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M\)t DEMOCRAT. BR0HS05 ft CABBi Publishers. MANCHESTER, IOWA. Don't buy any maps of the Transvaal. There are likely to be changes. The first qualification of the gentle men who arc to take the census In the PLHippines should be ability to sprint. Not (p treat a serious subject too lightly—the two busiest bees that wo kuow of at this time are the Briton and the Boer. "Man." says Dr. Parkhurst, "is noth ing more than a gorilla with a con science." And some men lack even the conscience. Henri Rocliefort, the editor of Paris L'Intransigent, has fought 210 duels. On several occasions he has been wounded slightly by accident. Another reason for England not thinking of throwing up the sponge in an affair of this kind is Its needing it to wipe Transvaal off the map. A Pittsburg paper says that Ameri cans use up 250,000.000 poker chips an nually. Now, who can tell how many Americans are used up'by poker chips? Jimenes has been elected President of San Domingo, but he will make a mistake If he spends much money for furniture that cannot be easily packed and moved. We are indebted, after careful and patient enumeration, to 157,000 con temporaries for the pleasant Informa tion that Columbia is still gem of the ocean. Win or lose," It seems to be the fash ion the world pver to give naval officers something that will' Indicate the esti mation In which they are held by their country. In the ,United States they get swords. In Spain they give them tlie ax. There Is a one-legged man at' Wheel ing, W. Va., who has liad another one legged man arrested on the charge of stealing the former's wooden leg. This shows that while people may be willing to respect one another's misfortunes they are seldom inclined while so doing to Ignore a chance to help themselves. Sir Thomas Iilpton says he will chal lenge for the America's cup again un less some other Englishman does so. In view of the treatment that Sir Thomas received there should be little trouble in finding somebody else who would like to come over and get beaten. The new president of Amherst Col lege casts down the, gage boldly. He says the Bngllsh language contains' the best literature in the world, the classics to the contrary notwJthatTVndtpg. There fore a correct understanding of the En glish tongue and its capabilities is the prime essential of a liberal education. All of which makes It appear that Am herst's new president is right up in the van of progress. The latest report of the Pension Office has lately been given to the public. The rolls now contain 991,000 names, of which one-fourth represent widows and other dependents. The amount paid on this account during the last fiscal year was $188,500,000. The total outlay for pensions'up to date has been $2,400, 000,000, a snm which, as the Outlook Intimates, would have paid for all the real estate In the'secedlng States. Econ omically considered, the afterclap of war strikes quite as hard as the orig inal blow. 4 Few people will find fault with Ad miral Dewey's aversion to promiscuous handshaking, and his frankness in ob jecting to It and refusing to submit to It Is the latest of the many little in dices of his candid nature which the American people have come to admire along with bis professional ability and his splendid, manly character. Most public men, we believe, really object to this sort of thing, but rarely does one stand up and speak bis mind on the subject as the Admiral has. Most of them suffer In silence. The man who Insists on shaking hands with the "man of the hour" is about on a par with tlie persistent souvenir collector and the camera "fiend." It Is a source of never-ending won der to the careful observer that nearly every evil carries with It Its own rem edy. Some people, for want of some thing better, have been worrying good deal over the possibility that the earth Is to become overpopulated In the course of a certain number of centuries. M. Vauthier, tbe French sociologist. In a recent analysis of statistics, finds that the birth-rate is decreasing In every country of Europe but four. Italy, Spain Servla and Norway are the exceptions, and even here the mar gin of difference Is very' small. It should never.be lost sight of that the human race is primarily a product of wondering what we are to do when conditions are changed, for this is all taken care of. If anything we should devote our energies to making the con ditions as healthy as may be, leaving results to take care of themselves. The youth of American should keep the example of, Dewey, before their eyes and impress the picture well on their minds. They can learn from it that everything is possible in a country like this where the individual must make or mar bis own fortuue. They can learn from it that he who is faithful, over a few things will be given control over mauy. They can learu from.it that the world is always waiting for men of serious thought and earnest effort and that spasmodic brilliancy avails not. There are thousands of men who are endowed with richer gifts than is Dew ey who never make their marks. Con scious of their own powers, they abhor drudgery and painstaking and are al ways waiting for opportunities to ex ploit themselves. They are looking for bhort roads to fame, for Kohinoors, for great things that come suddenly aud which are mastered without effort. Foolish and futile! Character is tbe basis of all success and character Is like the coral reef, slow and painful of building, but Indestructible when