Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. CITY NEWS (N. B. If you have relatives or friends visit with the city planning to make a visit, please form us: we collect all your local news.-Ed. Mrs. D. G. Patterson of St. Paul is visiting relatives and friends in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Coalson entered Mr. Gus Watkins at dinner Sunny. Miss Lillian Fields went to Chicago at Friday night for a visit with relatives and friends. Miss Olive Smith has returned from her vacation and resumed her position at the Brinnaaid china store. Miss Lillian Johnson left last Monday for Chicago after several visits in our city. When in Oskaloosa, Iowa call Mrs. Hannah Williams for od meals and rooms, by day or day, 211 A avenue East. Mr. R. N. Hyde and daughter, Miss Iah, have returned home from aasant trip to Chicago, Milwaukee, Joe and Benton Harbor, Mich. Go to Mrs. Vina Murrell for good rooms and accommodations, 80 E. 5th street, Davenport, la. Mrs. L. J. Courtney left this week for Spokane, Wash., to visit with her husband who is making that city his headquarters. Mrs. Lewis Blagburn left this week for Omaha to visit with relatives and friends. She will also go to Carroll for visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Laur before returning home. When in Burlington, la. stop at Mrs. A. A. Lamb for good lodging $1/2 Jefferson St. New Phone 258. 3mo. Mr. Edward Bradley who has been considered the "beau brunnel" among some of the young ladies, left this week for Chicago where he will make his future home, but don't be sad girls even if he has gone, remember "there are others." When in St. Paul, Minn., go to the Louis Kitchen, 317 Wabasha street, Mrs. Julia Hinson proprietor. Meals cents and up. For ladies and gentlemen. "Phone N. W. 2315-L. The Iowa State Fair will open next friday and as usual the management have secured some good attractions besides the large display of live stock, implements and farm products. FOR RENT—One neat furnished com, suitable for two gentlemen. furnace heat for winter, modern conveniences. Mrs. J. T. Blagburn, 379 School Street. Some very neat invitations have been received in this city which reads as follows: "China Wedding. Mr. I. L. Brown Miss Amelia G. Green married Wednesday August 25, 1886, at home Saturday August 25, 1906; 805 Woodbury street, Marshalltown, Iowa." Mr. Edward A. Carter of Buxton who is a senior in the medical department at the State University, spent part of last week in our city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. S. Joe Brown. Mr. Carter is spending his vacation in the office of Dr. Henderson, chief of the medical staff for the Consolidated Coal Co. of Buxton. The People's Restaurant, Geo. W. Bailey, Manager. A neat and pleasant place where meals and short orders are served in the best of shape at all times. Ice cream, pop on ice and cigars. Everything in season. 811 East Main street, Ottumwa, Ia. Mr. S. Joe Brown was one of the speakers at a picnic given at Colafax East Saturday, and in a very fearless and forcible address he told his audience what he thought of "pitchfork" Willman, S. Jharp Williams, Thos. Dixon and others who have so muchunity for our race. Miss Viola Jackson entertained a few of her friends at luncheon Monday evening. Dancing was enjoyed in the main parlor, while the west parlor was utilized for cards. The luncheon was served in the dining room from a prettily appropriate table over which was suspended a large Japanese parasol, among the guests was Miss Virginia C. Clair of Atchison, Kans. Cooking to order in home style Good rooms furnished. First-class service guaranteed. 8 W. Third St. IOWA PHONE 1816-X Mr. and Mrs. William Coalson left yesterday morning for a week's visit in St. Paul and Minneapolis. Mrs. R. N. Hyde and daughter, Gertrude, left Tuesday night for a few days visit with friends in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Miss Louie Gaines who is a teacher in the public schools at Kansas City, is spending a part of her vacation in our city. Early-Pierce. Mr. James Pierce and Mrs. Emma Early were quietly married at the residence of the bride at high noon, Sunday August 12. Only a few friends were present. Rev. Seymour, pastor of St. Paul's A. M. E. church officiated. The bride wore blue organdy over silk and carried bride's roses. Mr. Pierce, a progressive and intelligent man, has been connected with The Successful Farming Publishing Co. since his location in Des Moines. The bride has been a popular and active member of the A. M. E. church for many years. We extend our congratulations and wish them much happiness. NOTICE To the pastors, superintendents, teachers and other Sunday School workers of the A. M. E. churches of Des Moines, Carroll, Boone, Saylor, Newton, Marshalltown, Colfax, Mason City Iowa Falls, Indiana and other adjacent points, constituting the Des Moines Sub District of the Iowa P. E. District of the A. M. E. churches: You are hereby notified that there will be a sub-district convention of the pastors, superintendents, teachers and other Sunday School workers of the above named places held in the A. M. E. church, corner of Second and Center streets, at Des Moines, Ia., Tuesday August 28, 1906, commencing at 10 o'clock, a. m, and continuing all day and evening, for the purpose of discussing plans for the improvement of the schools of said sub-district and receiving instructions from the members of the District Normal Faculty, several of whom will be present. All pastors, superintendents, teachers and other workers of the A. M. E. Sunday Schools of said sub-district are urgently requested to attend. By order of MRS. S. JOE BROWN, Sub-Dist. Supt. Des Moines, Ia. LET US HELP EACH OTHER. In all large cities of the United States you will find Afro-Americans engaged in some business enterprise, and the question should come to every man, woman and child of our race who spend money, "are we helping those who are in business?" If we don't support our own race enterprises, who will? We say educate your children, which should be done, and after your sons and daughters have finished school they will ask, what are we going to do? As yet that question has not been answered successfully. For illustration, suppose we take two boy, one white and the other colored, let them attend the same school and college and receive their diplomas and have a good moral character and recommendations, then let them start out to secure a position with some businesss firm, and invariable they will say to the colored applicant "we have a porter now or don't need any at present." To the white applicant they will say we have no vacancies at present. The idea is this they do not think or will give the former applicant a trial at anything but porter work, yet he has the qualification as the white applicant. Then again let both of them start at some menial labor and in a few years the white boy will have a good lucrative position with that or some other firm, while the colored man is still washing windows and floors. Now is that a good inducement for a man to spend six or eight years in school? After he has finished the graded or ready for the High School, he will say why not take that time and money and accept some menial position and be satisfied. We have made inquiry about the number of clerical positions held by Afro-Americans in a number of the large cities, besides those who are in some branch of the U. S. Government, or a political appointment, and we found that they were very few considering the large number that are competent of doing clerical work. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1906. When you have money to spend most all business firms will give you a cordial greeting, but when you ask those same people for a position for your son or daughter they have no place for them, yet they employ a number of white people. Now the Bystander would like for every member of the race, wherever you find any place of business conducted by an Afro-American, to give him your patronage, and when you need a doctor or lawyer why not consult one of your own race, he is just as competent and needs the money more than a white professional man does, and if we patronize our own people and pay them just the same as you do others. They will succeed. Don't think because he is an Afro-American he don't need the money. Let us engage in more business enterprises and thus we will create more positions for our young people. We make this suggestion to all who are engaged in business, keep your places neat and clean and give your customers good service and never forget "united we stand divided we fall," and to be successful in the commercial world we must help each other. LEADER OF LYNCHERS GETS FIFTEEN YEARS. Salisbury, N. C., Aug. 10.—Geo. Hall, a white ex-convict, was tonight convicted of conspiracy for connection with the mob which lynched three Negroes here Monday night, and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary, the maximum penalty. This is the first conviction in this state on a charge of lynching. The jury was out-only thirty-five minutes. Congressman T. J. Kluttz, counsel for Hall, has appealed on the ground that Governor Glenn was out of the state when the call was issued for the special term of court at which Hall was tried and consequently that he had no jurisdiction. Mr. Kluttz brought up the point during the trial and at his request a subpoena was issued for the governor, who appeared and testified that he was at Atlantic City, N. J., at the time, but in order to do what he could to prevent a lynching he wired his private secretary to issue the commission and sign his name to it. He said he considered this a proper proceeding. The defense filed an objection, which was overruled by Judge Long. The state sprung a surprise at the opening of the trial by changing the charge against the prisoner from murder to conspiracy. The principal witness against Hall was Deputy Sheriff Julian, who testified that he saw Hall leading a party of thirty men from the mob. The officer had just arrested a man at the jail, and Hall who was armed with a hammer threatened to brain him unless he released his prisoner. The defense objected to his testimony, as also to that of other witnesses, but was overruled on every point. Hall was remanded to jail as soon as sentance was pronounced. He resides in Montgomery County, and has been a cotton mill operative. The cases of twenty-five other members of the mob, who are in jail here under strong military guard will be taken up at once. MASONS IN MISSOURI. The fortieth annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Missouri and its Jurisdiction which has just closed its session in Kansas City, was from every point of view the most notable gathering of its kind in the history of the craft in this jurisdiction. The address of the Grand Master, to which we must chiefly confine our remarks, was a thoughtful, scholarly and practical document and was most effectively delivered. It recommended several important matters for the good of the order, the chief of which being the recommendation for increased insurance, the annual premium being $4.00 and the amount of insurance to be paid being $200. Of this $200 it is rec- ommended that $150 be paid the beneficiaries of the deceased. $40 to the local lodge of which he was a member and $10 be put in the sinking fund of the relief department. It will be readily recognized how far-reaching in its effects this practical recommendation is. It means ultimately the endowment of the subordinate lodge, or at least increased financial strength and a strong relief department. The reports and addresses of all the other Grand officers showed gratifying results of the year's work and demonstrated very clearly that Masonary is making marked progress along all lines.—Omaha Enterprise. INSURGENT ARMY MADE UP OF NEGROES It was learned yesterday, however, that during the past few days many Negro women and men in Des Moines have been approached by members of the different committees. Big inducements are said to have been offered to secure the services of the colored people. Negroes who accepted the position offered by the soldiers will be decked out in true Philippine style. They will be placed at different points along the line of parade march and attacks from the bush will be made upon the veterans. The Negro women are not asked to spend so much exertion. They will be dressed in the regular costumes and driven around the city in carriages as captured Filipino belles.