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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XV, No. 5. CITY NEWS. Hurrah For the Glorious 4th. Let "Old Glory Wave." City Fire Department Phone., 201. Papa bought the fire-works, mamma called the doctor. Somebody said this was to be a sane 4th., how 'bout it? A wise parent has long since prepared the bandages. Mrs. Geo. H. Cleggett is quite ill with appendicitis at her home on 12th street. Mr. McGruder of Denver, Colo., was in the city Sunday, the guest of Prof. and Mrs. Geo. I. Holt. Miss Marie Bell entertained her Sunday School class (the infant class) last week at a picnic at Good's park. A very joly time for the little ones. Mr. Earnest Erickson of St. Paul arrived in the city Tuesday morning to visit his parents, Mr and Mrs. J. R. Erickson, for a few weeks. When in Albia, Iowa, call at Z. M. Hindsman Lunch Room for good tea cream and luches, fruit, tobacco and cigars; also ladies rest room. Two doors shut of C. B. & Q. depot on A. street, No. 217. WANTED - First class barber, will pay good wages. H. K. Moore, 109 I Ave., Iowa City, Ia. Mr. John Warner who has been visiting his old home in Keokuk and friends in Peoria, Ill., the past six months, returned to the city last week. Mr. Marcus L. Clay and Miss Maggie Robinson of Kansas City, Mo., visited in Des Moines last Sunday. Mr. Clay is a nephew of Mrs. Denny, and attended school at Dixon, Ill at the time Mr. Elbert Hall was in school there. The Intellectual Improvement club met last Friday and installed the newly elected officers. The club meets today with Miss Leifer at the residence of Mrs. Jas. H. Woods, discussion, "Woman a Failure." We have just received a bill announcing the program of the annual meeting of the Iowa Masonic Grand Lodge, to be held at Buxton, July 13 to 16 inclusive. Each day will be full of interest and the Buxton lodge is sparing no pains to make all masons and visitors welcome. Let us go. Services at Corinthian Baptist church Sunday July 5: 10:30 a. m. preaching by pastor: 4 p. m., Sermon to the Missionary Society by Rev. E. M. Griffin, pastor Forest Avenue Baptist church; 6:30 p. m., The King's Men; 8 p., sermon by pastor. T. L. Griffith, pastor. Mr. Gus Watkins, our blacksmith, made a visit to South Dakota, on business. He is much impressed with that country. He says that the Des Moines people that he met are doing well, especially Wm. Smith and the Blairs; there is also a family named McGruder from Missouri who are farming on a large scale. The Alpha club met on last Friday evening with Mr. G. Seymour Logan at his office in the Court House. All the members were present for the first time in almost a year, and a pleasant time and an interesting meeting was the result. The next regular meeting will be on Friday evening July 10. The Afro-American Council will hold its seventh annual meeting in Des Moines July 4. A very interesting all day program has been arranged and many visitors from out of the city will be present to take part. The morning and afternoon sessions will be held at Burns' M. E. church, Twelfth and Crocker streets, and the evening session at St. Paul's A. M. E. church. THE SPRING HUB MANUFACTURING CO East Fifth and Grand Avnue. 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. Miss Francis Parker, of Albia, is in the city visiting Mrs. Mason and other friends. The Mite Missionary society of St. Paul church had a lawn social at the personage on 9th., street, Monday evening which was indeed a delightful affair and splendidly attended. There was a musical program some of the home talent participating, and the Jubilee singers rendered a selection. Supper was served in the dining room and light refreshments were served on the lawn. A neat sum was realized. The Rev. J. D. Pettigrew, of Seattle, Washington, arrived in the city this morning and will lecture at the Union Congregational church this evening. Rev. Pettigrew is a race man, and is traveling in the interest of the race, he believes that the co-operation and union of the race is the only solution of the difficult problems which confront us as a race. Hear him and learn of his views DES MOINES NEGRO LYCEUM. The Des Moines Negro Lyceum met on Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Estella Wilburn on E. Lyon street. A large number of the members were present and the following interesting program was rendered: William Cullen Bryant, biography, Mr. Wm. Warriek; Henry Wardsworth Longfellow, biography, Mrs. Wm. Shackleford, owing to her absence her paper was read by Miss Florence Gaiter; words of Bryant, Miss Pearl Hammitt; Longfellow, Mr. H. Hammitt; Mr. Elbert Hall gave an interesting account of his recent trip to Chicago. The Lyceum voted to send a congratulatory letter to Miss Marie C. Bolden, the young lady who recently won first honors in the national spell-contest at Cleveland, Ohio. Encouraging words were received from Attorney S. Joe Brown, and Mr. H. W. Hughes from points where Negroes are making progress. Dr. J. H. Williams, recently admitted as a new member was present and addressed the club. The Lyceum adjourned to meet with the Missess Alexander at their home in Highland Park next Tuesday evening July 9th. Mr. Lewis Strrother was admitted to membership in the club. BOONE BROWNIES Of all the colored ball teams in Iowa Boone claims to have the best team, and are willing to play any team in the state. The manager, Mr. George Taylor, a former Des Moines boy, was in the city Monday to arrange a match game with Gould's Inviincibles. On last Sunday the Boone Brownies played the Ogden white team and beat them by a score of 5 to 1. Batteries for Boone, Coleman and Cary. Baptist Convention. The Western Baptist Convention will meet in St. Louis, Mo., July 13 to 20. The Woman's Auxiliary will meet on Monday, the Convention proper will meet on Tuesday. Baptists of St. Louis are making great preparations for the event. The sessions will be held at the Fifth Baptist church. with special evening services at Tabernacle, Central and other churches. Baptists churches should send messenegrs to this body. A splendid program is prepared. T. L. Griffith, Presiden,t Des Moines, Iowa. G. C. Mason, Cor. Sec., Alton, Ill. 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: 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. Trillows Greenhouse (Successors to Lambert) Nineteenth and Woodland Sts. OUT FLOWERS, FUNERAL AND MEMORIALS AND ANTI- KWAKI PRESS 281 Ursula 4414 FOURTH OF JULY. Of all the holidays old 4th of July comes nearer meeting a universal acclaim than any other. It is our Natal Day, a day of love and patriatism and in the course of human events we should renew our love faith and confidence in this American Republic, the floating flag, the unfurled banner, the music of the drum and fife, the song of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" should quicken our blood and make our hearts beat faster, our souls feel like leaping forth for joy The fire-cracker, the drum, the pick-nickers, the dinner parties, the fishing parties, the base ball games and various other American sports should inspire our soul onward. Let us pause a moment and think what it means to our children. It teaches the spirit of love, love of home, love of freedom, love of right, love of country and lastly love for our fellow creature. All hail the glorious fourth. GROVER CLEVELAND. The death of Ex-President Grover Cleveland last week came as a surprise to many of his close friends. He was truly one of the great American Presidents and a high type of sturdy statesmanship, with broad and liberal views. While it is true he was a democrat in party affiliations yet there were some good and noble things in his life, first he was an American, second, he established the correct idea that he would protect property from the distraction of strickes; third, the appointing of Colored men as Counsuls to white countries, the first President to do this. He also invited Fred Douglass to a diplomatic reception, and many other things he did for the Negro to show his great heart was with them. So let there be tears for his death, and extend condolence to his wife and children. Baptist Sunday School Convention Tei Iowa Baptist S. S. Convention met last week in Mt. Pleasant. A goodly delegation attended. The Convention will hereafter be the Iowa-Nebraska Convention, as the Sunday Schools of Nebraska will affiliate with those of Iowa. The convention representing about 2,000 members was in session with the local church and came to an end Monday evening with a sermon by Rev. T. L. Griffith of Des Moines. This gathering was in all respects one of the most successful ever held. Resolutions favoring the strictest temperance were adopted and a minister who had been guilty of groosly immoral conduct was condemned in strong terms and published in the records of the denomination. Over fifty delegates were present. The Negro Baptists of Iowa are affiliated with the western Baptists convention. The national body does home mission work in the south and foreign mission work in several foreign countries where there is a large Negro population. The newly elected officers are: President, Rev. D. A. Holmes, Davenport. Vice President, E. K. Henderson, Keokuk. Secretary, Miss Ethel Terrell, Buxton. Treasurer, Mrs. H. P. Smith, Mt. Pleasant. Cor. Secretary, Mrs. S. Bates, Des Moines, Miss Bessie Reeves, Des Moines Mrs. S. M. Barnett, Ottumwa. The convention will meet in Davenport next year. A Strong Appeal. Almost modern is the Persian story of the man whose disagreeable voice in reciting his prayers in the mosque was annoying to everyone. One day some one asked him how much he was paid for reciting. "Paid!" he replied. "I am not paid. I recite for the sake of Allah!" "Then," replied the other "for Allah's sake don't!" UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH BUILDING, July 1904. UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH BUILDING. July 1908. ANNIVERSARY Fourth Anniversary of the Rev. H. W. Porter, Pastor of Union Congregational Church, Sunday July 5, 1908. The Rev. H. W. Porter and his faithful band of workers have demonstrated what can be done by those who will work faithfully from day to day. Four years ago a Congregational church for the colored people of Des Moines was an apparent dream to a great many of the citizens of Des Moines, both white and colored, who looked on while the people worked enthusiastically under their faithful leader UNION CONGREGATIONAL C Today it is no longer a dream but a reality. What has been accomplished speaks for itself in words more emphatic than we can utter. A modern church building all completed, at a cost of $10.500 and all the money provided for save $1,400; and an influence felt throughout the entire West: Again Rev. Porter has proven that it is not numbers that count, but the men and women who can and will follow God and do things, who bring to pass the appearent impossibles. Rev. Porter realizes that the Negro is passing through the most critical period of his life, and the only way to lighten his CEDAR RAPIDS NOTES. S. S. CONVENTION. All of those who attended the Sunday school convention last week were much benefited. Among those who entertained at special luncheons were Mr. and Mrs. Searcy. Wearcy, who entertained a number of delegates complimentary to their brother Rev. A. Searcy of Kookuk. Mrs. A. M. Boyd and mother Mrs. G. Gray, entertained complimentary to Mrs. C. B. Lewis of Davenport. Mrs. Hawkins entertained in honor of Mrs. Lewis. Rev. and Mrs. Holly entertained for Mrs. Clark of Oskaloosa and Rev. Johnson of Dubauque. Mr. and Mrs. Raspberry also entertained for representatives. Mrs. Harry Horn is enjoying a visit from her mother Mrs. Nance of Chillicothe, Mo. Mr. S. L. Drew of Burlington was unable to remain throughout the convention being