Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XV. No. 16. CITY NEWS. [N.B. If you have relatives or friends visit in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we solicit all your local news—Ed. Mrs. W. B. Cotton, entertained Monday at a luncheon in honor of Miss Wilda Warren of Marshalltown. Mr. Earnest Erickson and Mr. Williams of St. Paul spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. Erickson's parents. Mrs. L. J. Shelton gave a 9 o'clock breakfast Eridian in honor of Mrs. Mae Ruff Johnson. Six courses were served. Miss Jessie Walker of Marshalltown spent last week in our city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Warricks. Miss Dot Warren of Marshalltown spent last week in our city attending the Iowa-Nebraska Baptist Association. Miss Cassie Spears who has been quite ill for some time is improved at this writing. Mr. J. H. Weeks who has been at Colfax for some time, left Thursday for his home in Ottumwa, much improved in health. Messars J. H. McClain and O. J. Rotinson have issued invitations announcing a dancing party at Cycling hall Tuesday Oct., 6th. Mrs. S. Joe Brown entertained at luncheon last week in honor of Mrs. Elizabeth Allen and Lena Williams of Keosaqua, Iowa. Miss Ada Hyde, and Messrs. Archie Alexander and Louis Strothers left this week for Iowa City to attend the State University. Mrs. Susen Brown of Macon, Mo., and grand son of Davenport were guests of Mr. aud Mrs. Harvey Brown last week. On last Sunday Mr. and Mrs, John L. Woodson entertained in honor of Rev. Holmes and son of Davenport and Mrs. Susan Brown of Macon, Mo. The Lotus club will give their first annual entertainment at Cycling Hall October 15th. All those who have heretofore received invitations are cordially invited. T. S. Wilson, Pres. Miss V. Olive Bailey, a daughter of a prosperous farmer of Lee county, has entered West Des Moines High School, where she will take up the study of Latin. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Gould entertained a few friends at dinner last Sunday complimentary to Mrs. Mae Ruff Johnson and Miss Jessie Walker of Marshallton. Miss Letta Carey, a graduate of North High School, will leave Saturday for Iowa City, where she will enter the Normal department of the State University. Misses May and Vergie Tolliver, graduates of the East Des Moines High School, left Monday evening for Quindaria, Kans., where they will enter the Quindara college. Miss Edith Comley of Webster City arrived in the city Saturday morning and will resume her studies in oratory at Drake University. She will make her home with Mrs. R. N. Hyde and family while in the city. Miss Lena Williams of Keosauqua, and Mrs. Elizabeth Allen who have been the guests of Miss Ada Hyde and Mrs. Gertrude Cannaday, returned to their homes Wednesday. Mrs. S. Joe Brown entertained at luncheon Friday Dr. J. H. Garnett, President of Western College, Macon, Mo., Rev. James A. Bingaman and wife of Omaha, Neb., and Rev. Venerable of Keokuk. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Woods entertained at dinner last Friday Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Baket, Madam Rachel Baker and Rev. D. A. Holmes and son of Davenport and Mrs. Brown of Macon, Mo. Miss Alice M. Lawson will take her departure for Leaseworth, Kansas, Thursday eve Sept. 17, after spending a pleasant visit. She has made a great many friends while in the city. Mrs. John Stark of South Dakota, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. C. H. Coleman and sister Mrs. Munnie Findley of Buxton, has been spending a few days in our city the guest of Dr. and Mrs. John H. Williams. The Iowa State Bystander acknowledge very enjoyable calls last Monday from Mrs, L. E. Allen of Cedar Rapids, Miss Lela Williams of Keosaqua, Edyth Comley of Ft. Dodge, Mr. Fred Anthony of Boone, also Rev. Wright of Omaha, Neb., who was in attendance ft the Iowa-Nebraska Association. Rev. H. S. Graves passed through our city from the conference to St. Paul this week. Rev James Higgins and wife arrived in the city Thursday for a short visit with their daughter, Mrs. L. R. Palmer. Mr. Montgomery who works at the army post for one of the officers, will leave this week for New York to spend his three weeks vacation. Mrs. H. W. Hughes has been employed in the office of the Western Lever, the new monthly magazine than Dr. Pettigrew has just started. Mr. Hayes Bell, our paper hanger and painter, is working this week on some jobs he contracted in Valley Junction. Mrs. S. H. McCracken of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, passed through our city Thursday en route home from Minneapolis, where she has been visiting her two daughters, Mrs. Stepp and Mrs. White. Mrs. Gater of Ames, Iowa, was a Capitol City visitor this week, the guest of Mrs. Julia Williams. She also met her mother, Mrs. McCracken, who was passing through here. Atty. Geo. H. Woodson of Oskaloosa, Rev. Ed Green of Keokuk, Rev. J. W. Holmes of Davenport, Mr. J. W. Rodgers of Buxton and Editor John L. Thompson of Des Moines have been invited by the state republican central committee to speak for the republican party in Iowa this fall. The standpatters conference held here last Tuesday brought out Hon. John F. Lacey of Oskaloosa as a candidate for United States senator to take the place of the late Wm. B. Allison. Thus far there will be only two candidates, Governor Cummins and Congressman Lacey, to vote your preference at the November election. Mrs. Mary Mease, of 1040 B street, left on the 11th., inst., on a western trip, she will visit Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo for an indefinite period. Rev. S. Bates, pristor of the Maple Street Baptist church, is quite ill at his home, 1421 Fremont street. He has been under the care of Dr. Williams since last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Erickson entertained Monday evening at six o'clock complimentary to Rev. Holmes and son of Davenport, Mrs. Susan Brown of Macon, Mo. and Mr. and Mrs. William Baker of Davenport. Miss Ida Logan who was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Adams last Friday for her home in St. Joseph, Mo., where she will take up her position as teacher at the Lincoln school of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. L. Baker of Davenport who have been attending the Iowa-Nebraska Baptist Association called at our office last Monday. They admired the execlible quarters of the Lystander office. Mrs. E. B. Elliston has returned from her extended trip through the East and Canada. Some of the cities visited were Baltimore, Boston, New York, Washington, Hamilton and London, Canada. She was quite successful with her work and is now ready to resume her club duties. Lee Roy Smith of Norwoodville, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith, died the 12th inst. The funeral was held from the residence, Rev. C. W. Carter officiating. Innerment in Woodland cemetery, this city. Rev. Geo. W. Gaines, the new pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. church will be present and preach Sunday moring. Rev. Horace Graves, of St. Paul, will preach in the evening. Rev. W. Sampson Brooks will worship with them during the day. Miss Lena Williams of Keosauqua, who has been visiting Miss Ada Hyde, was the complimented guest of honor at a hay rack party given by the young gentlemen of the city. The crowd, numbering about thirty, left at 7:30 from the home of Miss Alice Morton and drove several miles into the country to the Mash farm where a picnic supper was served. It is needless to say a jolly time was enjoyed. The out of town guests beside the guest of honor were Mrs. Elizabeth Allen of Cedar Rapids and Miss Edith Comley of Webster City. DES MOINES NEGRO LYCEUM On Tuesday evening the 15th, at the home of Atty. and Mrs. S. Joe Brown, on 5th street, the Des Moines Negro Lyceum met with a large number of members present. After the regular business was transacted, the following program was remoded: Quotations from John Greenleaf Whittier; The life of Whittier, Willie Warrick; Whittier's attitude toward Slavery, Miss Letta Carey; Reading from Whittier, Mrs, Warrick; Whittier's style of writing compared to that of Longfellow, Mrs. S. Joe Brown. Quite a number of interesting current events were given by the club members. Mrs. Elizabeth Allen and Miss Lena Williams of Kecosqua, Ia., and Mrs, Starks of South Dak were present and each made very interesting remarks. Miss Williams was elected as honorary member of the society. Interesting remarks were also made by Miss Letta Carey, who leaves Saturday to enter the State University at Iowa City and Miss Margnaire Fields who will leave in a few days to join the Midland Jubilee Sangers. The club will give a public program at the St. Paul's A. M. E. church on next Tuesday evening at which time the following program will be given: Quotations, Paul Laurence Dunbar; opening address, Albert R. Hall; solo, Prof. W. H. Warriors; oration, W. Grant; essay, "The effects of music on civilization," Mrs. J. H. McDowell; reading, Dunbar, Miss Bessie Reeves; duet, Coleen and Edna Alexander; The present outlook of Des Moines as I see it, Att'y. S. Joe Brown; The outlook of the Negro as physician and surgeon, Dr. J. H. Williams; vocal solo, G. H. Mason; essay, Zella Davis; original poem, J. C. Williams. do they swallow old rebel Varderman who recently declared in a public speech in substance that if he thought that the Democratic National Convention or platform would utter one word for the Negro vote, he would help the party to go to h—Then ask those unreasonable loud mouthed windy fellows why it is that Mr. Bryan has not spoken out against the lynchings and murders nor even said anything on the Negro question during all of his campaign speeches. Go to the silent tombs of the cemetery and ask Prof. Du'lois, shouting Bishop Walters, Windy Waldron, or senatonial Trotter how about this? perhaps preacher Carey of Chicago, or stormy Jordan of Louisville give a reason. The truth is boys the democrats don't A. M. E. CONFERENCE. The 26th annual session of the Iowa Convened at Keokuk, Ia., Wednesday Sept. 9th, Bishop C. T. Schaffer presiding. This was one of the most successful and largest attended sessions in years, over 150 delegates were present. The Women's Conference Branch, which consisted of the ministers wives and ladies of the local societies throughout the conference, convened Tuesday, presided over by the president Mrs. H. S. Graves, who was elected to serve for the ensuing year. One of the important acts of the conference was the re-establishing of the old boundry lines, which takes in all of Chicago EDITORIALS. Our new city government has been in operation for more than six months and has not put on a single colored man yet permanently on the other hand they have dismissed one of the best patrolman and now only one remains and he was temporarily suspended. What is the matter with our new boasted Des Moines Plan? What is the matter with John McVicar, J. L. Hamery, Chas. Schramm, Wesley Ash they all posed as the Colored man's friend, all promised to give the Colored people more places. Have they fulfilled their promises? I have been waiting patiently but now must tell the truth to my Colored voters we demand better and more