Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XIII, No. 50. CITY NEWS. [M.B. If you have relatives or friends visit up to the city, you can make a visit normally we collect all your local news—kd] Mrs. Ceaan. Turner is ill this week. Mrs. D Roy is able to be up again. Robert Balkes is some better, but is sill a very sick man. The last snow and sleet of the win- ter occurred here last Wednesday. Any body shocked. Rev. J. M. Harris united in marriage Mr. Straford Sanders and Miss Lizzie Reese, the contracting parties will make our city their future home. The David and Jonathan league was addressed last Sunday by J. S. Jack- son of Chicago. Missus Lydia Lockridge and Nora Lefitch have returned from Buxton where they have been, teaching schools Master Russell, the little son of Mr. and Mrs J. W. Jackson, is sick with the measles. He is doing well at this writing. Remember the Sunday School concert next Tuesday at the Union Congrega- l church. Come out early if you want to hear the whole programme. Married last week Mr. Glancee Miller and Miss Missa Hicks were united in marriage by Rev. James M. Harris of the Burn's M. E. church. Regular services at Union Congregational church Sunday May 19th topic Morning service "The Lost Christ," Evening service "Come and see" All are invited to attend these services. Rav. H. W. Porter preached at Ames on Sunday morning and at Mitchellville on Thursday night and will leave on Monday for Grinnell to attend the Iowa State Association of Congregational churches. The Bystander Company having moved a part of last week and the first days of this week, are unable to give corresser as much matter as we usually do in fact we thought we would hardly be able to get, out an issue at all in view of the approaching special Des Moines Edition next week. The Spelling Bee Creative to be given at Burn's M. E. church on Twelfth and Crocker streets Thursday May 23rd, will be largely attended from present indications. A gold dollar will be given the best speller. All Sunday School scholars are elegible, Mrs. M. J. Harris manager. We wish to express our sincere thanks to the friends of our dear son and brother for the kindness shown him during his illness and death, and for the kind words of sympathy expressed in this our hour of bereavement. Amos Towsend and Edna Mac Towsend. The Musical Concert given by the Newton Masonic band at the A. M. E. church last Monday evening was fairly well attended, as this was their first appearance in the Capital City, and being a young organization, they are advancing nicely. The Sunday School Concert to be given by the Union Congregational Sunday School next Tuesday evening will be good, the children are practicing several drills, and there will be rendered "Hiwatha" by Miss Ada Hyde, there will be dialogue, recitations etc. Come out and see, at 8:00 p. m. sharp. The Cosmopolitan Art Club met last Wednesday with Miss Zorphia Hockley a very interesting meeting was had. A paper was read by Miss Hockley, subject, "How Club Women Can Make A Home" which was good, the reading by Gertrude Kennedy and a recitation by Miss Tabitha Mash were good. The club will meet Wednesday May 22nd at Miss Gertrude Kennedy on West Grand Avenue. We Have Moved Remember that the Iowa ..State Bystander... is now located just south of the News Arcade, second floor Rooms 201 and 202. No. 203 W. Seventh St. North-east corner of Seventh & Mulberry Rev. B. W. Porter prescheduled last Sunday morning at Ames, Ia., to a large congregation and in the evening at home, filling his pulpit. Rev. W. S. Brooks, D. D. spent last week in Minnesota and the Dakota on a lecture tour under the Lecture Bureau management. He returned home feeling that there is yet hope for our race. The Canadian Jubilee Singers who appeared here last week at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium was largely attended by both white and colored people. The singers did well. The Des Moines Negro Luceum Association met Tuesday evening with Miss E.hel Stewart at the residence of her sister Mrs. H. W. Hughes 1428 West Twenty-six street. The topic for discussion was "Woman" and Miss Lettie Carey read an excellent paper on "Woman at a Bread Winner" while Mr. Earl C. Lewis delivered a forceful address on "Woman as a Home Maker." Miss Jessie Bell formerly of North Des Moines High School was elected to membership. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. S. Joe Brown 1187 West Seventh street. Last Sunday was rather a busy day for Rev. James M. Harris especially in the morning for he had to rise at seven o'clock go and unite in the holy bond of wedlocks Mr O. L. Hayes and Miss Mimie Turner and at 8:00 o'clock went over and joined in marriage Mr E. K. Knox to Miss Fannie Eatell the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Estell, the Bystander 'extend' cognitations to these young couples, and wish for them a long and successful married life. Mrs. Fred Jackson was hostess of the H B S. R. C. Thursday May 6th, each member responded to roll call with geographical quotations. A large membership was present. The members are very sorry to have the absence of Mrs. E. Carr of which is caused by illness. The programme was very good Mrs. L. R. Palmer read a paper on "Columbus Historical Sorries" of which will continue each week. Dr. W. S. Brooks was guest of honor, he gave a delightful talk on education views. Mrs Palmer will be the next hostess Thursday May 23 the programme for the afternoon, a paper by Mrs. Willburn subject "Bacillus aeration" followed by general discussion; Oral by Mrs. Holt and Jackson. The Intellectual Improvement Club met last Friday evening, with Mrs. S. Joe Brown for a business session and elected an additional delegate to the State Federation in the person of Mrs. J. H. Woods. The Secretary read a letter from the State President Mrs. Gertrude D. Bulceron congratulating the club upon their joining the Federation. The next meeting will be held this afternoon at the home of Mrs. H. W. Hughes, The Des Moines Edition. We hope next week to issue the special Les Moines Edition of the Iowa State Bystander. It will in part give our many readers a brief glimpse of some of Das Moines people and her homes. We hope any person living here and desiring to be represented are ask to call at our office not later than next Wednesday. We hope that every citizen is loyal enough to our city to see that our best people are truly represented, please call at once. The Men's League will give a very fine musical and literary programme at the Union Congregational church next Friday evening beginning at 8:00 p.m. The musical programme arrangement is under the management of Mr. L. J. Shelton one of our well known musicians, and as Mr. Shelton says, it will be extremely intereting to music lovers; as this is the first attempt of the Men's League, Mr J. B, Bush the President urg all friends to come out and encourage this worthy organization. Price 15 cents. Mr. Jeff Davis left Thursday for a visit in Chicago and Joliet, Illinois, to visit with friends. The M. C. T. club will meet next Wednesday, at Mrs. J. L. Thompson's 1300 Eighteenth st. The same program of two weeks ago will be rendered as the weather prevented the members from meeting. Every race loving person will hail with delight the privilege of hearing Prof. M. J. Gilliam, the great race man and educator, who is at present superintendent of the Buxton schools, in his most famous lecture, 'Forty Years Old,' in the A. M. E church, cor. of Second and Center streets, May 20th. All who heard him at the Emancipation celebration the first of January will gladly hear him again. Admission 25 cents. Back Seat Good Enough. Don't hanker after a high seat in heaven. Fer folks what filled a humble station on its dairy de back seat'll be comfortable enuf--Atlanta Constitution. EDITORALS SPRING AT LAST. The glad sounds of the chirping birds, the breeze of the gentle zephers, the sweet fragrance from early foliage has at last come, even though long coming, yet we gladly welcome the warmer days. No doubt the past two weeks of cold freezing weather with the snow storms have killed most of the fruit in the Mississippi valley district. Soon mother earth will be covered with green verdure, dotted with beautiful roses, lilies and violets to beautify the green verdure, Our Thoughts and Actions One of the greatest needs of our race and yet the greatest neglected is pure thought and right thinking. The home, our parents, our teachers and our masters do not emphasize this cardinal need and powerful leverage in making true manhood and womanhood. It is often by your thoughts and actions that we judge people. If you think light and frivolous things your actions will be silly and you are bound as Shakespeare says, in shallows and misery. Woe to the father, brother or sister whose thoughts are impure. Woe to the parents in their home life before their children who who are thoughtless and careless. We should ever be on our guard, for it is one of the neglected things. By the action of your children parents are rightly judge. May we train our thoughts on those high, pure, enobeling, instructive and good. Then, and then only can we hope for better boys and girls. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. The cavans for the $50,000.00 building fund for the V. M. C. A. (colored men's branch) which began Monday morning April 8th and closed Tuesday night, May 7, is without parallel in the history of thir colored people of this city. It was a complete success. Instead of a subscription of $25,000.00 which was necessary to secure Rockefeller's subscription more than $30,000.00 has been subscribed. When first contemplated, the central branch in order to stimulate subscriptions and encourage the movement for the new building offered to give eight thousand dollars, if $17,000 were subscribed by the colored folks, thus making the subscription of $25,000 needed to secure a similar contribution from John D. Rockefeller. But our people determined to show that they could raise the entire amount by their own energies this they have more than done. How this has been accomplished and the progress of the movement is a most interesting story. This campaign has been won only after wise and careful planning extending over months and years. The International Secretary, Mr. E. Moreland, who deserves the credit of organizing and outlining the work, had as his skillful lieutenant preliminary to and during the canvass, General Secretary, Lewis E. Johnson, who had charge of the Y. M. C. A. at Buxton, Iowa. Two committees, each of one-hundred membership, the Citizen's with Dr. F. J. Shadd, Chairman and the Young Men with Mr. Benjamin Washington, as leader, were at the head of the forces and they covered the entire field. What have proven a decided stimulus have been immense men's meetings held Suaday afternoons at the true Reformers' Hall. Commissioner McFarland, Register Vernon, Dr. W. P. Thirkield, president of Howard University; Rev. M. W. D. Norman, General Secretary Johnson and Prof. John R. Hawkins, Secretary of Education of the A. M. E. church, stirred and swayed the crowds that thronged the meetings, deepening their earnestness, enthusiasm and determination. At the end of the first day the subscriptions amounted to $4,83.3. 00; at the end of the first week it had grown to $10,376.50; at the end of the second week $15,037.50 had been pledged which was more than half the money desired, when the third week had closed the aggregate amount footed $19,390.00. At the end of the fourth week it showed success was in grasp for it was $24,213.50. Of this amount the citizen's had secured $0,233.50 and the Young Men $16,048.00. Three days Sunday, Monday and Tuesday remained. At the Sunday meeting the first direct appeal was made to the men and subscriptions many of them in cash poured into the amount of $1,000. These subscriptions flowed in so rapidly that it required all the energy and resource of Secretary Morland who presides at all of these meeting. Many had given the entire time to the canvass, some teachers put substitutes in their schools, employees in civil service used their leave and others put men in their places when they could not get excuses. All were hard at it. The excitement was at a fever heat. The returns came constantly in and when the hour at last came which announced the close of the canvass the subscriptions aggregated a grand total of $30,527.00.—The Record. JEALOUS OF THE NEGRO Egotism and immodesty are not specially characteristic of the south ern people, but Gustaf R. Westfeldt a member of the board of administrators of Tulane University in New Orleans, seem to have his full share of these traits. Mr. Westfeldt has written a letter to the British Ambassador at Washington complaining that a Pennsylvania Negro has been appointed to one of the Cecil Rhodes scholarships at Oxford University. He gives the ambassador fair warning that the appointment of Negroes to these scholarships will make them very unpopular in the South. The reply of the ambassador to this somewhat impudent has not been made public, but in the meanwhile The Chronicle will say a few things which the ambassador would do well to adopt. In the first place, nobody in the universe outside of the south cares whether these scholarships are unpopular in the South, or not. Beggars must not be choosers. The scholarships are in the nature of a charity and if the South does not want them it can leave them alone, but it is an exhibition of monumental cheek in the Southern people to accept them and then undertake to say who else shall receive them and finally threaten not to receive them if they are bestowed on someone else. This ungrateful and absurd letter of Mr. Westfeldt would not have been quite so bad if the Negro in question had been a New Orleans Negro or a Southern Negro, but he was a Pennsylvania Negro, and still the Southern man assumes to dictate his status in conformity with Southern notions and threaten Southern displeasure if any one objects to his mandate. In other words, the South wishes to fix the social status of the Negro not only for the South but for the North and for Great Britain as well. Mr. Westfeldt might just as well understand that his letter will excite in the North both resentment and contempt—resentment because it is an impertinent meddling with matters in the North that do not concern him and contempt because it shows that some of the Southern people are jealous of the Negro. Evidently they are afraid that if the Negro is allowed to have university education certain white men will be eclipsed. The South can isolate itself and remain 500 years behind the rest of the world if it chooses, but the prejudice against race for race's sake is dead everywhere else. An equal chance for all in the race of life is the modern idea. Social equality with Negroes or anybody else is a matter of individual choice, but equality before the law and a fair chance to rise in the scale of humanity's programme for the future. If the South knows what is good for its own highest interest it will quit its foolishness and join in the prosecution.—The Chicago Chronicle May 5, 1907. IOWA CITY NOTES Mr. Charles Bell who had the misfortune to have his leg broken a few weeks ago while walking a horse is convalescent and will be able to be out in a short time. Mrs. William Patterson was in Davenport a few days last week. Mr. Sales of Chicago is new employed as chafit the St. James Hotel. James Bendy want to Des Moines last Saturday here he expects to remain. Drake University will the dual meet by a small morgue Saturday afternoon, but the weather of the "Old Gold" feel confident that they will be a close contact for fice place at the State meet on the 2 th of this month. The Messrs J. W. and E. W. Thompson spent last Sunday in Cedar Rapids. The State High School meet will be held here Friday, Friday, and as there is already more than 200 entries a large crowd is expected and if the weather is favorable the track will be in good condition. It is very likely some new records will be made. At present the boys from West High D-Monroe, Iowa are selected as the winners. The Mass. Leonard Gaines and James Bouchley of Button are at the State University hospital. The former has been here for several weeks while the latter came last week. Gollmer B. os circus was here Tuesday. It being the first one this aon. Good Words for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. People everywhere take pleasure in testifying to the good qualities of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, Mrs. Edward Philip of Barclay, M.C., writes, "I wish to tell you that I can recommend Chamberlains' Cough Remedy My little girl, Catherine who is two years old, has been taking this remedy whenever she has had a cold since she was two months old. About a month ago I contracted a dreafull cold myself, but I took Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and was soon's well as ever." This remedy is for sale by all druggist. Miss Tren Tolson is spending this week in Buxton. R.v. Bobinson, Mrs. Bobinson and Miss Powers returned from Lovilla Sunday and spent Sunday in Albia Mr. Art Ester, Messames Ester and Grasson and a few others attended the Odd Killers out in Buxton Sunday. MOLINE GREETING. Last Sunday was quarterly meeting at St. Paul's A. M. E. church. There was a large crowd present from the tri-cities. Mrs. Robert Bradley and daughter Miss Estella departed Saturday night for marcellas Michigan where they will make their future home. Mr. Bradley left last Tuesday, they are greatly missed by their Tri City friends. Mrs. John Slaughter of Rock Island was a caller at George Tarver's Sunday. Miss Mable and Clara Tarver entertained at six o'clock dinner last Wednesday. Those present were; Miss Maymey E. Richardson and Mrs. A. B. Garnett of Gaesburg; Miss Flora McGaw and Mrs. Shelton of Davenport and Miss Estella Bradley of Moline. Miss Mayota Wood was a Davenport caller Monday. Mrs. Rufus Phoenix entertained forty young people of the Tri-Cities at her home last Friday evening in honor of her sister Miss Estella Bradley, who departed Saturday for Michigan. Miss Bradley was recipient of a gold bracelet, a silver mounted tooth-brush and a gold spoon. A delightful evening was spent in Music and games. Miss Mable McGaw of Davenport spent Friday in Moline. The Misses Margret Payne and Keith and Mr. Keith of Davenport spent a pleasant afternoon Sunday at the Tarver residence. Mr. K. Grisom is on the sick list, we wish him a speedy recover. Mr. Arison Tifton has returned nome from Washington where he has been tor