. WRIGHT, Attorney at Law, room No. 213 Iowa Loan & Trust Bidg. EASTER OPENING—All this week Mrs. M. FLANAGAN, 515 East Locust street. Mrs. J. R. Roberts of 300 Walnut street, entertained Rev. Griffith at dinner Sunday. Mr. E. W. Thompson is on the registration board of 58 men, he is in the Second prescinct of the Third Ward. Miss Susie Jones of Muchakinook was in our city Thursday visiting Mrs. Wm. Coalson. A vested choir of 12 boys will begin singing at the morning services next Sunday. Mrs. Graves is training the boys. 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. The young people gave a taffy pulling at Mrs. John Allen on Park street last Friday evening a good time is reported. J. H. Mixon, Jeweler, No. 312 West Third street, tunes pianos and repairs organs. Sunday is Palm Sunday and that great festival in the life of Christ will be the theme of the sermon at the A. M. E. church at 7:30. Chas. West has disposed of his billiard and pool hall and left Monday night for Lawrence Kansas where he will remain for several months. Mrs. R. N. Hyde entertained quite a number of the Ottumwa excursion last; Friday evening of her old acquaintance and other friends. A very pleasant time is had by all. Mr. Geo. I. Holt sang a very sweet solo Sunday night. Mrs. Thomas Blagburn will sing Sunday night. Mrs. B. J. Holmes, P. M. N. G. of Household of Ruth, No 330 of Des has been elected as a delegate to this Lodge at the organi-district grand H. H., to be sworn, Iowa, April 9, 1902. States has resigned his charge and will preach his last sermon the fourth Sunday of He will take charge of that Evans, Iowa. SOLONISTS RATES TO NORTHWEST? Washington, Idaho, Mon- nial Northwest Wyoming route will sell very early day dating March Latest styles, lowest prices. Mason's The Colored Republican League will hold its regular meeting next Monday evening the 24th., at the Court House All members are requested to be present. There will be an entertainment given by the H. H. of R., No. 339 at Hansen's hall, East Sixth and Locust's Thursday evening March 27, 1902. Admission 50 cents including supper. Supper begins at 5 o'clock. The Iroquois Club will meet with Miss Lizzie Miller Thursday and the following programme will be rendered. A Narrow Escape, Ruth Lewis; Select reading, Louise Clay; Select reading, Gertrude Hyde. Selections from Dunbar, Gertrude McCraven. Grand Millinery Opening at Wolf's 419 Walnut. There was given at the 11th, street Baptist church a encerct by Mr. Fred Stanton. A large crowd was present and also an excellent programme was rendered after which refreshments were served. The Silver Star Club gave their first entertainment at the church Thursday night of last week to a large audience. Mrs. Wm. Buskner is president and Miss Gertrude McCraven is secretary. The club has been organized to raise funds for the A. M. E. churh. The concert given last evening at the Corinthian Baptist church by Messers. G. F. Stanton and Claude Carr was exceedingly well attend and was a grand success. The program was good and well rendered, after which an elaborate supper was served by the Christian Working club for which it was given. Much credit is due the young men. The famous Mason and Down's Orpheus Jubilee Singers, will sing at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium, Tuesday evening April 6th, for the benefit of the A. M. E. chubro. They have until recently been with the Original Fisk Jubilee Singers, organized at Nashville, Tenn. Oct., 6 1871. Tickets 50 cents for reserved seats at Shislar and company 510 Walnut street. Best Milliners on earth.—MASON'S. The wedding bells after a long silence will peal fourth next week just before Easter. Miss Elizabeth Miller and Mr. Claud Harris could tell their friends about it. John L. Thompson was selected as one of the 44 delegates from Polk County to the State Republican Convention this year, he being the only colored man thus selected. We received the sad news of Miss Storm Sheffey extreme illnes in Muscatine. It will be remembered that Miss Sheffey is a cousin of Hon. Geo. H. Woodson of Muchakinock where she visits when in this state. Her home is in Washington, D. C. she was just visiting in Muscatine when stricken. A telegram was received yesterday from Mr. Woodson stating he arrived in Muscatine and that she is very low. She will be remembered as having visited our city about four years ago. Lowest prices on earth.—MASON'S. Rev. S. McCravin preached a fine sermon at St. Paul at 10:30 last Sunday. Rev. Mc seemly was at his best and the congregation all the week, who heard him, have been speaking of the sermon. At 7:30 Rev. G. F. McDaniel of Springfield, Ill., delivered one of the best sermons it has ever been ours to hear. He is a man of striking appearance, with an easy flow of language. The congregation contributed most cheerfully a handsome sum for the school at Springfield, of which he is President. DR. A. G. EDWARDS. Physician and Surgeon. IOWA PHONE 1081 (Office) MUTUAL PHONE 400 Miles' Drug Store Office Hours: {8 to 10 a.m. 2 to 4 p.m. 7 to 9 p.m. Over 764 West Ninth Street. Japan's Exports and Imports. In 1868 Japan's export and import trade amounted altogether to 28,244 yen, or silver dollars. In 1890 it reached the figure of 435,824,930 yen. LOW BATES VIA C. M. & ST. P. HALLWAY. House Sellers Rate first and third Tuesday of every month to many points in West Ninth and South Set- The Royal Millinery Co.. Grand Easter Opening Western Aircraft Manufacturer of Lumber and Childrens Head Wear ever arranged in Des Moines. On your way to the Royal Millinery Co., just before the day are going abroad to get the Latest and Choiceest in Spring Millinery. We only allow access from our company headquarters at we have saved you the trouble and expense by having remote delivery facilities in Western Aircraft Manufacturer Head Wear here for you to view. The most charming THE BYSTANDER. About two years ago we enlarged the Iowa State Bystander from a four page folio to an eight page quarto on certain conditions, that if our business such as advertising, subscription and sufficient news of general nature that we, would continue it that size otherwise net. At present we have not had sufficient advertising and news of general interest that we can use now, so we have, for at least a short time gone to the old size and if business increases as we hope we will soon be able to extend is still more. We solicit our readers and subscribers to pay up their back subscription dues and assist us in extending the circulation. IS THE RACE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION At the last state convention of the Republican party a number of the leading men of the race attended, some as delegates others in the interest of candidates of their choice. They were invited by the members of the church to attend a social given at the home of one of the members. On reaching the place we found quite a number of the members and friends of the church present, and among those present were both grammer and high school scholars Hardly had we time to meet the people until someone begin to play "rag-time" music, others forgetting themselves and tried to keep time with the music. One member of the party, not a church member asked "is the race moving in the right direction and are the young people showing the proper respect for our churches and their members." This occurred at the home of the local preacher and the boarding place of the pastor, and continued until we left, without a protest on the part of either pastor or members. A few evenings ago we attended a social, given by one of the leading churches in this city and at the home of one of its most devoted members. Most of those present were members. The daughter of one of the leading members, and a very promising girl, with ability if rightly applied to entertain the most cultured audience, seating herself at the piano playing "rag time" pieces. One can easily imagine the feeling of a Christian mother when the daughter ignores her teaching or the religious feeling of those present. Who is responsible for this condition of affairs? is it the church or its influence, or is it the lack of proper parental instruction, or is it the miss-application of the education they are receiving, or is it the lack of proper education that can control the emotional part of the makeup. One question is the "rag time" music elevating, and will a proper knowledge of it fit one for business? if not why do so many seek every opportunity to show their knowledge of it. REPUBLICAN CONVENTION Last Saturday the Polk county held her republican convention, the first convention held this year, and the present incumbent Hon. J. A. T. Hull, was endorsed by this county for congress and in all probability he will be the republican nominee. While our preference was Judge Prouty, yet we bow to the will of