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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XV. No 35. CITY NEWS. (N. B. I you have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we solicit all your local news.—Wed) Next week our paper will come out on Thursday instead of Friday because it is a legal holiday. We will get out a Lincoln number next week there will be many of his qualt sayings in the paper. Mr. I. L. Brown of Marshalltown, Ia, was a visitor in the city Thursday. Mr. Brown has just recovered from a bad spell of sickness his wife has also been sick, she is improving. Mr. Henry Bell our aged centenarian is very dangerously sick the past week, at this writing father Bell as he is known is a little better although his friends are still alarmed. Mr. Jefferson Logan and son George entertained a few of their personal friends at a 'possum supper Tuesday evening. Mrs. J. W. Dulin who has been so very sick the past fortnight is im proving which is good news to her many friends. Senator Sirley Gillilland will address the Men's League Sunday afternoon at 3:30 p. m. at Union Congregational church 10th and Park streets. You are invited. Ladies especially invited to attend. Next week there will be four colored delegates from the Buxton-Y, M C. A., to attend the state meeting of the Y. M. C A. here. Dr. Arthur J. Booker of Chicago, arrived in our city this week to practice medicine, he has opened an office at 5th and Locust where he will be glad to see the people. Dr. Booker is a young man, well educated and comes well recommended. We wish for him success, Des Moines is certainly large enough for two doctors. The following program will be rendered by the H. B. S.; at their next meeting at the home of Mrs. R. A. Winburn in commemoration of Abraham Lincoln's anniversary. "Dincoln's Gettesburg Speech," Mrs. M. Warrick; paper, Mrs. R. A. Winburn; Life and Character of Lincoln, Mrs. Hamilton; reading, Mrs. Jackson; reading, Mrs. C. B. Wood; Lincoln's favorite poem, Mrs. L. R. Palmer; reading, Mrs. Carr; reading, Mrs. E. T. Banks; Lincoln as a lawyer, Mrs. Geo. I. Holt; Lincoln as a laborer, Mrs. H. Gould; paper on Lincoln, Mrs. Denney. The Callanan club met with R. N. Hyde Wednesday afternoon, the meeting was spent in a rehearsal by the ladies who are to participate in the contest next Thursday evening at the St. Paul A. M. E. church, there will be a musical program also, everybody is invited. The contestents are Mrs. Adam Dixon, vs Mrs. Rachell Jefferson; Medsams R. N. Hyde vs A. M. Rivers, Hattie Adams vs Lizzie Green and Jennie Brooks vs Mrs. Dr. Lawther The club adjourned to meet at the home of Mrs, Rachel Jefferson on 4th street next Wednesday afternoon. Will Honor Lincoln Anniversaru. The Colored citizens of Des Moines are making great preparations to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln on Friday evening Feb. 12th at the Union Congregational church at which time the following patriotic program will be rendered 3 Song, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean." s Rioting Lincoln's Gettesburg Add- dents, J. Cufford Williams. dress, J. C. Johnson 5 Solo, LeRoy Tucker of Buxton, Secty of Y. M. C. A. 6 Address, "Life and Experience of Lincoln," Dr. J. W. Dulin, who was an old soldier and acquainted with Lincoln 7 Instrumental Solo, Miss Zoe Richardson. 8, Reading "Proclamation of Emanuel patton," Mrs. Chas. Turner. 9 Solo, Prof. Geo, I. Hol. 10 Eulogy, John L. Thompson. 11 Solo Mrs. Frank P. Johnson. 12 Violin Solo, Miss Coleen Alexander. 13 Song, "Pattle Hymn of the Republic. Everybody is invited to come out and pay homage to our Martyred President, there is no admission charge nor no tickets, all as free. Soldiers are especially invited. Mr. H. W. Hughes will preside. Owing to the continued illnes of Mr. Henry Bell, the Des Moines Negro Lyceum was not entertained by Miss Jessie Bell on Tuesday evening, the club convened at the home of Attorney and Mrs. S. Joe Brown. 1058 5th St., at which time the recently elected officers were installed, speeches being made by the retiring president Elbert R. Hall and the newly elected president Branham N. Hyde. Mr. Wm. Shackelford, Misses Bessie Reeves, Lone Wilson, and Mrs. S. Joe Brown. The Lyceum will meet next Tuesday evening with Jessie Graves, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Hamilton 844 6th avenue at which time the following program will be reused; Study of Abraham Lincoln, quotation: club; Lincoln as a boy, Wm. Warrick Jr; Lincoln as a lawyer, Mrs M. E. P. Williams; Lincoln as a President, E. R. Hall; Lincoln's Anecdotes, S. Joe Brown; Gettysburg Speech, Bessie Reeves. We received a beautiful anniversary invitation of the Golden Eagle Lodge No. 11 of the Knights of Pythias of Pythias of Boone, Ia, held Jan. 20th 1909, giving a list of officers, beneficial members suspended members also the executive committee, Past Chancellor Commanders, the compliments of Grand Chancellor L. W. Williams. Mr. Harrison. Gould's Invincible Base Ball Team emerged from the long winter sleep last week and spent an evening at the beautiful home of its founder Mr. Gould on Center street talking over plans for the coming season a very nice lunch was served by Madame Gould and her assistants the boys adjourned voting unanimously that each one would go in this season to win every game that the manager would bill them for. Two Colored Men Get Promotions in Consulor Service by Roosevelt. Herbert R. Wright who has been Counsulor to the part of Utilla has recently been appointed by President Roosevelt as Counceller to a port in Venezuela, S. A., Mr. James W. Johnson of New York has been promoted the Consul at Corinto. Nicaragua he is a brother of J. Rosamond Johnson of the Cole & Johnson ministeral. Both have been confirmed by the United States Senate. We congratulate those men for being thus promoted. Mr. Rufus Logan of Columbia, Mo., editor of the Professional World has been named as one of the marshalls of the big parade he will be a member of the staff of the 3rd division. We congratulate those race mem, both are deserving and will do credit to the race. MARSHALLTOWN NEWS Mrs. Isaac Brown who has been ill at her home on 9th, avenue and Woodbury street is able to be around again. Miss Gracie Brown was entertained at 6 o'clock dinner Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Clara Carter on Fredicka street. Mr. Al Walker was a Capitol City visitor Sunday. Mrs. A. Gilmore gave a surprise party on her brother Mr. Walker in honor of his birthday at his home on Fredicka steet, quite a number of young people was present and an enjoyable time was reported. Friday Marshalltown was visited by one of the most terric flibbizzards that has been known in this part of the county for quite a while a good deal of damage was done to the phone wires and plate glass windows. The services Sunday at the Second Baptist church was well attended. The pastor preached an able sermon both morning and evening. The Sunday school is improving with Mrs. R. R. Palmer as superintendent. Mrs. Williams of Enterprise has moved to this city, and will remain indefinitely with her son Mr. A. Carter. KEOKUK NOTES. The funeral of the late Mattie Woodard, who died January 27th at 8:30 o'clock p.m., of cancer of the liver, was held from her home Sunday morn-ing at 8:30 o'clock conducted by Rev. Searcy, the O. E. S., chapter and the Heroines of Jerico performed their last rites. The services was very impressive, the floral offerings were profuse. Mrs Woodard was a splendid church worker and very accurate in the performance of her duties both in the church and other societies and will be greatly missed. Those left to mourn her loss is a husband Hampton Woodard who has the sympathy of the entire community, and no one. Mr. E. Goens whose illness was reported in last week's Bystander is still very ill, no hope is entrained for her recovery. Mrs. Isabella Kasc Goodwin who underwent an operation at St. Joseph hospital is greatly improved. She has taken home last Saturday. R. N. HYDE HONORED Mr. Robert N. Hyde of Des Moines one of our enterprising and leading Colored race men in Iowa has just been selected as chairman of an auxiliary committee to the public comfort at the inauguration of William Taft in March. Mr. Daniel Murray notified Mr. Hyde of his selection Mr. Robert N. Hyde of Des Moines one of our enterprising and leading Colored race men in Iowa has just been selected as chairman of an auxiliary committee to the public comfort at the inauguration of William Taft in in March. Mr. Daniel Murray notified Mr. Hyde of his selection and ask him to name ten members of his auxiliary committee. Mr. Hyde received similar honor 4 years ago at the Roosevelt inauguration at present Mr. Hyde is the chief man in the House cloak room at the Capitol during the Iowa Legislature. Mrs. Norah Rush Clemons left Saturday for her home in Hoopsin, Ill. She will move here in the near future. Rev. M G. Newman Thursday evening. The election of officers of the A.M. ENTERPRISE NEWS. Rev. Joseph Coleman of Oskaloosa is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wells. The entertainment given by the Butterfly Sewing circle at Mt. Olive Baptist church was a success. News was received of the death of Mrs. Bettie Bowles of Hiteman the mother of Rev. James Bowles of this place. Mrs. Lottie Williams lef on the 3rd inst for Evans to make her home with her father and mother Mr. and Mrs. Major Barber. Beautiful Light Court of Calantha No. 257 was iniated in Enterprise by G. D. W. C. of Buxton, Ia., Mrs. Lella Davis, December 17th. Mrs. Stella Trent who has been sick is able to be out again. Quarterly meeting will be held Sunday at Bethel A. M. E. church presiding elder Phillips is expected to be in attendance. James Morelaud of Chicago is the guest of his sister Mrs. Holland Williams. Friends in Clinton regret to learn of the death of Miss Baraba, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Boyd at her home in Rockford last week, we extend our sympathy to them. The meetings which have been held for the past two weeks at Bethel A. M. E. church will be continued through this week the meetings have been full of interest with fair attendance. Rev. D. E. Butler conference missionary filled the pulpit at the A. M. E. church, preaching two very interesting sermons. Monday evening he also preached at the prayer meeting service. The following persons were elected officers for the ensuing six months of the Y. P. S. C. F; president, Miss Missouri Dozier; vice president, Mrs. Chas. Thompson: recording secretary, Miss Esther Culberson; corresponding secretary, Mr. A. A. Bush; treasurer, Mrs. Holland Williams; organist, Miss Estella Bush; librarian, Carl Culberson; assistant, Mrs W. H. Emerson. Revs. E. E Butler and S. L. Birt were entertained at supper at the home of Miss Dozier on Tuesday evening. The revival meetings which have been in progrrees at the Mt Zion Baptis church for the past week closed Sunday night with grand success, three were added to the church and one soul saved, and members spiritual-revived. Rev. Durden of Des Moines who has been carrying on the meetings at the Baptist church has won many friends in our city and his good work as a revivalist will ever be cherished in our memories he is one of the noble fathers in the ministerial work. Rev. and Mrs. W. G. Newman entertained a number of their friends at dinner Tuesday evening in honor of Rev. Durden. Our city was visited Thursday by a genuine blizzard we did not only hear it but felt it, and was one of the worst blizzards that ever visited our town. Mr. Guy Singleton of Minneapolis arrived in our city to take charge of the work of inspection in the whiskey distillery which has just opened at Crystal Lake. The Professional Men's club will meet at the A. M. E. parsonage with CLINTON NOTES. SIOUX CITY ITEMS and ask him to name ten members of his auxiliary committee. Mr. Hyde received similar honor 4 years ago at the Roosevelt inauguration at present Mr. Hyde is the chief man in the House cloak room at the Capitol during the Iowa Legislature. Rev. M G. Newman Thursday evening. The election of officers of the A. M. E. Sunday school was held Friday evening at the parsonage, the following officers were elected: superintendent, Mrs. Etta Grant; assistant superintendent, Mrs. Fannie Green; secretary, Miss Mary Thompson; assistant secretary, Harvey Grant; treasurer, Mrs. Anna Roberts; libarian, Stanley Ewens. A dance was given last Wednesday night by the Watkin's Band at Simeon hall, a large number attended. Rev. R. Knight has been confined to his home for the past week with a severe cold. The A. M. E. church held their election of trustees last Wednesday night the following men were elected: Geo. Washington, Addison Lee, and Joseph Norris. Mr. James Lewis who farms at north Riverside is seriously ill with bright's disease. Message has come to our cars that a knot has been tied, Mr. John