Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XVII, No 34 CITY NEWS. (N B. I you have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we solicit all your local news.—Ed.) Mr. Earnest Erickson is quite sick this week at his parents home with tonsolitis. The Willing Workers club met last Tuesday at the residence of Mrs. Henry Tolliver 1629 Walker. A good time. Mr. Tug Wilson who was injured in a wreck on the Great Western R. R. a few weeks ago is able to be out again. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Hicks, 1341 Buchanan street, entertained Rev. and Mrs. S. Bates at dinner last Sunday. The W. H. & F. M. circle held their monthly meeting last week, Friday evening with Rev. and Mrs. S. Bates. Miss Louisa Williams met with an accident last week. She run a nail in her foot from which she suffered very much. Mr. Alexander of Kansas City, Mo., spent a few hours this week in our city visiting relatives, H. E. Jacobs and family. Rev, and Mrs. S. Bates entertained J. B. Burton of Davenport last Friday evening at dinner. Mr. Burton is an old friend of Rev. Bates. He is here visiting his nephew, Mr. J. Burton on Des Moines street. The West End Bridge club was entertained Wednesday evening at the home of Miss Gertrude Hydre, 821 W. 13th st. The game of Bridge, which was played at two tables, moved at a rapid pace, followed by the serving of refreshments. The club will meet next Wednesday evening, at the home of Miss Lulu Jackson, 1122 W. 8th street. The Corinthian Aid society met last Friday with Mrs Peterson. The monthly meeting was changed from the second Friday to the third Friday night in each month for the benefit of the Mothers of the club, so they could attend the Mothers Meeting at the schools Adjourned to meet with Mrs. Garrett, 1250 McKinley street. On Wednesday, Feb 1, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Johnson. 1827, Lincoln Avenue, become the proud parents of a baby boy. The new boy is known as Wesley Maurice Johnson. Mother and boy doing nicely. Mrs Johnson was formerly Miss Stella Blond of Keokuk, Ia The Messrs. S. Ewing, Joseph A. Reid and Arthur W. Branham entertained at an elaborate four course dinner in honor of Miss Ada Hale, prior to her departure to Iowa University. The other guests present were Miss Gertrude Hyde and Miss Martha Loeffler. The after dinner hours were devoted to whist and music. The memorial evening program next Friday evening will have some of the best speakers in the Iowa legislature on the program at Union Congregational church; also some of the best musicians. Let everybody come prepared to take supper and enjoy the program The Des Moines Negro Lyceum met Tuesday, Feb. 7th, with Atty, and Mrs. J. B. Rush, at their home, 20th and Mondamin avenue. Resolutions were drawn up and adopted condemning the proposed playing of Dixons Clansman at the local theaters, in the near future, and a copy of the some mailed to the Hon. Mayor, and to the head of the Department of Public safety. The program for the evening consisted of papers and talks upon the life and work of the late Hon Fredrick Douglass. The Lyecem will meet Tuesday Feb. 14th, with Mr. Harry Seymore. 723 W. 10th street, at which time the following Lincoln program will be rendered: Oration — Abraham Lincoln Life and Character of Lincoln — J. Augustus Reid Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech — Miss Chena Graves The Emancipation Proclamation — Viriam Jones Lincoln as a Salesman... H. C. Brown Current Events. Report of Critic Where Wife is Master. In Abysintha the wife is master. If her husband offends her she can turn him out, for house and furniture are bers. On last Friday afternoon, at the residence of Mrs. Geo. H. Mason, the Intellectual Improvement club held a very interesting session. A large attendance being present, delegates were elected to the city convention, which meets Monday evening. Feb. 18th for the purpose of making arrangements for the Inter-State meeting to be held in Wichita, Kas., in December. The delegates are as follows: Mrs. S. Joe Brown, Miss Martha Liller and Mrs. Harvey brown. Alternates Mrs. J. F. Williams, Mrs. H. W. Hughes and Mrs. Geo. A. Mason. Delegates were also elected to the State Federation Brawn, Mrs. Chas. Cousins. Alternates Mrs. J. R. Erickson and Mrs. John Woodson. The next meeting will be be this afternoon with Mrs. Harvy Brown, of which time the life of Frederick Dovglass will be discussed. Don't forget to go to the chicken pie supper at Congregational church, cor. 10th and Park, Friday evening, Feb. 17, at 6 o'clock, prompt, given under the management of Mrs. J. Robinson. Everybody invited. 25c a plate. The M. C. T, club met last Monday evening at the residence of Mrs. Arthur Jones. The newly elected officers were installed by Rev. T. L. Griffith, of Corinthian Baptist church. After the address was delivered by the president, Miss Marie I. Bell, a solo was sang by Mrs. Frank Johnson. Remarks were made by several of the visitors present, among them Mr. Alexander Tillery of Omaha delivered an address Mr. John L. Thompson will leave tomorrow for Buxton, Iowa, to deliver an address on Abraham Lincoln, Sunday evening at the St. Johns A. M. E. church. An excellent program has been arranged. Music by Prof. Oliver's cornet band. The full choir will sing. Mrs. W. H. London will speak on the life of Richard Allen, Atty. S. J. Spears will be toastmaster. Rev. Butler is planning for a great meeting. The Maple Street Baptist church held their covenant meeting Sunday at 3 o'clock. 12 candidates were baptized by the pastor, Rev. S. Bates, and at night they administered the Lord's Supper in the evening. A large crowd was out considering the stormy day. This makes a total of thirty-one new additions to Maple street church, which speaks well for Rev. S. Bates, their pastor. The Get Busy club met last Tuesday night with Mr. and Mrs. C. C Cox, 1209 E. 16th St. A fine time. Mr. Hayes Bell, who has been on the sick list is up and out again, this week. The Coronation club met with Rev. and Mrs S. Bates, Thursday evening, and reported a splendid meeting. The M. C. T. club will meet Monday a afternoon at the home of Mrs H. R. Graves in Lake Park. The following program will be rendered. Quotation, Lincoln; Instrumental sol, Miss Marie I. Bell; Reading, Mrs Murphy; Vocal solo, Mrs Florence E White; Reading Gertrude Hyde; Vocal solo, Prof. Scott. There will be a patriotic Memorial services held at the Union Congregational church next Friday evening, Feb. 17th at 8 o'clock. The memorial exercises will be free. They will commemorate the life and character of our three Great American heroes, who was born beneath this month, namely, Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglass and George Washington. Addresses will be delivered on the life and character of each of these three great men. On Douglass birthday, which is supposed to be the 17th of February, a 6 o'clock fine chicken supper will be served by the ladies of the church, under the supervision of Mesdames Frank P. Johnson and Mrs J. Robinson. Everybody is asked to come out and take supper with those ladies, then go up stairs and attend the evening exercises. Western Negro Press Association. Some of the officers of the Western Negro Press Association for 1911 who will be at our next annual meeting to be held in Topeka Kansas, this Summer. The association is growing in interest and influence and will soon knit together a very strong and useful organization. It is certainly needed in the great West to bind our leading editors, journalists and race men together for the common good and mutual benefit of all our varied interests. Elsewhere will be found the cuts of some of the active members of the association. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The American Nation, though young in age. Yet she has produced a few men whose natal day is made a legal holiday and the people celebrate the birthday day of that man while our Nation is young; yet, some of her mighty sons are worthy of our celebration and emulation, therefore, on next Sunday we of America will honor the birthday of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, who came from the common ranks of lowly birth, trined in the schools of the early pioneer of life in the West, he marched from a little one-room, one-door, one window log cabin from the South fork of the big Nolin Creek, in La Rue county, Kentucky, to the presidential chair, in the Mansion at Washington, D. C., where he emancipated the bondsmen and illiterated the American people from their bigotry of American Slavery, established equality and justice of our citizens. He truly established a united country for the people, of the people, and by the people. Like other great heroes, after his mission was done he was taken from this earth by a assassin's hand. May peace and blessing be to his memory. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1911. A. B. Born Feb. 12, 1809. ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE EMANCIPATOR. A, J. SMITHERMAN. The above cut is the newly elected President of the W. N. P. A. Mr. A. Smitherman of Muskogee, Oklahoma, is associated with the "Seimeter," the oldest paper in Oklahoma. Young Smitherman is an active young, hustling newspaper man. He recently married a beautiful lady from the South. NICK CHILDS The above cut is that of the game and fighting editor, Nick Childs, of Topeka, Kansas. Editor of the Topeka Plaindealer and Treasurer of the W. N. P. U., who will entertain the Association this year. Mr. Childs is a true race man. He has worked hard, made good JOHN L. THOMPSON. This is a true likeness of Mr. John L. Thompson, of Des Moines, Iowa, editor of the Iowa State Bystander, Ex-President of the W. N. P. A., and at present chairman of the Executive Board. He has built up the association in the past two years, and has made his paper one of the best in the Middle West. BUXTON BRIEFS. A fatal accident occurred in No. 15, last week, in which one man was killed, and Willie Wesley, had his left leg broken between the hip and knee. The right leg was so badly bruised that it was at first thought that both were broken. We are glad to report that Willie is resting easy at this writing. Mrs M. E. Oliver is on the sick list this week. Rev. W. A. Moore, a blind evangelist, from North Carolina, is assisting Rev. C. C. Caloway in a meeting this week. The B. Y. P. U meeting was fairly well attended at Tabernacle Baptist church last Sunday evening. Robert Lowry, Jr., read a very splendid paper on "Self Control." Mrs. Phobe Cook and her cousin, Jno. JOHN H. HARRIS The above cut is that of the game and fighting editor, Nick Childs, of Topeka, Kansas. Editor of the Topeka Palindealer and Treasurer of the W. N. P. U., who will entertain the Association this year. Mr. Childs is a true race man. He has worked hard, made good money, owns a beautiful residence, just across from the Governors mansion; he owns some other valuable property and is a wholesouled newspaper leader. All Kansas knows him. He in vites all to come to his city this year. H. Allen, are both