Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XIV, No. 22. CITY NEWS. (N.B. If you have relatives or friends visit the city or going to make a visit, please inform us. we solicit your local news-Ed. Mason's Fall Hats are the best. Attorney J. B. Rush was a Buxton visitor last Sunday and Monday on business, returning Tuesday. Helena Cravenes met with quite a painful accident while playing with her schoolmates. She run an umbrella in her ear. Miss M. E. Blair has been quite sick at her home on West Second street this week, but is reported a little better at this writing. Her friends felt alarmed. FOR SALE—Two houses, one four and one five rooms, on the street car line on School street. These lots will be sold on easy monthly payments. Call or write Mr. E. T. Blagburn, 1007 Twelfth street. Rev. Clark's wife of Colfax has been visiting her sister in Chicago, also another one of her sisters from Indiana met her whom she had not seen for eighteen years. Mrs. Clark will return home this week. Rev. Samuel Bates of Colfax has been called to the Maple Street Baptist church in East Des Moines. We are glad to welcome such a good Christian worker in our city as our friend, Rev. Bates. He will preach his first sermon Sunday. Rev. Mrs. Miles Shelton of Chicago were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Birney a few days. They left to visit relatives in Washington, Iowa, before returning home. Miss M. E. Blair, who is quite slick is resting at this writing. Will sell my fine home, No. 3215 Fourth and Ovid streets, Highland Park, four rooms, gas, water and sewer and summer bath. All that you need is eight payments of color or nationality, on monthly payments of $12. First payment $12. Dr. Arntz, Mutual phone 783. Mrs. Jane James left last week for Mrs. Louis, Mo.,... the grandchildren of Mrs. M. G. F. Smith indefinitely, after which she will visit her daughter, Mrs. Wallace Rucker, of Brookfield, Mo. Club No. 4 of the Union Congregational church are planning a welcome house for Mrs. G. F. Smith who have come to our city to attend our colleges and university, to be given Tuesday evening, November 13. There will be a very fine program. Herr L. H. Smith, the Iowa representative of the Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Co., made a business trip to Buxon this week. Mr. H. R. Graves, wife and dauther of 13 summers arrived in our city last week from Buxton, Iowa, to make a visit to the Metropolitan Mercantile a nice six-room house at 1028 West Twelfth street. We are glad to have such good families to come. Go to Mason's for Fall Hats. Dr. Leo Welker, who was in the city last week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Buckner, has just recently returned from Boston, where he graduated at Harvard university with honors. He is well known here, also a Grinnell college hope the doctor will practice in Iowa and wish him success. Rev. J. C. Reid of Sloux City, pastor of the Baptist church, who had been down to Grinnell, Iowa, attending the State Baptist Association church came by the way of Buxon, Iowa, where he spent Sunday, and preached and spoke several times, passed through our city Tuesday evening en route home. The ladies of the Home and Foreign Mission Circle of the Corinthian Baptist church held a Missionary Tea last Friday afternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock, to which all the Mission and Sewing Circles of the city were invited. The was held in the parlor of the Corinthian church and many of the were invited to an instructive and entertaining program a two-course luncheon was served. The president, Mrs. G. W. Stanton, and the members of the Circle proved themselves royal entertainers. The best-town guests were Rev. T. Mich., Mrs. G. Redmon of St. Joseph and Mrs. Whitney of Kansas City. The Des Molnes Negro Lyceum met at the home of Mr G. H. Mason and nothstanding the frightfully disagreeable weather interest was high attendance good. Mrs H. Mason is school at Tuskegee were read by Misses Hammitt and Bell. The following debate was rendered, "Resolved, that Washington has and is exerting a greater affirmation upon the Negroleph." Affirmation was the Negroleph and denied by Mr. Graves. The decision was given the affirmative. A CORRECTION CORRELATION Last issue of the Mail, Mr. Lee O. Welker of Colfax, Iowa, who had just graduated from Yale college, it should have been Harvard university from the medical department. He is the first Iowa colored man to thus graduate from Harvard. We sincerely hope that Dr. Welker will locate in our city. We need him here. Before buying your Fall Hat call and Before Mason's large stock of new hats, bonnets, ribbons, etc. on Seventh street just below Walnut. DES MOINES LOST TWO GOOD MEN. Last week our city lost two of her real successful business men and devout Christian workers in the persons of Chas. H. Morris and Harry West who last week at their usual vocations, can be seen well. Both were successful business men, do. Both were active Christian workers and Y. M. C. A. men. Each lover of humanity and always aided every good cause. The former was murmured to bootlegger, who was selling liquor to Mr. Morris. Mr. Morris' mines, and Mr. Morris was trying to stop the sale and was over to his saloon to buy him out so he would leave the mining camp of Enterprise, when the villain slipped in, and also Mr. Johnson, who was with him. He was very suddenly of heart trouble. He was part owner of the largest furniture house in our city. Our race loses two loyal good friends, especially was Mr. Morris, the mine owner, who emulated his charlief collar miners, and held all of his friends of him. He died a martyr to the cause of trying to free his employees from the greatest evil of this age, liquor. MISSIONARY BISHOP OF CAPE PALMAS, AFRICA. Right Rev. Samuel D. Ferguson, D. D. Sketch of Distinguished Prelate, Wha Has Seat, Voice and Vote in General Conventions of the Episcopal Church in the U. S. In 1848, when the subject of this sketch was in his sixth year, the Ferguson family emigrated from South Carolina to Liberia, West Coast Afriland, seeing after the founding an eleven-year after the founding first Episcopal mission in Liberia. At that time there were but five missionaries working at five stations. The life of Bishop Samuel D. Ferguson cannot be separated from the development of the missionary eye-witness to the growth of this missionary jurisdiction from its earliest years. He was a part of its growth, seeing it pass out of the hands of foreign supervision into the hands of a native missionary, and may be called a native bishop. From the time of his arrival until 1862 he was a student, thoroughly imbibing the precepts and teachings of the church. In 1862 he became principal of M. Vaughn High School in December, 1865, he was admitted deacon. March 5, 1868 he was advance deacon. March 5, 1869 he was advance deacon at Trinity Church, Monrovia. Bishop Payne, whose protege Bishop Ferguson, was because of his failing health resigned the episcopate in 1871. Bishop Payne died at Oak Grove, Va, October 23, 1874. His funeral was preached by Rev. Samuel D. Ferguson then priest. It was quite fitting that this sermon should be preached by a man who lovingly ministered to the sainted Bishop when he was greatly enfeebled by African fever. Succeeding Bishop Payne was Bishop Auer, who was welcomed by this same priest Ferguson. Priest Ferguson it was who in February, 1874, witnessed the death and closed the eyes of Bishop Auer, gently body away in the church graves at Trinity, in turn he greeted Bishop Penick when he arrived in 1874, rendering him most loyal service. Bishop Penckel, under climatic affliction resigned in 1883. Priest Ferguson assumed the grave responsibility and oversight of the mission, until the mantle of episcopal authority fell upon his own shoulders, in accession in Grady in the city of New York on the 24th of June, 1885, when his consecration as bishop he has established a theological institution, Epiphany Hall, has ordained 23 of the 25 clergymen, educated in the mission and graduated from Epiphany Hall; has baptized 6,788 persons as against 1,869 persons in fifty years preceding; conducted 3,949 as against 1,035 during the fifty years preceding his conversion and added incidences to the 419 which constituted the accumulated membership of fifty years. In the last three years the contributions from his diocese have amounted to $20,338.63. There are 2,246 Sunday school pupils, 1,944 day pupils and 577 boarding pupils in his missionary jurisdiction. But more figures cannot record the moral evidence that has been concurently exerted in Liberia, gradually silently, teaching the mass of heathenism, preparing the soil, opening the way for the evangelization of Africa. But for the fact the convention just adjourned provided for the triennial election of a presiding bishop. Bishop Ferguson would most likely have succeeded to that position by seniority of concession. The bishop was opposed to the scheme of suffragan bishops, agreeing with the vast majority of churchmen to self-respecting and should accept it. OUR NATION'S DEFENDERS. At a recent meeting hold in Cleveland, Ohio, of the American Missionary Association of the Congregational men of this age had been in that great body, B. C. B. Galloway of Mississippi and Governor W. J. Northland of Georgia, Dr. Washington Gladen of Philadelphia and Rev. Frank W. Hodgson of Des Moines, on a very significant and memorable address, of which we quote a part, as follows: "Many of the vast multitude pouring into this republic are racially colored and selfish. Not a few are tainted with the spirit of anarchy and are willing to destroy all social order in the hope of personal gain out of the wreck. These immigrants become citizens as we are citizens and in the war of the unfortunate race. Referring to the unfortunate race, Judge continues: "You will find no Johann Most, Emma Goldman, Czolgosz or Gulteau among them. In the struggles which may be expected to come between order and anarchy, may be the supremacy of the nation. Stranger than the nation, that these people, crushed and wrong for generations, should become at last strong defenders of the nation and the community at whose hands they have hitherto received mainly indulgence. Defenders of our nation. Oh how true. We have always proclaimed that the Negro today is the real American and truest to the old flag. Away back in the earlier American history when the Negro had no flag or country he could call his own be was found loyal and proud for the preservation of this country, and from that time until now has ever been true and trusted to the old flag. When God shall have given us more such real Christian, high-minded man as Judge Brewer, justice and truth in this nation of ours and we will be known as our nation's defenders. Negro in the southern cotton field. The problem of the northern Negro is the very large extent, find its solution in the best possible body made by the United States department of agriculture to improve the character and quality of Negro farmers; in the efforts now being made to increase the number and efficiency of crop disposition among the fewer white people to secure justice for the Negro and protect him against beckering and abuse to which he is so often subjected, and finally in the encouragement the Negro is receiving in the building houses and permanently settled on the soil. The security of the south against danger of race riots and evils that cause them demands that every man, white and black should, as as possible, own houses in his annual visit to his mother in Koosauqua last week. This is a custom that Mr. Marshall has observed for many years. Don't forget the $1 rally the first Sunday in December. Mrs. James Warren returned last week from a pleasant trip in Wisconsin. Mrs. Harry Horn was hostess of the Culture club last Thursday. The plan of work has not yet been completed. The calendar will appear in the near future. Mrs. Adaleke Perkins anticipates a visit in the near future from her mother, Mrs. L. Thorpe of Malcomb, weeks, is slightly improved at this writing. On November Thirth there will be given a lecture with Mrs. M. E. Allen. Mrs. Allen has traveled quite extensively throughout this and other states and will be able to give us an interesting and instructive account of race and this all important question. Citizens should attend this lecture. Mrs. Harry Fields entertained a few informally Sunday afternoon