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The broad ax., 1900-01-13
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.

Forty acre chicken farm. q miles
from Chicago. Emile from railroad
stations. Fine grove Is acres surround
ing buildings. which consist Of S-room
hous. frame. barns. chicken house and
poultry yard. Fine hog house and
other outbuildings- Is acres in crop
this year. Hay. corn, oats. potatoes
and beans. Price clear Of incumbranee
5000. Buildings alone cost $500.
VIII exchange for clear property in
Chicago.
II you have anything to offer. call
or address The Broad Az, 5040 Armour
avenue.
The broad ax., 1900-01-13
FOR SALE.

A lovely six-room cottage. modern
improvements. lot Is by LIS, located
on Elizabeth street. near sixty-Seyenth.
Price. $500. $50 cash. balance to
suit purchaser. This Is bargain.
Any one desiring TO secure q cosy
little home should avail themselves Of
this opportunity. For further informa-
ton address. Julius r. Taylor. 5o4o
Armour avenue
The broad ax., 1900-01-13
81 ACRE FARM FOR SALE.

Three miles from Geneva Junction.
six miles from Lake Geneva.
"a acres in walworth county. lies all
in cultivation, good house, barn and
outbIldings. 20 head mich cows 20
head hogs. 500 chickens, 100 turkeys.
50 ducks, 3 hear horses. all farming
tools and this years crops
Price SIS per acre. Crops las: year
over $500 net Crop this year over
$500. Sell cream s. per day now.
II you desire to purchase THE eie-
CANT farm 30 indicate by addressing
The Broad Az.
The broad ax., 1900-01-13
AFrERrHouoHTs

u Is great satisfaction to End out
that what Ne believe il really 80.
The aisagreeshle thing about living
within yeur income is that your auar-
Iers are 50 cramped-
When greatness frankly and private
~ looks back on its youth. II must feel
somewhat pushed At the results.
The fewer superlsfiyes you inject
INTO your conversation the more at
tention people win pay to what ron
say.
Popularity does not often hunt .
man up, and even when q does II won't
say With him unless II h mighty veil
entertained.
The broad ax., 1900-01-13
GOLD WATCrf FREE.

Anyone sending US ten yearly sub
scribers to The Broad Az, or 20 sub
scribers for six months, We win pre-
sent them with this beautiful gold
filled watch, fitted with New York
standard movement, and warranted
for FIVE years, either ladies' or gents.
The broad ax., 1900-01-13
AGENTS WANTED.

The Broad Ak desires to secure active
agents and correspondents in al sec
tious Of the country. Liberal eomDis-
sions win Be paid. For terms and
furthsr particulars address The Broad
Az. $3.50 Armour avenue. Chicago.
The broad ax., 1900-01-13

England announces that 1t wiz coz
tinue to exercise q hrm policy In regard
TO the seizure and overhsuling Of sus-
pected ships OF Delagoa bay. Firm
policies Of that kind have caused Eng
land a vast amount Of trouble IN the
past and the lion might not ind Il un-
proatable 70 pause long enough for
calm elaboration.
The broad ax., 1900-01-13

rection is The False Star" by A. d
Cash. which deals with Mormonism in
all of its ramiications,
We will send this wonderful book,
which Is printed by the W. B. Conkey
Company, and sells for $1-25. and The
Broad AK for one year to any address
in the United States. for $3.50. Agents
wanted everywhere. Address all COM
munications to Julius F. Taylor, Editor
and Publisher Of The Broad Az, 5040
Armour avenue, Chicago, H..
The broad ax., 1900-01-13
THE FALSE STAR.

The agitation OF the Mormon ques-
ton has naturally aroused some inter
IS. in the minds Of all classes Of people
throughout the United States. and much
has been written lately. both pro and
con, on Utah and the Mormons. The
latest literary contribution in that di-
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He Was Very Humble.

