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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. (N. B. I. you have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we collect all your local news.-Ed.) Mrs. Wm. Jones has got sufficiently well to be out again. Mrs. H. W. Porter is quite sick at her home the past week. Mr. W. H. Humburt, who has been very sick, is improving a little this week, which is good news to his friends. Prof. Geo. I. Holt says this Sunday School has taken new interest and the attention greatly increasing. Mr. Holt will make a splendid superintendent. The choir of the Union Congregational Church has taken special song services for Easter Sunday in the evening. The choir is progressing nicely under Mrs. J. T. Blagburn. Grand opening of Y. M. P. A. rooms Thursday March 24 Public cordially invited. Messrs. Wm. Coalson and A. M. Rivers were darwn on the jury to serve this term. Past Grand Master I. L. Brown of Marshalltown was in the city last Friday and attended the Masonic funeral of the late Past Grand Master George H. Cleggett. Services at the Union Congregational Church Sunday at 8 o'clock. Rev. J. P. Burling, pastor of Greenwood Congregational church, will preach. Sunday School at 12 m. All are invited. Mrs. Burnside was very pleasantly surprised by the members of the Golden Leaf club, led by the president, Mrs. L. J. Courtney, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn on W. 12th st. The ladies of St. Paul's Pastors Aid Society gave a chasing dish supper Monday evening of the home of Mrs. John Redmans. The guests of honor on this occasion were the husbands of the members. A club of eighteen members was organized in Chesterfield last Wednesday to be known as The Colored Progressive Club. The following officers were elected: S. C. Thompson, President; Archie Clock, Secretary; and Matt Tillman Treasurer. The club will meet every Wednesday evening. Mr. J. L. Lucas entertained at his home last Sunday a few friends at a six o'clock dinner, in honor of Mrs. Burnside, who left Wednesday for Los Angeles, Cal., to make her future home. Single comb Brown Leghorn eggs from prize winners. Write for price. Mrs. Essie Nelson, Birmingham, Ia. Medicines that aid nature are always most successful. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy acts on this plan. It loosens the cough, relieves the lungs, opens the secretions and aids nature in restoring the system to a healthy condition. Sold by all druggists. The Syndicate Cafe Serves good meals and Lunches at all hours. Give us a call. C. H. Browning, Mgr. 304 West Grand THE VARIETY 1010 Center Street. For the best meals in the city, and all kinds of sand- wiches. Special! Chicken Dinner Every Sunday! KENNARD'S Home of good things to eat. If we please you, tell your neighbor; if not tell us. Iowa Phone 2211-J, 922 Center Street. Are you frequently hoarse? Do you have that annoying tickling in your throat? Does your cough annoy you at night, and do you raise mucus in the morning? Do you want relief? If so, take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and you will be pleased. Sold by all drug-gists. The I. O. B. W. club met at the home of Mrs. Mory Woods on Eleventh street Tuesday morning from 9 to 12 o'clock. A very pleasant morning was spent and the members left saying Mrs Woods knows how to entertain. Next meeting will be with Mrs. Hill on Crocker street next Tuesday morning. The ladies are especially invited to be present at the opening of the Y. M. P. A. Admission free. Don't forget the opening of the Young Men's Progressive Association rooms March 24, corner of Ninth and Park streets. Men 10c. ANNOUNCEMENT Being cognizant of the great interest be- tained by the students organized Young Men's Progressive associates realizing that the measure of success they have achieved is largely dependent upon seeking to enter, is largely dependent upon the attitude the public shall assume to their role in the community. The members have arranged to open for inspection the corner of West Ninth and Park streets, on Thursday evening, March 24, 1914. The members will arrange, which will include an address by the pres- sident in detail the purpose and intent of the Public is cordially invited. Don't forget the date: March 24, 1914. COLEMAN WILL DELIVER ORATION Negro College Student Will Give Prize-Winning Address in Des Moines The oration, "The Philosophy of the College," was delivered by Harry Coleman, the negro student at Cornell who recently won the state Iowa in the interstate oratorical contest at the Corinthian Baptist church Friday evening, March 23, under the auspices of John K. Ellswir of Des Moines, founder of the Cornell scholarship which Coleman and Harvey Ingham will also give an address. The Des Moines Negro College met at the home of Dr. John H. Williams Tuesday evening, Dr. Branham H. Nydie held a lecture aftermath of the Primary). The subject was discussed by the entire club. The event was attended by Mr. Henry Coleman and the members of the Alpha Club some time during his stay in the Mr. Coleman won the state oratorate Christian Baptist Church, Friday, March The Lyceum will meet on next Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Margarita B. Rush and Mr. and Mrs. John B. There will be an Easter Program given, quotations from Jusie; viola solo; the Mass of Gallifre; by attorney S. Joe Brown; solo, Miss Margarita Fields. The City Convention of Women's Clubs held its second session at the residence of Mrs. J. H. Woods last Friday evening and transacted much business relative to the entertainment of the State Federation which will be held in this city May 2d to 25th. The next session of the City Convention will be held at the residence of Mrs. Luella Wilburn. E. Seventeenth and Walker streets, on Thursday evening March 8th, at which time there are several other matters of importance to come before the Convention; and all club women who desire to participate in the entertainment of the Federation are cordially invited to be present. The M. C, S. club met Monday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. J. L. Thompson. The following officers were elected: Mrs. J. B. Rush, President; Mrs. J. L. Thompson, Vice President; Miss Jessie Bell, Secretary; Miss Bessie Mason, Asst. Secretary; Mrs. Green, Treasurer. Executive Committee—Miss Bell, Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Jonic, Mrs. Shackelford; Ass't. Critic, Miss Bell, Program Committee, Mrs. Shackelford, Mrs. Effe Mason and Mr. Spaulding. The interest in the religious services being conducted each Sunday afternoon at the rooms of the Young Men's Progressive Association, 9th and Park sts, continues to increase. These meetings are for men, and are held between the hours of 4:30 and 5:30 p. m. Last Sunday's subject, "Character Building" was able handled by Dr. John H. Williams, J. H. Shepard, Dr. Booker and Rev. H. W. Worter. At the conclusion of his remarks, Rev. Porter presented the Association with a combination book case and writing desk, also a number of good books. The subject for Sunday March 19th is "Opportunity." Mr. John L. Thompson, L. J. Shelton and Dr. E. A. Lee will be the speakers. All men are welcome. miss Maude, an extended visit in Chicago. C Ried of Sioux City delivered two excellent sermons Sunday at the Second Baptist church. The A. J. J. club met last Monday at the home of Orville Spots and, last Thursday evening at the home of Lorna and J. Orenzo Ufinson. Mr. Howard Clarke of Battle Creek, Mich., is visiting at the home of his sister Mrs. Frank Clurke. Mr. Hedie Fields left Sunday afternoon for a weeks visit at Peoria and Springfield, Ill. Mr. McDonald of Minneapolis, Minn., is visiting at the home of Mr. William Ross. BUXTON NEWS. Mrs. L. W. Tucker was the hostess at the regular meeting of the Self Culture club Wednesday. The new officers for the ensuing year are as follows: Pres. Mrs. Henrietta Jecs; Pres. Mrs. Ballard; S.ec. Mrs. Jeinie Wright; Asst. Sec. Mrs. Woods; Treas. Mrs. Burkett; Serg. at Arms, Mrs. Kate Brown. Cooking was the topic of the hour. The Fidelity club will hold its regular meeting Monday at Mrs. Kate The T. B. W. club meet, with Mrs Cross on Second street, entes and needle were the top ones and needle were the Greetings were received from our State Organizer. More Earthquakes in France. Toulson—Little seismic shocks occurred again Monday in Draguignan, Vaucluse and Puy-St-Reparate. No damage. The shocks put the residents a hard-glue. