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A Blow Aimed at Poker.

Americans will be grieved to hear
that pokerSsias been declared a game Of
chance by a high judicial tribunal
Within the last decade poker has be-
come so we'll acclimated in Austria
Hungary as to become a social scandal.
A paternal Government resolved to sup
press this dangerous amusement, and
two years ago proceedings were taken
against poker club. The statute MAX
ing games of hazard illegal, however
dates back to 1874. and therefore could
hardly be expected to include poker,
and so the pokerists got the best of it.
But the case was ultimately carried,
on appeal, before the Supreme Court
of Vienna, and that tribunal has de-
cided that the element of chance so far
predominates in the game over that
of skill as to bring poker within the
scope of the enactment Indeed, the
Judges went so far as to assert that
.bluffing," where intellect comes into
play. was the worst feature in the
whole affair.-London Chronicle
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The Pilgrim.

Whence com'st thou, Pilgrim, gray and
slow
OF mien unknown to mirth?
FROM timeless wandering to and fro,
From utmost end of earth"
What saw'st thou in thy passing ways,
OF grief most bitter wild?
Il saw childless woman gaze
Upon another's child"
What deed sawst thou in journeying
Did earn thy best disdainY
"A coward struck the poor dumb thing
That cannot strike again.
But what of dauntless courage rare
Might man brave-hearted show?
81 saw an injured friend forbear
To smite his PROSTATE foe.'
Bides there no token yet in view
OF our lost Paradise?
II saw the CLEAN earth's morning knew
Within two lovers eyes,
Farewell. o Pilgrim. gray and slow,
See / no more thy face?
From griefs that slay the soul I go
To rest in mine own place"
kathleen Haydn Green.
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They Were Both Right.

Hicks-I saw Cable and Maunder a
little while ago. 1 was quite delighted.
Wicks-Delighted to see a couple of
such outrageous bores?
Hicks-They had just separated as
came within earshot. Gabble solilo
uuized: THAT fellow makes me so
wearyi" and Maunder said to himself:
"I'll bet I've lost a pound of flesh. p
BOSTON Transcript
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an Francisco Music and Drama: The
den death of Lily Post while. suffer-
from dementia has shocked and sad
led thousands of people who remem-
y. her as a beautiful and accomplished
artist and an amiable companion. In
the early ighties Miss Post made her
theatrical debut with Emeie Melville's
npany, then playing at the Bush
4et Theater, and fairly divided the
nors with Miss Melville when the
ompany went east. Her beauty and tai
ent soon won recognition and she subse-
Quently became one of the leading ar
fists in the Casino Company. After Sc
curing a divorce from her husband,
Frank Blair for good and sufficient
cause, she married Manager VIII Nor
ton of Chicago and for a time retired
from the stage, to which she returned
after Mr.. Morton's death from paresis.
A year or two ago she filled an engage
ment at the Tivoli and recently was a
member of the Spider and Fly Com
pany. during which engag agement the
first symptoms of insanity presented
themselves At the time of her death
she was the wife of William Goodwin.
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New York paper: And now word comes
that Duse will be with us next autumn
for a six months tour Not SO very
long ago she was reported as saying
that she would never come to America
again. But perhaps it was an Ameri-
can manager who said it for her. The
impression was none the less general
that the great actress would devote the
rest of her career to Paris and Italy
If she has really changed her mind
about it, America is to be congratu-
lated. There is no celebrity at the pres
ent time who would be welcomed more
eagerly than the Italian woman. I'm
less present plans are changed again
she will bring with her a new repertoire
of plays, including two by Gabriel dam
nunzio the extraordinary young Italian
writer, whose name has been frequently
associated with hers lately. A Paris
newspaper announced recently that
ID Annunzio, in addition to his other lit
erary work, had completed in the past
few years four plays, a triology and
three mysteries" all of which are now
ready for production. And the two
plays announced for Duse are not in
cluded in the list. The titles are Curl
gus; "A Dream Of a Summers Day.
"A Dream of a Winters Night" THE
Tragedy of Madness THE SUM-" .Al-
exandfiade," "Persephone." "Adonis''
and "Orpheus." The two plays that
Duse will use are called La Gloria"
and La Giocunda-" Is it strange that
ID DAnnunzio is spoken of as an extraor-
binary young man?
John Hare in making a speech before
the Playgoers' Club in London a short
time ago answered for the present con-
dition Of the English drama by saying
1t is well-very we'll" The phrase i'm
mediately became a catchword and was
greeted with a shower of ironical COM
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to publish it on commission. Mr.. May
bricks share it is said, during the first
wear exceeded f2O00, though the COM
poser himself was SO doubtful of it
that he issued it under the name Of
stephen Adams" That ITO Anthea"
was sold for f22., and Kathleen Nav
ourneen'' for f5, are further examples
of the musical chances of war. On the
other hand, barely one drawing room
song in a hundred covers the expenses
of printing and publishing.
Nine. Lillian Blauvelt is delightine
German audiences with her fine voice.
A Cologne critic goes into ecstasies over
it's beauty, declaring that it is es
charming as her face. Her success in
that city is declared to have been SEN
sational by the ''Neue Zeitschrift fur
Musk" She sang at Gurzenich con-
cert and had to add two encores In
Frankfurt her success was equally
great.
Probably the most profitable operetta
ever written is Lecocq's Madame An
got" In it's present revival in Paris
it has already passed its 150th perform
ance. 1t has been given over 200
times in the French capital and about
25 600 times the world over.
Schumann's charming "Jugendbriefe'
the letters he wrote In his youthful
days-have already appeared in third
edition Breitkopf & Hartel are the
publishers.
Philip Hale asks, in his Musical Rec
ord.
And why are some disconnected when
music by Bach is made beautiful in the
Interpretation? An Englishman wrote
recently: There is a traditional way
of viewing Bach as dry and academic
composer whose business it was to be
learned and orthodox, and who ac-
complished that business with remark
able success. 1t is emphat.cally the
wrong way, for Bach lis full of light and
life and intense emotion and feeling
I heard Mr.. Mcdowell play a move
ment from one of Bach's suites for the
piano. The music as played by him
was fragrant and full of color; it was
alive Yet I read the next morning in
a review by a learned professor that
Mr.. MacDowell had not played the
piece in the true spirit of Bach"
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The Belasco- -Thal1 Company from the
Alcazar Theater SIAN Francisco, opens
at the Clunie Opera-house tomorrow
evening for a weeks enga agement. Inc
roster of the company we have ALREADY
published. The leading man is the clu
favorite and accomplished arus',
George Osbourne, and the leading Wo-
man is Miss Gertrude Foster. The com
pany is a large, strong and well pal-
Rncad one
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One Wax to Success.