—Register and Leader. As a race I am inclined to believe that it is time for the Negro to realize that the white man is always ready to use him for the white man's advantages and gain, and much to the detriment of the Negro. What is there elevating in playing the part of the ignorant Filipinos? Isn't it evident that our white brother, has little thought of elevating or cultivating the Negro, when he seeks and encourages every act of bar barism which the Negro needs have eliminate? The church of God is praying for the heathen in the jungles of Africa, and missionaries are going with the gospel to those who are grouping in ignorance with no blessed Bible to give them light; while for money the white man is shipping rum to the heathen and standing on the shore laughing while the poor heathen murders his fellow man and demonstrates only the life and characteristics of a heathen. "The cake walk, coon songs and rag time music," originated among the Negroes, and they have no degree of intelligence in them and in nowise should they be encouraged by those who would have a part in the civilization and christianization of mankind. It is an age of thought, what are you thinking about? It is an age of business, what is your business? It is an age of action, how are you acting? It is an age of wisdom; but he who would for a moments pleasure or for a few dollars be a heathen is not wise. He who respects himself will demand respect. Rev. H. W. PORTER. Sign Articles for Big Fight Goldfield, Nev., Aug. 10.—Joe Gans and Billy Nolan, manager for Batling Nelson, signed articles last night for the Nelson-Gans fight in this city on Labor day. Gans agree to accept $10,000 as his share of the purse under the following agreement: Straight Marquis of Queensberry rules, to a finish, at weight agreed upon, 133 pounds, weigh in at 3 o'clock. Purse to be cut so that Nelson will get $20,000, win or lose; Gans to get $10,000, win or lose. Gans and Nelson each to post with John S. Cook & Co, bankers, of Goldfield, the sum of $5,000 upon signing articles of agreement. Remember there is no better Journal in the Middle West than the Bystander. It is regular, reliable and truthful. The Negro in the Congregational Churches of America (By Rev. Abraham Lincoln DeMond, pastor, pastor Congregational church, church.) Many of the members that have come into the Congregational churches have been guided by the missionaries sent among them, and a number are students and graduates of Congregational schools, colleges and universities. Especially was this the true of the early Southern churches when our domination was new, unknown and untreated. In later years, our growth has been by the natural means of church movement, the faithful presentation of God's word by earnest pastors and cooperation in soul saving by the offers and members. Revivals in Congregational churches are now of frequent occurrence. In no other way has the charge of cold formality in our churches been successfully answered as in the revivals of the churches, where hundreds have been led to Christ, our members have known the joy of real service and we have added such as might be saved." In connection with the seasonal spirit of baptism, and power much credit should be given Rev. James Wharton, an English Evangelist who came to America to engage in religious work among the colored people. He gathered his first congregation on the levee at New Orleans, where, with a hand-bell to announce his services and a cotton bale for a pulpit, he preached in the open air to all who would listen. He soon became his entire time to belfast work in the colored congregational churches going from city to city during the return to England in the Spring. Rev. Wharton has already given a quarter of a century to this noble cause and results have been seen in spiritually strengthened churches, thousands of converts and many additions to our denomination. MT. PLEASANT NOTES. Social Circles have been quite busy here for the past week. Mrs. Mary Christberg entertained a few friends Monday evening in honor of Mrs. Mary Bowner of Des Moines. The ladies of the home Culture club gave a o'clock dinner Thursday at the home of Mrs. Melvina Harris Mrs. Mary Bowner was the guest of honor. The very excellent dinner was served by Mesdames Reed and Rice. About sixteen ladies were present and all enjoyed a very pleasant evening. Mrs. Alfred Mason was at home to her friends Wednesday afternoon from three to six, in honor of her daughter, Mrs. Bowner of Des Moines. The afternoon being quite warm the ladies, numbering about thirty, took advantage of the delightfully cool cast porch. At the appointed time they were led into the dining room and served to refreshments in three courses. In the evening Miss Ione Mason entertained a number of young people in honor of Miss Ethel Bowner. A very pleasant evening was spent with games and music. The guests were then invited into the dining room, which was very beautifully decorated with cut flowers and the I. K. S. club's red and white. Refreshments were served by Miss Agnes and Ione Mason. Mrs. Bowmer and daughter, Miss Ethel, were guests of honor at a reception given Thursday evening by Mrs. Susan Grandison ann Miss Ruth Grandison. The lawn was brilliantly lighted and was a source of much pleasure to the guests. Those who remained indoors were entertained with a num- Price, Five Cents. ber of musical selections, both instrumental and vocal. All who were present spent a very delightful evening. Friday evening Miss Carry McCracken en gave a farewell to Miss Ethel Bowmer of Des Moines. About twenty young people gathered in the parlor, which were decorate for the occasion with cut flowers and the I. K. S. colors. A number of games were played during the evening, one being a drawing attraction, in which the artistic ability of the guests were tested; a prize was given to the best artist. Miss McCracken was assisted in serving refreshments by Miss Brooks. The guests departed at a late hour voting Miss McCracken a royal entertainer. An all men concert was given at the A. M. E. Church Thursday evening under the direction of Prof. T. L. Barnett. An excellent musical program was rendered, consisting of quartett music and vocal solos by Msara. Claud Burnaugh and Henry Stewart. A neat sum was raised for the benefit of the pastor. Mrs. Clay Reed visited friends in Pimroe over Sunday. Mrs. Bowmer and daughter Eth. I left for their home in Des Moines Saturday. Mrs. Hedge and daughter Ethel attended the fair in Burlington Thursday KEOKUK ITEMS. Miss Nellie Opal Kellis has returned home from Des Moines where she spent the greater part of the summer. She was accompanied by little Thelma Monroe of Buxton. Mrs Carrie Helms has returned to her home in St. Louis, Mo. Mr. A. J. Fields left Sunday night for Champaign, Ill. to attend the Grand Convocation on Knight Templars that convenes in that city this week. He will also visit Chicago and other points Mrs. Belle Banister has the honor of being appointed Sub District Superintendent of the A. M. E. Sunday School Mrs. Pickett of Monroe City, Mo. and Mrs. Buckner of South Western Kansas are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Johnson. Mrs. F. Johnson delightfully entertained at a 3 o'clock dinner Monday Aug. 13, in honor of Mrs. H. Green of Chicago, Mrs. Charlaton of St. Paul, Mrs Pickett of Monroe City, Mo., Mrs. Buckner of South Western Kansas, Meadames M. Johnson, Fry, Alonzo Drain, Taylor and Miss Ella Irinee of Hannibal, Mo., and Meadames Marie Jones and G. O. Bannister. Mrs. Henry Green of Chicago is the guest of her cousin, Mrs Belle Bannister. Mrs. Charlaton of St. Paul is the guest of Mrs. Crystal Fry. Miss Victoria Elliott of Chicago is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Jefferson. Mesdames A. S. Fields, F. D. Fields and Inis Kellis have returned from Quincy, Ill., where they enjoyed a delightful visit a few days last week. Mrs. Terrell, G. R. M. of the Grand Chapter of Illinois and juridiction, made Alpha Chapter of this city a visit Saturday night. Mrs. Ames Johnson has been very ill but is convalescent. Sunday August 12 was a gala day for the A. M. E. church people when they taken possession of their new church on Seventh and Morgan streets. The church is a large magnificent structure with a seating capacity, of eight hundred and a large elegant pipe organ which was the delight of every one present. A very pleasing feature of the opening day was the large vested choir which rendered very appropriate music for the occasion. The collection was also good: there was contributed during the day $117.60. Presiding Elder Gaines and Rev. Reaves of Fort Madison assisted in the services. "Make Hay. While the Sun Shines." There is a lesson in the work of the thrifty farmer. He know, that the bright sunshine may last but a day and he prepares for the showers which are so liable to follow. So it should be with every household. Dysentery, diarrhoea and cholera morbus may attack some member of the home without warning. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which is the best known medicine for these diseases, should always be kept at hand, as immediate treatment is necessary, and delay may prove fatal. For sale by all druggists. MUSCATINE NOTES. Mrs. Brown and daughter, Miss Eletta, have gone to Buxton, as the attending physician advised the change for her daughter who has been quite ill. Her friends hope for an early recovery. Mrs. Hart of Oskaloosa who has been visiting her son Arthur Manly, returned home Saturday after a three weeks visit. Mr. Morrison is an over Sunday visitor in Moline. The Dunbars gave a hard time social Tuesday that was well patronized and a neat sum cleared. Mrs. Bain and Robert Allen served a splendid spring chicken dinner last Sunday to Mrs. Grooms, John Bradly Samuel A. Barnes; they having won the dinner ylaying at croquette. The dinner was served in four courses. Mrs. I. P. Johnson left on the 4 oJlock train Saturday for Keokuk to attend the dedication of a new church and accompany her mother to this city, who in future will reside with Mrs. Johnson. We are glad to learn Mr. John L. Thompson acquired himself so creditable with his Muscatine partners, otherwise I think he would have made this an exception, laid down his mallet and no inducement would entice him take it up again. He well said the best croquet players of the state were to be found in Muscatine. We have 10 or 12 experts in the field at all times, also that "brother and sister," that won by a small margin will play him and partner at any time or place for $28.00 aside and expenses. Mr. Thompson must bear in mind that his partners were Muscatine players. First, Miss Maud Oualey, next Mrs. Ed Balm. They were too loyal to throw him down. Come again Mr. Thompson, but bring your own partner. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Carr entertained at their surburban home last Friday Mrs Hart of Oskaloosa, Mr. and Mrs. I. P. Johnson, Mrs. F. A. Grooma, Mrs. Sarah Woodson and Messrs. S. Barnes, Author Manly, John Hofe and Isaac Trusty. .Dinner and supper was served, other guests coming later in the evening. Ice cream and cake were served in plenty. The evening was spent with music and song, Mr. Trusty brought out his old violin and entertained the company with old fashioned melodies that was really enjoyed, bringing memories of by gone days. All departed regretting that such a pleasant day and evening had ended. Sunday was quarterly meeting, the Elder did not come. Summer Diarrhoea in Children. During the hot weather of the summer months the first unnatural looseness of a child's bowels should have immediate attention, so as to check the disease before it becomes serious. All that is necessary is a few doses of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy followed by a dose of castor oil to oleanse the system. Rev. M. O. Stockland, Pastor of the first M. E. church, Little Falls, Mindi writes: "We have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for several years and find it a very valuable remedy, especially for sum-disorders in children." Sold by all draggists. GALESBURG NEWS Mrs. Lizzie Horn and grandson of Chicago are visiting friends and relatives in this city. Jerry Johnson was among the excursionists enroute to the National Convention, G. A. E. He expects to visit in Minneapolis before returning home. Owing to a mistake the Fan Drill given by the young Misses of the Secaptist church was credited to Miss Thelma Scott. Mrs. Alexander had charge of the drill, after which the little Misses entertained the audience with a doll drill which was well executed. Mr. Luther Williams was a visitor in Galesburg over Sunday. The young gentlemen entertained their friends at the I. O. O. D. halt in honor of the outof town visitors. Among those present were Miss L. Bent of Quincy, guest of Miss Mason: Misses Mable and Clara Tarver of Moline whom are visiting Miss Daisy Settles of Moline. Mrs. Boone of Chicago who has been attending the Grand Chapter, O. E. S. in Quincy, Ill., is visiting in this city. Mrs. Boone is interesting in the upbuilding of our people. While in this city she is the guest of Mr and Mrs John