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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. CITY NEWS. N B. I You have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform; we solicit all your local news—Ed.) Miss Myrtle Martyn was called to Omaha, Tuesday morning, on account of illness of her sister, Mrs. Minnie Brown. Mrs. E. T. Banks who has been quite sick is much better. Able to be up again, which is good news to her many friends. Mrs. Jas. Smith of Buxton spent a few days in our city shopping, and visiting, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Dixon on Day street. Miss Ada Cleggett took a relapse last Saturday at the hospital, but her condition seems to be improving, although she is in a very dangerous condition. The Lyceum will meet Tuesday at Finesse Bledsoe near the corner of 15th and School. Program, history of Mexico by Harry Seymour. The present Mexican war by Dr. A. J. Booker. Current events and report of critics. The Callanan Industrial club met with Mrs. E. B. Ellison. 101 Wheat street Wednesday, after which a pleasant afternoon, after which they adjourned to meet with Mrs. Edward Mixon, 405 West Second street, March 29, 1911. The services at Union Congregational church, Sunday morning at 10:30 will be conducted by Rev S. I. Terry who will preach from the subject, "Heroes of the Mission Fields." Everybody invited. Sunday school at 12 o'clock. It is growing in interest. The Phillis Wheatley club held a very interesting meeting last Sunday afternoon and discussed the life and works Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Miss Burnie McDowell leading the discussion. Miss Lorna gave a reading from Dunbar. The club will meet next Sunday with Miss Emma McDowell at which time the life of Miss Elizabeth C. Carter will be discussed by vis Bertha Allen. The Intellectual Improvement club met last Friday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. J. R. Erickson, 1602 Des Moines street. Mrs. S. Joe Brown read a paper on the Latter Religion, and Mrs. J. B. Rush led in the discussion. The club is planning to give an entertainment some time about the second week in April. The club will meet this afternoon with Mrs. H. W. Hghes, and the principal paper will be given by Mrs. O. L. Glass. The Corinthian Aid society met last Friday night with the president, Mrs. Helton. After the usual routine of business, Mrs. Frank Lewis was awarded a beautiful quilt. She realized almost ten dollars. Adjourned to meet with Mrs. Goggins in her new beautiful home, 222 Arthur street. Mr. J. L. Thompson, editor of the Mr. and Mrs Theodore Bell entertained at tea last Monday evening, Rev. S. L. Terry of Boone, Rev. S. L. Terry is employed at the State House this winter, and while here he has been preaching for the Union Congregational church. If you have trouble in getting rid of your cold you may know that you are not treating it properly. There is no reason why a cold should hang on for weeks and it will not if you take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. For sale by ill druggists. A very beautiful birthday party was given Thursday afternoon by Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Glass in honor of their little son, who is one year old. About 18 of the little bots with their mothers complied with their presence to the invitation. A jolly good time reported. A nice little lunch was served and the little boy received many beautiful tokens of remembrance. That you will be proud to carry and at prices that you can afford to buy. Come in and see the wonderful showing we are making on watches. If you are thinking of buying a watch now or later, your chance is here now. You will have no better opportunity this Spring. Come in now and pick it out. The girls of the West End Bridge club met at the home of Mrs. Wm. Gray, 1318 Day street, and discussed plans for entertaining their friends soon. After several progressions of bright had been played refreshments were set aside Mrs. Edward Carter was given of the chance the next meeting will be with Miss Gertrude Hyde, 821 West Thirteenth street. Mr. Albert L. Bell of Shadron, Wyoming, arrived in our city Wednesday to spend a few days with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bell of Fourteenth and Jefferson Sts. Mr. Bell at one time lived here. He is now in the Messenger and Rapid delivery business in Shadron, and is the only one of the kind in the He is a hustler and is making good in the great West At the meeting of the board of directors of the Young Colored Men's Christian Association, Wednesday, twenty applications for membership were turned in by the captains who are in charge of the membership campaign which will continue until the first Wednesday in April. The Board also decided that hereafter the privileges of the Reading Room and Gymnasium will be extended to ladies on each Thursday afternoon from 2 to 6-8 o'clock. The reading room facilities have also been increased by the addition of a sixteen volume set of the American Encyclopedia, containing reliable information on all subjects. Open to men and boys each evening from 8 to 10. Drop in and see them. Sunday at 4:30 Rev. S. Terry will speak. Subject: Are You Ready? DR. WASHINGTON ASAULTED. According to the best telegraphic and Associated Press reports, Dr. Booker T. Washington was assailed last Sunday evening at about 9 o'clock, near 63rd street in New York City, while going to the house, or rather, to find the residence of Mr. Smith, the Tuskegee Institute, who lives in that locality. While looking for the number and name on the mail box, the wife of the man living there notified her husband that a colored man at the door who looked strange to them. He rushed out with a club and assaulted Dr. Washington, cutting gashes in his head. Dr. Washington looked head down, he called the officers and had him arrested. The man's name is Ulrich, a German crank. Dr. Washington was taken to the flower hospital, where his wounds were dressed. The latter reports are that he is proving and is at a hotel in New York Dr. Washington has been receiving letters from the flower hospital. This unfortunate affair President Taft wrote the following letter in his own hand writing: "My dear Dr. Washington: I am greatly distressed at your misfortune and I hasten to write you of my sympathy, my hope that you will soon recover from the wounds inflicted by insane suspicion or viciousness, and my confidence in you and your integrity in your life. You are the highest usefulness to your race and to all the people of this country. "It would be a nation's loss if this untoward incident in any way impaired your great power for good in the solution of one of the most difficult problems before us. "I want you to know that your friends are standing by you in every trial and that I am proud to obsolete myself as one. William H. Taff. NOTICE TO WRITERS. We have repeatedly notified our agents, correspondents and writers, who would send us news to always sign your full names to each letter or we will not publish these letters. It is a pity that we have to turn down good news from Dubuque, Pt. Madison, Davenport, Council Bluffs, Pooria, Ill., Moline, III, and many other towns. I repeat again that we will not publish news sent in unsigned. We will remember this. FOR QUICK SALE House - 4 rooms, city=water, sewer, and gas. 40% lx21% $1300. 100% cent. Half block from car line; good neighborhood. E. Tracy Blagburn. Jones & Lucas FUNERAL DIRECTORS The very best service guaranteed. Prices the lowest . . . . . . . Calls answered prompt- ly day or night. No extra charges for dis- tance. Reverse all phone charges. Phone East 2548. Office 519 East Court Des Moin s, la. The most common cause of insomnia is disorders of the stomach. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets correct these disorders and enable you to sleep. For sale by all druggists HUXTON BRIERS. Mrs. Mary Harold was on the sick list last week. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Carter are the proud parents of a boaching boy born Monday, the 13th. You should see the smile on Davis face when he is asked about his first born. Miss Viola Turner has gone to Omaha to be there indefinitely. She will be missed from the Taterache Baptist church choir, and "Phi" will wear a long face for awhile. Mr. John Purkes celebrated his 56th Important Special Values In New Wash Goods and Domestics This Week and Next THE HARRIS-EMERY CO. birthday, last Wednesday. A number of friends were invited. A very pleasant evening was spent The Self Culture club met at the home of Mrs. Belle Watkins on 5th street last week and were entertained by Mrs. Ella Yancy. The next meeting will be held in the home of Mrs. Elen Freeman on 11th street. Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Torrell of Colafax are visiting friends in Buxton this week. Regular services were held at Tabernacle Baptist church last Sunday. Pastor Calloway preached from 1 cor. 9:24 at the morning hour, using for a subject: "Unload and Run." @ 6:30 the B. P. U. was opened with an excellent song service led by Mrs. Calloway. The subject was opened by Rev. C. G. Green and discussed by the members. At 7:30 the church was crowded to hear the pastor preach-Dent 32:13: "The Eagle eats her nest." The Apocalypse Aid society met at the Tabernacle church last Thursday evening. The Tabernacle Mission circle gave a quilting last Tuesday evening and realized quite a neat little sum. They met in their regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Junior Tate, 19-East Fourteenth street, last Friday, and had a very pleasant meeting. After the business was transacted Mrs. Tate served a dainty lunch. There will be baptizing in the reservoir the first Sunday in April by Rev. Calloway. The K. of P.'s will hold their annual Thanksgiving service at Tabernacle Baptist church next Sunday, March 26th. Rev. Calloway will preach the sermon. Rev. and Mrs. Calloway were entertained at a six o'clock dinner at the home of Mr., and Mrs. Geo Briggs, No. 7. West 10th street, last Saturday and were the guests of Mrs. John Watson, Sunday dinner. Mrs Calloway is making preparations for a grand concert with the children of their church to be given to the Y. M. C. A., Monday March 27th. See hand bills. Mrs. Rose Wellington, who was quite ill the past two weeks is much improved at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. A. Baker entertained in honor of Miss Anna McKinney last Monday evening. Mrs. Jno. A. Baker was on the sick list last week. The Y. P. S. C. E held its regular meeting last Sunday at 6:30. The subject: "The dangers and use of money" was led by Mrs. L. W. Tucker. Services were quite well attended at Mount Zion Baptist church last Lunday. Rev. Woodard preached two splendid sermons. The B. Y. P. U. meeting was led by W. A. Brown. Mr. Jeff Rivers, Sr., is very ill and is not expected to live. He had two hemorrhage and quite weak from the loss of blood. The Mt. Zion Mission circle met at the home of Mrs. Mamie Devorse, 16th E. 9th street. The meeting was led by Wheels at the close of the business the hostess served a nice lunch to the ladies. Mrs. W. J. Jackson is on the sick list this week. Dr. Carter is adding a new building to his premises. It looks like a chicken house. MOLINE ILL. GREETINGS The members of the church are preparing to entertain the District conference and Sunday School, March 21-24th inclusive. Mr Scott Madison of Kansas City is the guest of his parents a few days. Missionary society held a Jit, Patrick's Day entertainment, Friday evening in the church porlors. A large audience was in attendance and a neat little sum was cleared. We are very sorry to relate the death of Mrs. George Tarver; which occurred at her home, Saturday morning at 2:30. Wrs. Tarver had been a sufferer for four years with a paralytic stroke, which finally resulted in her death. Besides her husband, two sons and a little daughter are left to mourn their loss. An aged mother, two sisters, six brothers and a host of min'r relatives and friends. The funeral services were held Monday afternoon from St Paul's A. M. E. church. The Household of Ruth of which she was a member paid their last respects to their deceased sister, and Rev. McDowell of Rock Island conducted the funeral services. Much sympathy is extended to the bereft family. Mr. Robert Bradley of Marcellas, Michigan is visiting his sister Miss Jno. L Jones and his three children in Rock Island. