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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XII, No. 51 CITY NEWS. [N.B. If you have relatives or friends visit in the city or go to make a visit, please form us; we solicit all your local news—Ed.] Mrs. Geo. Laws of Highland Park, snowy sick the past fortnight, but a little better at this writing. The Woman's Federation of Iowa abs will hold their session in our city n to call at our office. The reception committee of the Woe- n's Federation club will meet next onday at Burn's church by order of airman Mrs. L. R. Palmer. The ladies are invited to attend a re- ption given for the Women's Federation club next Tuesday evening at printhian Baptist church. Miss Nola Walker one of Muscatine's ills will be the guest of Mrs. L. R. almer during the Women's Federation ub, also Mrs. Buth Bright of Daven- rt. Wm. Mash of Spokane, Wash. who is been visiting friends and relatives are left Thursday for St. Paul, Minn., from there to Spokane. He en- gaged a pleasant stay while here. Mr. Clarence Shoecraft and wife of Bryton, Ohio was the guest of Mrs. Mary Mease of 1040 B street Monday morning, a sumptious lunch was served and all departed expressing a delightful event. Mr. I. L. Brown Past Grand Master of Iowa from Marshalltown was in the city Tuesday to meet the visiting Masons from the south. Albert Walker and F. J. Nott accompanied him. Mr. Wm. Milligan Grandmaster of Iowa Masonic lodge of Cedar Rapids came to the city Tuesday to meet one of the distinguished Masons from the south who are attending the Presbytarian Assembly. Mrs. Trusty, the wife of H. C. Trusty of Chattanooga Tenn., will lead the Christian Endeavor at Union Congregational church Sunday evening at 7 o'clock prompt—she will give a lecture. Members and friends are invited to come. Mrs. J. R. Erickson and son Earnest entertained the young people last Sunday at a two o'clock luncheon in honor of Mable McGee who has been attending school here and will soon leave for our home in Pisa, Ill. A splended time is reported. Earnest Erickson one of our bright East Side High School boys who will graduate next Thursday the 31st, he spelled his class of 54 pupils down last Wednesday and won the first prize a four volume book of Shakespeare. We expect much for Earnest in the near future. NOTICE TO ODD FELI.OWS. Take notice, those who desire to take few delegates and visitors to the Odd Fellows' Convention June 13, 14, 15, will please send their name or see L. M. S. Brown 714 Grand Ave., as he will have charge of placing them. There will be between 400 and 600 visitors on the Duxton excursion, who will want to spend two days here and all of them are able and expect to pay for the accommodations which can be arranged for by Mr. Brown. The Union Congregational church was crowded all day Sunday with visitors and friends to meet and hear those visiting preachers. The Men's League was an over-flowing popular meeting, at which time Mr. Glarence Cameron White the noted violinist of Washington D. E. kindly rendered several selections on his violin and many good and instructive speeches were heard. Rev. Moses Jackson of Grace Presbyterian church of Chicago spoke in the morning and Rev. W. L. Taylor of New Markat, Tenn. in the evening MASONIC REUNION. The Iowa Grand Master and the Missouri Grand Master will m-et in Omaha Nebr. June 7th in Rescue Lodge hall, to hold a ratification of settlement of some difference. All Masser 'Masons of good and regular standing are invited to attend this meeting. Services at Union Congregational Church. Corner of Tenth and Park Streets. Sunday May 27, Morning service, at 11:00; Rev. H. C. Trusty, D. D. Chattanooga, Tenn., will preach. Sunday School 12 m. Men's League at 3:00 p. m. Rev. W. A. Byrd D. D. will speak. Evening services at 8 p. m. Rev. A. G. Davis, D. D. Newburn, S. C. Christian Endeavor at 7 p. m. conducted by Mrs. H. C. Trusty. Rev. H. W. Porter, Pastor. The Bystander acknowledges the pleasant calls this week from the following visitors: Dr. Davis of Nort Carolina, Mr. Murthy of North Carolina, Rev. W. W. Walker of Georgia, Rev. Mebane of Arkansas, Mr. Wenmaker of Augusta, Ga., Mr. and Mrs. Gamble of Knoxville, Tenn., Mr. S. B. Pride of South Carolina, Mr. Foster of Arkansas, Trusty and wife of Tennessee, Mr. Wm Milligan of Cedar Rapids, Ia., Rev. Hendy, D. D. (white of Jefferson City, Mo RECEPTIONS TO DELEGATES AND MINISTERS. There have been many series of receptions and informals given to the colored commissioners and delegates here. The first was given by club No. 4 of Union Congregational church last Friday evening. At that meeting every stranger and visitor was present except one, and 34 suppers were served free to those delegates. After eating a very elegant supper the visitors went to one side of the church to give their plates to our citizens. The toast master, Rev. H. W. Porter, in a few well chosen words welcomed the delegates; Rev. R. Seymore of the A. M. E. church welcomed the visitors and J. B. Rush Attorney, welcomed them on behalf of the professional men; after which short addresses were made by fully sixteen of the visiting brethren. It was very grand to hear eloquent and cheering words from all parts of the sunny South. We do not know the names of all who spoke, but such men as Prof. Saunders of Biddle University, Rev. Byrd of Arkansas, Dr. C. C. Johnson of South Carolina, Rev. Trusty of Atlanta, Ga., Dr. Anderson of Philadelphia, Mr. Mebane of Arkansas, Rev. Taylor of Tennessee, Rev. Walker of Georgia, Dr. Moses Jackson of Chicago and many, many others. On Tuesday evening a free offering supper was given by Club No. 3 of Union Congregational church. A large crowd was present, a good time, and many spoke. Wednesday evening the members of the A. M. E. church, assisted by Burns' M. E. church gave a reception, at which time many speeches and songs were sung. The delegates have been well entertained. LETTER FROM DOOMED CITY. A Des Moines Boy writes a graphic Description of the Golden Gate City, San Francisco California. (Special to the Bystander) (Special to the Bystander). On Wednesday morning April 18 1906 at 5:15 o'clock when all nature seemed to be peacefully slumbering a terrible disaster occurred in San Francisco, one of the world's most splendid cities and blotted her nearly off the earth. I remember how I was admiring her sky scrapers and all her millions of electric lights late Tuesday night with not one dreaming that all that splender was to be destroyed by fire and earthquake within a few hours, and when the big crash did come we were all caught off our gard and with not a chance to "block those terrible blows" with the exceptions of those poor unfortunate who lost their lives by the great tumbling walls during the earthquake. We all had a chance to escape the fire and save some of our belongins, but who could realize at that time in the morning that the Grand Old Bay City was doomed, the great sun in all his splendor refused to smile on us that terrible morning and instead wore an ugly frown with his face as red as blood. There was moaning and groaning from all points of the city at the sametime and the ambulance and autos filled with dead and wounded were rushing to and from the hospitals and parks and different places thought to be safe at that time but soon had to be moved and removed again. The soldiers marched in from the Precialio and took charge of the city at once, and a many a poor person ignorant of martial law suffered from their bayonetts and bullets, but something had to be done and in making examples of a few they saved the lives of thousands the people were of the coolest minds you ever saw, under such a calamity and state of excitement. This disaster or whatever we might term it is inexpressible for there are thousands of wired stories that will never be known, some very amusing yet pathetic incidentes occurred. Old ladies could be sitting the wharves with their faces dirty from smoke and smudge, with eyes like cherries from crying, having lost everything with the exceptions of a dog, cat, canary or a pall parot under her arm. The fire was a very pleasing sight to the eye, yet a horrible one to the mind and heart. The flames were running hundreds of feet high, but I thank God for sparing my life for a man has always got a chance as long as there is life. J. W. Field. SEEK TO DISBAR Albia, Ia., May 16.—Special: Disbarment proceedings have been commenced in the district court by member of the Monroe county bar against George Woodson, a well known and talented Negro lawyer, who has practiced quite generally throughout the southern part of Iowa. He is a partner in business with S. Joe Brown of Des Moines. It is asked by the lawyers that Mr. Woodson be disbarred because of unprofessional conduct. This conduct, it is alleged, consists of bribing witnesses of the state to leave Iowa before a criminal case was called for trial. It is alleged he represented the defendant in this particular instance, and was interested in securing an acquittal. The particular case to which the lawyers have reference is said to be an embezzlement case from Buxton. The case will come up for hearing before Judge Vermillion. Mr. Woodson has as yet filed no answer to the action of the attorneys.—Register and Leader. We regret this very much, as Mr. Woodson was doing fairly well in his profession. Yet this example teaches us one true lesson, that it always pays to be honest, fair and truthful, for varily we say, that which a man sow he shall also reap. So those of our race or any other race, who are not doing the right thing and are dishonest will some day be caught. We remember that some few years ago, in our own city, a prominent colored lawyer got into trouble, was disbarred and driven from the state. Since the above article was written the district court has found Mr. Woodson guilty. THE MIDLAND CHAUTAUQUA JUNE 22 TO JULY 1. Offers Twenty full Programmes at Five Cents Each. Season Ticket One Dollar. The programme includes, J. Adam Bede, Eugene Debs, R. P. Hobson, A. A. Willitt, W. L. Nolan, Frederick Warde, Geo. F. Vincent, S. Parkes Cadman, Chas. A. Eastman, Gov. Hany of Indiana, Meistersingers, Midland Jubilees, Midland Concert Company., Wilbur Starr Concert Co., Music Festival Day. Pass checks free to all season ticket holders. Single admissions 25 to 50 cents. The canvass for season tickets began Monday, May 21st. Only 3,000 tickets at $1.00 will be sold, Order now. Note you can exchange your ticket for a reserved seat season ticket upon payment of $1.00 extra. There are but 400 of these and they will be snapped up by busy people who want a seat saved for them even if they come late. There will be many campers. For information regarding camping, see L. L. Hamlin, Des Moines Tent & Awning Company. For tickets and other information see canvassers, or phone, call or write. Midland Lyceum Bureau. 358 Gook block. PEOPLES SHORT ORDER and LUNCH ROOM Cooking to order in home style Good rooms furnished. First-class service guaranteed. 518 W. Third St.. IOWA PHONE 1816-X EDITORIALS. HIGHER LIFE. This age is calling for men and women of higher life, pure morals and honest motives. Indeed our great race is in need of men and women who can measure up to this higher life, as modern intelligence demands it. The next question the thoughtful inquirer ask is what and how can we obtain this higher life? We as a race must work out that ideal higher life ourselves in each community whree God has permitted us to be. First, begin in your own home, live, teach, amplify and inculcate this higher life at home, then teach it in the common schools, amplify it in the church and last live it in your every day life. Then seek the association of the good and pure men, shun bad company and idleness, but always be found toiling, working to arise to that higher life which our race, in fact all races need, then the world will be better and humanity will advance a little. PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY. The 118th annual meeting of the Presbyterian Assembly is holding its first national meeting in our city this and last week. It is indeed one of the most powerful, most wealthy and most intelligent ecclesiastical organization in America. Her schools, colleges and universities are numbered by the hundreds; her ministers by the thousands and her communicants and followers by the millions. She recognize no color or class, but Christ Jesus. Like the great Congregational gathering here last year there are colored individuals, Chinamen and all nationalities here as delegates and commissioners. This session is grapling with some weighty and far reaching problems pertaining to the church. She appropriated $300,000 to the San Francisco relief fund, and $300,000 to the Freedman's fund for the colored work in the South land. Our city is to be congratulated to be able to entertain this distinguished christian body. CURRENT REVIEW. The National Mirror, a new paper enterprise recently started in Kansas City, Mo., came to our office last week. It is a seven column quarto, well filled with interesting race news and cuts. They claim to be successors to the old St. Joseph Mirror. We wish R. E. L. Bailey, managing editor, success, for Kansas City certainly has had many newspaper ventures and but few successful papers. Another Washington, D. C. paper made its weekly appearance last week upon the journalistic sea, four years, yet it never floated to the West until last week. It is a seven column folio, a neat looking paper, well filled with news. May we hope for Rev. J. C. Waters, editor, still greater things in store for the Record. The May number of Our Neighbor is a pleasant monthly visitor. While located up in Detroit, Mich. yet it is alive to the burning interest and general needs of the KEOKUK NOTES. Rev. Lewis of the A. M. E. church has returned from Fayette where he went to attend the funeral of his brother. Ethel Brooks one of the most prominent and talented young ladies of the city has been very ill, but is improving slowly at her home. The young men's Sunday club of the A. M. E. church listened to an interesting address Sunday afternoon, delivered by Mrs. Grace Morris Allen of Burlington. The death of Henry Armstrong occured the 10th at his home. The funeral services was held Sunday afternoon from the A. M. E. church from which deceased was a member. The services was very impressive and largely attended showing the esteem in which the young man was held, he was also an active member of the young men's Sunday club. Mrs. P. A. Jones the Past Grand M. A. M. of Grand Court of the Iowa is Hann ba, Mo. this week attending the Grand Court of Missouri which convenes in that city this week. Rhoda Johnson of Quincy, Ill. visited her uncle Selby Johnson a few days last week. Monday morning at the regular meeting of the ministerial association Rev. Lewis read a very interesting paper on revival methods Homer Jones is on the sick list. Rev. T. L. Smith of Quincy, Ill. was in the city last week, attending to some business. Mrs. Matthew Johnson is visiting her mother, Mrs. Pickina in Monroe, Mo. The residence of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Bland is undergoing a course of reconstruction. 