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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-12-11

A young man formerly resi-
dent of this city and now en-
ployed in the Chicago headquar-
ters of the Chicago & North West.
ern system, has written home this
week saying the matter of railroad
Improvements in Missouri Valley
had been definitely settled and
the Company's interests here, nc.
cording to the letter, are to be i'm.
proved and enlarged on fal
greater scale than anyone antici.
pates.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-12-11
A Good Ono.

Through the liberality of Lo-
gan advertisers last week the
Gazatte man was Obliged to run
two extra pages of the home print
in order to accom- olste his patent
medicine and whiskey ads
Woodbine Chronicle.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-12-11

Frank Friend. who has beer
sick with typhoid fever at his
home in the country for the past
few weeks, is reported as no bet.
ter today.
Tue Calhoua District School
has been closed because of the
diptheria IN that vicinity.
I NJ McDermott is looking after
busine ss affairs io Council Bluff
today.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-12-11
Broke Her Arm.

Mrs Robert Gam slipped and
fell on the sidewalk at her home
in the East End this afternoon,
breaking her arm.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-12-11
lLoc Q
Dyspepsia Cure
Digests what you eat.

Many persons worry because they
are too fat, and many more worry be-
cause they are too thin. In both cases
the food eatenis not properly digested.
Fat persons digest fat producing
foods and do not digest foods that give
muscular and nervous strength. They
are not as strong as they look, and dc.
serve more sympathy than they get.
Thin persons cannot digest fat pro-
ducing foods. Sometimes they digest
nerve and muscle foods and become
nervous and wiry; but usually they do
not properly digest anything.
Nature has made provision for II
digestion Of all classes Of foods; az
When our digestion becomes impaired,
1t is wisdom TO take steps at once 10
remedy it. Many thousands are using
with marked success the preparation
known as KoDoL DYSPEPSIA CURE.
As it contains all the digestants, it
digests all kinds of foods and restores
the digestive organs to health.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-12-11
Council Proceedings.

Council room, Mo Valley. Dec
4. 1902. Council met pursuant to
adjournment of December End,
with the following officers pres
ent: % r James, Mayor; j b Bar
rett, city clerk; A + Kiss, mar
shall, y W Kellogg, attorney.
Councllmen present: Amen,
Fensler, Walker, O'Connor, Nc
Gavren, Fisher.
Minutes of last regular and adj
journed meetings read and APP
proved.
Petition of j L Tamisiea ct al
read and on motion referred to
sidewalk committee with power to
act.
Reports of city treasurer, city
marshal, water commissioner and
street commissioner read and ap-
proved.
The following bills were aud
tied:
CITY FUND.
Valley Bank, Time check.... ...... 76
JtH Dimmick, mdse ......... 6 30
Kiss, salary dogs and postage. ...... SO 80
Fackler, salary and labor ....... 81 on
John U Brien, salary ...... ........ 81 90
Fisher 4 90, freight and drayage. ....... 1 90
No Valley Elec Light Co, heat ....... 20 90
Bert Facklcr labor. N,
Barrett, salary. Observation-Disclosures. so OO
Mo Valley Times, printing ........ 80
O Deur, mdas Observation-Disclosures. 6 81
Chas Clatterbaugh, horse shoeing .... 9 80
James, hay and coal. ............ "a 10
j Nj Smith, labor Q 2j
Newton. mdse. Observation-Disclosures. 90 g.
State Savings Bank, 7 cks and int.. 1924 50
q Osborne, mdse Observation-Disclosures. 95
Deal, salary. Observation-Disclosures. II a
Jorgen Hansen, labor .... 8 90
WATER FUND.
Jorgen Hansen, labor ............ 227
State Savings bank, T. cks and frt. ..... 81 Oh
Des Moines coal and Min Co, coal 80. -. 50 IS
J Thompson, salary .................... 60 OO
Chas Forde, tapping and labor .......... SD 81
Mo Valley Times, printing ....... ...... 3 0C
Omaha Stove Rep Works, mdse. 10000. Is OC
LIGHT FUND.
Mo Valley Electric Light co. .......... 144 IS
Moved and seconded that bills
as read be allowed. Carried.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-12-11


as read be allowed. Carried.
Communication of John Nc
Gavren in regard to DR. Macrea's
bill read. Moved by Amen and
seconded by Fisher that the bill
of DR. Macrea be allowed. Car
RED.
Moved and seconded that the
Turkey Rattle joint be closed
forthwith. Carried.
Moved and seconded that we
adjourn. Carried.
J B Barrett, Clerk.
Mrs M UConnor is an Omaha
visitor today.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-12-11
it can't help but !
do you good,

