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MERRY CHRISTMAS XMAS PRESENTS For Everybody YOUR CHOICE FREE BIG ILLUSTRATED BOOKS SLEDS and COASTERS BLACK-BOARDS and TEASPOONS STERESCOPE and 148 PICTURES Any one given with one pound of Baking Powder. Come in for your COFFEES, TEAS and BAKING POW- DER and get your Xmas Gifts. Mut. 1091 Grand Union Tea Co. 200 Stores 504 W. Walnut. John J. McNerney C Your Patronage Solicited. Would You I Gold Dollars Then buy our HIGH GRADE GIL pound, and you will be saving money is made under strict Government sup value or purity and it is the equal of thing but the price BOSTON Both Phones. 307 Fourth St. You do not know what a mam- mouth stock they have. Visitors Always Welcome 70,000 Books. Fike & Fike Des Moines ENGLEEN-EADIE Christmas Store Choicest Leather Goods, Toilet and Ma 406 W. Walnut THE BEST PLACE TO BUY MEN'S C ENGLEEN-EADE DRUG CO'S., SUIT OR OVER COAT O-ORDER NO $15 NO MORE LESS MODERN CLOTHES + MAKERS FOR MEN. Livery and Undertaking. 515 517 E. GrandAve. ROSS & ROSS, Props, All calls attended to promptly day or night BOTH PHONES 260 Capital City State Bank Bank Building East Fifth and Locust DES MOINES, IA. ESTABLISHED 1878. Capital, Fully Paid ... $100,000.00 Surplus and Profits ... $22,000.00 Shareholders' Liability ... $100,000.00 OFFICERS: Henry Wagner, Pres; J. A. T. Hull, Vice-Pres.; J. A. McKinney, Cashier; D. J. Van Liew, Ass't. Cashier. Iowa Phone 217-x. Mutual 1625 DES MOINES GAS APPLIANCE Co. —DEALERS IN— Gas Stoves Gas and Range and Electric Heaters Contractors --- ```markdown ``` IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. You Like to Dollars at 650 DEAD GILT EDGE BUY- ing money at just as fast comment supervision, there equal of the finest crea- TON MARK 320 KE Store mamm- come coines CE STAT 215-5 Capital ..... Surplus ..... Deposits ..... SIMON CASA J. D. WHIS H. B. HEDG FRED S. RI DEAD DRU This Store Is Comp Goods, Perfumes, and Manicure Article Cigars are AND FIRST PLACE IN D GEN'S CLOTHES Would You Like to Buy Then buy our HIGH GRADE GILT EDGE BUTTERINE AT 20c per pound, and you will be saving money at just as fast. Like the dollar it is made under strict Government supervision, thereby guaranteeing its value or purity and it is the equal of the finest creamy butter in everything but the price BOSTON MARKET Both Phones. 320 Sixth Avenue THE BEST PLACE IN DES MOINES TO BUY MEN'S CLOTHES IS AT ```markdown ``` VOL XVI. NO. 28 Prescriptions Drugs and Toilet Articles FIKE & FIKE PATRICK LYNN BROWN. 606 Mulberry Street. OUR HOLIDAY EDITION. Skates, Sleds Games, Toys Holiday Goods Hopkins Bros. Co. PIANO SECRETS Let me expose the secrets in Piano Construction to you. I have made them a study professionally and commercially for 47 years. Your safety in the selection of a piano is in the hands of the dealer. RE-MEMBER, my personally written guarantee in addition to that given by the factory makes you positively sure. Fourth Floor Grand Department Store Like to Buy Us at 65c Each AT EDGE BUTTERINE AT 20c per buy at just as fast. Like the dollar it perservation, thereby guaranteeing its the finest creamery butter in every- MARKET 320 Sixth Avenue CENTRAL STATE BANK 215-217 Fifth Street. Capital ... $ 200,000,00 Surplus ... 40,000,00 Deposits ... 2,500,000,00 SLMON CASADY ... President J. D. WHISENAND ... V.-President H. B. HEDGES S. ... V.-President FRED S. RISSER ... Cashier E DRUG CO'S., Are Is Complete. Perfumes, Nicure Articles, Cigars and Candies. AND 516 E. Locust ACE IN DES MOINES CLOTHES IS AT THE Glasgow Woolen Mills 319 6TH AVENUE Our shop is located on the entire 3rd floor above the Bystander office. Eyes Tested Free free hours to me m, f, o, s m, and m, and m, and Saturday evening weekend events prents ofices boats P By the Des Moines Doctor of Optics Uptown Officer Street Car Waiting Room, Mutual Phone 788. Dr. Lew Arntz Judge C. C. Cole, Iowa's eminent jurist, adds his testimony to the will of Dr. Lew Judge Cole's life has been one of unusual activity and he even now, at the age of 80 years, does more than any wife with the Iowa College of The testimony of Judge Cole carries with it the weight of a man of wide knowledge, solar and conservative judgment. Judge Des Moines, Iowa, May 29, 1901. Dr. Lew Arent, a medical professional in connection with the teaching of law, to deliver lectures for many years on medical classes. In the course of lectures I have taught that generally the visua was reduced twenty percent individual was at fifty years; thirty per cent at seventy and fifty per cent at eighty years reached that last goal, and find my teaching practice. I declare, therefore, to say Judge C.C.Cole that by your experienced judgment I restitute my eyes and fitted glasses to them you have greatly greatly the percentage of impairment of sight by increasing years and want to thank you for the help he had in repairing glasses for me. I can recommend you to others who may need aid in the same line. Very respectfully C. COLE ```markdown ``` DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1909. WE are manufacturers of the Cunningham Gloves, and wish to introduce our complete line of Gloves and Mittens in Des Moines. With this in mind, we have decided to place our Des Moines made gloves on sale at CLEARING SALE $20 Suits Made to Order Made in Des Moines $15. Guarantee to F ED LITTLETON 6 Locust ED LITTLETON 616 Locust Street Discriminating People buy Milk and Cream from FLYNN I 10TH ANN Always wholesome, promptly to any par- The only Dairy Co- own farms. Our co- infectious diseases properly ventilated. approved sanitary mo- TELEPHONES—Iawa 1740-x MERRY A FRIEND HAPPY Jewett I Were you this you cannot fa- save you BUILD money on who sell everyt for the smallest largest mansion 9th and Grand Ave. Willcox Hov ANN FARM DAY 10TH AND CENTER STS. mess wholesome and Sanitary. Deliver y to any part of the city. Only Dairy Company in Des Moines operat rums. Our cows are all free from cont tious diseases. Our barns are clean, le ventilated. Our milk is handled by the and sanitary methods throughout RY CHRIST FENDLY PART HAPPY NEW YEAR nett Lumber Were you thinking of building? If cannot fail to know that we you BUILDING MATERIAL as we are only deal sell everything in materials need the smallest chicken coup to rest mansion or sky scraper. and Ave. E. 7th an x Howell AND Ho FLYNN FARM DAIRY Always wholesome and Sanitary. Deliveries made promptly to any part of the city. The only Dairy Company in Des Moines operating its own farms. Our cows are all free from contagious or infectious diseases. Our barns are clean, light and properly ventilated. Our milk is handled by the most approved sanitary methods throughout TELEPHONES-Iawa 1740-x; 962; 523 Mutual 186 Main; 929 Main. MERRY CHRISTMAS THE LADY OF THE WATER A FRIENDLY PARTING Copyright by Underwood & Underwood HAPPY NEW YEAR Jewett Lumber Co. Were you thinking of building? If so you cannot fail to know that we can save you BUILDING MATERIAL as we are the money on only dealers who sell everything in materials needed for the smallest chicken coup to the largest mansion or sky scraper. 9th and Grand Ave. E. 7th and Walnut. Willcox Howell AND Hopkins CITY AGENTS, Hawkeye Insurance Commercial Fire Fire. Lightening, Insurance Co., Special Fire Insurance Co. Lightening, High Winds, Tornados Hawkeye Insurance Co., Commercial Fire Insurance Co. Fire. Lightening, High Winds, Tornados and Cyclones. Both Phones 1082. 202 Des Moines Life Bldg. SURETY BONDS and ACCIDENT INSURANCE ```markdown ``` M DAIRY ER STS. ery. Deliveries made Moines operating its from contagious or clean, light and handled by the most out entual 186 Main; 929 Main. ISTMAS PARTING YEAR ber Co. building? If so that we can as we are the only dealers materials needed coup to the per. 7th and Walnut. ND Hopkins Co. , Tornados and Cyclones. SURETY BONDS and ACCIDENT INSURANCE CUTLERY FINE CUTLERY Razors (ordinary) $1.50 to $ 3.50 Razor (sets) 3.50 to 25.00 Pocket Knive .50 to 2.50 Carving Sets 6.50 to 10.00 Manicure Sets 2.50 to 10.00 Scissor Sets 1.50 to 7.50 Every Article Guaranteed. G. G. Thomas Company 514 Locust. Imported Cutlery and Toilet Goods CHRISTMAS GIRL and especially in Schlampp's TMAS GIFTS OF JEWELRY and especially if they come from ampp's New Store CHRISTMAS GIFTS OF JEWELRY Schlampp's New Store will be giving greater pleasure than anything you can give. A Gift for All. At the Corner of the Big Clock. Christmas JARDINIERES FERNERIES PALMS, FERNS, AND BLOOMS Cut Flowers, Funerals Garlands, Christmas GUTHRIE-LOREL For all kinds of Dental work see of the Big Clock. 6th Ave. and Locust St. Christmas Suggestions DINIERES All Sizes in That Popular Greenware. URNERIES Something New in all Shapes. SEE THEM. FANS, AND BLOOMING PLANTS—GOLD FISH Flowers, Funeral Designs, Wreaths, Islands, Christmas Trees, Etc. IE-LORENZ CO. SEVENTH AND GRAND AVENUE of see A. LEE, h Street. IOWA. graduate of Drake only licensed in the state. All XMAS. Kelso's Candies 318 Sixth Avenue. At the Corner of the Big Clock. 6th Ave. and Locust St. Christmas Suggestions JARDINIERES All Sizes in That Popular Greenware. FERNERIES Something New in all Shapes. SEE THEM. PALMS, FERNS, AND BLOOMING PLANTS—GOLD FISH Cut Flowers, Funeral Designs, Wreaths, Garlands, Christmas Trees, Etc. GUTHRIE-LORENZ CO. SEVENTH AND GRAND AVENUE DR. E. A. LEE, 755 Ninth Street. DES MOINES, IOWA. POINTERS—Graduate of Drake University. The only licensed colored Dentist in the state. All work guaranteed to be first class. IOWA PHONE BOTH PHONES 519 L. F. SHANK Undertaker and Emblamer 907 Locust St. DES MOINES Olympia Candy Co. We make all our Candy, and will pack a box for you in any size or style : : : Girls who KNOW Good Candy are sure to be pleased with a box of Olympia Candy 520 Walnut Street. Tate's Pharmacy 212 Sixth Avenue Ice Cream Sodas and Fancy Drinks of all kinds Toilet Articles, Face Creams, Superior Lotions FALCON FLOUR PRESCRIPTION DEPT. with an expert Pharmacist in charge. Portable Lamps At the Gas Office. Tubbing FREE. DES MOINES GAS Co The Syndicate Cafe Give us a call. C. H. Browning, Mgr. 304 West Grand Avenue. ```markdown ``` Price 5 Cents. Cottrell Studio 208 Sixth Ave $\textcircled{1}$ Portraits of Highest Standard made in this Studio. $\textcircled{2}$ PHONES, Iowa: {Studio, 513-x Res. 1319-M. We make everything we sell Valley National Bank Capital Stock . . . $300,000.00 Surplus Profits . . . $30,000.00 R. A. Crawford, Pres., D. S. Chambers, Vice Pres., C. T. Colk, Jr. Vice Pres., W. E. Barrett, Cashier; H. S. Hollingsworth, Ass't, Cashier. We invite your checking account. 4 per cent interest paid on saving account. Iver G. Newlen UNDERTAKER 619 E. Grand Ave. DES MOINES, IOW If you want the best results in your baking. It Has No Superior For sale by all first class groceres. Bystander Holi- day Rate $1.00 Now is the time to take advantage of our special rate and secure the Bystander for one year- MERRY CHRISTMAS ts. A BYSTANDER rUB. CO., Publishers. DES MOINES, IOWA Come again, football friends! The revolution season has opened again in Central America. Prosperity is still waxing and will set a hot pace for the country. Terrible battles are happening—over the Nicaragua cable. Both sides are winning. "Paris is a woman's town," sings a Boston Globe poet. Other American gents have made the same remark. It is clumsy to break laws when it is easier to evade them, but that is not a good excuse for evading them. Berlin wants an immovable date for Easter Sunday. Let us hope they will also get a re-movable Easter Sunday hat. Messina is alarmed over signs of further earthquake shocks. Messina seems a good place to keep away from. The American Dreadnought is the greatest of all. Others do well; we do better. They do better still when we do best. Aeroplanist Farman flew for over four hours the other day. The coming aeroplane will have to have a dining-car attachment. Rifflan tribesmen send word to Spain that they have only started to fight. Madrid will get little satisfaction out of that. A Washington man says he owes his longevity to pie, but few politicians can hang onto the pie counter a whole lifetime. During the past year our paternal government planted 3,117,000,000 fish, which statement is the biggest fish story of the year. This discussion whether or not there are insects on Mars is chopping controversy pretty fine. Wait till the hookworm gets settled. Orville Wright says that flying is easy to learn. Few doubted that; it is the coming-down process which the majority want made easy. The German dirigible air squadron has been executing maneuvers, and another war scare is due in the right little, tight little British Isle. The germ family are in hard luck. Mrs. Sage is combatting the tuberculosis germ, Mr. Carnegie the pellagia, and Mr. Rockefeller the hookworm. What are said to be the highest falls on this continent have been discovered in Labrador. Maybe Canada was tired of owning only half of Niagara. In her suit for divorce a Sacramento woman charged that her husband would not even buy her ice cream, Still, he may have loaded her down with fudge and chewing gum. That Hartford 15-year-old boy who insisted on being taken to school after he had broken his leg, because he did not want to spoil a perfect record for attendance, may be counted on to appreciate the value of an education and to turn it to good account. Writing of the evils of ear strain, to which the people of a large city are always subject, a doctor says: "When the ears have been strained by the noise and confusion of the day they may be refreshed in the eveing by listening to music or to such other sounds as are restful to them." Perhaps you have noticed the restful effect after a hard day's work when the clock in the street strikes six and the hurdy-gurdy comes around. The St. Lawrence river is an object lesson in water power. An enormous volume can be turned to account by modern methods. And now progressive Americans and Canadians are uniting in an effort to utilize this power. A plan has been formulated which looks to the erection of a dam at Brockville which will drown out the Long Sault rapids and raise the stream at that point 18 inches, affording several hundred thousand horse power. Competent engineers have pronounced it wholly practicable. The preliminary report of the department of agriculture shows that the corn crop this year is up to a high level and comes near to record-breaking figures. The yield is placed at 2,767,316,000 bushels, which is nearly a hundred million bushels more than that of 1908. The largest crop of corn ever gathered was that of 1906, which aggregated 2,927,416,000 bushels. At the prevailing prices the corn crop is estimated to be worth more than $1,900,000,000. There is no doubt that "King Corn" does his part toward creating national wealth. The post office rules that boxes of candy may be sent through the malls. Uncle Sam and Santa Claus are getting ready to pull together in this matter. Sweets to the sweet. The Turkish parliament, which will reconvene next week, will consider a naval program that will involve the expenditure of $100,000,000. This sum, it is estimated, will build and equip seven battleships of the North Dakota type and at once advance the Ottoman empire to at least a second-rate position as a sea power. When the United States names its biggest battleships after the smallest, or the least populous, of the states does it indicate an opinion that the battleships may properly be minimized or that the small states need the advertising? The power of humor was, perhaps, never more strikingly displayed than in the strike of 1,100 employees of a Schenectady concern who struck because a fellow-laborer who had poured sand down their backs and smeared their tools was discharged. Position Taken by the Governor on Insanity Approved DR. McALLASTER READ PAPER Superintendents of State Institutions Favor Executive's Plan of State Investigating Commission. for the State. Des Molnes, Dec. 17. - A lively argument was precipitated in the quarterly conference of the state board of control and the superintendents of the state institutions when Dr. B. R. McAllaster of the Cherokee state hospital, in a paper read before the conference, advocated the voluntary admission of insane persons to the state hospitals. The question of insanity in the state institutions was the theme for the morning and Dr. McAlhaster said that the state should permit insane persons to voluntarily enter the state institutions. His suggestion raised a storm of protest from several of the conferences, their position being that such a rule would open the way to untold fraud and injustice. The opponents of the plan declared that in many instances relatives of persons who had money or property, would in duce those persons to voluntarily enter the state insane hospitals and then while they are confined there, gain control of the money or property. The entire question of insanity was thoroughly discussed and the conferences commended the position taken by Governor Carroll in a recent address, wherein he advocated the creation of a special commission to make a study of insanity among the patients of the state institutions as well as a study of the causes of insanity in Iowa. Oust Clock Brews in Emmet Oust Clerk Brown in Emmet County. Des Moines.—The supreme court has ousted C. M. Brown as clerk of the district court of Emmet county and ruled that L. Heffalfinger is the duly qualified clerk for that county. The decision was given in the case of State of Iowa on relation of L. Heffalfinger against C. M. Brown. In the election of 1908 one John Amundson was elected clerk. He died that month, and the district judge appointed Brown as clerk until the vacancy was filled. The board of supervisors at their December meeting selected Heffalfinger as clerk. Heffalfinger demanded that Brown turn over the office keys to him. Brown refused and Heffalfinger brought quo warranto proceedings. The opinion of the supreme court, affirming the district court, which held that Brown was not entitled to the office, was written by Justice Weaver. He said that the district court is not authorized by the statutes of the state to fill such a vacancy, either temporarily or otherwise, and holds that when the supervisors appointed a man to fill the vacancy caused by Amundson's death, that any power given Brown by the district court was revoked. Hotel Law Declared Unconstitutional. Des Moines—laws's hotel inspection law, providing for a state hotel inspector and requiring fire escapes on all hotels, and appliances for perfect ventilation, is unconstitutional and therefore null and void. This construction was put upon it by Judge McHenry of the district court in an opinion filed in the case of F. M. Hubbell against Lafayette Higgins, state hotel inspector. The suit was brought to test the constitutionally of the law and argued before the court several weeks ago. Falls From Windmill on Bossy's Back Gravity. — Martin Vandersyle, a wealthy farmer residing near here, fell from a sixty-foot windmill and would have surely been killed had he not fallen squarely on the back of a cow passing below. The animal's back was broken, but Vandersyle escaped without injury. The cow was a thoroughbred Short-horn valued at $275. Tries to Assault Girl at Church Door. Nevada—An unknown man grabbed little Florence Knight, a 10-year-old girl of this city, in the shadow of a church, and attempted to assault her. The screams of the girl frightened the man away. The girl gives a good description of the man. She is positive that she knows him. Byers Starts Suit. Council Bluffs--Attorney General Byers has started suit in the district court here, claiming title to 250 acres of land, in the bed of what was formerly Boyer Lake, claiming the property belongs to the state. Owners of property surrounding the lake bed have claimed the property. Capt. Loomis Drops Dead. Cedar Rapids — Capt. A. M. Loomis, postmaster at Wyoming, dropped dead a short time after returning from a visit with his daughter in Omaha. Captain Loomis was one of the pioneers of Jones county, coming to Wyoming in the early '60s. Death Game in a Tree Cedar Rapids.—Daniel Bransfield 50, a well known traveling man, is dead. He was cutting a limb from a tree when he was stricken with paralysis and soon died. Fell 100 Feet to Death. Waterloo.—Benjamin Smith of Clarksville, employed by the Des Moines Tank company at Camden, N. J., in the erection of the tallest tank in the United States, fell 180 feet and was killed. Sold Liquor to Indians. Dubuque...Judge Reed in the federal court sentenced Fred Kurtz of Sloux City and James Bright of Webster county, both, charged with selling liquor to Indians, to sixty days in jail and to pay a fine of $100 each. State Cattle Have Tuberculosis. Des Mohsen Dec. 15. A serious epidemic of tuberculosis has appeared among the cattle in the state herd at the state institution at Mt. Pleasant and as a result it has been necessary for the state veterinary surgeon, Dr. Paul Koto, to order nearly forty head killed. Dr. Talbot, one of the deputies, made the test of the state cattle recently and nearly forty head responded to the test. Dr. Koto at once ordered that they be killed. Chairman Cownie and the other members of the state board of control could not believe that such a situation existed and Chairman Cownie went to Mt. Pleasant to be present when the cattle were slaughtered and the post-mortem held. Chairman Cownie has always opposed these tuberculosis tests, claiming that they did not amount to much. At the time the last general test of state cattle was made he became convinced, after the post-mortems were held, that there was something to the test. Nevertheless, he believes that the test made by Dr. Talbot at Mt. Pleasant is pretty strong and this reason he deemed it advisable to be present when the post-mortems were held. Dr. Koto said that nearly forty head had responded to the tests. At Eldora recently Dr. Koto applied the tuberculina test to the state herd and found that four cattle responded to the test. These four were among a consignment shipped to the institution from Illinois. Bref. Crosley of Amos Quilt Prof. Crossley of Ames Quits Job. Ames.. Prof. B. W. Crossley of the farm crops department, has resigned. He will go to his home at Council Bluffs February 1 to take up active farm work on his father's farm. The resignation is said to be prompted by the illness of his father. The resignation comes as a great surprise. Professor Crossley is recognized as one of the leading experts on corn. He succeeded Professor Bowman, who resigned about a year ago. He has been extremely popular with the Ames students, and his departure from the college will be felt as a distinct loss. Prof. H. G. Bell also of the farm crops department, is another one of the corps of instructors to resign. Professor Bell goes to the agronomy department of Maine State Agricultural school. He will leave January 1. Corn Crop Falls Short. Dubuque—Special reports received in Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois show conclusively that the reports of the corn crop are unwarrantedly optimistic. Iowa will have little corn to ship as 25 to 35 per cent is still in the fields, and most of the balance fails to grade better than third. The quantity is small and the quality is exceedingly poor, according to detailed reports. Dobbins Gets Five Years Council Bluffs—Judge Green in the district court overruled the motion for a new trial of the case of John R. Dobbins, convicted of taking part in the alleged robbery of T. W. Hallew the Princeton, Mo., banker of $30,000 by means of a fake horse race. Dobbins was then given an indefinite sentence of not more than five years. Calhoun County Farmers' Institute. Lake City—The Calhoun County Farmers' institute will be held at Rockwell City on Jan. 11, 12 and 13, 1910. This is an annual convention for the benefit of the farmers. Prominent speakers have been secured on the following subjects: Corn, good roads, dairying and horticulture. Lost Jewels Recovered. Boone.