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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. 9. CITY NEWS. Mrs. C. T. Williams left yesterday morning for Davenport to spend Xmas. The Iowa State Bystander one year for $1.00 for thirty days only. Joseph LaCour arrived in the city Monday to spend the week with his family. Mr. and Mrs. Willeen Hughes entertained at Christmas dinner all the relatives of the family. Mrs. A. Boley of Denver, Cole., is spending the holiday with her daughter Mrs. L. Courtney. Mrs. Lewis Magburn has gone to Mobile, Ala., for several weeks visit with relatives and friends. Mrs McNeill and son of Mt. Flessant are visiting their son and brother, Mr. S. D. Miller of West Park street. Mrs. J. H. Shapard entertained at Christmas dinner Misa Gertrude Hogg and Mr. E. W. Thompson. Mr. Geo. Young of Boone spent Christmas day in the city, returning home this morning. Mrs. James Roene and son Alec left Wednesday for Canton, Mo., their old home to spend the holidays. Mrs. Jenneville B. Wilkerson has come home to spend the holidays. We wish her a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Mrs. W. T. Jones of Montana is in the city and will spend the holidays visiting at the parental home and with other relatives. DIED—Thursday night, at the home of her parents, 340 Pelton avenue, little George Bradley, age 13 years. He was born in Ft. Dodge, In. Rev. T. L. Griffith was in Ottumwa last week to attend a meeting of the board of the association. Mr. and Mrs. John Bryant and son Roy and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bryant arrived to spend the holidays with their son Harley Bryant, 10 West Eighth street. About thirty-five couples of young people availed themselves of the invitations sent out by Messrs. E. Williams and Claude Caw Thursday evening, December 18, for a dancing party. In attendance between the numbers were delicious ice were daintily served by two charming young ladies, lending taste and pluancy to the joyancer of the merry revelers. On the stroke of one a. m. all departed happily, manifest the tribute for their praise in the evening's pleas ure. The Bystander company has just printed the annual proceedings of the Iowa Baptist association for this year. Courtesy Roy. Griffith that we have the job. It is a very beautiful and neatly arranged minutes and reflects credit to our job department. Copper Bull Mining Capital Stock of $3,000,000. Headquarters at St. Louis, Missouri. Mine at Pueblo, Colorado. Stock 15 cents a Share for a short time. C. P. JONES, Local Agt. & Stockholder $25 East 4th St., Davenport, Iowa. All mail orders promptly attended to. DIED—Master Eddie Rutts, at the home of his parents on Eleventh street this morning, age 9 years and 11 months. He was born in Kansas City. Mo. Funeral services Sunday at 2 p.m. from the Corinthian Baptist church, conducted by Rev. T. L. Griffith. UNION LABEL SUITS TO ORDER $14, $15, $16, $18, $20 and up Pressing Pants ... 10c Bullets ... 10c Coat and West ... 30c Overcoat ... 50c Cleaned and Pressed Linen ... 10c Rails ... 10c to 1.00 Coat and Vest ... 30c to 1.00 Drying Pants ... $1.00 Bullets ... $9.00 Coat and Vest ... 1.00 Overcoat ... 00 Linen ... $8.00 Rails ... $0.00 Coat and Vest ... $1.00 Dan Connolly 609 Locust, Two doors west of Equitable Remember that you can now secure he Iowa State Bystander one year for one dollar. Should Chinookta Be Burned? Chinookta, in San Francisco, acco- mending to the president of the board of health, should be burned. As it is present, it cannot be rendered maki- tery except by total obliteration. DR. A. G. EDWARDS. Physician and Surgeon. IOWA PHONE 1081 MUTUAL PHONE 400 (Office) Milee Drug Store OFFICER HOURS: 8 to 10 a.m. 8 to 4 p.m. 7 to 9 p.m. Over 764 West Ninth Street. PLEA FOR EQUAL LAWS. Buffalo, N. Y.—Emory Speer, judge of the United States court for the southern district of Georgia, was the guest of the independent Club at its annual guests, including Mayor Knight and other prominent men of the city, listened to an address by Judge Speer on the subject, "The Solid South." It is undeniably true, the speaker of the club, attituded to the southern people toward the institution is directly ascribed to the swift bestowal by the reconstruction acts of unlimited manhood suffrage upon the members of the African, which, he asserted, was no part of Lincoln's plan. The solution of the race problem, said Judge Speer, will be found in the enactment of impartial laws for enactment of impartial laws for black men alike, which will admit to the franchise, the intelligent, the capable, the unsuspectable of both races and exclude the vernal, the ignorant and the worthless. The fear of an impossible supremacy is the only obstacle. The remedy seems to be as obvious as just it is to be found in the enactment of the law, and black alike, which will admit to the chise the intelligent, upright and the responsible of both races, and exclude the venal, the ignorant and the worthless. And such measures need not be confined to the southern states, but to the entire country because more effective, seems not infrequently no less dangerous to same government than the massed votes of the ignorant blacks. A danger in the welfare of the secession is the possible reduction of the existing number of representatives apportioned upon millions of this population whose men of voting age are by state action denied the suffrage. This may any day start the country, as nothing has been done since the reconstruction era. A majority of the visions of the fourteenth amendment, have the power if they have the will. No measure, however stringent, will be effective for good government or stable prosperity if it engenders the universal hostility to "resolute people at hostility timely to stimulate if we may profound political thought among our people, which may avoid the necessity of a measure so drastic. To stimulate such thought I understand to be the mission of the Independent Club. Would that there were such an organization in every southern community, an association of high-minded and disinterested people, and humanity prompts the conscription of their powers to the promotion of independence. The Literature and Embroidery club met Thursday afternoon, December 18, at the residence of Mrs. Early, Lake Park. The next meeting of the club will be held at Mrs. Anna Herald's, January 1, 1903. Business of importance is to be transacted and presheed. On New Year's night there will be an exchange social given at the home of Mrs. Goggins. Refreshments will be served and a good time is expected. Come one and all. Effie Morris, Secretary. ISAAC E. WILLIAMSON. The subject of this sketch was born a slave in Arkansas, near Russellville, in 1852. He spent his early life on the old plantation until freed by President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation in 1863. He was used as a detachment of soldiers from the 18th Iowa Infantry Regiment, and remained with Company G of that regiment as the captain's cook until it was mustered out at Davenport in 1865. On coming north he soon secured a place in the family of a member of the company. He charged the prison farm near the city of Prairie City, Iowa, but soon found that his complexion was objectionable and he son afterwards had to seek a home elsewhere. It was no easy task to get a place to stay, and to make it still harder the little money that he has given him to keep in his pocket would be well to be in his still keeping it, as Mr. Williams never received any part of it back. He remained upon the farm as a common farm-hand through the summer seasons and working for his board and attending the country school during the winter seasons, until reaching his head and being great at reading everything that came from his reach. Being fond of debate he gradually overcame much of the local prejudice, and he soon became the authority upon all points in parliamentary usages in the neighborhood, and the champion of the country spelling schools, the finding schools, the disadvantages confronting him by reason of his color alone, he came to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1876 to take a complete course of schooling he was first led to take the step by applying at law to the step by awer of the court to an office given to the gentleman declining to give him the place, declaring that the young man was old more money than he was able to pay. "Young man," said the grim old disciple of Blackstone, scanning his applicant with a voice softened by earnestness and disapproval of the work he did, "You ought to take up the study of the law. Your people need just such a man as you are to advocate their cause." Conscious of his lack of thoroughness in education, and his natural aversion to entering into any business without the toughness of his mind, he finally graduated from the West Des Moines High School in the class of '41, with the honors of his class, being the first colored person to graduate from the Des Moines High School. During all the time that he was in the schools he did much to build up the lycceum and the school library, providing a healthy interest among the people along literary and musical lines. He was immediately offered a position in the Des Moines postoffice as janitor after graduation, which he accepted, but was soon afterwards advanced to a clerkship, and remained a faithful employee of the office for 14 years as janitor, clerk, head-distribution, superintendent of carriers, timekeeper and a letter carrier. During that time, by hard study he succeeded in completing a law course from the Iowa College of Law, graduating in 19 of 95 with the degree of L, L, B. We regret much that we are unable to print a cut of Mr. Williamson, as he has one some place. He left last week for Washington, D.C., to join his wife who is employed in Secretary Shaw's home. Mr. Williamson will secure a clerical place as soon as he arrives in Washington, D.C., colored practitioner, the bar in Iowa. He is a thorough race man and will be heard wherever he goes. ALBIA NOTES The Mite Missionary society entertained at the home of the Mrs. Ed Butler Friday evening. The missionaries of Des Molines spent a few hours in town Friday, while on his way to Washington, D. C. Quite a few strangers in town this week. Rev. Walton from Bussey preached at the A. M. E. church Sunday night. Mrs. Josie Meadows returned home from Bussey Saturday at the Mite Missionary has been quickie sick the past week. May Davis. Fruits and Vegetables in Season. 