Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. 8. Iowa STATE BYSTANDER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE BYTENMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY, PIERCE AND LOCUST, BOOK 60, LARGE QUARTER BOOK. IOWA. 'PROSE' 800. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE APO-AMERICAN PRO- TECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF IOWA. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE MOST WORKSHIP* UNITED GRAND LODGE OF IOWA, A. P. & F. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIO One year. $1.00 Six mths. 75 Three mths. All subscription payable in advance. J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the publisher. We will not return rejected manuscript, unless accompanied by postage stamps. CITY NEWS Mississippi Hall, Clay, Hyde and McCraven were ushers at St. Paul Sunday evening. Mrs. Geo. Morton, who has been at the hospital for several weeks is improving. Chester Wood has been guarding the stock of goods Seeley-Howe and Le Van Co this week while they were being packed for shipment to Omaha. Rev. Horace S. Graves lectured in Oakalooa Tuesday night in the A. M. E. church, on General Grant, to a packed house. Mrs. Tracy Blagburn and children who have been spending the winter in Kansas City, Mo., returned home Tuesday. The Colored Republican League will meet at the court house next Monday evening, all members are requested to be present. Mrs. Sarah Curtley of F. Des Moins, is seriously sick. Her many friends will be sorry to hear of her illness, and hope for speedy recover. Mrs. L. R. Palmer, Grand Matron of the Grand Court of H. of J. of Iowa, will visit her Omaha Court on or about the 28th inst. - Omaha Enterprise. Mrs. Frank Woodard has gone to Chicago. If she likes that city her husband will join her later and they will make that place their future home. Mrs. Geo. Morgan had an operation performed at the Methodist hospital for a tumor this week. She is in a critical condition and the doctors fear she cannot recover, as we go to press she was resting well. The widow of Rev. C. M. Williams, a former pastor of the East Side church has returned from Oberlin, O. Rev. Williams died a few weeks ago at Louisiana, Mo. The second in the series of sermons will be delivered Sunday evening at St. Paul. "The Glory of a Young Man." Mrs. Lucy Blagburn will sing a solo and Mr. Douglas Miller and Prof. Holt will sing a duet. Mr. J. H. Rogers will spend Sunday in Kansas City the guest of Miss Grace Simpson, he may remain for the Grand ball that will be given there on Monday night. The Misses Alice and Nettie Williams entertained a dancing party Friday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Williams of Chicago and Messrs Ed. Williams and Lawrence Morgan who returned recently from the windy city. Mr. Howard Williams has returned to Chicago after a brief visit with his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Williams. Mrs. Williams will spend the summer here. Doe Molnes has another new colored lawyer, young S. Joe Brown, formerly of Albia where he has been practicing for several months in partnership with Geo. H. Woodson. They will still remain partners—Woodson remaining in Muchahinock. Brown has opened his office in the New Century building, where he will be delighted to meet both clients and friends. The entertainment given by the ladies of of the Christian Working club and the Sewing Circle on Thursday, April 17 was a grand success. Mrs. L. Courtney and Mrs. John Blakey were chairmen of the two committees respectively. The program was in charge of Mr. Fred Stanton. Everything for the tables was given, and the neat sum of $33.10 cleared, which sum was donated to Rev. T. L. Griffith to assist in moving his family. The H. B. S. met with Mrs. Jackson. A large membership was present. Quotations from Douglas. A very nice program was rendered: Meadames Waselke and Blagburn officiating; spelling by the club; oracle, Mrs. Graves; oracle, Mrs. Holt. Program for May 1: Quotations from Teusaint L'Ouverture; reading, Mrs. Edward; paper, Mrs. Hamilton; general discussion. Mrs. Jackson served lunch, assisted by Missen Beasle and Lulu Jackson. The Circle adjourned to meet with Mrs. Watkins. One week from Sunday, which is the first Sunday in May, is grand rally day of the St. Paul A. M. E. Church. In the evening song services will be held at the Y. M. G. A. Auditorium. There will be no admission, but all who desire to attend this service must secure a ticket from the pastor. No doubt this will be the greatest musical feast this city has ever had by colored singers. It will be greet meeting, greek in the musical world. Governor Cummins and the State House people will be in attendance again. Mr. Wm-Coalson, J. L. Thompson and H. Gould are managing the colossal service and there can be no failure with such experience church workers. Will print full program next week. MRS CONNWAY ACQUITTED (Special to the BYSTANDER) After two days of the preliminary hearing in the ease of the State of Iowa against Nora Connway the colored woman charged with murder in the first degree in the killing of her divorced husband Frank Connway at Hilton a week ago last Sunday, Mayor W. K. Hardenbrook discharged the defendants yesterday on the ground that the killing was done in self defence, Mra. Connway was defended by Woodson and Brown. STATE ORGANIZATION The Household of Buth met in the rooms of Odd Fellows Hall for the purpose of organizing a District Grand Household for the state of Iowa, representatives consisting of the following sisters: Mesdames Parker of Davenport; Hattie Tiggs, Burlington; Matilda Holmes, Mt. Pleasant; Mattie Thomas, Ft. Madison: Ella Newman, Chariton; Matilda Atkins, Mt. Pleasant; May Davis, Albis; Sady Brooks, Keoku; Matilda Barmes, Evans and Pruitt, Oskaloosa. The following officers were elected, Mesdames Parker, District M. N. G.; Hattie Tigg, R. N. G.; Saidie Brooks, W. R.; Matilda Holmes, W. T.; Mattie Thomas, P. M. N. G. Ella Newman, W. G.; Matilda Atkins, W. P.; Annie Green, W. S; Alice Kebo, W. U.; Matilda Frazier, W. C. F. Madison is to be the place for holding the next meeting which will be held the third Tuesday in July. The meeting was presided over by Mrs. Tigg of Burlington last Wednesday. The delegates were guest of honor at a reception given in the Odd Fellows' hall by Household of Buth of Keoku. There was a large attendance, and an excellent programme was rendered, Ex-district Grand Master W. A. Mills officiated as master of ceremonies and made introduce orory remarks followed by S. L. Tigg District Grand Master, the welcome address was delivered by Mrs. Maymie Robbins of Keoku. Friday evening was the banquet and installation of the Grand offices at Estes Hall by S. L. Tigg Grand Installing Master, W. A. S. Mills Assisting. W. R. Frazier presided over a mass meeting of colored men held at the court house this week and S. James of Saylorville acted as secretary. The following resolutions were adopted: "Whereas, There has been a double murder committed in our community, the most atrocious in the history of Iowa; and, "Whereas, On Sunday night, April 13, 1902 while returning from church, Lena and Thomas Peterson were waylaid and beaten to death by one or more villains, unworthy of any leniency at the hands of justice; be it "Resolved, That we the Negroes assembled in a mass meeting, do hereby denounce and condemn the above mentioned crime as venomous, atrocious and unmitigating, and that we will do all in our power to apprehend, to bring to justice the party or parties perpetrators of the crime." The following contributions were made toward the fund for the apprehension of the murderers; I. M, Jones, $1; Albert Moss, &1; W. Caloway, $1; R. N. Hyde, $3; Geo. Howard, $1. DR. A. G. EDWARDS. Physician and Surgeon. Physician and Surgeon. IOWA PHONE 1081 (Office) MUTUAL PHONE #00 Miles' Drug Store OFFICE HOURS: {9 to 10 a.m. {2 to 4 p.m. {7 to 9 p.m. Over 764 West Ninth Street. Over 764 West Ninth Street. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1902. Color Line Taken Up. The Biennial Convention of the Federation of the Women's Club will be held in Los Angeles, California in May. The first week in May the American people will have their attention turned to Los Angles, in the Golden state, for there will be held the sixth biennial session of General Federation of Woman's Club of America, which will be composed of nearly 2,000 delegates, representing every social section in the United States. In 1892 thirty-three individual clubs, representing thirteen different states, effected the General Federation, from which it has now grown till it has 2,800 clubs with many thousand members, with twelve of these clubs colored. The two most perplexing and momentous questions which will come before the session while in the fruit land of southern California is the color line and reorganization. The future success of the Federation depends on the final settlement of this question. The question of admitting colored clubs will be the absorbing question. Several states have already spoken, among which are: Iowa protested against the color line with a resolution in Milwaukee, afterward tabled them, and have refused to take any action; Illinois has said nothing; Ohio favors equality of all clubs and sent greetings to colored Woman's Federation; South Dakota voted strongly against colored clubs; Wisconsin, Michigan and Colorado has taken no stand yet; Deleware asks for no change in the constitution, and that the color question be not mentioned. Nebraska has two colored clubs as members of her federation. Minnesota has an application for membership of a colored club but is holding its decision till after the Los Angeles convention. Maine and New Hampshire strongly protest against the color line. Massachusetts has besides the New Era Club, of which Mrs. Ruffin represented at Milwaukee but was refused, several other colored clubs as members of the state federation. While there will be some able and strong discussions of this questions, yet we hope that there will be sufficient material with good judgment and loyal hearted and broad-minded ladies enough to do the only right and just duty, that of admitting all honest true and good society, and let not color debar them. While many of our good colored ladies' clubs will not force themselves, or seek association with an association that do not care or want them, they are independent. But the idea of prohibiting a club or denying it membership simply because of color is so little and narrow for intelligent ladies to consider. THE BLACK CAT CLUB This is the name of a new book just written by Rev. James D. Corrothers in the Negro dialect. The object can be briefly and best stated by quoting the author's preface in part. "This book is intended as a series of character studies of the Negro life as it may be observed in the great cities of the North. The scene has been laid in Chicago because there—more than any where else in the North—may be found every type of the American Negro and nearly every phase of his social life. Believing that the world needs smiles instead of tears, it has been my