—A Des Moines woman has returned the bag of jewels valued at $5,000, lost by Mrs. John Reynolds last September in the Chicago & Northwestern waiting room and received in return a check from John Reynolds of several hundred dollars reward. Pella Will Paye Pella.—The city council granted a petition requesting pavement around the public square and on Main street from the southeast corner of the square south seven blocks to the Rock Island depot, and one block cast from the depot on University street. Sundberg Wins Sweepstakes. Des Moines.—John Sundberg, president of the Iowa Corn Growers' association, raised more and better corn upon an acre of Iowa land this season than any other corn grower. This was decided by the judges at the seventh annual Iowa corn exposition. New Hampton Hotel Burns New Hampton.—The Arlington hotel at New Hampton burned to the ground from an overheated furnace, causing $40,000 damage. Twenty-five guests were rescued by firemen, who wrapped them in blankets and turned them into the snow storm with the temperature nearly zero. New Church Is Dedicated Lake City.—The newly built Luth eran church, six miles south of Farn- hamville has been dedicated. The building is one of the finest in that section and is practically free from indebtedness. Death of E. G. McMillan. Marshallstown—At Keokuk occurred the death of E. C. McMillan, for twelve years warden of the Fort Madison prison and ex-sheriff of this county. Mr. McMillan was born in 1829 in Ohio. Alleged Murderer Captured Marshalltown...Joe Slycord, wanted for the murder of Frank Batesole, formerly of this city, at Carrington, N. D., November 11 is under arrest at Grinnell. He is said to have confessed, claiming self defense. Des Moines Woman Given Divorce Marshalltown...Mrs. Carrie Young wife of George W. Young of Des Moines, was granted a divorce on the ground of habitual drunkenness. Mrs. Young is a daughter of Robert Elzy, of this city. WOULDN'T IT BE MEAM - IF MR. TRUST SHOULD FIND HEARY CLAY SMITH SUPPERTAINING WITH THE HOOK WOOM - AND SHOULD CURE HIM OF THE DISEASE - SOME BECAME VERY VIAGOROUS AND HEARY CLAY SMITH PROSECUTION ATTY. THIS MIGHT SMOTE MR. TRUST. WOULDN'T IT BE MEAM? WILL FIGHT THE STEEL TRUST WILL FIGHT THE STEEL TRUST ORGANIZED LABOR PREPARE TO OPPOSE "OPEN SHOP." Copy of Grievances is Sent to President Taft and Governor of States. Pittsburg, Pa.-At the close of a momentous two-days' conference here Tuesday, war was formally declared upon the United States Steel corporation by the leaders of organized labor throughout the United States and Canada. The decision to battle long and hard against the stand taken by the steel corporation in its policy of "open shop" was reached by the labor conferences only after hours of debate and a deal of trouble. In a resolution adopted by the national labor leaders, organized labor throughout the country is called on to thoroughly and completely organize all employees in the iron, steel and tin plate industry, ordering an assessment of ten cents per member, recommending appointment of committees to see the president, congress and the governors for the purpose of laying before them the "grievances from which labor suffers at the hands of the steel corporation." At the conference, which passed the remarkable battle decree, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, presided, and through him the measure was put upon the record books of the executive council of the federation. The grievances of organized labor against the steel corporation, as set forth in the resolution, have been forwarded to President Taft and the United States senate and house of representatives. The governors of the states in which the United States Steel corporation owns plants or has interests will also receive a copy of the resolution. The resolution deals principally with the low wages paid the men in the employ of the steel corporation, the hours of work and the general condition of oppression under which the corporation is alleged to hold its employees. Thorough organization of all employees in the iron, steel and tin plate industry and co-related trades is urged and a call for organizers to assist in the work is made. JOHN W. GATES IN NEW ROLE Appears Before Methodist Conference and Warns Delegates Against Speculative and Other Gambling. Galveston, Tex.-John W. Gates, the once prominent Wall street figure, appeared in a new light at the Gulf District Methodist Episcopal conference in session at Port Arthur, when he addressed the gathering of church men and laymen, warning them against speculation and all other forms of gambling. He pictured the life of a man who gambled, and speculated, and turned fortunes in a few hours, jumping from pauper to millionaire, and then to pauper, as compared with the tiller of the soil, and the mechanic and the merchant, who earns his money by labor and by shrewd business methods, invest well his savings. Woman In Quantrell Raid Dies Emporia, Kan.-Mrs. Salle McKinney, who, tradition says, led Quarell and his band into Lawrence on the memorable occasion of the tacking of that town on August 31, 1863, died here after a long illness. Girls Missing in $250,000 Fire. Philadelphia—Two girls are missing and 14 others narrowly escaped death in a fire, which Thursday destroyed the six-story factory building of Schrack & Sherwood, manufacturers of coffins and undertakers' supplies. The monetary loss is estimated at $250,000. Dynamite Bank: Take $7,000 Fresno, Cal.-Robbers dynamited the vault of the Bank of Exeter, near here, and secured $7,000 in cash early Thursday. Says He Killed Employer. Larned, Kan—Clyde Charles of Dahlart, Tex., Tuesday confessed to the murder of George Neptune, a farmer who lived near Larned, on the night of September 14. Charles stated that, following a dispute with Neptune over wages, he killed his employer. Forty Injured in Express Wreck. Winnipeg, Man—The Canadian Northern express was wrecked 100 miles east of here Tuesday. The cars turned over. No one was killed, but 40 persons were injured. COOK COMMITTEE IS AT WORK Members Are Fully Acquainted with Explorer's Records—Loose-Dunkle Affidavits Create Excitement. Copenhagen—The meetings of the Cook committee at the observatory are rigorously guarded. The committee is now fully acquainted with the explorer's records and it is said that they contain nothing Dr. Cook could not have compiled after his return, during his five months' stay in Greenland or aboard the Hans Egede, where there was an abundance of voluntary assistance by a scientist versed in exploration, a knowledge of instruments and also of the use of a typewriter. The Loose-Dunkle affidavits have arrived and are creating much excitement. Private advices from Christiana state that Nansen, who has hitherto declined to give an opinion, disbelieves Dr. Cook's claims. New York—Capt. B. S. Osbon of this city, secretary of the Arctic club, has written Capt. Joseph E. Bernier in Ottawa, Ont., and others that Capt. August W. Loose's story of his dealings with Dr. Cook, as published in a New York newspaper, was concocted for sale without regard to the truth. "In the presence of witnesses," said Capt. Osbon, "I heard Loose say: "I was out for the money and I didn't care how I got it." Capt. Osbon does not believe that Loose's narrative as supported by his affidavits, was a part of any plot to discredit Dr. Cook. "The idea originated with Loose and Dunkle," says Capt. Osbon. "They had for sale matter in this controversy so explosive that nobody dared handle it. When they found that out, they cast about for something else. Dunkle was the promoter. Loose the workman. Also, Dunkle got most of the money. That's what Loose says, and now he is casting around to see where he stands. He's got a conscience and it smarts." SUGAR CO. PAYS $695,573 Arbuckle Bros. Reimburse United States for Money Due as Customs Duties on Imports. New York.—Arbuckle Bros., generally credited with being the largest independent rivals of the American Sugar Refining Company, have acknowledged that from 1898 to 1907 they, too, failed to pay the government all the money due as customs charges on imported sugar. In settlement of all civil claims against them, the Arbuckles have offered and the treasury department, with the concurrence of the attorney general, has accepted payment of $695,573. But criminal prosecution of those responsible vill in no wise be hampered or conditioned by this acceptance. FATAL COASTING ACCIDENT One Boy Killed, Five Others Injured When Rack Collides with Train. Lafayette, Ind.—In a coasting accident here last night one boy was killed and six others injured. A heavy rack containing 16 boys collided at the Columbia street crossing with the Decatur passenger train on the Wabash railroad. The injured were scattered along the track for a block, and the body of Frank Klumpe, aged 17, was found under the pilot of the engine. Defeat Street Railway Franchise. Kansas City, Mo.—The Metropolitan Street Railway Company met defeat at the polls Thursday by an emphatic majority in its request for a 42-year street railway franchise. The company is controlled by Armour interests of Chicago. Kermit Roosevelt Back at Nairobi. Nairobi, British East Africa.—Kermit Roosevelt arrived here Thursday, having bagged three sables. The party is preparing to start for Uganda Saturday. Negro Kills White Woman Mount Vernon, ill.—Marshall Rudd, a negro, 19 years old, shot and killed Mrs. Charles Bolerjack, a white woman of East Carmi, ill., because she interposed objections to the negro's attentions to her daughter. Rudd was brought here Wednesday by Sheriff Grisson of White county to prevent a lynching. The negro was drunk, and called at the Bolerjack home and demanded admittance. The mother tried to prevent his entering the house, and he poked a revolver through the door and shot her. 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The A. M. E. church club of which Mr. Frank Roberts is leader will give an opposum supper on the 28th of December in a nail down town, a literary programme will also be rendered. Mrs. Bryant and son Samuel arrived in our city Sunday from Chicago to join her husband who is porter on one of the railroad, running out of our city. The Starlight club of which Mr. J. W. Norris is leader will give a benefit entertainment for the A. M. E. church Thursday evening Dec. 16. The roast pig supper and an evening with negro authors given by the A.J.P club last Thursdayevening was a good success both socially and thematically. Rev J.C. Raid pastor of the Mt Zion Baptist church offered his resignation Sunday evening at his third year's celebration he has labored hard with his little flock for three long years. His resignation will take effect immediately, his plans for the future has not been decided on. GALESBURG, ILLINOIS Mr. Reuben Holt is recovering from his recent illness. Mrs. Will McElride charmingly entertained the L. Squire Hour club at her home Thursday afternoon. After the business was transected, a social time was enjoyed, during which time a dalty supper was served. Lewis' colored band appeared in public for the second time since their organization, Monday evening at Lincoln Memorial Chapel. The boys played to a crowded house and those not present missed a rare treat. John Graves is confined to her home by a serious attack of rheumatism. Miss Olive Allen has returned home from a visit in Chicago. Mr. B. E. Richardson, local Q. watchman, is spending the week in Glison, Illinois, having been sent there Friday to guard the merchandise which was scattered by the recent wreck there. Mrs. Will Skinner entertained at dinner Saturday, Mrs. Cora Worthington and Miss G. Johnson of Indianapolis. Lewis Colored band will appear at the A. M. E. church December, 29. Rev. Pope lectured at Allen's chapel to an appreciative audience. The lecture was illustrated with stercyclopean masks. Mrs. Clas. Dais was hostess to the members of the D. D. W. C. club Tuesday afternoon. SECRET ORDERS North Star Lodge, No. 3, A. F. & A. M.-Meeker Hall-North west corner at Masonville Hall-North west corner at Masonville streets, J. L. Thompson, W. M.; Herbert E. Jacobs secretary Hiram hapteres Second Thursday in September at Jackson G.ald High Priest, J. Hack, Recorder K'ne Sionon con mannery, No. 6-Meets first Thursday at Masonville H. E. C. Chan B. Bradford F. Recorder, Hartford G.ald O'Leary G.ald 2022, U. O. o O. F. Meets first and third tuesdays at Od. F. blows on North and Parks at Job so, N. G. L. M. Brown P. O'Leary G.ald 2022, U. O. o O. F. Meets fourth Thursday night in each month, Dennis burts, W. M.; J. W. Hoech B. H. of R., No. 339 of G. U. O. of O. F.-Convenes second Thursday at 2:33 and fourth Thursday at 8:01ck each month, Dennis burts, N. M. G. M. Susie Mathew, W. M. THE CHURCHES Jordishian Harriet Church—corner of Fifth Avenue at 12th Street; at 12th Street to 12th Street; at 12th Street. Presents a celebration of the life of Harriet Church. Rev. T. L. Griffith. Pastor Corner of Second and Center Streets, Prescott at 3 o'clock in Sunday School at 3 o'clock in SUPERIOR School at 10 a.m. Epworth League at p.m. preschool at 10 a.m. Gaines pastor. Barn's Chapel M. E. Church. Gov. of 21 and Crocker Sts—Church services of 1 a.m and 8 p.m. Class meeting at noon. Epworth League Sunday every Wednesday at 8 p.m. Prayer meeting first Monday each month. Leaders and Showers on Tuesday night in each month; Trustees on Thursday second Tue day each month. Offices Board meeting every month; Choir practice every Fr day. Rev. F. Dong as Woodford, Pastor Maple Street Baptist Church, Washington, Sec. Maple Between Ninth and Tenth streets Prescott and SUNSHOP School 100 a.m. Prescott Superintendent, Miss Myrtle Hubbard, secretary. Rev. Samuel James pastor Union Congregational and Church—Corner Tent and Park streets. Prescott School 12 p.m. preschool services 7:35 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evenings H W. Worter, pastor M. W. U. GRAND LODGE OF IOWA AND JURISDICTION A. F. & A. M. Grand Lodge meets at Des Moines Iowa, July, 12-13-14, 1910. GRAND LODGE OFFICERS GRAND LODGE OFFICERS W. H. Milligan, M. W. Grand Mas er, Cea, Rapids, Iowa, Rura Route W. J. Shepherd, W. S. Grand Warr en, Buxton. Albert Walker, R. W. J. Grand Warr en, Marshalltown. H. K. Hilton, R. W. Grand Treasure Omaha, Neb. T H Sturgis, R. W. Grand Secretar sioux City. W. P. Wade, R. W. Grand Custodia Omaha, Neb. I. L. Brown, Chairman of Commi te on Foreign Correspondence, Marshall town. The New Wardrobe Cleaners and Dyers Office and Works 814 Locust, Des Moines. Phones 1791. FE. CRAWFORD, Pro More Money For Colored People This is one of the objects of this great Beneficial and Protective organization. It is the Grand Lodge aims to improve the condition, in a financial way, as well as mortality and industrially, of every member, colored as well as white. With the Grand Lodge, at its International Equal Opportunities, Self Betterment and protection generally, are among the things which make the Chartered Co-operative Society in every sense of the word, a great and important organization. Your occupation, be you married or single, employer or employee, it will be greatly to your advantage to join the L. L. Grand Lodge, Member aid them unemployed brothers and sisters to work, help them when sick or disabled, and where Big Cash Benefits The I-L-U Grand Lodge I-L-U Bldg., Dayton, Ohio. PETER JOHN BROWN A COMING MINISTER. Rev. J. Cornelius Reid, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist church Sloux City Iowa, is one of the leading ministers of the state. He is an able writer, pulpit orator, and an uncommon promising race advocate. He is popular with the masses—especially the leading white citizens of his city and state. He established the Afro-American Advocate, a newspaper devoted to the interest of his city's minime member of the city ministral association. A member of Iowa Baptist association (colored). Dr. Reid was educated in the public schools and Military academy of Mobile Alabama, studied law in the University of Minnesota, and theology in the Missionary training -school of Minneapolis, and at Omaha Nebraska at which time he wrote a book on the "Destination of the soul" of his degree of Doctor of Divinity from Kinley Memorial University. Dr. Reid has spent three years in Sloux City, during said time his wonderful ability OTTUMWA IOWA. Mr. Mayo Weeks is confined at this home on account of illness. Mr. Geo. E. Faylor who is visiting friends in Buxton and Des Moines expects to be leave soon for Florida where he will spend the winter. Miss Laura Tolls of Kirkville Missouri, is visiting her aunt Mrs. David Wilson. The A. M. E. church realized a neat sum of $190 in their last rally. The party will be a Wednesday evening because 15 in the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Wilson in honor of Miss Laura Tolls of Kirkville Missouri. Mrs. Essex Harne is visiting her daughter Mrs. James Bodine in Cedar Rapids. Mrs. William Thompson has been called to Newton on account of the illness of her daughter Mrs. Wm. Fine. A cute Jake Wagner will entertain a few friends this Saturday evening for her husband Mr. E. Wagner. The remains of Mrs. Smith Herald who died last week at the Ottumwa Hospital were taken to Palmira Missouri for interment. Mrs. West and two daughters of Kirkville Missouri are visiting Mrs. Greer. Mr. West spent Sunday in Ottumwa. Mr. Jerry Greer is out again after a long illness. Mr. Robert Harris of Chicago spent Monday visiting Miss Edna Martin. 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Mrs. Reid is an organizer and president of the local Baptist Home and foreign mission circle, also vice president of the Woman's Phantrophe club of her city. She is very ambitious for their work. Joseph Ho is the only colorized student of Marion. She calls Mrs. Reid a splendid dressmaker. The Bystander can say that this young race couple will no doubt help mould sentiment for the better things in human life. the digestion. They also regulate the liver and bowls. They are far superior to pills but costs no more. Get a free sample at all drugstores and see what a splendid medicine it is. HERE'S WHAT WE'LL DO We'll make you a Suit or Overcoat to your order for $15.00 We have at last solved the clothes question for you. You need not wear a misfit hand-me-down or pay a big fancy price for a tailor made suit. We will make you a suit or overcoat to your order out of the largest line of woolens in the city. We have hundreds of patterns for you to select from. Suit or Overcoat to Order One Price $15 One Price British WOOLEN-CO Des Moines' Finest Tallors M. Crocker, 506 W. Locust, Manager, Crocker Bldg, All Goods Union Made The Grand Dept. Store Where Lowest Prices Prevail Gather all your Christmas troubles and bring them here for quick and economical solution. Making the most of your holiday expenditures is merely a matter of buying your gifts at this store. Choosing gifts early and here means choosing them well. It is becoming generally known that we sell goods cheaper than others and our underselling supremacy is pretty generally conceded in Des Moines and vicinity. In many instances, it is possible to buy TWO gifts at The Grand with the sum you have spent in other years for a single gift. CHRISTSMAS. The Annual Natal day of the birth of Christ is soon to be here. This to the christian world is the greatest of圣诞 festival days, it brings joy to the little urchins, gladness to the young people and renew the love and inspiration in the minds of the old, and the best of the children. We are the true principal can kindness renew the fire of christian duty this year as we meet around the Christmas table we find the civilized world at peace and human love more effective the deep struggles to raise the downrotten and unfortunate should be the gudging spirit for the New Year. Then let us send out a ray of hope and joy to the children, and than weare, let us help spread the good tiding and glad joy to the world. CONGRESS OPENED. Last week the American Congress opened again in its 61st, regular session to make laws to govern a mighty nation of nearly 100,000,000. The session will be unanimously interesting as many reforms and evils to be rebuilt, and many abuses to be corrected, and wrongs to be righted. A Merry Christmas and a happy new Year. Mr. W. K. Peery of Enterprise was in our city Saturday on business. in our city Saturday on business. Mr. Wm. Battles, Mosby and Geo. F. Edmunds and J. Reynold of Enterprise were capital city visitors Saturday. Miss Helena Cravens is employed by the Bystander Publishing Co. during the month of December. Master Alden Blagburn one of the sons of Mr. and I Mrs. E. T. Blagburn is sick. Mr. B. C. McBowell of Buxton spent a few days this week in our city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Watkins on West 3rd. Street. Mrs. Adam Dixon has been very sick 8th and Walnut Streets. your Christmas troubles and have economical solution. Most of your holiday expenditures in this store, early and here means choosing the one that we sell goods cheaper than this pretty generally conceded in Dept. It is possible to buy TWO gifts in other years for a single gift. mas troubles and bring them here al solution. Holiday expenditures is merely a matter he means choosing them well. It is be all goods cheaper than others and our rally conceded in Des Moines and vici to buy TWO gifts at The Grand with s for a single gift. THE MARKETING CENTER for several weeks with the inflammatory rheumatism but is improving now which is good news to her many friends. The entertainment to be given by the North Star Masenic Lodge next Tuesday evening at the Cleying hall will When we first began our wonderful w all lengths, and all conditions of hair places of the head, many persons scarcely ble; but we have grown the hair for hu proof of the value of our work is the persons whose own hair we have actual have very frquently mentioned us when theirs is the same or "just as good") or use only PORO Hair Grower, (the old name PORO is on every box, not genuin A. M. POFE. THE KAIRI We Grow Now Yours PO TRA It began our wonderful work of growing all kinds and all conditions of hair, even to the growing head, many persons scorned the idea that such a grown the hair for hundreds; rapidly achievie- nance of our work is that we are being imitated. Down hair we have actually grown and the further untently mentioned us when trying to sell their go- me or "just as good") or referred to PORO. W O hair Grower, (the oldest and best of its kind in every box, not genuine without it). Prepar THE WOMAN 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 theirs 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. Beware of imitations. Call, or address mail to MRS. A. M. PO 2223 S. A. M. POPE-TURN 2223 Market St. St. MRS. A. M. POPE-TURNBO, 2223 Market St. St. Louis, Mo be the grandest afair during the Xmas week from the preparation that the committee is doing and many new beautiful gowns in course of preparation for that occasion. It is expected that several from out of town will attend. PORO TRADE MARK REGISTERED. work of growing all kinds, all qualities, r. even to the growing of hair on bald and the idea that such a thing was possi- dieds; rapidly achieving success. The that we are being imitated and largely by by grown and the further fact that they trying to sell their goods (saying that referred to PORO. We advise you to best and best of its kind.) See that the we without it. Prepared only by Mrs. OPE-TURNBO, Market St. St. Louis, Mo. KAIR GROWER We Grew Our Hair, Now Let Us Grow Yours with . 