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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XI, No. 52. CITY NEWS. Mr. L. M. Brown has moved into his new home on Arthur street. Mr. C. L. Heart is building a six room cottage on B street. Quite a number of young people picniced at Greenwood Park Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Smith of 1750 E. Grand avenue has been a sufferer of rheumatism the past week. The Messrs Oscar Glass and Lewis McGuire spent Decoration day in Knoxville. Mrs. Graves will leave Wednesday for Omaha to attend the Nebraska Council of Women. Monday Night club at the A. M. E. church, subject, Woman's club as seen by Grover Cleveland. Led by W. H. Humburd. Mrs A. J. Jackson has several good furnished rooms for rent at reasonable rates, for gentlemen only—1200 Cherry street. Miss Marie Bell who has been quite ill is not improving at this writing. City Federation meets Wednesday at at A M. E church. By order of the president, Mrs. Win Smith. Mrs. Jones of Enterprise was in our city Thursday shopping. She thinks of coming back to Des Moines to live. Miss Fannie Walker and brother, Allen Spence, spent Decoration day in Osceola visiting old friends and relatives. T. H. HICKS, the old reliable—Paper Hanging, Paper Cleaning, Painting and general jobbing. Mutual Phone 1329. B J. Shepard of Clive spent Decoration day in our city. Hesays crops are late and making slow growth owing to the cool weather. The May Party given by Messrs. James Woods, Claude Harris and John McClain was a great success. Those present report a good success. Miss Mabel Magee who has been spending the winter with Mrs. Gus Watkins on Zeline avenue, will leave Saturday for her home in Piso, Il. Mrs. Tolbert Woods of Cedar Rapids arrived in the city Decoration day to visit a month with relatives and friends. Among the pleasant callers this week at the BYSTANDER office we Mrs. Tolbert Woods of Cedar Rapids, Mr. Washington of Colfax and Mesdames Henry Yancy, F. d. Goggins and Miss Selma Stanton of our city. UP-TO-DATE GENT'S FURNISHINGS Complete Line of Hats and ...Traveling Bags... FINE TAILORING A SPECIALTY FRED I. MILLER & Co 421 W. LocustSt. Iowa Phone 87 Open Evenings until 8 Rev. H. W. Porter will leave next week for Buxton, where he will open a bible school for the Y. M. C. A. there Tuesday evening, and Wednesday afternoon he will speak to the ladies. Mrs Ida Searcy returned to her home in Davenport Wednesday morning, after spending a few days in this city as the guest of Mrs. L. J. Courtney. Messrs. George Logan and Lee B. Blagburn took advantage of the excursion Sunday and spent the day in St. Joseph, Mo. Young Logan never misses an opportunity to go to St. Joseph. What's the attraction George? BARNES MENS OUTFITTER J17 8TH STREET Mr. Paul Gilstrap spent a few days in St. Joseph, Mo., last week on business. Mrs. Samuel Bayant is visiting this week in Osceola with her perents. It was her former home. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Yancy returned Saturday from Moberly, Mo., where they were called to attend the funeral of Mrs. Yancy's step-mother. Mrs. W. H. London and Miss Gertrude Lewis, two of our efficient teachers, will attend the summer at Drake University this summer.—Buxton Gazette. The Athenian Literary society will meet next Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Hughes. All members are urged to be present as it is election of officers. The Thursday Carnation club met at the home of Mrs. Fred Hilton, 115 W. Grand avenue. The club was entertained by instrumental music. Mrs. Robert Brown read an essay. The club meets next Thursday at the home of Mrs. Perkins, Oak street. Mrs. Daniel Roy who has been spending the winter in Jacksonville, Ill., visiting her sisters and relatives, returned home Sunday evening. Her cousin, Mrs. D. Johnson and little son Cecil accompanied her to spend the summer here. The C. B. C. club met at Mrs. Susie Strauther, 783 W. Twelfth street, and visited very nice evening. On Next Tuesday evening, June 6, the club will meet with Mrs. William Whitfield, 824 Park street. Mr. Lewis Howard who has been confined to his home for nine four months with the rheumatism, is now able to be out again and is regaining his former health in a satisfactory manner, which his many friends will be glad to hear. When in Clarinda, lowe, stop at R. E. Wilkinson for good room, meals, short-orders and lunches. 301 Grant street, No. 9. Half a block from depot We received notice of the death of John Foeman in Manhattan, Kansas. He was a Des Moines man and was forced to go west about a month ago owing to ill health. The remains were buried in Munbaten Thursday June 1. Will give more next week. There will be a grand Musical given in the auditorium of the Corinthian Baptist church Tuesday evening June 6th. Some of the best talent of the city will appear. A prize will be given to the most popular man and most popular woman present. Come and vote for your favorite. Admission 10 cents. Given for the rally of June 11 BARNES MENS OUTFITTER JX 811 877 811 The Cosmopolitan Art club met at the home of Miss Alice Morton last Thursday. A number of visitors were present, among whom was Mrs. Warricks who read a very interesting paper. A two course lunch-on was served. The club will meet next Thursday with Miss Tibitha Mosh and the following program will be rendered: A piano solo, Mrs. Gertrude Canaday; paper Miss Anna Graves. A few invitations have been received in this city to attend the Cresco High School commencement exercises tonight. There are 15 in the graduation class and among them is one Afro-American, Mr. William F. Reden. The subject of his oration will be "Forry-two years of progress." The Bystander extends congratulations to Mr. Reden and wish him continued success. Services at Union Congregational church Sunday June 4: Morning service—"The result and lack of preparation." Celebration of the Lord's Supper and reception of members. Evening service—"The Sabbath for man." Men's League at 3:30 p.m. All men are invited as this is a special meeting. Hats made to order J. KIRKPATRICK. ALL THE LATEST TYLES Hats at Factory Price. Best $2 hat on earth 807 Grand Ave. Near 9th St. Iowa 1240 After being out twenty nine hours the jury in the Beverly Weller case returned a verdict late Saturday afternoon of not guilty. The jury hung for some time between absolute acquittal and manslaughter, but after numerous ballots the unanimous decision was reached. It was shown in the trial that Walker had acted in self-defense, that the wounds he had inflicted on Thomas Bradley at Masquisville did not indicate that he was intending to kill him. There was no malice proven inasmuch as both men had been friendly up to the time of the fight. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1905. We received an invitation to attend the forty fifth annual commencement of the State University at Iowa City, June 9 to 14, inclusive. Each day's program is very interesting and should be attended by all who can go. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered Sunday, June 11, by Bishop Henry W. Warren, D. D., of Colorado. The commencement address will be delivered Wednesday June 14, by Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks of the United States. Special reduced railroad rates will be given. Home Companion is published by The Crowell Publishing Company, New York City, also Chicago, Ill., at One Dollar a year, and is the favorite magazine in nearly half a million homes, where it is read each and every issue by three million people. PROGRAM For the Iowa District Sunday-School Convention of the A. M. E. Church. To be Held in Clinton, Iowa, Thursday and Friday, June 29 and 30, 1905. EDITOR'S OBSERVATIONS. It sometimes seems useless to wipe each year about the same old town city that I have written about I year, but when we consider the many changes that take place within our year and the new subscribers we can constantly receiving, we can the more realize why I burden our many readers with the observation from the same town. Then again, each feels that self-pride of seeing the city written up at least once in five weeks. Leaving the metropolis of Iowa, Wednesday we arrived in Cresta. STATE FEDERATION Iowa State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs held its fourth annual meeting at Muscatine, being invited by a club of fifteen members. How well they were entertained and how successful the meeting, remains to be told from time to time through the columns of this paper. The entire Executive Board and Board of Directors were present at the meeting Monday afternoon. The delegates seemed to have no other thought than business. Dianers, car rides or receptions, of which there were no limit, were minor occasions to the sessions of the convention. The rapping of the gavel was unnecessary. The chairmen of State committees were interesting figures throughout the sessions. The paper read by Mrs. Helena Downey entitled "Echoes of the St. Louis N. A. C. W." was a masterpiece which could not be excelled by our own National Secretary, Miss E. C. Carter of Massachusetts. Mrs. L. A. Davis of Chicago graced the meeting with her presence and helpful suggestions. More will be said by our press correspondent, Mrs. H. Downey of Ottumwa. ENTERTAINING NEWSPAPER FEAT TURES. Probably no other newspaper in the United States can show so brilliant an array of special features as is found in in the columns of The Chicago Record-Herald. The daily and Sunday news and special features of The Chicago Record-Herald include the letters of William E. Curtis and Walter Wellman, The Record-Herald's special New York dispatches, its unparalleled foreign news service, embracing its own special cables with those of the New York Herald, and the New York World and the Associated Press; its pages devoted to the markets and financial and commercial intelligence—exhaustive to the most satisfactory degree—its popular sporting page, its extended editorial department, Kiser's humorous "Alternating Currents," "Stories of the Day," the department of railroad and insurance news, music and drama, society and clubs, the column of book reviews the continued story, the "Woman Beautiful" department, the daily fashion article, "Meals for a Day," news of the great lakes, etc—all uniting to furnish to the people of Chicago and the North west a newspaper which commend itself to discriminating readers as only a newspaper can which combines the wrood-wide facilities of the greatest metropolitan newspapers of modern times. A remarkable picture worth MANY DOLLARS. can be obtained For a Few Cents "The Three Most Beautiful Roses" By Paul de Longpre At the urgent solicitation of the Woman's Home Companion, Mr. Paul de Longpre, who is the greatest painter of flowers in the world, consented to make a painting of what he considered "The Three Most Beautiful Roses," and the painting is without doubt one on the mastpiecees of this great art. This magnificent picture is reproduced in all its original grandeur on the cover of the Woman's Home Companion for June. Although this cover is an accurate reproduction of a painting worth hundreds of dollars, yet the June number, which has this exquisite cover, may be obtained at any first-class news stand or direct from the publishers for the trivial sum of only ten cents. Mr. Paul de Longpre is justly styled the "King of Flower Painters." He not only paints flowers, but every flower that grows, and is the highest authority on flowers. His paintings are found in the most select homes. Some have sold for as much as seven thousand five hundred dollars (87,500 00.) Artists, art critics and competent judges all agree that the covers of the Woman's Home Companion far excel those of any other magazine. The Woman's Home Companion is a magazine which is beauty and excellence, art, stories, illustrations and fashions, etc., exerts all other home and family magazines. The Woman's Home Companion is published by The Crowell Publishing Company, New York City, also Chicago, Ill., at One Dollar a year, and is the favorite magazine in nearly half a million homes, where it is read each and every issue by three million people PROGRAM For the Iowa District Sunday-School Convention of the A. M. E. Church, To be Held in Clinton, Iowa, Thursday and Friday, June 29 and 30, 1905. Rev. Geo. W. Gaines, Presiding Elder, Lydia F. Bartlett, District Supt. Thursday, June 29, 1905. Morning Session, 9:00 a. m.