sometime. A large crowd of Molina young people attended the Tri-City Sunday School meeting that was held at Book Island Baptist church Monday evening. Anthony Cycle Co.... BICYCLES. First Class Wheels $25.00 and Up Also second hand wheels all prices. Expert Repairing of All Kinds. NEW GO-CART TIRES. Vulcanizing and Enameling. MUTUAL PHONE L. 7221 422 Eighth St KEOKUK NEWS. The funeral of the late Matilda Fresier was held from the A M. E. church Seventh and Morgan streets Thursday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock. The church filled to overflowing with sorrowing friends to witness the last and rite. Mr. Fraser was a suitable woman and greatly loved and reaped by all who knew her, her belonged to the Morning Star Society, House Hold of Bath and Eureka Temple all of which she was a faithful member, the college of the deceased delivered by Rev. Lewis, was listened to with profound interest. Resolution were read from each society and a short ceremony which was very impressive. The remains were laid in Oakland Cemetery, the pall bearers were T. White, L. Golina, John Drainle, Chas Alden, E. Smith and H. Armstrong Mc. N. Jefferson left Sunday night for Chicago, called there on account of the illness of one of her daughters who reside in that city. Ed. Martin is seriously ill at his home on Morgan street. Mrs. Emma Rice Stokes of Chicago is visiting at the home of her mother Mrs. T. Morse. The luncheon given by the Dorcas Orgun Fund Monday evening was a decided success. Sunday afternoon May 19th at Union Lodge Hall No. 19 N Fifth street, electra chapter No 46 of the O. E. S. will hold a chapter of sorro at late o'clock p. m. in memory of the late Mrs. M. B. Carruthers of St. Louis Past Grand Royal Matron of the Grand Chapter of the O. E. S. of M, and its jurisdiction and the newly appointed chairman of foreign correspondence to which all organisations pertaining to masonry is invited. SIOUX CITY ITEMS Sunday will be rally day at the Mt. Zion Baptist and a great day is expected. They will try on that day to raise $8,250 to pay on the debt of the church We have in our city two colored base ball teams who are coming to the front and will soon be among our noted fans. A graphphone concert was given at Mt. Zion Baptist church Monday evening. A success socially and financially Mr. Augustus Harrison has returned from Sheblaia, Mo., where he went to visit his age mother who is dangerously ill. He remained to are for his mother awhile. Ms. Florence Crawford is confined to her home with rheumatism. To the sorbiers, please hunt up that piece of coin with the word Bystander on it and save it for the collector who will call soon. Rev J. C. Held returned home from his visit in Des Moines on Friday and filled hisulpit as usual Sunday. There was a musical gives Tuesday evening at Mt. Zion Baptist church for the benefit of the church debt, and it was well attended. Mr. Robinson, brother of Wilber J. Norris, returned to our city last week after being absent several months visiting in Kansas City. Sioux City has the strongest attractions. Mrs. Ella Morgan came home last week from Kansas City, Mo., where he went to be at the bed-side of her two sisters, Mammie and Lillian Gordon, who are ill with the consumption. the former one passing away three weeks ago. She has our sympathy in her sorrowing hours. Messra. A. Cason and Green Coals gave a ball at Simone's hall last Thursday evening. A large number of young people were out. The music was furnished by a white ostrat extras. Meadames Sadie Norris, Anna Jordan and Maggie Thompson gave a surprise party on Mrs. Herford, mother of Mrs. Evelyn Norris, at the former's home Monday evening. A goodly number was present, and helped to make the evening pleasant. A two course lunch con was served. Mrs. Herford who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Westly Norris, for several months, left for her home in St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday. She won many friends while in our city. The Sewing Circle of the I baptist church will give a Japanese social on the 17th of May. Relief from Rheumatic Palus. "I suffered with rheumatism for over two years," Mr. Rolland Curry, a patrolman, of Key West, Fla. "Sometimes it settled in my knees and lamed me so I could hardly walk, at other times it would be in my feet and hands so I was incapacitated for duty. One night when I was in severe pain and lame from it my wife wore to the drug store here and came back with a bottle of Chamberlain's pain Balm. I was rubbed with it and found the pain had nearly gone during the night. I kept on using it for a little more than two weeks and found that it drove rheumatism away. I have not had any trouble from that disease for over three months." For sale by all druggist He Is In New York. An Atchison paper asks, "What has become of the old-fashioned boy who fought aagtst wearing his Sunday clothes?" He's in Wall street fleeing the lambs, using the same methods that he employed to organize a corner in marbles in the good old days. WHEN BUYING You may as well buy a guaranteed piano. I sell the kind I feel willing to guarantee. I can afford to guarantee them because I know how they are built I buy my pianos from the standpoint of a professional piano mon. W. H. Lehman, Est. 40 years. Eighth and Walnut --- NOT ALL A COMPILIMENT. Wife's Pride in Husband's Success Had a Tinge of Regret. The doctor and his wife had lived together four years. She was a widow when he met her. He was a physician of note. Their life together was a happy one and no quibbling had entered the home to set a bad example for their hopeful. But the wife had a reputation as a wif. Her witticisms and little sarcastic remarks were known far and wide. Her friends had all heard of them. They had all felt the sting of them. The physician had been working with a hard case. He spent day and night in the home of the patient and when he won the fight for life. And he was accordingly well satisfied with himself. On his arrival home one evening he turned to his wife, saying: "You see, wifear dew! I have pulled my patient through. He is now well on the road to recovery." "Yes, hubby, dear," returned the wife. "But you are such a perfect master of your profession. You are so successful. Ah, I wish that I had met you five years sooner than I did. Then my poor, dear Billy would never have died." CLEVER TRICK OF THIEVES. Use Offensive Odor of Onions to Aid in Shoppiting. "I incredible as it may seem," said Leccq, the detective, "there are a number of shoplifters who steal by the agency of the onion. These abandoned men, before setting out upon their contemplated crimes, eat of raw onions abundantly. Then they stroll into the sliversmith's or the haberdasher's or the jeweler's that they propose to rob. "Show me those large solitaires surrounded with pigeon-rubles, please, says the jeopardist. The clerk brushes with the tray of the sighs with admiration. His face close to the clerks, he sighs again. And the clerk's nostrils quiver, and he turns away his head. The inspection of diamonds continues for some minutes. Throughout it the thief keeps breathing hard, the clerk keeps turning his head away and hence it is no wonder at the day's end that a couple of cootly rings are missing." A Dog Worth Knowing: A Dog Worth Knowing. Two years ago a boy 14 years old named Edward Sweeney, living at Opelika, Ala., was followed home by a small dog named Sally, saddened and by no means good looking, and the boy was hugged at for having him around. Within a week, however, the dog brought home a five-dollar bill in his mouth. The next week he brought a silver bill. Then he brought a pocket knife, and followed that with a dollar bill. There has hardly been a week in these two years that the dog has not found something. He makes it his business to hunt the streets and highways, and often travels a distance of 30 miles. Up to the present date he has found and brought home $38 in cash, besides many useful things. Women of Yezzo. The women of the island of Yezzo, whence it is supposed came the original inhabitants of Japan, have a very peculiar custom of making up their faces to look as though they have mustaches. These women are called Alnus, and upon the upper lip of each Alnus belle is tattooed something that resembles a long, flowing mustache. To possess an artistically tattooed ornament of a woman a woman is usually attractive, and her chances of making a good matrimonial alliance are very small if she is not thus adorned. As a matter of fact, the men of the island choose their spouses more for the beauty of this tattooed design than the grace of form or charm of feature. The Pet Animal Stage "Why don't you set you a cat?" asked her woman friend. "You wouldn't be half so lonely if you had some little live animal like that always around." "I haven't come to the animal stage yet, thank heaven," she replied. "When men and women lose all hope of human love they go to the animal kingdom, the men to the dogs, some literally, and the women to the cats; and they are right, too." "They found mainly among the animals; but as I say, I haven't quite arrived at that stage of the game yet." Her First Impressions. "The first impression is the one you should always go by," the little grass widow advised. "I know by experience. I have never yet had a husband that I liked at first sight. He always had to win me. Then, after I had been married awhile, I invariably went back to my first impression of the man I loved. He wore till I had to leave him. I shall never marry again," she finished, "unless I fall head over heels in love with him the first minute I meet him." Best Sleep of All. "I see that an eminent physician declares that two hours of sleep before midnight are worth more than six after that hour, consoles me when I am sick, after you called in the morning are worth more than anything else." Dull Times. "Hello!" said the funny man to Finnegan the undertaker. "I suppose your business is dead with you!" "Faith, it's worse than that," replied Finnegan. "Shure, I haven't buried a livin' soul in a near month." IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. CITY NEWS. (N.B. If you have relative or friends visit in the city or going to make a visit, please alarm us; we shuttle all your local news--N.D. Mrs. Chua. Turner is ill this week. Mrs. D. Roy is able to be up again. Robert Ralka is some better, but is sill a very stok man. The last snow and sleet of the wint- er occurred here last Wednesday. Any body shocked. Rav. J. M. Harris united in marriage. Mr. Stralford Sanders and Miss Lizzie Reese, the contracting parties will make our city their future home. The David and Jonathan league was addressed last Sunday by J. S. Jackson of Chicago. Misses Lydia Lockridge and Nora Letch have returned from Buxton where they have been, teaching schools Master Russell, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jackson, is sick with the measles. He is doing well at this writing. Remember the Sunday School concert next Tuesday at the Union Congregational church. Come out early if you want to hear the whole programme. Married last week Mr. Clarence Miller and Miss Carrie Hicks were, united in marriage by Rev. James M. Harris of the Burn's M. E. church. Regular services at Union Congregational church Sunday May 10th topic Morning service "The Lost Christ." Evening service "Come and see" All are invited to attend these services. Rv. B. W. Porter prescheduled at Ames on Sunday morning and at Mitchellville on Thursday night and will leave on Monday for Grinnell to attend the Iowa. State Association of Congregational churches. The Bystander Company having moved a part of last week and the first days of this week, are unable to carry out our orders as much more matter as we usually do in fact we think we would hardly be able to get out, an issue at all in view of the approaching special Des Moines Edition next week. The Spelling Bee Contest to be given at Burns M. E. church on Twelfth and Crocker streets Thursday May 23rd, will be largely attended from present indications. A gold dollar will be given the best speller. All Sunday School scholars are elegant, Mrs. M. J. Harris manager. We wish to express our sincere thanks to the friends of our dear son and brother for the kindness shown him during his illness and death, and for the kind words of sympathy expressed in this our sad hour of bereavement. Amos Towsend and Edna Mac Towsend. The Musical Concert given by the Newton Masonic band at the A. M. E. church last Monday evening was fairly well attended, as this was their first appearance in the Capital City, and being a young organization, they are advancing nicely. The Sunday School Concert to be given by the Unions Congregational Sunday School next Tuesday evening will be good, the children are practicing several drills, and there will be rendered "Howathaws," by Miss Ady Hade, there will be dialogue, recitations est. Come out and see, at 8:00 p. m. sharp. The Cosmopolitan Art Club met last Wednesday with Miss Zorphia Hockey a very interesting meeting was had. A paper was read by Miss Hockey, subject, "How Club Women Can Make A Home" which was good, the reading by Gertrude Kennedy and a recitation by Miss Tabitha Mash were good. The club will meet Wednesday May 23rd at Miss Gertrude Kennedy on West Grand Avenue. We Have Moved Remember that the Iowa ...State Bystander.. is now located just south of the News Arcade, second floor Rooms 201 and 202. No. 203 W. Seventh St. North-east corner of Seventh & Mulberry ```markdown ``` Rev. B. H. Porter prescheduled last Sunday morning at Ames, Ia. to a large congregation and in the evening at home, filling his pulpit. Rev. W. S. Brooks, D. D. spent last week in Minnesota and the Dakotas on a lecture tour under the Lectures Bureau management. He returned home feeling that there is yet hope for our race. The Canadian Jubilee Singers who appeared here last week at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium was largely attended by both white and colored people. The singers did well. The Des Moines Negro Lceum Association met Tuesday evening with Miss E he Stewart at the residence of her sister Mrs H. W. Wurgesh 1482 West Twenty-sieth street. The topic for discussion was "Woman" and Miss Lettie Carey read an excellent paper on "Woman as a Bread Winner" while Mr. Earl C Lewis delivered a forceful address on "Woman as a Home Maker." Miss Jessie Bell formily of North Des Moines High School was elected to membership. The next meeting will be held with Mrs S. Joe Brown 1187 West Seventh street. Last Sunday was rather a busy day for Rev. James M. Harris, especially in the morning for he had to rise at seven o'clock go and unite in the holy bond of wedlocks Mr. O. L. Hays and Miss Minute Turner and at 8:00 o'clock went over and joined in marriage Mr E. K. Knox to Miss Fannie Eatle the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Estell, the Bystander extend' coagulations to these young couples, and wish for them a long and successful married life. Mrs. Fred Jackson was hostess of the H. B. S. R. C. Thursday May 6th, each member re-ponded to roll call with geographical quotations. A large membership was present. The members are very sorry to have the absence of Mrs. E Carr of which is caused by illness. The programme was very good Mrs. L. R. Palmer read a paper on "Columbus Historical Series" of which will continue each week. Dr. W. S. Brooks was guest of honor, he gave a delightful talk on education views. Mrs Palmer will be the next hostess Thursday May 23 the programme for the afternoon, a paper by Mrs. Willburn subject "Horse aviation" followed by general discussion; Oral by Mrs. Holt and Jackson. The Intellectual Improvement Club met last Friday evening with Mrs. S. Joe Brown for a business session and elected an additional delegate to the State Federation in the person of Mrs. J. H. Woods. The Secretary read a letter from the State President Mrs. Gertrude D. Culberson congratulating the club upon their joining the Federation. The next meeting will be held a afternoon at the home of Mrs. H. W. Hughes. The Des Moines Edition. We hope next week to issue the special Des Moines Edition of the Iowa State Bystander. It will in part give our many readers a brief glimpse of some of Des Moines people and her homes. We hope any person living here and desiring to be represented are ask to call at our office not later than next Wednesday. We hope that every citizen is loyal enough to our city to see that our best people are truly represented, please call at once. The Men's League will give a very fine musical and literary programme at the Union Congregational church next Friday evening beginning at 8:00 p.m. The musical programme arrangement is under the management of Mr. L. J. Shelton one of our well known musicians, and as Mr. Shelton says, it will be extremely interesting to music lovers; as this is the first attempt of the Men's League, Mr. J. B. Rush the President urg all friends to come out and encourage this worthy organization. Price 15 cents. Mrs. Jeff Davis left Thursday for a visit in Chicago and Joliet, Illinois, to visit with friends. The M. C. T. club will meet next Wednesday, at Mrs. J. L. Thompson's 1300 Eighteenth-st. The same program of two weeks ago will be rendered as the weather prevented the members from meeting. Every race loving person will hail with delight the privilege of hearing Prof. M. J. Gilliam, the great race man and educator, who is at present superintendent of the Buxton schools, in his most famous lecture, 'Forty Years Old,' in the A. M. E church, cor. of Second and Center streets, 90th. All who heard him at the Emancipation celebration the first of Jannay will gladly hear him again. Admisson 25 cents. Back Seat Good Enough. Don't hink after a high seat in heaven. Fer folks what filled a humble station on its carf de back seat'll be comfortable enuff—Atlanta Constitution. DES MOINES IOWA; FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1907 EDITORALS SPRING AT LAST. The glad sounds of the chirping birds, the breeze of the gentle zephers, the sweet fragrance from early foliage has at last come, even though long coming, yet we gladly welcome the warmer days. No doubt the past two weeks of cold freezing weather with the snow storms have killed most of the fruit in the Mississippi valley district. Soon mother earth will be covered with green verdure, dotted with beautiful roses, lilies and violets to beautify the green verdure, Our Thoughts and Actions One of the greatest needs of our race and yet the greatest neglected is pure thought, and right thinking. The home, our parents, our teachers and our masters do not emphasize this cardinal need and powerful leverage in making true manhood and womanhood. It is often, by your thoughts and actions that we judge people. If you think light and frivillous things your actions will be silly and you are bound as Shakespeare says, in shallows and misery. Woe to the father, brother or sister whose thoughts are impure. Woe to the parents in their home life before their children who who are thoughtless and careless. We should ever be on our guard, for it is one of the neglected things. By the action of your children parents are rightly judge. May we train our thoughts on those things high, pure, enobeling, instructive and good. Then, and then only can we hope for better boys and girls. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. The cavans for the $50,000.00 building fund for the V. M. C. A. (colored men's branch) which began Monday morning April 8th and closed Tuesday night, May 7, is without parallel in the history of th colored people of this city. It was a complete success. Instead of a subscription of $25,000.00 which was necessary to secure Rockefeller's subscription more than $30,000.00 has been subscribed. When first contemplated, the central branch in order to stimulate subscriptions and encourage the movement for the new building offered to give eight thousand dollars, if $17,000 were subscribed by the colored folks, thus making the subscription of $25,000.00 needed to secure a similar contribution from John D. Rockefeller. But our people determined to show that they could raise the entire amount by their own energies this they have more than done. How this has been accomplished and the progress of the movement is a most interesting story. This campaign has been won only after wise and careful planning extending over months and years. The International Secretary, Mr. E. Moreland, who deserves the credit of organizing and outlining the work, had as his skillful lieutenant preliminary to and during the canvass, General Secretary, Lewis E. Johnson, who had charge of the Y. M. C. A. at Buxton, Iowa. Two committees, each of one-hundred membership, the Citizen's with Dr. F. J. Shadd, Chairman and the Young Men with Mr. Benjamin Washington, as leader, were at the head of the forces and they covered the entire field. What have proven a decided stimulus have been immense men's meetings held Sunday afternoons at the true Reformers' Hall. Commissioner McFarland, Register Vernon, Dr. W. P. Thirkield, president of Howard University; Rev. M. W. D. Norman, General Secretary Johnson and Prof. John R. Hawkins, Secretary of Education of the A. M. E. church, stirred and swayed the crowds that thronged the meetings, deepening their earnestness, enthusiasm and determination. At the end of the first day the subscriptions amounted to $4,853. --- 00; at the end of the first week it had grown to $10,376.50; at the end of the second week $15,037.50 had been pledged which was more than half the money desired, when the third week had closed the aggregate amount footed $19,390.00. At the end of the fourth week it showed success was in grasp for it was $14,213.50. Of this amount the University had secured $8,023.50 and the Young Men $16,048.00. Three days Sunday, Monday and Tuesday remained. At the Sunday meeting the first direct appeal was made to the men and subscriptions many of them in cash poured into the amount of $1,000. These subscriptions flowed in so rapidly that it required all the energy and resource of Secretary Moreland who presides at all of these meeting. Many had given the entire time to the canvass, some teachers put substitutes in their schools, employees in civil service used their leave and others put men in their places when they could not get excuses. All were hard at it. The excitement was at a fever heat. The returns came constantly in and when the hour at last came which announced the close of the canvass the subscriptions, aggregated a grand total of $30,527,00.—The Record. JEALOUS OF THE NEGRO. Egotism and immodesty are not specially characteristic of the south ern people, but Gustaf R. Westfelda a member of the board of adminis trators of Tulane University in New Orleans, seem to have his full share of these traits. Mr. Wextfeld has written a letter to the British Ambassador at Washington complaining that a Pennsylvania Negro has been appointed to one of the Cecil Rhodes scholarships at Oxford University. He gives the ambassador fair warning that the appointment of Negroes to these scholarships will make them very unpopular in the South. The reply of the ambassador to this somewhat impudent has not been made public, but in the meanwhile The Chronicle will say a few things which the ambassador would do well to adopt. In the first place, nobody in the universe outside of the south cares whether these scholarships are unpopular in the South, or not. Beggars must not be choosers. The scholarships are in the nature of a charity and if the South does not want them it can leave them alone, but it is an exhibition of monumental check in the Southern people to accept them and then undertake to say who else shall receive them and finally threaten not to receive them if they are bestowed on someone else. This ungrateful and absurd letter of Mr. Westfeldt would not have been quite so bad if the Negro in question had been a New Orleans Negro or a Southern Negro, but he was a Pennsylvania Negro, and still the Southern man assumes to dictate his status in conformity with Southern notions and threaten Southern displeasure if any one objects to his mandate. In other words, the South wishes to fix the social status of the Negro not only for the South but for the North and for Great Britain as well. Mr. Westfeldt might just as well understand that his letter will excite in the North both resentment and contempt—resentment because it is an impertinent meddling with matters in the North that do not concern him and contempt because it shows that some of the Southern people are jealous of the Negro. Evidently they are afraid that if the Negro is allowed to have university education certain white men will be eclipsed. The South can isolate itself and remain 500 years behind the rest of the world if it ifoses, but the prejudice against race for race's sake is dead everywhere else. An equal chance for all in the race of life is the modern idea. Social equality with Negroes or anybody else is a matter of individual choice, but equality before the law and a fair chance to rise in the scale of humanity's programme for the future. If the South knows what is good for its own highest interest it will quit its foolishness and join in the pr-cession.—The Chicago Chronicle May 5, 1907. IOWA CITY NOTES Mr. Charles Bell who had the耐疽力 to have his leg broken a few weeks ago while breathing a house is convalescent and will be able to e out in a short time. Mr. William Patterson was in Davenport for a last week. prices that the company has new employees at the J. State J. State J. Hotel. J. State J. Hotel w. at Dos Molines last Saturday he here expects to remain. Saturday "here we expect to reunite." Duke University won the dual meet by a small margin last Saturday afternoon, but the wanes of the "Old Gold" feel confident that they will be a close contest for fit place at the State meet on the 2nd of this month. The Messers J. W, and E. W. Thompson spent last Sunday in Cedar Rapids. The State High School meet will be held here to day, Friday, and as there is already more than 200 entries a large crowd is expected and if the weather is favorable the track will be in good condition. It is very likely some new records will be made. At present the boys from West High D-Moine, Iowa are selected as the winners. The Masons, Leonard Gaines and James Bickley of Button are at the State University hospital. The former has been here for several weeks while the latter came last week. Gollmer B on circus was here Tuesday. It being the first one this aon. Good Words for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. People everywhere take pleasure in testifying to the good qualities of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Mrs. Edward Philippe of Barclay, M., writes, "I wish to tell you that I can recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy My little girl, Catherine who is two years old, has been taking this remedy whenever she has had a cold since she was two months old. About a month ago I contracted a dreadful cold myself, but I took Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and was soaps' well as ever." This remedy is for sale by all druggist. ALBIA NEWS. Miss Tina Tolson is spending this week in Buxton. R.v. Robinson, Mrs. Robinson and Miss Powers returned from Lovilia Sunday and spent Sunday in Albia Mr. Art. Ester, Meriames Ester and Grayson and a few others attended the Odd Fellows turn out in Buxton Sunday. MOLINE GREETING. Last Sunday was quarterly meeting at St. Paul's A. M. E. church. There was a large crowd present from the ri-collec. Mrs. Robert Bradley and daughter Miss Estella departed Saturday night for mercer Michigan where they will make their future home. Mr. Bradley left last Tuesday, they are greatly missed by their Tri City friends. Mrs. John Slaughter of Rock Island was a caller at George Tarver's Sunday, Miss Mable and Clara Tarver entertained at six o'clock dinner last Wednesday. Touss were were; Miss Mayme E, B. Richardson and Mrs. A. B. Garnett of Gusseburg; Miss Flora McGaw and Mrs. Shelton of Davenport and Miss Estella Bradley of Moline. Miss Mayola Wood was a Davenport caller Monday. Mrs. Rufus Phoenix entertained forty young people of the Tri-Cities at her home last Friday evening in honor of her sister Miss Estella Bradley, who departed Saturday for Michigan. Miss Bradley was recipient of a gold bracelet, a silver mounted tooth-brush and a gold spoon. A delightful evening was spent in Music and games. Miss Mable McGaw of Davenport spent Friday in Moline. The Misses Margret Payne and Keith and Mr. Keith of Davenport spent a pleasant afternoon Sunday at the Tarver residence. Mr. K. Griswow on the sick list, we wish him a speedy recover. Mr. Arison Tifton has returned nome from Washington where he has been for sometime. A large crowd of Moline young people attended the Tri-City Sunday School meeting that was held at Rock Island Baptist church Monday easter. Anthony Cycle Co.... BICYCLES. First Class Wheels $25.00 and Up Also second hand wheels all prices. Expert Repairing of All Kinds. KEOKUK NEWS. The funeral of the late Matilda Frazier was held from the A. M. E. church Seventh and Morgan街教堂 Thursday afternoon at 3:00'clock. The church filled to overflowing with sorrowing friends to witness the last sad rita. Mrs. Fraser was a suitable woman and greatly loved and repeated by all who knew her, she belonged to the Morning Star Society, House Hold of Ruth and Eureka Temple all of which she was a faithful member, the eulogy of the deceased delivered by Rev. Lewis, was listened to with profound interest. Resolution were read from each society and a short ceremony which was very impressive. The remains were laid in Oakland Cemetery, the pall bearers were T. White, L. Golina, John Drainse, Chas Alden, E. Smith and H. Armstrongn Mrs. N. Jefferson left Sunday night for Chloe, called there on account of the illness of one of her daughters who reside in that city. Ed. Martin is seriously ill at his home on Morgan street. Mrs. Emma Rice Stokes of Chicago is visiting at the home of her mother Mrs. T. Morse. The luncheon given by the Dorcas Organd Fund Monday evening was a decided success. Sunday afternoon May 19th at Union Lodge Hall No 19 N 19th street, Electa chapter No 46 of the O. E. S. will hold chapter of sorro at five o'clock p. m in memory of the late Mrs. M. E. Carruthers of St. Louis Past Grand Royal Matron of the Grand Chapter of the O. E. S. of M, and its jurisdiction and the newly appointed chairman of foreign correspondence to which all organisations pertaining to masonry is invited. SIOUX CITY ITEM8. Sunday will be rally day at the Mt. Zion Baptist and a great day is expected. They will try on that day to raise $3,850 to pay on the debt of the church Mr. Augustus Harrison has returned from Sheldonia, M. where he went to visit his aged mother who to ouyll M. Mrs. C. Harrison, his wife, remained to care for his mother awhile. Mrs. Florence Crawford is confined to her home with rheumatism. To the scribbers, please hunt up that piece of coin with the word Bystander on it and save it for the collector who will call soon. Rev J. C. Celd returned home from his visit in Des Moines on Friday and filled his suitp as usual Sunday. There was a musical given Tuesday evening at Mr. Zion Baptist church for the benefit of the church debt, and it was well attended. Mr. Robinson, brother of Wilber J. Norris, returned to our city last week after being absent several months visiting in Kansas City. Sloux City has the strongest attractions Mrs. Ella Morgan came home last week from Kansas City, Mo., where he went to be at the bed-side of her two sisters, Mannie and Lillian Gordon, who are ill with the consumption. the former one passing away three weeks ago. She has our sympathy in her sorrowing hours. Messrs. A. Caseen and Green Coals gave a ball at Simone's hall last Thursday evening. A large number of young people were out. The music was furnished by a white orchestra. Messdames Sadie Norris, Anna Jordan and Maggie Thompson gave a surprise party on Mrs. Herford. mother of Mrs. Evelyn Norris, at the former's home Monday evening. A goodly number was present, and helped to make the evening pleasant. A two course lunch con was served. Mrs. Herford who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Wesley Norris, for several months, left for her home in St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday. She won many friends while in our city. The Sewing Circle of the Iaptapta chapter on a Japanese social on the 17th of May. Relief from Rheumatic Pain. "I suffered with rheumatism for over two years," Mr. Roll and Curry, a patrolman, of Key West, Fla. "Sometimes it settled in my knees and lamed me so I could hardly walk, at other times it would be in my feet and hands so I was incapacitated for duty. One night when I was in severe pain and lame from it my wife went to the drug store here and came back with a bottle of Chamberlain's pain Balm. I was rubbed with it and found the pain had nearly gone during the night, I kept on using it for a little more than two weeks and found that it drove rheumatism away. I have not had any trouble from that disease for over three months." For sale by all druggist. He Is In New York. An Atchison paper asks, "What has become of the old-fashioned boy who fought angstin wearing his Sunday clothes. He's in Wall street fleecing his bosses and his friends that he employed to organize a corner in marbles in the good old days. WHEN BUYING You may as well buy a guaranteed piano. I sell the kind I feel willing to guarantee. I can afford to guarantee them because I know how they are built I buy my pianos from the standpoint of a professional piano mon. W. H. Lehman. Est. 40 years. Eighth and Walnut. ```markdown ``` NOT ALL A COMPILMENT. Wife's Pride. In Husband's Success. Had a Tinge of Regret. The doctor and his wife had lived together four years. She was a widow when he met her. He was a physician of note. Their life together was a happy one and no quibbling had entered the home to set a bad example for their hopeful. But the wife had a reputation as a wit. Her witticism and little sarcastic remarks were far far and wide. Her friend all had been very kind and felt the sting of them. The physician had been working with a hard case. He had spent day and night at the home of his patient and had won the fight for life. And he was accordingly well satisfied with himself. On his arrival home one evening he turned to his wife, saying: "You see, wifey dear! I have pulled my patient through. He is now well on the road to recovery." "Yes, hubby, dear," returned the wife. "But you are such a perfect master of your life. You are so faithful. Ah, I wish that I had met you five years sooner than I did. Then my poor, dear Billy would never have died." CLEVER TRICK OF THIEVES. Use Offensive Odor of Onions to Aid in Shopping. "Iincredible as it may seem," said Lecoq, the detective, "there are a number of shoplifters who steal by the agency of the onion. These abandoned men, before setting up upon their contemplated crimes, eat of raw onions abundantly. Then they stroll into the sliversmith's or the haberdasher's or the jeweler's that they propose to rob. "Show me those large solitaries surrounded with pigeons, please. They threw their thief. The clerk brings forth the tray of gems and, bending over it, the thief sighs with admiration. His face close to the clerks, he sighs again. And the clerk's nostrils quiver, and he turns away his head. The inspection of diamonds continues for some minutes. Throughout it the thief keeps breathing hard, the clerk keeps turning his head away and hence it is no wonder at the day's end that a couple of costly rings are missing." A Dog Worth Knowing Two years ago a boy 14 years old named Edward Sweeney, living at Opelika, Ala. was followed home by a small dog. The animal was a bobtail and squinted and by the no means good looking, and by the boy was laughed at for having him around. Within a week, however, the dog brought home a five-dollar bill in his mouth. The next week he brought a silver bill. Then he brought a pocket knife, and followed that with a dollar bill. There has hardly been a week in these two years that the dog has not found something. He makes it his business to hunt the streets and highways, and often travels a distance of 30 miles. Up to the present date he has found and brought home $33 in cash, besides many useful things. Women of Yezzo. The women of the island of Yezzo, whence it is supposed came the original inhabitants of Japan, have a very peculiar custom of making up their faces to look as though they have mustaches. These women are called Alnus, and upon the upper lip of each Alnus belle is tattooed something that resembles a long, flowing mustache. To possess an artistically tattooed ornament of this kind marks a woman whose hair is adorned and her chances of making a good matrimonial alliance are very small if she is not thus adorned. As a matter of fact, the men of the island choose their spouses more for the beauty of this tattooed design than the grace of form or charm of feature. The