0 &% a Towa State Bystander BYSTANDER FrUB. CO, Publishers. DES MOINES, + + =» 1O0WA ee Come again, football friends! The revolution season has opened again in Central America. Prosperity is still waxing and will get a hot pace for the coustry. Terrible battles are bappening— ver the Nicaragua cable, Both sides fre winning. Some persona exprese thelr op- timism by eating chicken croquettes in restaurants. “Paris tw a Wome’ town,” sings & Boston Globe poet. Other American rents have made the same remark. 1t to clumay to Break Tawe when It ta easter to evade them, but that Ie Dot a good excuve for evading them Berlln wante an Tinmovabie date for Faster Sunday. Let us hope they will | also get a re-movable Easter Sunday hat Mossina Ie alarined over algna of further earthquake shogks. Messina feems. a good place to keep. away en. The American Dreadncught fs the greatest of all. Others do well; we do better. They do better still when we do best. Aeroplanist Farman flew for over four hours the other day. ‘The coming aeroplane will have to have a dining: car attachment. Rian tribesmen send word to Spain that they have only started to fight. Madrid will get little satisfac- tion out of that. ‘A Washington man says he owes his longevity to pie, but few poll. ticians can hang onto the pie counter a whole lifetime, During the past year our yaternal government planted 3,117,000,000 fish, which statement is the biggest fish story of the year. This discussion whether or not there are insects on Mars is chopping con- troversy pretty fine. Wait till the hookworm gets settled. Orville Wright says that flying Is easy to learn, Few doubted that; it fs the coming-down process which the majority want made easy. ‘The German dirigible air squadron has been executing maneuvers, and another war scare 1s due in the right Uttle, tight little British Islex. ‘The germ family are in bard luck. Mrs. Sage is combatting the tubercu- Josis germ, Mr. Carnegie the pellagra, and Mr. Rockefeller the hookworm. ‘What are said to be the highest falls on this continent have been discov. ered in Labrador. Maybe Canada was tired of owning only half of Niagara, In her suit for divorce a Sacramento woman charged that her husband would not even buy her ice cream. Still, he may have loaded her down with fudge and chewing gum. ‘That Hartford 1-yearold boy who insisted on being taken to school after he had broken his leg, because he did not want to spoil a perfect record for attendance, may be counted on to ap- preciate the value of an education and to turn it to good account. Writing of the evils of ear strain, to which the people of a large city are always subject, a doctor says: "When the ears have been strained by the noise and confusion of the day they may be refreshed in the eveing by Iis- tning to musie or to such other sounds fas are restful to them.” Perhaps you have noticed the restful effect after a hard day's work when the clock in the street strikes six and the hurdy-gurdy ‘bknian axonnd. The St. Lawrence river Is an object- fesson in water power. An enormous volume can be turned to account by modern methods. And now progres- sive Americans and Canadians are uniting in an effort to utilize this power. A plan has been formulated which looks to the erection of a dam at Brockville which will drown out the Long Sault rapids and raise the stream at that point 18 inches, afford- ing several hundred thousand horse power. Competent engineers have pronounced it wholly practicable, The preliminary report of the de- partment of agriculture shows that the corn crop this year {5 up toa high level and comes near to record-break- ing figures. The yield $s placed at 2,- 767,316,000 bushels, which 1s nearly a hundred million bushels more than that of 1908. The largest crop of corn ever gathered was that of 1906, which aggregated 2,927.416,000 bush. els, At the prevailing prices the cora crop 1s estimated to be worth more than $1,900,000,000. There is no doubt that “King Corn” does his part toward creating national wealth. ‘The post office rules that boxes of candy may be sent through the mails, Uncle. Sam and Santa Claus are get. ting ready to pull together in this matter. Sweets to the sweet. The Turkish parliament, which will reconvene next week, will consider a naval program that Will involve the expenditure of $100,000,000. This sum, it is estimated, will build and equip seven battleships of the North Da: kota type and at once advance the Ottoman empire to at least a second: rate position as a sea power, When the United States names its biggest battleships after the smallest, or the least populous, of the states does it indicate an opinion that the vattleships may properly be min tmized or that the small states need the advertising? ‘The power of humor was, perhaps, never more strikingly displayed than in the strike of 1,100 employes of a Schenectady concern who struck be- cause a fellow-laborer who had poured sand down thelr backs and smeared their tools was discharged, . Position Taken by the Governor on Insanity Approved DR, McALLASTER READ PAPER Superintendents of State Institutions "Favor Executive's Plan of State Investigating Commission, for the State. Des Moines, Dec. 17.—A lvely ar gument was precipitated in the quar terly conference of the state board of control and the superintendents o the state institutions when Dr. B. R Meallaster of the Cherokee state hos pital, in a paper read before the con ference, advocated the voluntary ad mission of Insane persons to the state hospitals, The question of insanity in the state Institutions was the theme tor the morning and Dr, MeAlaster sald that the state should permit insane persons to voluntarily enter the state Institutions, His suggestion raised storm of protest from several of the conferees, thelr position being that such a rule would open the way to untold fraud and Injustice. ‘The op: ‘ponents of the plan decrared that in Many instances relatives of persons who had money or property, would In duce those persons to voluntarily en: ter the state insane hospitals and then while they are confined there, Bain control of the money or prop erty. The entire question of insantty was thoroughly discussed and the confer. ees commended the position taken by Governor Carroll In a recent ad- dress, wherein he advocated the ere- ation of a special commission to make a study of insanity among the Patients of the state institutions as well as a study of the causes of in- unity ta Soma: Oust Clerk Brown in Emmet County. Des Moines.—The supreme court has ousted C. M. Brown as clerk of the district court of Emmet county and ruled that L, Heffalfinger is the duly qualified clerk for that county. The deciaion was given in the case of State of Iowa on relation of 1. Heffalfinger against C. M, Brown, In the election of 1908 one John Amund: son was elected clerk, He died that month, and the district judge appoint ed Brown as clerk until the vacancy was filled, The board of supervisors at their December meeting selected Heffalfinger as clerk. Heffalfinger de- manded that Brown turn over the office keys to him. Brown refused and Heffalfinger brought quo warranto proceedings. ‘The opinion of the supreme court, affirming the district court, which held that Brown was not entitled to the office, was written by Justice Weaver. He sald that the district court is not authorized by the sta- tutes of the state to fill such a va caney, either temporasily or other wise, and holds that when the su: pervisors appointed a man to fill the vacaney caused by Amundson's death, that any power given Brown by the district court was revoked. Des Moines.—lowa’s hotel inspec- tion law, providing for a state hotel Inspector and requiring fire escapes on all hotels, and appliances for per fect ventilation, is unconstitutional and therefore null and void. This construction was put upon it by Judge McHenry of the district court §n an opinion filed in the case of F. M. Hubbell against Lafayette Hig: Bins, state hotel inspector. The suit was brought to test the constitution: aliy of the law and argued before the court several weeks ago. Falls From Windmill on Bossy's Back Gravity.— Martin Vandersyle, a wealthy farmer residing near here. fell from a sixty-foot windmill and would have surely been killed had he not fallen squarely on the back of a cow passing below. ‘The animal's back was broken, but Vandersyle es caped without injury, ‘The cow was ‘a thoroughbred Short-horn valued at $275. ‘Tries to Assault Girl at Church Door. Nevada—An unknown man grab: bed little Florence Kaight, a 10: year-old girl of this city, in the shad: ow of a church, and attempted to assault her. The screams of the girl frightened the man away. The itl gives a good description of the man. She is positive that she knows him, Byers Starts Suit. Counell Bluffs—Attorney General Byers has started suit in the dis: trict court here, claiming title to 250 acres of land, in the bed of what was formerly Boyer Lake, claiming the property belongs to the state. Owners of property surrounding the lake bed have claimed the property. Capt. Loomis Drops Dead. Cedar Rapids —Capt. A. M. Loomis, postmaster at Wyoming, dropped dead a short time after returning from a visit with his daughter in Omaha. Captain Loomis was one of the pioneers of Jones county, coming to Wyoming in the early '50s. Death Came in a Tree. Cedar Raplds—Daniel Bransfield 50, a well known traveling man, is dead. He was cutting a limb from a tree when he was stricken with par- alysis and soon died. ‘ptt: Quan eae ee Ree Waterloo,—Benjamin — Smith of Clarksville, employed by the Des Moines Tank company at Camden, N, J., in the erection of the tallest tank In the United States, fell 180 feet and was killed. Sold Liquor to Indians. Dubugue—Judge Reed in the fed- eral court sentonced Fred Kurtz of Bloux City and James Bright of Web- ster county, both. charged with sell- Ing liquor to Indians, to sixty days in jai) and to pay a fine of $100 each. Btate Cattle Have Tuberculosis. Des Moines, Dec. 15.—A serious ept demic of tyberculosis has appeared among the cattle In the state herd at the state institution at Mt. Pleasant and as a result {t has been necessary for the state veterinary surgeon, Dr Paul Koto, to order nearly forty head Killed. Dr. Talbot, one of the deputies made the test of the state cattle re cently and nearly forty head respond: ed to the test. Dr. Koto at once or dored that they be killed. Chairman Cownic and the other members of the state board of control could not believe that such a situation existed and Chairman Cownfe went to Mt. Pleasant to be prosent when the cat tle were slaughtered and the post: mortem held. Chairman Cownle has always opposed these tuberculosis tests, claiming that they did not Amount to much. At the time the last general test of state cattle was made he became convinced, after the post: mortems were held, that there was something to the test. Nevertheless, he Uelieves that. the test made by Dr. Talbot at Mt. Pleas: unt is pretty strong and for this reason he deemed it advisable to be present when the post-mortems were held, Dr. Koto said that nearly forty head had responded to the tests At Eldora recently Dr, Koto applied the tuberculin test to the state herd and found that four cattle responded to the test, ‘These four wero among a consignment shipped to the instl (ation fro Hingis Prof. Crossley of Ames Quits Job. Ames—Prof. B, W. Crossleyy of the farm crops department, has re signed. He will go to his home at Council Bluffs February 1 to take up active farm work on his father's farm. ‘Tho resignation is said to be prompt: ed by the illness of his father. ‘The “resignation comes as a great surprise. Professor Crossley js recognized as one of the leading experts on corn. “He succeeded Professor Bowman, who resigned about a year ago. He has been extremely popular with the Ames students, and his departure from the’ college will be felt as a distinct loss. Prof. 11, G. Bell also of the farm crops depaftment, is another one of the corps of instructors to. resign. Professor Bell goes to the agronomy department of Maine State Agricul- tural school, He will jeave January 1. Corn Crop Falls Short. Dubuque.—Special roports receiv: ed in lowa, Minnesota and Mlinois show conclusively that the reports of the corn crop are unwarrantedly op- timistic. Iowa will have little corn to ship as 25 to 25 per cent is still in the fields, and most of tho balance fails to grade better than third. The quantity Is small and the quality is exceedingly poor, according to de: tailed reports. Kabilinn bbe: Bice Years: Council Bluffs.—Judge Green jn the district court overruled the motion for a new trial of the case of John R. Dobbins, convicted of taking part in the alleged robbery of T. W. Ballew the Princeton, Mo. banker of $30, 000 by means of a fake horse race. Dobbins was then given an indefinite sentence of not more than five years. Calhoun County Farmers’ Institute. Lake City.—The Calhoun County Farmers’ institute will be held at Rockwell City on Jan. 11, 12 and 13, 1910. This is an annual conyention for the benefit of the farmers, Prominent speakers have been secured on the following subjects: Corn, good roads, dairying and horticulture. Lost Jewels Recovered. Boone.—A Des Moines woman has returned the bag of jewels valued at $5,000, lost by Mrs. John Reynolds last September in the Chicago & Northwestern waiting room and re- ceived in return a check from John Reynolds of several hundred dollars reward, Pella Will Pave. Pella.—The city council granted a petition requesting pavement around the public square and on Main street from the southeast corer of the square south seven blocks to the Rock Island depot, and one block east from the depot on University diwaak: Sundberg Wins Sweepstakes. Des Moines —John Sundberg, prest dent of the lowa Corn Growers’ asso- ciation, raised more and better corn upon an acre of lowa land this season than any other corn grower. This was decided by the judges at the sev- enth annual Iowa corn exposition. New Hampton Hotel Burns. New Hampton.—The Arlington ho- tel at New Hampton burned to the ground from an overheated furnace, causing $40,000 damage. ‘Twenty-five guests were rescued by firemen, who wrapped them in blankets and turned them into the snow storm with the temperature nearly zero, New Church Is Dedicated. Lake City.—The newly built Luth- eran church, six miles south of Farn- hamville has been dedicated. The building is one of the finest in that section and is practically free from indebtedness. Death of E. C. McMillan. Marshalltown.—At Keokuk occur ed the death of E. C. MeMitlan, for twelve years warden of the Fort Madi- son prison and ex-sheriff of this coun- ty. Mr. MeMillan was borm in 1839 in Onto. a Marshalltown.—Joe Slycord, want ed for the murdor of Frank Batesole, formerly of this city, at Carrington, N. D,, November 11 is under arrest at Grinnell, He ts said to have con fessed, claiming self defense. ‘Gas Moles Women Given. Diverse. Marshalitown-—Mrs. Carrie Young, wife of George W. Young of Des Moines, was granted a divorce,on the ground of habitual drunkenness, Mrs, Young is 2 daughter of Robert Elzy, of this city. WOULD’T IT BE MEAN? lige Fk eS ee ms i will Babe LD Aoi a Tel eek, ‘ Ze tk / See Cae. .—bs S WILL FIGHT THE STEEL TRUST ORGANIZED LABOR PREPARES TO OPPOSE “OPEN SHOP.” Copy of Grievances Ie Sent to Pres: dent Tat and Governor of a Pittsburg, Pa.—At the close of & momentous twodays’ conference here ‘Tuesday, war was formally declared upon the United States Steel cor. poration by the leaders of organized labor throughout the United States and Canada, The decision to battle long and hard against the stand taken by the steel corporation in its policy of “open shop” was reached by the labor con- ferees only after hours of debate and a deal of trouble, In a resolution adopted by the na- tional labor leaders, organized labor throughout the country is called on to thoroughly and completely organize all employes in the tron, steel and tin plate Industry, ordering an assess: ment of ten cents per member, rec- ommending appointment of commit: tees to see the president, congress and the governors for the purpose of Iay- ing before them the “grievances from which labor suffers at the hands of the steel corporation.” ‘At the conference, which passed the remarkable battle decree, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, presided, and through him the measure was put upon the recoFd books of the execu: tive counell of the federation. The grievances of organized labor against the steel corporation, as set forth in the resolution, have been for- warded to President Taft and the Uni- ted States senate and house of repre: sentatives, The governors of the states In ‘which the United States Steel corporation owns plants or has Interests will algo recelve a copy of the resolution The resolution deals principally with the low wages paid the men in the employ of the steel corporation, the hours of work an¢ the general condition of oppression under which the corporation is alleged to hold its employes. Thorough organization of all _em- ployes in the iron, steel and tin plate Industry and co-related trades is urged and a call for organizers to assist in the Work te nde JOHN W. GATES IN NEW ROLE Appears Before Methodist Conference ‘and Warns Delegates Against Speculative and Other Gambling. Galveston, Tex—John W. Gates, the once prominent Wall street figure, appeared in a new light at the Gulf District Methodist Episcopal con- ference in session at Port Arthur, when he addressed the gathering of chureh men and laymen, warning them against speculation and all other forms of gambling. He pictured the life of a man who gambled, and speculated, and turned fortunes In a few hours, jumping from pauper to millionaire, and then to pauper, as compared with the tiller of the soil, and the mechanic and the merchant, who earns his money by labor and by shrewd business meth- ods, invest well his savings. Wwecain ta Ganitrell Maid Disa: Emporia, Kan.—Mrs. Sallie McKin- ney, who, tradition says, led Quan- wrell_and his band into. Lawrence dn the memorable occasion of the sacking of that town on August 31, 1863, died here after a long illness Girls Missing In $250,000 Fire. Philadelphia —Two girls are miss- ing and 14 others narrowly escaped death tn a fire, whieh Thursday de ‘stroyed the sixstory factory building ‘of Schrack & Sherwood, _ manufac: turers of coffins and undertakers’ sup plies. The monetary loss is estimated at $250,000. Dynamite Bank; Take $7,000. Fresno, Cal—Robbers _dynamited the vault! of the Bank of Exeter, near here, and secured $7,000 in cash’ early ‘Thursday. Says He Killed Employer. Larned, Kan.—Clyde Charles of Dat- hart, Tex., Tuesday confessed to the murder of George Neptune, a farmer who lived near Larned, on the night of September 14, Charles stated that, following a dispute with Neptune over wages, he killed his employer, wacty-Iniured-ia Express Wreck, Winnipeg, Man.—The Canadian Northern. exprese was wrecked 100 miles east of hete Tuesday. The cars turned over. No one was killed, but 40 persons were injured. eadinoitinin naan jum hit aie iia COOK COMMITTEE IS AT WORK Members Are Fully Acquainted with Explorer's Records—Loose-Dunkle Affidavits Create Excitement. __ Copenhagen.--The meetings of the Cook committee at the observatory are rigorously guarded. ‘The committee ts now fly acquaint ed with the explorers records and I fe'eaid that they contain nothing Dr Cook could. not have. compiled attr hn retuen. during bis fve months tay ta Greenland or aboard the tans gede, where there was an abundance of voluntary astatance by a aclentst ‘versed in exploration, a knowledge of instruments and algo of the Use of 8 Uspewriter The Loowe-Donkle aMdavite Dave ar rived and are creating much exelte ment, Private advices from Christiana state that Nansen, who as bithert declined to. give "an oplalon, disbe lever Dr. Cook's claims New York.—Capt. B. S. Osbon of this city, secretary of the Arctic club, “has written ‘Capt. Jose E. Bernier in Ottawa, Ont., and others that Capt. August W. Loose's story of his deaiinge with Dr. Cook. a pub lished in a New York newspaper, was concocted for sale without reeard € the truth “in the presence of witnesses,” sald capt, Osbon, "I heard Loose Py was out for the snoney and 1 agar eare how 1 got it" Capt. Osbon does not believe that Looee's narrative ax supported by. his afhinets, was apart of aly plot to diseredtt ‘Dr. Cook “the. Iden oviinated with Loose and Dunkle,” says Capt. Osbon. “They iad for aie matter In this contro fersy ao explosive that nobody dared handie it. When they found that out, they east about for aomething else Dante was the pronoter.