built. In qoting the growth and conquests of the English language one is re minded of that eloquent description by Joaquin Miller of the spirit of progress with King James' translation under its arm making the circuit of the globe. Less than a century ago the English language was spoken by hardly more than 20,000,000 people, while to-day it is the one commonly used by more than 200,000,000. Nor has there ever been iv time when tbp spread of our native {oufu* wm more rapid op jrfceft it bad bi'couH1 more necessary to the com niercial transactions of the world than at present, l'or centuries the French language lias been the exclusive lan guage of the courts. To-day there is no court In Europe where an American minister cannot transact business In English. The English Innguage is be ing almost entirely used In the Vene zuelan arbitration court at Paris. The American proposals at the peace con ference required no translations ex cept for delegates from other than Eu ropean countries. English will replace Spanish in Cnba, Porto Rico and the Philippines and it Is gradually sup planting all others In South America. Speech also follows the flag. Many attempts have been made, with some success, to draw into the coun try, for employment upou farms, some of the labor which goes to waste in cities. These enterprises have dealt usually with men but may not agri cultural settlements for women be a so lution for the perplexities of some of the women who have to earn their liv ing, but find the usual employments of women overcrowded? In England an association has been formed to pro mote such a movement. It publishes a newspaper, has established courseB of instruction, and is doing what It can to induce women who cannot get work In cities to "go back to the laud" for support. At Reading .College two bouses have been fitted up, which are occupied by women students, who at tend classes In horticulture, chemistry, botany, entomology and dairy work. This instruction alms to fit women for three different kinds of work. The first is the direction of the home, gar den or farm. The second Is the work of general gardeners, or growers of grapes, mushrooms, tomatoes and cu cumbers, the care of dairies and the raising of poultry. The third is the establishing of agricultural settle ments, where groups of women In ad joining cottages, with land attached, can apply their knowledge to market gardening. This experiment is very in teresting. There Is nothing unsuitable In It. In fact, market-gardening, bee keeping, poultry-raising and the grow ing of flowers and small fruits, seem to be industries for which women are naturally adapted. Rightly directed, they are among the most profitable connected with the cultivation of the soil. Surely. If women should enter them, far healthier and happier lives would result than follow the struggles foi: self-support in our cities. HISTORIC OLD BARN. Here Qua-itrill Got His Death Wound in lcirraish with Home Guards, Here Is picture of the barn where Quantrlll received his death wonnd. It is situated on the farm of Mr. \V. I.. Heady, about a mile west of Wakefield Station, In Spencer County, Kentucky, and is an old-fashioned building, com mon In Kentucky In ante-bellum days. The Interior contains but one apart- WilHHK QUANTBFLL WAS KILLED. ment, ordinarily known as "the catting room," from the fact that all the feed for the stock was chopped and pre pared there. The room is abont fiO feet square,, with loft above It The barn was, in the palmy days, surround ed on all sides by sheds 10 feet ia width. These sheds, at this time most ly fallen away, were used for various purposes. QuantriU and his men were occupying this barn when Terriirs baiid of home guards surprised and at tacked them. In the sharp skirmish which followed QuantriU received a wound in the lungs, which prostrated him. WEDDED ON A WARSHIP. Miaa UUIM om R-w PLUHMfA. Miss Butz went to New York from Dayton, Ohio, to "tell Dr. R. W. Plurn mer, of Chicago, good-by when his ves sel sailed for Manila. When she went aboard tbe vessel was coaMng, prepara tory to a start Dr. Plummer suggest ed an Immediate marriage, she agreed and the ceremony was performed in tlie preseuce of the ship's officers. Divorce Possible, She— I am wedded to my art. He—Yes but you live In Chicago. Ventilating Tuutic s. Various devices have been used In Europe for the ventilation of tunnels. In some cases oil-burning or electric locomotives haveljeen substituted for the trip through the tunnel and in other cases artificial ventilation has" been used. Richest Milk. The richest milk is that which comes near the close of the milking. A test disclosed that the first half plat of milk at a milking contained only, 1.07 per cent, of cream, while tljo lost half pint eontfjped 10,88 per «eaf. i- SEEN UNDER A GLASS, A MICROSCOPE REVEALS BEAU TIES OF ANIMAL LIFE. MBireloun Arranccmeat of a Spider's Eyefl-Daddjr Lonsless Can See in Any Direction—Revelations About Mos quitoes, Flies and Other Thine*. Dr. B. L. Rlese Is a Chicago scientist who devotes his leisure time to bng hunting. His forte Is microscopy aud the use of this delicate instrument in connection with lusect aoatom.v has resulted In some extremely Interest ing discoveries of late. He disposes of one or two theories which have been held for years, notably the one which provides Insects with cup-shaped feet, the suction of which ennbies them to walk on polished surfaces In seeming defiance of all the laws of gravity. His microscope shows that the