desire to present the humorous side of Negro life, as I have observed it." We have just received a copy of the book but as yet have not given it a thorough study, yet it is well printed and cartooned and for its class we bespeak success for it. One can procure a copy by writing to Funk & Wagnalls, New York City, for $1.00. J. H. Mixon, Jeweler, No. 312 West Third street, tunes pianos and repairs organs. GOLF OUTFITS Our line of Golf Clubs, Balls and Bags is most complete in the west and the choice of Golf Market. The "McGREGOR" and "NICHOLS SPECIAL" are the highest grade and reliable (defet or flaw replaced at any time free), and "HAWKEYE SPECIAL" is a fine medium of guaranteed, the Oxford is a splendid club, even of any $1.00 club in the market, only and Bags is the choice of the PHOLS SPEC- SATUR Des Me Our line of Golf Clubs, Balls and Bags is the most complete in the west and the choice of the Golf Market. The "McGREGOR" and "NICHOLS SPECIAL" are the highest grade and reliable (any defet or flaw replaced at any time free), and our "HAWKEYE SPECIAL" is a fine medium club guaranteed, the Oxford is a splendid club, equal of any $1.00 club in the market, only 75c for Wood or Iron Balls, $2.50 doz, up Bags, $1.25 up Rules and Score Books Free. HOPKINS-SE COLOR PREJUDICE GIVEN A BLOW BY THE NEW MAYOR. BUY BUY of us on the Easy CHASE HOPKINS-SEARS CO. Seventh and Locust Sts. of us on the Easy Payment Plan CHASE & WEST be with us on that date but will be present the day following. Wednesday is the date set for the lecture by the Hon. Geo. H. Woodson of Mushakinock at the A. M. E. church. and Mrs Susie Jones. Mr. C. Susie and W. H. London were Albia visitors Saturday. Our band boys met with howling success in their concert at Lovilla last Satur Miss Anna Cooper is visiting friends in in Dixon, 11. Mrs. Martha Washington a long time resident of this city but for several years past a resident of Minneapolis is the guest of Mrs. F. E. McNeil. The entertainment given by the ladies club having under consideration the capeping of the A. M. E. church was a desired success a neat sum being realized the event taking place on last Wednesday evening. Jesse Mitchell of Fulton was shaking hands with Clinton friends Sunday. The girls new bath house is now being rapidly pushed, also the boys bath house, these buildings will supply a long felt want and are to cost respectively $5.500 and $6.500. The work upon the new office building has begun in earnest. A large force of men are at work laying the foundation, before the school year closes it is hoped to have this building mostly finished. New machinery for the brick yard has just been installed; the capacity of the old machinery is 20,000 per day and the new machinery is a duplicate of it. We shall in short be turning out bricks at the rate of $40,000 a day very soon. Buxton is to have a beautiful park. The work of beautifying this park is now going on. The work is under the direction of the Buxton Cornet Band is managed by the band's business manager, Mr William Resby, who has special personal supervision of the work. Superintendent B. C. Buxton is heartily in the park scheme and is building a grand band stand. The park as yet has not been named, but it will be named in due time. The park will be opened on May 30 with some strong attraction. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Jas, Wesley died last Friday and was buried Saturday. The little one has been sick for a long time. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley's many friends deeply sympatize with them in this sad hour of death and parting. Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Palmer a fine baby girl. Miss Bessie L. Owens, one of our city teachers, was elected delegate to the district Sunday School convention which meets in Ottawa May 29. Mr. E. A. London a visitor in Buxton the first of the week. Mr. London has resigned his position with W. A. Wells & Co. and has gone to Chicago where he will accept a position. Quite a number of our Masonic brethren were in Albia Saturday conducting an initiation ceremony. Mrs. Francis Brown was an Albia visitor Saturday. Last Tuesday the ladies' court was visited by the Grand Matron. She was accompanied from Muehaknock where she last visited, by Mrs. Maud Jackson ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` Last week our newly elected Mayor, Hon. J. M. Brenton took the lady manager of Home for Friendless Children to task. The management of the home for orphands and friendless children have been in the habit of refusing to take any children of color. The new Mayor ordered the child sent there not thinking about color they would not take it, he immediately sent for the Matron and gave them his orders which was so long, as they took $1,000 annually from the city treasurer to aid the institution no color line would be drawn while he was Mayor. That is good Mr. Mayor your heart is right, keep on striking this monster color prejudice and gross injustice that is being heaped upon our race. BASS THE GREAT HORSE EDUCATOR HERE. Last week Mr. Thomas Bass of Mexico, Mo., who is perhaps the best horse trainer in America and who is the owner of that famous educated horse known to the horse show of the United States "Columbus" arrived in our city to the surprise of many who thought Mr. Bass was killed as the newspaper stated last fall just after attending the horse show at the Seni' Om Sed. He was seriously hurt permanently and may die at any time as he can scarcely talk above a whisper He brought several of his horses up here to attend the horse sale and he sold all six of the horses that he brought. He is an honest just and fair man to deal with and well liked by all who know him. SAYLOR ITEMS. The wedding bells are ringing again in Saylor. The First Baptist church has secured Rev. W. T. Nickerson to preach at the church, he is an able minister and the people are well pleased with his work. There has been three added to the church, Mr. A. H. Corbett left for Oklahoma on the 15th. Mrs. Franois Young is on the sick list Mrs. Addle Jenkins, Messrs James Holland and Lee Garrett are preparing to visit their sisters in Kansas and Missouri. Mrs. Corbatt received the sad news of the death of her grandmother who lives in Virginia. "Saylor Wonders" are out for the season and willing to play at any time on any agreement, players are as follows. A. Campbell, pitcher; W. M. Pritchart, catcher; W. M. Oston, second-base; S. Blain first-base; G. Neal, short-stop; J. Francis, center-field; J. Steal, right-field L. Branch. third-base; C. Barefield, left-field; C. C. Rie, manager. CLINTON ITEMS. Wm. Giles an empl oy of the C. and N. W. railway dinning car service spent Sunday in Clinton with his wife and friends. A union rally was held at the second Baptist church on Sunday afternoon the collection on that occasion amounting to $25.00. The candy kitehen is about to be placed in the hands of painters and decorators for a general remodelling. Faed no doubt will endeavor to excel all previous efforts in beautifying his popular resort. The Ladies Aids and Industrial Society of the Second Baptist church met with Mrs. Parts on last Thursday afternoon a pleasant afternoon was spent. Quarterly meeting will be held on Sunday May the 4th. Rev. Malone will not Base Ball Game... BICYCLES columbias, Nationals, Tribunes, Regals, umblers, Wolf-Americans, Wasps, Iowa etc. 5.00 to $75.00—On easy terms and best the market affords.ennis We are headquarters for everything in this line at lowest prices. AMERA AND SUPPLIES RS CO. Seventh and Locust Sts. Columbias, Nationals, Tribunes, Regals, Ramblers, Wolf-Americans, Wasps, Iowa etc $15.00 to $75.00-On easy terms and the best the market affords. Tennis We are headquarters for everything in this line at lowest prices. CAMERA AND SUPPLIES the Easy Payment Plan SE & WEST ```markdown ``` TUSKEGEE NOTES NEWS FROM BUXTON Carpets, Furniture, Pictures, Lamps and Kitchen ware Refrigerators, Gasoline Stoves and Everything else for the House and Mra Susie Jones. Mr. C. H. Mease and W. H. London were Alba visitors Saturday. Our band boys met with howling success in their concert at Lovilla last Saturday. Mr. Lewis Perkins is in Muchakinock this week. MT. PLEASANT NEWS The death of Mrs. Fannie Jones the wife of Mr. Emerson Jones occurred last Friday morning at her home. The funeral was Saturday afternoon and interment was at Forest Home cemetery. Mrs. Jones has been a patient suffer for six years with a cancer on her breast last six months her condition has been such that she was unable to lie down but was compelled to sit in an arm chair. She has been a member of the Stewardess board of the A. B. M. church for several years and to the day death proved to be a soldier for Jesus. Mr. and Mrs. H Tansil and son went to Illinois for a visit with Mr. Tansil's brother last Thursday. Mrs. Chas. Anderson who has been visiting her mother Mrs. Phillips returned home last week. Dr. Carl Grandison returned to Chicago last Saturday. An entertainment for the benefit of the Presiding Elder was given at the A. M. E. church Tuesday night. A concert for the benefit of the A. M. E. Sunday School will be given in the near future. The I. K. S. club met with Mrs. Grandison Tuesday night. SIOUX CITY ITEMS Elder J. W. Malone held quarterly meeting Sunday at the A. M. E. church. He preached morning and evening to a large crowd. The Ladies' Improvement society met with Mrs. J. W. Norris Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Margerite Smith is dangerously ill as her home with pneumonia. Miss Agnes Lashly and Mr. Champion, two of our promising young people of the city, were quietly married Wednesday evening at the home of her parents in the presence of relatives and a few friends. Rev. W. A. Magget officiated. We wish them much happiness through life. Mas Fannie Finkard of Cedar Rapids arrived in our city last week for a short visit with her aunt, Mrs. Mary Corbin. Mr. J. H. Johnson will give a lecture at the A. M. e. church Wednesday evening. April 23. Those on the sick list are Mr. Edward Askew and Mrs. Mattie Watkins. Mr. Bruce Payne entertained Rev. and Mrs. Speese of dinner Saturday afternoon. Rev. W. A. Magget pastor of the Mt. Zion Baptist church went to Sioux Falls, S. D. Tuesday in interest of the church. P. B. D. BROWN entertained a company of his friends Sunday afternoon. The Misses Meredith of Worthington Minn., have come our city to open up a dressmaking shop. We wish them good success. No. 46. Don't forget to give me a call Equal Rights Barber Shop and Bath Rooms, 330 West Third street. Bath rooms open until 13 on Sundays. GUARA J. BOT. Prop. ROCK INLAND. special to invocation. Installation services of Rev. James A. Bingman as pastor of the McKinley Baptist Chapel Sunday April 20th Rev. Bingman was installed as pastor of the McKinley Baptist church. There was a large attendance and since the Reverend has been in charge the church has recovered the debt, he has also gained an extensive acquaintance since coming to Rock Island all whom are extending a helping hand to him in his work. ALBIA NOTES. Rev. E. G. Jackson and Mrs. Butler attended the memorial services at Hilton Sunday. The young people tendered a surprise yarty on Miss Francis Parker Wednesday evening of this week. The Masons initiated some new members into their lodge on Saturday evening. About thirty were present from Buckton. The A. M. R. church gave a social as the half Saturday evening. Quite a adduction was creaked at Hilton on last Saturday. Mr. Frank Connway was shot and instantly killed by his wife. Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Reed spent a few days of this week in Alba at the parental home. HOMESEEKERS VIA WABASH. On March 4th and 18th, April 1st and 15th, May 6th and 20th, the Wabash will sell Homecisseler tickets to 32 states and territories at the low rate of one fare plus $2.00 for the round trip. Any one looking for a home, or wishing to make a pleasure trip should write S. W. Flint, P. & T. A., Wabash, Des Moines, Iowa. MUCHAKINOCK NEWS. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Jones entertained a number of friends Monday evening. About twenty were present a luncheon of five courses was served by the hostess. The evening was spent in music and whist, after which all departed for their respective homes. Messrs. C. and M. Foster were in Albia Saturday. A number of young men attended a dance at Clon Saturday night and all reported a good time. dance at Clon Saturday night and all reported a good time. The yellow flags are all about down and the enojement is over. Mr. Will Williams has recovered from his recent illness. He was released from his happy home Saturday and is yet about with joy. Mr. John Graham was released Saturday. Mr. G. Clark, entertained a number of friends Sunday. Mrs Harritt Graham and Mrs. John D. Reed were in town Saturday. Teachers' meeting met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Lewis Friday evening. Luncheon was served. All present report a pleasant evening. Miss Lela Shaffy of Washington. D. C., guest of Hon. Gee. H. Woodson, will spend a few days in Albia this week. Mrs. Matilda Williams spent a few hours in Oakaloosa Saturday. Mr. I. Woodford, J. Blakey and R. Blakey returned to Baxton Friday. Mr. Clayton Foster, Miss Sasiana Jones and Miss Sadie Jones were Oakaloosa visitors Saturday. Mr. Romeo Jones has returned from Arkansas. Mr. Davis Carter will make his future nome in Buxton. Mr. Julius Welsh and Mr. Walker were up to the E. E. League Friday evening in Oakalcoosa. There will be a low rate excursion to Texas points via M. K. & T. Ry., May 20th'1903. Just a little more than half rate. Tickets bear favorable limit and stopover privileges. The M. K. & T. Ry. is the best line and official route to the new colony at Geraldine, Archer county, Texas. Show this to the nearest railroad agent and tell him that's the way you want to go. 5-20 Superstition connected with the seventh child of a seventh child is commemorated by a tomosite in a village churchyard near Bridgewater, Somerset, says the London Chronicle. This inscription runs: "Sacred to the memory of Doctress Anne Pounsberry, who departed this life December 11, 1813, aged 16 years. Stand and consider the wondrous works of God." "Doctress" was not merely an epithet, but a baptismal name, for she was a seventh daughter, and was, therefore, credited with powers of healing. She practiced in herbs and charms. For king's evil this was her prescription: "Take the legs of a toad. Bake and grind them to powder with bestle and mortar. Place the powder in a bag around the neck of the sufferer." Plan for Reducing Flush 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. The wife of a well known liberal member of parliament recently advertised in the London Times for the return of a volume of a work on Napoleon, which had disappeared, borne by the author as a memoir as dist imagined other notables pursuing this plan. For example, the miltary secretary advertises in view of the remount scandal; "Mr. Broderick would esteem a book of the Horse, which he cannot find, were at once returned to him, as he has urgent need for it." And the colonial secretary follows with: "The Chamberlain would be able to find a copy of the Horse, his copy of the Bible, if Mr. Kruger has finished with it." The wolf at the door is always regarded as a rank outsider. "Big Horn Basin" is an illustrated folder telling all about the rich, but undeveloped portion of Northwestern Wyoming. The Big Horn Basin contains a number of ranches along good streams, with a million acres of government land open for settlement under the United States land laws. Both publications will be sent to a chosen one of two locations in stamps. Address J. Francis, General Passenger Agent, Burlington Route, Omana. A home should always be our haven of rest. Best Daily in Iowa for $1.50 Per Year Good Things to Eat From Libby's Natural byrsonic kitchen, with purity preservatives, and used in LIBBY'S Natural Flavor Food Products are U.S. Government Inspected. The whole quantity and preservatives preserved in this preservation for your convenience, and only the preservatives used in your parchment shakes made you to have a sweet, tasty meal. The little book, "How to Make Good Things to Eat," with advice on making Good Things to Eat, will also be mailed free for 10 cents per person. ARE YOU SATISFIED? Are you strictly satisfied with the goods you buy and with the prices that you pay? Are you not satisfied with the goods you buy and getting their goods at wholesale prices? Are the prices that you buy and get their goods at wholesale prices the best of the best of 10 cents. At the best the story. Morgan Stanley CHICAGO The money that goes to the store. DHS MOINES. . . IOWA CUBAN RECIPROCITY. Senate Republicans Friendly to Differential on Refined Sugar. Question of reciprocity with Cuba formed the subject of an important preliminary conference on the part of a man who is the republican primates yesterday. In the main the senators invited to participate were those friendly to reciprocity legislation, but some of the opposition republican members were protesting. The result of the meeting may be summed up as follows: There will be an early meeting of the senators with Cuba to take up the question on the basis of the house bill which is now before the committee; the republican members of the committee will act, together in formulating a subtitle to the bill; the senators are then to cooperate with the democratic members of the committee; the bill thus agreed upon by the republican members to be submitted to the senate and made a party measure. With the exception of Senator Spooner all the republican members of the Cuban committee attended to the question and actively or openly gave their adherence to the program. The leaders of the movement express confidence that it will be possible to report a bill out of the committee and that the parties of the passage of the bill by the senate. The consensus of opinion seemed to be that a bill granting not to ex-ample the committee reported by the committee and there was general unanimity as to the advisability of eliminating the house provision, the differential on refined sugar. MANY HURT AT. PATERSON. Striking Dye Helper in Conflict With Authorities. Paterson, N. J., April 24—Striking dye helpers yesterday stormed the establishments that were still running and by force compelled a complete suspension of business in their trade. They engaged in a series of running attacks, inflicting a number of masters and in one of the severest clashes exchanged a volley of pistol shots with them. Many persons on either side were severely injured during the rioting. It was believed for a time that it would be possible to restore troops to restore order and insure protection to life and property, but the police expressed confidence in their ability to handle the situation, and no request for outside aid was made. Judge Dixon called the grand jury and indicted the persons guilty of rioting. It is predicted that any attempt on the part of employers to resume business without dealing with the strikers will be desperately resisted. When the strikers completed their camaraderie and operation the number of men out was found to be nearly 4,000. FIVE HUNDRED DEAD. Entire Republic of Guatemala Was Shaken by an Earthquake. New York, April 23—Late disasters from April 21 and April 22 effect the whole republic was shaken by an earthquake from 8:30 o'clock on Friday night up to 8 o'clock Sunday night, with only short inter-event shocks, says a Panama disaster. The dispatch Saturday concerning the disaster in Quesaltenango are confirmed. It is estimated that five hundred persons were killed and many were stabbed and stabbed there. Fires which followed the earlier shocks added to the loss and many heartending stories of sufferers are received. The whole count of the victims at Patzum and Mazatenango, the latter in the great coffee district, were destroyed. The visitation was spectacular in character. The first shocks were accompanied by terrific thunderstorms that followed the visitation was followed by a deluge of rain. DATTOS ARE MORE HUMBLE. White Banners Taking Place of Red Flags. Manila, April 25. — Lieutenant, Colonel Frank D. Baldwin, who is operating against the Moros on the island of Palau, captured by the capture of Shultan Fiori, had had a most salutary effect. The dattos are submitting. White flags are taking the place of the red battle flags. The sultan of Annudbak urges that he be given him in which to give up the dattos and impassable barriers, with God judging the right." Colonel Baldwin has received orders to suspend operations against the dattos. General George W. Davis, in command at Zamboanga, island of Mindanao, believes that the majority of the dattos are friendly and that they have not had time to co-operate. He warns the alarm may cease and that practically a bloodless victory has been achieved. FRANK STOCKTON DIES. Well Known Novelist Passes Away Whilst on a Visit in Worcester While on a Visit in Washington. Washington, April 22—Frank E. Stockton, one of the best known writers, died suddenly here at 11 oclock Sunday. The cause of death was paralysis resulting from hemorrhage in the brain. Mr. Stockton was a guest at the banquet held Wednesday night of the National Academy of Sciences, when he was taken suddenly and mysteriously ill. The almight did not at that time know what caused the sufferer was thought to be improving, but a change for the worse came yesterday morning, resulting quickly in death. General Wood Pardons Reeves. Havana, April 23—Governor General Wood has issued an order pardoning W. H. Reeves, who was recently sent to ten years imprisonment and to pay a fine for complicity in the Cuban postal frauds. Reeves was abated t once. General Wood says he pardoned Reeves because he was a witness for the state. Foreigners Offer Criticism. Vienna, April 21—The newspapers here are publishing dispatches referencing the United States conduct of American soldiers in the Philippines. The United States says: The American soldiers are to be doubly horrible when it is remembered that America wished with pain in the name of IMPURE BAKING POWDER SEIZED The New York Board of Health Find 10 