Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. (N. B. I you have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we collect all your local news—Ed.) Talbert Woods is on the sick list the past week. Mr. James Hamilton who is very dangerously sick remains about the same. Mr. and Mrs. Ohver Ewing are in the the city for an indefinite stay from Kansas City. Mr. Austin Rogers and Mr. Clifford Harris of St. Paul, Minn., and Mrs. J. H. Woods were callers at the Bystander office this week. Mr. Archie Alexander and Mr. Cary who are students at the State University, spent a few days at their parents' home, returning this week. Mr. H. H. Hooker and son wish to thank the many friends who so kindly assisted them during the sickness and death of husband and father. Mr. Z. Taylor, one of Ottumwa's substantial citizens, spent Sunday in our city visiting Mr. James Hamilton who is a life long friend of his. Mr. Taylor left Monday for his home. Miss Ada Hyde will leave Sunday for Iowa City to resume her studies in the State University, after the Easter vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Hyde. "The Little Mischief," the play by Mrs. J. B. Rush at the Maple street Baptist church has been postponed until Friday April 23rd. Don't miss it. It will be a rare treat of the season, Admission 25c. Reven. Penney of Musukogee, Okla., arrived in our city Tuesday evening to conduct a series of revival meetings at the Union Congregational church which began Wednesday and will continue for a fortnight. The employees of the legislature have all left for their homes. Mr. J. W. Jones the mail carrier left Monday for Buxton; P. S. Irwin left for Charlton Saturday and A. Ford left for Cedar Rapids Sunday. The King Solomon Commandery had a large crowd at their annual service, held last Sunday from the Union Congregational church. Rev. Porter preached a very able and historical sermon. The solo by Prof. Geo I. Holt and Mrs. G. S. Johnson was well rendered. The musical concert given by the Goggins family last Monday evening at the Corinthian Baptist church was largely attended, and a fine program of high merit was rendered, which fully met the wishes of those present. The family are all good musicians and a credit to the race. Regular services at Union Congregational church Sunday April 18. We are now in the midst of special revival services. The Rev. Penney of Muskogee, Oklahoma, will preach Sunday, and every night next week. All are invited to attend the services. Good singing every night. The Chrysanthemum club was entertained Monday at the home of Mr. Robert Miles. After the usual game of whist had been played prizes were awarded and refreshments served. Music for the dancing was furnished by Morgan's orchestra. Miss Marguerite Fields contributed several delightful solos, assisted by Lawrence Morgan. Those presents not members of the club were Misses Ada Hyde, Marguerite Fields, Eva Hart and Messrs. Harris and Rodgers of St. Paul. The Callanan club met with Mrs. Avery on Eleventh and Park streets. The meeting was opened by the President, Mrs. Adam Dixon. The club is making rapid progress in the Bible study under the direction of Mrs. E. B. Elliston. The club meets next Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Morris, 3141 East Williams street. Mrs. Annie Allen will give the monthly supper April 29 at her residence in behalf of the club. Progress of Lafayette Presbyterian Church at Jersey City, N. J., Memphis—Harmony Among the Members Under Rev. Dr. Trusty's Able Leadership. The Lafayette Presbyterian church, which was organized at Jersey City, N. J., about ten years ago with only three members, has now become one of the leading and most influential churches among Afro-Americans in Jersey City. It was also when the church was passing through many strange vicissitudes and financial embarrassments the Rev. Charles H. Trusty, D. D., became its pastor. REV. C. H. TRUSTY, D. D. ing a man of intelligence and experi- ence in church work. Dr. Trusty soon found the key to the situation, mar- shaled his forces and within a short time cleared the church of debt. Rev. Trusty graduated from Lincoln university, Chester county, Pa., as valedictorian of his class in 1880, receiving the degree of bachelor of arts. After graduation he was appointed in 1883 to the position which position he held for three years. Dr. Trusty has labored successfully in many places under the auspices of the Presbyterian board and was three times elected to the general assembly. During the two years of his pastorate at Jersey City the church property has been transferred from the presbyterian church to the Presbyterian church and is valued at $10,000. The parsonage of the church is valued at $3,000. Although he has accomplished much for the spiritual and material welfare of the members of his church and congregation, Dr. Trusty is not satisfied to stop short of his ideal, which at the present time is a fine church building centrally located and with every other convenience of a modern church building, for which he and the trustees of his church are now negotiating with the idea of moving into it some time in April or May. The liberality of the people was never more manifest than in the case of Dr. Trusty, and they have succeeded in raising several thousand dollars toward the building fund of the church and carried its running expenses without any manifest embarrassment be- MRS. J. T. BROWN. sides, they have increased the pastor's salary, and all are working harmoniously together for the best interest of their pastor and church. The Laddies' Aid society of the church, which was recently reorganized with Mrs. J. T. Brown as president, is a great source of spiritual and financial help to the church. Mrs. Brown has worked faithfully in this society from its incipiency, having served as secretary for seven consecutive years. She has now been promoted to the presidency. Mrs. Brown is a young woman of many intellectual accomplishments, having graduated from Haines Industrial school at Augusta, Ga. ANCIENT ORDER OF MOSES. Forty-second Annual Sermen at Brooklyn Occasion For Generous Gifts. The forty-second annual Thanksgiving sermon of the Ancient United Order of Moses, which was preached by the Rev. A. R. Cooper, D. D., in the Bridge Street A. M. E. church at Brooklyn recently, was the most brilliant discourse from a historical point of view that the order has listened to on such an occasion. The order has a membership of 877 in Brooklyn and a cash balance in its treasury of $2, 714.14. About 600 men, women and children in quiet costumes and regalia representing Aaron, No. 88; Mount Neo, No. 72; St. James, No. 60; Star of Bethlehem; Magnolia, No. 60; Navina Household, No. 7; Mount Hebron Temple House, No. 83; St. Paul No. 44, and the John A. Kelley tabernacles were present. After the exercises and sermon gifts of money in sums from $30 down to $2 were given the trustees, minister organist, cholmester, organ blower and soxon by various officers of the order. Arthur Q. Martin, master of ceremonies, introduced the following program: Prelude, Bridge Street A. M. E. church churge; entrance of the grand order; anthem, Bridge Street A. M. E. church churge; prayer, the Rev. George J. Cliff, Star of Bethlehem tabernacle; solo, Sister S. A. Crawley, Magnolia tabernacle, No. 80; synopsis of the order, Brother C. N. Small, St. James' tabernacle, No. 60; anthem, Bridge Street A. M. E. church churge; chanting the nineteenth chapter of Exodus, Sister Lossie Collins-Lyons, John A. Kelley tabernacle; sermon, the Rev. A. R. Cooper, D. D.; collection, by the congregation; collection, by the order; presentation to the trustees; presentation to the pastor, Sister Julia Briggs, P. G. V.; benediction. A. M. E. CHURCH ACTIVITIES. Financial Board Will Meet In Wash ington to Hear Annual Report ington to Year Annual Reports. The financial board of the African Methodist Episcopal church will hold its annual meeting at the financial headquarters of the denomination on Fourteenth street, Washington, April 21. The money which is sent to the financial department is known as "dollar money," the members of the church being taxed a dollar a head annually. This money is used for educational, church extension and other purposes. The collections during the year will total nearly $173,000, probably the largest in the history of the church. Rev. Dr. John Hurst, the financial secretary, is winding up his first year in office, having succeeded Dr. E. W. Lampton, who was elevated to the bishopic in May, 1968. Dr. Hurst was elected of Hali. He came to the United States as an attaché of the Haitian legation at Washington. Subsequently he entered Wilberforce university at Wilberforce, O, where he prepared for the ministry. He joined the Baltimore conference and for over ten years was a prominent Baltimore pastor. The members of the financial board are: Bishop A. Grant, chairman; Rev. Dr. John Hurst, financial secretary; Rev. A. L. Murray, Atlantic City, N. J.; Rev. Dr. John T. Jenifer, Annapolis, Md.; Rev. Charles Bundy, Cleveland, O.; Rev. A. J. Carey, Chicago; Rev. J. R. Ransom, Topeka, Kan.; Rev. E. W. Lee, Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga.; Rev. N. B. Sterrett, Charleston, S. C.; Rev. J. W. Lampton, Vicksburg, Miss.; Rev. J. M. Conner, Little Rock, Ark.; Rev. P. C. Hunt, Palestine, Tex.; Rev. E. J. Koshaed, Tallahassee, Fla.; Rev. C. H. Shelto, Memphis, Tenn.; C. H. Johnson, Liberia, West Africa, and A. Fortune, Cape Town, South Africa. WARNING TO THE RACE. Make Future Appeals For Justice to Parole, Net Political Parties People, Not Political Parties. The Negro's appeal for justice must in the future be the people who constitute the good hearts in this nation, and he must make a determined effort to crystallize public sentiment in the direction of his political and civic disadvantages and seek to show thinking white men and women who still have faith in him that, despite the rosette hue which is said to surround his progress, he is not getting a square deal, never had one and never will have one unless there is a chance to win. He has been hard at the solid white men of the United States who make and control the sentiment which governs and directs in this nation. Negro Merchant in New Field. James R. Thompson, who recently opened a five and tea cent store at New York, is succeeding admirably. It is a new business venture among Afro-Americans, and its progress will be well worth and heartened by all classes in the upper section of the city, where there are hundreds of similar stores among the foreign element. The key to success is well put by N. B. Dodson, who said recently that "by persistence alone can we hope to overcome all obstacles." Markets Industrial Uplift. The Lawrenceville Industrial School, at Lawrenceville, Va., was built with a dollar ladle inside with years ago without a dollar ladle inside with to carry on its