1910 S. B. PRIDE. A. M. The above cut is a true liken N. C., who was professor in math from 1901 to 1902, and princi Franklinton, N. C. He is preside the only lay Moderator of Column Carolinian by birth; graduated from no doubt make a strong influential lotte Gazette. Prominent Negro Presiding Officer The above cut is a true likeness of Prof. S. B. Pride of Charlott, N. C., who was professor in mathematics at the Biddle University from 1901 to 1902, and principle of the State Normal School of Franklinton, N. C. He is president of Presbyterial Sunday School, the only lay Moderator of Columbia Presbytery. He is a South Carolinian by birth; graduated from the Biddle University and will no doubt make a strong influential ma. He is editor of the Charlotte Gazette. DR. D. J. SANDERS. Rev. Dr. D. J. Sanders is the president of Hiddle university, Charlotte, N.C. and is one of the unique characters of the Presbyterian church and considered a strong man. He presided at the popular home mission meeting Tuesday evening. REV. W. W. WALKER, D. D. The above cut is a good likeness of Rev. W. W. Walker of Rome, Ga. He was born in Wainboro, S. C., in 1876; graduated from the academic and theological department of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, also from Union Theological Seminary New York city; held the mother church of colored Presbyterians, First African of Philadelphia and later held several other churches, and now has the Ebenezer Presbyterian in Rome, Ga. He is an expert lawn tennis playr, holding the championship o DR. D. J. SANDERS. his state, also of the New England states, having defeated Chas Cook of Washington, D. C., and srveral white state champions. He is a strong able young man and will soon be heard from. Very Low Excursion Rates to New Haven, Conn.. Via the North-Western Line. Excursion tickets will be sold June 1 to 4, inclusive, with favorable return limit, on account of Annual Convention Notional Council Knights of Columbia. Apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R'v. DE, A. M. Ass of Prof. S. B. Pride of Charlott, chematics at the Biddle University. People of the State Normal School of Art of Presbyerial Sunday School,onia Presbytery. He is a South from the Biddle University and will ma. He is editor of the Char- NEGRO IS EXCLUDED BY PRINCETON MEN GRADUATE BARRED FROM AN- NUAL ALUMNI BANQUET. DR. M. ANDERSON IS INSULTED PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY IS STIRRED BY THE INCIDENT, College Men Blame Hotels—Hotels Disclaim All Knowledge of the Unfortunate Affair. The results of the color prejudice, which caused the committee on arranges ments for the Princeton banquet at the Chamberlain hotel Wednesday night to refuse admission to Dr. Matthew Anderson of Philadelphia, a prominent negro commissioner, yesterday stirred the as- sembly as few things which have hap- ened since the opening of the session have done. Dr. Anderson, who is a graduate of the Princeton Theological seminary, is well known throughout the east as pastor of the Berean Presbyterian church of Philadelphia and director of its varied industrial adjuncts, and has been a prominent figure in the work of the assembly here. With an invitation specially tendered him to attend the banquet of visiting alumni of the Princeton Theological seminary and Princeton university, and with his ticket for the affair already paid for, Dr. Anderson was informed at the last moment that his presence was undesirable because he was a negro, and suffered the humiliation of being excluded from attending, to which the other graduates of his alma mater were welcomed with open arms. The Princeton banquet was arranged by a committee chosen from the commissioners in attendance at the assembly, and the announcement was made that it would be held at the Chamberlin hotel Wednesday evening, and all alumni of the Princeton institutions were asked to attend. Dr. Anderson was personally asked by members of the committee on arrangements, and paid over the money for his ticket in expectation of going to the dinner. Anderson's Story. According to Dr. Anderson, he was approached at the Auditorium late Wednesday afternoon by G. S. Brown of Easton, Pa., the chairman of the committee on arrangements for the banquet. Mr. Brown introduced himself and asked Dr. Anderson if it was his intention to attend the banquet. It was clear that he was and that he was merely waiting for his ticket, which was readily paid for. "I'm very sorry, but I will have to return your money," Mr. Brown is quoted as saying. "The committee has had a meeting, and we have been informed by the management of the hotel that they will not allow us to hold our banquet there is you are present, of your color." A short explanation was all that occurred at the time. Dr. Anderson's money was returned to him, and he did not go to the banquet. Yesterday the details of the matter became known, and in many quarters at the assembly words of censure were heard against the committee. Anderson's Story. At the Chamberlain hotel, where the banquet was held, it was stated that nothing had been said in regard to the present, and that no prohibition had been made on the attendance of anyone whom the committee wished to have present. The manager of the hotel denied that anything had been said in any shape or form to the presence of the committee, the time the arrangements were made by the committee, and said that when the Dutch room, where the banquet was held, was turned over to the committee, it was privileged to invite whom it was privileged to invite, whom the hotel authorities. The only limitation placed on the committee was that not more than sixty-five tickets should be issued, as this represented the seating capacity. G. S. Brown, the chairman of the committee on arrangements for the banquet, could not be found yesterday. He has been registered at Wikerdam hotel, he has been registered at this room the negroes in it, he has returned to his home. Several prominent hotel proprietors, when asked yesterday regarding the limitations placed on the presence of the negroes in it, he has returned to his home. He was engaged for a private banquet it was always considered that such room belonged to the party arranging for it, and that the party arranging to invite whom they pleased as banquet guests. Attitude of Hotels. In regard to accepting negroes as regular guests of the hotels, it is the custom in most of the hosties to discourage their presence, whenever possible, to exclude them, and an absolute prohibition is never made. The local committee on arrangements endeavored, in providing the enquiries, the arrangement for the entertainment of all the negro commissioners in private homes, and this has been followed out with one exception, in the case of Rev. Othonius christian, who is a guest at the Goldstone hotel. The result has been that the entertainment has passed off smoothly, and the occurrence Wednesday night is the first time that Dr. Anderson has been assembled. Dr. Anderson has been a guest during the assembly in the horse of Col. William Coalson, the private messenger in the governor's office. Dr. Anderson who was present at the banquet Wednesday night, stated yesterday that it was his understanding that the committee had refused Dr. Anderson admission to the banquet. It was informed that the hotel would not receive him, and that it was either a case of changing the location of the banquet, calling it entirely, or else of reusing Dr. Anderson the right to be present. Feels the Insult. "I feel that I have been grossly insulted," said Dr. Anderson in reciting his experience. "The day before the rehearsal, I was asked to attend. I hesitated, but on being urged and assured of a welcome, I bought a ticket. In the afternoon I met the Princeton men and, mingled with the Princeton men and, no intimation of what was to come. But while I was at the Auditorium the chairman on arrangements came to me and told me that I would be very sorry, but the management of the hotel would not permit the entertainment of you, you attend the banquet, he continued, we will be forced to hold it somewhere else." And then he gave me back the dollar he paid for my banquet ticket. "I was astonished at the conduct of these men towards me, because of my color, especially in view of the fact that I had been urgently invited to attend the church service, but I did not believe it, then, do I now. The fact of the matter is, that just now Presbyterians are down worldwide church and they are especially eager for union with the southern church. Some of these men who insulted me have been my personal friends and I have been very proud of them, would not hesitate to sacrifice me or any other negro rather than offend the south by giving a negro social recognition, or do anything that would put an obstacle in the way of the church union movement. Rumor in Philadelphia The Cat is Out of the A chance for a wide awake woman to make a splendid living. I will sell a recipe for making Cold Cream that has been used among the Beauties in Paris for years. It bleaches the face, removes wrinkles, and provides a velvety. With each jar of cream, will send recipe and instructions how to treat diseases of the skin and give facial massage. Price $2.00. Hair Pomade $1.50 MISS M. M. SMITH. Box 186. Glencoe, Ill. Subscribe for the Bystander. --- There are even in these days a good many families in the United States who find it possible to do a certain amount of moderately high thinking and still cultivate some of the graces of life. They may be obliged to live simply, says Serbiner, and yet may not need to use up all their vitality in manual labor. True, they must walk when others ride, they must take thought to their apparel, that it be presentable at small cost, and when they entertain their friends they must do it simply. But they have time to read books and they have money to educate their children. Oftener than not they are persons whose family traditions incline them to fastidiousness in social matters. They and their forebears have been accustomed not only to well-bred, but interesting people and have kept in touch with what was going on in the world; in short, they have a taste for the best society. Twenty-five years ago there was no reason why they shouldn't maintain their inherited or acquired right to it, but the tendency on the part of certain of their fellow citizens to what has been characterized as the habit of getting rich" has changed all that. It is not only that the accumulation of colossal fortunes restricts the financial chances of the moderately ambitious majority, but it deprives them of some innocent and legitimate comforts and pleasures to which they think themselves reasonably entitled, by increasing so tremendously the cost of living with the standard of luxury is raised in proportion. This, to be sure, is an old cry, but to the impurecuous majority it does not cease to be a live issue. Yet one cannot 2nd fault with the people who have made money for wanting to spend it; one cannot be surprised if their ideas are crude and if they fail to appreciate a refined simplicity. Most of us spend all the money we can afford and we should not thank anyone who should presume to dictate to us as to what we ought to buy with it. The very rich do not in the least intend to make life hard for the rest of the world. In fact, from their kind-hearted desire to give pleasure we get some singular bad results, such as, for instance, the poor girl with rich tastes, who, although she need not always be a Lily Bart, yet is always in an unnatural and demoralizing position; and the young man who goes to the dogs in his effort to keep up the pace with his rich mates. Humble Heroes. Calling attention to the fidelity of the telegraph operators in San Francisco, where they kept their heads and stuck to their keys till driven out by the flames, the New York Sun has this to say: "Fix the eyes of the community on a man in official place and he will scorn his own safety. Give the obecure man something to do that calls for greater activity than usual and he will seldom fall to come up to what is expected of him. Exceptionally daring deeds done by our firemen and policemen are often the result of the spirit of the service, though it is possibly less so in their case than in that of the soldier or the sailor who is of emulation all compact. It involves no reflection on the soldier, the sailor or those who, in other ranks of life, practice the military virtues of discipline and obedience to say that the man who, in great peril, goes on doing his ordinary duty, with no hope of applause, honors or individual distinction, as is heroic as any hero. That is why we ask you to take of your hat to the telegraph operators in San Francisco." Armies and navies are expensive; we need farmers more than we need soldiers; we need merchant ships more than we need battleships. The civil war demonstrated that it does not take long to make a first-class fighting man of the American citizen and there are 10,000,000 such ready to fight in a quarrel with a stranger. The only power that is at all likely to give us serious trouble is Japan, and she will not undertake it until she shall think herself strong enough to order all the other white folks out of her neighborhood. That will be generations and need give us no concern. Our business is to make money, not to engage in war. We have an immense territory right here in the republic that is yet virgin and the demand is for laborers, not soldiers. Prof. Brander Matthews thinks theatrical audiences see jokes more quickly than they used to and that this proud and happy progress in visibility has come about "because the stage of to-day is so well lighted that all the spectators can follow the changing expressions on the countenances of the quarrelling couple, whereas in the eighteenth century the theater was almost gloomy, as there were only sparse oil lamps to serve as footlights, by which it may have been difficult to see a joke." The opening of a bank with a capital of $25,000 in Tioga, Pa., would not under ordinary circumstances, constitute a notable event; but as the bank is organized under the auspices of the state grange, is owned and managed by grangers, and is designed to be the first of a series of grange banks, its opening is very interesting. Gertrude Atherton, the novelist, has been making bread for the hungry in San Francisco. This is a time when the dough is migrator than the pen. IOWA STATE NEWS Events of Recent Occurrence Throughout the Commonwealth Presbyterians and the Cumberlands at Last Come Together. Des Moines.