Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XII, No. 4. CITY NEWS. N.B. If you have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we solicit all your local news — d A number of our people heard Booker T. Washington Sunday at Chaundauqua Park. Rev W. H. Wharton of Clarinda, Ir., is in our city attending the A. M. E. church District Conference I. P. Johnson, one of the successful farmers of Muscatine, is a delegate to the A. M. E. church convention this week. Mrs. Joe Wyatt of Webster City, Ir., is in our city visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry McCravens Mr. Charles R. Parker, the scientist chiropodist, has accepted a position at the Stag Hotel to practice his profession. Mr. Diggs of St. Louis is visiting with his son Walker and other relatives of our city. Rev Moore, the evangelist, will preach at Barn's M. E. church Sunday evening. All invited. Rev B. C. Penn of Duquesne, Ia., is a delegate to the District Conference and S. S. Convention in session in our city this week. BARNES MENS OUTFITTER 317 8TH STREET Mrs. Tolbert Woods of Cedar Rapids left this morning for her home, after a very pleasant four weeks visit in our city with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Watkins entertained Mr. and Mrs. H. Gould and Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Mosley at dinner last Sunday. The H. B. S. Reading Circle will meet at Mrs. Emma Carr next Thursday afternoon. All members are urged to be present; important business. Mr. Henry Warrick Was among the students who graduated from the Vocal and Harmony department of the Das Moines Musical College this month. Mrs. A. J. Jackson has several good furnished rooms for rent at reasonable rates, for gentlemen only—1209 Cherry street. Rev. T.W. Lewis of Keokuk is a delegate to the S. S. convention and is in our cits, the guest of his sister. Mrs. Martha Bass on Sixth avenue. The Thursday Carnatich club met at Union Park and were delightfully entertained by Mrs. O. F. Watts Mrs. L. R. Palmer's talk on Home for Girls was very timely and interesting. Miss Margaret Fields went to Otumwa this week to be present at the banquet given by the G. U. O. O. F. add the Good Intent club, in honor of Prof. Booker T. Washington, Miss Miss Fields played several piano soles during the reception and banquet. When in Clarinda, Iowa, stop at R. E. Wilkinson for good room, meals, short-orderers and lunches. 301 Grant street, No. 9. Half a block from depot EAT! EAT! EAT! When you are hungry and want a GOOD MEAL with home cooking go to Geo. Evans Restaurant 304 Walnut Street, Upstairs Special bill of fare at their Sunday Dinners. Mr. Wm. B. Lowery of Cedar Rapids, Ia., is in our city attending the A. M. E. church convention. He made a pleasant call at our office while here. Mr. Lowery is in the carpet cleaning and rug manufacturing business. Mrs. Ruth Bright of Davenport, Ia., is in the city attending the Sunday School convention this week. She is the guest of Mrs. L. R. Palmer. Hats made to order All work guaranteed J. KIRKPATRICK, Practical Hatter Hats Cleaned Died and Reseaped ATL THE LATEST WILLS Hats at Factory Price. Best $4 Hats on earth 817 Grand Ave. Near 9th St. Laws 1130 Manager A. L. Smith of the Brownies purchased new uniforms for his ball team this week, and the boys have been practicing very hard. They are in much better condition now to meet other teams than at any other time this season. Their second game was played yesterday at Monroe against the team of that city. It was a very good game, the score was 4 to 2 in favor of Monroe. The Des Moines Brownies will go to Buxton on the 4th to play ball with Wonders of that city, and from all indications it will be a good game. Those who attended the banquet given for Booker T. Washington at Ottumwa last Wednesday from this city were the Mesdames C. S. Ruff; H. S. Graves and Mr. S Joe Brown. There were plates laid for about 300 and an elegant menu was served. The colored people of Colfax will celebrate the 4th of July. Among the speakers will be J. B Rush and Rev. J R O. Winbush of this city. The Maple Street Baptist choir will assist in furnishing music. When in Cedar Rapids attending the Grand Masonic Lodge remember, you can get good rooms and board only 4 blocks from the lodge hall, 323 S 2nd street—Mrs. R THOMPSON. The Masters, H. A. and George Lee, William Harding and Fred Stanten will compose a quartet that will go to story city Tuesday to assist the citizens there in celebrating the 4th. Misses Lydia Bartlett, district superintendent of Sunday School, and her sister Nora and Miss Ione Mason are the delegates from Mr. Pleasant, Ia. They are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. David Boamer Miss Ella Harris of this city was selected as reporter for the Bystander for the Sunday School convention at the A.M.E church. As the convention is still in session today the report will conclude next week. Miss Portefield of Oskaloosa, Ia., spent last week in our city. She was a delegate to the Methodist Episcopal church Epworth League. While here she was the guest of Rev. O. A. Johnson and wife. Mr. Samuel Barrett will leave our city next week for Chicago, where he will remain a few weeks before making a tour of several of the southern states to secure more material for his book which he is writing. Mr. Barrett will locate in some Eastern city after his trip south. We wish him success in whatever vocation he may select. Services at Union Congregational church Sunday July 2, cor Twelfth and Center streets. Morning service—The celebration of Lord's Supper and reception of members, Evening service—Topic "Declaration of Independence." Men's Lerague at 3:20 p. m. Wednesday evening meeting for prayer meeting and Bible study. BARNES MENS OUTFITTER 917 917 STREET The annual District S. S. convention is in session at Des Moines, Iowa, with representatives from leading towns in the District. The convention has been very largely attended at every session by the good people of the city, both young and old; who seem very much interested in the business part of the session. The District Supt. being Miss Lyda Barlette, of Mt. Fleasant, Iowa, who has been very successful in conducting the sessions is a brilliant young lady ruling with dignity and impartiality. The annual address made by the District Supt., was said to be the best ever delivered; and will be recorded in the minutes. The delegates have been very very punctual at the sessions. Seven reception given to the deligates. Before the reception was devotional and short semonettes. After the devotion the deligates marched dawn to the lecture room for the reception for 30 days. The through trains leave Des Moines, Union Station, 8:05 a.m., m. except Sunday and 9:05 p. m. daily. Take the M. & St. Louis, it is the shortest and best. City Ticket office 512 Walnut street, W. S. Mathews, D. P. A., Des Moines, Iowa, W. K. Adams, C. P. A. BARNES MENS OUTFITTER 317 8TH STREET CAIRO. ILLINOIS Word received from our friend and former citizen, Father Edward S. Willett of Cairo, Ill., who is the pastor of the Episcopal church there. He is doing extreamly well and is a very busy man. He delivered the graduating address to the Morning Bible School, also the annual sermon to the order of Eastern Star and the baccalaureate sermon for the High School. We know that his many friends of Iowa will be glad to learn of his rise as a devine. Subscribe for the Bystander. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1905. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Sunday was a great day for Des Moines and the Midland Chautauqua for there will be no other day that will draw so many visitors to our city as Sunday, when one of America's greatest men, Booker Washington, was to speak. During the day special and incoming trains brought thousands to our city to hear or even see this noted educator. Below we reproduce Harvey Ingram's editorial which appeared in the Register and Leader: "It is a remarkable tribute to any man that an audience such as crowded the Chautauqua pavilion yesterday afternoon should sit from 3 o'clock until 4 in the sweltering heat awaiting his coming, and then listen patiently and without sign of fatigue for nearly two hours to a plain simple story of of the rise of the colored race. This is the tribute that was paid to Booker Washington on the occasion of his second visit to Des Moines. Professor Bascom jumped into sudden notoriety a year ago when he declared Booker Washington to be the greatest man the South has produced since Robert E. Lee The notoriety was not so much due to the remark as because it was made by the professor of a southern college and because immediate steps were taken to secure his removal in which his critics happily failed, however. Professor Bascom's estimate may or may not be accurate.' But this must be admitted, Booker Washington is one of the great men of the South—not great Negroes but great men. He is one of the great men of the nation. The most marked characteristic of Washington is his strong common sense. And in no way has that been manifested more advantageously than in the modesty and tact with which under the most trying circumstances that have confronted any leader, he has always carried himself. It is almost without precedent that a man in his position should not have "slopped over" at some point. But Washington has neither been clated over his own honors nor irritated at the opposition he has met. He is one of the few men who can talk about his own work and his own career without the least affection, and who can debate with those who differ with him in a calm and friendly spirit. So strong and so sane is his presentation of the race question that no matter what any hearer's predilections, not one in one hundred but applauds his utterances and wishes him success. His philosophy is the philosophs of our common sense Americanism. It is just as good a philosophy for the white race as for the colored, and parhaps just as much needed. It is the philosophy of Benjamin Franklin adapted to a new age and to new conditions. It is the philosophy of "Now that I have a horse and cow my neighbors bid me good morrow." Washington is yet a young man. He has a long and useful life before him, apparently. It is difficult to predict what the future may have in store for him. But if he makes no mistake he is he is bound to be one of the notable figures of his generation. His influence will grow rather than diminish and his recognition, not as a Negro but as an American citizen, will be more friendly every year." A GREAT MEETING. The annual convention of the S. S. and Epworth League of the Central Missouri Conference of the M. E. church ended its session here at the new Burn's M. E. church. They adjourn to meet near June 20, 1906 in Clark chapel, Kasas City, Mo. and all present voted this the most interesting and spiritual meeting the conference ever held. The newly elected officers were as follows: President, C. B. Thompson, Kansas City, Mo.; 1st vice-presi- dent, Mrs. Carrie Porterfield, Oskaloosa, Ia.; 2d vice-president, Eliza Mack, Des Miones, Ia.; 3d vice-rpes., Mrs. O. A. Johnson, Des Moines, Ia.; 4th vice-president, Anna Ellis, Kansas.; Secretary, Florence Freeman, Independence, Mo.; assistant secretary, Miss Fannie Estell, Des Moines; treasurer, Rev. W. H. Wheeler, Kansas City; Junior League Supt. Mrs. Rosetta Jackson, Kansas City; corresponding secretary, G. A. Whaley, Mexico, Mo. There were many good papers and addresses delivered and the people of Des Moines will become interested in the work of this branch of the church. IOWA STATE AFRO AMERICAN COUNCIL'S PROGRAM. To be held at St. Paul's A. M. E. Church, Des Moines, July 1, 1905. 11:00 a. m., Council called to order by Pres, Geo. H. Woodson. Invocation, Chaplain, Rev. H. S. Graves. Report of secretary, Lelia A. Sheffey. 11:45, appointment of committees 2 30 p. m. president's annual ad dress. 3:00, reports of: — Tressurer, R. N. Hyde, Des Moines State organizer, S. Joe Brown, Des Moines. 3:30, Report of committee creden- tials. 