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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XI, No. 17. 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—sid. Jesse Langford is now driving for Dr. L. D. Bood. Rev. O. A. Johnson spent several days of this week in Oskaloosa. Mr Geo. H. Cleggett has been drawn on the special grand jury venire. Dr. A. G. Edwards who run a nail in his foot one day last week is convalescent. Mr. Thomas McDaniels left Wednesday evening for St. Louis to visit the fair. A number of Des Moines people were in Colfax last week attending the carnival. Men's League, Tenth and Park, will be addressed by Rev. Rosenberger, Sunday, Oct. 2, at 4 p. m. sharp. Rev. F. Lomack who has been away for several months in the interest of his church and old folks home, returned to our city last week looking well. Miss Cordie Brannom who has been visiting her cousin, Mrs. R. N. Hyde, for the past two weeks, returned to her home in Fremont, Neb., Wednesday evening. Messrs. S. Joe Brown, R. N. Hyde and E. T. Banks were speakers at a political rally last Thursday evening at Sayloville. They reported a good meeting and much interest aroused. Mr. John Walker of East Des Moines, one of our old reliable citizens, is building an addition to his home, and when completed he will have a beautiful eight-room modern residence. Mr. C. H. Browning and others have opened a first class billiard hall at 314 West Third street, and the boys now invite their friends to give them a call. They have the nicest billiard hall of color in our city. Mr. H. H. Lewis lost one of his valuable cows last Wednesday morning. A switch engine on the C. R. I. P. R'y, struck her and before it could be stopped she was carried several yards and killed. Miss Mabel Hall of Keokuk arrived in the city yesterday morning for a brief visit. It has been almost a year since Mabel went to the Gate City to live, and her many friends are glad she has returned for a visit. Messrs J. W. Robinson and C. A. Dishman have opened an equal rights barber shop at corner of Fourth and Walnut, where their friends are invited to call. Mr. Robinson is one of our oldest citizens and his many wish him well. JEFFERS RESTAURANT. No. 3 East First St., East of Company Store, When in in Buxton Iowa stop with Jeffers Bros. for good meals or lunch. Good service guaranteed. Mr. Geo. Logan was selected as one of the ushers for the Cannon meeting to-night. R. N. Hyde, E. T. Banks and Jeff Logan are vice presidents of said meeting. Mr. Hyde is one of Capt. Amos Brandt's aides in the parade on horseback. Mr. Alex. Birney returned from St. Louis last Tuesday morning. He went via Chicago and spent several days in that city. He says they have a good exhibit at the fair and the buildings are larger and more space on the grounds than there was at the world's in Chicago, hence it is not so crowded and you can enjoy your visit. The following Afro-Americans are students in the different High Schools of our city: West High—Ethel Stewart Bertha Allen, Lula Vaughn, Ada Hyde, Ethel Boamer, Lewis Watson, Luther Mledsoe, Branham Hyde, and Lewis Strawthers. East High—Earnest Erickson, Stella Wilburn and Bertha Lewis, Capital Park High—Charles Holmes, the later is a member of the foot ball team and is said to be one of the star players. Services at Union Congregational church Sunday, Oct. 2: Morning service; topic, "What is Ment by Religion?" Evening service; topic, "The Barren Fig Tree." David and Jonathan League at 4 p.m. will be addressed by Rev. H. C. Rosenberger, pastor of the Greenwood Congregational church. All men are invited. Meeting for Prayer and Bible study Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. All are invited to attend our meetings REV. H. W. PORTER, Pastor. historical room When in St. Louis visiting the World's Fair stop at Mrs. B. Whitfield for good rooms. Only one block from Union depot. No. 3 South Twenty-first street. Rev. H. W. Porter attended the Grinnell Association at Runnells, Ia., on the 27 and 28 inst. This Association includes forty Congregational churches in the Des Moines district, of which the Union Congregational church is a member. Many topics of interest to the churches and pastors were discussed, and each pastor and delegate returned to their several fields of labor with increased spiritual strength because of their association one with the other. ENTERTAINING FICTION One advantage of reading a serial story in a daily newspaper is that an installment of convenient length is received every day that does not consume an undue amount of the readers time. An installment of a high grade serial story appears in every issue of The Chicago Record-Herald, a popular feature of that enterprising Chicago daily Among the successful stories which have recently been enjoyed by Record-Herald readers are "Soldiers of Fortune," by Richard Harding Davis; "The Thrall of Lief the Lucky," by Otilie Liljencranz; "Tristram of Blent," by Anthony Hope; "When Knighthood was in Flower," by Charles Major; "Alice of Old Vincennes," by Maurice Thompson, and "Graustark," by Geo. B. McCutcheon. Every issue contains also a short illustrated "human interest" story on the editorial page. Readers of The Record-Herald can depend upon a never failing source of pleasant entertainment in the noteworthy fiction that is always to be found in its columns. IOWA'S RICHEST MAN DEAD A. Philanthroist Indeed. Last Monday Mr. James Callanan, of this city, died at his home. He is rated as the richest single individual in Iowa, he is many times a millionaire and one of the plainest and most sympathetic men that lived. It is stated that during the winter time he would hire men to throw feed out on the snow for squirrels and birds, fearing that the snow might cover their natural feed. He has given and founded many institution for the aged and infirm and given to many church and institutions. He is a contributor to the American Museum for the Aged Colored people, and to two colored institutions in Illinois. His wife who died only a few years ago willd $2000 to Booker T. Washington School. He had no children nor immediate heirs. His funeral was held here Thursday and the remains taken to Bethlehem, N. Y. his old home for interment. He has lived in Iowa about fifty years. GREAT GATHERING OF NOTED MEN. The Triennial National Council and Co-operating Societies of the Congregational Churches will Convene in Plymouth Congre- 13th to 20th. The object of this Council is to discuss plans for the extension of Home and Foreign Missions. Seven different societies will be represented at this Council by their most talented men and women. The opening session of the National Council, Thursday after noon, 4:00. Evening 7:30. Address of welcome, Hon. Albert B. Cummins, Governor of the State of Iowa; Rev. Frank W. Hodgdon, pastor of Plymouth church; response by the Moderator elect. Each session will begin daily at 9 a.m. and 7:30 p. m. Among the prominent colored ministers of Southern Congregational churches, the following will be present on the program of the Council: Friday Oct. 14th, forenoon, "The essential elements of a true revival," Rev. H. H. Proctor, Atlanta, Ga., pastor of largest Congregational church in the South; "Higher or advanced education," Prof. W. E. B, DuBois, Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday Oct. 18th, forenoon; afternoon, "Congregational churches in the evangelization of the South," Rev. A. C. Garuer, Washington, D. C.; evening, "Essential elements of christians education," Rev. James Bond, Nashville, DR. A. G. EDWARDS, Physician and Surgeon OFFICE HOURS: 8 to 10 a.m. 20 p.m. 11 to 9 p.m. DWA PHONE 1081 (Office) MUTUAL PHONE 460 Miles' Drug Store Office 818 Park Street. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1904. Tenn.; Wednesday Oct. 19th, "Home life of the colored race," Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala. The entire program is made up of men and women interested in all mankind—the Negro and poor whites in the South, Indians, Alaskians, Chinese, Cubans, Portoricians, and heathens in the isles of the sea. Visit the Council if you would know what and how the work is being advanced. The meetings will be open to all. IOWA CONFERENCE. The Annual Session of the A. M. E. Church Closed Last Week at Galesburg, Ill.—Bishop Shaffer Galesburg, Ill.—(Special)—The annual conference of the Afrikan Methodist Episcopal church concluded a very successful and profitable session last week. It was the first conference since the national conference session. This conference murmured very greatly because the general conference transferred a part of the original territory to Illinois, crusing them to loose about 3,000 followers. Time will not permit us to give a daily report, but suffice it to say that there were some very able papers and addresses from both men and women and a few of the general officers. Below I give some of the transfers: Rev. G. W. Gaines succeeds the late J. W. Malone as peesiding elder of the Iowa district. Rev. Timothy Reeves was transferred to Illinois, also Rev. A J. Carey, who gets Bethel church, Chicago; Rev. James. R. Clemens superannuated; Jas. H. Higgins, A. G. Murray, J. H. Fisher transferred to the Illinois conference, while Geo. H. Slater was awarded the scholarship and goes to Ohio; G. M. Tillman goes to Kansas City conference. Impressive memorial services were held in honor of the late P. E., J. W. Malone. The financial report showed that the conference had raised nearly $4,000 for various purposes. The people here had made it so pleasant that the following resolutions were passed: Whereas, The Rev. S. L. Wright and wife and the people of Knoxville, out of the largeness of their hearts, tendered the society a most pleasing reception; and Whereas, The Rev. J. H. Ferribe and his wife; officers and members of Allen Chapel, have so pleasantly received and so cordially entertained the Iowa conference branch of the M. M. workers, and, Whereas, The homes of the good people of Galesburg have been at our disposal during this annual session, and that not a criticism comes from the host or a complaint from the guests, therefore be it Resolved, That the women of the Iowa conference branch M. M. society, representing every charge in this company, tender the pastor and his good wife, officers and members of Allen Chapel and the people of Galesburg at large our heartfelt thanks for this most cordial reception. The resolutions of thanks passed by the conference were as heartily thankful to the pastor and his wife and the officers and members and all others who had helped make the stay of the delegates here so pleasant and profitable. Following is a complete list of the appointments: Iowa P. E. District: Presiding Elder—Rev G. W. Gaines. Des Moines—Rev H. S. Graves. Keckuk—Rev T. W. Lewis. Davenport—Rev S. A. Clark. Cedar Rapids—Rev C. H. Thomas. Buxton—Rev E. G. Jackson. Clinton—Rev R. H. Williamson. Muscatine—Rev M. I. Gordon. Ottumwa—Rev L. J. Phillips. Burlington—Rev W. W. Williams. Mt. Pleasant—Rev A. T. Clark. Oskaloosa—Rev A. Boyd. Albia—Rev J. D. Peterson. Washington—Rev M. Peyton. Circuits: Clarinda and Bedford—Rev J. L. Wharton. Boone and Taylor—Rev S. L. Best. Newton and Colfax—Rev R. B. Manly. Sioux City—Rev J. Bassfield. Osoeola and Chariton—To be filled. Iowa City—Rev C. Wright. Garden Grove and Indianola—Rev. A. Joplin. Pt. Madison—Rev. J. H. Bell. Yankton, S. D.