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Thompson of Muscatine, Iowa, attended Sunday evening services. The Misses Addie Johnson and Lena Green of Galesburg, and Miss Margaret Paine of Davenport were the guests of Miss Clara Tarver, Thursday. Mrs. Murphy and Mr. Haynes of Chicago, Mr. Warren Murphy of Fort Madison, Mr Jas Murphy of St. Paul, Mrs. Reed of Witch峡, Kansas, Mr. Richard Murphy of Davenport, and Mr. Gus Murphy of Cedar Rapids attended the funeral of their sister, MGeo Tarver, also an aunt Mrs. Wallace of Monmouth. Quite a number from Rock Island attended Sunday evening services. A very grand sermon was prescheduled Sabbath morning by Rev. Straw. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walkup of Auora have come to make Moline their home. At present they are stopping with their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs S. B. Walkup. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kelsee have issued invitations for a reception in honor of the marriage of their daughter, Beatrice, to Rufus Bassett, which will take place at their home 620 Railroad avenue at 8:30 o'clock, Thursday evening, April 6th. KEOKUK NOTES. M. Sidney Battle and family of Mississippi have moved to Keokuk. He have taken the beautiful new residence recently built by Mr. George Kelller, located at 101J Fulton St. The excellent program given at the Pilgrim Bastion church, Thursday evening, March 9th, was enjoyed by a large audience, who thoroughly appreciated the efforts of those who took part. Mrs. Katie Reed who resides at 1313 Cedar street, gave a very successful jente tea last Thursday afternoon. It was largely attended. There will be a grand Easter Ball given at Gibbons opera house, Monday, April 24 1911. The ball will be especially decorated and the music will furnished by Agnes full Cristhestra. Dancing from 8:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. W. A. Fry, promoter: The Rev. Helem of the Pilgrim Rest church officiated at the wedding of Mr. Lawrence Bryant and Miss Luell. Myers instead of Rev. Brice Taylor, as previously stated. BUSCHE. "He has achieved success" who has lived long, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men, and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who has never laced appreciation of one's beauty nor failed to appreciate it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory is a benediction "-" Besale A. Stanley. A Pleasant Physic. When you want a pleasant physic give Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Taillets a trial. They are mild and gentle in their action and always produce a pleasant cathartic effect. For sale at druggists. Cash Testimonial Given Noted Editor In New York. Hon. C. W. Anderson In Making Presentation as Token of Esteem From Leading Men Calls Mr. Fortune One of Race's Bravest Champions—Praised by Other Speakers. By GEORGE W. HARRIS. An audience entirely unworthy in point of numbers was present at the recent notable occasion at the Abyssinian Baptist church, New York, when Collector Charles W. Anderson, in behalf of Dr. Booker T. Washington and other leading colored men throughout the country, to give to the great veteran editor, T. Thomas Fortune, $315 as a token of their esteem. The audience was composed almost solely of members of the church, and so comparatively few were they that were not the circumstances explained New York's colored population would appear entirely ungrateful of the friendship and services of the fearless journalist who was largely responsible for the abolition of jincrow schools in the state and many other civil discriminations. But for some unknown reason the date, place and other features of what was to be New York's tribute to a popular champion were unaccountably withheld from the public. The arrangements for the meeting, it seems, were entirely in the hands of Fred R. Moore of the New York Age, which Mr. Fortune founded and built into its position of power and prominence of a few years ago. In the three days of the proposed meeting some of the speakers who were to be-Collector Anderson, Rev. R. M. Bolden, James H. Anderson, Wilford H. Smith, Eaq, and N. Barnett Dodson—were not even P. THOMAS FORTUNE. asked to participate. But the few people who chanced to read or hear of the meeting were present and by their enthusiasm made up in quality what the meeting lacked in quantity. Names of the Contributors. The widely known donors to the fund for the present contributing editor of the Amsterdam News were; Ladies and Gentlemen—I rearrange it as a great privilege to be permitted to take part in this testimonial to one of the most important figures in the history of duckel, Mr. T. Thomas Fortune. In this day of many Caesars it is extremely difficult to determine precisely what measure should be rendered into your hands, but I think that among our many excellent journalists no voice has State Capitol Bldg Historical Room Price Five Cents. loud lumber or truer for the past-well, the voice cubbly, whimmy, wiggles, tonight. He has won a place more prominent and more enduring in the hearts of our men and women than any editor who has written it. He has won it by his loyalty, his dogged determination, his unconquerable grit and his dare and extraordinary capacity to face his beliefs. While other worthy men have been given offices of honor and emolument in recognition of their services to their party and party, he has been thanked with the thanks for the cheque of the poor—but through it all he has remained a force which had to be reckoned with and one that was stubborn and unreliable. He has given him what you will, you must concede that among the pale shadows that ordinarily fit across the stage of our public life Tom Hanks has been thoroughly genuine and city. Of course he is no saint nor has he ever pretended to be one, but he is and always has been thoroughly genuine and he hates peace. His God is the God of battle, and he appears to see him only in the avalanche and seems to hear him only in his burning sympathies and intense passion. His friends love to feel that if he strikes hard blows they are fair ones and are always or almost always struck in response to his burning sympathies and intense passion. His friends served when she is served by such a man. Our great leader, Dr. Booker T. Washington, with that considerable kindness and wit, has written that it must tune old friends to make a small contribution toward a fund for the purchase of some token that would express our reverence for him. It is indeed that it would be better to present him with the purse than to unload on him the conventional but useless loving cup, and that it would be better to present that purse has been assigned to me. I therefore present this purse of $15 to Mr. T. Thomas Fortune as a slight token of appreciation to the race and wish him health and happiness until the arrival of that day, which I hope is far distant, when he shall put his hand on his shoulder and young hands. And when his work is all finished and his words all spoken it is my firm belief that his spirit will still survive. He has been a loyal supporter of the path he has blissed will be broad and straight for the march of younger feet. Mr. Fortune was much moved by the presentation and flattering eulogy of the speakers and contributors and expressed his thanks to them as well as to the subscribers of the testimonial. Of Dr. Washington he said that he was in nowise surprised that he had undertaken the subscription, as it was not in his nature to do other than generously and personally served, he thought, his race worthly. The personal relations and close friendship which had existed for two decades between Mr. Washington and himself, he commented, had been one of the most helpful and notable in the history of the Afro-American people and was one of the happiest experiences of his life. Mr. Fortune Makes Statement. Mr. Fortune makes the following statement in regard to the meeting: Mr. Fortune, who had refused to have anything to say one way or another as to the propriety of asking for a testimonial, asked Mr. Washington, the responsibility for it to Dr. Washington, who proposed it, and the friends co-operating with him, objected to the manner in which he was being entrained in New York, which was in the hands of Fred R. Moore of the New York Age. Mr. Fortune based his objection to the public function at the time advertised on the ground that proper advertisement of the gathering had not been made to insure that Mr. Washington would be the Yorkers of Mr. Fortune and his work of thirty years in New York, the notice having been made and speakers asked to appear within five days of the date of meeting. At a meeting held at the law offices of Wilford H. Smith, 159 Nassau street, at which Mr. Smith, Mr. Moore, Mr. W. Smith, and Mr. Fortune were present. Mr. Fortune stated his objections. After the matter was thrashed out by all concerned Mr. Fortune agreed to send the letter to the ground soldier, that he did not wish to embarrass those who might attend the meeting on the strength of such notice as had been made of it. Dr. Washington Pays Tribute Dr. Washington, who was unable to be present in the city at the meeting, sent the following letter to Collector Anderson: Mr. Anderson.-Inclouse I send you New York draft for $300, together with the names of the contributors toward the T. Thomas Fortune testimonial fund. I was thoroughly understood by the donors and all concerned that this money is given not because of its intrinsic value to Mr. Fortune, but simply as an indication of the support the Fortune has for his long and hard service in behalf of the race. No one was asked to make a large contribution. Veteran Guards' Second Anniversary. The event in military circles in Brooklyn began in March 1916, the second military entertainment and dance of Company A. veteran guards, held at the company's headquarters in Herkimer street. The guard made a fine showing, and their appearance in the grand march with full regalia created much enthusiasm. Lieutenant Denton and Captain Manning with their associates composed the committee of arrangements. No Color Line Drawn at Cornell. Mrs. Gertrude Marton, matron in charge at Cornell university and head of Sage college, denies the allegations of James B. Clarke that colored girls are discriminated against by the other students at the university. "It is not true that we have placed a ban on colored girls at Sage college, and there is no color line drawn at Cornell university," she says. Thousands For Kansas University. The Kansas legislature has approved $105,000 for the Western university at Quindaro. Professor H. T. Keiling, editor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Review, is the president of the university. Six thousand dollars were also allowed the Douglas hospital at Kansas City, an institution which was founded by the late Bishop Grant. BULLINGTON ITEMS. Mrs. S. Vaughn has returned from Cairo, Ill., where she called to the death bed of her brother. Miss Mary Brown, a sister returned with Mrs. Vaughn. Mrs. E. Clay, who was quite ill last week is able to be out. Mrs. Agnes Lamb is lying quite ill with asthma at her residence on Washington street. Mr. Pearl Johnson entertained the "Planates" last week. The I. I. club was the guest of Mra, J. Trent, last week. The P. S. Circle enjoyed a delightful afternoon with Mrs. Rideout, Friday. Mr. A. Pleasant spent last week with his family at home. Mr R. Trent of Chicago has returned to make our city his home. Mrs. J. Bland has moved on sixth street, between Davison and Market, where she is conducting a large rooming house. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Johnson has moved on Spence St., between seventh and eighth streets. James Ray, Jr., who has been suffering with the mumps is attending school again. Mr. and Mrs. E. Williams and Mr. and Mrs J. Ray, Mr. and Mrs G. Tyler called on Mrs Vaughn and sister, Miss Brown, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs H. Irving and niece, Miss Oneta Herry were the guests of Mrs J. Ray last Saturday. The Union Baptist Bible class will meet with Mrs J. Earle, this week. The writer is sorry there were no news for the past two weeks, as I was moving and I'm also sorry there been no money paid in for quite a few weeks. Now will you please be moving "and pay up." WASHINGTON IOWA NOTES. Mrs. A. G. Clark, of Oskaloosa, will visit at the Jas. Redd home over Sunday. Mrs. G. W. Black and daughter visited over last Sunday at the Henry Hockey home in Oskaloosa; also visited at the Wm Jeffers home in the country near Oskaloosa. Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. will be April 2d. Miss Maria Whaley was elected as delegate to the S. S. convention, which convened at Moline this week. Rev. William left Tuesday morning for Moline, Ill., where he attended district conference this week. Rev. Phillips and family expect to move to Davenport in the near future. Last Sunday was Stewardess day at the A. M. E. church, and the collections during the day about $12. In the evening the lady board presented the following interesting program to a full house. Mrs. Geo. W. Black presided. Invocation by the pastor Scripture reading, Mrs. A. L. Hall; Select reading, Miss Ruth Black; Addresses, A. L. Hall, G. W. Black and Rev. Williams; Solo, Mrs Srah Davis. Excellent music dispensed by the chair, viz. Medames Horace Spencer and Curry, Miss Iota Phillips, and Messra Horace and Harvey Spencer; Miss Helen Mottys, organist Violin and organ duet, Sammy Hall and Arrold Hall. This was fine. Good for the boys Mr Ray McAllister of Jacksonville, Ill., is here at the home of his uncle, Mr. Spencer and expects to remain during the summer and assist the Spencer Bros. in their cement work. Mrs. Iaaac Hall, who has been visiting her daughter in Minnesota for some time is expected home next week. The Old Southland Sextette a colored concert company gave one of their enjoyable entertainments in the First M. E. church, in this city Monday evening to a full house. They are some entertainers sure and are a nice bunch of people A. L Hall visited in Davenport and Muscatine last week. "The Beauty Machine," a little two-act comedy will be given in the near future by the following young people lota Phillips; Luba Gwinn, Marie Whale; Mary Redd, Nettie Campbell, Pearl and Una Cissel, Helen Mottz, Fred Williams, Samuel Hall Jr., and Philip Rushing. The proceeds from this is to purchase song books for the S. S. SEEDS Lawn Grass Seed Vegetable Seeds of all kinds for the Spring Garden. Onion Sets, Potatoes Flower Seeds Hoes, Rakes, Etc. Incubators. GUTHRIE-LORENZ CO 7th and Grand Ave. BYSTANDER PUB. CO. Publisher DES MOINES. IOWA An odor of gasoline is de rigur. A pistol is too convenient a weapon for passion. He is a wise man who knows it if he cannot afford an automobile. America may have fewer areoplanes than foreign nations but it has a nice lot of records. This is a human city. Many a chau- four carefully blankets his automobile on every cold day. Texas proposes to have an onion day. That will be a splendid day not to go to the theater. H Horace Greeley were alive today, would he advise California young men to go west and grow up with the country? Every time some fellows give a tramp a dime they throw out their cheats as though they were A. Carnegie. Short, thick curly hair is said to be an indication of great strength, but it doesn't indicate anything when it is on a wig. A Brooklyn man committed suicide because he lost $50,000 speculating in Wall Street. At least, he thought he was speculating. "Man love blondes," sagely announces an eminent sociologist. Right; also brunettes and "any little girl that's a nice little girl." A Wisconsin professor declares that farm products are manufactured. Henceforth we shall have to call the chicken crop a factory. The "driflane" is the latest flying machine. All of which goes to show that there are devious ways of breaking a fellow man's neck. Furs, it is announced, are to be cheaper. Now, if diamonds will only come down, much of the present-day distress can be relieved. Sawing wood is highly recommended as a muscle producer, but if you happen to live in a high noise is apt to disturb your neighbors. One of the most astounding feats of Aviator McCurdy was his "landing in the water." That is far more difficult than watering on the land. A Chicago professor has won an automobile in a guessing contest. Chicago professors have long been considered the world's best guessers. In some parts of Chicago people continue to carry revolvers to dances. We may, without knowing prejudice, say that it is not polite. The Philadelphia Inquirer says an indignant butcher put one of his creditors in his ice chest. That probably made the credit hotter than ever. "Coffee and sinks are not conducive to the artistic temperament," opines a Chicago art student. However, we generally find them together. Chicago has a successful landscape painter who took up art at the age of 18. When we say "successful" we make successful from a Chicago point of view. A St. Louis minister says that love-making is natural and proper. Thus is another great discovery added to this wonderful age of air flight and wireless televibration. The students of a noted woman's college are to be taught onion raising. The idea is to take them back to nature's heart, and the reunion will doubtless be a weeping one. North Carolina has a great grandmother aged forty-six. Four generations within the half-century limit is certainly an unusual boom for the census of that enterprising state. A court has decided that fits during the honeymoon are not ground for divorce. Certainly not. Giving her husband fits is one of the essential duties of many a married woman. A bill has been introduced in the Missouri legislature to prevent airplanes from going more than 1,000 feet high. What difference does it make whether one falls 1,000 or 10,000 feet, if one must fall? A man in Denver advertises for sale the skeleton of Archduke Johann, brother of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, "the genuine and intact." If you are not satisfied with the skeleton in your closet, here's your chance. It is about time we had ceased accepting an excuse for the careless tossing of cigarette smokes in flammable rubbish the ples of "accident." The thing looks like such stupid irresponsibility as would justify an inquiring de lunatic. Portugal has decided to grant former King Manuel a pension amounting to about $100 a day. This seems to come about as near to getting something for nothing as one could expect, even in the most favorable circumstances. The University of Illinois is accused of spending millions of dollars of the state's money to teach students football. If said university has spent millions to promote football a glance over the football records will show that the money has been spent in vain. Surgicals in Texas the other day remapped a diamond from the stomach of a convict. If science had been developed in older days the golden eggs could have been removed from that famous goose without fatal results that left the loss to literature. PLAN SHORT COURSE Will Probably be Held Last of June or Early in July Will Include Lectures, Demonstrations and Laboratory Work- Horticultural Forestry Grounds and Experimental Fields at Their Best. Ames—Arrangements are being made for holding a summer short course in agriculture and household economics at the college, as authorized by the board of education at a recent meeting. The course will probably be held the latter part of June or early in July. Instruction will be offered in all the prescribed courses in the new household economics work. It will include lectures, demonstrations and laboratory work. The new household economics building, which is one of the most perfectly equipped in the country, will be in use by that time. The college campus, horticultural and forestry grounds and experimental fields will be at their best at that time and they will afford those in attendance an opportunity of studying at close range, trees, fruits, grains and grasses, in addition to the extensive herds and focus of live stock which are maintained on the college farm. This course will be especially adapted to the needs of rural and city school teachers, country pastors, city land owners and all classes of people interested in rural life and rural education. Changed His Mind. Taber—Temporarily insane, Sam Savage, 76 years old, prominent farmer and early settler, residing three miles south of Taber, attempted suicide. He went to an old house in the back yard, sharpened a butcher knife, and cut his throat from ear to ear, but was unsuccessful. Next he tried to puncture his jugular vein, down a pump pipe into a stock well. The cool water, however, restored his reason. He shouted and was rescued. Worked 43 Years for Railroad Humeston. J. B. Sullivan, who for over twenty-seven years has been agent at the Union station, has resigned his position. Mr. Sullivan commenced work for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy over forty-three years ago, and is their oldest agent in point of service. Have Golden Wedding Have Golden Wedding, Corydon—Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Meekins of this city, celebrated their fifteenth wedding anniversary surrounded by a host of friends. Mr. Meekins managed hotels in Linville, Allerton and Corydon, and is now living on a small fruit farm here. Probable Suicide. Des Moines—The body of Mrs. Lena P. Parrish, 43 years old, was found in the Des Moines river half a mile north of the Center street dam. The police believe it is a case of self-destruction. May Expel Many Students. Lake City.—Class riots resulting in broken heads and the hanging of class emblems in effigy have caused Superintendent Griffin much trouble. The expulsion of a number of students is expected. Supreme Court Grants Rehearing. Des Mohes.—The supreme court has granted a rehearing to Earl W. Lindsay of Colfax, who was convicted of a criminal assault upon a little girl and the life sentence imposed by the lower court. Boy Held on Serious Charge Clarinda—Dewey Ritner, aged 13, was held to court to await the result of terrible injuries sustained by Miss Ople Brown, aged 13, whom young Ritner shot in the face with a shotgun. Bitten by Mad Dog. Clinton—Two boys were bitten, many more threatened and much excitement was caused in the business world. A sheepherd dog became suddenly mad. Child Burned to Death. Linmouth—The little baby son, aged 2 years, of Frank Rastalon, living at Canton, near here, was burned to death. His clothes caught fire from a kitchen range. Fireman Convicted by Jury. Mason City, Earl Dean was convicted by a jury of breaking and entering after being out thirty-six hours. He is a fireman on the Milwaukee. Record Breaking Hogs. Ida Grove—Charles Klienmacher, near Holstein, Ida county, sold fifty- six head of young hogs that weighed an average of 367 pounds. All the hogs were of the last spring farrow and it is claimed this average weight is a new record for hogs of less than a year old. Clarion Building Burned. Clarion. The frame building owned by J. T. Denson and occupied by Otto Drake was burned with $2,500 lions. Five Ordered to Jail. Council Bluffs.-Judge McPherson sentenced the following: Mabray "sterecers" to five years in Jail $1,000 fine each; R. L. Thielman, L. B. Hindman, Tom Davis, George Ryan, C. F. Philpot and W. I. Crider. Iowa Woman 100 Years Old. Burlington. 1971 Sarah Sharp engraved a memorial in birth in Jury. A secretary at her home near Dunville. She was born in Alexander, Va. March 14, 1811. One of her neighbors in McLusy, wife is 192 years old. Mason City—In an address before a meeting of the township trustees of the county and other township officers, Professor McDonald of Ames advocated setting aside a certain sum of money in each township for good roads, and especially in townships through which the proposed interstate road is to run. He said the road drag had come to be one of the essential machines in the making of roads and that it was up to the trustees and the county boards of supervisors to enforce the law relative to the use of the drag, which law is now on the statute books. The proposed Twin City, Mason City, Des Moines and Kansas City road was given a decided boost. The meeting was attended by fifty of the representative farmers of the county. Broad Booster Meet Hold Fortile. The second meeting held here in the interests of the Forest City, Fortile & Mason City railway, was one of the most successful and best attended held. The management announced that from present plans the construction would begin about Mason City stock rolling rapidly, being taken by farmers and merchants of the three towns. Tubercular Hospital Filled. Iowa City—One hundred and sixteen patients are now in the state hospital for tubercular people at Oakdale, the largest number which has been in the hospital at any one time since the hospital was opened three years ago. In these three years more than 700 patients have taken treatment. Form New Church at Ames. Nevada—The Collegiate Presbyterian church of Ames was organized at a meeting of the Waterloo presbytery held at Ames the latter part of the week. The organization of this new church became necessary because of the large number of the faculty body and students of that faith at the college. Dills Dies of His Wounds. Sidney.