Iowa State Bystander

DES MOINES, IOWA The difference between charity and reform is that charity occasionally begins at home. When a fellow has money to bury, there are a lot of others who believe in spontaneous combustion. "Some men," observes the New York Evening Mail, "are honest only when they swear." Honest? If a girl is only attractive enough she gets all the more invitations when she doesn't know how to skate. The celluloid back comb of a Chicago young woman exploded the other day. What red hair she must have! The new Servian cabinet lasted just one day. If it was so soon to be done for, we wonder what it was begun for. In Chicago they are now kidnapping chorus girls. These homes for the aged have got to be filled up somehow. If the law of supply and demand is still working there should also be a sharp decline in lams' wool on Wall street. One of the most thoughtful suicides on record is that of the Kentucky man who laid all his debts before taking his life. $16.50 fgr a lock of Thackeray's hair! Many a young man cherishes a lock of hair that he wouldn't sell for double that. If there is another Andrew Carnegie, probably he feels flattered, too, to think that anyone could borrow $1,250,000 on his name. Of course, Mr. Lawson hopes that there haven't been any members of the New York yacht club caught in the stock market this week. The Bldwells, however, with their $8,000,000 operation in connection with the bank of England, still hold the record by a small margin. King Peter of Servia announces that he is in favor of arbitration. Almost anybody would, in Peter's place, be an enthusiast on the subject. Victims of kleptomania should take care to have a good social position or they are likely to be mistaken for shoplifters and treated accordingly. What satisfaction would it bring to a bald-headed man if he could grow another crop of hair? People would only say that he was wearing a wig. Thomas W. Lawson and Col. Greene might both be able to make up their losses. If they would build a fence around themselves and charge admission. A corps of motorists is planned for the German army. Judging from the record already established by motorists, they ought to be invincible in warfare. Whenever a rich American girl makes up her mind that she wants one there seems to be an earl, or a marquis or a duke or something left somewhere. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is our authority for the statement that women are easier to wake than men. But it's mighty hard to put their suspicions to sleep. Think of the collection of 1,179,713 printed books and pamphlets in the congressional library at Washington. How many lifetimes it would take to read them through! The young men report that the flowers that bloom in the spring trail don't interest the girls now a bit. What they want is the roses that bloom in the bothouse. The Ambidextrous society has been organized in London for the purpose of encouraging people to use both hands with equal facility. All the pickpockets ought to join. Prof. Alexander Graham Bell thinks he has solved the aerial navigation problem. It is to be hoped that he has at least provided himself with a feather bed upon which to fall. A dispatch from South America says no revolutions are going on there at this time. It is midsummer in South America and the people probably are trying their best to keep cool. Here is that old, old question again as to how it is that the women dupe men so easily, not only in money and fairs, but in about everything else. The conundrum is as old as Adam. So is the answer. Mme. Rejane, the frisky French actress, declares that "American society women are the best dressed in the world." But in some cases, either the goods or the money seem to give out before the shoulders are covered. A young woman who sued a New York street railway company for $-5,000 damages because she fell while attempting to get on a car lost her case in court. The papers say she is very beautiful, but that must be a mistake, as it took the jury only five minutes to decide against her. We can't help hoping that the truculent Turk won't go to war with us just because the consul at Alexandreta got disgruntled during the celebration of the anniversary of the sultan's accession to the throne and hauled down the American flag above his consulate. An English duke announces his intention to become identified with the chicken-raising business of long as he conducts himself properly there will be no serious objection among soulters generally. SIOUX CITY IS SWEPT BY FIRE Eats Two Blocks Out of Heart of the Business Section TAKES FINEST BLOCKS IN CITY Loss Will Run From $1,500,000 to $3,000,000 - Buildings Which Were Burned Were Centers of the Business Life of the City. Sloux City, Dec. 24.—Two solid blocks out of the heart of the business section of Sloux City were completely destroyed by fire last night. The loss will approximate between $1,500,000 and $3,000,000, and marks the greatest conflagration in the city's half century of existence. Buildings which were erected during the old boom days, worthy to have graced cities of twice the size, such as the Toy tank building and the Massachusetts block, and about which the business life of the city centered, were laid in ashes, and the whole vital business of the city was struck crushing blow. The fire started at 8:02 p. m., in the basement of the store of the Pelletter Dry Goods company in the Massachusetts block, at the corner of Fourth and Jackson streets. We thus as a starting point called in between Third and Fourth and Jackson and Pierce streets were destroyed. Only one or two buildings, among them that occupied by the Sloux City Tribune, were left standing amid the ruin wrought by the flames. The Massachusetts block the fire jumped east across Jackson street to the Toy Bank building, a seventy-office structure, built of solid granite, which was also destroyed. The T. S. Martin Dry Goods company's store, to the north of the fire, was built by the firemen, which were finally extinguished, although considerable damage was suffered by water. The fire stopped at the corner of Fourth and Pierce streets, just before it reached the Davidson Bros. dry goods store, the largest of the kind in the city. The fire was under control by 11 o'clock. The Omaha department was sent for but arrived too late to be of service. Grotesque ruins and blackened fragments are all that remains of Sloux City's choicest business see the defenses section of the flames defies description. Fighting grimly against the flames which drove them back yard by yard, the Sloux City firemen struggled desperately against the blaze which threatened the safety of their city. A car fire which passed through the heart of the burned district, will be crippled until the debris can be removed from the traf's and the wires repaired. Following is a partial list of the losses: Pelletier Dry Goods company, $240,000 insurance, $200,000. Orkin Bros. furnishings, loss $15,000; insurance, $5,500. J. K. Prugh & Co., queenswave, loss, $60,000; insurance, $25,000. R. R. Purlow, West hotel and other business, $25,000. J. W. Brown, Commercial block, $40,000; insurance half. Schulen estate, loss, $60,000; insurance, $30,000. Turner National bank, loss, $60,000; covered. Fagley & Co, clothing, loss, $15,000; covered. Paul Leader, hotel, loss, $20,000; Leader $10,000. George M. Conway, wholesale to tobacist, loss, $55,000; insurance $45,000. State Bank building company, Toy building, loss $175,000; insurance not known. Martin Bros., department store, loss, $25,000; covered. Davidson Bros., department store, loss, $10,000; covered. loss, $200.00, not covered Marger & Walsh, saloon, loss, $13, 000; insurance, $10,000. COUNCIL BLUFFS HAS FIRE. Warehouse of Fuller & Johnson- Shuart Co. Burns Council Bluffs, Dec. 28. --Fire last night completely destroyed the four-story warehouse and the entire stock and fixtures of the Fuller & Johnson-Shugart company, causing a loss on the building estimated at $60,000 and on the stock of about $190,000, on which was carried insurance of about $15,000. The company, which has its head offices in Madison, Wis., with large warehouses and sales offices in several large cities of the country, carried a large line of farm implements, wagons and buggies, all of which were completely destroyed. The fire is believed to have started from defective electric wires on the first floor. Ten firefighters responded. The fire started at 7 o'clock, and the entire building was in flames when the fire department reached the corner of May and Fifth Avenue. A strong wind increased the fury of the flames, but the firemen succeeded in extinguishing it to other buildings in the vicinity. BACKBONE SHOT IN TWO. Ellis Overholser Killed In Ringgold County. Mt. Ayr, Dec. 30—Ellis Overholser, aged 17 years, was shot in the back and died within an hour, at Knowlton, in the northwestern part of this county, just before noon yesterday. The fatal injury was from the shotgun of Will Christy, aged 16 years, and was the result of an accidental discharge. Four boys, Charles McGinty, Roy Parrish, and James McGinty, were out hunting about a quarter of a mile from town. Two of the boys had shot at a squirrel, and young Christy was raising his gun to shoot, when in cooking it the hammer slipped and the contents of the gun were discharged into Overholser's feet. The other boys were right in line at a short distance, but the charge of shot did not go clear through Overholser's body. His backbone weed shot in two. He was taken to the home of Frank Marsh and a doctor was summoned, but the injured boy was within an hour. The dead boy's father is Jacob H. Overholser, a farmer who makes his home in Knowlton. CITY IS REVIVING. Sioux City Rallies Bravely From Blast estrous Fire. Sloux City, Dec. 25.—The ruins of the big fire blazed all day yesterday. The only building to go since midnight of Friday was the Northwestern National bank at Fourth and Pierce streets, the principal corner, where the confugation stopped. The identity of the man who jumped from the fourth story of the Massachusetts block and missed the net was established. He is Jeneych Brookway, who roomed in the building, a brother of Jesse Brockway, who about two weeks ago fell from a painter's scaffold and was killed. It is pretty well established that no others lost their lives, although some still insisted it was impossible for all to have made their escape. The heaviest losers and their in- salience follow. Pelletier Dry Goods Co. $240,000 $200,000 Mass. Real Estate Co Parmers Loan & Co. 185,000 75,000 J. H. Bailton Co. 115,000 50,000 Brown Block Co. 35,000 20,000 Jonathan W. Brown Peavey & Nush Fur. Co. 30,000 20,000 Dow Clothing Co. 65,000 35,000 K. Pruch & Co. 60,000 35,000 Scherk Brock. 55,000 R. E. Pursow West hotel. 25,000 25,000 Schulen estate. 60,000 30,000 Geo. M. Conway. 55,000 45,000 Higman & Skinner Johnson & Aronson Co. 50,000 25,000 Gillette Hardware Co. 55,000 24,000 Paul Leader. 20,000 10,000 James Bothwell 23,000 10,000 Geo. M. Conway Co. 20,000 16,000 Hursted & Halsey. 9,000 T. S. & J. P. Martin, Mercantile the block. 15,000 20,000 Fagley & Co. 15,000 26,000 Orkin Bros. 40,000 20,000 T. S. & J. P. Martin. 