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Come in and get one. They are fine. PITTSBURG BEST SPLEN DID,, CLEAR QUILL, AND NEW IDEAL have no equal. Atkinson. FOR SALE One of the Best Farms in the County on Reasonable Terms. We are sole agents for the sale of the STRAIN FARM, con sisting of 494acresof tion Coffins Grove township, choice, well improved land, situatd in sec 2 $50 per acre. miles north of Masonville. The south half of the section has the best buildings, and can be sold for per acre. Enquire on the premises or at the office, of Bronsoii Carr, flanchester, Iowa. Something New in Breakfast Food LOOKING FOR THE BEST in the way ol Vehicles, Buggies, wagons or any special job in this line'. I have done what 1 threatened. I have made the sncrillce. Our child Is no longer ours, and now perhaps he may live. But, oh, my breaking heart, my empty home! Help me to bear my des olation, for it Is for l!f£. We will nev er have another child. And where is it? Ah.-that is tire wonder of it! Near you, Philemon, yet not too near. Mrs. Sutherland has it, and you may have seen its little face through the car win dow If you were in the station last night when the express passed through to Sutherlandtown. Ah, but she has her burden to bear, too—an awful se cret burden, like my owu, only she will have the child, for, Philemon, she has taken It in lieu of her own, which died last night in my sight. And Mr. Suth erland does not know 'what she has done and never will if you keep the se cret as I shall for the sake of the life the little innocent has thus won. 0 MILL COMPANY^ OM*0*OM40«0400«0«e«0»(MM A GOOD TOWEL What do I mean and how was it all? Philemon, it was God's work, all but the deception, and that is for the good of all and to save four broken hearts. I 'Sicear you will he a mother to this child!" Listen. Yesterday, only yesterday—it seems a month ago—Mrs. Sutherland came again to see me with her baby in her arms. The baby was looking well, and she was the happiest of women, for the one wish of his heart and hers had been fulfilled, and she was soon oing to have the bliss of showing the child to his father. My own babe was on the bed asleep, and I, who am feel ing wonderfully strong, was sitting up in a little chair as far away from him as possible, not out of hatred or indif ference, oh, no, but because he seemed lo rest better when left entirely by himself and not under the hungry look of my eyes. Mrs. Sutherland went over to look at him. "Oh, he is fair, like my baby," she said, "and almost as sturdy, though mine is a month old er." And she stooped down and kissed him. Philemon, he smiled' for her, though he never, bad for me. I saw it with a greedy longing that almost made me cry out. Then I turned to her, and we talked. Of what? I can not remember now. At home we had never been intimate friends. She Is from Sutherlandtown, and I am from farm i»# A Or '-a California Whentine made from the very best selected White Wheat. Also have Cream of Wheat and Pillsbury Best and other breakfast foods. We always have it fresh. T. N. ARNOLD. IF YOU«ARE 7W -if'. Spring Wagons and Lumbei $5 WE HAVE WHAT YOU WANT! Anything in our line that can or cannot be had anywhere else We can manufacture on short notice. WORK POSITIVELY GUARANTEED It must also not be forgotten that we keep constantly on hand everything pertaining to a buggy or wagon and do all kinds of repairing, having expert men in all the departments lequired for carriage and wagon building. POSITIVELY ii*88« TEN to FIFTEEN DOLLARS CAN BE SAVED on every vehicle by making your purchases of us. WE DO AS WE ADVERTISE -*.