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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. I. D. G. L. No. 30, G. U. O. O. F. THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL SESSION. The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Met in Colfax, July 14th, 15th and 16th. VOL. 10. I. D. G. I G. U. C THE TWENTY-SECOND The Grand Unite Fellows Met 14th, 15th J. T. MABRY, Re-elected District Grand Master of the I. D. G. L. No. 30. The lodge was called to order at 10:30 a.m. m., the 14th, by Grand Master John T. Mabry of Davenport. The roll was called and the followed an swerved present: D. G. M. J. John T. Mabry, Davenport; D. G. M. George, Hiller, Davenport; D. G. M. Hillier, Davenport; D. G. T. P. S. Ervin, Charlton, after which the grand master appointed the following grand officers: D. G. chapain, D. T. Moseley, Clevland; D. G. O. G., C. H. Prentice, F. Madison; D. G. I. G. G. D. Newman, Charlton; D. G. W. Edward H. Howard, Davenport. The lodge was then declared open for business. D. G. I. G. G. D. Newman was delivered by Mayor Hahn of Cofax, who '1 a few well chosen words declared Colfax open to the Odd Fellows and their friends. The response was made by M. V. P. George E. Lee, D. D. G. M. The District Grand Household was then sent for to hear the Grand Master's address, after which remarks were made, and the members of the lodge and household, and the balance of the day was given over to business of a routine nature. Wednesday's session was called to order at 9:30 a.m. m. At roll call both officers and delegates answered present with some few exceptions, and the business of the day. Many committees were appointed by the D. G. M., and they soon began hunting up business for their report. At 10:30 we adjourned to hear the address of D. M. N. G. at the hall, where the D. G. H. H. was in session. After Sister Anna Parker delivered her address as D. M. N. G. short speeches were made by D. G. M. John T. Mabry, M. G. George E. Lee, M. G. O. Torres, M. G. M. H. S. Clay and others. The lodge then returned to their hall and again went into secret session. By this time members had began to come in from all over the state, and through the instruction of the lodge all admitted on quarterly pass word and the lodge hall was soon filled. Wednesday afternoon was given over mostly to election of officers, and as there will be no more elections for two years many were those who would be elected. The man seemed to have a friend to take his part on the floor, but everything was done in a friendly way and no hard feeling existed whatever. The man who was defeated shook hands with the successor, and the man seemed smoothly along. After the ballots were counted the following were declared elected: D. G. M., John T. Mabry of Davenport. D. G. M., Geo. E. Lee of Buxon. D. G. S., Alfred L. Triplet of Keokuk. D. G. T., Major Barber of Evans. D. G. D., T. J. James of Colaf. Bro. W. R. Frazier of Des Moines worked hard to get the Grand Lodge to meet in *Des Moines* in 1905, but by some means Keukul delegates carried the day. Bros. George E. Lee, W. H. Reeves and Rev. C. H. Mendhenall were on hand to represent Buxton in the session, but they seemed to be like the race bulletin which names the winner and then says others also ran. The Grand Lodge seemed to be fortunate this year, as every one of those present seemed to be an orator of some kind. Thursday all committee reported and the business part of the session was closed to Buxton in the parade, which was already being formed downstairs by the D. G. M., Bro. J. S. James. As is usual, Buxton people were there in great numbers to do honor to her famous band, which was engaged to furnish music for that occasion. The parade formed in front of her famous band in front, then came the Colfax lodge, then visiting lodges, then delegates and past grand masters, then --- A Week Among the Secret Socities of Iowa Household of Colafx in carriages, delegates to the D. G. H. and household officers, all in carriages, also Buxton household, then D. G. lodge officers, except D. G. M. and D. D. G. M., who are both patriforms, so they marched in front of the speakers. After marching through the principal streets of Colafx the Grand Director marched the lodges to a park, where seats had been arranged and a platform for the speakers. After a few moments rest Bro. P. G. M. H. Slay presented the D. G. M., Bro. J. T. Mabry, as the president of the day. The president, then deuced Lawyer J. B. Rush of Moines, also rev. C. H. Mendhall of Buxton, and Eddle Carter of the S. U. I. Rev. Graves of Des Moines gave the invocation, and many were the good things that the speakers said. In fact, each speaker seemed to be at his best. After the speaking was over the back of the back and the back next and all marched back to the hall seemingly well pleased with what had been said and done. A banquet and public installation was held at the Odd Fellows hall Thursday night. The newly elected officers were installed by the M. J. M. Institute. The D. G. H. H. officers were also installed by the same brothers. As I don't know the initials of all the D. G. H. H. officers I won't attempt to give them. Our installation was over the D. G. M. John T. Mabry, declared the D. G. L. closed to meet in Keokuk the third Tuesday in July, 1905. Yours fraternally. JOHN T. MABRY, D. G. M. MADE THE FLEA TOO STRONG. Two Over-Zealux Youngsters Work Alone! Thiamines Out of a Job The working members of a family consisting of a father and two sons found themselves out of employment. After a diligent search, the youngest son found employment on the Roxborough filter plant, helping to dig the excavations. On the completion of the first day's work he asked Mr. McNichol to give his brother a job. The contractor, ever in the alert for good men, asked the young man if his brother could work as he and on the strength of this recommendation the elder brother was engaged. The next day both brothers went to to McNichol and pleaded to have their father put on the job. "Can your father do as much work as either of you boys?" asked McNichol. "Yes," answered the brothers; "he can do as much work as both of us together." "Good," replied McNichol. "Send your father around in the morning and you two stay at home."—Philadelphia Ledger. ACCORDING TO HIS FOLLY. Fresh Young Man Who Bantered Jan Answered in Kind A young Japanese composer employed on a Japanese paper hardy a stone's throw from the Mall and Express building, was riding down town in a city hall train the other morning. He was engrossed in his morning paper and paid little attention to the other passengers. But a fresh-looking young man who sat next to him, and cynically ceying him all along, suddenly said: "What sort of a 'nese' are you, anyway? A Chinese or a Japanese?" The little Jap was not caught napking. Quick as a wink he replied: "What sort of a 'key' are you anyway; a monkey, a donkey, or a Yankee?" The fresh young man had no more to say and left the train quickly when City Hall station was reached—New York Mall and Express. Less Noise on the Fourth. There are many symptoms of a growing desire on the part of adult Americans for aformed observance of the law. The family is quite general that juvenile America has been allowed to exaggerate the explosive features of our great national festival and that something may be well done to celebrate the day in ways that mean move and sound less. —New York World. Presents for Sultan of Morocco. J. W. S. Langerman, Morocco's commissioner to the world's fair, has just bought the Moorish sultan a brace of mules, a number of Angora cats and goats, some fancy dogs and a pacer and a span of fine carriage and horse were of the same carriage, horses were Buff and Blue, well-known ribbon winters in their cost the sultan $2,000. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1903. KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS, International Order of Twelve, Successor to Knights of Liberty. State Grand Held Held in Albia July 8th State Grand Held Held in Albia July 8th gatees and Visitors Attend. The seventh annual grand session of the I. O. of Twelve Knights, and Daughters of Tabor for the district of Iowa convened at Alba at their hall at 10 o'clock Tuesday, July 7th. Open in Salia Meroe degree. The following temples were represented at roll call: King Solomon No. 333, Buxton; Banner No. 90, Osakalao; Starlight No. 408, Evans; Tarnabecras, Bethel No. 82, Fort Madison; Delegate Luciel Holmes, Star No. 38, Alba; delegate, Eliza Belysan, Hackett No. 64, Buxton; delegate, Addie Johnson, Gates Ajar No. 94, Burlington; delegate, Margaret Drew, Queen of Iowa, Evans; delegate, John D. Blysan, Des Moines, delegate, Mary L. Holmes; Montrose, No. 39, Mt. Pleasant, delegate, Harriet Poston. The International Order of Twelve, Knights of Tabor, was first known as the Knights of Liberty, a secret society from the first. After the war had settled the question of negro freedom the name of the order was changed in 1873 as above, and because twelve men were members of the Knights of Liberty the number Twelve wag preserved in the new name. At this time ladies were admitted to membership. The new order is to perpetuate the noble deeds of the Knights of Liberty for though there were hundreds, even thousands at the opening of war there were few when the war was over. Their motto was: "We have the power to give what thing to gain." Everybody knows the bravery and valor of the colored troops. The I, O, of 12, Knights of Tabor, now number over 8,000 members, is in every state and territory, there is a children's department and four Temples are organized among the American Indians. They have temples for orphans and the Filipinos. It is for the uplifting of the race, education, philanthropy, the best of everything for the colored race. They have twelve degrees which have been criticised by the ablest men of the world, and these are pronounced of a high type, rituals, badges and all work are wholly original with the colored people. We applied to Mrs. Susie Snodly of Albia, district grand recorder for delegates present. The following is the list: Sir W. W. Jones, D. G. M., of Buxon; Sir W. H. Cook of Buxton; Sir George Chambers, D.-G. O., of Fort Madison; D. Margaret Drew, D. G. P.; of Burlington; D. M. E. Dixon, P. D.; D. M. E. Dixon, P. D.; Holmes of Ft. Madison; D. Adille Johnson, H. P., of Buxon; D. Mary L. Holmes, H. P., of Des Moines; D. Emma Willis, H. P., of Evans; D. Nettie Davis, H. P., of Des Moines; D. Lucy Courtney, P. H., of Des Moines; D. Susie London, P. H., P. of Buxon; D. Sarah Jones of Des Moines; D. Susie Jefferson, P. D. M., Des Moines. Tuesday evening a reception was tendered to the visiting delegates in the hall, which was well attended and much enjoyed. The sessions of Wednesday were given to routine business. Thursday afternoon the election of grand officers took place, which resulted in the election of C. G. M., Sir W. H. Cook; D. G. P., Dusie Snoddy, Albia; D. S. R. T., Susie London, Buxton. At 2:30 the delegates and visitors formed in procession at the hall in full regalia, and by the band marched to the A. M. E. church, where the annual sermon was preached by the Chambers of Fort Madison. In the evening there was a public installation of grand officers in the new armory followed by a grand bail. The state session has been of extreme interest to the members and people of Albuquerque. At 3:00 the D. G. P., A. L. Drew of Burlington, D. G. P., got word whence that her husband, one of Uncle Sam's rural mail carriers, had had a runaway and been injured. She was making preparations to leave for her home when the second telegram announced the death of her husband, to call for her return, so she stayed and filled out her work. The delegates were entertained at the following Albia homes: Mrs. Elizabeth Grayson entertained Mr. and Mrs. Davis of Des Moines, and Mrs. Holmes and Rev. Chambers of Fort Radcliffe. The delegates were entertained at Des Moines Rigs: London and Johnson of Buxton and Mrs. Jefferson of Des Moines; Mrs. J. H. Boddy entertained Mrs. Drew of Burlington, Mrs. Dixon of Keokuk, Mrs. Holmes of Des Moines and Mrs. Willis of Evans; Mrs. Ed Butler entertained Shelton of Chariton, Mrs. Clint Stevenson entertained Mrs. Bannockhock, and Mrs. Henry Jones entertained Mrs. Courty and daughter of Des Moines, also D. G. M. Sir W. W. Jones and Sir W. H. Cook of Buxton. The procession from the hall to the church, the sermon by Rev. Chambers, were all highly creditable to the order and coined praise which closed the proceedings much enjoyed by a large crowd. All in all the Grand Lodge was a fine success. Palmetto Hotte a Millennia. Count Hamong, better known in the United States as Cheiro, the palmetto hawker, has written a lionaire, writes a Paris correspondent. The only known man to make a million telling fortunes has bought a chateau in the champagne country, where he has gone to cultivating vines. CHRISTIE B. SMITH With pleasure we present the cut of Geo. L. Suter of Marshall-town, an unassuming man, but who is the pioneer of Eureka lodge No. 20, having organized it and made it what it is, with the cooperation of others. He has masonry at heart and understands masonic jurisprudence, perhaps better than any man of his age in Iowa. He is past master of his lodge, past senior grand warden and at present chairman of the committee on jurisprudence and code revision, which is a very important committee this year. Mr. Suter at one time lived in Des Moines. He is right engineer at the city water works, and is well liked, as he is punctual, honest and reliable about his work. There are still greater honors for him we hope. W. A. SEARCY. Rev. Searcy was born in North Carolina, 1863; entered the public school at the age of seven and was in school until fifteen years of age. He was converted in 1880, licensed as an exhorter in 1881; licensed as local preacher in 1882, and came to Iowa in 1883 and served as supply pastor awhile. The reverend joined the Iowa annual conference at Moline, Ill., in 1896 and was stationed at Iowa City where he took up special work in the state university. Rev. Searcy joined the masonic lodge in 1884 at Muchakinock, Iowa, and was charter master of Cedar Grove lodge No. 4. At Burlington in 1886 he was arched and knighted, served as High priest of the Royal Arch Chapter, Eminent Commander of the commandery, chosen District Deputy Grand High Priest in 1899; was elected Junior Grand Warden in 1891. Mrs. Flora Ray who is visiting her sister Mrs. Thomas Patton is confined to her bed by the asthams. Mrs. Emily Terry and daughter Anna served a three course lunch a few days since to Rev. and Mrs Ford and vis ting friends. Frank Rivera has accepted the position as cook for a wanderville. "A. Woman the cause of is all, which will start from Boone this week. We hear that Jas. Robinson has reigned his position as chief at the North-Western Hotel. A small fishing party was arranged for last Friday and enthusiasm tian high, (thinking of the fish we would not catch), but the game was blocked by a copious rain. Mrs. Mary Clay gave an ase cream social at the Hall last. Thursday evening. Those present report a plenitude time. The funeral of the late John T. W. Washington took place last Wednesday at 2:30 P. M. from the Gospel Tabernacle formerly known as the Presbyterian church. The funeral was very largely attended. The floral offering was abundant, consisting of several beautiful designs and home grown flowers. The grave was artificially lived with sheet cotton and this was covered with beautiful flowers. The casket was a beautiful machination, the coloring being the ash of roses. The beautiful silver plate, bore the words, John T. Washington the same plate ta mother had removed for a keep sake. The picture of the flowers having been taken before departing from the house, the casket was lowered into the grave just as it appeared at the funeral thus presenting a most magnificent spectacle. JAMES WASHINGTON. James Washington, one of the leading and enterprising business men of Sioux City, has served as master of Decatur lodge and has also been Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, and has served on many important committees. Such is the unprecedented demand for space on the part of machinery men that the space available for a machinery exhibit on the Iowa State Fair Grounds has practically all been taken. There is no doubt the exhibit of machinery will be the finest and most extensive ever seen in Iowa, if not the finest ever seen in the west. Opportunity for Treasure Hunters. Nearly one hundred years ago the Jesuits were banished from Mexico. It was known that they had immense empathy but it feared to tempt empathy by taking it all with them. What they did with the bulk of their savings has just been revealed by Pierre Gulreu, who says that treasure to the value of over £4,000,000 was buried beneath the old cathedral in the little town of Typozottan, 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. A. S. Mrs Etta M. Jackson of Buxton was elected District Most Noble Governor, Household of Ruth No. 21, Iowa state jurisdiction. She is the present Most Noble Governor of local lodge No. 312, Buxton. Mrs. Jackson was born in Ripley, Ohio, 1871, graduated at the Ripley Union school in the Latin course, in the class of 1890. She was married to Prof. A. R. Jackson Oct. 4, 1893. They moved to Buxton, Iowa, where they have since resided. Mrs. Jackson is a very pleasant lady to meet. PETER B. Mr. L. H. Johnson of Marshall-town is the present W. M. of Eureka No. 2, and is a very pleasant gentleman to meet. He was born in the Badger state in 1855 and came to Iowa in 1864, settling in Marshall-town. He has been honored by the grand lodge; was appointed Grand Register to succeed the late Joseph L. Woods, and still holds said position. He works in the Marshall-town packing, house as an all round man, has been there for the past eighteen years. "WE'RE FROM MISSOURI SHOW US?" That's just what we want to do- show you. Our pamphlet on the apple industry of Missouri is clear and con- vincing, and tends to convey to you how great a region is the section along the line of the Katy in its apple bearing proclivities. For write for one as well pamphlets, both attractive and instructive. Address KATY' 602 Wainwright Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. Pastest on Home Stretch A statistician has discovered that the driveway across the street in New York is a mile in twenty minutes, and the church-going walk is a mile in twenty-five minutes. The fastest walk is that of the homeward-bound Brook- lynite, a mile in eighteen minutes. No. 6. CHICAGO MAN'S HEAD • BIGGEST. How the Sizes Vary in Different Sections of the United States. A hatter had just finished selling a hat to an Irishman. "The Irish," he said, "have heads of short shine, long and oval, and very large. The American has a head shaped very much like the Irishman's only it is smaller and slightly rounder. "The German has a square head, flat on top and very wide between the ears. A German's hat always looks too big for him. It looks so because it is so. In order that it may encompass the head's great breadth it touches a little too loose in its other dimensions. Some Germans, who are particular, have their hats made to order on this account. "I sell hats all over the United States, and I find that heads run bigger West than anywhere else. The Chicago man has the biggest head in America. The Southerner has the smallest. We Easterners--Philadelphiaians. We New Yorkers and the same. We headsize has the same size. That size on the average 7. The Westerner's size is 7%." The Southerner's is 6%". Philadelphia Record. GREAT POWER OF TO-DAY. Symbol Means as Much. Though Not Waving Over Armed Men. "I never see the letters S. P. Q. R." observed the professor of history thoughtfully, "without feeling a little thrill of what they once meant to the world. Wherever they were borne over the cagles of the Roman legions the people recognized their masters and paid tribute. There is no emblem of absolute control in the world to converse to him." Just one of the big oil tank wagons, bearing on its sides the familiar legend, "Standard Oil Company," came around the corner, at the sight of which the good professor looked as if he would like to modify his last statement. Search for Wrecks in Lake Huron. One of the most thoroughly organized hunts for lost treasure ever attempted on the great lakes is to be made on Lake Huron, where the Milwaukee Wrecking Company is preparing to search for the bulks of vessels. Representatives of the company have chartered the tug of codfish with another vessel at her, will seek wealth among the wrecks dotting the lake bottom six or seven miles off the shore. One of the most valuable cargoes is one of copper lost in the caries days of lake navigation. Another is of steel ingots, and still another is a cargo of whisky, lost in a schooner bound for Mackinaw many years ago. The Mackinaw cargo is a cargo of the steamer Pewabic, off Alpena, after it had been in the water nearly forty years. — Chicago Inter Ocean. New York's Tall Buildings. the tallest buildings in New York are: The Park Row building, 29 stories, or 352 feet high; the St. Paul building, 26 stories, 308 feet; the Manhattan Life, 22 stories, 348 feet; the American Surety, 23 stories, 306.1 feet; the American Tract, 23 stories, 306 feet; the Empire, 20 stories, 293 feet; the Home Life, 16 stories, 280 feet; the Washington Life, 19 stories, 273 feet; the Gillender, 16 stories, 273 feet; the Bowling Green, 19 stories, 272.6 feet; the Bank of Commerce, 20 stories, 270 feet; the New York Life, 12 stories, 270 feet; the Standard Oil, 15 stories, 263 feet, and the Commercial Cable, 21 stories, 255 feet. Fond of Milk. Bishop Coleman, of Delaware, takes a long walking trip every summer. Usually he goes alone, but on one occasion several gentlemen accompanied him. The party toured the White Mountains. On an August afternoon they stopped, very warm and thirsty, at a farmhouse and bought several quarters of milk. Even now, though, they were unsatisfied, so the farmer's wife fetched from the spring house no less than three gallons of milk in a pail. Setting this before them, she said: "One would think, gentlemen, that you had never been weaned."—Detroit News-Tribune. Puts Comfort Before Looks. Secretary of War Root is a fir emblem in the idea that a soldier should look the soldier when engaged in military work, but he also realizes that in very hot weather some measure of smart appearance must give way to comfort, so he, has practically said: "Bother your uniforms; dress as you please. Indeed, he has set the example for men in the war department by stripping off coat and waistcoat and making himself as nearly comfortable as possible in a becoming colored shirt waist. Probably Knew the Widow. Visits of consolation are not by any means pleasant, and there is no class of men in the world who know it better than ministers of the gospel. They try to be comforting, but it is not always they say just the right thing. "I am not comforting?" asked the neighbor of a West Philadelphia widow recently bereaved. "Indeed, he did not," was the quick reply. "He said my husband was better off." The smallest volunteer fireman in the world is Leopold Kahn, of White Plains, N. Y., proprietor of a large hotel there. For years Kahn has been a dedicated local Dot. His wife is also a midday and has traveled extensively in the show business. FOLLOWING EVENTS WILL BE THE DAYS OF JULY 15TH, 2015 PRESENTS BY MALA MAYOR, MAYOR PRESENTS BY MALA MAYOR, MAYOR Year 1925 Business 1926 All information available in advance. d. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR, H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Small money to pay for fine written money order, to the North Korea Treasury, and Publicity Company. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the public. "Dearly to the soul of wit," remember. 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Fred Ipsen, west from town, was blown from a load of hay and sustained a fractured leg. The loss to property is considerable. The new Gillespie brick store building in course of erection at Fifth and Sixth Avenues, at the office, was damaged to the extent of $2,000, the loss presumably being upon the contractor, George Haver of Anita. C. P. Meredith's implement warehouses went down and to a much damage was done to vehicles and implements housed therein. Glass in all parts of the city was broken. The steepee of the Methodist tower went down and the court house tower was damaged to a considerable degree. Hundreds of trees were torn up by their roots and the telephone and elec- tric lines tangled maze upon the ground. Few of the trees that maintainable the storm was confined to a territory of five miles each way from this city. Within that boundary much crops were destroyed by the hall and the street. Sloux City, July 21.