-Edward H. Dills died yesterday at the hospital in Council Bluffs. He was a farmer, east of Sidney on a farm, tempted suicide by shooting himself. Flowing Well. Mason City.—At a depth of '610 feet the Decker Packing company struck a well from which the water flowed at the rate of 12,000 gallons per hour or 268,000 gallons a day. Sunday Gives $100 to Church Waterloo.—Evangelist 'Billy' Sunday writes from Lima, Ohio, sending a draft for $100 to be applied in making good the loss' by fire to the First M. E. church. Waucoma Has $6,000 Fire. Waucoma.—Fire here destroyed the millinery store of Mabel Husband and the residence of Charles Lloyd. The loss is $6,000. Cause is unknown. Pioneer of State Dies Ames—Charles Van Duzer died at the home of his son, Rev. W. H. Van Duzer, in Ontario, after a continual residence in Iowa of seventy-five years. Ames College Man Speaks. Mason City—Professor McDonald, Ames college, made an address here urging good roads. He considered the road drag as particularly effective. Boom Green For Congress Atlantic—W. R. Green, Audubon district judge, is being boomed for congressman in the Ninth district to succeed Walter I. Smith. A special election is necessary. Ship Many Cars of Engines. Charles City—A train of twenty two cars all loaded with gasoline farm engines from the factory here was shipped Tuesday to Minnesota and Winnipeg points. Father of Auditor Dice. Nevada district Dice, 76, a pioneer, and an old soldier, is dead at his home here. His son, Fred G. Dunahugh, is county auditor. Sloux City Paper Sold. Bayden—William Brady has pur- chased the Reporter, a weekly paper published in Sloux county. He will take possession at once. Mrs. Walsh of Adale Dead Adair—Mrs. E. B. Walsh, wife of one of the prominent men of the city, died of pneumonia at the age of 33 years. To Hold Annual Contests. Holstein—The annual contests of the Athena declamatory association will be held March 31. Killed in Runaway Algaona—Paul Kruger's aged mother was instantly killed and his wife perhaps fatally injured when their buggy was thrown over an embankment in a runaway. The bronches became frightened at a passing auto. Mrs. Nye Godfrey Dead. St. Joseph, M.—Mrs. Louisa Nye Godfrey, 92 years old, the widow of Capt. John W. Godfrey of Lamon, Ia., who commanded a United States warship during the blockade in the civil war, died here. Coal Mine Is Located. Boone, T. P. Smiley of the Smiley & Heps company, has located a new mine which will be opened soon on the Eddy farm. The coal is at a depth of about 220 feet and is composed of two veins of the usual two or three feet: thickness. Mrs. Louisa Edwards Dia. Lorimer, Mrs. Louisa S. Edwards, wife of the late Rev. E. S. Edwards, died here at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. M. C. Balley. Mrs. Edwards was 79 years of age. ON THIS CENTER MEXICAN BOUNDARY LINE THE OLD NICK RED GALLE PACKERS IN DEFEAT FEDERAL JUDGE OVERRULES MOTION TO QUASH INDICTMENTS, UPSETS PLEA IN ABATEMENT. GOVERNMENT TO RUSH TRIALS Decision Denies Right of Ten Big Packers to Whitewash as Result of Their Testimony Before Grand Jury In Former Inquiry. Chicago—Holding that the immunity granted by Judge Humphrey of the federal circuit court in 1906 did not apply to the present charges, which, he declared, were based on evidence not included in the Humphrey decision, Judge Carpenter in the United States district court Wednesday overruled the dammer filed by the indicted Chicago packers and they lost their fight against going on riot on the day of the verdict by the government several months ago. Judge Carpenter's decision went into the controversy relating to immunity with great detail. In brief, the packers' position was that any conspiracy that might have existed was the plotting prior to Judge Humphrey's immunity decision, and that the immunity from prosecution granted them extended over all future time, so long as the acts covered by the 1906 decision remained the same. In deciding this, Judge Carpenter ruled that the immunity granted them was only for acts which had occurred prior to the date of the indictment and could not pertain to any unlawful act which was performed after that time. The evidence given by the packers before the grand jury, he said, was that which had not occurred, and hence could have no future application. As to the contention of the defense that the conspiracy ended with the first plotting, he ruled that so long as the acts complained of continued, the conspiracy remained in effect, and unlawful acts growing out of the conspiracy and occurring after the indicted男男 had testified before the grand jury were new and separate offenses and subject to the operation of law. In addition, the offenses admitted before the grand jury by the packers prior to their immunity and from the criminal responsibility for which they were freed by the Humphrey decision, were defined by the court as none the less criminal in themselves. He said they could be used in prosecutions which were predicated on a continuity of the crime. Following are the defendants: Louis F. Swift, E. E. Swift, Charles F. Swift, Francis A. Fowler, Edward Tilden, J. Ogden Armour, Arthur Meeker, Thomas J. Conners, Edward Morris and Louis H. Herman. United States District Attorney Sims said he would in a day or two demand that the packers be brought into the building and the documents and have dates set for, trial. Turks Float Big War Loan Berlin.—Subscriptions for the Turkish loan of £7,000,000 Turkish (asp proximately $31,500,000) were opened Tuesday and closed immediately, have been opened. The loan was taken by a syndicate of German and Austrian banks. Frisco Bara "Bucket Shops." San Francisco.—A city ordinance prohibiting the operation of "bucket shops" was passed by the unanimous vote of the board of supervisors Tues day. Twenty Rescued in Y. M. C. A. Fire. Springfield, Mo.—Twenty men malele in the Young Men's Christian association building here Monday were nearly suffocated before being rescued by firemen when flames destroyed the structure. New Post Office Opened. Cleveland O.—The dedication of Cleveland's new $4,000,000 post office took place Monday with many men present prominent in public life. Among others were Attorney General Wickham of Washington. FRANCE TALKS PEACE FRANCE TALKS PEACE JUSSERAND AND TAFT CONFER ON ARBITRATION TREATY. President Will Witthold Definite Action Until He Is Sure of His Ground. Paris—It has become known here that President Taft and M. Jusserand, the French ambassador to the United States, have held conversations at Washington concerning a comprehensive agreement for arbitration between the two republics upon the general outline of President Taft's ideas regarding international peace treaties. These conversations are considered unofficial, but as preparing the way for a treaty similar to that proposed between Great Britain and the United States. It is unlikely that the matter will take the form of official exchanges until it is seen what the outcome will be of the Anglo-American proposals. Washington.—The conversations referred to in the Paris dispatch are among many which President Taft has had with representatives of foreign powers as a result of his speech last December at the banquet of the United Nations for the Judiciary settlement of International Disputes. The president then announced himself in favor of arbitration, not only of international questions, but also questions involving national honor. No definite arrangements have as yet been made to draft a treaty with either France or Great Britain, as the president is said to be ascertaining the sentiment of the move until he is apprised of the probable reception of such measures by the senate. PUNISHES SIX FOR FRAUD Members of Mabray Gang Sentenced to Five Months in Prison and Fined $1,000. Council Bluffs, Ia.—Six of the defendants in the so-called Mabray swindling cases had been used by the United States mails in promoting fake sporting events were Tuesday sentenced by Judge Smith McPherson of the federal district court. L. H. Hindmann, known as the "Honey Grove Kid"; R. L. (Darby) Thelman, former professional baseball player; George Ryan, Tom Davies, C. Phillip and W. I. Cramer were subjected to six months' imprisonment in some county jail and to a pay a fine of $1,000 each. There are several other Mabray cases pending. TOM L. JOHNSON IS BETTER Ex-Mayor of Cleveland, Who Is Seri ously III Show improvement, and is a Cleveland, O.—Ex-Mayor Tom L. Johnson, who is lying seriously all at his apartments in the White-hall, suffering from cirrhosis of the liver, is feeling better and considerable stronger, according to, reports given out by his attendants. Nine Killed in Coal Mine. Pittsburg—Nine men were killed in the Hazel mine of the Pittsburg and Buffalo Coal company at East Cansburg, Wednesday. They were being taken to a remote part of the mine mass of loose slate in the roof fell, filling a car in which there were ten men. Cigarette a Utah Winner. Salt Lake City, Utah—A bill making the sale of cigarettes in this state a misdemeanor was disapproved by Governor Spry Wednesday. True Bill in Trust Case. New York—The grand jury which has been probing the Carnegie Trust company scandal handed down three indictments Tuesday against William Dumming, the master promoter and director of the firm. The indictments charge grand larceny in the first degree. Pioneer Rail Chief Dies. Boston—Nathaniel Thayer, one of the pioneers in promoters of the United States, died at his home in this city Tuesday. BENJ. D. GREENE FREE FINISHES FOUR-YEAR TERM FOR HARBOR COMPLICITY. Takes Pauper's Oath Which Releases Him From His Portion. of $875,000 Fines. Atlanta, Ga.—Benjamin D. Greene, who, with John F. Gaynor, has just completed a four-year term in the federal prison here for complicity in the Savannah harbor improvement frauds, was released, bringing to a close, so far he is concerned, a legal battle that has commanded attention for the last decade. Greene's application for leave to take the pauper's oath in order to escape further liabilities for the $875,000 fine imposed on the two men when they were convicted and granted after a hearing which lasted two days. John Greene, jointly convicted with Greene, has completed his sentence in the federal prison. His application to take the pauper's oath is pending. The case of the government against Greene and Gaynor was one of the most unusual in the annals of American jurisprudence. More than a decade ago these two were engaged in a contractual million dollar improvement work in Savannah harbor, under the supervision of Capt. Oberlin M. Carter. Trouble began when Carter was appointed military attache at the court of St. James. The army officer who succeeded him, Capt. Cassius E. gillette, found evidence of fraud in the work, which he称职ed in a three court-martial for Carter, a fine, a term in Leavenworth prison, and, ultimately, in the confiscation by the government of money he was alleged to have secured through the harbor fraud. Greene and Gaynor were indicted in December, 1889. The case did not come to trial in Savannah until March 6, 1902. There was an immediate recess of a few days, during which the defendants went to Canada. The laws did not apply to their case and for about three years they lived in Quebec, until on the grounds of courtesy and friendship the British government agreed to surrender the fugitives. Trial at Savannah began October 9, 1905, lasting until April 13, 1906, when they were convicted of zombieism, then sentenced to four years imprisonment each, and jointly to pay a fine of $755,000. JAPAN ENVOY CALLS ON TAFT Arrangements Are Made for Mutual Exchange of Recent Treaty Between Two Nations. Washington—Responding to an invitation from President Taft, Baron Uchida, the American ambassador, visited the White House Wednesday and made arrangements for the mutual exchange of ratifications of the recent American-Japanese treaty. This function takes place at the state department, where each of the governments gets a copy mutually the third copy is placed in the archives. The president sent for Baron Uchida and the air was full of talk that the baron had asked for explanations of war talk and was in a belligerent mood. Elaborate stories were printed that the baron had called to urge upon the president the belief that Japan had an interest or any other intention in Mexico. The facts of the interview were, however, stated by the president himself, so that they were accepted as they were given out. The president desired the ambassador to felicitate his government on its speedy ratification of the treaty. The president the milkado the assurances of the president's official and personal regard. STOLYPIN QUITS HIS POST Minister of Finance Kokovosv is Selected by Emperor to Succeed to Premiership. St. Petersburg.