«*! Porchester, and the distance of nine miles is enough to estrange people. But here, each with her husband ab sent and a darling infant sleeping un der her eyes, interests we have never thought identical drew us to each oth cr, and we chatted with ever increas ing pleasure. Suddenly Mrs. Suther land jumped up in terrible fright. The Infant she had been rocking on her breast was blue the next minute It shuddered the next It lay in her arms dead. I hear the shriek yet with which she fell with it In her arms to the floor. Fortuuately no other ears were open to her cry. I alone saw her misery, alone heard her tale. The child had been poisoned, Philemon, poisoned by her. She had mistaken a cup of medi cine for a cup of water and had given the child a few drops In a spoon just before setting out from her hotel. She had uot known at the time what she had done, but now she remembered that the fatal cup was just like'"the other and that tly? two stood very near together. Oh her innocent child, and oh, her husband! It seemed as if the latter thought would drive her wild. "He has so wished for a child," she moaned. "We have been married ten years and this baby seemed to have been sent from heaven. He will curse me he will hate me he will never be lble after this to bear me lu his sight.1 This was not true of Mr. Sutherland, but it was useless to argue with her. instead of attempting it I took another way to stop her ravings. Lifting the child out of her hands, I first listened at its heart and then finding it was really dead—1 have seen too many life less children not to know—1 began slowly to undress it. "What are you doing?" she cried. "Mrs. Webb, Mrs. Webb! What are you doing?" For re ply I pointed to the bed where two lit tle arms could be seen feebly tlutterinj "You shall have my child," I whisper ed. "I have carried too many babies to the tomb to dare risk bringing up another." And catching her poor wan dering spirit with my eye, I held her while I told her my story. Philemon, I saved that woman. Before I had fin ished speaking I saw the reason re turn to her eye and the dawning of a pitiful hope in her passion drawn face. She looked at the child in my arms, and then she looked at Ihe one In the bed. and the long drawn sigh with which she finally bent down aud wept over our darling told me that my cause won. The rest was easy. Wljen the clothes of the two children had been exchanged, she took our baby in her arms and prepared to leave. Then I stopped her. "Swear," I cried, hold ing her by the arm and lifting my other haud to heaven, "swear you will be a mother to this child! Swear you will love it as your owu and rear It in the path of truth aud righteous ness!" The convulsive clasp with wnicn she drew the baby to her breast told me plainer than her shuddering "I s.ivear!" that her heart had already opened, to It. I dropped her arm and covered my face with my hauds. 1 could not see my darling go. It was worse than death. "Oh, God, save him!" 1 groan ed. "God make him an honor"— But here she caught me by the arm. Her clutch was frenzied, and her teeth were chattering. "Swear in your turn," she gasped "swear that If I do a mother's duty by this boy you will keep my secret and never» never reveal to my '""'nnA th* wnr»d vt tux. The Mystery of Agatha Webb By Anna Katharine Green. Author of Ihe Leavenworth Oaae," "lost Kan's lane," "TTmnil ul Bluff," fits., Eta. Copyright, 1900, by Ann* Kitiuame Green. that you Turn- any claims upon him." It was like tcuririg the heart from my breast with my own hand, but I swore, Fhik-mon, niul she In her turn stood back. But suddenly she faced uic again, terror and doubt in all her looks. "Your husband!" she whispered. "Can you keep such a secret from him? You will breathe it in your dreams." "I shall tell Iiim," I answered. "Tell him!" The hair seemed to rise on her head, and she shook so that 1 feared she would drop the babe. "Be careful!" I cried. "See, you frighten the babe. My husband has but one heart, with me. What I do he will subscribe to. Do not fear Philemon." So I promised in your name. Gradually she grew calmer. When I saw she was steady again, I motioned her to go. Even my more than mortal strength was falling, and the baby—Philemon, I have never kissed it, and I did not kiss It then. I heard her feet draw slowly toward the door. I heard her hand fall on the knob, heard it