Containers and Rock, Declare 15 Dangerous to Health and Dump It Into the River. The New York paper reports that the Health Department of that city has seized as dangerous to health nearly two tons of cheap mixtures sold for baking powder and dumped them into the offal snow to be destroyed. More of the powder was found in a sixth ave. department store. The report of the analysis of the Health Department stated that it was "an alum baking powder" containing alum and pulverised rock. The different Health Authorities seem to have different ways of repressing the sale of bad baking powders. In England they have prosecuted the grocers under the traffic law and broken up the traffic. In Missouri actually prohibited by law. In New York they seize the unwholesome stuff and cast it into the river without any discussion. The latter way is certainly effective. The alum baking powders are usually offered at a low price, ten to twenty cents a pound, or with some prize, as a temptation to the housewife. Consumers can protect themselves by buying only high-grade baking powder of established name and reputation. Do not be tempted by the grocer to take something else as just as good or "our own brand" for trials show that the grocer himself is fairest and is unpleasant maker and is selling an alum powder without knowing it. There are several good powders on the market; let the housekeeper insist on having she knows is right, and not be induced to risk the life of the family for an imaginary saving of a few cents. NORTHY OF CORPORATION LAWYER Four or five good fellows, in the same line of business, recently "swoff off." They had never tippied to excess, but they took a notion that it would be a good thing to quit, and accordingly quilt for a period of thirty days. The agreement was drawn up in writing and signed by each. The third day after some of the parties to the agreement began to chafe under the restraint. They had never before felt the need of a drink quite as badly as after the inhospice in drawing up the inhospice in drawing up. One of them, at last, dropped in on one of the others, and, of course, the swearing off proposition was immediately brought up. "I'd like awful well to have a nip," said the caller. "Same here," was the response. "But I don't see how we can get around that agreement." "Neither do I." "I read once that no document, how- ever carefully drawn, will stand in court, if it is attacked in the right way." "I see a gleam of hope." was the reply. "Let's read this agreement over carefully." They did so, and it was discovered that the agreement did not call for thirty consecutive days, but merely for thirty days. The man that hit upon this bright idea was halled as a born lawyer, who was assigned to the job. There was an immediate adjournment to a popular West Superior street thirst cure—Daluth News-Tribune. M'KINLEY MADE THE JOKE GOOD Creamstores Under Which a Great Speech Was Delivered. "Speaking of McKinley," said a member of the New York Ohio society, to a correspondent, "reminds me of one of the few jokes he ever cracked from a public platform. "It was at our dinner of 1800, given one of the few jokes the opening of his second presidential campaign. The president had promised to attend, but with the strict understanding that he was not to be asked to speak. "The evening program was well under way when President Southard arrose, looked at McKinley, with the air of a man who was about to take a plunge, and said: I have promised President McKinley that I will not ask him to speak. I shall keep that promise, but I have made no agreement, gentlemen, that will prevent your calling." "The house took the hint. There was a roar and the demand was emphatic and insistent. "The President arose. He looked reproachfully at Soutard and appealingly at the guests. Then he said: "I had the solmen promise of your officers, gentlemen, that I should not be called upon to speak. I have, therefore, come carefully prepared." "With that he took a manuscript from his pocket. It was a written speech, carefully prepared, and really rounded the keynote of his 1900 presidential campaign." The First Telegram: The first record I find of electricity earning money was on April 1, 1844. The only telegraph line then exiting was the government line from Baltimore to Washington. As the government had no use for it, consent was obtained to charge for private messages, the postmaster general fixing the tariff at one cent for four characters, says a writer in the Electrical Review. The main politician was willing to take the risk of being the first fool, but claimed to have only one cent in change. The Washington operator said to Baltimore for him, "4, which was an agreed signal for "what time is it?" The reply came back, "one o'clock." This customer seems to have paid the first cent ever earned by this great industry. This was the only revenue for four days. On the fifth day twelve cents were earned. Smithson (the celebrated poet, novelist, playright, playct.);—"But, my dear young Diyi, I really don't understand you pong. I don't understand you pong (tournament, I don't play." Miss Brown—"Oh, but surely I heard you say you were the Mr. Smithson!" At Swords' Points; By ST. GEORGE RATHBORNE Copyright, by STREET & SMITH, New York. CHAPTER 11.—(Continued.) She was no ordinary woman, this Parisian countess. He remembered that he had heard it said she was a born diplomat and that Louis Napoleon would soon trust any desperate foreign mission to her than to most of his representatives. Why, then, was she in Germany? Her appearance on the scene was like a blight to Paul. The conditions had really been bad enough before, but now they were rendered doubly serious. When Hildegeled and her companion arose to leave the garden, he saw the countess also make a move. He held his breath when he saw her brush up against the German beauty, throw back her vell moment and speak rapidly to her, at the same time, to note into the hand of the fairly surprised Hildegeled. Paul noticed that the countess dropped her vell again the moment she left Hildegeled's side. phisticated Hildegeled with the political local plots that keep the pot boiling and seething. Long eve you left the garden a paper I sent to her was in the hands of the secret officials of Biss mark. Paul started as if shot. He began to understand the villainy of which a jealous and unscrupulous woman might be guilty. What that paper contain? I do mind that you answer!" he cried showing signs of excitement at last. "Apparently a clipher which could be easily read, and which Hildegeled was instructed to pass on to the next agent, who would carry it swiftly on the border to Paris." "And the clipher—what was it about?" savagely. "Oh! a simple recapitulation of the number of men available whom Germany many could place on the border, and some hints as to the best line of march a French army could take on the road. What was the reason of this scrupulous care? Did she wish to avoid recognition by Paul? He had never cared for her, though dazzled for a time by her beauty and the scintillating brilliance of her intellect. Now he positively hated the dashing charmer, and could even see evil befell her with grim complicity. Once, it was with renewed interest and not a little satisfaction that he discovered a certain fact. The countess had a shadow. In her turn, she was being watched, and something about the appearance of the man who kept her under constant surveillance gave him the impression that he belonged to the secret police of Berlin. Then her mission to Baden was no such dead secret as she might suppose, and if she gave her enemies good and sufficient cause for an arrest, the beautiful Frenchwoman who dared to gain the royal favor of Napoleon might see the inside of a German bastle sooner than she dreamed, even in her most sanguine moments. Paul had much to consider while walking to his lodgings. Being possessed of means, Paul had a very luxurious establishment, which Karl shared with him of late. The old woman who took care of the several flats usually waited up, Paul could always enter with his key, and this he did on the present occasion. To his surprise, the lights were turned up. Karl must have reached home ahead of him. With a smile on his lips he abruptly entered the sitting-room to see the figure of a woman rise from a chair by the table where she had been reading and to feel a cold hand on her shoulder. In his late visitor the charming enchantress and shrewd female diplomat, Countess Aimee; Paul knew he was in for a siege as soon as his eyes fell upon his visitor, and it required all the fortitude of which he was possessed to brace himself for the encounter. He took her hand and a perfunctory wig would have immediately released it when she refused to let him go so easily. "Ah! you men forget so easily. It is the poor, weak, loving women who have to suffer," she said, with such exquisite pain in her voice that Paul might well have been inclined to pity, only that he knew her so well. "Countess," he said, steadily, with a touch of his design, "your remembrance of me is very kind, but surely the present time and conditions are hardly suitable for a lady's visit. Had you informed me of your presence here, I should have been pleased to have paid my respects to you at your hotel." "Ah! that was what I did not wish, but I was in a hotel, and they do not know me here as the Countess Almee. Besides—it was my desire to surprise you." "You certainly accomplished that." "I thought, I believed, you would be overjoyed to see me, and I had looked forward with such eagerness to this meeting. Since you left Paris I have had the blues and have grown actually thin." She said this so boldly that it had no effect, for he knew it was false. If anything, she was more plump than ever, and, as to her moping, he had no trouble through a constant round of gayety, breaking new hearts every week, and accepting generous presents from her ardent admirers. "That is too bad, countess, but you should not allow cares of state to worry you so," he said. "Ah! you are blind; you will not see. You want me to tell you openly it is the torment of that little god Love that has harassed me. You have no pity upon a poor woman who, reigning a queen for years, suddenly finds herself the weakest slave." "I am sorry to hear you say that, countess," Paul remarked, coldly. The hands fell from the bewitching face, now pale with sudden anger, and the sleeo-black orbs flashed incipient lightning as the realization dawned upon her that her scheming had, after all, been in vain. "Ah! you do not know what wonders have wrought have ere now," she said, slowly, and just at that moment Paul-had a faint glimpse of the natural womb beneath the cover. Such remarkable women have lived at all times since the days of Cleopatra and Anthony, and that passage through the world is always strenued with the shipwreck of mortal hopes. The countess mailed mockingly, "the womb beneath your love has strained. I have watched you and the white-faced doll you fancy. Lament! I have imprinted the sweet and unso CHAPTER X. philificated Hildegarde with the political plots that