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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-16

Rural population in Iowa may be
on the decline in quantity but the
quality is still all right and improv-
ing" says the Council Bluffs Nonpa-
reil
I'VE always view with suspicion, the
man who Is too good or who isn't i'm
bued with enough American spirit to
be interested in the baseball news"
says the Riceville Recorder.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-16

The Creston Advr rtiser- Gazette be-
lieves it is safe to wager that Mayor
Dunno wishes he had never listened to
the siren song of the politicians Of
Chicago and given Up his position on
the bench to become involved in the
troubles of his present office.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-16

"As long as Nan Patterson will con-
fine her operations to the Caesar
Young type, give her a permit to carry
concealed weapons and turn her loose,
says the Marshalltown Times Repub-
lican,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-16

Japan suggests the Des Nome
News. may be compelled to stop he
war with Russia long enough to g
over and give France thrashing."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-16

The Fort Dodge Chronicle says that
if the Equitable company really wants
a good man to occupy the presidents
office it will come out to Iowa and look
for one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
PANIC MAY CAUSE DEATH.
Many Injured in Crush Caused by
Circus Runaway.

COLUMBUS. Ohio, April PIN a panic
caused by runaway during a circus pa
rade here today, Miss Nellie Bennett of
Grove City, Ohio, was so badly hurt that
she may die; Raymond Bennett, her ten
year-old nephew. was painfully, but not
seriously. hurt, and P. r. Shrum's leg was
broken. Many others were slightly injured.
Six horses attached to one of the closed
animal wagons, which fortunately contained
no animals, became frightened when with
in block of the state house, and dashed
into the front of the building occupied by
A. G. and f. Howald, furniture dealers, and
Andrew Morden, jeweer. Hundreds of men,
women and children lining the streets be-
came badly frightened and flew in all d-
rections, many of the women and children
being knocked down and trampled on.
The animal wagon stopped at the street
curbing. but the two leading horses dashed
through two immense glass windows into
the Howald store where they reared and
plunged until quieted by police and spec
tators. The team Immediately behind
struck an iron pole support to the store
and were held fast The front team was
badly cut by the glass.
Miss Bennett was knocked down and
rendered unconscious by blow from a
hoof of one of the horses. She was taken
to ST. Francis Hospital, where her condi-
ion is critical.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
NO PRECISE INFORMATION.
Russian Officials Profess to Know Moth
ing About Fleet

ST. PETERSBURG. April -, 7:30 p. NJ
Both the admiralty and the foreign office
affirm that they have no precise informa-
has violated French neutrality at Kamranh
bay but confidence is expressed at both
ministries that the admiral who is thor
oughly familiar with the French regula-
tons. has taken care not to infringe them.
Nevertheless the Russian authorities mani
fest the most sincere desire to relieve the
ally OF Russia of all possible embarrassment
should it turn out that Rojestvensky has
entered and remained in French territorial
waters, and dispatches were forwarded TO
the admiral last night impressing him with
the necessity of strict observance of
Frances neutrality.
Exactly what happened is this: France
communicated the Japanese protest 10 Rus
STA through NJ. Nelidoff, the Russian am
bassador mt Paris pointing out the awk-
ward position in which she would be placed
If the japanese complaint proved well
founded. Foreign Minister Lamsdorm trans
mtted il TO Vice Admiral Avellan, who in
turn laid IL before Emperor Nicholas, and
with his majesty's approval the protest
forwarded TO Rolestvensky with spe-
citc instructions that shere must be no en-
croachment on their allys neutrality. and
that If it already had been infringed and
the Russian ships We're still within the
three-mile limit they must at once go out
To sea.
In official circles the incident is considered
practically closed The discussion may run
on, but both France and Russia are taking
the same official position and serious COM
plications are regarded as being impossi-
BILE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
to see. A reed shaken by the wind.s