- Loose the Workinan. Alco, Dunk got most of the money. ‘That what Loose ay, and now ho is casting arcvnd (0 see Where. he stands. He's gota. con eee ee ee ate SUGAR CO. PAYS $695,573 Arbuckle Bros. Relmburse United States for Money Due as Cue tome Dutles on Imports. New York—Arbuckle Bros, gener. ally credited with being the largest Independent rivals of ‘the American Sugar Refatng Company, have ac: nowledged. that from 1808 to. 1907 they, too, failed to bay the govern- ment all’ the money due us. customs Charges on Imported sugar in settlement of all civil claims against them, the Arbuckles have of fered and the treasury department, with the concurrence. of the attorney Eeneral, has accepted payment of $695,073. But criminal prosecution of those responsible will In no wise be hampered or conditioned by this ac: ceptanee, FATAL COASTING ACCIDENT ‘one Boy Killed, Five Others Injured When Rack Collides. with Train. Lafayette, Ind in a couating ae cident here "Inst. night one boy was killed and six others injured. A Heavy rack containing 16 boys col lided at the Columbia street crossing with the Decatur passenger train on the Wabash ralirond The Injured were scattered slong tne track for a block, and the body of Frank Klumpe, aged 17, was found cedar Ukecpllel et the. eugine: Defeat Street Railway Franchise. Kansas City, Mo.—The Metropolitan Street Railway Company met. defeat at the polls Thursday by an emphatic majority in its request for a 42-year street railway franchise. The com- pany is controlled by Armour inter- ests of Chicago. ‘Macoale Rooeevelt: Back at Nalvobl, Nairobi, British East Africa—Ker- mit Roosevelt arrived here Thursday, | having bagged three sables. ‘The partys preparing fo wart for Vganda Saturday. Negro Kills White Woman, Mount Vernon, I—Marshall Rudd, fa negro, 19 years old, shot and killed Mrs, Charles Bolerjack, a white won an of East Carmi, ill, because she in terposed objections to the negro's at- tentions to her daughter. 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Zoin Baptis Sunday schools are rehearsing. fo their Christinas « xereises Mr. Robert Stupson who has beer absent from our elty several months spending his time in Omaha returnes home Saturday o spend the winter. Mr. Patt’s orchestra will xlve a grand ball on Christmas night at Simon's hall, The A. M. E Sunday school will give thelr Christmas exercises Christmas night. The A. M. E. church club of which Mr. Frank Roberts Is leader will give au oppossum supper on the 28th. of December in a uall down town , a lit- erary programme will also be renders ed. Mrs. Bryant and son Samuel arrived in our city Sunday from Chicago. to Join her husband who is porter on one of the railroads running our of our city The Starlight club of which Mr. J Wy owls ts header wilh lve a bent fit entertainment for the A.M. E. church Thursday evening Dec. 16, ‘The roast plg supper and an even- ing with negro authors given by the A.J. P, club last Thursdayevening was a good success both socially” and tinanelally Rev. J.C. Reid pastor of the Mt Zion Baptist church offered his resig nation Sunday evening at his third rear's celebrasion he has "labored | hard with hls “Mttle flock for three | long years, His resignation will take | effect Immediatelly, his plans for the | future has not been decided on 1 GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, Mr. Reuben iolt is recovering from his recent illness, Mrs. Will Mezride charmingly en- tertained the Leisure Hour elub at her home Thursday afternoon, After the business was rtansacted, a social thie was enjoyed, during which time a dainty supper was served. Lewis’ colored band ‘appeared tn public for the second time since thelr organization, Monday evening at Lin- coln Memorial Chapel. The boys play- ed to a crowded house and those not present missed a rare treat Mrs. John Graves Is confined to her home by a serious attack of theuma- ism Miss Olive Allen has returned home from a visit in Chicago, Mr. B. E, Richardson, local Q. wateh- man, is spending the week in Glison, Mlimois, having been sent there Frie day to guard the merchandise which was scattered by the recent wreck there. Mrs. Will Skinner entertained at dinner Saturday, Mrs. Cora, Worth- ington and Miss G. Johnson of Indian- polis. | Lewis Colored band will appear at the A.M. E. church December, 24 Rev. Pope lectured at Allen's chapel to an appreciati.e audience, The leet ure was illustrated with steroptican views. Mrs. Chas, Davis was hostess to the members of the B.D. W, C. club Tues- day afternoon, SECRET ORDERS. ‘North Star Lodge. No. 3. A, F. & A. M.—Meeu Fieae ‘haredew mceacn monty at Mason Hull- North-west corner of Rentoand Cote terse do." taors pron, W. 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UL GRAND LODGE OF OWA AND JURISDICTION ALF. & ALM, vox GRAND. LODGE ‘aFricene WWI Algae or Gai ws er. Ceuas Sapids, lowa, Rura Ronte Hi ivsveaees ws toca Albert Wales, men. FSR Wai: AL toes Bye iienvesaas mite Ta Sicratasm, Wun Boni Were Wate, B.. Grand usa sos Nee TL loeb caateaa?ot Gakic ie | n Foreign Correspondence, Marsbai! | The New Wardrobe Cleaners and Dyers su Leet, Des MAR Phones 1791. Er Crawrorp, Proy More Money F y "This ig one of the ob- es Entana Henttvegrete, Blin RET Batnd Lodge aig to morose ihe Conaitns tua Roancial wayeastecly moral shofsilly of every member colored Ws well archte. Higher Wngen, shorter Hourm Bua ofmtrcanttieg Beit eceinent Torani our greets work tien crise Gea iinreaSaberneeScity ire Scrat iim No pater ee ioe at Wereaplovegeieadi'ee preaiy posoae ede e fee Yon the Tel-U Grand Lodge’ Members HUNG er foyed oer and ater tenes Sones etn Mherstor aasled ad hers Sak cutie fete at ; Big Cash Benefits {A death of member, $100 cath j pid to bene ciary. At death of wile, or other beneficiary, nici: Berrien an AMET emcee trod tarde" Theveave many obit benches siiretatecaiis ieeven vo bah sexes, includ geraletinuner oye Reva “Over 60,000 tien and women, hive ale ety’ ined ove Tana Ratectned ti ds Fedele at srlldae Bence! Protcedve Roudlocioreopyotedical pipettes ie Home Fiaval,” ereulae matter and full parties iar. iF jou join promptiy. we will give sou muittgrliy toFeprenentusin yout tocle Tevoetanaceme Pour eraratose ta ecco Mabe tar wisch see Say yon tibet Moo need afew Traveling Reprecstatves ho can ‘Elektr tavelingcapenses Wie atoncet ee The I-L-U Grand Lodge L-L-U Bldg., Dayton, Ohlo- panes Ripoorcrmate: 57 a in ¥ - — a ne Rw y om s i ig a ® Rye ; rad REV. J. CORNELIUS REID. A COMING MINISTER. Rev. J. Corneltus Reid, pastor of Mt Zion Baptist church Sioux. City, Jowa, is one of the leading ministers of the state. He is an able writer, pulpit orator, and an uncommon prom: ising race advocate, He Is popular with the masses—especially the lead- ing white citizens of his. elty and slate. He estabiished the Afro-Amer= lean “Advocate, a newspaper devoted to the interest of his people. A pro- ininent member of the city ministrial association. A member of lowa Bap= list association (colored). Dr, Reid was educated in the public schools and Military academy of Mobile Ala- bama, studied law in the University of Minnesota, and theology in the Miss- jonary training school of Minneapolis, and at Omaha Nebraska at which time ie wrote a boox on the “Destination of the soul of man.” Recetved his de- cree of Doctor of Divinity from Me= Kinley Memorial University. Dr. Reld nas spent three years in Sioux City, luring said thie his wonderful ability OTTUMWA IOWA. ' Mr. Mayo Weeks {s confined at his home on account of dines Mr. Geo. E. Taylor who ts. visiting frends in Buston and Des Molnes ea: pects to loave soon for Florida where he will spend the winter. Miss Laura ‘Tolle of Kirksville Missouri, is visting ber aunt. tire David Witsom The A, A, «uted reall ne sum of $100 fo’ tele last rally Peter ll he a party, Weduesday Josette December, trae the home 0 Mean Ales. David Wisin, In lone OF Mins Ltura, "Tolls. of. Kirksvite Misnourl ire. awe Marne is vatting her daughier hes. Shnrles Dootte In Cedar Rapids Nee William ‘Thompson has been called to Newton on aecount ofthe illness of hor daaghter Mex, Wn, Fine Mrs. arie Wagner will entertain a few Friends this Sauiray evening for ther husband A. i Wagner ‘The remalnw f Mesa, Smith erat who led Inst week at the Outurnwa Hospital were tuben to Bulmira,Mie- soul for taternent Mra Went and two daughters: of Kcirkaille Misseurl ure visting. Mis Greer. Mr West spent Sunday’ in Ot Me Jerry Greever. ls ont ogaln ane oe Mae Air. Ttobrt Harris of Chiewo spent Moniay visiting Miss na, Marti a THE TIGR PECIEE ATIC ELIT Lhave used Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for sere tine, and ean testify that they huge done me more good then any tablets [have ever used, My trouble was a heavy dull fecling after eating, —David Freeman Kempt, Nova Scotia. ‘These tablets cEcusthan tke aoineak Kad lascoea : i —————— Se ina 36 a aan | 4 . ; é tas! MRS, J. CORNELIUS RELD. As a financier was tested. He saved the valuable chuceh property: from be- ing sold and paul off half of the ehureh debt Mrs, J. Cornelius Reld, is a person of very pleasing personality high ideals, energetis chureh worker, a kood speaker. and a great helper to her progressive husband, She beliew- es the race needs more zealous, earn- est and loyal supporters among christian men aad women; as a found= ation to build unon, | She is greatly In sympathy with everything that has. a tendancy to elscate her race, Mrs. Reid is ovgantzer and president, of the local Raptist Home and forelgn mission clrele, also view president of the Woman's PhJanthrople elub of her city. She fs very ambitious for their only son Joseph + ho ts the only eolor= ed student of Morning Side college. Mrs. Reid is a splendid dressmaker ‘The Bystander can say that this young Face couple will no doubt help mould sentiment for the better things in hut an ite, ‘the digestion, ‘They also regulate the liver and bowls. They are far super ior to pills but costs no more. Get a free sample at ail druggists and see what a splendid medicine it is. | HERE’S WHAT WE'LL DO We'll make you a Suit or Overcoat to your order for $15.00 Mal nat eeeea mane sei Or Tar gan sa on Salon te euler treet One 1 One Price Price 2B ‘ OTe? towa'e g Where Fastest Lowest re ran ept. dtorez store Prevail Sth and Walnut Streets, — SS Gather all your Christmas troubles and bring them here for quick and economical solution. es sez arti en EL ney qaneeett Cea lees a [pies pi ULL Cr ae Ee ela el ele atte ia —_ 2 se fa a Making the most of your holiday expenditures is merely a matter of buying your gifts at this store, Choosing gifts early and here means choosing them well. It is becom- ng generally known that we sell goods cheaper than others and our un- derselling supremacy is pretty generally conceded in Des Moines and vicinity. In many instances, it is pessitle to buy TWO gifts at The Grand with the sum you have spent in other years for a single gift, ad CHRISTSMAS, ‘The Annual Natal day of the birth of Christ is soon to be here. ‘This to the christian world 's the greatest of all Festival days, it brings joy to the little urchins, gladness to: the young people and renew the save and inspiration Jn the minds of thes oll, and the best of All it inculentat ss Into our minds: the trie prinelpal vt kindness renew the fire of ehrtstain duty this year. as we neck aronnud the: Christmas. table. we find the civilize! warkl at prace and Hanan love: muon effective: the. dewp Struggles to raise the dowentrod- den aiid unfortahate should be. the kuldings spirit for tive New Year. "Phen Tet us send out tray of hope and ietping hand vo those lew fortunate than weare, lets help spread the Rood tiling and glad Joy tor the world. CONGRESS OPENED. Last week the American Congress opened again in its Gist, regular ses- sion to make laws to govern a mighty nation of nearly 100,000,000, "The 8es= sion will be unsoually ‘interesting as many reforms and evils to be remt- died, and many abuses to be earreet- ed, and wrongs 10 be righted., A Merry Chrismas and a lappy new Year. Mr. W.K. Peery of Enterprise was in our city Saturday on business, Mr. Win, Hattles, Mosby and Geo. FP Eimonds and J. Reynold of Enter- prise were capital eity vistors: Satur- day Miss Helena ravens Is employed by the Bystander Publishing Co. during the month of December Master Alden Tagburn one of the sons of Mr and Mrs. BT. Bhusburn is sick Mr. 2, C, Mebowell of Buxton spent a few days this week in our elty the quest of Mr. and Mrs. Watkins on West gird. Street Mrs. Adam Dixon has been very sick ae I “Al 1a6 UNIVINaL ar i i co. | | 52 Ws i 2 a. | We Grew Our Hair, ee .- o | Now Let Us Grow aed ty Adi | Yours with oe Parnit i _ / BiPporo Ladiee | TRADE MARK emer er aD fae /: RROISTENED. 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 af the head, many nerseas scorned the idea that such a Using wus possl- Mle; but we huve grown the hair for hundreds; rapidly achieving success, ‘The proof of the value of our work is Uhat 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 (eaying that Uneirs is Use sume oF ‘just as good") or referred to PORO, We advise you to use only POKO Uair Grower, (the oldest and best of its kind.) See that the naine PORO is on every box, uot genuine without i. Prepared only by Mra, A.M. POVE, Beware of imitations, Call, or address mail to MRS, A. M. POPE-TURNBO, 2223 Market St. St: Louis, Mo. for several weeks with the inflamat- ory rheumatism but ts improving now which Is good news to her many friends, ‘The entertainment to be given by the North Star Mascnte Lodge next Tues- day evening at the Cieyling hall will be the grandest «fair during the Xmas week from the preparation that the committee 1s doing and many new beautiful gowns in course of preparat- ion for that occaston, It ts expected that several from out of town will attend. mr THE ORIGINAL 3] We Grew Our Hair, | Now Let Us Grow Yours with | ae | TRADE MARK a: REGISTERED. 417 Walnut FAMILY SHOE STORES 333 E. 5th PLENTY OF HIGH CUT SHOES For Friday only-This $1.00 black fur trimmed Juliet hand turn shoes, very flexible; tomorrow only, a pair ... 79c bring it Free to on every different FAMILY SHOE SOL PAIR TWO STO 417 WEST WALNUT ST. The home that sells V Cut this coupon out and bring it to our store and we will give you Free 10 S. and H. Green trading Stamps on every purchase of $1.00 or more and additional stamps on amount of purchase. SHOE STORE PANOR STORES ST. 333 EAST FIFTH ST. at sells Webster School shoes. FAMILY SHOE STORE SOL PANOR TWO STORES 417 WEST WALNUT ST. 333 EAST FIFTH ST. The home that sells Webster School shoes. Hon. William Tecumsha Vernon of R. U. S. Treasury. He was Dean of Quincoln is an eloquent orator. A Great Shoe Beautiful H Mercha Innumerable displays of chandise fill this store from the gift seeker who desires something ornamental, can easily and gift here at a moderate price. THE HARRIS --- [Picture of a man in a suit and tie]. Hon. William Tecumsha Vernon of Kansas, who is Register of the U. S. Treasury. He was Dean of Quindoro University of Kansas. He is an eloquent orator. A Great Showing Of Beautiful Holiday Merchandise Innumerable displays of beautiful Holiday Merchandise fill this store from basement to roof. The gift seeker who desires something useful as well as ornamental, can easily and quickly find the right gift here at a moderate price. --- High cut shoes for men; tan, waterproof, full bellows toes; viscolized soles; two full soles to the heel. Priced at $7.00 and down to a pair ..... $3.50 A nice Xmas present for the boy, a pair of high cut shoes, two big straps on top, viscolized soles. Priced according to size, $3.00 and down to a pair ..... $2.50 Women's mannish, tan or black, extra 12-inch cut shoes, two straps and buckle top; water proof; a real skating boot. Priced at $4.00 and down to ..... $3.50 Misses' and Children high cut shoes—red tops with patent vamps or gun metal vamps with dull tops. Priced according to size, $2.50 and down to ..... $1.50 A. S. Coleridge Taylor of London, England, the greatest colored musical composer of this age. His two most famous pieces are "Hiwatina" and "Atoneon." Des Moines, A Coupon S. and H. Green Coupon Free Trading Stamps Free SIR JOHN HENRY BURTON Colonel John H. Marshall of Chicago, Ill. The only colored man to receive Colonelcy by leading a regiment of colored troops during the Civil War. Eighth Illinois regiment. He is one of the leading men of the White City. Iowa Echoes of the Lyon-Scott Fete Echoes of the Lyon-Scott Fete Lineup of Negro Manhood Shows Relative Position of Some Who Have Made Good in the Government Service—Business and Professional Men in Abundance—Three Noted Characters. No one could have beheld the guests seated at the splendid Lyon-Scott banquet recently held in Washington without at once realizing that the Negro in the United States is unmistakably a participant of the great progress that has come to this country. 2 Safe and conservative estimates of the salaries of some of those present would warrant the following classification: Salaries of $4, 000 per annum and over: LEWIS E. JOHNSON, 600 per annum and over: John C. Dancy, recorder of deeds Ernest Lyon, United States minister to Liberia; l. B. Scott, bishop of M. E. church; R. W. Tyler, auditor for Uni- dated States navy department; W. T. Vernon, register United States treasury, and Booker T. Washington, principal of Tuskegee institute. There are several professional and business men who were present that may be in the above class. It is difficult, however, to form a fair estimate of men who have not stated salaries. Salaries ranging from $2,000 to $3.- 500: R. C. Bruce, assistant superintendent of Washington schools; J. A. Cobb, assistant United States district attorney; George W. Cook, secretary of Howard university; W. Bruce Evans, principal of Armstrong Manual Training school; A. H. Glenn, director of languages in Washington schools; W. C. McNeill, secretary of Howard University Medical school; W. S. Montgomery, supervising principal of Washington schools; J. C. Nalle, supervising principal of Washington schools; E. J. Scott, secretary to B. T. Washington; R. H. Terrell, judge of municipal court; James E. Walker, supervising principal of Washington schools, and N. E. Wetherless, director of science in the Washington schools. Salaries between $1,500 and $2,000: Wyatt Archer, clerk, United States treasury department; D. C. Brandon, assistant chief in office of auditor for navy; Kelly Miller, dean of college department in Howard university; J. C. Norwood, clerk in treasury department, and E. C. Williams, principal of M street high school. There were present fifteen ministers, twenty-two engaged in educational work, twenty lawyers, seventeen doctors of medicine, three dentists, three pharmacists, one member of a city council, one banker, four newspaper editors, three magazine editors, two press correspondents, two photographers, one theatrical proprietor, two architects, two real estate agents, one proprietor of a printing establishment, one manager of a business and benevolent organization and a Y. M. C. A. secretary. Twenty-four of those present were on Uncle Sam's payroll, not including those engaged in educational work in the District of Columbia. S. There were three characters present who added to the occasion the glory of the past-ex Governor P. B. ADDITION SCURLOCK. S. Pinchback, Judge M. W. Gibbs, ex-United States consul to Madagascar, and Major C. A. Fleetwood of civil war fame. Progress was indicated in every phase of the banquet, from the taking of the flashlight by Scurlock, the young photographer, to the departure of Booker Washington in a mammoth motorcar, accompanied by Bishop Scott, Private Secretary Emmett Scott and James A. Cobb, the assistant United States district attorney. Liberal Expenditures For Schools. During the current year 1909 the public school authorities of Washington have expended for colored school sites amounts as follows: For addition to site of Armstrong Mechanical High school, $3,837; for addition to site of Lovejoy school, $3,500; for addition to site of Phillips school, $15,120; total, $22,457. Recommendations for a new colored normal school, a new colored business high school and for extensive additions to the M street high school are being considered by the board of education. Tuskegee Negro Conference Jan. 19. For a number of years the annual meeting of the Tuskegee (Alta.) Negro conference has been held in February. The date for the 1910 conference, however, has been announced for Jan. 19-20. Inclusive. Friends of the movement together with its members are urged to call the attention of the public to the change in the date so that there may be no falling off in the attendance. Subscribe now. Go to the Good meals and lunches at all hours. Reasonable prices. Ed Mason, Prop. 309 E. Walnut INTERESTING FACTS There are 512 Afro-American employees in the Chicago Post Office, drawing annual salaries aggregating in round numbers $400,000. Mr. James A. Cobb, appointed Assistant District Attorney for the District of Columbia, prepares cases for prosecution under the Pure Food Law and has charge of forfeited bonds cases. Hon. Miffin W. Gibbs was elected City Judge of Little Rock, Ark, by the Republics of that city, in 1873, and was the first man of the race to be so honored. In the Houston, Texas, postoffice there are 21 Afro-American employees whose salaries aggregate $14,000 annually. Forty-three Afro-Americans are employed in the Jacksonville, Fla., Post Office, and they are paid salaries amounting to $35,000 annually. There are 30 colored employees in the Montgomery, Ala., Post Office who draw salaries aggregating $27,000 annually. Twelve Afro-Americans employed in the St. Paul, Minn., Post Office are paid salaries amounting to $12,300 annually. All of the letter carriers at the Muskogee, Okla., Post Office are color men. They draw salaries amounting to $10,260 annually. There are 15 Afro-Americans in the Internal Revenue Service at Louisville, Ky., whose salaries aggregate $16,500 per year. The 14 Afro-Americans employed in the Kansas City, Kansas, Post Office draw $9,400 in salaries annually. Fifteen Afro-American employees in the Columbus, Ohio, Post Office are paid salaries aggregating $13,500 annually. W. H. Lewis, Esq., Assistant District Attorney at Boston, Mass., has charge of the naturalization cases. He is an Afro-American lawyer honored by the Republican party. The total force of the Mobile, Ala., Post Office consists of 33 clerks—16 Afro-Americans and 17 whites. The 32 carriers are all colored. The Afro-American employees receive annually $42,400. S. L. Williams, Esq., Special Assistant District Attorney at Chicago, has charge of the naturalization cases. Mr. Williams is a colored man. In the Post Office and Federal Building at Jackson, Miss., there are 18 Afro-American employees whose annual pay aggregates $11,560. At the Galveston Texas, Post Office there are 13 colored employees whose annual compensation amounts to $10,000. 