Insects al ways have hooks of great relative pow- FEEI.KR OF A MAY FLY. er on the ends of their legs, which are UBed to grasp Inequalities Invisible to human eyes. Under the microscope the polished surface of plate glass is shown to be really a mass of Inequalities. The naked eye, the touch, will not reveal them to man. Under this same Instru ment the feet of the common house fly Is shown to be re-enforced by hooks small enough to find lodgment In tbe Inequalities of the glass surface. The foot of the mosquito has a wonderful double hook which gives It the power of holding to almost any smooth sur face. In fact, the foot Is frequently entangled In some meshes which to the But it is In the visual apparatus that nature shows the most marvelous adaptability to the lives of the bugs. Some of the eyes Dr. Rlese has placed on microscopic elides are marvels of Intricacy. The fact that they are sta tionary, without lateral or vertical power—they can not alter the focus or directlou of gaze—makes it necessary for the insect to be provided with lens es so cut up with facets that they will capture and retain pictures In almost every degree of the lateral and vertical planes. Insects can see as well .be tween what in man would be called the shoulder blades as they can direct ly in front In many cases they see to much better advantage behind than before. Dr. Rlese adjusted his microscope at this time and placed.a slide in position whereon was pasted the body of a "daddy long legs," or common garden spider. This specimen Is an excep tionally fine one and is so mounted as to bring the eyes directly uuder the searching power of the instrument. 2%e* eyes are wonders in themselves, but their position is even more won derful. They are perched on top of a watch tower in tbe middle of the back. They project into the air to what seems a full inch under tbe glass seen""by the naked eye this tower In indistinguishable until the mind has been attracted to Its existence by the microscope. The eyes are on each side of the tower, very near the top. "That insect can see as well over its shoulder as it cau In almost a direct line In front." snfd Dr. Kfese. "Possibly tbnt sr WATCJITtlWKK OF A HPJDKIL. is the reason—iu fact, it may be said to be certainly the reason—that a spi der can run backward as well as for ward. The ouly spot where it does not seem to see well is right in front You can capture one from that side much easier than from any other. This spider Is not titted with tbe additional eyes which other lusects have. Usual ly the compound eyes are supplemented by simple eyes set in front and low down on or near the proboscis which enable it to see at short range In front. But the spider lacks these supplement al eyes. "•ere is the head of a grasshopper which shows the more ordinary style of eye with which insects are fitted," continued the doctor, placing another slide under the gla83. "You will see that this insect has a huge eye on each side of the head. They resemble the eyes of a horse in a measure, but are Immeusely larger In proportion. Now they are fixed in the head immovably so that the bug can not turn them in tlie slightest degree. They have none of the delicate uppllances of the human eye to reduce focus or change direc tion, so uaure has compensated. "You will see that tbe eye is enclosed in a transparent sack and that it bos the appearauco of hundreds of glassy fish eggs. These euable the Insect to catch pictures in all directions. But ^ust in front tbe lines are rather ob scure, so uature has bestowed some ex tra eyes on the grasshopper. Look closely to the base of the autennae and you will see one »r these extras. Some insects hav«» \\^n\ noses, a* l- wt« tgnge sei'lu .II I iin- tips of their ai for short i.u lusect an advantage not possessed by spiders. This is an excellent type of the com pound eye." The slide was moved slightly that the leg of the Insect might be examined under the powerful lens. The Joint work of the limb Is like a ruby rush, the delicate blood vessels Imparting, a brilliant hue thereto. The structure Is extremely powerful, the Joints fit ting Into each other so aB to Impart the greatest elasticity and power. On tfie end of the leg are strong hooks,.which can close on any object with great force. They also give the insect the power to grasp any inequality forci bly, to use the enormous muscplar pow er which results In a leap of hundreds of times the length of the Insect "The theory," said Dr. Rlese, "that insects have cup-shaped terminations to their legs, which enable them to travel up a wall or up a glass Is net correct They have nothing of the kind —at least none I examined has. Suc tion, tbe supposed force which keeps -them In their seemingly unscientific po sition, is not used at all. Those hooks are used as a monkey usee the long fingers and as a bird uses Its claws, to grasp any roughness on the surface. If the smoothest piece of glass known were examined under a powerful mi croscope it would be seen to be a maeS of Inequalities. Now, the hook or* hooks—some have several on one leg— nre so small that they can be Inserted in these Inequalities. Thus what seems to be a violation of natural laws Is seen to be merely an accommodation there-' to. "Look at this set of hooks on the end of the leg of the mosquito. A close glance will reveal the fact that this insect has powerful double hooks working from opposite sides of the leq. These can close up on anything too small to be seen and hold on with great power. The spider you