Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XV, No. 4. CITY NEWS. [N.B. If you have relatives or friends visit in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us: we solicit all your local news.-Ed.] Read the Bystander and pay for it. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McGruder have moved into their beautiful new home on Seventeenth and Carpenter avenue. Mr. and Mrs. John Bryant of Osceola are spending a few days in the city, the guests of their sons, Samuel and Charlie. Mrs. Frank Smith and baby of Topeka left for their home Thursday evening, after a very pleasant visit in our city The Missionary Society of the A. M. E. church will give a reception Monday evening at the home of Rev. and Mrs. W. Sampson Brooks. Mr. Wm. F. Reden, a graduate of the law department of the State Uni- versity, is spending a few day in our city. Mr. C. W. Rodgers of Buxton was a caller in the Capital City this week. He was a delegate to the State Republican convention. Mrs. Gertrude Shackelford and children returned home Saturday evening from Buxton where they have been attending the District Sunday School Convention, and visiting relatives for the past week. Former residents of the state of Missouri, who are now located this city will hold her first annual picnic July 4th, at Union Park. Everybody cordially invited to be present and bring well filled baskets. Look out for our collector. Put the money away untill she calls on you. When in Albia, Iowa, call at Z. M. Hindsman Lunch Room for good ice cream and lunches, fruit, tobacco and cigars; also rest ladies room. Two doors south of C. B. & Q. depot on A street, No. 217. Mr. Elery Baldwin, a prosperous young farmer living near Creston, was called to the city last Saturday on account of the serious illness of his sister, Mrs. Smith, who is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Hack. Trillows Greenhouse (Successors to Lambert) Nineteenth and Woodland Sts. OUT FLOWERS, FUNERAL DESIGNS AND PLANTS Iowa Phone 242 Mutual 414. THE SPRING HUB M. East Fifth and Make the only pu- the market. We w- cle trade. New pneumatic wheels eral repair business. PROGRAM. Seventh Annual Meeting IOWA STATE AFRO-AMERICAN C At Des Moines, Iowa, July 4, 1908. Morning and afternoon session, Bus. Evening session, St Paul's Church 10:00 a. m, Council called to order by Music, "America." Invocation, 10:15 President's annual address and 10:30 Report of State Officers. 11:00 Report of Committee on Creed 11:15 "The Negro in the Profession 11:30 Discussion of previous paper Dr. J. H. Williams, Des Moine 11:45 "The Negro and the Churh" 12:00 Discussion by Rev. S. Bath Holmes, Davenport. 12:15 p. m. Noon recess. 1:15 "The Negro in the Commerce 1:30 Discussion by Rev. H. Moor Clinton. 1:45 "Negro Charities" Mr. W. B. 2:00 Discussion by Mrs. S. Joe Br Solo—Mrs. F. G. Goggins. 2:15 "Woman's Part in the Solution Edna Martin, Ottumwa. 2:30 Discussion by Mrs. Mattie W. 2:45 "The Signs of the Times" by 3:00 Discussion by Dr. C. Summen Ottumwa. 3:15 "The Negro and the Y. W. a. 3:30 Discussion by Miss Frances "a. 3:45 "The Negro Musician" Prof. 4:00 Discussion by Prof. W. H. W. 4:15 "The Negro and the Trades "a. 4:30 Discussion by C. F. Topson Solo—Miss Florence Anderson. 4:45 Election of Officers. 5:00 Afternoon recess. Morning and afternoon session, Burns Church, 12th and Crocker. Evening session, St Paul's Church, and Center streets. 10:00 a. m. Council called to order by Att'y. S. Joe Brown, President. Music. "America." Invocation, Rev. E. P. Geiger. 10:15 President's annual address and appointment of committees. 10:30 Report of State Officers. 11:00 Report of Committee on Credentials. 11:15 "The Negro in the Professions" Dr. E. A. Carter, Buxton. 11:30 Discussion of previous papers, Att'y J. A. Spears, Buxton and Dr. J. H. Williams, Des Moines. 11:45 "The Negro and the Chur" Rev. W. D. Venerable, Keokuk. 12:00 Discussion by Rev. S. Bates, Des Moines, and Rev. D. A. Holmes, Davenport. 12:15 p. m. Noon recess. 1:15 "The Negro in the Commercial World" Mr. R. E. Patton. 1:30 Discussion by Rev. H. McCraven and Mr. M. O. Culberson, Clinton. 1:45 "Negro Charities" Mr. W. L. Jones, Mason City. 2:00 Discussion by Mrs. S. Joe Brown and Mrs. J. P. Hamilton. Solo—Mrs. F. G. Goggins. 2:15 "Woman's Part in the Solution of the Race Problem," by Miss Edna Martin, Ottumwa. 2:30 Discussion by Mrs. Mattie Warricks and Mrs. John H. Brown. 2:45 "The Signs of the Times" by Rev. W. S. Brooks, D. D. 2:00 Discussion by Dr. C. Sumner Taylor, Buxton and W. S. Page, Ottumwa. 3:15 "The Negro and the Y. W. and Y. M. C. A." Miss Zella Davis. 3:30 Discussion by Miss Frances Walker and Mr. Jesse Graves. 3:45 "The Negro Musician" Prof. Geo. I. Holt. 4:00 Discussion by Prof. W. H. Warricks and J. H. McDowell. 4:15 "The Negro and the Trades Union" Thad S. Ruff. 4:30 Discussion by C. F. Topson and G. H. Edmunds, Enterprise. Solo—Miss Florence Anderson. 4:45 Election of Officers. 5:00 Afternoon recess. EVENING SESSION. At St. Paul's A. 8:00 Music—Council. Invocation, Rev. T. L. Griff Instrumental Solo—Miss Nii Original Poem—Mr. J. C. W. Solo—Miss Anna Rhodes. Address, Ex-Pres Geo. H. Instrumental—Miss Marguer Report of committees and u Music—"Bless Be the Tie" Adjournment and Benedictia Music—Council. Invocation, Rev. T. L. Griffith. Instrumental Solo—Miss Nina Fields. Original Poem—Mr. J. C. Williams. Solo—Miss Anna Rhodes. Address, Ex-Pres Geo. H. Woodson (Att'y.) Oskaloosa. Instrumental—Miss Marguerite Fields. Report of committees and unfinished business. Music—"Bless Be the Tie" Council. Adjournment and Benediction. Mrs. George Wells is quite ill at her home in Highland Park. The family of Dr. John H. Williams arrived in the city this week and are now comfortably located at 819 13th st. Mrs. Chas S Ruff entertained a few friends at dinner Wednesday in honor of Mrs. Frank Smith, of Topeka, Kans. Mrs. H. H Lewis, left last Saturday afternoon for New York and other points in the East, to be gone for some time. Mr W. H. London of Buxton was in our city a few days this week. The Midland Jubilee Singers who are in the city to attend the Chautauqua, will sing Sunday evening at the A. M. E. church. Mrs. E. B Elliston, who is selling Rev. W. Sampson Brooks' book entitled "What a Black Man Saw in a White Man's Country," is meeting with great success. At present she is in St. Louis. Regular services at Union Congregational Church on Sunday June 28th. Preaching on Wednesday, July 1st. at 8 p. im, by the pastor, Rev. H. W. Porter. All are invited to attend all services. On last Thursday evening the 18th inst., in the presence of a few friends Mr E. S. Morgan was quietly married to Mrs. Lulu Brown. Quite a number of nice presents were received Mrs Stephen Childs of Marion, Ala., and her daughter, a teacher of St Louis, arrived in our city last Sunday to spend the summer with her daughter, Mrs H. W. Porter, of 933 Fourteenth Place. Att'y. S. Joe Brown and Mr. H. Gould have returned from Buxton, Ia., where they attended the District Conference and S. S. Convention. BIG BALL GAME. Quite an interest is being worked up over the game to be played July the 4th at Enterprise, between Gould's Invincibles and the Enterprise Brown's. This game will be a battle royal, as both teams are in good condition and the Invincibles expect to take a large crowd of base ball enthusiasts from here. There are also other attractions, and a good time is promised all who attend. Train leaves Union Station at 9:10 a. m. THE SPRING HUB MANUFACTURING CO East Fifth and Grand Avenue. Make the only puncture proof on the market. We also deal in Bicycle trade. New for old. Make pneumatic wheels, and no a general repair business. J. H. PETERSON, PROP. RAM. Annual Meeting AMERICAN COUNCIL Burns Church, 12th and Crocker. Church, and Center streets. by Att'y. S. Joe Brown, President. Rev. E. P. Geiger. and appointment of committees. Credentials. Ions" Dr. E. A. Carter, Buxton. Ions, Att'y J. A. Spears, Buxton and Moines. Rev. W. D. Venerable, Keokuk. States, Des Moines, and Rev. D. A. Special World" Mr. R. E. Patton. McCraven and Mr. M. O. Culberson, L. Jones, Mason City. Brown and Mrs. J. P. Hamilton. Station of the Race Problem," by Miss Warricks and Mrs. John H. Brown. by Rev. W. S. Brooks, D. D. Taylor, Buxton and W. S. Page, and Y. M. C. A." Miss Zella Davis. Walker and Mr. Jesse Graves. Geo. I. Holt. Warricks and J. H. McDowell. Union" Thad S. Ruff. and G. H. Edmunds, Enterprise. Person. A. M. E. Church. Siffith. Nina Fields. Williams. I. Woodson (Att'y.) Oskaloosa. Querite Fields. Unfinished business. "C" Council. ation. Mr. Elbert R. Hall who has been visiting friends in Chicago and Dixon, Ill., for the past two weeks, has returned home. Mr. Benj. Hack, one of our industrious young married men, has bought a house and lot on East Penn avenue. His sister-in-law from Creston, who came here to visit is very sick and has been for three weeks. Mrs. Wm. Warrick entertained the Des Moines Negro Lyceum Association Tuesday evening. A very interesting program was rendered by the club. Mr. Wm. Reden of Iowa City, Mr. H. Harvey Walker and Mr. J. C. A. Shafer of the Midland Jubilee Singers addressed the club; by W. A. Hann, and a reading by Jesse Rhea Todd, of the Midland Jubilee Singers were highly appreciated by the club. The club will meet next Tuesday with Miss Stella Wilburn, 1350 East Lyon street. The Intellectual Improvement club met last Friday with Mrs J. H. Brown. The following offices were elected for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. Martha Lessley; Vice Pres. Mrs. Chas. Cousin; Secty. Mrs. J. B. Rush; Asst. Secty., Mrs Hattie Brown; Treas. Mrs J. R. Erickson. Executive committee Mrs. Hattie Brown, Mrs S. Joe Brown, Mrs J. H. Woods and Mrs D. Bass field. They meet this week with Mrs J. R. Erickson A HOUSE PARTY. One of the delightful features of the house party given by Miss Edythe Comley at her home in Webster City the past week, was a beautifully appointed four course dinner. The darkneed dinning room was candle lighted. Pansies and pink and white peonies were artistically arranged through the room. The place cards with souvenir bottles of perfume, bore the names of Misses Pearl Hammitt, Edna Alexander, Garnet Hamilton, Mable Maggee and Adah Hyde of Des Moines, Miss Edith Buckner of Ft. Dodge, Miss Zella Hunter of Mason City and the hostess Miss Edythe Comley and Mr. Ollie Buckner of Ft. Dodge, J. E. Carter and Farl Comley of Webster City and Mr. Jack Thomas of Chicago, Illinois The same party enjoyed a delightful picnic at Riverside qark Tuesday. Aside from the bounteous picnic lunch boating and fishing were enjoyed The party was taken to the park, three miles east of town, on a hay-rack. WANTED—First class barber; will pay good wages. H. R. Moore. 109 I Ave, Iowa City, Ia. A COLORED GIRL DOWNS FIFE TEEN PRIZE SPELLERS. Cleveland, O. Jue 20.—A Negro girl may take part in the spelling contest of the National Educational association during its annual convention here. She is little Wilberetta Hamsbary of the Hicks school, Cleveland. In a practice contest held after the regular Cleveland team had been chosen, the girl showed her ability. She easily spelled down every one of the 15 members of the team. Although the contest was only a practice one, this put her in the first place as alternate and she will be on the regular team should any of its members become sick. NOTICE Look, Listen and be Prepared to Pay up all Your Back Dues this Summer when our Collector calls. Miss Frances Walker will leave Monday June 29th on our annual collecting trip, making the following towns: Marshalltown, Monday 29th. Cedar Rapids, Tuesday 30th and Wednesday July 1st. Iowa City, Thursday 2nd. Clinton, Friday 3rd. Moline, Ill., Saturday 4th. Rock Island, Ill., Monday, 6th. Davenport, Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th. We urge you to be ready to pay the collector and don't put her off. If you cannot be at home those days, please leave the money with someone who will be at home. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. An Atchison paper asks, "What has become of the old-fashioned boy who fought against wearing his Sunday clothes?" He's in Wall street fleecing the lambs, using the same methods that he employed to organize a corner in marbles in the good old days. TAFT AND SHERMAN. The Republican party in convention assembled last week in Chicago, Illinois, nominated Hon. William H. Taft, the present secretary of war, and Congressman Sherman of New York to head the ticket. We predicted that Mr. Taft would get the nomination nearly nine month ago, and of course we would have been glad to see our able governor, Albert B. Cummins, nominated for Vice-President, as he would have added strength to the ticket, especially in the Middle West. He perhaps would have been nominated were it not for his enemies who happened to be on the delegation and for personal reasons blocked it. Such old soreheads ought to be kicked out of the party. We believe that Mr. Taft is the next best man if Roosevelt could not run. Mr. Taft is a great man, a success at his occupation, a man broad in his views with construction. He will grow into the hearts of the American people as time comes, and he will we hope be elected and make a good president. KNIGHT TEMPLARS. Through the courtesy of Mr. E, T. Banks we received a program of the Inter-State Conference to be held at the Masonic Temple commencing Aug., 17th. All Sir Knights are invited, the program is full of addresses by such able and distinguished Masons as Sir Knight J. H. Pehlam, cf Mo., Wm. H. Miller, of Pa., J. L. H. Smith of Md., J. O. Bampfield, of Washington, D. C., Jas. C. Richards, of Onterio, P. S. Golden, Grand High Priest, of Mississippi and many others equally as distinguished Sir Knights are going. Mr. E. T. Banks is the Iowa officer of the Illinois Jurisdiction. DES MOINES DIST. A. M. E. CONVENTION. The second annual Sunday School convention and Normal Institute of the A. M. E. church was held at Bethel Mission, Buxton, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week. Mrs. S. Joe Brown, district superintendent presided and the session was one of the most interesting ever yet held. Delegates were present from Des Moines. Boone, Saylor, Clarinda, Chariton, Osceola, Indianola, Albia, Centerville and Buxton as also was presiding elder Rev. M. I. Gorden, of Ottumwa. The session on Thursday was occupied with the organization and the reports from delegates and the reading and discussion of papers by the delegates. All the schools made splendid report showing 27 pupils in the Normal class and several converted in the Sunday school of the district during the past year. On Thursday evening the Bethel church and school tendered an elegant reception to the delegates The entire day Friday was given to the Normal Institute. In the forenoon interesting and instructive lectures were delivered by Atty. S. Joe Brown, president of the Normal Institute, Mrs. M. A. Bell of Albia, professor of sacred geography and Rev. P. M. Leois, of Buxton, professor of sacred history, and in the afternoon the written examinations of candidates for graduations were held. After the examinations, the delegates were conducted in a body to the magnificent department store of the Monroe Mercantile Co., where they were personally conducted through every department by Mr. McCoy the manager who gave the delegates permission to help themselves to everything in the store from an ice cream soda to a coffin. Many partook of the former but none of the latter. On Friday evening occurred the annual graduating exercises of the Normal Institute at which time Prof. Richard Oliver and the choir of the Mt. Zion Baptist church furnished some delightful music and Atty. Brown delivered the commencement address, after which presiding elder Gordan presented full course diplomas to Mr. Harrison Gould and Mr. G. H. Mason of Des Moines and special certificates to Mesdames Nellie Estes and Bessie Grayson and Misses May Davis and Francis Parker of Albia and Miss Mary Davis of Buxton. On Saturday morning the convention adjourned after adopting a ringing set of resolutions thanking the good people of Buxton who had assisted in making the session so great a success and denouncing the Sunday base ball games. for the ensuing year: For the Sunday school department—Mrs. S. Joe Brown Des Moines, district superintendent; Mrs. A. Bolden, Indianola, first sub district superintendent; Nellie Estes, Albia, second sub district superintendent; Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman, Sloux Falls, S. D., third sub district superintendent; Miss Mary Davis, Buxton district secretary; Miss Susie Lee, Clarinda, assistant district secretary; Miss Maggie Powers, Buxton, district treasurer; Rev. W. H. Robinson, Buxton, district publisher. For the normal institute Attorney S. Joe Brown, Des Moines, president and proffessor of Sunday school pedagogy; Mrs. M. A. Bell, Albia, first vice president and professor of sacred geography; Rev. P. M. Lewis, Buxton, second vice president and professor of Bible study; Rev. J. J. Walden, Indianola, third vice president; Miss Mattie Warricks, Des Moines, professor of sacred history; Miss Letta Cary, Des Moines, normal secretary. BLIND TOM DEAD. Cared For in His Decling Years by the Daughter of His Old Master—A Child All His Life. New York, June 19.—Thomas Wiggins, the "Blind Tom" whose strange mastery of the piano without teaching or scientific knowledge of the instrument made thousands wonder, died on Saturday at the home of a daughter of his old master and one time owner, Col. James N. Bethune of Georgia. Mrs. Albert J. Lerche, who was Miss Eliza Bethune before her marriage, had cared for the old blind Negro musician for many years past, keeping him happy and comfortable in her home, 60 Twelvth street, Hoboken. It was there he died suddenly of apoplexy. "Blind Tom" was twice erroneously reported dead—once in 1903, and prior to that a body was identified as his after the Johnstown flood, was buried as his and tombstone put over it, marked with his name. This time the famous old musician is really dead. His body lies in the Frank Campbell company's funeral chapel, 241 West Twenty-third street, and after the last service "Blind Tom's" funeral march, composed by himself and in a way said to be typical of his own life, will be played on the chapel organ. In this composition which many musicians have declared to be of uncommon merit, a passage of great sonority is immeadiity followed by a passage of such lightness and gayety that the effect produced is one of pathos. The Negro weak mined all through his life, was as much a child in middle age as at 7, and his pleasures were those of a child. He applauded himself after the performance of every number, laughed lightly and with little provocation, and alwsys needed a guardian. The sadness of a blind life and the grayyet of a child's nature are shown in the funeral march which was played publicly at the funeral of his old master a number of years ago. The fear of death was strong in Blind Tom in his later years. If he felt the wind blowing against him he would exclaim, "Tom's in a draft, he may catch cold and die, wouldnt that be terrible!" But he was spared the agony of the fear of surely approaching death, the stroke of apoplexy striking him unconscious, and the end following in a short time. When Col. Bethune bought Charity Wiggins she had in her arms a pickin'inny blind, feeble and not considered valuable as a slave asset. So Tom was "thrown in' by his mother's former master. He was a very small boy when he discovered that for the loss of his sight and the blight upon his mind his Creator had endowed him with a gift so strange and yet so productive of happiness to him that he has. in a way been a living subject for marvel during the last half century. The boy began by repeating words that he had heard about him, mimicking everyone and trying to imitate all sounds that fell on his ear. When he first heard a piano played, every note of the music was stamped in his mind, and groping to the instrument, he he found that he could reproduce the music he had heard. With the instrument he could imitate the tinkling of water in a fountain, the fall of rain,' and the noise of the storm. His own composition which gave him the most delight, he called "What the Winds and the Waves told Tom." The fame of the blind Negro boy spread quickly, and during the twenty years and more that he performed in public here and abroad he made a great deal of money. A son of his old master toured him until about fifteen years ago, when he retired and went to live in New Jersey. Mrs. Lerche was appointed his guardian twenty years ago, and has since looked after him. The old Negro's last days were spent with his piano or playing in the Lerche home, frequently holding imaginary receptions. Up to ten years ago the old mother Georgia, very aged. Tom was in his sixieth year. In his reproduction of the performances of master pieces on the piano he was said to play with a conception of music that was as great as his skill. His technique came as naturally as did his musical emotions. BRILLIANT SOCIAL EVENT (Special to Bytander) Of all the notable social gatherings, among the colored people of Chicago during the convention week, the most brilliant was the Military Full Dress Reception and Ball given at the First Regiment Armory by the Eighth Infantry, Illinois National Guards, in honor of the delegates and visitors attending the National Republican Convention on Thursday evening, June 18. From 9 o'clock to 9:45, the famous Eighth Regiment Band, under the leadership of Sergt. Wm. E. Berry, rendered several selections. The rendition of these selections proved each member of the organization an artist, and in their leader they have a man capable and efficient. At 9:45, first call for regimental formation; 9:50 assembly call; and at 10 o'clock adjutant's call. For thirty minutes this justly celebrated regiment went through various maneuvers and Intricate formations, bringing forth rounds of applause. Under the leadership of that brilliant officer. Col. John R. Marshall, this regiment has reached the front rank, having won all honors for which it has competed; and, owing to its grand achievements of the past, has been selected to represent the great state of Illinois at Indianapolis, Ind., where the National maneuvers will be held in August. At 10:30 the ceremonies attending the presentation of decorations awarded for long and honorable service in the regiment and for proficiency in rifle practice during the season of 1907, was inaugurated by Col. Marshall, who, in a short speech introduced Hon. Nelson Crews of Kansas City, Mo., who made the presentation speech. Mr. Crews upheld his reputation as an orator on this occasion. He complimented the regiment on the excellent service it has rendered, and extolled the black American soldiers for their many noble and heroic deeds. Colonel John R. Marshall. With this ceremony over, the grand march was started, Col. and Mrs. Marshall leading Eight hundred people participated in this march and many new evolutions were attempted and gone through. The dancing which followed the grand march continued until 4 o'clock a. m. The attendance was estimated at two thousand. The elite of Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Pittsburg, Indiana and other western cities were in attendance, and idlelegations from the larger-eastern cities were in evidence. Chicago's swell society was there in all its beauty and finery. Never before in the history of Chicago has there been present at one time so many representative men and women of the Negro race as during last week in Chicago. The National Republican Convention being responsible for their presence in the city. "A Visitor." ROSTER OF OFFICERS OF THE EIGHTH INFANTRY, I N. G. Colonel John R. Marshall, commanding the regimen. Lieutenant Colonel James H. Johnson. Captain Robert F. Ratcliffe, adjutant. Captain James S Nelson, Quatermaster. Captain John L. Fry. Commissary. Captain W. T. Jefferson, Ord. I. R. P. Major Allen A. Wesley, Surgeon. Captain Jordan Chavis, Chaplain. 1st Lieutenant Jamis R White, Asst. Surgeon. 1st Lieutenant James H. Shepperd, Asst. Surgeon. Lieutenat A. B. McKissack, Asst. Surgeon. NATIONAL COLORED TEACHERS. The fifth annual meeting of the National Association of Teachers in Colored schools held their session this year in Louisville, Ky., June 24-25-26. A very excellent program has been arranged and some of the best teachers and scholars are to be there. Such men as J. R. E. Lee Price Five Cents director of the academic department of Tuskegee; William Picker, professor of languages of Taladega College, Oscar M. Wharing, principal of the St. Louis, Mo., schools, A. J. De Hart, principal of the Douglass high school Cincinnati, Ohio, Prof. W. S.-Scarborough, professor of Greek at Wilberforce University, Ohio; George M. Chadwell, supervisor of public schools, Indianapolis, Ind., and many others. It is well worth your time to attend this great gathering. Negro Gets Medal. Grant Ferguson who rescued William Ebersole from the river the afternoon that William Jennings and Edward Ebersole were drowned, will receive a medal for his bravery. A committee from the Commercial club has decided to get the medal for Ferguson. In investigating Ferguson's record the committee found that Ebersole was the twelfth man that he had saved from a watery grave. SIOUX CITY ITEMS Please bear in mind the great rally for the trustees of the A M E. Church Sunday June 29, 08. A musical was given at the A. M. E. Church Tuesday evening June 33. It was under the management of Mrs. Myrtle Taylor for the benefit of the trustees, Miss Birdie Dowdy returned home Thursday after a pleasant two weeks visit with Miss Carrie Green of Carroll Iowa. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Freeman Saturday June 20, a boy. Mother and child doing nicely. The Watkins' cornet band gave a trolly ride last Thursday evening. The party went to Riverside and back, thence to Morningside and back giving a nice two hours and a half ride. A large crowd took in the treat. Miss Frances Taylor of Yankton S. D. came down to have a two weeks visit with her grandma and friends. Mrs. Judy Ann Askew has been confined to her bed the past week from a fall she received a few weeks ago. Mr. John Morgan who has been confined to his home for several weeks with the rheumatism is able to be out on the streets again. Mrs. Sadie Norris had her arm painfully scaulled while serving luncheon at the ladies exchange last week. Mrs. Lamb of Burlington past through our city last Thursday on her way to Sioux Falls to visit relatives. She was the guest of her father Mr. Lamb. Mrs. Miller of South Sioux City came down from Yankton S. D. where she has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Leona Smith for two weeks. She was accompanied home by her little grand-daughter. Miss Saddler of Yankton S. D. came to our city last week to live a few months in our midst. She is making her home with Mr. and Mrs. A. Lee. The pleasure club will meet Friday afternoon with Mrs. G. M. Newman at the A. M. E. parsonage. The Silver Leaf club met with Mrs. Anna Reid last Monday. Married in our city June 17th, Mr. Herman 'Murray to Miss Lillian McGrudder, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Harrison. Only a few intimate friends were present. Rev. M. G. Newman officiated. The groom has been in our midst for seven years and has won many friends while here. The bride has not been in the city long but has gained friends among those who have met her. May their future life be happiness and prosperity. No Need of Suffering from Rheumatism. It is a mistake to allow rheumatism to become chronic, as the pain can always be relieved, and in most cases a cure effected by applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The relief from pain which it affords is alone worth many times its cost. It makes sleep and rest possible, Even in cases of long standing this linemint should be used on account of the relief which it affords. 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by all druggists. SOFT STIFF We Manufacture and Sell Direct to Wearer Hawkeye Hats $1.25 to $3.50 Best Stetson Hats. STRAW,HATS PANAMAS Bystander office: located over 201 Seventh street. After suffering for seven years, Gau woman was retreated to health by Lydia E. Pinktham's Vegetable Compound. Read her letter. Mrs. Salle French, of Paucaunla, Ind. Teres, writes to Mrs. Pinkham "I had female troubles for seven years—was all run-down, and so nervous I could not do anything. The doctors treated me for different troubles but did me no good. While in this condition I wrote to me, "Idya E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and I am now strong and well." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female illies, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacement of tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, flatulence, indigestion, dizziness, or nervous prostration. Why don't you try it? 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You can get detailed statistics for the early years of "Billy" Sunday's evangelical work, but in the last half a dozen years the record is complete and they indicate that at least 90,000 men, women and children have stood up under the influence of his preaching and declared them a leader of leading a better and a Christian life. Amazing success has especially attended Sunday's meetings in the past three or four years. Here is the record as supported by Season of 1904-05..... 9,525 Season of 1905-06..... 11,216 Season of 1906-07..... 12,820 Season of 1907-08..... 21,000 Total, four years..... 54,561 In the ten years prior to that time, it is estimated that his conversions would bring the grand total up to nearly 90,000. Des Moines democrat who have noted that Governor John A. Johnson, candidate for the democratic pro- dential nomination, appears on the Chauquette program on "Temperance and Constitutional Amendment Day" wonder if their fellow democrat is a J. B. Weaver. The subject of Governor Johnson's address, "The Majesty of the Law," doesn't disclose much in- formation about what he expects to say, and the management of the Mid- west congressional to be important about it also. But at any rate, Governor Johnson will be a part of the "Temperance and Constitutional Amendment Day" program, speaking in the evening of the day, which comes on June 29th. Whether or not his appearance on the day will be a success by accident or design, it has a much curiosity and comment. Every day of the session which began on the 26th and will end on July 5, is filled with good attractions. A notable address, which will attract the attention of the audience, will be that of Governor Hanley of Indiana, which will be delivered on the afternoon of the 5th. THE GODOWNS OF JAPAN. Iron Sheathed Warehouses Necessary Because of Danger of Fire. Fire is one of the terrors that dodge at the elbow of the Japanese householder all the time, and because he lives in a matchwood dwelling Sakurasan has to take a curious precaution against the sudden loss of all his household goods. This precaution is the godown. He goes in Tokyo or Yokohama who sees from his ricchshaw a strange iron plated building with doors like turret shutters and pointed roof heavily incrusted with tiles is led to believe that here perhaps is some feudal fort of the old time, ready to house fighting men against the attacks of a street mob. But when the tourist finds one of these black sheeted buildings on every other block he learns from the country dweller that these buildings are or storehouse for household goods. When a fire gets well started in the crowded blocks of dolls' houses in a Japanese city it is rarely stopped until from 10 to 50 houses have been consumed and a black scar has been drawn across the whole face of the building, the floors, the fixtures and crowded so closely together that the Japanese firemen even at their best can do little with a well developed blaze certain astute citizens erect these iron sheathed and shattered two-storied storehouses, wherein the householders of the neighborhood and the storekeepers of the district can store away their valuables, as well as heavily sheathed with iron plate and so weighted with mud tiles that they rarely burn. All day long their windows are kept almost hermetically sealed by heavy swinging shutters that look like the doors of a safe. When a fire comes to a certain district the doors of the goddown and put it in shabu to weather the flames. To these public fireproof safes the households bring their best furniture, their porcelain and their delicate printa. The wives keep lockell up there their best kimonos and their ddds and ends of jewelry. Merchants have their excess stock stowed away within them. Whenever there is a fete in any Japanese home or preparations are being made for the entertainment of some special guests the servants are sent to the nearby godown to bring home all the valuables. Pictures are again hung on the wall the heavy bronze passport for the day, the special taubet, and the wardrobe of madame is replenished. Then with the passing of the special occasion passes also the household grandeur. All the fleeting prettiness of print and flowered kimono is swallowed up in the black maw of the godown. An elephant works from the age of twelve to the age of eighty. He can hail fifteen tones, lit half a ton without any trouble. Stout people are to be taxed in the Swedish town of Hafanger. All people who weigh more than 133 pounds are the victims, and will have to submit to a graduated tax. The drumhead is prepared from the skins of don keys, calves, goats, and wolves; and that for writing purposes from the skins of sheep. The polishing is done with pumice-stone. Jail for Parte Rico Editor San Juan, Porto Rico—uullan Aybar editor of a labor paper here, was enceded Friday to two years' penal servitude on two counts of libel confering of an attack made upon tugger IOWA STATE NEWS Events of Recent Occurrence Throughout the Commonwealth. $34,611 SHORTAGE IN SAC. Treasurer's Peculations Are Larger Than Anticipated. Sac City.—W. A. Burnap, expert accountant, who was hired by the county to go over the books of W. H. Pettls, recently treasurer of Sac county, and ascertain the exact amount of Pettls' shortage, has made his report to the county board of supervisors after several weeks of thorough investigation. Mr. Burnap finds the shortage to be $34,611.80. MUCH DAMAGE BY STORM. Northeastern Iowa Visited by Storm of Great Violence. Dubuque.—Definite word has been received from Waukon for the first time since the cyclone and the hall storm Saturday night. A railway train and track were washed bodily a half mile and left intact. Scores of building were swept away by the flood, though no lives vane lost. There were man hair breadth escapes and man animals were killed. The Milwaukee He made investigation of all the entries in the tax lists and other details and found errors in the office to consist of three kinds: First, cancellations, where receipts had been issued and afterwards cancelled; second, duplications, where two receipts of the same number were carried to the tax register; third, omissions, where money has been received and not accounted for. Mr. Burnap finds that the method used in checking up the treasurer is the same employed by a large majority of counties in the state, and is the method that has been used since the organization of this county. He does not blame the board of supervisors for not making the discovery long ago, for he believes they did the same as most men would do in the installing of a system in the auditor's office which will prevent such crooked transactions hereafter. When the shortage was first discovered local men figured the amount at about $27,000 and it was believed that the report of the expert would not change the amount materially. That the amount is larger by nearly $3,000 comes as a surprise. Sac City.—Following the report of the expert, showing the amount of the shortage, came the arrest of former County Treasurer William 1 Pettits, on information to which about twenty citizens of Sac county swore charging him with embezzlement of the county funds. He furnished a bond of $5,000 signed by his wife, which secures his appearance before the August term of the district court. Real estate and other property were turned over to the banks several weeks ago, which footed up to $27,055.41. Mrs. Pettits also gave a note secured by a mortgage on her farm in Coon Valley township, for $1,526.39 to W. Jackson, and the bondsmen will suffer practically nothing. MOTHER DROWNS BABIES Mrs. Johnson of Ida Grove Throws Four In Well. Ida Grove--Whole temporarily insane Mrs. August J. Johnson drowned her four little children in the cistern at their farm home a mile south of town. The youngest is about a year old and the oldest about 6. There were two little boys and two girls. It is not known how she did it, but she had been the field at the time. She drowned the four children and tried to drown herself when neighbors and people from town came running in. Word was sent to town and crowds went out in autos. When Will Anderson reached there she was trying to choke herself with a bed cover and fought like a fend when he overpowered her and pulled it out of her throat. Little ones were quickly pulled out of the cistern, but all were dead and though the crowds worked on them for an hour, it was in vain. FATHER SHOOTS SON. Shell Rock Farm is Scene of Awful Tragedy Shell Rock—After getting drunk with him and then quarreling violently, Hans Buelks, a farmer living near here, shot and perhaps fatally wounded his 21-year-old son, Antoine Buelks, with a shot gun. At a range of less than thirty feet, the charge of shot entered the boy's groin and legs, and it is doubtful if he can survive. The father is under arrest and was bound over to the grand jury at the preliminary hearing. SON SLAIN BY MOTHER Awful Act of Insane Woman Near Red Oak. Red Oak.