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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL, XVI, No 28. CITY NEWS. N. B. I you have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we solicit all your local news—Ed.) Mrs. Gertrude Cannaday will spend the holidays in Kansas City, the guest of relatives and friends. Miss Ada Hyde, accompanied by Mrs. Daisy Lemme of Iowa City will spend her Christmas vacation from college with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Hyde. Mrs. Wm. Smith of Pierre, S. D. arrived in our city this week to spend the holidays with her sister, Mrs. Price Alexande. Mrs Smith formerly lived here. Enola V. Thompson who has been very sick is improving, also little Nelson is much better which is good news to their friends. The members of St. Paul's A. M. E. Sunday School will present the beautiful Christmas Cantata at the church to-morrow, Christmas evening under the direction of W H Warricks. Miss Zoe Richardson which to thank her many friends for their kind assistance in the social and entertaining part of her recital. At the installation of Doric Lodge No. 30, F. A. & F. M., held at their hall on East, 5th street Worshipful 'Master elect J. H. Reynolds appointed the following additional officers; Grant L. White, Enterprise Senior Deacon; W. L. Riley, Des Moines, Junior Deacon; D. T. Mosley Enterprise; Senior Steward: L Garneth, Enterprise; Chaplin Gesley J Hurd, Des Moines, Tyler. Mrs. James Hamilton formerly of this city but now of Chicago, arrived in our city this week to spend Christmas with old friends and her relatives. While here she will be the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Price Alexander, of Highland Park Mrs. E. B. Elliston, 519 13th st makes a speciality of Human Hair Soaps also Shampooing and straightening. Mail orders promptly filled. Dr J. H. Williame left Thursday for Indians to spend the holidays with his wife and her folks. From there the doctor will go to Tennessee and Alabama on a prospective business trip; returning sometime within two months. Dr. Flouney of Kecku has come up here to attend to the doctor's practice while he is away. The Recital given at Union Congregational church last Friday evening is said to be one of the best ever given in this city. A large and appreciative audience listen to good classical music. Miss Richardson was a little nervous on her first piece, but she soon calmed down and showed her ability as a musician. Her tone work and expression of each number was fine. Misses Ethel Bowmer and Florence Gater, soprano singers with a good accompanist Mrs. Wm. Coalson, sang better than they ever did before. These young ladies are among the best singers in the city. Miss Edith Comely the elocutionist was good in her funny boyish manner. Miss Comely will soon give a recital at Drake Auditorium, this will be the first colored girl to give a recital at Drake. It is hoped ere long Miss Richardson who is taking post graduate work at Drake will give a musical recital. At the meeting of the Des Moines Negro Lyceum at the residence of the president Branham N Hyde last Tuesday honored Attorney S. Joe Brown the found of the institution by electing him honorary president and also elected the following officers for the ensuing term. Wm. Warrick, President; Mrs. J. B. Rush, vice-president; Miss Jessie Bell, secretary; Miss Colen Alexander, assistant secretary; Mrs. J. H. McDowell, treasure; Mr. Jesse Grave, correspondence secretary; S. Joe Brown, constitutional adviser; Mrs. E. R. Hall, critic; Miss Bertha Allen, accompanist; Mrs. S. Joe Brown, Attorney J. B. Rush and Dr. E. A. Eau, executive committee. There will be no meeting of the Lyceum next week on account of the Inter-state meeting at Kansas City Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; but on Tuesday Jan 4th the meeting will be held with Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Hughes 2014 Center street, at which time the newly elected officers will be installed MRS. L. DENNY, the reliable rooming house keeper has moved into larger quarters, located at 507 West Grand avenue. and repo's from the Inter-state Association meeting will be made. Mr. and Mrs. David Bowmer of 898 Thirteenth street, announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Ethel, to Mr. Luther H. Smith of New York, sometime during the holidays. It will be remembered that Mr. Smith was formerly in business in our city. Mr. L H. Smith of New York City will arrive in our city this week to spend the holidays. Mr. Smith was here two years ago the western representative of the Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Co., of New York. DAVENPORT NOTPS KEOKUK NOTES. The death of Leroy Hampton occurred at the home of his father, John Hampton. 1825 Franklin street, Saturday morning, Dec. 11th, of tuberculosis. The funeral office on the second A. M. Church, Rev. Jones, pastor of the church, officiating. D. W. Anderson is recovering slowly from his injuries received at a fire some time ago. He was hospitalized at Baptist church on account of his injuries. Sunday was quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church. The Rev. P. H. Phillips, presiding elder, officiated morning and evening. The funeral of the the Samuel Jackson last Friday, was held from the A. M. E. church, Seventh and Morgan street, Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Mr. Jackson was taken to Chicago about one month ago for treatment, having suffered a stroke at marrysalty. The Rev. William Leary left for Monmouth, Ill., where is located during the conference year. The Rev. William Bruce, pastor of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, left for Quincy Saturday, where he was ordained deacon by the Right Rev. Danny Fawcett of the Diocese of Illinois. Mrs. B. L. Anderson very pleasantly entertained the Coterea club at her beautiful home at 14 Fulton street, Thursday evening, Dec. 9. Whist was indulged until a late hour was served by the hostess. Little Elizabeth Gross is ill at her home, 1310 High street. My Missy Craig, who is quite ill, is reported a little better. Union Lodge, A. F. A. M., held their election of officers Tuesday evening, Dec. 14, at 10 a.m. A. J. Fields, W. M.; Wm. Mills, S. W.; Wm. Burnes, W. J.; A. A. Bland, Tresc; Wm. Martin, Sec. There will be service at the Church of St Mary the Virgin Christmas eve, beginning at 11 o'clock. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated. The public is coerced to Josephine Weaver of Kalamazoo, Mich., is in the city, the guest of Mrs. Charles Goens. She will also visit at the home of her aunt, Mrs. S. J. Goens. The Sunday school of the Church of St Mary the Virgin will have their Christmas tree Wednesday evening, Dec. 29, at the Parish Hall on North Fourth street. Subscribe now. Go to the Busy Bee Restaurant Good meals and lunches at all hours. Reasonable prices. Ed Mason, Prop. 309 E. Walnut THE VARIETY has permanently reopened to the public and cordially invite your patronage. Meals and Lunch at all hours. Serving evening parties a specialty Special Chicken Dinner Sundays. Call and eat with us. 1010 Center Street. WE DESPISE A SYCOPHANT. Gloomy View of Taft's Present Attitude Toward the Negro. tude Toward the Negro. President Taft has just recently closed a long and most interesting tour through the south and west. He has been making addresses of more or less importance on matters of national concern. Once in awhile he has had something to say upon the race question. He visited Jackson, Miss, where he elogized the late president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, but we have never heard of him. That of the city failed to entangle and negatively declined to make a spectacular affair of themselves, saying frankly that they did not like the president's Negro policy, and we give them credit for their maudhold and honesty. We despise a sycophant. If you don't like a thing, say so. The Freeman doesn't see very much encouragement for the race in the present attitude of the president toward us as a race. He has said that the race is not the one that we are yet a child race and must not think ourself out of the primary department. He figures that for us to lose the franchise in the south would do the race any special harm, and, besides, if this is accomplished, why, the gain would be enormous for the party. Eleven southern states would be gained for the Republican party and thus the objection of the Mason and Dixie parties would be the country at the expense of the poor Negro. The Negro, who has always been true to the Republican party and has helped to make it what it is and even helped largely in the election of the present chief executive, is now to be given what his blessed Master had offered him on the cross—"vinegar and gall." From one cause and another the Negro has been a long time the enemy of the country, and charges and countercharges have done but little to relieve him. But he is now "wounded in the house of his friends." Will be profit by the lesson? We shall see what we shall see—Indianapolis (Ind). Freeman. PROMOTION FOR B. O. DAVIS. Tenth Cavalry's First Lieutenant As- signed to New Post at Monrovia. The war department has detailed First Lieutenant Benjamin O. Davis, Tenth cavalry, now stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt. to the location of the United States at Monrovia, Liberia, as military attachs. The success of the European powers, allowed by the report of the recent commission sent by the government to Liberia, in effectively controlling the many tribes of natives who inhabit the African interior, chiefly by means of military bodies in the nature of a police force, against the natives themselves and officered by Europeans, has created a desire on the part of this government to study the methods of the colonial authorities in Africa and the organization of their military forces BENJAMIN O. DAVIS. with a view to the utilization of such information as may be so obtained in dealing with the native inhabitants of our own tropical possessions, where conditions somewhat similar to those in the interior of tropical Africa obtain, having especial reference to the southern portions of the Philippine islands; hence the sending of Lieutenant Davis to Mourovia, which appears to be the most available place for the detail of an American army officer and the one affording the best opportunities for the purpose of this government. The republic of the United States is organized in the United States in organizing a police force of its own, and the presence of an American military man at Mourovia will be of great assistance to the government in working out the details of such a plan of assistance, should the government, upon a full consideration of the Liberian commission's report, be decided to comply with Liberia's request. Young Amateur's First Appearance. One of the most enjoyable affairs of Thanksgiving week was the cantata given by a committee of ladies at Summer hall for the benefit of the Lincoln settlement work. The title of the cantata was "A Merry Company; or, Cadets' Picnic," which was rendered in three acts by seventeen young misses and boys. It was their first public appearance. The tambourine drill by seven girls was featured the occasion. The band was of Baptist workers of the settlement house, was director of music, Miss Martha B. Upson, who instructed the young amateurs, deserves much credit for the thorough and effective manner in which each