Prepared only by e. DEWITT 4 Co., Chicago.
The 81. bottle contains 2h times the Soc size.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-13
Those Pink Paiamas.

"The management of the Society Cir cus," said Lee Wellman, the popular manager of the furnishing department of Loveman, Joseph & Loeb's last night ''has just placed with me an order for the handsomest suit of pink silk pajamas that we could get up, with instructions that we have them ready as soon as pos sible They are to be worn by the Boy in the Pink Pajamas' in the Society Cir GUS, which will be presented at the Jef- ferson on November 24
 "One peculiar thing about these paja- mas is that they are ordered with a waist measurement of twenty-two inches and a chest measurement of thirty-six inches, and can't help wondering what boy in Birmingham has such figure as that. Another peculiarity of these paja- mas, is that they are to be adorned with ribbon bows and other unmaseuline trim mings and frills. I believe the Athletic club is holding something up it's sleeve so to speak.
 However, the public can judge for it. self as we will have the pink pajamas on exhibition in one of our show windows within the next few days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-13
Leasino State Conyicts.

Dr. Cunningham throws a flood of light on the convict problem, both from Humanitarian and an economic point of view The rate of mortality among convicts employed in the coal mines is very high, and the price paid for the labor of convicts is very low. The lieutenant governor-elect was chairman of the joint committee on convicts of 1896-97, and he presented a report that presents this solution of the probem:
 "First-To contract or mine coal at an agreed price per ton, in the railroad car or loaded in the tramcar in the mines
 .'Second-To lease a coal mine and mine coal on it's own account.
 "Third-To hire Its convicts per capita, or per classification, per month to mine operators, the state maintaining, guard ing, controlling. etc, the convicts."
 This seems to be the programme that Governor Jelks and the state au. thorities have adopted As business Ican Governor Jelks may have as much of an eye to the business side of the Cunningham proposition as to the humanitarian side.
 It is plain, however, that the state should not mine coal on its own nc- count unless compelled to do SC through inability to obtain fair propo sitions from present operators. Pol itics would creep into a state mine and the competition of state coal with coal mined by individuals and corpor. ations would not prove pleasant fea ture to either party. It is always well to keep the state government on sim pie lines, closely within the necessary powers for the preservation of law and order. The state may be com pelled to mine coal, but it should moi take up that complex industry on its own account until circumstances be come imperative. ss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-13
THE MAJESTIC FLOOR WALKER.
How His LordshIp SqueIched a Very
 Little Girl.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 Have you eyer noticed the difference in those lordly creatures, the floor walk ers?" asked the girl in the broad brimmed hat Some of them are ex- tremely nice and obliging, but the others
 "The other day I happened to be in a big department store when a sudden cleo trical storm came up. A lady and her lit tie daughter, dressed in pretty summer clothes, came hurrying to the door, and seeing the deluge outside, stepped back dismayed.
 "I wonder if it has been raining long?' said the mother. Ask that floor walker, dear, and then we will be able to tell how much longer the storm will last
 1.-The girl, a dear little ladylike thing, moved over to where the floor walker stood. Please, would you tell me about how long it has been raining, sir? she asked. The magnihcent-loolxing fellow, almost feet 4. favored the little mite with a profound stare, thereby reducing her to the verge of tears, and walked off without deigning to reply.
 My goodness, said the jolly-faced girl, who had seen it ali He must be an exiled duke at the very best
 "The tables were turned. He of the good (?) manners reddened to the color known as turkey red and several of the clerks turned away to hide a smile.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-13
THAT CONVICT SENSATION.

