Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XV. No 33. CITY NEWS (N. B. I you have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we collect all your local news.-Ed.) Mr. Allen Jones of Buxton was a Des Moines visitor this week. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Perry of Enterprise spent Tuesday in the city on business. Misses Florence Gaiter and Alice Morton left Wednesday for Boone for a visit with Miss Alice Stark. One hundred years ago the twelfth of this month a great man was born. There is no need to trace his history. Mrs. L. M. Miller of Albia, the sister of Mrs T. L. Griffith, will spend two weeks in the city visiting at the parsonage. Mr. LeRoy Tucker, secretary of the Buxton Y. M. C. A. was in the city this week to secure the Governor for an address before the big Y. M. C. A. meeting, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. E. S. Morgan has moved his bar shop to 304 Third street, where he is nicely fitted up. The new firm is Morgan & Son. Mrs. J. W, Campbell of 782 11th street entertained Rev, and Mrs. T. L. Griffith last Friday evening at a four course six o'clock supper. Music was furnished by her son, Mr. Babe Houston of Chicago. Dr. A. J. Booker of Chicago; Ill., successfully passed the medical state board examination, and will begin the practice of medicine in the city of Des Moines after Feb. 1st. Dr. Booker has studied in Paris, France and is both physician and surgeon. At the annual meeting of the members of St. Paul's A. M. E. church at Second and Center streets Wednesday evening. Mrs. S. Joe. Brown, S. C. Carey, Adam Dixon, E. B. Elliston, A. C. Fisher, W. H. Humburd, A. C. Payton, John Walker, and Edward Weeks were elected trustees for the ensuing year. All of these except Mr. E. B. Elliston were members of the old board. The Intellectual Improvement club met last Friday with Mrs. S. Joe Brown and began the study of American literature. The president delivered her annual message, which was interesting, instructive and full of good suggestions. The message was handed to the executive committee to act upon. The club meets next Friday with Mrs. Chas. Cousins. A GOOD MOVEMENT A band of Masons met last Thursday evening to organize a Masonic Building Association. The object is to incorporate a company under the laws of Iowa to buy or build a Masonic building. It was a very enthusiastic meeting of the younger men of North Star Lodge No. 2, and they went into temporary organization. The articles were presented to an enrollment of a large number of those present was made as charter members. The next meeting will be held at North Star Lodge hall Thursday, January 28, when the articles will be adopted and the payment of half of the shares, which is $5.00, $10.00 being one share. Any person may take out their share. They be not a Mason. All Masons are not to be present next Thursday evening and help push it along. Mr. J. W. Jones of Buxton arrived in our city last week and was re-elected one of the extra mail carriers by the Iowa legislature for a second term. Mr. Jones is a successful race man and a carpenter by trade. He has worked for the Consolidated Coal Co., for more than 20 years. He is not an agitator, but a man of few words and does things, and lets his results tell of his worth to a community. The annual election of the officers of Union Congregational church occurred last Wednesday evening after supper was served by the ladies. Treasurer, Mrs. John W. Jackson; Clerk. H. E. Jacobs; Organist, Mrs. H. W. Porter; Ass't. Organist, Miss Marie Bell; Chorister, Mrs. Frank P. Johnson; Deacons, for five years, J. H. Weeks; for four years, Chas. S. Steward. Deacons, Mrs. Wilson Hughes for three years, Mrs. Emma Harris for two years and Mrs. C. S. Stewart for one year; Trustees, J. H. Shepard, Wm. Coalson, John L. Thompson, H. E. Jacobs, Gus Watkins, E. Tracy Blagburn. Rev H. W. Porter was unanimously elected pastor for the ensuing Year. Des Moines Negro Lycme was entertained by Attorney and Mrs. S. Joe Brown last Tuesday evening at their home, 1058 Fifth street, at which time Miss Bessie Reeves was selected as representative and Mr. George Mason as alternate in the vocal contest on February 22, with Omaha Literary and Historical society. On next Tuesday the Misses Collen and Edna Alexander will entertain the Lyceum at their home in Eighland Park. The biannual election of officers will occur at this time. All old and new members are especially urge to be present to help select the officers to guide the destinies of the Lyceum during the next six months. Corinthian Baptist Church. In the last business meeting of the Corinthian Baptist church, the members unanimously rejected Rev. T. L. Griffith's resignation, but granted him two weeks vacation, which time he will spend visiting in Denver; The following letter was sent to the church in Denver: To the Zion Baptist church, Denver, Colo, Dear co-worker: We the members of Corinthian Baptist church, Des Moines, Ia., recognizing the obligation under which our pastor has been placed with you; in special meeting assembled do hereby send you the following communication. While we recognize the fact that our pastor, Rev. T. L. Griffith, accepted a call from you in good faith and offered his resignation to us, which we unanimously rejected, we having faith in God and the welfare of our own church at heart, refuse to give him up. Knowing his ability as a minister, organizer, church worker and leader of the Baptist denomination of the west, we feel that he could have accomplished a great work among you, and we hope that the cause in your church, city and state under the guidance of God and some good minister whom the Lord may send you will pros. per. I am imploring the choice blessings of God upon you, we are, Yours in Christ, Corinthian Baptist Church Selma Brown, clerk. Financial report for Corinthian Baptist church showed receipts for the year ending Dec. 21, 1968 to be $2630.13. This included $707.50 borrowed improvement last year. Over two hundred dollars of this sum was contributed by men and friends through the special effort of the pastor. Peculiar Spook that Has Struck Terror to Farmer Folk. The horseback riding ghost is the very latest variety that has appeared in Bowdinham, and he is a particular spirit, make visitations only at certain times. The hunter's ghost, they call him, and the big man on the big white horse who comes galloping down the Lisbon road on the full o' the moon right up to the side door of Sunny Crest farm strikes terror to the heart of the farmer folk as he raps smartly with his riding whip on the panels of the door. Whenever one appears in answer to the knock the ghost, so they tell the story, wheels round and disappears at a gallop, turning into the old woods road much used in revolutionary times by the soldiers of that stormy period. The ghost of the old Cap'n, they call him, connect this horseback riding spook with a certain officer of unsavory fame who once haunted the district of Maine. It is on the hunter's moon when the ghost rides abroad, and nervous people on the Lisbon road are much disturbed by this galloping horseman—Lewiston Journal. A FEW OF LIFE'S PARADOXES. All True, Though at First They Beem to Read Rather Odd. Peace we secure by armaments, liberty by laws and constitutions, simplicity and naturalism are the consummate result of artificial breeding and training; health, strength and wealth are increased only by lavish use, expense and wear. Our mistrust of mistrust engenders our commercial system of credit; our tolerance of revolutionary utterances is the only way of lessening their danger; our charity has to say no to beggars in order not to defeat its own desires; the true epicurean has to serve great sobriety; the way to certainties through medical doubt; virtue signifies not innocence but the knowledge and its overcoming. The ethical and religious life are full of contradictions held in life. You hate your enemy—well, forgive him, and thereby heap coals of fire on his head; to realize yourself, renounce yourself; to save your soul, first lose it; in short, die to live.—Prof. William James, in Hilbert Journal. Fever Sores. Fever sores and old chronic sores should not be healed entirely, but should be kept in an entirely healthy condition. This can be done by applying Chamberlain's Salve. This salve has no superior for this purpose. It is also most excellent for chapped hands, sore nipples, burns and disless of the skin. For sale by all druggists. OUR NEW SENATOR. OUR NEW SENATOR. Last Wednesday at high noon the Iowa state legislature qualified Lon A. Albert B. Cummina, United States Senator from Iowa for the full term. We are indeed exceedingly glad to see Governor Cummina thus elevated to a seat in the American congress, where he so long and undeservedly has been kept out of it. We believe with such new blood and sincerity, we uniquely qualified Senator Cummina of Iowa, Senator Knox of New York, Senator Crawford of South Dakota, Senator Burton of Ohio and Senator Brown of Nebraska the country may expect to hear from these men. They are able, ripe in age and experiential, qualified for the struggle that is before them. HON. A. R. CUMMINS. Unitee States Senator, who was elected by the legislature for the regular term. SIOUX CITY ITEMS The revival meetings being held at the A. M. E. church is progressing nicely under the leadership of the evangelist, Rev. Robinson and family of Clarinda. The members are being spiritually revived and several souls come weeklong in the A. M. E. church, then he will go over to the Mt. Zlon Baptist church to assist in their revivals, both churches have united in the good work. Mr. Arthur Smith, Sr., is confined to his home with the la gripe. He is spiritually old, but his old pioneers, is dangerously ill with the asthma at the St. Vincent hospital. Owing to his age, little hopes are held out for his recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Rev. M. B. Newman entertained a company of friends on Monday afternoon in honor of Rev. Robinson. There will be baptizing at the A. M. E. church Sunday. Two candidates for baptism. Master Roy Crawford has been confined in with the la gripe and also Miss Emma Crawford has the la gripe. Mr. Gripe seems to be getting in his bed. Ms. Mary Knight went on a business trip Saturday to Clarinda, Iowa, her home, and returned home Monday. Rev. R. Knight was called to Cana, Ill., last week to look after his son, who is in a hospital at said place for treatment. Hark! You will soon hear the wedding bells, for Cupid said so. The A. M. E. church was packed Sunday evening to hear the evangelist, Rev. Robinson. He certainly is a powerful speaker and those who sit under his voice and love their souls may but be won over on the Lord's side. Sunday was stewardess day at the A. M. E. church and the sum of $12 was taken up, and Walter Cavens, son and daughter of Mr. Cavens, arrived in our city last week to live here. Mrs. Cavens will soon join