the minority. We had much rather be defeated honestly then to succeed by fraud, cheating, suppressing and using unfair methods to accomplish success. The methods used by the Hull forces was so flagrant, so fraudulent as to cause Croker and Tamny hall to blush. It is a sample of Southern methods in a mild form, used to suppress the colored voter in the South. Shall we free, loyal, honest, intelligent voters permit such a disgraceful method to be used as was used last Friday a week ago? While Judge Prouty on the face of the returns was declared to be defeated, yet fraud was alleged and substantiated by affidavits and the county central committee or the committee on credentials would not allow the ballots to be opened or recounted, which to a disinterested person looks extremely suspicious, much less to parties interested. We are also glad of the heroic and brave stand that the leading colored men took, and with all the offers of money and promises of most anything, they did not desert their choice; neither were they bought this time as had been hinted. Fully 90 per cent voted for Prouty. The other county officers are: Judges, C. P. Holmes W. H. McHenry, A. H. McVey and James A. Howe; Clerk, B. F. Coffin; Auditor, Fred Cope; Recorder, Mrs. Frank Dodson; for County Attorney, Jessie Miller; Member of Board of Supervisors, C. W. Britton, CITY CONVENTION The republican city convention was held last Saturday, the same time that the county was held. James Brenton was nominated for Mayor; Harry Gross City Treasurer; John B. Lucas, City Auditor; J. W. Budd, City Engineer; L. I. Silvara, Police Judge; W. H. Bremner, City Solicitor; Chas. Schramm, City Assessor; J. W. Ratcliff, Market Master; John King, Alderman at Large, West Side; E. F. Whitney, Alderman at Large, East Side; Alderman First ward, B. F. Prunty; Second ward, Al Smith; Third ward, E. H. Higgins; Fourth ward, E. VanDyke; Fifth ward, John Harley; Sixth ward, W. H. Brereton; Seventh ward, W. S. Fairall. Thus we see not a single colored man was nominated for any elective office, and now the representatives of the grand old party will soon be around asking and urging your support, yet our race has not even one single representative on the city or county ticket. You may fool all of the colored people part of the time but you can't fool part of the people all the time. Deal fair with us is all that we ask, and we will be satisfied with nothing less HOW CHARGE OF DESER TION WAS PLACED AGAINST HIM. John Glass, a Des Moines man is the principal in a cause celebre. A bill correcting his military record was made the subject of President Roosevelt's first veto message to congress last week. The message sent to the senate read as follows: "There can be no graver crime than the crime of desertion from the army or navy, and especially during war; it is then high treason to the nation and is justly punishable by death. No man should be relieved from such a crime, especially when nearly forty years have passed since it occurred save on the clearest possible proof of his real innocence. In this case the statement made by the affiant before the committee does not in all points agree with his statement made to the secretary of the navy. In any event, it is incomprehensible to me that he should not have made effective effort to get back into the navy. He had served but little more than a month where he deserted and the war lasted for over a year afterward, yet he made no effort whatever to get back into the navy. Under such circumstances it seems to me that to remove the charge of desertion from the navy and give him an honorable discharge would be to falsify, the record and do an injustice to his gallant and worthy comrades who fought to a finish. The names of the veterans who fought in the civil war made the honor list of the republic, and I am not willing to put upon it the name of a man unworthy of the high position." JOHN GLASS IN HIS SHOP. In a little barber shop at 1194 North Sixth avenue lives and toils the man whose misfortune has thus been the occasion of President Roosevelt's first veto message to congress. John Glassjis one whose quiet dignity, modesty and politeness make for himself friends wherever he goes. He was busy with a customer when the reporter called and pausing in the strokes of the razor when told the object of the visit, he replied: "Well I don't know that I ought to say anything about that.. That was thirty eight years ago you know and I was just a boy then, 16 years old. Mr. Roosevelt says I deserted, but I didn't." "You want to know some- thing about the history of my case, don't you? I was born at Hopkinsville, Ky., March 31, 1848. I enlisted for one year in the navy as a powder boy on January 25, 1864, and was put aboard the steamer Moose, No. 38 the flagship of the Cumberland river fleet. At about 7 o'clock on the morning of March 4, 1874, our ship anchored in the Ohio river opposite Cincinnati, it left about 6 o'clock that night and there were armed guards always on duty. So you see I couldn't have deserted if I had wanted to. But one of my superior officers wanted to get rid of me because I was so unfortunate as to have knowledge of certain things regarding him which I must keep secret till the end of my life. That morning he ordered me to a skiff and together we pulled off in disguise. He took me down to Bucktown, in Cincinnati, gave me $11,00 out of his own pocket to buy a citizen's suit and then left me there, that was the only money I received for my six weeks of service. He took it out of his own pocket and gave it to me and he wasn't a paymaster. He was just au officer. "I thought I had to obey my superior officer. I thought I had to do just what he told me to do. How could I have deserted from that boat when there was a guard walking up and down with a gun on his shoulder?" The interviewer admitted that the question was unanswerable. "I would have had to go either straight up or straight down. I stayed around Cincinnati for two or three days and then went to work on the government steamer Izetta as soustabout, handling freight. They didn't get any men those days, they had to take boys. About a month later I took the steamer Imperial and went to St. Louis, reaching there the first of may. As a result of exposure of being half starved and away from home I fell sick with typhoid fever and lay in the hospital at St. Louis- two moyths. After leaving the hospital I went steamboating on the Mississippi and kept at it for eleven years, then I went to Keokuk, Iowa and was in the barber business there or almost twenty-five years. On the 6th day of last July I came to Des Moines and went into this shop. "Yes, I have] been around the country a good deal and I have never run from any body. I don't feel that I have done anything to run for. I want to be a citizen of the United States now. I think that I have served long enough. Senator Gear introduced a bill into congress for me about three years ago, and since his death "Senator Dolliver and Congressman Hull have been pushing my case. I got a letter from Senator Dolliver a week ago Friday telling me that my bill had passed both houses of congress. The other night I wrote a fine letter to President Roosevelt and told him him the whole story. The president does not understand this case, and I believe after a thorough investigation he will reconsider his action and vindicate a name that I have done nothing to dishonor. I am not a deserter and I want the world to know that I am not, I will get up before the president and congress and tell them so." An "Accident" Indeed. Among the "accidents" reported in Austria recently was the case of a workingman who walked along the road smoking a pipe, with a fifty-sound bag of gunpowder on his back. Doubled the Collection. A Kansas minister told his congregation on a recent Sunday that those who were in debt need not place anything in the box. The collection was double the usual amount. HOMESEEKERS VIA WABASSE On March 6th and 18th, April 18th. TUES FROM THE CAPITAL Ben Molson, March 19, 1903. The city auditor, John B. Lucas has been served with papers informing him that at the May term of the district court the case for an injunction against the city feelmate it from being $50,000. The mayor, the "Angles Water company will be argued. This case has brought out by J. M. Work, one of the prominent socialists of the city, who is now a candidate for mayor on the socialist side. The mayor is post, socialist leaden in the city being opposed to it. They believe that the army post pro-tect can be defeated if the loan is foiled. The interurban Railway company, of which H. H. Folk is president, and W. L. Hankit secretary, has filed a trust deed with the county recorder conveying its property, tracks, right of way, equipment, etc. to the American Trust and Shipment Company, and Jones trustee. The consideration