Iowa State Bystander

VOL. XVII, No 36. 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.) Mr Edward Mixon entertained at a dinner party, Sunday honor of Miss Baker of Clarinda. M. J. H. Brown has been very sick at his home for the past two weeks, and is unable to leave the house at this writing. His friends hope for him a speedy recovery. Mrs. Chas. Comely of Webster City Iowa, is in our city visiting her husband who is in the Legislature this winter. While here she is the guest of Mr. and Mrs Theo, J. Bell on Lyon St. There will be a temperance drama—"Saved by a Dream," at Odd Fellows hall, Ninth and Park sts., Wednesday, March 15th, 1911 Mrs. Richard Jones, Manager; Rev. L. Woolrich, Pastor. Mr. W. K. Perry of Enterprise, Ia., was a visitor in our city last Wednesday on business. He is drawn on the March term of the Jury, but says that his home duties will prevent him from serving. The Callanan club met with Mrs. Thornton Adams, 2515 Center street, Wednesday afternoon. Important business was transacted, after which, the hostess served dainty refreshments. Miss Anna Baker of Clarinda was the guest of honor. The next meeting will be with Mrs. A. M. Rivers 1205 West 16th street. The West End Bridge club was entertained Wednesday evening by Mrs. Edward Martin at her home on School St. After several games of "Bridge" had been played, the hostess served a dainty luncheon. The club will be entertained next Wednesday evening by Mrs. Joseph Stone at her home 1722 North Eighth st. At their last regular meeting the members of the Intellectual Improvement club were favored by a splendid paper by Mrs. Harvey Brown, the hostess on the subject, "The High Cost of Living." The subject was fully dissected by the members present. The meeting this afternoon will be with the president, at 1058 5th street, at which time the paper will be by Mrs. J. W. Holmes on "Individual Work," and the parliamentary drill will be conducted by Mrs. O. L. Glass. On last Sunday afternoon Mrs. S. Joe Brown, state organizer of the Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, called together at her residence a number of young girls of the city and perfected the organization of a junior club, to be known as the Phyllis Wheatley Club, for which the following officers were elected: President, Miss Lillian Coralson; Vice-President, Miss Alta Steele; Secretary, Miss Catherine Windsor; Assistant Secretary, Miss Bruda Purnaugh; Critic, Miss Bertha Allen; Treasurer, Miss Virginia Steele; Accompanist, Miss Nami Coalson, and Chairman of Executive Committee, Miss Lorna Wilson. The club will meet each Sunday afternoon at 4:30 and will study the biographies of prominent negro men and women, commencing next Sunday at the residence of Miss Bertha Allan, 1215 Park street, with the study of the life of Phyllis Wheatley, in whose honor it is named. A stag party was given by Mr. W. Saunders in his apartments at 323 Fifth street. Quite a number of young men were present. At ten o'clock a four course luncheon was served. Mr. W. Jackson was toastmaster; Mr. J. Augustus Reid spoke on "Hotel Waiters of America" and Mr. W. Saunders spoke on "The Negro Waiter." Whist was enjoyed after the lunch. Among those present were Messrs. G. Wiley, W. Jackson, W. Bach, J. M. Gillson, M Robertson, L. W Scott, E H. Carter, E. J. Jackson, W. Saunders, J. A. Reid, W. B. Bass, J. E. Smith, H. Estes and U. Carryl: The Des Moines Negro Lyceum met at the home of Mrs. Schackelford, 1100 Ge. street, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1911. The program for the evening consisted of a Violin solo by Prof. Warrick, and a able address on George Washington. The Lyceum will meet Tuesday, February 28th with the Vice-Pres. Miss Catherine Windsor, 1177 Seventh street, at which time the following program will be rendered. Duet, Mrs. Shackelford and Misa D. Mae Lee. The postage system of the U. S. Should the U. S. adopt penny postage, Mr. Wm. Warrick. The present penny system, should it be abolished. Mr. A. W. Branham. Gen. discussion by club. Current events. Report of critic. The M. C. T. club will meet next Monday afternoon at Mrs. Perkins, 830 Eleventh street. The afternoon will be spent in fancy work. Prof. Booker T. Washington will spend Sunday, March 12th, in our city. He will deliver one lecture at Foster's opera house at 2:30 p. m., and make three addresses, one at 10:30 at St. Paul Episcopal church; at 4:30 at the Plymouth Congregational church vesper services, and at 8 o'clock at the union of all the colored churches at Plymouth Congregational church. Dr. Booker T. Washington The Greatest American Negro and Apostle of Industrial Education. PRIEST Will make a weeks' tour through Iowa in March. He will be in Des Moines all day Sunday, March 12th, and will deliver only one public lecture—at Foster's Opera House at 2:30 p. m., at which a small charge will be made. Married—On last Monday occurred the marriage of Miss Coleen Alexander to Mr. Vivian Laye Jones, both of this city at the residence of Rev and Mrs. I. N. Daniels. Only a very few friends witnessed the marriage ceremony, as it was a quiet affair. The bride is one of our beautiful young ladies, well known here, and one of the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Price Alexander of Highland Park, well accomplished, a graduate of North Des Moines High school. The groom is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Georgette Oskalosa, a graduate of Wilberforce Ohio, college, and the popular understark, who the Jones and Lucas paren to East Court Avenue. He is an exemplary young man, and we extend to this happy young couple our best wishes. Rev. I. N. Daniels tied the knot. They are at home at 817 West Thirteenth street. Mrs. James P. Hamilton, formerly of this city, now of Chicago, ill, is in our city visiting her daughter, Mrs. Price Alexander at Highland Park. GEORGE WASHINGTON. Wednesday was the natal day of George Washington, the first president of the United States and our nation's hero. He truly stands first in war. first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen. The hardships and suffering that he endured for the love of liberty and freedom is inestimable. For one now to read of the hunger and suffering in Valley Forge and those seven years of struggle against the British tyranny is spelling to the young student of history. Yet when a growth arises God somehow and how a way provides a hero and makes a leader in the right and true light. So, Mr. Washington, no other man could fill your place in American history so well. SENATORIAL ELECTION A great debate is now going on in the American Congress on the question about electing United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. We are in favor of the idea of popular election but the present bill now before the United States Senate has rider on which takes away the right of Congress to fix the times and