turn, uttered one cry and then— They found me ail hour after lying along the door clasping the dead infant in my arms. I was in a swoon, and-they all think I fell with the child, as perhaps I did, and that its little life went out during my Insensi bility. Of its little features, like and yet unlike our boy's, no one seems to take heed. The nurse who cared for it is gone, and who else would know that iittle face but me? They are very good to me and are full of self re proaches for leaving mc so long In my part of the bulldlug alone. But, though they watch me. now, I have contrived to write \liis letter, which you will get with tlie one telling of the baby's death and my own dangerous condi tion. Under it these words: "Though bid den to destroy this, have never dared to do so. Some day It may be of ines timable value to us or our boy.. Philemon WEBB. This was the last letter found In the packet. As It was laid down sobs were heard all over the room, and Frederick, who for some time now had been sitting with bis head in bis hands, ventured to look up and say: Do you wonder that I endeavored to keep this secret, bought at such a price and sealed by the death of her I thought my mother and of her who really was? Gentlemen, Mr. Suther land really loved his wife and honored her memory. To tell him, as I shall 7c to within the hour, that the child she placed in his arms 25 years ago was an alien and that all his love, his care, his disappointment and his suf ferings bad been lavished on the son of a neighbor, required greater courage than to face doubt on the faces of my fellow townsmen or anything, In short, but absolute arraignment on the charge of murder. Hence my silence, hence my indecision, till this woman here"— he pointed a scornful finger at Amabel now shrinking In her chair—"drove me to it by secretly threatening me with a testimony which would have made me the murderer of my mother and the lasting disgrace of a good man who alone has been without blame from the beginning to the end of this desperate affair. She was about to speak when I forestalled her." That afternoon before the Inquest broke up the Jury brought in their ver dict. It' was: "Deatb by means of a wound inflict ed upon herself in a moment of terror and misapprehension." It was all his fellow townsmen could do for Frederick. [•v CHAPTER XXIV. 1 KATllElt AND SON. tf. "But Frederick's day of trial was not yet over. There was a closed door to open, a father to see (as In his heart he still called Mr. Sutherland). Then there were friends to face,, and foes, under conditions he, better-than any one else, knew were In some regards made worse rather than better by the admissions and revelations of this eventful day—Agnes, for instance. How could he meet' her pure gaze? But it was bis father he must first con front, his father to whom he would have to repeat In private the tale which robbed the best of men of a past and took from blm a son, almost a wife, without leaving him one memo ry calculated to console him. Frederick was so absorbed In this anticipation that he scarcely noticed the two or three tlnild hands stretched out in en couragement toward him and was mov ing slowly .toward the door, behind which his father had disappeared so many hours before, when he was re called to the interests of tbe moment by a single word, uttered not very far from blm. It was simply, "Well?" But It was littered by Knapp and repeated by Mr. Courtney. Frederick shuddered and was hurry ing on when he found himself stopped by a piteous figure that, with appealing eyes and timid gestures, stepped up bev fore liini. It was Amabel. "Forgive!" she murmured, looking like a pleading saint. "I did not know, I never dreamed you were so much of a man, Frederick that youliore such a heart, cherished such griefs, was so worthy of love and a woman's admira tion. If I had"— Her expression was eloquent, more eloquent than he had ever seen It, for it had real feeling in it, but he put her coldly by. "When my father's