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St)t S v' SIS {Democrat. B&0H80H ft CABR, PnblUhtra. MANCHESTER, Let us hope Mr. Rockefeller may not bnve a chance to pay that $1,000,000 for a new stomach. Oil Is high enough now. Eastern society women have the tat tooing erase. And still there are some ^who look upon a painted Indian as a savage. Yale students are to collect the voices of all remaining Indian tribes In a ^phonograph. Presumably Yale is plan ning a new yell. •1' That man who puinmeled his wife tbecause she declined to join him at -Sprayers probably regards himself as a first-class Christian. A. member of the Reichstag has made the same remark about the Kaiser that -the parrot applied to Itself after the dog got through with it. The occasional death of a Filipino v^aulten doesn't make much difference in ^/the revolution over there. The sul tanic understudies are always ready. We can't all be captains of Industry, and we don't expect to be. There are a number of lis who would be very glad to be first lieutenants rc Ured on half,pay. Aguinaldo wants the United States to make the Filipinos a loan of $80, 000*000. We have no doubt that Ag. .'knows of a- man who would be perfect* ly willing to handle the money for the Filipinos. The proposition to limit the amouut £'\vt wealth which any man may law iv fully hold to $10,000,000 Is not meeting with the enthusiastic support from General Coxey that the country has a V*Vright to expect from him. *, 'A What a pity It is that our learned an qky thropologlsts never discover that a man has Criminal eyes, mouth, cars and nose until after he has committed a murder! •vvj Oh, Science! how many frauds are per petrated in thy helpless name! More money Is belug turned into the "conscience fund" at Washington every year. Either the American conscience Is becoming better or more people with troublesome consciences arc stealing each year. At present the morals of the esse seem a little dubious. A young man in one of the North western States committed suicide be cause he was reputed to be the home liest man in the county. There was a young man in this country once who rose above that kind of handicap and became President of the United States. But "Old Abe" was made of firmer stuff. 1,088 than oue huudred certificates of naturalization were granted to aliens by the British Home Secretary during month of November. The percent ^V 'age of applications from subjects of if#* the czar shows that the Itusslflcatlon of England Is more probable than the ^—AUlOl'il'fluIzarion^Since onlyjme'appli cant was a citizen dfvthoJfaitcd States, whereas sixty-four werOTtussfans. One l- '^.petitioner is set down as being the sub ject of no foreign state, but there is no evidence that he was the famous ¥^"Man Without a Country." i—Etlor to,188Q,not a single record for events on standard athletic champion ship programs was held by an Anicri can. They were all credited to Eug llshmen, Scotchmen nnd Irishmen. To day, twenty-two years later, Ameri cans hold nearly all the records. That Is one result of the "athletic awaken ing"—the Increased Interest lu out door sports in the United States but It Is by no means the most valuable. Better bealtb, sounder, stronger bodies, it* /. calmer minds, less tendency to dyspep- S- 1 8la and nervousness—these are worth more than records tliey seeiu lu this ?,c*se to go together. Ax In thoughts of the figures of the United States it Is easy to overlook the Test of the world. There is Russia. JWhen you think of the land of the iCiar, In fancy you see snow-covered a plains, hear the howling of wolves and g^^' ^^the cries of persecuted peasants. And -T^'l^you wonder how such a Godforsaken, Ice-bound wilderness can^support so ^j^many tens of millions of people. It ^Isn't Ice-bound, the wolves do not howl A *any more strenuously than they do in sbme parts of the United States, and the peasant's condition is improving —1 right along. The country Is piosper- Ing. The estimated revenue for itl 1 l* $048,516,000, nearly $3,000,000 a day A country that can stand that amount of taxation, direct or indirect, Is groat, for the Income exceeds that of any oth er nation on the globe. This year the government will put more than $80. 000,000 Into new railroads. The affairs of the nation are being so run that the Income exceeds the expenses, while in 1002 the value of exports exceeded the vfllue of Imports by more than .$150, 000,000. As far as industrial progress Is concerned, Russia is becoming the United States of Europe. There can be no denying the fact that at the present time the German sphere of influence lu South America greater than that of the United States or any other power. For many years German colonists have been pouring into Brazil and the other re publics of eastern South America. Iu Brazil and the Argentine Republic there are at the present time no less than 4,060,000 inhabitants either of German nationality or German desceut, sufficient In numbers and influence to seize upon the governments of these countries any time they shall elect. Nor is this a contingently far removed, the German colonist is not assimilat ive, his sturdy Chauvinism uud Teu tonicism is not obliterated or altered ... by contact with alien conditions and peoples. It is this complexion of the German Aaraeter, If we give to it the respect which it deserves, which must needs provide serious caijse for reflec tion in considering the continuance of our moral and economic dominance in the Western Hemisphere. It is certain that, having the necessary physical power, these Germans in South Ameri ca will not long permit a continuance ot the disturbing and anarchical condi tlons characterizing the present condi tion of the countries -4n which they HT9 domiciled, which prevents any real Mbtl P-r* *"*38 IOWA. They are bringing in the train rob licrs one by olio. If the earth were equally divided among Its Inhabitants each persohvs •hare would be a1out 23nvres. progress