Patterson and Mrs Mary Burges secretly stole away and were married in Dakota City Saturday. We congratulate them and wish them a long happy married life. Mrs. Florence Crawford and her daughter Miss Emma spent Sunday in Sioux Falls the guest of Mrs. Geo. Coleman they returned home Monday. The semester year has ended and one of our young people Marellis Morgan has finished the high school. Rev. Durden of Des Moines gave a lecture Monday night at the Mt. Zion Baptist church to a nice size audience, his subject was "Problems of Life," all present enjoyed it very much, he left for his home Tuesday. There will be baptizing at the A. M. E. church. There will be a special program at the A. M. E. church Sunday evening, to celebrate the estate given the church by the deceased Mr Edward Sutton. The A. M. E. church has enrolled on its membership list seven new names. Quarterly meeting will be held at the A. M. E. church Sunday Feb. 14th, at which time presiding elder I. N. Gordon will be present. (Special to Bystander.) Mrs. Martha Miller died at her home in Newton, Ia.. Jan, 25th. Mrs. Miller was born in Ray County, Missouri, in 1855, on Dec., 25th she was married to Mr. John Miller who survives her the union was blessed with four children, she was a loving wife and devoted mother. She has been a member and ardent Christian worker in the A. M. E. church. Her death is keenly felt in this community. The funeral service was held at the Methodist church, Rev. A. L. Johnson officiated. Interment was at the Newton cemetery. She leaves a husband and three children. The trustees and stewards gave a joint dinner Thursday Jan., 28th and received excellent returns netting $84.20, which was divided between them. Presiding elder Phillips came on his second quarter on Thursday, he will remain over Sunday. There was preaching at the church every evening this week with good attendance. Mrs. J. E. Johnson of Burlington is visiting with her sister Mrs. Edward Martin. NEWTON ITEMS DUBUQUE NOTES The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Martin who has been ill for the past six weeks is greatly improved. The stork visited the home of Mrs. and Mrs. Edward Martin and left a bouncing 10 pound boy, mother and child are doing fine. Our population has begun to increase. Mr. O'Neil of Evanston is employed at the Elks Club as assistant Mr James Martin. Mr. McGuire also Evanston has also accepted at position at the Lange Tonsorial Parlors. Everett Jones has taken a position as porter on the I. C. R. R. Mr. Max-well resigned. FORT MADISON NOTES. W. H. Yeiser, one of our talented young men in the matter of debates addresses and etc., is raising quite a little excitement with his latest address, entitled "In His Steps." This address was written by Mr. Yeiser at the request of the Baptist Missionary Society some time ago. Mr. K. Jackson president of this society at the request of the society asked Mr. Yeiser to send it to our paper so that the race could have the benefit of it. The address opened by saying doubtless some would be surprised at such an address by a sinner and according to Rev. Chamers, all were surprised for Rev. Chambers said it was almost a sermon in itself. Mr. Yeiser with Mr. Wm. Harper the young man who won so many debates last winter as to be called invisible in this vicinity. Mr. Sterling Hawkins of Keokuk was the guest of Mr. Yeizer who is quite a friend of Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Hawkins was sent by the society of Keokuk to invite Mr. Yeiser to make his address there next Sunday. Mr. Yeiser had to refuse owing to a contemplated visit to Kewanee next Sunday. but promised to speak there two weeks from to day. Mr. Yeiser has also promised to speak at Burlington and Mt. Pleasant in the near future. It's a Fact You can bu every dollar in Younker' than any ob town. 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The horseback riding ghost is the very latest variety that has appeared in Bowdolnham, 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 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. 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 Mahe. 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 certainty lies through radical doubt; virtue signifies not innocence but the knowledge of sin and its overcoming. The ethical and religious life are full of contradictions held in solution. 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 Hibbert Journal. 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 forces with which the earl of Essex suppressed the Irish rebellion in the time of Elizabeth, for instance, being accompanied by 806 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. Wallace is said to have baffled his pursuers by killing a follower and leaving the corpse for the hound to find, while Bruce adopted the less cruel plan of wading some distance down a stream and ascending a tree which overhung the water. Success. "He has achieved success who has lived long, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men, and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty nor failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction."—Bessie A. Stanley. Blindness "There are various degrees and kinds of blindness, widow. There is the communal 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 in the midst of a regiment of soldiers clothed in red. There is the blind confidence of youth, which is the blindness of young mittens, 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 200 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 Amatlan de los Reyes, a village in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. They are the Amatecas. The Amatecas are perhaps 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 bohln' me, Satan.'" "Da' what I done said," answered Mr. Erastus Pinkley, "an den I magnify my ihuhs Satan answer me back. Da' all right. We's both gwine de same way, nothow, an' it don' make no diffence to me which leads de whucesion." THE RETRACTION WAS WORSE. Second Statement "Piled Up the Agony" on Rival Editor. District Attorney, Henry of San Francisco, a short time after his wounding, discussed with a reporter at his bedside one of his statement about the San Francisco boulders. He said that statement, do they?" he said, grimly "Well, if I did retract it, my retraction would be like the Tombstone editor's." "He, you know, printed a story to the effect that a rival editor's father had served 37 years in jail. Pressure was brought to bear on him, and finally he agreed to retract that statement. In his retraction he said: "We find that we were mistaken when we said in last week's issue that the Clarion editor's papa had passed 37 summers and penitentiary for 50 friends. His sentence commuted to life imprisonment failed, and the old man, as a matter of fact, was hung." MIX FOR COLDS One to half pint good whisky, add one ounce syrup saraparilla and one ounce Toris compound, which can be procured of any druggist. Take in teapoonful doses before each meal and before retiring. This relieves in 24 hours, and cures any cold that is erurable. "How do you like the new styles in beckwear, dear?" "A little ruff around the neck, love." Important to Mothers Important information Examines every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Caustoria In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought What His Wife Gave Him. 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Anyhow, Mark Twain has made sure that his patent on Huckleberry Finn shall not expire for a long, long time. Thirty gallons of oysters were used at a church sociable at Hutchinson, Kan. Who says prosperity hasn't returned? A philanthropic but misguided fish doctor in New York city has succeeded in saving the life of a German carp, Cul bono? Orville Wright manages to get about on crutches, which is some progress toward his practice of ignoring terra firma altogether. A Milwaukee doctor has married his cook. But the scheme doesn't work. Just as soon as you marry them, they quit beaking cooks. A Parisian journal asks the question: "Should actresses marry?" We should say the answer is: "Not so often as they do." We should imagine, from some of the rambling remarks of Prof. Hugo Muensterberg, that applied sociology was a good thing until one came to apply it. Gold, silver and lead mines are, it is said, to be worked extensively in the bleak district of Innishowen, County of Donegal, Ireland, overlooking the Atlantic. "Forget it" is said to be the favorite maxim of the German emperor. Our guess is that he has recently been compelled to work his favorite maxim overtime. One of the doctors says cocktails superinduce pneumonia. He must be trying to allay the fears that certain people have had concerning pneumonia. Those countries now adopting oldage pensions may not know the trouble they are bringing on themselves, since the professor is about to show us all how to live to be young at 150. When it comes to doing damage, men are puny things, after all. The six months' bombardment of Port Arthur by land and sea did far less damage to that city than the earthquake did to Reggio. President Roosevelt is expected to capture alive in Africa for the Washington Zoological park an oryx, a kleeneboc and a kahau. Probably he will be successful. He has captured even queerer game in the United States. Record-breaking work continues in the Panamanian zone. The total excavation during December was 3,261,673 cubic yards, against 2,920,404 yards in November and 2,201,734 yards in December, 1907. And with like progress in other directions the finish is steadily and rapidly drawing near. A man in New York was arrested and sent to prison for begging for a cup of coffee with which to sustain his feeble strength while looking for work to feed his starving family. And from the fact that so many great crimes go "unwhipped of justice," this treatment of poverty as a crime is one of the worst travesties upon our modern civilization. Here is proof that the courts are not respecters of persons and do not draw the color line. By a decision of the United States district court in Oklahoma "Zeke" Moore, a colored man, is awarded royalty on oil lands which will make him the richest negro in the state. "Zeke" is also an exconvict, but his good fortune should help him to mend his ways. The fact that the new president of the New York Central railroad says in the next 15 years the railroads must spend billions, calls attention to what an immense difference it would make if everybody was content to stay in one place. It also emphasizes the fact, declares the Baltimore American, that persons who have passed their lives live in one home or even in one town, or who have never been on a railroad journey in their lives, are written up in the daily papers as man curiosities. The invention of the sesmograph for the study of earthquakes has led to the discovery of the surprising sensitivity of the crust of the globe to forces that might have been thought too insignificant to cause distortion. The Indiana farmer who caught a neighbor whom he suspected of stealing corn from his crib, by driving nails into a lot of his corncobs, so that the local constable afterward found in the neighbor's hogpen an armful of cobs with nails buried in the pit, showed real Yankee ingenuity. King Leopold of Belgium has conferred on Cardinal Gibbons the grand cross of the Royal Order of the Crown as a mark of his personal esteem and in recognition of his great services in the cause of Christianity and humanity throughout the world. Of all the oil fields in the world the most remarkable is that at Summerland, Cal, where nearly 200 wells are being pumped in the surf of the sea. In 1898 the first oil well ever drilled in the sea was sunk from a low wharf A 640-acre farm near Yale has been sold for $78,720. Manchester is to have revival services conducted by a former yggman. There were 220 of the 1,500 inhabitants of Madrid at a booster banquet at that place a few evenings ago. The horse lovers of Mason City are arranging for a race meeting next summer. Some $5,000 will be offered in prices. During the year 1903 the cremery at Woodward received 10,508 cans of cream and paid out in cream checks $75,875.97. The government has decided to locate a clam hatchery at Fairport, near Muscatine, and will spend $25,000 on the plant. Word has been received in Iowa that the tenth annual picnic of the Iowa Association of Southern California will be held on Monday, February 22 at Los Angeles. A campaign has been started by Iowa, Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin Germans of the Methodist denomination for an endowment fund for Charles City college at Charles City. The city campaign is warming up in Iowa City for the election on March 29. The adoption of the Galveston plan is to be considered if the legislature amends the law, making it applicable to cities the size of Iowa