Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XV, No. 14. CITY NEWS. [N.B. If you have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us: we solicit all your local news.-Ed.] Mrs. E. B. Elliston is now in New York City. Mr. E. T. Banks was on the sick list this week. Born to Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Davis on 5th., street Monday a baby boy. Rev, H. W. Porter opened the Senate with prayer Wednesday morning. Rev and Mrs. W. Sampson Brooks leave Tuesday evening for the conference in Keokuk. Miss Allie Smith of Keokuk, is in the city visiting her relatives, Mrs. O. Howard and Mrs. H. Smith. Mr. Jas. E. Todd of Estherville, is in the city visiting his family and his cousin Miss Alice M. Lawson and Miss Todd. The funeral of Mr. Hubbard who committed suicide the first of this week was held at the Maple street Baptist church Thursday. Mesdames Sam and Joe Robinson, and Masters Thomas Howard and T. m. Robinson of Hocking, visited relatives here fair week. Mrs. John D. Reeler and daughter Edna returned to their home in Mason City after a delightful visit here of two weeks. Mrs. Walter Birney left Wednesday morning for a two week visit in Chicago with her brother Mr. F. B. Hughes and friends. Miss Fannie Toodd, left for her home to Topeka, Tuesday evening instead of Friday, her visit was a very delightful one and she met many pleasant people. Miss M. F. Childs a sister of Mrs H. W. Porter, a teacher in the Baltimore, High school returned to Baltimore on Friday night after a pleasant stay in our city. Mesdames, Adam Dixon, Dizzie Glass, Mrs. Seymour, Mrs. Anna Allen, and a number of other of our home people will attend she annual conference in Keokuk. Mrs. E. N. Warren of 910 west 12 h., street left for a visit with relatives and friends at her former home in Keokuk, she will be gone for an indefinite time. Mr. and Mrs. Saul Brown entertained Miss Carrie Rhodes, Mrs. Ben Gracen, Mrs. Hollensworth, Mrs. Davis, Mr. Jameson and Mr. Moore at dinner at their home 1014 E. E. street. Mrs. Robinson an aunt of Mrs. J. C. Williams of Chicago, who has been visiting Mrs. Williams, left to-day for her home after having a pleasant visit in Iowa's Capitol. The services at the Union Congregation church Sept. 6th. Morning service topic "Whon do ye say that I am?" Evening service topic, "Wages we receive." Men's League 3 p.m. Sunday school at 12 m. Mrs. H. W. Porter's mother and brother, Mrs. Julia Childs and Mr. A. S. Childs: after a very pleasant visit in our city returned to their home in Marion, Ala., Monday night. Mrs. E. C. Strong of Buxton, accompanied Miss Ella Ford of St. Louis, Mo., who a caterer in St. Louis, spent a few days in our city last week the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Adm Dixon on Day street. The song recital given by Mrs. Mae Ruff-Johnson assisted by Prof. George I. Holt and Miss Marguarite Fields last night was one of best musical treats we have had for some time, we indeed feel proud of such talent. Mr. A. S. Childs a truck farmer and fruit grower from Alabama; says that Mr. J. L. Thompson produced on his place as fine a peach as he ever saw, just as fine as Alabama or California can produce, large beautiful and ful of flavor. On Monday eve ing Mrs Ruth Powell of 815 Scott street entertained in honor of Miss Lennie Ruff of Farmington and Miss Bailey of Charlestown and Mrs. J. M. Lewis, of Peoria, Ill., at an afternoon dinner. Ruben Galnes Jr. who came up here from Buxton last week for and operation has improved so much that he left for home this weeek accompanied by young Dixon who will visit until next week, when both will return to enter the West high school. Mrs. J. B. Rush has written an origi- ical drama entitled "Royal or Shad- owed Love," and it be rendered at St. Paul's A. M. E church Monday evening, upon the occasion of a farewell reception to the pastor The ladies will serve dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Flippens and son Harry of Marshaltown, Miss Luhu Franklin and Mamie Baker of Saylor, were recent guests at the home of Mrs. Sarah Webb. Mrs. W. H. Humburd, gave a sewing at her home Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 5 p. m., in honor of Miss Logan and Mrs. Mae Ruff-Johnson. The house was beautifully decorated, an exquisite two course lunch was served. By request of the Worthy Counselor of Rebecca Court of Calantha, all members are requested to be present at the next monthly meeting Sept. 14 h., the Grand Deputy will be present. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, W. C.. Mrs. Ardella Morton, R of D. Mesdames J. E. Todd, Miller a d Wood, entertained Miss Fannie Todd Topeka, Kans., Monday evening Aug. 31st. The parlors were beautifully decorated with cut flowers and plants. The guest enjoyed themselves with games, after which refreshments were served. The ladies were very handsomely dressed. The Minneapolis Keystones, the champions of the Northwest will play ball here to-day and to-morrow at the ball park against the home team the "Invicibles." We don't expect to beat them, but will make it interesting for them. Your presence will encourage them. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Williams gave a very pretty house party at their new home Wednesday evening at their new home 645 Des Moines street in honor of Mrs. Robinson of Chicago. Quite a number was present, conversation and music was the order. Refreshments were served, and all present enjoyed the evening as the host and hostess are good entertainers. The Callahan club met at the home of Mrs. R. N. Hyde, the hostess read a very interesting paper on Nehemiah, the Bible lesson was discussed by the members. Mrs. Carrie Bledsoe made very encouraging remarks to the club. The meeting will be held next Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Rachel Jefferson on 11th, street, the program will consist of the biography of King Solomon and other Bible characters. The Mother meeting will be the first Tuesday in October. Pres. Mrs. Gertrude Shackelford, secretary, Miss Beulah Allen. Rev. J. L. Griffin's subject Sunday morning at 11 a.m., "The rejection of King Saul," the theme of his discourse "The gift of the Holy Spirit," Holy ghost and pentecostal meeting, at 3 p.m. Sunday night his text will be "The eagle stirring up his next" Every minister and his congregation is invited. Services through the week every day at 3:30 p.m., and 7:30 p.m. You will have to come early and avoid the rush. people are coming from the coal mines to hear this man at Burrs M. E church. The Des Moines Negro Lyceum met Tuesday evening, Sept. 1st, ae the residence of Miss Pearl Hammit, Quotations were given from James Whitcomb Riley, and the remainder of the evening devoted to a geographical contest in which Miss Lillian Field took first place. Currents were read by Mr. Elbert Hall. The next meeting will be held at the home of Miss Zolphia Hocady. The program will be as follows- Quotation from Williau Cullen Bryant; Debate, "Should the American Negro colonize and segregate himself from the white American?" Affirmative, Atty Brown, Mr. Dillinger, negative, Mr George Mason and Mr. Mason Hall. Declamation, Miss Tabitha Mash. Services Sunday September 6th, 11:30 a. m., regular services, 12 m. Sunday school, 8 p. m. evening services. The church will be re-opened Sunday, the improvements will be completed and all will be pleased with appearances. The Association meeting will begin Tuesday Sept. 8th, Tuesday, Ministers and decons union; Wednesday, Womens auxiliary; Thursday to Sunday, Association proper. Royal welcome to all delegates and visitors. T. L. Griffith pastor. Post Cards, Cabinets, Penny Pictures When at Enterprise, stop at W. F. Bardside's Restaurant for meals, lunches, ice cream and confectionaries. DES MOINES IOWA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1908. ANOTHER ASSAULT HERE. Last Tuesday morning our city was again shocked by a brutal assault upon a white girl in her room by a Colored man about 1 o'clock at night, this find broke into her room and beat the girl and chocked her until she was in a critical condition, her cries aroused the police and they run him into a cellar and caught him and placed him in jail. We are indeed sorry for this terrible act by anybody, but more especially when committed by a Colored man for our race is undergoing a hard test anyway, and the brutal assaults should call out our bitter denunciation. There is no punishment by law to severe for such persons, and we hope that our good people will band themselves together to rid every community of the bad and loafing element of the race, this man was a stranger here no one knew him. DO YOUR DUTY AND FEAR NOT Our Legislature has been called here in special session to amend our State Primary law so as to permit the Republican voters to express their choice for the late Senator Allison's successor, also to elect his successor for the short term, and some members seem to fear to vote on senatorship, thinking that their vote might defeat them for reelection this fall. To these we would say do your duty and fear not. In the critical hour Abraham Lincoln did his duty and the people supported him. The Continental Congress did their duty in the revolution times, the people sustained the Declaration of Independence, as a legislator do right and fear not your constituents will support the right. Governor Cummins is without a doubt the logical successor of Allison, and the Republicans of Iowa demand him. SPECIAL SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE. The Governor has summoned the 32 Iowa General Assembly together Monday this week to amend the State primary law so that the people can again express their preference for U. S. Senator to become Senator Allison's successor recently deceased. While there were several courses open to Governor Cummins yet we really think this course is really the best for all parties and and will seek to harmonize the G. O P., in Iowa and will leave many of the legislative candidate from embarrassment this fall. ANNUAL ADDRESS The Bystander received a very unique and interesting phamphlet last week containing the annual address of President Rev T. L Griffith before the Western Baptist Convention held in St. Louis, Mo, last July, the address was very liberal and instructive along Baptist doctrine and racial development and should be read by all as the Reverend is one of our worthy ministers. A NEW MAGIZENE "The Western Lever," is the name of a new magazine that will be issued in our city in September, published by that polished and able divine Rev. R. D. Pettigrew of Mabton, Washington. It is purely a magazine in every way, and published especially as the official head of the Colored Co-Operative League Movement, that Dr. Pettigrew is the head and moving power of It is a magazine with lofty ideals, it believes in race elevation and preservation union and co-operation, while our city already has one monthly magazine yet we welcome the Western Lever because its takes up another much needed field, the Bystander welcomes its coming. For a Sprained Ankle. A sprained ankle may be cured in about one-third the time usually required, by applying Chamberlains Pain stal freely, and giving it absolute rest. For sale by all druggists. M. B. MCHENRY FOR SUPREME BENCH. We present to our reader with the cut of the Hon. William H. McHenry who is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Supreme Judge to 5 the vacancy caused by the death of the Hon. Charles A. Bishop of this city. Judge McHenry is an Iowa by birth was born in this city and county in 1860 and has lived practically all his life, he was educated in the public and hirsch schools then attended Ames Col- THE NEW YORK TIMES THE EDITOR REV. J. L. GRIFFIN, D. D. Rev. Dr. J. L. Griffin, supreme President of f tion, an Evangelist, U. S. A. He is known fr lakes to the gulf, and from the Atlantic to the has preached in the leading churches in Ch ches'er, N. Y., Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian al He has held great meetings in the Domi he state of California. He preached in eight burg, Pa. Rev. Dr. J. L. Griffin, Supreme President of the Rescue Association, an Evangelist, U. S A. He is known from the four Great lakes to the gulf, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. He has preached in the leading churches in Chicago, Buffalo, Rochester, N. Y., Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Congregational He has held great meetings in the Dominion of Canada and he state of California. He preached in eight churches in Pittsburg, Pa. Rev. Dr. J. L Griffin, Supreme President of the Rescue Association, an Evangelist U. S. A preached Tuesday night, at the Maple Street Baptist church. Subject: "Solomen's Temple." He said that it was fifty-thousand people that are at the palace of Israelite King. He had forty thousand stalls, and twelve thousand horsemen; he gave Hiram twelve millions, nine hundred sixty thousand pounds wheat every year. As long as the house was in building He had seventy thousands of men that bear burden that carry its stones from the mountain out of which they are dug, and eighty thousands of buers in the mountain that dug the stone out of the quarry, and made them in a proper shape, and he employed three thousand, and three hundred officers overloaded them, and that was none careless, idle. The stone that the building rejected become the head corner stone. The sermon was grand as well as instructive. Dr. Griffin, opened up a series of meetings at the M. E church (Methodist) on 12th and Crocker streets. His first text was: "The Caild sneezed seven times after it was dead." A crowd of white and colored citizens attended. BURLINGTON ITEMS. (Last Week.) Miss Ida Palmer and Mrs. Sofa Bi d visited in Chicago last week. On the 20th., of August the A I. lege and latter finished in Drake University, he has been a practicer for 23 years, and judge in the district court for 7 years. He is a fine man to meet, and has treated