—To be filled. Council Bluffs—To be filled. Chicago P. E. District. Presiding Elder—Rev. G. C. Booth, D. D. Quinn Chapel, Chicago—To be filled. St. Stephens' Chapel, Chicago—W. S. Brooks, D. D. Wayman Church, Chicago—J. C. Anderson. Rock Island—Chapel, D. W. Brown. Chapel, Avondale—Rev. Jesse Bass. La Grange, Avondale—To be filled. Streator—Rev. A. A. Ford. Princeton and Kewaunee—Rev. E. R. Edwards. Trinity Mission—Rev. R. R. Wright. Knoxville—Rev. Sillas Wright. Oak Park Mission—Rev. George H. Wade. Chicago District Missionary—J. H. Dumby. St. Paul P. E. District: Presiding Elder—Rev. H. H. Thompson. Evanston—Rev. I. N. Daniels. St. Peter's Church, Minnesota. St. James, Minnesota—Rev. D. E. Butler. Milwaukee—Rev. W. H. Jamison. Aurora, Ill.—Rev. G. T. Shaw. Rockford, Ill.—Rev. S. Moore. Elgin, Ill. Rev. G. W. Jones. Duluth, Minn.—Rev. J. B. Pope. Madison, Wis.—Rev. W. H. Cato Lake Forest, Minn.--Rev. C. R. Goggins Glencoe—Rev. J. W. Dowden. Racine—Rev. Brewer. Superior—To be filled St. Paul Mission and Hastings—J. W. King. Beloit and Delvim—T. V. Stovall. Green Bay, Wis.—Rev. Carter. Life in the South. To the editor of the Columbia, South Carolina, State: Appreciating the sturdy efforts you have put forth to foster and maintain in Columbia a political purity and moral uprightness, and earnestly desiring the highest measure of prosperity for the home of my youth, I take the liberty of writing to you in reference to a most revolting and disgraceful scene which occurred at the depot in Florence on Monday evening. The troops from Manassas on their way home were detained here for a short time. While the company from this vicinity was leaving the cars, some men from another company, which later went through, amused themselves by tossing negroes in blankets. They were none too particular in handling these creatures of their sport and did not always get the full consent of the individual to be tossed. One eye-witness informed me that when one negro refused to ce tossed the crowd of soldiers most brutally assaulted him and beat him, "pounding his face to a jelly," as my informant expressed it. I asked why the officers did not interfere, and my informant replied that the commanding officer officer of the company was standing by and seemed to approve of the deed. In not stopping it he was to all intents and purposes aiding and abetting. I was furthermore informed by this gentleman that he had learned that the perpetrators of this outrage were members of one of the Columbia companies—the Governor's Guards! I sincerely trust for the honor of my native city and the fair name of that ancient and honorable company that he was misinformed as to the company. The outrage certainly occurred. It should be looked into by the proper officials and the offenders when convicted should be drummed out as vicious cowards. How can we expect the negro to be contented, law-abiding and peaceful with such an example of brutality and lawlessness set before him? Yours for honor, justice and law. MELTON CLARK, Pastor Presbyterian church. Florence, S. C., Sept. 13, 1904. MUTUAL PHONES ROOM 388, 390, 392 Office 1917 GOOD BLOCK Residence 958 Des Molnes, 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. COLONIST LOW ONE-WAY SECOND CLASS RATES To California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah. Via the North-Western Line, will be in effect from all stations daily until October 15, inclusive. Stop-overs and interesting side trips. Fast trains through to the PacificCoast daily, with tourist sleeping cars and free reclining chair cars. Personally conducted excursions. For tickets and full information apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R'y. Subscribe for the Bystander. SIOUX CITY ITEMS The ladies of Mt. Zion Baptist church will hold a fair beginning with the first week in Ooopber. The Silver Leaf club will meet with Mrs M. J. Burton Tuesday evening. The Sewing Circle of the Mt Zion Baptist church gave a fish fry last Thursday evening at the residence of Mrs. Judy Ann Askew at Dorman Station river side. Born to Mr. und Mrs. David Shores, Sept. 19, a son. Mother and baby doing nicely. Mrs. Myrtle Morgan spent a few days last week in Omaha, Neb., the guest of Mrs. Work if. Mr. and Mrs. Henrs Jewell was accompanied home by their stepdaughter, Phyllis who will make her home with them. Mrs. Sadie Norris was removed from the hospital last week to her home on 1002 W. Seventh street. She is getting along nicely, which is encouraging naws to her many friends. Rev. E. G. Jackson, former pastor of the A. M. E. church, filled the pupit both morning and evening Sunday. Mr. Joseph Baker gave a stag party last Tuesday evening at Simon hall to a number of his friends. They had a jolly good time up into a late hour. They all joined in saying, "boys we must come to gatere often." Mr. Chas. Murry and brother returned home from Galesburg, where they went to dispose of some property which was left them by their father. Mrs. James Washingto went to Omaha Saturday to spend Sunday, returning home Monday. Rev. E. G. Jackson is in our city getting his things an readiness to be removed to Buxton, Iowa, where he has been appointed for the ensuing year. We regret very much his leaving us; may his new field of labor be prosperous in God's name Mrs. Fannie Smith has been quite sick the past week with the typhoid malaria. The new appointed pastor for the A. M. E. church has not arrived in our city up to this time of writing, but we hope he will put in his appearance by Sunday. GALESBURG (ILL) RIPLETS The conference was a very pleasant on in every respect. A number of visitors as well as preachers and general officers were present. One thing sure, there are fewer chickens in this city. Mrs. Shafer, the Bishop's wife, was present, which was a very pleasing feature to the Missionary ladies. Mesdames N. Fertibee, M. C. Malone and Shafer received tokens of esteem from the Missionary society. The society did not come up to the financial standing of last year, but they hope to do better work in 1905. The A. L. C.'s were more than pleased to have so many of their members who have moved away to other cities present at one time. Their names are as follows: Mrs Crummer gave a lovely reception from 2 to 4 last Wednesday afternoon. E. J. McGruder anttertained the visiting A. L. C's Tuesday evening. Mrs A. Davis received many of the visitors at her home on North-west street, Friday. Miss Johnson, sister of Mrs. Worthington, of Indianapolis, in company with Miss Pass-More are visitors here. Mrs. Lewis who has been visiting Mrs. Ferribee returned to Chicago Monday. They all left feeling they had a good and glorious time, and Galesburg standing at the head of the best, feels she has done her part and did it well. ALBIA NEWS Mr. John Carly of Des Moines and his daughter, Mrs. Violo Hill of Buxton, spont Sunday in Albia. The pastor of the A. M. E. church for this year is Rev. J. D. Peterson. The twin Resse Bros. gave a show on the street Wednesday evening. They have been spending several days of this week in Albia. Those in attendance at the celebration at Hocking from Albia were Mesdames Butler, Anna Jones, Anne Davis, A. Heed and a few others. Quite a number came through Albia from Buxton going over. There were quite a number of strangers in town over Sunday. KEOKUK NOTES. Medamesa, Henry Tebeau, J. E. Craig, Misses Garnet and Crystal Teebau left Wednesday for a 10 days visit to the World's Fair city. Mrs. Hampton Woodard is better at this writing, after being sick about a week. Mr. Jacob Bentham who has been sick at his home for the past six months with dropsy, is no better. Mrs. Leon Bland and children, Ruth and French, have returned home from a seven visits visit to the World's Fair city. Mr. B. L. Anderson has been solicited for several addresses for this district during the coming campaign, and has accepted the invitation. Miss Jessie Former is expected home from Peoria the last of the week, where she has been visiting a sister who is ill. Mrs. Martha Walker, wife of Thomas Water the barber, died at her home of drops. Funeral services will be held at St. Mary's Church. CLARINDA ITEMS. Rev. Bates has gone to Hosking, Iowa. There is quite a great deal of sickness in our little city. Mother Campbell is very sich. Her daughter of Des Moines has been called by her bed-side. The weather is fine. Farmers are busy with their late haying. The sale at T. J. Jones was a success indeed. He realized the neat sum of $500 Glad to say that Rev. Wharton is to be with us another year. The members of the Second Baptist church have improved the looks of the building by painting the exterior and papering the interior. A surprise party was given Monday night at the residence of Mrs. M. O. Knight, in honor of her daughter, Mrs. R. Williams of New York City. A three course luncheon was served. At a late hour all departed, having had a good time and hoping that this would not be the last time. Miss Judy Nash is sick with a severe cold and lung trouble. Mathew Kelley and Art Brown, two of our poultryhouse boys, have gone to Coin, Iowa to work in poultryhouse. We miss them very much. The Sewing Circle meets at Miss Pearl Johnson's next Friday at 3 p. m. we wonder why one of our young ladies seems so lone: Cheer up, he'll come back. Mrs. Hattie Drake will leave in a few days for K. C. to visit her sister. From there she will go to St. Louis to visit the Fair and perhaps a few eastern poilots. CEDAR RAPIDS Miss Romelia Boney is visiting relatives in Edwardsville, Ill. The leap year party given at the home of Mrs. F. Perkins Thursday evening in Edwardsville Miss Lizie Cooper and Oddie Shissler was proponed a social success. Rev. Mrs. A. Ford was the guest of her sister. Mrs. Wood for a few days this week. Mr. S. L. Terry and son, Master Roy, have returned from a visit to the parental home in Boone. The child who was taken dangerously ill last week, is much improved at present. Mrs. Ed. Marshall is able to be out again after a slight indisposition. Elder Clemens and daughter, Pearl, left last week en route for California, taking with him the fervent prayers and hopes of his friends for his ultimate recovery and return to the ministerial work, where he has spent so many years of valuable service. His work in Cedar Rapids speaks openly for itself and will forever be remembered and appreciated by his many friends, white and colored. Mrs. F. Hawkins, Mrs. N. H. Milligan, Mr. Fred and Miss Hettie