—Milo Wileos, who lives two miles from Wallin, eleven miles northeast of Red Oak, went violently insane. Securing a butcher knife, she stabbed her 6-year-old son, attacked her 11-year-old daughter, wounding her severely, and then turned the knife on herself, inflicting dangerous cuts. The boy died within a few hours and the daughter and mothers are still unconscious. Rock Rapids Man Drowns Rock Rapids, -Will J. Rapelje, aged 24, who has been employed at the Iowa Savings bank here, was drowned in Rock River. In company with two friends, the young man dived from the boat in twelve feet of water and immediately sank. The young men with him tried to get him when he did not succeed. He was taken to water and strong undercurrent they were unable to locate him. His parents reside at St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. Severe Storm at Dubuque Dubuque—During a severe electrical and wind storm the animal tent of Ringling's circus collapsed and one employee sustained a broken arm. A panic was narrowly averted in the main tent. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad reported two washouts between Dubuque and LaCrosse. Many wires are down. MUCH DAMAGE BY STORM. Northeastern Iowa Visited by Storm of Great Violence. Dubuque.—Definite word has been received from Waukon for the first time since the cyclone and hall storm Saturday night. A railway train and track were washed bodily a half mile and left intact. Scores of buildings were swept away by the flood, though no lives were lost. There were many hair breadth escapes and many animals were killed. The Milwaukee railway succeeded in getting a train through today. The crop damage alone runs to $100,000. Cresco.—Growing crops to the extent of many thousands of dollars were destroyed by the turf wind and hall storm when this reinnervation night and Monday morning. The details of the disaster are just becoming known, for all telephone communication was destroyed and the roads were impassable until today. The stories of the hail storm are almost unbelievable. Hall as large as a baseball fell in spots, killing smaller live stock outward and crippling and beating numerically the stronger beasts. One man, Joe Whalen, who lives in the north pari of Howard county, was caught in the storm and beaten until he was unconscious for a time it was thought that he would die, but he is expected to recover. Another farmer was also caught without shelter, but will recover. Dead animals of all kinds were floating down the small streams which empty into the Iowa river, drowned by the sudden fresher of water. It is reported that a dozen large barns were blown down and destroyed in the tornado. The immense barn of Muhian Culbert near Kendallville was utterly destroyed and the foundation razed. A man by the name of Burr, living about four miles east of Cresco, had just completed a $2,000 barn, which was demolished. In Granger and Florenceville and vicinity the hail drove clear through the roofs of the houses in places where the sheeting was a little distance apart. In northern Howard county are a complete loss, Clover is laid as flat to the ground as if mowed by a mowing machine. KILLED KIDNAPPING CHILD Denver Man Shot on Farm near Kel long. Newton—While trying to kidnap his little 5-year-old girl from his wife, from whom he was separated, Frank Parker of Denver, Colo., but formerly of Grinnell, was shot and killed near Kellogg, by George Young, a former business partner and the man who came between Parker and his wife. Parker's wounds were not immediately fatal, but he died several hours after the shooting. Young was arrested at the scene of the crime and brought to Newton, where he is now lodged in jail. The shooting occurred at the Arthur Robinson farm, six miles southside of Kellogg. On leaving her husband some weeks ago in Denver, Mrs. Parker and her three children came to stay at the home of her sister, Mrs. Robinson. Young appeared there soon afterward, presumably to be near Mrs. Parker, to whom he had become attentive during a year's association with Parker in the billboard hall business in Denver; he asked for employment on the Robinson farm as a hired hand and Robinson, who knew of no intimacy of any kind, and later interceded and Young gave him work. Recently Parker learned that his wife had come to the Robinson's and a few days ago arrived in Kellogg, intent upon effecting a reconciliation. He called up the Robinson home by telephone, talked briefly with his wife, but was told that she would not see him. In spite of the husband hired a livery rig and drove out to the Robinson farm, arriving there about 10 o'clock. True to her word, Mrs. Parker refused to see her husband and he was denied admission to the house for a talk with her. He returned to go and as he did, his little 5-year-old girl came running out to greet him and kiss him. On the impulse of the mom, there picked up his little told her we were going to take her with him and put her in the buggy. Climbing in himself, he started to drive off amid the frantic cries of the mother, who had watched the whole affair. At this juncture Young came to the scene. He sprang to the heads of the horses, calling to Parker to stop and threatening him. The sight of Young angered Parker and he drew a gun. But the horses ran into a gatepost and in handling the reins Parker lost his weapon. Immediately thereafter, he ran back to the effect in the back of Parker's neck and the second striking him in the left side of the face. Parker fell from the buggy mortally wounded and later was carried into the house. DUBUQUE HAS A TWISTER. Dubuque.—Meager details of the effect of a recent storm in northern Iowa and Wisconsin, the tail end of which struck Dubuque, are beginning to come in. All telephone and telegraph communication is destroyed. The Milwaukee and Burlington roads to the north are washed out in the vicinity of Gregor and the vicinity of Heaven. Heaven was done in these parts to frame structures, although no lives are reported lost. REPUBLICANS MEET HARMONIOUS CONVENTION AT WATERLOO. PROGRESSIVES IN CONTROL Platform Adopted, Candidates Nominated and State Committee Elected. Waterloo...Under the primary law, the republican state convention, had no business to transact except the adoption of two candidates for judges of the supreme court, and the election of a state committee. There were no contests. The progressives were in control and organized the convention. The commission of Allamakee county was temporary chairman and the committee on permanent organization selected Robert Healy of Fort Dodge as permanent chairman. The nomination of Supreme Justices Scott M. Ladd and S. M. Kearns was purely formal. Judge Kearns of Slovak City included them in the same motion, and Lewis Miles seconded it, and they were nominated by acclamation. All other nominations were made at the primary. "We, the republican party of Iowa in convention assembled, do approve most heartily our national party platform recently adopted at Chicago and we do hereby emphatically indorse the wise policies and policies of the Theodore Roosevelt. We unhesitatingly declare that the party presents to the nation a worthy successor and a grand leader in the candidacy of William H. Taft for president and likewise his associate, James S. Sherman for vice president. We would intend to indorse the wise statesmanship of United States Senators William B. Allison and Jonathan P. Dolliver and our entire delegation in congress. Especially do we glory in the percessor position of influence and leaders in our state, which our venerable senator has given to our state. "It is with pride and confidence that we appeal to the people of Iowa for their approval of the wise, able and fair leaders and affairs by the present republican administration. The maintenance of our public institutions has been effected with a broad intelligence and the administration has been conducted with such integrity and efficiency as to constitute a period conspicuous in the statesmanship of our time. "We rejoice in the advancement of our national government secured by recent republican legislation under the able, sincere and courageous leadership of Gov. Albert B. Cumins. We believe that the law has given the mass has moved an insidious temptation from the paths of our public servants. "We believe that the law prohibiting contributions by corporations is purified our politics. We believe that the Iowa legislature, by preventing the creation of fictitious values and the issuance of watered stock, has pointed to the need for a more secure and confidence in the securities of the modern corporation. "We believe that the enactment of a 2-cent fare law has proved just to our common carriers, while giving to every citizen, the right to travel in the tax he pays for his personal transportation. "We approve the efforts of the last legislature to secure joint freight rates and in passing the pure food laws, we have made a provision of a state wide primary law, while perhaps showing some imperfections in detail which can be corrected, has fully vindicated the wisdom of its principles in bringing the nomination of party candidates to the unpervious nomination of the party, thereby declare that its provisions should never be impaired in principle or in purpose. We especially commend the restrictions which this law has placed upon the character of commercial vehicles and their compulsory publicity. "We demand for the agricultural interests of Iowa the same co-operation from the railways of this state in reduced passenger rates for the transportation of goods to the state fairs and large public gatherings of neighboring states "Duly appreciating the supreme importance of the agricultural interests of our country well as the rapid improvement of agricultural interests, and recognizing the wisdom of promoting these interests we favor the most ample provisions for general education along industrial interests, and recognizing the national declaration of our party principles and faithful to the record of our great party, we do not hesitate to support a united party, declaring approval for the election of Senator William B Allison for his successor, and all the nominees of the party, state, congress, and senate. This committee recommends the adoption of the following resolutions: "Resolved, That this convention has learned with regret of the death of Senator William B Allison, executive whose patroltism, firmness and courage challenged the admiration of his fellow countrymen of all parties and honored American manhood. It is our duty to uphold the family and to the nation he loved and served with fidelity and sincerity." Governor Cummins having been called for, said that a word personal was not out of place in view of his relations to the recent primary. He said he was a progressive republican among republicans and among parties in the man who would give all his energy for the party and its ticket. He said: "Senator Allison is entitled to two things—first, a republican legislature. There must be no 'anarchy' in the state of Iowa. Iowa is a republican state and shall give to campaign the same cash and enthusiasm I provide to the campaign just closed. Senator Allison is entitled to more. He is not only entitled to a republican legislature, but is entitled to the votes of every republican in the assembly, and is entitled to the influence for its part in securing the vote of republican. The same thing may be said of the state ticket. Its personell could not be higher, it is made up of men of the highest integrity and unity and they are entitled to the votes of every republican. Whatever I can do toward that end I will go. Have no fear respecting Iowa or the nation. No doubt should be entertained of the success of Taft and Sherman. The republicans of Iowa and Sherman are men, by the voice of their convention, the voice of every member of the party in the state." A Pioneer of Colorado and Nebraska. Matthias Campbell, veteran of the Civil War and two Indian wars, and a pioneer of Colorado, now living at 218 East Nebraska street, Baird, Neb., says: "I had pulled in my back for a long time that I could not turn in bed, and at times there was an almost total stoppage of a pioneer of Colorado, now living at 218 East Nebraska street, near Nebraska, says, "I had such palins in my back for a long time that I could not turn in bed, and at times there was an almost stoppage of the urine. My wife and I have both used Dona's kidney Pills for what doctors diagnosed as advanced kidney troubles, and both of us have been completely cured." Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. Business Amounts to Something. Business Amounts to something Last year Brazil needed over 20,000- 000 jute bags to hold the year's coffee production. Each bag costs the shipper's a trifle over 18 cents. The business of making coffee bags thus amounted last year to nearly $4,000- 000. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it bears the Signature of Castoria. In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought Peace for Once. "I tell you, Judson is a slick chap," laughed Silas Ryetop. "He took his wife to Washington and kept her in the congressional library four hours." "What did he do that for?" asked Hiram Hardapple. "Why, begosh, they fine you if you talk in that building, and for four hours she didn't speak a word." Starch, like everything else, is being constantly improved, the patent Starchs put on the market 25 years ago. They are more marketed and inferior to those of the present day. In the latest discovery—Defiance Starch—all injurious chemicals are omitted, but the addition of another ingredient, invented by us, gives to the Starch a strength and smoothness never approached by other brands. Some Men's Luck. His Wife—This afternoon I called on the family who recently moved into the flat across the hall." Her Husband—Well? His Wife—The man is so dead he can hardly hear a word his wife says. His Husband—It does seem as though men have more luck than sense. Canada's Extensive Fisheries the fisheries of Canada are the most extensive of the world. The eastern sea coast of the maritime provinces from the Bay of Fundy to the Straits of Belle Isle covers a distance of 5,600 miles, more than double that of Great Britain and Ireland, and the salt water inshore area, not considering minor inland indentations nor the great lakes of the coasts covers more than 1,500 square miles. The Perennial. According to the Atlanta Constitution, a Georgia farmer posted this sign on his front gate: "Candidates will pass on. No time to talk to 'em." One morning his little boy shouted from the garden walk: "There's one o' them canderdates here, an he says he'll come in anyhow." The old man looked toward the gate and said: "Let him in. There's no harm in him. I know him. He's been runnin' ever sense the war—jest to be a runnin'. It runs in his blood an' he can't help it!" One of Bill Nye's. Referring to a real estate transaction made by one Peter Minutu, way back in the year 1628, Bill Nye, in his history of the United States, declared: "New York was afterwards sold for $24; the whole island. When I think of this I go into my family gallery, which I also use as a swear room, and tell those ancestors what I think of them. Where were they when New York sold for $24?" The humor of this strikes deeply when one stops to consider what has been done to this original investment. Peter Minutu and a few bottles of rum, so delightful the native indians that they gladly turned over to him the whole of Manhattan island, now the heart of Greater New York—"New York, the Giant City." National Magazine. FULLY NOURISHED Grape-Nuts a Perfectly Balanced Food. No chemist's analysis of Grape-Nuts can begin to show the real value of the food—the practical value is shown by personal experience. It is a food that is perfectly balanced, supplies the needed elements of brain and nerves in all stages of the infant, through the strength and durability of the brain, it is a comfort and support in old age. "For two years I have used Grape-Nuts with milk and a little cream, for breakfast. I am comfortably hungry for my dinner at noon. "I use little meat, plenty of vegetables and fruit in season, for the noon meal, and if tired at tea time, take Grape-Nuts alone and feel perfectly nourished. "Nerve and brain power, and memory are much improved since using one can over sixty and weigh 165 lbs. My son and husband seeing how I have improved, are now using Grape-Nuts. "My son, who is a traveling man, eats nothing for breakfast but Grape-Nuts and a glass of milk. An aunt, over 70, seems fully nourished on Grape-Nuts and cream." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pigs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are calm, true, and full of human interest. There is a superstitious dislike not the number 13, which is deemed unlucky. In a few of the London hotels this number has been removed from the rooms. The males of Persia rarely laugh, as it is considered effeminate for a man to do so. But the women laugh moderately, and giggle like the girls of America. Babies have largely displaced monkeys at attendants of organ grinders in London. The cherubs excite more sympathy and coax more cash from the listeners. A police-dog in Paris arrested two railway-thieves the other day. He pulled one from a baggage-car he had dabbing, and caught the other in hiding beneath the train. The men broke away from the police who took them in charge, but Lion brought them back. The leaf of the Mexican pineapple tree is very valuable, inasmuch as it furnishes a fiber of such strength and fineness that it can be made into types, twine, thread, mats, bagging, lammocks and paper. A fabric most as fine and beautiful as silk is made at least twice as thick. No woman over loved a man so much that she didn't try to find out what the engagement ring cost. American Book Company Declared a "Trust." Dallas, Texas, June 22—Following the recent state adoption of textbooks in Texas the Governor refused to sign the contract awarded to the American Book Company, on the grounds that it is a trust. The Attorney-General began a far-reaching investigation, which covered the entire history and development of the American Book Company and set forth the relations existing between it and the allied houses. The contract made by the State Commission with the American Book has been cancelled and the Commission have generalized a report stating the American Book Company is composed of almost 30 different houses whose business it had acquired. New Yorkers Bay Rent New Yorkers Pay Rent Fewer New Yorkers own their own home, and fewer of any other city in the world. The reason is a simple one; the land is so valuable that none but the very wealthy can afford its purchase. Of the 391,687 families living on Manhattan island only 16,316 hold to the houses they occupy—If you will bring that little pad and pencil to play again you will learn that 94 out of every 100 families make monthly payments to a landlord. When these families move, as they are constantly doing, it seems only necessary to take the family photographs from the mantel—so completely has their method of life been systematized. As for the landlords, they are mightier in word and tenants than in word of the land—for soforest Astra, whose innest attitude of dwellings house a greater number of people than are contained in a city of the size of Hartford, Conn.; Seattle, Wash.; or Nashville, Tennessee. "The 'Giant City New York," in National Magazine. A Business That Pays. Women are, as a rule, most successful in decorative work, and it is a matter for astonishment that comparatively few have so far gone in for this branch of money making. There are numbers of girls with powers of discrimination who might pick up curiosities and antiques at a reasonable price, though, of course, even in the depths of the country, the supply has been steadily declining for years. Not alone that, but cottage owners of old china and oak have become more wary, and articles of what Mrs. Malaprop称 "bigty and virtue" are not to be bought up for a more costly Still, there is a good field for the woman collector. In furnishing and decorative work feminine ideas are hardly to be surpassed, and many a "house beautiful" owes its beauty to the artistic faculty of a woman.—Woman's Life. To Property Owners If you own a city or town dwelling and barn or contents of same you can insure it against loss by Fire and Lightning at one half the cost of old line insurance in a purely co-operative association' having $25,000,000.00 of insurance in force and 33,000 policy holders all in Iowa. Inquire in your town for the Town Mutual Ins. Ass'n Agent and if you don't find him drop CO. E. Kernal, Scovel, Des Moines, Ia., and receive full particulars. Over 1,600 losses paid since organization. DES MOINES DIRECTORY. SAVE Four Hay. Stuck Coors, and all kinds of camo goods. Send for price list. July 21 and Aug. 4. Why continue working on a high price, mortgaged or rented farm that you can never hope to We will sell you the best land you ever saw, selling at the lowest price of $12.50 to $40.00 per acre. This land produces wheat, 30 bushels to the acre; corn, 40 bushels; Kaffir corn and Mito Malze, 40 bushels; alfalfa, 1% tons to the acre, 2 or 3 cuttings, velling at $15 per ton. Drop a postal for our proposition. literature, maps, etc. A. J. McColl. REALTY CO., 206-306 Commercial Bidg., Des Moines, Iowa. YOUR HAY, GRAIN and MACH. INERY. Buy your stack along machine cover of SEICK TEK & AWNING CO., 202-204 Court Ave. Des Moines, in. Write for prices and estimates before buying. PENSIONS SOLDIERS WIDOWS have to be barred from getting penously owned by the old much property, are now eligible. Property disqualification removed. Write me at once. W. W. FIMK. Fusion Attorney. (Formerly with the late J. & Suckey; 710 in. L. & I Bids. Des Moines, Iowa. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION Denver, Colo. LOW RATES NOW IN EFFECT ROUND TRIP $17.50 From Omaha, Neb., TO DENVER, COLORADO SPRINGS, and PUEBLO VIA UNION PACIFIC SHORT LINE Denver to Yellowstone Park New and Scenic Route, INQUIRIE OF J. W. TURTLE, T. P. A. 313 W. Fifth St., Des Moines, Ia. REFLECTIONS OF BACHELOR GIRL Filtration is like a cocktail with no headache in it, champagne with no "next morning." Some men think that by putting on a silk hat and a white Ascot tie they are disguised as gentlemen. Love is like gambling; you want to be sure that you are a good loser before you go in for the game. One thing I can never understand, and that is how a man can tell the front from the back of his hat, but he always can. I have the idea of honor is so peculiar; he would die rather than steal a friend's money of cheek him at cards, but he will steal his wife or cheat him out of his daughter with perfect empathy. CAPITAL AND LABOR. A private knocker is a public nu- sance. No man who is fit to live likes to live on charity. The discouragement of capital, if a crime, is a crime against labor. The extra hazard of honest enterprise is driving capital to Wall street, and labor to the benches in the park. Labor should be protected—from its fool friends; the socialist should be protected; from anarchists; anarchist from high explosives, and gain.—From Cy Warmun's Speech, Canadian Club, Guelbh. Ont. RULES FOR HAPPY MARRIED LIFE Lead the "simple life." Have no foolish illusions. Try to understand each other and be chums. Let your life be a partnership which equalizes all toys as well as sorrows. Do not look away from yourselves for happiness; it is in you. Seek to please your husband or your wife and make reasonable sacrifices. He or she will then to the same, and true happiness will result.—New York World. WAIFS OF WISDOM. Self-consciousness is the deadly enemy of dignity. The indigent and naked world might be comfortably clothed with the needless trappings of the reckless rich. An empty pumpkin shell in which a child displays a lighted candle diff. Experience should be a searchlight fuses more real light than a vain head, for all men. But, alas! It is usually like the stern lights of a vessel which illumine all the pathway already traversed. Do not burden others with your confidence. There is as much responsibility in imparting your own secrets as there is in keeping those of your neighbor. The reason why you shouldn't say appropriated instead of took is because it gives the smooth gettleman more time to get away in. A man is sadly apt tc devote himself to the girl who is conspicuous for the qualities he tells his sister to strenuously avoid. Is she extravagant? By the way she protests against your spending money on her, and always arranges matters so that you can't help but do it. The politician is a man who baits the hook with one office and mendaciously angles for another.