Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XIII, No. 30. Wm Ganaway of Chicago, Ill., a traveling salesman for Murphy Brothers Clothing house, was in the city a few days last week. He was just from Buxton, Iowa where he and some other young colored then are organizing a Merchantile Company to operate similar to the Murphy Brothers with headquarters in Chicago. He made our office a pleasant call. On last Wednesday Decen ber 19, at the resididence of Mr. and Mrs. Attrus Brown, 824 Small street, occurred the wedding of Mr. Benjamin J. Hack and Mrs Francis F. Baldwin, in the presence of a host of friends. The ceremony was performed by Rev. O. A. Johnson. A great many useful presents were given the happy couple An elegant luncheon was served. The following is the program for the entertainment of Grand Master W. H. Milligan at Masonic hall Monday evening, December 31st, in the form of a basket picnic: Toastmaster, J. L. Thompson, W. M.; invocation, H. W. Porter; song; welcome address by J. H. Shepard; quartet; remarks by Dr. W. S. Brooks; song by the members; remarks by Rev. T. L. Griffith; remarks by Rev. O. A. Johnson; solo by Mr. Geo. I. Holt; remarks by Rev. H. W. Porter; response by Grand Master W. H. Milligan. The Corinthian Baptist Church Announcement. The services will be held as usual Sunday morning and evening Dec. 30. At 3 p. m. we have our baptismal services at the First Baptist church, Cor. Eighth and High streets. Watch Night services Monday Dec. 31st. On Tuesday, New Years days, there will be services at 11 a. m. and 1 p. m. That day there will be a dinner specially for the members of the church. It is hoped all members will present. No charge for the meal. Members of the congregation and friends are invited to dine at 3 p. m. T. L. Griffith, pastor. The address by Wm. Coalson before the David and Jonathan League at the Union Congregational church last Sunday at 3:30 p.m when he observed while in the south with the Governor's was very interesting and well delivered, after graphically speaking of the wealth of the Negro in that portion of the country he then spoke on the moral and social condition of the race. He made it very clear that one of the greatest needs is to raise their moral standard and purify their social society as near as can be by separating the better element of the Negro from the criminal classes. The League was well attended and the address well received. The semi-annual meeting of the executive committee of the Iowa State Afro-American Council will be held at Burns' M E. church on Monday, January 1st, and pursuant to the proclamation of the president of the National Council the Local Council will celebrate the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation by appropriate program at the same place in the evening of the same day. Several prominent speakers from out of the city are expected to be present, but the full particulars of the program will be announced later. A most brilliant social function was the Christmas dinner given by the young gentlemen of the Smart Set club to their young lady friends. It was given at the home of Mr. Tony Franklin. In the parlor a large Xmas. bell hung suspended from the ceiling. In the dining room the club colors, blue and red were suspended from the chandelier and reached the four corners of the table. The table decorations consisted of tiny Xmas trees and the center-piece was a bowls of red carmels. The menu which was very elaborate consisted of buillon, turkey and accessories, assorted salad and waffers. CITY NEWS. Mr. J. If you have relatives or friends visit us in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us: we solicit all your local news.—Ed. A new club called "Smart Set Club" has just been organised by some of the young society people. Miss Electa Lewis of Fayette went home this week to spend the holidays with her parents. W. H. Milligan G. M of Iowa Mason's Lodge passed through our city yesterday enroute to Enterprise Ia. Mrs. P. Woodson, the well known chef, is assisting at Mrs I M. Jones' restaurant during the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Tom. Trail of Omaha, Nebr., spent Christmas in the city visiting Mrs Trail's parents Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Blagburn on 817 12th street. Mrs Joseph LaCour and children left Wednesday afternoon for Carroll to spend the rest of the holidays with Mr. LaCour. Mr. Jesse Graves who has been in Minnesota for several months is in the city this week, ane with his brother Thornton they called at our office. Mr E T Banks spent Thursday and Friday in Buxton looking toward the organization of a Chapter and Commandery in that city. Go to Mrs. Vina Murrell for good rooms and accommodations, 118 E. 5th street, Davenport, la. The H. B. S. Reading Circle will meet next Thursday with Mrs. W. H. Warricks. All members are requested to be present. Mrs. Peter Hudlin of Davenport is spending the holidays with relatives and friends in this city. Mr. Hudlin will spend part of next week here. Alissa Turner the little girl who has been staying with Mr. and Mrs L. J. Shaeton has been very sick, but is improving at this writing, her mother Mrs. Mary Turner of Kansas City was called here is now in the city. Robert Watkins of Buxton was in our city a few days this week spending Christmas with his relatives and shopping. He says Buxton is a great town to make money for all who wants to work, he left wednesday morning. Miss Luella Franklin of Oskaloosa spent part of this week in the capital city She arrived in time to attend the ball that was given last night at Cycling Hall. A diamond ring makes a nice Xmas present, or at least that is what one young lady thinks who lives between Sixth avenue and Eleventh street. We warnise that cupid will be a visitor in that locality before many months. When in Nacon, No., go to the Macon Restaurant for good meals or short orders; also good rooms, 268 North Rubey street. M. J. G. Lafayette from Regina Sask. Canada, spent four days in the city visiting his sister, Mrs. O. A. Johnson He left Monday for Oskaloosa to visit his father and mother. Mr. Henry Williams and Miss Jesie Welch, both of Saylorville, were married in the Burns' M. E. church parsonage December 15, '06, Rev. O. A. Johnson officiating. Mrs. George Curtley and daughter, Miss Bertha, who have been visiting in Spokane, Wash., for several months returned home last week. The Misses Alice Dameron and Cora Brown of Iowa City spent last Saturday and Sunday in our city. They were enroute to Creston to spend the holidays. The dancing party that was given by the Lotus club at Cycling hall last night was attended by a large crowd Mr. T. S. Wilson is president of the club and he is making it one of the successful social club. Mrs. S. Joe Brown of this city has recently been appointed District Superintendent of S. S. for the Des Moines District, recently created by the last annual conference of the A M E. church, and will enter upon her new duties the first of the year. PEOPLES SHORT ORDER and LUNCH ROOM Cooking to order in home style Good rooms furnished. First-class service guaranteed. 