Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. State Capitol Historyca (Roan VOL. XI, No. 28. Monrad J. Olsen's Pharmacy Hard Door North of Street Car Waiting Room Iowa National Bank Fourth and Walnut Streets H. S. BUTLER, President H. T. BLACKBURN, Vice President & Casual A Christmas Present Did you forget to get all the Christmas presents you want to remember her friends with? If not, here is the greatest opportunity ever offered in Des Moines, $5,000.00 worth of souvenir novelty articles sold at $5.00 apiece up to $5.00. Don't forget that all these goods must be sold by Christmas regardless of cost as we must vacate store. We again invite you to come. We save the Savings Department Window and tell the clerk you want a Bank Book for your boy or girl, you or sister or brother, your servant, your niece, your nephew, your cousin, or a anybody else. Deposit $1,000 or $2,000 or as much more as you want to, and a Book will be given you made out in Capital City State Bank, East Fifth and Locust Why not Slippers for Him? They're appropriate--a- ways acceptable--and you know their usefulness. We thought our assortment was good but we've been told it's more than that—everybody seems to find just what they want. There are tans, blacks, grayies, men and red—dipped, for them for boys and for little boys. For ladies, for girls and for little girls, from Walker Shoe Co., 417 Walnut St. The Radium Light Shoe Store EXTRA CERTIFICATE WITH $2. $3 AND $5 ORDERS. QUALI NEVER SACRIFICED. PRINT NEVER EQUALLED. PRICE NEVER EQUALED. If you have money to "burn" our lists will not interest you. We do not cater to the extravagant spendthrift class, but if you are reasonable—if you practice true economy—or if you would have your money make you money, you'll find our "ad" the newest space in the paper. 4 to 6 ft. Christmas trees. 20c 6 to 8 ft. Christmas trees. 30c 8 to 8 ft. Christmas trees. 50c the house of the finest evergreen, ranging from 4 to 20 feet. 10 per cent discount to churches. 1.33 to 1.2 off palms and ferns. 80c palms in pots. 50c $1.20 eens in pots. 80c 15 ferns in pots. 5c $2.25 Avia Later palms in pots. $1.65 50c palms in pots. 40c 29c ferns in pots. 19c Fanny wreaths, 2 for. 33c Wreathing, per pound. 7.5c Holly, fancy with berries. 20c Try our "No. 100" brand of teas and coffees, guaranteed absolute tea and coffee perfection and a saving of from 1 to 200 per pound. Extra fancy grades 50c teas.....60c Fancy colored uncolored Japan.....50c Basket fired Japan.....30c Fancy English Breakfast.....40c 3 pounds tea dust.....25c 3 packages tea dust.....10c McQuail's Special coffee.....20c McQuail's Leader coffee.....20c McQuail's Monogram coffee.....20c McQuail's "No. 100" coffee.....12c Broken M. and J. coffee, pound.....12c Fancy Rio combinationcoffee.....15c Although the wholesale price of coffee has advanced we are selling at the low prices. 4 10c cans preserves.....25e bakery a 4 pound rose jar preserves.....25e money c 3 tumblers pure joey.....17e you are Ice tea tumblers jelly.....10e prices us Stone jar apple butter.....25e ities. Mc QUA McQUAID'S Iowa Druggist Such a present means more than the money you give. It means that you are starting someone on the road to success in life. One of our handsome Metal Savings Ganks will also be let out with the Book without charge, if desired, where more than 21,000 is deposited. FOUR PER CENT INTEREST PAID. Open Saturday evenings, 5:00 to 6:00, besides the usual banking hours daily. James Childan, President. J. A. McKinney, Cashier. Henry Wagner, Vice President. D. J. Van Liew, Ass't Cashier. State Bank, CastFifth and Locust A. H. Miles Prescriptions. Trusses. 6th & Locust Sts. Fike & Fike 613 Grand Avenue. Cheapest Place to Buy Second Hand Stoves and Fuaniture. We also buy what you don't want. D. Fink, MERCHANT TAILOR. Suits Made to Order. Cleaning Dyeing and Repairing..... LOWEST PSICES IN CITY 406 W. Fifth St Extra large Florida oranges, doz. .25c Extra large naval oranges, doz. .25c New figs, package .5c 2 pounds dates .15c Fancy Greening apples, peck .20c Fancy Baldwin apples, peck .25c American Beauty eating apples, pk. 25c Missouri hickory nuts, peck .45c Black walnuts .45c Fancy California celery, 2 for .10c Fancy California celery, 2 for .10c Choice California celery .5c 2 choice Michigan celery .5c The greatest array of Christmas candies are to be seen here at prices unequalled. Every item in this department is a special. Candies, Cigars Drug Sundries, Toilet Articles and prices a great saving. Our home killed meats and home bakery are furnishing the best that money can produce and our prices to you are from 25 to 35 per cent be ow prices usually acked for even low qualities. and Eoper DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1904. Saved on all Purchases Sale commences at 10 o'clock, Thursday, December 15th, and will continue until Christmas. R. N. BROMLEY & SONS, 523 W Locust St. POWER PEACE PROSPERITY 1905 Dawning Of The New Year. Fourth & Grand Avenue 44th Fourth Street. Both Phones $19. Go to the Towa State Bank, Sixth and Locust Sts. Open a savings account and receive 4 per cent interest per annum for full calendar months. You don't have to leave money six months to get interest. They Do Also a General Banking Business DON'T FAIL R. N. Bromp Big Sample Sale 50 Saved on Sale commences at 10 o'clock, and will continue R. N. BROMLEY & S 1905 Dawn Free Christmas Gifts Buy your clothing on credit at cash store prices of Handsome Presents to all Purchasers Open evening until Christmas. Holiday Large stock of Oil Paintings bought at 25 per cent on the dollar, to be closed out in the next two weeks. Pictures framed and mats cut while you wait. Large stock of uncalled for pictures to be sold at your own price. A. MADOLE, 731 LOCUST Old Library Bldg Mutual Phone 43 Main SPECIAL NOTICE Owing to the over crowded condition of our paper this week with advertising matter, we were not able to print many interesting articles, cuts and correspondence. They will appear next week. Use it for any purpose. It will give satisfaction. OFFICE, 309 SEVENTH ST. Mines, 23rd and Hickman Ave TO ATTEND Hley & Sons' of Fine Jewelry Per Cent on all Purchases k, Thursday, December 15th. e until Christmas. SONS. 523 W Locust St. POWER PEACE ning Of The New Dear Santa Claus: Papa says they are selling fine neckties and mailers at Pease Hat Co store at 312 6th Ave. Please bring him some of them. You'll find many fine things for Christmas presents in their stock; for instance: Gloves from.....50c to $3.00 Ties from.....25c to $1.50 Mufflers from.....50c to $3.50 Suspenders from.....25c to $2.50 Silk Hose from.....$1.50 to $2.50 Lisle and Wool Hose from.....25c to $2.00 Umbrellas from.....20c to $7.50 Fine Underwear, all styles, all prices Hats, soft and stiff, from $1.50 to $1.00. Trousers, all wool cassimess, $3.00 to $1.50. Ties, Hose and Suspenders put up in fancy boxes for the Christmas trade. Pease Hat Co. 321 SIXTH AVE. Open evenings until Christmas State Savings Banks Interest Paid on Deposits. M, STRAUSS, President. J. G. ROUNDS, Vice Pres. GEO. E. PEARSALL, Cashier. I. M. LIESER, Ass't. Cashier. Dr. Booker T. Washington has contributed $25 to the fund now being raed for the erection of a monument in Atlanta to the memory of General John B. Gordon. The general was says Dr. Washington, "a true type of the connecting link between the best class of Southern white people and the truest type of my own race." Price, Five Cents. N. GGINS' rmacy.. TION DRUGGIST. Sixth and Grand Avenue .Gus Morris. Dealer in Coal, Hay, Feed & Straw Iowa Phone 697 J Coal and Feed delivered when promised. Ocean Tickets Credentials Bough RAILWAY TICKETS Bought Sold & Exchanged Established 1880. Mutual Phone 299 Express Money Orders For Sale. COUPLES Laundry E, 531-3 SIXTH AVE 409 E. Locust St. each Drawers.....5e each each Undershirts.....5e each each Handkerchiefs.....1½e each each Socks.....3e each each Silks and Mohair.....15e each deliveries at Above Prices. REAL MINING CO. Wellington Ave. Mutual Phone, 1431 Forest Ave. Mutual Phone, 404 et - - - Both Phones, 1430 --Any Quantity and the Best and Stationery Co. NUT STREET. PHONE MAIN 69 es, Framing Art Goods, Eto. quarters For RAY GOODS THERE'S A DARK MAN COMING WITH A BUNDLE City Book and Stationery Co. ```markdown ``` A man carrying a piano. BALL CO., 804 WAL ST. FFITH.M ANAGER W. W. KIMBALL CO., 804 WAL. ST T. M. GRIFFITH.M ANAGER W. W. WILLIAMS, Ticket Broker 226 Fifth Street, Clapp Block His bundle is a piano and he is coming to gladden the heart of some poor little girl of Des Moines on Christmas day. Now it is for you to say where the piano goes. There is absolutely no catch of any kind. It's free. Call at our store, ask about the free piano and tell us where to send it. The only requirement is that the girl must be between the ages of ten and sixteen and the child of parents who cannot afford a piano for her. During the month we are selling all of our sheet music and small musical merchandise at prices which are far below anything ever offered before. EE ea ns ee es fowa State Bystander ‘By Bystander Pub Co. OES MOINES, - 1Oowa ———S ‘Uncle Sam's newest crulser whizees by you before you can say “Penuert vale” ale had best not wake future foot bal enruings publi. "Toe trusts may eaptune tho same “= Give the doctor his due. It might have been an underiaker who. is veated the uch Tune Dia|sis Edward Clarke ever eae scytods rer to our national bid a8 Soytbing but the American eagle? ‘Tho corcieas apple Je now on the market and tho stall bos won" have anyiving oft to give to hin Mle sis bs ta Manchuria they blow up maze tines, In this apps. land ot posea and plenty they simply blow np the writer suas a risht to Took any asiier than bovine Wo" know every ‘eb Eero What fs the basis for the superst!- tion that the wishbone brings xood fuck? It didn't bring good Inck to the turkey Two patriotic young women are going to erect a home for geniuses ont of job. They bad better reat @ whole township. A Chicago man transferred a honse ‘and lot to his flancee before the wed- ding. There's one woman who really hae won a home, Mr. Kyrie Bellew rays that acting 4s not an art and that actors are net artiste, There have been times when we've suspested it, A New York paper refers to Harry Tehr as “the young society wine agent.” However, that's a compli- ment in New York. The world’s annual output of din-, monds is estimated at $35,000,000, and | ‘the stingy old Farth yields them up ‘with extreme reluctance, ‘The hoary old church oyster joke, dn spite of Its years, capers nimbly | to the front again, claiming as its tribute the usual weary smile. ‘Phe opera season has opened tn New York city with unusual splendor, | though the experts differ as to the watne of the diamonds on exhibition. There is talk of an anttsmoke cra. sade in Pittsburz, It looks as if the people of that toxn wold stop at nothing in their eagerness tor noto- riety, A Chicago mau asks the court 1 eward him alimony from his divorced wife who has been accustomed to earn the family living. Why not, to be sure? Unfortunately the morning papers neglect to say whether that young man who has decided to work for a Uving is a second of third rousin of ©. H. Harriman. ‘An Ohio convict who was ont on pa: role was put back in prison because he got married, Isn't it abour time for some of the women’s elubs to take Oblo under considerarion? Russell Sage's nephew has sone on the stave as a member of the choms tn one of the musical comedies. If he had heen Russell's niece he would have begun as a prima donna, Vanderbilt will send anybody a Wooklet free, telling how he made $1,000 grow to 21.909.000 Now will somebaty please issue dirertions for acquiring $1,009 quickly and safely. Secretary Taft reassures Panama with the official statement that the United States bas no other design ‘upon the isthmus than to bald a ew nal, It won't even take away the aire. Students of the Rragilian milttary school attempted to overturn the gov eroment, but were caprnred and sent to prison. They should have restricted thelr revolutionary activites to im venting a new yell. In New York they say that a high- neck dress and a diamond tiara is the latest opera costume. But what Mf, after one gets the diamond tiara one hasnt money enough left to get the bigh-peck dress? Joba B. Rockefeller’s purpose in tuying up the small village of Briggs: ville seems to be to close a saloon which {s obnoxious to him. It must be pleasing to be able to yet rid of trivial annoyances that way. Am enterprising Californian, H. C. | Hoover by name, has made so much | morey from a coal mining concession in China that the dowager empress: ‘wants to repudiate the contract. The grounds foF repudiation are that be is | @ foreign devil. | A battleship named for the State of New Jersey has just been launehed. | ‘Thie naturally suggests the query why | the New Jersey mosquito hasn't been | trained to be atilized in war. AR a sort of aeria: torpedo boat his utility canal he wneticelicned: Now that Mr, J. Pierpont Morgan has invested a small fortune in five thoroughbred Guernsey cows, which bave been sent to him in a special ear by express, he can go Anna Held one better, if he wants to, and take bath in cream every day. Dowager Empress Ts! Ann is hav- ing her Chinese soldiers separated from their pigtails and put {nto Eu- ropean dress. In China the soldier will not only have to fight for bis country but give up his hope of heav- an for it’ The price looka pretty big. SUSPECTS HELD Are Charged With Postoffice Robbery in Reinbeck. THE HEARINC IN CEDAR RAPIDS Held to Await Action of the Federal Grand Jury -- Booty Which Ther Secured, Estimated at About $1,300 | is Almost Entirely Recovered. Reinbeck, Dee, Ki After an ex Citing chase, in which thy citizens anc officers of Reinbeek participated, Wwe members of a gang of three men whe cracked the safe in tie postoffice carly yesterday morning, are under arrest, apd a large part of the booty, estimated at $1,800, whieh the robbers secured, bag been recvyered, ‘The chase Was au exciting one, and sever: al shots were fired when the robbers [Were defeated iu their attempt to oard tue 2:45 train on the Ruck Is Jand, but no one was injured, | The two men Who have been ar rested were taken by Postottice In: spector Sciart of lowa City to Cedar Kapids. ‘The robbery was discovered by I. D. Cleaver, who sleeps just across (he kiley from’ the postoftice, i the sec ong story of the building occupied by the Bank ot Reinbeck ‘AL 1:30 a.m, Mr, Cleaver was awakened by the sound of an explo: sion, and going to his windaw, he saw A man at the postoffice safe removing its contents. Having uo fire arms, he went to a telephone in an adjoining room, and called the officers ty Sucr good effect that in a sort ine two br three of them were on the ground, By this time, however, the safe crack: ers had adjourned to an old retriget: ator car on the Rock Island tracks, where, as Was afterwards found, they divided the spoils. ‘The officers watched the 2:45 train eupposing that the robbers would at tempt to leave in this way. Their sop positions proved correct, ‘Three dark figures were Seen stealihily endeavoring 19 hoard the train, At the ery of “Hall.” the rob: hers instantly began # fusillade, whic was answered by the officers, Several shots were fired, bu! no one was in jared, Two of the robbers ran seatt on the Great Western tracks, the tlh Cr went east on the waxoN read, ‘A posse, which consisted ef only three men, followed the two MER who kept the track, and were close on thetr heel for several hours, when they were overtaken by reinforcements which had come ont from Relnheck on | a handear, Shorily afterward, about 7 ielock in the morning, one of the rob: hers was Tun down and caplired abont a mile tis side of Berlin, He was an aid mun, G& years oF age, Ob bis per: gon was 875 in money While his capture was going on the ceeond man made a detonr, doubled on his trai) and started souk toward Reaman. He stopped for breakfast at he house of # farmer, who notified the ficers. ald he Was captured short Iy afterwards by the Meaman con Rabie, He ix a man of middle axe. | On hin was found $225 in money. and | hecks and drafts payable to C.J Adams. the postmaster. Mr, Adams dentified hie property over the tele: phone. ; No trace of the third robber has vet Jeon found. but the officers are after | sim, and # posse left Reinbeck this ‘vertng to ald in the search, ‘Cedar Ranids, Dee, Vi--At the hear: ; ng before United States Commission | ir Stewart of the met accused of 1he teinbee’ postoffice robbery, James | oach, the old man, pleaded guilty, ares He Moore, the younger man. | feuded not guilty, but waived exam: | nation. and both men were turned | ver to the grand jury tn the spring | frm in this city, with bonds of $2 on Reach claims to be from Texas nd eave he has beon arrested a hin. red times, bret refosed to say if he mi heen in the penitentiary, Moare ; ifnges to qwike anv statement, ex. cpt that iis heme is in Indiana BANK OF OLIN ASSIGNS Bad Loans Held Responsible fo: Its Failure: Anamosa, Wee, 19.— The bankins house ef ELE. Snyder. lovated at OFn fu this county, has closed Hts doors For many years tis bank has been one of the. strong. financial mnstite tions in this county. It was a large J aepositery for most uf the farmers In the southern part ot Joaes county and the northern. part_of the wljoin Ing county of Cedar, ‘The assets, ac cording 10 the report given out by OMe Snyder, will amount to $175,000 “and the liabilities to £165,000. This, however, 1s the report of the banker, Int the meager reports of Uhe experts who have been at work on the hooks thow a large manoune of Habilzties in excess of tlie assets, Under the con fitions shown by the reports, Me. Snyder made an assignment to 1. ML. Carpenter of Ola for Cie bewlit of Dis creditors, In the list of wssers shown by the Lanker’s resort are Many Une wsand dollars ol anscenren and worthices calms, 1048 tw esti mated that the house ean fiquidate {tg Habiities ou 950 per cont. lasts Seery Sentenced to Eighteen Years. Vinton, Dee. 16.