performer rendered his part. The settlement work is principally supported by voluntary contributions and by the proceeds from occasional entertainments. FIRST BID FOR EXPOSITION. R. A. Elliott Says Baltimore Could Handle Semicentennial In 1913. By BRANKLIN F. JOHNSON. That Baltimore is the place where the proposed exposition to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the issuance of the emancipation proclamation in 1913 is to be held is the opinion held by many Baltimoreans. Prominent business and professional men of the city say that Baltimore's proximity to Washington and Philadelphia, as well as the fact that the city could amply take care of a project of this kind, entitles the city to the proposed big show of Negro industry, thrift and progress. Mr. Robert A. Elliott, one of Baltimore's most successful business men, said the other day: Baltimore has struck the deathblow to slavery meant much to the Negro race in the United States. Out of the remarkable ROBERT A. ELLETT. strides from nothing to something we are developing race pride and self-reliance. In the grand march toward success Baltimore's colored people have not lagged behind. We have probably the best housed colored people in any city in this country, and we have good schools, plenty of churches and many successful business and professional men. Our public spirit citizens and business men are in favor of the proposed abortion being held here for many reasons. The American city is only forty miles from Washington and less than 100 miles from Philadelphia. We have friends and friends a chance to visit those cities. This city is rich in historic associations, and the liberal spirit manifested here makes Baltimore the most desirable city for such an ambitious project. Let our friends not overlook the many claims of this city of 90,000 progressive colored people. Mr. Elliott is one of the most successful funeral directors, white or colored. During the fifteen years he has been in business he has made such rapid progress that he has probably the largest undertaking business among colored people in the city. NOW IS THE TIME TO AWAKE Growing Sentiment For More Effective Use of Ballot by Afro-American. Editor Murphy of the Afro-American Ledger, commenting upon the attitude of the two great political parties toward Afro-American, strikes the current of racial thought and opinion in a large measure when he says: "Some day the Afro-American will a take to care of that he counted something and that he is a factor in securing something for somebody and, as office seems to be the acme of all parties, that it would be well for the Afro-American to take a look around before casting his ballot. If he is not to be the gainer by belonging to this or that party, then probably it would be better to belong to neither and take his chances by voting for the best man regardless of party. In thinking about these narrow will probably result in doing some good." The Race Taking Care of Itself. In a speech delivered at a meeting held in the interest of the Robert Gould. Thaw House, a social settlement work for Afro-American at Boston, recently. Dr. Booker T. Washington made the following statement, which is significant of the thrift, self reliance and energy of our people: "Our race is that which thus far happened of itself, for, while the government pays out of $10,000 to help, bed, cloth and shelter the Indians. It does not pay a dollar to feed, cloth and shelter the Negro, except in the case of some special calamity." Protective League Aids Church. An entertainment has been planned by the Colored Protective league of the Eleighteenth ward, South Side Hilltopa. Pittsburg, to be given for the benefit of the St. Paul A. M. E. church, of which the Rev. E. P. Herrington is pastor, Tuesday evening. Dec. 28. There will be a musical and literary program of exceptional merit, and as the organization has a large membership every Afro-American in the community is expected to be present. A successful affair may be counted on. Pittsburg to See "Dessaline" Played. The drama of "Dessaline" will be produced at North Side Carnegie hall, Pittsburg, Tuesday evening. Dec. 28, for the benefit of the Y. M. C. A. movement by Hewlett Hemingway Davis and company. It is a thrilling story of life and times in Haiti. Poems of First Negro Author. Poems of First Negro Author. Published in Book Form by R. R. Wright Jr., at Philadelphia — They Show Marked Intelligence of the Writer For That Early Period in Negro Scholarship. Perhaps the most notable book published during the year in which Afro-Americans are chiefly concerned is the poems of Phillis Wheatley. There are few Afro-Americans of intelligence who are not familiar with the name of the famous Afro-American poetess Phillis Wheatley, who evoked the profoundest and sincerest admiration of two continents in the early days of the American republic. Phillis was born in Africa and was brought to Boston at 1701, where she was sold as a slave to a Mrs. John Wheatley. Although only eight or nine years of age, she was very apt to learn and soon had a speaking knowledge of the English language, to which she was originally an entire stranger. For her own amusement she began to write, and soon classical Boston was attracted by her productions. She, though a native of New England, was the best people of New England, and George Washington and Thomas Jefferson complimented her in true southern style. But, while Phillis Wheatley is known by name to thousands of Americans today and notwithstanding the fact that she was one of the founders of American literature, she is to most people, even of her own race, only a name. Thousands of the best educated persons have never seen or read her poems because they have been generations out of print. The first volume was published in 1773, another in 1780, another in 1793, another in 1801, and so on. The 1832 book book are such rarities as be book books and key in the great libraries of the English speaking race, such as the British museum, Boston Public library, Harvard university library and the Congressional library at Washington. The bringing out of this book is quite a contribution to race history and race literature, and it should be an inspiration to the youth of the race, who unfortunately learn but little either of the history or literature of the race in the public schools. Credit for the resurrection of these poems is due to Professor R. R. Wright, Jr., of Philadelphia, the suc- PROFESSOR R. R. WRIGHT, JR. cessful young editor of the Christian Recorder, who is following in the footsteps of his illustrious father, Major R. R. Wright of Georgia. The book is itself a gem. It contains about a hundred pages, with green and gold binding, and is printed on fine laid paper with a beautiful half tone cut of gold. It is a hardcover, tournaged by A. M. E. Book Concern, which is the oldest printing establishment of the race in the United States. The book contains thirty-nine poems on various subjects, chiefly moral and religious. They show a mind highly religious and well trained in the classic, sincere, simple, yet quick and precise. Will Stay Where God Has Put Them. Major Moton, commandant of the Hampton cadets, Hampton, Va., said in a recent speech in the town tournaged by the mental and industrial progress of the black man, but I can say a word for his physical progress. He has kept face and the white man in that respect and is jailable to stay with him. I feel sorry for the white man who has to assume this vexing problem of the Negro, but you give the black man a chance and you burden him to bring us from Africa and put us side by side with the greatest white people on earth we are going to stay here." Howard's Latest Play in High Favor Stephen Howard made a decided hit at Pittburg recently in the production of his latest play, entitled "Under a Cloud." Mr. Howard enacted the role of Morley and was ably supported by the following cast: Misa Tracey, Sara Reese; Josie Lee, Oddessa Grimes; Mr. Tracey, Frank Whitlock; Durkin, William Showden; Sharp, Charles Johnson; Detective Smith, James Reese. The play will be repeated at the St. Matthew A. M. E. Zlon church in January by the same company. BURLINGTON ITEMS. BURINGTON ITEMS. Mr. Mr. Chua, Badgett very delightfully taught me a six course dinner last Thursday, a few of their intimate friends. Mrs. L. Washingto nentertained the same party in the evening at luncheon. Ms. Ida Martin of Kansas City and Mrs. Hattie Tiggs have returned from a delightful visit in Keokau with Annie and Noma Tigg accompanied Mrs. Tigg. Mr. Eugene Greene of Davenport was in the city last week to see his sister, Mrs. Julia Holden, who is quite ill. Mrs. and Mgeo. Tyler entertained a company of friends at dinner Sunday. A very excellent dinner was served by her mother, Mrs. H. Early. Mr. J. W. Macky is suffering with a sprained knee. Mr. and Mrs. J. Trent will depart for California the 1st, where they will spend the winter. The Independent Improvement Club met Mrs. I. Drew this week. While paying up your fees for the old year, please don't forget The Bystander. CLINTON Mr. Rout of Huntsville, Mo. in the been in Lyon, through the holidays. guest of his daughter, Mrs. Geo. Robinson, in Lyons, through the holidays. A few of the members of the Women's Loyal Club dropped in on Rev. Taylor one night last week, leaving loyalty cards to the Rev. Says come again, but bring more of a variety. We kindly ask all delinquent subscribers to please pay your back subscriptions at once. Start the New Year right. Do not wait for the agent to loyalty cards. The annual Christmas tree of Beth A. E. M. E. Sunday school will be held Friday night, with the rendering of an appropriate program by the children. E. W. Mann of Champaign, Ill., spent Sunday with relatives in Clinton and Loyola. Married — Miss Julia Wilson of Huntsville, Mo., to Mr. Ike Robinson of this city at the A. M. E. parsonage. Rev B. U. Taylor officiated. The many friends of the happy couple extend their best wishes. The Deaconess Board and Normal School on Wednesday evening, Dec. 15. The proceedings were for the trustee board. A neat sum was realized. Mrs. D. O. Greene, who has been the guest of Clinton relatives for the past month, leaves this week for her home in Chicago. Clinton girls who are purging studies in Chicago schools of learning are expected home this week for the Christmas holidays. ALBIA NEWS Miss Henrietta Jones of Chicago is spending the holidays at the parental H. Jones home. Philcharte passed through Alba from Hawkey on Thursday of this week, enroute to Ottumwa. The Sewing Circle Club met at the home of Mrs. E. Grayson on Monday of this week. Mr. Miller and Mr. Brittam Thomas attended a holiday wedding in Hawkee this week. Mr. Cornellus Miller marrying a young lady from Yankton, Dakota, in Hawkee. Mr. Miller is an Alba young man and the son of Mrs. Lula Miller. Mr. Goshner of Tuskegee Institute instituted a Tuesday and visited with Rev. S. S. Brit and attended the Vesta Club Concert. Wallace M. Davis was a Hocking visitor Friday of this week. The Vesta Club Concert, given under the auspices of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Washington, was a church, was excess financially and finally. The music was nicely rendered, the singing and speaking good. Mr. Washington should be commended as a trainee and cornet player. All parts were well rendered. The visitors from Hocking were Miss Bessie Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Grayson. Quite a number of other strangers were in town the past week. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. "The Rivals," Miss L. S. Smith's new play, with a cast of eighteen characters, will be produced at Dania Hall, corner of Fifth street and Cedar avenue. Tuesday evening, Dec. 28, 1908, 10 a.m. at the Calanthe No. 345. Admission 25c. Curtain raises at 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Mego Barnett, W. C.; Miss Alice Marshall, R. of D., and Miss L. O. Smith, director. The building committee of St. Thomas Mission is delighted with the progress being made by the contractor and builder of their new church at Twenty-seventh street and Fifth avenue, south. The congregation expect to hold their first ceremonies in their new church building Christmas morning. Dr. Adam Speed, christopilot, has arranged with Messrs. Utley & Vass, of the Commercial Barber Shop, 94 East Fifth street, to receive patients there. He relieves corns, bunions, ingrowing nails, and all afflictions of the feet without pain. He will call attention to the need for extra charge. Prices reasonable and work guaranteed. Office hours, 9 to 11 a.m. The grand Christmas ball which was given by the Ames Lodge No. 106, 11 F. O. E., W. at Dearborn Hall, last week, will be a grand affair. Refreshments were served by the members of the lodge, and a very enjoyable evening was spent. The music was furnished by KENNARD'S Home of Good Things To Eat : If we please you tell your neighbor, it not tell us Iowa Phone 22113 922 Center Street Price Five Cents. Mme. Hale-McCullough's full orchestra. There will be a public installation at South Side Auditorium some six months from January of which will be given. The third of the sessions will be a masquerade ball in February. At the B. A. C. club's last meeting a captain and manager for its 1910 football team were elected. Halfback and Fullback Wilson captain, manager, and Fullback Wilson captain, manager, and also a captain elected for the club's 1909-10 hockey team. Harvey Moss was the one elected. Tyler's Dancing Academy is now open at South Side Auditorium, formerlyorman and Twelfth avenue south and Third Street. Dancing classes every first and third Mondays in each month. A. C. Irwin, dancing master. Mrs. S. Sample and daughter, Miss Laura Sample, left the city last Sunday andorman and Twelfth avenue south and Third Street. Dancing classes every first and third Mondays in each month. A. C. Irwin, dancing master. Mrs. S. Sample and daughter, Miss Laura Sample, left the city last Sunday andorman and Twelfth avenue south and Third Street. Dancing classes every first and third Mondays in each month. A. C. Irwin, dancing master. There will be special Christmas services at Bethesda Baptist church, both morning and evening, Sunday, Dec. 26, 1909. In the morning the pastor, Rev. J. T. Carter, will preach, and in the evening Mrs. Ridges will talk. Special music will be rendered at both services. Ill Health is More Expensive Than any Cure. This country is now filled with people who migrate across the country in all directions seeking that which gold cannot buy. Nineteenth of them are suffering from throat and lung trouble or chronic catarrh resulting from neglected colds, and spreading fortunes mainly trying to regain host health. Could every sufferer but undo the past and cure that first neglected cold, all this sorrow, pain: anxiety and expense could have been avoided. Chamberlain's cough Remedy is famous for its cures of colds, and can always be depended upon. Use it and the more serious disease may be avoided. For sale by all druggists. MT. PLEASANT NOTES. A beautiful baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Edd Pickett Tuesday Dec. 21. Mr. Wm. Keith was very serious hurt by the breaking of a cable rope. His limb was broken in two places. He is feeling better at this writing. Invitations are out for a reception given by the "400 club" Dec. 26. Miss Lillie Washington left Monday for Aurora, Ill., where she will spend the holidays with the Beckwitts, Mr. Elmer Richardson is on the sick list this week. Mr. Mandy Lobbins of Quincy, Ill. visited at the home of Mrs. Maggie Walters of 309 N. Lincoln street last week. School let out the 17th until Jan. 3rd 1910. There will be a Christmas tree at the A. M. E. church Friday evening. All are cordially invited to be present. PEORIA. ILL.. NEWS. Miss Jannette Wood of Champaign, Ill., is the guest of her cousins Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Gibbons. Rev. Hall of Blooming was the guest of Rev. Murrell last week for a few days. Mrs. Mamie Brown Rhodes who has been making this city her home for some time, expects to leave soon for her home in Buxton. Miss Clara Gibbons assisted by her cousin Miss Jeanette Wood and Mr Francis Gibbons will give a musical recital in the near future. Watch for the dite. Mrs Eliza Wood of Champaign, Ill. is expected here curing the hides, and will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons. The ladies Art Club of the city will entertain New Year. How One Doctor Successfully Treats Pneumonia. "In treating pneumonia," says Dr W. J. Smith, of Sanders, Ala., "the only remedy I use for the lung is Chamber.ain's Cough Remedy. While of course, I would treat other symptoms with different medicines. I have used this remedy many times in my medical practice and have yet failed to find a case where it has not controlled the trouble. I have used it myse', as has also my wife for coughs and colds repeatedly, and I most willingly and cheerfully recommend it as superior to any other cough remedy my know edge." For sale by all druggists. For a few days we are making a special rate of the Bystander, one year $1.00. Prescriptions Drugs and Toilet Articles "Whimical weather" suits it well enough. Airships are almost as brittle as gingerbread. The most popular book in the home of the workmanking is his bankbook. Surely the professor had a bad ear for music who killed himself because the baby哭ed. New York society makes a better appearance at the horse show than in the divorce court. The Indians never hventured any thing faster than the Indian summer that bears their name. The auto is said to promote appendet, but this will not dote those who can scrape up the price. If in 1,000 years from now it will be possible to live 120 years it will be to hope that it will be worth while. Virtue does not consist in doing right, but in choosing to do right. This is the great distinction between the animal and man: Germany is now viewing with complacency Monroe doctrine, which has all its allies. Viewed Germany with imperturbability. King Manuel of Portugal has gone to England to get him a wife, if possible. St. Jude, Mich., is also recommended for that purpose. Many a man is wearing a plush hat who would shudder at the idea of borrowing a feather from his wife's top piece to make it complete. Word comes that a New Yorker to be relieved from the stress of poverty by an inheritance of $100,000. He is not much of a New Yorker. It will be almost impossible to counterfeit the new French bank notes, but we get this information from the designer, not from the counterfeiters Women may, as the learned Dr Hillis says, own all the property in 1,000 years, but many of those now living willingly would discount their share. After reading about mental malpractice and treatment for prosperity in New York we have more charity for the ancient New Englanders who be believed in witchcraft. Vienna has an enterprising marriage broker who offers to unite bankrupt European titles to useful American millions. Judging the present by the past, he can do it. Just at present we have in the North Dakota the fastest and best Dreadnought in the world, but some other nation may get a better one next week. Honduras has lost its navy. The only warship of that country, a tug, boat transformed into an armed cruiser, was run into near Puerto Cortes by a tug steamer and sunk. Thus the coast of Honduras is defenseless against foreign aggression. But the Honduras can go land and out of range if serious danger shall threaten. A heartless court has appointed a conservator for the 70-year-old bride, who is married to aeward, unwitting student, aged 21, and the young husband will be arraigned for perjury in gallantly swearing that his wife was only 24. There was a time in this country when people admired an enterprising young man who tried to work his way through college. The international art exhibition at Venice has just come to an end, and one feature of the finale was the sale of some of the paintings on exhibition. Six of the more notable were by American artists, and they were bought for the gallery of the International Art association at Venice. That is a tribute to American talent the significance of which will be recognized. Turkey, after disposing of old and obsolete war vessels, proposes to construct a new navy at a cost of not less than $100,000,000, and part of the outfit planned will be seven battleships of the Dreadnought class. No doubt a navy will serve a useful purpose, but could not the Young Turks spend the money to better advantage? Does not Turkey need other things more than a big fleet of war craft? The treasury department at Washington has given orders that revenue cutters shall patrol the waters about certain Hawaiian islands where poachers are ruthlessly destroying the birds. This protection is intended to prevent such indiscriminate slaughter and to assure the preservation of birds the value of which is coming to them. This is another form of conservation that is to be commended. King Menelik of Abyssinia is again said to be improving. He has been reported dead so frequently that he must have a choice collection of obituary abtices. A veteran captain reports the sea alive with whales between Sandy Hook and the West Indies. It is a hint that the Japanese harpooner to the Yankee harpoonists of other days. But apparently the decay of an industry once great has been as good as a game law for the mammals of the deep. A Parisian dress designer says wint- in twenty years, both men and women will wear garments that do not reach below the knees. Twenty years? The way cottion is going up we are looking for something of that kind within a short time. A man in Connecticut but his good hired girl against an old horse on the result of the hunt is the best but the best the hired girl did the run. It was not pleasant for the winner the good hired girl are to be compared up to an wager. PRIZES FOR GRAIN Given By Iowa Small Grain Growers Association. MEETING AT AMES, JAN. 3-15 The Small Grain Growers of State to Put on First Annual Contest During the Short Course Ames, Ia. Dec. 28—The Iowa Small Grain Growers' association is to put on its first annual contest in the agricultural hall at Iowa State college at Ames, January 3 to 15, 1910. This convention and show will run concurrently with the annual short course. Previously the work has been all with corn, and within the last two years the importance of developing the small grains has become recognized. This is the purpose of the above-named organization, which is an outgrowth of the Iowa Corn Growers' association and which is this year putting out a premium list. Show samples are to be one-half bushel of the grain exhibited. The prizes include: One $125 small grain drill, one $125 binder, one $150 gamp, one a $50 case of Keen Kutter tools, one $50 disc harrow, one $50 litter carrier with tracks, one $90 Correspondence school scholarship, two premiums of $10 in cash and $10 in cash, one $100 for a Masse Morte binder twine, one $10 hay teder and one $25 seed cleaner. At the same time, the Kellogg special of $1,000 for corn will be competed for. Besides these contests, the boys and girls of the state will hold a contest in corn, for which a list of premiums valued at $5,000 is provided. For particulars concerning this write William McArthur, Ames. The agricultural departments are now in the splendid new agricultural building. This fact insures a better short course than ever before. The new auditorium in this building will many fine laboratories learn more sample facilities and better work for all. Big Dinner at the Home. Marshalltown... the 1032 members and employees of the Iowa Soldiers' home are going to fare just as well for the Christmas dinner this year as any prince of the land. They are to have turkey, even though it does cost 28 cents per pound. It will require an even 1,000 pounds of turkey to feed this big family. Other articles that will go toward making up the dinner will include twelve bushels of potatoes, 160 three pound cans of peas, 100 five pound leaves of bread, thirty gallons of pickles, half cucumbers and the other half pickled onions, 420 pies, divided equally between mince and pumpkin, eight boxes of oranges, 100 dozen bananas 150 pounds of candy, 100 quarts of cranberries, twenty-five pounds of coffee, five pounds of tea and forty gallons of milk. Dedicate New Hospital Iowa City.