-Emperor Nicholas promptly accepted the resignation of P. A. Stolypin, premier and minister of the rmd has named V. N. Kokovos, minister of finance, to succeed him Premier Stolypin presetexe his resignation personally to the emperor. His action was due to the rejection by the council of the empire of the Zemstvo bill for self-government in the nine western provinces. The selection of M. Kokovosv was made by the emperor on M. Stolypin's recommendation after his majesty had exhausted all means to persuade the latter to retain his post. The reactionary groups, which plotted Stolypin's fall, thus get small satisfaction. Noted Editor Passes Away New York—Thomas T. Williams, one of the most able and forceful figures in modern journalism, died in attenuation at the Hotel Gotham Wednesday. He was treasurer of the New York Evening Journal Publishing company Flying Fox Is Dead New York—From Paris comes the news that flying Fox, the great race horse which Edmund Blanc purchased some years ago for $200,000, is dead. He won $130,000 in purses on the French turf alone. Towne Chaken by Blast Port Clinton, Ohio—Four perons were hurt, but none seriously, when 500 pounds of powder exploded at the plant of the American Gypsum company at Gypsum, near here Wednesday. New Eddy Claimant Suze Concord, N. H.—One more legal twist to the already complicated litigation over the will of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian church church, was given Tuesday by college counsel of the city of this city, Mr. Baker, who claims the nephew of Mrs. Eddy, sled a pet animal, making leave to intervene in the suit of George W. Glover of Lead, S. D. D. Mrs. Eddy's son, and Dr. E. J. Foster of Waterbury, Vt., her adopted son, and a share in the $8,500.00 of a share TROOPS GUARD TOWN PREVENT PITCHED BATTLE BE TWEEN WORKMEN AT BENLD AND GILLESPIE, ILL. MANY ARRESTS TO FOLLOW Civil Authorities to Punish Armed Foreigners Who Marched on Village and Made Demonstration Against English Brethren. Gillespie, Ill.—With soldiers of the Illinois National Guard patrolling the town of Benid, south of here, immediate danger of a battle between Italian coal diggers and the English speaking miners has been averted. The civil authorities are preparing to prosecute those who bore arms Tuesday in a demonstration calculated to awe their brethren who wanted to return to work. Operations in mine No. 1, located here, and one of the three shafts owned by the Superior Coal company was resumed Wednesday morning. One company of guardians is policing this property. Sheriff Elmo Etter of Macoupin county is in Benid with a force of 60 deputies and co-operating with Col. Edward J. Lang, commanding the Fourth infantry of the National Guard. State Attorney James Murphy of Carroll County scene, giving the sheriff counsel. Wholesale arrests are to follow, according to the state's attorney, and the sheriff. Sheriff Etter will not indicate the probable number of arrests to be made, but warrants will be issued for all who are known to have borne arms against all others who had any part in inciting the riotous demonstration. The saloons have been closed, although this was not done until Colonel Lang conveyed to Mayor L. C. Romell a suggestion to this effect which was virtually a command. When it was realized that the petitioner was Mayor Romell to Colonel Lang would not accomplish the desired result a citizens' committee left town for Springfield to personally urge Governor Deneen to call the troops off. Colonel Lang and Sheriff Etter visited the three mines of the Superior Coal company after camp had been pitched near the interurban railroad station. The reconnaissance completed, the mine was cleared, the mines and other patrols assigned to duty in the town of Benid proper. When the first squad was sent out on patrol duty a large crowd collected, pressing closely upon the guardmen. Orders were given to disperse the crowd, and in pushing back the foremost ones an unidentified miner sprang at one of the men with an open knife. The guardman presented the business his rifle with bayonet and charged his would-be assault. The man fired. The hurry call for troops followed a demonstration by Italian miners. One thousand strong, armed with a variety assortment of firearms, old rifles, muskets, shotguns, revolvers and Winchester, and marching to the music of an Italian band, the foreign speaking coal miners of Benld gathered at sunrise to move against their English speaking brethren of Gillesep. The procession stopped at mine No. 1, passed through the main street of Gillesep, dance on to mine No. 3, and passed through the city of citizenics and business men of Gillesep against the commission of any overt act prevented bladed. The Superior Coal company owns three mines here, with a daily total output of about 10,000 tons of coal. Three months ago John P. Reese came to Gillespie from Iowa to take the superintendency of the properties. Superintendent Reese inaugurated several changes and reforms that were not favorably received by the foreign element among the miners. LIMANTOUR IN MEXICO CITY Wants All to Rally to General Diaz and Avoid International Complications. Mexico City.—With a warning to all Mexicans that with every day the rebellion continues the danger of international complications increases, a plea to them to rally to the support of General Diaz, and a declaration that government never can enter into negotiations with individuals in arms, Florence Bouchard, Fyes Llantourmant Monday entered upon the task of pacification, which the world, at least, has set for him, and upon the outcome of which the world is interested. The special Diaz in which he traveled from New York reached the National station here Monday. Hundreds of persons, among whom were many officials and a sprinkling of women, were on hand to greet him. President Diaz's greeting was converged through one of his official family, the meeting between the two most talked of men in the republic having been deferred until later. New York Broker Pleads to Forgery. New York—Alexander Hollander, a member of the firm of Alexander Hollander & Co., customers brokers, pleaded guilty in the United States court Wednesday to a charge of forgery in connection with customs frauds aggregating $500,000. 10,000 in Scotland on Strike. Kilbowie, Scotland—Tan thousand workmen in the Singer Sewing machine works near Kilbowie, went on strike Wednesday for an increase in wages. Coal Mines KIII 1,125, Men. Harrisburg, Pa.—It cost the lives of 1,125 men to mine 26,999,000 tons of coal in Pennsylvania last year, according to the annual report of the chief of the state department of mines issued Monday. Painters Strike for More Wage. Pittsburgh, Pa.—One thousand painters and decorators struck here Monday, demanding an advance in wages of at least eight percent of work over the scale of $3.40, which expired March 1. ATS aan “ } a ny 1 Hl ae TEN | b i ad Cl Nes. 2 ce j b iY we ARGHIBALIDS AGATA a an ara? Me ea lv cut n thet mt ate nat pany nog lls ul t Cat the ard Car ving a0 ‘and ind 8 ta sued one had lew i oneh el ma eth te tah mit. per call vie ror een oad ted, ret to ont ect de a the ner pea the nt ath | ‘BYNOPSIS. Archibald Terhune, a popular and tn. dolent young bachelor of London, re ‘Selves news that be bas been. made hel fo the estate of hin Aunt Georgiana, ith ‘mn ‘income ot #200) «Year, on condition {iat he becomes engaged to be married Srithun ten Gays, ‘Falling too "30 the ieaecy will go €0 a third cousin tn Amer four he story opens at Castle, Wyekott srhere Lord Vincent and’ Na wife, flea Sr Terhune, re. dlacussing plans to fn Hm @ wife witha the prescribed tre. It fteems that Lady ‘Vincent is one of scven Sermons mamed Agatha, all lone gisiond Shuma, Bhe decidee to invite two of them {othe centio and have. Arcbio. there as fone of the guenia. “Agatha Btxih strikes ‘Aron ana handpainted beauty. Agathe Bret i'n breesy’ -Amertean girl. Lady ‘Vincent tela nce Husband Wat “Agatha Sixth already cares for Archie. He gaits from Agatha Sixth the. admiaalon “that athe carer for him, but will require month's time fully to make Up her mind ‘Reutha First, nemtected. by ‘Terhune, re: ‘Seives attentions from Lasile Freer. Four Gaya of the priclous time have passed ‘when ‘Terhune is called to London on Business, "Agatha First, on the. plow of Slekneas, excuse heracif from a. motor {tip plained by the Vincents, Later they ee Agatha. First ploking Mowers with & Strange, man. The” Vincents Sacuse ‘Agathe seeming dupiclty. The follow: ing Gay the party ‘visita the ruing ef an 21d coavent, eenune continues bia. at tentions to Agatha Sixth. ‘Then suddenly ie ranatern hn aftntond to" Agathe ists Vincent eootes him for hia appar ‘nt fexleneas, rer CHAPTER Vill—Centinued. He glanced ‘at me in « half embar- rassed, half triumphant way, much as the used to do in tho first «Castle ‘Wyckhott house party days, when he ‘was about to tell me of his latest clue in regard to the tdentity of the real Agatha. “Well, to:de quite frank with you,” he ‘sald, “the truth of the matter ‘is that Agatha First won't let me alone!” “Meaning,” 1 sald, “that sbe's fn love with yout” “Well, of, course," he replied, re moving ‘his eyeglass and polishing {t desperaiely as ts his custom when he pretends to be embarrassed, “l ‘wouldn't. like to say that exactly. 1 couldn't say posttively, that 1s, but to a man of my experience in. such matters and knowledge of the fair sex. the tndleations are—" “0 rot!" I tnterrupted, rudeiy, 1 tear, but really the old boy 1s quite too Insufferably concelted. to encour ‘ge. Its an old failing of his. “What makes you think so?” I asked stter @ moment's consideration. Al ‘though 1 couldn't qulte believe that Acatha First was actually in love with bim, still 1 wanted to hear bi reasons for the conclusion, 1 didn't want to believe it, that was certain. T thought we had trouble enough on our hands ae it was, without having {0 reckon with a broken heart on the part of Miss Endicott. And as this contingency assumed an alr. of prob ability to my mind, I inwardly vowed ‘again never to undertake another miateh-making project. Gad, no! Let people marry themsclves hereafter without any Interference from me. 1 had had all J wanted of the thing thi ‘ime, "What makes you thirk so?” I re dented. ‘Arch shrugged bis shoulders. “Can't help tt. She's after me the. whole time! 1 suppose sho can't help fancy fog a mes of my—er—it 1 may 8o— tay attractions. 1 daresay I'm a revels. Yion'to her in comparigon with the American college youtha she bes Probably. been used to, Experlence ‘4nd! Intellect’ does. count, your now, Wiltred, Besides, the results. show--" But 1 cut hlin ahort agatsi. “The results show,” 1 maid. sternly, ‘that you're just enough of « chump to heed-her mania for amusing her: elt with you—tor 1 can't think she ts fn earnest”. I had to tell him that for hla own, good, though T:could have wished I felt murer this. wan the fact. “Her! fondness for filrting with you Satzars you #0 much that you'd run the “AY, of sloxing. the irl, you ‘care. for Suet for, the aake of, having. that Sareglous vanity of yours pleasantly tlekied, as her apparent fancy for your society undoubtedly tickles it! Your old falling again! ‘Pon my word. old chap, I thought better of you! Better of your prudence and foresight! Why, 1 couldn't have had lees of an aye out for my own interests myself {in the days when you and I were con- tending sultors for the hand of one of the Agathas, and you insisted that it should be the helress and no other, ‘and bullied me #0 because 1 didn't take the game view! And the: Lord Acmows you made enough fuse about that!” 2 But wien I reported the result of my remonatrance to Dearest, she sald Thadn’t been halt severe enough with him, and it-was with dimeutty that I persuaded her that speaking to him herself would only meke matters worse and Terhune more obstinate. CHAPTER Ix. _,_ It was the very last evening of the time that had been alloted Terhune in which to select a wife. The fol lowing day was to seo Solicitor Rarnes at luncheon with us at one o'clock precisely, Dearest having invited him fm accordance with Mrs. James’ re- quest that he should be the roferee ‘present at the house when the last ‘minute of Terhune's ten days of grace ‘should expire, and his expected pres ence at the meal brought it home to jus what @ decisive one it must of “necessity be. Decisive was Indeed the ‘right word to use In connection with ‘that meal! For if old Arch was stil free and riaManced when he sat down ‘to {t, he might as well never have ‘been nephew of his aunt as far as tn heriting that aunt's property was con: cerned. Dearest was inclined, belng optimis- tle enough to hope for a consumma tlou- of hls engagement to. Agatha Sixth before that time—to make of the limcheon a sort of marriage-feast in honor ‘of that event, and was already planning famous {ces and cakes of a hymeneal nature, But Arch seemed not to view the approach of the cru: clnl day: with sucha light heart.’ His thoughts at dinner that night were so absent, tn fact, as to force one to con: clude that the spectre of his aunt's third cousin seated upon the veranda fof the house in Australia with pos- seaslve feet on tho railing had be come his familiar sptrit. It was this apparent anxiety: of bis and hs’ feverish devotion to Agatha Sixth that utterly unprepared me for the unfortunate denouement later. ‘The evening had ended at last and Dearest and I had succeeded in atart: Jing a general move toward retiring for the night, We had beon playing brldge—that Jo; the two Agathas bad <with Terhune and. the - inevitable Freer, while my wife and I stood by ‘and cut {o now and then. We had ob- served. with pleasure. that the party of four had divided ftself exactly as ‘we would have arranged it ourselves: Terhune and Agatha Sixth were part ners, ae were Agatha First and Freer. Betior still, Agatha Sixth seemed quite ‘to have forgotten the unhappy ept ‘rode of the waterfall, when Arch had ft cbrlouely tlsedblg-cte, and wen ‘openly basking in the return of her ‘admirer’s devotion. And Agatha First, ‘too, seemed quite contented, not a whit disturbed by this attitude on my felend’s part and mildly amused by the attempted gallantries of the rec tor's son from Wye. It was, In fact, 0 thoroughly happy little foursome, and fn spectator of {ts content I: felt particularly pleased when 1 thought ‘of what Arch had confded to me fust before dinner. ‘That he Intended to ‘obtain a definite, and what he seemed to consider, a favorable answer, from ‘Agatha Sixth on the morrow. We ‘bad all. gone to bed, and the night was well advanced, when I was awakened from the rippingeat kind of sleep by the loudest kind of a bang Jou ever heard tn yourciite, Tt came from the big drawing-room, which we Wid not often’ use, directly Relow my. ‘foom, and woke me at once. It sound. eG for all the world as if some one or something had knocked over one ‘of the endless number of statuettes, heavy vasos or lttle tables that make a regular auction shop of the place, ‘and I struggled into my bath robe 1a ‘8 minute to go and see what it was. Dearest’s room adjoined mine and 1 Matened at the door to find out {f she ‘had been awakened, and hearing noth, ng from-her, went on my way down: states, ‘ T didn't much believe tt could be a Durglar; 1 hed a hazy notion that It might be ono of the dogs who had gotten In there somehow. There are no end of the big brutes about the Des 90d netines Bie eats eT juse for the, night In spite of Dear est. So I wasn't in the least alarmed ‘or apprehensive, and was just about to lay my hand on the drawing-room folding doors, which were at the foot of the stairs, when I heard the lightest posibie tread on tho staira behind ‘me and a soft hand clutched my arm. It was Dearest, of course. “0 Fred ay!" sho gasped, “what a it?” “One.of the dogs, I expect,” 1 told ‘ner, “What made you come?” “Why,” she sald in an indignant lit tle whisper, “I came after you, of course! Do you think I'd let you go all alone?" “Why not?” 1 whispered, °I'm man. Besides, there’s nothing to be afraid of!” 5 0, but there Is!" she assured me, “va burglars—I know it ts! They've come to steal the Wyckhoff emeralds, I know they have!” “Burglars nothing!" “I answered “Ie one of the dogs, I say. Besides if Mt were a burglar that’s all the more reason why you should go back!" “Ana feaye you to be killed al ‘alone? Never!” ir ‘Sometimes, I admit tt with a sort of fond regret, my wife 1s unreasonable “It wouldn’t help any if you were Killed, too!” T told her. “Besides, you'll catch cold. It’s chilly dows here, and 1 want you to go back.” ‘She cavght the tone of authority In my voice, atone I seldom use toward her, and fell to pleading with me. “O Freddy, can't I stay?" she begged. "It's so exciting! See! I've brought you a pistol and here's an um: brella for me!” She came close up to me as she spoke and the gleam of starlight from *\e hall windows fell upon her supplicating face and the old blunderbuss she had taken down from some wall and carried in het right hand, and the other weapon of defense she had mentioned in. the other. ' 1 laughed, if one may be sald te laugh in a Whisper, and bugged her for ber spirit, armament and all. Then wwe turned to the folding doors again Beneath them and through the crack between a faint ght showed. “Making himself pretty much at home for a burglar to light the lamp,” I remember thinking. And 1 slowly and cautiously widened the aforesai crack until & space of some two of three inches wide was obtained, the doors rolling back softly on each side without any noise at all. Then we looked in, my wife making it possible Sor us to do this at one and the, eam time by kneeling on the floor “atm; side, and thus obtaining a chink t look through all to herself. It was lucky she was so near the floor, 1 thought afterward, or abe would certainly have fallen upon with surprise when sho beheld th thing our eyes asked of us to believe For there at the far end of the draw Ing room dimly distingulshable by the Ught of a lamp on the table, turned low, was Agatha First. We recog nized her even in that lght without fall, dressed as sho had been that eve ning for dinner, and standing wit hie back toward us and his arm around her was a man in an attitude unmie takably loveriike and possessive. Ant through the hush of that late hou the low murmur of thelr absorbet yolces penetrated the inmost recess o: our staggered consciousness. Agath’ First and a man metting in secret at that hour! ‘What could it mean? Who could ft be? The surprise of my discovery In the woods the day of our trip to North bury was as nothing to this! Bu als! We knew only too well thi time who the man was, and witbou requiring any further proof such a we had had on the other occasfor when we had walted until the discov ery of the checked coat before we fel sure. In this instance we neither o ‘us doubted for a moment the identity of Miss Endloott's co=p: ® on in he equivocal position. Freer had sald good night and gone on down to the village at ten o'clocl when the party had broken up. I could not he he. Then ft must o necessity be Terhune. Indeed, what ‘other man. would have the opportu nity for such a meeting? , Who. else was staying at the castle? (TO BE CONTINUED) A Sparkling Novelist. A New York editor, at the Century club, told a story about Robert W. Chambers, the well-known young. nor. lat. “Chambers -went one summer,” he sald, “to Sunapee With hie brother. At the Ben More Inn the erlsticratie old indies in rocking chairs, reated on the coo! piazze that overlooks the “lake, were very much stirred up by Me Chambers’ arsival. Whenever he ap. peared they gathered about him and talked hooks. “Chambers was always ready for thera, He bad always on his lips some wwitty saying to double them up. "Oh, Mr. Chambers,’ cried an old lady one day, ‘1 admire “Lorraine” 10 much! T've read it elght thmes!” ‘Madam,’ answered Chambers, with a bow, ‘I would rather hear you. aay Jou'd bought elgnt coples."" His Literal Anewer, In ‘all policies ‘of insbrance. these, among « host of other questions, oc cur: “Age of, father, if living?” “Age of mother, living?” A man in the country who filed up an epplcation made, bis father's age, “if living,” one hundred and twelve years, and bis mother’s one bundred and two. The agent was amazed at this, and fancied he had secured aa excellent customer; but, feeling somewhat dublous, he re- marked that the applicant came of a very long-lived fainily, "Ob, you see, air,” replied he, “my parents. died many years ayo, but, ‘If Itving.’ would bu aged: ea there put down.” “Exactly T cabarcinna” oaid tha lament: WAsHINGg IN GOSSIP ‘a Se Army of Clerks Support Washington Labor Bureau Investigates Insurance Capital ‘Society Women Hope to Fly Senate Shocked in - Closing Session im i FOR ME FIM sevints wows Ate lll WA Vite rece ee OAS \wasnmcron SRY MERCHANTS WOULD ee STARVE Zo Aten ~ W LStHRGTON— Who are the main support of the capital ety of our sation? What class contribute most to the general prosperity of Washing: ton? The frat city of the United States, unlike most other cities, has no dunes that avy fosieiog Heveanie to ita citizens and for this Feagon the question of maintenance naturally arlace. Many towns aro kept fae flourishing condition bythe In: come which Its eltizens derive. from working in mill, factories and vari: ue other forma of manufacturing In ustrles, but Washington has no rource of this nature from which to éraw its support. Our capital de pence on the government clerk. The Fovernment itself fe the big mill that fille the envelopes of Washingtonians every week and the ducats that flow into tho purses of the grocer, baker, plumber, lawyer; doctor and. clergy: fan come from the envelopes of the 40.00 clerks that ‘Keep, Washlagton alive. The members of the legislature re aly take more money out of Washing- See ikce bec la Whenathe Ree NRHA dig (NC cal gs len | serene es }) fre AS ipa cen ll commie a bs bolero Temes amenen ie eerie eae wie Genet oly Mahe seit Men Ae Er She ee where el ip foe erent Se sen oi cies tet armies fr Sail ployment. As a result of these activ. He om see, Yok a geal retin hse ae Nontena and eryiené, “have “made hy ae pt poeaa aw Fee tate rome ot nin se ceoiaiin wc ere Watingin sti anders ate poe Meares eee ee escent cl ster see tanta oir at ae Sct eekinnan mendalee eee adie Gu He aia tr sre mins toe iin opti cle Seals lao yl Stace npeniie n poem eee as aoe uae tot SE niet tere lt con Soe fein errs te beatae Ay ee oe ana eg ie oar tle ay" every mofaag bo Pee erecta Tue lente of te movement are vind Bestar tats sth Se eas nos eaten ONG, trary and etbunene at Tae, aren hate Lngworth schoolgirl; Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, OP RAOSGREAT SCOTT | ey) we cone | Ma Sintusweo 4 SPI rae 7: a4 = Fr, Be Bettie tn. the itor of the government the’ expiring gasp ot a abort session of congress was pro- fonged beyond the “legislative day of March 2" and nto the legislative day of March 4... ‘The precedent was aot in the senate, and It happened this way: Tnadvertentiy a motion wes adopted Friday to the effect that the Senate fession of Saturday was to begin at 8 tm, The custom had been to take receea until the time agreed upon for the meeting on tho calendar day of March 4, but early Saturday moraing ‘The Modern Child. “pty ttle dear, are you crying be- cause your doll is. stuffed with saw. duatt™ No, sir, Tm crying because they found the lace my mamma was trying to exuggle in on her.” Opinions in Formative State, ‘what aro your exact views on tar 1g revistont” “[ can't say as yet,” replied Sena- tor Borghum. “Tt you want advance {formation on thet subject, you will have to go out and fntervlew my more (eSuential constituents.” helght of the season ts on they lend a atmosphere of hustling prosperity to the town, but when tho warm ‘months come around they leave town with filed purses and spend thelr Dulky sum at the seashore and mous- tain resorts, The busy clerks stick to thelr posts in all kinds of weather ‘and all through the year and when the ‘loom settles down after the big guns fro gone the government clerk fs the ‘only hope of tho merchant and the amusement managers. It may seem atrange, but when closely Sgured out the humble government clerk Is the mainstay of our capital clty. During the long, months when the congressmen and senators are enioy- Ing the luxurles of vacation the clerk mist eweat for his daily bread, ‘Those humid summer months ot Washington are bard on a man's nervés and dis Position and hence the physician and lawyer are kept from the door of por- erty, Food, dress and amusement must be had and thls necessity pro vides for the well being of till an- other class. In this way the 40,000 Clerks Keep things moving during tho dead season. If the clerks were to follow the example of the legislators and go to summer resorts to rest up for two or three months the capital ‘city would take on the appearance of ‘a deserted village, the merchants would be compelled