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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. 9. CITY NEWS. N.B. If you have relatives or friends visit the city or going to make a visit, please inform us so we can all your local news. n.d. The H. B. S. R. C. will meet with Mrs. G. I. Holt next Thursday. Miss Mable Mitchell has secured a position with D. Weeks & Go. Be prepared to pay our collector and don't run and hide when he calls. Rev. H. McCraven is making some repairs on his dwelling house. Mr. McDonald on West 3rd. street is building an addition to his beautiful cottage. Mrs. Harrison Could left Thursday for several weeks visit in Omaha, Neb. and other near by towns. G. W. Wells has purchased an interest in the Iowa Hotel barber shop and is now employed there. Don't conselge yourself from our collector, but give him a cordial greeting and pay the amount due the BESTANDER. WANTED—Ladies to do pleasant home work; 85 to 85 per week. Call at room 405 Marquardt block, from 3 to 5 o'clock p. m. Rev. C. R. Brookins of Mahaska County was drawn on the United States Federal grand jury, this term of court, and is here in that capacity. The reverend was the only colored man drawn on either of the federal juries. Our out of the city collector will visit Creton, Bedford, Clarinda, Red Oak, Council Bluffs, Sioux City, and Boone, before returning here. Subscribers, please have your money ready to pay. Miss Bette Pugh the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Pugh of Leon is a member of the Leon graduating class. She is the second colored person to graduate; Mr. E. W. Thompson was the first. Mrs. Matilda Golden, mother of Mrs. Theodore Williams who has been living in Minnesota arrived in the city last Saturday and will remain a few days with her daughter. PALMISTRY. Send print of hand on smoked paper, date of birth and 25 cents, silver, and get past, present and future told by an expert. Pnor. L. H. S. Browns. 127 Granville St. Des Moines, Iowa. Mrs. J. L. Thompson left Thursday for a visit with her parents in Albany, Mo. She will visit in Leon and Mrs. Morton on Mr. Andrew Thompson's beautiful country home near Decatur. Last Monday while Carl Anderson was working on a step ladder in his barber shop at 320 Third street, lost his balance, falling and breaking his left leg above the instep. Dr. Edwards was summoned, he set the bone and Mr. Anderson is convalescent, S. Joe Brown and Rev. H. S. Graves left Tuesday night for Moline, Ill. to attend the electoral college of the A. M. E. church, which is composed of lay members of the church. They will elect two delegates to the general conference which meets in Chicago next May. Mr. Brown is a candidate for lay delegate to the general conference. Mr. L. J. Richardson (white) manager of The Chicago Record Home study circle library association, is in our city. He lectured at the A. M. E, church last Sunday. Next Sunday he will lecture up stairs over Plumb's Jewelery store. DR. A. G. EDWARDS. Physician and Surgeon. IOWA PHONE 1081 (Motel) PHONE 460 (Office) Miles' Drug Store LOW RATES TO CALIFORNIA VIA CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, & St. PAUL RAILWAY. May 3d and May 12th to 18th inclusive the O. M. & St. P. will sell excursion tickets to San Francisco and Los Angeles, California and return at very low rates. For further information call at 410 Walnut street. Mr. L. L. Henderson has been appointed as our agent and collector for Des Moines. He has entered upon his duties and will call on all of our delinquent subscribers, he will also solicit new subscribers. Mr Henderson is the only colored student in Drake University. Those who should pay up at once, and those who are not subscribers, should subscribe and not borrow your neighbors, many of our people read the BRETANDA every week and then when ask to subscribe you say it is no good, if no good why do you borrow a copy and steal our news matter? Dr. A. G. Edwards our highly respected and popular physician will soon leave for Chicago to take a course of lectures in his profession, as it has been the Doctor's custom to attend once ever two years, either in Chicago or New York, after the lecture course is over, he will perhaps visit in Louisville, Ky. and in California. Mesdames Tolberts Woods and Arthur Jones were most royally entertained Monday the 11th, at the residence of Mrs. and Mr. Frank Carroll, (State Auditor). A delicious finch was served, after which Mesdames Jones and Woods departed and both report a delightful visit. The Carrolls were formerly of Mrs. Wood's old homestead. We received a nice invitation to attend the commencement of the Industrial Educational Institute of Topeka, Kansas, May 17 to 20. Commencement address by Hon. I. L. Dayboy, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, also an address by Hon. W. J. Bailley, Governor. The Baeenlaurence sermon by Rev. F. G. Snelson, Ph.D., F. R. G. S. "The Negro in Revelation, in History and in Citizenship," in the name of a new book which is being canvassed by Mr. Lord Johnson of Chicago in our city. This book is written by Rev. J. J. Pipkin, with introductory by Gen. John B. Gordon (white) of Georgia. It tells what the race has done and is doing to better its condition. It is worth the price and should be read. LOW RATES WEST. Every day until June 15, the Chicago Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway will sell one-way colonist tickets to many western points at very low rates. Three through trains daily with chair cars and tourist sleeper attached. Gall at 410 Walnut street for full information. A BAND ORGANIZED. A number of men met last Tuesday evening and reorganized the Brotherhood band. The following officers were elected: President, W. H. Humbard; vice-president, B. L. Walker; secretary A. E. Aue; treasurer, D. Patterson; business manager, E. W. Thompson; musical director F. G. Goggin. "The capital city certainly needs a colored band," is what most every one says. It is a fact that we do but it will take the co-operation of all our citizens, and if you are not able to give them financial assistance don't be a "knocker" but encourage them to stay together with your words and presence when they give their entertainments, and see if we cannot support a first class concert band. WANTED—Ladies to do pleasant home work; $5 to $8 per week. Call at room 405 Marquardt block, from 3 to 5 o'clock p. m. IT'S UP TO YOU to grasp the good things that come your way. Read up on the money-making possibilities in Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory, and Texas. Let us send you "Business Chances," "Timely Topics," "Texas," "The Golden Square" and other interesting "Katy" publications pertaining to the Great Southwest. Address, "Katy," 501 Wainwright, St. Louis, Mo LOW PRICES ON Beddidg Plants Tea Roses.....750 doz Geraniums.....50c to $1.50 doz Pansy plants—in bloom.....50c doz Not in bloom.....25c doz Verbena Plants.....50c doz Sweet Alyssum Plants.....50c doz Coleus (beautiful border plant.....50c doz Carnation Plants.....50c doz Vinica Plants, varigated.....50c doz Vegetable Plants Tomato Plants 10c doz. 3 doz. 25c Cabbage Plants 10c doz. 3 doz 25c Sweet Potato Plants 25c per 100 Any of the above plants may be bought at our Greenhouses, 30th and Kingman Ave., Bird and Fish Store, 7th and Walnut, or Seed Store, 613 and 615 Locust. HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSION VIA CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY. On the first and third Tuesdays of each month until June 16, the C. M. & St. P. By, will sell tickets at one fare plus two dollars for the round trip to many points north, south, and west. Call at 410 Walnut street for full information. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1903. EDITORIALS. SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION SHOULD BE REDUCED IF THE SOUTH DISFRANCHISE THE COLORED VOTE. It is an inevitable fact that if the Supreme Court of the United States should sustain the Alabama state's new state constitution and the new constitution of North Carolina in disfranchising the colored people, especially if they hold that the grand-father is good, then the colored people and their white friends should demand that the 14th amendment to the constitution should be enforced, and the representation in Congress and electoral college should be reduced to the exact number of qualified voters in such states. The 14th amendment reads as follows: Whenever the right to vote at any election for electors of president or vice-president, or for United States representatives in congress, executive and judicial officers, or members of the legislatures thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state being 21 years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any abridged except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the numbers of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such state. It is true that this amendment has never been enforced heretofore, but the north and especially the republican party thought that the south would eventually grant the right of franchise to the colored man, but now there seems but little hope for them to do so. Mr. W. E. Curtis, one of the most influential writers of The Chicago Record-Herald, gives some election tables that show the violation of the 14th amendment and the injustice dose the voter of the north. We herewith present that table. The rate at the last election is as follows: Illinois. S. Carolina. First district.....32,345 Second district.....31,118 Third district.....26,110 Fourth district.....15,875 Fifth district.....13,913 Sixth district.....33,298 Seventh district.....35,677 Total.....188,226 On this showing South Carolina is entitled to but one congressman. The same comparison between the first nine districts of New York with Alabama gives similar results: New York. Alabama. First district. 36,138. 5,974 Second district. 30,282. 8,500 Third district. 30,724. 9,053 Fourth district. 22,242. 9,098 Fifth district. 33,078. 11,698 Sixth district. 36,128. 10,279 Seventh district. 34,233. 17,881 Eighth district. 37,644. 9,824 Ninth district. 13,890. 8,770 Total. 299,778. 91,539 But Mississippi makes an even worse showing at the polls than either of its sister states. The comparison with Indiana is as follows: First district ..... 41,297 ..... 0,245 Second district ..... 42,788 ..... 0,253 Third district ..... 38,007 ..... 1,140 Fourth district ..... 44,793 ..... 0,284 Fifth district ..... 47,333 ..... 0,381 Fifth district ..... 44,705 ..... 1,774 Seventh district ..... 48,496 ..... 0,202 Eighth district ..... 49,693 ..... 1,433 Total ..... 254,172 ..... 18,088 We believe that the American congress should cut down the south's representation, and we think that the eastern, northern and western states will not endure this gross injustice, this monster inequality very much long. Our city was filled with club women likewise the spirit prevailed last week. It was their ninth annual meeting of the Iowa club women (white.) There were some of the ablest and most learned of the fair sex in Iowa present. They discussed many questions and topics of general and special interest to their organization. They appointed several committees and devised many plans to better enlighten and elevate womanhood and to uplift their less fortunate sisters. In fact their national constitution says it is to help and elevate womanhood throughout the world. Such utterance or declaration is not true for the national and even the Iowa club women have left the poor colored woman out in the cold to paddle their own canoe, and she is the one, perhaps the most of all, that need the counsel and help of the stronger. We cannot believe those clubs are sincere until they offer the hand of help, hand of womanhood, hand of council to those who most need it they will be obeying God's will and fullfilling their sworn duty. Hia Faulty Imagination The discussion of the fate of the Peter Marie miniatures recalls a story. A miniature painter of more social than artistic persuasion called upon Mr. Marie and turned the conversation upon his talent, knowing that his host heartily disliked personalities. "I can imagine why I don't succeed," Marie said he. "I have plenty of imagination. Don't you think so?" "Yes. Plenty! For instance, you imagine you can paint miniatures."—New York Times. ALL DIED OUT OF BED. Curse on Zborowski Family Finds Another Victim. That Elliot Zborowski, who was killed on Tuesday in an auto accident at Nice, died as he did, will be no surprise to those in this city who remember him as the greatest daredevil New York and Newport society ever had. Even Foxhall Keene, who lived in Brooklyn, was broken, was not the equal to this American count for his wild, reckless disregard for life. He was born in this city of a long line of Zborowski. Strangely enough, his death is in keeping with the traditions of his family, for none of the male members ever dies in bed. Back of this remarkable circumstance is a tale of a curse four generations ago launched at the head of the great-greatfather Zborowski by an Irish boy, who in his anger called upon heaven to prevent any male Zborowski from ever dying in his bed. None has since. Elliot's father was stricken with paralysis and died in his chair before the son could ride for a physician. One of his uncles, Elliot, was killed by a New York, New Haven & Hartford train. Another, Francis, was drowned in a Williamsbridge pond. Still another member of the family was killed by being thrown from a horse, and so the story has gone. Now comes the crushing of this generation's representative in a twentieth century accident.—New York World. KNEW HIS OWN TERRAPIN. Virginian Identified it by its Peculiar Expression. "Tidewater Virginia," said Mr. E. L. White of Lancaster, Va., at the Shoreham recently, "is the most delightful and wonderful country in the world. Everything that heart can wish or the appetite can fancy is produced from the turtle reefs thatriere them on their way to the bay. Nothing ever surpassed her oysters, her fish, her ducks, her diamond-back terrapins. "The terrapin farming," he continued, "is a remarkable business and very lucrative. But it requires a large outlay of capital and a great deal of labor. Each owner of a farm"—as the little water front fenced in for the purpose is called—zealously guards his domain and resents the slightest encroachment by the businessmen who organize things about it that these men engaged in the business have learned to know their own terrapins by the expression of their faces. Not long ago a negro boy was arrested in one of the lower counties in the Rappahannock river for stealing a "diamond back," and he was convicted upon the testimony of the owner, who swore point blank that the said terrapin was his, and that he recognized the aforesaid terrapin by its individual expression of countenance, which he had studied for years. "He stated also that all his terrapins had the same smile and gentle look out of the quiet eyes; that he would know them at once anywhere among us, and that he would love you, air, Tidewater Virginia is a," Washinton Post. An Emperor's Yihims Emperor Frederick William of Prussia sometimes would signify his rejection of what he considered an absurd petition by drawing on the margin an ass' head and ears. One day, a baron of ancient patient having complained of another baron taking precedence of him, the king wrote on the petition: "Mere folly; whether a man sits above me or below me, my wife would be able to help he would speak in the streets who they were, a peculiarity which made nervous people evade the royal presence. One day when a man saw the king approaching he took to his heels and ran, but Frederick William pursued him in hot haste and when he overtook him asked: "Why did you run away from me?" from the witch who mastered him a witch with his canes and said that he "wished himself to be loved and not to be feared." 50 Tailor Made Skirts on Sale At $2.50 and $3.50 As Long As They Last Simply a question. Did you ever we mean by a tailor made skirt is not be longer than the other. See shrink by a glimpse of water. Re length, is made properly, seams and before it is cut. We sell them at $2.50 & We want you to call and see great skirt bargain. We have the fifty skirts will not last very long S. W Ladies' 214 West Seventh Street, Hear Simply a question. Did you ever wear a tailor made Skirt? What we mean by a tailor made skirt is when you slip it on one side will not be longer than the other. Seams will not sag, and it will not shrink by a glimpse of water. Remember our skirt has an equal length, is made properly, seams are stayed, the goods is sponged before it is cut. We sell them at $2.50 & $3.50 We want you to call and see them and tell your friends of this great skirt bargain. We have them in all sizes. Come early for fifty skirts will not last very long at the se bargain prices. 214 West Seventh Street, Near Walnut, Rear of Iowa Bird Store Jesse Mitchell of Fulton spent a few hours here Sunday. The stewardess gave a social one night last week, only a few were in attentance, but those present spant an enjoyable evening. Rev. Russell left last week for Chicago where he was engaged to deliver addresses in some of the churches. He is expected home this week. Recept reports from Fulton are that Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Mitchell welcomed a new daughter at there home a short time ago. Mother and daughter are doing well. Last Sunday was Odd Foll's day throughout the United States and it was appropriately observed in this city. The day was all that could be asked in fact it seemed in full accord with the ceremonies that were to take place. Shortly after two o'clock the members of Buff City Lodge number 3054 began together at their hall, at three o'clock the society made its appearance upon the street in their beautiful regalias recently purchased and worn in public for the first time on this occasion. After a short march they went to Betel A. M. E. church where Rev. W. A. Searay awed them to deliver them their annual sermon. Miss Cooper presided at the organ. Mrs. Holland Williams rendered a beautiful selection The Holy City. The duties of ceremonies was ably carried out by M. O. Calbrunner. Rev. Searay was assisted by Rev. P. P. Taylor and F. A. Walker. Many are the words of praise which have been heard pertaining to the sermon and for the masterly way in which Rev. Searay delivered it, time and space pre, ussents us from reproducing it, but suffices to say it was all right. The following resolution of sympathy was prepared and read by A. A. Bush at the morning service last Sunday at Be thel church. Whereas, an attempt was made to injure or destroy the property of the Institutional church by dumbrella after Dr. Ramsom had delivered a sermon against policy playing on Sunday May 3. Resolved. That we couldn't the act and express our approval of the firm stand taken by the pastor, and the undaunted courage displayed by him in his determination to stand his ground, we therefore wish to express our sympathies to the pastor and congregation. The above was signed by the pastor in behalf of the church and ordered sent to Dr. Ransom. The BVSTANDER representative will be in the city soon on his annual tour, so you who are in errors see the agent at once and settle up your indebtedness. Rev. A. F. Walker of Quincy, Ill. has been in the city for the past few days. He filled the pulpit at the second Baptist church Sunday. Rev. Searcy will assist Rev. Peterson with quartley meeting at Davenport Sunday. Thos. McKenzie Burnage died at his home on E. Henry street May 5th after an illness of only nine days with pneumonia. The funeral services was conducted at the house Thursday by Rev. Bellity of the Baptist church and Rev. Jao Smith. The sinning was conducted by the choir from the Methodist church. The services at the Forest Home cemetery in was charge of the Odd Fellows of which the deceased was a member. There was immense floral offerings, he was in his 54th year and is survived by a wife, two sons and a daughter. Mr. Greenup of Fairfield was in town Saturday and Sunday. Messrs B. Fuller, Chas, and Will Burnugh of Creston and Mrs. Perry Gresup of Fairfield were here to attend the funeral of T. M. Burnugh. Mrs. Gertrude Morley and daughter Parthenia of St. Paul are here and will spend the summer with Mrs. Mosley's parents Mr. and Miss McCracken. Miss Rosa McGregor and Mr. Bert Wells were married Tuesday evening by Rev. Bolliny at the home of the brid's parents CLINTON ITEMS MT. PLEASANT NEWS. on W. Madison street. The G. U, O, O F. had 'their annual Thanksgiving sermon prescheduled by the Methodist church Sunday afternoon by Rev. Wilson, the collection taken was the largest ever raled. The agent will soon call upon all deliverent subscribers and hope all will be ready. ALBIA NOTES. Mrs. Nora Grayson from Hiteman was in town shopping Monday. Household of Rath No. 1380 took in six new members in their lodge Thursday night, wiz: Meadames Will Binings, and James Wintart, Misses Nellie Grayson, Mattie Snoddy, Bessie Davia, Mrs Watkins from Buxton was in town Friday. Mr. W. G. Davis from Deaver, Colo., came home Wednesday evening and left Thursday morning for Garden Grove. Odd Fellows and Ruth had their annual Thanksgiving sermon preached Sunday afternoon. They formed a line and marched from the hall to the church after an address made by Mr. H. Snoddy on Odd Fellowship Rev. James Wharton preached them a nice sermon in relation to the founding of the order. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Butler and little son Laurence went to Foster Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Jones went to Baxton Sunday to the Odd Fellows' annual sermon. Quite a few strangers were in town Monday of this week. New York Women are known to be the best dressed women in the world. We will teach colored ladies, aspiring to be attired just as attractively and stylishly, how to do it at a moderate cost. We will make them the best dressed women in their town. The instructions are given by mail. Our charges are One Dollar a month. Ladies preferring to learn further details should send 8 cents postage for our free booklet, etc. OTTUMWA NOTES. Sunday Was quarterly meeting Rev. J. J. Clemens of Oakloakea assisted Rev. Gordon with the services. Bertha Williams entertained a number of hee friends Friday evening at her home on Grove street in honor of Miss Anna Myers of St. Louis. All present enjoyed a delightful evening. Anna Myers of St. Louis is visiting relatives in this city. Mrs. James Hamilton of Des Moines is in the city on business. Miss Myra Carter of Mt. Pleasant is in the city visiting friends. Convention Center Iowa. Via the North-Western Line. Excursion tickets will be sold at one fare for round trip. May 36 and 27, limited to return until May 29, incinative. Apply to agents Chicago & North-western By No. 48. ORIGIN OF BLANG PHRASE. When He First Understood Meaning of Descriptive Term. A student in the School of Mines at Columbia university who has just returned from Butte, Mo., was telling Charles James, proprietor of the Sturtevant, about the atmospheric peculiarities of that mining town of the Far West. "Pon my word," he said, "the air is so charged with mineral gases that after a man has been out for an hour or so in the morning his heart action is so slow that he is obliged to drink plenty of whisky to get it in fairly normal condition. I was told that there were at one time a few inhabitants of Butte who were teetotalers, but they are all dead. A man can drink a quart of whisky before his midday dinner in that town without feeling in the slightest degree intoxicated. That is why Butte men, when they try to drink their heart works normally, get frightened they try to drink as they do at home." "I see," reiterated Mr. Jalmes. "I understand now what it means to tell a man that he has 'beaut on.'—New York Times. "What have you in the way of beefsteak to-day?" asked the cheerful customer, who hadn't paid his bill. "Well," replied the frank butcher, "I reckon about the only thing in the way is its price." Increase in Bank Deposits. Bank Deposits have increased .85 per cent in ten years. There are always two parties to a contract, and yet in a majority of cases but one is expected to carry it out. Encouraged by the Innocent Stories of good Bishop Williams of Connecticut continue to crop out wherever clergymen meet. One just told at the General Theological Seminary relates to his first sermon in the parish to which he was called just after he was ordained. He was rather nervous when he began to preach, but as he progressed he noticed an old man who had intensely interested in the sermon. Whenever the preacher made a point the old gentleman nodded vigorously in approval. This was very encouraging to the not overconfident parson and after the services he inquired who the man was. "The old man in the front post" said the ecstyman. "Oh, he is one of the harmless inmates of the insane asylum around the corner."—New York Times. Morally Certain of It The prosecuting witness, who had a lump over one eye, a black and blue spot under the other, a nose that pointed decidedly awry, and various strips of plaster on his face evidently arranged without any regard to his facial injury, testified that the defendant had knocked him senseless and then kicked him in the head and face for several minutes. "If he knocked you senseless," asked the police justice, "how do you know he kicked you after you were down?" The witness scratched his jaw and reflected, "how it," "judge," he replied, "cause that what I'd a done to him if I'd got him down—you can bet on him." Opportunity for Toreasure Hunters. Nearly one hundred years ago the Jesuits were banished from Mexico. It was known that they had immense hoards of gold, but feared to tempt cupidity by taking it all with them. What they did was to build a fortress of theirs has just been revealed by Pierre Gulreur, who says that treasure to the value of over £4,000,000 was buried beneath the old cathedral in the little town of Typozott, and is believed to be there yet. Child's Home to be Apartment House The famous palace occupied by the late George W. Childs of the Philadelphia Ledger, which cost him over $1,000,000, is to be transformed into an apartment house. NOTHING TOO SMALL TO STEAL City Merchant Complains of the Prevalence of Dishonesty. "The old saying that nothing is too small to steal is exemplified in our business," said a manufacturer of custom-made clothing. "Our thread gives us lots of trouble. We have to keep a watchful eye upon it. The case in which it is kept is under the supervision of our most trusted employee. If he chose to be dishonest he could job us at 8,000 a year and could make us the wiser. We would, perhaps, notice that we were using more thread than usual, but the excess might be attributed to other causes. "We have to check out every spool we give to our tailors. Even at this we are in danger of having a cheaper grade substituted. The difference in the price of the spools may be only one or two cents, but it offers a temptation if the scheme can be worked on a large scale. Some years ago we were forced to the conclusion that a 'fence' was being operated to dispose of stolen thread. The spools were sold by peddlers from a house. This suspicion large establishment could have each spool spooled with dyes which cut into the wood, stating that the thread was stolen from such and such a shop, the name of which was stamped on the spool." PLEASE READ THE BACK OF THE PAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION. No TIME. No MONEY. No HOME. All subscription available in advance. A. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by APARTMENT enclosure envelopes or寄递 to the Iowa State Bryman- ment Publishing Company. Communications must be written on one side of paper only and be of interest to the publisher. "Develop in the soil of vit." remember it with a smile and a smile with a smile. All materials are required by postage charges. Advertising rates for display Adds 80 cents per inch, for each insertion. Three to six months contract, 16 cents per inch. Local advertising 16 cents per inch. Local advertising where admission is charged, one-half of the above marginal rates. 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A warranty means a choice and description may be given for the invention in which it is patented. Communities and foreign agencies may secure patents from foreign agencies by securing patents in the United States. In the Scientific American, a hundred illustrated weekly, Lawyer citations of our scientific journal. Terms for a patent are not set forth in the Patent Office. P. B. L. Washington, D.C. Advertisements having appeared in various publications wherein Sears, Roebuck & Co., offer Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines, we wish to warn the public that they are not our authorized agents and that we do not sell our machines to them nor any other catalogue house or department store. Their advertisements are not for the purpose of promoting the sale of our machines. They are using our reputation as makers of the highest grade machines only, in order to get the names of possible buyers and persuade them to purchase one of their cheap STENCLED MACHINES, the manufacturers of which they are, evidently, ashamed to make public. If you want a genuine Wheeler & Wilson machine, do not waste your time writing to anyone who is unable to furnish it. The genuine Wheeler & Wilson machine, made by us and backed by our warranty, is for sale by our authorized dealers only. When you buy a Wheeler & Wilson, you get a machine that is a machine, backed by a reputation of 60 years' unparalleled success. Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co., Chicago, Ill. For Sale by M. E. WOOD, Des Moines, Iowa. DECATUR DRUGGIST IS KILLED W. G. McNeir Shot by Edward McCool as Result of Jealousy. Decatur, ill, special: The charge of murder has been made against Edward McCool, formerly of the International School of Correspondence, for shooting W. G. McNeir, one of the leading drugsters of the city. McCool was jealous of McNeir's attention to his wife. Both families lived in the same house, and the men and their wives were prominent socially. HAPPENINGS IN HAWKEYEDOM BODY WAS BLOWN TO ATOMS Postmaster Hedges of Kosushi In Killed and the Postoffice Is Blowed to Pieces—Hedges Was Feeling Ill and Had Just Best for a Doctor. Mediapolis, May 15—Shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the people of this town were startled by a loud explosion over in the direction of the little town of Kosushi, two miles away. It was quickly ascertained that the postoffice of the village had been blown up and that Postmaster Hedges killed, his body being torn to pieces. The greatest excitement prevailed but it was learned at once that no one was in the postoffice building except the unfortunate postmaster at the time. Rev. C. Leprick of the Presbyterian church had just left the store when the explosion occurred. The building was rent and torn and quickly caught fire, soon burning to the ground. The fragments of the postmaster's body were afterwards found in the cellar under the building. That day, when that he was talking to Mr. Hedges when the latter suddenly told him he was getting sick and to go for a doctor. The minister started at once but went only across the street when the door opened. It is said Mr. Hedges, who ran a store in connection with the postoffice, had several cans of powder in stock. It is thought that after the minister left him he fell among the powder stopping his pipe into the powder. Some persons who were near at hand declare the explosion was that of dynamite, but it was known there no dynamite store. Aside from the suspects the affair is shrouded in the deepest mystery. It will be remembered that on Monday last Postmaster Hedges was found insensible in the road and told with a long highwayman robbing him of a lot of money and stamps. Mr. Hedges since that has been in precarious health from a slight paralysis with a broken neck, much better up to the time he told Rev. Leprick he was suddenly worse. The property loss was small. The government officials will investigate the explosion. Mr. Hedges was a man of the highest repute. HAS GALARY LIMIT. President Seerley Won't Furnish Teachers at Less Than $40.00. Cedar Falls, May 15—Pres. Seerley of the Iowa State normal purposes issuing a pamphlet in the near future, which will contain some facts with reference to teachers' salaries that reflect the people of the state open their eyes. The state normal school is constantly called upon to supply the city schools of the state with teachers. This year, for instance, the size of the graduating class is decided according to the great demand for normal teachers and the large number of students who have consented to enter school work with the exception of completing their course during the summer months of next year. It is not generally known that the state normal authorities make no effort to supply teachers where the salary offered is less than $40 a month. Even when this salary is offered to a beginning teacher the normal instructors do not advise any of the students of the prospect of an increase the second year. President Seerley has been conducting a series of investigations as to the salaries paid teachers, and he finds that the conditions are even worse than the average, and that fashion to believe that the low salaries are confined to the country districts. This is not the case by any means. He recently took a census of teachers in the state, and got down the state, and all having a normal education. Their work in the schools ranged from one to ten years, but most of them had been teaching for several years. He found that the average of salaries was higher than the majority of them were not receiving this amount. He has also collected statistics from several towns as to the amount that teachers were paid from their earnings. He found that the average in one town where a large number of teachers were employed and where better than the average salaries were paid was the fact that a teacher spends the entire year at hard work and is able to save practically nothing from her salary is not calculated to encourage her to greater effort, especially in the same position, with respect to savings. Postmaster at Kossuth Compelled to Open Safe and Deliver $150. Mediapolis, May 12. A roughly dressed, smooth shaven man, riding a brown horse, dashed up to the postman, and carrying a bag in a wading a revolver, compelled Postmaster Richard Hedges to deliver over the contents of the safe, amounting to $150 in stamps and money. The bandit then escaped. Kosush is a short man, who is an exceedingly small country village. Postmaster Hedges is an old and rather feeble man and could do nothing to prevent the robbery, which was an exceedingly small robbery in Kosush and on account of the deed, but there seems to be little chance of capturing the robber. Eyes Failing. Hung Himself. Burlington, May 11. Adolph Hacker, a wealthy old man, hung himself in a shed. He was found by Mr. S. Blank. He was about 75 years old and had a revolver over it. failing of his eyesight. A chess tournament is always played on the square. A Parisian thief, while robbing a till in a grocery on the Rue St. Honore, stole a woman's wallet and grabbed a handful of coins, he ran off, but was pursued, and captured. He had awailed five (twenty-five) dollars, and captured the size of a five-dollar gold piece. Judge Miller of Ananassa Revolutionizes it. Des Moines, May 14—The Iowa law role law or system received a severe jolt yesterday at Ananassa, and there will be some revision of the rules unless the supreme court backs up the governor. B. W. Garrett, parole secretary for Gov. Cummins, received a dispatch from Ananassa announcing that the parole officer had been removed from custody Frank Davis, a convict serving time in the state penitentiary there. Habeas corpus proceedings were brought before Judge Miller at the courthouse where he has been serving a seventeen year sentence from Clinton county for murder, and was paroled about two months before he would have been released from prison. He earned all the "good time" possible, amounting to nearly seven years. He was returned upon violation of this parole. As is customary in such cases, the parole officer made it cancelled. In fact this was one of the conditions to which he subscribed when he accepted the parole and it is a clause in every parole agreement that the parole officer must serve nearly seven years instead of the two months which would have released him if he had not accepted the parole agreement. Now the court has decided that the parole officer previously to the parole must stand to his credit and so standing he is entitled to release now that he has waived the two of the three months previously abbreviated term in the penitentiary. The suit was brought by Attorney Tom Milnor, and as Attorney General Mullan could not go to Anamosa to defend the state the defense was endured, he will be immediately taken to the supreme court, as the question is one the supreme court has never passed on. If the decision is allowed to stand, it will necessitate a revision of the law. If the law is somewhat irregular and without special warranty of law, it is expected that others who are in the same fix as was Davis will be asking for release on the same grounds. In every case where convicts have been returned for the punishment of their paroles they have been required to lose their previously earned credit for good conduct. If they are to be allowed this credit the governors will be much slower to grant paroles near the end of a sentence. GERMAN FARMERS PLEASED. Agriculturists Touring United States In but of Amea College. Put Tom Ames College. As May 2, 2013, the party of former agriculturists visited in this country and who were the guests of the Iowa State college yesterday, were unqualifiedly pleased at the reception and deeply impressed with the merits of the institution. On every hand they were surprised and impressed by the high advancement in agriculture here. Their pleasure and appreciation took substantial form in the sending of a telegram to Secretary James Wilson of the Iowa State college agriculture, which Prof. J. I. Schultze of Washington, D. C., dictated at their request. The message was couched in the most complimentary terms and extended congratulations to the secretary of the institution with which he had been connected and which he was instrumental in upbuilding. The Iowa State college was described as the most added of any yet visited by the party. The conception of the remarkable body of men who are now in this country studying agricultural methods as an aggregation of ordinary German men, is one that can discern at a glance on mingling with the party. Altogether, there is a body of forty-four. Its members are from the German Agricultural school, and they are the institutions of Germany, which numbers over 17,000 members. While the party now here comes with the prestige of the government and its sanction, it is no sense sent on government visits to the country, but at his own expense and for the purpose of learning what will be of most benefit to himself. Each year, trips of this nature are planned and in the past expedition to Hungary, Sweden and other countries of Europe. This is the first trip, however, that has been made beyond the borders of Europe, and it has been made possible by the realization in Germany of the immense strides being taken by the Americans in agriculture, something directly affecting the interests of Germany and the other countries of Europe. The members of the party are largely landed proprietors and for the most part are foreigners, many of them being two Austrians in the number. One of the party owners over 8,000 acres of land in Germany. There are also many Austrian citizens but they are on leave of absence and not here as government agents. DIAVOLE IS THE ONLY ONE Who Has Ever Successfully Looped the Loop on a Bicycle Des Moines, May 13—Looping the loop on a bicycle is a feat that has been written about, described and illustrated by all the leading newspapers and magazines of the country. The sensational act was first accomplished by all the leading newspapers and Vandervoet, during the winter of 1901. He was at once secured by the great Adam Forepaugh and Sella Brothers enormous shows united at a rides in the large rides at each performance of the big shows. From that date until present time he has been, with these shows continually, with the exception of three months, when the spent 'indefinitely' Vandervoet, Vandervoet, known professionally as Diavolo, is positively the