work. is worth at the present time $200,000 and has 1,600 acres of farm land. it is the educational center for the colored people of Brunswick county, Va., whose industrial uplift has been very marked along all lines of agricultural pursuits since the founding of the school. Bethel Sets High Standard Famous Literary and Historical Society Founded at Washington by Bishop Payne—Indonesian Men of Letters. Miss Madre the First Woman President. He who wins favorable criticism from Bethel Literary and Historical society at Washington is well re- commended to an American audience, for it is true that this venerable literary society sits in judgment upon the men and women who aspire to greatness in pulpit or on platform, in science and in art. Founded in 1881 by Bishop Payne, that eminent divine of small stature, who was called a "bundle of brains," the Bethel Literary and Historical association has had a most brilliant record during its twenty-eight years of existence. The greatest Negro orators of the United States and of some foreign countries have graced her platform. Negroes of fame in music, art and literature have appeared before this venerable society. Douglass and Washington, whose names are household words, both spoke here. Kelly Miller, the great MISS MARIE A. D. MADRR. mathematician, was once its president. Young men who have won fame in Yale and Harvard. like Bruce of Washington and Pickens of Alabama; those who have studied abroad, like Du Bois and Moore, and a long list of distinguished men have given some production of thought to the world through this celebrated Washington society. Its present enviable reputation is due, in most part, to Miss Marele A. D. Madre, the first lady who has ever been elected as its president. Miss Madre is a master of laws from Howard University Law school, having taken both the regular law course and the postgraduate course. She is a graduate of the Washington high and normal schools, principal of one of the city schools at Washington and a lecturer of pleasing address and much popularity. Her administration has been one noted for the many distinguished speakers and celebrated men and women who have been secured for Bethel during her presidency. Miss Madre is a graceful presiding officer and is well acquainted with many great public men and women, who hold her in high esteem. Bettle Literary is very close to her heart, and she strives to make it a force for the public. Freedom of speech is the great shibboleth of Miss Madre. The Same Gospel For Both. Miss Nannle H. Burroughs in a recent discussion of industrial education for the Negro said: "It has never been shown that the Negro's mental power must be cast in an industrial mold in order to fully respond to the bldings of his mind and the pleadings of his heart, nor have we evidence to show that the Negro makes a better citizen and a better man with an industrial education than with any other kind, nor has the Negro any evidence that an industrial education breaks in the race of life. Is the Negro to spend years fitting himself as a laborer of skill and then be forced to work for unskilled prices or starve?" If industrial education will save the ignorant Negro, the same gospel will save the ignorant white man, and you have only to look around, to see that one is as bad off as the other, and it is for the salvation of all its citizens at which the United States must aim. Make Citizenship Secure. "We might as well stop dreaming, open our eyes and look at facts," said the late Grover Cleveland one time. "It is a condition, not a theory, which confronts us." And we add, further, that it is a condition sufficiently serious in its nature and its consequences at the present time to demand the most thoughtful and careful consideration of Negroes everywhere. The danger is not past and will not be until every man having equal rights has his title to citizenship made secure through the agency of a healthy public sentiment crystallized into law and ratified by the people. KNIGHTS TEMPLARS SERMON. Order Organized For Religious Work Korea, Renate, Geo Cityship Greek Organize for Religious Work Known For Poetry The sermon to Genius commandery, No. 3, Knights Templars, was preached by the Rev. Holland Powell, D. D., in the Bethany Baptist church at Brooklyn recently. Among the past eminent commanders present were Charles Johnson, John Hardy, Thomas Stewart and Peter Drummins. Among the visiting brothers were Past Eminent Commanders Eugene Phillips and Thomas Wright of Ivanhoe commandery, New york city. The Women's Helping Hand of the commandery was also present. PROGRESS IN ELKDOM. New Home For Monumental Lodge at Baltimore Complete. An important coming event among Afro-American secret societies at Baltimore will be the grand dedicatory celebration and reception of Monument lodge, No. 3, Improved Benefulent Protective Order of Elks of the World, on the occasion of entering its new hall and home on Hoffman street Monday evening, April 19. The following out of town lodges have been invited to assist in the ceremony: Paul Laurence Dunbar lodge, No. 106, Wilmington, Del.; Anthracite lodge, No. 57, Scranton, Pa.; Morning Star lodge, No. 40, Washington; Capital City lodge, No. 11, Richmond, Va.; Excelsior lodge, No. 4, Hampton, Va.; REV. JOSEPH L. BUTLER, EXALTED RULER. Laurel lodge, No. 133, Chambersburg, Pa.; Greater Norfolk lodge, No. 132, Norfolk, Va.; Lincoln, lodge, No. 145, Gettysburg, Pa.; O. V. Cator lodge, No. 20, Philadelphia. The hall is located in the best residential section of the city and was erected at a cost of $4,000. Monumental lodge was organized about nine years ago and has steadily increased in membership and grown in public favor until at the present time 200 loyal men constitute its membership, and its influence for good is felt in many directions. Financially the organization is in a flourishing condition. The officers of the lodge are the following: Rev. J. L. Butter, exalted ruler; George W. F. McMechen, esteemed leading knight; Asdorter, esteemed lecturing knight; Norman Simms, esteemed loyal knight; Samuel Price, esteemed lecturing knight; secretary John Brooks, assistant lawson N. Duffin, treasurer; Lewis E. Williams, chaplain; William Smith, inner guard; Harry Duff, titer; George Meredith, organist; Lewis E. Williams, William Lewis and Robert G. I. Brown, banking committee. FROM O'ER THE SEA. By Staff Correspondent. London, April 2, 1909. Official statistics just issued from the home office (London) show an alarming increase in crime. Out of a population between four and five million the number of convicted cases reached 607,402 for the year 1908, about an average of 1,877 per 100,000 of the population. Mr. Hinton Jones, a young colored man of Cincinnati, Ohio, is at present employed as musical Critic on the "Leader" in London, Eng. Mrs. E. Azalia Hackley, our well singer who has been singing in Europe for some months, has been obliged to cancel her future engagements and return to America owing to ill health. India is a strange country, a person may live there all his life and yet know little of the innumerable case differences that prevail. A Brahmin, as almost everyone knows is a Hindu, so is a cobbler or much. But the latter is the lowest case of Hindu, and is practically an outcast. All high and low caste, venerated the sacred cow, but the much derives a questionable living from it. He is the professional cattle poisoner of Hinduism, and for this failing he is detested and held in abhorrence by all. In fact, his murderous depredations on the cow, whose carcass he sells at a good price to the European exporter, have long since been penalized by law, and the police are constantly on the alert to run them to earth. Unscrupulous Europeans in the Cape Colony do a thriving trade in selling rifles and ammunition to Basutoland natives. The general plan is for them to buy rifles at about $7.50 each in the Cape Colony and then to employ native runners to exchange or sell them in Basutoland. The usual price the natives pay for a rifle is $75 or a horse of equivalent value. It is a very interesting illustration of the new spirit awakening in China that the native government have just opened a hospital for women in Tin Tsuin which is to be entirely managed and offered by women. A Chinese woman, Dr. Krin by name, who has received a complete medical education in America, has been placed at the head, and the government have just appointed an English medical woman, Dr. Lille Saville, to co-operate with her. Dr. Saville, who has had long experience of work in China, in connection with the London Mission, left London on Saturday, and will travel overland, through Siberia. The Princess Christian Mission Hospital at Sierra Leone, West Africa has been accidently burned to 'the ground. There was no loss of life, the inmates being safely removed. The damage is estimated at over $10,000. The mayor has opened a relief fund. Miss Edna Alexander, a young colored girl from Chicago, has just completed a very successful tour of Russia where she sang in most of the large cities of that country. CLARINDA ITEMS. Rev. C.C. Callaway has been called a pastor of the Second Baptist church at Glarinda, by a unanimous vote of the members in a meeting held on the 3rd of March 1909, he comes to us highly recommended as a God called man and efficient pastor from the church of which he was former pastor at Odessa, Mo., he has a wife whom we all love, she is a great church worker, we feel proud to know we have a good true and devoted pastor and a wife to If You wish to wear fine clothes of excellent qualities, well fitted and in the latest fashion, visit the BRITISH and see our line of fine Spring and Summer Woolens, which are the finest ever shown in Des Moines. Remember 'we make them to your order—any style desired. One Price $15 One Price Suit or Overcoat to order British Woolen Co 506 LOCUST ST. M. Crocker, Mgr. and Cutter. Our goods are all Union Made. --- lead us to success this year. We are going to rally, to him in every way to build app this part of God's work. He has prescribed two soul attiring sermons, the best we have ever heard, made us feel in the language of old "did not our hearts burn within us while he spoke to us." We ask your prayers that God may crown our work this year with abundant success spiritually and financially. Done by order of the church T. G. Jones; G. Nowland, T. Jones officers, clerk A. Baker. FORT MADISON NOTES. Mr. Elise Marshall spent Easter Sunday in Burlington. Mr. Anna Yeiser was in New Boston last week attending to business connected with their farm at that place. Mr. Tolliver of Burlington was in our city Sunday. The people are looking forward with much pleasure to a debate that will be rendered next Thursday at the meeting of the Home and Foreign Missionary society. Four of the best talent we have in our city will debate: Mesara G. Huebanks, Warren Murphy, Wm. Harper and Harry Yiesler will take part in the debate. Miss Batrice Murray was a Galesburg visitor during Easter. Mr. Henry Toliver of Lomax, Ill., spent Sunday in our city. C. B. Homer, a representative of Tuskegee Institute is in our city. He is a model young man and a good example of the kind of young man Prof. Booker T. Washington sends from his school, Mr. Homer has made much progress among both white and colored people of this city. Miss Lizzie Shepherd has departed from our city. Mr. Silas Boyd and Roy Hampton of Keckuk were here visiting Sunday. The largest program ever rendered by the colored people of this city was given by the A. M. E, church last Sunday evening. There were thirty-five numbers on the program, consisting of recitations, papers, songs and a dialogue. The feature of the program was the dust rendered by Miss Naomi Harper and Grace Smith. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alonso Draine is quite ill at their home 1514 Blonden street. Miss Ella Draine made her parents a short visit last Saturday and Sunday and Sunday returning to St. Charles Mo., where she is teaching school. The funeral of the late Moses Frazier died at his home in Chicago April 8th, of pneumonia, was buried from the home of his brother-in-law Mr. Ed. Robinson 1711 Main Street Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The body was brought here some time Saturday. A large gathering of sympathizing friends were present to pay their last respect. The services were conducted by Rev. Searcy assisted by Rev. Sanders of the Pilgrim Rest church. It will be remembered that Mrs. Frazier wife of the deceased died about a month ago and was brought to this city for burial the family have the sympathy of the sympathy of the entire community. The danglers left for their home in Chicago Sunday*evening. Palm Sunday was very fittingly observed Sunday afternoon April 4th by the two Courts at the Masonic hall, 19 N. 5th street, a fine program was rendered. Mrs. Anna Johnson of Muscatine, Ia., is in the city the guest of Mrs. Sarah Pinx 121 N. 5th street. Mr. James Hally is very ill at the home of his mother Mrs. Mollie Thomas 1619 Banks street. Easter was observed in all of the churches at the A. M. E. churches an elaborate program was given Sunday night the church was handsomely decorated for the occasion. At the church of St. Mary the Virgin 14 High street a choral celebration of the Holy Eucharist observed at seven o'clock in the morning the church was decorated with potted plants and cut flowers and eucharistic lights, Rev. Gilbert of Moore, Ia., administrated the sacrement. Tuesday evening March 30th, at the home of the bride 1517 Morgan street occurred the wedding of Mrs. Fannie Wilson to Mr Bryant Grigsbey of Galesburg. They will leave for their home in Galesburg in a few days. Mrs. Josl Moore of St. Louis, Mo., is in the city visiting at the home of her mother Mary Mary Bush 1418 Morgan street. Beet Treatment for Colds. "Most ordinary colds will yield to the simplest treatment." says the Chicago Tribune, "moderate laxatives, hot foot bath, a free preparation and an avoidance of exposure to cold and wet after treatment." While this treatment is simple, it requires considerable trouble, and the one adopting it must remain in doors for a day or two, or a fresh cold is sure to be contracted, and in many instances pneumonia follows. Is it better to pin your faith to an old reliable preparation like Chamberlain's Cough Bady, that is famous for its cure of colds and can always be depended upon for sale by all druggists. Iowa State Bystander The inventors might now experiment with colorless autos or smokele cigars. Statistics show that the death rate is increasing, but that is because people are living faster. The American Museum of Natural History has bought a duck $2,000,000 years old. But the bird's dead! The radicals in the suffragette movement are the worst enemies of the cause. The chance discovery is made that President Ehlot of Harvard can not be a Sorcerer or later an overrated man is found out. It would seem to be a wise economy on the part of the city to top off from the pay roll all those inspectors who do not inspect. Nearly $20,000,000 is to be expended this year on automobile tires, not counting the value of the wind pumped into them. Another knock-out blow for college co-education. If men and women cannot be educated together can they exercise the suffrage together? Lackawanna is the highest-priced railroad stock in the world. The par value of its shares is $50, and the price ranges between $500 and $600. Wilfrid Laurier says that war between Canada and the United States is impossible. The premier got it right the first time. Real friends spat, but draw the line at cutting and slashing. A Boston woman, we are told, has "embraced 23 different religions." It may be that up to the present time she has not found any that reincorporated. To be tired may be foolish, as the psychotherapists say, but one cannot blame President Roosevelt for a feeling of relief as he gets a somewhat recalcitrant congress off his hands. Telephone companies who want to abolish the word "Hello" will not find as much popular interest as would attach to the proposition to abolish the phrase "Line's busy." Boston women have declined to take their hats off at a symphony concert. This is a great discouragement to people who go to concerts to see rather than to hear. A man in Iowa wants a divorce from his wife because she persists in writing poetry and making him print it. This ought certainly to make out a good case of cruel treatment. An octogenarian in Pennsylvania, father of thirty-odd children, has just married his fifth wife. He seems to be slightly anticipating the rejuvenating effects of radio-thor. News from vessels in the Alaskas trade will be published in a daily paper issued on the grounds of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. The publication will be known as the Wireless, and will contain both local and foreign news received in Seattle by wireless. A Boston inventor has succeeded, he claims, in storing up rays from the sun to make electricity. Perhaps in days not far off natural fog and cloudy days will be made bright by artificial sunshine kept in storage for such emergencies. This is a truly great age. "The Daughter of the Regiment" has become a reality among the Italian troops. At the suggestion of the minister of war each regiment has adopted an orphan from Reggio or Messina, and the officers will defray the cost of their education and maintenance till they reach their majority. We knew that if a country doctor ever went after the president in a backbone-riding contest, the president would be a has-been. He is beaten 22 miles by that physician of Piqua, Ohio, and the doctor is 65. Odds are that he carried saddlebags, wore legings and did his equine prompting with spur. Now you have the data to decide whether or not Detroit women are political rulers. Figure in the fact that several of their automobiles gave the speed limit the musical ha-ha and there were but two wheels down when they took the corners. Feminine enthusiasm is what put the distinguishing mark on election day. The next innovation in Great Britain will be the establishment of a national labor exchange, where any one out of work can register his name and any one in need of laborers can procure them without cost. It is the same thing, on a larger scale, as the free employment bureaus conducted at state expense in many states of the union. It is still a question whether the old Kansas, who got rich by buying whisky at 75 cents a gallon, adding water to it and selling it at six dollars a gallon, really did anything to advance the cause of temperance. Concrete itself is, of course, very old. The concrete stairs of Colchester and Rochester castles still show the marks of the ancient boarding board. Arippa's pantheon, which is 142 feet in diameter, is of concrete; and fragments of concrete buildings are found in Mexico and Peru. Manitoba is planning a provincial fair and all it asks the dominion government to chap in is $250,000 acres of public land as a bonus. Manitoba modestly is such as used to crop out in the building of transcontinental railroads. There is a Sure Way of Knowing Good Paint Material. There is really no need whatever for any property owner to take chances in the selection of his paint materials. It doesn't cost a cost to learn how to be on the safe side. Certainly every property owner has enough at stake to 2nd this out. A complete painting guide, known as Houseowner's Painting Outfit No. 49, can be had by writing National Lead Company, 1962 Trinity Building, New York. This company is the largest maker of pure white lead in the world. Its Dutch Boy Painter trademark is famous as a guarantee of purity and quality. The outfit includes a book of color schemes, for either interior or exterior painting, a book of specifications, and a simple little instrument, with directions for testing the purity of paint materials. RATHER AN APT COMPARISON. The prize to-day goes to a Virgins woman, who sends me this darky story: My colored girl not only keeps my house in exquisite order, but in proud of her own house she has bought. She purchased a white enamel bed and I asked her if her husband liked it. "Tessum, Jim he like dat white bald I done git--he like it all right. Las' night I had done fix dat bald up wid a spraind an' I got new pilershams an' it look moughty calm an' white. Jim he odress hese' an' an' inter bald, an' he lie dere and doan say nuttin' twell I hear him sayin': "Lizzie—" "Well, I say, 'whatcher wan', Jim'" "Lizzie, does yo' know what I myself mense' of in dis white bald'" "No, Jim, I doan know what yo' menses' yo' of." "Jim he chockle and den he say: "A fly in a pan of milk!"—New York Telegraph. TOTAL LOSS OF HAIR Seemed Imminent—Scalp Was Very Scaly and Hair Came Out by Handful—Scalp Now Clear and New Hair Grown by Cuticura. "About two years ago I was troubled with my head being scaly. Shortly after that I had an attack of typhoid fever and I was out of the hospital possibly two months when I first noticed the loss of hair, my scalp being still scaly. I started to use dandruff cures to no effect whatever. I had actually lost hope of saving my hair by the hand. I was afraid by the handful. I was afraid to comb it. But after using two cakes of Cucitura Soap and nearly a box of Cucitura Ointment, the change was surprising. My scalp is now clear and healthy as could be and my hair thicker than ever, whereas I had my mind made up to be bald. W. F. Steezer, 6812 Broad St, Pittsburg, Penn, May 7 and 21, 1988." Potter Drug & Chem, Corp., Bole Prope, Boston. Couldn't Convince the Judge. "I have heard of the soul kiss and kisses of other kinds, but I never heard of a man biting his wife as an evidence of a man's love," he repeated. Jake the O'Neill of Baltimore, Md., when George Phoebus, aged 27, of East Baltimore street, endeavored to explain the biting of his wife, for which offense she had him arrested. Mrs. Phoebus said her husband deliberately bit her on the cheek, and, though the pain was excruciating, he said that it was a "love bite." The justice fined him five dollars and gave him ten days in jail. He Came Back Hard. "That boy," said the Billyville farmer, "beats me just! I now, when I quoted Scripture to him he came back at me." "You don't say." "Shore. I told him to gift a hoe an foller the furrow. That's gold in the land," I said, and what do you reckon he made answer?" You tell it. "Father, he says, 'I don't keer for the gold o' this here world; I've laid up treasure in heaven!'"