923 Center Street SIOUX CITY ITEMS. The Holidays are on and old Santa Claus is the best friend we all have. Mr. Robert Meredith and his sister Miss S. Meredith arrived in our city last week to spend the holidays with their sister, Miss Francis Meredith, Master John Sturgis, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Sturgis, remains quite sick. With god coasting and good skating the small boy is in the height of his glory. Mr. Saving circle of Mt. Zion church met with Mrs. Champion Thursday afternoon. Mr. Hary Jewell, who is janitor at the Y. M. C. A., was pleasantly surprised last evening by the members of the T. Class classes at the close of the Class exercises and was called to the floor and presented with a handsome overcoat as a Xmas present and as a token of the appreciation of the members of the class for the careful attentions and courtesies extended by The young men of the city will give a ball at the Socialist hall on Christmas evening. Baptist church will have their Christmas tree on Christmas eve. The A. M. E. Sunday schools will have theels on the 25th. The A. M. E. church will have an entertainment on Christmas night at Thompson's hall. Those on the sick list are getting along nicely. Bern, to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Carter a baby boy; mother and baby doing nicely. Try which was given at Mr. Zion Baptist church last Thursday evening was enjoyed by all that attended. The Ladies Pleasure club will have a parlor entertainment on Friday, January 4 and the home on Mrs. A. L. Murray. The home on Mrs. pity entitled "Empress Josephine." The Beauty of the Gas Range 1 is its simplicity. Strike a match,—it's ready; turn valve,—it's out! Capital City Gas L't Co. 413-415 Locust Street. TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE NOTES. The substantial addition to the Blater Armstrong Memorial Trades building for boppy training, including completion, and will accomplish new training for the trades not housed there now. The Tuskegee football eleven was again victorious in a hard fought game with the Atlanta Baptist Seminary eleven December 13. It was the best game of the season, and the score was 5 to 0. The team lost but one game this season, to Walden University, Nashville. The work on the C. P. Huntington Memorial building is going on nicely. The brickmasons are hurrying it as much as possible. A conduit has been laid down from the old Rockefeller's hall and the boys' room by the Brickmason and Machinist Devision. WORDS OF CHEER Editor of Bystander: Das Moins, Ia. The season of the year has come again when everybody wants money, even the editor of a weekly newspaper; therefore I am going to take the advantage of you time that time and send you One Dollar for your valuable paper for another year. It is small but it is worth a great deal to us. Some times it is late reaching us, but the news is just as good as if we received it on time. It has not failed to reach us but since this year, which speaks well for the manager. The colored man or woman who takes the paper and then don't pay for it ought to be set down a dead bead and set back. I am proud of the paper if it is small and hope the day is not off when it will be enlarged. I remain yours for success. PAUL COLEMAN, 810 State street Boune, Laws. Lucas, Iowa, Dec. 24.—Dear Sir,— sensing that the Iowa State Bryander's special subscription rate is One Dollar I enclose One Dollar ($1.00) postal order for the paper for one year. MISS IWAIN WANTAL, Box 54. WIT AND WISDOM. The best time to marry is some other time. Many a man gets groggy over noth- ing stronger than a pipe dream. A young girl marries in the hope for the future, the widow to forget the past. A critic is a moral butcher who will cut into, and cut up, and cut out any- thing. There is a lot of incense burned on the altar of love that goes up in smoke. Tact is the art of making people think they are right when you know that they are all wrong. I admire the fellow who succeeds in borrowing all that he wants. He has the nerve that converts itself into hard cash. They say that a giraffe's tongue is long enough to go around a woman's waist, but a woman's tongue will waste even more than that. Women worship money, but the man who stands for it gathers the foggy incense to himself and smiles a self-satisfied, hard cash smile. When a woman speaks of her husband as being such a domestic man you can gamble on it that he is always hanging around when he is not wanted, and poking his nose into everything. A woman proposes to a girl he should be extremely modest. A woman likes to think it a lovely piece of condescension on her part to acc any man, even though she may be dying for him (or his bank account, his auto or his yacht—but what on earth am I talking about, anyhow?). Kate Thyssen Marr. MEMORY. You are not only what you are now; you are everything you have ever been. Whoever lives entirely in the present does not know the meaning of sympathy. Your childhood is in you; your youth is in you; every hour of your life is at stake. I lived. Consider, then, the importance of the present time, which in its turn shall form a part of the future. Bring back your youth—it is thus you shall understand youth, with its laughter, its gayety, its enthusiasm. Bring back your hours of trial, the dark hours of suffering, and no one shall come to you in vain for consolation. Somewhere in your life the experience has been that shall give you a fellow feeling for every happiness, for every sorrow. Among my fellow men I see too many who are prisoners of the press and themselves out from the past. Now and then the memoirs force themselves upon them. They sigh and shake their heads and turn away. Gus Morris Hay, Feed, Coal and' Straw. 919 Center St. Mut. Phone: 1663 Degraded for Religious Scrapes. An Austrian officer, the Marchese Tacoll, declined on account of religious scrapes two years ago. He was not only degraded from his rank, but has been ordered to serve out his time as a private in the ranks. Women Guides In Malna Of the 1,800 registered guides in Maine only three are women and only one of the trio is regarded by the men as thoroughly competent. This is Mrs. J. S. Freese of Riverton, who was shot every kind of game to be found in the Maine woods. She is also an expert at tanning skins and as in her home some beautiful specimens of her handiwork. Mrs. Freese hunts all through the winter, spending weeks in camp during the coldest of weather. The average man meets more than his match in the average woman. More women would be angels if more men cared anything about heaven. Most men look at a pretty girl as if she had been born expressly on their account. Most men divide women into two classes—their mothers and sisters and all other women. Some men are so stupid that they think women careless for not keeping their shoe laces tied. A man generally reforms on account of woman—and then takes all the credit to woman. Many men in a restaurant give the impression that they are there not so much to eat as to talk to the waitress. APHORISMS Generosity is the flower of justice.— Hawthorne. Avarice is always poor, but poor by its own fault.—Johnson. Children have more need of models than of critics. —Joubert. A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience. —Home. The more one speaks of himself the less he likes to hear another talked of. —Lavater. Flattery is a base coin which gains currency only from our vanity. —Rochefoucauld. We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to despise them. —Cato. Contentment with the divine will is the best remedy we can apply to misfortunes. —Sir W. Temple. He comes on education to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice to happiness or to misery. —Jane Porter. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. NEW USE FOR ELECTRICITY Entire Restaurant Service Supplied in a Novel Manner. Nagara Falls has a restaurant in which the service is supplied by electricity, and the description as given in the Great Round World is very interesting: "The scheme was installed in the restaurant at a cost of about $50, by a natural food company. There hundred little electric cars serve. The hundred little table in a silent and satisfactory manner. Each table is equipped with an electric car, a menu and a small desk. Lying on each desk is an order pad. The guest fills out the order and places it on the car. When a button is pressed the electric servant glides away to the kitchen. After the meal is prepared, the car comes flying back with the diner aboard. By means of a mechanical arrangement on the bottom of the cars, each throws its own wheel onto the main floor for the hundreds of them. The entire restaurant is run by one young man at a switchboard. It would almost seem as if the test servant problem might be solved by Nagara Falls and the lighting." A Bad Estimate. The spirits of a young man were considerably dampened on a recent Sunday evening while he was out walking with a young lady. The evening was rather cool, and the girl was rather cool, and, thinking to add to her comfort, the young man took off his coat and placed it about her shoulders. As they walked along he kept thinking of his gallantry, liking himself to d'Artagnan, Sir Walter Raleigh and various other cavaliers, until he heard a passing woman say to her "Hm. That's all we're good for—to have men hang their coats and hats on us." Cat Was Only Drunk. A pastry cook in the Avenue Gambetta, Paris, who was troubled with wounds, 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 "baba" steepeed in rum—London Express. PAY THE CURRENT PRICE. Writer In the Cosmopolitan Gives Some Good AdVICE. My young friend, Jimmy Banks, was married a little over a year ago. He had previously spent twelve months in the most furious courtship. The girl at first had not cottoned to Jimmy very much, but he moved heaven and earth so vigorously that she at last consented. Now, the other day who appears before me but Jimmy, with a long face and makes a complaint that the baby keeps him awake nights. "Good gracious! Jimmy," I said, "didn't you know that babies alway do that? A baby has to have some relaxation. Go home and be thankful that it isn't twins." There is the reverse side to every joy. You can't have the advantages of bac! You can have life at the same time. You can have life with a price—lensure, family, office, learning, wealth, fame, position. Nothing is free. Be sure you want the article, pay the current price and enjoy your possession—Coemponolitan. COULD NOT USE SIDE SADDLE. Old-Fashioned Woman Turned Down by Livery Keeper. "It is hard these days," says a popular actress, "to be an old-fashioned woman even with the best intentions. I was resting at a rather fashionable little place not long ago and wanted to get some horseback exercise, of which I am very fond. So I went to a pretentious looking livery stable and applied for a horse. The proprietor inquired how I intended to ride. "As a woman should ride a horse, with a saddle, of course," I answered. "The proprietor have no horse of ours," was the verdict; she unleashed units the best of horses for any other unit. It's an invention of the devil and as infurious to the woman as it is to the horse." All my wiles were powerless to overcome the horse owner's objections and I was forced to forego equestrian pleasure." Chinaman Wine Yale Honara Bartlett G. Young, this year's president of the Yale University Banque club, is of Chinese parentage, though born in this country. His father, Dr. Young Wing, graduated from Yale in 1854 and later married a Miss Kellogg, member of a prominent Connecticut family, and a famous beauty in his heyday. He lived many years, being on intimate terms with Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner and other notable literary persons, and only returned to his native country on the death of his wife a few years ago. At the time of his boys birth Dr. Young was a special student in Washington, and therefore the young man is held to be a Chinese, though born in this country. Escapes Autograph Hunters Gabriele D'Annunzio, the distinguished Italian writer, has been receiving during the last few months so many requests for his autograph from collectors and admirers not only in Italy, but throughout Europe, that he has at last grown tired of signing his name and has adopted a novel method of notifying the public that he is unable to comply with any such requests in future. In the hotel at Bologna, he is writing this may now be read: "Gabriele D'Annunzio's right hand is injured and therefore he regrets to say that he cannot write his name in albums or on postal cards," etc. Bleichroeder to Leave the Turf. Though his new American jockey, Foster, won several races for Baron Bleichroeder of late, the latter is determined to give up his racing stables. He says he can't stand the jockeyy. He says he will be the owner. Foster he will have to begin all over again. The baron intends selling his