iiiui arrests legitimate Pco mimic nnd Industrial ndvAilcetnetat. Who, therefore, ooulil measure tlitt drill ger if licse self-sable GKrm&ri bol oulsts, In order to RiUegUnni jjroilerly the divorslHed ahd valuable Interests hich they have at stake, should deem It advisable to take the1 relhs of gov •imicnt Into tlicir owU baiids? OVftr In a corner of Europe hundreds of dark-skinned men are digging up buried cities, and the wise ones have found beneath one sot of ruins another, and below that still another, and no mail can say how many cities and cen turies lie still further beneath the ground. Above, the sands shift with the wind, the sun shines, children are born, grow up nnd die, and the works of man crumble nnd decay. Nothing funned by niiin's haiulK endures. It Is a far cry from the burled cities to a bed ilde in Cincinnati, where a man lay dying and gnsiing into the dear fate of a slek woman who had been carried to his bedside to take flnrtl look nt the man she nnd ardently loved through the long years. "Mrtmnin," said the dying mail, "you hnve been gocd wife 'and mother. You have never failed me, and I have always loved you. You are a good woman." I'lillip," she smid, and there were tears In her voice, "all that you can possibly say of me 1 can say of you. You were always good to nie and to the children. You have made your wife happy." Nothing formed by man's hnuds en dures. But love lasts for the ages. Tha kindness and sympathy and tenderness that makes a man aiul a woman ctittg together, fills their lives with hope nnd happiness, is a lire that warms human ity. It is pure gold. Time and adver sity do not destroy it. It Is more beauti ful than a Held of flowers, and It blos soms and spreads nnd blossoms again in other hearts, until who shall tell the limits or tile life of one good deed? When tills man lay dying lie didn't think of Ills medals, his fame, his posi tion, the material things that had conte Into Ills life. They were as are tho burled cities, buiUiod by man, enduring for while, to lie lost In the future. But the flame of love burned strotig ami clear in those last days, and those win) study mankind and realize the short ness of life and the vastness of eter nity must know that the true greatness of the man lay in that treasure that cannot die—love for his family and for humanity. HEAT 1NTHEOVEN. Mow 1 lie Bakers Determine It by the Merc Touch of the llund. "Bakers have a curious way of tell ing just what the temperature of the oven is," said a down-town baker, who has been in tho business for more than a quarter of a century, "and they can tell, too, with almost marvelous accur racy. You take a man who Is an expert In the business, and he can tell what the temperature of the oven is by sim ply touching the handle of the oven door. In nine cases out of ten he will nut miss it to the fraction of a degree. Makers have oilier ways, of course, of testing the heat of tlie%oven. Tor in stance. when baking bread they some times throw a ph?ce of white paper in to the oven, and if it turns brown tho oven is at the proper temperature oi\ when baking other things they will throw a little cornnieal flour into the oven In order to test the heat. But the baker's fingers are the best gauge, and when you come to think of the differ ent temperatures required In baking different things, it is no small achieve ment to even approxltaate the heat of the oven by touching the handle of the oven door. Bakers figure that during the rising time of a loaf of bread before it hits been placed in the oven, it ought to be In a temperature of 75 degrees Fahren heit. During the baking process, in order to cook the starch, expand the carbonic acid gas. air and steam, and drive off the alcohol, the Inside of tlni loaf must register at least 220 degrees. In baking rolls, buns, scones* tea bis cuits, drop cakes, fancy eakes, New York cakes, muffins, puff cakes and things of that sort, the oven must show a heat of 450 degrees or higher. When the oven Is at 400 degrees It is lit for cream puffs, sugrir cakes, queeii cakes, rock cakes, jumbles, lady flng1 ers, rough and ready and Jelly rolls. At 3.T0 degrees wine cakes, cup cakes, ginger nuts and snaps, pies, ginger bread, spice cakes, such as raisin, cur rent,- citron, pound, bride and so on, may be baked. It requires a still lower temperature to bake wedding cakes, kisses, anise drops and things In this class. But whatever temperature the old baker wants, he can tell when lie has It by simply touching the handle of the oven door.—New Orleans Times* Democrat. GAVE LUCK THE GO-BY. Senator Teller M!b3cs Chance to Make Fortune. Senator Teller, of Colorado, will never forget Christmas day, 1880. It was on that Christmas morning he al» lowed to slip through his bauds a chaucc to make a million dollars with out putting up a single dollar. Two of Senator Teller's friends proposed to purchase the Robert E. Lee mine at Leadville. They were able to buy it for $100,000. On Christmas morning they called around to see Mr. Teller, told him what they proposed to do ami urged him to take a one-third Interest in the property. "Bui I haven't any money," protested Mr. Teller. "It makes no difference," he was told. "You can give your notes, and before they come due we'll take from the mine more gold than will bo uec essnry to pay theiu." "But suppose we dou't realize our expectations?" suggested the Senator, with caution. "Then we will put up the money to meet the notes, and ybu need not trou ble about them." Senator Teller was assured that his friends knew exactly what they had In hand, but he didn't go in. He thought as he had not the money to put into the undertaking he had no right to reap the reward, if there was to be one. He was assured that they want ed him in the deal, but no pcrsuasiou could get him to accept the offer. One mouth later the Robert K. Lee mine had yielded $200,001) of gold, and in a/year a total of $1,500,000 was taken out. It proved to be one of the richest pockets of gold that has ever been found.