Pet Animal Stage. "Why don't you get you a cat?" asked her woman friend. "You wouldn't be half so lonely if you had some little live animal like that always around." "I haven't come to the animal stage yet, thank heaven," she replied. "When men and women lose all hope of human life they go to the animal kingdom, the men to the dogs, some literally, and the women to the cats, some literally, and perhaps, since faithfulness is to be found mainly among the animals; but as I say, I haven't quite arrived at that stage of the game yet." Her First Impressions "The first impression is the one you should always go by," the little grass widow advised. "I know by experience. I have never yet had a husband that I liked at first sight. He always had to win me. Then, after I had been married awhile, I invariably went back to my first impression of him. I was not a worel till I had to leave him. I shall never marry again," she finished, "unless I fall head over heels in love with him the first minute I meet him." Best Sleep of All. "I see that an eminent physician declares that two hours of sleep before midnight are worth more than six after that hour." Consenses six hours of sleep after twelve o'clock the morning are worth more than anything else." Dull Times. "Hello!" said the funny man to Finnegan the undertaker. "I suppose your business is dead with you!" "Faith, it's worse than that," replied Finnegan. "Shure, I haven't buried a livin' soul in near a month." The world is in the hands of the People who do not know it. Iowa State Bystander Bystander Pub. Co. DES MOINES . . IOWA influence of the Politician's Wife. It has often been asked how much influence the wife of a public man bears on his political career. This is hard to estimate; but this much is certain: The man who comes to Washington, either as a member of Congress or of some other branch of the government where his position is one of prominence, is very unfortunate if his wife is not one whom he can trust to making her way socially. Not necessarily being a great social success, but capable of mingling with the average woman at the national capital. For, in spite of the fact that a small percentage of society looks leniently upon the married couple who are soldom seen in public together, the average sound American believes in the comradeship of man and wife. But when we sum up this question of the influence of women in statecraft we pass the judgment that, on the whole, the influence of woman in statecraft is for good, says a writer in Home Magazine. Being impulsive, she is apt to make mistakes now and then which cause the more logical males to laugh at her, but as a rule she is pretty sure of her footing before she attempts to make the jump across the political stream that divides womankind from unkind. Germa in Books. The authorities of the city libraries in Berlin have been making some interesting experiments with the purpose of determining the hygienic conditions of books that have been used a great deal by the people. With the dirt gathered from such books, some of which was known to include tuberculous bacilli, experiments were made on guinea pigs. In the case of books used but two years, no result could be noticed, but the refuse collected from particularly solled books, that had been in circulation from three to six years, did produce an effect. Attempts to destroy the bacilli by sterilization through formalin vapors failed; but the books themselves suffered to such an extent that many were practically spolled. In view of this fact, the city authorities have decided to abstain from further disinfecting experiments. In conjunction with the city medical society and the police department, it has now been decided periodically to examine the public libraries and to destroy those books which have been used so much as to make them a danger to public health. Such books must be destroyed, not sold for old paper. Alonzo H. Evans, Boston's oldest bank president, at 87, is robust and hearty, and shows by his own example the result of living the kind of life that he prescribes for the youth of to-day. Mr. Evans has the greatest confidence in the generation of the present and thinks if they follow his advice they will succeed. He says: "Apply yourself, young man, if you would succeed. Work hard, be honest, be truthful, be loyal to your employer, save something out of each week's pay, even if it is little, but above all, apply yourself." At Krupp's, in Essen, an army of 10,000, fed with coal and iron from vast private mines, turn out engines of destruction by the thousand. There are another 12,000 men at Lord Armstrong's works in the north of England, besides an aggregate of 40,000 more in the titanic government forges of Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan and Russia, and these thousands are quite apart from armor plate makers and builders of battleships. Twenty years ago the population of Oklahoma could be enumerated in Indians and a few thousand squaw men, cowboys and cattle kings. In 1890, one year after the first opening of Oklahoma territory, there were more than 60,000 people living on 2,000,000 acres of land. To-day the white population may conservatively be estimated at over 1,500,000. In the newly organized province of Alberta, western Canada, bordering the foothills of the Rocky mountains, is the latest stake of Zion. There 3,000 trekkers from Utah are farming and ranching, and incidentally building up a strong cause of Latter Day Saints in the dominion, as an integral part of the army of 300,000 that constitutes the sect the world over. The British coast erosion committee rejoices over the discovery that the sea has added 30,752 acres to the British isles in 25 years and carried away only 419 acres. The land cut off has been valuable, however, while the sandbanks added may remain useless for many years. Allylons Mucha, the noted French artist, has come to America to live and is now teaching art in New York. He was born in Moravia in 1860, but has lived in Paris most of his life. Fresh salmon are scarce, but the canned article we have always with us, and in a salad it can hardly be distinguished from real salmon pure arrivals from Maine. Mayonnaise is a wonderful magician in making things appear what they are not, especially when pig masquerades as chicken. A writer estimates that, there are 279 American railroads which did not tell a passenger last year. However, it is possible that they routed a lot of passengers over time that did. IOWA STATE NEWS Events of Recent Occurrence Throughout the Commonwealth. TOOK WATERWORKS FUNDS. Arthur M'Arthur of Dubuque Confesses Guilt. Dubuque.—The greatest sensation of the long drawn out water works scandal came to light when Arthur McArthur, superintendent of the municipal plant on being questioned, admitted that he is an embeader. A shortage of $775 was discovered though the investigation is not fairly THE HUBBARDS SEPARATE. Chicago Sculptress is The Cause of The Trouble. Chicago—N. M. Hubbard, Jr., of Char Rapids son of the late N. M. Hubbard, attorney for the Chicago and Northwestern railroad in Iowa, has agreed to separate from his wife and has retired from the law firm of which he was a member. He has come on to Chicago and day after day has McAthur held the superintendency under the old regime, recently deposed, and was retained by the new trustees. His resignation was confirmed for and has been handed over. Confronted by the shorner McAthur, the trustees had been heavy and he had taken money ever since he had had charge of the plant. The city attorney is looking up the evidence and that matter will be presented to the grand jury. He would collect water, give a receipt to the bank, give on the ledger, bring the cash book. Bills were made out from the ledger. The new trustees began making out bills from the cash book, when the patrons appeared with receipted bills. It is believed that others are included. McAthur is committed with the first payment to the city. He was placed under $5,000 the city. Dubique. The defaulion of Arthur McArthur, the recently deposed superintendent of the Dubuque municipal water works and the owner of the sum of $1,700 when it was discovered that five months rentals paid by the Great Western or $15, had not been turned into the treasury. The surface of the mortgage is absorbed in the debt. The demand was made that Peloubet & Co. of Chicago, accountants who audited the accounts of the plant, be sued for $5,000 the amount received from the chancellor's investigation of the books problems. McArthur is a son-in-law of former Senator P. W. Crawford and a brother-in-law of Charles Markle, a banker hero. TO GET WILLOUGHBY. Case Goes New Before the Polic Grand Jury Des Moines. —Dillon C. Willoughby, the smooth Englishman who played with millions like ordinary people played with dollars, has been located on the coast and effortlessly acted on one occasion an indictment in Polk county so that he may be extradited. Willoughby is living in London under an assumer name but in under the consular jurisdiction of the police of the metropolis. Carmen Layton, the real estate man who was the principal sufferer in the case, which cost him, Chief of Police Jones and other Iowans aboot $20,000 announced recently that he intended to lay his case before the grand jury and the government is returned will ask Governor Cummins to issue extradition papers. The specific charge which will be brought against Willoughby will be that of obtaining money by false prosecution in the case of curing $700 in this way from Carmon Layton by representing that he owned several hundred acres of land in Colorado which he sold to the Des Moines man. When Layton investigated his found that Willoughby did not sue to the property he claimed to be. DANCE ENDS IN MURDER One Dying And Another Seriously Hurt Sigurorem —Tragedy ended a barn dance at Harper, six miles east of her George Kuhn was shot in the brain with a revolver and cannot live while Fred Stricelow was badly cut about the hand and body. A dance was in progress in the barn of Mrs. Fred Mugus when the young men began guarrelling. The affair ended in a freezing rain, and the men received black eyes and bloody noses. Ed. Smith, who lives near Harper, was just leaving his buggy when some of the crowd began shooting after him in what began out a revolt. He was shot and killed, throng of girls and boys. Kuhn received a bullet in his brain which entered his brain. He is dying at his home near Harper. Kuhn is a nephew of Sarah Kuhn, the alleged murders. Sheriff Jody Baby with a marshal and deputies are scouring the country for Smith, who has not been found. He has left the state or is in hiding in some barn or farm house in the county. SMALL BOX NEAR SIDNEY Armed Guards Patrol Surrounding Towns. Sidney.-Smallpox has broken out in numerous places in southwestern Iowa, and quarantines are being established. The only nonessential nonne are permitted to either enter or leave the town. Armed guards are in charge of every road leading into the place. A number of travelling vehicles are being used. There are five new cases in Riverton. Sidney is patrolled by guards and no one from the infected towns are permitted to enter. Hamburg is responsible for escaping the place, and four people who had escaped from Riverton were arrested and returned to that town. The rural mail carriers have been ordered to discontinue mail deliveries until the trouble in over. "Bad" Man Killed At Buckton. Alba—Another murder was committed at the Buckton mining camp when John Coleman, a notorious "bad" man, was shot and killed by Edward Black. The trouble arose over a game of cards. Both men had been drinkers at the doctor's office but died when in a doctor's office. The tragedy occurred in the Greasy Spread district, 12 miles north of here. Black escaped, but "bad" Read, a tall negro, went after him and brought him to town slions. Coleman never worked at any time. Black also is a negro. Chicago Sculptress is The Cause of The Trouble. Chicago—N. M. Hubbard, Jr. of Caprad Rapids son of the late N. M. Hubbard, attorney for the Chicago and Northwestern railroad in Iowa, has agreed to separate from his wife and has retired from the law firm of which he was a member. He has come often to Chicago and day after day has visited the studio of Miss Cooper in the Fine Arts building. Miss Cooper, the creator of the sculptured figure of Sacajawea, the "bird woman," which stood under the great gate to the and Clark expedition, has been taken out from Portland around the sea, has left her studio and gone to "bohemia." Celer Rapids.—The publication of the Hubbard story causes no surprise in this city. The facts have been known some time. Hubbard has set his sights on the personal effects for the ostensible purpose of looking after business interests in Chicago. Miss Cooper is the woman who took the death mask of the late Judge N. Mr. Hubbard and his wife, Mrs. Hubbard, to have spent some time in a maternity ward of one of the hospitals. Afterwards she made no secret of her relations with Hubbard. Much sympathy expresses in her letter to the tender devotion to Mrs. Hubbard, Sr., for many years an invalid, has been the cause of much favorable comment. Hubbard is understood to have offered his wife half of the property, and will eventually fall heir to if she would consent to a divorce, which she refuses to grant until after the death of Mrs. Hubbard, Sr. The Hubbard estate is estimated at close to a million dollars. Cooper is said to be wealthy in her own name. Carbondale, Col.-While N. M. Hubbard, Miss Cooper and her mother have taken refuge at the Cooper ranch, Mrs. Charlotte Wilson, Miss Cooper's slater, declares that are man and wife. She is astounded at the story that Mr. Hubbard has a wife living in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She intimates mistaken identity and declares that her slater and Mr. Hubbard have been married. Cedar Rapids—Mrs. Hubbard will grant no interview. She says she has nothing to say upon the subject. Friends of Mrs. Hubbard deny the statement from Colorado, saying it is no divorce having been granted. DETECTIVE AND NEGRO SHOT. Des Moines—Hemmed in by two negroes, one of whom he had hunted to the intersection of Twentih street with the Great Western tracks, City Detective Edwin E. Johnston fired two shots into the body of the fugitive and in turn received a handful of small shot above the right ear, discharged from a shotgun in the hands of the latter's step-son. The three-cornered battle was the culmination of the man hunt engaged in by two details of detectives and police officers. After Johnston's wounds were dressed by City Physician Miller it was found that he was not dangerously injured. A. J. Barker, the wounded negro, had 33 caliber shot behind his right shoulder and second in his abdomen. Henry Barker, his step-son, was arrested a few moments after he had wounded Johnston by Detective Jackson at his residence on Twentih street. He is held for assault with intent to kill. He has been taken to Mercy hospital. The trouble grew out of an attack made by Barker, the stepfather, upon Mrs. Burke's Spears, colored, residing in Western tracks. After slimming the head and shoulders of he women with a long dirk, Barker made his escape. The attack was begun by the police department each man carrying a Winchester. CONGER NEAR DEATH. Former Des Moines Man and U. B. Minister to China. Pasadena, Cal, May 16.—R. H. Conger, former ambassador to China during the boxer uprising, is reported to have been a sufferer for many years from stomach disorder, contracted during the civil war. His physicians last night admitted that Mr. Conger's condition is improving. After interviewing from China Mr. Conger was elected president of the Occidental Life Insurance company, and came to Pasadena a year ago, purchasing a splendid wife. He and his wife, who have been familiar figures in Pasadena social and business life. The latter is pastor of the Universalist church. The Empress Tsi An, who was formerly a Conger, recently sent him a beautiful dog from the imperial kennels. BOY BEHEADED BY TRAIN. Ray Anderson Meets Tragic End At Davenport. Davenport—Ray Anderson, the 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Anderson, met with a shocking death by being run over by a train on the southwestern division of the lock island road. Boy is Killed Near Oelwine Oelwine—Rufus T. Downs, 19 years old, was accidentally killed by the discharge of a shotgun he was cleaning. He was alone at the time. He lived in a cabin near on a place of land he was cultivating. The corpore returned a vardet of accidental death. Did Policeman Cause Death? Lowa City—Walter Smith, a prominent young Johnson county farmer, who was struck on the head by a policeman's bally some days ago, is dead. He was still resisting arrest while in Lowa City guarding a night Erwinelle developed. OLD MADRID ST. MARTÍS DE MADRID A WILD DAY ON THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE. General Belief of Crop Shortage Given as Cause of the Raise. Chicago—Wheat hit the dollar-mark Monday with apparently the board of trade "brain-storm." The even figure was reached by both September and December lines, with the trade spreading wider and wider. Foreign buying orders swelled the demand and in New York the price went beyond $1.03. September opened at 95c to 98c. Scorn was at 98c while the bulls were throwing up their headgear the price topped at 98c and 98c. A return in the pits before the closing was predicted, also that the next time it would keep its balance. The opening trade in wheat was the wildest in the history of the board of trade. Brokers who have been on 'change for 20 or 30 years say they never have witnessed anything equal to the erosion of the first 15 minutes of the last century, estimating the volume of business transacted within that period. Underlying the present speculative raze is the belief that there will be a serious shortage of bread supplies the world over this season, owing to heavy crop losses both in this country and Europe. The present indications are that the United States and Canada will have a greatly reduced export volume, while the northwest still is so cold as to retard the work of seeding and each day ofelay now means a further reduction of the acreage. LOCKED UP IN HIS OWN JAIL. Faller of Newport, Ky., Caught in Raid on Crap Game. Cincinnati--As a result of antigambling agitation in Newport, KY, a peculiar situation has developed in connection with numerous arrests. Saturday night Chief Lickert, assisted by nearly every member of the police force, raided a crap game almost opposite police headquarters. The proprietor and about 25 well known citizens were caught, several of whom claimed to be only spectators, and every cell in the jail was crowded. It was long after midnight before the last of the prisoners succeeded in securing the jail and released. City Jailer Ben Ploeger was among those captured and he experienced the unusual sensation of being locked up in his own jail. It was found necessary to release Ploeger on bond first so that he could in turn officially release the others as fast as bond was offered. Fraud Conviction Uhhold Washington.