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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
Mr.. Frank Bas burn willleave Monday
for Washington D. c. to attend the Ma
tional Council meeting there.
League Banquet Program.

.006Ao o0a'ANSS w S~''
The local league submit the follow
ing program for the banquet held here
at Kortz Hall. over 31a West Fifth st..
Monday evening, the Goth. j. l..
Thompson, Toast Master: Welcome Adj
dress by Rev. I. Reeves; Response in
behalf of the visitors, W. P. Shields.
of Sioux City; address, Influence OF
Negro Women upon her race by Miss
May Davis, Of Abba. History and OBJ
ject of the League, 3. n. Hyde: Pres
ent condition of the Southern Negro,
by attorney George H. Woodson, OF
Muchakinoek: solo, Mrs. j. H. Shep-
ard: address, Influence of Negro men
upon his race by editor Geo. E. Taylor,
of Oskaloosa. The menu at the sup
per will consist of eight courses Pro
gram will begin promptly at 8 o'clock.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
Cha nges In Hawaiian BIZ.

Washington, Dec. 22.-The Hawaiian
DILL has been somewhat changed by
the house subcommittee on territories.
The qualifications of senators and rep
resentatives were modified so that in
stead of a property qualification of
$4,000 property valued at not less than
81 900 will be sufficient.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

The card party given 10y Misses Maud
Cleggett and Bell liz honor of Mr.. AL
bert Bell last Friday evening was quite
we'll attended and very enjoyable
time was had by those present, singing
music, games and conversation was in
dulged until late hour when an ex-
celient lunch was serveb. The young
ladies' understand how to make it
pleasant for all.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
Condemns McKinley's Policy.

Madrid, Dec. 22.-Senor Pi y Mar.
gall, the republican leader, is loud in
his con demnation of President McKin-
ley's policy in the new American pos
sessions, as he understands that policy.
He demands that the cortes, instead OF
ratifying the peace treaty negotiated
at Paris, insist that the Antilles and
the Philippine islands shall be inde-
pendent.
Secretary Bliss Has Resigned.
Washington, Dec. 22.-Secretary
Bliss has returned to Washington, and
in conversation with some of his Off
cial callers admitted that he had re-
signed, to take effect dK /. Who his
successor will be body seems to.
know. 1t Is the heral opinion that .
western man VIII be selected.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Program for the mems meeting next
Sunday at the A. NJ. Z. Church 1st prayor
by Chaplain, I'd paper by T. $. Ruff sub
ject The Solution ofthe Southern Negro
is dependent upon the efforts of the
Educated Negro of the North: Third.
Address by VIM. Frazier: The Negro
As a Soldier: Paper, Attorney l. E.
Williamson: Paper. Mr.. E S. Willett.
w, H. Hubbard. President
Mrs. J. Il. Rush, Secretary
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
Knaak AcuuItted at Berlin,

Berlin, Dec. 21.-The Provincial
court has acquitted Frank Knaak of
New York of the charge of leze majes-
ty, in referring to Emperor William
as "sheep head because, as it ap-
pears, Mr.. Knaak was intoxicated when
he committed the offense. A member
of the United States embassy was
present during the court proceedings.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
Death of Col. L. w. Osborn.

New York, Dec. 21.-Col. Thomas
Ward Osborn is dead at his home in
this city, aged IS years. He won dis
tinction at the battles of Chancellors-
Vile and Gettysburg, in the latter en-
gagement having commanded the ar
tillery of the Eleventh corps on the
crest OF Cemetery ridge After the war
he was chief of the freedmen's bureau
in the south and subsequently United
States senator from Florida.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
Concessiou for merican.