-Francis 5, Seery the tried and convicted mur sree ot Michael Monevhan of Walford, was Sesterday sentenced tw the peniten- Yiary at Anamosa for eighicen years He was convicted of murder in the second degree when tried last week Yesterday was spent in arguing a mo- tion for a new trial, defendant's attor: neys claliming that the prosecuting at- torney’s had referred to the defendant not taking the witness stand during the progress of the trlal. The motion was overruled and Stery was given his sentence, He showed nv emotion, but later to the sheriff made the re: mark that all he hated was when he | had to tell his mother and sisters, who. will call upon him tomorrow, | Alleged Absconder Caught. * Cedar Rapids, Dee. 17—Thomas Me. | Farland, fnancial secretary uf the local court of Foresters of Amerie, was arrested in Chieaeo yesterday | morning and an officer left to bring him back here to answer to a evarge | of absconding with $236 of the court | funds. It is said that his specutations | jate sack almost to the Ume of his | lection a year ago. An auditing com. aittee recently discovered a shortage | nda telerhone arrangement. was | nade for Mz. McFarland to inake an | xplanation to the committee, liz took be frst train out of town, ~ BOG KILLED SHEEP. Supreme Court Holds That Owner aust Settle. Dass albines Deer 16 -ShAOnE INAS dogs are a groat hexwy as a rosult 0 fhe opinion rendered by tbo supremo [our yesicrsy: Inthe ease of Ander son te Halverson, appealed fom creat @ awe" "pup, dlvermoa Elan Guiarsageatin Geo sages pee bee alpit one are Inveadpate i by al of labltnn duscorered ter Hat ue since ual dod tee deacon Of tse doe wes yell ad tie Goncr SINE REE SIN the Gurnee betes he could bleuuty Tt, Nest moratog HisShuanl Wels olor to Gin Amlerses Roleae Glide I Bice cer io ee ills of lhe! pont eels Shee et Bl satioa for. ileal eibe tie eh The eerie anes Poni a Autorioncrayar. whe sonad LUie te ae bal wor bees miiclemls taeavieed ae amisivors role of ne (wor doan iad vo; nae Ag, Whee Siamese hes ick toi Wow dust sine contd St aa sauphtoncidd aftSOviawit Nee Mica ae rene saprene’ Sik ROL That. ihe ral ‘cours ented tn taking. the eane Ronit iy sd eee Goleey e reed admission hae he hd lle i oe immediately after eae 1a Se uturermin aMteh an aun caste iene hs! “anpeime cme Matis ets panties Se ie Cae ons meUnUeeed by Astorcon W sass MURDER AT BUXTON. Negrees Quarrel. and Bactence> Kills ‘= Wing: Oskaiouss, Deo Vi. Cherhe Jones, colored, shot and anstansty jatle! Jack Salam. colored, between nines i aid 14. four miles eas. of Maaton, at 2 welock yesterday mesnins, Salam Was a miner emploped it one of the Haxton mines, Jones has bert here bat four montis wu was employed as Dartouder at a joint wept by Patsy Lowis, a white man ‘The shooting grew ont of a drunken braw! whick began at a dance and rontinued at Lewis's place The men Were quarreling among themselves over matters at the mine but had ap: parently adjasteg ali differences: and Started for their homes, Salam, sho sat dozing in his caair when his tel lows left, Kot ap and walked tnward the bar belind whieh Jones stood Within easy reach of @ pistol “dons,” Salam is repneied to have said, "yon have done me wrong, Yo Aidw't treat me right in this. matter.” referring te the quarrels in whies Wotl: Rad previously engitsges Without g moinent’s warning the bartender seized his pistol and tired point plank at the dranken man, The first Shit took etfeet ay the hogy, cute Hing fis way almost through, Salam reeled, turned and started for. the Hoot. Jones followed, firing three tore shots. AL the fontth Salam had reached the door, where he fell out silte dead. ‘The shote were heard by parties re. siding near the place, but when they reached the apen door the munterer and a companion, Eagens Ditson, also colored, had gone. ang the body of Salam, gullet rfadied, lay before them.” Jones disappeared, and at Jast accounts had not been captured. | HUGH WHEELER GUILTY. | Verdist Is Returned In Lye Throwing i Case at Allison Shell Rok, Dee, 14. After being ‘out for (wo hours te Jury in the ease | ot the State vs. Hich Wheeler, the | sensational Ise throwing case, whieh Hien on tiai,in Allison for the past fow days, returned & verdict of senllty eharging Wim with an assault wits invent to main and distigire Mrs, Par: hie Ramser A sensation was cased in the eourt fom when, on mation af Uke attor Wye fe the defense, the indictment Aargiag Jenme ¥. Brown, Wheeler's allesed accomplice inthe Ive throw ing. With a similar offense, was quash con the givainds. that Grant Tal Win. not a member of the grand jury was in the Foon When Lhe judietment Swe returned OOThe grand jar was sammaned for a svecia} session hmmediatidy, and te teened anather indietment. against Hemwn, on whieh P= Witt be tried After the conclusion of this. trial Wott men are to be tried on a charge of conspiring with inten? to maim and disfigure. FIRE AT WEBSTER CITY, Considerabie Loss Sustained by an Eaate Maii Fica i Webster City, Dee. 17 —Fire yester- day morning totally destroyed the Urunswiek eafe in this eity, eripploe the Hamilton county tel phone plant aad alse damaged the cournai build ing. Miss Myrtle Hen Sehosek, mitht ow stor at the telephone oiflee, at tempted to Jeap trem a second story windw, fell ina faint and was ear ried out of the buliding by the fire mien to the Wilson hotel, “Thera was he jnsntunce on te cafe Peitine, wileh was owned by D.C Chase, ner was any Cuitied by the leiephone com: pany. “The other losses are fully cov. ered, The Brunswick cafe Is Wneated on Des Moines street, adjoining the Journal building. The ‘fire oceurrea at an carly hone, about ait an hour after the proprietyr, Lewis Smith, had closed up the place. When discover: ed, the building, which is @ frame structure, was a mass of flame, Noth- ing was saved from It and no atterpt wax made to do anything but quench the flames, WHISKY IS INFLAMMABLE, Tama County Farmer Almost Burned ‘es Benth Gs Blusian Alcokel: | Traer, Dec. 16.--Jack Egan, a farm- ‘er living mear Luzerne, came very jnear being terally burned up with whisky. He took too much of the stuff before stating home and put a Lottie In his pocket. His team ran away and he wos thrown ont. The Lottie broke and the whisky ran ont, saturating his clothing. He felt the stuff and striick a mateh to nee what Was tie matter, Siddeniy the air secmed to burst into flames. and ina moment hts etoching was.on firs. For tunately hela was soon at hend and the man was wrayped up in a blanket and the blaze subdued, Egan was taken at once to a doctor's oftice and bis wounds were dressed and it is thought he will come out all right, AGAIN. WOUNDED |The Russian Commander is Made Target for Rifle Balls. WOUND OF NO CONSEQUENCE News is Brought By Dispateh From Che Foo-Desultory Firing Con Lines and Night Sorties By Both Romsian military commander at Pott | Arthus, according to a distateh from | Che Foo to the Daily Telegraph, has | fxain been wounded, this time by a | rifle bullet, ‘Tae correspondent adds | Urat the wound is not serious, | Paris, Dee. 13. The meeting of the | incermuttonal commission to inquire into the Nosthe sea iueldent. hay Me | hitely heen dived for next Thesday Morbing at the forcign offer | RUSSIANS /RRIVE IN BOATS. | Reach Che Foo Almost Frozen By | Deitel Maes Che Fou, Dee Vi. Seven Russians fr etvition wart, wat a midtary trate. ing obvions in their bearing, arrived Yesterday in an apen sailboat. carry Ing dispatches ‘They were unwiling fo talk and went Immediately te the Ressian consulate 4 highs wind en abled then te make i quick passa from Pac Arun The suit Mow in whites the Russians Feached Che Pus left Pact Attar Phardsy mormine umier caver oft show Storm and hat a terrible expert nee int passing ‘The men were near. ¥ frozen when they wade this por! tnd were anithie to leave thes boat without assistance The Russians MTOM A hay mumber ef disgatehes EXPLOSIVES ARE SitUGCLEC Extensive Trathe 1s Reported to Exist in England Fender, Neo tte The Daily Mat sserh Ch Mousands of tons of dv Famiie asi ather explosives, siiclis thet mtomniiten al) elvarly eomntea wrath fave heen smmnggled from the Phacnies the past few montis on hare: wand Witsferred ty mysterions teamers al a rendesvents atthe noth af the river. for the faz east he aatuerines apparonidy teins pow these to prevent the traftie. The Dally Mat! comments apon the terri He dangers attending the traftle, say Nye 8 Spar ors collision might emnar seatastrophe within a stone's thicow: WE the houses af pasttament To INDICT LAWSON. 1D. Rockerelter's Consent is to be ‘eee \ New York, fee 17-Jobn D. Rock: | feiler, Henry H. Rtoxers and their x6 joctates in the scandent Oi romp, elt ther fegal advisers, are consid ‘ering a nadiew! plan for the suppres sion of Tuomas W. Lawson, ‘The plan under advisement isto bring -erimina) proceedings against Lawson under nection 483 of tho penal Code, whied reads ax follows "A person who with intent 0 af fect the market pre. "of the Stocks, londs 07 other evidences at debe of a corporation, of association, + £05 knowingiy. cireulates. ant false statement, rumor of Intelligence is punishable Uy @ fine of not more than $5,009 oF by. imprisonment. for hot more than three setzs or both It was uniter this section of the yea. a} cade that Alfred H. Gustin war eon viewed of raiding Lrooklyn Rape ‘Transit stock by ebreutating false ee mors conee*aine that corporation, Geslin carned the case to the eunrt of appeals. whey Geeided against him Hore 1 Rogers, the aetive head Of the Amelamated, and the sper terest of AY. Laweon ft lis "Erongied Finance” article, ie in favers {tas said, of bringing eriniiad promeedines agtiost Mr Lawsicl | Mr Rugers Is a fehier Juin 1), Boeke feller bas not yet hoen won over it ig said, fo the side sf those: wha fvur Oe radios) wan. Me Korkofeler’s poliey bis always been antaxonistie tone volontary aunesr awe In the limelight, he nreforring ta work out all matters, even fo the pen ishmnent of an enemy, egietls, ps. tently and Withovt resnct. tw ony measire whe world men publics fo Standard Oil, Ws men and its se oats a | ASK FOR INDICTMENT. Owner { Copper Stock Ie After Thos, Lacon. New York, Dee. 17.—-An anplication for the indictment of Thoinas W. Law: son and for the showing af the hooks of the Amatynmated Copper ecmpans was mate at the distriet attorney's bitter yesterday by Money Wetkiezrae Wich, wo fives most uf the time in Londen. Mr, Wack is a member ot the Nation) Dar association of this conntry and of the Reyal Geograph al society of Loniton, Accompanied by his lawyer, Charles M. Beattie. Mr. Wack called atthe ifiee of Distret Attorney Jerome and left there his. farmal application that Ax, Lawson be" indicted, Mr. Wack says tat he owns out. right 1,000 shares of Amalgamated and that it wos worth, when he came here @ few weeks ago, $1,780, Asa result of Mr. Lawson's acts Mir, Wack anserts, his stacks fell to 33 tnd he eoored a Toss of approximate: ¥ $21,000, Mr, ‘Wack asks that a demand be nade on the Amatermmced company ‘or its hooks, to ascertain. Jost what {3 stock if worth, and if Lawson's leclaration proves false he wants him naicted under chapter 485 of the cate, hird eubdiviston, whieh provides that any person who krewinglyelyentates a false rimor, statement ar intelli gence against a stork 4s enichable by. A fine of not more than $5000, or by imprisonment for wot more than thres years, ar both, | District Sttarney Jerome ts out of town intl. Monday. Tn his nteonea Agsistant District Attorney Rondo ceived Me, Week and Me eovinsel, Ta pated) them 10 eal) om Manan and | fell thelr store £0 Mr tocnana Wimsatt Mr, Rand sald. the dilateiet ottnrnes und wont Invite ll pertles interesten 0 appear before bim, | I glatae | Be ey | a val <2 . wale IP ~ ae | CEAtege Re > a | as ee VS OR | |“caer - as Heme of revclatae net ne GGaL Se inane SUPREME COURT SEVASTOPOL THROWS OUT VOTE) = =—-1S ATTACKED Establishes Precedent in Denver Election Contests. AFFECTS OTHER PRECINCTS Action May Vitally Change Results of Election May Result in Giving Re- publicans Conirot of Boil Bodies ‘aif Galevady: Lagivavure. Denver, Cols, Dee, 1. By ueclding Wy throw out the sate of precines 7, Ward 8, of this city, In consequent: Of frauds committed there at the baie election, tie xupiome court estab Hse a precedent that may be ap pied to many other preeines, in Whiew, ft Is alleged, the eoust’s injunc Vion order was Violated and therety vitally affected the results uf the late eWetion, Showid simtlar xetion be taken in athes cases to the extent de manded by the repnbtican lawyers, 1 will result i the election of the en tire republican legislative theket in this county and give the republicans contro! af bork branches of the lest.s lature. On the face of the returns the republicans have a majority the hese and the democrats a nujor Hy in the senate Another result of the excision of 4 few presinets would bet put te Pepublicane In possession af all te City aNd county attices exept the midyorality, shotld the supreme eset deewte that the spring election — was not legal and that these atfiees were to he fed at the November election The Gemorratic majoriies range from 700 ty 2am, Should the entire vole of those ety wards over which (he supreme court assumed jurisietion be disregnrted. Alva Adams, democratic candidate for xovernor, wold lose 18,845 votes, and Governor James H, Peabody, re: publican 8.541, a net loss of 10.304 for Adams, but this alone wonkd result in his defeat, ae his majority in ihe state is romething over 11.000. RUSSIAN FLEET NOT DANGEROUS | Tokie, Dee 13.--The commander of la Japanese naval Inn batters re “porting yesterday, says Pour Russian hutileships, tec Foouisers, one gunboat and one tergede Storesiip lying in Port Ariane are completely disatled, ‘There is no fur ther necessity for bombarding the Russian naval force. “ATE Mew engtved in shelling the town of Port Arthur, which is ben, heavily damaged ‘Tosin, Les. 12, Dispatehes rovety ed today from the Japanese army. be sleging Port Artaur report that tae interior of the fortress was bombard ed with heavy guns vestoruay, ser. fously damaulnig the battleships Polta- va, the transport Amur and the wire: loss telegeaph station at the foot of Golden hil and the arsenal was set on, fire, St. Petershurg, Dee Ve The an thorities have no late news. from, Port Arthur and like the public, are compelled to depend upon information furnishes! bby the Javanese, There ts an fnelnation to accent These reports Wiles wand oad ad atawaned, Molden, Dee. U.—On Fylday night the Japanese several tines attacked the trenches of the Russian right, but in even ease they were repulsed St Petersburg, Nee, The: gen: eral staf has no information contirm: atory of the forcine rerort of @ Jap: anese advance below Mukien, Ace coding to the official renorts no fight ing on a lures seaie te i progress oF imminent, On the contrary the situ ation is practically unchanged, MUST M. RK CANNED GOODS. | Government Issues Order Affecting Goods Containing Coloring Matter. | Washington, Deo. 14.—The chemts: try division of the department of ag: rieulture yesterday issued a eireular directing that hereafter ell canned goods containing coloring matter must ‘he 89 marked. ‘The department takes ‘the posftion that when such foods are ‘filled with coloring matter it {8 no more than right that the pnblie should know of that fact, The order as given in the clrenlar directs that all food profnets colored with sulphate of cop: per showid contain a label to that ef- fort. and that food products artifieally colored with other snbstanees should hear upon the Jebel an inserintion showing that they have heen artineral lv colored or avert. Manvfactared food prodnets In which “glucose has heen used instend of seman, ts in db rected, shoul! hear mpon the label a statement ta that effect, Children who say smart things soon grow up and are lost in the shuffle. | SEVASTOPOL Piucky Japanese Storm the Huge Russian Ship. OBSTACLES ARE VERY GREAT Entire Crews Volunteer tor Death Service. Utmost Precautions Are Taken to Protect the Great Ruse sian Ship From Harm. ‘Tokio, Tee, 16. ‘The partially se peasfal torpete aiiack on the Sevasto- pol was made in the free of almost ine I sarmonniable obstactes, and writes another inspiving story of the splendid Swavery of a number of affenss 7 The entire erew of the torpeda boat destrosers and forpeda Voats volun: teered for the nttaek, courting death Jin their efforts to destroy the only tinating Russian battleship at Port Ariher, Facing a driving snow storm And heavy weas, the flotilla, separated, and, under indivkduat commanders, the’ vessels attacked Independently, The Geeks of the destroyers and tor. pedo boots: were conted with fee, amd the men suffered xentely from colt, The Iussians resorted to the most extreme measures to protect the Se vestonwl, ‘They dropped torpeda ness hich sbieided the Lows of the wars sitip and the Sevastopol was fart or prstected hy a specially constircted wooden boom, {he frame work of whied was composed of fron teannd Toes and cables and heavy ehatas te teriaced and entangled, From the hortom of the surface of tis boom: fume a deep enritin male of torpedo Nety taken fret: the sipkea battle: ships, the purpose of which was to cateh and destroy the torpedoes and their mechanista Toe Japanese probably refrained from attempting ty eat or jump the boom, 4 plain demonstraced hy the Britis, but the tarpeto boats and de- Sbosere evidently forced the opene ings, whieh the Russians had left so as to allow communication wit’ the harhor. ‘Tokio, Des, Wie —‘The commander of the third Japanese squadron, report. ng at 10:35 o'elork Wednesday mora “Commencing ab 11:30 u'ciork Tues. day wiht and continaing until & eelock Wednesiiay morning sty. tare pelo bots and sposkaiy. tit ol carne craft constantly attempted attacks xninst tle Russian hattleshiy Seras tipo. the euiest lofi tse vest) Ole | Sm} and the military transpiasss “Detilig of the attacks are not yet knows. However acento: tye joris received from the waists tower AE w'etork this monutise dhe Sevacte pol Nad commence! towering astern and the Water Wiis said ty cenely the lokqualios tubes asioric” CONGER LEAVES PEKING. Leng Rumerec Change Has Been De- cided Upon, Washington, Dee 12-1 has been settled that EW. Conger of Des Moines, now amiuister to China, welt be transterred 9 Mexico ta. succeed General Powell Clayton of Arkansas, who will retire with this adtinistra fton as has been announced before. 1 has wen supposed for some time that Mr. Conger would get the place. He WIN he sueceeted Wy WW Rewkhill, chief of the bureat of the Ameriean sepublies, Mr. Conger's early: retin, to this country may be expected Witte J. Hayes, wha has heen go. lected as assistant seoretary uf ase culture, 18 professor af te Minne sola State College of Agriculture at St Anthony. He is an able scientist and will work for eoorination of sclentific bureaus of the department, a matter that has given mien troute, Ie is Uelieved that this work wil! large. ly fall on assistants as the socretaey Necessarily has political relations and cannot study interna) affairs of the de. partment as closely as he might wish It ts believed Mr. Haves" selection is strong evidence that Mr. Wilson will | be retained, ‘Three Killed on Battieahia. eee see bila. Dec. 16.—Canght tn a trap and helpless to save themselves, three men lost their lives and foie others, including Lieutenant William Cole, were terribly sealded yesterday by a rush of steam and bolling water in the fire room of the battleshin Massachuselts, lying at the League Island navy yard. ‘The dead: Edgar Hub, married, a bollermaker and clvilian, Andrew Hamilton, married, a poi: ermaker and civilian. Charles Ritzcl, bollermaker'a helper and efvitan, Wth the excention af Licntonant Cole all the killed and injured ree sided In Philadelphia, Lieutenant Cole received his Infamne in a erate effort to rescue the athens ‘The aceldent was caused by the piv ing way of a gasket or ribber washes on a boiler on the starboard side of the ship, NPS TORPEDO Reported That They Hay. Sunk the Russian Battleship, LAST OF PORT ARTHUR Flee: Was Driven to Sea to Avoid Bom /bardment Are Able to Probe Ex, Nook and Corner of Port Anh From 203 Meter Mitt 1 Howtynarters of dhe Tsind Japanese Army, (via Fas, Dee. 1 tye Russian battiesbipy Sevastopol, only Kusahin warship vat eseapes | ostenetion, eins docked when the other vessels were ani ation the | Japanese had captured 208 Meter hit feseaped from the dock and harbot | last nfzht ard is now anchored nies | protective amoumtain, Sonim tor ; Pedy cratts are abe outside of the | harior. | The tremendons price in te pate [be the Japanese for the capture ot [uot Meter AHL, has been redone te the utter destruetion of tha tte sian thee. The Japanese foot will now ge ins “dock. Lefore Port Arthur With the ‘thee Japunese Army.--tVin Busan, tie 15a ‘The work of removing the eas from tho slopes and erests ot ie Meter hill hats boon completed on the north side. The santh slopes se SUIE covered with hadies, buarled mnie Uh debris of irenches aud. omy proofs, “Khe tong. lines of Japaaes ‘lead. lald ont on wp of the hilt ane the slopes previous tus interment, pes sented an iwfnl sieht. Most of the bodies were partially naived and dor nhl tern by dynamite bombs Mutsien, Dee. 15. Late dispatches reecived at headquarters ftom. Pur Arihur, hy way of Che Foo, declan that ‘the sitnation there tx ‘hy ne Mans as desperate as ft is. rrpre sented by foreien newspaper iis patehes, “The line of main. Wefense as yer is “unbroken and there te plenty. of ammunition and food ‘Tokin, Nes 15.