Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XV. No 47. CITY NEWS. [N. B. I you have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we solicit all your local news—Ed.] Mrs. E. T. Banks is reported quite sick this week. Mrs. H. W. Hughes is improving at this writing. Mrs. Matilda Hughes has been quite sick the past week. Mr. Chas Carter of Creston arrived in our city Thursday and is contemplating making his home here. Wanted—Good barber, will pay good wages. Write to H. R. Moore, 109 I avenue, Iowa City, Ia. Mr. B. F. Manuel and Miss Althia Smith were quite married last Wednesday afternoon at the residence of Rev. T. L. Griffith. Mr. Chas. Bailey and Miss Helen Hickman were married at the residence of J. M. Morris, 612 North street last Wednesday evening by Rev. T. L. Griffith. A SNAP—For sale, a good 9 room house, modern except furnace, in good location; small payment down, balance to suit. See me. L. J. Shelton, 217 6th street. Mr. Wm. Smith of Pierre, S. D., arrived here last Sunday to be at the bedside of her sick father, Mr. James Hamilton. Rev. O. A. Johnson, one of our former pastor of Burns M. E. church, spent Tuesday in our city. He is still located at Independence, Mo., having g been sent there the third time. He seemed to be glad to meet his old Des Moines friends. The local branch of Odd Fellows will hold their annual sermon in the uIunion Congregational church the second Sunday in May, at which time the full membership is expected to be out, also the higher rank in full uniform. Regular services at Union Congregational church Sunday May 2nd, Morning services 10:30, celebration of the Lord's Supper. Evening Service 8 o'clock, address by Dr. E. A. Lee, D. S. are invited to attend all services. The Mt. Mariah Tabernacle No. 567, will give a Musicale Monday night, May 3rd, at the Corinthian Baptist church, Fifteenth and Linden streets. The public is cordially invited to attend. Bertha Curtley, H. P. Della Bryant, W. R. At a special session of Hiram Lodge, U, D; A. F. A. & A. M. held on last Friday evening two candidates were initiated into the mysteries of Masonary. This was the first initiation conducted by this lodge and they were very aly assisted by the members of North Star lodge of this city and Eureka lodge of Enterprise. Wanted - First class colored barber to work in a five chair shop. Apply to Lee Greenway, Muscatine, Iowa. Mrs. Samuel Bryant who has been quite sick for the past fortnight at her home on Eighth street, is much improved and able to be up again. She underwent an operation and her friends are glad to see her out again. The D. M. Negro Lyceum met at the home of Dr. J. H. Williams, 819 West Thirteenth street, on Tuesday evening April 27. A very interesting program consisting of papers and discussions of the leading topics of today was rendered. Att'y. Redd of St. Joseph, Mo., was present and made some very interesting and instructive remarks. The club adjourned to meet with Miss Iona Wilson, 1058 West Fifth street. Rev. E. J. Penney who has been conducting revival meetings here, left Thursday morning for Manly, Ia., to visit his daughter, Mrs. Stratton, who is one of the well to do farmers of Cero Gordo county, where he will remain until Monday before returning to his home in Oklahoma. Our famous Mail Carriers Band, composed of the postoffice men, lost all their uniforms and several hundred dollars worth of music in the big fire Tuesday morning. They were not insured, hence it was a total loss to the boys. They will give a fine musical concert at the Shrine Temple on next Friday evening, May 7th; admission 60 cents. Everyone should attend and help the boys. Prof. Geo. I. Holt, our great singer, and Miss Mabel Wagner Shank, the famous singer, have donated their services. It will be a rare musical treat for all. MRS. N. M. KING Spring Millinery Coods. - LATEST DESIGNS - Wire Frames Made to Order. Grab Wee in Wine Coords. Speciality in Hair Goods. 1203 Center Street. The Enterprise of Rome, Ga., gave a good write up of Mr. O. W. Curtis formerly of this city and a graduate of the undertaking school here. He has an undertaking establishment there and from reports is doing well. We are always glad to note the welldoing of our Iowa boys and girls. Rev. E. J. Penney, the minister who has been conducting a series of meeting at the Union Congregational church for a nightclub, closed last Wednesday. The services was spiritually good and Rev. Penny proved to be a good strong, mature christion minister filled with the holy message. He made many friends while in our city, and will be long remembered by those who heard him. If he should come again we believe that he would fill the church. Mrs. Letha Brown-Edmondin, a returned missionary under the auspices of the A. M. A., spent last Sunday in our city speaking for the cause of missions at the leading white churches. She has spent six years in Central Africa and is highly educated, a graduate of Fisk University, and will now devote her entire time and labor in carrying the Master's message to our native land, the dark continent. She spoke夕晨 afternoon at Union Congregational church to a large audience, and by her eloquence, wit and enthusiasm held the audience spellbound for nearly two hours. She is one of the few gifted lady speakers of our race. She is writing some books now in the native African language. It was certainly a rare treat to hear this talented lady. Corinthian Baptist Church. Sunday May 2nd, 10:30 a. m., special sermon for aged people. All the aged who can are cordially invited to be present. Where it is desired they will be brought out at the expense of the church. 12 m. Sunday School; 3 p. m. Covenant meeting and Lord's Supper; 6:30 p. m. King's Men, led by Mr. H. R. Graves; 8 p. m. sermon to young people, subject. "The Right Use of Opportunities." It will be pleasant for friends to bring their baskets and remain all day. T. L. Griffith pastor Last week the sad news flashed through the Associated Press telegraphic association that Prof. William H. Councill, one of the greatest Negro educators in America died at his home April 17, in Normal, Ala., after an illness of nearly a year. As his biography is published elsewhere we will not enlarge upon it. He was one of the few great educators that attracted the attention of all races. He was a good speaker, an optimistic race man and at one time a strong rival to the Booker T. Washington school He built a great Normal school in Alabama and the state always appropriated liberally towards its support. We remember when he visited Des Moines and spoke before the State Teachers Association, and then we had him to speak to a large crowd at a Masonic banquet. We regret to lose such a valuable leader. OBITUARY. Mrs. Nathan Banks, for many years a resident of Colfax, Ia., died last Sunday day morning. Her funeral was held in Colfax from the First Baptist church, white, conducted by Rev. T. L. Griffith of Des Moines. A large crowd of white and colored citizens attended the services. Mrs. Banks was born in Mississippi over 57 years ago. She had bad special training for missionary work, but was compelled by ill health to give up that aim. She was one of the charter members of the white church in Colfax but withdrew from it several months ago to be of larger service to her own people. Her husband survives her. Died at Kansas City, Mo., last Monday, Wm. O. Epps, formerly of this city at the residence of his relatives, Young Epps was only 19 years old and lived here about three years ago. The body was brought here for interment as they owned a lot in Woodlaud cemetery. The main funeral service was conducted in Kansas City by his former pastor, Rev. O. A. Johnson, who accompanied the remains here Tuesday and also held a short service at Shank's undertaking parlor. Mr. Howard Green and Mrs Della Green, his sister, also accompanied the body here, returning home in the evening at 8:40 He Guessed It. Howell—What became of Rowell who was here when I lived here? Powell—He died of throat trouble Powell—Well, I be hanged. Powell—Yes, that's the way he died. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1909. Taft on the Race Problem. President's Utterances as Set Forth in His Public Addresses Before and After His Election Uplifting in Their Tone and Aim. The speeches of President William H. Taft touching upon the Negre problem which he delivered before and after his election to the presidency have been carefully put together in consecutive order and published in pamphlet form by the Hon. Ralph W. Tyley, auditor for the navy department of War Department, to preface to the eight addresses which the pamphlet contains the author says: "The aim is to place these speeches in consecutive form for preservation by those who are deeply interested in and affected by his utterances. That they are uplifting in their tone and aim and that his whole career—his words and deeds—is in harmony with his utterances no Negro who reads and digests that which he reads can disguise. "This compilation is not an attempt to establish his friendship for or emphasize his interest in the race. His friendship is inherited, and his interest has been emphasized by the consistent course he has pursued in recognizing ability, character and merit without reference to race or color of skin. The compilation, as before stated, is simply to place in consecutive form his helpful and uplifting utterance touching upon a subject of vital importance to them in millions of people in these United States who are collated as Negroes." For instance, in his speech at the Tabernacle Baptist church, Augusta, Ga., Jan. 17, the president said: "My Fellow Citizens—I am glad to be here. I should have been better satisfied if I could have sat for an hour and heard the eloquence of your Dr. Walker, whose reputation as a minister of the gospel and as a man who speaks not only eloquence, but sense, has reached into the far north. "I always come before an audience like this with a great deal of hesitation, because you know what eloquence is, and I haven't any to give you. I know the wide influence for good that Dr. Walker exercises in this community. I am glad to hear him speak of the good feeling that exists between the white and the colored races in this community, and I doubt not that his words, his leadership and his common sense have greatly contributed to that end." Probably no part of any of the president's public address has been more widely quoted and at the same time more vaguely understood than the passage in his inaugural address dealing with the appointment of Negroes to federal offices. It follows: "But it may well admit of doubt whether in the case of any race an appointment of one of their number to a local office in a community in which the race feeling is so widespread and acute as to interfere with the ease and facility with which the local government business can be done by the appointee is of sufficient benefit by way of race to weigh the recurrence and increase of race feeling which such an appointment is likely to engender. Therefore the executive in recognizing the Negro race by appointments must exercise a careful