—A new $200,000 hospital has been dedicated, and was duly affiliated with the University of Iowa, though not a part of the state's property, at all. It is the new and great wing of the Mercy hospital owned by the Sisters of Mercy. It is second to none in equipment, and to few, in value, in Iowa. Dog Case to High Court. Dog Case to High Court Allison—in the McCarthy va. Butzlaf dog binding case from Greene, Judge Clyde granted the motion of plaintiff for new trial, but defends will appeal from the judge's decision to the supreme court and the case must go before that tribunal before it can be carried farther in the district court. Tries to Assault Girl at Church Door. Nevada—An unknown man grabbed little Florence Knight, a 10-year-old girl of this city, in the shadow of a church, and attended to assault her. The screams of the girl frightened her. The girl gives a good description of the man. Bhe is positive that she knows him. Decatur County Pioneer Dead. Decatur City—Henry Hendrickson, a pioneer of Decatur county and a highly respected citizen of Grand River township, dropped dead, supposedly of heart disease, after driving to Decatur City for the purpose of bringing a sick neighbor to the doctor. Dollar Gas Granted City. Burlington—At a special session of the city council an agreement was announced to pay $250,000 to which Burlington is hereafter to receive dollar gas instead of paying $1.60 as heretofore. Fireman Killed by His Engine. Clinton—Frank Lonergan, aged 25, a northwestern fireman, was struck by engine No. 6 at Stanwood and instantly killed. The body will be brought to Clinton for interment. Lonergan was unmarried. Girls Go to Home. Logan—Henry Marley, held for the murder of his wife, has signed papers giving his two girls, Sina and Alice, to the Children's home at Des Moines. They will be adopted by good families. Oskaloosa Has Bad Fire. Oakaloosa—The Koss bakery was burned with a loss of between $4,000 and $5,000. The oven was damaged and will have to be rebuilt. Much material and a car load of flour brought in for the holiday trade was destroyed. Woman Pinned on School Board. Humboldt—E. G. Brown having removed to Charles City and resigned from the school board the board has appointed Mrs. Jenny French Lovis to fill the vacancy. Big Yield of Corn. Sac City, Iowa. Mr. G. Keir stated that his men had just finished husking and cribbing the corn from an eleventh acre field on his farm one and one-half miles west of the Sac City canning factory and had obtained no less than 1,855 bushels, or a yield of almost ninety-one bushels per acre. His coir says that the measurements are correct and that he is confident that he might have obtained 100 bushels per acre if the corn had been taken out before the severe storms. This splendid yield is not so hard to understand after Mr. Keir tells how he proceeded in order to get it. He began last fall by covering the field with manure, scattered by a spreader, and then plowed the field. In the spring he gave the field a light top dressing of manure and thoroughly disliked it into the soil. The seed bed was carefully prepared by diaking and harrowing and the corn was checked in on the equal plan. The seed was strong, the stand perfect. He cultivated entirely with a god cultivator and went over a hundred times the time, fourth of July as a result, he says that nothing was grown in the field but corn, and it is now absolutely clean so far as weeds or grass are concerned. It is probable that the average farmer hereabout will be pleased this year if he obtains a yield of thirty bushels per acre. It is worth while ascertaining whether the excess of sixty bushels per acre did not amply increase the value of labor. Smaller fields, better cultivated, must become the motto of farmers on $150-acre land. Historic Character Dea. Cedar Rapida, E. H. Taylor, a pioneer resident of this city, died, aged 78 years. In 1849 he left his home in Vermont to go to California, stopped at Boston and worked on the Methodist Beamen's Bethel, founded by the late Father Taylor. Then he took ship for Colon, crossing the lsthmus of Panama with a party, most of whom died of fever. He stayed two years in Panama and finally reached California, where he was an eye witness to the historic lynching by vigilantes. As a special officer he helped arrest Jas. King, Casey and Richardson, three of the men executed after a court martial. New Clear Lake Resort Clear Lake—Ventura Heights is the new resort which is to be platted and opened up here in the early spring by H. H. Shepard and a syndicate of traveling men of the state. Land amounting to over fifty acres was purchased lying along the south shore of the west end of the lake at $200 per acre from farmers who own adjoining land. The land lies high, some fifty feet above the lake level, and is well wooded. It is expected that the rsort will be reserved for travelling men purchasers and at a figure which will allow all who can afford to buy. Farmer in Raid en School. Mason City—Threatening to do bodily harm to the teacher and to the director of the school who had been summoned, caused the arrest of S. V. Johns, a well known farmer near here, who resented when the teacher punished his boys in school. The irate father came to the school house and caused a scene, one of the children in the meantime running home to tell his parents, the father happening to be Director James Lucas, who at once went to the scene. John drove the teacher, director and all from the building. Higher Land Values Murray—Land values are rapidly advancing around Murray. A few days ago F. S. Smith bought of William Taylor 320 acres of land near Murray at $100 per acre. This is a nice farms, lying one-half mile east of Murray. The land was owned by Murray. The land was sold by sold by Mr. Taylor, as referee. This is the first large tract that has been sold at $100 per acre. All Burn Candles Corning—Because the old man could not make his rounds over the rough roads, people in towns- and farms surround this place are burning candles which are at a premium. A hay and grain famine threatens the small towns because the farmers cannot haul over the roads. Some of the rural mail carriers are again trying to cover their routes. Sidney Woman Celebrates. Sidney—Mrs. Emily Penn, who has been a resident of this community for nearly half a century, celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday. She was the object of a postal shower, receiving 1,100 postal cards two telegrams from friends in Pennsylvania and various other expressions of felicitations from her many friends. County Farm Stock Fine. Sidney. Marlon Grove, the superintendent of the county farm, delivered to one of the stock buyers here a bunch of hogs—fifty-one head—that sold for 7½ cents per pound and added the snug sum of $1,085.26 to the farm's balance at the bank. Dies of Elephantiasis. Council Bluffs. Mrs. Mary E. Malory, who has suffered with elephantiasis for sixteen years, despite the offorts of physicians to cure her, is dead. The disease is very rare. Water Tank Burned. Denison. The water tank of the Illinois Central Railroad company, was burned to the ground. It was located no far out that it could not be reached by the hose of the fire company. Wy. Taxes for Year. Des Moines.—According to the new tax books just completed in the office of County Auditor Harry Fraser the taxes in Polk county for the year 1910 will amount to more than $2. SHIP RAW FURS AT ONCE WULFSOHN GANSS FUR CO., Inc. Capital $80,000.00 216 Nicolet Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. We are in business which allows you to get fall value and a square foot. Help your raw fur to be the best you are sure to get fall value and a square foot. Rat. Leng. Net. Small. II. IV. BREAKING OPOSSUM 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 Winter Low Fall Small Fall 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 RATES Freeport Returns. Ref. R. W. Net. Bills. We pay payday charges. Books and Magazines American Seminers. Though we, the people of the United States, boast of our individuality, we are regarded today by those who cater to our wants as an absorbent mass, rather than as discriminating unit; Great agencies of supply give us a range of selection, it is true. But each differentiation is the standard choice of so large a number that it becomes a class by itself. Take, for example, those commodities and foods concerning our personal taste is naturally selective, and we see that they are supplied—but to a million or so others as well. In foods, we are shipped trainloads of ready-to-eat, sometimes predigested, breakfast foods, biscuits, meats, soups, and desserts. In clothes, all of us who are not museum freaks are offered ready-to-wear uniformly designed suits, shirts, underwear, collars, hosiery, and shoes. In medicines, body-to-alleviate dopes cure all diseases, and produce a host of rural centenarians. In tractors, the ready-to-wear excursions and parties to every part of the habitable globe. In music, the ready-to-grind phonographs and pianos have given the art of the few to the mob. In education, the ready-to-fit curriculum of our great colleges, business and correspondence, schools are adapted to every youth in the land who is not an idiot. In dwellings, the ready-foranybody flat, is making a whirlwind obliteration of the American home.—Loren H. B. Knox, in the December Atlantic. For the Bees of Long Evenings. For the Season of Long Earnings. There are no lonely winter eavens in a home (or a house) on a weekly visitor, and there need be no idle hours. The variety of the paper's contents appeals to every member of the house and before one issue is exhausted the next is waiting at the post office. During the winter season The Companion prints nearly a hundred complete stories of considerable length, besides the absorbing serials, some 25 articles by men and woman of renown, and about twice as many short character and humorous sketches as there are winter nights. Such an article as "Winter Gardening" suggests an interesting occupation with Alaska, with snow twenty feet deep, and without the cost of a dollar. It is well "worth while" to read a paper so carefully and ably edited. Send your subscription ($1.75) at once so as to receive free all the issues of The Companion for the remaining weeks of 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, lithographed in thirteen colors and gold. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, Companion Building, Boston, Mass. The Social Life of Pittsburgh. Socially, Pittsburgh may be likened to a huge pile, with upper and lower crust a plenty, but a noticeable lack of what the good housewife realizes is the chief feature of her culinary triumph, the filling. The top crust is extremely light, and therefore has various elevations or excreences. Sticking to the under crust, the top crust is hard and find many traces of it was once Pittsburgh's social filling, or middle class. Their connection is a bit precarious, almost perilous, but they manage somehow to stick far below, through a great space, they see the under crust, absorbing that part of the filling which failed to rise and cling to the upper crust. In no other city of America will you find the words "middle class" regarded as a term of contumely. In no other American city of America will you find comfortable salaries and yet regarding life as a hopeless sort of game, hardly worth the playing. Pittsburghers have reduced the art of being pessimistic to a science—From Woman's Home Companion for November. January St. Nicholas. There is the first of a new Ralph Henry Barbour, story in the January St. Nicholas, and it starts right off with a new boy in boarding school complications, the Quarter, is the title of it; and Reley is making the pictures, as he has for most of Mr. Barbour's stories. Charles Battell Loomis's "The Three Golden Showers" is one of the good, old-fashioned "once upon a time" and "they married and lived happy ever after" kind, with six delightful drawings by John Wolcott Adams. There is the usual seasonable store of rhymes and pictures, stories and sketches, and almost best of all, the Brownies again. Palmer Cox tells about "The Brownies' Quilting Bee" this time; and there will be more of the fun and adventures all through the year. Artists in the Christmas "Harper's Weekly." A remarkable series of pictures in color distinguishes the special Christmas issue of Harper's Weekly. The cover is a charming treatment, in three colors, of a winning phase of child life, painted by Alice Barber Stephens; while among the other known works, this one is set elsewhere in this issue are Elisabeth Shippen Green, J. A. Williams, Harold Matthews Brett, Harry G. Dart, Dan Sayre, Groesbeck, Albert Levering, Horace Taylor, Arthur William Brown, Howard V. Brown, J. Conacher, and H. C. Wall. First at the North Pole or Two Boys in the Arctic Circle. By Edward Stratemeyer, Illustrated by Charles Murray. Price $1.25. What can be more attractive in the way of reading for the young than a book of boys' adventures based on the most-up-to-date of all themes, and by Young America's favorite author? "First at the North Pole," by Edward Stratemeyer, is the story of two boy heroes who in the Maine woods make the acquaintance of a wealthy hunter and explorer, and persuade him to take them on board his ship, in company with a scold whom they also know, and who pass the thrilling romance of the "Call of the North" side by side with Cook and Pearl. All the practical details of polar exploration are given, and the thrilling romance of the "Call of the North" is made evident. The book is also rich in the history of great discoverers, and is profitable reading from that point of view without impairing its wonderful interest as a story. The Football Boys of Lakeport. Or More Goals.Than One. By Edward Stratemeyer; fourth volume of the "Lakeport Series;" illustrated by Arthur O. Scott. Price $1.25. Mr. Stratemeyer shows in this book what the jolly and dauntless boys of Lakeport did when the football season came around. Their heroes of the baseball field were not long in organizing an eleven, and there followed a series of exciting contents for the Lake rennant. The boys had a college man to coach them, and made a number of brilliant plays, some of which are described in detail. How the quarterback helped his rival of the gridron to get away from his enemies and reach the finish time, and how the him, is strikingly old. But the story is not all football and some jolly times on the water and on an island are depleted; and the author shows how a youth, intensely shrinking, overcame his timidity and made something of himself by simply saying "I will" and sticking to it. A. Pair of Madcapa A Pair of Madcaps. J. T. Trowbridge, whose A Pair of Madcaps," published this year by Lathrop, Lee & Sheepman, is an important book of this season's hiatus, is to spend another winter in Italy. He will sail from New York with Mrs. Trowbridge, on Wednesday, December 21st, by the "Romaniac" of the White Star line, for Naples and Genoa, landing at the latter port. He will spend the first weeks of his winter abroad at Alassio, Mentone, and other resorts on the Riviera, returning in April. A Real Catastrophe. Philip, aged four, is in the habit of going across the street to a neighbor's house for milk. One day in December he returned home with an empty bucket and a grave face. "We can't get any more milk," he announced in a tone weighty with the importance of his message. "The cow's dried up," and, as we stared in surprise at him, he suddenly climbed the matter with an observation, evidently of his own—"They don't think that she'll thaw out till spring."—The Delinteor for January. Mr. Aaron Martin Crane, whose "Right and Wrong Thinking and Their Results" has passed through eleven large editions in three years, has ready a second book, "A Search for Ultimate Truth, the Divine Perfection Inherent in Man and in All Creation." This will be leading book on the list of the Lothrop, Lee & Stephens, in the book "19 A critic of very high standing who has reviewed the manuscript has written to the author that the book is not a "search" as he calls it, but a "discovery." How She Escaped. Pauline, who had been attending school for almost two weeks, was telling of the mis-behavior of some of her little classmates. At her mother's question as to whether it had ever been necessary for the teacher to speak to her, Pauline answered quickley, "Oh, no, mama." Then, "She had to speak to all the class but the this afternoon." "Why, what did she say?" "Oh, she said, 'Now children, we all will until Pauline is in order.'"—The Dellneator for January. "First at the North Role, or Two Boys in the Arctic Circle," by Edward Stratemeier, published December 1st by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, has caught the attention of the trade and public to such an extent that it is already one of the leading nurseries of the year in the number sold. Its issue was delayed somewhat by the fact that an edition one-half larger than contemplated was required, and a second edition has been ordered. A Charles M. Sheldon Year Boo. Crane & Co. of, Topeka, Kan., announce the publication of "a Charles M. Sheldon Year Book." It is printed on handmade, silk-tissue Japanese paper, of a very excellent quality, and the quotations for daily reference are excerpts from Mr. Sheldon's published writings. The book sells at $1.00 postpaid. A Clear Definition. Leah was having her first lessons in punctuation. On her return from school she explained to her brother that a period was a dot, and a comma was a period that had sprouted.—The Delmine for January. Des Moines, Dec. 23—With more than $3,000 offered in merchandise in addition to twenty-six silver trophies for the prize winners, entries for the poultry and pet animal show, which will be held in the Coliseum next week, are pouring into the office of George S. Phillips, secretary. The show will open Tuesday under the auspices of the Iowa Poultry and Pet Stock association and continue the rest of the week. The time for filing entries closes at midnight tonight and it is confidently expected that there will be between 2,300 and 2,500 entries. More than 1,800 entries have been made. Indications are that the show this year will be by far the biggest ever held in Iowa, which partly accountable to the fact that the association has a building big enough to handle it. In past years the show has been smaller. Almost everything that has feathers that is tame will be exhibited. In addition there will be an exhibit of Angora cats and blooded dogs. Des Moines dog breeders are showing considerable interest and a big exhibit in this class is anticipated. All entries should be made before tonight. The installation of the exhibits will begin Monday and the show will open Tuesday. JOBS OPEN TO CENSUS TAKERS Commercial Club Asks for Names of Those Who Are Willing to Enumerate City Residents. Des Moines, Dec. 23.—Jobs as enumerators for the federal census in April are apparently not in demand, as very few applications have been made to the Commercial club, which will supervise the taking of the census. Something like 100 enumerators are needed and announcement has been made that all applications must be in before January 15. The census will determine those eligible for Des Moines and Polk county will be held in Des Moines February 5. The census-taking will begin April 15. The city has been divided into districts so that each can be canvassed in about ten days. The pay is 3 cents a name, and in some districts it will be possible to pay the city a cop of all applications must be mashed to Cam Culbertson of *Glenville*, superintendent of the census for this district. VOTES TAX TO NEW RAILROAD Proposition to Aid Iowa and Southwestern Line Carries at Creston Special Election. Clarinda, Ia., Dec. 23.—The proposition to vote a per cent tax of the city to aid the Iowa and Southwestern railway carried by a majority of four to one. This means the road will be built from Clarinda to College Springs and Blanchard, and work will begin not later than April 1, 1910. The work of promoting this enterprise has been in the hands of the Engineering Construction & Securities company of Chicago under contract with the Clarinda Commercial club, and this victory is due to the good work of the business men in the club and of C. A. Ross, the president of the engineering company, and Charles Judd, their chief engineer. Corn Growers Made Money. Des Moines, Dec. 23.—John Sundberg, president of the Iowa Corn Growers' association is in Des Moines to wind up the affairs of the seventh Iowa corn exposition, which closed more than a week ago. Despite the fact that the exposition had a light attendance it is known that the corn growers will come out to the podium to present an amount of the profits of the exposition will not be known for several days. Caught-by Shaft and Strangled. Cedar Rapids, i. Dec. 23.