to see? A reed shaken by the wind.h
Standing eight and nine feet high, and
bending their silken tassels almost TO the
ground before every Whispering breeze, the
arrow reeds, Afunao dohax, form dense
thickets along the Jordan, Thia 10 the reed
which was used from the most ancient
times of the Jews 10 the tiniea at Christ
and afterward as material for making pens,
measuring wands and even for building,
Among the trees that are cultivated III
most parts of Palestine and throughout
Syria wherever the climate permits is an
shadow despite the fact that 1t does not
grow very high. 1t loves best to cling to
sun-warmed walls of rock. It's fruits are
pods curved like horns. They contain
shining dark seeds like beans embedded
into sweet and nutritious pulp, which is
used as food by both man and beast. After
the sweet pulp has been expressed from the
pods the latter are. thrown to the pigs.
This is the tree of the parable of the
prodigal son. The husks that the swine
did eat, and which the prodigal fain would
have shared with them, were the dried
pods of this carob tree, the fruit of which
is known also as bread of ST. John
In Matthew xiii:31, So the Savior tells of
the mustard seed that sprouts into a tree:
"A grain of mustard seed which a man
took and sowed in his field, and when 1t
is grown 1t is the greatest among herbs
and becometh a tree so that the birds or
the air come and lodge in the branches
thereof"
Commentators have been puzzled and
worried by this passage. To the men of
the occident, knowing only the small mus
tard plant of Europe, the image of a mus
tard seed growing into tree that affords
birds Judgment in its branches was per-
picking that they sought to explain it. So
they said that the SAVIOR referred to tree
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
SUES TO ANNUL MARRIAGE.
Action Brought by Prima Donna
Against Patent Lawyer.

NEW YORK, April 22.-Marguerita
Lemon. one of the prima donnas of the
Metropolitan Opera Company. who sang
here in grand opera last winter. and is now
singing with the Conried Opera Company
IT. San Francisco, has brought suit in the
New York state supreme court to have her
marriage to j. Reed Little, a prominent
Patent lawyer of this city, annulled. The
case was today ses for trial next Tuesday.
The opera singer demands separation on
the ground that the decree of divorce
granted to her husbands first wife Mabel
Little, in Chicago in 1899, is not valid in
this state. Mr. Little's answer is a general
denial, and sets up the fact that his first
wifes divorce was legal one
Marguerite Lemon has figured of late
rather prominently in Herr Conried's Wag-
ner PRODUCTIONS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23

stand on hill and valley, in field and in
desert Mint, anise and cummin, named
by Him in His reproach to the Pharisees,
are still favorite crops. By the Sea of
Tiberias still grows that greatest of all
herbs" of st. Matthew, the wild mustard.
Everywhere, in gardens, in pastures and
meadows, the lilies of the field still bloom.
OF all these ancient plants, the one that
has become most holy to Christians is the
hyssop. The traveller of today will find it
everywhere. On rocks and ruins, around
ancient cities, its long. plumed stalk
''sprngeth out of the wall" 1t looks like
the marjorie. It's hairy stems and leaves
grow on a hollow stalk like cane. which
rises to a height of three feet. 1t was on
the end of the dried hyssop stalk that the
Roman soldiers offered the sponge full of
vinegar TO the dying Savior.
In the soft Syrian winds the hyssop
waves as it did on the day of the Passion.
So il waved throughout the Holy Land long
before Christ came to the earth; far back
In King Solomon's day the hyssop was
used in religious rites the structure of it's
leaves making it excellent for sprinkling
fragrant perfumes through the temple.
The Thorns of the Crown.
In the narrow valley of the brook Ke-
dron, east of Jerusalem and on the outer
walls of the city itself where it faces the
gorge, shine the small white buds among
the pale green oval leaves of the nebek
bush of thorns that is held by the most
prominent of Biblical scholars to be the
plant from which was woven the crown of
thCrns. This bush. also known as lotus and
slider bush, has its supple branches beset
with long. sharp thorns After blossom
ing time. it yields yellow, pleasant fruit
of gooseberry size
Another thorn chambers over the sides
Of the kedrOn valley. 1t is the paliurus
bush and there are many supporters of the
theory that the crown was made from it;
but the fact that the nebek thorns grow on
the walls Of Jerusalem itself makes it likely
that this was the shrub whose twigs were
used.
The tares still send their poisonous shoots
up among the wheat of the Holy Land Be
fore the young wheat forms its ears this
weed and the wheat look 50 alike that
every one who sees the tares growing
among the grain Of Bible land today can
understand why the Lord warned the hus-
bandmen not to uproOt the tares before har-
vest time. for fear that they might tear
up the young grain with the weeds If they
q did il then The tare is still a pest. giving
. living point to the Saviors parable of the
man who sowed tares among his enemy
wheat.
What went ye out into the wilderness
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23