515 W. Third St. IOWA PHONE 1816-X Mr. C. B. Woods spent last Tuesday with his family. Rev. T. L. Griffith left Thursday night for Kansas City, Kans., to attend the meeting of the Board of the Western Baptist Convention of which he is president. The Domestic Economy reading club meet with Mrs. George Laton on 35th street, they adjourned after an interesting topic to meet with Mrs. Marv Mease of 1043 B street next Saturday. Union congregational Church Dec. 30th. Regular prescribing service morning and evening. Men's League at 3:00 p.m. The public is invited to all services. There will be an open house on New Years day, all members and friends of the church are invited to call. One of the largest Christmas tree parties given this year was the one given last Monday night at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lee of 119 West Locust street. The tree was laiden with many fine and costly presents, about forty guest were present and each had something for each other. The Oriole Mandolin club furnished the music assured by Miles Taylor on the piano. Those present report an enjoyable evening. ice cream, cake and coffee. The even was spent in games, dancing and cards. At a late hour the guests left the young gentlemen entertainers. Emancipation Proclamation Day will be celebrated the first of January by the citizens of Des Moines under the auspices of the local and state Afro-American Council. Attorney Geo. H. Woodson president of state council will be present and preside part of the time. Attorney S. Joe Brown local president will preside mostly. Prof. Gilliam of Buxton will be present and will make the chief address. All the members of the council should be present. Everybody invited "you come." The meeting will be held in the Burns' Methodist Episcopal church 13th and Crocker streets, commencing at 10:30 A. M. to 12 A. M. adjourned for dinner Meet again at 2:30 adjourn at five, will meet again at 6:00 P. M. at which time Prof. Gilliam will speak; Proclamation of Emancipation read by Mrs. J. W. Brow; Supplementary, Miss Addie Wilkinson, Song Let the banner wave but never over a Slave, Rev. O. A. Johnson. Christmas parties is in full away this week, we have had more Christmas parties then we will be able to mention, but one of the finest and most up to date Christmas parties was that given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Blagburg of 817 12th street. They served an elaborate dinner at 13 o'clock noon at which table was seated all of his daughters Macedon Jesse Lourd of this city. P. Huddlin of Davenport and Thaas. Trail of Omaha, Neb. and in the evening nearly forty people responded to the beautiful invitation with their presence. The rooms were beautifully decorated with flowers, palms, evergreen, holly mistletoe, and Christmas bells, and in the dining room each table held five candelabrum exquisitely arranged. Musio was furnished by the Williams Mandolin Club, after midnight Miss Lillian Fields played on the piano and Mr. L. Shelton the violin. The supper menu was as follows chicken patties with lettuce sandwiches and jelaton, ice cream, cake and coffee, salted nuts and reception sticks; after spending the night is pleasure and amusements, a very delightful 5 o'clock breakfast was served to the party of twenty who remained over night, the menu consisting of fried chicken, hot biscuits, gravy ham, cake coffee and ice cream, all served in first class style, after which all departed bidding these entertaining host and hostess a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. This party is long to be remembered. Smart Set Entertained. One of the largest social events of the past week was given last Friday night by the Twilight Social club at the residence of Mr. and Mrs George Lee, 119 W. Locust street, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Dudley and other leading members of the Smart Set Theatrical Co. Singing, dancing and whist were the pleasures of the evening. Music was furnished by the Oriole Trio Mandolin club. Members of the Smart Sat Company in attendance were: Mr. S. H. Dudley and wife, Misses May York, Emma Bayard, S. T Whitney, and Sadie Mears, Messrs. J. Homer Tubb, Chas. Gilpin, James Burrus, Miss Florence Stumley, Pewee Williams. Mrs. Lee was assisted in serving by Mesdames George Powell and Emma Washington. A good time was reported by all The members of the club are Geo. Lee, N.-Shininghouse, Ora Hayes, Fred Houston, Miles Taylor and C. Shull. WE WISH YOU A happy new year! Would subscribe for the Bystander; only $1.00 now. Would make and execute good resolves. Would all try this year to raise a higher our moral status. Would pay all the back dues you owe the Iowa State Bystander. Would pay more attention in raising and training your children. Would quit lying, pay your honest debts and deal square We Wish Some of our people would quit laying around the depots and on steetens when you have no business. That more of our young children remain in public and High Schools. To see more of our boys and girls in the Iowa colleges next year. Our people would read more good literature and less trash To see more of our people enter the field of skilled labor. Our masters would have the christian manhood to do the right thing all the time, and speak against those who do not do right To see more of our people buy farms and become independent and become independent. To see more of our people save their money and get a bank account. Every man would live up to the old golden rule. All our colored journals a prosperous and successful year. and successful year. Our secret societies and social clubs would do more to elevate this character and right living of our race: [Name] THE HOME OF THE MAYOR Our race, as a whole, would not shield the wrongs and crimes of our race, but condemn them. Lastly, all newspapers and every creature a properous and successful New Year The chivalry of Europe is, in great measure, a product of the Barnes chivalry which entered Europe in two streams flowing through Constantinople and through Spain. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph with no discernible content. It is our pleasure, through the courtesy of Prof. Rufus Logan, editor of the Professional World, in Columbia, Mo, to present the cut of Prof. J. H. Garnett of Lincoln Institute at Jefferson City, Mo, who was installed De- A. K. The above cut represents some of the buildings of the Western College and campus grounds. This college is also the largest in the four large institutions of Missouri. WOODSON CASE DISMISSED. Disbarment Proceedings are Thrown Albia, Iowa, Special to Bystander The disbarment proceedings against George H. Woodson, the colored attorney who was charged with inducing witnesses sometime ago to leave the country is set free. It seems the state relied upon the depositions and when they were knocked out the state found itself unable to get the witnesses in time to proceed with the case and was compelled to dismiss it. It was a great victory for Mr. Woodson as th's disbarment cloud had been hanging on him nearly six months. He has an extensive practice in Mahaska, Monroe, Wapelle, Jasper and Polk counties. His partner, S. Joe Brown was the chief counselor for the defense, assisted by W. W. Epps, ex county attorney of Ottumwa. J. T. Davett and W. R. Lacey of Oskaloosa. This case was watched by the bar and ten judges were present Wednesday morning when the case was called. Those present were Honorables Robert Sloan, Frank Ikkerle, C. W. Vermillion, John P. Scott, Byron W. Preston, W. C. Clementes, L. C. Blanchard, Benj McOcy, J. C. Mitchell and Rév. A. Cato Caye, his minister, pastor of the First Congregational church, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Mr. Woodson is well known in political circles. He is a good speaker and a strong leader in his party. There are always two parties to a contract, and yet in a majority of cases but one is expected to carry it. --- Catholic Negro Bureau. The Washington Star is authority for the statement that at the meeting of the Archbishops of the United States held in the city recently, plan were made for the establishment. Catholic Negro Bureau similar to the Catholic Indian Bureau, directed by Rev. William Ketoch. At the head of the new Negro bus- burke, pastor of one of the largest THE MISSING MAN WAS A MISSING MAN WAS A MISSING MAN cember 13th as president of the Western College at Macon, Mo. He comes highly recommended as an advance educator and thinker and a high-minded gentleman. A for the education of our colored youths. It is the school that Prof. Enos L. Scruggs worked so hard for many years to set up the light and hold it. He recently resigned and the and best administered colord Catholic churches in the United States—St. Benedict, the Moor New York City. he is highly regarded by the prelates, especially for administrat.ve ability, and his great success in New York. While the establishment of a Negro bureau has been the subject of discussion among the prelates for the purpose of especially at work on the enterprise have been Archbishop John M. Farley of New York, and the bishops of Mobile and Nashville. They have felt, it is said, that the Negro in America was not receiving the attention he deserved at the hand of the church, and are destruous of aggressive pushing missionary work among these people. There are eleven millions of the colored race in the United States, of whom less than 2 per cent are Catholic. This has been food for thought of the Catholic church, and it is felt that the church must "be up and doing." Thus spoke Rev. T. J. Duffy of the Josephites at the recent missionary conference. "So far, he said, the Negro has no objection to a world in objection of institute pride to Catholic, and it behooves us to be up and doing if we are to fulfill the desties that, in the plan of divine economy, has been mapped out for the Church in the United States. "Far be it from me to be little the efforts of those who since emancipation have labored and toiled for the regeneration of the Negro race; far be it from me to make light of the zeal and plenty, the charity and self-sacrifices that inspire men and women to devote themselves to the evangelization of the Negro, yet how few are they of the many millions who glory in the name of Catholics. We might turn back the leaves of time and read thereon the story of the Negro in America, but there are some things over which it may be well to draw the curtain of forgetfulness and instead grapple with the problem as it is at present." Father Duffy's discourse was one at the most widely commented on of any at the conference. He is a member of the Josephites, who have a seminary in Baltimore and with missionaries scattered over nine southern states. This society, along with the Holy Ghost Fathers, will doubtless be the principal agencies through which the new Catholic Negro bureau will work. When approached about the project, Rev. A. P. Doyle, D. d., rector of the Apostolic Mission House, expressed himself as much pleased at the determination of the hierarchy, as well as with the select.on of a head for the bureau, Father Burke. Among other things, he said: "I have been working during the past few months down in the lower counties of Maryland, where the colored people are almost entirely Catholics, and where the have been under the influence of the Catholic church for three generations or more, and in these counties one bears nothing of any Negro problem. The colored people there are a law-abiding and self-respecting people. They attend church services eagerly and go to confession regularly. They are Catholics, and good Catholics. They are remarkably virtuous and love domestic virtue." MR. GRAVES OF MANILLA IN OUR CITY. Mr. Thornton Graves from Manila, P.I., was in our office yesterday. He left his home in Moulton, Iowa, April 9, 1899, going to the Philippines via San Francisco. Mr. Graves parents have been residents of Moulton for the past thirty years, and was the first Negro family to settle in that city. Mr. Graves occupied the position of checker for vessels going from and entering the port of Manila, being an employee of the United States government. On the return trip Mr. Graves came home by way of Singapore, Colombo, Aden, Suez canal, Port Said and Gbahrat to Newport News, Mr. Graves said: "The islands are rich and afford splendid opportunities in a business way. I found the Negro residents comparatively few in number, but they are prosperous—some are engaged in business and some are following various occupations. They are well received by the natives. The only trouble between them was caused by American preju- THE HOME OF THE HISTORIC MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN board selected Prof. J. H. Garnett, that great and beloved educator, from the Lincoln Institute, to become Prof. Scruggs' successor. The college is located upon the highest point in Madice, and public schools are driving this prejudice away, and the Filipino is learning the truth. There are no Negro school teachers in the islands because the United States would not such schools would be more acceptable to the natives than white American teachers. There was no distinction made at any of he places a which I stopped, Hotels, restaurants, places of amusement and every public convenence or accommodation was open to all. There were 500 white passengers and nine Negroes on this trip and there was no distinction