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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-12-01
NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF
REDEMPTION

NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF
REDEMPTION.
To p II. Bosqut lin whose name the same Is
taxcC):
You and each of you are hereby notified that
on the Sth day of December. A. d. 1896, the
following described real estate, to-wit:
Lot Twenty-one (2D Block D., Cotton
Mill Addition, now included in and form
ing part of the city of Des Moines. and
ali situated within the County of Polk and
quent and unpaid tax of the year 1895, to p.
j. Boynton, Agent. That the undersigned is
now the legal owner and holder of the GER.
tifcates of purchase issued in pursuance of
the above mentioned sale; and that the right
of redemption will expire and deed for the
land be made unless redemption is made with
in ninety days from the completed service
hereof.
DANIEL r. PATTON,
Owner and holder OF certificate.
By Clifford c. Hartley, Agent
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-12-01
FRIDAY ss:DECEMBER i
RACE ECHOES.

RACE R y : ECHOES
Colored men of Weia City, Kan,
are operating . grocery store.
John N. Wright Of Topeka
Kan, has been rejected county
clerk Of Shawnee county,
Baltimore is said to contain the
largest Negro population of any
city in the world. The coming
census ia expected to show at
least 1875, 900.
Lieutenant Maeeo, son of the
famous Cuban martyr, General
Antonio Maceo. was refused ad-
mlaslon n to = public dining room
ina Spokane Washington hotel
recently.
The courts OF New York have
decided that Negro children have
right to attend the regular pub
fa$ j, / 4
lie schools. One more disgrace
to American civilization has been
torn down.
Those Texas hoodlums who bra
ced themselves up against the
9th Cavalry found themselves up
agoinst the real thing and broke
away in bad order.
Professor Scarborough, of Will.
berterce University, was last week
elected a member of the Ameri-
can Social Science Association,
which holds its annual meetings at
Saratoga, This is the ninth asso-
citation Of a national character to
which the professor belongs.
Gunner Kuhlwein Of the Olym-
pia says: ''The shooting OF the
forward guns on the Olympia was
done by Patrick hurry, u white
and John Jordan, Negro. Muir.
ry and Jordan were the best shots
on the ships, and SO the handing
Of the big guns was given to
them.
a meeting w. he1ir6ahe Mad
ison Square in the interest of the
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
Institution for the education OF
Negroes at Tuskegee, Ala, last
week, Ex-President Grover Cleve-
land presided. The main OBJ
ieet of the meeting is to create a
public interest in the Negroes that
will result in raising an endow>
ment fund Of S5OO;O00 for the
Tukegee school.
Lagrange Ga, is to have a cot.
ton factory built run and manag.
ed entirely by Negroes. 1t is UNI
der the control of the Mutual Aid
society. About $50 acres OF land
six miles from town, have been
purchased aud will be used not
onlv for the mill, but also as
|own site.
All the operatives of the cotton
factory will be Negores. The
own be incorpor ated and Me-
gro mayor, Negro councilmen
md Negro policemen will be in
;harge OF it.
Nv son has been troubled for years
nth chrouic diarrhoea. Sometime ago
ersuaded him to take some OF Cham
,erfain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea e
After using two bottles OF +
he e5. cent size he was cured. give {
his testimonial, hoping some one sim 9
Iarly afflicted may read it aud be bene-
ted .-THoMAs G.. BOWER, Glencoe, y.
'or ssle by all Druggists.
80 INV DAM COAT ,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-12-01

\A/ANTED-SEvERA BRIGHT AND
w honest persons TO represent us as Mana
gers in this and close by counties. Salary $500
q year and expenses. Straight, bona fide no
more, no less salary. Position permanent
Our references. any bank in any town. 1t is
mainly Office work conducted at home Refer
ence. Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope
THE DOMINION COMPANY, Dept. 3, Chicago
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-12-01

NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RIGHT OF
REDEMPTION.
To Geo. r. Hedges lin whose name the same
is taxed:
You and each of you are hereby notified that
on the 9th day of December, A. d. lS9b, the
following describcr real estate, to-Wit:
Lot 215 Forest Glen, now included in and
forming part of the city of Des Moines. and
all situated within the County of Polk and
State of Iowa, was sold for the then dehn-
quent and unpaid tax of the year 1895, to =.
i. Boynton, Agent That the undersigned is
now the legal owner and holder of the Ger.
ifcates OF purchase issued in pursuance OF
the above mentioned sale; and that the right
and be made unless redemption is made with
in ninety days from the completed service
hereof.
DANIEL T. PATTON,
Owner and holder of certificate.
By Clifford c. Hartley, Agent.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Hsr Are at Monte C.rs>

A curious story comes from Monte
Carlo, the heroine Of which has lost a
large sum through excusable female
vanity. She entered the gambling sa-
loon while former friend of hers was
winning in sweeping style that
seemed destined to break the bank.
81 am so glad to see you here, prince,
and in such luck, tool" she exclaimed.
do tell me a lucky number; it is sure
to win, for you are now in the VEIN"
The prince generously placed a pile
of gold louis before the vivacious lady
whose beauty had successfully defied
the effects of thirty-six winters, and
said:
Put it all on the number Of your
years and reap golden harvest"
The lady reflected, hesitated, and
then placed the pile on twenty-seven.
An instant later the croupier sang
out:
"Thirty-six red wins!'
"Heavensi" muttered the lady, as
she tainted away, "thirty-six is exactly
my age!"-Tit-Bits.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Planting and ReplantinE Corn.

A bulletin of the department Of as'
| riculture says: Owing to abnormal
| weather conditions, the presence OF
insect enemies, the failure of the seed,
and other influences, it often becomes
necessary to postpone the planting OF
corn or to replant the crop. The
question which presents itself under
such conditions is how the date OF
planting affects the yield and n,atur-
ity. Many of the experiment stations
have carried on experiments for sew
eral years to determine the influence
of the time of planting corn on the
yield and maturity Of the crop. which
have thrown much light on this sub
ject.
In experiments at the Indiana sta
ton it was found that the earliest
planting CMay y yielded the largest
crop al bushels per acre., while the
latest planting yielded about one
fourth less (31.7 bushels per acre..
The time required for the crop to ma
ture decreased as the time of planting
was delayed. A delay of thirty or
forty days in planting shortened the
time required for the corn to mature
sas station the average results of ex-
periments in this line carried on for
two years showed that corn planted IN
the beginning of May gave the best
results, and at the Illinois station the
average results Of similar experiments
were in favor of the paintings made
from May to IS, with tendencies
slightly favoring the later dates. The
experiments indicate, therefore, that
under favorable conditions there is an
advantage in early planting; but In
view of the uncertainties of the wealth
er, which is always controlling rae
tor in the growing of crops, these re-
suits must be applied with caution In
practice.
AS Tracy has pointed out, planting
should not begin too early in the
season. Nothing is gained by putting
seed into soil which is too cold or too
wet to favor termination. 1t is bet
ter to defer the planting week or
ten days than to run the risk of los
ing it by decay or of having an i'm
perfect stand by planting before the
ground is sufficiently dry to work we'll
and warm enough for immediate
a decrease in the yield, and replanting
the missing hills is seldom profitable
The replants are surrounded by plants
which mature and shed their pollen
before the younger silks are formed.
The pollination is therefore very i'm
perfect, and the ears on the replants
are usually nubbins, which are scarce
ly worth gathering. When the miss
ing plants amount to from 10 to 20
per cent of the whole, replanting with
some earlier maturing variety which
will produce its tassels and silks at
about the same time as the original
planting is often profitable, but will
not pay when the misses are less than
10 per cent. When the misses are
more than 20 per cent it will pay bet
ter to make an entire new planting"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Prof. CREME and His Wireless re1eeraphy

frof. CREME and His Wireless Telegraphy
Prof. Jerome j. Greene, head Of the
department of physics and electrical
engineering at Notre Dame UNIVERSE
ty, who has been making successful
tests of wireless telegraphy at Chica-
go, is an Ohio man, and is still more
youthful in appearance than in years,
although he is barely 80. He was
graduated as an electrical engineer
from the Ohio State University at CO.
lumbus in 1898, and served as an ex-
pert with the Edison Electrical Com
pany in Chicago. He was identified
with the Atlanta Exposition, and aft
erward became instructor in the Ma
tional School of Electricity. For four
years he has been at Notre Dame. The
instruments which he has used in his
tests have been made by himself and
his pupils in his laboratory, and at
first he found difficulty in securing fine
gradations and nice differentiation
with his improvised appliances, but
with each test he improved them until
the signals came sharply and distinct
ly.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
What They Do with Them,