will also see^ has a set of hooks which he uses with legs several times as long as tbe diam eter of his body. He must have tre mendous muscular power to use those REVELATIONS OP INSECT ANATOMY AS SHOWN UNDER THE MICROSCOPE. Wing and bill of a Mosquito. Ankle of a Cockroach. Footof Spider. Foot of Cockroach. Foot and leg of tbe Mosquito. Proboscis of a House Fly. Eye of a Grasshopper. eye appear to present no inequality. When the mosquito struggles—as can frequently be noticed—these hooks have clasped something which is clasp ed the tighter as the insect tries vainly to fly away. legs at all, yet he handles each in suc cession at will." One of the wonders of nature was shown on another slide. It was the head, and particularly tbe proboscis, of tlie'common house fly. Projecting out from between the feelers Is a broad net hooked op to the head by extension ropes. This net or web can be thrown out to a distance several times as far as the diameter of the head. It Is used to suck up fluids and convey them to the greedy mouth. The net is a mar velous exemplification 'of nature's art istic power. The web is traced with beautiful lace work, tbe cords are twined in regular strands, BB If they really are ropes, and the tackle Is-as intricate, yet simple In use, as anything used on a ship Seen under the most powerful glass —some 300 diameters were used—the tracery of the net Is very, clearly worth the study of engineers, for Dame Nature exceeds in skill any of her imitators. The study of .this pecu liar proboscis, with the beady eyes lying near to throw a brilliant light ovfcr tho-object assailed, is a work of art unsurpassed'. In Its mechanical IiurpOBes it is another evidence of the sklli of the Creator in fashioning ap pliances to fit all needs. One thing noticed in all the speci mens displayed was that Insects are usually covered with feathery hairs all over their parts. A glistening fly which to the human vision seems to be superlatively smooth is shown to be covered with a full suit of hairy feath ers. The mosquito Is literally Ingulfed In feathers, with here and there spl rals entwined among them. The wing of tbe mosquito shows tbe same courses of feathers rnnning along with each strand of the structure, while the web or sails are covered with delicate hairs. One of tbe most Interesting wings seen. was taken from a May fly, the mothlike Insect which lives but one day, flutters abont an electric or gas light and falls dead by the million. The lace work of this wing would fur nish a pattern for the most delicate and fllm.v laces produced in Belgium, France or Austria. Under a power ful glass its Intricacies are so clearly revealed that an accurate copy could be easily made. Sleep Mistakes. To get up at 7 o'clock, or 8 o'clock, or any other fixed hour every morning, no matter at what time you went to bed the night before is the most effectual way of making a bad workman of your self. And as for saying, tbat eight hours' sleep Is what suits everybody is as nonsensical as to say tbat one ounce of tobacco—no more, no less—Is the quantity every one ought to smoke in a day. No doubt It is difficult for most people to sleep -as long in the morning as tbe body requires to repair Itself. Busi ness having fixed hours, the people who do It must accommodate themselves to them. Still, as long as people use ,alarms or have themselves called they will continue to feel more or less out of sorts on most days of their life. For most of us there is only one way of solving tlie question—that Is by go ing to bed nine or ten hours before the time when our business requires us to get up, and sleeping until we naturally awake. This would mean getting up at various hours, Instead of the usual fixed hours. But any. one who carried out the plan would feel so vigorous on arising that he could turn the Interval before breakfast to good account. Newfoundland. Tobacco. The jacotars, or French-Canadian half-breeds of Newfoundland, smoke the Inner bark of the red willow when they cannot procure tobacco.. White settlers often use this for scenting to bacco. It is called Kllllklnlck In tbe Indian language. Electric btreet Sweepurn. Ulticu'ic automobile street-sweeping machines aro being prepared to clean tbe streets of Paris. Tho old olymay dirt machines rn^v use are to b$ {fog* aw»r with, yiTfX.-- THE STATE OF IOWA. OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. Basinets Man Disappears Mysteriously —Precedent in Bankruptcy Cases— Railroad Men's Home May Come to Fort Dodge Tragedy at Knoxville. Frank Melliholen, a member of the mon ument firm of Bateman & Mellholen of Monticello, has disappeared A few days ago Mellholen collected money belonging to the firm amounting to $500. He stated that he intended driving to Coggon to transact some business. He drove to that place and left his team in a livery stable. Nothing has since been heard from him and his movements after leaving Coggon arc unknown. Before leaving Monticello Mellholen paid a few small bills he owed about town. He went to Monticello from Dubuque*. He is a young man and un married. The circumstances of his dis appearance have caused surprise. A Bankruptcy Precedent At Dubuque Judge Shlras refused to grant Dwight H. Skinner a discharge from bankruptcy. On the trial of a civil case in a State court it was shown that Skinner had transferred his property to his wife, without consideration, and with intent to defraud his creditors. Af ter doing this he filed a petiion in bank ruptcy. The property transferred