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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05
South Carolina Has
the Most Remark
able Plant in the
World.

the south, and the medical attendance
and the nursing are free. The manage
ment furnishes free Sunday concerts
and vaudeville entertainments several
evenings each month for the opera
tives and free school for the mill chill
dren.
But the mill itself is the great at
traction, and manufacturers come from
all over the world to inspect 1t as
novelty as we'll as model. Every
thing is done by electricity. The
switchboard is the largest in the
south and is connected with more
than thirty motors, which represent
5000 horse power, '7I Igs. sns
buildings, the cottages, the city,
and run the cars of the Columbus
Street Railway Company. Electricity
brings in the coal and takes away the
ashes from the furnace rooms; 1t fills
an 100000 gallon reservoir that sup
plies the boilers and the village With
water; it runs the elevators, brings the
cotton from the warehouse to the spin
ming machines; carries away the fin
ished product and operates hot air fans
in summer
All tits IS not done as luxury. but
for economical reasons, although 1t
cost $1,800,000 The ordinary expense
of building and equipping New Eng
land steam mill is about SIS a SPINDLE
but the Olympia mill cost only $13.54
spindle; the annual expense for repairs
is about one-half those of the ordi-
nary New England mills OF the same
size, and the uniform speed of electric
machinery produces an average of four
per cent more goods to the machine.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05
The Band Lied.

fCopyright. 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Coz
To sum it all up, the volunteer may
Ebe divided into three distinct classes
those who follow the drum from a
bense of duty, heroes; those in search
pf glory, fools; together with few
Eascals and unfortunates, who for
Ntrictly personal reasons wish to hide
Fhe first two predominant, and while
many arguments may be brought for
ward to show they are not, judging
from motives alone, heroes or fools,
ihot campaign soon proves the truth OF
the assertion. A hot sun, an empty
stomach and a vivid view OF death
Is enough to convince any man. The
third class has nothing to hope for
nothing to regret. The favored few
reap fame, all reap hardship and Ill
health, while the life often generous
ly provides an unmarked grave for the
majority.
Jim Doyle, private, always argued IN
this fashion, and was rewarded with
the title of "grumbler" for his pains;
but after his lecture on the ridge that
day I have no doubt the men Of the
Sixteenth thoroughly agreed with him.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05
Names Suggested by
the Forth comin
Old Home Week.

of people who lived 5000 years ago
than is known in the case of our own
countrymen 1000 years ago. Such was
the opinion expressed by Mr.. W. st
Chad Boscawen when he explained
these relics to an interested audience
yesterday afternoon. The clay bricks
and cylinders beneath the glass cases
were covered with characters testify
ing to a completely organized system
Of justice, marriage, divorce and COM
merce. Ike bookkeeping of 5000
years ago was wonderfully accurate.
A curious form of record is that pre-
served in the form of baked clay tab
let's, which were enclosed in clay en-
velopes also inscribed with the terms
Of the transaction, so that double
record provided against the possibili-
ties of damage. The "open and closed
evidence" spoken Of by jeremiah is
supposed to refer to this system. The
practice Of recording on brick the
name of the king, Of the building, and
of the city in which it was erected has
had the advantage in modern days that
an odd brick may be the means of dis.
interring city hitherto unknown.
A bank failure naturally upsets the
ldepositor who loses his balance,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05
Gambling on
Ocean.