them. Rev. Robinson lectured on Monday evening at the A. M. E. church. His lecture, "Finding the log cabl of the pulpit," a large audience greeted him. DAVENPORT NEWS (Special to Bystander.) Mds. Benjamin Bright entertained about seventy-five tri-city ladies January 1, at a reception, in honor of her house guest, Mrs. M. E. Miller of Colorado Springs. The spacious parlor, decorated with green and green and cut flowers. Those who assisted in receiving were Mrs. W. Ballord, B. Enoch and E. Allen, Mrs. J. Curd poured coffee. W. Ingraham served frape. Each lady had a cup of coffee. After the reception the hostess served a six course dinner to the receiving party and their husbands, and Mrs. G. Smith and Mr. Frank Johnson. Mrs. W. Ballord entertained about four times in January 10, at a six-course dinner, complimentary to Mrs. M. E. Miller of Colorado Springs. After a three weeks visit with her cousin, Mrs. B. Bright, 106 Ripley street, Mrs. E. Miller departed on early morning for her home in Colorado Springs. OTTUMWA BRIEFS. Miss Mary Fowler has returned to Lincoln Institute to resume her studies. There have been many strangers in the city the past few weeks. Among the young men of our city possible names are, deserving of praise than Messrs. Juel Campbell and Andrew Bibbs. At the "Billy" Sunday revival, the young men were ushers and elicited praise from everyone for their courtesy and general manliness. (Last week.) Mrs. A. L. D. LeMoub of Buxton, was in our city at last week, the guest of the Good Inquiry Club. A reception was given in her honor at the home of Mrs. E. W. Fowler, at which time Ms. DeMolden read an excellent pas- per on "The Colored Club Woman." Revival is in progress at the A. M. E. church. Weeks was quite seriously injured at the packing plant Monday. Mrs. Theodore Farmer is ill this week. When you wish news sent to the Byssander, kindly call 627-R, old phone. ENTERPRISE NEWS. Rev. James Bowles left last Saturday for Hiteman on the account of illness of his father, Mrs. Bettie Bowles of that place. Mrs. Sophia Jackson, who has been sick is able to be out again. Mr. Major Barker and son, Charles of Evans, are in our city, called here by the death o this son-in-law, Fred Williams. Mr. Augustine 19th, Mr. Fred Williams at his home from the injuries received in a dust explosion in mine No. 2, where he was attending to his regular duties of shot fireing on the evening of January 13th. The deceased leaves a wife and four children. The oldest only five years. Funeral is at the Highland Park. Mrs. Lillian Caird of Highland Park is in the city, called here on account of the illness of brother-in-law, Mr. Fred William. Married, January 16th, at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Dee Outley, Izorah Mickles to Mr. Jake Mickman. Rev. M. C. Carrington officiated. Married, January 14th, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Capart, at Des Moines, Miss Fannie Capart, to Mr. Ed. Cocoanut of this place. Mr. Cooanant is we known highly respected in our community, we wish him a long and peaceful voyage on the matrimonial sea. LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES. Monday, January 4, 1909, found the faculty and students of Lincoln Institute back in their respective places ready and enthusiastic for work after a week. Many new students encouraged by the excellent reports of those who went home, have matriculated with the beginning of the new year and are now hard at work. Missouri legislature is in session, and many legislators, with their families and friends, have already come out to visit the institution, and with one accord all have expressed themselves to Dr. Allen as extremely pleased with all they have seen in the various literary and industrial department. It is interesting to note that the gavels used in the senate and the house of representatives were made by young men in the mechanical department, were presented by Dr. Allen, and were presented by the legislature's plause. In fact, nothing but good words are heard on all sides from the legislators, for the excellent work that is being done by Lincoln Institute through President Allen and his faithful faculty. Many of the graduates of the institution who are now engaged in teaching were present at the recent Teachers' association in Kansas City, and all of these graduates showed inimitable signs of progress and general prosperity, thus speaking well for the training which they received, while here. In a far greater degree than in most schools devoted to the interests of higher rather than elementary education, as is rightly expected in northern and western countries, throughout the entire course, places great stress upon correct English, reading, spelling, penmanship, etc. There are frequent reviews in the course of the course, spelling matches; daily practice in the writing of business forms. In other words, Dr. Allen is attempting to build up a great school whose graduates may go forth into the world and be able to do things, both quickly and KEOKUK NOTES Mrs. F. D. Bland was a Burlington visitor during the holidays. Mrs. Wm. Taylor visited in Davenport during the holidays with Mrs. C. B. Lewis. The funeral of the late Vina Morse was held at the family home, 711 N. Thirteenth street Saturday afternoon Jan. 9. The funeral of the late Robert Singleton, who died last Thursday with pneumonia, was held at the A. M. E. church Sunday afternoon at 13:30 o'clock, W. R. Searcy officiating. Mr. Chas. Alden is still very ill at his home, 1407 Morgan street. Mrs. Mattie Woodard is very ill at her home Sixteenth and Morgan Sits. Mr. E. Goens is very ill at his home, 1510 Franklin street. Little hope is entertained for his recovery. The resignation of the Rev. W. T. Green of the Pilgrim Rest church taken effect on the 12th last. The revival services at the A. M. E. church are gaining rapidly in attendance. Sunday evening the large auditorium was filled to its highest capacity, Mrs. Howard, the noted evangelist, who is conducting the meetings, made a touching appeal which resulted in a good number joining the church. The Rev. Jones of Springfield III., arrived here Monday to assist with the meetings. The rehearsals for the sacred cantata Queen Esther is still in progress. The director, F. D Fields, hopes to present it about the middle of February. Mrs. W. A. Bruce is still in Chicago, being called there by the illness of her daughter. Mrs. P. A. Jones returned home Saturday morning, Jan. 9th, from Minneapolis, Minn., where she was called on account of the death of her brother, Scott Cradit; who died suddenly of heart failure. Mrs. Reinehart who has been bedfas' for an indefinite period, is gradually sinking. ALBIA NOTES. Mrs. Maggie Gordon and two children, and Mr. Gordon's father of Bussey agent Sunday in Albia with her sister, Mrs. Allie Boman. Mrs. McCarthy, Mr. Mosley and Miss Nielley of Hitanam attended the quarterly meeting in Albia Sunday. Mr. Baker of Buxton was the guest of Mr and Mrs. Ed. Butter Sunday. Presiding Elder M. I. Gordon assisted Rev. J. H. Bell with his quarterly meeting service Sunday, and will assist him with his revival meetings through the week. Quite a number of strangers in town the past week. MARSHALLTOWN ITEMS (Special to Bystander.) Miss Hardina Gilmore returned home from a few weeks visit with relatives in Des Moines. Mr. A. Walker was a capital city visitor a few days last week. Mrs. C. P. P. Gilmore's condition has improved so she is able to be around in the house. Rev. R. P. Palmer was somewhat indisposed last week, but was able to fill his pulpit as usual Sunday The Women's meeting which was held at the Second Baptist church last week was a success. After a short address by the pastor two clubs were organized to work for the benefit of the church spiritually, financially and socially. Mrs. R. P. Palmer was elected president of Golden Rule Club and Miss Nellie Jackson president of the Silvery Leaf club. Other officers were also elected who have the work of the clubs at heart. Mr. Isaas Brown was brought home from his work last week very sick, but is reported to be much better at this writing. Excellent services were held at the Second Baptist church Sunday. The pastor preached in the morning from subject, "The Example of Faith in Prayer." Evening subject, "God Plan for Man's Happiness." The sermons were delivered with power to a large audience. The Sunday School was well attended and the officers for the ensuing year were elected. Blindness. "There are various degrees and kinds of blindness, widow. There is the connubial blindness, ma'am, which perhaps you may have observed in the course of your own experience, and which is a kind of willful and self-damaging blindness. There is the blindness of party, ma'am, and public men, which is the blindness of a mad bull clothed in red. There is the blind confidence of youth, which is the blindness of young kittens, whose eyes have not yet opened on the world."—Charles Dickens. Curious Mexican Indians. Buried in the heart of a civilized, powerful and progressive foreign people, a little handful of Indians have lived for 300 years and have contrived to keep during all that time their national characteristics, their traditions and their individuality. If you seek them you will find them in Amalatian de los Reyes, a village in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. They are people who have haps the only people in the republic who have succeeded in retaining for themselves what is practically self-government. Willing to Oblige. "When you feels any temptations comin' along," said the friend and adviser, "you mus' say: 'Get thee behind me, Satan.'" "Da's what I done said," answered Mr. Erastus Pinkley, "an' den 'magnies I hyuhs Satan answer me back: 'Da's all right. We's both gwine de same way, nohow, an' it don't make no diff'nce to me which leads de puhession." PLEA FOR SELF-RELIANCE. Charles G. Dawes' Good Advice to Young Men in Business. This is a hard world in business. It always has been and always will be. There are many good and generous men in it. There are many who will lend a help leading to you in your adversity, but in the time of need you will not find them among the men who tried to get you to embark in speculation with your little surplus, and to sell you something which would help you to "easy money." Be self-reliant. Make your own investment into investments. When you cannot, put your money in a good savings bank. Distrust the financial assets you distrust the political damnage they cause on your pocketbook you travel life—first, to give always in proportion to your means to those who are poor; second, to hold from those who would take through force, or fraud what you need for yourself and yours. You will then, writes Mr. Dawes in the Saturday Evening Post, have your hand where most of the other fellows have only their eyes. In this alone you will have the advantage of them CHILDREN OF EXALTED TASTES. Little Ones Used to Digitaries of High Estate. A well-known