is $755,000 in bonds of $1,500 each to run for a period of twenty years, and to bear 5 per cent interest, payable semi-annually from the date of the transfer. The trustee to the Chicago bank to be held in trust comprises the lines to Colafax and to the proposed site of the army post. It is described as a fifty-foot strip of land between the two lines to the army post site and to Colafax in Jasper county, four four-wheeled cars to be used on the lines rails and other equipment necessary to an interurban line. The Industrial school committee recommended for indefinite postponement the bill to create a woman's reformatory building of the abandoned industrial school for the blind at Knoxville. The ways and means committee recommended for passage the bill to the State Agricultural college at Ames, and the State University at Iowa City, and southmith mill tax to aid the State Normal school at Cedar Falls. Chairman Dunham of the house committee on schools and text books presented to the house statement from the public instruction, which report was ordered printed in the journal without reading. The statement is in reference to needed legislation for the common schools and the importance of this compared with the legislation for other schools. Among other things, the state schools are about eight and one-half millions annually, while other classes of education aggregate czy about one-quarter that amount. The senate message reporting the passage of the railroad assessment bill was read in the house and the bill was at once referred to the committee and means is be believed the committee will report the bill for passage, but it is difficult to ascertain the character of the probable alterations. The passage of the bill in the senate had been expected, and at a time which the house met. For expansion try to refer to the discussions and from their opinions relative to the status of the taxation system evolved. The committee on appropriations recommended for passage the bill appropriating $100,000 for the Vicksburg park commission, stipulating that only the amount be available during the biennial period for the erection of a stock pavilion at the state fair grounds. Attorney General Mullan has rendered an opinion to the auditor of state on the question whether a state bank organized prior to the enactment of section 1863 of the code, which desired to renew its corporate existence, had to recall such stock which was issued in shares of $100 each and sold in shares of $100 each. The attorney general holds such reissue was not necessary and that the provisions of section 1863 of the code requiring $100 shares of state banks applied only to banks organized after it became a law. The house committee on appropriations has decided to recommend for passage a substitute to the bill providing $60,000 for a state arsenal and assistant generals building. The submittal does not include the money not be available unless it comes out of the money that it expected from the federal government to pay interest on the war bonds and war warrants. The proposition is to erect this building and to provide the capital avenue, just east of the state house. The committee felt the bill was meritorious and, inasmuch as the department has saved nearly this amount in the last few years, that it should be made available to the department be made. There were large savings made by the department during the Spanish war. These reverted later to the general fund. Senator Harper has introduced a bill providing an appropriation of $35,000 for the purchase of paintings for the state historical blinding. The paintings will include portraits of governors Gear, Sherman, Larrabee Jackson, Drake and Shaw. Congressman Hull received the Polk council delegation to the congressional convention by a vote of 137 to 104. Frownly made an address with something from the contest, but adding she would again be a candidate in the contest. Diseases are unknown in America. Patients violins and mandolins are too flavor in Germany. They Bend to be sweeter in tone than than instruments, and possess the are at a message of not being affect our 2 p. weather. living at little expense at little practice by Ru- liem, a new country-fi- le food only 7% cents cupy and live- help THE NEWS IN IOWA THE NEWS IN IOWA Committees Make Figures on a Basis of 3 Mill Levy. De Moines, Maron 21..7,1,963 have appropriations amounting to $11,7,963 have been practically agreed upon. The Debt does not include $145,000 of the vickburg and $30,000 of the Lookout Mountain soldiers' monument appropriations, which will be expended in the vickburg and the items which go to make up the $1,527,963 extraordinary appropriations secured on: Capital improvement... $ 62,500,00 Cherokee, (already passed) 138,000.00 Ethiopian support Vinton, (passed) 5,692.00 Extra support C. Bluffs, (passed) 7,770.00 Transporting patients to Cherokee 21,600.00 Cedarville employees, A.ch inaugural (passed) 1,200.86 Express etc. (passed) 1,943.61 Historical society Iowa City 12,500.00 Assembly employees (passed) 4,500.00 Indiana reservation passed 7,000.00 Fish and game 15,000.00 McFarland suit expenses 230.00 Traveling library 4,000.00 State University college 95,000.00 Normal School 135,000.00 Board of control bill 65,369.35 Vicksburg monument (150,000) 5,000.00 Lookout mountain (25,000) 5,000.00 State court judges additional 12,000.00 District court judges, additional 53,000.00 Marshalltown employees, additional 18,000.00 State Tennon 37,000.00 Mabes Home 11,000.00 St. Louis Exposition 75,000.00 Total ... 1,527,963.42 This is the committee figures. The president deserts the 665 for the biennial period, having figured that the presupst and the 3 mll levy contemplated—out of which the senate will get small benefit for the president—made by this assembly—yields 1,012,000 available for expenditure. Actually, however, $200,000 of this is appropriated so that the apparent total contributions are made as contemplated by the figures given in the foregoing. Against this however, may be put the $450,000 war claim, the increases in the contributions of old or another, the increase in the collateral inheritance tax, etc. SUNDAY BASE BALL IS HIT. Prohibited by Action of The House of Representatives. Des Moines, March 21—The house yesterday passed a bail by Nagle of Van Buren, which includes baseball and football in the list of games and assessments, and played on Sunday. The violation of this stature is a misdemeanor, and is punishable by a fine of not less than $1 or more than $5 for each offense. The effect of the bill, if it passes, will be to do away with ball games in small towns on Sunday. These games are usually attended with profanity, much noise and more or less drunkness, there being all too many regulations in small towns the peaceable and law abiding citizens of the communities are unable to secure protection, many times the games being played on vacant lots within a short distance, and even the very doors of the churches and Sunday schools. In Des Moines and in other towns where league baseball games are played, the statute will have very little enforcement will be simply a mulet or license upon the management. In Des Moines, for instance, where the Sunday attendance is from 3,000 to 4,000, the players will pay $1,500 from $1,500 to $2,000, the management would simply pay the fines of the players, which would probably be the minimum, therefore making the mulet or license for a Sunday baseball game. WAR CLAIM TO BE REDUCED. Government Agent Sizer Makes Recommendation. Des Moines, March 21.—The state of Iowa will not get over $10,000 from the United States on its war claims. This is the estimate of the limit placed by Auditor Sizer of the treasury department, when he was here going to the state and who had been employed by the state to assist in the work. Mr. Sizer went through the accounts very carefully. He contended that the payments of the government to the state as made from time to time during the war are accounted for and should be applied to the state to the payment of the bonds of the state on which the money was borrowed and to the payment of interest then due. In fact, the earliest payments were turned direct into the state's war funds. If the府 was borrowed and the payment remained then Iowa will not get more than $100,000 at the outside and may not get that much. PROBABLY WILL GET MONEY. Government Agent Apparently Finds Iowa War Claims Well Founded. Washington, March 17—Adrian Sizer of the treasury department, who was sent to Iowa to investigate the state's claim against the government on account of the premium on gold which he obtained by warding civil war, was returned to Washington and made his report to the auditor for the war department. The claim of the state against the general government amounts to nearly $400,000 and there seems to be nothing that congress to appropriate that sum of money to reimburse the Hawkeye state for the premium it paid on its bonds. Should Secretary Shaw recommend an Iowa claim the amount will be made part of the general deficient bill. Will-Cost Company Dearly. Oksaloake, March 17—If the relatives of the twenty men killed in the mine explosion at Lost Creek bring state and the coal company for the ```markdown ``` ANDERSON ROAD PASSES Completely Alter Present Read Eile Des Moises, March 19.