prises, and is a man who is universally respected. He emigrated direct from Lewis County, N. Y., in 1863, to Story County, and here he has been a resident ever since. He and Mrs. Illingworth have seen the county develop from its primitive condition to its present state of prosperity. Mr. Illingworth is the owner of 340 acres of excellent land, and has commodious and substantial buildings on the same. They have a sufficiency of this world's goods, and are comfortable and. happy. Mr. Illingworth's religious belief is largely as follows: Relative to the spirit or the soul of man, so much spoken of by the people and churches, he considers that a man has a fleshly body and a spiritual body at birth, the two standing side by side, and not distinguishable. A mark on one is supplemented by a mark on the other. But it requires a certain condition to see the spirit body and to see it move. Apparently it has bones and sinews, and seems to be possessed of bodily senses as in the flesh. When the fleshly body is clothed the same comes on the spirit body. He states that he has seen spirit people walk on the floor, and in the mid air, and watched them move in the mid air at will power. Any person procuring the condition can send his spirit from his fleshly body and it will enter the spirit body. There is a life-cord attached to the two bodies which is like a telephone or telegraph wire. What the spirit body may do is seen through the life telephone. A manifestation of will-power to return brings it back at once. This may be repeated at will. On a long trip, however, this fleshly body will begin to get lonesome, and the longer this opposite force is gone the more one feels depressed, because the very life is being poured out. After he had found this work to be true here on earth, he resolved to make a trip to the place called heaven, and found it on a planet by itself. This was a long trip, and he thought for some time that the spirit body would not get back until the last life would pass out of him. When the spirit body came and the life-cords shortened he was all right again, and might have sent it the next minute had he so chosen. He believes that the first resurrection of the spirit body is when the spirit body receives the life of the fleshly body. Then the fleshly body goes to dust from whence it came.
Thomas Jarvill, farmer and stock-raiser, Cambridge, Iowa. Mr. Jarvill owes his nativity to Harpswell, Lincolnshire, England, where his birth occurred on the 25th of December, 1810, and is now following a calling that has for ages received undivided efforts from many worthy individuals, and one that furnishes sustenance to the ready worker. He was the sixth of eighteen children, all of whom were living when he left England in 1869. They were named as follows: William (is a miller by trade), Betsey (resides in England), John (manager of 'a landed estate in England), Mary (married John Oxley, and resides in Story County, Iowa), Joseph (a cabinet-maker in England), George (is a miller in the city of Sheffield, England), Godfrey (deceased), Sarah (married a ship-carpenter, and resides in England), Charles (is a policeman on the patrol service at Redford, Nottinghamshire, England), Carrie (married William Scorah, a curer and meat supplier, and resides in Sheffield), (Harry (is a farmer and resides in Kansas), Benjamin (is a miller and resides in England), Fannie (married a ship-carpenter, and resides in England), Fred (was a sailor and crossed the Atlantic, but is now living in England; he early evinced a strong inclination to become a sailor, and during his voyages visited many of the important seaports of South America), Joshua (is a miller and resides in England), and Nellie (resides in Lincolnshire, England,' with her brother,