Perkins have returned from a pleasant trip to Galesburg. Rev. C. H. Thomas, Cedar Rapids' newly appointed pastor, filled the pulpit morning and evening Sunday, favorably impressing the congregation, and much regret was expressed when it was learned that he had been ordeed back to Clinton for the year. Mrs. Mary Joyce of Minneapolis is the queen of her sister, Mrs. W. H. Bassberry. Mrs. Emma Green of Tipton is a visitor in the city. A false rumor has been circulated that Mrs. S. L. Terry danced at the Odd Fellows' hall a few weeks ago. Mrs. Terry wishes this report corrected. One hundred and twenty-five invitations announced the 25th anniversary which was celebrated Monday evening by Mr. ad Wes, M. W. H. Raspberry at their home. They could not have appeared happier twenty-five years ago as they marched into the parlor to a beautiful march attended by y Mrs. Joyce as maid of honor. After an impressive address and prayer by Rev. R. Holly, Mr. and Mrs. Raspberry received the congratulations of their many friends. Lunch and refreshments ween then served in three courses. Mrs. Moore of Brooklyn attended the anniversary Monday evening. Mrs. Wes is way卵卵 kindly inform Mr. Mitchell whether marriage licenses must be purchased or are given away. J* is very anxious about the subject but is still in the dark. BURLINGTON NEWS Mr. and Mrs. H. Slaughter, formerly of Springfield, Ill., are again residents of Burlington. Mesdames Matilda Johnson and Grace M. Allen depart Monday for a visit at the World's Fair. Messrs. G. Cowden and M. Drake entertained with a dancing party last Friday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Smith of Kansas City. Mr. Bert Johnson visited in Monmouth last Thursday. Mr. A. Hedge has accepted a position as night mixer at Fate Martin's Equal Rights cafe. All of his friends are glad to see his handsome, smiling face at his old position. J. W. ROBINSON C. A. DISHMAN ROBINSON & DISHMAN Barbers. FIRST CLASS SERVICE The only Union Equal Rights Barber Shop in the City..... Southeast cor. Fourth and Walnut Price, Five Cents. Burlington's correspondent was a Mt. Pleasant visitor last Sunday, and while there had the pleasure of being invited by two of that city's society belles to take a drive to Salem, a small town nine miles south of Mt. Pleasant. When about five miles away from Mt. Pleasant the ladies lost their way, and instead of taking the right road to Salem the ladies drove into a small road which led and stopped in the famous Skunk river. The ladies seeing they were on the wrong road suggested turning back, which they did, and started to take a roundabout road and returning to Mt. Pleasant from the west instead of the south, after driving miles they lost the road again. Dusk began to steal upon us, and a blank look was depicted on both of their fair countenances. The corpse being a stranger and not knowing where he was, they were trying to go, suggested turning back and returning the same road they came. The correspondent then took it upon himself for the first time to drive and in an hour or so had the ladies in sight of their homes, but not before the ladies had threatened to get out and walk, saving that he was on the wrong road. But when they came in sight of Mt. Pleasant their eyes filled with tears and they sang "Home, Sweet Home," as it had never been sang before. They even admired the animals along the road, such as sorrel and bay cows, etc. The correspondent certainly enjoyed the ride to Salem with Rose and Myra, but hope the next time they won" get lost. EASTERN USES OF PAPER. Japanese Would Find It Hard to Get Along Without It. The Japanese use paper at every moment. The string with which a deth-handed "darling of the gods" does up the articles you buy is made of paper. The handierchief (throw away after use) is paper, the partitions dividing the houses are paper; and the pane through which an indirect eye looks at you is paper! The pane is certainly wanting in transparency, but there is a simple remedy. One finger is passed through the paper—that is all! Afterward a small piece is stuck on the opening with a grain of rice. The men's hats, the cloak of the porter who carries his burden, singing a cadence, through the rain; the garment of the boatman who conducts you on board, the tobacco pouch, cigar case—all are paper! Those elegant flowers ornamenting the beautiful ha of the Japanese ladies, and the robe collars which are taken for cray—paper! NO CAUSE FOR GRATITUDE And Sturdy Scotchman Gave No L Service to His Maker. The following example of a quaint philosophical Scotch character is related in the Scottish American: The season had been an exceptionally bad one for farming, but in a church not far from Arboreth the officials had resolved, according to custom, to hold the annual harvest thanksgiving service. It was noticed that on that particular occasion Mr. Johnstone, a regular attendant and pillar of the church (whose crops had miserably failed), was not in attendance. The minister in the course of the following week met Mr. Johnstone and inquired of him the reason of his absence from church on such an important occasion "Weel, srl," replied Mr. Johnstone, "I dnain care about approachin' my Maker in a speorit o' sarcasm." Ambassador Bearded Czar Sir Jerome Bowes, Queen Elizabeth's ambassador to Ivan the Terrible, czar of Russia, in 1583, had an exciting time. Ivan had killed his own son a few years earlier in a fit of passion, and was no easy character to deal with. The czar saw fit to disparage the English queen, whom, he declared, "he did not reckon to be his fellow," there being those who wore her betters. Bowes could not stand this sort of thing, and pluckly asserted that his princess was as great as any in Christendom. "What! As great as the emperor of Germany?" demanded Ivan. "Why," answered Bowes, with a fine assumption of scorn, "such is the greatness of the queen, my mistress, that the king her father had not long since the emperor in his pay in his wars against France." The czar was at first more furious than ever, but in time he took Bowes into his favor. Old Hymns. There's lots of music in 'em—the hymns of long ago. And 'em's gray hated brother singing the ones I used to know. I sorter want to take a hand! I think of days gone by. "On the army hanks I stand and cast a wistful eye!" There's a lot of music in 'em—those dear, sweet hymns of old. With visions bright of land of light, and shining streets of gold; And I saw shinging-hands, where memry dreamed-hands. "From Greenland's key mountains to India's coral strands." An 'n' I love the old hymns, and when my time shall come. Before the light has left me, and my shinging-hands. If I can hear 'em sing them then I pass without a sigh. To 'Cannan's fair and happy land, where my possessions lie. —The Cooking Club. Measuring a Wink. How fast can a man wink? One who is interested in this fascinating subject has made experiments in connection with it, and successfully measured the time occupied by the several phases of the movement. He says: "The mean duration of the descent of the lid is seventy-five to ninety-one thousandths of a second. The interval while the eye is shut was in one case only fifteen hundredths of a second. The rising of the lid occupied seventeen hundredths of a second. A specially-arranged photographic apparatus was used for the experiment." ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Canadian authorities say that the best immigrants that come to the country are Norwegians and Sweden. During the last five years and a half the Standard Oil company has paid dividends amounting to $10,000,000,000 in a total of $100,000,000. There is quite a color scheme involved in the attempt of Russia to get her fleet out of the Black Sea, through the Red, and into the Yellow—Toledo Times. A translation of "The Pilgrim's Program" is popular in China. Some of the pictures show Christian with the face and garb of a Chinaman, with a shaved head and a pigtail. A guillotine has just been erected in the market place at Gothenburg, Switzerland. It is intended for a laudable purpose, and will be used to decapitate ducks and chickens. Japanese ladies sometimes have the floors of their bourboards, underneath the main, by means of the boards of the heads when trodden upon sounds something like the chirping of birds are emitted. Automobiles on runners have been conceived by a French machinist, to be used on snow-covered roads. The machine will rest on four runners, two in front, to be used for steering and wheels connected with the blind runners will keep the runners in motion. Maintin vapor is constantly arising from the sea, and in the course of a year this amounts to a layer of water fourteen feet thick. This mass of moisture is borne to the clouds, and the winds drift a large part of it over on which it descends in rain or snow. A quaint little fish haunts the weed tracts of the Gulf Stream, and there builds its nest and lays its eggs like a bird rather than a fish. This animal—the antennarius—imitates the weed it lives in, and, like cameloleon, constantly changes its color. Automobile testing parties are popular in England. The camping outits carried in the vehicle and when night comes on the riders seek a favorable ground and erect the tent, do their own cooking, and good prepare the rest, rest, and prepare their fourney in the morning. A company has been organized in London for the procuring of wealthy brides for impoverished aristocrats. A percentage on the estimated wealth of the bride is the fee for this work, and the fee is the week after the marriage takes place. The antiquity of Chinese civilization may be inferred from the fact that at the present day there are in circulation coins which were minted three hundred years before the Christian era, who reignled in those days. Bohemia is the country of long courtships. In no other part of the world are they so abnormally drawn out. It is not rare to hear of engagements which have extended from fifteen to twenty years. An old man who was a member of ninety-nine, who had been courting a sweetheart for sixty-two years, An unfortunate husband in Ohio, whose wife occasionally, forgets women dignity, and gets fuddled, sent the following advertisement to the paper of his town: "I hereby give my wife a chance to meet friends, that my wife ran away and stole money from the house, last Thursday. If she don't return in twenty-four hours I call us parted." A surgeon in the British army notified that when a wounded soldier was taken to within an easy hearing distance of music, hemorrhage was greatly reduced or stopped. It is believed that the music causes the patient to become faint, in which case the action of the heart is so considerably sensed that the overflow is reduced. Lesson For Women. Jersey Shore, Pa. Sept. 26 (Special) —"Dodd's Kidney Pills have done worlds of good for me." Thats what Mrs. C. B. Earnest of this place has to say of the Great American Kidney Remedy. 