40,000 10,000 number. The loss now is estimated at $2,500,000, with insurance between half and two-thirds of that amount. There was a great scramble for quarters by merchants and officers today. Announcement has been made to the City National bank that they will be rebuilt. The City National bank has opened headquarters in the Hotel Garretton. The bank has been rebuilt and has the first floor of the United Bank building Sheds and poor quarters of all its have been pressed into service. The fire demonstrated that the city's water pressure is inadequate, and that the city purchase fire engines. BANK IN BAD SHAP Dedham Bank Now in Charge of Auditor Carroll. Des Moines, Dec. 29—Auditor of State Carroll has taken charge of the Dedham Savings bank in Carroll county. It is in the possession of H. M. Cormany, bank examiner. There is a possibility that it may be able to reopen. John G. Caton, the president, is charged with being a defaulter to the extent of from $10,000 to $15,000. The capital stock of the bank is $15,000 and Caton owns $8,000 of it. Its deposits amount to about $60,000. Barring the defaulcation, the bank has been forced to close. Caton, confronted by the auditor, declared that the apparent shortage was the result of error and that he was not a defaulter. He offered to and did put up his note, secured by $8,000 stock in the bank, to cover the loss. He also promised that he would return and straighten everything out. He did not return, however, but sent one of his sons, who attempted to straighten out the affairs of the bank, but did not bring the funds to him. He did not. The sons, also, are bankers. The auditor, who was in virtual possession of the bank, directed the directors of the institution to attach all the property of the president in order to protect the bank as far as possessions of the president, pieces of property which was attached was a section of fine land in three separate farms, against which there is only a small indebtedness. Other property also was attached. There is ample to satisfy the impairment of the property, if it is possible to realize upon it. BUCK FOUND GUILTY Jury Convicts Him of Murder in the Second Degree. Newton, Dec. 23—After deliberation covering just twenty-four hours, the jury in the murder trial of Millard Buck, accused of shooting John Porter in Prairie City last summer, retaliated against him in the second degree. The verdict of the jury carries with it a penalty of imprisonment of from ten years to life. The trial was one of the most sensational which has ever been held in Sussex county, deriving its chief interest from the testimony introduced with a view to showing that Buck's appearance of insanity was feigned, in the hope that through this means he would be punished against him. The turnkey of the jail and Ed. Parmley, a trusty who had been detailed to care for Buck, gave the chief evidence along this line. Parmley testified that he was to be guilty of murdering Buck, which if he would visititors to the jail of Buck's strange actions and other stories which would lead them to think that the man was insane. Warmley said that the evidence which Buck said needed to be given. Buck was dumped on a waste pile. HEDRIX SHOT BY FARMER. Farmer Lays in Wait for Thief Who Stole Harness. Des Moines, Dec. 28.—N. W. Layman, who resides near Camp Douglas north of the city, shot and painfully wounded William Hedrick, who is alleged to have been in the act of securing stolen harness in the crush upon the farmer's place. Layman discovered the harness was missing from his barn and traced them to a clump of bundles. There be watched for tours with a gun for the return of the thief. Finally a form appeared, Layman called a "malt" and, he claims, upon the movement of the fellow to draw a gun, fired a double shot of bird shot into the man's legs. Hendrix was taken to the city jail, where Dr. Miller took the shot from his hips and legs. .edrix will be brought to face a charge of aceney. ALLEGED PAPER TRUST IS SUED MANY COMPANIES ARE NAMED For Doing Business Through General Paper Company—Claimed They Have Formed a Combination in Violation of Laws of United States. The petition alleges that the defendants formally entered into an agreement to combine and control the sale of the product of the different Paper company, in that the General Paper company regulated prices, sales and shipment and territory for the sale of the same and after deducting operating expenses of the General Paper company, divided the aurplus among the defendants. The petition recites that the General Paper company was organized under the laws of Wisconsin, May 26, 1900, with a capital stock of $100,000, divided into 1,000 shares, which were distributed among the defendants are now held certain and the defended are later and that later the others were taken into the combine, naming them in the order in which they entered the trust, and goes on to state that the General Paper company became the exclusive absolute power to control the output of the various mills, fix the prices of all paper sold and to whom and upon what terms and conditions the paper should be sold, and into what states and places it shall be shipped, what customers they expect mills to supply. It further states that no dealers or newspapers or other consumers in the territory west of the Mississippi, with the exception or certain newspaper companies, could purchase any paper except directly through the General Paper company, and then only upon terms dictated by the latter. The court is asked to declare the alleged combination unlawful, and that the defendants be permanently enjoined from doing any act in pursuance of the same. That the General Paper company be enjoined from acting as sales agent for the other defendant from continuing their arrangement from continuing their arrangement with t.e. General Paper company. The court is also asked to direct the defendants to come into court and answer all questions relating to the nature of the petition as may be necessary. REPUBLICANS WIN. Denver, Col. Dec. 30—By the action of the state canvassing board in issuing certificates of election as senators to Casmiro Darela and Henry B. Millard, the republicans have seized the office, and assembled that it is now regarded in democratic circles as highly probable that Gov. James H. Peabody will be resetted. The republicans plan, it is said, to accomplish this by throwing the vote of the senators of Denver and counting the vote of the republican wards. The senate now stands: republican, 19, democratic, 15, vacancy, 1. On joint ballot the legislature stands: republican 66, democratic. Showing out Los Animas county prefect the canvassing board converted a majority of 124 into a majority of 297 for Darela and by a similar action in Boulier county the re-election of Senator Ward, democrat, identified and his seat given to Milford. Although the members of the canvassing board refuse to say how they stood on the promotion to go behind the returns, it has been learned that one member, State Treasurer Whitney Newton, was opposed to the accession of those who voted for unseating the democratic senators-elect are: Gov. James H. Peabody, Attorney General N. C. Miller and Auditor J. A. Holmberg. All the members of the board are republicans. APPROVE MINISTER SELECTED. Moscow Zemstv Passes Resolutions in Presence of Big Audience. Moscow, Dec. 28.—At the meeting of the Moscow Zemstvo yesterday in the presence of a great audience, resolutions of confidence and congratulations were presented to the minister of Prince Peter Sylvatopol-Minster, minister of the interior, and the prospect of closer relations and mutual confidence between the government and the people. The zemstvo then voted to send the government to school houses to mark its satisfaction. It is reported that Chief of Police Trepoff, who took an active part in the suppression of the recent student demonstrations, to拒 to涩怒 and pro-tect the front. MORE MINES ARE EXPLODED Dynamite Makes Breaches in Wall of Fort — Capture is Regarded as Making an Important Breach in Defenses of Port Arthur. Tokio, Dec. 30.—After months of fighting, sapping and mining the Japanese forces finally occupied Riblung mountain Wednesday night (December 28.) A report from the headquarters of the Third Japanese army before Port Arthur, received here on Wednesday, December 28, at midnight, says, "The Japanese forces at 5 at 10 o'clock in the morning, the left center column of our army, following some heavy explosions on the front parapet of Riblung mountain, charged and occupied the parapet under cover of the fire from heavy guns and construction works despite the enemy's fire fire. "At 4 o'clock in the afternoon when our occupation was practically assured, we charged and occupied the inner lines of heavy gun positions, subsequently dislodging a remnant of the enemy's force stubbornly holding the gorge fort, which we occupied. The Japanese line at Port Arthur is now, as a result of the general attacks beginning December 25, much closer to Liaotie mountain. Chinese who left Port Arthur yesterday and arrived here today report that a greatly inferior Russian force defended the outermost of the trenches for three days, retiring when the Japanese army had an affiliating position. The fighting range of two-thirds of a mile, the Japanese fearing inines. The Russians retired to Chikakgao. Japanese who arrived at Chefoo today from Port Dalny say the recent fighting also resulted in the capture of a hill called by the Japanese Yang-tang (possibly Keekwan mountain) enabling harassment and harass land communication with the Laiteio forts and with the forts at Etse and Antse mountainals. The capture of Yangtunah Hill followed several night attacks during which each Japanese became confused, killed each man, and retired when the mistake was discovered by the appearance of the moon. The Japanese here further report that severe fighting has occurred on the northeast flank, particularly at Rihlung mountain, where, when the Japanese left Port Dalny, the Japanese left Port Dalny, and the Japanese left this fighting have not yet reached Chefoo. Two steamers recently ran the blockade of Port Arthur. One of them was captured by the Japanese when emerging from the harbor. The Japanese captured forty-three ships when Rihlung fort was taken. Tokio, Dec. 30.—The headquarters of the army besieging Port Arthur telegraphs that on the night of December after the occupation of Rihlung fort, the army of the defenders resistance in the passage between the siege gun line and the gorge. At 3 o'clock in the morning they were dislodged entirely, and the occupation of the fort became secure. At 4 o'clock in the morning passers, the defenders of Port Rihlung numbered about 500, besides some sailors. A majority of the defenders were killed. The trophies captured with Port Rihlung include four large calibre guns, thirty seven-milimeter guns, two machine guns and much property. Headquarters of the Japanese army before Port Arthur—(via fusan), Dec. 30. -Rithung fort was captured on a 30'clock yesterday morning with a 40'clock yesterday morning with a dynamic mines exploded at 10'clock yesterday morning made breaches in the front wall, through which a large body of Japanese troops charged, under cover of a tremendous bombardment, and captured the first enemy assaults. The mines sulted in the capture of the men. The garrison, numbering 500 men, escaped. Rhung Fort, Dec. 30.—The Rhung mountain formed an inner chain in the Port Arthur defenses. The fort just captured is a mile and a half southeast of Kekwan fort, recently captured by the Port Arthur session of these two forts would make a most important breach in the Russian lines and cut off communication with Golden Hill fort. Outside of the capture of 203 Meter hill, on the western section of the forts, little is known of the positions occupied by the Japanese, but it would seem that three pieces already held three pieces and that 203 Meter hill prohibits communication with the Lhantong section, just as the possession of Kekwan fort cuts off communication with the Golden Hill fort, except $^{b}$ the underground ways said to exist in various parts of the fortress. CHIEF OF POLICE EXONERATED Charges Preferred Against Omaha Chief Are Dismissed Omaha, Neb., Dec. 29. — The charges of neglect, of duty and of protecting criminals filed against Chief of Police Donahue by Elmer E. Thomas on behalf of the fire department, were missed at a meeting of the fire and police commissioners last evening. The board declared unanimously that the charges were not sustained by the evidence, and they were dismissed. The board also ordered ward Rosewater afterwards addressed the board at length, offering suggestions for reform in matters pertaining to the moral welfare of the community. This afternoon will consider protests filed by Elmer Thomas against the issuance of licenses to several saloons. Fear It Is the Plague St. Petersburg, Dec. 25. - It is officially announced that a disease, the characteristics of which are similar to bubonic plague, has appeared among the Klineniz in two settlements in 90 deaths between November 26 and December 26. The locality is declared to be infected with the plague. CZAR'S PROMISES ARE LIBERAL Imperial Ukase Covers a Large Number of Heads. Promises Equitable Enforcement of Existing Laws — Fullest Possible Measure of Self-Government Guaranteed and Freedom of Press St. Petersburg, Dec. 27.