family in Catholic circles, living in Spring Garden street, and blessed with three very small daughters, spent last winter in Rome, where the small daughters were sent to school. The family, being quite hospitably inclined, entertained quite lavishly some of the dignitaries of the Vatican. Returning to Philadelphia, they rejoiced, entertained, and among others of their old priest called to bid them welcome home. The mother, always proud of her three small daughters, sent for them to be brought downstairs to see the father. After awhile they came, the three little golden-haired girls; but they only stood in the doorway of the spacious room and refused to come any further. The mother, much mortified at such behavior, said to the eldest: "Come here, dear; don't you remember good wife who you come and see us from the cathedral." There they stood, the three little blonde toes, and looking most disproportionally at good Father —, the eldest spoke: "We like cardinals," is what she said—Philadelphia Public Ledger. NO WONDER SHE DION'T KNOW Woman of Experience Not Haasty In Expressing Opinion. Before he had been in the car three minutes most of the women passengers and some of the men were explaining to their neighbors what they would do with the little imp if he belonged to them. Spanking was the popular remedy, and if that boy had received then and there all the paddings that his critics were aching to administer he certainly would have been able to do. To the general babel of advice and fault-finding, however, there was one woman who contributed nothing. She was a gentle, gray-haired body, who remained unruffled in the midst of the small tempest raging. "If that child was mine," said the determined woman beside her, "I make him mind if I had to half kill him. Wouldn't you." "I don't know," said the little woman, mildly, "what I'd do." The woman did the determined woman. Well, I know. But maybe you are not used to children? Maybe you never had any of your own? "Oh, yes," said the little woman. "I brought up 13. That is why I don't know what I would do." Concrete Not Modern Concrete is a very ancient material for construction, but reinforced concrete is especially half a century old. It is said to have started in a happy idea that came to a Frenchman who wanted large flower pots for his plants which should not be thick and clumsy. He reinforced them with wire. Nowadays we see glass reinforced in the same way, especially about elevator shafts. Coignet and others developed the reinforcement of concrete for buildings, and merely useful buildings and conservatories. As early as 1874 a concrete villa was built on the north shore of Long Island sound, but it was many years before the idea "took" here, although in France, Belgium and Germany it was seized upon with avidity. -Smith's Magazine. No More Gold Lace for Afghans. The aeneer has published an edifice, which applies to all parts of Afghanistan, prohibiting the import into the country of all kinds of gold lace, including embroidered kullas lungis and embroidered shoes. The aeneer is evidently actuated by a desire to prevent his subjects from spending their hard earned money on showy dress. It is the poorer classes who are notoriously addicted to this extravagance which his majesty has decided will have cost the coat of the Afghan is decidedly handsome, and although the aeneer has acted wisely in bringing into general use clothing less costly, his majesty's orders will doubtless be received by his subjects with rather mixed feelings. Proper Bestowal of Charity. Dickens: There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs; and hence it is that diseased sympathy and compassion are every day expended on out-of-the way objects, when only too many demands upon the legitimate exercise of the same virtues in a healthy state are required. The most important of the most unobservant person alive. In short, charity must have its romance, as the novelist or the play wright must have his. Sleeplessness. A good remedy for sleeplessness is to wet a towel and apply to the back of the neck, pressing it hard up against the base of the brain and fastening over this cloth to prevent too rapid evaporation. The effect will be prompt and pleasant, cooling brain and inducing a sweet or peaceful slumber. Warm water is better than cold for the purpose. This remedy will prove useful to people suffering from overwork, excitement or anxiety. He Guessed It: Howell—What became of Rowell who was here when I lived here? Powell—He died of throat trouble Rowell—Well, I'll be hanged. Powell—Yes, that's the way he died ```markdown ``` TREATMENT THAT "GROWS" IRON Peculiar Property of Castings Put to Practical Use. Why should an iron grate bar become warped, twisted and cracked after long use? The reason appears to have been discovered by Alexander E. Outerbridge, Jr., of Philadelphia, who tells us that cast iron heatened and cooled swells so that a bar of it can only longer be thicker and that this increase in size may continue with subsequent heatings and coolings until the volume of the bar is 40 per cent. larger than it was originally. Microscopic examination shows that the texture of the swelled bar has become coarser grained. This discovery, which was made about three years ago, is now put to practical use in various ways. For instance, a gas engine piston that had worn small was caused to "grow" by this method until it again fitted its piston. Several tons of steam radiators that had been condensed as too short were successfully treated until they could be used as at first intended. NORMAL THEORY IS DISPROVED. Quite Preposterous in the Light of Present-Day Extremism. Philosophers seldom tire of booming the normal and deprecating the all-round abnormal tendency. They insist that 'normal life is good for our bodies, and eke for our consciences. But this is absurd. We cannot enjoy ourselves and at the same time be normal. Every pleasure is something which is abnormal to us. Every man and woman at the present day who sets out with the object of achieving distinction, or popularity of any description, must be abnormal good or abnormally bad before it can create an impression. The "normal" theory is a preposterous one. Imagine a woman in normal clothes! At the present moment woman has attained the pinnacle of notoriety in the opposite direction, and on its top most point is set her hat. Imagine the successful athlete in a normal condition. Imagine the winner of a motor race as a normal pleasure seeker; and there are others—many to mention—Philadelphia Record. **Paying the Price.** "Is it not some reproach upon the economy of Providence that such a one, who is a mean, dirty fellow, should have amassed wealth enough to buy half a nation?" Not the least. He made himself a man, dirty fellow, that he has paid for. He has paid for health, his conscience, his liberty for it; and will you envy him his bargain? Will you hang your head and blush in his presence because he outshines you in equip and show? Lift up your brow with a noble confidence, and say to yourself: I have not these things, it is true; but it is because I have not sought, because I have not desired them; it is because I possess something better. I have chosen my lot, I am content and satisfied.—Anna Letitia Barbauld. A. Restrained Grief Back in the ridges of Tennessee two mountaineers got into an argument. Words led to blows, and in the fight that followed one of the men was killed. A neighbor rode on ahead to the dead man's cabin to prepare his wife. He found her seated at a table eating apple dumplings. He broke the sad news to her as gently as he could. She listened quietly, with a dumplings poised in the air half way to her mouth. When the neighbor paused she stuffed the dumplings into her mouth and said: "You jest wait 'till I finish this herer dumplin' an' then you all 'ill hear hol尔er'-"Harper's Monthly. The Truly to Be Pitied. Stevenson: Pliful is the case of the blind, who cannot read the face; puffful the case of the deaf, who cannot follow the changes of the voice. And there are others, also, to be pitted, for there are some of an inert and inloquent nature who have been denied all the symbols of communication, who have neither a lively play of facial expression, nor yet the gift of planetary speech; people truly made of clay, people tied for life into a bag which no one can undo. They are poorer than the gypsy, for their heart can speak no language under heaven. "I the *Jm Crow* Law in Heaven. Uncle Wash, an aged colored man who is given to seeing visions, was recently regaling a group of brethren and slisters in the church with a dream of heaven that he had had the night before. As he was graphically described by his sister, Pearl, and the hosts of white-robed, fair-haired angels playing upon jewed harps, an old woman interrupted with the query: "See any niggahs dah?" "Hub," he snorted, indignantly, "to "Chicago." He added to de- kline—"Philadelphia Lakers." Catching Rats. Do rats drink water? Do they require water? The best way to catch these rodents is to put any animal substance, well perfumed with oil of rhodium, into a trap. This induces them to enter readily, and even draws them from a considerable distance, as they are extremely partial to this oil. An ounce of oil of rhodium is not enough for Catnip to a cat is nothing like rhodium to a rat. Oil of rhodium is made from a species of bindweed, and is used in perfumery. One of the little tragedies of the Boxer uprising in China has just come to light. The young American woman who painted the portrait of the late empress dowager wrote recently of the sittings, and mentions the long finger nails of her distinguished subject. In the hurried flight from Peking they were injured, and had to be cut, and the artist remarks in a tone which suggests a sigh, "They were only about three inches long when I painted the picture." --- Should Men Talk Business at Home? One of the real reasons of divorce is interest between men and women of his country is that women do not take an interest in their husband's business. business bosses most American women. We are too idealistic and too intellectual to care for its sordid details. Business does more than bore us; sooner we later the average woman grows to illiterate business, and for a good reason, it is her rival in her husband's interest and affections, says the writer of an article entitled "The Inconsequential American Woman." in Appleton's America is full of sad-eyed and well stressed women who complain that their husbands' lives they would stare business" that they have no interest for anything else. If you were to suggest to these women that they had once been given a chance to share in their husbands' lives they would stare at you in surprise. It would be useless to tell such a woman that she might have been a consulting partner in her husband's business had she wished. To this she has the reply, "Man ought to leave his business cares in his office." That is a man's