all classes alike in his court. He has enjoyed a large general practice and was a successful lawyer. Forty six members of the Polk County bar signed his petition and the bar passed a strong resolution endorsing him. His many friends are working hard to secure his nomination at the Republication convention next week. THE NEW YORK TIMES President of the Rescue Association is known from the four Great Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. He churches in Chicago, Buffalo, Ro. Presbyterian and Congregation in the Dominion of Canada andached in eight churches in Pitts- Club very elaborately entertained the Missionary Society of Ft. Madison, a very nice dinner and luncheon was served daring the day at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Trent from three to seven p. m., they took a troley ride to West Burlington, and all the hill ending up on main street at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Johnson, where the two clubs were served with cream and cake, during the evening the Missionary society rendered a splendid program, addresses were made by Rev Hackley, Rev. Jackson, Mrs. J. Pierman rendered two piano solos. The Missionary Society depart for their home on the 11:15 train. Mrs Stella Johnston, of Detroit, Mich., departed for her home last week after visiting with friends in the city. Rev. Jackson visited in Cedar Rapids last week. Mrs. Anderson entertained the A. I Cub last week at the residence of Mrs Ellen Mo-ris on Summer street. Mrs. Trent is visiting in Hannibal Mrs. Jennie Piener left last week for the Rapids. Mr and Mrs. Martin are moving in their new home on Washington street Mr. Martin has just completed an eight room new brick dwelling, it is entirely modern. Quite a number of people were in from neighboring towns to attend the carnival last week. J. C. CALDWELL. The above out is a true likeness of our friend Rev. J. C. Caldwell, of St. Joseph, Mo., who was elected last summer at the general conference of the A. M. E church, general secretary of the Allen Christian Endeaver League. He is one of the youngest men elected to such a high honor, however the conference showed good judgement for he is without a doubt one of the finest pulpit orators in the west. He was born in North Carolina in 1870, attend the common and normal schools of Philadelphia, then graduated from the Wilberforce University 1898, and has been preaching for 12 years, 5 years in St. Joseph where he has built up a large 'church, he will soon locate his headquarters in Kansas, City, Mo. REV. J. A. BINGHAM. We are glad to present to our readers Dr. J. A. Blingaman, the able Baptist divine of Omaha who has pastored the Zion Baptist church for 5 years he is a self made man a good orator and one of the leading ministers who will be at the Iowa and Nebraska Association which meets in our city next week at the Corintian Baptist church and we would suggest his name as a candidate for the moderator of the association. If he should become a candidate he will have a strong following. WESLEY A. NORRIS. This picture is that of a young man, Wesley A. Norris, the only son of J. Wilber Norris of Sioux City, this young man use to live with his father, but ambitious after leaving school he and his wife went to Chicago and he took the civil service examination passed and is now a regular clerk in the Post Office. He is only 25 years of age, was born in Hot Springs, Ark., educated in the public schools of St. Louis, and latter in Lincoln Institute at Jefferson City. Mo. He married Miss Elvely Hereford, of Chicago, a graduate of St. Louis, Mo. Young men prepare your eyes for the higher things of life. Editor's Observations. In my last week's observation I omitted to mention one person who has recently moved to our state and located in Clarinda. Mr. H. A. Farrier, a skilled carriage painter and trimmer, he was born in Kentucky, and learnt his trade by apprenticeship, Price Five Cents worked at it for 17 years in Kansas City for one of the largest carriage and buggy factories in the west. He came to Clarinda about 9 months ago and entered into co-partnership with a white man who is a blacksmith and wagon repairer, and they have done so well that Mr. Farrier has purchased the whole shop and is doing some very fine work for some of the best people of the town. From Omaha where we left off last week we went to Sioux City, the metropolis of Northwestern Iowa, arriving there at church hour, and after meeting a craftsman who was traveling upon the level Mr. T. H. Sturgis, we went to the Baptist church, I might say that Mr. Sturgis is one of the best and most reliable citizens of the town, he has been in Uncle Sam's employment for more than 22 years as a mail carrier, the first Colored man thus appointed in that city, he has a family of two charming young misses in high school and one boy and an industrious wife, who has been sick for several months but is improving now. At the church our old friend and former quill driver Dr. J. C. Reid, the pastor was preaching, he had a mixed audience, and he was preaching on the recent Springfield horrors, of which we recently run a clipping, of course ye editor had to kill a good sermon with his brief address, the church is doing nicely, Rev. Reid and his charming wife entertained us at 6 o'clock dinner. Dr. J. Wilbur Morris is still holding a large business with his massage baths, elsewhere is a cut and write-up of his son. He is a race man. Mr. Fred F. Ellett, an experienced bath house man has located here from Excelor Springs, Mo., where he run a house for many years, he has a fine suit of rooms in the Dott—Swan Building and is prepared to give all kinds of treatments from a shower bath to a manicure. Perhaps the best business opened this year is the Woman's Exchange at 420 6th., street, across from the P. O. building, which has been successfully operated for three years by a white lady named Miss Jessie Adams, who recently went West and sold it to Mrs. Joe W. Norr's, who had worked in the past two years she has a very neat small up-to-date lunch room for all the ladies and she has some of the best people for the noon lunches. Let us branch out into business. Mr. C E. Stublefield is still in the mail service and is a hustler. Our good friend W. P. Shield is still in the tailoring business with Sol Frank, he has recently been promoted as the head man, now only merit and honesty won this promotion. G. F. Williams is still in the carpet business the Askew Bros., are at the same old place they are good reliable industrious young men. Mr. Grant's folk's are doing well, Mrs. Grant is the Bystander here. Mr. Clyod is still running the sheinehing parlor, he has moved his shop. Mr. Gross has a barber shop in with Mr. Cloyd. Rev. Newman our good friend has charge of the Methodist church he says he is doing well he has built a parsoage this year. One of the most successful business men is J. E. Matthews, who conducts a lunch room and confectionary store, a pool hall and a barbershop all in his own two story brick building at 402 W. 7th., street. He has recently organized a large company which is incorporated to buy and sell real estate etc., he is not blowing about his success but is quietly making money. Mr. E. H. Hackley still has a barbershop, Mr. J. Simpson Bacon is on the jump looking after his new flats that are being built in Omaha, Neb. Into St. Joseph, Mo., the third largest city in the commonwealth here lives about 1200 Colored people and about 90,000 white people. It is a very old town loca-Continued on page 4 column 6. Are we claiming too much for Peruna when we claim it to be an effective remedy for chronic catarrh? Have we abundant proof that Peruna is in reality such a catarrh remedy? Let us see what the United States Dispensatory says of the principal ingredients of Peruna. Take, for instance, the ingredient hydratis canadensis, or golden seal. The United States Dispensatory says of this herbal remedy, that it is largely employed in the treatment of depressed mucous membranes lining various organs of the human body. Another ingredient of Perun, corny cheese, is classed in the United States Dispensatory as a tonic. Cedron seeds is another ingredient of Perun. The United States Dispensatory says of the action of cedron that it is used as a bitter tonic and in the treatment of dysentery, and in intermittent diseases as a substitute for quinine. To send us for a free book of testimonials of what the people think of Perun, a catarrh remedy. The best evidence is the testimony of those who have tried it. Appreciate. When her children bring home their school reports at the end of the month she always finds five minutes in which to write a personal letter to the teachers. If there is something that the children have learned that surprised her she writes a note of thanks and appreciation, and if the reports are unsatisfactory she writes offering to help the teacher in any way she may suggest. Needless to say, the teachers are appreciative, as any one will know who has ever taught school. Instruments of Torture. “You don’t seem to be keeping up very well this slipper,” said Father’s Cane to Mother’s slipper. 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Hover Fails to feature Gray Crisis hair dresser & hair salon. Diamonds & Diamonds. We Have a large list of fine linen acres, ranging in price from 40 to 80 per acre. Write us of farm Cow Land and Loan Company, De Moines, Ia. Mandicted with Bombyx by the law Thompson's Eye Water W. N. U., DES MOINES, NO. 36, 1908. 1 HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK Record of the Most Important Events Condensed for the Perusal of the Busy Man. PERSONAL. Kermit Roosevelt, son of the president, started on a hunting trip in the northwest. William J. Bryan spent a day in St. Paul, and talked to a great crowd of farmers, consulted the state central committee and received insurance of Gov. Greg Abbott's loyal support. William Jennings Bryan, Jr., son of the Democratic presidential candidate, is teed Miss Helen Berger of Milwaukee. Thomas L. Hisgen of Massachusetts was formally notified in New York of his nomination for the presidency by the Independence party convention in Chicago. William H. Taft and his family arrived at Middle Bass Island, Lake Erie, for a week's fishing. GENERAL NEWS. William H. Taft and Senator Foraker met in Toledo and entire harmony between them was assured, the senator promising to take the stump for the Republican ticket. Charles O. Jones, a noted aeronaut, fell 500 feet with his blazing dirigible balloon at the Central Maine fair at Waterville, and was killed. The accident was witnessed by 25,000 persons. Forest fire threatened the destruction of the famous Calaveras group of giant sequolas. The parade of the Grand Army of the Republic at the encampment in Toledo was reviewed by Mr. Taft, Senator Foraker, and others. About 12,000 were in line. Ste. Stackpole, a member of the firm of Stackpole Brothers, publishers of the Lewistown (Pa.) Gazette, while mentally unbalanced committed suicide near Minutewith by shooting. Fifteen thousand Americans and Australians took part in a grand review and parade at Fleming, a suburb of Melbourne. The Victorian journalists gave a reception in honor of Rear Admiral Sperry. It was his birthday and the city of Melbourne commemorated the occasion by presenting him with a silver bow bearing a suitable inscription. The United Spanish war veterans drew the color line by declaring the Charles M. Thomas camp of Washington "unattached." Daniel Walser, a Detroit confectioner, was shot and killed by burglar at his store. A Paris newspaper prints an interview with Mokhril, Moroccan minister of foreign affairs, in which he declares that Abd-e-Aziz has definitely resolved to give up the struggle. Dr. Frederick R. Tustin of Omaha, Neb., one of the most famous surgeons in the west, was shot and killed by an unknown person. Unknown persons dynamited the bank of the Illinois and Michigan canal at Channahon, 12 miles southwest of Joliet, and the entire district was flooded. Frederick Cornellus of Muskogee, Okla., and his sweetheart, Miss Bubbie Metcalf of Tulsa, were drowned while boating. Proceedings against the Pittsburgh-Wabash Terminal Railway company were begun in Pittsburgh by the Mercantle Trust company of New York. The Nevada Democratic state convention nominated Francis G. Newlands for United States senator and George A. Bartlett for congressman. A new comet was discovered at the Yerkes' observatory at Lake Geneva, Wis., by Prof. D. W. Morehouse of Drake university, of the Pacific fleet, each towing a torpedo boat destroyer, reached Honolulu without any accident, worth mention. Wisconsin primaries resulted in the nomination for United States senator of Isaac Stephenson, Republican, and Neal Brown, Democrat; for governor, James O. Davidson, Republican, and J. A. Aylward, Democrat. Seven summer visitors out of a party of ten were drowned by the capizing of a 35-foot shop in Penobscot bay, off Deer Isle. Mayor Busse of Chicago issued a proclamation extending the time for wearing straw hats from September 1 to September 15. Official returns compiled by Secretary of Agriculture Coburn show the population of Kansas to be 1,656,749, an increase over last year of 6,638. The formal entry of the Americans into Melbourne took place, Albright Sperry and his staff attended at the St. Paul University they were met by the prime minister, Alfred Deakin, the premier of Victoria, Sir Thomas Bent, and the other members of the commonwealth and state ministers. The Bank of Easton, at Madison, Mo., was robbed of $150, the funds belonging to the post office. Insane as the result of having slain his wife and fatally wounded his son in error, Julius Turner, a farmer, committed suicide in the county jail at Clay City, Ill. Louis V. Falardeau of Chicago was shot and killed in his store by hold-up men. After having their automobile wrecked, A. M. Dum, Walter Ranger, and Joseph J. Hayes of Minneapolis, Minn. were