City. The Newton Daily News has published a document which was made out in 1846, locating the seat of justice. It is the report of the commissioners selecting the site, being an affidavit sworn before a justice of the peace. Spontaneous combustion caused dire to start in a coal bunker in the basement of the Fleming building, the tallest building in Des Moines, and for nearly six hours the jailors worked to extinguish the building with firemen from the burning coal, but few occupants knew the cause. There were eight tons in the Will Mitchell, son of David Mitchell of Murray, one of the pioneers of Clarke county, was buried in a snowslide in the mountains of Idaho January 8, and his body was not found until January 22. He was herding sheep and was evidently resting with his pony in the lee of a mountain when the slide caught him. Emery, a small station which has been located midway between Mascun City and Clear Lake, has about passed away. At one time it bounced off the population of the town. The house of the interurban railway and other buildings of the read are about to be removed. The postoffice has been discontinued and many of the inhabitants have moved. An unusual operation was accomplished at the Ottumwa hospital when J. A. Lanham of Keokuk had a portion of his tongue removed. Notwithstanding the loss the patient was able to tell his physician how he felt and is able to taste as well as ever. The doctor is thought to be a cancerous growth at the side and toward the back of the tongue. "In the resurrection whose wife shall be be" was not only a puzzler to the Sadduces, but just as puzzling to Dr. W. W. Carlton of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Mason City when he was called upon to preach a funeral sermon where two husbands of the deceased wife were present as mourners in the church, the above for a text, but he had great trouble in directing his thoughts in another channel. T. J. Kleven, who resides near Joyce, was blasting stumps with powder, using ground rock as a slug. He had lighted a fuse but it did not go and he thought it was out and stepped up to examine it. As he was bent over the explosion occurred and his face was terribly lacerated and it was at first thought he was blinded. It was no sight, one eye may be saved and he has been taken to Iowa City for treatment. Vernon Westlund of Davenport still has two good feet under him in spite of the fact that he was recently reported to have lost both legs in a railroad accident near Brighton. Therehy hangs a tale. Vernon has a rival for the good graces of a young lady to whom the letter came announcing Vernon's misfortune. The rival evidently thought the young woman would have no use for a man called young Westlund's relatives post haste, only to find him alive and well. He came home with them, and his rival—the villain of the drama—has made his exit from the stage. A Mr. Wagner, a representative of Dr. Gunsalus of Chicago, has been in Clear Lake trying to arouse interest in the establishing of a summer Bible school similar to that at Winnona Lake. Dr. Gunsalus promises to attend and bring a quartet choir with him. The Iowa house committee on rules has drafted a new section for bidding tipping. The rule was caused by reports that some of the pages were asking to have their palms crossed as a substitute for the refusal of the house to raise their wages from $1.50 to $2 per day. Flames starting from an overheated stone caused a fire loss of $300 in the Occidental hotel in Colafax. The first started in the洗衣room and before got the department able to control the fire threatened to destroy the entire building. The Occidental is a railroad man's hotel. By a vote of 566 to 223 the proposition of buying a site for a city hall at Mason City was turned down. There was wide interest in the election. The women are reported as having been opposed to the proposal. The stores of Pella are closed nightly at 6:30 o'clock by agreement. Wolves are reported to be doing considerable damage near Silver City. The Commercial club of Waukon is discussing the establishment of a rest room for out of town shopers. Roy Hinkley, of Charles City, drove onto a live electric light wire at Nashua and both his horses were instantly killed. Governor Folk of Missouri and Governor Hanley of Indiana are on the Chauqua program to appear in Harlan in 1909. Governor B. F. Carroll parares by Governor B. F. Carroll. Original notice of the election was received from troops so apt to adopt so popped out such号召 upon Rev. J. P. Hargreaves of the First Baptist church of Iowa City is with appenditis. He was operated on and physicians report that he will recover. Both North and South Dakota have United States senators who were formerly residents of Iowa. M. N. Johnson was formerly of Decorah and Coe L. Crawford lived in Waukon. A team used as a delivery team by the Rustle company went through the ice on the Cedar river, near Charles City where they are now crossing on account of no bridge, and they were extracted with great difficulty. Claim for the whole of a $100,000 estate by an alleged adopted son of William Patten of Missouri Valley has been settled by the man, George W. Collins, of Ascot, accepting $2,000. This amount settles the claims against the estate, both as a son and for certain services of himself and wife, which were to the amount of .500. After a desperate fight on a Rock Island train from Wintertown to Des Moines, Louis Hildebrand, who has been eluding the police and detectives for ten days, was captured by Detective C. C. Jackson, Hildebrand is charged with a half dozen bold burglaries, several of them having been perpetrated while the police were on his trail. The greatest damage as the result of the blizzard at Oskaloosa was at the southwest corner of the Kalbach lumber yard corner Second avenue and C street. A section of the lumber shelter about seventy-five feet in length was picked up and scattered, together with a portion of the contents. The place looked like a cyclone had been busy. The lId is down good and hard in Valley Junction. Gaming devices of all kinds have been tabooed. Slot machines relegated to the back rooms. Shaking dice for cigars invites arrest and incarceration in ... village calabasbe, said confinement be rounded out on the cover with prosecution for the full extent of the law. Mayor Gray is the man who slapped on the cover. Tom McDaniel, the Tabor student who took French leave a couple of weeks ago to avoid service of a warrant for his arrest on the charge of perjury, has returned and will endeavor to clear himself of the charge. McDaniel was a witness in the November trial of district court in Sidney, and is charged with perjuring himself in the testimony he gave in that trial. Seventeen boys of the Omega Eta Tau fraternity and fourteen girls of the Theta Sigma Phi society at Council Bluffs were suspended from the high school. They refused to sign affidavits resigning membership in the secret societies. The students were willing to resign from "active" connection, but declined to join the connection. This is the culprit of the accident to Tom Harvey, who was seriously injured in an initiation into a frat December 26. The pension bureau has notified Mrs. Mary A. Hughey of Murray that she has been restored to the pension roller under the act of March 3, 1901. Mrs. Hughey was formerly the widow of the late Robert Graham, who was a soldier in the Sixteenth United States infantry in the Mexican war. His widow drew a pension until 1851, after which time, until her marriage to Mr. Hughey in 1853, for some reason she failed to receive her pension. She will now receive her pension due her from September, 1851, to June, 1853, after a lapse of nearly fifty-six years. Men all over the state are interested in what will probably be the biggest men's meeting in years when the Iowa conference of the Layman's missionary Movement is held in Des Moines, March 25 to 28. This movement, which has for its purpose the interesting of men in missionary work, is now being extended westward. Ambassador James Bryce is one of the leading speakers on the program. William Jennings Bryan is another. Ellijah Hallford, formerly editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean and U. S. Consul Wilbur, stationed at Halifax, are other men of national importance who will attend. Governor Carroll is actively engaged in promoting the Iowa conference which it is expected over 3,000 will attend. Deceased was about 28 years of age and had just completed his education prior to locating here, having studied in some of the best colleges in the old world. His patents are both dead and his grandmother in Grinnell. He was thought to have been convalescing until he took a turn for the worse. A traveling solicitor sold laces to the ladies of Pomeroy last week at very cheap prices. The measurements proved, however, to be faulty. One woman who thought that she had bought six yards, found that she had bought but three. A. E. Coppek, representing himself to the president of the Western Live Mixture company, was placed on trial in the criminal court at Des Moines on a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. The defendant is said to have had a weakness for drawing checks on many banks in Des Moines and Marshall when he had no money deposited in them. Three school children were lost in the blinding storm at Mason City. They were found almost frozen huddled in the shelter of a pile of bricks. ROOSEVELT WIRES GOVERNOR FOR EXPLANATION Speaker Stanton Expresses Hope of Being Able to Save the Day Later on. Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 5—Governor Gillett yesterday afternoon received the following telegram from President Roosevelt: "Washington, D. C., Feb. 4. —J. N. Gillett, Governor of California: What is the rumor that the California legislature has passed a bill excluding the Japanese children from the public schools? This is the most offensive bill of all, and in my judgment is clearly unconstitutional and we should at once have to test it in the courts. Can it be stopped in the legislature or by veto? "Theodore Roosevelt." Governor Gillett immediately wired a reply to the president and asked for an answer at once. He refused to discuss the nature of the message to Washington but will make all correspondence by wire public upon the receipt of the president's next message. Sacramento, Cal, Feb. 5. —Grove L. Johnson's bill, compelling Japanese to attend separate public schools, passed the assembly yesterday by a vote of 48 to 26. Mr. Johnson's others bill prohibits aliens from being members of boards of directors and restraining them in residence districts at the option of boards of supervisors, were defeated, the former by a vote of 54 to 15. The latter measure failed of passage because of a unable to muster the required 41 votes. The roll call finally stood 27 to 27, after a call of the house and several changes from eye to no and vice versa. --- No Danger In Nevada. Carson, Nev., Feb. 5—The Giffin anti-Japanese resolution, shorn of its reference to President Roosevelt, came up in the senate and was referred to the judicial committee. It is said this committee, of which Senator Boyd is chairman, will smother it, in accordance with the wishes of United States Senators Nixon and Newlands. No Boise Resolution. Boise, Idaho. Feb. 5.—The anti-Japanese resolution did not materialize in the legislature; it promised. It is understood Senator Borah has brought influence to bear to prevent the introduction of such a resolution and has received assurances it will be throttled if presented. BIG COAL MINING DEAL All Properties in Southern Illinois About to Be Consolidated. St. Louis, Mo. Feb. 5.—Practically all Illinois矿井矿 within a radius of fifty miles of St. Louis is on the verge of consolidation. Operators of the mines who gave options on them two years ago to Wallace D. Fisk applied Feb. 1 that he intends to exercise his options. The consolidation was not completed when first undertaken on account of the financial depression. The deal will involve $50,000,000. The plan according to coal men, contemplates two things—cheaper production of coal for St. Louis and an increase in consumption by encouraging manufacturing industries to be established. The inner zone of mines that is, the mines within all the coal of the country, practically all the coal consumed in St. Louis. The receipts of coal in St. Louis and East St. Louis are about 12,500,000 tons a year. Condemn Officer's Action Houston, Texas. Feb. 5. -The Masonic chapter at Wortham, Texas, has adopted strong resolutions condemning the action of the grand master of Ohio, in granting a special dispensation in the case of President-elect Taft, permitting him to become a Masonic member of the Colony. 4. The resolutions declare a dispensation violates Masonic customs and should be opposed by every true Mason. The resolution will be forwarded to the grand high priest. Stockman Is Arrested Abilene, Tex. Feb. 5.