discretion not thereby to do it more harm than good. "Personally I have not the slightest race prejudice or feeling, and recognition of its existence only awakens in my heart a deeper sympathy for those who have to bear it or suffer from it, and I question the wisdom of a policy which is likely to increase it. Meantime, if nothing is done to prevent it, a better feeling between the Negroes and the whites in the south will continue to grow and more and more realize that the future of the south is to be much benefited by the industrial and intellectual progress of the Negro. The exercise of political franchises by those of his race who are intelligent and well to do will be acquiesced in, and the right to vote will be withheld only from the ignorant and irresponsible of both races." The work of compiling these addresses could not have been intrusted to an abler man than Auditor Tyler, who is a journalist of years of experience, having served on many of the influencers of Ohio, and is also deeply interested in every phase and condition of his race in the United States. C. W. Anderson's Fine Record. Internal Revenue Collector at New York One of Most Capable Men in the Public Service — Selected Orator For League Exposition. Among the score or more of young men of the race who have come up from the bottom to high prominence in their respective communities, in the state and in the nation Charles W. Anderson, collector of internal revenue for the Second district of New York, occupies a place in the front rank. Mr. Anderson's first public position was that of secretary in 1894 to the Hof. A. B. Colvin of the treasury department at Washington. On his reirement from the position he was made commissioner of racing for New York state. Leaving that position in 1903 to accept the call of President Roevelt to the revenue service, Mr. Anderson has grown in power and in influence. As honorary president of HON. CHARLES W. ANDERSON. the Young Men's Colored Republican club of New York he has been instrumental in the promotion and appointment of more than a hundred Negroes to responsible salaried public positions. President Taft is a great admirer of the collector and in appreciation of his personal regard has sent him a life size photograph of himself bearing the following inscription: "For My Friend Hon. Charles W. Anderson, With Best Wishes and Sincere Regards. W. H. Taft, Mr. Anderson has handed over his desk in his office in the custom house alongside of one from former President Roosevelt bearing an almost similar inscription. Mr. Anderson is confessedly one of the most capable, popular and best colored men in the public service and is personally known to more influential business men and politicians perhaps than any other Negro in public life. Mr. Anderson will deliver the address opening the industrial exposition which will be under the auspices of the New Rochelle Co-operative Business league at New Rochelle, N. Y., May 24. Johnson's Prophetic Vision. Jack Johnson has put a quletus on the fight talk by making a match with Ketchel, who will probably "ketch it" when he goes into the ring with the gentleman from Texas. In an interview with Johnson just after his fight with Burns, which was reported in the Standard at Port Melbourne, Australia, he made some highly significant remarks regarding his ancestry. He said: My remote ancestors were Africans. My remote immediate ancestors were slaves on the white man. And while my people—the descendants of my ancestors in Africa—are increasing in numbers, the white man is decreasing all over the earth. Read the figure—those of your own country, of the United States, of England, of France, of all the white world. How is the birth rate? Read the reports of the increase of the colored peoples of India, Japan and China. Read of the increase of the people of my own race in their country. Do you think it is to go on forever, this domination of the millions of the people of color by a handful of white folks simply because they were white folks? I think it is not. It may not come in my time or in yours, but the time will come when the black and yellow man will hold the earth, and the white man will be regarded just as the colored man is now." For South American Education. The Rev. Dr. Alphpeus P. Luckle, who came to the United States recently from Georgetown, Demerara, South America, to solicit funds with which to build an industrial school for the students of his university, will eventually succeed. His addresses, lectures and sermons are thoughtful, and he always holds the interest of his audience. He is also hopeful and expects to return from his tour in the United States to his home fully prepared in experience and with sufficient means to complete the necessary buildings for his school. Slave Who Rose To Prominence. Achievements of the Late Professor William H. Councili, Noted Negro Educator, Warm Friend of Africa, Author and Public Speaker. Professor William Hooper Councili, who died recently at Normal, Ala., was the faithful and honored president of the Agricultural and Mechanical college for Afro-Americans at Normal for nearly thirty-four years. As an educator and lover of his race Professor Councili ranked with such men as Booker T. Washington, J. R. L. Diggs, W. T. Amigler, E. W. B. Curry, W. T. Vernon, R. S. Lovinggood and other great men of the race who have won fame at home and abroad upon their merits. As a thinker Professor Councili was very deep. He was independent—yea, stubborn, never yielding a point in debate until he was thoroughly convinced that it was thoroughly. He contributed largely to many magazines and periodicals. The landmark quote quoted from his public utterances freely. W. H. Council was born in Fayetteville, N. C., in 1848, and was carried to Alabama by the traders in 1857, through the famous Richmond slave pen. In Alabama he worked in the fields with the other slaves. He was a self made man, having had only few school advantages. He attended one of the first schools opened by kind northern friends at Stevenson, Ala., in 1803. He remained there about three years. This was the basis of his education. He had been a close and earnest student ever since, often spending much of the night in study. He accumulated quite an excellent library, and the best books of the best masters were his constant companions, and the best books of the best current literature. By private instructions and almost incessant study he gained a fair knowledge of some of the languages, higher mathematics and the sciences. He was enrolling clerk of the Alabama house THE LATE PROFESSOR W. H. COUNCILL. of representatives in 1872-4. He was appointed by President Grant receiver of the land office for the northern district of Alabama in 1875. He was founder and editor of the Huntsville Herald from 1777 to 1884. He also founded the great educational institution, Normal, of which he was president. He read law and was admitted to the supreme court of Alabama in 1883. But he never left the profession of teaching, although flattering political positions were held out to him. He had occupied high positions in church and other religious, temperance and charitable organizations and was a public speaker of no mean standing. Professor Council had traveled quite extensively in Europe and was warmly received and entertained on one occasion by the Hon. W. E. Gladstone and his majesty King Leopold of Belgium. And thus by earnest toll, self denial, hard study, he made himself, built up one of the largest institutions in the redemption and civilization of young people at his own expense. Professor Council was proud to be known as a friend to Africa. He cooperated with Bishop Turner in the redemption and civilization of that continent. Normal, under Professor Council, educated native Africans for this purpose. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Morris Brown college, at Atlanta, Ga. He was the author of "The Lamp of Wisdom." New Church Dedicated. The Rev. M. O. Haynes recently dedicated his new church at New Rochelle, N. Y., with interesting ceremonies. The new edifice is one of the finest places of worship in the town. A large number of visiting clergymen and representatives of fraternal societies were present. The board of directors of the New Rochelle Co-operative Business league attended in a body. Negroes Own Mound Bayou. One-half the Negro families at Mound Bayou, Miss., according to Mr. Charles. Banks, own their homes, and more than two-thirds of the homes in which Negroes live are owned by members of the one hundred and sixty-five families that rent from Negro-indians pay an annual rental of $18,000. ALBIA NOTES. Rev. Rhineheart who has been in Albia for the past few week spent Sunday in Juxton. Mrs. Mabel Ester and children from Illinois is spending a few weeks in Albia with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Parker. She left Sunday evening for Des Moines for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Henderson. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Jeffera of Buxton was in Albia this week attending court. Mr. Press Irving of Charlton passed through Albia enroute to Missouri to see his wife. SIoux CITY ITEMS The quarterly meeting held at the A.M. E. church Sunday was largely attended throughout the day. Mrs. E. B. Ellison after spending visit here for a week the guest of Mrs. M. G. Newman, returned home to Des Moines Tuesday; Mrs. Kennedy of Chicago returned home Tuesday after spending three week's visit in our city the guest of Mrs. Hendon. The Porter's club met at the residence of Mr. Charles Stevenson Monday evening. The L. I. P. met at the residence of Mrs. E V Morgan. A literary program was rendered. A nice three course luncheon was served, the husbands were the honored guests of the club. Meadames Kenney and Ellison were the guests from out of the city. The club has decided to entertain their husbands and friends the last Friday of every month. Mrs. J. C. Reid entertained eighteen ladies to a luncheon Saturday afternoon in honor of Meadames Ellison, Kenney and Molson. Messrs. Lou Cloyd and Anderson have opened a large cleaning dyeing works for ladies and gents and have worked up a good trade. Let the colored people show their appreciation by patronizing them. /BURLINGTON NOTES (Last Week) Mr. and Mrs. J. Earle, the Misses Bessie Earle and Edith Mills of Quincy, Ill., were Burlington visitors last week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Earle and Mr. and Mrs. J. Trent. Mrs. Battle Tiggs and daughters, Niama and Euth, were called to Canton, Mo., last week to the death bed of Mrs. Sarah Boston. Mrs. Tigg's mother, Mrs. Bosten, had many friends in Burlington who are in sympathy with the family and mourn the loss of a good mother. Mrs H. Earle and Mrs C. Palmer attended the funeral of Mrs. Boston. Mrs. Peter Johnson who has been ill the past winter has been moved to the St Francis Hospital where she is improving very rapidly. Mr. B. Johnson of Chicago was called home on account of the serious ill Best 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 adoptig 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 not better to pin your faith to an old reliable preparation like Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, that is famous for its cure of colds and can always be depended upon For sale by all drugglbgs. 