on the sick list. Mr. Allen has a very bad attack of rheumatism. Mt. Zion church is preparing to celebrate its Eighth anniversary, Feb. 9-13 There will be a splendid program each evening, except Saturday, and a Sacred Musical concert Sunday evening. Rev. Caloway of the Tabernacle Baptist church with his choir, will have full charge of the Sunday afternoon service. Envelopes have been distributed among the members and each one is expected to give an anniversary dollar. Postmaster Mills is still improving in health. Mr. Ed, Green, who has been confined to the Des Moines hospital came home last Wednesday, very much improved. Mesdames Bessie Jackson and Mary Miles will visit Des Moines, next week and will probably see the "Smart Set" while there Mr. J. H. Farrell, who spent several weeks in Hot Springs for his health, has returned to Bxxton as fat as a pig and feeling fine. He is the one man that can write more insurance for the Bankers Accident Insurance Co. than any two men. Mr. Walter Blaney was on the sick list last week. Mrs Cordelia Mitchell was forced to leave her work one day last week on account of illness. Bills will soon be circulated announcing a grand entertainment for the benefi of Mt. Zion church; Trustees fund, under the management of Miss May Perkins. She has twenty well trained little girls and on the 13th in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium. She will give the public a very fine program of drills, marches, songs and tableax. (Continued on page 4, col. 1) 1. Pr This is the founder of the W. N. P. A., fourteen years ago and he is now the Historian of the association. He is an old newspaper man, and a teacher in the public school of Kansas City and AIDA OVERTON WALK Great Shoe Sale big crowds that have makes us put o bargains— ere They Ar Walker's Great The big cre coming ma more barga Here SEE Walker's Great Shoe Sale Continues The big crowds that have been coming makes us put on still more bargains— EXTRA -$4 and $5 Walk- over and Packard Shoes $1.50 $2.00 Boys' Box Calf $1.23 Shoes, with good soles..... $1.50 Little Men's Shoes, 98c every pair guaranteed..... $4.00 Men's Gun Metal Button Shoes, high military heels..... $3.50 and $4.00 Men's Dull Leather, Button or Blucher style, new Hytoes..... $3.00 Boys' Patent Button Dress Shoes..... $1.98 $2.98 's Dull $2.69 $1.98 $2.48 $1.50 Girls' Shoes, Oak Soles 98c $3.50 Shoes, leather $3.50 er cut S $1.00 while t $3.50 Water- OF OUR SALE SHOES R SHOE CO 613 WALNUT STREET $4.00 Men's High Cut Water-proof Working Shoes. $2.48 EVERY PAIR OF OU WALKER S 613 EVERY PAIR OF OUR SALE SHOES GUARANTEED WALKER SHOE COMPANY 613 WALNUT STREET Died April 15. 1865 The Rt Rev. Bishop Morrison visited the church of St Mary, the Virgin, 14th and High streets, and confirmed a class of five, Sunday, Feb. 5th, at 7:20 p.m. Invitations are out for a "Mum" social to be held at the Seventh Street Baptist church, Feb. 9th. An invitation is extended to all to come and the social one of interest. The wedding of Miss Nevada Grigsby and Mr. Walter James Johnson both of Keokuk, will be solemnized Thursday evening, Feb. 16th, at the home of the brides parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Grigsby, 117 North 13th street. There will be a grand ball given at Schontens hall, Feb. 16th. Everybody is cordially invited. Music by Agness full orchestra. Arthur Fry host. Mr Otis E. Fields returned home last Sunday from Chicago to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Fields. Mrs. Lizzie Clemons is quite ill at her home 519 North Fifth street. Mrs. Crystal Teebau Fry of Chicago returned home Monday to visit her mother, Mrs. Mamie Burns, 519 North Fifth street. State Capitol Bldg Historical Room NDER. PETER H. HARRIS A OVERTON WALKER with the SMART SET. Shoe Sale Continues s that have been s us put on still they Are! NDOWS MARY MAY AIDA OVERTON WALKER with the SMART SET. SEE WINDOWS EXTRA—$4 and $5 Ladies' $1.50 Shoes, broken lines . . . $2.00 Girls' Shoes, All Solid $1.18 $1.50 Girls' Shoes, Oak Soles Price Five Cents. elsewhere. At present he has a chair in the Western University at Quindaro, Kansas. He owns a beautiful home, and is one of our realm of merit. He has a lovely family. At one time he edited the first colored journal in Des Moines, the old Rising Sun. It's no longer "grippe" in London. Just "Flu." Nobody has been heard to complain of lack of variety in the weather. Avirators are still making new world records, and yet the sport is in its infancy. Everything comes to him who waits; another restaurant employee has fallen heir to a fortune. If the airplanes will abolish war the peace commission should at once subdivide all it can reach. Avirators as a class are going to be more careful this year. Natural selection will eliminate the reckless ones. It took a postal card 36 years to go from Connecticut to Indiana. Bet a dollar he had it in his pocket all the time. In Cleveland an engineer has been made a present of a locomotive. This is better than a white elephant, as it somnames no hay. In New York they are trying to remedy the evils of divorce by reminding the evils of marriage. That seems a thoughtful method. Medicine Hat wants its name changed. We would be better pleased if it changed the brand of weather it sends down this way. We are glad to learn that "red shirts make hems lay," but what garment would influence them to cut their present prices on eggs? They say that bad roads cost this country three million dollars a year. We could have a pretty good little war for that sum. Let us fix the roads. Without questioning for one second the bravery of our own policemen, we would point out that the London bobby has to face all comers without a revolver. Pucolli, when he started back to Italy, was kissed by 40 men who sing in grand opera. After having gone through that, sea-sickness will have no terrors for him. It is no crime to steal an umbrella on a rainy day in New Jersey. Will all persons who indulge in that pastime please go to New Jersey to oblige the rest of us? A Canton (O.) man says that 60-cent hats are good enough for any woman, but the Canton man will no doubt experience considerable difficulty getting any woman to wear one. An Ohio doctor who dissected 100 cats reports that he found tuberculosis germs in every one of them. He does not say what he did with the supply of germs thus secured. In trying to get rid of corrupt politicians Gotham seems to have leaped out of the frying pan into the fire. They are more honest than they used to be, but they now write poetry. Following the hobble we are to have the bi-plane skirt. As it is to be a bifurcated garment man had better look to his own. Plainly the trend of feminine fashions is toward the mannish; but the more manlike woman becomes the less womanly she is. Now a medical expert has cut out a man's lungs to cure tuberculosis. The man has to be a new one, but if successful will be followed up by the theory of curing diseases generally by the simple process of removing the organ affected so that a man with more than his average share of trouble in the shape of disease will find life but a hollow sort of affair. The wife of a Pennsylvania farmer found a nugget of gold in the crop of a chicken she was dressing, and the community having resolved itself into a prospecting party with the community having resolved itself into a prospecting party with the more gold in chickens killed and prepared for market at present prices than in mines or glacers in the Keystone state. Official figures from annual reports show that the post office department has nearly reached the point where it is self-sustaining. And there are several changes which might yet be offended in the interest of economy and the saving of public money. It is no function of the government to make a profit in carrying the people's mails, but it is important that the benefit should the cost be so reduced as to permit lower postage rates. And now it is discovered that an epidemic of tuberculosis prevails among the rabbits of New York state. Another result, no doubt, of leading a fast life and going the pace that kills. A Nantucket fisherman booked a large codfish, from whose stomach, when cut open, flow out a good-sized duck, whose escaping flight was stopped by a sportman's bullet. Both Jonah and the champion fish story are surpassed, while even the Ananias club is g:sping with astonishment. Of Iowa Farms is the Dairy Cow, Declares W. W. Marsh IS SOLUTION OF SAVING FARMS Waterloo Dairy Expert Makes Short Trip With Special Train on Mil- waukee to Spread the Tama.—"The foundation of true conservation is the dairy cow." So declared W. W. Marsh of Waterloo, last week at the Iowa Dairy show. Today in all parts of the United States they are encouraged to adopt the dairy platform where better dairying is being advocated. Mr. Marsh accompanied the special dairy train which the Iowa State Dairy association is running over the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway, and made a number of presentations to the truth of the statement quoted above. He declared that of all farm animals the well bred and properly cared for dairy cow is at once the most economical producer of food for mankind and also the animal of all farm animals. He stated that the vital monitoring and building up the fertility of the Iowa farms. "Conservation, as it affects the people of the corn belt refers not to the conserving of forests, rivers and mines, but it does refer to the conserving of the wonderful fertility that nature has stored up in the soil. The many instances is wasting even more rapidly than any other resource is being wasted," said Mr. Walsh. "Owing to the fact that a ton of butter, worth today on the markets of the world nearly $600, takes from the farm 49 cents worth of fertility, it is plain to be expected that the must be relied upon to conserve the great richness of the soil." Principal In Suit Dies. West Union—Ruth Hall, principal in one of the most widely known damage suits of years, died here recently of injuries alleged to have been received from an electrical shock while talking over a telephone in Chicago. Miss Hall was a member of the pioneer families of West Union. There is now pending against the Chicago Telephone company the suit for damages brought by Miss Hall four years ago, and which, during its progress, brought into court some of the most prominent men in the scientific world, even Thomas A. Edison having been subpoenaed. Miss Hall formerly had charge of a dressmaking establishment in Chicago, and, according to her story, received a severe electrical shock while talking over the telephone. Physicians say the shock caused her death. Sult was instituted against the company and for four years has been dragging through the courtroom in an effort to receive the possibility of receiving a shock of sufficient strength to cause a permanent injury. Tables Turned at Northwood Northwood.