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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XI, No. 40. CITY NEWS. N.B. If you have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us: we solicit all your local news—Ed. Mrs. E. T. Banks is convalescent. Miss Zoe Richardson of Olive spent Sunday in our city. Mr. O. F. Watts has accepted a position with Newell's furniture store. There were six united last Sunday morning with the Union Congregation church. The A. M. E. church will be dediest the last Thursday in this month; more will be said about it later. Mrs. G. W. Wells and daughter Ethel who have both been sick for the past fortnight are convalescent. It is said that two of the prominent young people of the West Side will soon take a voyage on the matrimonial ees. Mr. C. G. Phelps went to Peoria, Ill., last Saturday morning to see his mother who is sick. He will probably return this week. BARNES MEN'S OUTFITTER 317 PINE STREET Mr. George Harris, an old Des Moines boy, passed through our city Wednesday enroute home from Missouri where he had been to attend the funeral of his mother. Prof. Geo. I. Holt and his chorus of 50 voices gave a special song service: tide Y. M. C. last Sunday evening, which was attended by a large audience of both black and white. By a special request two of the selections will be sung next Sunday evening; one of them being a solo by Prof. Holt. Beginning from last Sunday, St Paul's A. M. E. church will hold services in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium, until their church is completed, which is being remodeled at an expenditure of $3,050.00 and will be ready for occupancy about the 1st of April. Miss Revester and Lillie Colston gave a five course luncheon at 2 p. m. Sunday, March 5th at their home, in honor of Mr. Roy and Walter Blanton of Tuskey, Mich. There were other guests present and all report a pleasant time. Mrs. H. Gould, who is captain of the battleship Main of the navy department, of one of the 20 clubs that has been organized to raise money towards the great Easter day rally for the benefit of St. Paul's A. M. E. church, gave a chicken-pie supper at her residence Thursday evening, which proved a financial success. A number of invitations have been received which reams as follows: "The pleasure of your company is requested at the 35th birthday anniversary of Mr. William Graves, March 20th, 1905, 8 p.m., at his home, 2701 Capitol avenue." This week we publish two very good and valuable articles—Mrs. Helena Downey Club and Club Women, and the winning oration in the State College Oratorical Contest, by Mr. Clark of the Cornell college, at Mt. Vernon. The subject was "The Philosophy of the Race Problem." It is a master piece, both in thought and composition and should be read and kept by all. Mr. C. N. Sellers of Buxton was in our city Tuesday and Wednesday on business. He is a new man to Buxton, his former home is in Georgia where he has been practicing law. He is a graduate from the Cincinnati Ohio Law school and comes well recommended. He will practice in Buxton, having just b-en admitted to practice in Iowa this week. Mr. Sellers was recently selected as editor of the Buxton Gazette and assistant postmaster of Buxton. While here he was the guest of Rev. H. W. Porter. Hats Cleaned, Dyed and Resealed ALL THE WEST TIPS Hats at Factory Prison Best Hat on earth 817 GRAND AVE, Near 9th St. Iowa 1220 LOW RATES TO OTHER POINTS. Round-trip home-seekers tickets on sale to northern and western territory on first and third Tuesdays of each month. For tickets and particulars about rates and trains to any point call on or address W. S. Mathews, D. St. Pass. Agent or W. K. Adams city Pass. Agt, 813 Walnut street, Des Moines, Ia Remember the Minneapolis & St. Louis Ry. is the Short Line to Minneapolis and St. Paul. Trains now leave from Des Moines Union Station. historical Room BARNES MENS OUTFITTER 317 817 STREET The Athenian Literary society cordially invite their friends to a public reception Tuesday March 14th, at the Union Congregational church, to celebrate its first anniversary. A very interesting program will be rendered by the members. Come and assist the society to make their first anniversary a pleasant one. MODISH SPRING MILLINERY "More interesting than that of any other season is the millinery of Spring says The Delimator for April. "While some of the shapes are of the picture type, the preference is perhaps for the small tque or turban and the Continental in its various modifications. Oval and square crowns are both in favor, and quite the newest idea is the oblong crown having a deep crease from the front to the back. The brim of this hat is rolled at the sides and is melon or oval-shaped. This design is pleasantly carried out in the new pliable straw, while it is seen even in tulle and lace wite a long plume sweeping around the crown and fastened near the frond with an ornament or rosette. "Smooth straw braids are extensively used in the smart Spring hats, and chip and Milan are perhaps in higher favor. Lace Milan braids are seen in dressy headgear, and they are adapted to the artistic shapes in vogue. Among the modish colors are blue, brown, butter cew, champagne and green. Brown and green are associated in some of the most attractive examples milliner's art. "Plumes of coq feathers are much used, and they are in all the fashionable colors, as well as in shaded effects, and in white. Quilts are in favor, too, and frequently two will be attached to the rooftop edge of a bat brim by a knot of ribbon, o r fastened by a cockade or buckle. Shaded effects are most popular. Breasts are a modish trimming on hats for ordinary wear, and when associate with the new soft and beautifully colored ribbon, they are most effective. RESINOL ART CALENDAR AND RECORD OF BABY'S DOINGS. The new Resinol Art Calendar for 1005 is one of the most beautiful calendars ever issued. Six sheets of heavy enameled paper containing on one side six beautiful color designs of babies and children, while on the reverse sides are drawings depleting child life, with space for the notation of baby's "sayings and doings." It is a work of art that will delight a mother's heart. Sent postpaid by the REINOL CHEMICAL COMPANY of Baitimore, M.k., for two wrappers from Resinol Soap, or one wrappers and 14 cents; or for 40 cents a calendar and a cake of Resinol Soap will be sent. "Home Gymnasiums and Their Equipment," by Dr. Watson L. Savage, in the March "Twentieth Century Home" tells how convenient exercising rooms may be fitted up in private houses at little trouble and small cost. Some very elaborate gymnasiums have during the past few years been constructed for private use, containing basketball, tennis and squash courts, bowling alleys, et cetera, and a number of these have been photographed to furnish illustrations for the article. We do high grade work in Copying, Manifolding, Mimeographing Name and Address inserting to perfectly match, and guarantee satisfaction. Give us your order. MUTUAL PHONES ROOM 338, 330, 332 Office 1917 GOOD BLOCK Residence 958 Des Moines, 14 SETTLERS' RATES TO MINNESOTA AND DAKOTA The Minneapolis & St. Louis will place on sale each Tuesday during March and April very low rates for benefit of settlers to points in Minnesota, North and South Dakota. Etc. Through trains daily to St. Paul, making direct connections in Union Depot with northern lines; no change of cars en route. Don't fail to consult Minneapolis & St. Louis agents before buying your tickets, or address A. B. CUTTS, G. P. & T. A., Minneapolis, Minn. VIA THE C. & N. W. RY. Colonist one way tickets to California and the Northwest on sale at very low rates from March 1st to May 15. Full information at the C. & N. W. Ry. City office 401 Walnut street or at the Passenger Station BARNES MENS OUTFITTER 317 67TH STREET EDITORIALS. THE COLORED WOMAN'S BURDEN. While in Keokuk, Mrs. Isaac I. Hillis addressed the colored mothers' club which was formed some time ago. "Don't feel proud when a white boy comes home from school arm in arm with your boy; remember that only an oneyr white boy will do that and the white boys of best influence will not do it; teach your boys to find their associates among their own color, and the best boys of that color. Don't be ambitions for your sons to become doctors and lawyers, but teach them to do good work in their own sphere—a sphere which may change in time but not in their generation." The above is an extract of Mrs. Hillis' address as it appeared in a little paper called the Standard. This brief extract is, if true as she uttered it, indeed misleading and a very weak statement coming from Mrs. Hillis. In the first place Mrs. Hillis, you are not very patriotic or loyal to our flag, which says that there is no class, caste, or clans in America, but all are born free, equal and endowed with the same inalienable rights. You should teach those boys that it is not a badge of disrespect to go home arm in arm with any of their schoolmates, so long as those boys are honest, good, and have pure character, that should be the test and not color. Then again Mrs. Hillis, you are mistaken when you say that only the oney boy go arm and arm with the colored boy. It is not true. We can name you many instances where the best boys of the schools and colleges have shared the social hospitality of their colored chums. We have known Senators, Congressmen and Governors' sons to do this. The very idea of not taching the boys to be ambitions, to enter the higher professions; but to work in their own sphere. What is their sphere? Who ordained it? We know no sphere for the colored boy any more then for the white boy. The only sphere we know is the one God has given to all alike. We are indeed surprise to read such an article from you. The Associated Press news claims that Hon. Charles W. Anderson, a bright young lawyer of New York, is slated to be appointed internal revenue collector for New York. Mr. Anderson is a staunch, hard working republican and studied law in the office