-Devotion conducted by Delegates from Des Moines. 9:15 a. m.-Introductory by Presiding Elder George W. Gaines. 9:35 a. m.-Organization of convention. 10: a. m.-Music. 10:05 a. m.-Annual Address of District Superintendent, Miss Lydia P. Millett. 10:25 a. m.-Roll Call of Delegates, Reports and payment of two cents per capita fees from their respective school. 11: a. m.-Annual Address of Presiding Elder, Rev. George W. Gaines. 11:30 a. m.-Business and adjournment. Afternoon Session. 2:00 p. m.—Devotion conducted by Delegates from Clarinda and Burlington. 2:15 p. m.—Reports of Sub-District Superintendents. 2:30 p. m.—Welcome Address by Superintendents. 2:30 p. m.—Welcome Address by Superintendent of Clinton Sunday School, Miss Missouri Dozier. School, Miss Missouri Dozler. 2:45 p. m.-Response by Delegate from Oksaloa. 3:00 p. m.-Primary Round Table, Mrs. Mikael Bell, of Ft. Madison. 3:55 p. m.-Paper "Sunday School Music—Its Place and Power," by Delegate from Keokuk. Discussed by convention. 4:15 p. m.-Vocal solo, by Delegate form Des Moines. 4:20 p. m.-Paper "Is Normal Work Receiving Sufficient Attention?" by Wm. B. Lowery, B. A., of Cedar Rapids. 4:40 p. m.-Organization of Normal Institute. 4:55 p. m.-Discussion, "House to House Vistation as an Aid to Teachers" Work-How, When and Where."-Opened by Delegate from Ottumwa. 5:30 p. m.-Music and adjournment. Evening Session. 7:30 p. m.-Music Meeting, "Seet While He May Be Found. Call Upon Him While He Is Near."-Conducted by Delegate from Yankton. 8:00 p. m.-Lecture, "Advantages of Co-Education," Mrs. J. L. Phillips of Ottumwa. 8:45 p. m.-Reception. Friday, June 30, 1905. Morning Session. 9:00 a. m.-Praise Service, conducted by Revs. Wm. Williams and S. L. Birt. 9:20 p. m.-How to Secure and Held Young Men and Boys in Sunday Work"-G. W. Black, of Washington. Followed by discussion, led by Delegates from Clinton and Albia. 9:45 p. m.-Music by Convention. 9:50 p. m.—Discussions, "What Are the Greatest Problems of Our Sunday Schools?" (three minutes each). Led by Delegate from Keo-sauqua. 10:35 a. m.—Address, "Best Methods of Bible Study"—Rev. M. I. Gordon. 11:00 a. m.—Business Hour. Music. Afternoon Session. 2:00 p. m.—Devotion, led by Delegate from .ewton. 2:10 p. m.-Paper, "Training the Mind" - By Delegate from Mt. Pleasant. 2:25 p. m.-Christian Missions and Their Purport - Rev T. W. Lewis. 2:45 p. m.-Music. Local Quartette. 2:50 p. m.-Sermonettes - Rev A. T. Clark. 3:00 p. m.-Address. The Sin of Intemperance - Delegate from Buxton. 3:25 p. m.-Open Discussion (two minutes each). Should Teachers be expected to Lead Their Scholars to Christ, or Should This be Left to the Pastor? - Led by Delegate from Davenport. 4:00 p. m.-What Help May be Derived from a Good District Superintendent? - Delegate from Sloux City. 4:20 p. m.-Election of officers for ensuing year. Adjournment. Evening Session. 7:30 p. m.-Gospel Meeting, conducted by Rev F. R. Manley and W. McAllister. 8:00 p. m.-Sermon to Young People - Rev, Ed G. Jackson, Buxton. Of officers, by Rev H. New Graves. 9:10 a. m.-Music, "God is With You Till We Meet Again" Benedictic - Rev J. D. Peterson. tich—kev, J. D. Peterson. N. B. -Lydia F. Bartlett, our staff correspondent of Mt. Pleasant, will make a report of the convention for the Bystander. If you are not a sub- scriber send in your name at once. VERY LOW RATES TO SAN FRAN CISCO. LOS ANGELES, PORTL LAND. TACOMA SEATTLE Via the North Western Line, will be in effect from all stations May 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31 and June 1 and 2, with favorable return limits, on account of National Council Knights of Columbus at Los Angeles, etc. Two fast trains to the Pacific Coast daily. "The Overland Limited" (electriclighted throughout) less than three days enroute. Another fast train is "The California Express" with drawing room and touri- sleeping cars. The best of everything. For rates, tickets, etc., apply to agents Chicago & North-Western. --- EDITOR'S OBSERVATIONS It sometimes seems useless to write each year about the same old town or city that I have written about last year, but when we consider the many changes that take place within one year and the new subscribers we are constantly receiving, we can the more realize why I burden our many readers with the observation from the town that soft-pride of seeing their city written up at least once in fifty-two weeks. Leaving the metropolis of Iowa on Wednesday, we arrived in Creston, where fully 6,000 people live, and only about forty colored people. It is a railroad division and shop house for the C. B. & Q. Ry. Co. A few of the colored men are doing well. Henry Martin, the man who invented and made the wonderful animal machinery invention. He owns a nice home well covered with fruit trees. Chas. Burnaugh is still working at the hotel and doing well. Charles Coyle is doing well. He owns a business houses and lots that he rents, getting nearly $70 per month. Mr. C. H. McDonald is doing well. He will soon have his house painted, this being the third time he has built, as it burned twice, but he has not yet given up; he feels hopeful. Mr. G. W. Dow is doing well. He is a carpet layer. His children are all in school. He is a southern man but is working hard to make a good citizen. At Bedford, county seat" of Taylor county, we found Israel Boyd, Geo. A. Johnson working at the same place and doing well. The latter has some fine thorough pigs and a fine cow he has and he made 40 for G. W. Lucas and M. Ashford are busy work cleaning carpets. J. E. Johnson, who has been very sick for several weeks, is improving slowly. Mr. Franklin is just beginning to build a new house; he will do most of the work himself. Our next stop was at Marysville, Mo., this being a new field we secured many new subscribers. This city has about 9,000 people with about 250 colored people and two colored churches, the aaptist with Rev. W. A. Mitchell as pastor and the Methodist boy aaptist and the pastor of whom will beafter him the Bystander. One school presided over by Prof. Endicott, who has taught for the past twenty-five years in the St. Joseph pub. c schools. He has an attendance of twenty-eight. C. C. Baker owns a blacksmith shop and is doing a good business, he is well liked. He is a young man recently married. His brother who used to be with him is now a dokomann. There are the John W. John Winslow and John Fields, Robt. Harding T. H. Holmes, Steve Martin and B. F. Smart_who are all trying to make good citizens. Next we went to Clarinda, where dwells more colored people than in any other city in southern Iowa. Fully 400 colored people reside here. They have two colored churches, the Baptist and Methodist, both doing well. Rev. Samuel Bates, that good, earnest, honest Carlistian, has charge of the Baptist, while Rev. J. L. Wharton is in charge of the Methodist. Dr. T. J. Gibson, the veterinarian, is doing as well as usual. He says that he is busy all the time. He keeps his houses will rent. Mr. R. E. Wilkinson has gone into the restaurant and has done well. See his add elsewhere. Young N. H. Pemberton is still a sub mall carrier. A. J. Montgomery is a ruster and is doing well, as is Mr. Cook. Wm. Hadley is now working out at the asylum. Mr Thomas G. Jones, who owns a beautiful farm two miles of town, is making money. He has lived there over thirty years, has built a new house, raised a nice family. His farm is well stocked, fifteen thornhored Poland China pigs. His wife has 500 young chickens, 15 hens setting. POWELL'S Cafe and Grill Room Its culinary perfection and excellent service have made it the favorite resort in Council Bluffs. Our five o'clock table D' hote dinners a specially and guaranteed to please all. From 5 to 7. Price 25c. Your patronage is cordially solicited MRS. M. POWELL, Prop A Match burn—a fire, as hot as you want it. Quick, good cooking On a Gas Range Call 205 either phone will call on you. Capital City GA 413-415-417 Can anyene beat that without an incubator. This is progress. Ye editor enjoyed dinner there. At Red Oak, Iowa, we found about the usual number of colored citizens, with some families having a visit from the death messenger which called some dear member from the homes of Oscar Connor, Ed Duncan and Joseph Burton. Mr. Ernest Venerable is still working at the hotel and doing his work at the home of H. S. Martin and C. Bell added their names to our subscription list and will hereafter read about the progress of their race. CLARA A. CLIFF General Stenographer and Notary Public... We do high grade work in Copying, Manifolding, Mineographing Name and Address inserting to perfectly match, and guarantee satisfaction. Give us your order. MUTUAL PHONES Office 1017 Residence 038 ROOM 388, 290, 396 GOOD BLOCK Des Moines, IA at im ricall be esf- d Price, Five Cents. an in- or and is doing well. He owns two good pieces of property. He and his wife are great secret society workers. John Hardy, and old Des Moines boy, is single and working for Rhinehart, the photographer. John wishes to be remembered to his old Des Moines brother James H. Noble, George McCremau and Ed. S. Gray, all of whom are doing well. The Newport restaurant is the best in Omaha. Mr. Tibbs Sterns is proprietor. There are several saloons and pool halls owned and operated by colored men. There are three colored doctors. Dr. Hutton is the leading physician. Fred L. Smith and Sillas Robbins attend to the legal needs, while Harry B. Davis prepares your body for the grave. Desdame's orchestra furnishes first class music, and the Enterprise, the only colored journal, furnishes the news. It is a good paper and should be taken by every race man and woman in Omaha. Space compels me to stop. SOME WONDERFUL WOUNDS. Soon at the Front in the South African War From Mool river Sir William MacCormac, who took the field with the soldiers in South Africa, sends to the London Lancet an interesting set of notes on the remarkable bullet wounds he has seen recently. "The greater number of these wounds," he says, "were caused by the Mauser bullet, and nearly all presented the characteristic features—a small circular, slightly depressed area covered by a black scab. The exit bullets often were similar, but a little larger, sometimes presenting a scar like an incised wound and difficult to discover. When I save them a week or ten days after the injury they were for the most part healed. How these bullets fall to damage vital structures lying immediately in their path is nothing short of marvelous. The proportion of fatal chest wounds to those that are recovered from is believed to be small, but what the proportion precisely is cannot yet be learned. It is abundantly clear that one lung and often both lungs may be traversed, and in many directions, without causing grave symptoms, and often without producing any symptoms of lung trouble at all." A private who looked extremely well and said he had nothing to complain of had a hole seven inches long and three inches wide in his chest, which involved the lungs. Part of three of his rigs were carried away and the lung was exposed. The soldier lay it trench on the field from 2:30 to 5 o'clock before he could be attended to. He was carried to the hospital at 12:30 o'clock that night. Another private was hit in the middle of the nose and the bullet passed out the back of the neck. He had a little headache, and some trouble in swallowing, but in ten days the wound healed and the man apparently was perfectly well. STANDING OF THE CLUBS IN WESTERN LEAGUE. P. W. L. Pet. Sioux City... 29 21 8 734 Des Moines... 