—Sections of Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota suffered damage reaching into thousands of dollars from a severe hall and wind In the vicinity of Sheldon hall as large as goose eggs fell, killing hundreds of pigs and young chickens and some sheep to pieces. Some farmers suffered total loss of their growing crops. Council Bluffs, July 21—Probably the worst wind, hall and rain storm of the year, caused the western Iowa late last evening, destroying all crops in its path and leveling many buildings and trees. A number of injuries have been reported, but no casualties are reported that it is thought will prove fatal. As a Result They Were Made Deathly Sick for Some Time. Mason City, July 24.—The evil of distributing samples of patent medicines about the streets was made apparent yesterday when a circumstance occurred when a man died of a boy, while a second was very sick for a time. The man who distributes this particular medicine was in the city, but he used very poor judgment in engaging a lot of little boys in the street. The two little kids alluded to were given several sample packages. They were not old enough to know better and the medicine in the form of pills, giving a sweeping sensation, was candy plenic. Bye and bye one of them got sick and he went to where his mother was. She saw something was the trouble and sem for a doctor. The doctor came and affixed a bandage on the time he was out of danger. While the one boy was getting better the second boy commenced to feel badly in the vicinity of the stomach and he had to at once. Both boys are all right out to the door. A physician says that it was a close call. Dr. Bickley of Waterloo Ploys His Divorced Wife $7,000 in Cash Waterloo, July 24—Dr. J. G. Bickle, who was plaintiff in a sensational suit for the dissolution of the marriage relations which bound him and Mra. Anna Bickle, has settled the matter so far as any future connection would be fair by paying his wife the amount of amity granted by the court, $7,000. This is the case that attracted so much attention because of the unusual allegations set forth by the plaintiff. Defendant filed a cross petition, denying the allegations and claiming the allegation was abusive and inhuman treatment. The case was heard before Judge Platt, being a long drawn out affair, and after the arguments of the attorneys, the judge took the case under advisement. His decision was rather voluble, bringing into all the evidence submitted by the defense to force he given to the defendant and allmory to the extent of $7,000. Eddyville, July 22—An impromptu battle, in which a dozen shots were fired, occurred here yesterday morning. Town Marshal McHugh undertook to arrest a party of horse traders who had camped near the town and were attacked by a resisted and a fight followed. The running fire lasted for some time and more than a dozen shots were passed before the crowd was corralled by the town marshal. McHugh was shot in the hand and wound is serious, Mr. St. John's police was shot in the abdomen and will die as a result of his wounds. Harvey Pea was shot in the chest and his collar bone broken. He was one of the party of litterent horse traders, who were the ankle, the battle the mannequin called the whole bunch and they are in fail awaiting trial. --- What Has Been Going on During the Past Week. The Boy Did Not Get Up When He Was Called to Help Drive Cattle Out of the Field, and His Father Became Angry. Attica, July 23.—William Laird killed his son Ernest yesterday morning because he did not get up when he was called, and he was beaten, a weapon, and inflicting injuries from which he died in a few minutes. The boy who died by his father's hand was 16 years old and was sleeping in a room also occupied by his brother Walter, 13 years of age, when the tragedy occurred. The Lairds, born in a room about five miles northeast of Attica and kept bachelor's quarters, the father being separated from his wife, with whom he had had frequent and violent quarrels, necessitating the maintenance of two separate establishments, Mrs. Laird and two other living on a farm a mile west of Attica. Walter Laird told the circumstances of the shooting to a coroner's jury impaneled by Coroner Thomas Nabby immediately before the boy stated that several head of cattle had broken into the yard early in the morning and on this discovery his father had called loudly to drive the stock back to the pen. Neither made any response to their father's behest and Laird grabbed a revolver and pointed it at Ernest's head, the weapon exploded, the ball entering the boy's brain and killing him instantly. Laird immediately turned the revolver to his own head and shot the eye. He died in a few minutes. The coroner's jury found that Ernest Laird came to his death by a shot fired by his father's hand and that effects of a shot fired by his own hand. Mrs. Laird is prostrated with grief and her friends fear that she will lose her reason. WM. LOCKRIDGE DROPS DEAD. A Retired Story County Pioneer, and Banker. Nevada, July 23.—William Lockridge, retired banker, pioneer and probably better know than any other man within the confines of Story county, was found dead behind his house in the noon. Mr. Lockridge came here in 1856 and has been a continuous resident of the county since that date. He was a heavy land owner and for years was president of the First National Bank, retiring a few years ago on account of his age. He was 71 years old. It seems that at noon he left the house before getting his dinner. Instructing the children that they would dig worms to dig worms for bait, as he expected to go lashing during the afternoon, he said that thought was necessary, they repaired the damage of the barn and found him dead. Apoplexy was the cause of death. Mrs. Lockridge, a Kansas woman, died here by the hand of a daughter. Five daughters are living. OFFICIALS SUED FOR LIBEL. Woodbury County Lady Aksa Damages of Treasurer and Auditor Iowa Falls July 22—Many people in this county, which, like many others in the state, has passed through a tax ferret crusade, will watch with no little interest. the outcome of an tax ferret crusade in the county county wherein a lady says the owner and auditor for libel. The plaintiff holds that in notifying her that her failure to pay her full quota of taxes, she has been labeled and will seek damages. The plaintiff asks damages to the extent of $3,000, on the grounds that the act of these officials who signed the notice of her failure to pay on $2,800 property, is unfair to the change action will interest the public in the unusually interesting to those who have received similar notices of failure to contribute their full share to the public support. TRY TO KILL A BRAKEMAN. Five Bullets Fired By Tramps Punctured His Clothing. Mason City, July 24—Sever Hankedahl, a brakeman on the Milwaukee, had a narrow escape from being shot to death. The brakeman discovered several tramps stealing a ride just as the train left Ventura. He ordered them to get off the car. A general eight警戒队, one of the tramps, knocked off the car. The other members of the gang began shooting at the brakeman, five bullets puncturing his hat and clothing, but none of the shot had any effect. Hankedahl was finely felled by a club and knocked senseless, the tramps all making their escape. The authorities are making a diligent search for them. ROMANTIC SECOND MARRIAGE. Chase. Jackson Returns From Philip- plains, and, Marches. His First Wife. Sloux City, July 24.—Mr. Olive Bell Hopkins has just been married to Charles H. Jackson a second time. Ten years ago they were married. He went to the Philippines. She heard he had married and she married ten years ago. Recently Jackson in the meantime Jackson had returned, but finding her married, decided not to disturb her peace, but when he heard of the second husband's death, he made known to her that he was married. He was in Eagle Grove, weeks, she being in Eagle Grove, M., and he at Hermosa, S. D., and the result is a re-marriage. Calvert Hooper Drowned. Ottenso, July 21—Calvert Hooper, the 15 years old son of J. H. Hooper, member of the board of supervisors of Humboldt county, residing one mile west of Ottenso, was drowned in the river with the number of other boys in Des Moines river, three miles west of here. All Knoxville Believes Story. Knoxville, July 24—Friends of A. Vanderwilt, who claims to have been robbed of $8,000 in Des Moines, believe his story. Vanderwilt has been in business here for six years and it is the result of his business and that he actually lost the money or was robbed of it. Crops in Western Iowa Are Badly Damaged. TOOK MEDICINE SAMPLES. LARGE SUM IN ALIMONY. BATTLE CAUSES DEATH. Dozen Shots Exchanged in a Running 'Flight at Edgville. Large Number Have Been Formed in Japan the Bast Four Years Doe Mojos, July 24 — Story has been collected showing that the growth of the labor union movement in Iowa has been great the past few years. The report of the Iowa bureau of statistics for 1900 gives 336 unipos and 26,068 members. The figures show the number of members and the number of union men and women is conservatively estimated at 45,000—an astonishing increase of 554 unipos and of 18,382 members Of the different unions in the state 353 are affiliated with the Iowa State University and the American Federation of Labor. Mrs. R. A. Noble of Grinnell was probably fatally burned by an explosion of gasoline. The house caught fire and an alarm was turned in. The fire department was promptly on hand, but the fames had been suppressed by fire fremen arranged by Noble. Noble was burned by the explosion of her gasoline stove which she had attempted to replenish while it was still lighted. Aliens who heroeater stray into British prisons, as convicts, will not AFTER N. & N. W. RAILROAD. Proposition is Made To Hamilton Brown. Des Molines, July 24.—The newly arrived triumvirate, of the Illinois Milwaukee, Minneapolis & St Louis and Iowa Central, is after another valuable Iowa railroad, that will give it a through St. Louis, Sloux City and Sloux Flux connection with the shortest line between these points, and the nearest local railroad man can be believed. A definite proposition is said to have been made Hamilton Brown of Boone president of the Newton & Northwestern, for the entire road running from Newton to Rockwell City. The two points, giving the appearance of having been constructed purposefully for the Minneapolis & St. Louis, Iowa Central and Illinois Central. Mr. Brown and Mr. Mervose have been conferring with indirect agents of the three big roads regarding their purchase. The line will give the Minneapolis & St. Louis lyer a shorter distance between Minneapolis and St. Louis by thirty miles. There is no road in the valley between Sloux Falls, S. D. Sloux City, Iowa, and St. Louis if established. The Iowa Central has already built its spur north to Newton from Oskaloosa. There is not a road in the area, but this mammoth new field. S. T. Meservey in a recent interview in this city said the Rock island's road from Metz to Newton was the most difficult road in Northwestern. Mr. Meservey said the Rock island would not buy the road. These facts are taken as conclusive proof that the Iowa Central and two other roads in the area could be up another piece of road as they did the Des Moines & Ft. Dodge. Wife and Three Children Can Hardly Believe It Marshalltown, July 23.—Albert Eisenhart, an Iowa Central fireman, has been discovered to be guilty of bigamy. He has a wife and three children, the youngest married at Webster City on the 16th to Emma Mitchell of Clemmons, a well known young woman of that place, the daughter of respectable parents. He posed as a city on Wednesday evening, the 15th, telling his wife that he was going to Denver to look for a position. He met Miss Mitchell at Clemmons. They tried to marry her at the Wilson hotel by Rev. H. F. Burns of the Christian church. His wife refused to believe it until she was shown the telegram sent to the times-Republican afternoon, yesterday. He is now the Iisenhart is 33 years of age. His wife here is 28; Miss Mitchell is 25. Iisenhart is the young man who, in 1893, when Anna Wiese of Green Mountain, thought to have been the murderer. He easily proved an alibi, in another part of the state, and only because he wasn't saved was saved a lynchman, and bride are supposed to be enjoying their honeymoon in Nebraska. FIRE AT POCAHONTAS. Fire, Believed To be Incendiary, Distroved Three, Buildings. Pocahontas, July 24—Incendaries are believed to be at the bottom of as severe a fire as has been experienced in this place for years. Three large buildings are in ruins and the total damage is up to $1,600, with $7,000 insurance. About 2 o'clock a. m. a blaze was discovered in the hallway between the Ross & Co. drug store and the Exchange Bank building. Considerable security was felt owing to the fire, but the flames had just been established, and no doubt was felt that the flames would be put out after the first alarm was given. But this, confidence soon gave way to genuine fear, for it was a considerable length of time before the fire had been started. By the time water was flowing the fire had gained such headway that nothing could stop its fury. The City Exchange bank, Ross & Co.'s drug store and McIntiere's furniture emporium were occupants of separate buildings, and nothing remains but the ruins of the former structures. E. G. Martin occupied the building joined by Ross & Co. and the warehouse. After the warehouse the main commenced to flow it was found that the pressure was very low and of scarcely any value. ROBBED THE MAILS. Arrest by Deputy Healey at Cedar Rapids. Cedar Rapids, July 22.—George V. Hoffman of Belle Plaine is under arrest here on a charge of robbing the United States mails. On February 28th last sacks of mail containing seven hundred stolen while being transferred at the union station in this city. The sacks were afterward found under a culvert in a slough north of the city. Deputy Marshal Healey has been at work since the time. Today he caused the arrest of Hoffman, who is an idler, on the serious charge named. GREENWELL GIVEN FREEDOM. Will Not Go to Mexico to Face His Accusers. Des Moines, uly 22.—J. Y. Greenfield will not go to Mexico to face his accusers. Extradition Commissioner McArthur discharged the defendant holding that there was insufficient grounds to send him to Mexico. Greenwell was accused by the Mexican government of murdering one J. H. Stanfield near Tampica, Mexico, April, 1902. They went to Mexico together to go into business. Stanfield disappeared at Tampico. The latter was an engineer. Greenwell is a conductor. EAR CHEWED OFF IN FIGHT. Member Completely Severed From Head. Cedar Falls, July 24.—C. Cassaday, a blacksmith in the employ of Charles Harris, attended a picnic at Denver and is now carrying a portion of one ear in a sling, the remainder being chewed off in a fight with three or four Germans on the picnic grounds. Cassaday engaged in a quarrel with a boy and the men took up the defense of the lad, and the scrap ended disastrously for Cassaday. The ear was completely severed from the head and no attempt was made to graft it on. Monk's Life Was Too Quiet Dubuque, July 24—Two young men came to this city to join the monks at the monastery of Mellery. One of them has just left the institution and is seeking other employment. He says it is too quiet to suit him. The monks own a fine dress, two miles long and three miles wide. PEACEFUL CLOSE OF POPE'S LIFE Vallant Fight of Great Head of Catholic Church Has at Last Closed. A GOOD AND GREAT PONTIFF His Life Has Spanned a Great Space of History and Has Been Continuously Active—End Came at 4.04 P. M., July 20. Rome, July 20—Pope Leo XIII is dead. The last nicker of life expired at four minutes past four o'clock this afternoon and the pontiff now lies at rest. The period of over two weeks that Pope Leo passed in the shadow of death was no less wonderful than his exile was displaced battle against disease was watched the world over with sympathetic admiration and ended only after a series of tremendous efforts to conquer the weakness of his aged frame by the marveller who willow with his plumage pneumonia with which his holiness had been suffering, was scarcely so responsible for his death as that inevitable decay of tissue which ensues upon ninety-three years of age. The tested steel which was bent so often human illusions took at 10.45. Tonight, the emaciated and lifeless frame which held so brave a spirit lies on the bed in the vatican beside which almost all the world has prayed. The red damask coverlet rests on the floor, the coverlet cape is about the shoulders, on his head has been placed the papal hood of velvet, bordered with vermine. A white silk handkerchief is bound about his chin and in the hands which has been placed the papal hood has been placed a crucifix. So Pope Leo will remain tomorrow, watched by the uniformed officers of the Noble Guard and rough clad Franciscan penitentiaries, who will keep a caesseless vigil until the burial ceremonies. cardinals will assemble for the impressive ceremony of officially pronouncing Pope Leo dead. After this sad function has been performed the room adjoining the death chamber, where it will be embalmed. The funeral ceremonies will extend over nine days, the remains being removed to the cathedral of St. Peter's, where they will lie in state. The ultimate goal of the ceremony is to be in the magnificent basilica of St John Lateran. Pope Leo's final moments were marked by that same serenity and devotion, and when he was conscious that same intelligence which is associated with his twenty-five years posthumously, he was able to hear before he died, turning to Dr. Lapponi and his devoted valet, Pio Centra, he murmured: "The pain I suffer is most terrible." Yet his parting words were not of the physical anguish that he suffered, but were of the physical anguish of the dinails and his nephews who knelt down at his bedside and the last look of his almost sightless eyes was toward that great ivory cruxfitting in the death chamber Practically all of the cardinals now in Home, kneeling at the bedside, were Earlier in the day Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli had impressively pronounced the absolution in articulo mortis. The condition of his holliness varied from agony to coma. Wishing to relieve him, Dr. Mazonii suggested he be bedded before Dr. Lapponi did not agree, fearing that the end might be quickened. Of the supreme moment Dr. Laponi gives an impressive description. He said: "Death occurred through exhaustion, although in the last two weeks he was able to effort to gather together all his energies. He succeeded in recognizing those about him by the sound of their voices, as his sight was almost entirely lost. Still, he made a marvelous effort to recover his death was really grand. It was resigned, calm and serene. Very few examples can be given of a man of such advanced age, after so exhaustive an illness, showing such supreme strength. His breath was taken exactly at four minutes past four. I approached a lighted candle to his mouth three times, according to the traditional ceremonial, and afterward declared the pope the saint. He was equally the cardinal Oreglia, the dean of the sacred college, who immediately gave orders that the vatican be cleared of all the curious persons having no knowledge of the cardinal instructed monsignor Right, master of ceremonies, to send the Swiss guards from the Clementine hall to close all the entrances to the vatican and dismiss all the death chamber, the body being entrusted to the Franciscan penitentiaries." Meantime, events of momentous importance to Catholic christendom were occurring. The death of Pope Leo meant the passing of the pope Leonardo of the monastery of St. John the Baptist college of cardinals as its temporary custodian during the interregnum. The perfect administrative machinery of the church provided against the slightest interruption of the government of the church of the sacred college, Cardinal Oreglia, to whom the pope today solemnly confided the interests of the church, has now become the exponent of the cardinals until Pope Leo's successor was born. This has brought forth Cardinal Oreglia as the striking personality of the hour. The cardinal is the exact antithesis of Pope Leo, having none of the late pontif's sympathetic and benevolent characteristics. He comes from a monastery in the north, and nobility is shown in his haughty and austere bearing. He is not popular among his colleagues or the Romans and his brusque manner has earned him the title of "The Pledmont Bear." He is tall and robust and is 74 years old. He is the master of his hair. His face has the tawny old parchment and is deeply lined. Despite his austereity the cardinal's learning and piety are universally recognized. This is the man who for the time being practically knew he was he who issued orders to clear the way from intruders and brought tranquility out of the confusion immediately following Pope Leo's death. The greatest interest is now centered in the work of the holy conclaves THE BEAR—HIS FACE IS FAMILIAR. which is to select the successor to Lco XIII. Speculations, prophesies and predictions come from every direction in favor of the various candi- REBELS DRIVEN FROM POLIWA all talk of chance of candidates other than italians is now regarded as (but) the most prominent candidates for the succession are now Cardinals Gotti, Oreglia, Aglariad, Serafino Vannolo, Carlo Cartaio, Sarto, Rampolla, po Pietro, Stampa, Ferrari, Satolli and Richelmi. Rome, July 21 — the body of Leo XIII lies tonight in the hall of the throne room, a few steps from the room in which his death took place. Today was notable for the impressive ceremonial of the recognition of the death of the pope, which occurred in the morning of the second number in the morning of the second number only those were admitted who were concerned in the embalming of the body, an operation which occupied six hours. Meantime the authorities of six churches ceded the preparations for the embalment and the conclave. It is now stated the latter will begin August 1. Rome, July 22.—Tonight the body of Leo XIII lies in state in the basilica of St. Peter's. Beginning the day of all nations now in the eternal city will be admitted to pay their last farewell. Opportunity for this solemn tribute will end Saturday. Until the afternoon the remembrance of the dead pope lay in the throne room of the vatican, where the leaders of the diplomatic, clerical and civil world were allowed to pass the bier. The ceremonial was followed from the throne room to St. Peter's, was one of the most striking of all the obsequies. During the day the congregation of cardinals met and decided to hold the conclave under the identical regalia which elected Leo. Rome, July 24.