complimentary to Mrs. M. A. Fields of Cameroon, Mr. Mo. Club was entertained last Wednesday by Mrs. W. H. Martin and a pleasant time enjoyed by all present. The club has issued some very unique calendars for the season and some splendid subjects will be studied during this time. I have spoken thus far of that part of the population which has but late THE NEGRO IN THE NORTH. Booker T. Washington in The Congre gationalist—Solution of Problem on the Farms. . The South Affords Greater Opportunities—City Life Unfavorable to Health and Morals. My attention has been repeatedly called in recent years to the rapid increase of the Negro population in northern cities, particularly in the larger cities of the North Atlantic and Northeastern New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. These states have already considerably more than one-third of all the northern Negroes and statistics, show that from 1880 to 1900, this portion of the population increased one-third more rapidly than the population of Philadelphia increased in the ten years, between 1890 and 1900, from thirty-six to sixty-two thousand. The colored population in New York was 23,606 in 1890, but in 1900 it had risen to 60,666. Boston's colored population grew more than in 1890. In the Negroes of Cambridge and Boston were 7,377 but in 1900 this number had increased to 15,497. Under normal conditions I doubt whether the existence of 900,000 Negroes scattered over the whole Northern and Western country, and perma-turbulent towns as they are to a very large degree in the south, would have attracted particular attention. But the fact is that he Negroes in the northern sates are, to a large extent, part of a floating population. In the Negroes on farms and plantations in country districts, more than 70 per cent of the northern Negroes are in cities. This Negro element in the floating population of the northern cities has grown so rapidly in recent years and has to a large extent been affected by the development of city life, already difficult enough, that some persons have come to regard it as a distinct menace. City Life Unfavorable to Health and Morals. I have more than once said that the masses of the colored people are not yet fitted to survive and prosper in the great cities north and south, to which so many of them are crowding. The temptations are too great and the competition with the foreign population in the south is too severe. Many of these young colored men and women, who leave the country for the city go directly from the farms and plantations of the south, where they have been living on the same soil on which the fathers and mothers worked as slaves and under conditions not known from those not existed before emigration, is not difficult under these circumstances to understand that the colored immigrants from the south are not able at once to adjust themselves to the crowded, strenuous and complicated life of these great modern cities. The vital statistics, which are perhaps the best indicators we have in this matter, show that the young people pouring into the larger American cities from various parts of the world, the Negro is the least prepared to meet the conditions of city life. It should always be borne in mind that there is this difference between the Negro in the north and the age colored men and women in plantations in the south that while he is ignorant he has not been degraded, as a rule, except in rare cases, by vicious habits. In the large cities of the north, it is true of a large element of Negroes, as it is true of a large element of the same class of any other race that he have injured by design or by degree. There is a vast difference between pure ignorance and degradation. My own conviction is that this problem, like others which the presence of the Negro race in this land has created, must find its solution ultimately on the farms and plantations of the southern. I can understand the disposition of masses of my own people, they have determined to remain for all time upon the soil of the southern states, where their future, in my opinion, is inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the soil. I do not love that any large of the Negro population to remain permafrost outside of the south, and I doubt very much if any laborer will be found to supplant permanently the GAS LIGHTING Can be made most attractive in the home at a very small cost. A good light is a perpetual source of pleasure. Try a portable Gas Lamp. The of living goes with it. CALL AND SEE OUR ASSOTMENT DES MOINES GAS COMPANY. Negro in the southern cotton field The problem of the northern Negro will, to a very large extent, find its solution in the efforts now being made by the United States department of agriculture to improve the conditions of Negro farmers. In the efforts now being made to increase the number and efficiency of country schools; in the growth disposition among the lower class of white people to secure justice for the Negro and protect him against beating and abuse to which he is so often subjected, and finally in the en couragement the Negro is receiving in the south to the south to buy land, to build houses and permanently settle on the soil. The security of the south against danger of race riots and evils that cause them demands that every man, white and black, should, as far as possible, own a home; a heartstone around which the interests of the people are centered; a permanent place of abode of brightly wholesome influences of family life can find a prop. I believe that those who are seeking a solution of the problem of the northern Negro will find that they can cooperate in this direction with the more thoughtful class of the southern people who find that the south is now only slowly being the labor it needs in the fields and in the trades by emigration northward. I have spoken thus far of that part of the population which has but later arrived in the north. It presents the element of unrest among the Negroes in the south. While a large percentage of the Negroes south upon a definite promise of higher wages or better treatment, a greater number are mere social drift, drawn into the cities with the tide that sets to the large centers of population from all over the United States. I do not deny that there are some advantages for the Negro in the north which he does not have in the south, there are also disadvantages. There are the advantages of better schools and better teachers. The Negro has, for example, the opportunity of using the public library, the universities and universities. The northern cities are advanced, on the whole, in their methods of dealing with the problem of city life. The northern people are not haunted by the fear of social equality and are therefore able to take hold in a, more practical way of social equality and back races. The northern cities are richer and more able to provide special education to meet the special needs of special classes of the population. CEDAR_RAPIDS. On Saturday evening, October 19th, the Eastern Star conferred the last degrees of the order on the four candidates, the Mesdames Thomas, Price, Lavell and Perkins. At the close of the meeting the Star was royally entertained by the above named ladies in the large dining room of the hall, where she was spread for twenty. All enjoyed a pleasant evening and went home at 1:30 a.m. Mrs. L. L. Boyd is slightly improved. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fields for the past week have been entertaining their sister-in-law, Mrs. M. A. Fields of Cameron, Mo. Mr. James Moseley is entertaining her sister, Miss Estes of Atchison, Kan. She will probably spend the winter here. Rev. W. A. Moore spent last week in Burlington. Rev. H. Ford, who has been somewhat indisposed for the past few State Capital Bldg. Historical Room. NOVEMBER 1, 1907 weeks, is slightly improved at this writing. On November 7th there will be given at Bethel A. M. E. church a lecture on the Race Problem by Mrs. Grace Addison. Mrs. Allen has traveled quite extensively throughout this and other states and will be able to give as an interesting and instructive account of the race and this all important question. All race loving citizens should attend this lecture. Mrs. Harry Fields entertained a few adores informally Sunday afternoon compliment to Mrs. M. A. Fields of Cameron, Mo. The J. S. y. club was entertained last Wednesday by Mrs. W. H. Martin and a pleasant time enjoyed by all present. The club has issued some very calendars for the season some splendid subjects will be studied during this time. Mr. Ed Marshall made his annual visit to his mother in Keosauqua last week. This is a custom that Mr. Marshall has observed for many years. Don't forget the $1 rally the first Sunday in December. Mrs. James Warren returned last week from a pleasant trip in Wisconsin. Mrs. Harry Horn was hostess of the Culture club last Thursday. The plan of work has not yet been completed. The calendar will appear in the near future. Mrs. Adelisa Perkins anticipates a visit in the near future from her mother, Mrs. L. Thorpe of Malcomb, Ill. The Industrial Art club, of which Mrs. M. L. Fowley is president, will give a parlor social next Monday evening at the home of Mrs. R. Ford. On the following Friday afternoon the club will be entertained at the same time. Mrs. L. Fowley is presenting articles from their new friends for a fair to open December. The fair will not be planned one is large a scale as heretofore, but is a beautiful and useful articles will not sold and a pleasant time promised. The Juvenile League, led by the superintendent, Mrs. G. Gray, gave a parlor concert last Tuesday evening at the home of Leonard Lavell. At the close of the meeting attractive prizes were given to those who had best kept the rules or came during the summer. The first prize was awarded to Master Forest Martin, second to Master Leonard Lavell. The children have done nibly in the summer. Mrs. A. E. Price is visiting the parental home in Malcomb, Ill. Mrs. C. G. Lee departed for Chicago, Ill., for a few week's visit with her husband. Mrs. Mattile Lamb of Burlington is in the city visiting her sister before going to Chicago, where she will spend the winter. The young men of the city will entertain the young ladies on Thursday evening, October 30, with a "Mask Dance." Dr. E. A. LEE Seamless Gold Crowns. Bridges and Plate work a Specialty. EXAMINATIONS FREE. OSKALOOSA. IOWA DENTIST. Minth and Park Sts. Mrs. A. G. Clark is visiting friends in Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Lidia Hockady entertained at dinner Sunday Rev, and Mrs. Payton and Presiding Elder Phillips and wife. Rev. Payton is carrying on a series of meetings with the help of Rev. Phillips and wife. Mrs. Libby Kimbrough returned home Saturday, after a few days' visit with her daughter in Des Moines. Miss L. E. Franklin is able to be out again, after several weeks of illness. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ester have just moved into their new house on West Gray street. The friends of the newly married couple met and surprised them with a china shower on last Thursday evening. Many valuables were given. In the evening the ladies served light refreshments. Mrs. Bertha Nichol of Buxton was in Albia on Sunday. Rev. Cole and family of the Baptist church has moved to Virginia. Mrs. Jack Taylor of Ottumwa was a visitor in Alba Sunday. Quite a number of other strangers were in town this week. MT. PLEASANT NOTES Presiding Elder Phillips was in the city Wednesday. He left Thursday for Ottumwa. Mr. Geo. Berry came in last Friday from Rock Island for a visit with his mother, Mrs. Sarah Berry. Mr. Sarah Berry came in Monday for Chicago, where she will spend the winter with her daughters. Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock occurred the wedding of Mr. Henry Johnson of this city and Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor of Monroe, Missouri. Rev. John Smith performed the ceremony. Ames of Koekak came Saturday for a visit to her uncle, John Shephard, and her friend, Miss Myrtle Burnaum. The members of the choir of the A. M. e. church and a few friends gathered at the home of Miss Tone Mason and gave her a pleasant surprise. The event was in honor of her brother. The ladies of the Tabernacle gave a social Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clay Reed. MINNEAPOLIS BUDGETARIAN We are enjoying beautiful weather at this writing. Quarterly meeting at St. Peter's church Sunday was very well attended. We were glad to see our presidee, Dr. W. W. W. again. The Rev. has been attending several conferences since the Iowa conference adjourned. "Among them were the Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois. He reports a splendid time. The Wayman Home Circle of St. Peter's church gave a supper Tuesday evening. The Tuesday Industrial met Tuesday with Mrs. Belle Hyatt in a called meeting. The club gives a Children's concert at St. Peter's church Novem- Billiousness and Constipation. For years I was troubled with biflousness and constipation, which made it miserable for me. My appetite failed me. I lost my usual force and vitality. Pepsin preparations and cathartics only made matters worse. I do not know where I should have been today had I not tried Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. The tablets relieve the ill feeling at once, strengthen the digestive functions, helping the system to do its work naturally—Mrs. Rosa Potts, Birmingham, Ala. These tablets are for sale by all druggists. 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Bookshelf. .75c No Finer Produced. Per piece. .20c Small yellow Funnkins, 2 for. .5c Pop Corn that will POP- 5 pounds corn, pound. .10c Per pound (shelled). .15c Corn Poppers. .2 for 15c Mop Sticks. .25c Child's Broom. .25c HOME KILLED MEATS-FISH MARKET 3 fancy Mackerel. .25c Extra Round Steak, pound. .10c Extra Compound, pound. .11c Home Tried Lard, pound. .12½c Keg Herring. .75c, 89c Fancy New Kruit, quart. .25c Fancy Butter, pound. .25c Extra Ham, pound. .14c Extra Steak, 5 pounds. .15c New Comb Honey, pound. .15c 3 quarts Cranberries. .25c ALBIA NEWS. ```markdown ``` ber 5th. The next regular meeting will be held Tuesday next with Mattle R. Wade. Mrs. Evalyn Edwards and Mr. Carlisle of the St. James Sunday school will entertain all the primary scholars of the city at the church Saturday morning. Married, Monday night, at the St. James parsonage, Mr. William Watkins and Miss Myrtle Ross, Rev. Wade officiating. Mr. Walter P. Weakley and Miss Maria Williams were united in marriage Saturday evening at the residence of Mrs. Jas. Scott, 315 Eleventh Street. Rev. Wade performed the ceremony. Nella Ryan entered the St. James Mito Missionary society Tuesday afternoon. The concert given by the Mito Missionary at St. James church on the 22d was a success in every way. A neat sum was realized. The older committee of St. James will give a supper Friday evening at the church. Don't fail to attend the baby show given by the M. T. C. Art club on the 13th. The M. T. C. Art club met and was delightfully entertained at the home of Mrs. Kate Smith Wednesday afternoon. The reception of officers was held as follows: President, Mrs Jenne E Watson; vice president, Mrs. Sade Sample; secretary, Mrs. Mattie R. Wade; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Eva Abbey; treasurer, Mrs Mary L. Joyce; literature, Mrs Ione E Gibbs; instructor, Mrs. Emma Heim; editor and secretary of the oldest club in the city and is doing a grand work. It has a membership of twenty. Presiding Elder Galnes will presche at St. James Sunday morning and evening, November 10th. He has been a labor has resumed its work for the winter. Mr. Mitchell, the supreme master, is using every means available to better the conditions of our people in general and he should receive the hearty cooperation of the race loving people of the City. Mrs. Julia Henson and Mrs. Fauntley of St. James parsonage Friday evening. The Afro-American Lyric and Drama will produce on November 18 at Zion Baptist church a temperance drama, entitled "A Dunt Ain's Pledze," with Mrs. Tillel Wethers in the title role of Aunt Dinn. Miss I. Scott, formerly of Des Moines, takes a prominence in the musical department of the club. A Good Liniment. When you need a god reliable litle ment try Chamberland's Palm Balm It has no superior for sprains and bruises dampened with Palm Balm is superior to a plaster for lame back or pains in the side or chest. It also relieves rheumatic pains and makes sleep and possible. For sale by all drugstores. CALL AT THE CLEAN CLOTHES SHOP 310 West Grand Ave. Dry Cleaning, Dyeing and Pressing of Ladies' and Gents' Clothing. REPAIRING NEATLY DONE. Marketing Place WAID'S Seventh St. Saved by Paying Cash Baker's Chocolate, cake.....220 2 jars Eddy's Salad Mustard.....150 2 cans Sugar Corn.....150 2 cans Tomatoes.....250 2 cakes Sweet Chocolate.....150 5 Chocolate Milk Cartons, with each sack Four Fridays and Saturday. 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If volcanoes continue to come up in arctic waters they may yet furnish a fire and warm passage way to the pole. Now they have "acute confusional insanity." That's the way a man feels when he goes into a dry-goods store on a busy day. Bishop Candler's severe strictures are 'aisy religion' will be resented by the sissies if they have a spark of manhood in them. The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, when wifey shops for a new fall hat and sends the till to hubby dear. Physicians who say that Americans eat too much meat will come under some suspicion of having been substituted by the Chicago packers. Now that New Zealand is a dominion there will be no living with it, or goodness knows it put on enough air when it was only a colony. Now they have a stinging honeybee but it is a safe but that even a Burbank couldn't produce a yellow-jacket of that mollycoddle variety. Naturalists are again requested to devise some means by which hunters can distinguish with accuracy between fellow human beings and wild game. King Alfonso's doctors have cut down his daily allowance of cigarettes by one-half. This may give him strength enough to cut off the other half himself. If the Atlantic fleet does not go to the Pacific it might make a dash for the pole without exciting any suspicion of hostile intent toward anybody. Chewing toothpicks may make a man look intellectual, as a writer claims, but most men who want a reputation for intellectual preference to show the rag. To prove his innocence a Boston man tried to put out his right eye, and it wasn't a $22,400,000 bill he was confronted with either. Some men take convictions so seriously. It has now been discovered that brains are not needed for thinking. Everybody has known for a icong time that the size of a man's head is no guarantee of its contents. Skeptical persons who question whether the higher education pays have only to look at the plans for the future home of the University club to find their doubts set at rest. That chemist who says he has discovered a way to turn animals into stone should consult the landlady who knows a process by which beetsteak can be converted into leather. Now that Switzerland has adopted an American watch in the national observatory it remains only for France to import American champagne and Austria American wienerwurst. The steamer Baltic has brought 1,002 marriageable girls to this country. They ought to be able to find husbands among the million or so marriageable men that last year. If Wizard Burbank would be a real benefactor to mankind, let him produce some kind of tree that will bear wood pulp in sufficient quantities to put the paper trust out of business. It will take 27 years to pave Chicago's streets, according to an expert engineer, at a total cost of $200,000.00. We shall have to continue, we fear, to pave them with good intentions. The adoption of the scheme for making treasury notes and bank bills in different colors, according to denomination, may render it necessary for bank clerks to undergo tests for color blindness. A 3 Swiss scientist, who has completed a geological examination of the strata collected from the borings of the Simpson tunnel, is said to have found traces of radium that suggests larger deposits than any hitherto found in Europe. He believes these deposits caused the abnormal heat experienced in building the tunnel. This goes to support the theory that possibly the presence of radium in vast quantities creates the supposedly isolated condition of the interior of the earth. A writer in the of the October magazine, telling a tale of an old man o' the slums, has his to say to of the aged person's conversational voice: "There were hints in it of wide fields and sleeping meadows in the flat, low towns. One almost thought of the sound of woodbirds' notes, of the low mooring of cows on the evening air and the rattle of corn leaves at dawn." And they pay high for this sort of thing! exclaims the Indian apes Star, Shades of Thackeray and Hawthorne! One of the late predictions is that eight draft boats, fitted with turbine engines, will soon be plowing through the water at the rate of 100 miles an hour. Some imaginative person will please tell us what will be the probable speed of locomotives or electric railway trains by that time. Automobiles who are amusing up themselves and their machines by way of showing their enthusiasm for the sport could be just as convincing if they exercised a little human intelligence while out for a run. CRISIS NEARS CLOSE ACUTE PHASE OF EMBARRASS- MENT CONQUERED. No Alarm Felt in any Quarter—Total Import of Yellow Metal now $23,750,000. New York, Nov. 1.—Indications that the available supply of cash would be materially increased within a short time, both by imports of gold and the increase of the bank note circulation and that the movement of cotton and grain crops would be facilitated in every way possible with the result of increasing our credit access to the markets of westerday's financial situation. It seems to be recognized everywhere that the acute stage of the crisis is over and that all that remained was to obtain sufficient payments upon a broad scale and thus to restore conditions prevailing before the crisis. The engagements of gold made in New York, Chicago and elsewhere brought up the total import of $23,750,000. As the amount of gold will afford a basis of credit to four times the amount, or about $55,000, it will in itself afford much relief to the existing pressure. The action of the Bank of England 1 per cent below the rate of 1.5 per cent to 1.5% of per cent was in accordance with expectations in conservative circles. The fact that the increase was not made to 6 per cent and that the English rate remains 1 per cent below the rate of 1.5% indicated that the situation at London is not considered acute. The prompt response of the national banks throughout the country to the suggestion of Controller Ridgely that they should employ their Unified Credit Banking system to secure circulation and substitute other bonds for those pledged against deposits of public money promises a considerable increase in the availabilities of the bank's minutes of an increase in bank note circulation of $30,000,000 is considered well within the probabilities it will require time, however, in some cases for the banks to obtain proof of their Institute for their United States bonds. It is noted with interest by leader bankers here that the present scarcity of currency and the recourse which had been had to the national circulation has been made easier by the plan for currency reform which has been indorsed by the American Bankers' association. This plan was adopted in December last year after consultation with representatives of the American Bankers' association, merce and which, was presented to congress at that time. The plan did not receive the definite approval of the American Bankers' association, however, until the meeting at Attalapur, September 19, 1995, that time it was indorsed by a nearly unanimous vote after strong arguments in its favor by A. B. Hephur, president of the Chase National bank and chairman of the executive Charles N. Fowler, chairman of the house committee on banking. WILL ADD MILLIONS Ridgely Says Bank Note Circulation Will Increase $30,000,000. Washington, D. C., Nov. 1,—Treasury officials are agreeably surprised at the number of banks throughout the country which have already indicated their purpose to comply with the Currency Ridgely controller of the Currency Ridgely that additional circulation be taken out. George E. Roberts, former director of the mint, and now president of the Commercial National bank of New Orleans, has increased the bank's $2,000,000 additional circulation for his bank, Sol Wexler, president of the Whitney Central bank of New Orleans, is also here and is making arrangements to materially increase its holdings, offer prominent bank holdings, Wexler said. Theatives, are arranging to deposit the necessary securities preparatory to taking out national bank notes to the limit of their capital stock. One large one, or one bank could, under law, it is said, be used for 500,000 additional circulation and in all probability will soon ask for a material increase. Mr. Ridgely today expressed the opinion that within the next ten days the outstandingcirculation will have been increased by from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 or more. URGES CENTRAL BANK. Washington, D. C., Nov. 1.