—"The report of Vive Admital Togo was reccived. tonite It siatod as follows: “A commander, asim, commas ing the torpedo Hotifia, on. Munday Nicht “at mbinight attacked the Kus timn hattleshin Sevastopol. tying nh, side Port Arthur. ‘Tae rexsit of thie attack bas not heen ascertained, Sub Semently two torpedy boats under Commander Masts, attempted. ses eral attacks. facing the enetay's vigor wus fice. ‘The shork of tie explosions Of tarpetoos was felt, but the next lay the Sevastopol remained. In. the same nosition. “Nene of ‘our vessels was injure. On Tuesday at 3s welock in the moruing anotber tar pedo flotilla under Commander Ack Kawa ‘attacked the Sevastapol, bl the result of this” attaek was no! learned. Jn this attacl a shell fron the enemy sirick the funnel of one of or terpede bouts and another struck the engine ros, disabling the vessel, and she lost her freedom of motion and was towed away by her comrades, ‘There were no ensialtios “Astin, at o'clock in the morning of the same day, a torpedo otis iauder Commander Seki attempted. an Attack, but was exposed: by the ene ms's “searehlights and, helag. sub. reted to heavy fire, was unable. to Mromplish this. purpose “Shnultaneousty, Liewtonant Adacht, vanninanding two torneo. boats, age proached the enemy's ship and. die arged torpedoes, ‘whieh were seen f exolonte, tmnt with what effect: Is rit Kueh, “These attackers. werd Usa extosed tM heavy fire aml both Rete Mit one and threw amen i pea” The commender of the naval gant eroaking Part Arthur, reportite at oleleck “Testa wight, saya “o see homrirdment was principal revted against the arsenal amd tie oie store house at Tiger's. Tal enivenia, and the vessel anchored thot vicinity, “The store” haves rae Set on Bre and heewed In abt n hone. About six slate etre the hiv, and three vessele naw! tor vee ne “WirpoRes worn estroxe, Dine pak fire and sont, “The hombars rent of the bulldines eansed serio “manne, The roel nf tha bane ardment of the Sevastonol has. net nen ascertained. owing to the i lamant wanther Retore Port Arthur, With the Thiet mpanese Army, via Fusan, Dee. 15. he effect of dinamite used aw an of ‘nsive weapon In the form of hand renades ts jastaneed In an appalling nner by tae condition of the dead dies, which are torn and unrocosnis Je masses of flesh and hones. Frag ents of hundreds of killed found ih 6 fie Sin Tesston trenches. pe nted a seone uf awtial horror, The a¥¥ timbers and steal pines of th mab.proofs were torn to splinters, by e shells and dynamite, General “Oko's Headauarters, via Han, Sunday, Dee Me «Delayed in ransinisslon.)—"The Russians. alone front of General Okies army. ace tioning an actitlery and rifle. thre aid nicht, "Phe Japanese are not lying A lossian move southward pot anticipated imme tlately. sae cssian plan for my winter eampebsn «not _dleveloned Last night the thermometer reach: i degrens below zero, which ty 00 mally cold for Recembvor The Jananese nronaratinns fot the iter are practically cotnpleted, Carriers Loss Positions. Washington, Dec. 14.-- Postmaster ‘eral Wynne yesterday removed om office Frank H. Cunningham, the vith Omaha, Neb,, rural mail carrier, no Is president of the National AS ciation of Rural Carriers, and James Keller of Cleveland, 0, who 1s. at « head of the National ‘Association Lotter Carriers The dismissal is the rosnit of an tn Stigation of charges of insubordina Of helt absent feom dnty wu I leave. ad ef sioiurion of the nstirnt’s atder af Jannary tt. 1802, Whiting individual or organized eMMts of eavermment emptees 19 Themen fecisiatton or to sollelt In mee of pas Pa, what's eaotal punishment?” a) The che ‘eanietioe un es SUPERIOR (WIS.) BUDGETARIAN Winter has commenced here at last but we cannot complain, for we have beautiful weather up until now and even now it is not very cold to superior. The last boots of the season are expected in this week. A good many will be up here and in bath for the winter. Misses Ada Fogg and Beatus Wads- untertained at a tuffy pulling last Tuesday evening at the A. M. E. pau- sion. A large number were present and a lovely time was had by all pres- sion. Mrs. Wade and Mr. Charles Waster proved to be the champion pullers. Games were indulged a until past midnight, when they lost the last ear for home. Rev. T. Will King of St. Paul will present his storeroom views at the german club juban Jan. 2, 1905, as we a time a musical will be rendered for the benefit of the A. M. E. church. Mission 25 cents. A supper will also be served. Mrs. Gertie Bowman will spend the holidays in St. Paul. Mrs. Harry Johnson of Duluth was a visitor at the A. M. E. parsonage Friday. Rev. Wade was a Duluth visitor Friday. We are very much pained to learn of the serious and prolonged illness of Miss Ella Martin of Cedar Rapids. The family has our sincere sympathy and prayers, with the hope of her ultimate recovery. We have known Ella for a number of years. At the A. M. E. Literary society Tuesday evening, which met at the garasone, a "breach of promise" mock trial will be heard. The parties involved are Miss Beatus Wade and Mr. John Butler. Attorneys for defense, Mr. J. Richardson and Mrs. Wade, for printiff, Mr. A. Oglesby and Miss Amy Fogg. Mrs. Budy Grayson and son James will leave the 20th for Elgin, Ill., to send the holidays. They will visit Beloit, Wis., on their return home. The usual Christmas exercises and watch meeting will be held at the A. M. E. church. Mrs. Sarah Adelson of St. Paul W T. Johnson of Chicago and Mrs. Sarah Cunningham of Minneapolis mother, brother and piece of Mrs. G. O Bailen will be her guest during the bday. King of St. Paul will assist Rev. Wade in a series of meetings being with the first of the year. FORT MADISON NOTES Mr. S. Hobes of Moline is visiting relatives and friends in the city. Mr. Bert Jackson of Pueblo, Colorado, visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. McChellan. Mr. Walter Wyatt of Rock Island, Illinois, spent last week in the city, the most of relatives and friends. Meslams Nellie Parker of Rock Island and Harriet Hoskins of Davport, accompanied by their nieces, Jane McChellan, are visiting at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. McChellan. Miss Thomas spent Sunday in Burlington. Mrs. George Wallace of Monmouth arrived in the city Monday to spend the winter. Mrs. Thomas Smith was a Burlington visitor Sunday. Sunday will be quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. Church. The pastor will be assisted by Rev. Williams of Burlington. Mr. Jesse Blades is seriously ill at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Blades. Miss Virgie Allen of Keokuk was in the city Sunday. Mrs. Rebecca Bowman entertained the missionary circle Friday evening. An interesting program was rendered and an enjoyable time was enjoyed by all present. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Murphy entertained a few friends in honor of Mr. S. Holmes Monday evening. Mr. Harry McClollan of St. Louis was in the city last week. Mrs. McKane and Messrs. Grant Thomas, Dan and Ross McKane of Denmark were in the city Sunday. Louise Harper, who has been ill for several weeks, is able to be out again. Mr. Arthur Weldon of New Boston was a visitor in the city the last week. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap, who has been ill for two weeks, is better at this writing. Irving Mack, who has been ill, with the fever is convalescent. ALBIA NEWS. On last Monday evening the Young People's Finch club meet with Miss Jessie Davis, Mr. A. Reed of Hitenman was in town Wednesday. Miss Lillian Taylor from Decatur City passed through Albia enroute to Buxton last Sunday Quite a few strangers from Buxton were in town this week Miss Della Mason of Des Moines passed through Albia enroute to Buxton Thursday. The Court gave a Japanese social at the Masonic hall Saturday evening. Those in Japanese custome were Madames Jones, Davis and Bennings. The presiding elder wished preach on the A. M. E. church next Thursday evening. Mrs. Susie Smotty has been quite tick for the most few weeks. CEDAR BAPIDS NEWS We are very sorry that our news for last week was sent away too late for publication in last week's paper. Miss Ella Martin, who was carried to Mercy hospital last week, is much improved and will probably be able to undergo the operation this week. Mrs. Rebecca Martin, who has been very ill with typhoid fever, is much better. Sunday was the first quarterly meeting of this conference year. Presiding Elder G. W. Gaines was present and filled the pulpit morning and evening. There was a good attendance all day in spite of the snow storm. Mrs. W. H. Robinson is confined within doors with a gripe. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hawkins entered Dr. G. W. Caines at dinner Monday. Mrs. Adelia Parkins and son, Mas. Mer Mayo, expect to spend the holidays with her parents and brother in Maçom 11. The J. S. Y. club was dightly entertained at the home of Mrs. W. H. Robinson last Wednesday after noon, P. M. P. Lewis was present and gave a very interesting account of the work of other clubs she has visited. Refreshments were served at the close of the program. Edward Moreland of Davenport visited in Clinton last week, the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Holland Williams. The home of Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper on Second avenue was the scene of a happy event Wednesday evening, December 17th, when the marriage of Mrs. American Frames Johnson of Chicago to Mr. R. D. Smith too kiphe in the presence of the new of the friends of the contracting parties at six. Rey Thomas spoke at six. Madeleine them man and wife. Res. Smith is no stranger in Clinton, having been aide here several years ago. She is also a sister of Mrs. Cooper. Mr. Smith has also been a resident of Clinton for a number of years. He has held for a number of years and is at present holding the position of mentor of the City National Bank. After the ceremony refreshments were served they are now at home to their friends at 125 Fifth Avenue. Messrs. McNeil, Hancock & Cullerson are looking well to the interests supply of good things for the holiday trade. Curtis Clyde Bush is confined to his home this week by illness. A fitting Christmas present to the Bystander would be a remittance in full for your back subscription. The first heavy snowfall of the season reached Clinton Sunday, commencing in the early morning and continuing off and on a 1 day. At 4:00 Smith is entertaining her sister, Ms. OSKALOQSA Messrs. Blakely, Jackson, Step, Brown and Hill of Buxton were in the city this week on the Fielden trial. Mr. and Mrs. R. Gaines of Cooper & Qaline's town, were in the city this week. Miss Adlaide Terrell, while on her way home from Colfax, spawn a few days with Bertha Strother and Laelia Franklin. Mr. O. A. Johnson of Des Moines, was in this city last week on business. "Quarterly meeting" was held at A. M. E. Church last Sunday, services conducted in the afternoon by Rev. Smith of Westly Chapel, M. E. Rev. Gaines being unable to be with them until Wednesday evening. Miss Lola Franklin, entertained in honor of Mr. W. H. Wilkinson of Chicago, HI. Tuesday afternoon Misses Nora Plummer of Kansas City Mo, and Agnes Lewis of Evans and Mr. Larenzo Smith and sister. The afternoon was spent in playing games and dancing. MT. PLEASANT Mr. R. N. Huckley left Saturday for Wilberforce to continue his studies during the winner. Sunday was Rally Day at the A. M. E. Church. In the evening a Sacred concert was given. The program was: Voluntary ... Miss Myra Carrier Invocation ... Mr. R. O. Kelly Selection ... Choir "Thy Dearest Friend." Paper ... Miss Ione Mason Vocal Solo ... Miss Cora Taylor "A Dream of Paradise" Address ... Rev. A. L. Clark Selection ... Choir "Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled." Vocal Duet ... Misses Hawkins and Taylor Reading ... Miss L. Bartlett Vocal Solo ... Miss Ruth Grandison "Lead Kindly Light." Paper ... Miss Nora Harris Vocal Solo ... Mrs. L. Sheldon "Stilling The Tempest." Selection Quince Shine Ear Mrs. Med. Sports who has been visiting her mother for the past few weeks, left for her home in Chicago Tuesday. Rev. A. T. Clark of the A. M. B. church, went to Davenport Monday to spend a few days with his father, Rev. T. A. Clark. MT PLEASANT. Mrs. A. L. Clarke has been quite ill for the past few days. Her many friends will be glad to learn that she is improving. The Men's League will meet at the A. M. E. church on Tuesday evening. The topic for discussion is, "Along what lines should the Negro be educated for the best interest of the race?" Mr. Dave Fiddler, who has been working at the barber business in Fairfield for the past few weeks, is in the city and expects to open a shop here. A social will be given at the Second Baptist church on Tuesday eventing by the members of the Sunday school. A very interesting business delivered by the A. M. E. church on Sunday night by Professor C. W. Rodgers of Newport, Ark. His subject was "The Power of Knowledge," and was full of instruction and encouragement for young people, urging them to strive to do and be something in life. The entire lecture was of such unusual merit that Professor Rodgers was invited to lecture again on Monday night, at which time he chose the subject, "Watch." A large number were out and all felt that they had not for a long time listened to such an eloquent and instructive discourse. Mr. J. C. Arbuckle went to Burlington Sunday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Kinney, noting his stay in Mt. Pleasant Professor Rodgers was supervised at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Burnett, who made it so pleasant for him that the professor was reluctant to leave them. NEWTON NOTES Rev. D. B. Kooppel of Maxwell, Ia. filled the pulpit of the A. M. E. church both morning and evening services on Sunday. Mr. Henry Lucas of Grimnell, Iowa spent Sunday in Newton. Rev, Manley spent a day in Mara shalltown last week. Mrs. Grace Mays is feeling nearly this week. She has been sick for some time. Those who were ill last week are not improved, at this writing. hudden impoverished by Rev. Manley is holding a series of meetings in Colafx this week. He is having good spiritual success. The A. M. E. choir are much delighted with their new song books. Mrs. R. B. Manley went to Cofax this week to assist Rev. Manley with his revival services. Those who have not yet paid their quarterage will remember that it is acceptable at any time. EVERYBODY KNOWSTHAT MUNGER'S LAUR DRY is the beat in the city. Try them and be decided. Maine Office 211-215 NINTH St Branch Office 504 MULEERBY St PHONE 579. CONGRESS Washington, Dec. 12 Senate-Tax senate had under consideration today the pure food and Philippine government bills. Depute on the former was confined to calling attention to the inadequacy of the protection accorded the people of the United States against impure foods and drugs. A discussion of the Philippine bill related solely to the question of the taxuary by the Philippine government of the income or interest on bonds of rail roads in those islands, Mr. Spomer of Wisconsin leading in the criticism. House. The house transaction quite a large amount of miscellaneous business today, starting with pension bans and considering the Hill fiscal bill later in the day. A number of bills of local character were passed and an amendment was sent for hack of a quorum when an attorney was permitted to pass the joint resolution granting the use of the Washington monument lot for the American railway appliance exhibition. Washington, Dec. 13.-Senate.-In the senate today a number of private bills and a few bills of a sent-public character were passed, and there was some discussion of the pure food bill by Mossers, McCumber, Flatt of Connecticut and Spooner. A resolution granting the use of the pension office building for the inaugural ball also was passed. Mr. Bailey expressed opposition to it. House.-Sitting as a grand jury the house of representatives today with almost a full membership, after more than five hours' discussion to the excursion of all other business, adopted a resolution providing for the impeachment of Judge Charles Swaine, of the northern district of Florida, for "high crimes and misdemeanors." The case against the respondent was clearly set out by Mr Palmer of Pennsylvania, chairman of the substitute committee of the judiciary committee, which heard the evidence in the case. He carefully dissected the evidence bearing on each of the specifications and said that if it were that狄里奇 Swayne had done well he would have had no reason he had done ill he should be sent to trial. "Where his excuses and apologies may or may not receive consideration" He was followed by Messrs Clayton of Alabama Powers of Massachusetts, Henry of Texas and Lamar of Florida, each of whom in most virious terms advocated impairment, Messrs Gilbert of California and Littlefield of Malta in securities, opposed Messrs Gilbert of California and Littlefield except the ones to the account concluded to the government by Judge Swayne for travelling expenses. Washington, Dec. 14. Senate—The senate, which under the constitution is made the trial court in impeachment cases, today received official notice of the determination of the house of representatives to present impeachment charges against Hon. Charles Swayne, federal judge in the northern district of Florida. The matter was brought to the senate's attention by a house committee and the senate appointed a committee to prepare the details of the proposed trial. The senate considered the Philippine government bill and the pure food bill. Mr. Foraker presented a tariff amendment to the Philippine bill, but on complaint of Mr. Dubois and other senators that the bill was not properly amended when the senate entered into an agreement to vote on the bill next Friday. It was withdrawn. Senator Kearns introduced a bill providing for the annexation to Utah of all that portion of Arizona lying north of the Colorado river. House.—Further action on the impeachment proceedings against Judge Charles Swayne of the northern district of Florida was taken in the house today by the appointment of the committee of seven provided for by a resolution adopted yesterday to draft the charges for presentation to the senate and by the reception of the report of the committee of five to notify the senate of the impeachment, but the senate had performed their duty and that the committee had responded that "orders shall be taken." The urgent deficiency bill and several other bills of a public nature were passed. Washington, Dec. 15.—Senate. The senate spent practically the entire day discussing the Philippine administration bill. A number of amendments were suggested and debated, among them being provisions relating to railroad bonds, mining locations and tariff rates. Under unanimous agreement the vote on the bill will be taken tomorrow and the disposal of all amendments will occur at the same time. A formal order to enter on the Swayne impeachment proceedings was adopted, but it did not fix a day for beginning the work. House---Discussion of the bill "to improve currency condition" was resumed in the house today, but throughout the session its advancement was beset with obstructive tactics by the democrats, led by Williams of Mississippi, the minority leader. The democrats mustered sufficient strength to force Speaker Cannon to break a tie in order that the bill might be taken up, the democrats assuming their attitude of antagonism because Mr. Hill of Connecticut in charge of the bill refused to postpone further consideration in consequence of the illness of Mr. Bartlett, of Georgia, leader of the opposition. The house made little progress on the measure. "How's you gettin' on wud youchy rithmetic, Lou?" "I done learned to add up de oughts, but de figures bolder me." Collier's Magazine. Hard luck has been the fate of the Emperor of Austria from the beginning of his reign. In every battle he has toughed he has ans been defeated, his wife was assassinated, and his eldest son closed his career with suicide. The Citizen is boarded of health asserts a power percentage of health from Bright's disease are those who indulge in want is called high living. People who live on plain food and lead temperate lives rarely have the disease. "Anyway," said the Cheerful Idiot, as he looked over the Tired Citizen's shoulders at the picture of an ignorant dog foest, "there's one part of the canine they don't seem to fancy." "What's that man doing the Tired Citizen?" insisted politically. "The birds, the Cheerful Idiot, with loud laughter—Rollimore American. The pot doesn't call the kettle black as often as the fat woman calls the stout one a monstrosity. "To what account shall we charge these new battleships?" asked the Russian treasury official. "The sinking fund," answered his superior, warlily.