28 16 12 571 Denver... 31 17 14 459 Omaha... 30 16 14 533 St. Joseph... 29 12 17 414 Colorado Springs... 30 8 22 267 VERY LOW RATES TO INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Via the North-Western Line. Excursion tickets will be sold on June 19, 20, 21 and 22, with favorable, with favorable return limits, on account of National Turnfest North American Gymnastic Union. Apply to agents Chicago & North-Western Ry. A Mourning Gift. It is so difficult to know what present to give to a friend who has recently suffered a bereavement that we have nothing but praise for the enterprising American firm which has just produced a pack of playing cards for bridge with mourning borders.—Punch. Tax on Snapshoe Photographers. At Pompei, Naples, San Martino and other Italian cities tourists could obtain formerly with case, permits to snapshoe' historic places for a nominal fee, but now the objects intended to be photographed have to be specified in writing, and a tax, varying from ten cents to $1, is imposed for every negative. Style in Africa. The natives of Kilkuyn, in the East Africa, protectorate, go about well armed. They carry a stout, ace-of-spades-shaped spear, a real buffalohide shield, a heavy, double-edged short sword, a club and several strong sticks. Their principal "garment" is a pleruntial coat of terra cotta earth, and they wear numerous articles of metal as ornaments. When in Council Bluffs Iowa call on ATAXIA IS CURABLE REPORTED CURE STANDS TEST OF FULL INVESTIGATION. A Victim of Locomotor Ataxia New Free from Suffering And Actively at Work. "Yes," said Mr. Watkins to a reporter, "It is true that I have been cured of ataxia by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." "Are you sure you had locomotor "Are you sure you had locomotor ataxia?" "The doctors themselves told me so. Besides I recognized the symptom." "Well, the first indications were a stiffness about the knee joints that came on about four years ago. A few months after that appeared, my walk got to be uncertain, shaky-like. I lost confidence in my power to contour to movements in my knee. I was in my cellar, I started to pick up two scattles of coal, and my legs gave way suddenly, and I tumbled all in a heap in a basket. I couldn't close my eyes and keep my balance to save my life. Then I had fearful pains over my whole body and I lost control over my kidneys and my heart. "How about your general health?" "Sometimes I was so weak that I had to keep my bed and my weight fell off twenty pounds. Things looked pretty bad for me until I ran across a young man who had been cured by Dr. Willis. Pills and who advised me to try them." "Did these pills help you right away?" "I didn't see much improvement until I had used six boxes. The first benefit I noticed was a better circulation and a picking up in strength and weight. I gradually got confidence in my ability to direct the movements of my legs, and in the course of seven or eight months all the troubles had disappeared." "Do you regard yourself as entirely well now?" "I do the work of a well man at any rate. I can close my eyes and stand up all right and move about the same as other men. The pains are all gone except an occasional twitch in the calves of my legs." Mr. James H. Watkins resides at No. 72 Westerlo street, Albany, N. Y. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can be obtained at any drug store. They should be as the store of locomotor ataxia appear in a peculiar numbness of the foot. Sometimes a man is able to avoid a scrape by letting his whiskers grow. Are the Packers Receiving Fair Play? When the Garfield report on the business methods of the packers appeared, after eight months' investigation, it was severely criticised and roundly denounced. After three months of publicity it is significant that those who attempted to discredit it have failed to controvert the figures contained in that exhaustive document. The public is beginning to notice this omission, and the feeling is rapidly growing that the sensational charges out of which the "Beef Investigation" arose were without foundation. If the official statement of contruction, a good many people are now asking why the facts and figures are not furnished to contradict them. The truth seems to be that most of the charges contain unfounded sensational assertions. A flagrant example of this appeared in a recent article in an Eastern magazine, to the effect that "forty Iowa banks were forced to close their doors in 1903 by the Beet Trust's manipulation of cattle prices." Chief Clerk Cox, of the banking department of the Iowa State Auditor's office, has tabulated the list of banks given in the magazine article and has publicly announced the bank's battle unjust. He gives separately the reasons for each failure mentioned and officially states that they have been caused by unwide specifications and by reckless banking methods. It may be well to suspend judgment upon the packers until the charges against them are proved. A man hopelessly lost in the bush in South Australia, after wandering about for four days, came across a strength to go further, but managed to break the wire, made himself as comfortable as possible, and waited. The repairers were sent along the line and the wanderer in time to save his life. Judge Spencer R. Atkinson, former justice of the Supreme Court, tells that early in his career he took a case for a Southern client. The amount involved being less than one hundred dollars, the trial came off in a justice's opinion. The new one was called, with the same result. When on went until seven juries had disagreed. Then, just before the eighth trial, Mr. Atkinson received the following note from the justice of the peace: "I write this to you because I cannot believe again Lyles can not be tried no more in this court. You have used up all the juries in the district, and it won't be possible to get no more juries unmoves in. I have wrote the same notice to the other side." As no notice in the case received that a new jury has grown up, the case is still unsettled. In Record Time. Piney Plats, Tenn. May 29th. (*Special*)-Cured in two days of Rheumatism that had made his life a torture for two years, D. S. Hillon of this place naturally wants every other sufferer from rheumatism to know what cured him. It was Dodd's Kidney Pills. "Dodd's Kidney Pills are the greatest pill on earth" says Mr. Hilton. "I would not take any sum of money for what they did for me. For two years I had what the doctors called rheumatism. I could hardly walk around the house. It seemed to be in my back and hip and legs. I tried everything but nothing helped me till I got Dodd's Kidney Pills. I took the first dose all pain left me and it has never come back since. I can't praise Dodd's Kidney Pills too much." Rheumatism is caused by uric acid in the blood. Healthy kidneys take all the Uric Acid out of the blood. Dodd's Kidney Pills make healthy kidneys. After all most of us get only cold stains from sinusity and suppressed cholera from fortune. Iowa State Bystander Mr. Carnegie says nothing about pensions for newspaper men, but hope is not dead. We still are puzzled to know how Prof. Arnold discovered that most women's knees are ugly. Never kick a man when he is down. And try never to let a man kick you when you are standing up. Even if baby Prince Humbert's nose is put out of joint, he will still be heir apparent to the throne of Italy. A Philadelphia jury fixes the value a kiss at $100. Ice cream is much cheaper than a Philadelphia kiss. Comptroller Ridgely advises bank cashiers not to speculate. This advice might be good for most other people, too. The fact that alcohol is used in the manufacture of smokeless powder is another argument as to its perniciousness. Since the United States supreme court has decided that dealing in futures isn't gambling, marriage can't be, either. A New York lady dropped $8,850 in a solidump somewhere on Broadway a day or two ago. Style of game not mentioned. It is well, perhaps, to serve notice on anybody whom it may concern that the public will draw the line at a Nan Patterson cigar. They say George Gould begins to look, speak, act and be a Sphinx like his father. But he never had to scratch for the first $100, as his father did. A New York man spent $80,000 on wine and $20,000 on women in one year. It is feared that, whatever his capacity, he did not get all his money's worth. A Kansas City man has been fined for saying "darn" to a policeman. Kansas City has been doing all kinds of things recently to attract public attention. A Chicago judge has decided that a milliner is an artist. That may explain why she is able to draw a man's salary for four weeks after finishing a bonnet. King Edward has inaugurated a new fashion, that of keeping the right hand gloved. It is to be hoped that Edward will come out this year in a 50-cent straw hat. Miss Mae Wood threatens to publish the love letters which she claims to have received from Platt. Let him who never wrote love letters be the first to egg her on. Some Massachusetts preachers are attending a class in farming, and an urgent need of a few expressive but blameless words for use upon barking the shin is announced. Lord Charles Beresford wants great Britain and the United States to have one flag. All right. Hurrah! We're willing. If Mr. Bull likes the Stars and Stripes—Chicago Post. The Kansas supreme court declares that whisky is not property, but old John Barleycorn, although a little groggy at times, has never yet received his knockout blow. It may be true, of course, that shortcake can be made of other things than strawberries, but will be noticed that none of our best poets shed the glory of their genius over any other kind. The Boston Globe mentions the fact that women have given valuable service as census enumerators. It might have added that they got a good deal of enjoyment out of it, too—Kansas City Journal. Up to date, Marle Correll is about the only one who has hinted at a stain on Mr. Carnegie's money. And it is open to Mr. Carnegie to retort that his money is at all events sweeter than Miss Corell's temper. A California man claims to have perfected an invention which will enable people to treat 200 miles an hour on the world really needs an invention that will keep things from getting on the truck. There doesn't seem to be much use in working to acquire millions. Even men bright enough to succeed at it can find nothing better to do with the millions when they have got them than to give them away again. Pugilist Jeffries, throwing aside his fighting gloves forever because his side wants him to, naturally wins the admiration and approval of all women. But why, O why, did he spell it all by adding, "Besides, boxing doesn't pay." Boston is now wondering whether it was for a joke that its oracle published the account of the finding of a dinosaur of the upper Jurassic period among the "recent