—Thom L. Liddington, aged 60 years, employed as night miller at the Central City mills, was found dead by his employer with his clothes caught in the shafting in such a manner as to indicate that death was due to strangulation. Dine Hull and Cummins. Des Moines, Dec. 23—Senator A. B. Cummins, and Congressman J. A. T. Hull will be the guests of the Press club of Des Moines at a banquet at the Savery hotel on the evening of Dec. 20. Senator McLaurin Dies Suddenly. Jackson, Miss., Dec. 23—United States Senator A. J. McLaurin died suddenly at his home in Brandon. Death was due to an attack of heart failure and came without the slightest warning. Cedar Falls Mills Start. Cedar Falls, Dec. 23—After lying idle for five weeks the mills belonging to the Waterloo and Cedar Falls Union Mill company were started and it is hoped there is power enough to keep running. Gas Explosion is Fatal. Muskogee, Okla. Dec. 28—Andrew Condray, 10 years old, is dead, her mother, Mrs. Charles Condray, will die, and three other members of the family were seriously injured as the result of a natural gas explosion. A JOKE ON THE HEN. One of the cuts in the new catalogue of the Klondike Incubator Oc. of Des Moines, i.a., is unique. It is a representation in colors of a hen with a large brood of young Ducks, appearing in the presence of the male head of the flock. The old hen is in tears—all the answer she is able to make to the angry protest of his lordship. A Klondike Incubator is shown in the picture and the whole thing is in the picture. The convey the idea that the Klondike Incubator is a success as a Duck Hatcher. The answer hatch in the Klondike Incubator is 82%. They will send you a catalogue if you will write for it. CONDUCTOR WENT TOO FAR Diplomatic Step Was All Right, But He Didn't Know Just When to, Stop. A much-bothered conductor on an east-bound car was asked by a chilly lady passenger to close the ventilators. As he had already been impounded to open them by a half dozen other patrons he resorted to diplacy. "Madam," he said in a confidential tone, "Td gladly close the ventilator, but unfortunately a health officer is bored by the insists that they must be left open. I'd make my self liable to a lot of trouble if I opposed him." "A health officer!" said the lady. "Yes'm," replied the conductor. And then intoxicated by the success of his scheme he unhappily added—"the case with the brown derby." The lady looked and a change case over her face. "The one with the brown derby" she repeated. sale repeated. "You'm. They say he's quite an port on gums and things. I believe he's a German gentleman." The lady jacket at the conductor. "He's mothings at the kind," she snapped. "The man with the brown derby is my husband!" Whereupon the conductor beat a hasty retreat—Cleveland Plain Dealer. STATE OF OOZ CITY OF TOULED 18. LUCKY COUNTY. 18. FRANK J. CHENY with that he is a partner of the firm of F. J. CHENY & Co. laboratories and that firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every account and that firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every account. HALL'S CATALINA CURR. FRANK J. CHENY. Born to before me and subscribed in my presence this day of December, A. D., 188. By allerd J. CHENEY & CO. Tolina O Sold by allerd J. CHENEY & CO. Wilma F. 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Such voluntary testimonials are constantly received. ASK YOUR GROCER ABOUT IT THE CERTAINLY KNOWS U. S. B. F. Co., Omaha WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT DEFEAT FOR ZELAYA ESTRADA ROUTS GOVERNMENT FORCES IN BATTLE AT RAMA MANY KILLED AND CAPTURED Fighting Was Fierce, Lasting Seral Hours - Rebel Leader is Conduent of Victory and Enemy's Burrender When He Renews Attack. Rama, Nicaragua (vla Bluefields) - Zelaya's troops were routed by the Nicaraguan revolutionists in a fierce battle at Rama, Tuesday, lasting several hours. Gen. Estrada, in command of the revolutionary army, is reported to be highly successful all along the line. The battle was won and the Estrada army will bend all efforts to compel the unconditional surrender of the government forces. There is some little doubt as to the extent of Estrada's success. From revolutionary sources the word is sent that the victory over the Zelayan troops is "complete." Thomas H. Mofet, a commander of the Heffelds, sent the following message to Washington by wireless from Colon: "Estrada forces at Tatumba and Recoreo, near Rama, commanded by Gen. Mena at the former place and Generals Chamorro, Mattuil and Fornos Diaz at the latter place routed and defeated the forces of Zelaya after desperate fighting of several hours. "The Zelayan forces were commanded by Gen. Gonzales. A great many were killed, the number being unknown. One hundred were wounded and 150 prisoners were taken by the revolutionist. The Zelayan troops at Recoreo have occurred has been pondered a strong position. Estrada is confident of defeating the enemy when he renews the attack and of forcing their surrender." The clash between the two armies was not unexpected. For many days they have been lying practically idle in their trenches around Rama. Estrada played a waiting game, in the hope that the Zelayan commanders would take the initiative and attempt the capture of his position, which was reported to be very strong. Commanders with the waiting President Zelaya's star, he expected a large number of accessions from the Zelayan army. When Zelaya abdicated and practically dictated the election of Dr. Madriz as his successor Estrada determined to strike. Managua, Nicaragua.-By a unanimous vote the Nicaraguan congress elected Madriz, the Central American court of justice at Cartago, president of this republic. Madriz was Zelaya's candidate. The session was a stormy one, but there seemed to be a perfect unanimity with regard to the election of Madriz, and when the official announcement was made there were voiceless criticism and cries of "Viva Madriz!" "Viva Leon!" Washington. — Secretary of State Knox let it be known Monday that the attitude of this government toward Nicaragua would not be changed by the election of Madrid to the presidency as the successor of Zelaya. Madrid will have to show that he is capable of directing a responsible government which is prepared to make reparation for the wrongs which it is claimed have been done to American citizens in Central America. BANKER'S WIFE IS JAILED Mrs. Edith L. Allen and Her Sister Are Charged with Conceal- ing Property. Madison, Wis. — Mrs. Edith L. Allen, wife of Philip Allen Jr., who wrecked the First National bank of Mineral Point, Mrs. Allen's sister, Miss Addie Jackson, stenographer and bookkeeper of the Redford Sash and Door Company of Chicago, and their brother-in-law, Guy Roe of Winona, Minn., president of the Union Fiber Company of that city, were arrested on complaint of United States District Attorney Gordon, charging them with conspiring to conceal property turned over to them by Allen since he was declared an involuntary bankrupt before the defendants were arranged not guilty and were bound over for their preliminary hearing on January 4. Unable to furnish ball of $5,000 each they were committed to jail. Three Are Drowned in Creek. Medford, Ind.—After returning to their homes from a box supper, near Cale, Sunday morning, Miss Zula Kern, daughter of Samuel Kern; Miss Anna Parker, daughter of Mr. Frank Parker, and John Johnson were drowned in the accident. No one witnessed the accident but a boat turned down that was used in crossing the creek is supposed to have been responsible for the drowning. Mark Twain in Poor Health. New York—Mark Twain was an arrival from Bermuda by the steamship Bermudian Monday. Mr. Clemens did not seem in rugged health. He has spent a month in Bermuda, where he went because of an affection of his left lung. Lurton Confirmed as Justice. Washington—Judge Horace H. Lurton of Nashville, Tenn. was confirmed by the senate as associate justice of the supreme court Monday. No opposition appeared. National League Elects Lynch. New York—Thomas J. Lynch, former umpire, was Saturday elected president of the National Baseball league at its annual meeting. His election ended a deadlock between the partisans of John Heydler, the present incumbent, and John M. Ward. Cardinal Satellit Near Death. Rome—Cardinal Satellit has suffered a extreme relapse from nephritis. His extreme weakness has been marked and he is often delirious. The doctors fear a fatal issue. BARONESS LEAVES BELGIUM BARONESS LEAVES BELGIUM LEOPOLD'S QUEEN TAKES TRAIN FOR FRANCE. Accepts Government's Hint That Expulsion Awaited Her Unless She Voluntarily Departed. Brussels. — Baroness Vaughan, whom Leopold made his queen in fact, if not in name, quietly left Belgium, accepting the hint of the government that if she did not depart voluntarily she would be expelled from the country. She was packed up those magnificent furnishings of her chateau which were the personal gifts of King Leopold and forwarded them across the frontier. She herself took a train for France. Prince Albert's happy plan to reexile the old and separated family was fulfilled. As Baroness Vaughan passed out forever from Belgian life, Princess Louise trumpetly entered the city and was officially greeted at the station and acclaimed by the people with productions donated to the Chateau Belvedere, which henceforth will be her official home. A vast crowd viewed the body of the late king. Many of the people who came in from the provinces were incensed that the gates were closed at three o'clock and they tried to force an entrance. In the panic people were trodden on, garments were torn and the bodies were dislodged. They were injured. Finally the palace was reopened and the visitors were allowed to file past the catafalque. DR. DOXEY HELD FOR MURDER Officials at St. Louis Cannot Explain Arrest — Wife is Charged with Polsoning William Erder. St. Louis. — Dr. L. B. Doxey, Columbus, Neb. husband of Mrs. Dora E. Doxey, was lodged in the police hotel here. Dopposite his name the record is: "Charged with first degree murder." The arrest of Dr. Doxey was surrounded with mystery. No indictment has been returned by the grand jury investigating the death of William J. Erder. The circuit attorney's office said the police were not ordered to make the arrest. Mrs. Doxey was brought here from Nebraska on information charging the police murder. The coroner's jury returned a verdict holding that she poisoned Erder, whom she is charged with having married last April. "GOLDEN STATE" IS WRECKED limited Rock Island Train Derailed on Curve—Two Persons Are Killed, 23 Injured. Tucson, Ark.-Engineer Tom Walker and Fireman P. W. Bauer, both of Tucson, were killed, ten persons were seriously injured and 13 others cut and bruised when the east-bound Golden State Limited, a Rock Island train running over the Southern Pacific tracks west of El Paso, was wrecked three miles west of Benson Sunday. The most seriously injured were brought to St. Mary's hospital at Tucson. That was running 30 miles an hour. Southern Pacific officials say the train struck a curve at too high speed. The injured were nearly all in the tourist sleepers and in the mail car. London Department Store Burns When Crowded with Christmas Shopper* - Loss $2,500,000. London - At least three lives were lost and many persons were seriously hurt in a fire which destroyed the big drayer shop of Arding and Hobbs at Clapham, a southwestern quarter of London Monday. The fire was due, it is believed, to the breaking of an electric light bulb among celluloid articles. The store, which covered an acre of ground and had five floors and a hun- dred department store, was covered with Christmas shopper. In little more than an hour the building was a mass of ruins. The damage is estimated at $2,500,000. INDICT MORE SUGAR MEN Federal Grand Jury Bring in Number Indications Against Arbuckle Employees. New York.