3:40, Ten minute addresses by:— J. R. Wimbush, Des Moines. S. L. Birt, Boone. O. A. Johnson, Des Moines. 4:30, election of officers. 5:00 Afternoon recess. 8:00, report of nation delegate. 8:15 solo, Prof G. I. Holt. Address, Rev. T. L. Griffith, Des Moines. 8:30, Address, The Iowa Women and the Council. Mrs. H. S. Graves, Pres Iowa Federation of Colored women. 8:40, Solo. Address, Dr. Geo. W. Gaines, Chicago. JEFFERSON CITY, MO. The Jefferson City Daily paper (white) in speaking of Lincoln Institute commencement had this to say of about Rev. Porter's sermon of Des Moines: At eight o'clock the faculty, students and friends listened to a very earnest and well-prepared sermon by the Rev. H. W. Porter of Des Moines, Iowa. "Spiritual culture" was the theme text. "Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men." Prov. 22, 29. Christian culture is the only medium by which we can lead our young men and women to realize their responsibilities. To see, to learn the truth and to make the truth the prevailing power of all life, this is culture. We are to grow in wisdom and We are to grow in wisdom and beauty, to receive and to give. The religion of to-day need the graci, the spirit of freedom, the scholarship needs the impulse of consecration, which devotion to God supplies. We hold true to the Christian interpretation on life to seek, to know, to learn to love, to serve and to die as Jesus died. Be diligent and about our business, so live and act that we may stand before the kings of this world, keep the soul of this nation alive and then come to stand before the king of kings in the world to come Monday night Prof. G. N. Grisham of Kansas City addressed the literary societies. Special music was furnished for the occasion. The graduating exercises of the sophomore normal class was addressed by Dr. A. C. Briscoe of Topeka, Kas. MODERN SLEEPERS, M. & St. L. Ry Modern Sleepsen now running on the Minneapolis and St. Louis Ry., between Des Moines and Minneapolis and St. Paul, Berths and tickets at 512 Walnut street or Union Station. LAND OF THE REDS RICH. A Paradise for the Negro—Many Wealthy Colored People. Below we print in full what: Wm. E. Curtis, the great Chicago Record-Herald correspondent, saw when he was in the Indian and Oklahoma territories last week: Negroes seem to predominate everywhere at the railway stations, in the cars, in the streets, in the fields and even in the jail, where 75 per cent of the inmates were poor or very poor of the time. I am told, are awaiting trial for selling or introducing liquor into the territory. The anti-liquor regulations are very strictly enforced. Every man who is caught with a bottle in his possession is clapped into jail instanter, and is usually sent to the penitentiary for six months or a year. The reason that the jails are so crowded is that a man who is arrested or indicted for crime cannot easily get bail, because all of the real estate has been held in common by the Indians. Only recently have we seen that they occupy, and the courts will not take anything but cash bail or personal property security. The negroes seem to be very industrious. I have noticed many colored women working in the field—plowing and hoeing corn and most of the mechanical work is done by negro men. About one-fifth of the colored population are descendants of slaves brought here from Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana at the time of the great migration. The remainder are immigrants from the same states and from Texas and Missouri, who have been induced to come here by the unusual opportunities and advantages offered them for labor and trade. Oklahoma and Indian Territory have been called "The Negro Paradise." In the Five Nations thus far 1,800 negroes have received allotments of land, all the way from fifty acres to 5,000 acres each. This includes men, women and children, for all infants born before March 5, 1905, have the legal right in the distribution of the tribal lands as their grandfathers, and the negro allottees enjoy an advantage over their former masters, that no restrictions have been placed upon them. They can dispose of their allotments for any price and at any time they like. This is a singular anomaly, because their former masters are not permitted to sell without consent of the secretary of the interior. The freedmen, as they are called, have other advantages also, and in the Creek Nation especially they are very influential. They have practically controlled that government for many years. The Creek legislature is composed of two branches, elected by the men of that tribe. One is called the house of kings and the other the house of warriors. The negroes have even numbers in the former and the majority in the latter. In buildings aftected to also doing very well. Some of the richest men in the territory have negro blood in them. A Muskogee banker told me that he knew of twenty-five or thirty negroes in that town who are worth $25,000 or more, and he named eight, one after another, who were worth more than $50,000. He mentioned one colored man who constantly kept a cash balance of from $7,000 to $8,000 in his bank. The richest negroes use the white national banks for obvious reasons, but there are two savings banks in Muskogee except for the bengaled by colored people for the benevolence race, and both of them seem to be doing a good business. Both have a few white depositors. One of the most prominent negro merchants told me that about one half the members of his race in Indian Territory were saving their money, buying property and taking good care of themselves. The other half are shiftless, extravagant and live from hand to mouth. They waste their money in dissipation, gambling and gratifying childish whims. About 50 per cent of the 17,860 negro allottees have sold their land; some of them got good prices for it, but unfortunately, many were so anxious to get money that they snatched it however was offered and signed the deed without a second thought. Those who have cared of the shiftless class, however, and would not have made any use of the property if they had kept it. It is fortunate for their future welfare, however, that parents are not empowered to dispose of the lands allotted to their children. The inmeantime their parents will have the use of it. Some of the freemen have very large families, and as each child draws a large share, the joint holdings of a commission tell of one negro in the Creek Nation who has twenty-five children, and in the allotment every one of them receives land of land appraised at $1,048. Half of these funds are beamed for institutional purposes at good prices. The population of Muskogee is about one-fourth negro. They own the two banks I have mentioned, one drug store, two dry goods stores, one gentleman's furnishing store, a dozen grecieties and several restaurants, cigar stores and barber shops—thirty-seven business establishments in all, one daily newspaper and nine churches—an average of one church to 600 or 700 people, which is a serious burden upon them. The rivalry between the religious sects is much stronger among the negroes than among the whites, and each denomination insists upon having its own mission and house of worship. The large brick buildings in the business section of Muskogee are owned by negroes and recently one of the best locations in the retail section was purchased by a negro for $26,000. He intends to erect a six story brick block upon it. Large numbers of negroes own their homes and take great pride in them. They have good schools and may their teachers well. One of the mergo merchants said, in reply to my question: "Many of our people have come from the South because they have a better shey. There has been no prejudice against them. While they have not attempted nor asked for social recognition and have been satisfied with their own society, they have been allowed greater liberties and have enjoyed better opportunities in commerce, trade and the professions. The white population trade at the stores kept by negroes just as much as at white stores, and our merchants have done all the business they were entitled to among the white population TWO...Bystander influence of the southern colony in the territory. A great number of immigrants have come in from Arkansas, Missouri, Texas and the Gulf States, and they do not like to see negroes enjoy the freedom we have here. But I hope that our people will behave themselves so as to retain the respect and confidence of the community." There are several Indian millionaires. The richest citizen in the territory is J. I. McAllister, a white man who came from Arkansas thirty-five years ago and a married a Cherokee woman, the first cool development in the territory and is now the heaviest miner. William E. Halsel of Vifina, another white man with a Cherokee wife, is worth several millions. He made his money in cattle and has ranches in New Mexico, Arizona and Old Mexico. Robert L. Owen, a Chirchee speculator, has been very rich and still owns a large amount of property. He has a beautiful residence near Muskogee, but resides in Washington most of the time, looking after the interests of his tribe there. Miss Johnsworth, young Cherokee woman, was made an enormous fortune in oil. Her leaves bring her a regular income of $200 or more a day. Not long ago, when some friend was joking her about getting married, she told him that if he would find her a good husband she would put a $20 goldpiece under his plate at breakfast every morning. DAVENPORT. The most exclusive set of young colored folks of Davenport. Rock Island and Moline were entertained at the residence of Mrs. Eugene Green, 410 West 9th street, at a reception given in honor of their son, Clarence, a Gamble's High School graduate. He was the recipient of many pretty presents. Davenport has two colored high school graduates this year, the only two Negroes who ever graduated from the High School in the same class. They were Victor Raymond Hughes and Clarence Thomas Gamble. Another smart set of young folks were entertained at the residence of Mrs. H. M. Hughs, 1011 Ripple St., at a reception given in honor of Miss Lillian Smith of Chicago, III., June 22nd. Lewis has gone to Chicago to attend the wedding of Mr. Summer of Chicago. The bride and groom intend making Davenport their home. Miss Lillian Smith of Chicago is visiting Hers. H. M. Hughes. Miss Ploy McGaw Mr. Engle Green and Mrs. Ben Bright left for Des Moines, to attend Sunday School convention this week. CLINTON HAPPENINGS At a recent session of Bethel A. M. E. S. S.; Miss Murda Beason was chosen delegate to the district S. S. convention at Des Moines. Mrs. Anna Freeman and Lulu Smith left Saturday for their homes in Chicago after a two weeks visit with friends in Clinton. Mrs. Richard Simpson is reported as being considerably indisposed. Miss Eva Brown of Chicago is spending her vacation, from her post office duties, with her mother Mrs. Henrietta Brown on Eleventh Avenue. Mrs. Anna Freeman visited with her brother B. J. Cooper of Buxton. Miss Bush entertained the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade pupils of her music class at her home Thursday afternoon, June 22, at a most pleasing recital. At the conclusion of the musical program choice refreshments were served. The following program being rendered: Memories of Back.....Alice Moody Pino Duet.....Misses Beason and Bush Forre Waltz.....Florence Burrell Les Pierrotts.....Ray Peterson Les de Ecume.....Gladys Benjamin Butterfly Waltz.....Loring Bicket Crystal Fountain, Valse Pearl Eisleben Lullaby.....Ruth Thomas Falling Leaves.....Carl Dutton Remember Me.....Sadie Burrell On the Meadow.....Robert Mellwe Autumn Fancies }.....Alice Moody Forest Sprites }.....Alice Moody Fifth Nocturne.....Clyde Brown Con Amore }.....Murda Beason Mocking Bird }.....Murda Beason Valse Chapin }.....Miss Bush Wm. Riggs is home this week on a forced vacation from his duties in Davenport on Suburban Island, on account of the high water which has covered portions of the island. ALBIA NEWS. Elder Gaines the presiding elder of this district