Graves, 331 S West street Misses Aice Gorman and Mamia Bishops on Saturday in Galesburg. Honey Park Saturday in Chelsea. A party of about sixteen enjoyed a delightful picnic at Highland Park Monday afternoon. The young ladies started for the park about 2 o'clock and later the young men arrived. After various games and other diversions the ladies served a twocourse luncheon Boat riding and other amusements were then indulged in. Among those from out of the city were Miss Lenobia Brent of Quincy, Misses Mabel and Clara Tarver. Miss Addie Fletcher entertained a few friends at the dinner party Sunday in honor Miss Sittes and Misses Clara and Mabel Tarver. Mrs. Georgia DeBaptist-Faulkner is visiting friends in this city. Sunday at 3 o'clock she will lecture in the auditorium of the Second Baptist church. Mr. A. Harper has remodeled his barber shop and added another chair and is now prepared to do better work than ever before. Every thing first class, even the newspaper. Miss Bernice Gombe is visiting friends and relatives in this city. Miss Comba is well known in this city, having made her home with Mrs. H. Wells at her boarding house on West street last winter while attending school. The collector will appear at your door soon, will you please be prepared to pay promptly. If your subscription has expired don't discontinue the paper, but assist in maintaining a race enterprise. Teachers meeting from seven to eight Wednesday evening in the parrors of the Second Baptist church. All are expected to be present. --- Nature study, which has been transformed in a majority of cases into a nature recreation, has extended to a great variety of subjects, but has treated one important branch with curious neglect. Birds and butterflies trees, flowers, mushrooms, ferns and shells have their enthusiastic admirers everywhere; but a question as to the summer constellations, or the planets which are the morning and evening stars of the month, reveals the fact that 19 persons out of 10 can barely recognize the Milky Way and the Great Dipper. Yet what a door here stands open to the thoughtful mind? Night after night, over city roofs, the great procession passes; one need go but to the street or the window to watch. What child who has been taken out into the whispering darkness of a summer night or the splendid silver beauty of a winter evening for a star talk has ever forgotten it? The names may slip away, perhaps, but something—a sense of beauty, of mystery, of the unappealable wonder of the universe—remains undetectably. There have been children with other star memories. One of the prettiest pictures in biography, remarks the Touth's Beecher, is that of Lyman Beecher's children watching for the end of the long Puritan Sabbath and the release from constraint "when three stars came out." What friendly aspect the early stars must have worn to them all their lives, with the memory of their playtime signal! Nathanel Bowlitch, the mathematician, had other devices. His son says that the father's reward for good behavior was to draw one of the constellations, ihr dots of ink upon the child's hand Happy children, so to learn the stars in shining hour! Happy stars to be so linked with radiant memories! Doubless the stars may be learned from books or named from a professor's chair, but the parent who teaches his boy or girl even a little of the beauty and the glory of the heavens—who puts the sky into his childhood—gives him a memory beyond all price. Good-Bye to the Cowboys Land office officials tell us that the young farmers of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Illinois are doing most of the homesteading these days. Many of them have gone through hard apprenticeship as "hired man" and they are tired of working for wages. They want to get land of their own, and, what is more, they can tell good land when they see it. They know the value of land that will raise three crops of alfalfa and that will turn out enormous crops of almost anything under the magic touch of water. In many cases the man who has lived for years in the far west doesn't realize sharply enough the remarkable capabilities of the land. He is looking for a "smag"—something that can be watered with little expense. But the eastern farmer is quick to see that almost any of such productive land is a "smag," even if the question of water is going to be troublesome for a year or two. So it is the man from the middle west who is settling up the Rocky Mountain states. In a few years, says the Denver Republican, the careless cowpunchers and sheep herders, who missed their opportunities, will be working for the man from the middle west and wondering why Opportunity passed them by for some one else. Places for the Graduates About 40,000 young men and women just graduated from the universities and colleges of the country are now confined with the question, "What are we to do in life?" Quite apart from the three old-time "learned professions" are new fields constantly being opened by science and industrial developments. In will one day be found that scientific farming has attractions for the educated man and country boys who have received a college education will not all rush to the cities as they do now. Normally advice to the beginner, but advice approved by the test of time, says the New York Herald, is: Choose the occupation for which you have a natural bent, or if you cannot discover this an occupation that at any rate is not disaffected, and be prepared to win your way by probity and hard work. There is no other sure road to game the success. An English periodical, the Esquire, says New York's "Four Hundred" is made up of people who lack refinement and adds that there is no such thing as culture in America. How our English cousins do love us—when they can use us for their own profit. King Edward has declined with thanks an invitation to visit Canada. Is Edward to be numbered among those people who are afraid that if they take vacations their jobs will not be there when they get back home? The man who said the more he saw of men the better he thought of dogs must have been greatly pleased to read the story about the Newfoundland dog that swam out to where two boys were drowning a day or two ago and, letting each of them take hold of his collar on one side, swam with them to shore, nearly perishing himself before he accomplished it. King Johnson is a good deal of a pedestrian. That is, he can walk Spam. 6 CONVICTED MANAGER TELLS OF DEALS WITH ROAD. PAID NO RENT ON FREIGHT Employee of the Railroad Acted as Selling Agent for the Ice Concern, His Salary Being Paid by the Parent Company. Toledo, O.—Jafson C. Clements, member of the interstate commerce commission. Tuesday began an inquiry into the government the relation between the railroads entering Toledo and the ice companies shipper over these lines. Joseph A. Miller, manager of the Toledo Ice & Coal company, and one of the men sentenced to the workhouse by Judge Kinkade for compiary in restraint of trade, was the first witness called by the government. Miller's testimony was to the effect that previous to five years ago, when he became manager of the ice company, he was purchasing agent for the Ann Arbor railroad; but while an agent for the road he had sold ice for the ice company and was paid by the road, and that Wellington R. Burt, president of the Ann Arbor, and Harry Ashley, general manager, were directors of the ice company, and that practically all the stock in the ice company was owned by the railroad people. He further testified that the office of the ice company is located on Ann Arbor railroad property, but that no rent was paid. The 100 or 125 men sent each year by the ice company to cut ice were carried free by the Ann Arbor road until 1994, when a flat rate was charged. Miller testified that as manager of the ice company he traveled over the road on an annual pass. The most important witness of the afternoon session was Wellington B. Burt, once receiver and president of the Ann Arbor railroad. Mr. Burt testified he was president of the road when the Toledo Ice & Coal company was organized, that he suggested the organisation and confined the employees of the railroad to become stockholders in the concern, but that he did not know the road carried freight for the ice company free of charge. He knew the ice company was using the railroad real estate as a basis of operations, but this was done by other companies which produce freight. In regard to free or reduced freight rates for the ice company, Mr. Burt said it is the custom to hand freight an half rates for building up industries. When asked by Commissioner Clements if he did not think it had policy for an official of a railroad to be interested in industries along the line and thus be in position to discriminate in rates, Mr. Burt replied that if he had it to do over again he would do exactly as he did in order to build up the business of his road. Employees of the Ann Arbor certified that supplies and men were carried over the road free of change for the Toledo Ice & Coal company. H. E. Meyers, local freight agent of the Pere Marquette railroad, was the last witness for the day. He said the Michigan Lake ice company was the principal shipper of ice over his road, but he had no records to show that the company was given a lower rate than other ice shippers. When asked to furnish the ice rates of his road as he himself would want to know what they were, the witness laughingly said he did not think he wanted to know, but would cry and get the information. ENCYCLICAL STIRS UP FRENCH Belief Exists That Page Seeks to Sue sure Favorable Compromise. Paris.—The pope's encyclical to the archbishops and bishops of France prescribing their attitude with regard to the church and state separation law attracts widespread attention here, and its probable effects are the subject of animated discussion. At the archbishopric it was stated that no steps have yet been taken to insure the continued operations of churches. The view generally prevails that the Vatican seeks to create a situation compelling the government to enter into negotiations for some form of church organization that will be acceptable both to the church and to the state. Paving Teller la Accused. Birmingham, Ala. - Within 12 hours Monday Alexander R. Chisolm, paying seller of the First National bank, was arrested charged with the embezzlement of $77,000 of the bank's funds, given a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner R. B. Watson, put under bond of $50,000 and failing to make it is in the custody of the United States officials at one of the principal hotels of the city. Vendetta in Territory Marietta, L. T.—The killing of Dr. Graham, of Holder, L. T., who was shot dead about a month ago by Ben Steward, was avenged Tuesday when unknown persons shot Steward from ambush, killing him instantly. Farm Latin-American Club. San Jose, Cal.-An international association entitled the Latin-American club has been formed here and will be extended through all the Latin-American countries. A general meeting will be held soon. Great Strike Ended Adams, Mass.—The sutle in the four mills of the Beverlys Cotton Manufacturing company ended Monday and 3,000 employees will return to work Thursday. Treasures W. B. Pinkett granted several concessions. Allege Miss Case is Image. Oyster Bay, N. Y. — Lunacy proceedings were instituted Monday against Mimi Ash L. Buse, or Elizabeth Cause, who created a disturbance during the church service attended by President Eisenhower Sunday. PROBING. GETTIN' ANYTHING BILL? ROOT TELLS ARGENTINA WE WILL DEFEND ALL AMERICA CONCERTED PLAN TO MURDER DEATH OF A FAMOUS REPORTER SECRETARY OF STATE ASSURES SISTER REPUBLIC OF OUR, FRIENDSHIP — NO OLD SCORES TO SETTLE. Buenos Agres.