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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. 10., No. 50. THE Afro-American Hotel ```markdown ``` CITY NEWS. [N.B. If you have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we solicit all your local news-Ed. Miss Samantha MKee who has been dangerously ill is reported much better. Mr. William Wilkinson went to Keokuk last Tuesday to see his mother who is sick. Miss Grace Simpson of Kansas City was a visitor in this city part of last and this week. Rev. Avery of Highland Park will preach at Union Congregational church Sunday morning at 10:45. There will be quite a number of our ladies attend the State Federation of Women in Cedar Rapids next week. King Solomon Commandery, K. T will give a grand May festival Wednesday day evening, May 25, at Cycling hall. Walter Diggs who has been spending his vacation at Wellsville, Mo., return home last Saturday. Mr. Lisbon Wicks of Mt. Pleasant is visiting Mr. and Mrn. E. S. Morgan. He may spend the summer here. Lieutenant Ed McAfee who has been very sick is improving nicely, which is no doubt good news to his many friends. Mr. D. F. Willis of Buxton, who is a Junior at Highland Park college, left last Tuesday for his home to spend the summer vacation. Mr. Wm. Coalson left this week for Charlotte, N. C., in company with Governor Cummins and will not return until sometime next week. Mrs. James Dixon who was called home last week by the illness of her sister returned Monday. When in the city and wish a good meal call at 405 Court Ave. Waffle House. Open all day and night. J. D. FORMAN, Prop. Mr. Adison Brooks of Buxton came to Des Moines Monday to have an operation performed at Mercy hospital. At present writing he is getting along nicely. Mrs. J. H. McDowell of Muchakinoche arrived in the city Thursday to visit Mrs. Adam Dixon. She is thinking of making Des Moines her permanent home. If some of our young men would not indulge so freely with intoxicants when going to public entertainments, their demeanor would be more acceptable. If you cannot respect yourself you had better stay at home and not molest those who are attending to their own business. Dr. and Mrs. Edwards entertained a few friends last Friday night. A graphophone concert was given during the hours of social melange, also playing whist. At a late hour refreshments were served. Those present enjoyed a pleasant evening as they are good entertainers. Jefferson Logan and H. H. Lewis of Des Moines and Jeff Irvin of Charlton were doorkeepers at the republican invention. R. N. Hyde, J. L. Thompson, S. Joe Brown and H. R. Wright are users. Mr. Legin and family of Woodbine, a., is expected to soon arrive in our city to make his future home. Mr. Legin comes highly recommended by his white neighbors, with whom he has spent over twenty years. We welcome Mr. Legin and family to the capital city. The colored delegates to the state republican convention was rather a scarce article, according to former conventions, only two present, W. H. Jones of Lee county and W. H. Wilson of Lucas county. Usually the old ring or the Stand-Pat leaders cae nothing or but little for the Negro in Iowa. There will be a social given at the residence of Mrs. J. T. Blagburn, 370 W. School street, Thursday evening June 2, for the benefit of Union congregational church. Mrs. M. S. Brown, the noted palmieri, provide the entertainment of one evening. Mrs. Walter Birch and Mrs. J. T. Blagburn compete. ...On European n Plan... Clean rooms and first-class beds Rates for sleepip—25c, 35c, 60c, 75c W. THIRD AND COURT AVE. HENRY WEST, Prop. State capital historical room Mr. Wm. Fletcher returned home Tuesday from Minneapolis. Mrs. James Dixon went to Adel last Saturday to see her sister who is very sick. Mr. and Mrs. L. Howard are rejoicing over an eight-pound girl, which arrived Tuesday evening May 17, Mother and daughter doing well. Mrs. Tennessee Williams and her little grandson of Kahoka, Mo, arrived Monday evening to spend the summer with her daughter, Mrs. L. Howard. NOTICE By request of the pastor, H. S. Graves, the quarterly meeting to have been held at St. Paul A. M. E. church May 29 is changed to Sunday, June 19. J. W. MALONE, P. E. Mrs. Leona Daniels left last Monday evening for Ft. Niobrara, Neb., to join her husband who has been returned to that Fort, where they will make their future home. Mr. O. W. Curtis who has been taking a course of embalming at the Ostepathy School of Embalming at Still College, will graduate this summer and may locate here. Mr. Curtis has worked his way through school and is a very deserving young man. He is from Illinois and formerly a member of the Eighth Illinois regiment that done service in Cuba. The BYSTANDER is preparing to get out a very fine World's Fair Souvenir edition, which will appear about our anniversary day, June 10. It will contain the history of Iowa with cuts of her leading people. Any one having cuts or any other historical facts or data please send in at once. This issue has been ordered by the Iowa World's Fair commission and will be authentic. A FINANCIAL SUCCESS. A birthday supper and concert were given at Burns M. E. church last Friday night to a large audience. The following programme was rendered: Song by St. Paul A. M. E. choir; prayer by Rev. O. A. Johnson; song by the choir; address by Attorney S. J. Brown, which was highly appreciated and applauded by all present; song by choir; essay, subject, "Duties of Parents to Children," by Miss F. F. Estell, which was very timely and instructions much needed; quartett, Misses Jessie L. Estell, Maggie Shaffer, Master Frankie Williams and Enzy Morgan. The recitation by Mrs. May E. Morgan was good and well rendered; song by choir; Mrs. William Buckner's recitation was received with liberal applaue; vocal solo by Mr. L. L. Henderson, also Mr. Henry Archie, both were well rendered; tenor solo, Prof. G. J. Holt, who as usual sang beautiful: song by choir. The tables with a good menu and well arranged, was then the center of attraction. The following persons composed the committee that made you feel at home while eating: Mesdames J. E. Buckner, B. H. Greene, Nora Davis, Anna Mathews, Martha James, C. G. Searcy, May E. Morgan, E. J. Mark, Addie Turner, the Misses Della Epps, Fannie Estell and the Messrs. E. S. Morgan, J. N. Robinson, J. Estell and Richard Davis. The Glasgow 710 WALNUT ST. Des Moines Makers of Men's Fine Clothes SUIT OR OVERCOAT TO ORDER NO MORE $15 NO LESS A Thousand Styles—A Single Price 710 WALNUT ST. Des Moines The Glasgow All Goods Union Made HOMESEEKERS ENCURSION Every first and third Tuesday to various points in Alabama, Assiniboia, Canadian Northwest, Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming; also other Western and Northwestern states after August 1st, Full information at C. & N. W. Ticket Office No. 401 Walnut St. DR. A. G. EDWARDS. Physician and Surgeon. OWA PHONE 1081 MUTUAL PHONE 400 (Office) Miles' Drug Store MUTUAL PHONES Office 1917 Residence 958 MUTUAL PHONES ROOM 338, 330, 392 Office 1917 GOOD BLOCK Residence 958 Des Moines, Ia CLARA A. CLIFF General Stenographer and Notary Public.... We do high grade work [in Copying, Manifolding, Mimeographing Name and Address inserting to perfectly match, and guarantee satisfaction. Give us your order. EDITORIALS. DR. MOORE HERE Rev. Dr. Geo. W. Moore of Nashville, Tenn., field missionary for the American Missionary Association of the Congregational church, arrived in our city last Thursday, and that evening he preached at the Pilgrim Congregational church in East Des Moines; Friday evening at Union Congregational church; Sunday morning at Plymouth and Sunday evening at Greenwood Ave. He is a highly educated Christian gentleman, polished, and a pleasing orator. He received his literary course at Fisk university and his theological course in Oberlin university in Ohio. Rev. Moore has been field secretary for twelve years and is intelligent and interesting. His wife was one of the original Fisk Jubilee singers that spent five years in Europe. Mr. Moore spoke very highly of the great work of the A. M. A. among Negroes, the white mountaineers and the Indians. He is very optimistic about our race and says that they are fast becoming enlightened and owning real estate. NELSON C. CREWS SECURES A POSITION. It is with pleasure that our friend Nelson C. Crews of Kansas City, Mo., has been appointed clerk of the police court of Kansas City Mo., by the republican party, a position he formerly held when his party was in power. Mr. Crews is well known in Iowa as a fine orator. We congratulate you Nelson. SOME ABLE DELEGATES. While the republican state convention of Iowa did not honor the race at all, by selecting a single colored man, out of the fifty-two delegates and alternates, to attend the national convention in Chicago, but nevertheless there will be some very able and influential race men in the convention. Among the able men already selected are Hon. Judson H. Lyons, Register of Treasury, from Georgia; Dr. E. E. Underwood, delegate at large, from Kentucky; Prof. John P. Cook of Distric of Columbia a delegate at large. OB1TUARY. Rev. O. A. Johnson was called to Colfax last Wednesday to preach the funeral of Mrs. Susan Miller, who departed this life Tuesday at 2 p. m. Deceased was born in Chariton county, Mo., in 1828, Feb. 2nd. She leaves two sons, three daughters and a great many friends to mourn. She informed Mrs. Hayes and others that she was going to heaven to rest and requested that they bury her in black. Then the windows of the soul closed; the prison wall which held her fettered soul was broken down and she was in earth, life known no more. The funera was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hayes in Andersonville, three miles south of Colfax. The choir furnished music for the occasion, Mrs. Alice Battle organist. THE MILLINERY OF SUMMER. The fluffy gown of gauzy Summer fabric demands a large hat of straw or lace, and drapery and flowers, or a dainty lingerie creation of the sheerest embroidered batiste, shirred mull or made entirely of narrow lace ruffles. The latter is the most fascinating headgear exhibited, and may be made as dressy or as simple as taste dictates. The "baby" hat of shirred or ruffled silk or messaline is made in dark as well as light colors and is generally becoming. The majority of the new shapes are adaptations from those of the Louis XVI. period. The most novel hat of the season is in Japanese style; it is made of course straw in an open weave and is flat on top with the brim narrow and seemingly a continuation of the crown-piece. Another novelty in millinery is the "Charlotte Corbay" hat—a quaint affair that requires the simplest trimming of ribbon, with perhaps a few buds placed on the bandeau to rest on the hair in front. Floral trimmings are extremely popular. Many handsome hats are simply trimmed with sweeping ostrich plumes. Algrettes also are in favor.