preached at the A. M. E. church Wednesday evening The Household of Ruth will tables at Price. Five Cents. the Chautauqua from the 23th of June until the close. Mrs. Delia Martin went to Hiteman Wee-day afternoon on account of the accident to Mr. U. S. Jones. Mr. U. S. Jones, son of Mr. H. Jones and Mrs. C. Jones was hurt in the Hocking mines on Wednesday about one o'clock, having his skull crushed, and died Thursday evening at nine o'clock. His funeral was held at the A. M. E. church Friday afternoon. Many were in attendance from surrounding tows also the Masonic of which he is a member turned out. He leaves a wife, father, mother, three sisters and a brother with many friends to mourn his loss. Mrs. Wilburn and Mattie Woods and two children of Das Moines was in town a few days of this week at the home of Mrs. U. S. Jones. Mrs Maggie Nelson of Chicago is visiting at the parental home called here by the death of U. S. Jones. Elder Gaines, Rev. E. G. Jackson and R.v. Duke assisted at the funeral of U. S. Jones. SIOUX CITY ITEMS During the absence of Rev. R. Knight of the A. M. E. church a Christian Endeavor is being held on Sunday. Among those who left excursion to Chicago Saturday, June 17 Rev. R. Knight, Mrs. J. H. Morgan, Mrs. R. J. Fowing and Rev. and Mrs. James Washington The Young People's Twentheenth Century club was very pleasantly entertained at its last meeting by Miss Mary Thompson. The annual pie pie of the club was held June 12. An indoor picnic was held in the patrons of the Mt. Zion Baptist church Tuesday eveing. The attendance was somewhat lessened by the threatening weather, nevertheless a very pleasant evening was enjoyed by those present. The Concert club organized by Rev. Knight are planning a concert to be held if the near future. CEDAR RAPIDS NOTES The trolley party given last Monday euening by the J. S. Y. club was a sweeping success. The crowd was so large it was thought for a while a trailer would be necessary. The young people of the C. E. gave an entertainment last Thursday evening in the church basement. The young people worked hard and won the success and praise due them. Mrs. Frank Lowery and children of Colfax are guests at the parental home. The many friends of Mrs. P. M. Lewis were glad to see her able to attend service Sunday. Being her flat visit since her trip to Virginia, owing to illness. Mr. S. L. Persons has resigned his position as employee of the R. I railroad and will begin a business of his own immediately. Prot. W. B. Lowery will represent the church and Sunday School at the district conference and S. S. convention this week. A well-filled church listened to an excellent sermon delivered by Rev. P. M. Lewis to the Masons Sunday afternoon, in observance of St. John's day. The text was from Psalms 183 1. T. Ose who went to Chicago on the excursion have returned after a very pleasant trip. There are a large number of strangers in the city attending the races this week. Sometimes ago a rumor was circulated that Mr. David Lewis had been killed in Chicago. It later proved false. It is now rumored that Mr. Philip Gormer is the latest victim of the strike. We sincerely hope this may prove as false as the first rumor. The entertainment at the Masons' hall M. day evening was a social and financial success. The men and their wives are very busy preparing for the Grand Lodge. No pain will be spared to make the session a pleasant one. Miss Mattie R. binion spent a few days recreation at the pleasant country home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Milligar. BURLINGTON NEWS Mas. Mary Cooper of St. Paul is visiting her mother Mrs. H. Tyler at her home on Starr avenue. Mr. Lou Trent of St. Joseph, Mo., visited his brother John this week. Mr. Ed. Wiley of Chicago was in the city Monday on his way to St. Louis. Mrs. Martin of Jackson, Mich., is visiting her father. Mr. McDowell for an in-finite period. Mr. and Mrs A. Mitchell entertained Monday in honor of Mr. L. Trent of St. Joseph, Ed Wiley of Chicago and J. Trent. Mr. and Mrs Sam Cook attended the Trent-Mell well wedding in Haunbail Wednesday. Miss Michel Hall of Keokuk spent a few hours in the city Tuesday, enroute home from a visit to Washington, la. Mr. Van Pelt of Chicago has Mr. J. Trent's position during his vacation. Mrs J. W. Morn of Sioux City is expected in the city this week. Mr. and Mrs. Geo, Tyler entertained a number of her friends last Friday in honor of Mrs. Martina of Jackson, Mich. French Usars 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 3,000,000 cigarettes a year. At a New York hotel, run for millionaires, a portion of turkey costs five dollars. The word selfishness was coined within the past two centuries. It is a very useful word now. How many columns of space do you suppose the first woman president's messages would occupy? Among the yellow perils that deserve attention the dandelion should not be carelessly overlooked. Whenever King Peter is annoyed because his crown sits uneasily he should remember how he got it. Mr. Rockefeller must have used a masseuse when he drove his golf ball into the robin's nest and broke three eggs. Russell Sage warns women to keep out of Wall street. Apparently "Uncle Russ" is not too old to be partial to the ladies. Johann Hoch claimed to be a great-grandson of Marshal Ney. It is always a safe claim to make. Nobody can disprove it. Twenty millionaires sailed from Europe on the same steamship. The power of affinity may send that boat on the rocks. A glass-eater has committed suicide because of too much competition, probably from persons trained at "quick lunches." "Who is Riley?" asks one of the leading London literary papers, speaking of American poetry. He's the man who keeps the hotel. George Ade played in a ball game the other day and didn't make a hit. The pen is mightier than the bat, as far as George is concerned. The London Outlook scores baseball as "diabolically noisy." To which it may be retorted that at all events it is not, like cricket, diabolically slow. Fighting has been resumed in the Jackson's Hole country. Is it about time to have the simple life established there, forcibly if necessary? Young Ziegler, who has inherited the duty of finding the north pole, may discover that a number of explorers are strongly disposed to contest the will. In an eastern divorce suit a woman was charged with being too fond of dry goods and the man of wet goods. Such a combination is grounds for divorce. The Montana train robber who has been sentenced to prison for fifty years ought to be thoroughly reformed before his term expires, if imprisonment can do it. The New York people are to be allowed to get drunk three times a year and go unpunished. Civic pride probably will make them stick to Manhattan cocktails. Justice Brewer thinks it possible that we may have a woman president "before gray hair shall cover the heads of the women here to night." That was very gallant. A woman wants a divorce because her husband has been reading the Bible to a charming little widow. Some women just can't think of having their sisters saved. Somebody is trying to make the public believe that the apex of the prince of Wales' crown is a butt of "periwak feathers" that cost $10,000. Every hear of the Periwak? The Czar is having constructed for his own use a bullet-proof automobile, and he would doubtless be glad to receive scaled proposals for the construction of some bomb-proof pajamas. According to Prof. Eilhu Thomson's explanation anybody can withstand a current of half a million volts through his body. Prof. Thomson is merely a discoverer—not a physical phenomenon. Mrs. James Brown Potter denies that she borrowed $60,000 from a London attorney—quite an interesting variation of the enterprising press agent's overworked lay of the stolen diamonds. A stone was turned to some purpose when the heirs of the late Phineas J. Stone, old-time mayor of Charlestown, found that his brother's forgotten note for $20,000 had grown to be worth over $50,000. The remarkable cone that once rose from the crater of Mont Pelee is said to be sinking slowly back into it. If the islanders will accept a friendly suggestion they will clap the lid down firmly on the volcano when the cone disappears. A candidate for an important office in New York presents as his platform the fact that he is "the father of a former prominent varsity football man." We hasten to add that he does not go so far as to claim to have inherited his greatness from his son. "Say, stranger, it's tough hava! a wife that don't know it when you tellin' her she's the sweetest thing in the world." The unsophisticated soul of Cowboy "Jack" Jennings! There was never the woman who would not know it in any language—or without language. A prize fight was highly enjoyed in the Trenton penitentiary the other day and New Jersey papers are saying satanic things about the "representative gathering," the "suitable environment" and so on. Kroaking the sama. The Mutineers Send Shells Shrieking Into City. HUNDREDS HAVE BEEN KILLED Reported That Dead Were Carried Away by Wagonloads—Troops Are Being Rushed Into City and War- ships Will Arrive Soon. Odessa, June 30.—The crew of a government transport which arrived here today from Nikolof, mutinied, seized their officers and joined the crew of the battleship Knizu Potem- kine to whom they turned over the captain and other officers of the transport. It is reported that the foreign consuls have applied to their respective governments to send war- ships to Odessa. St. Petersburg, June 30.—A dispatch was received here early this morning from Sebastopol announcing that a squadron of battleships, the Tri Svitailia, Shope and Rossiast, with a cruiser and several torpedo boats, only started for Odessa at 8 o'clock last evening. This explains the nonappearance of the squadron at Odessa, but it is difficult to conjecture the reasons for delaying departure two days at such a critical juncture. London, June 30.—The Daily Mail this morning prints the following from its Odessa correspondent: "Using full charges, the Kniaz Potemisne opened fire on the city this evening. The first shell struck a building on Nyakshi's street, and the second fell on the brewery, the walls of both buildings large holes six yards wide by three yards high were torn. So far there has been no more living." "The governor ordered the gasamps extinguished and the electric currents severed so that the city is in total darkness. "Large bodies of troops have arrived. It is reported that there are altogether 10,000 troops in Odessa." London, June 30. "The Daily Express prints the following dispatch from Odessa timed, midnight: "A second muttoned warship is reported to be at Cape Fontaine, ten miles from here. "A transport with Russians from Port Arthur and a Russian seamer were held up by the Knizov Potemkin at 5 o'clock, and compiled to be under her guns for twenty-four hours. "At 7 o'clock the rebel warship steamed two miles off, but shortly afterwards returned to her former anchorage and fired several shots at the suburb of Langerouen. She is a detachment of Cossacks. She sailing around until her guns pointed to the center of Odessa and fired a blank cartridge." "A steamier which the Knizak Potemkin stopped was seen to burst into flames." London, June 30.