—One of the most important bills introduced during the present session on the general assembly was passed by the house yesterday. It is practically the Anderson road bill, making the township unit in establishing road districts. The bill has had a hard pathway through the house. When first introduced it was referred to the committee on roads and highways and a substitute recommended for passage. This measure was called up, and Anderson succeeded in having it referred to the judiciary committee and before the latter committee had the substance of his own bill recommended for passage. This measure was a sponsor order for the county, and order it was taken up section by section and perfected in order to meet all the principal objections that had been urged against it. Briefly this out provides for a revision of the code, striking out such sections as provide for the division of a township in road districts and for the election of road supervisors. Each township is to be made a road district, the road districts to be consolidated by the township trustees at the regular meeting in April of each year. The road districts of said townships shall at once become a general township road fund, out of which all claims for work done or material furnished for road purposes are paid. The change is that the property road tax for the year 1903 shall be levied as hetereofe and paid in cash and collected by the superintendent of roads, to be appointed by the trustees or to be appointed by the electorate of road supervisors. The new law practically provides for the payment of all poll tax in cash as well as the property road tax. It is also that the property road tax is or in lieu thereof two days' labor of eight hours each. By making road labor worth about 75 cents a dny it ensures the general payment of tax in cash. The provision is merely to make the property road tax more money. The vote on the bill was 75 ayes and 6 nays. SUIT IS COMMENCED. Executive Council Orders Attorney General to Act. Des Molnes, March 18.—The state executive council held a meeting yesterday for the purpose of considering the report made by the experts in regard to the alleged overcharges made by the former state binder, Lafe Young. The council passed a resolution which gives to Attorney General Mullan authority to begin an action against Mr. Young for the amount found by the ex-arts to have been unlawfully connected from the state. It is expected Mr. Mullan will prepare his petition for filing at the next term of the Polk county court. Mr. Young did not avail himself of the opportunity of appearing before the council for the purpose of expurgating from the record, so far as possible, the issues that had been made against it. The resolution adopted by the council is of considerable length. It recites the fact of Expert Skinner and Hedge Counts of the binder and found that overcharges had been made amounting to over $4,000; that this report was referred to Attorney General Mullan and that other examination was made by A. S. Wilcoxen with substantially the same result. It is also stated that Attorney General Mullan made a complete investigation of the reports and the involvement of the involved in the alleged overcharges were matters for the courts to determine and that action should be brought. This action taken by the council prescribes that the state binder shall settle the state binder scandal and renders a court hearing a certainty. NAMED BY THE GOVERNOR. Judge Kinne Reappointed to Board of Control Des Moines, March 17—In a sealed communication to the senate Saturday, Governor Cummins appointed Judge L. G. Kline of Des Moines, as a member of the board of control to the Board of Buchanan county, as custodian, to succeed J. D. McGarrall of Des Moines. Governor Cummins in the course of the day also appointed L.P. O. Koto or Winnebago county, as custodian, to succeed J. D. McGarrall of Gibson of Denison, and made known his selections or the three state mine inspectors. John Verner of Oksaloa, was reappointed as inspector for the Second district and James W. Miller, was reappointed as captain for the fifth district and Sweet Sweep of Swan, was appointed inspector for the First district, to succeed James A. Campbell of Ottumwa. According to law the senate is required to confirm the appointments and custodian an executive session. ATTEMPTS TO WRECK TRAINS. Boy at Jewell Seems to Have Mania For Placing Stone on lrack Jewell, March 18—Lilas Johnson, a young farmer boy living near Lake Cairo, was arrested charged with attempting to wreck a train. The lad had been putting rocks and sticks on the track for some time, and would stand off to the side to see one train attempt this same time ago, and was told he would endanger lives by so doing. It was reported that he said he didn't care if he killed a hundred people. The traimmen have been on the alert for some time in going to that place. On the night of the abuse for which he was accused of timber, and placed it between the timbers on the bridge, and also had a large pile of rocks ahead of the bridge. A slow freight preceding the passenger happened to see the danger and came to a stop just as the pilot of the engine struck the rocks. C. & N. W. de Koehler, to whom he has "pigeon" toes. He被 guilty in Justice King's court, and will be bound over to the grand jury. New Iowa Lines of Railroads Chicago, March 17 - Contract for the construction of the Iowa & St. Louis railway from Elmer, M., on the Santa Fe, to a connection with the New Iowa Central near Centerville, IA, and The Diamond Bracelet Author of East Lynne, Eta. CHAPTER XVII. Once more Gerard Harpe entered his uncle's house; not as an interloper stealing into it in secret, but as an honored guest to whom separation was due, and must be made. Alice Seaton leaned back in her invalid chair, a joyous flush on her wasted cheek, and a joyous happiness in her eye. Still the shadow of coning death was there, and Mr. Hope was shocked to see her—more shocked and startled than he had expected, or chose to express. "Oh, Alice! What has done this?" "That," she answered, pointing to the braceret, which, returned to its true owner, lay on the table. "I should not have lived many years, of that I am convinced; but I might have lived a little longer than I now have, and been the cause of me to many, and Lady Sarah saw that she shall never regard it to being a star-trained trinket, or wear it with any pleasure." "But, Alice, why should you have suffered it thus to affect you," he remonstrated. "You know your own innocence, and you say you believed and trusted in mine; what did you fear?" "I will tell you, Gerard," she resumed, a deeper heater rising in her cheeks. "I could not have confessed my fear, even in dying; it was too distressing, too terrible; but now that it is all clear, I will tell it. I believed my sister had taken the bracelet." He uttered an exclamation of amusement. "I have believed it all along. She had called to me that night, and was for a minute or two in the room alone with the bracelets; I knew she, at that time, was short of money, and I feared she had been tempted to take it—just as this unfortunate servant man was tempted. Oh, Gerard, the dread of it has been upon me night and day, and upon our fears, weighing down my spirits, wearing away my health and my life. And I had to bear it all in silence—that dreadful silence that has killed me." "Alice, this must have been a morbid fear." "Not so—if you knew all. But now that I have told you let us not revert to it again; it is at an end, and I am very thankful. That it should so end has been my prayer and hope; not quite the only hope," she added, looking up at him with a sunny smile; "I have had another." "What is it? You look as if it were confused with me." "So it is. Ah, Gerrard! Can you not guess it." "No, he answered, in a stifled voice. 