white hairs lie come black again, ana me story or my shame is forgotten In this never forget ting -world, then come hack and I will forgive you." And he was passing on when another touch detained him. Ue turned, this time in some Impatience, only to meet the frank eyes of Sweetwater. As he knew very little of this young man save that he was the amateur detective who hud by some folly of his own been carried off on the Hesper and who was probably the only man saved from Its wreck lie was about to erect him with some commonplace phrase of congratu lation when Sweetwater interrupted him with the following words: "I only wanted to suy that It may be easier for you to approach your father with the revelations you ure about to make if you knew that in his present frame of mind he Is much more likely to be relieved by. such proofs of lnno- cd I tills nr.au- man you ..:i rend: imagine. Some :ny I may able explain myself, but not no\v. Only re member what 1 have s»Ul ol tJ father—pardon me, Mr. Su'.berlc f. and act neccrdi lRly. Perhaps it wns to tell you tills I .was forced back- here. against my v.:il and bqst l:itw l,y the strongest sirles of evr:its that ever happened .to a i:u.n. rr.t." hi? added, with a fiidelonf look tlie group ~of men still hovwrliig about the coroner's table, "I had rather thin! It was for some more Important ofl~.ee still. But this the future will show, the future which 1 seem to see lowering in the faces over there." And, waiting for no reply, he melted Into the crowd. Frederick passed at once to tils fa ther. No .one-Interrupted Frederick after he bad shut that door behind him, but the large crowd that in the halls and on tlie steps of the building awaited his reappearance showed that the pub lic Interest was still warm in a matter affecting so deeply the heart pud In terests of their best citizen. When, therefore, that long closed door final ly. opened and Frederick was seen es-' cortiug Mr. Sutherland on his arm, the tide of feeling which had liot yet subsided since Agatha's letters were read vented Itself In one great sob of relief, for Mr. Sutherland's face was calmer than when they had last seen It and his step more assured, and be leaned or made himself lean on Fred erick's arm, as If to Impress upon all who saw them that the ties of years cannot be shaken off so easily and that he Btlll looked upon Frederick as his son. But be was not contented with this dumb show, eloquent as It was. As the crowd parted and these two Imposing figures took their way down the steps to the carriage which had been sent for them Mr. Sutherland cast one deep and long glance about him on faces he knew and faces be did not know, on those :Who were near and those who were far, and, raising his voice, which did not tremble as much as might have been, expected, said deliberately: "My son accompanies me to his liomp. If he should afterward be wanted, be "My son accompanics vie-to his home. will be found at his own fireside. .Good day, my friends. I thank you for the good will- you have this day shown us both." Th^n he entered the carriage. The solemn way in which Frederick bared his'head in acknowledgment of this public recognition of the hold-he still retained on this one faithful heart struck awe into the hearts of .all who saw .it So that the carriage rolled off In silence, closing one of the most thrilling and impressive'scenes ever witnessed in that time worn village. CHAPTER XXV. FREDERICK Doubt, that seed of ramifying growth, £ad been planted in more than one breast, and while it failed as yet .to break out into any open manifestation thiere were evidences enough In. the Very restraint visible In such, groups of people as they passed that suspicion Ijad not been suppressed or his Inuo rtehee established by the overfayorable -jrerdict of the coroner's jury. For not only did these marks of pub lic suspicion bespeak possible arraign ment In the future, but through them it became evident that even if he escaped open condemnation in the courts