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MONEY 10 LOAN at sh to s per c.re, ip suHa
Of g. 900 TO $1,000 L. c. real estate; p4y %
s and per cent mortgages and begin anew; Cu
transactions conducted with economical crnsider-
alton for borrowers wN. II. SAUNDERS 4 CO..
1907 1t. nv.
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STATEMENT Of the condition Of the UNITED
STATES LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. in the
city Of New York, the 3lst day OF Decem-
Der, 1901.
Assets ..... .....................ss4 AIS. $50 4s
Liabilities ........... ............ $50. .ss4 25
Surplus ............ ........... 6Is, ,725 20
Income for six months is............. sTl, ,66I 80
Disbursements for six months. s43,2il CO
State of New York. City Of New York, and
County Of Neu York. S.:
c. =. FRALElGH, second vice president and
WN. r. STANDEN. actuary. of the United States
| Life Insurance Company in the City Of New
York do declare and say that the accompanying
statement of the condition OF said company on
the 3lst da~ Of December 1901, is correct and
true. according to the best Of their information
knoxledgc. ard belief.
g. p. FRALEIGH, Second Vice President.
WA. T. STANDEN. Actuary.
Subscribed and sworn 10 before me, this 5th
day Of March, 1902.
(Scal.D WA. A. ELLIOTT
MI Notary Public. New York County.
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lotal .-.-.----. SloJ.o-N ic
DANIEL II. DUNHAM, Presiuent.
A. II. HASSiNGER. Secretary.
City of Newark. State of New Jersey.
Subscribed 10 and sworn to before me this 1th
day o' March. 1902
(Seal) MORRISON o. CoLYER
nj Notary Public.
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LOANS OF $40
MONEY TO LOAN.
MONEY TO LOAN

At the Lowest Rates of Interest oil d. G..
Real Estate Security.
FRANZ, T. RAWLINGS, 1895 Pa. ave.
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CONRAD b. DAY President.
r. G. KEELOR. Secretary.
City Of Philadelphia. State of Pennsylvania.
Subscribed TO and sworn to before me, this
9Th dsy OF March, 1902.
(Seal.) JOHN B. HENKEI.S.
Notary Public.
Commission expires January l5 1905. MI
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STATEMENT of the condition Of the MANHAT
TAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. of New
York on the 3lst day OF December, 1901.
Assets .. ................ sl6, sos 3i5 81
Liabilities .... ................. Ii, 1876 92i 0l
Surplus ...... ...-.....--..-..... 1,GGs, 42I So
Income for six months, ending De
cember 81. 1901. ................ 1,5lO,l44 81
Disbursements for six months end
ing December 81 1901 1,259. 4O6 &c
State Of New York. City Of New York, and
County Of New York. S.:
J. l.. HAI.SEY. vice president, and VI. W.
ToRREY. actuary, Of the Manhattan Life In
s,irance Company do declare and say that the
ACCOMPANYING statement of the condition OF said
company on the 9ist DAY of December. 1901, is
correct and true. according to the best of their
information, knowledge. and belief.
J. J.. HAi.SEY, Vice President.
NJ ". TORREY, Actuary.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 1st
day of March, 1862.
WIN. v STEBDINS
Notary Public, Kings County.
Certificate fled IN New York County. MI
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CHAS. A. SHAW, President.
JOS. McLEOUD, Secretary.
City Of New York. state OF New York:
Subscribed and TO before me this Goth
day Of February, 1902.
(SeaD f. STANLEY JARVIS
Notary Public. Suffolk County, n. Y.
mi Certificate filed in n. y. Coz
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that even, if not actually harmful ON
moral grounds, is vet injurious, be.
.cause it represents slipshod, sloyenly
thought and work; not the kind OF Sc.
rious thought of serious expression,
which we like to see in anything that
goes into the fiber of our character.
The Bible does not teach us to shir.
difficulties, but to overcome them.
That is4a lesson that each one of us
who has children is bound in honor to
teach these children, if he or she OK
poets to see them become fitted to play
the part of men and women in our
world.
If we read the Bible Alright We read
| q book which teaches us to go forth
and do the work of the Lord: to do the
work of the Lord in the world as we
find it; to try to make things better
in this world, even if only little bet
tier because we have lived in it. Tha!
kind of work can be done only by the
man who is neither a weakling nor {
coward; by the man who, in the full
lest sense of the word. is true Chris
| tian--like Great Heart, Bunyans hero
4 We plead for a closer and wider ant
deeper study of the Bible, SO that on
4 people may. be in fact as well as il
theory ''doers of the word and no
hearers only"
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ADuLTERATED FOODS.