—From The Dellneator for June. FORT MADISON NOTES. Charley Brown is seriously ill at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G Brown. Willie Shepherd who has been seriously ill several weeks is improving. Mass Hattie McKane of Denmark is in the city. Mr. Wm. Harper attended the carnival at Kookuk Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. D L Holmes have purchased a beautiful cottage at 209 Fifth street. Mr. Geo. Robinson of Mt. Pleasant is in the city visiting Mr. and Mrs. Grant Thomas. Mrs. Lizzie Holmes is very ill at her home. Mrs. Geo. Harper and son Harry visited relatives and friends at Summitville last week. MARSHALLTOWN NEWS Mr. George Suitor, one of our loyal citizens who has been working at the city water works as night fireman for a year, been given a rase in his wages. Mrs. R. J. Wright was called to Washington, Ia. last Saturday where she will hold a service of revival meetings. Rev Green has returned from Euxton where he had been on business. W. F. Jackson, a graduate of Storal College, passed through the city enroute to Washington, D. C. BURLINGTON NEWS. Friends of Mrs. Cora Mayors will be pined to hear of her death Tuesday May 10, at her home 1501 S. Tenth street. The deceased was born in Macomb, Ill., and has lived in Burlington several years and was loved by all who knew her. Sha is survived by her aged mother and a brother, James Purry. Her husband passed away several years ago. Mrs. Wm. Spotts of Chicago, who has been visiting her mother and sister in Mt. Pleasant for the past two weeks, visited several days with Mrs. Sam Cook while enroute to Chicago. A number of the Burlington young men are contemplating a trip to Keokuk Sunday. Little George King was struck over the eyes with a bat while playing ball the other day. It was feared at first that he would loose the sight of the eye, but at present writing the young man is progressing rapidly. M18 Sam Cook is visiting Mrs. Wm. Spotsa in Chicago. Sammy has a long look on his contenance MOLINE GLEANINGS Mr J. L. Jones received word that his sister, Mrs. Nora Williams, of Garnett, Kansas was not expected to live. He has our sympathy. The Stewardess gave a New England 5 o'clock dinner last Thursday evening. It was a success both socially and financially. The Polyhymnia Culture clud met with Mrs. R. H. Pollard Wednesday. The society has decided to take physical culture as a study. They began their first lesson about two weeks ago and voted to have Mrs. Pollard for their teacher. If they still continue as they have started they will find it a pleasure as well as a benefit to them. Mrs. J. L. Jones who has been confined to her home with rheumatism was down town yesterday for the first time in three weeks. Mr. F. A. and Mr. Earl Bradley were at East Moline and Watertown Sunday. The Odd Fellows and Household of Ruth of this city attended the annual sermon of Odd Fellows of Davenport Sunday. CLARINDA ITEMS Mrs. Jane Montgomery and Mrs. Ida Wharton gave an entertainment at the church May 16. Saturday night about 80 of the members came to the parsonage and pleasently surprised the pastor and wife with good things to eat. Mrs. Biythe is one of our up to date workers was the leader of the party. Services were well attended all day at the church Sunday. Work of all kind is good for those who wish to work. Clarinda has a base ball club and they are playing good ball. The Trustees Aid of the A. M. E. church will begin papering the church. Mrs. Jones is yet sick. Mrs. R. E. Walkerson has a few young men boarding with her. Mrs. Walkerson is one of our up to date cooks. Miss G. Steward has been called home to the bed side of her father. Rev. James L. Wharton, pastor of the A. M. E. church, will confer baptism on 8 or 10 new members May 29 at 3 o'clock p.m. ALBIA NEWS Mr. Jeffers of Galesburg was in Albia Sunday and may spend the summer near Albia with Mr. Dean Jeffers. Mr. Ross Johnson and two children from Hocking was Albia Sunday. The Albia young people gave a dance at Kings opera house Friday evening Quite a few from surrounding town were here. Mr. Will Barry of Ottumwa was in town this week. Mr. Scott Richmond and brother and Mr. Riving of Charlton was in town Friday. Mr. Perry Wilson and Mr. Williams of Ottumwa was in town Friday. Mr. S. Boden of Claiqinda and Miss Collie Paine of Keokuk married in Albu this week. Mrs. Anna Davis who was called to Denver on account of the illness of her mother returned Saturday and brought her little niece and nephew, Warnetta and Willie Davis. Mr. C. G. Tolson of Foster returned with his family to Albia and will reside here lot some time. Mrs. Anna Jones, Mr. and Mrs. E. F Butter and several others attended the ball game in Hocking Sunday between Marshalltown and Oskaloosa. DUBUQUE ITEMS Mrs. Charley Lewis and Mrs. Ruth Mathews are suffering with rheumatism. Mr. London Freeman is in our city and has opened an office down town. He is here representing a Chicago publishing company. Mrs. Sarah Williams will leave the first of June for Chicago where she will make her permanent home. Mrs. Louis Christopher and daughter Cora, attended the funeral of her nephew in Rockford. The Missionary Sunday School is contemplating having a picnic just as soon as the weather will permit. Mr. Allen, the one man orchestra, is home from a shoot tour. Mrs. Allen entertained a few friends last Sunday evening. She will leave the first of June, accompanied by Mrs. Lulu Martin. She will travel north on a singing tour, to be gone all summer. Mr. and Mrs. Homes left for Kansas City to make it their future home. Mr. Homes met with quite a serious accident which delayed their departure. Mrs. Besse Martin has moved to East Duluque to be with her mother, Mrs. Erwin. Mr. George Mills who has been working in Mr. John Logan's barber shop, left for Chicago for permanent residence. Mrs Jesse Epps is very much indisposed with rheumatism. Mr. Ed Martin has rented a house on Julien avenue. He expects his wife and children home this week. Mrs. Sarah Perkins and daughter Lucy will leave for Davenport to make it their permanent home about the first of June. And still they go. Mr. Brooks of East Duluque was in our city calling on friends as week. SOME OF THE SIGHTS AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. Inside the limits of St. Louis has risen suddenly, as if in the night, another great metropolis that will be wilder with its surpassing beauty and compel the admiration of all who see it. One almost wishes that after the fair this capital of all expositions could remain standing, even though its avenues and buildings, its palaces and gardens, are filled by the memories of the millions that passed through, and of the sound of the babel of tongues that rang out in the corridors of this gorgeous place of enchantment, for abode of enchantment it will be when within its massive gates. To us another simile, it is a flower, many colored and exquisitely beautiful, that has bloomed and in the heart of which are three petals that will quickly win the admiration of the saint, who has the buildings conining the "Galveston Flood" the Battle Abbey" and the "New York to the North Pole." The most absorbing exhibition will be that of the "Galveston Flood," the most picturesque the trip "From New York to the North Pole" and to the people of this country the most interesting historically the "Battle Abbey." They are all located on what is called "The Pike," the midway of the exposition, and are close together for the first time. The "Galveston Flood" building contains a vivid illustration of the disaster which overtook this delightful Southland city and concludes with a picture of the reconstruction. The vast entertainment is given on a stage that has procenium opening 150 feet wide, the largest in the world, the building proper being 150 feet by 300 feet. It begins by showing Galveston at the close of a delightful summer day. Peace broods over land and sea as the sun sinks below the sky and gentle breezes blowing shadows and to the city whose inhabitants are closing up their business places and enjoying the hour. Shortly after a bank of clouds gather in the wake of the setting sun in cathedral like shape and from a phantom city. The cupolas, towering domes and soofty colonades are glided into molten glory by the last artistic touch of the brush of the fading light. From the deck of an incoming vessel one can see the lights of the city gleaming through the night and seen running out of the windows with lighted windows and the glowing port holes of the shipping of the offing indicate the life inside of the big hulls that swing lazily at their anchors. Suddenly the aspect of everything undergoes a change. The clouds have increased and are sweeping forward in a threatening manner. Rain begins to fall, the breeze has increased and the rain is viciously flashing its telegraphman message, that a storm is approaching. The gale becomes a hurricane and the shrieking winds call the waters to a work of destruction. Responsive to the cry, the gulf heaves into white crested waves, and rolling forward dash on the shell beach. Provoked by the storm's lash, they rise higher and higher and finally one gigantic roller, a very avalanche of water, sweeps forward and the city is engulfed. The scene beggars description. The cyclone, the howling tempest, he thundering waves, hissing rain and the spiteful lightning accentuate a disaster for Galveston. Then, when the tempest has done its daily work, the waters recede, the wind blows and the breeze like that of a lady's fan and the moon comes from her hiding place behind the clouds and we see a newer and more glorious Galveston. The realistic trip of "From New York to the North Pole" given in the "North Pole" building, tells in a graphic manner how a vessel starting from New York attempts to reach the pole, but becoming jammed in the ice and unable to move over it by sleds to their goal. A tank of real water 150 feet long, 50 feet wide and eight feet deep is required in this biggest of all water shows, and one hundred men are used to operate the effects and machinery. The "Battle Abbey" building, is a unique institution and will arouse the passion of all citizens of this country and win the admiration of foreigners. It will contain a vast museum of the historical epochs of this country more important than that of the Smithsonian Institute. In other words, it will be a war relic history of the United States beginning with the Indian wars, the French and English war, the Revolutionary war, the war of 1812, Mexican war, the struggle of Texas for her independence, the Civil war, Custer's last fight and that of the conquest of Spain's colonies by this country in the late Spanish-American conflict. These epochs will be illustrated in tableaux. The most important conflicts being seen as follows: The Revolutionary war by the battle of Yorktown the war of 1812 by the battle of New Orleans, the war of Texas for her independence by the battle of the Alamo, the Mexican war by the Buenos Aires war it war by the helpless of Gattsburg, a Federal victory, and that of Manassas, a Confederate success, thus preserving an equipose of sentiment, and the Spanish-American war by Dewey's victory in the bay of Manila. In addition, Mr. Charles Gunther of Chicago, Ill., has loaned the "Battle Abbey" building his famous war museum, formerly exhibited at the Liberty prison, which is equal to the world-wide famous war museum in Berlin and is of more historical value than the one now in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. Subscribe for Bystander Doubling the Cent. If one could save a cent the first day of the month, 2 cents the next day, 4 cents the next, and so on, doubling the amount each day, he would have nearly $3,000,000 at the end of the month—providing the month had thirty-one days and his salary could pressure the pressure. Railroad Pensions In its report as to the pension system, recently introduced as a part of its economies, the Pennsylvania Railroad company accounts for the expenditure in four years of nearly $1,250,000 for the support of over 2,000 employees who have been retired. Subsidized Railways For the building of its 18,714 miles of railway, the Canadian government has contributed at the average rate of $9,166 a mile of railway constructed; the provincial governments at the rate of $1,757, and the municipalities at the rate of $873 a mile. Memphis Garbage Problem. The disposition of garbage has been one of the vexations problems of municipal sanitation in Memphis. Several years ago crematories were established there, and now nearly 120 tons of garbage are collected and consumed daily. Java's Death Plant The death plant of Java has flowers which continually give off a perfume so powerful as to overcome, if inhaled for any length of time, a full grown man, and which kills all forms of insect life that come under its influence. The Advice Is All Right In a divinity essay written by an English schoolboy appeared the following passage. "So he sed unto Mosses. Come forth; but he come fifth and lost the jobb. Morral. Git up urly."