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. --- nees of his mother, Mrs. Peter Johnson. Mrs. L. Martin is making frequent trips to Mr. Pleasant to see her brother Harry Beed, who is dangerously ill with lung troubles. Rev. Thomas was called to Chicago this week on account of his wife being indisposed, but was here to fill his pulpit Sunday. Mrs. J. E. Johnson who has been taking treatment under Dr. Phillips of Keckuil for inflammatory rheumatism has returned greatly benefited. Too much praise cannot be given this noted man; his cures are wonderful and he has hundreds of patients. Mr. Johnson assisted Mrs. Johnson in making the trip and gives great praise for Dr. Phillips. Mrs. George Taylor entertained the Friday Whist club this week and a fine time was reported. They meet next week with the president, Mrs. R. Keith. DAVENPORT NOTES. (Special to Bystander. Mrs. Woodward entertained the Violet club Wednesday at her residence. Mrs. Frances Baker has opened a swell cafe for our people at 415 Harrison. It is a credit to Davenport. Mr. and Mrs. J. Allen have moved to a pretty place, 908 Harrison street. They are a young couple and we wish them a pleasant stay at their new home. Mr. Thompson of Muscatine was a visitor in our city Wednesday to attend the great play Ben Hur. He was the guest of Mrs. Ruth Bright. Miss Lemar Graham of Macon, Moor is visiting her aunt, Mrs. F. Baker. CLARINDA ITEMS. (Special to Bystander.) The Ladies Art club met at the home Mrs. Montgomery, Mrs. Henry Johnson who was elected some time ago as a delegate to the State Federation at Otumwa was present and presented her resignation. Mrs. Callaway, wife of the minister of the Second Baptist church, was elected in her place. The ladies are preparing to give a bazaar. After the business was transacted a two course luncheon was served. Rev. Robinson also met the ladies and gave them a small donation and apoise words of encouragement. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Henry Johnson. Mrs Susie Lee and her friend Miss Mabel Johnson, visited Sharp Saturs day. Miss Lee is soliciting for the A. M. E. church rally. Fred Johnson, a young farmer, drove to Clarinda yesterday with a load of wheat. The Baptist church people closed their meetings last week with about ten additions to the church. MONMOUTH (ILL.) NEWS. Bishop Mack preached at the Second Baptist church Sunday. Mr. J. G. Johnson entertained his Sunday School class of young men last Wednesday evening. The Second Baptist church choir will sing in Galesburg Sunday evening during the Sunday School Teachers' Institute. The Second Baptist church has one of the best choirs in this part of the state, under the leadership of the pastor. Rev. E. L. Scruggs. Miss Magnetta Neil of this city and one of our promising young girls, has just returned from Joplin, Mo. where she has been teaching school. Miss Neil is a high school graduate and we hope that she will not stop her work as a teacher, but will push on to a high mark in life and to help race progress. Word was received in this city last week telling of the death of Miss Jessie Henderson of Aledo, Ill. Miss Henderson was well known in this city and her death came as a surprise to her many friends here. She was only ill about three weeks. Miss Henderson was highly respected in her home town and leaves many to mourn her death. She was a member of the Laptist church of Aledo. Mr. Wm. Wallace spent Sunday in city of Macomb. Mr. Serry Wallace was in Aledo last week on business. Mrs. Cragg has returned from a visit in Chicago. Miss Magnetta has returned from Chicago where she has been visiting her sister. Mr. Elmer and Eliza Wallace are expected to leave for Chicago the first of May, where they will take the civil service examination. We wish them success. A Chance for a Bargain. An Irishman who had begun to practice photography went into a shop to purchase a small bottle in which to mix some of his solutions. Seeing one he wanted, he asked the chemist how to make it. He told W. I. "sold chemist, 'I will be two.'" But but; you want anything in it. It won't charge you for the bottle. "Thee," said Pat. "but a corn in it." Press dispatches carried out of Washington the other day a statement from Col. W. M. Palmer, in charge of the enrolled bills of the senate, regarding the marked increase in the number of acts passed by congress during the past few years. The Fifty-sixth congress, he declares, passed 1,562 measures; the Fifty-seventh, 2,571; the Fifty-eighth, 4,041; the Fifty-ninth, 6,940, and the Bittleth, 9,711. In ten years, it will be seen, the number of bills enacted increased more than 400 per cent, whereas prior to that time, according to the same authority, the number of measures enacted into law varied little from congress to congress. There is no data at hand by which the merits and demerits of this deluge of new legislation can be justly measured. Many of the bills, without doubt, were classed as "private legislation," which has increased enormously of late years—bills to pension claimants insoluble under the general laws, and the like. But it is fairly plain that no such mass of legislation could have been thoroughly studied or digested by the members of either house prior to its enactment, and that much of it, for that reason, was probably meretricious and a good deal positively harmful. Not the least of the benefits derived from the rural mail by any means is the responsibility it creates for the maintenance of good roads in communities that desire the service. At Atlanta, Mo., the government revoked a rural route because the people would not keep the roads along the route in good repair. It is not possible that there are many communities in Missouri where the people would part with their rural mail service rather than exhibit the enterprise necessary to make the roads accessible for the mail carrier. If it is understood that there will be no mail service where good roads are not maintained, as the government's policy at Atlanta appears to indicate, then hail to the rural mail carrier as the advance agent of better roads and consequently a better day!—Exchange. Inoculation is now suggested as a cure for typhoid, and some experiments to that end have answered satisfactorily. But the proposition for a wholesale inoculation of school children if typhoid threatens a community seems rather premature, especially as the ordinary vaccination system has been attended with some terrible mistakes in the way of dangerous virus. There is not the outy cure these days that there used to be over new methods investigated by medical science, but there is even greater need of care and prudence in applying apparently successful experimentation. It is announced that the package freight steamers running in the lake trade is connection with railroad lines will start two weeks earlier than they did last season. This is evidence that business in general is picking up rapidly, as the liners would not start were not freight conditions pressing. in a short time iron movement will begin anew, and then there will be no idle tonnage during the months in which vessel property is usually active. The strike of 4,000 Canadian coal miners, reported from Winnipeg, is a more serious development than that of the 400 anthracite miners at Pittston, who have laid down their picks and retired to the surface; but it is of no more importance to coal consumers in the United States than the little Pennsylvania blunder, because western Canada coal is not burned on this side of the boundary line, to any large extent. Dr. Ferrero, the Italian historian now lecturing at Lowell institute in Boston, says the odes of Horace were not written as a striving for literary merit or to express thoughts that demanded utterance, but to promote the wine industry in which he was interested. In other words, he was a wine agent, a sort of predecessor of Harry Lehr. Did you ever? It is well, wise and commendable to seek to spread intelligence in savage lands, but there are still men and women in the crowded centers of civilization who look for gas leaks with a match. It is not at all pertinent to the deterent philosophy of the case that the seckers generally find the leaks. The American flag has been hauled down in Cuba. And never was it lowered with more credit to itself or in a better cause. It is going away as a friend from a new nation over which it might have still waved as a conquered province. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" isn't the play it used to be. The actors who take the parts of the cakes of ice do not seem to put the same enthusiasm into their work that characterized their predecessors of a generation past. Strikes are costly affairs. It is officially estimated that the losses sustained by France through the late postal strike amounted to $100,000,000. Even if the strikers had won, how long would it take to make good that enormous sum? Mexico's smelly oil well, which irritates metal 65 miles away and kills animals and birds at smaller distances, must be considerably more so than the own house institution, the GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROP ERTY AND LOSS OF LIFE. A tornado of more or less severity has visited Iowa and other states so far this spring, destroying a large amount of property. There is no need of anyone in Iowa being without tornado insurance when they can get it at so small cost in the IOWA MUTUAL TORNADO INSURANCE ASSOCIATION of Des Moines. The association has been in operation twenty-five years, has paid $600,000 in losses, and only assessed its members 11½ mills in that time, and have $132,000,000 cash on hand to pay future losses. The Association has $134,000,000 in risks all on Iowa property. The average annual cost has been less than $1.60 per $1,000, insured for the twenty-five years. Last year's business was a record breaker for business written, but the business so far this year exceeds last. The business for March amounted to $4,000,000, and the business so far in April to $175,000 per day. The Association insures farm and city property, churches and school houses. It cooperates with the County Mutuals for farm property and the TOWN DWELLING for dwelling property. This is the Association of which N. Densmore is President and J. H. Herriman, Secretary. NICE COMPLIMENT FOR PAPA Little Daughter's Pretty Way of Expressing Appreciation of Daddy's Thoughtfulness. It was just four o'clock, and the rays of the rising sun had begun to peep over the eastern horizon. The father had gotten up to light the fires to get the house warm, and sneaked into the little daughter's bedroom to see that she was well covered up. In pulling the door behind and unlocking it, she stroked the sleeper, and with half opened eyes, her face covered with curls, she asked: "I don't have to go to school yet, do it?" "No, no, daughter," replied the father. "It is only four o'clock. Turn over and go to sleep." Little curly head, with half open eyes, pulled up the covers and said: "You're the best papa I ever had." And who dares say that even such a little kindness as letting your little girl sleep until daylight is not appreciated? PROOF FOR TWO CENTS. If You Suffer with Your Kidneys and Back, Write to This Man. O. W. Winney, Medina, N. Y. invites kidney sufferers to write to him. To all who enclose postage he will reply, telling how Doan's Kidnips Pillows cured him after he had doctored and had been in two different hospitals for eighteen months, and intense pain in the back, lameness, twinges when stooping or To all who enclose postage he will reply, telling how Dona's Kidney Pills cured him after he had doctored and had been in two different hospitals for eighteen months, suffering intense pain in the back, lameness, twinges when stooping or lifting, languor, dizzy spells and rheumatism. "Before I used Dona's Kidney Pills," says Mr. Winney, "I weighed 143. After taking 10 or 12 boxes I weighed 162 and was completely cured." Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. How Father Looked Mr. Blakelee was putting himself in readiness, clotheswise, to attend an afternoon tea with his wife, when his small daughter appeared on the scene. As he slipped into his frock coat, the child looked up and said: "Father, do you know, when you wear that coat you look just like a hat, putting the hatbox on the stand near by, she added: "And when you put on that hat that goes with it, you look just like a hack driver."—Do lineator. Don't Cough. But Live Long. If every cough were cared before it got a strong bold, human work we would have known. But coughing sufferer knew that Kemp's Balaam would stop the cough in the serious consequences. If any medicine will cure a cough, Kemp's Balaam will do it. At darguts' and Squibbed in Town "What are you doing now?" "Striving for recognition." "Seeking fame, ch?" "Not exactly. I'm striving to get on speaking terms with a girl who promised to be mine at the seashore." Look out for the imitations of WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT—if you haven't tasted them, if you have, you'll look out without being told. To see a bridegroom in the yard early in the morning, in his shirt sleeves looking for kindling, takes a good deal of the romance out of his cage. It's Pettit's Eye Salve. that gives instant relief to eyes, irritated from dust, heat, sun or wind. N. Y. All drugs or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. Age and Experience. Bacon: As we grow less young, the aged grow less old. Garfield Tea has brought good health to thousands. Unequalled for constitution, liver and kidney diseases, poured of Horses. Buy from your drugstore. Life in this world could never be so sweet or so sad if we had not been children in it. Don't drink liquor except medicin ally. WHIGLEY'S SPEARMINT takes the smell off your breath. A true friend is one who makes us do what we can—Pheles. TEXAS STATE TREASURY JAPANESE ARE OUR FRIENDS ADMIRAL JUICHI SAYS HIS COUN TRY WANTS NO WAR. Chats with "Fighting Bob"—Visiting Officer Explains How Japan Razed Sunken Russian Ships. Los Angeles, Col.-That war between the United States and Japan is impossible in the agreement of Rear Admiral Robey D. Evans, retired, and Admiral H. E. Ijichi, commander of the Japanese training squadron now at San Pedro. The two "sea dogs" are also friends, are at the same hotel and in a discussion Monday were of one mind on the question of probable conflict between their relationship. "I see they have been trying to get us in trouble," said Admiral Evans. "Yes," replied Admiral Ijichi. "But such a thing is perfectly impossible. The United States and Japan understand each other too well for anything of that kind. The people of your country and mine have too deep seated a friendship for each other to allow any trivial matter to bring about trouble." "I agree with you," said Admiral Evans. "Such a thought is ridiculous." Admiral Ijichi told Admiral Evans he was delighted with his reception at Los Angeles. "I would like to know," inquired Admiral Evans, "how your people succeeded in raising the Russian ships which you sank and in what condition you found them?" Admiral Jilchl replied: "We raised the sunken battleships and cruisers at Port Arthur and Chemulpo without any great difficulty. We found that those at Port Arthur were not sunk by the mortar fire directed upon them from 203 Meter hill. None of the shells penetrated the protected decks, although the superstructure and gun mountings were badly tered. The ships were the ones that the Russian ships found the seacocks they found the port must fall into our hands. After raising the ships we found that the projectiles had penetrated the wooden decks, but had flattened out against the steel and were lying there. It evidently would not have been possible to sink the ships by the fire from the heights." 157.176.800 ACRES FREE Government Designates Lands for Homesteads in Colorado, Nevada, Montana and Oregon. Washington. — About 157,176,500 acres of land in the various western states to which the 220-acre homestead bill applies have been designated by Secretary of the Interior Ballinger as coming within the provisions of the act. The area of land designated in each of the states is as follows: Oregon, 7,004,168; Washington, 2,575,690; Utah, 7,044,486; Wyoming, 9,221,760; New Mexico, 14,334,560; Nevada, 49,512,690; Arizona, 26,657,280; Colorado, 20,160,000; and Montana, 19,664,648. It is stated at the department that approximately 40 per cent of the area designated, except in Nevada, is now held by individuals through "some color of title" and it is believed that a larger percentage in Washington and Oregon are so held. Drops Dead While Plowing. Danville, Ill. — "This is spendid, and I do not know when I have felt better than I do right now," said William. Whittaker, a wealthy farmer living near Oakwood. Less than three hours later Mrs. Whittaker, on crossing the road, found his dead body where the man had fallen behind the plow. A coroner's jury rendered a verdict of heart failure. "Wata" Carry Ohio County Chilliffee, O—In a local option elbow characterized by disorderly scenes throughout the day, at times bordering on rioting. Ross—county Wednesday voted "wet" by a majority estimated at 2,000. Summer Offices for Taft. Washington.—President Taft has accepted the offer of the chamber of commerce rooms at Beverly. Mass., for use as executive offices; during his stay at the summer "White House" on Salem Cove. French President at Nice. Monte-Carlo—President Fallerles of France and the members of his party arrived here in automobiles Wednesday for Nice and were given a hearty welcome and entertained at luncheon by the prince of Monaco. The Cordon of St. Charles has been conferred upon M. Fallerles by the prince. Australia to Try Balloons. London—The Australian government has ordered in Europe six dirigible balloons and six aeroplanes for purposes of experiment. JOSEPH W. BABCOCK DEAD. Former Wisconsin Congressman Dies in Capitol—Ecly Will Be Cremated as He Wished. Washington—Former Representative Joseph W. Babcock of Wisconsin, for 14 years a member of the lower house of congress, and for many years chairman of the national Republican congressional committee, died at his home here at 4:45 Tuesday at his home. He had been ill for some weeks with a complication of liver and kidney troubles. Mr. Babcock was known principally for the yoeman work which he performed for the election of Republican congresses as chairman of the Republican congressional committee. He was regarded among his colleagues when he was in the house as one of the shrewdest politicians in congress. As chairman of the Republican congressional committee he was the key signers for the election of a Republican house, not one of which did he lose. Mr. Babcock was an ardent champion of the national capital, and as chairman for many years of the house committee on the District of Columbia he worked with great real for any movement looking to the improvement of Washington. Mr. Babcock was personally very popular with his colleagues in the house, where his defeat having been brought about by a combination between the LaFollette faction of the Republican congress in Wisconsin, resulted in the election to the Sixth lieutenant congress of Representative Murphy, a Democrat. He was a native of Swanton, Vt. "DRYS" WIN AT MUNCIE. Indiana Ligurian Forces Get Hardest Blow of All with Defeat in Delaware County. Muncie, Ind.-Delaware county Tuesday voted "dry" in a county election by a majority estimated to be 74 percent. The county gave the "dry" a majority of 213. Eighty-two saloons will be closed. The "wet" expected a majority of 1,500, and the result is the harder blow they had had in the state. Center township, in which Muncie is situated, went "dry" by 650. The city was expected to go "wet" by 2,000. Indianapolis, Ind.-Jackson and White counties voted "dry" in local option election Monday, the former election official majority of 370 and the latter by 1,439. Twenty-five saloons will be closed in Jackson county and two in White. The total number of counties "dry" under the local option law now is 44. Sunken Vessel Is Found. Cleveland, O. — The sunken hulk of the fishing tug George A. Floss, which disappeared with a crew of seven men aboard during a storm on Lake Erie April 7, has been located. It was found in 50 feet of water about seven miles directly north of the Cleveland harbor. None of the bodies of the crew has been located. Coal Gas Kills Two Babies New York. — Two little children are dead and a third child and two adults in a critical condition from the effects of inhaling coal gas in a treatment house on Avenue A, Monday. The family occupied rooms on the ground floor. Coal gas escaping from a stove in the basement worked its way through the flooring, filling the rooms above with the noxious fumes. Conrled Dies In Austria. Meran, Tyrol, Austria — Heinrich Corried, former director of the Metropolitan opera house in New York, who suffered an apoptotic stroke several days ago, died peacefully at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. Evelyn Thaw Ignores Court. New York—For the second time within ten days Evelyn Nesbit Twab failed to appear Wednesday when her name was called in the city court for the supplementary proceedings in connection with a $253 bill held by EELsio Hartwig, a milliner. **Army Officer Called Embezzler.** San Francisco—Eugene Pearson chief clerk of the United States army transport service in this city, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of having embezzled $1,146. Storm Wrecks Oklahoma Town Oklahoma City, Okla.—Sixteen persons were injured, one perhaps fatal, in a tornado which destroyed a large part of the town of Centrahoma Monday. Not a building in the town remained wholly intact after the storm had passed. Twelve buildings including the Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches were totally wrecked. Bride Commits Suicide. Pern, Ind—Mrs. Jessie Oborpary, bride of ten days, committed suicide Monday afternoon. FOR LACK OF AID NEARLY ALL HOMES IN RUINS Constantinople, April 20.