yearlings from the Romerhof stud in the fall by auction, but will take his time about getting rid of the older horses. Bleichroeder has been the most generous patron of the German turf for twenty years. Monument to Gallant Frenchman. The anniversary of the arrival of the French troops at New York during the revolutionary war was observed by the laying of a corner stone of a monument to be erected in Trinity churchyard to the memory of Admiral De Ternay, who rendered incident service to the patrol cause during the war with Great Britain. But you--you shall live your life again and again. All the wealth in the world shall not buy you the rapture of a single chosen memory. The wealth of the past shall pour upon you. Flood your footsteps with a golden light. If a man is a failure he is sure it is some woman's fault. If all men were wise all women would seem sensible. Women value dress because men value it so much more. Women don't idealize men, for they never have a chance to. Charles M. Schwab of the Steel trust is said to be at the head of a syndicate of wealthy New Yorkers who have in view the establishment at Great Neck, L. I., of an exclusive summer resort similar to that founded many years ago at Tuxedo by Pierre Lorillard. The buying of above front property at Great Neck has been going on for months big price being paid in some cases and are long the cheapest. The property is by splendid summer cottages. Five thousand dollars an acre was paid for an estate of 105 acres. Clever Female Politician. Miss J. N. Stromberg private secretary to ex-Congressman Hawley of Texas, is credited with being the clearest female politician ever seen in Washington. She is conversant with every county in Texas, knows every man of prominence in the state and attends to nearly all details of federal patronage there. It is related of her that she once went to see a cabinet officer in regard to a place for a Texas constituent. The official was not disposed to give the place to her applicant, but in a pleasant and courteous manner said: "I am sorry to disappoint you after looking into such pretty brown hair. I am not sure of the quick answer, 'that the eyes ought to have it.' The cabinet officer was so pleased with the retort that he made the appointment. No.29. Little Girl Feared Plants Might Be Still Fault. John Philip Sousa set listening the other evening to the history of the pier, now called the Steelechaise, on his own engagement. Among other things he was told of the fun that resulted when the authorities there fined a manager for giving a Sunday performance two years ago, although Sunday is the day when the crowd of visitors and amusement seekers is the largest. "Always aware of the kind," said Sousa, "always recall to me the story of a little country girl who, very early one Monday morning, took a basket of freshly picked, dew-glistening raspberries to her family's minister. He was delighted, and said so; but he added, doubtfully: "Er—I hope you didn't pick them yesterday—the Babath—my child?" Sousa, the morning's hastily as, but her falteringly explained: "But—but they was a-growin' all day yesterday." KNEW HE HAD A GOOD TIME. Heard Policeman Tell Judge About it in the Morning. "Down in Tennessee one day," said Senator Carmack of that state, "I met a person whom I knew slightly, and all the symptoms of ovarian failure. He had all the symptoms of a left-over. In fact, as he came down the street he had so close a resemblance to a man who had surely been imbibing the previous night that I stopped and said to him: "Did you have a good time last night? "I did. he chirped, with a cheerful grin. "I had a magnificent time. It's a funny thing, though, Senator, he added confidentially, 'I was out all night, and yet I can't remember a single thing that occurred after nine o'clock. "You can't! I said. Then how on earth do you know that you had a magnificent time? "Because, he explained, I heard the policeman telling the judge about it in the morning." Vegetation on Rome's Monuments. The monuments of Rome. Under observation, not only by foreigners, but by the Italian government. It has been discovered that parasitic plants grow at the top of most of the Roman monuments. At the top of the white marble column in the center of the Piazza di Santa Maria Maggiore, an ing plant of a wild fig tree. It was beginning to eat away one of the topmost ornaments of the column. But it has now been removed. Twelve figs were found on the plant. The monument is now under repair. The affair has caused quite a little futter. People come to people to watch the upproceeding process. This column is the only one left of Constantine's first church in Rome. Apsurate Delay Many stories are told of the lack of punctuality upon railroads in the southern states. It is said that when a New England man found his trains, advertised to leave at 11 o'clock, starting at exactly that hour, he complimented the conductor. "Just on time, I see," he said, generally. "All this talk I've heard of the lateness of your trains is without foundation, I've no doubt. The conductor smiled at him gently. "This train, sir," he said, without a trace of embarrassment, is not today's eleven o'clock train, sir. It is today's eleven o'clock. To-day's will probably not get here from way down until to-morrow, sir." Wanted a Change. When the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, pastor of the Park church, Elimira, died the difficult problem of filling his place confronted the trustees of the church. The choice finally settled upon the Rev. Annie Ford Eastman, one of the few women who have made a success of the calling. An enthusiastic admirer took a frightening Eastman several Sundays ago. At the conclusion of the sermon the friend was asked how he liked it. "The sermon was all right," was the reply, "but I hear a woman presch six days in the week, and on the seventh I prefer to hear a man." A. Strange Coincidence Three events occurred recently at the same moment in one house in Washring, near Vienna. These events were a baptism, a wedding and a funeral. While the family of the deceased, an iron molder, Albert Hrusak, were beaming their loss, Anton Schutz, a young carpenter, and his bride, were celebrating their wedding in the rooms beneath them, and who occupied rooms in the basement were all arrayed in holiday attire in honor of their infant, Gabriel, who was being baptized. Church Bells of Olden Times. The Beltel Primitive Methodist shapel at Burney, Lancashire, recently observed an important anniversary, and issued a souvenir hand book containing copies of old records. A minute passed in 1854 reads: "That we do not allow young men and women to sit together arm in arm at the stander we do we allow them to stand at street corners chatting together." By another resolution the chapel authorities forbade girl choristers veering bows in their bonnets. Iowa STATE BYSTANDER PUBLISHED EVERY FRIEDAY BY THE BYPASS PUBLISHED IN THE IOWA BOOK LOCUST. BOOK 68 MANQUANT BLOCK IOWA '945 BLOCK OFFICAL PAPER OF THE MOST WORMIRIPULF BRUSHED GRADE LOGOS OF IOWA, A. F. & A. G. PERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One page ..... 10 Two pages ..... 20 Three pages ..... 30 All subscription payable in advance. J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by post-fax order; money order, or the Iowa IOWA BOOK LOCUST Publishing Company. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the pub- lizer. "Brivery is the soul of wit," remember WE will help you accomplish your mission, if you are accompanied by postage stamps. Advertising rates for display Adds 30 cents per inch, for each insertion. Three to six months contract 15 cents per inch. Local advertising costs for each insertion counting seven words to a line. For churches and secret societies where admission is charged, one-half of the above mentioned rates. For professional legal services, many court cases, and etc. terms are given on application. All advertising is to be paid in advance. We are prepared to do first-class job work at the lowest price. All of our work is guaranteed. THE IOWA STATE BANKER is the oldest Afro-American journal published in Iowa. It was established in 1894 and is the colored people of Iowa. We have correspondents in the following town: Alba..... Miss May Davis Baxton..... J. T. 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Co. 72 and 74 Wabash Ave. CHICAGO, ILL. What Has Been Going on During the Past Week. Big Spelling Contest—Three Iowa counties to Engage in Spelling in Near Future—Mrs. Thomas Larmore Brooks Over Suicide and Takes Her Own Life. Des Moines, Dec. 23—Chester Tyler, the colored man, would like a new trial for Dr. Fallowell, the murder of Dr. B. M. Fallow at Newton. The papers in the case were filed with the clerk of the supreme court Saturday. Tyler was convict of murder of Dr. Fallowell, dead along the walk from his house to his office, September 11, 1901. Tyler was arrested in Des Moines, where Dr. Fallowell's watch was discovered. The coroner was paid for his arrest after a controversy between Detectives Hardin and Connolley, the former getting the money. The attorneys for the case were Woodson & Brown and C. O. McClain. It is alleged in support of the claim for a new trial that many errors were committed. It is declared that certain persons tampered with the jury lists before the trial and the jury was convicted. It is also declared that the county attorney prejudiced the case in his statement to the jury. It is also declared that an error was committed in allowing Foreman Shultz of the trial jury to be convicted of the F. F. nephew of the murdered man, during the progress of the trial. Tyler received a life sentence for the murder. BIG SPELLING CONTEST. Three Iowa Counties to Engage in Spelling Match to be Held in Iowa Wapello, Dec. 22—County Superintendent C. R. Wallace, is arranging for a tri-county spelling contest with Keokuk and Washington counties. The purpose is to call attention to the need for a county spelling contest being paid to the state" of orthography in schools. There will be individual contests in each school in the county, to be followed by a county contest; these in turn to be followed by a tri-county contest which will be held in the following organization: One thousand words have been selected by the county superintendents of the three counties; these words will be sent to all schools in each county, and all pupils in the 5th grade or higher. The one in each school have the highest standing will take part in the contest to be given during the next meeting of the Teachers' association to be held in Wapello in the latter part of March, and the three securing the highest standing will take part at Washington. Prizes will be given to the three having the highest standing in the county contest and in the tri-county contest a $25 library will be given to the one who wins. Railroad funds of those paid in the county will be paid from this county to Washington. BROODED OVER SUICIDES Outside Circumstances Tending to Lead to Self-Destruction. Davenport, Dec. 23.