places and prescribe the manner and such regressions and gives it over to the states state legislatures, thus quasi manner sanctioning the methods that some of the American legislatures have adopted to defien the negro citizens in those states thereby violating the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. Congress would have no right to judge their election or the methods by which each member is elected. We are opposed to the rider. We would rather see the whole bill defeated than to see it pass in its present form. THE CLANSMAN STOPPED. The Elbert & Getchell Theatrical Co., who own a number of opera houses in our city, and who had advertised that they would present the Clanman in eds Moines, have declared it off because of the race hatred and feeling it might arouse in our community. Several of our colored literary organizations, also the colored Ministerial Alliance, protested against its production. They called on the mayor, Hon. J. R. Hanna, who also was personally against its presentation. He used his influence in conjunction with Councilman Joe and several other influential partisans and especially the Unitarian church, passed a resolution against it, then a committee of colored men, consisting of S. Joe Brown, J. B. Rush, Chas. Cousins and John L. Thompson, called upon the managers, who after some discussion promised that it would be declared off. Even they were the financial losers already. We thank DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1911. those men, also those other friends, with Mayor Hanna for their influence to stop its rendition here. The new Sunday school orchestra organized by Shelton and McDowell at Union Congregational Sunday school, has made a great hit. They appeared last Sunday about eight strong and rendered excellent music. The Sunday school is becoming a very popular place. Meeting at 12 o'clock, two new classes have recently been organized with Mrs. Chas. Turner and Mrs. H. W. Hughes as teacher. A kindergarten department has been organized under the supervision of Miss Marie Bell with about forty little tots, with the Misses Daisy Jacobs, Genevieve Tomlin and Nancy as teachers. Everybody is welcome. Mr. L. W. Williams, district grand master of the K. of P. of Boone, was a visitor in our city last Saturday on business. Mrs. H. M. Hutchinson of Buxton, was in our city last week to attend the Smart Set and visit her friends. She returned home Wednesday. Mr. S. C. Thompson, an employee of the city and at present employed in the Iowa legislature, has been called to Peoria, Ill., top resent the Des Moines plan to the colored citizens of that town. He left yesterday well posted on the subject. MANUAL TRAINING AND INTELE LECTUAL DEVELOPMENT. Delivered at Second Baptist Church at Buxton, Iowa, by Robert Lowery. He who knows the history of the human family will not hesitate to say that physical training marks the beginning of the journey. No doubt, it was in complete harmony with divine arrangement, nevertheless with the advance of civilization, with the progress of philosophy, science and art, man discovered that he possessed a mind—a soul that is relative to the body as master to servant, king to subject, and as God to the universe. It is a peculiarity of human nature to seize novelties and carry them to excess, regardless of previous achievements or future possibilities. Consequently, history records a system of human experience, the all-physical at the expense of the mental; second, the all-mental at the expense of the physical. The question now is: how, when and may the two meet and compromise? How may the one be conducive to the other? What is manual training? It is skillful use of tools employed in manual labor—that training of the hand to materialize our mental pictures and concepts. It originated from two sources. First, as a growth of the trade school, an institution which is gradually repliacig the oil form of apprenticeship, introducing machinery, forming factories, sub-dividing labor crafts. Second, from the conviction now widespread, that during school life more books should be studied. Trade schools differ from schools of manual training in that trade schools aim at the nearest route to the dimes and dollars. Manual training aims at the production and perpetuation of an industrious and intellectual nation. Intelligence and efficiency are its ideals. Judgment and reason constitute its steady and unshaken base. It finishes no material for the market. Its whole end and aim are educational inasmuch as it evolutionizes both physical and mental capacities. It develops the underlying principles of work, why to why for every how it is often said that children can learn manual training at home and be of service at the same time, but this constitutes one of the greatest errors of the age, and accounts for the vast multitudes of unskilled laborers, who throng our country, disorganize our labor system and harass the government. It is a grievous fault, yet true nevertheless, and practiced at our doors, in our homes, around the fire-sides, in this goodly land of our national republic. Proper education equips and stimulates the individual for the immediate duties and responsibilities of life. When one is properly educated he comes out of school with elements of high character, a vigorous and healthy body, able to pun forth the combined effort of the school body, readily into sympathetic co-operation with the institutions of his country and time. And the education which fails to supply these demands is wanting in its parts. The ultimate aim of education is to cultivate just relations and familiarity between mind and matter. Manual training is the medium through which this may be accomplished most effectively. For by way of it we are enabled to study things, not signs; we can acquire more readily and maintain more lastingly, for we will then have a combination, both the theory and the practice. Such is the aim of manual training. Is it not then education in its value? The trained hand furnishes food for the body and sustenance for the mind. The trained hand provides waters with sails and crowd our ports with products; for that reason manual training claims independence and precedence to mental. But this argument is equally true of the reverse; for though the hand accomplishes the physical work, the mind does the thinking and planning, sees the conditions and puts forth the volitions. Manual training is not only essential to the intellectual growth of the individual but upon it rests the responsibility and pride of the nation. For the strength and renown of every nation depend upon the manifest inventive and constructive genius of its inhabitants. What personal existence it inhabits, God a Need to us are; a heart to resolve and a hand to execute. And without such unison and concurrence in the different walks of life, human greatness would become imperiled, national