The Detroit Free Press tells Of a dis
appointed Office seeker who at last obtain
ed q gift through a late won humility.
When he arrived at Washington, it was
with the idea that he was a distinguish
ed and prominent citizen; but after hang
ing about and swallowing d%isappoint-
ments, he began to suspect that he was
not so very important after all.
Then he thought of home and the
means of getting there and sought out
Colonel Blank, the passenger agent OF a
certain railroad.
81 say, colonel" he remarked persua-
sively, II want to go home"
why don't you go7"
mo money. Can't you give me q
pass?"
The colonel stiffened.
I'VE give passes to nobody" said he.
The countenance Of the disappointed
candidate frightened with a smile OF hui
mility.
well. colonel" he pleaded, then give
me one. I'm nobody"
The colonel admitted the force Of the
argument and gave the pass.
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life has been such a burden to her
mother for a great many years that
death meant release. She says her
mother was very queer"
"And she is gone, actually gone? Do
you know it to be a fact, child?" He
labored to lift himself into a sitting
posture.
II know it to be a fact, father. I
saw her myself, dead. She looked so
quiet, SO serene. She is at rest"
"You saw her. Then you have been
to the Spillman cottage. What did you,
go there for?" His voice rang out in
challenge.
She shrank away from him until the
pile Of pillows with which Reuben had
propped him into q sitting posture~hid
her pallid face from him. Was he go
ing to force her to say why she had
gone to the Spillman cottage? If he
did. must she lie? Instead he spoke
to her in the gentlest of voices. Rathv
er did he seem to plead for mercy than
upbraid her.
Don't cover behind my pillows, my
poor child. Come where l can look
into your dear eyes. You have Moth
ing to be ashamed of, Olivia. I know
what took you there. You went in
search of a vindication for your most
unhappy father" Her head dropped
until it touched his pillows. "You
thought to learn something more about
the papers which she claimed to be
holding for Thomas" 4
eyes, father"
A CLEAN of qualification shot into
the shrewd eyes of the dying man. 1t
was almost as if his departing soul
paused to score on more pitiful little
triumph. Z
Poor old maybe! She o~yerreached
herself. Now they never will be
found"
Were they very valuable to-Thom-
as-father? That is, if you don't mind
telling me, dear"
They were-they are" he amended
slowly, "of no value to any one. Thorn.
as would not be n dollar the wealth
Ter for the finding of them"
A silence fell between father and
daughter. The sick man seemed to fall
INV - SudOSA uOLS. OllVla OTOuglC a
light chair and seated herself as close
ly as possible to his side.
The clock struck half past IL. Reu-
ben was to come on watch at mid
night. She twined her small, cool I'm
gers about the sinewy wrist that lay
nearest to her and found its pulse.
The moments passed on. She waited.
For WHAT
The ticking Of the clock on the man
telshelf and the beating Of her own
heart seenied~requaily loud. A low
muttering from the sick mans sunken
lips made her bend her ear quickly.
Every syllable that fell from his lips
now was a thing to be boarded. In a
state Of semiconsciousness Horace
Matthews was doing battle with his
conscience for the last time.
(To be Co%ntinued.)
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Westover rocked senrchingly into the old
mdn'Sf face.
thews. They had grown up together,
they had come to Vaudeville together,
and he was not as much in the dark
as Clarence Westover would have
liked him to be. He closed the front
door upon the young man and shut
fed back to the sickroom muttering to
himself:
I'D just as lief as not nobody should
be spying on him in his last hours. He
do humble a lot of mortal strange
stuff with the fever in his poor head.'
But the fever was all out Of Horace
Matthews head when he turned to-
ward Reuben and asked feebly:
"Reuben, when was Thomas tele-
graphed for"
might before last sir"
"And what did you say in itg"
Guardian very ill. Wants to see
you. Come at once"
HAS he answered."
"No. sir"
"Perhaps he didn't get it."
"Now, there you go to fretting, SIR.
1t amt a bit like you. The doctor says
you was to keep calm"
$50 he did, Reuben, so he did. If
he got the message, when ought he to
be here?"
Il asked the telegraph man that
same question. According to his cal
culation, Mr.. Thomas is due here
about 1 a. m"
and it is now
Gust half past II, sir"
The sick man closed his eyes wearf-
~. How insignificant all things here
below now seemed! 1t was as if he
We're getting his life, with all of it's
loves, all Of its ambitions, its tolls, its
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A Fat one Too.

In one of his farces Glen MacDonough
had written two or three ines to be spo-
ken by u chorus girl. The lines were Civ
en- to a green. heavy amateur who looked
well and would do. AT the rehearsal the
girl made her way to Marlborough, who
held the book, and said: "Mr. MacDon-
ough, / have a line in the first act and
one in the third. Couldn't you write me
one for the second act too@"
MacDonough thought a minute, looked
at the girl and said:
yes: in the banquet scene you enter
and say. Here is the ham,"
"Oh, do I bring the ham on with meg"
mo, my dear. 1t is not a speech. 1t
is a confession."-San Francisco Argo-
naut.
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A Rooted Lake.