compelled to return to his his home and business where he he is employed in the U S. service. Mrs. Kittle Lewis of South 3rd., REV. H. W. PORTER, Pastor. HURCH BUILDING, July 1908. burdens and those of the race is stand up and like men and women prove what you are by what you can be and what you can do, rather than what you can say must be, for there is no place in the world for crying babies. Thus having reached the fourth land mark, encouraged with what has been accomplished for God and humanity, Union Congregationol church begins another year with increased enthusiasm, and a bright future for its growth and achievements 11 and for all that pertains to the life liberty and happiness of the race. Services at 10:30 a.m., 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. The friends are cordially invited. street died at her home Monday after an illness of several months. Mrs. Lewis was well known in the city and her death will be mourned with deep regret by a host of friends. Rev. A. L. Perkins of Dubuque was a Sunday visitor in the Rapids and filled the pulpit both morning and evening. The district conference and Sunday school convention meet in Cedar Rapids last week June 22-27. Monday afternoon the district conference was organized with presiding elder L. J. Phillips in the chair, Mrs. Hopkins of Davenport, secretary, Rev W. W. Williams, treasurer. Monday afternoon a large audience assembled and listened to an able sermon delivered by Rev. Hackley f. Ft. Madison. Tuesday the regular order of business was taken up, and several subjects were enthusiastically discussed. Wednesday was a continuance of reports and papers. The paper on "Sanification," by Mrs. L. J. Phillip, caused a lively discussion resulting in a devotional service and wonderful outpouring of the spirit upon all present. "I shall be satisfied when I awake in his likeness" was sung and --- resuing until the walls seemed to echo with the spirit of the music. The order of business was again taken up. The Rev. Dr. Fisk of Coe College faculty was introduced by the presiding elder. The doctor gave a splendid talk in which he emphasized the fact that each of us are called to a special work and mus labor in that particular branch, the black man in his place, the white man in his, each tending to the same end. Dr. Fisk was answered by a trenchant and eloquent address by Rev. A. G. Jackson of Burlington. The committee on recompendations of which Dr D. F. Bulker, of Ottumwa was chairman; requested that hereafter a chataqua and christian congress be held in conjunction with the annual meeting. The report was adopted, and a committee appointed for that purpose. Then the adjournment followed. Wednesday evening consisted of a program made up largely of the visitors. A splendid address by Mrs. L. J. Phillips on the "New Woman" solos by Mr. Dozier, of Clinton; Mr. Hopkins, of Davenport; Mr. H Price, of Gedar Rapids, E. Boone of Cedar Rapids; instrumental solo by Miss Helen Downey of Ottumwa. The Sunday school convention was formally organized Thursday morning with Rev! Hubbard district superintendent in the chair, Miss Della Bland of Keokuk, secretary; Mrs. King of Ft. Madison assistant secretary and Miss Jennie Jones of Oskaloosa, organist. Thursday evening the regular reception was tendered by the church and Sunday school to the representatives and visitors. Friday morning and afternoon was given to papers and discussions. The report of the committee an constitution and by-laws of which Rev. A. J. Jackson and by-lawman, provided for a normal institute for the training of sunday school workers. The report was adopted and the following faculty was elected: Rev. A. G. Jackson, president, the vice presidents are as follows: Mrs. S. L. Phillips, Mrs. R. Ford; Rev. Searcy. Mrs. J. Jones, Miss Ione Mason, Mattie Thomas of Monmouth. Officers of the convention were elected as follows: district superintendent, Mrs. C. B. Lewis, Davenport; assistant, Prof. W. B. Lowery, Cedar Rapids; secretary, Miss Della Bland, Keokuk; assistant secretary, Mr. Harrison King. Presiding elder Phillips in a very impressive manner installed the above named officers. The theme of his remarks were to "Surrender for the good of the cause to which you have been elected;" a splended talk was given for the new officers. Immediately followed the adjournment. It was one of the most successful meetings ever held. It has been estimated that between forty and fifty representatives and visitors were present, and all express themselves as having been highly entertained. BURLINGTON ITEMS Mr. Lamb has returned home after a very pleasant visit in Souix City and Cedar Rapids. Mrs. J. F. Trent has returned from Jefferson City. Mo., where she went to attend the graduating exercises of her brother Mr. E. McDowell. Mrs. A. Newton, Miss Ida Palmer and little Aueenton Palmer were Keokun visitor last week. Mrs. Hattie Tigg who was iudisposed last week is out again. Mrs. McDowell, of Hannibol, Mo., was called to city last week because of the illness of her daughter Mrs. J. Trent who hastily recovered. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Johnson entertained a company of friends Sunday evening in honor of Mrs. McDowell, quite a number of other friends were present and a delightful time was had. Edward McDowell; of Hannibal has returned to his home after a short visit with his sister Mrs. Trent of our city. Mrs. Lamb of Jefferson street will entertain the Art Industrial Club this week. —Cant you, and wont you please pay for your paper without having Mr. Thompson come down here from Des Moines this year. I will call any time your money is ready. Help for Those Who Have Stomack Troubles After doctoring for about twelve years for a bad stomach trouble, and spending nearly five hundred dollars for medicine and doctors' fees, I purchased my wife one box of Chamberlain's Stomoch and Liver Tablets, which did her so much good that she continued to use them and they have done her more good then all the medicine I bought before.—Samuel Boyer, Folsom, Iowa. This medicine is for sale by all druggists. Samples free. Hindoo April First. The Hindos have on their Hull, March 31, a day on which they play pranks similar to those in vogue here on April 1. They send persons with messages to fictitious individuals or to those who are sure to be away from home, and enjoy a laugh at their disappointment. MOLINE (ILL.) GREETINGS. The stewards of St. Paul church gave an ice cream social last Tuesday evening. Miss Clara Bell Tomlin of Muscatine, have a few days of last week in the city with Miss Alice May Gorman. Miss Mabel Hall returned home Monday after a fourth months visit to Keokuk, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids and West Liberty. Miss Hall was accompanied by Miss Della Bland of Keokuk. Mrs L. B. Tarver entertained the H. Q. B. Club at her home Thursday afternoon, after the business part of the meeting's program was rendered by the members, and last but not least a delicious luncheon was served by the Misses Clara and Mabel Tarver and Daisy E. Settles. The honored guest were Mrs. Walkup of Chicago and Mrs. Hardin of Rock Island. Miss Alice Gorman made a flying trip to Muscatine Saturday morning. A merry party of Moline and Rock Island young people had a private picnic at Watch Tower last Friday a most delightful time was reported by all. Miss Fannie Moppins entertained friends at her home Surday. The Misses Thompson of of Muscatine were Moline callers Sunday. Miss Alice Gorman entertained at a six o'clock tea Thursday evening in honor of Miss Clara Bell Tomlin. DAVENPORT ITEMS. (Special to Bystander.) The Autumn Leaf Club was entertained Wednesday June 24th by Mrs. Frances Grooms of Muscatine, Ia. Mrs. Grooms certainly knows how to entertain and every one enjoyed themselves. The guest from Moline were Mrs. Maxie Mrs. Bishop and Miss Eva Hart, from Davenport. Mr. William Dover gave a trolley party in honor of the visiting ladies which gave us a chance to see all the city and was highly appreciated. Mrs. Flora of Chicago was the guest of Mrs. R. B, Bright lost week. The Eastern Star will give a musical at the A. M. E. church Wednesday evening July 8th, quite a lengthy program will be rendered among them will be several selections by the women's orchestra. Refreshments will served by the ladies. Mrs. R. B. Bright and Mrs. Flora Walker were the guest of Mrs. Alice Richardson Thursday evening. The Military Drill given under the direction of Mrs. E. Green was quite a success. Twenty-Five Cents is the Price Peace. The terrible itching and smarting, incident to certain skin diseases is almost instantly allayed by applying Chamberlain's Salve. Price 35 cents. For sale by all druggists. SIOUX CITY ITEMS. The rally that was held at the A. M. E. church for the benefit of the trustees was a good success financially the sum of $50 was taken in during the day. A program was rendered for the occasion; A linen shower was given on Mrs. Anna Jordan Monday in honor of her approaching marriage to Mr. Roberts which is to take place June 30th. Mrs. Charlotte Lee went to Yankton, S. D., being called there by a telegram. Mrs. Hattie Williams came down from Aberdeen, S. D., Wednesday where she has been visiting her son and his wife, she was accompanied home by her son Mr. Albert Williams. Miss Ellen Sturgis, has been given a position in the crockery department of the Davidson Bros., store, one of the largest stores in our city. By degrees the avenues are being opened up for our young people, it means for more to strive for the higher education. Miss Stella Miller left last Wednesday for Alabama to visit awhile with relatives and friends. Mr. R. Freeman left Monday for Centerville, Ia., where he will accept a good job. Miss Blaire, left four Sioux Falls, S. D.' to visit with friends Rev. J. C. Reed, returned home from Mobile, Ala., Wednesday where he has been visiting relatives and friends, he is greatly enthused over the progress in the South, he says the South is the Colored man's home. There will be a select picnic given 4th, of July on upper Jackson street where a lovely grove is being selected it is under the management of Mrs. Carrie Gordon. The Girl who is Admired. She is neither pretty nor plain, but she is charming. Her clothes portray her individuality, and are a part of herself. There is no clashing tone in the scheme of color, and her attire is always suitable to the occasion. This particular girl is never obtrusive. She can listen with interest to the conversation of her companion, but can, if necessary, converse brightly upon various topics of interest. A shy man is quite at his ease with her, and a clever man appreciates an intelligent companion. This girl makes a point of studying human nature, and she is well rewarded for her trouble, for the more she realizes the many trials and sorrows of life, the greater is her sympathy with human beings. And the cultivation of compassion and loving-kindness is probably the secret of her power of fascination. People realize instinctively the influence of sympathy and will usually respond to sincerely expressions of friendship. The average man seeks a helpmate in his wife. He has visions of a gloomy love influence in his home, and also an inspiring, encouraging personality, who will cheer him on the gloomy days, and delight in his success. He appreciates a taste, who will grace the head of his table, and who is sufficiently clever to order his home in an intelligent manner. He is proud of his accomplishments, but they are secondary objects of interest so far as his general happiness is concerned. Beauty is not the all-important factor, declares the New York Weekly; indeed, good looks are occasionally a doubtful asset, for the frivolity and folliness of pretty women has almost become proverbal. Sympathy, tact and usefulness are among