—James L. Bradford and William H. Wright, of Louisiana, failed in their effort to secure a review by the supreme court of the findings against them on the charge of defrauding the United States in the entry of public lands in Louisiana. Bryce Will Deliver Address. Champaign, Ill.—President James, of the University of Illinois, announced that James Bryce, British ambassador to Washington, has accepted an invitation to deliver the commencement address here on Wednesday, June 12. Kansas Sheriff Destiny Liquor. Independence, Kan.—The sheriff of this county here Wednesday destroyed $5,000 worth of liquor in the street. The liquor was seized some time ago from saloons in the county. The destruction was witnessed by an immense crowd of people. To Christen Spanish Heir Saturday, Madrid. The condition of Queen Victoria and Prince Alfonso is satisfactory. It has now been decided that the heir to the throne shall be christened May 18. Miners Clash in Ohio. Pomeroy, O.-The miners' strike which has been in force here for the past four months, culminated Monday afternoon in a clash between the strikers and strikebreakers. One miner had an arm broken and two strike breakers were badly injured. Canadian Longshoreman Strike. Montreal.-It was announced at 8:30 p. m. that the longshoreman's strike is on. A large force of police has just moved down to the wharves. ICE MEN ARE FINED Sentence Imposed on Members of Kansas City Trust. Kansas City, Mo. — Walter A. Powell, judge of the circuit court at Independence, Mo., Tuesday fined the following named companies, recently found guilty of maintaining a trust to regulate the production and price of ice at Kansas City: People's Ice, Storage and Fuel company, $15,000; Central Ice company, $8,000; Kansas City Breweries company, $5,000. Punishment of the Vanderslice-Lynds Mercantile company, also found guilty of violating the law, will be determined later. Judge Powell also enlisted these companies from doing business in the future with one another. Similar charges brought against the Dold Packing company, the Western ice company, Ruddy Bros., and the Interstate ice company, were dismissed, the allegations not having been sustained. Later, Judge Powell ordered that the charter of the People's Ice, Storage and Fuel company be forfeited and that that concern be ousted from the People's company for the People's company announced that an appeal would be taken. WOULD HAVE AN ALLIANCE. Japan Seeks Close Relations with United States. New York—"Japan has looked earnestly for an alliance with the United States, because in substance we have always regarded this country as a reality of Japan. We are desirous of having such an alliance if it could be arranged. As long though, as any misunderstanding like the anti-Japanese feeling in San Francisco exists it might not be possible to bring about an alliance." Thus spoke Baron Ozawa, member of the house of peers and special representative of the emperor, in an interview with Ozawa said he would report to the emperor that he found no evidences of anti-Japanese feeling existing anywhere in the country outside of San Francisco. Baron Ozawa said further that Japan had no dreams of further territorial expansion in the Pacific, and declared that it was unnecessary for her to acquire other possessions. The Corex-Gilman Wedding New York.—In order to escape the unlucky thirteenth of the month, William Ellis Corey, president of the United States Steel cororation, and Mabelle Gilman, the former actress, were not married until after midnight Tuesday morning. The ceremony took place in the Royal suite at the Hotel Gotham, Fifth avenue and street, in the presence of a small part of the audience, and a couple. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. L. Clark, pastor of the Bushwick Avenue Congregational church, of Brooklyn. Bees Destroy Green Bugs. Lawrence, Kam-Prof. S. J. Hunter, of the ontological department of the Kansas state university, has been collecting and sending free to the farmers of the southwest parasite been killed in the green bugs that decompose wheat. Fifty percent attended with uniform good results but that a larger fund was needed to make the work comprehensive and decisive. Passenger Train Crash Is Fatal Redding, Cal.-North-bound Portland passenger train No. 12 on the South-ern Pacific was run into by two engines at Copley. Brakeman William Jenes, of Sacramento, was instantly killed and the engines were wrecked. Oil Pays $9,000,000 Profit New York.—The directors of the Standard Oil company Wednesday declared a quarterly dividend of nine dollars a share, a total of $9,000,000. This compares with a dividend of $15 declared three months ago. Important to Shippers Washington.—A decision rendered by the interstate commerce commission holds that where two rates be tween the same point are in force. the shipper must be given the benefit of the lower. Teachers' Salaries Equalized. Albany, N. Y.—The senate passed over Mayor McCillian's veto the teachers' bill destined to equalize the salaries of men and women teachers in New York city. The vote was 5 in 9. HARRIMAN IS FLAYED WALL STREET KING DENOUNCED AS RAILROAD WRECKER. Report of Special Attorney Prepared For Interstate Commerce Commission Calls Huge Deals Illegal. New York.—An extract of the interstate commerce commission findings on its investigation of the Harriman railroad combination was made public Wednesday, and it is said that the report is by far the most sensational ever put out by the commission. It is stated that the commission has found that railroad competition has been choked off entirely in an area equal to one-third of the United States, and that in this area Hartman is absolute master; that Hartman's contracts with the Rock Island, Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe, the Illinois Central and the Pedro roads are in violation of the anti-trust acts and recommends that the attorney general proceed against them; that the purchase of the shares of one railroad by another was a bad practice that ought to be stopped by law; that there should be new and effective laws to prevent infiation of securities that the profits of the great railroads of the far west are being used to buy stock and control systems in the east, instead of building more roads for the development of the west. Attorneys Frank B. Kellogg and Charles A. Severance, who wrote the report for the commission, find that the Harriman reorganization of the Alton was "one of the most remarkable cases of manipulation and stock watering ever known," and they demand that laws be passed which shall stop such practices in future. The report concludes that Harriman now has absolute control of the Illinois Central and that he is so powerful in the Santa Fe that he has been able to stop all competition between it and his roads. It is declared that the combination of the Union and Southern Pacific system has been so powerful as not to suppress all compensation to prevent the business of the San Pedro area from Salt Lake to Los Angeles from independent line. The independent rail, in the great empire dominated by Harriman, is found to be impossible. The report of the commission will be sent to Attorney General Bonaparte in a few days. In view of the well-known attitude of the administration toward the Harriman combination, no doubt is entertained that a series of great suits will be instituted in the immediate future to dissolve the different agreements, contracts, and stockholding arrangements by which the Union Pacific holds control of many of its properties. In its report the commission tells briefly the story of the Union Pacific's reorganization and of the establishment of Harriman's control. SHRINERS DIE IN WRECK. Defective Switch Results in Terrible Disaster. Santa Barbara, Cal.-While hurrying northward over the coast line of the Southern Pacific railroad Saturday afternoon, homeward bound after a week of fraternizing and fliesa in Los Angeles, 145 Lhrers of Ismaila temple of Buffalo, and Rajah temple of Reading, with their families and friends, were hurled into the midst of death. Their special train, running 50 miles an hour, struck a defective switch at Honda, a lonely station on the sand wastes of the Pacific beach, derailing the train, smashing the coaches into flinders, killing 31 almost instantly and injuring more than a score of others. There was no warning of the impending calamity. The plunged upon the defective switch, and in an instant the big locomotive, baggage car, diner and Pulman were hurled together in a huge heap of wreckage. River Out of Banks Ashland, Wis.—Bad river, which runs through the Chippewa river basin, south of Ashland, has overflowed its banks and is the highest in years. The village of Odanah is flooded and one-third of the inhabitants have been forced from their homes. Many of them were taken out in canoes. Small Cyclone in Illinois. Joliet, Ill.—A storm resembling a tornado swept through Grundy, Will and Kendall counties and caused heavy destruction of property. At Caton a school building, in which 20 pupils were studying, was lifted from the foundation and swung bodily around. None of the children was hurt. Declines to Abolish Drumheads. St. Petersburg—The council of the empire, or upper house of parliament, Wednesday rejected the bill, which was passed April 30 by the lower house abolishing trials by the lower courts-martial. NEW YORK—The woman's board of foreign missions of the Reformed Church of America has collected $60,000. This is the largest amount ever raised for foreign missionary work by this body. New York Firemen Fight Bravely. New York—Sixty firemen, practically every man in seven fire companies, were overcome by smoke in fighting a fire in the Remembrance typewriter building at 325 Broadway. More than a score of the men were taken to hospitals, where 16 of them remain. The loss amounts to not more than $10,000. Heavy Loss by Fire. Marion, Ill.—The village of Goreel, south of here, was swept by fire, insulting a loss of $75,000. 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Wind, thunder and lightning played on the sky, and the family were huddled in dark corners. Paul watched the illumination of the sky with great delight. The next morning at breakfast he asked his father what the causes of fire across the sky, and his father, with great pain, essayed to explain. Paul listened attentively and apparently accepted what was to his heart, when he saw the fire self, he leaned over to his wife, sat beside him, and whispered: "It wasn't that, annie. It was God scratching matches on the sky." BABY'S ECZEMA GREW WORSE Hospitalis and Doctors Could Not Be Heave Him—But Cuticura Remedies a Speedy, Permanent Cure. "Eczema appeared when our baby was three months old. We applied to several doctors and hospitals, each of which gave us something different every time, but nothing brought relief. At last, one of our friends recommended to us Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment to prevent could be noted. Since then we have used nothing but Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, and now the baby is six months old and is quite cured. All that we used was one case of Cuticura Soap and two boxes of Cuticura Ointment, costing in all $1.1K. C. F. Kara, 343 East 65th Street, New York, March 20, 1906." And He Was Not German One of our third grade teachers noticed a little fellow the other day during a pamphailhip lesson who was evidently absorbed in his work and putting his whole soul into his efforts to make his results look like the teachers did. He was thinking such devotion worthy of special reward she passed on the stair to give him an encouraging pet upon the head and the regulation stance of approval. As she drew near she noticed that his lips were moving, and that with the completion of each better he compared it with his copy and mattered audibly, "damiic," "damiic," the screen up his courage, the screen up a newspaper, the teacher passed on without distracting his mind from his work—Journal of Education. Use for Worthless Stocks. "Wildcat mining stocks are not altogether useless — or worthless, either," said a downtown broker who handles cheap mining stocks, the other day as he hung up the telephone receiver. "Here's a man who has just offered me $50 for enough mining stocks to have a face value of $50,000. He wasn't particular what stocks he got if they only had a paper value of $50,000. I closed the deal and shall make money on it, too. What did he want with such stocks? Well, I haven't the slightest doubt but that he is getting ready to go into the bankruptcy court and wants to show his creditors where his money has been dropped. We often get such requests and are usually able to all them."—N. Y. Sun. An Indian's View of an Ocean After a white curiosity led me back to the sod house, and I saw for the first time how the white woman pumps so much air into a box that when she presses on the top board it blows convulently. I forgot my bashfulness so far as to listen openly and enjoy the operation, wondering much how the white man puts a pair of hung into a box, which is furnished with a whole set of black and white teeth, and sings to it. it appears to answer him, so how the white people teach their children their I thought—From *Outlook*—Dr. Charles A. Eastman's "Schooldays of an Indian." CHANGE IN FOOD It is worth knowing that a change in food can cure dyspepsia. "I deem it my duty to let you know how Grape-Nuts food has cured me of indigestion. "I had been troubled with it for years, until last year my doctor recommended Grape-Nuts food to be used every morning. 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LONG DEADLOCK FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR IS BROKEN SUPPORTER OF LA FOLLETTE Lieutenant Governor Secures for Stephenson Two Votes Thought Pledged to Hatten. Madison, Wis., May 17.—The Wisconsin senatorial deadlock was broken by the nomination on the first ballot of last night's republican candidate of former Congressman Isaac Stephenson of Marinette. The result was accompanied by the breaking up of the opposition, when the anti-Stephenson men resolved that they were beaten, turned to their former favorites, Beaten and Hatten, and the final result was announced as follows: Stephenson 54 Esch 23 Hatten 19 Scotting 8 The credit for the Stephenson victory is given to Lieutenant Governor Cc.,nor, who secured for Stephenson the support of two members claimed to have been pledged to Hatten. If they had voted for Hatten, Stephenson would have been defeated. That was the end of a deadlock existing in the Senate and in that time a daily ballot has been taken in the legislature in joint session of the house and senate and nearly eight ballots were taken in all the republican caucuses. There were originally five candidates, but Congressman Cooper appeared, and the two withdrew a week ago, leaving Esch, Hatten and Stephenson in the field. Isaac Stephenson of Marinette, who was nominated for United States senator in the republican caucus last night to succeed John C. Spooner, resigned, is a very wealthy lumberman and a noted collector. Heckton, N. B., June 18, 1829. He went to Bangor, M. in 1840, and a year later moved to Wisconsin, where he worked on a farm. He afterwards bought a schooner which he sailed between Milwaukee and Escanaba and invested his savings in timber lands. He was the owner in the Ludding company, the Pesthgate Lumber company, the Memnimee River-Boom company, the Stephenson company and the Stephenson National bank of Marinette. Mr. Stephenson was a member of the 1868 Congress and served in the lower house of congress from 1833 to 1889. He has long been an adherent of United States Senator Robert M. La Follette. BUEF OFFERED IMMUNITY. Sensational Statement Given Out in San Francisco. San Francisco, Cal., May 17. —The sensational declaration that the bribery to Abraham Ruef if he would become a witness for the state against the various high personages accused of municipal corruption was made to the L. sociated Press yesterday by Ruef. One of the morning papers today made the outrageous statement that I was drunk when I changed my plea to guilty in court yesterday," said Ruef. "It seems that there are no depths in distillation that will not desecent, even in this hour. I did not take my stand yesterday without long and full consideration, but I tell you that two months ago the prosecution came to me and offered to let me off on a trial, and that Mahal Burns father, confessor, I turned down." RUEF TURNS STATES EVIDENCE. San Francisco, Cal., May 17—Abe Ruef yesterday made good his declaration of Wednesday that he would, following his change of plan to gulliby the state, turn state's evidence and assist the bribery graft prosecution in its campaign against municipal corruption. From Special Agent Burns it was learned that Ruef was questioned and the alleged bribling of Mayor Schmitz and eleven supervisors by the United Railroads to grant to that corporation a change in the way he was following the railway system in this city. If Burns' understanding of Ruef's testimony is correct, the fallen boss told the grand jury that President Patrick Calhoun, the former Mullahy, Chief Counsel Tirey L. Ford and Assistant Counsel William M. Abbott of the United Railroads paid or caused to be paid the sum of $200,000 for the provision named; that $400,000 of this amount was paid to the pocket of Mayor Schmitz, and that $69,000 was handed to the eighteen supervisors, sixteen of them receiving $4,000 each, another demanding and getting $10,000, and Chairman Gullagher of the financial com- Subsequently the statement was made, but not officially confirmed, that indictments had been voted against the four Haitian leaders and Schmitz, as predicted by an officer of the prosecution two weeks ago. MILWAUKEE PLEADS. GUILTY. Grants Rebates In Violation of Elkins Law New York, May 17.