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1910. Chief Clerk Was Once Office Boy Inspiration For Young Men in the Achievements of William T. Francis of Legal Department of Northern Pacific Railway at St. Paul—Lawyer, Politician and Prominent Citizen. BY MAYMIE G. WILLIAMS. William T. Francis of the legal department of the Northern Pacific Railway company is one of the most prominent citizens of St. Paul, Minn. His rise from the duties of just a mere office boy to the very responsible position of trying cases for a large railroad corporation is a long step, but shows what determination and close application to business will do for one who takes advantage of every opportunity to attain success. After attending the public schools of St. Paul, Mr. Francis entered the services of the Northern Pacific Railway company as an office boy. See- INGTHAT to be successful he must be ready for advancement when the first opportunity presented itself, he applied himself to telegraphy and was in line for an appointment as telegraph operator. The chief clerk under whom he worked urged him to take up telegraphy, as there was a great demand for male stenographers in the service, and he mastered this study and was promptly given a remunerative position for which his knowledge of telegraphy, abhorred and the need for a qualified him. After continuing in that position for several years he was appointed stenographer of the legal department. Here he saw large opportunities for advancement and determined to work his way to the head of the clerical force if possible. Finding that the position of chief clerk of the department demanded the qualifications of an attorney with practical knowledge of the law, he entered the evening class of the St. Paul College of Law in 1901 and graduated from that institution in 1904 and in due course was advanced to the position of chief clerk. Mr. Francis is held in high esteem by the officials of the road. In 1900 he ran as Republican candidate for the assembly and received nearly 10,000 votes, which was indeed a splendid showing, considering the scarcity of Negro voters in St. Paul. Mr. Francis is also the attorney for the Afrro-American corporations of St. Paul. Besides the very ardous tasks of his office, he is also prominent in religious, political, social and fraternal circles. His rise from an office boy to the position of chief clerk in the legal department of the Northern Pacific Railway company should be an inspiration to any young man and shows that strict attention to detail is essential to community knocks at the door, always bring to an individual that for which he labors. EMINENT NEGRO AUTHORS. Reasons Why Negroes Should Read Their Own Literature. John E. Bruce (Grit) of Yonkers, N. Y., whose book entitled "Biography of Eminent Negroes" is nearing completion, gives eight reasons why Negroes should read the literature of their own race and in the last count says the best history of a race is written by the men of that race. No other race historian will preserve all the tensions and all the conflicts and an truthfully and accurately as our own historians. Race pride is the incentive that spurs all historians to write of their race and its achievements, and historians of other races seldom tell the whole truth about a race which is striving to equal their own race. Women Surround Legislators. Over 200 very enthusiastic women from the various women suffrage organizations of New York delegate to Alameda on Wednesday, March 9, be present at the hearing and urge favorable action on the concluding resolution now before the judiciary committees of the senate and assembly which provides for a constitutional amendment striking the word "male" from the suffrage clause. Among the Afro-American women delegates were Mrs. M. C. Lawton and Mrs. Lydia C. Smith of Brooklyn. Mrs. Laura B. Schoolfield returned to her home in Oaklanda Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy of Hiteman attended Allen Day exercises in Abla Sunday. Each took part in the evening program. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Grayson of Hocking were Abla visitor Sunday. Mrs. John Washington of Hocking attended the Sewing Circle club meeting Monday afternoon. Mrs. Brittian Thomas has returned from his trip East. The home of Mr. Elia Martin burned Sunday evening. Mr. Harris was a Hiteman visitor Sunday. Quite a number of strangers in town. MT PLEASANT NOTES Mrs. Lena Phillips left Saturday morning for Burlington to visit her sister, Mrs. Clifford Cowden. Mrs Charles McCracken is on the sick list this week. Miss Ione Mason is suffering with a severe attack of the mumps. Miss Lillie Washington delightfully entertained fourteen of her friends at a card party Thursday evening at the home of Miss Myrtle Burnaugh. The following refresherments were served: Bread and butter sandwich, chocolate salad on lettuce leaf. All report a good time. Miss Ethel Harris left Saturday afternoon for Buxton, called there by the illness of her aunt, Mrs. Tila Williams. The Kings Daughters Society will meet at the A. M. E. church Friday afternoon. The A. M. E. church has an interior coat of new paint. Miss Julia Evens has a severe attack of the mumps. Rufus Keith of Burlington visited his brothers here over Sunday. Rev. Hackley was a city caller Saturday from Knoxville, Ill. The A. M. E. church Sunday School is rehearsing for their Easter program. Mr. Will Smith of Fairfield is working at the coal chute. Mr. James Moss of Peoria is visiting in the city. Mt. Pleasant is going to have one of the fastest colored baseball teams in this part of the state. Look out for us! DAVENPORT NOTES. The ladies of the E. D. club entertained their husbands last Thursday evening at the residence of Mrs. Ed. Kendall, who was presenting the rendering of the program the evening was spent in music and social chat. A two course luncheon was served by the ladies. The club meets next Friday at 10:30 a.m. in the Royal Grand Patron of the Iowa Jurisdiction of the Order of Eastern Star. Mr. W. M. H. Milligan of Cedar Rapids has his annual visit to Davenport, where he spoke at Bethel A. M. E. church Sunday evening, while in the city he was the guest of Mrs. Ruth Bright. Misses Mable and Ellanora McGaill paid a visit to their sister Mrs. Galesh of Galesburg. Rev. T. B. Stovall of Bethel A. M. E. church, this city and Rev. T. A. Lewis of St. Pauls church, Moline, Ill., exchanged pulsils Sunday morning. Sunday was "dry" Sunday in Moline, all the ministers exchanged pulsils. The Trl City S. S. Association held its regular monthly meeting at Bethel A. M. E. church Monday evening. Very important business was transacted by the assocant, the dedication pitcher attends blank showing how many scholars attend each Sunday School, etc. There are five schools represented in the association. Bethel A. M. E. Davenport, McKinley Baptist, St. Pauls, R. I. S. A. M. E. M. E. Moline, Tabernacle Baptist, Moline. By this method they are able to tell how many are enrolled attend S. S. and the per cent of average attendance. There was a short programm rendered, consisting of papers. Mrs. Cora Baker, Tabernacle Baptist. The next meeting will be held with McKinley Baptist. Mr. Highower of Kansas City, Mo. dinnered with Mrs. Francis Baker and husband Mary. Mrs. Francis Baker has been sick with cold, but she is better. Her granddaughters were ill also, but are improving. Mrs. Cora Lee of Pittsburg, Pa. returned home last week after visiting her daughter, and aunt and other relatives. The co-workers are at work on the new Bethel A. M. E. church. Mrs. E. Shetton who was called home on account of serious illness of her niece in Macomb, Ill. after attending the funeral she returned home last Thursday. The W. C. T. U's held their first meeting at the parsonage Monday afternoon. FOR SALE—7 room, 2 story house with gas and water, half block of Clark street car line; must change climate, health failing. Might take small cottage that will rent. Priced for quick sale. It is a snap. Come and see it. No commission. 1921 Jefferson Ave. Mrs. Anna Alden 1607 Morgan St has recovered from an attack of pneumonia. Callie Beckley from M Pleasant, where she visited at the home of her sister Mrs. Ida Hackley. Mrs. C. W. Drutne, has returned home after a prolonged visit with her relatives at Cape Girardeau. Mrs. Charles A. Lawrence and Lawrence Bryant were Mt. Madison visitors Sunday. Hundreds of friends of the deceased lady, in this city were grieved on Wednesday to learn of the death of Mrs. Ed. Robinson which occurred at St Josephs Hospital Wednesday morning at the hospital, where cancer, on Friday before, at first it was hoped that she would recover, and her sudden passing has caused much sorrow among Kookik people. She was an active member of Pilgrims Rest Mission, a loving Christian woman, the deceased was always hopeful. Those who survive to mourn her death are her husband, Ed Robinson; 3 sons, Sylvester, Robert, Ella Robinson; Mrs. Ella Robinson Fields, the funeral was held from Pilgrims Rest Baptist church Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. Sanders officiating assisted by Rev. Holman who paid a large sum of money for a large concourse of sorrowing friends gathered to pay their last respects. The pill bearers were William and Edward South, Sam Johnson, Mari Johnson, Abe Thomas and Andrew Johnson, Abe Floral offerings were very profuse. Margaret Ann Court, and Brent Court will have their annual Sermon Preached on Palm Sunday afternoon at the A. M. E. church at 3 o'clock by Rev. P. H. Jones Rector of the church. The people will be seated at 3 o'clock. William Rush who resides at 16th, and Fulton street is quite ill with mumps. Rev. R. P. Palmer of Marshalltown preached at the Union Baptist church, 18th, and High Street Sunday at 11 o'clock and at 7:30 in the evening. MASON CITY NEWS. Miss Rustie Palmer, affiliated a party of young people at the home of her parents in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Russell of St. Paul, Minn. The evening was spent in playing cards and dancing, a dainty two course lunchon was served. The evening closed with a beautiful address from Mr. W. Rustie, in honor of Mrs. Mrs. Fred Russell the new married couple, everybody enjoyed a good time. Miss Mabel Stratton, who is staying with her sister Mrs. W. T. Jones has will be able to take her class in high Mrs. Ben Hasten who has been sick for some time is greatly improved, she is able to take up her homework and see her up. says Mrs. T. C. Tylor who has been sick for some time is able to be up and around again. Mr. Fred Russell left here Friday for St. Paul on Business, he expects to return in a few days. Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Stratton of Manly Iowa, was in town Monday to visit their daughters Mrs. T. C. Tylor and Mrs. W. T. Jones, and Miss Billa Stratton who is married to her husband, Mrs. T. Cylor, since she has been on the sck list, she is greatly improved but not able to attend to all of her housework. GALESBURG ILL. Mrs. Caroline Slimms died Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Agnes Washington, after an illness of several weeks. Mrs. Slimms was one of the older residents and was well and favorably known. She is survived by several grown children and numerous other relatives. The funeral held at Allen's chapel A. M. E. church in charge of Rev. S. B. Moore pastor. He was assisted by Rev. R. H. Hackley. The church was completely filled by a large number of sorrowing friends—white and colored. Interment was in Linwood. Mr. and Mrs. W. McBride entertained in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Loyens. The members of the colored orchestra will give a dance the 22nd, at central hall. This will be their first appearance in furnishing music of this kind and it is expected a large crowd will be present. Mrs. Leo Kidd was hostess to the Interment on Tuesday afternoon. The afternoon was pleasantly spent after which dainty refreshments were served. Mrs. Charles A. Anderson is confined to her home by serious illness. Mrs. Mary Lucas left to attend the funeral of her mother-in-law who died at Bedford, Iowa. Mrs. Lucas and Anderson whose restaurant was recently badly damaged by fire has reopened. The place is nicely finished and equipped and he is now prepared to serve his customers better than ever. "Mrry Mason delightfully entertained the ladies of the Leisure Hour" "terrormen. After the usual club business dalty refreshment were served." Social Season At Washington Le Droit Park, Home of Register and Mrs William T. Vernon, Scene of Brilliant Gathering of Society Leaders at Reception Given by Mrs. Vernon. Treble Clof Club to the Fore. The reception recently given by Mrs. W. T. Vernon, the wife of the register of the treasury, at their beautiful home in Le Droit park, Washington, was one of the most pronounced and successful social events of the season. The large parlors were literally banked with palms and flowers, converting them into a virtable bower. In the dining room, where luncheon was served, was also a beautiful sight. The entire room was illuminated by candlelight. A large candelabra was in the center of the table surrounded with yellow tulips and jonquils. In the rear parlor, almost obscured from view by palms and potted plants, were the musicians, who played delightful music during the whole evening, which ranged from selections from the old masters to the classical music of modern writers. Felix Weir, the noted violinist, who studied in Germany, and the Jeter brothers, famous for their celli renditions, were the performers. The receiving line was marked by the receiving line of the gowns worn by Mrs. Vernon and those who stood in the line with her. Mrs. Vernon was a beautiful gown of white satin with pearl trimming. Those who assisted her were Mrs. Robert Pelham, who wore a gray satin princess gown with a lace. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, who wore light blue satin with fish scale trimming, Mrs. W. S. fish, who was becoming attired in a brown marquette gown; Mrs. William H. Clifford, who were black crepe de chine; Mrs. A. M. Curtis, who MRS. W. Z. VERNOK. wore spangled net over light green satin, and Miss Boardley of Philadelphia, who wore blue silk with beautiful Persian trimming. All of the ladies in the receiving line carried tea roses. Those who assisted as the guests arrived and departed were Miss Theresa Lee, Miss Lottie Wallace, Miss Abbie Williams, Miss Blanche Wright and Mrs. James Wright. The members of the Treble Clof, a musical club of Washington matrons, were the honored guests of Mrs. Vernon and remained throughout the evening. Among the guests were ladies of prominence in the social life of the Capital City. Some of those present were Mrs. M. B. Albert, Mrs. E. F. Arnold, Mrs. M. E. Arnold, Miss L. G. Arnold, Mrs. B. K. Bruce, Mrs. R. C. Bruce, Mrs. A. H. Brown, Miss Fairfax Brown, Mrs. H. C. Boyd, Mrs. Eugene Brooks, Miss L. G. W. Childs, Mrs. M. G. W. Childs, Mrs. George W. Cabannis, Mrs. G. W. Cook, Mrs. G. F. Collins, Miss Elinor Curtis, Mrs. H. N. Cuney, Miss Cromell, Miss M. E. Cromwell, Mrs. Rosa B. Childs, Mrs. H. W. Connor, Miss A. C. Claggett, Mrs. R. R. Colbert, Mrs. L. E. Crouse, Mrs. J. C. Dowling, B. D. Davis, Charles R. Douglas, John C. Dancy, Mrs. J.艾. Davis, Mrs. Allen L. Deans, Mrs. W. J. Decatur, Mrs. W. B. Evans, Mrs. L. S. Europe, Miss Mary L. Europe, Miss L. Europe, Miss L. Europe, Miss L. Europe, Miss A. H. Gun, Miss Anna E. Grinage, Miss Emma V. George, Miss Cornelia D. George, Mrs. L. M. Herahw, Mrs. Julia E. Hall, Mrs. R. Horner, Mrs. W. L. Houston, Miss E. Howard, Miss A. Howard, Mrs. A. F. Hiller, Miss Marle James, Miss Lauren J. Joiner, Mrs. J. Keelean, J. M. Langston, Mrs. Frank M. Langston, Mrs. G. Lewis, Miss Lampton, Mrs. G. A. Milford, Miss Katie E. Moten, well, Mrs. Kelly Mott, Mrs. J. A. Murfee, Miss Ida E. Mitchell, Miss K. Martin, Miss Corine Martin, Miss Mary Martin, Mrs. Lucy M. Nooks, Mrs. Blismar Pinchback and others. SIOUX CITY ITEMS. Easter will soon be here and the Sunday School through the city are rehearsing for the occasion. Master Leroy Crawford left for Sloux Falls, S. D. Tuesday to live with his mother who resides in that city. Mr. and Mrs. Cuzins and baby of Yukon will take up their residence in our city we welcome them in our midst. The Ladies Aid Society of the Mr. Zion Baptist church will give an old fashioned spelling bee and chicken-pie supper at the church parlor Tuesday evening March 8. The oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Morgan broke his leg last week running after the street car. Mrs. Dowdon wife of Rev. J. W. Dowdon who fell and broke her wrist some weeks ago is able to take her arm out. Mrs. Birdle Matthews left last Friday for Red Oak, Ia. to visit relatives. Mr. Potts has opened up a roller rink in Simeon's hall for the benefit of the colored people. The Starlight club gave an entertainment last Thursday evening at the church parlor. The evening was taken up with an open discussion. The subject being "The future of the negro race." Light refreshments were served. The Philohoramonic club of the A. M. e church will give a Donkey Social at the church parlor Thursday evening at the church parlor. The evening is given to the one bringing in the most money on the cards they have out soliciting money. Mr. W. H. Milligan grand Master of the A. F. and A. M. lodges of Iowa was in our city Monday March 7, to inquire about the Nato Chapter No. 7 of the O. E. S. He left Tuesday for Dubuque, Ia. Mr. Fred Baker has been seriously ill the past week at his home in the Lyle block but is better at this writin'. Word has been received in our city from Mrs. Margarott who went Gainvillea, Ala. for the benefit of her husband. Mrs. Margarott is very low with consumption and death is expected most any day. Master George Smith, son of Mrs. Margarott Margaret Smith, son of Ala. Margaret Smith is sleek in our city at the home of his grandparents at Highland crossing. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION In accordance with provisions of Section 5 of Chapter 48 of the Laws of the Thirty-second General Assembly, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Des Moines, did on the 18th day of March, 1910, publicly canvass the returns made by the judges of election from all the voting precincts, of the results of the vote in the Primary Election held on the 14th day of March, 1910, and the result of such canvass was as follows: FOR MAYOR Allen, S. B. 1794 Dorr, E. E. 925 Hanna, Jas. R. 3143 Loos, Benj. F. 29 Mathis, A. J. 4879 Olsen, Mack. 1777 FOR COUNCILMEN Ash, Wesley. 6870 Brereton, W. H. 5090 Brigham, Edward D. 3333 Brown, S. Joe. 684 Cooper, W. P. 377 Gibson, A. 340 Gray, James A. 625 Hamery, John L. 3736 Jensen, Andrew. 360 Kasson, L. J. 1947 Lomack, F. C. 104 MacVicar, John 6716 Morgan, T. F. G. 382 Needham, W. A. 3554 Pugh, A. D. 1782 Roe, Zell G. 6346 Schramm, Charles W. 4582 Weldy, Morton E. 393 The two candidates for Mayor receiving the highest number of votes are A. J. Mathis, and James R. Hanna. The eight candidates for Councilmen who received the highest number of votes are: Ash, Wesley; MavCiar, John; Roe, Zell G.; Brereton, W. H.; Schramm, Charles W.; Hamery, John L.; Needham, W. A.; Brigham, Edward D. GEORGE F. POORMAM, City Clerk. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets invariably bring relief to women suffering from chronic constipation, headache, billoonness, dizziness, sallowness of the skin and dyspepsia. Sold by all druggists. "We have parted forever. He writes me to send back the ring." "Tet him to call for it." advised the experienced friend—Louisville Coa rier-Journal. Would Beam So. Crawford—Do the rich know how the other half live? Crabshaw—After taking their money from them they must be able to form some idea of how they are compelled to live—Puck Willing to Oblige. "When you feels any temptation comin' along," said the friend and adviser, "you mus' say: 'Get the beehin' me, Satan." "De's what I done said," answered Mr. Erastus Pinkley, "an 'den I imagines I hybrus Satan answer me to give you a chance to do same way, notoh, an' it don't make so diffence to me which leads to subjection." Some persistent people are still on the vegetable wagon. Cold storage lends a musty flavor alike to eggs and apples. How seldom we hear them spoken as "horsewool carriages" now. At least let us hope that as compensation we may have an early spring. Food prices began to fall even before most of us had got out of the habit of eating. Now the royal duke of Connaught is to go on a hunting trip to Africa. We lead; they follow. In 20 years of the electric chair, all of New York's 117 murderers have been foreign born. For a small and select organization we suggest the Society of Those Who Saw Comet A 1910. Diamonds are to increase in price. This is a direct increase in the cost of living for chorus girls. Bursting pipes flooded Wall street the other evening, but then water is nothing new for Wall street. It will soon be possible to bring on the early and imprudent robin without exciting whoops of derision. New York has a child wonder who plays the piano in his sleep. The only escape for the neighbors is to move. Let's move to Denmark. Our Danish minister, Dr. Egan, says there are no trusts, high prices, or stale eggs there. The new comet has 50,000,000 miles of tail. This is all gas. If you catch a