—The theft of a load of oats, worth about $25, ten chickens, five turkeys, a bit-stock, a set of augers and all the groceries in the house of Wallace McKinney, colored, caused the arrest, after a long chase, of Carl Vester. The arrest followed a long investigation on the County attorney E. M. Sullin and Sheriff P. A. Gullickson, which included several dwellings houses frequented by Vester and men who the officers say were his accomplices, be ing searched. Vester was held to await the action of the next grand jury by Justice Frank Forbes, on ranges ranging from Forbes to Pollock, and the northern Iowa cities say the arrested and suspected men are responsible for a dozen thefts of grain reported in northern Iowa this winter. New Factory For Marshalltown Marshalltown.—A new factory will be built here within the next few weeks, ready for operation about March 1. The concern will be known as the Miller-Manney Cement Products company, and will manufacture cement building blocks, reinforced cement fence posts, cement brick, and different cement novelties, such as porch pliers, columns, etc. Went to School With Dix. Esterhville.—Jason L. Howe, known as "Shorty" Howe, about 45 years of age, dropped dead of heart failure while ascending the stairs in the Coon block. He was unmarried and a well educated man, at one time in his younger days attending school at Glen Fails, N. Y., with Governor Dix of that state. Boone's New Water Bonds Are Sold. Boone.—The bonds issued by the city of Boone for the purpose of erecting a new water system, whereby the water supply will be brought from the gravel beds of the Des Moines river have been sold. Find Iowa Girl in Kansas Amea.—A message from Mankato, Kansas, says that Miss Fiosie Kent, the tweteen-year-old daughter of Mrs. F. E. Kent of Nevada, who mysteriously disappeared last November is alive and will be sent home. Vaccinate Hogs to Prevent Cholera. Independence.—Nearly 500 hogs at the state insane hospital have been vaccinated for cholera. There have been ten deaths there, then an cases at present. The cholera serum was used for the first time in this county. Money For Delliver Fund. Fort Dodge-Citizens.—Sac City have sent to Postmaster L. S. Brown, through Charles L. Early postmaster there, $57 as a contribution toward the Delliver memorial fund. Ames—For the first time in the state of Iowa work is being done upon the erection of a modern power wireless station for experimental purposes to be erected at Ames under the auspices of the physics department of the college. M. E. Packman, electrical engineer with the United Wireless Telegraph company, is designer of the station and will have charge of its installation. The station will be a two kilometer terminal, with sufficient energy to transmit messages 350 miles in the daytime and work with the Atlantic and gulf coast stations at night. The wire will extend into the air 160 feet. The receiving station consists of the latest type apparatus with eliminating circuits, condensers and tungle coils. The detectors are used to preheed the most delicate electrical waves. The circuit station is supplied by the volt alternating circuit and passes through a high tension transformer, raising it to 50,000 volts. As yet no attempt has been made to talk to the other stations, but messages from New York, Cape Hatteras, Atlantic City, New Orleans, Milwaukee and Chicago have been overheard. Just how far the experiment at Iowa State college will be carried is not known, but it is thought that an effort will be made to equip the station with first class apparatus and make it the center of wireless experiment in the state. In Fight For Uniform Books Burlington—Des Moines county is getting into line for uniform text books, and it expects one of the live actors ever experienced in this locality with what are known as the agents for the school book trust. At present the country is filled with all sorts of grammars and other text books, compelling children whose parents move from one locality to another to throw away good books and buy others. Superintendent Parrott, the county auditor and the three county supervisors have taken the matter up, and having received the petition of more than one third of the school directors in the county for popular election as to the location of uniform text books, he decided to call such an election at the same time and the school election in March when the matter will be decided. A warning of book agents is expected to try to influence the people, but full publicity will be given so that the voters can know where they stand in the matter. Esterhite Sinclair, SC. Esterhite--The short course premium list shows the array of awards in the different districts for the best single ear of corn, best ten ears, best twenty and thirty ears, and best fifty ears. There will also be prizes for numerous other farm products. A district comprising the four counties joining Emmet, namely, Kossuth, Dickinson, Palo Alto and Martin county, Minnesota, will be allowed to compete with themselves for prizes o corn, corn, the two days previous, the two days previous, February 17 and 18, the annual farmers' institute will be held, for which a fine program has been arranged. The strongest feature will be a lecture by D. Ward King. Pleads Gullty: Pays Fine. Mason City.—Convicted of selling liquor and also cigarettes, Nicholas Balderoff was fined $100. Balderoff is a Greek barber and a member of his race entered his shop for a shave, but was warned he would be fined. He then filed a complaint against Balderoff to which he pleaded guilty without trial. Only On One Pay Roll Now Des Moines.—The state board of health at a special session demanded that Prof. C. N. Kinney of Drake university either resign his position as state chemist for the state board of health or sever his connection as a state chemist. Des Moines W. M. company, and he designated the last named position. Blown Up by Blasting Powder. Mitchellville—Milan Hibbs was fatally hurt by an explosion of home made blasting powder. A nephew with him at the time had both eyes injured and was severely hurt. The kitchen, where the explosion occurred, was wrecked. Train Crew Nat Blamed Fort Dodge—That C. L. P. Peterson met death by falling from the rear step of a south-bound limited Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern pass. He was shot in the o'clock in the morning, was the verdict of the coroner's jury. Miaa Pankhurst Speaks at Boone. Boone—Miss Sylvia Pankhurst was greeted in the Christian church by a large audience. She spoke of the honor she felt in being invited to speak before the legislature in Des Moines, and then talked on woman suffrage. Sailors Lose at Fort Dodge. Fort Dodge—The county board of supervisors refused to accept thirty-withdrawals from withdrawals from the mulet petition of consent they were canvassing, and the sailors lose the right to operate in Ft Dodge after July 1. Policeman Shoots Negro. Hamburg—L. H. Walker, a negro, was arrested by John Alberson, chief of police, after a sharp fight, in which Walker was shot through the lower limb before he was captured. Jumps; Has Leag Brgken. Tabor; Charles Carson of Tabor had his left leg broken when he jumped from a load of wood which upset as he was hauling it from the timber. He was already crippled, as his other leg was broken several years ago. Pythians Will Build New Home. Mason City—At a well-attended meeting of the Knights of Pythias it was decided to build a home. They will erect a building 44x120 feet, three stories high. ENVY WUFF CHILDREN RECORD HABILITIES TALKING TO DER Kansas Farmers Are Putting Oil Heaters in Their Pig Pens to Enable the Hogs to Make Weight More Rapidly. AIRSHIPS TO GUARD WAR DEPARTMENT WILL HAVE MEXICAN BORDER PATROLLED BY AEROPLANES. ONE IS ALREADY ENGAGED Army Officers Experience Much Difficulty in Preserving Neutrality—Believed Illegal Expeditions Can Be Stopped by Aid of Aviators. Washington.—The war department is about to establish an airplane patrol along the Rio Grande river and, for the first time in this country, aviators will enter the military service of the United States. So far as an airsail can scout, the General Hoyt, the commander of the department of Texas, will soon be in a position to determine the facts as to the activities of the insurgents along the Mexican border. At present, owing to conflicting reports, the army officers engaged in maintaining neutrality find the task difficult, and the troops are continually making wild goose chases after military expeditions reported to be crossing the Rio Grande, which rarely materialize. In the meantime, when the troops are on these false events, it is presumed that armed parties make their across the river at unguarded west. General Wood, chief of staff; General Allen, chief signal officer, and John Barry Ryan, president of the United States aeronautical reserve, held a conference Monday, and afterward it was announced that the war department has accepted the tender of Robert Collier of one of his new Wright biplanes, which is now in New York, and this will be rushed to the Mexican border by express and turned over to General Hoyt. The reserve is prepared to furnish half a dozen other machines for military use at abandonment. With that number of machines soaring constantly over the crooked channel of the Rio Grande and back into the country where illegal expeditions may be organizing, it is believed the military will be able practically to establish an impenetrable patrol along the border. GOVERNOR NEAR FIST FIGHT Wilson of New Jersey Threatens to Whip Chairman of State Democratic Committee. Trenton, N. J. — Governor Wilson threatened to thresh James R. Nugent, chairman of the state Democratic committee, and son-in-law of former United States Senator James Smith, Jr. Nugent was called into the governor's private office and in a warm debate which lasted ten minutes the governor declared that he would use his fists on the committeeman if the latter refused to block the governor's special bills. Governor Wilson is about five feet six inches in height, while Nugent is a trifle over six feet tall. Blast Kills Two; Hurts 20 Elgin, Ill.—in a gas explosion at the Wilburn house at Carpenterville Monday Howard Mann and Adan Obert were killed and twenty others injured, four fataly. Gas from a leaky main is supposed to have caught fire from a stove. The guests fed in panic from the hotel and there were many narrow escapes. Nineteen Hurt In Explosion Nineteen men were injured, five fatally, in the explosion of a barrel of gasoline at Jamala, L. I. The gasoline was on a work car in the Long Island area, and the men were laborers who were engaged in clearing snow from the tracks. Woman School Officer Killed Wilburton, Okla.—Miss Alice Fleming, superintendent of public schools of Latimer county, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed her home Tuesday. Seventeen Hurt In Motor Crash Peoria, Ill.—Seventeen residents of Pelin, Peoria, Eureka and Bloomington were injured Monday night when two passenger motor cars on the Peoria electric terminal railway colled an open switch at South Bartonville. Burned in Press Club Fire. Des Moline, Ia.