—The suicide of Mrs. Thomas Larmore has many sad features. Her death was due to a dose of strychnine. For several days Mrs. Larmore has complained of a sudden heart attack, and was going to lose her mind. Mrs. Larmore also took an unusual interest in the Aledo poisoning case and eagerly read the accounts of the trial, as well as the stories of her friends and neighbors. Mr. and Mrs. Larmore also several evenings ago attended a strong dramatic play at the Turner hall, entitled "Lady Nell." One of the scenes consisted in one of the girls pretending to be taking poison and swooning before the audience. These circumstances are supposed to have left a deep impression upon Mrs. Larmore and no doubt had considered determining upon her self-destruction. Although but a bride of over a year, her married life was a happy one and there was not a more devoted couple than Davenport than Mr. and Mrs. Larmore. JUDGES NAMED BY GOVERNOR Des Molines, Dec. 22—Governor Cummins has announced the appointment of two superior court judges. He is the first of three Parsons, a leading attorney of Keokuk, has been named as superior court judge there and E. L. Elliott has been appointed at Oolwein. Like Mr. Parr, Mr. Elliott is a prominent attorney. The court at Oelwein has just been organized under the measure of the last general assembly permitting superseding the court's order to regulate 5,000 and upwards. The limit of population being reduced, Oelwein was able to attain a long cherished ambition. As soon as Mr. Elliot took the court will be ready for business. Mr. Parsons is appointed to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Judge Felix Hughes, which will take effect January 1. He will hold until June 1. Mr. McNamara, who is a democrat and was elected in November, will begin his term. Mr. Parsons is a republican and was the nominee of the republicans against Mr. McNarama. By a rather singular vote, Mr. McNamara will serve as judge before his political competitor. Judge Hughes has resigned to enter the practice of law, his firm succeeding to the business of James C. Davis, appointed attorney for Iowa, for the Norwestern road. DEATH OF HON. R. M. HAINEK Was Well Known Attorney, President of State Bar Association. Grunnel, Dec. 12—B. M. Haines, a leading lawyer of this city, died last night. He was born a resident here many years ago and was president of the bar association. NEW TRIAL DENIED. Court Holds. Tate Should Not Complain of Vrdict Rendered. Des Molines, Dec. 22—In the district court Judge McHenry curried the motion a new trial in the libel suit of J. C. Tate vs. R. P. Clarkson upon plaintiff gave notice of app Judge McHenry said in overruling the motion that he was free to confess that the verdict was a surprise to him, that he expected the jury to find for the plaintiff, and thought that the record made in the case was all with the plaintiff. He said that he had expected the jury to find nominal damages. He said that the plaintiff in pleading that he was the Ever Truthful because of its well established reputation for truthfulness had placed the defendants in an awkward position and precluded his coming in to plead that the arti cle was not believed in the plaintiff's right. Continuing he said that he did not believe that Tate had been damaged by reason of the publication, that he did not think readers believed the charges contained in the Register and that he did not believe the plaintiff was taken by the jurors. He said that believing that the plaintiff was entitled to recover only nominal damages, he thought that it was not his province to set the verdict aside, and that in doing so he believed he was guilty of an end to the litigation in so far as the district court is concerned. SOLD COAT OFF HIS BACK. Manager of the Bankrupt Otto Bank Traded hard to Settle Claims Muscatine, Dec. 23—Since the death of Father P. Laurent, the beloved pastor of St. Matthias church of this city, much speculation has been indulged in as to his probable succession from the fact that it is an irremovable pastorate, and considered the best in this diocese. It is understood that a number of applications have gone in to Bishop Cosgrove for this appointment, but the bishop has not taken to take some time to consider the matter. It is learned that the candidate in the lead at the present time is Very Rev. Father Davis, the vicar general at Davenport. By virtue of his office he is the assistant to the bishop and the reverend, great man of favorite of the reverend, gentleman. YOUNG STUBBS ARRESTED. Is Accused of Shooting Into Sleighing Party at Fairfield, With Intent to Commit Murder. Fairfield, Dec. 24—Rex. Stubbs, a grandson of Hon. Daniel P. Stubbs, was arrested by Sheriff Wright charged with being the party that had shot the sleighing party of last week, painfully wounding two girls. The young fellow is about 15 years of age and has had his share of troubles. He will have to answer to the court of assasination and to be commissioned, and as he has waived preliminary examination, the grand jury at the February term will investigate his case. NEW PASTOR FOR DAVENPORT. Rev. Charles A. Moore called to Edwards Congregational Church, Davenport, Dec. 23—(Special.)—Charles A. Moore, Ph. D. D. of Keeane, has been called by the members of the Edwards Congregational church of Davenport to fill the pulpillar for the sleighing party, as he is assigned to respond to the call it is assured that he will come to Davenport. $2,500 FIRE AT VAN METER. Four Frame Buildings Were Burned to the Ground, and It Was With Difficulty the Adjaining Structures Were Saved. Van Mester, Dec. 2, Van Mester suffered a fire in a building, which destroyed four small buildings on East Main street. Flames were discovered at 3 a.m. m. breaking through the roof of one of the building, which was occupied by William Smith as a photograph gallery. The alarm was given by citizens turned out. The citizens turned out. The flames spread to the adjoining structures, two on one side and one on the other, and all four were burned to the ground. The frame structures or either side of the burned buildings with the fire coursed out. The four shops destroyed were the property of E. Goar. Two of the houses were unoccupied. The third contained household good owned by E Martin, part of which were saved. The Smith were also able to save the building. The houses in detail are as follows: E. Goar, buildings, $2,000, insurance $1,200. William Smith, photograph gallery, and household goods, $500, small insurance $200. Martin, household goods, $20 no insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown. A number of tramps were seen about town yesterday, and it is though some of these might have fired the fire, but none could have reached the second story of the building first is not known. DIFFERENCE CAUSES SHOOTING Farmers Near Bloux City Quarrel Over Land Deal Over Land Deal Sloux Bloux a German farmer, August Bussy a German farmer, shot and initially wounded Herman De Boer a midwife, near George, yesterday. The police arrested from the rem point. However, the woman BY SEWARD W. HOPKINS, Author of "Jack Rabbits of America," in the China Book, and "On the Hawaii," "On a Police Charge," Eto. Copyright, 1986, by ROBERT BOWMAN'S SONS CHAPTER X "Mutterelli, I want to ask you a question." It was the second day of my renewed life and I felt much stronger, and had been watching Mutterelli with a feeling of amusement as he puttered around, doing this and that for his own comfort and mine. "Ask it, signor," he replied. "There is no law in the grotto to compel me to answer it if I don't want to." "No, I said. "But there is no reason why you should not tell me this, if you know. Have you any idea who really killed Pacho Maligni?" Everything dropped from Mutterelli's hands, and he stared at me, seemingly comical with surprise. "Who killed—comic with killable Maligni? What is that, signor? Oh yes, I forgot. No, signor. I do not know who killed Maligni. You did not kill him?" "No." I replied. "I swear it. I did not even see him struck. I was outside of the villa making my way to the gate with Nita Barlotti, when I heard him cry out and heard the alarm given. I saw him when I was on the balcony, but he got up from his chair and left the room. The next time I saw him, he was lying dead. I am as much in the dark about it as any one. Murrell whistled. "This is news to me, signor. I thought, of course, you killed Maligni. But if you did not, then who the deuce did?" "I don't know. That is what I want to know." "You shall know, signor," said Mutterell, and his jaw snapped. "Nearly a month has been wasted, in which, perhaps, I could have run the murderer down and set you free. But I will do it yet, signor. Do not fear. I will know who the murderer of Maligni is in less than sixteen days me." "Find him," I said, "and the twenty-five thousand fire that I promised you shall be doubled." "Ah! Thank you, signor. Mutterell is faithful, but he is poor. Therefore he is grateful. I must see Brother Michael to-day. If I can find him, the last sentence seemed to be an afterthought. My own opinion was that if the wily Mutterell wanted to see Brother Michael he would not need to go far—a mirror would show him the Jesuit's face. That afternoon Mutterell went away and did not return until long into the night. When he did come in, he breathed heavily, and seemed like a man who had been drinking much wine. I lay there in silence watching him, as in the dim light of the candle he moved about preparing to go to bed. In a far corner of the grotto, upon some boards laid lengthwise, some furs like those on which I lay had been placed. Upon this rude couch Mutterell stretched himself, and was sitting on the softest bed in his probably comfortable home in Genoa. And as I thought of it I laughed softly to myself. It was probably a strange place for Mutterell to be sleeping. Yet more than that, the thought came to me that it was a strange couch for a monk. And laughing again at Mutterell's many attempts to deceive me I fell asleep. The days passed slowly after this, yet I mended rapidly, and my returning strength brought renewed ambition and stronger determination to carry to a successful issue the purported defection of the dina. But I could get nothing out of Mutterell. I plied him with questions about the monk and about the prefetto and about Nita Barlotti, all I got, day after day, were retertared cautions about leaving the grotto and vague and misty sentences about great plans being laid for my brother Mutterell and "Brother Michael." Nita Bariottl was still at the country residence of the prefeto, and Muttervell informed me that it was rumored that she would soon become the bride of Count di Pardino. I could not see how or wherein the count was any improvement over Pacho Maligni, but Muttervell parled me and asked that the count would not be allowed to wed her, for when he and Brother Michael had got my affairs straightened out, they would attend to the case of the Count di Pardino and his proposed marriage. All this was pacifying and almost satisfying in the early days of my convalescence, but there came a day when I was no longer weak, and when the blood, full of life, rushing through my body, gave me vigor and a desire to see for myself what was going on and do for myself what I had become convinced no one else would be able to do for me. It was on one of these days, when Mutterelli was away, that the spirit of unscat seized me, and I grew impatient and nervous at my enforced idleness. Mutterelli, with his usual regard for my comfort, had procured in some way a supply of good cigars, and I sat on my bed, with my back against the perpendicular wall of marble, smoking one of these. Slipping from my couch, I meandered uneasily down the porcelain grumbling forward at the unpleasant delay in my plans, and thinking hard, trying to help myself out of my present difficulty. I was surprised, when approaching the entrance in my simile rumble, to see letters carved in the pocky away to the right of the arch. Stepping to this spot, I read the words easily, shaking my eyes when they cut me insulted. "HENRY PROLAND" "I WOULD HAVE" "I WOULD HAVE" form as I had found them in the cell in the Torre dell'Efante. Henry Thorlane then, was no doubt the former occupant of the cave. But now a puzzling question arose: When could he have carved these letters in the grotto? Previous to his arrest he