A league for the suppression or
ocean gambling has been formed with
branches on both sides Of the Atlantic
and a concerted effort is to be made
to drive from the ocean the gangs OF
sharpers that have for so long infested
the passenger boats plying between
the United States and European ports.
1t promises to be three-cornered hght
and may become decidedly. interesting
before long. The agents of the steam
ship lines are not all in sympathy with
the movement and some laugh at 1t
and pronounce it visionary and i'm
practical, probably for the reason that
they are interested in the profits Of the
gamblers either as sharers In their
winnings or in profits of the custom
they bring to the lines. James Wilson
Of New York is at the head OF the cru
SADIE. He is now in London collecting
evidence showing the nature and ex-
tent of the gambling evil on liners.
The purpose of the league is to drive
card sharpers from the ocean by max
ing it against the rules Of all the DIG
steamer lines to gamble for any sum
or any stakes in the public rooms of
their vessels. Mr.. Wilson is reported
as saying:
ct is true that league to prevent
ocean gambling is being formed, and
it is also gratifying fact that 1t is
going to be very popular with the tour
lists and travelling public. Gambling
has grown to be a great evil on the
ocean. Thousands first learn to gam
BILE while killing time on the ocean
passage, and other thousands lose
money that they might have used in
good works. The gambling spirit is,
am sorry to say, infectious on all the
big liners. There are pools and sweep
stakes and games of chance daily, and
the fever of the gamester seems to
seize the most se1f-contained. Sharp
ers flourish on the vice, and many
young man has been ruined by losing
heavily to professional player who
inveigled him into games on ship
board. I believe that these sharpers
divide gains with the officers, for des-
pite the frequent scandals the same
scoundrels appear in the smoking
rooms voyage after voyage. The league
purposes to stop gambling altogether
on shipboard Bishop Potter of New
York, Andrew Carnegie, Mr.. Morgan
and many others as prominent nave
promised their aid. We have copies OF
passenger lists for years back, cover
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05
A Model
- Mill

South Carolina may be slow in some
respects, but in others she is IN the
front rank of progress, and particular
ly in the use of electricity as a motive
power The Columbia mill, a NAM
moth institution for manufacturing
cotton duck. was the first in the world
to adopt electricity, and within the
last three years four other big mills
have been similarly equipped, making
Columbia the most important center
of electrical textile factories, writes
William E. Curtin in the Chicago Rec
d-Herald.
The Olympia mill is probably the
most complete cotton factory in exist
ence. There is nothing in New Eng
land ia compare with it from any point
of view. The machinery and appara-
tus are perfect. The buildings are
models with the same sort OF plumb
ing, heating and ventilating apparatus
that is found in the most luxurious
hotels. The engine room is laid with
tiles, wainscoted with Tennessee mar
BILE and has an artistic ceiling OF steel.
The floors of the mill are OF marble;
the walls wainscoted with hard wood;
the sanitary arrangements, the toilet
rooms and porcelain bath tubs are
good enough for a palace. Every con-
venience is provided for the benefit OF
the operatives and every precautlon
for the protection of their health. The
houses they occupy in the village
around the mill are all built on artis-
tic plans and finished in the most per-
feet manner There is hospital for
the sick that is said to BE the best in
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05

ton, the bank at portions shaded,
seemed cool and pleasing to the eye,
striking contrast to the sun reflect
ing rocks. It lay just a hundred yards
away and to cross that hundred yards
might cost your life; SO it might as
well have been mirage for all the
good it did the 40 thirsty men on the
hilltop. We waited for troops to
reinforce us, waited and waited all
that day.
1t was rocky place and seemed as If
it had been baked and baked centuries
perhaps in that fierce sunlight till the
rocks became glazy hot, the shrubs
withered and the ground dry and pow
derry. AS If to make it worse for us,
"Grumbler" Doyle had been hit;
"Grumller" had got it at last as often
prophesied. He was shot through the
chest in such way as to make it i'm
possible for him to live. Doyle was a
big, blustery man, who would growl
whether the officers backs were turned
or not; so in a measure he was brave
man, as you will agree if you ever
have soldiered.
We made him as comfortable as pos
of a large boulder and gave him little
by little the few hot drops of water left
in the canteens. The wound started to
trouble him after the water ran out.
It was bad enough for us; the brain
seemed dulled, the mouth grew
parched and the eyes hurt from the
| glare. But to be in the sun hour after
! hour with hole in the chest must be
maddening. It is bad thing, hole
drilled by Mauser; it is as clean and
complete as you might imagine. And
there on that hot ridge we had to stay;
the lifting of hand would bring a
shot.
For a while he lay quiet. Nothing
was to be heard but an insects drone,
while above us in the blue sky vul-
| ture wheeled in wide circles and wait
| ed. Off there, black against yellow
ground, lay two heaps, one sprawled,
and tangled, picturing our probable
| fate.
Suddenly the wounded man gave a
whining groan and started to babble
| foolishly. First it was silly flow Of
| disiointed words and sentences, par
TALLY unintelligible, punctuated by the
| whining means. Then he talked Of
| friends and home he once had 'back
| East" Now he recalled old incidents
and laughed painful cackle over a
boyhood trick. Then he talked of
trouble, pleaded with woman and
quarreled with man. His life had
been bad one, though some of us
| never believed all told of him, but now
we heard it all from his own lips and
/ pitied him, for in his wandering talk
he told Of things sacred even to a
scoundrel. It was a simple tale of a
mans wasted life, the fruits Of which
had driven him to the army, but there
memory followed and made bad SOL
der out of great strong material.
Once he started to gamble-just as
had often seen him gamble, on the
! quiet at barracks; hand after hand he
! dealt and won and lost Now he was
! telling favorite story over the liquor.
| But he always came back to the bad
life and cursed in a horrible strain
| himself and those who had helped him
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05
League
for Its
Suppression on
the Liners.