—Atlanta Constitution. Assuming the Responsibility. Mrs. Malone's patience was much tried by a servant who had a habit of standing around with her mouth open. One day, as the maid waited upon the table, her mouth was open, as usual, and her mistress, giving her a severe look, said: "Mary, your mouth is open." "Yessum," replied Mary, "I opened it."—Success Magazine. The food experience of a physician in his own case when worn and weak from sickness and when needing nourishment the worst way is valuable: "An attack of grip, so severe it can near making an end of me, left my stomach in such condition I could not retain any ordinary food. I knew of course that I must have food nourishment, and I began to take four tablespoonfuls of Grape-Nut and cream three times a day and for 8 weeks this was almost my only food; it tasted so delicious that I enjoyed it immensely and my stomach handled it perfectly from the first mouth. It was so nourishing it was quickly built back to 'normal health and strength.' Grape-Nut is of great value as food to sustain life during serious attacks in which the stomach is so damaged it cannot digest and assimilate food. I am convinced that were Grape-Nut more widely used by physicians, it would save many lives that are otherwise lost from lack of nourishment." Read to Wabilla. "What does the story better? A new crew escapes from Iran to flame. They are poisoned, torn and full of human MANY BILLS PASSED LEGISLATURE APPROPRIATES LARGE SUMS. NEW OFFICES ARE CREATED Every Part of the State Comes in For Share of the Local Des Moines, Ia.—The following are the bids that were passed by the General Assembly which closed its session April 9, the subject matter of the bill being given: General Enactments. Creating state board of education of 9 members and finance committee of three on $3,000 salary, to govern state education. Creating office of state hotel inspector and requiring fireproof construction of hotels and safety devices and appliances. Requiring annual reports from all corporations and fee of $1, with complete record as to all corporations authorized to do business in Iowa. Creating state board to examine for optometry and forbidding others from treating eyes. Providing way for removal of all officials for malfeasance in office, on complaints and hearing before a court. Revising the law as to duties of a county attorney and making more specific his authority and rights. Defining duties of a sherif and giving him additional authority in investigation of crimes. Requiring that banks pay interest on all public funds on deposit $2\frac{1}{2}$ per cent. General quarantine enlarging the powers of the local boards and providing that only indigent persons shall be supported at public expense. License for all hunters and funds to support some law enforcement to support game law enforcement. Authorizing state executive council, on advice of attorney general, to make settlement of claims of the state. Making Lincoln's birthday a legal holiday. Requiring doors of public buildings to open outward. Defining the lien of hotel keepers upon baggage, etc. Extending time for disposal of old unlabeled stocks of paint. Permitting use of automobiles. Permitting use of voting machines at primary elections. Requiring lights on vessels on lakes and rivers. Providing a way for the dissolution of state banks. Fixing liability of banks for forged or raised checks. Requiring transparent shields on front platforms of street cars. Exempting religious associations from compensation of collateral inheritance tax. Making terms of all public officers, where not otherwise stated, begin on the second regular day of the year. Providing that proof may be demanded of age of children employed in factories. Regulating safety appliances on switch engines. Requiring that error in the free pass law as to passes for families of employees. Permitting sale of denatured alcohol without permit. Changing name of normal school to "State Teachers' college." Providing a way for reincorporation of cemetery associations. Amending law as to the duty of railroads to furnish cars restoring the common law rule as to responsibility. Permitting payment for bonds of trust funds. Defining a lawful fence and providing it shall be of woven wire. General drainage and waterways commission of 7 on per diem to investigate water power and navigation in state. Definitely fixing law as to officers holding over so that the board of supervisors has nothing to do with the term. Providing for rotation of names on primary ballot and other changes in primary law to perfect same. Penalty of $50 a day for railroad refusing to obey an order of the railroad commission. Forbidding discrimination in prices as to cream, poultry and grains for purpose of creating monopoly. Giving railroad commission authority to require sanitary fittings at depots and telephones. Bill fixing liability, of employer for accidents to workmen on account of defective machinery and abolishing the risk on risk on the part of the workman. Authorizing copyright of cream cans and forbidding use of cans by any other than the owner. Revisions of game and Giving executive council some leadership matter of organization of corporations that desire to discount bonds and stocks. Increasing maximum teacher's fund to be levied to 20 mills and conti- ngent fund to 7 mills. Providing for consolidation of election precincts in country. Requiring airbanks on large inter- urban cars. Providing for trading stamps. Providing for condemnation of public service plants where the city desires to buy. Requiring license of $10 for seining in border rivers. Forbidding ice with oysters or more than one-eighth water. Extending benefits of traveling, library to short course in agriculture. Authorising payment of traveling expenses of game warden. Increasing maximum of state aid for fares to $300. Making void any stipulation in insurance policy as to 1 year limit for filing claims of loss. Giving to short course in agriculture same aid as to fair where no fair is held. Authorizing renewal of second grade teacher's certificates. Giving lion upon a colt to owners of else Authorizing board of control to investigate country hospitals. Commission to inquire into necessity for utilities commission. Designating legal securities for savings banks. Forbidding brewery ownership of saloons. Giving new board of education control of millage taxes. Sale of cocaine by druggists only. Protection of fruit by destruction of moths. Trust bill striking at all trusts and combines. Giving executive council authority to remove appoinite officers. Destruction of primary ballots 10 data before primary. Requiring druggists' liquor permits to be secured from county auditor and to be numbered. Limiting number of saloons to one for each 1,000 population. County Affairs. Providing legal fees in cases in September, slight change in law. Authorizing deduction of debts in Permitting poor tax levy up to 2 mills. Requiring assessors to be residents of territory assessed. County hospitals, including method of aiding by taxation and maintenance. Permitting offering of bounty on rattlesnakes, 50 cts. Permitting offering of bounty on "groundhogs," 25 cts. Changing name of "poor farm" to "county home." Permitting taxation in aid of libraries, hospitals or schools on vote of the people in any district or county. Ensuring that property owners grow posts. Authorizing extra help for county Auditor because of drainage records. Increasing compensation which may be paid for injury or death of domestic animals killed by dogs or wolves. Providing that polling places for adjacent rural precincts may be in town. Authorizing combining real estate and moneys and credit affidavits in assessment matters. Authorizing transfer of money from the library bond fund to the judge's office in certain cases. Increasing compensation of county attorney where there are two county seats. Directing the county auditor to foot up the assessment rolls and not the assessor. Making rigid rule as to compensation of sheriffs for boarding prisoners. Making it optional whether guide be presented by township trustees on highways. Permitting placing justices of the peace and constables on salary in cities smaller than now. Revision as to sale of meandered lake beds. Providing for shortage or surplus in drainage funds. Pay of assessors $2.50 and in special charter cities $4; also clerks and trustees in special charter cities $3 a day. Municipal Affairs Extending to all cities of 7,000 or over right to adopt commission plan of city government. Authorizing cities to borrow money to extend as well as to purchase or erect public utility plants. Authorizing a separate park district for each township under certain circumstances. Authorizing towns as well as cities to borrow money to provide for protection from floods. Right of city to provide for pensions o firemen and a fund for compensation to dependents of firemen injured on duty. Authorizing submission to voters at a city election of franchise questions. Submission of any referendum matter at a city as well as a general election. Forbidding pollution of streams by dumping night soil, etc. Raising limit of fire fund in cities and cities in cities of over 10,000 m², paills. Authorizing levy of taxes in certain cities for constructing outlets for sewers and sewage purifying plants, Davenport to improve the river front. Permitting Dies Moines to borrow money to build a city hall. Authorizing payment for the pre- liminaries before purchase of water- works. Authorizing park commissioners to issue bonds for land and improve- ments. Fixing park taxes at 2½ mills and a special 1 mill tax for three years to buy land. Authorizing employment of town marrhals as truant officers. State institutions and Departments. Annual vacation of one week on pay for employees of state institutions who have been employed a year or more. Requiring ... and children and dead children between 12 and 18 to attend the state schools provided for them. Permitting education to Glenwood school of fable minded men. Permitting extension of the contract at Anamosa for the labor for the butter tub factory. Raising the maximum age