would, for all I knew, taking Mutterell's story into the matter, have no cause for vengeance. And Mutterell had said that he was in the monastery, from which there could be no escape. Yet there was his name and his motto—his war-cry—carved in letters that would last for centuries, in the marble rock before me. One of two things was certain. Mutterell did not know all the story before Thorlane's arrest, or he did not know what had happened afterward. It was possible that Thorlane had escaped, made his home in the grotto, and had been captured again. Or—and as I thought this, my heart fell because I encountered Thorlane it was right that Thorlane had been put in the monastery and had gained the confidence of the superior and had joined the order unknown to the prefetto or anybody outside the Jesuit circle inside the monastery walls! And if so, then, perhaps, Mutterell was Mutterell and no one else, and the monk who had rescued me was Henry Thorlane. Still pondering upon this, I began to look still farther for evidence of Henry Thorlane's occupancy. I found no more letters, but I did find a trap-door. My fingers came in contact with an iron ring. I knew it must have been placed there for a purpose. I pulled it. It did not move, and I lighted a candle, for the ring was in a dark portion of the grotto, and closely examined the place. I found that the ring was fastened to a wood en cover, which was held in place by two large pieces of rock which were lald upon it. These I rolled away, and the trap-door came up easily. The opening thus made led into a small, celine-like hole, and lying on the floor was a wooden box or cheap kind of trunk. I managed to get this out, and I carried the blinded clothing of various kinds, masks, boards, fact, everything that was needed for a complete disguise. And as I examined this most fortunate find I chucked aloud. I would be free! And Nita Barlotti should at last know who she was, and be placed in possession of her own. Circumstances seemed to favor me. Mutterelli came to the grotto late in the afternoon of the day on which I found the trunk of clothing, and remained to supper. After supper we smoked in silence. Muttrell finished his cigarette and seemed to be preparing to leave. "You are going away, Mutterelli?" I said. "Yes, signor. I shall not be back to night." I did not want him back, and when all he had taken his departure I again opened the trap door and took out the trunk. I pulled out the entire contents and spread them over the floor of the grotto, that I might more successfully choose the most complete disguise. Having made my selection, I proceeded to put on first a pair of heavy shoes. I dotted my prison suit and enfolded myself in the most skillfully devised waist or vest that could have been made. It was a stuffed affair, and, fitting close to my figure, made me look at least forty pounds heavier than I really was. I was pulled a pair of long, much-worn black trousers onto my legs, and over the stuffed vest I put a long black coat. I found a black beard, with a long, black, curling mustache, that easily fitted my face, and could be securely fastened on by moistening with my breath some gummed strips on the under side. My eyebrows were brown, but I found plenty of cosmetics and dyeing materials to keep me made my eyebrow match the beard in color. Having thoroughly convinced myself that I was under a complete disguise, I set out from the grotto, first making up some unimportant things into a pack, and siling it over my shoulder on a stick. I passed a few people, none of whom paid any attention to the weary old Jew plodding along on his way to Cagliari. It was about eleven o'clock when I arrived at a point near the villa of the prefetto, and I stood a moment as if resting. Several persons passed me and wore mustaches, waxed and curled to points. I recognized him at once. He was a small man, an Italian, and wore mustaches, waxed and curled to points. I recognized him at once. He was Dambo, the man whom I had seen in Madison Square Garden set fire to the rope of Barletto's trapeze. What devilment might he be up to, and what, perhaps, did he know about Maliign's death? I resolved to follow him, and, pick him up my pack. I plodded behind him. He led me along the road. By this means he skirt the villa grounds on the side, passing through the adjoining property. I could not follow him, and stood in the road looking after him, studying in my mind what to do next. As I stood there I saw a monk approaching. I recognized him as Bro. Michael at once. When he drew near to me he seemed to start and show evidences of surprise. I stepped quickly to him. "Brother Michael," I said, "do you know me?" "I know you, son," was the reply, and then I noticed that the soft voice had none of Mutterell's Italian accent. "Why are you here in spite of Mutterell's warning? Do you not know that your life is in danger?" "I know it, Brother Michael," I said, "but look at the _retreating figure skulking along the fence of the prefetto's grounds. Can you see him well?" "I see him, son." "His name is Dambo. I saw that maligno deliberate attempt to kill Nita Baricchi in New York. He probably knows more about the murder of Malignt than he would care to tell. No doubt he will kill the girl now if he has an opportunity." Brother Michael seemed lost in thought for a moment. "He is a dangerous man, son," he said mildly. "Cousin, he was Dambo and learn from him something of his purpose here." I followed the monk, and together we went around the prefetto's grounds to meet Dambo in the rear. When he saw us coming he stood a moment as if irresolute, and the monk motioned for him to approach. "My son," said the monk, who was now firmly fixed in my mind as Henry Thorlane, "your movements around the villa of the prefetto have been watched with suspicion. Danger lurks in the air when skulking men are seen in shaded place. Is it not so?" Dambo bowed his head as if abashed by the implied accusation of the it is so, father," he replied. "But no danger lurks where Dambo goes. I come to warn the prefetto father." "To warn the prefetto son," said the monk. "This is a strange place, indeed, to find one who seeks to warn the prefetto. You must explain better than this your strange actions, son." "I know whom I would meet, father," replied the wily scoundrel. "I have seen you of late walking around the prefetto's ground& outside the wall. I knew you were friendly to the prefetto, and that I might trust you. I came to meet you, father, and through you convey my warning to the prefetto." "Ah, son, your zeal is to be commended," said the monk. "But tell me, son, what is your message to the prefetto?" "It is this, father. The villa of the prefetto is to be attacked at midnight—this very night, father—by the Count Fordine and his direcse and bearing for the purpose of securing the Signorina Barletti and to carry her away for his own evil purposes. It is this that I came to tell the prefetto, father." The monk seemed to be communing with himself for a moment. Then he said: "But how is it, son, that the Count di Fordino seeks to desecrate the house of the prefetto and to win his bride by force, when it has been long understood that the hand of the signorina would be given him in marriage by his friend the prefetto?" "Ah, father, it is a case of money. It seems that the prefetto has befriended the count greatly in the past, and now he demands from the count the payment of a large sum of money for the signorina before he will allow her to be the bride of Fordino. And the count, while he consents to this while talking to the prefetto, plots to take the signorina by force and not pay the prefetto any money." GIRL WITH COMMON SENSE Had Lover Arrested For Threat to Commit Suicide. A certain young man in Syracuse, N. Y., is under bonds awaiting trial under the antisuicide act, reflecting meanwhile on the sound common sense displayed by a young woman to whom he was but recently engaged. The girl dismissed him for good and sufficient reasons, returned his letters and presents and received her own, the latter being accompanied by a note announcing that the sender was sent to him. She requested the method by which he proposed to accomplish his taking off. When she received this intelligence the strength of the common sense girl appeared. She did not scream or have hysterics or faint, nor did she fly to him, begging him to relinquish his dread intention on any terms. Not at all. She quietly handed the note to the messenger who brought it, with a request that he give it to the first policemen he met. The result was that the young man was arrested and lodged in jail. He is now out on his own, and it is shown that it will no longer be necessary for reluctant young women to melt into the arms of ineligible young men in order to save them from self-destruction or, in default of this, to suffer the blight of a damp, unpleasant memory during future years. Early Birds. An English nobleman in ill health was out one morning early, wearily taking a constitutional. Walking along his game preserves, he turned a sharp corner and came face to face with an Irishman who had the reputation of being an inveterate poacher. An Irishman who had what they held behind him, he preserved a perfectly virtuous aspect, while the gentleman hailed him cordially with, "Good morning, Pat." "Good marin, yer hamer. An' phawt brings yer hamer out so airy this marin?" "I'm just walking around, Pat, to see if I can get an appetite for my breakfast. And what brings you out so airy this marin?" "Och he jabbers, Ol'ms a jaw-kin' around to see if Ol cann't git a breakfast fast for me appetite!" Long-Lived and Prolific Family. It is not easy to find a family which has five generations, but there is such a family at Ensial, near Liege. The two oldest members are aged, respectively eighty-seven and eighty-six years. 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Is used to buy or sell ask your adviser, WHY? reasons, the advice is valueless. Dealed, the advice is dangerous. Using on investment and speculative matters are statistics and common-sense, and all our We are as quick to warn our clients away them of good ones. Stock Letter this week deals with States Steel non-sense Grain Letter is on Day Corn In the asking. We want your commission busi- sion are welcome to our ideas, all of which are out of ordinary speculation—Common-sense. Accounts of $50.00 and upwards. BETTE, HARLAN & CO., AND GRAIN BROKERS, 144 La Salle St., CHICAGO. If he cannot give good reasons, the advice is valueless. If the reasons are concealed, the advice is dangerous. Our methods of advising on investment and speculative matters are found[el_on information, statistics and common-sense, and all our reasons are early stated. We want to ward our clients away from bad spots as to advise them of good ones. They are to be had for the asking. We want your commission business; if we cannot get it, you are welcome to our ideas, all of which are based on the rarest element of ordinary speculation-Common-sense. We handle accounts of $50.00 and upwards. CRIMM, BRUETTE, HARLAN & CO., STOCK AND GRAIN BROKERS, Bank Floor, 144 La Salle St., CHICAGO. BUSINESS as conducted by practical business men, taught in the shortest possible time by skilled teachers who are experts in the business practice and banking department in the West. One of the best and most successful schools of Penmanship, Shorthand and Typography in the country. We serve employment for graduates. Papils may enter at any time. For our beautifully illustrated campus address ROAD Cedar Rapids Business College, Cedar Rapids, Lennon. THE BEST CEREAL COFFEE- MORNING Travel is easier to the Golden State on the Golden State Limited on the El Paso-Rock Island route. Most comfortable train in the world. Library Chicago daily. Less than three days in Los Angeles. 