made in foreign lands. Objections to Negroes made by Americans are looked upon as silly, and are resented in some places as an insult. After travelling 13,000 miles to see my parents, good old Iowa and my native land, it remained for me to face ag in race prejudices. I landed upon a beautiful town, beneath the stars and stripes. After spending a few months with my parents, I shall return to he Philippines. I have learned the Spanish language and many of the dialects in the islands, so I will feel at home there." FT. MADISON, IOWA Special to Bystander. THE DISCHARGING OF THE NE- GRO TROOPS. It would be unfair to my race if I would remain silent, when my heart bids me speak in the deme of my race. I speak for a race that for more than two centuries was held in bond- age; a race striving to reach the heights attained by other races, but each day presents new injustice that is done to us. The most recent injustice is the dismissal of the colored troops by (2) things draw the instead it is at was one and of on a memo have a withouthough through bureau project, of the pressed deter well as for the other the lower the col Cathen unatholic more, not nothencol obliding eagerularly. Catho-Price, Five Cents. President Roosevelt, I do not doubt that every Negro in America is in sympathy with the dismused soldiers. I do not condone the offense of the few who committed the murder, for the whole affair is deplorable. It was not the duty of the comrades to turn the guilty partes over to the authorities. Had it been that the soldiers had been white and the persons wounded were Negroes, I have not the least doubt, but that affairs would have taken quite a different turn and there is nothing to prove that white soldiers have told who he was and parties were. Would the president have dismissed in disgrace the whole battalion as a punishment? it is quite true that the innocent will suffer with the guilty, but why in this particular case any more than any other case? Have the men who took part in the many riots and burning suffered? No, a thousand times, no; the guilty have not suffered they have gone unharmed. President Roosevelt has never been known to cry out against mob violence of any sort as all of these were affairs of states. Was not this an affair of Texas' and not the President's affair? He may have acted with authority, but this demanded Federal interference, how much more do the burning of Negroes and Atlanta riots demand Federal interference, when the future of the whole race is engendered by the prejudice aroused by these riots. The sold ers must take their medicine, although it is bitter, for perhaps the whole truth of the affair will never be known. There will come a time, however, when the nation will need the "black regiment." No one can tell but that another San Juan Hill will confront its country, but there will be no Negro soldiers to save the day. The day may not be far distant when the wrongs of these soldiers shall be redressed. Let us then be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; Still aching, still pursuing. Learn to labor and to wait. MARSHALLTOWN ITEMS. At a meeting of Eureka Lodge No. 30 A. F. A. M. the following officers were elected I. L. Brown. Wm. Catey Wheeler, Secretary; D. F. Brown. J. W. G. A. Johnson, Treasurer; Albert Walker Secretary. The Du Bar Club Club meet with Mrs. Flipping and they reported ten dollars from the proceeds of the basar whaon was voted to the chub. Albert Walker is getting his house in THE HOME OF THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN con, a beautiful level tract of thirty acres of land in the northeast part of the city. The college has several hundreds of scholars enrolled this year. shape. Come girls get busy. Well cold weather is here and the great number of strangers that was in the city Tuesday left a streak behind that points straight south. W. D. Crawford is working at the parking house. We have the interurban line for sure this time. The Dunbar Progressive Club will meet with Mrs Gilmore Thursday Dec. 10th when arriving guests will be made for a fair to be given Jan. 16, 1907 this is going to be the event of the season. M. G. M. W. H. Miligan and others will be present. Someone in the near future a play will be presented by the animator Dramatic Club more later. Mrs. L. L. Brown and daughter Gracie Both sun master Kait Spence Christmas with her sister Mrs. S. W. Green of Tole, Ohio. Samuel Robinson of Indianaapolis was a ch isma visitor. Miss Matter Walker is spending the holidays with her brother and sister. CEDAR RAPIDS NOTES. Mt. Olive Lodge No. 1 A F. and A. M. is preparing for their annual enter-ment which will be held on the 23rd of January 1907. The nature of the entertainment will be announced later. A grand time is anticipated. By order of a New York court a mother gave her seventeen-year-old girl who had attempted suicide a spanking with a hair brush. The fall from the sublime to the ridiculous might be more spectacular, but never more complete. Iowa State Bystander Dr. Wiley's Report. Dr. Wiley's report on, the use of borax as a preservative was published when the National Pure Food bill had failed of passage for the seventh or eighth time, when state labelling laws were enforced with notorious laxity, and before doctored foods had begun to figure in popular fiction. His report on salicylic acid and salicylates, just issued by the bureau of chemistry, finds the objects of the long campaign practically achieved, so far as legislation is concerned. The "poison squid" experiments, which gave borax a worse reputation than was expected, have not placed salicylic acid in a lower class. As Mr. Wiley sums up his results: "The final conclusion in this matter . . . is that the unenviable position which salicylic acid has heretofore held among preservatives, as being regarded as the most injurious of all, is to a certain ordinary preservatives, it is not one which can be classed as a poison in the usual sense of the word. When used as a medicine in many cases of derangement of health, it is like the other chemical preservatives, often highly beneficial when properly prescribed by a competent physician. It is when used in the food at first an apparent stimulant, increasing the absorption and solubility of the common food elements from the alimentary canal. It soon, however, loses its stimulating properties and becomes a depressant, tending to break down the tissues of the body more rapidly than they are built up . . . The addition of salicylic acid and salicylates to food is . . . a process which is resembleable in every respect, and leads to injury to the consumer, which, though in many cases not easily measured, must finally be productive of great harm." Thus we know the worst. It is the beauty of the new legislation, remarks the New York Post, that no one hereafter need swallow