—At the official banquet at the government house by President Alcorta in honor of Secretary Root, to which only the diplomatic corps and high officials of state were invited, the secretary made what was considered the most important speech he has delivered while on his tour. Rising to tender the secretary an official welcome, and proposing the health of Mr. Root, the president traced the similarity in the constitutions, progress, and success in overcoming obstacles, of North and South America. He dwelt especially on the mutual advantages of closer friendship between the races. Mr. Root, in replying to the official welcome, thanked the president in behalf of President Boeveuille and the "millions of citizens in the United States." Then he said: "We inherit the right to be interested in the Argentine Republic, and to be a member of the Argentine people. Stands for Manage Deptrine. "From the time when Benjamin Rush was fighting, from the day when James Monroe threw down the grant, let of a weak republic, we were then in defense of its independence and rights, and from that day to this the interest and the friendship of the people of the United States for the Argentine Republic have never changed. We rejoice in your prosperity. We are proud of your achievements. We feel that you are justifying our faith in free government and self-government; that you are maintaining our great thesis which demands the possession, the enjoyment and the control of the earth to the people who inhabit it. So how can the people of the United States help feeling a friendship and sympathy for the people of Argentina? "I deemed it a duty to come in response to your kind invitation to say this and to say that there is not a cloud in the sky of good understanding. There are no political questions at issue between Argentina and the United States. There is no thoughts of grievance by one against the other. There are no old grudges or scores to settle. Each Nation in Study Other "We can capture in each other's property. We can assist in each other." Bombs and Revolvers Cause Terror to Russian Officials. St. Petersburg—Acting apparently with a definite plan, and at a signal the terrorists and revolutionists Wednesday inaugurated a carnival of murderous attacks with bombs and revolvers on the police and troops in various cities in Poland, echoes of which are heard from Samara, Ufa, Yalta, Kiev and even far away China, where Acting Chief of Police Pinchencio was slain almost on his own doorstep. The revolutionist campaign famed out with especial vengeance at Warsaw, where over a score were slain in the streets and many more were wounded. Three Badly Hurt in Wreck Chagatun, Falls, O.—A special car on the Cleveland & Eastern electric road, carrying 55 passengers, collided with a milk car while running at high speed near here Wednesday, resulting in the injury of three persons. Forest Fires in Minnesota. Bewhakh. Minn.—Several large forest fires are burning fiercely west-south of this place. Hundreds of acres of second growth and thicket have been burned over and still the flames sweep on unrested. Named to Succeed Adama Madison — John M. Nelson, of Madison, was Tuesday nominated for congress by Republicans of the Second Wisconsin district to fill out the unexpired term of the late Congressman H. C. Adams. Dewey Succeeds Baggel! New York—Admiral George Dewey Tuesday was elected governor general of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert B. Roosevelt. er's development. We can be bound of each other's successes without hindrance or drawback, and for the development of this sentiment in both countries, nothing is needed but more knowledge; that we shall know each other better and that not only the most educated and thoughtful readers of our countries shall become familiar with the history of the other, but that the entire body of the people shall know what are the relations and what are the feelings of the other country. "I should be glad that the people of the Argentine Republic, not merely you, Mr. President; not merely my friend, the minister of foreign relations, not merely the gentlemen connected with the government, but the people of Argentina, might know the feeling with which the people of the United States are their friends, as I know the people of the Argentine Republic are friends of the United States. "I have come to South America with no more specific object than I have stained. Our traditional policy in the United States of America is to make no alliances. It was indisposed by Washington. It has been adhered to by his successors ever since. But, Mr. President, the alliance that comes from unwritten and unsealed instruments, as that from the convention signed and ratified with all formations, is of vital consequence. "We make no alliances, but we make an alliance with all our sisters in sentiment and feeling in the pursuit of liberty and justice, in mutual helpfulness, and in that spirit I beg to return to you, sir, and to your government and the people of this splendid and wonderful country my sincere thanks for the welcome you have given me and my country, in my person." Mr. Roof's speech was received with vociferous applause and the greatest possible satisfaction. Forest Fire in Minnesota Biwikab, Minn. — Several large forest fires are burning fiercely west-south of this place. Hundreds of acres of second growth and thickets have been burned over and still the flames sweep on unrestricted. Much damage has already been done aside from the burning of wood. Many settlers have been forced to abandon their homes and have lost most of their property. Wild animals are invading the limits of the villages. Unless rain falls with in 24 hours valuable tracts of owl will be destroyed. Man Who Took Noted Trials and Speeches Dead at Washington. Washington.—Franches H. Smith one of the first official reporters of congressional debates, died Tuesday at Washington. Conn. where he was born March 11, 1829. For many years he had been a prominent banker here. Daniel Webster was one of the first men Mr. Smith reported in congress, and later Mr. Smith reported for the Associated Press the court martial of the Lincoln conspirators and the subsequent trial of John H. Surcatt. Another famous trial he covered was that of Gen. Daniel Stickles for the killing of District Attorney Key. Two Killed by Boiler Blast Three Rivers, Mich.—The boiler of a mint distillery on the farm of William Mohney, three miles from this city, exploded Wednesday, instantly killing Mr. Mohney and his son Roy, and wounding two of Roy's children. Clark's Assessment Raised Butte, Mont.—The board of equalization assessed W. A. Clark $1,000,000 on his San Pedro railroad stock, $2,440,000 on his United Verde mine, and raised his bank assessment $449,000, an increase of nearly $4,000,000. All Quiet at Panama New York—Dr. R. A. Amador, consul general of Panama in this city, received a cable dispatch from the secretary of his father, President Amador of Panama, assuming him that all was tranquil on the lushus To Segregate Negro Solidium Leavenworth, Kan.—Fluids are being perfected to have all colored troops in the United States army stationed at one post because of care feeling at many points where both whites and colored men are stationed. AN OLD PAINTER'S IDEAS The autumn season is coming more and more to be recognized as a most suitable time for housepainting. There is no frost deep in the wood to make trouble for even the best job of painting and the general seasoning of the summer has put the wood into good condition in every way. The weather, moreover, is more likely to be settled for the necessary length of time to allow all the coats to thoroughly dry, a very important precaution. An old and successful painter said to the writer the other day: "House owners would get more for their money if they would allow their painters to take more time, especially between coats. Instead of allowing barely time for the surface to get dry enough not to be "tacky," several days (weeks would not be too much) should be allowed so that the coat might be set through and through. It is inconvenience, of course, but, if one would suffer this slight inconvenience, it would add two or three years to the life of the painter." All this is assuming, of course, that the paint is the very best to be used. The purport of the white lead and the purport of lined oil unmixed with any cheaper of the cheap mixtures, often known as "White Lead," and all which has been doctored with fish oil, benzene, corn oil or other of the adulturers known to the trade are used, the precautions of the skilled painter are useless to prevent the cracking and peeling which makes houses unlightly in a year or so and, therefore, make painting bills too frequent and costly. House owner should have his painter bring the ingredients to the premises separately, white lead of some well known reliable brand and lined oil of equal quality and mix the paint just before applying it. Painting need not be expensive and unsatisfactory if the old painter's suggestions are followed. Objects which are usually the objects of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they He under our eye—Pliny the Younger. To Wash Velvetsoar Valvette may be washed by shaking it about in warm Every Soap suds; then time thoroughly and let it dry. Dry on no account squeeze or wring in. Be careful to hang it it straight on the line; for otherwise in it may fall. FLEAANDR. PARKER Intoxicants in Vegetables Vegetables not only contain stimulants but are capable of producing an interesting influence on those who depend on them exclusively for food, according to an investigator. He uses a case in which some young people of his acquaintance suffered from partial intracognition as the result of a purely vegetable meal. The University of Norweig Danne is appears, has some features that can not be disputed in any other school. It is one seminal institution reaching college, with seminal institutions reaching university, with a distinguished staff of prenuitive students library and laboratory equipment, with a parental kind—strong without being aggressive, and as it embodies in its scope and as it embodies in its school and college work, it appears in appeal. Perhaps the most remarkable patient. Perhaps the most remarkable university, however, is the fact that the Norweig Danne has present marvelous development absolutely without endowments. An announcement by Norweig Danne appears on another page. Rich Women Have Troubles The idea that fashionable women are too busy and had too many interests to feel acute sorrow over their broken crockery was disproved the other day when Mrs. Sunvesant Flush went into the principal dry goods store in Newport with a friend who stopped to watch a man who was selling cement for our glass and called to Mrs. Flish: "Oh, here is a cement for our glass which not only mends it but makes it ring as clearly as if it were new." Mrs. Flish called back: "My servants break so much of my glass now that it is heartbreaking and if they knew it were possible to mend it they would break it all, so I don't care for any, thank you." Grocer Was Getting Even. "That was tic for tac with a vengeance," said Walker Christie, the automobilist, apropos of a quarrel between two French chauffeurs. "In reminds me of a grocer I used to know in Palma Rock. This grocer went over to the jeweler's one day to get a new crystal put on his watch. The latter as he dined and cleaned the crystal suddenly fushed. He bit his lip and frowned. His hand trembled so that he could hardly go on with his task. Finally, handling the watch to the grocer, the jeweler said in a resumed voice: "Beg pardon, but didn't I just see you put a couple of rings and a scarptin in your pocket?" "Sure you did," said the grocer, bodily. "When you come to my plance aren't you always putting things in your mouth?" A WINNING START A Perfectly Digested Breakfast Makes Nerve Force for the Day. Everything goes wrong if the breakfast fast lies in your stomach like a mud pie. What you eat does harm if you can't digest it—it turns to poison. A bright lady teacher found this light breakfast of eggs and toast. She says: "Two years ago I contracted a very annoying form of indigestion. My stomach was in such a condition that a simple breakfast of fruit, toast and egg gave me great distress. "I was show to believe that trouble could come from such a simple diet, but finally had to give it up, and found a great change upon a cup of hot Postum and Grape-Nuts with cream, for my morning meal. For more than a year I have held to this course and have not suffered except when indiscretiously varying my diet. "I have been a teacher for several years and find that my easily digested breakfast means a saving of nervous force for the entire day. My gain of ten pounds in weight also causes me to want to testify to the value of Grape-Nuts. "Grape-Nuts holds first rank at our table." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a pension." Read the little book, "The Road to Wellsville." Many Hebrews Are Said to Been Killed or Have Wounded. RUSSIAN REIGN OF TERROR Outbreaks Reported From All Parts of Empire—Polish Revolutionists Especially Active—Government Unable to Accomplish Much. London, Aug. 17.—A Warsaw telegram to the Jewish Chronicle says: "After yesterday's disturbances, the police quelled, 250 Jews were killed of wounded, 250 soldiers." Another dispatch to a news agency from Odessa says that early yesterday morning fifteen anarchists took possession of the railway freight station there, killed a police inspector and three policemen who resisted them and carried off $8,000. NIGHT OF HORROR. Policemen and Soldiers Killed and Wounded by Terrorists Warsaw, Aug. 11-It is now stated that during Wednesday's massacre thirteen policemen, four police sergeants, seven gendarmes and four soldiers were killed and that eight policemen two sergeants, two gendarmes and six southers were wounded. The soldiers in replying to the attacks on the police with volleys and charging the crowd killed thirteen men and two women severely injured ninety-four persons and slightly injured ninety-four. During the night shots were heard throughout the city, but the casualties have not been ascertained. WAR OF TERRORISM Seems to Have Begun in Earmest in Russia. St. Petersburg, Aug. 17.