—The Odessa correspondent of the Daily Mail sends the following, timed €25 o'clock, Thursday evening: "Intermittent firing has been going on all day long. Artillery has arrived and is in hiding near the boulevard out of sight of the Knizak Potemkin. The battleship landed fifteen men to attend the funeral of the sailor Omitcheuk and threatened to bombard the town if any of them were arrested. The militineers liberated nine officers, but killed twenty-two. "The port is an absolute ruin from Platovsky mole to the Russian Steamship company's docks." "People are only allowed in the proximity of the harbor by the guards when furnished with written permission from the commanding general." "A telegram from Sebastolov says that the Knizak Potemkin has only ammunition for small arms." MORE SAILORS MUTINY Seize Government Arms And Attack Officers Liban, Government of Coordland, Russia, June 10. The Russian sailors here mutinied Wednesday night, attacked the government stores, seized the arms and fired into the officers' Cossack regiments. Cossack sacks were brought to the scene of the trouble. Intense excitement prevails here. PRISONS ARE OBERFLOWING. No Less than 672 Persons Are Con- confined in Warsaw, Mostly Jews. Warsaw, Russian Poland, June 28. —All the prisoners are full to over flowing, no less than 672 persons, mostly Jews, having been arrested during the last twenty-four hours. It is expected that a state of siege will be proclaimed as great riots are anticipated during the mobilization. The laborers on thirty-two beet root plantations in the government of Podolia have struck, and it is feared the harvest will be lost. The peasants in the government of Kovno are forcefully occupying pasture and other lands of the proprietors of estates. LINEVITCH DRAWS BACK. Japanese Cavalry Makes a Flank Movement. Gunshun Pass, Manchuria, June 29—The most disquieting feature of the strategic situation of the Russian armies is the persistence of the reports that Japanese cavalry and light infantry with field and machine guns are working northward cast of Kirin and west of the grand trade route toward Poduine. The Japanese cavalry are moving north of General Tamara and Alabama. Gen Linevitch is not attempting seriously to oppose the Japanese advances along his front but is drawing in his outpost lines upon pressure. Will Prosecute Sante Fe Washington, June 27---The president has placed the matter of carrying out the president's directions to prosecute certain railroad corporations, including the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad company, for giving rebates, under the direction of the Justice Department. The latter will devote all of his time for the present to this work and has gone to Kansas City for that purpose, Strike Has Broken Out in Great Russian Seaport. STREET FIGHTS ARE WAGED Several Collisions Between Military and Strikers — Armed Workmen Barricade a Suburb and Successfully Repel Attack of Cossacks. St. Petersburg, June 28.—The wave of disorder rolling over Russia has appeared at Odessa, where a general strike, accompanied by bloodshed and disorders, has broken out. There were several collisions between the military and the strikers Monday night and yesterday, in two of which volleys were fired by the troops. No report of the extent of the casualties has been received, the official statement dealing only with the initial encounter Monday night, declaring that two person were killed therein. There was another encounter yesterday afternoon and a number of attacks were made on individual police men. A press dispatch received last night said that 400 armed workmen barricaded a suburb and repulsed the attack of a company of Cossacks. Reinforcements of three companies of Cossacks were sent to the suburb, but the result of their attack on the soldiers is not yet known. There is little news from Poland, but copies of the Lodz Gazette giving an account of the demonstrations are eagerly read. A telegram to the official agency gives the number of killed and those who died of their wounds on Friday as 164. It adds that others were killed Saturday and Sunday and that the complete number of victims cannot be stated definitely. Other accounts give a total estimate of 500 dead at Lodz. ADMINISTRATION ANGRY. Thinks Wallace Did Not Play Fair in Resigning Oyster Bay, N. Y. June 30—The resignation of Chief Engineer Wallace of the Isthmian commission has been accepted. The resignation was tendered at a conference in New York between Mr. Wallace and Secretary Taft. Mr. Wallace received while in Panama an offer of a position with a great corporation, the name of which is withheld at a salary of $60,000 per annum. His salary with the Panama canal commission and as chief engineer of the canal was $25,000 a year. When he told Secretary Taft that he desired to accept the offer which had been tendered to him the secretary expressed to Mr. Wallace his feeling in the matter but he accepted his resignation after a conference with the president at Boston to take effect immediately. Engineer Wallace suggested to Secretary Taft that he would remain with the commission two months longer, but after considering the matter President Roosevelt directed Secretary Taft to accept the resignation at once. There is no concealment by the administration of its feeling regarding Mr. Wallace's tender at this time of his resignation. It is felt that he has not acted fairly to the government in accepting comparatively recently the responsibility of directing the canal construction and now fulfilling the designation of him which is regarded as crucial in the work of the canal. It is said that he not only accepted the position as chief engineer but sought it and expressed his entire satisfaction with the salary given to him by the government. SECRETARY HAY ILL Condition Somewhat Improved But Is Repaired as Alarming. Newbury, N. H., June 26.—Secretary of State John Hay was at his summer home here Sunday evening, but early yesterday his condition had been relieved by a local physician and two specialists who had come from Boston by special train, and it was expected that the secretary would be soon in his usual health. The attack, which was similar to others experienced by Secretary Hay during recent years, was attributed to a cold contracted on his journey from Washington to Newbury last Saturday. Dr. J. I. Iken, the local physician, who was the first one called to attend the sick man, said yesterday: "Secretary Hay's trouble has been relieved. He will need attention for a day or two. If no complications arise he will soon be as well as usual." BOYCOTT IS NO IDLE THREAT Importers Are Having Hard Time to Unload American Goods in China. San Francisco, June 25—Edward G. Bellows, until recently consul general for the United States to Japan, has arrived in San Francisco aboard the Pacific mail liner Manchuria. Mr. Bellows brings renewed confirmation of the boycott which the merchants of China have declared u-) on the United States manufacturers and upon goods and merchandise coming from this country. He adds a message of the vitality of the affairs by bringing the information to the Orientals have carried the boycott to the extent that in many instances importers are having great difficulty in obtaining assistance in the unloading of American products. Russia Tenders An Anology. London, June 27.—Questioned in the house of commons regarding the destruction of British vessels by Russian auxiliary cruisers. Premier Edmund said he was glad to be able to inform the house that the British government had been assured that the Russian government disapproved of the actions of their cruisers and the orders had been transmitted to the Dacher at all times undering quite imminent any repetition of the actions which the Russian government regarded as outrageous against international law. ADDS TO SPLENDOR MEN OF BUSINESS RECOGNIZE ANTAGES OF ACETYLENE. Famous Summer Hotel, the Grand Union of Saratoga, Has Installed This Best of All Artificial Lights— Meant Increased Comfort and Health. Saratoga, June 27.—The very name "Saratoga," brings to every mine health-giving springs, unsurpassed hotels and beautiful drives. It has been for many years the Mecca for all who admire nature, enjoy good living, and are searching for health, or are simply taking a vacation. The Grand Union, the largest summer hotel in the United States, see among green trees with its long wings enclosing a court with fountains and flowers, grass and trees, music and light, is throughout the season thronged with guests. With the progressive spirit always shown by its management, the Grand Union has again added to its attractiveness by introducing acetylene gas to make still more brilliant the evening hours. The genial proprietors believe in furnishing their guests with the best of everything, and now, after investigating and finding that Artificial Sunlight can be had, they have installed a complete acetylene gas plant to produce it, and have connected upwards of six thousand acetylene burners in and about the house and grounds to this little gas plant. Like many discoveries of recent years, which are coming into popular favor, acetylene one of the most recent, is very simply produced. It is adapted for use wherever artificial light is needed and the necessary apparatus can be understood and operated by anyone. The generator in which Acetylene is produced by the automatic contact of carbide and water might be termed a gas plant, as it performs all of the functions of a city gas plant. The acetylene generator can be purchased for a few dollars and in any size, from one adapted to furnish acetylene to ten or a dozen burners for a cottage, up to the large but still simple machine such as is now furnishing acetylene for six thousand burners on the Grand Union. Outside of large cities the use of Acetylene is quite common. The owner of the country home now demands running water, gas and other conveniences which a few years ago were considered as luxuries, and acetylene gas has met his requirements, and gives him a better and cheaper light than is ordinarily furnished in cities. It is well known that rooms lighted with Acetylene are more comfortable, because cooler, and more beautiful because the air is not withstood. There is no darkness that cannot be made lighter if properly kindled. Farmers' Wives should read advertisement of Acetylene Apparatus Mfg. Co. in another column of this paper. Before beginning a new job get the old one in a safe position. Why It Is the Best is because made by an entirely different process. Dehance Narch is us like any other, better and one-third more for 10 cents. "I tell you what," grumbled the possessive waiter, "people aint givin' tips like they used in the old days." "That's right," replied the funny waiter; "think of Esau, who gave his birthright for a mess of pottage."—Philadelphia Ledger. Here is Relief for Women Mother Gray, a nurse in New York, discovered a pleasant herb remedy for women's ills, called AUSTRALIAN-LEAF. Cures female weaknesses, Backache, Kidney, Bladder and Urinary troubles. At all Druggists or by mail 906. Sample mailed FREE. Address, The Mother Gray Co., Lekoy, N. Y. An old way of taking the census prevails in China. The cities and towns are arranged in groups of ten houses. The oldest man in each group visits the nine houses which, with his own, make the group, counts the members of every family, and sends in his report to the Imperial Census Bureau. A grand record was achieved by John Wotterworth, the oldest engineer in the world, who recently died at Preston, England, at the age of eighty-five years. He began driving in 1846, and drove an engine over 2,000,000 miles during his thirty-seven years of service, without a single accident. Homeless children in parts of Australia are sent to board with neighboring families, the authorities paying for their maintenance. The family is required to send the child to school at the proper age, and after the age of fourteen, when he is permitted to work, his earrings are not forfeited to him. He is required to be bank until he is old enough to be counted an independent man. The cost of such child-rearing averages only $1.25 per week. Of Wide Interest: Breed, Wis, June 26.