—New York Tribune. Keen Sight. The kestrel is possessed of such wonderful powers of sight that it is able to see a mouse when it is itself at such a height in the air that it is invisible to the naked human eye. Average German Needs In Germany the per capita consumption of petroleum is 46 pounds; of salt, 39.6 pounds; of sugar, 27.05 pounds; of herring, 7.91 pounds, and of coffee, 6.62 pounds. Death Rate High It is found that the death rate among British barmaids is twice as high as the average. It is higher than the rate among lead workers. Pillows on European Railways. In Europe there are companies which rent pillows to railway passengers. The charge is 20 cents a pillow for the trip. --- The presses of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing are now running eight and day on new national bank notes. Price. Five Cents. INDIA'S MOST DEADLY SNAKE Bite of the Dabola is Almost Invari- ably. Fatal. A writer on India says; "The snakes that are most worthy of dread as inmates of Indian gardens are the terrible daboos, 'Viperia russellii.' They are truly superb reptiles, for, while the coloring of their armor is relatively quiet, it would be hard to find any finer harmony than that presented by its tints of ocherous brown, on which a series of shining black rings with lighter margins are disposed in triple rows from the neck to within a short distance from the end of the tail. Daboias are sluggish and inert, and often lie coiled up and motionless on footpaths until they are actually touched or trodden on by passers-by, when they suddenly unfold like a released spring armed with terrible teeth. There is none of the warning and preparation here that there is where a cobra is about to strike; no sitting up and threatening, but an instantaneous and deadly assault. When they have laid hold, too, they hang on and worry in sickenking fashion whilst they strive to inject as much as possible of their tenacious yellow venom." DWARF BANANA FINE FRUIT. Product of Bermuda of Which Little Ja. Exported The dwarf banana of Bermuda first came from the Canaries. The fruit is little larger than a man's finger, and is compact in texture and rich in flavor. The fruit grown in summer is of higher quality than that grown in winter—if the word winter can be applied to a land in which the mercury rarely registers as low as 50 degrees and in which frost is unknown. The single bunch that the tree bears would weigh, of this dwarf sort, from twenty-five to sixty or seventy pounds. There is almost no expense required in maintaining the plantation after it is once established, and the gross annual income should be from $400 to $500 per acre. The little bananas are consumed entirely by the local markets, for Bermuda is visited by tourists, it has a large garrison, and the resident people—some over 17,000 all told—are fond of fruit. When Easy Street's in Sight. Hast ever struggled up against the most kind of luck. When every blooming scheme you schemed you will to run a-mock. And then when things seemed at their worst. There shone a ray of light That sent you tumbling over hopes Easy Street in sight? Hast eveen your bills pile up And try to pay them Till ever ounce of sense you had You knew was giving way— Writes her brazenly lines, Though trying with your might To straighten them—when, lot some boon Showed Easy Street in sight? There's many who'll appreciate The humor grim of luck The toughness of hard, hard, Deepest your nerve and pluck, When every effort falls as flat As wine drawn over night, As the crowd crowd, Show Easy Street in sight. You wonder if it can be true, And fear some devil's joke— Then cash up all the things you'll want When you're no longer broke— And then you roll, roll, roll, Your wants in lists you write, You'll have a durd'd good time, by Jove, When Easy Street's in sight. Determined to Make a Splurge. There was once a western miner who, after many years, made his pile, and, going to San Francisco, looked about for the most splendid restaurant he could find. He wanted to make up to himself in one glorious night for all his privations and hardships of many years. When he found his restaurant and the waiter handed him the bill of fare he found it was in a language that is not commonly spoken in mining camps, and that he could not make out anything but the prices, which were extremely high. So he turned to the waiter and said: "Bring me $100 worth of ham and eggs." Early California Mail Service. It was not until 1863 that San Francisco had a daily mail service. The overland trains then brought and took letters, but how unsatisfactory this service was at first may be judged from this little anecdote: A man desired to go cast, but not having the necessary steamer fare, offered to deliver any and all letters, parcels of gold dust and the like for a small stipend. For letters he would charge fifty cents each. He got enough orders on the first day to make up his fare and leave him a handsome balance besides. Ideal Building Material. "Heloxyle" is the name given in Germany to peat fiber compressed and hardened by a special process into sheets, tiles, plates and blocks for various building purposes. It is used for lining walls, ceilings, window and door frames, to underlay wooden flooring and even as flooring itself. It has about the consistency and atomic weight of sound cork, and is an almost perfect nonconductor of heat, moisture, sound and vibration. It is impregnated with some material which renders it practically incombustible. United States Oyster Farms While the greater portion of the United States is under snow and in the grasp of winter our oyster farmers are busy harvesting their crop, which requires no fertilizer, food or fencing and costs only for the seed, the sowing and the harvesting and which pays a good dividend on the investment. From 12,000 to 15,000 hands are engaged in the oyster work in eastern Virginia. It is an odd sort of farming and the oyster farmers in winter become corn farmers in summer.—Country Gentleman. 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The big book, which heretofore was bolt at 50 cents each, and which is sow free for the asking, is $8½%11½ in size. contains thousands of fluffies in cakes, marmalades and prices, a thoroughly complete book, kind of merchandise, including dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, furnishing goods, notions, millinery, carpentry, upholstering, hardware, tools, sewing machines, musical instruments, organs, pianos, furniture, baby tarringes, corkery, cuttery, stoves, drugs, photographic goods, optical goods, moving machines, moving picture frames, saddlery, watches, jewelry, silkware, clocks, safes, refrigerators, dware, everything used in the home, in the shop, in the factory and on the all priced at prices much lower are over offered by any other house. If you have one of our big catalogues or have ever seen one you know what it is, the most complete catalogue ever published. If you haven't our big catalogue don't fall to send or one at once. 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In proof of Prof. Coe's assertion that baseball is a part of the religious life of a boy, it is only necessary to point to the career of the Rev. William Sunday. Lieut. Rutropoff was seriously wounded on the pontoon near Khusan the other day. It is said that he Khussed frightfully when the Japs amputated the pontoon. The president of the University of Michigan says the college graduates are to be the captains of industry of the future. Pass the pick and shovel to the self-made man. Bass and trout fishing in early morning is now declared to be a mistake as game fish do not rise before $ \frac{3}{4} $ o'clock. This will certainly increase the popularity of the sport. The theory that boys are descended from monkeys has received an ugly setback. A Philadelphia gentleman possesses a monkey who washes himself with soap and water. A Norwegian chemist has discovered a new and cheap process for making alcohol from sawdust. 