be could never hope for complete rein statement before the world, nor, what was to him a still deeper source of de spair, anticipate a day when Agnes' love and domestic happiness should make amends to him for the grief aud errors of his more than wayward youth.' He could never marry so pure a being while the shadow of crime sep arated him from the mass of human beings. Her belief in hiB innocence and the exact truth of his Btory (and he was confident Bhe did believe him) could make no difference in this conclusion, While he was regarded openly or iu dark corners or beside the humblest fireside as a possible criminal neither Mr. Sutherland nor her. father nor his own heart even would allow him to offer ber anything but a friend's grati tude or win from her anything but a neighbor's sympathy, yet In bidding goodby to larger hopes aud more impor tant desires he parted with the bettej^ cencc as you can give him than over- part of his heart and the only solace whelmed by such as show the lack of remaining in this world for the bound kinship between you. For two weeks Mr. Sutherland has been bending un der the belief of your personal crimi nality in this matter of Mrs. Webb's death: This was his secret, which was shared by me." "By you?"- 'r less grkfs and tragic experiences of his Btill ^rouug life. He had learned to love through suffering, only to realize that the very nature of his suffering forbade tiim to indulge iii love. And this seemed, even In this hour of .public .juutlflcation, a final Judgment. lH» 1mA. tpU.fcU itttn ma toHfcJtaKifat moment believed, but whtft Was* th^e in his life, whttt wns* there hi the facts as witnessed by others, what was there 'in his mother's letters jiud the revela tion of {Ste'i" sK r^tV£latf^nj?Jiip' to'cor-* roboruteHiis'tisseUi&Gfe oPti^rrbve-'that her hrnicl 'and' notUfls* had' tu-)d- the weapon" Vvheto 'fftc 'life Ulotii1 gfeuhed' f£pm her devoted breast? Nothing, nothing --only his ord to staihl against all human probabilities arid natural in ference, only IifsT word tmd -the'^'ner-' ous nature'of ttfc gvent heartedfvVomu'H wjio hatl'thtts Vbrishvd Tftmigh a dozen df liW ftfkw tfltlr.ohs¥liad by tfielr verdict professed their belief in his word and given him the benefit of a doubt Involving his life as well aa his honor, he„ as well as they kuew that neither the police ntwnhe general pub lic wore* givfen "to sentimentality and that the'question'of his guilt still lay open and must remain so" till his dying day, for from' the nature of. things uo ^roof of the truth'was' probable. Batsy being--dead, only God arid his-own •heart could know that tbe'facts of that awCul-half hour were as he had told theoi.'* Had God In htsr justice removed in this striking Way his* only-witness as a punishment for bis sins sand vBut ARRESTED. But, alas, all tides have their ebb as well AS flow, and before Mr. Sutherland and Frederick were well out of .the 'main street the latter became aware that notwithstanding the respect with which his explanations had been re ceived by the.jury there were, many of his fellow townsmen who were ready 'to show dissatisfaction at Ujs being al lowed to return in freedom to that home where he had still every, prospec: •of being called the young master his mad indulgence In acts so little short of crime as' to partake of its guilt and merit its obloquy? He was risking himself this question as he bent to* fasten tilt*' gate His fa ther bad passed in. The carriage''had driven off, and'the road was almost solitary, but not quite. A0 he leaned his arm over the*-gate and 'turned to take a final glance down the hillside he saw with,Avhat 'ieelbigs no one will ever know tlie light figure 6f Agb^s ad vancing on the" arm of iRu^-fatherf He would have drawn back, but a better ImptilsB intervened, and he stood1 his ground.