—Special—Chas. Y. Peterson, Justice of the Peace for Oconto Co. has delivered a judgment that is of interest to the whole United States. Put briefly, that judgment is, "Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best Kidney medicine on the market to day." And Mr. Peterson gives his reason for this judgment. He says: "Last winter I had an aching pain in my back which troubled me very much. In the morning I could hardly straighten my back. I did not know what it was but an advertisement led me to try Dodd's Kidney Pills. After taking one box I can only say they have done more for me than expected as I feel as well now as ever I did before." Pain in the back is one of the first symptoms of Kidney disease. If not cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills it may develop into Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Rheumatism or some of the other deadly forms of Kidney Disease. The girl who runs and tells her mother everything is apt to remain an old maid. Mysterious Disappearance or Des Moines Man Partially Explained. HIS MIND HAD BEEN FAILING Notation in a Note Book That Was Found in His Room States That He Realized His Condition and Sought to Disappear. Des Moines, June 28—Henry Kirkhart, the farm hand on the Will Ferguson farm near Defiance, is none other than Virgil White, the prominent Des Moines attorney whose body was thought to be at the bottom of the Des Moines river. Instead of being the cold corpse which his friends had pictured him, he is a mysterious nomenon. His once brilliant mind has broken down, and he is now supposed to be stopping at an Omaha sanitarium waiting for his clouded memory to clear. The peculiar actions of the young man—the mental phenomena which caused him to rush to the Des Moines river, to there leave his clothing between his overturned canoe, and to roam a stranger, unknown, through the farm roads of Iowa, and to seek finally employment in the farm house in Shelby county—is all explained in a note book which was afterward found in the room occupied by the mysterious stranger at the Ferguson home. "I felt myself losing my mind, felt my memory shipping and I knew I was doomed. Therefore I took those measures and these means of dropping completely out of sight, for I knew my mental room was sounded by the knel of insanity." That paragraph tells the tale. It explains why White deserted his friends, why he left Des Moines, and left behind him the impression that his body would be found in the Des Moines river. It explains why he drifted from town to town, through country roads, and finally sought employment as a common farm laborer. Upon receiving information that a young man resembling White had been working for some days on the Ferguson farm, J. C. Hume went to Dehance yesterday. When confronted by Mr. Hume, White said: "How do you do, Mr. Hume?" listlessly as if he was simply passing Mr. Hume in the corridor of their office building. Upon the suggestion that he come back to Des Moines he positively refused to do so. Finally after hours of wrangling White agreed to go to Omaha with his friend. There they were at the latest reports which could be received by long distance telephone. But the mystery was not ended there. Mrs. Ferguson, whose heart went out toward the unfortunate young man whom fortune had cast at her very doorstep, went to his room and there found the memorandum which told the story. White had wib it a picture of himself which he had had taken a few days before his disappearance, also a copy of a morning Des Moines paper containing his picture and telling of his mysterious disappearance. In the memorandum was found a complete sketch of his life, a story of ambitions and disappointments and the fatal notation of how, finding that his memory was falling and his mind was being destroyed, he chose this method of leaving his friends and dropping into oblivion. The notes contained no reference to any love affair and simply related that since he had found his memory falling, the only way he could retain the thoughts and the history of his own existence was by the compilation of such facts. The note book was the clue which uncovered the entire mystery. It told of town that got the boat and the clothing in the river and how he started out tramping through the country. Des Moines, June 25—The circumstances which have been woven about the life of Virgil White and not insanity is the direct cause of his dispairance and is responsible for the sensational episode in which the Des Moines attorney has been the principal figure. Such was the statement of J. C. Hume, who has been with him since he was discovered at Defiance, made by him on his return to Des Moines last night from Sigourney where he had seen Fred White, the father, who returned with him, and had told him that Virgil White was near Council Bluffs in safe hands and he would remain there awaiting him. Virgil White will this morning he brought face to face with his father. There he will tell the story of his mysterious disappearance. What this now is no one knows save White and Mr. Hume, to whom he confided the secret. BIG CROWDS. Des Moines Chautauqua Is a Complete Success. Des Moines, June 25—Thousands of people have been crowding Midland Chautauqua Park the past few days since the opening, June 24th. It looks like old times to see newly painted buildings, new laid walks, and an air of prosperity about the whole thing. All Des Moines is pulling together to make this Chautauqua a success. The street railway has improved their service, the Commercial Club, Board of Public Works and all others have been helping along and the general public has been liberal in its patronage. It is estimated $8,000 people were on the grounds Sunday last to hear Booker T. Washington. Next Sunday Sam Jones will appear at 3 p. m., and Gov Jos. W. Folk of Missouri, will give the address at the monster celebration July 4th. The grounds are large, cool and inviting and will hold the big crowd easily, but all indications are for a record breaker on Sunday for Jones and on the 4th for Folk. Admission to the grounds costs but 25 cents. WHITE IS ONCE MORE MISSING Council Bluffs, June 20—Fred White, father of the Des Moines attorney, Virgil White, arrived here last night and went to Neumeyer hotel to meet his son, who was left in Hollins College on Tuesday afternoon. White was not seen His father was nonplussed and the Virgil White mystery deepens. During Mr. Hume's absence in Des Moines White packed his grip, donned his farmer's clothes and disguised his father's clothes and disappeared. Together with Sam Wadsworth, a Council Bluffs attorney, and an old friend of the family, Fred White was seen last night. He was broken hearted and was deeply moved by the second disappearance of his son. He is in a quandary what to do but will this morning drop all effort on the part of Mr. Hume to help him and will carry on his search alone. Wadsworth and Fred White will this morning meet Chief Richmond of Council Bluffs at 7:30 at the police station and the three will go to Omaha together. PARALYSIS STRIKES D. B. HENDERSON PARALYSIS STRIKES D. B. HENDERSON Dubuque, June 29.—David E. Henderson is resting much better in his Julien house apartments from the stroke of paralysis which numbed his right arm. The stroke happened last Thursday and was kept remarkably quiet. None outside the family knew of the ex-speaker's condition until it was announced through a friend yesterday afternoon. He showed signs of improvements several hours after the attack and has steadily improved. His family hope for the return of his old time vigor, but doubt is expressed. His left leg is off, his right leg is stiff from rheumatism and his right arm is numbed. Expressions of sympathy are many. ARSENIC IS FOUND. Caused Death of Cyrus Pratt, Calhoun County Farmer. Des Moines, June 30—Arsenic has been found in the stomach of Cyrus Pratt, the Calhoun county man who it is thought, may have been murdered by his wife and a hired man, Will Forsing. Suspicion of foul play led to an investigation, and Pratt's funeral was on Monday while the arrests were made. The stomach was removed from the body and sent to Professor Kinney of this city for analysis, with a view to discovering whether any poison had been administered. The examination was made yesterday and resulted in the finding of a sufficient quantity of the poison to have caused the death of the man, if it was administered before his death. Its presence in the stomach, however, is not absolute proof of a poisoning, as arsenic is often found in embalming fluids, and may have been injected in this way. Professor Kinney has not been informed as to whether the stomach was in the body when it was embalmed, but has written the Lake City authorities for information on this point, and for a sample of the embalming fluid, if it was used. An examination of this will almost conclusively solve the question of a murder of poisoning. SAYS SHE BOUGHT ABSENIC Authorities Search for Proof of Murder of Cyrus Pratt Lake City, City, 29—Mrs. Cyrus Pratt, who is under surveillance here, accused of the murder of her husband, has confessed to authorities that she purchased strychine from the McNichols drug store, but declares that she used it to kill rats. It develops that the morning after the death of Pratt, Mrs. Pratt and Will Willett the hired man, drove to Yetter together and inquired about Pratt's bank account and his life insurance CASHIER SKIPS. Wm. Mueller of Graettinger Reported to Be Short Marshalltown, June 29—William Miller, cashier of the Graetinger Savings bank at this city, disappeared from the town about a week ago and all efforts to locate him have failed. All bank accounts were locked in the bank, which has not been opened. Sheriff Conkley has secured an order to have the safe opened, and until once the amount of the shortage cannot be filled, the estimate runs as high as $19,000. Depositors are highly excited, but it is believed they are likely to get most of their money. DROWNS TO SAVE FATHER C. W. Young and Son Ross Find Watery Graves Waterloo, June 27—C. W. Young of Britt was overwhelmed by waves while swimming in the Cedar river near San Souci park Sunday afternoon. His son Ross went to his assistance and both were drowned. Young and the boy might have made their escape but for a passing pleasure steamer which caused both to be enveloped in buffeting waves. Young was 47 years of age and the son 16. Both were members of a private bathing party. The bodies have not been recovered. Book Grafter Arrested Charles City, June 27.—The mysterious book agent who has practically cornered the old school books in Charles City by offering prices he could not pay has been arrested. He was arrived before Justice Hayen and was released upon payment of tests and promising to return the books he has secured. The agent gave his name as D. B. Collins. Irwin Mystery Grows Des Moines, June 28—The clothes of Walter Irwin who left his home at 1102 High street last week, and has not been seen since, have been found on the banks of the Racoon river. Two men, fishing, found the clothes and took them to Mrs. Irwin for identification. She is positive that the aid belonged to her husband. Whether or Irwin was dressed in the river or left his clothes on the bank to leave an impression to that effect has not been determined. WHY THEY ARE HAPPY TWO NOTABLE RECOVERIES FROM EXTREME DURABILITY Husband's Strength Had Been Waning for Three Years, Wife a Sufferer from "My strength had dwindled so that I couldn't apply myself to my business with any snap but was tired and listened all the time," said Mr. Goldstein. "I went to bed completely used up by my day's work, and when I got up in the morning I didn't feel rested a bit. I had awful headaches too, and my kidneys got out of order and caused me to have severe pains in the back. At one time I became so feeble that I could not stir from bed for three weeks." Mr. Goldstein is a young man and had then but recently established a home of his own. His anxieties were increased by the fact that his wife was far from being robust. Mrs. Goldstein says: "For two years I had been ill most of the time. Sometimes I was confined to bed for weeks in succession under a physician's care. I had headaches, kidney trouble, pain about the heart and many more uncomfortable symptoms connected with that weakness to which my sex is peculiarly subject." Trouble had invaded this household and settled in it in just the years that ought to be the very happiest. Physicians could not tell them how to get rid of it. "I was utterly discouraged," said Mr. Goldstein. "Then the urgency of some friends led me to try a blood and nerve remedy which was said to be wonderfully successful. Within a month there were unmistakable signs of improvement in my condition, and within a year I was completely well. Through the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I have now as good health as I ever had in my life." Mrs. Goldstein adds: "The wonderful effect that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had in the case of my husband led me to try them and they helped me even more quickly than they did him. One box made me decidedly better and a few months' treatment cured me." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the best tonic and regulator, they make pure, rich blood and when there is general weakness and disorder that is what the system needs. Mr. and Mrs. H. Goldstein live at 38 Gove street, East Boston, Mass Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by druggists everywhere. Cannibalism in Scotland: Lady in Sandyford district would like two genemen for dinner daily. - Glasgow Herald. UNSIGHTLY BALD SPOT. Caused by Sorres on Neck—Merciless Itching for Two Years Maude Him Wild—Another Cure by Cuticura. "For two years my neck was covered with sore, the humor spreading to my hair, which fell cut, leaving an insignity bald spot, and the soreness, inflammation and merciless itching made me wild. Friends advised Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and after a few applications the torment subsided, to my great joy. The sores soon disappeared, and my hair grew again, as thick and healthy as ever. I shall always recommend Cuticura. (Signed) H. J. Spalding, 104 W. 104th St., New York City." One advantage Easter has over Christmas is that neither your friends nor your enemies will present you with samples of their pyrographic **All Up-to-Date Housekeepers** use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better, and 4 oz. more of it for same money. Taking credit that belongs to others deceives no one so much as yourself. Storekeepers Hotel-men and all householders will be interested in Acetylene Apparatus Mfg. Co. announcement in this paper. Don't undertake to "bluff" unless you know your opponent thoroughly. M. Miss Genevieve May, 1317 S. 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A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. At all Drugsists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Accept no substitute. Sample mailed FREE Address. A S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Every one should be sentry at his own station. Piso's Cure is the nest medicine we ever use for all affections of the throat and lungs—W.M. O. ENSBLY, Vanburen, Ind, Feb. 10, 1900. Most all successes depend upon our understanding. Mrs. J. Hines, Farrer, Inc., Surfaced years with kidney and gravel breast. Surfaced with David Kenneth's favorite Beauty Rodent. N.Y. 410-062-8700. The gleam of hope proves the guild light to all. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces summation, allevies pain, cures wind colic. See a bottle A show of confidence inspires a feeling of frendliness even in a disposed- to-be enemy. $6.00 per M. Lewis' "Single Binder," straight 56 cigar, costs more than other brands, but this price gives the dealer a bair profit—and the smoker a better cigar. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Arrogance leaves behind a trail of ill-feeling and enmity. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 16 oz. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. "Do good unto others" is very good providing the "others" appreciate it. A HOUSE LIKE THIS WITH EVERY SALE OF LAND. into settled interior higher in greatest cheap. R. R. markets, schools, churches, cranners. We build house for every buyer, 1843.12 feet high, ready to reach all. We make it easy. We make it easy now to upto, hss. THE DAISY FLY WILDER destroys all the files and affords comfort to every home in dining room, sleeping room, files are troubling. The hard cover is not collapsible will not collor or injure anything. You never lie to whom you inform. It not kept by deities or inviolate for 200. Harah, Source, 11800 Abu al-Aziz, facially, 15 WILL YOU JOIN A SYNDICATE of a limited number of members, for the purpose of furnishing the money in true payments to operate the business. $5000 on each share is refunded on redemption of the preferred shares and you hold common shares for your future greater profit, or you can sell out. A new membership is limited to members who need business. Put your name on the list. 705 Dollar Savings & Trust Bldg., Youngstown, O. COLORADO RATCH FOR SALE 1,600 acres of decided land on Kiowa creek on school secession that has three years to run 300 acres under ditch with goof of water right between 200 and 1,000 tons of has a year. Goo- house, barn that will hold 100 tons of has, cor- rals, e.g. $ Price $16,000, easy sales. Cola LUGAN COUNTY, greatest opportunity for in- Southern, vestment in the West. The Week. NORTH DAKOTA set soil in the world. Grain BOUNDLEY. Natural yields RELIABLE AND Range and water abundant. Correspondence earns- invited from those who would investigate land which will double in a few years. Full and RELI- able. A. J. Murphy, Stockbroker, Bankers, Nau- pse, N. J. A. Murphy, Stockbroker, Bankers, Nau- pse. BRAND SHOES ARE BETTER" YOUR FAMILY" SHOES FAMILY" SHOES and the price will please you as well. They are made of jean and snap. Ask your desier to show you the "Family" to us direct and we will see that you are supplied. MISSON&RAND STLOUIS SHOE CO. at Strike Home and—if he cares to do so—can tell y little about the bulk coffee he know, where it originally came from, how it was blended—or with what —or when roasted? If you buy your coffee loose by the pound, how can you expect purity and uniform quality? LION COFFEE, the LEADER OF ALL PACKAGE COFFEES, is of necessity uniform in quality, strength and flavor. For OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, LION COFFEE has been the standard coffee in millions of homes. LION COFFEE is carefully packed at our factories, and until opened in your home, has no chance of being adulterated, or of coming in contact with dust, dirt, germs, or unclean hands. LION COFFEE you get one full Insist upon getting the genuine. ange.) heads for valuable premiums.) OCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. FOR 20 YEARS THE CEDAR RATING BUSINESS CO., LEGEN Cedar Rapids, Iowa. has won the league in Commercial Education and Shoreland. New $60,000 home. Positions for graduates. Catalogue free. Address The Secretary. IS IMMINENT Russian Poland Raises Red Flag in Many Sec tions. SIEGE IS DECLARED IN LODZ Over Twelve Hundred Victims of Last Outbreaks—Warsaw in Open Revolt—Cossacks Are Rushed Into the Country. Minsk, Russia, June 27.—The peasant disturbances in this vicinity are spreading. Ektinerinoslav, Russia, June 27.—A semi-painic has been created here by the distribution of proclamations by thugs and rowdies, calling the people to fight treason and fears are expressed that the lowest classes of the people are being incited by the police against the educated class. Chenstohoff, Russian Poland, June 27.—A bomb was thrown into the police station here yesterday. It wounded several policemen and broke all the windows for blocks around the station. Kishniff, Russia, June 27.—All the printers have struck work. Rostoff-on-Don, Russia, June 27.—The police have discovered that large quantities of arms and ammunition have been purchased here and shipped to the Caucasus. Kovno, Russia, June 27.—A mob of a thousand persons surrounded and attacked the police station and the governor general's palace yesterday. All the windows were broken before the rioters were overpowered by the police. Five policemen were wounded. A detachment of dragoons finally arrived and dispersed the rioters. St. Petersburg, June 27.—The red flag of revolt has been raised at Warsaw, Kovno and other places in Russian Poland out of sympathy with the victims of the rioting at Lodz, and so far as these cities are concerned the situation almost approaches the dignity of open rebellion. The news received at St. Petersburg is meager on account of the vigorous censorship, but it is evident that the troops are being used to disarm the savagery of the savaginary encounters at Lodz is anticipated. The three big socialistic parties in Russian Poland are well organized and have some arms, but the authorities claim they have no chance of success single handed. Neither the Jewish socialists, called the Bunl, nor the social democrats are separatists (as are what are known as the Polish socialists,) but they are bitterly opposed to the existing government. The affair at Lodz seemingly has accidentally precipitated a crisis, but the authorities declare there is no machinery for a general insurrection behind it. This, however, may increase the slaughter in crushing the outbreak. Many people believe that Governor General Maximovinis is scarcely equal to the task, but so long as the disturbance is confined to Russian Poland the authorities believe it can be kept in bounds. The main danger is its spread to socialist organizations in other parts of Russia, with which those in Russia Poland are closely allied. In the meantime the insurgent ally with an insurance on a big scale. The Mussulmans are actually besieging the Armenians in some of the towns. Peasant uprisings have also recurred in several provinces, notably Kharkoff, where estates of half a dozen nobles have been burned and where workmen resisted Cossacks with their arms, wounding several of the soldiers. DATE FOR THE PEACE MEETING Washington, June 26.—It is now reported officially that President Roosevelt, at a late hour last night was informed by Mr. Meyer, the American ambassador at St. Petersburg, of the selection of the Russian peace plenipotentiaries. London, June 26.—The correspondent of the Morning Post at Shanghai says: "Mr. Otoghiri, the Japanese consul here, has been recalled. He leaves Tuesday in order to proceed to Washington as one of the peace plenipotentiaries." St. Petersburg, June 26.—Negotiations for the peace conference have taken an important step forward, a proposition for the date of the meeting of the plenipotentiaries having been submitted to Russia and being now under consideration. The exact date proposed has not been ascertained, but there is reason to suppose that it is some time during the first week or ten days of August, which is about the earliest date which the Japanese representatives could be expected to reach Washington, allowing reasonable time for the acceptance of the proposal and the interchange of the nominations for plenipotentiaries. Lorenz Imprisoned for Fraud. Washington, June 28.—George E. Lorenz, of Toledo, Ohio, who was convicted in the local courts here, over a year ago, of conspiracy to defraud the government in connection with the sale of letter box fasteners, was yesterday remanded to the custody of the warden of the district jail for removal to the state prison at Mountsville, Va. August W. Machen and the Groff brothers, who were convicted at the same time, began serving their sentences some months ago. Lorenz's sentence is two years' imprisonment and a fine of $10,000. Morton Begins Actions. New York, June 27.—As chairman of the Equitable Life Assurance society's board of directors, Paul Morton has begun his legal proceedings to recover money alleged to have been wrongly taken from the society, and he also has cut off certain perquisites in the society. DOCKS AT ODESSA WERE BURNED Czar's Subjects Have Rebelled Against His Authority. MUTINY ON BIG BATTLESHIP Sailors of Most Powerful Vessel of Black Sea Fleet Mutiny and Most Officers are Killed—Guns Trained on City of Odessa. London, June 29.