the chief weapons of the girl whose fascinations attract men. Stick to the Job. It is the man who can stick to the disagreeable job, do it with energy and vim, the man who can force himself to do good work when he does not feel like doing it—in other words, the man who is master of himself, who has a great purpose, and who holds himself to his aim, whether it is agreeable or disagreeable, whether he feels like it or does not feel like it—that wins. It is easy to do what is agreeable, to keep at the thing we like and are enthusiastic about; but, remarks the New York Weekly, it takes real grit to try to put our whole soul into that which is distasteful and against which our nature protests, but which we are compelled to do for the sake of others who would suffer if we did not do it. One of the results of the recent panic is the great increase in the number of stockholders in the dividend-paying railroad and manufacturing companies. Investors with money in the bank, attracted by the prospect of profitable returns, bought the stocks at the low prices prevailing a few months ago. One well-known railroad company has gained 6,000 stockholders, and 27,000 more persons now hold shares in a big steel company than held them last year. These are merely examples. The new investors of course knew that they were taking risks in buying the stocks, risks which no person who cannot afford to lose his money has any business to take. "More duels are fought in Germany than in any other country, and Jena and Gottingen are the cities which take the lead. It is said that a duel takes place in Gottingen every day, and on one occasion some years ago 12 combats took place in the 24 hours. Jena's greatest number for the day is 21. The German empire has about 4,000 duels a year; France has about 1,000 combats which may be regarded as such; Italy runs to about 270 per annum. In ten years it boasted 2,759 meetings, of which 974 originated in newspaper articles or public letters. The great majority of the duels were fought with swords; only one with revolvers. A New York paper, describing the visit of Mr. Andrew Carnegie to Lehigh university, to which he has just given a dormitory, says Mr. Carnegie was "met by the student body with the university band, composed of students, a large number of the slum and the faculty." It is doubtful if any other American university could master such a band, even though such newspaper English is common enough. In the village of Blackwell (Somersetshire, England) has been revived the ancient custom known as wedding toll. This consists of stretching a rope across the road as the bride and bridegroom are returning from the church and demanding toll before they are allowed to pass. The doctors, naturally, are opposed to schools that give medical diplomas without study. Such institutions provide the doctors' competitors with too greet an advantage. There is no irreverence in a shrewd man's remark: "Be sure to look for the motto on the double-eagle. If it's not there, the coin is worth a good deal more than twenty dollars." It is merely a business suggestion. The coins minted without "In God we trust" already command a considerable premium. The college graduating class statistics have begun to come in. About all the superlatives get mentioned except the best scholar. IOWA STATE NEWS Events of Recent Occurrence Throughout the Commonwenith. CHILD SLAYER RELEASED. Judge Says He Thinks The Boy Guillotess. Des Moines.—Upon a snowing that little Kenneth Reeves aged 10, struck the blow which indirectly resulted in the death of Cecil Jenkins only after young Jenkins had first struck him, Judge McHenry ordered Kenneth released. "it shall place the case before the grand jury next fall, in the meantime this boy is remanded only to the care of his parents," said the court. HALF A MILLION LOSS. Northeastern Iowa Paralyzed by Recent Storm. Dubuque.—A though a week has passed since the storm which devastated the upper Mississippi section, scarcely any of the towns struck have more than recovered from the paralyzing effects of the rain and hall. Business is at a standstill in Prairie Chien, Wauton and McGregor, Iowa. McGregor, by reason of its peculiar location, built on an eminence, yet surrounded by hills, perhaps is the greatest sufferer. No effort at that In addition to the evidence of self-defense, the testimony showed that death probably was not caused by the blow from the mopstick, but from the fall upon the brick sidewalk. It was also shown that Cecil had beaten Kenneth once on their way home from school. In rendering his decision Judge McHenry said: "It is the nature of every true American boy to strike back when he is struck first. I cannot say that I find fault with this boy for not permitting himself to be imposed upon. When I was a boy I used to fight. I did not fight myself." The most fault with youngsters today is not in themselves, but their parents. I do not censure these parents, because nothing has been shown but what they took proper care of this boy. But the majority of cases in juvenile court can be traced to the neglect of parents." WRECK RESULTS FATALLY. One Killed and Several Badly Injured in Collision. Des Moines,—W. H. Urbahans, baggageman and brakeman on the Rock Island Island interurban, was killed and several people were injured in a wreck that occurred when a Great Western engine with caboose and extra tank backed into the Rock Island local near East Seventeenth street. When the truck of the Great Western train hit the smoking car of the local it was torn from its tender and the smoking car was turned over on its side, completely demolishing it and holding several passengers prisoners until help could arrive or they could break their own way out. Brakeman Urbahans was standing in the baggage car when the crash came. The impact sent him hurling across the car against a large trunk, cutting a deed gash in his chest, rendering him unconscious. Other passengers were hurled against the other side of the car, some sustaining serious injuries, other only slight bruises. Conflicting stories arise as to the real cause of the wreck. Both trains were making for the crossing and it seems a misunderstanding arose between the engineers as to who had the right of way. ATTACK ATTORNEY. Proceedings Begun to Oust County Official Burlington—A sensation was created by the appearance of Assistant States Attorney Cossen in district court here with a petition for the removal of County Attorney Kuhmeier for failure to enforce the provisions of the muct law. The petition was signed by Rev. C. L. Tennant, pastor of Grace M. E. church, and cities the fact that Kuhmeier has not attempted to carry out the orders of the attorney general to the provisions of the law in Burlington. The case was heard by Judge Witby, who after consideration decided that it was a matter to come before the district court in its regular fall term, and it was so ordered. This is the first move on the part of the state to enforce the provisions of the muct law in Burlington. It promises to become a celebrated case. Want Better Terminals. Sloux City.—The Sloux City board of trade has adopted resolutions calling on the railroads centering in Sloux City to co-operate with the stock yards company in increasing the switching facilities. Interests identified with the live stock and grain business believe that the cattle and hog shipments will be extremely heavy this summer and the grain receipts will also amount to many thousands of cars weekly. The stock yards company is willing to construct extra tracks. Stallion's Bite Is Fatal Elma—Matt H. Doyle, a prominent former living a few miles west of here, died from blood poisoning. A week ago he was caring for a stallion, when the animal bit him on the back of the hand. The wound was large and dime, and at first was not though to be serious. But the poison from the horse's saliva infected the wound and spread rapidly through the body. The patient was delirious for three days. Dubuqus Boy's Body Recovered. Duyque—the body of 12-year-old Arnold Luschinger, who drowned Sunday, has been recovered from the Mississippi. The report of the fire serious mower accident of the reason comes from the southern part of Hardin county and resulted in the loss of a foot by the 3-year-old daughter of Jallus Bavanz. The account of the accident states that the little one had gone to call her father to supper and approached too near the mower which the father was operating, resulting in the mower falling above the ankle so badly that the foot hung by the ligaments. The little one was taken to a hospital and the foot amputated. HALF A MILLION LOSS. Northeastern Iowa Paralyzed by Recent Storm. Dubuque.—Although a week has passed since the storm which devastated the upper Mississippi section, scarcely any of the towns struck have more than recovered from the paralyzing effects of the rain and hall. Business is at a standstill in Prairie du Chien, W. Wakonon and McCreevey, where its peculiar location, built on an eminence, yet surrounded by hills, perhaps is the greatest sufferer. No effort at that point has been made to resume traffic. Every energy of the public, headed by Mayor Walters, is being bent toward an effort to purify the place. With six feet of water rushing through the main streets for hours on Saturday night, and every eighth street for hours on Sunday, the place of deposit for bushels of mud, the situation is serious. Hot weather has marked the time since the storm. The fifth and debris that has accumulated is a rampant breeder of disease and infection. A number of cases of typhoid already are reported and redoubled efforts are being made to clean up. Dubuque sent up a fire engine which will be used to pump out cellars and depressions in the heart of the city. There are thousands of dollars worth of rebuilding to be done before the town will in any degree resemble its former self. Large forces of men from surrounding towns and a half hundred from Dubuque are on the ground working long hours. The first consideration is the public health destroyed frame structures and marred first stories of brick buildings will be attended to. Thousands of panes of glass have been hurried into the town. There was not sufficient window lights in the combined hardware stocks of the town to supply the demand that the tremendous bombardment of hall created. There was scarcely a widow left intact in the city. As to the loss: There are various estimates at McGregor. They range from $300,000 to $500,000. This dam gae was done in and about McGregor. There is not a store in the town conducting business on its former basis. Every stock of goods was damaged in degrees ranging from partial to total. Great as was the damage in the various towns visited by the food and clothing industry. Damage is still accumulated with that sustained by growing crops throughout the northeast section of Iowa. There is no richer land in the country than may be found in this section, and on many farms the loss is nearly total. HUSBAND SHOOTS HIS WIFE. Troy Mills—While Mr. and Mrs Anton Simons, farmer, living near here, were up early in the morning trying to kill a mink that was moosling their chickens, Mr. Simons accidentally shot his wife, inflicting a wound that proved fatal some hours later. The two heard a noise in the chicken house at about 4 o'clock in the morning. They arose, Mr. Simons getting his shot gun. They finally located a hole into which the mink had evidently disappeared and Mr. Simons got ready to shoot into it. Mr. Simons held his wife to look as he raised his gun to his shoulder, but she dedged down to the hole again to look into it. Mr. Simons did not pull the trigger, but as both he and the wife dodged, the gun was accidentally discharged, the entire load of shot taking effect in the side of her face and head. She lived until late in the afternoon in great agony. DEATH LOSS LARGE. Twenty-seven Claims Paid by Iowa Miners. Oskaloosa—During June the Iowa district of United Mine Workers paid twenty-seven death claims. This is the largest number ever paid in one month, and the increase is due to the fact that when a miner's wife dies now he is paid the same that the wife would get in event of miner's death. Ten of the twenty-seven were women. In connection with this announcement there is being mailed from the headquarters in this city circulars to all miners affiliated with the union calling for a referendum vote on the proposition to pension crippled, aged and disabled miners. BUNKO A FARMER. Wealthy Scott County Man Loses a Roll of $2,000. Davenport—Herman Ehlmann, a wealthy retired farmer, was induced by a couple of strangers to drive into the country and inspect a farm they claimed to hand to go to the Scott county schools and get $2,000 with which to buy it. The strangers made their getaway, leaving Ehlmann with a tin box in which was half a brick securely packed in paper and the following note: "You have been skimmed, and when you leave in Canada, Keep this to yourself and no fun will be made of you. Goodby. We will be in Canada." Narrowly Escaps Death. Sloux City.