ing the leading Atlantic lines, and
appeals are being sent to travellers TO
Join the league and through It, make
an irresistible demand upon the steam
ship companies to stop gambling on
their vessels.
The thing can be done, and 1t must
be done. If a great section OF the traV-
cling public calls for reform IN liner
management it will get it. When the
Atlantic companies have been reform
ed the lines running to the east will De
taken in hand. Anti-gambling cru
sades will hardly go far on the hlgn
seas" the manager of one line Is quot
ed as saying. IF our passengers want
to gamble bit we certainly are not
going to stop them. We do all we can
to keep sharpers of our boats, but
they appear often in disguise that
would deceive the very elect.
think that deep-sea gaming will oe
with us yet little while" The gam
bler's side of the affair is stated thus
by one of them: "They can't keep us
Off. We buy our tickets and have the
same rights and privileges as other
passengers. If we want to gamble we
will. The boys are pretty honest ana
in the ordinary game are on the
square. No man will risk exposure
for a small stake. In the case OF what
is technically known as a sucker we
win. If some fellow with lot OF casn
is willing to bet heavily we are there
to get his money. Again. SO long as the
officers get their commissions tnere
will be heavy losing on ocean liners.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05
Notable ~
VernOnterS

Vermont is preparing to have an
Old Home Week in August, which will
be attended by many notable men. In
yitations have been sent out to all
men Of distinction born in the Green
Mountain state and it is thought that
may of the 100000 native Vermonters
who reside outside that state will be
present. The list includes Hon. Levi P.
Morton, former governor OF New York,
vice president, minister to France and
financier, who was born at Shoreham;
Admiral Dewey, a native of Montpelier;
Hon. George M. Thurston, long sena-
tor from Nebraska, who also was born
at the capital; Capt. Charles e. Clark,
commander of the Oregon, born in Or
ange county; Hon. William F. Villas
of Wisconsin, former senator and post
master general, whose birthplace is
Chelsea; Gov. Leslie M. Shaw of Iowa,
who was born in Morristown; Hon.
George F. Edmunds, now Of Philadel-
phia, and President James B. Angel
of Michigan University former min
lister to Turkey.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05
Ridln: Bloy Gle on Railroad.

A genius has invented an attachment
for a bicycle which makes it possible
to wheel along railroad track at a
high speed without chance of tumbling
off, This invention consists of small
wheel attached to three pieces of steel
pipe. The latter can be screwed to the
bicycle or detached at will. The small
wheel, which has large flanges, rests
on the "off" side of the track, and the
bicycle glides along gently, the rider
leaning Slightly toward the center of
the rails. This machine has been
tried on all kinds of curves and found
to work successfully. The rider can
lift the machine from the track in a
few moments. and with it he can make
fifteen miles an hour with ease.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05