keep the pot bolling and seething. Long ere you let the garden a paper I sent to her was in the hands of the secret officials of Bits muck. Paul started as if shot. He began to understand the villainy of which a jealous and unscrupulous woman might be guilty. "What did that paper contain? I demand that you answer me!" he cried, showing signs of excitement at last. "Apparently a cipher which could be easily read, and which Hildegard was asked to pass on to the next agent, who would see it swiftly over the border to Paris." "And the cipher—what was it about?" savagely. "Oh! a simple recapitulation of the number of men available whom Germany could place on the border, and some hints as to the best line of march a French army could take on the road to Berlin." "But hard her at that moment worse than he had hated any one in all his life. She read his thoughts. "You mean to betray me to the authorities?" "Ah! you do not dream what a horse-nest you will bring down about your cars if you attempted that. And do you think they would believe you, whose name was signed to the note I gave Hildegarde? At this very moment agents are watching this house, believing I have come here to have a secret conference with you about political issues. "I am lost!" he groaned. "Walt. There is a chance of escape." "You mean you have terms to propose." "Fly with me. I can outwit even Bismarck's bloodhounds. We can reach Russia, where we will be safe. Only promise that you will be faithful to me while life lasts. It is all I ask—all I care for. With that I can well say good-by to the world." Eagerly she waited for his answer. It was a long wait. Paul folded his arms, he drew himself up to his full height, and looked her sternly in the eyes. "Before I would reward such base treachery I would thrust my hand into the fire and let it burn to the stump." His words completed her demoralization, and she shew inside the mask. He and she wore a tattered glove. Well I shall live for revenge, Monsieur Paul. You will curse the stupidity of this hour. I shall find means to wring your proud, cold heart. No man ever treated me as you have done, and it has aroused all the devil in my nature. I shall have a terrible revenge, do you hear me? You have insult. And now I will relieve you of my hateful presence, but you can depend upon it. you are already a marked man among the King's soldiers, and a guard will remain to watch your future actions. Mine you were, and no other shall possess what fortune has denied to me", and, with a rampant, the adventurer gilded from the room and was escorted by him to the lower door of the house. CHAPTER XL Led by Destiny It may be safely assumed that Rhinelander, after that stormy interview with the countess, did not feel much like sleep. Long he trumped up and down the room for Karl had not yet arrived. At length he retired, and when Karl came in he seemed to be sleeping; yet, through the remaining watches of the night, the American lay there and arranged plans, just as when a child he built houses out of cards, to knock them down the next capricious moment. Another day dawned. Paul remembered his promise to his sister. It must be kept, painful though the interview might be. Beatrix should know that at least she had a father with an unsuilled name, and that there was a brother ready to love and protect her, in whose arms she could weep. Accordingly he hastened to the address he had received on the previous night. He had already noticed as a queer coincidence that it was in the same strasse as the house where Hildegarde resided. This did not appear to be the only resemblance, since the building team and its captain looked to see the young lady, he handed his card to the attendant. Through the doorway came a vision in white, and Paul's nerves arms fell flat to his sides. For, strange to say, it was not Sister Beatrix who floated in through the doorway, but Hildegarde herself. Flash it came upon poor Paul that, in some clumsy manner, he had succeeded in mixing the numbers, and thus made a mess of it. However, since the damage had already been done, he must abide by the consequences. Hildegarde was evidently struggling under a variety of emotions; but she had been taught to keep her feeling out of the German maldens are so very modest they never wear their hearts upon their sleeves for dawns to peck at. As Paul had had now fully determined that this sweet girl was lost to him, that circumstances had lifted her far beyond his reach, allowing him only the chance of worshipping at a great distance, as the Aztec might the glowing sun, what did it matter, any way? "Of course, you are surprised to see me here, and I assure you I am in charge, and I assure myself, but, since I have stumbled into this world, I must say something that is on my mind. Will you condescend to listen Franklin Hildegarde?" She inclined her head, as though unwilling to trust her voice as yet. Now he was ready to make the plunge. "It is my duty to warn you against some one you saw last night at the garden; a woman, who has taken an intense dislike toward you, founded on a senseless fabric, but who wishes you "A woman, you say—and last night" Hildegarde put this question hastily, while her manner betrayed more or less excitement. She did not forget, she could not forget, that she had seen Fault bending over a sweet girl, holding her two hands in his own, and beaming upon her with what appeared to be the most delicate skin. No wonder her curiosity was aroused and she hung upon his words with eagerness. "This woman has conceived a sudden dislike toward you. She has no scruples about working you injury, and has arranged a miserable plan whereby you may seem to be implicated with her in treachery toward the Kaiser." The girl's face grew white. To a patriotic daughter of the Rhine, there could be no greater evil befall one than to be accused of such a crime. "Impossible," she believed such "sickness" she murmured. "In these troubled times men are ready to believe the strangest stories. Spies there are in the heart of Germany. One was discovered only a few days ago within court circles, a woman who had been trusted almost implicitly. She is now shut up in a fortress. Let me try to explain." HER PAGAN CHILD. Modern Mother's Unique Thought as to Her Ancestors. "There, the task is done, the baby's asleep," said a woman friend the other evening as she entered the sitting room and piled on the table what appeared to be a very considerable portion of a toyshop's stock. There was a little rubber Lord Pantailtery with its mouth agape and a little owl, red-growned and belted and with a tjn jewel at her throat, called Betty; a still smaller object in human form, one leg and a hole in the top of the head, called Johnny; a white sawdust-stuffed dog with one eye missing and in a state of collapse from frequent pulling, called Jip, and a rubber cow known as Moo. "I believe that some of my ancestors must have been Chinamen," continued the mother. "and that their dispositions long hidden through successive generations, are reappearing in my child." One would not suspect it to look at the child. The little girl of the fairest complexion and most cherubic expressions, to make whose eyes the sky was robbed of a tiny bit of its finest blue, and whose hair was as if it had been shaved. "But you see," said the mother, "when a Chinaman dies and is buried they put in the grave with him clothing and food, and perfumes, reed toches and horses to be at his convenience in the other land. Well, my baby must have at her side as she goes to sleep in the dark, and I must most to play with during the day so that she may have them with her in the land of dreams." CLOCKS OF PAST AGES How the Present Magnificent Timepieces Originated. The word clock, derived from the French glochere, German glochere, signifies bell, and up to the fourteenth century it was only used to designate a ball which was struck at certain periods of time indicated by the hourglass. Sandals or "gromnoms" were the first instruments used in measuring time, and there is little doubt that the long granite pillars which we call obelisks were used by the Egyptians if not as actual sundial hands, at least for some astronomical observations of the movement of the sun. Clepsydra or water clocks and sand clocks came next in order. The flow of sand through a small orifice is an accurate method of measuring time, for the exit of the sand is always regulated by the laws of hydrostatics; when the vase is full the water runs out faster than when it is nearly empty. Candle clocks, or tapers on which were colored bands' indicating how much was consumed in a certain time, were also used, and their invention is attributed to Alfred the Great; but this method is even more susceptible of error than the previous ones. In most large cities a public record of the amount of money kept is been kept by some method or other, in 1286 St. Paul's in London paid a salary to an orologioaro, who kept a record of time; and in 1371 we find one employed at Westminster palace to attend to the clock. The first portable clocks are attributed to a German named D. Soundle, and are supported by a clock made of bronze; it is not till 1480 that we find mention of a clock made so that "the might carry it with him to every place whether he might go."—Jewelers' Review. Lost the Lord's Nickel A little boy who goes to Sunday school every Sunday always receives a nickel from his father to place in the collection plate. Last Sunday his father gave him two nickels, saying, "One is for the Lord and the other is for yourself." As it was too early to start for Sunday school the little boy sat on the porch steps in the warm sunshine playing with the two nickels. After a while he dropped one of them and it disappeared down a crack. 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We are all apt to ride a free horse to INSIST ON GETTING IT Some grocers say they don't keep Dance Starch because they have a stock of ice cream in their backpack, which they know cannot be sold to a customer who has once used it as oz. pkg. Deflighte Starch to be a financier is letting somebody else make money for you. Pahla Hamlin's Wizard Gizmo. Use the last on the first, and you will neither have one nor the other. We are not always as fair as we think we are. "Is your husband a good provider?" asked a sympathetic visitor. "Indeed, he is, mum. He got me three new places to wash last week." "No man with any sense at all would approve of your actions," said the angry husband. "But, my dear, calmly inquired his better half, 'how do you know what a man with any sense would do?' George Washington was the great-grandson of the son of a Northampton-shire squire, who settled in Virginia twenty century. He was the eldest of several brothers by his father's second wife. H. J. Jones, of Cincinnati, bought a violin a few years ago and gave it to his daughter. While it was being repaired recently he accidentally dislaced the violin and the self had made in 1848 as an excharm and sold it for $5. A story is told of a man in Massachusetts who sold a scrubby farm for $12,000, although its value was not more than $1,000. "How did you do it, a friend asked him. 