—Nashville American. By San Geronimo a great gun lies useless, too heavy to be mounted on the walls. Some ambitions are like that. IMPRESSED THE LITTLE ONE. Department of Colored Gentleman a Matter of Admiration. Little Elsie, who had recently returned from a visit to, Washington, was describing to her companion some of the wonderful things she had observed in the Capitol City. "One evening," said she, breathlessly, "papa took me to have supper at a grand hotel where the dining room was awfully big, and at the tables around us sat great senators and representatives with their wives, all drinking champagne!" "I suppose the managers of these great persons were perfect!" ventured her companion, with widened eyes. "Yek," returned Elsie. "But," she added, with a sudden burst of enthusiasm, "the deportment of the colored gentlemen who served the wine was perfectly beautiful!" ECZEMA ALL OVER HIM. No Night's Rest for a Year and Limit of His Endurance Seemed Near —Owes Recovery to Cuticura. "My son Clyde was almost completely covered with eczema. Physicians treated him for nearly a year without helping him any. His head, face, and neck were covered with large scabs which he would rub until they fell off. Then blood and matter would run out and that would be worse. Friends coming to see him said that if he got well he would be disfigured for life. When it seemed as if he could pose a problem no longer, I used some Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Treatment, and Cuticura Resolvent. That was the first night for nearly a year that he slept. In the morning there was a great change for the better. About six weeks he was perfectly well. Our leading physician recommends Cuticura for eczema. Mrs. Algy Cockburn, Shiloh, O, June 11, 1907." Bedmaking. Peddler—Where's your mother, lit the boy? Boy—Upstairs making beds. Peddler—Where's your father? Boy—Out in the garden making beds. Peddler—Is your uncle in? Boy—He's out in the barn bedding the cattle. Peddler—What are you doing? Boy—Well, if you believe what pa and ma say, I'm raising bedlam. And the agent gave it up as a bad job—Detroit Free Press. As Amended. Time—A year after they had faced the person together. “When we were first married you said you thought heaven had sent you to me,” remarked his wife. “Do you still think so?” “Yes—as a punishment,” answered the brutal other half of the combine. People Talk About Good Things. Twelve years ago few people knew of such a preparation as a Powder for the Feet. To day after the genuine merits of Allen's Foot-Ease have been told year after year by grateful persons, it is indispensable to millions. It is cleanly, wholesome, healing and antiseptic and gives rest and comfort to tired aching feet. It cures while you walk. Over 30,000 testimonials. Imitations pay the dealer a larger profit otherwise you would never be offered a substitute for Allen's Foot-Ease, the original foot powder. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, and see that you get it. Lotteries Pay Big Dividends. 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The fat-making foods are called by the dietitian hydrocarbons. This class of foods are not digested in the stomach at all. They are digested in the duodenum, the division of the alimentary canal just below the stomach. The digestion of fat is mainly, if not wholly, the work of the pancreatic juice. This juice is of alkaline reaction, and is rendered inert by the addition of acid. A hyperacidity of the digestive fluids of the stomach passing down into the duodenum, destroys emulsified fluid for digestion poses. Therefore, the fats are not digested or emulsified, and the system is deprived of its due proportion of oily constituents. Hence, the patient grows thin. The beginning of the trouble is a catarrhal condition of the stomach which causes hyperacidity of the gastric juices. This hyperacidity is caused by fermentation of food in the stomach. When the food is taken into the stomach, if the process of digestion does not begin immediately, acid fermentation will take place. This creates a which in their turn prevent the pancreatic digestion of the oils, and the erosion results. A dose of Peruna before each meal hastens the stomach digestion. By hurrying digestion, Peruna prevents fermentation of the contents of the stomach, and the pancreatic juice is thus preserved in its normal state. It then only remains for the patient to eat a sufficient amount of fat-forming foods, and the thinness disappeare and plumpness takes its place. GROVER CLEVELAND IS DEAD Ex-President Passes Away at His Princeton Home. Mayor of Buffalo in 1881, He Was Triumphantly Elected Governor of New York in 1882, and Elevated to the Presidency in 1884 Last of the Ex-Presidents. THE EX-PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND Princeton, N. J.—Grover Cleveland died suddenly Wednesday at his home here. While it was known that Mr. Cleveland had for the past three months been suffering from a severe attack of rheumatic gout and acute indigestion, his death came as a complete surprise. He had been a sufferer from gout and diabetes for more than two years. Early in 1906 he was stricken with an attack of indigestion, the result of diarrhea and for weeks was unable to partake of any except liquid nourishment. A solour in the south improved his health considerably. Suffera Second Attack. Mr. Cleveland returned to Princeton and resumed his duties as trustee of the Equitable Life Company. Early last year he had a repetition of the attack of indigestion and for some weeks his condition was such that his life was despaired. Mr. Cleveland made a splendid fight for life and won. In February last diabetes began to make itself felt again, so Mr. Cleveland became subject to spells again with inability to assimilate food. Death finally came at 8:40 a. m. Wednesday. Causes of His Death. The following statement, signed by Dr. Joseph B. Bryant, Dr. George R. Lockwood and Dr. J. M. Canochan, was given out: "I was given for many years has suffered from repeated attacks of gastrointestinal origin. Also he had a EX-PRESIDENT GRO long-standing organic disease of the heart and kidneys and heart failure complicated with pulmonary thrombosis or failure to receive the immediate causes of his death." LIFE OF CLEVELAND A BUSY ONE Born in Caldwell, N. J., and a Des- cendant of English Stock Grover Cleveland, the twenty-second and twenty-fourth president of the United States, was born March 18, 1837, in Caldwell, N. J. His family came from England and settled in Massachusetts in the early part of the seventeenth century. His father was a physician and had been ordained as a minister and married the daughter of a Baltimore merchant, who had come from Ireland. In 1841 the Cleveland family removed to Fayetteville, Ohio, where he was born his first schooling, and where later an easy age he served as a clerk in a small country store. Still later, when his parents settled in Clinton, N. Y., he pursued his studies further, and when only 17 he was appointed assistant teacher in the New York institution for the blind. In 1855 Cleveland assisted his uncle, Lewis F. Allen, in the compilation of the "American Herd Book", and during the same period he served a clerkship with the law firm of Rogers, Bowen & Rogers, and when he was 18 Cleveland began to read law. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1859. He continued with the sane firm, where he acted as chief clerk until 1862. Mr. Cleveland received his first public office when appointed assistant dis Dark Chapter: During the witchcraft craze in Selem, Mass., from the time the mania broke out, in 1692, to its close 20 persons were executed and 55 suffered torture in a more or less violent form. — N. Y. American. Aquamania The physician who declares that many people get drunk on water probably knows better. The water gets drunk. It would be impossible to get full on water, but that is different. trinity attorney of Erie county. At that time he was supporting his mother and sister and when he was drafted to serve in the army he was forced to borrow sufficient funds to send a substitute. In 1865 he was defeated for the position of district attorney of his county and entered into partnership with Jesse V. Vanderpool. In 1869 he joined Lanning, Lanning, Cleveland and Eolsom. Nominated for Mayor of Buffalo. In 1881 he was nominated as the Democratic candidate for mayor of Buffalo and was elected by the largest majority ever given in that city, although the Republican state ticket was carried. While serving as mayor of Buffalo he became known as the "veto mayor," for his fearless exercise of that right in checking the extravagance and the illegal expenditure of public moneys. In 1882 Mr. Cleveland ran for governor of New York against Charles J. Folger, then United States secretary of the treasury, and won by a plurality of nearly 200,000. His administration was notable for the simple and unostentatious way in which he conducted the business of the state. At the Democratic national convention held in Chicago in July, 1884, Cleveland was nominated by his party as its candidate for the presidency of the United States and was chosen by November was chosen to that office. In the electoral college his plurality over his opponent, Mr. Blaine, was 37 votes. Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated March 4, 1885, and OVER CLEVELAND the oath of office was administered to the chief Justice Watee. White president he exercised the veto power beyond all precedent and out of 987 bills he refused to affix his signature to 115. Private Pension Bills Vetod. Most of these were private pension bills. It was during his first term that Cleveland married in the White House Miss Frances Folsom, June 2, 1886. She was a daughter of his former law partner. In 1888 he was a candidate for a second term, but was defeated in the election of that year by Benjamin Harrison. After his retirement from public office, he bequeathed a law office, where he opened a law office. He had a large practice and was frequently in Washington arguing important cases before the United States supreme court. At the national Democratic convention held in Chicago in June, 1892, he was for the third time named as his party's candidate for the presidency and in the following November was elected. During the great railroad strike in Chicago in 1894 he ordered out the United States troops to prevent the obstruction of the malls, although Gov. Algezd, who had not asked for soldiers, protested against the action. After his retirement from public office Cleveland lived with his wife, and he delivered two lectures annually to the students of the Princeton university. On February 1, 1907, he was made chairman of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents at a salary of $25,000 a year. He also acted as chief counsel for the association. Thoughts of a Spinster Self-control is what enables a man to be pleasant all day at the office and then go home at night and grumble and growl at his wife and family and the cooking and the way everything is run there. Imagination's Prick. The thing that makes, the trouble is not so much what actually happens, but what we fear may happen, and it is fear and imagination that cause panics.—Charles Austin Bates. SHERMAN MAKES PROGRESS DOCTORS ADVISE OPERATION WHEN HE IS WELL ENOUGH. Vice-Presidential Candidate May Leave Hospital Sunday—Wife is in Better Spirits. Cleveland, O.—Congressman James S. Sherman of Ufton, N. Y., Republican vice-presidential candidate, who was taken ill here last Sunday with a passage of gall stones, rested most comfortably Wednesday. Drs. Edward P. Carter and Dudley P. Allen and C.W. Stine much pleased with the progress he made and are of the opinion that the necessity for an immediate operation has been passed. However, they advised Mr. Sherman to have the trouble removed as soon as he shall gain his normal health. Mr. Sherman's condition was best indicated by the reading of his temperate, which showed a general lowering of 21 degrees since Tuesday night. The physicians considered this a hopeful sign. Mrs. Sherman was in better spirits. She has almost recovered from her exhaustion following the long trip here on a hot day. It is not expected Mr. Sherman will be able to leave the hospital before next Sunday. He attended to his correspondence Wednesday and during the afternoon sent a telegram of condolences to the group he grew up with. "While Mr. Sherman's condition is hourly growing better and there is every reason to anticipate his speedy recovery, yet his illness is of such a nature that there may be a critical turn at any time," Dr. Carter, the attending physician, said. "I do not anticipate a sudden change. The patient is under constant watch. "At a conference with Mr. Sherman, Dr. Allen, Dr. Stone and myself could see no necessity for an immediate operation, but we did advise that an operation be carried out. While his condition does not warrant this immediate step, yet I cannot predict what the morrow may bring forth." PAPER COMPANIES ARE FINED. Sentenced to Pay $24,000 for Being in Illegal Combine. New York.