comet you can dispose of your meter. Traces of sodium have been discovered in that tramp comet. Evidently we must take our comets with a grain of salt. Also, it is especially aggravating to come across these learned articles on the nutritive nature of the tough cuts of meat. Speaking of boycotting high-priced necessities of life, the barefoot dancers have not put the shoe trust out of business. The theatrical managers aver that 1909 was a miserable dramatic year; and probably some theatergoers will agree with them. According to a diamond dealer all classes of people are buying diamonds. However, some few are buying beefsteaks instead. In Denmark every egg that is sold must bear a stamp showing just when it was laid. People have time to watch the nests over there. There is nothing in the constitution compelling the president to live up to the mind-reading predictions of the Washington correspondents. Although the ground hog has broken winter's back, the weather bureau will continue to record the symptoms in official and technical language. Japan and Russia are discovered jointly opposed to the neutralization of the Manchurian railroads. Well, Uncle Sam at least smoked them out. An Atlantic City, N. J., man has invented a boat that will run on either land or water. There ought to be a good sale for such a craft in the Ohio river basin. The man in Cincinnati who laughed so hard at a joke that he sprained his jaw now entertains pessimistic views of the effects of the gospel of cheerfulness. Maybe women are happier in their second marriages because the husbands all the time are trying to live up to the glowing descriptions of their predecessors. In face of the determined fight against high prices, it is in order for the meat trust to apply for an injunction restraining the people from stopping eating meat. Russian spies are tracking spies who treacherously spy upon the spies of the revolutionaries, who spy upon official spies, the Russian police. Surely complications enough. Chicago possesses a highway lady who flits from holdout to hold up in the street. It was the taxicab habit that suggested and, indeed, obliged her to extend the plundering to the public at large. Invention keeps pace with the necessities of the age. An iron cyclone cellar is described at length in the current number of a technical journal. Of course the contrivance is designed for use in Kansas and other windy localities. The striking feature about it is that it is equipped with seats, a fire hose, and a seating pad. Probably it is arranged to provide all the comforts of home for families caught out in a big blow. City people may have to go out into the country to see the comet. Now the trolley is to go down before the new storage battery. This will remain the last of the poles and wires in the public streets, and consequently a big step forward in civic improvement. It is a mark in all directions that the trolley, which was a marvel in the recollection of all, is now to be practically superseded as not up to date. If women really are happier after, their second marriage it is a pity they cannot take the second husbands now COOPER FOLLOWERS GIVE REASON FOR THEIR BELIEF With a theory that human health is dependent on the stomach and with a medicine which he says proves this theory, L. T. Cooper, a comparatively young man, has built up an immense following during the past year. Cooper has visited most of the leading cities of the country, and in each city has a storm of discussion about his beliefs and his medicines. Wherever he has gone, people have tailed upon him by tens of thousands, and his preparation has sold in immense quantities. The sale of his medicine has now entered the entire country, and is growing enormously each day. In view of this, the following statements from two of the great number of followers which he now has, are of general interest. N. V. Marsh, residing at 217 South Daly street, Los Angeles, Cal., has the following to say upon the subject of the Cooper preparations: "For more than a year I experienced the most intense suffering, due to a form of stomach trouble which the doctors called catarrhal gastritis. After eating I would fill up with gas, which caused frequent belching. The abdominal areola was swollen and heavy breath, causing great distress. At such times I could not keep still, but paced the streets for hours until the pain subsided. "Frequently I went without eating rather than endure the torture that was sure to follow. Liquids were the only kind of food I could partake of with safety. I had spells of dizziness, and became badly run down through suffering a lack of food. I tried various remedies in search of relief, but they failed to help me. "Some time ago a brother member in a lodge that I belong urged me to try the Cooper remedies, which were then being demonstrated in Los Angeles. He stated that to his personal knowledge they had been of great benefit to others in the strength of his recommendation I procured a treatment of Cooper's New Discovery. "It proved helpful from the first dose, and in less than a week I was eating regularly and heartily, without experiencing any bad effects afterward. Since taking the full treatment I am perfectly well and enjoy living for the first time in many months. Now I can eat a hearty supper, then go to bed and sleep like a healthy boy, I feel so well that I can hardly realize I am the same man. Cooper's New Discovery has worked a marvelous change in me—it has done all that was claimed for it." Another statement by Mr. W. B. Stewart, 109 W. Madison street, Chicago, is as follows: "I have had stomach trouble for years, and anyone who is afflicted this way knows what an awful distressed feeling it causes. Many a time I have felt that I would give most any price to be cured. I was by accident that I heard of his man Cooper's remedial make up to buy a treat. I used it for about two weeks, and it is impossible to tell how much good it has done me. I feel altogether different. I have more life and energy than I have had for years. The medicine certainly does stimulate and strengthen the who's system. Tired feeling and weak condition of the stomach has entirely passed away. I feel well again." Cooper's New Discovery is sold by all drummists. If your drumming not supply you, you should forward your doctor a drummist in your city who will. Don't accept "something just as good."—The Cooper Medicine Co. Dayton, Ohio. He Was Immune. An elderly gentleman, traveling in a stagecoach, was amused by the constant fire of words kept up between two ladies. One of them at last kindly inquired if their conversation did not make his head ache, when he answered, with a great deal of naivete, "No, ma'am; I have been married 28 years." Pettit's Eye Salve 100 Years Old, relieves tired eyes, quickly cures eye aches, inflamed, sore, watery or ulcerated eyes. All druggists or Howard Bros. Buffalo, N.Y. Sit down and wait for things to come your way and the first thing that comes will be the wagon to haul you off to the county infirmary. Look out for the imitations of WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT—if you haven't tasted them. If you have, you'll look out without being told. To enjoy love or sausages one must have a lot of confidence. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKUP 375 Guaranty is the best dish you can serve. Delicious and nourishing. Good for all ages and all conditions. Economical and strengthening. 58 WRIGLEY OF REAL MINT LEAVES WRIGLEY UNLESS YOU GET THIS PACKAGE WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT PEPSIN GUM THE FLAVOR LASTS THE FLAVOR LASTS Fear not lest thy life come to an end; but rather lest it never had a beginning—Newman. Chew WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT—promote saliva—release mint leaf juice. Fine for digestion! A woman waters her grief with her tears and it springs into a lovely flower; a man salts his with bitterness and it turns to a thorn. A Personal Definition. Penley (stuck for a word)—Let's see! What is that you call a man who marries more than one wife? Grump—An idiot, I call him—Boston Transcript. Honest Truth: This isn't a comic paper joke; it actually, happened on Elliot street in the South end yesterday. A hardware dealer hung a sign outside his door reading: "Our skates are guaranteed in every way." A newsboy toit it down and hung it up in front of a liquor store next door.-Boston Journal. An Easy Job. "Do you think that you can make my daughter happy?" asked Mr. Cumrox. "She has been happy with you, hasn't she?" rejoined the conduent yourself. "I think so, sir." "Well, if she's that easy to please there ought to be no difficulty." The Whip Hand "She evidently copies your pat terns." "Quite so." "I don't believe I would care to have such a fashionable cook as that." "It has its advantages," declared Mrs. Housekeep. "What was that?" "Every time she starts to leave I simply refuse to button her gown." Ways and Means. During what is called an "observation" lesson, a mistress was questioning a class of small boys on certain points or things they had observed in connection with the habits of animals in water. "What do fishes swim with?" the lady asked. "With their fins," replied one scholar. "Right. And dogs." "Their paws," answered the next. "Very good. And, now, the next boy, what do little boys swim with?" "Bathing-nats, mum!" Old King Coffee knocks subjects out tolerably flat at times, and there is no possible doubt of what it. A Mich. woman gives her experience: "I used to have liver trouble nearly all of the time and took medicine which relieved me only for a little while. Then every once in a while I would be suddenly doubled up with medicine and I seemed as though every time I took a breath I would die. No one could suffer any and live. "Finally I got down so sick with catarrh of the stomach that I could not turn over in bed, and my stomach did not digest even milk. The doctor finally told me that