uted this year to Memorial Con
tinental Hall S3,0SS, and also pledges the
sum of $1,000 for the pillar which shall
represent Massachusetts among the thirteen
original colonies in the portico of Memorial
Continental Hall Mrs. MaSury, in making
her report, spoke in terms of high praise of
Mrs. Tulloch, vice president general in
charge of organization of chapters, who ie-
tires from that office this year. In January
the Boston chapter gave a Continental Hall
bazaar, which Mrs. Masury reports to
have been a success socially, artistically
and financially, from which $1,000 was rea-
LIKED for the Continental Hall fund
Since the formation of the national So
clety in Massachusetts at least $4,000 has
been raised by the d. a. r. for patriotic
purposes.
Connecticut's Exhibit.
The state regent of Connecticut. Mrs
Sara T. Kinney, reported that during the
year which is just coming to close, the
Connecticut Daughters have raised about
$1,000 for Continental Hall, and fully as much
more for local purposes. Besides considerable
money for the general building fund, the
necessary amount has been contributed to
cover the cost of the Connecticut column.
which is TO be a testimonial to their state
regent, and also enough to pay for TWO
pairs of mahogany doors to be placed at
the entrance of the auditorium at cost of
500. Much interest is now being taken IN
the educational side of the patriotic work,
Mrs. Kinney stated. Reading rooms are be-
ing opened, travelling libraries started and
courses OF lectures on American history are
being Instituted throughout the state for the
benefit of foreign citizens,
Maryland and Mississippi
Mrs. Catherine ]. Thorn, state regent of
Maryland, reported $1,000 for the mono
lthic column in Continental Memorial Hall,
and said the Maryland Line Chapter has in
terested itself in the special work which
they doing to erect a monument to the
Maryland soldiers. The Peggie Stewart
Chapter reported having furnished a room
in the Emergency Hospital in Annapolis.
All of the chapters in Maryland are doing
work for the raising of money for their
column in Memorial Continental Hall.
Mrs. Alice. Quitman Lowell, state regent
of Mississippi, reported four chapters in
that state. They raising money for
Continental Memorial Hall and have pur-
chased one of the mahogany doors for the
auditorium. costing 500 One chapter will
give handsome medal in June for the best
essay on a historical subject in the public
schools. Ralph Humphreys Chapter of jack
son has given prize to the scholar gain
ing the highest mark in revolutionary and
colonial history, which was won by a girl
The same chapter has framed and hung in
the schools a facsimile of the Declaration
of Independence, and the members are pre-
pairing to place bronze marker on the
grave of Col. Ralph Humphreys, for whom
the chapter is named. They planted an oak
tree on George Washingtons birthday at
the head of the avenue leading to the capt.
toll, and have been given the privilege of
naming that street Ralph Humphreys ave-
nue. This chapter always celebrates Flag
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
North Carolina and Tennessee.