From the Montgomery Journal.
 ; The governors decision, reached late Saturday evening, just before leaving for Beaumont, Texas, where he has some oil well interests, to work the convicts at present employed in the coal mines on the states own account, seems to have been like thunder clap from a cloudless sky
 The Birmingham district seems to have been taken by complete surprise. It is said that a representative from one of the coal companies most interested in the Birmingham district was here Saturday evening and had talk on the subject of a new bid for the convicts with the presi- dent of the board, and 1t was not even, it is said, intimated to him that there was going to be any change in the man agement of the convicts. If any change had been contemplated, certainly the president of the convict board ought to have known it, especially in the afternoon ana if he had known 1t he certainly ought to have notified the representative of one of the coal companies who came all the way from Birmingham to Montgomery to get information as to the character of the bids required by the board and other facts connected with releasing the con- victs for the current year. All who know
 President Carmichael, know that he is a candid man and that he would not have
 rnisled any gentleman. representing such | large interests as Is alleged the Birming-
 ham man represented in matter of such
 moment to his client and to his section of
 the state. 1t is concluded, therefore, that
 eiher Judge Carmichael did not know
 the facts at the time, or if he knew them he doubted the wisdom of the action of
 the governor and had hoped that the governor would, before time to act in this matter, change his mind and he preferred
 to risk prudent sober second thought of the governor tdsave him from being plac-
 ed in an embarrassing position.
 Governor Jelks no doubt has a laudable
 purpose in view in taking so radical a position concerning the convicts worked in the mines. involving as it does such
 large interests, and the conyicts and the people themselves and what ever that purpose is, while not developed, will yet probably show the wisdom of the gover-
 nor's bold and aggressive action.
 It is intimated by some friends of the governor that the governor is making a bluff with the view of getting better prices for the statd's convicts, but oth- CTS equally close to the governor do not place any credence in this view of the
 matter believing the governor has too high a regard for the dignity of his cf- flee to play with so serious a problem as thatsinvolvedAi Airs- che management of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-13

section of the city with steam heat. What better evidence of the rapid growth of Birmingham could we have than these bits of evidence presented yesterday!
 Few appreciate how rapidly the city and county are increasing both in wealth and population, and this growth is based upon fuel and foundry iron. both of which the country will want whether times be good or bad The rate of growth may not be so great in future years, but no sort of times can take away the demand for coal or for iron, especially foundry iron, which is the speciality of this district.
 This is why capital does not hesi- tate in this district It sees that it's basis is solid as a rock, and that it can meet hard times with hard times prices. and outrun then all eompeti- tors. When iron sold at $6 ton every furnace in Jones valley but two was kept in operation, and Alabama export iron gained in those trying years a reputation in the worlds mar kets. We can, if need be, repeat the process. Our industries will go on whether there be a slump or boom in Wall street, and this is why Presi- dent Jemison is putting in steam heat. and Superintendent starks is trying to overcome the congestion of two thoroughfares.
 The inauguration of a steam heating plant will be something new in the south, but the immediate expenditure by President Jemison's company of s100,000 in installing it shows that it has faith in Birminghams future. It also shows that this company is one of the most enterprising in the south ern states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-13
A NOBLE WOMAN.
he Boston Beacon.