of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. We met Mr. Anderson last summer at the republican national convention. He is a representative race man and orator. We wish that he may be successful. MRS. BECKHAM DIED AT THE HOSPITAL. Mrs. Missouri Beckham, a widow woman, died last Tuesday morning at Mercy hospital from cancer of the stomach. Mrs. Beckham was 35 years of age and came here about three years ago with a little 6-year-old-girl, who was her sister's child that she took to raise. Mrs. Beckham came here from Alabama and lived at 521 Chestnut street. She had but few acquaintances here except Mrs. Ira Jones of 318 3rd street, who was a school mate with her. Mrs. Jones did everything in her power to relieve the dying woman's sufferiag. A few days before her death she told her friend that for years she had carried insurance in the Metropolitan company, but was then unable to pay the dues. She asked to have the policy transferred to Mrs. Jones, making her promise to keep it up and after her death use the money on little girl. The remains will be sent back to Alabama for interment, according to request of the deceased; the little girl will be sent back there also. REV. GEO. W. GAINES. Presiding Elder of Iowa District The above cut is a true likeness of Rev. G. W. Gaines, the new Presiding Elder of the A. M. E. church, who was appointed to succeed Rev. J. W. Malone, that good, able and true christian who was so loved by the people of Iowa. Rev Gaines will be here Sunday to conduct Quarterly Conference. The sacramental service will be administered at 11 a. m., all are invited; Rev. Gaines will preach. The reverend was a candidate for bishop several years ago. KANSAS DISGRACE. Within the last two months Kansas has disgraced herself three times. First was when the hotels in one of her towns absolutely refused public accommodation to Prof, Booker T. Washington. Then when the state legislature passed the separate High School law for cities of certain population, and last was when Gov. Hock signed it. Little would one think in this day and age of intelligence that Kansas, where the border ruffin war and many blood scenes in the 60s and the home of John Brown, where he gave most of his labors in behalf of the slave. Oh! if those patrian saints of freedom, justice and equality could rise from their tomb and see the change that their prejudiced ancestors have brought they would sink their hoary heads in shame. REV. GEO. W. GAINES, P. The above cut is a true likeness Presiding Elder of the A. M. succeed Rev. J. W. Malone, that g was so loved by the people of Iowa day to conduct Quarterly Conference be administered at 11 a. m., all an The reverend was a candidate for SCHOOL DIRECTOR. Candidate Cards The name of William Koch of East Des Moines is a candidate for school director of East Des Moines, subject to the voters next Monday. He is one of the successful young business men, having been born and reared in our city and has lived in one precinct for more than 20 years. His friends are working hard for his election. He owns an interest in the Koch Bros Printing Co. It is a pleasure for us to announce the name of C. H. Martin, who has consented to become a candidate for school director of the West Side school board, subject to the action of voters next Monday. Mr. Martin is one of the best known young business men of Des Moines. He was born in Illinois in 1863, came to Iowa in 1890, and has been bank cashier of the Peoples Savings Bank since the bank was organized. He was elected on the school board for the short term of only one year, and now his many friends think he is entitled to a re-election. He is a good business man, social and congenial to meet and will appreciate anything his friends may do for him. Very Low Rates to the Mardi Gras at New Orleans, to Mobile, Pensacola and Winter Resorts. Via the North-Western Line. On account of the Mardi Gras, Excursion tickets will be sold to New Orleans, Mobile and Pensacola, March 1 to 5, inclusive, also to New Orleans on March 6, for trains arriving at New Orleans by noon of March 7, with favorable return limits. Excursion tickets are also on sale daily, at reduced rates, to the principal winter resorts in the United States and Mexico. For full information apply to agents Chicago & North-Western Rly. ALBIA NEWS Miss Cora Thomas of this city was married to Mr. McCarty, formerly of Virginia but now of Buxton, this week. Misses Fannie Parker and Bertha Stewson entertained with a card party on last Friday evening. A very delicious lunch was served by the young ladies. Mr Eugene Morris is visiting his relatives in Albia. Quarterly meeting will be held at the A. M. E. church next Sunday evening, Sunday evening instead of a regular sermon Rev. Peterson had song service and a program arranged. NEWTON NOTES. Those sick are much improved at this writing. Last Sunday was quarterly meeting here and owing to the illness of the Presiding Elder, Sav. Manly conducted the services alone. Mrs. R. B. Manly is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Ollie Cunningham of Dos Molines arrived in Newton last Saturday and is taking care of her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs Wm. Martin, who have been quite ill for over a week. On Saturday of last week Mr. Walker residing Elder of Iowa District less of Rev. G. W. Gaines, the new E. church, who was appointed to good, able and true christian who awa. Rev Gaines will be here Sun- ace. The sacramental service will be invited; Rev. Gaines will preach. bishop several years ago. Welton sold to Mr. Thomas stanton one of his iron gray horses, for which he received $140 which was a good bargain. Don't forget the weekly prayer meeting every Tuesday afternoon. COL ANDERSON GALLS THE CONVENTION FOR APRIL. Settlers of Southwest Will Meet and Give Voice to Contentment and Success to Be Found in This Section. Immediately following the announcement by T. J. Anderson, general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, Sunset route, that the April convention of the Southwestern Settlers' association would be held at some point in Texas, to be designated later, the following telegram was sent to him at Houston headquarters, and the Business Men's club immediately took active steps to secure the meeting. "T. J. Anderson, general passenger agent, Houston, Tex: Kindly withhold designation of meeting place of Southwestern Settlers' association until you receive proposition and invitation being prepared today by citizens of San Antonio through the Business Men's club. "C. FAHEY." The object of this convention is to get together as many foreign born, Northern and Western settlers, now living in this territory, as possible. Thus an opportunity will be given for them to express, through the proceedings of the meetings, which will extend over several days, their opinion as to the Southwest and its advantages and attractions and the opportunities here offered for additional settlers. The governor and other prominent officials of the State are deeply interested in the project and delegates at large will be appointed in addition to six from each town or district to be appointed by county officials, mayors, boards of trede, and commercial or organizations generally. Proceedings of the meetings will be published in large editions and sent broadcast, which will embrace the opinions and ideas of settlers who have located in the Southwest. In "The Twentieth Century Home" for March George Rutledge Gibson makes a strong plea for state aid for cooking schools. Almost every state in the Union has agricultural schools --- and colleges, and some of them schools in horticulture and forestry, which are common pursuits. But no state or national provision is made for Women to learn how to prepare improved varieties of plant and animal life. The need is obvious. MARSHALLTOWN NEWS Professor Dubois was in the city Wednesday on business. While here he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Wright. Mr. Gallaway Johnson, who has been sick the past week, is better at this writing. Lewis Johnson expects to leave the city in a few days on business. Mrs. Sarah Wright, the evangelist, has been called to hold meetings at several places in the near future in convention of the Holtness association, which held ten days' meetings here with great success, closed Thursday evening. Mrs. Sarah Wright was elected vice pr snd nt. Chas, Glimore, Jr., who had the sad misfortune to have his left eye hurt while employed at the Shorh foundation a few weeks ago, is doing as well as could be expected. Mrs. Melvinta Trendey has been employed as head cook at the Dodge hotel. Thomas Worley, one of our well known young men of the city, gave his friends a good time at his birthday party on the 28th of last month. All present had a good time. Miss Mary Reeves and sister-in-law, Mats. Mattle Reeves, were called to Des Moines last week on account of the serious illness of the latter's brother. CORNELL WINS IN CRATORICAL CONTEST THE WINNING ORATION. Awarded First Place By Judges at Mt. Vernon Content. The most unique and tragic figure in history is the American negro. No other race has punged so deeply in despair, or been exalted to such heights of hope; no other race has dazzled by such a flash of promise; no other race has grasped so eagerly the prize, to see its substance turn to ashes. "The bright ideals of the past-physical freedom, political both these, have lightened and excavated till even the last grows dim and overcast." Thus has ended the negro's dream of freedom. Yet not dream of freedom, but of the tired slave and to bring hope to his aching heart—it did more than that; it gave place to knowledge and knowledge of reality, to somehow, find something in this world again to the visions of the past.