to his wife was not included in his schedule of asmits, and for this reason the court de clined to grant him a discharge. The ruling establishes a precedent in bank ruptcy. Aids Railroad Men's Home* President L. S. Coffin of the Railroad Men's Home at Highland Park, 111., who lives in Fort Dodge, arrived there from Chicago, where he contributed $2,500 of personal funds to raise the debt banging over the home. President Coflin favors locating the home in Iowa, possibly in Fort Dodge, and offers to donate a fine farm there for the location. Tbe home is supported by various brotherhoods of railroad men over the country. Drayman 8hoots Wife and Self. WhUe driving "Bis dray along tbe street near the C., B. & Q. depot at Knoxville John Dawson, a drayman, leaped to the ground and fatally shot his wife, who was passing. He then shot himself in the head and died. Dawson was about 50 years old, and was jealous of his young wife, from whom he had been sep arated for some time. Car Inspector Killed* Herman Peppmeier, a car inspector on the B., C. R. & N., was killed b) the cars in the C.» B. & Q. yards at Bur lington. Both legs and the right arm were cut off and the skull crushed. The exact details of the accident are a tery. Peppmeier had worked for the voad twenty-five years. He leaves a wife and family. A Convent Robbed* During first mass a burglar entered the apartments of the Sisters of Charitj at West Point and appropriated $05 in pa per and silver, and a gold watch which be found in a trunk. The trail of the rob ber Ivfts fonnd and he was traced to with in fqur mites of Fort Madison. The po lice of the latter city found that he had left hurriedly for Burlington. ^Negro Laborers Return Home. Two hundred and fifty negroes wiio have been employed on the construction of tbe Fort Dodge and Omaha have been shipped from Fort Dodge to their hoir*s in Mississippi, from which point th*y wore brought early in tlie summer. Suicide at Fort Dodge* Robert Hoffman, son of Mrs. Kathar ine Hoffmen, died at the residence jnst north of the Fort Madison city limits from the effects of a dose of paris green, taken with suicidal intent. Brief State Happening** A new creamery Is being erected at CrystalLake. Des Moines estimates it now has a pop ulation of 80,000. A large number of horses near Keo kuk are Buffering from influenza. O, A. Kinney has been appointed post master at Belinda, and W. S. G. Nye at Glen Elton, C. A. Anderson, an Bmmet County farmer, husked 1,225 bushels of corn In fifteen days, or over eighty bushels per day. Chesterfield Young of Burlington wts sentenced to four years In the Ananuaa penitentiary for attempting to pass coun terfeit money. Fort Dodge is experiencing an ice fam ine, the local stock being exhausted, aad on account of lack of cars sufficient can not be shipped in. Win. Blasdell, an employe in a dsy goods store at Des Moines, fell down Isaac Holt, a colored lad, of Keoktik, attempted to pass through an opening in a wall used as an elevator shaft at the Hotel Keokuk and was crushed to death. Cass County farmers are offering cents per bushel to corn huskere, togeth er with teams, mittens and board, and even at those terms are unable to get all the men they want. While some boys were tunpeling through a clay bank at McCausland it caved in, resulting in the death of Eddie Stahl, a 0-year-old boy, and severe in juries to two others. The manufacturing consent petition at Des Moines has secured the necessary number of names, but the canvass will be continued to avoid all future trouble when tfie lists are checked over. A carload of melon seeds was loaded at Fruitland the other day, the product of the Muscatine island melon fields. This Is the first shipment of the kind to be made from that locality. J. R. Sage, of the Iowa weather and crop service, says the farmers have felt the shortage of labor this year more than any other class of employers. Mr. Sage estimates that the Iowa corn crop will approximate 300,000,000 bushels. Miss Mary C. Collins was ordained a minister in the Congregationalist church at Keokuk. Miss Collins hus spent twenty-four years in missionary work atmong the Indians of the Northwest, and her work has borne magnificent results. William Fitzsimmons, a section hand on the C. & N. W., was ruQ down by a train near Luray and fatally injured. John P. Reed, of Iowa, has been pro moted from $1,400 to $1,600 in the office of tho Auditor of the Interior Depart ment, and Edwin C. Ford, another IOWA man, from $1,200 to $1,400 per annum iu the office of the Auditor for the Treasury Department. Mrs. Dorothy Derbits, an inmate of tbe Cook home at Davenport, is brought forth as the oldest Gorman woman in the State. She was born in Holsteiu in 180ii. aud is in thu latter liujf of her 08th year. Mrs. Dorbitt has.bwu IJJ but tiree days lb tbe Iwt fipht years, 'i & John Burg, Sr., Burlington, died, aged 78 years. The Northwestern is now double-track ing west of Ames. An opera house is still being talked about at Garrison. A lodge of tbe Rebekahs has been or ganized at Albunnett. Chicken thieves are getting in their work in Scott County. The Eastern Iowa Dental Association held its eleventh annual session at Iowa City. The postoffioc at Rock Creek has been discontinued. Mall will hereafter go to Dixie. Charles P. Bay, letter carrier at Mar sha!ltowu, has been promoted from $000 to $850. J. S. Schott's harness plant at Burling ton was damaged by fire to the extent of $1,000. The contract for carrying the mail'from Audubon to Viola