only man who has ever successfully looped the loop on a bicycle and the Forepaugh-Sella circuit in the institution in the world that has ever presented the marvelous act. In all the history of circuses no single feature has attracted more widespread attention than Diavolo, who will appear in big shows exhibit on Monday, May 18. Killed by Switch Engine Burlington, May 11—John Peala, a stranger, was run over by a switch engine in the Burlington yards and his body nearly cut in two. Nothing is known of the unfortunate fellow. He stepped suddenly upon the track ahead of the engine and was instantly killed. Whether his act was premeditated suicide or accidental cannot be ascertained. Mrs. Kuhn Commits Bullede, New York, came to Creton that Mrs. Phillip Kuhn whose home is northwest of Orient, had committed suicide by hanging. MARK ADAM GIVE J FROST BRILLIANT"BALL OF LONDON"EAGON" (the title of Adrian Towne) PACIFIC OCEAN MAFIA NATIONAL RESTRICTIONS WANTED! FIRST-CLASS UMBRELLA! - UNCLE SAM U.S.A. COMMERCE OF THE PACIFIC Declares América, With Her New Positions, Must Maintain Domination of the Waters of the Great Ocean on Our West San Francisco, May 14—Last night at the Mechanics pavilion President Roosevelt made the most important speech he has delivered since he left St. Louis. His subject, "Expansion and Trade Development and Protection of the Country's Newly Acquired possession in the Pacific," together with the accoancy of a greater nation, was one that made his discourse of particular interest to the Californians, and he aroused his auditors to a high pitch of enthusiasm. It was a mighty gathering that listened to the presi- The president said: "Before I saw the Pacific slope I was an expansionist, and after having seen it I fail to understand how any man can confident of his country should challenge with proud confidence our mighty future, can be anything but an expansionist. In the century that is opening the commerce between the countries, the factors of incalculable moment in the history of the world. Now, in our day, the greatest of all the oceans, of all the seas, and the last to be used on a planet, is the ocean. It must become in its turn the first in point of importance. Our mighty republic has stretched across the ocean and now in California, Oregon and Washington, the Philippines holds an event of coastline which makes it of necessity a power of the first-class on the Pacific. "The extension in the area of our domain has been immense; the extension in the area of our domain is greater. America's geographical position on the Pacific is such as to insure our peaceful domination of its waters in the future if only we grasp with sufficient resolution the advantages of this position." "We should deal in the spirit of fairness and justice with all weaker nations; we should show to the strongest that we are able to maintain our rights and our liberties by bluster, for bluster merely invites contempt. Let us speak courteously, deal fairly and keep ourselves armed." Many Bulgarians Killed in Battle, Salonica, European Turkey, May 12—In an engagement between Bulgarians and Turkish troops recently fought at Igarnai, near Mornar, many were killed and 74 were made prisoners. Another fight is reported to have occurred at the village of Gorestovo, near Dermir-Hissar. The village was burned. The panic in the Monastir district has not abated. Statistics show that the standing timber of Canada equals that of the continent of Europe and is nearly double that of the United States. and ready. If we do these things we can count on the peace that comes only to the just man armed, to the just man who neither fear nor inflict wrong. We must keep on building our navy with plenty of the best and most formidable ships, with an ample supply of officers and of men, and with these officers and men trained in the most thorough way to the best position we can assume that we can we assure our position in the world at large and in particular our position here on the Pacific. It behooves all men of lofty soul who are to see to it that we fit ourselves to take and keep a great position in the world, for our proper place is with the expanding nations and the nations that dare to be great, that accept with con- dition a place of leadership in the world. "All of our people should take this position, but especially you of California, for much of your expansion must go through the Golden Gate, and the states of the Pacific slope must inevitably be those who would be most likely to experience the growth of the American influence along the coasts and islands of that mighty ocean where east and west finally become one. My countrymen, I believe in you with all my heart and I am proud that it has been granted to me to be a citizen in a nation of such wisdom, the hardihood and the courage to rise to the level of its opportunities." TO REDUCE NAVIES. England Would Join With Other Powers in Decreasing Armament Decreasing Armament. London, on the occasion of the reduction of naval armaments came up again yesterday in the house of commons during a discussion of the estimates. The speakers suggested that the government take the first step to reduce naval powers. Sir Charles Dillke, advanced radical, said he thought this might be possible. In view of the improved relations between Great Britain and France, he said the matter over and subsequently approach Russia. Even if Germany did not agree to a reduction the three powers might effect something. It would be difficult to build against the United States. It would be as great a mistake to count upon the United States as an enemy as to count upon her as an active ally, for the United States had always been the defender of the rights of neutrals. Mr. Arnold-Foster, the admiralty secretary, after having pointed out that it was the duty of the admiralty to deal with facts as they were and that they might be said that all the great naval powers had maritime preparations, mainly Russia. According to the available figures France and Russia together were now building three more battleships than Great Britain. As the actual force in ships which could be arrayed under great Britain, the guiding principle, he denied that the admiralty's proposals were in excess of the requirements of the country. The secretary added that he would not issue a letter with regard to the position as affected by the United States—"that was a mistake," he said. The future would have to be considered." JAPAN PREPARING FOR WAR Doubting Russia's Withdrawal From Monetary Policy Manchuria, Japan is Arming. Victoria, B. C., May 14.—According to advises received by the steamer Empress of India, Japanese arsenals were being worked day and night, provisions were being stored, coal stored on Tshimla 'island' and sides it was evident that Japan, doubling the extent of Russia's withdrawal from Manchuria, was preparing for war. Kentucky's Latest Feed Kentucky's Latest Feud. Lexington, KY. May 12—Since the arrest of Curtis Jett in Madison county, charged with the murder of J. B. Warburg, the problem confronts the prosecution which requires a special session of the legislature to solve. Under the law Jett would be taken back to Jackson, the scene of the tragedy, unless he requires that he be taken elsewhere. He requests that he be taken to Jackson and therefore will have to go. If he goes to Jackson, he contended that the feeling is so intense that justice cannot be done. BUSINESS MEN ARE ENJOINED Omaha Judge Gives Sweeping Ruling in Favor of Striking Union Men. NO BOYCOTT TO BE ALLOWED Situation in Omaha Is Now Serious, With Three Thousand Men Locked Out or on Strike and a Large Number of Business Houses Closed. Omaha, Neb. May 13—Judge Dickinson, in the district court at seven o'clock, last night, on application of John O. Yeiser, an attorney representing the labor unions, whose members are on a strike, issued an infunction against the business men and proprietors, even more sweeping than that needed by the federal court against the unions last week. The order restrains the business men from refusing to sell goods to dealers who employ union labor, prevents them from boycoting union labor, requires the Business Men's Association to cease holding meetings or conspiring against unions, or in any way interfering with the management of their affairs. The injunction was granted on petition of the waiters' union, Omaha local 73, by its officers, and is directed against the Business Men's association and about fifty other union members of restaurant proprietors, coal and lumber dealers and a number of jobbers. The waiters' union alleges that the Business Men's association is a national organization, organizer of union unions, and that its purpose in Omaha is to enter into a conspiracy to force certain merchants to join the association by threats of injury to business by boycoting, threatening to refuse payment for forced union merchants and others into the association, the association conspires to force fights and penalties on its men who shall in any way recognize any requests of labor unions, complainants or any other labor union, and that they have threatened its members with injury by boycott and otherwise should recognize the unions and that all such threats have been executed and are being executed and will continue unless restrained by the court. The petition alleges further a conspiracy by the Omaha Builders' exchange and other agents of said association. Judge Dickinson signed the order without comment and it is being served on the persons against whom it is directed. It it concerns directly only the waiters' union, it is really intended to serve as a guide for the future action of all the other unions whose members are on strike. It now considered a most serious one. What with nearly 3,360 men on strike or locked out and a large number of business establishments, including eighteen laundries, a large number of businesses of the city almost to a standstill. FEAR A MASSACRE. Turkey May Permit It to Give Moslema Chance to Expend Wrath. Vienna, May 14—The Austro-Hungarian squadron has been ordered to leave Salonica. The turret ship Wren, however, will remain there. The request of Prince Ferdinand of Bohemia to the Ruggeri and Francis Joseph has apparently refused. Prince Ferdinand has passed through Vienna and Budapest returning to Sofia, where he arrived today, and no communication with the Austrian government. The chief danger in the Balkans is now thought to lie in the turbulence of the Turkish population, whose fury Christians, threatens to start a confinement of the Turkish government is viewed with much distrust by diplomats here. It is feared that Turkey will permit the massacre of Christians, thereby entrenching the Moslems to expend their wrath. Immediate developments are awaited with the greatest anxiety. MOROCCO REBELS DEFEATED. The Tribesmen who Attacked Tetuan Are Required. Madrid. May 14—A dispatch from Ceuta, Morocco, announces that the tribesmen who attacked Tetuan Monday were repulsed. They stubbornly fought their way through the suburbs and the imperial troops eventually, but the imperial troops eventually lost their lost positions and drove off the rebels with heavy losses on both sides. A later dispatch from Ceuta says a courier who has arrived there by sea in Morocco states that the battle was suspended and the opposing forces to bury their dead is approaching 300. Many heads are displayed on the walls of Tetuan, which still has three days' supply of ammunition. Advises from Tangier announce that the tribesmen's forces have routed the rebel mountainous area, inflicting great losses on the enemy. PLANNED 300 MURDERS: Chinese High Binders Arrested Make Confession of Witnesses or Wholesale Murders. San Francisco May 12—Two of the Chinese Highbanks 'societies' presidents, arrested for alleged involvement in the killing of Tom Yick, a member of the Chinese educational society, on May night, have signed confessions in way that a conspiracy existed among the directors of the powerful See Yup society to put out of the way three hundred members of the educational organization. The other two men in custody insist that the confessions are absolutely false. They brand the educational society as a blackmailing organization, that the confessions were made to work the undoing of the See Yup society. **Caught in a Clever Scheme.** Washington, May 12—Further investigation of the case of Frank M. Barnett, the bureau of Ethnology from Alabama, charged with scaling money from the errant, discloses the fact that his method was to open fictitious accounts with names from which services were alleged services under the bureau. The accounts would be passed in the regular way and checks would be inserted into the amounts. Barnett would the insert the checks. The total sum thus procured was $5,000. If your life is a blank fill out and have it sworn to. Come to all who over tax the kid A Don't nee thet a ching back. Many dan- geless kid- nies noy-trou- bles follow in its wake. Mrs. C. B. C. B. lumbia avenue, Glasgow, Kentucky, wife of C. B. 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Gray is a young lady formerly of Michigan. She is now a resident of Western Canada, and the following, published in the Brown City (Mich.) Banner are extracts from a friendship letter written about March 15 to one of her lady friends in that vicinity. In this letter is given some idea of the climate, social, educational and religious conditions of berta, the beautiful land of sunshine and happy homes. Over a hundred thousand acres have made Western Canada their home within the past five years, and in this year upwards of 50,000 will take up homes there. Miss Gray took her leave for Didsbury, Alberta, the home of her sister and other relatives and friends on Jan. 10 last, and after a two months' sojourn in her western prairie home, she writes of it as follows: "I know I shall grow to love the prairies. We have a beautiful view of the mountains and it seems wonderful to me to see home after home for miles, and it is becoming more beautiful than the exception of the last few days which have been cold and stormy, we have had beautiful spring weather ever since I came. The days are beautiful, I call she like "she as the sun," as it seems to be always shining; the nights are cold and frost. On arriving here, I was so greatly surprised in every way. Didsbury is quite a business little town. All the people I meet are so pleasant and hospitable. They have four churches in Didsbury—the Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist. The Evangelicals have just completed a handsome church very completed and fine furnished, coating $2,500. They have a nice literary society here, meets every two weeks. They have fine musical talent here. Your friend, Anna C. Gray. In the crisis of a divorce suit a wo man is apt to be unmanned. 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On a recent day out in West Chester county, I browsed the artist's painting bit of the green hillside when a farmer canal, looked at the half-finished water-color, then gazed, much puzzled, at three flat pans containing water which the artist had put. Then I watched the artist Tina Thorne with a look of disgust, he remarked half-sloud: "Homeoopath, b'gosh!" A gentleman of Falls City, Nebraska, was recently left $40,000 by a deed aboundment mea, his nephews said he ought to divide the bequest among them. So insistent and irritating were their entreaties that he decided to get rid of the money. Drawing from his bank, he hired a cab and drove among the poor of tricts, distributing gold pieces until the money was exhausted. Joseph Grismer's wife, Phoebe Davis, of the "Way Down East" company, was approached on the train the other day by a boy, who without preliminary introduction, remarked: "Mom, I don't remember you remember me! I was a member of your company last season." 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A strange punishment is endured by Armenian maidens when they have attained their seventeenth year and are not engaged to be married. They are forced to fast three days; then for twenty-four hours their food is salt fish, and they are not permitted to quench their thirst. Did It Ever Occur to You to note the rapid development of East Texas as a truck and fruit-growing country? No? Then write for the pamphlet "Timely Topics No. 2" and become convinced that the resources of Texas are illimitable. Address "Katy," 500 Wainwright, St. Louis, Mo. The want of money is the root of evil. The Best Results in Starching can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for same money—no cooking required. If you would travel the road to suce cess keep out of the ruts. When You Buy Starch buy Defiance and get the best. 16 oz. for 10 cents. Once used, always used. Even a love match may flicker out before the winds of adversity. 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An eminent physician of Paris cures the nervous headaches of his patients by the starch. The result is based on the fact that the tube which passes through the entire length of each single hair is severed in the process, and the hair "bleeds," as the barbers say, thereby the city valve for the congested uranium. NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL Des Moines, May 14, 1903. The state camp meeting of the Modern Woodmen of America closed after a stormy session. The result of the convention was a unanimous victory for the state board, Col. G. S. Sanders, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, candidate opposed to Jerry Green for the endorsement as head director. The election of officers, which was held at the night session, resulted as follows: State clerk; Iowa state clerk; state clerk, Peter Stompany, Manning; E. H. McCutchen, of Holstein, was selected as chairman of the delegation to the head camp meeting at Indianapolis; John D. Denew, of Quincy, Iowa; Peter auditor over A. W. Maxwell, of Seymour; Dan B. Horne, of Davenport, was endorsed for head advisor without opposition; Colonel Saunders, for doctor, defeated Green by almost two to one; Colonel Sanders, to 57. No action was taken on real justification. Secretary Davison of the executive council has received the report of the Chicago Great Western railroad company for the year ending December 31, 1902. It shows something of a failing off in earnings in 1902 as compared with 1901. On Great Western system proper the gross earnings on mileage in Iowa in 1902 were $2,888,452; the operating expenses, $2,642,165; and the net earnings, $246,287. The Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs elected an entirely new board for the first time in its history. The following officers were chosen: President, Mrs. T. J. Fletcher of Marshalltown; vice-president, Mrs. M. C. Cory of Spencer; treasurer, Mrs. M. C.ory of Spencer; record secretary, Mrs. Menehad; record secretary, Miss Secretary; Miss Harrel Lake of Independence; auditor, Mrs. Leopold Loy of Waverley. The building and loan business is rapidly dying out in Iowa, as reports to the building and loan department of the auditor's office indicate. Auditor of State Carroll says the association has been forced to close its business. Inquiry at the office of Secretary A. H. Davison of the executive council discloses the fact that for a number of months, in fact nearly two years, no new association has been formed in business in Iowa. The reasons for this state of things are not far to seek. The legislation of the Twenty-eighth general assembly knocked the association out of business and passed then provided the amount of promium and interest charged by such associations should not exceed 8 percent per annum. Under this restriction the business ceased to offer the services when there was no limit on the premium and interest that might be charged. Loss of confidence on the part of the public in building and loan business and cheap money are also being charged. When the closure of the business. There are but about 75 associations now transacting business in the state. How rapid a decline this has been in five years is not known. When there were 87 domestic local associations in the state and 29 domestic, aside from the foreign associations that were transacting business here The attorneys for C. A. Albrook and other defendants in the famous tax ferret attorney fee case from Hardin county, have filled their argument in the case to break the contract