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An Eastern magistrate says drunkenness is a disease. An occasional fine, is not a bad remedy against a return of the malady. From the number of exciting adventures he has one would think J. Pierpont Morgan was about to go on the raudewille stage. A St. Louis newspaper reporter left an estate of $79,944, but then he was a newsboy for some years before he became a reporter. The death of "Monsieur de Paris" is a reminder that in France capital punishment still means the dexterous removal of the caput. A St. Louis man paid a clair-voyant $1,000 to locate a buried treasure for him. As usual, the clair-voyant now has all the treasure in sight. If the smart set in Newport gets to quarrelvery too bitterly it ought to be able to find a basis for compromise in another monkey dinner. Arizona will not permit prize fights, but there is probably no objection to gentlemen still settling their little difficulties with a good pair of guns. It must puzzle Abbu Hamid to understand why he is spoken as of the unspeakable Turk* when no one talks about the unspeakable King Leopold. If the Newport women keep on losing diamonds they might store them and wear the receipt with the cost price of the jewels written across its face. Times change, and we change with them. A man who paid $24 for a Panama hat three years ago says that he is going to use it for a hen's nest this winter. The police say that the women's fashion of carrying handbags is responsible for the many hold-ups. As in the days of Adam—the woman is to blame. The newest wrinkle in golf is to put a drop of the oil of rhodium on the ball. When the ball is lost you turn a dog loose, and the animal finds it. Great idea. The English have made a treaty at Lhasa. The British lion and the Thibetan lamb will now lie down together, in what relative positions no one needs to be told. Workmen rebuilding Baltimore found a lot of wheat still burning on one of the wharves. And the "allout" signal was sounded more than two months ago! It was distressing that Mme. Melba was "overcome" after running over and killing a man with her automobile in Paris. The French peasants should be more careful. The diving fly machine either won't dye or won't steer or won't do either. Persons holding railway securities may consider them a reasonably permanent investment. The cabled intelligence from Europe that "drought blights Bohemia" is in the nature of a crusism. A prolonged drought would drive Bohemia to suicide—or water. Dun's report says that "retail trade in fall lines of dry goods, clothing, millinery and nearly all wearing apparel shows a healthy growth," and this, O married man, is what it calls "prosperity!" It is said that the cruiser Milwaukee, launched at San Francisco, "took to the water gracefully," but considering the name of the vessel we shall require confirmatory evidence before believing it. Search the average married man's vest pockets and you will find from ten to thirty recipes clipped from the cooking columns of the papers. Possibly they cut out the recipes so their wives will not see them and try to follow them. A speaker before the International Geographical Congress has been urging plainer weather reports. He has missed his cue. What most people want is an absolutely accurate prediction of the weather in their own front yard—about a month in advance. A Jersey City 9-year-old boy, arrested for throwing potatoes at pedestrians and breaking a window, was sentenced by the judge to be taken to the public bathhouse and washed. Doesn't New Jersey have a law against cruel and unusual punishments? A farmer in the Minnesota state fair extinguishes an incident fire by throwing a bucketful of pink lemonade upon it. Never poke fun at the pink lemonade of commerce after this it has its uses. Wife's Letter Turned the Tide of Trial—City Turns Out to Congratulate the Young Man Upon His Acquittal of Awful Charge. Grundy Center, Sept. 30.—W. H. Sifler, the young man who has been on trial in the district court of this county for the past week, charged with the poisoning of his wife, was acquitted by the jury yesterday afternoon, after a deliberation of two hours. The verdict was received with great joy by the people of both Grundy Center and Eldora, where the young man is well known. His defenses on the case had its greatest stress on the fact that the young woman had committed suicide, and had not come to her end at the hands of her husband, for the reason that there was not the slightest motive shown by the prosecution for murder. The fact that the young couple had lived together in the greatest of harmony, and without any quarrel, that they could have been no reason for the deed on the part of the husband. The letter produced by the defenses, wherein the wife had informed her husband of her awful intent, was one of the things upon which the defense based its work. The prosecution essayed to prove that the letter was a forgery, but proof to the contrary was brought, and the young man secured his freedom as a result. A great demonstration was held on the result of the jury's deliberations was announced, and Mr. Silfer was given a reception long to be remembered. He has always borne a good reputation in this city, and his acquittal is received with the greatest joy. COAL FOUND NEAR HEDRICK. Prospector Locates Two Large Veins in Paying Quantities Hedrick, Sept. 29—Lamont Wilson, a coal miner from Ottumwa, while prospecting about four miles directly south of this place, discovered two large veins of coal, which he claims can be mined in paying quantities. The largest vein is a seven foot oak and a ten foot pine, and the feet very close together, and near the Muscatine cutoff recently built by the C. M. & St. P. railroad. It seems that about ten years ago Wilson found that there was coal there, and has been trying since then to lease the land and work the mine, but he was unable to do so until yesterday, when he succeeded in making terms with the owner, and has moved to this place and will begin work this week. Although the project seems as yet to be experimental, and the general opinion of the older settlers is disfavoring it. M. Wilson is his belief that it is a paying mine, and is setting up his machine with the intention of furnishing coal to this part of the state. MANY PRELATES PRESENT. Third General Eucharistic Conferences in New York New York, Sept. 28.—No event in the history of the Roman Catholic church in the United States has ever brought together so many priests, prelates and members of the hierarchy of the Catholic congress, which was opened yesterday with a solemn pontifical mass at St Patrick's cathedral. The first business session of the congress was held during the afternoon in the cathedral hall. Bishop Maes presided with Archbishops Far and Elder ochepying seats of honor. Archbishop Farley said that the encey¹ of 1902 by Leo XII might be considered the last will of the pontiff, because in it he expressed himself as about to close his earthly career. The men brought closer to the blessed sacrament. He also told of the feelings of affection expressed by Pope Plus X when he learned that the third eucharistic congress was to be held in this city, and his response to the rejection of the sending of the apostolic brief read at the opening of the services. At the suggestion of Archbishop Parley, the archbishops, bishops, monsignors and clergy united in sending following bearing the signature of the archbishop of New York, was born June 26, 1822. "The third ecclesiastic congress of the United States assembled in the cathedral of New York, thanks to the holy father, Pope Pius X, most cordially for the parental love and blessing contained in his official brief and salutes him with filial love and loyalty." Charles W. Irish is Dead. Iowa City, Ia., Sept. 29. — A telegram from Gold Creek, New, announces the death of Archbishop Parley of Iowa City, Mr. Irish was formerly United States surveyor general and surveyed Iowa and other western states for pioneer railroads. ROCK ISLAND CLOSES SHOP. Management Says The Move is One of Economy. Chicago, Sept. 28.—The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. yesterday practically closed down its cars and locomotive shops here. One car was thrown out of work. The entire idleness came unexpectedly. The union boilermakers employed in the shops had made demands for higher wages a few days before the shut-down came. The interventor of Motive Power Reed, however, denied that the shut-down was in any way attributable to the demands of organized labor. "The move is for economy in operating," said the railroad official. "The company will be done for the present at shops at Moline, Ill." Slox City, Ia., Sept. 30 — A love priest, sent by Mother Drexel, a millionaire nun of Philadelphia, to reclaim the Winnebago Indians of Nebraska from the degradation and debauchery which has been rapidly devouring them, has won a complete victory. The Nebraska government gang of graffers ever looted shamelessly. Father Joseph Schell of Homer, Neb., has accomplished this. As a result of his triumph the gang that has been robbing the Winnebagoes of from $200,000 to $250,000 annually for twenty years has been thoroughly broken up. The gang ordered never to show their faces again on the reservation. One hundred and twenty thousand dollars in usurious notes secured by the graffers from the Indians are not worth the paper they are written on. Mother Schell's appreciation of Father Schell's work will build schools on the reservation. HEAVY FIRE LOSS. Lightning Causes a Big Blaze at Keo kuk Keokuk, Ia. Sept. 28. —The large brick wholesale warehouse of the Collels-Heaslip Carp Company, the largest in the state in that line, with the valuable contents of carpets, and house furnishings, now lies a heap of ruins. During a heavy rain and thunder storm yesterday morning, the building was struck by lightning, and its destruction soon followed. The firemen fought, aided by a downpour of rain, but the odds were against the fire had the beaten down before it was given. It is estimated that the loss on building and stock is $200,000; insurance, $175,000. ABUSIVE LETTERS TO ROOSEVELT Edward Dahlheimer Under Arrest at Fort Dodge Fort Dodge, Sept. 23. —A man giving the name of Edward Dahlheimer was arrested by Deputy United States Marshal Gustafson and brought to this city yesterday afternoon, after a hearing before Commissioner Rogers at Clarion. The prisoner is charged with writing and sending objectionable letters to President Roosevelt and Helen Gould. It is alleged that he mailed the letters in South Dakota, but was not apprehended until he reached Emmetsburg, Iowa. The court threatens his life unless certain reforms are speedily put into practice. The letter is filled with denunciation of his administration. The letter to Miss Gould proposes marriage and suggests that she send a thousand dollars. The letter to Miss Roosevelt is not made public. Hilleimer was brought before the board of commissioners of insanity at Emmetsburg, but they failed to find him insane. It is claimed that the prisoner also wrote to J. L. Hill asking him to intercede at Washington to have the prisoner sent to the courts as mediums of exchange, offering an interest in a diamond mine in the Bed Lands if he succeeded. A transfer will be made for the detainee. Da Silva held the Sioux Falls authorities for trial. THREE CHILDREN BURNED. Midnight Fire Destroys A Farm House. Iowa Falls, Sept. 28.