to It; it made my blood rum cold 70
i listen. Then he prayed. long
rambling, pleading prayer--a prayer
| for water.
And just one hundred yards away
was q stream; we could near the
water ripple among the reeds, ana Dy
| looking cautiously could see the sun
| lights CLINT upon the surface-yet-
| In the same glance-we could see the
other ridge and the wheeling vulture.
"My Gawd! ha' mercy on me-per-
| haps"-said a man.
| He raised his head above the ridge
top there was puff OF white ana .
| furrow in the dry ground by his mana.
IIe was but man of flesh and blood'
so he crawled back again, and though
| he never went, he was nero tnat
| fellow.
And as the shadows grew longer and
the sun another tint of red. the wound
ed man started to sing. All out OF
tune it was, in strange, unnatural
shrilly voice, the words jumbled ana
twisted:
Oh! eighteen hundred and six-ty-one,
hurrah-hurrah!
We all set out to follow-the drum
hurrah-'rah!
An we'll all be gay whe-en-
He stopped, and, gazing straight be-
fore him, an ugly grin on his face, his
voice sounding much the same as
when on spree, said:
Why can't they come and fight
their own battles. They make
speeches fast enough and stir it all
up like boiling pot-round an round
an talk of the fag-an' OF patriot
ism-while we come and gets drilled
in the chest. They're all crooked
the whole set.
can what's it all fer-ye go through
a hot campaign with the brownies,
fightin' fer the flag while 1t starves
yer-an' if they don't shoot We dead
the flag brings We home in leaky tub
an there We goes amarchin' up the
avenue, with the great white roof all
yeller in the sun. A hot campaign and
hole in the CHESTER yell from the
crowd, thirteen per and a wave from
a lady's white handkerchief. An the
corporal says Dress ranks! and ye
uldICu line pedCOChoS WAAAS e1AS@u SAAo
band plays:
AN we'll all be gay when Johnnie
comes marching home,
Oh! in eighteen hundred and sixty
one. Hurrah! 'Rah!
"Wot about us fellars wot don't
march home; wot about the woman
in the crowd, who, after the last rank
files by, finds the band has lied?"
His head went back, a yell from
the woods told us the boys were COM
ing up. Suddenly, sitting up straight,
he bawled out:
Cd 'em; they'll never march r,e
I'D the aVe-n-'
It was summer and the avenue lay
all yellow in the warm sunshine, while
far ahead the majestic dome of the
capitol doomed against the blue.
"Dress ranks said the corporal
can we marched like peacocks," and
the crowd on either side cheered and
cheered, and the ladies waved their
white handkerchiefs to the bronzed
and wrinkled lines of men. Then a
band played, and as I heard the faint
tune, thought of a man we had left
on the rocky ridge, and I looked for
a. watching woman in the crowd, for it
seemed as if I could see again the
wheeling vulture and the man
sprawled out in the yellow dust, and
could hear above the waters ripple
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05
One Sprawled, One Tangled.

oAC opA o"ASuS SAo Ae~Ae3ASN"
1t was his first serious lecture, brief
one but convincing, complete. Perhaps
it will have more weight if stated it
was his last
After quick march in the hot sui
try morning, when the sun made even
the hat upon your head seem heavy,
and the rifle weighed pounds upon
pounds, we rushed through a ragged
line of trees out into the open toward
a small ridge, from the top of which
little puffs Of white flew and dull re-
ports sounded, while the sharp crack
of twigs behind us proved bad mark
manship. But once a man fell all
sprawled out. When we reached the
ridge remember looking back and he
had not moved, still sprawled out, face
downward in the dirt, with a second
tangled heap near him.
:. We had driven them off the ridgetop,
a little feat that cost two men their
lives, only to have them stop obstin-
ately at another some 200 yards the
other side of narrow stream that lay
before us. Its thick tropical yegeta-
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05
"They'u Never March Me-"

They'll Never March Me-"
among the reeds the strange whining
song of the wounded soldier.
can we'll all be gay When Johnnie
comes, marchin' home"
The man on my right must have
been thinking the same, for he said,
though the corporal growled at him
for it:
o. 'em, if they'll march me up
the avenue!''
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05
overw helm,nglv Cordial.

do your country cousins treat you
cordially when you visit them in the
SUMNER
.'Do they? Say, the minute get
there they make me take some elder
berry cordial as a fatigue DESTROYER
then have to drink some peppermint
cordial for fear the water won't agree
with me; next day they insist that l
absorb some snakeroot cordial to
ward off possible chills and fever, and
then I have to gulp down some liver
wort cordial for the good OF my sys-
tenn generally Do they treat me cor
daily? BY Jove, there's plenty OF cor
diality! can taste it for months
after!"
Many man would starve if he had
nothing to live on but his reputation.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05