—Abraham Slusenger was fatally burned Monday in a gas explosion which set fire to the Press Club club. The damage was slight KNOX SAYS CAN AMEND SECRETARY CONSTRUES PROVISIONS OF AGREEMENT. Wood Pulp and Paper Sectioes of Reciprocity Pact May Be Amended Before Ratification. Washington. — That the wood pulp and paper sections of the Canadian trade agreement can be amended without causing unnecessary delay in its ratification is the construction placed upon that pact by Secretary of State Knox in a letter to Serenoy Paychairman of the house ways and means committee. This fact was brought out at a hearing given by the committee to opponents of the paper and wood pulp provisions. The statement last week of Chairman Payne that the agreement must stand or fall as a whole, and that amendments could not be made, was interpreted by Mr. Fordney as indicating that no change could be made in the paper or pulp wood schedules. Mr. McCall, speaking for Chairman Payne, who was absent, said that this prohibition against amendments would not extend to the sections indicated. He explained that in his letter to the committee that the United States and Canadian commissioners had reached no unalterable agreements on the paper and pulp wood sections, and that the final construction of that schedule is left to the committee which has the bill. HIDES IN CONFESSIONAL BOX Little Brooklyn Girl Eludes Her Abductors by Taking Refuge in the Sanctuary. New York—On scores of detectives stared out of eerie Tuesday in search of the headquarters of an Italian gang who are believed to have tried to abduct an eleven-year-old girl who, as her story goes, escaped from her kidnapers by recreating herself behind the curtains of the confessional in a Brooklyn Catholic church. The girl, Marie Coleman, is the daughter of a well-to-do Brooklyn girl and a second daughter of the confessional boxes of St. Michael's church shortly after midnight Tuesday by the pastor, Father William McGuirl. Between sobs the girl told the priest that she had hidden in the confessional at six o'clock in the evening after having run away from two men who had tried to kidnap her and that she had not dressed to come out of her place of refuge. After Father McGuirl had quieted the child she told a clear story of how, when she had come out of school, a man had lured her to a distant section by telling her that her mother was ill. Subsequently this man had been joined by another. The men stopped at a yellow house, but he became suspicious. She ran screaming down the street, and although the pair caught her and started back with her, she struggled loose again and ran several blocks to the church. At ten o'clock Father McGuirl entered the church alone to pray. During his devotions he thought he heard sobbing. He made a casual search, but found nothing and went back to the rectory. But after he went to bed he could not sleep. A second time he went to the church. After some minutes passed in search, he pushed aside the curtains of one of the confessional boxes and there, in the dim, light cast by the lantern, saw a little girl lying with her head on a bundle of school books. Iowa "Daylight" Saloon Bill Up Des Moines, Ia.—The house Wednesday passed the "daylight" saloon bill by a vote of 60 to 35, with 13 absent. The measure provides that saloons in Iowa shall be open from seven in the morning until eight at night. Paves Way for Suffrage Topeka. Kan.-The Kansas senate Wednesday passed the resolution to submit the amendment to the constitution giving women the right to vote in all elections. The resolution had previously passed the house. Knox Says Can Amend. Washington.-Secretary of State Knox Tuesday wrote Chairman Payne of the house ways and means committee that an amendment to the wood pulp or paper sections of the Canada trade agreement would not necessarily delay its ratification. Marshall P. Wilder's Father Dies. New York.-Dr. Louis de Valois Wilder, father of Marathon P. Wilder, the humorist, is dead at his home here of heart disease. DEFEATED BY WOMEN MAYOR OF SEATTLE OUSTED BY THEIR BALLOTS. Hiram C. Gill Loose in First Recall Election—Was Charged With Missuse of Power. Seattle, Wash. — Women had for the first time the privilege of cast- ing their shots at the initial reca- tion election ever held in Seattle and ruled the day. The recall election was brought about in an attempt to oust Mayor Hiram C. Gill and to elect George W. Dilling. Returns from one-third the city indicate Gill has been a custodian and Dilling elected by a major of The leaders of the suffragists in this state refused to intervene in the mayoralty fight because of the fact that the agitation arose because Mayor Gill and his chief of police, C. W. Wappenstein, refused to yield to those who sought the establishment of a district for confining vice. Many picturesque scenes were enacted in the day's voting. Women, richly dressed and riding in their own automobiles, drove to the voting places to vote, and stood in line while others with shawls on their heads, who had been to market and brought eggs and meat, and garden truck in their arms, took their turns in the booths and marked their choice for Contrary to expectations, the women did not make many mistakes in halloting. The election was the first test of the recall in Washington politics and a deep interest was taken in the campaign. The civic question was that of the so-called vice segregation. It was charged against Mayor Gill that his segregation policy was in reality one of vice aggregation and that the gambling and red light district was the source of police graft. MILLIONS IN BIG LAND GRAB Illinois Investigating Body Reveals Vast Allied Inroads on Waters— Fix Loss at $250,000,000. Chicago—The state of Illinois has been illegal in the harbor of thousands of boats. Along the shores of Lake Michigan and other waterways at a value of at least $250,000,000 by large corporations and private interests of the state. Chicago has been the largest sufferer. The Illinois Central railroad alone has grabbed 400 acres in the city's front yard and the attorney general should sue to recover the company's charter. The Chicago river has been camped on illegally from end to end by great corporations and business houses. These are a few of the conclusions reached by the Chifferpile committee, which was appointed by the Forty-sixth general assembly to investigate submerged lands in the state. After almost two years of exhaustive labor the committee has complied its report, which consists of 16 large types of volumes, and compiled an extensive chests filled with maps, photographs, documents and records dating back to Indian days. Bald statements and verbose charges are not relied on by the committee to support the truth of their findings. With all the care of expert lawyers preparing a case for court the legal questions involved have been gone into and hundreds of pages in the report consist of supreme court decisions, legislative enactments and what amounts practically to complete legal briefs. And with no beating around the bush of technical equivocation, the committee makes the unqualified statement that the reclaimed empire stolen from the people can be recovered. Strong recommendation is made that proceedings be started immediately. So comprehensive is the report in the belief of lawyers who have seen is that any ordinary members of the bar could walk into court with it under his arm and turn the state of illinois upside down. KILLS HIMSELF UNDER CAR Rather Than Be Roasted Alive Express Messenger Chooses Death by Bullet. Paris, Ont.—Rather than be roasted to death, John Whitelaw, an express messenger, shot himself dead while plumed under the wreckage of Gustav Troll, four others met death in the crash. Whitelaw always carried a revolver, and although crushed under the wreckage, he remained conscious and urged rescues to extricate him. The wreck was burning and the workers were driven back, leaving the express messenger to face death in the fames. You don't help me soon I'll end it all," moaned Whitelaw. In a moment more there was a muffed shot. He had kept his word. Mrs. Schenk in Divorce Suit. Wheeler, W. Va.-According to Attorney Frank O'Brien, representing Mrs. Laura Schenk, counsel have agreed on alimony of $100 a month for Mrs. Schenk. The bill of particulars in the divorce suit of Schenk against his wife was filed Wednesday, but the contents not disclosed. Senate Vote for Frisco. Washington—The senate committee on expositions Wednesday voted to report the resolution favoring San Francisco for the Panama canal fair. "Holy Roller" Slayer Released. Easton, Pa.-Robert B. Bachman of Nazareth, the member of the religious sect known as the "holy rollers," who killed his little niece in a religious meeting at his home in 1908, was Tuesday given his freedom. After the crime was committed Bachman was declared insane. Brits Gett a Federal Postal Washington—James J. Britt of Norway, who recently nominated by President Taft, to be the third assistant postmaster general. CULLOM NO BRIBER ILLINOIS SENATOR RESENTS SLURS CAST UPON GOOD NAME OF STATE. Declares There Has Never Been Charge Made That Money Was Ever Used to Influence Any Vote for Him in Legislature. Washington.—In a speech on the floor of the senate Wednesday Senate Shelby M. Cullom declared: "Not a dollar was ever used in any of my five elections to the United States senate nor in any of the other elections in which I have figured." He upheld the people of Illinois as being as moral as those of any other state, and said that they were quite capable of taking care of their own good name. "On the five different occasions when the people of Illinois signally honored me by electing me to the senate," he continued, after reviewing his various political contests, "there was not even the slightest suggestion on the part of anyone of corruption or wrongdoing in the legislature in connection with my election. "As a candidate for the legislature, as a candidate for congress, as a candidate for governor, as a candidate for United States senator, no one has ever charged that a single dollar was used to influence any voter to vote for me or corruptly to influence any member of the legislature to vote for me. "I have always been a strict party man, and am now, and have always received the support of my party when a candidate for public office. These are the facts. They speak for themselves. Cullom Cullom briefly reviewed the history of his state, and then, referring to the concern expressed regarding that commonwealth, said that no senator could have greater concern over its integrity and honor than himself. He added that in his judgment the state of Illinois needed no defense. TAFT GIVES AN ULTIMATUM There Must Be a Vote on Canadian Agreement or an Extra Session. Washington.