if I did not give up drinking coffee I would surely die, but I felt I could not give it up "Home, Husband bought a package of Postum and it was made of coffee. I was the only thing that would stay on my stomach, and I soon got so I liked it very much. "Gradually I began to get better, and week by week gained in strength and health. Now I am in perfect condition, and I am convinced that the whole cause of my trouble was coffee drinking, and my getting better was due to leaving off coffee and drinking Postum. "A short time ago I tasted some coffee and found, to my astonishment, that I did not care anything about it. I never have to take medicine any more. I hope you will use this letter for the benefit of those suffering from the poisonous effects of coffee." Read the little hook. "The Road to Wellville" in pigs. "There a Reason a Reason" appears from time to time. They are granite, true, and fall of human Iowa State News Events of Recent Occurrence Throughout the Commonwealth The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern railway was held at Waterloo and plans were discussed for numerous extensions, both urban and interurban, the coming season. The company has arranged for the rotation of a large bond issue and many miles of interurban extensions will be built. One of these is projected from Denver Junction to Waverley, and it is possible a line will be built to the south, with Belle Plaine as the terminus. The company will undertake a large number of bankers from eastern cities and they will be interested in the work of financing the extensive improvements contemplated. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Binning were united in marriage in Delaware county, Iowa, Feb. 20, 1860, Mrs. Binning's name being Hannah Betts. They lived in Delaware county with their family of four sons, Wood, Frank, Henry and Burleigh, and two daughters, May and Laura. Mr. Binning with his sons have been engaged in farming and mercantile business until they now own and farm several thousand acres of good land in Iowa, Dakota and Wyoming, besides being interested in various other enterprises. Carl Diroso, an Italian coal miner, who arrived in Des Moines from Noyau Moe, Manitoba, has famous friends, Paul Gillette in the latter's kitchen at 1215 Mulberry street, who alleges that Diroso and an unknown Italian who ran away, reported to be Igazio Crovito, were insulting Mrs. Gillette and her sister, Tony Gigliotti, brother-in-law of the accused man, claims it is the result of a "black hand" organization in Des Moines. Manchester's streets are to be more materially benefited during the coming summer, as the city fathers have taken it upon themselves to order 150 cars of crushed rock, which will be used in the macadamizing process, which will be carried on more easily. Paris has one of the main thoroughfares, and which has been in a bad condition for the past number of years. Victor Edmund of Sarland, a young man who was employed upon a farm there, started to lead some horses to the stock field, and when he did not return they went in search and found his body lying in the field with an ugly wound upon his head, which had caused him to lose eyes, one saw when it occurred, but a kick from a horse was undoubtedly the cause. The Oskaloosa Auto Club in its annual meeting voted $600 for good roads. The Commercial club will add an equal amount and Oskaloosa will join in the movement to maintain a dragged road from Burlington through Fairfield, Ottumwa, Oskaloosa, and Pella to Des Moines, Oksaaloosa, a good roads enthusiast, was elected president of the Auto club. Mike Budi, a Hungarian, rooming in Mason City in company with a number of others, was accidentally shot through the hip and leg while aleep. His roommates were examining a supposedly unloaded gun when it was discharged and the sleeping man received the bullet in the fleshy part of the hip and it came out near the knee. An unknown man about 35 years old, attempted to commit suicide in Council Bluffs by jumping from the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Car company's bridge into the Missouri river. The water proved too cold, or cold enough to reduce his ciclid fever and after sinking once, he swam with all his might to the Iowa shore. Partially as a result of the prosecution of the so-called Mabey swindling cases on trial in the federal court of General H. W. Byers of Iowa instituted proceedings before Judge O. B. Wheeler of the district court for the removal from office of Chief of Police George H. Richmond, of Council Bluffs. Frank Mavin, veteran horse buyer for the United States Express company, who shot himself in an old barn in East Des Moines, is at Mercy Hospital from the effects of his wound. Andrew D. Roseboom, a cremery man of Haiti, was brought back from North Dakota and taken to Fort Madison to serve five years for stealing butter. The city council of Mason City has awarded paving contracts amounting to $55,000, the work to commence this spring. Winford S. Harris, George M. Marsh, alias "Ole," and Bert R. Shores, Mabray steerers, pleaded guilty before Judge McPherson at Council Bluffs. Mrs. J. R. Nichols has sued the city of Marengo for $5,000 damages for injuries sustained by falling on an alleged imperfectly constructed crossing. John Magulre, aged 64, pioneer merchant of East Dubique, died as a result of two strokes of paralysis sustained within a few hours of each other. Commander Robet E. Peary, discoverer of the North pole, will speak in the Des Moines Coliseum on the evening of Monday, April 4. C. T. Hosman pleaded guilty to forgery at Waterloo, and was sentenced to serve not to exceed ten years at Ft. Madison. Rev. G. Bohannon has recently become pastor of the Christian church at DeWitt. He came from Long Island. Mrs. Reuben Slayman and Mrs. Flander Smith, pioneer residents of Marengo, are dead. As the culmination of a pretty romance, Miss Nellie Elizabeth Robertson, one of Muscatine's most prominent and cultured girls, was married to Col. J. H. Conrad of Helena, Mont. The groom is a well known mining magnate, whose fortune is estimated at $30,000,000, and possesses extensive mining interests in Montana. The bride is a talented vocalist, having received voice culture from the most prominent instructors in Europe. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad left for New York City to spend the spring, and later will leave for southern Alaska for the summer. Walter E. Smith and wife, of the Concord neighborhood, four miles south of Knoxville, are the parents of the largest baby ever born in the county. This prize specimen weighs fifteen pounds. Dr. E. T. McLaughlin is authority for the weight statement. He says it is as large a gale average child of five months. Babies of fifteen pounds weight and upward do not happen more frequently than once in each 10,000 births. When C. C. Galbraith and Bessie Ellott, a well known young couple of Boone, succeeded in sloping, Papa Ellott got busy with the police and the police were intercepted at. Marshaltown when the police arrested them. Both returned to Boone in charge of an officer. Although the prospective bride claims she is of age, the officers say she is not yet 18. John C. Payne, a prominent Illinois Central engineer, has been awarded a verdict for $7,000 damages against the Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern b y jury in the district court Northern by a jury in the district court at Waterloo, after being out nineteen hours. Payne was hit by a street car and the toes of one foot were cut off. He sued for $2,000 damages. John Quincy Adams, assistant city engineer of Iowa City, has been appointed city engineer of Centerville, old hoo and moor, and required to do no incivic position. Mr. Adams is an alumnus of the State University at Iowa college of applied science and won a prize of $100 in a thesis contest a year ago at the State university. I. N. Hurd is dead at the home of his son-in-law, Hon. David Brant, editor of the Iowa City Republican, and former member of the legislature. He was 77 years old, and had lived in Iowa City and Waterloo (chiefly the latter city) almost 41 years. Surviving are his widow, two daughters and a son—Mrs. Brant and Nellie Hurd, Iowa City; and David Hurd, Escondido, California. A bull dog owned by John Prowse, saved the 3-year-old son of Dave Malone, who fell from a bridge into the swollen, levy river, at Manchester. The dog followed and swam with the babe to the shore and deposited it carefully on the bank. The only ill effects sustained were to the boy's arm, where his rescuer sunk his teeth. A. W. Nichols, better known as "Bert" Nichols, died at his home in Iowa Falls, after an illness of several weeks. Mr. Nichols was about forty years old and was born and raised in that city, being a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Nichols, pioneer residents of this place. He was a fine musician and popular with all who knew him. When Mrs. Mary Demange, aged 86 years, of State Center, went to build a fire in the kitchen range she poured kerosene on supposedly dead coals. An explosion resulted and the fire was burned. Demange a son, was badly burned about the hands trying to put out the fire. Without previous warning, twenty-five girls, inmates of the reformatory at Mitchellville, ranging in age from 12 to 18 years, donned their street clothes and left the institution, and walked to Des Moines, where they complained of treatment at the institution, and were then taken back. William C. McArthur has received notification of his appointment as clerk of the United States circuit court to succeed Edward R. Mason, whose resignation was requested by the circuit judges some time ago. The appointment is effective April 1. Robbing the Joseph Huth home and then setting it on fire, was the work of thieves at Mason City. The fire was put out after much damage to furniture and bedding. The thieves escaped. Two gold watches and other valuable jewelry are