Center has been award ed to C. 0. Call. Henry Stivers, once editor of the Des Moines Leader, is now living on a farm in Southern Iowa. Railroad contractors at Belle Plaine are badly delayed by the impossibility of securing laborers. The Board of Supervisors of Iowa County has purchased a heating plant for the county poor farm. Henry O. Eldridge has been appointed a letter carrier for the rural free delivery service at Marshalltown. Ralph E. Lindsay's homo at Davenport was entered by burglars, who secured $200 in ea&h amT jewelry. The contract for erection of the Gov ernment building at Dubuque has been awarded to a Chicago firm. James Lynch, tho negro who was run over in the Cemtral yards at Fort Dodge, has succumbed to his Injuries. Rev. John Longson of Copopa, Ohio, has accepted a call to the pulpit of the: Baptist Church at Belle Plaine. Dr. J. L. Walker has been appointed a member of the Board of Pension Ex amining Surgeons at Emmetsburg. Rev. F. M. Bennett has resigned the pastorate of the Unitarian Ohurch at Keokuk and will go to Lawrence, Kan. Rev. F. M. Bennett has resigned the pastorate of the Unitarian Churdx at Keokuk and will go to Lawrence, Kan. Prof. Wickliam of the State Univer sity has been elected a member of the entomological society of Ontaaio, Canada. A peddler has been arrested at State Center on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery of a millinery store at GriimeU. Chesterfield Young of Burlington has been sentenced to four years in the peni tentiary for attempting to pass counter feit money. Tie receipts of the Des Moines post office for October were $23,011.72, as against $10,522.77 for the corresponding period last year. JQ.VS- J. L. Hitter has resigned the position of chief train dispatcher for the Omaha road at St. James and D. F. Brewer Is acting in his place. The postoffioe in South Des Moines has been discontinued, but one will bo start ed in another part of the dty to be known as Sub-station No. 1. Mrs. Minnie Tam of Des Moines, whose husband had deserted her, at* tempted suicide by -poison, but was saved by prompt assistance. Myron Hill of Algona took an old gun aud went hunting. The charge of pow der was small, but it blew the gun bar rel out. At first he did not notice be was hurt, but when his right hand began to sting he found that the explosion had carried away nearly half of his hand. Wten the two Des Moines companies and the KnoxviUe and Oskatoosa com panies of the Fifty-first Iowa regiment arrived at Des Moines on their return' froim ,the Philippines after eighteen months' service, they were given a royal welcome by at least 5,000 people on the streets and any amount of noise from whistles, bells, cheering and fireworks. The Oskaloosa and Knoxville companies went on to their respective homes and the Des Moines boys were given a re ception at the Auditorium. There is great rejoicing that the boys return in such good condition, but few falling by war or disease and few othere being de tained in hospitals. The Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs has taken up the matter of com pulsory education. On Its own account the federation has commenced the circu lation of petitions to be presented to the members of the Legislature. At the an nual meeting the matter of compulsory education was freely discussed by tbe delegates of the different women's olubs of the State and it was decided that the federation should take action In regard to tbe matter. To that end a oommittae was appointed, consisting of Mrs. Lyman H. Hard of Dubuque, Mrs. Josephine D. Remley of Iowa City and Mrs.' Flora K. Saramls of LoMars. This committee has sent out petitions to all parts of the State and will present the matter to the next Legislature. aa elevator shaft three stories and sustained several severe bruises. A monument will be erected in the cemetery at Fort Dodge, to the unknown soldieis buried there, by the post of the G. A* R. at tbat place. It in reported that W. I. AHen, until recently assistant manager of the Itock Island, will be appointed general manager of the Iowa Central. Material has arrived for the installa tion of the interlocking switch and cross ing of the C. & N. W. and C., M.~ & St. P. railways at Tama. The Cedar County Anti-Saloon League will publish the names of all signers of the county mulct petition if any be filed, so tbat illegal signers may be detected. The Commercial Exchange at Des Moines has appointed a committee to formulate plans looking toward the put* ting in operation the packing plant there, The Fifty-first Iowa volunteers return ed to their native State after service in the Philippines and reordved a welcome in Council Bluffs that warmed their hearts. A crowd of 5,000 people came from all parts of the State to Join in the greeting. The program for the regi ment's reception was carried out. The parade left the Rock Island station at 10 o'clock and passed through the prin cipal streets, bringing up at Bayliss park, where a stand had been erected. Here Gov. Shaw extended the State's official welcome, while the city spoke through Mayor Jennings. Others who spoke briefly were Fred White, Lafe Young and Congressman McPberson. Forty bands furnished the music for the occa sion. After the exercises in the park tie soldiers were served a banquet by the ladies. The various companies left In the afternoon for their home towns. The men of Hie regiment w-»re well and in good spirits. Marshalltown has started to talk for a Government building. The new Methodist Episcopal