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Either he is a man of prodigious wealth or he underestimates the size of the family. A man who had $2,000,000 and who was heir to a lot more committed suicide in Chicago the other day. No doubt he could, if he had cared to do so, have given the world some important particulars tending to prove that "money is not all." If lovers everywhere should express their opinion of the St. Louis judge who has just handed down a decision to the effect that 11 o'clock at night is long enough for any beau to stay with his sweetheart, they might all have to go to jail for contempt of court. Somebody says that the Parisians furnish the gowns and the American women furnish the figures. When it takes three figures for a gown the American father at once becomes an active factor in the little epigram. P. A. HON. J. W. BLYTHE, LEADER OF "STANDPATTERS." HE WON A GREAT OVATION National Campaign Plans Outlined by Secretary Shaw — Senator Allison Leadly Cheered — J. W. Blythe Failed to Attend — Tribute of Convention Due Moines, May 12—In addition to electing a delegation at large to the national republican convention inspired for Theodore Roosevelt, and shooting resolutions declaring for protests in non-competitive pro- cedures in the presidential state convention of Iowa yesterday listened to the outline of what is likely to be the major issue in the approaching pres- idential campaign from Secretary of The Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, board HON. J. W. BLYTHE, LE a dozen other eloquent speeches, cheered itself tired and shouted itself hoarsen and adjourned, firmly believing that the political gathering had never been. The sensation of the day was the speech of Governor Cummins. The call for him was so insistent that he was forced to leave the speeches were made before the resolutions had been submitted, and the governor along with his associates on the delegation at large and others on the councilmen and entertainment. Governor Cummins declared that although he knew not what the platform soon to be reported might contain, he knew that from that very moment he should stand upon it. At this expression, which electrified everybody and surprised the radical standpoint of the conservatives, the din of the cheers and yells filled the great hall for many moments. The governor proceeded, when quiet had been restored, to emphasize the importance of merry perspiration with reference to the mutations of low politics and their continuation in the future, he predicted, a hundred thousand for Rosevelt and a hundred thousand for Clinton, the stage amid thunderous applause. Secretary Shaw spoke in the convention about the national campaign. He said that if any issue develops this year it will be based, he believes, on the fact that the country sells industries in this country sell goods cheaper abroad than at home. The secretary said that it was idle to deny the claim. The report of the industrial commission shows that a few American goods are so cheap that the thirtieth one per cent of the total production finds that class of market. That is, for every $100 of production thirty cents worth is sold cheaper abroad than at home. But a hundred foreign made artisan goods are cheaper in America than at home; it is an everyday occurrence and it is both good business and good statesmanship. "For I hope the day will never come," said the secretary, "when American manufacturers do not sell abroad at a loss to the country." The sales of American fabrics smoking and hustling, hustsy. Chairman Spencer called the convention to order at 11 o'clock, and after Rev. Bigler had pronounced the invocation Hon. John N. Irwin of the coroner, a rope-sweeper, the chairman, and he at once began his address. At the conclusion of this address adjournment was taken until 2 p. m. Although the convention re-assembled at 2 o'clock it was long past this hour when Chairman Irwin called the delegates to order. The report of the committee on credentials and permanent organization was at once made. Capt. J. A. T. Hull was chosen as permanent chairman and the rest of the temporary organization was made permanent. When Captain Hull accepted the gift he received a rousing ovation. He said: In the manufacture of penkives the division of the labor has been carried to such an extent that one knife is handled by seventy different artisans from the moment the blade is fused until the instrument is finished and ready for the market. The national hymn of China is a stunner. It is so long that it requires about half a day to sing it. No foreigner ever desires to hear it sing the second time. A German, who once frequently listened to it, said, rather irreverently: "Too much of that is pleasely." A.B. CUMMIN'S. "I desire to thank the convention for this honor. I desire to congratulate you and the republicans of Iowa on this fair opening of the campaign. I hope you will be pleased to know that the evidences all point to a united and harmonious party. All the young men of the party will enter the lists with the veterans and, after the national convention at Chicago next month, map the campaign route. All young men will enter a campaign under the matchless leadership of their governor that will result in the greatest victory in the history of the party." The resolutions committee not holding the chairman Chairman Hull called for nominations for delegates-at-large. Without preliminaries or formalities, ex-Senator H. T. Hrewin of Cedar Rapids, offered the names of Senators Allison, Dolliver, Governor Cummins and members of the delegation were chosen by acclamation without a dissenting voice. Calls were made for the four distinguished men, and Governor Cummins and Senator Browne addressed them with applause when they appeared and briefly addressed the convention. Mr. Blythe was not present, but there was great interest in the convention and the delegates persisted in calling for him. Secretary Shaw and Congressmen Cummins and Lacey were called upon ADER OF "STANDPATTERS." and short speeches by them were received with enthusiasm. Lafe Young of Des Moines, who won recognition for his resolution, read the platform as recommended by the majority of the committee, prefacing it with the remark that members from four schools. Truth from four districts attended to section 7, relative to reciprocity. When the reading had concluded Mr. Young moved the adoption of the resolutions and the motion was de- A.B.CUM clared carried. The resolutions are as follows: The republicans of Iowa congratulate the president on his victory which prevents, upon the triumph of the home and foreign policies of the republican president, the policies which were provided, and the illumination of pledges of the party. The republican country also upon the adjustment of the Alaska boundary dispute and work done in preventing the partition of China, and for the assertion of We are proud of the influence of Iowa's Shaw and Wilson—and of the constant, able and wise influence that at all times the Shaw's members of the senate and house. We commend the record of Governor The dogs of Egypt are very cunning. When one of them wishes to drink at the Nile he goes a short distance down the river and continues to howl for a short time. The sound attracts the crocodiles from above, and when they come near the place where the dog is, the latter races to the spot deserted by the crocodiles and guzzles in safety. During some recent explorations at Pompeii an ancient kitchen was unearthed. In the fireplace there was a kettle on the grate, just as it was left one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five years ago by some cook residing in that old city. Cumulans and the various state officers in the successful management of the office. We endorse the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt, and instruct our delegates at large to the republican national convention and recommend to the delegates from the several congressional districts to do all in their power to secure his unanimous renomination. President Roosevelt called to authority under the most distressing circumstances, took up the presidency with a full appreciation of the responsibilities of the position. His course has been able, courageous, patriotic; he has had no ambition but to serve his country. We commend him for his general acts of administration. We believe every American, regardless of party, concludes in his ability, patriotism and integrity; his firmness in the right as he sees it, and his promptness and wisdom have attracted the admiration, not only of our own people, but of the world at large. He is the worthy successor of William McKinley, whose death of American people sincerely mourn. We are in favor of reprocity in none. countries in our own protective tariff, which builds American factories made in countries and gives employment to American labor, markets and gives employment to American farmers, factories and shops. We believe in sacrificing some part of the markets at home. And equally unless to rights in the industry to make war upon each other, under the laws of the country has joyed universal prosperity. Protective duties at home in the industry to make war upon each other have furnished the war at home to charge and newly equip the army, to extend our cost defenses and have supported the advantages and benefits of a great home market, but have courage and central with which to invade foreign marches to the tariff system by giving assistance to the tariff system by giving assistance to the tariff system by giving assistance to the tariff system which found its highest fulfillment in laws bearing the names of William McKinley and Nelson Angus. We are reliance on trusts and contracts to torture and exhalt profits from the countries in the courts of the laws of congress made to carry the power of these great organizers. We commend the congress and administration for the constant progress made in building the military and sailors of the republic. To the soldiers and sailors of the republic they have provided suitable pension should be paid for disabilities incurred and for work that this convention of republicans cannot concede its talents without an expression of the opinions of the national republican committee. Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio, who is a member of the committee, ideal of the true American business man. The committee on resolutions was made up as follows: First—J. L. Walle, Des Moines. Second—S. C. Scott, Clinton. Third—J. L. H. Hancock, Peurth. Fourth—L. H. Henry, Charles City. Fifth—Bernard Murphy, Benton. Sixth—J. A. Devitt, Oskaloosa. Seventh—Lefayette, Young. Eighth—L. J. Temple, Clarke. Ninth—D. O. Stewart, Hawkton. Tenth—K. Kepon, Web-Eventh—Geo. D. Perkins, Sloux. Judge Towner was recognized by the judge and nominated for alternate delegates at large D. H. Bowen of Allamakee county, C. W. Crimm of Emmet county, F. W. Simmons of Wapello county, and Frank R. Crock- The nominations were received and the nominees were elected by acclamation. For a brief address by Congressman Hepburn the convention adjourned. A rich man's autograph always looks best on the bottom of a check. The cook's duties are bound to covet. MINS.. A Profitable Appetizer. Friend—what is it? Modern Composer.—Just finished a new opera, and am hastening down to the De Fasanion theater, to have the manager produce it. "No, you will accept it." "Of course." "You seem very confident." "I am. He owns the saloon next door to the theater, doesn't he?" "Yes." "Well, my new opera has fifteen drink songs in it."—New York Weekly. To insure the proper aging of beer, none of it is allowed to leave the best it can be in storage at least three months. In some Bayerian breweries it is left six months. A prominent artist in London had sittings not long ago from a lady of wit and charm. He husband, a painter, saw the Courtier, when it was finished, and was asked by the artist to give his opinion of it. He replied quite innocently, looking first at the lady and then at the portrait: it is very good, it is excellent; but I think it is a little too much to report about the mouth. --- DELEGATES AT LARGE. Hom. William B. Allison of Dubuque. Hon. Jonathan P. Dolliver of Fort Dodge. Hon. J. W. Blythe of Burlington. Hon. Robert B. Cummins of Des Moines. ALTERNATES. D. H. Bowen of Allamakee county. W. C. Clermin of Emmet county. F. W. Simmons of Wapelle county. Frank R. Crocker of Lucas county. DISTRICT DELEGATES. First—Marah W. Bailey, Washington; C. A. Carpenter, Louisa. Second—G. W. French, Davenport; Geo. M. Curtis, Clinton. Third—O. M. Gillett, Independence; E. S. Eleanor, Iowa Falls. Fourth—H. A. Hale, Mason City; Harry Green, Decorah. Fifth—J. W. Doxee, Jones; E. L. Clarke, Linn. Sixth- H. L. Waterman, Ottumwa; John A. DeMuth, Albia. Seventh- Judge J. L. H. Lendersburg; Indianola; Dr. J. L. H. Lendersburg; Colo. P. Peatman; Appa noose; H. R. J aqua, Taylor. Ninth- George Wright, Pottawattamie; W. S. Ellis, Montgomery. Tenth- Mahlon Greene, E. K. Winne, Humbolt. Brown, Humbolt. A. Van.