"A rooted lake is certainly a novelty.
We read much of them in fiction. Lakes
are made to exist in caverns and subter-
ranean passages, but rarely do we hear
of such in fact. However, such a thing as
a rooted lake does exist, and this is not
subterranean. There is a lake at ObdorsE,
in Siberia, nine miles wide and II miles
long. Time was when the rapid evapo-
ration of the water left great salt crys-
tails floating on the surface which grad
ually came together and formed into one
gigantic cake. The water of the lake
still further evaporated. but the cake Of
salt kept its own level, thus forming u
roof to the lake. Another lake IN the
Mangishlak peninsula, in the Caspian
sea. is similarly rooted with salt crystals
which are of such consistency as to pea
NIT of man and beast crossing over hem
with safety.
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vans severe reprimand for his deser-
ton of his post the night before added
the last drop Of bitterness to his cup,
and it overlooked upon poor little
Ollie's %unoffending head.
On his return from the Spillman cot
tage Clarence Westover had come in
for a share of the old mans accumu-
lated acrimony, after which he had
mounted his horse and ridden home
in a frame of mind scarcely less cynic-
al than Reuben's own. Said the old
servitor:
There amt a mite of common sense
in your going all to pieces about that
child. I've been knowing her ever
since she was big enough to be strap
ped into q baby carriage, which she
generally was trying to kick all to
pieces like an unbroken colt. If any
body crossed her, she would just go of
and hide. Many a bad scare has she
given us all, just to wind up by walk
ing in as smiling as a May morning
and laughing at us for the pack Of
fools we undoubtedly was. She is hid
den somewhere about the house now.
She won't turn up smiling this time,
but you may as well stop worrying
about her"
Westover looked searchingly into the
old mans face. He would much prefer
to think that that old hag's' arraign-
ment of Olivia's father had been heard
by no outsider but himself. AS he was
going to Marry Horace Matthews
daughter he should like the name to
be kept as clean as possible. With the
paper which Miss Malvina had con
fided to his care reposing in his pocket
he was in a combative mood. He owed
it to himself to see that the local Cos
sip mill was supplied with no more
grist.
"Who has crossed her this time?" he
asked sharply.
I'm not saying anybody has, sir. I
was just telling you what her custom
was. l guess she's gone off to have a cry
where nobody can't hear her. DR.. Co
van don't give the old man much of q
show"
But Miss Matthews has not been
told that?"
NO, sir. no; but she is mighty sharp
at forming her own conclusions. She
Is mighty fretted over being kept out
Of the old mans room. 1 don't see
into that myself. I should think, as
fond as he is of her, he couldn't keeI
her close enough for the little time
that's left. But the old mar always
had his own way Of doing things"
"And you have searched the house
all over, ReubenY
"AH over sir, but that don't prove
anything. There amt but two places
for her to be-Miss Malvina's an6
here. She is somewhere about, but
think she has made it plain enough
that she wants to be left to herself
If l was you, Mr.. Clarence, I'd take
things easier"
THAT last piece of advice is rather
good, Reuben. I will try to follow it
I shall gallop over home and bach
again by midnight. I do not believe
I shall be wanted"
Reuben had gladly seen him carry
this resolution into effect. Perhaps
the n soft spot in the old mans
indurated heart was for Horace Mat
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CHAPTER XVI.

A DYING FATHERS CoMMANDH
He is wanting to see you"
"Father?
"Who else?"
Never conspicuous for suavity, loss
of rest and the universal upheayal of
his long established routine had
brought old Reuben to a pitch of surli-
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Perfect

