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ent with Thy will, o God, wnen his
term of Office expires, send him back
to the White House to serve another
four years" The u~tterance of this SEN
tence was the signal for shouts OF
"Bless him." Yes. yes" Amen,
Amen!" Governor Richard Yates
welcomed the conference on behalf Of
Illinois, saying in part: You have been
ridiculed, but yours is one of the
forces that go on in spite Of all ridi-
Guile. You are to be one of the forces of
redemption. The people believe you
are right and have faith in you, be.
cause you stand for the things that
are right. I believe in God and Christ
and l believe they think you are right.
l am tor you as a Methodist as we'll
as the Governor of Illinois. The fol-
lowing letter of regret from President
Roosevelt was read at the evening ses-
sion: 81 genuinely regret my inability
to be present at the general conference
of the African Methodist episcopal
church, which assemblies in Chicago
May 2 / wish you well. Every de-
ZEN citizen must feel a peculiar inter.
est in every movement for the spirit
ual and material elevation OF our col.
ored citizens. Theodore Roosevelt
Two matters Of especial interest will
be settled before the close OF the con-
ference. May q. One is the revision
OF the book Of discipline, making the
rules against dancing, theater-going
and gambling more severe. and the
other the question of the election OF
more bishops. 1t is expected that the
vacancy in the bishopric caused by the
death of Bishop Morris NJ. Moore, OF
Louisiana will be filed and that the
number OF bishops will be increased
by the election OF a new member Of the
e~piscopate, but this will not be
brought about without determined op-
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room Of her home and expired in a
short time. Heart trouble was as
signed as the cause Of death.
CLOGSTON.-The remains of the
late Mrs. J. w. Clogston were brought
to Oskaloosa On Friday and laid to
rest in Forest cemetery.
Many former friends of the lady
attended the obsequies. She was for
many years a resident of this city
and was loved and admired by all
who knew her. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Clogston, who came ove from Abba
to attend the funeral, returned home
Friday night. Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Weir
and daughter Margaret, of Peoria, re-
manned over Saturday, guests Of the
S. j. Dutton home. They will leave
in the evening for Abba and from
there will return to their home.
SMITH,-Died, at the family resi-
dence in Garfield township, at 500 p.
M, April 81, 1904, from injuries re-
ceived in a runaway on the 30tn of
January, David s. Smith, aged "
years, 2 months and 10 days.
The gentleman was born in Ohio
and has been a resident of Iowa since
1856. The funeral will be held from
the residence at 1 p. M, Friday, April
20, under the auspices of I. o. o. F.
lodge with interment in Beacon Gem
etery. He leaves besides his wife,
three daughters, Mesdames Hester
Evans, Belle Wilson and Emma Bur-
dock, and five sons, Bert, Otto, Nor.
man, Hosea and M. E. Smith.
CLoGSToN.--S. J. Dutton received
a telegram from Walter Clogston this
morning bringing the news Of the
death Of his mother, Mrs. Margaret
Clogston, widow OF the late James
Clogston.
The lady has been quite i'll during
some time past with stomach trouble
and indigestion. She has been seri-
ously i'll and the end was anticipated
In a communication sent to Oskaloosa
relatives a short time before the ar
rival OF the telegram. The end came
at five-thirty o'clock this (Thursday)
morning. She passed away at the
residence Of her daughter. Mrs. Ed
Weir. OF Peoria. The body will be
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Readers Of the Journal are familiar
already with the strange story of Ger
tie Trusty and her e~x-husband, John
A. Leeper. Gertie became the wife
of John Leeper two years ago in La
Clede county, Mo. She was then
nine years of age, and she was press
ed into this unnatural union with a
mar old enough to be her great
grandfather by the opportunities of
her step-father and mother and the
aged gentleman who was seeking a
young wife. AS Gertie tells the story
John had cast his eyes upon her and
despite ner infancy had conceived
the idea that she would make a like
ly fourth or fifth wife for him, as the
case may be. Gertie's mother is per-
haps lacking in some of those mater
nal instincts that are common among
Iowa mothers, or maybe poverty was
driving ner to desperation, or posi-
bly, there were other conditions which
she alone knows about that impelled
her to encourage the marriage Of her
nine-year-old little girl to John A.