my first play" said the successful
play-builder, contained both plot and
a moral. 1t was just moderate sue
cess" "But you have done immense
business with your succeeding ones"
said the admiring friend. Sure. The
rest of them put together with neither
plot nor morals. indianapolis Journal
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sI wonder why it is so rare for a
man to marry his first love?''
Generally because woman of 80
has too much sense to marry kid of
1S"-Indianapolis Journal
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TOOll
An Italian critic has discovered that
the new oratorio composer Perosi
brings together Palestrina and Wag-
ner, ancient purity and the powerful
modern complexity. He is the min
strel of faith and Of progress He sings
the junction CT olden times with the
new era In his ravishing symphonies
he seems to prelude the future wedding
of supernatural religion with human
forces. a strange, or rather natural,
thing is it that the maestro is an active
democrat, a working Catholic Socialist"
Spain has caught the Wagner fever.
A correspondent in Madrid writes that
both in that city and at the Liceo in
Barcelona '.Lohengrin,'' "Tannhauser,
and "Walkure' are being sung night
after night, to the exclusion of nearly
all other operas. Wagner pictures, BIZ
ographies, anecdotes, etc., fill the pa
pers, and windows are adorned with
Wagner busts- The Spanish public
seems to know more about German
mythology than about the late war with
America. To cap the climax, the
'Nibelung Ring is to be produced in
Madrid next month in German by a
Germanrcompany.
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Try McMorry's 6Oc uncolored Japan
tea; e. B. tea, roc; G. p. tea. Soc; p. F.
Japan tea. SOC. 531 NJ street.
The record-union., 1899-04-23

What, pray, is the true spirit of
Bach? Did Bach write music fer the
sole purpose of furnishing a professor
room?
The record-union., 1899-04-23