The Photographer-Here, sir, are the
cabinets that your son ordered of me.
Father Degrading one)-The picture is
certainly very like him. And he has paid
you?
The Photographer-No, sir.
The Father-That is still more Like
shim.-London Tit-Bits.
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mensely. Those present were Messrs.
and Mesdames John Carlson, Albert
Johnson, Gust Burgeson, Erland Al
len. Chas, Anderson, Ed Gustafson, l.,
l.. Swanson, Mrs. Fannie Anderson,
Ale Anderson and John Peterson.
Jno. Carlson's house is now almost
completed and will be ready for occu-
pancy in few days.
MIR. and Mrs. Nels Hal visited with
Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Swanson yester-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sven Nelson had a
large number of their friends and rel
atives to spend Thanksgiving day at
their hospitable home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gramway Price has a
merry gathering of their friends to eat
the royal turkey for supper Thanks
giving evening with them at their
home near Willard. All report pleas
ant time and fine supper.
Mrs. Jno. Peterson has been in Of
tumwa for some time at the home OF
her daughter, Mrs. Albert Gustaveson,
taking medical treatment for her eyes.
Gust Burgeson will have shoot
ing match at his home some time next
week.
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eight girls. The mother died two
years ago; six of the children have
also passed to the other shore. -Four
children survive to mourn the death
OF their father. They are Mrs. Jane
Brent, 'of Oskaloosa; Mrs. Carson and
Mrs. Mittie Bedford, of Kirkville. Mr..
Shrader moved to Iowa in 1856. He
united with the M. e. churc hnearly
forty years ago and remained con.
slant member until his death, which
occurred at Fremont, No. IA, 1900.
DR.. VIM. Newell of Ottumwa, spent
Thanksgiving with friends at Kirk
vile.
Theof. Reed and Chris Hopp are
spending few days in Hitemar
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hatfield are Wis.
lung at the home of G. M. Kirkpatrick.
Mrs. Chas. Alderman and Masters
Philip and Harry, are visiting Mrs.
Akerman's parents, DR.. and Mrs. D..
G. Dinsmore.
John Zentz, of Hiteman, came home
to spend Thanksgiving with his fam
lily.
Mr.. and Mrs Ambrose Talley, who
have spent some time at the John
Dana home, left yesterday for Mt. Ayr,
where they will reside.
Z. B. Percy came home for Thanks
giving turkey.
Miss Nellie Funk has returned to
her studies at Faireld, after pleasant
visit with her father.
MISS Leta Bridenstine came up from
Ottumwa to spend Thanksgiving at
home.
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%&|(l,IjE]9Il'll!1
lN91l1ta& 1!llIlE| her.
LARD is NOW THE
CENTER OF INTEREST
Attention of the Board of Trade Di-
verted From Corn to the Cuda-
hys Deals in Lard.

The price of corn was put to sic
last month by a clever operator of
modest means who availed of a pro-
missing situation.
Provision people have had this corn
experience in mind, as they have rath-
er nervously watched the operations
in lard of late. One of the strongest
and most aggressive of the provision
interests, the Cudahys, has been buy
ing December lard for some weeks. 1t
has been, in some instances, taking
the December and selling the January
lard, and in other taking the Deem
Der and selling the May. 1t is easy to
do large business in product of any
sort when it appears to be a mere
matter of Spreading" the buying Of
one future and the selling of another.
AS this absorption OIL December kept
up until delivery day, it attacted in
creased attention, and now the pro-
vision pit is more exercised over the
plans of the Cudahys in lard than over
anything else under way.
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Mystic.


Mystic, Dec. 1.-Goldie Hildebrandt
is confined to her led with lung trou-
BILE.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. 7. Scott, of Garden
Grove, returned home Monday after a
short visit with Mrs. SCOTS brother,
J. P. Gates, and other relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Cherry are the
proud parents Of a fine baby boy Har-
ry was formally of South Ottumwa,
having spent the most of his boyhood
there. His old friends will be pleased
to hear of his good luck.
Work is good here in the mine.
Mae Speer is confined to her home
with whooping cough.
Clyde Plumber and cousin will leave
tomorrow for Promise City, where
Clyde will staH with his uncle.
Henry Gyles is sick at his home
here.
Link Robson was calling on old
friends here this week.
The laules' aid society of the U. B.
church met at the home of Mrs. Jno.
Barton, Tuesday afternoon
Lew Houston, who injured his ankle
in the mine short time ago, has re-
sumed his work again.
Mrs. Hobson, of Centerville, is WIS.,
iting with her daughter, Mrs. James
hunter
The pastor of the M. E. church went
to Jerome where he preached a
Thanksgiving sermon.
A revival meeting is in progress at
the M. E. church in this place.
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Bonaporte.

Bonaparte, Dec. 3.-Geo. F. Smith
of the Ottumwa Democrat, and wife,
of Keosauqua, spent Thanksgiving
with their daughter, Mrs. Boyle.
Misses Maude Myers and Mollie
Boyer spent Thursday with their
friends in Pennington.
left Saturday night for Lawrence,
Kansas, where Mr.. Proper is engaged
in the grocery business.
Jas. Eddy has returned home after
visiting friends in Peoria, Ill.
Miss Margaret Beck is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Mac Cox, og Kirkville.
Miss Lottie Whitlock has returned
home after a PLEASANT visit with her
brother in Wichita, Kas.
Mrs. ID. w. Cheney is visiting in
Burnside, ILL.,, this week
Ed Afford visited his parents in AL
bia Wednesday and Thursday of last
week.
DR.. Pentoff, of Burlington delivered
an educational address Saturday ev-
ening at the Baptist church.
One case of scarlet fever is reported
out north of town, but only one light
case has occurred in town.
Miss Lenna Bell, of Keokuk, is Wis.,
iting her mother this week. Her friend
Miss Hass, accompanied her.
Clyde Meredith entertained a mer-
ry young crowd Saturday evening at
an oyster supper. A fine time is re-
ported.
Miss Tillie Hartrick, of Pennington,
spent Sunday with her friend, Miss
Nell Steadman.
DR.. Pearson spent Thanksgiving in
the country.
William Welsh, Of Pennington,
spent Sunday in the city.
Charley Keasling and family spent
Sunday with friends in the country.
The club held dance at Reese's
hall Thursday night which was quite
well attended and all report fine
time.
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PackWood,