一 Mr. H. H. Garner entered the postal service at Little Rock in 1890 when he was appointed letter carrier. The force then consisted of nine carriers. Mr. Garner was recently made Superintendent of Carriers. The present force consists of 45 regular carriers 31 being Afro-Americans. There are also eight substitutes, four white and four colored. PIANOS Whose quality is unsurpassed anywhere in the world. Sohomer Henry F. Miller Kroeger Kohler & Campbell and others No fake sales. No schomes. No puzzles. Prices lower than you can get elsewhere. Easy terms H. Malcolm Music COMPANY. 316 Seventh Des Moines Write for catalogue and prices if you cannot call. MRS. L. DENNY. the reliable rooming house keeper has moved into larger quarters, located at 507 West Grand avenue. A --- AN·EXCLUSIVE·STORE·FOR:THRIFTY·WOMEN THE NATIONAL 407—WALNUT—ST. $20,000 Sacrifice Sale of Ladies' Suits and Coats The most colossal slaughter of prices ever known in the history of women's apparel business. Where Lasting Satisfaction Follows Every Transaction. "THE STORE THAT SAVES YOU MONEY" J. MANDELBAUM & SONS 503-505 WALNUT STREET "Furs" are Ideal Christmas Gifts. If you want to please "her" just make a gift of a stylish and good set of furs. You'll find utmost satisfaction and pleasure in choosing from our great Christmas stocks. Every correct style and every correct fur is represented. Then, too, this store assures lasting satisfaction with every transaction. H Lewis Thomas, a farmer who lives in East Monroe Township, Monroe, N.C. says that he picked this fall 1,657 lbs. of cotton from one acre and three rows of measured land. Being a hard worker and doing his part in the world work, he enjoys the reputation of making good crops in his neighborhood. During the recent Colored Fair held in Raleigh, N. C., October 25th to 30th, there were three farmers who made exhibits that deserve special mention. The first one is Fletcher Lockhart, who is regarded as one of Wake County's most prosperous truck growers. He was born a slave in 1854. When freedom came he was all alone in the world, as both father and mother were dead. He worked on a cotton farm until 1873. Then with no money in hand and with seventy-five cents borrowed to buy a wedding shirt, struck out with his wife to get ahead. For the first year the two worked for wages and cleared $65. The second year Lockhart leased for five years, a plantation of one hundred acres east of Raleigh. When his lease expired, he bought the place at on average price of $22 an acre. This put the cost of the plantation $22 which gradually paid off from his own economy. The place is now worth nearly $15,000. He has not only made money, but he has also well educated his four children. His farm is a model, for on it are crops of cotton, corn, wheat, oats and a long list of truck products. His display of agricultural products, in almost every line, was a sight worth furthermore. He was justly awarded by the committee one hundred dollars ($100), the first prize, given by the Industrial Association for the best exhibit in this department. The second case is that of S. M. R. Slade of Work Creek Township, Wake County, who owns a farm of seventy-five acres, worth about $2,500. He was born in Caswell County in 1857. His father, together with the other slaves, were driven off the farm a year after the war and went to Alamance County, with nothing, where the whole family toiled hard, working the soil at first with hoes, as they owned no horse. Soon young Slade decided to own some land, so he bought two and one-half acres for which he paid $56 of the money he had saved. Later he bought four acres more, after making a $256 crop of tobacco the first year on what he acquired in old field. He lived in Billingston and sold his six acres for $600. Now he is told that this same tract of land is worth at least $7,000. In 1896 he went to Raleigh and paid $265 for seventy-five acres of land. On this farm Slade has prospered. The exhibit from this Where Lasting Satisfaction "THE STORE THAT SAYS J. MANDELB 503-505 WALK "Furs" are If you want to set of furs. You'll from our great Chi rect fur is represen tion with every tru Women's Sable Coney Fur Sets, large shawl collar trimmed with heads and tails and pillow muff for ..... $4.95 Women's Blended Brook Mink Sets, large fancy shawl collar trimmed with heads and tails and pillow muff, set ..... $11.50 Women's Sable Squirrel Sets, con- and for reasons best known to ourselves we are compelled to close out 2500 Women's Suits 2000 Broadcloth and Novelty Coats SUITS Women's Suits that cost at factory $15.00, will be closed out for..... $7.75 Women's Suits that cost at factory $18.00, will be closed out for..... $9.95 Women's Coats that are easily worth $18.00, during this sale for $12.50 Women's Coats that can't be duplicated for $25.00, this sale $17.75 Sale Now in Christmas is Here YOU'LL agree with us we is here." Such a choice of sent has never been offered and preparing for a stock of things useful, b men and boys. Now in Progress. Christmas is Here and Here are the ULL agree with us when we say "what you w here." Such a choice of Christmas Gifts as we it has never been offered before. We have been and preparing for months—selecting this gack of things useful, beautiful and appropriate in and boys. Sale Now in Progress. Christmas is Here and Here are the Gifts YOU'LL agree with us when we say "what you want is here." Such a choice of Christmas Gifts as we present has never been offered before. We have been buying and preparing for months—selecting this great stock of things useful, beautiful and appropriate for men and boys. JUST A FEW SUGGESTIONS of check in all and a no live dirt. ad for HERE is a list of this They are really only a fe visit here will disclose the ing for. Come today. T the articles of interest y people are courteous and HERE is a list of things suitable for every new toy are really only a few of the many offerings. But here will disclose the very thing you've been looking for. Come today. There is freedom to examine articles of interest you'll appreciate. Our sample are courteous and obliging to all. HERE is a list of things suitable for every man. They are really only a few of the many offerings. A visit here will disclose the very thing you've been looking for. Come today. There is freedom to examine the articles of interest you'll appreciate. Our salespeople are courteous and obliging to all. House Coats, $5 to $12.50. Bath Robes, $3.50 to $17.50. Fancy Vests, $2 to $6.50. Fancy Suspenders, 50c to $2. Silk Neckwear, 50c to $1.50. Handkerchiefs, 25c to $1. Fur Gloves, $2.50 to $12.50. Dress Gloves, $1.00 to $2.00. Suit Cases, $3 to $20. Traveling Bags, $2.50 to Seal Skin Caps, $4 to $1 Umbrellas, $1 to $10. Collar Bags, $1 to $2. Scarf Pins, 25c to $2.50. Sweaters, $2 to $5. Silk Hosiery, $1 to $1.50. Mufflers, 75c to $3. Frankel 513-515-517 nkel Clothing 513-515-517 WALNUT ST. Frankel Clothing Co. 513-515-517 WALNUT ST. farm, showing one hundred fifty different articles—cotton, corn, tobacco, wheat, grains, vegetables, preserves, pickles, flour, and a whole lot of other things. The second prize of fifty dollars, for the next best display, was awarded him. The third farmer was Levi Minor, who took the first and second ribbons on corn at the Fair. His farm is in Saint Mary's township, where he owns 300 acres of land, some fifty acres being under cultivation. Having saved some money, about five years ago he bought a farm for $1,000. On this he paid $600 in three payments of 800 worth of timber from sixty acres $200 each. Some time ago he sold $1- Section Follows Every Transaction. SAVES YOU MONEY! BAUM & SONS ALNUT STREET The Ideal Christmas to please "her" just make a gift of a style you'll find utmost satisfaction and pleasure. Christmas stocks. Every correct style and presented. Then, too, this store assures last transaction. transaction. & SONS Christmas Gifts make a gift of a stylish and good satisfaction and pleasure in choosing Every correct style and every cor- this store assures lasting satisfac- sisting of large pillow muff and shawl collar trimmed with four tails and eight claws; Skinner sat- in lined set for .....$19.50 Children's White Angora Sets; zaza collar and pillow muffs, satin lined, the set .....98c Children's Sable Coney Sets, zaza collar, satin lined and pillow muff --- Women's Suits that cost at factory $30.00 will be closed out for..... $15.95 Women's Suits that cost at factory $40.00, will be closed out for..... $19.95 Women's Coats that are worth $30.00, are real beauties, this sale... $22.50 Women's Coats that are worth at least $40, a rare bargain, this sale... $25.00 in Progress. e and Here are the Gifts s when we say "what you want e of Christmas Gifts as we pre- ered before. We have been buy- r months—selecting this great , beautiful and appropriate for things suitable for every man. a few of the many offerings. A the very thing you've been look- There is freedom to examine t you'll appreciate. Our sales- and obliging to all. Suit Cases, $3 to $20. Traveling Bags, $2.50 to $25. Seal Skin Caps, $4 to $10. Umbrellas, $1 to $10. Collar Bags, $1 to $2. Scarf Pins, 25c to $2.50. Sweaters, $2 to $5. Silk Hosiery, $1 to $1.50. Clothing Co. WALNUT ST. 080 worth of timber from sixty acres, this amount paying off his indebtedness and leaving him a comfortable balance in cash on hand. The prize he won on corn shows that the know how to farm and how to farm right. Here are four object lessons, each a success and each a land owner. Is there anything "worth while" in the lives of the above mentioned characters? For Eczema, Tetter and Salt Rheum The intense itching characteristic of these ailments is almost instantly allayed by Chamberlain's Salve. Many severe cases have been cured by it. For sale by all druggists. ONS mas Gifts. tylish and good ure in choosing and every cor- lasting satisfac- trimmed with head and purse, for ..... $2.48 Misses Sable Coney Sets consisting of long throw scarf, satin lined and large pillow muff, for ..... $3.48 Misses Blended Brook Mink Sets, large size four-in-hand, satin lined, scarf and pillow muff, for ..... $8.75 CITY NEWS. (N. B. I you have relatives on or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we collect all your local news.—Ed.) A Merry Chris mas and a happy new Year. Master Alden Blagburn one of the sons of Mr. and I Mrs. E. T. Blagburn is sick. Miss Helena Cravens is employed by the Bystander Publishing Co. during the month of December. Mr. Wm. Battles. Mosby and Geo. F. Edmonds and J. Reynold of Enterprise were capital city visitors Saturday. Mr. B. C. McBowell of Baxton spent a few days this week in our city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Watkins on West 3rd. Street. Sam Thomas of Highland Park died Wednesday and the funeral will be held today at Corinthian Baptist church at 2 o'clock. Rev. I. N. Donial, pastor of the St. Paul A. M. E. church, will preach for us at 3 p. m., Sunday, Dec. 19. Come out and hear him. Dr. Arthur J. Booker delivered an excellent lecture at Burns M. E. church Sunday night, Dec. 12. Quite a few out to hear him. All were well pleased. His subject was "Health." Mrs. Adam Dixon has been very sick for several weeks with the inflamatory rheumatism but is improving now which is good news to her many friends. The third quarterly meeting will be held at Burns M. E. church Dec. 19, 1909. Dr. A. H. Higgs, our district superintendent, will be with us. We hope to have a good attendance all day. FATE AND FORTUNE. The drama written by Mrs. J. B. Bush and presented by the Negro Lyceum at the A. M. E. church Tuesday evening was a decided success from every point of view. The Callanian Club met at Mrs. Adams' Wednesday afternoon. It was a very interesting meeting. The club adjourned to meet at Mrs. Rev. Daniels' next Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 22, on Thirteenth and Center—Mrs. Adams, Vice President. Rev. J. W. Curson of St. Louis, Mo., was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. S. Bates the past week of the Curson-Custub Association, the third oldest association of St. Louis, and president of the Ministerial Union. He left Wednesday for Duxton to visit his daughter. The entertainment to be given by the North Star Mascine Lodge next Tuesday day evening at the Cleyling hall will be the grandest affair during the Xmas week from the preparation that the committee is doing and many new beautiful gowns in course of preparation for that occasion. It is expected that several from out of town will attend. Mrs. Mary Hicks of 1341 Buchanan street died last Tuesday after a lingering sickness of several months. The funeral was held at the Maple Street Baptist Church, of which she was a member, conducted by Rev. S. Bates. She was 41 years, 1 month and 27 days old. She leaves a husband, four children—two boys and two girls—and a mother to mourn her intimately loss. A large crowd attended the funeral. At last we have accomplished the work which has been needed in the city of Des Moines. The ministers have organized themselves together in a glorious union, known as the Ministerial Alliance of the City of Des Moines and Vicinity. Officers: Rev H. W. Porter, president; Rev S. Bates, vice president; Rev F. Douglas Woodford, secretary and treasurer. Our first regular meeting will be held at the Rev H. W. Porter's residence, 933 Fourteenth street place, December 22. Time of meeting, 2 p. m. The Rev S. Bates the first speaker. We hope that all the members will be present and on time. By order of the president. INTERSTATE LITERARY NOTICE. There will be a special meeting of all delegates and contestants and program representatives for the Interstate Literary Association at my residence, 1058 Fifth street, Monday evening, Dec. 20, for the purpose of completing arrangements for the trip to the Interstate meeting. All persons who expect to attend the Interstate Association are urged to be present without fall—S. JOE BROWN, Vice President Interstate Literary Association. At the regular communication of Doric Lodge No. 30, A. F. and A. M. held at their new location, over 318 East Fifth street, this city, last Saturday evening, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: J. H. Reynolds, Enterprise, Worshipful Master; S. Joe Brown, Des Moines Senior Warden; C. A. Cox, Des Moines Senior Warden; E. L. Shaw, Des Moines Secretary; Jas. Holland, Enterprise, Treasurer. The other officers will be appointed by the newly elected Worshipful Master at the installation, which will take place on next Saturday evening, at which time Past Master E. T. Bann will act as installing E. T. Bann and the wives and a few invited Friends of the members will also be present. Irs. E. B. Elliston, 510 13th st makes a specialty of Human Hair Goods, also Shampooing and straightening. Mail orders promptly filled. THE VARIETY Mr. W. K. Poetry of Enterprise was in our city Saturday on business. YOU ARE INVITED There is no race, class distinction or favoritism at my store. All are welcome. I have to wear for Men, Women and School Children, and a nice line of Xmas Slippers at prices to suit you. I sold you shoes when I was with one of the leading shoe stores on Walnut street and now I invite you to call on me at my new shoe store. Come. You will receive prompt attention, good service and good shoes. F. W. HARVEY, 318 7th St. Richard Shaw's Good Fortune. Faithful Head Walter of Senate Restaurant, Who Has Served in That Capacity For More Than Thirty Years, Becomes Its Proprietor by Consent of the Committee on Rules. After serving for over thirty years in the capacity of head waiter in the senate restaurant at Washington, where he was also intrusted with the purchasing of supplies for the culinary department, which involved the expenditure of hundreds of dollars daily, Richard Shaw, familiarly known to every senator in the United States as Dick Shaw, has been given by the committee on rules absolute control of the senate restaurant in his own right. Besides having charge of the restaurant for senators in the senate wing of the capitol, Mr. Shaw will also have charge of the restaurant for senators in the new marble senate office building, situated just to the northeast of the senate proper. These are some of the most important concessions ever given by that RICHARD SHAW. body to an Afro-American, and he obtained them purely upon his merits, for it is a well known fact that both Democrats as well as Republicans were in favor of giving this over to Shaw. As some of the senators are among the most wealthy men of the nation it will be seen that their gastronomic tastes must be attended to without regard to cost. Mr. Shaw has been around the senate so long that he knows quite accurately just what these solos prefer. He has known all the senators personally from the days of the supremacy of Blaine and Conkling down to the present time. But Mr. Shaw has made the most of his opportunities. He is a property owner, has an interesting family and enjoys some of the comforts of life. He has educated his children, all three of his daughters being graduates of the Washington normal school. One is happily married, and the other two are teachers in the city schools. His son is a thrifty young man who is on the government payroll at the capitol. The good impression that Mr. Shaw has made upon those with whom he has come in contact is an evidence of his real worth and the high esteem in which he is held. [Image of a man in a suit with a hand resting on his chin]. Hon. Henry W. Furniss of Indianapolis, Ind., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Haiti. He is the highest-salaried colored man holding a political appointment—$10,000 per annum. F. W. FRANZ HAIR DEALER Full Line of Colored People's Hair Waves, Bangs, Switches, Pompadours, Parts and Puffs, Full and Half Wig Pomp and Parted Style. Give us a call and let us show you our line. 705 LOCUST STREET Second Door West Chamberlain Hotel All Mall Orders Promptly Attended. Telephone Mutual 562. CHRISTSMAS. The Annual Natal day of the birth of Christ is soon to be here. Tails to the christian world is the greatest of all Festival days, it brings joy to the litchurchs, gladness to the young people and renew the love and inspiration it brings. All it incubates into our minds the true principal and kindness renew the fire of christian duty this year as we meet around the Christmas table we find the civilized world at peace and human love more effective the deep struggles to raise the downtrodden and unfortunate should be the focus of our attention. Let us send our a ray of hope and helping hand to those less fortunate than weare, let us help spread the good tiding and glad joy to the world. P. A. Hon. Ralph W. Tylier of Ohio, Auditor for the U. S. Navy Department at Washington, D.C. A coming influential and safe leader of the race. FORT MADISON, IOWA The Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society met in a regular meeting Friday night. The meeting was opened by a short devotional exercise, conducted by the Chapman, Mr. R. B. C. with the following program was rendered Address—'The True Missionary'—Rev. J. W. Evans. Vocal Solo—Mrs. Geo. Obannon Pager—"No Begin for Christ." Mr. Dear Soh—Mrs. Gee Charlton M. Harris—"No Room for Christ"—Mrs. M. Harris Instrumental Solo—Miss. Agnes Stewart Remarks—Rev. D. A. Holmes of Daventon Paper—"Mutual Comforts"—Miss M. Thomas. Several new names were enrolled, so the interest in this, as in the other lines of church work, is on the increase. Mrs. C. W. Eubanks is somewhat indisposed. Miss Grace Pleasant of Burlington was in the city last Sunday, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap. Mrs. Rena Blades is visiting relatives and friends in La Grange, Mo. Mrs. G. H. Jackson, state missionary, was in Burlington on business last week. Rev. Geo. Chambers is slowly improving. Rev. D. A. Holmes of Davenport arrived in the city Friday morning and spent the day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Jackson, "Rev. J. W. Evans and family, and other friends. Rev. Holmes is State Superintendent of the Sunday Schools and will pay us PETER H. HARRIS Hon. James Lewis of New Orleans, La. Until recently was U. S. Surveyor-General of Louisiana. He is an able, influential representative man of the Southland. an official visit in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. Eud Henry are the proud parents of a seven-pound boy. The Sunday School is preparing to render a Cantata Christmas eve, entitled "An Old Time Christmas Party." We anticipate a grand time. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Henderson entertained last Thursday in honor of their sister, Mrs. Caltie of Philadelphia. Those who were present report having had an enjoyable time. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Jackson entertained in honor of their son-in-law, Rev D. A. Hohnes, at six o'clock dinner Friday. Rev Evans and family and other friends were among the guests. Mr. and Mrs. James Sauners entertained at 5 o'clock dinner Wednesday, Rev J. W. Evans and family. If a certain party doesn't resist the temptation of eating oysters, a certain Baptist church will be minus a pastor. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap entertained the pastor, R. J. W. Evans, and family, at two o'clock dinner Sunday week. The A. M. E. Sunday School is preparing an excellent program for Christmas night. Mr. and Mrs. Crutcher, of Louisville, Ky, are visiting their brother and sister, Mr. and M. Goo. Obannon. Mr. and Mrs. William Stewart entertained Rev. J. W. Evans and family at two o'clock dinner Sunday. Owing to the inclement weather, church services were not so well attended Sunday, but the pastor, Rev. J. W. Evans, preached a good sermon. Those who failed to hear it missed a treat. More Earthquakes in France. Toulon—Slight seismic shocks occurred again Monday in Draguignan, Vancluse and Puy-Ste-Reparade. No damage is reported, but the residents were panic-tricked. TAFT FAVORS EXPOSITION. President Asks Authority to Appoin Commission to Outline Plans. President Taft has given his cordial indulgence to the proposed semiconductor expoition suggested for 1912 to mark the progress the Negro has made in the fifty years of his freedom and to indicate the wonderful advance the race has made since its landing in this country nearly 300 years ago. The movement was called to the attention of the president not long ago by Dr. Booker T. Washington. In his first annual message to congress President Taft said of the proposed demonstrative expoition: "The year 1913 will mark the fifteenth anniversary of the issuance of the emancipation proclamation which gave freedom to the Negroes in the United States. It seems fitting that this event should be properly celebrated. Already a movement has been started by prominent colored people and newspapers not only in the south, but in other parts of the country. The south especially is manifesting its interest in such a celebration. "It is suggested that a proper form of celebration would be an exposition which would show the progress which the millions of Negroes have made not only during their period of freedom, but which would also indicate their progress from the time of their coming to this country. "I heartily indorse the proposed exposition and suggest that the executive be authorized to appoint a preliminary commission of not more than seven persons to consider carefully whether or not it is wise to hold such an exposition, and, if so, to outline a plan for the enterprise. I further recommend that such preliminary commission serve without salary except as to their actual expenses and that an appropriation be made to meet such expenses." CAPABLE CUSINESS WOMAN. Success of Mrs. L. R. Buchanan, Pioneer Miniliner at Savannah. Mrs. Lydia R. Buchanan of Savannah, Ga., is a fine example for the young women of the race who do not have the confidence in themselves to create heritative vocations that will enable them to contribute to the movements that lead toward the amelioration of economic conditions that are commercially dwarfing them. In her section of the country there are hundreds of Afro American young women who are especially qualified to bring something real tangible to pass, but they await the opportunity to become pedagogues, else they are dependent upon their parents. Mrs. Buchanan graduated from the millinery department of Tuskegee and with marked success made a specialty of teaching millinery after graduating from this noted institution. She has had twelve years of experience as a pedagogy in the states of Indiana, Ohio and Alabama and in all instances endeavored to teach her students the gospel of "self help." Her present es MRS. LYDIA R. BUCHANAS. tablishment is an inspiration to any one who admires the kind of pluck and energy that result in helping others to develop qualities that are not deterent to a progress that is synonymous to success. There are employed six intelligent and ambitious young women in this establishment, and through the training they have received, from Mrs. Buchman they are proving themselves capable of holding positions in any first class millinery store. One upon entering this beautiful store would not readily conceive the idea that such an establishment was strictly owned by an Afro-American woman and largely patronized by women of her race, but would think it was for an exclusive element of the other race. She is a worthy example for young women to emulate. GEORGE F. KING. Charitable Work of Mrs. C. H. Turner. The Howard Industrial Building association of Brooklyn, which was organized about eight months ago by Mrs. C. H. Turner for the purpose of raising funds for the erection of the new home for the Howard Orphan asylum, has had phenomenal success. There are ninety-four members of the association at present, and during its short reign $266.94 has been raised by voluntary contributions. Mrs. Turner is a hard worker and has the co-operation of the members in this worthy cause. Many Barriers to Negroes' Success. We have great respect for the colored man that has up a measure achieved success along a yline of endeavor and especially when we consider the odds against which he has to labor. Aside from the initial disadvantages arising from the accident of color, and it is senseless to argue that color is no barrier, he has tremendous odds to overcome arising from his own race. -Inleigh N. (C. J.) Sentmel. KENNARD'S If we please you, tell your neighbor; if not tell us : : : "Christmas is Coming Prepare Now-Select Your Gifts Here Nothing More Appropriate Nothing More Acceptable SENECAS Are Best Prices $2.00 to $25.00 ery We have used Art Department the city. We what a beauti and how rea ceptable. We have used Art Department the city. We what a beauti and how rea ceptable. ines Station Ovart, Mgr. 314 W. Second Door North of Younkers. ated in Washington, D. C., has "Barton's Never in the Way" y, it will meet a long felt want and it is now being pieced upon ation that Mr. Barton has con- sucess. Tools ing the American, Ottumwa lines. trade at a store sold, and at a fair a square deal. ware Co. We have an exceptionally fine showing of Fancy Stationery for Ladies and Gentlemen. Always very acceptable. We Give S. & H. G. Don't Wait Till Tomorrow. Come and make your selection while our away any article you may select. Des Moines S. J. W. Roovart, Mgr. Second Door North E. Barton, our citizen who is located in Washington, invented a window screen called "Barton's Neverleave from its picture and screen, history, it will meet a h Barton has applied for a patent and it is now being market. This is the second invention that Mr. Barton d. We all wish Mr. Barton much success. Mine Tools A full line--comprising the Amherst Mall Bros., Hardsoy and Ottumwa l. We invite the boys to trade at a here only good tools are sold, and at price. We promise you a square d O'DeaHardware A. B. T. E. Barton, our citizen who is located in Washington, D. C., has just invented a window screen called "Barton's Never in the Way" which from its picture and screen, history, it will meet a long felt want Mr. Barton has applied for a patent and it is now being placed upon the market. This is the second invention that Mr. Barton has contrived. We all wish Mr. Barton much success. Mine Tools A full line--comprising the American, Beall Bros., Hardsoy and Ottumwa lines. We invite the boys to trade at a store where only good tools are sold, and at a fair price. We promise you a square deal. 413-415 East Sixth St. Slippers For We have planned an innovation for Chris better each year. We used to run short of size with the demand. But, you should be safe for at once. Sizes break fast. We have novelties from many of the fore place on earth is in competition with our own s For Ch novation for Christmas shoppers run short of sizes but this year should be safe for the slipper su many of the foreign countries n with our own country. We off ```markdown ``` Slippers For Christmas We have planned an innovation for Christmas shoppers in the slipper line. Bigger and better each year. We used to run short of sizes but this year we are able (we think) to cope with the demand. But, you should be safe for the slipper subject and buy those on your list at once. Sizes break fast. We have novelties from many of the foreign countries—China, Japan and Turkey, but no place on earth is in competition with our own country. We offer a most varied line. For Boys and Girls— Boys' House Slippers, just like men in style; 75c to $1.50. Boys' Dancing Pumps, in shiny leather; at $2 and $2.25. Cravenett Stockinet Leggings, at 75c to $1, as to size. Women's Included. Children's Felt Julietls, in red; at 75c and $1. Children's ballet Slippers, $1.50 and $1.75. Women's sizes included, at $1.75. Children's dance Slippers, in black, white and colors; $1.25 to $1.50-2.00. Felt Julietts at $1 are Very assortments here never went Walker Shoe 613 Walnut S Felt Julietts at $1 are Very Popular for Gifts—and the assortments here never were better. Walker Shoe Company 613 Walnut St., Des Moines --- Fancy Stationery "Romee" Slippers in black and tan, at $1.50; the best we ever saw at the price. Felt Footwear; Shoes and Slippers, $1.25 to $2. Slippers in sofest leathers, at $1.50 to $5 Bootes—The boot-slipper with cuff; black, tan and red; at $3.50. ROSE All the standard makes of Fountain Pens. Very plain to fancy gold and sil- ver mount. Very useful for gentlemen. Prices. 50s to $6.00 Prices—30C to $6.00 Pictures We have used every effort to make our Art Department the most complete in the city. We want you to call and see what a beautiful line of pictures we have and how reasonable the prices are. Open Trading Stamps. Now—Come Today! Stock is unoroken. We will be glad to stationery Co. 314 W. 7th St. of Younkers. Ill Health is More Expensive Than any Cure. --- r Christmas Christmas shoppers in the slipper line.—Bigger and better but this year we are able (we think) to cope the slipper subject and buy those on your list ign countries—China, Japan, and Turkey, but no country. We offer a most varied line. $1 are Very Popular for Gifts—and the are never were better. er Shoe Company Valnut St., Des Moines C This contra is now fitted with people no moreuge across the country in all directions seeking that which cold cannot buy. Nine cents of them are suffering from throat and leg bogs or on one catheter resulting in maggoted colds, and spending for unevenly trying to regain lost heat. Could every suffler but modo the past and care that if maggoted colds all this so now, pain; anxiety and expense could have been avoided. Chamberlain's tough itemed, is famous for its curse of cold, and can always be depended upon. Use it and the new serious disease may be avoided. For sale by all du gas. Subscribe for the Bystander. Ford's Hair Pomade Ford's Hair Pomade Fifty years of success have proved the merits of this preparation. What is more attractive than a head of head of hair? It has the use of the Ford's Hair Pomade to enhance, brush, kelly or hair nail soften, more pliable and glossy, easy to comb and arrange in any style desired consistent with its length, as long as the Pomade remains in the hair. This as may be obtained through application according to directions. Two to four applications a month will keep the hair in satisfactory condition, and two to four bottles, regular size, are usually sufficient for a year. Direc-tory path is available. The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. 118 West Klugte St. Chicago, Ill. FORD'S PORUM POMADE is made only in Chicago Slippers for Women— Evening wear in satins in colors, $3 to $1. A pair of gold kid Slippers, at $7. Beaded Slippers, beautifully lone; $2.50 to $5.00. The price-range in Slippers for evening, wear is $2 to $7. Boudoir Slippers, at $50 to $3.50. Included are French embroidered and tapestry "mules," satin lined. Slippers of soft black and colored leathers, at $2 to $6. Turkish Slippers, tinsel, trimmed, at $50. Japanese Slippers, at $2.50. Felt "Comfy" and Juliet styles, at $1 to $1.75. The "Comfy" has a soft flexible padded sole. Christmas Customs of Every Land Seen in Washington By EDWARD B. CLARK ASHINGTON not only has a United States Christmas celebration but it has the festivities that mark the Christmas season in all the civilized nations of the world. At the Russian embassy there is a Christmas fete after the manner of the people in the land of the czar; there are French doings at the great European republic's official residence, and there is the genuine old English Christmas at the home of the British ambassador, and so one may go on through the entire list of foreign representatives, not even barring the embassies of China and Japan, where in honor of the day, as Christian nations view it, the oriental officials have holiday dinners. The South American people make much of Christmas. It is the great feast day in all Latin-American countries and the ambassadors and attaches and their families do not forget the customs of their native lands simply because for a few seasons they have been transplanted to new scenes. The "open house" is the order of the day in nearly every official residence in Washington after the family has had its own intimate celebration of the holiday. Large families are the rule rather than the exception among the ambassadors and ministers from the southern European and from the Central and South American countries. The children have a gala time of it at home and then the visiting begins. The presents that The South American people make it is the great feast day in all Latin and the ambassadors and attaches, not forget the customs of their native cause for a few seasons they have new scenes. The "open house" is the nearly every official residence in W. family has had its own intimate co- day. Large families are the rule ration among the ambassadors and southern European and from the Cecan countries. The children have home and then the visiting begin- are purchased and stored temporarily are not all for the adults and children. The probable visitors of the day are as a little Brazilian boy in Washington have had ten Christmas masses in ten hen Church going on Christmas day in Lyngton. Some persons have been used that all the American officials go mas because the fact is very apt to papers and "it reads well at home." Central American and South America parrally resident in Washington, are good churchmen, and they attend se- training and as a matter of course, women from the Latin-American coun- devout, and with them church going matter of duty that is not to be neg- cumstances. No child is allowed to result is that all the capital city ten well filled on the feast day. President Taft always has been a church and his service going since he establishes no precedent. Mrs. Taft Episcopalians, while the president is it is that Sundays and other church days in the year that the family be- vled. The president attends servi- church of All Souls, of which the Re- the pastor. Mrs. Taft and the chil- tendants at St. John's Episcopal chapstast was attended by so many presi- States that it came to be known so Church of State." Mrs. Roosevelt and attended St. John's on Sundays and while Mr. Roosevelt went to the little church on Fifteenth street, and rare This Christmas season the majority both houses of congress are in the was, and not so long ago, that sem- natives took their families and went holiday season, but now, for finan- tional legislators in the main elector for their holiday making. Prior the last railroad rate bill most of the greas had passes on the railroads. Our way when they travel and for distance from Washington this means penditure of money in case they de- Christmas. Every employee of the White House mas turkey by the president. This is years standing, and only once or two. The clerks in the departments, thousands of them, not only get a Chr- are allowed to leave their work at no one in order that they may do their- The lot of the department clerk in W hard one, as far as the matter of ho- Every employee is given a month's lea- year, and is allowed another mo- This last statement means, of course, the clerk is ill he or she receives full pay receipt of the physician's certificate be- real. The clerk gets seven or year, and these, taken in connection leave, and with the fact that the ho- only seven and a half each day, make- tion of the department clerk fairly con- Washington's Christmas is always even if there is snow on the ground, there are many trees and shrubs that and their color all through the year. there is rarely any snow in the capital of the name. All last winter, save for streets were bare of snow. Then con- curation day, and a record-making bill fall of snow, hall and rain mixed. T American people make much of Christmas. The feast day in all Latin-American countries assists and attaches and their families do customs of their native lands simply below seasons they have been transplanted to the "open house" is the order of the day in official residence in Washington after the its own intimate celebration of the holi-milies are the rule rather than the excepte ambassadors and ministers from the ocean and from the Central and South America. The children have a gala time at the visiting begins. The presents that and stored temporarily in the embassies the adults and children of the household, visitors of the day are borne in mind and child boy in Washington put it once: "I Christmases in ten hours." On Christmas day is the rule in Wash-persons have been unkind enough to say American officials go to church on Christ-the fact is very apt to get into the newscads well at home." The majority of the man and South American diplomats tem- t in Washington, are nominally at least, and they attend service as a matter of a matter of course. Practically all the Latin-American countries are religiously with church going on Christmas is a that is not to be neglected under any chro- child is allowed to miss church and the capital city temples of worship are the feast day. It always has been a regular attendant at service going since he became president precedent. Mrs. Taft and the children are while the president is a Unitarian, and so days and other church days are the only that the family is in a sense dissident attends service at the Unitarian, units, of which the Rev. U. G. B. Pierce is. Taft and the church U. G. B. Pierce is. Mrs. Roosevelt and her children also on Sundays and Christmas days, went to the little American Reform fourth street, and rarely missed a service. The majority of the members of the congress are in the capital city. Time long ago, that senators and represent-ers families and went home to spend the but now, for financial reasons, the na- sis in the main credit to stay in Wash- holiday making. Prior to the passage of rate bill most of the members of con- the railroads. Now they have to pay they travel and for those who live at a Washington this means a considerable ex-ney in case they desire to go home at top of the White House is given a Christ- the president. This is a custom of many and only once or twice has it been bro- in the departments, and there are many not only get a Christmas holiday, but have their work at noon on the day prev- they may do their Christmas shopping department clerk in Washington is not a as the matter of holidays is concerned. as given a month's leave on full pay in allowed another month "to be sck in." ment means, of course, only that if an em- she receives full pay for one month on physician's certificate that the illness has clerks get seven or eight holidays each taken in connection with the month's the fact that the hours of work number half each day, make the laboring condi-ment clerk fairly comfortable. Christmas is always a green Christmas, snow on the ground, for in this latitude trees and shrubs that hold their leaves in through the year. As a matter of fact snow in the capital city that is worthy last winter, save for a few hours, the of snow. Then came March 4th, Inau- a record-making blizzard with a down- and rain mixed. The holly is always SOLVE LIFE PRO CHINESE STUDENTS AT CHRISTMAS are purchased and stored temporarily in the embassies are not all for the adults and children of the household. The probable visitors of the day are borne in mind and as a little Brazilian boy in Washington put it once: "I have had ten Christmases in ten hours." Church going on Christmas day is the rule in Washington. Some persons have been unkind enough to say that all the American officials go to church on Christmas because the fact is very apt to get into the newspapers and "it reads well at home." The majority of the Central American and South American diplomats temporarily resident in Washington, are nominally at least good churchmen, and they attend service as a matter of training and as a matter of course. Practically all the women from the Latin-American countries are religiously devout, and with them church going on Christmas is a matter of duty that is not to be neglected under any circumstances. No child is allowed to miss church and the result is that all the capital city temples of worship are well filled on the feast day. the festivities the day were er and the chad had a chan to take acco of their press and then he and the log in Virginia he could shi front of a fire wi genuine "Christmas" log. On the Christmas ings, Mr. Rewelt did a rabbit shoot and troll. President Taft always has been a regular attendant at church and his service going since he became president establishes no precedent. Mrs. Taft and the children are Episcopalians, while the president is a Unitarian, and so it is that Sundays and other church days are the only days in the year that the family becomes in a sense divided. The president attends service at the Unitarian church of All Souls, of which the Rev. U. G. B. Pierce is the pastor. Mrs. Taft and the children are regular attendants at St. John's Episcopal church which in years past was attended by so many presidents of the United States that it came to be known semi-jocosely as "the Church of State." Mrs. Roosevelt and her children also attended St. John's on Sundays and Christmas days, while Mr. Roosevelt went to the little German Reformed church on Fifteenth street, and rarely missed a service. This Christmas season the majority of the members of both houses of congress are in the capital city. Time was, and not so long ago, that senators and representatives took their families and went home to spend the holiday season, but now, for financial reasons, the national legislators in the main elector to stay in Washington for their holiday making. Prior to the passage of the last railroad rate bill most of the members of congress had passes the rationale that they travelled and for those who live distance from Washington this means a considerable expenditure of money in case they desire to go home at Christmas. Every employee of the White House is given a Christmas turkey by the president. This is a custom of many years standing, and only once or twice has it been broken. The clerks in the departments, and there are many thousands of them, not only get a Christmas holiday, but are allowed to leave their work at noon on the day previous in order that they may do their Christmas shopping. The lot of the department clerk in Washington is not a hard one, as far as the matter of holidays is concerned. Every employee is given a month's leave on full pay in each year, and is allowed another month "to be sick in." This last statement means, of course, only that if an employee is ill or she receives full pay for one month on receipt of the physician's certificate that the illness has been real. The clerks get seven or eight holidays each year, and these, taken in connection with the month's leave, and with the fact that the work number only seven and a half each day, make the laboring condition of the department clerk fairly comfortable. Washington's