谋- Meile, Oranges City. ALTERNATES. First—E. H. Skinner, Van Buren; C. W. Payne, Henry. Second—G. M. Titus, Muscatine; M. A. Raney, Iowa. Fifth—S. S. Swetz, Benton; Senator E. G. Penrose, Tama. L. Sixth. *Eros.* Brooks, Hedrick; Ham- ters Behring; Colas. 168 Robinson, Curtx. Seventh—C. T. Caldwell, Adel; D. J. Winterde, Winterset. Eighth—C. T. Hardinger, Clarke; D. J. Brown, Deatur. Ninth—M. McDonald, Guthrie; L. F. Potter, Shelby. Tenth—A. J. Cole, Hancock; S. L. Moore, Boone. Elvent—Robert Lipton, Ica Grove; Dr. J. W. Crann, Sheldon. THREE OPPOSED PLATFORM Second, Tenth and Eleventh Districts Against Standpatters. Des Muthes, May 19—lowa's delegation at large to the republican national convention was selected yesterday by a state convention, which declared, in resolutions adopted, that the republican national convention in noncompetitive products only. The resolutions declare also that it is unwise to seek markets abroad by sacrificing some part of the market. These declarations were adopted by a committee which had before it a plank reciting the benefits arising from adherence to the principle of tariff schedules in tariff schedules when necessary advocating a reciprocity which should not be harmful to American markets, industries or labor. The declaration is understood to have been suggested as an expression similar to that which is likely to be agreed upon at the national convention and as having been discussed and in favor among republican Hon. George D. Perkins presented this plank. It received three votes in the committee, his own and those of his colleague, Scott of Clinton. The same gentlemen voted for the plank said to have been inspired by Governor Cummins and offered by Mr. Scott, reaffirming the compromise declaration in last year's convention. And these three, together with J. L. Waite of Burlington and J. A. Devitt of Oskaloosa, voted for Mr. Kenyon's motion to strike from the draft of the compromise declaration to standpartners, the seventh section declaring for reciprocity in noncompetitive products only. He also moved Waite and Devitt to remove Missora, Perkins, Kenyon and Scott in declining to recommend, with the other committee, the adoption of the reciprocity plank by the convention. At the last meeting of the platform except the reciprocity division, and on this the representatives from the Second, Tenth and Eleventh, instead of drawing a minority report, agreed to the equally effective statement to the convention that they did not indorse it. Lively Times Ahead. Drugstig—"No, I don't want any more cod liver oil. We are overstocked now." 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If your dealer does not name and seize the napoleon, you must pay the name and seize wanted, and pay the *walais* ordered prepaid on receipt of price. The price is paid. SCORES TARIFF REVISIONISTS Temporary Chairman Irwin Delivered an Eloquent Address. COMPARISON WITH A JUDAS Thinks Leaders Should Watch for Trouble in Own Ranks — Lauds Theodore Roosevelt and Other Party Leaders—Also Dingley Tariff Des Moines, May 19—11, John N. Nirnau, of Reckow, was temporary chairman of the state republican convention which was held in this city yesterday. After speaking at the convention, grea- ness, Iowa's members of the president's and the president himself, he said in part, "I wish I knew what the democratic politicians mean. I am sure that if I knew I would voice from the tomb at Pentonion saying voice from the tomb at Pentonion saying graveyard. But Bryan, from the graveyard, graysay, that it does not mean these factions of tried inability and con- victed indictment shall we believe—which Gorman went around lately looking for an issue, and soon found one, and as Watson says, "walked through the slaughter, according to the news. I've been to the last I say, an issue, and the solid south rose in the might of its great solidity and dashed the hope of the Maryland senator of the president. In his effort to do good to the president in his effort to do the Canada canal and it stood ready to do good! His course in that great work of wedding the Atlantic to the Pacific, even as it went into the United States, and the part of India to the British empire and defended it by saying that it was a salutary and necessary piece of�reality." But desperation is said to be a kind of hope and so the democracy is standing ready to grasp at any issue, good or bad, that promises a winning career. But the American people will not forget this good-will but not forget in this generation. It will not forget in this generation the souphouses and the Ketty and Coxey armies this party—this democratic party—which always saying 'No': which was born when the people were with them and the second which has proven to be the greatest 'knocker' in the history of the world; which stands with open face, forcing the people of the world as they are as well as the people without society believe that the people will again entrust it with power. If the American people should do this insane thing, then certainly it would be as the wit said to be the warings, "the triumph of hope over experience." "I, for one, hope never to see the democracy win again in a national contest in the last trial which the nation gave them they made the entire country poor." "I am the most important to the members of the hundreds of thousands of men and they failed—failed—because, as the historian says, 'It is a terrible task to govern naïtious people and people who are destitute or preaches.' And the destitute of breaches go to the end of the government. It is an important part of Bryan and Cleveland and German will feel and realize that the everless and loomy November day in the void gray dawn of the morning after." "All of the people cannot be tooled twice, we know the democracy and it can not disguise itself, no matter how it makes; the people will recognize it under any name or standing upon any platform." A school teacher found a kid in the geography class who was deeply interested in the history of the country. The teacher said: "You have an front of you, and on your right, the cast; and on your left, the west. Want to have you behind you? After a few moments retraction, the boy exclaimed: "A patch of my pants," but to make the information more emphatic be shamefacedly said: 'I knew you'd see it. I told my ma you would. And so all the world will see the sartorial embellishment on the democratic rear, but as misery is said to be necessary to his dextive." "A temporary chairman is not supposed to make a political speech. The reason for his existence is to think that the state has a higher policy to do something the follows. So I am not making a political speech nor sounding a key note. That's a very important thing to do, and a key note. It must be left to other and alier men. I am not going to be a living one, but I am not coming which I may be pardoned a world, though I speak for myself alone, representing no party and no following in a party." The democratic party has had before it ever since it was beaten on the silver question several tentative issues. Rattan Cochran urges his party to make the case. The party is issued to the next challenge. We will gladly accept his challenge and go before the country with Theodore Roosevelt as the issue. His deeds, his character, his words, we all have to do. The cost of the matter is the stading of any, democratic among them all. Theodore Roosevelt as the Issue? "He will walk the link like back in spring," and the rules of the United States born issue, but the republican party led by Theodore Roosevelt has gone into the courts and under a law passed by a Republican congressman. The issue has been made under which they are now trembling, although every democratic justice on the supreme bench of the United States died is dissenting opinion. The democracy is the question that if he is the mother trusts by the same token the women are the mother of measles. Kill all the industries of the land and you will surely kill all the trusts and you will sell all the land and you will just as surely abolish all the measles. "I confess with much shame that your temporary chairman is probable the only person who does not know how to control and manage the party that the party which freed the slaves, and that the party which freed the slaves, homestead law, and which gave the country the gold standard, will be fully able to manage it," Colonization was tried as an issue, and the democratic party tried the country to colonization was soon dropped to colonization of wiedy Kansas, but to colonize anything or anybody anywhere. Imperialism was then nursed as a lazy infant—having its home in cultured cities and a kind of East—has moved in law-in-law of wiedy Kansas, but the City of Boston just beginning to be known as a city of birth of East—has found that imperialism was popular with good reason that we are an imperial proponent of imperialism. And looking forward to an imperial destiny when peacefully but powerfully the progressive nation of this Imperial republic. To which I refer is the tariff. Like Aaron's rod the tariff has swallowed up the issue of the republican party must stand in victory or go down in defeat. "Not nearly seven years now the United Tariff. It must under the United Tariff." MAD DOG SCARES BOY TO DEATH George Aid Collapses in Arms of His Mother, Who Came to Rescue Him. Philadelphia, Pa., dispatch: After being chased several by a muddy boy, 7-year-old George Aid, 1134 South Eleventh street, staggered up the steps of his home and fell dead in the arms of his mother, who had heard his screams and just reached the door. The boy had been playing, when the boy, pursued by a crowd, came run down the street and run after him. Death of Dr. Cushing. Washington dispatch: Dr. Clinton Cushing, one of the best-known physicians in the country and one of the doctors who waited upon Mrs. McKinley when she was ill in San Francisco three years ago, is dead. Suicide in Cell. Peru, Ind., dispatch: Henry Quick, unmarried, 22 years old, hangs) him self in jail by means of two handkerchiefs, and is accused of stealing a horse and buggy. the schedule figures on a farm bill, it is no delicacy before we must meet the work and well and inform the work represen-tors and well inform the work represen-tors and well inform the work law the rates of duty necessary to pre-fer manufacturing interests, the economic welfare whether that work is done or not, whether that work is done or not, as a mechanic in all the trades, business man who is buying from one to business man who is buying from one to "A tariff itself in its makeup is a matter of detail and requires vast knowledge. The details of a tariff, the figures that govern the duties, the per cent, demand and liquidation treatment, and the