representation, do your duty and you will succeed. THE NEGRO RACE IS PROGRESSING. In these times when our race undergoing a scouraging so to speak when everything seems to be dark and gloomy for the race in the future in America, when we have so many enemies in the south enemies in the north, east and west and enemies within our own camp all trying to pull us down and destroy our good name in the various communities and heap abuses, falsehoods, and even white men trying to black up and commit crimes in the guise of Negroes. It does lead one sometimes to believe that the race is losing out and retrograding, but when one takes the optimistic spirit as ye editor we are making progress, we are rising, within the past three months think of what large national gatherings, conventions and conferences have been successfully held by the Negroes all over the country, namely: The National Negro Medical Association, held in New York; The National Negro Business Men's League, held in Baltimore; The National Colored Woman's Federation of Clubs; The 100th., celebration of Negro Masons in America in Prince Hall, Boston; also the Masonic Conclave held in Chicago; the A. M. E church, the A. M. E. Zion church and C. M. E. church conferences; the National Baptist Association; the Elks, Odd Fellows, K. of P's., U. B. of F., also S. M. T.; the Congregational Council; the National Teachers Association, and the Young People's National Religious Congress are straws that tell to the world that we are coming, to have attended any of the above mentioned meetings, we would have been inspired and convinced that the Negro is progressing, so lift up your heads be men and go onward and upward. Elsewhere in this paper we publish a plank in the recent State Democratic Platform that the state of Virginia has adopted regarding the Negro. I want every reader of the Bystander to read it then clip it out and ask the Negroes who have been talking vote for the Democrats how do they relish it, ask them how do they swallow old rebel Varderman who recently declared in a public speech in substance that if he thought that the Democratic National Convention or platform would utter one word for the Negro vote, he would help the party to go to h—Then ask those unreasonable loud mouthed windy fellows why it is that Mr. Bryan has not spoken out against the lynchings and murders nor even said anything on the Negro question during all of his campaign speeches. Go to the silent tombs of the cemetery and ask Prof. Du'ois, shouting Bishop Walters, Windy Waldron, or senatorial Trotter how about this? perhaps preacher Carey of Chicago, or sterny Jordan of Louisville give a reason. The truth is boys the democrats don't want you and tell you to go, so don't be fools any longer but be the prodigal and come back he cried in grief we will not give you the best but you are welcome. Which Party Should The Colored Man's Support? Now that all the great parties in America have held their convention adopted their platform and nominated their standard bearer for the great political battle now being waged, and all of the candidates have accepted their party nomination and its platform, therefore in this article I can only speak briefly of the personallie of the candidates and not of the history or the platform of each party. First, Is the the Independence party with Hon. Thomas L. Hisyen of Massachusetts, for president and John Temple Graves as vice president; 2nd., Is the Socialist party with Hon. Eugene V. Debs of Indiana as candidate for president and Benjamin Hanford of New York for vice president. 3rd., Is the the Populist party, with Hon. Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, for president, and Hon. W. Williams, of Indiana for vice president. 4th., Is the Prohibition party led by Eugene Milder Chafin, of Illinois, as president, and Aaron A. Watkins of Ohio for vice president. 6th., the Democratic party has now Hon. William J. Bryan of Nebraska, and Hon. Geo. Kern of Indiana. 6th., Is the Republican Party, lead by Hon. William H. Taft, of Ohio, and Hon. John S. Serhman as candidate for vice president. This is a list of all the parliies that have nominated their candidate and will be on the ticket in the November election. It would be interesting for you to read all of their platforms. We will say however that all of the above nominated gentleman are good able well known men of national fame, in fact neither of them would make a good president, all are good speakers. It is a peculiar incident that this year all are capable highly respected citizens where they live. We believe that Wm. H. Taft and Sherman have had more experience in public affairs and a broader knowledge in national matters than any of their competitors they are seasoned, tried and true. We will discuss more about their merits and platforms a little later. NATIONAL CONGREGATIONAL CONVENTION. This month there will be a National Convention of Congregational workers at Birngham, Ala., to talk over the christian work and to enlarge the scope of Congregationalism in the great northwest. It bids fair to be a large gatering of educated christians. As the great north and west it would look well to select some man who is already in the west to lead the convention, we would suggest Rev. A. L. De Mond, pastor of the First Congregational church at Buxton, Ia. He has spent most all of his life in the south and is now in touch with the work in the north He is the logical man and we would nominate him. A. M. E. CONFERENCE. The 26th annual session of the Iowa Convened at Keokuk, Ia., Wednesday Sept., 9th., Bishop C. T. Schaffer presiding. This was one of the most successful and largest attended sessions in years, over 150 delegates were present. The Women's Conference Branch, which consisted of the ministers wives and ladies of the local societies throughout the conference, convened Tuesday, presided over by the president Mrs. H. S. Graves, who was re-elected to serve for the ensuing year. One of the important acts of the conference was the re-establishing of the old boundry lines, which takes in all of Chicago and churches in the vicinity. Excellent reports were received from all departments this year. The greatest surprise was when Dr. W. Sampson Brooks asked the Bishop for a transfer from the Iowa conference to the Tennessee conference because of his health. Many speeches were made complimentary to Rev. Brooks of his work in the Iowa conference for the past 15 years, and resolutions and recommendations were passed commending him to the Tennessee conference. The Mite Missionary Society gave banners those raising the largest amount of missionary money and Mrs. W. Sampson Brooks headed the list. St. James church of St. Paul, with Rev. H. S. Graves pastor, lead in the raising of dollar money, the reverend reported $208 raised. The following is a list of the appointmnts. Rock Island—Rev, Ovelton. Mt, Pleasant—Rev, D, W. Brown. Clinton—Rev, S, L, Birt. Muscatine—Rev, Major Peyton. Fort Madison—Rev, R. H, Hagney. Keosauqua—Rev, R. L, Ward. Hawkeye—Also Rev, R. L, Ward. Iowa City—To be supplied. Dubuque—Rev, E. F, Hubbard. Princeton—Rev, Frederic Garner. Kewanee—Also Rev, Frederic Garner. The Iowa and Nebraska Baptist Association. The 30th., annual session of the Iowa and Nebraska Baptist State Association came to an and last Sunday, the meeting was a great success in all parts of its various branches, the attendance and reports were better than ever before. Dr. James H. Garnett, principle of the Macon College, was one the principle speakers, Friday evening he was crowded for time and only made a snort address. The Woman's Auxiliary of the Iowa Baptist Association held a most interesting session. The annual address of the president was a helpful and stimulating appeal to our women to become effective missionary workers and to stand for the uplifting of the race. Interesting papers were read by Mrs. Nancy Wellington of Buxton, and Mrs F. Bates of Des Moines. The annual sermon was preached by Rev W. D. Venerable of Keokuk, and was a powerful appeal for the spreading of of the gospel light. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: president, Mrs Kate Jackson. Ft. Madison; vice president, Mrs J. A. Bingaman, Omah; clerk, Mrs E. J. Saunders, Davenport; treasurer, Mrs M. E. Bickley, Buxton; cor. secretary, Mrs J. W. Johnson Des Moines; organizer, Mrs F. Bates, Des Moines, Mrs W. T. Alexander, Mrs H. Porter-Smith The Association proper met on Thursday morning, addresses of welcome were delivered by Mavor A. J. Mathis, Atty. S. Joe Brown, Dr. J. Dulin, and Rev. T. L. Giffith, responses was given by Rev. G. W. Wright. The afternoon session was given over to the adoption of a new constitution, this new constitution makes the Iowa and Nebraska Association, the churches of the two states are now combined for effective missionary work, the largest delegation was present that ever attended the Association. The annual sermon preached by Rev. D. A. Holmes of Davenport, subject, "Launch out into the deep." he preached a powerful sermon to a crowded house. The next annual meeting will be held in Omaha. NUPTIALS. The marriage of Mrs. Mary Turner to Mr. Arthur Jones was solemnized at 10 a.m., Thursday Sept., 17th., 1908, at the home of the brides sister Mrs. L. J. Shelton, the Rev. H. W. Porter officiated, Only a few friends were present and these after tendering Mr. and Mrs. Jones earnest congratulations repaired to the dining room where a dainty breakfast was served by Mrs. Shelton assisted by Mrs. E. T. Blagburn. Mr. and Mrs. Jones will be at home to their many friends at 939 14th. Place. Mrs. J. E. Todd gave a lovely luncheon, Thursday afternoon at Greenwood Park in honor of Miss Alice M. Lawson of Leavenworth, Kans. The tables were prepared with an anelebrate lunch and refreshments at 6 p.m. and the guests enjoyed her hospitality. DELIGHTS AUDIENCE. The tent in which the Unique Theatre is held was filled to overflowing last night from 7:30 to 11 o'clock. Miss Edith Comley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Comley, gave a reading preceding each show. Her readings were enthusiastically received, each one being greeted with round of applause. The crowd would rise to their feet and cheer till Miss Comley re-appeared. Miss Comley possesses ability of high order and her rendation of both dramatic and humorous selections was natural and realistic.—Webster City Freeman Tribune Miss Jennie Payne and James Harding were united in marriage Saturday morning at the Baptist parsonage by Rev. Alexander. Miss Olive Allen left Friday for Chicago. Invitations have been issued for the marriage of Mr. Harry Beckley and Miss Laura Richardson, to be solemnized at the home of the brides parents Mr. and Mrs B E Alexander. Misses Addle Johnson and Lenah Green have returned from Michillinda, Mich., where they spent the summer. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Fletcher a son. Mrs. John Duke and children have returned from a visit in Moline. Rev. Moore has returned from conference to begin his second year as pastor of the A. M. E. church. Mr. J. W. Beckley of Terre Haute, Ind., is visiting his son. Mrs. Minnie Coston of Omaha, is the guest of Mrs. Henry Wells, Mr. Bryant Geogaby has returned from Keokuk. Rev. S. L. Birt of Clinton, was a Galesburg visitor Tuesday. 