—But the ground clouded by prejudice; in the center, a weary people, struggling on, their gaze fixed far in the distance, for ever, and that is sleep and stony. But over all, lighting up the dusky faces of the plodders, darling its rays and there, the cords of promise reaching out into the future—Hope shines like the sun. And through it the mess of struggle, The Logical Outcome. A son of the south, a United States senator, holds up the shrinking form of negro civilization—"more sinned against than sinning"—and in a spirit of derision Price. Five Cents. compares it with the many beauty of our own, then trampling it in the curt, and upon it to instantly arise and prove its fitness, or forever consent to grow in it, to instantiate arise and prove its heart of the north—and a muddin people uphailman, would it ask you, what it would ask you, point to the highest civilization the world of all ages, and compare it with the civilization of an infant race. How old is it? Three centuries. Who fathered it? The proudest blood, the sturdiest sinew of the human body. How old is Freedom. How now comprise it? Americans. How old is the civilization of the world? How now comprise it? A savage. How came he here? In chains. Who now comprise it? New centuries of slavery. Praise. Not Blame. There is that in an immortal soul which desires the highest degree of equality other than the inferior right of every human being to the fullest developer. Possess the power to do that. Do you believe those who looking into the future, imagine a night when two racial giants shall stand face to face on the same stage, the marks of ignorance and degradation the image of the Almighty, stamped in How mean a philosophy? How grow a policy? Close your eyes to it if you grow a mischance or call it Providence, the fact yet remains that the future of the black race is indispassibly linked with the country our county; their growth, our growth; their sin, our sin. Weak, they limit us; disassemble, we disassemble; their ennoble us; virtuous, they ennoble us. Leave the broader plane of human rights, and justification of expedition. The negro race exists today as the test and measure of the country stands as an orphan child trembling before great America's power. With no morent, debased, yet feeling within herself the nobler promptings of a true woman, American principles, in the sight of all the nations, pleading for the right to live, to strive, to hope. Let us then purge races as separate socially as the castes if India, will still give this people every racial identities; not the merging with our ideal, not the merging with our racial identities; not the striving to humility with all that is truly American. Let us remain in all things purely racial "us separate as the fingers"; and yet he hand "us the hand" in all things purely national. When this new century is to have some shape, it not enter into a cleavage of thirty million degraded human beings, into which some so can reach his hand, into which some so can reach the nations, say with the tongue of seorn, Behold an American citizen; nobled, into which our countrymen can reach, and, pointing with one hand to American negro, say to the monarchies of the Old World: Behold the power of American principles. Yesterday, sample American principles. 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Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. Howell—"Rowell, can't seem to live within his income. Powell—"No. he who has a political fellow's friends who has a political fellow's and a statesman's income."—Ex. Bless their hearts! The women who love you in the right way may not remember if you like poetry, but they always put up some of your kind of jem and pickles—Atalison Globe. Safety reinforces for runaway horses are an Austrian's invention. Two small rollers can, by means of the reins, be made to press the horse's windpipe when desired. The animal must stop at once for want of breath. Mistress (to applicant for cook's position)—"Why did you leave your last place?" Applicant—"You are very inquisitive, marm. I didn't ask what for yer last cook left you."—Pick Me-Up. "Well, Doctors Brown and Smith are going to operate upon old Gotox. Yes, the operation necessary, but yes, Brown has a note coming due, and Smith wants an automobile."—Puck. "I understau's," said Miss Minnie Brown. "dat you appeared to be feelin' yoh oats at de doh俯 social yesterday. "Dat "wat was nots," answered Mr. Erasus Finkley; "dat was rye."—Washington Star. Doing Great Work. Ward, Ark., March 6th—(Special). —From all over the West reports come of cures of different forms of Kidney Disease by Dodd's Kidney Pills, and this place is not without evidence of the great work the Great American Kidney Remedy is doing. Among the cured here is Mr. J. V. Waggoner, a well known citizen, who, in an interview, says: "Dodd's Kidney Pills have done wonders for me. My kidneys and bladder were badly out of order. I used many medicines, but got nothing to cure me till I tried Dodd's Kidney Pills. Two boxes of them fixed me up so that I have been well ever since. "Tell the poor kidney and bladder diseased people to take Dodd's Kidney Pills and get well." No case of kidney complaint is too far gone for Dodd's Kidney Pills to cure. They are the only remedy that has ever cured Bright's Disease. Mrs. Mugginus—"She puts everything she gets on her back." Mrs. Buggins—"No wonder she puts up a good front." DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE Fa Ores Cold, Coughs, Sore Throat, Cramp, Luminesce, Wiping Cough, Bloody Mouth, Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption first stages, and a surprize is advanced. Use sensitive willful. Be seated next to the first doom. Sold by dealers every- where. Iowa State Bystander. It's a good thing to make your money last as long as it will, but it's better to make it first. A man in Baltimore, John Healey, takes thirty hour naps. Organs should ship him home to Philadelphia. If young Mr. Hyde had had to work his way up from a $12 a week job things might have been different. A Minneapolis paper refers to "the aroma of the cold wave." Watch for it the next time a cold wave comes. The alleged "Frenchman" who says that American women do not know how to walk is surely an imposter. Russian grand dukes will not be overburdened in the future with replies to their want ads for cochmen. You may do some close guessing, but you can't always swear to a man's politics by the button he wears. Because a woman weeps is no sign that she is unhappy. She may be enjoying herself making somebody else miserable. It is reported that the public is again buying in Wall street. How soon the public forgets after the blisters are gone. A Chicago woman has been granted damages of $1 for being hugged. Dave Hill will probably regard it as an exorbitant price. There is a man in Scotland whose board is over eight feet long and is still growing. Other occupation, if any, not stated. Dorothy Russell says that the idea of a divorce is obnoxious to her, but she must have one. Cannot overcome the hereditary influence. A quiet, peaceable man, who happened to be living in Russia just now might be pardoned for wanting to move into another flat. An American consul says there are some rare business openings in Manchuria. There should be a big business there for enterprising undertakes. It is an unmistakable sign of progress that the women of China are making a vigorous kick for the right to wear their feet as nature made them. The man who has sued his physician for $30,000 damages on account of a pockmarked face would compromise, doubles, for a smaller sum in spot cash. King Alfonso of Spain vows that the girl who becomes his queen must be beautiful. Evidently he has decided not to look for a wife among the princesses. The American woman ought to be particularly interested in Rider Haggard's visit over here. He wrote a book once with the title "She Who Must Be Obered." The movement in favor of knee breeches is reported to be making considerable progress in England. The bow-bleached men can't have much influence over there. Two men have arrived at Monte Carlo with technical schemes designed to break the bank. If they are prudent, they also have return tickets to their respective homes. That New York practical joker who held up citizens ior fun ought to be satisfied with the success of his joke. He has just been sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. A well known writer observes that, once you know a woman's age, you know the woman. Which simply shows the fearful most women are about extreining the circle of their acquaintance. One of Rockefeller's college professors says women are not good mathematicians. Yet he will have to admit that women's figures are generally considered superior to those of college professors. The recrudescence of fiscalitis is reported from London. There is some apprehension that it may mean out of the religious mind. The Hon Joseph Chamberlain is reckoned the wicked devil in the case. There are four times as many words in the English language as in the French, but young writers always feel that it is necessary to work in a French phrase here and in there in order to make their meaning clear. They say the circus managers are to "cut out" the charis, the gilded charis, this year on account of the cost of transporting them. Well, why not cut out the callope and the elephants and call the parade off altogether? Two prizes have been offered in France, one of $1,000 and the other of $600, to be awarded for the best papers on rational food for man. These must be written in French and handed in before Jan. 1, 2006. Let's see, what's the French for pork and beans? According to a Louisville paper, the economically minded papas of Kentucky are encouraging elopements as being less expensive than formal weddings. This is slightly worse than the Connecticut father, who made his children write small in order to save ink. A fashion authority, talking of spring materials, says that small cooks will be favored. If this means we checks that hubby will have to draw in favor of the dressmakers, why not hold a jubilation meeting? --- FROM MISERY TO HEALTH. A Prominent Club Woman, of Kansas City, Writes to Thank Doan's Kidney Pills for a Quick Cure Miss Nellie Davis, of 1216 Michigan Avenue, Kansas