to refund money paid on a contract to pay 15 per cent for attorney fees in addition to the 15 per cent for the ferrets. Judge Kenyon held that the contract for $6,500 against the defendants. The plea made to the court in printed brief is quite long, and goes into the question of the necessity for such employment of the lawyer. It is unpopular with the discredited by the ferrets, and claims that it was very necessary. Two-thirds of the pay that was given the attorneys went to the tax ferrets themselves on a side contract. The other half on a side contract arguments orally before the supreme court. According to the "Kindergarten Annual," which has been received at the office of Superintendent Barrett, and which contains a list of all the active United States, Des Moines is the center for kindergarteners in Iowa. It has the largest number by far of any city in the state. There are a total of 38 acrual kindergarteners in Des Moines with 20: Oksalaoka is third with 14: Dubuque has 11: Creston, 8, and Marshallown, 7. The number in the profession does not exceed 38, cities, as Codorus Rapids has but four, Davenport but 5 and Sioux City but 2. On the whole, however, the state of Iowa averages up well with the other states, the state concerned in kindergarten work. They are the Des Moines Freebel association and the Davenport Kindergarten association. Governor Cummins has authorized the offer of a reward of $300 for the arrest of George Matheson, the young man of Potwattamie county, who deputy Deputy Sheriff J. C. Baker at the town of Westerville, N.J., arrested the arrest of Matheson. Matheson is a handsome young man 19 years old, with blue eyes and light brown hair, 5 feet 7 inches high, weighing 150 pounds. The Sheriff of Potwattamie county is making every effort to locate the man, the governor for this offer of reward, which was readily granted. "When a woman wishes to retire from the world," says the Manukyn Philosopher, "she enters a nunnery. All a man has to do is to marry a famous woman." Casidy—"Ol want a sweat avenger and pieces." The governor, Florist—"Ol don't you mean me rests in peace?" Cassidy—"Ol manph妒 Ol sed." Tis fur Casey, that was blowed up in the quarry. "What is it, Bobbie?" asked the Sunday school teacher. "That's what the work of God is." "Oh, no it isn't, what made you think it was?" "Well my ma says she made pa what he is." When a man buys a healthy peace at the price of a sickly pride he has made, some people experience but little difficulty in makingools of them-selfs. Mr. Hanbury, the recently returned Ambassador, has been studying the Eskimos, says they live religion—not even a belief in a supreme being. Because of his fragile bones, Himan Ambury, M. Y. six-year-old boy, has broken his leg on twenty-two different occasions. The last fracture was brought on by seven convulsions of the whooping LITERARY NOTES "Wee Macgregor," by J. J. Bell. Mr. Bell has admirably told the humorous and realistic story of a little Scottish boy, Wee Macgregor, of his mother and of his mother, who adores and disciplines him—three unforgettable people who live actually before us in the author's exquisite and sincere work. In this story of little Macgregor, and an able family and friends, there is a suggestion of "A Window in Thrums," which made J. M. Barris' reputation; and, on the other hand its humor and fun are as entertaining as "Helen" in the book has taken by Storm, Harper & Bros., Publishers, New York. "The Substitute," by Will N. Harben, author of "Abner Daniel," "Westerfelt," etc. This is a good, clean story of the fortunes of George Buckley, an inhabitant of Northern Georgia. Although of humble birth, he has a natively fine character. He is adopted by an old man who desires to atone for a past sin by so educating and training George that he may become his moral substitute in the eyes of the Evidence. Hence the name. Final interest, centers in a love affair that has a noteworthy effect on the young man's character, and the end is a happy one. The story is full of the wit, philosophy, quaint humor, that made the author well-known through "Abner Daniel." Ethel A. Pennell's sketch, "In Chaucer's Youth," in the May St. Nicholas, is based on an unfamiliar historic fact. Chaucer, writer of verse, is well known to every school girl and boy; but not every grown-up, even of fair general information, knows that the lad Geoffrey Chaucer was a favorite page in the court of King Edward II, and later a quite to Prince Liconi, "Chaucer's Youth," tells the pretty story of the ready wit and quick courage which advanced young Geoffrey Chaucer from lady's page to prince's soure. Of special interest at this time, when all lovers of music are looking for a place to visit next autumn, is Hermann Kielba's memories of his friendship with Patti, published in the May Century. This chapter of the London critic's series "The Great Gatsby" glimpses behind the scenes at the first performance of Gounden's "Romeo et Juliette," when de Reske was Romeo and tells of many visits to Cray-poss. The Lothrop Publishing Company of Boston announce "Darrel of the Blessed Isles," the third novel by Irving Bachelier, author of *Ebola* and *Ebola Hospice*. Darrel the older thinker, is a new creation, Wit, philosopher, and man of mystery. Learned, strong, kindly, dignified, towers like a giant above the people who have given him a character as new and lovable as Eben Holden, but more fascinating. Darrel the shop is an old nook, where the reader will enjoy the company of people at home. It is another tale of the North Country, full of the odor of wood and field. Its people are wholesome: it is good to know them. Once you have seen the last word with increasing interest, Wit, humor, pathos, and high thinking are in this book. Professor Simon Newcomb, the dean of American Astronomers, contributes to the book *Clue's a most interesting forecast of "The End of the World."*. In the form of fiction, it is nevertheless the astronomical hypothesis on the subject; this article is tellingly illustrated by Henry Lapo. The Louisiana Purchase—its rapid progress and solid importance—by Charles M. Harvey, seems to be the leading and most timely article in The World's Work for May. Among the articles is his explanation of how Canadians are being taught practical agriculture, the launching, the other day, at New London, of the Minnesota, the greatest cargo-carrier affoat, gave the readers of James J. Hill's vast plan for the Pacific Oriental trade. These great ships—the Minnesota and her sister ship, the Dakota—are described in detail by F. N. Stacy in the Review of Reviews for May. The article commemorates the coming century of Emerson with a searching and illuminating article on Emerson as a Religious Influence by Rev. George A. Gordon, who, although standing at the opposite pole of religious belief, nevertheless pronounces the importance of iconic and inspiration of priceless worth and of inexpressible delight." Edwin A. Abbey's drawings for Shakespeare's "King John" are reproduced in tint in the May number of the book, but the title is penned by a critical article by Joseph Knight. Mr. Abbey is now at his English home in Gloucestershire, where he has one of the most beautiful studios in the country. He writes articles and articles one hundred and twelve illustrations form the contents of the May Cosmopolitan. J. Henniker Heaton, M. P., contributes an interesting article on the "British Parcel Post"—particularly the one that describes the world in which the entire mercantile world is showing so wide an interest, to introduce into this country the system of carrying parcels in the mail. An American tourist who called on Robert Burns' widow, Jean Armour, a few years after his death, had the audacity to ask: "Can you show me any relics of the poet?" "Sir," answered the old lady, with majestic armor, am the only relic of Robert Burns. The Shah of Persia has the long tails of his horses dyed crimson for six inches at their tips. No one else in the country is allowed this privilege. Bells are never used in Mohammedan mosques. The Moslem race destacts bells, under the delusion that they cause the assemblage of evil spirits. The Khedive of Egypt is fond of horses, and has the most costly set of harness in the world. It was made for the cost $10,000, and is for four horses. Take care of the pennies and after awhile the dollars will take care of you. The man who pays out a lot of good money for each game is apt to discover later that he has a gold brick on his hands. Women who like to talk about the equality of the sexes dislike to admit they have to work for a living. When a pretty girl stares at a man and asks, "What did he had no earthly use for himself? No sooner does a man bring up a new theory than others proceed to vote it down. A man's mistakes come from forfeiting details; a woman's from remitting sins. Don't depend on luck to push you uphill. KILLED BY A ROBBER. Lone Robber's Bold Act in a Restaurant at West Liberty. West Liberty, May 15—A desperate lone robber held up Tom McCarthy's lunch house, fifty yards from the Rock Island station, here at 1:30 o'clock yesterday morning. Arthur C. Meade, a jeweler, offered resistance to the robber and was shot. The bullet entered his breast near the heart and caused death. Meade did not regain consciousness after he was shot and could make no statement. Mayor McIntosh and Marshal Wiley as soon as they learned of the robber's presence, he moved the firewall to the city and the factory whistles to be sounded. The town was aroused in a few minutes. A meeting of the infuriated citizens was held. Mayor McIntosh presided at the meeting. A group of the robber's teeth to the teeth are scouring the country for the robbers. Night Clerk Morlan was in charge of the restaurant when the masker entered the restaurant. The robber had no sooner entered than he began to talk with Meade. Meade appeared to know the man and the two were joshing each other about the lateness of the hour. All at once the robber a revolver at Meade and exclaimed. "Shut your face and hold up your hands." "Oh. I guess not," said Meade, partially thinking that the hold-up was a joke. "Well, I think you will," said the robber, and then there was a "bang" from the platoil, and Meade reeled to the floor shot through the breast. In the room at the time. None of them offered any resistance to the robber, who kept his smoking revolver in his hand and loudly shouted that he would shoot the liver out of any man that was in the restaurant were United States mail clerks and one traveling man, whose names at this time cannot be learned. West Liberty is a postal division and there are several postal clerks in the restaurant. Eat lunch in the McCarthy place, often in the middle of the night. The unknown robber opened the till of the restaurant and took therefrom all the cash, amounting to $25. Before placing the place he passed by his victim. "I am sorry that I had to shoot him," said the robber. "I hope that he was speaking young Meade was speaking young Meade was breathing his last. A rush was made for the prostrate form on the floor as soon as he was gone. It was too far gone to make a statement. BURLINGTON TO BUILD. Greenficid to Winterset First Line to Be Built Des Moines, May 14—The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad has completed a survey for a new line from Greenfield, Adair county, to Villisa. It is now surveying a line from Greenfield to Winterset, and will soon run a third line from Winterset to Tracy. At this point the new line will cross the Alba and Des Moines branch and connect with the Burlington and Northwestern division of the Tween tracy and Oskaloosa are now being built. When this stretch of track is completed, which will be within a few weeks, the Burlington's new through line from Des Moines to Chicago via Oskaloosa will be completed and Chicago-Des Moines trains be put out. First among the new pieces of roadmaking comes the Greenfield-Winterset connection. The surveyors have been in this field for several years, and they are now in Winterset. It centers the Rock Island depot at that town, and it has been given out that the Burlington and Rock Island will operate on a joint track arrangement with Greenfield and Winterset. This will give Des Moines jobbers a direct line to a rich territory that has heretofore been reached in a roundabout way, at great loss of time and at the expense of the roadwork. Ridicty belongs to Des Moines wholesalers, but they have not been able to work it to the best advantage. With a direct line to Greenfield through Winterset, they can make the most of this territory. Eventually it is expected that the Burlington will extend the new line from Greenfield west to Council Bluffs. This will be the third parallel line across the state from the Mississippi to the Missouri. POLICE WILL SLAY DOGS Ordinance Passed Authorizing Slaughter Des Moines, May 15—Responding to public clamor for protection from rabid dogs, with which the city has been infested for some time, the city council met and passed an ordinance empowering the marshal to order the city to keep all dogs found running about the streets without muzzles and wearing a tag showing their owners have paid the tax imposed upon dogs. The ordinance is quite sweeping in its provisions, clothing, as it does, the chief of police, and the city authority, the number of roving curs which are at once a nuisance and a menace. That a dog has a tag attached to his collar showing his owner has paid the dog tax will not suffice to preserve his life if found off the premises of his house, and the dog and his caril with a tag on his collar was equally as dangerous as one without a tag, and provided that hereafter all dogs running about the streets must be provided with a muzzle as well as the tag. Chief Brackett has issued orders instructing the policemen to enforce violation of the ordinance mentioned, and the ordinance will be observed to the letter. Killed While Our Hunting. Burlington, May 11—George Helt, a well-to-do young farmer living near Burlington, while shooting chicken hawks, was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of his gun which partly sent a ball through his head. Thrown from Buggy and Killed. Dubuque, May 11—D. C. Hersey of Earlville was killed while riding on the street when he hit out of the buggy. He was one of the oldest residents of the town. The coconut palm has leaves nearly thirty feet long. DOCTOR ENSOR SUPT. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE INSTITUTION Endorses the Catarrhal Tonic Pe-ru-na- A Congressman's Letter. Dr. J. F. Eensor, Postmaster of Columbia, S.D. Iate Superintendent and Physician in charge of State Insane Aylum at Columbia, C. Jr., writes "Peruna myself, or my family having used and are now using the same with good results, and upon the information of others who have been benefited by my treatment, I am greatly atoning tonic, I can cheerfully recommend it to all persons requiring so effective a remedy."--Dr. J. P. Eensor. H. Con. W. C. v., ex-Member of Congress from N rth Dakota, in a letter from Washington, D. C., says: "That Peruna is not only a vigorous, as well as a powerful catarrh is beyond controversy. It is already established by its use by the thousands who have been benefited by it. I cannot too high express my appreciation of its excellence." Dr. R. Robbins, Muskegan, I. T., writes: "Peruna is the best medicine I know of for coughs and to strengthen a weak stomach and to give appetite. Beside prescribing it for catarrh, I have ordered it for weak coughs. I have also treated a patient but said it helped him. It is an excellent medicine and it fills so many cases. "I have a large practice and have a chance to prescribe your Peruna. I hope you may live long to do good to the sick and suffering." Only the weak need a tonic. People are never weak except from some good cause. One of the obscure causes of weakness and the one often overlooked is catarrh. The other causes the mucous membrane and causes the blood plasma to escape through the mucous membrane in the form of mucus. This discharge of mucus is the same as the loss of blood. It produces mucus. The peruna stops the catarrh and prevents B. Z. FOOT COMFORT cures all conditions of Sore. Tender and bad odor. Ask your druggiest. Price 25c. Efferent preaching can produce but efferent practice. Magnet Pile Killer Cures Piles. Even the sweetness of revenge may curdle. I do not believe Pile Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds. John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind. Feb. 8. The deaf ear is generally handy with his talk. HOUSEKEEPERS, ATTENTION! Try a package of Russ Bleaching Blue and you will use many of it at grocers. You can't keep your friends and give them away too. All Up to Date Housekeepers Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it smells, and 4 oz. more of it for same money. The pessimist never orders spring amph. RHEUMATISM Instant relief through the feet. Large pores absorb medical virtue and expel impurities. TREATMENT SENT FREE IF CURED PAY $1.00 Don't take drugs into your stomach—there's another way to get medicine into your system. Magic Foot Drafts have taught the world that the blood can be reached through the pores of the feet—the largest pores in the body. Hundreds of thousands of men and women have tested their perits—always at our risk—and we are still sending the drafts free on approval to every sufferer we can hear of. MAGIC Though worn on the feet, the Drafts cure Rheumatism in every part of the body. They bring instant relief and comfort—having a gentle counter-irritant and stimulating effect which takes immediate effect on the blood and nervous system. Don't let Rheumatism take possession of your bones and make life less desirable than death. Act now. Write today to the MAGIC FOOT DRAFT COMPANY, WA 99, Oliver Bldg., Jackson, Mich., and be well. When satisfied with relief received, send us One Dollar—until then relief your money. W. N. U., Des Moines, IA., No. 20—1903 the discharge of moous. This is why Peruna is called a tonic. Peruna does not give strength by stimulating the nervous system a little. It gives strength by preserving the mucous membranes against leakage. It gives strength by converting the blood in mucosa to their their draining away in mucosa discharges. Constant spitting, and blowing the nose will finally produce extreme weakness from the loss of mucus. 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 valuable advice great. Address Dr. Hartman, President of the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. Missouri led the United States in corn in 1802. Missouri's average rainfall for the past ten years was 11 inches. Missouri is second to none as a fruit state. Kansas City shipped 70,000 more stockers and dealers in 1802 than Chicago and Omaha combined. He shipped merchandise containing a partial list of lands we have to sale, within a radius of one hundred miles of Kansas City, sent free on application. Write for it. Address. H. Q. CASSELMAN INVESTMENT CO., 864 Sheldley Building. LITTELLS LIQUID SULPHUR San Diego on Carlin Stopa itching Instantly. For 30 cents in stamps we will have three remedies: The Liquid, the Liquid, the RHYMA-BULRUP-CON T28A Ave. Ave., Tez. WESTERN CANADA In attracting more attention than any other district in the world. "The Granary of the World." "The Land of Sunshine." The Natural Feeding Feeding Grounds for Stock. FARMERS WESTERN CANADA FREE Area under Crop in 1902, 1,087,330 acres. Yield 1903, 117,922,745 bus. Abundance of water: fuel plentiful; building material FARMSTERS WESTERN GRANT FREE Area under Crop in 1908 1,087,330 Yield 1909, 111,923,752 bus. plentiful; building material cheap;耕好; grass for pasture and hay; a fertile; a sufficient rainfall and a climate giving an assured and adequate season HOMESTEAD LANDS OF 160 AGRICRE FREE the only charge for which is $10 for making entry. Close to schools, schools, etc. Railsway帖 all settled districts. Send for Allas and other literature to Superintendent of Imp. Jackson St. St. Paul, Minn., or W. W. Bennett, 801 N. Y. Life Building, Omaha, the authorized Canadian Government Agents, who collectively verticillate giving you reduced railway rates, etc. # A. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR, # H. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Both men have experience with many pasting issues or drafts to the Iowa State University Publishing Company. Communication must be written on an side of the paper only and be of interest to the publisher. "Drafty to the seal of the," recounts the author. All advertisers are required to post advertisements not accompanied by postage stamps. Advertising rates for display Adds 10 cents per inch, for each insertion. Three to six months contract 18 cents per inch. Local advertising 10 cents per inch. Advertising rates vary by term words to a line. For churches and secret societies where admission is charged, one-half of the above marginal rates. For professional, legal advertising, and other forms, terms are given an application. All advertising is to be paid in advance. We are prepared to do first-class job work at reasonable prices. All of our work is guaranteed. The Iowa STATE BANKER in the oldest American newspaper published in Iowa. It was established in 1894 and by whom all the allotted correspondents in the following town: Alba.....Miss May Davis Benton.....J. T. Washington Cedar Rapids.....Miss Ella G. Marian Clinton.....A. A. Buck Davenport.....Miss Flay McGowen Fa. Madison.....Mrs. J. D. Underwood Kokuk.....Miss Arvitha Fields Mt. Flowerast.....Miss Joanna Fields Munnatine.....Florence White Marshallhallow.....H. G. Walker Mutchhinkin.....Mrs. Pearl Thomas Cousin.....Mrs. G. H. Wade Bakalocca.....Miss Lintie Blackburn Samawa.....Miss Florence Downey Bush Island.....Mrs. G. J. Tolliver Uxley City.....Miss Etta Grant Then, having news items please report to the correspondents. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY OZONIZED OX MARROW 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGN COPYRIGHTS & C. A firm specializes in a variety and description may be required in probably any community. Communities are protected and deny for securing patents. 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If you want a genuine Wheeler & Wilson machine, do not waste your time writing to anyone who is unable to furnish it. The genuine Wheeler & Wilson machine, made by us and backed by our warranty, is for sale by our authorized dealers only. When you buy a Wheeler & Wilson, you get a machine that is a machine, backed by a reputation of 80 years unparalleled success. Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co., Chicago, Ill. For Sale by M. E. WOOD, Des Moines, Iowa. DECATUR DRUGGIST IS KILLED W. G. McNeir Shot by Edward McCool as Result of Jealousy. Decatur, Ill., special: The charge of murder has been made against Ed- ward McCool, formerly of the in- ternational School of Correspondence, for shooting W. G. McNeir, one of the leading drugists of the city. McCool was jealous of McNeir's attention to his wife. Both families lived in the same house, and the men and their wives were prominent socially. BODY WAS BLOWN TO ATOMS Footmeter Hedges of Kossuth Is Killed and the Postoffice Is Blows to Pieces—Hedges Was Feeling Ill and Had Just Sent for a Doctor. Mediapolis, May 15—Shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the people of this town were startled by a loud explosion over in the direction of the little town of Kossuth, two miles away. It was quickly ascertained that the postposition of the village had been blown up and that Postmaster Hedges villed, his body being torn to pieces. The greatest excitement prevailed but it was learned no one was in charge of the building the unfortunate postmaster at the time. G. Leprick of the Presbyterian church had just left the store when the explosion occurred. The building was rent and torn and quickly caught fire, soon burning to death. The fragments of the postmaster's body were afterwards found in the cellar under the building. Rev, Mr. Weprick says that he was taken into custody when the latter suddenly told him he was getting stick and to go for a doctor. The minister started at once but went only across the street when the explosion occurred. Mr. Hedges, who ran a store in connection with the postoffice, had several cans of powder in stock. He is thought that after the minister left him he fell among the powder dropping his pipe into the powder. Some persons who were near at hand declare the explosion was that of dynamite, but it was known there was no dynamite in the store. Aside from the dynamite in the hair it is abruced the deepest mystery. It will be remembered that on Monday last Postmaster Hedges was found insensible in the road and told a story about a lone highwayman robbing him of a lot of money and stamps. Hedges since that has been in precarious health from a slight paralytic stroke but was feeling much better up to the time he told Rev. Leprick he was suddenly worse. The property loss was small. The government will investigate the explosion. Mr. Hedges was a man of the highest repute. HAS GALARY LIMIT. President Serley Won't Furnish Transactions at Largest $40.00. Teachers at Less than 12th school Cedar Falls, May 15—Pres. Searley of the own school, the school imposes insults in the near future, which will contain some facts with reference to teachers' salaries, that will make the people of the state open their eyes. A normal school is constantly called upon to supply the city schools of the state with teachers. This year, for instance, the size of the graduating class will be considerably reduced on account of the great demand for teachers, the number of students who have consented to enter school work with the exception of completing their course during the summer months of next year. It is not generally known that the state schools authorities make no effort to supply teachers where the salary offered is less than $40 a month. Even when this salary is offered to a beginning teacher the normal instructors do not advise any of the students of an increase the second year. President Seerley has been conducting a series of investigations as to the salaries paid teachers, and he finds that the salaries than is generally supposed. It is the fashion to believe that the low salaries are confined to the country district, and that the district means. He recently took a census of 113 teachers employed in good towns of the state, and all having a normal education. He found that from one to ten years, but most of them had been teaching for several years. He found that the average of the salaries paid was less than $50.00 and that the teachers were not receiving this amount. He has also collected statistics from several towns as to the amount that the teachers have been able to save from the cost of the foughed that the average in one town where a large number of teachers were employed and where better than the average salaries were paid, was about $36,100 and the fact that a teacher spends the entire year at hard work and is able to save practically nothing from her salary is not calculated to encourage her to greater effort, especially in the same position, with respect to savings. **POSTOFFICE ROBBED** Postmaster at Koch Compulsed to Open Safe and Deliver $150. Mediapolis, May 12. A roughly dressed, smooth shaven man, riding a motorcycle to the office at Kosuth yesterday and drawing a revolver, compelled Postmaster Richard Hedges to deliver over the contents of the safe, amounting to 100 pounds. He ditten escaped. Kosuth is a short distance northeast of here and is a small country village. Postmaster Hedges is an old and rather feeble man, who was the robbery, which was an exceedingly bold one. There is much excitement in Kosuth and here on account of the deed, but there seems to be little chance of capturing the robber. Eyes Failing, Hung Himself. Burlington, Hacker, Hacker, old man, hung himself in a shed. He was found by Mr. S. Blank. He was about 75 years old and had grown despondent over a failing of his eyesight. A. chess tournament is always played on the square. played on the floor. Parisian theft, while robbing a tiller, on the Rue St. Honore, unwittingly rang an alarm bell, Grabbing a handful of coins, he ran off, but was pursued, and captured. He had swallowed five twenty-five franc pieces, each about the size of a five-dollar gold piece. PAROLE LAW IS HIT. Judge Miller of Anamasa Revolution Des Moines, May 14—The Iowa pa- role law or system received a severe lost yesterday at Anamasa, and there will be some revision of the rules un- der the supreme court back up the governor. B. W. Garrett, parole secretary for Gov. Cummins, received a dispatch from Anamoa announcing that the parole officer had been from custody Frank Davis, a convict serving time in the state penitentiary there. Habeas corpus proceedings were brought before Judge Maller at the courthouse on January 16, 1995. He has been serving a seventeen year sentence from Clinton county for murder, and was paroled about two months before he would have been released. He was also arrested and earned all the "good time" possible, amounting to nearly seven years. He was returned upon violation of this parole. As is customary in such cases, the parole officer made was cancelled. In fact this was one of the conditions to which he subserved when he accepted the parole and it is a clause in every parole agreement. The parole officer would serve nearly seven years ahead of the two months which would have released him if he had not accepted the parole agreement. No the court ordered that the good time would be previously to the parole must stand to his credit and so standing he is entitled to release now that he has been released two of the three months which remained abbreviated term in the penitentiary. The suit was brought by Attorney Tom Minlor, and as attorney General Mullan could not go to Anamosa to defend the state the defense was enforced in the case, he will be immediately taken to the supreme court, as the question is one the supreme court has never passed on. If the decision is allowed to stand, it will necessitate a revision of the parole system in vogue in Iowa, which requires the governor to issue a special warrant of law. It is expected that others who are in the same fix as was Davis will be asking for release on the same grounds. In every case where convicts have been returned for the prosecution they are being rewarded to loan their previously earned credit for good conduct. If they be allowed to allow the governors will be much slower to grant parole near the end of a sentence. GERMAN FARMERS PLEASED. Agriculturists Touched United States Put in day at Ames College. Ames, May 13—The party of German agriculturists who are now visiting in this country and who were the first to visit the university yesterday, were unqualifiedly pleased at the reception and deeply impressed with the merits of the institution. On every hand they were surprised and impressed by the high advancement in agriculture here. Their pleasure and appreciation took substantial form in the sending of a telegram to Secretary James Wilson of the U.S. Department of agriculture, which Prof. D. I. Schultz of Washington, D. C., dictated at their request. The message was couched in the most complimentary terms and extended congratulations to the secretary of agriculture, which institution with which he had been connected and which he was instrumental in upbuilding. The Iowa State college was described as the most admirable of any yet visited by the party. The conception of the remarkable body of men who are now in this country studying agricultural methods as an aggregation of ordinary German men, is one one can discern at a glance on mingling with the party. Altogether, there is a body of forty-four. Its members are from the German Agricultural subdivisions of Germany, which numbers over 17,000 members. While the party now here comes with the prestige of the government and its sanction, it is not the only institution of learning. Each man travels at his own expense and for the purpose of learning what will be of most benefit to himself. Each year, trips of this kind have been taken to England, pleditions have been taken to England, Hungary, Sweden and other countries of Europe. This is the first trip, however, that has been made beyond the European borders, but be prompted in no small degree by the realization in Germany of the immense strides being taken by the Americans in agriculture, something directly affecting the interests of Germany and the other countries of Europe. The members of the party are largely landed proprietors and for the most part wealthy. All but two are Germans, there being two Austrians in the number. One of the party owners over 8,000 acres of land in Germany. There are a few German officials but they are on leave of absence and not here as government agents. DIAVOLO IS THE ONLY ONE Who Has Ever Successfully Looped the Loon on a Bicycle Des Moines, May 12 — Leaving the loop on a bicycle is a feat that has been written about, described and illustrated by all the leading newspapers and magazines of the country. The sensational act was first accomplished at Coney Island, New York, by George M. Vandervoudt in the winter of 1901. A long time ago, a great Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers' enormous shows united at a fabulous salary to perform the perilous ride at each performance of the big show. From that date until the show in 1902, these shows continually, with the exception of three months, which he spent in Berlin last winter. Vandervoudt, better known professionally as Diavolo, is positively the only man who has been able to ride a bicycle and the Forepaugh-Sells circus is likewise the only amusement institution in the world that has ever presented the marvelous act. In all the history of circuses no single featurement than Diavolo, who will appear here when the big shows exhibit on Monday, May 18. Killed By Switch Engine. Burlington, May 11—John Peala, a stranger, was run over by a switch engine in the Burlington yards and his body nearly cut in two. Nothing is known of the unfortunate fellow. He stepped suddenly upon the track and was killed. Whether his act was prematured suicide or accidental cannot be ascertained. Mrs. Kuhn's Commits Suicide. Creston, May 11—News came to Creston whose home is northwest of Orient, had committed suicide by hanging. MAC ADAIR GIVES 'DOUT BRILLIANT' BALL OF LONDON 'SEASON' (THE KING OF ADDICTION THOMPSON) PACIFIC OCEAN AREI ROOSEVELT JAYS UNCLE JAYS JUST RULE PACIFIC (ANOTHER MIND OF AMERICAN TRUMAN) A THREATENED DELUGE. MAFIA IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS MANTED! FIRST-CLASS UMBRELLA! - UNCLE SAM U.S.A. PRESIDENT FIRM FOR EXPANSION COMMERCE OF THE PACIFIC Declares America, With Her New Posse- sions, Must Maintain Domination of the Waters of the Great Ocean on Our West. San Francisco, May 14—Last night at the Mechanics pavilion President Roosevelt made the most important speech he has delivered since he left St. Louis. His subject, "Expansion and Trade Development and Protection of the Country's Newly Acquired Possessions in the Pacific," together with the advocacy of great man was one that made his discourse of particular interest to the Californians, and he aroused his auditors to a high pitch of enthusiasm. It was a mighty gathering that listened to the presi- The president said: "Before I saw the Pacific slope I was an expansionist, and after having seen it I fail to understand how any man confident of his country should challenge with proud confidence our mighty future, can be anything but an expansionist. In the century that is opening the commerce between the countries, the factors of incalculable moment in the history of the world. Now, in our day, the greatest of all the oceans, of all the seas, and the last to be used on a planet, is to become in its turn the first in point of importance. Our mighty republic has stretched across the ocean and now in California, Oregon and Washington, the Philippines, holds an extent of coastline which makes it of necessity a power of the first-class on the Pacific. "The extension in the area of our domain has been immense, and our sequences ever greater. America's geographical position on the Pacific is such as to insure our peaceful domination of its waters in the future if only we grasp with sufficient resolution the advantages of this position. "We are taking long strides in this direction; witness the cabies we are laying down and the great steamship lines we are starting—steamship lines, the ships that any freight carriers the world has yet seen. We have taken the first steps toward digging an intestinal canal, to be under our own control, a canal which will carry us to all the lines to all intents and purposes continuous, and will add immensely alike to our commercial and our military and naval strength. The inevitable march of events gave in the control of the ship that it may without irreverence be held providental. Unless we show ourselves weak, unless we show ourselves degenerate sons of the sires from the ship that it may without irreverence be held providental with the work that we have begun. I earnestly hope that this work will always be peaceful in character. We infinitely desire peace, and the surest way to show that we are not afraid of war. "We should deal in the spirit of fairness and justice with all weaker nations; we should show to the strongest that we are able to maintain our sovereignty in the face of any attack by bluster, for bluster merely invites contempt. Let us speak courtly, deal fairly and keep ourselves armed." Many Bulgarians Killed in Battle, Salonica, European Turkey, May 12—In an engagement between Bulgarians and Turkish troops recently fought at Iganari, near Monastir, many Bulgarians were killed and 74 were wounded. Another fight is reported to have occurred at the village of Gorestrova, near Demir-Hissar. The village was burned. The panic in the Monastir district has not abated. Statistics show that the standing timber of Canada equals that of the entire continent of Europe and is nearly double that of the United States. and ready. If we do these things we can count on the peace that comes only to the just man armed, to the just man who neither fears nor builds and maintaining a thoroughly efficient navy with plenty of the best and most formidable ships, with an ample supply of officers and of men, and with these officers and men trained in the art of war, we can achieve the reliable performance of their duty. Only thus can we assure our position in the world at large and in particular our position here on the Pacific. It behooves all of men of our nation to be a mighty nation to see it that we fit ourselves to take and keep a great position in the world, for our proper place is with the expanding nations and the nations that dare to be great, that accept with con- dition a place of leadership in the world. "All of our people should take this position, but especially you of California, for much of your expansion must go through the Golden Gate, and the states of the Pacific slope must inevitably be those who would be most affected by the growth of the American influence along the coasts and islands of that mighty ocean where east and west finally become one. My countrymen, I believe in you with all my heart and I am proud that it has been granted to me to be a citizen in a nation of such a vast and diverse land, wisdom, the hardihood and the courage to rise to the level of its opportunities." TO REDUCE NAVIES. England Would Join With Other Powers in Decreasing Armament London, May 15—The question of the reduction of naval armaments came up again yesterday in the house of commons during a discussion of the estimates. The speakers suggested that the government take the first step in reducing naval powers. Sir Charles Dilke, advanced radical, said he thought this might be possible. In view of the improved relations between Great Britain and France, he suggested that the matter over and subsequently approach Russia. Even if Germany did not agree to a reduction the three powers might effect something. It would be a great mistake to build against the United States. It would be as great a mistake to count upon the United States as an enemy as to count upon her as an active ally, for the United States had always been the defender of the rights of neutrals. Mr. Arnold-Foster, the admiralty secretary, after having pointed out that it was the duty of the admiralty to deal with facts as they were and not as they might be, said that all the admiralty's maritime preparations, mainly Russia. According to the available figures France and Russia together were now building three more battleships than Great Britain. As the actual force in ships which could be arrayed against them, they could be guiding principle, he denied that the admiralty's proposals were in excess of the requirements of the country. The secretary added that he would be asked to explain his role with regard to the position as affected by the United States—"that was a hard job," he said. "The people would have to be considered." JAPAN PREPARING FOR WAR. Doubting Ruesia's Withdrawal From Manchuria, Japan, to Argentina Manchura, JAPAN is Arming. According to advises received by the Empress of India, Japanese arsenals were being worked day and night, provisions were concentrated, coal stored on Tshima 'island and on all islands, even at the island, doubling the extent of Russia's war from Manchuria, was preparing for war. Kentucky's Latest Feud. Lexington, Ky., May 12—Since the arrest of Curtis Jiff in Madison county, charged with the murder of J. B. Marcum, a grave problem confronts the prosecution which may require a special session of the legislature to solve. Under the law Jett would be taken back to Jackson, the scene of the tragedy, unless he requires that he be taken elsewhere. He requests that he be taken to Jackson and thereafter to go. If he goes to Jackson, it is conceived that the feeling is so intense that justice cannot be done. BUSINESS MEN ARE ENJOINED Omaha Judge Gives Sweeping Ruling in Favor of Strik- ing Union Men. NO BOYCOTT TO BE ALLOWED Situation in Omaha Is Now Serious. With Three Thousand Men Locked Out or on Strike and a Large Number of Business Houses Closed. Omaha, Neb. May 13.