—Washington Star. No schoolboy ever hud to write a good moral copy book text so often that he wrote it on th? feuce ou the way home. POLITICS® bob Republicano Up Against Trust Facts. The Republicans have never ceased to worry about the facts In regard to prices, wages aud the cost of living' under Dlngley bill trust rule, as pre sented in the last Democratic campaign book. Notwithstanding that with each attempt to get away from or disprove these facts they work themselves deeper into tho trust Wire, fret they are foolish enough to continue their spasmodic struggle. Mr. Hill, of Con necticut, made a desperate effort last Saturday to prove, by the tiibic of prices iii tiie Democratic campaign book, that the prices of tho articles on the free list had advanced more from 1800 to 1902 than did tho prices of the articles on the dutiable list, lie took all of the eleven articles on the free list ahd showed that the prices of these had advanced 20 per cent. Then he selected twenty-one articles from the 174 on the dutiable list, and, amid Republican applause, showed that the prices of these rose ouly 15H per cent from 1890 to 1002. •Tudge Griggs, of Georgia, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Com mittee, got after Mr. Hill on Wednes day and simply pulverized him. Not only did he select another list of twen ty-one important articles from the cam paign book list, the prices of each and all of which are controlled by tariff protected trusts nnd which advanced an average of 71 per cfeut from 1890 to 1902, but he showed that all but 4 of The Republicans are more at home Irt suppressing discussion of these trust facts than when attempting to dis prove them by butting their heads up against them. "Addition, division nnd feileuce" should be their motto, as "Let well enough nlone" is their slogan. Raisin? a Campaign Fmul. The only anti-trust legislation that the present Congress will pass, if the statehood fight continues, Is an amend ment to the bill creating the Depart-' ment of Commerce and Labor, which amendment authorizes the investiga tion of trust transactions as the bureau may bo able to gather theui and these are only .to be made public at the dis cretion of the President. The trusts evidently do not object to this law, for those Republican Senators, who are known to be friends of the trusts, fa* vor the amendment. The only danger to the trusts is that in the event of the election of a Democratic President he might order all trust transact ions to be made public ami the people would know the enormous profits the trusts are making on what they sell in this country, and the fact that many of the trusts are selling cheaper to the foreigner than they are here. There Is ilo likelihood of a Republican .Presi dent exposing such transactions of the trusts because ll would prove the con tention of the Democrats that the tar iff fosters the trusts. The fact ts that this so-called anti-trust amendment is of no actual service to the people as far as results are concerned It Is mere ly enacted to point to as some effort to curb the trusts. Again the people have been fooled. It is evident that such a measure will make it more in cumbent than ever upon the trusts to put up boodle to elect a President who will serve thein faithfully and who will not expose their secrets to their Injury. Thus this measure guarantees an ample Republican campaign fund. A Disgraceful ICxhihition, The great State of Illinois is appar ently in the hands of petty political tricksters utterly without regard for the dignity and fair repute of the American commonwealth whose inter ests they are supposed to serve. The factional fights of the Republican or ganization present the State in a most unfavorable light to the country at large. Less "gavel rule," less sellish striving for factional advantage, a more effective performance of sworn 1 High Art Marked Down. Speaking of the government iu busi ness, perhaps It is not generally known that this government is selling fine en gravlngs cheap. The subject Is Martha Washington on the new S-eent stamp. —Philadelphia Ledger. duty arc in order if Illinois Republi cans hope to justify their dominance in State affairs.—St. Louis Republic. (secretary Shaw unl the Burptue. Mr. Slmw, as Secretary of the Treas ury, knows what au abnormal national surplus means. He knows that it is dangerous. Although it may represent a high state of prosperity it involves possibilities that cannot be contem plated without an effort to avert them. If a great surplus in the uatluua! treasury, which is capable of admlnis tratlv* manipulation, creates a dan- ,U it iB, several [friends of tbe contracting patties. The wal£_£or a few^dayS' isnmm* m$*r A IQaSBBBBSDBBBS OF THE DAY gerous condition is it not even more dangerous to foster a system that ac celerates the accumulation of the na tion's wealth in a comparatively few private hands, where it cannot be manipulated by governmental agen cies? Yet the system that Mr. Shaw upholds, and which he would not mod ify "merely because it is imperfect," is constantly aud rapidly centering a vast portion of the money of the coun try in the hands of the great trusts. —Kansas City Star. MormditN anil Republicans. The whole Mormon question was in jected into the debate in the Senate oil the statehood bill last week, when It was developed that there is a large Monnon constituency in Arizona and New Mexico, and the startling state ment was made that "no Mormon could run for a high political office without the consent of the first presidency of the Mormon Church." This debate was significant in view of the advent of the Mormon issue when Apostle Smoot shall present himself for admission to tho Senate. The Jtepublican leaders iu the last presidential campaign made a political bargain with some of the Mormon apostles that if the Mormon vote was cast in Utah and other States for the Republican