City, Mo, society leader and club woman, writes: "I cannot say too much in praise of Doan's Kidney Pills for affected complete cure is a very short time City, Mo., society leader and club woman, writes: "I cannot say too much in praise of Doan's Kidney Pills, for they effected a complete cure is a very short time when I was suffering from kidney troubles brought on by cold. I had severe pain in the back and stick headaches and felt miserable all over. A few boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills made me a well woman, without an ache or pain, and I feel compelled to recommend this reliable remedy." (Signed) Nellie Davis. A TRIAL FREE-Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents. Automobiles are good things to teach men how to take long walks seek home. YELLOW CRUST ON BABY Would Crack Open and Scab Causing Terrible Itching—Cured by Cuticura. "Our baby had a yellow crust on his head which I could not keep away. When he thought I had succeeded in his thought, it would start again by the crown of his head, crack and scale, and cause terrible itching. I then got Cuticura Scalp and Ointment, washing the scalp with the soap and then applying the Ointment. A few treatments made a complete cure. I have advised a number of mothers to use Cuticura, when I have been asked about the same alliment of their babies. Mrs. John Boyce, Pine Bush, N. Y." Parents are always praying for the salvation of their children and indulging them to their ruin. Many a misguided man who thinks he was born to role has another thing coming after an election. Johnny-"Pa, what is hell?" Pa-"The vermiform appendix of theology. Many doctors remove it entirely." New York Sun. Seedy-"Some people are always howling for more, no matter how much they have. Don't you think you'd be satisfied with enough?" Greedy-"Don't know. I've never had dough-"Detroit Free Press. Tankley-"Let's see, we've had four rounds of drinks, haven't we? And Markley's called for a Scotch highball each time." Luschman-"Except the last time. He called for a 'Hotch球 ball them.'-Philadelphia Press. Mamma-"I thought there was an apple on the sideboard and I was going to give it to you, but I find it isn't as good as it looks. I must something else, mummy, 'cos it wasn't a very good one?'-Punch. "One-half of the world's happiness is solved when a person learns to mind his own business." "Yes, but it's the other half that causes the most trouble!" "What's that?" "Getting other people to mind theirs."—Detroit Free Press. Dad—"New, Reginald, your college expense account is not altogether clear. I find an item, here—Charity, fifty dollars. What is that?" Reggy—"Why, sir, I—well, I couldn't go into particulars on that point, you know that—they—Dad, Exactly, this happens is one of the instances where Charity covers a multitude of sins."—Cleveland Leader. THE TRICKS. Coffee Plays on Some. It hardly pays to laugh before you are certain of facts, for it is sometimes humiliating to think of afterwards. "When I was a young girl I was a lover of coffee but was sick so much the doctor told me to quit and I did but after my marriage my husband begged me to drink it again as he did not think it was the coffee caused the "So I commenced it again and continued "about 6 months until my stomach commenced acting bad and choking as if I had swallowed something the size of an egg. One doctor said it was neuralgia and indigestion. "One day I took a drive with my husband three miles in the country and I drank a cup of coffee for dinner. I thought sure I would die before I got back to town to a doctor. I was drawn to the doctor's office. I husband hitched his horse to get me out into the doctor's office, misery came up in my throat and seemed to shut my breath off entirely, then left all in a flash and went to my heart. The doctor pronounced it nervous heart trouble and when I got home I was so weak I could not sit up. My husband brought my supper to my bedside with a nice cup of hot coffee but I said: 'Take that back, dear, I will never drink another cup of coffee if you gave me everything you are worth, for it is just killing me.' He and the others laughed at me and said: "The idea of coffee killing anybody." "Well, I said, it is nothing else but coffee that is doing it." "In the grocery one day my husband was perused to buy a box of Postum which he brought home and I made it for dinner and we both thought how good it was but said nothing to the bred men and they were so mad that we laughed and told them. Well we kept on with Postum and it was not long before the color came back to my cheeks and I got stout and felt as good as I ever did in my life. I have no more stomach trouble and I know I owe it all to Postum in place of coffee. "My husband has paired good health with me well as baby and I and we all think nothing is too good to say about it." Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek Mich. SEES NO HOPE FOR RUSSIAN ARMY English Critics Believe Kuropatkin and His Men Are Doomed. CAN SAVE BUT A REMNANT Mysterious Japanese Army Yet Un-accounted For—Kawamura's Forces Are Expected to Appear and Close Up the Gap. Tokio, March 9—Advices received here indicate that General Kuropatkin is badly beaten in the bloodiest battle of the present war. Tokio, March 9—It is officially announced that the Russians began retreating yesterday morning. The Japanese armies are pursuing them. Makuen, March 10—The Japanese yesterday morning bombarded the bridge at Fu pass, on the Hui river, twelve miles east of Mukden. Russian artillery repelled vigorously. The cannonade lasted an hour. Tokio, March 10—The Japanese has cut the railway north of Mukden. Nüchangw, March 10.—It is reported here that Tie Pass has been invested by the Japanese and that General Kuropatkin, having no alteration in his position, forced to surrender within a week. Nüchangw, March 10.—The Russians have not been reinforced from the direction of Harbin since March 1. General Nogi's army, with a force march of twenty-five miles daily and a total of eighty-five soldiers, General Oku's army, surrounded eighty thousand Russians in the direction of Tie pass and cut off their supplies. The hurrying Japanese armies passed a division of Russians with out giving it any attention until the opposing movement was completed, when the attackers the Russians on all sides. SEE NO HOPE. English Papers Think Kuropatkin's Army Doomed. London, March 10.—In the opinion of English military critics General Kuropatkin's forces are doomed to fall into the hands of all the avenues of possible escapes and the dispositions of the victorious Japanese armies leads to the conclusion that the best he can hope is to save a mere remnant of his army after devoting whole divisions to the war against General Kuropatkin's mysterious unlocated army, which is momentarily expected to complete the closing of the net around the defeated host, in the neighborhood of Kingston, thus blocking the sole remaining to Tie pass through Wakakou pass. The Daily Telegraph in an editorial article well reflecting the general opinion here says: "The greatest battle in the world's history promises to end in the world's greatest military disaster. Even if Kuropatkin has his host from the terrible ring of Ukraine, can Russia hope to send out another army to replein his ranks? The world is being wrested from Russia's fumbling hands. Kuropatkin's disastrous defeat ought to mean the end of the war unless the czar's blindness is incurable and he waits for further sledge hammer blows to fall, inevitable." The correspondent at Toko of the Daily Telegraph on official authority that fully 200,000 Russians are enveloped, and he hears that Russia's central army is almost annihilated. MAY CUT OFF RUSSIAN LEFT. Position of That Portion of Army Is Extremely Critical. St. Petersburg, March 10.—St. Petersburg this morning known little more than the Mukden than it knew Wednesday night and little more of the fate of General Kuropatkin's beaten army. It is not even known whether the railroad has been cut off and communication has been lost, that the report of the destruction of the railroad by General Okut's army refers to the damage inflicted on Wednesday, which was not serious, though traffic was twice interrupted. It is the Japanese are pressing closer to this indispensable means of retreat. The most important news received from Russian sources is the Association Press information that the Japanese already have reached the Hun river. Fu pass is only two miles north of General Lennevich's line of retreat. Whether the extreme Russian left has already succeeded in retreating behind the Hun river and moving down the north bank of that stream to join hands with General Kuropatkin's main force is not stated; but it is essential that Russia and the Russians are able to defend the enemy at Fu pass, General Lennevich's corps and perhaps additional forces will be cut off and have to shift themselves in the mountainous region north of Fushan against expeditionary forces of Japanese which are reported from these sources as being racing toward the Tie river. Tie pass is the word to pass, but it was stated here yesterday that General Kuropatkin had been for some time assembling a force of reserves at Tie pass and Harbin with this eventuality in view, to defend the pass and positions until he can make or fight his way back. SECRETARY SHAW TO RETIRE. Official Announcement to That Effect Comes From Washington. Washington, March 7.