—From sunrise until sunset today thousands passed before the body of Leo XIII, lying in state in the balconies of the cathedral, was handed that this opportunity publicly to view the remains should extend through three days, but the time is likely to be curtailed and the body will be buried on Saturday night; owing to the evidences that decomposition is setting in. This is due to today's severe heat from which no embalming, however good, could completely protect the body. The will of the dead pope was opened at today's meeting of the congregation of cardinals. It consists of the body of the deceased, Leo XIII and leaves all the property of which he died possessed to his successor, for the use of the church. To each member of his family he leaves a body of the deceased, able objects in his apartment. Similar presents are bequeathed to his physicians. The total amount of the property which he left is not yet known. The body of the deceased who today passed before the iron gates of the chapel of the sacrament to view the remains was one of intense pity, combined with a certain sense of horrors. The body of the deceased catafique in order that all might see the terribly shrunken face. An ordinary skull in a frame of gold, lying in the midst of a mass of red robes, could scarcely have been more typical of FLEETS READY TO FIGHT. Alarming Story Sent Out Regarding Situation as to Corca. London, July 24—The Daily Mail's Tokio correspondent sends rather an alarming view of the situation in the east to his paper. He says that Russia's retention of Manchuria, the increase of her fleet, the despatch of reinforcements to Manchuria, the southward movement of the occupying army in Manchuria and the defiant conduct on the Corean frontier alarmed the Japanese many of whom are convinced that it would be better to fight now than risk the eventual loss of Corea and the relegation of Japan to a secondary place. He says the Japanese are accumulating stores and ships; that a squadron is off Vladivostok, which port Russian vessels have been sent as a precaution, and that both fleets are ready for action at any moment. He says a perusal of the Silberen press reveals the aggressive party that the Russian military party; that the Russian military lose prestige if they give way now with the result that their far eastern empire will be lost and Japanese influence will become predominant. The appointment of Marquis Ito as presidee of the privy council, the correspondent to peace but that Russia must reclaim it will be very grave danger of war. He says the Japanese believe that France and England will join in the expected conflict, which diplomatists at Tokio for years involve disastrous results to Russia and France in the creation of a sort of Balkan difficult in Corea. He adds that confidence is shown on the Angli-Japanese. The Standard's Tien Tain correspondent says that since the fifteenth of June, the number has been an increase in concentration of Russian forces at Port Acre, elsewhere, many who were ostensibly agents being in reality soldiers. He says that the slightest evidence that Russia to withhold or moderate her policy Russia Is Mobilizing Troops London, July 21.—The Standard's Odessa correspondent says it is reported that 128,000 troops are mobilized from central, northern garrisons in Russia for immediate dispatch to the far east in case of necessity. He also reports that on the basis of General Kuropatkin, the Russian war minister, an extraordinary meeting of the imperial council of the state, which will be attended by the cear, will discuss Manchurian and cognate questions. REBELS DRIVEN FROM BOLIVAR City Falls Into Hands of Cas tro's Troops After Bloody Fight Is Waged. FIGHTING LASTED TWO DAYS Government Troops Attacked the Revolutionists From Land and Sea Simultaneously—Every Foot of the Ground Contested. Caracas, Venezuela, July 21.—A messenger who nas arrived here by steamer and train from Ciudad Bolívar reports that the city was captured by the government troops at 8 o'clock this morning (Tuesday). Soiled, Venezuela, Monday, July 20, 7 p. m. — The fight from 1 o'clock this afternoon has been horrible and at this hour the only pieces which still resist the onset of the government troops are the jail and the capitol. Early in the afternoon the government troops, which had received all the reinforcements available, together with ammunition in all their boxes, were ordered to make general attack upon all positions still held by the rebels. At 5 o'clock this afternoon the "Zamora" called the Sobastopol of Culad Bolvar, was stormed and captured. Ninety-four dead rebels were inflicted in them. Amzana, one of the military leaders, whose head had been blown off by a shell. It is impossible to render an idea of the carriage which occurred at this point. At the same time Gen. Rivas, of Gomez chief lieutenant, 2,300 men, were ordered to barricade a barricade erected around the Miranda park, the key to the capitol; where all the survivors of the revolution are concentrated. All the roads and streets running into the capitol are guarded by government troops and are under attack, the capture of the capitol, which is inevitable, seems impossible. They must either surrender or die. At 7 o'clock tonight the customs house was taken after a ten-hours' fight. The associated press intelligence report of sixky ten-hour result of a fight. The Dalton block, where the American consulate and most of the foreign business houses are located, was captured at 5 o'clock. The revolt began at 5 o'clock, and water, the supply pipe having been cut yesterday. Their situation is considered desperate and hopeless. The shops are being pillaged. Soledad, Venezuela, Monday, July 24, 2014, once the last dispatch was sent to the Associated Press at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the battle between the revolutionary forces at Ciudad Bolvar and the Venezuelan government army, commanded by General Gomez, has raged madly for the last week, and the government troops entering the city slowly. All the houses had been barricaded, and the revolutionists had been forced from flat roofs called azotos. When the revolutionists finally abandoned the houses, after having been barricaded, or to otherwise stop the advance of the government troops, they were immediately occupied by the government soldiers, who bored big holes in them so as to communicate to the next house. The city appears to have been struck by a cyclone. At 10 o'clock the government commanders, seeing that only the artillery could make a breach in the barricades of the Alameda, ordered twelve guns to fire at the Venezuelan fleet, which had changed its anchorage so as to bring its guns to bear effectively on the city, opened fire. The soldiers on both sides have had no food for two days, no ambulances are being used, and yet the fighter, Soledad, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 21. (By boat from Ciudad Bolivar) - Ciudad Bolivar was captured at 11 o'clock last night, after fifty-two hours of a desperate struggle and horrible carnage, during which great courage and bravery of the captain and the officers were the centers of the most severe fighting and many men were killed or wounded. When those places were captured only a few blocks behind the capitol remained to be taken. At midnight the death reigned and the silence the death reigned at the rest of the night over the city. At 5 o'clock in the morning the correspondent of the Associated Press followed General Rivers, the commander of the government, troops, who met the commander-in-chief, near the capitol and confirmed the announcement that the capitol, jail and all the rest of the city were in the hands of the government soldiers. General Gomez informs the commander that he has been at the General capitol had been of a nature worthy of a better cause, that each yard of rampart was covered by the dead, and that General Nicholas Rolando, the last representative of the city, and his two lieutenants, General Palazzo and General Vasquez, had been taken prisoners. No can be a cabide of the scene which Ciudad Bolvar presected the city appears to have been done by clone, accompanied by a confaguration. General Wood Reaches Manila. Manila, July 20—Gen. Leonard Wood arrived here yesterday. He will confer with Governor Taft and General Davia on the Moro question and will leave shortly for Zamboanga to organize the government of the Moro province. DRESSED TO KILL As Walter Scott sang in a ballad, Who never to his friends has said, I alone can wipe away the dust. Who when his varieg. meek and low, He shall be wiped away the dust. Exclaimed with petulance: "No, no! Give me the crust and I'll fix it!" We gase on him with civil smile If we his strong esteem would capture; Our opic organs roll the skin. In throes of simulated rapture. His breath leaves to spoil. This lettuce notoriety seeks. With too much vinegar or oil. Or oversurfelt of paprika. Still we maintain our placid grin, Although 'his sated much too fully, And garlic cloves galore rubbed in, We wipe away the dust. For conscience prompts us this way To revel in the product gladly. Well knowing nature day. We'll mix another just as badly. —New York Herald. Committed to the Deep The steward knocked, and put his head in at the door. "Cabin passenger, sir, No. 16." he reported, with a business-like brevity. "Very bad." Dr. Yalden glanced up from his desk irritably. "What's the matter with him?" "Dunno no, Uncommon bad." "What's that, suppose?" "No, sir. Not sea sick. Queer when he came aboard yesterday. I thought. Been in bed all day. Didn't let me get him anything. Till just now he asked me to fetch you." The steward withdrew, and the doctor only delayed to finish the first paragraph of a letter he had been writing when he was interrupted. It was not precisely an urgent letter, for he had no intention of doing anything with it until the ship arrived at Liverpool; but it was to contain much that he knew he could not possibly put into speech, and it was to tell the recipient that he would arrive less than half a day behind it. The lamp that shone from the wall of No. 16 showed him a haggard man stretched on the bunk apparently sleep. While the doctor was taking a preliminary survey of him he coughed and awoke. "Sweeped." "Im the doctor. You sent for me. What's wrong?" "Oh, thanks. . . . I don't know, doctor. My head all aire, and my hands, too. Feel that." The doctor took his hand and laid a finger on his pulse. The hand was not dry and, the pulse was galloping curiously, and a brief examination was sufficient to diagnose his ailment. "A touch of pneumonia" Yalten. "You must take more care of yourself than you've been doing latey. You were not fit to travel; you must have felt ill before you started." "I wanted to get home," the other answered, wearily. "I've been away—a long time." "We must see what we can arrange about nursing," the doctor concluded. "I'll give you some medicine; you've got a good constitution, and with care will call round all right." "Think so?" "Oh, yes. . . . He mustn't be far, Barrow." The doctor turned to the steward. "Somebody will have to sit up with him to night. I'll see him again before 1 turn in, and I'll get the captain to let you have assistance." After fulfilling which latter duty he retired to his cabin and resumed the laborious composition of his letter. Three years ago he met in London the girl he told himself he had been looking for all his life. She was nearly twenty years his junior, but what he was richer than the priest and through recent financial disasters they were poor and prouder, but what did all that matter either? She heard him with pity in her eyes, but not love; and she told him, with only pity in her tones, that the man she loved was dead and her heart was buried with him. Later he learned the story that lay behind her words, and saw more hope in for himself than she had given him. She was dead, and could, in due time, win her away from the memory of a dead rival. He would not take her answer then, but begged her to think of all it must "What's the matter with him?" mean to him, and let him ask her for t, once for all, when he came home from his next voyage. He was speeding homeward now, and the letter was to prepare her for his coming. He wrote it with so many deflection that by 10 clock it was still unsettled, when mindful of his patient, he relocked it in his desk. No. 18 was awake, but drowsy with sheer weakness. "If I don't pull through this, doctor—" "Don't you worry about that; you will." "But if I don't—I'm put afraid of dying. I've been near it too often for that; and yet, now it seems harder than it ever did before. "You'd better not talk. I don't want you to excite yourself." "Not me! What I mean is, it would be hard luck to die on the way home. I've been away nearly nine years. I went away as poor as a rat, and I'm going back rich. That's something, isn't it? "It's a great deal." "And I'm not dead yet, though I supposed to be!" the other chuckled, grimly. "One everlasting, terrible snowweared up miles away from where we snowweared up miles away down as done for; and we were put down as done for. Only two of us managed to worry through, and we wandered heaven knows where, and we lived—well, we didn't. But we worried through—and I'm going home." His eyes closed and he rambled on dreamy: "Nine years; but she'll be waiting. I told her that it Flung the glass far out into the dark, wouldn't be more than two—and she said 'It's till you come, Ned, and if you never come, I shall wait till I meet you, at the end.' He lay quiet a minute, and then, opening his eyes and finding the doctor regarding him intently, he continued: "We've never written to each other. We promised her people we wouldn't. She was to be free to change if she would; they said it was best. I had no money and no prospects, but if I went back a rich man and she had not changed. . . . I knew she never would. Whether I lived or died, she said she would never change—and she won't." "Did you say your name was Edwin Ashton?" The doctor was startled by the alien sound of his own voice. The sick man nodded, and, pointing accustomed to the cabin he said, "Do you mind getting it for me? My will's in there, too. I made it as soon as I struck my first luck, in case. . . . Oh, what I wanted to ask you, doctor, was—if I don't pull round, will you have my bag and everything sent to her? You'll find her address—" "Yes, yes. But not now." Valden interrupted harshly. "You've talked too much already. . . . Come along, Barrow," he hailed the advent of the steward with ineffable relief. "Call me if he is worse in the night." He was dazed and stupefied by the knowledge that had come upon him so unexpectedly, and yearned to get away and be alone where he might think of it. One thought only burned to a clear and fiercely steady blaze—a sinister, hellish thought that he dared not face and could not extinguish. He lost all count of time, as a man does when he sleeps, but when the steward summoned him hurriedly an indignant shriek not been in his light was stunned in his cabin, he was still dressed, and his fare was wan and his eyes heavy, as if he were in pain. "Mr. Ashton's worse, sir. Edwards is with him, and called me to fetch you. He can't sleep. Keeps sitting up. Edwards says, staring as if he could see people, an' talking very, sing'lar. Dellious, I expect, sir." "We must try a sleeping draught," said Yalden dully. "I'll be there directly." Borrow being gone, he busled himself in the medicine cupboard, and hastened after him, carrying something in a glass. Drawing near to No. 16, he could hear the slick man babbling monotonously, and the very sound of his voice stung him and quickened a fiercer flame within him; till suddenly he caught a word of what the man was saying—merely a name, but the utterance of it checked him instantly, as if a hand had plucked on his sleeve. He stood trembling, and in that same fustant saw, shaping white in the darkness before him, a sweet, sat face, grows pale with weary years of longing—the pure, wistful eyes looked into his, and their calmness calmed him, and their sadness made him ashamed. With a something breaking like a job in his throat, he swiftly retraces his stope, pausing in the unlightened saloon, one of the portholes and finging the mask he carried far out into the dark. Thereafter he sat till well into the day watching and tending the man she loved and had loved so long. Going on deck in the morning, he leaned over the side to tear up the litter he had written and scatter its fragments into the sea. It was the burial of a great hope that had died in the night. As he walked away, the captain coming from breakfast, met him, and lingered to make inquiries. Morning doctor: how's the patient? What is going to make a funeral of it, I hope? "Not quite," Yalden laughed carelessly. "He has taken a turn for the better." "Black and White." CARRIED OUT HIS PLANS. Last Request of a Dying Man Was Obeyed by His Children. A millionaire had died. There had been great apparent grief among those who had been most substantially remembered. And some real-for-sure reget among those who had expected to but hadn't got a dollar. The funeral was over. The millionaire's sons had gathered for conference. Among the pet plans of the old man's declining days was a magnificent siege of construction he had disbanded with every other member of the family. "You will remember," said the eldest son, choking back his emotion wonderfully well, "that it was the last request that we carry out every plan he had made regarding the new house." "Yes," they groaned in chorus. "Well I have arranged that it be done." The coupon he piled all the plans of his father's architect into a large wastebasket and bore them triumphantly out to the rubbish bin in the back alley. "I may say truthfully that it is a pleasure to carry out the plans, even though we disagreed in their forming," he said. "But when he returned with the empty basket. PROFESSOR IN HARD LUCK. Storm's Early Arrival Spilled His Chances for Fame. We can recall no rainmaker from the time of Plutchar, or any rain doctor of the Indians, or any rain sorcerer of the African tribes, who has played in harder luck than Prof. Meyers has just encountered in the Adirondacks. He arrived a few days ago with a fine collection of balloons and bombs and got all ready for operations or Tudor's attack. But the announcement that he should send some balloons with powerful bombs with lighted fuses attached, and that rain would follow the explosion almost immediately. As a matter of fact, rain preceded the explosion. Just as the professor was about to cut the ropes of his balloon a tremendous thunderstorm came up, advancing with terrific speed and deluging the region with water. You see, nature had "got on" to the professor's little game and forestalled him. But imagine the air of the storm, with the rain up about fifteen minutes ahead of the shower. No rain doctor that the world has known would have beer "in it" with him then—New York Commercial Advertiser. One Dog's Intelligence. The intelligence of animals seems as a rule to be underdressed rather than overrated. A dog breeder described the other day a wonderful collie that had belonged to Sir John Lubbock "This dog," he said, "would, when it was hungry, lay at its master's feet a card marked 'Food.' When it was tired, he would write on the card 'Drink.' When it wanted to take a walk it would bring a card marked 'Out.' Sir John Lubbock it to do this trick in less than a month. He put the food card over the dog's food and made it bring the card to him before he would allow it to eat and in the matter of drinking and going out he used a like method. The cards were similar in shape and color to the dog's own. He ferred. Since therefore, the dog dis tingled them by the writing alone it may be said that the animal could read." Making Sure of Enough "I'll take the biggest piece you've got, please," said Willie to the hostess who had asked him to have some cake. "Why, Willie!" exclaimed his mother, in dismay. "Well, ma, you told me not to ask for a second piece." Branigan—Come home mi tech supper wid me. Flannigan Flannigan—Shure, it's past yer supper time now. Yer welf be mad as a man. Branigan—That's jest it; she can'l lick the two of us. And laughs the jade away: —F. L. Stanton in Atlantic Constitution Not Peculiar. Singular that the troubles of J. Bull with the Mad Mullah originally grew out of his seizure of a cargo of madder—Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. Russian Land Owned by Noble. Of the 267,124,886 acres composing European Russia. 18,606,519 are owned by the mobility. TRAVELING IN LUZON. American Describes Journey to the Volcano Taal—Primitive Mode of Conveyance Leaves Lasting Impression of Discomfort—Some of the Habits of the Natives. (Special Correspondence.) The provinces of Rizal and Laguna are more disaffected than any others in the island of Luzon and have been filled with ladron bands, which still exist in a scattered condition. The route to the volcano, Tacl, is filled with ladron bands, is a line of steam launches—boats perished ninety feet in length—owned and mismanaged by Filipinos, which takes the traveler part of the distance from Manila to Tacl, passing through the whole length of the River Pasig and through the lake from which the district of Laguna takes its name. Along the river is a continuous line of native villages, the inhabitants being engaged in fishing and farming, the fishermen in fishing and farming, the unique inhabitants of the men just wade out till their heads only are out of water and then, taking a long breath. Caribou A farmer pulling a bullock cart in a rural village. they go below and actually catch fish with their hands. This may appear to be incredible, but we saw it—saw them actually come up with the fish: they were not alone, but only once out of a dozen dives, but they got there at times. Others use nets, wading in the river and holding the net, which is a sort of trap mounted on bamboo sticks, in front of them as they walk along the river bed. The fish would have poor results. She women do most of the farming. The road from Calamba to Ambalona, the village nearest the volcano, was a native road. The ride was a wild dream, or, rather, nightmare. The vehicle, drawn by two native ponies was the complete and perfect work of the evil one. It rattled, jolted and threatened to go to pieces. The seat of the vehicle was of hardwood; the makers had not considered the possibility of their containing anyone larger than a Filippino and the head of a bull. All the American just touched the roof. Every time the cart struck a stone the American's head struck the roof and as this road was all stones the tops of our heads were pretty well mashed by the time the lake was reached. The end of the ride brought us to the lake—Bombon or Taal lake—which is about ten miles long and seven or eight wide. The volcano's on an island near the border of the lake is surrounded by dugouts and outriggers of bamboo to steady them. The natives were very poor and some of them told me how much they regretted the departure of the soldiers who were station there some time time ago. In the first place, the soldiers were so scarcity as, scarcity with them as, with any Common Scene Common Scene In Pasig River. community I know of. And in the second place, we found that the soldiers had become personally popular with the people. The volcano is not a particularly impressive mountain from a distance, there being several other mountains within sight of three times its height. The ascent is easy, over a bed of cinders, and can be made by an athletic person without once stopping to rest. The crater is about a mile across and can be entered by a gap broken in the vertical wall near the top. Inside the wall drops about 100 feet straight down, but below this there is a long slope of cinder, at an angle of about thirty degrees, which is easily defended by making diagonal tacks across its face. At the bottom of the crater is a small central crater, from which issues a roaring jet of steam, from a vent hole about fifteen feet across. There are other steam bouts, but this one is the largest. The last eruption of any consequence was in the eighteenth century, but there is evidence of a comparatively recent eruption on a small scale. Over the whole of the interior of the crater and to some extent on the outside, is a deposit several inches thick of brown volcanic dust, which has a crust of about a quarter of an inch thick, due to the action of the rain. After leaving the volcano the mad ride recommenced. We had passed over the road the first time in the middle of the night, but the return trip was much easier. The native population was strung out to see the caravan of Amerindians. At Calathea we were lucky enough to hire a Filipino house for the night. At least we had all we wanted of it, the family using the room that we did not occupy. There was one large room, divided by a wardrobe into two sections. The floor was of strips of bamboo, one inch wide, with spaces of a quarter of an inch between them. We had a bamboo bench and a stand two feet by eighteen inches and three feet high. The floor served for bed. dining tables and Cart. and washstand. In fact, everyone squatted in real Asiatic fashion. In this town there was a Chinese resire taurant, with a Chinaman who spoke English. He had a printed bill of fare in English, which quoted prices for oysters, pork chops, beefsteak and other things. We asked what he actually had on hand, and it appeared that he had fried chicken and eggs. We ordered the whole bill of fare and after a short time we heard loud chatter and the Chinaman stuck a beaming face into the room, saying: "Can duc chucoch quackw, mucho chucky fry, can do!" He was just killing the chickens, after going around the neighborhood to find them. After eating we were ready for sleep. We went to our house to find all the women of the house waiting