brain should be neatly divided into two parts; he should be able to switch off the thoughts which have occupied his business hours the way in which one extinguishes an electric light. He should at the same moment touch on the half of his brain where should burn brightly with affection for his wife, love of amusement and desire for that kind of relaxation which his wife enjoys. The great majority of men have been made to believe that they should not "bring business home," so great is the power of reiterated suggestion. They actually think that it would not please them to have their wives take an intelligent interest in their pressing affairs. In accordance with plans of the war department, Surgeon General O'Kelly has recently enlisted a large number of the most skilful and noted surgeons and physicians in an army medical reserve corps. The physicians were drawn from all over the country, a few here and a few there, and were chosen solely for their ability. In time of peace they will receive no compensation, although they may be called upon for consultation or advice. In time of war they will receive the regular pay of their rank, which will be leutnant, major, lieutenant colonel and colonel. This, however, is no temptation to men of such a class. They have allowed themselves to be enlisted in the reserve corps solely as a matter of patriotic duty, and for the purpose of strengthening and improving the army medical service. The Romanes lecture which President Roosevelt has been chosen to deliver at Oxford university in 1910 is given under the provisions of a bequest at the late George John Romanes, an eminent biologist. The lectureship was founded in 1891 for the purpose of giving the Oxford students an opportunity each year to hear a man of general eminence in art, literature or science, or one who had special claims for distinction in discussing some subject of high interest at the time. The first lecture was given by Gladstone. Among his successors have been Holman Hunt, Huxley, John Morley and Ambassador Bryce. Next year Mr. Balfour, the former British premier, will give the lecture. Count Boni De Castellane has withdrawn his suit against his former wife for alimony. Considering that she obtained the divorce, the withdrawal of a demand for support is not altogether magnanimous; but it may be regarded so by himself and family, as the American girl who had nothing in their eyes to entitle her to the honor of an alliance with them but her money was given distinctly to understand that was all she was married for. But this sordid picture of vulgar greed is not deterring other American heiresses from tempting the same fate. Tragedy in New Jersey. A woman going from one room to another in her house met the harmless, necessary cat carrying a mouse; whereupon the woman screamed and fell dead. The story, however, is imperfect. The scream must have startled and surprised the cat, and what we are really curious to know is whether the mouse escaped? The National Good Roads association was organized by delegates from 37 states in national convention in Chicago, November 21, 1900. Mme. Curie, 'co-discoverer with her husband of radium, has been promoted to full professorship in the University of Paris. A woman who can discover new truth is certainly qualified to teach it, and the young men in the university can afford to sit with respect at the feet of this remarkable woman of science. England thinks freedom would be very hard for India, and also thinks that India would like to risk the consequences. Iowa State News Events of Recent Occurrence Throughout the Commonwealth. IOWA CRIMINAL COSTS GROW. Courts Spend $70,000 More In 1908 Than 1907. WRECK SAFE AT DAWSON. Citizens Close In on Robbers and Frighten Them Away. Des Mohes--While there were only twenty-five more convictions in the criminal courts of the state in the last year than there were the year before, according to the report of criminal statistics about to be issued by Secretary of State Hayward, the expense incurred by the people on account of the offices of the county attorneys was more than $26,000 additional. One part of this is due to the new law which increased the salaries of these officers very considerably. However, the total cost of the 1.113 convictions was nearly $70,000 more than for the 1,088 convictions of the year before. This increase was nearly 20 per cent. The record of fines illustrates the force of the argument advanced by Attorney General Byers recently that the state could well afford to put its inspectors and other agents at work on various lines such as collecting the report, according to this report, the courts leaved about $110,000 in fines and collected only about $63,000. The reports for 1968 and 1907 show a marked discrepancy in the matter of the number of years which the convict must serve. The total number of years in the combined sentences of the 1,088 of 1907 was 1,198. For the 1,112 of 1908 the total number 2,647. The discrepancy is due to the indeterminate sentence law. Under that law no definite terms are given to convicted persons and the maximum sentence is considered. It does not represent the full time of time the convict convicted will serve, by any manner of means, for the rules of the board of parole provide that after eleven months' service under an indeterminate sentence the convict may be paroled. CATTLE ARE TRACED. Twenty-two Head of Cattle Stolen And Sold. In Chicago. Grinnell—Moses Robins, who had twenty-two head of cattle stolen from a stock field on his Chester farm, has traced the cattle to Chicago where they were sold and the money for them sent to Marshalltown where it is alleged it was paid over to J. E. Connell, a farmer, whose home has been near Laurel some fifteen miles northwest of Grinnell. Connell is said to have disappeared after this occurrence and no Mr. Robins has brought suit in the Newton district court for $800 damages which it is said are collectible from real estate owned by Connell. The cattle were shipped from a small station namd Ferguson and were easily traced. HEIRS PLAN FIGHT. Depositions Are Taken for Introduction at Trial. Des Moines.—The legal battle to determine whether the $50,000 estate of Daniel Francis shall go to his natural heirs or to the Preachers' Aid Society of the Methodist churches to be used in building a home for superannuated ministers, will start in the district court Jan. 26. Francis was $2 years old. He died last May. Just prior to his death he attempted to convey all of his property to the Preachers' aid society. "The district suit in the district court to restore their share, charging undue influence had been exerted by certain ministers who knew Francis mind was weak. BATTLES OFF MASKED MAN. Oceola Girl Forced to Walk Four Blocks With Gun at Breast blocks. The daughter—Miss Anna Barnard, the daughter of W. S. Barnard, prominent citizen of this town, was forced to walk four blocks at midnight, Jan. 17, with the cold muzzle of a revolver, in the hands of a black masked man, pressed against her breast, battled with her assailant, fled herself and fled to the home of her affluent, Will Kimball, two blocks distant, where she rang the door bell and fell in a faint. She was picked up by Kimball and his sister, taken into the house and revived. Iowa Accents The $1,016. Des Molinez—Dubuque merchants have withdrawn all objections, Secretary of State Hayward accepted and filed the articles of incorporation of the Sperry-Hutchinson company of New Jersey against which the retailers of Dubuque had made an unsuccessful fight in the federal court. The company paid $1,015 into the state treasury as a filing fee. It had installed in Dubuque a trading stamp enterprise. Contest Over $175,000 Content Over $17,975 Rockwell-Unable to agree as to a division of the property which was left to them by the late Frances McMullen, who died last summer, worth $175,000, the heirs have made application to the district court to sell the entire property, eight farms, in this county. There are eighteen representatives interested in the estate. Tries Suicide At Dubuque. Dubuque. Thomas Ray, a young Detroit, Mich., man, made an effort to cut his throat with a potato knife. He was taken into custody by the police and lodged in jail. There he endeavored to hang himself with a handcuffed hand, and was rescued when Tired of life was the reason given for suicidal attempt. A sensation at Cascade was exploded when Tueceorc Webber, who disappeared, found healthy and hard neck near Farley. Citizens Close in on Robbers and Frighten Them Away. Dawson—Robbers blew open the safe of the Bank of Dawson, but before they could secure the large amount of money in the shattered vault, were frightened away by armed citizens and escaped on a handcar, going toward Perry. For several days three suspicious characters have been hanging about the place and are thought to have committed the robbery. The citizens were awakened by the crash of the explosion which blew open the outer door of the safe, shattered the windows in the bank and adjoining angles wrecked the interior of the bank. A taxi-Junction quickly followed when the inner door of the vault was broken open. By this time the citizens armed with rifles and shotguns had rallied and started for the bank. The robbers were in the act of getting the money from the inner vault when they were frightened away. HOSPITAL HAS A BIRTHDAY. lowa Metrodist Institution Eight Years Old. Des Moines—The Iowa Methodist hospital closed its eighth year Jan. 16. In its report the board outlines the history of the institution during these eight years. During the first year 300 patients were received for treatment while last year the hospital received 1935 patients. A total of 8,500 patients have been received. In the past year 200 of the patients have been on the free list. The 110 beds have been found to be inadequate and a new fire-proof, six story building with a total capacity of 250 beds. This caused this spring, among the eight years 52 nurses have been graduated from the hospital training school. During the past year a nurse home and training school has been erected with a capacity for 75 nurses. 200 ILLEGALLY MARRIED. Police Judge Has no Power as Uniter of Lives. Des Moines.