—Washington Star. UNITED INSURANCE CO. Incorporated Under the Laws of the State of Virginia, 1894. In order to place our business in other cities and towns, we will make a special offer to those who want to invest and will write us. We have written more than sixty thousand members in our insurance Department. We have more than twenty-five branches. We are planning to enlarge our business. We want to peace our business in every city and town in the United States, and we are going to do that just as soon as the funds of the corporation will permit. We want to establish a loan department, where we can loan money to our policyholders and stockholders. We want to make a deposit of $10,000.00 in the treasury of the state. In that way we will be able to show to the world that we mean business. In order to do this the corporation is capitalized for Twenty-five thousand dollars (2,500 shares at $10.00 each). Of this amount about 500 shares have already been subscribed for at the par value of $10.00, making the present subscribed capital $5,000.00. The remainder, consisting of 2,000 shares, is now offered to the public at $10.00 share. The corporation has no part and the rest installment. The corporation has paid dividends of 10 per cent. It has declared within the last few days a dividend of the same percentage. The corporation has no bonded debts and its stock when fully paid is non assessable. All shares become dividend bearing from the date of final payment. Dividends are payable July in each year. We want reliable agents to handle our stock. Write us today for stock. J. E. Byrd, President, 506, Eas N. W. Washington, P. C. POINTED PARAGRAPHS: Many a train of thought carries no freight. It's a wise industrial stock that knows its own par. Lots of people pray for the poor—and let it go at that. The favorite pastime of a lynching party is looping the loop. Insomnia is seldom caused by the things a man doesn't say. A battleship in the hand is worth two ultimatums in the bush. Weak solutions may be all right in chemistry, but they don't go in politics. A girl never looks older than she is, except when she has her hair done up in papers. After a girl has refused him twelve times a superstitious youth will quit proposing. Statesmen who "also ran" are naturally slow to predict a bright future for their country. Anyway, one half of the world knows that the other half is looking for the best of it. Some successful men are 25 per cent backbone and some others are 25 per cent check. There are still many opportunities for young men; the trusts haven't been able to grab all of them. Cupid is a sorry leader; after leading people into trouble he leaves them to fight it out themselves. The latest museum freak is a pig with two legs. Outside a museum it isn't necessary to have four legs to be a hog. When a high-salaried office finds it necessary to seek the man you may expect to see thieves trying to break in to jail - Chicago News. A SPINSTER SAYS THAT-- Lots of men who have seen trees never saw wood. Experience is the pay a man gets for making a tool of himself. No man is capable of ruling others who is unable to rule himself. Many a man loves his enemy because it comes in a pocket thask. Often a man's wealth is not worth the littleness he used to acquire it. A married man's idea of a good time is doing the things his wife objects to. Lots of men who are inclined to be good keep putting it off to morrow. Some men are willing to be good if paid, and some others are good for nothing. If some men were to remain silent they might acquire reputations for wisdom. Other people don't amount to much when a man uses himself as the standard of comparison. Most men worry because of their many trials, but a lawyer worries if he doesn't have any at all. The average man would rather lose $5 on a horse race than a nickel through a hole in his pocket. Too many men in this glorious country vote as they pray and they never pray unless it is to ask a personal favor. Some men remind one of old bens; they no sooner accomplish anything than they proceed to make an unnecessary fuss about it. SOME LEGAL DON'TS. Don't make contracts with minors; you will find your house builted on the sands. SANTA CLAUS Christmas Art se for Rattles se for Iron Banks se for Tin Animals se for Rooster Whistles se for Transparent States se for Printing Outfit se for Toy Watches se for Blowy Toys se for Linen A, B, C, Books se for Games se for China Dolls se for Painting Outfit se for Toy Iron Trains se for Toy Banks se for Spelling Blocks se for Toy Sad Iron, se for Wheeling Bell Toy, se for Rubber Dolls se for Tin Kitchen Set se for Tin Horses and Wagon, se for Harp se for Little Hatcher se for Jack in the Box se for Christian Year, se for Flower of Liberty, se for Called Back, se for The Wonder Book Articles Suitable as Ladies Satin Girdle, Corsets in pique blue, sold elsewhere at 75c Spencer Price. Children's white embroidered Cape lars with stole ends, 90c value of Velvet Grip Hose Supporters, of extra heavy plain cloth, all colors, per pair. We will place on sale this week to Silk and fancy Velvet Hoods, worth $2.50 each—your choice at Wood Fascinators, fancy crochet & borders, assorted colors—worth 75c—snow at. 55c Fancy Knit Scarf, with heavy borders, white and light colors, of instant White Wood Hoods, with crochet hooks, regular price 90c and Anglo-food paint and with fun- tions, colors grey and white. Instant Wood Booties, white and candy colors, 90c. Lady Soft Umbrella, stocked p guitar tie, an artificial wood hood. Black Silk Umbrella, stock, 90c, pour-hand, Sterling mounted each. Lady styles of Silk Underlashes, fo $2.50, Stroking Jackets, this week at. 900 dozen new Sox, Neckties, chest of. 900 dozen new Silk Neckties, cash of. A night Can beaded, with fancy candles. A night fancy channel, metal star Candles. Round Friend's place, ring handle, hand mirror. Round that handle, hand Mirror. Heavy Glass Mirror with oxidized stand. Fancy Shell Jewel Boxes, tiny lining. Heavy silver plated Mugs, for children. Heavy silver plated Shaving Mug and Brush. 100 different styles in Albums, with to $5.00. Colored Pictures, oak and black frames with glass. Matted Jap Pictures, at. Men's and Youth's From the Great Fire We Are Offering W Shoes, Slippers, S FREE:---Large with a purchase The Leader UNION STORE 510 Christmas Article Banks 10c for L. Animals 10c for L. Her Whistles 10c for L. Parent States 10c for L. Ging Onth 10c for L. Watches 10c for L. W Toys 10c for L. A. B. C. Books 10c for L. Dolls 10c for L. Bring Outfit 10c for L. Ron Trains 25c for L. Banks 25c for L. Bring Blocks 25c for L. Bad Irons 25c for L. Bring Bell Toy 25c for L. Bber Dolls 25c for L. Kitchen Set 25c for L. Horses and Wagon 25c for L. Hatchet 25c for L. In the Box 25c for L. Station Year 25c for L. Set of Lables 25c for L. Old Book 25c for L. Wonder Book 25c for L. Suitable as Xmas Girls' Corsets in pink, white, brown at 75c 5c All colors, one dozen One card Ten Tops, stamped for week to match, 25c Laundry Bags, of each Each embroidered Cape Col. Col ends, 30c taine each. Home Supporters, of fancy truffle plain chiffon, all pair. On sale this week to dozen Chicney Velvet Hoods, worth up $—your choice at maters, fancy crochet square, withorted colors, worth $— Ant Scarfs, with heavy fringe, white and light colors, each Wool Hoods, with silk, cognac price, 20c and 65c, now, wool, paint and with fur trim grey and white Ant Snoods in white with snags. Booties, white and 25c and 50c Umbrellas, steel rod, para matte, wood handles $20 Innacles, steel, steel, paragon, steel, insulated $8 Silk Umbrellas from $1.50 to ring Jackets, $50 New Sox, neckties. Silk Neckties, with fancy $6 Fancy channel, metal stand Neck piece, ring handle. Hand, land. Mirror with oxidized $2 Jewel Boxes, $2 Plated Mugs. Plated Shaving Mug $2 Styles in Albums, with prices from oak and black Pictures. Hand Youth's Suits The Great Fire Under The Offering Women' S, Slippers, Silks and STORE 510-512-5 Christmas Articles at 5c, 10c and 25c Christmas Articles at 5c, 10c and 25c 50 for Rattles. 50 for Iron Banks. 50 for Tin Animals. 50 for Rooster Whistles. 50 for Transparent States. 50 for Printing Outhits. 50 for Toy Watches. 50 for Rallow Toys. 50 for Linen A, B, C Books. 50 for Gowns. 50 for China Doll. 50 for Painting Outfit. 50 for Toy Iron Trains. 50 for Toy Banks. 50 for Spelling Blocks. 50 for Toy Sad Irons. 50 for Wheeling Bell Toy. 50 for Rubber Doll. 50 for Tin Kitchen Set. 50 for Tin Horse and Wagon. 50 for Harps. 50 for Little Hatchet. 50 for Jack in the Box. 50 for Christian Year. 50 for Flower of Lables. 50 for Called Back. 50 for The Wonder Book. 100 for Initations of Christ. 100 for Jessica's First Prayer. 100 for Father Waters. 100 for Peter Simple. 100 for Elie Fewner. 100 for Essays of Ela. 100 for Snow Image. 100 for Locksley Hall. 100 for Tom Brown at Oxford. 100 for A Study in Scarlet. 100 for True and Beautiful. 100 for Let Us Forget. 100 for Bacon's Essays. 100 for Iron's Young Outlaw. 100 for Alger's Cash Boy. 100 for Risen From the Ranks. 100 for Alger's Slow and Sure. 100 for Henty's In Time of Peril. 100 for Henty's By Sheer Pluck. 100 for Henty's Friends Though Divided. 100 for Henty's Of Name and Fame. 100 for Henty's A Final Rockoning 100 for Henty's True to the Old Flag. 100 for Toy Banks. 100 for Dell Go Carts. 250 for Blackboards. 250 for Little Red Chairs. 250 for Printing Outfits. 250 for Stuffed Animals. 250 for Jack in the Box. 250 for Bell Toys. 250 for Toy Sad Irons. 250 for Toy U. S. Mail Wagon. 250 for Toy Locomotives. 250 for Child's Fashing Set. 250 for Boy's Old Chest. 250 for Toy Tables. 250 for Building Blocks. 250 for Nesting Blocks. 250 for Spelling Blocks. 250 for Wagon Blocks. 250 for Toy Stovies. 250 for Toy Coffee Mills. 250 for Toy Drums. 250 for Child's Kitchen Set. 250 for Set of Pewter Dishes. 250 for Set Nine Pins. 250 for Wooden Wheelbarrows. 250 for Yankee Carpenter. 250 for Transparent Slate. 250 for Toy Rattles. 250 for Musical Coffee Mills. 250 for Toy Watches. Articles Suitable as Xmas Gifts for Men, Women and Children FREE:---Large size [17x27 inch] Matted Pictures with a purchase of $2 or over of Holiday Goods The Leader Department Store UNION STORE 510-512-514 East Locust St. UNION CLERKS Hang up the Christmas stockings, Leave not a dear one out, Leave not a dear one out, Arranging With ringing song and shout. For in the silent midnight Shall Santa, Clue appear, Shall Santa, Clue appear, The love-time of the year. Shall Santa Claus ap And crown with gifts o The love-time of the --- CHRISTMAS is near by--time is short The sooner you select your Christmas Gifts the better you will be pleased. The crowds of holiday buyers are getting larger each day and naturally holiday stocks are getting reduced. Don't wait until the last few days before Xmas. as we are offering great Bargains now. Hang father's sandy stocking. Right to the back of the body. And then his books toes. As he gives the children toys. Let Sasha be careful. About the politics: For father has a conscience That to the right side sticks. Hang up the old fisks' stockings, And then his hair. Dear grandma with her silver hair, Sweet Blossy with her curls, Bright with her eyes. When dawns, in rosette cheer, The Merry Christmas morning, And then the bridge in Royal Noibear. Over One Hundred styles of fancy Gilt, Oak, Metal and Fancy Wood Frames, with a great variety of Pictures, running in price, each, from $3.00 Jap Pictures, with frame and glass 25c Fancy Hat Pins, each, 5c, roc and 25c Silver plated Fruit Knives, per set 75c Wm. A. Rogers' Silver plated Fruit Knives, per set $1.50 Wm. Rogers' Knives and Forks, per set $2.50 Ebony Toilet Set, Sterling mounted, comb, brush and mirror $2.98 Ebonoid Toilet Comb and Brush $1.50 Ebony Manicure Set, Sterling mounted $1.25 Ebony Shaving Set, Brush and mug $1.25 Rosewood Smoking Set, enamel stand and eugar holder $2.00 Enamel Smoking Set, jar and match holder 50c Stag Horn Tooth and Nail Brushes, each 25c Stag Horn Paper Knives, gainch bead 75c Ebony Manicure Set, in fancy ebonoid case $2.50 Tripicate Mirror, size 8x10, fancy back 98c Complete Toilet Set, in fancy plush case $2.50 Fancy Toilet Sets, in Celluloid case 50c Leatherette Music Rolls 25c nine English Leather Music Rolls, each 98c Imported Clay Novelty Smoking set $2.25 New Owl Head Novelty Smoking set $1.69 Sterling Nut Pucks and Crackers, per set 25c Oxidized Ink Well and Pen Tray 75c Heavy Silver Plated Berry Spoons 75c Heavy Silver Plated Meat Fork and Gravy Ladle $1.50 Gold Plated Ink Wells, Match Holders, Ash Tray, each 25c Papette Glove and Handkerchief box, set 50c Celluloid Glove and Handkerchief Box, satin lined, set $1.50 Celluloid Cuff and Collar Boxes, satin lined 1.25 Leatherette Cuff and Collar Boxes, fancy lining, each 50c Hang up the baby's stocking! 'The cunning little elf very smart. You do it for herself. And hang the mother's stocking Oh, very plain in sight. So she'll stick to mother, or she'll forget it quite. the mother's stocking plain in sight; just think for mother, orget it quite. Holiday Gifts FOR Gentlemen We are showing a fine line of SWELL TOGGERY for Gentlemen: Everything of the best and Right-Up-To-Date in styles. Marks Music House FOR Mus Organs d Classical Music Violins, Guitars, Violins Strings, Cornets, Etc. Etc. ICED HOUSE IN THE CITY. Marks Music House 315 Seventh St. nt You To Know --- The Marks Music House Pianos Organs Popular and Classical Music Mandolins, Guitars, Violins Strings, Cornets, Etc. Etc. LOWEST PRICED HOUSE IN THE CITY. THE MARKS MUSIC HOUSE 315 Seventh St. We Want You To Know BLACK THAT WILL NOT HASNOR RUB OFF Iowa Knitting Co. BLACK KID Stocking Feet a Spin Ladies' Hose, cotton, plain and hem, cuff top—from Ladies' wool hose plain and r From Men's 1/2 Hose, cotton, black f plain and fancy embroidered Men's 1/2 Hose, wool, plain black casimeres and and worsted and heavy wove sox—from Boy's, Girl's and Infant's, cotton wool—cotton from Wool—from We have as a SPECIAL a Lady a pair, worth 3 times the amo Call and see us and be convic line possible. Feet a Specialty, 4 for 25c cotton, plain and ribbed—from.....10c to 25c rose plain and ribbed— from.....20c to 40c cotton, black fleeced, fancy embordered from.....10c to 25c wool, plain black, fancy and worsted, medium love sox—from.....20c to 45c and Infant's, cotton and from.....10c to 20c 15c to 25c SPECIAL a Ladies' Fancy Hose at 10 cents times the amount. and be convinced that we carry the best Stocking Feet a Specialty, 4 for 25c We have as a SPECIAL a Ladies' Fancy Hose at 10 cents a pair, worth 3 times the amount. Call and see us and be convinced that we carry the best line possible. How about the Santa Claus Do you have to provide gift or boys? If so let us suggest— Smoaking Jackets, $4 Silk Muffiers, ... Fancy Suspenders, ... Gloves and Mitts, ... Handkerchiefs, ... About the Santa Claus Question? have to provide gifts for men us suggest— Jackets, ..... $4.45 to 12.50 urs, ..... 50c to $3.50 spenders, ..... 50c to $3.00 Milts, ..... 50c to $5.00 iefs, ..... 5c to $1.00 wear, ..... 50c to $1.50 sters, ..... 95c to $2.00 Caps, ..... 25c to $1.00 hundreds of other useful and sensible things or assortments than the smaller stores lowest prices anywhere. How about the Santa Claus Question? Do you have to provide gifts for men or boys? If so let us suggest— Smoaking Jackets, $4.45 to 12.50 Silk Muffiers, .50c to $3.50 Fancy Suspenders, .50c to $3.00 Gloves and Mitts, .50c to $5.00 Handkerchiefs, .5c to $1.00 Swell Neckwear, .50c to $1.50 Boys' Sweaters, .95c to $2.00 Eoys' Swell Caps, .25c to $1.00 and hundreds of other useful and sensible things—vastly larger assortments than the smaller stores show—and the lowest prices anywhere. I. & A. FRIEDLICH The Utica Clothiers Sixth and Walnut Streets E. T. Leavenworth, Mg r. can buy Des Moines AT OUR NEW RETAIL STORE, 519 EAST LOCUST ST. CITY NEWS. (N. B. If you have religious or friend visits in the city or go to make a visit, please inform us; we sell them at your local news—PdI. A merry Christmas to you! ! Mr Samuel Barrett is spending this week in Boone. Master Joseph LaCour who has been sick for several days is convalescent. Quite a number of receptions are to be given during the holidays in honor of the guests visiting Mrs. Wm. Coalson. For good lunches or meals go to N. W. corner of Third and Walnut. Open all night, Fox & Evans. Mr. Harrison Gould pays for a year's subscription to the BYSTANDER as a Christmas present to Rev. and Mrs. H. S. Graves. Hair switches and bangs made from your own hair—satisfaction guaranteed—come and see my work Mrs. Geo, Patton: 124 W. Grand Ave. BARNES MENS OUTFITTER 317 8TH STREET Mr. and Mrs. Win Coalson entertained at dinner last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Theo, Williams and Mr. Alex Bierney complimentary to Mrs. Chas. Chas of Webster city. She will also be a guest of Mrs. Coalson during the holiday. Miss Alice Bell who had on operation performed last week is improving at this visiting. At its last regular meeting, North Star Lodge, No. 2, re-elected by unanimous vote, the following officers: H. E. Jacobs, W. M; E. T. Blagburn, S. W.; James Woods, J. W; N. E. Morton, Treasurer and H. Gould. Secretary. This was the only change. Mr. Gould succeeds K. J. Hamilton. Bystander one year for one dollar. Mrs. L. Sheldon, who has been on the sick list for several days, is able to be out again. Read our advertisements and trade there, telling them you saw their ad, in the Bystander. Mrs. L. R. Palmer went down to Burlington 1st Saturday to attend the funeral of Mrs. L. J. Kenney and Mrs. Gertrude Tyler, who are buried to the south of gasoline stove. She says that was a very unexpected and sad loss to Burlington. As we are sending out many hundred copies of the Bystander this week we invite all of our subscribers to write us a letter not to exceed twenty words, expressing their appreciation of the Bystander as a race journal or their disapproval of it. You might in each case inclose a money order for the payment of your back dues or a renewal of your subscription. We will publish the letters. Every reader please comply. Mrs. E. T. Blagburn, who has been quite sick for the past week, is convalescent. The Bystander printed some of the prettiest and most unique invitations for the grand Masonic musicia to be given in Cycling hall next Thursday Dec. 22. Over 300 invited guests are expected. It will be the swell entertainment of the year. James Woods is chairman of the reception committee. NO MORE—NO LESS. Suit UNION OR Overcoat to Order The GLASGOW. 316 6th AV MADE. $15 Mr. Paul Owens is enjoying a fortnight's vacation from the road. Mrs. Owen is no doubt glad to have her husband get a much deserved rest. Little Lewis La Cour is slick this week. Mr. K. J. Hamilton, who was recently appointed on U. S. postoffice as clerk, resigned last week because the work interfered with his teaching of his profession. Rev. S. Bates of Clarinda, Iowa, passed through our city today from Marshalltown, enroute home who he has been attending the Executive Board of Iowa State Baptist Association. There are free night school given at the public school and out of many that take advantage of this chance only one colored person attends, Mrs. J. H. Shephard, this should not be a number of our young men any women should attend. 