—The home of Charles Bird, near Robertson, this county, was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning and three children were cremated in their beds. The origin of the fire is unknown. Mr. Bird was badly injured, but was awakened on his own life. The family consisted of five children, the names of the dead being Ruth, Edith and Ernest. REFUSE PREACHER A LICENSE. Methodist Conference Bars Rev. Frank Ewing. Atlantic, Sept. 28. — The last hour of the meeting the Methodist conference was spent in a heated debate concerning the advisability of renewing the ministerial certificate of Frank Ewing. The certificate was revoked some years ago and since that time Ewing has been in Kansas and it is said to have reformed. Dr. Emory Lester and Dr. W. S. Hooker against the granting of the renewal. The vote was overwhelming against him. FACES UGLY CHARGE Rev. L. A. Criticises of New Sharon Arrested Here Des Moines, Sept. 29—From a boarding house on W. Second and Commercial streets, where they have been staying for the past month, Rev. A. L. Critchloe of New Sharon and Mrs. M. F. Merrick of New Fremont, were taken by Sheriff Valentine of Oskaloosa and officer Breeding of the Des Moines police department on the strength of information sworn to by Mrs. Critchloe that her husband had been taken to his home and family and was guilty of adultery. As soon as they were arrested the minister and his companion were taken to Oskaloosa, where they faced the police. At Oskaloosa Rite, Critchloe and Mrs. Merrick were arrested before Justice Critchloe, charged with adultery. They pleaded not guilty and their trial was set for Monday. Their bonds were fixed at $500 each. FAYETTE COUNTY NOMINATIONS. Republicans Name Their Candidates on the Five County Office for the Five County Offices. West Union, Ia. Sept. 29.—The republican county convention nominated the following ticket: For auditor, J. L. Seallon; for recorder, W. W. Peek; for clerk, Winston; for judge, R. G. Jones; for member of the board of supervisors, J. H. Ross. There was considerable rivalry for all the places except those of auditor and recorder, but in the convention the greatest contest developed between Ross and Hon. J. K. Montgomery, ex-member of the legislature, for the supervisorship. Two Occupy Same Grave. Vinton, Ia., Sept. 29—Buried in the same grave. What is is what is being said here of Alexander Goracle and Catherine Goracle, two very aged people, residents of this place, who were evening and early Tuesday morning. They but highly respectable people have been residents here for many years. PRISONERS GAIN THEIR FREEDOM POUND SHERIFF OVER HEAD bloodhounds Are Put On the Trail— Entire Town is Aroused and is Prosecuting a Vigorous Search for the Jail Birds. Pairfield, Ia., Sept. 29.—Two men, giving their names as Ed and Charles Peterson, and claiming to be brothers, confined in the Jefferson county jail on the charge of breaking and entering, overpowered Sheriff John Wright at 8:30 oclock yesterday evening and gained their place for brief time, in some unaccountable manner, they had obtained possession of an iron bar, and as the sheriff entered the cell after the conclusion of their evening meal to remove the dishes, they pounced upon him and pounded him severely with the bar, rendering him unconscious for brief time. In the outer lock, they made their escape in the darkness. Upon regaining consciousness, the sheriff called loudly for assistance, and his cries were heard. Blood-hounds were at once put on the trail of the jalibirds, and it is believed they will be captured. On the night of September 5, the hardware store of Fulton and Grove was burglized and about $40 worth of cutlery and other goods stolen. The burglaries were traced to Powers Mo. and Robert F. Fountain. On being back to Fairfield on September 8, they gave their names as Ed and Charles Patterson, claimed to be brothers and confessed the crime District court is now in session and their trial was to have been held this It is the general opinion that the men gave festitious names and that they are not brothers. They are young men apparently about twenty-five and twenties-even years of age who have had dark compulsions. They were entire strangers in Fairfield and had never before been seen here until two days preceding the burglary. SMALLPOX MORE DANGEROUS. Dr. Kennedy Advises Strict Observance of Quarantine Law Des Moines, Sept. 29. "Smallpox can no longer be regarded with indifference by the people of this state," says Dr. F. J. Kennedy, secretary of the state board of health. "While the number of cases is insignificant as compared with the widespread outpouring of smallpox now exists in a much more malignant type and fatalities are numerous. "Polk county alone has witnessed several deaths within the past few months. Two deaths occurred in a family near Mitchellville recently and five or six, or something like that, occurred in the detention hospital of this city within a few months past. "I am informed that not a solitary case exists in Des Moines at present, and if this is true I am very much pleased, but smallipox still exists in numerous localities throughout the state and was never prevalent in such dangerous form. When it was so common two years ago the quarantine regulations were hard to enforce. The public observed that those ill and never seriously ill can be viewed as harmless. They refused to look upon it as real smallipox and preferred to call it Cuban itch and various other names that are applied to unimportant ailments. Under existing conditions, however, the quarantine regulations are much more easily enforced and it is to be hoped that it will be possible to stamp out the disease in a short time. "Certain it is that the contagion is no longer to be laughed at and that it is not to be hardened to be mighty careful to keep away the smallipox and to see to it that quarantine regulations are strictly observed." FILIPINCS ENTER AMES Additional Students Join Little Colony at Agricultural College. college. Ames, Ia., Sept. 28 — Moss saysay and Lein Iones, two students from the Phillipine islands, have just classified at the Iowa State college in the civil and mechanical engineering courses. Ames seems to be making a record for students from abroad and making students besides bides Boza Khluswka, the countess, a student from the Argentine republic and one from Chile. NEARLY AS BAD AS WAR. Sophmores, Juniors and Freshmen in Class Scrap Indiana, Ia., Sept. 29.—As the result of one of the most desperate class scraps in the history of Simpson college sources of students are going to be forced to take many of their anatomies in bandages, many of them requiring crutches to assist in locomotion. Others are so seriously indisposed as to prefer the exclusion of their own rooms. The faculty is considering what action had been taken to prevent emergence and it is conceded that some doses of discipline will be meted out. PRESS WOMEN ARE TO MEET Fall Gathering of Iowa Association Has Been Called. Cedar Falls, Sept. 27.—The fall meeting of the Iowa Woman's Press association has been called to meet in this city on Monday and Tuesday, October 3 and 4, with Mrs. D. N. Hurd. The regular business session of the club will be held on Monday afternoon. Monday evening at the home of Mrs. H. H. Clay. On Tuesday morning the wives will attend chapel exercises in the normal. Mrs. P. C. Eastman will give a luncheon Tuesday noon. Blach Hawk county has almost six hundred miles of telephone wires stretched over its surface for the use of twelve different companies. The lines extend to every corner of the county. GEO. F. HOAR'S LIFE GOES OUT His Prolonged Illness Ends in a Quiet Death. THE END CAME PEACEFULLY Family Gather at Bedside of Dying Statesman—End Came After Long, Fruitless Attempt to Restore Rapidly Failing Strength. Worchester, Mass., Sept. 30.—Geo. Frisbie Hoar, senior United States senator from Massachusetts, died at his home in this city at 1:35 o'clock this morning. The attending physician despaired of the senator's late six weeks ago, but such was the vitality exhibited by their distinguished patient that even they were surprised and the public was at times led to cherish a faith in an unfulfilled recovery. On Sunday last, however, all hope was abandoned after a last unsuccessful attempt to administer medicine and nourishment. Brief lucid intervals were followed by longer durations of unconsciousness until Tuesday morning, when a state of unconsciousness from which all efforts to arouse him were trivial. End Peaceful. During the last hours there was not a movement of the body and only a scarcely perceptible pulse evidenced the final struggle. There were present at the bedside when death came, the senator's son, General Robert Hoor, his daughter, Mary Hoar, and Dr. Warren R. Gillman, who for weeks had been in almost constant attendance upon the senator. Intelligence of Senator Hoor's death was first communicated by telephone from the residence to the press by Dr. Gillman. Immediately after a preserange signal was transmitted on the fire alarm system and the long dreadful sounds were conveyed to the people of the city by the coming church pells. Arrangements were made to notify the public in this manner when the physician attending him decided that the venerable legislator was on his death bed. Senator Hoar had been in ill health since last winter and even when attending the session of the senate he was oblified to exercise extreme care test his exertions should overcome him. He had suffered from matria at times while in Washington, and be occasionally remarked to his friends was his greatest enemy at the empire, advised him last winter to keep as quiet as possible, to retrain from making long speeches, and not to attend public functions. FORM ANTI-PARKER LEAGUE Iowa Man President of the Organization Chicago, Sept. 29.