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 always 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 25 cents. For sale by all druggists. CEDAR RAPIDS NOTES Mr W. H. Milligan, Grand Patron of the O. E. S., and Mrs. A. G. Jackson, G. A. M., are in Ottumwa at this writing on official business. Mrs. Robert Thompson also Mrs. Manda Green and children attended the Tipton fair last week. On last Thursday afternoon Mr. Thorpe and Miss Lydia Jones surprise their friends by launching out on the sea of matrimonial blessedness. The good wishes of all are heartily extended to the new couple. Mrs W. S. Raspberry was a guest at dinner Sunday at the home of Mrs. J. N. Robinson. Mrs. P. N. Lewis was in the city last week attending the Missionary meeting and en route to conference. Rev. A. Ford had charge of services Sunday, Rev. Penn was a visitor and delivered two inspiring sermons. Rev. Holly also assisted in the services. Mrs. Hawkins was a conference visitor last week. She will visit in Galesburg and Quincy before year return. The call came for the club to work from their summer vacation. The Culture club will hold its first meeting Thursday with Mrs. Mary Horn. Lexington, Ky., Sept. 16.—Rev. J. W. Hawkins, pastor of the colored First Baptist church and retiring moderator of the Baptist general assembly (colored) of Kentucky, one of the most noted negroes in the state, died suddenly today of heart disease as a result of excitement growing out of a riot created at his home last night by a member of the Lexington state guard company. The guardsman accused Hawkins's son of selling liquor and tried to arrest him and later attacked the Hawkins residence. Mr. Hawkins was highly regarded. STUPENDOUS SALE OF PIANOS $75 to $100 SAVED On Every One Buy Direct "From Factory to Home" We Save You the Middleman's Profit 109 NEW PIANOS To Choose From USED PIANOS $57 $61 $87 AND UP F. O. Evans Piano Co Both Phones 1287 PIANOS Ninth and Locust "FROM FACTORY TO HOME" Not Members of the Piano Combine When at Enterprise, stop at W. F. Bardsdale's Restaurant for meals, lunches, ice cream and confectionaries. Don't be afraid to give Chamberla'n's Cough Remedy to your children. It e ntains no opium or other harmful drug. It always cures. For sale by all druggists. Turkey's New Railroad. While Turkey is in the threes of political convulsions it may be well to recall the fact that she also is getting in condition to make material advancement. One of the most important contributions to the facilities which promise well for the future is the Bagad railroad, which penetrates a section that offers great inducements for trade. The line will be $25 miles long and will open up an immense area, touching many prominent points in that quarter, and among other places making Damascus and Mecca much easier of access. American Consul Harris, writing from Smyrna, gives interesting particulars about the road, and in conclusion says: "The difficult parts of the undertaking will be over after the Euphrates is crossed. It is estimated that the 81 miles of tunnel, viaducts and bridges will average from $155,000 to $185,000 per mile. This heavy expense will be compensated by the relatively low cost of the level parts. The building of these four sections must be done in seven years. The cost of the 825 miles of railway will amount to about $45,000,000. The Bagad railway will help the commercial, industrial and agricultural development of the immense territories through which it will run, and will furnish outlets for the mineral wealth of the regions traversed." The road is built by foreign capital, of course, and will be under foreign management. But it means a great deal in the way of improving the advantages of Turkey, and should open the way to the traders of the nations, including the United States. Staggering Losses by Fire. The totals of fire loss in this country may signify little to the average mind, but the comparative figures should mean much. The figures issued by the national board of fire underwriters show that the average fire loss per capita in the United States for the last five years was $7.02, against 33 cents for six European countries, including France, Germany and Austria. It may be objected perhaps that it is unfair to select this particular period for purposes of comparison, since both the Baltimore fire of 1904 and the San Francisco fire of 1906 are included in it. And, yet says the New York Globe, if these two fires, representing about $330,000,000, were deducted from the total fire loss of the country for the five years—the total would be reduced by little over a fourth. And the American per capita loss would remain about 4% times larger than the European. What are to blame for this great disparity? Are we so much more careless than Europeans? Are European building codes, fire departments and water supplies from 6% to 10 times better than those found in the United States? It is one of the perversities of human nature that everybody is "agit" something. When the automobile was rare and disobedient most of us were inclined to throw stones at it. Since then there has been for a time class of pro-automobile outlaws to grow up, who try to defeat the cunning hand of the law. The officers set traps for erspersing cars, and the lawless dark outside the traps to warn the drivers. Some of these warners are secret agents of automobile associations, paid to give the warning, but others are merely specimens of chronic opposition; they take pleasure in beating anybody, even a zealous town constable. Soon there will arise another opposition of warners to warn the constables when the warners are warning the automobiles. Various proposals are being made for the celebration of the Lincoln centenary. Lincoln and Darwin were born on the same day, and both in England and in this country the suggestion has been made of an international observance of the birthday. Some visible memorial will, no doubt, be erected in Lincoln in Washington, and it has been proposed to construct a continental highway from Washington to Gettysburg. Whatever the outward and visible observances may be, there is one manifestation of interest which the individual may make to himself in private; he may read the written works of the two great men who were born on February 12, 1809, and discover the ideas that keep those men alive. A Waterbury (Conn.) dispatch tells of a farmer near that place who has developed a potato that "grows on vines like gooseberries." If Connecticut gooseberries grow on vines they would be as great a novelty as the potatoes out in this part of the country. Some of the farmers resent the efforts of the president to make their homes brighter. They think that a more practical way would be to send paint to them instead of a commission. Mr. Haldane, the British war secretary, has defined the qualifications of a modern statesman as the patience of Job, the temper of a saint and the skin of a philoceoser. These are the modern form of the virtues described in old-fashioned biographies as wisdom, unselfishness and courage. A newly invented writing machine, it is claimed, will write 40,000 words an hour. At one dollar a word President Roosevelt could soon bankrupt the patrons. ```markdown ``` Michael Kelly fell out of a window of the Jule Gavin house at Cascade and sustained such painful injuries that his death resulted. Prof. J. A. McLean, who has been assistant in the animal husbandry department at Iowa state college, has been appointed head of the state department at the agricultural college of Mississippi. Mrs. Sam Scott, wife of a prominent business man, of Corning, while scuffing in fun with one of her nearly grown sons, slipped and fell, striking with such force as to tear the ligaments of the left hand loose and also sprained and bruised the arm and hand. Virgil Hennes, the 20-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry V. Hennes, while playing about the house found and swallowed a strychine pill. Symptoms of the poisoning appeared while the nurse girl was wheeling him on the street and he died as they entered the home. C. B. Stilson, of Waterloo, has been chosen grand recorder for the Iowa Workmen to fill the vacancy caused by the death of H. B. White, who held the position at the time of his death. G. Gilson, of Knoxville, and James Leslie, of Clinton, have just completed auditing the books. His relatives are greatly worried as to the whereabouts of Benedict Keefe, son of Mrs. Daniel Keefe of Farley. It is now over a year since they had any word from him and all efforts to locate him have so far proven futile. The last letter received from him was from a small town in Minnesota. The steamer Helen Blair, owned by the Northwestern Transportation company of Burlington, was damaged by fire at Kekuk to the extent of $1,000. The prompt action of the crew of a nearby steamboat soon had the flames under control and saved the crew and sleeping passengers from probable death. Moore I. Sharpe, employed at the St. Paul & Des Moines round house in Iowa Falls, was badly injured while at work. While cutting a plank, the sledge struck a glancing blow, the sledge struck to one side and striking Mr. Sharpe squarely in the abdomen. He was taken to the hospital, but it cannot be determined as yet how serious his injury is. He is a man 62 years old and not in the best of physical health. Floyd, the 14-year-old son of J. R. McKee, a prominent stockman of East Peru, was killed by being knocked off a freight train between there and Barney. In company with several other boys, young McKee had caught a ride on a freight train. Floyd, to show his during, was hanging onto the side of the ladder of a fire truck, touching the ground, when he was knocked off by an iron bridge and mangled so he died on the train while being brought from Barney to Peru. Miss Marion Dampman, considered one of the best teachers of English in the state, and who has taught in Corning a number of years, both in the academy and high school, has resigned her position and accepted a place in Carnegie high school, Pittsburg. Miss Dampman taught for a time in Honolulu in the government department and was hired by Miss Nyswander of Jesse Jones. Carl C. Countryman, formerly of Iowa Falls, and son of Rev. Asa Countryman, a former pastor of the Congregational church, his just completed a journey of 1,700 miles on his foot, long tramp being from Chicago to Portland, Me., and thence to New York City. Mr. Countryman is interested in Y. M. C. A. work, and is a member of the Chicago Central Y. M. C. A. He is an author, teacher and traveler. He expects to continue his journey afloat as far south as New York, and to be part of the United States to California, thence north to Washington and then east to Chicago. The Cedar Falls flouring mills are now manufacturing a fine grade of flour from Iowa wheat. Five cars of a choice article were secured from the farm of S. B. Packard near Marshalltown. Three cars were winter wheat and two were of the spring variety. Mr. Packard received 96 cents on track in Marshalltown for the wheat—4 cents in advance of the Chicago market. Mr. Packard has been made it profitable. He got forty bushels per acre this year from his winter variety and thirty-seven bushels from his spring