—It was sted yesterday that Secretary Shaw will visit from the cabinet in February, 1506. The president sent a large number of nominations to the senate yesterday including all of the members of the present Gunther, accompanying Postmaster Gunther, Gunther Jr., who will help you nominated for that office. Russian Fleet Returning Home Paris, March 9—A dispatch to the Temps from Tannarivo, capital of the island of Madagascar, says the waters of Madagascar on its return to Jubilil, French Somiland. The mecanist man has turned up in Spakane, Wash. He was caught robbing an orphan's contribution box in a store in which he was employed as watchman. FATE OF NATIONS IN BALANCE Crisis Has Been Reached in Manchuria and 48 Hours Will Tell Tale. KUROPATKIN HAS ONE CHANCE Oyama's Marvelous Strategy Has Driven Russians Back But Worn Out His Men — Chinese Neutrality is Broken. Paris, March 7—The Journal's Mukden correspondent states that Lieutenant General Linevich on Monday repulsed thirteen consecutive Japanese attacks on the Russian center. The correspondent also states that the Russian right wing was unable to stop the Japanese movement northwest of Mukden, where General Kualabs' Siberians oppose General Nogi's Port Arthur veterans. Nichuang, Farch 7—It is reported here that the scouts of General Nogi's and General Kurokits armies are already in touch behind Tie mess. Saketun, March 7—According to reports just received the Japanese have advanced to attack along the whole line. Fighting has been in progress on the right flank of the Russian army near the imperial tomb since morning, but at this hour it seems to be lessening and the roar of artillery indicates that the fighting is moving further and further from Mukden. St. Petersburg, March 7.—The result of the greatest battle of modern times is expected to be determined today or tomorrow. Two of the largest battles in history and guns are now locked in a death struggle and although General Kuropatina to cover his retreat by repression to cover his retreat by removing his accumulated stores and supplies, he is still unable to opinion of military men here that one side or the other cannot escape an overwhelming disaster. With both wings backward Kuropatina's position appears to be desperate, out of control, and of a victory for him is only regarded as possible by his breaking through the enveloping lines and news of a concentrated offensive is hourly awakened and stress Kuropatina can be must lose. Field Marshal Oyama's strategy in this battle is now clear. He startled and amazed the war office by the marvelous daring of General Kurokil's advance against the extreme Russian left and the series of blows delivered at the front. The teen separate attacks have been launched by the imperial guards ice miles cast of Pottilloff Hill. But it is now realized that the heavy blows at the left were intended to mask the real turning movement which came like a bolt from a clear sky out of the Kurokilpattin fell into the tran. The situation seemed an exact duplicate of that at Liangyang and the Russian commander-in-chief hastened to mass forces to meet Kurokil. Friday the whole situation was suddenly reversed when with lightning rapidity the Japanese turning operation began on a battle between the Hun and Liao rivers. In order to succeed Oyama threw the neutrality of China to the winds. General Nogi with his Port Arthur veterans moved up the right bank of the river to the south on the weakened Russian right, doubling it back in confusion, the Japanese advance being co-ordinated with the advance straight west from a Japanese column of 40,000 men which clinched through neutral Chinese territory. Although rumors of the presence of the latter column westward of Mukden were circulated as long ago as Thursday, Kirurathin evidently was not convinced that the Japanese would thus openly fling Chinese neutrality to the winds. At any rate it was not until Saturday night that he was able to shift sufficient reinforcements west from the Japanese within sight of Mukden. But the latest advice are to the effect that the Japanese, exhausted by their tremendous efforts, have everywhere stepped and now if ever Kuropatina's lines are extended over sixty miles while Kuropatina's are constantly contracting. Besides he has the advantage of the offensive of operating in the interior of his lines. Military criticism of his superiority enough superiority to take risks. According to the war office, Oryama has not over 70,000 men in excess of Kuropatina, whose force total about 240,000 men declares that he will himself to be a master of military science and establish a reputation for military genius of the first magnitude. But unless he can completely crush Kuropatina's superiority, Oryama is in imminent danger of having his own left cut off and destroyed. BRIBERY IN COLORADO. Senator R. W. Morgan, Republican, Creates Sensation. Denver, Colo., March 7—Senator R. W. Morgan, Republican, of Boulder county, announced yesterday at the opening of the joint convention of the general assembly that $1,500 had been offered him and $750 had already been given him for his vote for Gov. Alexandria in the contest for the office of Governor. He produced the money which he said he had received and it was handed to District Attorney George M. Slidger. A committee was appointed by the general assembly to investigate the crime. Senator Morgan named James M. Herbert, vice president and general manager of the Colorado Southern railroad, and Postmaster Daniel Sullivan of Cripple Creek, as the men who bribed him. District Attorney Slidger later filed information against Messrs. Herbert and Sullivan in the criminal investigation of the arduity of a member of the legislature. Bonds were immediately furnished. In statements issued later by Mr. Herbert and Mr. Sullivan they alleged that Senator Morgan had solicited a bribe. DERANGED NERVES DISTRESSING TROUBLES LEFT BY ST. VITUS AND GRIP. Woman Afflicted for Years by Strange Spells of Numbness and Weakness Recovers Perfect Health. When she was fourteen years old, Mrs. Ida L. Brown had St. Vitus' dance. She finally got over the most noticeable features of the strange almighty, but was still troubled by very unconfortable sensations, which she recently described as follows: "One hand, half of my face, and half of my tongue would get cold and numb. These feelings would come on, last for about ten minutes, and then go away, several times a day. I would have had the heart, and my strength would get so low that I could hardly breathe. As time went on these spells kept coming offener and growing worse. The numbness would sometimes extend over half my body." "How did you rid of them?" "It seemed for a long time as if I never could get rid of them. It was not until about six years ago that I found a remedy that had virtue enough in it to reach my case. That was Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and they have since united with me." "Did it take long to effect a cure?" "No! I hadn't taken the whole of the first box before I saw a great improvement. So I kept on using them, growing better all the time, until I had taken eight boxes and then I was perfectly well, and I have remained in good health ever since with one exception." "What?" "Oh! that was when I had the grip. I was in bed, under the doctor's care, for two weeks. When I got up I had dreadful attacks of dizziness. I had to grasp hold of something or I would fall right down. I was just miserable, and when I saw the doctor was not helping me, I began to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills again. In a short time they cured me, and I never had ever had any dizzy spines since." Mrs. Brown lives at No. 1705 DeWitt street, Mattoon, Illinois. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are without an equal for the rapid and thorough cure of nervous prostration. They expel the poison left in the system by such diseases as grip and are the best of tonics in all cases of weakness. They are sold by every druggist. Don't expect people to be loyal to you. That's where we are all weak. Most people look at their troubles through a magnifying glass. Mrs. Window's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, soothing the gums, reduces Bammanum, allays pain, curbs wind cold. No bake. Unfortunately the men who claim that the world owes them a living are not preferred creditors. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they use a brand that contains only 12 oz in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because they contain 16 oz. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. People who are stuck up seldom stick up for each other. WHAT THEY SAY: It is not often in these busy times that we can take the opportunity to comment favorably upon things in general which come to our attention and appeal to us as a satisfactory way. We give thanks, too, often, perfunctory, not meaning what we say. This, in turn, allows us to all cheer up which the following letter was recently written to a ticket agent of the Rock Island System: "Los Angeles, Calif. Jan. — 1905. Dear Mr. —】 We arrived here Saturday safely and enjoyed our trip very much on the Golden State Limited. All of our party voted this train up. We were all upon it. The accommodations were first class in every respect—the Sleepers, the observation Car, the Diner, the Buffet-library smoker, with bath and barber could not have been improved upon. The entire train crew were gentlemanly and very obliged—doing all they could to make everybody enchanted and feel at home. We shall try to get everybody relatives to take this train when coming to California." Mr. John Sebastian, passenger traffic manager, singles this out as one of the many commendatory letters to the Golden State Lions. The Golden State Limited is maintaining first place among transcontinental limited trains. 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IF giveall wos to Peruas.""—C. B. Newhot, ct ina s0ed a bo hag nt gene Je tar receive ter to | many ce ia a send "next ries, 1 pos. n, ot 0 he waaay aire. or the {aflered From Catarrh of Kidneys, Threatened With Nervous Collapse, Cured by Pe-ru-na, as, FB. Richards, 609 Street, N- weeshingtomy D’ C., War Corres: Poses wre "racy ae game Peer dored to Cuba es etal corres. puteat of She New York Sun, Twas in Serge of Sun Dispaten boat through GeGponish American ware "Thectiect tei Ftropleal climate and the nervous Gifs showed plainly on my return to Gaistes Lassitudes depression to tie tego of milancholay and intsant “rouble made mo practesily an Pr, ‘hie undesirable condition brtinved;deopite the best of treatnent Prallyabrather Rerspeper nano sin nyiel! had served Inthe war in. deed no to give a faithful tea to ferava, Tald'so._ Ina short time the Eitade left me, my kidneys resumed stealthy condition, anda complete sun was effected. 