day. One chapter has been organized In
the last year.
North Carolina and Tennessee.
Mrs. Mary Struggled Wulbern. stale re-
gent of North Carolina. said her successor
would find everything in a prosperous con-
dition. Council Oak Chapter of Morganton,
she said had made it's first work the pur-
chase of the historic council oak. The
chapter Is having souvenirs in the form of
gavels and fraemes made from the wood OF
this famous tree. 1t is the purpose of this
chapter to mark this site where for more
than a hundred years this majestic oak
stood sentinel over the spot where SEWER
Campbell. the McDowells and other leaders.
on their way to Kings mountains, formed
their plan of campaign.
The state regent of Tennessee. Mrs.
Charles b. Bryan, reported one new chap
ter formed and a great increase in the
membership, which now includes 600 daugh-
tiers in Tennessee. The chapters of that
state generally observe Flag day, and are
making a thorough study of historic sub
jects. The graves of several revolutionary
soldiers i'm the vicinity of Franklin are
yearly decorated and the chapter contem-
plates monument to the soldiers buried in
the county of Williamson The graves of
thirty revolutionary soldiers have been
marked in the past year.
The Concluding Reports.
Mrs. Charles II. Todd state regent of
Kentucky reported one new chapter during
the year. In June last a shrub was sent to
the state regent from Washington, d. c.
planted and raised from the first sod turn
ed in the construction of the Continental
Memorial Hall by Mrs. Fairbanks and Mrs.
Lockwood. with the request that il be
placed at some historic spot in the state,
and the grave of Isaac Funk the first gov
ernor of Kentucky, was marked with 1t.
Scholarships have been awarded and placed
in the universities and colleges of Kentucky.
\ committee conferred with Gov. Beckham
regarding an appropriation for putting a
statue in the empty niche in the rotunda
of the Capitol at Washington. Kentucky
has voted to present a state memorial TO
Continental Hall in the shape of a bust OF
Gov. Isaac Shelby.
Mrs. II. B. Patten, state vice regent of
Wyoming, reported for two chapters in that
state. These two chapters have busted
themselves in placing books and magazines
in the public schools and in spreading
patriotism whenever possible.
The state regent of New Jersey, Mrs
Mary Nicoll Putnam, reports that as she
was i'll during the year, the state vice
gent Miss Herbert. carried through the
work of the Daughters in her absence with
much executive ability, for which she ex-
pressed herself as truly thankful The
chapters of New Jersey are giving hand
some prizes and medals to the public
schools, for presentation to pupils who have
the best historical answers to questions in
American history, and prizes for essays on
historical subjects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23

that grows by the shores of the Dead sea,
where 1t reaches fair height among the
hot rocks. This tree bears grape-like fruits
that have an aromatic taste, with a de-
cided tang of mustard. But, although the
inhabitants call this tree by a name
which may be translated loosely as
mustard tree" it is unnecessary to
strain and direct the meaning of Christ's
words at all, for to this day men may go
by the Sea of Tiberias under wild mustard
plants that grow SO high that they tower
over a man on horseback.
Lilies Of the Field.
In valley and in jungle, growing in gar
dens and as wild flowers, are the Easter
offerings of the great lily family. They
widely spread now as they were in
the days of the prophets, when the favor
lite simile was that of a lily: "A lily %
the valley and "as the lily among
thorns.' The lilies of the Holy Land are
OF many kinds. Here one sees the red fire
of the great lilium chalcedoncum; there
the bell-shaped imperial lily stands regal
and still among the weeds of the jungle.
The beautiful crown of the red anem3ne
lily uplifts itself in the lowlands. But
fairer than all, and beloved throughout the
country as ii is loved everywhere else,
stands the pure virginia. white lily, lilium
candidum.
With them and among them glow the
beautiful saffrons, variety of crocus.
mostly blue, but often golden white. Soon
after the winter rains the pastures AID
meadows of Palestine are covered with d
carpet of wild flowers, for the gras 5es dc
not often form turf as they do with Us.
but the pastures consist of a deep tang. eG
mating of herbs and Towering plants.
Suddenly as they sprout they disappear
again before the hot breath of the sum-
mer sun. But as soon as the late season Al
rains cease the first flower to sIo1--up is
the pretty meadow saffron 1t oalorgs 10
the same family as the European flower
but in Europe it is viewed as a symbol IF
the coming death of nature, while III The
Holy Land saws Professor WINNER ''it
is hailed as joyfully as our first vol cts.
Roses bloom now throughout Palestine
and they bloomed in the time of Chris; bl:
they were not biblical flowers, for the old
Jews did not know the rose. Accor ling to
the latest authorities, where the rose Is
mentioned in the Songs of Solomon and
other early parts of the Bible, entirely t;i!-
ferent flowers are meant 1t is believed
that the rose first reached the gardens Of
Palestine after the return from exile and
was carried into the land from Egypt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23