candidates, there should be no further legislation against polygamy. Senator MeComas charac terized the prohibition of polygamy as contained in the Utah enabling act as THE OCTOPUS ELEPHANT. cram the 20 per cent advance 111 price showed by the eleven free list articles was due to the enormous advance In the prices of sisal and binder twine, and that the very high prices of these two articles was due to tho cruel war in the Philippines. Again, in the list of 174 articles on the dutiable list Mr. Hill found oue the price of which was higher, at one time iii 1890, than it was in 1902. This one was wire nails. Judge Griggs showed that the high price of wire hails in 1896 was due to a temporary pool of the wire nail makers, which collapsed before the end of the year, and that the average price during the four years of the Wilson bill law was only $1.70 per keg, while tho average] price during the last four years of Dlngley bill, bllllon-dollar trust domi nation was $2.93 per keg. an impotent pretense of restriction without any legal efficiency. Tho part nership with the Mormons entered into by the Republican national committee Is about to lead.them into an endless sea of trouble. It Is a great satisfac tion to Democrats that they are not entangled with It In nny way. Growing Tired of Trust Rule Many manufacturers who hove sold out to trusts have grown weary of in action or a salaried place or submission to board of directors and have gone back into their old business with the capital which the trust paid them for the works—almost invariably more than the works are worth. Thus the combination to suppress competition lios resulted In more competition. One of the chief members of the typewriter trust has withdrawn and incorporated a company with $r»,000.000 of capital to manufacture writing machines. It Is explained that the profits of his com pany were larger In proportion than those of other members of the trust aud he has made up his mind to use his own business ability for himself instead of for other people.—Philadel phia Record. V: The Saero-ionct Turiff. AVe perceive also In current rcvela** tlous of the protectionist spirit, the tendency of superstition or a false doctrine to grow more intolerant nnd extravagant with time. Von Hoist has shown beautifully how this work ed in the ease of slavery in the South. Krom being thought a temporary evil it cnine to be held as, first, tin eco nomic necessity, then a social advan tage, nnd finally a divine Institution, big with blessing to black and white and against which It was sacrilege and treason combined to lisp a syllable. So we have seen protectionism grow from the ••iiifnni-iudustry" stage, a policy to bo apologized for as a pass ing necessity, until it has become the sacrosanct thing we now see It to be regarded.-New York Evening Post. True JefTcrHcnino Doctrine. Jefferson's wlude theory of govern ment was based upon the Impropriety of the government doing anything for the citizen that the eillzen could do for himself, or to its assuming any du ties which could be performed diy in dividuals. either alone or In associa tion. It was a root-hog-or-dle republic that Jefferson believed in. founded up on the everlasting equality of oppor tunity. It is not equality*of opportuni ty that the Populists believe in so much as in the equality of achieve ment. which Is at variance with ev erything that Jefforseu conceived as freedom ami liberty aiul Ufc.--Detro.it Free Press. May Teach a Useful Lesson. The eoaM'aniine has proved that to draw national lines across the coal trade is to work a grievous wrong to the people of both countries. It will probably give us reciprocity in coal and It may serve as a reminder that reciprocity in other articles is as rea sonable and desirable as reciprocity in coat.—Minneapolis Journal. The Ouly Cure for the Kvil, if C*ngress would wisely regulate the combinations let Congress repeal the laws of its own creation out of which the evils have grown. That is not a difficult thing :o do if the parly In power is really eager to rid the coun try of the evils that have come of these law-made monopolies.—Dallas News. Senator Aldrlch nnide an unhappy remark about "the greed, if you please, of the agricultural interests of the West." The West c»nje pretty near running t'uig* hi this country, and jf it should decide to Mii :sh the high tariff not even Mr Mdrich could save it.—Springfield. Mass.. Republican Bulletin £.IMWPI PPHRHP THE HAWKEYE STAtff! NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISEtV CONDENSED. Mother Secures Chltd After I^oub Con test—Thieves Take Valuable Cloak Roy Kills Father iti Cold Mood—Com mits Suicide on Wife's Grave, The famous Ventura divorce ease, in volviugSa kidnaping, was derided finally by Judge MeYey iu the District Court at Des Moines. Mr.«. Ventura-Conrad boinjr Riven the euslinly of her child, Lillian. Kive years ago Mrs. Ventm'a seem'cd a divorce from Prof. Look D. Ventura, but he was given the ehlld and took iter to California. Mrs. Ventura later mar ried E. A. Conrad of Minneapolis and kidnaped the child. Then she sought a modification of the divorce decree, the court now deriding iu her favor. The di vorce ease attracted wide attenthU. Among the depositions taken were those of Gov. Cuuuuins, Mrs. Phoebe Hearst and William Deau Ho wells, the author. Old Game Worked in Anaittosa. About 0 oVloek the other evening a Couple of sneak thieves entered the New York More operated by Mrs. Conway Mc Uuire iu Anainosa. Due of tho men ask ed a clerk to see some eotton llannel. When the clerk stepjied .back to another part of the store, which is a large double one. to wait on him.