The federal government is the only
power that is able to check and finally
destroy the manufacture and sale of
foods that are fraudulent and are not
what they purport to be. The general
government has no right to say to the
citizen you shall sell this. and you
may sell that but you must not sell
certain other articles, but there is a
way in which it can interfere between
greed and the consumer by using the
method adopted in suppressing the
sale of oleomargarine, doctored and
colored so as to resemble butter. 1t
is a constitutional method and the
sooner it is applied the better it will
be for the health and the pockets of
the people. 1t is by imposing such an
internal revenue tax on limitations of
food and drink products as will drive
such fraudulent foods and drinks out
OF the market. If an internal revenue
tax is imposed for instance. on coun-
terfeit coffee at per cent that Will
prevent such compound from being
sold cheaper than genuine coffee, that
will effect the desired purpose. At the
same time there will be nothing to
prevent the sale of compound under
| its proper name and at price CORE
spending to its value. The idea is that
4 the people should not be deceived.
There are various forms of adulter-
atoms and it is applied to almost every
/ article of food that goes on the table
A compound labeled as ground coffee
is sold at less than half the price of
genuine coffee: it consists of chicory,
roasted rye, wheat, barley or corn, col
ored to resemble the genuine and with
Just enough pure coffee to give it a
i semblance of the flavor. Tea is also
subject to gross authorizations, and is
sold under the name of tea for 10 OF
lis cents a pound. Canned meats OF
all kinds are sold under false labels;
| in fact it is almost mystery as to
! what is contained in can of meats
sold as beef, chicken, or turkey.
I Entering into the domain of bever
\ ages that are intoxicating more or less
\ or liquor for medical purposes, there
lis enough here to demand the most Sc
lrious attention Men are being actual
lily poisoned day after day by the adul.
lterated liquors that are in common
use. They are ssdoctored" in the sa
4 looms, in the jug houses and by those
: who bottle liquors OF special brands
LA physician sometimes prescribes
!. wines or liquors for medical purposes
} but he has no assurance thai the pa
: tient will get what is prescribed, but 8
yillainous compound that may do grea-
I injury when taken.
1t is the cupidity of man that leads
Ito these authorizations and the public
Z is powerless. A state or municipal Law
\ would do little good because it canno
! be enforced but system of interna
$ revenue taxation with appropriate
\ penalties for violation Of its regula
e lions could and would be enforced b.
+ federal authority.
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MR.. LACEY STRONGLY ENDORSED

The resolutions adopted by Davis
county republicans in which Hon. John
r. Lacey is endorsed with emphasis
and enthusiasm, point to his re-nomi-
nation for congress by acclamation So
far as known no other candidate than
Mr.. Lacey is being seriously consider
the republicans look toward him as
his own successor. The Davis county
resolutions refer to Mr.. Laceys long
and able services and his fidelity to
the interests of his constituents. With
out prejudice to any other member OF
the house of representatives it must
be said that Mr. Lacey has indeed been
strong member He has been able
to secure legislation on every impor.
tant subject that he has undertaken
and in the meantime who could have
been more devoted to the claims OF
pensioners than he has been. In add
ton to this, he has commanded the re-
spect and confidence of his fellow
members without regard to party
lines and has stood Loyalty with his
colleagues from Iowa, for the princi
pies upon which he was nominated
and elected. His speeches on public
| questions as published in the RECORD
are models of concise statement ant
logic embellished with the graces 0
! language and rhetoric. The either
of the sixth congressional district, WHIT
may visit Washington during a ses
4 ion of congress will have feeling o
i pride in mingling with public me-
4 where he will hear SO many goo
/ words said of Major Lacey. His re
nomination and reelection may be re
4 garded as among the things that ar
as certain to be as any event in tn
i future can be predicted.
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PROSPERITY MADE AT HOME, NOT
ABROAD.
(From Foreign Trade Delusions,'
Gunton's Magazine for May.)