—That strong impetus will be given to the consideration of currency legislation the coming winter because oi recent legislation that has been passed by George E. Roberts, ex-director of the mint and president of the Commercial National bank of Chicago, who is in Washington. The Roberts said yesterday the recent stringency had shown conclusively that legislation was needed to give elasticity to the currency system, and that congress could no longer delay the implementation of the present system was adequate to the country's needs. The Chicago financier believes, moreover, that congress will take up the currency question carefully into what is needed, either next session or in the near future. ..Mayor Pute Lid On In Omaha Omaha, Neb. Nov. 1—Mayer James C. Dahman yesterday issued a proclamation calling upon theaters and other amusement places and all business concerns which have been open Sundays to obey the law by closing theaters and amusement places this week. The proclamation commands the chief of police to enforce this order, and the mayor declares that all the resources at his disposal will be utilized to close the city up tight next Sunday. The theater managers will hold a meeting to consider what action they will take. Thaw Will Plead Insanity. New York, Nov. 1—Announcement was made yesterday that insanity is to be the plea in the defense of the theater, and no trial for the slaying of Stanford White will begin on Dec. 8. Martin W. Littleton, chief counsel for Thaw, is said to be convinced that Thaw is insane and has not adopted this cause as merely a theory on which he is based, but because he feels certain of the sound mental condition of his client. STICK TOGETHER TAPTHRUST CLARK MECRANLE DIE BANKER BANKER CHICAGO DAILY NEWS And Play "Crack the Whip" with Him! TO "CUT OUT" TOBACCO CROP SITUATION IN KENTUCKY BE COMING VERY SERIOUS. Efforts to Form Pool—Strong Opposition by the Buyers of Henderson County. Louisville, Ky.—With "peaceful armies" of invasion in the dark tobacco districts and the burley growers having reached a decision not to raise any crop next year, the tobacco situation in Kentucky appears to be serious. From the western end of the state, and especially in the Green river and Henderson stemming districts, reports of rather an unsettling nature have received Wednesday. Bodies of growers claiming to be members of the American Society of Equity are failing through McLean county notify all buyers to quit the tobacco fields until the 1996 crop is sold and urging growers to pool their crop with the society. The same thing has already been done in Davison county, of which Owensboro is the county seat; with the exception of Henderson is the chief city, and in several other neighborhoods. In many instances the buyers have agreed to quit and the majority of the growers have expressed their determination to pool their crops, but especially in Henderson county has there been considerable opposition to the plan of the growers. In fact, the growers have accede to the request of the growers and another meeting is in progress there to consider what is to be done in the premises. The growers are determined to carry their point. Every warehouse of any consequence in Henderson and Owensboro is guarded by armed men and there is this true as the time for delivering the tobacco which has been bought outside the pool approaches. PRISONERS ARE USED AS BEASTS. Spaniard Alleges Sensational Escapu and Shocks Madrid. Madrid. — A Spanish named Bulguera, a recent arrival from Manila, has caused some excitement here by a story to the effect that there are more than 4,000 Spanish prisoners in Bulacan province, Island of San Juan del Monte. They are held by Tagalog, who compel them to drag their plows. They are whipped and treated like beasts of burden and the only reward they get is a scanty ration of green corn. Bulgura says that in June last 90 Spanish prisoners tried to escape by swimming. Practically all were drowned, he says, but he succeeded in landing on the opposite bank and was then able to reach Manila. Then he went to the American authorities, who provided him with passage for Cadiz. He reached that port in September, but was only able to reach his native town a few days since, when he had long been given up for dead. Strike In a High School. Pewaukee, Wis.-Angered over the summary discharge of Miss Helen E. M. Roberts, of Chicago, the popular assistant principal, 50 students of the Pewaukee high school went on strike Monday, leaving the school in a body. They refuse to return unless the teacher is reinstated. Mistaken for Bear and Shot. Marquette, Mich.-John C. Kruse, mining superintendent at Ior, Mountain, was shot Monday by George Gibbons, who mistook him for a bear. Cleveland Fraction Man Indicted. Cleveland, O.-The grand jury Wednesday indicted John J. Stanley, vice president and general manager of the Cleveland Electric Railway company, charging him with endeavoring to influence a witness. Seeks to Enjoin Football. Kankakee, Ill.—Charging that football is prize fighting, Attorney S. R. Moore Wednesday filed a bill in the circuit court for an injunction restraining high school students from playing the game. Aged Man Begins Long Walk. Portland, Me.—Planning to duplicate his feet of 40 years ago, of walking to Chicago, a distance of 1,230 miles, in 26 days, Edward Payson Weston started at five o'clock Tuesday night from the Portland post office. He is 69 years of age. Col. L. H. Walker, U. S. A., is Dead. Boston. L. Leverett Hull Walker. U. S. A., in command of the defenses of Boston harbor, died Tuesday at Fort Banks, Wintown. Col. Walker was born in Pennsylvania in 1861. MOUNTAIN BURIES VILLAGE. Karatagh, in Bokhara, is Overwhelmed by Landslide. Tashkend, Russian Turkistan.—The little town of Karatag, in the Hussar district of Bokhara, has been overwhelmed and completely destroyed by a landslide that followed the earthquake of October 21. According to the latest reports of the disaster, a majority of the inhabitants of Karatag lost their lives. The first reports of the casualties were that the death list being placed as high as 15,000. Karatag had about 2,500 dwellers, and there is reason to believe that about 1,500 were buried alive. Among those who survived the disaster are the governor of Karatag and his mother. Karatag is remotely stuated, and it takes a full week for news to get out from there, but according to one courier who has come through, an enormous section of the Karatag mountain, is completely destroyed by a broken stone and thundered down upon the village, which is almost completely buried. Efforts are being made to get in communication with the survivors and learn the actual state of affairs and to send such relief as may be required. Katagish is noted for its manufactures of sabers, cutery and fine silks, and is used as a summer resort by the people of Hussar, a somewhat larger town and capital of the district of Hussar. Karatagish is located in a mountainous country at an elevation of 2,500 feet above the level of the BOLD FIGHT BY MUTINEERS. Crew of Russian Destroyer Battle with Four Other Vessels. Vladivostok. An exciting little naval battle took place in this harbor Wednesday between the muteous crew of a Russian torpedo boat battled by the German minuteers were finally subdued, but not before a number of men had been killed or wounded. The muteous boat is the Skory, and she gave fight to the gunboat Mandschur, the destroyers Garsovoz, Smely and Serditz and the garrison of one of the harbor forts manned by the Twelfth regiment of artillery. The Story soon was overwhelmed and she had to be beached to save her from shaking. PRESIDENT IS 49 YEARS OLD. As Usual No Celebration Marks Mr Roosevelt's Birthday. Washington. — Sunday was President Roosevelt's forty-ninth birthday. No celebration marked the event, the president rounding out his forty-ninth year and entered upon his fifteenth with the same simplicity that always characterized his birthday. He did not depart from his customary Sunday program of worship, work and recreation. The day was spent at the White House firewall in a quiet family residence, with telephone numbers, by mail, telegraph and telephone, were received at White House. Automatic Needle Man Arrested. New York. — James E. Lyle, the alleged promoter of now defunct Automatic Needle company, of this city and the Self-Threading Needle company of Minneapolis, was arrested here Sunday, charged with grand theft in connection with sales of the stocks of these companies. He was held in $15,000 ball for examination. The complainant is S. S. Smart, a wire fence manufacturer of Bayonne, N. J. Receiver for Paper Concern. Dayton, O.-The Friend Paper company, of West Carrollton, a suburb of Dayton, was placed in the hands of a receiver Wednesday afternoon on application of its president, J. Howard Friend. Henry L. Newell was appointed receiver by Judge O. B. Brown, of the common pleas court. The petition states that the company has debt aggregating $1,000,000; that the petitioner is surety on 62 notes amounting $100,000, and that payment of these notes is impossible at present. Four New Game Reserves in West. Washington.-The president has issued an executive order creating four new bird and animal reserves on the Pacific coast, one the Three-Arch Rock reservation in Oregon, and the other three in Washington.-Flattery Rocks, Quallity Needles and Copa-IsRock reservations. San Francisco Editor Dead. San Francisco.-John Barrett, news editor of the Examiner, died of apoplex Monday afternoon while walking on Van Ness avenue. GROSSCUP INDICTED JUDGE AND OTHER TROLLLE OF FIGIALS IN GRAND JURY NET. True Bills Found at Charleston, III, Charge Criminal Negligence Tending to Produce Manslaughter. Chicago—Judge Peter S. Grosscup of the United States circuit court and Marshall E. Samsell, one of the receivers of the Chicago Union Traction company, with other members of the board of directors and officers of the Mattoon & Charleston Interurban Rail company, are defendants in true bills voted at Charleston, III, in connection with the wreck on the electric railway last August. The true bills charge criminal negligence tending to produce manslaughter. Bonds of $5,000 have been furnished in each case. Warrants for the arrest of the defendants on the charges alleged in the true bills charged at Charleston. Judge Grosscup Affected. Judge Grosscup was deeply affected by the news he received from Charleston and made no effort to conceal his feelings. He said: L. C. Rose, of the Colonial Trust and Savings bank, Chicago. A. W. Underwood, of Chicago, secretary. The penalty for involuntary manslaughter in Illinois, in case of conviction, is a penitentiary sentence of from one to fourteen years. It was filed in Wreck. The wreck on the Mattoon & Charleston interurban line occurred at 10:30 a. m., August 20. Ninety-nine persons were passengers on an electric interurban car going from Mattoon to Charleston to attend the Coles county fair at the latter place. When entering the mouth of a deep cut, about a mile and a half from Charleston, the loaded passenger car was met by a carriage in the express speeding in the opposite direction. Eighteen of the passengers were killed and all of the others were injured, more or less severely. Jurist Arrested. Chicago—E. H. Slover, sheriff of Coles县, came to Chicago Wednesday and arrested Judge Peter S. Grosscup of the United States circuit court on a charge of manslaughter, contained in indictments returned at Charleston, Ill., as a result of the fatal wreck last summer on the Chattawaka Interurban line, which Judge Grosscup directed. Simultaneously warrants were served on Francis S. Peabody, president of the Peabody Coal company; Marshall E. Sampell, receiver for the Ulaon Traction company, and Arthur W. Underwood, all directors in the interurban company and indicted on the same charge. Each gave bonds amounting to $5,000. SQUELCHES JAPANESE CONSUL. Mayor of Lincoln, Neb., Refuses to Listen to Complaint. Lincoln, Neb.