—While silence fell over the Presbyterian assembly, Moderator Hunter Corbett pronounced the words which link forever the destinies of the Presbyterian church and the Cumberland church and consummating efforts looking towards organization which have been under way for twenty-ix Thereby were united two bodies which have been separated for 90 years. In material interests 8,000 bytes. In material interests communicates numbering 11,000,000, churches numbering 7,200 and property worth $21,000,000 are consolidated with the Cumberland church of 185,000 numbers, 2,400 members and property estates $700,000. The ceremonies attendant upon the union were most impressive while at the same time interspersed with gladness. The resolution for union would have been unanimous had not Pow Wm. Laurie of Bellforton, against and publicly reckoned that his vote be so recorded. The protest against the methods which was launched by Dr. McLoud a few days ago and which was signed by some sixty commissioners was withdrawn and the signers voted for the adoption of the report. By Dr. W. H. Black of Marshall, Mo. and Dr. Fullerton of St. Louis, representing the Cumberland church. WILL TEST APPEAL Rock Island Proposes To Support Appeal. Des Moines—The fact that the Rock Island system is marshalling an the forces of its legal department, under the personal direction of Robert Mather, its general counsellor, in support of its appeal from the supreme court of Iowa of a case involving only $7,000, shows the importance attached to a test of the Iowa decision, which declared that an employee could not sign away his right to sue in the event of damages if injured while in its employ. The contracts which employees were required to sign stipulated that in case of injury they forfeited the right to sue for damages unless within thirty days the court ordered that they be off the road a written statement of their injuries. Roy Mullford of Davenport, whose foot was cut off while switching for the railroad at Des Moines, failed to give such notice. He sued the court and they won $100,000. The Iowa supreme court, reviewing the case, affirmed the verdict, asserting the contract which employees were required to sign, was invalid. The Rock Island has now taken the case to the court, and has placed the contract of its case in the hands of General Counsel Robert Mather of New York. It will evidently spare no pains to overturn the down decision, as the law says, and it will also contract with its employees wherever its system is in operation. ENDS IN MURDER Serious Shooting at Oksaloosa after Trivial Quairel. Oksalaose... "Put that cigar out or I ill shoot it out." "You don't dare." Scaly recalled is the way out of Leonard Roberts' mouth when Tom Elmore had fired his 44 caliber revolver at the smoking man, and missing the cigar had added another chapter to Buxton's book of crime by injuring seriously, if not fatally, the smoker. Theooting occurred just over the hill in Mahaska county, where Elmore, Roberts and several of their friends were loafing on the grass outside the big mining camp. There was no enmity between the men, nothing to prompt the attack. He uttered a pitch prevails in a certain element in the Monroe mining camp. A dozen friends were in the crowd at the time. Elmore had no objection to smoking, nor to the brand of cigar the injured man was enjoying. He of bluff. When called he made good. The friends surrounded the wounded man and took him to his home. The man who did the shooting remained at large until the Mahaaka county officers were notified by Roberts' family, which fears for his recovery. REACHED A COMPROMISE. Presbyterians Settle Question of Book of Forms. Des Moines—After striking out of the resolutions and out of the title page and preface all words which might indicate that the Presbyterian general assembly authorizes the use of the "Book of Forms" and also incorporating a resolution of the opposition showing that the body made no recommendations in the matter, the report of the committee head, the report of the committee head, was adoption. The arrangement by which adoption was brought about was a compromise, but gives the church the book just as it was without any authorization or recommendations from the general assembly, and ends a notable contest. The opposition won its victory in the petition presented by Dr. William F. McCaulay of Cincinnati, the leader of that side and in the changes suggested by Dr. James D. Moffat, who had gone over the resolutions and the book itself carefully and eliminated all of the words indicating in the petition. Even then there was some opposition, but it dwindled down to almost nothing when the final votes were taken. Head Knocked Off by Engine Burlington--J. D. Johnson, a vetran engineer of the C. B. & Q., was killed at a prominent street crossing. He was looking at the cab window of his locomotive when a passing switch engine knocked his head off. Usher Gets Eight Years. Cedar Rapids—Joseph Usher was convicted of the murder of William Garrett andenced to eight years manslaughter. TO PROTECT DOGS. Organization is Perfected by Men at Des Moines. Des Moines—At a meeting of the Iowa Dog Protective association the association went on record as opposed to the cur dog and will take measures to rid the streets of what they term the pests. The following officers were elected: H. B. Wyman, president; W. A. Graham, vice president; Wilber J. Garrison, secretary; Geo. C. Cooper, treasurer; Don H. Foster, D. H. Miller, Fred Dunker, board of directors. The object of this association is the protection of good dogs from thieves and dog poisoners. The association is rewarded for not less than one hundred dollars for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons guilty of malicious injury of any dog, belonging to a member of this association. The society is incorporated under the laws of the state of Iowa, and all members and officers serve without pay. TOOK POISON BY MISTAKE Sioux City Man Dies Very Suddenly after Drinking Wool Alcohol. Sioux City.-Mistaking a bottle of wood alcohol for medicine, John O'Connor, a well known carpenter, drank the poison at an early hour and died soon after. He was found dead in bed by an attendant at Dr. G. P. Statter's hospital on Seventh street, where he has made his home for the past two years. He temperate effort to call for help when he realized his mistake in drinking the poison, for every pane of glass on the second story of the barn was smashed and the curtain rods broken. Exhausted he lay for several hours before he was found. Pressured was about 50 years old and lived in Sioux City all his life. LEAVES FINGER TIP BEHIND Fort Dodge Crook Injured While Trying to Purloin Cash. Fort Dodge—During the rush of business at the Russell McGuire shoe store a young man attempted to snatch the contents of the cash register at a moment when the proprietor asked him to give him, Mr. McGuire pushed the drawer to at the same instant the young man reached for the money and the tip of his index finger was caught in the edge and severed. The man then ran back. The strange mufted sound attracted the proprietor's attention and turning around noticed the young man wrap his handkerchief around his finger and make the finger tap. Later the finger tap was found which revealed the attempted robbery. IMPORTANT RULING. Action of Attachment is Dismissed by Judge Reed. Sloux City—Federal Judge Reed dismissed the attachment proceedings against the Big Four railroad brought by estate of Frank Jank, killed in an accident in Illinois. The court made a sweeping ruling that cars loaded in one state carrying commodities to another are engaged in interstate commerce and cannot be attacked. The practice of holding cars of the defendant company as commodities to another service has been practiced throughout the nation, but Judge Reed holds it interferes with interstate commerce and is illegal. KILLED BY LIGHTNING Former Resident of Boone Dies in Nebraska. Boona.—Word has been received in this city of the instant death of a former resident of Boone, Mrs. Bob Allen. The Allens reside in Blair, Neb. A severe wind storm, which at almost any moment threatened a cyclone, caused Mrs. Allen and a number of other ladies who were at her home to seek shelter and safety in the cellar of the home. While getting to the cellar door she was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Boone Wobben, a bridge foreman for the Northwestern, and after going to Nebraska was former of the bridges and buildings for the Nebraska and Wyoming divisions. Lightning Kills Two. Boyd — William Van Houte was instantly killed by lightning during a severe electrical and rain storm. He was struck by others who could refuse from the storm in a barn and the stroke that killed Van Houte shocked the others and they were badly affected by it. In — in a storm storm Ross Pettingill was struck by lightning and instantly killed at his home in this city. Will Protect the Chickens Clear Lake—An organization has been formed here to be known as the Poultry Vigilance association and will have for its purpose the catching of chicken thieves who have been getting very busy of taking the animals in a standing reward of $50 for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of any guilty parties. Gypsum Miner Fatally Hurt Fort Dodge,—Frank Dunning, a laborer at the Mineral City gyrum mill, was fatally crushed when attempting to run beneath a descending cage in a gyrum shaft here. His body was shot in the back, and both arms broke. He will die. Deafness Caused Her Death Council Bluffs--Returning from a morning's shopping, Mrs. Henry Red, a deaf woman, was run down and killed by a switch engine in the Great Western yards and died from the effects of her injuries. Henry Gray Is President. Burlington--At the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Funk Fund, directors Henry Gray, Des Maures was elected president. Cedar Rapids will be the next place of meeting. THE POINT OF THE PROVERB An old proverb advises the shoemaker to stick to his last. It means that a man always succeeds best at the business he knows. To the farmer it means, stick to your plow; to the blacksmith, stick to your forge; to the painter, stick to your brush. When we make experiments out of our line they are likely to prove expensive failures. It is amusing, however, to remark how every one of us secretly thinks he could do some other fellow's work better than the other fellow himself. The painter imagines he can make paint better than the paint manufacturer; the farmer thinks he can do a job of painting better, or at least cheaper than the painter, and a Farm hand is one of Octaves Thanet's stories tells the Walking Delegate's painters "Union, 'Anyone painter's paint paint'; and the old line painter tells the paint salesman, "None of your ready made mixtures for me; I reckon I ought to know how to mix paint." The farm hand is wrong and the painter is wrong: the "Shoemaker, stick to your last." The "fancy farmer" can farm, of course, but it is an expensive amusement. If it strikes him as pleasant to grow strawberries at fifty cents apiece, or to produce eggs that cost him five dollars a dozen, it is a form of amusement, to be sure, if he can afford it, but it's not farming. If the farmer likes to slouch around with a paint brush and can afford the time and the expense of having a practical painter do the job right pretty soon afterward. If the painter lacks form of amusement, if the painter is not afforded to paint that comes off in half the time it should, they have a perfect right to indulge his harmless vanity about his skill in paint making. But in none of these cases does the shoemaker stick to his last. There is just one class of men in the world that knows how to make paint properly and have the facilities for doing it right; and that is the paint manufacturers—the makers of the standard brands of ready-prepared paints. The painter mixes paints; the paint manufacturer grinds them together. In a good ready-prepared paint every particle of one kind of pigment is forced to join hands with a particle of another kind and every bit of solid matter is forced, as it were, to open its mouth and drink its share of linseed oil. That is the only way good paint can be made, if the painter knes it and do it he has nothing at hand to do it with. A paint substance a paddle are a poor substitute for power-mixers, buhr-mills and roller-mills. The man who owns a building and neglects to paint it as often as it needs paint is only a degree more short-sighted than the one who tries to do his own painting or allows the painter to mix his paint for him. ONE UNVIOLATED RULE. Club Servitor Had Seen Them All Broken Into Bits, Save That One. A certain club, the name of which need not be mentioned, has strict regulations against gambling, relates the American Spectator. A quartette of club members decided to break the rule by a game of poker for small bikes, for the small rooms and told an old servant to bring a pack of cards. When he brought them one of the members asked: "John, I suppose it would be something utterly new in this club if we were to do such a thing as play for money with these cards?" The negro scratched his head and delibrated, finally answering: "Boss, and delibrated, finally such a long time, and I've seen many things." "Yes, but what have you seen?" "I've seen ebry rule of dis club vlated 'ceptin' one." "What is that one?" "De rule 'gainst gibbin' tips to de servants." LIMB RAW AS PIECE OF BEEF. Suffered for Three Years with Itching Humor—Cruiser Newark U. S. M. Man Cured by Cuticura. "I suffered with humor for about three years off and on. I finally saw a doctor and he gave me remedies that did me no good, so I tried Cuticura when my limb below the knee to the ankle was as raw as a piece of beef. All I used was the Cuticura Soap and the Ointment. I bathed with Cuticura Soap every day, and used about six or seven boxes of Cuticura Ointment. I was thoroughly cured of the humor in three weeks, and haven't been affected with it since. I use no other Soap than Cuticura now. H. J. Myers, U. S. N., U. S. S. Newark, New York, July 8, 1905." He Wasn't Certain At Fortress Monroe, Va., one day about a year ago, a man, accompanied by two ladies, approached a soldier who, with a gun on his shoulder, was pacing to and fro near the entrance. The warrior's appearance indicated that he was new to the service. "Can you tell us," asked one of the visitors, addressing the recruit, "where Jeff Davis was imprisoned here?" "I was in a house," he replied, "fearing a humbly over his shoulder," "but I duno nwhether they've still got him shut up or not." —Chicago Record-Herald Traveler—Yca, steward, I—I rang "Anything I can bring, sir?" "Y-yes, st-steward. Bub-bring me a continent if you have one, or an island continent if you have none." "It's solid. If you can't, sus-sink the ship."