deaths," or whether the oracle had really just got around to the news. "The processes which operate to produce rain over large areas," says Prof. Moore of the weather bureau, "are of such magnitude that the effects upon them of the puny efforts of man are inappreciable." We have noticed this when rain interfered with the baseball game. Plant Wizard B. bank is now engaged in crossing the "common potato with the colomn connection." We doubt if it will ever be more popular than the common potato crossed with a little fresh butter or brown gravy. GOVERNMENT LIGHT. HISTORIC CHICKAMAUAUGA PARK ABLAZE WITH ILUMINATION. United States System of Lighting Military Post Pronounced Gratifyingly Successful—Six and One-Half Miles of Maine—Sixty-Five Street Lights. Chickamauga Park Ga., May 31—The United States government has here in operation one of the largest acetylene gas plants in the world. The military post at the entrance of the historical Chickamauga battlefield where thirty thousand Union and Confederate soldiers were lost in the memorable battle of Sept. 19 and 20, 1863, contains about one hundred buildings, the seventy-five principal ones of which are lighted with acetylene. To accomplish this six and one-half miles of mains and two miles of service pipes, base, while sixty-five street lamps brilliantly illuminate the avenues of the post. In 1903 the Wcr Department installed a test acetylene plant at Fort Meyer, Virginia. The results were so gratifying and the superiority of the illuminant so evident that the government, March 20, 1904, placed the contract for the Chickamauga plant in every citizen of the United States should have his pro rata of pride. But the government has not confined its acceptance of acetylene to this military post. Since becoming satisfied of the efficiency, superiority and economical advantages of this particular illuminant, the United States has installed a number of plants in laboratories and other government institutions. Acetylene gas is one of the simplest as well as the most perfect of artificial lights. It is made by the contact of water and carbide, (a manufactured product for sale at a nominal price), is absolutely safe and gives a beautiful white light soothing to the eyes and nerves. It can be produced any where—in the farm home, the village or the school. It is so easily maintained as to be practical for all classes. It is a matter for national congratation that in beautifying so historic a spot as Chickamauga, nothing but the best, including the lighting system, has been deemed good enough for the American people. Two Wesley deacones have be gun work in West Africa. 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. Lew Fields relates that once, when he was with the Weber & Fields organization, he wired on from Omaha to the manager of the Atchison (Kan.) theatre where the company was to appear: "Would like to hold a rehearsal at your house at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Have your stage-manager, stage-carpenter, assistant stage-carpenter, property man, chief electrician, and all stage hands at the theatre promptly at that hour." He later ment. Mr. Pieler received the following reply from the Atchison manager: "All right. He will be there." In the suburbs of Baltimore there is an ancient glue factory that at times floods the surrounding scenery with an odor strange and far from sweet. A street railway line runs past the building, and one day last summer, when the place was indulging in a wild outburst of inglorious scream, the police of the seat of which sat an Irish laver and a middle-aged lady. The Irishman's features expressed unutterable things and the lady sniffed diligently at a bottle of smelling salts. The car came to a stop, the glue rioted worse than ever, and the son of Erin could stand it no longer. "Excuse me, mum," he said, humply, as he sat his hat, "but might I ask ye to put the stopper in that there bottle?" BOOK OF BOOKS. Over 30.000.000 Published. An Oakland lady who has a taste for good literature, tells what a happy time she had on "The Road to Wellville." She says: "I drank coffee freely for eight years before I began to perceive any evil effects from it. Then I noticed that I was becoming very nervous, which was gradually losing the power to properly eliminate my food. In time I got so weak that I dreaded to leave the house—for no reason whatever but because of the miserable condition of my nerves and stomach. I attributed the trouble to anything in the world but coffee, of course. I dressed myself with medicines, which in the end would leave me feeling very tired. I was most wretched and discouraged—not 20 years old and feeling that life was a failure! "I had given up all hope of ever enjoying myself like other people, till I read I read the little book "The Road to Wellyville." It opened my eyes, and taught me a lesson I shall never forget and cannot value too high. I immediately quit the use of the kind of coffee and began to drink coffee. I began the beginning of an improvement in the whole tone of my system, after only two days' use of the new drink, and in a very short time realized that I could go about like other people without the least return of the nervous dread that formerly gave me so much trouble. In fact my nervousness disappeared entirely and has remained ever since. I yearned that I had beeninking Postum Food Coffee. And my stomach is now like iron—nothing can upset it! "Last week, during the big Conclave in San Francisco, I was on the go day and night without the slightest fatigue; and as I stood in the immense crowd watching the great parade that lasted for hours, I thought to myself, 'This strength is what Postum Food Coffee has given me!'" I was by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. The little book "The Road to Wellville" may be found in every pkg. Defense Tries to Prove Gambler is a Victim of Conspiracy. DENNISON TAKES THE STAND Tells the Story of His Life and Denies That He Had in Any Way Participated With Sherlceil in the Pollock Diamond Robbery. Red Oak, May 27—Sherlceil yesterday left the witness stand after two and a half days' examination and exhibited his nerve by hitting the bull's eye ten times in succession in a local shooting gallery. Deputy Sherlceil A. O. Lund of Blackwell, Okla., attempted to arrest Sherlceil but Sherlceil Thomas denied the right until requisition is secured. Warden N. N. Jones of Fort Madison visited Sherlceil at the penitentiary and left money for him under the name of E. W. Blunt. C. G. Hipwell of Davenport stated that he was paid $500 by a Davenport gambler to assist in the parole of Sherlceil and did it as a political H. E. Duel and Frank Boardwell of Omaha, both public officials, swore that Dennison's reputation for honesty and veracity is good. Pardon Clerk Garrett of Des Moines fled seven exhibits of papers in the Sherliec parole matter, showing that important papers are missing. Pardon Garrett is showing that all papers in the Sherliec trial at Logan, baye been lost. Red Oak, May 28—It developed yesterday under the severe cross examination of Judge Walter I. Smith that C. E. Beane, principal witness for the defense, who swore that while in a hospital ward in Kansas City, Sherlie confessed to him that he had been shot by the Pollack robbery, and that he intended to ruin him by prosecution, is himself a convict and has served two terms in penitentiaries for burglary. Depositions of various persons were Depositions of various persons were read showing Dennison's credit in 1852 as well as Shercliffe. Deposition of Mike Conroy was read in 1853, and it was admitted that he wants revenge on Fay of Clinton. Mrs. Swartz of Logan sworn that Shercliffe made a confession of the Pollack robbery to her, taking all of the responsibility. 30—In the Dennison trial yesterday, M. P. Hooker swore that he was Shercliffe's banker and that the ex-convict gave him $2,000 and he paid out of that all expenses of the Logan trial. He further stated that Dennison, over his own money, Dennison who then acted as Shercliffe's banker. Hooker stated that the gambling fraternity recognizes this method of planting money with onlookers. Charles Wetmore, a "private detective," swore that Shercliffe confessed to him and Joe Shery, an Omaha deputy sheriff, that he had planned to kill Dennison with a large amount of money by prosecuting an amount of charge of complicity in the robbery. J. M. Davis, editor of a Logan news paper, testified that in a conversation with Shercliffe, the latter confessed to having been the author of the Pollock robbery and that he intended to make Dennison pay for the long years he has spent in the state prison. Ed. Doyle, a druggist of Hampton, stated that he copied the Hooker expense account from one book to an account that he mistaken Shercliffe pronounce them correct. Red Oak, June 1.—Tom Dennison took the stand in his own behalf yesterday afternoon and recited in detail on direct examination every day that he had been present day. He denied any knowledge of the Pollock robbery or the money expended in Shercliffe's defense. Andrew Cochlidh, ex-sheriff of Logan county, said Shercliffe confessed his guilt to him. Charles O'Connor said Tom Dennison was eating supper with him at the time Pollock swore that Dennison was in the Middleshot hotel. Joe Sherry, deputy sheriff, said Shercliffe must to mutate one for evidence. John Dennison, brother of the defendant, said Sherlicliffe did not talk with him and Tom on his return from the robbery. Dennison, who was on the train when the robbery occurred, told the story of the crime and of Dennison's whereabouts on the succeeding days and identified a letter written by him to Attorney Cochran about the Logan trial. Red Oak, June 2—In the Dennison court, Chief of Police Denison owed the omaha and Ald. Ed. Brans and Fred Hove both swore that Dennison's reputation is good notwithstanding his gambling business. Dennison, on cross-examination said the statement of expenses was padded and the entire matter fixed up for the purpose of obtaining an indictment. Judge Smith started a fingerprint examination for the purpose of showing that Dennison was in the Kimball house in Davenport on November 1, 1892. The defense, holding that Harrison county could not be left on cross examination and warned the judge that Dennison would be proclaimed a forgery if the prosecution began on that line. MATT HUNTER TO WORK Resolve of Slayer of Homer holland is Broken. M. Ayr, June 2—Matt Hunter, after twenty-two months of soil confinement, sent Port Mahlon to the tailor shop. The first letter his mother has received from him in twenty-two months came this week, having been written on May 30, at which time he was sent to work just for a week. He professes to like the tailor shop work. He says that the reason he change his mind about work is that he was becoming so weak physically and mentally that he was sane. He asked his mother to subscribe for a M. Ayr paper for him, so that he might keep posted on the happenings of his home town. The letter has lifted a great deal of anxieties of Hunter's mother and sister. TAKES CHILDREN TO DEATH. Mrs. Julius Paulsen, Wife of Dewitt Barber, Sulciides. Davenport, May 30—Mrs. Julius Paulsen, the wife of a Dewitt barber, took her three children to Silver Creek about three miles southwest of town yesterday morning, and throw them in, drowning two of them, then followed herself. The third child, the baby, was found, alive lodged in the womb of a woman, shortly after the terrible catastrophe. The woman is supposed to have been temporarily demented. At the inquest held by Coroner Hulinger, it developed that Paulsen had come home the evening previous, after waking up. He says that he went to bed about 9 o'clock and that his wife and the three children were still up. One of the children, a boy aged 3 years, slept with his father and about 3 o'clock in the morning the father awoke and went to bed for 10 minutes, leaving the child in bed. When he returned the child was gone. He sought for his wife, but could not find her. Going out of the house he heard the cries of the baby, and going to the bank of Silver creek, which passes near the house he found the child living in the mud of the creek river. The neighbors were alarmed and further search resulted in the finding of the bodies of the mother and daughter, Catharina Hass, aged 6 years, a child by a former marriage, was found caught in the weeds of the creek dead. The body of the son, was found in the creek years, floated down the stream about hundred feet and was found in the shallow water. FOLK COMES TO DES MOINES. Engaged for 4th of July Address in Midland Chautauqua. Des Moines June 2.