^- Mr. Uail1tlavw»Md'walbPd very close5 to Agnes, cast'lier an ad monitory glance,' which Frederick was notrslow in interpreting,^'th^ri stopped eluetantly, po'lmps* because he flaw her falter, perhaps b'ecaufeg he knew that an, interview betweten these two was unav61(lab'le*-hnd tiad best be quickly over. Frederick fouud his folce"flrst. "Agues," said he, "I am glad of this opportunity?" for impressing my grati tude.. .You ^hvb'acteii like a friend ahd have earned my eternal consideration even If-we hever'Bpeak again." There was a lidinentary silence. -Her heart, which had* drooped under his greeting, rose- again:*- Her eyes, humid \Yith feeling, sought his face. 'Why do you spdalc like that?" said she. "Why1 shouldn't we meet? Does not every^one recognize your inno cence, ancP wilt*»tfot?"the"' wbdle world soon see, as'*I have, that you have left the ,old life behind and have only torbe your new self to win every one's re gard?" 'Agnes," feturfted4 Frederick, stall ing sadly as be observed'the 'sudden alaj-m visible ih' her father's face at these enthusiastic words, "you know me.-perhaps better'than others do and are prepared ttf'b&l&Ve thy wofds and my. more than unhappy story But there are Tew Agneses In the world. People In''general will* not acquit'me, and if .there was only one person who doubted"—Mr. Halliday began to look relieved—would fail to'4 give any promise of* the new life ydu hope to sed me lead if I Allowed Hie shadow under which 1 undoubtedly'rest to'fall in the remotest way acrbss yours. -You anjl I hate been friendir and will con tinue .such, but we will hold little in? tercourse- in 'future, hard a* I find It to .say so. DO&B not Mr. Halliday'con- sider -this right? As your'father be must" Agnes' eyes leavih'gi:FrederIck'8 for a moment, sought her father's. Alas, there was no mistaking their language. Sighing deeplyt '4he agalifr hung her head. a "Too much care .for people's opin ion," ^he murinured/*"and too little for what js best and noblest in us. 1 do no.t recognize the necessity of -a fare well between us any more than I rec ogtiizt that auy one Who saw and heard you today can believe in yo'ur-gullt." there a& so 'tnany who did not htiar ant} sce me. TTeildes," here he turned a' lfttle knd' pointed to the gar den* hi hl& rear,'"for the past week a .miii^I iieed^not "fe'liite who or under what autii6rtiy hTe Apts—Has been in hiding under tbat'Mior watching my every nrov'ement ajj&jfonbBt counting tuy sighs/Yestewl affile- lfef t' for a'short 4pace,.bift todfiy iifcbdck. Whatfaoes that? argd^', dear' fil'tfiitl? Innocence completely r£cognlzed\lbe8 "not 'call fbr stfehguanHnnfsiiin." JTo Be Continued. 1 N7 ,R'y^ CEWAR RAPIDS TIME CAKD. MAIN LINE GOING EAST AUD SOUTH. Arrive Leave 8:90 No. 9 Chicago Passenger.... 8:40 pm 0:80 ajm Chi. & BurJt'n Pass........9:85a 8:10 a Js'o. 6.Clrtcaea&St.Louls Ex. 8:30 am I2:2u Dgt No: 8 Chicago FdSf Express. 12:27 net Noi 18-Burl & Davnp't. Pass 8:65p ro Np j!—Pullman sleeper, free chair car and coaches to Chicago. Kb. C—Pullman sleepers' and through ^oSches to Cfilcagd and Bt Loots. No. 8—Pullpiao'«sleeper AadJree.cbalr car IQ es Chfcago 7loo a. m. Dining car and through oi No. 8—Pullpian -Chicago arrives Chfcago 7leo a. m. Dlnipgi will setveDfeakfast from Joiiet ta3hlcago. IJgt^-nlght. •T MAT# iiiNHGorifQjrdih&^ 7 8t a^m No. Minneapolis va»~ 8:06 am 12:10 To, Mr. Sutherland, suffering now from the reaction following all great efforts, much, If not all, of this quiet j)but significant display of public feeling passed unnoticed. But to Frederick, alive to the least look, the least sign that hlB story had not been accepted unquestioned, this passage .through*the town was the occasion of the most poignant suffering. No..8KockforJ.Passenger....8:80pm 12-I3 ngt NO. 6 Minneapolis Express..I2:*0 Dgt No. i—Free chair car aind coacheB to [Al bert Lea. -No 6—Pullman sleepers and Goacbej to Minneapolis and St. Paul, SHGOKAH DIVISION. 8:10pm DecorahPassenger*.... 8i80am 0:30 am -WestUnion Passenger 8:40 4:06pm DecorahTrfclght 6:20am IOWA PALLS DIVISION. 8:00 pm.... Iowtt & Minnesota Pass....... 8:16 am t2:20 ngt ..Minnesota & Dakota Pass.. 12:80 ngt JOPVA CITV1DAVKNPOBT,BURL. AKD CLINTON. 