—The partial identification of a body found in the ruins of the Mud Young school house as that of Alexandra Sears, a wealthy stockman, whose ranch is near Anson, was followed by the arrest of James T. Barnett, a stockman and land developer of this city. The body was found burned to a crisp in the debris of the school house, which was destroyed by fire. The nature of the evidence against Barnett has not been disclosed. Tennessee "Gone Dry" Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 5.—The house yesterday passed over the governor's veto by a vote of 59 to 37 the bill prohibiting the manufacture of liquor in the state of Tennessee. The law takes effect January 1, 1910, having already passed the senate. California Floods Subside. San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 5.—The heavy rains which caused a second rise of the rivers flowing through the Sacramento valley have ceased and the worst of the storm is over. The Southern Pacific announces regular service on the coast division. Knockes Out Local Option. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 5.—The antislaon league, law known as the county option bill was overwhelmingly defeated in the house. Calhoun on Trial Cailouh on Trial. 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Therby showing two varieties of good judgment. With an annual saving fund of a billion France ought to be very comfortable on the proverbial rainy day. Anyhow, Mark Twain has made sure that his patent on Huckleberry Finn shall not expire for a long, long time. Thirty gallons of oysters were used at a church sociable at Hutchinson, Kan. Who says prosperity hasn't returned? A philanthropic but misguided fish doctor in New York city has succeeded in saving the life of a German carp, Cul bono? Orville Wright manages to get about on crutches, which is some progress toward his practice of ignoring terra firma altogether. A Milwaukee doctor has married his cook. But the scheme doesn't work. Just as soon as you marry them, they quit being cooks. A Parisian journal asks the question: "Should actresses marry?" We should say the answer is: "Not so often as they do." We should imagine, from some of the rambling remarks of Prof. Hugo Muensterberg, that applied sociology was a good thing until one came to apply it. Gold, silver and lead mines are, it is said, to be worked extensively in the bleak district of Innshown, County of Donegal, Ireland, overlooking the Atlantic. "Forget it" is said to be the favorite maxim of the German emperor. Our guess is that he has recently been compelled to work his favorite maxim overtime. One of the doctors says cocktails superinduce pneumonia. He must be trying to allay the fears that certain people have had concerning pneumonia. Those countries now adopting old age pensions may not know the trouble they are bringing on themselves, since the professor is about to show us all how to live to be young at 150. When it comes to doing damage, men are piny things, after all. The doctors in Woodcock village and Port Arra thur by land and sea did far less damage to that city than the earthquake did to Reggio. President Roosevelt is expected to capture alive in Africa for the Washington Woodcock park and a kahn. Probably he will be successful. He has captured even queer game in the United States. Record-breaking work continues in the Panama canon zone. The total excavations during December were 3,261,673 cubic yards, against 2,290,404 yards in November and 2,201,734 yards in December, 1907. And with like progress in other directions the finish is steadily and rapidly drawing near. A man in New York was arrested and sent to prison for begging for a cup of coffee with which to sustain his feeble strength while looking for work to feed his starving family. And from the fact that so many great crimes go "unwhipped of justice," this treatment of poverty as a crime is one of the worst travesties upon our modern civilization. Here is proof that the courts are not respecters of persons and do not draw the unfair line. By a decision of the United States district court in Oklahoma "Zeke" Moore, a colored man, is awarded royalty on oil lands which will make him the richest negro in the state. "Zeke" is also an exconvict, but his good fortune should help him to mend his ways. The fact that the new president of the New York Central railroad says in the next 15 years the railroads must spend billions, calls attention to what an immense difference it would make if everybody was content to stay in one place. It also emphasizes the fact, declares the Baltimore American, that persons who have passed their lives in the home or even one town, or who have never been on a railroad journey in their lives, are written up in the daily papers as hu man curiosities. The invention of the sesmograph for the study of earthquakes has led to the discovery of the surprising sensitivity of the crust of the globe to forces that might have been thought too insignificant to cause distortion. The Indiana farmer who caught a neighbor whom he suspected of stealing corn from his crt, by driving nails into a lot of his corncobs, so that the local constable afterward found in the neighbor's hogpen an armful of cobs with nails buried in the pith, showed real Yankee ingenuity. King Leopold of Belgium has conferred on Cardinal Gibbons the grand cross of the Royal Order of the Crown as a mark of his personal esteem and in recognition of his great services in the cause of Christianity and humanity throughout the world. Of all the oil fields in the world the most remarkable is that at Summerland, Cal, where nearly 200 wells are being pumped in the wells. In 1898 the oil company over drilled the sank from a low wharf into the Summerland. IOWA NEWS A 640-acre farm near Yale has been sold for $78,720. Manchester is to have revival services conducted by a former veggman. There were 220 of the 1,500 inhabitants of Madrid at a booster banquet at that place a few evenings ago. The horse lovers of Mason City are arranging for a race meeting next summer. Some $5,000 will be offered in prizes. During the year 1908 the creamery at Woodward received 10,508 cans of cream and pauped out in cream checks $75,879.7 The government has decided to locate a clam hatchery at Fairport, near Muscatine, and will spend $25,000 on the plant. Word has been received in Iowa that the tent annual picnic of the Iowa Association of Southern California will be held on Monday, February 22, at Los Angeles. A campaign has been started by Iowa, Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin Germans of the Methodist denomination for an annu endowment fund for Charles City college at Charles City. The city campaign is warming up in Iowa City for the election on March 29. The adoption of the Gaveston plan is to be considered if the legislature amends the law, making it applicable to cities the size of Iowa City. The Newton Dally News has published a document which was made out in 1846, locating the seat of justice. It is the report of the commissioners selecting the site, an affidavit sworn before a justice of the peace. Spontaneous combustion caused fire to start in a coal bunker in the basement of the Fleming building, the tallest building in Des Moines, and for nearly six hours the janitors filled with fumes from the burning coal, but few occupants knew the cause. There were eight tons in the Will Mitchell, son of David Mitchell of Murray, one of the pioneers of Clarke county, was buried in a snowslide in the mountains of Idaho January 8, and his body was not found until January 22. He was herding sheep and was evidently resting with his pony in the lee of a mountain when the slide caught him. Emery, a small station which has been located midway between Mascout City and Clear Lake, has about passed away. At one time it boasted of a population of seventy-five persons. Emery was a railway and other buildings of the road are about to be removed. The postoffice has been discontinued and many of the inhabitants have moved An unusual operation was accomplished at the Ottumwa hospital when J. A. Lhamah of Keokuk had a portion of his tongue removed. Notwithstanding the loss the patient was able to tell his physician how he felt and is able to taste as well as ever. The doctor is thought to be a cancerous growth at the side and toward the back of the tongue. "In the resurrection whose wife shall she be" was not only a puzzler to the Sadduces, but just as puzzling to Dr. W. W. Carlton of the Methodist Episcopal church of Mason City when he was called upon to preach a funeral sermon where two husbands of the deceased wife were present as mourners for the deceased doctor, but he had great trouble in directing his thoughts in another channel. T. J. Kloven, who resides near Joyce, was blasting stumps with powder, using ground rock as a slug. He had lighted a fuse but it did not go and he thought it was out and stepped up to examine it. As he was bent over the explosion occurred and his face was terribly lacerated and it was at first thought he was blinded. He was barely able to partially sight of one may be saved and he has been taken to Iowa City for treatment. Vernon Westlund of Davenport still has two good feet under him in spite of the fact that he was recently reported to have lost both legs in a railroad accident near Brighton. Therehy hangs a tale. Vernon has a rival for the good graces of a young lady to whom the letter came announcing Vernon's misfortune. The rival evidently thought the young woman would have no use for a man with two wooden legs. The letter, written in Westlund's Netherlands, restates his haste, only to find him alive and well. He came home with them, and his rival—the villain of the drama—has made his exit from the stage. A Mr. Wagner, a representative of Dr. Gunsalus of Chicago, has been in Clear Lake trying to arouse interest in the establishment of a summer Bible school similar to that at Winnona Lake. Dr. Gunsalus promises to attend and bring a quartet choir with him. The Iowa house committee on rules has drafted a new section forbidding tipping. The rule was caused by reports that some of the pages were asking to have their palms crossed as a substitute for the refusal of the house to raise their wages from $1.50 to $3 per day. Flames starting from an overheated stove caused a fire loss of $200 in the Occidental hotel in Colafax. The stove started in the washroom and before the fire department was able to get control the fire threatened to destroy the entire building. The Occidental is a railroad man's hotel. By a vote of 566 to 223 the proposition of buying a site for a city hall at Mason City was turned down. There was wide interest in the election. The women are reported as being opposed to the proposition. The stores of Pella are closed nightly at 6:30 o'clock by agreement. Wolves are reported to be doing considerable damage near Silver City. The Commercial club of Waukon is discussing the establishment of a rest room for out of town shopers. Roy Hinkley, of Charles City, drove onto a live electric light wire at Nashua and both his horses were instantly killed. Governor Folk of Missouri and Governor Hanley of Indiana are on the Chauquaau program to appear in Harlan in 1909. Governor J. J. H. Hargreaves of the First Baptist church of Iowa City is with appendicitis. He was operated on and physicians report that he will recover. Both North and South Dakota have United States senators who were formerly residents of Iowa. M. N. Johnson was formerly of Decorah and Coe I. Crawford lived in Waukee. A team used as a delivery team by the Rustie company went through the ice on the Cedar river; near Charles City where they are now crossing on account of no bridge, and they were extracted with great difficulty. Claim for the whole of a $100,000 estate by an alleged adopted son of William Patton of Missouri Valley has been settled by the man, George W. Collins, of Ascot, accepting $3,000. This amount settles the claims against the estate, both as a son and for certain services of himself and wife, which were to the amount of $,500. After a desperate fight on a Rock Island train from Winterstet to Des Moines, Louis Hildebrand, who has been eluding the police and detectives for ten days, was captured by Detective C. C. Jackson, Hildebrand is charged with a half dozen bold burglaries, several of them having been perpetrated while the police were on his trail. The greatest damage as the result of the blizzard at Oskaloosa was at the southwest corner of the Kauai lumber yard corner Second Avenue and C street. A section of the lumber warehouse held feet in length were picked up and scattered, together with a portion of the contents. The place looked like a cyclone had been busy. The Ild is down good and hard in Valley Junction. Gaming devices of all kinds have been tabooed. Slot machines relegated to the back