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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XVI, No 8. (N. R. I. 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.) There will be a rally next Sunday at the Union Congregational church. Rev. S. Bates and wife are entertaining the D. G. M. Ed Robinson of Keokuk and L. D. Jordan. The Mesdames Arthur Jones and L. J. Shannon left yesterday for a weeks visit in Hooneville, Mo. Mr. Ed Robinson of Keokuk called at our office Monday and paid his annual subscription dues. Mrs. Eula Field and Miss Georgia Dade of Keokuk are being entertained by Mrs. S. C. Brown 14th School street. Mr. Joseph LeCour has returned to his work with the U. P. R'y. Co. after a vacation of ten days with his family on 17th and Carpenter avenue. Mrs. R. Beahers entertained Tuesday at dinner Mrs. M. E. Dixon of Keokuk, Mrs. Tillie Reeves of Council Bluffs, and Mrs. S. Bryant at her beautiful home. Mrs. M. E. Dixon, D. H. P. of Keokuk and Mrs. T. Reeves of Council Bluffs are the guests of Mrs. S. Bryant while attending the lodge meeting. WANTED—A first class colored barber to work in a five chair shop. Write immediately for particular to Lee E. Greenway, Muscatine, Ia., 121 Iowa Av. Mr. John Bell accompanied Governor Carroll to Independence and Waterloo this week. Mrs. Ida Giles of Council Bluffs is visiting the K. of T. meeting and her old acquaintances, as she lived here with her mother twenty-five years ago. She is the guest of Mrs. Brown on 8th and School streets. Mrs. B. Blount, 810 12th st. takes a specialty of Human Hair Foods, also Shampooing and straightening. Mall orders promptly filled. Mrs. Ella Cole and daughter Cauphina of Kansas City, who have been visiti- the aunt and uncle, Mr. J. W. Campbell, 782 Eleventh street, left for Columbia, Mo., to see a relative who is very sick. Our collector and solicitor will be in Washington and Muscatine Monday; Sunday in Davenport, Rock Island and Ohio; Wednesday in Monmouth; Thursday in Galesburg; Friday in Chicago. Please be prepared to pay your subscription. how you ever tried an alcohol heater or curling iron? If so try the "Messie" made by The Magic Shampoo so. It is small and can be carried in your hand bag. See their ad on the last page. Write them for information. Rev. O. A. Johnson of Independence, Mo., passed through our city this week enroute to Buxton to attend the K. of P. annual meeting. The Messrs. A. L. Smith, S. A. Green are among those from this city who are attending the same meeting this week. Mr. Wesley Ash, superintendent of the public parks of the city commissioner, has added three more colored men to his department, vix Tony Thompson of Gilberttown, J. E. Bruce and Mr. Wm. Brown of Lake Park. Mr. Archie day has been on regular for some time. THE I. L. U. GRAND LODGE. Our readers will do well to investigate this wonderful and rapidly-growing Order. It is a "Social Fratral, Charitable and Benevolent Order of wage-earners and crop-rassers" and people of this class should investigate this Order with a view to joining. Their aid on page 4 and by writing Grand President Critchow personal, L. L. U. building, Dayton, Ohio, he will give you additional information. After two years service in the Philippines the 10th cavalry returned to New York last Monday in command of Major General Wood. It will be remembered that this regiment won a reputation for bravery in charging San Juan Hill with Roosevelt and the "Rough Riders." They were given a great ovation as they marched up Broadway. They will be stationed at Ft. Ethan Allen, near Burlington, Vt. The Bystander with member of our race bid the boys in blue welcome. THE ROYAL Mexican Chili Cafe, Henry West, Prop. Open all night. First-class-Service MEALS 15 CENTS: one Seventh Street The colored old settlers of Polk county will hold their annual picnic next Thursday, August 5th, at Union Park. The big dinner will take place at about 1:30 o'clock p. m. All old settlers as well as new settlers are invited to come early, bring your basket full of dinner and enjoy a real good old pioneer day as of old. The twenty-first annual picnic of the old settlers will be held at Union Park Thursday, August 5th. The committee extends an invitation to all; fill your dinner baskets and spend a part of the day and enjoy this annual outing the members and friends of St Paul's A. M. E. Sunday School held their annual outing at Union Park last Thursday. Promptly at 10 o'clock a.m., the children in charge of Superintendent S. Joe Brown and others of the teachers and officers left the church and took a car for the park where they remained until late in the afternoon others continued to arrive so that several hundred visited the park. At 1 o'clock dinner was spread after which occurred the base ball game between the West Des Moines White Sox and the East Des Moines Brownies for the city championship; but the teams were well matched for after six innings the score stood to 8 and the game was called off. After the ball game Mr. Wm. Shackelford photographed the party and supper was served including a complimentary dish of ice cream furnished by the Sunday School. They returned to the city about 7 p. m. declaring one of the most delightful outing in the history of the school. DES MOINES NEGRO LYCEUM Owing to the absence of the members who were to participate on the program, the Des Moine Negro Lycme rendered an impromptu program on Tuesday evening, in the rendition of which the latent talent of the organization was prominently shown. Those who responded were Mrs. J. B. Rush, "Marmion and Douglas"; Mrs. S. Joe Brown, "When Malina Singz"; Miss Bessie Reeves, "Mornie"; Mrs. Elbert R. Hall, "Kate Shelly" and Miss Wilson, "Waiting in the Creek" Talks were made by Atty J. B. Rush, Branham Hyde and Elbert R. Hall Dr. E. A. Carter, an honorary member of the Lycme, was present and gave a most instructive and practical address on educational benefits. Mrs. E. A. Carter of Buxton, Mr. Lapley of Michigan and Mr. Moore of Hampton Institute, Virginia were also present and addressed the assemblage, the two former being elected to honorary membership. Mrs. O. Lafayette Glass was admitted to active membership. After partaking of refreshments served by the hostesses, the Misses Anna and Bessie Reeves, the Lycme adjourned to meet with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Shackelford, 731 W. Ninth street, on Tuesday Aug. 3rd, at which time the following program will be rendered: Quotations from William Cullen Bryant; instrumental solo, Miss Zoe Hankinson; debate, "Resolved, That Hankinson," Affirmative, Branham Hyde and Atty J. B. Rush, negative Dr. J. H. Williams and Elbert R. Hall; and "Current Events" by club members. MRS. N. M. KING Spring Millinery Coods, -LATEST DESIGNS- Wire Frames Made to Order. Specialty in Hair Goody 1203 Center Street Jones' Restaurant 107-109 A Avenue East. Prices Reasonable. Cedar Rapids, Give us a trial. Iowa. Bowel Complaint in Children. When six months old the little daughter of E. N. Dewey, a well known merchant of of Agnewille, Va., had an attack of cholera infantum. Chamberlain's Colic, Choiera and Diarrhoea Remedy was given and effected a complete cure. This remedy has proven very successful in cases of bowel complaint in children and when given according to the plain pitted directions can be relied upon with perfect confidence. When reduced with water and sweetened it is pleasant to take, which is of great importance when a medicine must be given to young children. For sale by all druggists. FT. DODGE, IA. Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Russell entertained a few friends Monday night, among those present were Meadames Cora Foller, Wm. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. S. Hudson and the Misses Frances and Florence Foller. A very pleasant evening was spent. Mr. E. Parent is in Buxton this week attending the K. of P. Grand Lodge. Mrs. Cora Foller her daughters and baby and aunt Mrs. Robinson of Springfield, O. are visiting friends and relatives in this city, they are all well pleased with their western trip. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1909. 777 555 KNIGHT--DAUGHTERS OF TABER. GRAND LODGE SESSIONS IN THIS CITY THIS WEEK. New Officers Elected and Installed, Next Meeting in Keokuk. The annual meeting of the International Order of Twelve, the Knights and Daughters of Tabor held a very interesting and successful meeting in our city this week. The meeting was called to order promptly by the Deputy Grand Mentor, Edward Robinson of Keokuk, also the District High Preceptress, Mrs. M. E. Dixon of the same city assisted the Mentor in opening the sessions under the usual custom. The Grand Mentor appointed the various committees, and appointed Mrs. S. Bryant to report for the Bystander and the daily papers and Mrs. S. Bates assistant reporter. The afternoon session began at 2:30 o'clock by the reports of the Grand Officers and work pertaining to the order. Tuesday evening a welcome reception was held in the hall quite a number were present even against the threatening weather, Mayor A. J. Mathis welcomed the delegates and visitors here in a neat speech the response was given by Rev. S. Bates after which the District Grand Mentor Sir Edward Robinson made a splendid address, refreshment were served. WEDNESDAY MORNING. This session opened at 9 o'clock, minutes of the previous session were read, then came the reports of the committee on membership and on returns, Mrs. Ida May Giles, of Council Bluffa was introduced to the body, then continued the reports of the committees, at an unexpected moment a telegram came to the Chief Mentor Robinson that his rieue had died in Galeburg, ill., the Grand Lodge was made to mourn awhile. AFTERNOON SESSION. The Grand body was called from rest to work at 2 o'clock, then the annual report of the Sir Knight Mentor Robinson which was very interesting and very fine, it showed the growth of the order; the Chief Preceptress, Mrs. M. E. Dixon of Keokuk, made her annual report, her paper was pronounced the ever heard from a lady in the order, it was full of sisterly advice then the Grand Treasurer and Grand District Recorder also made their reports. The lodge met in the evening at the hall on wall 9th street and marched in full regalia to the Burns' M. E. church where the Chief Orator, Rev. S. Bates of this city delivered the annual Thanksgiving sermon. THURSDAY MORNING This session opened at 10 o'clock in the usual manner, prayer by the Chief Orator Rev. S. Bates, the first thing was the reception of two beautiful bouquets of flowers by the Chief Mentor and Preceptress given by Daughter S. Brooks and M. Patton. Many other valuable and useful presents were given the present officers. Secret work was exemplified by Mrs. Ida Giles of Council Bluffs who has taken the highest degrees that can be given, then the reports of the District deputies S. Bates, Douglas, Brewton, Kirtly and Reece all was encouraging. Mr. M. E. Dixon sent the session congratulations from Minnesota. The elections of officers for the next year resulted as follows: Rev. S. Bates, of Des Moines, District Chief Mentor; Miss Beartha Curtley, Des Moines, District Grand Preceptress; Mrs. Eula Fields, of Keokuk, Recorder; Mrs. Della Bryant, Des Moines, District Treasurer; Sir Ed Robinson, Chief Orator; Mrs. J. L. Tannahill, Inner Sentinel and Outer Sentinel Sir J. L. Tannahill Council Bluffs. In the afternoon a parade was led by a platoon of police followed by the Odd Fellows Band, then the order in full regalia, then the ladies in carriages which numbered 14 and one carry-all with the little pages and maids of honor. The next meeting will be held in Keokun, Ia., the public instillation in the evening by Sir David Scott of Des Moines, and a dance ended a very successful session. Sir Robinson has brought this order up in his 4 years at the head from $12 in the treasurer until now they have over $101, and added 12 new Tabercles with an excellent record. "We have parted forever. He writes me to send back the ring." me to bead back the ring. "Tell him to call for it," advised the experienced friend—Louisville Courier-Journal. Would Seem So. Crawford—Do the rich know how the other half live? Crabshaw—After taking their mono) from them they must be able to form some idea of how they are compelled to live—Puck. Religious Workers Meet. At Great Gathering at Burbank, Which Was Attended by Theodore. Major Griswold Pays Glowing Trends to Negro Industry and Respectability. The North Carolina interdenominational Sunday school and educational convention, which held its annual session in