Washington, Dec. 2l.-The bureau OF
foreign commerce of the state depart
ment has published the terms of con-
cession by which Martin Roberts, an
American citizen, undertakes to oper-
ate the Guatemala Northern railroad,
running trains daily between Porto
Barrios and Ell Rancho. He is to re-
ceive s15,46o monthly and pesos for
each new tie laid down. The employees
are required to understand Spanish.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

MISC Maude Watkins. of Albany Mo.
will spend the holidays in the Capital
City visiting her brother. While in the
city she will be the guess of Mrs. j. h.
Shepard.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
Fear Revolution in France

Paris, Dec. 22.-The presidency OIL
France is likely to become vacant as
one of the results of the Dreyfus agi-
tation. The city is filled with rumors
of Orleanist and republican plots and
there is talk in some circles of revos
luton before New Years. PresideD
Faure has said privately that he' Is
thoroughly tired and disguised with
the situation and wants relief from
the cabinet quarrels and disorders in
the chamber
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
heath In New York Fire.

New York, Dec. 21.-Two women
we're killed and another woman and a
man so severely injured that they
probably will die as the result OF a
fire Tuesday at the residence Of C.. H.
Raymond, at West End avenue and
Seventy-third street.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
Secret Died with KeeIy.

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 22.-The an
nouncement was made at the annual
meeting OF the Kelly motor stockhold-
ers Tuesday that the, inventors secret
died with him.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
Special 10 the BYsTANDER.
KEOKUK NOTES.

Death with its sickle visited the home
of William Shortridse and took from tile
family circle the dear wife, Mrs. Sadie
Shortridge departed this life Monday.
Dec. IL, 1898. Although her death had
been exr ected for sometime, it va, 3 sad
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Mn. Harrison Gould, left las, Saturday
for visit =. her old home in Cameron
and other points in Mo. she will be Joined
by her usband this week.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Paris Anti-Semltic League Issues =
Proclamation.

Paris Anti-Semltic League Issues =
Proclamation.
Paris, Dec. PA proclamation Is
sued by the Anti-Semitic league has
been posted throughout the city, recall
ing the governments declaration in
the chamber Monday relative to the ex-
istence of the secret dossier. ~
The proclamation asserts that DreyA
fus betrayed the country and was just
ly condemned, therefore the govern
ment should put an end to the revision
proceedings and deal vigorously WV
the insulters of the army. IA
Concluding, the proclamation dd]
clares that If the government fails 4
do SO the people will assume the Ell
ercise OF their rights upon the groun
that the country is threatened. u
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
ENTIRE ARMY WIPED OUT.
Chinese Troops Killed In
Powder Explosion.
THREE THOUSAND ARE DEAD.
Houses Covering q Square Mile Leveled
at EanR-Chow-Plo exclamation Issued
at Paris Calls on the People to Upset
the Government.

London, Dec. pa dispatch from
Shanghai to a newspaper here says a
powder magazine situated in the center
OF the Chinese camp at Hang-Chow ex-
ploded, leveling a square mile of hous-
es. 1t is estimated that 5000 soldiers
were killed, including the general
commanding the forces.
The American and French missions
are both supposed to have been dam
aged, but it is said there were no fatal
tiles among the Americans.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Mrs. Clark, of Oska loosa, is expected
to visit her daughter, Mrs. Il. j. Holmes
on Park street.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Joseph Hamilton cur East Sice mem
Der Of the city fire department will leave
this week, on visit to Illinois his old
home, where he will spend several days.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
BELLS WONDER.

A sure cure for Piles, Corns,
bruises, Cuts and Skin diseases in
their worst stages and forms.
For any information address the
manufacturer,
MRsr ELIZABETH BELL,
Stuart, Iowa.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

The first entertainment of the Chris
tian Endeavor Society will be given at
the 4. NJ. E. church Monday evening
Dec. 10Th.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

\ L Laundry is not surpassed
for pearly white and neat finish,
Phone No. 424.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
LilIuokaianI Makes Protest.