limit for girls and boys admitted to the industrial school from 16 to 18 years. Providing that dependent deaf children may be cared for at the deaf school all the year round. Authorizing admission to soldier's home of fathers of veterans. Including ice in the furnishings for officers at the soldier's home. Granting streetcar company right of way through deaf school grounds. Adding one factory inspector to the force of the labor commissioner. Giving state accountant authority to examine accounts of the Department of Agriculture instead of a special committee. Giving the board of medical examiners rather than board of health the authority to revoke medical certificates. Providing for publication of rules and regulations of health boards. Correcting a slight error in law as Requiring report to the Department of Agriculture of the statistics gathered by assessors relating to agricultural matters. Requiring duplicate vouchers on all bills to the state. Transfer of criminal statistics to board of parole. Requiring Secretary of state to publish report on municipal accounts. Visiting committees to state institutions. Extra bank examiner and clerks in auditor's office. Admitting self supporting soldiers to soldier's home under certain conditions. Authorizing commandant at soldier's home to sell effects of deceased soldier. Courts and Court Procedure. Revising the law as to publication of the schedule of terms of court. Changing the rule in regard to the assumption of risk on the part of railroad employees injured or killed. Revising the law as to the distribution of codes and session laws. Sending out by the secretary of state of laws made effective by publication. Reducing from one year to six months the time of taking appeal in a criminal case. Correcting an error as to preference of debts owing or labor and the filing of claims therefor. Exempting dentists from jury services. Providing for the making up of jury lists in the fall for the next year. Increasing the per diem for jurors to $2.50 a day. Providing for the partition of real estate and leasing of same when in process of sale or litigation. Requiring that bonds of executives, etc. be examined once each year by the county clerk. Permitting amendments to indictments. Permitting the courts to waive valuation of personal property of estates under certain circumstances. Relation of judges in Lee county by having one sent from outside the district. Giving superior courts jurisdiction in inebriacy cases. Defining place of trial on contracts and providing for nullifying same on showing of fraud. Eliminating technicalities in providing as to sufficiency of appeal. Objections to supreme court jurisdiction must be printed. Permitting reopening of estate after five years if personal property is found. Requiring for settling of estates of absentees. Authorizing money deposits in lieu of bonds in certain cases. Requiring distribution at once of laws in effect by publication. Forbidding acceptance of a bond in court given by attorney. Forbidding judges and clerks of election to go on jury lists. Crimes. Defining and punishing for conducting a "bucketshop." Defining detention of a female by force and to forbid "white slave" tranf. Authorizing issuance of search warrants for cigarettes and cigarette papers. Punishing assault to commit great bodily injury by one year in prison. Punishing for getting away from custody same as for jail breaking. Removing the age limit on hard inpatient. Authorizing return from prison for trial on charge of murder of persons serving time for lesser crimes. Forbidding marriage of cousins, or issue of license to cousins to marry. Forbidding harboring unmarried female in immoral place. Revising as to penalties for violation of pure food law. Forbidding immoral plays and exhibitions. Fine for failure to make report as to stocks of building and loan asses. Making it an indictable misdemeanor for one under 21 to smoke cigarettes. Defining contributory dependency and punishing for neglect of children. Forbidding drinking intoxicating liquors on trains and giving train men authority as police officers. Punishing for permitting weeds to Punishing for permitting weeds to grow on land or in highways. Punishing for frats in public schools. Highways and Bridges. Providing for return to old system of road districts and working the roads by vote of the township electors. Requiring the state to pay for road improvement at state farms. Requiring traction engines to cross bridges and culverts on planks idle down. Providing for the use of the road drag on highways and especially giving land owners right to use drag on roads adjacent. Permitting formation of road districts like drainage districts by vote. Permitting placing of electric poles on highways on permission of board of supervisors. Dividing market tax raised in country as between county and township for road purposes. Providing ways may be secured to land not otherwise accessible. Legalizing Act. Legalizing as to superior court in Perry. School district proceedings in Osceola county. Certain bond issues in Mills county. Permitting, Universalist church in Iowa City to transfer property. Legalizing as to land matters in Sloux and Osceola counties and for land patents to W. F. Werner and C. J. Felton. Legalizing acts pertaining to matters in the following cities and towns: Sloux City, New Hampton, Manchester, Callender, Norwalk, Monticello Pocahontas, Ploe, Merrill, Corvitt, Owlton, Cedar 'Randus, Deep River, Anacons, Packwood, Mawdon, Oxford Junction, Farmington, Linton, Enterlin, Otumwa cemetery, Laurens. Legalizing certain conveyances prior to 1885. Legalizing as to corporation without seal and also as to corporations where notice was not published. Appropriations. Completion of roster of Iowa soldiers, $10,000. Pedestal for Allison monument in Des Moines, $10,000. Amphitheater at state fair, $1,000.00 Annual support Iowa national guard, $140,000 a year. Support of state home finding agents $4,000 a year. Dam at soldier's home $4,000. Removal of Briggs' remains from Omaha to Jackson county, $1,000. To railroad commission for maps $3,200. For damages to T. H. Rattenbury, $1,250. Pay legislative employees $3,000. Expenses Lincoln day program, $32.47. Pay for inauguration, $440.25. Serum laboratory for hog cholera serum, $8,000. Support fish and game commission, $13,000. To John Jones for an injury at state hospital, $1,000. State veterinary department, $11,100. Pay for visiting clinics, $160. Total appropriations for all pur poses about $1,490,000. Meet at Anamosa Next. Clinton—The annual conference of the foreign missionary societies of the Methodist Episcopal church of Davenport district has come to a close in Clinton. The women selected president of the society for the coming year. Honor Des Moines Artist. Des Moines—Frank Clifford Asbord, a Des Moines artist, has just had a picture accepted by the salon in Paris. This is a signal honor for the young artist, considering that the picture accepted is the first he has ever placed on exhibition at the salon. New Elevator at Boone. Boone at Huntley, formerly county treasurer and recently manager of the Boone Brick and Tile company, has organized the B. M. Huntley Elevator company and will erect a $6,000 elevator on the Chicago & Northwestern road at this place. Fifteenth Visit by Stork. Farley.—There is no such a thing as race suicide in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morgan of this city. Last week a son was born to them which brings the number of their children up to fifteen. Of this number thirteen are living. To Enforce Game Laws. Clear Lake.—The Iowa Game and Fish Protective association have representatives here and are laying plans for a campaign against violators of the fish and game laws. There has been already a number of gross violations in the catching and killing of fish here which the association wants to stop. The association has contributed money and have put detectives at work. They say that drastic measures will be used if any one is caught: Miner Caught After Flight. Miner Laughm After Fight. Woodward—One of the two Austrians who fed after a battle at a mining camp at Scandia, in which three other Austrians were wounded, one perhaps fatally, has been captured and brought to jail here. The prisoner is believed to have shot a fellow countryman of the name of Bowlich, who it is feared cannot recover. The men fought over money matters during a drinking bout. Girl's Request Observed Iowa, Fails—The disinterment of a corpse in order to prove whether or not an engagement ring had been removed from the finger of the corpse by relatives before burial, is the strange procedure reported from Cottage in this county. It appears from the report that Miss Jensen, who died here several weeks ago, had requested that her engagement ring be buried with her. After the interment the ring was on the finger of the corpse when interred, and in order to settle the question the grave was reopened this week in the presence of interested parties, and it was found the ring was on the girl's finger. Left Thousands of Veterans with Kid- ney Trouble. The experience of David W. Martin, a retired merchant of Bolivar, Mo. is just like thousands of other- Mr. Martin says: "I think I have had kidney disease ever since the war. During an en- gagement my horse fell on me, straining my back and injuring the just the thousands of other. Martin said: "I think I have had kidney disease ever since the war. During an engagement it my horse fell on the straining my back and injuring the kidneys. I have been told I had a floating kidney. I had intense pain in the back, headaches and diary spells, and the action of the bladder very irregular. About three years ago I tried Doan's Kidney Pills and inside of a comparatively short time was entirely of kidney trouble." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburna G. Buffalo, N. Y. NOT A HERMIT OF ROMANCE. Man's Reasons for Living in Sollitude, Though Excellent, Somewhat Surprised Young Lady. The beautiful young lady stood at the mouth of the cave in the mountain and addressed the ragged and long-haired hermit. "So you are a real, live hermit! I have never seen a real hermit before, although I have read all about you many times. I suppose you had a very sad love affair in your youth and the loss of your beautiful sweetheart drove you to this wilderness to live alone. Was she so very beautiful? You have tomato cans filled with money hid in the ground, haven't you?" "Not at all, not at all," interrupted the hermit. "I have no money buried the hermit, "I have no money buried—it is all in four per cent. government bonds. My first love affair was altogether too successful, and that's the real reason I'm here. You didn't see a square-built, red-headed woman on the trail looking for a husband, and you didn't. It's about time I moved again, anyhow, since so many people are coming here. "Tain't safe to stay."