—Nearly 200 people married by Mayor A. J. Mathls during his term as police judge are not legally man and wife. He is illegally tied according to Police Judge A. J. Stewart. He was asked recently to perform a marriage ceremony and replied that a police judge under the statute had no right. The Iowa code states specifically that only judges of district, superior or supreme courts and justices of the peace and mayors can perform wedding ceremonies. If Judge Judy interposes on the law is correct there are scores of men and women in Iowa who were not married according to the statutes and who will have to have the knot tied over again. MARSHALI TOWN ON BOOM. Marshalltown—Building improvements to the amount of $494,350 were completed during the year 1908. The figures have been compiled, and represent only actual building improvements, without cost of land or new machinery. New residences lead in the list, a total of $224,450 worth having been erected during the year. Improvements to and new factory buildings aggregate a total cost of $149,200; business buildings, $84,300, and public buildings, $40,000. The indications for 1990 are even better than the results of 1908. Even this early in the season an aggregate of $305,100 worth of new buildings have been planned. Murder Suspect Arrested. Murder'S Suspect Arrested. Webster City,—Sheriff Brown of this city arrests the murderer of Baltimore's his name as John Daisi and who is suspected of being the man who murdered Linn Trimble at Union Saturday night. Davis was brought here for safekeeping and will be held until his identity is established. He tallies with the description of the Union murderer except that he is not so heavy as has been claimed. He states that he was arrested for this same crime a few days ago at Ames and released. Shot by Unknown Hunter. Marshalltown—Robert Crabtree, 20 years old, living southwest of town, was struck in the back of the head and shoulders by a charge of shot fired by an unknown hunter while hunting. Crabtree's three friends heard the shot plainly, and saw the smoke of the gun but failed to see who did the shooting. Crabtree has several shot in his scalp, neck and back. Bishop Davis Gives Consent. Iowa City—Bishop Davis of the Davenport diocese has placed his seal of approval upon his plan to establish a course in the fundamentals of the Catholic religion at the university of the Catholic school, along with the other religious courses in the school and the invocation will be made as soon as details can be arranged. On account of the conservatism of the Catholic church, this course will be almost unique. Brothers Give up Brother. Marshalltown—Paul Radloff, the young man who was convicted of fire to the W. S. Giles barn, and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary, was surrendered by his ponsonian and will likely have 'o'gc to Fort Madison to begin his sentence pending the action on the appeal to the supreme court. Emil and Otte Radloff, the defendant's brothers have been on his bond for $1,500. CLAIM EXEMPTION TELEGRAPH COMPANY ANSWERS STATE'S SUIT FOR BIG SUM. Violation of Iowa Laws is Admitted, But Defendant Declares Statute Does Not Apply. Des Moines, Jan. 22—The Western Union Telegraph company, through its attorneys Hewitt & Wright, filed in district court, its answer to the million dollar suit started against it by Attorney General H. W. Byers in the name of the state of Iowa for the alleged violation of the state foreign corporation laws. Its main defense is that it is a governmental agent and not subject to the laws of Iowa. The exact amount sued for by the state is $88,800, of this amount $100, 000 as filing fees for its articles of incorporation and $798,800 pension that have been paid to the state. The future of the files of incorporation, as the attorney general claims the law requires. The Western Union admits that it is a corporation duly organized under the laws of the state of New York; that it is doing business in Iowa; that it never filed its articles of incorporation with the secretary of state; and that it has never paid a filing fee. It each and every other material allegation of the state and makes the further claim that it cannot possibly file its articles of incorporation and pay the filing fee. The Western Union maintains that it is a government agent, existing and operating solely under the federal laws and the constitution. This is the answer that June 8, 1867, it duly its main defense. It sets forth in accepted and subjected itself to the provisions of an act of congress enjoined to establish a constitution of telegraph lines, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military and other purposes." $50 a Month for Civil War Officers Washington, D. C., Jan. 22—The house military committee, of which Captain Hull is the chairman, decided to report favorably on the bill placing all Civil War officers more than 70 years old on the army retired list at the pay of $0 a month, provided they do not receive equal compensation as public officials. The committee also amended the bill as proposed by officers of the association to likewise place all Civil War enlisted men more than 70 years old on retired pay for $25 a month. This proposed bill would require thousands of men. It will require an appropriation of more than $10,000,000 a year. Iowaans Oppose Salary Increase. Washington, D. C., Jan. 22. The indications are that the increase of salaries for president: vice-president and speaker and federal judges as voted by the senate will be defeated in the house. Nearly all the Iowa members are opposed to such increases, including Kennedy, Birdsaid, Hull, Smith and Haugen. They do not believe it is a good time to raise salaries with the treasury facing a deficit of probably $120,000,000 this year. Find Four Cooper Jurors Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 22.—With four jurors already in the box and with the court evincing every disposition to rush the selection of the remaining eight as rapidly as possible, the second day of the Cooper murder trial opened. A second panel of 500 talesmen has been ordered drawn, but the men will not be summoned until the court is convinced that a jury cannot be made from the present list. **Judges' Salaries Raised.** Washington, D. C., Jan. 22.—A debate on the propriety of increasing salaries of federal circuit and district judges consumed nearly the entire time of the senate yesterday, with the result that the compensation of the twenty-nine circuit judges was increased from $7,000 to $9,000, and that of the eighty-four district judges from $6,000 to $3,000. Made Ill by "Raw" Water Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 22.—According to an official estimate made by a chemist representing the state board of health and the local health authorities, there are 2,000 persons ill in Bellevue, a suburb, as a result of drinking raw river water. Should the estimate be correct practically the entire population of Bellevue is suffering. Allison Portrait in Place Washington, D. C., Jan. 22—The portrait of Senator William B. Allison, by W. A. Reaser of New York, has been hung in the president's room in the senate, where it is being inspected and admired by his former colleagues. Mr. Reaser is from Iowa. His painting is remarkably lifelike. Would Stop Racing Messages. Washington, D. C., Jan. 22—A subcommittee of the senate committee on the judiciary heard Senator Burkett, former Senator Burkell and others in support of Mr. Burkett's bill prohibiting the sending of interstate race track gambling messages. They contended for the constitutionality of the bill. Seventy-five Babies Given Away. New Orleans, Jan. 22—A car load of seventy-five babies was distributed in New Orleans. The precious freight came from the New York foundering and orphan asylums. Scores of foster parents were waiting at the station to lay claim to the little ones for whom they had previously applied. Chapel for Army Post. Washington, D. C., Jan. 22.— Through the efforts of Congressman Hull an announcement has been made to the appropriation bill in the house, adding a chapel for Fort Des Moines, to cost $15,000. NATIONAL RIVER WATER-POWER PIPE LINE CO. CATTISH CREEK BOAT LTD. @ the Big Corporations Secure the Water-Power Rights of the Country at Large, as President Roosevelt Fears. DRY BILL PASSED OVER VETO GOV. PATTERSON DEFEATED IN TENNESSEE CONTEST. Republican Legislators Help Demo crats to Carry the State-Wide Prohibition Measure. Nashville, Tenn.—Over the veto of Gov. Patterson both houses of the legislature Wednesday passed the senate bill which prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquors within four miles of a schoolhouse in Tennessee and is in effect a state-wide prohibition act. It also prohibits the sale of alcohol. The vote in the senate stood 20 to 13, the same as on original passage. The house acted at 5:40 p. m., the vote standing 61 to 36, the original vote there having been 62 to 37. In each house the passage was effected through a combination of Republican and "state-wide" Democratic strength. The galleries were packed in both houses and the debates following the reading of the governor's 'message were litter. The action of the legislature practically brings to a close one of the bitterest and most sensational political fights in the history of Tennessee. State-wide prohibition was the main issue in the recent contest between Gov. Patterson and the late E. W. Carmack for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, and though Patterson was the most local citizen of the nomination, the legislature elected in November last at the same time he was, has after stormy times, gone against him. This came, however, with the aid of Republicans, who gave the bill 22 votes in the house and five in the senate. The bill to prohibit the manufacture of intoxicating liquor in Tennessee after January 1, 1910, has passed the senate and will pass the house. The senate will pass the bill also, and it is equally certain that it will pass over his veto by practically the same vote given the bill passed Wednesday. LUTHER LAFLIN MILLS DIES. Apoplexy is Fatal to Well-Known Chicago Lawyer. Chicago. — Luther Lafflin Mills, for many years one of Chicago's most successful lawyers, died suddenly Monday night at his residence, 1600 Graceland avenue, as the result of a stroke of apoplexy. He was 61 years old. The career of Mr. Mills has been filled with honors. He had been in the law firm the practice of his profession in Chicago since 1872. He was clocked twice on the Republic ticket as state's attorney of Cook county, and became widely known as a brilliant orator. He was a Royal Arch Mason and member of Apollo commandery. A widow, one son and two daughters survive him. Newark, N. J.—Four men were killed and ten others injured, one fatally, Wednesday, when several tons of dynamite in one of the buildings of the Forcite Powder works at Lake Superior have been blown up by the huge mass of explosives shook the country for miles around and blew the building containing it to atoms. Waters-Pierce Fine Upheld. Washington.—The supreme court of the United States Monday affirmed the decree of the state courts of Texas imposing a fine of $1,623,000 on the Waters-Pierce Oil Company of St Louis and ousting it from the state on the charge of violating the Texas antitrust law. Gets After Terra Cotta "Trust" New York—Announcement was made Tuesday that another alleged trust is to be investigated by the federal authorities here. The company concerned is the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company, a $3,000,000 corporation with offices in this city. Three Perish in Brooklyn Fly New York—Three persons, a woman and her two children, were burned to death late Tuesday in a fire in a one-story and basement house on Bergen street, Brooklyn. Husband and Wife Die Together Husband and Wife Die Together. Norfolk, Va. Having evidently carried out a prearranged plan to die to school, Schuyler C. Carskaddon and wife were found dead Monday in their bedroom in South Norfolk. Both had been shot through the back of the head. Veteran Lake Captain Dies. Ete, Pa.