—Harper's Bazar. Now and Then. Diogenes (300 B. C).—My lamp is nearly out and I have not yet found that honest man. Subpoena Server (1906)—I have been everywhere, but they are too slick for me. I can't find those dishonest fellows—American Spectator. Write Garfield Tea Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., for sample of Garfield Tea. Mild inactive. The sun that shines in the face rises in the heart. DECORATION DAY HYMN Air—"John Brown's Body." With phantom tread our martial dead and their scarred battle flags commingled in blue, Sweeping by old doubts and hatred as their faith goes marching on. They are leading, like the shepherds to the pastures green with brotherhood. Let us follow them and lay us down when Let faith go marching on. There are hoarse heads and salting feet see, with shoulder set to shoulder, now. With their eyes bent on their heavenly g In faith they're marching on. In the dark hour of repelling and the tr Let us think upon these martyrs, be courage And keep step with hope and duty, thou For faith goes marching on. There are guards who never carried arm There are soldiers of humanity who new Undecorated heroes of the battles of our All faithful, marching on. In the dim, unfathomed future now beats We shall 'wake to see the glory of raan' With his heart and hand devoted all to And faith still marching on. With phantom tread our martial dead are passing in review, With scarred battle flags commingled like their forms of gray and blue, Sweeping by old doubts and hatreds as the sun dissolves the dew; Their faith goes marching on. They are leading, like the shepherds led their flocks of long ago, To the pastures green with Brotherhood, where blossoms of kind blow Let us follow them and lay us down where streams of mercy flow; Let faith go marching on. There are hoary heads and ailing feet amidst the shapes of youth; See, with shoulder set to shoulder, now they're marching for the truth; With their eyes bent on their hearty goal and banners flying loose, In faith they're marching on. In the dark hour of reaping and the triumphing of wrong. Let us think upon these martyrs, be courageous and be strong. And keep step with hope and duty, though the way be drear and long; For faith goes marching on. There are guards who never carried arms except our Saviour's word; There are soldiers of humanity who never wore a sword— Undecorated heroes of the battles of our Lord— All faithful, marching on. In the dim, unfathomed future now benighting you and me, We shall 'wake to see the glory of man's perfect harmony, With his heart and hand that love and charity, And faith still marching on. ```markdown ``` DAY OF SENTIMENT. Ceremonies in Cemeteries School of Patriotism for Both Old and Young. On every national anniversary, except Memorial day, we deal with things of life, rather than of death. On Independence day we celebrate the nation's birth; on Washington and Lincoln days the birth anniversary of its immortal patriots; on Thanksgiving day the fulness and blessings of national prosperity; on day alone we give pause for tears; on this hallowed anniversary we weave chaplets for the nation's glorious dead. And how glorious they are—these myriad sleeping soldiers—and how the glory of their deeds magnifies with the years! We, the living, add not at all to their immortality in history with our flowers, our prayers and our tears. But we do add something of priceless value to our own lives by the customs of Memorial day. We turn these sacred hours into a symphony of patriotism. The benediction of to-day's flowers strewn mounds is for the living; it is the stern mornings of life; a leveling occasion when the finer sentiments treep into the souls of American men and women. And the nation's cemeteryes are today the greatest school of patriotism for old and young that we have. For true patriotism counts not death, if through death the nation shall find life and health. No nation is in peril that has such a Memorial day as we have. There are those who place sodil gain above sentiment, and care for our prosperity the heart of our real America beats true in our crisis. No foe, open or secret, can successfully measure awards with the national conscience. And this is the real lesson of Memorial day. So long as we honor our soldier dead we will honor our country. Memorial day gives perspective. The tottering Grand Army veteran, and the lisping boy with cap and drum and flag, are the visible extremes of a common unity of patriotism. Passionless, the remnants of former encamping armies unite in a common sorrow and a common hope. The blue and gray are not less hallowed because time is blending them. The season of nature's renewal is fittingly the season when this and future generations will yearly decorate the waves of American soldiers. And though single cell, each's taken again to the national heart by the fresh flowers in his "windowless palace of rest." ARE ONE IN BROTHERHOOD Christian Work Rejoices That the Disappearance of Sectionalism Seems at Hand. Yes, two Memorial days—and both are ours—those of the Blue and the Gray. Here we stand nearly half a century removed from the closing days of the great conflicts of our civil war—a war between Americans at the north and Americans at the south—"Americans all;" can those now liv. n's Greatest --- Nation's Greatest Holiday Forty-one years ago this spring Grant and Sherman, at the head of the two great armies of the union, were preparing for their master campaigns—the one against Richmond, the other through Georgia to the sea—which were to crush all resistance and bring civil war to an end. On Memorial day some of the survivors of the 220,000 men that formed those two armies will be among the veterans who march in parade in honor of the country's soldier dead. But their numbers will be few, and their feeble steps will point all too surely to the early coming of the time when the armies of the civil war will march no more. Memorial day will be retained forever by this nation as one of its great holidays. It is the fourth in historical order in the series of our great celebrations. Christmas day is the feast of our religion and civilization. Thanksgiving day harks back to our forefathers who brought that civilization to a new --- --- ling ever forget them, or will future generations cease to read of those times from the pages of history. Two Memorial days—one for the north, one for the south, and again, "All Americans." No other nation has concern in these memorial times but our own. It was a war between brothers; the wars has passed, and those remain, but there still are those hearts are fermenting rooms for sectional battles, we pity that man or woman; surely there is a time to put aside—if not forget—a time to regard the best of the present, not the worst of the past; a time to cultivate amenities and loves, not antagonisms and base passions. Yes, there are two Memorial days; may the sun shine clear in the heavens on the days that commemorate the valor and the losses of both the wars, in sectional battles in thought, at least, to pay its due tribute by awarding equal sincerity and valor to the other. These days, as is eventually the case with all memorial days, have measurably lost their early characteristic—that which clusters around the affectional nature and recalls the father or the son who fell in that great struggle. It is not in man always to mourn; and now that which was born of the affections becomes monumental and no longer lost in the recent years graves of the northern dead have been decorated by the brethren of the south, and the blue have loved to lay their floral tributes upon the graves of the gray. So may it continue to be, as in future years out two Memorial days come around with each recurring spring. Pass a few a tardy years and monuments to a Lee or a Johnston or a Gordon shall find a resting place at the north as well as at the south, and the blue forgetfulness of old antagonisms shall find expression in bronze or in marble as it already dwells in the hearts of those who are both broadly patriotic and strong Festina diem!—Christian Work. DEBT OWED GRAND ARMY. Highest Principles of Patriotism and Citizenship Inculcated by the Order. The old soldier, veteran of the civil war, is a "living epistle, known and read of all men." His presence among us is a reminder of the war, an inspiration to duty, a living exponent and illustration of patriotism. The Grand Army of the Republic is made up of the honorably discharged soldiers of the war, a noble gift to membership in it. It is a nonsectarian and nonpartisan, politically, organization, and yet its fundamental principle is loyalty to the government. It is a bulwark against treason, and everything else that menaces the welfare, prosperity and safety of the nation. Social order, exalted views of life and culture of our privileges, and the promise of our future as a nation are secured by an intelligent and careful use of our opportunities. These things the Grand Army of the Republic seeks to secure and foster. No greater service can be rendered to our country than to promote and establish her interests in the welfare, intelligence and high moral quality of the civil war, and of the civil war see all this, and for them they stand—Rev. J. J. Woolley. world. Independence day celebrates the birth of our nation. Memorial day celebrates the preservation of the nation and as well the sacrifice of its preservers. The other national holidays must be content with lesser rank. Those of the young generation will never know a year go by in their liver without its Memorial day, but long before that day, the students will have lost forever the opportunity to watch ranks of veterans file past at the center of the celebration. Boys and girls have their place along the line of march. Hats off, boys. Out with your handkerchiefs, girls. The veterans deserve your cheers. To Explore: Buddha's Gaves. To Explore Buddha's Caves. The "Thousand Caves of Buddha" to be explored by a. French expedition to East Turkestan and Centre Asia, to be headed by Prof. Pellot, or the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient At a hearing before the Commission on Public Health, of the Massachusetts Legislature, on a bill designed to prevent the wholesale drugging of the public, the following eminent South physicians testified against the health fullness of Rochelle Salte, and strained recommended the passage of a law which would prohibit the sale of the Cream of Tartar Baking Powder food: B. Foster, Dr. G. M. Walker, Dr. K. Bester, Dr. G. M. Walker The average consumer not know that a cake is made of the original material and that it occurs in the form of baking. A chemical reaction takes place in the chemical reactions that remain in the food. The cake is not different from those which make baking powder before baking and the substance that is cemented to a powder container or to Cream Tartar is worthless as to what the consumer is to what he wants. What goes into it, what is not in it is the consumer as to what he wants to know to leave in the quantities of Rochstain in the food. They have never asked it. Why be interested by their brand and pay 45 to a power for a baking powder that leaves in a power for a baking powder that leaves in a power for the physical structure. The finest baking powder in the be made for 25 cents a pound. There is a high grade baking powder that is sold at a moderate price, and it is free from Rochelle Sugar. Also, it is injurious substance. The Calentet that you buy from the Company guarantees that to the company, and will avoid all baking powder that make this statement. In view of Calentet's powder is recommended to the leading physicians and chemists in the country. GREAT HATCH OF CHICKEN Mammoth Incubator in New K Town Turns Them Out by Thousands. "Nine, ten, a good fat hen," sits ten years, or a thousand hens still each on their 15 eggs, would be required to do the work of the new incubator, with a capacity of 15,000 eggsately completed in Pembroke, N. L. Partitions divide it into 100 compartments, each accommodating two trays of eggs to have wire bottoms and hold 15 eggs by means of coil of wire pipes passing over the top of the chamber on one side and returning on the other. These pipes are connected at one end with a water tank and heater. The water flowing through the pipes is heated to exactly the right temperature, a thermostat attached to the stove opening and closing the trays to make this possible. The heater is