—The constitutionalists have lost no time in bringing the conspirators in the recent rising to trial. The military court, setting in the war office has condemned about 250 prisoners—to death and they were executed. Nadir Pasha, the second eunch of the palace, whose sentence was pronounced, was hanged on a day when day on day he body was viewed by thousands in the early morning hours. The national assembly which met under the presidency of Said Pasid, decided that the Sultan Mehmed V should take the oath of the constitution within a week. The assembly also ratified the deposition of Abdul Hamid to Salonika. It is not expected that the new cabinet will be completed before Saturday. The government has decided to send a commission to Adamkaya by court, marshal, massacres and the committee is authorized to act with the utmost severity. It is alleged that the chief authors of the recent mutiny were Abdul Hamid his favorite son, Prince Mehmed Burhan Eddine, Reear Admiral Said Pasha, son of Klami Pasha, the former grand vizier, and Nadir Pasha, who were engaged for a long time prior to the rising in corrupting the troops. The two former have fled. Woman Suffrage Split. London, April 20.—A serious split in the women's suffrage ranks took place yesterday at the session of the International Suffrage alliance and as a result a body of delegates left the hall. PEACE DELEGATES NAMED Governor Carroll Selects Iowans to Attend Big Convention Des Moines, Ia., Apr. 30.—Gov. B. F Carroll has named ten Iowans to represent the state at the big peace congress at Chicago May 2 and 5. The delegates as named are—Judge Chas. Leggett, of Fairfield; David Brant, of Iowa City; Bishop Theodore Morrison, of Davenport; Rev. Orn W. Fifer, of Des Moines; Mrs. M. F. H. Humman, of Belmont; Msa. S. H. M. Byers, of Des Moines; Gen. Grenvill M. Dodge, of Council Bluffs; Bishop Philp J. Garigan, of Shoux City; ex-Gov. William Garigan, of Chevron; and Mrs. J. Sartoy, of Burlington. The governor named C. D. Cye of Decatur county and Col. W. F. Baker of Pottawattamie county as delegates from Iowa to the first annual congress of Road Builders at Seattle, Wash., July 4. After Black Mane Lion. Nalrobi, British East Africa, April 30—Theodore Roosevelt is about to leave the ranch of Sir Alfred Pease on the Athl river for points in the Mau hills near Machakos, where he hopes to bag a lion. He is due to reach the hills today. Settlers in the hills have reported seeing a black maned lion for several days. F. C. Solous, the English sportman, has been in the Mau hills for nearly a week. Cote Verdist of 79 Cents Mason City.—A verdict for 79 cents was the culmination of a long piece of litigation. T. M. Fulghum had a claim against Albert Pedelty and sued and the latter same in with a counter claim and for several days the case was on trial. The lawyers orated and the jury deliberated and brought forth just 79 cents. An appeal or a rehearing is probable. Big Lake Steamer Sinka. Detroit, Mich. April 20. A special telegram reports sinking of an unknoted boat at 400 feet long in White Fish bay yesterday. Captain Boyce of the steamer George W. Peavy, reported that the crew of the sinking steamer were seen walking over the ice to another vessel which had also been caught in the ice. Wilhelmina Has Daughter The Hague, April 30—Queen Wilhelmina at an early hour this morning gave birth to a daughter. The news of the birth of an heiress to the crown, welcomed by the Dutch people, is a partial disappointment, since a male heir had been longed and prayed for. The queen is reported doing well. Moonlight Balloon Ascension. North Adams, Mass., April 30—A Holland Forbes and Clifford B. Harmon, both of New York City, made a moonlight balloon ascension from here at 2:27 yesterday morning in the balloon North Adams No. 1. "Blders" Threaten Prosecutor Holden Washington, Teen, April 30—The sensation of the night rider situation here is a threatening letter received by Attorney General Bowman from Clarksville, signed by Tennessee and Kentucky night riders. Hear Count Bernstorff Pittsburgh, Pa., April 30—Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, was the guest of honor last night at a reception and banquet tendered by the Deutsche Klub. Bone Resolver American Rome, April 20.—Several bishops were received by the pope at the consistory yesterday. They include the Rt. Rev. Peter J. Muldson, bishop of Rockford, Ili, and the Rt. Rev. John Farrelly, bishop of Cleveland, O. In no year since the development of Western Canada began has spring brought a brighter outlook than it brings this year. In no preceding spring has there been greater assurance of advancing development and prosperity. The movement of immigration has already assumed large proportions, and is an desirable in character as it is satisfactory in volume; from across the Atlantic sturdy, industrious and thrifty newcomers are arriving in large numbers, housekeepers from Ontario and the other older Provinces are coming in to a steady stream, and from across the international boundary is already full flow, which it is continually predicted, will beat the records of all previous years; special settlers' trains are crossing the line, loaded with effects, actual material wealth being thus brought into the country at the rate of millions of dollars worth monthly. The movement is so unprecedentedly large that extra Dominion Immigration officials have had to be provided at both North Portal and at Emerson, and it is estimated that the total number of new settlers from the United States this year will be 70,000, at least, and it will be 70,000 year's total of new settlers from the South was 53,723; thus the area that will be placed in wheat and other grains this year will greatly exceed that of last year. Settlers are making extraordinary efforts to get on their lands and begin seeding operations. The price of wheat now, away above the dollar mark, is incentive enough, and when one has in view the splendid results that the past few years have shown, it is presumed to be worth the banner year for Immigration to Canada. Ask your nearest Canadian Government Agent for rates of transportation, and he will also send you illustrated pamphlets. XEN THE FRIEND OF ROBINS Biddy a Very Effective Ally In Preserving Resting Place for the Red-Breasts. Ever hear of a speckled hen being a friend and ally of red-breasted robins? If not, ask the folk of Clinton, N. J. Here's what happened there, according to a veracious character: A pair of robins that for years have nested in a peach tree in Sinai Close's church find the south to find their nest occupied by some fresh sparrows. After a twittered conversation, they attacked the intruders and drove them out. The sparrows flew away, but returned in a few minutes with four others. They assailed the nest and sent the robins scooting. And then the speckled hen Fanny took a hand, or rather a wing. She flew into the tree, ousted the sparrows with a few cluck-chucks and digs of her toes, and then signaled the robins to return. In ten minutes the sparrows—now a dozen or more—returned, and attacked both robins and "Betsy." But the indomitable turtle put up such a battle to beat an aerial retreat and let the red-breasted have their old home. If you don't believe it, Farmer Close you the very tree where, it hurries, harrassed. A Natural Mistake A teacher in a Pennsylvania primary school instructed her pupils one "composition day" that they might write her a letter making excuse for not inviting her to an imaginary birthday party. The following effort of one little girl was to do it: "My Dear Miss Alice: It becomes my duty to apologize for not inviting you to my birthday party last week. I had fully intended to do so, but—as I always do in everything—I postponed it till the last minute. When I at last started and reached your gate, I saw the doctor's carriage standing there, and thinking some one was ill, I went to the doctor's office. Was my mortification and consternation to learn the next day that the doctor was courting your sister!""—illustrated Sunday Magazine. How the Trouble Started Estelle—I don't suppose you have heard of it, but George and I are going to be married some time next June. Maybelle—Glad to know it, dear. Has George heard of it yet? Red, Weak, Wreny, Watery Waters Believed by Murine Eye Remedy. Compounded by Experience. Painted with Water. Eye Pain. Write Murine Eye Remedy Co. Chicago, for Illustrated Eye Book. At Druggist. Vast Area for Trees. England has 17,000,000 acres of land available for forestation. Gleaming teeth! The more WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT you chew, the fewer dentist's bills you pay! The man who is able to say: "The Lord is my strength," will never break down under his load. Mr. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gum, reduces fussiness, pain, causes wind cold. So a bottle. "Who cares if a duck of a girl is feather-headed?" DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM FOR BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKUP R375 *Guarantee DOCTOR ADVISED OPERATION CuredbyLydiaE.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Paw Paw, Mich.—"I suffered terribly from female filia, in infertility, infamation and opération, for several years. My doctor said there was no hope for me but an operation began taking Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and I can now say I am a well woman." My from female ill, including coma and congation, for several years. My doctor said there was no hope for me but an operative taking Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and I can now say I am a well woman." EXMA DRAFTER Another Operation involved. Chicago, Ill. "I want to know what that wonderful medicine, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, has done for me. Two of the best doctors in Chicago said I would die if I did not have an operation, and I never thought about it again. I had a small tumor and female troubles so that I suffered day and night. A friend recommended Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and it made me a well woman." -Mrs ALYXA HENRY, 11 Langston St, Chicago, Ill. Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs has proved to be the most successful remedy for urinary tract infections in female illies, including displacement inflammation, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pain, backache, bearing-down feeling, fatulency, indigestion, nausea, and vomiting, but a trifle to try it, and the result has been worth millions to many suffering women. FITS If you suffer from Fits, Falling Sickness or any other health condition, your New Discovery will relieve them and all you are asked to do is send for a FREE Bottle of It has curbed the Epilepsic Care Center failed. Sent free with directions. Express care to the National Food and Drug Authority, under the National Food and Drug Act, June 30th, 1988. Guaranty No. 1881. Please give AGE and full address. W. H. M. 648 Pearl Street, New York City, 320 Acres of Wheat Land IN WESTERN CANADA WILL MAKE YOU RICH FARMS WESTERN GANADA FREE Fifty bushel acre have grown. Gen average greate in any other the continent. Fifty bushels per acre have been grown. General aviation is another continent, the continent. Under new regulations it is possible to secure a homestead of 100 acres free, and additional 160 acres at $3 per acre. "The development of the country has made marvellous strides. It is a revelation, a reward for hard work." - Extract from correspondence to a National Editor, who visited Canada in August last. The grain crop of 1900 will not meet farmers $20.00 to $25.00 per acre. Grain-ranching is the principal industries. Climate is excellent; social conditions the best; railway advantages unequalled; schools, churches and markets close at hand. Land may also be purchased from railway and land companies. For "Lost Best Wet" pamphlets, maps and other materials, rateyears, apply to Superintendent of Immigration Canada, Canada, or the authorised Canadian Government. E. T. BOLLINS, 315 Jackson St. St. Paul, Minn. 55105. E. T. 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Des Moines Directory TEXAS PANHANDLE LAND. Go with us in Dallas, Tex. Palettes. In every room. 3rd Tuesday of each month. Write us for text books. ROYAL LAND CO., 231 Commercial Blvd., Des Moines, Iowa. Des Moines Iowa QURES LIQUOR, DRUG AND POWDER HABITS 705 W. WEST FOURTH ST. LAXATIVE FOR WOMEN FREE There is a great difference in the purposes to which a laxative should be put. Tables and pills, salts, etc. are usually violent purgatives or cathartics, and altogether too powerful for the average person. Women at times needs only a mild laxative, but other is needed by anyone, weak or strong though they may be, for the object is simply to move the bowels, and if a gentle laxative will do it, what is the use of a violent one? Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin has earned a well-deserved vogue among people and old folklore who must necessarily be careful of what they take. It is a liquid laxative tonic and an adjunct to bowel remedy before the American people. The price is only 60 cents or $1 a bottle. It cleans the bowel and drastically sells it. Its pleasant taste and the ability to clean women in constipation, top liver, sour stomach, slick headache, heartburn and a short time will remove the trouble associated with it. Its unnecessary. Its tonic properties build up the stomach and intestinal muscles so that it is so is the experience of many heads of families like Mr. Branan and of ivarand, and numerous others; in fact, way out in the country, you will find that place, write the whole town seems to be using it. You will now to you and you want to make a trial of it before buying, below and a free test bottle will be sent you. Then, if results are satisfactory you can treat your doctor about your aliment that you don't need any medical advice, write to the doctor, and he will answer you no charge for this service. The address is Dr. W. B. Caldwell big., Monticello, IL. ```markdown ``` COUNTRY IN MOVEMENT. Meeting of National Association for Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis Will Be Largely Attended. The fifth annual meeting of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis will be held in Washington, D. C., at the New Willard hotel, on May 13, 14 and 15. Owing to the present interest in the campaign against tuberculosis, the meeting will be of unusual interest and importance. The membership of the national association now numbers nearly 2,000, and is distributed in almost every state in the United States. The national association has also a considerable membership in Canada, Cuba, Porto Rico, Philippine islands, and in several of the European countries. Ex-Office President Roosevelt and Dr. William Olsen are presidents of the national association. Dr. Vincent Y. Bowdell of Boston is the president; Mr. Homer Folks of New York city, and Dr. Charles L. Minor of Asheville, N. C., are the vicepresidents; Gen. George M. Sternberg of Washington, D. C., is treasurer; Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs of Baltimore, is secretary, and Dr. Livingston Farrand of New York is the executive secretary of the association. "Will you have a cocktail, Mr. Sligerly?" "No, my wife does not permit me to drink intoxicants of any kind." "Are you buy you cigar?" "My wife will smoke a promise that I will never smoke any more." "Well, well. I wish there was something I could do to make it pleasant for you." "Is there aaughty show of any kind? No. If so, take me to it. My wife will not be able to smell it on my breath." Prologue Required. During dinner Mr. Galey began to amile aprespos of nothing. "What are you thinking about now?" asked his wife, sharply. "Why," began Galey, "the Cornell Widow tells an awfully good story." "Indeed!" interrupted Mrs. Galey, freezing. "Where did you meet this interesting lady, may I inquire?"—Illustrated Sunday Magazine. One of Fashion's Follies. A lady came on an odd-looking bag the other day in one of the fashionable London shops. It was in expensive leather, and seemed, too large for an ordinary hand-bag; also it had a curious opening cut at one side towards the top. "Ladies use it for carrying the little dogs," the salesman explained. A Time MixUp. Author—What kind of a play has the best chance now of acceptance? Manager—The one with a future is that of the lady with a past at present FOOD FACTS What an M. D. Learned. A prominent Georgia physician went through a food experience which he makes public: "It was my own experience that first led me to advocate Grape-Nuts food and I also know, from having prescribed it to convalescents and other weak patients, that the food is a wonderful builder and restorer of nerve and brain tissue, as well as pain and stiffness, and a stick paints always gain just as I did in strength and weight very rapidly. "I was in such a low state that I had to give up my work entirely, and went to the mountains of this state, but two months there did not improve me; in fact I was not quite as well as when I left home. "My food did not sustain me and it became plain that I must change. Then I began to use Grape-Nuts food and in two weeks I could walk a mile without fatigue, and in five weeks I could practice, taking up hard work again. Since that time I have felt as well and strong as I ever did in my life. "As a physician who seeks to help all sufferers, I consider it a duty to make these facts public." Trial 10 days on Grape-Nuts, when the regular food does not seem to sustain them, miracles. "There's a Reason." Look in pikes, for the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." Ever read the above letter. A new sentence, "I am generous, true, and full of human kindness," STORM HITS IOWA Central West in Throes of Storm Period MUCH DAMAGE TO PROPERTY Worst Blizzard of April History Gets State in Its Grasp—Loss Will Total Thou- Des Moines, Iowa, April 30—A violent storm struck Iowa early yesterday and inside of three hours the state witnessed every kind of weather possible. Hall, snow and rain, accompanied by brilliant electrical display succession. The damage done by the storm, green graph and telephone lines are out of commission and details of the damage done are lacking. Severe at Mason City. Mason City.—Their was a heavy storm here with over an inch of rain, a high wind with a heavy fall of hail and severe electrical disturbance. The damage to crops is slight. The storm followed two inches of snow. Hail and Rain at Oskaloosa Oksalaoska—The entire front of the building occupied by Dudley barber shop was blown out. A family had apartments in it and were slightly injured. The smoke stack to the Artificial plant was leveled. Barns and out buildings were wrecked. Two inches of rain and hall fell. Greenhouses Suffer Ames—Greenhouses were damaged here by the hail to the sum of $400, and several outbuildings were damaged. Bad Storm at Knoxville Knoxville--Plate glass windows were broken and outhouses overturned by the storm which struck the city at 8:30. Small streams are out of their banks, the water running over fields and bridges. A small fire damaged the house of Harry Wylies in most part of town during the storm. Hard Storm at Creston Creston.—A terrific rain and hail storm visited this place. The rain fell in torrents and at times was accompanied by hall of the size of hazel nuts. It came so continuously and for such a long time that it is feared what vegetation has started will be injured. Heavy thunder and vivid lightning also accompanied the storm. Hard Storm in Wapelle County. Chisholm.—The bank building of Chisholm was wrecked in the storm which struck here. Serious damage was done to the bank and outhouses for miles around were badly damaged and many plown down. Telephone wires are down in every direction. Cattle Barn Blown Down Webster City—A terrific storm of wind and rain struck this vicinity doing thousands of dollars' worth of damage. The most damage at one place is reported from the Alexander farm, south of the city, where a huge cattle barn was bwn down, killing fifteen head of cattle. The cement, pipe and tile factory roof in this city was also torn off. Heavy Rain at Dubuque. Dubaque.—Dubaque got the heaviest precipitation in the storm of any place in the country, reporting 1.74 inches of rain, with a high wind. Snow is predicted for this vicinity. The Kuhn residence here was struck by lightning turned to the ground, and the woman was stimmed, but none were seriously hurt. QUEER VAGARIES OF RIVER River at Belle Plaine Moves Over In to Another County Leaving Bridge High and Dry. Belle Plaine—The supervisors of Iowa county are blasting away stumps and making a straighter channel for the Iowa river west of the Iowa county river bridge about two miles south of Belle Plaine. The river formerly had its main channel under a fine, large iron bridge in Benton county, but gradually a sough which had water only in times of high water, became the main channel. Curiously enough, although this crosses the highway only a few yards to the south of the former main channel, it is in another county, and it is there that the work of straightening the river channel to protect the Iowa county bridge is now being done. Dléd on Train. Council Bluffs—Freddie Inman, the $2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Inman of Sumptu, Ore, died at Council Bluffs, on a Northwestern passenger train while en route home from Chicago. May Survive Mule's Kick Creston--The little son of J. E. Smith, who had his skull crushed by the kick of a mule a few days ago, shows signs of improvement and his condition is thought to be a little encouraging. Box Victim of Nearbleed Audubon.—John Kopeka, who had a violent attack of nosebleed a couple of weeks ago, was brought from his home a few miles south of Audubon to the hospital here last week and died Friday night from the effects of an operation. Bolt Kills Boy in Field. Marshallallown.