(From Foreign Trade Decisions, 7
Gunton's Magazine for May.)
A countrys prosperity is not mea-
sured nor correctly indicated by its
foreign trade, whatever the nature of
its balance is, but by its whole trade,
domestic and foreign. But, in any
given state of trade, favorable bal
ance is preferable to an adverse bal
ance. "A nation may have compare
lively large favorable balance of trade
with a small total volume and be
worse off than with smaller balance,
or even no balance, but with large
volume of domestic trade. The pros
perity of nation. is measured by the
aggregate trade, which indicates the
consumption and productive employ
ment of its people,. A nation would
be better off to pay for its balance IL
cash, with high, domestic prosperity
than it would to receive a balance il
cash with depleted domestic industr!
and small consumption, low wages ant
enforced idleness. But the fact re
mains that there is an unfayorablt
balance, with the same condition o
domestic industry and employment o
home labor. s6
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The confession before court would
have simplified the trial and the pun
ishment whatever it was, could have
been speedily administered.
The frequent occurrence of such a
crime as was committed by this negro.
goes to show that mob law is not an
effective means of supmessing the dis
order There is terror in the thought
of being subjected to the fortunes of
fire but the criminal does not have
any such thoughts when intent upon
crime. In any event the infection of
such sentence by a mob has most
demoralizing influence on society and
is check to civilization wherever 1T
is practiced. The dignity of the state
of Texas is outraged when band of
men usurp the authority of law, defy
it and make themselves the avengers.
1t is improbable that any legislature
of any enlightened state would enact
the penalty of burning to death for any
crime, to say nothing of an assault on
| the person; yet the mob at Lansing
Switch has followed the precedent set
! by other mobs and in an hour over
| threw the laws OF Texas and set up
| anarchy by taking unto themselves the
task of inflicting a punishment I'm,
known to the law The example OF
such scenes has most pernicious in
fluence not only in Texas but in al
| parts of the country. What was tol
4 Grated and done there, will make il
! easier for some other community tt
do like thing under the same circum
4 stances. 1t is possible that ii nigh
load tp thp initiation Of the fire curt
i for smaller offenses than that TO
which the negro suffered. 1t thu
comes about that the entire country i
deeply interested in such events AM
fears the spread of such dangerou
practices. They are dangerous for TIL
additional reason, that a mob infiame
by passion, often infi!cts punishment
upon the innocent.
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FOUND IN THE TALL GRASS.
Rails at Jury System.