—The anti-Parker Democratic National league, with the object of enlisting every democrat opposed to the democratic presidential nominee, has just been organized in Chicago. It was announced that the league will have branches in every county in the northern states and in a good many of those of the south. The officers of the league are: President, A. W. Maxwell, former chairman of the Iowa democratic state committee, vice president, Thomas N. Haskins, former chairman of the Illinois state committee; secretary G. P. Lock, former chairman of the Kansas state executive committee; treasurer, Michael D. Cainah of the Chicago and Western Indiana railroad. The object of the league as outlined by Mr. Locke are as follows: To get in touch with every democrat who is opposed to the election of Parker; to work against the non-caucus movement that controlled the St. Louis district; to reorganize the democratic party so that it will be a position to elect a democratic candidate when one of democratic principles is nominated four years hence. It is said that the names of 10,000 disaffected democrats already had been secured. RUSSIA ORDERS ELEVEN SHIPS French Contract for Torpedo Boat Destroyers May Be Increased. Paris, Sept. 29. - A dispatch to the Temps from Toulon says: "The Russian government has negotiated for the construction of eleven torpedo boat destroyers of the latest model by the Company of the Larges Cunts of Chants de la Mediterranee. Work will be begin shortly on tour of them." The shipyards in Normandy, tour at the shipyards at Harve and three at the shipyards at La Seyne. Fifteen months are required for their cession. Other important orders are anticipated, the present negotiations including four cruises of the true of the Earman. RYAN IS NOW A GRANDRA Granddaughter is Bernto Nebraska's Orater. Newport, R. L. Sept. 25—William Jennings Bryan is a grandfather, a daughter having been born to his daughter, Mrs. William H. Leavitt, in New Orleans, Mrs. Leavitt was Miss Ruth Bryan, Mrs. Bryan's favorite daughter, and she was married in Linden, New, last October. Mr. Leavitt is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron L. Leavitt of Newport. JAPAN TO FLOAT A NEW LOAN. Domestic issue of $40,000,000 Will Be Placed in Short Time. Tokio, Sept. 29—the government has decided to float another domestic loan of $40,000,000 on conditions similar to the last. The issue price will be 92 and the interest 5 per cent. Business conditions indicate a heavy subscription. It is probable that the conscription law be amended, increasing the service in the reserve five years and making the service total seventeen years and five months. 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It will give you satisfaction, and will not stick to the iron. It's so easy being good in a novel that it discourages people from trying anywhere else SKIRMISHES AT THE FRONT Small Outpost Engagements Are of Frequent Occurrence. Seems to Be in No Hurry to Close With Kuropatkin - Gossacks Make Daring Raid About Japanese Flank, Threatening Line of Communication London, Sept. 29.—A dispatch to a news agency from Vladislovskos that according to reports from Port Arthur two Japanese torpedo boats and a Japanese steamer have been sunk by mines fired near Port Arthur during the last few days. A Japanese cruiser of the Nyatka type, it is adced, was badly damaged. St. Petersburg, Sept. 29.—Movements at the front, so far as disjoated by the meager dispatches received, are confined almost to the contiguous outpost skirmishes by means of which the Japanese are keeping in close touch with the Japanese along the whole of their front. Field Marshal Oyama's advance appears to be extremely deliberate. There are no indications as yet that he has begun to overlap Russian positions in cavalry is beginning to be apparent. They have had the better of it in a number of minor encounters. It appears that General Rennenkamp's movement to the southward on September 11, indicated by first reports, His Cossacks made a rapid sweep on September 22 and struck a Japanese force at Benshin, threatening their communications and causing considerable excitement. Relinforcement are rapidly arriving at Benshin and many convalescents are returning to duty. It is reported that General Kuropatkin has made a requisition on the authorities for officers to make up for those killed and wounded at the battle of Liao Yang. Japanese Losses Heavy. The Foo, Sept. 208—Russians residing here, seem to have received information that the Japanese losses in the last assault on Port Arthur, which began September 19, were 7,000. A Chinese who left the fortress on September 26 says that the Russian losses were between 500 and 600. This Chinaman says that the Japanese were unable to remain in the three supplementary forts which they had captured and that they retired at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of September 11, leaving three days of tremendous firing from the inner forts. He adds that the Russians attempted to bury the dead of both sides at night, because the decomposing bodies seriously menace health of the garrison. The Russians allege that it is doomed to undermine the health of the Russian troops by means of the odes from the decomposing bodies, and that for this reason they fire on the burial parties. One Chinese who was a member of a burial party says that the Japanese fired when he and other Chinese attack the Japanese fortress, and that when the wind carries the elos toward the Japanese the latter retire. Chinese say that the most severe attacks were made on the supplementary forts of the Itz and Anshu mountain forts. The Russians had undermined the ground and several hundred Japanese were blown up September 23. Reports received from the Miai islands mention a terrific report which shook the houses there on that date. New York, Sept. 29. -During the last ten days 2,500 soldiers have arrived at Chemulpo and other points, says a Herald dispatch from Seoul, Korea, forwarded last Sunday. The Japanese 4,000 pack ponies for the use of the army to advance northward along the eastern coast toward Vladivostok. The advance already has begun, as 1,400 Japanese troops with five main armies are reported to have arrived at Hamyeung. The advance guard was fired upon by the Cossacks. Ten men were killed and seventeen wounded. The Japanese were completely surprised and retreated to await the arrival of the French. The harbour at Gansu is being reinforced from Seoul and Pejengan. LETTER IS EXPLAINED. New York, Sept. 29.—The letter alleged to have received by Michael J. Donnelly, the leader of the meat strike, purporting to be one sent by President Roseveil, was copied from an editorial in the New York Evening Post of August 1. The letter post says: "The letter appeared as an editorial in the Evening Post of August 1 and was explicitly stated to be a letter which the president might have written with advantage to himself and the country. In other words, it was contemptibly an imaginary letter, written for the sake of making out certain truisms in regard to the meat strike." The Evening Post also says: "We had no thought, of course, or being able to make even a presentable imitation of the president's itinerary, of the time, commented upon and repudiated somewhat extensively in the press, we never dreamed of its ever coming, of figure as a campaign forgery." The supreme court has declined to enunciate the doctrine that a farm owner may be enjoined from growing bocchur and premitting their seed to blow where the wind listeth. John Hardon of Sioux county assured that such an injunction be granted against George Stultz, between whose farm and his own naught but a division fence. He asked Judge Geo. W. Dyer to issue an injunction "restraining the privilege of the bocchur and weeds being blown and drifted on his tend." Judge Dyer denied the application for injunction, and is sustained by the supreme court. Armies Now Cover a Front of Sixty Miles St. Petersburg, Sept. 28. —The latest development in the situation at the front is the diffuse establishment of the fact that Field Marshal Oyma has now begun to move up his left. General Kuropatkin's report today shows him on the west bank of the Liao river. A considerable concentration of Japanese is observed at Sanchan, on the Hun river, thirty-five miles northwest of Mukden, in the valley of the Pu river. The latter is a tributary of the Hun river, which crosses the line of railway midway between Tie pass and Mukden, and may finish a natural line of advance from Oyama's armies now apparently cover a front of sixty miles for enveloping movements. His wings are extended to the north, and his feet are extended to the Fessians have found little strength or pressure from the Japanese center. Oyama seems to be moving with great deliberation, probably gathering strength for a raid on the city. The temptation is made to close the net. Although the imaginary line connecting the extreme Japanese advance east and west of Mukden still passes ten miles below the city, it is evident that the position of Mukden cannot long be delayed. CPPOSES HIS FATHER. Predicts That Russia Will Triumph at This Time St. Petersburg, Sept. 29—Count Tolstoi's son, Leo, in an article in the Novoe Vremya, takes a position diametrically opposed to his father. He has just returned from seeing off his brother, who is departing to the front, and writes of the touching scenes he witnessed at Tambouff, as the reserve men left for the far east. Nevertheless, young Tolstoi says, the peasants are all united in agreeing that the war must be fought out until Japan is subdued. He adds: "The war is the period of her regeneration. The war in the far east is a great war, such as Russia has not seen since the days of Peter the Great—a war for the possession of the eastern shores of the European-Asiatic continent, just as in the days of Peter the Great it was for the western shores. Just as in the war with Sweden, we suffered at Narva, but we conquered at St. Petersburg. We were conquered with the Asiatic Swedes, but there will come a day when Japan will be vanquished." In concluding, young Tolstoi predicts the triumph of Russia, which, he declares, is destined to "become, instead of England, the greatest nation in the world." He says that the Slavs will spread over 'and absorb all the neighboring peoples they have already subjugated in the Crimea, the Caucasus, eastern Russia and Siberia, adding: "The is the only power destined to realize the dream of world-conquest." NO FAITH IN HAUGE MOVE. Russian Papers Sarcastic as to Meeting at Berlin St. Petersburg, Sept. 30.—The Novosti, in a bitterly scathery editorial, refers to the conference of the institute of Intraturnal Law, which closed at Edinburgh yesterday, and to the proposal from the United States to re-assemble The Hague conference. The peper declares that international law is a polite myth, under cover of which the strongest nation takes the strongest position against record for its opponents' rights and feelings, and says there is not a tenet in the so-called code which has not been broken whenever it suited the service of some nation able to defy it. The only nations ever appealing to the international code, the editorial asserts, are too weak to stand up for their demands, and they have always found themselves in the strong arm of the most powerful nation always fixing the interpretation before the court. ARMY OF OVER A MILLION This Is Estimate of Japan's Force By Russia. St. Petersburg, Sept. 30. The Russ makes an intricate calculation of Japan's fighting strength, from winneth it concludes that the Japanese have a reservation of one million, one hundred thousand men upon which to defend the country, and are matched in the field. It says that the critics have been all along deceived both by the difference in the Japanese army on a war and on a peace footing, and by the statistics of the abebodied men fitted to respond to a call for military service. Russia, the Russ says, must reckon upon an effective one million strong when organizing to meet the Japanese in the far cast. FLAYS DIVORCE HABIT. Bishop Potter Calls for Church Action Against the Evil New York, Sept. 25.