missing. A farm of 320 acres located eight miles and a half northwest of Des Moines was purchased by J. F, Grace of Dunlap, from E. A. Ross for the consideration of $40,000. Tons of earth from the hillside above Fraser slid down on the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern tracks taking the track with it. Scores of men rushed repairs. Mrs. John Gatron and her three sons, Clifford, aged 6; Russell, aged 4; and Earl, aged 2, suffered from ptomaine poisoning as the result of eating oysters. Despite the pleadings of Pat Crowe, he was sentenced to ten days in the Clinton county jail by Judge Lefwingell of Clinton, on the charge of intoxication. Officials state sentence will be enforced. Postmaster William Ely Welden assumed the duties of his new office at Iowa Falls, his commission arriving and his "checking in" following immediately. The E. A. Rea forty acres, unimproved, southeast of Corydon, has been sold to J. E. Cravens of Kellog; the consideration being $160 per acre. The Iowa railroad commission has requested the railroads to make a reduction of 50 per cent in the ordinary charge, charged for transporting seed corn, seed grain and seed potatoes. James Clark, former town marshal of Lisbon, sulcided by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun. Clark recently lost his wife and was supposed to have been insane. A special from Decorah says, O. O. Wald of St. Ola was struck by the midnight passenger and killed. He was crossing a bridge. He had $880 to his wallet. We are obliged to enlarge our plant, due to the increase in business and offer the above stock to those seeking investments. For particulary, address GREAT WESTERN PORTLAND CEMENT CO. AM. BANK BLDC. KANSAS CITY, MO. PREACH GOSPEL OF HEALTH PREACH GOSPEL OF HEALTH Plan to Have One Sermon on Sunday, April 24, Devoted to Sourgee of Tuberculosis. Following campaigns against consumption that have been carried on in the churches of hundreds of cities, and sermons on tuberculosis that have been preached before thousands of congregations during the past year, a movement has been started by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis to establish a permanent tuberculosis Sunday, on which it is hoped that every one of the 33,000,000 church-goers in the United States will hear the gospel of Health This Sunday, selected as April 24 is planned that on April 24 tuberculosis sermons shall be preached in all the churches of the country. Literature will be distributed to members of the congregations, and in every way an effort will be made to teach that tuberculosis is a dangerous disease and that it can be prevented and cured. 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Roosevelt completed one of the most notable journeys through the wilderness of Africa that has been undertaken since the days of Livingstone and Stanley. It was a remarkable journey both in number of animals slain and preserved as specimens, and because of its lack of accidents and GATHERING OF THE TRIBES AT WA sickness of every kind. Ordinarily a traveler, through the regions through which Col. Roosevelt has passed, comes out of the jungles loaded with malaria and fever germs. Up to the present time, neither Col. Roosevelt nor any of his party have shown any symptoms of having contracted any of the numerous contagious diseases. Gen. Sir Reginald Wingate provided countless ways for the entertainment of his distinguished guest. Representatives of the many tribes of the 'desert have been gathered here into one great encampment, and for Col. Roosevelt's entertainment, have indulged in every possible form of native amusement, giving dances, races, etc. The town of Khartum is a mass of color. Flags of Egypt, England and America are everywhere, and the president has probably appreciated nothing more than the opportunity of visiting this historical spot. Khartum is virtually built around the grave of "Chinese" Gordon. The city itself is a gigantic monument to that soldier's deeds and his heroic death. In the center of it stands his effigy in bronze, mounted on a camet, gazing with fixed eyes out toward the desert which mocked him during the terrible year that he lay there waiting for relief. Behind the statue stands the British governor's palace, an imposing structure in the Gothic style, typical of British power and British permanence. Name Gordon Everywhere. Not far away is the Gordon Memorial college, a school built with funds raised by Gen. Kitchener by subscription throughout Great Britain, in which the Sudanese newer generation is trained for service in the government which conquered its fathers Everywhere throughout the city the name Gordon appears. There is the Gordon hotel, the Gordon drive and up the White Nile the Gordon tree Gordon's memory will live so long as Khartum exists. The British have transformed the city of his death into a memorial to his glory that can laugh at time. Khartum stands at the confluence of the White and Blue Niles, and some day with the development of the wilderness south of it will become a metropolis as important to the commerce of Africa as Chicago is to the commerce of North America. Properly speaking, however, the city itself does not extend beyond the banks Even Tittin did not succeed in removing the curse from red hair, for it is variously accused of causing anything from temper to freckles. And now comes an English scientist who is trying to blame it for shortness of stature. By a system of statistics, all his own, he has figured that among boys and girls at the age of fourteen the shortest invariably have red hair Among girls, those with black and blonde hair take first place in height, and among boys the light browns are of the Blue Nile. The river passes directly through the city, and along its banks, fronted by the barracks of the British soldiers, lies a magnificent driveway three miles in length. British Policy is Seen. Northwest of Khartum is Omdurman, the city occupied by the Mahdif after the death of Gordon and the scene of the licentious revelries that occupied the native soldiery up to the time that they were confronted and overwhelmed by Kitchener. The British, true to their policy of colonization, have not attempted seriously to interfere with Moslem customs here. The ruins of the Khalifa's body guard headquarters, the military prison, the remnants at the Arab fortifications have all been allowed to stand. Still further north is the field of Kerrer, the shambles in which Kitchener with mathematical exeudation slashed to pieces the Arab forces. The HARTQUY COL battle was one of the bloodiest in modern history. It was marked on the Mohammedan side by a courage and ferocity almost superhuman, and on the side of the British by a skill and coolness that was in itself a tribute to Anglo-Saxon civilization. Itinerary of the Trip. A schedule of Mr. Roosevelt's mileage in Africa to date, together with some reference to the character of the country through which he hiked, rode or boated, and a partial list of the animals killed by his party, is as follows: March 23.—Sailed from New York for Naples, 4,176 miles. March 30.—Arrived at the Azores. April 2.—Arrived at Glibratran. April 5.—Arrived at Naples. April 6.—After being received by King Victor Emmanuel, sailed for Mombasa, British East Africa, 4,121 miles. April 15.—Arrived at Aden, Arabia. April 21.—Arrived at Mombasa and received with honors by the provincial governor. April 22—Left Mombaa by rail for Kapitil plains and the ranch of Sir Alfred Pease on the Aïl river for short shooting expeditions. About 270 miles. Secured two wildebeest, two gazelle, five other antelope, six lions, three giraffe, one zebra, one rhino, a wartheg and a hartebeest. May 15—Rode to W. H. McMillan's "Juja farm," a full day's journey, for short expeditions. Secured two impala, several antelope, a water buck, a leopard, a rhino and a hippopotamus. More Big Game Killed. May 20—Rode from McMillan's to the adjoining Heatley ranch for buffalo hunting among the pyrus swamps. Twelve miles. Secured four buffalo, four hartebeest, two zebra, two gazelle and a warthog. May 26—Rode from the Heatley ranch to McMillan's town house at Nafrobi. A day's jaunt. June 3—Left by rail for Kljabe, 44 miles June 4—Arrived at Kljabe. June 5—Left Kljabe on march for the Sotik district. The route was over a waterless tract, and although the distance traversed was only 60 miles, it entailed a three-day trip. Secured six rhinos, a hippopotamus, two land, two wildbeest, several antelope, two zebra, a hyena, a warthog and three lions. July 12—Arrived at Lake Naivasha easy winners. The figures look conclusive, but to those who do not like them may reflect with Mark Twain that all statistics are watered stock. Vialting Cards While it would be difficult to say just when visiting cards were first used, we are quite certain of the fact that they were adopted in English society before they were generally used on the continent. It was probably about 1700 that they came into fashion in Great Britain, and it was on return trip. Secured two hippos and some smaller game. July 22—Arrived at Naivasha from the lake. July 24—Returned to Nairobi by rail, 65 miles. Aug. 4—Left Nairobi for Naivasha. Aug. 9—Left Naivasha on march to Nyeri and the Kenya province, 80 miles. Secured five lions, three buffalo, a hippo, a giraffe and his first elephant. Oct. 30—Returned to Naivasha. At Guaso Nguisha Plateau. Oct. 25—Left by rail for Londiani for a three weeks' shoot on the Guaso Nguisha plateau, about 90 miles. Secured five giraffe, three lions and several antelope and smaller game. Dec. 7—Returned to Nairobi by rail. Dec. 18—Left Nairobi by rail for Port Kisua, on Lake Victoria Nyanza, about 160 miles. Dec. 20—Arrive at Entebbe, Uganda, from Kisuma, via lake steamer, about 125 miles. On this trip the American flag was flown for the first time on Africa's inland sea. Dec. 21—Left on 23-mile auto trip to Kampala. Kampala. Dec. 23—Left Kampala for Kinsingo. Dec. 