Britt News: After two weeks ser.
vice We have escaped from jury work
at the county seat. We were On a
case for three days, where We We're
compelled to listen to the tedious ha-
rangue of the lawyers, following which
we spent thirty hours in the jury room.
all night without sleep, trying with
eleven others to harmonic the evil
dence, the lawyers pleas, the courts
instructions, and to agree on verdict
Our companions in misery were eleven
congenial fellows; We have done our
duty as a citizen, and are not sorry we
were there, but if We are ever caught
again it will be after some very strong
evasion. By the way, did you ever
stop to think what a snap it is to be
a iuryman? You get 50 per day for
your time, pay $1.50 per day for your
hotel bill, 40 cents per day for hack
hire, or else walk a mile and a half
four times a day; you then have the
magnificent sum of 10 cents per dav
for luxuries and pay some one to take
your place at home. Besides all this,
you are liable to spend from one to
three days in a 6 by s jury room with
out sleep, chewing the rag" with elev-
en- others, trying to make them all
think alike by firing them out. Oh.
yes, our jury system is grand thing
the finest thing we know to educate a
man to lie and evade the truth in or
| der to make his escape.
o.
+. w. Kimble, of Eldon, was one Of
the veterans who attended the Grand
Army encampment. He was So years
| of age Thursday and celebrated the
day by entertaining his friends among
| the soldiers of the Union army witt
stories of his experiences in Compan.
lib. Fourteenth Iowa. He enlisted il
Wapello but was assigned to Compan,
ID, which was from Bremen county, a.
drummer. The regiment was muster
ed at Davenport. Mr.. Kimble is at thu
! head of drum corps at Eldon, ant
brought it up with him to the encamp
ment. 1t marched and played in tn,
parade of Wednesday. The unique
Feature about the thing was that MI
Kimble carried the same drum that h
carried throughout the war. 1t was
large brass affair and very heavy
,lWhen it was issued to Mr.. Kimble
!. Twas not charged to him and when h
was mustered out he secured permis
sion to take it home. The heads wer
shot out two or three times during tn
war. but otherwise the drum was u1
lin illred
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every political campaign for many
years. 1t is needless to add that Mr..
Baldwin and j. E. Blythe are the best
of friends.
Hepburn Against Bigger Navy.
Col. Hepburn got on the minority
side again in the debate upon the navy
bill when the proposition was under
discussion to build war ships at the
navy yards. Col. Hepburn made an
imprisoned, vigorous speech in oppo-
sition to the proposition after . the
house had practically decided the
question, overruling chairman, COM
mittee and all. However, Col. Hep
burn was with the committee and
with the chairman that time.
Frank J. Stillman. I
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the island during his youth. she even
went so far as to restrict nm 10 the
boundaries of the Bayamo estate,
Gets More Freedom.
Associates she knew he must have,
but his boy friends had to come to see
him; he was not allowed to visit them.
The father had died when Tomas was
very young. When he was il years
old ne broke from his mothers leading
strings and went to Havana to study.
Soon after that the death OF his moth
er left him in sole control OF great
estate. He went back to Bayamo to
manage it.
BY this time rebellion had broken
out actively and Palma cast his. lot
with the island party. Years OF aglta-
ton and organization followed, IN
which Palma bore an active and proml-
nent part.
In 1868 when open war began, he
was one of the leaders in the newly
formed legislative body. His home
town was the first upon which the
Spanish troops descended. The pa
triots, loving it devotedly as they did,
| for it was an old and pleasant city of
| llOIllGS, UuTuGu IL " lllCt Slouhu't ~
that the oncoming regiments should
| find neither food nor shelter there.
Is Elected President.
| During the guerrilla campaigning OF
the Ten Years. War Palma was elected
president of a republic organized by
| the troops. In 1877 he was captured
by the Spaniards, imprisoned for
short time in Havana, and later taker
4 to Spain, where he was confined in al
old castle for over year.
/ He takes care to give the Spaniards
1 their due, and says he was treate'
! with great Kindness and respect BY
them.
Z. After his release he was postmaster
general of Honduras for five years
and then came to the United States
where he established collegiate
school for Cuban and South American
boys at Central Valley, N. Y.
Head of the Junta.
During the last struggle for Cuba
INDEPENDENCE he was the head of tn
: junta which. with headquarters in NeH
York, raised money and carried on
propaganda in behalf of the cause
He says that his first work as pres
: dent will be toward extending a fire
school system throughout the islant
and he insists that there shall b
neither ostentation nor formality i
his conduct of affairs.
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INTERVIEWS AT LONG RANGE.

President Theodore Roosevelt: --Ey.
cry thinking man, when he thinks,
realizes what a very large number of
people tend to forget that the teach
ings of the Bible are SO interviewer
and entwined with our whole civic and
social life that it would be literally
impossible for us to figure to ourselves
what that life would be if these teach
ings were removed. We would lose
almost all the standards toward which
we, with more or less resolution, strive
Ito raise ourselves. Almost every man
who has, by his life work, added to the
sum of human achievement OF which
the race is proud, of which our people
are proud, almost every such man has
based his life work largely upon the
teachings of the Bible. Sometimes it
has been done unconsciously, and
among the very greatest men dispro.
Iportionately large number have been
diligent and close students of the Bible
at first hand.
| Iincoln-sad, patient. kindly Lincoln
who, after bearing upon his weary
shoulders for four years greater bur-
den than that borne by any other man
| of the nineteenth century, laid down
! his life for the people whom, living,
he had served so well-built up his en-
ltire reading upon his early study OF
4 the Bible. He had mastered it abso-
1lutely; mastered it as, later, he mas
tered only one or two other books, no
tably Shakespeare; mastered it so that
The became almost "a man of one
book" who knew that book and was
linstinctively put into practice what he
had been taught therein; and he left
his life as part of the GROWING WORK
of the century that has just closed.
You may look through the Bible
from cover to cover, and nowhere viii
YOU find line that can be construed
Into an apology for the man of brains
!, who sins against the light On the
4 contrary, in the Bible, taking that as
la guide, you will find that because
much has been given to you much VII
he expected of you, and a heavier con
domination is to be visited upon the
liable man who goes wrong than upon
Ibis weaker brother who cannot do rho
harm that the other does, because it is
mot in him to do it.
plead not merelys'for training. o.
the mind, but for the moral and spirit
ual training of the home and the
: church: the moral and spiritual train
, ling that have always been found in
, and that have ever accompanied th'
s study of this book; this book, which
!, in almost every civilized tongue, cal
. be described as The Book" with Thu
i certainty of all understanding 70,
), Iwhen you so describe it,
III The immense moral influence Of TIL
tr,.l - tal,r
! most important, is not the only powe
,lit has for good In addition there il
1.-The unceasing influence it eXerts Oh
/ the side of good taste, OF good ltera
Q lture, of proper sense of proportion, o
y simple and straightforward writing am,
r thinking.
Il This is.afet a.small matter in ahsag
3 Iwhen ihere is a tendency 10 read mia,.l
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A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT.