rooms. Shaking dice for cigars invites arrest and incarceration in the village calabose, said confinement to be rounded out and finished with prosecution to the full extent of the law. Mayor Gray is the man who slapped on the cover. Tom McDaniel, the Tabor student who took French leave a couple of weeks ago to avoid service of a warrant for his arrest on the charge of perjury, has returned and will endeavor to clear himself of the charge. McDaniel was a witness in the Porter seduction case tried at the November term of district court in Sidney, and is charged with perjuring himself in the testimony he gave in that trial. Seventeen boys of the Omega Eta Tau fraternity and fourteen girls of the Theta Sigma Phi society at Council Bluffs were suspended from the high school. They refused to sign affidavits resigning membership in the secret societies. The students were willing to resign from "active" connection, but declined to sever their connection entirely. This is the elimination of the accident T. Harvey, who was seriously injured in an initiation into a frat December 25. The pension bureau has notified Mrs. Mary A. Hughen of Murray that she has been restored to the pension rolls under the act of March 3, 1901. Mrs. Hughen was formerly the widow of the late, Ed Graham, who was in the Sixteenth United States infantry in the Mexican war. His widow drew a pension until 1851, after which time, until her marriage to Mr. Hughen in 1853, for some reason she failed to receive her pension. She will now receive her pension due her from September, 1851, to June, 1853, after a lapse of nearly fifty-six years. Men all over the state are interested in what will probably be the biggest men's meeting in years when the Iowa conference of the Layman's Missionary Movement is held in Des Moines, March 25 to 28. This movement, which has for its purpose the interesting of men in missionary work, is now being extended westward. Ambassador James Bryce is one of the leading speakers on the program. William Jennings Bryan is another. Ellijah Halford, formerly editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean and U. S. Consul Wilbur, stationed at Halifax, are other men of national importance who will attend. Governor Carroll is actively engaged in promoting the Iowa conference which it is expected over 3,000 will attend. Deceased was about 28 years of age and had just completed his education prior to locating here, having studied in some of the best colleges in the old world. His parents are both in the same grandmother in Grinnell. He was thought to have been convalescing until he took a turn for the worse. A traveling solicitor sold laces to the ladies of Pomorey last week at very cheap prices. The measurements proved, however, to be faulty. One woman who thought that she had bought six yards, found that she had bought but three. A. E. Coppek, representing himself to the president of the Western Live Mixture company, was placed on trial in the criminal court at Des Moines on a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. The defendant is said to have had a weakness for drawing checks on many hanks in Des Moines and Marshall town where he had no money deposited in them. Three school children were lost in the blinding storm at Mason City. They were found almost frozen huddled in the shelter of a pile of brick. ALIEN LAW PASSED ROOSEVELT WIRES GOVERNOR FOR EXPLANATION. Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 5.—Governor Gillett yesterday afternoon received the following telegram from President Roosevelt: "Washington, D. C., Feb. 4.—J. N. Gillett, Governor of California: What is the rumor that the California legislature has passed a bill excluding the Japanese children from the public schools? This is the most offensive bill of all, and in my judgment is clearly unconstitutional and we should at once have to test it in the courts. Can it be stopped in the legislature or by veto? "Theodore Roosevelt." Governor Gillett immediately wired a reply to the president and asked for an answer at once. He refused to discuss the nature of the message to Washington but will make all correspondence by wire public upon the receipt of the president's next message. Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 5. —Grove L. Johnson's bill, compelling Japanese to attend separate public schools, passed the assembly yesterday by a vote of 48 to 26. Mr. Johnson's other bills prohibiting aliens from being members of boards of directors and restraining them in residence districts at the option of boards of supervisors, were defeated, the former by a vote of 54 to 15. The latter measure failed of passage because of a vote. the friends of the bill being unable to muster the required 41 votes. The roll finally stood 37 to 37, after a call of the house and several changes from age to no and vice versa. No Danger In Nevada. Carson, Feb. 5—The Giffin and Japanese resolution, shern of its reference to President Reosevelt, came up in the senate and was referred to the judicial committee. It is said this committee, of which Senator Boyd is chairman, will smother it, in accordance with the wishes of United States Senators Nixon and Newlands. No Boise Resolution. Boise, Idaho. Feb. 5.—The anti-Japanese resolution did not materialize in the legislature; it promised. It is understood Senator Borah has brought influence to bear to prevent the introduction of such a resolution and has received assurances it will be hasted if presented. BIG COAL MINING DEAL. All Properties in Southern Illinois About to Be Consolidated About to Be Concertized. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 5—Practically all Illinois coal mines within a radius of fifty miles of St. Louis is on the verge of consolidation. Operators of the mines who gave birth to two years ago to Walt I. Holbrook, were notified Feb. 1 that he intends to exercise his options. The consolidation was not completed when first undertaken on account of the financial depression. The deal will involve $50,000,000. The plan according to coal mines, contemplates two things—cheaper production of coal for St. Louis and an increase in consumption by encouraging manufacturing industries to be established here. The inner group of mines, that is, the mines within the fifty miles radius, supply practically all of the coal consumed in St. Louis. The receipts of coal in St. Louis and East St. Louis are about 12,500,000 tons a year. Condemn Officer's Action. Houston, Texas. Feb. 5.—The Masonic chapter at Wortham, Texas, has adopted strong resolutions condemning the action of the grand master of Ohio, in granting a special dispensation in the case of President-elect Taft, permitting him to become a Mason "at sight" Taft. Columns of Masonic declare dispensation violates Masonic customs and should be opposed by every true Mason. The resolution will be forwarded to the grand high priest. Stockman Is Arrested. Abilene, Tex., Feb. 5.—The partial identification of a body found in the ruins of the Mud Young school house as that of Alexandra Sears, a wealthy stockman, whose ranch is near Anson, was followed by the arrest of James T. Barnett, a stockman and land dealer of this city. 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A few doses of the cough suppressant do durably any cough, no matter how far advanced or serious the patient is, surfaces, clears the clogged air passages and the cough disappears. HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK Latest News Told in Briefest and Best Form. WASHINGTON NOTES. President Roosevelt issued a statement declaring it necessary for the government to use the secret service or some such force to investigate crime. The house insists upon leaving in the urgent deficiency bill the item of $12,000 to provide automobiles for the president. The senate struck the pro-vision out. Herbert Krox Smith, commissioner of corporations, in his annual report urged a broad law to check trusts. The house of representatives voted $750,000 for army purposes, of which $500,000 can be used for building airships. Senator Mildrich presented in the Senate a bill relating to the reestablishment of negro soldiers discharged on account of the Brownies affair and all Republican senators accept it in lieu of other measures that have been proposed. PERSONAL President-elect Taft completed his inspection of work on the Panama canal and expressed satisfaction at the labors of the engineers. Capt. Edward F. Quallrough of the battleship Georgia, part of Admiral Sperry's fleet, has been court-married on a charge of intoxication. M. Lopukine, former director of police of Russia, has been arrested on a charge of treason. It is alleged that he betrayed government secrets to revolutionists. Former Secretary of State Elinor Root is taking the baths at Hot Springs, Ark., where he will remain until time to assume his duties as senator from New York. Edward Lautherb has sued the city of New York for $150,000 for the death of his son in an automobile accident. Edward Armstrong of the state prison at Jackson, Mich., was arrested on a charge of accepting a bribe. Mrs. James Harry of Sharon, Pa., confessed that she murdered her husband because she scolded her. GENERAL NEWS. Gov. Charles N. Haskell and siz Oklahomaans were indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government in connection with deals in Muskogee town lots. The United Mine Workers of America in convention at Indianapolis, reelected Thomas L. Lewis as president. The California assembly rejected the Drew bill which was intended to prevent aliens owning lands in the state and was aimed chiefly at the Japanese. The Tennessee senate passed the prohibition bill over the veto of Patterson. Dr. George T. Vaughan of Washington successfully grafted the lace of a dead man onto the leg of George A. Kelly, a patient in the Georgetown hospital. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson refused to lift the quarantine against Maryland cattle on account of the foot and mouth disease. The bodies of 5,000 Chinese which have been dug from graves in all parts of the United States will be shipped to the Flowery Kingdom for burial. The house of representatives of Iowa voted down a resolution offered by Representative Scheeper, proposing medals for each Iowa born member of the naval fleet just completing the tour around the world. Fred Walton, former master of the Odd Fellows for the state of Idaho, was shot twice by John H. Cradlebaugh in Denver, Col., and died shortly after being removed to a hospital. Both men were killed in Vallea, Idaho. Odd Fellows also is a promi-nate Odd Fellow. Walton was dying when the hospital was reached, but gasped: "That man thought I stole his wife." Clarence M. Jones, president of the Commonwealth Feed Company of St Louis, and brother of Police Commis-sioner Jones, was murdered. Herman A. Krettschman, a discharged official of the company, has been arrested. The supreme court of the United States decided against the wall paper trust in a suit filed against Lewis Vought & Sons, jobbers of Cincinnati. Jacob F. Gmelich, Republican, was inaugurated as lieutenant governor of Missouri, following a recount of the votes by the legislature. A resolution declaring against Japanese immigration was introduced in the Nevada legislature and President Roosevelt was censured for his stand on the issue. In a fire among a fleet of Chinese flower boats at least 250 men lost their lives, being burned or drowned. The attorney general of Venezuela has begun preparations to sue former President Castro for the plot to assassinate Gomez. Herman Bilik is now convict No. 1,139 at the penitentiary in Joliet, where he is a member of the force making brooms. Bloodhounds were put on the trail of burglaries worth $3,500 worth of jewelry from W. H. Poole's store in Montana, Col. Five nearly destroyed the town of Milton, Fla., causing a loss of $200,000. Two banks and the city hall were among the buildings destroyed. The McCormick estate is to build r $2,000,000 skyscraper on the site of the Victoria hotel, on Michigan boulevard Chicago. St. Paul destroyed half a dozen buildings and threatened the business district. The loss was $600,000. C. A. Severance, instead of F. B. Kellogg, will represent the government in the suit against E. H. Hartman and others. Walter Weaver, son of S. M. Weaver, a member of the supreme court of Iowa was held to the grand jury in the district court for four months of charge of having issued forged papers. Three trainmen were killed and an other was fatally injured when two stock trains on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad were in a head-on collision at Powersville, Mo. The crew lost control of one train, causing the crash. A lock in the negotiations between W. I. Buchanan, America's special commissioner, and the Venezuelan government, remains unbroken through the refusal of either side to yield in the dispute over-the method