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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. CITY NEWS. (N B. I. you have relatives or friends in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we collect all your local news—Ed.) Geo. I. Holt was on the sick list last week. Mr. B. J. Shepard of Clive was a caller in our city last Saturday. L. W. Williams and F. D. Anthony of Boone was a visitor in our city last week. Master William, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Williams, was operated on this week for tonsilitis. Mrs. Anna Lewis, a highly respected East Side lady, is sick at her home. Mrs. Jane Keene is quite sick at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. L. Smith, 748 West 10th street. Mr. H. Irvin, 1623 Walker street entertained at dinner New Years day. It was an enjoyable affair. The revival meetings at the Maple Street will continue all next week. The Rev Bates is having quite a spiritual success with the meetings. A card from Dr. John H. Williams who is in the south on a business trip, states that he will only be gone two weeks instead of two months, as the Bystander had previously announced. We received word that Mrs. Georgia Trail nee Blagburn, formerly of Omaha but now of Portland, Oregon, was married to Mr. G. Smith last week. Her Des Moines friends wish her success. Mr. Wm. Vertres and family of Chicago came to our city to remain in informally. He is a painter and decorator and expects to follow his trade. They are stopping with his mother-in-law, Mrs. R. A. Nelson on cotton boulevard. 304 West Grand Avenue. Mr. John Early, one of our old and well known citizens is expecting the arrival of the remains of his son, who was in the U. S. service in the Philippine Island. The body has been on the way for several months. Mr. Early has opened a barber shop on East 2nd and Court avenue. C. S. L. Baker, formerly of St. Joseph but now of Kansas City, Mo., the noted friction heater inventor, passed through our city Wednesday enroute to Waterloo where he may instill his friction heater plant are soon. He is a relative of J. Clifford Williams of this city. Mrs. E. Abbey of Hammibal, Mo., was the guest of her uncle, Dr. J. W. Dulin of East Walnut street, for the past few days. She was enroute from St Paul, Minn., where she had been visiting her son, Luther Abbey, well known here. Mrs. Abbey was delighted with our city. Luther H. S. Brown, Dist. Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Iowa, went to Enterprise, Iowa last Monday evening inspecting an association preparatory to setting up a new lodge. He reports that the conditions are fine and within a short time, Charity Lodge of this city, will put the new lodge in working order. A SUCCESSFUL FARMER. Mr. James Garrison formerly of our city, who went to Driscoll, N. Dak., and took a claim of 160 acres, now reports to his brother in Des Moines that last year he raised 50 acres of wheat, average 22 bushels per acre, white oats 60 bushels per acre; barley 40 bushels per acre, spring rye 18 bushels per acre; early dent corn 45 bushels per acre and another corn called the pride of the north 38 bushels per acres. He is enjoying good health and thinks that more of our people should leave the cities and get a farm. Right you are Mr. Garrison. 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. Remember that tomorrow is the last day of our annual holiday rates. Money can Saturday or letters mailed Saturday be in time to get the special $1.00 per year rate. This is the last chance. Mrs. Wilson Hughes was called to Chicago Tuesday morning on account of the serious illness of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Hughes. Her many friends in our city will be pained to hear that the doctors have given her up. Mrs. Eliza Reynolds, aged 72 years, died Monday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ether Morton, 729 West Tenth Street. Death was due to asthma. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Lula Harper of Sloux City, Miss Amanda Reynolds and Mrs. Morton of this city. THE A. M. E. SUNDAY SCHOOL ELECTS OFFICERS. At a meeting of the Sunday School Board of St. Paul's A. M. E. church Wednesday evening, a second futile attempt was made to select a successor to Atty. S. Joe Brown, who after seven years service declined to be a candidate for superintendent because of other pressing duties; however, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Assistant Superintendent, Mrs. Mattei Warricks. Secretary, Miss Blanche Allen. Ass't Secretary, Miss Lucile Morrison. Treasurer, Mrs. E. L. Shaw. Chorister, Miss Ione Wilson. Accompanist, Miss Berta Allen. Ass't Accompanist, Miss Effie Mason Librarians: Howard Griffin, Gid Crews, Spencer Mayweather and M. Kelley. Superintendent Infant and Home Department, Mrs. Lizzie Glass. Teachers: Att'y, S. Joe (Brown, Mrs. M. E. Haworth, Mrs. I. N. Daniels, Mrs. S. Joe Brown, Mrs. Anna Allen, Prof. W. H. Warriicks, Rev. H. McCraven, Rev. Isaac Davis, Mrs. F. D. Jacksen and Measrs. H. Gould, Wm. Shackelford add R. E. Patton. A GOVERNMENT POSITION. Miss Zoe Richardson Appointed as Teacher. It is indeed a pleasure for the Bystander to announce that Miss Zoe Richardson of our city, has been appointed a teacher in the government college located near Riverside California, which is a suburb of Los Angeles. She is to be director of music and a teacher at the Zoe Richardson lady ever selected from Iowa, and perhaps the only colored lady thus honored by the government. Miss Richardson is a self made lady, born and educated in our city, the only daughter of Chas. Richardson, a well to citizen, who wore the blue during the war, and who graduated from Business College, taking a stenography and shorthand course, after which she was employed in the Bystander Company for 9 years, then the Iowa seed store one year as stenographer, also by the State Republi-cation of Gumon factory, While Miss Richardson has always been especially skilled in music she entered the famous Musical Conservatory under the famous German instructor Herriol W. J. Rulfrok, where she graduated last spring, she then entered Drake University, where she left Monday evening for the Pacific Coast carrying with her the best wishes of a host of friends of this city and state, who have known her from childhood, a large number accompanied her to the depot. The position pays $100.00 per month and is not free of expenses, she was one of the few colored ladies who belongs to the Y. W. C. A of this city. "Let merit and qualification, and not color rule, the world." FORT MADISON NOTES. Rev. J. W. Evans was in Kookuk last week assisting Rev. Burton in a revival meeting at the Union Baptist church. However he returned in time to fill his pulpit on Sunday and preach two very good sermons. Mrs. Parks and daughter, Miss Millie who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Bert Henry returned to their home in Franklin, Kans Friday morning. On last Thursday Mrs. A. L. King delightfully entertained at 2 o'clock dinner a party of ten. Mrs. and Miss Parks of Franklin, Kans., were guests of honor. It has been reported that Rev. Geo. Chambers is not so well this week. Master Garrett' Dunlap is on the sick but int. Mrs. Harriet McClelland is indisposed. Mrs. J. W. Evans is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Eubanks entertained Rev. Straws of the A. M. E. church at 1 o'clock dinner Sunday. Live Oak School Victor In Fight Live Oak School Victor In Fight Opposition to Establishment of Florida Baptist Academy Aroused Public Opinion in its Foe—With Capable Instructors Under Professor N. W. Collier the institution is Succeeding. By GEORGES F. KING. Denominational institutions of learning among Afro-Americans have been generally successful. Within the past ten years there has developed a spirit of pride on the part of the 'various' religious bodies looking to their educational work which has had a beneficial effect upon the youth of the race. Progress in this direction has been especially encouraging among the Baptists, Methodists and Episcopalians. The majority of such schools, however, have had considerable difficulties and prejudices to combat, both within and without. There have been religious and religious educators as to the window of fostering schools of a purely denominational character. Results seem to PRESIDENT R. W. COLLIER prove that it is a good omen to the young men and women that they can be trained in institutions of their religious inclinations. Out of chaotic conditions there often arises a divine stimulus that inspires many people who are laboring under adverse circumstances to action. The Florida Baptist academy is an example of being strengthened by opposition. This institution was founded during 1882 at Live Oaks, Fla., with Dr. W. H. H. Press, president, J. T. Brown, A. M. Moore, vice president, assisted by Miss S. A. Blocker, who is still an indeftable worker in the educational progress of the race. Because of its influence for the higher development of the race the academy met much opposition in the early years of its existence. At this time the Afro-American Baptists of Florida were beginning to enter into an effective propaganda of self help by intelligent preparation. To continue this life Live in the light of the unfulfilled unfulfilled opposition seated like folly. This display of violence caused an overwhelming wave of enthusiasm on the part of the denomination that was fostering the effort which swept the state. Many hardworking women who were scarcely making a living abnegated self for the cause of education and donated as high as $25. Such a spirit made hope not long deferred, and upon upon the day Jacksonville, Fla., are two modern main buildings and a number of smaller structures. The valuation of the property is now over $50,000. The property is completely clear of debt. BUSINESS CLASS. The appointments of the dormitories for male and female are up to the standard of institutions heavily endowed. The curriculum consists of the following courses: Kindergarten, grammar, normal, commercial and industrial. These courses afford excellent advantages for youths seeking a well rounded development. The opportunities which it affords ambitions poor young people are not excelled by those of any institution of its kind in the south. The beautiful grounds and buildings and activity of the academy settlement present a true college atmosphere. The faculty consists of sixteen instructors, who are graduates from some of the best universities in the country. These learned men and women are imbued