Be6InOVenS p6QlSfee mas Deen traced
further back than his biographers have
so far succeeded in doing. In l713 a
tailor named Heinrich Abelard van
Beethoven bought house in Antwerp
He had twelve children; one of these
named Ludwig, became a conductor and
was the grandfather of the composer.
Grant Allen, in his latest novel, Lin
net introduces an innkeeper named
Andreas Hansbarger, who is a,so a great
musician and the leader of a troupe cf
native singers. Andreas has a theory
of his own about the cultivation of the
voice. He holds that the secret of the
sweet singing of the Alp girls and cow
boys Of the Zillerthal is due to their
habit of spending their days and nights
in the mountains, and filling thaT lungs
with oxygen. Linnet, like the other
girls of the place, lives from May to
October in a hut on the nights. Some
young Englishmen consider it a desc
Grafton to allow the owner of this pser-
less voice to tend flocks. In answer to
their objections, Andreas exIounds his
theory:
II have thought of it for years, ard
satisfied myself it's true. Is it for
nothing, do you suppose, that on our
cold mountain tops the vocal cords, as
they say, are braced up and tightened?
Is it for nothing that in that clear,
pure, limpid air, the very nerves of the
ear strained hard to catch quickly a,
distant sounds, are exercised and edu-
Gated? Do you think, if l wanted to
pick out voices fer a musical troupe, 1
would go for them to Holland or to
Lombardy or to Hamburg? No, no; I
would go right away to the grunde
there, the upper forks of the Zillerthal,
in The orys-al air jus. below the aciets,
and pick out my best singers from the
cowboys and the Alp girls"
The London Daily News" says that
Mascheroni's ballad, For all Etel nity,"
the copyright of which has just been
sold by private contract for f2, ,240, was
originally offered to a London music
publisher for f1O and was refused. But
then the publisher could not of course,
have had the remotest idea that the
song would afterwards take the fancy
of Nine Patti, who by singing it made
its fortune The incident, however. IS
by no means without precedent. The
late Mr.. Boosey refused to buy Michael
Maybrick's Nancy Lee" for f10 no.e,
though, pitying the young composers
evident distress, he laughingly offered
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LONDON TA,LoRs FAIL 10 FIJI.

TAsir tlArmsnts Are wsll AaAs and
show Good workmaaship.
"The best that can be said Of the
clothes imported by American men
from London ID that they are well
made" said Nelson r. Huntington Of
New York, who has spent years abroad
In the study OF the hospitals. "They
never fit. Indeed, the art Of misflt
seems to be carefully studied. The
garments of both men and women
never set we'll. and even the actresses,
who are supposed to be exacting. suffer
from the inability or indisposition Of
the English tailors to fit the figure.
The finish, however, shows fine and
thorough workmanship. The French
achieve better fits, but the work is
atrocious, making the best garments
look cheap and hurried. Not even i'm
portant buttons are secure. American
tailors and dressmakers surpass every
thing in Europe in making fit. and
the finish compares favorably with the
English. The New Workers who i'm
port garments made by Poole and
other fashionable london tailors had
them refitted by American tailors un-
til a year or two ago. when the latter
refused to touch them at any price. -
Philadelphia North American.
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In Germany tramp is called 9
Observation-Disclosures"
SWANSON'S IS DROPS"

is the sun of the sick room. 1t has saved
the public, in less than five years, more
money than the national debt Of this
country, when you measure the value
of health restored, suffering humanity
relieved of its agonies and diseases.
Money which otherwise would have
been expended in funerals, doctors
and drug bills, loss of labor, etc. II
you have never used it, do not fail to
send for at least trial bottle.
Swanson IS Drops" never fails
to cure. 1t has cured and is curing
millions of people afflicted with Acute
and Chronic rheumatism, Sciat-
lea, Neuralgia, Asthma, La
Grippe and Catarrh of all kinds.
''5 Drops" has never failed to cure
these diseases, when used as directed
twill cure you. Try it. Price of large
sized bottle Sl.OO, sent on receipt Of
price, charges prepaid; Csc sample bot.
tie sent free, on receipt of l0c to pay
for mailing. Agents wanted. Swan
sons Rheumatic Cure Company,
No. 1G4 Lake street, Chicago, III. a
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-10-20
NIilllona Asked for War.