attacked by three negro bands and robbed of $235. In the Michigan primaries Auditor General J. B. Bradley was nominated for governor by the Republicans. Republiosa carried the Vermeal election by a plurality of about 28,000, a decrease of eight per cent. from the vote of 1804. The Democratic vote also showed a decrease. The crew on board the racing balloon Villa de Dieppe tried to descend at Niagara Falls. The rip cord failed to work properly, resulting in a poor landing. The three men in the basket got a bad shaking up and narrowly escaped death in the whirlpool rapids. Secretary George McLaughlin of the state commission of prisons in a report on a recent inspection protested strongly against the keeping of Harry K. Hawk in the Dutchess county jail at Poughkeepsie. Delegates and visitors to the Grand Army encampment gave their attention to the dedication of the Fort Melgs monument at Perryburg and to an elaborate civic parade in Toledo. Judge A. H. Huston declared unconstitutional the Oklahoma school law providing separate school boards and separate schools for negroes in the new state. Fire in Atlanta, Ga., destroyed the plants of the Atlanta Trunk factory and the Empire Printing & Box company. The loss is estimated at $100,000. crowd of men and boys in Chicago tried to lynch a negro who had attacked a white girl in the hallway of a building in which she worked. Standing at the stern of a motor boat which he had stolen and with bullets whizzing over his head, Edward Burnett, a full-blooded Pottawatomi Indian, led two detectives an exciting chase through the down-town section of the Chicago river clear to the drainage canal before he was captured. Arch Pickett shot and killed her husband, a well-known resident of Jonesboro, Ark., because she alleged, he was "mean to her and abused her." Mrs. Earl Hallam of Springfield, Ill., declared that George Richardson was not the negro who attacked her. It was his removal from the city which caused the bloody race riots. The national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic opened in Toledo with a "Venetian night" on the river and a big reception. About 100,000 visitors were in the city, which was beautifully decorated. The British bark Amazon, for Iquique from Port Talbot, has been wrecked near the latter port. Only five out of her crew of the 32 were saved. Fire destroyed the tarnery of Davis, Medlar & Platax, in La Crosse, Wis. It was about 40,000. The members of the American team which captured chief honors at the Olympic games in London were received by President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill. The great coal mine strike in the Birmingham (Ala.) district was called off by an order signed by President Lewis, Vice-President White and Secretary-Treasurer Ryan of the United Mine Workers of America. In Wyoming the coal mines were closed because operators and miners could not agree. At Manzanillo, Manuel Eilas, editor of the Conservative El Vigilante, was shot and killed by Manuel Estrada, editor of the Liberal paper El Reporter and also Liberal candidate for congressman. A shortage of upwards of $10,000 has been discovered in the bureau of supplies and vouchers in the general post office at Havana, of which Senior Rodriguez is chief. Rodriguez is missive. Charged by his wife with non-support, Rev. William C. Cummings, formerly an Episcopal rector at tonia, Mich., was arrested at Saul Ste Marie in the company of a woman said to be his sister-in-law. Dispatches from Peking said the Chinese government was likely to recall Minister Wu Ting Fang from Washington, because of dissatisfaction with his doings and public speeches. Becoming financially involved, two brothers, Ben S. Woolaver, aged 36, and Elmer, aged 39, committed suicide in the Sangamon river not far from their homes near Edinburg, Ill. George Bailey, aged 70, and Miss Lida Dana, his sister-in-law, aged 40, were fatally burned in an explosion of natural gas that wrecked their home in Wellington, Kan. The Queen Louise balloon, which ascended from Columbus, O., with lanced firecrackers and T. L. Semple aboard, landed in Lake Erie and the astronauts were rescued by a steamer. President Roosevelt has approved the plans of the proposed new battleships Florida and Utah which were authorized at the last session of congress. While two-thirds of the city's firemen were at their annual picnic, fire in the business section of New Orleans destroyed $2,000,000 worth of property. It was the most disastrous conflagration in the history of New Orleans. E. M. Garber, aged 40 years, a delegate from Holton, Kan., to the meeting of the Illinois Life Insurance association in Philadelphia, was mysteriously drowned at Atlantic City. Mrs. Matthew Berna of Hampshire, Ill., went insane, killed one of her children and fatally poisoned three others and herself. Alone with her insane father, J. E. Shilling, on the tour of the Chicago Auditorium, 19 stories above the street, Miss Marie Shilling, 21 years old, struggled for her life successfully when the man tried to throw her from the tower to the street. Five men were killed, another fatally hurt, and five seriously injured in a collision at the Warrior Run colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal company, near Wilkeshare, Pa. The police of Atlantic City were looking for W. S. G. Williams, huerband of the woman who was with Charles G. Roberts of Baltimore when he was shot on the board walk. He was arrested in Hawaii and that San Francisco was closed by the state banking commission, the officers being accused of making loans to themselves. The Netherlands government has asked France whether it would be possible for France to co-operate with Holland in the present difficulty with the United States, that she would consider the question. IOWA NEWS Mrs. Victor L. Long, an assistant in the office of Dr. J. H. Crippen, Waterloo, was attacked by a stranger while she was in the office alone, and received two severe gashes with a razor on her arm while she was struggling with him. The annual old settlers' picnic occurred at Mason City on the 3rd with a big dinner and a programme of pioneer reminiscences. Several hundred people participated. Among the guests of honor were three survivors of the first settlers in the county, Patrick Highes, Mrs. Thompson and their brother Mark Owen, who was the first white child born in the county. The next meet will be held in Clear Lake. In an altercation over a young woman and an umbrella, Noah Tutt, aged 75 years, stabbed Ben Johnson, aged 21, with a knife at the former's home, in Muscatine, inflicting a wound that may prove fatal. Tutt says that the boy had been paying too much attention to his housekeeper, and the injured lad claims he called for an umbrella. The Atlantic Gas and Fuel company has again changed hands, J. A. McWaid selling the plant and the company of the F. A. Kidder Red Of F. A. Kidder. The sale includes business of the same month also, and the key was turned over to Mr. Kidder, who will manage the company. He is one of the four men who own the Red Oak plant and it is said that it is their intention to rebuild the local plant and spend about $15,000 in reconstructing the system. I. M. Van Arsdale, representing the Apollo club, of Des Moines, has filed a petition in district coxr asking that the court order R. *A.* Huskin-botham, formerly head of the club, to make an accounting as to the receipts congres given at Ingersoll park in May. While Mr. Higginbotham has completed a settlement with him it is claimed that he has not yet paid over the entire amount due to various members of the organization. One of the biggest individual shipments of live stock in several years over the Rock Island has been made by John Griffith, formerly a well known resident of Dows, but now engaged in stock raising and farming in Emmet county. The shipment consists of a special brain of fourteen cars. It is estimated that at the prevailing prices on the Chicago market for cattle and hogs that the shipment netted Mr. Griffith $17,000. The various church and civic societies of Iowa Falls having already demonstrated their ability on the baseball diamond in behalf of charity, the matter is now under consideration of offering a spectacular attraction on the diamond in following the example of the social leaders at Corstintonville, Iowa, where the wives and daughters of the Masons and Odd Fellows are to give exhibitions of their ability on the national game. While the details of the program are not completed or the dates set for the big event, the indications are that the demonstrations of petitcoat ability with ball and bat will be the big event of the season in this city. Is a railroad train travel at the rate of thirty miles an hour being operated in a reckless, dangerous and extremely reprehensible manner? James Smith avers that it is, if it is on the Great Western road, and he has started suit for $1,250 against the railway company for damages he avers he sustained as the result of such gross negligence, recklessness and excessive speed on the part of the Great Western Railway company. He avers that thirty miles an hour is a dangerous speed on the Great Western railway, and he was thrown from a train while it was traveling at that frightful pace. He was severely injured, he says, and it will cost him $1,250 to recuperate. And he wants the railway company to pay. None of the romance which attaches to the honeymoon, of the Indian hero and heroine of the popular songs marked the wedding journey of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Stavelier, Indians, who came to Sloux City from the Omaha reservation to celebrate their honeymoon. The festivities got the better of the dusky bride and bridegirl, and they kept them sleep in the rear of a building. Third and Douglas street. The bride was the drunker of the two and it took four men to carry her to the patron wagon. Both of them were carted to the police station. The husband had about $12 cash, which will cover the fence which will likely be placed against them in the police court. Numerous clouds of locusts are reported in the outskirts of Des Moines and the adjoining agricultural district, and parts these pests have stripped everything, even the trees of their leaves. Arthur Ramsdell, a young married man of Tama, is lying unconscious at his home, the result of a fall from a scaffolding and will probably thrashed Ramsdell who was employed in thrashing the business of the National Filler company, when he fell from the scaffolding to the railroad tracks beneath, striking a steel tail with his head. His skull was fractured. Peter Price, a wealthy farmer and prominent business man, of Boone, lately retired, died suddenly in the lobby of the Northwestern hotel. T. D. Dobbins, aged 27, and E. J. O'Connor, aged 30, both of Waterloo, were killed by cars. O'Connor while trying to board a moving train at Waverly, fell and his legs were severed from his body. He died instantly. Dobbins mangled remains were found near the Chicago Great Western viaduct in Waterloo. He was unmarried but O'Connor leaves a wife and four small children. William Saunders, who stabbed Andrew Lundie with a knife, at Fort Dodge, nearly killing him, waived a preliminary hearing. Under bonds of $3,000 he was remanded to the grand jury. His victim is holding his own, but the result of his injuries will not be known for two days or more. The Rev. Francis Wesley Evans, one of the oldest pioneer Methodist ministers in the state, died at his home, 1319 East Ninth街, Des Moines, on Sept. 3rd, aged 79 years, following a severe attack of appendicitis. The Rev.-Mr. Evans was not only one of the oldest members of the Methodist conference but was a charter member in the Odd Fellow lodge in the state and a pioneer Mason. Fred Parker and Galen Wise, of Iowa Falls have been taken before the United States commissioner on the charge of violating the federal laws, the two men being charged with selling intoxicating liquor without a license. The men were then examined and upon examination were held to the federal grand jury, which meets at Fort Dodge in November, and gave bonds for their appearance then. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, whose residence is in Council Bluffs, but who is known and loved throughout Iowa, led the Hawkeye veterans in the great parade of the Grand Army of the Republic in Toledo. The Iowaans were proud to march behind the distinguished soldier and all the state will be proud and that General McCain would permit of the long march. Unmounted, he walked three miles at the head of the Iowa column and was as fresh at the end as when he started. Smothered to death in a large barrel of oats was the unusual death which befell a 2-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stuilk, who lives one miles west of Williamson. The babe was playing in the yard when it fell headforemost into the barrel containing the oats. The little fellow managed to get out of the barrel and was observed by an older sister, who called her mother, saying that the baby's face was dirty. Mrs. Stuilk responded to the call and found the child gasping for breath. Its mouth nose and ears were filled with small grains of oats, and though a physician was summoned at once the babe died from strangulation. John D. Lawson, aged farther living four miles south of Ames, was struck by a freight train and seriously injured while crossing the Northwestern tracks at Kellogg street. One of his legs was badly crushed and he was severely bruised about the head and arms. It is not thought that the injuries will prove fatal, though the shock was a severe one for so old a man. His head was badly mutilated and they had to be shot. They were fine Percheron mares that he had been offered $500 for a few days ago. Mrs. May Hartzinger of Lincoln, Neb., who claims to be the common law wife of J. H. Peters, a telephone lineman who recently came to Story City with another and a younger bride, attempted to shoot him here. She arrives on an early train from her Nebraska home and immediately hunted him up and asked to speak with him. Upon his refusal to have anything to do with her the woman fired on him, one of the bullets grazing his arm as he ran. The others he escaped endure by dodging into a bay by alley. When he was arrested she her name as Mrs. Mary Hartzinger and her home as Lincoln, Neb., where she keeps a boating house. She says she picked up when he was down and out, staked him for $300 of her hard earned money and lived with him for three years as his wife, though she had neglected going through the legal ceremonies. Ruth Hoover, 50 years old, trained nurse and companion to Mrs. S. Davidson, 1625 Oakland avenue, Des Moines, tried three times to kill herself and was finally taken screaming out of the water on the south bank of the river at the foot of Fourth street at 2 o'clock in the morning. For two hours the woman had been arousing people by her shrill screams. Seemingly, she had tried to kill herself in the old Zoo lake. She had taken her clothes in a two ounce bottle of chloroform. And she had finally waded into the river, fully clothed, and struggled down stream for 200 feet before her clothes caught on the brush at the edge of the river and kept her head out of water. She declared that she was tired of living and resents the efforts of the police to save her. Miss Hoover has been a housekeeper and companion for Mrs. S. Davidson for nine years. She has suffered from stomach and nervous troubles for several weeks, and Mrs. Davidson believes that her suffering will respond to her attempts to will help. Miss Hoover left the house early in the evening and she was next seen by the men who pulled her from the river. Walking on the tracks of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad company in her sleep, it is believed, Mrs. Peter Schmidt of Clinton, received wounds which are hourly expected to result in her death. The woman's left arm and leg were cut off and her foot rested crush. Mrs. Schmidt, who had been ill for several days arose in the early morning and walked down the railroad tracks which run beside her home on Front street. In the darkness the crew of the train did not see the woman on the track and ran down the street. The fall session of the State Normal school opened on the 2nd. The enrollment the first day passed the 30 mark. Several new members of the faculty assumed positions in the school at the opening of this term. Anthony Debeal and 14-year-old son were killed by a fall of coal in the Sunshine mine west. Centerville They had been warned of the danger by the pit bess, but went under the coal and started to break it down, when it came with a cr. ash, crushing their lives out in an instant. Debeal leaves two little children, 7 and 9 years of age, orphans. THE LAND OF GRAIN JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD Author of "American Farmers Building a New Nation in the North"—"Canada—The Land of Greater Hope"—"The Invasion of Canada by American Farmers"—"A Thousand Miles on Horseback Across the Dominion Provinces," Etc., Etc. Not so many years ago the majority of people in the United States laughed at the prediction that the day was coming when Western Canada would far outstrip this country in the raising of grain—when, in other words, it would become the great bread-basket of the world. During the past three or four years the enormous production of grain in the Dominion West has thinned the ranks of those who doubted the destiny of Canada's vast grain growing regions; the crops of this year will dispel the doubts of the remaining few. From Winnipeg westward to the foothills of Alberta, over a country nearly a thousand miles in width, the grain production this year will be some 10 times the belief of those hundreds of thousands of American farmers whose average yield is not more than from ten to fifteen bushels of wheat to the acre, and who are finding that their product is also outclassed in quality by that of their northern neighbors. The enormous grain crop *c* of this year in the Canadian West may truthfully be said to be the production of a "few pioneers." One small percentage of the unnumbered millions of acres of grain land are under cultivation, notwithstanding the fact that tens of thousands of homesteaders were harvested in the past. All the figures are in, it will be found that the settlers of the western prairies have raised this year more than 125,000,000 bushels of wheat, 100,000,000 bushels of oats and 25,000,000 bushels of barley. It has been a "fortune making year" for thousands of American farmers who two or three years ago owned hardly more than the clothes upon their backs, and whose numbers have grown, yield them this season anywhere from $1,500 to $2,500 each, more money than many of them have seen at one time in all their lives. Very recently I passed through the western provinces from Winnipeg to Calgary, and in the words of a fellow passenger, who was astonished by what he saw from the car windows in Manitoba, we were, metaphorically speaking, in a "land of milk and honey." The country was one great sweep of ripening grain. In fact, so enormous was the crop, that at the time there were not getting ENOUGH BINDER TWINE TO SUPPLY THE DEMAND. A situation like this has never before been known in the agricultural history of any country. Before I made my first trip through the Dominion west I doubted very much the stories that I had heard of this so-called "grain wonderland" across the border. I believed, as unnumbered thousands of others believed, that the stories were circulated mostly to induce immigration. I quickly found that I was wrong. As one of the first stories we heard weeks ago, "If the whole 'ruth' were told about this country I don't suppose you could find one American in ten who would believe it." This year the prospects of the wheat crop of Saskatchewan, faniota and Alberta are an average of over TWENTY-FIVE BUSHELS TO THE ACRE, and that this grain is far superior to that raised in the states is proved by our own government statistics, which show that American millers are importing millions of bushels of B "Canadian hard" to mix with the home product in order that THIS HOME PRODUCT MAY BE RAISED TO THE REQUIRED STANDARD. It is a peculiar fact that while the Dominion Government is anxious for its western provinces to fill up with the very best of immigrants, there has been no blatant or senseless effort to destroy the value of this reason it is probable that not one American farmer out of fifty knows that Canada wheat now holds the world's record of value—that, in other words, it is the best wheat on earth, and that more of it is grown to the acre than anywhere else in the world. A brief study of climatic conditions, and those things which go to make a climate, will show that the farther one travels northward from the Montana border the milder the climate becomes—up to a certain point. In other words, the climate at Edmonton, Alberta, is far-better than that of Denver, 1,500 miles south; and while thousands of cattle and sheep are dying because of the severity of the winters in Wyoming, Montana and other western states, the cattle, sheep and horses of Alberta, GRACE ON THE SUNS, ASSOLUTELY NO SHELTER. This is all largely because sea-currents and air-currents have to do with the making of the climate of temperate regions. For instance, why is it that California possesses such a beautiful climate, with no winter at all, while the New England states on a parallel with it have practically six months of winter out of twelve? It is because of that great sweep of warm water known as the "Japan current," and this same current not only affects the westernmost of the Dominion provinces, but added to its influence are what are known as the "ethinch winds"—steadily and undevelly the currents which sweep over the great wheat regions of Western Canada. There are good scientific reasons why these regions are capable of producing better crops than our own western and central states, but best of all are the proofs of it in actual results. This year, for instance, as high as one hundred bushels of the acre will be gathered in an anthacite, the wheat will go to HIGH AS FIFTY BUSHELS TO THE ACRE, though of course this is an unusual yield. Last spring it was widely advertised that wheat crop was in failure. In fact, fewer wheat crop was in failure. In fact, this is Alberta's banner year in grain production, as it is Saskatchewan's and Manitoba's, and from figures already in it is estimated that Alberta's wheat will yield on an average of THIRTY-FIVE BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. In many parts of the province returns will show a yield of as high as FIFTY bushels to the acre and it is freely predicted by many that when the official figures are in a yield of at least forty-five instead of thirty-five bushels to the acre will be shown. At the time of my last journey through the Canadian West, when my purpose was to write a critical article for book use, I solicited letters from American settlers in all parts of the three provinces, and most of these make most interesting reading. The letter was written by A. Kaltenbrunner, whose postoffice address is Regina, Saskatchewan. "A few years ago," he says, "I took up a homestead for myself and also one for my son. The half section which we own is between Rouland and Drinkwater, adjoining the Moosewreck, and is a low, level and heavy land. Last year we put in 100 acres of wheat which went 25 bushels to the acre. Every bushel of it was No.1. That means the best wheat that can be raised on earth is the warmer. We also threshed 9,000 bushels of first class oats out of 160 acres. Eighty acres was falloping and YIELDED NINETY BUSHELTS TO THE ACRE. We got 53 cents a bushel clear. All our grain was cut in the last week of the month of August. We will make more money out of our crops this year than last. For myself, I feel compelled to say that Western Canada crops cannot be checked, even by unusual conditions." An itemized account shows a single year's earnings of this settier and his 2,500 bushels of wheat at 90 cents a bushel. $2,250 9,000 bushels of oats at 53 cents a bushel..... 4.770 Total ..... $1,7020 It will be seen by the above that this man's oat crop was worth twice as much as his wheat crop. While the provinces of western Canada will for all time to come be the world's greatest wheat growing regions, oats are running the former grain a close race for supremacy. The soil and climatic conditions in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta are particularly favorable to the production of oats, and this grain, like the wheat, runs a far greater crop to the acre than any other crop. The acre of the union. Ninety bushels to the acre is not an unusual yield, whole homesteads frequently running this advantage. And this is not the only advantage Western Canada oats have over those of the United States, for in weight they run between forty and fifty pounds to the bushel, No. 4 oat goes to sixty-two pounds to the bushel. In fact, so heavy is Canadian grain of all kinds, and especially the wheat, that throughout the west one will see cars with great placards upon them, which read: "This car is not to be filled to capacity with Alberta wheat." pacity with Alberta wheat." When I made my first trip through the Canadian West a few years ago I found thousands of settlers living in rude shacks, tent shelters and homes of logs and clay. Today one will find these old homes scattered from the woodlands of the country no longer used by human tenants. Modern homes have taken their place—for it has come to be a common saying in these great grain regions that, "The first year a settler is in the land he earns a living; the second he has money enough to build himself a modern home and harms; the third he is independent." And as extreme as this statement may seem to those hundreds of thousands of American farmers who strive for a meager existence, it is absolutely true. I am an American, as patriotic, I believe, as most of our people—but even at that I cannot believe that such lives are such an endless and unhappy grind, might know of the new life that is awaiting them in this last great war—this "land of greater hope," where the farmer is king, and where the wealth all rests in his hands. As one American farmer said to me, "It is hard to pull up stakes and move's couple of thousand miles." And so it is—or at least it appears to be. And in a month it can be done. And the first year, when the new settler reaps a greater harvest than he has ever possessed before, he will rise to the top of the ranks in Western Canada and thank the government that has given him, free of cost, a new life, a new home, and new hopes—which has made of him, in fact, "A man among men, a possessor of wealth among his people." Progress Reported "Did you have any luck fishing?' "Yes." "How many did you catch?" "I didn't catch any. But I thought up some mighty good stories to tell the folks at home." DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES A RHEUMATISM BRIGHTS DISEASE DIABETES BACKUP 1375 "Guarantee" THE DUTCH BOY PAINTER STANDS FOR PAINT QUALITY IT IS FOUND ONLY ON PURE WHITE LEAD MADE BY THE'S OLD DUTCH PROCESS. ENTERTAINED AMERICAN TARS Sir Joseph George Ward, K. C. M. G., premier of New Zealand, showed the tars of the American battle fleet, during their recent visit to that country, that all colonial officials are not of the Swettenham type. He had charge of the entertaining of the bluejackets and he acquitted himself royally. In addition to dinners and balls in the city he took them for a two-days trip into the interior and showed them the natural wonders that have made New Zealand known throughout the world. The tars of the American admiral stir up a sleeping geyser, and he had the tars peep into the bladder pit which the Maoris have always regarded as the place of final torments. He showed them the most