with a spirit that draws out the best that is in a student. Quite a number of units are required of a student before graduating, and, with the efficient faculty and able instructors, the student is scattered in many states, are splendid examples of thrift and industry. Results prove that this academy is among the best institutions of learning in the south. The department of nubilus has as its head the famous tenor singer Professor Silkney Woodward. Professor N. W. Collier, who graduated from Atlanta university with high school honors, was a professor academy from 1894 to 1896, at which time he became the president and has served faithfully in that capacity since. Being a man of extraordinary executive ability, liberal education and a student of men, he has made the institution a monument for the denomination and the race. Professor Collier is modest and is not given to appointee. He is broad and has a great interest in the cause that causes men, irrespective of denominational affiliations, to contribute to the work in which he is laboring so ardently to make succeed. Among the distinguished personages who have visited and addressed the student body are ex-President Roosevelt and other northern and southern educators. President Collier is anxious to have a college department, and to that he is being offered a position of many infrequent citations, together with the members of the trustee board. WORK OF BUSY SCHOOL Neighborhood Union of Atlanta Bup tist College Teachers Self Help. About the Atlanta Baptist college Atlanta, Ga., a suggestive and important bit of neighborhood work is carried on by a Neighborhood union. The organization is at the head of the work. The organization was formed to keep the neighborhood good and to make it better. The community is divided into districts. Each district is in charge of a director, whose business it is to become acquainted with each family in the district and to organize circles in which are taught sewing, dress cutting, millinery, basketry, art needlework, cooking and anything asked for in the district. Women are them stronger and better women. There are also reading circles for directed study. The work is done principally with girls from eight to twenty-two years of age, who are divided into three classes, according to age. One interesting and effective line of work is the heart to heart talks with the girls. Many of them are working girls and take their only day off to attend school. The district is made of industry. The directors meet once a month and talk over the general condition of the district and adjust matters as best they can. In winter they report the needy families. Then, instead of taking what money they have to help them, each member of the Neighborhood union gives what she can. Some give coal, perhaps only a few lumps; some wood, rice, four, lard, etc. to help through the long, difficult days, poor, but hard working. They have not much to give, but they do what they can. This Neighborhood union is now striving to get a home in order to do more effective work. NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS. Sundry Duties Which Afro-Americans Should Perform in 1910. Among the scores and hundreds of resolutions which our people will make for the new year we should like the insertion of the following—viz: That our men and women of means and the masses of the race in general spend more of their money for food, clothing, clothing and social service with our business enterprises; that more time be given to the home life of their children and more care exercised in the matter and manner of their education; that they give more liberally of their means for the support of home and foreign missions, and that they see to it that our charitable and educational institutions shall not be forced to close their doors for lack of funds. South Whipped, but Never Conquered. Democratic Virginia has scored another point in favor of keeping the red flag floating to the breeze by placing the statue of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee in hallway at the national uniform. General Lee wears the rebel uniform. This is enough to cause General U. S. Grant to turn over in his grave and make what they had not fought the enemy of the Union. Poor encouragement for the boys in blue. The south was whipped, but never conquered. Gentlemen, what next? - Indianapolis (Ind.) Freeman. Booker T. on Strength of Negro Blood. Booker T. Washington observes dryly that it doesn't seem likely that the Negro race will be absorbed by the white; the probabilities point the other way. "It takes 100 per cent of good Anglo-Saxon blood of something akin to white blood," but not African blood is sufficient to make any person a Negro. By that kind of mathematics, you see, my race will absorb the white race." Emancipation Day at Montclair. The Citizens' union of Montclair, N. J., hold appropriate services, in observance of the forty-seventh anniversary of the insance of the Union Baptist church, Montclair, Jan. 1. The annual address was delivered by the Rev. D. Clayton Powell of New York. FOREST MADISON NOTES. Mr. Arthur Ware has returned from Keokuk after a week's visit with his parents and friends. Rev. Evans, pastor of the Second Baptist church, has returned from Keokuk where he has been attending a revival meeting. Mr. Cyrus Boyd of Keokuk was in the city one day last week. Miss Merle Basfield was a Keokuk visitor Monday. The Second Baptist church has organised a B. Y. P. U. society. The following officers were elected: Miss Zetel Cartmil, president; Miss Marie Dunlip, secretary; Miss Lillian Woods, treasurer; Miss Agnes Steward, organizer. MY. PLEASANT NOTES. Mrs. G. Steppes presented to her daughter Fae, a fine Guest Special piano for her birthday present. Mr. Harry Reed is still very ill at the home of his parents on North Henry street. Those on the sick list this week are Mrs. Lena Richmond and Mr. Adam, Smiley, and Mrs. Matt Watts. Rev. Jackson of Albais presided at the Second Baptist church all day Sunday. The "100" gave a sleighing party New Years night in honor of Mrs. G. Steppa and daughter Fae of Minneapolis, Minn. After a long drive over the city the party went to the home of Mrs. Geo. Harris where an oyster supper was served. The table was beautifully decorated. All went home wishing each one a happy New Year and many more such happy events. The Twilight Literary Society met at the home of Miss Myrtle Burnaugh last week. Miss Lillie Washington returned home Thursday from Aurora, ill where she has been spending the holidays with the Beckwith family as their nurse. OTTUMWA NOTES. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas of Cedar Rapids are visiting the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bailey. Rev. B. F. Abner has tendered his resignation as pastor of the Second Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. Abner will leave next Sunday for Boley, Oklahoma where he has charge of the church and school. CARNEY IOWA Special to the Iowa State Bystander Mr. Editor: Please allow us space in your paper for the following items. Rev. Morgan of the A. M. E. church is holding a series of meetings and have been successful in having several additions to the church. Rev. L. G. Garrett of Enterprise, pastor of the Baptist church of Carney delivered a very able sermon Sunday morning. The theme of his discourse being, "raye yeest in Hell. The Sunday school gave an entertainment Saturday evening at the residence of Mrs. Lizzie Bryanti realized a neat little sum of $10.00. Our Sunday school presented to its Superintendent, Henry Madden, a handsome gold watch and fob for his meditorous service. Mrs. Andy Southall, has returned from a visit at Buxton, accompanied by Mrs. Kate Hutchison, Margaret Ampy. Mrs. Kate Hutchison returned home from Chicago where she spent two weeks visiting relatives and friends. Mr. D. M. Gilbert departed Saturday for St. David, Illinois. Mr. D. Gilbert of Enterprise was visiting Carrie Price, the Mr. and Mrs. Tim Price are the proud parents of a fine baby boy. Mrs. R. Randolph has returned home after spending a week visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Barfield. Mr. M. C. Long is on the sick list BURLINGTON ITEMS. The funeral of the late Eliza Hughes was held Saturday afternoon from the family residence, 842 Washington St. Rev. J. W. Smith officiated. Mrs. Hughes had suffered many months with dropy, but bore her suffering from the pain. Her death came was well prepared, leaving a loving christian testimony. Mrs. Hughes leaves a husband, A. Hughes, a son Tracy Alexander, and daughter Mrs. L. Murphy and many friends to mourn her loss. Mrs. Cora Jones and daughter Anna Jones, of okaloosa were in attendance at the funeral of Mrs. Eliza Hughes. Mrs. Mattle Slaughter is lying quite ill at the Burlington hospital where she underwent a serious operation last week, friends hope for a speedy recovery. Cured of a Severe Attack of Bronchitis by Chamberlain's "On October the 18th, last my little three year old daughter contracted a severe cold which resulted in a case of bronchitis," says Mrs. W. G. Gibson, Lexington, Ky. "She 's lost the power of speech completely and was a very sick child. Fortunately we had a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the house and gave it to her according to the printed directions. On the second day she was a great deal better, and on the fifth day, of October 23rd, she was entirely well of her cold and bronchitis, which I attribute to this splendid medicine. I recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy unreservedly as I have found it the surest, safest and quickest cure for both, both for children and adults, of any I have ever use." For sale by all druggists. ALBIA NEWS. very sick for the past week with pneumonia. Mr. Walter Benning returned from his trip to St. Louis the first of the week. The A. M. E. church people held a Teddy Bear social at the church on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Cornellious Miller has returned. He was in town the first of the week. We have had some few cold days this week. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Grayson spent Sundex in Alba. Sunday in Albia. Mrs. Thomas Williams returned from Minesour on account of the illness of Mr. Williams. Mr. John Wright of Harking was in Albia Saturday. Sunday Jan. 16 is Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church. OTTUMWA NEWS. Monday morning at the Ottumwa hospital occured the death of Mr. Alfonso Rradford. He leaves two children, Mrs. Sarah and Mr. Loren to mourn his loss. Funeral services afternoon from the A. M. E. church. Mr. Earl Weeks of Chicago is visiting his parents indefinitely. Mrs. Essay Horne, who has been visiting her daughter Mrs. Chas Boone of Cedar Rapids has returned home. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Horne of Cedar Rapids have been visiting Mrs. Essay Horne. Mrs. Cleo Cloak entertained a few friends Monday evening in honor of Miss Nora Brown of Fairfield. Miss Garner Fowler returned to Lincoln Institute Wednesday morning to resume her studies. Mrs. Oscar Williams, delightfully entertained a few friends last Saturday to a six *clock* dinner. at the A. M. E. church evening, inge a few were there. Mr. Stephen Green is still ill at his home on Cherry St. The "Fatfathi Few" were enter- on Main St. last Saturday evening. SIoux CITY ITEMS. In behalf of the subscribers of our city to the Iowa State Bystander, I wish it, and its co-workers a happy New Year. Coborn lies seriously ill at her home at 117 Main street, lagrope being the cause. The Pott's orchestra will give a masquerade ball on Wednesday evening Jan. 6th at Simone's hall. A prize will be given to the one dressed the more agreeable to the P. club gave a reception at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roberts in honor of Mrs. Samuel Sulles of Simone's Friday afternoon, the time was spent in a social conversation, it was an informal affair. A nice luncheon was served at 6 o'clock. The Starlight club of the A. M. E. Church served New Year's dinner at the church parlor, a large crowd was served during the afternoon. A neat sum wafted in. Myrtle Morgan returned home Monday afternoon after a week's visit with Mr. and Mrs. Rev. J. C. Reid. Mrs. Katherine Askew who underwent an operation some three weeks ago at Samaritan hospital, is getting along well. DAVENPORT TEAMS. The Third Baptist church observed Emancipation Day by rendering a programme and reading the Proclamation and other selections on the program. The Allen league held its regular Prayer meeting was conducted by the Prayerless, Mrs. R. Bright, after which the lesson was conducted by Rev. T. B. Stovall. General Houston an old citizen of Davenport for about 65 years, died at his home 1806 North St. Thursday morning Jan. 6th after an extended spell of dropy. In former years Gen. Houston run one of the finest barbershops in the city. Later years he was known as a corn-doctor. He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife Sarah McClelland, and a host of friends. Mrs. Russell of North Farmer St. is still very ill. Mrs. Sarah Allen of Western Ave. is still confined to her home. MOLINE ITEMS. Miss Mayme Ritchie who has been very ill is convalescent. Mr. Wiley Johnson of Dubuque, I. aspent New Year's Sunday with his cousin Mr. Frank Rogers. Mrs. Henry Harris left Sunday for Chicago and Indianapolis where she make an indefinite visit with relatives. Miss Mabel Tarver is reported on the sick list, but some better at this writing. Mrs. Albert Settles was called home last week to the death-bed of her father, who departed this life Saturday. The Tri-City Sunday School Association held its regular meeting at St. Paul's Church Monday evening. Miss Clara Tarver returned home Sunday after a weeks visit with the Misses Richardson's of Galesburg. Miss Lucy Jenkins has been on the sick list for several weeks is reported in a critical condition at this room. Mr. John Moore of St. Louis, was a caller at the Louis Tarver residence last Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Buckner entertained at a five course dinner New Years, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rogers of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood, and Mr. John Qured. Mr. R. B. Settles spent Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. Harris. Mr. Wm. Maxie departed Monday for Missouri to attend the funeral of his sister Mrs. Howard. GALESBURG, ILL. Miss Rhoda Shaw of Peoria is visiting her sister Mrs. R. Worthington, Sr. Mr. Sam Thompson left Thursday for a visit in Florida. Miss Clara Tarver returned to her home in Molline Bay after a week's visit with the Misses Richardson. Miss Dorothy Minner of Momouth is the guest of Mrs. Glover. Mr. Will Brent of Mexico spent Thursday in the city, the guest of his sister, Mrs. E. F. Mason. Mrs. Sadie Harris spent Sunday in Kewanee, where she visited the A. M. E. Sunday school. Miss Dorothy Worthington, Miss Ola Johnson and Mrs. left last week for a visit to Indianapolis. Miss Lydia Crawford entertained at dinner Sunday in honor of Miss Clara Tarver. Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Phoenix and Miss Stella Bradley of Rock Island guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. King at week. Mr. John Moore of Alton spent Wednesday here, the guests of Miss Mayne Richardson. Messrs Will Godwin and Harry Carter attended the ball Monday evening, returning to Rock Island after a show visit with friends. Lorraine to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Glover a daughter. the D. D. W. C. club Tuesday afternoon. After the usual club business an interesting program was enjoyed. Miss Clara Tarver of Moline was present and gave an interesting talk. Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Beckley entertained the crowd on Monday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Winston of Denver and Miss Stella Carter. About twenty young people from the Tril-Cities attended the dance Monday evening, returning to their homes on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ulysses Shoots of relatives and friends. The annual election of officers of the A. M. E. Sunday school was held last week, the following being elected to office: Sup. Mrs. Geo. W. Kidd. Asst.' Sunt. Mrs. Harris Librarians Chas. Ogden, Fannie Green, Tillford Gash. LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS. To the president and members of all literary societies and clubs in Des Moines, Ia. greeting, "grupo grupo agasen nos notices that the Inter State Literary Association of Kansas and the West will hold its 20th annual session, in Des Moines, during Christmas week 1918 and that under the rules of said societies, all literature and artistic societies are entitled to be represented in said meeting by three delegates. You are also notified that under the rules of said Association, all cities having more than three societies who expect to participate in said meeting are entitled to be represented in convention composed of three delegates from each of said societies which city convention shall determine what persons shall represent said city on the program and other matters pertaining to the Inter State meeting. In the Inter State meeting at Kansas City, there are Moines societies represented and it appears that there will be several more this year. A cordial invitation is, therefore, hereby extended to each and every society and club of Des Moines to致使 society or club in a city convention which will hold its first session at my residence, No. 1058 5th St. on Monday evening, Feb. 7th, at 8 o'clock, for the purpose of discussing and perfecting for the selection of projects at as early a date as possible, that they may have ample time to prepare their respective parts; and for the purpose of taking the necessary preliminary steps toward arranging for the entertainment of the Inter meeting to be held here in December. Chairman Executive Committee. Inter State Literary Assn. of Kansas and the West. A Sprained Ankle. As a rule a man will feel well satisfied he can hobble around on crutches in two or three weeks after spraining his ankle, and it is often two or three months before he 'is fully recovered. This is an unnecessary loss of time, as by applying Chamberlain's Limiment, as directed, a cure may as a rule be effected in less than one week's time, and within three days. Sold by all druceists. More Earthquakes in France. Toulon. slight seismic shocks occurred again Monday in Draguignan, Vaucluse and Puy-Separade. New damage is reported, but the residents were panic-stricken. Ancient Uses of Bloodhounds. Although the use of bloodhounds for tracking criminals still survives, another ancient use of these dogs seems to have died out. Bloodhounds were at one time often called upon to assist an army in the field, the forces with which the earl of Essex suppressed the Irish rebellion in the time of Elizabeth, for instance, being accompanied by 800 dogs. In the Scottish clan feuds and the wars between England and Scotland bloodhounds were employed to emulate the fugitive warriors and both Wallace and Bruce were hunted in the manner. Wallace is said to have hadd his pursuers by killing a follower and leaving the corpse for the hound to find, while Bruce adopted the less cruel plan of wading some distance down a stream and ascending a tree which overhang the water. THE THREE ESSENTIALS THAT ARE GIVING WESTERN CANADA Greater impulse Than Ever This Year. The reports from the grain fields of Central Canada, (which comprises the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta) are to hand. The year 1909 has not only kept pace with previous years, but proving that this portion of the continent is capable of producing a continent yield of all the smaller grains, but it has thoroughly outstripped previous successes. There is quantity, quality and price and from all parts of an area of about 230,000 square miles there comes the strong refraits of contentment and satisfaction. In the distribution of the conditions causing it no district has been overlooked. Various estimates of the total yield of wheat for the country have been made, but it is not the vast total that influences the general reader so much as what has been done individually. The grand total—ay 130 million bushels may have its effect on the grain price; it may be interesting to know that in the world's markets the wheat crop of India has suddenly broken upon the boards, and with the Argentine, and with Russia and India, is now a factor in the making of prices. If so today, what will be its effect five or ten years from now, when, instead of there being seven million acres under crop with a total yield of 135 or 130 million bushels, there will be from 17 to 30 million acres in wheat with a yield of 325 to 600 million bushels. When the largest yield in the United States has slightly exceeded 700 million bushels, the greatness of these figures may be understood. Well, such as a safe forecast, for Canada has the land and it has the soil. Even today the Province of Saskatchewan, one of the three great wheat growing provinces of Canada, with 400,000 acres under wheat, produces nearly 90 million bushels, or upwards of one-tenth of the greatest yield of the United States. And Saskatchewan is only in the beginning of its development. Our grey recently pointed out in speaking on this very subject, this year's crop does not represent one-tenth of the soil equally fertile that is yet to be brought under the plough. Individually, reports are to hand of yields of twenty-five, thirty and thirty-five bushels to the acre. Scores of yields are reported of forty and some as high as sixty bushels. The farmer, who takes care of his soil, who gets his seedbed ready early, is concerned with the crop. The news of the magnificent crop yield throughout the Canadian West will be pleasing to the friends of the thousands of Americans who are residents in that country and who are vastly instrumental in the assistance they are rendering to let the world know its capabilities. Charity and Courage. Knicker—Do you ever cast your bread on the waters? Newwed—No; all I dare to do is to throw cold water on the bread. Ladies who take pride in clear, white clothes should use the new RUSS BLUE. Sold by grocers. It is harder for a woman to pray her husband into heaven than it is to nag him into the other place. FILES CURRED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO ONMENTS guaranteed to give any one of itching. Blind. Bleeding or Prolonged Piles in 14 days or more refunded. 