the auditorium of St. Joseph's A. M. E. church at Durham, N. C., recently, is one of the largest organized religious movements among Afro-Americans in the state. Dr. John E. Jackson, pastor of the church, was on hand and did everything possible to make it pleasant for the large delegations which came from all parts of the state. The convention was presided over by Colonel James H. Young of Raleigh. Colonel Young has remained a religious leader and as a promoter in many movements for the uplift of his people in North Carolina. He has been president of the state Sunday school convention for two years, superintendent of the First Baptist church Sunday school at Raleigh for twenty-five years, grand master of the Masonic fraternity for several years, twice elected to the state legislature and was colonel of the Masonic fraternity during the Spanish-American war. Mayor W. A. Griswold of Durham, who made the address of welcome to the convention, said in the course of his address: "I know of no city in our state where the colored people are more respectable or more prosperous than at Durham. I am sure were you to send out a committee from this body with instructions to investigate and report back the number of colored people who own their homes or other COLONEL J. H. YOUNG. valuable property even the best informed of Durham's leading colored people would be perfectly astonished at the progress in that direction that is being made by your race in this city. It is my opinion that the percentage of colored people owning property in Durham is greater than that of any other city of our size in the state. The white people of the county and city of Durham have children who do not have given their children, both in the county and city, as good schools as they have the white and have done it willingly. "As to the race question in Durham, it has been my observation that the races get on amicably with little or no friction, each respecting one another's rights, it being the rarest occasion that one hears of any friction between the races. I believe it is the desire of every good citizen, white and colored, that these conditions continue, and they will continue so long as we conceive that which is due one from the other." Hon. C. Dancy, recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, responded to the welcome addresses in a forceful speech, replete with tones of sincerity. Mr. Dancy said: "This is a new era. The interdenominational Sunday school and educational convention makes its workers stronger, better and holier. Forty years ago people of the various denominations were hardly on speaking terms, but today it is different, and it is a splendid thing to be in a convention like this. The audience, which was composed of both races, the necessity of mutual understanding for a common happiness. Dr. James E. Shepard, who is contributing to the forces that are working for the uplift of the race and whose fertile brains gave birth to the movement for the training of our ministry and religious teachers, similar to the Winona Lake and Northfield Bible school, the dynamic power of the convention. General Julian Carr, a white man who is imbued with a philanthropic spirit, was lionized by the convention for the deep interest which he manifested in the race and the new ideas of Dr. Shepard. The addresses of Dr. Kilgo, president of Trinity college; Rev. S. S. Bost and Rev. J. W. Lynch, who are noted theologians and educators, were present. The round table talks and discussions of difficult problems of the Sunday school were strong features of the convention. The joint chords of the city, under the leadership of Professor I. H. Buchanan, rendered many pleasing selections of music. "How Can the Business Man Help In Promoting the Growth of the Church and Sunday School?" was ably discussed by Mr. John Merrick. Bishop Clinton's address caused enthusiasm to run high. It was in part as follows: "This is the young people's age such as no other age has been. There is more being done for the physical, intellectual, moral and religious training of young people. We have never before in the world's history, I must insist that if we are to have a strong, pure, and noble race we must have men with clean lives, correct habits, capable and useful in whatever spheres of life their lot may be cast. "The hope of a race, like that of a nation, is the boys. They are to be the men of the future, the fathers of the future boys, of the future men. They are to be the leaders of the race in church, in society and in state. Because they are boys we should save them, save them from ignorance, triflesness, evil companionship and irritability. Mrs. J. D. Martin's paper on "The Mother in the Sunday School" and Mrs. Lissie Blackmon's paper on "Lions In the Way" were gems of thought. The next annual session of the convention will be held at Newborn, N. C., in 1910. COURT REBUKES DUGRO. Evening Journal in Favor of Fair Treatment For the Negro. The following editorial, which appeared in the New York Evening Journal July 16, is another evidence of the strong sense of justice which still pervades the higher judicial courts of New York. The fact that it appeared in a paper which has never heretofore been credited with a very decided stand in favor of Negro rights and being written by Arthur Brisbane should give renewed hope and encouragement to the race throughout the United States. Let the Negro continue to obey the law, be honest and industrious, faithful to his trusts, loyal to the government, and all will be well. The article says: "George W. Griffin, a Pullman car porter who was accused of stealing $200 and was, was also found innocent, was also charged. He sued the man who had him arrested. The jury gave Griffin a verdict of $2,000." Judge Dugge reduced the verdict to $300, saying, in substance, that a Negro accused of dishonesty did not suffer as much humiliation as a white man when unjustly arrested. "This appeared to the Evening Journal at the time a dangerous and unwise statement for a judge to make upon the bench. Colored citizens obey the laws as do others, and they are entitled to equal treatment, especially in a court of justice. "Judge Dugro undoubtedly spoke without reflection. The appellate division, while continuing the amount of damage caused by Judge Dugro expresses emphatically its disapproval of his statement that a Negro's feelings of pride are inferior to those of a white man. "There is enough brutal race prejudice in the world without having it stimulated by any thoughtless utterance from the bench. "If a judge says that a Negro has less feeling than a white man when he is called a thief, then some thug may adopt the theory that a Negro has less feeling than a white man when he is shot or stabbed. Just of our government should be to raise all of the citizens to a plane upon which they will be worthy of the vote and of republican opportunity. "It is unwise, unjust and unkind deliberately to discriminate against a large class of men among whom very many rank in honor and in sensitivity with the most honorable white men." WELCOME TENTH CAVALRY. Big Reception in Store at New York For Gallant Regiment. Interest in the homecoming of the Tenth cavalry regiment from the Philippine Islands is at high pitch among Afro-Americans in Greater New York. The regiment is well on the home stretch. A committee consisting of J. Frank Wheaton, the Rev. Dr. W. H. Brush, Captain Hawley, the Rev. W. Anderson and the Rev. Dr. McMullen called upon Major General Leonard Wood at Governors island a few days ago and received his assurance that the regiment would be permitted to remain in the city a day and accept the hospitality of the Afro-American population. General Woods also said the transport carrying the troops was due to arrive at New York on July 25. It is expected that the reception to the Tenth cavalry will be given the sixty-ninth regiment army, Lexington avenue and Twenty-sixth street. What's Wrong at Bordentown? There must be something wrong with the management of the Bordentown (N. J.) Industrial School for Afro-Americans, as gleaned from the following facts: There are 250 acres of land attached to the school, and 150 acres are under cultivation, but the farm is worked on shares by persons not attached to the school. The cooks are hired, and hired labor is paid only while hired help does most of the work. The state legislature appropriates a song toward the expenses of this school year, but it does not seem to take much note of how things are done otherwise. Miss Josephine Yates of Kansas City Mo. is visiting Miss Lina N. Smith. Miss Beulah Wilder and Nell Brown of St. Louis were in the Twin-Cities last week visiting friends. On Monday evening they were entertained with a dancing party given by Mrs. Minor of St. Paul, Tuesday morning Miss Lina Smith gave a breakfast in honor of the visiting guest, in the afternoon they journeyed over to St. Paul and were entertained at a whist party given by Miss Cressa Howard. The plaque given by St. Phillips Mission of St. Paul to Spring Park on the beautiful Lake Minnetonka Thursday of last week was attended by quite a number of Minnesota people, all had a delightful time. A picnic will be given by St. Thomas Episcopal Mission under the auspices of the young people of St. Agathas Gulie at Big Island Park Thursday Aug. 5th. A chicken dinner will be served, music will be furnished Mrs. McCullough's orchestra. Rev. Alfred H. Leatted Rector, Mrs. Minnie Plummer chairman. Mrs. Grant Hicks of Indianapolis, Ind., arrived in the city Thursday of last week and expects to make Minnesota her future home. She will live at 1106 east 28th street. Miss Margaret Hore of Duluth and Master Paul and Frank Moore of Omaha are visiting their aunt and uncle Mr. and Mrs. Louis Graham of 2817 Chicago avenue. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Goodbar a nine pound baby boy last Wednesday, mother and baby are doing nicely. The Minneapolis Colored Keystone's were defeated in a poorly played game of base ball by the St. Paul Colored Gopher's last Sunday afternoon at Nicolett Park by a score of 8 to 4, the batter for the Keystone was Jackson, Jessup and Campbell, for the Gopher's Taylor and McMurray. The two teams expect to meet again tomorrow at St. Paul, so far the Gopher's have won two games out of a series of three games. The union picnic of the Methodist and Baptist churches of the Twin-Cities will be held in Minneapolis this year at Minnehaha Falls, Tuesday Aug. 3rd., there will be sports of all kinds including a base ball game between the B. C. club of St. Paul and the B. A. club of Minneapolis. It has been arranged that five dollars be given to the club that wins, now its up to the boys. Mrs. Mary Joyces is still quite ill at the home of Mrs Saulters on 5th ave., so. James J. Jefferies the world's exchampion heavy weight was in the city last week giving exhibitions at Wonderland Park. Mr. Wm. Rhinehart spent Saturday and Sunday in Des Moines. Mrs. Washington of Hocking was in Albia on business Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Udell Lewis and little son William spent a few days of this week with the parental home, Mrs. Ben Lewis. Mr. Jeffers of Buxton was in Albia Saturday. Mrs. Lulo Butler has been quite sick for a few days of this week. Mesdames Elizabeth Grayson, Hollingworth and Messrs. Will Grayson Bennings and Esters were Buxton visitors over Sunday at the Jeffers home. The A. M. E. church officials and citizens of Albia are to hold an Emancipation Celebration at the A. M. E. church on Wednesday August 4, 1909. The following is the program: Speakers: Hon. D. W. Bates, Albia, Hon. L. R. Price Albia, Atty. T. J. A. Spears, Buxton, Prof. A. J. Hicks of Buxton and others. Invocation, Rev. J. H. Bell; song by congregation; introductory remarks. E. F. Butler; address, Hon. D. W. Bates, county attorney, instrumental solo, Miss Ada Davis; address, Prof. A. J. Hicks of Buxton; vocal solo, Mrs. Alice Bowman; address, Atty. J. A. Spears, Buxton; paper, "Emancipation Day" Miss May Davis; instrumental solo, Mrs. Bessie Thomas; recitation, Miss Ida Harris; address, Hon. J. R. Price; early reminiscences, Henry Jones; closing remarks by pastor. Among those who attended the Woman's Educational and Missionary Convention were Mesdames Susie Hazle, John Logan, Bolder and Berry, also the Misses Bernice Mason and Dorothy Herring. Mrs. Hazel was re-elected corresponding secretary, an office she held for the past six years. Miss Herring and Miss Mason had the honor of appearing on the program during the children's hour and charmed the audience with a well rendered