-Capt. Paul Powell, Sr. one of the best known steamer captains on the great lakes, died at his home here Monday at the age of 55 Accused of Conspiracy to Defame by Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma. Guthrie, Okla.—On a warrant sworn out by Gov. Haskell, charging conspiracy to defame the governor, Scott MacReynolds, attorney and special agent for William R. Hearst, was arrested Monday night. Under a search warrant, also sworn to by Gov. Haskell, MacReynolds' rooms at the lone hotel were searched by Sheriff John Mahoney and Orville T. Smith, private attorney to the governor, and a large amount of data and papers seized pertaining to the $600,000 libel suit instituted by Haskell against Mr. Hearst. The court immediately demanded of the county court through his counsel, Judge John H. Burford, the whereabouts of his papers. They were found in the private office of the governor and taken by Sheriff Mahoney at the court's orders. MacReynolds had collected a vast amount of data, all secured in confidence. He declares that Gov. Haskell's purpose in obtaining his arrest and the seizure of his papers was to obtain possession of this information to as certain its importance and to learn from whom he had obtained it. AWFUL TRAGEDY IN SEATTLE. W. L. Seeley Kills His Wife, Daughter and Himself. Seattle, Wash. — W. L. Seeley, an attorney and former national bank examiner for Illinois under Comptroller of the Currency Eckels, his wife, Mrs. Kate M. Seeley, a member of the national society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and his daughter, Miss Rene Seeley, a student of the University of Washington, and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in a bathroom of their home in the fashionable Capital Hill district yesterday. The victim had been dead since the previous Thursday. The women, each of whom was clad in night robes, had been murdered by being struck on the head, evidently with a hammer. There was no mark of violence on Seeley. He is believed to have been partially choreoformed and then inched into the back of his chest. They were kneeling on the side of the bath tub with their heads submerged in the water. That Seeley killed his wife and daughter while insane over financial worries and then committed suicide the theory of the coroner and the police. Must Pay Duty on Foreign Coin. New York—That an importer must pay a penalty in the shape of 45 per cent, duty on coin currency of a foreign country brought to the United States was the unique principle established in a decision of the board of United States general appraisers, rendered Wednesday. In its decision it retained its collector in assessing duty on Japanese coin currency imported by a local firm for the New York branch of the Yokohama spec bank. Brave Acts Rewarded Pittsburgh, Pa.—The Carnegie Hero Fund commission at its annual meeting Wednesday awarded 26 medals, $14,750 in cash and pensions aggregating $565 per month for deeds of valor investigated since the last meeting last October. Among those who were heroism were rewarded by the commission are two full-blooded Indians, living on government land. Explosion Killa Six Miners San Luis, Obispo, Cal.-Six miners were killed and eight others seriously if not fatally injured by an explosion in the Stone Canon coal mine at Chancelleros. One of the miners entered No. 27 with a lighted torch. The room was full of gas and the explosion followed. Weavers Strike for More Pay. Salmon Falls, N. H.-Between 150 and 200 weavers in the Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company struck Wednesday for better wages. Business Troubles Cause a Suicide. Memphis Tenn.-Samuel H. Gibson, 65 years old, for a number of years a prominent furniture man of this city, committed suicide Tuesday. 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The children laughed, for the Mary of the group was a China woman, with dwarfed feet and slanting eyes; Joseph was an old Chinaman with a long, thin mustache and a queue; the sacred infant had the flat nose and silhouette eyes of the colorteur, "Is Holy Family for the Congo people." The children laughed again. Mary was now fat and black, with woolly hair; Joseph was a stalwart black warrior, a spear in his hand, a girdle of feathers about his waist; the infant, too, was black. "Our Holy Families for missionary use," the colorteur explained, "are always made in the likeness of the people they are to go among. Those simple and childlike people would be estranged by a white Holy Family. Only this sort shows them a real knishhip with theirselves." "I'll give you a penny if you can spell fish." "C-o-d." "That ain't fish." "What is it, then?" Mice on the Pillow. "I'm not so much afraid of mice as some women," said she, "but I don't like them in my hair. The other night I finished a biseit. 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After the second reading he was silent a few moments, and then said, thoughtfully: "I don't think I'll sell. I've been looking for that kind of a place all my life, but until you read that description I didn't know I had it! No, I won't sell now."—Exchange. How to Know the Trees. There is an auctioneer whose "gift of gaf" and native写 draw many purchasers to his sales, but sometimes he is the subject rather than the cause of amusement. The owner is O. A Kelley. Not long ago he had to sell, among other things, a lot of pine logs, and the day before the sale he went over them and marked the end of each log with his initials. On the day of the auction an Irish man came along and immediately noticed the logs with the letters on them. "O. A. K," he read, loud enough for all round to hear. "Begorra, if it not just like Kelley to deceive us into believing thin pine logs are oak!"—Springfield Republican. A Running Broad Jump. 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That the president was characterized as a "gargoyle, tyrant, pygmy descendant of Dutch tradespeople, hay teder, fountain of billingsgate, a jocularity, imitation of a king, and bugger her." Finally Silenced by House. As it was, Mr. Willett had completed the reading of about three-fourths of his speech after appointed appeals to the chair by numerous Republicans that he be called to order, he was compelled to take his seat. It was on a motion by Mr. Candier of Mississippi that the New Yorker be allowed to proceed "in order that the house voted him off the floor, 78 to 126. Mr. Willett freely remarked on the floor that the action of the body "put an end to free speech." By a vote of 37 to 27, the senate fixed the salary of the speaker of the house of representatives at $15,000, instead of $12,000, as at present, and instead of $20,000, as proposed by the committee on appropriation. As a result, an increase was made by Senator Bally, and numerous addresses were made in support of the proposition. Senator Rayner endeavored to have the senate adopt a resolution calling on the attorney general for information as to whether the president had ordered a suit brought against the New York World and the Indianapolis News because of alleged lib in publications related to the publication of a private property, and under what statute this action had been taken. Mr. Rayner declared that there was no statute authorizing such legal procedure and that the attempt to sue the newspapers in the name of the United States, if entered upon, was an attempt to apply the sedition laws long since repealed. He declared there was no law under which the government to apply to statements respecting the government. Under objection the further consideration was postponed until to day. Lincoln Centennial Message. The president sent to congress a special message recommending the passage of a law authorizing him to issue a proclamation setting apart February 12, 1909, as a special holiday in recognition of the centennial anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The message follows: "To the Senate and House of Representatives: I have received from the commissioner of the Grand Army of the, with the approval of its commander-in-chief, a communication running in part as follows: "Pursuant to the recommendation of the committee authorized by the forty-first national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, and appointed to take into consideration the fitting celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, which was made a report to the forty-second national encampment that was unanimously adopted, that was unanimously appointed a committee to prepare a documentation for the occasion, met in New York city October 19, 1908, and submits the following as the result of its deliberations: Plans of the G. A. R. "1. That the commander-in-chief be requested to invite the president of the United States, governors of states and territories and mayors of cities to participate with the Grand Army of the Republic in public recognition of the centennial anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1909, and by proclamation as far as practical, recommend that the day be observed as a special holiday. "I regard the proposal as eminently proper. It will be from every standpoint desirable to observe this hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln as a special holiday. I recommend that congress pass a law authorizing me to issue a proclamation setting apart this day as a special holiday. Theodore Roosevelt." Presidents' Widows Honored. Washington.By unanimous vote the house of representatives Friday granted the franking privilege to Mrs. Benjamin Harrison and Mrs. Grover Cleveland. Woman and Four Children Burn. Winnipipe, Man—Mrs. Ingles and four of her children were burned to death in their farmhouse 12 miles from Lang, Sask. as a result of the fire from the house, but in an attempt to save the other child Mrs. Ingles lost her own life. Farmer Murdered by Robbers. Longmont, Col.-The dead body of William Collier, a farmer who lived north of the city, was discovered Wednesday. Collier had evidently been murdered for robbery. Nebraska Bank is Robbed. Hadar, Neb.-Robbers dynamitted the safe of the Farmers' State bank of Hadar and escaped with $2,000. Although the wall of the building was blown out and the vault destroyed, no one heard the explosion. Wellman to Try for Pole Again. Trondhjem, Norway.—Consul Aagard at Tromsø, has received a telegram from Walter Wellman requesting him to procure, if possible, a ship to carry his balloon expedition to Daxesgate this summer. COULD NOT SHAKE IT OFF. James W Clay, 666 W. 