to close up shop and. grasp would begin to appear be tween the cracks of the sidewalk. operative insurance against accidents to workmen engaged tn mining. ‘The forms of old azo fmaurance nom tn operation in the European countles aro classified by te commlsstoner of favor as voluntary insurance not sub ‘sidized by the government, voluntary psuranes receiving government subst dies, compulsory tnsurence, and 200 ‘contributory Insurance. ‘The Invest gation revealed that tn a number ol ‘European countries funds are found whieh provide old age pensions for et» Dloyees on the basis of contributions From both employers and workmen Unually the employer requires the workman to Join the fund, 20 that at {er as tho employe is concerned the System may be regirded an compul tory. ‘The three European counties havica x nations! system of compulsory ol fige insurance are Austria, France and Germany. in each caso the law ent Smorates ihe clases of persons subject fo tho law, In Austria, the law J Giudes aalariod persone only, though tho government 1 now engaged Ia formulating a plan for a sallonal ry» fem of Inrurence for: workmen. "Ta France and Germany the law covers nearly all the population galafully em ployed who are recelving wages or al fries, though many Independent. per Sone of small menns are inckuded.. Tbe expense of the pension in each of the three countries fe met by. parments from the Insured persons and from the eT ea daring of her “Princess Alice” days, and Miss Gladya Hinckley, by many considered the handsomest ‘unmarried girl in soclety, who fs “in” for all that ‘which makes for good, thrilling sport, be {t hunting or careecing around the ‘Washington monument in an airship. Many others are interested In the ‘movement, and the school promises to be « genuine success. ‘Even now the question of proper Gress for xeronautice 1s engaging the minds of maids and matrons who plan to take tho course of instruction. Each woman will be a law unto herself, for fa time at least, until fashion ‘pre scribes a costume which all will adopt. None of the sponsors of the new ‘school {a yet prepared to answer what the dress will be; they prefer in: stead to dilate on the pleasure in store for those who learn to operate thelr own machines. Far more sertous, even to women Kind, than dress, is the style of may chine to be used. No definite plans have yet been made in this regard. Next in order.comes the question of ‘a corps of instructors, a sort of fac uulty of the new school. Men instruc tors will be engaged at first. Yet when women become thoroughly prof! ‘elent who ‘knows what may, happen? the Senpte adjourned the legislative day, of March 3. When the senate re covered therefrom It was for both tho legislative and calendar day of March 4 ‘As soon as ié became noised ‘about that a custom had been violated, sena. ora began a hasty examination of precedents, Senator Gollinger was in the chair. He referred the question to Henry H. Giltry, the senate parlla- mentarian, After a long search it was discovered that while the senate never had a legislative day of March 4 for the purpose of winding up a session of ‘congress, there was 50 reason, except ‘custom, for that fact. For the first time, therefore, leaders of the senate learned that the calendar ‘day is superior to the legislative day in determining parliamentary situs tlons. ‘The Reason. “Your-wite tells. me that you ab ways give way tober in an argu ment.” m Yea ‘Te ahe always right?” “No, but she's always present” Distinetions, “Did you aay that actress bad a bad temper?" No," replied the manager. “We sed to call ttn bad temper, but now ner salary. has become eo large that ‘we have to refer to it as tempers ment” BEING BUSINESSLIKE the house shrngged her pretty shoul- ders and returned to her guest in the parlor. “Business Is a great fraud,” she de- clared, : “I've always said so,” responded her frlend with some emphasis. “I've just signed an expressman's book to show that I've received some- thing.” the daughter of the house ex- plained. “Now, why sign? I don’t know what's in that box. It's large and heavy, but ft may be empty. And yet a delivery man would drop dend a you stopped to look inside before you signed. No one ever docs.” “Certainly not," sald her friend, ‘warmly. “That would be quite un professional. What that box contains inn small matter, after all. Tho point ts, did tt come? When you are as old as 1am, my dear, you will be- sin to understand how many yards of red tape men need to be truly busl- tessitke. They put up an appearance of great caution—" “And do the saddest things ever heard of!” “Exactly. Lernes that everybody breaks—" “Checks “that any one can cash—" “Contracts that no one pays any at tention to—" Bh me Be tes canner je" Passes for the bearcr only—but any one may be the bearer—and cards ot transferable—" “Adele, 'm 0 glad to hear you speak $0," erled the hostess. “I've al- ways belleved that business was 60 much pretense.” “A most cursory knowledge ot bust- ‘ness inethods—Improperly 0 called— shows how shellow they are.” “I'm go glad you feel as I do, Adele. Ws such a comfort to hear you ex press those convictions. Father has always scolded us girls for not belng businesslike, and I've always tried to conceal my ignorance more or less. It seemed such a matter foP scora.” “Scorn? My deat.” sald her friend Ina tone of finality. “business ts {n- compatible with high thinking.” “Adele,” said the girl suddenly, “how do you send money.” “Seal ft up,” snapped her friend. “How else?" “You darling! Of course how else! But as long as I can remember, when- ‘ever we sealed up money in an envel- ‘ope and father found it out he would throw up his hands and tmplore the fates to help us. ‘Then he has) gone about for days after, uttering instrue- tlons about ‘money orders’ and regis- tered lottera! But neither Ethel nor Vhad ever pala any attention to him until last summer when T went to the countsy, It was very funny. “L had been away only a short time when Ethel wrote ina rather superior tone that ahe had gent me a registered Ietter for $10. Just as if she had been n the habit of doing those things ev- ery day of her life! The money didn't surprise me, you know, because she owed it to me. But ‘registered letter’ sounded entirely too ambitious for our Aittle Ethel. “Well, I went down to the postomce every day for a woek, insisting that there was a registered letter for me. ‘The postoftice there was a poor excuse of a place, and it had a lot of suspl- clous looking clerks. So when my let- ter was overdue I Just drew myself up and insisted that the letter was there, ‘and 0 was the money. But they did not'seem greatly exclted. “The people of the town began to Interest themselves in my financtal condition. It was rumored that 1 was ‘expecting a lot of money that hadn't come, 80 1 had to spend money Invish- ly to show that I didn’t really need it ‘Then I wrote Ethel that something ‘was wrong. And I didn’t hint that It served her right. “Her next letter was suitably hum- ble. She couldn't understand what was the matter. but she tnclosed a iit tle paper, which, she sald, the man at the postotice had given her as a re: cefpt for her money. She said she had given my name and address quite plainly and she suggested that {1 showed the receipt they might be able to trace the letter. So down I went to ‘the postofice with the little paper. “Here's the recetpt,' I said. Then, ‘Adele, you never heard such a nolse a» those crazy men made, You'd have thought they had been saving up that sguffaw for the'best part of thelr lives. “As soon as they could frame words they asked me {n a sort of chorus what (wanted. Naturally, I told them, when my sister had given my address and ald her money she expected that it would be sent to me. I can't tell you all they sald. They showed me all the reading matter on that paper, which ‘was enough to drive any one insane. “But it seems, Adele, that after giv. tng your-money to the clerk at the postofice you have (o send on the lt Ue recelpts yourself and put the per- ‘on that geta it to the trouble of hav- Ing {t made back into money again. Could anything be more roundabout?" “Then you haven't seen the new forse for money orders?” “Don't tell me—" “1 won't. Only they've added somo omer kind of ticket—which makes three.” “Goodness, Adele, what's the point? But tell me—if all that performance {a only a money order, what in the world in a registered letter?" ‘The north, ciagnetic pole has been actually located at 70 degrees and 5 minutes north latitude and 96 degrees 46 minutes longitude, "The south mag netic pole has not yet, been located, Dat tt ts belleved to be about 73. de- Frees south latitude and 150 east longitude. It ts known, however that the two magnetic poles do not Ie at the extremities of a diameter of the earth. Minute Flowers of Trees, ‘The flowers of many trees, like tne fonk, elm and Wekory, are 0 Incon- ‘apleuous that they are popularly. eup- posed to. be altogether incking. Senator Saunders’ Pet Measure Killed In Upper House EVERY SENATOR WAS PRESENT Ditfere From the Present System of Taxation Materially, Opposition From the Rural Districts ‘and Small Towns Win. | Des Moines, March 24.—The senate voted down the Saunders “terminal Tae" bil” whieh has as Its parvore the revision of the syater of taxing rallway property #0 a4 to sive eltlos [and taxing districts the benefit of the {tax on immovable and tangible prop. ferty Toeated within its eorporate Tin: iu. "Tho Saundors Dill ditters from the present ayatem of taxation materia fy. Under th existing laws the Tall ‘way company In auppored to be taxed te unlt and the tx collected alee {inated among the cities, towns, counties and texiog districts by the State exceutlve council In proportion forthe miles of main line’ through tach of the soveral taxing districts Senator Saunders maintained that this aystem wan uofair to the cles, where there are miles of side tracks, Huge freight houses and lots of other allroad property which receives the protecton of the city and has all the benefits of the ets, He maintained that the tax on this property should fo to the city and. not bo scattered xe all across Towa, Opposition tothe Dill developed trom members of the nenate from Fur fT districts and. from. senators from fmaller towns, They claimed that the ural districts which supply the butk ees for. the rallway companies 4:0 necessary for the iife of the ‘com: anles and for the towne themselves, re entitled to a share of the tax, Just ts they now recelve tt GAINS ACCESS TO COAL FIELDS Milwaukee to Purchase Part of the Newton & Northwestern Road— Officials Have Examined. Des Moines, March 24—Negotia- ffons are under way between the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the Newton & Northwestern for the purchase of that part of the latter company's lines. running between Cambridge and Newton. Officials of the Milwaukee Have made an extend- ed examination of the property and {t is rumored that the deal has been closed. ‘The intention of the Milwaukee, it Js sald, Is to gain access to the coal fields situated in the vicinity of Col fax. * Senatorial Wote. Des Moines, March: ‘lee of Senator Spaulding to the Ker camp after one day in the Deemer fold, and the dwindling away of the democratic support of Daniel W. Hamilton, were the only features ‘of the voting for senator yesterday. Forty-eighth Ballot’ Kenyon --~-----00--0---------2---65, Deemer o1n-2ecacecoe=onneneson=3t Hamilton s22.-ssnsen-eesoseeoee= 2 Porter ---2---2-02eccoeceneeee ee 80, Nap in Sunshine Fatal. Sioux City, Ia, March 23.—A nap 1m the spring sunshine this morning cost Tom Kenna, aged 53 years, his Ife, He let one leg project across the Milwauke> railroad track and a pastenger train struck and instantly killed him. His father lives at Du- buque. Ottumwa Holdup Man Nabbed. Ottumwa, Ia, March 24—Charles Young, arrested here today has been Sdentified by Walter McDanlel as the man who held him up at the point of a gun Inst Saturday night and se cured about $6, Young has walved ex- ‘amination to the grand jury. To Meet at Davenport. Davenport, March 24.—The conven ‘ton of the’ Iowa electrical associa- tion will be held in Davenport April 49 to 21 and local committees are ar~ ranging an exposition of electrical appliances to bo held at the same time. Veteran Mall Clerk Dead. Cedar Rapids, March 24.—Hugh Livingston, for thirty-five years = allway mail clerk between Cedar Rapids and Des Moines, died hero last night. He was a member of the ‘Third Iowa cavalry in the civil war. Blkader, March 24.—The Farmers, State bank has just been organized at Volga Clty, with $25,000" capital.’ B. W. White, president; George Krubs, vice president; H.W. W. White, cashier. ‘Aged Inmate Burned to Death. Clarinda, March 24—The | county poor house near here caught. fre from the furnace early this morning and burned to the ground. William Coss, a ward, axed 84, was burned to death, All the other inmates escaped vwithout injury. Fire at Council Blume. Counell Blutts, March 24.—Rock Ie land freight house, together. with eleven loaded cars, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning, loss $60,000. Cause unknown. Quit Selling Tickets to Mexico. Des Moines, March 24.—Sell ne more tickets {o the Mexican border. ‘Tile was the order received by H. W, Warren, city passenger agéat of the Milwaukeo rosd today. ‘The reason for tho order Is that the Mexicans fare holding up the trains in the vk claty of the Rio Grande, Tewan Shot Down. Fairmont, Minn, March 24—E. De Baron, Webster City, Iowa, was shot and fatally wounded Iaat night while teying to escape atrest here.’ Benatorial Vote. Nao In Sunshine Fatal. Ottumwa Holdup Man Nabbed. Tea Meat at Davencort. Veteran Mail Clerk Dead. New Bank at. Volga City. ‘Aced Inmate Burned to Death. Fire at Council Bluffs. ‘Quilt Bellina Tickets to Mexice. lawan Shot Down. ental) WORK OF WATERS NORMAL SCHOOL Institution Founded by Dr. Calvin Scott Brown, an Alumnus of Shaw University, Has Demonstrated its Worth in Uplift of People in the Community Had Small Beginning. Winton, N. C.-That from obscure ranks come the men and women who are the greatest contributors to the material uplift of the human family is a truth that is accentuated in the life of Dr. Calvin Scott Brown, who is a unique character in the affairs of the Afro-American people of North Carolina. When a mere lad he entered Shaw university, having only $5 toward his expenses. He of course was compelled to experience things that were common to the struggling student who had little money. Upon one occasion during his first year at this school he exhibited such ability that a philan DR. CALVIN SCOTT BROWN. thrope friend from the north was attracted by his earnestness and zeal and rendered him assistance. Twenty-four years ago, when he was graduated from Shaw university, the president gave him $10 and commanded him to go down to a neglected portion of North Carolina and build a school. He laughed heartily and said: "Are you serious, Mr. President? What can be done with $10?" And the president replied, "It is exactly $10 more than I had when I came to Raleigh after the war and began to build this great institution." A long story is briefly told when we remember that school has been built and that $10 was the first of many offerings which made possible its fruitful growth. Two hundred students are in attendance. Many of them go to the higher institutions to complete their education as lawyers, physicians, teachers, bankers and ministers to their race. When Dr. Brown went to Winton, N. C. to erect this school he was discouraged because of the condition of affairs in the community, but through his great work Waters Normal institute has entered fully into the life of the community and today the people have better homes and are more prosperous than ever before in the history of Winton. A prominent white man who is cashier of the bank of that town, when asked by a traveling salesman the standing of the school, said: BOTH' DORMITORY AT WATERS NORMAL INSTITUTE. BOYE' DORMITORY AT WATERS NORMAL INSTITUTE. "What! That school? Certainly. That school is worth more than $100,000 to this town." Dr. Brown is a graduate from the college and theological departments of Shaw university, and because of his ability and exceptional work he has received the honorary degrees of A. M. and D. D. He is among the best theologians of the race, a deep thinker, scholar and forcible speaker. Thousands of copies of his addresses have been printed and distributed. His executive ability is evidenced in many activities of the race. He is president of the Lott Carey Foreign Mission convention, secretary of the grand lodge of Masons, editor of the Baptist Sentinel, Raleigh, and pastor of four churches. As principal of the institution, which is doing so much for the conserving of the elements that will make the race not to be always dependent, he is among the leading educators. His plant is rapidly developing, and the main building, which is brick, has the best auditorium in this section of North Carolina. Owing to the school being in an agricultural section Dr. Brown is planning for a department to be given to scientific agricultural courses. SIoux CITY ITEMS. Just a few more Sundays before Easter, at which time most everybody is looking forward to. The A. I. P. club will give a hobble skirt entertainment on the 6th of April at Sifone's hall. at Smeeen's barn. Mrs. C. E. Stubblefield, who has been quite ill with bronchitis, is able to be up and around the house. up and trouble Mrs. Jessie Roberts is confined to her home with illness. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Morgan enter tained Rev. McDaniel and Prof. Hamilton at a 6 o'clock lunchon Tuesday Messy, John Jones and Phen Mannik have gone over in Nebraska on a business trip. Mr. Hall, a coachman for Dr. Hess, made a flying trip on Sunday to Grand Island, Nebr., and took unto himself a bride, Miss Boyd, a resident of said place. They returned to our city day. They will stop with Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Sturgis for the present. The bride is a count of Mrs. Ada Shores and Viola White, who reside in our city. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bryant entertained, at lunchon Wednesday evening Revs. McDaniels, J. W. Dowden and Prof. Hamilton. Rev. E. P. Green, of Kansas City, Mo., arrived in our city Saturday, and filled the pulpit of the Mt. Zion Baptist He left for his home Tuesday. Rev. McDaniels and Prof. Hamilton, of Chicago, who then solicited for the Enterprise Institute, and meeting with success, left for their home Wednesday. An attempt will be made to organize a colored Y. M. C. A. in our city. Rev. Wolcott, secretary to the white Y. M. C. A., is the organizer. We wish them success in the new work. Sunday was stewardests' day at the A. M. E. church. A nice program was rendered. Mesdame Mary Knight, Phelba Pembleton and Lulie Webb left Monday for Clarinda, Iowa, to make it their future home. The Married Men's club met with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Murray. Mrs. Anna Norris is recovering slowly from her illness. Mr. David Shores is still confined to his home with the rheumatism. Do you know that all the minor ailments colds are by far the most dangerous? It is not the cold itself that you need to fear, but the serious diseases that it often leads to. Most of these are known as germ diseases. Pneumonia and consumption are among them. Why not take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and cure your cold while you can? For sale by all drurgists COLFAX NOTES. Special to the Bystander: Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Johnson have moved to Buxton. We regret to lose them, and wish them success in their new home. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Miller, of Newton, visited several days with Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Miller. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Holmes, Mrs. W. B. Battels and Mr. Mack Banks attended Booker T. Washington's lecture in Des Moines last Sunday. Rev. W. H. Clark spent/ Sunday in Marshalltown. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lowery and family have gone to Indianaola to make their future. Spring City Household of Ruth gave an entertainment Monday evening, which was largely attended. Mrs. R. D. Stockard, of Kansas City, Mo., arrived in our city last week to make an extended visit with her brother, Mr. J. W. Holmes. Mrs. Boone, of Hotel Colfax, has been quite ill but is some better at present. Robinson, Jr., and E. Brown have returned from a ten-days pleasure trip to Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Lou Brooks and baby, Joseph, were guests of Des Moines' friends last week. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Terrell are visiting in Buxton this week. Mr. J. J. Beasley has returned home a bright visit with Capitol city friends. The Mission Circle of Bethel Baptist church are doing nicely. They held their quarterly election of officers last week and the following were re-elected: President, Mrs. J. W. Holmes; vice president, Mrs. G. O. Terrell; secretary, Mrs. J. H. Bwadus; treasurer, Mrs. Eva Sorrell; sick committee, Mrs. W. B. Battles, Mrs. J. Lucas and Mrs. Frank Brown; program committee, Mrs. W. B. Battles; Mrs. W. D. Miller and Mrs. Lonnie Brooks. The circle is planning to carpet the church and make other interior decorations. $500 REWARD Don't let the tailor or ready made man tell you that we cannot make you a suit to order for $15.00—which is satisfactory—They will say it can not be done. The British Woolen Co offers $500.00 Reword if you can name any one in the U. S. who will make you as good a suit, and will show you as fine a selection of woolens in quality, style and workmanship as we do. Don't let them fool you, but call and convince yourself. We now have our complete line of Spring and Summer woolens for your inspection. Suit or Overcoat to Order $15 WOOLEN CO. M. CROCHER, gub W. Locust Manager Cracker Bldg. All Goods Union Made Mrs Chas. Washington has returned from a short visit in Springfield, Ill. Miss Vi-ginia Wade left Albia for Buxton, Saturday. Madam Ben Grayson and Walter Fennings entertained the Dunbar club at the home of Mrs. Ben Grayson on Thursday afternoon. The W. Bennings, contractor and cement walk builders are at work in Hocking this week. Mrs. Talbert and Mr. Bennings are improving at this writing. The Trustee Aid society met at the home of Mrs. Henry Jones, on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs Ed. Butler were Lovilla visitors a few days this week. Rev. Johnson of Centerville, is visiting at the A. M. E. church, Sunday. The Evangelist, Miss L. V. Schoolfield took six o'clock lunch with Mrs. Moss Johnson, Wednesday. Miss Mildred Lewis is the sick list week. L. L. Hairgrow on sick list. Mr. W. Moss on sick list. Mrs. Mollie irown on sick list. Mr. W Page, Mr. C. C. Johnson, Mr. A. Bell of Kansas City visited our city last week, Mrs. K. B. Hicks of Huntsville, Mo, spent three days visiting her sick mother. Mr. Willie Rucker of Huntsville, called to see Mr. L. L. Hairgrow. Revs. Leach and Swaney are out of town assisting in meeting. Success to Bystander. The sad news of the deaths of Messrs. Cleopatra Van Camp and Mr Wm Bird, both of Chicago was received in this city last week. It was indeed quite a shock to Cedar Rapids people both parties made this their former home. Mr. Bird was class leader of class No. 2, at Bethel A. M. E. church and we feel as though we have lost one dear soul, but hope that its heavens gain We extend our heart felt sympathy to both families. There were two joiners at Bethel Sunday. Mrs. Mae Terry is on the sick list. Mrs. Cornie Hicks, Mrs. Pauline Huston were Sunday callers at the Horne residence. The entertainment given by the city federation on last Friday night was quite a success. It was called a hard time affair and prizes was awarded to Mrs. Ella Lucas and Mr. Harry Horne, as they certainly did look as though it was hard times. Mrs Marcilia was one of those comical dressers—there she couldn't be beat, while Mrs. Lowery brought up the rear. Mrs. Jennie Robinson has been quite ill but is much better now. Rev. 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The many good and useful things about the salvation of all mankind, brought out in our Program, will do much to make our young people interested in the Great Commission given by our Lord. In order to have a live wide-awake Easter Missionary Meeting, have every child know his or her part well. Have the songs well selected and practiced. As superintendent, master the situation for Jesus and His cause. The letters from our missionaries for the April Herald are said. If we will rally our forces our Easter Rally will relieve them. Will we do it? Yours truly in His name, L. G. Jordan, 726 W. Walnut Street, Louisville, Ky. John W. Sicklesmith, Greensboro, Pa., has three children, and like most children they frequently take cold. "We have tried several kinds of cough medicine," he says, "but have never found a yet that did them as much good as Chamberlain's Cough Remedy." For sale by all druggists. Blooclesanese. 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