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This remedy strikes at once to the roots of catarach by restoring to the capillary vessels their healthy elasticity. Peruna is not a temporary palliative, but a radical cure. Send for Dr. Hartman's latest book, send for a short time. Address The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Co., Columbus, Ohio. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his suitable graft. Give Dr. Hartman President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. excels in Corn, Cotton and Wheat. Ideal place to live 300 FARMS FOR SALE. Bargains in city property, bringing large rent. Your money loaned at 6$ on gibb- real estate real estate out. Send for catalogue. SEND. FOR CATALOGUE. Reply of Powers to Suggestion That Trouble Be Referred to the Hague Tribunal. A PECULIAR SITUATION Were President to Act as Arbitrator His Position Would Be Dellicate—Does Not Want Job—He Might Accept if No Other Way to Peace Could Be Found. Washington, Dec. 22.—President Roosevelt has proposed to the allied powers that the Venezuelan dispute be submitted to the arbitration of The Hague tribunal. The powers have replied with a counter proposition that President Roosevelt himself arbitrate the issues. These were the developments Saturday in the Venezuelan matter, and they seem to justify the prediction made in these dispatches that the critical point has been passed. President Roosevelt does not wish to act as arbitrator in the dispute, for as it is felt here he would be at once judge, jury and constable and would be under the moral obligation to execute his own judgment. The president feels that a reference to the Hague tribunal would vastly strengthen the cause of arbitration. Still, rather than let the present dispute proceed to extremes, it is probable that the president will reluctantly assume the duties of abstrator. It is fully realized that any decision rendered by him in that capacity would be sure to bring him the emmity of one or the other of the parties to the controversy, and the fact was pointed out to the president early in the week by a leading senator who had been called into consultation. Nevertheless, to prevent bloodshed and the destruction of property and interference with great commercial interests that would result in loss it is believed that the president would assume the charge, providing his own view cannot prevail. An important fact developed Saturday is that the punitive measures about to be instituted, and in fact now in force in some degree will not be suspended by the allies until a definite agreement is roashed as to the arbitration. Venezuela also has been told through Minister Bowen that the president would welcome a reference of the dispute to the Hague tribunal. While no direct reply has been received, it is not doubted that the reply will be favorable if the other parties consented to such reference. If an agreement is reached on arbitration the procedure would be for Minister Bowen, representing Venezuela as a plenipotentiary, to sign with the representatives of the allies a protocol stating that the case is to be handled by the Venezuelan government; admits the right of diplomatic intervention in behalf of a claimant, a principle she has always resisted and that the details of the arbitration shall be arranged in a formal treaty which she pledges herself to sign. This treaty will provide in the greatest detail for the security of foreign interests against vexations and extortionate interference on the basis of international government hereafter and will insure the administration of exact justice in the settlement of claims, and especially will it relieve foreign residents of Venezuela from forced loans and persecution in times of revolution. The status of the arbitration negotiations at the close of the official day as disclosed at the state department was that the powers were waiting for the arbitration to be proposed that he himself undertake to arbitrate the Venezuelan difficulty. The president's answer can only be guessed at, for the officials decline to express any opinion of their own. However, it is believed, to be a safe prediction that he will repeat his suggestion that the case be submitted to the tribunal added to that argument he has already produced the fact the United States having claims of its own against Venezuela to the amount of $100,000, it is a party in interest, and it would be unfair to put the president in the position of having to arbitrate his own claim. For their part, the powers bring against The Hague proposition the argument that the case be bound by any decision by that tribunal, but would be certain to heed a judgment rendered by President Roosevelt. It is said at the state department that no matter how these two propositions are disposed of, there will be no backward step, and that an agreement of some kind which the bring Venezuela's resolution of the Venezuelan troubles will result from the pre-ent negotiations. Of course, if we president should accept the charge, which he would only do as a last resort, it is understood that the actual burdensome work of arbitrating work of arbitrating the claims would be under the authority personally, but probably would be, as is customary in such cases, confided to one of the thoroughly efficient and trained assistant secretaries of the department. ITALIAN WARSHIP RAISE8 FUSS Caracas, Dec. 24.—The captain of the Italian warship Giovanni Bausan has issued a notification that he will not allow the American Red Line steamer Caracas to enter La Guaira harbor, where she is due today. The announcement has created great excitement among the foreign importers. The action has been accompanied by contradiction of the new tax by the captain of the British cruiser Trubue, which, before his departure from this port advised the British consul that the Caracas would be allowed to enter the port. Jeffries Lost Fierce Fight Jeffries lost four games. Butte, Mont., Dec. 22—Champion Jeffries lost a decision in a four round contest with theok Monroe after four rounds of the fiercest fighting Butte has seen for some time. At one time the champion went to his knees and a knee hurt looked possible. Jeffries and his manager had posted a forfeit of $250 for any one to stand against Jeffries for four rounds and Munroe accepted the challenge. At the end of the fourth round Munroe was still ready to fight. Munroe is an amateur champion of the Pacific coast. Fitz- simmons has posted a forfeit of $500 to out Munroe out in four rounds. THE CHILDREN ENJOY Life out of doors and out of the games which they play and the enjoyment which they receive and the efforts which they make, comes the greater part of that healthful development which is so essential to their happiness when grown. When a laxative is needed the remedy which is given to them to cleanse and sweeten and strengthen the internal organs on which it acts, should be such as physicians would sanction, because its component parts are known to be wholesome and the remedy itself free from every objectionable quality. The one remedy which physicians and parents, well-informed, approve and recommend and which the little ones enjoy, because of its pleasant flavor, its gentle action and its beneficial effects, is Syrup of Figs—and for the same reason it is the only laxative which should be used by fathers and mothers. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy which acts gently, pleasantly and naturally without gripping, irritating, or nauseating and which cleanses the system effectually, without producing that constipated habit which results from the use of the old-time cathartics and modern imitations, and against which the children should be so carefully guarded. If you would have them grow to manhood and womanhood, strong, healthy and happy, do not give them medicines, when medicines are not needed, and when nature needs assistance in the way of a laxative, give them only the simple, pleasant and gentle—Syrup of Figs. Its quality is due not only to the excellence of the laxative principles of plants with pleasant aromatic syrups and juices, but also to our original method of manufacture and as you value the health of the little ones, do not accept any of the substitutes which unscrupulous dealers sometimes offer to increase their profits. The genuine article may be bought anywhere of all reliable druggists at fifty cents per bottle. Please There are plenty of people who have become depressed and discouraged, because that dry, hacking cough hangs to them continually. They have taken much medicine, mostly of the advertised quack sort, nothing like Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Breast Tea, the discovery of a then noted German physician 60 years ago. We do not say that this will cure a case where the lungs are badly diseased, for it will not, and up to this date there is nothing that will cure under these conditions; but on the other hand, if the lungs are not hard hit, the patient should take Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Breast Tea, a cup full every night on going to bed, have it hot, drink slowly, then every other night rub the throat and top portion of the lungs with St Jacoba Oll, cover with oil silk, let it remain an hour, then remove. Eat good, plain, nourishing food, live in the open air as much as possible. By all means sleep as near out of doors as possible, that is, windows wide open, except in the very severe weather. Take a cold sponge bath every morning; then immediately rub the body vigorously with a coarse towel. Take Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Drops every other day according to directions. One can buy the three remedies for $1.25 of any reliable druggist. Begin the treatment at once and see how much better you will be almost within a week's time. General "Phill" Sheridan was once riding down the line, when he saw an Irishman mounted on a mule which was kicking its legs rather freely. The mule finally got its hoof caught in the stirrup, when, in the excitement, the Irishman remarked: "Well, besorch if you're goin' to get on, I'll get off!" "Why will you humbly yourselves?" says Mark Twain in Harper's Magazine, "with that foolish notion that no lie is a lie except a spoken one? What is the difference between lying true and lying with your mouth? Are you sure you would reflect a moment you would see that it is so. There isn't a human being that doesn't tell a gross of lies every day of his life." When Roscoe Conkling first began the practice of law in New York, he lost a most important murder case on which he had worked very hard, not only for the fee, which he needed badly, but for a reputation which he had to make. Despite his efforts, his client was hanged. Later, when he presented his bill to the man's family he asked him to it, the account that it was excessive. He took the bill to Charles O'Conor, the great criminal lawyer, asking him to pass judgment as to the equity of his charges. O'Conor scanned the account very closely, and then, turning to Conkling, very gravely remarked: "Well, Conkling, taking into consideration the enormous amount of energy and time you have devoted to this case, you have to see here, Conkling, don't you think the man could have been hanged for less money than that?" A Problem Solved Cabbell, Kunn, Dec. 22nd.