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. The J. B. S. Reading club will meet Thursday at the home of Mrs. Free Jackson, on West Eight street. All members requested to be present. The Athenian Literary club will meet next Tuesday at the home of Miss Marie Bell, on West 19th street. Inations, Robert Burns; biography by Mrs. J. L. Thompson; Inst. Solo, Miss Marie Bell; select read ng. Mrs. H. E. Jacobs; vocal solo, H. W. Hughes. We are the recipient of a beautiful instrumental sheet music entitled, Syncaptated Echoes, by Lenard Lewis. of Dubuque, Iowa, yesterday while we as yet have not heard it played yet it is worthy of notit being composed by such a young colored boy. RESPONSIBLE AGENTS WANTED to bath and gentlemen. With a fair amount of energy & $ 8 a day can be made between now and the hot days. Full particulars when soon to be released. ADDRESS the Seiden Pen Mfg. Co. Nassau Street, New York. REEVES JONES NUPTIALS. Last Wednesday night at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Lacy Carry, 2753 Third street occurred the marriage of her daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Jones, to Mr. Walter Reeves of Buxton, Rev. H. Graves performed the ceremony in the presence of a number of invited guests. The Needling march was played by Miss Dalza Goggins in a very acceptable manner. They were the recipients of some beautiful and useful presents. The groom is on of the prosperous young men of Buxton, and the bride is well known here, as she has been a resident of this city for several years. In Buxton, make their future home in Buxton. The Bystander extends congratulations and wishes them a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. MONDAY NIGHT CLUB PROGRAM Remainder of club roll. Dec. 12—Mrs. E. B. Ellison, quo Harriet Beecher Stowe, Subject, uncle Tom's Cabin, paper by Miss Beattie Hickin Dec. 19—Mrs. Harrison Gond (qp) Coe Elliott. The Future of our young women as seen by a college girl. Paper by Miss Mary Lee Jackson. Buffet Buffers Dec. 26—Mrs. H. S. Graves, Buffet luncheon complimentary to club. Quo. Benjamin Franklin and Isaac Newton. "The effect the scientific cook has upon humanity." Dr. A. G. Edwards. Jan. 2—Drama. "Thirty Years of Freedom." at St Paul's church. Jan. 9—Mrs. B. J. Holmes, quo. Lawrence Dumbar. "Progress of the race in the last decade." Paper by S. Joe Brown. Jan. 16—Mrs. A. Black, quo. Francis Wiberd, W. C. T. U. Paper by Mrs. Horace Graves. Jan. 25—Mr. Geo Mason, quo. Francis Harper. "Social Parity." Paper by Mrs. S. Joe Brown. Jan. 30—Mrs. J. McDonald quo. Longwellton. Question box. What was the Missouri Compromise? What was the Mason and if from line? What set free, if from compromise the negro? What was M. M. Montague, quo. Watts. "Power of Song." Paper by Prof. Geo. I. Holt. Dec. 13—Mrs. F. Walker quo. Wendee Phillips. "Abraham Lincoln." Paper by Alice Morton. Feb. 29—Mrs. E. Watkins, quo Daniel Webster, "Frederick Douglas" Paper by H. R. Wright. Feb. 27—Miss A. Morton, quo Jas. G. Blaine, "James A. Garfield" Paper by W. H. Wright, quo G. R. Wright, quo G. A. R. Cummins, "The Imaginal Address" led by G. Watkins. SAVE THE YOUTH. The great educational questions of today have to be chiefly with the older boys and girls, the full grown man, stem, strong and impacible in their coin and habits. But more and more I am impressed with the truth that 'our work should be chiefly with the child; tender yielding, impassible and unhardened, just ready to take any shape we are ready to give it.' Shall it be the instrumental or classical education for the Newer? is the question in the minds of many of our pupils. Shall it be educational question in 8 friends today But hard as the attempt is or may be, speak. Look to us, that we may speak in living tomes to the youth. Much of the labor spent in vain to straighten out the old eroded foot or field might be spent in guilding the young sappining, which bonds leisure and woeing towards us through it would then take on our My. We would then guide the children and the adults will take care of them selfs* and*"But many of our officers and contributions to the censor have not fully learned this fact, for they continue to pay out hundreds of dollars to aid the adult in retaining his transect or equipping him in indus J.M. tress, for every dollar given to form the character of the child, which is the foundation after all of the individual life. We believe that the dollars should be expended on the children and the pennies on the men. Experience teaches us that men forget the events of yesterday, but the experiences of childhood are ever green in our memory, and we have realized the importance of having these impressions right before evil principles have gained a place in the mind of the child. Evil abounds in the world, constantly springing up in the place of good, and to whatever extent our work is charged the end will never be tached, but through the instructions for the youth, properly managed we can overcome this vast accomplishment. Practicing Christ to the youth, belonging the generations of the earth to the foot of the cross, before deprivacy is developed in its most gigantic forms, turning the streams of human life and passion into the channel of truth and righteousness, before they become unloved and impatient in the eyes of others upon the models of the gospel, not by howling, trimming and reshaping the manhood of society, but by adjusting the early shoots and bending the plant twigs of its infancy. Let every parent and friend to the cause of God and humanity aid in giving every child the best home training possible, to be followed by the training in a good school, and the race may go to sleep without any doubt as to that portion of the "base of theyworld" that extends over our continent. "Our business is not to build quickly, but to build upon a right foundation and in right spirit." H. W. Porter, Pastor Union Congl. Church. BARNES MENS OUTFITTER 317 8TH STREET THE CHURCH CHEF Buy your wife a Gas Range for Christmas. See our line of Gas Sable Lamps, Gas Heaters, Gas Irons, Gas Griddles Cake Cakers, Fixtures, Etc. The above is a picture of the new building of the Corinthian Baptist church. This excellent property was secured about the first of last July. It is located at the northeast corner of Fifthth and Linden streets, in a very fine residence district and is worth ten thousand dollars. Capacity of five hundred, is very convenient with its six rooms, including a completely furnished kitchen, two furnaces, a pipe organ and a piano. And so wonderfully successful has the management been and the church so highly favored by the bequest of Mr. Jas Calhman, that the small sum of eleven hundred and fifty dollars from the church will meet this property not located in the heart of the memorialhip, it is easily accessible to parts of town, and large congregations have gathered there each Sunday. age with twenty-five members. The care lot membership is now two hundred and forty-five. The officers of the church are as follows: Deacons—C. H. Hart, W. H. Hamnett, F. G. Goggins, Lucen Brown and Jas. Wilbert Lawrie Lawrie Earley Geo. Law, James James, P. Phillips and Walker Cotton Clerk—Mrs. Lenore Cannady, Treasurer—C. H. Hart. Officers of the Sunday school; Superintendent, W. H. Hammitt; clerk Lily Coaston; treasurer, Mrs. Anna Lewis. Assistants of the church are a sewing circle, Highland Park club Company A, and Twentieth Century Literature club. Alyceum is now forming and biodiversity society will be organize The choir is being directed by P. Warick; organist, Mrs. Della Bryan. The pastor of the Corinthian Baptist church is Rev. T. L. Griffith, whose likeness is here shown. On Sunday January 1st, he will celebrate the third anniversary of his pastorate here. He is highly gratified at the success that has attended his effort in seeking a new and commonframe for his people, at the encouragement and support given him by the church and to the Iowa Baptist State Church and to the Iowa Baptist State Church whose officers were so favorable and helpful as to assist in the great undertaking. Rev. Griffith was born in Middlesborough, Va. April 19, 1872. He attended the public schools of his na remained five years, graduating from the normal and theological departments. The president, Dr. G. M. P. King, gave him much encouragement and assistance during his stay there. He was one of the student-teachers, "senior pastor," and twice valedictorian. Feeling the need of higher training he entered the Academy of the University of Chicago at Morgan Park, Ill., where he remained two years, and was twice successful in securing scholarships—the highest honor bestowed there—for excellence in scholarship. These scholarships entitled him to two years of free tuition. The great mental and physical strains to which life in the great university caused him feel his health in danger and he came to Muckilock, Iowa, where he pastured very successfully for four years and taught the public school. While there he married Miss Carte Thomas of Albia and to them four children have been born. Rev. Griffith resigned his charge at Muckakinock and went to Virginia. He became pastor at Christiansburg and Elston, Va., a large field made vacant by the death of Captain Schaeffer, who had spent thirty years among those predece The above is a likeness of Christian, the celebrated shatter who for the last fifteen years has been before the public, is also connected with a good many of our leading colored companies. He is now in vaudeville, playing the leading vaudeville houses of America. He commences his engagement on the Keith circuit Feb. 6th for eight weeks. See his article else where. BARNES MENS OUTFITTER 217 9TH STREET And Comfortable is to have your hair nicely combed and put up in the interior style. If your hair is lengthy and hairs it looks untidy and hurts when you comb it. You can easily change it that and make your hair straight, beautiful and easy to comb by using the Original Ozized Ox Marrow. It also gives that healthy glow to the hair so much desired. One bottle we do it. For over forty years ladies of refashion have been using it with great success. Warranted barnacles and never fails. Only 20 cents a bottle. We pay all express charges. Added Ozized Ox Marrow Co. 76 Watson Chicago, Ill. SPECTACLES MADE TO FIT ANY TYPE DESEASES OF THE EYE- EAR-NOSE & THROAT CURIOUS EYES TESTED FREE DR. DUNCAN. OCULISH DES MOINES IOWA 602 West Walnut Street. L. B. Lowe DEALER IN Fuel AND Feed Coarse Chop Fine Chop Cracked Corn Corn Meal Bran Screenings Oil Meal Stock Food Straw Hay Coal Wheat Shorts Corn Oats 2007 Forest Avenue Iowa Phone 1133-Y. IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR." We shall never tire of reading the magnificent hymn. It will go through the ages until the coming be millennium: it came upon the midnight clear. That glorious song of old, from angels bending near the earth. To touch their harps of gold. Peace on the earth, good will to wait From heaven's all gracious King The world in solemn still lay To bear the angels sing. Still through the cloven skies the come, With peace wings unfurlig, And still their heavenly music floats Over all the weary world; Above its sad and lowly plains They head on hovering wing; And ever over its Babel sounds The blessed angels sing. With all the woes of sin and strife The world has suffered long; Beneath the angel-stain have police Twelve thousand years of wrong [Picture of a woman with a wavy hairstyle and a striped dress]. The above cut is a true likeness of Mrs. Mamie Gould, who has won for herself a reputation as a club woman, being only 26 years of age, yet is the last four or five years she has been at the head of some of the best clubs of the city among colored women, among which were the Monday Night club, of which she was president at the time when this club did more work toward lifting the indulgence off of old St. Paul's A.M.E church than any other club in the city. After being elected president of this club, she resigned the executive terms she had to resign that position on account of other business. Mrs. Gould is now president of the Callahan Industrial Club. This is a club which is wholly devoted to charity work, seeing exclusively after the sick, the poor and needy. Mrs. Gould is now serving her second term as president of this club B THE RELAPSE OF LYING DAVIS A CHRISTMAS STORY BY UNCLE BY SOAP in the galaxy of grocery-stove lamps, "Hez" Davis easily occupied the soup box throne. He was a sort of living refutation of the claim that truth is mighty and will prevail. In fact, Hezekiah Davis was a most marvellous and conscientious prevaricator. None believed him capable of telling the truth, hence no one expected him to speak aught but falsehood—except on one occasion, and even then repentance followed quickly. So gracefully, tenaciously and pliously did "Hez" Davis lie, that away back in the nebulous state of Time, he had been dubbed "Lying Deacon Davis." The "Deacon" portion of the appellation was applied because of his strict attendance upon church services; and the wonderful religious lies associated with his ecclesiastical wool-gatherings of a night, when Morpheus and Mephisto were playing him tricks and fashioning for his imaginings strange visions, were little short of miracles as related to a news-famished community next morning. Then, too, "Hez" occasionally acted as grave digger for the village dead; this, and lying, being about as much as one able-bodied man in a quiet rural community could be expected to attend to well. But, after a time, as "Hez's" lying became more chronic, and his grave digging less pronounced, the "Deacon" joint in the cogwheel of his name was dropped, and he approached the sunset of life with the short and undesirable significance of "Lying Davis." As such was he known on a blunting, winter night two days before Christmas, 1902, as he shambled into the "Corner Grocery" and took his accustomed place among the members of the town "Strategy Board." The accustomed grin of quasiexpectancy, tinged with a curl of disdain in which pity and jealousy were strangely mingled, greeted his entry into the liars circle about the cavern- FRESH SALT MACKEREL ZERO STRAIGHT FROM CORSETS FRESH SALT MACKEREL ZERO STRAIGHT FROM CORSETS "A Mighty fine man was Hiram Squires." you stove that glowed and flushed, as if fretting and blushing for the outrageous falsehoods that nightly held their rampant sway about its metal sides. As he adjusted his coat tails carefully behind the soap box on which he sat, "Hez" surveyed the group critically. "Got a spade I kin borrer to-morrow mornin', Bill," addressing Compton, the grocer. "I broke th' handle of mine yistaday piny' up a hoash-radish root." "Goin' later gardenin'?" Inquired Alf. Fiskin, slyly undug Hank Somers alongside him on a sugar barrel. "Cain't be ye've had no reevolutions o' late, 'Hez.' Are ye goin' t' turn farmer for a livin' and give up lyn'?" Interested Roger Craig, taking a lib- advertisement of the cery." "Died less'n an he the indomitable David the gratification he viewed by the intellect leading village paper." "Wan't feelin' well although I do believe yistaday—want't be Co questioningly toward was bushy engaged cent package of light a customer. "Hiram Squires? early yesterday morn town with a load on here on his way back to buy a calico dress, a bin mighty bounce," "So I beard," acqui Like buoyant birds that soot the nest And long to try frail, downy wings. The snow fell on the earth's brown breast. The shackled stream a captive sings. Hocarse winds are chuckling with delight and the message will forlorn. Two thousand years ago to-night. The Prince of Peace our Lord was born! Upon the dusk brown of the night. A splendid star blazed like a gem. Hope's harbinger, whose beacon light Flushed the bleak plain of Bethlehem. Gray, hoary sage strained their eyes. And marveled at its elfin glow. The drifting snow whirled through the air. And Bethlehem's plain was cloaked in white. The rabbit shivered in his lair. Gray squirrels scampered in affright. And shephards watched their lambs and sheep. And housed them snugly in the fold; Safe from the florce wolf's ravening leap. That raided and snarled out in the cold. oral bite off a slice of black plug and smacking his lips. A suppressed titter rippled about the grocery stove at the prods administered in an evident effort to awaken the frequently dormant sense of lying that, half comatose, had its home within the graying head of "Lying Davis." But "Hes," refusing to accept the challenge, merely shook his head sadly. "This ain't no time to be tellin' lites, boys." Here the town liar cast his eyes meekly toward the soft pine door and sighed. "Taint no time t' laugh an' be gay with one o' our best country residents dead o' heart disease!" He paused in solemn mien, his head low, his hands clasped between his knees. Wary glances were exchanged between the strategists. None cared to make the sally. "Died an hour age. Snuffed out like the candle in a draught. Fell dead upon the milk-house floor," resumed "Hez" sadly, softly, much affected. "Who's dead?" blurted Andrew Shrader, aiming for a knot-hole in the floor with a kernel of corn and missing it. "Who's dead?" "Lying Davis" took a long, deep breath, and looking up suddenly, demanded: "What's th' matter with you feyeners? Don't ye know that Hiram Squires is no more? It aint no subject for jokin' er stringin'; ye know he'd as well as I do—and a mighty sad Christmas it'll be fer his poor wife and children, left with a big farm on their hands, and none on 'em able't take heer of it." "You don't mean to say that Hiram Squires is dead. 'Hez?' interrupted Horace Grant, editor of the Weekly Clarion, who had entered at this juncture to get the copy for a Christmas M. advertisement of the "Corner Grocery." "Died less'n an hour ago," replied the indomitable Davis, illly concealing the gratification he felt at being interviewed by the intellectual head of the leading village paper. "Want 'feelin' well for a day or two, although I do believe he was in town yistaday—want he Compton?" turning questioningly toward the grocer who was busily engaged in tying up a 50-cent package of light brown sugar for a customer. "Hiram Squires? Yes, he was in early yesterday morning. Came to town with a load of hogs. Stopped here on his way back from the depot to buy a calico dress for Mandy. Must a bin might sudden." "So I beerd," acquiesced "Lying Da A CHRISTM Ballad of Bethlehem Suggested by the illustrious painter Infant Jesus in the A CHRISTMAS CAROL Ballad of Bostlechorn and the Divine Babe Suggested by the illustrious painter Marille's celebrated picture of the Infant Jesus in the Stable of Bostlechorn Housed from the blast in stable rude. His crib a manger—scurvy bed— He bore it ad with fortitude. He had no place to lay his head. Thrust from sung threshold of the inn By pampered, meredis sheek and warm. The King of Kings sought cattle bln. To shield him from the snirling storm! Scant welcome had he of his own. No sumptuous palace greets his quest. He tames the thunder 'neath his throne. He rules the North, the South, the West. He wields the lightning's bounce of fire. And hurls the bolt 'thwart shaggy sea, He curbs the fierce volcanoes' fire. And bids red roses nurse the bee. Pure, stainless naid his Mother smiled, As on her breast he sealed warm. --- vis.' surreptitiously reaching for a giver from the tail of a cod-fish that protruded from a nearby box. 