23—Left Kampala for Kisingo, 70 miles. Secured two elephants. Jan. 3—Arrived at Holima, Uganda, after a 57-mile trip from Kisingo. Jan. 4—Left for Butfaba, 27 miles. Jan. 7—Left on steam launch for Wadelal and Rhino camp, Belgian Kongo, about 72 miles. Secured several white rhinos and a buffalo. Feb. 3—Left wadel for Nimule, about 54 miles. Feb. 4—Arrived at Nimule, Uganda. Feb. 7—Left Nimule for Gondokoro, a 108-mile marathon through almost unbroken jungle. Feb. 17—Arrived at Gondokoro, Upper Sudan. Greeted by Mrs. Roosevelt. Feb. 26—Expedition broke up and MRS. ROOSEVELT AND MISS ETHEL ROOSEVELT AND HIS AFRICAN SMILE Feb. 23—Roosevelt left Gondokoro via steamboat for Khartum, more than 800 miles to the north. March 11—Arrived at Renk, about two days' journey by boat, south of Khartum. March 14—Reached Khartum, the end of his journey on the Nile, and was greeted by Mrs. Roosevelt and daughter, Miss Ethel. Homeward Bound. The arranged program for the remainder of Col. Roosevelt's homeward journey is as follows: Will arrive at Alexandria, Egypt, on March 29. Will arrive at Gibraltar on April 2, and at Naples on April 10. On April 14 he will reach Paris, where a great national reception has been planned, which will continue through his three days' stay in the French capital. On April 17 he will go to Vienna, where he will be the guest of the International Sporting exhibition, and at which place he will meet sportsmen from all over the world. On May 10 he is scheduled to be in Berlin as the guest of the emperor and the faculty of the University of Berlin. May 12 he is to arrive at Christians as the guest of King Gustav of Sweden and of the nation. On May 15 he will arrive in London as the guest of the English people and King Edward, and has already been voted the freedom of the city. June 15 he arrives at New York, where he will be greeted by delegations from all over the nation and received by President Taft. Where He Drew the Line. Great Author—Did you tell that magazine editor that I was too busy to see him? Boy—Yes, sir; but he says he can't understand it; that you have been writing for his magazine for years. "Well, I may write for a magazine, but that's no reason why I have to associate with the editors of it."—Life. Raylasing Plumage. 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Fireed with dutility courage and zeal for the elevation of her race, of which she always speaks as "my people," Miss Laney went to Augusta single handed more than a hundred children, and in the few children whom she found without any advantages for receiving an education. No one stood with her while the work was in its infancy. The freedmen's board commissioned her, but at that time only allowed her what money she could collect on the land, and also with which to carry on the work. That a commendable work has been done may be seen from the fact that at the present time the school has twenty-two teachers and an enrollment of over 700 students. Miss Laney has made many personal assistance in order that the school might be more effective in helping who go to it without money to pay for either board or tuition. In many needy yet worthy cases she has taken a part of her salary with which to buy books and clothing for students who were without means. In appreciation of what has been done for them graduates and former students of the Institute of Technology, York and vicinity formed the Lucy Laney league for the purpose of assisting the school financially each year. On Friday evening, March 11, the league gave its fifth annual musicals and reception at the Manhattan casino, New York, from which a song sum was realized. The league has decided to broaden its work for the school by becoming responsible for the financial support of the department. The officers of the league are: Charles C. Davis, president; Mrs. J. T. Brown, vice president; Robert W. William, secretary; John R. Hillew, treasurer. The Newark (N. J.) Evening News, speaking editorially of the high averages made by Afro-American pupils of the public and high schools in Hoboken and Jersey City recently, says: "Instances of the same kind are not numerous, and yet they can be found in practically all the large cities of this state. If the colored pupils do not capture the highest honors, as did those of Hoboken and Jersey City, a good proportion of them prove to be energetic, studious, mentally capable and quite as competent to pursue the highest degrees as they the children. So far as public school education is concerned, there is no color line in this state and no withholding of honors fairly won by industry and application." Value of a Fixed Aim The Baptist Young People's union of the Ebenezer Baptist church, Flushing, N. Y., of which John B. Montague is president, listened to an able address by N. Barnett Dodson on Sunday afternoon, March 13, in the value of a "Fired Aim." The union is in a fouling condition and is doing a helpful and influential work among the young folks of the church and in the community. Anderson on Official Committee. Charles W. Anderson, internal revenue collector, has been appointed by Mayor William J. Gaynor of New York on the list as a member of the Roosevelt reception committee which will officially welcome the ex-president on his return from Africa about June 15. For Diseases of the Skin. Nearly all diseases of the skin such as eczema, tatter, rheum and barbers' itch, are characterized by an intense itching and smarting, which often makes life a burden and disturbs sleep and rest. Quick relief may be had by applying Chamberlain's Salve. allays the itching and swarming almost instantly. Many cases have been cured by its use. For sale by all druggists. MUST BE SOLD Before March 21, 1910. Our new location is only one-fourth the size of the warehouse. We fore 75 boxes must be sold at once and in order to do this we are making a genuine SACRIFICE of our profits rather than pay storage charges and extra cartage. READ THE PRICES Come at once. Weser Spar... $15.00 Decker Bros. Square ... $15.00 Light & Co. Square ... $15.00 Rimes Bros. Square ... $15.00 Stetson Bros. 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STATE OF IOWA OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF STATE ANNUAL CERTIFICATE FOR PUBLICATION Des Moines, Iowa, March 1, 1910. WHEREAS, The American Credit Indemnity Company, located at New York, in the State of New York has filed in this office a sworn statement of its condition on the thirty-first day of December, 1909, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 4, Title 9, of the Code of Iowa, relating to Insurance Companies; and whereas, said statement shows that said Insurance Company has complied with the laws of this State relating to insurance. THEREFORE, In pursuance of law, I, JOHN L. BLEAKLY, Auditor of the State, do hereby certify that said Insurance Company is authorized to transact the business of credit Insurance in the state, by agents properly appointed, as required by law, until the first day of March, A. D. 1911. I further certify that the statement shows— 1st. The actual amount of paid-up Capital of said Company, Dec. 31, 1909, to be..... $350,000.00 2d. The aggregate amount of the Assets of said Company, Dec. 31, 1909, to be..... $1,582,088.63 3d. The aggregate amount of Liabilities of said Company, including the amount required to safely reinsure all outstanding risks, Dec. 31, 1908, to be..... $1,520,081.13 4th. The aggregate income of said Company for the year 1909, to be..... $1,808,675.65 5th. The aggregate expenditures of said Company for the year 1909, to be..... $1,499,070.44 IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office the day and date above. JOHN L. BLEAKLY, Auditor of State. For Diseases of the Skin Nearly all diseases of the skin such as eczema, tetter, salt rheum and barbers' itch, are characterized by an intense itching and smarting, which often makes a burden and disturbs sleep and rest. Quick relief may be had by applying Chamberlain's Salve. It allows the itching and smarting almost instantly. Many cases have been cured by its use. For sale by all druggists. Sleeplessness. A good remedy for sleeplessness is to wet a towel and apply to the back of the neck, pressing it hard up against the base of the brain and fastening over this cloth to prevent too rapid evaporation. The effect will be prompt and pleasant, cooling the skin and making a new layer of ful slumber. Warm water is better than cold for the purpose. This remedy will prove useful to people suffering from overwork, excitement or anxiety. Protective Device. When a telephone line is electrostatically charged the telephone acts as a condenser. The winding serves as one plate of the condenser, the frame of the receiver as the dielectric and the person who is holding the receiver to his car as the other plate of the condenser. In order to prevent this condenser from discharging through the person, a German inventor provides a grounded metallic cover for the receiver, the capacity of which is somewhat greater than that of the body. A LAP FOR EAVESDROPPERS Simple Device Well Calculated to insure Privacy. The eavesdropper, are applying his ear, applied his eye. Through the keyhole another eye looked coldly into his. He started back, pale with fright of offended. "I lose my job," he murmured. Meanwhile his mistress, the widow, sat with the young and gallant captain in the room from whose door the eavesdropper had retreated. A cigarette amolder between her slim fingers and her dimed elbows were on the table, among the litter of foie gras sandwiches, cold partridge and champagne. The young captain pointed to the door, hand mirror, its silver gilt back towards him, hung from the door knob. "Why did you put that there?" he asked. "It is a trap for peepers," replied the widow. "Suppose my butler on cook stole to the door and put his hand on my shoulder. Meet another eye. Believing himself discovered, he would trot silently away." Persistent Office-Seeker Had Finally Landed Soft Job. "I remember one man from my home town," a western senator said recently, "in the good old days of civil service examinations, whose dream of earthly attainment was a government place. When his party was finally successful he immediately set out for Washington and was on the job' long before the 4th of March, but there seemed to be a bitch somewhere. All through the spring he wherever. Wherever I went I would see him sitting, for or after an audience with some department official. By June he was seedy and broken lookout, but still appeared to be 'game'. Finally I found him in the gallery of the senate chamber apparently endeavoring to kill time. "Well, have you given it up?" I asked, trying to be sympathetic. "Oh, I got the job, all right," he replied with a satisfied smile. 