Packwood, Dec. 4.-William Child
ester started last week to California
to spend the winter.
P. B. Grafton and wife are visiting
their daughter, Mrs. G. G. Davis, at
Davenport.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Miller We're at
their sons, A. G. Miller, at Mt. Pleas
ant Thanksgiving.
Mrs l.. T. Gobble, of Fairfield, Miss
Stella Taylor, of Joplin, Mo-, and Ass
Bertha Norman, of Muscatine, are
guests of Mrs. c. T. and Miss Bertha
Norman.
Miss Anna Sinclair and daughter,
Maggie, have gone to Des Moines to
spend the winter with relatives.
The entertainment Thursday night
was a success. The church was
crowded and the "old folks" were
right at home on the stage.
Mr.. Britt, of Competine, was guest
at the home of @. Marsh Thursday
The building where the Packwood
Review is published, being sold to
parties who will occupy it, the Re-
view will move their plant to the An
derson building.
Mrs. Viola Draper, of Washington
county, visited relatives here last
week.
Miss Lydia Roth, of Trenton, was
the guest Of her sister, Mrs. Gardner,
last week.
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TAKE IT into COURT.
Titus Amendment Tangle, to Be
Settled This Month.
REMLEY, TITUS and MULLAN CONFER
Said They Decided at Iowa City to Ask
That Hearing of Test Case Be Ad-
vanced in Supreme Court caIen.
dar.

Iowa City, Dec. 3.-Attorney Gen
eral-elect G. w. Mullan and Senator
Titus, the author of the Titus amend
pnent met in conference here SATURDAY.
with Attorney General Remley for the
purpose of formulating plans for get
ting speedy ruling Of the supreme
court on the effect of the amendment
All of the conferees insist that plan
has not been definitely agreed upon,
but plan was nevertheless formulat-
ed subject to the obtaining from the
members of the supreme court of an
agreement to advance the hearing of
the case on the calendar and give a
prompt decision. The supreme court
meets early in December to hand
down decisions and at this time the
Importance of an early decision will
be presented. 1t is expected that the
court will be willing to advance the
case, upon the recommendation of
the two attorney generals. Those
present at the conference refuse to
divulge the plans, but it is generally
understood that the contestants who
are willing to lend their names will
be selected by those having charge of
the case and quo warranto proceed
1ngs will be brought by the officer
elect before some district Judge who
will give prompt decision. The rec
ord will be made up in advance and an
appeal taken to the supreme court.
The arguments will be prepared and
possibly submitted in advance to the
supreme court SO that when the case
is called and advanced, it will be ready
LOT submission. 1t may be that the
court will do likewise, so that the
opinion may be handed down at once
after the submission of the case.
Inc court meets the third Tuesday
IN January, and this date is the ear
nest possible date at which an opin-
Ion can be rendered. The proceedings
are not to be in the nature of a friend
~ controversy, but an earnest fight,
Should Be Construed as Intended.
Both Mr.. Mullan and Mr.. Remley
are OF the opinion that the amendment
should be construed in accordance
with the intent of the author, who
thought he was framing the resolu.
ton so that those officers whose
terms expire the first Monday in Jan
uary, 1902, will hold over for one year.
Both OF these gentlemen will probably
appear for the newly elected officers,
Remley will not appear as a party to
the action, because he does not want
1t to appear that he desires to hold
the Office for more than the three
terms for which he has been elected
Those in the conference do not wish
to make public their plan for the
reason that they are afraid the fact
That the matter is to come before tho
court will induce many officers who
would give up their offices the coming
January to hold the belief that the
court will hold with them. Rut
Messrs. Remley and Mullan also think
that the fact that the officers who held
over will be entitled to no compensa.
ton or even allowances for expenses
should the case be determined against
them, will deter the great majority
from refusing to give up their office.