to put us to bed. It seems to be the correct thing to put a guest safely to bed, and there they were waiting for us to undress and to put the pillows on the bed. The floor was covered with pieces of matting and all the cushions in the house laid for us to sleep on; and as one of the cushions was a little soiled the lady of the house got out from the wardrobe her own white petticoat and wrapped it around the cushion for a pillow case. Lying awake after the pillow fell, she fled, finging, and, peeping out, I saw the whole family going to bed on the other part of the floor, back of the word robe that formed a partial partition between us and the rear of the house Before leaving the subject of the Filipino houses in their villages should say they have in many of these villages a stream of water running along the side of the road, in front of the houses, and two or three stone In Pasig River. steps leading down to the water in front of each house. In the early morning the women put on their bathing dresses and take their little one down to this stream to wash. The water is so clear that I am not sure whether they all drink the water, but I know some of them do so. When Water Tastes Good. This is a Texas story. There was gathered at one of the country towns the usual crowd for the county court which included the judge, the district attorney, sheriff, clerk, a number of lawyers and, on this particular occasion, a young army officer. Well, they celebrated to rather a late hour or two when he held the court. It was found that most of them had to sleep in the one large room called to the West the "school section," because everything in the school section lands in the early days belonged to every body. About daylight the next morning the district attorney crawled out and found a pitcher of ice water. As he poured it down his throat it fairly stopped and said: "No d——d sobsool knows how good water tastes." West Post. --- --- CHARLES HEDGES WAS DISCHARGED Superintendent of Free Delivery in Postoffice Department Is Removed. SERIOUS CHARGES PREFERRED Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow Says He Failified Accounts and Also Loaned His Traveling Commission. Washington, July 23—Charles Hedge yesterday was removed from the delivery of the postoffice department on the charge of falsifying his diary and lending his traveling commission. It is charged that he reported himself at various places, when in fact he was placed on the dates it monitored, in some instances being hundreds of miles away. The following is the official statement of the case made public by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General "Charles Hedges was today removed from the office of superintendent of free delivery for falsifying his diary, and loaning his traveling commission. He was also removed from places on public business, when in fact he was not in those places on the dates mentioned, but elsewhere, in some instances hundreds of miles distant, under oath, in his diary, that he was at Joplin, Mo., on 'extension of free delivery service' when in fact he was in Mansfield, Ohio, attending the funeral of former Secretary John Sherman in the month of October, self at San Antonio, Texas, 'investigating carrier's service', while in fact he was in Mexico examining mining property. In the month of October, he was in various places, free delivery, was sick with typhoid fever, and Hedges was at the department acting as superintendent. In his diary he states, under oath, that he was in various places, named, office, Park, Philadelphia, Concamden, N. J., and elsewhere, 'actually engaged in traveling on the business of the free delivery service. Assistant superintendents of free delivery for every day in lieu of expenses for each day engaged actually traveling on the business of the department. Hedges' false statements as to his whereabouts on these days were manifestly for them to which he was not entitled." Mr. Hedges was appointed to the postal service from the Tenth congressional district of Texas on July 1, 1896, and was appointed superintendent of the free delivery 1, July 1, 1901. His salary was $3,000 a year. He had charge of the delivery service in the city of New York, being under another superintendent, and both being under the general supervision of August W. Machen. CHINA CAN'T OPEN PORTS. Prince Ching Tells Conger Russian Troops Control Towns Peking. July 23. Prince Ching, the president of the foreign office, has written to United States Minister Conger, refusing to open towns in Manchuria. In his letter he dwells upon the impossibility of China opening to foreigners towns which are not in her possession, but which are held by Russian troops, and points out the complications which would be likely to occur. It is believed here, however, that a compromise may be reached by including one town—Ta Tung Kao—in the new commercial treaty. Washington, July 23.—Inasmuch as the Chinese government very recently has expressed its willingness to yield to the desires of the United States for China to be there at a loss to understand the communication sent by Prince China to Minister Conger, refusing this concession. They have received no advises on the subject. In some quarter the objections urged to the opening of the communication are regarded as a mere diplomatic cubicle, designed perhaps to please Russia. No matter what fresh obstacle may intervene, our government, firm in the conviction that the principle of the open door in China should be enforced by all nations, will continue to exert its influence in that direction. CASSIUS M. CLAY DIESJ Noted Kentuckian and Former Minister to Russia. Richmond, Kv., July 23.—General Cassius Marcelius Clay, ambassador to Russia under Lincoln, noted abolitionist and author, died at his home, White Hall in Madison county, at 9:10 o'clock last night. Death was due to general exhaustion. He led a stirring life, which began to tell on him in late 1832, but he believed that a conspiracy to assassinate him had been planned and some years ago fortified his home at White Hall, and entered a life of seclusion, that ended only a few weeks ago, when the courts appointed a committee of take charge of him and his effects. He was found desperately ill and cared for. His children, long esterbed in the tricities, were again able to be with him, and were at the bedside when death ensued. Gates at frequent intervals bar the country roads in Norway, and are a nuisance to travelers, who have to leave their vehicles and open the barriers. These obstructions mark the boundaries of farms, or seashes, located sections from the wast land. The little shop in which President Andrew Jackson lived at Greenville, Tenn., and followed his trade, is yet to be seen over the road by Jackson Tailor. "Some of the villagers take delight in showing receipted bills from the famous tailor, for making or repelling garments," he decided to get another physician; "I have," answered Mrs. Cumrox; "the idea of his prescribing flaxseed tea and mustard plasters for people as rich as we are!" (and works) "What do you know about laying gaspipes in the street?" Applicant (for place as foreman)—I know they hadn't ougheter be laid until the stench just been repaired. "He got a place." "What is that car coupled behind the presidential train?" asked the tall reporter. "That is a photograph car," he said. "What is that car car?" "Yes, it contains the picture of all the big families in the west." Des Moines, July 23, 1903. Justice D. J. Brewer of the United State supreme court was a guest at the annual banquet of the State Bar association and responding to an invitation by Judge Wakefield, to tastmaster, addressed the 300 or 400 lawyers about the tables. Governor Cummins bounced off the floor, finally Fort Dodge to the toast "The Ladies." Will E. Miller of Bedford o "The Lawyer's Infallible Right." 9. H. Miller of Anamona to "The Lawyer's Infallible Right." 10. Press and the Lawyer," and Congressman Smith to "The President." Secretary J. C. Simpson, of the department of agriculture, is receiving many entries for the judging contest which has been planned for the state fair. The competition is open to all young men of Iowa under 21, not agricultural students, and the prize is a scholarship in the agricultural course. The value of this scholarship is $200. It is announced that Professor Rucherford, of the Iowa State College, recently brought heeled students to the place of Professor Marshall, will have charge of the contest. A large number of inquiries have been received from without the state, many young men, and many desiring to take part in the competition. Such entries, however, have been refused. Adjustant General Byers says it has been concluded to select details from all the companies of the guard, outside of the Fifty-first regiment, for the purpose of bringing that regiment up to the required strength of 816 officers and men, which it must have when it goes to the maneuvers at Fort Riley. The orders of the war department are for the Fifty-fifth of 816. The Fifty-fifth has something over 500 officers and men. Instead of adding to it companies from other regiments, Adjustant General Byers will have details of five or six men each of the regiment to provide a service. This will give some of the members of each company in the guard a taste of real campaigning. The dates for the regimental camps in the state have been revised and definitely fixed. The regiment will be moved to 13 to 20, the Fifty-fourth from September 11 to September 16, and the Fifty-fifth from September 12 to 9 inclusive. The damage to the crops of western Iowa by the hail storm which swept over nearly half the state on the night of the 20th is inestimable, but will probably reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, judging from reports made to the hail insurance companies in Iowa, who reported that they have been about forty miles wide, but it followed no regular course, veering considerable. It entered the state from South Dakota, where the loss is said to be as heavy as in Iowa, first striking Lyon County, where the damage southward and slightly east across the state, striking quite heavily in O'Brien, Cherokee, Monona, Warren, Greene, Shelby, Crawford and Cass counties. The severity of the storms on the small size and a considerable depth fell in many places. In most places the hail was accompanied by a terrific gale and severe electrical storm. The horse show at the Iowa State Fair at Des Moines this year, from August 21 to 29, will be the best ever held in the state. There will be an exceptionally strong showing of heavy horses and it is predicted it will be the most successful. C. F. Curtiss, of the Iowa State College, has been selected to judge the horses, this arrangement giving general satisfaction to the exhibitors. The Scandinavian Relief commission, appointed by Governor Cummins some months ago, for the purpose of collecting funds in Iowa to be sent to the relief of the starving Scandinavians in Sweden, Norway and Finland, has made its final report to the governor. It shows that the people of Iowa contributed with great liberality to the relief. The expenses were light, reaching a total of 449.62. The entire net sum after deducting expenses has been forwarded to the sufferers. The report shows that the people of Sweden, about 20 per cent to Norway and the same amount to Finland. The recent strike at Dubuque and the sending of the militia there at the urgent request of the sheriff, cost the state a considerable sum. Bills have been allowed by the executive council of $1,838.25. The warrants have been drawn by Captain Amos Brant, and will be turned over to Adjunct General Byers. The executive council is working steadily on assessments and has practically completed the task of equalizing the returns from the counties. The results, however, will not be made public until all the assessments have been fixed. It is known the council has not engaged in the state. Some of the valuations in the lower counties have been raised, and those in the higher have been depressed. It is understood this has resulted in a slight increase of the aggregate. The council is now working notepaper and notage assignments. As there are 1,200 telephone lines and over to assess, the task before the council is a heavy one. Terrapin eggs are hatched in about thirty days. With her forepaws the female terrapin scratches a hole in the skin of her body and eats eggs, from thirteen to fifty pairs. She covers her skin, and voices upon the sun to do the hatching. Mary McAndrew, an amabil and pretty factory girl, aged seventeen, of the company, and companions in the factory, to tease her, said she showed the early symp toms of smallpox, some scattered cases of which malady are in the city, to her. She went home and committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. An aching back tooth had for weeks tortured Edward Keller, of Hoboken, N. J. A dentist removed the tooth with its removal Keller hot hit voice. Edison is a man of actions, rather than a man of words. His only recorded speech is remarkable for his brevity. He had agreed to lecture on electricity before a girl's seminary, and a friend named Adams was to work the apparatus while he talked. But when the inventor arose to speak, he was not ready to that he simply said: "Ladies: Mr. Adams will now address you on electricity and I will demonstrate what he has to say with the apparatus." - ee ee ee st a iad me ee 3 Sa ae Eee ROME eis MRM FOSS G TS CACO Ta eM Bee TR oe CR MR Ce ae 4 Bano isin te SESE Sk ERAN coca ‘ OM mE CHER Amy : 1’ rs a 7 “LODGE OF MASONS, art Large Delegation and ‘TURIVAT. MORNIG Sxs810K,. ‘The sixtecuth annual eommenicatior ‘of the Tows grand lodge of Mssons, A F, avd A., comprising lows, part o Nobreska and pert of Washington, onyened In'our efty Tdeeday the 16th at 10 Gealdcy, In Webster's hall, corne: eer ‘Gnd Center ‘streets, with Grayd Mester, Brown presiding; after eens Grand Master, announced the lollowing committees; ‘ ‘Credentiale—tieo, L. Suter, F. D. Fields; H. K. Hilion. Rules—H. H. Lewis, W, A. ‘Searcy, Beary Jones. x ae Dispensations snd Charters—H. K. Gillon, B.C. Thomas, U.8, Jones. ‘Obitaariee—F. D, Fields, T. A. Cole- man, J. 8 Baker. Grand Master's Addrese—George L. Suter, J. H. Shepard, Zack Taylor. ‘By-laws of Subordinate Lodges—W. A. London, F. D. Fields, Harrison Gould, ‘Appesis and Grievances—H. K. Hill- ‘on, U. 8. Jones, George L. Suter. ‘Accounte—J. F. Harris, James Wash- ington, W. H. Milligan. AFTERYOON sEsst0x, ‘The afternoon session was taken up im prelimivary work and the Grand Master's sddrena. At 4 o'clock they ‘adjourned and moat of the lodge with ‘thelr friends went to the state capitol where Governor Albers B. Cummins ‘with all bia state officialn tendered a Public reception. Mr. Coalson, the Governor's messenger, ushered the sixty-one callers into the lange recep- tion coom, thea John L. Thompson stepped forward and introduced the Governor to the Grand Master, I. L. Brown. ‘The governor than (ntrodue- ed Mr. Brown to W. L, Martin, Secre- tary of State, B. F, Carroll, Auditor of State. G8, Gilbertson, Treasurer of State and ©. W. Mullen, Attorney | General. Then Mr. Brown introduced | the Governor to all the men as they passed through, 5 WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION, | ‘Wednesday morning the session took up the code revision and after listning to the report of the committee om jar- ispradence and code revision the work was found too long for the amount of time the rand lodgo had to spend on | the revision, therefore it was decided to isy the revision over till the next| ansual communication, and to add one extra day. to be known as codification day, and that day to be Fridey, hence the next mecting will be a four days yeasion. AFTERNOON Sx8si0x. In the afternoon the election occurr- ed. Results as follows: Al! of the old officers of the Masonic j Grand lodge were re-eleeted with the| exception of the B. W. Junior Warden. M.W.G.M., 1. L. Brown, Marshall- town; RW. Dep. G. M., W. W. Carey, Buxton; R. W. 8. W., W. H. Milligan, Cedar Rapids; R. W. J. W.,U. 8, Jones of Albis; BW. Grand ‘Treasurer, Wm. Coalson, Des Moines; R. W. Grand Secretary, A.A Bland, Keokuk; | In the evening the lodge met at the hall for memorial services, presided over by Grand Master Brown. The progromme as publised in = issue was carried ont, except Mrs. J. H. Shepard did not render her solo, and Rey W. A. Searey took Wm. Gross? place in speaking on ‘Departed Dead.” John T. Mabry, District Grand Master of Odd Fellows, of Davenport was in-! wodueed apd made = few remarks, | after which the Grand Master sang one | of hia favorite songs by request. i THURSDAY WORXINO. | The last day of Gia convention of the Jowa Grand Lodge of Mayons, A. F. and A.M, opened Yesterday in Webster's pall and continues with, the work of au- Siting accounfs and finlahing up the gen eral work. ‘The time from 9 to 11 o'clock was spent li'falting Amos Ward of Cedar Rapids to the mublime degree of Master Mason, the work belong conducted by J. H. Bhepard, E, FP. Brooks, W. H. MUI ran and W. A. Beavey in open lodac. ‘This afternoon at 2 o'clock Grand Mas- jer Brown, read the following list of ap- polntive officers: (Grand lectuter—a. H, Clesget of Des ‘Gand. chaplalo“W. A.’ Richardson of clinton. ' ‘rand regintersAi. H. Johnson of Mar: | cinlkowns! x “Grand. senior, deacon-—fi L.. Brooks 92, Burlington. |) sake - ‘Grand fulSe dededdt-W.'at. Burvelt of Drie. ae iBword bearer-W. A. Landon of Bux: | Seabee meme-nonirmerean ats | ‘enor semara~di, Walker ot Daven | "Grand maimhal<J.°H, Johnson of Ot- |! “Grund master_of ceremoniee— Wiliam | sno of Ookufoobis orn | RurpurvantMallam Grose af Keokuk | Camlitce ol Meorrtepontence J, 16, epee of, Des aotncs, a: Ac Bua ot SAL a8 « prossacon, jocudtng al Sole | tes mnd pi)Wene, cree formed.at the hal | secre dace esa wl i) Phe dine of march was as} grand master; Wiliam Coalson of Drs Moines, treasurer. For the oftice of arand wenior warden, W. H. Milligan of Cedar Rapids was elected on the second ballot by a vote of 9 to 4, the opposing candi- date being W. A. Searcy of Clinton. For rand Juner, warden, U8: gones of albla Was elected on the first ballot, receiv vote ‘aw axainst Th for J. # Harrie of Ottumwa, Ar A. Blhnd“of Keoki wee mage grand. scorelary on the rst Ballot ‘by a majority of only. fouy votes Fecelving ¢4 to 60 for Fred Fielden "The following are the delegates: present: Marghailtown-}. L. Brown, I. H: John- ton, 6. 8. Bultor, Calvin Wheeler. ‘Grinnell—J. A. Bpencer. Omaha—Walter Hall, WX. "HUOn, ‘Wil. tam Burrells. B.C. Clelien. oes, Ralae—W. Halligan, B.C. Clinton—W. A. Searcy. Keokuk—Wiillam Grors, ‘T. D. Fie:ds, A. A, Bland, ‘Ottumwa-J. F, Harris, Zach, Taylor, James Jonson. : ‘Albia—U. 8. Jones, Henry Jones. Buxton—w. W. Carey, W. H. London, Jonn Jenkins, David Thomas, T. A. Cole nan, Willlam Shelton, James @mith, C. Hi Mendenhall. ‘Oskaloos—William Puno, E. E. Jones, Robert Johnson, G. 11. Jones. ‘Muchakinoch—George H. Woodson, Sioux Clty—James Washington, Clarinda, J. Gipson, J. 8. Baker, Omaha was selected as the piace to hold the convention next year. 1. L, Brows, James Washington, A. A. Blaod, J. H. Sheperd, and William Gross were selected to attend the Ma- sonic Congress at St. Louis during the Worlds’ Fair. Thus ends one of the largest and moat successful meetings in Iowa, It represented some of the best element of the race, and 60 far aa we have been able to aseertainall conducted them- jalves as gentlemen, 2 GRAND LODGE NOTES, The meeting held last week was the greatest success in point of finance and attendance that wasever held by the Masons of Iowa. / Geo, Suter aud Wm. Gross made a good team. They only needed Frank Blagburn and J. L. Brook to make a full quartette. H. K Hillon is one of the best post- ed men in masonic jurispradehce: ‘It was quites pleasure to see thone gray haired veterans in the fraternity work so zealously. They know mason- ry and have ft at heart. ‘The grand master appointed J. L. ‘Thompson as press censorship, to see that nothing went oat from the hall to ‘the local or assdclated press didpatch that would be burful to the order. | Calvin Wheeler was.as jovial asever. Weal Oealsou could mob! get aroud like the other boy, owing to rheums- ‘ism, He says it will be cured by next grand lodge. 1. L. Brown made a good presiding Offieer; he is developing each year. The various committees did their work well and punctual. Fred Fields made s good impression on the Des Moines people and the young ladies are asking, ‘‘is he mar- ried.” The reception tendered by Governor Cummins was the first ever tendered dy an [ows goreraor to colored masons and all the boys will ever remember ‘and always appreciate it. North Star lodge No. 2 did herself much credit. "The youngest lodge is the Golden Circle No, 26, in Claringa. It bad two members present. ‘The duet sang by Mesdames Coalson and Birney was much complimeated. James Washington, the merchant from Sioux City, was often beard and usually bad e good point when he took the floor. = Z. Taylor and H. H, Lewis made. gocd Stewards, | W. H, London tries to observe the masonic etiquett more thas any man on the floor, Geo, H. Cleggett makes = good talk in opea lodge, Harrison Gould was very punctual in attoniance. J. Hi. Shepard and A. A, Bland are the best informed masons on law and the ritual in lows. ‘The duet by Mrs. J. T. and Mr. BE. T. Blagburn was splendid selection and beautifully sang. E. T. Banks was full of jokes and is a good earnest worker at all times in the lodge. The reception given by Mt. Olive Court No. 4, at the resideace of Mr. and Mra:'G40. Woods,’ was highly ‘ap- prosiited by the'boys. -< WE would like to #90, more. of the young med study Masonry and Masonic. bistary; yo mped.it exeny: day, every, ROME i> 503 sat -po.arncy 0220) ‘Milliganssaid he thought:he had the prand lokge for neki year for Cedar Zapids; Washington sald Sioux City wanted it; Carey said all’of Buxton was entitled to it; amd Clinton was a are winner, but when Hillon present- 4 Omahs, Nebr., it was ail off with fhe rest of the towns. They ail tried o get into the Omaha band wagon be- ore the wagon stopped runsing. Boga the law asid live up te:it. Je Johusoa of Ottumwa ond Hey- yard:Halbef Omshs’arrivéd too late pe abaleahs 2 cece “God be with us til} we miset again,” ras the ‘conoluding byma apd all hook bands—there. was nota dry eye a the hall-—the parting was very pa- Metis, Adiew tll we mect, im Omabs,, Subscribe for.the Bystander. es en Paar. ‘ | . iN yj 3 i q y. i , a A. ae a >) I. L: BROWN, re-elected M. W. Grand Master, Marshallltown FS Bina SA ee eS pe a & ies ae ie es bs wel] ee i ae pate a ia Ee fi e a i EN ) ur i fe on AA oa | ee i av fa Ras 4 ea W. W. CAREY, re-elected R. W. Deputy Grand Master, Buxton. TPS ea, Paani aD BR ae Ree eS eat ees ie 2s OES ee ata ig RE) each Semana a oe Reine = Le oi Fea eam an ct ee Bee eae on eta ee a ieee Me Sa. WaT r Sea a ’ ue | W. H. MILLIGAN, re-elected R. W. S. G. Warden, Cedar Rapid f l tes | | ace Wit: COALSON, re-elected R. W, Grand ‘Treasurer, Des Moines e Entries for the stake races at; the Lowa Stale Fake, Angus. 2-19 ane jbeing paid up rapidly and: there is every promise of a splendid racing Programme. The entries in the class races will ‘close August 12 The race track this year will present ‘more attractive ‘appearance than it has im the past. A number of improvements have been made, -in- cluding the building'of a new fenée about ‘the track- | This’has been ‘painted white and. to-improve 'the ‘situation still further’ there will be aa Addition to the eastiend of the, am- phitheater, “which will enable the structure (0 seat 3500 more people. tpg ts F Now that the raqe question 1s betag sofally discuwed by the leading ‘men throughout the country, the oration of epee C. Bruce, son of the Jate HJ. 8,. ‘Register Brace, will prove of greet .in- 'terestito our readers: Tt iss neatly: printed pamipblet sud coutdins a half- tone cut of Mr:'Brués, “Sent on recelpt of 14-contein stampa “Address Speech Pab. Co, Washington, D, Cc. 445,00 TO PORTLAND, OREGON, ( AND BETOEN. “On Angast 1-40-24, inclusive, the Minneapolis ana’ St.;Loula R. B. sella ‘excursion tickets to Portland, Ore:; ‘Seattle and Tacoite, Wash., Vietoris ‘and Vancotiver, B. C., at the extreme- ly low rate of $45,00 for the round trip ‘Vekets limited for return to Oct. 15, 1903, atop overs allowed in both. direc- tlons,.and passenger have the privel- oge of going one route and returning another, i Sée'sgents for farther information, or address’A; ®: Odtts,@.P. @ T.:A., Minneapolis, Mins. : ee Rigi eats Sc a GREAT SPORTING NEWS JOUB- NAL. ‘the thiaatrated special sporting sec: tion of The Sunday Chicago Record: Herald throughly deserves the atten: tion of every one Incerested in aporting newp, tie always beautifally illus trated andembraces four fall pages covering with the thorougbndss that satisfles to the utmost the whole realm of sports Baseball news, racing news, bowling news, eycling news, pugitistic news, golf news, yachting news—all the sporting news is given with tle greatest de gree of fullness and inter est. ‘The sporting page of the dally is sues is also exceptionally popular—s self-evident fact to those who hare noted the general regu of the Chicago Record-Herald waong sporting men, U, 8. JONES. bah tgs tore yg dp 1 paspifin. aomemme 28%. 