FT. MADISON, IOWA. Miss Louise Harper, who has been confined to her home for the past month is doing nicely and will soon be able to resume her school duties. Miss Beatrice Murray and Mr. Everet Woods spent Sunday in Keokuk, Iowa. Mrs. Black and family have arrived in the city from Milan, Mo. They expect to reside here permanently. We heartily welcome Mrs. Black into the city, as we feel that her family will be a great benefit to the community in general. Mr. William Tolliver is visiting in Vincennes, Iowa. Mr. Wilbur Burnaugh of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, was visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Harper Sunday. Messrs. Arthur Trye, Leo Leeder, Cyrus Boyd and Miss Madeline Wilson, all of Keokuk, Iowa, were Ft. Madison visitors Sunday. Miss Mary Young of Montrose, Iowa, was in the city Sunday, the guest of Miss Eliza Anderson. The Valentine social given at the Baptist church, Wednesday, February 15, was quite a success, both socially and spiritually. Mrs. M. Lowe is in the city visiting relatives and friends. A memorial service was held at the A. M. E. church Sunday, February 19, in honor of the late Bishop Abraham Grant. The following program was rendered: Organ Voluntary—Mrs. Lucy King. Address—Rv. J. O. Goodwin. Song by the Choir. Paper, "The life and works of Bishon Abraham Grant"—Miss Jennie Harper. Solo, "I shall be Satisfied"—Miss Naomi Harper. Paper, "Zion's hero at rest"—Rev. Wm. B. Lowry. Song by choir. Miss Cora Goodwin is on the sick list. ROCK ISLAND NEWS Mrs. Albert and Miss Grace Burris have returned from a three weeks' visit in St. Louis, Mo. They report a good time. The A. M. E. choir met at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Moore for rehearsal. The next meeting will be at the church. Rev. Swayne has been called as pastor of the McKinley Baptist church and has been rendering good services there the past two weeks. The A. M. E. church began revival mingling last night with the assistance of overseeing Mrs. Douglas of Indianapolis, Ind. Come out and hear what she has to say. Mrs. Wm. Taylor, Jr., and Mr. Wm. Jackson were callers in the east part of Rock Island last week. Prof. H. B. Haviden, superintendent of schools here, will leave tonight for a visit to the south and will send a day at Tuskegee, Ala., inspecting the industrial institute conducted by Dr. Booker T. Washington, the greatest colored educator, and will return to this city March 1st. Next Wednesday afternoon the Progressive Club will meet with Mrs. Geo. Johnson in South Rock Island. Prof. C. B. Hosmer, Northern agent for Tuskegee institute with headquarters of Dr. Booker T. Washington to points in Iowa, which is as follows: March 10th in Sioux City he will address the Northwestern Iowa Teachers' Association; March 11th the Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa; March 12th in Des Moines, Iowa; March 13th in Ft. Madison, Iowa; and March 14th at the Iowa State Teachers' College, Cedar Falls, Iowa. REASON ENTHRONED Because meats are so tasty they are consumed in great excess. This leads to stomach troubles, biliousness and constipation. Revise your diet, let reason and not a pampered appetite control, then take a few doses of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and you will soon be well again! Try it. For sale by all dealers. Basement Anniversary Specials 15c Hose 7c. Women's fancy colored and embroidered hose, worth 15c pair, special 50c Gowns 39c. Regular 50c tennis flannel night gowns for women, special each... 25c Skirts at 10c. Regular 25c tennis flannel knee skirts, special for this sale at... 40c Taffeta 29c. Plain taffet silk in all colors, 19 in. wide, 40c quality, yard... 48c Foulards 35c. 27 inch washable foulards of good quality. 48c value... 75c Shirts 50c. Men's new spring shirts in regular or coat styles, 75c values... To 12½c Laces 5c. English torchon laces, in widths up to 6 inches. To 12½c values To 10c Laces 5c. Fine linen torchon laces in width up to 6 inches, worth to 10c, at 39c Window Shades 19c. 36 inches wide and 6 ft. long. All colors, good rollers Clearance of High Shoes, including patent leather, vici kid and gun metal...... 12½c Muslin 10c. Staple brands, such as Fruit-of Loom, Hills' and Londsdale's... To 25c Gloves 5c. Women's black cashmere and knit wool gloves, worth to 25c To 35c Belts at 10c. Good styles in women's leather belts, worth to 35c, at... To 35c Hat Pins 10c. Fancy gold and silver hat pins with stone sets, 35c value... 25c Jabots 10c. Lawn jabots trimmed in pretty laces, Regular 25 values, each... Women's New Spring Coats, samples worth $15. Coverts, serges, mixtures... $10 Skirts for 4.69. A sample lot of voiles, serges and panamas, values to $10...... To 1.49 Waists 98c. Your choice of entire stock of tailored and lingerie waists' for To 1.49 Petticoats 98c. Muslin petticoats trimmed in lace and embroidery...... 12½c Huck Towels 9c. Full size hemmed huck, 20x40 inches, worth 12½c, af...... 8½c Toweling 5c. Untleached all-linen toweling, very good quality, worth 8½c...... 19c Ginghams 12½c New spring patterns in extra good dress ginghams, worth 19c "Serpentine" Crepe 10c. The genuine "Serpentine" in all new spring patterns ASTORE WITHIN A STORE Lesser Priced Merchandise Dependable Quality Saturday, the fifth day of the Basement Anniversary sales, reveals new attractions for the thrifty shopper. Below are a few representative items, picked at random from the hundreds of bargains offered in this great sale. --- Price Five Cents. One of the most pleasing events o the season was the wedding of Miss Nevada Griggsby and Mr. Walter Jas. Johnson at the home of the brides parents. Mr. and Mrs. James Griggsby 413, N. 13th street, Thursday evening, Feb. 16, at 8 o'clock. Rev. Brice U. Taylor performing the ceremony. The bride was handsomely gowned in white lavishly trimed in lace and ribbon with slippers and gloves to match She carried a bouquet of white and pink carnations. The home was beautifully decorated in the latest prevailing colors, the Helen pink and white. At precisely at eight o'clock the bride and groom marched into the parlor, attended by Mr. Arthea Fox and Mr. Griggsby. The father of the bride to the strains of a wedding march, played by Mrs. Daisy Ware, stood under a large wedding bell where the ceremony was performed. They were the recipients of many beautiful and useful presents. They are a highly respected couple, and their many friends wish them pleasant-sailing upon the sea of matrimony. After the ceremony, a splendid two-course luncheon was served. Will be at home to their many friends at 413 N 13th street, Kekouk, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. William Mills are the proud parents of a baby boy, born the 7th of Feb. The Mum social given at the Seventh street Baptist church, Feb. 9th, was a splendid success. It was largely attended. A drama entitled the Old Maids convention, will be given in the near future for the benefit of the A. M. E. church. Mrs. Wm. Gross of 1310 High street has been ill for the past week with lagripe. Mrs. A. J. Fields has been indisposed for the past week. Mr. B. H. Dennis of St. Louis, Mo. is employed at Prof. Jones tonsorial parlors. Mrs. Henry Johnson of 1223 Morgan street is ill with lagripe. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Anderson are both ill at their home 1111 Fulton St. GALKSBURG ILL. Miss Lyda Crawford entertained at dinner, Sunday in honor of Miss Fannie Perkins. Mrs. C. Gregaby is recovering from a severe illness which has confined her to her home the past week. Mr. Chas, Williams left last week for Indianapolis, where he expects to make his home. Mrs. R. E Lyons has returned from a short visit in Davenport. Quarterly meeting was observed Sunday at the Allen chapel Rev W. A. Searcy preached in his usual interesting manner. Rev R. H. Hackley and Pres. Elder Phillips were present and assisted the pastor, Rev T Tyler. Mrs. Clay Bolder was at home to the members of the Thimble circle, Friday afternoon. MT. PLEASANT NOTES Mr. Thodore Hedge of Burlington, visited relatives and friends in Mount Pleasant. A few friends gathered at the home of Miss Myrtle Burnaugh, the 10th and surprised her in honor of her birthday. Refreshments were served. An e-tainment was held at the A. M. e Church last week in honor of Lincoln's birthday. Mrs. Clark of Marshalltown is here visiting her daughter, Mrs Anderson. Mrs Mariam Arbuckle has returned to Chicago after a brief stay here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arbuckle. Mr. and Mrs B. Robinson were called to Chicago on account of the serious illness of his sister. Many were surprised to learn that cupid quietly carried away two of our young people to Galesburg, where they were quietly married last week. COUNCIL BLUFFS ITEMS. (Special to Pystander.) After an illness of about six weeks, Mrs Anna Reed is out again Miss. Emily has nearly recovered. Mr. Sam. Rose is confined to his bed. Mrs L. Tannchill is better. Mr. John Eastor is no better. Miss Cornelius Rhodes, who has been in Mercy hospital for the past ten months is slowly improvig. Mrs. Gladus Johnson who was operated on at mercy hospital is getting along nicely. Mrs. Tillie A. Reese who has been under sanitarium treatment in Omaha the past mon h, is improving. Mr. and Mrs James Martin of Sioux Falls, S. D. was in the city last week. Mrs. Paul Martin of Sioux Falls, S. D., visited Mrs T. A. Reese last week. A piece of mannel dampened with Chamberlain's Liniment and bound on to the affected parts is superior to any plaster. When troubled with lame back or pains in the side or chest give it a trial and you are certain to be more than pleased with the prompt relief it affords. Sold by all dealers. BYSTANDER PUR. CO. Publishers DES MOINES . . . IOWA Beware the grip. Do not let it get a hold on you. Pride has many a fall these slippery morals. Baseball talk has moved on from guesttems to forecasts. An extraordinary duel was fought in France the other day. One of the duelists was hurt. Chicago is the gem center of the world, but there is such a thing as wearing too many. Baseball bids fair to girdle the globe. The Japs and the Cubans are taking kindly to it. One man's attempt at suicide is attributed to too much housework. Is this a sign of the times? We are told that an illinois woman has put an end to herself by jumping into a cistern. Well, well! What do you think of a hen that laid 4,000 eggs in 22 years and never brooded? Can you beat it? The house cat carries germs indoors and indulges out of doors in an excess of vocal expression. Florida has a bride seventy-eight years old. And yet there are women of forty who have given up hope. A New York publisher tells us that poor music sells best. So we should judge from the music we hear these days. That proposed half cent coin would be about right for most of the things you get by dropping a 1 cent coin in the slot. New York is to have a fifty-eight story building. Tenants on the top floor will be reasonably safe from porch climbers. A new play in New York is called "Bought and Pald For." However, many a writer of vaudeville sketches has no such luck. A Chicago man man was shot for stepping on another's corn. Anybody who has ever nursed a pet corn will call it justifiable homicide. A London man man who was a contributor to Punch has just died, leaving a fortune of $6,000,000, and we'll bet his jokes weren't worth it. We are told that there will be no babies in these United States after the year 2020. Another reason for protecting our infant industries. During the last 34 years, says an eastern fire, we have lost $5,000,000 by fire. Even at that old "inadequate water supply" is still doing business. Irritukt, the capital of Siberia, is described as the wickedest city in the world. It is now up to New York, Chicago and Pittsburg to renew their efforts. Aviator Paulhan, who has made $300,000 out of his aeroplane, says he is going to retire from the game. This looks to us like knowing exactly when to quit. Curing paralysis by artificially inducing fever reminds one of the ingenious practitioner who always threw his patients into fits and then cured the fit. It is had enough to be a deaf mute, but when one so afflicted is sued for slander, it is carrying the thing too far. Some persons evidently "just can't make their hands behave." Pupils at Wellesley must learn how to spell before they are allowed to graduate. It may be a good innovation, but we fear that it will detract from the quality of Wellesley fudge. An army officer has invented a multiplex telephone, and it is claimed for it that ten persons can speak over one line. As if we didn't have troubles enough already with the four-party wire. Mount Etna continues to smoke, but the inopulent bystanders have come to the conclusion that there is nothing going in the way of lava. Many a time and of have we heard of persons who "didn't know it was loaded." Paris has decreed war against rats. This does not mean a battle against the rodents, but the downfall is present style of dressing ladies' hair. But while the hobble skirt remains Paris fashions will not lack for striking features. Another instance of the hardship of military duty is the desire that members of the New Jersey National Guard must refrain from wearing leather pumps at drill. However, there is no order against cawing gum or using powder puffs. A Cleveland man wants damages for having to answer telephone calls that were not for him and for the time he has lost in waiting to get the numbers he wanted. He will receive a large amount of public sympathy, if he never gets anything else. "Venus is inhabited," avera Professor See. Thus we see that Professor See is something of a seer. We are not surprised, however, at what Professor See has