60. Don't blame the phonograph if it has a bad record. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES IN PHEUMATISM, BRIGHT'S DISEASE, DIABETES, BACKPAIN. 1875 *Guarantee. 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Anne Gregory sat in a corner of Frau Baumgarten's library listening to the matches of talk and music which penetrated the heavy draperies between her retreat and the salon, and enjoying the moment's stolen respite from social duties all the more for her uncertainty as to how long it would last. Through the small gap in the portiers she caught fugitive slumps of passing guests. One tall, square-shouldered, in the Prussian uniform paused briefly, just in view. Two charming English girls passed, and then in a second tall man's figure, in evening clothes. And then the draperies were gently pushed aside, and Mr. John Durham came quietly in through the opening. "You'd much better go away, Jack," the girl murmured, lastly. "Thanks, awfully," was the cheerful response, "since you are so pressing, I will stay a bit." And he proceeded to settle himself on a chair arm opposite the window-seat where Anne had curled herself up. Anne tapped her foot on the wooden edge of the window-seat; finally she laughed. Mr. Durham looked gently surprised. Then his face grew quite serious. "Do you like these Germans, Anne?" she said. "Too abstract. Make it concrete, Jackie, and I'll tell you." white figure. "Four diges Franklin," he hecter toward her, other man in his sait be a trunut. Anne steadied her sinctively rally every young, makes when he matures him, and "And are you the one that 'Got beware,' last, I am not in But you—they are as he spoke his girl passing from the girl became carefully paused, and Mr. D speak, quickly, but so it happente, almost in unison. "This was my dane," May I have the then both stopped, involuntarily. The the American was vehement the lieutenant elaborate formality to "We are rivals," he was with and with a smile. "With withdraw." "Not unless you were with, the same, but gravely. A gleam came into blue eyes, and a drib between the two. A "Well, von Hammerstein, for instance." "Get fairly I do," promptly; "don't you?" "I don't think I know him quite as well as you do." "If you did, you would," said Anne, enthusiastically. "He is—so interesting." Out of the corner of her eye she observed that her enthusiasm awakened no response. When Jack spoke it was on another subject, though not unconnected with the former: "Pretty swell violets you have on," he said. "Made in Germany?" "What do you mean?" "I mean, am I the only man who isn't allowed to send you violets? You're wearing some to-night." "Why—jack, don't you see, you are the only man I know well enough to—well—to know for his own good?" Anne's face wavered between resentment and guilty amusement; finally a reluctant smile crept toward the dimple in her left cheek, and she lifted reproachful eyes to his. "Ah, Jackie, how mean you are!" she said, in a small voice she reserved for him. "Anne! Her heart jumped with the start of it. The voice was no more Jack's familiar voice than the stern white face was his face. "He saw a boy a good many times in the past Anne," he said. "I am not a boy. The time has come when you must understand that." Something in the low repressed tones hurried the girl's heart-beats and made it hard to hold her eyes level on his. She found her eyes dropping till she could see nothing but her own tightly clasped hands; at that she was both angry and ashamed; it had never happened to her before. "It means something to me," she heard him saying, "that you should not think of me as a boy. I don't stand it any longer. Anne, will you look at me, please? I want to pounding noises, and her heart was doing, uncomfortable things out of due locality; as for looking at him!--she realized suddenly that she was afraid to look. Then she considered; afraid of Jack--Jack? That was plainly ridiculed. She would not yield to such folly; she would look at him coolly and say: "Well?" But she did not. And then through the pounding the voice came again, still lower, but with a quiet incomprehensible authority in it: "Look at me, Anne!" He had not moved, but it seemed to her that he had taken her face in his two hands and was lifting it; and the rebellious eyes followed the same imperious power. A long minute she looked with eyes that could not escape the passionate holding of his, while he gave her his soul to read as a man holds out his palm to a friend. The rebellious minder, the knowledge had crept through the fiber of her that the face was indeed not the face of a boy, but of a man. "Queen Anne--my queen!" he breathed. The girl made a hasty, tremulous motion, slipping to her feet as if to escape some danger. The movement brought her gown against him, and both his hands closed round the one which hung at her side. The clasp was so unlike the Friendly grasp of the hand she knew as Jack's that she had to be careful. The little glove came from her lips with the coherent words: "Oh, please—oh, don't, you make me very uncomfortable—I don't want—" "I must speak, Anne. How long do you suppose a man can bear this sort of thing? If you have any mercy in you, tell me now." "Tell—you—what?" "Whether there is any hope for me or not. I have waited till I can't wait any longer, little girl; I've got to have you—or lose you, now. I升n Von Hammertaintell—if I'm out of the running, for God's sake tell me so. No, I won't. "I can't am all tired up. Jack, you aren't the same—nothing is the same—I don't know what I think." "When will you know?" hustily. "I—oh, some one is coming! Let me go, Jack!" As he released her hand she slipped by him, and at the moment a louder chord from the piano sounded through open doors. "What came into the room. He flushed and smiled with an air of satisfaction at sight of the slender. "What do you mean?" white figure. "Found at last, gaudges Franklin," he said, coming directly toward her, but including the other man in his salute. "You have been a truant." Anne steadied herself to the instinctively rally every woman, old or young, makes when hard pressed. She managed to smile back, as she said: "And are you the truant officer?" "Gott bewah," laughed the leutenant, "I am not in the civil service. But you—they are playing a walk—" the glance his glance grew keen, passing from his chair to the chair he became carefully observing. He had paused, and Mr. Durham began to speak, quickly, but in an ordinary tone. So it happened that both men said, almost in unison: "This was my dance, I think?" "May I have the honor!" Then both stopped, and straightened involuntarily. The German flushed; the American was very pale. in a moment the leutenant turned with an elaborate formality to the other man. "We are rivals," he said, dramatically, and with a smile. "Will either of us withdraw?" "Not unless you wail to," said the other, with the same courteous infection, but gravely. A gleam came into the leutenant's blue eyes, and a direct look passed between the two. After that neither man looked at the girl, and both spoke in the tone of accentuated lightness the leutenant had used. The latter said: "We are in your hands, fair lady, which will you honor?" "But, meine Herren," said Anne, with a touch of nervousness in her smile, "I cannot dance with you both at once; you surely will not put me to the discomfort of denying myself either pleasure?" But her questioning look met no sign of the expected withdrawal in either face. Instead, Jack spoke, his eyes meeting hers squarely: "It is too bad; but you see Von Hammerstein and I are such bite- rivals that we insist on a decision from you." "Precisely," assented the German, bowing; "we await your choice, gnades Fraunel. we sprang to the girl's checks. "I think I shall have to sit out this dance," she said, her head a little higher than it had been. "Pardon me," interrupted Mr. Durham, quickly; "don't say you won't play, please. The object of this game is to choose your partner—and Lieut. von Hammerstein and I are very anxious to play." "Very," said the gentleman referred to. Anne stood between them, every natural and tactful way of disposing of the trifling difficulty made impossible to her consciousness by the electric atmosphere of disgusted earnestness and covered significance which emanated from the two. Everything seemed world-leaving her alone with those two men, waiting for more than her answer to the insignificant claim. "There are 'rules for every game,' she said, slowly, her head bent, as she stood before them. "This one is usually decided according to priority, isn't it?" She heard Jack take a quick, hard, breath, the leutenant had really begun his talk, time the latter bent toward her eagerly. "Did I not have the good fortune to precede Mr. Durham, very slightly?" he said, touching his mustache nervously. Anne moved uncertainly, wavering, toward him. A light sprang to his eyes as she saw the little motion. "Are we to keep strictly to the rules?" he said, with a suppressed triumph in his light tone, so he spoke. Fraulius belonged to me! "The girl started and lifted her head sharply. A strange expression flitted across her face. It looked as if she were listening inwardly. "What did you say?" she asked after a moment, very gravely and slowly. The leutenant smiled at her with more than a suggestion of claim in his glance. "I said you say, what?" he said, with just a hint of lingering on the word before the pause. As he said it, it seemed to the man who stood cold and tense with a dawning despair at her onter side, that an electric shock ran along the girl's nerves. Her color came and went swiftly. Her eyes flashed open wide and startled. A moment she stood so in silence, looking at her face, she had spoken. The sudden sweet litter came from her lips; her face reaxed its tense lines, and she took a quick breath on the end of a slight shiver. With a swift, sure movement she drew slightly back and aside, so that she stood at Mr. Durham's side. "Oh, no; I'm not," she said, with a happy security in her voice. "You are mistaken; I wasn't quite sure myself—before—but—I bacg. to Mr. Durham." Jack's hand closed eagerly over the one she laid on his arm, and his held breath released itself in a great agh of passionate relief and joy, she turned to the other candidate with a gentle regret in her tender eyes. "I am very sorry to seem unkind," she said; "but the fact is, Mr. Durham established his claim—long while ago." Long-Lived Irish Family. 