—Emperor Nicholas' long expected reform uksis was issued last night. The document deems, under eight heads, with practically all the subjects brought to the emperor's attention by the memorial of the congress of zemstvos presidents held here last month, and while not specifically pledging the government to carry out the various reforms in their entirety, as demanded by the memorial, promises that each shall be referred to the council of ministers, with orders to report promptly on the most measures of relief which can be recorded on the various subjects. One question not touched by the ukase is that of the constitutional assembly. Neither is the Jewish religion specifically mentioned, though for all creeds or sects, whether for all or otherwise, is among the subjects which will be dealt with. The various subjects will be referred to committees for early reply. The ukase was issued so late that its contents were not generally known, even in the newspaper offices, till long after midnight. Among those able to express an opinion, it was considered to be a document whose ultimate value depended largely upon the nature of the committees as to the measure of liberty which it is possible to grant under the various heads named. Naturally, it has not met the fullest wishes of the liberals, but on the other hand, it has provided the repositionaries as promised under the direction of liberal reforms. It is complained, also, that there is some ambiguity of expression in the various sections of the document, which must be left to interpretation by those who understand the various reforms are entrusted. WORST IN 16 YEARS Practically the Entire Country is Storm Sweat. Des Moines, Dec. 28.—Considering everything which combines to make a blizzard, there has not been, in the report of Dr. Chappel of the weather department, a blizzard in the past ten years. The points of comparison are snowfall, wind and temperature. There have been numerous storms of great force, but only one such a combination of elements has been recorded by the office. This storm was the greatest force of which was felt at Omaha. The reason for the great force of the storm yesterday is that it has been gathering force for the past four days. Beginning with its advent on December 23, on the Pacific coast, it has been gathering force for the past day since its presence on the continent. Coming from the northwest toward the southeast and then to the northeast it has garnered cold and force in is wake until portions of the United States as far as 1,000 miles from the coast, where the blizzard have felt the chill of the terrible wind and falling temperature. Chicago, Dec. 28—One of the severest storms of recent years has raged throughout the territory lying between the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains, morning, and has caused much trouble to street car companies, railroads and telegraph companies. The latter were the greater survivors, for one blizzard which swept through the city, the last twenty-four hours was preceded by a heavy fog and drizzling rain which made the winds almost unworkable. The intense cool and terrific gale that followed close upon the city led to the poles went to the ground. Railroad trails were badly delayed all through the west, some of them being twenty-four hours late. Street car traffic in the cities of the west and the north was particularly at a standstill during the day. In its extent the storm was the most widespread of any during the last fifteen years. Counting the fog as a component part of the storm, it followed from the Rocky mountains to New York and from Winnipeg to New Orleans. FOR CIVIL SERVICE ON CANAL President Rocsevelt's Views Opposed to Those of Chief Engineer. Washington, Dec. 29 —ident. Roosevelt, it is said, differs from Chief Engineer Wallace of the Panama canal, who in his report gave as his opinion that it would not be wise to extend civil service classification to the canal workers. The president has extended civil service classification to the isthmus months ago, and it has been understood until recently that position in most branches of the canal work could be obtained only through competitive examinations, and all掌故 contents that the best way to attain satisfactory results is to make the engineers and all the technical men responsible to the employing power and that this power should have full authority over all the canal employees. The president should believe the civil service should be only established in all the canal work. Wallace's popularity with the members of congress who returned recently from the lsthmus is apparent, and it is suggested that the hope of a reunion with the members of some degree may have precluded them in Wallace's favor. His recent report to the house committee on interstate commerce was made, it is said, the direct request of members of the committee who visited the lsthmus. Politicians Go To Prison St. Louis, Dec. 28—Thomas E. Barrett, former marshal of the St. Louis court of appeals; John P. Dolan, formerly of the democratic city central committee, and Policeman Frank Garrett, convicted of naturalization yesterday, surpassed by United States Marshal Moseley and taken to the state penitentiary at Jefferson City to begin their sentence. might well be be... Am I fair to my face? Nature herself often leaves the answer in unmistakable signs on the countenances of people using promiscuous soaps. JOHN H. WOODBURY'S FACIAL BOARDS TRADE FOR THE SKIN MAPL. SCALP AND Cream remains unchallenged as the exclusive skin soap. its ingredients are pure and impart the glow of health while cleaning—25 c., a cake. Apply Woodbury's Facial Cream to chapped and roughened hands, the result will make you glad. INITIAL OFFER. In case your denier cannot supply you to send his name and we will send prepaid, to send airress for $1,000 the following toilet requisites. 1 Cake Woodbury's Facial Soap. 1 Tube " Facial Cream. 1 " " Dental Cream. 1 Box " Face Powder. together with our readable booklet Beauty Mauque a self-treatie on the care of the "outer face." Booklet free on application. THE ANDREW JERGENS CO., CINOINNATI, O. STORIETTES. Frank L. Stanton has many good stories of the south stored up in his memory, and most of them are short and to the point. One of the best and most epigrammatic concerns a Kentucky colonel who was just dressing in his uniform in "Sambo," he called downstairs to his henchman, "go out and mow some mint for breakfast." Lincoln Steffens illustrates the Western spirit of hustle by telling of a visit he made to a certain Western town where he was shown in, who excitedly informed the governor that a certain high official had just died, and added: "I dislike to exhibit any unseemly hasty in the matter, but I very much desire to make application for appointment to the governor's reply, "you will have to get into the line already formed, and take your chances." The bishop of Texas is a man of physical proportions commensurate with the great diocese over which he has charge. Leaving a barber shop one day during the recent Episcopal convention in Boston, he lighted a candle and asked the barber, "you do that sort of thing?" "Oh, yes," was the reply; "I have done that sort of thing ever since I was twelve years old." The barber surveyed the six feet four inches of well-worn, began young, bishop, he commented, "for they do say it stunts yo!" Sam Sothern, who is now acting in London, tells an amusing little story of his first appearance in America. His manager was John T. Raymond, and when the young Englishman made his first stage entrance, the older man exclaimed, "I am eccentricity, suddenly laid his hand on his shoulder and turned him around to the audience. "This is young Sam Sothern," he explained to the astonishment of everybody on and off the stage, "and because we all remember him, I know you will give him a hearty welcome. Sam, my boy, fire away!" A new story that comes from Ger- manity is that a Christianized Jew, who, returning to his native village, went to the rabbi and said that he had been seized by a strong desire to be buried in the same plot with his parents. The rabbi informed him that, he was now a Christian, such a thing as burial in a Jewish cemetery he was willing to do. The Jew said that he was willing to be buried in his wish gratified. "Well," said the rabbit, "there will be a meeting of the directors of the synagogue tomorrow, and I will see what can be done for you. He informed the Jew the next directors, after a hard struggle, would cost him forty-five thousand marks. "That's a terrible price, sold the Jew, after he had reluctantly paid it. "Now tell me how you hap- pened to fix upon exactly that sum." The reason was this: When the Mo- mentary, and calls all the Jews to hea- ven, you, as a Christian, could not go with them, and therefore would be left in possession of the entire cemetery, and you would room for three Jews, and calls all the Jews per plot (the regular rate), we were it nothing but just that you should pay for them all." Found at Last. Hensley, Ark. Dec. 26th.—(Special!) That a sure cure for Backache would be a priceless boon to the people, and especially the women of America, is admitted by all interested in medical matters, and Mrs. Sue Williams of this place is certain she has found in Kidney Pills the longlooked for cure. "I am 38 years old," Mrs. Williams says, "and I have suffered with the Backache very much for three or four years. I have been treated by good physicians and got no relief, but thanks to God, I have found a cure it last and it is Dodd's Kidney Pills. I have taken only one box and it has done me more good than all the doo-ral sufferers or four years. I want all sufferers of Backache to know that they can get Dodd's Kidney Pills and get well." Backache is one of the first symptoms of Kidney Disease. Guard against Bright's Disease or Rheumatism by curling it with Dodd's Kidney Pills. She—"Are you sure you love me for myself alone?" Did "Did you think I loved you for your mother?"—Somecrucial Journal. Enough is as good as a feast, but us know when we have enough In proof that the monkey possesses some of the characteristics of man, a gestural illustration was witnessed recently in Lincoln Park, Chicago, a big monkey, known as "Jim," stumbled upon some whisky. He drank it, and in a little while became quarrelsome, and viciously thrashed his wife and two little ones. Thomas Yates, of Toledo, Ohio, now in his eighty-second year, is believed to be the sole survivor on this side of the Atlantic of the "noble six hundred" who made the famous charge at the battle of Balaklava, October 25, 1854. He recently celebrated the fifty anniversary of that event immortalized by Tennyson in his "Charge of the Light Brigade." Stewart McDougal, *t. wealthy man of Brooklyn, N. Y.