seen. If Venus is at attention, he believe, it is only natural that she should have plenty of company. Curious may be as nutritious as meat, so one scientist decides, but may leave me sign of weakness on the stomach or fancy rest. He needs Professor See. A man rich enough to be invaded the foot. OUR CENSUS WRONG Congressman Jamieson Assalls 1910 Government Report IOWA HAS GAINED OVER 21,000 Cites Examples of Deficient Counting and Charges Bureau With Ineficiency—Says Iowa Hasn't Lost Population. Washington, Feb. 24—Representative Jamieson of the Eighth Iowa district in a speech to the house took sharp issue with the census returns which show Iowa has lost population. He cited the case of the city of Clarinda as an example of census efficiency. He pointed out were more with a healthy growth of the city, yet the census showed it had lost 200 people as compared with five years ago. "Knowing that this was wrong," said Mr. Jamieson, "and realizing the injury such a report would have on a hustling little city the Clarinda council immediately instituted a city census under official direction with the result that instead of having only 3,830 as given by the federal census, have the name and addresses of 4,204 people who live within the same city limits that bound the city when the federal census was taken. "This shows errors amounting to nearly 10 per cent and if the same percentage of errors had precluded all over the state instead of having lost 7,082 people Iowa has gained over 21,000, which is greater actual gain than that made by twenty-three other states, according to the federal census and a greater percentage of gain than was made by eight others." In his speech, Mr. Jamieson dwell on the benefits of education which fitted boys and girls for rural life. He dwell; on the excellent work of education being done in the rural schools of Page county. "I WAS AT THE NORTH POLE" That Was the Declaration of Dr. Cook in Lecture at Des Moines Auditorium. Des Moines, Feb. 24.—Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the first man to announce that he had walked on the top of the earth and planted the Stars and Stripes where the north pole should have been, is certain that posturity will pay to him the honor he claims, and that he will be credited with reaching the objective point for which mankind has striven for centuries. Dr. Cook, known the world over because of the controversy about the pole, was the guest of Des Moines Thursday. He told the people how he reasoned that the pole is the Auditorium under the auspices of the Press club. "I can prove that I reached the pole," asserted the doctor. "I will fight for my rights, and the world shall be the judge." Branding Captain Perry as a liar and citing records from his narrative to substantiate the claims for north pole honors made by Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Captain Evelyn Baldwin, the arctic explorer, last night came to the defense of Dr. Cook and in a talk with the governor of man whose cause he has championed reached the north pole eleven months before his rival. WILL SAVE IOWA MILLIONS Commerce Commission Decides Against Both Eastern and Western Railroads. Washington, Feb. 24—Millions of dollars will be saved annually to Iowa shippers by the decision of the interstate commerce commission, refusing both eastern and western railways the right to a general advance in freight rates. "The full importance of the action taken by the interstate commerce commission will never be realized by the shippers of the country, for the reason that they were not compelled to bear the heavy burden which it would have entailed had the carriers been permitted to put into effect the rates contemplated. "The increase which the railways would have secured from the advance however, had been computed at $300, 600,000 annually. Judge Deemer Again Leads. Des Moines, Feb. 24—Judge H. E Deemer was high man in the senatorial race, the ballot resulting: Ballot. Candidates. 30th 31st Deemer ..... 55 58 Kenyon ..... 44 42 Wallace ..... 1 1 Porter. dem. ..... 62 51 Suffrage Bill Defeated. Des Moines, Feb. 24.—Woman suffrage in the state of Iowa was disapproved of by the house of representatives. The joint resolution asking the next assembly to submit to the voters the question was killed by the close vote of 53 to 48. Vacation Decided Upon. Des Moines, Feb. 24.—The general assembly has agreed to take a vacation from Saturday noon until Monday, March 7, which is one week from next Monday. "Farmer" Balewin Dead. Iowa City, Ia., Feb. 24.—William "Farmer" Balewin, whose neck was broken in wrestling match with "Dad" House. Cornell student, it dead. There will be prosecution of Elwood House. The accident was almost the fault of the deceased. Fight to Oust Haugen Begins. Mason City, Ia., Feb. 24.—The fight to oust Congressman Haugen of the Fourth district has been started by the democrats, a context being made in every county. MEXICANS ARE ROUSED LIMANTOURS TALK THRUN IN ADMINISTRATION'S FINISH. Interview Taken In Some Quarters As Showing Rupture Between Diaz and His Minister. Mexico City. — No word has been received from Minister of Finance Jose Limantour by President Diaz or any member of his cabinet relative to the interview forwarded from Paris by the Associated Press. It was stated officially that a message had been sent direct to Mr. Limantour asking if he had been correctly quoted. Pending the receipt of an affirmation or a denial from the finance minister, no cabinet member would discuss the matter. When asked for a further expression on the subject Minister Crews said it will be distilled to believe that Minister Limantour has been misquoted, but, pending the verification of the statements attributed to him, I have nothing further to say." Mr. Maco, acting minister of finance, declined to comment on the matter, as did other members of the cabinet who were asked for an expression of opinion. As the statement attributed to Mr. Creel, the Limantour has the blance of a verbal political program, as observed by Mr. Creel, and in the absence of any denial from him, despite the fact that more than 48 hours have elapsed since the article was given out in Paris, a profound sensation has resulted here. In some quarters, the Limantour has a rupture had occurred between the administration and Minister Limantour. This, however, was officially denied. TAFT SENDS IN JAP TREATY Feature of Document Transmitted to Senate is Omission of Immigration Restrictions. Washington—President Taft Tuesday transmitted to the senate the proposed new treaty with Japan. The distinctive feature of the document is that it omits all reference to the restrictions now imposed by the United States on the admittance of Japanese immigrants to these shores. The understanding is that this all important question is left to the national body of Japanese government, which is expected to enforce at our