God: Before your pots can feel the thorns
He shall take them away" BY feeling the
thorns' is meant the heat from the fire of
the retem, which, when turned into char
coal, produces SO intense a heat that retem
Goals are carried regularly today to Cairo,
where they are used as fuel.
For though thou wash thee with inter
and take thee much sope, yet is thine in
iquity naked before me, saith the Lord
God" Along the lakes and on the steppes
| the botanst finds plants whose oval leaves
and blossoms are set on woody stems about
foot high. The people burn this to get
| the inter and alkali which they contain.
| They use the powdered ash for cleansing, or
mix it with olive oil to make soap.
Beautiful Mount Carmel.
| On Mount Carmel, covering the hill with
red and white blooms as heather grows on
| the hills of Scotland. is a plant of the cistus
| family, which is the "lot' of the Bible.
| There, too, the traveller will see masses of
| the fragrant myrtle, whose shining egg
| shaped leaves and snowy blossoms were
used with brook willow and palm leaves for
the flower offerings in the temple.
| On the heights stand the white and purple
| blossoms and the feathery foliage of the
tragacanth shrubs, which are mentioned so
| often in the Bible, especially among the
| products exported to Egypt, where the
| sticky gum tragacanth was used as paste
| for mummy bands The product of the
| tragacanth shrub is used all over the world
| today for making paste and mucilage.
| In the hills of Galiee and the Southern
| Gilead grows a shrub with beautiful white
| flowers in great tassel-like punches A
| pitchy sap that forms in aromatic beads on
| its twigs was one of the sacred incenses pre-
| scribed by Moses.
| So, though the forests of Hebron and
| Mamreh gone: though only scattered
| trees remain to tell of the glories of the
| cedars of Lebanon; though of the mighty
cypress wood the gopher and berosch of the
! Bible, that furnished the timber for the ark
| and the wood for David's harp and spear.
| only few giant-leaved columns stand here
| and there: yet one can go through the land
| of the patriarchs, the prophets and the dis
| ciples and see the flowers that stirred them
| to song, gather the aromatic plants with
g., which they decked their temple, and hear
| the sacred weeds whisper in the hush of the
| long moons. Still Carmel garbs itself in the
| spring bride. Still the olive trees shiver
| their FURNISHED leaves against the hard,
| blue, hot sky. Still the poor peasants search
| under the jumpers of the desert for the
| sparse vegetation that survives under their
| all else on those fervid sands.
| Harki 1t is moonlight on the Syrian plain
| Far away, thin and long drawn. like sick
| children fretting in the feverish night-hear
| them; the foXes-"the little foxes that spoil
| the vines" the foxes of Samson-the jackals
| that still dwell in the Holy Land, unafraid
row of the lion and the panther that once
| dwelled in the jungles of the Jordan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
Intense Feeling at Tokyo.

TOKYO, April 22.-The japanese newspa-
pers continue their unfriendly comment of
the French government over the kamranh
bay incident, despite. the efforts of the con-
servatives toward repression, pending tho
result of negotiations. Popular feeling IS
growing more intense The goyernm ent
continues to withhold the correspondence
with France regarding the affair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
Pitched Battle With Robbers.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.-A pitched
battle was fought early today between two
robbers and John c.. Brutt, a saloonkeeper
The encounter occurred in the latter's
saloon. Thomas Reilly, laborer, who was
In the saloon at the time. was killed by one
of the flying bullets Both robbers escaped
Reilly was a native of Brooklyn. N. Y,
forty-seyen years of age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
Noted German Actress Dead.

BERLIN. April 22.-Hedwig Niemann
Raabe, noted actress. died yesterday in
an institute for mental diseases. She
was taken i'll December 3. 1904. during the
celebration OF her sixtieth birthday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23

Upon representation made to him through
officers of the institution and ndorsed by
Vice President Fairbanks, Speaker Cannon
and others. Andrew Carnegie has agreed
to give Guilford College, the institution of
the North Carolina Friends in Guilford
county. N. c., $4,000. provided that sum is
duplicated by friends of the institution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23

The Meyersda1e (Md.) strike of the btu
minous miners, which has been on for over
sixteen months. has practically been de-
clared off. 1t is known that the national
miners organization, which has been pay
ing on an average of 5000 week for the
maintenance of the strike, last week with
drew its support.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
Tree and Shrub of the Para
bles Still There.
BOTANY OF THE BIBLE
FLOWERS WHICH HAVE A SACRED
SIGNIFICANCE.
Hyssop of the Crucifixion, Lilies of the
Field, Thorns and Tares Growing
Nod as in Ancient Times.
Written for The star.

Although almost 1000 years have passed
since Christ trod the Holy Land and de-
forestation. ceaseless cultivation and war
have made much of it a desert the traveller
who knows his botany as well as his Bible
still find, in the poisoning of Easter
time. most of the plants that grew by the
paths of the Savior
Tree and shrub of the parallels still