-In reply to a peremptory demand of Japanese Consult S. Shimizu, of Chicago, as to the reasons for the isolation of Japanese laborers afflicted with beri beri, or kakka, Mayor F. W. Brown Tuesday stated that he had no time to listen to such complaints. He insisted that the laborers had left quarantine at Alvo without permission and that they would be isolated in the empty box cars on a sidetrack at Lincoln. The mayor told the Japanese consul that he did not understand the situation here or he would not make such a demand. Miners Honor John Mitchell Shamokin, Pa. — Ten thousand United Mine Workers were idle in the Northumberland, Montour and Columbia county districts Tuesday in honor of President John Mitchell. Collieries were idle and at many meetings prayers were offered for the recovery of Mr. Mitchell. Gas Explosion Wrecks Dwelling. Kansas City, Kan—An explosion of natural gas Tuesday wrecked the home of Mrs. William Eldridge, in Kansas City, Kan, and perhaps fatally injured the woman and her ten-year-old daughter. C. H. Deere, Plowmaker, De Chicago—Charles H. Deere, a manufacturer of agricultural implements, mainly plains, at Moline, ill., where his father, John Deere, established the industry, died Tuesday at the Lakota hotel. Loeb Also Kills a Bear Helena, Mont.-William Loeb, private secretary of President Roosevelt, who with Senator Carter and others has been hunting near Cooke City, has ended his trip after having killed a bear, two mountain sheep and a deer. Claims $1,000,000 in Back Taxes. Columbus, O.-Attorney General Ellis has sent notices to 38 steam and street railway companies in Ohio, whose franchises are now being exceded by holding companies, claiming for the state $1,000,000 back taxes. THE CANADIAN CROPS THREE-QUARTERS OF THE AVER- AGE YIELD IS REPORTED. Increased Prices for Grain More Than Compensates Them for the Decrease in Quantity—Reports from Crop Experts. Most of the states of the union felt the unusually severe winter of 1906-7 and the effects of the succeeding late spring were everywhere. The winter was sometimes three times, the winter wheat suffered and generally there was a nervous feeling as the retarded growth was in evidence. From the Dakotas to Texas the feeling of dread existed, and the fears were entertained that the crop of corn, wheat, oats and barley would be a distinct failure. How far the case is best left, to those who passed through the experience. Naturally the same conditions were prevalent through the province of Mani- The proceeds of this field of w sufficient to pay out of the one crop the which it was grown. ```markdown ``` The proceeds of this field of wheat, grown in western Canada, were sufficient to pay out of the one crop the price of every acre of land upon which it was grown. toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, in western Canada, and with from 250,000 to 300,000 farmers there from the United States a large degree of interest was manifest in almost every state of the union, for every state has some representative there. This interest was a nervous one and caused considerable indecision on the part of friends and others intending to follow. Those interested in injuring the country circulated stories of ruin and disaster but the effect as a result, as it had been, in the lightmilight to prove its high standing amongst the agricultural sections of the continent. The heavy strain placed upon it was too great; it has shown that the faith placed in it has been warranted, and of an admittedly unfavorable season should not be allowed to sink out of the crop, and with from 250,000 to 300,000 farmers there from the United States a large degree of interest was manifest in almost every state of the union, for every state has some representative there. This interest was a nervous one and caused considerable indecision on the part of friends and others intending to follow. Those interested in injuring the country circulated stories of ruin and disaster but the effect as a result, as it had been, in the lightmilight to prove its high standing amongst the agricultural sections of the continent. The heavy strain placed upon it was too great; it has shown that the faith placed in it has been warranted, and of an admittedly unfavorable season should not be allowed to sink out of the crop, and with from 250,000 to 300,000 farmers there from the United States a large degree of interest was manifest in almost every state of the union, for every state has some representative there. This interest was a nervous one and caused considerable indecision on the part of friends and others intending to follow. Those interested in injuring the country circulated stories of ruin and disaster but the effect as a result, as it had been, in the lightmilight to prove its high standing amongst the agricultural sections of the continent. The heavy strain placed upon it was too great; it has shown that the faith placed in it has been warranted, and of an admittedly unfavorable season should not be allowed to sink out of the crop, and with from 250,000 to 300,000 farmers there from the United States a large degree of interest was manifest in almost every state of the union, for every state has some representative there. This interest was a nervous one and caused considerable indecision on the part of friends and others intending to follow. Those interested in injuring the country circulated stories of ruin and disaster but the effect as a result, as it had been, in the lightmilight to prove its high standing amongst the agricultural sections of the continent. The heavy strain placed upon it was too great; it has shown that the faith placed in it has been warranted, and The above is the reproduction of a photograph of the home of a recent settler from Germany, who has been settled in Saskatchewan, western Canada, for two years. it is this year producing undoubted evidence that in agricultural possibilities and resources it stands among the first of food producers. A late spring delayed seedling from the usual early April period until late in May, and in many cases well on into June. And with what result? It is a little early to tell the result, but that there will be a three-quarter crop is almost abolished in 1906 was 95,000,000 bushels; 1907 will be between 95,000,000 and 80,000,000. It could not be expected that June-sown grain would mature and ripen in any country. The May-sown ripened, and this is the feature that has proved western Canada's superiority as a grain-growing country. It demonstrates that the length of sunshine is so great that the growing and ripening season, although shorter in number of days, is parts farther south, in hours is as great as growing A correspondent of the Toronto Globe. but it is not reasonable per cent. of the wheat grade every year as the first of food producers. per cent. of this, per cent. of this to the contract star room for congratulations on a large return money, time and labes in any preceding seed in those who have place these in the farm will contain the trade of the coin some of their obligatory factors are due to their communities widely there is a small retu Sublimity of George Sand: To another one's own faultless self. Advices from one who is in close touch with the crop and commercial conditions in Alberta, Western Canada, in the most southerly 150 miles of the province, state that the fall wheat crop is phenomenal, threshing from 30 to 60 bushels per acre and grading Ncs. 1 and 2 northern. The price realised is 75 to 85 cents per bushel. The balance of Alberta north to Edmonton and east to Lloydminster has mostly spring crop. It is largely a dairying, beef and pork raising country. The excessive rains in late August and early September delayed ripening of the crop on the heaviest soil, and consequently was considerably damaged on the arrival of fall. On October 16, the soil was fair to good. On the soil between Calgary and Edmonton spring wheat was seriously damaged, but will produce a large quantity of low-grade milling and feed: early-sown oats are excellent feed quality, but late-sown are seriously damaged and a small proportion will be fed in the straw. --- meat, grown in western Canada, were the price of every acre of land upon of an admittedly unfavorable season should not be allowed to sink out of sight at a time when returns from agrifoliation are anticipated, and anxiously awaited. These figures do not take account of the lower grades, of which there were 131 cars. More than one-third of these would be which would renumerate the farmer at the rate of $6c per bushel on the basis of 0-day's closing figures. The balance would show great "spreads" in prices. "On the whole the prospect is a most cheerful one, the likelihood being that the company will be greatly exceeded in the coming six or seven weeks. The fact that days will be greatly exceeded in the coming six or seven weeks. The fact that the numerative price this season is the comforting feature of the situation and the no occasion for concern over the possibility of a great increase in the grain being below that of previous years. The high standard of the wheat raised in the last five- to six- to five-year period in 2006 was undoubtedly the great increase in the price of contract grade every year as it was in the years mentioned, so as per cent by even 50 per cent of this increase to the contract standard there will be room for congratulation. The west will have done it with little money, little time and this year as it did in any preceding season, and by so doing it will have done its whole duty to improve the quality and resourcefulness. The breathing spell if it will enable the transportation companies and other elements in the industry to meet some of their obligations and the improvements effected by that means will more than offset any inconvenience which may arise from the production. The general commercial outlook is bright enough and only depressing communities widely separated in which there is a small return from the crop. Sublimity of Forgiveness. George Sand: To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self. On the Canadian Northern, from a point 40 miles east of Edmonton to Lloydminster, oats and barley are generally excellent; wheat is somewhat damaged and there is some loss of late-sown oats and barley. South of High river there is an enormous crop. From High river to Edmonton and from Edmonton to Lloydminster there is an average crop of over 50 per cent of last year and the price is from 50 to 100 per cent. higher than las. year. The root crop is excellent and the live stock is in splendid condition. At the time of writing it is difficult to determine even approximately the yield of wheat that Central Canada will receive this year. The thresher's returns are told the story. Opinions of experts must be taken in the meantime. Frank O. Wiley, secretary of the grain exchange, Wilmington, "Expect 70,000,000 wheat, 40,000,000 bushels of it good milling. The crop will realize more money than last year; wheat and barley are 30c, and fax 250 higher. --- A Typical Case of Kidney Trouble and a Typical Cure. Mrs. Chloe Page of 610 B. Pitt street, Alexandria, Va., says: "My back hurt me terribly, I had sharp, shooting pains, changing to a dull, dragging ache. I wished a length of time and my back hurt me when I sat down. My feet and ankles were badly swollen even evening, and my stomach was out ribly, I had sharp, shooting pains, changing to a dull, dragging ache. I could not stand for any length of time and my back hurt me when I sat down. My feet and ankles were badly swollen, even sweating, and my stomach at order. Doan's Kidney Pills cured of these troubles in 1903, and for four years I have had no return." All dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Ranchman's Novel Courtship. Louis L. Kramer came all the way from Yuma, Cal., to marry a girl he had never seen. The bride was Miss Flora Weise, a pretty young woman at Tazewell county. The groom wrote to his aunt here, Mrs. Patterson, to put him in communication with a girl who would make him a good wife, as he was lonely on his ranch in Colorado. Mrs. Patterson recommended Miss Weise, a neighbor's daughter, and correspondence was begun. The groom taken with the romance of the affair and when photographs were exchanged and proved instructive a proposal quickly foliated. An acceptance was written and then Kramer came east to claim his bride. The marriage was celebrated the day after his arrival and the couple departed immediately aftward for Yuma—Denver News. BABY IN TERRIBLE STATE. Awful Humor Eating Away Face—Body a Mass of Sores—Cuticura Cures in Two Weeks. "My little daughter broke out all over her body with a humor, and we used everything recommended, but without results. I called in three doctors, but she continued to grow worse. Her body was a mass of sores, and her little face was being eaten away. Her eyes looked as if they would drop off. Neighbors advised me to get Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and before I had used half of the cake of Soap and box of Ointment the sores had all healed, and my little one's face and body were as clear as a new-born baby's. I would not be without it again if it cost five dollars, instead of seventy-five cents. George J. Steese, 701 Coburn St., Akron, O, Aug. 30, 1905." The people who are climbing into the ecclesiastical band wagon are not the ones who are making the heavenly music in this world. SICK HEADACHE CARTERS LITTLE IVER PILLS. CARTERS TITLE IVER PILLS. They also relieve Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Heavy Lung Pressure, Necedency for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowning, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Spleen. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. CARTERS TITLE IVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature NEW LOOD REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. New Districts Now Open For Settlement GABLE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Some of the choicest lands in the grain grower belt in Alberta have recently been opened for settlement. The Free Farm Homestead Regulations of Canada. The use and home of farms in Canada. For further particulars as to rates, routes, best time to go and where to locate, apply to B. 10. ROWEN, 318 Jackson St. S. St. Paul, Minn.; on B. 10. BENNETT, 309 New York Life Blvd. Omaha, Neb. The Waxman family cared for life and is known far and wide as "America's Home Pane", because of its lasting qualities and its famous singing tone. If in the market for a piano, mail this advertisement to the name and address of your retailer and name of local dealer, and six pieces of beautiful new piano music. Address, LYON & BEALY, CHICAGO $3.00 Per Day—cash, not promises—(8 hours' work) is the salary I pay my representatives. The work is not hard—you can do it. Or tell your best friend, if you have not the time. I give exclusive territory. For details write ATKINSON, 1024 Race St. Philadelphia. IOWA STATE NEWS Events of Recent Occurrence Throughout the Commonwealth. CHARITON CASHIER SUICIDE. Could Not Bear Up Under Threatened Disgrace. Chariton.—Ratfer than make a fight to carry his bank through a serious situation, or face the disgrace that might attend, Cashier F. R. Crocker of the First National bank of Chariton committed suicide at his residence. Among the various letters written by Mr. Crocker, while preparing to kill himself, was one addressed to National Bank Examiner H. M. Bostwick of whose coming he knew. This letter was delivered to Mr. Bostwick on the morning after the suicide; its contents are not known to the book, but it gets forth briefly that the bank was in difficulty and asked the examiner to take charge at once. In consequence, the First National Bank of Chariton is closed, and it will remain closed pending a thorough investigation of its affairs. The Bank of Russell, a private institution with the bank, was $3,000 of which Cashier Crocker was president, is also closed pending this investigation. LEROY WARE IN JAIL. Bondmen Have Withdrawn and He Awaits Trial. Corydon.—Leroy Ware, cashier on the defunct Farmers and Drovers bank of Seymour, is in jail here awaiting the decision of a motion for the continuance of the criminal case against him. Several of his bonds men withdrew, from his bond and he has made no effort to secure a new one. Ware, who has spent the summer at various resorts to remit his debt, has not better than he did when he left this county, and he has mustered up new courage for a fight for his freedom. Ware says it will be shown at the trial that the bank has been a losing proposition for many years, maneuvered poorly, better than he paid for the time deposits and the inability of the bank to loan these deposits. In this manner Mr. Ware explains for a deficit of something near $30,000 a year, plus the running expenses of the bank, bad loans, and many other debts. He has been stricken from the live items on the book and charged to losses. However, the other banks of Charlton will continue in business as usual. Their affairs are in the best condition and they have not even drawn a bill for deposits or otherwise taking the precautions adopted by banks generally. They have enough money to take care of their needs. Business men and the large depositors here understand their complete solution to the problem of business whatever. The Charlton Savings bank, which was closely connected with the First National bank, was likewise open all day and did business as usual. Its use of the bank to continue the same way, meeting all demands upon them. Just what the condition of the First National bank is has not yet been disclosed. Cashier Crocker goes on in writing with him in conversation with different friends. He indicated that the bank had over-loaned, that is, exceeded the legal limitation upon loans. He declared that under existing conditions he could not meet and the bank would have to take the examiner's visit and that he would rather be dead than fail. It was stated here that should the examiner determine to wind up the affairs of the bank, it would be able to draw deposits and other claims upon it. Crocker's death was discovered by his closest friend, C. R. Kirk. Late the previous day Crocker wrote a note asking Kirk to come to him early the next morning. This was given to a bank clerk, and the clerk delivered as soon as possible in the morning. Mr. Kirk feared some tragedy when he received the note, and he hastened to the Crocker residence, arriving before the children had arisen. Without disturbing them Mr. Kirk made his found the banker dead in bed the way to Crocker's empty morphine bottle lying near by. On a dresser in the room were found notes for his wife and son, who were both in Chicago, and to other members of the family. In these notes he said that he could not bear the burden of "rage," but the burden was has not been disclosed. Crocker evidently contemplated suicide for several days at least. He spoke discouragingly with close friends and hinted that he faced some sort of disgrace which he could the courage to face. His friends sought to cheer him and thought nothing of the matter then. ELOPING WIFE CAUGHT Wife of Rock Rapids Man Was Tak- ion Child. With Her. Rock Papels—Mrs. Ernest Jastorff, wife of an honest, hardworking and respectable resident of this place, was captured at the Rock Island station as she was about to board a train in company with Carroll with whom she would elope, to her youngest child, two years of age, and in her possession was a large sum of money. Mrs. Jastorff returned to her home with her husband and child, and upon the suggestion of Marshal Carroll he make a request for service. Whitrock has been seen since. Whitrock and Mrs. Jastorf met at a dance soon after the latter's marriage and at that time it is said the two had planned an elopement, Whitrock accused of being double assault upon Mrs. Kohl, of that place. Recently he was acquitted of the charge, and began calling on Mrs. Jastorf. He did is secretly, however, and the woman's wife saw him or suspected his wife and her escapade was a severe snock to Whitrock testified at his recent trist. He had a wife and child in Dakota. NEGRO ATTACKS WOMAN. Ottumwa—Miss Jeanette Yates, a pretty telephone girl, wrenched herself loose from the grasp of a negro and rushed to the police station with the news. Patrolman Tom Holland was at once dispatched to the scene. On the way he met a negro who without any provocation whatever struck him a vicious blow and killed him to the ground, quickly as possible the officer fired three shots at the retreated man, but failed to hit him. A few hours later the police arrested William D. Stevens on the description given by Miss Yates. Later Miss Yates identified Stevens who attempted to assault her. Officer Holland's description of the man who struck him tallies with that of Stevens. Pillow Silp Murder Retrial Moulton—Homer Rutledge who is alleged to have murdered his brother-in-law, Oliver Stevens. Following a quarrel which united over some pillow bills he has been granted a new trial the case having been sent back the supreme court. Bondmen Have Withdrawn and He Awaits Trial. Corydon—Leroy Ware, cashier of the defunct Farmers and Drovers' bank of Seymour, is in jail here awaiting the decision of a motion for the continuance of the criminal cases against him. Several of his bondmen withdrew, from his bond and he made a plea for his one. Ware, who has spent the summer at various resorts to resign his health, looks much better than he did when he left this county, and he courage for a fight for his freedom. Ware says it will be shown at the trial that the bank has beaten a losing proposition for many years, many cuised by the high rate of interest charged by the bank, and the city of the bank to loan these deposits. In this manner Mr. Ware explains for a deficit of something near $300,000 a year, plus the running expenses of the bank, bad loans, and many other matters which should have been charged by the bank to the book and charged to losses. Mr. Ware says the dividends which the bank paid were simply paid on wind, or paid with money which the bank had not earned, and that the bank admits it was a case of trying to bluff the people into thinking the institution was making money, when, as a matter of fact, the bank has not made any money for years, and the crash of the bank end which comes to a business which is running with borrowed capital. Corydon--All of the indictments against Roy Ware for fraudulent banking have been continued. This means that Ware will have to lie in the Wayne county jail until next month. The judge rendered him to Sheriff Merrick and at the January term of court Judge Evans presides, and he being interested in the Seymour bank's affairs cannot hear the cases. All of the civil cases connected with the failure of the bank were also continued and will be heard in the next term of court, when Judge Towner comes back to Wayne county. DOCTORS' TRUST IS LEGAL. Judge Compares Agreement to Ralee Fees to Labor Union. Charles City—Judge Kelley has handed down his decision in the cases of the Waverly doctors who had a hearing a weeg ago in habea corpus proceedings. The question raised was whether a doctor's services came under the meaning of section 5060 of the code of Iowa, which provides the government to raise the price of a commodity. Also the constitutionality of the law entered into the case. Dr. W. A. Robh of Waverly acted as plaintiff for the two doctors indicted in the test case and Henry Kassem and the defendants. The decision is an important one. The rest of it is as follows: REPUDIATES RIOTERS. Davenport's German-American Association Takes Action. Davenport—The comment throughout the state on the recent saloon riot in Davenport has led the German-American association to assert its rights in the saloonkeepers themselves to disown the rioters. The German-American association resource to appeal the committee to coerce with the Commercial Association of the Ministerial association on the situation here. In order to show its patriotism, too, the association moved to establish a plan for observing Washington's birthday anniversary next February. MARSHALLTOWN KEEPS SHOPS The Iowa Central Announces Its Plans for Rebuilding. Marshallown…The Iowa Central car and paint shops, destroyed in the recent disastrous fire, will not be rebuilt at Osaklao, Grinnell or any other point, but at Marshallown. Such was, in substance, the statement given out by Vice President and General Manager L. F. Day of the Central, who is in private trust, with General Superintendent D. C. Noonan. The shops will be rebuilt just as rapidly as the work can be done, and they will be larger and constructed of brick and steel, instead of wood. MACKOWN GUILTY. Jury's