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Graves, director of the Yale school of forestry, was appointed chief forester of the United States to succeed Gifford Pinchot, removed. Mr. Graves was from 1898 to 1900 assistant chief of the division of forestry in the agricultural department under Pinchot. The widow of Gen. Franz Sigel and grandmother of Eileen Sigel, murdered by a Chinman, is near death in New York. She was never told of her grandchild's fate. Jared Sarkar Babocck, inventor of the roque, died at his home in New York. Harry Hilden of Bloxi, Mass., 14 years old, rescued Theodore Ryan, aged 12, from drowning. It was the fifth rescue of the kind by the boy. The biggest, quietest election Boston ever knew resulted in the choice of John F. Fitzgerald, former congressman and former mayor, as mayor under the new charter by 1,236 plurality. J. A. Stobe, state treasurer-elect of Pennsylvania, was found dead in bed in his home at Schoeneck. Heart disease caused death. Cardinal Sotilli, who has been seriously ill for several weeks, and had been delirious at times, passed away at Rome. Henry do Sincay, a Belgian nobleman in a New York interview, says American women are the most beautiful in the world, but they do not know how to dress. He declares they wear "too much lace and gingerbread." American men, he says, are money mad. GENERAL NEWS Representative Sabath of Chicago scored against Representative Mann when the Bennett-Sabath white slave bill was passed by the house. That action, in effect, sends the Mann bill on the same subject to the waste basket of the house. The New York Zoological society will spend nearly $100,000 in a world-wide study of pheasantes. In an edible food, Pinebees will visit Eukalyna, China, Borneo and other countries. The city's tax books for 1910, which were made public, show that, as a general rule, the wealthy women of New York are assessed for much larger sums in personal property than the wealthy men. Miss Roberta B. De Janon and Fredrick Cohen, who entered from Philadelphia on December 29 and who have been sought from end to end of the country, were arrested by the boarding house. Miss De Janon is the granddaughter of Robert Builst, millionaire seed merchant of Philadelphia, and belongs to one of the most aristocratic families of the Quaker city. Cohen is a married man and a walters. Judge R. S. Lovett, president of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, submitted a proposition to President Taft and Attorney General Wickersham for a settlement out of court of the government's trust-busting suit against the company. The conference lasted nearly four hours and at its conclusion Attorney General Wickersham announced that no definite result had been arrived at. The senate committee on public lands backed down and the Ballinger-Pinchot resolution, shorn of the provision restoring power to Speaker Cannon to name the house members on the joint committee of investigation, was put through the senate by unanimous vote and without discussion. Thus was avoided a clash between the two houses of congress. Frank and Harold George, brothers, and W. R. Garner, three most prominent young men in Atlanta, Ga. were, more than once, mobile in which they were speeding out was torn to pieces by a trolley car. W. H. George, father of the George brothers, and F. S. Gable, who were also in the automobile, were seriously injured and may not recover. Henry Johnston, motorman on the trolley car, was badly hurt. Mrs. Pauline Russell, a trainer of performing leopards, was seriously mutilated by one of three of these animals she owns while she was putting the brushes through a rehearsal of their act in a big cage on the fourth floor of Huber's museum, New York city. The Illinois Firemen's association held its yearly meeting in Granite City. The trial of former Congressman Binger Hermann on a charge of conspiring to defraud the government out of public lands opened in Portland, Ore. Physicians of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio attended the semi-annual meeting of the Northern Tri-State Medical association in Fort Wayne, Ind. The best meeting ever held by the Kansas improved Stock Breeders' association began in Topeka, Gov. Stubba welcoming the members. Frederick Goebel, a packer, employed in a wholesale dry goods house, was shot by a policeman and probably finally wounded at Denver, Col., when attempting to break into the wife's apartment, to punish her for having instituted divorce proceedings against him. 1 Representatives of many businesses manufacturing and commercial or organizations hold a conference in Chicago to devise means to fight the public clauses in the new corporation tax law. The interstate commerce commission initiated the action began an investigation of the subject of "milling in transit" privileges accorded by railways on many commodities. Simon B. Chapin, head of the stock brokerage firm of S. B. Chapin & Co. New York city, was suspended from the privileges of the stock exchange by the governing committee for a period of 60 days, and his partner, F. D. Counties, was suspended for 60 days, as a result of the action of the firm on December 1, 2001, executing the sensational flurry in Rock Island common stock, which culminated on that day in a semi-pillar. In a lengthy and elaborate statement read at the annual meeting of the stockholders, held in Jersey City, the directors of the American Sugar Company absolved themselves from all blame for the existence of the frauds which caused them to refund to the United States State Department no more than $10,000 and declared that absolutely none of the officials of the company had any knowledge of the existence of the nefarious transactions. Nearly $30,000 was found in the home of the late Father Nicholas Simon of New Orleans by the executors of his estate. Much of the money had been thrown carelessly into bookcases and deks. New Orleans club women have have come to meeting to aid Mrs. Susie Campbell, charged with the murder of Lizzie McLaughlin. The victim and a male companion had forced their way into Mrs. Campbell's home. The Portuguese government has issued a denial of the Lisbon police report of a conspiracy against King Manuel. Pettitions to President Taft, asking for the release of Charles W. Morse, the last man from the penitentiary, have been placed in hotel lobbies and other public places in Gotham. Prompt action by Gov. Deneen in ordering out four companies of the Illinois National Guard prevented a lynching at Vienna, Johnson county, Illinois. Upon receipt of an appeal for help from Sheriff John Mathis of that county, Deneen ordered out companies D, F and K of the Four regiment, I. N. G., and Company A, which had the instructions to proceed to Vienna at once. Gen. Estrada, leader of the revolutionary forces in Nicaragua, is preparing to rapidly push the campaign which has been planned against the government forces with vigor, as he has been strongly reinforced with both men and money. With the purpose of rebuilding the shattered fortunes of her husband and obtaining a pardon for him, Mrs. Charles W. Morse, has opened an office at 43 Exchange place and has convicted a ice king's financial affairs. Greek fought Slav in a company boarding house until the place resembled a shambles and twenty or more of the participants were injured. Several of them required the services of a surgeon so serous were the wounds. The riot was precipitated by the stealing of a rooster, although blood exists among the two races to a considerable degree. Life imprisonment may be the punishment the Bellevue-Straford wafter who eloped with 17-year-old Roberta de Janon, granddaughter of the Philadelphia millionaire seedman, Robert Bullist. Speaker Cannon "turned the tables" on the insurgent-Democratic forces when an effort was made to take away from him the power to determine what part of the recent message of the president should go to the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce and what part to the judiciary. The labor police have discovered a republican plot against the life of King Manuel and 40 suspected republicans have been arrested, some of whom are believed to have been implicated in the assassination of King Carlos. Deaths and accidents were reported in Pittburg and surrounding territory in the wake of a new storm followed by zero weather. The New York military academy at Cornwall, N.Y., was destroyed by fire and was Injured. Three books by Dr. F. A. Cook are to be placed on the "fictitious narrative" list by the Boston public library. Sunday was "dry" at Indianapolis as the result of an order from S. L. Shank, the new mayor. The long-delayed report of the University of Copenhagen to the National Geographic society has arrived in Washington. It was written in Danish, and though brief, was to report. After being completed the report was reviewed by the special committee of the Geographic society appointed to review the Cook data. None of the Cook data accompanied the report. The Scandinavian-American bank has sold the Alaska building in Seattle, the largest office building in the Pacific northwest, to Mrs. John Evans of Boston for $1,500,000. The American Museum of Natural History is in the market for about 10,000 insects. It plans to make a collection representing every species of insect found within fifty miles of New York City. Columbia has canceled its emerald mining concession to a London and New York syndicate. It is said French and Spanish companies wish to compete in the bidding. Thomas W. Lawson has offered 20 cents a pound for the entire pooled crop of the Burley-Tobacco society, according to an announcement of the broker, made in Cincinnati. His vocabulary saved a lusty New York parrot from death in a fire. Fireman believed a human being was crying for help and ascended to the top floor to carry the bird down a ladder. A series of woman-succulent meetings for negroes in the largest ever commission in New York City, Mrs. O. H. P. 