the stuff without knowing it Great Comet Due in 1910. Great Comet Due in 1910. The most famous of all comets though not the largest and most brilliant, will again be visible in 1918. This is Halley's comet, so called from its identification by the great astronomer who was the friend of Sir Isaac Newton. Halley's investigations of astronomical records led him to assert that the comet which he had observed in 1682 had appeared in 1531 and in 1607, and to predict its reappearance in 1759. The fulfillment of this prophecy excited the most intense scientific interest and established beyond doubt the periodicity of comets and their movement in orbits determined by the law of gravitation. Its last appearance was in 1835, Leslie's Weekly, its period varying between 75 and 76 years on account of the perturbing attractions of Jupiter and Saturn in certain parts of its orbit. It was by that time possible to calculate its movements with so much greater accuracy than before that it made its perihelion passage within four days of the predicted date. It was not then a very grand object to the naked eye, but the light of its nucleus surpassed that of second-magnitude stars and was comparable with that of some reddish stars of the first magnitude, such as Aldebaran and Antares. Its tall, while the comet was approaching the sun, attained to a length of 20 degrees. Strikes have had an unfortunate effect on Ireland. Dublin was at one time a thriving shipbuilding center and was celebrated for its timber trade, its iron manufactures and its steam printing; Limerick was renowned for its gloves; Kilkenny was noted for its blankets, while Bandon was celebrated for its woolen and linen manufactures. But most of these trades were driven away through strikes. A Massachusetts man set a trap gun for burglar. The trap gun usually gets its setter or his wife or the hired girl, or the policeman, but in some mysterious way this particular trap gun got the burglar. But it is a bad and dangerous habit, notwithstanding. The "Man with the Hoe" is now the man with the roll. The American farmer this year has taken in $6,794,900,000 from the soil. Almost as much, says Pittsburgh Press, as was taken in by Markham, the man with the poem. Peary is quoted as saying that it is warmer in winter at the north pole than in New York. One can well understand that if a man went to New York without money he would feel the cold more than he would at the pole. It is stated that the incomes of doctors have decreased 25 per cent. in England during the past three years. How about the undertaker? The doctors need not give this inquiry a personal application, either, necessarily. Some people are so concerned over the distribution of wealth that they have no time to pitch in and help add to the great hoards that are the betrayal of the nation. Sting favors a narrower ball. Perhaps one that the player could put in his pocket or hide in a hollow tooth as he careers down the field would suit. Real is to get $100 per article for distributions to the Paris Figure. It always pretty soft for Real. ONLY RECKLESS MOB KILLING OF NEGROES AT SCOOBA WAS NOT A RACE WAR. GOVERNOR GOES TO TOWN Troops Still There and Col. McCants Wires Vardaman Colored Men Are Much Ex- Memphis, Tenn. — Quiet has been restored at Scooba and Wahala, Miss., and in the surrounding country, and the civil authorities and troops are in complete control of the situation. So say advises received from those towns Wednesday night, and they give information that indicates the troubles there did not amount to a real race war. According to the most reliable reports, the disturbances of the last few days in Kemper county were not as serious as at first reported. The trouble is attributed to the actions of a reckless mob which, in searching for the negro who attacked Conductor Cooper aboard a Mobile & Ohio train last Sunday and shot and killed Constable O'Brien of Wahalak, killed three negroes and wounded several others. Feared He Couldn't Control Mob. Feeling against the negroes was intensified by the killing by negroes of Conductor R. N. Harrison, of the Mobile & Ohio railroad, at Crawford Monday night. Believing that the mob was beyond control, Deputy Sheriff Alexander at Scooba asked that troops be sent there in order that innocent negroes might be protected. Two companies of state troops are now escamped at Scooba. Late Wednesday evening Gov. Vardaman, accompanied by 25 members of the company of state militia the Jackson left for Scooba. Gov. Vardaman stated that there had been no fresh outbreak, but that he was going to the scene in order that he might make a personal investigation. The troops are to be relieved who have been on duty for the past 24 hours. Negroes Still Fear Violence. Scooba, Miss. — A press representative, who arrived in Scooba Wednesday night about dark, found the streets crowded with negroes who had gathered from miles around. They were highly excited, but there was no one coming in their domain. According to their statements, most of them had gathered through fear that violence would be done them if they remained in the surrounding districts, and fear alone had driven them into the town. With companies of militia patrolling the streets, there seemed to be little supprehension among either whites or negroes. Many of the people in the town are lending the troops their heartiest cooperation in enforcing amnesty, and the community is freely expressed that the entire trouble was uncalled for and could have been avoided. The difficulty which aroused both races in this city and vicinity occurred three miles northeast of here Tuesday. Accurate information upon this trouble is not yet available here, but it is known that at least five negroes lost their lives as a result of it. There are many cases of this. However, these reports lack confirmation. Troops have spent the day in the town and surrounded country, and said that no arrests were made and they had learned no new facts. STEAMER STRATHCONA BURNS. Vessel Beached and 380 Passengers Saved—Heroism of Crew. Halfaf, N. S.