—The war of terrorism which the fighting organization of the social revolutionists declared immediately after parliament was dissolved, seems now to have begun in earnest. From all parts of the empire the telegraph belongs the same story of attacks on police officials of all classes, accompanied in the majority of the cases by plunder. The Polish and revolutionists are especially active. There is a veritable sign of terror from the Vistula to the Germain frontier. Almost fifty cases of assassination were reported early Wednesday night. The Novoe Vremya heads its list of murders and other crimes, "St. Bartholomew's Nights in Poland." The resumption of terrorist activity on a large scale renders the task of the government more difficult and darkens the prospects of the present ministry in accomplishing anything in the direction of an amelioration of the situation. While for the moment the campaign of the terrorism to be successful requires the vision of the more conservative public opinion against the wild excesses of the extremists, it is at the same time certain to force the government to rebalance the measures of repression which it is claimed will in the end drive public sympathy back to support almost any means of relief. Some of the dispatches from Poland assert that the outcaste of terrorism is in resiliation for the wholesale arrests and repressions of the governor-general. The government announces that the new parliament will not be deprived right to rewrite the budget for Several liberal papers have been permitted to resume publication either under their old names or with new franchises. Danville, Ill., Aug. 17.—Joseph G. Cannon, speaker of the national house of representatives, was renominated unanimously for congress by the republican congressional convention here yesterday and given credentials setting forth the belief of the delegates to the convention that he is the finest candidate of the republican party for the office of president of the United States. "The speech which Mr. Cannon delivered to the convention after his nomination by acclamation, defies Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in the speech he delivered to the injunction bill. The laynotes sounded by the Cannon was to "stand pat." He praised the tariff to the smallest letter of the Dingley bill. He stated emphatically that the tariff should be revised only when revision would do more good than harm to the great mass of people. G. A. R. ELECTS R. B. BROWN COMMANDER Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 17.—Commander in Chief R. B. Brown, Zanesville, Ohio. Senior vice commander, William H. Armstrong, Indianapolis. Junior vice commander, R. B. Fenton, Detroit. Chaplain in chief, Archbishop John Ireland, St. Paul. Surgon general, W. E. Johnston, Lincoln, Neh. The above officers were elected yesterday as the annual meeting of the Guard Army of the Republic. All other officers were staff appointments and will be announced later by the new commander in chief. The strongest opponents of Mr. Brown are honor of being commander in chief of Missouri and Capt. P. E. Curtis of Kansas. Both of these withdrew when it was seen that the election of Mr. Brown was a certainty. Head Cut Off Bits Tube Grass Davernport.-While on his way to a "walks" over the remains of his dead friend, Michael Garvey, Thomas W. Brown was run over by a street car and hind his head and both feet cut off. Death was instantaneous. The Most Successful and the Richest of Iowa Fraternals Tells of its Plan and Achievements Funds Aggregate $583,017.43—Total Membership 60,000 From the statements issued on August 1 of the Brotherhood of Iowa can Yeomen, whose headquarters are in the Yeomen Building at the Moines, can be gleaned some interesting facts. The total of all the funds of the association aggregate $583,017. Since January 1, by economic agement, these funds have increased a total of $79,133.30. The society's antifiling committee composed of three members of the society from three different states has just made a right and exhaustive audit and investigation of its finances and other affairs, and this committee's exact language follows: "We took particular care and laid to make a thorough audit of the accounts, and are pleased and excited to report that we found everything correct. "We find a very healthy condition of the Society on a solid financial basis. We find no irregularities and no indications of any efforts at malnutrition. We believe the Supreme Council in charge of the different departments, to be conscientious men, and working for the benefits and interests of the good body of loyal Yeoman." The Iowa State Insurance Commissioner's report issued last Saturday by Auditor Carroll, indicates a very favorable condition for the Yemen Society. It also indicates that it is the leading and the richest Iowa insurance Company. There are a total of 15 Fraternal Societies, which are organized under the laws of Iowa. Although the Yeomen is only one of the 16, it has more than 14 of the membership in the state. There are a total of 76,718 policy holders of Iowa institutions in Iowa. Of the number, the Yeomen have 21,06. William Koch is the Grand Treasurer of the Company, and W. E. Davis is Chief Correspondent. The Yeomen board of directors is composed of four successful men chosen from four different states. FLIGHT OF AN AIRSHIP Amusement Program for Fair De Moine That—The games man has at last accomplished the seemingly impossible, the imitation of the flight of birds, will be dem- signed to thousands of creators lowa people at De Moine on Mon- day, August 27, when a dating ae- list in the famous Kansahine as- ship makes the journey, over 500 people from the State Fair grounds to the capital and return. The capital and return. The only successful American art are the demonstration will be by the manager of the prizes at the Portland and St. Louis expositions and who recently went aboard shipping over the dome of the national capital and enduring the Washington monument. The four evening entertainments for fair visitors will have for background a garden scene on canvas 10 feet long, especially designed for the Iowa State Fair. The dwarfs will be the finest ever seen in Iowa. The management has spared no expense in procuring the best music and the highest class wandeville, and the latter includes the wonderful Miller Arena, allowing elephant acrobatics to ever brought to this country from Europe; Castellane and Valo; in the "four gaps of death," a marvous dead-defying feast; the four Pickards, in extraordinary casting and return exhibitions of skill; the Buckeye in acrobatic grotesque conventions works; the Pelican zonies, in soul-sitting drills and wall-scaling exhibitions; Marinette and Sylvestre, in bimous as modern acrobats, and the Darkknight fun making music. The chief music will be by Liberals' military band, of international reputation, assisted by Fur-trim, Darton. It will thus be seen that the sturdy amusement feature of the Iowa State Fair this year will be better than ever before—literally a complete show in itself, more amusing than could be got anywhere else in the world for the price of admission. The editor of the Grindstone (S. D. Bue is evidently not fond of a certain cook in that town, for this is what he wrote of her: "Miss Fowler, the accomplished cook at the Fowler Inn, has quite an accident last week. She baked a branch of biscuits which weighed less than a pound each." A comedian who achieved popularity in the East appeared in a comedian in a Western mining town. At the end of the third act the mines rose in a body, gathered up their belongings, and started to depart. The comedian, in dismay, rushed behind the curtain, "Gentlemen," he said, "there is another act yet." "Yes, to escape it we are going," said the miners. A member of the French legislature went to a dentist to have a tooth extracted. The dentist, before drawing a tooth, drew a revolver, and compelled the patient to have every tooth in his head extracted. The dentist was cancer, and the patient was mad enough to bite him. A certain woman in Erie, Kansas, can always find something to worry over. Lately she has been getting herself almost to death for four her husband will die first and go to heaven, there to enjoy the society of his first wife, while the second is far here on earth to struggle all alone. Mme. Malm is to appear in juggling a new role, that of pinster, but, though she has just recovered from a severe attack of influenza, it is not because she has lost her voice. She is to play the accompaniments at a London concert for her protégé, the contourist Miss Jane Almine, who comes from New Zealand. Malm, by the way, is an Australian. At this concert another of her protégés will sing, the Karaoke Clor apperance, Miss Elizabeth Baldwin (Purithecina), who took her place in a tour some years ago, when she was prevented by Illness from shoring. IOWA STATE NEWS Events of Recent Occurrence Throughout the Commonwealth. $350 FOR A STAMP. HAMILTON IS NOMINATED. at Des Moines Discloses Fine Collection In That City. Sigourney Man Chosen for Congre as Moline.—That one Des Moline has a big fortune tied up in post stamps was brought to light this when the sale of one stamp to M. Hubbell for $350 was made wn. C. H. Griffith of the Guest co company has the largest collection in Iowa and in the west, the valuation being, according to the internal catalogue list, $45,000. Mr. prizes his collection highly is constantly dealing in the post ups of the United States and other a stamp which was sold this week such a price is a $5 proprietary up of the issue of 1875. The scarcity of the issue makes the stamp of equal value. All Mr. Griffith has sold to Mr. cell over $6,000 worth of stamps over the year and among them come the 1875 issue, both postage and rev. all Mr. Griffith has at his home, Eighth street, a complete collection of all stamps ever issued by the government and the United It is one of the fifty complete stamps. previously sold to D. T. Eaton of rutine a stamp of the same issue sat sold to Mr. Hubbell, which once taken to the meeting of the philatelists' convention at the museum specimen and there is a great specimen and there is a great aid for them. Mr. Griffith has not been as a philatelist and is in the museum best informed in the United States on postage and their values. WRONGED WIFE. Faithless Husband and Interloper Both Arrested. seaport.—Exasperated beyond ence at the breach of faith of bour husband and a girl she 'had beaten. Mrs. Horton Whitney has both her husband and the girl ardu. Mrs. Whitney took the young Bertha Grove, into her home seven months ago, the girl being utter-itute, having fled from a little in Illinois to avoid disgrace. gave birth to a child and was in the Whitney home, Mrs. Whit-erself going out and working in the city, she was time ago Mrs. Whitney went to aid home for a visit and upon her be found that her husband had maintaining elicit relations with girl. Whitney was given thirty on the rock pile by the judge in her testimony. In her testimony she asserted at Whitney had told her be intended ling his wife. REVOLTING SUICIDE. German Killis Self at Home of His Son in Bremer County. Barteroo—Frederick Kries, aged committed suicide at the home of Rev. William Krier, near Bremer county. He first shot in the head and afterward razor to cut his throat. When he was shot, he returned just as he was prepared to kill himself, he shot at and drove them from the house, they returned with neighbors found the body on the floor in blood. He had made prepara to return to Germany to visit his wife. It is thought that demented. G GIRL SHOOTS HERSELF. City Girl Was Depondent Over Chum's Death. City —Grief stricken over the of Josephine Shackleter, her lie, whose lifeless body she carry to its last resting place, Newman, a seventeen-year-old not herself immediately on her from the cemetery. She was in her position, and in her shoulder. She refused on the subject, but it is be she was despondent over the of her friend as they had been able for years. range Death of Young Girl bridge —A Miss Jones, enm in Major Donahue's family near her bedroom. She was apparent the best of health and was in to leave for a visit with her in Illinois when stricken. It opened heart trouble was the of her death. She was 18 years **From Eating Fly Poison.