—Twenty-four companies manufacturing manila wrapping paper were fined $1,000 each by Judge Hough in the United States circuit court Monday. They pleaded guilty, to maintaining an illegal combination in restraint of trade. They were members of the Manila and Pigeon associations and the Judge Hough pleaded that the combination of paper manufacturers was a clear violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, but because of extenuation circumstances he would impose a fine only. The companies have arranged to pay their fines through their counsel. The case against the companies was instituted through the instrumentality of the American Publishers' association, for which John Norris of this city acted as agent. The companies composed almost the entire membership of the comine of wrapping paper manufacturers which was organized by John H. Parks in 1906. PRESIDENT AT OYSTER BAY. Roosevelt Family Open Up Their Summer Home. Oyster Bay, L. I. — The president and his family reached here Saturday evening, after an uneventful trip from Washington. The members of the president's family with him were Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Ebel and Master Quentin Roosevelt. Miss Roosevelt took with her her brindle bulldog, which she held by a stout leather string. The president shook hands with all those left behind at the White House, from Assistant Secretary Latta to the domestics in the basement. Most of the executive office personnel went to Oyster Bay, including Secretary Loeb, Assistant Secretary Forster, confidential clerks and stenographees. The White House will be refurbished and much painting and other overhauling done in the absence of the presidential family. NINE NEGROES ARE LYNCHED. Mob's Work in Texas May Precipitate a Race War. Houston, Tex. — Sunday night nine negroes met death at the hands of a mob in the vicinity of Hemphill in Sabine county. Monday both races secured arms and the tension is such that a race clash appears imminent. The lynchings followed the killing of two white men by black men. Five of the negroes were hanged to a tree, and another who attempted to escape was shot to death. Later in the night another negro was shot and killed, and in the morning the bodies of two more were found in the creek bottom. Emperor William at Kiel Kiel.-Emperor William, on board the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, steamed into Kiel bay Wednesday to be present at the yacht races. The Hohenzollern made her way between 14 battleships and 12 cruisers. Young Roosevelt Gets Degree Cambridge, Mass.—Theodore Rosevelt, Jr., son of President Rosevelt, was given his bachelor's degree Wednesday by Harvard university, after three years of study, having taken three courses. Women Stone Meat Stores. New York.—Slx hundred women held a mass meeting in Brooklyn, and declared their intention to fight against the increased prices of meat and fowl. They also paraded, and several meat stores were stoned. Joe Jefferson's Son Dies. New York.—After an illness of several weeks, Charles B. 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FARM FOR SALE 250 acre rich corn land, wilted, modern impoverished. K. facilities, 4 hours to Chicago, 100 per acre. C. beltland & Loan Co. Des Moines, IA. WIDOWS' Tundra NEW LAW obtained PENSIONS by JOHN W. MORRIS, Washington, D. G. W. N. U., DES MOINES, No. 26, 1988. CHICAGO AS SEEN BY THE EDITOR. The great White City upon the lakes sometimes jockingly called the village by the pond is inhabited the Western hub of the American Republic for here all roads end and many begin, here where cosmopolitan great cosmopolitan world making sentiment and creating civilization, here where one can see all nationalities, all races, all creeds and tastes of the world. This being the National Republican Convention week Chicago was well prepared to receive and entertain the Republican hosts, and even the Colored people were prepared to receive and entertain the Colored Republican contingent. First I will tell you about the colored man and the convention. To a person who never attended one of these great National Conventions it is the most interesting sight you ever saw to one who has never before attended, this is the largest best dressed and most enthusiastic of any similar meeting, here you met the rich and poor, the black and white, the Indian and Alaskan, the Port Rican and Haiwain, the Texas Ranger and the Cow-boy the far off Philippino and even women delegates here gathered in this great city. Nearly 2000 of these delegates and alternates and fully 5000 of the leading active Republican workers, then to see the different marching clubs, of the many I think the James G. Blaine marching club of 660 men from Chicago, with tall white silk hats long linen coats and case in hand no man seemed less than six feet in height was the greatest of the marching clubs. Nearly every state had headquarters, Iowa seemed to me to have perhaps the best location and nicest rooms and was second to the Illinois and Ohio headquarters, most of these headquarters were at the Auditorium and its annex. In these headquarters were hung on the walls the great men of the states with flags, bunting etc. and the states that had their favorite sons as a candidate for President or Vice President was buy introducing these delegates to their claims of course none of these candidates are here. At the Collumis on 15th and Michigan avenue is another great sight. If this mammoth building they say they can seat 12000 people. I am not prepared to dispute it for to me it looked like thousands upon thousands of humanity packed like sardines into that great building, the decoration was superb, the music very inspiring. Indeed one might consider him or her fortunate to secure a ticket to get in at all as the season tickets sold as high as $100 apiece. There were also many Taft meetings held and all of these meetings were largely attended, at one of the Taft meetings one some one cut the electric wire of Quinn Chapel and the crowd was in darkness for two hours. This incident can better show the feeling between the two factions. Well what about the social and business life of our people in Chicago there are many in business, on some streets they seem to have as many business concerns as the white man, they have groceries meat markets drug stores, laundries, restaurants, barber shops, undertakers, real estate dealers, livety barns, blacksmith shops, millinery, notion store, dry goods, gents furnishings pastitorium etc, and many are doing well. In the social whirl, I could learn of but few, Quinn Chapel held a grand reception complimentary to the visitors, 300 plates were laid. Bethel A. M. E. church also held a reception where more than 200 plate were laid. The Phyllis Wheatley Home, under the management of the Women's Club is a home recently opened for young girls held an informal Wednesday afternoon and our editor with many other editors was invited. Mrs. Frank Hughes, so well known in our city gave a six o'clock dinner complimentary to Mrs. W. moulson, Logan John, L. Thompson and Elbert Hall of Des Moines and Miss Sylvia Johnson, South Carolina. There were many parties given to Pinchback, Vernon, Lewis, Anderson, Knox and others. The Iowa visitors to the convention were Geo. W. Woodson, of Oskaloas; Rev. Venerable, of Keokuk; Rev. A. L. DeMond, Dr. W. S. Taylor, Dr. Robinson of Buxton; Jeff Logan was sergeant at arms; J. C. Williams and Will Tomlin wasilen to the Iowa delegation, John L. Thompson and Mrs. Wm. Coalson of Des Moines. The climax of receptions given by the 8th regiment at the large armory which would seat 5000 people, they had a full dress military drill ended with a grand march then the social supper and promenade, the many beautiful dresses was the talk of the evening. See full report elsewhere. But what about the Colored visitors and delegates, there were colored people from nearly every state in the Union, most of the Southern states had large delegations and they are divided than ever before, many were at sea to know where to go, what to do or say, but when our great men and real leaders arrived and begun to exert their influence, sentiment began to change for Taft, there were anti-Taft meetings held both day and night, and there were irresponsible fire eater speeches were made by a gang of men who had been hired to come down to Chicago to help poison the minds against the Taft movement then there was another class of speakers who were perhaps honest with their ideas but are simply unfamiliar with all of the facts, hence they have hastily formed an opinion, but there was another age class of sober minded, level headed and conservative class of reasonable thinking men and women especially those who stand for something at their home, who have made a success in their own life who are doers and not whiners, such men as Hon. Charles Anderson of New York; J. C. Dancy, and W. H. Grum of South Carolina; Hon. T. S. Vernon of Kansas; Hon. George Lewis, of Massachusetts; Ralph Teyler and Mr. Myersa of Ohio; P. B. S. Pluchback of Washington, D. C.; Emmett Scott, of Alabama; Fred E. L. Knox, of New York; George L. Knox, of Indiana Hon. E. H. Wright* Hon. E. H. Morris, Adelbert Roberts, S. Laiing Williams, M. A. Majors, Chas. Anderson, Dr. D. P. Roberts and Rev. Thimothy Reaves of Illinois; Nelson Crews, J. H. Pelham of Islami Montgomery, and Mr. Banks of Mississippi; Hon. Judge Gibbs of Arkansas and a host of others were present that I could name. Badly Sprained Ankle Three years ago our daughter sprained her ankle and had been suffering terribly for two days and nights—had not sleep a minute. Mr. Stallings, of Butler, Tenn., told us of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. We went to the store that night and got a bottle of it and bathed her ankle or three times and she went to sleep and had a good night's rest. The next morning she was much better and in a short time could walk around and had no more trouble with ankle.—E. M. Brumitt, Hampton, Tenn. 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by all drugstores. Commencement at Lincoln Institute. LARGE CLASS GRADUATED. Distribution of Medals—Sec- State of Hon. John E. Swanger Makes Brili- liant Address. Lincoln Institute is far famed for the excellence of its commencement program, and never before in the history of the institution has there been one to equal or surpass that of the year ending June 12, 1908. Beginning with the exercises of the junior class which consisted of scenes from a classic play adopts from Virgil. The program of each succeeding day and night found the fitting climax in the exercises of commencement day. Dr. A. J. Carey, of Chicago, delivered a very able Baccalaureate sermon, from the theme "Abundant Life." Dr. Arlington Wilson, of Kansas City sermon to the religious bodies of the institution. Dr. E. J. Barksdale, of St. Louis, the address before the literary societies, D. Matthew Rickets, of St. Joseph, address to the sophomore graduating class. Each one of the gentlemen brought a message of hope and inspiration. The exercises of the sophmore class and the senior class night were highly appreciated by large audiences of representative white and colored citizens. Secretary of the State Hom. John E. Swanger, of the great commonwealth of Missouri delivered the annual address to the graduates, diplomas to thirty-nine young men and women from the full normal course; fifty-six from the half course; certificates to twenty-three from the department of domestic art; thirty domestic science and ten agriculture. Scholarship medals were awarded as follows: the Swinger gold medal for the young woman making the highest average in the senior year, Miss Nelle Silene Pollard, Mobley, Mo; this medal has been for several years and is the generous and unsolicited gift of the noble hearted secretary of the State, Hon. John E. Swanger. The Allen scholarship gold medal, the gift of Dr. Allen to the member of the sophomore class making the highest average for the year, was awarded Miss Sadie Henderson, of Marshall, Mo; the Smith-Emery medal, to the members of the class in domestic art, making the best average to Miss Elinor Braxton, of Kansas City. The donors of the last mentioned medal are Messrs E S. Emery and Richard Smith two members of the Board of Regents, especially interested in the department of industries. Said Secretary Swanger during the course of his address, "for the second time I have been signally honored by being invited to deliver these diplomas to graduate of the students of Lincoln Institute. I congratulate the young men and women the victory through toil and self-denial. As a citizen of Missouri I am proud you, and am also proud and thank the president and faculty for their fidelity to your interests, I thank the members of the board for the conservatism and business sense with which they have managed this institution. As citizens of this state, we cannot be indifferent to its welfare. Only upon the intelligence of its citizens can we rear a great commonwealth of Missouri. The state now expects you to do your duty. What is it? Devotion to duty. It asks of you the highest type of citizenship." Dr. Allen presided at each exercise, and introduced the speakers in happy and interesting remarks. In closing the exercises commencement day he cordially thanked the board of relegs, members of the faculty and teachers, patrons and students for their unwerving loyalty to the institution, and urged the students to become missionaries in bringing other young people of merit to partake of the blessings so freely given in Lincoln Institute. Born in Iowa. Our family were all born and raised in Iowa, and have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoe Remedy (made at Des Moines) for years. We know how good it is from long experience in the use of it. In fact, when in El Paso, Texas, the writer's life was saved by the prompt use of this remedy. We are now