Verdict Almost Overcomes Webster City Man. Webster City—When the jury in the Mackown arson case declared that they found him guilty, the defendant was visibly shocked and gave evidence for the arson. The jury reached an agreement after having been out all night. It is a surprise to many who followed the evidence, Mackown having made a strong effort to establish an alibi. The jury evidently put faith in the state's attack on the alibi. Mackown's attorneys will ask for ADVICE TO VICTIMS ADVICE TO VICTIMS TELLS READERS HOW TO CURE RHEUMATISM AT HOME. Directions to Mix a Simple Preparation and the Dose to Take—Overcomes Kidney and Bladder Trouble Promptly. There is so much Rheumatism everywhere that the following advice by an eminent authority, who writes for readers of a large Eastern daily paper, will be highly appreciated by those who suffer: Get from any good pharmacy one half ounce Fluid Extract Dandelion, one ounce Compound Kargon, three ounces of Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla. Shake these well in a bottle and take in teaspoonful doses after each meal and at bedtime; also drink plenty of good water. It is claimed that there are few victims of this dread and torturous disease who will fail to find ready relief in this simple home-made mixture, and in most cases a permanent cure is the result. This simple recipe is said to strengthen and cleanse the eliminative tissues of the Kidneys so that they can filter and strain from the blood and system the poisons, acids and waste matter, which cause not only Rheumatism, but numerous other diseases. Every man or woman who feels that their kidney is healthy as an active or suffering from any urinary trouble whatever, should not hesitate to make up this mixture, as it is certain to do much good, and may save you from much misery and suffering after while. Everything Bad. A prominent planter recently had occasion to visit some of his holdings in southern Arkansas. The land was situated several miles from a railroad, and it was necessary to finish the journey in a buggy. So he took a friend with him and started out. After traversing several miles of apparently settled country, they came upon a farmer plowing corn on the side of a hill. The planter, wishing to appear civil to his neighbors, stopped his horse and yelled at the man, who came to the fence, mopping his face with a red bandana. "Good morning." "Mornin', mister!" "You live here, I suppose?" "Yep." "How's crops?" "Fair to middlin'." "That's a bad hill you're plowing." "I know it. Bad hoss, pullin' th' plow, bad plow, bad everything." "Why, you talk like you were the poorest man in Arkansas, laughed the planner." "I don't, though," was the response, as the young fellow smiled good-naturedly. "Another feller owns half o' this crop." A Standard Measure After being ten years in the making there has just been deposited in the government standard weights and measures strong room a new standard yard measure. It is made of 90 parts of platinum and ten of iridium, which when combined are not upset by either heat or cold. After the elaborate marking it was submitted to a number of tests, coming through all wilt' high honors. Every year of the next ten years it will be examined, art. If it varies by the million part of an inch it will be consigned to the publish heap, otherwise it will be come a standard—London News. Protecting His Magazines. "While waiting at the doctor's the other day, I picked up a magazine from his table to pass the time," said the man who observes things. "All through the book, on nearly every other page was stamped his name, and it so irritated me that I spoke to him about it. "If I didn't fill that magazine up with my name, he said, 'it wouldn't last ten minutes in this place. 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The other English peculiarity is a preference for riding backward on trains. The Englishman will make for the seat with its back to the engine every time, plant himself down in it with every evidence of comfort and look wonderingly at anybody who picks out a seat facing the direction the aim is going. The American is going in England see a native choose a seat facing the front of the train unless there were no other seats. HOME REMEDY FOR A COLD. A Good, Common Sense Treatment, Anybody Can Easily Apply. The best time to doctor a cold is when you feel it coming on. Do not delay, as you can often cure it in one night if taken in time. Keep in mind that a cold summer retards the crop—a cold hen never lays—a cold house is uncomfortable and a cold climate breeds cold—so when you start to cure your cold warm up. Batte the heat in water—hot water hot drinks of lemonade or composition tea—take a good laxative quinine tablet and go to bed and sweat. 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Pettigrew, of Huntsville, was in the city Sunday. C. H. Blanton of Kansas City spent a few hours in our city today. Mrs. Mandy Coats spent Sunday in Sturgeon. Mrs. Ellen Franklin of East Reed street is on the sick list. Mr. J. Nash of Winchester street died Tuesday morning. Mr. Wille Boon is home from Kansas as where he has been visiting his parents. Mr. James Baker arrived home Sunday from Kansas City where he had been to see his aged mother. She is one hundred and seven years of age and gets around better than some young people. She accompanied her son back home. Mrs. Lee Masamune left for her home in Kansas City today. Mrs. Corn Jackson of Glasgow, Mo. is in the city visiting Mrs. M. Etta Bolden. Mrs. Daisy Smith and Husband arrived home from Chicago Thursday. Those persons who are subscribers for the Bystander and have not received the paper, please inform A. B. Bolden, at 522 S. Fourth St. DUBUQUE NOTES Rev. L. Johnson, our new pastor, has moved his family and household belongings from Evanston and is now domiciled in the parsonage. His wife's mother accompanied blim and will remain. Mr. William Erick and wife, of Moline, Ill., who have been spending last four weeks in our city as guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Wells, 265 Julier. Avenue, have departed, Mr. Erick to Milwaukee and Mrs. Erick to Moline. While in the city Mr. Erick filled the position of Henry A. Martin, during his absence on a visit to Louisiana and the south. At the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ducaw, Belcher, La, on Sunday, October 20, before a large assemblage of friends, the wedding of Mrs. Martin A. Duncan and Henry A. Martin, of Dubuque, Iowa, was celebrated. Rev. W. H. High, of Collinsburg, La, officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Martin will be at home, at 250 Julien Avenue, Dubuque, after Nov. 1907. The A. M. E. Church pastor and trustees are preparing for a rally on Thanksgiving to raise money for current expenses. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hayes celebrated their crystal wedding on Sunday evening. A large number of friends were present to congratulate them. Mrs. Annie Green who has been ill for quite a while is improving very slowly. Mrs. B. H. C. Rose is again confined to her home. She returned from a pleasant five week's visit to St. Paul as the guest of her son, Gus, and his f milly, two weeks ago and had seemingly recovered from the attack which had lasted nine months. Little Lucille Greese met with a painful accident several days ago, burning her face badly. A Methodist Minister Recommends Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. We have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in our home for seven years, and it has always proved to be a reliable remedy. We have found that it would do more than the manufacturers claim for it. It is especially good for croup and whooping cough. Rev. James A. Lewis, Pastor Milaca, Minn. M. E. Church, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is sold by all druggists. MOLINE GREETINGS. The Young People's Sunday club held the regular meeting at the church Sunday afternoon. A large crowd was present and after the business part of the society was complete a program as follows was rendered: Vocal solo by Miss Cudellas Crushon of Rock Island; discussion, "What shall be done to encourage the young men to attend the Young People's Sunday club?" led by Rev. Lewis. The race club?" led by Rev. Lewis; The Race Reviewer, by Mr. C. B. Winkup; vocal solo, by Mrs. R. H. Polard. Misses Daisy E. Settles and Clara V. Tarver returned home from Springfield last Thursday, after a very delightful trip of one month with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Tarver entertained Mr. and Mrs. George Scott Sunday. The St. John's Sunday school has changed its time from one until ninety-five. Mrs. Henry Wood was a Davenport caller. Sunday Misses Mabel and Clara Tarver entertained Misses Mabel Hall and Zaddle Saunders, Messrs. Albert Burris and William Terrell at their home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. James Colquit entertained Mr. and Mrs. George Scott at a dinner party Sunday. Mr. Henry Wood was an East Moline caller Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William Stewart and mother, Mrs. Mary Holmes, entertained Rev. Lewis and family at dinner Sunday. GALESBURG, ILL Miss Nannie Buckner of Chicago spent Thursday and Friday in Galesburg, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Neal Carrier. Mr. Baxter Harmon and A. Alcorn have returned home from Monmouth. Mrs. J. H. Ferriebe of Chicago was in the city last week. The A. M. E. church held their first quarterly meeting with the new pastor October 27th. Rev. H. H. Thompson, presiding elder, was present and preached the local pastor, Rev. S. B. Moore. Rev. Grant of Knoxville was also present. Mrs. Will Skinner entertained Tuesday afternoon, the guest of honor being Mrs. M. Bell Lucas. Mrs Mamie Alfonn leaves Thursday for Chicago, where she will spend the winter. The choirs of the A. M. E. church gave a reception Thursday in honor of the new pastor, Rev. Moore. An in EYES TESTED FREE By the Des Moines Leading Doctor of Optics Dyslexia Opposite Street Car Waiting Room Mutual Phone 728. Office hours 9 to 13 a.m. 12 to 4 p.m. and until 9 p.m. Saturday evenings special appointments between office hours. Dr Lew Arntz Almost Blind for 15 Years Can Now See Perfectly Bertha Larson, a much esteemed young lady of Buxton, Iowa, who was almost blind for fifteen years, can today see perfectly. The public may easily be interested in learning how almost total blindness can be overcome by human skill. The following is her letter to the public: Buxton, Ia., Nov. 2, 1906. MISS BERTHA LARSON, Who Was Almost Blind Fifteen Years. "I am now 30 years old, and not until about eight months ago I had ordinary print. When I was 5 years old I had the message, which left my eyes almost blind. My parents tried in vain for fifteen years to get help for me, but never succeeded until I heard of Dr. Lew Arntz, of De Mooren, Iowa, whom I consulted, and had it my eyes with glasses, which have brought out perfect sight. I can now read fine print easily, and can also see at a distance as other people. My parents tried all kinds of remedies for me when I was about 4 years old, nothing could be done, as my eyes constricted practically no sight. What I most regret is that I had no chance to get an education because I could not see to read. "If Dr. Lew Arntz had been consulted ten years ago I might have attended school like other children." BERTHA LARSON." teresting program was given by the choir, while the following persons gave addresses: Rev. N. Alexander, Mrs. Susan Allen, Miss Mayme Richardson, and the response by Rev. S. B. Moore. Rev. H. H. Thompson, who has been the guest of Mr. B. E. Richardson, has returned to nls home in Chicago. DUBUQUE (Special to Bystander.) Rev. A. L. Johnson of Dabuque lowa, formally from Superior, Wis. was given a surprise party last Monday might that any minister might feel proud of, inasmuch as the donations were so liberal that there can be no doubt as to their reverence for this minister. They are preparing now for Thanksgiving books. Books have been placed in the hands of some of the members asking for donations, and on Thanksgiving the ladies will serve 6 o'clock dinner. The public is invited. LINGERING COLD. Withstood Other Treatment But Quickly Cured by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. "Last winter I caught a very severe cold which lingered for weeks," says J. Urquhart, of Zephyr, Ontario. "My cough was very dry and harsh. The local