—A dispatch from Odessa to a news agency dated Wednesday night, says: "The whole of the quays and the buildings around the harbor as well as much shipping are in flames. Nobs and incendiaries by armed force prevented the fire brigade working. The troops are completely terrorized and are afraid to approach within the range of the Knuaz Potemkine's guns which threaten a disastrous bombardment. The city is appallingly illuminated by burning buildings, and terror prevails everywhere. Sleep is impossible and everybody is watching the fire. "It is thought that it may become necessary to summon foreign warships. Tuesday night's collisions between mobs and the police and the military resulted in the loss of 171 lives, including three policemen." Odessa, June 29—The red flag of revolution is hoisted at the masthead of Kniaz Potemkine, Russia's most powerful battleship in the Black Sea, which now lies in the harbor in the hands of mutineers. The captain and most of the officers were murdered and thrown overboard in the open sea and the ship is completely possessed of the crew and a few officers have been crowned in their lot with the mutineers. The guns of Kniaz Potemkine are trained on the city and in the streets masses of striking warmen who fleed before the volleys of the troops are now inflamed by the spectacle of open revolt on board an imperial warship and are making a bold front against the military. All day long firing has been heard in many quarters of the city. A number of harbards have been erected and tumult and disorder reign. The main squadron of the Black see fleet, consisting of the Battleships George Pobediontsiev (George the Victorious) Tri Sylvatela, Rostislay and Ekaterina II., with two cruisers, are expected to arrive here today and a general battle is in prospect. The rioters are in a most defiant mood and are not inclined to surrender without fighting. Reports of the mutiny, which occurred while the battleship was at sea are difficult to obtain, as the mutineers refuse to allow communication with the shore; but it is ascertained that it arose from the shooting of a sailor who was presenting a claim against food. According to one version this sailor, whose name was Omitchuk, objected to the quality of the "borchitch," or soup, and was immediately shot down by a mess officer. The crew then arose and seized the ship. After a period of vacillation, the Kuizu Potemkine headed for Odessa and arrived here last night accompanied by two torpedo boats. Early yesterday the body of Omlichuk was brought ashore in one of the battle ships's boats and was landed on the New Mole where it had been exposed in semi-state all day. It was visited by thousands of persons, many of whom placed coins in a basket at the head of the body for the funeral expenses. The strikers will make the funeral an occasion of great demonstration. Description on the breast of the dead sailor states, on behalf of the crew, that Omlichuk died for the truth because he presented a just complaint of the crew. The authorities have made no attempt to remove the body, the sailors having fire on any one seeking to interfere with it. A police agent visiting the spot was killed by strikers. During the day a red flag was hoisted on the Nniaz Potemkine and members of the crew roam from ship to ship in the harbor forcing the stoppage of all work therein. Food was supplied them by sympathizers who pillaged the maritime storehouses. The strike is now general and the rioters are growing in numbers and boldness. There were exchanges of shots all day, but the number of victims can not be stated. This evening a bomb was thrown in cathedral place, killing its thrower and a policeman. A telegram from the mayor of Odessa who is at Moscow imploring the citizens to restore order, has been posted throughout the city. During the day one of the torpedo boats which accompanied the Nniaz Potemkine came into the harbor and seized the Russian steamer Esperanza. The steamer was laden with 20,000 tons of coal, which the battleship is taking on board. The governor has telegrambed for a squadron to be sent from Sebastopol. EIGHT WERE LYNCHED. Affair Takes Place at Watkinsville in the State of Georgia. Watkinsville, Ga., June 30.—Eight prisoners were taken from the jail here yesterday morning and seven shot to death by a mob of masked white men within 200 yards of the center of the town. Eight men were carried to the scene of the lynching but one miraculously escaped death by falling to the ground when the volley was fired and feigning that he had been killed. The names of the persons who were killed are: Lewis Robertson, Rich Robinson, Bady Price, Claud Elder, Bob Hahn, Jr. Imager, all negroes, and Larry Avcock, white. Joe Patterson, negro, feigned death, and the mob left him thinking he, too, had been riddled with bullets. Four of the prisoners were charged with being involved in the murder of Bobolbrk and his wife several weeks ago and one was held for attempted criminal assault. The others were in jail on minor charges. Whoso gives to a worthy man celves benefit from giving? STORIETTES. A host of Daniel Webster, in banding him a glass of Madeira out of a dusty and colobed bottle, said that he had made a little calculation that the wine had cost him two dollars a glass, counting the interest from the time he bought the wine. Webster helped for the bottle and helped himself to a second glass, saying: "I really must stop that confounded interest." One day a soldier, who had made a great ado concerning a slight wound, was brought before General Sherman, mowning and going on like a dog, who was on the brink of the grave. Sherman had the bandages removed from the wound, and, glancing at it in a skeptical manner, exclaimed, in his immutable manner: "Why captain, they came damn near missing you!" Hume, the historian, found himself one day, at a social dinner, next to Lord John Russell. In the course of conversation, his lordship said: "What do you consider the object of legislation? " "The greatest good to the greatest number," was Hume's answer. "And what do you consider the greatest number?" continued Lord John Russell. "Number one, my lord," was the historian's reply. A husband came home one evening to find a note for him by his wife, carefully he opened it, but as he read his face blanched, "My God," he exclaimed, "how could this have happened so suddenly?" And, snatching his hat and coat, he rushed to a hospital which was near his home, I want to see my wife, Mrs. Brown, it once," he said to the head nurse, "before she goes under the ether, Please take my message to her at once." "Mrs. Brown?" echoed the nurse, "there is no Mrs. Brown here, so which hospital has she gone?" asked the distracted husband; I found this note from her when I came home, and he barred the note to the nurse, who read: "Dear Husband; I have gone to have my kimono cut out, Selle." About the middle of February, 1862, while in winter quarters, General Naglece, of Pennsylvania, who was a strict disciplinarian, was in command of the First Brigade, of which the second New Hampshire was a part. He thought the guard-house of the Second Regiment altogether too comfortable quarters for prisoners, and ordered Colonel Marston, who later won fame as a soldier, lawyer, and statesman, to build a dungeon without so much as a crack or opening anywhere, so that it should be perfectly dark. The dungeon was built with four solid calls, and one day General Naglece came over to inspect it. He was accompanied by Colonel Marston. "Where is the entrance," said the general, "and how do you get anybody into it?" "Oh," said Colonel Darston, "that is not my lookout. I simply obeyed your orders." 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 Starches 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 package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. There are enough freight engines and cars engaged in the traffic of this country to make a string nine thousand miles long. An attractive lady of twenty-five opened a barber shop in Chicago, and the men of the neighborhood, many of whom are hoarse and bald, enjoyed the manipulations of her辛ity fingers, that they visited her shop to be shaved as often as twice a day. The wives of some of the gentlemen who suffered from the "shaving fever," called upon the pretty barber in a body and forced her to emigrate. N. N. U., Des Moines, Ia., No. 26—1905 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS / CHILDREN Promotes Digestion.Cheerfulness and Rest.Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAKUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Bell Pepper - Rockellite Salt - Aster Seed - Papaya - Pitcarran Salt - Tarragon Salt - Worm Seed - Pineapple Salt - Wintergreen Flavor Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. 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All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulence. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend. The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Any country home, store, hotel, church or building can be as brilliantly and conveniently lighted as a city house. Acetylene Gas is cheaper than kerosene, brighter than electricity, safer than either. Sugar Boiler More Con Every Y KG 25 OUNCES FOR 25 BAKING POWDER MANUFACTURED OUT OF JAQUES MANF'S CO CHICAGO NEW YORK, MANHATTAN CITY STORY CARE GUARANTEE Every day that comes, are giving us priced Bake turning to be reliable, wh the test of y ing out that KC costs one-th powder any quality, and makes better healthful baking. 25 o Send postal for " Book o JAQUES MFO Chicago, This Is What Catches Me! 16oz.—One-Third More Starch. HALLOWEEN require little care, do the work perfectly and can be operated by any- where. Complete costs no more than a hot air furnace. Send for booklet, "After Sunset." It gives full information regarding this wonderful light, and is sent free to anyone. Acetylene Apparatus Mfg. Co. 157 Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. FIREWORKS!! FIREWORKS!!! A Hooligans -biggest noise ever heard of. 5c EDITOR'S OBSERVATIONS In our observation we left off in Onaha, Neb. We omitted to mention a very interesting personality that of Mr. L. Bradley, 229 N 25th street, who was one of the members of the famous Tenth cavalry, who won so much honor, and Mr. Bradley shares in a great part. He has served over 30 years as a regular, and now he is on the retired payroll for life. By his bravery he was promoted Orderly Sergeant. He holds several certificates of marksmanship in annual contests, also many other certificates of bravery and honorable conduct as a soldier. Mr. B enjoys telling his 30 years experience in war. Tuesday found us in Marshalltown, that beautifully located town where the Old Soldiers' Home is located. In brief, we found the colored people about the same as last year, each in the same positions; Geo L. Suter holding perhaps the best and most active position, that of city engineer. I L Brown is in the Public Library building. Messrs. Richard Wright and Al Walker are running their shop. Mr Warren is working at the packing house while L. L Johnson is now working for H. L Spencer, the contractor in Grinnell. Into the parlor city was our next stop. The people of the Rapids are preparing for the Masonic Grand Lodge which convenes there next month. Mr. William Milligan's fruit and apairy farm is simply fine, and he and his very industrious wife are certainly very busy picking strawberries off his 10 acres of strawberries. This week his 5 acres of cherries will be ripe and ready for market. It is claimed that his strawberries are the largest and finest in that neighborhood. When we were there he had 35 pickers, all white except four. His son and wife have the picker while Mr. Milligan hauls the berries to town, about two miles. He makes three and four toads a day. Obliif only more of our race would go on the farm and do likewise. There is no color or race prejudice in the sale of farm products. Mr Van Camp is still conducting his ice cream and confectionery store. Marshall Perkins is doing well with his restaurant as usual. He and his wife are planning to build to build a beautiful house, costing about $3,500. He invites all the grand lodge members and visitors to take their meals with him. Thomas Jackson and W. M. Robinson are doing well operating a torsional shop E. C. Thomas is still working at his old place. His wife is quite sick. O. B. Claire is working at the public school. Mrs. R. Thompson is