A southern man who recently re-
turned home after a visit to Boston
said to a neighbor: you know these
here little round white beans?" The
other admitted that he did. I'VE feed
'em to bosses down our way" Yes"
well, sir,up to Boston they take them
beans. boil 'em for three or four hours,
slap little sowbelly an some mo-
lasses and other truck in with 'em,
and what do you suppose they do with
emp Gosh, I do no." 'Well, SIR"
said the first speaker, sententiously,
I'm ID if they don't eat Elk
change
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
MetaphoricaIly Speaking.

The ancient Egyptian beat his breast
and loudly lamented his poverty, for
he had a call to write poetry.
"a person can't be literary these
days." the unhappy man exclaimed,
unless he has the rocks"
While he had direct reference, doubt
less, to the custom then prevailing of
writing upon tablets of stone, we are
nevertheless permitted to conjecture
that here was the beginning of the
metaphoric conception that rocks and
money are one.-Detroit Journal.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
PAINTED STOCKINGS.
the Latest Modes in Vogue Among
Negridan Damsels.

che Latest Modes in Vogue Among
Negridan Damsels.
Lieut.. Hourst, OF the French army
las published lively personal nara
tive of his recent explorations in West
Africa. With four white companions
he pluckily sailed down the Niger river
in an aluminium sailing boat of about
seven feet beam, managing to carry
her and her smaller consorts manned
by friendly natives the whole distance
from Timbuctoo, past Say and Bussa,
to the sea, without serious accident or
loss of life. Being Frenchman, the
most amusing parts of his book are de-
voted to descriptions of the Negridan
ladies, whom he studied along the river
banks. He was not captivated by their
beauty. Indeed, he compares them to
Durham oxen, or negresses, who, like
Englishwomen, when they are ugly at
all, are really revoltingly ugly" The
corpulent matrons of the Niger eagerly
clad themselves in yards upon yards
Of cheap Paris velveteen, but there
were girls of more slender make, whose
sole attempt at dressing was staining
their legs to the knees with rocou or
red dye, (which gives them the appear
duce at a distance Oh wearing nOIuluS
but light red stockings The gay
lieutenant confesses that he was con-
fused as a shy Englishman at the I'M
usual sight; but one of the red-legged
beauties, noticing his embarrassment,
remarked very sensibly: "Are we so
badly made that we need hide our
selves? All in good time. When we
are old like our mothers we will wear
Clothes This frank explanation
seems, somewhat unaccountably, to
have put the visitor at his ease. The
men folk likewise have their amusing
traits. A declaration of war was one
day brought to the lieutenant's boat.
While it was being translated M.
Hourst covertly watched the ambas-
sador. After delivering his message
he had prudently sought refuge behind
piece of rock, but finding that no no.
tice was taken of him, he peeped out,
first with one eye, then with both eyes,
and finally ventured into the open with
the plaintive interrogatory: "Is there
any hope of my getting a pair Of
breeches ?"-Cincinnati Enquirer.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Music Then and Now.