duet. Mrs. M. A. Harris was hostess to the Autumn Leaf club Thursday afternoon. The ladies were entertained in the reception room at Whiting Hall. A short business session was held after which the time was spent in conversation and music by Mrs. David Garnett. Mrs. Harry N. Beckley has returned from Paris, Ill., and Terre Haute, Ind., while in Paris the represented the local Baptist Sunday School at the Wood River Sunday School Convention, and leaving there spent a short while in Terre Haute with relatives. Sunday morning July 18, occurred the dedication of Lincoln Memorial Chapel, at the corner of Knox and Holton streets. The ceremony was in charge of Bishop C. T. Schafer, assisted by Presiding Elder L. J. Phillips, Rev. R. H. Hackley, pastor and Rev. S. B. Moore, pastor of Allen Chapel. The morning sermon was prescheduled by the bishop, also the afternoon sermon which was held in the first M. E. church. An appreciative audience was present at both services. In the evening Rev. L. J. Phillips prescheduled a large audience at Lincoln Memorial Chapel. Special music was rendered during the day; the work of the quartet being especially fine. On Monday evening in Beecher chapel the church delivered his famous lecture "The Voice of the Hour." This was in charge of Rev. R. H. Hackley and Rev. S. B. Moore, and was for benefit of both churches. After the lecture a public banquet was enjoyed by over one hundred people. Short speeches was given by the visiting pastors and Bishop Schaffer. During the evening resolutions were introduced and adopted commending the good work the bishop has done while here. The menu was in five courses. Among those present from out the city were Rev. D. E. Butler of Ottumwa, Rev. R. McDowell, Monmouth, Rev. Thomas of Burlington, Mrs. R. R. H. Hackley, Mt. Pleasant, Mrs. Lewis Reynolds and Miss Jeanette of Kewanee and several from Monmouth. The occasion will long be remembered as one of the most interesting and inspiring in the history of Methodism. It is the plan to make the chapel a place for the young people especially and in the future it is hoped to add reading rooms and establish a Y. M. C. A. FORT MADISON NOTES The Baptist Missionary Society held another one of their delightful meetings at the beautiful residence of Mrs. Wm. Start with Mrs. Jackson in the chair, Mrs Bannon acting secretary. After the regular business had been transacted a very interesting paper entitled "Two Doubts," was read by Mr. H. W. Yelser, "Yelser's paper was as usual deep, instructive and interesting as Mr. Yelser's papers always are, all written by himself, double credit should be given. After singing a hymn, an interesting debate was had. Affirmative, Messrs H. W. Yelser ane D. O'Bannon, negative, Mr. R. H Higgenbotham and Mrs. K. Jackson. All the debaters were fine, though the decision giving the debate to the affirmative was felt by all to be just and right. Both Mr. Yelser and Mr. O'Bannon were comical in their remarks being often inter upted by applause, Mr. Yelser's remarks brought to mind a year ago when assisted by Mr. Wm. Harper, they won every debate they had, numbering between twelve and fifteen. Immediately after the debate ice cream and cake was served, after which the society enjoyed the rare treat of several vocal and piano solos by Mrs. D. L. Holmes the wife of Rev. Holmes of Davenport. All left well pleased with the hospitality extended the society by Mrs. Suart. All are cordially invited to attend any and all of these meetings when all the members will do their best to give you a delightful evening. Mrs. Kittie Jackson president, Miss Mattie Thomas secretary. It is with the deepest regret that we are forced to remember that one of our leading citizens and one or the leading members of our society is ill. We refer to Mr. Ambrose Jackson, upon whom it was necessary to operate Wednesday. We are happy to announce the operation was successful and that Mr. Jackson is resting as comfortable as could be expected. Mr. Jackson has a host of friends whom he has won through his kind, honest and straightforward ways. He is one who is always willing to do anything in his power for our society or anything else that would help God's cause along. May he soon be up and join us in the wish and prayer of us all. Baptist Missionary Society Willing to Oblige. "When you feel any temptations comin' along," said the friend and adviser, "you must say: 'Get the behin' me, Satan.'" "Da' what I done said," answered Mr. Erwinus Pinkley, "an 'den' magese I hyhns Satan answer me back. 'Da' all's right, an 'den' whie da' do not show, an 'den' it don't make no difference to me which leads to success." IOWA STATE BYSTANDER CO. Publishers. After all, the best way to avoid heat prostrations is to keep cool. Eminent actresses still insist on losing their diamonds. Arachnids and wireless messages are crowding the atmosphere. Summer began working at the job industriously as soon as it arrived. Summer-resort mosquitoes have not heard of the war on them. Some of the files may have romantic matures, but never mind that. It appears from official reports that there is also a made-in-Germany deficit. Be thankful that radium at present prices is not one of the necessities of life. Those who cannot swim should avoid wading in water more than ten feet deep. Fish cakes exploded in a New York store and wrecked the place. They were probably made from the torpedo fish. The best statemankainth these days is exerted not toward getting nations out of debt, but toward getting them deeper in. Every man cannot join the uplift by ridding the world of African lions, but he can assist at spreading traps for the feet of the nefarious housefly. Whatever romance there may be in international marriages is removed when the bride's father must settle the groom's debts. It is announced that the Greek drama is about to become a fad with American theater-goers. It is just an excuse to get women to wear that style of clothes again. The yellow peril is a literal and menacing fact wherever Sunday schools and well-meaning but worldly, ignorant reform movements subject girls to the sinister association of Chinamen. A Russian grand duke has sent an order for the American invention of silver forks for corn on the cob and again does the genius of the western hemisphere triumph over the nonresourcefulness of effeute. A man was arrested in New York for kissing his wife in their own home, then the shades the window were up. This is but a step removed from arresting a man for kissing his wife on Sunday, which will probably follow as a blue law not to be overlooked. Princeton university rejoices in a student who has discovered the first man who has watched that young man probably is destined to prominence in the astronomical world. He may not have hitched his wagon to a star, but towed a comet he may get there just the same. Friends at Washington of Commander Peary, the Arctic explorer, believe that he has reached the North Pole and the goal of his ambition and has placed the American flag there. This, if verified, will be a crowning triumph for American pluck and perseverance. Incidentally the announcement will also save trouble for a number of other gentlemen headed in the same direction or contemplating a trip to the pole. A Chicago magistrate has decided that it is no crime for one person to treat on another person's foot, but that neither is it a crime for the down-trodden person to retaliate by smiting the foot-crusher in the eye or on the jaw. If Solomon could revisit the earth and hear some of the judicial decisions of modern life, he would acknowledge the folly of trying to keep the record for freak decisions for an instant. The mosquito is made almost a bird of prey by the dispatch from Cape Town which states that an overflow of the Orange river due to a heavy rainfall, has bred so many mosquitoes in the Gordonia northern district that three quarters of the population are affected with malaria, which has been fatal in many cases. In some parts of the world the house screen is a sanitary necessity, both day and night, but the housefly is the chief danger in non-malarial countries. Chicago's plan for the construction of an auditorium capable of accommodating 45,000 people is interesting. But the architects will have a task in planning a building in which so many can find seating or standing room within ear-shot of speakers. A vast hall in which only a portion of an assemblage can get within hearing distance of the speakers' platform would be disappointing and therefore less desirable than a smaller hall in which can participate in the "doings." It has long been remarked that an island off Chicago that could be used for pleasure purposes would be better than the richest of gold mines for its owner, but there is no such projection from the bottom of the lake, and Chicago has had to be content with parks along the shore. But now it is suggested that the lake be on a reef which exists in the shallow lake off the city, for a public park. This is visionary, and if an island were made with dredgings and dumpships it would lack beauty because of its docked shores. French naval officers have succeeded in conversing at a distance of 100 miles with wireless telephone. This is an achievement that transcends the fear of being telephoned over many times that distance, by providing naval service ability to talk back and forth during the progress of a fleet will be invaluable. But the usefulness of the wireless telephone will probably be restricted to the sea, because on such roads electrical development of all kinds CLAIMS EXEMPTION Western Union Telegraph Company Replies to Heyward. OBJECTS TO $125,000 FEE General Solicitor Explains Position to Secretary of State Who Says Company Failed to Take Ad- Des Moines, July 30.—Claiming exemption from the $125,000 fee on the ground that the law requiring this fee exempts all corporations doing business in Iowa prior to 1886, General Solicitor H. D. Estabrook of the Western Union Telegraph company has replied to Secretary of State W. C. Hayward's letter. Secretary Hayward wrote the telegraph company that he would accept and file a copy of the articles of incorporation if accompanied by the proper fee and that he would temporarily wave the filing of the resolution by the board of directors agreeing to accept the articles of incorporation to Estabrook's last stand Mr. Hayward holds that the Western Union did not take advantage of the exemption because it failed to file articles of incorporation, and anyway, the company's right to do business only lasted (twenty years from 1886. There is a suit pending brought by Attorney General H. W. Byers against the Union Union to collect the $125,000, fee and penalties amounting to $1,000,000. EVA TRAUM BADLY BURNED Thirteen-Year-Old Storm Lake Girl Lights Fire With Keorseme With Usual Result. Storm Lake, Ia., July 30.—In a fire which destroyed the farm home of Charles Traum, six miles southeast of here, Eva Traum, aged 13, was so terribly burned that she will die. The little girl was alone in the house and attempted to revive the fire in the cook stove with kerosene when an explosion occurred. The father, seeing the smoke, rushed in from the field to see the girl run from the house, when he attempted to smother the fire, but every aired of clothing was burned from the little body. Physicians say she cannot live. The house was entirely burned, causing a property loss of $3,000. Tariff Conferences Agree and Adjourn. Washington, July 30—Payne-Aldrich tariff bill stands completed. An agreement on all disputed points was reached, the conferences' report was signed by the republican conferences. It will go to the house today and be voted on by that body on Saturday. The senate will on Monday begin consideration of the measure as agreed to by the conferences. The senate session may consume all of next week. Reunion of Veta Waa Success. Des Moines, July 30—That the old soldiers' reunion held at Toleo, Ia., was one of the most successful ever held in the state was the report brought back by Maj. M. M. McDonald, department commander of the G. A. R., and Col. D. J. Palmer of the state railroad commission. Rare Honor to Woman. Chicago, July 30.—The superintendency of Chicago's great school system has fallen into the hands of a woman for the first time in its history. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young was chosen by the newly organized board of education to head the public schools. Gen. Worthington Dias. Washington, July 30.—Gen. Henry D. Worthington delegate in congress from diplomat and jurist, died at the Garfield hospital here from cerebral hemorrhage. He was $1 years old. Couple Held for Murder. Richmond, Mo., July 30.