The details Of the horrible scene re
Gently enacted in Texas. where ne
gro was tortured by fire and slowly put
to death for the crime of assaulting a
white woman, are alluded to in this
connection in order to raise the in.
duiry: What kind of civilization is
it that tolerates such excuses. The
punishment does not fit the crime nor
was it inflicted under the law but by
mob of infuTiated beings that were as
furious and as cruel as any band OF
Apache Indians. There can be no palli
alton of the offense committed by the
negro but the legislators of the state
OF Texas in deliberation prescribed the
penalty for such deed and also enact
ed a law requiring a trial it is sale
that the negro confessed his guilt bu'
this Goes. not excusetsfhe torture MOI
tile death of the wretched man bui
rather adds tc. the crime of violence
thaf was there nnmaitsed by the teoh
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REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION
To the republican electors of the state of

To the republican electors of the state of
Iowa:
There will he delegate convention of the
republicans of Iowa held in the city of Dies
Moincs. Iowa, on Wednesday. July 80. l?o2,
at l1,oclock a III. for the purpose of plac-
ing in nomination a candidate
Tor Secretary OF State
For Auditor of State,
For Treasurer of State.
For Attorney Generals
For Judge of Supreme Court
For Clerk of Supreme Court,
Fro Reporter of Supreme Court
For Railroad commissioner.
And for the transaction of such other bus
iness as may properly come before said CON
vention.
All voters of the state who believe in re.
publican principles and who endorse the
policy of the republican party. are cordially
Invited to unite under this call in the elec-
tion Of delegates to said convention, the
ratio of representation will be as follows:
One delegate nj large for each county and
one additional delegate for each 300 votes
or fraction of 100 or over, cast for Albert
r. Cuinmins. republican candidate for gov
ernor at the election of 1901
The representation to which the several
counties will be entitled under this call is
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REPUBLICAN, COUNTY coNvEN-
TiON.

The republicans of Wapello county,
Iowa, will meet in delegate convention at
the court house in Ottumwa on Saturday
afternoon, June IA, 1902. at 1:30 o'clock
for the purpose of choosing delegates to
the following named conventions: The
sixth Congressional district convention,
mot vet called at the date of the issuance
of this call; the state convention to be
held at Dcs Moines July 80. 1902. and the
second judicial district convention to be
held at Ottumwa on June %, 1902; also
for the transaction Of such other business
as may properly come before said conven-
ton.
The primaries of the several wards OF
the city of Ottumwa win be held Tuesday
evening June 10, at 500 O'Clock. The pri
naries of the several townships and pre-
cncts outside of Ottumwa will be held OF
Saturday afternoon. June Z, at 400 O'clock
unless otherwise called by the township Of
precinct committeeman. The ratio of rep
Presentation in said convention will be n
follows: One delegate Mt large for eacl
ward, township and precinct and one al
ditional delegate for each twenty-five
votes or fraction of IS or over cast fo
Honorable A. b. Cummins. for governor o
Iowa at the general election of 1901. TIL
several wards, townships and precincts I'M
der this. call are entitled to delegates a