When Music. heavenly maid. was young.
And trilled her notes ecstatic,
Sne never thought of getting up
A season operate.
With simple grace she tripped along
And sang for her own pleasure,
And never tried to make her art
The means Of winning treasure.
She wandered freely everywhere.
With baggage unincumbered;
She glorffed the days with song,
And through the nights she slumbe--d-
She roamed Ger mountain and Ger We,
Her cOnQueStS e'er enlarging,
But for her charming melody
She never thought of charging.
She sang in palace and in hut,
With no discrimination;
To nobleman and serf she sang,
And asked no compensation.
She cared not whether those who heard
Were richly robed or seedy;
She freely sang to all alike,
The wealthy and the needy.
But now when Music comes along
A difference great is noted;
For to the gatherings of cash
Her art is now devoted.
No more she sings, in the past,
For joy of appreciation;
She will not trill single note
Except for compensation.
In 1owly hut no more she sings,
The palace she's preferring:
And as to cut of clothes she shows
A judgment that's unerrfng.
Rich gowns and coats must now be worn,
Kid gloves and standing collars;
And Music reaches out her hands
And rakes in piles of dollars.
When Music, heavenly maid, was young.
And spent her days in singing,
She never thought of how much cash
Her talents might be bringing.
But, now that she has older grown,
In fame and wealth she's baSking,
And well she knows that she can get
For songs the price she's asking.
-P1ttSburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
The Difference.

$50 you went into the stock market
yesterday and made several thousand
dollars?" said the young mans uncle.
Eyes, SIR"
THAT shows how one may, with
proper pluck and promptness, succeed
If he will only take advantage of his
opportunities.
"But lost that and several thou
sand more today
Young man, how often have I told
you that such transactions are merely
gambling, and that you are bound to
come to grief, sooner, or later, if you
dabble in them ?"-Washington Star.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Heroic.

Shelf were man would never
rest until I had become q hero. It
seems to me every man who il q man
ought to do something heroic at least
once in his life."
He-"We11, I don't know but that
you're right. I think myself that ev
cry man ought to be hero once in a
while"
She-"Then why don't you have the
courage of your convictions?"
He-"I have. Didn't I walk clear
down the aisle to the front pew with
you after the preacher had got nearly
through with his sermon last Sunday
morning2"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
A Man of Great Parts.

"Brumbleton is man who ought
to be representing this country at
some European capital. There is the
man who has the natural qualifications
of diplomat.
do you think SOP"
81 don't merely think so. know it.
He has been living with his 14-year-
old boy at boarding house for the
past three weeks and is still on good
terms with everybody from the land
lady down."
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26

Like the "Three Tailors of Tooley Street."
From the Indianapolis Journal: The
German newspaper publishers Of Mis-
souri, seem to be taking themselves too
seriously. The total number of Ger
man newspapers published in Missouri
is thirty-eight, Of which six are pub
lished daily, twenty-five weekly, and
the rest semi-weekly or monthly. If
every German newspaper publisher in
Missouri was present at the ST. Louis
meeting, which is not at all probable,
the total attendance would have num-
bered thirty-eight. AS a popular dem
onstration this does not greatly out
class the three tailors of Tooley
street." Nor is there any reason to
believe that the mass of the German
Americans in Missouri are excited
about the alleged Misrepresentation
concerning the attitude of the Ger
man government or the relations be-
tween the United States and Germany.
There was no occasion for the meet
ing nor for the protestations regarding
the loyalty of German-Americans,
which no one questions There are
over 1000 English newspapers pub
lished in Missouri. If the publishers
of these papers should hold a meeting
and pass resolutions condemning the
thirty-eight Germans for trying to or
ganiZe class sentiment on national
lines there would be a fine state of
brotherly love among the newspaper
publishers in Missouri.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Ennui.

What does your majesty intend to
do next?" inquired the German En-
peror's friend.
81 don't know" was the answer.
with a suppressed yawn. ''Im afraid
the field is pretty near exhausted.
When you get time 1 wish you'd try
to think up something more for me to
excel in. "-Washington Star.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Delicate Distin ctions.

"Do you think" said Mr.. Orestes Van
Ham, this manager will pay nae all
the money I earn
81 guess so,'' said Mr.. Stormington
Barnes, with the quiet superiority of a
veteran. But l doubt whether he will
ever pay you half of what he promised
ou''-Washington Star.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Such q HAPPY Remark

Wife of Patient-"1'm SO sorry, doc
tor, to bring you all the way to Hamp-
stead to see my husband!" Doctor
(from Mayfair)-"Pray don't mention
it. my dear madam. I have another
patient in this neighborhood, SO I'm
killing two birds with one stone."-
London Punch.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Convincing.

He-'1 assure you, Carrie, love you
as much as l love myself"
She-"Greater love than that no
woman could reasonably ask for. You
needn't say any more, Henry.''-Bos-
ton Transcript.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
New Peril in the Lake CITY.