home ports the limitations which are now enforced under the Root-Aoki agreement in the matter of her subjects who seek entrance to the United States. Pending ratification, the new treaty is submitted to the senate as a confidential documents, and it is impossible to secure the exact text of the document. BRYCE DEFENDED BY ASQUITH Attacks Made on British Ambassador Are Answered in Reciprocity Debate. London. — Again in the house of commons the government was made the target for a multiplicity of questions regarding the United States-Canada reciprocity agreement. In most instances the replies of the ministers were colorless reiterations of known facts. they were the political controversies which the unionist hecklers sought to arouse. The unionists were especially active in suggesting that Ambassador Bryce had failed in his duty of watching over British interests, but Premier Asquith stamily defended the diplomat. The ambassador, he said, had kept his eye on the special interests of British trade. Decides Cash Only and Not Advertising Can Be Accepted for Railroad Transportation. Washington.—The Supreme court of the United States in interpreting the Hepburn rate law, no 606, that law and no advertising can be accepted by interstate railroads in payment for transportation. The decision involved a large number of contracts between the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway company and various publishers, and affirmed the decision of the federal circuit court of the northern district of Washington. The court also decided that interstate railroads cannot issue passes for interstate transportation, even though they had contracts to do so before the passage of the Hepburn rate law. Many Turks Die In Quake Constantinople.—A violent earthquake was experienced in the city of Monastir and elsewhere throughout the vilayet of Monastir Monday. Many were killed. Several mosques and houses were demolished. The population is camping out and suffering intensely with the cold. The authorities have appealed to the government for 300 tents and relief funds. 81x Hundred Miner Strike Spring Valley, Ill.—Six hundred miners employed by the Illinois Third Vein Coal company at Ladd struck Wednesday because Pit Boss Brown used discourteous language to the miners' committee while in session setting a labor grievance. Canada Opposes Anxexation. Oklahoma City. The Canadian parliament Wednesday denounced its sentiment to be that the proposed reciprocity agreement with the United States shall not lead to annexation. Norton for Bank Post. New York.—A statement was authorized in financial circles on Tuesday that Charles D. Norton, private secretary to President Taft, will become vice-president of the First National bank of this city soon after March 4. Gives a University $15,000. Baltimore.—Md. it was announced Tuesday that a gift of $15,000 has been made to Johns Hopkins university by an individual who requested that his name be withheld. I WISH THAT WOULD BE AND THAT SOME TIME IT'S ANTLE LEARN FROM THE A LITTLE MORE ARE WINN THE NEXT DANCE INCREDIBLE PUB MACHINE CONCRETO CONCRETE FOOD EVER SOUTH CALIFORNIA MACHINE FOR YOUR FOOD TRADUCTION WATER DEMOCRAT8 TO TAKE UP TARiff REVISION IF EXTRA 8ES- SION IS CALLED. PARTY PLEDGES TO BE KEPT Underwood, Chairman of New Ways and Means Committee, Gives Out Authoritative Statement—Farmers Protest Against New Treaty. Washington—The Democrats of the house are prepared to go to work at once on the revision of several schedules of the Payne-Aldrich tariff act should an extra session be called following the present session of congress. An authoritative statement to this effect was given out Tuesday by Representative Underwood of Alabama, who has been selected as chairman of the new committee on weed an erroneous report which has gained circulation in the last few days. Mr. Underwood said: "The statement that if an extra session is called the Democrats in the house will not begin the work of revising the tariff is absolutely unfounded. The Democrats are pledged to revise the tariff and if we go forward, they will questionably will pass some tariff bills, revising some of the schedules of the Payne act downward, before it adjourn." Farmers protested against Canadian reciprocity at the hearing before the senate committee on finance. Former Governor N. J. Bachelder of New Hampshire, master of the nation, was present and announced that if the committee had the time to her them he would be followed by masters of granges in Indiana, Delaware, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts, as well as representatives in the various states of division and other associations, including directors of state experimental stations. Mr. Bachelder asserted that 6,000,000 farmers were united in opposition to the agreement, and he said he voiced their protests against free trade in farm products while protection was continued upon manufactured articles which the farmers were compelled to buy. He declared that Canada was the only country which the farmers had to fear, and that free trade with that country means that the farmers would derive no benefit from the tariff law. He also said that Canada will pass the senate. This was the declaration of Senator Carter of Montana as he was leaving the White House after a conference with President Taft. Personally Senator Carter is opposed to the measure. KAISER HONORS A PLUMBER Bestows Notable Distinction Upon Ordinary Artisan Never Before Conferred in German History. Berlin.-The kaiser has conferred the notable distinction of life-lifelong membership of the Prussian upper chamber (Herregaus) on Herr Harry Plate of Hanover, a master plumber. This honor, which is traditionally bestowed on noblemen as a reward for eminent service to the state, has been conferred in German and ordinary artisan. Herr Plate will take his place in the most exclusive of legislative chambers. Vetoes Oregon Plan Bill Des Moines, Ia.—Governor Carroll Tuesday vetored the Oregon primary plan bill, which had passed both houses of the Iowa legislature. The governor in his veto message, read to the joint assembly, characterized the measure as "an attempt to indirectly accomplish something that cannot be done directly," and declared that it is an evasion of the constitution of the United States. He asserted that the measure abrogates that section of the constitution providing that legislatures shall elect United States senators. Find Body of Young Girl. Rockford, Ill.