'He want feelin' overly scrumptious though for a week. I heard his darter say so as I cum by there just now from spearin' up in Dry Run. He been complainin' of a pain in his appendix and had a cold sweat an' a bad dream 'tother night that won't particlarly gratify'in for a man o' his callbre. T'day he was standin' by the milkhouse churn, stoopin' over like fixiu' the crank or something--and all to one to utter a faint groan and fell right where he stood! Pitched for in a heap and never knew a thing! Gasp once arter his wife got there and that was all! A mighty fine man was Hiram Squires. Give money and vegetables' t' th poor and always allowed that all his stock could eat want wasted! "Boys," here Heg cleared his dry A man is running out of a barn, holding a stick in his hand. A dog is running towards him. The barn is surrounded by a snowy landscape with houses and a windmill in the background. A man running away from a group of men on horseback. "Gol durn yer blankety blank picture!" and ratty throat with an effort, "Boys, it'll be our turn next!" Deep silence greeted the forecast. "What'd you say about that there spade, Horace?" resumed "Hez." "Kin I borer it long enough t' dig a grave for Hiram t' h'mormt!" Funeral's day after termorr from the house—2 o'clock." Armed with the spade, "Lying Davis" shuffled off the grocery, followed by the editor bent upon learning more of the details for his paper, already being "mude up" by the foreman that an early start might be secured for press day. The Weekly Clarion was in the postoffice by 10 next morning, and sincere was the mourning for Hiram Squires. The merchants, possessed of that human sympathy always uppermost in a rural community, laid aside their "unless prejudices and decided to attend the funeral in a body. Despite the fact that the evening of the day of the funeral was Christmas Eve and many trinkets for the Christmas trees in the churches and homes were sall unpurchased, they set out dutifully toward the home of the deceased, six miles west on the Pike road. There were something more than a dozen vehicles in all and the procession was a solemn one. As they rode along through the crunching snow, facing a biting December wind, they spoke softly of the virtues of Hiram Squires. Even his FINE Spent Christmas With John Doe. A story written by Dickens while he was editor of All the Year Round is comparatively unknown. It is called "Christmas in the Company of John Doe." He says: rest of the dinner was to consist of the noble sirloin of roast beef and that Immortal cool's head and shoes! I had bought the materials for the padding, too, some half-hour previous; the plums and the currants. "It was Christmas eve, and I—my name is Prupper—was taking my walk abroad. I walked through the crowded Street, place, hilarious, benign, for the feast was prepared and the guests were bidden. Such a turkey I had ordered! Not the prize one with the ribbons—I mistrusted that—but a plump, tender, white breasted bird—a king of turkeys. It was to be broiled with oyster sauce, and the MAS CAROL and the Divine Babe for Murville's celebrated picture of the Stable of Bethlehem She soothed and cherished and beguiled The Dove Dove who dared the storm. Soft mother love glanced in her eyes As she hugged the prattler to her breast She saw no Calvary's sacrifice— No crown of thorns, to scourge his rest! And wise men journeyed from afar. To view the wondrous Babe divine, Led by the splendid, sparkling star— The hope of our cringing warrior line And the hope of our child— Sole refuge of our goaltie face. The Heavenly Hostage blithely smiled And brought the world celestial grace. Hope of the world, the sages cried— The Babe of which the prophets told, You crushed the haughty serpent's pride And brought the lamb within the fold. Some splendid pages as you praise. --- one gross fault, an habitual use of qualifying adjectives, frequently significant of blasphemy, was forgotten. He was a good man and God rest him! This was the sentiment of brotherly expression voiced by those who had known him best. Nearer and nearer they drew to the snug farm residence where grief, like Nlobe, all tears, was domiciled, and where the Black Camel of Death knelt at the gate in mute distress! Meanwhile Boreas and Jack Frost were ripping and biting at the noses and the toes of the mourners as they urged the horses on over the last inlet of the wind-swept way. Slowly they turned in at the side road that led to the farm home. Editor Grant and family in the lead. One by one they reined their horses into the farmyard and stopped. The editor was preparing to lean to A the ground and Grocer Compton had thrown the robes over the dash-board to liberate his legs, when there grose from behind the barn a series of blaring yells: "Hi there! Gol durn yer blankety black picture, git inside that pen, wit ye? Whoop! Here, you got durn in norman, what th' great horn spoon be ve a doin' there? Spot! Here Spot, sie sp, ite! Take em! Hi! Hi! Sooey!" Suddenly there burst into view from around the barn a contrary hog, dashing at full speed for the open, followed by a Scotch collie dog—and—yes it was!—it was—Hiram Squam himself! His face was rod with exertion and rage, one mitten was gone and he breathed hard as he swung into full pursuit behind the barking dog! Then, his eye caught the group of open-mouthed spectators, the sleighs and the steaming horses! "Wal, by bick-ry," he shouted, catching at his breath, "what be all you follows坏 here?" There was a deep and elemental silence for a brief interim, during which Editor Horace Grant looked sheepishly into the eyes of Grocer Compton Grocer Compton shifted his gaze toward the pure, white snow and kept his peace. "I reckon we'd host go back 't town and ask "Lying Davis!" said Henry Somers, clambering into his vehicle. "Gldap!" rest of the dinner was to consist of that noble sirloin of roast beef and that immortal cool's head and shoulders! I had bought the materials for the pudding, too, some half-hour previously; the plums and the currants, the citron and the allspice, the flour and the eggs. I was happy." But just then a million of the law laid his hand on Prupper's shoulder and hustled him off to the fall because he had, in the excitement of getting his Christmas materials together, forgotten to obey a summons to attend at court. Thus he spent his Christmas in the company of John Doe. Doomed like a thief to die in pain, on Calvary's cross to end your days, Crucified on Golgotha's plain. And shepherded us the Navarer's shrine Gaurt pilgrims journeyed from afar. To gaze upon the Babe Dylane. As saith heil the Evening king, A stable war their dwelling place, Where even shivered in the cold, And yet the men who sent his grace, Which poets sing and prophets told. They prayed to Him in foreign tongue, Because they brought Him rich and rare Jewels and gold, and yet He clung to them, and cared for them, Her arms, then chanted to him. Their crystal challenge to the sky Keen Christmas bells are flinging gay. Their mellow murmurs, beating high, Proclaim their blithesome rounday. What matter if our purse be light— So are our hearts that bear no scorn— Two thousand years ago to-night, The Prince of Peace, our Lord was born! JAMES E. KINSELLA. Registry Division, Chicago Postoffice. A A VISIT TO FATHER CHRISTMAS One Christmas Eve, while his parents were out dining with friends, little Walter began a letter to Father Christmas. To tell the truth, Walter could only write straight strokes as yet, but he set them side by side very evenly and neatly. All the while he was writing, Walter argued with himself that Father Christmas would be able to read the exact meaning he had in mind. What Walter wanted was to visit the place where all Christmas toys are kept. "Oh, if only I might go into that storehouse of things," he thought, and clapped his hands with joy. "I ought to have written it yesterday, for he must be awfully busy today. But he can manage so many things at once. What trouble could my visit give him? I would not stay long; I would look round very quickly, and come back to papa and mamma, who would not yet be home." These were the reflections that worked in Walter's brain, for he was not a stupid boy. He had not finished his page of strokes, when two little angels, one dark-hairied and one fair, who were looking through the window—perhaps noting what toys were to be delivered at that house, shortly came in and carried him off. Away went Walter, up through space. The brown-haired angel went on his way, but the trio one took Walter to be introduced to Father Christmas, who is the King of the Toys now and forever. After mounting thousands of white steps, Walter found himself in the presence of Father Christmas. The old man had a white, pointed hood on his head. His face was serious and his beard long and silvery. Behind him a white staircase led up, up, and other stars, too, led up to an immense cathedral, as white as milk. Father Christmas looked hard at the little traveler and said to him: "I have read your letter. I cannot allow you to go into that building, which is in my charge. But I can tell you this: It is to pull to the dome with toys which I shall send as presents all over the world this very night. But I will allow my messenger boys to take you into the forests of Christmas trees. You may help them to cut down or pull up the fir trees, and then the little toys' and colored tapers to the branches. They will sow wings to your shoulders that you may be able to fly. Go, little ones!" And Walter went with the fair angel, not daring to look back at Father Christmas, who spoke to him so gravely, nor at the white cathedral where were such heaps and heaps of toys. "And where shah we find the things we are to fasten on to the branches of the Christmas trees?" Walter asked of his gentle companion. "They will be brought to us from all parts of the workshops where they are made." "How many are there?" "Three. In the first dolls are made and then dressed from head to foot, in the second weapons and armor are forged. Swords must be tempered and breastplates hammered out. To say nothing of the castings of cannon and the making of lead soldiers. Our smiths and our chemists are very clever." "In the third they make boats, barges and sailing boats and steamships. The engineer angel who manages the business knows all the latest improvements. He himself has invented a submarine vessel that can be propelled about for six months below the surface without stopping." "The vast torest of snow and pine trees stretched as far as the eye can see. The light of the moon and stars brightened the pretty snow, which kept on falling. The straight trees stood as motionless as wooden soldiers." "Now, let us go to the workshops," said Walter, eagerly. "Not just yet. It is o r business to dress and beautify sor o r Christmas trees. We will do that here, so as to lose no time. Postriders come straight down from heaven with sleighs boded with little toys, and we only have to tie them with gift twine to the strong branches." "And yet," said Walter, very timidly, "there are Christmas trees in the houses before Christmas Day." "A few days before, yes," replied the tail angel. "But they have all been provided by us. In fact, there is a troop especially employed in that service. They set to work immediately after the Sunday before December THE WINTER WALK THE CEMETERY AN IDEAL CHRISTMAS MORNING. ```markdown ``` 25. They go in sets of three. One carries a lantern, the second the toys and the third the tree covered with tapers. We shall soon be out of the forests, my little Walter, and are within two flights of the workshops for toys. We will begin with the manufactory of dolls. You will see heaps of pretty creatures." The little angel and Walter went into the second paradise. Heaps of little ladies and gentlemen lay on the tables and on the floor; in the corners were piles of legs, arms bodies and hands. Sculptors were putting them together, measuring them very accurately; painters were touching the checks with pink and lips with red. Careful artists dressmakers, shoemakers and needlewomen did the rest. A poet even was engaged to teach the dolls that could speak. Out of a chimney as tall as the oheiisk came a great cloud of smoke. "I will order a suit of armor!" cried Walter, clapping his hands. "No one. Nobody can give orders here. Only Father Christmas has a right to give orders. Nobody obeys any one but him." replied the angel. Water saw he had made a mistake. He went in quite grave and silent. He admired the force, the bellows, the rooftop iron. The Smith's hammer beat in steady time, and the bond bones of the anvil ring cut like a song of triumph amid the fireworks of sparks. The inmate man sang to the note of the anvil, to help himself to strike the iron in a regular beat. Next they came to the place where boats were made. Such a pretty scene! A wide rivulet of blue water flowed through a sunny meadow, and on it the carpenters and engineers of this heavenly navy were trying the vessels they had just finished. There were sailing boats for fishermen, and steamers and ironclads. Thank God for Christ Full nineteen hundred years of history... Of human joy and tears, And mystery Since Christ was born. Men ponder over the past, And what may be yet But shall until the last, Imperfect see The path they tread. For as they backward look And tremble to seize The meaning of the book Of centuries. Whose store is theirs. Their hearts overflow with praise While creed and cant Stand silent and they raise The blood of Christ. Thank God for Christ. James Le Roy Stockton. THE WINTER WILLOW --- will far outhine her neighbors, if it be worn beneath a fair clear completion. 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The illness said "No." Catarch Cannot Be Sure Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains to oz—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in 4-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals, if your grocery rules tell you a 12oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the amourance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. Truth lies at the bottom of a well—but most of us are using hydrants in stead of sticks. Unpublished history: The infant Romulus surveyed the wolf with a critical eye. 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The man was valuable in his way, and so Mr. Jefferson tolerated his disagreeable manner until one night in Baltimore. The property man got very drunk in the afternoon, and in the evening paid his way into a gallery seat. Mr. Jefferson was playing "Rip Van Winkle." The angry Gretchen had just driven poor, distitute Rip from the cottage, when Rip turned, and with a world of paths, assailed: "Den I haf no interest in der house?" The theatre was dearly still, the audience half in tears, when Bagley's cracked voice was heard in response: "Only eighty per cent, Joe, old boy; only eighty per cent." He lost his job on the spot. Reads Like a Miracle. Moravia, N. Y., Dec. 12th. (Special) - Bordering on the miraculous in the case of Mrs. Benj. Wilson of this place. Suffering from Sugar Diabetes, she was away till from weighing 200 lbs, she barely tipped the scales at 130 lbs. Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her. Speaking of her cure her husband says: "My wife suffered everything from Sugar Diabetes. She was slek four years and doctored with two doctors, but received no benefit. She had so much pain all over her that she could not rest day or night. The doctor said that she could not live. "Then an advertisement led me to try Dodd's Kidney Pills and they helped her right from the first. Five boxes of them cured her. Dodd's Kidney Pills were a God-Sent remedy to us and we recommend them to all suffering from Kidney Disease." Dodd's Kidney Pills cure all Kidney Diseases including Bright's Disease, and all kidney aches, including Rheumatism. Bishop W. W. Cliff, of the Mormon Church at Salt Lake, has arrived in Mexico, charged with the mission of purchasing large tracts of land upon which Mormon colonies will be established. THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME MR and MRS. SCHWANDE Sanborn, Minn. MR and MRS. AND OATKINGON Independence, Miss Remarkable Cures Effected By Heaven Ask your Druggist for a free Peruna Almanac for 1905. Under date of January 10, 1857, Dr. Hartman received the following letters: "My wife has been a sufferer from a complication of diseases for the past twenty-five years. Her case has battled the skill of some of the most noted physicians. One of her worst experiences was a period of several years' standing. She was also passing through that most critical period in the life of a woman—change of life. "In June, 1895, I wrote to you about her case. You advised a course of Peruna and Manalin, which we at once commenced, and have to say it completely cured her. "About the same time I wrote you about my own case of catarrh, which had been of twenty-five years' standing. At times I was almost past going. I commenced to use Peruna according to your instructions and continued its use. I was very sure that it had surely cured me. Your remedies do all that you claim for them, and even more."—John O. Atkinson In a letter dated January 1, 1900, Mr. Atkinson says, after five years' experience with Peruana: "I will ever continue to speak a good word for Peruana. I am still cured of the disease. My brother, Independence, Mo. Box 272. DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMPS BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE In Cures Colbs, Coughs, Sore Throats, Group, Infurenza, Whospine Cough, Brouchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excellent effect after making the first dose. Sold to children everywhere. Large bottles 50 cents and 50 cents. RANCHING Three gross pursuits have again shown wonderful results on the Free Homeschool Lands of Western Canada. May you enjoy them. Magnificent climate, former plowing in their horticie in the middle of November. "All are bound to be more than pleased with the final result of the best season's harvest." Extract. Coral, wood, water, hay in abundance. Schools, churches, accommodations. Apply for information to superintendent of immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or postauthority, Canadian Government Avenue, Rt. Paul, Minnesota; W. V. Beaufort, 801 New York Life Building, Omaha, Nebraska. Please say where you saw this advertisement. Put your fin- trade mark. Tell your dealer you want the best starch your money can buy. Insist on having the best, DEFIANCE. It is 16 ounces for 10 cents. No premiums, but one pound of the very best starch made. We put all our money in the starch. It needs no cooking. It is absolutely pure. It gives satisfaction or money back. THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO. Omaha, Neb. BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH BYRUP cures coughs and colds. --- Mrs. Ala Schwandt, Sankorn, Minn. writes: "I have been troubled with rheumatism and catarrh for twenty-five years. Could not sleep day or night. After having used Peruna I can sleep and nothing bothers me now. If I ever am affected with any kind of sickness Peruna will be the medicine I shall use. My son was cured of catarrh of the larynx by Peruna." Mrs. Ala Schwandt. Why Old People are Especially Liable to Systemic Catarrh. When old age comes on, cataract diseases comes also. Systemic cataract is almost universal in old people. This explains why Peruna has become so indispensable to old people. Peruna is their safeguard. Peruna is their safety yet devoid that entails meets those cases. Nothing but an effective systemic remedy can cure them. A reward of $10,000 has been deposited in the Market Exchange Bank, Columbus, Ohio, as a guarantee that the above testimonials are genuine; that we hold in our possession authentic letters certifying to the same. During many years' advertising we have never used in part or in whole a sinister word in our testimonials of our testimonials are genuine and in the words of the one whose name is amended. Hotty Green, the richest woman in America is very wise. She says that the trouble won most women is that they are aager to spend money, but dislike work. That's what keeps them poor and uncontented. Defiance Starch should be in every household, none so good, besides 4 oz. more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. Mr and Mrs John Ginder, of Boston, N. J. were married in 1885, and have thirteen children. All are bright and lively and in good health, and none of them was ever troubled with a serious illness. Do You Know What An Aniline Blue Is? The Handy Bluing Book, whose "ads" have been appearing regularly in our columns for several months past, is well deserving of special mention to all our publishers. One sheet from the Handy Bluing Book will produce ten gallons of blue water of the proper consistency. Aniline for the laundry includes soap. Aniline for the laundry by Germany, the dye coumissure, and now it is the only blue upon the European market, used by shirt and collar factories everywhere. Why? Because it will not spot, streak, pierce or injure the linen and will bring them out a snowy white. The average woman derives a lot of enjoyment from telling other women her troubles. Nothing Is so sensitive to cold as a nerve and that is the cause of Neuralgia TRADE MARC St.Jacobs Oil by friction and penetration warm, soothes and cures the worst cases. Price 26c. and 50c. If afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water DR. McGREW For 30 years has made a Specialty of DIESEARA OF MEN. Bla- teen years in Omaha, Neb. premium pain relief. Saved thousands at small cost. Save time and money. Give your purchase, and write for Free book and terms of treatment. Medi- cine set in plain package. Box Offer. Box with 100 Omaha, Nebraska. DR. MEXICAN Mustang Liniment is a positive cure for Piles. E-Z STOVE POLISH (LIQUID) - DOES IT EASY Sold by Good Dealers. PIISO'S CURE FOR CURE WHERE ALL ELSE TAILS. Boat Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use In time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION NEARLY FOUR CENTURIES OLD. St. Augustine, Fla., Has Oldest House in America. The oldest house in America is in St. Augustine, Fla. This building, by comparison with the winter resort hotels in that town, is not a pretentious structure, but when it was built it was undoubtedly one of the principal structures of the town. It is built of coquina rock, a mixture of sand and shell, which is the same material used in the building of the Ponce de Leon hotel and the Aleazar. It is not known in what year this building was put up, but it was short Oldest House in America. by after the landing of the Spanish, which was on the 8th of September, 1665. The building is in a fairly good state of preservation. The interior is beautifully finished in highly polished wood. It was occupied by the Spanish offi- cials during the time Florida was a Spanish colony, and was later the home of the attorney general during the English possession. It is not now inhabited. The Magic Mirror of Japa The Magic Mirror of Japan. The "magic mirror" of Japan is a disk of bronze, usually from six to eight inches in diameter. It is silvered on the front, which is a little convex, and there is a raised pattern on the back which is rather concave. The polished pattern is generally a landscape, flowers, animals, or Chinese characters. It is not visible in the front of the mirror, but when strong sunlight is reflected from the front of the mirror to a wall or screen the pattern of the back is visible on the screen in bright lines on a black ground. Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F. R. S., with Prof. John Perry, F. R. S., was the first to give the true scientific explanation of this magical effect. It seems that the design on the back alters the convexity of the front, making it flat, in fact, along the lines of the pattern. Consequently the light reflects from the front is not dispersed at these points of the design, and they appear brighter on the screen. Cravats of Wood Pulp. A syndicate of English capitalists is engaged in an endeavor to promote a market in this country for tie silks made chiefly from wood pulp. This product is principally obtained in South America, Paraguay furnishing a large supply. The vegetable silk has its origin in trees and is readily adaptable to native looms. The woven threads are supercalendered, which process presents a silky finish resembling mercerized goods. For several years past this glossy material has been sold in piece lengths to the upholstery trade, by which it is utilized for filling purposes. The selling test of artificial silk for cavavats is anxious awaited by local manufacturers. SAID THE CUNNING FOX TO THE HIY TURK. IF YOU WILL MARRY ME WELL ALWAYS LIVE AS ONE BY DEAR, FOR ID EAT YOU UP, YOU SEE Memorial to a Robber. In the little town of Forlimpopoli near Bologna, a memorial tablet is about to be unveiled in the Municipal theater to the memory of a famous robber chieftain named Passatore. The reason why the theater is chosen for the home of his memorial is that in it was performed his most famous exploit. In September, 1854, while one of Rossini's operas was being performed in the presence of all the local beauty and fashion, Passatore and his band "held up" the audience and robbed them of all their valuables to the last penny. Reported Meteoric Display John M. Shofel, a clerk in the steamship at Bath Me, whose duties required him to rise shortly after midnight, reports that at a clock on a recent morning he was dazzled by a meteoric display in the northeast in the form of an object about the size of a barrel. It was straight up and down and illuminated the entire sky with a brilliant light, lasting several seconds. The same flash was reported by the officers and men on various craft along the coast. Hard Worker at 94. Enos Ware of Shelburne Falls, Mass., who celebrated his 94th birthday anniversary last week, is still hale and hearty. He has the past season taken sole care of a large garden and twice hood three acres of corn. He walks nearly a mile to church pleasant Sundays. **Ignoreance in Coal Region.** A student of the population of the anthracite region of Pennsylvania reports that there are 630,000 people inhabiting that section, of which 430,003 are foreign born. Of this number over 50,000 cannot read or write. Cigars for Russian Soldiers A Prussian firm has received an order from the Russian government for 4,000,000 cigars for the army in Manchuria. They are to cost $1.20 per 100. NEITHER DIALS NOR HANDS. Novelty in the Clock Line That Has Some Advantages. The latest development in the clock line has resulted in the elimination of dials and hands. The result is a timepiece that serves admirably for certain purposes, but will hardly prove a formidable rival to the familiar clock 10 55 with its dial and hands. The special claim made for this new timepiece is that the correct time is always exposed in hours and minutes and in Arabic figures. As a novelty this dialless clock is certain to win a certain amount of favor, but there is an undeniable charm about the old-fashioned timepiece that insures its preservation as an essential adjunct of household decoration and equipment; despite innovations. Music:Charmed Water. Interesting experiments showing the influence of a tuning-fork on jets of water have recently been made at the Royal College of Science in Dublin. A jet of falling water consists ordinarily of two parts—a clear column and a troubled portion. When the troubled part is photographed, with the aid of the electric spark, it is seen to be composed of a succession of drops following one another too rapidly to be separately perceived by the eye. These drops are irregular in size, shape and distance from one another. But if a vibrating tuning-fork is placed in contact with the stand from which the jet starts, the drops fall into order with beautiful precision, a drop being cast off with each vibration. Many remarkable effects may be produced. A continuous jet may be thrown into a form like that of a vibrating string. Street Shaving in China The topsy-turvy methods of China are curiously illustrated in the case of the Pekin barber, who, instead of wabing for customers, goes out to seek them. He carries his shaving apparatus and a stool with him, and, rings a bell to attract the attention of likely customers. The man who wishes to be shaved hails the barber, who places his stool on the ground for the customer's use, puts a bowl of water on the little stove he carries, and having lathered his brush sets to work. The charge is not high. For a sum equivalent to a cent he shaves the customer's head and smooths out his eyebrows. It needs the man with the busted nose To appreciate the "Grecian." It needs the man with the Grecian nose To scent out the "patrician." It needs a man of patrician beak To recognize the power Of sheer brute strength and brawn and force Of "Champion of the Hour." Dog No Match for Wildcat A dog belonging to a man named Grey of Georan Corner, Me, went out in search of foxes the other day and ran on to a genuine laxercervier. Mr. Grey heard the tumult in the woods ahead and rushing up to shoot the fox was surprised to see the dog prone on the ground in a very dilapidated shape with the big cat high up among the branches contemplating a fresh assault. He avenged the attack on the dog by slaying the cat. American Flag High in Air The const aftery station at Fort Hunt, Va., on the Potomac, opposite Fort Washington, is to have a flagpole from the top of which the garrison flag can be seen for many miles. The new pole is about 125 feet long. It is in five sections, and is built up of piping held together by steel bands. The pole will stand on a high eminence at the fort, and the flag at its top will wave to the breeze about 300 feet above the level of the river. Potatoes. New York, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania lead all states in the production of potatoes. Diagram shows relative production in millions of bushels. Increase on increase Ten years ago in England and Wales there was one insane person to each 324 of the population; now the ratio is one to each 288. The increase in lunacy is attributed to a considerable degree to the intense strain of modern life. Americans Going to Canada. In 1890, American immigration into Canada amounted to only forty-four persons, and in 1903 it amounted to 47,789 persons. Color more brighters and faster colors than any other dye. One 100 package colors, silk, wool and cotton equally well and is guaranteed to give perfect results. Ask dealer or we will send post paid at 100 a package. Write for free booklet - to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors *MONOE DUPLIC CO., Unionville, Missouri* A noteworthy place of worship is the miners' chapel in Mynd Mendiglid Colliery, Swansea, Wales. It is close to the bottom of the shaft. The only light is that obtained from a solitary saint lamp, hang over the pulpit from the ceiling, and the oldest miner in the colliery is generally chosen to officiate. A clever woman, a systematic housekeeper, has in her kitchen a small, pine table, with easter on it, and a three-leaf rolling round the top. After a meal she pushes the table into the dining room, and on it plies dishes and footwear saving both time and strength. One trip takes the ladder table back to the kitchen sink, where dishwashing also is lightened by putting the clean dishes on the portable table, to be returned to the china closet. A Boston woman decided to keep bens, as a profitable amusement, during her summer sojourn in the country and she asked a farmer what the bens could eat. He looked at her in silent amazement a moment before he replied, "It would take me the rest of my days to tell what they can eat" he said, at first but it would not happen. "You avoid feeding of meat with salt fish and cobblestones, and I guess you won't have any trouble." THE BEST STEER TO FATTEN is one which can never lose any weight, but may turn into a whole carload of fat cattle over night, all sold at a good price and the commission man's check made out for you. Instead of paying $4000 for a steer, suppose you put it into a 20 Payment Life Insurance policy. It will never be worth less than your death, it for it, and in case of your death, it for it. You will receive a card of a carload of cattle, $1,000 in immediate cash. If you live out the twenty years, you will put in the price of twenty steers and will receive them all back with their growth at that time. So you see, either in case of an early death, or if you live twenty years, YOU WILL HAVE YOUR CARLOAD OF CATTLE. It would not be wise to put all your money into a life policy, nor is it wise to put all your money into a life policy if you wish but LET THE PRICE OF ONE OR TWO STEERS go into a 20 Payment Life Policy. If you desire the finest Art Calendar made, send your date of birth today to Elmer Dwiggins, Manager of the Equitable Life of N. Y., the strongest life company in the world, and he will send you six of the handsomest designs of children and birds you ever saw. You must mention this paper and give your date of birth, addressing him at the Equitable Building Des Moines. Many a girl has learned that too many strings spoil the heart. I do not believe Daisy Crace for Consumption has an equal for lengths and colors. Joux P Devyna, Trinity Springs Inc. Feb 15, 2000. Most people seem willing to meet trouble more than half way. THE PERUNA ALMANAC IN 8,000,000 HOMES. The Lemura Lucky Day Almanac has become a fixture in over eight million homes. It can be obtained from all druggists free. Be sure to inquire early. The 1955 Almanac is already published, and the supply will soon be exhausted. Do not put it off. Get one to day. A woman would rather spent two dollars for dry goods than one for groceries. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on band of other brands containing only 12 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 16 oz. for the same money. Do you want 18 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money?" Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. A woman has only one tongue and two ears, but she can generally talk faster than she can listen. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Pileous skin will refract the light in the PIZZA GENTEMENT falls to care you in to 14 days. 100. Most town folks admire their country relatives for visiting purposes only. Mrs. Window's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the pain, reduces inflammation, allays pain, curves wind色. See bottle. An helix is always suspicious of a man who dechares he can't live with out her. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and remedy for infants and children, and see that it Dear the Signature of Hilton In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Half of a woman's beauty is complexion and ninths of her figure clothes. The well earned reputation and increasing popularity of the Lewis' 'Single Binder', a straight high quality and appreciation of the smoker, Lewis' Factory Pearla, III. The people who want the earth should realize that there is enough of it to go around—on its axis. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Home in New York, cure Constipation, Perishness, Bad Stomach, Toothless Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 80,000 testimonials. At all Drugs, 25c. Sample FREE Address A. S Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y. Men who are always on the make never make much of anything. All Up-to-Date Housekeepers use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better, and 4 oz. more of it for same money. Small men do not gain great truths and great men do not retain them. FREE THE OPENED RUNNER'S WEEK RUNNER'S WEEK 12 JANUARY 2015 12 JANUARY 2015 BONDROU, NY BONDROU, NY An open denial of God may be better than an empty definition of Him. W. N. U., Des Moines, Ia., No. 51—1904 Mary Catherine The letters of Miss Merkley, whose picture is printed above, and Miss Claussen, prove beyond question that thousands of cases of inflammation of the ovaries and womb are annually cured by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—Gradual loss of strength and nerve force told me something was radically wrong with me. I had severe shooting pains through the pelvic organs, cramps and extreme irritation compelled me to seek medical advice. The doctor said that I had ovarian trouble and ulceration, and advised an operation. I strongly objected to this and decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I soon found that my judgment was correct, and that all the good things said about this medicine were true, and day by day I felt less pain and increased appetite. The ulceration soon healed, and the other complications disappeared and in eleven weeks I was once more strong and vigorous and perfectly well. "My heartiest thanks are sent to you for the great good you have done me."—Sincerely yours, Miss MANGAET MERRLEY. 275 Third St., Milwaukee. Wis. Miss Claussen Saved from a Surgical Operation. "Dear Mrs. PINKHAM: It seems to me that all the endorsements that I have read of the value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound do not express one-half of the virtue the great medicine really possesses. I know that it saved my life and I want to give the credit where it belongs. I suffered with ovarian trouble for five years, had three operations and spent hundreds of dollars on doctors and medicines but this did not cure me after all. "However, what doctors and medicines failed to do, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did. Twenty bottles restored me to perfect health and I feel sure that had I known of its value before, and let the doctors alone, I would have been spared all the pain and expense that fruitless operations cost me. If the women who are suffering, and the doctors do not help them, will try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, they will not be disappointed with the results."—Miss CLARA M. CLAUSSEN, 1307 Penn St., Kansas City, Mo. $5000 FORFEIT if we cannot forthwith produce the original letters and signatures of above testimonials, which will prove that absolute gentleness. SHIP YOUR CREAM DIRECT We have no buying stations. We buy cream direct from the farmer. You will MAKE MORE MONEY by shipping your cream to us than by any other method. Write for tags and prices. DES MOINES CREAMERY CO., 3d and Vine, DES MOINES, IOWA. HANDY BLUEING BOOK. In sheets of PURE ANILINE BLUE. No bottles. No paddles. No waste. Gives the same amount of bluing water each wash-day. Ask your grocery for it or send one for a book of $5 leaves The Handy Blueing Book Co., 87 E. Lake St., Chicago, Ill. COMPLETELY RESTORED. Mrs. P. Brunzel, wife of P. Brunzel, stock dealer, residence 3111 Grand avenue, Everett, Wash, says: "For ut teen years I suffered with terrible pain in my back. I did not know what it was to enjoy a night's rest and arose in the morning feeling tired and unrefreshed. My suffering sometimes was simply indescribable. When I finished the first box of Dean's Kidney Pills I felt like a different woman. I continued until I fered with terrible pain in my back. I did not know what it was to enjoy a night's rest and arose in the morning feeling tired and unfreshed. My suffering sometimes was simply indescribable. When I finished the first box of Donn's Kidney Pills I felt like a different woman. I continued until I had taken five boxes. Donn's Kidney Pills are very effectively, very promptly relieve the aching pains and all other annoying difficulties." Foster Michburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents per box. During courtship they argue, after marriage, they argue. Ask Your Druggist for Allen's Foot-Ease. "I tried ALLEN'S FOOT EASE recently and have just bought another supply. I has earned my coins, and the hot, buming water was cool, and the food was almost usable, and I would not be without it now. Mrs. W.J. Walker, Camden, N.J.," Sold by all Drugstores, 25s. Of course marriage is a failure when the liabilities exceed the assets. Never judge a man by his looks; judge him by the books of his wife. Why It Is the Best is because made by an entirely different process Defiance Starch is unlike any other, better and one-third more for 10 cents. Man proposes - but he doesn't do it often enough to satisfy the fair sex. **TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY** Take lavender and a little vinegar along the money if a fair cure. E.M. Grove's signature is on each item. 2x. Even a blind man can feel with his feet. The letters of Miss ture is printed above prove beyond quest cases of inflammation womb are annually Lydia E. Pinkham's "Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—Grat told me something was radically v pains through the pelvic organs, pelled me to seek medical advice, trouble and ulceration, and advise this and decided to try Lydia E. I soon found that my judgment things said about this medicine a pain and increased appetite. The complications disappeared and in and vigorous and perfectly well. "My heartiest thanks are sen done me."