'I'm working now.'—"Success Magazine. The Earliest Religion. Religion was at first purely dogmatic, an affair of the family, pure and simple. The gods were the dead ancestors, and the worship consisted of the perpetual care of the hearth fire and the graves of the departed relatives. It was the ancient belief (the most ancient, so far as we know) that the departed ancestors continued to live in or about the tomb, and that their peace and happiness depended absolutely upon the care with which their posterty looked after their worship. If the hearth fire was allowed to die down, or the tomb was neglected, or the food and drink were not faithfully taken to the tomb, their existence became a wretched one; whereas if these things were carefully attended to, there was no danger. There is much to know that this domestic belief obtained for a long time before the belief in God and a future life came in—Chicago American. Mirror for the Sick Room. "Only a hand mirror should find place in a sickroom," said a doctor, "and it should be one flattering to the patient—the kind, for instance, which if the face is too broad, will lengthen it a little. And the patient should only be allowed to look in the mirror at propitious times. Many a patient has been frightened literally to death by his haggard reflection—has looked, sighted, and renounced hope. But many another patient in a really bad way—really desperate, too—being given a pill, usually just after he has taken a stimulant, has buckled up wonderfully. In fact, a sickroom mirror, wisely handled, is a curative agent, which recklessly handled it may kill." Loved and Hated. Europe hates our rich art patrons and loves them. It loves them for the money they have made and are willing to spend on old masters and new masters, even when they are spurious. It hates the rich American when he beats a rich European in competition for some highly desired art treasure. Then Americans become mere tourists by brute strength of the longer purse, and art consumers who raise art prices to unreasonable heights by their traditional desire to get what they want when they want it. Been There Before. A new constable was on duty at one of the London police courts, and was conducting a prisoner to the cells. "Mind the step," he said, as they came to a dark corner. "All right," muttered the prisoner; "I knew that step before you were born." A Chance for a Bargain. An Irishman, who had begun to prize photography went into a shop to purchase a small bottle in which to mix some of his solutions. Seeing one he wanted, he asked the chemist how much it would be. "W. I!" said the chemist, "it will be twopice as it is, but you want anything in it. I won't charge you for the bottle." "Then, sold Pat, "put a cork in it." Are You Looking for a Position? We can offer you good Paying Employment that you will enjoy and at home. Write to-day Address: The Butterick Publishing Co. Butterick Building, New York, N.Y. Little Ones Used to Digitaries of High Estate. A well-known family in Catholic circles, living in Spring Garden street, and blessed with three very small daughters, spent last winter in Some, where the small daughters were sent to school. The family, being quite hospitably inclined, entertained quite lavishly some of the dignitaries of the Vatican. Returning to Philadelphia, they received a hearty welcome, and among others some of their old priest friends called to bid them welcome home. The mother, always proud of her three small daughters, sent for them to be brought downstairs to see the father. After awhile they came, the three little golden-haired girls; but they only stood in the doorway of the spacious room and refused to come any further. The mother, much mortified at such behavior, said to the eldest: "Come here, dear; don't you remember good Father —, who used to come and see as from the cathedral." There they stood, the three little blonde toes, and looking most disprovingly at good Father — the eldest spoke: "We like cardinals," is what she said—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Woman of Experience Not Hasty In Expressing Opinion. Before he had been in the car three minutes most of the women passengers and some of the men were ex-plaining to their neighbors what they would do with the little imp if he belonged to them. Spanking was the popular remedy, and if that boy had been in the car all the dings that his critics were aching to administer he certainly would have been well blistered. To the general babel of advice and fault-finding, however, there was one woman who contributed nothing. She was a gantle, gray-haired body, who remained unruffled in the midst of the small tempest raging. "If that child was mine," said the determined woman beside her, "I'd make him mind if I had to half kill him. wouldn't I" "I don't know," said the little woman mildly, "what I'd do." "Oh, yes," said the little woman. "I know what I would do. Why why why I know what I would do." Concrete Not Modern. Concrete is a very ancient material for construction, but reinforced concrete is acerely half a century old. It is said to have started in a happy idea that came to a Frenchman who wanted large flower pots for his plants which should not be thick and clumy. He reinforced them with wire. Nowadays we see glass reinforced in the same way, especially about elevator shafts. Cognet and others developed the reinforcement of concrete for buildings, at first merely use buildings like conservatories that were early as 1874 and then built on the north shore of Long Island sound, but it was many years before the idea "took" here, although in France, Belgium and Germany it was seted upon with avoidtivity-Smith's Magazine. Blindness. "There are various degrees and kinds of blindness, widow. There is the connubial blindness, ma'am, which perhaps you may have observed in the course of your own experience, and which is a kind of willful and self-damaging blindness. There is the blindness of party, ma'am, and public men, which is the presence of a mad bird of a regiment of follicle clothed in red. There is the blind confidence of youth, which is the blindness of young kittens, whose eyes have not yet opened on the world."—Cary Dickens. Curious Mexican Indiana Buried in the heart of a civilized, powerful and progressive foreign people, a little handful of Indians have lived for 300 years and have contrived to keep all that time their national characteristics, their traditions and their individuality. If you seek them you will find them in Amstrian de los Reyes, a village in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. They are young, energetic and hopeful the only people in the republic who have succeeded in retaining for themselves what is practically self government. B&Rs Washington Portrait. Rare Washington Portrait. A rare and curious mozotint portrait of George Washington in the library of the late Lakayette S. Richardson of Lowell, Mass., was auctioned off in Boston. It is inscribed "George Washington, late of the United States of America, old and was published March 14, 1801, by J. Hinton Linden. It is a small folio and is colored by hand. It looks as much like George III, as it does the Father of His Country, Baker, who wrote the "Engraved Portraits of Washington," says that only one impression of this mozotint he come under the notice of the writer. It was in neither the Clarkson nor the Carson sale of Washington portraits. Insist on Yellow Flour Charles Christador, an expert on flour and grains, sounds the keynote of the new situation brought about by the bleached flour decision when he says in a communication to the editor commenting on the bleached flour decision: "The housewife will now insist on yellow tinted or creamy flour, and will learn to realize that a natural flour very white can in no manner compare with the creamy or yellow flour in no far as glutens and muscle building values are concerned. "As from 85 to 90 per cent, of the large flour mills of the country were using this bleaching process, the decision is far-reaching."—National Food Magazine. Charles O. Davies' Good Advice to Young Men in Business. This is a hard world in business. I always have been and always will be. There are many good and generous men in it. There are many who will lend a helping hand to you in your aid and versatility, but in the time of need you will not tried to them among the men who tried to get you to embark in speculation with your little surplus, something more valuable would help you to understand "Money" Be self-righteous. Make your own investment into investments. When you cannot, put your money in a good savings bank. Distrust the financial demagogue as you distrust the political demagogue. Keep your hand on your pocketbook as you travel life-first, to give always in proportion so your means to those who are poor; second, to hold from those who would take through force or fraud. You will be able to help you will. You will, writes Mr. Dawes on the Saturday Evening Post, have your hand where most of the other fellows have only their eyes. 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