—In a fire in the Oxford hotel several of the guests narrowly escaped death. The throwing of a lighted match into a closet containing the gas meter was the cause of the blaze. Almost instantly there was an explosion. Miss Agnes Holm, who had been just dismissed from a hospital and was still weak was rescued from the second story window, after having been overcome by the smoke. Her condition is serious. WRIGHT IN CABINET BUCCEEDS WILLIAM H. TAFT AS SECRETARY OF WAR. Republican Presidential Candidate Celebs Up Matter in Department and Turns Attention to the Campaign. Washington. — Tuesday was William Howard. Afters last day as secretary of the U.S., Mr. Howard many years of his government as a justice of United States courts, as governor general of the Philippines islands, as secretary of war and as the special representative of the government on several delicate and important diplomatic missions, he reinlquished Tuesday night the performance, for a time at least, of duties as an official of the United States. The formal transfer of the war department from the administration of Secretary Taft to that of Secretary Luke Wright, the most accessor, did take place on full Wednesday, but the work of the department was brought up to date by Mr. Taft before he left his desk Tuesday evening and Secretary Wright entered upon his Luke E. Wright. new duties with substantially a clean state. The last duty to be performed by Secretary Taft was the formal presentation of his successor to Assistant Secretary Oliver and to the bureau and division chiefs of the war department. With his best wishes to Secretary Wright for his successful administration of the great department, the affairs of which he has been chosen to administer, Secretary Taft became once more a private citizen. From that moment until the fateful day of the election next November he will defend himself assistively to his pawns for the presidency of the United States. ONE KILLED IN COLLISION. Baggageman Dies in Railway Wreck at Des Moines, Ia. Des Moines, Ia—One man was killed, three were seriously injured and a half-dozen were slightly hurt when a Great Western work train crashed into the Rock Island-Indiana railroad. The train crossed Wednesday at 11:38 a.m. The truck of a tender on the work train passed entirely into the smoking car of the Rock Island passenger train, pennning seven passengers in the rear end of the car. The turning of the coach hurried three trunks onto the train, and the bogman W. H. Urbahn, so injuring him that he died in the hospital. PATTERSON DEFEATS CARMACK. Tennessee Democratic Primary Is Victory for Local Option. Memphis, Tenn.—Further returns received from Saturday's Democratic primary election in this state, indicate the certain nomination of Gov. Patterson over former United States Senator Edward W. Carmack. The election was held on the county unit plan, Senator Carmack favoring state-wide prohibition and Gov. Patterson announcing for local option. The governor said however, the Democratic platform called to state-wide prohibition, he would sign such a bill if passed by the legislature. Rhodus Brothers Arrested. Chicago. — Birch F. Rhodus, Edward T. Rhodus and Thomas Rhodus were arrested late Monday afternoon noon charged with using the mails in a scheme to defraud. T. three broths organized and promoted the Central Life Securities company and numerous subsidiary corporations, through which they are alleged to have obtained $3,000,000 in the last few years. George H. Daniels Dead Lake Plecid, N. Y.-George H. Daniels, formerly general passenger agent of the New York Central railroad, died here Wednesday, aged 66 years. He was a native of Hampshire, Ill., and began his railroad service as a rod man in the engineer corps of the Northern Missouri railroad. Two Children Burned to Death Rice Lake, Wis.-Zone and Lona- aged four and six years, respectively, sons of George Robarga, were burned to death here Wednesday. Bishop Potter in Critical *Carson Potter, N.Y. Christian State. Cooperative N.Y. Bishop Henry C. Cooper of New York is being by his physicians as being in a dangerous state of health. The bishop has been ill for some time with stomach and liver trouble. Spanish Prince Christened La Granja—The christening of the infant son of King Alfonso under the name of Jalme took place Monday in the chapel house here, with all the pomp and ceremony of the Spanish court. IT'S AN ILL HOT WIND THAT BLOWS NO GOOD. HOPPER ICE MAN ICE CREAM MANUFACTURER. INDIANA PUBLIC NEWS BEATS HEARST IN RECOUNT MCLELLAN WINS MAYORALTY CONTEST IN NEW YORK. Long Drawn Out Litigation is Terminated—Jury's Verdict Ordered by Judge. New York—George B. McClellan was declared to have been duly elected mayor of New York over W. R. Hearst in 1805 by Justice Lambert Tuesday, and by the justice's orders the jury returned a verdict to that effect. This for the present at least terminates the George B. McClellan. long, drawn litigation instituted by Mr. Hearst involving the enactment of a law providing for a recount. This left McCillan with a plurality of nearly 3,000, and counsel for Atty-Gen. W. S. Jackson, who brought quo warranto proceedings against the mayor, was unable to prove his contention that the judge had been discharged. Justice Lambert directed the jury to find a verdict for Mayor McCillan, upholding Mr. McCillan's election. In his address to the jury Justice Lambert said that no fraud had been proved in the case, and if he should permit the disfranchisement of citizens on such slight evidence, this would last but a very short time. TALLEST OF SKY-SCRAPERS. Equitable Life Will Erect a Sixty-Two Story Structure. New York—Plans for a new skyscraper, which will overpit all New York's lofty buildings and the flagpole of which will pierce the sky at a greater height than the Eifel Tower in Paris, the highest structure in the world, were fled Monday by architects for the Equitable Life Assurance society with the building department. The projected building for the Equitable will be a 62-story structure, 909 feet from the curb to the tip of the tower, upon which will be stepped a flagpole 150 feet in length. The ball on the flagpole will be 74 feet higher than the 865-foot steel Eifel Tower. Francis G. Bailey Escapes. Puerto Cortez, Honduras—Francis G. Balley, the president of the Export Shipping company of New Jersey, who, together with his brother, Albert W. Balley, Charles H. H. Myers and Cagp, Albert Oxley was placed aboard the Norwegian steamer Utstein Tuesday in custody of Lieut. P. W. Beery of the New York police department, made his escape in a small boat from the steamer Tuesday night. The boat was found on the beach Wednesday morning. A search is being made by soldiers in the woods and swamps. Record Year for Shipbuilding Washington.—The bureau of navigation, treasury department, announced Wednesday that the fiscal year ended Tuesday was the record year of American shipbuilding and that the center of the industry is on the great lakes. During the year, 1,506 vessels of 588,627 gross tons were built and numbered in the United States of which 75 steel steamers of 304,379 gross tons were built on the great lakes. The largest output output heretofore was in 1855 when 2,024 vessels of 583,450 tons were built. Club Women End Convention Boston.—With the introduction of the new officers, headed by Mrs. Philip N. Moore of St. Louis, Mo., as president, to the delegates of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, at Symphony hall Tuesday night, the federation brought to a final adjournment the ninth biennial convention. Named for. Governor of Maine. Bangor, Me.-Bert M. Ferald of Poland was nominated for governor of Maine by the Republican state convention Tuesday evening. BRITISH FLEET MOBILIZES. English Array in Maneuvers Compared to That of Germany London.—The mobilization of all British warships in home waters available for immediate service was completed Tuesday for the annual naval maneuvers, and Admiral Lord Charles Beresford finds himself in supreme command of a total of not less than 301 ships, with an aggregate complement of 68,000 officers and men. With the exception of the coast guards, all these men are on the active list of the navy. Local pride in the record size of this fleet is pronounced, and the newspapers, whitethat they proclaim that the array of such a force in the North sea is in no manner connected with Germany, do not fall incidentally to compare this, the greatest of the fleet of the world, with the fleet of 62 vessels with which Germany recently carried out her North sea maneuvers. TEN YEARS FOR BARTNETT. Prominent Railroad Man Sentenced for irregularities. San Francisco. — Walter J. Bartnett, formerly vice-president and general counsel for the Western Pacific railway and vice-president and general counsel for the California Safe Deposit and Trust Company, which failed in this city last November for about $9,000,000 was Wednesday sentenced to the San Quentin penitentiary for ten years by Superior Judge Conley. Bartnett was convicted of having hypocotied in counties to the amount of $200,000 belonging to the estate of Ellen M. Colton, of which he was special administrator. Bartnett's counsel immediately took an appeal after sentence was passed. Bartnett is well known in railroad and financial circles in New York. THAW MAY GET JURY TRIAL. Justice Mills Seems to Lean to Such a Decision. White Plains, N. Y.-Harry Thaw's chances for a jury trial as to his sanity appear to be very bright. At the conclusion of argument before Justice Mills, Monday afternoon, the justice said: "I believe it should be only a matter of time when this man ought to have a jury trial. I am not prepared to say whether it should be now or later." The judge then ordered that Thaw should be detained in the Poughkeepsie jail and adjourned the case 9, when the arguments and affidavits will be submitted. Thaw was taken back to Poughkeepsie Monday afternoon. Buined by Stock Gambling Atlantic City, N. J.-Robert Ohmeus, jr, cashier of the Marine Trust company of this city, was arrested Sunday charged with a defalcation of $20,500. He made a confession in which he says that he played the stock market and that one loss followed and other until he was hopelessly involved. He is under $11,000 bail for trial in October. Beats All Airship Records Friedrichshafen. — Count Zeppelin Wednesday outstanded all work records for steerage balloons. He remained in the air for 12 hours, trave- ered the greater part of northern Switzerland and visited Zurich, Wint- ern and Lucerne, attaining an average throughout of 34 miles an hour. Britain's Income Decreased London.