—George Glasscock, a farmer, and Etta Swofford, his sister-in-law, were arrested 'or the murder of Clyde Hatfield at Faitville in this county, July 13. Cummins introduces Rate Bill. Washington, July 30—Senator Cummins introduced his bill to remedy the defects of the commodities clause of the Hepburn law caused by the recent supreme court decision. Hannibal Triple Tragedy. Hannibal, Mo., July 30—A triple tragedy occurred here when Chas. Sealey shot and killed his baby, dangerously wounded his wife and committed suicide. Heir to Millions Wanted. Denver, Col., July 30—Son of a forerunner United States senator and heir to an estate of millions of dollars, Joseph Norton Dolph, is a wanderer in Denver, and all efforts of his family to ascertain his abode have been in vain. Hottest Day Since 1906. Des Moles, July 30—The highest temperature Thursday was 96.3 degrees at 2:30, the hottest since Aug. 6, 1906. Three heat prostrations were reported. Two Former Iowa Girls Drowned. Mason City, Ia., July 30.—Wood eached here of the drowning of Stella and Edith Myers, daughters of Mrs. L. T. Myers, a former resident here, which occurred at Sloux Falls, S. D. The young ladies were boating when the accident occurred. Illinois Town Burned. Champaign, III, July 20.—Philo, Ill., village in Champaign county, was almost wiped out by fire. Half the business section was destroyed. Lose 140,000. DON'T YOU CROSS THAT LINE! SIX MEET DEATH IN A WRECK SIX MEET DEATH IN A WRECK WABASH PASBENGER TRAIN PLUNGES THROUGH BRIDGE. Forty- two injured as Big Four Train Running Fifty Miles an Hour Is Wrecked at Zionville, Indiana. Kansas City, Mo.—With a roar that could be heard for miles, Webas passenger train No. 4 plunged into the Missouri river 30 miles east of this city. Six passengers lost their lives, and of the 20 injured it is believed three will die. The dead were: Charles Flowers, engineer Moberly City; Louis Bond, fireman, Moberly Mo.; Harry Eckert, baggagerman, St. Louis; Daniel, two-year old son of E. L. King, Eldon, Mo.; Charles Anthony, Jesse Oldham. Those seriously injured are: Frank Gardner, Mt. Vernon, O.; Mrs. S. H. Hackett, Orrick, O.; Miss Irene Dorton, Orrick, Mo. Of the eight cars which made up the train five and the engine are now in the hospital. All of them except one end of the Des Moines sleeper. The bridge had been weakened by recent floods. Eight mail clerks were saved only by the fact that the roof of their car was torn off and allowed them to get out on top of the car and swim for the shore. None escaped injury. A physician of St. Louis was the heroin of the wreck according to railroad of flicks and passengers. In 30 minutes she gave temporary treatment to 27 injured persons, several women passengers assisting her by preparing bandages. Indianapolis, Ind.-Forty-two persons injured in a wreck of the Big Four train N. 16, from Chicago to Cincinnati, at Zionville, 17 miles northwest of this city Sunday. Six of the passengers most seriously hurt were brought to hospitals in this city. They are: D. P. Beatty, Akron, O. roadmaster Lake Erie & Western railroad; H. B. Creeal, American Book Company, Cincinnati; Edward Long, Fayette, M. Mary Elzy Lourillan, Lafayette, M. Mary Elzy Lourillan, KY; Jacob Elzy, Louisville, KY; Mrs. Magnolia Miles, Knoxville, Tenn. All the others injured were able to continue to their destinations on a special train made up in this city and sent to the scene of the wreck. The baggage car and the coaches behind it left the track while the train was running 50 miles an hour. The locomotive held to the railroad. Several of the coaches turned over. There were 200 passengers on the train, and those unhurt, joined by Zionsville citizens, took the injured out of the car windows. French Cabinet Formed. Paris. After a day of conferences Aristide Briand succeeded in forming a new French ministry and appointed a new president and endeavors to President Falleners. The new cabinet is made up as follows: Premier and Minister of the interior and of public worship, M. Briand; minister of justice, M. Barthou; minister of foreign affairs, M. Michon; minister of finance, Georges Cochory; minister of education, M. Doumergue; minister of public works, posts and telegraphs, M. Millerand; minister of commerce, Jean Dupuy; minister of agriculture, M. Ruau; minister of the colonies, M. Troullot; minister of labor, M. Viviani. 1,000 In Prison for Bits. El Paso, Tex. — One thousand persons were thrown into prison, at least ten were killed and many wounded in charges made by Mexican cavalry during the Guadalajara riots, according to W. J. Bissell of Phillipsburg, Kan., who has arrived from Guadalajara. Commits Murder in Court. Little Rock, Ark.—Ark shooting over the head of United States Senator Jeff Davis, W. Y. Ellis, a resident of Pine Bluff, fired a bullet into the heart of Nathaniel Parker Willis of Indianapolis in the circuit courtroom Tuesday. The shooting was the tragic ending of a lawsuit brought by Willis against his divorced wife, who had subsequently married Ellis, for the possession of his child. Willis died in the arms of his mother who was writing across the room and rushed towards him as he fell. Michigan the Fastest Warship. "Michigan the Fastest Warping." Washington—Having in her official trials fully trained and equipped of Titan State naval constructors, the new first class battleship Michigan, now the fastest afloat, will be turned over to the government by her builders, the New York Shipbuilding Company, in August. Twelve Die in French Mine. ClermontFerrand, France—An explosion of fire-damp occurred to day in one of the mines near here, causing the death of 13 miners. WILSON TO QUIT CABINET? Secretary of Agriculture, Who Has Record for Service, May Resign in January. Washington. — That the Taft official family will begin about January to be rounded into its permanent form and membership is the opinion entertained strongly. Be believed by those who have looked into the situation of fate that there will be Secretary Wilson. one change in the cabinet about the turn of the year, which will take out of that body the veteran, Secretary Wilson. He has been a cabinet member longer than any other man ever was in this country—longer, indeed, it is said that anybody ever was continuously in a responsible government. With his retirement, Mr. Reynolds, a mary will be returning representative of the Roosevelt cabinet. Early in the career of the new administration Secretary Wilson and Secretary of the Interior Ballinger had a sharp disagreement which at one time looked like an impasse. It was suspected that one or the other of them would retire. President Taft smoothed over the differences, only to have them break out at a new place, and now, in this later entanglement, Mr. Ballinger has won his point. It related to the jurisdiction over forensic will preservation and Mr. Ballinger gets the jurisdiction, taking it away from the agricultural department's bureau of forestry. Representative Charles F. Scott of Kansas is likely to succeed Wilson. Hay Men In Session. Cedar Point, O.-The Nationalistic Hair association began Tuesday what promises to be the most important convention it has held since its organization 15 years ago. The constitution and by-laws, the trade rules and the arbitration rules are to be revised, and the hay rate case, which has been a subject of discussion in every recent convention, is scheduled for final disposition at this session. Son Born to Mr. Crane. Pittsfield, Mass. — A son was born to Senator and Mrs. Wintrop Murray Crane at Dalton. This is the second child born to Senator and Mrs. Crane, their first son, Stephen, being born in 1907. The son, who is one of the wealthiest men in congress, hurried home on a special train. Leopard's Bites May Kill Child. Des Moines, Ia. — Myrtle Strauber, three-year-old daughter of Earl Strauber, got too near a cage and was so badly lagered by a leopard at the county fair at Rockwell City that it is feared she will die. Arrest Reveals Castro Plot. Caracas, Venezuela.-The opportunity imprisonment at Maracabo of a German subject named Theodore Hauer, who recently arrived there from Europe, and Raymond Porpacen, his Caracas lawyer, disclosed a Castro revolutionary plot. San Francisco Invites Kalger Denilin, Emperor. Will has received an engraved on gold plate to attend the fifteenth anniversary of the German Marksmen's association at San Francisco. Daughter of President Dead. Winchester, Va.—Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor Dandridge, daughter of President Zachary Taylor and a former mistress of the White House, died here Sunday, aged 85. Mrs. Dandridge was the third daughter of Gen Zachary Taylor, twelfth president of the United States, and was born at Fort Snelling, Minn. April 20, 1823. Death was due to heart failure following a long period of illness. Mrs. Dandridge's eldest sister, Sarah Knox Taylor, was the first wife of Jefferson DEBTS DEDOCTED Insurance Men Take Advantage of Court's Ruling. Des Moines, July 20—Several creees were filed in the district court in accordance with an opinion handed down by Judge McHenry several weeks ago in which he that corporation stock owned by any individual cannot be assessed for taxation until the individuals' legitimate indebtedness is deduced from the face value of the stock. The case was instituted by the owners of insurance stock against the board of review and it is these men that are the first to take advantage of the court's decision. Among them are W. D. Skinner, who owns nine shares of stock in the Hawkeye Insurance company valued at $1,566. He declares that he owes debts amounting to $1,600, therefore his stock cannot be assessed or taxed, so judge McHenry entered a decree allowing other insurance men who had similar decrees filed are H. R. Howell, R. S. Howell and George A. Howell, who own in the aggregate 498 shares of Hawkeye Insurance company stock valued at $86,652. The holders declare their indebtedness will amount to $50,000, therefore leaving the difference to be assessed and taxed which amounts to $36,652. Infected Cows Brought In. Oakdale—Some very convincing evidence as to the positiveness of the tuberculin test for cattle was demonstrated by a recent test made by Dr Edwards of Iowa City on the herd of milch cows at the state sanitarium in Oakdale. The cows were tested, eleven of which showed reaction. The cows were immediately quarantined and later shipped to a packing company at Cedar Rapids and slaughter. All showed the presence of tubercular infection in different degrees. These cattle were received from the state of Illinois some few months ago, accompanied by a certificate showing that they had been tested and were free from tuberculosis. There is not a herd or barn in Iowa that is kept more sanitary than the one at Oakdale, and it is hardly possible for cattle to become infected so badly as these were during the short, time they were in Iowa. All Day Picnic for Labor Day. Des Moines—Instead of the long parade which has been the feature of Labor day for many years, an all day picnic probably will be enjoyed by the laboring people of Des Moines September 6, on which day the event will fall this year. Plans are being formulated by the Des Moines Trades Association for the picnic, with a program of music and addresses, so that the laborers may enjoy a day of rest and observe their holiday's real significance. Seeks a Parole. Marshalltown.—After having been in the Anamogua state — reformatory less than a year, Fred Tupper of Hartland, Wis., who was sentenced to five years for forgery last September, is now seeking a parole, and has written Rev. C. W. McCord of this city whom he victimized after McCord had befriended the young man, asking for his assistance. **Pioneer Iowa Dentist Dead.** Marshalltown.—After finishing his breakfast and reading his paper, Dr. B. V. Van Stokke, a pioneer dentist, lay down on a lounge to rest. A few moments later his wife observed him gasp, and hurrying to his side found him pulseless. Death was due to paralysis of the heart. **Capt. David S. Porter Dead.** Glidden.