'I can only guess that you are lost to me.'" "Lost to all here. Have you forgotten our brief conversation the night you went into exile? I told you then there was one far more worthy of you than I could ever have been." "None will ever be half so worthy; or—I will say it, Alice, in spite of your warning hand—half so loved." "Gerard," she continued, sinking her voice, "she has waited for you." "She has. I have watched and seen, and I know it; and I tell it you under secrecy; when she is your wife, not before, you may tell her that I saw it "Yes, I shall." answered he, far more saucily; "a wife must follow the fortunes of her husband." THE END. The Promotion of the Admiral Morley Roberts, in the Strand. Mr. Smith, who ran a sailors' boarding-house in that part of San Francisco known as the Barbary Coast, was absolutely sui generis. Every breeze that blew, trade-wind or monsoon, had heard of his inquiries. He got the best of everyone. "All but one," said Smith, one night, in a moment of weakness, when a dozen men who owed so much money that they crawled to him as a Chinaman does to a joss were hanging on his lips; "all but one." "Oh, we don't take that in," said one of the most indebted, "we can't attack him, Mr. Smith." "Vep, I was done best of one beast," said the boarding-house keeper. He looked over malignantly. that was the end of it so far's remember. They told me afterward he was the topside fighter in the British Navy, and I'm here to say he was. "And you never got even?" asked the bartender, seeing that no one took up the challenge. "Never set eyes on him from that day to this," said his boss, regretfully. "And if you did?" Smith paused—took a drink. "So help me I'd Shanghai him if he was King of England!" And one of the crowd who had put down the San Francisco Chronicle in order to hear this yarn picked it up again. "Selp me," he said, in breathless exasperation. "I kin lick any of you here with one hand," he went on, "but the man as belled me could have taken on three of you with both hands. I run against him on the pier at Sandridge when he was in Australia fifteen years ago. He was a naval officer, captain of the Warrior, and dressed up to kill, with a knife and a fake knife cut of makhangy with a broad axe. And I was a feelin' good and in need of a scrap. So when he bumped agin me I shoved him over. Prompt I shoved him. Down he went, and the girls that knew me laughed. And two policemen came along quick. I didn't care much, but this naval josses himself up and goes to 'em. Would you believe it, but when he'd spoke a bit I see him donate tem to the police. I off round a heap of dunnage on the wharf, and the captain buttoned up his coat and came for me. "I never seen the likes of it. He comes up dancin' and smilin', and he knifes of give me half a bow, polite as you like, and inside of ten seconds I knew I'd struck a cyclone, right in the spot where they breed. I fought good (you know me) and I got in half a dozen on his face. But I never fazed him none, and he wouldn't bruise mor'n hitin' a boiler. And every time he got back on me I felt as if I'd been kicked. "He scarred me something cruel. I could see it by the blood on his hands. Twasn't his by a long dick, but he wasn't by a long dick. He could not see it by the blood on his hands." and said it. She is a lovable and attractive girl, and she does not and will not marry; you are the cause." "My darling—" "Stay, Gerard," she gravely interrupted; "those words of endearment are not for me. Give them to her; can you deny that you love her?" "Perhaps I do—in a degree. Next to yourself—" "Put me out of your thoughts while we speak. If I were—where I so soon shall be, would she not be dearer to you than any one on earth? Would you not be well pleased to make her your wife?" "Yes, I might be." "That is enough, Gerard, Frances, come hither." The conversation had been carried on in a whisper, and Lady Francis Crenhevia came towards them from a distant window. Alice took her hand; she also held Gerard's. "I thought you were talking secrets," said Lady Frances, "so I kept away." "No. What?" "That though he shall be rehabilitated in favor as to money matters, he shall not be in his affection, or in the house, unless he prove sorry for his rebellion by retracting it. The rebellion, you know, at the first outbreak, when Gerard was expelled from the house before that unlucky bracelet was ever bought; I think he is sorry for it; you must help him to be more so." "Fanny," said Gerard, while her eyelids drooped, and the damask masked in her cheek, deeper than Alice's hectic, "will you help me? "As if I could make head or tail out of what you two are discussing?" cried she by way of helping her out of her confusion, so she attempted to turn away; but Gerard caught her to his side and detained her." "Fanny—will you drive me again from the house?" She lifted her eyes twinkling with a little spice of mischief. "I did not drive you before." "In a manner, yes." he laughed. "Do you know what did drive me?" She had known it at the time, and "I see it all," he murmured, drawing her closer to him; "you have been far kinder to me and than I deserved. Fanny, let me try and repay you for it." Frances endeavored to look dignified, but it would not do, and she was obliged to brush away the tears of happiness that struggled to her eyes. Alice caught her hands together and held them between her own, with a mental aspiration for their life's future happiness. Some time back she could not have breathed it in so fervent a spirit; but—as she had said—the present world and its hopes had closed to her. "But you know, Gerard," cried Lady Frances, in a saucy tone, "if you ever do help yourself to a bracelet in reality, you must not expect me to go to prison with you." "Yes, I shall," answered her, far more saucily; "a wife must follow the fortunes of her husband." THE END. that was the end of it so far's I remember. They told me afterward he was the topside fighter in the hull British Navy, and I'm here to say he was. "And you never got even?" asked the bartender, seeing that no one took up the challenge. "And you on him from that day to this," he told his boss, regrettely. "And if you did?" Smith paused—took a drink. "So help me I'd Shanghai him if he was King of England!" And one of the crowd who had put down the San Francisco Chronicle in order to hear this yarn picked it up again. "Selp me," he said, in breathless excitement, "ere's a funny coincidence. Ere's a telegram from 'Squalmaint, sayin' as how the flagship Triumphant, Hadmiral Sir Richard Dunn, K. C. B, is comin' down to San Francisco." He smiled book, said Smith He read, and a heavenly smile overspread his hard countenance. He almost looked good, such joy was. "Tom," he said to the bartender, "set up drinks for the crowd. This is my man, for sure. And him an admiral, too! Holy sailor, aln't this luck?" He went out into the street and walked to and fro, rubbing his hands, while the men inside took their drink. "Was there ever such luck? Was there ever such luck?" murmured Mr. Shanghai Smith. "To think of him turnin' up all of his own accord on my particlar stampin' ground! Holly sailor! was there ever such luck?" The morning of the following day Her Majesty's ship Triumphant lay at her anchors off Succelito, in San Francisco Bay. Though the admiral did not know it, one of the very first to greet him when he set his foot on dry land at the bottom of Market street was the man he had licked so thoroughly fifteen years before in Melbourne. "Oh, it's the same," said Smith to his chief runner, who was about the "hardest case" in California. "He isn't changed none. Just so old he was when he set about me. I'm goin' to lose him. I love the stick on the longest ship that about hey to go to sea. Now what's in the harbor with officers that can handle me!" "Well, I always allowed (as you fornia was your match. And the California will sall in three days." "Righto," said Smith; "Simpson is a good, tough man. Bill, the California will do." "But how'll you corral the admiral, sir?" asked Belt. "You leave that to me," replied his boss. "I've got a very fruitful notion as will fetch him, if he's half the man he was." Mr. "Say-it and-me-it" Smith laid for Admiral Sir Richard Dunn, K. C. B, etc., etc from ten o'clock half-past eleven, and he was the only man in the crowd that did not hope the victim would come down with too many be tackled. The admiral came at last; it was about a quarter to twelve, and the whole water-front was remarkably quiet. And the admiral was only accompanied by his flag-leutenant. The two were promptly sandbagbed, the lieutenant left on the street and the admiral carried to the house in the Barbary Coast. When he showed signs of coming to he was promptly dosed, and his clothes were taken off him. As he slept the sleep of the drugged they put on a complete suit of rough serge toggery and he became Tom Deane, able-bodied seaman. By four o'clock in the morning Tom Deane lay fast asleep in a forward bunk of the California's fo'c'wle as she was being towed through the Golden Gate. And his flag- lieutenant was inquiring in hospital what had become of the admiral. And nobody could tell him more than he himself knew. Flaring headlines announced the disappearance of a British admiral, and the wires and cables fairly hummed to England and the world generally. (To be continued.) CORONATION FLOWER. Lily of the Valley, Alexandra's Favorite Man He Cheated There seems good reason for supposing that the illy of the valley, which has always been the favorite of Queen Alexandra, will take a very prominent place in the coronation decorations next June, says the London Telegraph. It is in that month, as it happens, that the bloom is at its best out of doors. As it happens, the illy of the valley can, in these days be had to almost any extent, and at any time of year, owing to a system of forcing which, by a curious coincidence, was first practiced in this country on the king's estate at Sandingham. 