Leeper, aged, it is alleged, sixty
years. At any rate, Gertie's mother
dressed her up in long clothes anG
added all possible touches to her at
tire that might tend to make Gertie
look older and then took her to the
home of a neighbor and a travelling
minister of the gospel coming along
he was prevailed upon to pronounce
the words that were to unite June
and December. John took his Child
wife to the rough home which he &C.
cupied in the backwoods of Missouri
and they lived together as man and
wife for over a year. When Gertie
was in~town here "a few days ago she
admitted to several that she did not
like married life, she did not enjoy
the sweeping of floors, the washing
of dishes, and the other duties that
fall to the lot of a h~ouse-keeper near
ly so much a she does playing with
other little girls. She had never
loved John, she said, SO she wanted a
divorce. The court here made short
work Of ner application. She is free
today and is attending school with
other little girls. There has been an
experience in her life. however, which
rarely to the lot Of little girls
in America. 1t was an experience.
too. which may have the effect of shad-
owing her whole life. She was made
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in the palatial home shown in the
group of pictures above. John did a
very foolish thing, however, If he
wished to retain his wife. He took
her a-visiting to the home of a Mrs.
Anna Crandall, who had a little girl
just about the age Of Mrs. Leeper.
Just as soon as Gertie had come into
the Crandall home she threw of her
wraps and began playing on the floor
with Mrs. Crandall's little girl, and
when John wanted her to go home
and again resume her duties a his
housekeeper and wife, she protested.
She didn't want to be his wife any
more. She wanted to be a little girl
like other little girls; she wanted to
go to school, and play, to have a
good time, and she didn't want to be
the slave and plaything of an old
man, old enough to have rocked the
cradle Of her grandmother. Mrs.
Crandall sympathiZed with the girl,
took up her case, and the last term
of court witnessed the hasty dissolu-
ton of the marriage of Gertie Trusty
and John A.. Leeper.
The pictures above show the ex-
husband and his ex-wife. Gertie
looks larger in mis- picture than she
really is. The lens of the camera
was a little too close to her and had
the effect of making her appear
larger than her natural self. In fact,
she is perhaps a trifle small for her
age. She is a little girl yet, though
she is a sort of a widow. The pic
ture of John is a good reproduction.
Leeper has eve yet comprehended
the enormity Of his guilt in his last
marital episode. He does not seem
to think much of it. There seemed
TO be nothing particularly unusual
about it to him. He did not care par
ticularly if she did get a divorce and
he seemed, when he was in town
here, to be anxious to get the case or
his hands and get back to his home
"a Brighton. He is not worrying
about the loss OF his child wife. His
experiences with women have evi-
IDENTIFY been so numerous that he has
become hardened to the affection OF
losing them. He is reputed to have
had several wives before. Just how
many has not been determined yet.
At any rate, he is now open for fur
Their entanglements. Washington
Journal.
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Births, Marriages and Deaths.


MCNEIL ARMSTRONG. - An
nouncements received in the
city this morning by mail of the mar
riage of Walter F. Mcneil and Eve
Ign Armstrong, Thursday, April rs
1904, at Seattle, Washington. AT
home after May fifteenth, at Fairfax
Washington.
SHINN-BARLOW. - Married, al
the parsonage of the officiating minis
ter, Rev. NJ. l.. Anthony, at 8 p. m.
Tuesday, May 3, 1904, Miss Nellie
Barlow and Mr.. Ed W. Shinn.
Both young people live in Illinois
The gentleman has been working for
C. F. Stein in the poultry and egg
house. They went to Peoria Wednes'
day to visit at the home of her par
ents.
GESFORD-Died, Of consumption
at her home, No. 815 South H street
at SIS o'clock a. M, Saturday, May
z, 1904, Mrs. Hannah Gesford, aged
Al years, 10 months. Funeral at 2:3C
p. M, Sunday, May 8. from the resi-.
dence and interment in Forest GENE
terry.
Deceased was the mother OF Anna
and Albert Gesford. The family has
the sympathy Of friends in their be
reavement.
SPROUL--Mr. and Mrs. John Cru
den, Miss Elsa Sproul and Will Mar
tin are home from Barnes City and
Union Mills where they were called
to attend the funeral of the late Mrs
Robert Sproul, who was a sister Of
Mrs. A. Martin, OF this city.
The death Of the lady was quite
sudden and unexpected. She com
planned Of being I'll and asking for a
dose OF medicine that she had been
taking, laid down upon a sofa in a
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brought to this city for funeral and
interment. Funeral service will be
held Friday at $3.50 p. M, from st.