Christmas is always a green Christmas, even if there is snow on the ground, for in this latitude there are many trees and shrubs that hold their leaves and their color all through the year. As a matter of fact there is rarely any snow in the capital city that is worthy of the name. All last winter, for a few hours, the streets were bare of snow. Then came March 4th, inauguration day, and a record-making blizzard with a downfall of snow hall and rain mixed. The holly is always HELP SOLVE LIFE PROBLEMS German Scientist Has Made Important Contribution to Solution of Great Question. Crystal wisdom comes from Prof. Otto Lehmann of Stuttgart, a student of flowing crystals for 36 years, ever since he discovered a novel form of microscope which permitted the optical examination of substances at temperatures differing considerably from --- W SE STUDENTS AT CHRISTMAS SE LEGATION day time he spent in glass, with which he with an eye sharpener species that was rare. President Taft loved not much of a tramp over the golf links on noons, Christmas in the comparative golf is possible nearly. There are several busy stationed in Wash for office work in the years. The naval making in the capitals the army, for the many Christmas as families, while here them and not break a army officer, whether some distant frontiers with him and so Christmas isarly bring with it theness that it brings to. In the biological school part of agriculture work. Most of these in the lives in the shells, plants and fish life is iksame the air, the barre it is that on every hour from office cares, they hills in many places a there are to be seen to who are cooking them the open sky. Some time ago all States were asked, if Christmas day and to found. Thousands of and are still following in a report to a central the birds that on Christ. As a result of artists have many valiant birds. For instance on a Christmas or two mocking birds were so fields near Boston, M from other northern course of things ought. Life Problems that of the surrounding air, and thus obtained access to an almost virgin field. That crystals, when placed in the saturated mother liquor, grow and have the power of healing fractures have suggested to many that crystallized matter is a form of life. Prof. Lehmann ventures with some confidence to assert, not that crystals themselves are living, but that crys day time he spent in the fields armed only with an opera glass, with which he studied the winter birds, always with an eye sharpened to the possibility of finding some species that was rare. President Taft loves nature, too, in a way, but he is not much of a tramper excepting where the walk leads over the golf links on which he spends his holiday afternoons, Christmas included, for in Washington because of the comparative mildness of the climate, the game of golf is possible nearly every day in the year. There are several hundred officers of the army and navy stationed in Washington, most of them being detailed for office work in the departments for a term of four years. The naval officers perhaps enjoy their holiday-making in the capital more than do their brothers of the army, for the sailors have been compelled to spend many Christmases at sea away from their wives and families, while here they may gather their families about them and not break any sea regulations in so doing. The army officer, whether he goes to the Philippines or to some distant frontier post, ordinarily takes his family with him and so Christmas day does not to him necessarily bring with it the sense of loneliness and homescickness that it brings to the man at sea. In the biological survey, which is a bureau of the department of agriculture, there are many scientists at work. Most of these men have spent a large part of their lives in the wilds studying birds and mammals, and shells, plants and fishes, to say nothing of reptiles. The office life is irksome to these scientists. They belong to the free air, the barren plains, and the pine forests. So it is that on every holiday that brings with it a release from office cares, they take to the open fields. About the hills in many places about Washington on Christmas day there are to be seen the little camp fires of the scientists who are cooking their mid-day Christmas dinners under the open sky. Some time ago all the bird students in the United States were asked, if they could, to make a trip afield on Christmas day and to make a list of the birds that they found. Thousands of bird lovers followed the suggestion and are still following it. Each one of the students turns in a report to a central headquarters giving the names of the birds that on Christmas day fell under his observation. As a result of this practice the Washington scientists have many valuable notes concerning "out of season" birds. For instance, the report came to Washington on a Christmas or two ago, that on the holiday four mocking birds were seen and positively identified in the fields near Boston. Mass. Other birds were reported from other northern localities, birds that in the ordinary course of things ought to have been far south of the Ma- green and so are the wild honey-suckle and the laurel, trees and plants that are abundant along the Potomac. President Roosevelt was, as every one knows, a nat ure lover. He took every opportunity that offered to get away from the city. His daily walks and rides took him far into the country, and on Christmas day during the last four years of his term of office he went to Pine Knot, a wooded, mountain country place that belonged to his wife. Mr. Roosevelt stayed in Washington until the festivities of the day were over and the children had a chance to take account of their presents, and then he left for the log cabin in Virginia where he could sit in front of a huge open fire with a genuine "old Christmas" back log. On these Christmas outings Mr. Roosevelt did a little rabbit shooting and tried to do some turkey shooting, but the major part of the ```markdown ``` SPANISH MINISTER AND SECRETARY STARTING ON ROUND OF CALLS tallization is the agency made use of by living growth. A glass of jelly, or any other noncrystalline substance, doesn't grow. On cooling it passes gradually from the melted to the solid condition, and forms about a large number of nudel, just as happens in the condensation of vapor. Crystallization is quite different. The growth is rapid, and the nudel are comparatively few. Prof. Lehmann noticed that liquid crystals, when under the influence of a magnetic fluid, coalesce and range themselves, with CHRISTMAS PARTY OF PAN- AMERICAN YOUNG PEOPLE a study of them in order that their merits and demurts may be determined. In some cases this means long and continued study and it is not at all an unusual thing to find a committee chairman giving over the joys of the home life on Christmas day to consult precedents and to formulate arguments to be used for or against some proposed legislation, and to find him doing this in the exclusion of a stuffy office room on Christmas day. A good many Washington people, especially those who came here from the south, go over into Virginia to hunt on Christmas day. In parts of the Old Dominion fox hunting is still the order of the winter day, and if the fox is not in evidence there are always rabbits and quail, while on the lower Potomac and in the marshes along Chesapeake bay in open winters, the ducks and the geese are fairly abundant. The outdoor life appeals strongly to the southerner, and in many cases the northerners who have come to the Potomac country have formed the hunting habit and join the Christmas day outing parties of their southern cousins. Christmas is the great holiday of Washington. From high to low the people make the most of it. There is good cheer everywhere evident and charity is not forgotten. AMERICA'S CHRISTMAS THE BEST OF ALL An occasional Jersey commuter, familiar with the religious section of Barclay street, is commonly the only sort of American in New York who knows a presepio by sight. Yet the presepio is the sign of the Latin Christmas, as the fir tree is of the northern. The manger of the Barclay street windows shows only the inside of the stable, with the figures and the cattle done in Italiana cotta. But the real presepio in its native land may show the whole countryside as well, and if the pilgrims wending their way to the manger are good Sicilian peasants, bearing good Sicilian wine and cheese on their donkeys, they are only the more interesting. St. Francis, born in the quaint little town of Assisi among the brown Umbrian hills, in 1182, invented the presepio to make the Christmas story plain to the simple, illiterate common people. During the 800 years since it has remained a favorite devotion in Latin Europe. The Italian and Spanish call it the presepio, the manger; the French the creche, the cradle; and the Hungarians and Belgians, Betelim, or Bethelhem. Only a few years since not a carpenter could be hired in Rome or Naples for weeks before Christmas. They their axes in the direction of the lines of force; in other words, the growth of an individual takes place. In fact, the similarity in aspect and behavior between certain liquid crystals and bacteria is remarkable, and scarcely can be accidental. Prof. Lehmann suggests that in life the directional force is "that mysterious essence so much discussed, and so little understood, the soul." In support of this "bold hypothesis" he puts forward many arguments and marshals an array of facts. It is de- were all busy erecting preposels in the houses of the quality, while the poorer folk were constructing their own. As the mainland grows more sophisticated the quiet old devotion is fading away; but in conservative Sicily people still make the preposel every year as they dress Christmas trees in New York. All over the island families are busy from December 1 to 15 putting their old preposels in order, or making new ones; and there is much calling to and fro to compare results and admire new and elaborate specimens of the art. The preposel may be a little thing on a stand in one corner, or it may occupy the whole side of a room. It may represent a whole mountain side, made of the rough, flexible bark or the cork tree. Peaks, crags and preposels abound, with winding trails, houses and castles of colored cardboard, forests of twigs and sometimes tiny pipes to furnish brooks and lakes. In the center is the grotto, with the holy family within. A sky of blue paper is stretched above, with the Star of Bethlehem conspicuous, and over the hills come the shepherds bearing the gifts to the babe. Spain, like Sicily, has never lost the prespole, and in both Spanish and Sicilian cities there are booths for the sale of miniature shepherds, magi and all the accessories of the art. In France the creche is not made at home, as in the southern countries, but it used to be a part of the Christmas decorations of every French church, and is still in the rural districts. Many a polished cosmopolite of Paris can remember working busily for days before Christmas in his childhood to help freshen up and rejuvenate the creche of his parish church in some little village of France. In the villages close by Paris to day children who go about the streets singing Christmas carols carry a little creche in a box upon their shoulders. The manger typifies the difference between the Latin and the Teuton Christmas. The Latin Christmas is a hanging up their stockings. Pierre and Babette, if they are very small indeed, believe that "le petit Jesus" or "le petit Noel"—"the little Jesus" or "the little Christmas"—have brought the gifts. But the average French child is as sophisticated as young America, and Pierre has to be a very little boy indeed, to believe in "le petit Jesus." No French or Italian child ever hears of Santa Claus till he comes to America; by which it may be gathered that good saint was strictly German, and when he emigrated, came to America like all the rest of the Germans. The growth of the typical American Christmas, with its universal Christmas greens and present-giving, is a curious phenomenon. It has no roots in American history. The original settlers of New England never observed it. The Dutch of New Amsterdam scarcely noticed it, but made New Year's the great, joyous, popular festival. Within the memory of old people still living Christmas passed unobserved in New York, while all holiday merrymaking centered in New Year's day. Modern America has built up a Christmas festival of its own, and has rejected definitely the religious feast in favor of the social and domestic one. In one way, however, the American Christmas is more religious than any and all the Latin church feasts put together. One who has lived through a year's changing round of salts' days in Italy, in all of which no work is done and the people take holiday, will observe that the thought of the people never goes out to those in need. The abounding giving of an American Christmas; the uneasy, uncomfortable feeling that every child, at least, must have, if possible, a good dinner and a present on Christmas day, is quite unknown in the Latin countries. The feeling that poor old bums and hoboes, even the criminals in their prisons, the paupers in their almshouses, the beggars, the unworthy—all ought to have something good to eat on that day, and a little Christmas cheer in some form—is part of the American Christmas. The races that come to the making pot of America keep their home Christmas for only a few years after they arrive. Then they drift off into a more or less Americanized Christmas. For a few years after they come, also, they try to eat their traditional dishes at Christmas time. The Hungarian housemother makes the Christmas cakes which a long line of ancestral cooks made before her across seas. They are round balls of dough, covered with honey and poppy seed, and then baked. The Echoaulans and Poles also make poppy seed cakes, each in a different style. The Sicilian housewife, too, has a traditional Christmas cake. It is a ring of dough with a hole in the middle—the Italian doughnut, in fact—which is fried, sprinkled with sugar and eaten hot. son and Dixon on line. So it is that a Washington Christmas day idea has been made to serve the ends of science. It has been said that in years past a great many of the senators and representatives in congress went home to spend the holidays, but that now the practice largely has passed. An exception should be made for the past, and the present, as well, in the cases of those senators and members who have in charge legislation which has been proposed in bill form at the opening of the session of congress. When bills are introduced they are at once referred to committees and if the measures are of importance the chairmen of the committees to which they have been sent, make 6 MISS KIYO TAKAHIRA, DLAUGHTER ON THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOR their merits and demerts causes this means long and not all an unusual thing to bring over the joys of the consult precedents and to for or against some probaim doing this in the seven Christmas day. people, especially those who overt in Virginia to hunt of the Old Dominion fox the winter day, and if the always rabbits and quail, and in the marshes along the ducks and the geese door life appeals strongly may cases the northerners country have formed the圣诞 day outing parties city of Washington. From most of it, There is good marity is not forgotten. CHRISTMAS OF ALL over, familiar with the re-ent, is commonly the only who knows a prespebly by sign of the Latin Christ-northern. The manger of owls only the inside of the mantle done in Italian ter- in its native land may well, and if the pilgrims are good Sicilian peas- and cheese on their interesting. at little town of Assisi lest in 1182, invented the story plain to the simple, the 800 years since it in Latin Europe. The prespebly, the manger; the mantle and the Hungarians and carpenter could be hired before Christmas. They hang up their们 are very small in pet Noel "it" the have brought them is as sophisticated be a very little be No French or Ita he comes to America that good saint is grated, came to mans. The growth of universal christ- ous phenomenon. The original set. The Dutch of Noe made New Year Within the mem-passed unobserv- rymaking centers has built up a O rejected definiti- cial and domestic can Christmas is in church feasts in a year's changing which no work is observe that the those in need. Christmas; the un child, at least, m a present on Christmas in countries. The feeling the criminals in their beggs something good to cheer in som- mas. The races that keep their home they arrive. The Americanized Christmas For a few year eat their tradition garian housemother long line of ancess They are round b poppy seed, and t also make poppy The Sicilian house cake. It is a ring the Italian dough with sugar and ea- claimed that he has made an important contribution to the solution of the great question confronting alike science and philosophy—what is life? The Academy of Silence It is written that among the various schools of Grecian philosophy existed one known as "The Academy of Silence, composed of 100 men, each member pledged to the purpose of the school, writes Hollis Godfrey in the Atlantic. To them came one seeking admission. Their list of member- purely religious festival, as much so as any other feast of the church. It has no particularly domestic or social quality. Italian children never get presents on Christmas day. That is done on All Souls' day, in October, when they believe—if they are very small—that the spirits of their departed relatives have come back in the night and left presents for them; undoubtedly a very ancient relic of ancestor worship. It is the great Teuton family of nations that give presents to children on Christmas day. And the Christmas tree came out of the vast forests where dwell the heathen German and Scandinavian tribes. It is, in fact, a pagan relic, passed down from primitive forest dwellers and worshippers. Where Celt, Slav or Latin use it, they have borrowed it. France, half Latin and half Celt, dashed with Gaul and Viking, is a family by herself in this, as in everything. She builds the manger in the churches, but at home, though she seldom dresses a Christmas tree, little Babette and Pierre set their shoes by the fireplace instead of ship was closed and their head calling the would-be neophyte before the assembled audience, showed him without a word an urn so filled with water that not a single drop could be added. The neophyte, reading the message, bowed silently, started to withdraw, but hesitated and returned. Picking a petal from a flower, he dropped it on the brimming bowl so dexterously that it floated without dislodging the slightest particle of the liquid. The membership of the academy of silence became 101. GOOD WORK IS LOVED WORK And Therein One Should Find the Contentment That Is Chief Part of Life. If a man doesn't love his work, he had better get something else to do. But the trouble is that such people will hardly love any kind of work. The trouble is in them. They lack intelligence. If they knew enough to know good work, they would soon learn to love it. The manual-training scheme has this in view—to surround the job a man is doing with such intelligence and taste as will make it attractive to him. "The man who is in love with his job gets more contentment out of life than any other," says Brander Matthews; and he gets a great part of his contentment in doing his work right. No man can love his work who shirks. No man can be contented who is dishonest about his work. This is shirking or doing it negligently. So these things always go together—honest work, contentment and love of the job. AGONIZING ITCHING Eczema for a Year—Got No Relief Even at Skin Hospital—In Despair Until Cuticura Cured Him. "I was troubled with a severe itching and dry, scruffy skin on my ankles, feet, arms and scalp. Scratching made it worse. Thousands of small red pimples formed and these caused intense itching. I was advised to go to the hospital for diseases of the skin. I did so, the chief surgeon saying: "I never saw such a bad case of eczema." But I got little or no relief. Then I tried many so-called remedies, but I became so bad that I almost gave up in despair. After suffering agonies for twelve months, I was relieved of the almost unbearable itching after two or three applications of Cuticura Ointment. I continued its use, combined with Cuticura Soap and Pills, and I was completely cured. Henry Searle, Little Rock, Ark, Oct. 8 and 10, 1907." Stated in Cold Figures It costs on an average about $250 to cure an incipient consumptive or to care for an advanced case of tuberculosis until death. If he is left in desistute circumstances without proper attention he will surely infect with his disease at least two other persons, and possibly more. Considering that the average life is worth to society in dollars and cents about $1,500, the net loss which would accrue to a community by not treating its poor consumptives in proper institutions would be, for each case, including those who are unnecessarily infected, at the very lowest figure, $4,250. On this basis, if the poor consumptives in the United States who are now sick were segregated from their families, and either kept in institutions until they died, or else cured of their disease, the saving to the country would be the enormous sum of $1,275,000,000. Detected. The consul in London of a continental kingdom was informed by his government that one of his country women, supposed to be living in Great Britain, had been left a million of money. After advertising without result, he applied to the police, and a smart young detective was set to work. When a few weeks had gone by his chief asked him how he was going on. "I've found the lady, sir." "Good! Where is she?" "Good! Where is she?" "to place. I got married to her yesterday!" Now and Then. He is a capitalist now in an Obo town, but he was not always thus. He has progressed along various lines, and one mark of his progress is the open-back shirt, a comparatively moden invention. To this he is yet new, and recently commented upon it to a friend who was in his room while he was dressing. "Look at me," he said, sticking his head through his shirt. "When I came to this town I hadn't a shirt to my back, and now—now, I haven't a back to my shirt." Not Up to Modern Standards. "Your wife's new hat makes her look like a queen," said the man who tries to be complimentary. "Don't let her hear you say that," answered Mr. Bliggins; "I have looked through the histories and I never yet saw a picture of a queen who looked as