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June be the month of roses, there was some anticipation that these would be regarded as the coronation flowers; but the facts outlined above make it plain that the very general employment of the queen's favorite would be not only a graceful compliment to her majesty, but would have the charm of novelty, besides presenting no serious difficulty. Out of season the lily of the valley is still comparatively expensive, but there can be little doubt that, with the long notice which is given, and with the inducement which is held out to everybody who has a garden to add to the available supply of these delicate flowers, next June, the range of values at the coronation ought to be anything but exorbitant. They Will Step on the Hose. The man in the stable door gave the hose a jerk, but before it cleared the sidewalk the woman had laid on it with both feet. "Wouldn't that jar you?" grunted he, with another tug, according to the New York Times. 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Among bills passed were the following: To prohibit the sale of cocaine except on prescription of a physician; to permit moving persons from one institution to register on election day and vote; to permit supervisors to repair river levees in emergency without waiting for a meeting of the board; to change the weight of millet and wheat to the bushel; giving the board of control power to detain girls at the industrial school at Mitchellville until they are 21; to apply the fish protection law to the Big Sloux river; to punish kidnapping for ransom by imprisonment any term of years from ten years to life. House.—Sweeping amendments to the proposed law for the creation of a board of control to govern the state of Alabama, and to amend and the whole business was again sent to the committee of judiciary, a motion to refer to a special committee being defeated. The amendments add a new chapter to the instruction to the board and modify its powers in the matter of hiring professors. Cummins of Black Hawk chairman of the committee to which he was appointed, and referred, reported in favor of the bill, but with the recommendation that it be not further considered at this time, but that it be referred to a commission to review the case. Assembly. Hawk of Jasper the author of the bill, has already introduced a bill providing for such a commission. A provision for the "days notice" be forced upon the mutt tax against property was passed. Des Moines, March 17.—Senate— The following bills were passed: — By Kendall, requiring the board of mine engineers to mine forenemen and one as mine engineer, and prohibiting members from being connected with mining schools; to visit all coal mines of more than 105 tons production a day at least twice a year; by Buchanan, to give the power to revolutive officers; Dunham, to amend section 423, to make it clear that all expenditures in excess of $5,000 must be submitted to a mineral resource board made by the board of supervisors. House.-Buchanan of Wapello introduced a resolution for sine die adjournment at 12 m. April 3. It was provided that the laws affecting railways shall apply to interurban railways, that interurbans in cities shall be governed by the same laws as street railways, that they may run along the two-thirds of the two-thirds of the owners of the abutting property, was passed. The bill providing that in cities of 60,000 or over the board of supervisors shall be required to pass the bill was passed. It also provides that in cities of 60,000 or over, which at present only includes Des Moines, that the assessor shall receive not to exceed $2.50, deputies to be approved by the board of supervisors. Des Moines, March 18—Senate—The senate passed the bill to amend the road laws so as to conform them to the new statute extending the time for the state board of health to work July, S. F. 127, was passed. It turns over to the state board of health half the fees collected from itinerant doctors. Originally it also provided that children under 14 years of age shall not be voked by the state board of medical examiners without the vote of all the schools represented. The senate also passed a bill providing that children under 14 years of age shall not be voked by the state board of medical examiners to exceed six hours a day. House.—The house passed the Vickersburg monument bill without an opposing vote. It appropriated $150,000 for the museum field. Of this $10,000 is to be expendited during this biennial period. Representatives E. J. Bealer, Nate E. Kendall and others made eloquent speeches in favor of the measure. The museum bill passed the house, after the publication clause had been stricken off so that it cannot become a law until July 4, if the senate concurs in favor of the measure. The mayor the appointive power over the policemen and firemen who will be in office when it becomes operative. The house passed the resolution to adjourn April 3, but the senate has not passed the bill until it is plain that adjournance can be taken that day. It is thought adjournment will not come until April 10. Des Moines, March 19—Senate—The senate debated the Emmell bill to create a reformatory for men at age 18 to vote in a special vote to proprotei $20,000 therefor at great length, amended it so persons convicted of rape, arson, burglary, or murder shall not have the advantages of the reformatory, and defended it. The senate voted to approve patrick, Garst, Harper, Hubbard Lyon, Maytag, Townsend voted for it, only. Among bills passed were the following: By Edwards, requiring the senate to approve file maps and schedules of their lines with county auditors; by Courtright to allow notice of election on granting public franchises in municipalities to be punished by posting when the notice is posted; by the corporation; by Courtright, providing that the right of inheritance from parents and children by adoption shall be the same as between parents and children born in lawful wedlock; Admiral Samson's Prize money. Washington, March 17, 1-1. a transcript of the record in the case of the United States vs. Admiral Samson and others, which has been appealed from the decision of the supreme court of the district, has been filed in the United States supreme court. The case involves the question as to whether prize money should be allowed mon of the No. 3th Atlantic squadron, owing to the vessels, and supplies captured in the battle off Santiago. July 3, 1888. repealing the law discriminating against foreign insurance companies in matters matter, faxing their tax at 2.5 cents per dollar, or panies of the United States outside of Iowa pay. In executive session the senate confirmed the appointment of T. E. McCurdy as member of the board of control and of T. E. McCurdy to succeed J. D. McGarrard as custodian of the capitals Harriman voted against McCurdy. House—The Crossross primary election bill failed to pass the house Wednesday, there being only 48 votes for it to 54 against. A motion to reconsider the bill was called up again. The general provisions of the bill are as follows: All parties shall hold their primaries on the same day; these primaries are to be held on the same day; the rules as govern the general election, the judges and clerks to be the same; delegates selected at the primaries are instructed to vote for the candle; the judges and clerks are their respective precincts. All returns are to be made to the county auditor, who is to certify them to the conventions of the respective parties; Greene and others interested in the bill are engaged in amending it to some extent and another attempt will be made to secure its passage. The house Wednesday with only sixteen votes against it. It has already passed the senate and will now be referred to the next general assembly. The house Wednesday can be submitted to the people. It has been properly recorded in the journal of each house so as to insure its constitutionality on this score. The appropriating $2,500 for a stockholder at the state fair grounds was passed. Des Molines, March 20—Senate. The senate passed the Hamann house bill, with amendments, granting the right of eminent domain to interurban highways, applying to them all of the laws relating to railroad corporations, but prohibiting them from entering cities as street car lines for purposes of transporting freight. That is, they must use street car lines for car lines for the transportation of passengers, mail and baggage, but if they haul freight they must use the streets as railroads and pay abutting fees. The senate returned a return perpetual tranches. The senate concurred in the house amendments to the bill creating a fire and police commission to superintend these departments in the city of Des Molines. The senate signed the governor to become a law. The bill to require telephone companies to file profiles of their lines and make annual reports to county auditors and to report to the executive was defeated. House.