—President Taft has served notice on congress through Senators Crane and Carter that there must be a vote on the reciprocity agreement with Canada or he would call congress-back in extra session almost immediately after March 1. Mr. Taft summoned Senator Crane of Massachusetts and Crater of Montana to the White House to urge upon them the necessity of expediting legislation in the senate, so there would be no necessity for an extra session of congress. Vice-President Sherman and Senator Smoot also were in conference with the president. Senator Crane and Carter conferred with other senators who are especially friendly to the administration and sought to enlist their services in a movement to obviate the necessity of an extra session. CAFE ROBBERS ARE CAUGHT Assistant Head Walter of Chicago Restaurant Confesses that He and Accomplice Took $3,000. Chicago.—The daring $3,000 robbery of Rector's restaurant, 122 Monroe street, early Sunday morning, which baffled the police for many hours, was the result of a plot, cleverly concocted and as cleverly executed by one of the waiters employed in the restaurant. This solution of the mysterious robbery was made Tuesday in the arrest and confession of Roy Saslain, the assistant head waiter, who bared the whole plot after an accomplice, Charles Willard, formerly of Benton Harbor, Mich., had been taken into custody. As a result of his confession the following were placed under arrest in connection with the robbery: Roy Saslain, thirty-two years old; Charles Willard, forty-seven years old; Harry Anderson, allas Casey, a bartender. KNOCKOUT BROWN HAS SHADE Champion Wolgast Mesta Defeat at the Hands of New York Lightweight. Philadelphia.—Ad Wolgast, conqueror of Battling Nelson, received probably, the most inelastic walloping of his career in a six-round bout with "Knockout" Brown of New York in Jack O'Brien's new arena Wednesday. Brown battered the Michigan chap pretty much as he pleased for the entire six rounds. He hit Wolgast as he pleased and when he pleased, suffering only in the clinches, where he was made to appear the novice he really is. Mexicana Routed by Rebels. Mulata, Mex.—Mexican soldiers made a deeperate attack on this town Wednesday. The federalers were repulsed by insurrection. Troop H of the Third cavalry viewed the fight from American banks. Otter Bryce Princeton Chair. Cincinnati--Formal tender of the presidency of Princeton university has been made to James Bryce, ambassador of Great Britain to the United States, according to Wednesday's Times-Star. Smith Victor on Points. Sydney, N. S. W.-Dave Smith, the Australian middleweight champion, Monday defeated Johnny Thompson, the American pugilist, on points in a twenty-round contest. The battle was hard fought all the way through. Arrival of Twins Kills Father. Chicago--Shock caused by the arrival of twins at his home Monday brought about the death of Martin Tuohy, according to the statement of his brother, George Tuohy A ARCHIBALD'S AGATHA BY EDITH HUNTINGTON MASON AUTHOR OF "THE REAL AGATHA" Archelid Terhune, a popular young bachelor of London, is suddenly aroused from the bachelor's indoors to the law firm of Barnes, Woollighy & Son, that he is the heir to a sheep farm in Australia and that he is the heir to the bequest comes from an aunt, Mrs. Georgiana James of Essex. She makes an appearance within ten days or forget the legacy to a third cousin living in America. The story opens at Castle Wykoff, where Lord Lindenburgh is discussing Terhune, are discussing plans to find Terhune a wife, within the allotted time. It is clear that the person named Agatha, all whom have been close grieving chchuma. She decides to invite two of them to a party at the guests. He hasArchive there as one of the guests. CHAPTER II.—Continued. "Why, that would spoil the whole thing," she said. "Agatha Sixth would suspect a plot at once, and as inevitably balk. Match-making, to be successful, must be conducted absolutely without appearing to be conducted." "Then we can telegraph Terhune to come up at once!" I said, gazing at her admirably. She is so wise for one so young. Tee and the two Agathas as well, Luckily for the success of our plans they are already in England. They came over to visit Agatha Chiltern in the next county a month ago and have been staying there ever since. That's what made me think of the plan, really. "Huzaa!" I cried. "The gods favor us! You must telegraph Agatha Chiltern this moment. She's such a brick, I know she'll let us have her guests without a murmur even at such short notice." Yes, said Dearest, "they were coming to visit me next week, anyway." Mrs. Chiltern, by the way, had been one of the Agathas who were my wife's companions when she had been playing the part of Miss Marsh, the secretary, not very long ago. Agatha四四 she was, in fact, to give her the numerical title which Terhune and I had used to distinguish the Agathas at that time. She had recently married one Cecil Chiltern, a former guest of Castle Wyckhoff before the advent of Arch and myself, and as his estate was only 30 miles or so from Castle Wyckhoff, we found ourselves neighbors, as it were. It was for this reason, because of Mrs. Chiltern's invitation to visit her, the two Agathas we wanted to assist us in our scheme for helping Terhune to inherit his aunt's property chance to be so close at hand. We had hardly reached this satisfactory conclusion in regard to our plans, when station cab turned up at the beach and whirling up under the beaches that lifted the road, presently deposited a passenger under the portion of the carriage entrance to the castle. "Hullo!" I cried, "a visitor!" Then in another instant, "Boy Jove! If it isn't old Terbune himself" as a mildly sized dress, very well dressed man, after a moment of hesitation, sighted us under the trees and hurried over the lawn toward us. "Look at the old boy. Dearest!" I said as Arch came up out of breath. Look at him, will I right of the floor as usual? Procoat coat, pearl earrings, hat, all complete. Ah, Archbold! Will you never cease to frivol? Since my marriage I may say, Arch and I have rather changed places. It used to be he who was always rebuking me; now it's just the other way. So much for the dignities of life as a Benedict! My dear "lellow," emailed my friend, "what would you have me weed?" I said, and an old shooting eent" ceying my own careless attire rather roundly "Ah Lady Vincent!" turning to my wife, "dear Mrs. Will fred! So glad—so very glad, to see you! Dearest gave him both her pretty hands. "You old dear!" she cried. "How nice of you to come!" "And now sit down and tell us all about it!" said my wife. "Wilfred has given me his version of course, but I am the most acquaintances. It's the most exciting thing in the world! How nice of your Aunt Georgy to give us all such an interesting problem to solve!" Terhune sat down in my wicker chair and I seated myself on the grass by Dearest. "Yes, indeed! I feel quite grateful to her for providing us with such a genuine bit of romance," she said. "As good as a dime novel, and Wilfred and I would be too pleased for anything to assist in its denouement." "It does seem extraordinary," accused Terhune, "that such a thing an event so out of the common, should happen to me. Who would ever have thought of Aunt Georgy carrying on like that! Why, she's promised me the property all her life, and to go and decree suddenly, out of a cheer, or for it, or for it, just because I'm forty years old! Why, it's the most absurd thing I ever heard in my life!" And he mopped his brow fussily as he spoke. Dearest smelt at him sympathetic ally. "Finding a wife in as short a Dearest smiled at him sympathetically. "Finding a wife in as short a time as that does sound like a pretty difficult proposition," she murmured in raucous Arch. "And that's what I came up from London to see you for. I thought if any one could suggest an expeditionary way, it would be my friends the Vincent's. You know you did things in rather a hurry yourself." Making reference of course to my rapid courtship of my wife during the exciting and some what unusual events pertaining to six weeks' visit made. Terhune and at Castle Wyckhoff the year before. "And your confidence is not at all misplaced, my boy," said I, "as you will find! And fell to telling him of our house party plan all in a breath and as fast as I could talk." Terhune was first amused, then doubtful, and then, he felt a full beauty of it struck him he rose in his enigma and a sense of each of us. "Agatha Sixth!" he cried; "who else? It shall be she and no other! What friends you two are to give me the chance!" And if you'll believe me, the evening of the next day saw our two other prospective guests, the Misses Agatha First and Sixth, actually under our roof. We had sent a motor over to Chiltern house that morning after a telephone confabulation between my wife and the mistress of that establishment, and by dinner time our father peculiarly interesting house party was gathered round the table complete. We were very gay—my wife and myself as head conspirators in a matrimonial plot—especially so, though the two girls were almost as merry. Agatha First had much to tell of her visit at Chiltern house and Agatha Sixth of my wife's friends in America, so that the dinner hour passed rapidly. Agatha First had been with Mrs. Chiltern the longer, it seemed. Agatha Sixth having had friends in London to visit, had only been with her a week. She were not intimate friends. Dearest told me afterward. They had not been as much as with each other as they had with others of the six who had first visited her. Castle Wyokhoff. I lay stress upon this fact because it accounts for a number of things to occur later. Of all the party, Arch was the only one who seemed at all quiet, and I guessed that he was somewhat sobered by the skininess with which the plot had begun to thicken about him. After dinner we had a little music, and I had a bit of laugh all to myself as I watched the feverish attentions which Arch was paying Agatha Sixth, who was at the piano. The girl was uncommonly attractive and that's a fact, in a sort of hand-painted, miniature kind of way. She wore a most becoming gown of cream color, and her fine profile showed to advantage against the black of Terune's coat as he stood beside her. Nevertheless I couldn't help letting me wander to my wife who sat across the room from me, delicately a flower, supple as a young tree and wholly sweet. Her hair, which curled to distraction about her long white neck, made a gorgeous halo about her head. It was a pleasant moment, that after dinner interlude, as I looked around me at my wife and my guests, the fine old room with its golden-toned piano and the soft glow of many lems. But as I looked and sighed with content, I suddenly missed the first piano and the first. She was not in the room. In a case of odd numbers it is easy not to notice the absence of the odd one. Poor Agatha First was undoubtedly that unlucky individual, having no man to pair off with, though Dearest and I had tried our best not to let her feel this deficiency. However, gone she was from our midst, that was certain enough, and I was just about to wonder aloud as if disappearance when the door from the hall opened and in she walked. "Don't let's stay indoors," she entrained in her breezy American voice, "it's so lovely outside! The moon's just coming up!" And she strope vigorously across the room toward the glass doors that opened upon