- the other stayed Ihj hind. It was the same old game. After ihey were gone the clerk wiio waiu*d on them mistrusted that all was not right, and began to look around to see what was missing, and it was found thnt a tine heaver clonk belonging to the daughter of Mrs. Metiuire was gone Tie.' cloak is talned at $17o. Farmer RohbcJ of 93,753. Charles Carpenter, a fanner residing three miles east of Oskaloosa, was rob bed on a recent night of $3,7r»0 that was secreted in the cellar of his house. The money was buried in an iron kettle eight een inches below the surface, and the thieves knew the exact *pot. although Carpenter asserts that no one but him self knew of the hiding place. Carpen ter had an encounter with the robbers, who fired several shots lit hint. The thieves escaped, leaving no clew. Sufc'de on Ills Wife's Grave. The body of A. R. Turner, traveling salesman for D. W. Messinger A: Co. of Chicago, was found oil the grave of his wife at Grinnclt. \lc had killed himself by shooting. Mr. Turner had made Urin nell his home much of the time. He went out of the Chapiu House remarking that he intended to get something to quiet his nerves. The next day a search was made for the missiug man and his body was found. Killintg at Jewell Murder. The killing of Daniel Flygstad, aged 02 years, by his 10-yenf-old son Dankie, near Jewell, appears now to have been eold-bloodcd murder and not self-defense as was at first supposed. The evidence taken by the coroner's jury shows no provocation. The jury whieli rendered the exonerating verdict was prejudiced, says the county attorney, and the boy wili be tried. Held for Slaying Husband. Mrs. Krimk Lavelleur has been ar rested at Newton, charged with the mur der of her hu-biind. It is alleged in the indictment tiiat she kilted him with an ax and placed the remains iu a barn, which she subsequently set on tire. The alleged crime occurred last summer. La velleur was the woman's thityl husband. State News in Briefi Ames is to have a new savings bank. Capitalized at $50,000. The nesidenee of F. A. Shuman nt Un derwood was destroyed by fire. Laurens Methodists are contemplating the erection of a new house of worship. The attempt to establish a co-operative store at CcntervilJe has proven a fail ure. Mrs. Kfther Armstrong, for fifty years a resident of Rurlington, is dead, at the age of $0. I. Van Metre, the veteran editor of the Times-Tribune, is a candidate for Mayor of Waterloo. Jatnes Narey of Mnrshalltown is dead, aged 09. lie came to this country from Ireland in The operators of the LUtrlingtou sys tem have been given an increase in wage? vf per month. Fire badly damaged the Newell fur niture store iu Des Moines. The lors is $10,000 fully insured. John (ioedert. a Dubuque butcher, has tiled a petition in bankruptcy liabilities f-J,7S0, assets nothing. A plant for the manufacture of hol low cement building blocks is contem plated at Marshalltown. Cora Stewart of Muscatine has sued Margaret Hinterheister for $3,000 for al leged defamation of character. The collections of collateral inherit ance tax for the month of January net ted the State treasury $13,577. The Dewar Co-operative Creamery has becu sold to a stock company consisting of ten business men of tlufe city. Mongol Bros.' meat market at Dav pnport was looted of about $100 worth of meat, butter and eggs. No clue. All the Cherokee County stockuicn in jured in the recent wreck near Chicago on the Illinois Central will recover. Slate Auditor Carroll has issued a charter for the Citizens-' State Rank of Promise City, with a capital of $-'5,000. The small daughter of Frank Harr ef Crestoli was seriously burned by her clothes catching tire from an open grate. Nicholas Miller, foreman of the Mar shall vinegar works in Marshalltown, has disappeared and his friends fear he has met with foul play. He is known to have had about $10 ou his person. Tom Howard, a hridgemon on the (5reat Western, fell from the Lime creek bridge at Mason City and was fatally Injured. Emil lloffmcistcr, aged 10, was in stantly killed by the accidental discharge of a shotgun at Davenport. He and a number of companions were out hunting. Polk County will try the experiment of gravel roads. During the coming sea son a large amount of moucy will le spent iu the construction of gravel roads leading from the pavement ends of Des Moines streets to points beyond the. city limits. The plans have been adopted for the new C. (J. W. freight depot at Council RlulTs. The building will he 340 by 00 feet. After thirty years' residence in Appa noose County, James W. Campbell of Centerville lins just taken out naturaliza tion papers. During his residence iu Cen terville Campbell has filled many public offices. A. M. («raves, the rich Mason City farmer who mysteriously disappeared a couple of weeks ago, has been located in Cuba, lie wrote local parties to see that his family were provided with nec essities till he returned, having forgotten the item before he left. The several hundred graduates of the State University of Iowa who lire .n Des Moines are planning an ahuniii as sociation. Miss Olive Conger of Seymour, who for several years has held positions in connection with the Iowa Legislature, has been appointed to a $1,000 clerkship in the Treasury Department at Wash ington, D. C. Fire broke out in the postoffiee budd ing at Humboldt. AH mail and fixtures were completely destroyed and the build ing was materially damaged. Tho tip settiug of a lamp caused thu blaze, which spread rapidly through the mail boxes and interior of the buildmg. m\ 4 A iiig religious refital hns just closed nt Kcosauqnn. Fire destroyed the residence of Cii.irle# Robinson at Afton. Burlington school children have forui' ed an anti-cigaret league. Fifty widows are numbered with tho inhabitants-of Nora Springs. The socialists of Muscatine have plac ed full ticket in the field for jthe city election. Iowa postmasters appointed: Abraham Wilkin. Keopanqua Geo. ILmlenbrook, axwel). Pension payments to Soldiers' Homa hiinatcH for the last quarter of 1JK):1 aggregate $17,024. Over 100 teachers attended the insti tute of Iowa and Poweshiek County ped agogues at Victor. .tacob Sogers, a pioneer Polk County citizen, is dead. He had lived ou on* farm for fifty years. Davenport l'estauranteurs propose to compel the saloonkeepers of that city to abolish the free lunch. movement is reported to be on foot to consolidate all the independent tele phone lines of the State. The First National Bank of Grafton has tx-eii authorized to begin business with a capital of-$23,000. The annual convention of the State Photographers' Association will be held in lies Moities May 1^-21 The Perry City Council has formally accepted Andrew Carnegie's offer to do nate $10,000 for a public library. Dr. Charles Bradley, oue of the well known ifiiysiciaus of northwestern Iowa, is dead at ftock ftapirfs, aged 84. Jos. Tesser, who pleaded guilty at Grinncll to allowing minors in his bdvrl ing alley, was fined $25 and costs. L. W. Brand, who pleaded guilty fit WntefribK ih utterlhg a forged note, was sent to prisoit for eighteen months.