—This part of Kansas has solved the great question, How can Kidney Troubles be cured, and as Rheumatism, Bright's Disease, Diabetes and other ailments resulting from Diseased Kidneys are common to all parts of the country the news is of great interest. The cure is Dodd's Kidney Pills. Hundreds of people will tell you this of their own experience. Take J. B. Cunningham for example. He had Kidney Trouble of long standing. He sought relief in vain. He had tried Doctors and Medicines of different kinds. Finally he tried Dodd's Kidney Pills and he stopped right there. No one who tries Dodd's Kidney Pills for Kidney Complaint ever needs to look any further. Here is what Mr. Cunningham says: "Dodd's Kidney Pills are all right for Kidney Trouble. I have used them and know for they have done me more good than anything I ever used." You may not be able to learn anything new, but there are people in the world who can teach you something else. Waltress( at quick lunch stand)—"Do you want to eat this sandwich here or take it with you?" Gentleman—"Both." Catarrh Cannot Be Cured WITH LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as the cannot reach the seat of the disease. Cataract is a condition of the eye that causes the eye it must take intoxicated. Halla's Cataract Cure is taken internally, and acts on the eye. Halla's Cataract Cure is not a quack medicine. Halla's Cataract Cure is not a quack medicine in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics and medications acting directly on the mucous surfaces. This perfect combination of the two ingredients is used to cure Cataract. Send for testimonials, free of charge. F. J. GREENY & CO. Props, Toledo, O. Boho & Props, Inc. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Diamonds are worth $300,000,000 a ton. Remember this and don't pay a cent more. MORE FLEXIBLE AND LASTING, won't shake out or blow out; by using than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. An optimist is a man who is satisfied with what he doesn't get. Fitz Permanently Curved. Not a woman's art Send for FREE. Not a woman's art Send for FREE. Not a woman's art Send for FREE. Not a woman's art Dr. E. H. Klause, Ltd., 911 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Truth is the simplest of all virtues; not the neither study nor art. Try One Package. If "Defiance Starch" does not please you, return it to your dealer. If it does, you get one-third more for the same money. It will give you satisfaction and will not stick to the iron. The trouble about charity is that it often covers too many sins. Magnet File Killer Cures Piles. Any woman who regards beauty as superfluous has never tried it. Dr. Lawrence's special treatment cures Dysppepla, Guaranteed, 50c. Lawrence Co., Des Molnes, Ia. Sample free. The fast man soldom takes the half mile post. I do not believe Pile's Cure for Consumption hasimental for coughs and colds—John F. Beyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. It doesn't always follow that because a man is well groomed he posesses good horse sense. INSIST ON GETTING IT. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have only 12 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 15 oz. for the same money. You want 15 oz. instead of for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. The subtle mind is only submissive when submission subserves its interest. Stops the Cough and Stops the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c. Always is borne in on us the fact that the seat of reason is the stomach. DON'T SPOIL YOUR TEMPER and your hands on wash day. Use Getty's New Laundry Soap. Requires no labor. All grocers. Were it not for the hod carrier the house would not go up. No chromos or cheap premiums, but a better quality and one-third more of Defiance Starch for the same price of other starches. So far as the modern scientist is concerned the fruits of philosophy are electric currents. Mrs. Winshow's Soothing Syrup. For children softening, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, curses wind colic. So a bottle. Men laugh at feminine frisbee, but are begulled by it. ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS use Russ Bleaching Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.-George Elliot. Bice in South Texas. The Government report for 1902 shows that Texas holds the world's record for the production of rice. Some of the best rice lands in the State are along the line of the M. K. & T. Ry. An interesting book on Texas will be sent on request. James Barker, Gen'l Pass. Agent, M. K. & T. Ry. 501 Wainwright Bldg., St. Louis. In addition to tempting Eve, Satan probably introduced money into the Garden of Eden. CHILDREN E errors and out of the games which they play receive and the efforts which they at healthful development which is so srown. When a laxative is needed the release and sweeten and strengthen them should be such as physicians would sa- re known to be wholesome and the remes- e quality. The one remedy which physic- prove and recommend and which the saint flavor, its gentle action and its ben- d for the same reason it is the only laxa- and mothers. is the only remedy which acts gentle gripping, irritating, or nauseating and do- without producing that constipated he old-time cathartics and modern imit- sions should be so carefully guarded. If you and womanhood, strong, healthy and li- when medicines are not needed, and wi- way of a laxative, give them only the si- gns. due not only to the excellence of the co- of plants with pleasant aromatic syru- method of manufacture and as you not accept any of the substitutes which to increase their profits. The genius of all reliable druggists at fifty cents p to remember the full name of CALIFORNIA FIG SY the front of every package. In order to get its beneficial effects it is always necessary to buy the genuine only. ```markdown ``` LYDIA E. PINKHAMS VEGETABLE COMPOUND IDid Not Feel That I Could Walk "Dear Mrs. Pinkham—It is with thankfulness I write by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been of the greatest help to me. My work keeps me standing on my feet all day and the hours are long. Some months ago it didn't seem as though I could stand it. I would get so dreadfully tired and my back ached so I wanted to scream with the pain. When I got home at night I was so worn out I had to go right to bed, and I was terribly blue and downhearted. I was irregular and the flow was scanty, and I was pale and no appetite. I told a girl friend who was taking your medicine I felt, and she said I ought to take it too. So I got a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and commenced to take it. It helped me right off. After the first few doses menstruation started and was fuller than for some time. It seemed to lift a load off me. My back stopped aching and I felt brighter than I had for months. I took three bottles in all. Now I never have an ache or pain, and I go out after work and have a good time. I am regular and strong and am thankful to you for the change. "Please accept my thanks for this most excellent medicine which is able to restore health to suffering women." other female medicine in the world has read and unqualified endorsement. 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"I'se In Town, Honey" AUNT JEMIMA'S Pancake Flour Every Aunt Jemima package contains a coupon that is worth money to you. Save it. Write us today for our large list of fine premiums. It's free. W. N. U., Des Moines, No. 52.—1902. FISCO'S CURE FOR CURE WHEN ALL THE FALLS. Best Condition. One in time. Sold by druggers. CONSUMPTION w w w w w w FOR SALE—AT A BARGAIN. 1,000 stock cree and grain farm near Sealburg, Ile, part bottom land, Ile. Send for delivery. p picture; plenty of water. Send for price and particul M. G. Howard & Co., 11 W. Washington St. Chicago. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY: gives quick relief and cures worm cases. FRESH ITEMS and 10 DAYS' treatment FREE. DR. K. M. GREEN'S 800, box R, Atlanta, GA makes pancakes that are delicious in eating and beneficial to health, being full of nutriment. This perfect flour combines the three staffs of life—wheat, corn and rice in balanced proportions. OUR GUARANTEE—If it doesn't make the best pancakes you ever eat, return the empty box to your grocer, he will refund your money and charge it to us. R.T. Davie Mii & Mig. Co., Makers, St. Joseph, Misc. comes in RED Package Only. Self by Geerens. RACE ECHOES. Mr. A. H. Cabell is the race's oldest leading and most successful merchant and real estate dealer in Henderson, Ky. The Jim Crow street car law of New Orleans has been declared un constitunal. Mr. Frederick D. Bonner, a young colored man, is teaching in the Philippines. He is a graduate of Vale and is making much success The publishing house of the Baptist is in Nashville, Tenn., and is doing a business of $800,000 annually. The Negroes of Philadelphia have tied up in banks, trust companies and other white concerns over $2,000,000. Charity Wiggins, the mother of blind Tom, the famous musician, recently died at Birmingham, Ala., Mrs. Wiggins was 102 years of age. The Baptist Printing Company, in Augusta, Ga., pays $8,000 annually to its employees and does a business that averages $567 a month. Mrs. E. Lewis, now of Chicago, has been in the hair dressing business 26 years. Within that time she has taught her trade to 50 persons and saved $25,000. T. A. Curay of South McAlister, I. T., is the only Negro railroad contractor in the Southwest, and probably in the United States. He works from 200 to 300 men and operates his own commissaries has his own clerks, secretaries, paymasters and stenographers. Colored men own in the United States 230 rated drug stores with an investment of something over half a million dollars. Business Professional Men's League, with 523 members, has invested, not including real estate, $120,000. During the year of 1900 there were 220 persons who suicided in the United States, and only ten of whom were colored. According to the twelfth United States census ending May 31, 1900, it shows that 5,343 whites had suicided, 104 colored, 13 Indians and 23 Chinamen. Mrs. Josephine B. Bruce widow of the late Senator Bruce, is said to be an expert in cotton production, and owns a big plantation near Josephine, Miss, a town named in honor of Mrs. Bruce. W. H. Smith of Wagoner, I. T. does the largest business of any colored man in the Indian Territory He employs four regular clerks. His goods are bought in car lots. He is also a heavy cotton buyer. Negroes in Virginia have invested in business $14,426 536; own $I5,000,000 of property, is assessrd at $17,442,227. The taxes paid amount $422,870 60 per annum. Mound Bayou a Negro town in Mississippi has a town and rural population of 2,300. This village has several sawmills, four public schools, five chuckuses merchants, blacksmith photographers, druggists, doctors, printers, brick dealers, land agents, log and timber contractors. EXCURSION RATES TO DES MOINES, IOWA, Via the North-Western Line. Excursion tickets will be sold at reduced rates December 30, limited to return until January 2, 1903, inclusive, on account of State Teachers Convention. Apply to agents' Cisago & Nort'-Western Ry. BUILLIETON ROUTE EXCURSIONS. Christmas and New Years Holiday Rates. Rate one and one-third fare for round trip to all points on the Burlington System within a radius of 200 miles from selling station. Tickets sold Dec. 24th, 25th and 31st, also Janu-ay 1st good to return until and including January 2nd. The Burlington Route will sell excursion tickets to students and teachers of educational institution on dates such institutions close and day after, but earlier than December 12th or later then December 20th, upon presentation of certificate, signed by proper officer of the institu-ment with which applicant is connected such tickets good to return date institu-ment upon, but not later than Januar- Japanees Bamboo Furniture Chairs, Tables, Jardineer Stands, Music Racks, Etc. ...A Fine Line for the Holidays... We give free a Foot Stool with every $1.50 purchase. Christmas goods of all kind. . . . Don't Forget Your Gloves, It's the Only Thing that will Please Em And don't forget that the place to buy them is at a GLOVE STORE. Buy direct from the manufacturer, you save two profits and then you help to build up a Factory that employs Des Moines labor. Glove Boxes Free. live with each purchase a beautiful glove box Men's fine Gloves or Mittens from 25c to 75c. 