—The Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company, through its general counsel Charles B. Keeler of Chicago, pleaded guilty before Judge Holt in the United States circuit court yesterday on two indictments recently returned against the road for the granting of charges in violation of law and abiding law. The court assessed a fine of $2,000 on each court pleaded to, or $2,000 in all, which Attorney Keeler paid. Earlier in the day the Western Transit company, another of the indicted corporations, through counsel, pleaded not guilty to the retrial, dictum of the judge, with permitance to withdraw the plea and sublimate demurrers to the indictments. It is understood that the Northern Pacific company, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and the Boston railways and the Western Transit company, all named in the recently returned indictments for rebating and which they have already entered pleas of not guilty, will go into court and stand trial on the ABE RUEF PLEADS GUILTY LX-FRISCO DICTATOR ADMITS CHARGE OF EXTORTION. lays He Confesses to Corrupt Practices Because Loved Ones Could Not Stand Long, Trial. San Francisco—Abraham Ruef, better known as Abe Ruef, the acknowledged adviser of Mayor Schmitz and the recognized dictator of municipal affairs in San Francisco, pleaded guilty to the charge of extortion in Judge Dunne's court Wednesday, Sentence will be pronounced upon him two weeks hence. After a private conference with his four attorneys in Judge Dunne's private chambers Wednesday afternoon, and after they had withdrawn from his case because of the resolution he had taken to change his plea and avoid trial, Ruef, to the utter astonishment of the prosecution, around a dramatic address that, after long and earnest consideration, he had determined to withdraw his plea of not guilty and enter a plea of guilty. He asked that the jury be dismissed and the trial abandoned. He declared that his sole motive in accusing himself in open court was to save the lives of those who are nearest and nearest to him, his aged father, and his grandfather, who, he says could not stand the strain of a long trial. Ruief read his statement from a manuscript which he had prepared in the presence of his attorneys, a few moments before Judge Dunne's chambers opened. He showed in his voice, in the expression on his face, in his quiet and gestureless attitude, and by the tears that again and again overlowed his eyes, the great emotion and bitter humiliation that he suffered. Attempted to be included in the crowd that throughed the courtroom. Tears sprang to the eyes of veteran newspaper men who have been lifelong acquaintances and whose papers have conducted against him and his political associates a long and bitter campaign for the purification of municipal affairs. The accused man was several times all but overcome by emotion. When he reached the final words of his address—"I desire to withdraw my plea of not guilty and enter the contrary plea of guilty and enter the contrary plea. But so intense was the silence that it reached to the far corners of the room. Rief's plea of guilty was' to the charge of extortion, on which the taking of testimony in his trial was about to begin. The specific charge in the indictment concerned the payment to Delmonico's French restaurant to secure for the place permission to sell forqur in private rooms. BIG LAKE BOAT BURNS. Steamer City of Cleveland, Nearly Finished, Destroyed. Detroit—The magnificent passenger steamer City of Cleveland, under construction at the plant of the Detroit Shipbuilding company for the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation company, to run between Detroit and Cleveland, was destroyed by fire early Monday. The loss, which falls upon the shipbuilding company, is about 1700,000. Detroit of Cleveland was launched at Wyndotte Jan. 5 and was to have been completed about June 30. She was 444 feet long and was designed to carry 4,500 passengers with sleeping accommodations for 1,500. The interior woodwork and fittings were almost completed and the machinery and boilers had been installed. The City of Cleveland was to be the largest side-wheel steamer on fresh water, and her interior woodwork was exceptionally beautiful. The cost of the boat was to be $1,250,000. NINETY MINERS ARE KILLED. Fire in Mexican Mine Causes Terrible Loss of Life. Meexico City.—According to a dispatch which was received from the city of Torreon, Coahuila, at a late hour Sunday, 90 lives were lost in a fire which occurred in the Cornetas shaft of the Ternera group of mines in the town of Valeranda, state of Durango. The fire started Friday night in an abandoned shaft. At the time there were 107 men working in another part of the mine and but 17 of them escaped. Thirty-five bodies have been recovered. Jamestown Holds Celebration. Norfolk, Va.—A salute of 17 guns from Fortress Monroe ushered in the centenary celebration of the founding of Jamestown on May 13, 1607. Gen. Baron Kuroki was the guest of honor of the day, and was accorded every possible honor. He was escorted to the exposition grounds by Gen. O. E. Wood, Gen. Grant and Maj. Strong. Caruso Case Ended. New York—Frederick W. Spellling, counsel for Enrico Caruso, the tenor, paid the $10 fine imposed on the singer last November and announced that the appeal to the appellate division of the supreme court had been withdrawn. This ends the case. Caruso was arrested for a charge of disorderly conduct in Central park. The woman who complained to a policeman that the singer annoyed her never appeared against him and could not be found. The singer was convicted and fined $10. Medical Bill Bigned. Albany, N. Y.-Gov. Hughes Monday night signed the bill on public health, revolutionizing the system of state control of the practice of medicine, known as the "Medical Unification bill." It creates a new definition of the practice of medicine, more sweeping than the old and substitutes one board of medical examiners under the aupuses of the board of regents in place of three boards now having burialdiction and representing the atypical, homeopathic, and eclectic state medical societies. "We are such stuff as dreams are made of. Guess ChessPAWS weren't much of a dreamer," is the way the subject was introduced. This followed: "Some people say they never dream. Whether they are to be enveloped a question. If one could push a button and have a dream brought on when ever desired a vision in sleep, dreams dreams dreams dreams dreams continue to come and go as they do, or as mine do, me for a dreamless sleep. "It is a mirage to suppose dreams necessarily come from late rarebites, liquid concoctions and poorly ventilated ed rooms. The most hideous night mares in my recollection galloped over me after I had remained in my room all evening reading delicious poetry, and after a dinner of nothing but seasonable fruit; after I had taken the case of a room at hospital temperature and after I had had a day unalloyed from care. "A long time ago I began keeping a record of dreams. I added after each my mental and physical condition at the time I went to bed. In looking over this dream diary, however, I can form no deductions. "There is no connection between any dream and my business or condition. I have committed crimes in my sleep at atrocious as any of which I have read after a day and evening in the most delightful surround inga and this when I was in prime condition. "I have written plays, poems and books which multiplied multitudes who cared about and which brought me honour and wealth. All in my sleep I never attempted either in my waking hours. "These sleep visions have come to me after the day was crowded with anxiety and unresolved problems and after I had gone to bed racked with pain. A very learned person to whom I stated the case said it was nature's recompense, or something of that sort." "The most charitable deed I ever did, the one which made me feel that I had won a harp and a halo, was rewarded in sleep by a brutal attack upon my beachcary which would have justified the community in lynching me. "I had a friend in the fullest sense of the word. If there ever was a man for whom I would have laid down my life it was this friend. He sickened and died. I attended him in his affection, took charge of the funeral and was the sincerest mourner at his bier. "The very night of the day on which he was buried I went in my sleep to his grave, resurrected his body, carried it to a dissection room, so it danced gleefully as it mutilated and murdered its victims. Then the money I had received I gave a banquet to the men who had paid me for my ghoulish work. "This mean diary of mine is filled with train robberies, acts of incendiations, stranglings and other diabolical acts." "Never shall I forget a night that followed a day in which I had been with the roctor of my church in a mission of mercy. I had laid aside my business to help. "That night, in my sleep, you understand, I was summoned to Rome, I presented myself to the present pope, who informed me that I was to take the body of Mary del Val. "I don't know how long I had held the job, but the pope sent for me one night and told me that he wanted to remove the bodies of all the dead popes in St. Peter's and have them thrown into the Tiber. A big job, but I took it. "When I reported that the work had been done the pope informed me that he was tired of his place and wanted to go back to Venice. He put it up to me to destroy the Vatican and give him safe place. You wouldn't expect me to go into the details of this task. I don't know that there were any details; I only know that the breaking up of the church of Rome was accomplished. "When I had landed the latest successor of St. Peter as he had asked, he rewarded me with an appointment. What do you think it was? He made me commissioner of the Grand canal and he rewarded me with the waters. The dream ended there. "After these few quotations from my dream diary it is due to say that in everyday life I am a conservative; I am not addicted to any vice. I am not a gourmet. I never use drugs. "I am just a plain, ordinary man, harmless and devoid of any ambition other than tait of living at peace with all men. I have no excessive curiosity, but I am not interested. I thinks be can tell why my sights are murdered with the weirdest dreams that ever came down the pike." How a Spirit Was Lost A ghost, a vague white form which fitted about a small neglected graveyard in Galway, much to the alarm of those who lived nearby, one of the gentlemen of our party undertook to lay. Going out not far from midnight, he did, indeed, soon become aware of a white figure looming toward him through the darkness. Our friend however, held on his way undeterred "Ghost, he said, in sepulchral tones when he came near, "could you drink a glass of whisky?" "I could do so, your honor," blithely responded the ghost, "because his balance by then expected offer and standing revealed as the principal poacher of the neighborhood, who had availed himself of this spectral guide to set his night lines and carry on other depredations undisturbed. Educated Cars Some of the villagers were overheard discussing the amir's motorcar. "It is not a carriage, for it has no horses," said one. "It is not a train, for it has no rails," said another. 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But when we sum up this question of the influence of women in statecraft we pass the judgment that, on the whole, the influence of woman in statecraft is for good, says a writer in Home Magazine. Being impulsive, she is apt to make mistakes now and then which cause the more logical rules to laugh at her, but as a rule she is pretty sure of her footing before she attempts to make the jump across the political stream that divides womankind from mankind. Germa In Books. The authorities of the city libraries in Berlin have been making some interesting experiments with the purpose of determining the hygienic conditions of books that have been used a great deal by the people. With the dirt gathered from such books, some of which was known to include tuberculosis bacillus, experiments were made on gulena pigs. In the case of books used but two years, no result could be noticed, but the refuse collected from particularly solled books, that had been in circulation from three to six years, did produce an effect. Attempts to destroy the bacillus by sterilization through formalin vapors failed; but the books themselves suffered to such an extent that many were practically spoiled. In view of this fact, the city authorities have decided to abstain from further disinfecting experiments. In conjunction with the city medical society and the police department, it has now been decided periodically to examine the public libraries and to destroy those books which have been used so much as to make them a danger to public health. Such books must be destroyed, not sold for old paper. Alonzo H. Evans, Boston's oldest bank president, at 87, is robust and hearty, and shows by his own example the result of living the kind of life that he prescribes for the youth of to-day. Mr. Evans has the greatest confidence in the generation of the present and thinks if they follow his advice they will succeed. He says: "Apply yourself, young man, if you would succeed. Work hard, be honest, be truthful, be loyal to your employer, save something out of each week's pay, even if it is little, but above all, apply yourself." At Krupp's in Essen, an army of 10,000, fed with coal and iron from vast private mines, turn out engines of destruction by the thousand. There are another 12,000 men at Lord Armstrong's works in the north of England, besides an aggregate of 40,000 more in the titanic government forges of Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan and Russia, and these thousands are quite apart from armor plate makers and builders of battleships. Twenty years ago the population of Oklahoma could be enumerated in Indians and a few thousand squaw men, cowboys and cattle kings. In 1890, one year after the first opening of Oklahoma territory, there were more than 60,000 people living on 2,000,000 acres of land. To-day the white population may conservatively be estimated at over 1,500,000. In the newly organized province of Alberta, western Canada, bordering the foothills of the Rocky mountains, is the latest stake of Zion. There 3,000 trakers from Utah are farming and ranching, and incidentally building up a strong cause of Latter Day Saints in the dominion, as an integral part of the army of 300,000 that constitutes the sect the world over. The British coast erosion committee rejoices over the discovery that the sea has added 30,752 acres to the British islands in 25 years and carried away only 419 acres. The land cut off has been valuable, however, while the sandbanks added may remain useless for many years. Alpions Mucha, the noted French artist, has come to America to live and is now teaching art in New York. He was born in Moravia in 1860, but has lived in Paris most of his life. Fresh salmon are scarce, but the canned article we have always with us, and in a salad it can hardly be distinguished from real simon pure arrivals from Malne. Mayonnaise is a wonderful magician in making things appear what they are not, especially when pig masquerades as chicken. A writer estimates that there are $79 American railroads which did not kill a passenger last year. However, it is possible that they routed a lot of passengers over lines that did. IOWA STATE NEWS Events of Recent Occurrence Through-out the Commonwealth. TOOK WATERWORKS FUNDS. Arthur M'Arthur of Dubuque Confesses Guilt. Dubuque.—The greatest sensation of the long drawn out water works scandal came to light when Arthur McArthur, superintendent of the municipal plant on being questioned, admitted that he is an embezzler. A shortage of $579 was discovered though the investigation was fairly THE HUBBARDS SEPARATE. Chicago Sculptress is The Cause of the Trouble. Chicago.—N. M. Hubbard, Jr., of Co dar Rapids son of the late N. M. Hubbard, attorney for the Chicago and Northwestern railroad in Iowa, has agreed to separate from his wife and has retired from the law firm of while he was a member. He has come o tion to Iowa and day after day ha McArthur held the superintendency under the old regime, recently deposed, and was retained by the trustees. The trustees has been handed in. Confronted by the shorange, McArthur said his personal expenses had been heavy and he had taken money ever since he had had to borrow money to look up the evidences and that matter will be presented to the grand jury. McArthur would collect water rent, give a receipt, make a payment to the book. Bills were made out from the ledger. The new trustees began making out bills from the cash book, when the patrons appeared with received bills. The bills were implicated. McArthur is connected with the first families in the city. He was placed under $5,000 bonds. Dubuque. The defaulcation of Arthur McArthur recently deposed superintendent of the Dubuque municipal water works and a self-confessed embezzler, reached the sum of $1,700 when it was discovered that five months later paid by the municipal water or $181, and not been into the treasury. The surface of the shortage is scarcely scratched. The demand was made that Feloubet & Co. of Chicago accounted for 50 percent of the plant, be sued for $5,000 the amount received from the city. The investigation of the books continues. McArthur is a son-in-law of former Secretary W. Crawford and a brother-in-law of Charles Markle, a banker here. TO GET WILLOUGHBY. Case Goes Now Before the Polk County Grand Jury Des Molles.-Dillon C. Willoughby, the smooth Englishman who played with millions like ordinary people played with dollars, has been located at once in the financial district of once to secure an indemnity in Polk county so that he may be extradited. Willoughby is living in London under a manor house and the constant surveillance of the police of the metropolis. Carmon Layton, the real estate man who was the principal sufferer of the bombings in which cost him, Chief of Police Jones and other lowlands about $20,000 announced recently that he intended to lay his case before the grand jury as soon as the government is returned with Government Cummins to issue extradition paper. The specific charge which will be brought against Willoughby will be that of obtaining money by false pre-payment, he claims he incurred $700 in this way from Carmon Layton by representing that he owned several hundred acres of land in Colorado which he sold to the Des Moines man. When Layton investigated, Willoughby did not have title to the property he claimed to own. DANCE ENDS IN MURDER One Dying And Another Seriously Murk Sigurorney —Tragedy ended a barn dance at Harper, six miles east of here, George Kuhn was shot in the brain with a revolver and cannot live while Fred Strelceil was badly cut about the hand and body. A dance was in progress in the barn of Mrs. Fred Magus when the young men began guarrelling. The affair ended in a freezing rain, and the young men received black eyes and bloody noses. Ed. Smith, who lives near Harper, was just leaving his buggy when some of the crowd began shooting warriors and began shooting into thong of girls and boys. Kuhn received a bullet in his brain which entered his brain. He is dying at his home near Harper. Kuhn is a nephew Sarah Kuhn, the alleged murderers. Sheriff Jody John with a marshal and deputies are scouring the country for Smilch, who has not been found. He is in hiding in some barn or farm house in the county. SMALLPOX NEAR SIDNEY. Armed Guards Patrol Surrounding Towns. Sldney.