Washington, Dec. 22.-Ex-Queen
Liliuokalani has sent to the senate a
formal protest against the appropria-
ton of the crown lands of Hawaii by
the United States.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Y Mrs. VIM. Mash lett Monday to spend
NJ holidays at the home Of her husband
in No., where she will visit with her
husbands relatives.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Mrs. James johnson left for Sweet
Springs. Mo-, to spend the holidays
with her parents.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Mrs J. E. Meadows has a class in
music and desires few more scholars.
or write at No. 116 w. 9th St.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

BARGAINS AT THE FIRE SALE
now going on at LEWIS E. BOTTOMS
Alb and AIS East Sixth St,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

When you want fine Photograph
go to PEARSON'S, Studio Co., East
Sixth and Locust,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Extra low prices on holiday
goods at New York store, 3l7
Walnut E. Wolf proprietor
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Miss Ida Burnett will leave Monday
for Omaha to spend the rest of the
winter there.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

The Christian Eudeevor society en-
tertainment was quite we'll attended
last Monday evening.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

There will be large number of visi-
TORS in our city during the holidays.
especially during the League.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Mr.. A. W Harding and family have
moved into the beautiful new three
story building Read his ice cream ad
elsewhere.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

FIRE SALE NOW GOING ON
and great bargains in Christmas good.
ut LEWIS e. BOTTOMS, East 9Th St.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

If you want Picture that is beau
tiful 60 to PEARSON'S.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

New York store unloading sale
OF Millinery $500, $500 $500
trimmed hats for S1.9S.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Miss Ruth Lewis, spent part Of last
week at her home near Give.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
Mrs. Richard Hudson, of Newton made
our city brief visit last Monday

If you want Picture that is beau
tiful 60 to PEARSON'S.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Extra low prices on holiday
goods at New York store 81
Walnut, E. Wolf, proprietor:
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

We wish to receive a Xmas present of
$l.0O for the Bystander from many new
a. well as old subscribers,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

E. VOLTS New York store 81
Walnut. One lot of so trimmed
hats $500 and $3.50 quality, for
Saturday only 80 cents.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Miss Della Richardson, spent Sunday at
her home in Give.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Subscribe for the BYsTANDER while
it is only 81 90 per year.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

MAN TRUSTWORTHY
w persons in this state to manage our bust
ness in their own and nearby counties 1t is
mainly once work conducted at home. Salary
bonaiide, no more. no less salary. Monthly SIS.
References. Enclose seli-addressed stamped
envelope, Herbert Z. Hess, Prest., Dept. M.
Chicago. ~
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Subscribe for the BYsTANDaR while
it is only sl.o0 payable in advance and
get our beautiful holiday number.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

TO to Clark Il Brown for room and
boarding. Meals Il cents.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
CENTER STREET CANDY KITCHEN
1859 Center Street.
Christmas Candies at lOc per ID,
Bread at 4c per loaf

Maple Hall left Thursday for Wash.
ington, Iowa, to spend the holidays
with her grand parents.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23

Owing to the Afro American League
meeting to be held in our city next Mon
day. there will be no meeting of the T.
l., d. Literary society. Frank Blag
burn, President; Selma Stanton, Secre
tary.
The holiday number Of the Bystandel
will be on sale at the following places: j.
I, Blagburn, Savery House, f. A. Lon
don Mnchakinock, Mrs. Wade Cedar
Rapids, Mrs. Tilmsn Clinton, and this
office.
Attorney \. l.. Bell. who has been
here visiting friends and relatives
went up to Stuart this week to visit his
parents.
The following towns have selected
delegates to attend the State Leagne
meeting: Des Moines, Young stown,
Marquisville, Boone Alba. Ottumwa.
Centerville, Dubuque. Newton and
Keokuk.
A very nice surprise party was given
last Tuesday evening on Miss Perline
White at their pretty home on East
Walker street. A good sized crowd WIS
present and all enjoyed themselves.
Mr.. Norris Bryant. who was SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for several
years. was pardoned last week by Gov.
Shaw, through the efforts Of attorney
Woodson. He had only served about
one year and half.
Rev. Reeves children has been sick
his week.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
CITY NEWS

sl,0o pays for the Bystander for one
year.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-23
A REMINDER OF SLAVERY DAYS