4 mei ee a ae [eae ae Ps yo a ors eam See “ ‘y ' cS ie Mr. U.S, Jones of Albia was elected as R. W. J. Grand Warden of the masonic grand lodge last week. succeeding J. H. Harris of Ottumwa. He is the youngest grand officer; was born and raised in Albia. He is at present the W. M. of Albia Star No. 26. A 32 degree Scottish Rite and Chief Commander of Albia Consistory. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows. His father, Henry Jones is one of the best masous and most highly esteemed citizens in Albia. HARRISON GOULD. a oa a eS ee ee | sas Harrison Gould who is a promi. nent and highly respected resi dent of Des Moines, is one of the popular citizens of Des Moines, and for the past three years has made himself very prominent, both in the church, social, and sacred world—being one the mem- bers on the official staff of St. Paul’s A.M. E. church, also a member of the-United Grand lodge of the Iowa jurisdiction; filling that noble and honorable possitionas Worshipful Master of North Star Lodge No 2, A. F. & A.M. There is yet a bright future before him. EDWARD T, BANKS, Le Ogee ae. il cs Be. a ° z — There are but few men better known in the masonic: fraternity of Iowa,than the'subject .of .shis sketch, £:T. Bantts Des'Moines! ie tame from’ Alabaiha,’ about twénty.years ago, to our city where he has remained every since, and by his hard labor, hon- est manhood has made a good mame for himself‘ where ever he is known. He has held ever hon- or in the gift of the grand lodge, except grand master and grand gtand secretary, and. has held every office in North Star lodge NG@, 25; several times chairman on cothmittee on, foreign correspon. dence and at presenton ‘the code revision and jurisprudence com: mittee. He holds: a position as jaiitor atthe court house, where the has been for several years, @.H, CLEGGETT. D eS hy ite o e pe % JS QS 8s wip IN eh - oT Z eee” nr aoe! 4 ZS ae 4 Ne ad George H. Cleggett, one of the leading eitizens of Des Moines, became a member of North Star lodge No. 2 in 1880; served as W. M. two years and,as secretary a number of years, He has been honoted by the grand lodge by being elected Grand Master and Grand Secretary, has also served as chairman on foreign corres- pondence. ‘This year he was ap- pointed as Grand Lecturer. ALBIA NOTES. Mr. and Mrs. U. 8 Jones, Mr. and Bre. a Butler. Misses Bessie Davis and Nell Grayson are Dee Moines visitors this week, ‘oRey. sames Wharton beld special ser- vices at the A. M. €, Church Suoday evening, singing by the Quartets. paper by Mrs, Josie Meadows; song by the Quartett; paper, May Davis; Solo, Miss Hiza Brown; Remarks by Mr. Bd Butler; song by the Quartets, Mr, Roy Grasson, Mr, Wallace Davie and Me. H, sones are Des Moines visitors this week. Mr. ‘Temp Rhodesand Mr, Tom Perkins of Buxton were in town Suoday. Mrs, Nora Grasson of Hiteman was in town Saturday. Quite a number of strangers are in town this week, "NO MONEY IN TRANSLATION. © Little Demand for the Best Works of Foreign Authors. “Translating is an art,” said an Instructor at the university. “Car- lyle translated some fairy tales from the German, and these tales from ‘Tieck and Musacus are examples of English prose as beantifut as the heart could desire. Swinburne trans- lated Villon, and so did Rossetti, who gave us, furthermore, paraphrases of the Italian poets that equal the origi nals in charm. That is the test of translation—that it shall equal in beauty the original—and [think there should be a law requiring every great Writer to translate at least one Bteat book. But our good men can't afford to make translations; the pay is too miserable. It is Impossible tc get for trazsiating a novel of 125,006 words more than about $250. There is omly $2 per 1,000 words, and there fs no living in it at such figures.”—- Pailadelphia Record, Clever Female Politician. ‘Miss J. N. Strong, private secretary to ex-Congressman Hawley of Texas, {8 credited with being the cleverest female politician ever seen in Wash- ington. She is conversant with every county in Texas, knows every man of prominence in the state and attends to nearly all details of federal patron- age there. It is related of her that she once went to see a cabinet officer in regard-to a place for a Texas con stituent. The official was not disposed to give the place to her applicant, but in a pleasant and courteous manner said: “I am sorry to disappoint you after looking into suen pretty brown eyes.” “It seems to me then,” was the quick answer, “that the ayes ought to have it.” The cabinet officer Was so pleased with the retort that he mare the appointment, BOONE. 4 ‘The Progressive Club metlast Friday evening and passed the following reso- lutions, Whereas: It has pleased God in bie infinite wisdom to take from our midst one of our most highly «ateemed and respected brother member John. T Washington. ‘therefore be it Resolved: That we extend our most sincere sympathy to the wite and rela- tives of our deceased brother, and that we drape our charter for a period of thirty days in mourning, And be it further Resolved: That acopy of these re. solutions besent'to the family of our deceased brother, ‘That, a copy. be sont to the Iowa Stars BrstaNpEn for. publication, also © copy.be PQalished in. the colums of oar local yapere and thet a copy. be placed on fileon the minutes of thie organization. Committee: i) BF. Taylor LF, Anthony C8. Coleman a Wer New Gime: ec: | Charles M. Schwab. of the Steel trust is sald to be at the head of a syndicate of . wealthy New Yorkers who have in view the establishment at Great Neck, L. 1, of an exclusive summer resort similar to that found, ed many rears ago ‘at Tuxedo by Pierre Lorillard. The buying of ahors front property at Great Neck has been geing on for months big prices being peid tn some. cases and ere long the vitle hamlet will have been replaced by splendid summer cottages. Five thousand dollars an acre was paid for an estate ot 105 scree, = Subscribe for the Bystander, (hs ‘Strange Cases ee Have Come ‘Under Physician's Observation, Modtenl records tn. the ¥arlous hos. pitas of New York clty: show that though quite forgetfal of recent hap. penings, aged persons recall long. past events %n correct order, and ten ile ‘again amid’ scenes ‘passed utterly out of recollection before the. disease of senility appeared, ‘A woman of 70, delirious from plew. ro-pneumonia, repeated poetry in Hin. Quatani, It duveloped lated’ on that up to the age of four she knew only that language, but afterward bad for. gotten that she eyer spoke {t. An. ‘other peculiar case on record is that of an illiterate ma{d servant who while in the delirium of fever, recttod Greek and Hebrew for hours, although, when in health she knew no word of fither language,” her ravings being due to the brain impressions left by the readings heardd many years. be fore of a learned. rabbi. whose.servant dhe had beet... 5 4t0 sun gal HAD TO WANE THE HAT. Strikers Wife Pul, Up Effestive Plea ‘Yor Finery. 45 hash Ware A woman went Int) @ ttle miltin ery chop in One hundredth street, near Amsterdam fyqnue, the other day and asked to sé@ a hat. A chiffon creation, of which tae price was 32 waé shown her, ané she expressed a keen desire for, it. .“May I have it now,” she asked, “-f I'll leave fitty cents on deposit, and bring In the rest later?” “That's very unusual,” replied the milliner. “When could you pay the balance?” “That's just the point,” said the woman. “I don't know. My husband is a plasterer. He makes $5.25 a day while -he ts work. ing. But he has been on strike for four weeks, and we have nothing.” “But how do you live in: the mean- time?” she was asked. “Hock every- thing we have, like the rest of the strikers,” replied the woman. “Every. thing we own is in pawn, but I must have that hat.” She got iNew York Sun, Horses of Famous Men. Tt {s strange that nd one seems to know anything about the _varlous horses that George Washington rode, and that the rames of them all seem to have gone down into oblivion. Every one knows about Marengo, the white stallion Napoleon rode at Waterloo, and whose remains are now in the United Services Museum at London. The Duke of Wellington was astride of Copenhagen during the vattle and the horse lived to be twenty-seven, Richard Ill. owned White Surrey, and it was for him that he wanted to trade a kingdom. Wil liam IIl’s favorite horse was named Sorrel, and was blind i one eye, as was Savoy, the , favorite horse of Charles VIII, of | France.—Springfeld. Republican. Art Forgeries. ‘The Anglo-Saxon is the natural prey of the art forgery-monger, and the modern antiques which are manufac- tured for him constitute the livelihood of the whole countrysides on the Arno, and the Tiber, on the Nile, and ‘on the Jordan, Innocent peasant- looking people dig up these —entiquee before the eyes of the unsuspecting tripper! And when the fool goes off with his folly, the simple, gulleless peasant quietly buries another ex ample of the same object in the same hole for the benefit of the next tour- ist who may come along.—Magazine of Art, ‘ Panaste: udnaunt wie? | - The best known of the penny. beg: gars is loose in Broadway again after fa long absence. He Is a gray-bearded old man who glides up to you in the street and says in a wheezy voice: “Boss, will you give me & penny? 1 want to get a cup of coffee. “I have four." As an evidence of truthful- ness he holds out four pennies in his dirty palm. ‘His modest request is usually complied with unless be is known, He has been doing the pen- ny-begging stunt for several yeare now and seems to be satisfied with the resvlts— New York Sun. Rezeon for Left-Handedness. A scientist has recently: published & brochure on the subject of right and left handedness. ‘The explanation for the -phenomena in any person is traced to the pressure of the blood In the two halves of bis brain. He concludes that for righthanded sub- Jeots there is an excess of pressure in the left half of the brain, accom panied by an excess of excitability and of vitality in all those parts of the body dependent.on the left brain. For lefthanded people the reverse is true. Old-Time Business: Methods. Church White, of Atchison, regrets ‘that the merchants of the present day do not do business as- they did at Halnesville, Mo., where -he was rear ed. The custom there was to settle with the store once a year( on the Ast of January, Once White's father Went Into McCrory’s store to settle. “What's my bill?” he asked of Mc Crory. “Well, George,” said - McCro- ry, “pay what you think ia right; 1 ain't Kept mo account.” Se Happiness for Old’ Maide. at . “Honey, when's you jer imarrict?” ‘The eugagilat haa aot been announced, so‘the young woman replied: “Why, I don't: know) auntté; ‘Tam not even engaged,” What Jo you think of that?” The old colored wor an said: “Laws-a-me! but that suttin ly am a pity. But, Miss Nancy, they do say that ole maids is the happiest critters shere In, once they quits srus” ellp'e-Binrper'a, Magaging, 0: peta oe “i= Jewels Reeulen cd bik lo Many jewels require an ‘oecasWinal Sleep, 80 to speak, in. ord orto: retath' thelr , brikiency, . , Dismende).- rabies and sapphires are amoag the number. They shovld be put away in total darkness every now and then, ‘Th@, usual Velvet or satin-ltned cases are, theccorrect: receptacles.’ It 4s beet’ towrap gema. ‘in Jewelers’! tinsué’ paper, then ‘pack {n woo) and-lay !n° airtight compartments, : A; number. of? stones are ¥eriously affected by fumet rom furneces, ewer gas, moisture and sea air (N. B. If you have friends or friends visit in the city or relatives to make a visit, please inform us; we solicit all your local service-kd). Neal Matthew left Wednesday night for Pittsburgh. Pa. Mrs. E. T. Banks has been very sick at her home on Knees street this week. W. B. Turner died at his room 131 Seventh street last night. The old settlers will hold their annual picnic the second Thursday in August at Union Park. B. N. Hyde, W. A. Birney and others will go to Minneapolis on the excursion Saturday night. Mrs. Thompson of Ft. Madison spent several days in the city, the guest of Mrs. B. J. Holmes. Before you spend all your money spare money for picnic and getting ready for excursions and visits remember we would like to receive the amount due us. L. B. Willis of Buxton a student at the Highland Park College has gone home to attend the wedding of his sister which occurred in that city Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Thompson served dinner last Tuesday to H. *K. Hillon of Omaha. Jan. Washington of Sloux City, W. W. Carey of Buxton and J. H. Harris of Ottumwa. Miss Etta White sister of Mrs. S. D. Miller, died Wednesday afternoon at one clock. The funeral will be held from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Miller on Park street this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Hvde entertained at 6 o'clock dinner last Thursday Meers. Hall of Omaha, John Harris. Jack Taylor, and James Johnson of Ottumwa. Geo. Bryant, Bandmaster of Gideon's Minstrel, who has been spending his vacation with his parents at Oceola, is spending a few days in the Capital City. Our collector is out this week and we are sending notices to a number of our delinquent subscribers, so if you see the collector or get a notice, please pay your indebtness. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Cleggett entertained J. T. Harris of Ottumwa. Calvin Wheeler of Marshalltown, Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Jones of Albia last Wednesday. An enjoyable time was had by all. Those who are not subscribers to the BISTANDER can secure copies at our office for 5 cents per copy, secure some for yourself and send some to your friends as we have a full report of the G.U. O. of O.F., the A. F. & A. M. and K. & D. in this issue. There will be a Sunday School Back Picnic and Barbecue given in Sayloville Grove, at Saylor, tomorrow, by the Mt. Zion Baptist Sunday School, with the co-operation of the Maple St. Baptist Sunday School, Corinthian Sunday School and Sayloville Sunday School. All Sunday Schools are cordially invited to join them in their annual Sunday School Picnic and Outing. Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Blagburn served dinner last Thursday in honor of A. A. Bland, Fred Flaida and Wilson of Kecku, Wm. Burrell, H. Clemens, Hayward Hall of Omaha, J. F. Harris of Ottumwa, Calvin Wheeler of Marshalltown, Thos. McDaniel, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Clegget. While in Oskaloosa, Ia., stop at Emanuel Lobbins' Lunch Room; also furnished rooms. Good service at reasonable rates. 311 Rock Island avenue. Your Patronage is Kindly Sollicited at the new Jewell Restaurant just opened at the corner of W. Second and Walnut BALLS SERVED AT 10 CENTS Under management of R. N. BYDE and MISS MARY MONTAGUE Rev. and Mrs. T. L. Griffith gave a dinner party last Friday, Mr. and little Benjamin Talmage W. W. Carey and wife, David Phillips, John Ampy, Mrs. Ross Brown, Mrs. W. Mays, Mrs. Bringham and Mr. H. Nicholas all of Buckton: A very enjoyable time reported. VERY LOW RATES TO PITTSBURG Via the North-Western Line, Excursion tickets will be sold Aug. 1, 3 and three, with very favorable return limits, on account of C. Y. A. U. Convention: Apply to Agents Chicago & North-Western R'y. Mr. Jim Jeffreys and daughter attended the grocer's picnic at Harvey Wednesday and visited his brother Andrew. Miss Mattle Walker of New York City and her sister Miss Jesie of Marshalltown, Ia., were visitors during the grand lodge, the guest of Mrs. H. Warrick. Rev, H. S. Graves and wife entertained Rev. W. A. Searey at dinner last Thursday, a very pleasant time was had. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Ellison entertained H. K. Hillion, Wm. Burrell, E. S. Cleansl of Omaha and Mr. and Mrs. J. Joe Brown of the city at dinner last Thursday. Mr. J. H. Shepard and wife entertained at dinner last Wednesday Fred Fields of Kookuk, Rev. W. A. Searey of Clinton, Robt. Johnson of Oakcloak and I. L. Brown of, Marshalltown. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stanton returned to their home at Louis. Louis last Saturday after a pleasant visit with relatives and friends, while here Mr. Stanton called at our office and renewed his subscription to the BRESTAND by paying in advance as he always does. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Banks served dinner last Wednesday to I. L. Brown of Marshalltown, W. H. Milligan of Cedar Rapids, A. A. Bland of Koekun, Jaes Taylor of Ottawa, Rev. W. A. Searcy of Clinton, Henry Jones of Albia and James Washington of Sioux City. Miss Fanny McCann left Wednesday for Buxton where she is expected to be married soon to Dave Timberlake, Miss McCann is from Illinois, she has been at the Deaconess Home under going treatment for her eyes. Milligan of Cedar Rapids; J. F. Harris of Ottumwa; U. B. Jones, Henry Jones of Albia; Austin A. Bland, Wm. Gross Fred Fields of Kekoek; Gm. Cleggent, H. H. Lewis, J. H. Shepard, E. T. Banka, R. N. Hydes and J. L. Thompson of this city. An elegant dinner was served, Madam Coalison was assisted by her sister Mrs. W. H. Birney. Mr. and Mrs. S. Joe Brown served an elegant dinner last week Wednesday to I. L. Brown and Jacob Wilson of Marshallthown, Samuel and Arthur Wilson, E. A. Carter and Mrs. Rebecca Bingham of Buton and Attorney Geo. H. Woodson of Muchakinock. Mr. and Mra. G. F. Stanton of St. Loa, we were the guests of honor at an informal company last Friday evening given by Mira Selma Stanton in her home on Pleasant Street. The house was beautifully decorated with cut flowers and musle was furnished by the Mayflower Mandolinia Orchestra, Miss Stanton was assisted in receiving by Mra. C. Carr, Mrs. Hill, Miss Montague and her mother, Mrs. G. W. Stanton. Little Margaret Stanton and Louise Williams ushered the guests up stairs. Mr. J. S. C, Sharp of Chicago but formerly of Denver, Colo. who at one time edited the Times Speaker of Denver arrived in our city Sunday morning, he is touring the country in the interest of the Colored American at Washington, D. C. and the Atlanta Age in Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Sharp is an experience newspaper man and a close observer, One of the prettiest and swellest s'clock dinnes given last week was given by Wm. Coalson at his beautiful furnished home 2018 Center street. It was given last Monday evening in honor of all the visiting brothers who had arrived in the city, there were nineteen who took dinner, I. L. Brown, Geo. L. Suter, H. L. Johnson, Calvin Wheeler of Marshallall, Wm. Thomas, John Jenkins of Buxton; W. H. GARDNER-THURMAN On last Tuesday at 12:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. D. Dade, 608 Chessun Street, occurred the marriage of her niece, Misa Aileen Gardner to Mr. Isaac Thurman, only a very few friends were present as it was a quiet home wedding. Rev. O. A. Johnson, pastor of Burns M. E. Church performed the ceremony, the BRISTANDER extends congratulations. The St. Matthews Club of Burns M. E. Church gave a lawn social at the home of Mrs. and Mrs. E. S. Morgan on Oak Street last Tuesday night for the benefit of the church; the lawn and porch were decorated with Japanese lanterns which added beauty to the crowd that was there to spend the evening, ice cream, cake, coffee and sandwiches was served and a neat sum will replenish the funds of that church from that entertainment. DR. A. G. EDWARDS. Physician and Surgeon. OWA PHONE 1081 MUTUAL PHONE 400 (Office) Mike's Drug Store Office Hours: 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Over '764 West Ninth Street. HOMESEEKERS EXCURSION. One-way rate with two dollars additional. for round trip tickets on sale the first and third Tuesdays of every month, with limit for return twenty-one days from date of sale. See ticket agents of Minnesota & St. Louis for information as to rates, et or address. A. B. CUTR, G. P. & T. A. Minnesota, Minn. --- WILLIAMS-CARR. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Williams on Twenty-third street on last Wednesday evening occurred the marriage of their daughter Nettie to Mr. Claud Carr only the relatives and a very few friends were present. Miss Francis Walker and Mr. John Tyler acted as brides-maid and best-man. Meedames Phelps and Carter and Miss Alice Morton assisted in the dining room. Mr. and Mrs. Carr were recipients of many useful presents. Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Stanton of St. Louis were the out of town guests at the wedding. The bride is one of Des Moines popular and wins some young ladies, she was borne and raised in this city and is well known and has a host of friends. The groom has been a resident here for several years, coming from Missouri. He is energetic and his congenial manners has won him a number of friends. He is employed at the Waterbury Chemical Company. As they have decided to take the matrimonial vows early in life, may they live long to enjoy a peaceful one is ours and their many friends wishes. VERY LOW RATES TO CALIFORNIA NIA AND RETURN. Via the Chicago & North Western Rly. August 1 to 14, to Los Angeles and San Francisco, with final return until October 15, inclusive, account National Encampment G. A. R. Three trains a day from Chicago to the Coast through without change. Daily and personally conducted tourist car excursions. Special G. A. R. train will leave Chicago 10:30 p. m. Tuesday August 11: De Kalb, 13:10 p. m. Wednesday, Aug. 12 Cinton, 3:50 p. m.; Cedar Rapids, 6:30 a. m.; Marshalltown, 8:25 a. m.; Boone, 10:30 a. m.; arriving Omaha 5:00 p. m. leaving Omaha 3:30 p. m. and running via Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Lall Lake City. For itinerary, illustrated and full particuliers, apply to agents Chicago & North Western Rly. Pants.....15c Suit.....50c Coat and Vest.....35c Overcoat.....50c # Cleaned and pressed Pants.....35c to $ .50 Suits.....75c to 1.50 Coat and Vest.....50c to 1.00 Special attention giving to all kinds of repairing. SAVED BY A SONG. Familiar Tune the Means of Rescuing Youth from Slavery A remarkable incident is that of a Scottish youth who had learned at home to sing the old psalms that were then as household words to them in the kirk and by the fireside. When he grew up he wandered away from his native country, was taken captive by the Turks, and made a slave in one of the Barbary states. But he never forgot the songs of Zion, although he sung them in a strange land and to them cars. One night he was solacing himself in this manner, when the attention of some sailors on board of an English man-of-war was directed to a familiar "familiar" dred, as they were floating over the moonlit waves. At once they surmised the truth that one of their countrymen was languishing away his life as a captive. Quickly arming themselves, they manned a boat, and lost no time in effecting his release. What a joy to him, after eighteen long years passed in slavery. Plenty In It. The discussion of bribery has served to recite the reply which Geoge T. Anthony once made to a politician who was disposed to "graft," Mr. Anthony was about to relinquish an office and was approached by the man who was to succeed him, who wanted to know how much the office was worth. Anthony replied that it paid $3,000. "I know that is the salary," insisted the insult that there is there in it" "Well," said Anthony, looking his interrogator directly in the eye, "there's $3,000 a year and the penitentiary in it for any man who wants to work it for all it is worth." Kansas City Star. Before Rome Was Founded. In one of the tombs recently excavated in the Roman Forum a vase was discovered, "the inscriptions on which show that it belongs to the twelfth century before Christ, or 400 years before the reputed date of the Founding of Rome. Signor Boul, the director of the excavation, believes the tomb to be a relic of a city which existed and had disappeared before Rome was founded. How She Signed the Check. "I sometimes think that if I had my way in the matter I would make it a law that women should not have bank books," said the tired-looking cashier. "Some of their mistakes would put a sensible schoolboy to shame. Among the checks handed out was one one for quite a large amount which the woman who drew it out had signed "Your loving Carrie." Who is better qualified to set in motion good influence than a mother? Those who can be persuaded to fight those who are their friends will not succeed. No child has a fair chance in life that comes from a home with with bad influence. The young man who does every thing that is bad, as good as the girl who accepts his company. There is one man that we would like to see on the ticket next year with Theodore Roosevelt, and that man is Governor Albert B. Cummins. If some of those mobs in the south only had the same dose that the Evansville mob got at the hands of the militia—six killed out right, six others have died and more than twenty wounded. Thank God for that much justice. HAVE A PURPOSE. One of the most important lessons that should be taught by parents and those who are in a position to teach the young of today, is to have a purpose for the future, and one that will reflect credit upon them in after life. It should be impressed upon their minds that they cannot start out any way and reach the goal. The first step is for them to secure a good education, and if they cannot secure a college education they can get a good common school education. Next we would urge the selection of good associates. With many it seems to make no difference what kind of company they keep so they have a good time. The association of the idle, giddy and immoral will kill the aspiration of any one. In connection with the idea of good association is that of good reading. If the mind is supplied with the contents of good and wholesome books, there is but little to fear. We know that the kind of associates that they should have are hard to find, but good books with other reading matter of similar character can easily be secured. We have not mentioned many of the important things connected with this subject; we have endeavored to argue those who should be concerned in this matter. If we can do that we would be contented, and with a united effort on the part of all we would have more helpers of the race like Booker T. Washington, and a smaller army of those who take delight in critizizing him and the great work he is doing for the race. Montgomery, Ala., July 20.