** Falls—Fly poison killed the months old daughter of Mr. Arthur Morris, a lawyer left dining room and evidently climbed on the bed and stuck her fingers in some position that had been set on the table near the wall support of reach of the child. **To Be Shot Or Muzzled.** City—Mayor Sears issued a notification ordering all dogs to be muzzled in view of the state that the Pasteur Institute that invented there for treatment by other dogs and seven others was raid. The victims of the bites are being hurried to the institute for treatment. Performing at Sioux Rapids browning a rapids—Glen Jacoby, a young man from Rapids, was educated here in the Little Sloux river, in swimming. He was a protégé of E. C. Jacoby, the photographer. The river is high and mud from the recent rains and the body has not been recovered. **W. Wade Will Not Run.** City—In a public statement the man Martin J. Wade of the announces that he will not be democratic nominee for con- servative the second district. **On His Way To Work.** City—Earl Lay, sixteen years old, died by a Rock Island train on his way to work. HAMILTON IS NOMINATED: Sigourney Man Chosen for Congress by Democrat Ottumwa.-Daniel W. Hamilton of Sligourney was nominated for congress at the 61st district democratic convention held in the Grand opera house of the 18th. The nomination was made on the third formal ballot as follows: Hamilton 60: Weaver 38 The nomination was then made unanimously early after the nomination Mr. Hamilton was escorted to the stage and addressed the delegates. Following this G. M. Tripp of Colafax addressed the convention on behalf of Gen. J. B. Weaver, who was at his convention passed resolutions indolingous the platform adopted at Waterloo. In regard to the recent exposures, the resolutions say: resolved that graft, greed, and gall should be monopolies exposed and appears in insurance, in meat packing, in food adulteration, in Standard Oil, in coal, investigations in rebates, in loblots, in the private trade, in public defense with law making and affairs political, are triple relics of barbarism. SUPPOSED DEAD FOR 17 YEARS. Sioux City Man Returns to Family After Long Absence Sloux City.—After an absence of eighteen years, during seventeen of which no word to indicate that he was still alive has reached his relatives, John Campbell, frightfully changed by the ravages of disease and hardships which he had undergone during the Boer war in South Africa, suddenly presented himself to his wife and children. Eighteen years ago Campbell, who was a member of the left for Seattle with the intention of locating and making a new home for his wife and six children. A year passed by and the father sent encouraging reports of his progress on the Pacific coast. Then, seventeen years ago, Campbell was sent to Seattle day until a few days ago the family of Campbell were convinced that he was no longer among the living. It is supposed that the Seattle fire affected the man's head. The meeting was apparently peacefully pathetic. The wife swooned and the children were greatly moved. WOULD END LIFE WITH ACID. Young Farmer Attempts Suicide While Temporarily Insane Charlton—Andrew Gookin, a prosperous young farmer of Liberty township, attempted to end his life by drinking a quantity of carbolic acid. He was undoubtedly insane when he committed the deed. His wife says that she had noticed signs of mental abberation for a week and had kept it under control, but might attempt to end his life in that manner. He seemed possessed of the idea that his friends had all forsaken him and that no one cared for him. He was found dead, and was found there a short time afterward by his wife, who called him, and getting no response, feared that something was wrong and went in search of him. His condition is excellent but it is thought he will recover. BOLT STRIKES BANKER B. A. Lamason of Ankeny Killed by Lightning in Storm Des Moines.—B. A. Lamason, bachelor, fifty-three years of age, cashier of the bank of Ankeny, was struck by lightning during on electrical storm and almost instantly killed. Lamason was in his barn when the owl came. Art Hall, a liveryman, saw and felt the shock, rushed to the barn. He barely in time save the unconscious banker from the burning building. Lamason died a short time after. The barn was destroyed. Mr. Lamason was one of the best cost popular residents of Polk county. He was an Odd Fellow and also prominent in the Congregational church. CARTER IN THE FOURTH Nominated for Congress by Acclamation by Democrat New Hampton. — The democratic congressional convention for the Fourth Iowa district was held here on the 14th. M. E. Geler of this city presided and A. R. McCook of Howard county was secretary. Strong tariff for regime only resolutions were adopted. M. J. Carter of Ossian was nominated for congress by acclamation. Mr. Carter accepted the nomination in a brief speech and promised to be heard at length before the campaign closes. STIRTON IN FIFTH Monticello Banker Democratic Nominee for Congress. Cedar Rapids.—Robert C. Sirton, a banker of Monticello, Jones county, was nominated by the democrats of the Fifth district in convention here upon a platform reaffirming the platform of a democratic state convention in Waterloo. In his speech thanking the convention he said that the democrats accepted the challenge of the Oyster Bay conference, and he insisted that he will grant for revenue only. He will make a speaking campaign against Congressman Cousins. Jumps Into Well After Child. Boone.—While playing about the yard the little three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. C. Clark fell into a twenty foot well, almost to the top with his head called to the mother who immediately climbed down into the well by means of projecting bricks and grabbing the baby with one hand was about to pull him when her foot slipped and she saw the drowned son of neighbors at that mother come to the rescue and saved him and child. HERITAGE OF CIVIL WAR. Thousands of Soldiers Contracte Chronic Kidney Trouble While in the Service. The experience of Capt. John L. Ely, of C. E. 17th Ohio, now living at 500 East Second street, Newton, Kansas, will interest the thou-sayer who came back from the Civil War suffer-ing tortures with kidney complaint. Capt Elysays: "I contracted kidney trouble during the Civil War and the occasional attacks finally de- win interest, the thousands of veterans who came back from the Civil War suffering tortures with kidney complaint. Capt. Elysays: "I contracted kidney trouble during the Civil War, and the occasional attacks finally developed into a chronic case. At one time I had to use a crush and cane to get about. My back was lame and weak, and besides the aching, there was a distressing retention of the kidney secretions. I was in a bad way when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills in 1911, but the remedy came me, and I have been well ever since." Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box, Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Lots of people would be glad to get rid of their experience for less than they paid for it. All creamy dresses use butter color. Why not do as they do—use JUNE TINT BUTTER COLOR. Mexican Coffee Kaiser's Favorite. The German emperor is very fond of Mexican coffee, and now drinks none other. Thousands of Men Wanted at Once to Harvest the Crops in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Low rates in effect from all points on the Minnesota and St. Louis Railroad. Tickets on sale daily August 1st to 31st, 1906. Splendid wages are offered, ranging from $1.75 to $3.00 per day, including board. For rates call on Agents or for particular addresses, A. B. Cuts, G. P. & T. A., Minnesota, Minn. King Doing Equestrian Stunts. King Edward has taken to equestrian exercise as a means of keeping his weight down. Since the rabbit hole mishap, which lamed him, his majesty has been unable to take walking exercise. Superb trumpet, Splendid Scenery en route to Niagara Falls, Muskoka and Kawartha Lakes, Georgia Bay and Temegami Region, St. Lawrence River and Rapids, Thousand Islands, Algonquin National Park, White Mountains and Atlantic Sea Coast resorts, Niagara Falls Railway System. Double track Chicago to Montreal and Niagara Falls, N. Y. For copies of tourist publications and descriptive pamphlets apply to Geo. W. Vaux, A. G. P. & T. A., 135 Adams St., Chicago. Foreign Born Men of Fame Of the 300,000 Canadians engaged in business or following professional pursuits in the United States many hold prominent posts. "Who's Who in America" mentions 245 Canadians. Allowing one-eighth of those born in Great Britain but brought up in and therefore rightly to be credited to Canada, the number of Canadians becomes 276, or 2.3 for every 1,000 Canadian in the United States. With the comparison to be compared the British rate per 10,000 of 2.2, that of 2.1 for the Dutch, that of .5 for Swedes, and that of .9 for native Americans (black and white), or 1.9 for native white Americans. Chamble Skin of Commerce Chamalea SKIN of Comm. Charles C. Druswell, of Philadelphia, has written a guide for the subject of Journal of Pharmacy on the subject of chamolea skins. What is known in the market as chamolea skins, he says, is really an oil-tanned sheep or lamb skin lining. The supply of skins from the chamolea animal is very limited—enough could not be obtained in a year to supply the United States for more than a single day. He made special inquiry on a recent visit to Switzerland about the annual crop of the chamolea skin and ascertained that from 5,000 to 6,000 skins would be a fair average yearly crop. The heavier than the skin of the sheep or lamb skin coarser. For strength and durability the chamolea skin is preferable, but for ordinary use and appearance the oil-tanned sheep skin lining would, in most instances, be preferred. AN OLD TIMER. Has Had Experiences. A woman who has used Postum Food Coffee since it came upon the market 8 years ago knows from experience the necessity of using Postum in place of coffee if one values health and a steady brain. She says: "At the time Postum was first put on the market I was suffering from nervous dyspepsia and my physician and repeated for me the advice to take it carefully prepared, finding it delicious to the taste. So I continued its use and very soon its beneficial effects convinced me of its value, for I got well of my nervousness and dyspepsia. "My husband had been drinking coffee all his life until it had affected his nerves terribly. I persuaded him to get him to make the change for the Postum is delicious. It certainly worked wonders for him." "We soon learned that Postum does not exhilarate or depress and does not stimulate, but steadily and honestly strengthens the nerves and the stomach. To make a long story short our entire family have now used Postum for eight years with completely satisfying results, as shown in our fine condition of health and we have noticed a rather unexpected improvement in brain and nerve power." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Increased brain and nerve power always now the use of Postum in place of coffee, sometimes in a very marked manner. Look in pkg. for "The Road to Wellyville." PECULIAR MEANS OF DEFENSE Small Daggers of Light Sent Out by the Centipade. Among the peculiar powers of animals there are none harder to explain than the power of being self-luminous. it is sometimes termed phosphorescence, but it is not now supposed to depend upon phosphorus in the animal. A correspondent of Nature describes her experience with a luminous centipede which shows the evident purpose of the luminous substance as a weapon by a light of brilliant blush-green that moved forward over the gravel, leaving behind a trail of light, which gradually separating, became a scattered mass of brilliant points. The scattered pons proved to be red ants, which were pursuing the centipede. It had discharged this luminous liquid over them. The centipede was picked up and put in a tumbler where it flashed out a mass of light. When the hand was placed over the tumbler to prevent the escape of the captive, strange light appeared on the surface of slight charge of electricity. The centipede would write the light out of its body in blue-green flashes until it had exhausted its luminosity and ceased to shine. Defense seems certainly to be one of the uses of this secretion. BIG NEW SHOE BUILDING. It is Dedicated by the W. L. Douglas Co. at Brockton. The dedication a short time ago of the new administration and jobbing house building erected by the W. L. Douglas Shoe Co. as a part of its mamth manufacturing plant at Montello was marked by the thoroughness and attention to detail characteristic of the firm in all its undertakings. The dedicatory program included open house from 11 a. m. to 8 p. m. with concert by the Mace Gay orchestra and the presence of a Boston caterer to attend to the wishes of all. The building itself afforded a feast for the eye, especially the offices, which are marvels in many ways. Fifteen thousand invitations were sent out, including over 11,000 to the retail dealers in the United States who handle the W. L. Douglas Co. shoes, the others going to shoe manufacturers and all allied industries in Brockton and vicinity. Mr. Douglas will be glad to have anybody who is interested call and inspect the new plant, and visit all departments out. All departments of the plant were open for inspection, the three factories as well as the new building, and visitors were received and escorted through the industrial maze by ex-Gov. Douglas, assisted by the heads of the various departments. Under the present system all shoes are manufactured to order, and customers sometimes lose sales waiting for shoes to arrive. With the new jobbing house they will be enabled to have their hurry orders shipped the same day they are received. The new building is 260 foot long and 400 foot wide with a 20-foot height. The jobbing department will occupy the entire lower floor, while the offices will occupy the second floor. The jobbing department will carry a complete stock of men's, boys', youths', misses' and children's shoes, slippers, rubbers and findings equal to any jobbing house in the country. Buyers are especially invited to come here to trade, and every effort possible will be made to suit their convenience. There will be a finely appointed sample room on the second floor, with an office in which both telephone and telegraph will be used, with operators, both Western Union, Post Office and wire to be used. There will also be arrangements for the receipt and despatch of mail. World's Cotton Consumption World's cotton The consumption of cotton from 1893 to 1898 was limited only 9,000,000 bales annually in the whole world, but from 1898 to 1903 the average was 10, 684,148 bales annually, and the average price was three cents per pound greater than for the previous period. If the consumption increases at the same ratio during the next five year period the average will be nearly 13, 000,000 bales annually, and the prices will be much higher than in the previous period. This indicates a prosperous future for the cotton producer and manufacturer, as well as for the export trade. Homeseekers' Excursions. The Minnesota & St. Louis R. R. will sell round trip excursion tickets every Tuesday to points in Minnesota, Iowa, the Dakotas, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and the Canadian Northwest and on the first and third Tuesdays of each month to points in the South, Southeast, West and Southwest. Liberal one fare plus $2.00 and less. Liberal limits and stop-over privileges. For rates and further particular calls on Agents or address A. B. Cuts, G. P. & T. A., Minnesota, Minn. Nicotine in Tobacco A scientist writes: "The essential quality for which tobacco is smoked or chewed last not really in the leaves themselves, but is contained in thousands of hollow-knobbed hairs which cover their surface. The vital shine is garnered in the tongue of the hairlily but is possible to shave off these hairs, and would be a scarcely commendable achievement if it could be undertaken, it becomes necessary to preserve the whole foliage for commercial purposes." Smokers Shown by Handwriting. Mr. Saunders, a former schoolmaster, told the British house of lords committee on juvenile smoking that he could detect smokers by their handwriting—that of boys who smoked being a loose, fabby kind. Handwriting, he said, was a cinematograph of the heart. Lal凹 Like Checker Board. The country in which the large towns are most nearly equidistant is Holland. They are at an average distance of 20 miles from one another. Mrs. Winnlow's Soothing 37pp. Mrs. Winnlow's Soothing 37pp. Familiy cat alpine paints windboil coats, in bottles. As a rule, a divorced woman acts as though she had been born that way. What is Castoria. CASTORIA is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregorio, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend. The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been made under his personal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. Finds Time for Christian Duties. Sir Andrew Fraser, governor of Bengal, virtual ruler of $8,000,000,000 president of the Calcutta Y. M. C. A. SORES ON HANDS Visitors Never Tire of Beauty & Famous Cathedral. Often as I have seen Notre Dame, the marvel of it never grows less. I go to Paris with no thought or time for it, busy about many other things; and on them, on my way over one of the bridges across the river, I see it again on its island, the beautiful towers high above the high roofs of houses and palaces, and the view, now so familiar, strikes me afresh with all the wonder of my first impression. The wonder only seems greater. If I turn, as I am always tempted, and walk down the quays on the left bank, the towers before me and with every step coming more by the Pont Neuf, to the island, and at last to the great square where Notre Dame fronts me in its superb calm—Elizabeth Robins Pennell, in The Century. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM BRIGHTNESS DISEASE DIABETES BACKCHAIR contaminated by the use of ketoconazole contaminated by the use of sulfonamides Gold only in limited situations. MONARCH STUMP PULLER Will pull atumper 7 feet in diameter Guaranteed for 10 months and a stainless KOOKAH PINES. 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We also offer nursing, Architecture, Law, Shorts, Bookkeeping, and Special Department for Both TERMS: Board, Ticket, and Laundry. $900. Send ten tickets to the Registrar for Collection A 300-Page Cook Book Free Raven . WASHINGTON, IOWA, NOTES Miss. Sally Shelton and daughters, Blanche and Hattie and son, Walter of Chicago, are guests at the Lewis Wallace and G. W. Black homes. Henry Hickman who left Washington, his former age ago has not been hard from yet. Walter Williams is expected home this month from Knoxville, Tenn., where he has been attending Knoxville College the past year. Rumor has it that he will not be alone when he returns. Miss. N. L. Black are home from their two weeks' visit in Chicago. Samuel Hall has returned from his visit in the TrClites. Ralph Mottis is visiting Chicago and expects to visit Miss. S. Shelton and D. C., before returning home. He expects to be gone about two months. Leon Mottis is engaged at the John Shields & Son coal yard during the absence of his brother Ralph Mottis. Miss Babe Bucke returned to her home in Oskaloosa last Friday after he attended visit with friends in the city. Edna Jones returned to her home in Oksaloosa last week after a pleasant visit with her sister Miss Jesse Jilese. Marie Marie Redd entertained the Miss Blanche and Hattie Shelton of Chicago at dinner last Sunday. William Campbell has recovered sufficiently to be at his post again as she polisher on the southwest corner of the square. The store is not standing the hot weather as well as her friends would hope. She has not been in the best of health during the hot season. The Washington County Chauauqua is August 23 to September 2, and we will be visiting Washington always has the best attractions she can get. YANKTON NEWS Mr. Howard L. Marion, who for over a year has run a barber shop on West Third street left for Crafton last week, where he expects to enrol in the college. Watt and Millard Dowdy were down for a few days' visit with relatives. for a few days' visit with relatives. The Willing Workers met last week at the home. Miss Mary Dowdy, an Aralia Bedford program, some of the numbers of whom were reading, Miss Mary Ferguson; Solo Mary Arabella Dowdy; reclamation, little Helen Dowdy; reclamation, little Mary Dowdy; reclamation by Mrs. Mary Jones, Mr. John Jones and Miss Dowdy was given, after which ice cream and cake were served to quite a large crowd. The report proves that the girls were presses both socially and financially. Mrs. Leroy Kinney and Miss Lettie Mitchell entertained Revs. L. W. Watts of Alcedor, S. D., and L. T. Stewart of Elk Print, S. D., (both white) and Rev. G. Gains, Jas. of J. Marion at stk o'clock dinner last Wednesday. Mr. Louis Smith arrived from his Rosebud claim for an extended visit with relatives. Mr. Clinton Dowdy is visiting in Sloux City a few days. Mrs. Stewart and sacrament were conducted here last Wednesday. Rev. Stewart assisted Rev. Gains in giving the sacrament. Miss Katie Goodlow left last Thursday for an extended visit in Wyoming. Miss Lettie Mitchell is expecting to visit in Sloux City soon. in Stokla City,呼和浩特. Mr. and Mrs. Askew of Sioux City, Thursday for a few days visit at the Dowdy home. They returned Saturday, accompanied by their little niece, Helen Dowdy. Mrs. Ed Gamble entertained Rev Jas. Washington at dinner Sunday. On account of slight illness Mr. Benny Robinson was unable to be out Sunday. CEDAR RAPIDS Mr. Frank Saddler has returned from Chicago where he made a pleasant visit with his brother, T. J. Mrs. A. E. Price who was quite ill last week is able to be out again. A small party will be held at the home of Mr. and W. H. Milligan Senior Office to witness the semi-annual honey harvest. The process of extracting the honey by machinery and the talk concerning the lives and habits of the bees were both interesting and instructive. A number of ladies and gentlemen spent a pleasant afternoon in Hiverside Park last Thursday. Mrs. William Martin chaperoned a picnic party of young people in Beverly Park. Mr. (pele) Peter Johnson is still quite ill at his home on S. 8th street. Mr. George Tyler was the victim of a painful accident last week. A large piece of ice fell on his foot, making it necessary for him to use crutches since. Arrangements for the barbecue on August 23rd are nearly completed. The price was attacked with sudden illness last week, but is much improved now. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. D. Claybrook, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Greene, Mr. and Mrs. Eubanks, Mr. and Mrs. only make their California future home. they will make their future home. HAPPENINGS AROUND CLINTON Jas. W. Cooper of Morrison, spent Sunday in Clinton. Jao. L. Thompson, wife and daughter, of Des Moines, passed through Clinton to Chicago, they had intended stopping in Clinton for a visit, but owing to other arrangements they decided to continue on their journey. Mrs. Laura Williams of Aurora, Ill. visited the past week in Clinton, the guest of Mrs. W. A. Emerson. Themes had not occurred year after the visit no doubt was an enjoyable one. At a recent session of Bethel A. M. E. S. S. M. O. Culberson was elected Superintendent and Mrs. S. C. Smith Asst. Supt. Mrs. P. F. Taylor left Saturday for Moultonville where she will be the guest of friends. We are glad to see Miss Boyd so much improved as to be able to get out again. August 16th marks the 67th mile stone in the life of our old townman, Wm. A. Emerson. His friends hope he may survive many more milestones. Among the large number of people who attended the excursion from Chicago this week were the following: Mary Brown, Meeger, Jao, and W. L. Luckey of Chicago and Mont. Watts of Sterling. No doubt there were others but we were unable to get their names. When you have relatives or friends viding you, give them their names to the correspondent, that they may receive proper recognition. At a recent meeting of the Y. P. S. C. F. of Bethel A. M. E. church the following officers were elected for the ensuing six months. President—M. O. Cuberson. Wife President—Mrs. S. C. Smith Secretary—Miss May Taylor Corresponding Secretary — Miss Barbara Boyd. Treasurer—Miss Estella Bush. Bethel A. M. E. Sunday school will picnic at Eagle Point Park Thursday. A FEW WEEKS IN COLORADO. On account of the cheap rates to Denver for the Elks convention, I and my father made a visit to the great Western City. We found it a city full of vim and push, a good number of buildings, healthy and nicely. We have three brothers in the city was the cause for making the visit. On arriving July 16 we found the streets crowded with people and for two weeks or ten days this continued all through the Elk turn out in the city. The parade was held in the park and the United States. There is a great deal to be seen in Denver visiting the various parks and gardens. Some of the parks we visited by name are the City Park, a large garden of flowers, trees, birds and animals. It also consists of two large lakes, the boat and skiffs and a pleasure riding are let out on the lake, also music by the best bands play every evening. Next is Elktt Park with every amusement for old and young, the old mill, the theatre, which gives a play every night in the week, moving pictures, the theater, the midday engine, hanging swing and a number of other things. Manhattan Beach is in