—The federal grand jury which is investigating the sugar frauds Monday handed down a number of new indictments directed against former employees of the Arbuckle Company. Bach warrants have been issued and as soon as the men are arrested the names will be made public. It is stated that in the case of the frauds in the Arbuckle refinery there was no manipulation of the scales, the method employed there being simple bribery of government weigher to have them report short weights. Two Struck by Train Delaware, O. — Anna and Albert Dart, 17 and 16 years of age, respectively, children of Emory Dart, a farmer, were run down by a Hocking Valley passenger train, Tuesday, and probably fatal injured. Chinamen Ordered Deported Hancock, Mich. — Nine Chinamen arrested in the copper country in violation of the exclusion act were Tuesday ordered deported by United States Commissioner Olivier of Hancock. Five Hundred Men Idle by Fire. New York — The high pressure fire fighting system failed to check a $200.00 blaze in the seven-story factory building adjoining the Salvation Army, headquarters Monday. From the latter 100 men and women were driven to the street. Bruys Farm with Wipe. St Louis. With "tips" rained while he was an usher at the Union station there Frank Bernely Monday purchased a farm near Branson, Mo., for $2,000. COUNTRY WHOSE SOIL SPELLS WHEAT AND OUT OF WHOSE FARMS THOUSANDS ARE GROWING RICH. WHAT PRESIDENT TAFT AND OTHERS THINK OF CANADA. Our Canadian neighbors to the north are again rejoicing over an abundant harvest, and reports from reliable sources go to show that the total yield of 1809 will be far above that of any other year. It is estimated that $100,000,000 will go into the pocket of the Western farmers from wheat alone, another $60,000,000 from oats and barley, while returns from other crops and from stock will add $40,000,000 more. Is it any wonder then that the farmers of the Canadian West are happy? Thousands of American farmers have settled in the above mentioned provinces during the past year; men who know the West and its possibilities are much better than any other people; the best methods for profitable farming. President Taft said recently in speaking of Canada: "We have been going ahead so rapidly in our own country that our heads have been somewhat swelled with the idea that we are carrying on our shoulders all the progress there is in the world. We have not been conscious that there is on the north a young country and a young nation that is looking forward, as it well may, to a 7,000,000 people, but the country is still hardly scratched." Jas. J. Hill speaking before the Canadian Club of Wlnlnppea a few days ago said: "I go back for $3 years, when I came West from Canada. At that time Canada had no North West. A young boy or man who desired to carve his own way had to cross the line, and to-day it may surprise you—one out of every five children born in Canada lives in the United States. Now you are playing the return match, and the North West is getting people from the United States very rapidly. We brought 10 land-seekers, mainly from Iowa and Southern Minnesota, last night out of St. Paul, going to the North West. Now, these people have all the way from five, ten to twenty thousand dollars each, and they will make as much progress on their journey as coming from the Continent of Europe can make, doing the best he can, in ten, fifteen, or twenty years." "It is evident from the welcome given American settlers in Canada that the Canadian people appreciate them. Writing from Southern Alberta recently an American farmer says:— "We are giving them some new ideas about being good farmers, and they are giving us some new ideas about being good citizens. They have a law against taking liquor into the Indian Reservation. One of our fellows gave me a bottle on him, and it cost him $50. One of the Canadian Mounted Police found him, and let me tell you, they find everyone who tries to go up against the laws of the country. "On Saturday night, every bar-room is closed, at exactly 7 o'clock. Why? Because it is the law, and it's the same with every other law. There isn't a bad man in the whole district, and a woman can come home from town to a bar or a restaurant to alone. That's Canada's idea how to run a frontier; they have certainly taught us a lot. "On the other hand, we are running their farms for them better than any other class of farmers. I guess I can say this without boasting, and the Candians appreciate us. We turn out to celebrate Dominion Day; they are glad to have us help to farm the land, and we are glad to go to government; we know how to work." Another farmer, from Minnesota, who settled in Central Saskatchewan some years ago, has the following to say about the 'country':— "My wife and I have done well enough since we came from the States; we can live anyway. We came in the spring of 1901 with the first carload of settlers' effects unloaded in these parts and built the first shanty between Saskatoon and Lumsden. We brought with our car of settlers' effects the sum of $1000 cash today we are going to sell it. We bought of the finest farms in Western Canada and bought 220 acres at $3 per acre. We took good crops off the land for four years, at the end of which we had $8000 worth of improvements in the way of buildings, etc., and had planted three acres of trees. Two years ago we got such a good offer that we sold our land at $45 per acre. From the above you will see that we have not done badly since our aristocracy. Prof. Thomas Shaw of St. Paul, Minnesota, with a number of other well known editors of American farm journals, toured Western Canada recently, and in an interview at Winnipeg said in part:— "With regard to the settlement of the West I should say that it is only well begun. I have estimated that in Manitoba one-tenth of the land has been broken, in Saskatchewan one-thirtieth and in Alberta one-hundred and seventy-fifth, I am satisfied that in all three provinces, grain can be grown successfully up to the point where your vacant land will be taken at a rate of which you have at present no conception. We have enough people in the United States alone, who want homes, to take up this land. "What you must do in Western Canada is to rates more life stock. When you are doing what you ought to do in this regard, the land which is now selling for $20 per acre will be worth from $50 to $100 per acre. It is as good land as that which is selling for more than $100 per acre in the corn "I would rather raise cattle in West ern Canada than in the corn belt of the United States. You can get your food cheaper and the climate is better for the purpose. We have a better market, but your market will improve faster than your farmers will produce the supplies. Winter wheat can be grown in one-half of the countrysytry through which I have passed, and alfalfa and one of the varieties of clover in three-fourths of it. The farmers do not believe this, but it is true." Keeping pace with wheat production, the growth of railways has been quite as wonderful, and the whole country from Winnipeg to the Rocky Mountains will soon be a net-work of trunk and branch lines. Three great transcontinental lines are pushing construction in every direction, and at each sliding the grain elevator 1 to be found. Manitoba being the first settled province, has now an elevator capacity of upwards of 25,000,000 bushels. Saskatchewan 20,000,000, and Alberta about 7,000,000, while the capacity of elevators at Fort William and Alberta is about 1,000,000 Lakes in upwards of 20,000,000 mills. Within the provinces of Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta there are flour and oatmeal mills with a combined capacity of 25,000 barrels per day, and situated along some famous water powers in New Ontario, there are larger mills than will be found anywhere in the Prairie Provinces. Last year the wheat crop totaled over 100,000,000 bushels. This year the crop will yield 30,000,000 more. A recent summary shows that on the 1st of January, 1909, the surveyed lands of the three western provinces, totaled 100,000,000 of which 300,000 have been seen as slidows, railways, 11,000,000 disposed of in other ways and 38,000,000 given by the Canadian Government as free home steads, being 236,000 homemesteads of 160 acres each. 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Following the example of the Southern league in purpose, but different in scope, a number of similar organizations have been formed, limited in membership by state lines. Among the most prominent are 2 MRS. JENNIE STEWART. the Society of the Sons of North Carolina, the Society of the Sons of Virginia, the West Indian Henevolent and Protective league and the Sons and Daughters of South Carolina. The purpose of this article, however, is not a resume of these organizations as such, but to show that by the for- mation of the Society of the Sons of portunity has been given whereby the wives and daughters of the members of such organizations could form them- selves into auxiliary bodies for the same purpose, having their own offi- cers and managing their own business. This has been and is a help to them in many ways. They learn how to pre- lude, transact business, execute par- liamentary rules, methods of finance and management, and they would not have the chance to do if they were in the old time secret soci- ety with a mixed membership. One of the strongest organizations of the kind in question is the ladies' auxiliary of the Society of the Sons of Virginia in Brooklyn. It has a large membership and is in a flourishing financial condition. During the year under the leadership of its able and energetic president, Dr. James Siew, the society recently co-organized the membership, the society has nearly doubled itself and there have been several new features introduced which have greatly advanced the organization and have also been an incentive to other women of Virginia birth or who could comply with the rules of membership to join. Out of some sixty or more new members Mrs. Stewart has brought in or caused to be brought in by the society. The formation of a board of directors, the formation of a juvenile auxiliary and the strengthening of the financial system are some of the new features of the organization. Chief factors in the growth of the auxiliary have been the peace and harmony of the members, impartial ruling by the president and the one great essential to the prosperity of any organization—it meets on time and carries out large amounts of work which the women have to do in keeping a forward more in their own organization they have always found time to assist the Sons of Virginia whenever called upon in the matter of helping to make the annual reception and the annual summer outing a success. A more enterprises company of women would be hard to find in any section of the society. Mrs. Stewart, president, W. Wiley, vice president; Mrs. Cora Robinson, financial secretary; Mrs. Joseph Danehine, recording secretary, and Mrs. Annie Durrell, treasurer. New Officers for Hiram Lodge. At the recent communication of Hiram lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, Brooklyn, a large number of members was present to bear the annual reports and to elect officers for the year. After a brief address by R. Jackson, master of the lodge, in which he thanked the members for their loyal support of his administration the following officers were elected: J. L. Harper, helpful master; Fred