—Bishop Henry C. Potter vigorously attacked divorce in his report yesterday in the annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New York. He declared that unless the church set itself against the spread of the cell society would release into a state of praetery in the priesthood and he urged the clergy to set itself against the church he characterized as a "godless license which flings aside the most sacred vows because of vexatious uncongeniality." Bishop Maes of Covington, Ky., who presided over yesterday's session of the Eucharistic Congress, appointed a committee to draw up resolutions dealing with the French government for its act enacting the Cathedral orders in that country, as suggested by Father Dougherty. 1,000 SING FOR VICTORY Moscow, Sept. 23—A popular open air prayer service was held here Tuesday in the immense square framing Sonkhorooroff tower which was filled with devout crowds on bended Russian armor for victory for the Russian army. The queen was erected at the foot of the tower, where the clergy, in gorgeous vestments, made intercession amidst the singing of a thousand chlorists. PARKER WRITED OF ISSUES. Democratic Nominee's Letter of Ac- ceptance. Made Public. Judge Parker's letter, supplementing his acceptance of the nomination for President of the United States, tendered him by the national Democratic convention, has been made public. In the document he reiterates his belief in the gold standard and expresses appreciation of the action of the convention on the subject. The Judge points out what he considers the dangers in the centralizing of power in national government, and takes strong ground against the so-called policy of "Imperialism." Tariff reform is declared to be one of the cardinal principles of the Democratic party and its necessity at this time great. The Dingley tariff law, the Judge asserts, is unjust and oppressive and properly named the "Mother of Trusts." He commits the party to a change in tariff rates in November to a Democrat in November, restoring his belief that the Republican senate will be unable to prevent it. Though disproved by official statistics the charge is made that the cost of living has increased far beyond advance in wages, and for this condition the rapacity of the the "trusts," fostered by the Dingley tariff, is held to blame. The document deals only in generalities, pointing out no remedy and saying only: "I favor such further legislation, within constitutional limitations, as will best promote and safeguard the interests of all the people." Reciprocal trade treaties, as advocated by President McKinley, Judge Robertson, and others, state that the Republican majority in the Senate has prevented the ratification of these treaties in the past. On the question of the independence of the Filipinos the candidate advocates "such measures of freedom as the Cubans enjoy," but not until "it can prudently be granted." The Cuban policy of the reclamation of arid lands in the West is indoors. Immediate building of the Panama canal is urged, though the document criticizes the "unjust methods" by which it is alleged the United States secured the route and rights. A policy favorable to the building up of an American merchant marine is advocated, though the methods by which this should be done are not mentioned. The sending of subsidies for the purpose is denounced. Judge Parker promises, in the event of the election of a Democratic executive and Congress, a full investigation of all government departments. Liberal pension laws, he declares are simply acts of justice. President Roosevelt's action in promulgating Pension Order. No. 78, granting pensions to all veterans over the age of 62, is sharply censured and the promise made that it will be revoked if the party is given power. A policy of mass deportation in the affair of murder, the Judge declares the proper course to pursue. He makes the charge that governmental expenditures are too high and blames the administration for illegal extravagance. TOOK WOMAN FROM HAREM. A sensational abduction case involving a lineal descendant of the prophet Mohammed and a pair of real Arab snails is reported from Cairo, in Egypt. Sheik Al Joussef fell in love with the daughter of Sheik Al Shafid to be told to the sole living descendant of the prophet Mohammed, refused his consent to the marriage, as he did not think All Joussef was a fit person to be the husband of a girl of such noble lineage. All Joussef, however, abducted the girl and placed her in his harem. Her father appealed to the Egyptian government of armed police was dispatched to All Joussef's harem. The police made a foreible entry to the premises and, in order to be sure that they had taken possession of the person wanted, they ordered all the fair denizens of the harem to follow them in a veiled procession to the house of Sheik el Saddat, when his daughter was ill. The rest of the rest of the family and detailed. All Jouissance has now, it is said, begun proceedings before the British authorities, and has obtained the services of an English lawyer. Not Very Substantial. Julie Opp tells a story of an American bud in Leiden. 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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 well done to celebrate the day in ways that mean more and sound less. New York World. A. H. DR. LEW ARNTZ. Upstairs Opposite Street Car Waiting Room-Not Down Stairs Judge C. C. Cole, Iowa's eminent jurist, adds his testimony to the skill of Dr. Lew Arntz. Judge Cole's life has been one of unusual activity and he even now, at the age of eighty years, does more than ordinary work as dean of the Iowa College of Law. The testimony of Judge Cole carries with it the weight of a man of wide knowledge and sober and conservative judgment. Judge Cole says: Des Moines, Iowa, May 20, 1904—Dr. Lew Arntz, City: Dear Sir—It has been my good fortune, in connection with the teaching of law, to deliver lectures for many years on medical jurisprudence to both legal and medical classes. In the course of lectures, I have taught that generally the visual capacity of the average individual was reduced twenty per cent at fifty years of age, and that at seventy and fifty per cent at eighty years of age. I have just about reached that last goal, and find my teaching practically verified. Judge C. C Cole's Indorsement of Dr. Lew Arntz Judge C. C Cole's Indorsement of Dr. Lew Arntz I desire, therefore, to say that by your experienced judgment in testing my eyes and skill in sitting glasses to them, you have greatly improved the percentage of impairment of sight by increasing years, and I want to thank you for the aid I have had by reason of your judgment and skill in preparing glasses for me. I can commend you to others who may need aids in the same line. Very respectfully. C. C. COLE Notice of Incorporation of the Hawkeye Oil and Gas Company. 1st. The name of this corporation is the Hawke Oil and Gas Company, and its principal place of business is Des Moines, Iowa. 2nd. The general nature of the business to be practiced is that of prospecting, boring and drilling for oil, gas and other minerals and marketing any product it may obtain thereby, the buying and selling of oil, gas and other minerals, and the leasing, buying, owning and selling oil and gas land and lease; the taking of contracts for the buying and gas and other minerals; and the buying and drilling and dealing in oil and gas machinery. 2rd. The amount of its capital stock is $25,000 (Twenty five Thousand Dollars) to be fully paid up when issued. The same having already been fully paid in and all stock issued. 3rd. This corporation shall begin business on the day of August, 1004, and shall continue until the 5th day of August, 1924. 5th. The affairs of the corporation shall be conducted by a board of directors of not less than three (3) nor more than five (5) members. Directors to be elected on the second Monday of August of each year by the stockholders. 6th. The highest amount of indebtedness to which this corporation may at any time be paid is Sixteen Thousand Dollars ($16,000). 7th. The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from all corporate debts. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. State of Iowa, Polk County, ss. To O. B. Anderson: You are hereby notified that on the 6th day of December, A. D. 1898 the following described real estate, situated in Polk County, Iowa, was sold for taxes for the year 1897, which real estate is described as follows, to-wit: Lot Severity-eight (78) Cottage Addition, Addition to, and now forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. That the same was, at such sale, purchased by A. D. Nourse, and a certificate issued by the Treasurer of Polk County, Iowa, and by the Nourse the certificate was duly assigned to J. H. Phillips, and he is now the owner and holder of said certificate, and the right of redemption will expire. and a Treasurer's Deed for said property will be made, unless redemption from such sale be made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. J. H. PHILLIPS, Lawful holder and owner of said Iowa State Mr. E. H. Faulkner, a promising business young man, is the proprietor of that news depot; he also has a number of newspapers for sale. --- In Memoriam He is gone, Rev. J. W. Malone, No more his face we will see; He's gone to trod the path alone, From which no one can flee. He has gone to gain his reward That the Master has promised so free; To those that are faithful and work hard, To those that have trusted like he. He was surely a valiant soldier For God and the cause of right; And whatever he attempted to do, He did it with all his might. He was often heard repeating To his fellow presachers in the field: Brethren, "preach the word" time is fleeting; If a rich harvest ye wish to yield. Many years he toiled and struggled For the souls of humanity: Though the road was sometimes rugged, He still preached "All is Vanity." He entered the work in early youth, And there remained to a ripe old age, Braved many a storm to appeak the truth On his various and lonely pilgrimage. But his great work is now