- The old court house at Centerville' Is to be converted iuto a farm house. A farmer paid $375 for the material. The City Council Of Clarion is ar ranging to put id a complete system of water works during, the coming Suuuner.- The Davenport Y. M. C. A. is iu a had way financially, and a special effort will be made to place it on its feet again. Rev. W. R. Sawhill of Stanhope has accepted a call to the jtafttoratc of the Second Presbyterian Church at Wash ington. Fort Dodge painters and paperhaug ers wont shorter hours and more pay, and may atrike if their demands are not acceded to. Tho Des Moines, Iowa Falls and Northern announces that it will dou.ito sites for church edifices in all the towns along its line. Iowa labor unions have designated the first Sunday in June as a memorial day on which to honor the memory of deceas ed members. Gov. Cummins has issued a requisi tion for W. E. Strog, who is wanted at leu wood for forgery and has been ar rested iu Denver. The Methodist, Baptist aud Christian churches at Arion have merged and the combined organisation will be a Congre gational Church. Waterloo is looking forward to a ban ner year lu bulldiug operations, hi spite of the advance in the price of labor rnd building material. Because she alleges her hUshaud com pelled her to sit on a red hot stove, lrJliS aheth Elloil Abbott of Des Moines wants decree of divorce' Harrison County farmers are raising, by subscription, a fund to assist iu the building of the proposed drainage ditch through their lands. Mrs. Patrick Kolley, who resides near Kinross, has given birth io twO girls aud one boy. The family is reported to be getting along nicely. Clifford Vonstein ami Frank tfhberts. 12-year old Fort Dbdge bbys, suffered painful injuries by the explosion of lh£ boiler of a toy Meriiil engine The Great Western ffas asked foY bids for its new $20,000 passenger depot to Ite built in Council Bluffs. The Struc ture will be of brick and 111) feet loiig,. The little tbwii of Pioneer, with only 100 population, is proud because durni^ the past year over 575,carloads of grain and stock were sliipped from til at point. Augustus Ross committed sdicide at Washington by shooting himself through the head. He was a veteran of the Civil War and a schoolmate of Gen. Law ton. It is announced that the Ryan Pack ing plant at Dubuque will lie agaiii op erated, Chicago capitalists having or ganized a stock company for that pur pose. The J. C. Beecher residence at Oskii loosa was gutted by tire. It was occu pied by a number of families, who lost all their belongings. There was little insurance. Daniel Flygstad, living near Jewel, was beaten to death by his son Dankie. Flygstad came home in a quarrelsome mood and was probably killed by his son iu self-defense. The Comptroller of the Currency has approved the application of the State Bank of Klemmorc to convert into the First National Bank of Klemmorc with a capita) of $25,000. Fire batfly damaged the public school building at Hudson. .The blaze was caused by a defective flue. "School was In session, but the students were march ed out lu good order. II. P. and Paul Grahill of Des Moines, and John Shambaugh of Madison Coun ty have been commissioned by the Gov ernor to investigate the agricultural aud mineral resources of Mexico. Word has been received of the death at Salt Lake City, Utah, of the widow of Bishop Henry Washington Lee, the first bishop of the Episcopal Church in Iowa. The remains were returned to Davenport and interred in tho cemetery there, by the side of Mrs. Lee's husband. The Iowa State Dairy Association, iu session at Cedar Rapids, adopted a reso lution asking Secretary Wilson to dis charge Henry E. Alvord, chief of they dairy division of the bureau of animal in dustry,. for alleged incompetency. At 4 o'clock the other morning a lone bandit, supposedly a tramp, entered the C. & N. W. depot at Stanwood, compell ed the young man employed as night op erator to hand over the keys to the moucy drawer, from which he secured about $24, and made his escape. The safe, which also coutaiued some money, was not disjurlcd. Leon Shipley, chief dispatcher for the Chicago Great Western in Des Moines, has been appointed trainmaster for the northern division, embracing that portion of the liue from Des Moines to Oel.vein. Mrs. Emma Fryer of Davenport ob tained divorce from her hsuband, Jo seph Fryer, ou the grounds of cruel and Inhuman treatmeut. The court held that pulling hair was an act constitutiug the charge. The hoard of control has issued uotices for sealed proposals on the new build ings that will be erected at the State in stitutions this year. The total that y\i\\ be put in new buildings this year will be $100,000. The six rural routes running ui of Waterloo handled 33.140 letters, newspa pers, circulars aud packages duriug the month of January. The carriers also gathered up 3,630 pieces. Fred White of- Waverly was serious ly injured by tbe explosion of a dyna mite cartridge. It was found necessary to amputate a portion of oue hand, nnd tbe other hand was also badly lacerated. A Fort Dldge merchant recently re ceived a letter containing two $1 bills from a woman in a Wisconsiu town. Site stated that she owed him tbe mon-^y, but be didn't know it. It is supposed she stole somethiug from the stove uud now seeks to ni&ke the deal right. 