if she enjoyed a first-class milliner." If the women are to be credited, every married woman finally dies of a broken heart, and every old bachelor has had his heart buried in a grave for years. HABIT'S CHAIN Certain Hardware by Formed Hardware and Hardware Break. An ingenious philosopher estimates that the amount of will power necessary to break a life-long habit would, if it could be transformed, lift a weight of many tons. It sometimes requires a higher degree of heroism to break the chains of a pernicious habit than to lead a forlorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady writes from an Indiana town: "From my earliest childhood I was a lover of coffee. Before I was out of my teens I was a miserable dyspeptic, suffering terribly at times with my stomach. "I was convinced that it was coffee that was causing the trouble and yet I could not deny myself a cup for breakfast. At the age of 36 I was in very poor health, indeed. My sister told me I was in danger of becoming a coffee drunkard. "But I never could give up drinking coffee for breakfast, although it kept me constantly ill, until I tried Postum. I learned to make it properly according to directions, and now we can hardly do without Postum for breakfast, and care nothing for coffee. "I am no longer troubled with dyspepsia, do not have spells of suffering with my stomach that used to 'trouble me so when I drank coffee." Look in pigs, for the little boo! "The Road to Wellville." "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter. A new one appears from time to time. They include, true, and full of human THE FARMERS OF CENTRAL CANADA REAP WHEAT AND RICHES. Up in the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the provinces that compose Central Canada have such a quantity of land suitable for the growth of small grains, which grow so abundantly, and yield so handsomely that no fear need be feared of a wheat famine on this Continent. The story reproduced below is only one of the hundreds of proofs that could be produced to show the results that may be obtained from cultivation of the lands in these provinces. Almost any section of the country will do as well. With the country recently opened by the Grand Trunk Pacific, the latest of the great transcontinental lines to enter the field of the development of the Canadian West, there is afforded added ample opportunity to do as was done in the case cited below: To buy a section of land, break it up and crop it, make $17,550 out of the yield and $10,880 out of the increase of value all within the short period of two years, was the record established by James Bailey, a well known farmer within a few miles of Regina. Mr. Bailey bought the 640 acres of land near Grand Coulee two years ago. He immediately prepared the whole section for crop and this year has 600 acres of wheat and 40 acres of oats. The wheat yielded 19,875 bushels, and the oats yielded 4,750 bushels. The whole of the grain has been marketed and Mr. Bailey is now worth $17,550 from the grain alone. He bought the land at $18 an acre, and the other day refused an offer of $25 an acre, just a $17 advance for the time of his purchase. The land cost $11,320 in the first instance. Here are the figures of the case—Land cost, 640 acres, at $18, $11,320. Wheat yielded 19,875 bushels, at 84 cents a bushel, $16,695. Oats yielded 4,750 bushels at 28 cents a bushel, $855. Offered for land, 640 acres at $15 an acre, $22,400. Increase value of land, $10,880. Total earnings of crop, $17,550, together with increase in value of land a total of $28,540. It is interesting to note the figures of the yield per acre. The wheat yielded $33\%$ bushels to the acre, and oats 118.7 bushels to the acre. The figures are a fair indication of the average throughout the district. 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Managua, Nicaragua. — President Zelaya has resigned. He sent his resignation as chief executive to the national congress of the Nicaraguan republic on Thursday. Five deputies were appointed immediately upon the receipt of the resignation to draft a bill looking to its acceptance, which is now considered a mere formality. Accompanying his resignation Zelaya sent the following message to congress: The painful circumstances into which the country is plunged call for acts of abnegation and patriotism on the part of good citizens, who are the witnesses of the oppression of the republic by the heavy hand of fate. The country is staggering under a shameless revolution which threatens the nation's sovereignty and a foreign nation, unjustly intervenes in our affairs, publicly providing the rebels with arms, which has only resulted in their being defeated everywhere through the heroism of our troops. "To avoid further bloodshed and for the reason that the revolutionists have declared that they would put down their arms when I surrendered the executive power, I hereby place in the hands of the national assembly the abandonment of the remainder of my term of office, which is to be filled by a substitute of their choosing, with the hope that this will result in good to Nicaragua, the re-establishment of peace and particularly the suspension of the hostility of the United States, to which I do not wish to give a pretext for intervention." News of the president's action spread throughout the city, and soon great crowds moved through the streets, shouting for the United States, Estrada and the revolution. Apparently there was no other course for Zelaya to take. The people were aroused. The guns of the revolutionists threatened. The warships of the United States lay in Nicaraguan ports. Managua has been seething for days. The spirit of revolt has spread even to the gates of the palace. Zedaya surrounded himself with an armed guard. Unchecked, the people have marched through the streets, crying for the end of the old, proclaiming the new regime. Who will take up the reins no one knows nor cares. There is no doubt that congress will act quickly on his resignation. Dr. Jose Madriz, judge of the Central American court of justice at Cartago, who has been close to Zehaya and is now his choice for president, is on his way here. Madriz has his following strong and influential, even among the revolutionists, but Gen. Estrada, under whose command the great body of fighting insurgents now face Vasquez's troops at Rama, will have none of him. Estrada's word will bear weight in the choice of president. Zelaya has known, too, that Madriz is not acceptable to the United States and he has sought to learn who would be looked upon with favor by that government as his successor, but the American government, so far as can be learned, has named no man and the choice probably will lie with those who have gained the upper hand. 12 DEAD: 25 HURT IN WRECK Broken Rail Derails Southern Railway Passenger Train—Cars Fall Down Thirty-Foot Embankment. Greensboro, N. C.-Local passenger train on the Southern railway, known as the Richmond and Atlanta train, was wrecked Wednesday at Reedy Fork trestle, ten miles north of here, and 12 dead bodies have been removed from the wreckage. It is reported 14 are dead. Twenty-five injured are at St. Leo's hospital. George J. Gould, who with his son Jay, was in one of the Pullmans when the train jumped the track and who was reported dead, escaped uninjured. The derailment was caused by a broken rail about 200 feet from the trestle that spans the small stream. The engine and baggage, mail and express cars passed over in safety, while the day coaches and Pullmans were thrown from the trestle into the creek 30 feet below. Liberals Win in Spain Madrid.—Returns from the municipal elections held Sunday indicate that the Liberals and Republicans generally were successful. There was considerable rioting at Bilbao, Barcelona and Malaga and a number of casualties occurred. Bomb Hurled at Bishop. Lisbon—The anniversary of the revolt of the seminarists was marked by the throwing of a bomb at the bishop of Branganza Wednesday. The bishop was uninjured. No particular political significance is attached to the act. Ex: Congressman Is Dead. Washington—Former Congressman Philip B. Thompson, Jr., of Kentucky stricken in the street with hemorrhage of the stomach, died at the Emergency hospital Wednesday. Gives Life as Election Bet. Santa Barbara, Cal.—John Mulholland, a harnessmaker, carried out a pre-election threat when he shot and killed himself here Tuesday. A few days before the election Mulholland said that Boeosewere were defeated for mayor he would kill himself. Koreans' Tribute to Ito. Seoul—A statue in heroic size to Prince Ita is to be erected in Seoul by the voluntary subscriptions of Koreans. A large sum of money has already been subscribed. KING LEOPOLD PASSES AWAY AGED MONARCH UNABLE TO LONGER STAND STRAIN. After Restful Day, Alarming Symp toms Appeared, Physicians Unable to Prolong His Life. Brussels — King Leopold of Belgium died at 2:35 o'clock Friday morning, his aged and wasted body being unable to stand the strain put upon it. The collapse occurred suddenly and at a moment when the doctors seemingly had had the greatest hopes for his recovery. Apparently the drainage of the wound was perfect, as no fever was present and during the day the king had been able to take nourishment. The public at large was satisfied that the king was on the road to recovery, but within the pavilion, where the king lay, there was a feeling of anxiety, chiefly because of Leopold's great age. After a restful day the patient was able to sleep for a brief period early in the evening and the night passed quietly. But towards two o'clock alarming symptoms appeared. Suddenly the king turned and called to Dr. Thirriar: "I am suffering." Dr. De Page was summoned and the two physicians did everything possible to prolong life, but without avail. The end came quickly and, after a spell of weakness, peacefully. Prince Albert arrived at the death bed about twenty-five minutes later. The young man who will ascend the Belgian throne, the pride of his nation and one of the best educated of royalty, a lover of outdoor sports and fair play, wept as he stood beside the remains of the uncle whose death had made him king and across the watching city there swept the cry: "The king is dead; long live the king!" Leopold II., king of the Belgians, was born April 9, 1835. His father was Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, an uncle of the late Queen Victoria. His mother was a daughter of Louis Philippe of France. Leopold's father was elected king of the Belgians in 1831 when they escaped from Dutch rule, and Leopold II. succeeded to the throne in 1865. At the age of 18 he was married to Marie Henrietta, daughter of the Archduke Joseph of Austria. On his majority he entered the Belgian senate. During the following five years he traveled in Spain, Morocco, Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, India and China, earning the distinction of being the most traveled monarch in Europe when he became ruler of Belgium. Leopold often expressed a desire to visit the United States in later years, but the coming of old age, his cares and perhaps, to a certain extent, his pleasures prevented. LURTON FOR SUPREME BENCH Taft Nominates Tennessee Jurist to Be Associate Justice—Judge Carpenter to Succeed Bethea. Washington.—President Taft nominated Horace H. Lurton of Tennessee to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States. Judge Lurton is a Tennessee man and was appointed judge of the Sixth circuit by President Cleveland March 27, 1893. He was a Democrat in politics at that time. President Taft appointed Judge George A. Carpenter of Chicago for United States district court of northern Illinois, to succeed the late Judge Bethea. Judge Carpenter has sat on the bench of the Cook county circuit court for a number of years and is regarded as one of the foremost jurists in that state. TAKE 7 BODIES FROM MINE Rescuers Find Miners Entombed in Kentucky Shaft All Dead from Black Damp. Madisonville, Ky.—A rescuing party headed by State Mine Inspector Norwood of Lexington found the bodies of the seven miners entombed in the Baker mine of the West Kentucky Coal Company near Wheatcroft. The miners had evidently died from black damp a few hours after the explosion. The bodies are now in an improvised morgue awaiting the inquest. The seven miners, all negroes, had been entombed since Saturday afternoon when the explosion occurred, presumably from a windy shot. Dr. Frank W. Reilly Dead. Chicago—Dr. Frank W. Reilly, for many years assistant health commissioner of Chicago, union soldier, ploner sanitarian and editor, died at his home after an illness of 15 months. Gen. W. W. Dudley Dead. Washington.—Gen.W. W. Dudley of Indiana, former commissioner of pensions, died Wednesday of Bright's disease. Mexican Insults Old Glory. Monterey, Mex.—A drunken Mexican has been placed in jail here for tearing down and spitting upon an American flag in token of his contempt for the attitude of the United States in the Nicaraguan affair. Sneezes Out Bullets. Wilkesbarre, Pa.—After carrying three bullets in his head for 47 years Francis Rogers of this city, a civil war veteran, ejected them from his nose during a fit of violent sneezing Thursday. Hill Purchases Electric Road Spokane, Wash.—James J. Hill announced Wednesday here that the great Northern had obtained a controlling interest in the Spokane & Island electric railroad. The road will be used as a feeder for the main line. Record in Copper Exports. Washington. — During 1908 the United States contributed more than half of the world's total production of copper, the exports of copper from this country being 615,613,842 pounds, the largest amount recorded. BIG TAX ON WIRES Will Probably Be Settled by Big Corporations STATE WANTS $657,000 TAX Reported That Representatives of Western Union Telegraph Company and Railway Have Reached Agreement. Des Moines, Dec. 18.—The state of Iowa is about to receive taxes amounting to $657,000 which are due from the Western Union Telegraph or the Burlington railway company for the former company's wires which are strung along the railway line from Burlington to Council Bluffs and on the Humberton branch. The taxes have been accruing for six years. A conference for a settlement has been set for Monday between state officers having the matter in charge, Attorney James Hewitt of the Western Union company and Fourth Vice-President Baldwin of the C. B. & Q railway company. The $657,000 represents the states tax of $300 a mile on the telegraph property for the year 1903, when the tax was assessed against the Burlington railway company, and for the six years following. When the state made its assessment in 1903 it charged the tax of 200 a mile—making a total of more than $103,000—against the railway on the theory that the railway company owned the telegraph system. The railway company objected, however, and sued out an injunction stopping the state from collecting. The injunction proceedings have been pending in the courts ever since without ever going to final decree. Recently Attorney General Byers served notice that the action must be disposed of and that it must be set down for hearing. There was no controversy as to the right of the state to collect the tax, the sole question being whether the Western Union should pay or the Burlington should pay it, or the two corporations should unite on it. Conferences between the two corporations have brought about an agreement between them, and the executive council, in special session, was informed that the representatives of the two companies would be on hand Monday with a proposition for a settlement. It is understood there will be an application on the part of the corporations too, to cut down the tax on the claim that it is excessive, and the council may have to deal with this proposition also. State officers say they do not know what arrangement has been entered into between the Western Union company and the Burlington relative to the payment of the tax. MABRAY CASES SET FOR JAN. 7 Arguments on Defendant's Demurrers Will Be Heard at That Time at Council Bluffs. Council Bluffs, la, Dec. 18. The criminal cases against J. C. Mabray and about eighty allied associates, charged with conspiring to defraud a large number of persons from various parts of the country through fake races, with betting matches and other sporting events, have been set for argument on the defendant's demurrers Jan. 7, 1910. Civil cases against Mabray and certain citizens and financial institutions of this place, brought by victims of these reputed swindles have been postponed to Jan. 10. Colby Divorce Case Settled Mason City, In., Dec. 18.—The Colby divorce case was decided in favor of the defendant, granting the custody of the child of half a year. Plaintiff faded to show cause, and must pay all costs, except attorney's fees. W. Semerille College has made a bitter and sensational fight. He has been a county officer for years. His wife was from a wealthy Clear Lake family. Remley Wins Damage Suit Iowa City, Ia., Dec. 18. - Hon. Milton Remley of Iowa City, former attorney general of the state, got $27 for his dog, which was run over by an automobile driven by Roy Rarick. Itemized the jury's finding is, for medical care $3, for personal care $20, value of the dog $4. The closing argument for the plaintiff was made by Mr. Remley. Estherville Silver Wedding Estherville, Ia., Dec. 18.—At their home south of this city was celebrated the silver anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Osher. About 140 guests were present. Pardon Denied Dr. Crofford. Des Moine, Dec. 18.—Governor Carroll turned down the recommendation of the state board of parole that he pardon Dr. J. W. Crofford of Decatur county, now serving a twelve-year sentence in Ft. Madison for murder in the 2nd degree. Negro Is Killed. Ottumwa, Dec. 13 - Sidney Pennington a negro known as "Slim," was run over by a switch engine on a grade crossing here and ground to pieces. He lived in Kansas City. Bird Show at Manson Lake City, Ia., Dec. 18.—The bird and poultry show at Manson is a complete success. About 250 entries have been made and the judging has been completed. The promoters, guarantee a better exhibition next year. Found Dead on Dexter Street Dexter In, Dec. 18—Charles Wolfinger, one of the best known men of this community, was found dead on a street. It is believed that he had suffered a stroke of paralysis, and died from the effects of the attack The Exception. In a home where the mother is somewhat aggressive and the father good-natured and peace-loving, a child's estimate of home conditions was tersely expressed the other day. While dressing, the mother paused in the act of putting on her shoes and said: "I certainly am easy on shoes, I have worn these for four months. I don't know what you would do, John, if I were not. I am easy on everything." The little girl looked up from her dolls and remarked: "Except father."—Success. $100 Reward, $100. 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Mr. and Mrs. Roy Grayson of Hockenheimports and friends in Alba, Sunday. Rev. D. E. Butler the popular pastor of the First A. M. E. church boasts of his parish as being the largest in Iowa. Aside from a stewards trustee and stewardess board aggregating 29 officers he has organized a board of 10 members of the board who not only wear the regalia of the office but render effective service. Alfred Grayson of Hitten spent several days of this week in town at the home of his daughter-in-law Mrs. E. Grayson. Mr. John Washington of Hocking instructor of the Vesta Musical Club was in town Sunday teaching the club. He will allen of Hocking has moved to Abla. Rev. Woodard and his good people of the First Baptist church are succeeding beyond measure. The Reverands Mays and Epperson pastors respectively of the Second A. M. E. tabernacle* Baptist churches are working what under ordinary circumstances would be called miracles. 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Jackson of Albia preached Sunday and Monday evenings at the Second Baptist church. have services for two Sundays but spite of the bad weather, sometimes is Sunday was well attended all day. The Sunday school under the lead sdh of Mrs. R. P. Palmer are upren Mr. Ross McCain of Davenport is spending a few days in the city with relatives and friends. Mrs. Drady Lesly of St. Louis Missouri, passed away at the Burton House last Wednesday. The deceased was twenty-nine years of age, she leaves to mourn her loss three children, husband and a sister, Mrs. Person of St. Louis. Interment take place Thursday afternoon at Forest Home cemetery Those on the sick list this week are little Manie Lesly, Mesdames Edd Picket, Carter, and McNell, and Mr. Sam McCracken. Miss Myrtle Burnaugh returned home Thursday A. M. accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Scott of Keokuk. Miss Myrtle thurraugh pleasantly entertained a number of ladies and gentlemen at a party Monday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Scott of Keokuk, games and music were the amusements of the evening, one prizes were awarded during the evening, one to Miss Hazel Logan the other to Mr. Scott, light refreshments were server and all report a jolly good time. MARSHALLTOWN ITEMS. Special to the Bystander. The weather as been very bad here which made it impossible for us to DES MOINES' FAVOR DAVID IOWA'S LARGEST F 412-414-416-418 The store for welcome and la thousand and choose from charm and deli to come. They from 10c up DES MOINES FAVORITE HOLIDAY STORE DAVIDSON'S IOWA'S LARGEST FURNITURE STORE 412-414-416-418-WALNUT-ST. The store for appropriate welcome and lasting gifts. A thousand and one pieces to choose from. Gifts that charm and delight for years to come. They range in price from 10c up to $1500.00. 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Brown on the subject. The needs of the people of Marshaltown. The newcomers in our city are falling in line. The choir is proud to secure the able assistance of the music teacher and the music teacher who has a white class. Brs. Cassie Flakes, has moved to Brs. Cassie Flakes has moved to Boon la to make it her future home. Mr. Will Mabray of Kansas and Mr. Will Redrick of Charanooga, Tenn. has moved to Marshaltown to make it their future home. We are glad to welcome the new comers, many of them are securing good positions. For a Lame Back When you have pains or lameness in back bathe the parts with Chamber lain's Liniments twice a day, massag WHITE HOLIDAY STORE DSON'S FURNITURE STORE 135-WALNUT-ST. for appropriate, casting gifts. A one pieces to Gifts that right for years range in price to $1500.00. 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