dealer recommended Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and guaranteed it, I gave it a trial. One small bottle of it cured me. I believe Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to be the best I have ever used." This remedy is for sale by all drugists. It was one bright morning in July, the month when the weather is the warmest and all nature seems to be in a lull and trying seriously to think some mode of escape from the ravages of old Sol. There was a profound stillness in the atmosphere; not a leaf russeled; and there was nothing to break the silence save the tapping of a woodpecker upon the seared limbs of a seasoned oak in the forest or the bobwhite of the speckled bird that was hiding beneath the cooling shadow of some shrub. Frogs had ceased to croak and together with other reptiles had sought the quiet nooks of surrounding valleys and even the pools of the yard, which mechanical forage had forced into a prostrate condition and were lolling about here and there, seeking cooler comfort. It was under this condition of the weather that a certain thresher by the name of Street had set up his machinery in the broad and fertile fields of one Ben Nance to thresh out the golden grain. These fields are situated in the quaint old bottoms of the Missouri river, between Arrow Rock and Old Franklin, in the section better known as "Dixie," characterized and so named from the excitable and war-like disposition of its inhabitants. By nine o'clock everything was nearly ready and the farmers had began to assemble upon the fields to make ready to pay back borrowed work as it was their custom to help one another, occasionally taking a drink of ice water and engaging in some reminence recounting the hardships and pleasures of field and forest. At half-past nine the words "All right" the Bridle's off., rang out from the engineer. At this juncture all the working-men went to their places, the band-cutters at the sides, the feeder at the mouth of the machine, the sackers at the grain spout and the straw-rickers at the rear of the separator. Then Ben Nance astirde the old family horse who had been making a general survey of things ordered in two large loads of wheat; they were immediately brought up by two stalwart farmers with rosy cheeks who when they were at their places lifted their forks and placed the golden sheaves within reach of the band-cutters. The band-cutter then with much dexterity and skill severed the ties that held these bundles in union and shoved them over toward the feeder; who in turn grasped the golden sheaves and brought them to the nuth of the greedy monster whose jaws were ajar and whose angry growl could be heard quite a distance away. These two loads threshed, out, others were hurried in their places and the first two men who were very warm from the hurry and excitement and were trying to get water to cool their thirst were approached by the owner of the farm and grudely ordered to reload. This the young farmers did not like as men are not liable to think kindly of harshness when warm and excited and especially when they are trying to do their best. But the young men obeyed; mounted their wagons; seized their lines and hurriedly drove back to the fields. It was now past ten o'clock and everything was in a state of excitement and hurry. The hum of the cylinder and the loud knocking of the screens on the inside of the machine could be heard for many miles away. And the engine, too, was puffing and grooming as if under terrible restraint and would break at any moment. The overseer was on his horse galloping here—and there doing his best to rally his men, and the men in turn were doing their best to load the wagons. Pitchers, drivers and all were suffering terribly from heat and fatigue and perspiration flowed down their ruddy or haggard cheeks in torrents. (Continued next week.) NEW RAILROAD UXCHANGE . . . Lindsey Pitts, Prop. 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Departments: Elementary, Academic, Collegiate, Theological, Musical, Industrial and Agricultural. For particulars write J. H. GARNETT, President. GET BUSY The Afro-American Employment Agency Will Get You a Job We are sending hundreds of competent colored men and women to good positions, in and out of the city. We are Headquarters for Reliable Negro Help When you come to Kansas City come direct to our office. We also have a modern Hotel in connection and can take care of you until we can locate you in a position. We are bonded by the Metropolitan Surety Co. Reference: Missouri.Savings Bank. Help sent to all parts of the country, where transportation is furnished. Main Office 1005 McGee street. Home Phone Main 6236 Bell Phone Main 4821 FALCON PANCAKE FLOUR Shannon & Mott Company Falcon SELF-RISING Pancake Floor SHANNON & MOTT COMPANY Des Moines, IA. U.S.A. Most Economical ood product on the market to-day. Composed of nutritious grains combined in just the right way. 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"Brevity is the soul with a memoir." We will not return rejected manuscript, unless accompanied by postage stamps. Advertising rates for display Ads 20 cents per inch, for each insertion Three to six months contract 15 cents per inch. Local advertising 10 cents per line for each insertion, counting seven words to a line. For church and secret societies where admission is charged, one-half of the above mentioned rates. For professional, legal and announcement cards, yearly contracts, etc. terms are given on application. All advertising is to be paid by insurance. We are prepared to do first class job work at reasonable prices. All of our work is guaranteed. Mississippi. Mrs. Adelahde Perkins Pt. Madison. Mrs. Harper Oskalaheim. Leulah B. Ferguson Davenport. Mr. D. S. Johnson Washington. N. L. Black Burlington. Mrs. J. E. Johnson Moberly Mo. Prof. A. B. Bolden Buxton. Mrs. A. L. Demond Macon Mo. Prof. A. A. Hill B. to correspondents. Please mail mail not that contain news for publication not later than Wednesday morning to insure publication for the current week Opening Oysters by X-Ray. The X-ray has just been introduced to the pearl fishers of Ceylon to show whether an oyster has pearls without opening. Rich Paul (to his son)—Seppel how long do you think you will have to study before you can wear spectacles?—Wiener Carataturum. Varieties of Stinging Adder. In the United States Pharmacobody it is stated that there are 1,200 apes of cocktail and that each spoon has many varieties.—Clover. Cannabalism in England. Woman (young) for grill and frump; similar experience necessary.—London Chronicle. Like to See Names in Print. Few things give people more pleasure than writing, without remuneration, for the press.—Arkes Repellent. Chapped hands are quickly cured by applying Chamberlain's Salve. Price. 25 cents. For sale by all druggists. The Pelican—"Did you hear about the boar constrictor? He's dying by inches!" The Ostrich—"I'm mad to hear he's in no immediate danger."—Butterfly. A Dog's Opinion of Boston Dialect. "An intelligent looking dog," said the visitor from Boston. "Oh, he is," exclaimed Fido's owner. "He knows every word you say." Then said the visitor from Boston: "My canine friend, I am exceedingly interested in the hypothesis that has been presented to me to the effect that your understanding of human speech is perfect, and in order to test this matter I wish that you would be good enough to bark three times in rapid succession as an indication that your comprehension of my request is in all ways clear and lucid." "And did he bark?" said I to Teagarden, who was telling me the story. "No," said Teagarden, "but he growled like —." Go to Mason's, the milliner, for good Fall Hats. Latest styles and reasonable prices. Something like three-fourths of the annual expenditure of the Turkish government has of recent years been for arms and munitions of war. Silent Japanese Soldiers. Japanese soldiers fight notselessly. They have no bands, no drums beat reveil or tattoo, and in action they utter no cheers. Irrigation Adds Value. By means of irrigation something like 3,500,000 acres of land in India have been increased in value over $230,000,000. Smiths Lead All. In the city of Washington there are 13,000 Browns, 15,000 Smiths, 14,000 Johnsones and 1,000 Joneses. Average Journey of Freight. The average journey of a ton of freight is 128 miles. TERN COLLEGE AND INDUS-ITUTE, Macon, Mo., affording home, through instruction, and culture, at the lowest rates, will no, 1907. Academic, Collegiate, Theo-Agricultural. GARNETT, President. Macon, Mo. Manager BUSY Employment Agency You a Job appetent colored men and women to for Reliable Negro Help come direct to our office. We also and can take care of you until we Popolitan Surety Co. Refer- country, where transportation is e Phone Main 6236 Phone Main 4821 Manager Missouri. CAKE FLOUR Most economical food pro- act on the market to-day. Composed of nutritious rains com- bined in MERCERAL MILK 5Lbs THE CHURCHES Corinthian Baptist Church - corner of Fifteenth Bunday School at 12 o'clock. Preschool, at p. m. Rev. T. L. Griffin, Pastor. St. Paul A. M. E. M. Corner of Second and Gente School at 3 o'clock. S Joe Brown Superintendent; eWornleigh School at p. m.; preschool at p. m. W. S. Broe's pastor. Epworth School at p. m.; preschool and Fourth streets. F. D. Furse's pastor. Preschool 10. 30 a.m.; m. Sunday school 3. 30 p.m.; m. Sunday school 3. 30 superintendent. Young People's meeting 7 p. m.; preschool 8. 30 p.m. Surr. Chapel M. E. Church Corner of 11th Street at 12 o'clock. Class and prayer meeting 12 m. and 3. 30 p.m.; Sunday School 3. 30 p.m.; Ewornleigh School 3. 30 superintendent. Clase meeting every Wednesday 5 p. p.m. J. M. Harris, Pastor 1681 11th St. Maple Street Baptist Church - Situated on E. Maple between Ninth and Tenth streets. Bible teacher; preschool at 8 p. m. Bible teacher; preschool at 8 p. m. Bible teacher; preschool at 8 p. m. Union Congregational Church - Corner Teeth and Park streets. Preschool 10. 45 a.m. Sunday School 19 m.; evening service 7. 30 p.m.; evening service 7. 30 superintendent. H. W. Broe's pastor. SECRET ORDERS. North Star Lodge, No. 3, A. F. & A. M.—Meets First Thursday in each month at Masonic streets, John L. Thompson, W. M. H. E. Jacobs, secretary. Hiram Chapter- Meets Second and Fourth Tuesday in each month. H. Gould, High, H. Gould, High. King Solomon Commandment, No. 5. Meets Second and Fourth Thursday in each month at Mason hill. A. Johnson, E. C.; W. H. Olive Court, No. 4. Meets the First Fri- day of each month at Mason hill, Mrs. R. A. Wilburn, matron; Mrs. Georgia Middett Brantley. No. 102, G. U. O. of F. O. Meets First, Second and Third Tuesday each month at Odd Fellows hall on West Stir- th at J. W. Heath, N. G.; I. M. Jones, P. S. Grand Master's Council of G. U. O. of F. O. 384, meets Tuesday night in each month, Dennis Burrs, W. M.; J. W. Heath, G. S. H. H. of F. O. of 390, G. U. O. of F. O—Con- venes the second Thursday at 3:20 and the third Thursday at 4:20. Mrs. Mary Hilton, M. N. G. Mrs. Kittle arley, W. R. Art Tetrabecnite No. 493, Meets first and third Hall Sixth and Walnut streets. Mrs. Nettie Davis, C. P.; Mrs. Lizzie Hush. C. R.; Miss North Star Lodge No 5, Knights of P. thias- mee Every night corner of Ninth and Walnut streets. Regular work nights, C. C. J. W. Robinson, R. of S. and GRAND LODGE OFFICERS. W. H. Milligan, M. W. Grand Master, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Rural Route H. E. Jacobs, R. W. S. Grardd Warden, Des Moines. H. E. Williams, R. W. J. Grand Warden, Ottumwa H. K. Hillon, R. W. Grand Treasurer Omaha, Neb. T. H Sturgis, R. W. Grand Secretary Sioux City. E T. Banks, R. W. Grand Custodian Des Moines. J. H. Shepard, Chairman of Committee on Foreign Correspondence, Des Moines. Nota Star Lodge No. 2, des Moines—Meets first Thursday in each month at Masonic Hall—Northwest corner of Tenth and Centerstreets. John L Thompson, W. M.; H. Jacobs, secretary. Cedar Grove Lodge No. 18, Buxton—Regular communication first Wednesday day in each month. K G Potter, W. M.; L. W. Stallworth, secretary. When in Burlington Stop at CAFE DE FAY MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Furnished Rooms and Board by Day or Week. Wines, Liquor and Cigars FATE MARTIN, Proprietor. 106-108 JEFFERSON Burlington, Ia. Japan Takes to Horse-Racing. Seventy-two horse-racing clubs have been organized in Japan. Most of them, the Japan Mall says, were established for gambling purposes only.