—Sincerely yours, Mrs. Milwaukee, Wis. Miss Claussen Saved R Mary Cassatt fruitless operations cost me. In the doctors do not help them, table Compound, they will not MISS CLARA M. CLAUSSEN, 1307 P $5000 FORFEIT if we cannot for above testimonials, which will SHIP YOUR CO. We have no buying station farmer. You will MAKE M cream to us than by any other DES MOINES CREAMERY CO.. HANDY BLUE In sheets of PURE ANILINE BLUE, M amount of bluing water each wash-day. Ask The Handy Blueing Book Co. --- FLOCKING INTO CANADA Immigration From Dakota and Adjoining States—Major Edwards, Unites States Consul General at Montreal, Describes the Movement as Due to Scarcity of Land. Montreal, Nov. 15—Major Allison Edwards, United States Consul General, who returned to day from a visit to his home at Fargo, North Dakota, said in an interview, "The proper way to describe the manner in which the people you are getting are the thing over into Western Canada is to say they are coming over in drove. Among the people there did not seem to be any thought of there being a boundary line at all. It is simply a question," added the major, "of there not being any more land in North Dakota and the surrounding States, and the people are flocking to Canada to get good farms. Naturally the number that will come over will increase all the time, and I may say the people of North Dakota are comebest in the west. They are well supplied with money and are well acquainted with the conditions under which they will have to work." The agents of the Canadian Government are prepared to give the fullest information regarding homestead and other lands. If the lover attempted to reciprocate by loving all the world his best girl would strenuously object. GOOD MUFFINS. Two cups of Shannon & Mott Company's Falcon SelfRising Pancake Flour, one cup milk, one heaping tablespoon of butter, one tablespoon of sugar, two eggs, mix the ingredients thoroughly before adding the pancake flour. If richer muffins are wanted, add more eggs. Use no salt, yeast or baking powder. Falcon SelfRising Pancake Flour is a mixed flour of the best portion of wheat, corn and rye. The flour is self rising. Sold by the best grocers. The zebra is born with stripes; man must acquire them. Greatest Variety of Choice Meats in the City. Sirloin Steak at 12 1/2 lb Round at 12 1/2 lb Pot Roasts at 8 lb Boiling Beef at 5 lb A complete line of Prices. Best Baltimore Oys BOSTON Both 'Phones Hansen I loin Steak at 12½ lb Fresh Pork Roasts at 10c lb round at 12½ lb Fresh Pork Steak at 10c lb T Roasts at 8c lb Spare Ribs at 8c lb iling Beef at 5c lb Pure Lard at 10c lb complete line of Fresh Fish at Right Prices. best Baltimore Oysters-Received Daily. BOSTON MARKET Both Phones 320 Sixth Avenue. ansen Drug Co. A complete line of Fresh Fish at Right Prices. Best Baltimore Oysters Received Daily. NEW LOCATION Cor. West 5th and Grand Ave. Drugs, Medicine, Toilet Soaps, and all kinds of Toilet Articles. We will be pleased to see all our old and also new and invite all to come and inspect our stock. Phone Mutual 291 HANSEN DRUG CO. W. B. White Grocer we will be pleased to see all our old and also new customers vite all to come and inspect our stock. 291 HANSEN DRUG CO. Cor. Fifth and Grand B. White Grocery Co. We will be pleased to see all our old and also new customers and invite all to come and inspect our stock. Phone Mutual 291 HANSEN DRUG CO. Cor. Fifth and Grand. W. B. White Grocery Co 311 W. Ninth St. 1 sack Sleepy Eye flour . . . $1.75 1 sack $1.50 flour . . . $1.75 Choice country butter, pound . . . 20c Fine northern potatoes, bushel . . . 50c 5c boxes parlor match . . . 10c pounds family lard . . . 10c pounds navy beans . . . 25c pounds crackers or snaps . . . 25c bars White laundry soap . . . 25c 7 pounds lump starch . . . 25c 20 pounds sal soda . . . 25c quarts cranberries . . . 25c cans Lewis lewis . . . 15c cans early June peas . . . 25c cans toasted tomatoes . . . 25c 5 pounds prunes or rice . . . 25c 5 pounds raisins or taplaoc . . . 25c 5 pounds raisins or taplaoc . . . 25c Egg-O-See, Vizor or oats . . . 25c 10 pound sack pure buckwheat . . 40c Educate Yourself Those Wishing To Will be interested and benefited by watches, 17 jewels and adjusted. Egin, Walt Hamilton and Bookford movement Same as above 15 jewels. Ladies watches at corresponding price 20 year gold-filled hunting cases, lab- ber, Crescent and Crown makes. Same as above 25 year. 20 year gold-filled open face cases of Same as above 25 year. Call and select your watch while Open evenings until December 23 Arntz Jewelers Up stairs not down stairs across the Stop giving away your money Why pay $1.50 for a main spring in when you can get a main spring w Why pay $1.50 to have your watch cl and be required for $100. Why pay $25 to $50 cents for watch thick or thin for 10 cents. Where 2 not down stairs from the st Roger A. Walters, the expert watch solvely known in this city and sarcoph- ing and prompt service. By Discovery of a Pr SAND HOLM'S Educate Yourself At Our Expense. Those Wishing To Buy Watches are interested and benefited by reading the following price list of prices: gifts and adjusted Elgin, Waltham, Springfield, Hampden. hamilton and Rockford movements.....$9.92 as above 15 jewels.....$7.84 as watches at corresponding prices. gar gold-filled Hunting cases, lions or gents sizes, Ross, Du- mer, Cressent and Crown makes.....$6.74 as above 25 year.....$8.74 gar gold-filled open face cases of any of the above makes.....$4.99 as above 25 year.....$5.99 all and select your watch while the stock is plentiful. open evenings until December 25th. Arntz Jewelry Company, stairs not down stairs across from the street car waiting room giving away your money and you may get rich pay $1.50 for a main spring in your watch warranted for one year you can get a main spring warranted for five years for $1.002 pay $1.50 to have your watch cleaned, when you can get it cleaned regulated for $1.002 by pay $25 to 50 cents for watch crystals, when you can get them for thin for 10 cents. Where? At the Arntz Jewelry Co., upstairs own stairs across from the street car waiting room, who employ A. Watters, the expert watch maker who is so well and favor- nawn in this city and surrounding country for fine watch repair- and prompt service. By Discovery of a Preparation, Known as ND HOLM'S Eczema Cure and Skin Remedy.. Educate Yourself At Our Expense. Those Wishing To Buy Watches Will be interested and benefited by reading the following price list of watches. 17 j-wells and adjusted Elgin, Waltham, Springfield, Hampden. Hamilton and Rockford movements. $9.93 Same as above .5 jewels. $7.84 Ladies watches at corresponding prices. 20 year gold-filled Hunting cases, ladies or girls sizes, Ross, D. ber, Crescent and Crown makes. $6.71 Same as above 25 year. $8.74 20 year gold-filled open face cases of any of the above makes. $4.99 Same as above 25 year. $5.99 Up stairs not down stairs across from the street car waiting room Stop giving away your money and you may get rich Why pay $1.50 for a main spring in your watch warranted for one year when you can get a main spring warranted for five years for $1.00? Why pay $1.50 to have your watch cleaned, when you can get it cleaned and regulated for $1.00? Why pay 25 to 50 cents for watch crystals, when you can get them thick or thin for 10 cents. Where? At the Arntz Jewelry Co. apartments not down stairs across from the street car waiting room, who employ Roger A. 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In Hawaii the average wage of a farm head is $20 a month. --- Squash and pumpkins 5c and... 10 Cocanuts, etc. ..... 5 3 boxes tooth picks ..... 10 12 boxes parlor matches ..... 10 Degraded for his to go scrimmage An Austrian officer, the Marches Trolli, declined a challenge on account of religious scraps two years ago. He was not only degraded from his rank, but has been ordered to serve out his time as a private in the rank Subscribe for the Bystauder. THE MUSEUM ONE OF THE BEST COLLEGES IN THE SOUTH FOR THE EDUCA- TION OF COLORED YOUTHS It has just received the $100,000 bequest from our late James Callanman, that generous philanthropist. We think this story will be of much interest to our readers. It will be located at Talladega is a town of historic interest, and noted for the men whom it has given to the state and nation. It is an educational center, having schools of advanced grade for white and colored, and also the state institutions for deaf and blind. It is among the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains, has a beautiful sea level, is noted for its beautiful scenery and healthful climate, while good railroad facilities make it easily accessible from all parts of the state. Surrounded by a wealth of iron and timber, adjacent to the coal deposits of the state and having a number of profitable manufactures in operation, it is also becoming a major business. It is less than 100 miles from the center of the negro population of the United States, and about the same 10 distance from the heart of the great black belt of the south. Alabama is one of the states where the blacks are increasing faster than the whites. Its Work The departments of instruction are Theological, Collegiate, Normal. Preparatory common school grades and Music. Industrial training is carried on along the lines of farming wood and iron working, sewing, drafting, collecting nursing and printing. The school offers eight instructors and officers. There are about 600 pupils in annual attendance, representing thirty-eight counties and ten states and territories. Of this number, 21are the children of its alumni. The present senior class contains 30 members. Seven mission Sunday schools in the vicinity of Talladega enrolling 300 pupils are maintained by students during the term time. At least 3,000 The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph of a building with a large tree in the foreground. The building has a classical architectural style with a prominent entrance and large windows. The tree is tall and has a thick trunk and a dense canopy of leaves. The sky is not clearly visible due to the blurry nature of the image. pupils are in attendance upon country district schools in charge of undergraduates. Teachers' and farmers' institutes are annually held in Talladega and adjoining counties. In these and similar ways the college is proving itself a mighty force in promoting the physical, intellectual and moral welfare of the people. The College Property. The college has a beautiful location. The buildings, surrounded by trees, stand on high ground about half a mile from the city. They comprise three brick halls, school house, girls' industrial home, six instructors' residences, model barn, shop for wood and iron work and printing, laundry and a number of smaller structures. It has recently doubled its landed institution, gift of a friend of long standing, and now owns 5 acres. A library of 7,000 volumes, laboratory and museum are among its valued possessions. Including endowments, the college property is valued at $200,000. The capacity of the girls' dormitory is now being doubled, the erection of a memorial chapel is in progress, the boys' dormitory is to be enlarged and installed. The brick for these buildings is made in the college brick yard. Graduates. The college rejoices in the work of its alumni. They are laboring in twenty-three states and territories and in Africa. Over 80 per cent of the living graduates in theology are preaching. Those who complete the college courses, as a rule, enter the ministry, the professions of law, medicine, the sciences, and theology of the Normal graduates are teachers, preachers or missionaries. Holders of our dipomans are employed as follows: Pastors, teachers, keeping house, principals of schools, dentists in U. S. civil service, college presidents normal school instructors, foreign missionaries, lawyers, nurses, teachers; and one each as engineer, farmer, teacher, and other students. U. S. army. Others are pursuing further studies as follows: Theology, medicine, dentistry, law, agriculture. --- man. These gentlemen are among the few THE HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM music, Y. M. C. A. methods. It is also a pleasure to report the work of a much larger number, not graduates, yet having received all their academic or theological training here, who are today in many parts of the south as preachers, teachers, physicians, farmers, mechanics, tradesmen, makers of homes and in other ways efficient in helping to building up a wise and prosperous and valuable citizenship. One of these, a young woman, is a missionary in Africa. Testimonials. The college is fortunate in having friends, and testimonials are not wanting in appreciation of its work. Speaking of the students employed by him as teachers, the county superintendent of education says: "I find that their training from a moral and intellectual standpoint has been excellent. Talladega college is doing a good work for the elevation of the colored race." The mayor of the city says: "The pupils of the school have been noted as self-respecting, courteous men and women." A local newspaper contained this [Name] paragraph: "This college is doing a noble work, and we have noticed that wherever its influence has extended for the past few years there has existed not only a far higher standard of morality and enlightenment among the colored people, but there has been less clash and lack of harmony between them and the dominant race of the country." A certain county superintendent of schools in Alabama said that of all the schools under his charge he was most proud of one of the schools for colored children, and when asked where the teachers came from to make so efficient a school, he replied that they came from Talladega college. From a recent northern visitor: "I shall ever remember the work you are carrying on, on which no other that I know appeals more strongly both to one's faith in God and one's love to man." COLORED PERFORMERS OF TODAY. It is quite interesting for one nowadays to look over the vaudeville bills of our leading play houses. Hardly one of them but what you won't find a colored act down on each program. Such first-class houses at the Kelth's —Proctors (Orpheim circuit), Kohl & Castle houses and in fact many others all play colored acts. Strange to say but quite true that in eight cases out of every ten the colored act will be the hit of the bill. We also have a few acts that have been the head liners at these houses, being billed up over all the white acts, namely such acts as Cole & Johnson, Williams & Walker, Earnest Hogan, and Johnson & Dean. These to my personal knowledge have top of the bill at Kelth's fine houses. TRAVELING COMPANIES. As for traveling companies they are COLUMBIA COLLEGE not so numerous nowadays as in the past, although we have some, few, yet The leaders of them all are the Williams & Walker show. This company stands alone by itself for department both on and off the stage. Such shows as the Williams & Walker are a credit to their race. The Black Patti company at one time played the good house but of late we don't hear so much of them. MINSTRELS. Among the minstrels is where most of our male artists get their start. The famous Richard & Pringle's minstrels, the show that the famous Billy Kersers remained with for nearly 20 years. This company is one of the oldest organizations. We have today minstrels to an extent are like the circus. Once seen always seen. Consequently those who have left the ranks and gone in search of higher ranks and certainly be given credit for so doing. There is a very little elevation to be had in some of our so-called shows, for they are of the what's known to show people as the "Tinkering class." VAUDEVILLE. Some people say that on hearing of the success our colored performers that have worked up to high salaries in vaudeville that it's a case of luck with them. I cannot agree with them, for how well can I remember back some years ago soon after the closing of the show? How Char is Johnson of Johnson & Dean used to bustle around with his photographs under his arm down town amongst the vaudeville managers, showing them his act and trying to get out on in some theater so they could give alive on his act. Now look at him today. Positively the highest-skilled sketch artist we have among us. I saw a telegraph with my own eyes. Two summers are I offered Williams & Walter a two weeks engagement at a salary of one thousand dollars a week. For reference for the above facts you can write to Mr. M. Mayer, caree Asso, of Vandehile, Migr, St. James Bldg. Broadway and 28th streets, New York City. The two weeks offered them was Detroit and Cleveland, the cause of their declining the offer their company had been booked to sail for Boston, consequently they could not accept. So you see that some of our colored performers have made great strides. Mr. Barnest Hogan is supposed to be our highest saaried (single) entertainer that we have. Cole & Johnson also are a high saaried act. And as to their ability in song companies they have no equals in their respective lines. Mr. Bob Cole of Cole & Johnson has other vocations in life outside of his profession. He is strictly a moderate singer, whom he quite an attentive scholar to Sunday schools, and a so a member of the Y. M. C. A. In New York City. A great many of the fine singings and dancing members that we see in the large white companies are staged under the personal direction of Bob Cole, one of the most genial men among the colored profession, intellectual and pleasant to meet is Bob Cole. The Mallory Bros. are two more of our fine men. They have worked steadily in the past years, constantly improving their past years, today they have one of the finest musical acts before the public, either white or black. These gentlemen are among the few that have fixed themselves comfortably. At their home in Jacksonville, Ill., they have lovely property and live in grand style. Both of them are married and the same pleasant smiles and chats they have together whole on the stairs doing their act seem to prevail at their home. Goggins & Davis, the famous academic team, who are now playing through England, are amongst the prominent acts. They have crossed the Atlantic five different times to fill European engagements. Irwin Jones, Grant & Grant, Carter & Blueford and a host of others that I could mention that are making good in the show business. Like all other walks in life the performer has his ups and downs, but while looked upon by some of the public as reckless livers and throwing their money away uselessly, still for all of that, we have ```markdown ``` some that have given good account of themselves as to their earnings. You will find people in all vocations of life who make big sums of money and don't save a cent, so why should one look down on the performer as the only spendthrift. Let there be a disaster of some kind overtake a town, matters not in what particular you will find the performer one of the first to be there and offer his service towards helping raise funds for the occasion. John Christian The New York World, whose heart is in the right place, says in its issue of Dec. 2, "John Brown was hanged forty-five years ago today—and his soul has gone 'marching on' all over the world." And his soul will continue to march onward until the word "Liberty" becomes a mere empty formula.—New York Age. GRACE BEAUTY PARLORS The Grace Beauty Parlors are open at No. 222 Arthur street. A specialty in beautifying the compaction. Office hours from 9 to 11 a.m.; 2 to 4 p.m.; 7 to 9 o'clock. We keep on hand lady groomer, cream and soaps. A reachable made to customers who have care to pay. Treatment 25c. Beauty lady who brings four ladies for treatment will receive two treatments free. Get on Highland Park car and get off at Arthur street. We solicit your patronage. MRS. F. 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