—Captain David S. Porter passed away at his residence after a protracted illness. In March, 1908, he was stricken with paralysis. Six weeks ago he suffered an attack of pneumonia from which he was unable to rally. Passenger Train and Engine Crash Kelly—Sixteen people were more or less severely injured in a head-on collision of the 3:30 C. & N. W. pass- enger out of Des Molnes and a freight locomotive near here. Bumper Sugar Beet Crop. Mason City—The prospect for a bumper sugar beet crop in this section of Iowa is the beat it has been in years. Baby Is Kidnaped. Burlington—Mrs. Bert Appleby of this city has reported to the police that her husband has kidnapped their baby. The couple had separated and Appleby, according to the mother, stole the child and has disappeared. Tries to Kill Self Storm Lake—Because she believed her husband had been guilty of misconduct with another woman, Mrs. Fred Burnett attempted to commit suicide by taking morphine. Hard work by physicians saved her life. Hotel Saloon Must Go In Alley. Davenport—Owing to the fact that the bar of the Hotel Davenport was situated within 900 feet of S. Anthony's proprietor secured permission from the council to operate the saloon in an alley adjacent to the hotel. Miss Goodale Made Superintendent. Iowa City—Miss Anna C. Goodale, of Watsonville, has been appointed superintendent of University hospital (homeopath), by the new education Assessments Changed by Council Des Molez—Four counties will have an increase of 5 per cent over the farm land valuations reported by the county auditor, according to the order of the executive council in its work of assessment and equalization. The tax levy which will be 3.4 mills on the dollar, a reduction of one-tenth of a mill from last year. Polk county is one of the counties to receive the 5 per cent increase. The others are Plymouth, Howard and Wapello. Dallas will receive a 4 per cent raise and other increases follow; Three per cent—Fremont, Monona and Palo Alto. Two per cent—Adama, Butler, Calhoun, Cass, Chokasaw, Clinton, Floyd, Lucas, Lyon, O'Brien, Union and Winnebago. One per cent—Clay, Kossuth, Madison and Marion. In Johnson county the council ordered a 3 per cent reduction over the figures presented by the county auditor. Railroad assessed valuations were left practically unchanged for most of the roads in the state. The Des Moines Union figures were raised to a total of $120,750 owing to the increase in trackage from 4 to 5.16 miles. A reduction of $80,250 was made in the assessed valuation of the Newton & Northwestern, now a part of the Des Molines, Fort Dorge & Southern. Four interurban roads were valued at a higher figure, as follows: Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern, increase per mile from $2,000 to $2,050; Mason City & Clear Lake, from $1,000 to $1,500; Oaklanda & Buxton, from $1,000 to $1,500; Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern, from $3,000 to $3,600 per mile. The new Alibi Interurban value for assessment at $2,000 per mile. Assessed valuations of express companies were fixed at the same figures, with one exception, the Pacific Express company, the assessed valuation of which was increased from $25 to $30 per mile. Dows Creamery Prosperous. Dows—The pay checks for June milk delivered to the Farmers'. Co-operative Creamery company of this city were issued at this place and the amount footed up to over $11,000, paid to the farmers few milk and cream delivered at the local factory during the month. The Dows creamery is strictly a local concern. It has no skimming stations or feeders and the amount of cash put in circulation is considered the largest ever paid out by a local concern in a town the size of Dows in the state. The creamery the past year erected a new cement building for its plant, and is modern and up-to-date in every respect. Plan for Sauerkraut Day **Plan for Sauerkraut Jay** Eldora—Ackley business men and boosters have a way of managing four of July and other fete days and celebrations where they always come out behind financially and keep their outlook Christianity by celebrating every year. It was at Ackley that "Sauerkraut Day" originated and this year the date has been set for September 23. After all of the fourth of July bills had been paid this year it was found that there was a handsome balance in the treasury which was transferred to the Sauerkraut day fund and now $184 remains in the treasury for a starter for the fall fete day. **Mined 1,500,000 Tons of Coal.** Des Molines, Iowa—One million and a half tons of coal were mined in Polk county from July 1, 1908 to June 20, 1909, according to a preliminary estimate given out by L. E. Stamm, secretary of the state mine inspectors. In the year from July 1, 1907, to June 30, 1908, there were 1,358,097 tons of coal mined in this county. The tentative figures made from the reports received thus far indicate that the increase will carry the total-production of the Polk county mines past the 1,600,000 mark easily: **Des Moines-Nebraska City Road.** Des Moines—An examination preliminary to building a new railroad through southwestern Iowa from Des Moines to-Nebraska City, probably will be made immediately by the St Paul & Des Moines railroad company. The announcement was made by Fred McMillan, vice president and general manager of the company. The people along the proposed route have already been sufficiently interested to warrant an examination of the territory preparatory to ordering a survey. **Goes on the Pension List** Iowa Falls.-City Marshal-Frank Gifford is one of the very few police officers in Iowa who will go on the pension list under the new law adopted by the last legislature pensioning policemen and firemen who have served continually for twenty-two years. **Ft. Dodge Pioneer is Dead** Fort Dodge, Mrs. Melissa Simons, born in Marshall county, Iowa, in 1841, when her parents were among the earliest of Iowa pioneers, passed away at the home of her daughter in this city. She was 68 years of age. **Garver Follows Wife to Grave** Des Moines.-After an illness which has lasted since the death of his wife seven weeks ago, George Garver, one of the oldest residents of Des Moines, died at Mothodist hospital of neuralgia of the heart. Burlington—Slamata Gachamis, the Greek who was injured at Lockridge, Iowa, died at Mercy hospital in this city. It was the injury to Gachamis that caused the riot at Lockridge, in which Conductor Hayes of Burlington was mobbed. Dubuque Carpenter Drowned. Dubuque.—Peter Semmert while bathing in the Mississippi drowned five miles north of Dubuque. The deceased was a carpenter, 42 years of age and unmarried. COULDN'T GET SI TO ENTHUSE Hired Man's Remarks Could Hardly Be Said to Be in Nature or of Compliment. The young lawyer, having been nominated for the office of county attorney, thought to surprise an eccentric genius by the name of Si who was working as a hired man on the young lawyer's father's farm. "Well, Si, what do you think?" the young man began. "Sometimes one thing, Lonny, as sometimes 'nother." "But, Si, they have nominated me for county attorney." "They might a' done, lose. Lonny. Howsomeone, don't holler till you out of the woods." The young attorney was duly elected, and was to the farm announced the fact unfortunely to Si, who was at the woodpile, saw in hand. "Well, Si, I am elected by a large majority. What do you think of that?" Lonny, Lonny down in our parts when I was raised, when I wanted a stopper 'n' hadn't any cock, we generally took a corn cob."—Youllen Companion. "Farmer, which of those cows of yours gives the buttermilk"? "None of 'em. The goat." 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The Recondite Person, "knew," suggested the Practical Person, "but my son—just out from college, you know, and in the habit of thinking backed thoughts, as it were—said something only this morning that appealed to me; 'Some men, he said, get a reputation and keep it; other reputation and make it keep them.'" The attractions of men to women and women to men are full of the most perplexing inconsistencies and contradictions imaginable. It is, for instance, a physical law that magnetism is not simple attraction of one thing for another, but the difference of two opposing forces of attraction and repulsion, of which the former is the greater. The same law holds in relation to the attraction of men and women for each other, in which, a rule, the masculine is the superior force—T. P. S. Weekly, London. How an Angry Woman Looked The other day we saw an angry woman in a street car and her face was anything but a pleasant picture. was angry at the conductor, enlisting her to look more terrible than if she had had a real grievance—Nebraska Journal. His Need. "What you require," said Knowlott, "is a thrifty, economical wife." "Why?" asked his friend blankly. "Because you're a poor young man," wrote the answer. "What you need." What I need is a wealthy, liberal wife. A doctor in Kansas experimented with his boy in a test of food and gives the particulars. He says: "I naturally watch the effect of different foods on patients. My own little son, a lad of four, had been ill with pneumonia and during his convalescence did not seem to care for any kind of food. "I watched something of Grape-Nuts and its rather fascinating flavor and particularly of its nourishing and nerve-building powers, so I started the boy on Grape-Nuts and found from the first dish that he liked it. 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"There's a Reason," Read "The sad to Wellville," in pks. "Never read the whole story. A lawyer says that rape-Nuts are pruned trees, and fall of human ANGEL PARADISE (Copyright, by J. B. Lippincott Co) Lonesome Linthicum and I sat in comfortable leather chairs before the open fireplace in the club rotunda. I walked in and looked at Paradise, Artzona, where Lonesome and spent some years as cow-puncher and miner before he made his stake. In his hand was a letter from Big Jernigan, an old comrade of those days, now known as the Hon. William Jernigan, member of con-federation from the sovereign state of Montana. Lonesome was reminiscent, and when Lonesome was behaved his friends to keep silence and give heed. I knew my cue, and his story was my reward: "Angel, angel!" You see, I went daffy at once. "Hello!" she repeated as she looked round the room. "It is a game! Ob I see, I see!" Then she paddled over one of the bar polinton of Pap Johnson behind the ice-box, shouted gleefully: "I spy!" and ran to Bill Jernigan. She slapped old Bill on his chap-covered legs and said: "One, two, free for you! Now you are it! All the res' is home free." Then she threw both arms around Bill's left arm and waited for the boys to come 'home.' You ought to have given them a reward. The Hon. William Jernigan: Think of it! Old long-legged Big Bill Jernigan! Well, there heaps worse at Washington. Did I ever tell you about the time Bill and I made faces at each other? No? It happened at Paradise. You remember what Saturday was at Paradise. Town full of punches and the bartenders full of liquor and devilment, and the bartenders full of business. Bill and I had been up all night, bucking Three Fingered Fete's faro game, and were far from well. Bill made the bets and I played look-out for us. Things broke bad, and along about ten o'clock in the morning we quit and were standing at the bar. Bill had a grouch on more than a foot thick, and at that time he was just perfectly natural that nothing either of us said would suit the other. I expressed a desire for corned beef hash and red pepper for breakfast, and what Bill said about my gastronomic ideas was scandalous. Then Bill said he saw a fellow in a stock company in Denver the winter before that was a better actor than Edwin Booth. I never knew Edwin Booth. I never knew his memory most deeply. Finally Bill said he could rope, throw and the more steers in ten minutes than any man in Arizona, and that settled it. Stood There a Moment, Calmly Surveying Things. I retorted some acrimonolous, Bill was not polite. Diplomatic relations were busted, and one of us called the other a liar. I don't remember which one it was, but that makes no difference now. The room was full of the boys, some playing cards and some at the bar, where Three Fingered Pete and Dutch Henry were serving drinks. Dutch Henry and I stood back and dropped our hands to get us, they all respected our feelings and acted according. Dutch and Pete flipped to the floor behind the bar. Seven or eight of the boys broke for the safe. Now, make no mistake—but you won't, because you knew boys. They wasn't afraid; you couldn't scare those fellows. But they had sense. If Bill and I had a difference of opinion, that was our business, not theirs. And if we wanted to settle the纠纷 in each other, that also was our business. So they ducked. I knew there wasn't any use trying to fool around and shoot Bill in the leg or arm. I'd seen Bill shoot when he thought he had to shoot, and under those circumstances Bill shot straight and quick, mind