of arbitrating the cases of the New York and Bermuda Asphalt Company and the Orinoco corporation. The family of the Nevada legislature adopted the resolution against the Japanese, after cutting out the censure of President Roscagvelt. Helen Maloney, daughter of Martin Maloney, a wealthy Philadelphiaian, was married a second time to Herbert Oatbern of New York, their first marriage being annulled. Horace Butler, member of an old New York family, fearing he was going insulted, committed suicide by shoot-in himself. Miss Verna Ware shot four men during the progress of a trial in a Texas courtroom. Two are expected to die. Seventeen men, five whites and 12 negroes, were killed by an explosion resulting from a windy shot in an Alaabama coal mine. The West Virginia senate was aroused by a statement that $1,000,000 had been raised to prevent prohibition in the state. The state, the national convention at Indianapolis rebuked President Lewis for his action in connection with 't' o Kansas strike. Capt. James Brown, who was a member of a party that searched for the famous Cocos island treasure in 1850, sailed again for the South seas to recover the spoils of the Spanish boaters taken from them by Capt. Smith of the schooner Back Witch, in 1820. Fire of unknown origin destroyed the plant of the American Tubular Axle Company in Toledo, O., causing a loss of $125,000. A local option bill fathered by the Ariadon leaes of Pennsylvania, was issued to the lower house of the Pennsylvania legislature. A bill requiring that applicants for marriage license in Oregon be provided with a certificate of good health from a license physician was unanimously passed by the state senate. Two children of Nathaniel Workman and Lexington, Ky., were burned to death when his house was destroyed by fire. A bink guarantee bill, prepared by the joint committee from the Kansas house and senate, after consultation with Gov. Stubbs and other administration leaders, will be introduced. It provides a levy of one-twentieth of one hundred dollars deposita. The alleged carelessness of a nereporter in putting a man in the wrong birth of a sleeping car was the basis of a $10,000 suit brought in the federal court at New Orleans by Mrs. Amelia M. Dubourg against the Pullman Company. The annual maneuvers of the naval reservists will be held at Tolelo this summer at the time of the maneuvers of the United States army department of the great lakes, are being conducted. The administration of Thomas F. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, was supported by the delegates to the national convention in Indianapolis. A roll call showed 1.627 approvals and 1.654 disentering. Secretary Tiffin inspected the Culebrum cut and the Gatun dam of the Panama canal. The Turko-Bulgarian deadlock over the amount of money to be paid because of Bulgaria's declaration of independence has been settled on a plan proposed by Russia. Falling to give bond, F. R. McDonald, deposed secretary-treasurer of the Illinois-Indiana council, No. 4, International Union of Electrical Workers, went to jail on a charge of larceny as baillee. In preparation for the observation of the Lincoln centenary at the birthplace of the emancipator, near Hodgenville, Ky., the cabin in which Lincoln was born was removed to the memorial farm. The amendment the senate passed the house bill making February 12, 1909, the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln a legal holiday and recommending its celebration throughout the United States. George Busse, brother of Mayor Busse of Chicago, who accidentally shot and killed Mrs. Lucius Tuckernan, was exonerated by the coroner's lury which investigated the tragedy. The widow of Father John of Kronstadt, the well-known Russian priest who died about a month ago in St Petersburg, has been given a yearly pension of $2,000. C. H. Laboje of South Bend, Ind., has arranged to file suit in behalf of the Laboje helts to recover the site of the Labojeville, Canada. The suit will involve $20,000,000. President Roosevelt will lay the cornerstone of the memorial hall to be erected at Hodgeville, Ky., the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln on February 12. Several prominent men are to deliver addresses. The relations between President Gomez and Vice-President Zayas of Cuba became seriously strained over the appointment of a man to fill the post of chief of the secret police. Friends of C. W. Morse, the convicted banker and former "ice King" of New York are preparing to petition the Supreme Court to admit him to trial. He is a prisoner in the tombs under a 15-year sentence to prison. United States District 'Attorney Stimson told District Attorney Jerome of New York to proceed with the pro- secution of the libel cases growing out of newspaper charges in connection with the Panama canal scandal. Doug Robb nson, the president's brother, will probably will be the complaining, with us. Her Rival A Wife's Commente on a Con- versation by Telephone. When this man's wife reached his office the other day on a little visit as- sociated with domestic finance he had just been called up on the phone. "Ha!" said the wife, she being a jealous person. "Some creature is calling him up!" So she remained out of view in the anteroom. "Hoh!!" said the husband at the phone. "Who that you say? Oh, it's you, eh, Jack? H'w are you, pal? Any- thing coming off?" "It's that horrid, dissipated, flirt- tious Jack Hotelp talking to him." said the wife to herself. "I always did sus- pect that man." "Huh? Say, is that so?" said her husband through the transmitter. "Mighty glad to hear that. Say, where did you tran her anew?" ("Her!") snuffed the "jealous wife," "Oh, I knew there'd be some devilment in the wind with that Hotelp man calling him up." "Well, b'jing. I am sure am glad you've nalled her, mate," went on the husband at the phone. "Say, she a sure enough looker." "I'll hear that!" said the wife to herself. "Looker!" "Horest-injun thoroughbred, too, you say?" continued her husband at the phone. "Well, me for her, then. I sure want to look her over. What's that? A raging beauty, is she? Well, I guess that's poor. That's the kind I'm hunting for." ("Oh, such hideous deceitfulness!" panted the wife in the anteroom. "Yknow I'm pretty tired of having these limitation mats flushed on me," the wife said. "I'm confidently, I want nothing but the real bang up thing. I'm willing to cough up anything within reason, too, to get the real thing, as I told you." ("The traitor!") hissed the man's wife, trembling with rage.) "Say, you got her there with you now, old man? What's that? Oh, you have, he? Curled up in your lap right now, eh? Good! But you want to remember that she's as good as mine, old boy." "Curled up in his lap—horrible!" gassed the jeans offa. "I went on the unsuspecting husband at the phone, 'can't you fetch her down here right away and let me look her over?' Let's see, it's pretty near lunch time and I'm sort of expecting my wife down pretty soon, and of course I don't want my wife to see her, see? But you just trot her down here now and I'll have a peek and then we can fix it. What's that? You'll be over in five minutes? All right, old boy. I'll be waiting." Whereupon he hung up the receiver and turned to be confronted by his white-faced and wrathful spouse. Naturally he looked surprised. Just as naturally he took his surprised look as a sure indication of guilt. "You're opened up," you are going to have that Jack Hotell bring some wretched tawdy creature here, are you?" He hung his head. He looked like a man nailed with the merchandise. "Oh, I heard every single, solitary word you said in the phone, so you needn't deny it," his wife went on, breathlessly. "How dare you carry on in such a manner right here in your office? Have you no pride or self-respect? What do you mean by professionalism? How are you relapsing into angry tears, and of course he tried to take hold of her to comfort her and square himself. "Don't you *u* d-d-dare to t-touch m-m-me!" she gurgled, shaking him off. "I hate the v-very t-touch of your h-h-hand, you scandalous, deceitful thing!" "But look a-here, my dear," he began, "you are all dead wrong, you know. Lemme set you right, for heaven's wrong." she exclaimed angrily. "D-d-didn't I hear your very words to that horrid brute on the phone? isn't he g-g-going to fetch some m-m-miserable haggaq down here—and..." Just at that instant, however, John Hotclip arrived at the office with the miserable baggage. He was carrying the miserable baggage in his arms, and he deposited her in the gully husband's arms, where she promptly cuddled up and looked content. "Here, my dear," said the husband to his wife, "is the young female individual about whom I was talking with Jack on the phone. I've had Jack on the lookout for a good one for a long time, and when kind enough to get this crackajack for me, I wanted her for a present—a surprise present—for you, you know." He handed the dainty little Japanese spaniel over to his wife, and it was her tun n to look guilty. Foxhounds Dash Over Cliff A fine 50-minutes' run with the East bourne foxhounds on Saturday had an exciting termination and brought about a serious loss to the pack. An excellent start was made, a stout fox being found in Mr. Gwynene's gorse near Folkington, and the field followed merrily on to the downs. Faster and faster went the fox and the hounds after him, until the quarry made straight for the cliff. The maser saw the danger and used every tool he could find, and two couples and a half of the leading hounds had gone clear over the cliff and were killed before the remainder were stopped. The pace was the fastest of any run for several seasons.—London Standard. Platinum Used by Counterfeiters. Platinum Used by Counterfitters. Platinum was a favorite metal with counterfitters some years ago, when its intrinsic value was about six dollars an ounce. Many spurious ten and twenty-dollar United States gold pieces were turned out chiefly composed of this metal. The coins of Great Britain were also tampered with in the same manner. The Usual Way Just about the time a woman makes up her mind to get into society her husband usually spoils things by making a dreadful break at the dinner "SOUTHERN ALBERTA IS A MIGHTY GOOD COUNTRY." No stronger or better evidence can be given of the merits of a country than that which comes from the testimony of the settler who has determined to succeed. This is why we reproduce the following letter, which speaks for itself. These people were induced to go to Western Canada through the solicitation of a Canadian Government agent, who secured for them the low railway rates. "Carmingay, Atta, Canada, 12:15-08. C. M. J. Crouch, Canadian Government Agency, 135 Adams Street, Chicago: We had audacity enough to tackle the proposition of buying four bushels of wheat from a thirty miles east of Clairholm and heading up on the Little Boy, and our two boys each got a homestead adjoining. We fenced three sections and the two homesteads, and built a house, barn, corrals and granary, and have since enlarged some of these buildings. We have broken 200 acres of land, which has been sowed to oats and wheat. During the severe winter of two years ago the winter wheat killed out somewhat, and our crop yielded only ten bushels to the acre, but the spring wheat went 24 bushels to the acre. In this country we must be prepared for storms and cold, at times 20 to 30 below zero, yet on the whole the winters are mild; and while there are exceptional crops, it is fair wheat in our immediate neighborhood yields from 25 to 30 bushels to the acre on the average. We have now quite a bunch of horses, over 50 in all, about 350 sheep, after having sold 140 for mutilation fall. We have 20 head of pure bred registered Shropshire, which are worth $20 cach. The average price received for mutilion sheep was $5.00 and a little over. Pork brings 5 and 10 heads of cattle to our ranch now, and last winter they picked their entire living from our pasture, running to the straw stacks for shelter at night. "The increase of land values has been extraordinary. Our land four years ago cost us a little less than $6.00 an acre. We have sold one section for $15.00, but we would not sell any more for less than $25.00 per acre, as we expect the railroad within four months. We have spent two months. Southern Alberta of Western Canada is a mighty good country for any man or woman who loves outdoor life, and who wants to get good returns for their labor and investment. "We have been pleased with our treatment from the Canadian Government, and can heartily commend Southern Alberta as a splendid country in which to locate. "Yours very truly, (Signed) "JAMES S. AINSLIE AND SONS." A Fatal Breath. Brookton (with statistical bent)—Do you know, old man, I've just been reading up a lot of statistics on present-day mortality, and I have learned some remarkable things. Why, every time I breathe a man dies! Brookton (comprehending!)