keeping a boarding house, see add elsewhere. Chas. Boone is working at St. Clair's Produce Co. Rev. P. M. Lewis is his aunt A. M. E. pastor and is doing well and the people like him. Mr Perkins has bought out Mr. A. B. Marshall's carpet cleaning machine and is doing well. W. H. Raspberry, one of the pioneers of Cedar Rapids, who has worked as assistant clerk in Grand Hotel Pharmacy for 28 years ovs some good and valuable property. The new subscribers are Rev. P. M. Lewis, Mrs. G. Gray, W. H. Raspberay Mrs. Marshall Perkins, and Ed. L. Boney. Arriving in Dubuque, the oldest city in Iowa, which was founded by Julian Dubuque, the French explorer. It is indeed a bluffy city, almost small mountains. Fewer colored people reside here than any other city of its size in the state, the inhabitants are mostly foreigners. Isaac Jones is still doing well as he says, "struggling hard to educate his children." Lenard Lewis is a bright young man, a music teacher. His only sister is a graduate from the High School and is now one of the teachers in Baston, Iowa. She will attend the summer school at Duke University. J. M. Logan has moved his barber shop to 141 Julian avenue Henry Martin will pen the news here after from Dubuque. Rev B. R. Penn is the new pastor from the eastern conference. He is a nice man and seems to be doing well. W. H. Hayes is one of the new families for this city. He is porter at the Elk's club. His wife is a chiropractor and doing well. Into Clinton. Iowa we rambled. We find here more of our race in business than any other town of its size, and they are doing well. As our agent, Mr. A, A. Bush is so very punctual and business like, and has written so much about the colored men in business here we will not attempt none, only men- We are headquarters for everything in the line of noise makers and evening exhibits. Prices to suit all. HOPKINS BROTHERS. SEVENTH & LOCUST. CANNON 2 for 1 cent CRACKERS and up to 25c each Salutes and Torpedoes One Cent and up. Dewey Bombs 5c. Repeating Torpedo Canes 5 and 10 cents. Ammunition for Same 120 shots for 5c. Buy an Edison Phonograph and have on outdoor concert-all the late records. HOPKINS SEVENTH tion the names of the most successful. J. T. Calbertson, grocery business; Mr. Wm Allen, restaurant and lunch room; J. S. McNeal, candy, confectionery and ice cream; J. T. Hancock, ice cream and candy store, also serve meals. Rev A. Boyd is the pastor of the Methodist church which is now begin ing to move forward over her recent trouble with its former pastor. Our next place we went was Davenport, over the Interurban Ky. Here we find many hundred colored people, but only few doing well. They have two churches, each doing fairly well. Rev T. A. Clark, formerly pastor of St. Paul's A. M. E. church of Des Moines, has charge of the Methodist clock, while Rev Holmes speaks the devine blessing for the Baptist, which is nice church. Ye editor spoke at both churches. Mr. J. H. Woodward is a progressive good citizen, buying a home and beautifying it at odd time. Many of the people here work in the employment of the railroad and make good wages. Mr. B. H. Berry still runs a barber shop; Lindsy Pitts the saloon man has just built a new one story brick building for his saloon and morae in we were here. It is well arranged with modern equipment and makes a beautiful appearance. Mr. Pitts owns now the only saloon in the town. He has been here for many years and is a nice man to meet. Edward Barnes has opened a lunch room and seems to be doing well. Mrs. Anderson operates a boarding house as usual, while Mr. J. H. Hill conducts a lunch room. Mr. R. A. Payne is still junior at the City Hall and is buying property. Mr. H. McGaw, the pioneer of Davenport, who was bursed out last winter is now living with his son on Grand avenue. He is preparing to go to Little Rock, Ark, to visit his sister whom he has not seen for 60 years. Across the river to Illinois which was once the home of General Grant, our beoved Abraham Lincoln, Owen P. Lovejoy, Dred Scott, John A. Logan, John Brown and a host of other noble sons. We first attended the McKinley Baptist church, where the Masonic lodges from the Tri Cities joined in celebrating St John the Evangelists birthday. That able devine, Rev. Crushhson, delivered the main address, however addresses were made by H. E. Burris, Grand Master of Illinois; H. M. Hussey of Moline. Rev. Tony Harper of Rock Island was master of ceremonies. John L. Thompson of Iowa made a brief address. Rock Island has some very nice people. Mr. H. E Burris is mail carrier and has been for several years. Mr. Morrison, Wm. Taylor and Geo Geo all are doing well in South Rock Island. James Tolliver is deliverer for McCabe large dry good store. There are seven other colored men employed in this large store. The Mystic Light edited by Mr. Burris is printed by his young daughter; since his son left they have sold their jb office department, retaining only type to print the paper. The Masonic Home is located here and doing nicely. Mrs S. J. Dangferge and R. B Settles are the newly added subscribers. There are many factories in this city, but nothing in comparison to Moline where we will begin our observations from next week and finish in our Quaker city. 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 specialty and guaranteed to please all. From 5 to 7. Price 25c. Your patronage is cordially solicited MRS. M. FOWELL, Prop. POPULAR CARTOON The art of newspaper illustration in its pretest form is a development of recent years. Newspaper cartoons have become a most popular feature of up-to-date metropolitan daily papers. The unique and catchy drawing now appearing daily on the front page of The Chicago Record Herald is one of the many special features of the great paper. The Record-Herald has been fortunate in securing one of the best young artists in the country to carry out its popular policy of presenting each day a humorous and good-natur- Biggest Line of New Pyrotechnics Ever Seen in Des Moines. Roman Candles 10c a dozen to 75c each. Mines, Triangles and Verticle Wheels, 5c and up. Ballons—Fire Proof, Jap Lanterns, Flags and Bunting. Special prices for complete exhibits. Holdlay Goods, Hammocks, etc. Mail orders promptly filled. BROTHERS, & LOCUST. cartoon. Mr. Ralph Wilder is one of the coming men in newspaper work. His success has been as pronounced as it has been rapid. He shows all of the good-natured humor and the brighter side of everyday common life which has carried his work to a very popular success. His drawings are on all of the various subjects of popular interest, political and otherwise. Current events are vividly portrayed in a way that pleased, yet often giving jus criticism in a way that does not offend. Through his excellent work on eastern magazines Mr. Wilder first attracted universal attention. The Record-derail recognized in him at once a cartoonist of unusual promise, and congratulates its readers on having been fortunate enough to engage him. OBITUARY Mr. U. S. Jones of Albia, Ia, was born Feb. 3, 1869, died June 21, 1905. He leaves to mourn his death a wife, father and mother, three sisters and one brother, and a host of friends and relatives. He was a devoted church worker and was united with the A. M. E. church in which he died. He was a kind and loving husband; kind to every body. His death was caused from a shot explosion in mine No. 1 near Hocking, which knocked down a heavy prop which struck him on the top of the head, crushing his skull. Mr. Jones was a high Mason, belonging to the Mystic Shrine, and was a 33 degree member, also Senior Warden of the Grand Lodge. The Masonic lodges of surrounding towns turned out. He is not dead But asleep in Jesus. And his works do follow him. FOURTH OF JULY RATES. ONE FARE PLUS 50 CENTS. Between all points on the Minneapolis and St. Louis Ry on sale July 1, 2, and 4, good until July 6 at one fare plus fifty cents, W S Matthews, D P A, 513 Walnut street, Ds Moines, Ia W. K Adams, C P A. COLORADO COLORADO Over head the bluest of skies--before your eyes the grandest of scenery--all around a clear crisp air that starts the blood to racing. 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MUTUAL PHONES Office 1917 Residence 99 Room 338, 300, 300 MUTUAL PHONES Room 3-8- Office 1917 G 002 14 Residence 098 Dee Muth When in Council Bluffs Iowa call on Adjining Powell's Cafe on Grill Room. NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. To C. A. Fuller: You are hereby notified that on the 6th day of December, A. D. 1899, the following real estate, situated in Polk County, low, to wilt: Lot Eight (8) in Block Eight (8) in Brown's official Plat now included and forming a part of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold for the then delinquent and unpaid tax for the year 1897 to Daniel T. Patton; that said Daniel T Patton is still the legal owner and holder of the certificate of purchase issued in pursuance of the above mention sale, and that the right of redemption will expire and a ded for the land will be made unless redemption is made within ninety days from the completed service hereof. DANIEL T PATTON. By Geo, Harnagel, his agent NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF REDEMPTION To the City of Des Moines, Iowa, and L. N. Butterfield: You, and each of you, are hereby notified that on the 6th day of December, 1899, the folowing described real estate, situated in Palk County, Iowa, to wit: The West Sixty and eight tenths (60 8 10) feet of Lot Eleven (11) of the Official Plat of the North 101 feet of Lot 118 in University Place, now included in and forming a part of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold for the then delinquent and unpaid tax for the year 1998 to Geo. Harnage; that the certificate of purchase issued in pursuance of the above mentioned sale was by said Geo. Harnage as signed to Daniel H. Patton, who is owner and holder thereof, and that, through redemption will expire and a deed for the land will be made undesredemption is made within ninety days from the completed service hereof DANIEL L. 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The to lowing young ladies noted in the capacity of flower girls: Misses Elizabeth Hawkins, Ione Mason, Julia Bartlett and Elise Willon of Burlington. The astle were Messrs. Roy Scott, Carlos Shidon, and Cifford Logan. The bride was attired in beautitul white skirt in valuences lace. After the marriage ceremony an elaborate supper was served. The out of ten guests were James Poindexter and Will Brown of Falfi Ollie, Olive Folks and Elise Wilson of Burlington, and Miss Fay Stapes of Minnesota, Mr. and M. Gater received many handsome presents. After a pleasant trip to Des Moines, and other points they will go to J. Joseph which will be their future home. The bride has lived here all her life and has many friends who will regret very much to leave her from their circle. The best wishes of many friends will follow them. MARSHALLTOWN ITEMS. Mrs R. Wright is in Des Moines attending Destination Conference. Mrs. H. R Wright left for New Orleans Friday evening where she will meet her husband H. R Wright. Grand Master I. L. Brown and Mr. Calvin Whee wore in Albany last week to attend the funeral of Mr U. S. Jones. Miss Gracie Brown who has been spending a few days visiting Miss Perla Spencer of Grinell has returned home and reports a good time. Mr. Edith Williams was killed Sunday by falling between the car on the North Western railroad on his way home from Council Bluffs. He is the son of Mrs. Maggie Wilf wills of this city. His funeral was held from the Baptist church Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. which was largely attended. The parents have the sympathy of friends. Rev. Bolds of Buxton will hold services at the Baptist church Sunday. All are invited. The Christian club held its regular meeting in the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cobb Thursday evening. All present had a pleasant time. STANDING OF THE CLUBS IN WESTERN LEAGUE. P. W. L. Pet. 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