Mary's church. Oskaloosa friends
II the family extend kindly sympathy
to the bereaved ones.
McFADDEN.-Died, of a feshy tu-
NOR, at 1910 o'clock a. m, Monday,
May 8, 1904, at his home, No. 513 A
avenue east, after a four months i'll
ness, Harry Fulton McFadden, aged
50 years, IL months and II days.
The gentleman had spent his life
in Iowa, having been born in Keokuk.
He was a member of ten fraternal So
cieties-Masonic,I o. o. F., Red Men,
Rebekahs, Pocahontas, Yeomen, Ben
Hur, Bankers Reserve, Woodmen of
the World, and Carpenters Union.
The deceased has suffered with the
trouble that caused his death during
unable to take any nourishment into
the stomach for a number of weeks
past and death was in fact from-starv-
alton. The deceased leaves three
daughters, Mrs. Emma Hamlin, Of
Des Moines, Mrs. Eola Rosser, Of
Chicago, VINO came to the city about
one week ago on account of the seri-
u condition Of her father, and Mrs.
Chas. Bogard, Of this city; a brother,
William McFadden, Of Butler, Nevada,
two sisters, Mrs. Leroy Wing, of
Britt, and Mrs. Leota Denton, of Earl
vile, where the father, William Nc
Eadden, Sr, also resides. The de-
ceased was a well known contractor
and builder of this city and he has
met with an abundant success during
the past several years of his labor.
He was an energetic and enterprising
citizen, a man well liked by all who
had to do with him, and his death
will be generally regretted. He was
a member of the Baptist church of
the city and took an active interest
in the affairs of the church organiza.
ton. The funeral will be held from
the Baptist church, with interment in
Forest cemetery.
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MEMORIAL.
Methodists Pay Signal Honor to
Martyred President.

Los Angeles, May by a rising
vote the Methodist conference this
morning appointed a committee to
prepare a memorial to President Nc
Kinley. A resolution was accepted to
bring about a new evangelistic move
ment to secure to Methodism a mil
lion souls annually. 1t is rumored
the present conference favors old
time Methodism.
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position from an element in the
church that advocates abolishing the
Office of bishop and devoting the mon
ey now paid the incumbents to the ed
ucation of candidates for the ministry.
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Carriers Examination,

An examination for Rural Carriers
was held by Postmaster HOFFMAN, in
the postofice Saturday forenoon.
There were four applicants from
Lacey, Iowa, two from Cedar, Iowa,
one from Fremont and one from New
Sharon.
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A German theological seminary
costing $4,000 will be erected at Du-
buque II that city will donate SIS, 900.
The Teton peak., 1904-09-22
MONEY IN CIRCULATION.
A Daily Increase of So 352,3O4 for
Eight Years.

During the last eight years of Republi-
can administration the increase in the
volume of our currency has amounted
to S3o2,3O4 per day, or more than $lO,-
100000 per month-the total increase
being $1,014, ,561. This increase has
been chiefly and directly due to the poll
cies of sound money and protection.
By the act passed Dec. 1S, 1899, by
Republican Congress Q42 Democrats vot-
ing against it and only IL voting for it
in the House of Representatives and %
voting for it and 2 against it in the Sen
ate), and signed by President Mckinley,
the gold standard was sanctioned by law,
and according to Alton B. Parker was
then firmly and irrevocably establish
ed.' Just as free silver would have
driven gold from the country according
to the famous Gresham law that bad
money drives ont good money" so this
positive committal of the country to the
gold standard resulted in a large gain
of gold to our currency. The increas-
ingly large output of gold from Alaska.
California, Colorado and other Western
States remained in the United States
instead Of being driven out, as would
have been the case had free silver tri
umphed in 1896 or 1900. Not only this,
but the United States gold standard drew
to this country much of the gold produc
ed in South Africa and other parts Of
the world.
The policy of protection also contribut-
ed to our ability to keep our own gold
and get more gold from other nations, for
it made the balance of trade favorable.
since it tended to increase our exports
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industries are protected. The commits
sion itself reports unanimously that the
relative decline of the iron and steel in
dustry cannot be attributed to natural
disadvantages or want of skill and en-
terprise on the part of either of British
manufacturers or workmen, but is due
to the fact that their competitors in the
United States and Germany. having Sc
cured control of their home markets by
means of tariffs and the regulation Of
their export trade, are in a position to
export their surplus products
Increase in w ages.