From the Boston Beacon.
 A life to be proud of, says the Des Moines News, is that of Mrs. Nancy Shuey, now S6 years old-a woman who was never blessed with children of her own, but for sixty years she has de- voted her whole time and energies to caring for other peoples children. She has reared and educated twenty-five or phans, nine of whom were married at her home at Kouts, Ind. When asked how she happened to take such an interest III these children she said with benevo- lent twinkle of the eye: Well, I just got interested in the poor little things and the more did for them the more want ed to do. I felt that I could do some good in that way and l. am not sorry I tried it. raised and educated twenty five of. them-fourteen boys and eleven girls All but three of them are still liv- ing, scattered about over the country. And the best of it is, they are all doing well and every one of them is grateful. They all turned out to be industrious, honorable men and women and are good citizens" In other words this woman has been a whole orphan asylum in her self. What a number of big rooms she must have had in her heart Motherless herself she has done the work of a dozen ordinary mothers That she has been a real mother is attested by the fact that her children" are 'all doing well and every one of them is grateful" Herein is real philanthropy This woman has not simply given money: she has given herself. The Indian came to the missionary and wanted to buy salvation. He offered all he had, stepee, wampum, wife and children. The missionary told him it was not enough. 'Well, then, Heap Big Spirit take poor Indian him. self!' There is no doubt the Great Spirit accepted the gift. The Rockefellers and the Carnegies and the Schwabs give money to philanthropic ent erprises, but they do not give the best gift-them- selves. Mrs. Shuey has given herselr-- her life. Who is greatest Tn the kingdom of kindness, this woman or these men?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-13
PARIS TO PEKIN ,RY RAIL,
the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 Much of the romance and all of the mystery of the Orient is likely to disap- pear when the completion of through rail communication from Paris to Pekin which is promised within little more than a year, enables the traveller to take a sleeping car for the whole distance. This service is to be established early in 1904 and the annual sale of through tick cts is estimated at 2S,O00
 At the outset the trip will require about twenty days, but when everything is run ming smoothly it is expected 1t will be made in fourteen. The average speed per hour at first will be as follows: Paris to Berlin, 53A miles; Berlin to Alexandrovo 40 miles; Alexandrovo to Moscow, 34 miles, Moscow to Irkutsk. 23 miles: Irkutsk to Lake Baikal, r miles; Lake BailSal to h. kow, 20 miles; Inkow to Pelzin. 231k miles. Russian railroad building does not war rant confidence in the maintenance of high speed at present east of Alexan- drovo. It will be a Journey of unusual interest whichever way the traveller goes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-13
Watercd Securities.

All crops are large and all branches of the federal government are in the hands of the republican party, and yet prices of securities in Wall street are going down. Money commands high rates, and gold exports are i'm pending. Where are Mark Hanna and the party of prosperity and the sacred tariff? If these three cannot maintain prosperity, then indeed there is some thing rotten in Denmark. The theory has been that the higher the rate of taxation in the custom houses, the greater the degree of prosperity, but this theory is getting at least black eye, in Wall street.
 The prime trouble is watered securl- ties, based on the tariff. The country has a surfeit of them, more than it can absorb, and the holders of them are endeayoring to unload them be- fore they become altogether unstable. These watered securities are largely issues of the three hundred trusts that the sacred tariff. is expected to pro tect. These trusts can at present ex- ploit the consumer up to the tariff limit and thus earn interest and divi- dends on water, but the country is be- coming weary of the exploiting pro- cess, and the tariff is to be revised. The country is fully determined that it shall be revised, and the holders of watered stock are in a hurry to unload.
 In other words, .tne water is being shaken out of securities, as of course it must be soon or later. Water never stays in marketable securities, especially when the robber tariff upon which they are based is to be re- vised. A revision of it by the robbers themselves means another revision later on. Any honest and well-grounded business need not and should not suf- fer in this water-shaking process. Crops were rarely larger, and all legit- innate business is in a sound condition. It should remain in that condition, unless indeed the false conditions ere ated by the Dingley scheme are so far reaching as to affect all business in- terests. Over speculation and over trustism and overtariffism are at the bottom of the slump, but the list should be reversed, the tariff being the real source of all the trouble that has overtaken the gamblers of Wall street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-13
PROCESS BY'WHICH COAL
 WAS FORMED IS UNKNOWN

then a period of decay, and finally, the carbonization period proper. Mere heat does not change wood into coal, though we can finally obtain substance like anthracite when NC gradually raise tfe temperature above zoo degrees. c. Hof- mann draws attention to the spontaneous heating and ignition often observed in vegetable products, and he studies the problem thermo-chemieaIly. Hay Is very apt to heat in warm. damp condition and to burst into flames when air gains access. Wet flax Is. notoriously danger GUS. and so are oiled rags.
 A mill containing grain and flour was burned down in Berlin years ago; the fire was ascribed to spontaneous conbus- tion, and in some big Jumps of smolder- ing grain which had been thrown into the river Hoffman discovered layers re. sembling Ignite, coal and anthracite in this sequence. In all these cases mols- ture favcrs tho combustion sor the fun gons growth starting it. With coal this Is not so, because there is no organized fibre and no fungous growth. The writer in Engineering says in concluding ais
 