*, was for years troubled with dyspepsia. Nearly everything he ate caused him distressing pains in the stomach. He gave up eating cooked food, confined his dietary to milk, fruit and vegetables, rigidly avoiding meat, and in a few months his health was thoroughly restored, and with it the vigor of youth. A female polar bear and two cubs were observed in cold storage, a short time ago, by the crew of the whaler, Lora Hansen, which recently arrived at Seattle. The cubs nestled against the mother, frozen in an iceberg that stood one hundred feet above the water, and the ice was as clear as crystal. How long the animals had been thus entombed is entirely a matter of conjecture. DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE It Cures Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Croup, Leftovers. Whenever Cough Infections, and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use as once. As well as a excellent effect after taking the first dose. Sold by dealer everywhere. Large bottles 25 cents and 50 cents. IMPROVED FARM, at prices and on oil and gas prices. Reach of all We two-thirds hard wood, neat build house for every buyer. 18x12, 15 feet high, ready to accee a yearly purchase. House 60'00 per square. k wash, hail and bulb purchases. Write LARK'S LAND GRAIN, Cumberland, WI. Used by Good Housekeepers. E-Z STOVE POLISH (LIQUID) OR DOES IT EASY Sold by Good Dealer. FARMSTATE WESTERN CANADA FREE 100 FARMSTATE on the Free Homestead Lands Western Canada Carry the banner for yields of wheat and grains for 1904. FARMSTEIN WESTERN CANADA FREE 100,000 FARMERS receive $55,000,000 as a result of their Wheat Crop alone. receive from Oats, Barley and other grains, as well as castle and horses, add considerably to this. Secure a Fee Homestead at once, or purchase a greenhouse dealer whale labs are selling at green low prices. Apply for information & Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to authorised Canadian Street, St. Paul, Minnesota; W. V. Bennett, Si New Life Buildings, Omaha, Nebraska. Please say where you saw this advertisement. It is worthy of remark that every city of any size or importance in the great State of Texas is located directly on the line of the M. K. & T. R. Y. Naturally the country adjoins the state of Texas, and serves, are a little richer in opportunities than other portions of the State, which is as a whole a State surpassingly attractive to the investor and the home-seeker. Low rates on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. I would like to send you some printed matter about Texas. Write to me. "KATY" ST. LOUIS, MO. "KATY" ST. LOVIS, MO. 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS; CHILDREN. Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Saint Samuel Pitcher Pumpkin Seed Almonds Raspberry Salad Mint Leaf Pumpkin Seed Dill Cress Salad Mint Leaf Cinnamon Sugar Mint Leaf Wintergreen Pitcher Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and Loss of SLEEP. For Simile Signature of Charles H. Hatcher NEW YORK. Abb months old. 35 Doses - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. PISO'S CURE FOR CHURCH WHERE ALL ELSE FAILED. Best Cough byrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION A fish lays more eggs than a hen, and doesn't cackle about it, either.—New York Times. You can't make no man out of a Willie Boy by having him smoke cigars 'stead of cigarettes.—Spinx. Bacon—"Why does he call his dachshund 'Procession?'" Egbert—"because it takes him so long to pass a given point."—Yonkers Statesman. "Do only thing dat some people gits out of education," said Uncle Eben. "Is de ability to talk so's people can't understand 'em.'—Washington Star. Lady—"Oh, that big dog isn't the one I advertised for. My dog was a little dog-terrier." Boy—"Yes'm. Your dog's inside o' dia one!"—Puck. Suitor—"I came to ask your daughter's hand." Father—"Can you support her auto in the manner to which it has been accustomed?"—New York Sun. Mayme “What a gossip Mrs. Gadby is!” Edith “Yes, indeed. I never tell her anything without finding out that she has already told it herself.” —Philadelphia Bulletin. Giles “So you’ve got a place in that banking house? I suppose it was because you know the president?” Harris “Partly that, and partly because he didn’t know me.” —Boston Transcript. Johnny Geechaw “Paw, what’s the law of gravitation?” Farmer Geechaw “I dumno. I haint got time to keep up with all the fool statoids the durn legislatur” passes.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. Rimer “Do you really prefer to have long poems sent in to you rather than short, ones?” Editor “Yes. When they’re long, you see, I don’t have to think up any other excuse for rejecting them.” —Philadelphia Press. Seedly Stranger—"Exuse me, sir, but can you change a dollar for me?" Humanitarian—"Why, yes." Seedly Stranger—"Thanks. And now will you kindly tell me where I can get the dollar?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. "That Mrs. Snaggs is too much of a aristocrat fur me to mingle wid." "How's that?" "She was knocked down by a pushheart and she had it put into paper diar she was hit by an automobile."—Detroit Free Press. He (reading about the latest society wedding)—"They have a lot to say about what the bride wears, but they have nothing to say about the poor bridegroom." She—"They have no need to, because it is a well-known fact that he usually wears a worried look."—Boston Globe. A farmer in Monroe county, Mo., last fall invested $229 in sheep. He has since sold $227 worth of wool, and has 142 lambs that will average eighty pounds when ready for market, which at four cents a pound, makes them worth $457. Total income from his flock of sheep, $684, and he still has the sheep. Edmond Rostand, the famous playwright, went to the mayor's office of a little town in France, to register the birth of a friend's daughter. An officious little clerk pompously asked his name and his vocation, and these questions having been satisfactorily answered, the clerk continued: "Now you have to sign your name. Can you write? If not, you can make a cross." Bare Good Thing. "Am using ALLEN'S POOK-EASE, and can truly say I would not have been without it as long, had I known the relief it would give my aching feet. I think it a rare good thing for anyone having sore or tired feet. Mrs. Mataly Holtwarf, Providence, R. L." Sold by all Druggists, 25c. Ask to day. Naggsbry—"When a man and his wife think the same thoughts simultaneously, it is a sign that they are exceedingly congenial." Wagsbry—"So? Well, then, my wife and I are exceedingly all right, for the other night, when she said that she wondered why I'd ever been such a fool as to marry her, I had been sitting there in silence for half an hour wondering over the same identical thing." Baltimore American. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat. H. H. Hutchens. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds. JAPANESE TAKE ANOTHER FORT Tighten Their Coil About Doomed Port Arthur. OCCUPY RIHLUNC MOUNTAIN Important Position Falls Into Their Hands—Fort Long and Stubbornly Held By Russian Defenders Falls at Last. Tokio, Dec. 29.—The Japanese occupied the entire fort on Rihlung mountain at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday. Tokio, Dec. 29.—Trustworthy advice from Port Arthur confirm the report that General Konerahenko had been killed and that General Stoessel had been injured from falling from his horse. General Similoes is also reported wounded. The advice further say that the Sevestapol has sunk in shallow water. Her bow is damaged in two places and the steering room is also damaged. The garrison is reported to be confident in the belief that relief will arrive before March 1st. Despite its heavy losses November 26 and subsequently, the garrison is said to be cheerful and resolved to continue the struggle as long as a single soldier remains. The army claims to have sufficient provisions to last until February. The navy possesses about one month's stores. The price of food in the beleguarded fortress is high. Beef is a ruble and one-half per pound. It is expected that the capture of the heights of Pigeon Bay will further curtail the landing of supplies. WILL WATCH RUSSIAN SHIPS Are Not to Be Allowed to Leave Harbor at Shanghai. Shanghai, Dec. 29.—The tatkal has issued strict orders to the commanders of the warships in the harbors of Woosung and Shanghai and to the harbor master at Shanghai to prevent any attempt to escape by the Russian war vessels, the cruiser Askold and the torpedo boat destroyer Grozovol. More Chinese cruisers are on the way to Shanghai. The Coo, Dec. 29.—The persistent rumor which has been in circulation for the past two weeks that several torpedo boat destroyers had escaped from Port Arthur and succeeded in reaching Vladivostok is denied by the officials. HOSPITAL SHIPS ARE WARNED. Are Protecting Russian Torpedo Boat Destroyers. London, Dec. 27.—The Daily Mall's correspondent at Tokio cables as follows: On December 19, the Japanese signalled the Russian hospital ships protecting the destroyers in the roadstead of Port Arthur to change their berth, and the Russians requested a respite six hours, which meant giving the destroyers the benefit of the darkness. The sequel is not known. It is reported that recently positions have been captured behind Liaotie which have cut off the Russian supply bases from the main force. Foreign correspondents from Port Arthur declare that the fortress is the strongest that ever was attacked and compare it to six Sebastopol all situated on hills, connected by tramways and backed by a mass of wall masoning at the top of the troops from one another. They consider that no other army in the world could have done what the Japanese have accomplished, but deprecate as oversangine the idea of its immediate capture. TO RE-ELECT DEPEW Former Governor Black Withdraws From Senatorial Race. New York, Dec. 30.—Chauncey Mitchell Depew, of New York, will succeed himself for a term of six years as senator from the state of New York, continuing as the colleague of Senior Senator Thomas C. Platt, who has four years to serve. The formal announcement of this conclusion was made late yesterday afternoon at the Fifth avenue note by Governor Oddel as chairman of the republican state committee, and came as the culmination of a series of conferences by prominent republicans extending over several weeks, and practically continuous during the past four months. The purport of the announcement is that the candidacy of former Governor Frank S. Black of Troy, which has been warmly pressed by his friends during the past fortnight or more, is withdrawn, and that the name of Senator Depew will be the only one presented to the caucus of the republican legislators which will select the party's candidate for senator. FILE PETITION FOR ADAMS Asked That Ballot Boxes Used in Denver Be Examined: # Denver, Colo., Dec. 23.