'Well,' he said, 'I sold it for $12,000 of farm and $11,000 worth of view.' A Postmaster's Discovery. Lancaster, N. Y., April 21st.-Mr. John Remmert, postmaster of this village, was taken with Diabetes four years ago. For two years he doctored with local physicians as well as several specialists from Buffalo, but got no better. Indeed he was gradually growing worse. He stopped taking the doctors' medicine and promoted a treatment of Dodd's Kidney Pills. He used in all about ten boxes and is as strong and well to-day as ever he was. He attributes his recovery to nothing but Dodd's Kidney Pills, and says: lag out, but Dodd's Kidney Pills, and says: "If I could only talk five minutes to every one who has Diabetes I am sure I could convince them that they need- n’t suffer a moment longer when Dodd's Kidney Pills are on sale in every drug store. "I will cheerfully answer any letters from sick men or women, as I think every Diabetes sufferer should be told of Dodd's Kidney Pills, the remedy that saved my life." When you have the devil under your heel don't be scared by his belowing. Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking one place of a others. To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. Plutarch. FOR SALE A FINE ESTATE OR STOCK FARM FOR SALE A FINE ESTATE OR STOCK FARM 7,200 ACRES. WITHIN SIXTY MILES OF THE AIRMOUTH AND SWIFT MILLION DOLLAR PACKERIES FINELY IMPROVED, improvements cost $20,000. Finely improved, improvements cost $20,000. Creek valley land in cultivation that will grow acres. Subdivided into nine pastures, springs in every area. Large expanse of land for running creek water. Fourteen tenant houses and large expanse of land. Fifty acres four wire fence. Large expanse of land for bait. Population of county $30,000, one of the largest in the county. Farmers' are purchased in county. Farmers' are purchased in county. Cattle will winter within three-year-olds of $30,000. Cattle will winter within three-year-olds of $30,000. Survey has covered three years. Survey has covered three years. Survey has covered three years. Estimate there are fully 1,000 acres in land. Land running expenses, leaving growth on the cattail can be rented to suit. Considering its nearness to market this land will be rented to suit. Considering its nearness to market this land will be rented to suit. Farm can be rented on 2-acre land on the ridge. Floor will carry 1,000 horse cattle with case. Farm can be rented on 2-acre land on the ridge. Floor will carry 1,000 horse cattle with case. Farm can be rented on 2-acre land on the ridge. OTTO S. E. HOUSTON, Owner. Press First New Bank. Stephenville, Tex. NEWS FROM THE HAWKEYE STATE Important Happenings of the Week in the State of Iowa. PETERSON REWARD INCREASED Governor Haines Reward to $200, and Total Now Reaches $2,000 - No Chase to the Murderer - Twin Children Buried to Death in Gothic County. Des Moines, April 24 - Governor A. B. Cummins has issued the following proclamation: "Whereas, There was on the 15th of April, 1902, issued from the ecumenical church, offering a reward of three hundred dollars for the apprehension and conviction of the murderer or murderers of Lena and Thomas Peterson, who were murdered by a murderer in the county of Polk, state of Iowa, or the 13th day of April, 1902; and "Whereas, The person or persons who committed the said crime have been AGED OFFENDER SENTENCED. Ex-Auditor Given Ten Months for Mis- appropriating Funds. Indiana, April 24. A pathetic incident occurred in district court here yesterday, at an adjourned session session held by Judge Gambale, A. J. Morrison had been indicted for the crime of larceny by enebzelment, having misappropriated the funds in his hands belonging to the estate of T. M. Henderson, deceased, and on his behalf the court ordered that he was sentenced to ten months' imprisonment in the penitentiary at Fort Madison. He will be 71 years of age in a few days and will now quite likely be sentenced to ten years county auditor of Iowa county, and for some time treasurer of the grand lodge of Odd Fellows of Iowa. He stated to the court that while he had been expecting to replace them, and used the money of the Henderson estate to replace the money taken from the Odd Fellows, and was thus unable to pay the amount of sentence was visibly affected, and in closing his remarks hoped that the defendant would live to serve his time and return to his aged wife at their home. He said that they have lived for over forty years. TWINS BURN TO DEATH Shields Family at Bear Grove Doubly Bereaved. Guthrie Center, April 23.—The 3-year-old twin children of Mr. and Mrs. M. Shields residing near Bear Grove were burned to death. The blackened body of the Shields' barn which caught fire from some rubbish. Until the awful discovery was made it was believed by the parents the children were safe from the fire. Mr. Shields was plowing in the field and Mrs. Shields was at work near the house. The twins were believed to be about the house. When the fire was discovered the flames had made such a strong smell that check them and with a high wind blowing from the south the barn was reduced to a mass of charred ruins. Mrs. Shields was the first to discover the fire and then when the fire had completed its destruction of the building she hastily instituted a search. Falling to find them about the house the mother was taken to the barn. A few moments later she was horrified to discover their charred bodies in the smouldering embers. IS FOUND GUILTY OF RAPE. Ed Davison Convicted of the Charge at Ottumwa. Ottumwa, April 23.—The jury in the case of the state against Ed Davison, charged with rape upon the person of 12-year-old Katie Gallagher, living near Eddyville, in February, returned a verdict of guilty as charged in the trial of the man, for objection. Davison is the man who, arrested shortly after the crime, narrowly escaped being lynched by Eddyville people. Second "Kate Shelly." Marshalltown, April 23—Mrs. T. A. Watson, wife of a farmer living near Searsbore, saved the Iowa Central passenger train from going through a burning bridge. A long wooden bridge, with a sharp curve, took fire, presumably from coals dropped from a freight engine. The smoke was noticed by Mrs. Watson, who, knowing the passenger train from the south was near Searsbore, had flagged the tran just in time. The crew fought the flames two hours. Murray Has a Bad Fire Ottumwa, April 22.—A propitious change in the wind saved the town of Murray from possible destruction by fire last night. A grain elevator and extensive corn crisbs of O. F. Hulbut & Co. caught fire and were destroyed together with several freight cars. A fire and wreck the town beyond the business part of the town, but after destroying a portion of the stockyards the wind shifted and the fire was soon under control. The loss is estimated at nearly $40,000. The early suburbanite catches the trifle. Martindale, or Des Moines. Des Moines, April 23 — Quarantined with food or water, and with horses starving or harmed within a house of the house in the complaint of W. S. Martindale in an action for $5,000 damages asked from the city of Des Moines, the suit being filed in the district court yesterday. Martindale alleges that after quarantining himself family the city paid no further money them for ten days, although the city physician was repeatedly sent for. Sufferings of the family are vividly described by the painter's petition. After ten days he states food was brought, for the family and for the horses in the barn, but that it was not enough. After ten days it was and the health of the family was permanently injured by fasting. According to his story the sufferings of the horses must have been still more acute. After eating the mangers and the food, the horses had reached one of the horses is said to have died of starvation and the other three were rendered unfit for use for many months. Damages in the sum of $4,500 are asked for the family and $500 for the loss of the horse and injuries to the horse was in the dead of last winter when the temperature was low. ENTIRE BLOCK IS BURNED RED OAK SUFFERS SEVERE LOSS FROM FIRE. Damage Reaches Nearly $225,000 Fire Department Unable to Cope With the Flames. Red Oak, April 25—Fire swept the business section of Red Oak at an early hour yesterday morning and destroyed one entire block in the business section of the city, attaching a fire hose that this amount not more than one-third or one-half is covered by insurance. The fire started in the basement of the H. B. Houghton block, located at the southeast corner of the square, and office and office building. From there it swept across the street to the west and burned the entire block from street to street before the flames were gotten under control. The origin of the fire unknown. It is believed to have been from the heating plant of the building, but spontaneous combustion has also been suggested. A moderate high wind was blowing and this was sufficient to carry the sparks and flames across the street, where, indeed, there were number of new buildings, implement houses, etc. The fire started a little after three o'clock in the morning and burned with such rapidity that within an hour the entire block, a distance of three hundred feet, was red. Red Oak has a good fire department for a town of its size, having a volunteer department of one hundred and twenty men and four hose carts. Four or five streams of water were played on the fire at one time but the building was not so badly damaged that it obtained such headway that 'i was impossible to subdue the conflagration on the south side of the square. The intense heat broke a number of plate glass windows in the building, and the fire spread to the east and west sides of the same It was with difficulty that the flames were prevented from spreading to these other parts of the business center, and only the most heroic work on the part of the fire department saved an almost total loss to the city; the fire department of W. C. Lockett contained much infamable material and helped to communicate the fire to the other buildings in the immediate vicinity. There were no accidents in connection with the fire and no lives lost or imperiled. WAY OUT FOR MR. LINCOLN. Executive Council Suggests He Borrow money. Des Moines, April 21—State Fish and Game Warden George A. Lincoln appeared before the executive council yesterday afternoon and asked permission to fund a contingent fund to help him out of the dilemma in which he was left by the forgetfulness of the senate in failing to appropriate for the fish and game commission to fund him this permission, the ground taken being that the contingency was not such a one as would properly call for use of monies from this fund. In the course of yesterday Mr. Lincoln asked the commissioners of the council, in the effort to find some way out of the difficulty. In this he was at least partly successful. The plan favored by the council to enable the fish and game commission work to proceed is for Mr. Lincoln to obtain a loan of money from some person interested in the work of the commission, with the understanding that the next legislature that an appropriation be made to repay the sum so obtained. Mr. Lincoln says there are plenty of sources where the money can be obtained, and best in the work of the fish and game commission throughout the state. Did Not Hear the Whistle. Fort Dodge, April 24—E. W. Kile, a deaf and dumb laborer, was run down in tks city and killed by a west bound passenger train on the Illinois Railroad on the track and did not hear the warning whistles. The train was running at a good rate of speed and the man's body was thrown for some disarray. It is believed to have been instantaneous. Fremont nearly Wined Out. Fremont Nearly Wiped Out. Oksalaeloa, April 25.