—The bill passed the Molesbury bill removing the limit of bonded indebtedness which Iowa railroad companies may incur, the vote being unanimous. The governor and awaits the signature of the governor. Clarke called up H. F. 351, establishing a law regarding negotiable instruments uniform with the laws of the union. He explained the measure 3043, 3045, 3049, 3050, 3051, 3052, 3054 and 3055. He explained the measure at some length, stating that it had been adopted by a number of states, and that there was a great necessity for such a law in this state. The bill he stated was simply a codification of the law and declares the union of the union, and that there was a short debate the bill passed. Among bills passed were the following: Prohibiting baseball and football on Sunday, placing cat fish on the ground in the stadium for that housing engineer must have two years' experience before certificates of competency are issued to them. The house adopted by a narrow committee the measure for the former resolution endorsing the Hour bill in restriction of injunctions, but did not vote on the resolution itself. The house committee recommended for the former bill to the auditor of state, who has superintended insurance business in Iowa. Adopted a Resolution in Favor of the Roose Washington, March 20.—The democratic members of the house, at a caucus held last night, unanimously adopted resolutions declaring that congress should express the views of the struggling Boer republics and pledging themselves to use their utmost endeavors to "force" the committees to report resolutions expressive of such sympathy in order that congress may make an effort to resolve the committee asks resolutions to investigate the franchise question, which was not considered at the caucus. Representative Bay of Virginia preside at the caucus and Representative Robertson of Louisiana acted as secretary. The attendance was large. There was no division of sentiment as to the course to be taken, the question presented being simply one of choice for the committee offered by Mr. Randall of Texas and the other by Mr. Sulzer of New York. THREAT BY GEN. MILES. Head of the Army Threatens to Tender Resignation. Washington, March 21.—General Nelson A. Miles yesterday told the senate committee on military affairs that if the bill introduced by Senator Hawley at the instance of the war deceived him, he would general staff for the army should become a law he would decline to longer hold his commission. The reason that he gave for the statement is that the bill is utterly subservive of the interests of the military establishment and he said that he would not be a proponent of a proceeding to the extent even of continuing to hold his place. The statement was made in the course of a prolonged hearing by the committee which was connected by the committee to the Gen. Miles touched upon a variety of subjects connected with the army. An ordinance has been prepared by Captain W. T. Norton, a prominent citizen of Louisville, providing that ministers of all denominations shall pay a license of $50 a year, and that their salaries shall be garnished in event of non-payment. 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MICHAEL O'MALLEBRAN If you do not deserve praise and satisfaction results from the use of your services, you may be pleased to give your name, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable services gratia. Address Dr. Hartman, President of the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Gus. R. Taylor of Hilton and shipping in Albia this week. Mr. James of Hocking was in Albia this week. Mr. T. L. Griffith of Das Meters spent two days of this week in Albia at the abandoned home of Mrs. Griffith. Mr. Bennard and Mrs. Bratford of Hltemer were in Albia this week. The house of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hotlingworth was sodded on March 13 by the death of their son, Charlie Hollingworth. Charlie was 15 years, 6 months and 8 days old. Consumption was the square of the death. The internal services were held at the A. M. E. church; Rev. T. A. enlisting. Mike Malone was here for quarterly meeting services on Sunday morning and Sunday night. He left in the evening for Glencore. The sudden change of weather came upon us Sunday so hard that we all heard a drop four degrees. Rev. W. H. Spice went to Yankton, S. D. Saturday to occupy the pulpit Sunday. Miss Jessie Lamb has gone to Chicago on Wednesday. Mrs. Dowdy of Yankton S. D. arrived in our city Friday to be at the bed-side of her mother, Mrs. Jackson Askw. She left for home Monday, leaving her mother much improved. Mr. W. A. Maggett left for Cincinnati, Ohio last Monday—called there by the serious illness of his brother. Missouri James Washington and John Morgan have bought two houses and moved them on their lot on Main Street. They are to be fixed up and rented. Mr. Robert Horna will leave in a few days for Virginia to join her husband where he now resides. By them going will leave two of our good citizens. The Trustees and Stewards will give a shattering supper at Thompson's hall Wednesday evening March 19. Miss. M. Murry has arrived home after an extended visit with relatives in Des Moines. Mr. Isaac Wakkins returned to Sioux Rapide after a very pleasant visit with his children. These on the sick list are, namely: Missouri John Morgan, Eather Whidman, Judy, Askew and Mr. Jackson Ashew. The Sunday School is rehearsing for Easter Sunday. The programs are very nice. Mrs. Edward Ross was released from the smallpox quarantine Monday. The revival meetings which have been conducted by the evangelist Rev. J. L. Warton have been quite a success. The church has been spiritually revived and great good have been realized from them. He preached his farewell sermon Sunday evening. He has become known as one of the most finest talkers and effective evangelist workers in the state of Illinois. Miss John Norris was run over in opening West Street street Wednesday afternoon, by a horse and buggy containing two women, who were recklessly driving doe to the street, he was seriously but not dangerously hurt. They escaped punishment but should have been punished to be still extent of the law. MUGHAKINOCK NEWS. These on the sick list are, Mr. Julious Weish and Mr. Dick Johnson. Miss Addie Lodgen returned to Buxton. Miss Smith and Fielden have the small pox. Miss C. Foster, McDole and Portwood arrived from Des Moines yesterday. Mrs. Glo. H. Woodson was called to Musseline to the bed-side of his cousin. Miss Storm Sheffy who is very ill. Miss Kitty Jones was an Okslaoosa visitor. MT. PLEASANT NEWS. Mr. R. H. Hackley spent a few days in Earlington last week. Mr. James O'Belley was in the city Tuesday. Mrs. Susan Grandison entertained Mr. and Mrs. John Smith and Mr. Monroe Nurley at dinner Sunday in honor of her father's 72nd birthday. The Misses McCracken entertained at their house the I. K. S. club and a few of their gentlemen friends Monday evening. The house was beautifully decorated with green and cash greens was presented with a souvenir of green satin ribbon, refreshments were served in two courses. Dr. Grandison is in the city visiting his family. Paul Glistrap of Keokuk and two of his friends were up this week. An Old Superstition Superstition connected with the seventh child of a seventh child is commemorated by a tombstone in a village churchyard near Bridgewater, Somerset, says the London Chronicle. This inscription runs: "Sacred to the memory of Joosten Poonahsberry who Millnery Opening 705 Locust--Florentine. CAPT. GEORGE BEALL This is what Captain Beall says to day: Dr. C. M. MOLLAM My Dear Doctor.—After cataract surgery, I went to the cataract cataract of the stomach which was killing me, and when all the other doctors had made a failure of my case you took hold of it and cured me, we have a pain or a ache or a sign of cataract on my eye. Very respectfully yours, GEORGE BEALL My Dear Doctor.—After catarh had bled gore, and after it had produced a scar, I asked my doctor if I had a pain or a ache or a sign of catarh for seven. We ruler the afflicted to people we have cured, Dry Goods Co. Jv. Rev. 