—Attorney Charles S. Thomas and Samuel Edward fied yesterday on behalf of Alva Adams, the democratic governor-elect, asking that either the court or a commission to be appointed by the court shall open all of the 204 ballot boxes to the public, make a thorough examination of their contents. The court decided to hear arguments on the petition later in the day. Governor Adams' petition charges that certain evily disposed persons are using the supreme court as a cloak under which they may nullify the will of the people as constitutionally expressed at the polls. The petitioner insists that he has exercised authority perpetrated the legal voters have a constitutional right to have their ballots counted, and to that end every ballot box in the city of Denver should be opened and its contents scrutinized. Japanese Are Dynamiting Forts. Tokio, Dec. 29. It is understood that the Japanese dynamiting and paralleling against the eastern section of the main circle of forts around Port Arthur is progressing favorable. The right wing of the besiegers continues a heavy attack from the preparatory to operations which are nearing completion. It is probable that the next attack will be simultaneously directed against the east and west faces of the fortress in an endeavor to divide and weaken the resistance of the defenders. NOTES FROM THE CAPITA The Richards and Baird cases are socketed for submission to the supreme court at the session of the court which will convene January 10. Derek Crockett has issued the dockies, their order the cases begin No. 65. There are three of them. First, that of the state against W. A. Richards; second, that against Frank Baird, and the third, that against W. A. Richards and Bert Richards, the defendants in each case being the appellant. In the case of Martin against the city of Oskaloosa, involving the validity of assessments for public improvements made in accordance with the statute, but without the intermediation of a city ordinance. McCoy and McCoy, L. C. Bolton, Read & Read and City Solicitor Brenner of the Dies Mohsen will appear to make additional argument on rehearing. In the second period on the dock and will be submitted at the sitting beginning with February 7. The petition for rehearing filed by the attorneys for Louis Busse to keep him from hanging has been set down for hearing at the opening of the third sitting of the court, March 7. Governor Cummins has appointed I. S. Goss of Atlantic a member of the state pharmacy commission to succeed Fletcher Howard at the expiration of the latter's term. April 23. Mr. Goss has been absent, and the attorney was. He was a candidate for the appointment when Governor Cummins first took office, to succeed Mr. Howard, who had been in the office for some years. It is understood that his selection is eminently satisfactory to democrats of all kinds. Governor Cummins has received an official invitation to attend the ceremonial of inauguration of President Roosevelt in Washington, D. C. March 4, next. He will accept the invitation on behalf of himself and the members of his staff, who will accompany him, not to exceed twenty-five officers. In the invitation he is asked to take with him as many of the members of the state guard as desired, within the limit of a brigade. This number, it is stated, arrangements had been made to accommodate. It was decided, however, only to take the members of the staff, at whose head at the time of inauguration will be Adjutant General Thrift. It is understood in political circles that the Iowa electoral college, which will convene at the state house in Des Moines, January 8, will have to select a messenger from the half a dozen candidates within the college itself. And it is further understood that the names of those who desire to take the Iowa vote to Washington shall be placed in a hat and lots shall be cast to select the messenger. This method was used four years' age. General James B. Weaver of Colfax has inaugurated a movement for the removal of the Iowa soldiers' monument to a suitable site, and after the matter has been discussed to some length, petitions will be circulated through the state for signatures in an unanimous appeal to the legislature to take action. General Weaver has no criticism of anyone to make, and believes that the monument commission did the best it could under the circumstances. But the location and embellishment of the monument have been admitted by a Court to be unfortunate. For a Court to move the monument has been talked more or less. But hitherto there has been no effort to organize a movement looking toward that end. General Weaver was one of Iowa's noted and most courageous soldiers. Veterans everywhere accord him the right to speak for them in matters of this character. His purpose is purely patriotic and nothing of the political clings to it. It is expected, therefore, to attract support of the widest character. General Weaver has embodied his views in a letter which he says will be the first of a series of papers on the subject. At the meeting of the State Teachers' Association the following officers were elected for the following year: President, J. J. McConnell of Cedar Rapids; First Vice-President, F. E. Palmer of Jefferson; Second Vice-President, Ella C. Chancture of Adair; Third Vice-President, O. P. Bostwick of Clinton; Secretary, Adam Pickett of Mt. Ayr; Treasurer, G. W. Samson of Cedar Falls; Member of Executive Committee, F. E. Bolton of Iowa City; Members Educational Council, T. R. Hutton of LeMars and Mattie Lea A. Lair of Sidney. A final adjustment of the Chamberlain divorce litigation has been effected by the filing of a decree signed by Judge Hugh Brennaan whereby an absolute divorce is given Mrs. Lydia Chamberlain from her husband, David S. Chamberlain, together with a division of the property of the family. The Chamberlain hotel, recently erected at a cost of about $300,000 by David S. Chamberlain, becomes the property of Mrs. Chamberlain upon the payment by her of about $2,500. All other property owned jointly by them, personal and real, becomes the property solely of Mr. Chamberlain, to that effect filed by Mrs. Chamberlain with Recorder Dodson, Mrs. Chamberlain, it is said, assumes a $30,000 mortgage against the hotel. When woken up are about to repair a Chinese temple they cover the blot's eyes, to prevent the deltas from seeing the disorder. Over 30,000 horses are annually slaughtered in Paris for their meat. The carcass of an average horse yields about 369 pounds of meat. Whalebone is found in the mouth of the whale, where it forms the substitute for the teeth, of which, otherwise, the animal is destitute. The government of Ecuador has introduced a bill into its congress for the separation of church and State, and the confiscation of all ecclesiastical property. A bullfight was about to take place in Valladolid, Spain, when two of the animals escaped from the arena and made their way into a hospital. Here they nimbly pranced around, and upset several beds on which patients were lying, and gored three persons. "I allus knew Reub wound turn out a kind-hearted boy," said the old lady, wiping a tear with the corner of her apron; "in this here letter he sez: 'Please send me another twenty-five dollars. The other all went to feedin' the kitty.'"—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. The world will forgive a man almost anything except fear. Miss Rae H. Miss Rose Hennessy, well known as a poetess and elocutionist, of Lexington, Ky., tells how she was cured of uterine inflammation and ovaritis by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINHAM: — I have been so blessedly helped through the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound that I feel it but just to acknowledge it, hoping that it may help some other woman suffering as I did. "For years I enjoyed the best of health and thought that I would always do so. I attended parties and receptions thinly eluded, and would be suddenly chilled, but I did not think of the results. I caught a bad cold eighteen months ago while menstruating, and this caused inflammation of the womb. My attention was called to your Vegetable Compound and the wonderful cures it had performed, and I made up my mind to try it for two months and see what it would do for me. Within one month I felt much better, and at the close of the second I was entirely well. "I have advised a number of my lady friends to use it, and all express themselves as well satisfied with the results as I was." — Miss Rose Nona HENNESSY, 410 S. Broadway, Lexington, Ky. The experience and testimony of some of the most noted women of America go to prove beyond a question that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will correct all such trouble and at once, by removing the cause, and restoring the organs to a normal and healthy condition. "DEAR MRS. PINHAM: — About two years ago I consulted a physician about my health which had become so wretched that I was no longer able to be about. I had severe backache, bearing-down pains, pains across the abdomen, was very nervous and irritable, and this trouble grew worse each month. The physician prescribed for me, but I soon discovered that he was unable to help me, and I then decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and soon found that it was doing me good. My appetite was returning, the pains disappearing, and the general benefits were well marked. "You cannot realize how pleased I was, and after taking the medicine for only three months, I found that I was completely cured of my trouble, and have been well and hearty ever since, and no more fear the monthly period, as it now passes without pain to me. Yours very truly, Miss Pearl Ackers, 327 North Summer St., Nashville, Tennessee." When a medicine has been successful in restoring to health more than a million women, you cannot well say without trying it if do not believe it will help me. If you are sure you can cure it, get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and write Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., for special advice. Her advice is free and helpful. Write to-day. Delay may be fatal. $5000 FORFEIT if we cannot forthwith produce the original letters and signatures of above terminials, which will prove their Nute gentility. Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn, Mass. Twelve strikes at temples was recently made by Al. Jenkins, at Seattle. This equals the best record in the world. FITS cured to stay cure. Emphasis pointed to management and the medical press declare my cure permanent. cure affirmed. DAY FOR FREE BOOKLET. Address Dr. W Town, Fond du Lac, Wla. DR. McGREW For years has made a special of DISSEASE OF MEN. Eighteen years in Omaha. His Home is permanently cured thousands at small cost. Save time and money by describable book and term of treatment. Med. license in phila package. Norah Omaha, 11th Street Omaha, Nebraska. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. 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. GET A GRASP ON OUR TRADE MARK GET TO KNOW IT WHEN YOU SEE IT AND THEN NEVER BUY STARCH WITHOUT IT. DEFIANCE STARCH IS WITHOUT EQUAL IT IS GOOD. IT IS BETTER. IT IS THE BEST AND MORE OF IT FOR TEN CENTS THAN ANY OTHER STARCH. IT WILL NOT ROT THE CLOTHES. YOUR GROCER HAS IT OR WILL GET IT IF YOU ASK FOR IT. SATISFACTION OR MONEY BACK. MANUFACTURED BY The DEFIANCE STARCH CO., OMAHA, NEB. The Old Monk Cure for Pains and Aches of the human family, relieves and cures promptly. Price 25c, and 50c. ST. JACOBS OIL ST. JACOBS OIL TRADE MARK. The Old Monk Cure for Pains and Aches of the human family, relieves and cures promptly. Price 25c. and 50c. $88.00 per M. Lewis' "Single Binder," straight be cigar, costs more than other brands, but this price gives the dealer a fair profit — and the smoker a better cigar. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Price is the thing that counts with a woman. Dealers say that as soon as a customer tries Defiance Starch it is impossible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. Chance is one of the most profane words in our language. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Including Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Your drugstore will refund money if PAZZONMENT fails to cure you in 6 to 14 days. $88 Freedom only leaves a man free to climb up. Many Children Are Sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, cure feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, Break up Colds and Destroy Worms. At all Drugsists 22c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Lo Hoy, N. Y. A solid tissue is better than a sounding one. Stockkeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. Real religion never has to advertise for a chance to do good. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Lactose Bromo Quinine Tables. All drugs round the money if it fails to cure. E. W. G. Wroth's signature is on each book. 22c. When a thing is said to be as brass as it is long it must be square. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds. N. W. SAMUEL Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb 17, 1900. Men who imagine the world owes them a living try to collect it a loaf at a time. New York & Philadelphia cannot be more pleasantly or conveniently reached than by the Grand Trunk Lehigh Valley Route. Solid through trains, magnificent scenery, all trains ran via Niagara Falls. Descriptive literature sent free on application to Advertising Department, Grand Trunk Railway System, 135 Adams St., Chicago, Ill., Geo. W. Vaux, A. G. P. & T. A. The work of God's Word proves it to be His work. Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of Defiance Starch is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they cannot sell any other starch. Love is the evidence of having learned of Him. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teaching, softens the grus, reduces inflammation, a pain, curts wind colds. So a bottle. A courtship sometimes reverts to the courts. Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy cured my wife of a terrible disease with pleasure. kettle to the marvellous efficacy". J. sweet, alamy, M. X. Vanity causes strong men to appear weak. If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Defiance Starch is the best where and there positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science can cure. It is Cataract. Hall's Cataract Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Cataract Hall's Cataract Cure is an international treatment. Hall's Cataract Cure is taken in mucous membrane surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the surface of the system, thereby damaging the surface by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The propietors have owned it for their residences. One owned Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. For their residences, CO, Toledo, O. Send by all Drogger, Inc. Take Hall's Family Films for constipation A man's prospects do not depend on his pretensions. Don't you know that Defiance Starch besides being absolutely superior to any other, is put up 16 ounces in package and sells at same price as 12-ounce packages of other kinds? A cocoanut is not always what it is cracked up to be. Good Gems and Waffle Recipe. Two cups Falcon SelfRising Pancake Flour, one cup milk, two eggs, one tablespoonful sugar, piece butter size of walnut. Mix the ingredients thoroughly before adding the flour. Falcon SelfRising Pancake Flour is a mixed flour of the best portion of wheat, corn and rye. The flour is selfrising. Sold by the best grocers. A change of air is beneficial, even in popular music. 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 16 oz.—over full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put in ½-pound packages, and the price is the sama, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12 oz. 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 ozs. Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. Frost is a good thing so long as it is impersonal. DR. McGREW For 30 years has made a speciality of DISEASES OF MEN. Eighty seven years of experience in Treatment has a permanently curved thousand small coat 58% of the time. Write your case, and write for Free letters your case, and write for Free letters sent in pila package. Box 501 Gatesborough 14th Street Omaha, Nebraska. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. cured to stay cured. Emballment and the medical press declare cured other premature HIRTs after other premature HIRTs W *Tweaves. Fond du Lundi-Wi M C GREW For 30 years has made a speciality of DISSANE OF MEN. Eight Treatment h has a perennial cured thousands at small cash amounts, and your your case, and write for Free book and termed treatment. M Grew is located at South 118 Street Office, South 118 Street RACE ECHOES A gold cross has been conferred upon Robert Joseph Morgan, the American Negro Bishop, who has been visiting Moscow, by the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg. Mr. L. W. Baker (colored of Wellington, D. C., shrdl shrdlu mfwppyb forcebo, Ohio, has been appointed superintendent of construction of woodwork at Washington, D. C., at a salary of $2,000 per year. The Moravian church, which is said to be the smallest church in the world as to numbers, the membership being but 70,000, keeps 2,000 missionaries in the field. Dr. Booker T. Washington has contributed $65 to the fund now being raised 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." Major Taylor, the colored cycling whirlwind, has retired from the track and will become an expert chauffeur. He will also study automobile construction so as to thoroughly know his business. "No person more to lick with the wheel" is his reason for retirement. Miss Rachel Ellis of Greenville, Ind., was the first woman of the race to receive appointment, under the civil service, at the Immigrant Staton at Ellis Island, N. Y. Miss Ellis was born in Lebanon, Tenn., about twenty three years ago. At an early age she was taken by her paternal grandmother to Indiana, and there reared and educated. Her entire school life was marked by high standing in each successive grade. She is tall and of commanding presence. Strong in her self-reliance she has easily made her way in the metropolis. The New York Presbytery, the local governing board of the Presbyterian church, voted against the establishment of a separate presbytery for the colored race by an overwhelming majority. The vote followed a two hours debate, in which Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, John Cox, Robert Booth and others participated. The presbytery has 185 members and of these only three voted in favor of a separate organization for colored people. All the presbyteries in the country are now voting on the same question, and when the vote is complete the matter will be taken to the national body. WILL COLONIZE MINNESOTA. Booker T. Washington is Said to Have Secured Option on a Large Tract of Land and Will Colonize it With. Southern Neores. Booker T. Washington, of the Tuskegee Institute, is said to have secured option on a large tract of land near Black Duck, Minn., for the purpose of establishing a colony of Southern Negro farmers. The people in the vicinity of Black Duck are trying to head off this movement. Several Negroes have already arrived and most of one township has been secured.—Afro-American, Baltimore, Md. Miss Harriett A. Gibbs, the cultured and efficient director of music for our schools at Washington, is the founder of two conservatories for the negro—can at the Eckstein Normal school of Cane Spring, Ky., and a similar one, the Washington Conservatory of Music, established at Washington, D.C., one year ago. We have two are unique and trained musicians, in charge and already two hundred pupils have been enrolled. The enthusiasm and pride shown by the most cultured and substantial negroes of Washington in this worthy institution is great, and with their support it cannot fail to have large success. FORMER SLAVE NOW OWNS IT. Plantation of Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy, is Home of Colored Man. Augusta Chronicle: The present owner of the "Jefferson Davis plantation" in Mississippi is Isaiah F. Montgomery, a colored man. He was a bright youth and Joseph Davis, brother of Jefferson Davis, owned him. Mr. Davis, attracted by the boy's spright-Hiness and good qualities, had him educated, and he was a famous pet on the plantation. He was always respectful, grateful and obedient as a bandman. He was faithful to the persons and interests of the Davis family during the war and after it. He was permitted to purchase the old plantation and his farm. He has the escem of all Mississippiians, and is now worth about $200,000. Isaiah Montgomery is respected in Mississippi, and deserves to be. He is a rare character, and the coming generations of his race might learn valuable lessons from his virtues, his patience and good sense. SUES FOR LAND. Newport—The heirs of Geo. T. Downing, owner of the Downing block on the Bellevue avenue and the Downing street, said to be the best property in the city, have through Rufus L. Perry, a New York lawyer, instituted proceedings to recover thousands of acres of and in St. Lawrence, Clinton, Jefferson Louis, Essex and Hamilton counties, in the state of New York, which are new held by Timothy L. Woodruff, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, J. Morgan and other miliaries. It is claimed the Adriackond holdings which the heirs seek to recover never originally purported to have seen Smith the positionist. Mr. Perry says he is in session of original deeds, dated 1846, transferring for a consideration of $1 various Adriackond tracts to different negroes and finally to Geo. T. Downing, who was for many years the keeper of the restaurant of house of representatives in Washington. His heirs reside in Boston, Washington, Brooklyn and Newport, two of his sons holding prominent places in the postal service in Boston. Left Money for Lighthouse M. Charles Potron, a Parisian philanthropist, has bequeathed $80,000 for the construction on a rock in a dangerous part of the Atlantic sea coast, preferring the life of Ushant, of a life of materials ob Last week. Geo Martin of Chicago is home visiting his mother for a few days. Ben Hawkins will spend Xmas. week in Independence. Mrs. Fred Morris expects to spend Xmas in Dubuque with her mother. Miss Ella martin who has been im- proving steadily at the hospital is not so well at this writing. Mesdames Bob Thompson and Boyd are on the slok list. The church fair was a great success; a change of program was rendered nightly. Miss Cleo Van Camp is doing an ex- cellent business at her confectionery and oyster parlor on South Third street. Three young men took their beat girls to the opera Saturday evening, after which they launched at Dazelles. The Sunday School will have their Xmas tree Monday night. The choir, under the leadership of Prof. Wm. B. Lowery, will redder some exe- cellent music Sunday. Last Sunday was quarterly meeting; Presiding Elder Gaines was present and delivered a splendid sermon Sunday night to a large congregation. A birthday party will be held the 24th in honor of Miss Hettie Parkins, 18th birthday. An enjoyable evening is anticipated, as Miss Hettie is an accomplished musician and entertainer. The Masons will give their annual chilterning supper Tuesday evening Dec. 27th, at their hall. If you want to have a good time don't miss it. One or Cedar Kapids young ladies left for Otumwu to make a happy home for an Otumwu young man. Our boys had better bew e. Mrs. Adelda Perkins and son Mayo, have left for Macomb, Ill., to spend the holidays. Mr. Lewis Mitchell was unlucky enough to lose a purse of $40 one day last week. WANTED. SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE in this county and adjising territories, to represent and advertise an old established business house of solid financial standing. Salary $21 weekly, with expenses, advanced each Monday by check direct from headquarters. House and office when necessary, address, Rows Brothers, 600 Monon Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Unique Autograph Fan. A fan on which are written the names of all the members of the Berlin congress belongs to the Baroness von Langen (nee Von Prillitz). The possessor obtained the signatures at several sojourns given in honor of the congress at the English embassy and the Austrian embassy. Facts vs. Fiction. The poet sat at his desk one day and dashed off a beautiful rhyme of gold and jewels in such a way that it made folks think his time