-Smallpox has broken out in numerous places in southwestern Iowa, and quarantines are being established. None are permitted to either enter or leave the town. Armed guards are in charge of every road leading into the place. A number of travelling vehicles are there. There are five new cases in Riverton. Sldney is patrolled by guards and no one from the infected towns are permitted to enter. Hamburg is exercising over all enterance into the place, and four have had escaped from Riverton were arrested and returned to that town. The rural mail carriers have been ordered to discontinue mail deliveries until the trouble is over. "Bad" Man Killed At Buxton. Alba—Another murder was committed at the Buxton mining camp when John Coleman, a notorious "bad" man, was shot and killed by Edward Black. The trouble arose over a game of cares. Both men had been drinkin' at the doctor's office but died within a few minutes. The tragedy occurred in the Greene Spoon district, 12 miles north of here. Spoon escaped, but "bad" Read, a tall negro, went either him and brought him to town alone. Corman senior worker at any time, negro and senior worked at any time, Black also in a negro. Chicago Sculptress is 'The Cause of The Trouble. Chicago — N. M. Hubbard, Jr. of Garapradis son of the late N. M. Hubbard, attorney for the Chicago and Northwestern railroad in Iowa, has agreed to separate from his wife and has retired from the law firm of which he was a member. He has come often to Chicago and day after day has visited the studio of Miss Cooper in the Fine Arts building. Miss Cooper, the creator of the sculptured figure of Sacajawea, the "bird woman," which stood under the great gate to the Lewis and Clark exposition looking out from Portland and rome from her studio and rome from "bobhanna." Celar Rapids.—The publication of the Hubbard story causes no surprise in this city. The facts have been known some time. Hubbard left several friends and a few personal effects for the ostensible purpose of looking after business interests in Chicago. Miss Cooper is the woman who took the death mask of the late Judge N. M. Hubbard and has to have spent some time in a maternity ward of one of the hospitals. Afterwards she made no secret of her relations with Hubbard. Much sympathy is expressed here. Mrs. Hubbard has to have spent some time with Mrs. Hubbard, Sr. for many years an invalid, has been the cause of much favorable comment. Hubbard is understood to have offered his wife money to Mrs. Hubbard, so he will eventually fall heir to if she would consent to a divorce, which she refuses to grant until the death of Mrs. Hubbard, Sr. The Hubbard estate is estimated to chose to a more personal effect, said to be wealthy in her own name. Carbondale, Col.-While N. M. Hubbard, Miss Cooper and her mother have taken refuge at the Cooper ranch, Mrs. Charlotte Wilson, Miss Cooper, and the young artist are man and wife. She is astonished at the story that Mr. Hubbard has a wife living in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She intimates mistaken identity and declares that her slater and Mr. Hubbard have been married. Cedar Rapids.-Mrs. Hubbard will grant no interview. She says she has nothing to say upon the subject. Friends of Mrs. Hubbard deny the statement from Colorado, saying it is no divorce having been granted. DETECTIVE AND NEGRO SHOT: Former Not Dangerously, But Latter Will Die. Des Moines—Hemmed in by two negroes, one of whom he had hunted to the intersection of Twentieth street with the Great Western tracks, City Detective Edwin E. Johnston fired two shots into the body of the fugitive and in turn received a handful of small shot above the right ear, discharged from a shogun in the hands of the latter's step-son. The three-cornered battle was the culmination of the man hunt engaged in by two details of detectives and police officers. After Johnston's wounds were dressed by City Physician Miller it was found that he was not dangerously injured. A. J. Barker, the wounded negro, has a 38 caliber Winchester Bullet located in the back second in his abdomen. Henry Barker, his step-son, was arrested a few moments after he had wounded Johnston by Detective Jackson at his residence on Twentieth street. He is held for assault with intent to kill. He has been taken to Mercy hospital. The trouble grew out of an attack made by Barker, the stepfather, upon Mrs. Curley Spears, colored, residing in the town of Western tracks. After slimming the head and shoulders of he women with a long dirk, Barker made his escape. he carried a rifle with him, hunted the cattle, and escaped each man carrying a Winchester. CONGER NEAR DEATH Former Des Moines Man and U. S. Minister to China. Pasadena, Cal., May 18—R. H. Conger, former ambassador to China during the boxer uprising, is reported to have been a sufferer for many years from stomach disorder, contracted during the civil war. His physicians last night admitted that Mr. Conger's condition was improving. After returning from China, Mr Conger was elected president of the Occidental Life Insurance company and came to Pasadena a year ago. Bishilam a philanthropist, He and Bishilam have been familiar figures in Pasadena social and business life. The latter is pastor of the Universalist church, the Empress at An, who helped him overcome his suffering, sent him a beautiful dog from the imperial kennels. BOY BEHEADED BY TRAIN. Ray Anderson Meets Tragic End At Davenport. Davenport—Ray Anderson, the 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Anderson, met with a shocking death by a train over a train on the southwestern division of the Rock Island road. Ray is Killed Near California. Boy is Killed Near Oelwein. Boy was accidentally killed by the discharge of a shotgun he was cleaning. He was alone at the time. He lived in a crib near here on a place he had been in. The corpore returned a verdict of accident) death. Die Policeman Cause Death? Little girl was injured. Young Johnson county farmer, who was struck on the head by a policeman's billy some days ago, is dead. Steve while resisting arrest while in jail was a night Erysiphelia developed. OLD MADRID ST. MARIE 1914 MADRID A WILD DAY ON THE CHIGAGO BOARD OF TRADE. Chicago—Wheat hit the dollar-mark Monday with apparently the board of trade "brain-storm." The even figure was reached by both September and December lines, with the trade spreading wider and wider. Foreign buying orders swelled the demand and in New York the price went beyond $1.03. September opened at 95c to $9c. Soon it sold at $1, and while the bulls were throwing up their headgear the price topped to 99c and 98c. A return in the pits before the closing was predicted, also that the next time it would keep its balance. The opening trade in what was the wheat in the history of the board of trade who have been on 'change for 20 or 30 years say they have witnessed anything equal to the erosion of the first 15 minutes of trading. There is no way of estimating the volume of business transacted within that period. Underlying the present speculative raze is the belifol that there will be a serious shortage of bread supplies the world over this season, owing to heavy crop losses both in this country and Europe. The present indications are that the United States and Canada will have a greatly reduced export of wheat, and the northwest still is so cold as to retard the work of seeding and each day of lelay now means a further reduction if the acreage. LOCKED UP IN HIS OWN JAIL. Jalier of Newport, Ky., Caught in Raid on Crap Game. Cincinnati—As a result of antigambling agitation in Newport, KY, a peculiar situation has developed in connection with numerous arrests. Saturday night Chief Clickert, assisted by nearly every member of the police force, raided a crap game almost opposite police headquarters. The proprietor and about 25 well known citizens were caught, several of whom claimed to be only spectators, and every cell in the jail was crowded. It was long after midnight before the last of the prisoners succeeded in sequestering and several released. City Jailer Ben Ploeger was among those captured and he experienced the unusual sensation of being looked up in his own jail. It was found necessary to release Ploeger on bond first so that he could in turn officially release the others as fast as bond was offered. Fraud Conviction Uuheld Washington.—James L. Bradford and William H. Wright, of Louisiana, failed in their effort to secure a review by the supreme court of the findings against them on the charge of defending the United States in the case of public lands in Louisiana. Bryce Will Deliver Address. Champaign, Ill.—President James, of the University of Illinois, announced that James Bryce, British missionary in Louisiana, has accepted an invitation to the commencement address here on Wednesday, June 12. Kansas Sheriff Destroye Liquor Independence, Kan.-The sheriff of this county here Wednesday destroyed $6,000 worth of liquor in the street. The liquor was seized some time ago from saloons in the county. The destruction was witnessed by an immense crowd of people. -To Christen Spanish Heir Saturday, Madrid.-The condition of Queen Victoria and Prince Alfonso is satisfactory. It has now been decided that the heir to the throne shall be christened May 18. Minneapolis In Ohio Pomeroy, O—The miners' strike which has been in force here for the past four months, culminated Monday afternoon in a clash between the strikers and strikebreakers. One miner had an arm broken and two strike breakers were badly injured. Canadian Longshoremen Strike. Montreal—It was announced at 8:30 p.m. that the longshoreman's strike is on. A large force of police has just moved down to the wharves. Sentence Imposed on Members of Kansas City Trust. Kansas City, Mo. — Walter A. Powell, judge of the circuit court at Independence, Mo., Tuesday and the following day guilty of maintaining a trust to regulate the production and price of ice at Kansas City: People's Ice, Storage and Fuel company, $15,000; Central Ice company, $8,000; Kansas City Breweries company, $5,000. Punishment of the Vanderlicke-Lyme Mountain company, also found guilty of violating the law, will be determined later. Judge Powell also enjoined these companies from doing business in the future with one another. Similar charges brought against the Dold Packing company, the Western Ice company, Ruddy Bros., and the Interstate Ice company, were dismissed in negotiations not having been sustained. Later, Judge Powell ordered that the charter of the People's Ice, Storage and Fuel company be forfeited and that that concern be ousted from the People's company announced that an appeal would be taken. WOULD HAVE AN ALLIANCE. Japan Seeks Close Relations with United States. New York—"Japan has looked earnestly for an alliance with the United States, because in substance we have always regarded Japan as our ally of Japan. We are desirous of having such an alliance if it could be arranged. As long though, as any misunderstanding like the anti-Japanese feeling in San Francisco exists it might not be possible to bring about an alliance." Baron Ozawa, member of the house of peers and special representative of the emperor, in an interview. Baron Ozawa said that he would report to the emperor that he found no evidences of anti-Japanese feeling existing anywhere in the country outside of San Francisco. Baron Ozawa said further that Japan and the other territorial expansion in the Pacific, and declared that it was unnecessary for her to acquire other possessions. The Corey-Gillman Wedding. New York—In order to escape the unlucky thirteenth of the month, William Ellis Corey, president of the United States Steel corporation, and Mabelle Gilman, the former actress, were not married until after midnight Tuesday morning. The ceremony took place in the Royal suite at the Hotel Gotham, Flight avenue and small part of the street, in the presence of a small pair of couples, the contracting couple. The ceremony was formed by Rev. J. L. Clark, pastor of the Bushwick Avenue Congregational church, of Brooklyn. Bees Destroy Green Bugs Lawrence, Kan.-Prof. S. J. Hunter, of the entomological department of the Kansas state university, has been collecting and sending free to the farmers of the southwest parasite beetle the green bugs that do destroy wheat. He has attended with uniform good results but that a larger fund was needed to make the work comprehensive and decisive. Passenger Train Crash Is fatal Redding, Cal.—North-bound Portland passenger train No. 12 on the South-ern Pacific was run into by two engines at Copley. Brakenman William Jenes, of Sacramento, was instantly killed and the engines were wrecked. Oil Paya $9,000,000 Profit New York.—The directors of the Standard Oil company Wednesday declared a quarterly dividend of nine dollars a share, a total of $9,000,000. This compares with a dividend of $15 declared three months ago. Important to Shippers Washington.—A decision rendered by the interstate commerce commission holds that where two rates be tween the same point are in force, the shipper must be given the benefit of the lower. Teachers' Salaries Equalized. Albany, N. Y.—The senate passed over Mayor McClellan's veto the teachers' bill destined to equalize the salaries of men and women teachers in New York city. The vote was 3' HARRIMAN IS FLAYED WALL STREET, KING DENOUNCED AS RAILROAD WRECKER. Report of Special Attorney Prepared For Interstate Commerce Commission Calls Huge Deals Illegal. New York.—An extract of the interstate commerce commission findings on its investigation of the Harriman railroad combination was made public Wednesday, and it is said that the report is by far the most sensational ever put out by the commission. It is stated that the commission has found that railroad competition has been choked off entirely in an area equal to that of the United States, and that in this area Harriman's is absolute master; that Harriman's contracts with the Rock Island, Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe, the Illinois Central and the San Pedro roads are in violation of the anti-trust acts and recommends that the attorney general proceeds against them; that the purchase of the shares of one railroad by another was a bad practice that ought to be stopped by law; that there should be new and effusive laws to prevent infaction organization; that the best of the great railroads to the west are being used to buy the stock and control systems in the east, instead of building more roads for the development of the west. Attorneys Frank B. Kellogg and Charles A. Severance, who wrote the report for the commission, find that the Harriman reorganization of the Alton was "one of the most remarkable cases of manipulation and stock watering ever known," and they demand that laws be passed which shall stop such practices in future. The report concludes that Harriman now has absolute control of the Illinois Central and that he is so powerful in the Santa Fe that he has been able to stop all competition between it and his roads. It is declared that the combination of the Union and Southern Pacific system has been so powerful as not only to suppress all competition, but to pre-road from Salt Lake to Los Angeles as an independent line. The independent railroad, in the great empire dominated by Harriman, is found to be impossible. The report of the commission will be sent to Attorney General Bonaparte in a few days. In view of the well-known attitude of the administration toward the Harriman combination, no doubt is entertained that a series of great suits will be instituted in the immediate future to dissolve the different agreements, contracts, and stockholding arrangements by which the Union Pacific holds control of many of its properties. In its report the commission tells briefly the story of the Union Pacific's reorganization and of the establishment of Harriman's control. SHRINERS DIE IN WRECK. Defective Switch Results In Terrible Disaster. Santa Barbara, Cal.-While hurrying northward over the coast line of the Southern Pacific railroad Saturday afternoon, homebound bound after a week of fraternizing and fiesta in Los Angeles, 145 Lhrers of Ismaila temple of Buffalo, and Rajah temple of Reading, with their families and friends, were hurled into the midst of death. Their special train, running 50 miles an hour, struck a defective switch at Honda, a lonely station on the sand wastes of the Pacific beach, derailing the train, smashing the coaches into finders, killing 31 almost instantly and injuring more than a score of other. There was no warning of the impending calamity. The plunged upon the defective switch, and in an instant the big locomotive, baggage car, diner and Pullman were hurled together in a huge heap of wreckage. River Out of Banks Ashland, Wils.-Bad river, which runs through the Chippewa river basin, south of Ashland, has overflowed its banks and is the highest in years. The village of Odanah is flooded and one-third of the inhabitants have been forced from their homes. Many of them were taken out in canoes. Small Cyclone in Illinois. Joillet, Ill.-A storm resembling a tornado swept through Grundy, Will and Kendall counties and caused heavy destruction of property. At Caton a school building, in which 20 pupils were studying, was lifted from the foundation and swung bodily around. None of the children was hurt. Declines to Abishol Drumheads. St. Petersburg—The council of the ampire, or upper house of parliament, Wednesday rejected the bill, which was passed April 30 by the lower house abolishing trials by drumhead courts-martial. Woman's Board Raises $10,000 New York.