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"Shall we——" At that instant one of the moral gentlemen happened to glance at the ticker, which had been temporarily set up under the stairway. With a blanched face he dashed in among his fellow-citizens and velled: "What's broke three-quarters and the bears have everybody on the run!" Four seconds later the meeting was over and the representative citizens of the highly moral town, who were sprinting toward the telegraph office, had forgotten that there ever was or ever might be such a thing as a social club or a slot machine or that gambling ought not to be allowed. A Simple Rule That Helps Him to Acquire a Lucrative Practice. A physician of long standing in this city who has a practice that any of his colleagues might envy—and, many in all probability do—recently gave this advice to a young doctor who was just starting out in his profession. The older man is a type of the kind of doctor that is said to be going out of style—the family physician. Whether he is destined to disappear or not, this kind of a physician followed a highly profitable kind of career while it lasted. Many young men used to regard this sort of practice as that to which they all aspired. "I have always made it a rule," said this experienced man of medicine, "to close every visit to a patient with a question or a comment on his or her physical condition. it is all very well to discuss various questions with one's patients, talk about all kinds of subjects and interest them in any way possible. But the final remark must be connected with the patient's physical condition. Tell him not to forget to take a certain medicine regularly, or tell her that you have never had a case that was just like hers—but in all cases talk last about the illness of the person you have come to see. I learned that when I was a young man from the most popular physician of his time. 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The sure means of avoiding trouble and loss is to GET A SINGER, thus you deal directly with the leading sewing-machine manufacturers of the world, having an unequaled experience and an unrivaled reputation—the strongest guarantee of excellence of product and fair dealing, in its sale. SOLD ON INSTALMENTS. OLD MACHINES EXCHANGED. THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. SALEGROOMS IN EVERY CITY. Local Office: 706 Walnut Street Des Moines, Iowa. DRS. FELLOWS & FELLOWS Located in Des Moines in 1869. After many years in th DRS. FELLOWS DRS. FELLOWS & FELLOWS Located in Des Moines in 1869. After many years in the medical practice, we now devote all our time to the treatment of Circulus. We have all our medical staff refunded. All medicines furnished ready for use from our cows' laboratory. Nodetention from business. Patients at a distance from gate or breakage. Charges up. The demands of patient from gate or breakage. Charges up. The demands of patient from gate or breakage. Important. State your case plainly. Send for letters, blanks, etc. Consultation free and confidential, personally or by letter. SEMINAL WEAKNESS AND SEXUAL DEBILITY, producing losses, pimples and blotches on the face, rushes of blood to the head, pains in back, forgetfulness, bashfulness, averaging, and other symptoms. We cure above diseases and make you fit for marriage. VARICOCELE radically and permanently cured by our method in from five to fifteen days. We an WE CURE for life. Skin Diseases. Blood Diseases. Glect. and all Private Diseases can also question blanks. Cured by our method. Don't let STRICTURE ence in its successful treatment your case in person or by mail. All medicines of DRS. FELLOWS & FELLOWS Corner 4th and Walnut Sts. WE CURR for life. Skin Dissinfections, Blood Pollution, Swelling, Ulcers, Sores, Gonorrhoea and also question blanks. All Private Dissinfections cured or money returned. $p-page book sent free; STRICTURE cured by our method. Don't let this affliction run along. Our 20 years' expert course in its successful treatment is a guarantee to you that we are able to handle your case in person or by mail. All medicines can well packed and free from gaze. DRS. FELLOWS & FELLOWS. Des Moines, Iowa. Corner 4th and Walnut St., over Iowa National Bank. BEFORE USING. Sold at all drug stores darely wrapped on receipt of AGENTS CAN MAKE Village P M. Boudin ```markdown ``` SOLD ON INSTALMENTS. Local Office: A. H. Nelson's Straightine FREE FROM ALL INJURIOUS CHEMICALS. GUARANTEED PERFECTLY HARMLESS. Nelson's Straightine Not only straightens the hair, but by near- ling the roots, prevents it from falling over. Dermatologist Dr. Robert B. Hammond gives long and Beautiful Head of Hair. It is used and highly endorsed by the people in all sections of this country. We guarantee Straightine to be free from all chemicals. We guarantee Straightine to be free not make the hair sticky or gummy, and is highly performed. Straightine can be worn all day or night. Off at any time, or can be tapered as length varies. Thousands of customers Clean Up! Spring is coming and it will pay you to begin at once to beautify your home. Rake the lawn, spade up the flower beds, trim the shrubbery and remember that you can buy Rakes, Hoes, Spades, Pruning Shears and all kinds of lawn and garden supplies of the best quality at very low prices at IOWA SEED CO., hardy shrubs, roses, etc., at less than half the price usually charged by nurserymen. Call and see them. IOWA SEED CO., 613-615 Locust Street, Des Moines, Iowa. ```markdown ``` TEST OF TIME. THE ADVANTAGE OF PERMANENCY. Statistics show that less than Five merchandise dealers in each One Hundred are successful. They come and go and are forgotten. Singer machines are sold only by THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO., dealing directly from maker to user. THE SINGER COMPANY IS PERMANENT AND ITS REPRESENTATIVES ARE ALWAYS AT HAND TO CARE FOR SINGER MACHINES. This is an important consideration to the purchaser of a sewing-machine. OLD MACHINES EXCHANGED. MUTUAL PHONE 624 IOWA PHONE 648 Take Your Meals at the PEOPLE'S SHORT ORDER LUNCH ROOM And you wont go to waste for lack of proper food. Cooking to order in home style. MRS. I. M. JONES Prop. 318 W. Third Street. Career and Character of Abraham Lincoln. An address by Joseph Choate, Ambassador to Great Britain, on the career and character of Abraham Lincoln—his early life—his early struggle with the world—his character as developed in the later years of his life and his administration, which placed his name so high on the world's roll of honor and fame, has been published by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway and may be had by sending six (6) cents in postage to F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ill. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or post, money order, express money order or registered letter we will send it through the mail postage prepaid; or if you want it sent C. O. D., it will come by express, 256, extra. In any case we will allow you to claim that we claim, we will return the money or send a box free of charge. Packed so that no one will know contents except receiver. CRANE AND CO., 122 west Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. Cheaper Than Ever Daily to Sept. 10th, 1901. VIA THE GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE VIA THE ROUND TRIP RATES FROM Chicago to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo $25.00 Aug. 1 to 10 $31.50 July 10 to 31 Sept. 1 to 10 Aug. 11 to 31 Similar reduced Rates on same dates to other Colorado and Utah Tourist Points. Rates from other points on Rock Island The Super New Train Rocky Mountain Limited Leaves Chicago daily at 1:00 p.m. arriving Denver 4:44 p.m. Colorado Springs (Manitou) 4:30 p.m. noon day. ONLY ONE NIGHT OUT See your Agent for details and Colorado literature or address JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A, CHICAGO. straightine air Straight. IR DRESSING. NURIOUS CHEMICALS. PERFECTLY HARMLESS. OFFICE AND YARDS 416 SEVENTH STREET. EVERYBODY KNOWSTHAT MUNGER'S LAUNDRY is the best in the city. Try them and be decided. Maine Office 211-215 NINTH St. Branc Office 504 MULBERRY St. PHONE 579. Second Hand Goods of all Kinds, Bought, Sold and Exchanged. FIKE & FIKE Des Moines Second-Hand Book Dealers. 102-104-106 East Walnut. Subscribe 10r Bystander. BETHEL A. M. E. CMURCH KEOKUK, IOWA. Corner of Fourteen and Blondian Street. Pastor F. J. Peterson D. D., Residence 1819 Fulton Street. Service Position: 0:50 a.m and 7:30 p.m. Class 12:00 p.m.; Prayer Meeting Tianendeavor 6:30 p.m.; Prayer Meeting 7:30 p.m. All are welcome to these service CALIFORNIA. Broad Veatibuled First-Class Sleepers DAILY- Between Chicago and San Francisco WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. 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