was occupied handling gems so rare; but most of his time was spent in wondering if he'd dine on air—for the poet hadn't a cent. Trace Ancestors for Generations. Descendants of the first town officers of Lincoln, Middlesex county, Mass., were privileged to wear a purple badge as a mark of distinction at the recent celebration of the one hundred and fifteenth anniversary of the town, and 110 residents were so adorned. Holland's Liberal Trade Holland has no patent system or trade-mark laws. Certificates of origin are not required. An exception, however, is presently to be enforced with respect to importations of sugar, since Russia has not subscribed to the Brussels convention. Where Fruit Is Cheap If you are very fond of fruit you should go to Jamaica. West Indies, the greatest fruit-growing island in the world. There you can buy a big pineapple for 2 cents and twenty bananas or a dozen oranges for 3 cents. Natural Lanterns In Cuba, in the rural districts, the natives sometimes catch the great "lightning bugs"—"Cuejos" they call them—and place several of them inside a paper lantern to be by when going about at night. Napoleonic Belics. In the library of Hinchcliffe castle, Lord Camanon's residence in Hampshire, England, are the table and chairs which Napoleon used when he signed his abdication at Fontaine-beau Waste Sugar Cane. It is suggested that the waste sugar cane in Hawaii—more than 2,000,000 tons a year—which is now consumed as fuel, could be more profitably used for the manufacture of paper. Ear Behind the Times A doctor writes in the London Lancet that as regards sanitation and ventilation the English churches retain the customs of the middle ages. Rats Sink Battleship Owing to the ravages of rats, the old French battleship Mars, used as a barracks, suddenly sank in Toulon harbor. French Capital's Immense Debt. Paris has the biggest debt of any city in the world. It amounts to $400,000,000. Australian Kangaroo Farming. Kangaroo farming is to become an established institution in Australia Difficult Road Building Difficult bed surfaces Thirty-three tunnels plated with a steel construction of the circum-Balkal branch of the Transsiberian railway. The entire length of the line is only 152 miles is construction was begun in 1898. The Arab is virtually a pony, standing 14.2 hands, offender under that over. He is not fast, even at the gat loop; indeed, he is slow. He is a very poor trotter, both as regards speed and action; a bad hack, and cannot walk without continually sticking his toe in the ground. He is totally un fitted for harness and is uncomfortable to ride except at the gallop; this is his natural gait, and in it his movement is free, smooth, delightful and easy—Sporting News. School Teachers Poorly Paid. School Teachers Poorly Paid. Austria pays less to teachers than is paid in France, and the Parliament has refused to consider the needs of the teachers. The highest salaries in the empire are paid in Bohemia, where, by placing an extra tax on beer, the government raised enough money to increase the salary of its teachers. The lowest are paid in the districts which once were under the Turkish government. Emulating Her Father At a recent children's party, given on the Hill, the little people were discussing, during refreshment time, what they intended "to be" when they grew up. One little girl announced that she "expected to marry a handsome man," whereupon her partner straightened up and remarked, "And I shall follow my father's example and be a bachelor."—Brooklyn Life. Butterfly Farm Yorkshire possesses a farm for the rearing of moths and butterflies. Half an acre of land has been planted with trees and shrubs for the purpose. In their season the stock of caterpillars is 20,000. From 30,000 to 40,000 preserved insects are kept in reserve, so that butterflies and moths can be supplied irrespective of the time of year. Children Have No Footwear Italian children of the poorer classes can neither hang up their stockings at Christmas nor put their shoes out the window at Twelfth night for the wise men to fish. For when the weather is too cold for them to barefoot they wear rags bound around their feet for coverings. Belgium Egg Exports Belgium exports annually $6,500,000 worth of eggs. The shipments are almost entirely to England, where the demand is for eggs which run seven and a quarter to the pound. The Mediterranean breeds — Leghorns, Spanish Minorcas and Andalusians — are the most popular. Sunday School Enrollment There are within three million of as many persons enrolled in the Sunday schools of this country as in the public schools, there being thirteen million in the former and sixteen million in the latter. The total Sunday school membership throughout the world is twenty-five billion. Split Wood by Machine A machine has been invented which is capable of splitting wood two feet long and eighteen inches thick. It is run by a three horsepower gasoline engine, and consists of a huge kufle which works through the knottiest wood at the rate of sixty strokes a minute. Total Output of Books A Brussets expert, M. Paul Otlet, estimates that from the invention of printing, in the middle of the fifteenth century, to January, 1900, 12,163,000 different books have been issued. He also estimates that about 200,000 books are now annually issued. Slight Sounds Carried Ear In the Abbey church at St. Albans is a curious echo. The tick of a watch may be beard from one end of the church to the other. In Gloucester cathedral a gallery of octagonal form carries a whisper seventy-five feet across the nave. Be Not Rash in Criticism Poware of rash criticisms, the rough and stingy fruits you condemn may be an autumn or winter pear and that which you picked up beneath the same bough in August may have been only its worm-eaten windfalls.--Holmes. Boeties Destroy Trees in Germany. In 1878 in Germany, 1,560,000 trees are said to have been destroyed in the Harz forest alone by two small species of boeties. The larvae burrow beneath the bark and thus cause the injury to the growing trees. Paraguay Cotton Very favorable results have been had so far with the experimental rats raised of cotton in durum rumen, recently, a new fiber and great resistance of the rhtm. Motor Life Feat. The first motor life boat built in France has just been launched at the port of la Rochelle. It is worked by petroleum, and is of twelve horse power. Reward for School Children The German Emperor has given orders that deserving school children shall in future be rewarded by a copy of his majority's photograph. Highest Price for Testament. A copy of Wycliffe's New Testament, which is nearly 500 years old, was sold recently in London for $580. Japanese Divorces The proportion of divorces to marriages in Iowa is one to four. High Prices for Antiques Old furniture collectors in this city have lately been driving prices higher and higher. The rage for Chippendale and Sheraton patterns of the finer lines is greater than ever. Chairs especially fetch astonishing prices. Even dealers are paying in some cases as much as $50 for a single Chippendale chair of rare pattern, though it be out of repair. A collector in this city paid the other day $275 for a Chippendale armchair. Chairs of less unusual pattern are sold every day for $40, $50 and $100. New York letter. MINE, Twentieth and Arlington Ave. YARDS, Fifteenth and Forest Ave. YARDS, 1007 Center Street Wholesale and Retail--Any Qu --- Cust and Food delivered when promised. Henry Gray Embalming and Funeral Director, 1115 West Locust Street. GOOD LIVERY IN CONNECTION. Iowa 040. Mutual 1000. J. H. S. Send a money of Iowa S. Company Comm one side interest the soul Entere class ma We wi script, u age stan Advert 20 cents Three to per inch, per line. --- SPECTACLES MADE TO FIT ANY EYE DESEASES OF THE EYE-FAR-NOSE & THROAT CURED EYES TESTED FREE DR. DUNCAN.OCULISI Gus Morris.. Coal, Hay, Feed & Straw Iowa Phone 697 J Iowa 644 Iowa 060 Mutual 180 State of Iowa, Polk County, ss; District Court of Polk County, Iowa. J. T. Fellows and R. F. Fellows versus William H. Stiles, and Marie M. Stiles his wife, and Mrs. H. V. Smith and C. E. McCray. By virtue of a special execution to me directed, issued by the Clerk of the District Court of Polk County, Iowa, in favor of J. T. Fellows and R. A. Fellows, in favor of William H. Stiles, and Marie M. Stiles, on a judgement rendered by said Court on the 17th day of November A. D. 1901, wherein it was ordered, adjudged and decreed that the following described property be sold to satisfy said judgment, towit: Lot number three (3) in block number twenty-five (25) in Highland Park, an addition now included in and formed a part of the city of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. Now, therefore, public notice is hereby given that unless the said defendants appear at my office in Des Moines on or before the 20th day of January A. D. 1905, at 10 o'clock a.m. of said day, at which time said above described property is hereby advertized to be sold, and pay off the amount of said execution, with interest and costs, I will sell said property, or sufficient thereof to satisfy said Execution, with with interest and costs, at public out-court of the Court house at the cast front door, Iowa, for cash in hand to pay of said Execution. JNO. C. LOER, Sheriff of Polk County, Iowa. By R. J. NESS. Deputy. STATE OFFICERS OF THE IOWA FEDERATION OF AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN. Mrs. Belle Graves, president, 1110 Center St., DesMoines, ia.; Mrs. G. Gray, first vice-president, 716 17th St. Cedar Rapids, ia.; Mrs. Mas. Zack Taylor, second vice-president, 125 Davis St. Ottumwa, ia.; Miss Lella Sheffy, recording secretary, Lock Box 77, Ossaka, ia.; Mrs. Fannie Grooms, corresponding secretary, 1126 East Eight St. Muscatine; Mrs. E. B. Lewis, treasurer, 1136 Harrison St., Davenport, ia.; chairmans of state committees, Mrs. Anna Betus, chairman of Household Economic, 1517 Concert St. Muskat, ia.; Mrs. Holly, chairman of Household Economic, 1517 Concert St. Muskat, ia.; Mrs. Maud Ousley, chairman Arts and Crafs', Muscatine, Iowa; Mrs. Emma Gardner, chairman of Reciprocity Bureau, Rural Route No. 5, Ottumwa ia.; Miss Gertrude Evans, chairman of Social Purity, 695 Main St., Dubuque, ia.; Mrs. L. R. Palmer, chairman of Educational Committee, 28 Rollins Block, Des Moines. Alcohol From Peat. A company has recently been organized at Rendsburg, Prussia, for the purpose of distilling all of from peat. The company is now building a distillery which it hopes to be able to put in operation some time during this month. According to the process the company will be able to distill alcohol cheaper from peat than it can be obtained from other substances and will, therefore, be able to sell its product for fuel purposes. Regulates Baptism of Children. The Swiss government has decided no longer to permit parents to baptize their offspring by fantastic names. This law has just been exercised at St. Gall with regard to two children one of whom was baptized May I while the other had been named by its Italian progenitors "Ribello," rebel or revolutionary. The names were condemned and the children have been legally baptized. The World as We Look at it. When we look at the world in a narrow way, how small it seems! When we look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When we look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But, when we look at it with a broad, generous and helpful spirit, what a beautiful world it is, and what wonderful people we find in it!