Johnson, senior warden; Edward Phillip, junior warden; William Edward, secretary; R. A. Royster, treasurer, and R. W. Timna, trustee. Transandine Railway, in January. Subways, elevated railways and tunnels seem to be gaining wide favor. The attempt to bore a tunnel through the Andes mountains at an altitude of over 10,000 feet above sea level for the trains of the Transandine railway has been successful, and the road will soon be completed. GIFTED YOUNG EDUCATOR. Success of Miss M. D. Williams as Teacher and Musician BY GEORGE P. KING Miss Mauda D. Williams • Newberry & C. Cu is one of the leading Afro- American Women teachers of South Carolina. She also an accomplished pianist. Her success as a teacher is attributed to her ability to study the characteristics of her students and has increased of meeting the latest powers of music, including in Chicago. bia university, New York, and graduating from Benedict college, which is one MISS MAUDE D. WILLIAMS. of the leading Baptist institutions for higher learning in South Carolina, have drawn out of this young woman a peculiar power that has brought her recognition in the educational circles of the state and made her popular with all classes of citizens. She is an ardent lover of the works of the old music masters and is the life of the musical circles of Newberry. Miss Williams has a commercial training that has been of intrinsic value to her in assisting her busy father in his many large business movements. She is particularly interested in the young women of her community and is in a concrete way trying to make them see the importance of her work to come intelligent and useful women. In the religious circles of her town Miss Williams is a potent factor in making the church attractive to the young people who are often a problem when it comes to making them consistent workers in religious organisations. MOST ATROCIOUS CRIME. Death Cries of Murdered Minister Heard From Fiery Prison. No atrocity in modern times, saya the Richmond (Va.) Planet, has exceeded the brutal fendslendness attending the lynching of Rev. John Harvard, near Cochran, Ga., in December. To a person versed in the law, trained in the church and permeated by the civilizing influences now in evidence in the leading communities of the world it seems inconceivable that people of this country could be found who would perpetrate such an outrage. Rev. John Harvard had committed no crime, if the telegraphic reports are to be believed. He was dangerously wounded by Will D. Booth, white, who was in turn said to be fatally injured. He had done nothing further than stabbing and caught and burned at a stake, his death cries being stilled by the heat and smoke of his fury prison. This brings to mind our out expressed warning. Colored men who wound or injure white men in this section of the country should defend them, and not kill them last bullet for themselves and take their chances of "going shouting home to glory." It is far better to die like a hero than to be assassinated and burned like a felon. We will not comment further upon this outrage. It is too horrible. Hundreds of white men are condemning the murders, but there is not one who has announced his ability to bring to dire punishment the fends who are guilty of this latest ebulition of race prejudice. The south as a whole will be a sufferer, and as shall have for years to come bitter memories of this most diabolical crime ever perpetrated in the southland. St. Philips to have New Church Edifice. The Rev. N. Peterson Boyd, rector of St. Philips P. E. church in Brooklyn, announced to his congregation recently that the way was being opened financially for the erection of a $40,000 church with a seating capacity of 600 persons. He also said that the expense of remodeling the present frame building justified such a move; that ground for the new building would be broken on May 1, 1910, and the cornerstone laid July 25 and consecration services held Dec. 9. Archdeacon James J. Russell of Lawrenceville. Va., was present when the announcement was made and sanctioned the Rev. Mr. Boyd's plans. Loendi Club's New Social Feature. At the recent monthly assembly of the Loendi club of Pittsburg twenty couples were present. It was the club's initial dinner dance and reception. 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Commission to Outline Plan. President Taft has given his cordial endorsement to the proposed semicentennial exhibition suggested for 1913 to mark the progress the Negro has made in the fifty years of his freedom and to indicate the wonderful advance the race has made since its landing in this country nearly 300 years ago. The movement was called to the attention of the president not long ago by Dr. Booker T. Washington. In his first annual message to congress President Taft said of the proposed demonstrative exposition: "The year 1918 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the issuance of the emancipation proclamation which gave freedom to the Negroes in the United States. It seems fitting that this event should be properly celebrated. Already a movement has been started by prominent colored people and newspapers not only in the south, but in other parts of the country. The south especially is manifesting its interest in such a celebration. It is suggested that a proper form of celebration would be an exposition which would show the progress which the millions of Negroes have made not only during their period of freedom, but which would also indicate their progress from the time of their coming in this country. "I heartily indorse the proposed position and suggest that the executive be authorized to appoint a preliminary commission of not more than seven persons to consider carefully whether or not it is wise to hold such an exposition, and, if so, to outline its enterprise. I do outline a further comment that such preliminary commission serve without salary except as to their actual expenses and that an appropriation be made to meet such expenses." CAPABLE BUSINESS WOMAN. Success of Mrs. L. R. Buchanan, Pioneer Milliner at Savannah. Mrs. Lydia R. Buchanan of Savannah, Ga., is a fine example for the young women of the race who do not have the confidence in themselves to create lucrative vocations that will enable them to contribute to the movements that tend toward the amelioration of economic conditions commercially and financially. In her country there are hundreds of Afro-American young women who are especially qualified to bring something real tangible to pass, but they await the opportunity to become pedagogues, else they are dependent upon their parents. Mrs. Buchanan graduated from the millinery department of Tuskegee and with marked success made a specialty of teaching millinery after graduating from this noted institute. Also she experienced a pedagogue in the states of Indiana, Ohio and Alabama and in all instances endeavored to teach her students the gospel of "self help." Her present es- A. MRS. LYDIA R. BUCHANAN establishment is an inspiration to any one who admires the kind of pluck and energy that result in helping others to develop qualities that are not deterrent to a progress that is synonymous to success. There are employed six institutes in this establishment, and through the training they have received from Mrs. Buchanan they are proving themselves capable of holding positions in any first class millinery store. One upon entering this beautiful store would not readily conceive the idea that such an establishment was strictly owned by an enronized by women of her race, but would think it was for an exclusive element of the other race. She is a worthy example for young women to emulate. GEORGE F. KING. Charitable Work of Mrs. G. H. Turner. The Howard Industrial Building association of Brooklyn, which was organized about eight months ago by Mrs. C. H. Turner for the purpose of raising funds for the erection of the new home for the Howard Orphan asylum, has had phenomenal success. The association, which is members of the association at present, and during its short reign $26,940 has been raised by voluntary contributions. Mrs. Turner is a hard worker and has the co-operation of the members in this worthy cause. Many Barriers to Negro's Success. We have great respect for the colored man that has in a measure achieved success along any line of endeavor and especially when he has to labor. Aside from the initial disadvantages arising from the accident of color, and it is senseless to argue that color is no barrier, he has tremendous odds to overcome arising from his own race. -Rateleigh (N. C. Sentine). Everything at this period is taking on the hue of Yule-tide. Rev. D. E. Butler the popular pastor of the First M. E. church boasts of his parish as being the largest in Iowa. Aside from a stewards trustee and stewardess board aggregating the number of Deities in 12 number, who not only wear the regalia of the office but render effective service. Rev. Woodward and his good people are excavating the earth and are excavating beyond measure. The Reverands Mays and Epperson pastors respectively of the Second A. M. E. tabernaecils Baptist churches are working what under ordinary circumstances would be called miracles. The interest and attendance both the men and the women of the Y. M. have so increased that a more commodo structure is the talk of the town. In several sections of classic Buxton the snow birds, are sweetly singing nuptial songs. Prof. C. B. Hossein, representing Toskegee industrial Institute, spokes M. E. M. and First A. M. E. church Sunday in the interest of the said institution. Editor R. R. Montgomery of the Wisconsin Weekly Adverse支出 a few days here punishing the servant girl problem. The local church auxiliaries are presenting their claims for tangible co-operation in a manner so intensely matching that good results are accruing. George E. Taylor spent a couple of days in our city the guest of druggist B. F. Cooper. Mr. Taylor is enroute to St. Augustine Florida for his health. of the largest and most enthusiastic meetings of the Buxton Sunday School Union was held at the Bethel A. M. E. church last Sunday. Mrs. A. L. DeMond is the new organist at the First A. M. E. church. Rev. M. I. Gordon presiding at the DeMond church in the city the purpose of holding quarterly meeting at the First and Second A. M. E. churches Sunday December, 19. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Windfield, and Mr. Henry Lucas remain on the slick list, the latter however is much improved. Christmas festivities will be held at all the churches Christmas eve. Mrs. Bessie Prentiss and Miss Lella A. Downey are among the new clerks at the company (The Monroe Merchant) store. Mr. Reuben Gaines who was out of the city over night on business has returned. Mrs. D. E. Butler wife of St Johns pastor has formed a mite missionary organization of nearly 30 ladies who meet Bi-monthly to do fancy needle work. On New Year's day they will entertain in the auditorium of the Y. M. C. A. serving a most seasonal lunch and introducing some social features calculated to capture all. Under the direction of Mr. Wm. Bailey a Pre-Christmas party was given at the Perkins hotel Saturday night December, 18th in honor of Miss Gertrude Lucas. An unusually large number of Miss Lucas' near and dear friends were present, dressed in bibs and prettiest, who united in making the occasion artistic, classy merry and gay. 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