the lawn. As she paused at the threshold with a little commanding gesture toward the terrace I couldn't help thinking that my wife's friends were both of them uncommonly handsome girls. She was so superly healthy, with her other cheeks, such a snap to her eyes. I caught Terhune glancing irrespectively from the girl at the piano to the girl at the door. "Let me open it for you," he offered at last, going to her and throwing wide the long windows. And the rest of us, Agatha Sixth after him and Dearest and myself last, followed them out, my wife and I exchanging looks of more or less significance as we all were, a well read you read it, her look expressed a slight apprehension. Mine I meant to indicate amusement. Terhune is such a conciled old chap, a wink or a nod from one of the other sex is enough to upset him, and he changes his allegiance as easily as he changes his coat. It would be just like him, after all our pains. But, as I said later when we had gone upstairs, prophesying about eruption in connection with fear, we were all while as guessing which way the wind will blow. It was on an afternoon a day or so later when Dearest and I were discussing Terlune's chances of winning Agatha Sixth before the expiration of the ten important days stipulated upon by his Aunt Geory, that I would have to tell her that I seemed to me to simplify matters even while it made them more interesting. "I can't think he would be foolish enough not to stick to one or the other," said my wife. "Surely he sees that it's impossible to waste any time flirting when he has only ten days—eight days now—in which to win a wife. "We were upstairs and she had come into my room to chat before we dressed for dinner, and had, Incidentally, wrapped herself in my blue striped lounging robe in Heu of an evening frock, a costume that I thought quite as becoming as more conventional attire. The turquoise blue of the stripes set on her sparkling eyes was the same color in rough folds of the hood about her throat made her head and face smaller and more delicate by comparison. "A week to win a wife!" I laughed. "Sounds like the title of a penny-dreadful! And, by Jove! This affair of Terhune's is getting to have as much of a thrill about it! It's the shortness of the time, with what he knew, like that, makes it exciting. Fancy picking a wife in ten day's time!" "Yes, but of course he has the advantage of having a girl he knows as well as he does Agatha Sixth, to pay court to it. It makes a lot of difference, you know, where the girl in the case happens to care for the man in the case! He is strolling about the room as we talked, hunting up a favorite waitstool I wanted to wear that night, but at this last remark of my wife's I halted in my stride. "What did you say, Dearest?" I asked in astonishment. For it was news to me that Agatha Sixth actually cared for Arch. I had only dared hope she would eventually. "I said that she—Agatha Sixth—cared for terhune," repeated Dearest, obliquely. "You don't say so!" I exclaimed, with a long whistle of astonishment. "Of course!" she answered calmly. "Stupid boy not to have seen it all along!" "Well, I didn't!" I admitted, "and I don't see how you did either!" "It was as plain as your classic Vincent nose is beautiful," replied my wife, "and besides, if it wasn't, I would have known, for she told me herself." "Well then!" I cried, "doesn't that fix things? What's all this uncertainty about? I should say that Terhune was certain of his aunt's property. Why haven't you told him this long ago, and put the poor old fellow out of his suspense?" (TO BE CONTINUED.) Spoiled the Evening for Her. "I suppose you had a perfectly lovely time at the dinner party last night?" "No. Through some mistake they seated me next to my husband." He's Lit Up, Too. "Doesn't the town look pretty ill up?" "Yes, but you ought to see my husband." NOT as the great who grow more great Until from us they are spared He culls with us an man's sutter We know he was a brother heart. The marching years may reader dim The humanness of other men. Today we are skin to him As they who knew him best were then. Wars have been won by mail-clad hands. Realms have been ruled by sword-hodged kings. But he above these others stands As one who loved the common things: The common faith of men was that The common faith in man he had— For this day his grave face is A face half joyous and half sad. A man of earth! Of earthy stuff. As honest as the fruitful soil. Cursled as the friendly trees, and rough As hillsides that had known his toil: Of earthy stuff—let it be told. For earth-born men rise and reveal A courage fair as beaten gold And the enduring strength of steel. So now he dominates our thought. This humble great man holds us thus Because of all he dreamed and wrestled Because he is skin to us. He held his patient trust in truth White God was working out His plan. And they that were his foes, forsooth. Come to pay tribute to the Man. Not as the great who grow more great Until they have a master's fame— No stroke of fortune nor of fate Gave Lincoln his undying name. A common man, earth-bred, earth-born. One of the breed who work and wait— His was a soul above all scorn. His was a heart above all hate. --- Hurt by Ellsworth's Death --- LINCOLN'S HISTORY OF HIS LIFE ROM the president's room in the White House you can see prominent objects in Alexandria, six miles down the Potomac. The one prominent object which then for days attracted and offended the patriot's eye from those windows was the rebel ROM the president's room in the White House you can see prominent objects in Alexandria, stx niles down the Potomac. The one prominent object which then for days attracted and offended the patriot's eye from the way the rebel flag floating from the staff on the roof of the hotel in that city, as if in defiance of the national capitol, a few miles away. President Lincoln's young neighbor of Springfield, Ill., Elmer E. Ellsworth, mounted a ring to the roof, cut it down, and was himself killed by the rebel owner as he descended the staircase. "I called on the president just after that occurrence," wrote John A. Kasson, "and congratulated him, as I stood by the window, on the improved view down the Potomac, where, instead of the confederate, the union flag now floated. I was taken aback by Mr. Lincoln's joyless response, "Yes, but it was at a terrible cost!" and the tears rushed into his eyes as he said, "I was the personal realization of what the war meant for her respect for human life had received its first wound. He did not foresee the hundreds of thousands who were to fall before the great strife would be ended. He att- T IS of especial interest to read this brief sketch of his life which Mr. Lincoln himself wrote for publication when he was pitted against Douglas, for Senator in Illinois in 1858. I "I was born February 12, 1809, in Harding county, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families—second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tent year, was of a family of the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams, and others in Macon county, Illinois. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham county, Virginia, to Kentucky, about 1781 or 1782, where, a year or two later, he was killed by Indians, not in battle, by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks county, Pennsylvania. An effort to identify them with the New England family of the same name ended in nothing more definite than a similarity of Christian names in both families, such as Enoch, Leo Mordecai, Soilomon, Abraham and the erward learned to bear the loss of thousands in battle more bravely than he bore the loss of this one in the beginning of the contest. But the loss o. a single life, otherwise than in the ranged fight, was always hard for him as so often shown in his action upon the judgment of courts martial. After the repulse of Fredericksburg he is reported to have said: "If there is a man out of hell that suffers more than I do, I pity him." In the "Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln" it is related that during the war a lady belonging to a prominent Kentucky family visited Washington to beg for her son's pardon, who was then in prison under sentence of death for belonging to a band of guerrillas who had committed many murders and killed their daughter, a beautiful young lady, who was an accomplished musician. Mr. Lincoln received the visitors in his usual kindly manner and the mother made known the object of her visit. There were probably extinguishing circumstances in favor of the rebel prisoner, and while the president seemed to be deeply pondering the young lady moved to the piano near by, and, taking a seat, commenced to sing "Gentle Annie," a sweet and pathetic ballad, which before the war was a familiar song in almost, every household in the union, and is not yet en- ther, was but six years of age, and he grew up later, without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the time the state came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other game animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was required. I was a student of the school and cipherin" to the rule of three. If a strangler, supposed to understand Latin, happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. "Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all. I have not been to school since. The little advance I now have upon this store of education I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity. "I was raised to farm work, which I continued till I was 22. At 21 I came to Illinois and passed the first year in Macon county. Then I got to work in the farm. I moved to new Memphis county, where I renamed a reege as a sort of clork in a store. tirely forgotten, for that matter. It is to be presumed that the young lady sang the song with more plantiveness and more effect than Old Abe had ever heard it in Springfield. During the song he arose from his seat, crossed the room to a window in the westward, through a window that had far away look, which has so often been noted as one of his peculiarities. His memory, no doubt, went back to the days of his humble life on the banks of the Sangamon, and with visions of old Salem and its rustic store came a picture of the "Gentle Annie" of his youth, whose ashes had rested for many long years under the wild flowers and bramblets of the old rural burrowing ground, but whose spirit then, perishing, blinded him to the side of him. Then wiping his eyes, he advanced quickly to the desk, wrote a brief note, which he handed to the lady, and informed her that it was the pardon she sought. Not His Kind of Religion I am not much of a judge of religion, but, in my opinion, the religion that sets men to rebel and fight against their government, because, as they think, the government does not sufficiently help some men to eat their bread in the sweat of other men's faces, is not the sort of religion upon which people can get to heaven. —Memorandum, Dec. 3, 1864. Then came the Black Hawk war, and I was selected as captain of volunteers, a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went through the campaign, was elated, ran for the legislature the same time I have ever been beaten by the people. The next and three succeeding biennial elections I was elected to the legislature. I was not a candidate afterward. During this legislative period I had studied law, and removed to Springfield to practice it. "In 1846 I was once elected to the lower house of congress. Was not a candidate for reelection. From 1849 to 1854, both inclusive, practised law more assiduously than ever before. Always a Whig in politics, and generally an electoral ticket, making either campaign or losing interest in politics when the losing party of the Missouri compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. "If any personal description of me is thought desirable it may be said I am in height 26 feet four inches nearly, lean in flesh, weighing on an average 180 pounds, dark complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes. No other marks or brand recollected. Yours very truly. LINCOLN." ```markdown ``` MONEYFORSCHOOLS Bill for $780,000 Appropriation Introduced in Both Houses JUDGING PAVILION FOR AMES The State Board of Education Will Have Charge of Funds Raised by Special Tax to Provide for Iowa Colleges. Des Moines, Feb. 10.