sowing. His success has stimulated his neighbors to wheat raising and the Cedar Falls go into wheat raising and the Cedar Falls mill people will get 3,00 bushels from Mr Packard's neighbors. John R. King, for over twenty-five year traveling agent of the W. M. Welch company of Chicago, died at his home in Des Moines (a brief illness from pneumonia). Mrs. Chas, C. Framer, wife of the superintendent of construction of the federal building at Mason City, dropped dead as she was disabling on the work has been begun on the new Methodist church at Corning. The plans drawn by Architect Hoagland of Clarinda have been accepted and call for a $20,000 building. The St. Paul & Des Moines Railway company is not responsible for the deaths of James Long ard John Willey, the trainmen killed in a wreck near Berwick on the evening of Sept. 2. The coroner's jury returned that no criminal negligence on the part of the road was apparent. The verdict states that Long and Willey met their deaths when the cars of a St. Paul & Des Moine, *freight train left the railways while passig* own Four Mile crossings was due to a broken gauge one of the cars. The first convention to be entertained in Waterloo during 1909 will be the Iowa State Engineering society, which has chosen January 13 and 14 as the dates. The selection of the convention city was made by letter ballot. Clara Gardner, aged 26, residing at Dubuque, stepped out on the balcony of her home on the third story, when the structure gave way. The girl was preplaited to the street and sustained a fractured skull. She is not expected to live. Property valued at $500,000 was destroyed by fire which broke out at 2 a.m., in Prat's house in Koosanqua, Sept. 14. John Kreiss, Logan Neale and Edgar Lane were injured when the roof of a building collapsed. Eight firms suffered loss with partial insurance. Henry, 4-month-old son of C. J. Lundquist, who lives near Corning, was caught in the fast revolving gear wheel of a milk separator and his arm was drawn between the wheel and the bowl cover. The rim of the wheel cut a frightful gash on the arm between the elbow and shoulder. A little more force and the arm would have been severed. Because he had his nose crushed, his ear split and sudsy other bruises by being knocked from the end of a boot at the impact of a switch plug, Richard Berkeley, of Mason City, formerly employed at the Northwestern States cement plant, has filed a case asking damages for $1,900. He alleges that the accident was due to negligence on the part of company employees. The city of Eagle Grove has taken on metropolitan alms and has now a union delivery of goods. Four deliveries are made during the day at these hours—8, 10, 2 and 4:30. Orders must be in five minutes before starting and there will be no solicitation of orders on the trip. All orders must be telephoned or given in person or else placed in sealed envelopes and handed to the driver. Bert Clark has this contract, having the impression with his parents before he was going to Indiana on business. Robert Hughes, manager of the Ducart Implement company of Des Molines, and son of John Hughes, mail carrier, brought back to Des Molines a charming bride, who was formerly Miss Iva Iols of West Eighth street. Both are well known in the city. They will reside near the home of the bride's parents on West Eighth. Pat Graham, aged 50 years, was found dead in the toilet room of the Bon Air hotel, Des Molines, three hours after he died. Graham spoke to Mrs. E. T. Flory, the proprietor, as he entered. After three hours she, with others, entered and found Graham and hat (too) Flory. In one of a bad attack that his mother of a bad City should be notified. He said that her address would be found in his trunk. The body is now in charge of the coroner. Dr. C. S. James, of Centerville, and Dr. L. D. James, of Fairfield, have just performed an operation, whereby they have taken over two square feet of skin from the body of W. H. Watkins, of Breckenridge, Mo. and grafted it on the body of his wife, who was severely burned by an explosion two weeks ago. By the operation it is hoped to save the life of the woman. Evidences of improvement are already shown and the husband is suffering but little from the operation. In the vote taken at Story City, Radcliffe and Hubbard, in regard to the proposed Iowa railroad from Waterloo to Perry, providing for free fachies and a 5 per cent tax, Story City voted 151 for and 54 against. Radcliffe voted 100 for and 45 against, and view of this vote the constriction of the road in the near future is practically assured. According to the present plans of the promoters, the road will be built, first from Story City to Perry, then from Perry to Eldora, and later from Eldora to Waterloo. Thirty-five hundred feet above the earth, his balloon shooting higher every instant, the big gas bag on fire at the base, the parachute burning and the detachable rope already burned in two. Aeronaut Dan Rice sat in his frail trapeze in the full sight of thousands of people, at Webster City, including his agonized wife and two children, as nearly doomed as any man ever was without actually being burned loose, it shot toward the ground with its human freight at a terrific speed. Half way to earth it spread. The hungry flames were still eating their way, but enough of the cloth remained to break the force of the fall sufficiently that Rice escaped unhurt. Until the man was brought to town, however, no one supposed he had escaped serious if not fatal injuries. Rice was making his initial ascension at the county fair. He is an aeronaut of fifteen years' experience and in this time has charged with the death of Mary Smith, alias Mary Howell, arrested in Des Moines at her home, charged with bigamy, was arraigned in police court. She pleaded not guilty and her hearing was set for Sept. 16. Mrs. Smith denies that she was not divorced from her former husband before marrying Smith as alleged by him. The total attendance for three days at the district fair at Mason City was 17,000. Gate receipts are $10,000. Successful ever held in this county. Plans are made for many improvements to the grounds. The reduction of wages of section men on the Illinois Central a fex months ago has been the means of placing a large number of Italian on duty, as the old men refused to work after the price was cut. The Italians live in box cars and probably save more money at the reduced price than did the former-section men. Harry Higbee, a miner employed at the Ogeden Coal company, near Boone, was bombed by an explosion of powder. His face were badly burned. He has slight change of reporting. BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest from All Parts of the Globe—Latest Home and Foreign Items. POLITICAL. Charles Evans Hughes was nominated by the Republican state convention on the first ballot to succeed himself as governor of the state of New York. He received 827 out of a possible 1,005 votes, as against 151 for James W. Wadsworth, Jr., of Livingston county, speaker of the state assembly, and 31 for former Congressman John K. Stewart of Montgomery. New York Democrats nominated a state ticket headed by Leuct. Gov. Lewis S. Chanler for governor, and closed their convention with a great meeting which was addressed by Mr. Bryan. Bridge A. Heaton Robertson of New Haven was nominated for governor of Connecticut by the Democrats. The Republican party was victorious in the Maine state election, Bert M. Fernald of Poland being chosen governor over Obadiah Gardner, the Democratic nominee. The Republicans also elected all four congressmen and maintained their majority in the legislature, although the Democrats made a good gain in their representation. The plurality received by the Republicans was not much over 7,700, the smallest received in any presidential year in 25 years. The Republican state convention of Utah nominated a ticket headed by W. E. Spry for governor. Ex-Congressman John F. Lacey was elected chair of the committees of Iowa to oppose Gov. Cummins as United States senator to be voted upon at the primary in November. James A. Tawney, James McCleary and Clarence B. Miller were winners for congressional nominations in the three disputed districts of Minnesota Miller had a landslide in the Eighth District in voting J. Adam Bede by three to one. PERSONAL Wilbur Wright broke the European record for sustained flight with an aeroplane, remaining in the air more than 39 minutes. Senor Corea has resigned as Nicaraguan minister to Washington and Dr. Rodelfo Espinoza has been named to succeed him. Wilson Collins, former cashier of a bank at Elkhart, Ind., was released from the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., after a six-year sentence for violation of the national banking law. Louis A. Gregorii, who fired upon Mr.J. Dreyfus during the ceremonies last June incident to the placing of the body of Emilo Zola in the Panteheon, the Dreyfus affair, was acquitted by a jury. John Mouton, a leaper, who escaped from the Louisiana leper home in Iberville parish about a year ago, was found selling tickets at a nickel theater in New Orleans. GENERAL NEWS. The itinerary for Mr. Taft's first campaign tour through ten middle states was announced. A powder magazine near McAlester, Okla., was struck by lightning, the explosion killing one miner and seriously injuring eight others. Police Commissioner Bingham of New York publicly retracted his recent statement in a magazine article that half the criminals in New York were Jews. New York stock exchange house of E. R. Chapman & Co. was victimized to the extent of $3,000 by means of fraudulent checks. W. R. Reamer of East St. Louis tried to burn his house and family and then made two attempts at suicide. Lured to a lonely spot in Oklahoma City, Okla., Mrs. Harry Pearson was shot and killed by Harry Parker, a grain inspector from Iola, Kan., because she wouldn't elope with him. Dr. George Morton of New York was arrested in Philadelphia on a fugitive warrant from New York, charging him for $100,000 by means of fraudulent notes. The American battleships Maine and Alabama, the vanguard of the American fleet on its round-the-world voyage, arrived at Naples. Emperor William disappointed the general expectation that he would set 'oot on French territory in the course of a sight-seeing voyage along the Vosges range. The business section of Keosauqua, Ia., was partly destroyed by fire, the loss being $5,000. Charles W. Kan Zant, for several year-end moment baseball player, committed suicide at his home in Nashua N. H. Jessie and Wille Desmeulen, aged 22 and 16, drowned in the river at Sloux City, Ia., in sight of their father, who was rowing to their assistance. The national conservation commission has made public the first of its schedules on which the inventory of the country's natural resources is being conducted, and it indicates an intention to hunt down waste in all its forms and to devise some means to prevent it. George Sands, 79 years old, was arrested at his home in Kansas City Kan., on a charge of making counterfeit money. Five glass fruit jars containing 338 spurious silver dollars were dug up in his back yard. Harry K. Thaw was transferred to the jail at White Plains, N. Y. In a flight lasting one hour, ten minutes and 26 