A REMINDER OF SLAVERY DAYS.
Jefferson Logan. our well.to-do and
popular colored citizen who has solved
the race problem so far as he is concerned
by taking care of himself and winning the
r.spect of everybody, hands us the follow
ing clipping from weekly paper publish
ed at Savannah Mo-:
AN OLD LANDMARK.
When wcrkmen ripped of the weather.
boarding Of the Stamp house on Main
street an old log house was disclosed with
oil The earn arks Of primitive, pioneer
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-08-20

wrongs of the times. Mathew Arnoid
and George Elliot recognized the deep
est needs of the spiritual nature but
hardly possessed the faith to meet II.
Thomas Carlyle brought the light OF
a great. stern soul to make clear that
man is more and higher than all his
conditions and environments. The OPP
timism of Browning and the sweet.
grand confidence of Tennyson showed
the great progressive spirit that had
run through this era. lifting the soul
of man towards its Creator-God. Do
YOU not see the scarlet thread" wind
ing in and out through the Victorian
era?
But we have been standing on the
heights of our own times looking
backward. We have seen the fifteenth
century and written in our note books
that it was scholastic; the sixteenth.
dogmatic; the seventeenth, schis-
matte; the eighteenth, philisophic; the
nineteenth, scientific. Now, turning
our faces towards the twentieth CEN
fury. We write the word altruistic.
The keynote has already been
sounded by this organization. the
General Federation of Women's clubs.
and dare to predict that woman will
hold distinguished place in themarch
OF the new century. There is not
member of this organization here or
elsewhere who has been privileged
to witness or to have a share in
this great movement. in this mighty
procession of great themes and greas
sympathies and vast hopes or even to
hear. as it were, the echoes of their
tread at distance, there has not to
pass some breaking up of petty pro-
vincialism, some disgust for petty sell
hshness and the awaking of some
broader, deeper consciousness of the
world itself and withal, some new
sense of Gods own purpose in the
mighty on-goings of the worlds his
tory-realizing that it is broadened
horizon under which our lives must
now move on. The red strand has
come to the surface in This organiza-
ton. proving that it is a part of the
great. continuous scheme of Divine
providence. l'.Y
To realize the possibilities of thi.
organization is beyond my ken. but
looking into the earnest faces of This
audience. one can but feel there is con-
secrated personality back of all this
work and that its different lines of
work will touch all questions of So
ciefy and morals. and nothing will he
foreign to il that is for the good of
humanity.
Standing today on this unclouded
mountain peak our verdict must be
the same. The unmistakable trend /,
the ranges along definite line, and
looking out with the spiritual as well
as the bodily eye. we catch a glimpse
beyond the hill tops of the city of the
klng-the city that lieth four souare
having for its corner stones all nw-
ers' all nations. all things and al
times.
Probably there is no adjective that
SO enrages citizen of Boston as the
word provincial" nor one comnar.
son more CALLING to the east when con.
'rasted with the west. than the word
"hprogressive. We fatter ourselves
that New England is still the ba.vr
emu OF the country. Occasionally we
go forth and speed for DAYS across
'"'s great continent. beholding new
people and fresh cities a.,
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-08-20
GI~B B 8