—A bill making appropriations for the state university, the Iowa State college and the Iowa State Teachers' college was introduced in the house and the senate by Senator Mattes and Representative Moore. The total amount of the appropriations for the three institutions included in the bill is $728,950. A sum of $330,000 is appropriated to the Iowa State university. The money will be used for the following purposes: Educational support fund, $15,000; additional support fund, $15,000; repair and contingent fund, $1,000; library support fund, $2,500; general equipment and supplies, $15,000; for equipment of new and partially erected buildings, $15,000; for paving, sidewalks and improvement of grounds, $15,000. Appropriations amounting to $342,500 are provided for the Iowa state college at Ames as follows: Educational support fund, $25,500; agricultural experiment station, $15,500; agricultural extension work, $5,000; educational support fund, $50,000; college extension, $10,000; agricultural experiment station, $15,000; enrollees in agricultural good roads, $5,000; two year agricultural course, $25,000; additional department equipment, including pure bred stock, and furnishings for the domestic technology building, gymnasium and veterinary hospital, $75,000; public grounds improvements, $13,500; heating plants, $43,000; judging pavilion and abbattoir laboratory, $50,000; poultry laboratory, $6,000. A sum of $65,250 is appropriated to the State Teachers' college as follows: Teachers' fund, $22,000; education fund, $10,000; fund, $2,500; library fund, $5,000; librarian's salary fund, $7,000; hospital fund, $1,250; pipe organ, $5,000; fire protection, $5,000. Bills providing for the levy of a special tax for the repair, improvement and equipment of buildings at the state college at Ames, the state university at Iowa City and the state teachers' college at Cedar Falls were introduced in the senate and the House of Representatives and introduced in the senate by Senator Francis and in the house by Representative O'Connor of Chickasaw. Back at Starting Point. Des Moines, Feb. 10—The Kenyon supporters returned to him in the ballot for United States senator yesterday, the ballot resulting. Gardiner Feb. 8 Feb. 9 Porter (D) ..... 53 53 Kenyon (R) ..... 7 43 Young (R) ..... 37 34 Funk (R) ..... 54 20 Garst (R) ..... 1 4 Clarke (R) ..... 0 1 NEWTON MAN IS PRESIDENT Des Moines, Feb. 10.—W. J. Miller of Newton was elected president of the Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Breeders' association at its session at the Kirkwood hotel yesterday. Mr. Miller succeeded Silas Igo of Indiana as head of the association. Mr. Igo was elected secretary-treasurer, Charles Escher, Jr., of Botna and vice president and J. Y Arroye of Locust elected second vice president of the organization. Among those who spoke were: Prof. C. H. Curtiss of Ames, Sears McHenry of Denison, C. H. Martin of Churdan, W. J. Miller of Newton, Charles Escher, Jr., of Botna and James Akinson of Des Moines. At the Des Moines Orpheum. Mr. William Farnum and his players who come to the Orpheum for a week beginning Sunday, Feb. 12, present a one-class act, called the "Battle of the Mountains" by Edward Peale, the author of "Prince Chap," etc. Mr. Farnum is one of America's most popular romantic actors and this will be his first tour in vaudeville. Boy Falls into Mirror; Injured. Orient, Ia., Feb. 10—Brent McIntire was seriously cut when he fell into a mirror. The splintered glass fell in all directions and cut his body badly. Made Perfect Score. Des Moines, Feb. 10—Thomas Reilly, Commercial league bowler, 23 years of age, married, hitherto known only to a few, shot himself into the bowling limelight when he bowled a 300 score in the Mission Merry-Go-Round tournament. Rich Iowa Farmer Hangs Himself, Manchester, Ia., Feb. 10—Henry J. Barr, a wealthy farmer near Edgwood, committed suicide by hanging. He was 54 years old and leaves a widow and five children. Tippacean Club Banquets. Des Moines, Feb. 10—Mad. John F. Lacy of Oksaloa was the principal speaker at the banquet of the Iowa Veteran Tippacean club last night, held in recognition of the 138th anniversary of Gen. William Harrison. Elevator at Brickson Burns. Poole, Ia., Feb. 10. - The elevator at Brickson Burns is entirely destroyed by fire. The loss on buildings and grain is estimated at $5,500; insurance on building $2,500 and on grain $1,700. BUXTON BRIEFS. (Continued from page 1) Were in the midst of some real winter all day Sunday and the services at the different churches were very poorly attended. Mrs. Anna Craddock went to Des Moines last week to bring her brother Ed. Green from the hospital. She left Thursday for Oakalosa. The Organ club, of which Elnora Trigg if president, entertained a large audience Thursday evening, Feb. 2d. at St Johns A. M. E. church, was a decidedly a good program that served as a great incentive to our young people to aspire to higher things than vaudeville for which the president and her faithful co-workers are to be congratulated. Leonard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lenora, daughter or mr. and Mrs. Robert Ewing was quite sick last week. Dr. Lenford Willis has opened his Dental parlor at No 4. First St., across from the post office. There is no further need of the Buxtonians going to Albia or Des Moines to have any kind of dental work done as Dr. Willis is both ready and willing to do your work and prices that are reasonable. "He is here, don't leave him out Just because he's a colored man, Tho, he's not so big and stout, Give the little man a chance. Many men are far ahead. Yet he'll step by step advance; All the town's before him spread. Give the little man a chance. Let him make a bridge or two, He may have to use a lance, But is won't hurt when he's thro.' Sive the little man a chance. MR. PLEASANT NOTES Rev. and Mrs. Jackson are both improving after being confined to the house some time. Mrs. Jackson has been ill with pneumonia for about seven weeks. Dr. Rowe of Osceola has been here for the past few days trying to organize a Modern Woodmen Lodge. Hope succeed. Miss Jessie Anderson does not improve much, being unable to attend school. Mr. Everett Reed visited Fairfield last week. Mrs. Wm. Witte came home after Tuesday night after a business trip to Centerville. Mr. James Moss of Fairfield is visiting relatives in the city. Miss Evelyn Arbulec is home from Chicago visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Arbuckle. ROCK ISLAND ILL Mrs. J. H. Lyons, Mrs. R. Pheonix, Mrs. Frank Jackson, and Mrs. F. M. Parker were callers in Davenport, Ia., last week. Mrs. Windsor and Miss Harding were callers in South Rock Island. Mrs. W. H. Moore and Mrs. Roy Mack were callers in Davenport, Iowa. Mr. William Taylor, Sr., and Mrs. Huston, Mrs. H. Bigman are on the sick list. Mrs Albert Burris and Miss Grace Burris are visiting in St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. W. H. Moore will entertain the Rock Island "Progressive Club," Wedday afternoon. A goodly number of prominent persons of the city surprised Mrs. Wm. Cain on her birthday. All reported a very pleasant time. Prof. C. B. Hosmer the Tuskegee representative was in the city Monday. He departed for points in Minnesota, Tuesday. The quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church was not largely attended, due to the inclementity of weather. Rev. Phillips, the presiding, preached an excellent sermon at the morning service. Rev. Stovall preached the Sacramental sermon in the afternoon which was very touching. The members of St. Paul's church have been holding revival meetings for FORD'S HAIR POMADE THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINNY OR CURLY HAIR. IT'S USE MAKES STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLIABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO CUMB AND PUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PENIT. WRITE FOR TESTIMONIAL, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MAKES SHORT, KINNY HAIR GROW LONG AND WINK. BEST POMADE ON THE MARKET FOR DADWOMEN, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE CERTAIN, PUT UP IN #+ AND 3+ BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE. • SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. • IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FLOWING PRICES. SMALL SIZED BOTTILLS. 25+ LARGE SIZED BOTTLES. 