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"Only the other night, at one of your gayest Italian restaurants," he said, "I overheard a dialogue that illustrated forcibly the age's lack of romance. "It was late. At the table next to mine a rich young Italian contractor was supping with a beautiful young girl. As the young girl played with the stem of her wineglass I heard her murmur: "I true, isn't it that you love me and me only?" "Yes," said the young man, "though this lobster is certainly mighty good." TOLD TO USE CUTICURA. After Specialist Failed to Cure Her Intense Itching Eczema—Had Been Tortured and Disfigured But Was Soon Cured of Dread Humor. "I contracted occlusion and suffered intensely for about ten months. At times I thought I would scratch myself to pieces. My face and arms were covered with large red patches, so that I was ashamed to go out. I was advised to go to a doctor who was a specialist in skin diseases, but I received very little relief. I tried every known remedy, with the same results. I thought I would never get better until a friend of mine told me to try the Culcinea Remedies. So I tried them, and after four or five applications of Culcinea Ointment I was relieved of my unbearable itching. I used two sets of the Culcinea Remedies, and I am completely cured. Miss Barbara Kral, Highlandtown, Md., Jan. 9, '08." Drug Fungi and Corp., Chem. Corp., Boston, Wag (referring to Miss Oldbird)—Um, I should think it would be more suitable if she were standing under "oldberrys" instead of mistletoe berries. MIX FOR RHEUMATISM The following is a never falling remedy for rheumatism, and if followed up it will effect a complete cure of the very worst cases: "Mix one-half pint of good whisky with one ounce of Toris Compound and add one ounce Syrup Sarsaparilla Compound before each meal and at bedtime." The ingredients can be procured at any drug store and easily mixed at home. Advice to Mothers. Be positive with the children. Lay down the law. 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SOLDIERS AND BAILORS FINALLY CHECK THE FLAMES. Great Damage Probably Done—Eight Persona Killed by Earthquake Near Smyrna, Turkey. Messina—Messina was swept by fire again Tuesday. For many hours soldiers and sailors worked herolically to keep the flames from destroying the last remnants of the town, and eventually they succeeded in getting the fire under control. The extent of the damage cannot be estimated, because doubtless much of great value was burned up in the ruins. It is supposed that smouldering embers in the wreckage were fanned into flame by the strong wind that has prevailed here for the past two or three days, and apparently the fire secured a good foottold before efforts were made fast progress and soon swept through the remains of the beautiful promenade along the harbor front. The small force of firemen was augmented by detachments of soldiers and sailors from the warships and pumps and lines of hose were brought ashore from the vessels. There — so far as can be ascertained, eight persons were killed Tuesday morning by a sharp earthquake which occurred at Phocaea, 25 miles northwest of this city, and at other neighboring towns. Considerable damage was done to buildings at Phocaea. The shock was very strong at Chili where the population became panic edified, no serious damage resulted there. This city also experienced the earthquake, but there was no loss of life and no damage was done. The American battleships Louisiana and Virginia are at anchor in this harbor. Athens.—Earth shocks were felt Monday and Tuesday throughout the Ionian islands, which lie off the west coast of Greece. The most severe shock was at Santa Maura. No damage is reported. Granada.—Two strong earth shocks occurred during the night at Zafarraya, which lies about 35 miles from Granada. The populace were thrown into a panic but no serious damage was done. AWFUL WRECK N COLORADO Glenwood Springs, Col.-Twenty-one persons were killed and 30 injured, many of them seriously, in the head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train on the Denver and Rio Grande near Dotsozro. While nothing official has been given out as to the cause of the wreck, it is said to have been due to a misunderstanding of orders on the part of Engineer Gustaf Olson of the passenger train. Olson, however, claims he understood his instructions perfectly, but that he mistakenly his wrist thus encoaching on the time of the freight train, which was being drawn by two engines, the first of which was in charge of his brother, Sig Olson. The two trains met on a steep grade. Following is a partial list of the victims: Robert Bacon Will Succeed Him as Secretary of State. Washington.-Secretary Root, following his election as senator from New York by the legislature of that state Wednesday, hopes to be able to attend to some pressing matters in the state department and retire by the end of the wock. After he gives up his work in Washington he will go to Hot Springs, Ark, for rest, but expects to return to Washington in time for the inauguration. Upon the secretary's relinquishment of his office, it has been announced semi-officially, Robert Bacon, now assistant secretary, will be named for secretary of state, and he in turn will be succeeded as assistant secretary by John C. O'Laughlin of this city. Shortage of $13,000 Found. Kansas City, Mo.—A shortage of $13,000 in the city auditor's office was disclosed Wednesday following the installation of a new system of accounting. Vernon H. Green, the auditor, says the shortage may be due to clearer errors, but more programming by clerks extending through an indefinite period of years. No formal charges have been made. Coman Awarded One Cent Birmingham, Ala. After a trial lasting one week, the jury in the case of Gov. B. B. Comer against the Montgomery Advertiser, in the city court here Wednesday afternoon awarded damages of one cent for the libel. The governor demanded $25,000 damages for an advertisement printed during 1904, when he was candidate for railroad commissioner. Prisoner Commits Suicide Marshalltown, "Ia—Paul Radloff, a prisoner in the county jail who had just been surrendered by his two brothers as his bondsmen, and was facing a sentence of ten years for arson, hanged himself in his cell. Lad Convicted of Murder Bridgeton, N. J.—The jury in the case of Herbert Grigg, the 18-year-old boy on trial for the murder of William Read of Vineland, brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree Wednesday night. Killed by Gasoline Explosion Killed by Gasoline Explosion. Abbelline, Tex.—M. H. Stream and his three-year-old son, living five miles west of Roby, burned to death and five other members of the family were probably fatally burned by a gasoline explosion. Messina's Ruins Shaken Again. Messina—A strong undulatory shock Monde afternoon caused much alarm here and resulted in the fall of the remnants of a number of shattered walls. So far as is known no one was killed. WILL GIVE TO THE FARMERS OF WEST A SPLENDID RETURN. The following interesting bit of information appeared in a Montreal saner: "Last December, in reviewing the year 1907, we had to record a wheat harvest considerably smaller in volume than in the previous year. Against almost millions in 1906 the wheat crop of the West in 1907 only totaled some seventy-one million bushels, and much of this of inferior quality. But the price averaged high, and the total result to the farmers was not unprofitable. This year we have to record by the farmers' history. Estimates vary as to the exact figure, but it is certainly not less than one hundred million bushels, and in all probability it reaches one hundred and ten million bushels. The quality, moreover, is good, and the price obtained very high, so that in all respects the Western harvest of 1908 has been a memorable one. The result upon the commerce and finance of the country is already apparent. The railways are again reporting increases in traffic, the general trade of wheat, the production of wheat, the after twelve months' quiet, and the banks are loosening their purse strings to meet the demand for money. The prospects for 1909 are excellent. The credit of the country never stood as high. The immigrants of 1909 have now been absorbed into the industrial and agricultural community, and wise regulations are in force to prevent too great an influx next year. Large tracts of new country will be opened by the Grand Trunk Pacific both in East and West. If the seasons are not good, the farmers should reach one hundred and twenty million bushels. The prospects for next year seem very fair." An interesting letter is received from Cardston, an agent of the Canadian Government, any of whom will be pleased to advise correspondents of the low rates that may be allowed intending settlers. "Cardston, December 21st, 1908. "Dear Sir: Now that my threshing is done, and the question 'What Will the Harvest Be?' has become a certain suit of suits thereof, believing it will be of interest to you. You know I am only a novice in the agricultural line, and do not wish you to think I am boasting because of my success, for some of my neighbors have done much better than I have, and I expect to do much better next year myself. My winter wheat went 3 bushels per acre—and graded No. 1. My spring wheat went 48% bushels per acre, and graded No. 1. My oats went 97 bushels per acre, and my wheat went 97 bushels per acre, and stock is all nice and fat, and are out in the field picking their own three square meals a day. The weather is nice and warm, no snow—and very little frost. In this, in short, is an ideal country for farmers and stockmen. The stock requires no shelter or winter feeding, and cattle fatten on this grass and make the finest kind of beef, better than corn fed cattle in Ills. Southwestern Alberta will soon be, and only am sorry I did not come here five years ago. Should a famine ever strike North America, I will be among the last to starve—and you can count on that. "I thank you for the personal assis- tance you rendered me while coming in here, and I assure you I shall not soon forget your kind offices." A SPEEDY ONE. Miss Tapps—Of course, some type- writers are extremely expert. Clerk—Oh, yes. I know of one who married a rich employer in less than three months. Would Sell His Chance. 