13:10 m. :..Buri &' la Clly Pas8...8:66 9.UI Olln To PH» T\im» U». 7 •7:36a |n. m. Glin.,IaGttv, DvptPassH....7)l6am ...Burl, & la City Pass .4:40 Trains numbers 6,6,8, 18. 19. and Minn & daily, ail ptner bains' dally ex Dakota Pass run ce|t Sunday," JNO. ii. FARMER, ,Tkt Agt Cedar I Gen'l^ass & Tkt Agt "ar Rapids. Iowa. No 91+ 2:05 NMNM J. A. LOMAX. Ticket Agent, Railroad Time Table, ILLINOIS CENTRAL. Mafn Line Passenger Train,. VKST BOUND MAI IF LINK BAST B0,92TO No 1*11:49 pm No 3* 3:15 pin "N081 Wimp jNOB 10:40am ..ifast Train.. Thro Express.. :...Clipper.... Local express ~Way Rrelght. .Thro Prelght. Ne 2* 8:44 am No4* 8:15 pm No 82+9:40 am No6t 8:40pm No92*U:43am No 0C*8:U5 CEDAR.RAPJDB tlRANCH. North Btfund 1 Bet Cedar Rpds -South Bound -Arrive—r- and Manchester 1-—"-Leave—-— No.806 0:lGp.m No. 882 9:80 a.m No. 8061:80 p.ni v. .-^Passenger.. |No.8U5 0:40 a. .tPassenger... [No.381C :25 p. .... tFrelght.... |No.858 5:do p. All above trains carry passengers. •Dally. iDally £xoeptSii-sday. .- H. G. PIEROR. Station Agt. Nos -6 & 0 run between Dubuque and' Albert Lea NOB. 81 & 82 run between Lyle and Dubuque with connection through to Ft Dodge by train No 81. New tralD 4 irakes same stops east of here as No, 2 except that east of RocKfOrd It stops at East Rockiord. Genoa & uoleman, This train Is a ihroueh .vestibule train with dining car from Omaha to Rockford. No 3 & 4 only step at Dyersytlle between Manchester and Du buque.* CHICAGOGREATWESTERNRY. "The Maple Leaf Route.'* Tme card, Thorpe, Iowa. Chicago Sfift'ial, twally,Going East 7:40 am J)ay Express dal xcxcrpt Sunday 3:04 pm Way -Freightoatly 11:36am Gti West, North and South.' WayPrelgh .dally 9:85pm DayKxpreM daily except 8unday.. .. 1:68 pm StFaulA KansasClly.Exp, dally ... 6:41 am Etor Information ana tiokrts apply to J. It. O'H ARROW Agent Thorpe Jiidhesi lo luwest prk«s Compare the lowest priced variety with some of the kind you may be using and judgel The highest priced grades are incomparable. For Sale By WELLS & ELDREDGE. 17Wtt Such little pills sa UeWitt's Little Early Risers are very easily taken, and they are wonderfully effective In cleans ing'the liver and bowels. Smith liroe. Henry Hutchinson \. 'i Breeder of Thoroughbred- ., Shorthorn Cattle. DELAWARE COUNTY Suite Bank CAPITAL $60,000 -DIRKOTORS- Wm. 0. Cawle}. W. G. Kenyon. Edward P. Seeds. -Cbaa. J. Seeds. 0. W. Keagy fslUNN JOSEPH HUTCHINSON Manchester.Iowa WM. DONNELLY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, Proprietor ot toe Ryan Drug Store. Dealer in -Drags, Stationery, Etc. RTAN IOW/ Compound VaDor and Sham ooo Baths. Most all dis eases are caused by poisonous sec retionB, which clog the wheels of NATURE. Vapor -and The name and the symptoms may be'different Shampoo. but the WM. O. OAWLEl President. R. W. TIBRILL, «i»e ot disease can us ually be traced to the imperiect action ol the millions of pores of the haman body. A bath in accordance with scientific require ments is the best preventative and remedy known. The methods employ edby me are the most scientific ever invented or discovered for dispelling disease. Results tell the story. Give me trial. This is the Oonant system of baths. A competent lady attendant in charge of the liuliesdepartment. Office and bath rooms on Franklin street, opposite Globe Hotel WTF G. D. QATC3 CtLAS. j. SEEDS, Oubler. O. W. KEAQY, Vloe President. H. F. Arnold. R. W. Til-rill. G. W. Dunham, M. H. WiUlston INTVRK8T PAID en Time Deposits. Prompt attention given to all business. Pas senger tickets from and to all parte of Europe direct to Manchester, for Bale. I.ONG TIME MORTGAGE T.OANS Made, Bought and told. SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES Tor the storage of valuable papers, etc. for rent. HAVE Ladles and dents Qold Watches in all sizes kinds and styles, Ladies, dents and Chrildrens Rings .