—Fletcher Turner, a white man, today in the United States court, pleaded guilty to the charge of holding in peonage a Negro youth. Turner was fined $1,000. Last week Turner was tried on the charge of peonage, but the jury failed to agree. In a recent issue we published an article about the system of peonage that is going on in some of the Southern States and the United States Grand Jury had began an investigation and it is the desire of all law abiding and and good citizens that every one who is holding persons in peonage will be fined as Turner was and if possible to send them 'to prison. If the laws of the states can't protect a persons liberty the courts of the United States will. "Old Wine" Theory Exploded. There is hardly a man who does not believe that the old wine is the best wine, yet a short time ago some cases of claret were sold in London at $25 a bottle, of the famous "Comet" vintage of 1811, and the wine was found to be utterly worthless. It was simply worn out with age. Wine experts and wealthy connoisseurs had come from great distances to buy the wine at any price, and were edified upon opening it to find it was as flat as soda water. In the same way, not long since, a quantity of hock from the cellars of a country house, of the year preceding Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, fetched $20 per bottle, and was found to have lost everything except color. Lots of Work for Idle Hands. Lots of Work for Idle Hands. Loud and urgent are the calls from western farms, and, orchards, for scores of thousands of wage earners for the harvesting of the crops and the garnering of the fruits. But too many idlers, tramps and beggars in our cities, and in the country regions also, turn deaf ears to such appeals and refuse tempting opportunities to work. The vagrant spirit, the "dead-best" desire to get along without working, is too conspicuous everywhere—New York Tribune. Prominent among the grand lodge visitors last week was Mr. Edward A. Carter of Buxton, a recent graduate of the College of Liberal Arts at the State University, who addressed the congregation at St. Paul's A. M. E. church Sunday evening upon the subject, "Individual Responsibility as a Factor in Solution of the Negro Problem," and concerning whom the Des Moines Register and Leader says: A. "Edward A. Carter, the young colored graduate of the state university, who told his fellow colored men in Des Moines Sunday evening that they should struggle for an education rather than for fire arm, is a coal miner by trade, and has earned the money for his college course by working in the mines at Oskaloosa. He is at work now in the mines as an ordinary miner to get the means to begin his course in the university medical college in September and will stick to mining until he is admitted to practice. It is said that he enjoys with Booker Washington the distinction of being the only colored graduate who is a coal miner. He is a very bright and intelligent young man, and he is setting an example of industry and perseverance that a whole lot of his white brethren would profit by imitating. Believes Sea Serpent Exists! Believes Sea Serpent Exists The naturalist of the Belgica epondition later told the Zoological Society of France that he believes the sea serpent to exist, and that it is all an imaginary creature of song. He says it is not a reptile, but a mammal in order of the phalipeds, to which family seals belong. In for it resembles somewhat the extinct. plesiosaurus, attaining 3 length of 200 feet, the head and neck being one-fourth of the length, the trunk one-fourth and the tail one-half. It never approaches the coast except in pursuit of the fish on which it lives. Buenos Ayres' Great Docks Buenos Ayres' Great Docks. The first thing that strikes you on landing at Buenos Ayres is its docks, which extend for five miles along the river front, say. They were once by a English firm, and are completed in 1897. They are most solidly constructed, supplied with numerous modern steam cranes and are brilliantly lighted with electricity at night. They cost the city and nation seven million pounds sterling, or $25,000,000. So great is the amount of shipping, however, that not the docks alone, but the small river Riachelou is crowded with vessels. Indeed, one wonders how a ship, once entered, can ever manage to get out. High prices for Antiques High Price Old dress collectors in this city have lately been driving prices higher and higher. The rage for Chippewa dale and Sheraton patterns of the finer lines is greater than ever. Chairs especially fetch astonishing prices. Even dealers are paying in some cases as much as $50 for a single Chippeila chair of rare pattern though it be out of repair. Chairs of a similar other color for $75 to a Chippeila armchair Chairs of less unusual pattern are sold every day for $40, $50 and $100—New York letter. Why Nations Wear Colors. Did it ever occur to you that the bunch of colored ribbons you wear in your buttonhole—or pinned on your dress if you are a girl—at commencement, or at a baseball or football game, is really a flag? asks a writer in St. Nicholas. It tells to what class or school or college you belong, or which of these, for the time, has your interest and sympathy. And for some what similar reasons do nations wear their colors. At first, maybe, it was to tell one another apart; but after awhile the colors—the flag—came to represent the nation itself; and the way the people acted toward the nation's flag was supposed to show the way they; felt toward the nation. Human Nature Encompassed. At Anchita father who has a last worthless son sent him adrift on Saturday at noon, saying he never wanted to see him again. The young man mother carried on in a pitiful way, but the father was inxorable, the young man must get out and shift for himself. The young man went away saying he would return a rich man some day and make his father ashamed of himself? His mother said he was a noble boy, and swooned. That night at 6 o'clock the kitchen door opened and the young man came in carrying his wristwatch. His supper was ready he took his usual place at the table, and ate with his customed appetite. The father and mother, but the mother waited on her son with unusual care; though he had returned with the fortune he had talked about at noon—Anchita he glided GREW ON THE GABBATH. Little Girl Feared Plants Might Dea a Fault. John Philip Sousa sat listening the other evening to the history of the pier, now called the Steeplechase, or which he is playing his kythaneic City game, another thing he was told of the fuss that resulted when the authorities there fined a manager for giving a Sunday performance two years ago, although Sunday is the day when the crowd of visitors and amusement seekers is the largest. "Icidents of the kind," said Sousa "always recall to me the story of a little country girl who, very early on morning the dew-staining raps berries to her family's minister. He was delighted, and said so; but he added, doubtfully: "Er- I hope you didn't pick me yesterday—the Sabbath—my child?" "Oh, no, slim—this morning!" she said. "I don't have anous as she falteringly explained: "But—but they was a grown' all day yesterday," Heard Policeman Tell Judge About In the Morning. "Down in Tennessee one day," said Senator Carmack of that state, "I met a person whom I knew slightly, and who was of convivial habits. He had all the symptoms of a 'left-over.' In fact, as he came down the street he had so close a resemblance to a man who had surely been imbibing the previous night that I stopped and said to him: "Did you have a good time last night? "I did. he chirped, with a cheerful grin. I had a magnificent time, it's a funny thing. High Senator! he added confidentially. I was not all night, and yet I can't remember a single thing that occurred after nine o'clock. "You can't!' I said. Then how on earth do you know that you had a magnificent time? "Because," he explained, "I heard the policeman telling the judge about it in the morning." Vegetation on Rome's Monuments. Vegetation on Rome's Monuments. The monuments of Rome are now under observation, not only by foreigners, but by the Italian government. It has been discovered that parasitic plants grow at the top of most of the Roman monuments. At the top of the white marble column in the center of the Maggiore there was till a few days ago, living plant of a wild fig tree. It was beginning to eat away one of the top most ornaments of the column. But it has now been removed. Twelve figs were found on the plant. The monument is now under repair. The affair has caused quite a little flutter and the Flizza has been crowded with people to watch the uprooting process. This column is the only one left of Constantine's first church in Rome. Accurate Delay Many stories are told of the lack of punctuality upon railroads in the southern states. It is said that when a New England man found his train, advertised to leave at 11 o'clock, starting at exactly that hour, he complimented the conductor. "Just on time, I see," he said, generally. "All this talk I've heard of the lateness of your trains is without foundation, I've no doubt." The conductor smiled at him quietly. "This train, sir," he said, without a trace of embarrassment, "is not today's eleven o'clock train, sir. It is yesterday's eleven o'clock. To-day's will probably not get here from 'way down until to morrow, sir." Wanted a Change. When the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, pastor of the Park church, Elimira, died the difficult problem of filling the place confronted the trustees of the church. The choice finally settled upon the Rev. Annie Ford Eastman, one of the few women who have made a success of the calling. An enthusiastic admirer took a friend of his to hear Mrs. Eastman At the conclusion of the sermon the friend was asked how he liked it. "The sermon was all right," was the reply, "but I hear a woman preach six days in the week, and on the seventh I prefer to hear a man." A Strange Coincidence Three events occurred recently at the same moment in one house in Washring, near Vienna. These events were a baptism, a wedding and a funeral. While the family of the deceased, an iron molder, Albert Hruzek, were beaming their loss, Anton Schutz, a young carpenter, and his bride, were celebrating their wedding in the rooms beneath them, and the children were there, who occupied rooms in the basement were all arrayed in holiday attire in honor of their infant, Gabriel, who was being baptized. Church Laws of Olden Times. The Bethel Laws of Methodist chapel at Burney, Lancashire, recent- ly observed an important anniversary, and issued a souvenir book book containing copies of old records. A minute passed in 1834 reads: "That we do not allow young men and young women to walk in the street together arm in arm at any time; sither do we allow them to stand at street corners chatting together." By another resolution the chapel authorities forbade girl choristers vearing bows in their bonas. Magnetic Sand Box in Rowley. The action of the mysterious lodge- stone mountain which drew the nail of ships that approached near enough has a certain foundation in fact, says a French paper, only the fact has suffered expansion. On the coast of Norway, near Joe Jordern, there is a sand dune of nearly three-quarter of a mile in length. The sand is mixed with particles of lodestone, and when a ship comes in the vicinity the compass becomes irregular and the vessel is entangled in a kind of whirlpool and thrown ashore. Celluloid Eye Shade Burned. Congressman Hildbrandt of Ohio is going about Washington with a partied look in his eye and no brows above the optics. Mr. Hildbrandt was sitting at his desk in his committee room, wearing a green celluloid eye shade. He struck a match to light his cigar, and the flame touched the celluloid. The shade and his eyebrows went up in the same suff.-Philadelphia Press. Wife or Donkey. It may not be generally known that amongst the peasantry in Connemara it is the custom for the women to draw turf and seaweed in baskets on their backs whilst the men stand about and smoke. A bank manager was once electrified by being solemnly asked by a young peasant whether, as the turf season was approaching, he ought to marry a wife or buy a donkey. Mistrusted the Word. Lord Halsbury, the lord chancellor of Ireland recently in the house of lords while he was an angel full of counsel for using the extreme useful word "practical" "Practically" interrupted Lord Halsbury br ask, "I always distrust that word 'practical.' When anybody says a thing is practically so and so I know it is not so and so." Status of the Lottery. It is told of an East Indian law student that he honour threw his examiners into confusion by declaring marmony to be an illegal state. "How so? How so?" he was asked by the perturbed examiners, many of them married men. The student smiled beatifully, "Marrriage," quoth he, "is a lottery, and lotteries are forbidden by law." First "Dalmatian" Powder. German newspapers call attention to the fifteenth anniversary of bug powder, or "Dalmatian" powder. A German woman named Anna Roseuse found out the fatal effects of chrysanthemum flowers on insects. She told a druggist of her discovery and the insect powder trade is now worth millions to Dalmatia. To Grow Up With the Country. Tams Briby, for many years a leading Republican politician in Minnesota and lately a member of the Dawes commission, has determined to settle in Oklahoma. He will start a paper, grow up with the country and to go to Congress to serve the territory assumes the dignity of statehood. The Pulse and the Seasons. A medical man, who has kept a nightly record of his pulse for five years, says that every year it falls through the spring until about mid-summer, and then rises through the autumn to November or December. Then comes a second fall and rise, culminating in February. Recommends "Volcano Cellars." Prof. T. A. Jagger, Jr., Harvard who has been making investigations of the eruption of Mont Pelee, believes that people of volcanic countries can escape destruction by building cellars or chambers of masonry in which they can seek shelter when the eruptions occur. The Liberty Cap. The red liberty cap was really the headgear of the galley slave. The Swiss of the Chateauroux regiment, sent to the galleyes for their share in the Nancy rlots, on their release returned to Paris with their caps and were hailed as victims of despotism. Trees in England. Christmas trees were unknown in England until the reign of Queen Victoria. The first one was ornamented by Prince Albert for the amusement of the Princess Royal and the Prince of Wales, who were children of 3 and 4 years old at that time. Work of American Astronomers. Within twenty-five years American astronomers have won as many annual medals of the Royal Astronomical Society of England as astronomers of all other countries, except England, combined. Nelson's Old Flagship. Nelson's old ship, the Victor still to be accessible to the B. public, although she is short to be superseded as the admiral's flagship at Portsmouth. Cumberlandain's Trip to Africa. One hundred thousand replicas of a special medal struck to commemorate Mr. Chamberlain's tour have been ordered for the Cape. Congress of a plot of land near Brooklyn has just been decided by the courts after a lawsuit of thirty-five years. Oldest Printed Calendar. The most ancient printed calendar in the world has been found in Wiesbaden. It was printed by Gutenberg in 1448. Some English Slang. "Brightening their intellect" is a Birmingham (England) euphemism for violent assaults on the police. Heart Is Kept Working. All the blood in a man's body passes through his heart once in every two minutes. There are always two points to a contract, and yet in a majority of cases but one is expected to carry it out. The Disease Burt Back. Dr Charles Hose, of Sarawak, after many experiments, has formed the theory that the disease beri beri arises in tropical regions from the consumption of moldy rice. Dr. Strange says Pigg of Cambridge has expounded the theory in England. IN THE CHAIR OF ST. PETER PAPAL CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF ST. PETER'S. PALM TREE Pope Leo XIII, the 863rd successor of St. Peter, Joseph Peccel, was born at Carpinteria in the diocese of Anagni and died at Carpinteria in the diocese of Anagni. Dec. 11, 1837; consecrated Titular archbishop of Damietta on Feb. 17, 1843; transferred to the see of Perugia on Jan. 18, 1844; proclaimed Cardinal Carpinteria on March 2, 1845; and crowned on March 2, 1872. 30, and trowned on March 3, 1874. The history of the popes shows that of the long line 195 have been Italianes; Syllana; 7: Greeks; 15: Africanus; 8: BAS Spanianids, 4; French, 14; Burgundians, 2; Germans, 6; Saxons, 2; Bavarians, 4; English, 1, and Belgian, 1. The nationality of the others is not well established. The religious orders supplied about seventy popes to the throne; the majority of the bishops the Carthusians two; the Carmelites two; the Dominicans four, and the Augustinians and Franciscans many. Numerous popes were members of royal and noble families, but many poor men have reacced the tiara also. St. Peter was a fisherman, Adrian IV, the only Englishman who held the office of berged alms at the door of her parish church. Urban IV, was the son of a poor Frenchman. The parents of Celineine V. were in very humble circumstances. So were those of Benedict II, an Italian Dominican, and also those of Nicholas V. The father of Adriana VI, the ship carpenter, of Sirtra V., a farm laborer and of Pius V. a sheepher. Gregory XL, 1276, died within a few hours of his election; Stephanus II, was pope for only three days; Urban VII for twelve; Boniface VI, for fifteen; Celestine IV, for seventeen; Sisinus, the Theodorus II, Damasus II, Plus III, and Marcelius II, for twenty; Valentinus for thirty and Leo XI for twenty-five. Pope Hormidas, who was elected THE GARDEN POPE'S POLICY ONE OF PEACE Leo XIII. Had Marvelous Success in Creating Good Feeling. Innominati in a letter from Rome to the New York Sun, written shortly before the death of Pope Leo, said: "If there were congratulations for the unprotected city of Pope XIII, it was not merely because of the sympathy which his personality inspired in all, a sympathy remarkable from every point of view, nor was it on account of the interest in which we could not help having for an old man who was approaching his hundredth year. It was also, and above all, because of the impression, as confirmed by the events of a quarter of a century ago, of the generous thanks to his political and diplomatic gifts, to maintain tolerable relations between the church and the modern world, in spite of the opposition which broke out at every moment, and, if it had not been wisely kept in order would have brought about the most violent conflicts. "The temperament of a peacemaker I was especially necessary for the suc- cessor of Pils IX., whose character, In 524, was a widower when he entered holy orders. He had a son called Siliverius who succeeded him as Pope in 531. Siliverius was martyred and both father and son are venerated as saints. Victor III. had also been married before ascending the throne; Thomas was the son of daughters and when his wife died he became a Carthusian monk. There are two instances in which brothers succeeded each other. The first is that of Stephen III., elected in 752. SILICA OF ST. PETE He reigned five years and was succeeded by his brother Paul I. The latter was cannized. The other case is that of Benedict VIII, elected in 1012 and succeeded twelve years after by his brother John XX, who was pope for nearly ten years. Benedict III, 855, was the first pope to assume the title "Vicar of St Peter." In the thirteenth century, however, this was changed to the present style, "Vicar of Christ." The usage of kissing the cross on the pope's slipper, which still obtains, was in the sixteenth century. The pope to change his name on election was Sergius II, 844. John has been the name most frequently adopted. There have been 23 Johns, 13 Innocents, 14 Benedicts, 16 Gregories, 14 Clements, 12 Leos, 9 Pius and 8 Alexander. Pope Cletus, the third pope, adopted the salutation since used: *Ustium et Apostolicam Benedictionem* - health and apostolic benediction. Clement V. 1305, was the first pope to remove his residence from Rome to Avignon. The exile lasted seventy years and for seven poets. The longest interregnum between the death of one pope and the coronation of his successor was three years, after the death of Clement IV, in 1270. Pope Telephorus, 142, ordained that Lent should begin on Septuagust- ARDENS OF THE VA nothheaded, and impetuous rather than staid and diplomatic, had perhaps emphasized the conflicts that everywhere existed between the church and the lay world. These conflicts were not only political and social; some were of an intellectual and moral nature, inasmuch as they were not the church asserted that they were divided by natural antagonism. 'Leo XIII's diplomacy consisted in substituting the method of patience and letting time work, for that of force and violence; in other words, the gradual establishment of peace wherever war was raging. It was covered over, a general view of the world compared to what it was in 1878 will show' that Pope Leo obtained more by means of his diplomacy than his predecessor did with his rather fiery arder. 