Church at Kensett has been dedicated free of debt. The bells for the memorial campanile at the State Agricultural College at Amos have arrived from England. No datoe has ye£ been set for dedication of the towcff and bells. W. A. Owen, while riding on the "blind, baggage" of a C., R. I. & P. train, eith er fell or vwas jolted off near Tiffin, and sustained injuries which necessitated the amputation of his left leg. A mad dog attacked and bit H. D. Don ne in an of Wayne township, and also wounded a valuable horse of his before it was disposed of. The bulletin of the United States de partment of labor says that Davenport, with 139 saloons, had only 28 arrests for drunkenness during the past year, while Des Moines, with only 56 saloons, had I,369 arrests. Rumors of foul play in the death re cently of R. C. Crawford of Middfetown have caused the sons to arrange for the exhuming of the body and an examina tion of the stomach. Crawford was found dead in his barnyard, supposedly from heart failure. He left a largo estate. Afire at Hawkeye destroyed six build ings in the business portion of the town, including the postoffice. The loss is about $15,000, partially insured. The building* include two restaurants, oue hanie&s shop, one millinery shop, a pooJ room, the postoffioe and Hour warehouse. Mrs. Liazie Derth, living near Glad stone, III., was arrested and broiigbt to Burlington. She is charged with the mur der of Mrs. Leonard Fritschy, who was shot dead six years ago in her home on South bill. Mrs. Dertb. then Miss Hetzv was a servant In the Fritseby home at the time. It Is claimcd the deed was piorapted by the" girl's infatuation for Mrs, Frlttcjiy'# luieUftftd. v.. CARTER IN JAIL LIFE CONVICTED ARMY OFFICER'S FUTURE IN PRISON. Fire Tear* of Hard Work-RlRid Dis cipline and Frugal Fare Will Be Hi* Portion—A Number la Branded on His ClotheB-The Daily Koutlne. Capt Oborlin M. Carter, tbe United States army officer recently convicted of Immense frauds In connection with tbe Improvement of Savannah harbor, Georgia, a work of wblch be bad charge as the Government engineer, was sentenced to tbe Fort Leaven worth (Kansas) penitentiary for Qve years' Imprisonment at bard labor, deprivation of hlB rank In tbe army, and dismissal, and $3,000 fine. Tbe contrast between Carter's life for the next five years and his life for the preceding ones could not be more dissimilar. Carter's rooms were al ways models of luxury. No society girl, nurtured In the lap of wealth, ever excelled this luxury-loving officer In the costly, artistic elegance of boudoir Fort Leavenworth Is not a place where the tastes of prisoners are con sulted. Discipline of" the bandcuff sbotgun variety Is promptly applied as the occasion demands. Tbe prison Is a collection of old buildings, entered through a sallyport, guarded night and day by heavily armed men. Inside tbe sallyport a gloomy arebway leads un der the otfices of tbe warden and his subordinates, tbe printing shop, and photograph gallery, to tbe prison build ings where tbe convicts are boused, fed. and bathed. At Fort Leavenworth hard labor means Just what the term implies. Car ter, wltb bands unused to labor harder ,tban uncorking champagne bottles and tbrowing away money, will find the conditions far from enjoyable. He will sleep In a regulation prison cell behind CAItTEIt IN CONVICT OARB a steel-barred door, watcbed by a guard armed wltb a shotgun. It is needless to say that tbe rare carpets and price less tapestries wblcb bave heretofore contributed to bis comfort will not figure In bis Fort Leavenworth cell. The bill of fare Is not an appetizing outlook for Carter, for this luxurious officer bas fattened for years upon tbe choicest foods prepared by artist chefs. Nothing In the eating and dfluking line bas been quite good enough for the epi curean captain. Think wbat five years of Fort Leavenworth prison fare will mean to him—an eternity of "gastro nomic misery. Tbe work wblcb falls to the share of almost all new arrivals is with the pick and blasting drill In tlie quarries two miles from the prison. Tbe stone is for use in the construction of the uew peni tentiary, Carter comes In for this back breaking, band-blistering experience. Fort Lvavenwortb prison has a set of very severe rules, all rigidly enforced. Should Carter grow disobedient hlB prison allowance of tobacco will be shut off, he will be denied tbe privi lege of writing or receiving letters, bis diet may be restricted to bread and Water, and In the event of persistent misconduct he would be handcuffed day and nigbt to the bars of bis cell. They stand no nonsense at Fort Leav enworth. Still they work no cruelties and tbe prisoner who behaves well, takes bis medicine, as it were, unflinch ingly, is treated as well as be could rightly expect. He can write to bis friends and receive tbeir tetters be may subscribe for any reputable news paper or magazine, and may bave books from tbe prison library. Every Saturday afternoon Carter will be compelled not only to give him self a cold-water bath with common brown soap accompaniment, but he will be forced to wasb and scrub bis cell, depressing work for tbe man who for years bas been living In perfumed baths, and relying upon the services of a skilled valet for the simplest tasks of tbe toilet. Attends the Quitker Wetldlnic. A recent Chicago visitor to the East -writes tlius descriptively of a Quaker nuptial ceremony be had the privilege of attending: "At a Quaker wedding last week, where there were no display, decora