the form of an island. It also has a large lake, a theatre, a zoological building, dancing hall, roller places of amusement and a fishing resort. But this is only a few of the many pleasure resorts in the city. The State Capitol is a beautiful building on Capitol hill. From the dome of the building you can view almost every part of the city. Inside may be seen birds, animals, and reptiles, and animals from the various mines of stones from the various mines in Colorado. The Plate River is the largest body of water but there are a number of other mincreaks and streamlets in and about the town. Colorado Springs is a summer resort about skifty-five miles from the town. The Rocky Mountains, just a two mile ride on the street cars from here will bring you to Mannato, Uteilon Springs, the Garden of the Gods and to the foot of Plike's Peak. Here are some wonderful things in the nature study and some of the mountains. But most interesting of all is the trip from Idaho Springs to Denver, a distance of about thirty miles and for about fifteen or twenty miles of this riding through the mountains. This is a continuous stream. There are many things running along side of the track. The train has an incline as going around through the mountains there are some very pretty sceneries along this road. The table rock for one, a broad top mountain like a table, another a mountain of the mountains. There is a mountain in Idaho Springs a silver and gold mining camp, there are many things of interest, the town is located in the mountains. Mountains ranging to each side of it with mining towns and mines in and about the town. It is located the Idaho Springs, the Blue Ribbon Springs, said to be just one mile above the sea level and the Big Five bath house and Hot Springs. Names of some of the mountains here are the Indian Chief, the Squa, and Papaoseation Peak, a mountain. It consists of two large reservoirs and a few miles from Idaho Springs there are other things of interest. We also visited the Mattle Mines, about two quite a number of things here are organized and the process in which they seep ate the rock from the other ore. We also spent a few hours in Fort Logan a town about eight or nine miles from Denver, but did not get to visit the guard houses but viewed the grounds on out to Citizens Lake and lake Henry on a fishing party. In Denver I have visited two of their largest colored churches, the Shorters Methodist Church, a very fine structure and the Zion Baptist, another very fine church. The Stateman is a colored paper in Denver, edited by L. E. Franklin. May P. Davis. Unnecessary Expense Acute attacks of colic and diarrhoea come on without warning and prompt relief must be obtained. There is no necessity of incurring the expense of a physician's service in such cases if Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is at hani. A dose of this remedy will relieve the patient before a doctor could arrive. It has never been known to fail, even in the most severe and dangerous cases and no family should be without it. For sale by all druggists. MARSHALLTOWN NOTES. Mrs. G. R. Warn entertained in compliment of Mrs. C. H. Watson of Mason City from 2.30 to 5 o'clock. A four course luncheon was served. There were ten ladies present. Miss Castoria Crawford entertained a large number of young folks at a holiday party. A pleasant evening was enjoyed by all. Times are looking better in our city and every one seems to realize that winter is coming. Well fellows, the vag law is working fine and everyone is stepping lively. It seems strange to why we any one who has some one else looking to him for support don't get a decent job of work and earn an honest living. Well, well, papa is still mad at eanlard. Say I would not run if I were you. I guess the wedding bells won't M. "I WOULD RATHER BEGIN NOW AS A POOR BOY, THAN TO START AGAIN IN THE CONDITIONS WHICH SURROUNDED MY EARLY LIFE." Don't fail to read James Creelman's remarkable character sketch of Thomas A. Edison in Pearson's Magazine for August. Fifteen Other Great Features and Articles. With the August Pearson's the price advances to 15 a cent or $1.50 for a year's subscription. During the months of July and August renewals (to be commenced at the expiration of present subscriptions, or new subscriptions at the end of each year) a fifty-year subscription will be accepted. Your resident newspaper can handle your order and make a commission for himself or you can order by mail. Address: 420 East Place, New York City ring in this neck of the woods. There is no one to pull the rope. There are quite a number of colorful boys working for the Great Western. It is said that Mrs. Cottoms of Des Moines, was in our city for a few months. The carnival is here. Don't go broke trying to buy it up, and some We snowmill foundry is still looking for good colored men. Some good people have moved into Marshallown. Work is good and now is the time to get a steady position the year. Some people say we do not read enough and as a unit it is true and from time to time we will refer you to some book or magazine and the subject to be read if you please. Go to the public library and call for the station. Century Museum for May and June. Now lets like courage from the kind words spoken of us and get off of the play grounds and step into the work shop, store or business house of our own. Mr. G. L. Suter entertained in complete Mrs. Watson of Mason City from 2 to 5 o'clock and a large number of club ladies were present. Mrs. L. L. Brown entertained at dinner Sunday Miss Mattle Walker. Your humble servant just heard that a wedding was pulled off in the south part of city, protected. But the saying is, both were from Des Moines. PRESIDING ELDER GEO. W GAINS. Appointments. August 22, 23. Clarinda. August 24. Bedford. August 25. Osceola. August 26. Charlton. August 27. Indianola. August 28, 29, 30. Des Moines. September 1. Saylor. September 2. Newton. September 3. Colfax. September 4, 5. Buxton. OFFICERS OF THE IOWA STATE FEDERATION. Second Vice, Vice President—Mattie Warrick, 915 center street, Des Moines, Iowa. Recording Secretary—Cyrene Trent, Burlington, Iowa. Corresponding Secretary—Lella Shaw, 797 Oakland, Iowa. Treasurer—Phebe Cook, Lock Box 296, Buxton, Iowa. State Organizer—Mrs. I. L. Brown, Marshalltown, Iowa. Chairman of State Committees. Rescue — Cora Jones, Okslaoia, Iowa. Social Purity—Louise Lewis, 410 W. 10th street, Davenport, Iowa. Educational—Emma Gardener, Rural Route No. 5, Ottumwa, Iowa. Reciprocity—Kittle Owens, Keokau, Iowa. Georgia-Forty—E. E. 78. N. 9th street, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Household Economic—Helena Downey, 711 Bashaw street, Ottumwa, Iowa. Mother Child Study—Mrs. J. R. Philanthropic—Lenora Wells Sheppard, Davenport, Iowa. Homeseekers' Rates. Every Tuesday via the C. & N-W. 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Latest agency for obtaining patent, patented through M.N. B. co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms $3 a month. Mail to M.N. B. Co. 301 Broadway, New York Office Of M.N. B. Washington D. Iowa and Its Masonic Jurisdiction GRAND LODGE OFFICERS, W. H. Milligan, M. G. Grand Master, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Rural Route No. 2. 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, Sloux City, Iowa. A. A. Bland, R. W. Grand Treasurer Keckuk, Iowa. H. K. Hillon, R. W. Grand Secretary Omaha, Nebr. E. T. Banks, R. W. Grand Custodian Des Molnes, Iowa. J. H. Shepard, Chairman of Committee on ForeignC. Des Molnes, 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. M. Olive Lodge, No. 17, A. F. & A. M.-Over 120 First Avenue, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Meetings first Tuesday of each month. H. Scurry, W. M.; W. M. Avenue; I. D. awery, 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% N. 42nd street. W. M. Avenue; I. D. awery, secretary, 903 S. 8th street. H. P. Wade, W. M. address, 1 W. P. Wade, H. K. Hillon, Sec. address, 911 N. 24th street. PRESS THE BUTTON EAGLE FLASH SELF FILLING POUNTAIN PEN. The Simplest - Surest - Infinit - Handiest -- and only Perfect Self-filling Pen. No glass filler that kills spills --no clogging or shaking. You simply press the button (as in the picture) and the pen file it down. 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G. I. Grand Master's Council of G. U. of. O. F. No. 281, meets Fourth Tu day night in each northeastern. Dennis Burris, W. M. J. W. Heath H. R. of. N. 289 of G. U. of. O. F.—Ovenes the second and fourth Thursday in each month. St. Matthias M. N. O. K. Mrs. Kittle Barley W. R. Articulate No. 472. Modge Hall and third day in each month, at the Odd Fellows Hall. Sixth and Walnut streets. Mrs. Nettie M. R. C. R. M. Mrs. Betty Whelton, Assistant G. R. Iowa Capital Fountain No. 293 of the United Order of True reformers meets at Odd Fellows Hall. Sixth and Walnut streets. Mrs. Joe Brown. Worryth North Star Lodge No. 8, Knight of Pythias—Meet every Monday night, corner of Sixth and Odd Fellows hall on West Sixth and Walnut streets. O. J. A. Johnson. C. C.; J. W. Robinson, K of R, and S. MISCELLANEOUS PARK 1011 AND ALL DECAES OF THE U.S. WAR AND WAR TURNED CURED EYES TESTED FREE DR. DUNCAN, OCCULISM LOW RATES PACIFIC COAST AND RETURN Round-Trip Rates from Des Moines $5625 San Francisco and Los Angeles and return, June 25th to July 7th; return limit Sept. 15, 1906. Tickets reading one way via Portland, $68.75. $5425 San Francisco and Los Angeles and return, Sept. 3d to 14th; return limit Oct. 31, 1906. Tickets reading one way via Portland, $66.75. $6510 San Francisco, Los Angeles and $64.80 to Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver and Victoria; daily, June 1st to Sept. 15th; return limit Oct. 31, 1906. $6010 Spokane, Wash., and return, same as above. $5510 Helena, Anaconda and Butte daily, June 1st to Sept. 15th, 1906, same as above. These tickets are good for passage on The Overland Limited, electric lighted; Los Angeles Limited, electric lighted, and China & Japan Fast Mail, all daily from Chicago, via the CHICAGO, UNION PACIFIC & NORTH-WESTERN LINE. For descriptive booklets, sleeping car reservations and full information apply to L. F. BERRY, General Agent, C & N.-W. Ry., 401 Walnut St., or Chicago & North-Western Passenger Station, Des Moines. Stomach Troubles and Constipation No one can reasonably hope for good digestion when the bowels are constipated. Mr. Chas, Halbwin, of Edwardville, Ill., says, "I suffered from chronic constipation and stomach troubles for several years, but thanks to Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets am almost cured." Why not get a package of these tablets and get well and stay well? Price 25 cents. For sale by all druggists. All the Sporting News. The steady reliability with which The Chicago Record-Herald presents the sporting news of the whole country each day has made it an authority in this field. It has a large staff of editors and reporters to handle the telegraphic matter and gather the local news in this important department alone. In the Sunday Record Herald this department has a separate supplement of four full pages—a newspaper in itself—in which all the latest sporting news is presented with numerous illustrations. All that is of interest in baseball, football, racing, athletics, automobility, yatching, golf, tennis, pugilism, aquatics and other sports can be found here, along with many special articles by expents of national reputation. The Record-Herald is a favorite among lovers of sport because its sporting columns are written by "men who know." INSTRUCTIVE INTERESTING "Correct English- How to Use it." A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Use.of English. JOSAPHINE TURCK BAKER, Editor. How to Use Them. Procedure (Dictionary Dictionary) Correct English in the Home. Correct English in the School. What to Say. Say. What to Write. Write. Punctu Course in Letter-Writing and Punctuation Alphabetic list of Abbreviations. Business English for the Business Man Compound Words: How to Write Them. Tlem. Studies in English Literature. AGENTS WANTED. $1 00 a Year. Send 10c for single copy CORRECT ENGLISH, Evanson, III Excursion Tickets to Chautauqua Assembly at Ames, Iowa. Via the North-Western Line, will be sold at reduced rates on two dates, Aug. 1 and 10, limited to return until August 11, inclusive. Other dates of sale and on license on plan. Apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R'y. Excursion Tickets to Milwaukee. Via the North-Western Line, will be sold at reduced rates August 11, limited to return until August 13, inclusive, on account Modern Wooden Picnic, apply to agents Chicago & North-West ernt Ry. Excursion Rates Via the Minnesota & St. Louis R. R. Every Tuesday during this year we will sell Homeseker tickets to Minnesota. 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