supplying it with coal and morning. The thermostat is an expansion tank which stands over the heater. The tank is filled with oil in which is a float. As the heat of the furnace warms the water in the jacket surrounding the heater expands and the float rises. This movement actuates a throttle attached to the float arm and shuts the drift of the heater, making the cold air drift of the furnace. In this way the temperature is automatically regulated with extremely little variation, the eggs being kept at a temperature of 102 degrees Fahrenheit. A second novel feature is that the heat of the eggs is regulated by raising and lowering them in the egg chamber, which is nearly a foot high inside, burial separating from the pipes. The eggs are treated double free from the chicks develop the trays are lowered on these supports, the drop being made in six days, and others at intervals, until on the twenty-first day the trays are resting on the bottom of the chamber. OCEANS OF SMALL CHANGE Nickels Paid Into New York Street Car Companies Recch An En- ormous Total It is probable that all the five-cant pieces now in existence would not have more than paid the cash fare collected on the New York City Railway company lines alone. According to the report of the state railroad commission, the number of cash fare paid in 1906 in New York records an enormous total of 1,171,155. At five cents each, the amount to $45,697.49. In the period 1938 to the close of 1944 the value of the five-cant pieces coined in this country amounted to $414,715.815. It is the three-cant pieces and the two-cant pieces and the cents and half-cents added it would still leave a total in money far less than that represented by the collection of cash fares in New York. With a reasonable chance for the number of cases that must have been lost and destroyed in one way or another she must was opened, it is probable that the total amount of cash between a dollar and three cents, would not exceed the three cents, which was collected last year on the New York transportation lines. Of course, the secret is that the same coin does duty over and over. "The ambulance chaser is well known in Kansas City. A lawyer of that who has been making a living instigating and prosecuting suits against street-railway companies had a run of bad luck, having several cases in succession. "Do not propose to take this any longer," he said. "What do you propose to do?" he was asked. "Why, I am going to take my wives and move to St. Paul," he replied. A dog lives on an average from 2 to 10 years, a rabbit about seven, a four or half about eight, and a fox about ten years to sixteen years. fourteen to an boat, lately at Laon France. It is eighty feet long and is driven by a motor. It is constructed tank-shaped, the carps consisting of eighty-five tons of carp and each, which are are transported from the south of Holland. The ultimate destination of the Anna is Utrecht, whither the boat is proceeding by canal. The voyage will probably take about twenty days it often been remarked righteously that men hold the left corner of the mouth while left-handed men place it in the right Mrs. Mitte nunaker. HAD GIVEN UP ALL HOPE. CONFINED TO HER BED WITH DYSPEPSIA. "IOwe My Life to Pe-ru-na," Says Mrs. Huffaker. Mrs. Mittie Huffakes, R. R. No. 5 Columbia, Tenn., writes: "I was afflicted with dyspepsia for several years and at last was confined to table to sit up. "I weed several different doctors without relief. "I had given up all hope of any relief and was almost dead when my husband bought me a bottle of Peruna. "At first I could not notice any benzene in the making several bottles I was cured sound and well. "It is to Peruna I owe my life to day." day. "I cheerfully recommend it to all Revised Formula. "For a number of years requests have come to me from a multitude of grateful friends, urging that Peruna be given a slight laxative quality. I have received a positive addition for quite a length of time, and now feel gratified to announce to the friends of Peruna that I have incorporated such a quality in the medicine which, in my opinion, has its well-known bene facial character. "S. B HARTMAN, M. D." It's gasolene that makes the world go round.—Life Garfield Tea, the herb laxative, is better than drugs and strong cathartics; it curces. No Pretense. "So you want to work; 'Please don't misunderstand me. I don't want to work, but I've got to.' Philadelphia Ledger. A. Gentle Slam. Miss Jolly--Eddie Blank is an awful futterer. You can't believe a word he says. But I always like to meet him. Kathleen--Must be a case of mutual admiration. I've heard him say the very same thing about you.-Detroit Free Press. So Homelike. Some one said to Brother Williams: "They have a balloon fad now, and you can go up and cool off in the clouds." "Yes, test he," be replied. "En dar' thou thunder on lightnin' up, dar reckon lots er 'um will feel kaj 'dey wuz right at home—specially de mar- ried folks!"—Atlanta Constitution. HE WENT ON CRUTCHES HE WENT ON CRUTCHES All Medicines Failed Until Dr. Wiliams' Pink Pills Cured His Rheumatism. "Some years ago," says Mr. W. H. Clark, a printer, living at 612 Buchanan street, Toperkan, KA. "I had a bad attack of eumatism and could not seem to get over it. All sorts of medicines failed to do me any good and my trouble getting worse. That I could not wear shoes and had to do crutches. The pain was terrible. "One day I was setting the type of an article for the paper telling what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had done for a man inflicted as I and was I and was so impressed with it that I dated him. For a year my throuston had been grown worser, but after taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I began to improve. The pain and swelling all disappeared and I can truthfully say that I haven't felt better in the past twenty years than I do. I have half-dozen people who have used Dr. Williams' Pink Pills at my suggestion and who have received good results from them." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are guaranteed to be safe and harmless to the most malicious constitution. They contain no morphine, nicotine or alcohol and are a drug habit. They do not set on the bowels and they actually make new blood and strengthen the nerves. Dr. Williaus' Pink Pills cure rheumatism because they make rich, red blood and no man or woman can have healthy blood and rheumatism at the same time. They have also cured many cases of anemia, neuralgia, sciatica, paralysis, locomotor ataxia and other diseases that have not yielded to ordinary All drugists sell Dr. Williams' Pink Pills or they will be sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co. Scheenectady, N. Y. FARM LANDS I have some of the best farms in South Dakota for sale. They are located in Aurora County in the south east part of State, right to corn belt and artesian basin. Suitable for mixed farming, stock raising and dairying. Country settled with good people and well supplied with schools and churches. Write B. H. SULLIVAN, PLANKINTON, S. D. PIT & PITLESS SCALES. For Steel and Wood Frames, $25 and up. Write us before you buy. We save you money. Also Pumps and Wind ONE 400 ACRE and two 240 acre well improved farms in F'mouth County lows, two miles from town. Price $100 per acre. One 10th cuv. balance, ten €. COFFIN WILL MAKE FIGHT FOR PARTY Platform Adopted is Comprehensive 'n Effect - Temperance Workers Take Up Other Reforms, Including Election of Senators by Direct Vote Des Moines.—In an address in the convention which nominated him on the prohibition ticket for governor, Hon. L. S. Coffin of Fort Dodge announced his determination to make a hard fight for election to the high executive office and struck the first bitter blow at his antagonists by openly declaring "that there is not a Iowa member in congress or the senate whose soul has not been sold to the liener interests." "While democrats and republicans are decrying the evil of railroad domination," he said, "they forget the greatest foe to the American people and I wish to say that more men are ruined, many more nations have been destroyed by the influence of rum man by corporation domination. The greatest foe with the people must meet is not railroads, but liquor traffic." Continuing he said that men running for office are subservient to liquor interests and sell their personal rights by not speaking against the liquor evicter. "Why in all cases do you not point to the man said, 'you cannot point me five men who dare to rise to their feet and publicly denounce the legalized liquor traffic.'" Mr. Coffin was nominated by Capt. K. W. Brown of Ames, who has twice been a candidate of the party and was mentioned for the honor this Hon. L. S. Coffin is well known throughout the entire state as a philanthropist and conscientious worker in temperance lines. It is his work that has made him a notable fight in the coming campaign. He has signified his intention to make an active campaign of speech making and the state central committee raised several hundred votes to startler in the work of the campaign. The resolutions of the party declare in favor of prohibition, election of United States senators by direct vote of the people and the initiative referendum as its principal features. The ticket named is as follows: This ticket named "As follows: Gustavo L. S. Cushman, Port Dodge, Leutenant governor—K. W. Brown, Ames. Secretary of state—J. S. Ward, Des Molten. Treasurer of state—George W. W. Field Attorney general—J. L. Watson, Hawarden. Supreme judges—Benjamin Radcliffe, Marcus, and H. F. Johns, Woodbine. Clerk of the supreme court—F. P. Fetter, Oakland. Oakland. Reporter reporter—Mrs. Anna S. Edworthy, DeMolines. Superintendent of public instruction—Miss Ida M. Wise, Des Moines, commissioners—M. M. Dickey, Marshfield and E. B. Bennett, Winterset. SHOOTS WIFE: SUICIDES. Double Tragedy Takes Place at Vinton. Vinton.—Lawrence Muren, a common laborer, who, until recently, has been living with his wife, Mabel Quackenbush of Vinton, in a quarrel with her fired one shot from a 32-callibre revolver, striking her in the neck, inflicting probable fatal injury. He then turned the same weapon into his right temple, just above and in front of the right ear, death ensuing in a half hour. The tragedy occurred at the home of her mother, Amos Quackenbush, for whom she had intended keeping house, and was apparently premeditated. A quarrel was reported to be between him and his wife over care of his children, and recently received from the sale of a small property in Cedar Rapids. COUSINS IS RENOMINATED. Fifth District Convention Names Him By Acclamation. Cedar Rapids—Congressman Cousins was renominated for the eighth consecutive time by acclamation here. The mayor's security authority attained under the Dingley law. The Marshall county member of the committee on resolutions presented a reciprocity plank as adopted by the recent Marshall county convention, but he did not move its adoption by the committee on resolutions and was not awarded the committee nor reported to the convention. The standdat resolutions were adopted by unanimous vote. LACEY AGAIN NAMED. Republicans of Sixth District Renominate Congressman. Oskaloosa—Maj. John F. Lacey was nominated by acclamation for the Sixth district republicans in convention here. No other name was presented to the assembly. The resolutions endorse the administration in Washington, the Iowa delegation in Washington State Auditor Carroll, and Superintendent Riggs. They also pledge support to L. M. Shields for the presidency in 1908, and renew allegiance to the "great principle of protection." Conductors Under Bond. Waterloo.—By a new rule which has gone into effect on the Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern road, all the conductors will be put under bonds of $1,000, from pocketing any of the company's debt. Dearness Caused her Death. Body of Wee Babe in River. Davenport.—The body of a dead child about four months was found in the river near Cedar falls; mills at Cook's and the poles are not come and take charges. A LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES. Lucements Held Out by Western Guanda Are Powerful. A recent number of the Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press contains an excellent article on the prospects in Western Canada, a portion of which we are pleased to reproduce. The agents of the Canadian Government, located at different centres in the States, will be pleased to give any further information as to rates, and how to reach these lands. "Just now there is a keener interest than ever before on the part of the outside world, in regard to the Canadian West as a field of settlement. At no previous time has there been such a rush of immigration, and the amount of information distributed broadcast is unprecedentedly great. "In the majority of the States of the Union and in Great Britain the opportunities for home-making and achieving of even a modest competence are at the best limited. Moreover, according to the social and industrial conditions prevalent in those communities, the future holds out no promise of better things. It is not strange that that energetic young man should turn their eyes to Canada's great wheat belt, where every man can pursue fortune without the hindrance of any discouraging handle-case. "The inducements held out by Western Canada are powerful and made manifest by the great movement now in progress. That the prospects are considerably more than reasonably certain is borne out by the history of the country and its residents. The promise of gain is powerful, but when added to it there is the prospect of a civil elevation. It should prove irresistible to young men of a particularly desirable class for any new country. "The Canadian West is alive with opportunities for the young man who alms at becoming more than a mere atom in the civil and national fabric. Some of the eager young fellows who arrive on the prairies daily are destined to become more than merely prosperous farmers. In the near future great municipal and provincial development will be in the hands of the people. The stepping stone to both financial prosperity and civil prominence is, and will be, the farm. For every professional opening there are hundreds of agricultural opening. The Canadian prairie is being seen as the best place for the honest and industrious of all classes, but they are specially inviting to the ambitious young man who seeks a field for the energy and ability which he feels inherent within him. The familiar cry of "Back to the soil" is more than a vain sounding phrase when applied to Western Canada." WAS WILLING TO "BITE." One in the Audience Who Had Never Heard of the Great Man in At the recent annual meeting of the voters of Cape Elizabeth two names were presented for moderator, Henry S. Jordan and Clement E. Staples, Republican and Citizen, respectively, says the Boston Herald. The orator nominated Mr. Staples made a mighty effort. "He was so hard," he cried as he waved his arms like pump handles and strode back and forth on the platform. A deep and impressive silence followed. Again waving his arms, he called in a voice of thunder: "Who is Clement E. Staples?" The silence was more pronounced and the effect greater. The audience was visibly impressed. Before attempting to dwell upon the good qualities of his candidate, the speaker again proclaimed: "I say, who is Clement E. Staples?" A small man in the rear of the hall stood on a chair and broke the silence by saying: "Weal, I'll bite. Who is he?" Where the Fault Lay. Doctor-Have you any Idea how you caught this terrible cold? It was thin it was my cloak. Too thin it shin. "No; it was a last winter one and I didn't care to wear it."