knowledge and this science are only applied to experts, but for these figures, rates and per cents we always have and always will hold congress responsible." "But we are not a principle of a tariff we have something to do." "There are three things," says Hacon, which makes a nation great and prosperous; a fertile soil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance of man and goods from the world. The traffic of the industry is the only conveyance of man and goods from place to place we have for our railroads girdle the country from side to side and from end to end, and our steamers ply upon all our navigable waters, making it easy to find a third requirement. "A living really." But Hacon's second requirement is "busy workshops," busy workshops we did not have in Cleveland's second term inner the Wilson bill. The grass grew green when the paths that were to be added by thousands of busy and glittering feet, going to and coming from the mill and from the factory. The agile spider spun his web in thousands of our great factories undisturbed and the watered and hooted in the emptiness where few years before millions of people had earned their bread. "A wise man has told us that man has ascended from the ape. This may be true, but the American people will get back out of free trade to the window of free trade, then it will undoubtedly be true that the majority of us when we started on an upward journey from our ape to a great and a few other countries, and that and a few other countries, for the first time. For nearly seven years we have lived and survived under the 'Bingly' tariffs. They have been only to the same size of the land they have been low, work has sought the name and not man the work. In our manufacturing towns there has been peace and unity and a hospitality of the children who had food, the women have had clothes, the spindles have been moving, the web has been weaving, the iron has been heat- and air-heating, the iron has been aze and the plane have been at work all over the land. The wheels have every- where been turning, the whirle of great machines have been the sweetest of the life of the furraces have been roaring with the rhythm of the flames and chimneys have sent forth to the blue and bending, however that the sweetest because for the signal and the symbol of work for the men, food for children and rest and peace and a venty and happy homes for the wives and mothers and for us all." "I believe fully, heartily, earnestly in the doctrine and principle of protection. I do not believe in parting with one atom. I am not a man who has always been the most greatest good to the greatest number and in Abraham Lincoln's theory that the United States with its institutions, its people and the markets, belong to the people who inhibit it." "I believe in giving labor all its earnest," Boorking Tarkinn somewhere says that who looks upon politics when it is red in the face, "we are men with the heart ache," but "we walk by thine and when we find that we are led by Dylann and that we are being led by Declan and that we are being led by the doctrine of free traders, let us hasseen back to the old Republican Ark of Safety, to the old Republican Ark of Safety, to the world and our producers against the producers of the world. Let us not inert in tariff which has worked so splendidly and so self evident results. Let us make no excuse with death, no covenant with hell." "Let us adhere to the cardinal principle, have an lown idea in the future, let us try to make it like the note of an American in Texas and from Oregon to Florida. Canada wants redcoprocity let it come. Canada wants redcoprocity let it come. Canada wants redcoprocity let it come. Canada products is free trade and it is nothing else." "Judge Logan, a gentleman of high standing, spends some time in Canada some years ago when the Wilson bill was pending in the Canadian engaged in trade who was buying the Canadian told Judge Logan that he was only waiting for the Wilson bill to pass with he would not go against it. The Wilson bill that he asked him to pass the Wilson bill that he asked him to pass the effect on the American hen. It is reply was quick an hard. "Juan the American hen." This law has made Hope of the Song of the Heart an impossibility in the United States. It has made cheap men and women deliberately choose to be cheap. When products are cheap and labor is cheap there is a worse thing than high prices, and that worse thing is cheap prices. This question beyond announcing our allegiance, let us raise no ghosts from past conventions and platforms of the party; let us raise no ghosts from the mellow richness of the present the dead past shallbury its dead. Let us raise no ghosts from the republican party when it meets in national convention where all needs will be fulfilled and then a platform will be made upon which we can all stand, and over which we can all stand. The republican man today is well. He is exceedingly and exasperatingly well. Why? It is not the right thing? "If this great and splendid fabric of prosperity which has been built with so much labor and care and which has been built with so much happiness to the family in the land, is to be perged and ent, let republicans stay their hands and let democratic doctors write the prescriptions and the same name." "If this great system under which and through which we have prospered, as no nation in the world ever prospered before is to create a record of the greatness of the people," said the president of the trade and McKinley never meant and McKinley never dreamed of if the tariff which as a whole has stood in the state of the United States. It was not very formal at the time, it was to be tored down by removing a stone here and a stone there. It was a trade under the guise of reciprocity, fear attack and the scurily it stands now in its robust strength of the "altogether" but, as pretended protectionists, stand it here and stay it there. It is the same thing that is the noble in the republican history and memory, let no Brutus dagger be found, reckling with blood in a republican hand; let no Brutus dagger be found, reckling with blood in a people's kiss be sounded from republican life. "The republican party made the tariff when the country was in 'sore need, and the tariff is not as well as the tariff in whole when convinced that there is need for revision, and that the time for revision has come." A-Tep-Pa-Ta, fifth and last wife of Geronimo. is dead JOY CAUSES DEATH OF A GIRL Michigan Student Receives Unexpected Visit From Her Mother. Buffalo, N. Y., dispatch: Miss Marion Walton Gorham of Marshall, Mich., is dead, and the physician's report describes the cause to shock from fever. Miss Gorham, who was attending a private school here, received an unexpected visit from her mother. She started toward her with an exertion and collapsed after taking a few steps. She was dead in a few seconds. Blooded Horses Burn. Jackson, Teen., special: One of he most destructive fires that ever occurred in Jackson destroyed an entire business block and a stable of valuable horses. Many were fine blooded animals. The loss will total $40,000. Crook Is Recaptured. Montgomery, Ala., dispatched: "EIU" Callahan, Cincinnati crooked, tried to jump to liberty from the courthouse and was shot by a police officer a few minutes later. JAPANESE AND RUSSIANS MEET LOSS OF LIFE WAS GREAT Two Thousand Russians Reported Killed or Wounded—Japs Reported Driven Back —Said That 70,000 Russian on Way to Port Arthur. Ninchauw, May 20.—It is reported here from a reliable source that the Japanese army from the Yalu river has received a heavy blow and has been driven back to Feng Wang Cheng. London, May 20.—The Standard's correspondent at Tien Tien cables that while the Japanese fleet was covering the landing of troops near Kai Chan on Monday, a fierce engagement occurred at Hsin Yin Cheng. Two thousand Russians were killed or wounded. The Russians retreated and the Japanese occupied both Kauping and Kai Chan. The Chinese governor at Chen Chow has received news, the correspondent adds, that the Russians have destroyed the railway between Tashichino and Kai Chan. The Coo, May 29.—Heavy firing was heard in the direction of Port Arthur early this morning. Chinese arriving from Dahaly say that the Russians regained control of the railway but lost again. Port Arthur is well provisioned. Paris, May 20.—The correspondent at St. Petersburg of the Echo De Paris says: "The Russian cruiser Bogatyg grounded during a fog on the rocks near entrance to Vladivostok. Her position is critical. The crew was saved." JAPANESE MEET DISASTER. Reports of Loss of Cruiser and Battleship are Confirmed. Tokio, May 29.—Moe Admiral Togo has reported as follows: "A report from Rear Admiral Dewa says that the cruisers Kasaga and Yoshibo collided during a fog off Port Arthur on May 15. The Yoshibo sank, on the contrary of her crew being saved. "On the same day the battleship Hatsuno siricuck a Russian mine and san." In giving details of the disaster Vice Admiral Togo says: "At 1:14 o'clock in the afternoon of May 15, in a deep fog off Port Arthur, the Kasaga rammed the Yoshino, sinking the latter in a few minutes. Ninety of her crew were saved. "The same morning the Hatsuze, while cruising off Port Arthur covering the landing of the soldiers, struck a mine nine knots southeast of the port, and was reported to for help and instantly struck another mine. She sank in half an hour. Three hundred of her crew were saved by torpedo boats." People just arriving at Chee Foo港, reported to the Russian consul that the Japanese battleship Shikishim sank in two minutes after the contact with the submarine mine, and that there was no time to save the crew. The accident happened, is said, within sight of Port Arthur. The battleship Fujif, not the cruiser Asama, which struck the mine on the port bow, had a heavy list and was also down by the bow, but was rightly credited with sinking the cruisers. It is thought impossible, however, that she could reach port. The Yoshino was a cruiser of 4,150 tons displacement and 15,000 indicated horse power. She was built in England, was launched in 1920, was 250 km long, and her draft was 17 feet. The armament of the Yoshino consisted of four 6-inch guns, eight 4.7-inch guns and twenty-three 3-pounders. She had five torpedo tubes and four by 2 inches thick and her gun positions were protected by shields 4.12 inches in thickness. The cruiser's speed was estimated to be 23 knots, her crew numbered 10 tons and her crew numbered 300 men. The cruiser with which the Yoshino collided may be the Kusanagi or Kasago, a cruiser of 5,416 tons, built in Philadelphia in 1928, or it may be the Morihiro, a cruiser of 5,416 tons, built in Morihiro, purchased from Argentina in Italy and taken by British officers, with the Nishinah, bought by Japan from Argentina, and formerly previous to the outbreak of the war, The Hatsuzu was a battleship of 15,000 tons displacement and of the latest model. She was only completed in 1939 and was built in Japan. She was 400 feet long, had 76 1/2 feet been drew 27 feet of water, had 16,300 indicated horse power and was fitted with water tube boilers. She was completely armored with steel. Her armor was 100 inches of guns, fourteen 6-inch guns, twenty 12-pounders, eight 3 1/2-pounders, she had four torpedo tubes, her estimated speed was 19.11 knots. Her crew numbered 18. London, May 20, A. G. Hales, the correspondent of the Daily News, cables from Tien Tsin as follows, under date of May 19. The correspondent of 70,000 Russians are marching to the relief of Port Arthur, and the Japanese are consequently hastening offensive operations. They five thousand troops have already been landed at Kin Chau and Tailenwan, thus entirely investing Port Arthur. "The Japanese advanced lines are seven miles from the Russian batteries. The armies occur daily along the railroad. "It is believed that the Japanese intend attacking Port Arthur with the entire force when it numbers 40,000 guns on steel wheels, with the object of silencing the Russian batteries." 