seconds, Orville Wright surpassed all his exploits for a time and distance flight for a heavier-than air machine. Twelve hundred employees of the Great Northern Paper Company at Millinocket. Me. went on strike. The average wages per hour in the principal manufacturing and mechanical industries of the country were 3.7 per cent. higher in 1907 than in 1906, while retail prices of food were 4.2 per cent. higher, according to the July report of the bureau of labor. John and Wilbur Patterson charged with holding up a street car near Boston, Pa., last May and逮捕 11 passengers and the conductor, were convicted in the criminal court at Pittsburgh. Six persons were killed and 30 injured, four of whom are not expected to live, as the result of an explosion of a car of black powder at Windsor, Mo. A white man named Monker and six Indians, are believed to have perished in the forest fire near Marrakz. Minn. They went to save homeenders at Nester and were cut off by the flames. Repair Jack Sheridan of the American Baseball league was attacked by angry baseball enthusiists in St. Louis. The United States circuit court of appeals at Richmond, Va., sustained the opinion of Judge J. C. Pritchard in the famous case of the Fleschmann Company and others against the South Carolina dispensary commission, holding in effect that a state cannot conduct liquor traffic, that being a private business. Patch Federation of Labor refused to indorse Samuel Gompers' circular laboring men to vote for Bryan. Suit for the recovery of $100,000 damages, alleged to have been sustained because of a boycott, has been begun against the United Hatters of America by D. E. Loewe & Co., of Danbury, Conn. Five persons were killed and 15 injured by a boiler explosion in a mine near Alkali, Oklahoma woman was almost instantly killed and nearly two score of other persons, most of them residents of Indianapolis, were hurt when a Lake Shore suburban train ran into an excursion train at Chesterton, Ind. A passenger train on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad was wrecked near Clarkskale, Miss. Three persons were killed and 20 injured. For convicts escaped from the state prison at Ionia, Mich., and two from the penitentiary at Chester, Ill. Sixty students of Armour Institute, Chicago, were arrested and 20 freshmen were arrested just stripped and marooned on a snow in the lake. Night riders are organizing in north eastern Arkansas, for the purpose of reducing the cotton acreage for next year and compelling the holding of this year's crop for the minimum price set by the International Farmers' Union convention which met at Fort Worth recently. Whisky and other liquors must have age and natural color or be labeled "imitation." So decided Judge Humphry in the United States district Springfield, Ill., in the case of Wollner & Co., distillers and rectifiers of Peoria, Ill. An attempt to assassinate Gov. Fort of New Jersey has been thwarted by the watchfulness of post office employees who discovered an infernal machine addressed to him in the malls. Fred Peterson, 40 years old, ended his life in Springfield, Ill., because he feared he would be a victim of hydrophobia, having been bitten by a rabid snake. Denial of any intentional contempt of court was the burden of John Mitchell's testimony when the former head of the miners took the stand before Examiner Harper in the case wherein the American Federation of Labor officials are accused of contempt in the matter of the Bucks Stovc & Range Company. The Chicago to New York express on the Erie road went into the ditch at Geneva, Pa., and 34 persons were hurt. Offlicits of the road declare some enemy of the city caused the ditch to collapse, a switch. Jenor Zborhalski, a 19-year-old youth from Buffalo, N. Y., was taken into custody at the Polish seminar in Detroit under circumstances which led to a suspicion that he intended to use a loaded revolver which was in his pocket in attacking Rev. Father Witold Buhaczkowski, head of the similiary. Miss Willie Bullinger, 19 years old, was stabbed to death by Lon Rader, aged 21, in Newton, N. C., while seated at the organ playing the closing hymn at Sunday school. Amid intense settlement and to the acrimonies of cheers and from immense crowds, the Catholic clergy held their great parade, which was the closing feature of the Eucharistic congress in London. Dave Newton, a negro, charged with being implicated in the murder of John Buchtrin, a white man, who was shot and killed at his home near Brookshire, Tex., was taken from jail by a mob and hanged. A government crop report estimates the total Canadian wheat yield at 124,690,000 bushels, an average of 21 bushels per acre. The total yield of oats is estimated at 269,904,000 bushels, and the total barley yield 49,488,000 bushels. Frank V. Bennett, a hotel manager of New York, killed himself because of financial and domestic difficulties and on learning of it, his friend George Crouch, a stock operator, committed suicide at the town of Grand Marals and Beaver Bay were reported to be burning and many other places were endangered by the forest fires of Michigan and Minnesota. A hurricane of great fury swept over Turks Islands, B. W. L, and the town of Grand Turk was devastated. A number of lives have been lost, but just how many cannot yet be said. ORITUARY Capt. A. E. Maxwell, general agent of the Seaboard Air Line, with head quarters in Jacksonville, Fla., and one of the best known railroad men in the south, died suddenly at Gainesville, Ga., of heart trouble. Dr. George W. Clark, who was the oldest living graduate of Union college, and as a young teacher "whaled" Roscoe Conkling, is dead at his home in New York, aged 92 years. Hugh Coyle, credited with the original of the modern press agent died at the county hospital in Chicago GREAT AEROPLANE TURNS TURTLE IN DESCENT. World's Greatest Aeronaut Was Barely Conscious When Help Reaches the Men. Washington, D. C., Sept. 18. After having drawn the attention of the world to his aeroplane flights at Fort Myer and having established new world's records for heavier than air flying machines, Orville Wright met with a tragical mishap while making a two man flight late yesterday. The aeroplantist was accompanied by Leitau, Thomas E. Selfridge of the signal corps of the army. Lieutenant Selfridge was fatal injured and died at 8:10 o'clock last night. Mr. Wright was seriously injured, but is expected to recover. The machine was encircling the drill grounds a propeller blade snapped off and hitting some other part of the intricate mechanism caused it to overturn in the air and fall to the ground, enveloping the two occupants in the debris. Soldiers and spectators ran across the field to where the aeroplane had fallen, and succeeded in lifting Mr. Wright and Lieutenant Selfridge from under the tangled mass of machinery, rods, wires and shreds of muslin. Mr. Wright was conscious and said: "Oh, hurry and lift the motor." Lieutenant Selfridge was unconscious and apparently struck ground with a hard blow. His head was covered with blood and he was choking when the soldiers extricated him from under the machine. Dr. Watters, a New York physician, was one of the first to reach the spot and rendered first aid to the injured men. When their wounds had been bandaged Mr. Wright and Lieutenant Selfridge were taken to the fort hospital at the other end of the field. Mr. Wright had lapsed into a state of semi-consciousness by the time he reached the hospital, while Lieutenant Selfridge did not regain consciousness at all. He was suffering from a fracture at the base of the skull and was in a critical condition. After a hurried surgical examination it was announced that Mr. Wright was not dangerously injured. He is suffering from a fracture of his left thigh and several ribs on the right side are fractured. Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge, U. S. A. was a son of E. A. Selfridge of San Francisco a retired merchant. He was 26 years old. He received bipartition to West Point from California and had been stationed at the Presidio before being sent to Washington, where he was assigned for special duty with the six crew of the vessel he was deployed himself to the study of aeronautics. While with the Fifth field artillery he became interested in the work of Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, who was experimenting with tetrahedral kites. He was made secretary of the Aerial Experiment association, and went to Hammondport, N. Y., to continue the work in aeronautics. He supervised the construction of the first aerial plane from the Red Wing, which made a successful flight at Hammondport on March 12 last. Lieutenant Selfridge made flights in this and the other two aeroplanes built by the association. Absconder Brought Back New York, Sept. 18—A. F. Bonelli, former banker of Cleveland, O, charged with the theft of $30,000, arrived here as a prisoner on the steamer Afghan Prince from Brazil. Bonelli was a steamship ticket agent and private banker dealing particularly in foreign exchange, in Cleveland. He disappeared June 18 last. Complaints came soon after the failure of remittances to reach Italy where Bonelli claimed to have correspondents. Cleveland authorities learned that he was in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and at once caused his arrest. The prisoner will be taken at once to Cleveland. He Saves $75,000 in Coal Washington, D. C., Sept. 18—Admiral Sperry, commander of the Atlantic fleet, according to estimates made at the navy department, will have saved $75,000 in coal consumption by the Atlantic fleet by the time the fleet reaches the east coast of the United States from its voyage around the world. A cablegram received by Admiral Sperry from an officer of Admiral Sperry requires the department to reduce by $8,000 tons his original estimate of coal for the use of his fleet on the voyage from Hampton Rounds to New York. An Illinois Fraud Caught Toronto, Sept. 18—A man who gave the name of J. Bellany of Chicago, but whose real name is said to be McFarland, was arrested here early yesterday. It is stated by the police that the prisoner admitted his identity as well as his connection with alley swains perpetrated on Mrs. J. Bellany. In his hometown, Banyan, it is alleged, represented to Mrs. Patten that he had certain rare books for sale, and she was induced to pay over $20,000. Negroes Holdun Italians Kansas City, Sept. 18—Six negroes surrounded a freight car in Muncie, Kan., near here, in which eight Italian railway laborers were sleeping, and robbed the foreigners of $200 in pay checks that they had just received. Samuel Chudkeare, one of the Italianans, exchanged shots with the negroes and was shot in the side and dangerously wounded. Edward Shows Friendship. Constantinople, Sept. 18.