-Word was received here Sunday from Port Dufferin, a small coast town some 60 miles east of this city, of the destruction by fire of the passenger steamer Strathcanna, owned by the Halifax & Canso Steamship company, and bound from this port for Canso and Guysborough. That no lives were lost is due principally to the herolism of the engineers and firemen, who stuck to their posts until the steamer was beached and every one of the 350 passengers landed. In less than one hour after the beaching of the steamer she was burned to the water's edge. C costly Fire at Marietta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga. — A special from Marietta, Ga., says the plant of the Georgia Manufacturing and Public Service company, including the Marietta Paper mill, was burning Monday evening. Already a loss of $150,000 had been caused, and the fire was not yet under control. Milwaukeean Fined for Bribery. Milwaukee—Former Supervisor August Puls in the municipal court Wednesday afternoon pleaded guilty to two indictments charging bribery in connection with county contracts and was fined $700. Express Official Shoots Himself. New York—Benjamin Brown, financial manager of the American and United States Express companies, shot and probably fatally wounded himself Wednesday. No reason for his action is known. Famous Pilot Drowned. Portland, Ore—Capt. William P. Gregory, of the United States steamship Heather, sends word from Juane, Alaska, of the probable death by drowning of Capt. James E. Lennan, the pioneer Alaskan pilot. Aksa Aid for Starving Chinee. Washington—President Roosevelt Sunday issued a proclamation calling on the people of the United States to contribute funds for the relief of millions of famine sufferers in China, where on the verge of starvation. Count Ignatius I assassinated. Twer, Russia—Count Alexis Iannifee, a member of the council of the empire and ex-governor general of Kiev, Volynia and Podolia, was shot and killed by an unknown man here is the hall of the mobs' assembly. PRESIDENTIAL PRESIDENTAL ENDPORSEMENT GONGRESS ADEQUATE RIVER AND WATER IMPROVEMENTS ATTORNEY: DINIATCH DANIELSON NINE KILLED IN WRECK DISASTER TO CROWDED TRAIN AT ENDERLIN, N. D. Thirty-Seven Passengers Are Serious Enderlin, N. D.-Loaded to its full capacity with people going to their homes in the east to spend the Christmas holidays, the south-bound train on the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie crashed into a switch engine in the west end of the railroad yards at this place at 2:10 o'clock. Sunday there were killed outright and one since injured. Thirty-seven were seriously injured and it is likely that the death list will be added to. All of the fatalities occurred in the smoking car, which was completely telescoped by the baggage car. Here also were most of those who were injured, only two of the occupants of this car escaping unhurt. The car was crowded, and as the whistle had just begun, almost everyone was on his feet when the car and the dead and wounded were plumed into almost inextricable masses. As this point is a divisional headquarters of the road, a rescue party was soon formed and, assisted by citizens, the work of taking out the dead and injured was begun at once, and continued throughout the night. The little hospital was soon crowded to its full capacity with those hurt and the hotels were converted into emergency hospitals where the other injured were cared for. There are but four physicians in Inderlin and a special train with physicians and nurses was hastily made up at Valley City and rushed to the scene of the wreck. The wreckage took fire from the overturned stoves used in heating the cars and there was a race between the cars and the stoves. By all the most superhuman efforts the escaping party managed to fight off the flames until all of the dead and injured had been removed from the wrecked cars, which then were allowed to burn to get them out of the way. Only a few passengers in the day coaches were injured and in the sleepers, none of which left the track, there were no casualties. Collisions of railway trains carrying hundreds of passengers to family reunions and Christmas celebrations have resulted in the death of 12 person, and 10 person, of the injured are in hospitals and severe. It is believed, can not recover. ENTOMBED MINER SAVED. A. B. Hicks Rescued After Being Buried Fifteen Days. Bakersfield, Cal.—Out of the valley of the shadow A. B. Hicks, the miner who was buried 15 days in the Edison mine at this place, was rescued at 11:45 o'clock Saturday night. Surrounding mines who have littern camped at the head of the mine shaft wafting for the outcome of the desperate battle being waged for a human life, the freed captive was carried, lying on a stretcher, on the shoulders of trumpphant men who reached him, to the hospital. Hicks is plainly weakened by his long confinement and lack of exercise, but he is virtually uninjured and his general condition betokens quick recovery to full strength. His spirit is a marvel to all. Costly Blaze in Denver Costly Blaze in Denver. Denver, Col.-The Ernest & Cran- mor building, one of the finest office buildings in the city, was damaged by fire Tuesday, the seventh and eighth floors being entirely destroyed. The total loss is $200,000. Two Killed by Bomb in Russia. Kharkov, Russia-An unknown traveler dropped a bomb in the rail- way station on Wednesday evening upon alighting from an incoming train. Two passengers were killed and many were wounded. Outlaws Shoot a Deputy. Tulsa, I. T.-A in a running fight over a rocky country. Deputy United States Marshal Strickland was shot and left for dead by two desperate outlaws. The battle occurred near Dawson, a small mining camp. Safe-Blower Starts Big Fire. Safe-Blower Bros. Big Fire Atlanta, Ga. — A loss of $100,000 was caused by a fire here early Tuesday, which destroyed the livery and sales stables of Harper Bros. and of Ransdale & Carlisle. A safe-blower started 'ho fire. Woman is Burned to Death. New York — Mrs. Susan Kelly, aged 60 years, was burned to death and her husband barely escaped with his life in a fire Tuesday which destroyed their apartments in West Sixthtle Recent Verdict Against Trust at Findlay, O., Thrown Out. Findlay, O. — The Standard Oll company won a victory in common pleas court here Monday when Judge W. S. Duncan decided that the probate court had no jurisdiction in the suit brought against it in the probate court and threw out the recent verdict of guilty against the company. Prosecutor David sometimes ago filed a complaint in the probate court against the Standard, charging it with violating the antitrust laws of the state. He maintained that he could get action quicker against the company by this proceeding than through indictments in the common pleas court. The Standard attorneys contended that the probate court had no jurisdiction in the matter; that if there had been a violation of the law the prosecutor should have proceeded against the company through indictment. This point was uphold by Judge Duncan and the case is thus thrown out of the probate court. This decision in no way effects the indictments recently returned in common pleas court by the grand jury against John D. Fockecker and the attorney general of the company, charging them with violating the anti-trust laws. It is understood the prosecution will appeal the case to a higher court. DEATH FOR NEBOGATOFF. Russian Admiral and Three Others Condemned for Surrender. St. Petersburg. — Because he surrendered his squadron to the Japanese in the battle of the Sea of Japan on May 28, 1905. Rear Admiral Nebogatto is sentenced to death. The same fate