something always becoming" always
moving. Paul, with an UNNECESSARILY
vaster scope of thought, was thrilled
with hope as well as awe when he
looked abroad and thought what
would be the meridian gloriousness of
which the worlds presen: privilege
was but the dawn.
From this mountain peak of history
we cannot fail to notice that every
forward step in the worlds progress
has been the direct result of accumu-
lated intellectual spiritual force. ac-
quired through organized effort. In
this haf-veiled remoteness that
stretches out Ilimitably to us. we see
Abraham. Brahma, Bu0dha, Zoroaster,
Confucius. and greatest of all. the
humble Nazarene with the twelve dis
ciples as a nucleus of that great Or
ganization that has transformed the
world. Behind us are other heights,
their outlines clear cut against the
summer sky. On one we see company
of people listening to the words of a
great man who affirms that man has
clothed spirit with creation of his
own, denOminating It matter. and
that il is an established fact that
there must be inv0lution of spirit be-
fore there can be evolution of so-called
matter. Do you not catch the words
of plain man. whose early life was
spent in Stockholm. graduated at Up
sala-modest and retiring, genial and
happy. bringing a message to his peo-
pie, in which he declares that the ex-
ternal is but the shadow of the inter-
nal and that all the societies on the
earth are but the reflection of the spir-
This admitted, it is self-evidenit that
all organizations, whether of labor or
charity, or for political ends, have
their origin on the spiritual side of ex-
istence. Right here the question will
arise. if all these things are of heav-
emily origin, why are they so imper-
feet. unsatisfactory and crude? The
reply is self-evident. Man himself is
in process of evolution and quite i'm
perfect. but, being of the spirit also
he must. in time, attain the divine
humanity towards which ne travels
by devious ways slowly but surely.
so that when he reaches the goal only
spirit will be manifest and so-called
matter will disappear as mist before
the sun.
we hear Michael Faraday proclaiming
that at the last analysis matter
escapes detection or is but a congeries
of mathematical points; while another
great man is preaching, life sleeps in
the rock. dreams in the animal and
wakes i'm man. and then. the gentle
voice SO lately hushed p roclaims
The visible is the ladder up to the
invisible; the temporal is but the scat
folding of the eternal: and when the
last immaterial souls have climbed
through this material to God. tihe scat.
folding shall be taken down and the
earth dissolved with fervent neat. no,
because it was base, but because its
work is DONE"
Across the valley of the Christian
&a.r al
bathed in the flood of light which
radiates from the cross. failing on the
picture of Him, ''the best of men that
e'er wore flesh about him. and the
group of faithful women who com
pounded the spices to embalm their
crucified Lord. 1t is not In Christian
I
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-08-20


locker on in any movement for relief
or suffering. and from the time of the
manywOmen who followed Jesus from
Gallilee. ministering unto Him. unto
the present time there have been min
istering women.
The history of organized missionary
work as promoted by American
women proves that IN all education
woman is Gods ordained pioneer and
that every one has possibilities which
outreach toward the infinite. The
highest point Of view and the widest
possible verge and scope of the sig
nificance and the importance of devel-
opments in fhe organization of wom-
ems boards of missions and the So
called Zenana work is on this Mis-
sionary Ridge" where the effort to
widen the thought and purpose broad
ems into a worid-like apprehension.
1t is said that the needle of a mis-
sionary's wife was the simple instru-
ment God used to give access to Orien-
tai Zenanas. 4 piece of embroidery,
wrought by her deft fingers, found its
way to the secluded inmates of Ze-
mana: if a woman could do such work
as that other women could learn UNI
der her instruction and SO. with the
consent of her husband. this Christian
woman was welcomed to the inside of
his home and as she taught his wifes
the art of embroidery. she was work
ing the scarlet thread" into the more
delicate fabric of their hearts and
lives"
One of our noted divines tells us
that il We are to have the right con-
ception of the origin of missions and
their spiritual peerlessness we must
go back to the creative act which gave
man free will and conscience. When
the morning stars sang together God
began TO seek man by giving him ca
pacity to seek God.
There lived in New York city. early
i'm the sixties. sweet and gracious
woman-not unlike others we know.
Besides her personal gifts she had So
cial position and wealth and welded
the scepter of influence. She might
have shone in any gay or fashionable
circle. but her pleasant presence and
gracious fellowship was beautiful.
practical working out of the Christian
idea of ministering to others. and t1his
great work of woman's work for
woman originated with this. elect
lady. Mrs. DOremus. II has been truly
said that looking out from this peak
: We cannot see that any reforms were
wrought by that early missionary, the
gentle Harriet Newell: no converts
came to her feet. but the young life
breathed out at nineteen on the Isle
of France. has generated missionary
trade winds waiting the gospel ships
to many lands. Ann Judson died at
thirty-seven. but her spirit. making
its home on the green bluff looking
out on the Indian ocean, holds the
mastery of thousands of lives Ask
the question here tonight, What fruit
remains of Mrs. Doremus' labor. and
the answer comes to us from all CHRIS
tan churches. for women have formed
themselves into societies to work for
women in the home land and far of
lands and these societies have become
great organizations into which the
red thread has been woven, touched
by the Masters hands lacerated in the
work of rescue and has left an abid.
$ ing impress there.
May / detain you for moment or
the Victorian Deakp EnDland's nuoor