—After much urging Gov. Jos, W. Folk of Missouri has consented to give Chautauqua addresses this coming summer at bedside in the Midland. The Excursions will be run on all roads to Des Moines and the price of admission will be put at the low price of 25cts, although Gov. Folk will receive probably only $1.00 for each pearling at Des Moines, July 4th. Excursions will be run on all roads to Des Moines and the price of admission will be put at the low price of 25cts, although Gov. Folk will receive probably only $1.00 for each pearling at Des Moines, July 4th. The Midland Chautauqua at Des Moines is advertising "Every Day a big day" and yet sells a season ticket good for eleven days for only one dollar. There will be hundreds of out-of-town visitors to hear such celebrities as Iyenga the jap, Booker T. Washington, Wm. Jennings Bryan, Hon. Jon, Camp, Mon. G. A. Gearhart, Hinton White, Gov. Folk, Sam Jones, Thomas McClure, Marcia McClure, Festival Day, Meistersinger's Male Quarterette, Imperial Saxophone Quartette, Midland Concert Co., Madrigal Lally Quarterette, Trier Sister, etc. The Chautauqua in this city is prosperous as never before and immense crowds will be expected in management this season of the Midland Chautauqua Circuit, 354 Good Blk. NO BLIND PHYSICIANS State Board of Medical Examiners Has Shut Them Out. Des Moines, May 29—Acting on the decision of the attorney general, the secretary of the state board of medical examiners has notified all persons that blind men cannot be admitted to practice medicine in this state. The postcepth, who is blind, completed his course in college and sought to take the examination before the state board. Being blind he could neither read the questions asked on written slips nor could he write the answers, however well he knew them. The law requires that no person shall be consulted as to the questions or as to writing the answers thereto. The attorney general and the secretary of the board are confident that the law entitle persons shall not practice medicine in Iowa. FAWN PROVES RARE SPECIES. Young Dear Born at Council Bluffs Young College Council Bluffs Boy Scout With Strips Council Bluffs Council Bluffs, June 1—A baby bawn with stripes on its body is one of the late acquisitions at Fairmount park in this city. It is one of several young deer born there within the last month, and in all respects but this one the little creature is like the other, much the same. It cannot except that the stripes are not quite so well defined and do not extend to the legs. The little creature is arousing much curiosity. Since it was born, President Graham of the park board has had offers of from $100 to $1,000 its mother. Its mother is a common brown doe and a black has a coat of the ordinary color. FOLLOWS WIFE IN DEATH. Thomas Sueelson, Whose Wife Committed Suicide, Drinks Acid. Columbus Junction, June 2—A double tragedy at Alnsworth reached its culmination yesterday. Mrs. Thomas Sueelson killed herself on Tuesday by taking strychnine. The alleged infidelity of the husband caused the affair. He was arrested in connection with the funeral of his wife and was released on bail. He committed suicide yesterday by drinking carbic acid. They have been married four years and leave a little daughter 3 years old. Highbinders Chase Iowa Chinaman. Dows, June 1,—Terrified by letters written him in the mysterious symbols of the Chinese language and signed by Charlie Diy. He had laundryman yesterday afternoon attempted suicide. Din got a quantity of poison and a shot gun and was about to make way with himself when arrested. He has been given over to a Chinese friend at Waverley. He seems to be in constant fear that he will be arrested. He has received indicate that the Highbinders are watching him and his ease is giving officers not a little trouble. Sam Stewart, the 12-year-old son of Dr. Stewart, the Stewart, assistant state veterinarian, and that Dr Stewart's farm north of town He started on horseback to the pasture, and that was the last seen of him alive. The horse came home alone, and a search led to the discovery of the boy lying dead near him. The farm yard. His head was easily found, having fallen from the horse and being dragged a half mile by his left foot catching in the stirrup. EVERY WALK IN LIFE. A. A. Boyce, a farmer, living three A. A. Bove and a half miles from Toronto. He says: "A severe cold settled in my kid- neys and devel- oped so quickly that I was obliged to work on account of the shinging in my add a hat miles over TRENTON Mo. says: "A severe cold settled in my kidneys and de- veloped so quickly that I was obliged to work on ac- count of the aching in my back and sides. For a time I was un- able to walk at all, and every make- shift I tried and all the medicine I took had not the slightest effect. My back continued to grow weaker. Until I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills, and immediately I was more than sur- sured and gratified to notice the back- ache disappearing gradually until it finally stopped." Doan's Kidney Pills sold by all dealers or by mail on receipt of price, 50 cents per box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Lynan Abbott says that "wealth is a danger." Sweet danger! POINTS HE HAD TO LEARN They Were Considered Important in the Gas Business. "Well, my son," said the venerable gas magnet, beaming benevolence on his young protégé. "how are you get to know you?" beaming. "think you are learning the business?" "I am working hard at it, sir," said the youth. "I fatter myself I have picked up quite a little information since you were kind enough to get me my position with the company. I have learned the exact cost per cubic foot of making gas; the exact amount of water in the stock; how to get a franchise, and how to get along without one if you don't happen to have one that fits; how to make gas bills go up while gas rates go down; how to make a gas meter travel like an automobile with a policeman in how to get a policeman who kicks—well, quite a number of things." "You are doing well, my son," said the old gentleman. "But I trust you will not neglect two of the most important features of the gas business—how to prepare a statement nobody can make head or tail of, and how to talk to an investigating committee, without telling them anything everybody doesn't already know." Making the Garden Pay. "This garden has a southeast exposure," said Uncle Boh, "which is the best. I shall have all of the rows of vegetables running north and south so that they will get the full benefit of the sun. I am going to divide it with a path running each way for convenience, and I shall cultivate entirely with hand tools. I rely particularly upon my combined double and single wheel hoe, hill and drill seeder, which saves me many an hour of back-breaking, hard and uncomfortable work during the summer. "Lettuce and radishes may be sowed in many odd corners of the garden, without interfering with other crops. Oftentimes crops fall to come up in various places in the garden, and these vacancies may be filled with beets, carrots and turnips. The latter may be planted as late as the first of September, and carrots up to the first of August. My early lettuce is followed by cabbages or excelsior peas. I often put turnips in the ground which has just grown a crop of peas. You will be able to find pretty nearly all kinds of common vegetables in this garden. I don't always succeed with everything, and if I had only a very small garden, I should confine myself, I think, to a smaller list."-Suburban Life. Too many bills are apt to make a man feel billious. FIXING RAILROAD RATES Making railroad rates is like playing a game of checkers or chess. Communities to be benefited, producers, manufacturers or shippers to be aided represent the pieces used. Every possible move is studied for its effect on the general result by skilled traffic managers. A false move in the making of freight rates may mean the ruin of a city, of a great manufacturing interest, of an agricultural community. Railroads strive to build up all these so that each may have an equal chance in the sharp competition of business. So sensitive to this rivalry are the railroads that in order to build up business along their lines they frequently allow the shipper to practically dictate rates. Rate makers in the railroad industry of mutual concessions for mutual benefit. That is why the railroads of the United States have voluntarily made freight rates so much lower in this country than they are on the government-owned and operated railways of Europe and Australia that they are now the lowest transportation rates in the world. Eight thousand trained carrier pigons are kept in use in the German army. Catarh Cannot Be Cured With local applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease, Catarh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. It all is catarh. Cure takes in internally, and act directly on the blood and mucous surface. It was prescribed by one of the best physician in this country for years and is a regular prescription. It is compared to a local known, combined with the best blood purification method, direct or间接 mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two methods is what produces each wonderful result in caring catarh. F. J. CHENKY & CO., Propa., Toledo, O. Sold by Dr. Graciste, price Two. Take their a Family Pills for constipation. The best of good fellows may be quite ignorant of the price of pajamas. In a Pinch, Use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. A powder. It cures painful, smartening, nervous feet and improving nails. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain score for sweating feet. Sold by all drugists, 25. Trial package FREE. Address A. S. Glimsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Both man and womankind both their nature when they are not kind. - Balley. It isn't always the head of a family that foots the bill. A French literary man, proud of his really excellent English, visiting a British cabinet minister, had spent a delightful afternoon viewing the picture galleries and art treasures of his host. In expressing his pleasure to that gentleman, he observed that, "charming though the experience was, he must not venture, he felt sure, to cockroach longer on such valuable time." "You speak English so beautifully, maneuvered," replied his host, "and I am like me to tell you that we do not sat on cockroach, to 'to encoach.' "Henroach, of course, of course, henroach; oh! your genders how they do puzzle me!" said monsieur; "Oh! henroach, of course." A good story is to tell concerning Emperor William's visit to Corfu. A party of English midshipmen were returning to their ships, after an excursion on foot to Achilleon, the Empress of Austria's palace. On arriving at the ferry, they found that the boat was too small to carry the whole party, and three or four of the midshipmen, as they did so the minnery Ulysses Island, which is situated half way across, Emperor William, on hearing of the incident, signaled to Admiral Sir Compon Donvile: "I hear your midshipmen have been shocking the good nuns by their costumes, by my signal: "Have heard; mention your majesty is mishnformed in one particular; the young gentlemen hadn't any costumes." A cozy little pistol pocket was found very useful by a schoolboy in Cass County, Mo. His teacher had occasion to punish the lad, and while paddling him across her knee she saw fire coming out of his pocket. Her vise was on the back of her matches. A dipper of water was needed to extinguish the fire. 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.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starchs are put up in ¾-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocery 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 fabric and figures "16 oz." Demand Starch and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. A man is likely to receive more invitations to pay up than he gets to dine. Excursion Fares from Chicago Via Grand Trunk Railway System (Season 1905.) Double track. Absbury Park and return. $21.35. Going dates, June 29th, 30th, July 1st and 2nd. Boston and return. $20.00. Going dates, June 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th. Buffalo and return. $12.25. Going dates July 8th, 9th and 10th. Detroit and return. $6.50. Going dates, August 14th and 15th. Niagara Falls and Return. $12.25. Going dates, June 18th, 19th and 20th. Philadelphia and return. $19.00. Going dates, September 15th, 16th and 17th. Toronto and return. $12.65. Going dates June 19th, 20th and 23rd. Liberal limits and stopovers. Full particulars at city ticket office, corner Clark St. and Jackson Blvd., Chicago. Religious persecution is the effect of an exaggerated vanity rendered ferocious by the best intentions. If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is potential to bring to equal it in quality or quantity. If you want a thing well done ask the waiter to bring it rare. MILLIONS Being made in LATEST NEWS SAMPLING FREE RELIABLE PAPERS COPIES Send us a 20 stamp for sample copies best papers and a coupon to freely for real information. Admit us for real communications to our San Francisco office. Nevada Mirrors Ass. 830 Kohl Bigg, San Francisco TO THE FARMER AND THE STOCKMAN LOGAN COUNTY offers beyond question the SOUTHERN vestiment in the West. The NORTH DAKOTA climate district, grain NORTHFUL. Native grasses most nutritious water abundant. Correspondence earns many awards which will double in a few years. Full and RELI d. A. HARRIS, Cauley School, pictures of your farm. NO. FREE LANDS IN THE RED RIVER VALLEY But, I have for sale PINE IMPROVED A LAND IN THE HEART OF THE VALLEY of the Great North River. R. In Grand Prices THAT ARE Write to George B. Keenan, Geoffrey ing of Thompson, Thompson, M. Dakot. 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The MAYFLOWER SHOE for Women is made from a blend of leather, which means flexible soles, with no wax or tacks to irritate the foot. The MAYFLOWER SHOE for Men is made from a blend of leather, which means flexible soles, with no wax or tacks to irritate the foot. The MAYFLOWER SHOE for Women is made from a blend of leather, which means flexible soles, with no wax or tacks to irritate the foot. In stylish, durable and comfortable, make your designer for them. If he does not handle shee's shoes, write as direct. They will please you and you will save from coins to gift per pair in prices usually charged for shee's of this character. STAR BRAND SHOES ARE BETTER ROBERTS JOHNSON & RAND SHOE CO ST LOUIS U.S.A. Say Plainly to Your Grocer That you want LION COFFEE always, and he, being a square man, will not try to sell you anything else. You may not care for our opinion, but What About the United Judgment of Millions of housekeepers who have used LION COFFEE for over a quarter of a century? 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But When It Lifted Togo's Battleships and Cruisers Finished the Awful Slaughter. Tokio, May 31.—"Togo Victorious" is the cry which is heard in every quarter of Japan. It was a great victory—complete, crushing, annihilating and intensely satisfactory to the people of Japan. The conditions were ideal for the Japanese when the Russian fleet was sighted Saturday morning to the south of Tsu straits headed for the Krusen-tern or eastern channel. The weather was thick and hairy with a good bit of a sea running. At times the hare deepened into heavy fog. Just the weather for the operation of torpedo boats. It was shortly after noon when the Russian fleet entered the channel which separates the Tsu islands from Japan, and almost at the same time the great battle began A flotilla of torpedo boats crept out under cover of the fog, and according to the reports here, was within 500 yards of the big battleship Eorodino before the fog lifted and they were discovered. A hall of shot from the rapid fire guns of the Russians beat down on the little Japanese craft, and several went down, but not until they had fatally wounded their giant enemy. A moment later one of the big Russian cruisers either struck a mine or was torpedoed by a submarine and went down almost immediately, carrying all her officers and crew with her. The suddenness of the attack and its appalling success threw the Russians into confusion and it was some time before Admiral Rojestvensky and his lieutenants succeeded in restoring order sufficiently to permit the fleet to proceed. Then the fog lifted and Admiral Togoi's great fleet of battleships and armored cruisers took a hand in the fight. They were able to keep a distance just within range of their great guns, slowly retiring as the Russians with desperate valor pushed on. The Japanese gun work was deadly, far superior to that of the Russians. Their fire was directed principally against the Knizai Suvarovif which flew the flag of Rojestvensky at the mast head, the Sisol vetelky, Nebogatoff, with Admiral Voelkisew in command. These vessels were reported struck by the great 14-inch projectiles. In the meantime the Japanese torpedo flotilla was in action constantly in groups of four or five. They would make desperate sallies toward the enemy, seizing every favorable opportunity, driving in with an utter disregard for death. They did wonderfully effective work, not alone in the actual damage done the enemy's ships, but in diverting their attention from the heavy Japanese fighting ships and creating a condition which may have accounted for the poor markmanship of the Russian gunners. All the afternoon and into the night the great tragedy was kept up. At the boom of the heavy guns and the constant attack of the firing guns was punctured by the fallen war of a torpedo or a mine, and when this happened it meant the death wound of a Russian fighting craft. At night the entire force of torpedo boats and destroyers in the Japanese fleet were kept busy, and it is said there were almost a hundred of them sent after the enemy. Some of them were picked up by the searchlight, and it is reported here that at least a dozen were sent to the bottom, but when Sunday morning came the Russian commander found his fleet declimated, the ships he had afloat crippled and the coveted entrance to the Japanese sea blocked by Togo's batehips and eight big armored cruisers practically uninjured. He had lost, and the only question now was to make for a neutral port with his crippled ships. WILL SUCCEED MORTON. Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore Will Assume Navy Portfolio. Washington, June 2—President Roosevelt has authorized the announcement that Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore, Md., will be appointed secretary of the navy to succeed Paul Morton, who states he will retire July 1 to go to New York to take charge of the plans for the construction of the subway system for operation in connection with the surface lines. The president also authorized the statement that no other changes in the personnel of the cabinet were likely to take place in the near future. Secretary Shaw already has indicated his intention of retiring from the cabinet, probably next February. Rumors of the retirement of Attorney General Moody have been published, but it is understood to be his intention now to continue in the cabinet for a year and a half and perhaps longer. VCELKERSAM WAS KILLED Rear Admiral Met Death in Conning Tower of Ship. Tokio, June 2...Rear Admiral Voelkersman, who was commander of the battleship squadron of the Russian fleet, was, it was announced yesterday killed the first day of the battle, May 27, in the conning tower of his flagship, the battleship Osla, one of the vessels sunk by the Japanese. Rear Admiral Voelkersman was appointed commander of the battleship squadron of the Russian fleet in July last and left Cronstadt, August 25, with the other vessel commanded by Admiral Bolotinsky. It was Voelkersman's squadron according to report which fired on the British trawlers in the North Sea, mistaking them for Japanese torpedo boats. The less a man has to say the greater is his reputation for wisdom. The Fate of Admiral Roiestvensky is Finally Learned. HE HAS A FRACTURED SKULL Officially Announced That Japanese Losses in Battle Were Limited to Three Torpedo Boats—All of the Battleships Are Unharmed. London, June 1—Little hope for the Russians can be found in the latest dispatches regarding the naval battle off Tsu island. Only four of the vessels of Robetovskys's fleet are known to have reached Vladivostok, the cruiser Almaz and the torpedo boat destroyers Grozny, Bravi and Terosiah. The full extent of the Russian casualties in men and officers drowned, wounded or captured is not yet known. The Japanese losses, as reported from Tokio, are only three torpedo boats sunk, three officers killed and about two hundred men killed or disabled. Not one of the big ships of the beached war was lost. It is now definitely known that Vice Admiral Robetovskys is captured. He is seriously wounded, but, it is stated from Tokio will recover. Interest now turns to the situation in Russia as the result of the naval disaster. The emperor Wednesday summoned to the palace at Tsargeorg Selo all the members of the imperial family and later called into extraordinary council Admiral Alexieff and all his ministers of state and a series of conferences took place as to the course to be pursued. The result of these conferences is in doubt, the ministers returning to St. Petersburg observing a cautious reticence as to what took place. It is believed, however, that the emperor is determined on a prosecution of the war, the government fearing the effects of the disaster on the Russian people. The army in Manchuria is not yet aware of the disaster to the navy and the dispatches say is still praying for victory. The Russian press, with few exceptions, is openly indignant and is attacking the bereavement. One paper saying that "these guilty of the Russian defeat should be overwhelmed with shame" Admiral Voelkersam is summoned to have perished. Washington, June 1. - The Japanese legation yesterday received the following report from Tokio: "It is officially announced that in the last naval battle the damages sustained by our fleet were very slight and none of our battleships, cruisers, destroyers and other ships was lost, except three torpedo boats. "Under imperial command Admiral Tego was authorized to permit Nebogato to submit to the czar the reports on the last battle and a list of Russians killed, wounded and prisoners. The admiral was also authorized to release on parole the surrendered officers of Nicholai I, Orel, Apraxin and Senyavin. "Rojestvens'y was taken to Sasabe naval hospital. No other admiral was captured, last report in this reservation due to clerical error." Commander Isam Tallashne, naval attachage of Japan to the United States was at the White House and communicated the above information to the president. Washington, D. C., June 1.