 "Geolcgically wo have reason to be- lieve that the formation of the coal beds was followed by violent titanic conyul- sions. during which keat and pressure may have coeacted. By spontaneous con,- bustion some seam would become charred; the heat would be communicate ed to another seaTa and so on, so that coal heds of considerable evtant ,,,,,,a be produced. But Hoffman himself sees that we do not understand. on these lines, how it is that coal beds consist of fairly uniform coal-coal. anyhow. not lignite-ali through down to their extreme veins. We do not arrive at any final conclusion as to the genesis of coal. therefore, and the chief inte1st of Bl. Hoffman's paper lies in the fact tha. he draws attention to the influence of spontaneous combustion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-13
School Books in Alabama.

"Alabamians not only pay" says the Butler Advocate, "an unreasonable price for school books, but parents are required to furnish a new set nearly every year, which amounts to an enormous tax on the whole. It is tc be hoped that the coming legislature will give relief from this condition oi affairs. A uniform system would al least stop the the habit of requiring new books with each change of teach. CTS. We dare say that there is not a parent in Alabama who has not suf- fered through this channel. By all means let the legislature give relief by passing some sensible measure that will reduce the school book account" ]"
 This is all very good and very much to be desired. North Carolina and Tennessee have state uniform text book laws; Georgia and Alabama have not. The two latter states have more or less of county uniformity, and parents in both pay from 40 to 30 per cent more for school books than parents in Tennessee and North Caro- lima pay, to say nothing about the fantastic changes that the book trust working through incompetent county superintendents bring in, or the ex- penses involved when family moves across a county line.
 The subject is, however, well under stood. Parents who need school books do desire state uniformity. They de sire to have the school books of the state uniformly good, selected by a competent state board, but the ring of county superintendents and teach CTS and the book trust want no such thing-and there you are. The sub ject will come up in the legislature, and the book trust will bring to bear there it's various influences and it's Concentrated power. Whether the new legislature will heed the parents of 100000 children or the book trust and it's subordinates, official and unofficial, remains to be seen. The last legisla- ture was body and soul a book trust legislature. What the new one will be time will disclose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-13
IMPORTANCE TO COUNTRY
 OF PRESERVING FORESTS

Edward Everett Hale in the New York
 American.
 This nation ought never to be surprised when new conditions bring new duties It is no fault of the makers of the constitu- tion that they did not state in advance all the details of duty which would de- mand our attention century after their time.
 Thus, in their time, it took Carver the better part of year to go from the At lantic to lake Michigan, and 1t took him as long to come back the next year. Now I can go from New York to lake Michigan in day. and it is not queer that the na- tion which has to regulate commerce be- tween New York and lake Michigan should have some duties in 1902 which it did not have in 17S9.
 Among these duties which belong to the nation is the duty of preserving or main- taining the forests of the nation. In a small way the national government un- dertook this century ago. The navy de- partment used to have its preserves of trees for shipbuilding because it did not choose that the nation should be depen- dent on private resources or be the vic tim of private rapacity.
 And in those days, in the first half of the last century, the average American still regarded the forest as his enemy. But now the forest is nO mans enemy On the other hand, the world knows only too we'll that the destruction of forests has been the signal for the decline and downfall of empires.
 In Asia Minor and in Syria were once the finest regions of the civilized world. Those regions received the first blow to their civilization in the wanton destruc- ton of their forests.
 The United States has turned over new leaf in reserving the control of large districts in the west, so that their for. ests cannot be cut away without the per- mission of the central government. We are now carrying the same policy fur