-Judge Dickinson, in the district court at seven o'clock last night, on application of John O. Yeiser, an attorney representing the labor unions, whose members are on strike, issued an injunction against the business men and proprietors, even more sweeping than that issued by the federal court against the unions last week. The order restrains the business men from refusing to sell goods to dealers who employ union labor, prevents them from boycoting union labor, requires the Business Men's Association to cease holding meetings or conspiring against unions, or in any way interfering with the unions in the management of their The injunction was granted on petition of the walters' union, Omaha local 73, by its officers, and is directed against the Business Men's association and about fifty of the members, the majority of the restaurant proprietors, coal and lumber dealers and a number of jobbers. The walters' union alleges that the Business Men's association is a national organization, organizer of labor unions, and that its purpose in Omaha is to enter into a conspiracy to force certain merchants to join the association by threats of injury to business by boycotting, threatening to take action against them, being forced, said merchants and others into the association, the association conspires to force fights and penalties on its men who shall in any way recognize any requests of labor unions, and that it also alleges that said association has threatened its members with injury by boycott and otherwise should they recognize the unions and that all such threats have been executed and will continue to be executed unless restrained by the court. The petition alleges further a conspiracy by the Omaha Builders' exchange and other agents of said association. Judge Dickinson signed the order without comment and it is being served on the persons against whom it is directed. It it concerns directly only the waiters' union, it is really intended to serve as a guide for the future action of all the other unions whose members are on strike. It now considered a most serious one. What with nearly 3,300 men on strike or locked out and a large number of business establishments, including eighteen laundries, a large number of businesses of the city almost to a standstill. FEAR A MASSACRE. Turkey May Permit It to Give Moslems Chance to Expend Wrath. Vienna, May 14—The Austro-Hungarian squadron has been ordered to leave Salonica. The turret ship Wren, however, will remain there. The request of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria for an audience with Emperor Francis Joseph has apparently been refused. Prince Ferdinand has passed through Vienna and Budapest returning to France. While he had no communication with the Austrian foreign office. The chief danger in the Balkans is now thought to lie in the turbulence of the Turkish population, whose fury against the Christians threatens to complicate the relationship with the Turkish government is viewed with much distrust by diplomats here. It is feared that Turkey will permit the massacre of Christians, thereby enabling the Moslems to expend their wrath. Immediate developments are awaited with the greatest anxiety. MOROCCO REBELS DEFEATED. The Tribesmen who attacked Tetuan Are Repulsed. Madrid. May 14. A dispatch from Ceuta, Morocco, announces that the tribesmen who attacked Tetuan Monday were repulsed. They stubbornly fought their way through the suburbs of Ceuta, the imperial troops eventually regained their lost positions and drove off the rebels with heavy losses on both sides. A later dispatch from Ceuta says a carrier who has arrived by sea from Ceuta has been suspended in order to allow the rebels forces to bury their dead, numbering 300. Many heads are displayed on the walls of Tetuan, which still has three days' supply of ammunition. Adjournment to an announcement that the imperial forces have rescued the rebel mountainers near Fez, inflicting great losses on the enemy. PLANNED 300 MURDERS. Chinese High Binders Arrested Make Confession of Wholesale Murders. San Francisco, May 12—Two of the Chinese Highbinder societies' prestest binder alleged complicity in the killing of Tom Mackenzie, a member of the Chinese educational society. Friday night, have signed confessions in which they admit that a conspiracy existed among the different ramification powerful See Yup society to put out the way three hundred members of the educational organization. The other two men in custody insist that the confessions are absolutely false. They brand the educational society as a blackmailing organization, and insist that the confessions were made to work the undoing of the See Yup society. Caught In a Clever Scheme Waught in a Clever Scheme. Baught in a Clever Scheme. May 12.—Further investigation, the case of Frank M. Barnett, a clerk in the Biology department in Alabama, arrested, charged with sealing money from the government, discloses the fact that his good way to open fettitious accounts accounted for the crimes with alleged services rendered by a bureau. The accounts would be passed in the regular way and checks the amounts. Barnett would then intercept checks. The total sum thus procured was $5,000. If your life is a blank fill it out and have it sworn to. TIRED BACKS. Come to all who over- tax the kid- neys. A Dorting- lect the a ching back. Many dan- gene- idney nue- trium follow in its wake. Mrs. C. B. lumbia avenue, Glasgow, Kentucky, wife of C. B. Pare, a prominent brick manufacturer of that city, says: When Doan's Kidney Pills were first brought to my attention I was suffering from a complication of kidney troubles. 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She is now a resident of Western Canada, and the following, published in the Brown City (Mich.) Banner are extracts from a friendship letter written about March 15 to one of her lady friends in that vicinity. In this letter is given some idea of the climate, social, educational and religious conditions berta, the beautiful land of sunshine and happy homes. Over one hundred thousand houses have made West- Canada their home within the past five years, and in this year upwards of 50,000 will take up homes there. Miss Gray took her leave for Didsbury, Alberta, the home of her sister and other relatives and friends on Jan. 10 last, and after a two months' sojourn in her western prairie home, she writes of it as follows: "I know shall love to love the prairies. We have a beautiful view of the mountains and it seems wonderful to me to see home见家 when I become in heaven nicely settled all around. With the exception of the last few days which have been cold and stormy, we have had beautiful spring weather ever since I came. The days are beautiful; I call she the lady of the sun," as it seems to be always shining; the nights are cold and frosty. On arriving here, I was so greatly surprised in every way. Didsbury is quite a business little town. All the people I meet are so pleasant and hospitable. We have four churches in the town—the Blessed Mary Evangelical and Menonite. The Evangelicals have just completed a handsome church, very large and finely furnished, costing $2,500. They have a nice literary society here, meets two weeks. They have fine musical talent here. Your friend, Anna C. Gray. In the crisis of a divorce suit a wo man is apt to be unmanned. Defiance Starch should be in hand because so good, beides 4 oz. more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. 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For this reason it should be laundered at home under the mother's directions and only Ivory soap used. To throw the little garments into the ordinary wash shows great carelessness—E. R. Parker. Some men have owed to their wives than they ever get paid. Insist on Getting it. Some grocers say they don't keep Deistance Starch. This is because they have a small amount of the same, only 12 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Deistance contains 10 oz. for the same money. They won't be able to sell 19 oz. for same money! Then buy Deistance Requires no cooking. A man is seldom as smart or as foolish as his wife thinks he is. YELLOW CLOTHES are UNSUGGLET Keep them white with Russ Bleaching Blue Get the genuine. All grocers. 10c. Strenuous pursuit of the impossible begets activity minus the reward. FITS Permanently Nurture. Not this or newborns treat BURREN for FREE. The FITS BUNDLE trial bottle and cream De. Dr. H. Klinn, L.L. Ltd. Arch Ph. Philadelphia. The ostrich claims the distinction of laying the largest egg. The egg which weighs about three pounds, it equal in contents to twenty-four hen eggs. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. MARY Mrs. Tupman, a prominent lady of Richmond, Va., a great sufferer with women's troubles, asks how she was cured. "For some years I suffered with catache, severe bearing-down pains, sorrhors, and falling of the womb, tried manicure, but nothing relieved." I commenced taking Lyda E. Brakham's Vegetable Compound June, 1901. When I had taken the last batch, I had and have now taken ten bottles with the result that I feel like a new woman. When I commenced taking the Vegetable Compound I felt all worn out and have a nervous collapse. I weighed only 98 pounds. I now weigh 109 pounds and am improving every day. gladly testify to the benefit received from the generous collage St. Richmond, Va. — 80000 forfeit its original of above letter proving gentleness cannot be provided. When a medicine has been successful it is justice to yourself to say, without trying it, "I do not believe it would help me?" Surely you cannot wish to re-rain weak and sick. Mrs. Pinkham, whose address is Lynn, Mass., will answer cheerfully and without cost all letters addressed to her by sick women. Perhaps she has just the knowledge that will help you ease her to-day—it costs nothing. AT BED TIME I TAKE A PLEASANT HERR DRINK THE NEXT MORNING I FEEL BRIGHT AND NEW AND MY COMPLEXION IS BETTER. I go to bed every day at seven o'clock, lively with history and in a pleasant laxative. This drink is called *Lance Tea* or LANE'S FAMILY MEDICINE All druggists or by mail 55 cents, and 60 cents. Buy it to Lane's Family Medicine move the druggist to be in the same memory. Address: O. F. Woodward, La Rue, N. Y. HERRICK REFRIGERATORS 4% more room, 1% less room. White Spruce, Enamel, or Opal Glass interiors. Ask your dealer for them or call 212-745-2000. HERRICK REFRIGERATOR CO. 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Send today a postal box by draughtsman or postmaster box #20. by druggist or seen postpaid by us. 85 stores, large box of drugs. THE H. PAYTON CL. Boston, Mass. 814 Columbus Ave. PISO IS FOR FULL FILM FILM Best Cough Syrup. Satisfy Good. Use Cough Syrup. Warranties. CONAUMPTION An American tourist who called on Robert Burns' widow, Jean Armour, a few years after his death, had the audacity to ask her: "Can you show me the artisans who painted the old lady, with majestic dignity: "I am the only relief of Robert Burns." On a recent day's outing in Weschechter town, Brent laks the artisans as painters of the green hillside when a farmer can along, looked at the half-finished water-color, then gazed, much puzzled, at three pans containing water the artisans had put on the ground cheekily. On the look of disgust, he remarked half-aloud: "Homeoepath, b'goah!" A gentleman of Falls City, Nebraska, was recently left $40,000 by a deceased 900-year-old man. The abundant means, his nephews said he ought to divide the bequest among them. So insistent and irritating were their entreaties that he decided to get rid of the money. Drawing on the knowledge of the man, a cab and drove among the poor districts, distributing gold pieces until the money was exhausted. Joseph Gramer's wife, Phoebe Davis, of the "Way Down East" company, was approached on the train the other day by a boy, who without preliminary introduction, remarked: "Do you remember me? I was a member of your company last season." "Is that so?" answered Miss Davis; "I don't recall you. What part did you play?" "OK," was the reply, "I swear up the stage after the barnyard scene." The other night Second Warden E. A. McPherson climbed the penitent tairy wall at Salem, Ore. to test the feast was performed at the risk of his life, for had he been discovered, he would probably have been instantly shot. He placed a ladder against the exterior of the wall, climbed up, and descended. He went through the prison shops, and as a final touch carried away the coat and hat of one of the guards. It was from a jail that the famous Tracy escaped last summer, and it is supposed that the rife of the prison was taken into the prison over the yard fence. Brazil, Ark, May 11th.—To be snatched from the very brink of the grave is a somewhat thrilling experience and one which Mrs. M. O. Garrett of this place has just passed through. Mrs. Garrett suffered with a Cerebro-Spinal affection, and had been treated by the best physicians, but without the slightest improvement. For the last twelve months two doctors were in constant attendance, but she could only grow worse and, worse, till she could not walk, and did not have any power to move at all. She was so low that for the great er part of the time she was perfect; unconscious of what was going on about her, and her heart-broken husband and friends were hourly expiring death. The doctors had given up all hope and no one thought she could possibly live. In this extremity Mr. Garrett sent for a box of Dodd's Kidney Pills. It was a last hope, but happily it did not fall. Mrs. Garrett used in all six boxes of the remedy, and is completely cured. She says: "I am doing my own work now and feel as well as ever I did. Dodd's Kidney Pills certainly saved me from death." A strange punishment is endured by Armenian maidens when they have attained their seventeenth year and are not engaged to be married. They are forced to fast three days; then for twenty-four hours their food is salt fish, and they are not permitted to quench their thirst. Did It Ever Occur to You to note the rapid development of East Texas as a truck and fruit-growing country? No? Then write for the pamphlet "Timely Topics No. 2" and become convinced that the resources of Texas are illimitable. Address "Katy," 500 Walnwright, St. Louis, Mo. The want of money is the root of evil. The Best Results in Starching can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for some money—no cooking required. If you would travel the road to success keep out of the ruts. When You Buy Starch buy Defiance and get the best, 16 oz. for 10 cups. Once used, always used. Even a love match may flicker out before the winds of adversity. Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Lexative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 53c. All dogs are lap-dogs—at least they all drink that way. E. Z. FOOT COMFORT Cures Soro, Sweating and Aching feet. Price 25c. F. R. McCarthy, Jefferson, Iowa. Even the burglar sometimes breaks into society. Magnet Pile Killer Cures Pops. You can't make a horse fast by starving him. "TheKiwan, Kool Kitchen Kind" of stoves keep you clean and cool. Economical and ready. Sold at good store stoves. The man who is poor by nature is apt to be ruined by cultivation. Iowa Farms 84 Per Acre Cash, balance is crop till paid. MUHALL, Stony City, Ia. A cent in the land is worth two on the roschusb. Dr. Lawrence's special treatment cures Dyspepsia. Guaranteed, 600. Lawncrew Co. Des Moines, Ia. Sample free. If the society woman is over in love it is with her mirror. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then the Defiance Starch, it will keep them white—10 oz. for 10 cents. An eminent physician of Paris curses the nervous headaches of his patients by prescribing a haircut in each case. The result is based on the fact that the tube which passes through the entire length of each single hair is severed in the process, and the hair bleeds," as the barbers say, thereby opening a safety-value for the congested NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL Des Moines, May 14, 1903. The state camp meeting of America closed after a stormy session. The result of the convention was a unanimous victory for the Woodmen of America closed after a stormy session. The result of the convention was a unanimous victory for the Council Bluffs, who was the candidate opposed to Jerry Green for the endorsement as head director. The election of officers, which was held at the night session, resulted as follows: John D. Hewlett, Iowa City; state clerk, Peter Stephany, Manning; E. H. McCutchen, of Holstein, was selected as chairman of the delegation to the head camp meeting at Indianapolis; John D. Hewlett, Wisconsin; was audited over A. W. Maxwell, of Seymour; Dan B. Horne, of Davenport, was endorsed for head advisor without opposition; Colonel Saunders, for director, defeated Green by almost two to one; and the governor to 57. No action was taken on readjustment. Secretary Davison of the executive council has received the report of the Chicago Great Western railroad company for the year end December 31, 1902. It shows something of a falling off in earnings in 1902 as companies on the Great Western system proper in Iowa in 1902 were $2,888,452; the operating expenses, $2,642,165; and the net earnings, $246,287. The Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs elected an entirely new board for the first time in its history. The following officers were chosen: President, Mrs. T. J. Fletcher of Marshalltown; vice-president, Mrs. M. C. Cory of Spencer; treasurer, Mrs. M. Gibson of Ames; recording secretary, Mrs. Menon of Spencer; treasurer, Miss Secretary, Miss Harriet Lake of Independence; auditor, Mrs. Leopold Levy of Waverly. The building and loan business is rapidly dying out in Iowa, as reports to the building and loan department of the auditor's office indicate. Auditor's office says the associations are rapidly closing out business. Inquiry at the office of Secretary A. H. Davison of the executive council discloses the fact that for a number of months, in fact nearly two years, the auditor's office has passed then provided the amount of premium and interest charged by such associations should not exceed 8 per cent per annum. Under this restricting inducements to promoters that existed when there was no limit on the premium and interest that might be charged. Loss of confidence on the part of the public in building and loan business has been a five years ascribed as strong reasons for the decline of the business. There are but about 75 associations now transacting business in the state. How rapid a decline this has been is not known, but there were 87 domestic local associations in the state and 29 domestic, aside from the foreign associations