is meted out to Commander Lichino, of the coast defense ironclad General Admiral Aprane; Rear Admiral Gregorio, of the coast defense Admiral Senlavlin, and Lluct. Smirnoff, who succeeded to the command of the battleship Nicolai I. Such is the decision of the court-martial which has been trying Admiral Nebogatto and TS officers of his squadron, but in view of extinguing circumstances and long and obeying the orders of the officers, the court will petition the emperor to commute their sentences to ten years' imprisonment in a fortress. Four other officers were sentenced to short terms of imprisonment in a fortress, while the remainder were acquitted of the charges brought against them. ASKED TO ACT ON CONGO ABUSES Secretary Root Receives Letter from Prominent New Yorkers. New York:—A letter signed by J. Pierlont Morgan, Dr. Lyman Abbott and other prominent citizens of New York, was addressed to Secretary of State Elhuh. Root Tuesday directed the embassy to condition in the Congo Free State, where it is asserted, "dagrant inhumanity exists," and urging him on behalf of the American people to use the "moral support" of the United States government to correct the abuses the Congo natives are alleged to be suffering from. Kentucky Fecal Fatal. Lexington, Ky.—Hiram Mullins and his son William were shot and fatally injured in a feud, fought at their home with a gang of desperate men, and Bodie Little and John Brewer. The house was riddled with bullets, and every window was broken. The battle ceased only when both the Mullins were shot down. Denison, Tex—Rev T. K. Crowley, of St. Patrick's church, while putting on his vestments to celebrate high mass, dropped dead Christmas day. He had been a priest here for 15 years and was highly esteemed. Indicted for Grabbling Land Helena, Mont.—T. E. Brady, a prominent Great Falls lawyer, has been indicted on the federal grand jury in this city on the charge of having illegally fenced 13,187 acres of public land in Valley county. Mrs. J. G. Blaine Divorced. Yankton, S. D.-Mrs. James G. Glaine, Jr., who is a daughter of Rose Admiral Hichborn, retired, obtained a decree of divorce from her husband here Saturday night on the grounds of desertion and non-support. Fatal Natural Gas Explosion. Pittsburgh, Pa.—Four persons were burned, three fatally, early Sunday as the result of a natural gas explosion in the home of John Carvel, at Washington, Pa. The fatally burned are John Carvel and his two sons. KILLED BY YAQUIS UPRISING REPORTED IN PROVINCE OF SONO A, MEX. Mexican Troops Are Rushod to Scene in Endeavor to Mete Summary Justice to Marauders. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 28—Col. H. B. Maxson, vice president of the national irrigation congress and secretary of the board of education of Reno, Nev., has been spending the past few weeks in the state of Sonoran, Mex., arrived here on Wednesday with the governor of the state of Mexicans and whites, which occurred it and near the little town of Lancho, on the Canancía, Yaqil River & Pacific railroad late Saturday afternoon. According to the statement of Maxson his train stopped an hour at Lansho. While there rumors were received that the Yaquis were upon the war rath and that the few people in the neighborhood of the station and railroad were in danger. The station on a man name Thompson, little that he could salute his wife would remain at their post. The train bearing Colonel Maxson and party had not left the station for more than an hour when the Yaquis descended on the little party of Mexicans and Americans and butchered four. Station Agent Thompson and wife escaped by boarding a train that pulled in at the time. The train appeared after four of the people had been killed and Thompson and his back of the barricaded doors of the station. As the work train appeared the Indians withdrew. The train tearing Colonel Maxson and party continued to a station about fifteen miles farther along the line, and then as the signs of the uprising came to light, the cliffs ceded to return. The train started back toward Lancho, and when it arrived the house had been burned and demolished and four human bodies lay along the track. Not many miles along the ruck the scene was filled with dead bodies of Mexicans and Americans were discovered along the tracks. MORE TROUBLE WITH NEGROES Trooper at El Reno, Okla., Assaulta White Woman. El Reno, Okla., Dec. 23. -Race feeling is at white heat and threats of lynching are heard on every hand as a result of assault committed on Mrs. T. C. Clifford, wife of a prominent physician yesterday afternoon by a neeroid soldier of the Twenty-fifth Infantry. Mrs. Clifford and her sister, Mrs. S. N. Clarke, were attempting to pass the soldier when he victoriously grabbed Mr. Clifford around the waist and threw her down street, exclaiming that the sidewalk belonged to him. Mrs. Clarke screamed for assistance and the assailant fled, escaping before help arrived. News of the attack spread rapidly, the entire police department, inforced by several hundred men and boys, searched the town and surrounding country, but last evening the chase was given up. The negro was in uniform and must return to the post or become a deserter. Word was sent to the two clerks and the absentees noted. Both Mrs. Clifford and an positive then can identify the man and will go to Fort Reno today and attempt to pick blim from the soldiers who were out of the post yesterday when the assault occurred. ELEVEN REPORTED DEAD. Story From Nogales Indicates Serious Condition. El caso, Tex, Dec. 28—A special to the Kern from Nogales, Mex., yesterday. SAYS: "Details are arriving here of the butchery of a party of Mexicans hv Yaoulani Indians near Valencia, sixty miles below Guayamas. Eleven Mexicans and one American were killed and from all accounts there were nearly 100 Indians in the attacking party. The employees on the Southern Pacific rail:oad in that section are frightened. It is said many are leaving and that the massacre may delay the road to Guadalajara." Trouble at Leavenworth. Leavenworth, Kan., Dec. 28.—Attempt was made early yesterday to wreck a trolley car near Fort Leavenworth. An obstruction placed upon the track was discovered in time to help the car. The work was the work of negro soldiers who had trouble with a street car crew Monday night is being investigated. Family Professionals A characteristic illustration of the habit of the Japanese of following the professions of their fathers was recently afforded by an advertisement in a Japanese newspaper. A famous lancing master announced a religious celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of the death of his ancestor, who had been the first in his family to take up the teaching of dancing. A New Hobby. The ingenuity of collectors in the recovery of materials in exhausted, there is still room to them hat of collecting the finest specimen if forced or spurious works of art, and this is capable of becoming a jobbie scarcely less interesting or admirable than the pursuit of the genuine article.