—The treasury returns of the total revenue of the United Kingdom for the first quarter of the financial year ending Tuesday show a decrease of $11,686,940 compared with the corresponding period of 1907. Divorced from "Lord" Douglass. Norfolk. W. Va.-Mrs. Louisiana Hobbs Douglass, one of the numerous wives of the alleged bogus "Lord" Oswald Reginald Douglass, was granted an absolute divorce from "Lord" Douglass here Tuesday. Paper Mill Wages Reduced. Glens Falls, N. Y.-Officials of the International Paper company announced Monday a cut of ten per cent. in its wage scale to go into effect in August 1. Several thousand men in the company's mills will be affected. First Balloon to Cross Alps. Brig. Switzerland—The Swiss Aero club's balloon Cognac has succeeded in cancelling Alps. This feat has often been accomplished, but never be fore accomplish. Afridil's Simple Explanation of His Easy Victory. Many of the hill tribesmen in India join the British side and become most valuable recruits. Some years ago in a campaign against the Afrids one of the columns was much annoyed by a persistent "snipper" who followed it daily. Eventually one of the newly joined Afrids recruits requested leave to fall out for a couple of hours to settle the trouble. At the end of the time he strolled in placidly and dung down the head of the sniper. 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In Denmark few housewives have trouble with their servants. A system has been perfected which guarantees a housewife honest and good servants, as well as independence and fair treatment to those employed. When a young woman obtains employment she goes to a police station and gets a book which testifies to her good character, and in which is entered the name of the woman into whose service she enters. Without this book of character a servant cannot secure employment. This book she gives to her new mistress; in return she gets a key to the front door of the house. The servant enjoys absolute independence. Should she desire to leave the service, she is required to give her mistress two weeks' notice. When she leaves she receives her book, and reports off at the police station. Should several weeks or months elapse be fore she again secures employment, she is required to give an account of herself, and tell where she has been, at the police station. Prized the May Dew. Prized the May Dew In Pepys' time May dew—that is, dew gathered from the grass on a May day—was highly prized for bleaching linen and improving the complexion. Pepys wrote in 1667: "My wife away down with Jane and W. Hewer to Woolwich, in order to a little air and to lie there to night, and so to gather May dew to-morrow morning, which Mrs. Turner hath taught her is the only thing in the world to wash her face with; and I am contented with it." Two years later he made this entry in his diary: "Troubled, about three in the morning, with my wife's calling her maid up, and rising herself, to go with her coach abroad, to gather May dew, which she did, and I troubled her for it for fear of any hurt going abroad so betimes happening to her; but I to sleep again, she came home about six." Problem In Political Economy "It's no use," said the young man with heavy-rimmed eyeglasses. "I can't get this political economy straight." "What's the trouble?" asked the professor. 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After a man has knocked around the world for a few years without meeting with success he begins knocking the world. FITS. St. Vitus' Dance and Nervous Diseases permanently erased the Kline Greats and Dr. R. H. Kline, Ld. 611 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. With the numerous courts in session these are trying times. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKKAT 1875 "Guarantee" UNCLE DICK'S WONDERFUL SKYROCKET JIMMY BRODERICK'S Uncle Dick was not only a great inventor, but one of the kindest men that ever lived. In the world on the evening Fourth of July." Uncle Dick also sent word papers about it, and on the even Although he earned his living by inventing useful things like automatic plows that would plow a whole field in the night time while the farmer lay in bed asleep, and automatic fish poles that would bait their own hooks and throw out their own lines and pull in their own fish and take them off and bait the hooks over again, still Uncle Dick was ready at a minute's notice to drop all that sort of thing and invent something to give a boy pleasure. And you will agree that a nephew who has an uncle like that has a treasure. Jimmy Broderick knew this and he took great care of Uncle Dick, carrying an umbrella for him when it rained and watching to see that he ate his meals regularly, for like all great inventors, Uncle Dick could not take care of himself very well. "What would you like for the Fourth of July, Jimmy?" asked Uncle Dick about a week before that important day. "I would like most of all to have a great big sky rocket," said Jimmy. "You shall have one," said his uncle, and immediately went into his inventory shop, which is the funny name that he gave to the little room where he invented things. The telephone bell rang a good deal that day. On the very next morning a big truck arrived from the city with two big casks on it. They were painted red and marked "Danger! Powder!" in big letters. There were also huge rolls of thick pasteboard, each sheet big enough to make the whole side of a house, and there were so many of them that the horses could hardly pull them. Uncle Dick rubbed his hands and chuckled like anything when he saw the material. "You shall certainly have a skyrocket," said he to Jimmy. "And the best of it is that the greater part of the country for hundreds of miles around will have one, too." Jimmy was very curious and still more puzzled, but he knew that Uncle Dick did not like to explain his inventions beforehand, so he asked no questions, but merely kept his eyes open and did not go out of sight of the inventory shop all morning. Before noon a great gang of men arrived, and under Uncle Dick's orders they began to carry all the material to the pasture, where they deposited it around a huge old dead pine tree that stood smooth and straight reaching into the air fully 80 feet without a branch to break it except on the very top, and that was soon gone, too, for Uncle Dick sent men up there and they loped it off so that then the tree stood sleek and smooth like a mast. Then the sheets of pasteboard were laid on the ground and rolled into a greft cylinder 30 feet long and at least ten feet in diameter. As soon as a sheet was rolled into shape the men tied it tightly with yards on yards of rope and then another sheet was rolled around the first and more rope tied around that and so on until all the pasteboard had been used up, and that was such a lot that it took the men all day with the hardest kind of work. The next day they opened the casks of powder and began to load it in and in, hour after hour, until the last grain POMME was pounded in good and hard, and Jizmy's Uncle Dick said: "So! There's 800 pounds of powder in there. That ought to make her fly." "But how about the stick?" thought Jimmy. He did not say it, knowing how easy it is to spoil an inventor's ideas by interrupting him with frivolous conversation. He was to learn very soon how about the stick, for as soon as the mighty cylinder was all finished, Uncle Dick had a derrick rigged, and up went the big thing until it dangled alongside of the dead pine tree near the dizzy top of it. Then mighty cabbles were sent up and the men lashed the loaded paddleboard cylinder to the tree until it was completely hidden by ropes. "Now for the fuse," said Uncle Dick. He set the men to work untwisting ropes until they had more than 300 feet all unraveled. Uncle Dick went up the derrick and put the end of the unraveled rope into the bottom part of the rocket. Then he poured kerosene oil all over it and rubbed gunpowder into it. That afternoon Uncle Dick sent out invitations both by mail and by messenger to places as far away as 200 miles, saying: "Jimmy Broderick respectfully intends you to his Uncle Dick's farm to see him set off the biggest sky rocket in the world on the evening of the Fourth of July." Uncle Dick also sent word to the papers about it, and on the evening of the Fourth more than 10,000 people were at the farm, wondering at the immense skyrocket and trembling all over at the thought of the explosion when she went off. And all over the land people who could not go to the farm were watching the heavens and paying very little attention to the other fireworks of the United States, because the papers had told all about the rocket and had explained that it could be seen hundreds of miles when it went up. When the time came, Uncle Dick gave Jimmy a big piece of lighted punk and then he stood in front of the tree and said: "Ladies and Gentlemen: You will notice that this tree is inclined toward the north. My calculations tell me A rocket is being launched from a hill. A crowd of people is gathered around it. "Ten Thousand People Were There." "Ten Thousand People Were There." that when the rocket is lit it will pull the tree clear out of the ground and go north for at least 1,000 miles, which will bring it over uninhabited country, where it will fail without hurting anybody, unless a bear or a moose should get in the way. Now, Jimmy, touch her off." Jimmy touched the end of the fuse and then everybody ran away to a safe distance. The fire climbed swiftly, and suddenly with a bang that shook the hills and broke the windows even in towns 100 miles away, the giant rocket went off. Out came the tree, roots and all, and sailed grandly into the sky with a hissing trail of fire behind it. The amazed spectators watched it for more than half an hour, getting smaller and smaller, till it disappeared in the northern sky. For days after that the paper printed reports from distant places from people who had seen a wonderful fiery thing in the night. By means of these reports, it was possible for Uncle Dick to pursue the course of his wonderful rocket until he found that it had gone far over Canada; but he could not learn where it had fallen and he did not learn until recently. But about a week ago a hunter who had been in the far north of Canada, near Hudson bay, shooting musk oxen, visited Uncle Dick. He told a lot of interesting hunting adventures, and finally said: "The queerest thing that I saw was far up in the barren lands where there are no trees. One day I saw something odd some distance away, and I went there on my snow shoes. "What you suppose I found? A mighty tree! That was queer enough up there. But queerer still was the fact that this tree did not stand in the ground as other trees do, but stood roots up with its crown buried deeply in the soil. It was the most marvelous sight I have even seen, and I can hardly believe it yet. I would give a good deal to know what caused this strange freak of nature." Uncle Dick chuckled and winked at Jimmy. "Did you ever hear of Jimmy's wonderful skyrocket?" he asked. "No, never," said the hunter. "You know I have been in the wilderness a long time." So Uncle Dick told him. After he got through the hunter said: "I am glad to know this. I intended to write a book about it, but now I shall be able to save myself the trouble." ADVITIC THE FLYER IN THE AIR AT THE CATHERIN BOOKARD. BUT THE FLYER TO THE SAMENT NICH TASTED, HE IS NOW LAID OUT IN THE SEXUAL WARD. A BEAUTIFUL STUDY IN FLATTER. "Oh," said Edith Louse, as she saw the soldiers getting ready to fire the Fourth of July cannon, "you mustn't go near that gun or you might go killed, and it's dangerous gettin' killed." MISS MAE WOOD INDIGTED MISS MAE WOOD INDIGTED OMAHA WOMAN CHARGED WITH FORGERY AND PERJURY. Case Is Outgrowth of Losing Suit Against Senator Thomas Platt for a Divorce Bill. New York. — Mae C. Wood, the Omaha woman who sued United States Senator Thomas C. Platt for divorce, was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday on charges of perjury and forgery. Miss Wood is charged with having signed Senator Platt's name to a document acknowledging her as his wife. The perjury indictment is based on Miss Wood's testimony in the divorce action, when she testified that she was married to the senator at the Fifth avenue hotel in 1901. Miss Wood is at liberty on $5,000 bail. She will be arraigned in court Monday. Mae Wood's suit alleging marriage and demanding a divorce from Senator Platt was heard before Justice O'Gorman in this city last May. Miss Wood declared that the senator invited her to come to the Fifth Avenue hotel in November, 1901, and married her in a room in that hotel. She produced a certificate attesting to the marriage, but the printer of the blank form testified that the form was not printed until three months after the date of the alleged marriage. Miss Wood also produced a document hearing what purported to be the senator's signature acknowledging her as his wife. The senator denied that he had ever signed it, and produced a witness who testified that she had obtained the senator's signature to a blank sheet of paper which she gave to Miss Wood. The senator said he had paid $10,000 for the return of letters he wrote to Miss Wood. Justice O'Gorman dismissed Miss Wood's suit, and ordered her arrested on a charge of perjury. STORM KILLS SEVEN. Village of Clinton, Minn., Is Ravaged by Tornado. St. Paul, Minn.