that were transacting business here The attorneys for C. A. Albrook and other defendants in the famous tax ferret attorney fee case from Hardin county, have filed their argument in court against the defendants, who pel them to refund money paid on a contract to pay 15 per cent for attorney fees in addition to the 15 per cent for the ferrets. Judge Kenyon held that the contract was not against the defendants for $5,500 against the defendants. The plea made to the court in printed brief is quite long, and goes into the question of the necessity for such employment of a lawyer to assist the defendants in the case. that it was very necessary. Two-thirds of the pay that was given the attorneys went to the tax ferrets themselves on a side contract. The defendants argued by the ferrets arguments orally before the supreme court. According to the "Kindergarten Annual," which has been received at the office of Superintendent Barrett, and which contains a list of all the active teaching kindergartners in the district, the center for kindergartners in Iowa. It has the largest number by far of any city in the state. There are a total of 38 active kindergartners in Iowa with 20: Oksalaowna with 14: with 14 Dubuque has 11: Creston, 8, and Marahaltown, 7. The number in the profession does not at all keep pace with the size of the city. Bupa Baptist Davenport but 5 and Sloux City but 2. On the whole, however, the state of Iowa averages up well with the other states. There are two associates in the kindergarten work. They are the Des Moines Freebel and association and the Davenport kindergarten association. Governor Cummins has authorized the offer of a reward of $300 for the arrest of George Matheson, the young man of Pottawattamie county, who shot Deputy Sheriff J. C. Baker at the town of Weston, when the officer was making an arrest for assault for this offence, a handsome young man 19 years old, with blue eyes and light brown hair, 5 feet 7 inches high, weighing 150 pounds. The sheriff of Pottawattamie county is making every effort to locate the fugitive, and appealed to the police for this offence, which was readily granted. "When a woman wishes to retire from the world," says the Manayunk Philosopher, "she enters a nunnery. All a man has to do is to marry a famous woman." Casidy—"Ol want a wreath av flowers, and put on it. He rests in pieces in peace," says the man in peace." Casidy—"Ol man phat Ol sed. "Tis fur Casey, that was blowed in the querry." "What is it, Bobble?" asked the Sunday school teacher. "That's wrong about man bein' the noblest man." "What is it, Bobble?" made you think it was? "Well my ma says she made pa what he is." When a man buys a healthy peace at the price of a sickly pride he has made a good bargain. He has more experience but little difficulty in makingools of themselves. Mr. Hambury, the recently returned Académie curie, who has been studying Ebola, has said religion—not even belief in a suprone being. Because of his fragile bones, Hiram Barkley, a former skirmycoord boy, has broken his leg on twenty-two different occasions. The last fracture was brought on by r-severe convulsion of the whooping. "Mee Macgregoor," by J. J. Bell. "Well Bell has admirably told the humorous and realistic story of a little Scottish boy, Wee Macgregoor, of his father, John, his mother, who adores and disciplines him—three unforgettable people who live actually before us in the author's exquisite and sincere work. In this story of little Macgregoor, and in the relations between real life and friends, there is a suggestion of "A Window in Thrums," which made J. M. Barrie's reputation; and on the other hand its humor and fun are as entertaining as "Helen's book has taken over by Storm Harper & Bros., Publishers, New York. "The Substitute," by Will N. Harber, author of "Abner Daniel," "Wester felt," etc. This is a good, clean story of the fortunes of George Buckley, an author of the book of humility, he has a natively fine character. He is adopted by an old sinn who desires to tome for a past sin by so educating and training George that he may become a pastor. Providence. Hense the name. Final interest centers in a love affair that has a noteworthy effect on the young man's character, and the end is a happy one. The story is full of the wilt, philosophy, quaint humor that the well-known through "Abner Daniel." Ethel A. Pennell's sketch, "In Chaucer's Youth," in the May St. Nicholas, is based on an unfamiliar historic fact. Chaucer, writer of verse, is well known to me every grown-up, even of fair general information, knows that the lad Geoffrey Chaucer was a favorite page in the court of King Edward III, and later a squire to Prince Lionel, "In Chaucer's Youth," tells the pretty young man of age which advanced young Geoffrey Chaucer from lady's page to prince's squire. Of special interest at this time, when all lovers of music are looking forward to Adelina Patti's American visit next autumn, is Hermann Kielbaum, who published in the May Century. This chapter of the London critic's series in "Modern Musical Celebrities" gives glimpses behind the scenes at the first performance of Goundon's "Romeo et Juliette," when de Reske was Romeo and Juliet, and tells of many visits to Craig-rans. The Lothrop Publishing Company of Boston announce "Darrel of the Blessed Isles," the third novel by Irving Bachelier author of "Dri I and I" and "Eben Holden." Darrel, the clock man, is a master of the philosopher, and man of the mystery, Learned, strong, kindly, dignified, towers like a giant above the people among whom he lives. In him Mr. Bachelier has given us a character as new and lovable as Eben Holden, but more fascinating. Darrel's who is to be told is that he joyful good companionship and be much at home. It is another tale of the North Country, full of the odor of wood and field. Its people are wholesome: it is good to know them. Once in its mystery, the reader will go to the library to find Wit, humor, pathos, and high thinking are in this book. Professor Simon Newcomb, the dean of American Astronomers, contributes the leading article for the May McLure's, a most interesting forecast of the End of the World. In the form of the theoretical monochromical hypothesis on the subject. This article also is telling illustrated by Henri Lanos. The Louisiana Purchase—its rapid progress and solid importance—by leading and most timely article leading and most timely article in The World's Work for May. Among other important features are George Lie's explanation of the practical agriculture. The launching, the other day, at New London, of the Minnesota, the greatest cargo-carrier afloat, gave the first intimation to many newspaper editors for the Pacific Oriental trade. These great ships—the Minnesota and her sister ship, the Dakota—are described in detail by F. N. Stacy in the Review of News. May Atlantic commemorates the centenary of Emerson with a searching and illuminating article on Emerson as a religious Influence by Rev. George A. Gordon, who although was a Christian, possessed a religious belief, nevertheless pronounces Emerson's spirit "a tonic and inspiration of priceless worth and of inexpressible delight." Edwin A. Abbey's drawings for this exhibition have been reproduced in tint in the May number of Harper's Magazine. They are accompanied by a critical article by Joseph Knight. Mr. Abbey is now at his English home in Gloucestershire, where he is one of the most beautiful studios in the country. Nineteen stories and articles and one hundred and twelve illustrations form the contents of the May Cosmopolitan. J. Henniker Heaton M. McCormick and the third article on the "British Parcel Post"—particularly timely in view of the plan, about which the entire mercantile world is showing so wide an interest, to introduce into this country the system of carrying parcels in the mail. An American tourist who called on Robert Burns' widow, Jean Armour, a few years after his death, had the audacity to write a letter to all who any relies of the poet" "Sir," answered the old lady, with majestic dignity: "I am the only relict of Robert Burns." The Shah of Persia has the longest reign of the Islamic monarch six inches at their tips. No one else in the country is allowed this privilege. Bells are never used in Mohammedan mosques. The Mosque race determines the assemblage of evil spirits. The Khedive of Egypt is fond of horses, and has the most costly set of harness in the world. It was made in cost $10,000, and is for four horses. Take care of the pennies and after awhile the dollars will take care of you. The man who pays out a lot of money for so-called fame is apt to discover later that he has a gold brick on his hands. Women who like to talk about the equality of the sexes dislike to admit that women are more important. When a pretty girl stares at a man's feet he feels as if he had no earthly use for himself. No sooner does a man bring up a new theory than others proceed to believe it. A man's mistakes come from forgetting details; a woman's from remembering them. Don't depend on luck to push you until. KILLED BY A ROBBER. Lone Robber's Bold Act in a Restaurant at West Liberty. West Liberty, May 15. A desperate lone robber held up Tom McCarthy's lunch house, fifty yards from the Rock Island station, here at 1:30 o'clock yesterday morning. Arthur C. Meade, a jeweler, offered resistance to the robber and was shot. The bullet entered his breast near the heart and caused death. Mendo did not regain consciousness after he was shot and could make no statement. Mayor McIntosh and Marshal Wiley as soon as they learned of the robber and murder caused the fire bells of the town to sound. The town was aroused in a few minutes. A meeting of the infuriated citizens was held. Mayor McIntosh presided at the meeting. A pose was enlisted and men armed to scour the country for the robbers. Night Clerk Mortian was in charge of the restaurant when the masked rober entered with revolver drawn. He then asked the man he began to talk with Meade. Meade appeared to know the man and the two were joshing each other about the lateness of the hour. All at once the man asked a revolver at Meade and exclaimed. "Shut your face and hold up your hands." Oh, if guess not," said Meade, "parently thinking that the hold-up was a joke. "Well, I think you will," said the robber, and then there was a "bang" from the platop, and Meade reeled to the floor shot through the breadboard. He was in the room at the time. None of them offered any resistance to the robber, who kept his smoking revolver in his hand and loudly shouted that he would be arrested. He moved. The men who were in the restaurant were United States mail clerks and one travelling man, whose names at this time cannot be learned, were moved. There was a division and there are several postal clerks laying over here every night. They eat lunch in the McCarthy place, often in the middle of the night. He filled the till of the restaurant and took there from all the cash, amounting to $25. Before leaving the place he passed by his victim. I am sorry that I had to shoot him," said the robber, "I hope that he will not die." But while the bandit was speaking young Meade was breathing his last. A rush was made for the prostrate form on the floor as soon as he was dead. He was too far gone to make a statement. BURLINGTON TO BUILD. Greenficid to Winterset First Line to Be Built. Des Molens, May 14—The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad has completed a survey for a new line from Greenfield, Adair county, to Villisa. It is now surveying a line from Greenfield to Winterset, and will soon run a third line from Winterset to Tracy. At this point the new line will cross the Alba and Des Molens branch and connect with the Burlington and Northwest and Northwest sixteen miles between Tracy and Osakalao are now being built. When this stretch of track is completed, which will be within a few weeks, the Burlington's through line from Des Molens to Chicago via Osakalao will be completed from Des Molens to Chicago-Des Molens trains will be put on. First among the new pieces of roadmaking comes the Greenfield-Winterstet connection. The surveyors have been in this field for several years and have been in Winterstet. It centers the Rock Island depot at that town, and it has been given out that the Burlington and Rock Island will operate on a joint track arrangement. The highway bypasses Moline, which this will give Moines jobbers a direct line to a rich territory that has heretofore been reached in a roundabout way, at great loss of time and at heavy expense for shipping. The territory is bypassed by many salers, but they have not been able to work it to the best advantage. With a direct line to Greenfield through Winterstet they will have every opportunity to make the most of this territory. The road will extend the Burlington will extend the new line from Greenfield west to Council Bluffs. This will give the company its third parallel line across the state from the Mississippi to the Missouri. POLICE WILL SLAY DOGS Ordinance Passed Authorizing Slaughter Des Moines, May 15—Responding to public clamor for protection from rabid dogs, with which the city has been infested for some time, the city council met and passed an ordinance empowering the marshal to order the city to all dogs found running about the streets without muzzles and wearing a tag showing their owners have paid the tax imposed upon dogs. The ordinance is quite sweeping in its provisions, clothing, as it does, the chief of police with ample restraint of roving curs which are at once a nuisance and a menace. That a dog has a tag attached to his collar showing his owner has paid the dog tax will not suffice to preserve his life if found off the premises of his manor. That a dog with a tag on his collar was equally as dangerous as one without a tag, and provided that hereafter all dogs running about the streets must be provided with a muzzle as well as the tag. Chief Brackett has issued orders instructing the policemen to violate the violation of the ordinance mentioned, and the ordinance will be obeyed to the letter. Killed While Out Hunting. Perry, J. A. Johnson, strong,稳步 from I. A. Callahan, residing five miles from this city, was accidentally shot and killed. The young man, in company with a brother was out hunting when he went into a thicket to seize a dog, eventually discharged, the full charge entering the heart, causing death instantly. Killed Accidentally While Hunting. Burlington, May 11—George Helt, a well-to-do young farmer living near Burlington, while shooting chicken hawks, was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of his gun which partly sent a ball through his head. Thrown from Buggy and Killed. Dubuay, May 11—D. C. Hersey of Earlyville was killed while riding on a bicycle, and then shot him out of the buggy. He was one of the oldest residents of the town. The coconut palm has leaves acarly thirty feet long. DOCTOR ENSOR SUPT. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE INSTITUTION Endorses the Gatarrhal Tonic Pe-ru-na- A Congressman's Letter. Tone's Spices Always in packages, are economy even though bulk spices seem cheaper. Greatest material strength, preserved in waxed paper lined boxes. A nice dessert dish is Ginger Pudding ½ cup butter creamed with ½ cup of granulated sugar. Whisk in egg yolk, 2 teaspoons Tone's African Ginger. 4 teaspoons Tone's American Ginger. Mix and sift 2 cups parchment flour. Replace ½ cup water with 1 cup ginger cut in small pieces. Serve warm, on ice, in well buttered mould. Serve with Double Sage. (See "Spicy Tales" booklet). When food doesn't taste right, get a supply of Tone's Spices. Tone's Coffee In packages for flavor's sake. Flavor varies in our 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 cent packages. All are high grade. At All Grocers TONE BROTHERS Des Moines Iowa We guarantee everything we manufacture. TONE BROS SPICES AFRICAN GINGER W. L. DOUGLAS $3.50 and $3.00 Shoes Union White You can save from $8.00 to $0.00 yearly by wearing W. L. Douglas $3.50 or $3 Shoes. They are just as good in every way that I have seen you from $0.00. The immense sale of W. L. Douglas shoes proves important in our daily markets. Sold by retail shoe dealers everywhere. The genuine have name and price stamped on each bottom. Take no substitute. Fast Color Expenses used. W. L. Douglas Line cannot be equaled at any price. SHOES BY MAIL 25 EXTRA CATALOG FREE W. L. DOUGLAS BROCKTON MASS BEST $3.50 & $3.00 SHOES IN THE WORLD Established 1876. The Douglas secret process of fusing the bottom sale shoes into any other image. The shoes have more than three hundred years of history. Sold by retail shoe dealers. W. L. Douglas makes and sells more men's shoes than any other manufacturer in the world. The $25,000 Reward will be paid to anyone who purchases the best imported and American leather Dr. J. F. Enor, Postmaster of Columbia, S. C. late Superintendent and Physician in charge of State Insane Aylum at Column s., S. C. writes: "Using your窥窥 myself or a short arm my family having and are now using the same with good results, and upon the information of others who have been benefited by it as a cure for catarrh and an invigorating tonic, I can cheerfully recommend a remedy."—Dr. J. F. Enor. Hon. C. W. Butts, a member of Congress from N. rth Dakota, in a letter from Washington, D. C., says: "That Peruna is not only a vigorous, as well as an effective tonic, but also a cure of catarrh is beyond controversy. It is already established by its use by the thousands who have been treated with it, can hardly express my appreciation of its excellence."—C. W. Butts. Dr. R. Robbins, Mukagee, I. T. writes: "Peruna is the best medicine I know of for coughs and to strengthen a weak stomach and have a epileptic Bezie Prescription it for catarrh, I have ordered it for weak and debilitated people, and have not had a patient but it helped him. It is an excellent medicine and it fits so many cases. We have a large prognosis and have a chance to recover. Bezie Prescription you may live long to do good to the sick and suffering." Only the weak need a tonic. People are never weak except from some good cause. Catarrh inflates the mucous membrane and the one often overlooked is catarrh. Catarrh inflates the mucous membrane and causes the blood plasma to escape through the mucous membrane in the form of mucous. This discharge of mucus is the loss of blood. It produces peruna stops the catarrh and prevents E. Z. FOOT CONFORT cures all conditions of Sore, Tender and bad odor. Ask your druggist. Price 25c. Efferent preaching can produce but effervescent practice. Mage Pile Killer Cures Piles. Even the sweetness of revenge may curdle. I do not believe Fice's Pice for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds. John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 5, 1900. The dute mute is generally handy with his talk. HOUSEKEEPERS, ATTENTION! This little guy is blue and blue and you will use no other. Use at grocers. You can't keep your friends and give them away too. All Up to Date Housekeepers Define Cold: Better Starch, because it is better, and 4 oz. more it for some money. The pessimist never orders spring amb. Cured Without Medicine instant relief through the feet. Large pores absorb medical virtue and expel impurities. TREATMENT SENT FREE IF CURED PAY $1.00 Don't take drugs into your stomach—there's another way to get medicine into your system. Magic Foot Drafts have taught the world that the blood can be reached through the pores of the feet—the largest pores in the body. Hundreds thousands of men and women have tested their merits—always at our risk—and we are still sending the drafts free on approval to every sufferer we can hear of. MAGIC Though worn on the feet, the Drafts cure Rheumatism in every part of the body. They bring instant relief and comfort—having a gentle counter- situant and stimulating effect which takes immediate effect on the blood and nervous system. Don't let Rheumatism take possession of your bones and make life less desirable than death. Act now. Write today to the MAGIC FOOT DRAFT COMPANY, WA 9, Oliver Bldg., Jackson, Mich., and be well. When awaited with relief received, send on UA W. N. U., Des Moines, la. No. 29—1903 W. N. U., Des Moines, la. No. 29—1903 the discharge of mucosa. This is why Peruna is called a tonic. Peruna does not give strength by stimulating the nervous system a little. It gives strength by preserving the mucous membranes against leakage. It gives strength by converting the blood fluids and preventing their draining away in mucus discharges. It also helps and slowing the nose will finally produce extreme weakness from the loss of mucus. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Pernua, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice Address Dr. Hartman, President of the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. MISSOURI LANDS MISSOURI LANDS Missouri led the United States in corn in 1902. Missouri's average rainfall for the past ten years was 35.64 inches. Missouri is sold onions as a fruit state. Kansas City shipped 70,000 more stockers and feeders in 1902 than Chicago and Omaha combined. Our illustrated catalogue containing a partial list of landers we have for sale, within a radius of one hundred or miles of Kansas City, is free on application. Write for it. Address. H. C. CASSELMAN INVESTMENT CO. LITTELLS LIQUID SULPHUR **Medicines Will Care a** **Skin Disease on Earth** **Stopa Litching Instantly.** For cots in stamps we will mall a sample package of the three remedies The Tiquid and The RHUA-SULPHUR CO. 122 Austin Ave., Waco, Tex. In attracting more attention than any other district in the world. "The Granary of the World." "The Land of Sunshine." The Natural Feeding Feeding Grounds for Stock. FARMERS WESTERN CANADA FREE Area under Crop in 1902, 1,087,330 acres. Yield 1903, 117,924,754 bus. Abundance of water: fuel plentiful; building material FARMS WESTERN GRANT FREE Area under Crop in 1908, 1,087,330 acres. Yield 1908, 111,927,754 bus. plentiful; building material cheap; good grass for pasture and may; a fertile soil; a sufficient rainfall and giving an assured and adequate season of growth HOMESTEAD LAND OF 160 ACRE FREE the only charge for which is $10 for making entry. Close to schools, schools, etc. Railways tap all settled districts. Send for Allas other literature to Superintendent of Im- migration. Send for Jackson St. St. Paul, Minn., or W. W. Bennett, 801 N. Y. Life Building, Omaha, the authorized Canadian Government Agent, who certificate giving you reduced railway rates, etc. OPPOSE EDUCATING THE COLORED RACE. Gov. Jeff Davis says they Would be Better off Without Washington and Carnegie Little Rock, Ark., May 9.—(Special)—Governor Davis received the following letter today from Chicago: "It is the intention, with the aid of Mr. Carnegie and under the auspices of Hon. Booker T. Washington, to establish in Louisville, Ky., or New Orleans, La., a large department dry goods store exclusively with colored help, in order to elevate the colored race and educate them in the commercial pursuits of life. Will your excellency be good enough to give me your views upon this unique enterprise? Respectfully, The governor sent the following reply tonight: Replying to your esteemed fa vor, I beg to say I think this so-called elevation of the colored race is all nonseame, and when you do so you are helping to elevate them to the penitentiary. I think the Negro would do much better if Booker Washington and Andrew Carnegie, with their so-called philanthropy, would let them alohe, as they have gotten along very well without the assistance of these people. Ever since they tried to elevate the race and educate them in the commercial pursuits of life the Negro has been troublesome. His natural place is in the field, where his activities and usefulness is greatest, and where he would remain perfectly contented if such disturbing elements as the scheme which you set out in your letter would not give him a false conception of his position. My views are decidedly against this proposition. Yours veay truly, "Huff Davis, Governor" After one has read such a letter as this one that Gov. Davis has written especially coming from what is supposed to be the better class of whites the chief executive of a common wealth. It makes the colored youth feel that there is no hope, no opportunity for him to exercise his talent and prove his true worth and good virtues. It really seems that there still lives within the South land some more of the Tillman stripe. Wonder if Gov. Davis ever reflects that there are hundreds of whites educated in the penitentiary as criminals, should they stop educating the whist race on that account. Then Gov. Davies says, that the Negro has been troublesome ever since they have tried to educate and elevate them. Troublesome in what way? Is it because he is intelligent enough to know and demand his rights as any citizen should? Or has he become Gov. Davis equal or even superior in education and refinement. Geo. Washington fought for the Governor's freedom, Abraham Lincoln contended for freedom to the slaves, so now we all are free and ought to be equal before God and the laws. Then Mr. Davis says "His natural place is in the fields ect. We would like to know who decreed that edict? And by what authority he makes that statement? This is what hurt men with views like Davis. Many of our race has entered the commercial and financial and professional pursuits of life hence he is a competitor and they become jealous and envious of him. THE KITCHEN AS A LABORATORY. THE KITCHEN AS A LABORATORY. The Mistress of the Home of 1925 will be a chemist. She will be a trained scientist. She will regard her kitchen as a laboratory in which a thousand wonderful experiments will be tried. The idea that the kitchen is a place of druggery, where only those enter who are forced by circumstances will have disappeared; and there will remain only wonder that any one could ever have been ignorant enough of the murvelous processes of science to have taken so little interest in the subject. The kitchen itself will appear from the basement and from the home forever. In its place, adjoining the dining-room, so that the transit from the fire to the table may occupy but a second's time, will be the "Household Laboratory." The mistress of the house and her daughters will find no more interesting period of the day than that which is spent in the well-lighted well-rilated, cleanly and comfortably arranged room given up to the constant surprises which science offers to those who will study with interest her wonders in the realm of combinations of food materials and the transformations brought about by varying degrees of heat—John Brisbin Walker in the May Communicitarian. BUCHAKINOCK NEWS. Mrs. M. Welsh returned from Barton Sunday. Fishing is good at No 9 pond. Mcdonald Welch and Drew and a number of other ladies will spend Wednesday at the pond. We hope the ladies succeed. Bronice Jones is able to be out again also Town Preco is better as this writing. The ladies' club will meet next Thursday at the home of Mr. Foster. Meadness Tassel and Carey went to Boston Friday. Tweensh's meeting was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John McDowell Friday evening. Fourteen was invited to the dining room where a three course lunch was served. The visitors of the meeting were Rev. Clemmons of Oxtoncliffe and Attorney Woodson, at a late hour all departed, declaring Mrs. McDowell a charming house. Mrs. M. Jones is a Buxton visitor this week. Bellefontaine, Ohio, Via the North-Western Line. Excursion tickets will be sold at one fare for round trip June 1, limited for return until June 6, inclusive. Apply to agents Chicago & North-Western RY. Bound to Be. "Isn't it strange?" began the man with the mental brailismus. "In't what strange?" interrupted his tired friend, who was anxious to have it over. "That no matter how well and thoroughly every detail of a wedding is planned, there is bound to be a hitch in the proceedings." Asked and Answered. "What is a prodigy?" asked the boarding house landicy, as she looked up from a letter she was perusing. A prodigy, answered, who gave at the corner of the table "is something rare. For example, a rare steak would be a prodigy in this hash dispensary." "You seem to be in a weak and nervous physical condition," said the medical examiner of the insurance company. "No wonder," replied the victim. "Your solicitors have made my life a burden during the past six months." Tallora' ResourceFurnace If men know the many artifices the tailor has to resort to in order to make them presentable they would be less ready to make him the butt or ridicule, says the Tailor and Outter. Truly the tailor has need of padding and wadding, haircloth and canvas to enable him to clothe his customers to hide it to hide their defenses and bring into prominence their points of beauty. Tombas of Our Presidents. An argument in favor of having our dead presidents buried in a national cemetery at Washington may be found in the proposition to increase the guard at the temporary tomb of Presidents Kahnley. It is proposed to put the garrison at the temporary tomb post. Hospital and dispensary facilities are to be increased, and a new site selected to accommodate sixty-five men. Wireless Telegraphy in Paris. In Paris it is proposed to establish a central station, from which wireless telegraphy will be used to transmit the news to subscribers in different parts of the town. The Societe Française de Tolothérapie Sans Fil has been organised with the experimental stations which have been installed in different parts of the city appear to work satisfactorily. Pin Has Seen Long Service. At the marriage of Miss Almee Stagg and Augustus Post in Paterson, N. J., recently, the bride wore a pin which had been worn by sixteen other brides in the same family. It was first worn by her grandmother, Mrs. Stephen Counter, 66 years ago, and since then all the girls in the family have tried to make it a part of their marriage outfit. Ball Bearings for Railroad Cars A railroad company is said to be conducting a series of experiments with a freight car the trucks of which are fitted with ball bearings journals. These, it is claimed, make a car run so easily that a single person can move it. If they prove practicable, train loads can easily be doubled and hauled with the same power now used. Truthful Comment A little boy fell asleep the other night just before dinner and dreamed a dream that spread over a whole week. When they woke him they told him that he had been asleep just five minutes. He pondered for a time, and then said dazedly: "It takes an awful long time to sleep five minutes."—Exchange. Aaron Burr was feeling immediately after the duel. "But where will you be next?" asked his second. "I can't tell," returned the statesman, "whether I'll be Aaron Burr, or Burr in air." Stopping to kick a suggestive piece of rope out of his pathway, he hastily resumed his flight. Bribery In Kansas. In making avidvails of his election expenses, a Marion county candidate reports that he paid his wife 50 cents for getting up and making the fire five times. Things must be coming to a terrible pass in Kansas. We want to know if this is not bribery—Exchange. Many New Stars. Within historical times there have been no fewer than twenty-six recorded appearances of new stars. One of the most important was that which appeared in 1872, a short time after the massacre of St. Bartholomew. WIT AND WIREDOM. The best time to marry is some other time. Many a man gets grocery over noth- ing, stronger than a pine dream. ing struggle that a pipe the future, the widow to forget the past. A critic is a moral butcher who will cut into, and cut up, and cut out anything. There is a lot of incense burned on the altar of love that goes up in smokes. 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 talent that converts itself into hard cash. He may 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 fogy incense to himself and smiles a self-satisfied, hard cash smile. When a woman speaks of her husband as being such a domestic man she always hangs around when he is not wanted, and poking his nose into everything. When a man proposes to a girl he should be extremely modest. A woman likes to think it a lovely piece of condescension on her part to accp any man, even though she may be more interested in counting, his auto or his yacht—what on earth am I talking about, anyhow?). Kate Tyshne 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 in you; every hour of your life is lived in you. 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. Live again your childhood—it is thus you shall understand the intensity of every childish joy and trouble. 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 present. They shut themselves out from the past. Now and then the memories force themselves upon them. They sigh and shake their heads and turn away. Chinaman Wins Yale Honors. Bartlett G. Young, this year's president of the Yale University Bancol 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 Kelogg, member of a prominent Connecticut family and a famous beauty in her day. He lived in Hartford for 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 Jane, the daughter of the young boy's birth Dr. Young was a special envoy of China in Washington, and therefore the young man is held to be a Chinese, though born in this country. Escapes Autograph Hunters Bellevue autograph rulers. D'Anunnio the distinguished Italian man 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 has written this book, now may be read: "Gabrielle D'Anunnio'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. Bleichroder to Leave the Turf. Though his new American jockey, Foster, won several races for Baron Bleichroder of Lake Lafayette, he terminated to give up his racing stables. He says he can't stand the jockey-jockeying any longer, and if he loses 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. Bleichroder has been the most generous patron of the German turf for twenty years. *Monument to Frenchman.* The anniversary of the arrival of the French troops at New York during the war, served 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 excellent service to the patrol cause during the war with Great Britain. 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 thought 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 cavalry, until he heard a passing woman say to her "Him. That's all were good for—to have men hang their coats and hats on us." PASSING THROUGH A GREATER DIVISION OF CLIMATE SOIL AND RESOURCE THAN ANY OTHER RAILWAY IN THE WORLD, FOR ITS LENGTH. Along its line are the finest lands, suited for growing small grain, corn, flax, apple and pear orchards, for other fruits and berries; for commercial canola and oil crops; for saccharine and dicotylacids; for mercantile timber; for ralston's mules, cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry and Angora goats, at prices ranging from FREE GOVERNMENT HOMESTEADS to twenty-five dollars or more or more cash. Cheap round-trip, homecookers and kitchenware. Free meals each month. Write for a copy of "CURRENT EVENTS," published by the KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY THE SHORT LINE TO H. D. DUTTON, TRAV. PASS. AGT., S. G. WARNER, G. P. AND T. A., KANSAS CITY, MO. KANSAS CITY, MO. F. E. ROCKSLER, TRAV. PASS. AND IMG'N AGT., KANSAS CITY, MO. EVERYBODY KNOWS'BAT MUNGES'LAU DRY is the best in the city. Try them and be decided. Mary Office 511-815 NINTH St Danger In Sweeping Tests in treatment houses show that in five minutes after sweeping 2,500 germs settled on a saucer three inches across. In the same length of time before sweeping seventy-five germs settled on the saucer. Child Labor in New York. From facts gathered in the last six months the remarkable condition is of the existence of more child labor in New York city than in all the states of the south combined. Will Tell of Boundary Lines. O. P. Austin, chief of the bureau of statistics, is writing a book on the development of the boundary lines of the states and territories, noting the changes since colonial days. Writing Book on Tuberculosis. Alfred Hillier, a well-known authority on consumption, is writing a book on the prevention of tuberculosis, which will be revised by Prof. Koch. Proposed to the Single. Do you try to keep a flatiron warm with your feet all night, or do you make the effort in the interest of a water jug?—Atchison Globe. Medal for Mathematicians. King Oscar of Sweden has presented a gold medal for award every fifth year to the world's most prominent mathematician. Would Bar Divorce Reports. Lady Jenne advocates the suppression of newspaper reports of divorce cases on the ground of public policy. Valuable Public Property. The official valuation of the Philadelphia city hall and grounds is $13,604,000. 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 shore front property at Great Neck has been going on for months big price being the same as the one here. The little hamlet will have been replaced by aplendid summer cottages. Five thousand dollars an acre was paid for an estate of 105 acres. JOHN L. THOMPSON, Attorney-at-Law. Practice in all the Courts in Iowa. Real Estate and Probate a Specialty. . . Room 405 MARQUAGE BLOCK. 899. USE OF CAVALRY IN WAR. Military Authorities Agree on Value of This Arm. All military authorities on the continent are of one mind as to the immense advantage which will accrue to the power which, at the outset of a war, can most quickly place in the field a superior force of efficient mounted troops. One result of this belief is the extreme care with which each of the great military powers of the continent watches the strength and distribution of the cavalry of its neighbors. At the present moment some disquietude exists in the Triple Alliance, because the cavalry of the continent has become superior, numerically to the own In the event of war, France could place in the field 327 squadrons and Russia 711; or the two allies together 1,038 squadrons, while the Triple Alliance could only muster 746 squadrons, or 292 squadrons less than the Double Alliance. FARM LANDSI If you are looking for a home or an investment, do not forget that the best farm lands in the Northwest are along the line of The Minnesota & St. Louis R. R. where crop failures are unknown. Good soil, good climate, good people there. Farm values are rising rapidly and the time to buy is NOW. Low excursion rates from points on the Iowa Central and Minnesota & Lt. Louis Railroads, if you wish to investigate. For particular address, A. B. CUTTS. G. P. A., Ia. Cent. and M. & St. L. R. R Minnesota, polis. K. C. Kansas City Soil "Straight as the KANSAS CITY PASSING TERROUGH A GREAT SOIL AND RESOURSE FOR IN THE WORLD. Along its line are the finest lands, autu- cation; for commercial apple and peach for commercial cantaloupe, potato, v ager cans and recyclable tractor. SPECTACLES MADE TO FIT ANY EYES. DESEASES OF THE EYE, EAR MODE & THROAT CORPS EYES TESTED FREE DR. DUNCAN.OCULIST JOHN W. FIFTH ST. DES. MOINE.10WA. CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT. The Corinthian Baptist Church—stunted on 11th St. between Crocker and Schoon, on Preschasing at 11 A.M.; Sunday School at 19 o'clock. Preschasing at 7 P.M. Rev. T. L. Griffith, Pastor, St. Paul A. M. E.—Corner of Second and Center Streets. Presching at 10:30 a. m.; Sunday School at 3 o'clock; Evoworth League at 7 p. m.; preaching at 5 p. m. Horace S. Graves pastor. First African Baptist Church—Corner School and Youth streets. Rev. F. Lomack pastor. Presching at 10:30 a. m.; Sunday school at 3:30 p. m. Mr. M. E. Houstas. Superintendent Young People's meeting 7 p. m., preaching 8:00 p.m. Surn's Chapel M. E. Church—Corner of 11th and Crocker St.—Church services, preaching at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Class and prayer meeting 12 m. Sunday; Sunday School at 3:30 p.m.; Evoworth League at 7 p.m. Sunday; Prayer and Class meeting every Wednesday 8 p.m. O. A. Johnson, pastor, 960 11th St. Tabernacle Baptist Church Mission—Stituted over 606 East Locust street. Presching at 11 a. m.; Sunday School at 9:00 a. m.; preaching at 8:00 p.m. Rev. J. H. Winchback, pastor SECRET ORDERS. North Star Lodge. No. 9. A. F. & M. — Meets First Thursdays in each month at Mason Hall and Center Miracle, Geo. H. Cleggett, W. M. T. S. Ruf, secretary. King Stones Commandery, No. 6. — Meets and Fourth Thursdays in each month at Mason Hall, J. E. Todd, M. C.; H. R. Wright, Bee. No. 3. — Meets Second Monday in each month at Mason Hall, Mrs. L. V. D. Duney, Matron; Mrs. J. H. Shepard, secure Mr. Olive Court. No. 4. 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