—The unrecognizable remains of Alice Winchester, pretty and sweet sixteen, who disappeared from her home Sunday evening. November 27, were found Monday by fishermen in Rock river at this point. The body had been baffled about in water all winter and was identified only by clothing. Alice Winchester disappeared following a quarrel with her sweetheart. A bruise over the eye and missing teeth were at first taken as evidences of foul play and the police are investigating. NAVAL BILL IS PASSED TWO NEW WARSHIPS VOTED BY THE HOUSE. Battle Practice of Atlantic Torpedo Fleet to the Northwest Marsh, April, and May Washington. — The naval appropriation bill passed the house. The advocates of a naval increase program of one battleship instead of two tried to force a recommittal of the bill for amendment in that respect, but the motion was defeated, 167 to 132. Plans for the spring and summer practice of the Atlantic torpedo fleet have been announced by the new department. During the spring and fall, the first three submarine divisions, with the Castine and the Severn, will conduct submarine exercises in Chesapeake Bay. The vessels will leave the Norfolk navy yard for Solomon's Island, Md., on March 1. The entire Atlantic torpedo fleet will be concentrated near Tangier Island, in the Chesapeake Bay, about March 15, to witness the practice to be carried out by the Atlantic fleet, with the San Marcos, formerly the battleship Texa, as a target. The Atlantic torpedo fleet will be called on to operate under war conditions in exercises which will be announced later. The third submarine division, including the vessels of the first division temporarily attached to the third, and the Severn and Castine, will go to the Cod Bay for combined operations with the Atlantic fleet in July and August. DEMOCRATS GET VETO POWER House Adopts Rule Permitting Supply Bills to Be Carried by Two-Thirds Vote. Washington.—The naval appropriation bill was taken up Monday when the Mann filibuster in the house on the omnibus war claims bill came to an end with the adoption of a "gag" rule and the passage of the omnibus bill. This rule was made to cover all bills carrying appropriations. It provides that the omnibus bill is the application of the rules when supported by a two-thirds vote. This will restrict debate on them to 40 minutes. The Democrats accepted the rule, as the two-thirds vote necessary gives them a veto power over the proposed suspension. Chairman Dalebell of the committee on rules first presented it with the provisions that a majority of the house could suspend the rules. The Democrats protested so vigorously that the modified rule was brought out. NEW LINE IN CENTRAL OREGON Will Open Up 5,000,000 Acres of Government Lands in Undeveloped Territory. Portland, Ore.—The long-heralded invasion of central Oregon by the Hill lines will become a reality on March 1, when passengers and freight service will be inaugurated between Clarke, Wash., on the north side of the Columbia river and Madras, Ore. 115 miles up the Deschutes valley. The new line will open a fertile and undeveloped territory which heretofore has been difficult of access for lack of transportation facilities. Settlers have been going in by team for the past few months to build and lining on the free homebound lands. The 5,000,000 acres of government land that will be made immediately accessible. Auto Falls 25 Feet: Two Hurt Pittsburg, Pa.—An automobile party of six went over a 25-foot embankment at West Liberty, Pa. Wednesday, and two women, Mamie Gregory, aged 22 and Annie McDonald, aged 28, were dangerously injured. Mrs. Granville A. Ellis is Dead. New York—Private cable dispatches from London received hero Wednesday announce the death of Mrs. Granville Alden Ellis, better known in literary circles under the nom de plume, "Max Ellot." George Gives First Leves London, England—King George gave the first levee of his reign at St James' palace Tuesday. Those received were mainly from diplomatic and official circles. Secretary Phillips and others of the American embassy who are in town were present, but there were no other American presentations. Illness of Pope at End. Rome—The pope resumed his audiences Tuesday, having fully recovered from the recent attack of influenza. G. W. Patterson Makes Table of Comparison DAIRY EXPERT GIVES FIGURES States that Sweet Corn Silage Is Equal as Food for Cattle on Ratio of 100 Tons to 600 Bushels of Shelled Corn. Lake Mills—Sweet corn silage is equal to shelled corn as a food for cattle at the ratio of 100 tons of silage to a little more than 600 bushels of corn according to figures which have been given out by G. W. Patterson, expert of the North Iowa Dairy Improvement association as the result of experiments which have been carried on at the Colby farm near here. The immense fields of sweet corn stalks that have gone to waste here led Mr. Patterson to make the experiments and he says this crop makes a superior enclosure other than that of a table in which the food properties of sweet corn and mature dent corn is compared as is follows: Per cent of digestible nutritions in sweet corn stalks: Protein, 94; carbohydrates, 14; fat, 5; dry matter, 22.3. Per cent of nutritions in dent corn stalks: Protein, 9; carbohydrates, 11.8; fat, 7; dry matter, 22.3. This analysis was made without the ear as to the sweet corn and with the ear as to the dent corn. On this basis Professor Patterson says that 106 tons of sweet corn stalks is equal in food value to 260 tons of wheat. The amount in dent corn per bushel or $390 worth of oats at 28 cents per bushel. Big Drain to Be Built. Nevada—One of the largest drainage propositions yet considered by the Story county board of supervisors is that of a drain to be known as Milford township drain No. 32, the estimated cost of which is $34,000. There are about 9,000 acres of land in the district, which makes an average of $10.44 per acre of $10.44. The open ditch will be four miles in length and the the, which vary in size from 30 to 8 inches will extend fourteen miles. Bank of Kelly Suspends. Des Moines. — The Bank of Kelley, located at Kelley, Ia., a small village between Des Moines and Ames, suspended business as a result of a run made by depositors said to have been due to disclosures made concerning the financial condition of the institution, coupled with the disappearance of E. J. Penfield, its president. Father of Twelve in Divorce Court Des Moines.—Albert Grandquist, father of twelve children, the oldest of which is only 12, was given a severe reprimand by Judge Bradshaw in the district court after his wife had told the court that he drinks excessively. The judge told the man he must either quit the use of liquor or go to the hospital at Knoxville. Stop Payment of Gopher Bounty. Council Buffa.—The board of supervisors of this county, by unanimous vote decided to pay no more gopher bounties, the board by resolution deciding to resist the claim that the county is legally liable for the bounty which has cost the county $5,000 the past year. Mount Pleasant.