—The town of Fremont this city, was visited by a conflagration at two o'clock a.m. The fire was not controlled until noon. Seven buildings and part of their contents were destroyed. It is supposed that the fire was a secondary origin. the loss is $25,000. Injuries are $1,500. Storm Accident Occurs. Ottumwa, April 25.—In a runaway at Murray, Murray Murray received injuries that may prove fatal. His son, aged 14, is badly hurt. The high wind blew a tree down on the wagon, freightening the horses. Baby Murder at Keokuk. Keokuk, April 25.—Wrapped in a towel, covered in small clothes, shoe box, the body of a babe about six months old was discovered by Bert Reynolds. A deep mystery surrounds the case, on which the police are hard at work trying to solve. Suspicion rests on the fact that the thought gave birth to an illegitimate child some six months ago. HUMOURS Complete External and Internal Treatment Cuticura MILLIONS USE CUTICURA SOAP MILLIONS USE CUTICURA SOAP Assisted by CUTICUCA ONTMENT, for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scap of scums, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and soothing red, rough, and sore hands, for baby rashes, itchings, and chafings, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Millions of Women use CUTICUCA SOAP in the form of baths for annoying irritations, infirmations, and excoriations, for too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and for many sanitive, antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women and mothers. No other medicated soap is to be compared with CUTICUCA for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair, and hands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soap, however expensive, is to be compared with it for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it combines in ONE SOAP at ONE PRICE, the best skin and complexion soap, and the best toilet and baby soap in the world. COMPLETE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL TREATMENT FOR EVERY HUMOUR. CUTICUCA Consisting of CUTICUCA SOAP (50%), to clean the skin of scars and scales, and soften the thickened cuticle; CUTICUCA ONTMENT (50%), to instantly allyl leaching, inflammation, and irritation, and heal and seal, and soften the waxy skin of Wrinkle PRIME (20%), to cool and clean the skin of the skin of Wrinkle PRIME; A DRYER STYLE soap, designed to disgust, lothing, burning, and allyl skin scald, and blood humours, rashes, itching, and irritation, with loss of hair, when all else fails. Sold throughout the world. British Depot: 37-25, Charltonbury 8q., London. French Depot: 6 Bine de la Paris, POTTER DEPOT AND CURCUCA COLO, Soleil Boulevard, Boston, 8q. "All about the blister, the rash." CUTICUA RESOLVENT WILLING altites (Coated) are a new insulator, odorless, and waterproof. They are used in well as for all other heat sinks. Each pill is equivalent to one square inch of the Dixon of the "old town" and RESOLVENT price, twenty-five cents. May visit in Buxton. May visit in beyond question. May visit in Buxton. MRS. ANNA B. FLEHAYT, recent Superintendent of the W. C. T. U. headquarters, at Galveston, Ill., was for ten years one of the leading women in the field. The first President of the Neiraku Wesdyan University, at Lincoln, Neb. In a letter written from 401 Sixty-seventh Street, she wrote to the following regard to Perkins: "Having lived a very active life as wife and working partner of a busy minister, I was the only person I lost my husband about the same time, and gradually I seemed to lose health invalid and, in a continued invalid and, we both felt great need an invigorator." "One of my neighbors advised me to try Perkins. A bottle was immediately secured and a great change took place. I was able to improve my own health. Our appetites improved very greatly, the digestion seemed much helped, and restful sleep soon improved us, so that we seemed to be much better." "I would not be without Perkins for ten times its cost"—Mrs. Anna B. ten times her cost to be called female diseases by the medical profession is now called pelvic catarrh. It has been found by experience that catarrhal diseases of the pelvic organs are the cause of most cases of pelvic catarrh. Dr. Hartman was among the first of America's great physicians to make his best treatings diseases peculiar to women, and long ago he reached the conclusion that women are more susceptible to infection of these organs would not be subject to female diseases. He therefore began using a drug called azathioprine and administrally adapted permanent cure that Peruna has now become the most famous remedy for female infections. The most common women are using it and praising it. Peruna is not a palliative simply; it cures by removing the cause of female Dr. Hartman has probably cured more women of female ailments than any other, but he has also made a difference in using him and recommending Peruana. M. E. L. Brown 322 Elliott street, Memphis, Tenn., writes: "No. Dakota Farm Lane for sale: 'Thousands of acres. Write for list. Winterer & Winterer, Valley Oily, N.D. ALL WRIGHT-FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY' ROMAN EYE BALSAM FOR WEAK, EYES AND EYELIDS INFLAMED Price 25 Cent. All Druggies. WRIGHT'S VEGETABLE PILLOW CO., New York $25 ON 5 TON IS WHAT YOU CAN BAYE We make all kinds of scales. And Windwills. BECKMAN BROS., DE MOINES, IOWA HUMO Complete B Internal ```markdown ``` MILLIONS USE Assisted by CUTICURA OINTMENT, for luging the skin, for cleansing the scalp stopping of falling hair, for softening and sore hands, for baby rashes, it purposes of the toilet, bath, and nurse. SOAP in the form of baths for annoy coriations, for too free or offensive ulcerative weaknesses, and for many readily suggest themselves to wom soap is to be compared with CUT beautifying the skin, scalp, hair, and toilet soap, however expensive, is to be Mrs. Anne D. Flaherty. 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If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from Dr. Hartman, he will give a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice. Adress Dr. Hartman, President of the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. JUST THINK OF IT Every farmer his own is bound to increase his bank account increasing year by year and land value increase. Farm S. WESTERN CANADA FREE condition of the farmer in Western Canada—Province of Manitoba and district of Assiniboia, Saskatchewan and Alberta, will hold there. Reduced rates on all railways for homeeers and settlers. New districts are being opened up with new railway lines and new lands sent free to all applicants. F. Pedezy, Superintendent of Immigration, Ontario Canada. ARC 612th F. D. Menduja, Jorge OURS External and Treatment cura THE SET $1. 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No other foreign or domestic but is compared with it for all the purposes that it combines in ONE SOAP at ONE RACE ECHOES John S. Durham, Ex Minister to San Domingo, has a love story in this months issue of Lippincott's magazine, entitled "Diane, or the High Priestess of Hayti." Mr. John L. Slaughter, a colored citizen of Milwaukee, has opened "The Turf," a newly constructed twenty-one room hotel. E. A. Johnson, the well-known writer of school books and other Negro literature, has been appointed U. S. District Attorney in North Carolina. "Major" Taylor, the crack bye-elist, and Miss Daisey Morris, were recently married at Ansonia, Conn. The "Major" has started for Paris where he will contest with expert French riders. Frankford, Ky.—Judge Cautrill, of the state fiscal court, on Monday afternoon sustained the injunction case of adjoining property owners against the First African Baptist church of Frankford to restrain it from building a church adjacent to the governor's mansion. Governor Beekham, among other white citizens, protested against building the church, and the trustees employed ex Chief Justice Hazelrigg and other eminent counsel to defend the case, which has been warmly contested since the trustees paid $4,000 for the lot and removed buildings from the property preparatory to laying the foundations in November, 1904. In rendering the decision Judge Cautrill holds the church to be a nuisance. The case will be appealed to the court of appeals, and lawyers say the case may be taken to the United States supreme court if the lower court is sustained. This is the greatest outrage of the age and all the result of racial prejudice. Mr. George W. Carver, the director of the Agricultural Department of Tuskegee, some weeks ago while in Montgomery inspecting a heard of fine cows, discovered a clay of very great value, some of which he took to Tuskegee and experimented with it in his laboratory. He found the clay to be a collection of oxides which when reduced, yields blue, green, yellow and a number of intermediate colors. It has been proved by paint experts that the major color, which seems to be a rich Prussian blue, is quite superior to anything now on the market. It is claimed that the paint when developed will sell for not less than $2.80 per pound. The land on which the clay is found is near Montgomery, Ala., and could have been bought for a small sum, but since Mr. Carver's experiments cannot be bought at any price. CAMPING IN COLORADO is one of the most delightful and inexpensive ways of spending a vacation. A book with the above title, containing full details of where to go, necessary camp equipment and its cost, with full and accurate information for the inexperience, is being prepared by Jao. Sebastian. General passenger Agent, Great Rock Island Route, Chicago, Ill., and will be sent free, with other Colorado literature, on application. You will be astonished to find how cheaply and pleasantly the diting can be made 345 BLACK SKIN REMOVER REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER Any person sending us an email will free. Any person sending us a letter or payment money order, express money order or register, and it will be in touch the mail postage package; or if you C. G. E., it will come by express. S. e. extra. Bank in Australia Western Australia has in York a well-known pastoral district which have a peculiarly appropriate name in association with the visit to Australia hits of the Duke and Duchess of wall and York. It was first by immigrants mainly from Fourth Annual Clearance and Economy Sale in Millinery We concluded to give the ladies of Des Moines and vicinity the advantage of this sale one month earlier than usual. All this week we place at the disposal of Des Moines' Economical Buyers our entire wholesale stock, which will be retailed at less than one-half the usual prices. We quote a few of our Bargains— 100 dozen assorted Roses, the usual 50 cent quality, 3 in a bunch at... 17c The Roses we have been selling at 25 cents, 3 in bunch, you get for... 11c 75 dozen assorted colors and kinds, Boquet Flowers and Roses, other sell for 25c to 75c per bunch all go for, bunch... 