—While riding a disc cultivator on his father's farm near State Center, Leo Richardson, aged 14 years, was instantly killed by being struck by lightning. HOLD ANNUAL GAMPFIRE VETS OF BOST IN CRESTON CAMP FIRE. Over Hundred Members of the Famous Spanish-American War Regiment Meet. Creton, Iowa, April 28. The Fifty-first, regiment of the Iowa National Guard was in session here Monday, over one hundred veterans being present. The reunion was held in the county court house and the business meeting in the afternoon was precluded over by Captain Keating, commander of the Army of the Philippines. The Fifty-first was the only Iowa regiment that took part in the real fight during the Spanish-American war and many reminiscences were recalled that made the reunion a particularly gratifying one to the members. Telegrams from absent members who could not be present were received and read, and the evening was given over to a campfire, at which a large number participated in the program and an enjoyable evening and one long to be remembered was given. The program was to compile a roster and history of the Fifty-first organization and is composed of Adjunct General Guy E. Logan, Dr. Wilbur Conklin and Captain Brewer of Corning. Red Oak was selected for the next reunion meeting place and Major Dan Turner of Corning was elected as commander. The other officers elected were: Vice-commander, Guy S. Brewer of Corning, Secretary, recording secretary, Ed. Okey of Corning; recording secretary, Frank Grounds of Greenfield; treasurer, W. S. Conklin of Des Moines. IOWA GIRL GONE AS A BOY Police Search in Vain for Her and Her Parents Are Dis- Oksalosaa, In., April 26—Marian Hutton, the 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hutton of Rutledge, Wapelle county, ran away from home, donning male attire belonging to her father, walked on the Milwaukee tracks twelve miles to Hedrick, where she boarded the Iowa Central freight, west bound to Wright station, where the trainmen put her off. She was given food and shelter at a hotel at Wright, where her masquerade was penetrated on account of her long black hair. The girl cut her hair off and boarded another train bound for Oksalosaa. The father traced the girl Wright and then came to Oksalosaa and gave him hands of police. The girl is thought to be demented on account of illness. She had a good home and every wish was granted. Her foster parents are almost crazed with grief over the disappearance of the child. He own mother died when the babe was three years old. The father was killed accidentally at Joplin a year later, when the Huttons legally adopted the wifi. MANUFACTURERS DAY IN IOWA A General Observance to be Made Once a Month by Manufacturers and Jobbers. Des Moines,—"Manufacturers' day," to be observed state-wide the first Tuesday in every month, for the purpose of awakening the state of Iowa to the necessity of industrial growth, will be established by the Iowa State Manufacturers' association. It is proposed that manufacturers in every city of the state will meet together on "Manufacturers' Day" of each month, at luncheon or in the evening, to confer upon the various questions concerning Iowa's industrial expansion and to arouse general public interest. Tuesday, May 4, will be the first "Manufacturers' Day." Waterloo and other Iowa cities have planned to make the first event a hummer, with big banquets in the evening. Council Bluffs—A suit filed at Avena, la., complaining of the presence of a dam across the Nishanobota river at Carson, and asking the court to issue a writ of mandamus restraining the owners from maintaining the dam, started a lively contest, the origin of which is contained in an effort of citizens of the northern part of Pottawattamie county to secure the construction of a ditch straightening the Nishanobota river, one of the crookedest and most erratic streams in western Iowa. Iowa Womens Advanced. Charles City, Ia.—Miss Florence Greely of this city has just been appointed head surgical nurse in the Northwestern hospital at Minneapolis. Estherville Revival Estherville.—Work has commenced on the tapercable which is to be erected for the union revival services which are to be conducted by Lyon and Stentz of Wheaton, Ill. The meetings will commence May 15 and continue six weeks. Winnebago Fair Dates. Mason City.—After quite a little trouble the date for holding the Winnebago county fair has been settled and the dates will be September 7, 8 and 9. Elke Will Hold State Meet Dubuque.---The 'Dubuque' lodge of Elks has $3,000 already for the entertainment of the Iowa State Elks' association in that city uno 16 and 17 and there is more where the $3,000 came from if it is needed. Boom In Guthrie Center Guthrie Center—A great building boom is on in Guthrie Center and indications point to a most successful business year. Already a dozen nice residences are now in process of construction and more are to follow. WHAT COLORS SHALL I USE? This Question is Important in Painting a House or Other Building. A proper color scheme is extremely important in painting a house. It makes all the difference between a really attractive house and one at which you wouldn't take a second glance. 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Blaine gives the following sketch of the origin and growth of Negro suffrage, which sketch is interesting at this time because of the proposition to place such restrictions upon the suffrage that thousands of colored and others voters will be disfranchised. The Republican victory of 1908 led to the incorporation of impartial suffrage in the constitution of the United States. The evasive and discreditable position in regard to suffrage taken by the national Republican convention that nominated General Grant in 1869 was keenly felt and appreciated by the members of the party when subjected to popular discussion. There was something so obviously unfair and unmanly in the proposition to impose Negro suffrage on the southern states by national power and at the same time to leave the northern states free to vote for themselves that the Republicans became heartily ashamed of it long before the political canvass had ended. When congress assembled immediately after the election of General Grant there were found to be a common desire and a common purpose to fortune the position in which the party had been placed by the national convention, and to that end it was resolved that suffrage as between the races should by organic law be made equal to that of the Union, north as well as south. Various propositions were at once offered both in the senate and house to amend the constitution of the United States in order to attain impartial suffrage. It was both significant and appropriate that the draft proposed by Mr. Henderson of Missouri was taken as the basis of the amendment first reported to the senate. In the preceding congress when the fourteenth amendment was under consideration (in the spring of 1860) Mr. Henderson had proposed substantially the same provision and had solemnly warned his Republican associates that, though they might reject it then, it would be demanded of them in less than a week. The amendment was all the more suggestive and creditable coming from a senator who represented a former slaveholding state. And it was not forgotten that Mr. Henderson had with equal zeal and equal foresight been among the earliest to propose the thirteenth amendment. Mr. Henderson's proposition, now submitted and referred to the judiciary committee, was in these words: "No state shall deny or abridge the right of its citizens to vote or hold office of race, color or previous condition." It was reported from the judiciary committee by Mr. Stewart of Nevada, with an amendment proposing another form of statement—namely, "The right of citizens of the United States to vote and hold office shall not be denied or abridged by race, color or any state account of race, color or previous condition of serritude." During the debate on the question Mr. Hendricks of Indiana reproached the Republican party by forcing this question upon congress when in the platform of principles upon which they appealed for popular support they had distinctly waived their right to the legal authority which it must be for ratification had been elected without the slightest reference to it in the popular mind. In order to prevent what might seem to be an unfair submission of the amendment Mr. Dixon of Connecticut proposed that it should be referred to conventions in the respective states instead of to the legislatures and thus give to the people in the election the power to convince the conventions a full opportunity to pass upon the merits of the question. It was contended, on the other hand, by Republican senators that no subject had been more fully matured in the popular mind than this had been by the discussion which had taken place since the beginning and especially since the close of the war. But this was not a candid or truthful statement of the case, but a bountifully bawned by the action of the national Republican convention. Only a few of the leaders of the party had openly announced themselves in favor of Negro suffrage in the nation; a few were openly hostile, while the great majority of the prominent members feared it and refrained from open expression in regard to it. The mass of the party, as is usual on questions of this character, has earned own conclusions, finally forced if it did not persuade the reluctant chiefs to adopt it. The house of representatives had been considering the question of the suffrage amendment at equal step with the senate. On Jan. 11 Mr. Boutwell of Massachusetts, from the committee on the judiciary, proposed an amendment to the constitution in these words: "The right of any citizen of the United States to be not admitted by the United States or any state by reason of the race, color or previous condition of slavery of any citizen or class of citizens of the United States. The congress shall have power to enforce by proper legislation the provisions of this article." Object to Strong Medicine Object to Strong Tenderness. Many people object to taking the medicines usually prescribed by physicians for rheumatism. There is no need for internal treatment in any case of muscular or chronic rheumatism, and more than nine out of ten cases of the disease are of one or the other of these varieties. When there is no fever and little (if any) swelling, you may know that it is only necessary to apply Chamberlain's Lintment freely to get quick relief. Try it. For sale by all druggists. A GRAPP FOR EAVESDROPPERS. Simple Device Well Calculated to insure Privacy. The cavesdropper, are applying his ear, applied his eye. "Through the keyhole any eye looked coldy into his. He started back, palef with fright. He tipoed off hurriedly. "Till lose my job" he knelt. Measured his mistress, the widow, sat with the young and gallant captain in the room from whose door the cavesdropper had retreated. A cigarette smoldered between her slim fingers and her dim elbows were on the table, among the litter of foe gras sandwiches, cold partridge and champagne. The young captain pointed to the door. A hand mirror, its silver gilt back onwards him, hung from the door knob. "Why did you put that there?" he asked. "It is a trap for peepers," recolled the widow. "Suppose my butter or cook stole to the door and put his eye to the keyhole. His eye would another eye. Believing himself discovered, he would not sit alightly away." DAYS OF TRIBULATION OVER Persistent Office-Seeker Had Finally Landed Soft Job. "I remember one man from my home town," a westerner senator said recently, "in the good old days of civil service examinations, whose dream of earthly attainment was a government place. When his party was finally successful he immediately took over the job long before the 4th of March, but there seemed to be a hitch somewhere. All through the spring he was about town. Wherever I went I would see him, striving for or just after an audience with some department official. By June he was seedy and broken looking, but still appeared to be game." Finally I found him in the office, apparently endeavoring to kill time. "Well, have you given it up?" I asked, trying to be sympathetic. "Oh, I got the job all, right," he replied with a satisfied smile. "I'm working now."