—Illustrated BREAD DYSPEPSIA. The Digesting Element Left Out. Bread dyspepsia is common. It affects the bowels because white bread is nearly all starch, and starch is digested in the intestines, not in the stomach proper. Up under the shell of the wheat berry nature has provided a curious deposit which is turned into diastase when it is subjected to the saliva and to the pancreatic juices in the human intestines. This diastase is absolutely necessary to digest starch and turn it into grapeseugar, which is the next form; but that part of the wheat berry makes dark cereal, the molasses miller, readily read soil dark flour, so nature's valuable digester is thrown out and the human system must handle the starch as best it can, without the help that nature intended. Small wonder that appendicitis, peritonitis, constipation and all sorts of trouble exist when we go so contrary to nature's law. The food experts then perfected Grape-Nuts Food, knowing these facts, made use in their experiments of the entire wheat and barley, including all the parts, and subjected them to moisture and long continued warmth, which allows time and the proper conditions for developing the diastase, outside of the human body. In this way the starchy part is transformed into grape-sugar in a perfectly natural manner, without the use of chemicals or any outside ingredients. The little sparkling crystals of grape-sugar can be seen on the pieces of Grape-Nuts, therefore it naturally pre-directed and its use in food will quickly correct the troubles that have been brought about by the too free use of starch in the food, and that is very common in the human race to-day. The effect of eating Grape-Nuts ten days or two weeks and the discontinuance of ordinary white bread is very marked. The user will gain rapidly in strength and physical and mental health. : "There's a reason." FROM SOURCES NOT KNOWN N THE REBATE HEARING Thousands of Dollars Are Admitted Received — Government Rests Its Side of the Case and Attorneys for Bartlington Enter Demurrer. Kansas City, Mo. May 25.—Members of half a dozen large business firms admitted here yesterday at the trial in the federal court of George H. Crosey, the Burlington trade manager; George L. Thomas, the New York banker; Lord and the world clerk, L. B. Taggart, that they had received thousands of dollars in commissions from "unknown sources." All of the firms had hired Thomas to attend the shipping of their goods from the Atlantic seaboard to New York City, and none of the witnesses say that these sums of money had come from Thomas. W. E. Emery, a member of the Emery-Bird-Therm Dry Goods company of Kansas City, who admitted receiving from $1,500 did not know who sent it, but "supposed it came from Thomas." Notwithstanding the large sums thus paid in commissions none of the firms had kept any record of the cases they handled. All payments "were made in New York. Several officials of the Burlington railway were examined as to the payment of these commissions and their testimony developed the case. The vouchers the amounts had disappeared. The government rested its side of the case in the afternoon when Judge O. M. Spencer, for the defamation, filed a case in New York that no evidence had been produced to show a case of conspiracy and even if such evidence had been presented the court lacked jurisdiction. The case was dismissed in New York and not in Missouri. He asked that the case of Crosby be dismissed. Judge Smith McPherson overruled the motion as to Crossberry's payment on the demurder would be today to which time the court adjourned. PROF. HOLDEN NO LONGER AMES' DEAN PROF. HOLDEN NO LONGER AMES' DEAN Ames.-At a meeting of the board of trustees of Iowa State College held here with Trustees Clyde Brenton of the Seventh district, W. J. Dixon of the First, McBryoy of the Sixth, Monger of the Fifth, E. J. Orr of the fourth, James H. Wilson of the Ninth, Vincent Zmunt of the Second and Chairman Hungerford of the Third, matters of importance were decided. The greater part of the time was taken up with the report of the faculty committee, its recommendations being adopted with very few changes. Holding the agronomy division, will no longer be at the head of that division, but will take up the further advancement of the agronomy work, still retaining his connection with the col- The department of farm crops and the department of agricultural engineering will be separate from the agronomy division and in the future will be two separate departments with the following men in charge: M. L. Bowman, who has herefore been instructor in the course, was made associate professor of agriculture and Joy B. Daviden, of which has been assistant in agricultural engineering, was made associate professor of agricultural engineering. DAY OF ORATORY. No Business Transacted in House- Washington, May 25—Weil filled galleries and a large membership on the floor listened with great attention yesterday in the house of representatives to Representative Charles A. Wren, the president of the Republican John A. Dalzell of Pennsylvania Mr. Towne was in splendid votes and the democrats applauded him. His strictures on the president were received with continued hand clapping on the democratic side, and when he demonstrated his democratic party the minority applauded Mr. Dalzell, who followed Mr. Towne, spoke in favor of "letting well enough alone," his speech being enthusiastically applauded by the republicans. A vice-chairman was accomplished by the house, the day being given over to oratory. PASS ALCOHOL BILL Internal Revenue Tax Is Removed from Denatured Products Washington, May 25—After considerable debate the Senate yesterday passed the bill relieving denatured alcohol from the internal revenue tax and then took up the agricultural appropriation bill, which was still unenforced. The senate adjourned. The discussion on the alcohol bill turned largely upon the effect of the legislation on the manufacture of wood alcohol, which Senator Aldrich asserted would be greatly injured. Senator Hale criticised the senate bill for being the agricultural bill as manifesting too strong a tendency towards paternalism. RATE BILL CONFERENCE Washington, May 25—Senator Elkins had a talk with the president yesterday relative to the rate bill. He said the senate was ready for conference as soon as the house selected its conferences. He also said that there is a misunderstanding on the part of some of the northern negroes over the visions of the amendment calling for equal service on the railroads for equal pay. The impression prevails with some of the negro leaders that this will introduce "Jim Crow" cars in the north and, as a result, delegates of negroes are coming from Boston and other places to protest it. TWICE-TOLD TESTIMONY. A Woman Who Has Suffered Tells How to Find Relief. The thousands of women who suffer backache, languor, urinary disorders and other kidney ills, will find comfort in the words of Mrs. Jane Farrell, of 608 Ocean Avenue, Jersey N. J., who says: "We have said before in praise of Doan's Kidney Pills. I had and other Kidney pills, will find comfort in the words of Mrs. Jane Farrell, of 608 Cannon City, N. W., who says: "I roiterate all I have said before in praise of Doan's Kidney Pills. I had been having heavy backache and my general health was affected when I began using them. My feet were swollen, my eyes puffed, and diary spells were frequent. Kidney action was irregular and the secretions highly colored. To-day, however, I am a well woman, and I am confident that Doan's Kidney Pills "have made me so, and are keeping me well." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box, Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. MEDICAL MENTION. Dr. W. F. Robertson, a British physician of note and considerable research, declares that paralysis is a germ disease as truly as are tuberculosis and diphtheria. Dr. Emil Rechl says that what gave most English families of the upper classes the gout was the treaty that brought in the heavy wines of Portugal, which too heavy for use in the English market. The latest chair for the victim of seasickness has a movable seat vibrated by an electric motor, the sensation produced being much like that experienced by the motorist. Surprising relief to the sufferer is said to be given. Ultra violet light is claimed by Prof. Krommayer, a German experimenter, to have had remarkable effect in the treatment of falling hair and baldness. In 32 cases where every other remedy had failed, the light rays in some cases caused the hair, but in some cases the eyebrows and beard were restored, although the trouble was mostly of long standing. One of the meanchochly effects of working by artificial light is that it fades the eyes. Instances have been known, it is said, of deep blue eyes becoming light gray from prolonged work at night win no protection from the glare of the gas. Fortunately it is rare and medical treatment is sufficient at least of the brightness of the eyes when it has been lost. Retort Courteau "This bread," remarked young Wesleyer at the breakfast table, "is nothing like the bread my mother made." "And you," calmly rejoined Mrs Wedderly, "are nothing like the man my father was."—Chicago Daily News Second in Command. Stranger (sarcastically)—Are you the boss here? Office Boy—No; there's another of boys above boy—me. N. Y. Press. Are You Tired, Nervous and Sleepless? Nervousness and sleeplessness are usually due to the fact that the nerves are not fed on properly nourishing blood; they are starred nerves. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery makes pure, strong blood. She has the nerves of properly nourished and all the others of the body are run as smoothly as machinery which runs in oil. In this way you feel clean, strong and strenuous—you are oned up and invigorated, and you are food for a whole lot of physical or mental work. Bests all the strength and increase of health and health. The trouble with most tonics and medicines which have a large, booming salon for a short time, is that they are largely composed of alcohol holding the drugs in solution. This alcohol shrinks up the red blood compounds, and in the long run only it is not to be exglorated and better for the time being, yet in the end weakened and with vitality decreased. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery contains no alcohol. Every bottle of it bears upon its wrapper. The Badge of Honesty, in a full list of all its걸, is that the drug is to offer you something he claims—just as good—is to insult your intelligence. Every ingredient entering into the world-famed "Golden Medical Discovery" has the unanimous approval and endorsement of the leading medical authorities of the several schools of practice. No other medicine holds the right to be purchased, but not to be used for the purpose has any such endorsement. "The Golden Medical Discovery" not only produces all the good effects to be experienced by patients in root, in all stomach, liver and bowel troubles, in as dyspepsia, billiosus constipation, ulceration of stomach and pancreas, and in the golden Seal root treatment, but the golden Seal root treatment is greatly enhanced in its curative action by other ingredients such as Stone, mercury, yellowark, Bloodroot, Mandrake root and chemically pure tripartite refined glycerine. "The Common Sense Medical Advise" in paper covers on receipt of 31 one-cent coins, and only on receipting only. For 31 stamps the cloth-bound volume will be sent. Address Dr. R. V. Dr. Pleurose's Pleasant Pellets cure apaplication, billiosus and headache. If you think you have heart disease you are only one of a countless number that are deceived by indulgence into believing the heart is affected. the tonic-laxative, will get your stomach back into good condition, and then the chances are ten to one that you will have no more symptoms of heart disease. Sold by all dealers at 25c, and 50c. MAKE EVERY DAY COUNT- no matter how bad the weather. You cannot afford to be without a TOWER'S WATERPROOF 'OILED SUIT OR SICKER. When you buy look for the SIGN OF THE FISH A. J. FURMAN BROADWAY, P.A. TOWER CANAL OF LIFE, TOWER CITY, CA PILES: NO MONEY TILL CURED - SEND FOR FREE ILLUSTRATION OR TEXT DR. TROTHER & NINOR • 001-404-3155 • ST. KARA'S CITY MON., (OFFICE AT ST. LOUIS) (OFFICE AT ST. LOUIS) Deafness Cannot Be Cured Deafness Cannot Be Curd by host applications, as they cannot reach the dible ear. Deafness cannot be curd by careless care deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. 