1 cannot too sttong- (resonmed Peruna to thoce suifering Wiisiudney trouble. ‘To-day Tam aus work so hard as at any time in my ite and the examiner for a lealing ie mance company probowiced me au Paine wing very A 7a EE, % een, ims 20k In Poor Health Over Four Years. Pe-ru-na Only Remedy of Real Benefit. Mr. John Nimmo, 215 Lippincott, St, Teron Can.s prominent inert that city and also a member of the Masonic onder write an ‘NT havo been in poor health generally for over four years. When I caught bad cold last ‘Winter it settled in the bladder and Kidneys, causing serious trouble. I took two greatly advertived Siiner semediee: Without petting the PENSE ETM s au setae oe Bi ori slog Se 2 ee . a ieee Co ie — . | atenaeee Suan ee ee | oe ane fe ee PRES. CB. NEWHOF, ‘Suffered From Calarrh of Bladder. 8 desired results. Peruna is the only remedy which was really of any benefit tome, have not had a trace of kidney trouble nor a cold in my system.” Pe-ru-pa Contains No Narcotics, One reason why Peruna has found permanent use iso many homes is that WC contains no narcotic of auy kind. Peruna is perfectly harialess. Tecan bo used any length of tine without aequir= ing a drug habit, Perna does not pro- duce temporary results, It is perwan- ent in its effect, It has no laud effect spow the eystera, and grudually eliminates eatarrh by removing the cause of eatarehs. Thera area multitude of homes where Peruna, has been used off and on for twenty Sears, Such a thing could not. be pose sible it Peruna contained auy drugs of Fee When Answering _ Advertisements rcinaly Mention Thia Paper. BEGGS’ BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomacl. tak CeaE OLR cates INAVGURAL ADDRESS OF " PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Short Speech Delivered by Chief Executive After Taking the Oath of Office— Our Duties as a Nation to the World and to Ourselves. After taking the oath of office dur- ing tho inauguration ceremonies at ‘Washington Mareh 4, President Roose- volt delivered the following speech: My Fellow Citizens: No people on earth have more caso to bo thankful than ours, and this Is sald reverently, im no spirit of boastfulness in our own strongth, but with gratitude to the Glver of Good, who has blessed us with the conditions which have enabled us to achieve so largo a measur of well- boing and of happiness, To us as & people it has been granted to lay the foundations of our national fo in a ‘new continent. We are tho holrs of the ages, and yet wo have had to pay few of the penaltios which in old ecuntries are exacted by the dead hand of a bygone civilization. Wo havo not been obliged to fight for ‘our existence against any allen race; ‘and yet our tife has called for the vigor and effort without which the maniler and hardier virtues wither away. Under such conditions {t Would be our own fault if we failed; and the success which we havo had fn the past, the sueccss whieh we con- fidently believe tho future will bring, should cause in us no feeling of vain: story, but rather a deep and abiding reallzation of all which life has of fered us; a full acknowledgment of the responsibility which 1s ours; and 8 fixed determination to show’ that under a free government a mighty people can thrive best, alike ag. ro- fards tho things of tho body and the things of the soul, ‘Much has beon given to us, and ‘much will rightfully be expected from 43. Wo havo dutles to others and autfes to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great na- tion, forced by tho fact of Its great- ress into relations with the othor na- tlons of tho earth; and we must be- have as beseems a people with such responsibilities. Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, Key, iY Mate, 7 ‘| ALA MW ZEF . } WZ AF I must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words but In our deeds that we are earnestly desirous of secur tg thelr good will by acting toward them in a spirit of Just and generous recognition of all their rights, But justice and generosity in a nation, as fz an Individual, count most when shown not by the weak but by the ‘strong. While ever careful to refrain from wrongiug others, we must be no tess insistent that we are not wronged ourselves, We wish peace; but we ‘wish the peace of justice, the penco Of righteousness. We wish it because We think it {9 Fight and not becauso we aro afraid, No weak nation that facts manfully and justly should ever have eauise to fear us, and no strong. power should ever be able to single his out as a subject for insolent ag- gression. ‘Our relations with the other por- ers of the world are important; but ‘still more Important are our relations ‘among ourselves. Such growth In Yrealth, Im population, and in power ts this nation has seen during the cen- ARAN OOO Thinks “Ben-Hur” Great Book. ‘Ayad A. Ghazal, an Egyptian, on gaged in the work of the medical de- partment of the University of Cincin Fatt, has applied to the publishers of “Ben-Hur” for permission to translate tho work Into Arable. Mr. Ghazull has translated a number of works, in- ciuding Spencer's “History of Philos: onhy.”” It is bls opinion that there fs need for fast such a book as “Ben Hur,” which ho describes as “one of the most Instructlve and interesting Books of this age,” in the Egyptian oon n of which he is a member. Royal Women In Feud. ‘he prosent czarina and the dow: ager empress do not merely look ask- faneo at one another. They have been ft open war for sears, The latter found it very hard to surrender first place among the women of the en pire, but of course had to do so, This Yaw’ especially Irritating to the tm perlows dowager, inacmuch as the wor Fan who displaced her hates every- Thing in the way of display, cares naught for court tnirlzue and is al- ‘most painfully aby | tury and a quarter of {ts national life is inevitably accompanied by a Ike growth In tho problems which aro ever before every nation that rises to greatness. Power invariably means both responsibility and danger. Our forefathers faced certain pertis whtch wo havo outgrown, We now faco oth- er perile the very existence of which {t was Impossible that thoy should foresee. Modern life is both complex and intense, and tho tremendous ckanges wrought by the extraordinary ludustrial dovelopmonts of tho Inst half century arefelt in every fiber of our social and poiltical being. Nevor before have mon tried so vast and for midable an experiment as that of ad- ministering tho affairs of a continent under the forms of a democratic re- public, ‘The conditions which have told for our marvelous material well- being, which havo developed to a very high degroo our energy, self-reliance, and individual imitiative, have also brought the earo and anxlcty insepar able from tho accumulation of great wealth {a Industrial centers. Upon the success of our experiment much depends; not only as regards our own welfare, but as rogards the welfare of mankind, It we fail, the cause of free self-government throughout the world will rock to {ts foundations; and therefore our responsibility Is ‘heavy, to ourselves, to tho world as It Is to day, and to the generations yet un- ver, ‘There {8 no good reason why wo should fear the future, but there 1s every reason why we stotld face it seriously, nelther hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing tc approach theso problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aricht. Yet, after all, though the problems are new, though the tasks set before us differ from tho tasks set before our fathers who founded and pro served this republle, the spirit in Which these tasks must bo undertak- en and these problems faced, if our duty is to be well done, remains essen- Wally unchanged. We know that self government s dimeult, We know that Bo people needs such high traits of character as that people which secks to govern its affairs aright through the freely expressed will of the free- men who compose It. But we:bavo folth that we shall not prove false to the memories of the men of tho mighty past. ‘They did thelr work, they left us the splondid heritage we now enjoy. Wo in our turn have an arsured confidence that we shall be able to leave this heritage unwasted and enlarged to our children and ow: children’s children, To do so we must show, not merely in great crises, but in the everyday affairs of life, tho qualities of practical Intelligence, of courage, of hardihood and endurance, and above all tho power of devotion toa lofty ideal, which made great the men who founded this republic In the days of Washington, which made great the men who preserved thie republic im the days of Abraham Lin coln, aac aaraaeeaea eee Everybody “Practical Now. “We live in a practleal age,” re- marked © West Philadelphlan, “For years T've noticed the sign of a man who advertises to do practical horse- shoeing. Now, a Woodland Avenue barber has himself down as a practl- cal haircutter, Napoleon always shaved himsolf. 1 always thought it proved him elther oversusplcious or cowardly; but perhaps It was heeause those who wielded the razor were not practical in thoso days. ‘The sign of the practical toothpuller Is yet to ap- pear."—Philadelphia Record. 