—Success Magazine. The Earliest Religion Religion was at first purely dogmatic, an affair of the family, pure and simple. The gods were the dead ancestors, and the worship consisted of the perpetual care of the hearth fire and the graves of the departed relatives. It was the ancient belief (the most ancient, so far as we know) that the departed ancestors continued to live in or about the tomb, and that their peace and happiness depended absolutely upon the care with which their posterity looked after their worship. If the hearth fire was allowed to die down, or the tomb was neglected, or the food and drink were not faithfully taken to the tomb, their existence became a wretched one; whereupon if these things were not attended to, all was sorrow with them. There is much to show that this domestic belief obtained for a long time before the belief in God and a future life came in—Chicago American. Mirror for the Sick Room "Only a hand mirror should find place in a sickroom," said a doctor, "and it should be one flattering to the patient—the kind, for instance, which if the face is too broad, will lengthen it a little. And the patient should only be allowed to look in the mirror at propitious times. Many a patient has been frightened literally to death by his haggard reflection—has looked, sighted, and renounced hope. But many another patient in a really bad way—really desperate, too—being given a pill, usually just after he has taken a stimulant, has buckled up wonderfully. In fact, a sickroom mirror, wisely handled, is a curative agent, while recklessly handled it may kill." Loved and Hated Europe hates our rich art patrons and loves them. It loves them for the money they have made and are willing to spend on old masters and new masters, even when they are spurious. It hates the rich American when he beats a rich European in competition for some highly desired art treasure. Then Americans become mere men who triumph by brute strength of honor. They are not art consumers who raise art prices to unreasonable heights by their traditional desire to get what they want when they want it. Been There Before. A new constable was on duty at one of the London police courts, and was conducting a prisoner to the cells. "Mind the step," he said, as they came to a dark corner. "All right," muttered the prisoner; "I knew that step before you were born." Chance to Make Up. "We have parted forever. He writes me to send back the ring." "Tell him to call for it," advised the court friend. "Louisville Courier Journal." Would Seem So. Crawford—Do the rich know how the other half live? Crabshaw—After taking their money from them they must be able to form some idea of how they are compelled to live.—Puck. Notice of Application for Permit to Sell Intoxicating Liquors. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: the applicant, W. E. Myers, a Registered Pharmacist, will, on or before the 23rd day of April 1909, file in the office of the Clerk of the District court of Polk County, Iowa, a petition asking for a permit to buy, keep and sell intoxicating liquors for lawful purposes, at No. 10, Iowa, on the premises known as the Victoria Pharmacy; said business to be Best Patent FRANCE PATENT PATENTED BY JEAN FALCON FLOUR Magnon & Mort Co. Les Moines, France carried on under the name of W. E. Myers. That the said application will be called up for hearing at the evening May 19th, Doyles, Doyles, Doyles, Iowa, on the 3rd day of May 1999. Dated this 5th day of April, 1999. Bare Washington Portrait. A rare and curious mazzotti portrait of George Washington in the library of the late Lafayette S. Richardson of Lowell, Mass., was auctioned off last year in Boston. It is entitled "George Washington, late president of the United States of America, etc." and was published March 14, 1801, by J. Hinton Linden. It is a small folio and is colored by hand. It looks as much like George III, as it does the Father of His Country, Baker, who wrote the "Engraved Portraits of Washington," says that only one impression of this mazzotti has come under the notice of the writer. It was in neither the Clarkson nor the Carson sale of Washington portraits. Insist on Yellow Flour. Charles Christadore, an expert on flour and grains, sounds the keynote of the new situation brought about by the bleached flour decision when he says in a communication to the editor commenting on the bleached flour decision in the book "The Art of the Flourist" we insist on yellow tinted or creamy flour, and will learn to realize that a natural flour very white can in no manner compare with the creamy or yellow flour in so far as glutens and muscle building values are concerned. 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D. 1909 at the courthouse of the county where an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Mary Spencer, deceased, late of Polk County, Iowa, at which time and place you were present, will not be admitted why said will should not be admitted to probate. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set forth the following: 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. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & Cc. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly access and potentially communicate information about patented materials. ARRANGED on Patents invented through MUNN & Co. receive Patents taken through MUNN & Co. receive patented materials. Charge is $15. Scientific American. The American magazine illuminates. Period of any scientific journal. Tennis. $3 a year. four months. $1. Bold by all news- advertiser. MUNN & Co. 3618 Broadway, New York Branch Office. CS 9 P. 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After awhile they came, the three little golden-haired girls; but they only stood in the doorway of the spacious room and refused to come any further. The mother, much mortified at such bedtime to the oldest: "Come here, dear; don't you remember good Father — who used to come and see us from the cathedral?" There they stood, the three little blonde tots, and looking most disprovingly at good Father —, the eldest sat spoke: "We like cardinals," is what she said—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Woman of Experience Not Hasty In Exposing Opinion. Before he had been in the car three minutes most of the women passengers and some of the men were explaining to their neighbors what they would do with the little imp if he belonged to them. Spanking was the popular remedy, and if that boy had received then and there all the paddings that his critics were aching to administer he certainly would have been the glittered label of advice and fault-finding, however, there was one woman who contributed nothing. She was a gentle, gray-haired body, who remained unruffled in the midst of the small tempest raging. "If that child was mine," said the determined woman beside her, "I make him mind if I had to half kill him. Wouldn't you." "I don't know," said the little woman, mildly, "what I'd do." "You don't say, the determined woman Well, I know. But maybe you not used to children? Maybe you never had any of your own." "Oh, yes," said the little woman. "I brought up 13. That is why I don't know what I would do." Concrete Not Modern Concrete is a very ancient material for construction, but reinforced concrete is ascendently half a century old. It is said to have started in a happy idea that came to a Frenchman who wanted large flower pots for his plants which should not be thick and clumsy. He reinforced them with wire. Nowadays we see glass reinforced in the same way, especially about elevator shafts. Cognet and others developed the reinforcement of concrete for buildings, at the merely useful buildings, in conservatories. As early as 1874 a concrete villa was built on the north shore of Long Island sound, but it was many years before the idea "took here, although in France, Belgium and Germany it was seized upon with avidity. -Smith's Magazine. No More Gold Lace for Afghans No More Gold Lace for Afghanhs. The amuer has published an edict, which applies to all parts of Afghanistan, prohibiting the import into the country of all foreign-derived enclosed kullas lungis and embroidered shoes. The amuer is evidently actuated by a desire to prevent his subjects from spending their hard earned money on showy dress. It is the poorer classes who are notoriously addicted to this extravagance which his majesty has decided to check. The gold laced coat of the amuer is decidedly with a headdress which has acted wisely in bringing into general use clothing less costly, his majesty's orders will doubt less be received by his subjects with rather mixed feelings. Proper Beatowal of Charity. Dickens: There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs; and hence it is that diseased sympathy and compassion are every day expended on out-of-the way objects, when only too many demands upon the legitimate exercise of the same virtue within the sight and hearing of the most unobservant person alive. In short, charity must have its romance, as the novelist or the playwright must have his. Subscribe now. Mrs. Crawford—What did your husband say when you told him that you and your daughters were going to join an anti-noise club? Mrs. Chatter—He said he hoped it would keep us quiet. THE CHURCHER Corinthian Baptist Church—corner of Fifteen St. and Linden streets Presshing: from 10:30 to 19 Sunday School; at 18 o'clock. Pressing: 7:30 to 9 p.m. Rev. T. L. Griffith, Pastor. St. Paul A. M. E.—Corner of Second and Centres Streets. Preaching at 10:30 a. m. Sunday School at 2 o'clock, St. Joe Brown Superintendent: Esports League at 1 p.m.; preaching at 8 p.m. Geo. W. Gaines, pastor. Sarn's Chapel M. E. Church—Corner of 18th and Crocker St. —Church services. Preaching at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Class meeting 19:30 p.m. on Sunday; Sunday School 2:30 p.m. in Esports League 7 p.m. Sunday; Prayer meeting every Wednesday 8 p.m. E. P. Geizer, Pastor Maple Street Baptist Church—Situated on E Maple between Ninth and Tenth streets. Pressing: 11 a.m.; Sunday School 9:00 a. m. 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