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Loule Fuller, the noted dancer, told at a luncheon a story about her class of dancing children. "I gave the children a Christmas party last year," she said, "and when the pudding came on I said to them: "I have put in this pudding a coin, a little china doll and a button. Whoever gets the coin will be rich. Whoever gets the doll will be married before the year is out. But whoever gets the button will be an old maid." "Well, the pudding disappeared rapidly, and the little girls soon found the coin and the china doll. But the button did not turn up. No one got the button. This amazed me. "That night I said to my favorite little girl, as we sat alone by the fire in my room: "I can't understand what became of that button. I put it in the pudding mug." "I tell you, the little girl confessed, turning rosy with confusion. I dot the button. But I didn't want everybody to laugh at me—the I swallowed it." FARE, NOT FAIR. Division Superintendent—How many fare passengers did you have on your last trip? New Conductor—Fair passengers? Say, do you think all I had to do was to notice people's complexions? Why He Got Married. A $100-per-annum clerk in one of Uncle Sams's departments at Washington was recently approached by a coworker, who asked if it were true, as rumor had it, that the $500 person was about to marry. "It is," was the laconic response. "Surely, old man," said the other, with that freedom permitted an intimate friend, "you don't think that your present income would justify you in taking a wife?" "To be perfectly frank," said the other, "I do not." "Then what on earth can be your reason for taking this serious step?" "I have no reason," was the calm response. "I am in love."—Lippincott's Magazine. Good Example. Mr. Crismonebak—Here's an item which says the swan outlines any other bird, in extreme cases reaching 300 years. Mrs. Crismonebak—And remember, John, the swan lives on water. A WOMAN DOCTOR Was Quick to See that Coffee was Doing the Mischief. A lady tells of a bad case of coffee poisoning and tells it in a way so simple and straightforward that literary skill could not improve it. "I had neuralgic headaches for 12 years," she says, "and suffered untold agony. When I first began to have them I weighed 140 pounds, but they brought me down to 110. I went to many doctors and they gave me only temporary relief. I suffered on, till one the human doctor told me to postpum. She said I looked like I was coffee poisoned. "So I began to drink Postum and I gained 15 pounds in the first few weeks and continued to gain, but not so fast as at first. My headaches began to leave me after I had used Postum about two weeks — long enough to get the coffee poison out of my system. "Since I began to use Postum I can gladly say that I never know what a neuralgic headache is like any more, and it was nothing but Postum that made me well. Before I used Postum I never went out alone; I would get back home and walk away to turn. Now I go alone and my head is as clear as a brain. My brain and nerves are stronger than they have been for years." Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pigs, "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new piece of writing, and full of humour. Iowa State News Events of Recent Occurrence Throughout the Commonwealth From the theater to her death bed within a few moments was the sudden and tragic end for Mrs. Nora Bolander, a well known woman of Iowa Falls. Mrs. Bolander lived on the south side and in company with some friends and neighbors walked over town to attend a performance of "Graustark" at the Metropolitan opera house. The night was the coldest of the season and the walking hard, so that when Mrs. Bolander reached the theater she was somewhat exhausted, but took her seat in the dress circle awaiting the performance. Suddenly she complained of feeling ill and friends assisted her to the opera house were summoned. She was driven to her home and restoratives applied, but without avail, as she passed away shortly after reaching home. Mrs. Bolander was quite well advanced in years and moved to this city from Rockley a little over a year ago to make her home here. Her death was due to heart trouble and it is thought the long walk in the cold brought on the attack. The first action to test the validity of the Moon law in Woodbury was carried from the Woodbury district court by the supreme court by Sloux City anti-saloon league, on the dismissal of an injunction proceeding against Daniel Kelley. In August the league secured an injunction against Jas. O'Connor who then operated a saloon, now run by Kelly. In October the case was dismissed without prejudice and on the same day O'Connor sold to Kelly. The city council allowed Kelly to take over the license. Then the league brought action and secured another injunction against O'Connor who was then out of business. The league brings its action under the Moon law which prohibits a saloon keeper disposing of his business to rid himself of an action brought to put him out of business. About a year ago Clint Roop purchased a forty acre farm near Ida Grove, paying $100 per acre for it. He moved his family on it in the spring and farmed the land last summer. Last Friday Mr. and Mrs. Roop were here on their way to Herring, and just before leaving signed a contract for the sale of the farm at $135 per acre, making a profit of $35 per acre, besides the income of the past year from farming it. Bremen, a town in Singleton, who was injured in the Charlton yards nearly four weeks ago, by being caught between the switch engine, on which he was standing, and some freight cars, and who was the same day taken to the hospital in Ottumwa where he suffered the amputation of both lower limbs, died at that place. A dinner party in which N. S. Ketchum and Col. D. J. Palmer of the state railway commission and officials of the "Q" road participated on the night of Nov. 2 at the Savery has been brought in as a part of the row now on between the commission and the Corn Belt Meat Producers' association. Dr. D. R. Bement, 70, a civil war veteran, died suddenly of heart disease at Mt. Ayr. He had just been sleigh riding with his wife and when on the way to the barn with the team died in the sleigh. He was a prominent Odd Fellow and member of the M. E. church. James of Cedar of Cedar Rapid, member of a Bell telephone construction gang, was shot and killed at Dysart by Harry Lee, a night watchman. The tragedy occurred in the hotel where it is said Cassidy and his friends had been drinking and created a disturbance. The grand jury for the first time in the history of Muscatine county adjourned after a ten minute session without a single criminal matter to investigate. Polk county supervisors raised the salaries of county officials and deputies at its January meeting, the increase amounting to $5,000 per year. Mr. and Mrs. John Trebillock, aged 65 and 83, celebrated their sixty-fourth wedding anniversary. They are the oldest married couple in Benton county. Antone Knapp, employed in the cement works at Mason City was probably fatally injured. He fell on a cement scraper which pierced his liver. The defunct First National bank of Charlton, it is announced, will pay a dividend of 15 per cent March 1. Twenty-five per cent has already been paid. Mr. and Mrs. John G. Goedken of Dubuque have the unique distinction of having six daughters, all of whom are members of the order of St. Francis of Dubuque. There are four schools in Grundy county for which no teachers have been secured for the winter term. The pay in some of the schools runs as high as $50. The Northwestern at Denison is preparing to put up a shelter on the south side of the platform for passengers who have to take the west bound trains. James Egan was entombed in the Smiley coal mine by a fall of state. He was dug out and taken to the Boone hospital, but will probably die. The Plymouth Rock birds of Cowen & Wilson of Waterloo won the national prize in the Waterloo and Cedar Falls poultry show at Waterloo. Fred Kierman of Eldora claims to have received $100,000 from the government for a patent torpedo which will revolutionize warfare. Michael Gilliam is dead, aged 100 years. He was a native of Ireland and came to Dubuque in 1853. The tenth annual session of the Premont County Farmers' institute has closed. The attendance was cut down by the bad roads and extreme cold weather, but in other respects the session just closed compared favorably with past sessions. The program and exhibits were good and the general interest in the institute shows no abatement. The new officers are: President, T. E. James; vice president, C. L. Frazier; secretary, Henry J. Rose; treasurer, Silas Candal, Jr. Miss Della Simona was elected lady manager, she has supervision of women's day. Dennis Magen, one of the oldest, if not the oldest of the employees on the Northwestern railway, has retired on a pension for his services as a blacksmith for the company, at Clinton. Mr. Magen has been in the employment of either the Northwestern company, or of companies which afterwards became parts of the Northwestern, continuously ever since 1856. This veteran of the transportation industry first found employment in railroad service as a lad in the capacity of a water carrier, to construction gangs, who were building the old Galena & Chicago railway at Belvidere, ill. A committee from the First Baptist church of Marshalltown has returned from Minneapolis, after investigating the architecture, and has decided to build a new church, and then returned after the joyous Methodist church of Minneapolis. The church will be of cement construction, trimmed with Bedford stone, and will have a tile roof, and will cost $40,000. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bates of Sheldan celebrated the first-dual anniversary of their marriage at the home of their daughter, Mrs. D. A. Drury, of Nevada. Mr. Bates, 84, and Mrs. Bates, 79, were both born in Watertown, N. Y. They were married there and came to Iowa in 1871. R. J. Loveland of M. Pleasant has purchased a half interest in the canning company from Charles Van Gorden, and together they will operate the plant on a larger scale. Mr. Loveland who is an experienced pancher, will have a active management of the business. Dr. Charles Trumbauer of Keota has purchased the Phi Delta Theta fraternity chapter house in Iowa City of Charles Cochran. The consideration was $9,000. Mr. Cochran pays $11,000 additional and secures Dr. Trumbauer's 130 acre farm. Miss Nancy Frey of Sigourney holds a unique record, having taught ninety-one terms of school in the area. She is 74 years old and until a month ago, when she suffered a stroke of paralysis, was teaching school in Keokuk county. M. E. DeWold of Cedar Rapids has sold his 344 acre farm adjoining the townsite of Webb to a man named Aschenbach of Van Cleve, the consideration being $100 per acre. Mr. DeWold paid $60 per acre for the family's farm. The refusal of Secretary Moody of Muscatine to obey the suspension order from President Gleason of the Button Workers' organization will probably cause an eruption in the association, as the members are highly incensed. John Taylor of Sloux City was found dead on the floor with a bottle of wood alcohol beside him. He had turned on the gas and this completed the work of the poison. He leaves a widow and two children. More laurels were added to the Des Moines postoffice when Postmaster Myerly gave out his annual statement for the business done during the year 1909, which shows an increase of $2,853.02 over the year 1908. A quarter section, belonging to the Cornellus Holvers estate in Warren township, in Story county, was sold recently to Martin Erickson for $120 per acre, which was a good price, but not top figures for Story county. Luke Winn, who was to sent to Ft. Madison last summer to serve a five year sentence for stabbing Henry Parchon at Fontanelle last Fourth of July, was taken to Bridgewater to see his mother, who is very sick. A new mall clerk is to be installed on the north branch of Creston, known as the Creston and Cumberland branch. This makes a clerk on every train running on the branch. William Dear, a farmer near Cedar Rapids, lost twenty cows during the recent storm, when the animals sought shelter on the ice of the Cedar river and broke through. Ross Vontress, county clerk of Calhoun county, was in Pomeroy recently securing names on his petition to cut down the number of supervisors from five to three. He met with good success there. Dr. C. B. Jamison, former head of the engineering department at Iowa City, has been appointed consulting engineer for certain high officials of the Chinese empire. Grieving over the loss of his wife, John Birch, a farmer living near Marengo, became insane and was sent to the hospital at Mount Pleasant. As Rasmus Rasmussen, the Audubon blacksmith, was working about his planting mill in the shop, he got the little finger on his left hand too near the buzz-saw and it was cut off, smooth and clean. Judge Preston at Newton held that Mrs. Martin Luther is not insane but suffering from a nervous affection. The insanity commissioners his adjudged have been acquitted. Money and Morrey have money to save the of the Boestler farm of skirt acres southwest of Shockport, to Marshall Elliott of Mt. Pleasant, for $6,000. Mother Mary Baptist Martin, aged 78 years, founder of the Mercy hospital in Des Moines, died at the Mercy hospital in Newport, Iowa. While staring at the engine at his home near Mount Alburn W. W. Woodley was seriously burned by the explosion of a gas tank. The meeting of the striking coal drivers at Des Moines resulted in a decision to return to work under the old scale of wages. Mrs. Adrian Lewis of Cedar Rapids was badly burned by the explosion of the tank of a gasoline stove. RICE FARM pays for itself first crop, write marijuana J. W. UNDERWOOD, President Bank of Commerce Stark, Artig. Ark. Stomach Blood and Liver Trouble Much sickness starts with weak stomach, and comes poor, impoverished blood. Nervous and pale-people good, rich, red blood. Their stomachs need invigorate, for after all, a man can be no stronger than his stomach, and no stronger and more active, makes rich red blood and overcomes and out disease-producing bacteria and cures a whole range of diseases. Stomach Blood and Liver Troubles Much sickness starts with weak stomach, and consequent poor, impoverished blood. Nervous and pale people lack good, rich, red blood. Their stomachs need invigorating for all we can be in invigorating times. 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The reports from the grain fields of Central Canada, (which comprises the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta) are to hand. The year 1900 has not only kept pace with previous years in proving that this portion of the Cultivation is capable of producing a continent yield of all the smaller grains, but it has thoroughly outstripped previous successes. There is quantity, quality and price and from all parts of an area of about 220,000 square miles there comes the strong refrain of contentment and satisfaction. In the distribution of the conditions causing it no district has been overlooked. Various estimates of the total yield of wheat for the country have been made, but it is not the vast total that influences the general reader so much as what has been done individually. The grand total— say 130 million bushels—may have its effect on the grain of the world; it may be interesting to the world in the world's markets the wheat crop of Canada has suddenly broken up, building boards, and with the Argentine and with Russia and India, is now a factor in the making of prices. If so today, what will be its effect five or ten years from now, when, instead of there being seven million acres under crop with a total yield of 135 or 130 million bushels, there will be from 17 to 30 million acres in wheat with a yield from 325 to 600 million bushels. When it is considered that the largest yield in the world slightly exceeded 700 million bushels, the greatness of these figures may be understood. Well, such as a safe forecast, for Canada has the land and it has the soil. Even today the Province of Saskatchewan, one of the three great wheat growing provinces of Canada, with 400,000 acres under wheat, produces nearly 90 million bushels, or upwards of one-tenth of the greatest yield of the United States. And Saskatchewan is yet only in the beginning of its life. As Lord Grey recently pointed out in an article on this very subject, this year's crop does not represent one-tenth of the soil equally fertile that is yet to be brought under the plough. Individually, reports are to hand of yields of twenty-five, thirty and thirty-five bushels to the acre. Scores of yields are reported of forty and some as high as sixty bushels. The farmer, who takes care of his soil, who gets his seed-bed ready early, is certain of a splendid crop. 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And then the draperies were gently pushed aside, and Mr. John Durham came quietly in through the opening. You'd much better go away, Jack," the girl murmured, lazily. "Thank you, awfully," was the cheerful response since you are so pressing, I will stay. And he proceeded to settle himself in chair arm opposite the window-seat where Anne had curled herself up. Anne tapped her foot on the wood, en edge of the window-seat; finally she laughed. Mr. Durham looked genially surprised. Then his face grew quite serene. "Do you like these Germans, Anne?" he said. "Too abstract. Make it concrete, Jackie, and I'll tell you." "Well, von Hammerstein, for instance?" "Certainly I do," promptly; "don't you?" "I don't think I know him quite as well as you do." "If you did, you would," said Anne, enthusiastically. "He is—so interesting." Out of the corner of her eye she observed that her enthusiasm awakened no response. Jack spoke it was on another subject, but not unconnected with the former. "Pretty swell violets you have on," he said. "Made in Germany?" "What do you mean?" "I mean, am I the only man who isn't allowed to send you violets? You are wearing some to-night." "Why, Jack!—Jack, don't you see, you are the only man I know well enough to—well—to advise for his own good?" Anne's face wavered between resentment and guilty amusement; finally a reluctant smile appeared toward the dimple in her left cheek, and she lifted reproachful eyes to his. "Ah, Jackie, how mean you are!" she said, in a small voice she reserved for him. "Anne!" Her heart jumped with the startle of it. The voice was no more Jack's familiar voice than the stern white face was his face. "You have called me a boy a good many times in the past, Anne," the speech "I am not a boy. The time has come when you must understand that." Something in the low repressed tones hurried the girl's heart-beats and made it hard to hold her eyes level on his. She found her eyes dropping lightly she could see nothing but her own lightly clasped hands; at her eyes was both crying and ashamed; it had never happened to her before. "It means something to me," she heard him saying, "that you should not think of me as a boy. I find I can't stand it any longer. Anne, will you look at me, please?" Anne's ears were full of pounding noises, and her heart was doing uncomfortable things out of due locality; as for looking at him!