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( iscent eros ff AMERICAN COLOR COMPANY, ee ms sais cp wa oy Salzer’s Ne BS Natienal Oats \\ ESDP onus ant ne mney, Pa ey [[)) PERE remateoe For 10c and thisnetice fi a acumauenen Bef \eusretetne ce (ess dA Ki La Crosse, Le Fa ti Wis. a Bie ee DOTTED ON | MIXED FARMING: gerbe WHEAT RAISING WEAN ad RANCHING Ses aa are soars cine femamneroen met satecorispe ae ee ete at icceotete, ee he pager ry eel ar eee e weed ey Sienna hep pre NOOR es Address all communications for these columns to the State Editor, Mrs. Belema Downey, 711 Bashaw's rect. Otumwa, Ia. The Mother and the Teacher. Many mothers watch the departure of the children every morning for school with a sigh of relief, and a feeling that for the greater part of the day their responsibility in regard to them has been transferred to another. There will be no childish disputes to settle, no hurt fingers to bink up, no faults to correct. But the mother's influence can control the home, and if she has the best interests of the children at heart she help the teacher in her efforts to drill and train them for future usefulness. The child should be taught to obey the teacher without a question. In no other way can a teacher maintain the order that is necessary to procure good results from her work. Do not allow the child to be absent without a good excuse. See to it that your children are not tardy. When a child enters the school-room late, every eye is upon them from the time they enter the school until they take their seat, thus diverting all the children's minds from their lessons and greatly annoying the teacher. It is better late than never, but a little effort would have enabled them to be on time in most cases. A loving interest in the daily lessons often proves a strong incentive to earnest work on the child's part. Have the children give an account each day of the per cent received their studies; appear especially glad over their high per cent, and when low encourage them and help them, and you will often spare them the identification of a failure at the examination. Examine the monthly reports and you will soon learn in what studies they excel and in which they are defect. Visit the schools occasionally. If you have time, thereby showing that you have an interest in the work that is being done there. Above all things, remember that a good education is the best legacy you can leave your children, and well worth all its costs to obtain it. AN IDEAL PRESIDENT. In reading the club news in the Iowa State Bystander, I see the Ideal President is to be answered by clubs or club workers. My idea of an ideal president would be a woman whose morals are above reproach in every capacity. A woman who is alive and able to lead, no matter what her religion or background, can all be true and gentle women, though we worship at different altars. An ideal president is a woman who has no pets when it comes to club work; a woman who will treat all her co-workers alike. An ideal president is a woman who has enough stability to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way. An ideal president is a woman who is able to keep up an interest in the grand and noble work that is started among our club women. An ideal president is a call for an energetic and intelligent woman who thoroughly understands this grand work. We all cannot be ideal presidents, but we can help the one whom we honor to be an ideal president. An ideal president is a woman who will always be polite; frank in word; disrect, unaffected, careful and cheerful. She will be slow to promise and sure to perform. Such a woman who rises to a true position in life will be recognized by all her co-workers as an ideal president. 'Let us question the thinkers and doers. And hear what they honestly say. And you'll find they believe, like boil wooers, In where there's a will, there's a WHAT CONSTITUTES A GOOD CLUB WOMAN. A good club woman should be energetic, alive to everything pertaining to the moral, social and intellectual advancement of the club of which she is a member. he powers her interest should emanate from a pure motive. Free from unselfishness. A good club woman will be courteous, kind and agreeable with her associates, always abounding in the work of uplifting our women or "lifting as we climb." A good club woman will not create emunity and strife, but will battle against these bugbears by exerting an influence of love and charity to help and exhibit the virtues of pure womanhood. Mrs. Belle Bannfister. Keokuk, Iowa. A good club woman should be courteous and agreeable to all, free from unselfishness and have an even temperature. The woman whose voice is always controlled in moderation and gentleness even, in times of great stress, whose eyes beam with good will rather than fire, though she be expressing a contrary opinion, is in the end the most powerful woman in the club. She who has ideas, reads, listens, thinks, makes the strong-souled, broad-minded loyal, capable club woman. Mrs. Belle Bannister, member of the club extension committee of the First district, has organized a new club in Keokuk. The name of this new organization is the Cleave Circle. The following are the officers and members President Mrs. Belle Bannister; first vice president, Mrs. Georgia Coleman; second vice president, Mrs. Ethea Golus; Miss Jessica O'Connor; junior secretary, Mrs. Mary Bland; treasurer, Mrs. Jefferson; Probe A. Jones, Anna Alden, Maria Jones, Mara Bollitt, Tillie Fields, Iney Kelts. Motto—No community rises above the virtues of true womanhood. The club meets every two weeks and will take up domestic science and mother's work. Two very interesting meetings have been held and the club status of the very auspiciously. They be the club of the residence of Mrs. P. A. Jones. Will unite with Federation at once The F. E. H. club is progressing and have done some excellent charity work this winter DAVENPORT Woman's New Idea club is the name of a new organization in this city. It starts off very auspiciously with twelve members and has applied for admission to the Federation. The Violet club is in splendid condition. Have just finished a silly quilt valued at $15 and a silly match value at $5. An entertainment event on March 15 to dispose of these articles. OTTUMWA A drama in four acts, entitled "Lincoln's Proclamation," was given by the Ida Wells club for the benefit of the Ottumwa hospital February 16. The audience, though not large, was very appreciative and several numbers were heartily enced. Many pleasing specialties were introduced during the play and between acts. One of the features that won enthusiastic applause was the representation of a colored prayer meeting. In the last act was shown a cotton field with the hands busy picking cotton. The performance concluded with a drill by nine little girls. Before the play the colored band gave a short open air concert in front of the opera house. All of the participants in the play represented various character creditable manner. Tuesday, February 21, was observed as Reciprocity day by the Good Intent Club. An invitation was extended to the other clubs to be present and the attendance was very good. The papers read were full of deep thought, and three were placed in the bureau. The Benevolent club, under the leadership of Mrs. A. Strother, have held some very successful meetings this winter. They are following the line of study laid down by the educational committee. Their membership is steadily increasing, which is always a sign of progress. The hearts of Iowa club women have been moved to the tenderest sympathy by the recent death of Mrs. Genevieve Green Tellier, who was the first secretary of the Iowa State Federation. Her death will be sincerely mourned by her friends all over the state. The following questions have been sent out by the social purity committee 1. Do you approve of co-education? If so, why? 2. Does your club have talks on temperance? 3. Is it customary for them to give card parties or dances? Do you think a social game of cards will lead to gambling? 4. Do the parents of your city guard against late hours for their children? Which do you think the most beneficial for children, evenings spent in their own homes or at Y. M. C. A. or Y. W. C. A.? 5. Should there be an equal standard of morality for boys and girls? 6. Do you favor divorces? 7. Is gossip ever fruitful of good? 8. Does it ever really pay to help fallen women? Gertrude D. Culberson. Chairman of Committee. THE AMERICAN QUEEE N By JOAQUIN MILLER The queenliest woman, bravest, best Of all sweet thing beneath the sun? I say the queenliest is that one— Seek no nth or south or east or west— Who loves to fold the little frock And hear the cradle rock and rock. I say the purest woman, best Who rocks and sings and rocks, and then When birds are nesting, rocks again. From The Communist, March, 1925 Subscribe for the Hystander STATE OF IOWA, OFFICE OF AUDI TOR OF STATE. ANNUAL CERTIFICATE Des Moines, Iowa, March 1, 1905 Whereas, The Home Fire and Marine Insurance Company, located at San Francisco in the State of California has filed in this office a sworn statement of its condition on the thirty-first day of December, 1904, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4, Title 9, of the Code of Iowa, relating to Insurance Companies; and whereas, said statement shows that said Insurance Company has complied with the laws of this State relating to insurance. Therefore, In pursuance of law, I, B F. C. CARROLL, Auditor of State, do hereby certify that said Insurance Company is authorized to transact the business of Fire insurance in the State, by agents properly appointed, as required by law, until the first day of March, A D. 1905. I further certify that the statement shows— 1st. The actual amount of paid-up Capital of said Company. Dec 31, 1904, to be..... $300 000 2d. The aggregate amount of the Assets of said Company. Dec 31, 1904, to be..... $1,015,013 36 3d. The aggregate amount of Liabilities of said Company, including the amount required to safely reinsure all outstanding risks Dec. 31, 1904, to be..... $1,195,474 64 4th. The aggregate income of said Company for the year 1904, to be..... $1,182 496 38 5th. The aggregate expenditures of said Company for the year 1904, to be..... $1,063 587 89 In testimony whereof, I have here-unto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of my office the day and date above written. B. F CARROLL. KEQKUK NEWS. Mrs. Julia Benthan is seriously ill at her home on Fifteenth and Franklin streets. Mrs. Geo. Ashley very ill at her home on Thirteenth and Morgan streets. Cleave circle will meet with Mrs. Geo. Jones Wednesday