you, might quick. So I decided the only thing that I needed was to elusive unavailible and eat the base-born homily and hog was to beat him to it, and I had a sneaking notion that I was just a little bit quicker on the draw and pull than he was. We stood there maybe ten seconds—it seemed to me like an hour—looking each other in the eye, both crazy mad. Well, my nerves would have twisted up in little knots in about five seconds more, and I would have probably been in a panic. Bill would have potted me, but just before I blew up a voice at the saloon door said: "Hello!" soft and sweet, and "retardo" on the "lo." Now, if that had been a man's voice neither of us would have paid any attention to it, or else we would have both turned in and licked the everlasting daylights out of him for interfering with two gentlemen who were trying to settle a scientific difference—according to how mad we were. But it wasn't. On the contrary, quite the reverse. I saw Bill's glance waver, and I knew Bill couldn't shoot a man that wasn't looking, any more than he could wear a stiff collar; so, my curiosity being a some aroused, I turned toward the door. I almost hate to tell you, it was so lovely. There on the top step, just inside the screen door, was the sweet, cleanest, pretified glove in a white ever saw, with a blue sash, white half-shoe that showed her dimpled knees and fat little legs, white shoes, and a white bonnet with a lace frill around the front, tied under her dimpled chin with a big white ribbon. Geel! but she was the prettiest little thing that ever struck Arizona, bar none. I took one look and said: "Angel, angell!" You see; I went darty at once. "Hello!" she repeated as she looked round the room. "It is a game. Oh I see. I spy!" Then she paddled over to the end of the bar, pointed one fat little finger at Pap Johnson behind the ice-box, shouted gleefully: "I spy!" and ran to Bill Jernigan. She slipped on his chap-covered legs and said: "One, two, free for you! Now you are it! All the rest is 'home free.'" In the anvil she is home. Then she leaves them around. She left the leg and waited for the boys to come "home." You ought to have seen Bill. He looked at me sort of dazed like, then looked down at the baby, then looked away far off somewhere, and said in a faint whisper: "Well, I'm darned!" And if he said it once he said it 20 times. Just stood there like a human hitchhiking-post and phonograph combined and said: "Well, I'm darned!" The boys all gathered round from their safety corners, looking as sheepish as if the teacher had caught them chewing gum, but I was too much interested in Angel to pay any attention to them then. I always was fond of dogs and children and things like that. I knelt down, so as to get somewhere near on a level with that little white bonnet, and asked: "Whose little girl are you, honey?" "Mama's," was the prompt reply. "I'd be a stack of blue on that," said Bill. "Is your name?" "Anna Louise, thank you." "You're welcome. All right. I'll believe that, even. Anna Louse goes with me, but Anna Louse what?" "Nuffin. Jes' Anna Louse." "And where is mamma?" "Oh, she's right over there," and she immediately around to embrace three quarters of the compass. Then she proposed breathlessly: "Le's play 'Lunnon Bridge.' It's the most fun!" We told her we would like to but that we had forgotten how. Bill then swung her up on the bar and gravelly asked her what she would do. "Well, I did, soda water and we all took the same, although some of the boys objected." When the drinks were all in hand I got on a chair and made an eloquent, orate and highly popular speech, in which I said that never before had I seen the wisdom of naming our thriving municipality "Paradise," and that at times it had seemed to me the party or parties naming it must have gotten mixed on their Scripture or else have waxed sarcastic; but that now a great light the bright white light of the sun illuminated the alleged intellect, and illuminated the imminent recesses of an ever sluggish mind ("Hear, hear!" from the boys). An Angel had come to Paradise, I said, a sweet little angel straight from heaven, or St. Louis, or somewhere. Her given name might be Anne Louse, as she told us, but if so it was a mistake. Angela she was, and Angela she must be. And inasmuch as she had no other name, according to her own statement, a statement I presumed no gentleman present would doubt (loud) that he had taken the liberty of giving her the name of the fair city she had honored with her presence, and proposed a toast to "Angel Paradise." Well, you never saw a toast excite such enthusiasm—certainly not one drunk in soda-water. As we finished the drink, the door opened with some violence, and a chap rushed in, clad in spats, a white waistcoat, a stiff collar, a derby hat, and some other useless outer habiliments. His glance fell on Angel, and he helped: "Me child, me child!" Angel stood there on the bar, waving a chubby hand, and said: "Hello, pop!" After he had calmed down, he introduced himself as Mr. Hawthorne of Boston, who was touring Arizona for his wife's health. He explained they had stopped at the Cowboy's Retreat for a few hours' rest, and Angel had wandered away. So Bill turned to Angel and said: "Come, sister, get on my shoulder, and it's us for mamma." Then he swung Angel up and strode out of the saloon. Papa introduced us to mamma and explained we were friends of his that had found Angel and looked after her. They were just starting for Tucson in the hotel surry, and we were soon forced to say good-by to our little Angel Paradise. The blessed, little baby patted old Bill on the cheek and said: "I love 'oo', and then, seeing I looked disappointed, which I was, she graciously said: "An 'oo, too. An' all I saw us all in with a wave of the hand. And the last we saw of her she was flirting mamma's handkerchief from the back of the surrey as it disappeared in the dust around the bend. On our way back to Pete's, Bill put his arm around my shoulders and said: "Lonesome, I'm some fond of red pepper on hash myself." I grinned a little and he went on: "And Lonesome, come to think it over, that fellow was a rotten bad actor, anyhow." We had reached Pete's and were just going in when he squeezed me a little: "Furthermore, Lonesome, when I was talkin' about趴 steer's I excepted you in my mind all the time." And we never did finish that fight Not So Bad. "Th' feller what went t' congress from this deestrict sent me a whole passel iv garden seeds," said the pessimistic granger, "an not a gosh blamed one uv 'em ever come up, by grass!" "oh' well," replied the optimistic proprietor of the crossroads grocery, "you sn't got no kick comin'. He might send you his speeches or phonograph records." WRIGHT IS AIR KING DAYTON AVIATOR SETS NEW RECORD FOR AEROPLANE ENDURANCE. PRESIDENT SEES THE FLIGHT Orville Files Double the Distance Across the English Channel While Hubert Latham is Falling into the Water Near Dover. Washington.—Flying 50 miles, which is more than double the distance across the English channel, Orville Wright, the American "king of the air," Tuesday at Fort Myer, broke the aeroplane endurance record, with Lieut. Frank P. Lahn, as a passenger. The machine was the last one hour, 12 minutes and 9 seconds. The former record was made last year, and the former Wilbur, joint inventor with him of the machine in which both achievements were performed, at Le Mans, France, with Prof. Painlee of the French institute as passenger. That flight was one hour, nine minutes and 31 seconds. The cheering which heralded the setting of a new mark in the conquest of the air was led by President Taft in person, who was an intensely interested spectator throughout the flight, and who insisted at its conclusion upon personally congratulating the brothers upon his all-important to the Wrights in that it completed the first of two crucial tests of their machine imposed upon them by the United States government—the so-called "endurance test," which required them to remain one hour continuously in the air with one passenger. The other test, that for speed, will be compiled with to-day, weather permitting, when Orville is to take Lieutenant Benjamin Foulkes of the flight to Alexandria and return, a total of ten miles, over a measured course, and at a speed required to average 40 miles an hour. Miss Katherine Wright; who nursed her brother through the period of his recovery from the disaster last fall anxiously watched him from the doorway of the shed where the acropolis from his flight gripped him eagerly by the arm, nestled her face against his breast and said: "Bully for you, brother, it was beautiful." It is a question whether this word of praise was not more to him than that which came a few minutes later when the president of the United States, who had waited for him at the other end of the great parade ground, took him warmly by the hand and, with the other grasping that of his brother Wilbur: "I congratulate you heartily, sir. It was a great exhibition. You came down as easily and gracefully as you went up. You beat the world's record. Dover, England—Hubert Latham's second attempt to fly across the Englsh channel ended disastrously. Twice this year, the moment of history his monoplane fluttered down into the sea two miles beyond the Admiralty wing, like a bird with a broken wing. Thousands of persons crowding the water front saw the fall and feared Latham was dead. A flock of large and small craft raced to the scene of the disaster, and a pinnace from the British battleship Russell picked up the unlucky flyer and put him aboard the French torpedo boat destroyer Escopette. After a surgeon had attended to his injuries the destroyer brought Latham ashore and he was taken to the Lord Warden hotel. His face was bandaged and bleeding and his nose was broken. The machine, badly wrecked, was hoisted from the boat to the dock. Dover, England—Louis Blierot, the famous French aeronaut, performed the feat of flying across the English Channel from the monoplane. He landed on the cliffs of Dover shortly after dawn Sunday. The aviator accomplished the remarkable feat of flying across the channel in 23 minutes, traveling at the rate of nearly a mile a minute. By his achievement Bleriot won the prize of $5,000 offered by the London Daily Mall, for the first flight across the English channel, and stole a march on his rivals, Hubert Latham and Count de Lambert; both of whom had hoped to make the attempt Sunday. Rioting at McKees Rocks. Pittsburgh.—For the first time in ten days rioting broke out at the plant of the Pressed Steel Car Company at McKees Rocks, Monday, when the striking employees of that concern were fired upon, it is alleged, by deputy sheriffs. No one was injured. The car plant is again surrounded by armed guards. The strike of the employees of the Standard Steel Car Company at Butler was amicably settled. Lawson's Daughter Causes Arrest. Waukean, ill.—Mrs. Prentice Cooney, daughter of Thomas W. Lawson, saw W. Atkinson, a teammate, beating a horse so cruelly that it lost an eye. Being a member of a humane society she had him arrested. He was find $25 and costs. $220,000,000 to Move Crops. Washington.—The government, assisted by the national banks, will at once issue $220,000,000 in bills of one and five-dollar denominations to aid the annual crop movement. Allens Must Have $25. New York—Secretary Nagel of the department of commerce and labor upheld the ruling of Commissioner of Immigration Williams that an alien must have $25 in his possession or be refused admission to the country. Forty Thousand on Strike. Stockholm—Forty thousand workers in the paper, woolen, cotton and allied industries went on strike. The strike will be extended to the iron workers on August 2. 