—The state department has received the following cablegram from Tokyo: "Tokyo. May 31.—Rojestvensky's skull is fractured, requiring an operation; serious but not dangerous. Total Japanese losses to date, three torpedo beats sunk; three officers killed, about 200 men killed and disabled." Tokyo, June 1.—It is now certain that Admiral Rojestvensky is a prisoner of the Japanese. He is wounded in the forehead, legs and back, but will recover. Vice Admiral Voelkersam is supposed to have perished. LORENZ TURNED STATE'S EVIDENCE Frauds. Washington, June 1.—George E. Lorenz of Toledo, O. who was convicted and绞刑, August W. Machen and Sinclair and Dilbert B. Grof, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government in connection with contracts for furnishing supplies for the postoffice department, yesterday turned state's evidence in the trial of William G. Crawford, who is charged with conspiracy. Machen and Lorenz were indicted jointly with Crawford. The former pleaded guilty and was sentenced to an additional two years in the penitentiary and Lorenz was granted a severance for trial. It is generally believed that he is taking for the government under an agreement that he should not be prosecuted under indictments pending against him. Lorenz did not spare himself in the testimony. He declared that an agreement had been formed by himself Machen and Crawford to get the contracts to furnish letter carrier satchets to the postoffice department and that they had shared in the profits. The contracts were gained by reason of Machen's connection with the supply division of the postoffice department and were filled by Crawford, who was the general manager for the Postal Service company of New York. According to Lorenz he was the go-between, although there were meetings between the three at the room of Lorenz when he was stopping at a hotel in this city in the early part of June, 1902. ANOTHER BOAT ARRIVES. Torpedo Boat Destroyer Bravi Arrives at Vladivostok. Vladivostok, june 1.—The torpedo boat destroyer Bravi arrived here yes in a brough of 187 men of the crew of the battleship Oslabya. Save the Babies. INFANT MORTALITY is something frightful. We can hardly realize that of all the children born in civilized countries, twentytwo per cent., or nearly one-quarter, die before they reach one year; thirtyseven per cent., or more than one-third, before they are five, and one-half before they are fifteen! We do not hesitate to say that a timely use of Castoria would save a majority of these precious lives. Neither do we hesitate to say that many of these infantile deaths are occasioned by the use of narcotic preparations. Drops, tinctures and soothing syrups sold for children's complaints contain more or less opium, or morphine. They are, in considerable quantities, deadly poisons. In any quantity they stupefy, retard circulation and lead to congestions, sickness, death. 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KANSAS FARMS Crafty Immigration Agents are Around TOPEKA, the Capital, a sprawling quiet, apartely settled area ARE TOO CHEAP the finest chest inherent prices that we ask for choice farms at highs opportunity this generation will know, to buy cheap CEDAR RAPIDS NOTES. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bord were entertained at dinner last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Johnson S Eighth street. Sunday was quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. Iyer, G. W. Ginnes was present, filling the pulpit morning and even on 8. Although there was a heavy shower of rain most of the afternoon the attendance was good. Miss Mattie Robinson was the hostess to a few friends Sunday afternoon from 6 to 7. The ladies had a delightful time and hops Miss Robinson will entertain again soon. Miss Romelia Borey and Mr. Joseph Downing of Edwardsville, Ill., were quietly in marriage Saturday morning at 8 a.m. Their many friends are to them best wishes for a happy life. Mr. W. H. Milligan, owner and manager of the Bee Hive Fruit Farm, is very busy preparing for the strawberry and fruit season. In his store house he has provided more than 1 000 orates for strawberry; the season of which will open in few days. Mr. Milligan has for several years under a special study of bees and the how he produces is some of his finest in the state. The many friends of Miss Ellia Mayes regret very much her departure from the city. She will leave this week for Buxton and other points. Rev. G. W. Gaines was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Claybrook during his stay in the city. Rev. P. M. Lawis will organize a normal class Thursday evening. Mrs. Tolbert Woods will leave Tuesday for a few weeks visit at the parental home in De Moina. A WORD TO Within a few weeks our annual collector will make his yearly visit, and it is hoped that every subscriber will pay up in full the amount they owe. Accept this as official notice, and do not say you were not notified. You know the amount you owe; why not lay it aside at once for the HYRANDER? You no doubt enjoy reading it; why not enjoy paying for it? If all our subscribers would pay all they owe, and keep up, we would be enable to enlarge our paper, and issue each week a paper like our holiday issue was, but of course we cannot do something without money. Please be honest and prompt with us hereafter. CLINTON HAPPENINGS Last Sunday was quartz by meeting, Rev. Boyd was badly assisted by R. Rev. Clark of Davenport. F. E. McNeil, was brought home from the hospital last week. He still remains quite ill with hopes of recovery. Mrs. Hases of Dubo spent Sunday in Clinton, the guest of Mrs. M. E. Culbert. A most enjoyable social was given at Bethal A. M. E. church Wednesday evening, May 24, by a ladies committee appointed for the occasion. A good number were in attendance and a nest sum realized as the result of the effort. It is only a few days more and we will be on our annual rounds in the interest of the BYSTANDER; please bear this in mind you who are indebted, and arrange once to pay up your indebted dress in already several reminders in the shape of letters have been sent to delinquents. No business can prosper without money—newspapers are no exception. M. M. O. Culberston is at home after being in attendance at the Federation of Women Clubs convention, which was held in Muscatine last week. She reports a most enjoyable time. Presiding Elder Gaines arrived in the city Tuesday to hold quarterly conferences also to respond to the announcement that the would deliver a sermon in the evening at the A. M. E. church. The reverend is able devine and his discourses are received with pleasure. Clinton people have been invited to join the people of the tri cities down the river at an outing at Mississippi Park on June the 8th. ALBIA NEWS. The History and Literary club entertained at the home of Mrs. L. Graeson on Tuesday evening. After questions being asked from history a very able address was given by Mr. E. Butter to the ladies and their friends, and equally as good a response was made by Mr. Wallace Davis Refreshments were served by the hostess and three young ladies—Misses Allie Beager and Nellie Graeson and Mrs. Della Martin has been very sick the past week. The A. M. E church of Albia is undergoing a number of improvements which will add much to beautifying the church. Domino club met with Mrs. Hollingworth Thursday evening. School closed in Albia this week. Mr. W. G. Davis is thinking of selling his restaurant and moving to a hotel. History club met with Miss Tina Folem Thursday afternoon. Afternoon a review of the lesson current events were taken up. Ham sandwiches, ice cream and cake were served. French Users of Tobacco. In France there are 6,000,000 smokers, and of every fifteen there are eight who smoke a pipe, five who smoke cigars, and only two who use cigarettes. Still the French consume more than 8,000,000 cigarettes a year. Cost of Feeding Royalty. The imperial kitchen of the Austrian Emperor at Vienna costs about $250 a day, says a German contemporary. In this sum, however, are not included the extra expenses for court dinners, etc. WASHINGTON ITEMS The ice cream and strawberry social at the church last Friday evening was well attended. Mrs. Nate Black is on the sick list. Mr. James Turner has moved on Fifth avenue. Mr. Robert Motts graduated from the High School at Tuesday evening. The question for debate: 'Resolved that the United States should continue her policy of expansion.' Mr. Motts appeared on the affirmative, in which he proved him to be one of the best graduates or his race in Washington of recent years. Mr. and Mrs. Nate Black sat on Saturday for Masustima to attend the Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Black took suddenly ill Sunday at afternoon and returned home Monday morning. She is convalescent at this writing. The writer had the opportunity of attending the Federation of Women's Club at Muscatine last week. Muscatine royally entertained the delegates and visitors, as well, we had the pleasure of being entertained at the home of Rev J. P. Johnson, also the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs Powell. Rev. Johnson is one of Muscatine's enterprising citizens and owns a nice two story house about a mile and a half from the city. COLORADO Over head the bluest of skies--before your eyes the grandest of scenery--all around a clear crisp air that starts the blood toracing. These elements make Colorado the ideal Vacation land. Near at Hand Near at Hand Reached quickly and conveniently by the Rock Island System Direct lines into both Colorado Springs and Denver from the East Send for booklet "Under the Turquoise Sky" and parti- lars of low rates this summer G. R. KLINE. C. P Agent, Des Moines, Ia. Rock Island System 423 W. Walnut 16 Reclaim Everglades. There is a movement in Florida to reclaim the Everglades, which含价 2,000,000,000 of land and or agrocons, with primrose forest trees. It is proposed to drain all the more accessible marshes and clear away the trees and tangled semitropical vegetation. It is believed the lands, if once thoroughly reclaimed, would be very fertile and valuable. When Pneumonia Holds Sway. During the months from November to April one-fifth of all deaths in the large cities of the United States are from consumption, and only one-third are from consumption. United States Quarries There are 109 state, eighty-four mar- bels and 205 clay quarries in this coun- try, and the value of their combined products is $13,000,000. Equal Division of the Earth If the earth were equally divided among its present inhabitants, each of us, man, woman and child, would get 23½ acres. Philippine Exhibit The perfume woods and plants of the Philippine islands will be shown at the world's fair in a special collection. Pins in Egyptian Tombs. Pins have been found among the Egyptian mummies and in the prehistoric caves of