—Puck. There is now Gahara in this region of the country, all other diseases put together, and until the last two years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many people, the only prescribed local remedy, and by constantly failing to receive proper care, the Doctor has proven Gahara to be a constellation of disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Gahara, Co. Oto, Co. Oto, the only constitutional cure on the market, is supposed to drop to a treasured level. It acts directly on the blood and nerves, and the dollars for any case is a fine cure. Need for structure and testimonials. Took an Antidote. Percival came running to his grandma one day asking for a drink of water. "Quick, quick, grandma," he said, "give me a drink of water, quick!" After he got his drink he said: "The reason that I was in such a hurry, I thought I swallowed a worm while eating an apple and I wanted to drown it."-Dellinator. It'll soon begin! But it'll server it! You'd be sorry if it did. 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U., DES MOINES, NO. 16-1808 PROBABLY HARDEST OF ALL Wife's Addition to List of Her House hold Duties of Course Was Not Personnel. After dinner the other evening Mr. and Mrs. Brown started to speak of their respective duties, and soon an argument as to whether the husband or the wife had the hardest work to perform was in full swing. First she said, "A wife, around the door lad," then to cook, wash dishes, clothe the kids, scrub the floors, sweep the house, make the beds, build the fire, carry up cool, nail clats on the back fence dig-" "Is that all?" sarcastically inter- rapted Mr. Brown. "No," was the prompt rejoinder of Mr. Brown. "In addition to those duties every wife has to keep her hus- band from making a fool of himself" → Philadelphia Telegraph. A CURE FOR FITS. The Treatment is to Accomplish. What Science Has Been Strug- gling to Attain for Centuries. 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At druggists' and dealers' 50c. A Fable, Perhaps. When George Ade was coming from New Orleans last winter he noticed, among the race-track man on the train, one tan-sheet sheet writer with the largest feet he had ever seen. And he furthermore testifies and affirms that the sheet writer, on rising in the morning, discovered that the reporter had shined one shoe and a suitcase—Success Magazine. Happy smiles! White teeth! What a delicious perfume! WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT! The trouble with men who are all right otherwise is their penchant for boasting of it. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM FOR BRIGHT'S DISEASE FOR DIABETES BACKUP 1375 *Guarantee* If you feel languid and depressed all the time. The best thing to help nature build up the system is This great tonic is not a false stimulant as many of the so-called "spring tonic." It is a natural strength-giver. 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Miss Minna Schuelek is ill at Galva are the following: Miss Minna Peters, Will Politz, Henry Holtz, Gustave Drier, John Holtz, Mrs. John Kolpin, Ella Kolpin and Mrs. William Getzmier. The victims partook of pork at a dinner following a funeral at the Kolpin home in Galva. Cora, Lester and Florence Kolpin are in a very dangerous condition at the Sloux City hospital and eleven friends and neighbors at Galva are down with the terrible affliction and the whole town is terribly wrought up over the matter. It takes three weeks for the trichina to develop and make themselves felt, and as most all the friends and neighbors of the Kolpins ran in to help care for them and most all of them partook at some time or other of the deadly sausage the people of Galva are wondering where this terrible death harvest is going to end. RECEIVERSHIP TO BE ENDED Great Western Will Be Put On its Feet by July. Council Bluffs—Federal Judge Walter H. Sanborn of St. Paul told attorneys representing the locomotive engineers on the Omaha division of the Chicago, Great Western railroad that the receivership of that road would terminate within the next three or four months. He said there were several ways in which the road could be put on its feet, but that it had not been decided just how reorganization would occur. Judge Sanborn listened to complaint of engineers who said engineers from other divisions had been brought here to the court. Sanborn said engineers already on this division to freight trains and swift engines in alleged violation of contract. Judge Sanborn took the matter under adjudication and indicated that the matter might be adjusted if he old engineers waived the right to bring damage suits for salary they might have received had they not been reduced. MAIL CLERKS MEET APRIL 27 Sixth District Association Will Hold Forth in Des Moines. Des Moines.—The annual meeting of the sixth district Railway Mall association will be held in this city on April 27 and 28. A banquet s to be given on the night of the 28th, at which there will be several well known men on the program as speakers. The Des Moines branch will be host to the visitors. Frank B. Lorey of 621 Tenth street is president of the committee W. H. Hnaughan of 1017 Mary avenue, is vice-president; Geo W. Batson, 2021 East Fourteenth street, is secretary. The executive committee is composed of G. J. Van Hamert, J. S. Baker and F. M. Burdette. Shoots Three Persons Hutchinson, Kan., April 12.—Hrace Schwartz yesterday shot his wife, her brother, at whose home she had taken refuge, and a neighbor, Phineas and Spain. He then tried to end his own life by drinking carbolic acid. He was shot in the neck, but the men were not seriously wounded. Schwartz is in jail. The police say another man aided in the shooting. First Trip of Season. Davenport—The government steamer, David Tipton, commonly known as the dentist boat of the United States fleet, in charge of Captain Martin, is now at work in the Burlington-Davenport district removing a few small obstructions in the channel. The steamer is on its first trip of the season. Son of Ex-Gov. Boles Weds. Waterloo. At the home of the bride's parents at Sycamore, Ill., H. B. Boles, son of former Governor Boles, and Miss Faith Hoyt were married Saturday. Miss Hoyt was the teacher of elucation in the Waterloo high school for two years. Pythian Knights Gather. Council Bluffs.—Between 300 and 400 Knights of Pythias from western Iowa are in session here in tridistrict convention. The eleventh, seventeenth and twenty-fourth districts of Iowa are participating. Nearly 3,000,000 Eggs. Manchester.—A mammoth shipment of eggs was shipped from Manchester by a local produce firm. The shipment consisted of two carload of hen fruit, or over 3,000,000 eggs. Suit Compromised. Grinnell-P. Kirkpatrick and the accident insurance companies fighting his $10,000 policy for loss of an arm, have compromised, it is said, for $4,000. The case was tried once. Has Too Many Wives. Fairfax—Lloyd Harless has a wife and Likwhee a hunestead east of Gregory. It seems that he also has a wife and several little Harleses down in West Virginia. Sheriff Mullen has taken Harless down to the mountain state to face the music. PLANS NEW INTERURBAN LINE Company Negotiates for Old Crooked Creek Property. Des Moines—Negotiations now in progress contemplating the purchase by the Ft. Dodge, Des Moines & Southern railway of the old Crooked Creek railroad may result in the addition of another important line to the Ft. Dodge electric road's system. This line would run from Ft. Dodge to Webster City, passing through the rich gypsum fields east of Ft. Dodge. It also would provide electric road service between Webster City and Des Moines. General Manager J. L. Blake of the Ft. Dodge road admitted that the negotiations for the purchase of the Crooked Creek line are in progress. Physically, the road is in poor condition and extensive building would be required to fit it for good service. The Crooked Creek railroad extends from Webster City to a point several miles west of Lehigh, a total distance of approximately thirty miles. It has been used for coal, clay and shale hauling. In addition to the rail line the deal includes title to about 1,000 acres of valuable land, rich in clay and shale and thought to hold some coal. ELEPHANT'S VICTIM IS KNOWN Mrs. Ida Washington of Oskaloosa Identified Dead Man. Des Moines — Frank Bartlow, the man killed by Tom, the big trick elephant of the Robinson circus, has been identified by Mrs. Ida Washington of Oskaloosa. She informed the coroner that his name was Frank and not Charles. He was her cousin, Mrs. Brauff, the Hastings woman, who thought Bartlow, was her brother, is now entirely satisfied that she has no claim of relationship to the dead man. There are told to rest in Glendale cemetery. Mrs. Washington said that Bartlow had been married in Asia while traveling abroad with the Barnum show, and that a wife and four children survive him, although nothing is known of their whereabouts. EXPECTS 5,000 VETERANS Ft. Dodge Makes Preparation for G. A. R. Ft. Dodge—Preparations for the G. A. R. encampment in June in this city are being made diligently and much is already finally planned for the biggest convention Ft. Dodge has ever had. Neighboring military companies will be here to participate in a big parade and Sons of Veterans, and a group of Riverside R. R. and the society of relatives of civil war veterans will meet here and participate in the big parade. Ft. Dodge will be called upon to accommodate fully five thousand people and a strentuous campaign is going forward to secure pleasant lodgings and meals for this vast number. Ft. Dodge homes generally are to be opened to the delegates. Henedy Heads the Teachers. Iowa City The Southeast Iowa Teachers' convention adjourned after an address by Professor L. H. Balley of Cornell university. At the business meeting officers were elected as follows: President, Superintendent Eugene O'Neill, Professor C. W. Wrückshank, Mount Pleasant secretary, Miss Mary Vanest, Oskaloosa; treasurer, Professor C. W. Wassam, Iowa City; chairman executive committee, Frank L. Smart, Davenport. The association passed resolutions deploring the defeat of the commission school bill by the legislature. Webster City Claims The Lead. Webster City The close of the municipal fiscal year is at hand and figures can be produced which it is believed will substitute the claim for the financial condition of any town in the state of Iowa. The claim is remarkable, because Webster City is a "municipal ownership" town. The claim is also timely; because of the decision of the city to do a large amount of paving the coming season. Train Saved From Wreck. Iowa City...A broken break beam on the tender of the engine of the Rocky Mountain Limited train swung in front of the wheels from West Liberty to Iowa City, and if a sudden piece of iron into a wheel there would have been a dorsalment of the tourist train. Veteran is Fined 1 Cent. Chicago, April 16—A fine of 1 cent, to satisfy a technical violation of the law, was imposed by Judge Landis on Henry H. Tebbett, a notary public and veteran of the civil war, who pleaded guilty to a charge of making a false amdavit for a fellow veteran to aid him in the collection of his pension. Presbytery at Colfax. Colfax—The Des Moines presbytery met in Colfax for a three days' session. Rev. Spencer of Panorama was the speaker. There are fifty-six churches in the Des Moines presbytery and the attendance is large. Road Heid Blameless. Dubuque—Coroner's inquest held on killing of the three Foldorf children who were run down by an Illinois Central train, resulted in a verdict of accidental death and the road is held blameless. Accused of Gambling on Trains. Mason City — James Bolander of Charles City has been arrested charged with gambling on Milwaukee trains between here and McGregor. Road detectives worked up the case. Shot Wife, Daughter and Self. Mason City — A tragedy which may end the lives of three persons occurred at Klester, Minn. John Olsen, a farmer, was shot and killed the gun on himself. All three are still alive, but their condition are critical. No child can be well and strong unless its bowels move regularly every day at the same hour. 