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Anna Harper SUPERIOR, WIS., BUDGETARIAN Navigation at the head of the lakes formally opened at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon. May 12th, when the steamer Mary II. Hoyce steadily cut her way to the lake, where a packed seat at the entrance of the canal, reached-Duluth harbor, the first vessel to arrive from a lower lake port. The arrival of the Boyce settled all arguments as to the time of the opening. A "green" supper will be given at the A. M. i. e. church Friday evening, the 20th inst. Greens will be served in different styles. Residents Birdie Grayson, Fred Miles, Maude Wade visited the Country Club in Duluth Wednesday. It locks as if we were not going to have any summer up here, or even spring. The air is very chilly, perhaps on account of the lake being so cold. The winter wraps are still in demand. Resolved. "That women should be allowed to vote on all state and national questions." was the subject discussed at the Light House Literary Center, where the affirmative were Mesdames Cornelia Chavious and Mattie Wade; negative, Rev. Wade and Mr. Jas. Willis. After a lengthy debate, the five judges decided in favor of the negative. After refreshments were served the solemn management was a public meeting will be rendered at the next meeting, interspersed with conversations from each member. The drama. "Thirty Years of Freedom," is progressing nicely under the management of the play before the public June 10 at the German Club hall. Rev. Wade preached the Odd Fellows' sermon in Duluth on the 8th inst. The church was packed to the door. Mr. Jas. Willis is suffering with a severe cold. Rev. and Mrs. Wade and Mr. and Mrs. Fred enjoyed an outing on the St. Louis river and bay last Monday afternoon in a sail boat, in search of fish. They did not catch many fish, they did not catch day and say they will try, try again. Misses Ada Fogg and Beatus Wade attend the at opera house. Wednesday night. MT. PLEASANT. Mrs. J. W. Fldlder and daughters, Maud and Lowe, went to Chicago last week to attend the general conference. A very nice concert was given at Michigan University Baptist Sunday school. The concert was repeated Friday night at the church and was a success in every particular. Mrs. Anna B. Anderson went to Kewaneway Sunday for a few days' visit with her brother. She was accomodated for her youngest daughter, Miss Dorothy. Messrs. Ralph and Claud Burnaugh left Tuesday for Minneapolis, where they will remain for some time. Both will be greatly missed in social circles. Rev. Rose, the African missionary, invited me to give a number of lectures in our city. Sunday was Rally Day at the Baptist church. Three services were held during the day. Rev. Bolling preaching morning and night and Rev. Rose at afternoon service. The rally was a success. Nettle Brown and Cora Howard were elected delegates to the Baptist Sunday school convention. Owing to the absence of Rev. Clark, pastor of the A. M. E. church the pulvinar of the mayday morning by Rev. Cresteness of the W. N., and at night by Rev. Rose. CLINTON. Mrs. Frank Cooper is in Chicago in influence and presence and visiting friends and friends. The stewardess of Bethel A. M. E. church will give an entertainment Friday evening, May 27th. Rev. C. H. Thomas has been appointed as the pastor of the A. M. E. church of this city. He arrived Saturday, preaching his first sermons on Sunday. F. E. McNeil is reported as being connected to his room on account of illness. The Thomas is also considerably indulged. Mr. J. N. Hancock has just installed a new sanitary soda fountain which promises fair to revolutionize the soda fountain with glass containers that has glass soda containers which are so arranged in the syrup chamber that the patrons can at all times see the syrup in the jars. The wall, root cellar and marble making it absolutely sanitary, Mr. Hancock's apparatus is of special design. The entire body is inlaid with rare nuts of light etta and dark Pedura onyx, artistically blended and the marble making it absolutely sanitary, seen in this class of work. Mr. Hancock is one of the most successful caterers in the country, always progressive and enterprising. The Peoria Fountain Co. of Peoria, Ill., are manufacturers of his new soda fountain. HOMESEEKERS RATES On the first and third Tuesdays of each month the Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. sella special housekeepers round trip excursion tickets to points in the Northwest, West, South and Southeast, at one fare plus two dollars. Return limit twenty-one days from date of sale and stopovers permitted. Call on agents for full particulars or address, A.B Cutts, G.P. & T.A., Minneapolis, Minn. VINCINNES. IOWA (Special to the Bystander.) Miss Mamle Lewis is able to attend school after six weeks' illness of typhoid pneumonia. Mrs. Sam Scott is very ill at her home. There are little hopes of her recovery. Mrs. Thomas is on the sick list. Mr. Joseph Gambols has purchased a fine farm. Mr. Gambols owns one of the finest fruit farms about here of the distinction of being among the wealthiest colored farmers of this state. Miss Addle Dandridge of Keokuk spent Friday with her parents, returning home Saturday evening. Messrs. Ed. and Carl Buckner attended the carnival at Keokuk Thursday. Mr. Henry Anderson and sister. Miss Mary, were visitors in Keokuk Saturday. Cats' Well In the south of Ireland, near Inchgelah, is the "Cats' Well," the waters of which are supposed to exert maritime remedial effects upon alling tablies. Less Noise on the Fourth There are many symptoms of a growing desire on the part of adult Americans for a reformed observance of the Fourth. The feeling is quite general that juvenile America has been allowed to exaggerate the explosive features of our great national festival and that something may be better for us than the day in ways that mean move and sound less - New York World Acoux Vacancier After the appointments to the army from the class at Ft. Leewardown here remain ninety-two vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant. Buys Welch Coal The Russian government contracts early for 50,000 tons of Welsh coal to be delivered at Port Arthur before July 1. Impact Loss Hearing The imports in hosiery from England have fallen in ten years from $1,500,000 a year to $200,000. Paper From Cotton Seed. A high grade of paper is now made from cotton seeds. Pension Roll. Five pensioners are on the roll on account of the revolution, 1,116 on account of the war of 1812, 4734 on account of Indian wars, and 13,874 on account of the Mexican war. The great bulk of the roll is as follows: Civil war, invals, 703,456; widows, 248,390; Spanish war, invals, 9,200; widows, 248,290; Spanish war, invals, 9,200; widows, 2,682; regular establishment, invals, 9,170; widows, 2,682. --- Valuable Stamp Collection The most valuable collection of obsolete stamps in the world hangs in the corridor in the Treasury building, near the office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. These stamps were assembled in an artistic manner for the government exhibit at the Centennial Exposition in 1876, and comprise the official issuer token in existence, ranging in value from one cent to $5,000. Real Lavender Perfume The delicate blue lavender may be grown by carefully protecting the plants during the winter, but it quite repays one for the trouble. No wedding-chest is complete without the pale lavender silk bags filled with the gray-blue sprigs whose perfume adds the last touch of romance to a dainty trousseau of face and linen.—Country Life in America. Take Up Homesteads More than 22,834,399 acres of the public lands were turned over to private individuals last year. This means that an area almost equal to that of the state of Indiana has withdrawn more than 20,000 discrete regions of the United States. Most of these newly opened lands were homesteaded by farmers. Not in Love Because She Blushes. You may know if a girl likes you by the way she behaves when you meet her. Don't be taken in by the more fact that she changes color. Girls do that from a thousand different causes, and there is no reason why she should be in love with you merely because she blushes.—Health. The Arab Peny. The Arab is virtually a pony, standing 14.3 hands, oftener under than over. He is not fast, even at the gallop; indeed, he is slow. He is a very poor trotter, both as regards speed and action; a bad back, and cannot walk without continually sticking his toe in the ground. He is totally unattended for harassment, and is uncomfortable able to rode except at the gallop; this is his natural gait, and in its movement is easy, smooth, delightful and easy.-Sporting News. **School Teachers Poorly Paid.** Austria pays less to teachers than is paid in France, and the Parliament has refused to consider the needs of the teachers. The highest salaries in the empire are paid in Bohemia, where, by placing an extra tax on beer, the government raised enough money to teachers. The lowest are paid in the districts which once were under the Turkish government. Emulating Her Father At a recent children's party, given on the Hill, the little people were discussing, during refreshment time, what they intended to "be" when they grew up. One little girl announced that she "expected to marry a handsome man," whereupon her partner straightened up and remarked, "And I shall follow my father's example and be a bachelor."