The value to labor and to the indus
trial and commercial interests of the
United States of the development OF the
iron and steel industry under Republican
rule will be apparent when it is real
lied that the wages and salaries PAID
in iron and steel manufacture in the
United States have increased from SS9,
273.956 in 1890 to $132 100000 in 1900.
The growth and Importance to labor of
the iron and steel industry is illustrated
by the following table. the figures being
a part of the official report of the United
States Census of 1900;
Iron Ore Regions Get Benefits.
The extraordinarily good times which
came to the iron and steel industry OF
the United States brought exceptional
prosperity to our iron ore regions, the
United States soon assuming greatly
increa sing lead over its closest competl-
tors. Great Britain and Germany.
From the Democratic years. 1898 tc
1901. the latest date where official data
is available. the production of the thret
countries was
Great Britain, Germany, U. ).
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DemoraIzing Effects Of Democratic Policies VS..
Beneficial Effect Of Republican Policies.
KING TO PAUPER AND PAUpER TO KING
Phenomenal Rise Of the Industry Since 1894
Accurate Barometer of General Trade
Conditions-Wages Increased.

TURN OUT THE BEST TYPES ON
THE SHORTEST NOTICE. AND AT
THE LEAST COST, TO PEACE
ABLY INVADE WITH IRON AND
STEEL THE MARKETS OF THE
WONLD. DURING THE TWELVE
MONTHS ENDING WITH JUNE,
10O4. THE TOTAL EXPORTS OF
IRON AND STEEL AND THE MAN
UF A CT U RES EREFROM
A NJ 0 Mt E d TO $111,94S,5S6,
AGAINST 500, 900, ,264 DURING THE
DEMOCRATIC YEAR 1894.
During the last eight years the Brit
ish newspapers have bees forced to dole
fully notice continued succession of
American industrial triumphs over Great
Britain. Now it is an American firm
that gets the contract to build the great
Atbara bridge across the Nile in upper
Egypt. Now 1t is an American loco
motive that supersedes the British loco
motive on leading English railroad.
Now 1t is an American electrical COM
pany that gets all the orders for the cleo
trical equipment for the great new Lon
don underground railroad system. And
thus episodes Of American commercial
conquest during the last eight years
could be repeated until they would grow
wearisome to read. The continued tri-
umphs of the United States in the steel
and iron trade. at the same time that
this industry in Great Britain has been
in process of decline, led to the creation
recently Of British Commission Of bus-
ness experts to investigate the sit
uation. This commission in its first re-
port on the iron and steel trade presents
information Of the highest value from
firms employing over 81 per cent of the
labor in this combined trade-231 900
out Of an aggregate of 265, 900 workers
and it has ascertained that while this in
dustry has been advancing rapidly in
other countries it has remained almost
stationary in Great Britain. The i'm
ports have increased 200 per cent and
the exports have declined 7h per cent,
and foreign competitors, protected in
their own home markets, have made it
the basis for the conquest Of the British
market. The masters Of the trade have
been consulted, and only 5 per cent OF
them are content with free trade and
a policy of inaction. The employers of
81 per cent Of the labor are convinced
that neither masters nor men can expect
equality OF conditions unless the home
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AS TO IMMIGRATION.
A Campaign Issue that Is Worthy of
the Voters Attention.

They are coming the less fortunate,
coming to this American continent to
secure a better life for themselves than
they have in their own land. They are
coming from the less prosperous parts Of
Italy, and from Bohemia and from Hun
gary and from Poland, and throughout
all that wide northern Slavic region
wherein is oppression of the Jews. In
other words, they are coming from every
where. From Europe the most oppressed
and, in some cases, most unlntelhgent
classes are coming here to find better
conditions for themselves and meanwhile
to necessarily infuse a new element of
blood here as well as a new element Of
thought and religion and general drift
of being. We accept them and their
blood and the infusion of their genera
tons for the future. We accept them, in
the broadest sense. with the idea that.
by and by, there will become a homo
geneity of the races which will take care
of itself. The Morse in all his varieties
is of course. part of us, but the assiml-
latiOn of the Latin in all his varieties Is
another thing. We are trying to be big,
broad Christians and make no distinc-
tions.