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Columbo, Thorn Brown, Thompson, and Thompson's Eye Water If affected with nare area, use Thompson's Eye Water By R. W. THOMPSON. The first Negro to be honored officially by the first administration at Washington is Emmett Till, a young African-American intern fama as the private secretary to Dr. Booker T. Washington, principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute. Mr. Scott has been named as a member of the commission provided by congress to investigate the financial, industrial and agricultural resources of the Eberlan republic. The appointment came to Mr. Scott wholly unsolicited. After the conclusion, he been appointed Dr. Robert F. Goodwin, for good and sufficient reason, could best serve the nation and his race by remaining in the United States, President Taft, having personal knowledge of Mr. Scott's exceptional fitness for the delicate and responsible duties connected with the Liberian inquiry, tendered him a place on the commission and, in fact, strongly urged him to accept it. The appointment meets the hearty requirements throughout the land, and all agree that a more competent man could not have been found for the work in hand. The other two commissioners are W. Morgan Shuster of the District of [Image of a man in a suit with a tie, facing slightly to the right, set against a decorative border with floral motifs.] HON. KEMETT J. SCOOT. Columbia, chairman, and Dr. George Sale of Georgia, who is the superintendent of education for Negro schools under the control of the American Baptist Home society. George A. Finch of the department of state accountancy the commission secretary, Captain Sydney A. Cloman, Third Infantry, military attack at London; Major Percy M. Ashburn of the medical corps of the army and Frank A. Flower, who has been long a student of African affairs, will accompany the commission. The commission will sail from Hampon Roads the latter part of April on the latter, Birmingham, Salem and will remain in Liberia about a month. From the standpoint of the race Mr. Scott is the most interesting member of the commission. He is yet a young man—in his thirties perhaps—but in his comparatively brief span of existence he has had unusually large experience in dealing with intricate problems and handling affairs that would tax the resources of the wisest. He is a native of Texas, and the finishing touches of his liberal education were acquired at Wiley university, at Marshall, Tex., from which he bore an honor diploma and carries the degree of A. M. His early years of employment were at Wiley Post, the most influential daily known to the southwest. In this admirable training school he imbibed his first inspiration for high grade journalism and laid the foundation for the brilliant literary career from which he is now reaping golden rewards, with an outlook for even more gratifying triumphs in the future. From a humble beginning in the office of the Houston Post Mr. Scott rose through the faithful and conscientious discharge of his duties to positions of increasing power and responsibility until he resigned to go into business for himself. Becoming editor and manager of the Texas Freeman, in conjunction with Charles N. Love, he presented to the Lone Star State the livest Negro journal of news and opinion that immediately with had ever come to mind. This winning he served as private secretary to that master of political science, Hon. N. Wrinkley Cuney, a leader such as Texas had never had before and has never had since his passing. To Mr. Cuney Mr. Scott was ardently devoted. Twelve years or so ago Dr. Booker T. Washington visited Houston and lectured to the people in the interest of Tukeese institute. Mr. Scott headed the committee on arrangements. So perfectly was the affair managed that Dr. Washington became deeply im **Speak to Strong** Many people object to taking the medicine usually prescribed by physicians for rheumatism. There is no need for internal treatment in any case of muscular or chronic rheumatism, and more than one in every ten cases of the disease or one or more of these conditions. When there is no fever and little (if any) swelling, you may know that it is only necessary in apply Chamaeborax's Lisi-macromycin to get good results. Try to keep an eye on your dog. preserved with the executive ability displayed by the entrepreneur young man and finally secured his consent to go to Tuskegee as his private secretary. In this capacity, as the world known, Mr. Scott has had a remarkable career. So closely has he fitted into the Tuskegee system that he has become practically indispensable to the welfare of the institution and an essential factor in all of the varied interests, educational and otherwise, represented by Dr. Washington. During a large portion of each year the "wizard" is absent from the school, burdened with the thousand and thousands of details of his massive "beneath of industry" falls upon the shoulders of Mr. Scott. Painstaking and thorough, tactful and discreet, patient and well poised, modest and unassuming withal, be bears his great responsibilities with the skill and balance of a veteran. Clean of life, loye in his ideals, possessing a winning personality, no young man in this broad land of ours can boast of a more widespread and genuine popularity amongst the masses or who has a longer list of friends and admirers among the forces that control the destinies of the empire. Andrew Carnegie, the "steel king" and giver of libraries, in all sincerity characterizes Mr. Scott as a master of the secrets of the times, the other two being the late Daniel L. Lamont and George B. Cortelyou, both of whom rose by sheer merit from the ranks to the proud estate of cabinet members. In many ways Mr. Scott has rendered substantial service to his race. As corresponding secretary of the National Negro Business league he has been instrumental in bringing both known and unknown material uplifters to the front through the carefully balanced annual programs prepared under his general direction. His unerring judgment of men and keen discrimination, as well as tactful encouragement of the worthy and progressing members of the community. As a writer the commercial instinct of the race everywhere and developing hundreds of solid business enterprises among the Negro people. To him is due the entire credit of calling the attention of the war department to the advisability of having Negro bandmasters for Negro regiments in the United States army and for securing from former President Roosevelt the order directing that the bands of all four of the colored regiments should be hereafter led by chief musicians of their own color, thus opening a new and valuable door of opportunity to the black community. As a writer title and well informed writer, Mr. Scott has contributed much readable matter to the principal newspapers and magazines of both races in the United States. Mr. Scott is happily married. His beautiful home at Tuskegee is presided over by a charming wife, and five interesting children have come to shed sunshine therein. Mr. Scott carries with him to Africa the best wishes of a united race, who bespoke for him a degree of success in the production of productive achievements. President Taft, the people of Liberia, the American republic, the Negro race here and Mr. Scott himself will all be just shauers in the results that accrue from the work of this important commission. COLORED REPUBLICANS. Kings County League Active—Carry Claims Beyond Ballot Box. Members' night at the Carlon avenue branch, Y. M. C. A., at Brooklyn, under the aupules of the Colored Republican League of Kings County, held recently, was well attended. The event was a question of public interest which is before the legislature of the state of New York. The subject was, "Resolved, That the proposed legislation now pending before the legislature of the state of New York permitting labor and open stores on Sunday by certain classes of citizen is a violation of the Constitution, and will tend to destroy Christian traditions and beliefs, upon which the American government is founded." The discussion was opened by John H. Smith, president of the league. He gave a clear and full exposition of the Jewish Sabbath and Christian Sunday and related the steps the league has taken to influence the representatives in the league in order to fill the void pending. The presiding officer, W. H. Davenport, called upon W. R. Lawton, R. B. Dodson, R. P. Hamlin and Norman D. Johnson to discuss the question, which they debated with much spirit and interest. During this discussion other proposed legislation which would be detrimental to the community was also considered. The colored men were urged to carry the balloon and the halls even to the halls of legislation, and keep their wishes and desires before their representatives during their entire term of office. Right Must Triumph Over Wrong. The Afro-American should no longer be regarded by the people of the United States as a stranger in a strange land. The sunlight of civilization is too bright, Christianity is too powerful a weapon in the battle for human rights, and the Christian consciences of the people will not always be seared with injustice and oppression. Right must triumph over wrong. Who Owns the United States? "If anybody thinks that this is a white man's country," said George L. Langston at a big meeting of the Carlton avenue Y. M. C. A., at Brooklyn, recently, "let the white people pay the Negro for his 250 years' services, and we will see whose country this is!" often