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Try 1k. RACE ECHOES. An interesting bout recently occurred in Paris. Sam McVey, the big Negro who has been defeating them all over there, was challenged by a jiu-jitsu expert to a fight to the finish. The event took place before a big crowd in the French capital on the evening of December 31. It did not last more than ten seconds however. The Negro hit the Jap and knocked him down. Then hit him again before he had risen to his feet, that being allowed by the rules. The Jap immediately gave up. McVey is nearly six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds. The Japanese is nearly as tall, but far slighter. That sensational young spinner, R F. Walker, has again added to his list of records, running the 100 meters in the world's record time of 10 2-5. This is two-fifths of a second better than the former mark held by several, among whom are is "Doc" Huff of Grinnell. The way this young spinner of South Africa is cutting marks right and left marks him, perhaps, as the best spinner yet developed. There is but one man with whom to compare him and that is Arthur Duffy the old Georgetown athlete, the first man to run the century distance in 9 3-5 seconds. There are those who believe that Duffy was a better man at the hundred thay Walker now is. After the Olympic games last summer Walker toured the Britished Isles rnd startled the athletic world by being timed 100 yards at Abergavenny, Wales, in 9 2-5 seconds. An investigation showed that the course was down hill and a bit short. The record was not allowed, but it furnished the best comparison of the relative merits of Walker and Duffey, who his in prime was the best of the amateur sprinters. Jacksonville, Fla., H. M. Endicott, Jr., of Boston, Mass, bought at public auction for $70,000 the property of the North Jacksonville Railway and town Improvement Company, popularly know as the Negro Street Railway." The sale was made to satisfy the judgment in a foreclosure of a mortgage in which W. D. Barnett was trustees. It is reported that the road now will become the property of the Jacksonville Electric Company, and that the sale was carried through principally to mak the transfer of the property wholly lagal. This road was built here several years ago by Negro capital, and was the only line the United owned and operated by Colored people. NOTICE OF AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE HOLAND AND NEW COMPANY. To Whom It May Concern: Notice is hereby given that the Holland & New Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Iowa, has an eminent member of the stockholder called for that corporation at its office in Des Moines, Iowa, on the eleventh (11th) day of January, 1909, by a majority vote of the Capital Stock then issued and outstanding the said corporation adopted the following articles to its Articles of Incorporation, to-wit: Be It Resolved, That Ariale I, of the Articles of Incorporation of the Holland & New Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws is hereby amended so as to read as follows, to-wit: ARTICLE I The name and style of this corporation shall be "Booody, Holland & New," and its principal place of business shall be in the City of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa. Be It Resolved, That ARTICLE IV of the Act of Incorporation of the Holland & New Company, a corporation of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, be and the seals is hereby amended so as to read as follows, to-wit: ARTICLE IV The indebtedness of this corporation shall not exceed two-thirds (2-3) of its Capital Stock. And at such Regular Meeting George A. Boody, President, and Clyde S. Craddock, Secretary, were duly authorized and instructed to sign, acknowledge, and file for record amendments to the Articles of Incorporation, and to publish notice thereof, and to do all other acts necessary to make said amendments legal, valid and effective. Holland & New Company, George A. Boody, Pres. Clyde S. Craddock, Sec. Don't Take the Risk. When you have a bad cough or cold do not let it drag along until it becomes chronic bronchitis or develops into an attack of pneumonia, but give it the attention it deserves and get rid of it. Take Chamberlain's Congo Remedy and you are sure of prompt relief. 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The horseback riding ghost is the very latest variety that has appeared in Bowdinham, and he is a particular spirit, making visitations only at certain times. The hunter's ghost, they call him, and the big man on the big white horse who comes galloping down the Lisbon road on the full o' the moon right up to the side door of Sunny Crest farm strikes terror to the heart of the farmer folk as he raps smartly with his riding whip on the panels of the White Whale. When one appears in answer to the knock the ghost, so they tell the story, wheels round and disappears at a gallop, turning into the old woods road much used in revolutionary times by the soldiers of that stormy period. Ghost of the old Cap'n, they call him, connecting this horseback riding spook with a certain officer of unsavory fame who once haunted the district of Maine. It is on the hunters' moon when the ghost rides abroad, and nervous people on the Lisbon road are much disturbed by this galloping horseman—Lewiston Journal. A FEW OF LIFE'S PARADOXES. All True, Though at First They Seem to Read Rather Odd. Peace we secure by armaments, liberty by laws and constitutions, simplicity and naturalness are the consummate result of artificial breeding and training; health, strength and wealth are increased only by lavish use, expense and wear. Our mistrust of mistrust engenders our commercial system of credit; our tolerance of revolutionary utterances is the only way of lessening their danger; our charity has to say no to beggars in order not to defeat its own desires; the true epicurean has to observe great sobriety; the way to certainties through radical doubt; virtue signifies not innocence but the knowledge of sin and its overcoming. The ethical and religious life full of moral holdouts held in You. You hate your enemy—well, forgive him, and thereby heap coals of fire on his head; to realize yourself, renounce yourself; to save your soul, first lose it; In short, die to live.—Prof. William James, in Hilbert Journal. Ancient Uses of Bloodhounds Ancient Uses of Bloodhounds. Although the use of bloodhounds for tracking criminals still survives, another ancient use of these dogs seems to have died out. Bloodhounds were at one time often called upon to assist an army in the field, the field of loss, and to aid the rest of less suppressed no Irish rebelry, the time of Elizabeth, for instance, being accompanied by 800 dogs in the Scottish clan feuds and the wars between England and Scotland bloodhounds were regularly employed in tracking fugitive warriors, and both Wallace and Bruce were hunted in this manner. 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One autumn Mr. Scott, Sr., had a client who came regularly every evening at a certain hour to the house, and remained in the house for several months, the family had gone to bed. The little mystery of the unknown visitor exited Mrs. Scott's curiosity, and her husband's vague statements increased. It one. Night, therefore, although she knew it was against her husband's desire, she entered the room with a salver in her hand, and offered the gentleman "a dish of tea," as it used to be called in eighteenth century parlance. But the strunner bowed and accepted a cup. Presently he took his leave. Then Mr. Scott seized the empty cup and threw it out on the pavement. His wife was astonished at first, but not when she heard the explanation. "I may admit into my house, on business, persons wholly unworthy to be treated as guests of my wife. Neither lip of me nor mine coincide." The Murray of Dublin." The client who had called was none other than the traitor, Secretary Murray, who bought off his life and fortune by giving evidence against his gallant Jacobite associates—Dunce Advertiser. SOME SMALL ENGLISH PARISHES. Dozen Inhabitants in One; In Another Only Two Houses. Probably few people know that this country contains a number of parishes so small that their population can be housed under one or two roofs. For instance, Upper Eldon, near Stockbridge, consists of two houses, which with an eleventh century church and a tiny "Gone Ace" in the middle floor, are addressed one of the dwellings, comprise the whole parish. Not much larger is the population of Lullington, five miles from Eastbourne. Small as its church is—the interior dimensions are only 16 feet square—it is quite large enough for the inhabitants. In Grove near Light Buzzard, there are only about a dozen inhabitants, the parish contains a modern farmhouse, two cottages and a tiny church. At Albany in Plymouth, there are only three adult inhabitants, the village contains five cottages and one ship. Until recently there were two licensed houses, one of which still remains—Tit-Bits. Store Carries Old Hotel Name. Away up in Harlem is a sign which reads: "The Old Astor House Store." In reply to an inquiry the proprietor said: "The business was established in the vicinity of the old Astor house when the latter was the big hotel of Fourteenth street and the Fourteenth street and carried the name of the old hotel with it. Some years after it moved up to forty-second street and the name went with it. Then it jumped all the way to Harlem and, as the name had become one of the fixtures of the business, it was maintained. The business now is in the family of the family that established it. Just a bit of sentiment."—New York Press. Pleasant Situation. Clintonville, this county, had several thrills of nervous apprehension on Tuesday of last week. A driver in the employ of a torpedo firm started with a load of 40 quarts of nitroglycerine, and when a short distance from the barn stopped, got off his wagon and started an argument with a bystander. The team became frightened and started to run, but had not run out of fuel, wheel of the wagon struck an corner of a porch at a street corner and the horses stripped themselves from the harness, leaving the wagon, with its load of condensed destruction, standing. —Oil City Derrick. Waterproof Coats of Grass. In the tropics of Mexico, where for rental rains fall a part of each year, raincoats are a very necessary part of man's apparel. Owing to the intense heat which prevails in the summer season, the ordinary rubber raincoat cannot be worn. A rainproof coat is made from native grasses, and is worn by the men of the middle and upper classes. The grasses are woven close together and it is impossible for the rain to heat through them, no matter how hard the storm may be. Some of these coats are made with a hood which protects the head as well as the body. Will Found In a Hat. Probate has been granted of the will of a peddler who left an estate valued at £11,937. He was Mr. Harlan Norman, a Polish Jew, of Mill road, Cambridge. The document was found in his silk hat after his death. It was dated January 15, 1903, and by it he left the whole of his property in the church of his host palace, Cambridge, and the London ish synagogue for the relief of poor and needy Jews.—London Evealing Standard. Flagrant Violator. Mrs. Crawford—What did your husband say when you told him that you and your daughters were going to join an anti-nose club? Mrs. Chatter—He said he hoped it would keep us quiet. Lame Shoulder Cured. Lame shoulder is usually caused by rheumatism of the muscles and quickly yields to a few applications of Cham berlain's Pain Balm. Mrs. F. H. 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