—A telegram sent by King Edward to the sultan of Turkey on the anniversary of the latter's accession to the throne was made public and produced a decided sensation on account of the friendliness of its tone. The message evidently was intended to offset the advances made to the sultan by Emperor William. E. W. Walton, Condr. S. P. Ry. 712 Van Ness St., San Antonio, Tex. writes: "During the summer and fall of 1902, my annoyance from catarh reached that stage where it was actual misery and developed alarming symptoms, such as a very deep-seated cough, night sweats, and pains in the head and chest, experimented with several nocturnal remedies before I finally decided to take a thorough course of Peruna. "Two of my friends had gone so far as to inform me that the thing for me to do was to resign my position and seek a higher, more congenial climate. Everyone thought I had consumption and I was not expected to live very long. "Having procured some Peruna, I decided to give it a thorough test and applied myself assiduously to the task of taking it, as per instructions, in the meantime. "The tests were soon apparent, all alighting symptoms disappeared and my general health became fully as good as it had ever been in my life. "I have resorted to the use of Peruna on two or three occasions since that time to cure myself of bad colds." IN THE OLD MILITIA DAYS. "Captain, you will appear on the parade ground with your company at ten o'clock for inspection." "Sorry, colonel, but you have to provide me with a phone number." I promised my wife that she could use the cannon to-day for a churul!" EYESIGHT WAS IN DANGER From Terrible Eczema—Baby's Head a Mass of Itching Rash and Sores —Disease Cured by Cuticura. "Our little girl was two months old when she got a rash on her face and within five days her face and head were all one sore. We used different remedies but it got worse instead of better and we thought she would turn blind and that her ears would fall off. She suffered terribly, and would scratch until the blood came. This went on until she was five months old, then I had her under our family doctor's care, but she continued to worsen. He said she was now worse. When she was seven months old I started to use the Cuticura Remedies and in two months our baby was a different girl. You could not see a sign of a sore and she was as fair as a newborn baby. She has not had a sign of the eczema since. Mrs. H. F. Budke, LeSueur, Minn. Apr. 15 and May 2, 07." You Know Both. There is a sort of man who is very polite to your face, but who talks about you after you are gone. There is another kind of man who grumbles about you to your face and lets you alone when you are absent. The latter sort of a man will last longer, with all his faults, than the other man, with all his politeness.—Newark Newa. 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Her| “Spellbound, taco was beautiful, but whito as the|man, who paid covering sheets, and her head was|made his way i [wound with bandages. She breathed | she following faintly through parted lips. proaching the | Out of the operating-room came the [curtains were d ‘surgeon who had finished his work, | ment, casting b fand with him his assistants, young |! search for sc ‘men in blouses and black caps, most of | Place lay a he them wearing pointed beards, An odor |he picked up, r of corbolic acid followed them, bedside, Breat “Poor girl,” sald one, as he watched | 28 he put aside ithe stretcher turn Into one of the|aa lay there s ‘wards, “I wonder it shell speak be-|turned away, & fore she dies.” was hereelt. “It will be better for her assassin | the poker as it If she, doesn't,” sald another. woman lying 4 ‘Then they went off to varlous du-|looked toward lice, Last of all came Auguste Caseau, | and she cried a hurerig and benindhand os ual, He |, "OF course | had risen late, bad reached tho hos-| dream, if you 1 ‘pital late, and had had no breakfast. |not real, for th ‘Of all the medical students at the Larl- | alone in the ro hotstere hospital there was none more | most distressin sopular than Caseau, but the pleasures | sb could not d lof Paris at night often made him nog-|face of that t Joel his duties of the day. In the pres-| with his pale b ont inatanee he did eet know who the) “Miaally she young woman was whom he had just ‘seen under the knife, nor had he any idea how her skull had been crushed uh such trghiful wounds, All be knew was that she bad remarkable [beauty and was doomed to die. He was hurrying off to a neighbor- ing cafe when a stranger waiting at ‘the door touched his arm. ‘The man's eyes were eager, he spoke with ill ‘concealed excitement and seemed like ‘one who had gone many hours without sleep. "Tell me,” he sald, “dia she speak?” Caseau shook his bead, looking at the man suspiciously. © “Can she live?” | "God knows, the doctor took 18 pleces of bone out of her head.” “Holy Mother, 16 pieces of bone!" Caseau was walking meantime to ward the cafe, and the man followed him, His eagerness for information betrayed an Interest in the case that argued some special knowledge, and Caseau was curfous. “Will you drink?” fhe sald, when they had taken soat® at a table. ‘The stranger called for absinthe aud drained his glass quickly. “Pardon me; I forgot that you do not know. I have been through so much for tho last 12 hours that I am dazed, Do you belleve in occult things, hallucinations and so on?” Caseau was only in his second year, and the lectures on hallucinations did not begin until the third, so he an- swered guardedly. “That depends,” he sald, with an alt lof holding knowledge in reserve. He questioned with his eyes, and for the frst time appeared sympathetic. The man ordered another absinthe. “Twill tell you about it," he said, ‘“f aball go mad unless I tell some one. In the first place, let me assure you that usually Tam the most matterof fact man In Paris; I never got angry, [never get excited, but last night—" He paused and a little shiver raa over him, “But Inst night," repeated Caseay encouragingly. “It was about nine o'clock when I ‘reached the corner of the Rue Sreda, where I live, I hurried upstairs. Our apartment 1s on the fifth floor look Ing out on the Rue Fontaine, and a Walcony runs along the windows where my wife keeps flowers growing. It ts ‘4 nice place to sit summer evenings, nd T expected to find her there. “Imagine my surprise, then, on open: ing the door, to find the apartment quite dark, except for the glow of the little nightlamp from the bedroom at the end of the corridor. And instead of seeing my wife come running to meet mo, all smiles, I found her sitting fon the bed in a fit of hysterieal weep: ing. Hurrying to the bedside 1 bo sought my wife to be calm, assuring ‘her that I was there to protect her. "at last_my wife recovered suff ‘ciently to explain her fright as well as ‘she was able to do so. Sho had dined ‘alono about alx o'clock and about seven bad given Amandine, our serv. ‘ant, permission to go out for the even- Ing. Then she bad spent a ttle time tidying up the apartment, and about half-past seven had settled down to read 4m the room whero we bave our library. ‘This room faces on the Rue Breda. In front of this room there 1s a short ‘stretch of balcony, which ends in an fron partition that separates it from the baleony of the house adjotning which is No, 4. It would be possible for a man to climb on this partition ‘and step from one balcony. to the other. “Aas my wife read sho must have dozed, for presently, although her back was turned to the window, she seemed to seo a man of large stature standing ‘on the balcony outside and peering in to the room, ‘This man had bushy red hhatr and eyes of the palest blue—eyes that frightened her. Presontly he with drew stealthily, climbed over the par. tition, and peered into a window of No. 4. Once again he drew back, ‘seemed to hesitate, emiled with a grim humor and noleelessly drawing a coin from bis pocket spun {t in the air and ‘caughtylt deftly in his open palm. ‘Then ming closer to the wingpw fo better gut he modded, put thd: coin ‘back in bis pocket and forthwith em tered tho room where my wife sat passing easily through the long, door Uke halves of the window, that were swung wide open. “Spellbound, my wite watched the man, who pald no heed to her, bul made bis way at once to the bedroom, sho following in mortal terror. Ap proaching the bed he noticed that ite curtains were drawn and paused a mo ‘ment, casting his eyes about him as i in search for something. Near the fire place lay a heavy brass poker which he picked up, returning with it to the bedside. Breathless my wife watched as he put aside the curtains. A wom fan lay there sleeping, with her face turned away, but my wife thought {1 was herself. Sho saw tho man lft the poker as if to strike, at which the woman lying in the bed started and looked toward him. At this my wife's and she cried aloud. “Ot course It was only fancy, & dream, {f you like, something that was not real, for the next instant she was alone In'the room. But the effect war most distressing. Do what she would she could not drive from her mind the face of that tawny-halred assassin, with bis pale blue eyes, “Binally she went to bed, hoping ‘that sleep would give her some reltef; but she could not sleep, she could not get ber thoughts out of the morbid aN AN Kare Be V re \ ASO || VOR VAs me hog bli Br <= Ts ie Gs Cire channel in which they were running. So, anxious, restless, sick at heart, she had waited for me to come, and my coming, alas, brought her only added terrors. “You are preventing me from eating my breakfast, sir, with your queer story," sald Gaseau, “And besides, J can't see what it has to do with the young woman who has just been oper: ated on. Sho is not your wife?” "No, thank heaven, but you know who she 182" “Not 1," sald Caseau. “I got tn too Jate to learn any details.” “She 1s Marle Gagnol, who occupted the apartment adjoining ours in Ne, 4, Rue Breda.” “My God!” exclaimed Caseau. Just then ono of the other studonts ‘eame in from the hospital. “She's dead,” he eald. “She never spoke. But they arc going to try an Important experiment fon her. Dr. Rosseau thinks she closed her eyes with fright at the very mo: ‘ment when she saw the murderer, and never opened them since. He's going to (est his new apparatus for getting the last image recorded on the retina If he succeeds {t will be a now tri umph for the hospital and for scl fence.” “Gentlemen,” sald the stranger tm. pressively, “if the doctor's experiment succeeds I believe on my soul that it will also be a triumph for justice.” ‘That afternoon Dr. Rosseau made tho experiment, with brilliant success; it was one of the first demonstrations of the possibilities of colored photog. raphy. Registered in the sensitive film of the dead woman's eyes, was found the distinct image of a man of unusual size, who clutched in his hands an uplifted poker. ‘The man's halr was red, his eyes a pale blue. ‘Two months Tater such a man died under the knife on the Place de Ia Roquotte, He had been arrested, con: vieted and condemned on the sole evi dence of a pair of lifeless eye-balls, supported by the testimony of a wom. an who had never een him except In a vision. On the eve of his execution he made a full confession. He stated that the murder was a chance crime prompted only by greed. Ho had reached the balcony running in front of Nos. 2 and 4 Rue Breda by using a rope hung from the roof, He de clared that for about five minutes while he was standing outside he had hesitated whether to enter the apart. ment of No, 2 or No, 4. He had rest- $a i edilen Gk thn Ces Good Authority. “Do you think it is right to make yourself out a blonde when you are not one naturally?" “Why not? Ian't all fatr in love?”— ‘Baltimore Amertoan. THE SAFE WAY TO BUY PAINT. 