over, He did all the good that he could: In the places his work did cover His preaching was said to be good. His last words were "Aarewell my brother," God calls me and I must go: From this city to that of another Where the blood washed army must go. He's resting in the refted rock: From every storm he now abides: Although he's missing from the flock, He's now seuer_from the surging tides. How often he did sing so free That old familiar strain, "Nearer my God to the" His voice swelled the refrain. Again he'd lift his voice on high Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll. Oh recieve my soul at last! We now hope that his dear soul That so labored in the past, Has now reached the heavenly goal. —Composed by Mrs. Ida Filder-Hackley. Mt. Pleasant, Ia. National Republican Ticket For Vice President CHARLES N. FAIRBANKS Indiana. For Secretary of State W. B. MARTIN, Greenfield. For Treasurer G. S. GILBERTSON, Forest City. For Auditor B. F. CARROLL, Bloomfield. For Judge of Supreme Court E. H. DEEMER, Red Oak. For Attorney General C. M. MULLEN, Black Hawk. For Railroad Commissioner C. K. KETCHUM Marshalltown County Ticket For Auditor LEW BURNETT For Recorder MRS. FRANK DODSON For Clerk of Courts B. F. COFFIN Members of Board of Supervisors ANDREW GROVES FRANK MORRISON Neal's Place Choice Wines Liquors and Cigars 308 Third St. I. Pho. Place IM1 L1 4 DE MOINES, IA. A curious custom prevails in Bulgaria which must be a hard penalty for the woman who loves to hear the sound of her own voice. All newly-married women are obliged to remain dumb for a month after marriage, except when addressed by their husbands. When it is desirable to remove this restriction permanently the husband presents her with a gift, and then she can chatter to her heart's content. CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT Corinthian Baptist Church - corner of Fifteenth and Linen street. Church is on Sunday School. 13 o'clock. Teaching, at p. m. Rev. T. L. Griffith, pastor. St. Paul A. M. E. - Corner of Second and Center School. 3 o'clock. Epworth League at p. m.; preaching at 5 p. m. Horace S. Graver, pastor. Corinthian Baptist Church - Corner School and Fourth streets. Rev. F. Lomack pastor. Preaching 10.30 a. m. Rev. F. Lomack pastor. Preaching 10.30 a. m. Air. M. E. Houten. Superintendent. Young People meeting 7 p. m.; preaching 8.00 p. m. Burns Chapel M. E. Church - Corner of 11th and Crocker church. Church service, ces, preaching at 11 p. m and 8 p. m. Class and meeting 13 m Sunday; Sunday School 2:30 p. m; Epworth Sunday 7 p. m; Sunday School 2:30 p. m; Epworth Sunday 7 p. m; Sunday School 2:30 p. m; O. A. Johnson, pastor, 864 11th St Maple Street Baptist Church - Situated on E. Maple between Ninth and Tenth streets. Epworth Sunday 9.00 a. m.; preaching at 4 p. m. Rev. J. O. R. Wimbush. pastor Ulson Congregational Church, Pentz and Park streets. Proceeding 10: 4. Sunday School 12: 8; evening services 7:30 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evenings SECRET ORDERS. North Star Lodge, No. 2. A. F. & A. M.-Meet First Thursday in each month at Masonell Hall. Sixth and Walnut streets. H. E. Jacobs, W. M.; K. J. Hamilton, secretary. King Solomon Commandery, No. 6.-Meet and安典 First Thursday in each month at Masonell Hall. W. M.umbard E. G.; G. Oo H. Cleggt, Recorder. Naomi Court. No. 3-meet Second Monday each month at Masonell Hall. Mrs. L. V. Doyle, Matron; Mrs. J. H. Shearp, secretary. M. Olive Court. No. 4-meet First Thursday each month at Masonell Hall. Mrs. K. A. Matron; Mrs. Georgia Midget secretary. Charity Lodge, No. 2192, G. U. of O. F.-Meet each month at Odd Fellows hall on Walnut and Walnut streets. L. H. S. Brown, N. G. Lucian Brown P. S. H. I. of R. No. 2892, U. O. of O. F.-Con- tinue each month and fourth Thursday. each month, promptly at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Midred Kaleigh, M. N. G. Nettos Davis Arte Tabernacle No. 422-Meet first and third Thursday in each month, at the Odd Fellows Hall. Sixth and Walnut streets. Mrs. Nette Mettle, Assistant C. H.; M. Riss Hettle, Assistant A. L. 50 Years of Success This is our record. From a small beginning we have grown until our factories now cover many acres. Many of our machines sold forty to fifty years ago are still giving their users faithful service. Can anything be more convincing of their merits and durability? Did you ever hear of any other machine with such a record? Note a few of the many superior points of the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine No.9 The Rotary Hook displaces the old, out-of-date, unmechanical and trouble-some shuttle. The Frictionless ball bearings and perfect mechanical construction enable it to be operated with one-third less exertion than is required by ordinary machines. It sews three yards of goods while a shuttle machine sews two. It makes the most elastic and most perfect stitch whether sewing light or heavy goods. With our superior attachments the greatest variety of work is possible. Do not make the mistake of buying a sewing machine until you have given the Wheeler & Wilson No. 9 a trial. Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co., Chicago, Ill. For Sale by M. E. Wood, Des Moines. THE PLACE TO GET A HOME IS MONTANA WASHINGTON IDAHO OR OREGON THE WAY VIA NORTHERN PACIFIC THE TIME SEPTEMBER 15 TO OCTOBER 15 VERY LOW RATES ONE-WAY COLONIST TICKETS, FREE GOVERNMENT and LOW PRICED RAILWAY LAND Good for Fruit, Grain, Dairying and Poultry. Fine Summer and Winter Climate Splendid Schools and Churches Regarding Rates and Train Service write to A. M. CLELAND, General Passenger Agent, N. P. R. ST. PAUL, MINN. For Information and Maps write to C. W. MOTT, General Emigration Agent, N. P. R. ST. PAUL, MINN. Iowa State Bystander. BY HYSTANDER PUB. CO. DES MOINES, . . . IOWA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. Published every Friday by the HYSTANDER Publishing Co., Des Moines, Ia. Iowa 'phone 899. Official paper of the M. W. U. Grand Lodge of Iowa, A. F. & A M. Iowa State Federation of Colored Women and International Grand Congress of Heroines of Jericho of America. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 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We are prepared to do first class job in all our services. All of our work is guaranteed. The Iowa State Bystander is the oldest Afro-American journal published in Iowa. It was established in 1894 and is read by nearly all the colored people of Iowa. We have correspondents in the following towns: Clinton ... A. A. Bush Keokuk ... A. J. Fields Mt. Peasant. Miss Lydia F. Bartlett Muscatine ... Miss Fannie Groomes Downsland. Mrs. R. H. Pollard Ottumwa ... Edna A. Maker Rock Island ... Mrs. C. J. Toliver Sloux City ... Mrs. Etta Grant Moline, Ill. ... Mrs. R. H. Pollard Boone ... Mrs. Mary Coleman Washington ... Mrs. James Redd Galesburg, Ill. ... Mrs. E. J. McGruder Burlington ... O. C. Folks Dubuque ... Miss Gertrude Evans Newton ... Mrs Ela Mays Superior, Wis. ... Mrs. Geo. H. Wade Alba ... Miss May Davis Jedar Rapids. Mrs. Adelalea Perkins Ft. Madison ... Anna Harper Oskaloosa ... Luella E. Franklin Davenport ... Mrs. C. B. Lewis Buxton ... Arthur Turner Omaha, Neb. ... Mrs Wade Omaha, Neb. ... Correspondents—Please mail your letters, that contain news for publication not more than Wednesday morning to insure publication for the current week. McAfee Cafe... Open DAY AND NIGHT Particular attention given to short orders and lunches 310 THIRD STREET. STATE OFFICERS OF THE IOWA FEDERATION OF AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN. Mrs. Belle Graves, president, 1110 Center St., DesMoines, Ia.; Mrs. G. Gray, first vice-president, 716 17th St. Cedar Rapids, Ia.; Mrs. Mack Taylor, second vice-president, 125 Davis St. Ottumwa, Ia.; Mrs. Lella Sheffy, recording secretary, Lock Box 77, Ossaka, Ia.; Mrs. Fannie Grooms, corresponding secretary, 1126 East Eight St. Muscatine; Mrs. E. B. Lewis, treasurer, 613 Harrison St., Davenport, Ia.; chairman of state committees, Mrs. Anna Betus, chairman of Household Economic, 1517 Concert St. Keokun, Ia.; Mrs. Holly, chairman of M-others Child Study, Cedar Rapids, Ia.; Ousley, chairman of Arts and Crafts, Jessica Lewa, Mrs. Emma Gardner, chairman of Reproplicity Bureau, Rural Route No. 5, Ottumwa, Ia.; Miss Gerge Evans, chairman of Social Purity, 695 Main St., Dubuque, Ia.; Mrs. L. R. Palmer, chairman of Educational Committee, 28 Rollins Block, Des Moines. THE I MONTAN IDA NORTH Rock Island meals Are the best on wheels Fix this little jingle fast in your memory. Some day it will be useful. Some day you will go West—to Omaha, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Denver or beyond. You won't know which line to take—until you remember that Rock Island meals Are the best on wheels. Then you'll know. Seriously, though, the Rock Island's dining car service is superb; the cleanest of clean linen, the finest of china and silverware, and waiters and cooks who "know how." Seriously, though, the Rock Island's dining car service is superb; the cleanest of clean linen, the finest of chiz.a and silverware, and waiters and cooks who "know how." E REPAIRS Makers of Stove, Range and Furnace in the World and can Ship immediately and Save You Money. For Your Stove. Price given on Request. Follow us Carefully and We Guarantee a Fit. that appears)..... it appears on stove), usually found on pipe collar or is brick or iron. from grate or in two pieces. through front door or put in through covers. we use. THING NEEDED FOR A STOVE EXGEPT FUEL. STOVE & SUPPLY CO. MARKER STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. National Bank, Chicago. STOVE REPAIRS We are the Largest Makers of Stove, Range and Furnace Repairs in the World and can Ship Immediately and Save You Money. We Have the Repairs for Your Stove. 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SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE in this county and adjailing territories, to represent and advertise an old established business house of solid financial standing. Salary $21 weekly, with expenses, advanced each Monday by check diary. Hired by Huntington Buggy furnished when necessary; position permanent. Address. Blew Brothers, 600 Monon Bldg., Chicago, Ill. 37 DEPOSITIONS REFERENCE CASES CONVINCES COURT REPORTING Twenty Years Experience in Courts of this and Other States. 110 IOWA LOAN AND TRUST BUILDING GOTC WORLD'S FAIR VIA WABASH Not is the time to go to St. Louis as the air is at its best. Take your family as it is worth more than a years schooling to any young boy or girl over 10 years old. It is twice as great as was the Columbian Exposition, and cost three times as much. Send for map of the grounds. The Wabash has three fast trains daily, and you should ask to have your tickets read Wabash. All Wabash trains stop at the main gate. For other information write: S. W. Flint, P. & T. A. 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