a weeks vacation: The ladies of the Mt. Zion Baptist church will hold tag day on Thursday May 6th, to solicit funds toward raising $500 to pay on the church debt. Master Clarence Strackel who has spent the winter in Chicago returned to our city last Thursday to accept a position with the Unique theatre. Please ask Mrs. Mc and Mr. W. what cupid has done for something he hammond. Mr. and Mrs. George Austin have purchases a nics five room cottage over in South Sicuk City. Again we repeat "A wise man pays no rent." Rev. M. G. Newman has been on the sick list for the last few days. The stewardesses of the A. M. E. church will give a sacred concert Sunday evening. The following program was rendered at the A. M. E. church Sunday evening: Song, congregation, All Hall; invocation, pastor, chair, Rocked in the cradle; scripture lesson, pastor; chair, Christ the Lord is Risen to-day; recitation, Easter Thoughts, Geraldine Grant; solo, Miss Arbella Dowdy; recitation, My Darling, Beulah McFauland; recitation, Calvary, Hester Allison; choir, O, come let us sing; address missionary work, pastor, solo, Easter Morn, Mrs. Katie Askew; recitation, Henrietta Hawkins; solo, In His Steps, Mrs. Alberta Murray; recitation, Arthur Smith; solo, Mrs. Mantz Askew, Morn of Paradise; cantata, Way of the Cross, seven young ladies; collection; benediction. The Porters club composed of 14 members gave one of the swellest balls of the season. The halls was tastefully decorated for the occasion carried out the Easter scheme. The young men wore evening dress suits, and the ladies wore their pretty Easter costumes the guest were delightfully entertained a nice luncheon was served. The young men deserve much credit for the way the affair was handled, Mr. Pott's orchestra furnished the music. They lingered in to the wee small hours. The ladies Art club meet with Mrs. Anna Roberts Friday afternoon, a guessing contest was the pleasure of the afternoon. Mrs. M. G. Newman carried off the two prizes, a nice one course luncheon was served. Mr. David Shores who has been confined to his home with the rheumatism is able to resume his duties again at the Hawkeye club. Mr. Edward Askew has been confined to his home the past week with a severe cold. Mr. Joseph Norris who was taken suddenly ill last week is able to be out again. The trial of "The Devil" last week at the A. M. E. church was won by the jury bringing in a verdict of not guilty. Mr. Chas. Watkins of Sloux Falls, S. D., on another one of his cupid trips to our city and stayed over Sunday he was the guest of Miss Emma Crawford while in our city. Mr. Albert Cavens and Mr. Cavens Sr., left Saturday for Chicago to reside in Chicago in the future. Mr. Craig of Omaha has come to our city to take part in Mr. Pott's orchestra. Mrs. Anna May Askew went to Omaha Monday for a visit with Mrs. Kinner and other friends. Mr. Wm. Williams of Council Bluffs, is in the city, he is stopping with Rev. and Mrs. M. G. Newman. Mrs. W. R. Sparks of Chicago has joined her husband who has accepted the stewardship at the Country club. We welcome them in our midst. Laura, the daughter of Mrs Margaret Smith continues to be quite sick she has lung trouble. Don't forget to attend "Aunt Gloe's Cabtn," to be given by the ladies and friends of the Mt. Zion Baptist church at Selzer's Hall, Thursday April 22nd. Being a pleasant Sunday on Easter she churches throughout the city was well attended at all of their special services. The Mt. Zion and A. M. E. Sunday schools rendered their programs in the evening. Rev. J. C. Reid has resigned his editorship with the Afro-American Advance on account of his many duties connected with his church work, he is at present planning a 1500 rally to be held the third Sunday in May in behalf of the church debt. He will still remain a member of the staff of said paper. WASHINGTON, IOWA. NOTES. Easter Sunday was fittingly celebrated by the Sunday school last Sunday in the afternoon with exercises by the primary and intermediate classes which interested and entertained the large audience present, and which reflects much credit on the teachers Misa Nora Motts and Mrs. G. W. Black. A handsome collection was taken for the Missionary purpose. In the evening the Women's Mite Missionary Society carried out an elaborate program. Mrs. L S. Phillips who has been seriously ill for some time past is convalescing slowly at this wrt ing. If she continues improving the presiding eld can start on his work the latter part of the week. Mrs. Phillips mother from Jackson, Mich., arrived last week and is helping care for her. Mr. Porter, of Mexico, Mo., is in the city having accompanied a shipment of high bred horses here which were purchased by one of our townmen recently at that place. Falcon Flour Produced by modern scientific milling methods, from choicest wheat only. Our guarantee back of every sack. Good as can be made. Ask Your Grocer In have we over repeat on the M. E. held on the 25th. Miss Marie Redd is on the sick list. Mesdames Henry Rhodes and Aaron Howard of Wellman were Sunday visitors at the A. L. Hall home. Rev. Phillips made a flying trip to Keokuk last week. Jas. Crump who is attending the State University at Iowa City visited at the N. L. Black home last week and Saturday night accompanied Mrs. N. L. Black and Miss Blanche Shelton of Chicago to Muscatine for a short visit. The members of the St. Paul Sunday school gave a musical entertain- at the church last Friday evening a large crowd was present and a delightful program was rendered. The church Aid Society held it regular meeting at the parsonage Friday. Miss Estella Bradley entertained Miss Mayotta E. Wood and Miss Mabel Tarver and Mesers Gus Mason, William Godinu and Hershall Harris at the home of her sister Mrs. Rufus Phoenix Sunday afternoon. The Sunday school had their Easter program Sunday morning. The H. Q. B. club held its business meeting at Mrs. L. B. Tarver's Thursday. The Young People's Sunday Lecture club had an Easter program at the church Sunday evening, the program was an excellent one and a very large crowd was present. Mr. Charles Bates of Davenport was a Moline caller Sunday. Mrs. Louis B. Tarver has been on the sick list but is much better at this writing. The Tabernacle Baptist church entertained the Tri-city Sunday school Union Monday evening, a very interesting program was rendered. Mrs. Mable Coleman of Sterling was at home visiting her parents last week. Mrs. Ben Walkup has been sick for some weeks but is better now. Mr. Charles Jones of Rock Island was a Moline caller Tuesday. Little Sarah Pollard has the measles CEDAR RAPIDS Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fields entertained about a dozen friends Friday evening April 2nd in observance of their seventeenth wedding anniversary. A present spent a most enjoyable evening. Mr. and Mrs. Fields received many beautiful presents as a token of the high esteem in which they are held among their many friends. Capt. Milligan was in Burlington April 2-5 on official business. The Messrs Simms and Green of Lipton were over Sunday visitors in the city. The church was very nicely decorated Easter and those who attended the services heartily enjoyed them. The children's program in the afternoon was well attended also the chorus and sermon in the evening. Mrs. A. Perkins entertained at 1 o'clock dinner Wednesday the Mesdames Boyer and Calder. Mrs. Della Marshall though not a member very elaborately entertained the G. M. E., last Friday at the home of Mrs. W. A. Raspberry, a large attendance of members and visitors werpresent and enjoyed a pleasant afternoon. You are hereby notified to appear at the Court House in Polk County, Iowa, on each day of May A. D. 1909 at o'clock of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Mary Spencer, deceased, late of Polk County, you will appear and show cause if why will appear and show cause if why said will should not be admitted to probate. In witness whereof, I have hereunto seal the seal of the District Court, at Des Moines, this 5th day of March A. D. 1909. J. P. Maher, Clerk of District Court, J. E. D. Prier, Deputy. GALESBURG NOTES. Rev. H. H. Palmer of the Second Baptist church was installed and given charge of the church Easter Sunday, Rev. Scruggs of Monmouth preached the installation sermon, Rev. S. B. Moore delivered the address of welcome from the A. M. E. church, and interesting talks were given by the different auxiliaries of the church. Rev. J. Y. Atchison was also present and gave an inspiring talk. Miss Humphrey of Kewance spent Sunday with Miss Barber. Miss Ollie Allen has returned from a visit in Chicago. from Miss Gertrude Luas returned to her ek and home in Bedford, Iowa after a visit with relatives her. in the Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Skin- nent of ner a daughter, April 10th. re pur Miss Dora Mitchell has returned recent- from a visit in Palmyra, Mo. The Sunday school of the A. M. E. will be church observed Easter with fitting exercises. The auditorium was completely filled and the papa rendered a very interesting program. The Mingse Grace and Hastie Jabla have returned to Chicago after a pleasant visit with Mrs. Chan. Anderson. Mrs. H. L. Edwards retained Friday evening at a reception in honor Mr. and Mrs. Marion Anderson who were married last week in Davenport, In. Mr. Charlie Mitchell and Mr. E. Bates of Kewanee attended the Easter ball have Tuesday evening. Miss Alberta Keith of Burlington made a short visit in our city this week. Mrs. Louisa Washington is seriously ill at her home on Lombard street. Mrs. and Mrs. L. C. Carter Jr., entertained at dinner Sunday Miss Addie Johnson and Mr. Luther Williams of Monmouth. Mrs. and Mrs. Bryant Gresby have returned from Kookuk where they were married last week. Mise Gertrude Payne of Momouth made a short visit with the Mises ALBIA NOTES The Easter decoration at the A. M. E. church on Sunday evening were very nice, flowers placed about the altar and a cross of Easter lies were placed in the center the program rendered nicely by the children and adults conducted by Mra. J. H. Bell superintendent. Mr. Eliza Martin of Buxton was in Albia Sunday. Mr. Jeffers of Buxton was in Albia Sunday. Flagrant Violator. Mrs. Crawford—What did your husband say when you told him that you and your daughters were going to jois an anti-noise club? Mrs. Chatter—He said he hoped it would keep us outlet. More than nine out of every ten cases of rheumatism are simply rheumatism of the muscles, due to cold or damp, or chronic rheumatism. In such cases no internal treatment is required. The free application of Chamblain's Liniment is all, but is needed, and it is cessant to give quick relief. Give it a trial and see for yourself how quickly it relieves that end acesses. The Medicines usually given internally for rheumatism are poisonous or very strong medicines. 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