tions, maids or groomsmen, the air seemed charged with Joy. After a si lence of sevehil minutes the guests arose and tbe bridegroom taking the hand of the bride said: 'In the divine presence and before this assembly I take Patience to be my wife, promising to be to her ii faithful and affectionate husband until death shalw separate UB.' WHERE OAPT. CARTER WILL WORK. and bedroom. Priceless tapestrleB, rare old furniture, toilet trappings In solid gold and silver, fine linens, dainty per fumes—all these and a thousand other elegancies are as much a part of Ober lin M. Carter's life as tbe air he beatbes. At t_e Fort Leavenworth peniten tiary be must manage to survive for five long years without bis wine sup pers. his rapid friends, and bis' per fumed bntlis. Five changes of toilet a day are not recognized as essential at tbe Fort Leavenworth prison. One suit Is quite sufficient, according to tbe prison code—a stout suit of coarse gray, with a big straw bat in summer and a small blue denim cap In winter. The man who has played the hlgb roller for years, who has been courted by pleasure-loving fashionables, ad mired by women, and envied by men, will for the next five years be kept under lock and key as a mere thing, duly ticketed and numbered. His num ber will be marked In glaring red. sten clloil on his prison garments in four places—right across tbe broad of his back, over tbe right tblgb, and on tbe calf of each leg. A more degrading thing this branding of the criminal more.prominently than tbe government mule Is marked—could not be devised. Tbe bride responded: 'll take thee, John to be my ,hus band, promising to be a faithful and affectionate wife until death shall sep arate UB.' A prayer was made, tbe bridegroom kissed the bride and after congratulations had been said all re paired to the dining-room, where the breakfast was spread. The table.was set wltb tbe family sliver and china, which bad come from England vnlth the great-grandfather of tbe bride, and there was a single rose at each corner. After the breakfast the entire party ac companied the happy pair across tbe meadow to their new home and were shown tbe gifts of loving friends. One of tbe guests was beard to say as she started homeward: 'What Is the use of all tbe fuss and worry attendant upon a moderately elaborate wedding, when one can have such a sweet time as that was without them?1" RICHARD WATSON GILDER. Kditor of Cpntnry Magazine One of the Beat Known Ainericfin .l*oetak Mr. Richard Watson Glider, one of the best known of American poets, was born on Feb. 8, 1814, In Bordentown, N. J. He began bis literary career *s a Journalist, became editor of "Honrs at Home" In 1800, shortly after as sumed the associate editorship of "Scrlbner'B Magazine," and upon the death of Dr. J. G. Holland, 1881, suc ceeded him as editor-in-chief, the name of the magazine having been, in the meantime, changed to The Century. In this position his influence upon Ameri- K. W. Glt.DEH. can literature and art' has been Second to no man of bis times. Mr. Gilder's first volume of verse. "The New Day," appeared in 1875, and was' followed by "The Celestial Pas sion," 1887 "Lyrics," 1885-and 1887: "Two Worlds and Other Poems," 1881: "The Great Remembrance, and Other Poems," 1803. The contents of these five volumes were gathered Into one volume, under the title "Five Books of Song," and published by tbe Century Company In 1804. He bas since pub lished "For tbe Country," 1887, and "In Palestine" last year, both by the Cen tury Company. Mr. Gilder holds a distinct and hon orable-position among American poets. His first volume, written under the in fluence of Italian studies, contained lyrics of much Imaginative beauty. Its -fine quality and verse since bas been warmly received. Iu later years bis work bas shown a wide range of themes—a broadening vision and a deepening purpose. As has been well said, however, "He remains neverthe less essentially a lyrist, a maker nf songs a thorough artist, who has se riousness, dignity and cbarm. His is an earnest nature, sensitive alike to vital contemporaneous problems and to tho honey-sweet voice of tbe Ideal." THIS MAY SAVE MANY LIVES. An Invention of Great Use in Case of Wrecks. Moved by tbe many recent acctdentB at eea, with tbe resulting loss of life, Cbarles Ellas, who lives at Great \-p-k Long Island, N. Y„ has Invented a life saving buoy, which a I make It possible for shipwrecked mariners to float on tbe surface of tbe water for more an witbout danger to life. It consists of I an aluminium case, I shaped like a bar-1 rel, seven feet In length and weigh-1 In I weighted at he I bottom to keep it In an nprigbt position, I and is built in two) halves, wblcb open] on rubber hinges on one side and fas- mfe-savino bvot. ten together on tbe otber. The case Is fitted with pockets on the Inside, wblch bold supplies of food and water for twenty days. At tbe top a flag floats ae a signal to passing vessels. Water Ch 'ap In Glascow. In Glasgow a 15 bouseboldcr obtains for 71d per annum a continuous, never falling, unrestricted stream of the purest water In the world, delivered right Into his kitchen, wasbhouse and bathroom. It Is calculated tbat 880 gallons of pure water are delivered to the citizens of Glasgow for every pen ny paid. And It Is water of such pecu liar softness tbat the householders of Glasgow can pay tbeir water rate out of wbat tbey save on soap. When you Uilnk a man is talking nonsense, possibly be Is talking sense, and you are uoabi* to comprehend