* from DIAMONDS,' OPALS, EMER- SOLID STERLING SILVER FORES, TABLE, DESERT and TEA SPOONS,. NAPKIN RINGS'. ETC ETC., ETC. Also large lin£ of Best Brands of— SILVER PLATED SPOONS, FORKS, KNIVES, TEA SETS, WATER SETS. CAKE BASKETS, BUTTER DISHES, ETC., ETC. CARVING KNIVES and FORKS, LADIES GUARD CHAINS, GENTS VEST CHAINS, EMBLEM RINGS, CHARMS, LOCK ETS, GOLD SPECTACLES, MAN TEL CLOCKS, SILK UMBREL LAS, GOLD PENS. Come and see the .many things we have not space to list. BOYNTON & M'EWEN Illinois CentralR FROM CHICAGO TO HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS, VIA MEMPHIS WITHOUT CHANGE Tlie Illinois Central Is now running a through Pullman sleeping car dally between Chicago and Hot Springs, Ark., on its "Limited" leaving Chicago at 5.10 p.m., arriving Hot Springs 5.1b the next afternoon. Through reservations Chicago to. Hot Springs can also be secured on the "Speolal," leaving Chicago 8.80 a. m. dally arriving at Hot Bprlngs 9.65 tne next mornlog. Dlulng-car service en 4 route. AspeclalfolderoftbiB new service as .. as full particulars concerning the above can behadoiagentsof the Illinois Genital end well nan Np 84^4-8 II £un totfy Minday ImMM, -'.'Vv connecting lines. A. Hi HANSON PMmal ftitnir Aitawimn, mm T?WW wt, TRADE MAIM* DEMON* COPYRIGHT* IkcC Anyone sending aakotch auloWf ascertain our opinion. IJeo whMher' .n Invention la probabl, mtontrtja ions strictly conddonttol..Handbook on Patent* sentfrco. Oldest ncenoy forseciirtnjfMtwt*. Patents tnfcou tlirouch Munn A CO. MOMT* -•pre/at notice, without charge, in tbe -,s ScUstiific Hsaerkan. A linndaomoly illustrated weekly, tarjrest ctiv rtiintlon of nny sclentlllo Journal. TermmJf3 a vcar: four months, fL Sold b» nilI cV You Will a Pair of Shoes To keep yotif feet dty during during the wet weather this spring, We can suit you in -quality and price. Also rubbers of all kinds. F. M. FOLEY RYAN, IOWA. PATENTS.*] FREE ADVICE AS TO PATENTABILITY Notice in Inventive Age Book "How to obtain Patent*" (Marges moderate. No 'ssafr m. ite. Noftee till patent Is secured, cUy confidential. AddreMu 1, Patent Lawyer\ WaiNngtar.* D. 0. fee till Letters strict!, S.6.8IGGER?, Abstract Co DELAWARE COUNTY Manchester,Iowa. ABSTRAOTST* REAL ESTATE^ A LOANS AND —MANUFACTUEEB OF— 3' I CONVEYANCING.: Office In First Notiona Bank-Building: Orders by mail will receive carefal attention, We have complete copies of all records of Delaware county. ENNIS BOGGS. .OKB. S. A. STEADMANj HARNESS I The NortherirOhio*Blankct Mills. Beet Fine All Wool Plaids. We call 8le articular attention of our castomers to finest grade in quality and, patterns ever offered. No other mills dqual them In Sneneas ot qaullty, brlRht jind tally oolorlnm, or rare design,—abtolutely newdesiRM. THE FIRST PLUSH«M«W^ made In Amerloa^ras the thirty years ago. It was As they wefe thefirst first today, in quality wefe thefirst then. BO are they etoguee or «iu permanence o^oolorlng.They do not shed. There are lmltstionl, tout as plush robes are servlceableTor a'score of jears. It is economy to buy the Dest —THE CHASE. In point of style and soula you get si bottom prices. department. Aut. Cashier. In point of stvle and price, never'before eould you set suoh goodlquaime, at rook Stock complete In c— S. A. STE ADMAN. J. E. DAVIS, Manchester, la., Main St., North of Court House. MOHEY...X?OTSS&JV, I am making first-class farm loans :, at and 6 per cent., with privf- 'r. leges. ABSTRACTS furnished at.a rate all competition. J. E, DAVIS, .Abstracter. a= ALEX SEFSTROM, LACKSMIT 1 AL.DB, PEABLS,ETO., dOWD to PLAIN GOLD BANDS. ^WEDDING RINGS. Makes a SpeolaUyd^' Dorse ShoeinjO' Interiering and Corns^Cured or no Pay. $ Do All Kinds of Work in Iron— rw. Maohln&rv and all kinds of Phna Implements and Maohinery repaired.' The best of work guaranteed/' PRICES REASONABLE. A share of the Publio Patronage is s611oited« suocessor to Peter Mever HURRAH FOR First-class Horse Shoers. Also- PLOW WORK and GEN-^r ERAL REPAIRING. PRICES JRIGHT1 CALL AND SEE USI At foot" of Franklin street. R. W. TIRRILL Is Loaning Tloney as cheai as any person or Corpora tism. DOUGLASS, grapher. the Photo- Go to Douglass For FINE