5+ THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 26 LAKE ST. NW. 72. CINCINNATI, IL. AGENTS WANTED. THE MUSIC OF THE CITY ARANT'S SHOE SALE Is not a sale of odds and ends broken sizes and out-of-date styles It Is a Sale of Ladies' beautiful $5 and $4 Shoes for $1.95 In All Sizes, All Styles, All Leather $1.95 For Your Choice of Any Ladies' Shoe in this shop Arant Shoe Shop 4TH FLOOR FLEMING BLDG. I Have Your Size the past two weeks they have been very beneficial and so for sixteen new members have been added to the church. Mrs. Anna Wallace of Momuth, Illinois is visiting Mrs. David Delward. Mrs. Fannie Lee of Chicago is in the city visiting her mother, Mrs. Clifford Hardin. We are sorry to have to report the death of Grandma Marie. She died at home, 3019 Eleventh avenue. She had been ill a number of weeks and only two weeks ago she was removed from the city hospital to her home. Heart trouble was the cause of her death. She was born in Kentucky, Nov. 15, 1829. She was married Feb. 10, 1861. to David Moxie, who died in 1866. She leaves two sons, Beecher and Wiljiam, both in this city. Misses Mable and Clara Tarver entertained Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Omer Huston and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Burton at their home Thursday evening. Miss Mable McGaw, of Davenport, was a Moline caller Wednesday. Mr. Elmer Wallace of Monmouth, is the quest of his cousin Mr. Phineas Tarver. Miss Fostina Saunders arrived in our city last Tuesday from Chicago, where where she completed her eighth grade. Little Henrietta Robinson is reported much better. A piece of flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Lineniment and bound on placed parts is superior to any plaster. When troubled with lame back or pains in the side or chest give it a trial and you are certain to be more than pleased with the prompt relief it affords. Sold by all dealers. ENTERPRISE, IOWA. The revival meeting that has been been going on at Mt. Olive Baptist church for the last three weeks, came to a close Sunday night, with eighteen additions to the church and four candidates for baptism. Rev. M. J. Burton Missionary, assisted the pastor, Rev, Jas. Bowles, in the meetings His sermon was helpful and inspiring, and the Bible lessons was full of instruction, THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF THE VIRGINES Next week's attraction at the Grand theatre will be the "Smart Set" Company, that mithful and side spitting, three act musical comedy, headed by S Dudley, the popular and versatile Negro Comedian. The production which is under the direction of Messrs. Barton & Wiswell, is by Edwin Hanford who has devised plenty of novelties, situations and surprises that are out of the ordinary. There are fifteen original song hits and musical numbers furnished by Brim. Smith and Burris. The ```markdown ``` THE FIGHTER S. DUDLEY, with the SMART SET Many have decided to become Bible students. The lectures given by the women and men separately was certainly enjoyed by all and caused many to look on life differently. The Mt. Olive Aid society gave a grand reception in honor of Revs. Burton and Bowles, showing their appreciation of the work done by them in bringing many wanderers back to the fold Monday evening Rev. Burton will leave Wednesday for Oskalsoa to assist Rev. O. B. Smitha in his revival. We are praying for the success of the meeting there. housing trust SCENE FROM THE SMART SET. music is of the jungling, tuneful variety certain to please the most exacting lover of light and catchy melodies. Mr Dudley has a part that is sure to set off his well-known capabilities as a fun-maker to excellent advantage. He will appear as Raspberry Snow, one of these neger-do-well Negroes who get in all sorts of trouble ill-advisedly. Raspberry has one ambition and that is to shave the President of the United States. The ambition is realized—but only in a dream. There are seven Mrs Brown and daughter, Laura, entertained Wednesday, for dinner, Rev M. J. Burton and Rev. and Mrs. Jas Bowles. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Garrett entertained, Saturday, for dinner, Revs M. J. Burton and Rev. and Mrs Bowles. Mr and Mrs. William Battles entertained, Sunday, at a four course dinner—Rev. and Mrs. James Bowles and Rev, M J. Burton. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Edmunds has returned from Ohio, where we went as a delegate to the U. M. W. A. convention. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph with indistinct features. scenes all told, and the action is so surprising, spirited and the dialogue so crisp and witty that in order to appreciate every line and feature, one must be on the alert all the time. Mr. Dudley is supported by a company of sixty people including Aida Overton Walker one of the best singing and dancing comedians in the country. The play, too, is handsomely staged, and despite the great cost of the production there will be no advance in prices. The Mt. O. A. society met Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Bryant. The club met in a body at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. Battles, and then walked a half mile to the Bryant residence, where she was waiting for her guests. After the regular business meeting the club had a short prayer meeting. The hostess served a nice two-course luncheon, assisted by Mrs. Frank Brent. Rev. and Mrs. Brant White entertained, Tuesday, at dinner, Rev. M. J. Burburton and Rev and Mrs. Jas. Bowles, Mr. and Mrs. Hunter entertained at Sunday dinner, Mr. Henry Edmonds and wife. FOR SALE - A nice 4-room brick cottage, two full lots, cor. 17th and Hubble streets. Price $1100, small payment down and balance monthly payments. Mathis Realty Co., 300 C. C. Bank Bldg. REASON ENTHRONED. Because meats are so sasty they are consumed in great excess. This leads to stomach troubles, billiousness and constipation. Revise your diet, let reason and not a pampered appetite complain before you eat. Behaelts Stomach and Liver Tablets and you will soon be well again. Try it. For sale by all dealers. Literary Notice. Pursuant to the recommendation of the 1910 City Literary Convention there will be a meeting at the residence of Mrs. J. H. Woods No. 1820 Mondamin Avenue. Monday evening February 13th at 8 o'clock for the purpose of organizing the Des Moines City Literary Convention for 1911, to have charge of all arrangements for the selection of representatives from this city to the Inter-State Literary meeting at Witchita, Kansas, in December next. Each literary society, club or other organization which expects to be represented in the Wichita meeting is urgently requested to have one or more representatives present Monday evening. Any organization that has not yet elected its delegates may be represented by its president until election can be held. By order, S. Joe Brown, Chairman. Sedentary habits, lack of outdoor exercise, insultful mastication of food, constipation, a torpid liver, worry and anxiety, are the most common causes of stomach troubles. Correct your habits and take Chamberlian's Stomach and Liver Tablets and you will soon be well again. For sale by all dealers. ALBIA, IOWA. Quite a snow storm visited Albia Sunday. Sewing Circle Club met at the home of Mrs. E. Grayson Monday afternoon. The Bible Reading class met at the home of Mrs John Washington on Friday evening. A surprise party was given by a number of friends at the home of Mr. Bert Allen on his twenty-eighth birthday day, Feb. 3, 1911. Games of the conversation. The principal feature of the evening was a nice lunch was served to the crowd. And all present felt highly entertained, and wished Mr. Allen many such birthdays. How to cure a cold is a question in which many are interested just now. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has won its great reputation and immense sale by its remarkable cure of colds. It can always be depended upon. For sale by all dealers. SIOUX CITY ITEMS. (Last Week.) There will be quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church at which time Presiding Elder, I. M. Gordon is expected to be present. The Ladies Aid society of the M't Zion Baptist church met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Victoria Shores. A week of prayer is being carried on ORIGINAL NOTICE ORIGINAL NOTICE In the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk County, March term, A. F. Poul, Mabol R. Holt vs. Robert J. Holt. To Robert J. Holt, defendant. You are hereby notified their is now on file the petition of the plaintiff in the above entitled cause with the clerk of the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk County, Iowa, claiming of you a divorce from the bonds of matrimony now existing between you and the plaintiff on the grounds of inhuman treatment on your part toward this plaintiff, and of your failing to support this plaintiff; also on account of your threatening to kill this plaintiff. You are further notified to answer the interrogatives filed with this petition. For further notice see petition now on and unless you appear and defend before of the second day of the next term, but the March term of court, which will commence Des Moines on the 6th day of March, 1911, default will be entered against you and judgment and desire rendered thereon. MABEL R. HOLT, By F. B. Huickstep and W. H Stiles, Attorneys In the District Court of Iowa, in and for Polk county, March term 1911. Mary L. Shampay, Plaintiff vs. J. A. Shampay, Defendant To J. A. Shampay, Defendant You are hereby notified that on or before the 20th day of February, A. D. 1911, the petition of the plaintiff in the above entitled cause will be filed in the office of the clerk of the District court in and for Polk county, praying as against lyou an absolute divorce from the bonds of matrimony on the grounds of non support and cruel and inhuman treatment, such as to endanger her life and health and that unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the next term of said court, which will commence at Des Moines, Iowa, on the sixth (6) day of March A. D. 1911, default will be entered against you and judgment rendered thereon D. A. W. McCORD Attorney for Plaintiff. FOR THAT TERRIBLE ITCHING Eczema, tatter and salt rheum keep their victims in perpetual torment. The application of Czhamberlain's Salive will instantly allay this itching, and many cases have been cured by its use. For sale by all dealers. Stylish Dresses Now At Remarkable Savings! Up to 17.50 Dresses, 5.00 Up to 19.50 Dresses, 7.50 Up to 25.00 Dresses, 10.00 Up to 35.00 Dresses, 12.50 Up to 39.50 Dresses, 15.00 THE HARRIS DES MOINES Grand Open 3 NIGHTS STARTING Thursday THE SMALL Presenting the inc S. H. D. Supported by the AIDA OVERT And 50 Associate Players, HIS HONOR Prices 15-25-35-50 DES MOINES, IA. Grand Opera House 3 NIGHTS STARTING Thursday February 16 SATURDAY MATINEE THE SMART SET AIDA OVERTON WALKER And 50 Associate Players, in the Latest Comedy Creation at the A. M. E. church, well attended. The chittering supper given under the auspices of the Philharmonic club last Thursday, was a success both socially and financially. The Silver Leaf club met with Mrs. Anna Norris last Tuesday evening. The election of officers for the A. M. E. Sunday school for the ensuing year was as follows: Supt, Mrs. Etta Grant; Asst Supt., Laura Askew; Secretary, Geraldine Grant; Asst. Seyc, Samuel Bryant; Treasurer, Rev. Dr. R. Knight; Liberian Helen Dowdy, Chorister, Mr. A. L. Reid; Orgustiv, Mr. Joe Lea. Tuesday evening at the A. M. E. church was largely attended by the young people. Mr. Frank Curtis of Chicago arrives in our city Monday to look after estate of his uncle, Mr. Henry Ridgway who recently died. His brother of M. Tana is expected here in a few days to assist in the matter. Mr. Jessie Boyd of Norfolk, N. arrived in our city for a visit with cousin, Mrs. Vioa White. Mrs. James Reegan has been taken to the St. Vincent hospital to under A. J. Reid, Organist, Mr. J. Mc. Jones. Died, in our city Saturday, Jan. 27th. Mrs Anna Wonzy, wife of Mr. Walter Wonzy. The funeral was held on Monday at 9 o'clock from the Cathedral. Interment in Mt. Calvery cemetery. News has been received throughout the land of the death of our beloved Bishop, Abraham Grant, who departed this life last week. The bereaved ones of the family have the sympathy of the members of the Malone A. M. church and friends. 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