—A special dispatch from Graceville, Minn., gives additional details of the tornado that struck Clinton, a town of 400 inhabitants in the western part of Minnesota, late Saturday afternoon, killing seven people. The dispatch says that over 60 were injured, but that only 11 were seriously hurt. Thirty-three houses in Clinton were destroyed and 25 were practically ruined. Two hundred people are homeless. Medical aid is sufficient as doctors from Graceville and Ortonville have been in constant attendance on the injured, but scores are destitute of clothing and outside aid is needed. Those killed were: Mrs. G. W. Johnson, Fred Stottesberry, Thomas Rothwell, Kate Mills, Mrs. Olaf Nicholson and baby, and Mrs. Rebecca Vandermark. FOUR PERISH IN FLAMES Mother and Three Children Die In Milwaukee Fire. Milwaukee.—The family of Julius Krueger, a laborer, was almost wiped out early Sunday morning by fire, which brought death to the mother and three children. The father and one son escaped, but are so badly burned that they may not recover. The two who survived were rescued by a watchman, Henry Hagan, who carried them out of the burning building. Krueger was a laborer in the roofing plant of Jeger & Geozelsch and lived in two small rooms in one end of the plant. The fire started in that end of the building and by the time the fire department arrived four of the family were dead. Madison Man Nominated by the Min neapolis, Republicans, St. Paul, Minn.—In a single session lasting but three hours the Minnesota Republican convention Wednesday nominated Jacob F. Jacobson of Madison for governor and adopted a platform indorsing the work of the Chicago convention and pleasing the party in Minnesota to continue the work of railway regulation. Mr. Jacobson was nominated by acclamation, after Attorney General Edward T. Young and Samuel P. Snider of Minnesota, opposing candidates, had withdrawn and seconded the nomination of the Medison man. High License In Louisiana. Baton Rouge, La.—That Louisiana shall be a high license state for the next two years at least was finally decided by the assembly Monday night when the senate passed the Shattuck-Gay liquor bill by a vote of 29 to 1. This measure has passed the house and is known to have the governor's approval. It fixes the minimum parish license at $500, minimum state at $200 with maximum licenses running up to several thousand dollars each. Well-Known St. Louis Man a Suicide, St. Louis.—The dead body of Wilbur F. Parker, one of the best-known real estate men in the city, was found in a room at his home Wednesday, and by his side lay a bottle that had contained carbolic acid. Boise, Idaho—The state board of pardons Wednesday commuted the sentence of Harry Orchard, who was under sentence to hang for the murder of former Gov. Frank Stuenenberg, to imprisonment for life. Negro Convicts Mutiny. Atlanta, Ga.—One negro was shot and seriously wounded late Tuesday afternoon as a result of a mutiny among the negro convicts at a convict camp 20 miles from Atlanta on the Roswell road. Tortured by Usurper's Men. Fez, Morocco—Abd-el-Malek, chief of the el-Quar expeditionary force, who was captured by the followers of Mulal Haafd, was subjected to horrible torture on account of his refusal to surrender. New York Central Lines TO Boston and Return Canada, Adirondack Mountains and St. Lawrence River WARREN J. LYNCH, Passenger Traffic Mgr., CHICAGO Shirt Bosoms, Collars and Cuffs LAUNDFRED WITH Defiance Starch never crack nor become brittle. They last twice as long as those laundered with other starches and give the wearer much better satisfaction. If you want your husband, brother or son to look dressy, to feel comfortable and to be thoroughly happy use DEFIANCE STARCH in the laundry. It is sold by all good grocers at roc a package—16 ounces. In inferior starches sell at the same price per package but contain only 12 ounces. Note the difference. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH. Insist on getting it and you will never use any other brand. Defiance Starch Company, Omaha, Neb. PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED SEND FOR FREE LINES TRATATAS IN CURTAIN BASIL, TRORONTOR & NORTHERN 10:30 AM ST. KARAAS CITY, MO. Mrs. Winstow's Soothing Syrup. For children soothing, softens the gums, reduces gummation, allays pain, curves wind colds. Maa bottle. Pennsylvania's First Governor. The first governor of Pennsylvania under the constitution of 1790 was Thomas Mifflin. General Demand of the Well-Informed of the World has always been for a simple, pleasant and efficient liquid laxative remedy of known value; a laxative which physicians could sanction for family use because its component parts are known to them to be wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action. In supplying that demand with its excellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along ethical lines and reuses on the merits of the laxative for its remarkable success. DRAKE UNIVERSITY DES MOINES IOWA subjects, including shorthand and typed EXPENSES ARE LOW—Send for anu are interested. Fall Term Opens Sept. 14; Winter T New York O Boston an Every T Until Sept. From Chic NEW YORK CENTRAL TIMES "LAKE "MICHIGAN From St. I "BIG FOUR Good for re Corresponding 160 Acre FARMS Western Canada FREE 160 Acre Grain-Growing Land FREE. 40 to 80 Rustic Oats to the Acre. 40 to 80 Bushels Oats to the Acre. 35 to 60 Bushels Bailer to the Acre. Financial Services FREE. Good Laws with Low Taxes. Splendid Railroad Facilities and Low Rates. Satisfactory Markets for all Productions. Good Climate and Perfect Health. Chances for Profitable Investments. Source of good housing in landings Saskatchewan and Alberta may now be in required in these most healthful and prosperous sections under the Revised Homestead Regulations by which entry may be made by proxy (on cer- tained basis) and by proxy (on dau- dent, brother or sister of intending home- steader). In each case will be $0.00. For pamphlet, "Last Best Fever," particular as to rates, route, best time to go and where to locate, apply to E. T. HOLMES, 315 Jackson St., St. Paul, Minn. w. W. BENNETT, 801 New York Life Bldg., Omaha, Neb. DAISY FLY KILLER placed attracts and attracts and all dies. No kill. convenient, clean. well maintained. Absolutely sill or tip over. well maintained. Wall enclosures. permanent or per- manent. ASTHMA and HAY FEVER POSITIVELY CURED by KIMMONTH'S ASTHMA CURE Over 2000 students during the past decade. A 50 cent fee required for 20 or 50 sts. DR. H. S. KIMMONTH, Asbury Park, N.J. W. N. U., DES MOINES, NO. 27, 1908 A well equipped Co-educational school, located in the Capital City of town. The enrollment this year exceeds 1,000 students. University Buildings. More than one hundred trained teachers in the COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS; Liber-Arts, Bible, Law, Medical, Music,ation, High School. ALBUM. NOTES. Mrs. and Roberts of Buckton, work in Alba Saturday. were in Alba Saturday. Miss Suele Klee of Clarinda, spent Saturday in Alba the guest of the Misses Parker, she left Sunday for Ockaloosa, Miss Eva Parker accompanied her. Mrs. Johnson of Hocking, has moved to Alba Mrs. Bover has moved out of town. Miss Frances Parker left Sunday morning for Des Moines, to visit a few weeks with Mrs. M. Mason and other friends. Miss Nora Grayson of Hiteman was in Alba Eidday. The Sewing Circle Club met at the home of Mrs. E. Grayson Monday. Mrs. Day has returned to Alba from her visit to Buxton and the country. Quite a number of Buxton people were in town Saturday. CEDAR RAPIDS NOTES (Special to Bystander.) After the Sunday school convention of the Kookuk district, the following young ladies the Miss Nora Mots and Alice Maxwell of Washington, Ia., Miss Della Bland of Kookuk, Miss Belle Hall of Moline, and Mrs. Daisy Leume of Iowa city, met at Marshall Perkins restaurant in Cedar Rapids for dinner. After dinner they left on the inter-urban railway for Iowa City to visit at the home of Mrs. Daisy Leume. In the evening they were highly entertained by Mrs. H. R. Moore, mother of Mrs. Leume. These young ladies were joined by Messrs John Wesley Thompson and James Crump who accompanied them to West Liberty where they were royally entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Gus Hall on Sunday at a house party. Each one departed late in the evening for their respective homes acclaring Mr. and Mrs. Hall a charming host and hostess. Over Thlrty-Five Years. In 1872 there was a great deal of diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera infantum. It was at this time that Chamberlain's Colloe-Cholera and diarrhoea Remedy was first brought into use. It proved more successful than any other remedy or treatment, and has for thirty-five years maintained that record. From a small beginning its sale and use has extended to every part of the United States and to many foreign countries. Nine drugstores out of ten will recommend it when their opinion is asked, although they have other medicines that pay them a greater profit. It can be always be depended upon, even in the most severe and dangerous cases. For sale by all drugstores. LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES. It is interesting to note that the Jefferson City daily papers are very liberal to Dr. B. F. Allen and Lincoln Institute in according space for any item of interest to himself personally, or to the institution and its friends generally. This speaks volumes for the confidence and esteem in which president Allen and the general management of the institution are held in Jefferson City. During the recent commencement exercises which extended over two weeks each paper daily devoted several of its courses to the write ups of the programs of each day and evening. The Cole County Democrat of Saturday June 13th., contained the following relative to the program of commencement dav and through the columns of the Bystander and we shall give other programs from time, as friends and relatives of the graduates undoubtedly will be gratified to see some tangible examination of their self-sacrifice and labor. A very appreciative audience listened to the graduating exercises of the senior class of '08 of Lincoln Institute, June 12. The literary program was under the supervision of Prof. J. S. Yates' department of English, and each member received a glowing tribute of praise to selections thought and delivery from the Hon. John E. Swanger, Secretary of State, who gave the graduating address and delivered the diplomas. OTTUMWA NEWS. (Special to Bystander.) Miss Eleanor M. Young has returned to her home from Lincoln Institute at Jefferson Caty, Mo., to spend the vacation with relatives, after having spent a very successful year, graduating from the half course with the honor of class prophet. Proving His Proverb "He makes me so angry," remarked Miss Bute; "he's forever remarking to that 'beauty is only skin deep.'" "And when you get angry," remarked Chellus, "it just shows him sow thin-skinned you."