9,00 DROPS CASTORV ALCOHOL PER CENT. Vegetable Preparation for Asimilating the Food and Repeating the Saturates and Blood of INFANTS - CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and New Contains neither Opham, Morpheus nor Marital. NOT NARCOTIC. Signature of the Distributor Appeal Benedict for Complition, Sour Starch, Diarrhea Worms, Corvusions, Fevertiness and LOSS OF SLEEP. For Single Signature of NEW YORK. 48 months old 35 DOSES - 35 CENTS Guaranteed under the Food Act. Exact Copy of Wrapper. CALLING DOWN THE BOASTER Good Little Story Told by William Dean Howells as a Rebuke to Spread-Engleism. "It was William Dean Howells" said a Cameroonian who first rebuke us, Americans for our spread-engleism, for our foolish boasting. I see that Mr. Howells has just joined a men's society for the promotion of woman suffrage. Trust him to be in the forefront always. "I once heard Mr. Howells deliver a fourth of July oration in Maine. The orator preceded him but boasted a cawk-cawk that some of the man's boasts were even implious. "He said that these spread-engleo boasters deserved the rebuke that the little child administered to the cackling hen that had just laid an egg. The child, angered by the hen's continuation, cawk-cawk-cawk, cawk-cawk-cawk, shook his little finger at her and said: "You fink you are smart. But Dod made dat egg. You couldn't help but lait it!" SKIN ERUPTION CURED. Was So Sore, Irritating and Painful That Little Bufferer Could Not Sleep —Scratched Constantly. Cuticura's Efficacy Clearly Proven. "When about two and a half years old my daughter broke out on her hips and the upper parts of her legs with a very irritating and painful eruption. It began in October; the first I noticed was a little red surface and a constant desire on her part to scratch her limbs. She could not sleep and the eruptions got sore, and yellow water came out of them. I had two doctors treat her, but she grew worse under their treatment. She then went to the Custodian Remedies and only used them two weeks when she was entirely well. This was in February. She has never had another rough place on her skin, and is now fourteen years old. Mrs. R. R. Whitaker, Winchester, Tenn. Sept. 22, 1908." in the cities of New York and Boston there are, according to special commissions which recently investigated the subject, over 30,000 children in these two cities that have tuberculosis. On the basis of these and other investigations it is estimated by certain authorities that there are nearly 1,000,000 school children in the United States to-day who will probably die of tuberculosis before they have reached the age of 18. This would mean that the public is paying annually about $7,500,000 for the education of children who will die before they reach the age of 18. "A Cheap Skate." "Joel Chandler Harris," said an Atlantan, "used to write comic newspaper editorials. Sometimes he made fun of other editors in them, too, like the writer editor in Mobile, having been made fun of, wrote angrily in his rage: "Joel Harris has been getting off some cheap wit at our expense." "Joel, on reading this, grabbed his pen and dashed off, quick as a flash, for next day's issue; "It must have been cheap, Simon, to be at your expense." Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beauty. Home laundering would be equally satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. The Real Friction. Actor's Wife—Do you know, my dear, this massage treatment is dreadfully expensive. Actor (tragically)—Ay, there's the rub! A Natural Selection. "What do you suppose would be an aerospace engineer choice?" "I don't know, but I would suggest an air plant." 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It was just at the beginning of the baseball season when an Episcopal clergyman, who is an ardent and enthusiastic lover of the great American game, inadvertently remarked at the end of the portion of Scriptures which he read: "Here endeth the first innings." Then he woke up. Well. Not Very Often. The little daughter of a Republican candidate for a local office down in Philadelphia, when told that her father had received the nomination, looked serious for a moment, then her wee voice trembled a bit as she exclaimed: "Ob, mam! do they often die of it?" His Handicap. Kind Lady—Ah, my poor man, why don't you straighten up and take your place in society? Dusty Dan—What would be the use, mum? I am too restless to play "bridge." It was David who said: "All men are liars." And he might have added that married men have opportunities thrust upon them. EVERY GOOD HOUSEKEEPER wants white clothes. It's easy if she uses RUSS BLUE. 5c at grocers. 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Cassaret, New Stokke or Grype, 10c, 26c, 30c. Never sold in bulk. The general is guaranteed to cure your money back. The Des Moines Daily and Sunday News are full months for $1.00. Paper stops when time is out unless you renew. HOMES with water protection, fruit and alfalfa farms, Growers' Market, Balanced Farmers' Valley of Tulsa, the home of the fruit near depot. For information address with stamp, L. E. DUMBLEY, Monterey, N. M. IOWA FARMS 1122 CASH BALANCE & CROP TEL NUMBER SOME PEOPLE WE MET. Having more than an hour to wait in Oceola for the Burlington train going west we want up town and called to see Mr. and Mrs. John Bryan, who have lived here for a number of years. They have two sons living at Des Moines, Sam and Charley. Frank is still driving the bus from the depot to the hotel, a position he has held for a number of years. Miss Anna Williams, a relative of Mr. John Walker of Des Moines, is chef at the Howes Hotel and like all progressive race women she believes in reading literature published by our race, so she selected the Bytatender as one of the periodicals. At the depot in Creston we met our congenial friend, Mr. Chas. Burnugh, he expects to visit the State Fair this summer. Mr. G. W. Dow is employed at Straus Dry Good Store, owns a nice home and is doing well. Mrs. R. D. Martin is in Portland, Ore., for her health and expects to remain there until next spring; so Mr. Martin and his son are doing their own housekeeping. The former is troubled some with rheumatism, but has saved and invested his money in real estate and owns some valuable property. We were sorry to learn from Mrs. Chas. Clark that her husband was killed a few months ago in Deadwood, So. D., where he was running a hotel and restaurant. Our next stop was in Clarinda and every one was very busy. A number of the men were working in the harvest field. Mr. E. B. Cook the expert carpet cleaner, has enjoyed a good business this spring and summer, so he will have charge of a refreshment stand at the fairs and chauqua meetings for the next few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. L. Jones have made some improvements on their house this year. Miss Daisy Lee who was a delegate to the A. M. E. Sunday School convention that met in this city last month, lives with them. Mr. H. H. Farrari. the carriage painter expects to spend the winter in the South. Miss Majoria Lounerie was in the country assisting her sister, Mrs. P. Pemberton, during the harvest season. Mr. H. H. Cook who conducts a barber shop, also dealer in groceries and confectioners. He expects to increase his stock and we say to the Afro-Americans of that city give him your patronage, and then he will be able to put in a large assortment of goods. Mr. Cook, also Rev. C. C. Callaway, pastor of the Baptist church, are among our new subscribers; the latter had just returned from Chicago where he attended the meeting of the Western Baptist Association. In Shenandoah there are very few colored people. Mr. R. P. Caldwell is employed at the Hunt's Hotel and owns several houses. Mrs. Caldwell has been in poor health for several months and her mother, Mrs. Bowman, an invalid lives with them. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Collins who lives several blocks from town have a nice garden and a number of chickens. They also own their property. Mr. T. W. Griggs-by lives in his home near them. The next stop was in the progressive town of Red Oak. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hampton, former residents of this city are living there now. Mr. Hampton is bailiff for U. S. Federal Judge S. McPherson, which position he has retained for several years. Mrs. Hampton wanted to know why our correspondent at Keokuk did not send news every week. As we don't know we will let the agent answer her question. Mr. Oscar Connor is still conducting his barber shop and has a good patronage. He is still a "stand pat" politician and will get the "progressives" yet. Mr. H. S. Martin was taking a few days vacation, part of what was spent in Bedford visiting relatives and friends. His wife who had been visiting her parents in that town returned home with him. As before stated by the Bystander, we believe that Mr. P. S. Everhart has the largest and best music store owned by any Afro-American in the middle west. He informed me that his business was increasing continually and he expected to make this month the best since he had been in business. The Schaff Bro. Piano Co. has made several pianos for him and named them the P. S. Everhart and he has sold all except one, which he kept for a sample. Next year he will have a large number made. So this must be a good proof that his customers have faith in his word to select a piano that begins his name when a number of pianos have been on the market for nearly a century. Miss Marguerite Fields and Mr. E. H. Morgan the trap drummer, the Majestic theater in the evening and part of the day at Everhart's music store. We are glad to see these young musicians making such good progress. Again we say don't forget the $300 rally that is to be held at the A. M. E. church August 1st, an interesting program has been arranged for the occasion. Rev. J. C. Ried pastor of the Mr. Zion Baptist church has been confined to his home for several weeks with rhumamatian. Mr. Louis Smith who has been visiting in the city for the past week returned to his claim in Dakota Sunday. Died in our city July 23rd, John Westley Barnum, at his home 114 no. Jennings street aged 59 years. Mr. Barnum was another one of our old citizens, he has been in our city for many years. He was a good citizen in every sense of the word, he has no relatives that are known of; he was a good mason. He was killed by old and young. The mason had charge of the signal. The service was held Sunday at 8 o'clock from the Mr. Zion church, Rye, J. C. Bied and M. G. Newman officiated, interment at Floyd cemetery. Mr. Joseph Bake: returned home Monday from Chicago after having been absent for several weeks. Mrs. Fannie Smith and children returned home after a six weeks visit with relatives and friends in Leavenworth and Kansas City. Mr. E. W. Thompson of Des Moines, collector for the Iowa State Bystander arrived in our city Monday, spent two days in his work and left Tuesday evening for his home. Just a few more weekt and the mails will be leaving their respective places to report at the annual conference and then they will know whether they come back or where they go. Mr. Thomas Sturgis returned home Tuesday after a pleasant visit in Chicago with relatives, he was accompanied by his sister Mrs. G Brooks and her daughter Miss Bell. Mr Chas, Watkins was an over Sunday visitor in our city the Miss of E Crawford, my Dan Gupid is getting busy. Died in our city July 2nd at 5 p.m. Miss Laura Smith, aged 16 years, she has been a patient sufferer with consumption for over a year, and every thing had been done to save her yet God came and released her from her pains, she gladly answered the call and said good-bye mother I am going. She leaves two sisters a brother and mother and a host of relatives and little friends to mourn her departure. The funeral was held from the residence Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock Rev M G. M. Newman of the A. M. E church officiated by Rev. R. Knight and M. I. Gordon. Interment was in Logan Park cemetery. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. The family has our sympathy in their bereavement. Mrs. Luia Leu went to Chicago Sunday to visit six weeks with relatives and friends. The automobile picnic given by the Porter's club at Talbot farm last Thursday was highly enjoyed by all who went, they will anxiously wait for the second one MT. PLEASANT NOTES. Miss Berta Harris of Minneapolis is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harris at 306 Madison street. Mr. Ralf Burnough of Crestor is spending a few day with his many friends here. Little Miss Marie Arbuckle is in a peculiar condition at her home very little hope is entertained for her recovery. Rev. Abner of Chicago preached a very sible sermon to the congregation of the Second Baptist church Sunday evening. Mr. Garfield Turner was a business visitor in Otumtua Monday. Master Dick Stewart left today for his home in Fairfield. He has been spending a few days with his aunt Mrs. Sara Barry of north Main Street, Monday evening the Misses Erma and Hazel Logan entertained a company of friends in honor of their brother Mr. Geo. Ronte, games and music furnished amusement for the evening and light refreshments were served. Mr. Geo. Route left Tuesday for his home in Minneapolis after having spent a few days with relatives and friends. Mrs. Mat Wafts has returned from Logansport, Ind., weere she has been visiting for a few weeks. Mr. Art. Smith, of Streater, Ill., is spending a few days in the city this week. Mrs. Ash Carter received the sad news of the death of her sister in Centerville. The Twilight Literary society gave an interesting program Tuesday evening. KEOKUK, IOWA Mrs. W. E. Steel is very ill at her home on North 10th street, having suffered a stroke of paralysis, July 6th. Friends hope for a speedy recovery. Mr. Mark Johnson and Miss Garnet Teatheau, both of Keokuk, repaired to Quincy Saturday, July 10th, and were married by Right Rev. Bishop Fawcett of the Episcopal diocese. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Cornelia Teatheau of 419 N. 10th street, and a young lady of charming quality. The groom comes from one of the best families in Keokuk and is a worthy young man. They have a host of friends who greatly rejoice in their happiness. They will reside at 1419 North 15th street. The grand lodge of Masons which convened in Keokuk July 13, 14 and 15 was well attended. The city was full of delegates and visitors, the largest gathering for many years. A splendid success frost start to finish. Tuesday afternoon a picnic was given at Rand Park which was greatly enjoyed by all. A splendid program was rendered to the delight of everyone present. On Wednesday evening the Memorial service was held at the A. M. E. church, corner 7th and Morgan streets. A large crowd gathered to pay respect to the memory of the deceased brethren. A beautiful program was rendered which was sad and impressive, after which refreshments were served by the Sunshine Club in the spacious dining rooms of the church. Thursday evening a large crowd of pleasure seers gathered at Glenoaks opera house, 8th and Main street, so enjoy the banquet which was given by the local lodge of Keokuk. It was a splendid success both socially and financially. Misses hTff, ac w Messra. Albert Walker. I. L. Brown, Joe Robinson and wife of Marshalltown, John Spencer of Grinnell and J. H. Shepard of Moines were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Fields of 323 N. 13th street during the grand conclave of Masons. Mr. George Sutter of Marshalltown and Mrs. L. Buckner of Moines were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gross, 1425 High St., during the grand conclave of Masons. Mr. and Mrs. James Woods and sister Cecil Harris were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Fields at 13th and Morgan streets during the convention of the grand lodge. Messrs. W. H. London of Buxton, W. H. Milligan of Cedar Rapids, and T. H. Sturgas, Sioux City, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Bland, 1318 High street during the meeting of the grand lodge. Mr. and Mrs. O. Fields, 1125 Fulton street, very pleasantly entertained Messrs. J. L. Thompson of Des oines, H. K. Hillon of Omaha, Bob Johnson, Chas. Credit, S. Mitchell of Oskalocosa, W. G. Shepard of Buxton and John Drew of Burlington during the grand conclave of Masons. Messrs. T. Woods, Avery Miller and Charles Cousins of Des Moines, Culberson of Clinton, Ed, and Henry Martin of Dubuquer and James Loyd were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Turner 1419 High street, during the convention of Masons last week. Messrs. E. Swan, Albert Greet, Carl Brown, Geo. Jackson, Calvin Wheeler, W. H. Crawford, R. Summers of Marshalltown were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Shortridge, 1419 Fulton street, during the grand conclave of Masons. Misses Mary and Frances Sanders of Hannibal, Mo., returned home Tuesday morning after a delightful visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Shortridge during the meeting of the grand lodge. Mrs. Emma Teabauen left Monday morning for Chicago, Ill., to attend the grand session of the S. M. T. of Illinois and Jurisdiction. She will repair from there to St. Paul to attend the national convention of the S. M. T. which convenes there the following week. Miss Mable Hall of Moline, Ill. is in the city, the guests of Miss Della Bland. She was pleasantly entertained at breakfast Monday morning by Mrs. P. A. Jones, of 1125 Concert street. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jones entertained at dinner Thursday Messrs. J. L. Thompson and J. H. Sheyard of Des Moines. Tuesday evening at their beautiful home, 1125 Concert street, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jones very delightfully entertained at a six o'clock luncheon Mr. and Mrs. James Woods and sister Cecil Harris and T. Woods of Des Moines, Avery Miller and Roscoe Jones of Oskaloosa and Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Fields of this city. Miss Katie Owens of 1223 Morgan street, entertained at a six o'clock dinner Wednesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. James Woods and Brother Claud and sister Cecil Harris and Mr. S. J. Brown of Des Moines, Mr. Geo. Sutter of Marshalltown, Miss Mable Hall of Moline, Ill., Mr. and Mrs. Wf. Gross, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Fields of this city, Mrs. S. Buckner of Des Moines. An elegant four-course luncheon was served by the hostess. Mr. Selby Johnson, 1308 High street, entertained a number of Quincy ladies who came up to attend the banquet Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Fields entertained at their home, 18th and Morgan streets, Messrs. W. H. London of Buxton, T. H. Sturgris of Sioux City, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Woods, Miss Cecil Harris and Mrs. S. Buckner of Des Moines, Mr. and Mrs. W. Gross, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Barnard, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Bland, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Fields of this city. Whist was irudged in until a late hour, after which an elegant repast was served by the hostess. Mr. and Mrs. Breckenridge of Hamilton, Ill., entertained at dinner Friday I. L. Brown of Marshalltown, Iowa. Mrs. Wm. Gross of 1432 High street was hostess to a small whist party given in honor of Mrs. S. Buckner, Mr. and Mrs. James Woods, Geo. Sutter, Miss Cecil Harris, Mehdames F. D. Fields, G. Branard, F. D. Bland, A. J. Fields, F. S. Johnson Friday afternoon. Every one greatly enjoyed Mrs. Gross' hospitality and left declaring her a royal enter- A large delegation from Quincy and Burlington came to attend the banquet and dance Thursday evening. Mesdames Ellen Dixon, Grand Preceptress, Eula Fields, Bell Akens and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Robinson, Grand Mentor, will leave Monday morning for Des Moines to attend the grand conclave of the International Order of Twelve, the Knights and Daughters of Tabor. They will also attend the national convention of the S. M. T. which convenes in St. Paul the following week. Mrs. Georgie Coleman was hostess to a number of Quincy ladies who came up to attend the banquet Tuesday night. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Bland of 1029 High street entertained at breakfast Thursday in honor of W. H. Milligan of Cedar Runids, H. K. Hillon and W. P. Wade of Omaha, J. L. Thompson, J. H. Shepard of Des Moines, W. H. London of Buxton, T. H. Sturris of Sioux City, I. L. Brown, Geo. Sutter of Marshalltown, J. W. Bland, F. T. Bland of this city. The morning was pleasantly amd will be kindly remembered by those that were present. Mr. Bert Kebo was seriously hurt in a runaway Monday morning at 5th and Concert street. The seat with its occupant was hurled high in the air, and Kebo alighted on his head in the gutter. Assistance came hurriedly and he was taken to his home where medical attention was given him. Messrs. S. Joe Brown. E. T. Banks of Des Moines, Elliott of Ottumwa, W. P. Wade of Omaha, Neb., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. Green, 1416 Morgan St. Misses Margaret Donglass and sister of St. Louis, Mo., are the guests of Mrs. Cornelia Teabcau, 419 N. 10th St. Miss-Harper of Ft. Madison was the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Freeman last week. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Fields pleasantly entertained a party of their young friends Friday evening. Cards and dancing were indulged in until a late hour, after which a dainty repast was served by the hostess. Messas Horace and Harvey Spencer of Chicago and Isaac Hall compose the new cement contracting firm here, they are meeting with success, having all the work that they can attend to. Words of commendation are heard on every hand concerning the manner in which they are coudeting their business. Mrs. Horace Spencer has arrived here from Chicago and they are at home at 490 south 7th avenue. Miss Blanche Shelton has returned here after a three weeks visit at her home in Chicago. She is at the home of Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Black, she con templates taking a nurses training course at the Sanitorium. Mrs. G. W. Black and daughter Ruth have returned from a visit wite relatives in Oskaloosa and Keosuaa. Rev. Coleman of Oskaloosa, visited at the G. W. Black last week and held meetings at the A. M. E church several evenings and incidentally assisted Rev. Stovall with his quarterly meeting last Sunday. Mr. Chus, Cassell of Fairfield visited friends in the city las: week and attended the Carnival. Miss Nora Brown was the guest of Miss Hellen Motts during the Carnival week and returned to her home Monday morning. Last Sunday was the 4th quarterly meeting of this conference year, presiding elder L. J. Gordon was unable to be present and Ear Stovall was assisted by Rev. Coleman of Oekaloos who preached two able sermons during the day. Mr. Ray Richardson of Galesburg, Ill., was a Carvival visitor last week, and the indications are that he will be a frequent visitor in our city. Miss Nora Motts was a visitor in Chicago this week. Myrtle Rhodes and childaen of Wellman visited relatives in the city last week. The choir all the A. M. E. church is doing nicely under the leader of Mr. Horace Spencer, he is a splendid director. The social given recently for the benefit of the presiding elder was a success and the committee wishes to thank those who assisted in making it a success. Rev. Sticvall went to Fairfield Wednesday to attend to his pastoral duties for a week. BURLINGTON ITEMS. The ice cream social given by the A. I. club last week at the residence of Mrs. Lumb's was largely attended and a neat sum realized. Mrs. Theodore K. Bell of Boston, Muss, was the guest of Miss Ida Palmer this week. St. Elmo Chapter gave a picnic at Madison avenue park Wednesday. Mr. J. Murray who has been a patient at the Mercy hospital is rapidly recovering. The Thomas Colored Comedians are playing at the Coliseum this week. They are one of the best companies traveling this season. Mr. Jordan Eubanks who has been on Maringa with kidney trouble is now lecest. Mist Flora Jakson is still quite ill as her hoo on Washington street, Mr. J. E. Johnson attended the ball game at Kekuk Sunday week. DAVENPORT NOTES. Mr. James Christina of east Henry street entertained on the 90th last, in honor of her little daughter's 8th birthday. Bethel A, M. E. church gave a sacred concert at St. John's M. E. church on the 27th last, the proceeds are for the building fund. Rev. P. C. Cooper of Matoon, III, paid our city a visit, every one was delighted to see him. He organized Bethel A. M. E. church over 40 years ago. He left Monday for Clinton and Muchakinook to visit relatives and friends. Mrs. Minnie Ballard of West 10th streth was called to St. Paul last week because of a serious accident that happened to her brother. We are sorry to note that he died before her arrival. The body was shipped to Canton, Mo, his former home, accompanied by Mrs. Eugene Greene of Davenport and master Eugene Ballard. We extend our deepest sympathy to his mother and relatives. Misses Margaret and Alice Payne returned home last Thursday after spending four weeks in Louisville, Ky, visiting relatives and friends. They report a most excellent time. The Tri-City picnic was held Wednesday. Miss Nora Allen of Chicago is in the city visiting her parents. COMING EVENTS OF INTEREST The Western Negro Press Association, Kansas City, Mo. August. The National Supreme Lodge K. of P., Kansas City, Mo., August 22 to 25 Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy the Best and Surest. "It affords me pleasure to state that I consider the preparation known as Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy the best remedy of all if I have ever used in my family," says P. E. Herrington of Mount Aerial, Ky. This is the usual verdict of all who use this remedy. 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