afternoon, March 8. The officers of this society are Mrs. G. C. Bannister, president; Mrs. G. A. Coleman, first vice president; Mrs. Etta Goens, second vice president; Carrie Goens, secretary; Mrs. F. D. Band, corresponding secretary; The remains of the late William Brown, who died at Independence, Mo., arrived in the city Saturday morning, and the funeral was held Saturday afternoon at Pilgrim Rest church, under the directions of Des Moines River lodge, G. U. O. of Old Fellows. The Right Rev. Bishop Morrison conducted service at the church of St. Mary Virgin on fourteenth and High street March 5 at 7:30 p. m. The funeral was well attended. Little Myreys Brodas has been quite ill with chicken pox at her home on Fourteenth and Morgan streets. She is convalescent. Miss Fern Harris has returned home after spending the winter in Des Moines. Her stay in our city is indefinite. Aunt Cara Davis, who resides on Thirteenth and Orleans streets, has been seriously ill for the past month. Her condition is much improved. Johnson has returned from a business trip to Springfield and Quincy, IL. BURLINGTON NEWS The funeral of Myrtle Drake, who died of pneumonia Tuesday, February 28, was held from the St. John's A. M. E. church Thursday afternoon at 20:00 o'clock. A great number came to pay the last tribute to their departed friend, who was called to the other world. Rev. W. W. Williams of the A. M. E. church conducted the services and spoke words of comfort to her sister and sorrowing friends. The choir sang tenderly and sweetly "Nearer, My God, to Thee." The friends were given an opportunity to view the remains. At the grave the members of Gates Ajar tabernacle gave the funeral service of the order. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. The pal bearers were Ed. Williams, H. Slaughter, Leon Harrison, Ab. Hedge, Harry Irving and S. Martin. Mrs. John Mitchell is much improved in her health. Mr. Leon Reed was able to be our last Sunday. All are glad to see that Mr. Reed is on the road to recovery. Mrs. John Mitchell departed for Montreal, Canada, last Sunday morning. Little Naomi Harrison, who has been quite sick for the past month, is improving. Burlington friends of Bro. S. McDowell sympathize with him in the loss of his wife, who was buried in Pecoria last week. Mrs. McDowell was for a number of years a resident of Burlington, her name being Mrs. Lucy Cruther before she married Rev. McDowell. Mrs. Maggie Lee is quite sick at her home on Foster street. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Mitchell entertained with an elegant dinner Tuesday in honor of Miss Lola Brooks and O. C. Folks. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. A. Mitchell, Miss Ida and Lola Brooks, Miss Kitty, O. C. Folks and Mr. Dows. Mrs. Welch and children of Hocking, Iowa, are visiting Mrs. Welch's parents, Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Williams, on Washington street. Little Ruth and Naomi Tigg are quite sick at their home, at the "Dairy." Ed. Williams and Miss Ella Crowden attended Vernon Johnson's funeral at Ft. Madison. MUSCATINE TID-BITS Who did Mrs. Groomes chance to see on a visit on Fullard avenue? Two widows waiting for the gent to arrive home. A chance for the cakes of many colors. It is reported that Mr. Lloyd expects to move on Fullam avenue. Mr. I. P. says the only cure for the grip is whisky. Which way was that pound surprise party going? Quite a number are expecting to attend. Mr. Nelson Curr remains quite poorly at times, and Miss Brown rises to keep up his spirits by smiling and sometimes laughing. Mrs. Lloyd has quite a severe cough that needs attention. Rev. M. I. Gordon preached an elegan sermon at the poor farm, to the inmates, which was greatly appreciated. Philip Fairfax is quite poorly, and Miss Mary has quite a bad cough. Mr. Hull of Roscoe avenue is nearly surrounded by water, wishing the water would change its course. Several strangers are in the city working. Mr. Barnes gave a short call on Fullam Sunday, not being able to climb the hill. Quite a neat sum was realized at the missionary entertainment. Mrs. Jeff Thompson lost a pet dog, and it is reported that a funeral march was played. Abraham Seabrooks says mud on a street crossing is nothing, but he dislikes ice and water. He dislikes a fall. CEDAR RAPIDS In an accident Tuesday morning W. L. Claybrook dislocated his shoulder. The accident did not prove serious, however, as Mr. Claybrook was able to resume his work the following day. Mrs. S. Greene has been quite ill with lagrippe, but is better at this writing. Fred Morris is in Buxton on business. The J. S. Y. club met last Wednesday with Miss Haitie Bouey. Mrs. G. Gray lea a most interesting discussion on the subject of "Good in Relation to Growth. There was also a meeting a clipping taken from one of the daily papers of St. Paul giving and account of theization of a state federation of Afro-american women of Minnesota. In which Mrs. Mary Joyce was elected state secretary. Mrs. Joyce was a charter member of the J. S. Y. club of Cedar Rapids, who feel extremely proud of her present position. A card of congratulations has been sent Mrs. Joyce by the J. S. Y. club. We are very glad to report that Mr. Howard Worthing on, who has been ill most of the winter, is improving nicely. Last Tuesday evening at their hall the Masons gave their annual winter picnic, which was as pleasant as they always are. The ladies spared no pains to make their luncheon as appetizing as possible. The only regret was that the entertainment could not have been held longer. Sixteen ladies met Thursday even- ing at the Lome of Mrs. K. Morris and organized under Mrs. S. Greene a club to be known a few months hence as the Household of Ruth. On last Tuesday evening, while the older folks enjoyed themselves at the winter plenic, the younger ones, with Master Sydney Hubert as a lender, pleasantly took Master Harold Price by a storming surprise. The party broke up at 10 o'clock, and they say they had a lovely time. Mrs. P. M. Lewis has been unanimously voted an able hostess and enterer. On Tuesday afternoon when the stewardess board closed their meeting, they were pleasantly surprised being led into the dining room, where the tailor was beautifully lined up for nine. At 4:30 the same afternoon the trustee committee adjourned and was as pleasantly surprised by Mrs. Lewis as was the previous board. This time covers were laid for eleven. Each time refreshments were served in three courses. FT. : MADISON NOTES. Miss Betty Stewart of Keokuk is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lucy Woods. Mrs. Geo. Mack, who has been seriously ill with pneumonia, is no better at this writing. Mrs. Hattie Hoskins has returned to her home in Davenport, after a visit at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar McClellan. Rev. W. A. Holmse, pastor of the Second Baptist church, has accepted charge of the Third Baptist church of Davenport. The members and friends are sorry to see him go, as he is well liked by all. He will go to accept the charge about March 13. The entertainment at the A. M. E. church was a success financially and socially. Mrs. Ambrose Jackson is seriously ill after this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Woods and daughter Jennie of Sandusky are visiting Mrs. Woods' mother, Mrs. Elmira Crowsen. Mrs. Rebecca Bowman expects to depart soon for Kansas City. Mo., where she will make her future home, Preston Bannister of Keokuk was in the city. Monday. Mrs. Lizzie Holmes, who has been seriously ill for some time, is improving slowly. YANKTON NEWS Howard Marion has opened up a new warehouse in New York where he was colored barber shops for Yankton. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Robinson celebrated their silver wedding anniversary the middle of last month. They received several valuable tokens of the event. Mercies, which has been a fierce and lasting epidemic, is being stopped quite rapidly now. March came in as February went out, with mild, warm weather. In the absence of Elder Galnes, Mr. Rosenberry, pastor of the white Methodist church, assisted Mr. Lewis in serving sacrament. It was quarterly meeting, and one more member was enlisted on the church book. The wedding of Mr. William A. Riddle and Miss Salome B. Smith took place at the home of the bride at high noon on Monday, March 6, Rev. Geo. Rosenberry officiating. The guests consisted of a few intimate friends and relatives. The ceremony and all included were a perfect success. The bride was dressed in blue and white and was very sweet. The bridal march was played by Miss Byrdie Dowdy. After the ceremony a daly three-course dinner was served, after which the bridal party prepared for the train. Misses Lettie Mitchell, Julia Smith, Byrdie Dowdy and Messrs. Lewis and Woody Smith and Wyart Dowdy accompanied the bridal couple as far as Antreville, S. D. The most enjoyable part of the event for the young people was the scandalous decorations of the brunke. Mr. Riddle and his uncle Jeff of Yankton's next best hotel, has lived in this place or several years and proved himself an honest and true friend to all whom he knows. The bride is one of our most esteemed and honorable young ladies and will greatly be missed in her absence, Mr. and Mrs. Riddle are probably going to make their home in Washington after brief visits at intervening cities. Henry Gray Embalming and Funeral Director, GOOD LIVERY IN CONNECTION Iowa 649. Mutual 1090 Mutual 1090 WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE Iowa State Bystander DES MOINES, IOW. FRIDAY, MARCH 10. Published every Friday by the BYSTANDER Publishing Co., Des Moines, Ia. Iowa 'phone 899. Official paper of the M. W. U. Grand Lodge of Iowa, A. F. & A M., Iowa State Federation of Colored Women and International Grand Congress of Heroes of Jericho of America. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year ..... $1.50 Six months ..... .75 Three months ..... .50 All subscription payable in advance. 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