socialistic government in the world a country socialist in which at the polls as well as in the man, and the Mariel stands the same, and the Malcolm stands out and explains interesting country than Premier Ward, his life, knows every foot of the country. Sir Joseph is a typical Englishman he well-shaped head and wide-open eyes. He and would impress one as a successful and a genial manner. It was for very m a haronet. It was in acknowledgment he was premier when the duke and duck he it was his place to receive them. A tertaining the American tars as he did gusta. Sir Joseph is 51 years of age and is LATE TURKISH all as in the courts woman has the same rights as on the same plane with the white man. And no out and explain the things of interest in that most senior Ward, for he has been in politics nearly all the country and is versed in all its problems. The Englishman in appearance, tall, stout, with a large, open eyes. He is very ordinary in his appearance a successful business man with a kindly nature as for very meritorious services that he was made owledgement of his powers as an entertainer, for sake and duchess of Cornwall visited New Zealand live them. And he took just as great pains in ears as he did when he had sprigs of royalty as of age and is still in the prime of life. in which at the polls as well as in the court woman has the same rights as man, and the Marol stands on the same plane with the white man. And no man is better able to point out and explain the things of interest in that most interesting country than Premier Ward, for he has been in politics nearly all his life, knows every foot of the country and is versed in its problems. Sir Joseph is a typical Englishman in appearance, tall, stout, with a large, well-shaped head and wide-open eyes. He is very ordinary in his appearance and would impress one as a successful business man with a kindly nature and a genial manner. It was for very mertorious services that he was made a baronet, and he was a member of his baronetry for being born when the duke and duchess of Cornwall visited New Zealand and it was his place to receive them. And he took just as great pains in entertaining the American tars as he did when he had sprads of royalty as grestia. Sir Joseph is 51 years of age and is still in the prime of life. LATE TURKISH AMBASSADOR Mehmed Ali Bey, the Turkish ambassador to the United States, who has just been unceremoniously dumped out of his position by an order from Constantinople, is a victim of chance, just as he was favored of that goddess when he received appointment. For Mehmed Ali Bey was made ambassador through the influence of his father, Izet Pasha, who was private secretary to the imperial admiral. It is an eloquent illustration of the whirligig of time that even while the son is recalled by his government and, presumably, reduced to the ranks, his father is declared at this moment to be hidden in New York, a fugitive from justice and sought by the "Young Turkey" leaders in Gotham, who hated him during the sunny days when his word was a potent influence with the sultan. the sultan. He was unfit for his position. He is a man of cub- diplomatic corps, although only 35 years old. He seems of the foreign office at home before coming more liberal in his views than were most of his is declared by the Turkish revolutionists in New hidden somewhere in that city, with a great share better who speaks perfect English and who screens n. kunduf Bay, late Turkish consul general to the ambassador as charge d'affaires, and who Young Turkish" movement, is positive that the city, and that he will be discovered. Just what to the pasha if the revolutionists should find him tion. FOLK'S PLACE Not that Mehmed Ali was unified for his position. He is a man of culture and ranked high in the diplomatic corps, although only 35 years old. He was one of the chief counselors of the foreign office at home before coming to America. He is much more liberal in his views than were most of his Not that Mehmed All was unfitified ture and ranked high in the diplomatic was one of the chief counselors of the to America. He is much more liberal predecessors. His father, Izset Pasha, is declared York to be at this moment hidden some of his fortune and an interpreter who sp his master from observation. Mundji New York and named to succeed the ami is in sympathy with the "Young Turk former "boss" is in that city, and that would be likely to happen to the pasha first is a matter for speculation. SEEKS FOLI His father, Izeta Pasha, is declared by the Turkish revolutionists in New York to be at this moment hidden somewhere in that city, with a great share of his fortune and an interpreter who speaks perfect English and who screens his master from observation. Mundu Bey, late Turkish consul general to New York and named to succeed the ambassador as charge d'affaires, and who is sympathetic to the revolutionists, formulates "in that city, that he will be discovered. Just what would be likely to happen to the pasha if the revolutionists should find him first is a matter for speculation. SEEKS FOLK'S PLACE William S. Cowherd, who received a plurality of the votes in the primary as Democratic candidate for governor of Missouri, will have to fight for his place on the ticket in the courts of the state. Walter Ball, who landed second in the running, has started a contest, and has placed before the prosecuting attorneys of three counties evidence tending to show that the governor was fraudulent. One peculiar feature of the campaign which closed with the primaries was the fact that Cowherd secured his plurality in the three cities of St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield. Every other county in the entire state went heavily against Cowherd, yet he plied up such enormous majorities in the three cities named that he overcome the adverse lead and had several thousand votes to spare, according to the Coward is 48 years old, a native of has practiced law in Kansas City ever sinceiversity, except when he was too busy plea His political career may be said to h as assistant prosecuting attorney in 1888 city counselor's office as first assistant, years and served in congress for eight of his district. In the recent campaign he was cred Senator William J. Stone, himself a cand brovest opponent, was said to have the latter has been asked to send Kansas City and St. Louis to assist the search for crookedness in the primaries, he does not consider it the place of the in any such investigation, but rather to hands of the local officers. TO DIRECT NE according to the returns. a native of the cobpipe state and a lawyer. He City ever since his graduation from the state uni- too busy playing the game of politics, he said to have commenced with his appointment arney in 1885. From that position he went to the test assistant, was mayor of Kansas City for two for eight years, retiring in 1905 at the request he was credited with the support of United States himself a candidate for re-election. Ball, Coward's it to have the backing of Gov. Folk. knew to send the attorney-general of the state to to assist the local prosecuting departments in the the primaries, but the executive has intimated that apiece of the state officials to take any active part but rather to leave the whole investigation in the CT NEW THEATER Coward is 48 years old, a native of the cob-pipe state and a lawyer. He has practiced law in Kansas City ever since his graduation from the state university, except when he was too busy playing the game of politics. His political career may be said to have commenced with his appointment as assistant prosecuting attorney in 1885. From that position he went to the city counselor's office as first assistant, was mayor of Kansas City for two years and served in congress for eight years, retiring in 1905 at the request of his district. In the recent campaign he was credited with the support of United States Senator William J. Stone, himself a candidate for re-election. Ball, Coward's strongest opponent, was asked to have the backing of Gov. Folk. The state asked to send the local prosecuting departments in the search for crookedness in the primaries, but the executive has intimated that he does not consider it the place of the state officials to take any active part in any such investigation, but rather to leave the whole investigation in the hands of the local officers. TO DIRECT NEW THEATER Donald Robertson, who is to be director of the new municipal theater experiment in Chicago, is equally well known as an actor and a manager. He has from the inception of the Chicago idea been an ardent supporter of the experiment, and it will be carried out upon his own lines. There is little similarity between the new theater project in New York and the municipal playhouse in Chicago. The former is a private men's club, founded by a group of men who, seeing the need of an untrammeled stage for the perpetuation of the classic drama, banded themselves together, furnished the money to put up a magnificent building, and announced a scale of prices in keeping with the superior quality of the entertainment with the s efered. The Chicago idea, however, is the presentation of a series of classic p am admission fee whatever. The p improved project, occupying by assignment it has been arranged to present a se alerton hall, an adjunct of the Chic day evening of the week. The se tember, and the Robertson player from the classic German, Spanish class maywrights. The financial bus will be named by the directors and me sbe also, 1600 people, and admission until the demand from that field is satis incidentally, the municipal theater in ment—no light cleverness nor frothy mum sketchy reviews. Rather, it is to be h nanny, with the idea of educating the however, is mainly educational, and contemplates of classic plays by a capable stock company for The Chicago institution will be in a sense a muy assignment a municipal building. present a season of 30 weeks of dramatic offerings of the Chicago Art institute, with performances week. The season will begin with the last week of art players will offer in historical perspective man, Spanish, Scandinavian, Italian, French and financial burden of the whole artistic experiment actors and members of the Art institute, who num-admission will be restricted to the membership field is satisfied. the theater in Chicago will not be a place of amuse- fory frothy music—no superficial problem plays nor it is to be heavy, heavy to the verge almost of deceit the public taste rather than catering to it. federed. The Chicago idea, however, is mainly educational, and contemplates the presentation of a series of classic plays by a capable stock company for admission fee whatever. The Chicago institution will be in a sense a municipal project, occupying by assignment a municipal building. It has been arranged to present a season of artistic offerings in the尔伦 hall, an adjunct of the Art Institute, with performances today evening of each season. The season will begin with the last week the member, and otheruber players will offer in historical perspective from classic German, Spanish, Scandinavian, Italian, French and also lightwrights. The financial burden of the whole artistic experiment will be damned by the directors and members of the Art Institute, who number also 1,500 people, and admission will be restricted to the membership until the demand from that field is satisfied. Incidentally, the municipal theater in Chicago will not be a place of amusement—no light cleverness nor frosty music—no superficial problem plays nor starchy reviews. Rather, it is to be heavy, heavy to the verge almost of pandery, with the idea of educating the public taste rather than catering to it. It sure will pay you to come to Des Moines, to Davidson's, for your Carpets, Furniture, Etc. A larger assortment, assured quality, and lowest prices are some of the advantages of purchasing here. Write us what you are interested in this fall. Iowa's largest Furniture and Carpet Store. DAVIDSONS PEOPLE'S FURNITURE STORE 110 W. WALKST ST. DES MOINES, IOWA. Time Payments Arranged on Any Sale. M. B. JOHN H. BURKE A. H. THE RING AND THE OSTRICHES By FRANK RUSSELL Billy Nutzel and me wus trappin' and huntin' down here together in Patagonia for 'bout three time, an' had got a thunderin' big lot of furs an' skins. Billy se to me one day, as how it 'ud be best to take 'em to Frisco and sell 'em there, as we could git half the wuth of 'em here, an', besides, we oughher have a bit of a spell an' awe so I says buono, we'll go. We bit the furms, enemas, where nearly all our furs wus and where we'd have ketch a boat. There wasn't nuthin' but these cargo trump steamers in the straits then, and the feller in the office there ses as how no boat won't come for awhile, so we put u up at the Gaucho hotel, run by a Auriatrika, to wait till she happened along. We'd been in this shack a couple o' days, an one evenin' I wus down in the barroom, havin' a quiet time by myself, when all of a sudden I hears Billy, yelling for me to come there I bury, grabs my old 40, thinkin' he's in seri's trouble, and tears back to his room. "Sit down," ses he, "I got a bally good scheme." I stowed away the gun, disgusted, and gave 'im some advice 'bought frighten'n people with heart trouble, which he took on notis uf. "Look here," he sez, "we're goin' ter make our forcin't trip, shore. We'll rig up a couple o' inkbaters, and fill 'em with awstrich egg, an' bout the time we git to 'Frisco they'll be nearly ready to hatch, an' we can sell 'em alive to these rich sports, and sell mebe some to a circus or menagery. They'll fetch a fat price, an' wed wough git a pile o' coin out ull. "Hilly" was proper loo' bout this scheme, an' kep 'tellin' it over, an' over again, an' fatn' an' whackin' the table with his fat, and planin' how we'd spend the money, 'till blamed if he didn't git me roused up, too, an' so I said we'd give it a trial, bein's it ud cost nothin'. I