—Bray Stirlett. Hurta Flour Trade The Chinese boycott is being felt by the flour men of California. Two years ago the Stockton mills were sold to the Chinese. Now they are shipping only 4,000 Foolish Question. **Foobin's Question:** A magazine says, "Why do men need dependance?" Well, in our case, old chap, they feel a whole lot better, than a rope. Will Develop Youth's Voice. Money has been subscribed to send Andrew Jones, a young Welsh cat- man, who has a remarkably fine tenor voice, to the Royal Academy of Musi- ce. EXAMPLES OF MEDIEVAL ART. Fine Stained Glass Windows Recently Received at New York. The two German windows of stained glass among the recent acquisitions belong in period to the early sixteenth century, at the time when medieval imms passes over into renaissance. The color is lighter and paler than that of the preceding century and is secondary in importance to the design. In the examples at the museum are certain tints of yellow that are used in the fifteenth century, as taste changed in favor of lighter rooms. The subjects of the windows are St. John and St. Maximine against a background of tapestry and architecture treated so as to appear on the same plane as the figures. The author of the note on the windows in the Museum Bulletin says that the drawing is undoubtedly the work of a painter—and a very good one—or the Ober-Rhön school, and that as St. John was made of Trier, the supposition that the glass is from that source is probably correct. Very fine examples of the same period are those in the nave of Cologne cathedral.—New York Times. APPLES ONLY ON APPLE TREES Small Girl a Humorist, Though Probably Unconscious. A Washington man, while visiting a friend's place in Virginia, became much interested in his experiments in fruit culture. One day the visitor was making the rounds of the place, being in charge of the friend's young daughter of ten, with a "This tree seems to be loaded with apples," observed the Washingtonian, indicating a particularly fine specimen. "Yes, sir," assented the little girl; "father says this is a good year for apples," from gmld to hear that," said the visitor. "Are all your trees as full of apples as this one?" "No, sir," explained the girl, "only the apple trees."—Harper's Weekly. Making Furniture Like New Where there are fine pillel scratches on new furniture they may be easy remedied by using pulverized rottenstone, that can be bought ready for use. Put this on a soft fennel rag and rub into the surface of the seat, back or arms of a chair or on the top of a table. It will not only take off the effects, but bring a polish to the wood. To remove the rottenstone with a damp piece of chamois carefully wipe the wood, and when all trace of this is gone a bright lustre can be brought to the surface of the wood by rubbing it lightly with a soft piece of cheesecloth moistened with alcohol. The latter must be used sparingly on furniture, for it burns, and varnish deteriorates. The importance of the rocker or table if enough is put on to reorch the surface. No Smoke in Volcances The materials ejected from volcanoes are chiefly vapor or water, lava, cinders, rock fragments and various gases. There is no true smoke emitted and very little perceptible flame. In volcanic eruptions, the gases "flames" are the glow of the molten lava and its reflection on the clouds of vapor. The passage through which the eruptive matter rises to the surface is called the chimney or vent and the bowl-like enlargement of it commonly at the summit of the mountain and may be size, is called the crater. There may be a number of craters on one cone. Man's Heart Is a Shuttle. A man's life is laid in the loom of time to a pattern which he does not see, but God does, and his heart is a shuttle. On one side of the loom is sorrow, and on the other is joy; and the shuttle, struck alternately by each files back and forth, carrying the thread which is white or black as the pattern needs. And in the end, when God shall lift up his shuttle, changing buses shall glance out, it will then appear that the deep and dark colors were as noeel to beauty as the bright and high colors.—Beecher. The "Infanta." Infanta is the title given in Spain and Portugal to the princess of the royal family, with the exception of the heir apparent, the corresponding title of Infanta being given to princesses. Since the fourteenth century the heir apparent to the throne of Spain has been styled prince of Asturias, and the heir apparent in Portugal, until the separation of Brazil from the mother country, bore the title of prince of Brazil. The House of Lords The higher nobility or peerage of England contains five ranks: Duke marquis, earl, viscount and baron. All persons holding these titles are members of the upper house of parliament where they sit as lords temporis. The archbishops and bishops of the Earls and the Lord of the Church spiritual. They are not peers of the realm, but have seats in the upper house. Looking for the Fifth The leading lady passed down the avenue with her speckled bull pup "That's the star," whispered the sweet singer. "Star, eh?" laughed the low comedian. "Then I'd call her jersey. She had four moons." "Four moons?" "Four moons?" "Yes, honourmoons." Forgetting an Injury. Church—I like to see a man who can forget an injury. Gotham—Well, there's that neighbor of mine; he's suing the railroad company for an injured leg, and every once and a while he forgets to limp. Power of Woman's Tongue. A woman's tongue is only three inches long, but it can kill a man six feet high—Japanese. TEMPERANCE NOTES A STARTLING TEST. Medical Student Drinks Himself Into Delirium. A curious case came within the purview of the writer when a young medical student, an athlete, a mighty boxer, a personage of great promise, delibertately took himself into the condition of delirium tremens as an experiment. One evening we had been sitting around the social board and several of his associates had cautioned him that he was going altogether too far with copious draughts of the strongest sort of whisky. "Gentlemen," he said, "I am going to have delirium tremens, and it is a scientific experiment. I am determined to know the sensations of a man in that condition. Let some of my friends keep watch over me, if they will, for I feel that I am now on the verge. Already I have seen things that I know and at a glance that I almost impossible to keep myself under control." Within an hour the man was being held in bed by four strong companions, he was seeing snakes, and fiends, and a raving maniac begging for protection from the imaginary forces that beset him and was only with the utmost force prevented from plunging through the window. The waste of experiment from the scientific point of view was passed and the self-mimulated victim was in the hospital he could not remember his delirious siege. Drugs will produce delirium quite as successfully as drink. I am told by a Pittsburgh drugsist that when a cocaine flend who had been refused a supply he took a running leap through the plate glass window of the door. Another instance is that to the cocaine doper who climbed to the top of a trolley and climbed down again. The jails are cranched with victims of drugs and stimulants most of whom are in some condition of delirium when they are gathered in; and here it may be said that the discipline of the jails often results fatally for the victim for the reason that the drink or the drug is at once cut off and the reaction produces death. Friends of people who happen to be drugged to stall their breathing or otherwise either take means to give them reduced supply of the means of their undoing or take them to a sanitarium. SALOON MUST GO. Wave of Temperance Ardor in Eng land Menaces 32,000 Saloons. Thirty-two thousand saloons, which is one-third of all the public houses in England and Wales, are to be closed by the British Liberal government if it can overcome the resistance of the house of lords. Urged on by enthusiastic temperance reformers, the government has introduced into the house of commons its anti-saloon bill, and is driving the measure along despite one of the most strenuous fights ever waged against an English legislative measure. The British brewers have subscribed a lobby fund of $500,000 to fight the temperance advocates, and they are concentrating their energy to defeat the bill in the house of lords here, having better chance than in the commons. At present there is one public house to every 370 inhabitants in England and Wales. The Liberals declare this is a scandal, and they want to have not more than one "pub" to every 700 people in towns and one to every 500 in the country. When a "pub" has its license taken away its owner will receive a money grant, secured by a special tax on the liquor trade. This system of compensation will continue for 14 years, after which no money will be paid to saloonkeepers when their business is closed. The 14-year time limit is imposed so that the public house owners can have time to insure themselves against loss by the abolition of their trade. Twelve hundred million dollars is invested in the breweries of England and Wales, and the shares in the brewing companies are held by 250,000 people. Every shareholder is a rump component of the new temperance bill, and he himself hoarse in voicing his opposition. Besides shutting down the 22,000 saloons, the bill makes it illegal to sell alcoholic drinks on Sunday except during one hour at midday and two hours in the evening. To see that club carry out the regulations imposed on them detectives are authorized to enter any clubhouse at any time, from the exclusive Athenaeum downward and conduct an investigation. The Alcohol Output: The production of denatured alcohol for the first six months of 1907, under the new law covering its manufacture, amounted to 1,774,272 gallons. The supplemental new alcohol law will, it is estimated, lead to a production of 4,000,000 gallons for the calendar year. The operation of the law, says Scientific American, has already reduced the cost of wood alcohol from prices in the past to the amounts to 30 cents a gallon, a fact which indicates that a fairly efficient monopoly has been established in the wood alcohol business. Devices of Defense. What could be more perfect defense than the device of the moorhen? She sinks herself in the water beneath an overhanging root or bank, leaving only her bight in sight. And that looks like a fallen leaf. You may stand within six feet of her and she will not move, so sure is she that her rage will succede—London brewing Stanford. PLEA FOR SELF-RELIANCE. This is a hard world in business. It always has been and always will be. There are many good and generous men in it. There are many who will lend a helping hand to you in your adversity, but in the time of need you will not find them among the men who tried to get you to embark in speculation with your life-long business which would help you to "easy money." Be self-reliant. Make your own investigation into investments. When you cannot, put your money in a good savings bank. Distrust the financial demagogues as you distrust the political demagogue. Keep your hand on your pocketbook as you travel life—first, to give always in proportion to your means to those who are poor, second, to those who are rich, third, to those who need through force or fraud what you need for yourself and yours. You will then, writes Mr. Dawes in the Saturday Evening Post, have your hand where most of the other fellows have only their eyes. In this alone you will have the advantage of them. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy Would Save Him $100.00. "In 1003 I had a severe attack of diarrhoea," says B. N. Farrar of Cat Island, La. "For several weeks I was unable to do anything. On March 18, 1907, I had a similar attack, and took Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy which gave me prompt relief. I consider it one of the best medicines of its kind in the world, and had I used it in 1003 believe it would have saved me a hundred dollar doctor's bill." Sold by all drugusers. WHAT IS EDUCATION? Education is the act of developing a child. Education is the act of guiding the powers of a child. Education is a drawing forth, disciplining the intellect. Education is the act of forming or regulating the principles of the child. Education is the act of expanding, strengthening, and disciplining the child. A Dog's Opinion of Boston Dialect. "An intelligent looking dog," said the visitor from Boston. "Oh, he is," exclaimed Fldo's owner. "He knows every word you say." Then said the visitor from Boston: "My canine friend, I am exceedingly interested in the hypothesis that has been presented to me to the effect that your understated human speech is perfect, and in order to make a matter wish that you would be able to bark three times in rapid succession as an indication that your comprehension of my request is in all ways clear and lucid." "And did he bark?" said I to Teagarden, who was telling me the story. "No," said Teagarden, "but he growled like —" WORK OF MAHOGANY HUNTER. Practiced Eye Needed to Locate the Valuable Timber. Mahogany trees do not grow in clusters, but are scattered throughout the forest and hidden in a dense growth of underbrush, vines and creepers and require a skillful and experienced woodman to find them. He seeks the highest ground in a forest, climbs to the top of the tallest tree and surveys the surrounding country. The mahogany has a perennial growth, which detects the trees within sight. The axen follow the hunter and then come the sawyers and hewers, a large mahogany taking two men a full day to fall it. The tree has large spurs, which project from the trunk at its base, and scaffolds must be erected so that the tree can be cut off above the spurs. This leaves a stump ten to fifteen feet high, which is sheer waste, as the stump really contains the best lumber. The hunter has nothing to do with the work of cutting or removing the tree, his duty is to keep the tree clear. If he is clever and energetic his remuneration may amount to $500 or $1,000 a month, but he may travel weeks at a time without detecting a tree, and as he is generally paid by results his earnings are rather precarious. By order of a New York court a mother gave her seventeen-year-old girl who had attempted suicide a spanking with a hair brush. The fall from the sublime to the ridiculous might be more spectacular, but never more complete. For good wholesome and nutritious bread use Best Patent TRADE MARK PRODUIT LAKEN NT 16000 FALCON FLOUR Thomson & Mott Co. Lake Moores, Ontario SALT CELLAR OF LONG AGO. Was Distinctive Mark of Castes in the Middle Ages. "This is a medieval salt cellar," said the antiquary. "It is huge, it is shaped like a castle, it is solid silver and the price—but what is the use telling the price to you? Very magnificent, eh? in the middle age, you know, the salt cellar was the principal table ornament. Guests sat above or below the salt as they were prominent or the reverse. Where do you think you'd have sat, eh? Individual tables. The fastidious they had, individual knives, forks and spoons, but the common people ate with their fingers. You helped yourself from the general dish with your own spoon if you had one, but if you were very, very fastidious you licked the spoon clean first. The food was queer—rich rank food—awans, herons, porpoises, garlic, verilge, saffron. There was mead and wine in floods and ushers stood about in silent couches it was to lead to pleasant conversations. They had dined too well. These ushers, being overworked, were continually foraging for more work. The hours were queer, too. Breakfast, dawn; dinner, ten c'clock; supper, four c'clock in the afternoon." TAKING NO MORE CHANCES. Keeper Had Special Cartridges For Poor Markeman. Dr. Seward Webb at a dinner at Shelburne Farms, his great Vermont estate, sold of a certain poor markman: "Visiting his English brother-in-law, he shot the head keeper in the leg the first morning and away curved horribly. Next day he had wretched luck, though the wounded head keeper without malice had assigned him to a fairly good place. Bang, bang, hang, went his gun every few seconds, but not a bird fell before it. He was much embarrassed. It seemed, too, that at each of his misses the under keepers smiled at one another oddly. Finally his cartridges gave out. He hurried to the nearest keeper and demanded more. There aren't no more, sir', the man says. "Because, why, you've got at least 1,000 in that box' The keeper fushed and stammered: 'But, ah them all' for you, sir. They're for another gant. They've got shot in 'em, sir.'" Boy's Life Saved My little boy, four years old, had a severe attack of dysentery. We had two physicians; both of them gave him up. We then gave him Chamberlain's Colle, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy which cured him and believe that saved his life—William H. Strolling, Carbon Hill, Ala. There is no doubt but this remedy saves the lives of many children each year. Give it with castor oil according to the plain printed directions and a cure is certain. For sale by all druggists. Gladstone as a Phrasemaker Mr. Gladstone was a master of the art of phrasemaking. It was be who first declared "The flowing tide is with us," who dubbed himself the "Old Parliamentary Hand," and used the now everyday expressions, "Within measurable distance," "by leaps and bounds," and "within the range of practical politics." WANTED—Every colored lady and gentleman to write us for large samples of STRA-KO HAIR TONIC, the best dressing used with brush and brush only, no pressing, and CREOLE FACE CREAM made especially for our race. Send ten two cent stamps to cover padding and agents wanted everywhere. THE BURTON TOILET GOODS Co., St. Joseph, Michigan. You Have Been Waiting for This. --- FALCON FLOUR Makes bread light and flaky. After one trial you will use no other flour. Shannon & Mott, Millers Des Moines, Iowa. FRIDAY. JULY 3. Official paper of the M. W. U. Grand Lodge of Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Iowa State Federation of Colored Women and International Grand Congrès of Heroes of Jericho of America. Published every Friday by the BSTANDER Publishing Co. Des Moines, Ia. ia. phone 699. 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 Iowa State Bystander Publishing Company. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the public. "Brevity is the soul of wit," remember. You must return selected manuscript, unless accompanied by post-age stamps. Advertising rates for display Ads 20 cents per inch, for each insertion. Three to six months contract 15 cents per inch. Local advertising 10 cents per line for each insertion, counting seven words to a line. For churches and secret societies where admission is required, a half of the mentioned rates. For professional legal and announcement cards, yearly contracts, etc. terms are given on application. All advertising is to be paid in advance. We are prepared to do first class job work at reasonable prices. All of our work is guaranteed. The older students in our journal pathic in ed in Iowa. It was established in 189 and is read by nearly all the colored people of Iowa. We have correspondents in the following towns: THE CHURCHES SECRET ORDERS. M. Maria Tademacre. No. 567—Meets the first Wednesday at 2:30, and Wednesday at 3:00, and month, at o' D fell'wes hall, Sixth and seventh, at Burtley Burley Curtley C. P. M. Mrs. Dylan Bryant C. P. 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, Otumwa. H. K. Hilton, B. W. Grand Treasurer Omaha, Neb. Ingenuity in Stealing. "What's all the row about?" the hungry man queried as the manager of the city restaurant was seen to rush excitedly to the cashier's desk and detain a departing individual. The waiter explained. For a month past some of the numbered checks had been missing, and it had been discovered that certain patronized economizing at the expense of the management. A man would order 15 cents' worth and receive a check for the amount; then he would secret the check when the waiter wasn't looking and order a quarter's worth of estables. The waiter would then give a check for 40 cents, but when it came time to pay the customer would use the 15-cent ticket to get by the door. "H'm," muttered the hungry man; "fine scheme," and in the excitement he passed a Canadian dime on the cashier. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy During the past 36 years no remedy has proven more prompt or more effectual in its cures of Coughs, Colds and Croup than Chamberlain's Cough Bemedy. In many homes it is relieved by a physician. It contains no opium or other narcotic, but may be given as confidently to a baby as an adult. Price 25c; large size 50c Cartridges as Small Change. Cartridges are taken as change all over Abyssinia, at a rate usually ten to the dollar. The cap must be undamaged, the case in no way misformed and the paper round the bullet be in a state of perfect preservation. WANTED—Colored ladies everywhere to sell our toilet articles manufactured especially for our race, the colored people of America. Splendid opportunity to make money. Most liberal terms. We will package packages for you to use on their own hair and face. FREE premiums to their agents and customers. Devote part or all of your time. Write for particulars. Secure exclusive territory. Have a pleasant and friendly conversation this paper. The Burton Toilet Goods Co., Century Blk., St. Joseph, Michigan 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. Est. 40 Years. 905 Walnut St. THE WORLD'S GREATEST SEWING MACHINE LIGHT RUNNING NEWHOME If you want either Vibrating Shuttle, Rotary Shuttle or Sewing Machine write to Sewing Machine write to THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE COMPANY Orange, Mass. D. S. RUTTER, & Co. Des Moines Straighten Your Hair Dear Stirs:- I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it for it makes my hair and strands and helps to coil it makes it look a new growth. And also starts a new growth. My younger known as Ozonized Ox Marrow. My younger success has proved its merit. It is a beautiful, hardy, durable, plain and plurable, so you can comp it and arrange it in any style you wish with consistency in its length. If your dring is on every postage. If your dring is not on every postage you will not supply. If your dring is express or postal money order, bills for express or postal money order, bills for express or postal money order, bills and give your drings' name and address. will forward postal receipts by any point in S. A. by return mail to receipts of price. Address: The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., West Kendle St. CHICAGO, IL. POBERT HAIRWEAR MADE is made only in Chicago by the above firm. Agents Wanted Wherever.