7*5 i&f ^ANCHWBTBFCIOWA, Home-Made Snow IMow. One of tlie troubles of tlie farmoi' lo cated in Pert In us whore tho snow fall ts heavy is getting to IiIh stock after a heavy fall of snow. All of us arc fa miliar with the' scene of farmer shov eling snow ail day when the barn con tains several horses actually suffering for exercise. The use of plow like that illustrated, which may be readily fashioned at home, would overcome all tills trouble. The plow should be made of heavy planks of any desired siie, and slioi^d lie higher in front than at the back eighteen Inches Is a good helglit for the front. The top Is shown ill the lower Illustration, Indicating how throe hoards are placed for the liPpt support. Tho sides should be lrlieed with two long Iron bolts with Wilts. The handle should lie fashioned As sllowti arid Inarte with a ferule and ii crooked piece of hoop Iron. Ar ranged as Indicated the plow may be HOME-MA11E SNOW-PLOW. easily guided wltli one hand, the other belflg tised ill driving. The expense of such a plow will bo small and most of the work may be easily done at home.—Indianapolis .News. A Horse** Sense of fiitiel! A horse will leave musty hay un touched Iii his bin. however hungry. He will hot drink of witter objection able to bis questioning shift of ffoni a bucket which some odor makes of fensive, however thirsty, flls Intelli gent nostril will widen, quiver and query over the daintiest bit offered by the fairest of hnnds with coaxings thnt would make a mortal shut his eyes and swallow a mouthful at a gulp. A mare is never satislied by either sight or whinny that her colt Is really her own until she hns certl fled nasal proof of the fact. A blind horse now living will not allow the approach of any stranger without showing signs of nnger not wifely to be disregarded. The distinction Is evi dently made by his sense of smell, and rtt ii considerable distance. Hllud horses as a rule will gallop wildly Jifiotft ft pasture without striking the surrounding fenee*. The sense of smell informs them of its proximity. Others will when loosened from the stable go direct to the gate or bars opeued to their accustomed feeding grounds, and wlieti desiring to return after hours of careless wandering will distinguish one otitlet flint patiently await its opeiiiug.—Detroit. Free Press. Cooking J^ond for Stock. Oiily rt few years ago quite a num ber of /ippliflnces for cooking food for stock were advertised, but few are offered fit this time, and the Assump tion Is tiiat there Is no demand for tiiehl. Jit some sections cooking nt least ti portion of the food for the stock Is still done, but tbe Inajorlty of feeders claim that the results do not warrant the expense. This is proba bly true where a number of animals are kept,(bnt where there are but few animals It undoubtedly pays to at least warm a portion of the food given to them during the winter. It Is kuoxvn that with poultry this cooking of the food pftys, for the majority of successful poultry men consider the warm tuash as ah essential part of their feeding plans. Undoubtedly, too, if oue has largo quantity of pota toes that are to be stock fed, It will pay1 to cook thein, provided tbe appara tus used is not too expensive. Not withstanding the fact thnt the con census oQjpinlon seeing to be Against tip? cooking of food for stock. It Is a question that must be determined by each feeder for himself by actual ex periment.—Exchnnge. v/f- W The Icc Supply," 'y The ire supply put up during the winter performs a merciful mission during the heated season. Not ouly does It add to the comfort.of living, but prevents much waste that would otherwise take place lu the foods used during the summer. Where one Is lo cated near towus where large Ice sup plies arc stored it may be cheaper to purchase It at intervals during the summer thau put up a supply ju win ter. For the ordinary farm home an ice house 10x12 and 10 feet high is considered to be of sutliclent size. A dead air space around the walls will prevent melting, while ventilation Is exceedingly important and should be arranged for when houses are con structed. Uralnage is also esseutial. The cost of building an ice house va ries from $10 to $50.—Iowa Home stead. Work to lln In Winter. Any intelligent, progressive farmer will tlnd pjenty to do during the win ter, even though he may not have inauy animals to care for. A moment's thought will bring to mind the things that will be needed during the busy days of spring, and that many of these things can be prepared now. The care ful farmer has long ago put his farm machinery In perfect repair—painting the woodT'h portloiu. putting In bolts where needed, oiling the ueccssary parts, and. In short. Is ready for busi ness. There Is still time to do some winter plowing during tlie open days, If the ground is not too wet, and thus per cent In tho value of the principal! staple crops—wheat, corn, oats, pota-* toes and hay. An Idea of the tremen~ dous' improvement inay be gained by the figures which show that for the last live years these staple crop# bnve yielded to the farmer $2,000,000,009 more than for the preceding flv* yearn. ntflldlng Potato Land. in many sections of the country po tatoes jilwnys bring good price, but the soil Is too light to grow heavy, (•rops. A successful method of bring:/ iiig tijy such soil to the point where will brlttg good results is the follow ing: Select A soil thnt Is In ^klrlj good condition, and If If* sod drerts irltb acid phosphate and muriate of potash, turn under nnd prepare thoroughly corn. Follow the corn with rye, whlc should be plowed under In the Sow cow pens nfter dressing soli «gf with acid phosphate and^jnurlate o£ potash and harvest for forage. In tbe fall go over the ground