Switzerland. African Possessions France and England each own in In Asia an area as large as the United States. Homeless of London A census of the houseless of London, made on a recent night revealed a total of 2,481 in the streets, on staircases and under arches. Of these, 2,160 were men and 317 women. In the common lodging houses and that night there were 22,980 persons, that night alone were 22,980 persons, 1,688 single women, 357 married couples and thirty-four children under ten years of age. Per First Falling in Love It takes several rehearsals to make a girl letter perfect in the little game of matrimony. The first time a girl falls in love all she knows about a man is that he is a good waltz and wears proper collars, that his hair curls at the edges, and that he doesn't tread on her frocks—Helen Rowland's "Digressions, of Polly." Be Appreciative. Some people never dream of praising anything or anybody. They take everything as a matter of course, and imagine that they show their superiority by so doing. They little dream that they never get the best service owing to their gigardiness in showing their appreciation. It is surprising how a little word of praise stimulates to new effort, and puts life and interest into the work of these about us. Cripple's Gains Education. A man died at the Limerick Infirmary at the age of sixty-four who had been brought there when twenty-four years old, crippled for life by exposure in a boat after shipwreck. But in the forty years he had learned thoroughly Greek, Latin, French and English and had amused himself in reading the clauses in all these languages, besides closely following the events of his time. How to Be Happy. A Frenchwoman married to an Englishman, contributing to a correspondence in a contemporary on "Why Married Life is Dull?" says: "When my husband prefers to be out alone, I smilingly assent. I never bother him with questions, and I never nag French women do not do these things, and the life of the French middle-class family is a model of happiness." "Left-Handed" Animals Left-handedness, or its equivalent, is said to be very common in birds and animals. Parrots seize objects with the left claw by preference. The lion strikes with the left claw, and Livingstone stated as his opinion that all animals are left-handed. The parrot has been found to make a reader use of the left claw for climbing than the right. Origin of "Piker." In English slang a "piker" is a tramp or vagrant. The word is sometimes used in connection with Wall street and the race track, where it is applied to the man whose investments or bets of significant amount. It is also used in a sarcastic term of contempt for the man who does things in a small way. World's Best Consumption The beer which is consumed throughout the world in a single year would make a lake six feet deep, three and three quarters miles long, a mile wide or 2,319 acres in area. In this vast lake we could cushion drown all breaking points, to the number of 120,000,000, throughout the entire world. Triumph of the Will The story is told of a book-keeper who wrote a glowing eulogy of his employer—just deceased—making use of this remarkable estimate: "His been perception and indomitable will led him into the grocery and feed business, and subsequently induced him to embark in the coal business." Most Dangerous Occupation. Seafaring is the most perilous employment. The Labor Gazette points out that of 21,688 fatal accidents during the past five years, 3,758, the largest number was in the shipping industry. The next most dangerous trades are mining, quarrying and working on railways. Experts Not Fooled. Dr. Wiley has printed an article on "Deception in Beverages." You could never fool an old mountainainer on one of 'em. If the drink doesn't smoke, and sizz it as it goes down, he knows it has been adulterated with water or sombe other miserable trick.—Denver Post. Secreted His Coin. An English laborer arrested on a charge of theft, which proved to be false, was found, on being searched at the police station, to have gold, silver and bronze coins in various parts of his attire to the amount of $750. The weight of them was forty pounds. Wives of the King of Assam. The King of Assam has 200 wives, who are divided into nine grades. When one of them dies her body is lowered from the roof of the palace to be buried; the law in Assam prohibits the carrying of a corpse through the doors. Harmless Printer's Ink The German daily General Anziger publishes an editorial announcement that in future two of its daily editions will be printed in ink which will not injure any meat or butter which benevoles may wrap in that paper. Largest Producers of Petroleum Romania is now the fourth largest petroleum-producing country in the world. The list is headed by the United States; then comes Russia, while the third place is held by Austria-Hungary. Travel on Electric Lines The total number of passengers in the United States is 5,838,000,000 year in The Return Trip. The most tumpy of men She brought down again with her pies! Sheffield Heavy Coal Consume In proportion to its size Sheffield capacities about eight times as much Seeking a Wife. When a man wants a wife he does not apply to the intelligence office nor to the secretary of the reform club. He doesn't ask a woman if she can make good ple crusts and darn socks so they won't be knotty—Not nowadays at any rate. He just goes blindfolded into a ballroom or a pink tea or a fancy dress fair and walks out idiotically happy with a rose in his mental buttonhole—Helen Rowland's "Digressions of Polly." subscribe for the Mystander. Correspond to Hapue Chuyen, or serv of Fiffeth and Lincoln, Hapue, at 12 vol. Prescribing at p. 4. Sunday School at 12 vol. Prescribing at p. m. Rev. T. L. Griffith. Pastor St. Paul A. M. E.—Corner of Secob and Steve Street. Preaching at 10:30 a. m. N.Soda School at 3 o'clock: Epworth League at p. 12; preaching at 8 p. m. Horace S. Graves. First African Baptist Church—Corpus, Schoo and Fourth streets Rev. F. Lorack pro-post Preaching 10:30 a. m. Sunday school at p. m. Miss. J. T. Gifford Superintendent Young People's meeting 7 p. m., preaching 8:00 p.m. Rome Chapel M. K. Church-b Corner of 11th and Crocker Sts—Church services, preaching at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Class and prayers meeting 13 m. Sun, ay; Sunday School 3:30 p.m. Epw. 11th League 2 p.m. Sunday; Prayer and Class meeting every Wednesday 8 p.m. Maple Street Baptist Church—Stated on F. Maple between Luth and Tenth streets Preaching 11 a.m. Sunday School, 9:00 a.m. preaching at p. m. Rev. J. O. R. Wimbush, pastor Union Congregational Church—Corner Tenth and Park streets. Preaching 10:45 a.m. Sunday School at 12 p.m. Preaching every 7 p.m. in Prayer meeting Wednesday evening H. W. Porter, pastor. SECRET ORDERS. First Star Lodge, No. 2. A. F. & A. M.-M. to First Thurday in each month at Mason- Hall-North west corner of Tenth and Cent- er-North west corner of Jaws, OW. M.; Harrison Gould, secretary. Nacmi Court. No. 3—meets Second Mondeau in each month at Masonic hall, Mrs. L. V. Dunny, Matron; Mrs. J. H. Shepard, secretary. Mt. Olive Court. No. 4—Meets the First Friday of each month at Masonic hall, Mrs. R. A. Wilburn, matron; Mrs. Georgis Midgett secretary. Charity Lodge, No. 192, G. J. O. of O. F.-Meets First, Second and Third Tuesday each month at Odd Fellows hall on West Sixth and Walnut streets, John Galter, N. G.; I. M. Jones, P. S. H. H. of R., No. 339 of G. U. O. of O. F.—Convenes the second and fourth Thursday in each month, promptly at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Mildred Raleigh, M. N. G. Mrs. Nettle Davis W. R. Arte Tabernacle No. 473—Weets first and third Thursday in each month, at the Odd Fellow Hall Sixth and Walnut streets, Mrs. Nette Davis, C. P.; Mrs. Lizzie Push, C. R.; Miss Hettle Welden, Assistant G. R. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE FORD'S ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW Charlie Food Post 76 Webster St. Atlanta, Georgia, Illinois 76 Webster St. Atlanta, Georgia, Illinois RAILWAY TIME TABLE Arrive. DES MOINES. Depart, C., R. I. & P.-GOING EAST. *10 00 pm.... 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The BLACKS KIN from the three to six shades. Furthermore, we will also include a large size jar of our Electrical Skin Food, worth $50, which cures all skin diseases, removes wrinkles, rears, pimples, tan, frockies and all facial imperfections. It makes the old look young and the young look younger, and lastly, to prove our liberality, we will include a package (one plat) of Anti-Odor, worth $50, which removes all smells and odors from the human body, such as feet, arm-pits, etc. A cure and more than two times for the problems with it are remained cure for all according to the instructions. REMELL SENT TO YOU OF THE ABOVE-BENTHOONED PREPARATIONS (9 packages in all), actually worth $50. BOSTON CHEMICAL CO 310 E BROAD ST. RICHMOND, VA. Any make or model you went at one-third rental equipment on all our bicycles. Strongest guarantees. PUNCTURE-PROOF Regular price $9.50 per pair. To Introduce $4.75 we will Sell You a Sample Pair for Only NO MORE TROUBLE from PUNCTURES Result of 15 years experience in tire making. MORNERS, HOORS, OAOTUS, PINS, RAILS, TACKS, MASS. Serious punctures, like intentional knife cuts, can be vulcanized like any other tire. Send for Catalogue "T." showing all kinds and make also Coaster-Brakes, Built-up Wheels and Bicycles-No Nails the thin rubber tread - but we can antitact any other make- Soft, Elastic and Easy Riding we will allow a price of $5 (thereby m send full cash with order. Tires to be returned a examination. MEAD CYCLE CO., Dept. "J" Send for Catalogue "T," showing all kinds and makes of tires at $2.00 per pair and up—also Coaster Brakes, Built-up wheels and Bicycles—satisfies at Mall the usual prices. All tires, including soft and puncture strips "B" and "D." This tire will outlast, any other make-soft, Soft and Easy Riding. We will ship C. D. O. ON APPROVAL AND EXAMINATION without a cert deposit. for all kinds and makes of tires at $2.00 per pair and up- side bicycles and Sundries at Half the usual price. A wide variety of tires and puncture strings B and C. Warning: Very smooth and easy Riding. We will ship C. G. D. ON APPROVAL of 55 (thereby making the price $4.50 per pair) if you years to be returned at our expense if not satisfactory on ., Dept. "J. L." CHICAGO, ILL. Henry Gray Embalming and Funeral Director, 1115 West Locust Street. A: F. St. Clair's Livery in Connection Iowa 610. Mutual 100 --- --- TO THE PUBLIC: BEFORE Our Great Special Offer BESTA LOVED 42 YEARS DO NOT equipment used big tree Sunday Cr EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT MUNGERS LAUNDRY is the best in the city. Try them and be decided. Maine Office 211-215 NINTH ST. Branch Office 504 MULBERRY ST. Phone 579. IOWA CODE OUT The new constitution, by lawis and rules governing the Most Worshipful United Lodge of Iowa and Jurisdiction, A. F. & A. M., is just out from the printers. We have received a copy and it is a neat well arranged book and should go to every member of the fraternity. For a copy write Geo. L. Sater, Marshalltown, Iowa. Price per copy 0 cent. Kansas City, Mo. AFTER AFTER making. NOTUS. Serious can be EASY RIDING, STRONG, DURABLE, SELF HEALING FULLY COVERED by PATENTS BEWARE OF IMITATIONS IOWA 610. Mutual 1960 Difficult Road Building. Thirty-three tunnels were blasted with dynamite in the construction of the chem. Railroad branch of the Transitbonian railway. The entire length of the line is only 152 miles. its construction was begun in 1899.