—By the great autofunches! Then why in the name of the census don't you chew crows? Football vs. Prayer. Willie, aged five, was taken by his father to his first football game. The feature that caught his chief approval, however, did not become evident till he told the coach. To the horror of his parents, Willie prayed with true football snap: God bless papa, God bless mamma, God bless Willie; Boom! Hall Rally! —Success Magazine. Cause for Complaint: Jones, the dairyman, loved his little bouts occasionally, and at such times celebrated riotously. He was prevailed upon to sign the pledge, and his piece of news was given wide spread, and he turned upon his temperance friends and again sought old-time friends and acquaintances. "The idea!" grieved Jones, as he told the waiter to duplicate an order. "My driving wagon, and those rioting with us! I am on the water wagon!"—Judge. DIDN'T KNOW Coffee Was the Cause. Many daily habits, particularly of eating and drinking, are formed by following our elders. In this way ill health is often fastened upon children. A Ga. lady says: "I had been allowed to drink coffee ever since I could remember, but even as a child I had a weak stomach, which frequently refused to retain food. "The taste of coffee was in my mouth all the time and was, as I found out later, the cause of the stomach rebelling against food. "I now see that it was only from following the example of my elders that I learned to continue the miserable habit of drinking coffee. My digestive remained poor, nerves unstrung, frequent headache, and yet I did not suspect the true cause. "Another trouble was a bad, muddy complexion for which I spent time and money for creams, massaging, etc., without any results. "After I was married I was asked to try Postum, and would you believe it, i. an old coffee toper, to take to Postum from the very first. We made it right—according to directions on the pkg. i. it had a most delicate flavor, and i. at least quit coffee, with the happiest results. "I now have a perfectly clear, smooth skin, fine digestion and haven't had a headache in over two years." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to Wellville," in pkg. One app-ars from the above time to time. They are gentle, true, and full of human Ask Her This Question "Do you know of any woman who ever received any benefit from taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound?" If any woman who is suffering with any ailment peculiar to her sex will ask her neighbors this question, she will be surprised at the result. There is hardly a community in this country where women cannot be found who have been restored to health by this famous old remedy, made exclusively from a simple formula of roots and herbs. During the past 30 years we have published thousands of letters from these grateful women who have been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and never in all that time have we published a testimonial without the writer's special permission. Never have we knowingly published a testimonial that was not truthful and genuine. Here is one just received a few days ago. If anyone doubts that this is a true and honest statement of a woman's experience with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound write and ask her. Houston, Texas.—"When I first began taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I was a total wreck. I had been sick for three years with female troubles, chronic dyspepsia, and a liver trouble. I had tried several doctor's medicines, but nothing did me any good. "For three years I lived on medicines ar," thought I would never get well, when I read an advertisement of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and was advised to try it. "My husband got me one bottle of the Compound, and it did me so much good I continued its use. I am now a well woman and enjoy all my health." "I advise all women suffering from such troubles to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a trial. They won't regret it, for it will surely cure you."—Mrs. Bessie L. Hicks, 819 Cleveland St., Houston. Any woman who is sick and suffering is foolish surely not to give such a medicine as this a trial. Why should it not do her as much good as it did Mrs. Hicks. Jacob Gould Schurman, President of the said: "I have traveled some thousands of have touched the climax. 'Eureka, I have of the development of your city, and have young men with some capital to settle in the lot I have large fit that you enjoyed unique and magnitude of the resources behind you, bilities of great and expanding trade with many occasions that, if I were a young fell reached Seattle and stop there." Seatment of money, especially in that BUSINESS PROPERTY. Let me tell you A-Y-P. Fair next summer. For Sprains Sloan's Liniment is the bruises. It quiet the pain at one tenderest part without hurt to be rubbed—all you lightly. It is a powerful instantly—relieves any in and reduces the swelling. Jacob Gould Schuman, President of Cornell University, recently was in Seattle, and said: "I have traveled some thousands of miles and visited a good many cities, and now I have touched the climax." "Eureka, I have found it." I have endeavored to keep abreast of the latest developments in the State of Washington and young men with some capital to settle in the State of Washington and in the city of Seattle, for I have long felt that you enjoyed unique advantages in your location and in the variety and magnitude of the resources behind you, in your connection with Alaska and the possibilities that, if I were a young fellow staying in like, I should travel well reached, Seattle and stop there." Seattle also enjoys unique advantages for the investment of money, especially in that greatest maker of all—CENTRAL FRACTURE. Let me tell you the story. I came to our AX-P, FRACTURE best summer. rains Liniment is the best remedy for sprains uses. lets the pain at once, and can be applied to the part without hurting because it doesn't need bed—all you have to do is to lay it on It is a pc powerful preparation and penetrates —relieves any inflammation and congestion, ces the swelling. For Sprains Sloan's Liniment is the best remedy for sprains and bruises. It quiets the pain at once, and can be applied to the tenderest part without hurting because it doesn't need to be rubbed—all you have to do is to lay it on lightly. It is a powerful preparation and penetrates instantly—relieves any inflammation and congestion, and reduces the swelling. Sloan's Liniment Afflicted with Thompson's Eye Water shown by an eye --- STOP-At Seattle M. B. H. THE TRUSTEE COMPANY, Seattle, Wash. We pay you 55 % per annum on any amount you pay to us or on any other business or mark us on New York City real estate. Any other mark us on New York City real estate. Any other mark us on New York City real estate. Twenty years success experience in handling real estate. Interest check is the best and safest investment on the market. A SURE MONTHLY INCOME $0.01 OF THE MONTH. Rev. Wilkerson, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church, commenced his revival meetings Sunday. Mrs. John L. Lones entertained the H. L. B. club at her home Thursday. After business part of the meeting was over an elegant lunch was served by the hostess, assisted by her daughter, Mrs. R. H. Pollard. The honored guests were Mesdames John Foy, Ruthe Pheonix and Miss Estella Bradley. Mrs. Milton Ritchie is reported on the sick list. Mrs. Henry Wood went under a surgical operation Saturday. She is reported some better at this writing. Miss Fannie Moppins entertained a number of friends at her home Sunday evening. The entertainment that was to have been given by the members of No. 2 of the Sunday school last Thursday. Witnessing was postponed until this week Thursday, owing to the inclement weather. Miss Mabel Tarver spent Monday evening in Rock Island. 15 FRIEND TO FRIEND. The personal recommendations of people who have been cured of coughs and colds by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy have done more than all else to make it a staple article of trade and commerce over a large part of the civilized world. 2 years after Women, Stop, W If a woman have, long hair' it Every Woman can have th MARY BROWN Women, Stop, Wait, Listen, Read If a woman have, long hair' it is a glory to her 1 Cor., 11-15 Every Woman can have that Glory if She Wishes It. This is for you. No more ironed hair, but soft, long beautiful hair that need not be put on the dresser on retiring. Do you want this kind of hair? If so, write for particulars to Mrs T. D. Perkins, the Scientific Scalp Specialist of Denver, Colo., who is astonishing the world with her wonderful art of growing hair. My own hair is my best advertisement. With these treatments my hair grew 17 inches in two years. It had remained one length (our inches) for 15 years. What I did for my hair I am doing for hundreds of others, and will do for you with my Matchless Scientific scalp separator. My treatment falls failure or breaking off, cures split ends, removes dandruff and scalp scurf, causes the hair to grow long, no matter how short; soft, no matter how harsh; thick, no mattte; how thin; straight from the bulbs, no matter how MRS. T. D. PERKINS, Scientific Scalp Specialist Testimonials of Pleased Patrons: Having known Mrs. T. D. Perkins for years, I unhesitatingly testify to her reliability, sincerity, business integrity, and trustworthiness. Therefore, any representation she may make can be accepted in all confidence. Very truly, ENOS L. SCRUGGS, Pres. Western College, Macon, Mo. Denver, Colo., Aug. 10, 1906. This-certifies that Mrs. T. D. Perkins is well and favorably known throughout this state and city. What ever promise or statements she may make will be fully kept, as she is a woman of veracity and not given to unwarranted or irresponsible methods. Very truly yours, JOHN E. FORD, Minister Zion Baptist Church. Almosa, Colo., Oct. 25, 1908. Mrs. Perkins; Dear Madam—I received the goods all right, which I presume you know by this time. I thought I'd wait to see how I liked your treatment before writing. I also received your letter from Pueblo, and thank you very much for interest shown. Now, as to your treatment, I used the red shampoo and eggs, as I thought the scalp must have thorough cleaning to start with and you didn't designate which to use first. I must say it was the most delightful shampoo I ever had. I felt like I had a new head (laugh). Now, as to your salve, it is the nearest thing to perfection I have ever used, as a dressing, and I don't think you've exaggerated its merits. Dear Madam—I now write you what your wonderful hair remedy has done for me. My hair had been falling out for over a year. It came out in spoils larger than a dollar. Black heads and pimples came in the bald spots and my scalp looked like it had been scalded. After using your treatment three months the scalp began looking better and the black heads THE CHURCHES Cornish Baptist Church—corner of Fifth Street and Linden streets; Presching; from 10:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. School; at 19 o'clock School; 7:30 to 9 p.m. Rev. T. L. Griffin, Pastor. St. Paul A. M. E.-Corner of Second and Genter Streets. Presching at 10:30 a.m. m.; Sunday School; Presching at 10:30 a.m. School; Presching at 8 p.m. Ewpworth League at m.; p. m. presching at 8 p.m. Geo. W. Galen pastor. Surna's Chapel M. E. Church—Corner of 11 a.m. and Croaker St.-Church services, presching at 10:30 a.m. School; p. m. sunray; Sunday School; 9:30 p.m. Ewpworth League 7 p.m. m.; Sunday; Prayer meeting every Wednesday p.m. M. E. Church Pastor. Maple Street Baptist Church—sitinated on E Maple between Ninth and Tenth streets Presching 11 a.m. School; 9:00 a.m. Penry Davis Superintendent, Miss Myrtle Hubbard, school. Rev. Samuel Bates, pastor Union Congregational Church—Corner Tent and Park streets. Presching 10:45 a.m. m. Sunday School; 19 m.; evening services 7:30 p.m. P. m. prayer pastor. H. W. Porter, pastor. SECRET ORDERS. North Star Lodge, No. S. A. F. & A. M.-Mees First Thursday in each month at Masonville street, J. L. Thompson, W. M.; Herbert E. Jacobs secretary. Hiram Chapter- Meets Second Thursday in each month in each fifth at wasp C. Ch. A. Ch., B. Bradford, Recorder, H. Goud. King Sionon Con mundery No. 6-Mees fourth Thursday in each fifth at wasp C. Ch. A. Ch., B. Bradford, Recorder, H. Goud. Court Lodge No. 399 G. U. o. of F. Mees first one and third in one oays each month C. Ch. A. Ch., B. Bradford, Recorder, F. Johnson, N. G.; L. M. Brown P. T. Grand Master's Council of G. U. o. of F. O. Mees, fourth Tuesday night in each Dennis Burrs, W. M.; J. W. Heath G. S. H. H. of R., 399 G. U. o. of F. O. F.