So many popular plays were orig
inally written by Chicago people of
whom the public knows nothing that
it is unsafe for an actor to go there
with a play written since the time of
Sheridan.-New Orleans Picayune.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Another Point of View.

"This really pains me, Willie" said
the old gentleman as he picked the
boy up and laid him across his knee
WELL" replied the boy, resignedly,
eat least I've never been fool enough
to deliberately hurt myself" Chicago
Post.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26

why, grandpa, you used to say that
you killed six Indians with one shot;
then you cut it down to five; now you
say it was FOUR
well, well, my child, I suppose
that's because my memory's fail1n' a
little every year."
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26

An. enterprising South London TN
dertaker displays in his window this
notice: why walk about in misery
when yeu can be decently buried for
s?''-Ti6-Bits.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26

Scrimble-So sorry I've none of my
work to show you. Fact is, I've just
sent all my pictures to the academy.
Mrs. Macmillions-What a pity! I
did so much want to see them. How
soon do you expect them back?-
Punch.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Very Professional.

Come out and fight, darn vel" cried
the Yankee. Cant" replied the FIJI
ipino. under cover of the jungle; cit
would interfere with my theatrical ar
rangements up in Malolos. "-Philadel-
pfia North American.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26

'This army scandal appears to be
going from bad to worse.''
That's so. I didn't think there
could be anything more Objectionable
than General Eagan's beef till heard
his language. "-Washington Star.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Not Posted.

"What have we to do with the Sa-
moan squabble?"
Cant say, exactly. 1 don't know
whether it's a case of duty, destiny or
humanity, or merely an old-fashioned
scrap."-Puck.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Those Philippine Names.

Those Ph1IpP1ne Names.
Some are coughed and some are
sneeZed,
And some are hoarsely rolled;
But Pasig is the best of all
For him who hath a cold.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
OYercaution.

The men who said I'VE dare not" stay
IN dark oblivion hid,
The men of history are they
Who went ahead and did.
-Washington Star.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Cheerful Idiot.

"The bell,' said the prosy boarder.
'has almost superseded the knocker."
"And that is the reason" said the
Cheerful Idiot, ''why it is knocker"
Indianapolis Journal.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
Why One Farmer FaileG.-1n

Why One Farmer FaileG.-1n a
down-east village store, the wise-acres
sat in council on the nail kegs and tool
boxes 'I'll tell you just what kind of
a man Tom Jones was, said the chief
critic, a sharp-eyed, but not unkindly,
son of the soil. Hes dead now, and
we can't hurt him by what we say,
and might as well speak out plain. He
never got on in the world, and there
was mighty good reason for it. Fact
is, he never did anything so 'twould
stay done. He was a good worker; he
lived on the next farm to me a dozen
years, and 1 can testify that he wasn't
lazy. He would NOW, for instance, and
was careful to pick up every stone in
front of his scythe. He'd pick it up
and carefully lay it out of the way be-
hind him. Next year, when he came
to NOW that field, he'd pick up the
same stones again and lay them be.
hind him, and that way he picked
those stones over and over year aftel
year. That way of doing things CAV,
him a good chance to work hard anq
die poor, and that was all what aiIeo
him all through life.'-Ex
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26

"Just think of it! Bertha has sold
her wheel, goes into the kitchen and
darns sucksi"
Heavens! How quickly one can
degenerate after leaving off cyclingi"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26

The above table may safely be used
in computing the probable draught on
the soil for each of the crops men
toned. 1t must be understood, how
ever, that for fruits, the demand for
fertilizer for the annual wood growth
and for the leaves and pruned twigs
is not included.-Plant Food.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26

Dorothy ION being asked to deane a
hooO-It's a cows finger nail that
grows all the way round hcr foot.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26
OUR BUDGET OF FUN
SOME GOOD JOKES ORIGINAL
AND SELECTED.

A Variety of Jokes, Gibes and Ironies
Original and Selected and
Jetsam from the Tide OF Humor-
Witty Sayings.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26

Do not move the cows faster tina,
q walk while on the way to the stabl,