with a disk harrow and break up thoroughly, sqjr rye and turn under the following spring then prepare thoroughly for th® potatoes, nnd the crop, under proper conditions of culture, will be all that Is desired. Other methods quite a» good will bring the same results with out doubt, but this one has been repeat edly tested nnd found to be all that is claimed for It. To Have Winter Sag* Those, who hope to have a full sup-* ply of fresh-laid eggs during the win ter months must do their part or be* disappointed, says Country Gentleman. That all who follow these columns may be fully Informed of methods needed for a successful winter egg yield, we shall treat the whole roth ject ns If Instructing a beginner In selecting and caring for bens. These cannot (ne nnytbiug more simple and easy to follow, but the trouble Is it is so very simple and easy that the very little things nccessary for success are neglected. And there Is no use to hope for succecss unless these most necessary details are followed. You must have the hens properly selected, housed and cared for, then you will have the eggs otherwise yon will not. The'Horseradish Crop. All our best horseradish comes from the middle West. Perhaps its soli I® especially adapted to horseradish per* lmpe the ceutral State farmers are more skillful in culture but this young merchant, though blindfolded, can In stantly toll If a piece comes from New Fngland or the West. The New Khglnnd root does not bold Its strength ns long. Horseradish raising has be come a very profitable business In eer tafu sections of the middle West, whose f/tnflers realize as high as $300 an acre from this crop. The Western horseradish root is well developed, with few pits, while the wild horse radish must be scraped by baud with the right sort of a knife.—K«w York Commercial. Filling Bass Made Eatj. I have a bag holder of which I In close a drawiug. Any man can make and put It up ready for use iu about the same time It would take to get Ills wife out to hold the bags! It is made of piece of inch board. 2 feet long 11ANUV nAC-liOLDEK. nnd 4 Inches wide. Two-thirds In wlr« units are driven through from one sldi." and crooked with a hammer to make a hook. Tlio nails, a. nre 12 Inches apart. It can be fastened anywhere by simply driving two nails through it. -.Tames llunlap. In Farm and Home. Poullry nnd Fruit. Poultry and fruit trees certainly go together, says Twentieth Century Farmer, We lmve seen this verified In one place close by last summer. The upple crop being a complete failure— as much from reason of Insect enemies as anything else. Hut ill this orchard the chicken house is built In one cor ner: the coops are scattered through It. The chickens get the summer slind# and in 11 turn eat up the larvae of the fruit destroyers. They certainly did in tills orchard, as it shows some line and perfect fruit this fall, and nil neighboring orchards are destitute of anything but 11 few wormy, knotty apple". A Furrow 1 ,u()0 Mile. Lnuit. The longest, piece of plowing ever undertaken Is to be done by the French government lu the near future. A furrow 1,500 miles In length Is to be plowed across the North African desert from Tunis to Lake Tchad. In it will he laid a telegraph cable to con nect the points named, steam plow will open a furrow thirty inches deep, nnd move at the rate of a mile an hour. Farm Note.. The Intensive farmer keeps bis soli busy all the time and tbe extensive farmer grows a single crop and leti, Ills soil rest the remainder of the time. There Is such a thing as letting land exhaust Itself In the growth of weeds. All kinds of stock are subject to loss of appetite wlieu the food does not consist of a variety. A mess of cooked turnips may improve au animal more than medicine. Always resort to a change of food when the animals seem to lose appetite. It is stated that if turnips are fed after instead of liefore milking the odor is not Imparted to the next milk ing. A teaspoouful of saltpeter added to a pail of lukewarm wnter as a drink for the cow Is claimed as a remedy for the difficulty wheu turnips are fed. When plowing or clearing llelds for spi-lng operations a most important enable one to work the ground sopue iu the spring. Then there Is the gar- matter Is to clear out the fence cor don to be looked after, the hotbeds to lK-rs, This should he done, even If It be put in shape and the strawberry eutalls an extra job after the plowing plantation to be mulchcd, If the work I is performed, us it Is such sources from has not been already done. All this w'hence come most of the cropB of Is work that Is necessary to success weeds aud seeds, which spread over with the uext crops, aud will keep the ,|,e tie|ls aud cause endleBS labor farmer busy aud enable him to~ keep 'throughout the entire growing season, ahead of his work. ew varieties are often sold because Tremendous Crops. they are "novelties" rather than be In commenting ou the increase by cause they nre better than tbe old, "water" of some Industrial stocks, the tried and standard kinds. It is better American Agriculturist in the curreut to use varieties of trees aDd vegetables number calls attention to the real ap- that are known to be the best for the precitttlon of farm products and the section where they have been tested substantial Improvement lu American lu prefc-rcncc to using others until ex agriculture. The values lust year were perleuce gives nil opportunity to know the highest ou record, but this year sta- more of tl'e newer varieties. Novel* I ti»tlcs sljow an Increase of aboqt 35 I ties should be tested in a limited wayi A Ffe hi. rm aV $ I A drain thai is stopped up is one that is not only not •.•rvicenble, but a men ace to health. When foul there Is al ways a disagreeable stench therefrom, and, being always damp, substance* decompose quickly. Nothing Is more iinportaut thau to frequently examine tlie outlets of drain pipes and ditcbei In order to have a free flow of water In them. inpii