engaged in the mercantile business at Narcoscoe, Fla, and have introduced the remedy here. It has proven very successful and is constantly growing in favor. Ennis Bros This remedy is for sale by all druggists. ALBIA NOTES. Rev. J. H. Bell of the A. M. E. church left Monday afternoon for Buxton to attend the District Conference. Mrs. J. H. Bell, Misses May Davis, Hattie Grayson, Linda Doria Bell, Madam Gathars and Wright were in attendance at the S. Convention and Normal Institute exercises. All enjoyed their visit and felt they were highly entertained by the Buxton people. The republican convention brought a number of Buxton people to town Saturday, also from other surrounding towns. Mr. Ben Gathers is visiting in Buxton this week. Misses Candy and Wilson passed through Albia enroute to Minnesota Friday evening. Mr. Will Esterand A. Adams worked at Hiteam the past week. Messrs Will Grayson, Art Ester, Will Ester and Walter Bennings are plastering in Buxton this week. Mr. Ed Butler and Prof. Hicks of Buxton were in Albia at the republican convention Saturday. Mr. Andy Jeffers was in Albia on business Saturday. Mrs Ray of Albia is visiting her brothers in Buxton this week. Sunday July 12th will be quartly meeting of the A. M. E. church in Albia. MOLINE (ILL.) GREETINGS The Sub. District Sunday School Convention was held at the St. Paul's church last Thursday afternoon and evening. A very interesting session was conducted by the Sub. District superintendent, Mrs. Georgia Scott. C. M. B. Walkup royally entertained a number of friends in honor of Miss Zadie Saunders who latter made her departure for her home in Kansas. Miss Saunders was recipient of many beautiful and useful presents. The evening was spent in playing games and at a late hour a very delicious luncheon was served. Rev. Birt from Clinton, Iowa, Presiding Elder Phillips and Mr. William Greenway from Muscatine, Iowa attended the Sub District Sunday School Convention last week. Madames Ella Tarner and Ella Walkup returned to their homes after attending the Grand Session of the Heroines of Jericho, which was held at Keokuk. Messrs. L. B. Tarver, S. B. Walkup, P. Ellingsworth and Rev. T. W. Lewis spent Friday at Green River fishing, they returned with many fish and report a delightful time. Mr. George W. Watts of Davenport was a caller Sunday. The Children's Day exercises were carried out in full at St. Paul's Church Sunday. Mr. Landon Wilson made a flying trip to Des Moines Iowa, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Tarver entertained Mr. and Mrs. H. Hardin and son at dinner last Sunday. Princess Hatipla Chapter held their annual Thanksgiving services at the St. Paul's Church Sunday. WANTED.--Every colored lady and gentleman to write us for large samples of STRA-KO HAIR TONIC, the best of the best, only on pressing, and CREOE FACE CREAM made especially for our race. Send ten two cent stamps to cover packing and posing. The untamed gentleman to wear the BURTON TOUCH GOODS Co., St. Joseph, Michigan. LINTON HAPPENINGS Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Culberson mourn the loss of their infant son who died early Wednesday morning of last week. The funeral took place Thursday morning at ten o'clock. Rev L J. Phillips spent a few days in Clinton recently, taking a much needed rest from his duties as presiding elder. The Sunday school of Bethel A. M. E. church gave a most enjoyable social last Wednesday evening, the proceeds to be devoted to the defray-fraying of the expenses of the delegates to the annual convention in Cedar Rapids. A large number of our subscribers have failed to pay up their subscription. We expect to hear most any day of the comidg of our collector on his annual tour, but make it a point to see it at once. Roger Green of Chicago is the guest of his aunt Mrs. A. A. Bush and family. The concert given under the auspices of the choir of Bethel A. M. E church and direction of Messrs A. A. Push and T. G. Dozier for the benefit of the pastor Wednesday evening June 19th., was a success. A good sum was realized. The participants deserve a great deal of praise for the efficient manner in which they assisted in the program rendered. Miss Eutella Bush goes to Moline this week where she will assist in a concert Saturday evening Miss S. L. Birt and T. G. Dolzer are in Cedar Rapids this week attending the district conference and Sunday school convention. Rev. S. L. Birt visited in the trilo cities recently. Mrs. M. Culberson has been entertaining her mother. WANTED—Colored ladies everywhere to sell our toilet articles manufactured especially for the race, the Splendid opportunity to make money. Most literal terms. full-size packages FO to agents who will use the preparation on their own hair and face FREE customers and customers. Devote part or all of your time. Write for particulars. Secure exclusive territory. Have a pleasant and profitable business of your own. Men-Goods Co., Century Blk., St. Joseph, Michigan. Chicago Items. The Phillis Wheaty Home a new organization recently opened at 3530 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill., offers a golden opportunity for the young girls and women of our race to have a good home and moral influences. It seeks to do for our young girls what the Y. W. C. A., is doing for the white girls, Mrs. Elizabeth Davis the national organizer at one time of the Woman's Club of America is the founder and president of this home. She with Mrs. Fisher have labored hard to make this home go, the people of Chicago should be proud of this home and show their appreciation by extending their support and money. Success to the home. Mr. and Mrs. Week, formerly of our city are doing well in Chicago. Mr. Joseph Jones, Des Moines, is in the "Windy City" doing well, he is still in the barber shop. Stomach Troubles. Many remarkable cures of stomach troubles have been effected by Cham- berlain's Stomach and Liver Tables. 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"What's all the row about?" the hungry man quired to the manager of the city restaurant to rush excitedly to the cashier's desk and obtain the filing individual. The waiter explained. For a month the numbered checks had been missing, and it had been discovered that certain patrons were economizing at the expense of the management. A man would order 15 cents' worth and receive a check for the amount. Then he would secrete the check when the waiter wasn't looking and order a quarter's worth of eatables. The man would then give a check for 40 cents, but when it came round to pay the customer he used the 15-cent ticket to the door. "H'm," muttered the hungry man; "fne scheme," and in the excitement he passed a Canadian dime on the cashier. Sore Nipples. Any mother who has had experience with this distressing aliment will be pleased to know that a cuse may be affected by applying Chamberlain's Salve as soon as the child is done nursing. 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MUNN & Co. 36 Broadway, New York --- FALCON FLOUR Makes bread light and flaky. After one trial you will use no other flour. Shannon & Mott, Millers Des Moines, Iowa. Iowa State Bystander BY STANDER JUNE 09 DES MOINES, IOWA FRIDAY, JUNE 19. Official paper of the M. W. U. Grand Lodge of Iowa, A. F. A. M. A., Iowa State Federation of Colored Women and International Grand Congress of Heroines of Jerocho of America. Published every Friday by the STANDER DES PUBLISHING Co., the Moines, Ia. Ia. phone 899. Office over 201 Seventh street. J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER. Entered at the Post Office as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year ..... $1.50 Six months ..... 75 Three months ..... 50 All subscription payable in advance Send money by postoffice order, money order, express or draft, to the lowa State Bystander Publishing Company. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the public. 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Mrs Mable Tariner Galesburg, Ill.Mayne Richardson Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. H. Wade Alba Blaia Mrs. D. Davis Rapids, Mrs. Adaldele Perkins Pt. Madison Anna Harper Oskaloosa Leula B Franklin 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 N. B. to correspondents. Please visit our publication for publication not later than Wednesday morning to insure publication for the current week. THE CHURCHES Corinthian Baptist Church—corner of Fifteenth and Linden streets Preaching: from 10:30 to 18:30 Sunday School; at 12 o'clock Preaching: 7:39 to 9 p.m. Rev. T. L. Griffith, Pastor. St. Paul A. M. E.—Corner of Second and Center Streets. Preaching at 10:30 a. m.; Sunday School at 3 o'clock, S. Joe Brown Superintendent, Espowrinf Leaders Association for Teaching at 8 p.m. W. S. Brooks pastor. First African Baptist Churcom.—Source: School and Fourth streets. Rev. F. Durden pastor Preaching 10:30 a. m.; Sunday school 3:30 p.m. Mrs. J. T. Griffin Superintendent Young People's Meeting 7 p.m., preaching 8:00 p.m. Barn's Chopker M. F.—Church-Corner of 11th and Crocker St.—Church services, preaching at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.; Class and prayer meeting 12 m. Sunday; Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; Espworth League 7 p.m. Sunday; Prayer and Class meeting every Wednesday 8 p.m. J. M. Harris. Pastor 846 11th St. Maple Street Baptist Church—Situated on E. M. M. Preeaching 11 a.m. and Fourth streets. Preaching 11 a.m.: Sunday School 9:00 a.m. Henry Davis Superintendent, Miss Myrtle Hubbard, secretary. Rev. Samuel Bates, pastor Union Congregational Church—Corner Tent and Park streets. Preaching 10:45 a. m. Sunday School 12 m. m. and 7:32 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evenings. H. W. Porter. pastor SECRET ORDERS M. Marka Tabbernacle, No. 56- Meets the first Wednesday at 2:30, and the third Wednesday at 4:30, in Od Fellows' hall, Sixth and Walnut St. and Burtie Carley C. P. 19s. Della Bryan C. R. A. F. & A. M. GRAND LODGE OFFICERS. W. H. Milligan, M. W. Grand Master, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Rural Route H. E. Jacobs, R. W. S. Grand Warden, Des Moines. H. E. Williams, R. W. J. Grand Warden, Ottumwa. H. K. Hilton, R. W. Grand Treasurer, Omaha, Neb. H. T. 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, Do Moines, Iowa. --- Mrs. Margaret Griffen of Omaha, Neb., attended the Grand Court while in the city. She was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Fields. 323 N. 13th, street. Mrs. Alice Newton and sister Miss Ida Palmer of Burlington, were in attendance at the Grand Court, they were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Graham. Mrs. Beatrice Johnson of Burlington attended the Grand Court, she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fielden John son. Mrs. Ella Walkup, G. M. A. M., of the state of Iowa and Jurisdiction, and Mrs. Ella Tarner of Moline, III., were in attendance at the Grand Court they were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson 1111 Fulton street Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jones of 1123 Concert street, delightfully entertained at a 12 o'clock lunchon Friday June 13th in honor of their friends who were in the city. Miss Irene Bryant left Tuesday morning for Quincy, Ill., to visit her grand parents, Rev. and Mrs. T. L. Smith. Miss Gladys Brummell left Monday after noon for Indianapolis, Ind., to visit her father Mr. Robert Brummel. Miss Carrie Goens whose illness was reported in this paper is improving. Mrs. Lena Bailey of Indianapolis, Ind., is in the city because of the illness of her sister Miss Carrie Goena. Miss Mamie Charleston, of Preston Mo., is visiting in the city the guest of Mrs. O. Filda, 1125 Fulton street. The body of Honey Hackey a brother-in-law of James Scott, 1206 Orleans street arrived in the city last Tuesday after noon. Mr Hackey died at his home in Evans, In., at 7:30 Sun. day evening of yellow jaundice. He leaves a wife, and two children. The funeral was held at the Seventh street Baptist church Wednesday afternoon, Rev Venerable officiated. A very delightful reception was tendered Miss Della Bland at her home Monday June 7th. in honor of her graduating from the Keokuk High school, the home was handsomely decorated in class colors and a very dainty luncheon was served. Miss Della was the recipient of many beautiful tokens of the esteem in which she is held. When You Buy a Piano From Me Remember This: YOM PAY ME FOR TONE. I throw the case and varnish in. It's quality that I pay for when I buy pianos, and it's quality that I sell when I sell pianos. FOR TRUE PIANO VALUE COME AND SEE ME W. H. LEHMAN, Est. 40 Years. 905 Walnut St. THE WORLD'S GREATEST SEWING MACHINE LIGHT RUNNING NEWHOME Many sewing machines are made to sell regardless of quality, but the New House is made to wear. 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