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At all Druggists C14 YOU CANNOT CURE all inflamed, ulcerated and catarrhal conditions of the mucous membrane such as nasal catarrh, uterine catarrh caused by feminine flus, sore throat, sore mouth or inflamed eyes by simply dosing the stomach. But you surely can cure these stubborn affections by local treatment with Paxine Toilet Antiseptic which destroys the disease germs, checks discharges the pain and heals the inflammation and soreness. Paxine represents the most successful local treatment for feminine ills ever produced. Thousands of women testify to this fact. 50 cents at druggists. Send for Free Trial Box THE R. PAXTON CO. Boss n. a. PILES: NO MONEY TILL DRS. TROPHONT A MINOR-100 ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE A Certain Cure for Tired, Hot, Aching Foe DO NOT ACCEPT A SUBSTITUTE CREAM CRE We do not change our system--for four years farmer. A few shipments will convince you the Write for tags and price. DES MOINES CREAMERY CO., 3rd CORDIAL INVITATION Tells How Mrs. Pink Helps Working Girls. Miss Barrows ham's Advice Girls who work are particularly susceptible to femal disorder especially those who are obliged to stand on their feet until night in stores or factories. (This Abby F. Berrout) **Miss Mary F. Borton** she out the girl tells, and she is often the bread-winner of the family. Whether she is sick or well, whether it rains or shines, she must get to her place of employment, she must get to the place of her pails and be agreeable. Among this class the symptoms of female diseases are early manifest by weak and aching backs, pain in the lower limbs and lower arms, and pain in the abdomen. There are frequent wetting of the feet, periods become painful and irregular, and frequently there are faint and dizzy spells, with loss of appetite, until life is a burden. All these symptoms are the female organism which can be easily and promptly curbed by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Miss Abby F. Barrows, Nelsville, Athens told me what this great man did for her. She writes: "Dear Mrs. Pinkham: — I feel it my duty to tell you the good Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I took them. I was very nervous, had dull headaches, pain in back, and periods were irregular, I had been to several doctors, and I was in better health than I was. "Your medicine has made me well and strong. I can do most any kind of work without complaint, and my periods are all normal." "I am in better health than I was and I know it is all due to your remedies. I recommend your advice and medicine to all." It is to such girls that Mrs. Pinckham holds out a helping hand and extends a cordial invitation to correspond with her. She is daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham and for twenty-five years has been advising sick women free of charge. He long worked with the Mills makes a letter of advice of untold value to every ailing working girl. Address, Mrs. Pinckham, Lynn, Mass. W. L. DOUGLAS $3.50 & $3.00 SHOES FOR MEN W. L. Douglas 4.00 Clit Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. W. L. DOUGLAS W. L. ALL PRICES BEST IN THE WORLD THE W. L. DOUGLAS ORIGINAL DESIGNER BLAZE AGENTS FOR W. L. DOUGLAS SHOPS ESTABLISHED JULY 6, 1878. CAPITAL $2,500,000 W. L. DOUGLAS MAKER & BELLOW MORE MANUFACTURER IN THE WORLD. YOU'VE USED this technique. The captain, at Brockton, Mine, and show you the inflate care with which every pair of shoes is made, you can see how much they cost to make, why they hold their shoes, fit better, wear longer, and are of great quality. W. L. Dempsey Strong Made Shoes for Man, $2.50, $2.00. Bays School & Drees Shoes, $2.50, $2, $1.75, $1.50. CAUTION.—Insist upon having W.L.Dongias shoes. Take no substitute. None genuine without his name and price stamped on bottom. Fast Color Eyelas used; they will not wear brussey. Write for Illustrated Catalog. BULLFROG INDEPENDENCE Our outright 100 acres lying between two big shipping mines at Bullfrog, Nevada. We are offering 500,000 shares for next three weeks only at 5 cents per share for double cents and stock will be listed on exchanges. If we strike nothing better than $15,000 we can pay 100 per cent dividends on your investment. Stock is non-assessable, our claims. No薪垫 officers, every failure, all failures, an vice president of two Goldfield Mining Companies and President of this one. I advise the immediate purchase of this stock at the ground floor offering of 5 cents per share. No less than 200 shares in the market and I advise its immediate purchase. Send all orders at once to me and I will have certificate of stock mailed. Also send to me for prospectus, etc. L. L. LUCAS, OIL CITY, PA. Save the Pennies You Can Buy the Big Ten Cake Package of On Time Yeast for 5 cents, warranted by the On Time Yeast Company to give satisfaction or money refunded. You can of of On Time" will cost you 10 cents and are in equal to three packages of any other brand for which you will pay 16 cents. The new sticker is worth as much as you as to the manufacturer of the seven cake package. Use On Time Yeast and get Ten Cents for 6 cents instead of seven. Ask Your Grocer for On Time Yeast WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISEER please state that you saw the Advertiser meant in this paper. W. N. U. DE MOINES, NO. 21, 1906 Add one all communications for these columns to the State Editor, Mrs. Helena Downey, 711 Buschaw street, Ottawa, WA. We cannot change yesterday—that is clear. Or begin on tomorrow until it is here; So all that is left for you and for me. Is to make today as sweet as can be. Youth's Companion. The May Dellueator (1905) presents the following collect for club women: Keep us O God from pettiness; let us be large in thought, in word in deed. Let us be done with faultfinding and leave off self seeking. May we put away all pretense and meet each other face to face—without self pity and without prejudice. May we be never hasty in judgment and always generous. Let us take time for all things; make to grow calm, serene, gentle. Teach us to put into action our better impulses, straightforward and unafraid. Grant that we may realize it is the little things that create differences; that in the big things of life we are at one. And may we strive to touch and to know the great, common woman's heart of us all, and, O Lord God, let us not forget to be kind! The value of the woman's club to the individual member, was the subject of a discussion by the members of one of our clubs recently. Four papers on the subject were read by as many members giving their ideas of what the club has done for them and what it would do for others. Gleaned from the papers read and from expressions by members who gave "testimony" at the close of the meeting at least ten definite benefits are derived, and this is a list of ten things the club was said to do for women: 1. Proves that men are no smarter than women. 2. Eularges the heart and broadens the mind. 3. Makes better wives and mothers. 4. Is woman's greatest educator. 5. Makes women more neighborly. 6. Creates a spirit of sisterly love. 7. Teaches charity, the sweetest of earthly virturas. 8. Is the greatest influence for real culture. 9. Teaches woman a higher duty than gossiping. 10. Association makes for the greatest good to the greatest number. The Iowa Federation of Women's clubs has reached its fourth milestone. The result of the work has been very encourageing from the small beginning of five clubs, it has steadily grown until now there is enrolled thirty clubs with at least four hundred associate members. The spirit of the Iowa Federation is investigative and introspective. It probes clear to the heart of things—believing that nothing is without a heart—and that in accordance with the fulness thereof, the mouth speaketh out contributio to the issues of life. We have come to realize that we are a part of the vast evolutionary tide of our age; that each act operates for the lasting good or ill of humanity, and the recognition of this truth has stimulated such a degree of righteous energy the sum total of events in the past four years evidences an encouraging increase in that inspirational influence which we call progress. Our State Federation stands pledged to those great ideas of liberty and progress which are the very breath of the future. The result of this oneness in the interest of humanity is the annihilation of sex limitation; for in God's vineyard "truth and liberty are a single light," and the consecration of the best to the needs of the world lifts men and women into that upper and ideal sphere of human unity. Here merit alone is the test and standard and infinite possibility is the goal of desire to be attained by all. There is no excuse for the mind that stumbleth in intellectual noonday, and in the rarified mental atmosphere of the centuries to come difficulties will be overcome by spiritualized reason, whose prophetically penetrating vision will be so quickened by divine illumination that it will be able to grasp and to solve the mysterious problem of the past, the present and the future. The club women regret very much that Mrs. Belle Graves who has so ably presided over the Federation for the past two yeas, has left the state. Rev. Graves having been given an appointment in St. Paul has moved his family. Mrs. Graves was delegate to the Federation at Davenport, form H. B. S. club and was elected State Organizer, at the convention in Cedar Rapids she was elected president, which office she now holds. During her administration the work has strengthened and systematized. Mrs. Graves has exerted much influence to raise the standard of our women, and her cultured refined manner ever impresses itself upon all who come in contact with her. The following clubs have united with the State federation this year: Dunbar Progressive club of Marshalltown; Dumas club of Albis; Eureka of Davenport; Woman's Loyal Union of Burlington; S. I. I. club of Burlington Morning Star club of Kaskau; E. L. Davis club of Davenport. Welcome to these colleges are three women who have co-operated with us that the work of race elevation, the purification and ennobling of the home life may move forword with more and more rapid strides. City Federation. Where there are three or more clubs in our cities and towns they should unite in a city federation that the more intimate knowledge of one's work will result in larger mutual sympathy and greater unity of thought, and therefore in more effective action. The object is to bring into communication the various clubs of the towns as the means of presenting any work of common interest, but no club entering the city federation shall, thereby lose its independence in aim or method or be committed to any principle or method of any other club. The last issue of the notes contained several article of interest of what city federation are accomplishing in their communities elsewhere. Let us have more city federation in Iowa. MRS. HELENA DOWNEY. Mrs. Helena Downey of Ottumwa Iowa, the State Organizer, is one of the moving spirits in Iowa of the Woman's Federation of Colored Clubs. She is perhaps the ablest of the many strong ladies who will meet here next week. She was its first president, in fact the founder of the organization. Her writings have which appeared in the columns of the Bystander have been read throughout the middle west with interest. She will be here next week. M. H. Mrs. Emma Gardner of Ottumwa who will be a worker at the Woman's Federation. Mrs. Emma Gardner of Ottumwa who will be a worker at the Woman's Federation. M. Mrs. I. B. Taylor of Ottumwa one of the active club women of the federation. Not if as Rich as Rockefeller. If you had all the wealth of Rocket feller, the Standard Oil magnate, you could not buy a better medicine for bowel complaints than Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The most eminent physician can not prescribe a better preparation for colic and diarrhoea, both for children and adults. The uniform success of this remedy has shown it to be superior to all others. It never fails and when reduced with water and sweetened, is pleasant to take. Every family should be supplied with it. Sold by all druggist. Stomach Troubles. Mrs. Sue Martin, an old and highly respected resident of Falsonia, Miss., was slick with stomach trouble for more than six months. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets cured her. She says: "I can now eat anything I want and am the proudest woman in the world to find such a good medicine" For sale by all druggist. ALBIA NEWS. The Dumas Club closed at it last meeting for this club year. Mr. Washington of Ocalaoca was in Albia this week. The A. M. K. Sanday School are making out and getting their children Day programme ready for Children Day. Mrs. Sidney Carlwright of Welfon Junction was a visitor in the city last week. Mrs. Minnie Reed of Lewistown, Mont. arrived 1 st week for a visit with relatives and friends, she was formerly a resident of this city and is a daughter of John Jones. The State High School meet was held here last Friday and several hundred visitors spent that day in the city, there was over two-hundred athletes that took part in the event, there was only one Afro-American, Ernest Erickson who was a Member of the East High School of Des Moines, he was entered in two events, the running broad jump and one half mile relay race. Mr. Erickson will graduate from the High School this year and will probably enter the State University next fall. The meet won by a margin of three points by the Ida Grove team West Des Moines was their closest contestant, L. C. Jones a student in the collegiate department gave a number of lectures before the Industrial Art class, his subject being "Education at Tuskegee," they were all well prepared and highly apt preciated by all who heard them and he was the recipient of a number of compliments. Thomas McDavis has disposed of his restaurant and accepted a position at the New Hotel that will open this week in Cedar Rapids. Claude Lewis was among the "Koosters" who came from Des Moines last Friday to assist in cheering for the West High School team. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Smith assisted by Joseph Brown entertained the Afro-American union club Thursday night of last week, besides the members of the club a number of visitors were present while, the evening was not a pleasant one for entertaining as it rained, yet all those who went were more than repaid for going out in the rain. Shortly after eleven o'clock an elegant luncheon was served, and all departed saying Mr. and Mrs. Smith are royal entertainers. Mas Elizabeth Bell and her brother Charles entertained a number of their friends last Wednesday night, a large phonograph played a number of selections during the evening which added pleasure to the other amusements enjoyed and as one of the guest said "you can always rest assured that when you go to the home of Bell's that you will have a good time and sure to get a good suppet" and such was the case. William LaValle of Cedar Rapids spent part of last Saturday in our city, he has been an employee for a number of years of the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City By. Company as stationary engineer. Rev. George W. Gaines Presiding Elder preached at the A. M. E. church last Tuesday evening. John Jones left for Mason City last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William Patterson, the Mesdames Mattie Dameron and Minnie Reed and the Misses Bessie and Effie Mason and Cora Brown, they all report a pleasant trip. Sciatica Cured After Twenty Years of Torture. For more than twenty years Mr. J. B Massey, of 3322 Clinton St., Minneapolis, Minn., was tortured by sciatica. The pain and suffering which he endured during this time is beyond comprehension. Nothing gave him any permanent relief until he used Chamberlain's Pain Balm. One application of that limb relieved the pain and made sleep and rest possible, and less than one bottle has effected a permanent cure. If troubled with sciatica or rheumatism why not try a 25-cent bottle of Pain Balm and see for yourself how quickly it relieves the pain For sale by all druggist. ENTERPRISE NEWS. The ladies of the Mt. Olive Baptist church sewing circle met at the home of Mrs. Nettie Hunter; after the usual business, ice cream and cake was served. Those present report a pleasant time. They adjourned to meet Thursday the 24th at the home of Mrs. T. Fifer. The Mt. Olive Baptist church was well attended, in the morning Rev. G. E. Green preached a good sermon, subject Like a Bottle in the Smoke, in the evening The Burden Bearer. The people of Enterprise have been busy cleaning, painting and papering their house and from the looks of things the women believes that cleanliness is next to Godlines. Let the good work go on ladies, because you are showing just how much you are needed. Mrs. G. E. Green entertained quite a number of friends Sunday evening. Fred Williams who has been visiting his parents in the South has returned. Mrs. Lottie Williams has returned after a long visit to her mother in Buxton. Rev and Mrs. G. E. Green will entertain a number of the young people of the Mt. Olive Baptist church Sunday. Mrs. Lane who was taken to the hospital last Monday sick is getting along nicely. Born to Mr. and Mrs. A. Lee a fine baby girl, mother and child doing nicely. Mrs Sarah Wells who has been sick is convalescent. Very low Rates To Boston, Class. Via the North-Western Line, for tickets to be sold June 2, 3 and 4, with favorable return limits, on account of American Medical Association Meeting. Apply to agents Chicago & North-Western B'y. BUXTON NEWS. Burchun Social and Business The baptizing of 51 candidates last Sunday closed the series of meeting held at the Mt. Zion Baptist church, their success was great Rev. Mendlehall pastor of the church was assisted by Rev. Caldwell of Missouri, also Rev. DuVall of Ottumwa. Attorney J. C. Robinson of Rickmond, Va., chief of the real estate department of the G. F. U. O. of T. R. was in the city for a few days and lectured to a large audience at the Baptist church the 9th after which he was entertained by the four fountains of True Reformers in their hall, over 90 guest were serviced. Francis Fields of Maryville, MO, was the guest of Mrs. Dora Baker and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Strother are now residents of Buxton. Oskaloosa's lost to Buxton's gain. The funeral of Mr. Lewis one of the old citizens of Muchakinock was held at the Baptist church, Rev. Mendlehall officiated. The remains of Mr. Daniels was taken to Des Moines for interment. Rev. Mendlehall accompanied the bereaved one to Des Moines. Attorney J. C. Robinson and wife were pleasantly entertained by the following: Mr. and Mrs. A. Perkins for supper the 12; Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Jackson for dinner the 12 and Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Southall dinner the 13th. Rev. Broyles of Springfield, Ill. a missionary for the Ambidexter Institute preached at the churches last Sunday. The best entertainment of the season was that of Mr. Cameron White. He rendered some excellent music which was greatly enjoyed by the audience. Mr. White was the guest of Secretary Johnson and wife. Those on the sick list are Mrs. Lillie Turner, messrs Reese Trigg, and J. H. Smith. Ethel Eubanks is visiting her mother and sister. Jennie Hardy was the guest of Anna Brown. The marriage of Miss J. Garland to Thomas Grigg was officiated by Rev. E. G. Jackson. The public school has been well supplied with visitors the past week the "mother's Day by Mrs. Jackson's was a great success. Mrs. Anna Walker has taken Mrs. E. Wilson's place in the post-office. The graduating exercises of the Eighth grade which will occur in the Y. M. C, A. Thursday night the 24, expects to be a great success. The marriage of Miss Adelaide Terrell to Alonzo Brooks is announced for the 29th. The Buxton students of Macon College are back again and all expect to spend the summer with us. The Rosebuds are preparing for a grand concert the 30th. Lawyer Woodson and cousin are in the city for a few days. Mesdame Gilliam and Mendlehall and son were entertained at Mines number 14 Sunday. The Y. M. C. A. is making improvement on their yard. Quite a number of our people went to Kansas City on the excursion. Mrs. Nelson Walker's mother leaves for her home Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. A. Oliver expects to depart for Virginia very shortly to spend the summer. Mrs. H. Freeman left for Clinton last week. CLINTON BRIEF'S Sunday was quarterly meeting at Bethel A. M. E. church in the absence of the Presiding Elder Rev. Jones of Davenport assisted Rev. Boyd. Elder Gaines is expected to visit Clipton Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Culberson and Miss Taylor were among the guests in attendance at the anniversary reception of Mr. and Mrs. Hughes of Davenport a few days ago. A few friends of Roy Watts dropped in on him a few evenings ago and helped him to celebrate his 17th birthday anniversary. A pleasant evening was spent by those present. Clark Ellis entertained his father over Sunday. Ben Hall of Chicago spent Monday here. May Taylor is one of the members of the class of 1906 who will graduate from the High School in this city early in June. What came near being a possible fatal accident took place last Sunday night when Jesse Smith and Mrs. Gertrude Harding were thrown violently from a buggy in which they were riding, after colliding with another vehicle. Mr. FRIDAY, MAY 35 Published every Friday by the BRYAN- ER Publishing Co., Des Moines, Ia. Iowa's phone 899. Official paper of the M. W. U. Grand Lodge of Iowa, A. P. & A. M., Iowa State Federation of Colored Women and International Grand Congress of Heroines of Jericho of America. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One year $1.50 Six months 75 Three months 50 All subscription payable in advance. J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Send money by postoffice order, money order, express or draft, to Iowa. State Bystander Publishing Company. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the public. "Brevity is the soul of wit," remember. Entered at the Post Office as second-class matter Smith was removed to the hospital where it was found he had suffered a fractured arm. Miss Harding also suffered to some extent by the experience. Miss Boyd is still quite ill at this writing. MINNEAPOLIS BUDGETARIAN. Kain, rain, rain well I should say so. The Cash Carnival band gave an excellent concert at St. James church last week. One of the swellest affair of the season was the living picture exhibit and musical given by the M. T. C. Art club at the Betthesda Baptist church Friday evening the 18th ecxia picture was well received. The entertainment was a financial as well as a social success. The City Federation held special services at St. James church Sanday evening. Papers were read by Miss Vicy Holder and Mrs. Mattie Wade. Mrs. Boyd rendered one of Dunbar selections, Mrs. Laura Hickman of St. Paul gave an interesting talk, Mrs. Lizzie Withers gave a brief talk on the object of the City Federation, a beautiful solo was rendered by Mrs. Jone Gibbs. The programme as a whole was very interesting and well appreciated by the audience. Mrs Jas Willis of Superior is visiting Mrs. Geo. H. Wade. Mr. and Mrs. Soruggs left Monday evening for Tennessee in hopes of improving the formers health which has been very poor for the past six months. Rev. Wade performed the marriage of Mr. Berry Ensley and Miss Cora Grey Sunday afternoon at the home of the brides' mother on 4th street South. Nathan Miller who has been confined in the hospital for the past three months with consumption passed away last Wednesday. His funeral was held Friday from the St. James church of which he was a member. He leaves a wife and one baby girl, besides a host of friends to mourn his sad demise. J. J. Carter of Mt. Pleasant came up to our city on an excursion Saturday evening and remained a few days. Mrs. Mary Mather of St. Paul was a visitor at the St. James parsonage Friday. Hear Clerace Cameron White the noted violinist at St. James church Monday the 28th. A grand May festival will continue three days beginning the 28th at the Zion Mission North Minneapolis, admission five cents. The young men's club will pive a May Musical at Bethesda Baptist church on the 23rd inst. The executive board of the State Federation will meet next Tuesday with Mrs. Jas. H. Dunn of St. Paul. Miss Sadie Marshall is visiting in Chicago. CEDAR RAPIDS NOTES. The entertainment given by the Relief Corps at the church last Tuesday evening afforded a great deal of amusement to those present. One feature of the evening was to secure apples with the teeth out to a tub of water. A number of persons were successful and aside from getting a rosy apple got a cool ducking also. Another feature, required everybody in the house to keep "num" for fifteen minutes under benefit of five cents a neat little sum of fines were collected. The J. S. Y. club held their meeting at the pleasant home of Mrs. G. M. Tyler. Alter a business session the ladies were served with ice cream and cake by the hostess who was Assisted by Mrs. Emary, Mrs. Sarah Boney who has been confined at home for several weeks with illness is still unable to be out. W. H. Milligan left Tuesday morning for a low days visit in Des Moines. Sunday was quarterly meeting, Rev. G. W. Gaines was present and delivered two excellent discourses morning and evening. Rev. Lewis filled the stand in the afternoon. Quite a number of Iowa City people attested the quarterly meeting services Sunday evening. While here they were the guests of Mrs. A. M. E. Jackson. The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fields will now find them on eleventh street and Eleventh Avenue West. Ed. Marshall was among the excursionists to Davenport Sunday. It is Dangerous to Neglect a Cold How often do we hear it remarked. "It's only a cold," and a few days later learn that the man is on his back with pneumonia. This is of such common occurrence that a cold, however slight, should not be disregarded. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy counteracts any tendency of a cold to result in pneu monia, and has gained its great popularity and extensive sale by its prompt cures of this most common ailment. It always cures and is pleasant to take. For sale by all drugstist. United Grand Lodge Iowa and Its Masonic Jurisdiction GRAND LODGE OFFICERS. W. H. Milligan, M. G. Grand Master, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Rural Route N2. S. L. Tiggs, R. G. Deputy Grand Master, Burlington, Iowa. D. Thomas, R. W. S. Grand Warden, Buxton, Iowa. T. H. Sturgis, R. W. J. Grand Warden, Southeast City, Iowa. A. A. Bland, R. W. Grand Treasurer Keokuk, Iowa. J. H. Shepard, Chairman of Committee on Forgiving.Co. Des Moines, Iowa. The local lodges are requested to send in a list of your elected officers so we can publish a complete roster of the lodges. (The Editor.) North Star Lodge, No. 2, A. F. & A. M—Meets first Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall—Northwest corner of Tenth and Center streets. E. Tracy Blagburn, W. M.; H. E. Jacobs, secretary. Mt. Olive Lodge, No. 17, A. F. & A. M—Over 120 First Avenue, Cedar Rapids, Iown. Meetings first Tuesday of each month. C. H. Searcy, W. M. 1004 9th avenue; L. D. Lowery, secretary, 903 S. 8th Street. Rescue Lodge, No. 25, A. F. and A. M—Meets 1st and 3rd Monday of each month, 8:30 p. m. 1423$^1$ N. 24th street, Omaha, Neb. W P. Wade, W. M., address 1612 N. 36th street, H. K. Hillion, Sec., address 911 N. 24th street. SPECTACLES MADE TO FIT ANY NE DESEASES OF THE EYE-EAR-MOSE & THROAT CURED EYES TESTED FREE DR. 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WE WANT GOOD AGENTS. WRITE FOR PRICES, TERMS, ETC. G $56^{25} $54^{25} $65^{10} $60^{10} $55^{10} WASHINGTON, IOWA, NOTES. Fred Turner visited in Ottumwa last week. Halp Motts and Theodore Turner went to the Twin City on the Iowa Central excursion last Saturday. Elmer Brown of Iowa City visited at the Geo. Crump bome over Sunday. Mrs. N. L. Black has returned from Chicago where she has been for the past six weeks. Mav. Payton of Muscatine held service at the A. M. E. church and administered ascension last Sunday. The Sunday School will picnic about the middle of June. May Stell will be the High School commencement and Jas. Crump will be one of the graduates. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Gwain a bouncing baby girl last Sunday. Mrs. Sarah Davis expects to visit in Muscatine soon. Mrs. Geo. W. Black and daughter Bath will visit Oakaloosa after school is oak Booker Washington appears on the programme of the Chautauqua for July 20. Mr. and Mrs. E. 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