—The woman's body of foreign missions of the Reformed Church of America has collected $60,900. This is the largest amount ever raised for foreign missionary work by this body. New York Firemen Fight Bravely. New York.—Sixty firemen, practically every man in the fire companies, were overcome by smoke, fighting a fire in the Remington strayer building at 335 Broadway. More than a score of the men were taken to hospitals, where 16 of them remain. The loss amounts to not more than $10,000. Heavy Loss by Fire. Marion, Ill.—The village of Goreville, south of her, was swept by fire, mitailing a loss of $75,000. Sixteen buildings were destroyed. James R. Keele, retired farmer, of Fayette St., Cassenovia, N. Y., man. "About fifteen years ago I entered with my book and kidneys. I doctored and used many remedies without getting relief. Beginning with Doan's Kidney Pill, I found relief from the first box, and two boxes restored me to good, sound condition. My wife and kidneys. I doctored and used many remedies without getting relief. Beginning with Doan's Kidney Pills, I found relief from the first box, and we brought me to good, sound condition. My wife and many of my friends have used Doan's Kidney Pills with good results and I can earnestly recommend them. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a bus. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. PAUL HAD HIS OWN IDEA Father's Explanation of Lightning Not Satisfactory to Him. Little Paul was four years old when the western city in which he lived was swept one night by a terrible storm. Wind, thunder and lightning played havoc, and, as a result, most of the rain were huddled in dense corners. Paul watched the illuminated sky with great delight. The morning at breakfast he asked his father what caused the streaks of fire across the sky, and his father, with great pain, essayed to explain. Paul listened attentively and apparently accepted what was told him, but when he found attention diverted from his self, he leaned over to his seat, and sat beside him, and whispered: "It wasn't that, saintie. It was God scratching matches on the sky." BABY'S ECZEMA GREW WORSE Hospitals and Doctors Could Not Ileave Him—But Cuticura Remedies a Speedy, Permanent Cure. "Ecsema appeared when our baby was three months old. We applied to several doctors and hospitals, each of which gave us something different every time, but nothing brought relief. At last, one of our friends recommended to us Cucicura Soap and Cucicura Ointment. A few days afterwards improvement could be noted. Since then we have used nothing but Cucicura Soap and Cucicura Ointment, and now we have used two boxes of cured. All that we used was one case of Cucicura Soap and two boxes of Cucicura Ointment, coating in all $1.16. C. F. Kara, 343 East 65th Street, New York, March 30, 1906." And He Was Not German Use for Worthless Steaks. "Wildcat mining stocks are not altogether useless — or worthless, either," said a downtown broker who handles cheap mining stocks, the other day as he hung up the telephone receiver. "Here's a man who has just offered me $50 for enough mining stocks to have a face value of $50,000. He wasn't particular what stocks he got if they only had a paper value of $50,000. I closed the deal and shall make money on it, too. What did he want with such stocks? Well, I haven't the slightest doubt but that he is getting ready to go into the bankruptcy court and wants to show his creditors where his money has been dropped. We often get such requests and are usually able to all them."—N. Y. Sun. As Indiana View of an Omen After a while curiosity led me back to the sod house, and I saw for the first time how the white woman pumps so much air into a box that when she presses on the top board it howls convulsively. I forgot my bashfulness so far as to listen openly and enjoy the operation, wondering much how the white man puts a pair of lungs into a box, which is furnished with a whole set of black and white teeth, and when he sings to it it appears to an audience as is how the white people teach their children their I thought—From the Outlook—Dr. Charles A. Eastman's "Schooldays of an Indian." It is worth knowing that a change in food can cure dyspepsia. "I deem it my duty to let you know how Grape-Nuts food has cured me of indigestion. "I had been troubled with it for years, until last year my doctor recommended Grape-Nuts food to be used every morning. I followed instructions and now I am entirely well. "The whole family like Grape-Nuts, we use four packages a week. You are welcome to use this testimonial as you see fit." The reason this lady was helped by the use of Grape-Nuts food, is that it is pigmented by natural processes and therefore does not tax the stomach as the food she had been using; it also contains the elements required for building up the immune system. If that part of the human body is in perfect working order, there can be no dyspepsia, for nervous energy represents the steam that drives the engine. When the nervous system is run down, the machinery of the body works badly. Grape-Nuts food can be used by small children as well as adults. It is perfectly cooked and ready for instant use. Read "The Road to Wellvillage" in sign. "The Reason a Resonance." Wiscombe Mink Farm. A recent venture not yet listed as going or otherwise is a think farm, started by a man in northern Wiscombe, who, noting the popularity of mink and the searcness of good skins has turned his few acres into a mink farm from which he hopes to make big profits. The Beautiful Soul. The colored sunsets and the starry heavens, the beautiful mountains and the shining sea, the fragrant woods and the painted flowers—they are not half so beautiful as a soul that is serving Jesus out of love in the wear and tear of common, unpoetic life.—Bishop Hinden April First Hindoo April First The Hindoo have on their Hull, March 21, a day on which they play grants similar to those inogue here on April 1. They send persons with messages to fictitious individuals or to those who are sure to be away from home, and enjoy a laugh at their disappointment. Cartridges as Small Change. Cartridges are taken as change all over Abyssinia, at a rate usually of ten to the dollar. The cap must be undamaged, the case in no way misformed, and the paper round the bullet must be in a state of perfect preservation. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. There is probably no medicine made that is relied upon with more implicit confidence than Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. During the third of a century in which it has been in use, people have learned that it is the one remedy that never falls. When reduced with water and sweetened it is pleasant to take. For sale by all druggists. Mapa for Aeronauts. A European idea is maps, specially prepared for aeronauts, giving the position of the principal objects such as the bends of the rivers, factories, railway junctions, etc., which can be easily distinguished from the car of a balloon. Similarly, all the great centers of light will be indicated on the maps for use in night traveling. A Chance for a Bargain. An Irishman who had begun to practice photography went into a shop to purchase a small bottle in which to mix some of his solutions. Seeing one he wanted, he asked the chemist how much it would be. "W.C.," said the chemist, "it will be twopeace as it is, but if you want anything in it. I won't charge you for the bottle." "Then," said Pat, "put a cork in it." Gladstone as a Phrasemaker Mr. Gladstone was a master of the art of phrasemaking. It was he who first declared "The flowing tide is with us," who dubbed himself the "Old Parliamentary Hand." a.d used the now everyday expressions, "Within measurable distance," "by leaps and bounds," and "within the range of practical politics." Will Develop Youth's Voice. Money has been subscribed to send Andrew Jones, a young Welsh cabman, who has a remarkably fine tenor voice, to the Royal Academy of Music. A FRIEND TO FRIEND. The personal recommendations of people who have been cured of coughs and colds by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy have done more than all else to make it a staple article of trade and commerce over a large part of the civilized world. Proving His Proverb. "He makes me so angry," remarries Miss Bute; "he's forever remarking to me that 'beauty is only skin deep.'" "And when you get angry," remarked Miss Chellus, "it just shows him how thin-skinned you are!"—Stray Shirley Nurts Flour Trade The Chinese boycott is being felt by the four men of California. Two years ago the Stockton mills were shipping 10,000 barrels a year to China. Now they are shipping only 4,000 A Strong Appeal. Almost modern is the Persian story of the man whose disagreeable voice in reciting his prayers in the mosque was annoying to everyone. One day some one asked him how much he was paid for reciting, "Paid!" he replied, "I am not paid. I recite for the sake of Allah!" "Then," replied the other, "for Allah's sake don't!" Subscribe for the Iowa State Bystander. The chivalry of Europe, in an measure, a product of the business, is the chivalry of love. Love and Marriage. A good bit of love goes to waste before marriage that would help a lot afterward—Puck. SALT CELLAR OF LONG AGO. Was Distinctive Mark of Caste in the Middle Ages. "This is a medieval salt cellar," said the antiquary. "It is huge, it is shaped like a castle, it is solid silver and the price—but what is the use telling the price to you? Very magnificent, eh? In the middle age, you know, the salt cellar was the principal table ornament. Guests sat above or below the salt as they were prominent or the reverse. Where do you think you'd have sat, eh? Queer table manners they had in those days. The fastidious had individual knives, forks and spoons, but the common people ate with their fingers. You helped yourself from the general dish with your own spoon if you had one, but if you were very, very fastidious you licked the spoon clean first. The food was queer—rich, rank food—swans, herons, porpoises, garlic, verjuice, saffron. There was mead and wine in floods and ushers stood about whose duty it was to lead to convenient couches such guests as had dined too well. These ushers, being overworked, were continually striking for more pay. The hours were queer, too. Breakfast, dawn, dinner, ten o'clock; supper, four o'clock in the afternoon." TAKING NO MORE CHANCES. Kespers Had Special Cartridges For Poor Marksman. Dr. Seward Webb at a dinner at Shelburne Farms, his great Vermont estate, said of a certain poor marksman: "Visiting his English brother-in-law, he shot the head keeper in the leg the first morning he tried pheasant shooting. The man limped away cursing horribly. Next day he had wretched luck, though the wounded head keeper without malice had assigned him to a fairly good place. Bang, bang, bang, went his gun every few seconds, but not a bird fell before it. He was much embarrassed. It seemed, too, that at each of his misses the under keeper smiled at one another oddly. Finally his cartidges gave out. He hurried to the nearest keeper and demanded more. "There sn't no more, sir," the man answered. "No more? Nonsense. Why, you've got at least 1,000 in that box. The keeper flushed and stammered: 'A, but them sln't for you, sir. They're for another gent. They've got shot in 'em, sir.'" Extravagance in Dress. Very few persons outside of the glittering circle of our enormously rich families, who constitute what is referred to as "the best society," can understand how any young woman in this or any other country can spend upon her wardrobe such vast amounts of money as are expended by the daughters of some of these families. The history of the world does not show such reckless extravagance in the way of dress. Nor, for the matter of that, does the history of the world show so riotous a use of money as that practiced by our very rich in their strictly social divertements. Happy is the lot of the man or woman who is not tempted to such foolish indulgences, which take no edge from life's real joy! Fled from Gas. "I had a friend," said the bearded man, "who got out of paying a bill he owed in an original way. When the collector arrived he sent word to him that he would see him in a few minutes. Then he went into the parlor, shut the doors carefully, turned on every blessed burner in the chandelier, came quickly out, and had his man show the bill collector in the parlor while he hurried upstairs. Do you think that collector waited a few minutes for him to come down? Not on your photograph. He fled from that gas filled room in about two seconds by the clock. If he had stayed three he'd have been suffocated." Good Enough for the Dog. Bobby's mother was often distressed by her small son's laps from correct speech, all the more because his reports from school were always good. "Bobby," she said, plaintively one day, "why do you keep telling Major to set up' when you know 'sit up' is what you should say?" "Oh, well, mother," Bobby answered hastily, "of course I have lots of grammar, but I don't like to waste it on Major, when he doesn't know the difference, being a dog." "Youth's Companion. Speaking of Fathers Two kids had been engaged in a heated argument over the respective merits of their sires, when Johnnie clinched his argument with the following: "Huh, that's nothing! My father was in the army, and once, when he was standing on a hill beside a cannon, a war came up the hill, and he fired the cannon and killed the whole war."—Judge's Library. Hope. "Woman is naturally more hopeful than man," began the moralist. "Yes" interrupted the plain man. "There's my wife, for instance; every time she has had occasion to buy fish since we started housekeeping she has asked her dealer if they were fresh, hoping, I suppose, that some day he'll say 'no.'" Each to His Trade "I'm more useful than you are," boasted the collie. "Yes?" replied the bulldog. "You don't say?" "Yes. You should see me go for the sheep when they start to run away." "Well, just wait until some trampse come long here and when they start to run away watch me go for the calves." Subscribe and pay for the Iowa State Bystander. Devices of Defense. What could be more perfect defense than the device of the moorhen? She sinks herself in the water beneath, everhanding root or bank, leaving only eyes to see. And that looks like a fallen fox. May stand within six feet of her and she, will not move, so sure is she that her ruse will succeed—London Evening Standard. 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(None genuine without my signature) THE CHURCHES Cristianthus Baptist Church—coverer of Fifeenth and Linden streets; 10 a.m. on church; a. m. Sunday school; b. m. Rev. T. L. Griffith; p. m. St. Paul A. M. E.—Corner of Second and Center Streets; at 8 o'clock; S. Joe Brown superintendent; Ewpout岭学校 at 7 p. m.; preaching at 8 p. m. W. S. Brooks pastor. First School Fourth streets; Rev. F. Lovack pastor Preaching 10:30 a.m.; Sunda y school 10:30 p.m. Fourth streets; Dr. J. Lifton superintendent; Young People's meeting 7 p. m.; preaching 800 p.m. surnal Curahe M. E. Church—Corner of fifteenth and Linden streets; meeting at 11 a.m and 8 p.m; Class and prayer meeting 11 a.m Sunday; Sunday School 9:30 a.m; Ewpout岭学校 at 7 p. m.; Class and prayer every Wednesday 8 p.m. J. M. Harris, Passer 666 lts H. Maple Street Baptist Church—Situated on E. Maple between Ninth and Tenth streets; C. Cox Superintendent; Mrs. C. Cox b. pastor Bible teacher; preaching at 8 p. m. Union Congregational Church—Cornertown Tenth and Park streets; Preaching 10:45 a.m. m. Sunday School; 12 m.; evening service 7:30 a.m. Wednesday evening H. W. Porter, pastor SECRET ORDERS North Star Lodge, No. 9, A. F. & A. M.-Mees First Thursday in each month at Mascoutah streets. John L. Thompson, W. M.; R. R. Jacobs, secretary. King Solomon Commandery, No. 6-Mees First Thursday in each month at Mascoutah hall. E. T. Banks, K.; J. H. Mixon, Recorder. Naomi Court. No. 3-Mees Second Monday in each month at Mascoutah hall. Mrs. L. Doyle, Matron; Mrs. J. H. Shepard, secretary. M. Olive Court. No. 4-Mees First Friday of each month at Mascoutah hall. Mrs. R. A. W. Matron; Mrs. Georgia Mackey, secretary. Charity Lodge, No. 3192. G. U. of O. F. Meets First, Second and Third Tuesday each and Walnut streets. J. W. Heath, N. G.; L. M. Jones, P. S. Grand Master's Council of G. U. of O. F. No. 231, meets Fourth Tu-iday night in each and Dennis Burris, W. M. J. W, Heath, G. H. of R. No. 330 of G. U. of O. F.-Ovenes the second Thursday at 3:30 and fourth Thursday at 8 o'clock at Mascoutah hall. M. N. O. Mrs. Kiltyarle, W. R. Artic Tarnacble No. 472 - Meets first and third Thursday in each month, at the Odd Fellows Hall, at Davis, C P: Mrs. Lizzie Bush, C. R: Mrs. Hettie Weldon, Assistant C. R. Iowa Capital Fountain No. 2833 of the United States, at Davis hall, on fourth and Walnut streets, on the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 8 p. m. J. Brown for North Star Lodge No. 6, Knights of Pythias- Meet every Monday night. corner of Sixth and Walnut streets. Regular work nights. C. C. J. W. Robinson, K. of R, and S. M. W. U. GRAND LODGE OF IOWA AND JURISDICTION A. F. & A. M. The Grand Lodge Will Meet at Des Moines, Ia., July 8 to 11, 1907. GRAND LODGE OFFICERS. W. H. Milligan, M. W. Grand Master, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Rural Route T. H. Sturgis, R. W. S. Grand Warden, Sioux City. J. W. Bland, R. W. J. Grand Warden, Keokuk. A. A. Bland, R. W. Grand Treasurer, Keokuk. H. K. Hillon, R. W. Grand Secretary, Omaha, Neb. E. T. Banks, R. W. Grand Custodian Des Moines. J. H. Shepard, Chairman of Committee on Foreign Correspondence, Des Moines North Star Lodge No. 2, Des Moines-meets first Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall—Northwest corner of Tenth and Center streets. John U. Thompson, W. M.; H. Jacobs, secretary. Cedar Grove Lodge No. 18, Buxton-Regular communication first Wednesday in each month. R. G. Potter, W. M.; L. W. Stallworth, secretary. High Prices for Antique. Old furniture collectors in this city have lately been driving prices higher and higher. The rage for Chippendale and Sheraton patterns of the finer lines is greater than ever. Chairs especially fetch astonishing prices. Even dealers are paying in some cases as much as $50 for a single Chippendale chair of rare pattern, though it be out of repair. A collector in this city paid the other day $75 for a Chippendale armchair. Chairs of less unusual pattern are sold every day for $40, $50 and $104. New York letter