-Art Journal. In the latter half of the seventeenth century a writer mentions that most of the houses in the west end of London were protected against witches horseshoes nailed in them. As late as 1813 there were 17 horseshoes nailed up in one London street, but a 1841 only five remained. Pesticide idea of Indians. Possible ideas of indiana. Possibly the most beautiful of burial autumns known among aboriginal people was that which prevailed among them, freeing a captive bird over the graves, the dead in the night of burial to carry the soul of the departed to the Spirit Land. seemly hour to present himself to learn his fate. Only the family was present when he arrived. The edifaction of their clothing would have set at his right his heart, could he have seen anything but the girl, who, standing in a chair of light made by the pink shade him on the piano, was holding the violet. With a smile full upon him, she slightly lifted the flowers and for a fracture of a second buried her face in their sweetness. He looked at her as Jacob looked at Rachel when his seven years of marriage were ended. When the chance was given them for a moment alone, he turned to a chance, but, unaware of possible damage to chin ruffles, he likewise damaged the girl. The right words came to last. He six mouths, he said, he had longed to tell her, and to ask her— "But, Tom," she gasped, "you haven't wait—" Her protest was smothered, and he lost no time in finishing what he had to say, reaching the climax by demanding an early date for their wedding. "But, Tom, dear! you haveit—" Mother entered softly, in time to hear her daughter in a strangely and fledged voice answer, "June." Mother was an astute woman. She withdrew softly, but a listener might have heard her plous ejaculation "Thank Heaven! The New Year promises well." The dying hours of the old year passed in the merriest dance the Griswold home had ever known. The bells pealed forth their welcome to the old New Year, and the party, grouped with mother in the midst, waited breathily. With a becoming maternal truss in her voice, Mrs Griswold announced the betrothed of her daughter to Mr Thomas Wentworth. In the small, small hours of that New Year's morning, Tom switched on the lights in his own room. "After all, it was not so very difficult," he murmured. But just how easy it had really been he realised when he picked up from his desk the letter of proposal, prepared and addressed, but it lingered. Good Old Times in Oregon. Return to the "good old times" would you? Then rise on a cold morning and wash at the pump, on a pair of rawhide boots that rise a tih can in stiffness, put on a dress and sit down to a bare meal with your three-legged stool dancing around on a shod floor, eat corn pone and bake for a steady diet and labor 14 hours out of 24. Go without a daily paper, a fly screen, a mosquito bar, a spring mattress, a kerosene lamp; gceless your oen to market and buy a pair of jeans; wind your way to church or a frolic. Parch corn and peas for coffee and use sassasbe for tea, and see how you like it—Linton Record. THE IRONY OF FATE. NO ONE HAT THESE SUPPERS FOR CHRISTMAS! The exercise of Brown's New Year resolution. Heard on the Gorner. What do you intend to do so that Jack? "The same thing that I have sent every New Year's eve for the last ten years." "What's that?" "Sweat off, so that I can start to fresh to morrow." THE NEW YEAR By W. Reed Drummond Bakufi the Rags and start a song What is to come! And of the part and all A New Year's Resolution By JANE CRAWFORD HE diffidence of Thomas Went worth was disturb ing to his son's peace. For six months he had been vainly trying to propose to Helen Griswold. Opportunities had not been lacking. Together they had HE difference of Thomas Wentworth was disturbing to his soul's peace. For six months he had been vainly trying to propose to Helen Griswold Owen and not been lacking. Together they had studied moonlight effects from shadowy porches. They and discussed life and in love in corners, but the all-important words remained unsaid. Every attempt to speak them left him in a state of juaking disguis. At last he framed a little speech that exactly suited his needs. During all his conscious moments, ye, most of the unconscious me, he rehearsed with more or less dramatic effect. Time seemed to be head gone with the strength of Samson to present it; like Samson, he had departed, shorn of his strength by a woman. "Ah, but such a woman!" She had eyes like viollets—big ones—that spoke volumes; but it was a language he couldn't understand, so we For Six Mentha, He Said, He Had Lengad to Tell Her—To Ask Her—continued his rehearsals. Now on the last evening of the old year, pacing back and forth across his room, he was still rehearsing the speech with interpolations of the one New Year's resolution he had deemed worth while, that before the New Year dawned he would ask her. He would be a bitharag fool no longer. "I'll ask her to night," he announced. Her mother was giving an informal lecture on the 100 year old year out. Not less than the 100 men would be there to bring the orchestra for extra selections, or prolonged numbers, which they would sit out, or dance, with the lady of his heart. "But," grimly, "I'll ask her. It's quite simple." In his steady tramp around the room he knocked down a Japanese fire screen. "In Japan they have a go-between, that must be a comfort." "Go-between," he repeated the word several times. It had a pleasant suggestiveness. He smiled broadly. "Certainly! Of course, why must I write it!" He literally fell upon pen and paper. His tongue never could have formed the words that followed his facile pen. The accumulation of six months' allowance from his mother had the letter was a gem. The essential part of it was that if her answer was yes, would she, when he entered the hallroom that night, simply lay the violet that he would send with this letter against her face? For just a second, He would understand. The violet matched her eyes. He has said meld so. Then time to hea. He telephoned the fist to whose coffee he contributed. "Oh, send a bumble!" he laughed, happily, like a schoolboy perpetrating a joke. "I have a note to send, deliver them born." The flowers arrived by a messenger who looked like the chief emissary of Dan Cupid. Tom united the violet cord, lifted out a bunch of the choicest blossoms about the size of a prize canflower, smiled approval, retied the box, addressed the card and with a generous tip to the boy started him on his errand. Then, with a strange peace possessing him, he awaited a Saint Joseph New Year. Every one cakesk And wrong retrieves; Fresh leaf leaves. Fresh leaf leaves.