-Con- vues the second Thursday at 3:39 and fourth Tuesday at 4:39. M. G. Mrs. Delia Brant, M. N. G. Mrs. Sule- Matthes, W. R. Artie Taperbacle No. 423-Mees Fath and third Mees every Monday in each month, at Hau- n hall, East Sixth and Locust, Mrs. Nettie Davis, C. P.; Mrs. Lizzie Bush, C. R.; Miss- er J. C., Mrs. W. Green K. M. G. Sule- Matthes, W. R. North Star Lodge No. 3 Knights of Pythias- Mees every Monday night, corner of Sixth and Walnut streets. Regular work nights. C. C. J., W. Green K. M. G. Sule- Matthes, W. R. M. Maria Tubernacle, No. 307—Meets the first tuesday at 2:30, and 2:00, and 1:30, and 1:15, Sixth and Walnut St. Miss Bertin Curley Sixth and Walnut St. Miss Bertin Curley Rose Sharon Tumple, F. M. T. No. 36, needs second and fourth Wednesday afternoon, Nettie Davis, W. P., Bertie Harris W. S. Before Treatment Wait, Listen, Read it is a glory to her 1 Cor., 11:15, that Glory if She Wishes It. kinky. First treatment will show wonderful improvement. Do not wait if you are interested in your hair. Give treatments all over the United States by mail. Write me at once. I send booklet concerning the care of hair taking my treatments when two-cent stamp is enclosed. I do not have agents I need a personal history of your hair and scalp and your physical condition. All mail promptly answered when two cent stamp is enclosed. I am the only woman of the race grown in my family. The real length my hair was when I first began treating it. Send for booklet if you mean business. You can secure these preparation only from me. None like them made in the world. The T. D P Scientific Scalp Preparation. Madam Perkins, sole agent. and pimples disappeared. New hair came in, and after using your remedy six months my hair was all in again. I also had the worst case of dandruff one ever seen. Your shampoo and scalp treatment has cured me after hundreds of other remedies had failed. I cannot praise your remedy half enough, and advise all others to try them as I have, and they shall find good results if they follow full instructions. I am, yours truly, EVERETT S. P. DAULSON, 125 North 3rd St., Phoenix, Ariz. SEEKS ADVICE. SEERS ADVICE. Phila., Pa. Nov. 13th, 1908. Mrs. Perkins: Dear Madam—By the advice of Miss Bertha Scott I am writing to you concerning my hair. It has never been very long, but long and thick enough for me to do it nicely. Within the last year or more it has grown very thin and short. I have been to the most noted hair cultistur in this city for six months and there is not the least bit of improvement. And as there is such an improvement in Miss Scott's hair (for her hair was in a very bad condition), I feel sure that you can do something for mine. HENRIETTA R. ELLISON, 239 S. 5th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Monmouth, Il., Oct. 26, 1908. Dear Madam—I received your letter and was glad to hear from you. I am very proud of the treatment that I have taken from you. The results are wonderful. You would hardly know that it is the same head of hair if you could see it. I am going to send and get another supply before long. I am proud to recommend your cure to all who wish to know your great work. My husband is very much pleased with the way my hair has grown. He thinks it is the best hair grower yet. Respectfully yours, MRS. HATTIE HUMPHREY, 721 W. H. Ave. DENVER, COLO. A train colliding with another train. Sale being conducted by the MERCANTILE SALVAGE CO. in the entire building, 812-814 W. Walnut St., 2 doors west of Grand Department Store. We rip and tear prices to accomplish our purpose. Every dollar you invest at this sale will do the work of five elsewhere. Values are no object. The stock must be closed out at once, and what cannot be sold at one price will almost be given away. All we ask of you is to come and take a look, whether you buy or not. Your own judgment will tell you how powerful the opportunities are. This is a sale that you will remember for years to come. There are no words or type that can possibly describe the terrific slaughtering of first class merchandise. Official paper of the M. W. U. Grand Lodge of Iowa, A. F. & A M., Iowa State Federation of Colored Women and International Grand Congress of Heroines of Jericho of America. Published every Friday by the HYSTAN- DER Publishing Co., Des Moines, Ia. la. phone 599. Office over 201 Seventh street. J. L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHE-ARD, MANAGER. Entered at the Post Office as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year ..... $1.50 Six months ..... 75 Twelve months ..... 50 Send money by postage order, money order, express or draft, to the town State Bystander Publishing Company. 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It was established in 1894 and is read by nearly all the colored people of Iowa. We have correspondents in the following towns: Keokuk ..... A. J. Fields Rock Island ..... Mrs. Wm. Taylor Moline, Ill. ..... Miss Mable Tariner Sloux City ..... Mrs. Etta Grant Clinton ..... A. A. Bush Mt. Pleasant ..... Miss Bertha Harris Ottumwa ..... Edna A. Martin Galesburg, Ill.Miss Mayme Richardson Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. G. H. Wade Albia ..... Miss May Davis Cedar Rapids.Mrs. Adeldeal Perkins Ft. Madison ..... Anna Harper Oksaloosa ..... Leulla B Franklin Washington ..... N. L. Black A COMMON COLD. We claim that if catching cold could be avoided some of the most dangerous and fatal diseases would never be heard of. A cold often forms a culture bed for germs of infectious diseases. Consumption, pneumonia, diphtheria and scarlet fever, four of the most dangerous and fatal diseases, are of this class. The culture bed formed by the cold favors the development of the germs of these diseases, that would not otherwise find lodgment. There is little danger, however, of any of t hese diseases being contracted when a good expectant cough medicine like Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is used. It cleans out these germs, that it may prevent the ment of the germs of these diseases. That is why this remedy has proved so universally successful in preventing pneumonia. It not only cures your cold quickly, but minimizes the risk of contracting these dangerous diseases. For sale by all druggists. "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 wilful and self-damaging blindness. There is the blindness of party, ma'am, and public men, which is the blindness of a mad bull in the midst of a regiment of soldiers 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."—C 'vres Dickens. Cuscoe Mexican Indians Curious Mexican 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 Amatlan de los Reyes, a village in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. They are the Amatecas. The Amatecas are perhaps 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 behin' me, Satan.'" "Da's what I done said," answered Mr. Erastus Pinkley, "an' den I 'magines I hyms Satan answer me back: 'Da's all right. We's both gwine de same way, notoh, an' it don't make no diffence to me which leads de puhceusement." 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 helping hand to you in your adversity, but in the time of need you will not find them among the men who triad 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 demagogues as you distrust the political demagogue. Keep your hand on your pocketbook as you travel life —first, to give always in proportion to your means to those who are poorer; 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 Success. "He has achieved success who has lived long, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men, and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty nor failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction."—Bessie A. Stanley. 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 forces with which the earl of Essex suppressed the Irish rebellion in the time of Elizabeth, for instance, being accompanied by 800 dogs. In the Scottish clan fends 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. Wallace is said to have baffled his pursuers by killing a follower and leaving the corpse for the hound to find, while Bruce adopted the less cruel plan of wading some distance down a stream and ascending a tree which overhung the water. THE WORLD'S GREATEST SEWING MACHINE LIGHT RUNNING NEWHOME [you want either a Vibrating Shuttle, Rotary Shuttle, Shuttle Jack, or Mitch] Sewing machine write to THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE COMPANY Orange, Mass. Many sewing machines are made to sell regardless of quality, but the New Home is made to wear. Our warranty never runs out. Kold by authorized dealers only. FOR SALE BY D. S. RUTTER & CO. Des Moines Brewery bottling. Blue Ribbon, net, per case $3.00 Export net, per case - $2.50 Domestic Bottling. select, per case - $2.25 Boheman, per case, - $2.00 MILWAUKEE BEER CO. 901 Walnut Both phones 87. THE WOMEN'S HAIR CARE When we first began our wonderful work of growing all kinds, all qualities, all lengths, and all conditions of hair, even to the growing of hair on bald places of the head, many persons scorned the idea that such a thing was possible; but we have grown the hair for hundreds; rapidly achieving success. The proof of the value of our work is that we are being imitated and largely by persons whose own hair we have actually grown and the further fact that they have very frequently mentioned us when trying to sell their goods (saying that heirs is the same or "just as good") or referred to PORO. We advise you to use only PORO Hair Grower, (the oldest and best of its kind.) See that the name PORO is on every box, not genuine without it. Prepared only by Mrs. A. M. POPE. MRS. A. M. POPE-TURNBO, 2223 Market St. St. Louis, Mo Straighten Your Hair Dana Sam: I=1 have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it for it makes my hair soft and straight and easy to comb and also starts a new growth. Tamara Sam: I=1 Harrison Tenn Formerly known as Ozonized Ox Marrow, Fifty years of success has proved its merit. It is a beautiful, moist, and flavorful, pimple, so you can comb it and arrange it in any style you wish consistent with its length. Removes and prevents dandruff, invigorates the skin, and helps prevent breakouts or breaking off and gives it new life and vigor. Absolutely harmless - used with splendid re- sults even on the youngest children. Ford's Hair Palmade has imitators. Don bring it on your face and it is good. If you want the best results, buy the best palmade-it will pay you. Look for this name # Your package If your drugstore will personally you with the genineine send us, express or postal money order, or airmail or express mail. We will provide a bottle and give us your drugstore's address and name. U.S. by request a bottle propile to any point in U.S. U.S. by request a propile of your drugstore. The Ozonized OX Marrow Co, 133 last Knight St. FORD'S HAIR POMADE is made only in Chicag e by the above firm. Amendment to Section 1, Article 5, of the Articles of Incorporation of the Anchor Fire Insurance Company, Des Moines, Iowa. The affairs of this company shall be managed by a board of seven directors to be elected annually at the regular meeting, who shall be stockholders in the company. NOTICE OF AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE HOLLAND 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, at a regular meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose and held 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 amendments to its Articles of incorporation, to-wit: Be It Resolved, That Araleic I, of the Articles of Incorporation of the Holland & New Company, a corporation of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, be and the same 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 Purchaser Incorporation of the Hollow and New Company, a corporation of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, be and the same 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 said 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 LAME SHOULDER This is a common form of muscular rheumatism. No internal treatment is needed. Apply Chamberlain's Liniment freely three times a day and a quick cure is certain. This liniment has proven especially valuable for muscular and chronic rheumatism. Sold by all druggists. THE ORIGINAL HAIR GROWER We Grew Our Hair, Now Let Us Grow Yours with work of growing all kinds, all qualities, hair, even to the growing of hair on bald and the idea that such a thing was possi- hundreds; rapidly achieving success. The fact we are being imitated and largely by fully grown and the further fact that they are trying to sell their goods (saying that referred to PORO. We advise you to best and best of its kind.) See that the sale without it. Prepared only by Mrs. imitations. address mail to OPE=TURNBO, 3 Market St. St. Louis, Mo Sale Sale at great out St., 2 doors west of uses are no object. The stock look, whether you buy or not. We are no words or type that Two Doors West of Grand Departm't store Next Door to McQuaid's Grocery.