never seen an inkbater on dooily before, but Bill he'd been on a farm up in Santa Fe, where there was lots uv 'em, and then he's a mighty handy chap with the tools, is Bill, so betwit us both we rigged up a couple of big boxes, and got some spit lamps off a schoencher, an' put some rings in the boxes so to hang 'em up in the boat with ropes, to keep 'em from rockin' in 'em, to fetch the eggs. You know how plentiful is awatrich eggs now in December? Well, they's a lot more plentiful than days, an' we got the hoses loaded in no time. We got the eggs to Punta Arenas, and filled up the inkbaters. Betwit 'em they held more 400. All over the outside of the boxes we painted in Spanish and English 'Hand with a spatula. Contury Putry so old boat hove in sight—Englishman she wuz,'bout 5,000 tons. When ever*thing wuz aboard, Bill went 'round to the first mate, tellin' him 'bout our inkybaters, 'a印ed 'im ten dollars to let us put 'em up for*ard in an empty storroom. So we drove some big staples in the cellin' an swung 'nothing was goin' so easy that me 'a Bill wuz getin' more confident in the scheme evry mint. A woman and two kids was the only other passengers on board, 'cause in them days mighty few people went up the west coast. We figured the eggs 'ud hatch out a week after we got to *Frisco*, and it would have to, but when we got up here to Callao an*loaded of b cargo, a feller, with a bunch of soldiers, come aboard, an' said the plague had broken out an' we gotter stay in quarantine. Well, the plague got wuss an' wuss, an' we had to lie there for three weeks befo' we got away, an' the cap'in of the boat wasn't half as mature as the man, and the striches are going ter hatch on board an' cause trouble. After we left Callao we couldn't git inter any other port 'it'll after a bunch of umfishs had nosed round fur a couple of days, an ' finally the cap'in sesz that we'd be two months behind time when we got to 'Frisco. One morning 'jest befo' we got to Panama, Bill had a look at the eggs, an 'comes back madden' a 'fresh-sheared ram. He says: "The awstriches are comin". We hired the carpenter to make crates for 'em, an 'it kep' 'im working overtime to keep up with the demand. Bill wouldn't let me do nothin', said he's a proper burt financeer, an 'wus gon'ter 'leehp on 'em himself. The cap'in 'm a bit sore 'bout this sudden cargo o' live stock, but Bill giv 'im a roll of foil 'sinks 'an guanaco cap, an 'some fun to the other officers, and they's Bill's friends the first mate told the cook to have all the leavin's an 'put 'em in a basket outside the galle, where Bill could get it hardy to feed the chicks. Out o' the whole lot o' eggs nearly 400 hatched; but a few died, so we had 'bout 360 left. An' you oughter seen 'em grow! The cap'n promised Bill he could turn 'em out on deck ever Sat day fur' he'd have when he'd open the boxes they'd be all over the deck, 'or ard an' aft, in five minits. They's great han's to swallow things—burnt matches, cigarette stumps, buttons an' bits of iron, an' they will auskill pickin' at nall heads an' bots an' spots o' paint. One Sat day Bairl let 'em loose, and we will round deck for more'n two hours, when I hears a fall from a bell, I thought one of them kids with the woman had fell over, so I tears back along the dock, shuckin' on my coat, *an* I sees the woman hot-footed after a airstretch, but it gets mixed up with the crowd and they all run for *ard* together. I asks her what's the trouble, and she begins swaller her dimin' ring, and that Bill has got to cut 'em all open till he finds it. I told her I'd see Bill and see what he sees, and started off, and she looks for the cap'in. She sets forth that she left the ring on 'er toilet stand, an' wag up on deck for a walk. When she comes back the airstretch was stunned 'in' back to the wall, and she stairn' in, when she went to git the ring it was gone, so she chases the burt till they git mixed up together. She reckons there's only one thing to do, and that's to git a knife an' examine 'em all inside, till we git the right one. Everybody knew how bad the airstreches was 'bout swaller things, specually shiny things, so of course we thought the ring was inside of one of the boys. "How much is this here ring walt?" *See Bill*. "Till you for it." But the woman it ses it wus a present from her first husband, an' had a dimin' in it as big as her thumb, an' she wouldn't take a thousand dollars fur it. Bill they jawed for an hour, till Bill thinks of a scheme to ght ring without slaughterin' the burds; so he hustles round fur the doctor to "I Heare a Yell from Afi." make 'em sick, but they, wouldn't divulge the ring that 'ere way. We see right off that this scheme is no good, and Bill sez: "Suppose we leave 'em fur a few days, an 'mbewe will have terrible rough weather, an 'they'll g吃硅ex, an 'ring' g吃身体, nacherally roared, 'cept the woman—she got proper red-headed. "You're git'n right, 'foolish' sez to Bill. "Them burds gotter be bisected right off. Bill sees there's nothin' else to do, so we gits a knife each, an 'begins the investelection. The woman follers, too, allowin' she guts you. We gits to do the killin' an 'skinnin' (cause the wus wus with a good bit) an 'Bill an 'the woman wus goin' ter do the prospectin'. We worked all that day, killin' an 'skinnin' and prospectin', an 'found ever'thing in the world inside uv 'em 'cept the ring. We started again the next morin; and pretty soon had all the swatrices killed 'cept five, an' still no ring in sight "Bout that time here come them two bally little kids, on the hot jump. "We found yr ring under the bed, mommer," one of 'em hollered. Well, I thought Bill was agoin' to massakor the whole crowd. He jumped up on a ford arach, flung his hat overboard, an' curved 30 minutes of breath, and done a proper war dance the whole time. "If any you gangle-legged shakes want to champen this here female, let im 'proach to 'is death, an' I'll mash his face like a spilled patter, he howled out; but everybody was safe under cover, an' he had the boat to himself. After 'while he he got tired an' set down, but still a cussin', so I went out to 'im to pacify 'im. "Don't take it so hard, Bill." I see, "Well be in 'Frisco soon, an' then we can be back to Patagonia fur another crop of awrish egg." And that's why we're here. SMART YOUTH. Uncle (to noisy nephew)—When I was your age, my lad, I was seen and not heard. Nephew—Not much of a treat for the lookers on, was it, Nun! A Simple Matter of Suggestion A tall, slender young woman, with a disdainful air that was rather becoming to her, moved restlessly about a room that was littered with all the accessories and the confusion of packing. She sat down for a moment to pick up a refractory ribbon with her bodkin, when there was a hurried knock on the door, and entered her best friend. "Oh, my dear," she said, fluttering down upon the window ledge, the only available seat she could find. "I came around breathlessly because I heard you were too ill to stay in town another day, and here I find you packing as calmly as though nothing were the matter. "The imaginary invalid fixed her with a cold eye. "You are the twenty-ninth," she said. "The twenty-ninth? What twenty-ninth?" asked the friend, anxiously wondering if brain fever had already set in. The invalid dropped her bodkin. "The twenty-ninth person who is making this trip a necessity for me," she said, coldly. "Three persons stopped me in one store and four in another to say anxiously: 'How pale you are! Have you been ill? or, You look awfully done up; why don't you go home and rest? Well, I did go home, but not to rest The insidious poison of those thought less remarks was beginning to get in its good work. 'My dear,' said mamma meeting me at the door as I came in 'you are not looking at all well to-day Do go and lie down.' Do go and lie down! The irrorious I passed for signs of decay. I didn't sleep that night for wondering if I were really going to be ill, have typhoid fever or appendicitis or something. "The next day was Mary's wedding. I went, looking paler than a ghost, as you may perhaps remember you took pains to tell me. So did every one else. By that time I knew it was tuberculosis. I even began to cough and to imagine I could taste blood. My brother advised Scotch whisky. I detest it, but I took it regularly three times. It was so much better than it. Manna insisted on raw eggs: I took them, too. They made me frightfully billious. I don't like milk, but I drank several glasses a day, and began a tonic of iron and quinine. "It began to leak out around town that I was going away for my health People congratulated me and said it was the very thing I ought to do. I had the least idea of going. I had planned to stay in town all summer, and have a perfectly lovely trip to the autumn. But not at all. I was going to be literally driving me away. If I stayed here and had to listen to another word on the subject of my health I should die or go mad." Her friend fluttered down beside her "You poor child," she said. "I know exactly how you feel. I went through the same thing precisely winter before last. They just would have it that it was ill until I actually became a wreck, and it cost papa a pretty penny to pull me through, what with doctor's bills and massage and a trained nurse. It's downright heartless for people to make things like that about other people's pallor and worn-out appearance and all that sort of thing. It always has its influence. No matter how well you are feeling, if some one comes slong and says sympathetically that you look pale or tired your whole system seems to respond with a pale and tired feeling. Now, I dare say you aren't feeling ill at all." "Oh, yes I am," broke in the imaginary invalid. "I wasn't at first, but it's been rubbed in too hard not to make a lasting impression. If I had not taken well, I had told me I was looking unusually well I am certain I should have summed all my forces to meet their opinion." "Well, I think that all disparaging remarks about one's health should be punishable by law," said her friend decidedly. "I never again expect to tell any she looks bad even if I see her cut in two by a trolley car or run over by an automobile. Once I saw a woman turn death pale, and I knew she was going to faint. It was at the play, and I simply turned to her and said, 'How remarkably well you are looking,' and will you believe me, my dear, she became rosy in a moment. It was like a whiff of ammonia to her. That was a justifiable story, but of course wouldn't go out of my way to tell me what I see. Still, when I look at you, being driven from your happy home and having all your plans upset by a lot of thought less half-truefens I don't know if it isn't better to go about scattering such stories in every direction," and she drew off her gloves and picked up the bodkin with a determined air. Timely Advice When Mark Twain revisited Elmira he was invited to address the inmates of the State Reformatory. Seeking to illustrate a point in his talk, he drew a hand-colored watch from his pocky ear said: "For instance, take my watch—" He got no further. Many of the inmates had been placed in the institution for taking watches, and the humor of the situation seemed to strike every listening convict. Glee ful shouts of recognition and approval were heard, a speaker hesitated and realized that, temporarily at least, he had lost. Derivation of "Sheeny." The word "Sheeny," as applied in an improbable way to Jews, is by some identified with the word "Chien," which is French for "dog." But other identify this word with "Shien." the initial letter in "Shekhnah," which makes the original application of the term an honorable one. Value of African Peanut The African peanut is less delicate than the American as an article food, but it yields more generational oil, and is more easily crushed. Mary. M. Mary E. H. House, of Cam bridge. N. Y. sava: "Five, year, age." mays: "Five years ago I had a bad fall and it affected my kidneys back and back hips became constant, and sharp twinges followed any exertion. The kidneys secretions were badly disordered. I lost flesh and grew too I had a bad fall and it affected my knees. Severe pains in my back and hips became constant, and sharp twings followed any exertion. The kidney secretions were badly disordered. I lost flesh and creew too weak to work. Though constantly using medicine I despaired of being cured until I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. Then relief came quickly, and in a short time I was completely cured. I am now in excellent health." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. MUCH UP AGAINST IT. Old Lady's Description of Ills Some What Confusing. Mrs. Rhoda Holmes Nichols, the artist who spends the summer at Gloucester, Mass., where she teaches a numerous sketch class, tells of an old woman who lives on the outskirts of the town and whom she has known for a number of years. The old lady has often been sketched by the students of Mrs. Nichols' class, and is known to them and to everybody else as Aunt Sally. When Mrs. Nichols went to Gloucester this year she called at the quaint little cottage and found the old woman rather more bent than last year and looking a good deal older as she tattered along her little garden leaning on a stick. "Well, Aunt Sally," said the artist, "that have you been since last summer." "Oh, not very well," she replied, shaking her head, "not very well." "Is the rheumatism still bad?" "Oh, yes, miss, it's that bad nowadays I can't set and I can't scarcely lay." CURED HER CHILDREN. Girls Suffered with Itching Eczema Baby Had a Tender Skin, Too- Relled on Cuticula Remedies. "Some years ago my three little girls had a very bad form of eczema. Itching eruptions formed on the backs of their heads which were simply covered. I tried almost everything, but failed. Then my mother recommended the Cuticula Remedies. I washed my children's heads with Cuticula Soap and then applied the wonderful ointment, Cuticula. I did this four or five times and then say I was so severely愈ed. I have another baby who is so jumped that the folds of skin on his neck were broken and even cut. I used Cuticula Soap and Cuticula Ointment and the next morning the trouble had disappeared. Mme. Napolon Ducepe, 41 Duluth 81, Montreal, Que., May 21, 1907." On the Doctors. Mary. Mrs G. Baker Eddy, who, of course, has no faith in medicine, told a Western Christian Scientist, at one of her latest audiences, an anecdote about a friend of hers. This friend, a thin and nervous woman, could not sleep. She visited her physician and the man said: "I want anything just before going to bed." "Oh, no, doctor," the patient replied. "Well," said the physician, "just keep a pitcher of milk and some biscuit beside you, and every night, the last thing you do, make a light meal." "But doctor," cried the lady, "you to me on account to eat anything before eating," pooh. "Pooh," said the doctor, "that was three months ago. Science has made enormous strides since then." Too Much Afraid of Dirt It is quite true that "cleanliness is next to godliness," but in this day of fads and scientific frills the question is whether we are not getting altogether too afraid of a little dirt. Dirt has been defined as matter in the wrong place, and hygiene is the science of keeping it in the right place. But we are not all in the right place, but all a little bit too much up in the air on the matter of cleanliness; a little too afraid of coming in contact with the clean-smelling, kindly earth, and in danger of becoming nasty-nice.—Washington Herald. Baseball Technicality. A few weeks ago some boys were playing ball in an apartment house yard. A colored waiter came out of the kitchen and in a very cross manner told them to stop right away. One boy, who had gone to get a drink came back and found the others making ready to leave; he asked, wonderingly, "What is the matter?" and another one calmly answered, "the game was called off on account of darkness. REMAINS THE SAME Well Brewed Postum Always Palatable The flavour of Postum, when boiled according to directions, is always the same—mild, distinctive, and palatable. It contains no harmful substance like caffeine, the drug in coffee, and hence may be used with benefit at all times. "Believing that coffee was the cause of my torpid liver, sick headache and misery in many ways," writes an Ind. lady, "I quit and bought a package of Postum about a year ago. "My husband and I have been so well pleased that we have continued to drink Postum ever since. We like the taste of Postum better than coffee, as it has always the same pleasant flavour, while coffee changes its taste with about every new combination or blend. "Since using Postum I have had no more attacks of gall collet, the heaviness has left my chest, and the old, common, everyday headache is a thing unknown." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Welville," in nkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. WHAT THE TRADE MARK MEANS TO THE BUYER Few people realize the importance of the words "Trade Mark" stamped on the goods they buy. If they did it would save them many a dollar spent for worthless goods and put a lot of unscrupulous manufacturers out of the business. When a manufacturer adopts a trade mark, he assumes the entire responsibility for the merit of his product. He takes his business reputation in his hands—out with the lightlamp—"on the square" with the lightlamp of his goods, with the dealer, and with himself. The other manufacturer—the one who holds out "inducements," offering to brand all goods purchased with each local dealer's brand—sidesteps responsibility, and when these inferior goods "come back" it's the local dealer that must pay the penalty. A good example of the kind of protection the public be able to a trade mark is that offers in connection with National Lead Company's advertising of pure White Lead as the best paint material. That the Dutch Boy Painter trade mark is an absolute guarantee of purity in White Lead is proved to the most skeptical by the offer. National Lead Company make to send free to any address a blow-pipe and instruc-tion to set the white lead for themselves. To set the outfit is being sent out from the New York office of the company, Woodbridge Building. When the Little Man Scared A meek-looking little man with a large pateboard box climbed on the car. As he did so he bumped slightly into a sleepy, corpulent passenger with a self-satisfied look and two little dabs of sidewisher. As the car rounded a curve the box rubbed against him again and he groused: "This is no freight car, is it?" "Nope," no return the meek little chap with the box, and when you come right down to it, it isn't any cattle car, either, is it?" STATE OF OLD CITY OF TOLEDO, LA. LUCAS COUNTY. 12. FRANK J. CHENYK makes oath that he is senior business in the City of Toledo, County and doing business in the City of Toledo, County will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED COLLEGE CURRENCY of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use of HALF'S CATARRH CURRENCY. FRANK J. CHENYK Surname to be me and subservient in my presence, on the 15th of December, A. J. WILSON, | REAL | | Thoreau's Sensible Answer When the forest-hunting hernith Thoreau lay on his deathbed, a Calvinistic friend called to make inquiry regarding his soul. "Henry," he said, anxiously, "have you made your peace with God?" "John," replied the dying naturalist, in a whisper, "I didn't know that God and myself had quarrelled." Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA care and safety for infants and children, and see that it bears the Signature of CASTORIA In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. We Know That Fellow. "That man over there is the biggest sin in the city." "Rob you, would he?" "Rob! 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Gregory, of 2355 Lawrence St., Denver, Col., writes to Mrs. Pinkham: "I was practically an invalid for six years, on account of female troubles, and I was not a doctor's advice, but in a few months I was worse than before. A friend advised Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Health, such as I have not enjoyed in many years. Any woman suffering as I did with backache, bearing-down pains, and periodic pain, should not fail in E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female illis, and has positively cured thousands of displacements, inflammation and displacements, inflammation, fibroid tumors, irregularities periodic painis, backache, that bearing-down feeling, fattening, indigestion, dizziness or nervous prostration. Why don't you try it? Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to advice. She has guided them to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. Miss Bertha Gunn of Chicago, is visiting at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Taylor on Marlon street. Miss Garner Fowler expects to leave me week for Jefferson City, Mo., where she will enter Lincoln Institute. Miller Hughes is very ill. Mr. and Mrs. George Robinson are the proud parents of a son. At "Everybody's Birthday Party," given by R. M. E. Briar, E. M. E. chatham last Wednesday, Mr. Joseph Coots received a souvenir Bible for being the oldest person present and his great granddaughter, little Mary Robinson, received a smaler Bible, being the youngest present. Mr. Coots was 67, Mrs. Robinson and old Mrs. Batchar has returned from Des Moines. Mr. and Mrs. John Harvey of Buxton, are in the city visiting Mrs. Harvey's parents. Mrs. Cloe Washington of Springfield, Ill., is the guest of Miss Sarah Bradford. Mr. Chas. Owens is still on the slack list. Walter Davis, Sr., and family, have moved to Mason City. DAVENPORT NEWS. Mrs. Christine of 906 Henry street was called to Cedar Rapids by the illness. Mrs. S. Bates of Des Moines, was in our city Tuesday night last, and preached at the third Baptist church. He left Wednesday morning enroute for Burlington. The Young Peoples' Drill club met in regular business meeting Tuesday night, at 5:30 Green, manager, Sunday, September 6, 1908, is the last quarterly meeting for this year. Annual conference convenes in Keo-kooki one week in September. Mrs. E. Green is reported sick, but improving very slow. Bro. McGraw of 035 Brown street, is well as can be expected for a man of his age. Davenport is the place September 7th, the Eureka lodge give their annual picnic at northwest hall. He will invite everybody to come out and have a day's outing in the forest of leaves. Game is played, p. 22. Mona lodge, Plow City, Moline, will combat for the title and honor. The night porter of the Davenport hotel attended the Ringling Bros. show and reported the best he had ever seen in his life. We can agree with him because he came from a town which is not on the map and has one freight train. Ms. Baily of Chicago, Ill., is playing at the Elite Appraisal this week. While in the city is stopping with Mr. and Mrs. E. Green, 316 West 5th street. Mr. M. Swader of Davenport, returned home from St. Paul, where he attended the G. L. of I. P. B. O. E. and reports a very fine session. In South R. I. were callers in Davenport Sunday, calling on many old friends. After an evening's outing, they listened to a very able sermon preached by Rev. W. W. Williams, A. M. E. church. They then returned to their home. Ms. Baily, formerly of Chicago, who is playing this week at the Elite opera house, will leave today for St. Louis, to fill a two-week's engagement. Mr. G. H. Merchant of 316 W. Sih street, after spending several days in Minneapolis, Minn., visiting his son and attending the grand lodge of I. B. E. returned home this morning. He says Davenport is good enough for him. KEQKUK NEWS Mrs. Maggie Douglass of St. Louis Mo., visited in the city a few days last week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. Tebacle, 419 N., 10th street. Miss Alice Lankton, of St. Joseph, Mo. is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Ashby, 1307 Morgan St. About forty friends of Mrs. Maggie Dinglehurst. Monthly surprise her at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Teabean, 1802 Times street. The evening was pleasantly spent. The guests departed at a late hour after having expressed themselves as having a most enjoyable time. Mrs Douglas morning mingles in St. Louis. The annual conference of the A. M. E. church convenes in Keokuk, Iowa, Sept. 10, a very large delegation is expected. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson returned home Saturday morning from Hannibal, Mo., where they have attended the meeting of the or the or the U. B. F. and S. M. T, which convened in that city the 26, 27 and 28th inst. Mrs Sarah Vaughn returned home Saturday morning from Hannibal, where she attended the Bapist association and also the grand session of the Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ashby are spending their vacation in Burlington and Monmouth. A Traveling Man's Experience. "I must tell you my experience on an E east bound O. R. & N. R. R. train from Pendleton to Le Grande, Ore." writes Sam A. Garber, a well known travelling man. "I was in the smoking department with some other travelling men when one of them went out into the coach and came back and said, 'There is a woman sick unto death in car.' I at once got up and went out, found her very ill with cramp colic, her hands and arms were drawn up so you could not straighten them, and with a death like look on her face. Two or three ladies were working with her and giving her whiskey. I went to my suit case and got my bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy (I never travel without it), ran to the water tank, put a double dose of the medicine in it and stirred it with a pencil; then I had quite a time to get the ladies to let me give it to her, but I succeeded. I could at once see the effect and I worked with her rubbing her hands, and in twenty minutes I gave her another dose. By this time we were almost into Le Grande, where I was to leave the train. I gave 'the bottle to the hambur to be used in case another dose should be needed, but by the time the train ran into Le Grande she was all right, and I received the thanks of every passenger in the car." For sale in all departments. Rev. M. G. Newman will preach his farewell sermon Sunday, Sept 6th and will leave for conference which convenes at Keokuk, Iowa, Sept. 8th. He has won many friends in our city, Rev. Newman has done a good work here while in our mids, when he visited virtually it has done fine financially. The pastor built a lovely cottage of 6 rooms which is valued at $3,200. He kindly donated his time and labor on the edifice for which the public as well as the members than him. May God give him the opportunity. The Co-operative association will meet at the Mt. Zion Baptist church to elect a president to fill the vacancy of the late Mr. John Morgan. The meeting will be held Tuesday evening, September 10th. He will be a concert given by the president of the Mite Missionary society, Mrs. M. G. Newman, at the A. M. E. church Thursday evening, Sept. 3. The Watkins Cornet band will furnish the music. Taylor left our city Monday evening for Red Oak, Iowa, to reside in the future. Mr. Torrance Casin returned home Saturday from Aberdeen, S. D., where he has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams for a month. He responded to the pastor of the A. M. E. church gave out his report Sunday evening for the work done during his conference year, and it found his work in good condition. The following sums of care were different departments of the church: Steward's, $334.79; trustees, $1,449; Sunday school, $8.93; choir, $16.75; total amount raised, $1,810.16. Mrs. Ella Morgan will give a picnic for the benefit of the Zion Bandy school class of Mrs. Zion Bandy school class at Riverside, Friday, September 4th. Mrs. Slaughter of Chicago, will arrive in our city next week