London, Oct. 20.-A supplementary
army estimate has been issued, asking
the house of commons to vote an addi-
tional $4,000 men and 10,000,000 pounds
$50, 1000, 000) in consequence Of the sit
uation in South Africa. It is explained
that the 81, zoe men represent the prob
able maximum excess Beyond the e.
Establishments fixed for the year 1889
1900, and is in consequence Of the call
ing out Of the reserves and of the tenn
porary transfer Of the troops from the
Indian to the British establishment
With the additional 10000 900 pounds
the army estimates are 30,617, 200
nnnnds
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-10-20
The tongue of full-grown giraffe il
about eighteen inches long.

OA6ALCCA AASAV0 AOA6s
To Los Angeles and Southern California
Every Friday night, at 1885 p. M,
a through Tourist Car for Los Angeles
and Southern California, leaves the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
way Union Passenger Station. Chicago,
via Omaha, Colorado Springs and Salt
Lake City, for all points in Colorado,
Utah, Nevada and California.
In addition to the regular Pullman
porter, each car is accompanied by an
intelligent, competent and courteous
Courier" who will attend to the
wants of passengers en- route. This Is
an entirely new feature Of tourist car
service, and will be appreciated by
families or by ladies travelling alone.
Particular attention is paid to the care
Of children, who usually get weary on
a long jolfney.
These tourist cars are sleeping cars
supplied with all the accessories neces-
sary to make the journey comfortable
and pleasant, and the berth rate leach
berth will accommodate two persons)
is only $500 from Chicago to Cali
fornia. Ask the nearest ticket agent
for a tourist car folder, or address
Geo. H. Heafford, General Pass. and
Ticket Agent, Chicago, Ill. A.
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We all have our cross to bear in life.
In life's battles strike no fallen foe.
Despair is near neighbor of suicide.
No soap can cleanse a mans charac-
ter.
Never let adversely push you to the
wall.
A genial disposition is like the sun
shine.
Be methodical in everything you un-
lertake.
When prosperous we have many
friends, with adversely things often
change.
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.aeiss,on Work rs ,bsscttssd.


Monmouth, ILL.,, Oct. S0:-Three hun
tfed delegates were present 1t tho
Baptist convention "Wednesday. Mis-
sion work In its various 'phsses occu-
pied the time Of iii the sessions. DR..
e. B, Hubert dean Of 'the theological
DEPARTMENT at the University Of Chi
caso, made IN address i'm behalf Of the
Home Mission society. He advocated
abandoning tie 'pfeSent system OF
evangeliaafidh and returning TO the
old-that tho gospel alone could save
the cities.
q e The ness iiity fof THE Woman's Home
I Misstouafy 16cisty va net forth ~
) Mrs J. iBuidstts 81 Chicaeos De.
a d Afabis df ose ton. No. nade .
! IN tsattct e 1orsaka s1i..sons \
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-10-20
rir.t Session . Busy One.

Joliet, ILL.,, Oct. 20.-At the annual
meeting of the Presbyterian synod OF
Illinois about 200 delegates were pres
eat. The Woman's Home and Foreign
Missionary societies Of the church are
also holding meetings in connection
with the synod. DR.. D. Miner of Chi
caeo presented resolution. which was
adopted, urging all citizens to support
the movement to prevent the seating
of Brigham H. Roberts, congressman.
elect from Utah,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-10-20
Scores Die iii NSTeay Storm.

Bergen, Oct 2o:-h is now certain
that in the hurricane that swept across
Norway last FEkday and Saturday thir-
" persons Who were returning 10 their
homes Hear Haugnund, southwest of
'ChristfSAla. and upward Of 100 fisher
meh along the northwest coast near
ChIfstianssuud persisted.
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s,oux MAY Get Troublesc.1ae.