—Boston Christian Register Long Time Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole held the unbeaten record of having been prime minister of England for 10 and twenty-one years. on Ave. Mutual Phone, 1431 Ave. Mutual Phone, 1919 Both Phones, 1439 Any Quantity and the Best Iowa State Bystander 87 BYSTANDER PUB. CO. DES MOINES, IOWA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30. Published every Friday by the BYSTANDER Publishing Co., Des Moines, Ia. Iowa phone 809. Official paper of the M. W. U. Grand Lodge of Iowa, A. F. & A. M., Iowa State Federation of Colored Women and International Grand Congress of Heroines of Jericho of America. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year ..... $1.50 Six months ..... 75 Three months ..... 50 All subscription payable in advance. J. H. SHEPARD MANAGER. Send money by postoffice order, money order, express or draft, to the Iowa State Bystander Publishing Company. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the public. "Brevity is the soul of wil," remember. Entered at the Post Office as second- class matter. We will not return rejected manuscript, unless accompanied by postage stamps. Advertising rates for display Ads 20 cents per inch, for each insertion. Three to six months contract 15 cents per inch. Local advertising 10 cents per line for each insertion, counting seven words to a line. For churches and secret societies where admission is charged, one-half of the above mentioned rates. For professional, legal and announcement cards, yearly contracts, etc., terms are given on advertising is to be paid in advance. We are prepared to do first class job work at reasonable prices. All of our work is guaranteed. The Iowa State Bystander is the oldest Afro-American journal published in Iowa. It was established in 1894 and is read by nearly all the colored people of Iowa. We have correspondents in the following towns: Clinton ... A. A. Bush Keokuk ... A. J. Fields Mt. Pleasant. Miss Lydia F. Bartlett Muscatine ... Miss Fannie Grooma Marshalltown ... H. C. Walker Ottumwa ... Edna A. Martin Reck Island ... Mrs. C. J. Toliver Sioux City ... Mrs. Etta Grant Moline, ill. ... Mrs. R. H. Pollard Boone ... Mrs. Mary Coleman Washington ... Mrs. James Redd Galesburg, ill. ... Mrs. E. J. Cole Burlington ... O. C. Follos Dubuque ... Miss Gertrude Evans Newton ... Miss Ela Mays Superior, Wis. ... Mrs. Geo. H. Wade Alba ... Miss May Davis Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Adelade Perkins Ft. Madison ... Anna Harper Oskaloosa ... Luella E. Franklin Davenport ... Mrs. C. B. Lewis Duxton ... Arthur Turner Omaha, Neb. ... Miss Wade N. B. to Correspondents. --Please mail your letters that contain news for publication not later than Wed. June 15, 2014 for current publication for the current week. CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENT Corinthian Hunst Church, cor of Fifteenth and Lincoln Street, preaching at 11 a.m. m.; Sunday School, m.; Sunday School, m. Rev. T. L. Grinth, Pastor. St. Paul I. M. E.-Corner of Second and Corner Street, preaching at 10:30 a.m. m.; Sunday School, m.; 3 o'clock; Lord League at 7 p.m.; preaching at 8 p.m. Horace S. Graves pastor. Flat African Baptist Church—Corner School, preaching at 10:30 a.m.; Sunday School, 4:31 m.; Mist J. T. Griffin Superintendent: Young People's meeting 7 p.m., preaching Bunny's Chapel M. E. Church, Corner of 11th and Croaker St.-Church services, preaching at 11 a.m and 8 p.m; Class and prayer at 11 a.m and 8 p.m; Lord League at 9 p.m.; Class meeting every Wednesday at 9 p.m. O. A. Johnson, pastor, 81st 11th Maple Street between Ninth and Tenth streets, preaching 11 a.m.; Sunday School, 9:00 a.m., preaching at 11 p.m. O. R. Wimbish, pastor Union Congregational Church—Corner Teenth and Park streets, preaching 10:45 a.m. m.; Sunday School 12 m.; evening service 7:30 m.; Lord League at Wednesday evenings 8 p.m., pastor. SECRET ORDERS Chivalry. The chivalry of Europe is, in great measure, a product of the Saracen chivalry which entered Europe in two centuries. It was founded by Constantinople and through Spains, Presents for Sultan of Mormon for sultan of Morocco. J. W. S. Langerman, Morocco's commissioner to the world's fair, has just bought the Moorish sultan a brace of mules, a number of Angora cats and goats, some fancy dogs and a pacer and a span of fine carriage horses, all of Missouri breeding. The carriages horses were Buff and Blue, well-known ribbon winners and they cost the sultan $2,000. SANDHOLM'S Eczema Cure and Skin Remedy.. It has been made possible to absolutely and permanently cure Eczema, Acne, Pimples, Redness of the Skin, Poison Ivy, Barbers' Itch, Scalp Eczema, Mosquito Bites, Dandruff and all skin or scalp diseases from whatever cause without greasy salves or ointments. NO INTERNAL MEDICINE NECESSARY Read what people who have given it a trial say I have been troubled with Eczema or a break orders and back, for thirty years; that about to be in Mr. Sandholm's drug store to buy a object of skin diseases came up and he told me his word for it and bought a bottle of his Eczema and it critically cured me. My skin is now as greatest remedy I have ever tried. Drugs now me personally. Add Mr. Sandholm's rem asure it to cure, and you will do humanity a kind and reputation. These are facts. Very re- A. LINTON. Salesman A. M. Hughes Paint & Glass Co. Kansas City, Mo. Oma. covered with breaking out of this disease for the specialists did not give me any relief. I used Eczema and my body is free from any erupe from the disease. BEN. S. JONKS. URE FOR DANDRUFF, After Shaving. Stops Hair from Falling Out. Drugists and Barbers; or write DLM DRUG CO. MANHATEN BLK DES MOINES BLIZZARDS ers for people that burn our su- al——Now is the time to order. COAL CO., 416 Seventh St. Millinery.. of Buxton and vicinity my informed that my Fashionable Millinery After visiting the wholesale millinery ing myself with the latest and most of the milliner's art I made a selection will win the admiration and cordial ap- who appreciate stylish and up-to-date of pattern hats that give effect and tone and car ladies will admire. Then you will find I more plain and yet attractive hats for Ladies at all tastes and grades to fit all prices. MAKE YOUR SELECTIONS Harrison, Buxton, Ia. Our Great Special——Complete WORTH FIVE DOLLARS. ONLY $100 BEAUTY OUTFIT "Ozono" THE SWEET-SCENTED KING OF HAIR TONICS MOST RAPID HAIR-GROWER IN EXISTENCE HARMLESS-RELIABLE-SUPREME READ! READ! This is to certify that I have been giving out on my breast, shoulders and back three months ago I happened to be in a cake of soap; that the subject of skin about his remedy. I took his word for it zema Cure and Skin Remedy and it entire smooth as any girls. It is the greatest a gists all over the country know me per- ady to your stock, guarantee it to cure, ness and increase your trade and reputat- pectfully. Traveling Salesman This is to certify that I have been troubled with Eczema or a breakout on my breast, shoulders and back, for thirty years; that about three months ago I happened to be in Mr. Sandholea drug store to buy a cake of soap; that the subject of skin diseases came up and he told me about his remedy. I took his word for it and bought a bottle of his Eczema Cure and Skin Remedy and it entirely cured me. My skin is now as smooth as any girls. It is the greatest remedy I ever tried. I travel to Germany regularly. Add Mr. Sandholea's recommendation to your stock, guarantee it to cure, and you will do humanity a kindness and increase your trade and reputation. These are facts. Very respectfully. A. LINTON Traveling Salesman A. M. Hughes Paint & Glass Co. Kansas City, Mo. To Suffers from Eczema. I have had my body covered with breaking out of this disease for the past six months, and skin specialists did not give me any relief. I used a bottle of Sandholm's Eczema Care and my body is free from any eruption, and I am entirely free from the disease. BEN. S. JONES; 701 Missouri Ave. I have had my body covered with past six months, and skin specialists did one bottle of Sandholm's Eczema Cure a tion and I am entirely free from the disc 1739 Missouri Ave A SURE CURE FOR A Pleasant Antiseptic After Shaving, For Sale by all Druggists a FREE BOOKLET SANDHOLM DR COLD BLUE Have no terrors for people perior soft Coal---Now in REX COAL Both Phones Fall Millin The Ladies of Buxteh are hereby inform NEW STYLES OF FASHION has arrived here. After visiting houses and acquainting myself fashionable creation of the mill which I am satisfied will win the proval of all ladies who appre millinery. A CHARMING VARIETY of pattern h such as the most particular ladies will also have a nice line of the more plain and Misses. Styles to meet all tastes a CALL AND MAKE YOU Mrs. Diana Harri A SURE CURE FOR DANDRUFF. A Pleasant Antiseptic After Shaving. Stops hair from Falling Out. For Sale by all Druggists and Barbers, or write FREE SANDHOLM DRUG CO. MANHATTEN BLK BOOKLET MOINES COLD·BLIZZARDS Have no terrors for people that burn our su- perior soft Coal---Now is the time to order. REX COAL CO., Both Phones 416 Seventh St. Fall Millinery.. The Ladies of Buxton and vicinity are hereby informed that my has arrived here. After visiting the wholesale millinery houses and acquaintance myself with the latest and most fashionable creation of the milliner's art I made a selection which I am satisfied will win the admiration and cordial approval of all ladies who appreciate stylish and up-to-date millinery. A CHARMING VARIETY of pattern hats that give effect and tone and such as the most particular ladies will admire. Then you will find I also have a nice line of the more plain and yet attractive hats for Ladies and Misses. Styles to meet all tastes and grades to fit all prices. CALL AND MAKE YOUR SELECTIONS Mrs. Diana Harrison, Buxton, Ia TO THE Forced People OF THE WORLD FORTIVELL straightens, loughens and beautities the most on-fitness, troublelessome, refractory, curly, naspy hair. It never falls to straighten and can be absolutely relied upon to produce an abundant and luxurious growth of soft, fine, plina, silky, long, flowing hair. Every person who uses OZONO to maintain to have BEAT-TIYEL WAVY THICK BLACK GLOSSY HAIR, so plant and abundant that it can be easily dressed in any preva- for style. It exuses the hair to grow quickly on thin temples and all bald spots. Ozone is a positive cure for dandruff, scuff, itch, letter and all diseases of the scaffold. It turns gray, faded and discolored hair to a�, GLOSSY BLACK. It cannot fall to length, STRAIGHT and beautify the hair. Ozone is positively guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction to all who use it. It cannot fall. Thousands of delighted customers soared all over the world unto the way that Ozone is true to all that is claimed for it. Ozone is king of all hair tonics. The price of Ozone is 500 a box. It takes four boxes to go. CUT OUT THIS A I, and I immediately upon where you may live from We will also send you on your worth, and I know We will also include a absolutely pure and unad human hair and scalp. It is to above green. If PING OCCIPLY, consisting actually worth $1. This exquisite preparation WHITESS tion. It is simply rubbed well into the skin, allowed to comes off in rolls, bringing with it all the dead, dark pigment and positively making the skin much brighter it will brighten IT THE BLACKEST SKIN from three to large-size jar of our Electrical Skin Food, worth $60, scars, pimples, tan, frockless and all facial imperfection look younger, and hasty, to prove our liberality, we worth $60, Chick removes all snells and odors from the cure and the skin. In this chilling REMEMBER, ALL OF THE AROVBRENTIONED PE will be SENT TO YOU ON RECEIPT OF ONLY $1. This Send you a copy of the letter for money order c YOUR name and address, play and address. BOSTON CHEMICAL CO. 310 Shirts.....70 each Drawers.....50 each Collars.....1½% each Undershirts.....50 each Cuffs.....1½% each Handkerchiefs.....1½% each Night Shirts.....60' each Socks.....30 each Union Suits.....100 each Silks and Mohair.....150 each TO THE PUBLIC: To Suffers from Eczema. BEFORE AFTER