for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Jerry Lee. Mr. Elliott's wife and three children arrive in our city last Thursday from Excelcril Springs, Mo., to take up their residence. ALBIA NOTES Rev. Robinson and Miss Powers from Buxton was in Albia, Thursday of this week Madam Grayson and Hollingworth, Mrs. Hattie Grayson are Des Moines visitors this week, attending the State Fair, Mrs. Ethel Thomas was a Des and Buxton visitor th's week Lawyer Geo. II Woodson of Buxton was in Albia a part of the week Mr. Will Randolph and Mr. and Mrs. Pool of Hiteman was in the city this week Sewing Circle Club met at the home of Mrs Nellie Esters, finishing up business for the conference year. Mr. Udell Lewis of Oskaloosa passed through Albia, en route home after a few weeks visit with relatives of Saint Louis. CLINTON HAPPENINGS. W A Emerson is at home again, after a pleasant visit with Chicago r. relatives and friends. Did-Mr. Charles Johnson at her home in Chicago, Monday, Aug. 24th Viola May Moreland Johnson was born in Chicago, Ga. October 14, 1892 Her childhood was spent in Clinton. About eight years ago she went to Chicago where she resided up to the time of her death. On Aug. 15, 1905 she was married to Mr. Charles Johnson who survives her. Deceased had been in poor health for the past two years, though her condition did not assume a serious aspect until about two weeks ago when an op-ration was deemed imperative, which was performed on the date of her death, and from the effect of which she never recovered. Aside from her husband of this city, her mother, Mrs. Eina Moreland, two sisters, Mrs. Nora Lewis of Chicago and Mrs. Holland Williams of this city five brothers, John and Arthur, of Kansas City, Mo., Samuel and of Chicago, and Richard of La Grange 'a. The funeral was held from Beth A J M. E. church, Thursday afternoon at 2:30. Rev. Birt officiating. Increment was made in Springdale Cemetery. Miss Estella Bush has returned from a pleasant visit in Chicago with relatives and friends. Mrs. Martha B. Anderson of Chicago is expected in the city this week. While here she will be the guest of Miss Estella Bush. Wednesday evening she will sig at a recital given under the auspices of the W. R. M. society of this city, by Miss Bush and local talent. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Moreland, Mrs. Nora L wis. Mrs. Chus. Johnson and sister, Miss Johnson have returned to Chicago after being in attendance at this funeral of Mrs. Chas. Johnson, Mrs. P. P Taylor is the guest of relatives and friends in Chicago. Messrs. W. B. Johnson, Jr., Ed. Martin and children were Sunday visitors from Dubuque, with Mr. M. O. Culberson. Mrs. Mamie Lee of Pittsburg, Pa. is a guest at the home of Mrs. and Mr. Harry Plummer. Presiding Elder Phillips was a Clinton visitor last week. Mrs. Emmr Herron is out again after a short illness. GET PABST PLEST B MILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE BEER AND BE SURE YOUR RIGHT CHAS, M. HOVDE FANK PHILLIPS Rev. W. A. Moore and members of Bethel A. M. E. church celebrated the thirty-fourth anniversary of the church speakers were Mayor Carmody and Rev. Lockwood of St. Paul's A. M. E. church, who spoke largely on the splendid moral record of the colored people of the city. Reminiscences of church history were given by Rev. E. C. Thomas, its first minister and Rev. A Ford, Rev. R. Holly and others. Rev. L. J. Phillips was present and spoke to the church in that fatherly way that has caused him to become endorsed to the people of Cedar Rapids. Rev. E. G. Jackson of Burlington was the principle speaker of the evening, and addressed the audience with power and elocution on the subject of Advanced Religious Activity. The anniversary offering amounted to a very neat sum. Mrs Martin Brooks was hostess of a picnic party Sunday, in Beaver Park, complimentary to her daughter-in-law, Mrs. H. Martin of Red Oak. Mrs. Mary Johnson had the misfortune of spraining her ankle Monday by a fall. She is confined to her rooms but doing nicely. Miss Mabel Price has returned from a pleasant visit to Keokuk. The Meidames W. H. Raspberry, M. F. Lowery, J E. Miligan, F. J. Hawkins, formed a house party two days last week at the home of Mrs. Emma Green, at Toledo. Mrs. Brown of Marshalltown also was one of the party and an excellent time is reported. On last Tuesday evening occurred the death of Mrs. James Warren, after a lingering illness of several months. The funeral was held Friday morning from the church, Rev. A. Moore officiating, after which the remains were taken in charge by the Household of Ruth. Outside the relatives in the city there were in attendance, Mr. Albert Powell of Muscatine, brother of Mrs. Warren and Mrs. Warren of Austin, Ill., brother of Mr. Warren. Mrs. ChristiansDAventport was in the city Tuesday, to attend at the beside of Mrs. J. Warren had already passed away before her arrival. Mrs. Robt Thompson was in Animica last week to visit her mother-in-law, Mrs. Rollinis, who returned with Mrs. Thompson to this city to attend the funeral of Mrs. James Warron. Mrs. F. Lavell and Mrs. C Price returned Thursday evening from a trip to Macon,b where they visited friends and relatives. Mrs. Arthur Jones is entertaining her sister, Mrs. Evans, of Chicago. Mrs. M.F. Lyrion entertained a few friends at tea Wednesday evening in in honor of Mrs. Brice of Chicago. We are sorry to relate the death of the twins born to Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Warren, Sunday. They were placed to rest in Oak Hill Cemetery Monday. Mrs. W. L. Warren is doing nicely. Mrs. Andrew Gray are the proud parents of a baby boy. Mrs. W. M. Robinson entertained at dinner Sunday, Mrs. A. Perkins and son Master Mayo Mrs. C. M. Washington is spending a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Milligan. Miss Pierman has returned from her home in Burlington where she has been spending her vacation Mrs. Mattie Lamb returned from vacation in Burlington last week. She was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Ed. Jones of Oskaloosa who spent a few days in the city. Good for Billiousness "I took two of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets last night, and I feel fifty, per cent better than I have for five years, says J. J. Firestone of Allan, Mich. "They are certainly a fine article for billiousness." For sale by all druggists. Samules free. MOLINE (ILL) GREETINGS: Mr. Edward Robinson of Chicago visited his wife and daughter over Sunday, returning Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Tarver, lovingly entertained Mrs. John Duke and children, of Galesburg, and Mrs. Marion Scott at dinner, Sunday. Mrs. Charles Danfield of Rock Island and a member of the H. Q. b Club at her home last Thursday afternoon. After the program was rendered an elegant repast was served by the hostess. Last Wednesday evening at St Paul's A. M. E. church, a "Merry Widow" concert was given by "The Merry Widow." After a very interesting program, the church parlors were thrown open where a very nice lunch wets served. A very neat little sum was realized through the effort that the young ladies put forth Miss Beatrice Kelsoe returned home Saturday from a month's visit in Missouri. Mrs. Rufus Phoenix who has been quite ill is convalescent. Miss Lyda Crawford of Galesburg is visiting her aunt, Mrs. D. S. Delwail. Mollie Robinson has returned from a visit in Chicago. Best Treatment for a Burn. If for no other reason, Chamberlain's Salve should be kept in every household on account of its great value in the treatment of burns. It allays the pain almost instantly, and unless the injury is a severe one, heals the parts without leaving a scar. This salve is also unequaled for chapped hands, sore nipples and diseases of the skin. Price 35 cents. For sale by all druggists. One of the most successful session of the Order of Eastern Star of Missouri and Juridic陵ion, was just held in Hannibal, Mo. A three days meeting. The meeting was an inspiration to the friends of this ancient order. Among ladies and a very great encouragement to the growth of better society: a great help to the Masonic fraternity in general, and a source of pleasure to the citizens, both colored and white of Hannibal. It showed the best of colored womanhood at an advantage. There were many speeches by distinguished visiting masons and others, Prof. Pelham, D. P. G. M of Missouri, made a fine address, giving some valuable statistics about the order. The two little twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Wm Roberts. f. Hannibal, was christened by P. G. R. M. M. L. Harrison of St. Louis, assisted by P. G. R. M: V. A. Guy of Topeka, Kansas. G. R. P. Simms was elected to visit the Masonic grand lodge at its next annual convention in the interest of the body and request that a lady of the G. C. be placed on the board of managers of the Masonic order. A donation $8 each was made to Matron P. G. Luey Delaney of the Masonic home and Ellen Gunnell of St. Louis. In response to a unanimous invitation from Sister Chapter, Osmah Neb, the 1900 meeting of the U. G. C. will be held in that city next year. Other officers were elected as follows: R. G. P—Mrs. J. H. Simms, Saint Joseph, Mo. R. G. M.—Mrs. M. F. Hereford, Woodland, K. C. G. A. P—Atvy. F. L. Smith of Omaha Neb G. A. M.—F. S. Boxley, Springfield, Mo. H. G. Treasurer—D xon, Palmyra. H. G. Secretary—Mrs. G. E. Sutherland, St. Louis H. G. Sec. of End—Mrs. V. E. Guy, Topeka, Kaup. H. G. Cond—Mrs. Maggie Nickens, Bannibal. H. G. A. Cond—Mrs. Julia Rucker, Huntsville. H. G. Lecturer—Mrs. Victoria C. Haley, St. Louis. Public installation of grand officers will be held at Sece's hall at 8 p. m. The session then closed until 3 p. m. 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With best wishes for your success, I am Yours truly, W. T. BLACKBURNS. Editor's Observation. ted on the Missouri river with old buildings narrow streets running in any direction, it has some very fine building and residences, and her people are wealthy. There are three Colored public schools and one high school which is a beautiful brick structure, three stories, with Prof. Sims as principle. I am sorry I did not get a list of their teachers which is about 40 in number, their are fine churches with Rev. J. C. Caldwell at the A. M. E church and Rev. C. H. Cohen pastor of the Francis church Baptist church. R. S. Scott is still Government meat inspector he is a good reliable man doing nicely, he owns owns a nine 6 room cottage, is just completing a beautiful room for he and his lovable wife to enjoy life in their declining years. It will be one of the nicest homes owned by a Colored man. G. S Moore a former Iowa man is conducting a first class torsional parlor and is doing nicely. Mr. J. Banks still working at the same place he is enjoying a beautiful 6 room cottage recently built, his wife is visiting at her fathers farm in Clarke County, Iowa. Mr. J. M. Trent is one of the substantial and reliable citizens, a race man he still runs a rooming house at 121 Francis street, his son is in the tailoring business. He is quite a mason and church worker Dr. Ricketts has a nice suit of rooms, he is doing well, he felt good as he had just returned from the Masonic Grand Lodge meeting and he was re-registered Grand Master. He is a scholarly man, and a race lover, he entertained ye editor at dinner. Dr. J. A. Crossland is another physician, there are two lawyers Mr. Hill and Young Redan has just located there, he graduated from the Iowa State University this summer. Having burdened yon with these "Observations," I will now bid you Aud Revoir. Zion Baptist church tendered its pastor and family a reception in honor of his 5th., anniversary, Monday evening as pastor in charge. 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In connection with the evening program; Eowyn Leaves at 10 p.m. prescribing at 8 p.m. W. S. Brooks pastor. to the evenings program. At the conclusion of the program, the Helping Hand Society of the church presented the pastor the Rev. J. A. Bingham and wife a beautiful silver chocolate service, for which they expressed their most sincere thanks. The guests' were then invited to the dining room which was beautifully decorated with green foliage and sunflowers, to symbolize the pastor's native State. Covers were laid for 136, with beautiful place cards as souvenirs from the pastor for each guest. Dr. Bingham has the heartfelt wishes of his congregation and the community for his success, and may his watchword be in climbing the ladder of fame be: "Heavens' not reached by a single bound. But we build the ladders by which we rise From the lowly earth to the yuilted skies. And we mount to its summit round by round. One convert baptized at the close of the prayer meeting Wednesday evening by Rev. Bingham. Rev. Bingham and wife will attend the Iowa and Nebraska association at Des Moines next week. CLARINDA ITEMS. The Colored celebration was held August 35th. at the fair grounds, it was very well at eded by citizens and friends, the speakers of the day, were Mrs. Lillian Long, Ir. Granett, of Mason, Mo., Prof. Powell, of Topkas, Kan., and Dr. Jones of this city, the rest of the day was spent in games. Mrs. Lewis Blythe is on the sick list. Mr. Give Nolan is convalescing after a serious illness. Rev. Paterson will preach his farewell sermon Sunday Sept. 9th, and a reception will be tendered him Monday evening. Mrs. Ella Hesters of Pittsburg, Kan. is visiting her sister Mrs. Reed. Mrs. Georgia Hewisted with his sister Mrs. Jones last week. Mrs. Anna Stewart is very ill at her home in cast Clarinda. There will be a union picnic given Saturday by the Sunday schools. Miss Anna Baker has returned home from her visit to Des Moines and the State Fair. Miss Lizzie Johnson is here visiting her aunt Mrs. Arnett and friends. Mrs. Noah Pemberton Sr., left Fri day morning to be at the bedside of her sister Mrs. Snowden, in Springfield, Mo. Mrs. Lizzie Williams of Buxton is here visiting her aunt Mrs. Mattie Cook.