12c We have a fine lot of those much a imired imported Pattern Hats and some of our original copies of Parisian Novelties. Our own make; former $10.00 to $15.00; Economy and Clearance Sale Price... $7.89 45 dozen Street Hats, usual 25 different kinds, all colors, including Black and White always sell for $1. to $2. We give you your choice while this lot last... 78c 25 elegantly Trimmed Hats, worth $4.50 to $2.38 83 of these Trimmed Hats 25 dozen bunches Violets, the kind you think a bargain when others mark them 9c. our go at, per bunch. 3c 36 dozen Pompons, everybody sells them for 50c—all must be cleared out this week and you get them for. 23c Call early and get first choice for Call early and get first choice for the lots are limited. Buy Your Millinery of a Milliner Store. --- HOLY CITY UNIVERSITY will satisfy the most exacting flour—it is pure—made from the able. It is given just that la milling that makes Falcon the Your grocer has it or can —Made By Shannon & Des Moines, will satisfy the most exacting bakers and users of flour—it is pure—made from the best wheat obtainable. It is given just that last right touch in the milling that makes Falcon the synonym of perfect. Your grocer has it or can get it. Ask him. Made By Shannon & Mott Co. Des Moines, Iowa. SINGER'S SEWING TABLE THE LATEST Wheeler & Wilson It combines great speed with light running and silence, sewing three yards of goods while on it. It makes a stitch on heavy goods that is elastic and strong and will not pucker the fabric it has a practical set of steel attachments covering a large range of work. Not "how cheap, but "how good" should be your goal, but "how good" should be your satisfaction without first giving the a trial. If your dealer does not handle them send for catalogue. WHEELER & WILSON MFG. CO. 72 and 74 Wabash Ave. CHICAGO, ILL. CHEAP COLONISTS RATES TO THE NORTHWEST? To Oregon Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Northwest Wyoming the Burlington route will sell very cheap tickets every day during March and April from all stations. If you want to get there in quick time, comfortably, yet with least expense, ask your ticket agent about our chair car and tourist sleeping car service, or write me for colonist folder which tells about it. P. S. Eustis, G. P. A. Chicago, Ill. A Fatherland Joke. Charles F. Saacks returned from Germany on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse with the following Fatherland Joke, upon which he was not required to pay any. The translation is his own. What is the difference between Fatherland Almighty and Kaiser Will- The varying Lord Almighty knows action appears? Kaiser knows better, when it is ruse, when it was with a summon." 30 dozen Children's Hats, former prices 75c to $1.50—your choice ..... 48c ROYAL MILK CON ting bakers and users of from the best wheat obtain- that last right touch in the in the synonym of perfect. can get it. Ask him. By Bk Mott Co. Janes, Iowa. CHURCH ANNIN GAMMA CATHOLIC The Corinthian Baptist Church — situated on 11th Street, Northwest and School at 12 o'clock Preaching; at 11 A.M.; Sunday School; at 12 o'clock Preaching; at 7 P.M. Rev. T. L. Griffin, Pastor 3t. Paul A. M. E. M. E. of Second and Center School; at 11th Street, Northwest and School at 3 o'clock; Epworth League at 5 p.m.; preaching at 8 p.m. L. J. Phillips, pastor First African Baptist Church — Corner School and Fourth streeats. Rev. F. Lonack po. sermon; at 11th Street, Northwest and School; Mr. M. E. Houston; Superintendent: Young People's meeting 7 p.m. preaching 8:00 p.m. Burns M. E. — East Second and Des Moines School; at 11th Street, Northwest and School; m. and 4 p.m. Sunday School at 12:30 Prayer and Class meeting, Wednesday 8 p.m. All are welcome. Rev. C. W. Holmes, pastor 230 Des Moines Mount. Nobel Nebo Baptist Church — E. Second street, service, preaching at 11 a.m.; Sunday School 12:30 p.m. Superintendent, Rose Johnson, Preaching at 8 p.m. Rev. J. H Beli, pastor Tabernacle Baptist Church Mission — Situated at East East Second Street, School at 9:00 a.m. preaching at 8 p.m. Rev. J. R. Winburn, pastor North Star Lodge, No. 2, F. A. F. A.-Meets First Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall. Mrs. J. H. Shepard, W. M.; T. S. Ruff, secretary. King Solomon Commandery, No. 6-Meets Second and Fourth Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall. Fred Jackson, M.; G. H. Clegget, Ree. Naomi Court, No. 5-meets Second Monday in each month at Masonic hall, Mrs. J. H. Shepard, marron, Mrs. Fred Jackson, secretary. Mt. Olive Court. No. 4-meets First Thursday of each month at Masonic hall, Mrs. R. A. Shepard, marron, Mrs. Georgia Midgret secretary. Charity Lodge, No. 3192, G. U. of O. F. Meets First, Second and Third Tuesday each month. Fellows on West Sixth and Wainstreet. D. Burns, N. G.; F. Brown P. S. H. H. of R. No. 339 of G. U. of O. F.-Conducts each month. Promptly at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Biakey, M. N. G. Mrs. G. L. Williams, W. R. Knights and Lads of Honor of the World No. 2, Mrs. J. H. Shepard, Mrs. E. W. Evening at Webster's Hall, corner of Tenth Center streets. Mrs. E. A. Wood. Proctor. Mrs Rose Johnson. Secretary He Collects Antique Statuary. Stanford White is one of the largest collectors of antique statuary in America. Not only is his house in Grammarcy park, New York, a veritable museum of Greek and Roman art, but the lawn is now filled to overflowing with other examples. 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. Ocean Japanese Custom. At the birth of a Japanese baby the tree is planted that must remain unmatured until the age of the child. When the aerial borer arrives the tree is cut down and the wood is transformed into furniture. We have a fine lot of those much admired imported Pattern Hats and some of our original copies of Parisian Novelties. Our own make; former $10.00 to $15.00; Economy and Clearance Sale Price.....$7.89 45 dozen Street Hats, usual price from $1.50 to $2.00—all go at.....99c SECRET ORDERS Odd Names in Virginia Sold at all drug stores. Price. 250. in large cans-Contains One Month's Treatment. If your druggist not keep it he will get it for you, or we will mail it to any address curately wrapped on receipt of 30c. in stamps or silver. For testimonials and full information, address 25 different kinds, all colors, including Black and White always sell for $1. to $2. We give you your choice while this lot last ..... 78c 25 elegantly Trimmed Hats, worth $4.50 to $5.00 all go at ..... $2.38 83 of those exquisitely Trimmed Pattern Hats made to sell for $6 to $9 all go for ..... $4.50 Only 29 left of those fine im ported Street Hats, sold for $5, $6 and $7 — Economy Sale, your choice..... $3.75 this is an opportunity not often presen LINERY Co., LOW RATES VIA C. M. & ST. P. RAILWAY. Home Seakers 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 8th. Call at or address City Ticket office 410 Walnut street for all information. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH KEOKUK, IOWA. Corner of Fourteen and Blondau Streets. Pastor F. J. Peterson D. D. Residence 1218 Fulton Street. Services Preschling 10:30 a.m and 7:30 p.m. Class 10:30 a.m Sunday to Sunday 10:30 a.m. Enterance Entrance 10:30 a.m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Class meeting Friday 7:30 p.m. All are welcome to these serices. W. L. MORRIS Is Our FLORIST Is Our 600 Walnut Street. DES MOINES. IOWA. Notice is hereby given that at a special meeting of the stockholders of the McClean Arms Co., held at Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, on the 22nd day of March, A. D. 1902; pursuant to call duly made, the Articles of Incorporation of the association were amended so as to increase the preferred capital stock of the corporation One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), and the first section of Article 3 as amended shall read as follows: "The capital stock of this corporation shall be Three Hundred Thousand Dollars, ($300,000.00), preferred stock, and One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) common stock, and shall be divided into four thousand shares of One hundred Dollars ($100.00) each, and when issued shall be fully paid and nonassessable." In testimony whereof, I. W. G. Montgomery, as President of said McClean Arms Co., pursuant to a vote of the stockholders of said corporation, on the 22d dap of March, A. D. 1902, at Des Moines, Iowa. have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said corporation, and acknowledged the same for and in behalf of the said corporation. W. G. Montgomery, President of the McClean Arms Co. BEFORE USING. 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This is why Singer Machines maintain their supremacy all over the world, making the Singer trade-mark a reliable guarantee of perfection. OFFICES IN EVERY CITY IN THE WORLD. Local Of fice: 706 Wainut Street DesMoines, Iowa DES MOINES, IOWA. NUMA BLOCK AND Steam Coal 585 W. Seventh NUMA BLOCK AND COLFAX LUMP Steam Coal a Specialty. 585 W. Seventh Street. Iowa Phone 51. Mutual Phone 1350. CALIFORNIA. Broad Vestibulated First-Class Sleepers DAILY— Between Chicago and Sanfrancisco WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. Great Rock Island Route Leave Chicago on Big 5 at 10:00 p. m. All the best scenery of the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada by day light in both directions. These cars are carried on the limited trains of the Great Rock Island Route, Denever and Rio Grande (scenic Route), Rio Grande Western and Southern Pacific. Dining Car Service Through Buffett Library Cars. JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A., Chicago. A pastry cook in the Avenue Gambetta, Paris, who was troubled with rats, borrowed a large Angora cat and left it in his shop while he went upstairs to dinner. An hour later he heard terrible cries proceeding from below, and on going down found the cat bounding up and down in a most peculiar manner. Thinking the animal mad, he called in a policeman, who shot it with his revolver. A veterinary surgeon who examined the body stated, however, that the cat was not mad, but drunk, having consumed a large dish of sweet "babas" steeped in rum—London Express. FIKE & FIKE Des Moines Second-Hand Book Dealers. 102-104-106 East Walnut. Coal Is King Cat Was Only Drunk. Second Hand Goods of all Kinds, Bought, Sold and Exchanged: AND COLFAX LUMP local a Specialty. Street. Iowa Phone 85. Mutual Phone 1359. SHANK BROS., Funeral Directors 517 Mulberry St. Telephones 686, 688 and 689. DES MOINES, - IOWA. Japan's Exports and Imports. 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