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"I cannot intercede for you with my sister, because I am not on good terms with my famfly.” (As a matter of fact, Corot was regarded as 8 “failure” by his family.) “How. ever,” he added, “horo Is the money to pay the rent, only don't let anyone know I have given it to you." The tallor after this used to return periodically when his rent was dueand ‘obtain the money from Corot, who re yoarked on one oceasion, "I appear to be very generous, but I am not, be: cenuse I get half of it back from my Aster as my share of the rent." Witen thy Wlaleian Scared. A country clergyman, while recently savoeating the support of @ charitable abject, prefaced tho clreulation of the plate ‘with the following address: ‘From the great sympathy I have wit ‘essed in your countenances, thero' ts only one thing Iam afrakl of—that some of you may feel inclined to glva too much, Now, it js my duty to io form you that Justice should always be a prime virtue to generosity; therefore, I wish to have {t thoroughly understood that no person will think of putting anything on the plate who cannot pay his debts.” ‘The result was ‘an overflowing collection. Marine Insurance. Marine insurance is the oldest kind of modern insurance. Its principles wero first employed in the fourteenth century by tho merchants of Barce ona, in Spain, when that city was the capital of the kingdom of Cats Jona and when {5 hardy mariners wore second to nine In the world. About the same dme, and also at Barcelona, the famous code of mart time laws known as the “consulado det mar” was promulgated, which {s the foundation of the present shipping laws of every country. “THE PALE GIRL.” Did Not Know Coffee Was the Cause. In cold weather some people think 1 cup of hot coffes good to help keep warm, So it {s—for a short time but the drug—eatfeine—acts on tho heart to woaken the circulation and the re acton 1s to cause moro chiliiness. ‘There is a hot wholesome drink which a Dak. girl found after a tine makes the blood warm and the heart strong. She says: “Having lived for five years tn N. Dak, I have used considerable coffee ‘owing to tho cold climate. As a re sult T had a dull headache ragularly suffered from indigestion, and had no ‘ife' in me. “I was known as ‘the pale girl’ and people thought I was Just weakly After a time I had heart trouble and became very nervous, never knew what it was to bo real well, Took mea feine but it never seemed to do any good. “Since being married my husband and I both have thought cotfec was harming us and we would quit, only to begin again, although we felt it was the same as poison to us. ‘Then we got some Postum. Well the effect was really wonderful, My comploxion 1s clear now, headache gone, and I have a great deal of en ergy T had never known while drink ng coffee. “{ haven't beon troubled with tnd gestion since using Postum, am no! nerfous, and need no.medicine, We have a little girl and boy who both love Postum and thrive on it and GrapeNuts.” "There's ‘a. Reason.” Name given by Postum Co,, Battle Crock, Mich. Read, “The Road to Well silte,” in pkgs. Ever read the above fatter? 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Had the genius of Ryan been tumed to politics, literature or the taw, instead of money-making, he no doubt would have obtained” proml- hence in any one of them, for the same qualities that have brought him such a large measure of success in the finanelal world also would have ay me RY 0 ee es) Fe ies 4 NAS? i pe Wy iNZe SOY, RI \ WG Thomas F. 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Pri feos a Ci Femain here, Good AGO it tase pn oe, ATE edd weit ei tc KERN & BAILEY, Subdividers and Mgrs, fF mgs ahatass ate C sinisren porrarea Slee PAINT QUALITY 1715 FOUND ONGYON, F PUREWHITE LEAD B oes Boe, HI 20 Mule a Team BORAX hase tpt tea Bie ey een wer py te Pa Sl anton Ray ee | We Have trees We Have tases Soe Argeictea wits} Thompsons Eye Water SEL US an sor as ECHOES FROM ROCK ISLAND. (Last Week.) Meadames Erickson and Woodson of Des Moines are the guests of Mrs. Chas Windsor. Miss Catherine Morrison is visiting in Chicago the guest of Mrs. George Hilbring. Mrs. H. Burris and daughter, Miss Grace, have returned from a two weeks visit in Chicago. Mrs. Chas. Windsor entertained at a 1 o'clock luneon Saturday in honor of her house guests, Mesames Erickson and Woodson of Des Moines. Covers were laid for ten and a four course dinner was served. The house was beautifully decorated in asters and other cut flowers. Mrs. Wm. Moore left Sunday morning to attend the ladies Court which meets in Chicago. Mrs. Cass Lambert entertained Mrs. Calloway of Chicago and daughter, Marjorie, also Mrs. Montgomery of Davenport and daughter Hadine at dinner Tuesday; Miss Della Rice of Springfield is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Hueston of So. Rock Island. Miss Hattie Tolliver left Saturday evening for a brief visit in Chicago Mr. Chas. Golden left Tuesday morning for Ohio and West Virginia for an extended visit. This Week. Mesdames Lambert and Morrison of So. Rock Island were callers at Prince Hall Masonic home Friday. The tri-city Sunday School Association met at the Second Baptist church Monday night. Miss Hattie Tolliver returned home from Chicago Wednesday night. Mrs. Chas. Jones is reported quite sics at this writing. Miss Katie Stoner of So. Rock Island and Mr. Irving Bryant of Chicago were married Sunday morning at the home of the bride. They left Monday morning for Chicago. THE DELINEATOR FOR OCTOBER. THE DELINEATOR FOR OCTOBER. Special Features in This Issue. What is the Matter with the Public Schools? By Rhea Childe Dorr. More Bright Sayings of Children. They Loved Lincoln. By Mabel Potter Dagget. The Funny Side of Woman Suffrage. By Ellis Meredith. BURLINGTON ITEMS Mrs. Boston and Mrs. Long of Canton, Mo. were visitors in the city last week at the S. L. Tigg home. Mrs. C. Hawkins of St. Joseph, Mo. has returned to her home after a very pleasant visit with Mrs. J. Tren. Mrs. Hawkins and Trent also visited in Keokul last week. Edward Jackson of Omaha arrived in the city last week to take his mother, Mrs. N. Jackson, who is quite ill, home with him as soon as she is able to travel. Miss H. Porter who has been visiting at the home of Mrs. Julia Folks has returned to her home in Paris, Mo. Mrs. Niema Fenwick is visiting in Chillicothe, Mo., with her parents. She will also make a trip to Chicago before her return. Flora Jackson who has been in Sioux City and Omaha visiting relatives has returned home quite ill. Mrs. H. Tigg, Miss Ida Palmer and L. Mitchell were in Otumwa this week to attend the installation of the Grand Chapter. The ladies report an excellent stay. Mrs. J. Alexander of Chicago is visiting with her brother J. W. Mackay. Mrs. Alexander is a pianist of rare ability. Her friends are hoping she will make a long visit. Ethel and Helen Mackay returned last week after several weeks visit in parts of Missouri with relative. Mrs. H. Arms, J. Folks, B. Johnson, L. Bender, I. Palmer, Mr. Pruitt, Emanuel and Reed attended the conference which convened in Keokuk last week. Mrs. B. Brown will entertain the I. A. Club at her residence, Third and Washington. The young colored women and girls in this city are given too much liberty of the streets alone at night. No good can come from the habit and parents and guardians should see to it that girls are kept at home unless there is a good reason for their being away. There is some excuse for young ladies who work until a late hour at night or whose business or social engagements keep them out. This is necessary in cities and especially among working people. But there does not seem to be any good reason why so many of our young women and girls should wander aimlessly through the down town streets alone so late at night. That sort of thing should be stopped. The time will come (if these things are permitted to continue) when it will be dangerous for a respectable colored lady to be on the streets alone after dark no matter how urgent may be her mission. If the self-respecting negro men of this community would protect their mothers, wives and daughters from the insults of any and every old tram,p white or black that they may chance to meet on the streets after dark then they should see to it that the lower class of womeu are kept off the streets unless there is some good reason for their being out. If these women are not willing to work and make an honest living they should be arrested and locked up until such time as they will see the importance of earning a livelihood by honest toil. Away with the streetwalker, and the gentlemen of leisure, and you will have taken the first step toward stamping out crime and immorality.—National Protest, St. Joseph. DAVENPORT ITEMS Mrs. E. Green of 310 west 5th street entertained the L. L. D. club Friday afternoon. After business a program was rendered by the club members. Mrs. Meadock and son of 331 west 10 street have bought the store formally owned by Mr. Wiley of LeClaire, Iowa. They opened for business Thursday with a fine line of groceries and fruit. Mr. and Mrs Montgomery of 323 E 5th street entertained eighteen ladies and gentlemen Friday night. The surprise was to see a night blooming Cereus. Refreshments were served by the hostess. Mr. E. Green returned home Tuesday from Keokuk where he attended the general conference Mrs. Wells and Miss Irene Seller of Great Bend Kansas, are visiting in the city, the guest of her mother and sister Miss Mable Neal entertained a party of young folks at a surprise, in honor of Neal's sister of Springfield. Mrs. Nelly's sister of Springfield, Ill. is in the city visiting and will remain until after the trial of her aunt which is called for this term of court. Mrs. R. Murphy of 411 west High St., Mrs. Sumberl of 318 west 11 street who have been visiting friends in St. Paul for several weeks and attending the G. L. of L. B. P. O. E. returned home Tuesday morning. DUBUQUE NOTES Dubuque is still increasing its Colored population by birth rate and travelers stopping, among the late arrivals are Henry A. Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Martin, 7 weeks, Otto B. Penn, son of Rev. and Mrs. B. Penn, 1 month, also Mr. and Mrs. B. Wilbur of Chicago, formerly of Mt. Pleasant, Ia., Mr. Harry Anderson of Kansas, City, Mo., and Mr. Wilson of St. Louis. Revs. B. R. Penn and A. L. Johnson attended conference at Keokuk last week and reported a grand time. On Labor Day a launch party containing Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Martin and Mr. and C. C. McGregor, Mrs. B. R. Penn and mother. Mrs. Morris, Mrs. Jack Korhane and little girl, Mrs. J. Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Henv A. Martin, Mr. W. B. Johnson and Jas. Martine, about 25 pounds of fish were caught and a delightful time had. Mr. James Martin of Evanston, Ill, but formerly of this city has returned and taken charge of the Elks Club-His family has moved here including Mr. Marshall of Oswalosa. Mrs. Anna Green has been very ill but is convulsive. BUXTON NEWS. Church Social and Business The Mount Zion Baptist church has called Rev. Woodward of Ann Arbor Mich., as its pastor. The Ladies Missionary society of the First Congregational church gave a very successful lawn party at the residence of Mrs. R. F. Warren last Saturday night. Mrs. A. L. DeMond, corresponding secretary, y of the Iowa State Federation of Women's Clubs, went to Clinton, on Wednesday to attend a meeting of the executive board. The Buxton Y. M.C. A., night school will open the fall term Oct., 5th., with an educational day, and a noted speaker to strike the keynote for the years work. The Jesse James company played to a very good crowd at the Buxton Opera House last Monday night. Miss Mary D. Willis who has been visiting friends and relatives in Tennessee returned to Buxton last Saturday. The Buxton lecture course promises to be one of the best given in this part of the state. Rev. A. L. DeMond preached a special sermon at First Congregational church recently to the laboring men, the topic was "Men who toil." A large number of men are busy sinking mine number 15, this is the new Buxton mine which promises to be one of the most productive in all this section. Rev. P. M. Lewis and Rev. W. H. Robinson, are both in Keokuk attending the A. M. E. conference. ALBIA NOTES. The Sewing Circle club held a social at the church Monday evening for the benefit of the pastor Rev. J. H. Bell of the A. M. E. church. Rev. and Mrs. Boll and daughter Dorcia lef Tuesday noon to attend the conference in Keokuk. Mr. Walter Bennings and Miss Hattie Grayson spent Labor Day in Oskaloosa, also several others. There were quite a number of strangers in Albia the past week. TRYING TO HOOD- WINK NEGROES Democrats Pursuing Their Usual Double Faced Policy. Upholding Disfranchisement In the South While Forming Colored Bryan Clubs in West. (From the Baltimore Sun, Dem.) General Winfield S. Hancock, who was the Democratic nominee for President in 1880, declared the tariff was principally a "local question"—that is to say, a Pennsylvania Democrat might be a protectionist for protection's sake, while a Democrat in Georgia or in Iowa might hold fast to the doctrine of a tariff for revenue only. The Massachusetts Democrat might be a free trader without reservation of any kind, while the West Virginia Democrat might be a free trader only with respect to commodities which were not produced by his own State. General Hancock's pronouncement was considered an ingenuous evasion of the tariff issue, but it did not produce harmony in the Democratic party, and the general was defeated. Twenty-eight years have passed since General Hancock defined the tariff as a local question upon which the Democrats of each State were free to act with regard chiefly to local interests. The principle which he then formulated seems to have been adopted by Democrats in the West in respect to the relation of the Democratic party to the negro. Last week the West Virginia Democratic convention embodied in its platform planks demanding certain qualifications for voters, designed to disfranchise many negroes. Their platform also contains a declaration in favor of separate coaches for white and negro passengers on railroads. The West Virginia Democrats not only refuse to hold out the olive branch to the negro and invite him into their fold, but they are determined to limit his political activity by a disfranchising law and to bring him under the operation of a "Jim Crow" law when he travels on the railroads of that State. What are the Promises? Out in Nebraska and in Kansas the Democratic campaign managers are organizing negro voters into Bryan clubs. In Ohio no effort will be spared to secure the support of the negro voters for the Democratic national ticket. What pledges have been given and what inducements have been offered does not appear. But it is a fair inference that the managers have promised to do "something for the negro," perhaps to recognize him in the distribution of offices, if Mr. Bryan should be elected, and also to take such action as the negroes may demand in respect to the reinstitution of the negro battalion dismissed from the army by President Roosevelt for the attack on Brownsville. Last week when the West Virginia Democrats were declaring for a disfranchisement law and for a "Jim Crow" law, the Democratic convention in the Twelfth Congressional district of Ohio adopted a platform favoring "the enactment of laws which shall accord to all men accused of wrongdoing, whether soldiers or civilians, a fair and impartial trial and an opportunity to be heard before conviction or punishment." This apparently refers to the Brownsville incident. It may also have a broader meaning and a more extended application and may be susceptible of an interpretation which will make Southern Democrats open their eyes with unenforcement and possibly with apprehension. Race Question "Local Issue?" There seems to be no ground for reasonable doubt that the Democratic campaign managers in the West, in the effort to secure negro support for their national ticket, are acting upon the principle that the race question is only a "local issue." It is evident that the South does not approve this plan of campaign, but is powerless to check it. The Democracy of the South is in full accord with the position taken by the West Virginia Democrats last week. And yet it is assumed by those who are trying to get negroes to support Mr. Bryan that the South will act in hearty co-operation with the Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas and Illinois Democrats, who are welcoming the negro into free fellowship in the Democratic party and probably promising to annul the decision of President Roosevelt in the Brownsville matter. The theory of Western Democrats that the race problem is merely a local issue is calculated to give the South much concern. Many Democrats in that section may question whether it is worth while to elect a Democratic president who may open wide the door of political opportunity to the negro. Mr. Bryan criticises Mr. Taft for adding to the Republican platform. In the meantime the number of "paramount issues" which Mr. Bryan sub-tracted from the Democratic platform would fill several large volumes.—Omaha Bee. Honors are easy again. Every time Mr. Taft buys a new horse Mr. Bryan mounts a new hobby.—Omaha Bee. He Is In New York. An Atchison paper asks, "What has become of the old-fashioned boy who fought against wearing his Sunday clothes?" He's in Wall street fleeing the lambs, using the same methods that he employed to organize a corner in marbles in the good old days. For a Sprained Ankle. A sprained ankle may be cured in about one-third the time usually required, by applying Chamberlain's Pain Salm freely, and giving it absolute rest. For sale by all drugstores. Mrs. Maud Davis arrived home Tuesday from Missouri, where she had been visiting. Mr. Robert Reed returned from Hannibal, where he was called because of the accident of Mr. Thomas Reed, he is reported as getting along nicely. Mr. Peoples of Frankford, Mo., is the guest of his uncle Mr. Chas. Peoples. Mrs. Mary Brown who has been ill is much better now Mr. James H. Hardin of Monmouth, and Mrs. Jennie Payne of Knoxville, Ill., were married Saturday, Sept. 12th, in Galesburg. The groom is one of our energetic young men, he has been in the employ of Ebersole for a number of years, the pride is one of Knoxville's charming young ladies. They left Galesburg on their honeymoon, Sunday night, they will be at home to their friends at 116 N. A street after Sept. 20th. Mrs George Stokes is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. Stokes and Mrs. Ella Groff this week. Mr. and Mrs. Boone South of Frankford, Mo., are visiting their relatives in the Maple City this week. The Big Home Coming is in full blast and there is a large orderly crowd in the city. Rev. S. McDowell who was pastor of the A. M. E. church, will be with us for another year. Phone your news to 4200 Ind. phone. Chivalry The chivalry of Europe is, in great measure, a product of the Saracen chivalry which entered Europe in two streams flowing through Constantinels and through Sparta. Seventy-two horse-racing clubs have been organized in Japan. 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The Iowa Journal is the oldest Afro-American journal published in Iowa. It was established in 1894 and is read by nearly all the colored people of Iowa. We have correspondents in the following towns: Clinton ..... A. A. Bush Keokuk ..... A. J. Fields Mt. Pleasant ..... Miss Bertha Harris Ottumwa ..... Edna A. Martin Sloux City ..... Mrs. Etta Grant Rock Island ..... Mrs. Wm. Taylor Moline, Ill. ..... Miss Mable Tariner Galesburg, Ill.Miss Mayme Richardson Minneapolis, Minn. ..... Mrs. G. H. Wade Albia ..... Miss May Davis Cedar Rapids, Mrs. Adelalde Perkins Ft. Madison ..... Anna Harper Oskaloosa ..... Leulla B Franklin Washington ..... N. L. Black Burlington ..... Mrs. J. E. Johnson Moberly, Mo. ..... Prof. A. B. Bolden Buxton ..... Mrs. A. L. Demond N. B. to correspondents. Please mail your letters that contain for publication not later than Wed- nesday morning to ensure publication for the current week. THE CHURCHES Corinthian Baptist Church—corner of Fifteenth and Linden streets. Preschool; from 10:30 to 12 Sunday school; at 12 o'clock Preschool; 789 to 1300. Rev. T. L. Griffin, pastor. St. Paul A. M. E.—Corner of Second and Center Streets. Preschool at 10:30 a.m. m.; Sunday school; at 12 o'clock Preschool; Epworth Learns at p.m.; preschool at 8 p.m. W. S. Brooks pastor. First African Baptist Church—Jones School and Fourth streets. Rev. F. Rudvorn pastor. Preschool at 10:30 a.m. m.; Mrs. J. T. Griffin superintendent; Young People's meeting 7 p.m., preschool 8:00 p.m. M. F. Church—Corner of 11th Crooker Street—Church services, preschool at 11 a.m and 8 p.m; preschool and prayer meeting 12 m Sunday; Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Epworth Learns at 12 o'clock Preschool and Class meeting every Wednesday 9:30 a.m. J. M. Harris, pastor 846 11th St Maple Street Baptist Church—Situation on E. Church Street—Situation on E. Preschool 11 m.; Sunday School 9:00 a.m. Henry Davis Superintendent, Misc. Mylee Hubburt, so.restory. Samuel Bates, pastor. Union Congregational Church—Corner Tenth and Park streets. Preschool 10:45 a.m. Sunday School 12 m.; evening service 7:30 p. Prayer meeting Wednesday. SECRET ORDERS. North Star Lodge No. 3. Knights of Pythias—Meets on Wednesday of June and Walnut streets. Regular work nights, second and fourth Mondays. W. M. Warfield C.O.; J. L. W. Green K of R and S. Mr. Mats Placement 50—Wednesay the first Wednesday at 3:30, and 5:30, Wednesay at 7:30 of each month, at Oed Fellows' hall, Sixth and Walnut Sts. Miss Bertha Curtley Rose Sharoca Temple F. M. T. No. 30, meets second and fourth Wedne-day afternoon at Hassan厅, East Sixth and Locust. Nettie Davis, W. P., Hettie Harris W. S. M. W. U. LARGE LODGE OF IOWA AND JURISDICTION A. F. & A. M. Grand Lodge meets at Keokuk, Iowa, July, 1909. GRAND LOUGE OFFICER W. H. Milligan, M' W. Grand Master, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Rural Route W. H. London R. W. S. Grand Warden, Buxton. H. E. Williams, R. W. J. Grand Warden, Ottumwa. H. K. Hilton, R. W. Grand Treasurer Omaha, Neb. T. H Sturgis, R. W. Grand Secretary Sloux City. W. P. Wade, R. W. Grand Custodian Omaha, Neb. I. L. Brown, Chairman of Committee on Foreign Correspondence, Marshall- town.