Sioux Falls, S. D.. Oct. A.-Accord.
ing to information received from Rose
bud and Pine Ridge Indian agencies, the
Sioux are greatly wrought up over the
report that the practice Of distributing
hides gratuitously ee indians is to be
discontinued. 1hsre is a possibility
the Sioux NAY again take up arms
against the government as a protest.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-10-20
THREE LIVES LOST AT A FIRE.
We unteer Firemen Crushed to Death
Under Falling Walls

VIC untoer F1rem0n Cfusno0 10 Oo"!n
Under Falling Walls
Knightstown, Ind, Oct. 20.-Fire
here Wednesday morning resulted in
the loss Of three lives and destroyed
property worth 100000. The Masonic
temple was consumed, together with
the buildings occupied by E. o. Ander-
son, dealer In household goods; Green
Brothers, saloon, and DaVey Brothers,
dealers in notions. Three members Of
the volunteer fire department, truman
Rhodes, Charles Scutter and Fon Da-
vey, were fighting the fire when the
front wall of a three-story building fell
forward. They were caught by the
falling bricks and crushed to death.
The fire Is supposed to have originated
from an explosion of natural gas.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-10-20
Esn1 lffx6r In -Iilfnote.

Opney, ILL.,, oct. 20.-An eighteen
inch vein OF silver was found on the
sarn Of c. C. Bailey, near Parkersburg,
ten miles south Of this city, and cita-
.xeus are much excited. William
combs brought in . flne specimen OF
sold Yound ON his farm.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-10-20

The gross earnings Of the Chicago
Great Western Ry maple Leaf
Route for the fourth week Of Sep
TENDER, 1899, show an increase of $42,-
22O.24 over the corresponding week Of
last year; making a total increase Of
$111,959.72 for the month of Septem-
Der. The total increase since the be-
ginning of fiscal year July 1st) to
date S268.595,4O.
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AtaHrickA missionary Associa ton.

BfnghaAton, N. Y, Oct. 2o-The
American Missionary association voted
to .p>ktpone for one year action "a a
r,SS5aosed amendment to its constitu-
zion providing for rotation In office
every five years Of the members of ita
executive committee.
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THE PREssMEN PLEASED.

Tho Transcontinental Trip Was . Sur
prise to Them.
The following telegram has been re-
c"ived by Mr.. D. McNicoll. assistant
general manager of the Canadian Pa
ciflc Railway. from Mr.. w. s. Dingman,
president Of the Canadian Press Asso-
citation:
Vancouver. Aug. 81. 1899.
Zone hundred members of the Cana
dian Press Association are deeply
grateful to the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way Company for the unremitting cour-
tesy and hospitality which has made
their trip across the continent the most
interesting and pleasant of all their
outings. Though conscious Of the
sterling work accomplished In the
spanning of continent, for large
part remote from settlement. and In
the opening up Of territory as vast as
some empires. the actual view unfolded
on the journey has impressed the ex-
cursionists more forcibly than words
can represent. The development all
along the route, in cities as we'll as in
agricultural and grazing sections, has
surprised us. and Is most encouraging
to lovers Of solid progress and hopeful
prosperity. The ease and comfort with
which the trip from ocean to ocean Is
attended in the cars and in the c. P. r.
hotels, through service unexcelled
anywhere, is a triumph for Canadian
skill and enterprise second only to the
financial and engineering victories at
tanned In the building of the greatest
scenic and developing line in America.
Nv. s. DINGMAN,
president Canadian Press Associa-
tion."
Horseshocs made of cowhide are in
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Federation Of Labor to Meet.

Washington, Oct, 20-The nineteenth
annual convention Of the American
Federation Of Labor will be held at De-
troit. Mich, ON Dec. IL. A call for this
purpose was issued Wednesday BY tho
avacutIye council OF the federation.
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800 Reward 800.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased to
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A whistler or singer possesses a
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x.nsaa VosunNeers to vete.

San Francisco, Oct. ,2o.-4t is an
ronuoed4 that the Kansas volunteers
I'll, ~ mustered out oct. 20. This
viii permit them 70 reach home to vote
st the coming election.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-10-20

The somewhat sharp curves at Line
berg on the Second Division of the
Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road are be-
Ing removed and replaced with a tan
gent thus eliminating about "a de-
grees of curvature. About 1000 cubic
yards of material will be excavated.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-10-20

Drop few small nails in the bottom
of the ink bottle. The acid in the ink
will then exhaust itself upon the nails
and pens will not corrode.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-10-20

Oriental physicians practiced vacci-
nation over 1000 years ago.
We refund 1Oc for every package of
Putnam Fadeless Dyes that fails to
give satisfaction. Monroe Drug Co.,
Unionville, Mo. J Id by all druggists.
Hope often pilo us over many dan
gerous places.
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY,
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money II 1t fails to cure.
25c. E. W. Groves signature on each box.