'The church of Rome under Leo XIII's pontificate succeeded in greatly increasing the number of Catholics in non-Catholic communities in Russia, in Great Britain, in the United States, and in other lands, too. But the chief result obtained in Catholic countries as well as the others has been that, without imposing on them ```markdown ``` ma Sunday and Pope Gregory I, the Great, $50, introduced the ceremony of putting ashes on the head on Ask Wednesday. Linus, St. Peter's successor, prohibited women from entering a church with uncovered heads. Pope John Paul II about $59, introduced ornate in church decorations been a talented musician. Pope Jement, 93, is believed to be the author of the canon of the mass. Zephyrinus, 205, ordained that chalices should be made only of gold or ER'S. silver, and Eusebius, 309, prohibited the use of any fabric but white linen for corporals—the covering of the chalice during mass. Marcellus, 304, introduced the rites of burial with lights and the chanting of psalms. John XXII, 1316, established the usage of ringing the "Angelus" bell. Melchilides prohibited fasting on Sunday. Anicetus introduced the clerical torsure and Pelagius II., the sixty-fifth pope, established the law that all clerics shall recite the seven canonical hours, or "brevitaly," aally. Gregory IX prescribed the liturgy but that rings the chant of the eleventh host at the mass. Vigilius ordered that the words of the consecration of the mass should be said silently. Gregory XI, who died in 1378, was the last French pope. Clement VII, excommunicated Henry VIII. of England for usurping the title "Head of the Church." Alexander VI, the famous Borgia, whose reputation present day historians are rehabilitating, was pope when C. clumba discovered America. Alexander III, abolished titles and tournaments in Europe. Paul IV, 1555-58 instituted the "Index of Prose Fiction," and wrote Inquisition. His successor, Plus IV, established the "Monte Pietals," or official pawnshops. Boniface V, granted the right of sanctuary to all persons flying for sainthy to a church. ATICAN. any union, with any sort of political system, once have been led to withdraw from the union, or of government whose fall might be deemed equivalent to the fall of the church itself. "If in any field it seemed impossible for the most skillful diplomat to bring about agreement, it was in that of the relations between the Quirinal and Vatican. The time is not so far off that Pope John Kekes the King of Italy to Attila and his brother, the truce was possible between the two rival powers enthroned in Rome. Nevertheless, if Leo XIII, took no steps which might be looked upon as a formal renunciation of its claims by the holy see, his prudence created a condition of things that is almost uncommon, so uncommon have the occasions for fictitious become between the Vatican and the Quirinal. As the latter, on its side, takes just as much pain to remove everything that might revive former hostilities, the holy see managed in the new condition of affairs to create a position of which the festivities of the year have shown the importance." ```markdown ``` POULTRY Raising Chicks in Brooders. **From Farmers' Review:** In our management of brooders in raising our young Orpington stock after we have gotten the young chicks from our incubators and hens to our brooders, we run them at a uniform heat of 95 degrees, keeping it thus for the first two or three days, gradually lowering it a degree a day until 90 degrees, so that the heat so the chicks will not crowd. We feed nothing for first seventy-two hours, then we feed Chamberlain's chick feed—fed exclusively every two hours for the first week, then four times daily until a month old, and after that three times a day. After the first few days we vary the feed, and after that three times we cut clover to scratch in. Fresh water is always before them. We get an early growth of lettuce for the little fellows, and, as soon as possible, let them out of doors, keeping them scratching and moving continually. We dust them frequently with lice powder. It goes without saying we clean our brooders daily. At two weeks old, we move them in colony houses and leave them free to run on the range, feeding morning and night cracked corn varied by wheat and oats.—J. W. Ennock, Knox County, Illinois. Brown Leghorns as Layers From Farmers' Review: In my opinion Brown Leghorns are the best layers of all the heens and lay a large egg, as they are bred to-day larger than Plymouth Rock heens. I of course breed in my pullet, line the large sized S. C. Brown Leghorns and not the small kind, as they did for years back. They are easy to breed and not the small kind, as they did for as many chickens from 75 Brown Leghorn eggs as I can from 100 Plymouth Rocks, and a Brown Leghorn lays well for many years, while a Plymouth Rock lessons it the second and third year. I feed well cooked grain and vegetables but this food does not fatten them, while the larger breeds get more experience is the I can make more money in raising eggs for market than I can in raising poultry. To raise early chicks for spring market is very expensive, and in the fall prices are too low for any profit. The S. C. Brown Leghorns are very stylish bird. It pays to produce the eggs and the Leghorns will do the job. They are called the egg machines, and so they are—H. M. Moyer, Berkes County, Pennsylvania. Light Brahman The leading variety of the Asiatic class is the light Brahma. This fowl has a history that would fill pages were it recorded. They are the fowls which caused the "hen fever" of the fitties, about which so much has been written in later years. Their early history is a matter of controversy, the Brahma Poorail, "Gray Shanghai," "Chittagong," "Cochin China," and what not. The early breeder named them according to his fancy for high sounding and sensational names to sell his stock. Fabulous prices were paid for them when the craze for fine poultry was at its height in the early days of the last half of the present century. The standard of the present breed was the 1899, and no deviation from the type has been made. It has stood high in popular favor since then without abatement; the vast number of breeders who are raising them fully attest their worth as a practical bird to the industry—Gee. E. Howard. HORTICULTURE Drapes in Orchards. It is surprising to find so large a number of orchards practically without drainage of any kind. Too often holes are dug in the sod and trees stuck into them, the planner hoping that kind Nature will make up for shortcomings. Sometimes she may but often she does not. The lack of drainage at the time of setting out complete failure in the almost complete failure of the orchard if it be on heavy land, and such land is preferable for orchards if it be well drained. In the putting out of orchards the drainage of the land should have the first consideration. This will be all the more necessary if the land be level and with small fall. Water then will run off very slowly even with good drainage out such drainage the trees will remain in the condition of the trees for days sometimes for weeks, preventing the approach of air to the roots. There are thousands of full grown orchards that it would pay to drain now, though the drains might have to be put closer together than would have been the case had they been put in in the first place, for the reason that it will be difficult to pulverize the soil immediately around and under the trees. The orchard that is drained gets to growing earlier in the spring than otherwise, and that is of growth counts for it. When a dry season follows, if a tree has a condition it cannot grow till that condition is changed. If that change comes late in the spring, the work of growth is shortened, especially if a long dry time follows it. The results may be very apparent in both wood and fruit, though the grower may not realize the cause. Strawberry Beds. It is a very good plan for the farmer, or the farmer's wife, to see that a new strawberry bed is planted each year. This is by all means the surest way of getting a good strawberry crop each year. A number of beds will then be in existence at the same time, and from some of them at least a good supply of berries will be secured. The old beds can be kept productive for several years, but the farmer is very likely to let them go to weeds, or, what is just as bad, get too thick. When the old bed only is to be retained, it should receive attention immediately after fruiting time. The hoe should be put into use and the rows narrowed up to a foot, and some advise six inches of soil should be turned over and pulverized. The plants themselves should be thinned to permit the development of a comparatively few plants. It will also pay to put on some manure each year if the plants do not show an inclination to grow rank. Of course, too much manure will produce great plants at the expense of berries. Get Ready to Cover Plants. In the summer is the time to get ready to cover the plants in the fall. The strawberries will need covering in the more northerly of the latitudes in which they are grown. If the matter is given no consideration till the ground freezes, the cultist may not be able to obtain the necessary covering except at considerable expense. There is much marsh grass growing in localities where it is of no value which can be mowed if taken at the right season for mowing and curing After it is beaten down by, the winds and rain or the trampling of cattle it is practically out of the reach of the farmer. Straw is fairly good for this plant, but mowing will be placed where it will be easily available at the time it is wanted. Be sides the strawberries there are many other plants that will need protection—the blackberry bushes, grape vines, raspberry canes, rose bushes, and so on. The Cow and the Milker From Farmers' Review: The cow is the greatest source of contamination in the production of milk. When cows are kept in a filthy stable, as frequently the case, they are often covered with dust at milking time, and their sides, flanks, bellies and udders are sometimes plastered with manure. Cows in this condition cannot be brushed without seriously contaminating the milk. They should be kept clean at all times, as it is not so difficult to do if the manger are properly arranged, the stalls the right length, and a fair amount of bedding is used. All loose dirt should be brushed from the cows and the udders should be washed before milking. If the cows are in the stable the greater part of the time the dung should be removed at least twice a day, and the walls and stalls scrubbed and whitewashed as often as they become soiled. Bedding and dry fodder should not be moved just previously, to milking, as this makes a surface which settles into the milk, carrying it away. The air outside is usually comparatively free from germs and the better the titration the fewer germs will the stable air contain. Many times the milk goes to his task of brushing horses or doing other dirty work, with his hands soiled and his clothing thickly covered with dust. Both soiled hands and dusty clothing are loaded with germs that injure milk. Before beginners should clean his hands and slip clean suit and cap which are used for no further pose and which may be easily perused. He should always milk with dry hands and never allow his hands to come in contact with the milk—W. J. Fraser, University of Illinois. Adventitious buds are produced by some trees irregularly on the surface of the wood, especially if it has been mutilated or in tread. PE-RU-NA IS OF ESPECIAL BENEFIT TO WOMEN Says Dr. M. C. Gee, of San Francisco. CONSTANTLY increasing number of physicians prescribe Peru-a $r$ / their regular practice. It has proven its merits so thoroughly that even doctors have overcome their battle against so called patient medicines and recommend it to their patients. "I Advise Women to Use Pe-ru-na," Says Dr. Gee. Dr. M. C. Gee is one of the physicians who endorse Pru-na. In a letter written from 513 Jones street, San Francisco, Cal., he says: "There is a general objection on the part of the practicing physician to advocate patent medicines, but when any one medicine cures hundreds of people, it demonstrates its own value and does not need also the content of the profession." much more important, has performed so many wonderful cures in San Francisco that I am convinced that it is a valuable remedy. I have frequently advised its use for women, as I find it insures regular and painless menstruation, cures leucorrhea and overdress, and builds up the entire system. I also consider it one of the most effective remedies I know of. It easily endures your medici- C. G. (Ge, M. D). Mrs. E. T. Gaddis, Marion, N. C., is one of Dr. Hartman's grateful patrons. She consulted him by letter, followed his directions, and is now able to ask the follo "Before I commended to take Perua I can not do any hard work without suffering great pain. I took Perua, and can say with pleasure that it has done more for me than any other medicine I have ever done. Now I am as well as ever in my own work and it never hurts at all. I think Perua is a great medicine for woman-er. T. E. Galis. Women are especially liable to pelvic catarh, female weakness as it is commonly called. If you do not derive prom the use of Peruna, write at on statement of your case and he valuable advice graits. Address Dr. Hartman, Press Columbus, Ohio. You do not derive prompt and satisfactory of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, of your case and he will be pleased to g advice grails. Ass Dr. Hartman, President of the Hartman , Ohio. 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CONSUMPTION ```markdown ``` --- Da M.C. GBE PIRS. E.T. GADDIS Peruana occupies a unique position in medical science. It is the only internal systemic catarh remedy known to the medical one who will admit, is the cause of one-half the diseases which affect mankind. Catarh and catarh diseases afflict one-half of the people of the United States. not and satisfactory results fromice to Dr. Hartman, giving a fullbe will be pleased to give you hisident of the Hartman Sanitarium, RUSSIAN HERE WOWERS CUBE SKIVES, COLLEGE Disaster, all trouble that causeheaves, food on guarantee overCURED 34. "The past 8 months I have cured"and 6 of chronic cough."-K and per 8 of chronic cough."-K Write how many heaves you discovers in Peruana Remedy Co. St. Paul, MN. HUDDENLY and shock your nervous system. Use BACO - CURO bleak and three boxes guaranteed to cure the worst case or moody heals and increase your weight. At drugs or CHEMICAL CO., La Crosse, WI. TE AGENTS iment of the Orient R. R. 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Twenty years of constant success — think of the knowledge thus gained! Surely women are wise in seeking advice from a woman with such an experience, especially when it is free. Mrs. Hayes, of Boston, wrote to Mrs. Pinkham when she was in great trouble. Her letter shows the result. There are actually thousands of such letters in Mrs. Pinkham's possession. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: — I have been under doctors' treatment for female troubles for some time, but without any relief. I tell you me I have a fibroid tumor. I cannot sit down without great pain, and the soreness extends up my spine. I have bearing down paina both back and front. My abdomen is swollen. I cannot wear my clothes with any comfort. Womb is dislaced and hardened. I cannot wear my clothes with any comfort. My appetite is not good. I cannot walk or be on my feet for any length of time. "The symptoms of Fibroid Tumor, given in your little book, accurately describe my case, so I write to you for advice." — MRS. E. F. 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Some grocers say they don't keep Desert Starch. This is because they have a stock of it only 19 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to use. They don't dance on balance for the same money. Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablet. Price 25c A man seldom has any trouble in finding trouble. All Up to Date Housekeepers on Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better, and 4 oz. more of it for some money. Many of the so-called gems of thought are nothing but paste. E. Z. FOOT COMFORT Cures Sore, sweating and Aching feet. Price 25c. F. R. McCarthy, Jefferson, Iowa. With some people education is merely ornamental. Magnet Pile Killer Cures Piles. An artisan well at Greville, near Paris, 225 feet in depth, supplies 700,000 gallons of water every day. The Best Results in Starching can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for same money—no cooking required. Self-reliance lifts a man up; self-conceit drags him down. No believe its Pile's Curse for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds. John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Indiana. Feb. 15. Kleptomania is said to be the most bizarre form of insanity. Marriage is a frequent occurrence with Fritz Kottman of Creglingen, Germany. He has led eleven brides to the altar. His first three wives died young, the next two were married, one committed suicide, three died in the tenth. The tenth was gored to death by a bull, and he has recently married the eleventh, who had a leg cut off by a railway train last year, so that the wedding had to be postponed till now. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use Defiance Starch. it will keep them white—15 oz. for 10 cups. A guilty conscience seldom goes so far as to return a borrowed umbrella. Every sick and alling woman, Every vouge girl who suffers monthly. A grocer in Syracuse gave a brewer an old cat and four kittens a day old. The brewer locked them in his brewery for the night. When the brewer found the cat and her four kittens aleep on his doorstep. The brewery was four miles away, and the kittens too young to walk were more than a mile away. Each one in her mouth four miles. A Denver desperado, charged with murder, gave an Irishman of the jury fifty dollars to hold out for a verdict of manlaughter. The jury was out for a long time, and fugely brought the Irishman. The manlaughter deeply obliged to the Irishman. He said the prisoner, when he had an opportunity of speaking to the Irish juror. "Did you have a hard time?" he said the Irishman, "an awful time!" The other seven wanted to acquit you. Some boys in Paris were seen to enter the main sewer on the left bank of the Sinee by one of the barred outlets to that river. A policeman followed them, and found them seated by the edge of the current, fishing for rats with a strong line and hook, the latter baited with a morsel of bacon partially fried. They explained that they had been twenty to thirty sous dech, according to size, for manufacturing into "kid" gloves for ladies. He Feels Good. Caddo, Ky., July 20th—"I believe I could climb a mountain without drawing a long breath" is the way William Ball of this place describes how he is feeling. As Mr. Ball has been on the sick list for a long time, this declaration from him comes as quite a surprise. When asked to explain how he had climbed in such a short time, he says: "I did have Kidney Trouble very bad, in fact I had to get up four or five times every night to urinate. I had shortness of breath which distressed me terribly, but badly used up, and was really of no account for anything. "I used three boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and that's what has made me well. I can sleep all night without having to get up. I feel splendid, I feel great, I could climb a mountain without drawing a long breath. Dodd's Kidney Pills did it all." "No, my husband never answers back." "Some impediment in his speech matam?" "Yes—I'm the impediment." Defiance Starch should be in every household, none so good, besides 4 oz. more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. Some men seem to have been born asleep and forgot to wake up. Hall's Catarrh cure Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75c. Hanging is too good for a painting that is badly executed. CORNER Bill and Hia Carcer. Brother Bill was a feller so skared Brown was a suffer so sk碌es mistakes he made. He criticised others our hurt, small break. He didn't do notuth at all. He'd stand by the hour with his hand on his shoulder. 'A' talk about taxes, religion or art. 'An' we all said that Bill was uncommonly but he didn't do noth'in at all. Us boys went ahead an 'we worked with but he didn't do noth'in at all. But he didn't do noth'in at all. 'Can' we all noses at 'Can' we did noth'in at all. But Bill is the pride of the family to They put him in congress, well out o' the ' An' he takes' life easy an' drawin' his he 'has doesn't do mother at all. he 'has doesn't do mother at all. Largest Human Being. The largest human being in the world was recently discovered by scientists in Kustjak, Russia, and taken to Berlin, where he has created a sensation. This man, Feodor Machow, is not only the largest man alive, but his measurements are greater than those of any known giant of the past two generations. Though but twenty-two years old he is 7 feet 9 inches tall and remarkably proportioned for his height. Prof Felix von Luchau, the famous ethnographic student, has made the official report and this is what he finds: "I have carefully examined and measured from an anthropological standpoint Feodor Machow, who is now about twenty-two years of age. "He is 7 feet 9 inches in height and can therefore be classified with the largest giants that have ever lived." As a matter of fact, he exhibited in Europe up to the present time were from 4.7 to 5.9 inches shorter than Machow. Their height was between 6 feet 10 inches and 7 feet 5 inches, according to documents placed with the Anthropological society by the late Prof. Virchow. The showmen, however, always exaggerated the height in ad vertisements. Feodor Machow comes from an old Russian family, whose ancestors are said to have emigrated from Syria. His parents, as well as his two brothers and one sister are all of normal size. His grandfather was large, but in no sense a giant. It is said, however, that in earlier generations of the family large specimens occurred. The boots worn by Machow, and which scarcely reach to his knees, reach an ordinary person almost up to the waist, and a twelve-year-old boy could easily find room inside of one of them. The ring which adorns the index finger of Machow's right hand is so large that a half dollar can easily be passed through the matrices of extra size and strength had to be made for him and placed on a strong iron frame. This promising youth eats at each meal at least three pounds of meat and a proportionate quantity of potatoes, vegetables and bread, with a relishing appetite. Magnetic Persons. Prof. Muranl, a distinguished Italian scientist, says that certain persons possess a strange magnetic or electric influence, which produces very curious results. A few days ago while he was at work on some electrical experiment, one of his friends suddenly entered the room, and at the same moment the needle of his galvanometer moved to and fro very rapidly. He was sure that his friend had in one of his pockets either a magnet or some other electrical instrument, and in order to make it more easily mistaken his friend removed all his clothes. To the Professor's surprise the galvanometer continued to act just as though a powerful magnet was near it, and the closer his friend approached the more marked its action became. Moreover, the front of the body acted on it in the same manner as the positive pole of a magnet and the back as a negative pole. Fancy the waves of the sea setting, 3re to the cliffs they break on! Yet this is what did really happen at Ballybunion, on the western coast of Ireland. These rocks, which the great Atlantic rollers have for centuries seen slowly breaking down, contain in their depths masses of iron pyrites and alum. At last the water penetrated to these and a rapid oxidation took place, which produced heat in the rocks, which burned the cliffs. For weeks the rocks burned like a regular volcano and great clouds of smoke and vapor rose high in the air, RARE PICTURE OF DOUGLAS. Chicagoan Finds Daguerreotype of Statman in Curio Store. A rare daguerreotype of Stephan A. Daguerreotype in a north side curio store. It is pronounced by those who knew him in life as being the finest likeness extant of the great statesman. The picture has been reproduced by W. Scott Thurber, by whose permission it is copied herein. It was Daniel E. Soper, late of Michigan, and his cousin, who found original in the north side curiosity shop. Mr. Soper is somewhat of a collector of curios, bric-a-brac and articles of rare virtu, and when he noticed a prettily framed medallion picture of Douglas among the articles in the second-hand store he at once realized its worth and purchased it. Mr. Soper exhibited the original medallion yesterday afternoon in his office in the Security building. He opened a little frame at the back and showed the following inscription in faded-out handwriting of two generations ago: Stephan A. Douglas, born at Brandon, Vt., April 23, 1813; died at Tremont house, Chicago, June 6, 1861. His