Certain laws have been enacted under
the regime of the Republican party, and
the manner in which they are being en-
forced illustrates, as well as could be,
the earnestness of the present admins
tration, in allowing the tiltering into this
country. in all generosity. Of those who
seek better harbor for what there is in
life. 1t is but fair to the Republican
party in this campaign that every voter
should think of all that the party has
done in the enactment of laws and the
enforcement of them. in all hberality, as
to perfecting the immediate business well
fare of the country and as to controlling
| the amalgamation of its future blood.
This is one of the side issues of the
| campaign to which the attention of every
voter may we'll be directed.
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power and prestige under the sponsor
ship of the Republican party was moth
ing short of marvellous.
The great victory for the gold stand
ard cured the uneasy, panicky conditions
that had prevailed in the money market.
1t was possible in 1897 for great i'm
provements to be financed by railroads
and other corporations. The investor
came out of the woods where he had
been during Democratic times and
bought bonds that represented cash to
be expended in more rails. more bridges,
more ears, more machinery, more sky
scrapers and more other things that re-
qntred enormous consumption of iron and
steel. But the increasing ability Of the
country to buy more iron and steel was
met by increasing necessity for larger
consumption. The railroads suffered
from car shortages because they could
hot buy new cars fast enough to keep
pace with the increasing business that
came to them. In almost every line
OF industry the calls in the iron and steel
industry for material increased so rap
IDLY that it was difficult matter for
'he IRON and steel manufacturers to hire
new men fast enough for the additional
work to be done, and to otherwise keep
up with enormously increasing cOnsump-
uon. But the Republican policy Of pro-
lection not only operated by it's general
business effects, to stimulate the increas-
ing consumption, but also to force the
increasing consumption to be met, not
by larger foreign imports Of iron and
S'eel, giving more work for the foreign
efs to do, but by increasing domestic
production, giving more work for Amer
ican laboringmen to do at continuously
Increasing wages.
Consum ption aud Production.
Here are the figures as to how both
consumption and production of pig Iron
almost trebled between the Democratic
year 1894, through the Mckinley and
ROOSEVELT administrations, up to the year
1904.
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THE PRODIGAL PARTY.
Biblical Story that Fits the Dem cvaoy
Of Today.
portland Oregonian.)

portland Oregonian.)
The Democratic party is like certain
son which wandered off into a far cOuD-
try and filled his belly with the husks
which the swine did cat. But when he
came to himself he said, l will arise and
go back to the home Of sense and honesty
which | left and will ask to be taken
back as hired servant on probation. l
will admit that | was wrong and have
now seen the light and l hope to bs re-
stored through good behavior to my for
mer place in the confidence Of the folks
at home and decent people generally
That is to say, the Democratic party
could be conscientiously likened to the
prodigal son if it had acted on the lines
Just laid down. But the attitude it ac-
tually assumes is something entirely dif-
ferent Without explaining or reprobat-
ing his actions of 1896 and 1900 when
he voted for Bryan, Judge Parker asks
the support and confidence Of all gold
standard men because he somewhat pat
ronizingly recognizes the gold standard
as ''irrevocably established lie does
not anmadvert upon his own conduct ID
leaving home or even upon the quality
Of the nutriment which the far country
of populism afforded the Democratic
paunch.
As near as we can make it ont, the
Democratic idea is that the Elder Broth
er should be thrown out GU the world
and the Prodgal Son installed as man
ager of the estate. 3.
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SUGAR TRUST POLITICS.
Close Relations of Wall Street and the
Democratic Party.

New York Letter IN Los Angeles Times,
When New York State was being got
into line for Judge Parker, Havemeyer
put on guard for Parker one Of his own
men. Cord Meyer by name. Cord Meyer
is the sugar trusts representative in
Democratic councils. The Republican
party is able to get along without having
a sugar trust representative i'll its coun-
ellis. but If Democrats come into power,
it will be Cord Meyers happy duty to
make sugar stock go up and down on the
New York Stock Exchange and to let
it be known to anxious statesmen when
it is going up and when it is going down.
Do the people ont West know that in
New York, when the Democrats desire to
carry an election, they go out and tell
the district leaders that certain stock
on the New York Stock Exchange, say
Manhattan Elevated. will go up S15 per
share in case of Democratic success
That is what they do and ii does go up,
too. and that shows how close the Demo
cratic party is to Wall street in New
York. where Parker and his cohorts come
from. They buy elections with stock
tips, and Cord Meyer Billy Sheehan and
Belmont are extraordinarily good tip
SterS.