—she realized suddenly that she was afraid to look. Then she considered; afraid to play game like plain rily ridiculous. She would not look so folly; she would look at him coolly and say: "Well?" But she did not. And then through the pounding the voice came again, still lower, but with a quiet incomprehensible authority in it: "Look at me, Anne!" He had not moved, but it seemed to her that he had taken her face in his hand; it was in it; and the rebellious eyes followed the imperious power. A long minute she looked with eyes that could not escape the passionate holding of his, while he gave her his soul to read as a man holds out his palm to a friend. And when the minute was over, the knowledge had crept through every fiber of her that the face was indeed not the face of a boy, but of a man. Anne—my queen!" he breathed. The girl made a hasty, tremulous motion, slipping to her feet as if to escape some danger. The movement brought her gown against him, and both his hands closed round the one which hung at her side. The clasp was so unlike the friendly grasp of the hand she knew as Jack's that she thought she did not like it; a little gasp came from her lips and the oh-oh don't, Jack; you make me very uncomfortable—I don't want— "I must speak, Anne. How long do you suppose a man can bear this sort of thing? If you have any mercy in you, tell me now." "Tell—you—what?" "Whether there is any hope for me or not. I have waited till I can wait any longer, little girl; I've got to have you—or—lose you, now. Von Hammann, you—or—out of the running, you—or God sake tell me so!" I desperately, "I can't. I am all mixed up, Jack. You aren't the same—nothing is the same—I don't know what I think." "When will you know?" huskly. "I—ch, one some is coming! Let me go, Jack!" As he released her hand she slipped by him, and at the moment a louder chord from the piano sounded through the opening porch, and Von Hammerstein came into the room. He flushed and smiled with an air of satisfaction at sight of the slender, "What do you mean?" white figure. "Found at last, last gadges Freuinel," he said, coming directly toward her, but including the other man in his salute. "You have been a truant." Anne steamed herself to the instinctively rally every woman, old or young, makes when hard pressed. She managed to smile back, as she said: "Anne are you the truant officer?" Anne beowahr," laughed the lieutenant, "I will not in the civil service. But you—they play the obliteration as he spoke his glance grew keen, passing from the girl to the man, then became carefully observing. He had paused, and Mr. Durham began to speak, quickly, but in an ordinary tone. So it happened that both men said, almost in unison: "This was my dance, I think?" and "May I have the honor?" Then both stopped, and straightened involuntarily. The German flushed; the American was very pale. In a moment the lieutenant turned with an elaborate bow, the obliteration "We are rivals," he said, dramatically, and with a smile. "Will either of us withdraw?" "Not unless you wish to," said the other, with the same courteous inflection, but gravely. A gleam came into the lieutenant's blue eyes, and a direct look passed between the two. After that neither man looked at the other; each looked at the girl, and both spoke in the tone of accentuated lightness the lieutenant told the girl. The latter said: "We are in your hands, fair lady, which will you honor?" But, meine Herren, said Anne, with a touch of nervousness in her smile, "I cannot dance with you both at once; you surely will not put me to the discomfort of denying myself either pleasure?" But her questioning look met no sign of the expected withdrawal in either face. Instead, Jack spoke, his eyes meeting hers squarely. "It is too bad; but you see Von Hammerstein and I are such bitches, that we insist on a decision from you." "Precisely," assented the German, bowing, "we await your choice, engages Fraulein." A vivid flush sprush to the girl's cheeks. "I think I shall have to sit out this dance," she said, her head a little higher than it had been. "Pardon me," interrupted Mr. Durham, quickly; "don't say you won't play, please. The object of this game is to choose your partner—and Lieut. Stein and I are very anxious to play." "Very," said the gentleman referred to. Anne stood between them, every natural and tactful way of disposing of the trifling difficulty made impossible to her consciousness by the electric atmosphere of disgusted earnestness and covered significance which emanated from the two. Everything seemed all at once to drop away from the world, the men, the women, waiting for more than her answer to the insignificant claim. "There are 'rules for every game,' she said, slowly, her head bent, as she stood before them. "This one is usually decided according to priority, isn't it?" She heard Jack take a quick, hard, breath, the leutenant had really begun his little speech first. At the same time the latter bent toward her eagerly. "Did I not have the good fortune to precede Mr. Durham, very slightly?" he said, touching his mustache nervously. Anne moved uncertainly, wavering, toward him. A light sprang to his eyes as he saw the little motion. "Are we to keep strictly to the rules with a suppressed trump in his light tone. If so, think Franklin Gregory belong to me!" The girl started and lifted her head sharply. A strange expression flicked across her face. It looked as if she were listening inward. "What did you say?" she asked after a moment, very gravely and slowly. The lieutenant smiled at her with more than a suggestion of claim in his glance. "I said you were mine—for the dance, nicht wahr?" he said, with just a hint of lingering on the word before the pause. As he said it, it seemed to the man who stood cold and tense with a dawning despair at her side, that an electrical闸 on ran along the girl's nerves. Her color came and went startled. Her eyes flashed open wide and startled. A moment she stood so, in silence, looking at the man who had spoken. Then a sudden sweet little laugh ran from her lips; her face reaxed its tense lines, and she took a quick breath on the end of a slight shiver. 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The annual meeting of the American Negro academy, which was held in Washington the last of December, was in point of interest, enthusiasm and intelligence a most thoughtful and sincere gathering of the best brain of the race. In the presentation and discussion of subjects of potent interest to our people the sessions of the academy bore a fitting climax to the closing scenes of Negro activity and industry for 1900. Professor R. R. Wright, Jr., of Philadelphia, who has made careful inquiry as to the status of the Negro in the PROFESSOR J. W. CROMWELL north, had for his subject "The Problem of the Negro in the North—Economic Rather Than Social." At the outset of his address Dr. Wright said it was the northern Negroes who first started newspapers, magazines, churches and fraternal orders for their people. Richard Allen, Robert Puris, William Still, Fredrick Douglass and Absalom Jones were advocating the abolition of slavery several generations ago. He said: In the north, so far as civil privileges are concerned, the Negro has the same legal status as a white man. He has free speech and is free to enjoy an unrestrained franchise. But the real serious problem is the one of making a living. Race prejudice is not made explicit, as above indicated, as in economic matters. The almost unanimous attitude of the labor unions of the north is to exclude women from the labor union, as is not confined to the labor union alone, for Negroes do not have any better show in trades that are not unfused and do not know what they do when the union is in full power. The competition which the Negro in the south and keeps him eternally at it to make both ends meet. The result of this ecological life is the every phase of the northern Negro life. He looks at education from the point of view of what it will bring rather than the point of view of the social bodies, such as fraternal orders, from the point of view of the money they receive, from the point of view of their principles. And even the church takes on an economic aspect as well as a religious one. Professor Wright received the degree of doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania last June for sociological investigation. Dr. W. E. B., Du Bois of Atlanta, Ga., in a paper on "The Social Evolution of the Black South" said he did not "believe that systematic deception in the south, either on the part of black men or white men, will in the long run help that situation a single particle" and that "your Tillmans and Vardamans represent a certain disgust but honest ignorance which upon its information, and some day when they get the right information they are going to act right. 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Leader In Many Good Movements Caurcer of the Rev. Dr. J. Milton Waldron Nated Lecturer and Church Builder, Who Advocates Negro Independence in Politics—Bethel Church a Credit to His Genius. By N. B. DODSON. Rev. Dr. J. Milton Waldron, the pres- ent pastor of Shiloh Baptist church ("Strangers home" church in Amherst, Massachusetts, Feb. 19, 1983, his parents being of Indian, Negro and Scotch-Irish descent. He re- ceived his first instruction in a little log cabin schoolhouse in Amherst county, Va. He took the academic course at the Richmond institute (now Virginia Union university), graduating [Image of a man with a serious expression, wearing a dark suit and a white shirt. The background is a plain, light color with decorative swirls at the bottom.] REV. DR. J. MIZZON WALDROB. therefrom in 1882, and in 1886 he graduated with the degree of A. B. from Lincoln university, delivering the philological oration, and finished the full degree in theology. In 1884 he estitution of Newton Center, Mass., in 1889. He was made a doctor of sacred theology by Lincoln university in 1904. Dr. Walrdon began his career as a minister of the gospel at the age of seventeen and has had a large experience as a missionary. Y. M. C. A. general secretary, editor of religious journals and as a pastor. While at Newton Theological institute he supplied the curriculum in Boston and in Maine and represented the institution upon the Intercollegiate Y. M. C. A. board of Boston and vicinity. In the fall of 1800 he became pastor of the Berean Baptist church of Washington, the wealthiest and most refined colored Baptist church of its size in America at that time. During his eighteen months' pastorate of this church he conducted two large revivals which resulted in the conversion of about 300 souls and established the Alley Missionary society, an organization devoted to the work of uplifting the thousands of poor and neglected people living in the alleys and courts back of the beautiful residences which line the broad streets and avenues of the capital of the nation. He married to Miss Martin Needham Matthews, a prominent public schoolteacher of Washington and sister of Judge James C. Matthews of Albany, N.Y., he moved to Jacksonville, Fla., where he became pastor of the Bethel Baptist church (now the Bethel Baptist Institutional church), the oldest Baptist BETHLEE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. church but one in the state. He remained in charge of this church for fifteen years and a half. 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