prophetic words: "It will be the duty of every American citizen to sustain the government and Abraham Lincoln." "There is no doubt whatever as to the geniusness of the picture," said Mr. Super. "Authentic pictures of Douglas are very rare, and this is admittedly true." The body now living has ever seen. It was taken by the old daguerreotype process at Galena, Ill., May 30, 1855." —Chicago Chronicle. Fetish Image. Upon a certain day of the year the heads of households in South Africa who wish to bring good luck to their homes make an image of straw vaguely resembling a doll and throw it into South African Doll the street. Within the body of the image a small coin is placed. The person who takes possession of this coin receives all the lilluck of the household. The image is supposed to have the power of transferring it. The average small boy, however, is not troubled with superstitious fears and considers the finding of such coins a clear profit and extreme good luck. First Steam Turbine Now that all the engineering world is resounding with praises of the achievements of the wonderful steam turbine, it is apropos to remark that the idea is not as novel as generally supposed by the admiring lay public. In fact, it dates back considerably more than 250 years, when Branca, the philosopher, and one of the most astute scientists of his time, formulated a rudimentary steam turbine, as shown in the illustration. This plan of applying steam directly to the wheel was published by Branca in 1629. Avenued After Thirty Years. An extraordinary case of long-delayed vendetta has been brought to light by the murder of an Armenian named Dahalalow, a Baskab, on the Trans-Caucasus, on the Thirty years ago Ibrahim killed another Armenian named Dahalalow at Van, in Asia Minor, when he was a youth of 18. Dahalalow's two brothers swore an oath to avenge his murder, and devoted the rest of their lives to the search for him. One of them died, but the other continued the hunt, journeying all through Aslatic and European Turkey, Persia, the Caucasus, and parts of Arabia and Central Asia. Finally, after thirty years, he found Ibrahim at Baskab and killed him promptly, hacking his body to pieces. Kites to Aid Scientists The movement of the higher strata of air during monsoons is to be deter mined by means of kites at Simla, in the Himalayas, 7,000 feet above sea level. Policeman's Costly Spree. A Lowell policeman has been fined seventy days' pay, or $129.50, for a plain, unornamented, simple dunk. Area of Manchuria. Manchuria is just twice the size of Japan. EARTHQUAKES-PUT ON RECORD Lick Observatory Scientists Secure Valuable Records The earthquake of June 11 was perhaps the most severe one felt on Mount Hamilton in the past thirteen years; though no damage was done the safety limit must have been nearly reached. The accompany illustrations are copies of the records traced on the smoked-glass plates of two seismographs on that occasion. The smaller one was made by an instrument constructed on a very simple plan. A massive weight is suspended from the top of the seismograph by means of a slender wire. Attached to the weight is a multiplying lever carrying a pin point, which rests upon a smoked-glass plate. The frame of the instrument, the fulcrum of the multiplying lever, and the smoked-glass plate are rigidly connected and are secured to the top of a massive brick pier run through the floor of the observatory to solitize the earth on a mountain. Motions of the earth are communicated to all parts of the instrument except the massive weight, which tends to remain fixed. The relative motion of the framework of the instrument and of the weight is a direct measure of the earth's displacement. To make the record more legible the lever carrying the point which traces the curve is designed to multiply the earth's displacement by 4.1.2. It will be seen from the illustration that the movement of the earth was very complex and in all directions. For some reason the east and west components seem to have inflicted the most effective shocks, as one of THE TERRAIN OF THE WORLD THE TERRAIN OF THE WORLD the fine astronomical clocks, whose pendulum swings in the east and west, lost ten seconds of time, whereas the other four delicate astronomical clocks, with pendulums swinging in the north and south, were not affected. VASE 1,000 YEARS OLD. Is a Beautiful Specimen of Ancient Mexican Art. Among the strange and valuable objects which have been recently installed in the Mexican hall of the American Museum of Natural History is a wonderful terra cotta jug or jar, designed and decorated in imitation of a turkey. This is considered the most magnificent specimen of ancient American ceramics so far discovered. Besides the artistic turkey-head handle, the most extraordinary feature of the jar is its ornamentation of solid Mexican Turkey Jug. gold leaf, with which it was profusely decorated in former times, many layers of which still remain on the jar. It is considered to be a priceless example, illustrating the culture and workmanship of that mysterious civilization which flourished a thousand years ago in Mexico. The jar is thought to have been a funeral or memorial jar, but it is also the essential mortuary rites of the people of that time—it large cannot be accurately stated, but it probably reaches back for a thousand years or more. It was found by Carl Lammholtz during one of his exploring expeditions. It came to light while digging in a private garden in the city of Teeple, which had evidently been in the city times the place of some of the earliest skeletons were unearthened. 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The Algae Brownies will battle for honor on the local disband Wednesday and add thirteen to this week, with the Independent of the city, a hot content, is adjudged as the Algaean defeated the Giant fish long ago in a contest where, the Giant shut out the Clinton team in a score of 8 to 0 in the first game and defeated them the following day by a score of 5 to 2, a large crowd will witness the games as a consequence. About 15 to 20 Rev. Searcy's brahma chickens were stoan from the premises Monday night. Bishop Grant will visit Clinton on Aug. Albert Robinson of Chicago is in the city visiting with his parents and relatives. MARSHALLTOWN ITEMS. Grand Master I. L. Brown, Messrs Gee Sister, Law Johnson and Gwin Wheeler returned Saturday morning from Des Moines where they were in attendance at the Grand Lodge. They report a grand time, it being the best meeting ever held in the state. Miss Mattle Walker and her sister Miss Jessie returned from their eastern trip the 11, coming by the way of Chicago, where they spent a few days as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Vencer, after a few days visit to home with their brother, relatives and friends, they went to Des Moines to be in attendance at the reception and banquet given by the Grand Lodge and while there, were entertained at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Warick and their cousins L wyer H. K, Wright and wife, they report a swell time at the reception. Mrs. I. L. Brown gave a four course lunch at her home on Tuesday evening in honor of Miss Matt Walker of New York City and her sister Miss Jesse also a few friends. Miss Alice Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lew Johnson was in Des Moines on Thursday evening in attendance at the reception given by the Grand Lodge. Rev. J. E. Green of Cleveland prescheduled a very logical sermon at the Baptist church Sunday evening to an appreciative audience. Rev. Nickerson the regular pastor, filling the pulpit at Baxton. Mrs. Hammond of Monsmouth, Ila, is visiting her son and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Goo. Hammond of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cobe entertained at dinner Sunday Rev. J. E. Green of Cleveland. After filling the pulpit for Rev. Mencheuall at Baxton Sunday Rev. Nickerson returned home Monday morning. Mrs. S. W. Green and son of Toledo, spent the week with her sister Mrs. I. L. Brown, Mr. Brown being absent was attending the Grand Lodge at Des Moines Miss Anna Woods has gone to Waverly for a two weeks vacation with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Wright and daughters entertained at luncheon Saturday afternoon a few friends in honor of Miss Mattie Walker of New York City and her sister Miss Jessie. Mr. Johnson who is employed by the Bauer Asphalt Company left for Des Moines Monday in order to secure more help to assist in the paving work that is being done here. Miss Mattie and Jessie Walker left Saturday evening for St. Paul, Minn., where they will visit a few days with friends after which Miss Mattie will go to Santa Fe, New Mexico on a business trip and Miss Jessie will return to her home in Marshall, wn. JOHN L. THOMPSON. Practices in all the Courts in Iowa. Real Estate and Probate a Specialty... ROOM 405 MARQUARDT BLOCK. YOA PHONE 899. CEDAR RAPIDS BUDGETARIAN. To Sloan a Yates Club convened with Mrs. S. B. Holly last Wednesday. They were treated to refreshments at the close of the meeting. Mingling's circus was here last week, but we didn't get the annual circus show. Rev. Wilson who is in the city on bain-wished in the services Sunday evening, Sunday was quarterly meeting, Rev. J. H. Peterson of Davenport was expected but failed to arrive, Rev. Boyd officiated all day. Mr. Lissie Allen who has been spending the vacation with her mother has returned looking as if she had enjoyed many good things while away. Mr. Allen Forster is on the sick list. Mr. Wilson of Chicago is the guest of Mrs. Lee VanGomp. Mr. Della Marshall is enjoying a visit from her sister Mrs. Jones. Mr. Richardson who is a visitor at the Lawyer house is ill. It is reasoned that the widow Martin is about to change her name. Two weeks from Thursday is the bar-bread. Subscribe for and read the Journal. PHOTOGRAPHS The Up-To-Date Kind KNOXVILLE AND GALESBURG IL. LINNOS. BUDGETARIAN. Mrs. Ferribe has returned from a extended visit to Chicago and her son also returned with her. Mr. Bodger's visit Rev. Bodgeris is away on a six weeks visit. A union notice of the A. M. E. Baptist and M. E. Zion churches will be held at Gilberts park in Kinoville on Thursday the 20th. A very nice reception was given in hour of Mrs. Ferribe and son Wednesday at the Mesters Hooks beautiful residence. Mrs. Geo. H. Wade of Knoxville and daughter Opal is in Springfield visiting Rev. Geo. H. Wade's brother. The Rev. end expects to go on to join his wife, a note from her informs him that the A. M. E. thouaen at Six street was buried Monday. A botten reinstatement will be given on the pavement lawn the 23rd. Nutritive Value of Oysters Although the actual amount of nutritive material in a raw oyster is small, it comprises all classes of food substances in a peculiarly assimilable form. Generally speaking, the raw mollusc consists of four-fifths water. The danger—a remote one—of the oyster containing living symbionts may be the cause of a lemon juice. The oyster is rendered tough and indigestible by boiling. The Important Question. Not long ago the law firm of Black, Olcott, Gruber & Bonyage had a client whose case it fell to the lot of Mr. Gruber to take charge of. After the evidence was in and the judge had delivered his charge to the jury, Gruber up to the lot of Well. How did you like the judge's charge? "I liked his all right, but how about yours?" responded the client—New York Times. Gas as Fuel. They are holdir g campueeting at Bushnell. Rev. Wade and daughter Beatus, Mrs. Pelton, Mrs. S. Clark, Mattie Kroox and Baby Dudy of Peoria and Hattie Z. ratzen were in Galesburg Tuesday evening. Miss Etta Bowman is on the sick list also. Mr. Joshua of Dunfermline and Mr. Webb. You can find Mrs. Cora Vesey at home any time after nine o'clock in the evening half past five o'clock in the mo-nin, but after that don't be surprised if you rap in rain. Mr. Thomas Taylor is so disappointed when she does not see any Muchakinox or Buxton news in the paper that she fairly jumps up and down, her advoirduces is about 200, so try to prevent any of those physical culture exhibition as much as possible. Mrs. J. Farafx and son William of Kookuk are visiting Mrs. Eli Grant. Sunday is quarterly meeting at Galesburg. D. V. Booth will be present. 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Alfred Hiller, a well-known authority on consumption, is writing a book on the prevention of tuberculosis, which will be revised by Prof. Koch. Pronounced 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?—Achison 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. World Bar Divisors Reports. Would Bar Divorce Reports. Tady Jeune advocates the suppression of newspaper reports on divorce cases on the ground of public policy. Morally Certain of It The prosecuting witness, who had a bump over one eye, a black and blue spot under the other, a nose that pointed decidedly awry, and various strips of court plaster on his face evidently arranged without any regard to his identity, the officer shot 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. "I know it, jedge," he replied, "cause that's what I'd a done to him if I'd got him down—you can bet on me." Alibaba.com is the best source of nutritive material in a raw oyster is small, it comprises, all classes, of food substances in a peculiarly assimilate form. Generally speaking, the raw mollusic consists of four-fifths water. The danger—a remote one—is that the typhoid germs may be obstructed by the use of lemon juice. The oyster is rendered tough and indigestible by boiling. The Important Question. Not long ago the law firm of Black, Olcott, Gruber & Bonygey had a client whose case it fell to the lot of Mr. Gruber to take charge of. After the evidence was in and the judge had delivered his judgment, jury found that his client and "Well, Sir, how did you like the judge's charge? " I liked his all right, but how about yours?" responded the client.—New York Times. Gas as Fuel. Recently Mr. H. A. Humphrey delivered a lecture before the London Chamber of Commerce, says the Electrical Review, in which he stated that by using the cheaper form of gas, known as "producer" gas, at least one-half of the total consumption of coal would be saved, this result being due to the greater efficiency of gas over coal as a fuel. Interesting to President Harper. It is said that the drinking of kerosene is such a growing evil in France that measures against it are proposed. This vice has long prevailed among the Indians of the south of the country that it has been carried that the importation of kerosene for drinking is an important trade in Peru and Bolivia—New York Tribute. Famous Pianists Estranged. Little love is lost between Paderewski, the famous pianist, and Moritz Rosenthal, his professional rival, who continues to amaze German audienclues by his wonderful command of the instrument. Rosenthal is called "the demon pianist," because of the astonishing speed with which he plays. East Bicycle Riding. The fastest Bicycle record is that of an American, who made a mile in a minute in the suction of a railway train, planks having been laid between the ties to furnish a track. Now a Frenchman has made fifty miles in an hour's riding behind a motor pacing machine having a wind shield. Victor Huge Museum for Paris. Paris is about to add to its literary attractions by opening a Victor Hugo museum. It is to be established in one of the quaint Louis Treize houses still surviving on the Place des Vosges, which was inhaled by the poet when he was yet the young lion of "Hernani." Assorting Our Troubles. If we would only take the burden appointed for each day we might easily manage it; but we choose to increase our trouble by carrying yesterday's over till to-day, and adding to our mourn's burden before we are required to bear it. John Newton. Want the Marconi System: The companies having steamers in the Alaskan trade offer to subscribe for stock enough in the Marconi company to furnish money for the immediate establishment of wireless telegraph plants along the dangerous coast of British Columbia. Women Guides in Maine. On the 1,800 registered guides in Maine only three are women and only one of the trio is regarded by the men is thoroughly competent. This Mrs. J. S. B. Freese of Riverton, who has shot every kind of game to be found in the Maine woods. She is also an expert at tanning skins and in her home some beautiful specimen hunts all through the winter, spending weeks in camp during the coldest of weather. ORIGIN OF SLANG PHRASE. When He First Undoated, Meaning of Descriptive Term. A student in the School of Mines at Columbia university who has just returned from Butte, Mon., was telling Charles Jaimes, proprietor of the Sturtevant, about the atmospheric peculiarities of that mining town of the Far West. On my word," he said, "the air is so cool with mineral gases that after a man has been exposed to 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 intolerated. That is why Butte men, when they come East and their heart works normally, get frightfully drunk when they try to drink as they do at home." He reported Mr. Jaimes, "I understand certain things to call a man that he has a beast on."—New York Times. 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THE NORTH WESTERN FREEZ. the world ited States tree attains Special Reduced Excursion Rates In an official advertisement published in Vienna citing a Baroness Bourrachel to declare her whereabouts and appear before a court of law, it is mentioned that she was born in February, 1795. The Largest Holly Trees. The largest holly-trees in the world grow in the Northern United States and in Ireland where the tree attains a height of 70 feet, and a girth of six to sight feet. Superstition in Venice. There is a curious superstition in Venice that if a stranger dies in a hotel the number of his room will be lucky at the next lottery. Many Specimens of Clover. Specimens of four, five, six, seven, eight and nine-leaved clovers have been presented to Queen Alexandra by a Welsh lady. Faw Churchgeorge in London. The bishop of London says that only one in every eighty of the population of London go to church or chapel. Marry After Long: Courtship. After a thirty years' courtship a couple, both over fifty, have just been married at Leeds, England. Mixed Bathing to Be Allowed. Mixed bathing will be permitted next year at the majority of German semiide resorts. "Isn't it strange," began the man with the mental straubismus. "Isn't it strange?" interrupted his tired friend, who was anxious to ask. "That no matter how well and thoroughly every detail of a wedding is planned, there's bound to be a hitch in the proceeding." ```markdown ``` CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT The Christian baptist Church - situated on 11th St. between Church and Sunday School; at 11 o'clock. Preaching at 7 F. m., Father. St. Paul A. M. E.-Corner of Second and Center Street. Preaching at 10:30 a. m.; Sunday School; p. m.; preaching at 8 p. m. S. Grace Harper pastor. First African Baptist Church - Corner School. Preaching at 10:30 a. m.; Sunday School; $2.90 p. m.; Mr. M. E.-Christmas. Preaching at 7 p. m.; preaching $80 p. m. Burke's Chapel M. E.-Church-Corner of 11th St. between Church and Sunday School; at 11 o'clock. Preaching at 10:30 a. m.; Sunday School; $2.90 p. m.; Mr. M. E.-Christmas. Preaching at 7 p. m.; preaching $80 p. m. Burke's Chapel M. E.-Church-Corner of 11th St. between Church and Sunday School; at 11 o'clock. Preaching at 10:30 a. m.; Sunday School; $2.90 p. m.; Mr. M. E.-Christmas. Preaching at 7 p. m.; preaching $80 p. m. Tabernacle Baptist Church Mission - Shrine over 606 East locust street. Preaching at 11 o'clock. Rev. J. W. Winning pastor. SECRET ORDERS. Star North Star Lodge, No. 8. A. F. A. M.-Meets Hall-North west corner of Teetor and Center street, H. Gould, W. M. K. J. Hamilton Solomon Commandery, No. 6.-Meets Second and Fourth Thursday in each month R. K. Todd, J. K. Wright, Bee. Nacourt Court, No. 3-meets Second Monda- day, R. K. Todd, M. R. L. V. D. nancy, Court, Mrs. J. H. Searck, score Mo. Olive Court, No. 4-meets First Thursday of each month at Masonic hall, Mrs. R. A. Duney, Instructor; Mrs. Georges Migett scourge. Charity Lodge, No. 192, G. U. of O. W. H. S. H. Searck, month at Odd Fellows hall on West-Side, H. H. S. H. N. G. O. Brown P. S. 11:06 am Eidon 7:00 pm 11:06 am Eidon 7:00 pm 10:45 am Keokuk 11:06 am Daily. Daily. Other train daily except Sunday. In This Gilded Age. Long Past Century Mark The Largest Holly Trees FOURTH QUARTER APPOINTMENTS 1 Clarinda & Bedford. ... June 27-29 2 Osceola. ... 30 3 Chariton. ... July 1 4 Indianola. ... 2-3 5 Newton. ... 4-5 6 Oskaloosa. ... 6 7 Keosanqua. ... 7 8 Glinton & Ceder Rapids. ... 12-14 9 Iowa City. ... 15 10 Muscaline. ... 16 11 Washington. ... 17 12 Mt. Pleasant & Ottumwa. ... 18-20 13 Burlington & Muscaline. ... 26-28 14 Davenport. Aug 2-3 15 Keokut. ... 9-10 16 Des Moines. ... 16-17 17 Saylor. ... 19 18 Boone. ... 20 19 Sioux City & Yankton. ... 21-25 20 Clarinda. ... 26 21 Garden Grove. ... 28 22 Albia & Osceola. ... 29-31 23 Dubuque. ... 30 24 Oskaloosa. ... 30 25 Buxton. Sept 6-7 26 Ft. Madison. ... 13 The Annual Conference will convene at Des Moines, Wednesday, Sept. 16th, 1903. FARM LANDS! 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 Minneapolis & 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 Minneapolis & 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 12 31 Minneapolis, Minn. EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT MUNGER'S LAUN DRY is the best in the city. Try them and be decided. Maine Office 211-215 NINTH St Branch Office 504 MULBERRY St. PHONE 579. Editorially Fearless. Consistently Republican. News from all of the world—Well written, original stories—Answers to queries—Articles on Health, the Home. New Books, and on Work about the Farm and Garden. The Weekly Inter Ocean Is a member of the Associated Press, the only Western Newspaper receiving the entire telegraphic news service of the New York Sun and special cable of the New York World—daily reports from over 2,000 special correspondents throughout the country. YEAR ONE DOLLAR Subscribe for the Iowa State Bystander and The Weekly Inter Ocean one year, both apsrs for $2.00 THE NORTH WESTERN Will be in effect from all points on the Chicago & North-Western Railway for the occasions named below: Boston, July 6th to 10th, National Educational Association. Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 7th to 3th, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Atlanta, Ga., July 9th to 12th, Baptist Young Peoples Union of America. Denver, July 9th to 13th, United Society of Christian Endorsement. Detroit, Mich., July 18th to 19th, International Epworth League. Baltimore, Md., July 21st to 23d, B. P. O. E. San Francisco, August 17th to 22d, G. A. E. meeting. Deadwood, S. D., Sept. 7th to 11th, International Mining Congress. Baltimore, Md., Sept. 21st to 26th Sovereign grand Lodge, I. O. O.F. For information as to rates, dates of sale, etc., of these or other occasions, call up the ticket agent of the North-Western Line. Dairies of New York Outside of the business of supplying New York with city milk, the farmers of New York state have an amount of 450,000 in cows, and a corresponding amount in dairy farms and factories an amount less than $115,000,000. Good Homes for Little Mothers The Low, Round Trip Homesewer's Rates Into the Northwest The Northern Pacific Railway have attracted many thousands. These rates will be continued, on the first and third Tuesdays of July, August and September, so that other thousands may yet take advantage of them and enjoy the Northwest. a trip through the Northern NORTHERN PACIFIC runs through the heart of this region and reaches nearly every important city and town, and almost every valley of consequence in that territory. Use your vacation in making an inspection of this land and pick out a nice home. Great variety of land, soil and elevation is found and every body can be satisfied. Irrigated or non-irrigated lands, timber, lands are obtainable. mineral and plastic products that you want and for participants as to rates, etc., and we will try to help you. The Standard of Excellence The average woman cannot discriminate justly between machines, so far as their mechanical construction is concerned, but she can always wisely judge their work. ALL THE ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF A FAMILY SEWING-MACHINE ARE MOST PERFECTLY COMBINED IN . . . 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