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About the only way it can be done average busy man and woman is to read azine like "The Review of Reviews," and it the only magazine of the sort, it is a go- going to send $2.50 for a year's subscription. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT says: I know that through its columns views have been ad to me that I could not otherwise have had access use all earnest and thoughtful men, no matter how wi- ideas diverge, are given free utterance in its columns. PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND says: I consider it a very valuable addition to my library." ```markdown ``` THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS How Can I Keep Up with the Times? IT is pretty hard to keep well informed on the political news, the scientific news, the literary news, the educational movements, the great business developments, the hundreds of interesting and valuable articles in the hundreds of excellent magazines. 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MANAGER WANTED We desire to employ a trustworthy lady or gentleman to manage our business in this County and adjoining territory. Our house is well and favorably known. $20.00 Straight Cash Salary and all Expenses paid each week by Check direct from Headquarters. Expense money advanced; previous experience unnecessary; position permanent. Address Thomas J Cooper, Manager, 1040 Caxton Building, Chicago, Ill. VERY LOW RATES TO INTERNATIONAL LIVE STOCK EXPOSITION. CHICAGO. Via the North-Western Line. Excursion tickets will be sold December 1, 2 and 3, with extreme return limit until December 8, inclusive. Apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R'y. PARTICULAR MEN are always pleased with the popular DOUBLE FINANCE BRAND COLLARS They are Stylish. Comfortable. RETAIL TWO FOR A QUARTER AND EQUAL ANY TWENTY-FIVE CENT COLLAR MADE Gold by live, up-to-date merchants, everywhere, or two sample collars sent by mail, postage paid, for 25 cents. Van Zandt, Jacobs & Co. Troy, N. Y. A Popular Collar Mango 2½ Inches Special Inducements to Dealers. NOTICE TO BREEDEN FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa. Polk County, ss: To O. B. Anderson: You are hereby notified that on the 6th day of December, A. D. 1898, the following described real estate, situated in Polk county, Iowa was sold for taxes for the year 1897 which rested on the land of Polk county, Lot seventy-eight (78), Cottage Addition, and now forming a part of the City of De Moines, Polk County Iowa. That the same was, at such sale, purchased by Charles O. Nourse and a certificate issued to him by the Treasurer of Polk county, Iowa, and by the said owner, to J. H. Phillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate, and the right of redemption will expire, and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within three days from the date thereof. J. H. Phillips, Lawful holder and owner of said car- ilBate. Ladies Black Mohair Shirt Waists—worth $ 250—Monday only . . . 1.50 Is In Our Bargain to see Jolly Old Santa Claus. WANFED—A TRUSTWORTHY GENTLEMAN or lady in each county to manage business in her established house, build financial standing, staff, straight, and fide weekly cash salary of $16.00 paid by check each Wednesday with all expenses direct from headquarters. No advanced fee expenses. Manager, 344 Cason Bldg, Chicago. A'ERICA'S Editorially Fearless. Consistently Republic n. News from all of the world—Well written, original stories—Answers to queries—Articles on Health, the Home. New Books, and on Work about the Farm and Garden. The Weekly Inter Ocean In a member of the Associated Press, the only Western Newspaper receiving the entire telegraphic news service of the New York Sun and special cable of the New York World—daily reports from over 2,000 special correspondents throughout the country. YEAR ONE DOLLAR Subscribe for the Iowa State Bystander and The Weekly Inter Ocean one year, both papers for $2.00 CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT. The Corinthian baptist Church—situated on 10th St. between Crocker and School St. Presching: at 11 a.m.; Sunday School: at 19 o'clock Presching: at 10 a.m. Rev. T. L. Grithm, Pastor. St. Paul A. M. E.-Corner of Second and Center Streets. Presching at 10:30 a.m.; Sunday at 3 o'clock. Epworth League at 2 p.m.; presching at 8 p.m. Horace S. Graves pastor. First African Baptist Church—Corner School and Fourth streette. Rev. F. Lomback pastor, teaching 7 p.m.; M. E. Houston, Superintendent; Young People's meeting 7 p.m.; m, preaching 8:00 p.m. surral's Church M. E. Church Corner of 11th and Crocker St—Chubb services, preaching meeting 10 p.m.; sunny meeting 10 p.m.; sunny School 12 p.m; Epwrath League 7 p.m; Sunday School 12 p.m; Epwrath League 7 p.m; prayer and Chase meeting every Wednesday 8 p.m. o A. Johnson, pastor, 845 11th St Tabernacle Baptist Church Mission—Situated on Fourth streette. Rev. J. R. Winnow, pastor; Sunday School 9:00 a.m.; preaching at 8 p.m. Rev. J. R. Winnow, pastor SECRET ORDERS. HENRY GRAY Successor to PORTER & GRAY Knbalming and Funeral Directors. 1115 Locust St. Mutual Phone 1000. Iowa phone 649. WINTER RESORT TICKETS are now on sale, Florida, California and a great many other places, full information may be had from any Burlington Route Agent or F. L. Gaunaway 400 Locust, Des Moines, Iowa. Coast Tric Railway takes pleasure in announc- er overland train, the "NORTH COAST bloued during the winter. red, steam heated, electric lighted train ion car equipped with the most modern arlox, reading and writing rooms, library mented with the latest magazines and li- b, bath room, barber shop, and card rooms; and tourist sleeping cars (the former with ion), as well as handsome day coaches, ing public service between St. Paul, Min- argo, Butte, Spokane, Seattle, Taunus and availed. is daily between St. Paul and Portland, Burlington's Special running daily between via Billings is the most complete trans- service now offered the traveling public. EE, Gen'l Pass. Agent, N. P. Ry., St. Paul, Mins. The Northern Pacific Railway takes pleasure in announcing that their popular overland train, the "NORTH COAST LIMITED," will be continued during the winter. This broad vestibulated, steam heated, electric lighted train with its model observation car equipped with the most modern convictions, such as parlor, reading and writing rooms, library of choice books, supplemented with the latest magazines and illustrated papers, buffet, bath room, barber shop, and card rooms; with standard Pullman and tourist sleeping cars (the former with berth lights in each section), as well as handsome day coaches, guarantees the traveling public service between St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and Fargo, Baute, Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland absolutely unrivaled. Two through trains daily between St. Paul and Portland, supplemented by the "Burlington's Special running daily between Kansas City and Seattle, via Billings, is the most complete transcontinental passenger service now offered the traveling public. CHAS. S. FEE, Gen'l Pass, Agent, N. P. Ry., --- Many a woman has experienced the annoying loss of a small part of the sewing-machine ob- boring "cheap" machines but who is totally unable to aid is liable to be gone in a short time. HE HAS BEEN MADE FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS BEING MADE AT THE RATE OF MACHINES YEARLY. represents the best skill in the art. double and loss is to GET A SINGER, thus you deal-machine manufacturers of the world, having an rivaled reputation—the strongest guarantee of excel- in its sale. OLD MACHINES EXCHANGED. MANUFACTURING Co. BROOMS IN EVERY CITY. Wainut Street Des Moines, Iowa. EXCURSIONS TO CALFORNIA tourist Sleeping Cars to points in Californi- gon every day in the year. CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS THE SINGER BEWING-MACHINE HAS BEEN MADE FOR MORE THAN 80 YEARS AND IS STILL BEING MADE AT THE RATE OF CALIFORNIA Through first-class and Tourist Sleeping Cars to points in California and Oregon every day in the year. EVERY WEEK. WEST RATES, TIME ON THE ROAD, Y, VARIABLE ROUTES day day in the week and travel in tourist car the coast. For descriptive pamphlets are nearest agent. North-Western Railway You can leave home any day in the week and travel in tourist care on fast trains through to the coast. For descriptive pamphlets and full information inquire of nearest agent. High grade Mohair Shirt Waista, well trimmed in black or white, worth $4.00—at. 2.25 Ladies' Monte Carles, Weed Kenezay in black, blue, castor and tan, well lived, velvet sollar and cuff—$8.50 values at. 5.00 400 yards striped and checked wool Flannel—30c grade— a yard at. 19c 37-inch Ladies' Kersey Jackets, 83 value at. 4.75 Child's $1.00 Fur Sets Monday at. 50c Ladies' Astrachna Capes— $15 values at. 8.50 Large size Comforts— $12.5, values, at. 89c Large size all wool Blankets, gray and tan, cheap at $4.00 a pair, for. 2.95 Dark Mottled Blankets, extra large sizes, $1.00 values, at. 69c All colars Mohair, 48 inches wide, 78c value, Monday a yard. 48c 36-inch Mercerized Sateen, 35c values, per yard. 19c Basement Now in Christa Toy Department in Our Barga "North EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR. The Northern Pacific Railway ing that their popular overi LIMITED," will be continued d. This broad vestibulated, steal with its model observation car and conviences, such as parlor, rest of choice books, supplemented w lustrated papers, buffet, bath re with standard Pullman and tour berth lights in each section), and guarantees the traveling pub neapolis, Duluth and Fargo, Bu Portland absolutely unrivaled. Two through trains daily supplemented by the "Burlington Kansas City and Seattle, via Buf continental passenger service" CHAS. S. FEE, Ge THE MAYER MANOOGO MARKETING Sir dealer They Sir MANOOGO make THE THE The chase Ma loss tained through some dealer selling "che furnish duplicate parts therefor and is liable THE SINGER SEWING-MACHINE HAS B AND IS STILL BEING ONE MILLION MIL. It is constantly improved and represents The sure means of avoiding trouble and directly with the leading sewing-machine unequaled experience and an unrivaled reliance of product and fair dealing in its sale SOLD ON INSTALMENTS. THE SINGER MA BALEBROOMS Clothing Center. Knue Pants Suits, worth $1.50—a suit.....98c Rays' All Wool Heavy Overcoats— ages 18 to 20 years— $6.00 value, at.....4.00 Boys' Reefer Overcoats, sizes 3 to 10 years $3.50 value— sale price.....1.70 Corduroy Knee Pants, 50c values, sale price.....33c 200 pair Men's sample Pants at 50c on the dollar. Men's extra well made fine Cheviot Suits in the very latest styles, cheap as $7.50— will go at.....4.95 Men's very fine Caasasmere finished and no finished Worsted Suits, Sergie tining, $8 values— sale price.....10.00 FREE! FREE! in our basement with 250 purchase or over a Childs Novelty Glass Mug. Now is the very best time to do Christmas shopping? Bargain Basement. Limited." ```markdown ``` THE ADVANTAGE OF PERMANENCY. Statistics show that less than Five merchandise dealers in each City are needed are successful. They come and go and are forced to 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.