—Brooklyn Life. Butterfly Farm. Yorkshire possesses a farm for the rearing of moths and butterflies. Half an acre of land has been planted with trees and shrubs for the purpose. In 2000, 10,000 preserved insects are kept in reserve, so that butterflies and moths can be supplied irrespective of the time of year. Children Have No Footwear Italian children of the poorer classes can neither hang up their stockings at Christmas nor put their shoes out the window at Twelfth night for the wise men to fill. For when the weather is too cold for them to go barefoot they wear rags bound around their feet for coverings. Belgium Egg Exports Belgium exports annually $6,500,000 worth of eggs. The shipments are almost entirely to England, where the demand is for eggs which run seven and a quarter to the pound. The Mediterranean breeds — Leghorns, Spanish Minocras and Andalusians — are the most popular. Sunday School Enrollment There are within three million of as many persons enrolled in the Sunday schools of this country as in the public schools, there being thirteen million in the former and sixteen million in the latter. The total Sunday school membership throughout the world is twenty-five billion. Split Wood by Machine A machine has been invented which is capable of splitting wood two feet long and eighteen inches thick. It is run by a three horsepower gasoline engine, and consists of a huge knife which works through the knottiest wood at the rate of sixty strokes a minute. Total Output of Books A Brussels expert, M. Paul Otlet, estimates that from the invention of printing, in the middle of the fifteenth century, to January, 1900, 12,163,000 different books have been issued. He estimates that about 100,000 books are now annually issued. Slight Sounds Carried Ear In the Abbey church at St. Albans is a curious echo. The tick of a watch may be heard from one end of the church to the other. In Giontow, the gallery of octagonal form carries a wicker seventy-five feet across the nave. Be Not Rash in Criticism Beware of rash criticisms; the rough and stringent fruits you condemn may be an autumn or winter pear and that which you picked up beneath the same bouch in August may have been only Ea worm-eaten windfalls. — Holmes. Beetles Destroy Trees in Germany. In 1873, in Germany, 1,500,000 trees are said to have been destroyed in the Harz forest alone by two small species of beetles. The larvae burrow beneath the bark and thus cause the injury to the growing trees. Paraguay Cotton. Very favorable results have been had so far with the experimental raising of cotton in Paraguay, namely, a higher yield, a higher fiber and great resistance of the plant. Motor Life Boat The first motor life boat built in France has just been launched at the port of La Rochelle. It is worked by petroleum, and is of twelve horsepower. **Reward for School Children.** The German Emperor has given orders that deserving school children shall in future be rewarded by a copy of his majesty's photograph. **Highest Price for Testament.** A copy of Wylieff's New Testament, is nearly 500 years old, was sold recently in London for $580. Japanese Divorces The proportion of divorces to mar- ringes in Japan is one to four. High Prices for Antiques. Old furniture collectors in this city have lately been driving prices higher and higher. The rage for Chippendale 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 Chippendale chair of rare pattern, though it be out of repair. A collector in this city paid the other $275 for a Chippendale armchair, for less than $200 of lesser pattern, every day for $40, $50 and $100—New York letter. Burlington.....10 Clinton.....10 Davenport.....17 Mt. Pieasant.....17 Ottunwa.....24 Washington.....24-6 Iowa City.....27 Cedar Rapids.....May 1 Muscatine.....12 Keokuk.....7-8 At the General Conference.....9-20 Oskaloosa.....22 Newton.....24 Saylor.....26 Des Moins.....29 Boone.....29 Yankton.....June 13 Sioux City.....5 Albia.....5 Buxton.....12 District Conference.....14-15 Clarinda.....18-19 Bedford.....20 Oseeola.....21 Chariton.....23 Garden Grove.....23 Pt. Madison.....July 3 Dubique.....Indiana..... District Conference and Sunday School Convention at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, June 14, 15, 16 and 17. Subjects for papers and discussion, see Discipline, pages 375, 376 and 377. Bring your Disciplines and well prepared papers on the subjects, etc. Dear Brother—Onward and upward; hold the font and press the word. Fraternity. J. W. 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Sunday: Sunday School 2:30 p.m.; Ewellth League 7 p. m. Sunday; Prayer and Class meeting every Wednesday 8 p. m. O. A. Johnson, pastor, 88 Hth St Maple Street Baptist Church—Situated on E. Maple between Muth and Tenth streets. Preaching 11 a.m. Sunday School 9:00 a.m.; preaching at 4 p. m. Rev. J. O. R. Wimbush, pastor Union Congregational Church—Corner Tenth and Park streets. Preaching 10:45 a.m. Sunday School 12 m.; evening service 7:30 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evenings SECRET ORDERS North Star Lodge, No. 9. A. F. & A. M.-Mot. First Thursdays in each month at Mascot street, H. Gould, W. M. K. J. Hamilton Solomon Commandery, No. 6. Me-Second and Fourth Thursdays in each month at Burdin b. E. C. Gee H. Coggett, Recorder. Neptune Court, No. 3. Me-sches Second Monday, Denny, Matron; Mrs. J. H. Shipard, secretary. Neptune Court, No. 4. Me-sches First Thursday of each month at Mascot bush, Mrs. R. A. Wilburn, matron; Mrs. Georgia Midwife. Lodge, No. 262, G. U. of O. 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PENTUS WANTED - Do you want the agency for one or more of the above Library Free. It is worth $7.25. Only those who take an agency can get a library from $500 to $10.00 a day. We pay big commissions, supply book and book, and also a one-time coupon for $10.00. J. L. NICHOLS & CO., Naperville, Illinois 9 LEWIS A CLARK can craft west of the Missouri river and the result is 18.19 were of tremendous importance to the United never more apparent than now. ting to the Lewis and Clark expedition, just issued Sons New York, stands peculiarly alone. This Sons New York stands peculiarly alone. The author, Mr. Olin D. Wheeler, is the well 4. The popular Wonderland series of the Northern section with which he made his studies and re- vested several thousand miles over the route of has camped out, climbed mountains, followed old remote points made memorable by those explor- ers of the Ritterroot mountains has been followed. Edwards and Clark is illustrated in color and half drawings and traps, by Faxson, LeeCamp, and the Ritterroot mountains have been shown. The writer tells his own story and supplements s of Lewis and Clark, and a most of other his writers that connect the past with the present, photographic reproduction, in half tone, from the RIP'S JOURNALS of Lewis and Clark are given. A he Louisiana purchase, another to the preparatory rains and another to the history of each man of as known, including a discussion of the death of Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, and the entertainment to be held at Portland, Oregon, in 1805 to the time because written from the standpoint of past and present conditions of the old trail and he and Clark" should be found in every public elegant and the general reader will find in reading rge, clear type that truth is, indeed, stranger than dered through any bookseller or news stand or di- 21 THIRD — "Twentieth Century Negro Literature or a Cyclopedia of Thought," written by 100 of America's Greatest Negroes. Edited by Dr. D. W. Coop. Price, $2.60. POUTH — "Golden Thoughts on Chasality and Precreation," by Prof. J. W. Gibson and Dr. W. J. Truitt. Price, $1.50. AGENTS WANTED — Do you want the agency for one or more of the above books? If so you get the Above Library Free. It is worth $7.25. Only those who take an agency can get it free. Agents now in the field are making from $5.00 to $10.00 a day. We pay big commissions, supply books on credit and send Outfit Free. Write for full particu- lary at once. Don't hesitate—we mean what we say. J. L. NICHOLS & CO., Naperville, Illinois book! If so you get the About Library Free. It is worth. Agents now in the field are making $5.00 on credit and $2.00 on free. Write for full participation at once. Don't hesitate to enquire what we mean. THE TRAIL OF LEW was the pioneer American trail west of that exploration of 1810-90 were of trestates and they were never more appear. A publication relating to the Lewis by G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and they were never more appear. Clark, 1804-1904. The author known writer of the popular Pacific Railway, in connection with his searches for this work. A collection of several Lewis and Clark He has camped on Indian trails, and visited remote points. Their were neros the Bitterer identified and imputed the Trails of Lewis and Clark stone from painting, drawings or Russell, made under Mr. Weecker's specially for the purpose. The writer it with pertinent extracts from Lewis's writings and narrative pictures that our Exhibit photographs photographic reprint ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL chapter is devoted to the Louisiana Purchase measures for the exploration, and another the expedition so far as known, including the Louisiana Purchase Exhibit Lewis and Clark Contenntal to be make this work necqually timeably be actual knowledge of past and present counts. The Trail of Lewis and Clark and private library in the land and the through its pages of large, clear type the fiction. The book can be ordered through an ect from the publisher. TRAIL OF LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL OF LEWIS AND CLARK was the pioneer American trail west of the Missouri river and the result of that exploration of 1819 that was immense importance to the United States. A publication relating to the Lewis and Clark expedition, just issued by G. P. Putnam's Sons New York, stands peculiarly alone. This edition is a two volume, 8 yo one, called "The Trail of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1804." The one volume is a Wonderland series of the Northern Pacific Railway, in connection with which he made his studies and researches for this work. Mr. Wheeler has traveled several thousand miles over the route of Lewis and Clark. He has camped out, elibated mountains, followed old Indian trails, and visited remote points made memorable by those explorers. Their name aeros the Bitterroot mountains has been followed. "The Trait of Lewis and Clark" is illustrated in color and half tone from paintings, drawings and maps, by Passon, DeCamp, and Russell, made under Mr. Wheeler's direction, and from photographs taken specially for the purpose. The writer tells his own story and supplements it with pertinent facts, and gives three writers that connect the past with the present. Exact excerpts and photographic reproduction, in half tone, from the ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNALS of Lewis and Clark are given. A chapter is devoted to the Louisiana Purchase, another to the preparatory measures for the exploration, and another to the history of each man of the expedition so far as known, including a discussion of the death of The Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, and the Lewis and Clark Centennial to be held at Portland, Oregon, in 1905 make this work necessarily timely because written from the standpoint of actual knowledge of past and present conditions of the old trail and country. "The Trail of Lewis and Clark" should be found in every public and private library in the land and the general reader will find in reading through its pages of large, clear type that truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction. The book can be ordered through any bookseller or news stand or direct from the publisher. 21 Our Great Special — Complete WORTH FIVE DOLLARS. 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