Manila's population is found to be
241,732, which gives it place next
below that of Newark, N. j., or seven
teenth from the top in the list Of cit
les Of the United States.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05

Freight rates from Manila to Hong
kong, q distance of only 700 miles,
are as much as from San Francisco
to Hongkong, distance of 5000 miles
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05

Raised letters, for the education Of
the blind, have been used in Persia
from time immemorial. Several
copies of ancient books, printed with
raised letters, may be seen in the
museums of Persia.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05

President Castro, IF Venezuela, pos
sesses as much thrift as a police cap.
tain. His salary doesn't amount to.
much-only $4,000 yearyet he has
been able 20 save several millions, and
his people are wondering how he does
It.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05

Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE
STARCH, the only 16 OF. package for.
10 cents. All other 1O-cent starch
contains only 10 OF. Satisfaction
guaranteed or money refunded.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-05
As,yrlan Babylonian records.

The collection Of Assyrian and Baby
lonian records at the British Museum
has revealed more OF the domestic life
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-04-08
EASTER.

There certainly is no lack of interest
in the church festivals Protestant and
Roman Catholic churches, alike were
filled to overlooking yesterday The
streets were filled with people going to
and coming from church, and each
place of worship had special services to
mark the Easter tide.
In places where Lent is strictly kept
the contrast between the gloomy period
of fasting and meditation and self alb
negation and the Easter festival is
strongly marked. But lent is not strict
ly kept here, even by Roman Catholics,
who have a special dispensation for
these regions. In the temperate zone
Easter marks the transition from the
gloom of winter to the smiling and gen.
tie advent of spring the years type of
childhood. But we have no spring here,
for we live in a perpetual summer. Our
trees are always green, our air is al
ways soft, our skies are always blue.
But though we have not the contrasts
here which bring out the Easter festival
into such strong relief elsewhere, we
celebrate it with an equal heartiness.
We greet it with gay attire and smiling
looks. We play that it is spring, even
though summer has proceeded it. And
our religious feeling are perchance as
strong as they are where lent is more
vigorously kept,
! Universal festivals of this kind do
good. We have the Christmas festival,
sacred to the home and the little ones
the festival that goes to the inmost
heart. The Easter festival is the Joy of
budding life. The celebration of the
bursting leaf, the burgeoning bud, the
eXuberance of Natures happy vitality
And when such is the keynote is it any
wonder that the lassies blossom forth
in ribbons, and new dresses, and bright
eyes, while the old can thank God that
they have been spared another year tc
welcome the brightness of life, and
watch its beauties and perfection as
represented by those who are dancing
along the path that they have danced
along years ago, and which now they
| find wearisome for the trembling limbs
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-04-08

for an excellent purpose-it is too rad
ical a change when other radical
changes are also being carried out. Get
settled in one direction, and then make
changes in another. Let us change
everything, no matter whether it be
good or bad is the Nihilists policy. And
it is the reason that the Nihilist has
failed to succeed Let us keep the good
we have, let us chose the doog others
have, and we shall be able to erect a
structure which will be enduring for
years. If we do not do this we shall
only have a pulling down process two
years from now. What the Legislature
is at present doing is supplying mate
rial for a future rubbish heap.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-04-08

The stealing of do tags is no new
thing. The impecunious dog owner
prowls around and rips the collar off
the canine of his more prosperous
brother and forthwith the cur has the
freedom Of the city, while the well bred
dog reposes in the dog cart and has to
be bailed out, If a dog tag is stolen the
tax collector holds that the tax must be
paid over again before new tag can
be issued. There was an amusing case
of this kind some years ago, though it
never came before the courts. The col
lector's view might be found inaccurate
II ever the matter were legally tried.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-04-08

Representative Emmeluth's bill pro-
viding for a new system for elections
is very nearly ready for presentation to
the Legislature. 1t is quite a lengthy bill
and will take some time to read in both
languages. When it comes before the
public, the latter will find novel and in
teresting features in it. One wonders
why it was not presented as soon as
the session opened, instead of about
twenty or twenty-One days before it's
close.