-Mrs. Jane Connor, widow of Francis Connor, former city marshal, died of broken heart. The death of a favorite daughter, Dr. Mary Keith, a few weeks ago grieved the mother so that she never recovered from the shock. She was born in Ohio 76 years ago. Building Big Ice House Clarion—The Chicago Great Western Railway company is completing a large ice house capable of holding many hundred tons. The building of this structure, it is said, removes the hope of Fort Dodge that the division point of the road would be established there. Attempts to Kill Self Ottumwa—S. R. Wilson, an insurance man giving his residence as Dea Moines, attempted to commit suicide at the McElroy hotel here by cutting his throat with a penkite. He failed to sever the jugular vein. A physician was called and sewed up the wound. Manning May Get Sewers Manning. At a recent meeting the city council voted to employ an engineer to draw plans, make estimates and surveys for the purpose of installing a sewerage system here. Main street probably will be paved next year. D. W. King Makes Address Nevada. There was an attendance of 300 township officers and farmers in the city at the good roads meeting addressed by D. W. King of Missouri. It was one of the most enthusiastic meetings ever held in the county on the subject. Crushed by Failing Slate. Buxton. Charles Cross (colored), was killed in mine No. 12 by falling slate. There was about 500 men working in the mine. Cross leaves a wife and six children. Greene—Mrs. J. P. Christensen, wife of a well-to-do farmer living five miles east of this city, committed suicide by hurling herself into Flat creek, where one-half mile from the home, where she drowned. New Iowa Urban Line Planned. Waterloo—Business men of Cedar Rapids, Habbana, Jubilee, Gilbertville and other towns conferred with Waterloo business men, regarding the building of an interurban between here and Cedar Rapids. Oaklandos—Citizens, business men, and representatives of trades unions and commercial clubs, held a formal public reception at the opera house in honor of J. P. White, recently elected national president of the United Mine Workers of America. Invitations were extended to every local camp of mine workers in Iowa, and special trains were run here to accommodate the mine workers living in distant camps. Speeches were made by a number of prominent citizens of the city and state. Senator John Ream, who was scheduled to speak, was unable to be present, detailed in De Moines. W. H. Rodgers of Ottumwa, candidate to succeed White as president of Iowa district. No. 13, Edwin Perry of Oaklandos, elected secretary of the national organization; John C. Williams, B. A. Devitt and Horace Gleason were among those who made addresses. Operators of Mahaka county presented Mr. White with a handsome meerschaum pipe, gold mounted Mr. White's address was the feature of the afternoon press when he gave ovation when he began to speak. The demonstration was the largest of the kind ever witnessed here. Plan for New Interurban. Webster City—An interurban line is being projected from Iowa Falls to Boone to connect with the Fort Dodge Des Moines & Southern. The Iowa Falls Commercial club has taken hold of the proposition and through its secretary, Frank E. Foster, is sending queries to towns along the proposed route in an effort to find out what backing the enterprise may expect from the towns it will touch. The route of the line projected runs from Iowa Falls to Jewell, thence on to Story City and thence southwest to Boone. The town will querie the commercial club at Story City as to their attitude in the matter. Both these towns are enthusiastic and have pledged their moral and financial support to the enterprise. The project is still in its infancy, yet it starts out with a very good prospect of success. Ancient Fraud Keeps Going. Nevada—E. L. Erickson of Story City is the latest victim of the old Spanish swindle. A few days ago Mr. Erickson received a letter from an alleged Russian nobleman who claimed to be languishing in a South American prison. "I have the secret," he says, "to the hiding place of several hundred thousand dollars, which I will divide with you, if you will aid me in an escape from my captors." This, the nobleman says can be done by cabling him to certain sum of money that will effect his liberation. The face of it was the old well worn Spanish swindle and Mr. Erickson failed to "fall" for the graft. A well known Webster City business man recently received a similar letter from Spain. Dental Men Will Meet. Dental Men Will Meet Iowa. Iowa City, annual meeting of the Dental Faculty Society of the Association of American universities will be held here March 7 and 8 under the direction of the dental fac- ulty of the University of Iowa. Deans of dental colleges will be present as follows: Eugene H. Smith, Harvard Dental school, Boston, Mass.; Ed C. Kirk, University of Pennsylvania, secretary of the Association of Dental Schools of California university; N. S. Hoff, University of Michigan; Alfred Owre, University of Minnesota. Pheasants at Iowa Falls. Pheasants at Iowa Falls. Iowa Falls - Deputy Game Warden H. E. Martin of this city has just received the first shipment of the Hungarian pheasants assigned to this county by State Game Warden Lincoln and the birds will be placed with armored bibs, which will agree give the birds proper protection and attention. It is Mr. Lincoln's intention to place a large number of these birds in every county of the state and afford them protection for a few years until they become plentiful. Largest Silo In State Storm Lake—The largest silo in the state has just been completed near this city on the farm of G. T. Groves. This new departure for fattening cattle is a new one in Iowa and is being closely watched by the authorities of agriculture at Ames. Of concrete blocks in thirty feet in height, it will hold 600 tons of silage. Family Weighs Near Two Tons Family Weights Near Two Tons. Ames—The Hans Olsen family, living in the town of Roland, in the northern part of Story county, claims to outweigh any other family of number in the state. There are eleven in the family and their total weight is 3,722 pounds, making an average weight of 206 7-8 pounds. Woman Aged 74 Opposes Divorces. Des Moines—Seventy-four year-old Susie Scott filed a petition in the district declaring that her husband who is 75 years of age, got a decree of divorce from her by fraud and misrepresentations to the court. She asked that it be set aside. The decree was granted last fall. Two Selected for Annapolis. Creston—Ben A. Brown, Hamburg, has been appointed principal and Rex Brude; Garden Grove, alternate to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Seven Tons of Stamps In Shipment. Storm Lake—What is believed to be the largest shipment in towns of cancelled foreign stamps for hobby collectors, has been received by a wholesale stamp firm in this city. This shipment weighs ten tons and contains approximately 168,000.00 stamps. Logan Plimer Dead. Logan—Mrs. Miry Frasier, 83, died of pneumonia at the home of her daughter near Logan. She came to this county fifty years ago. W. "Then You Can't Go With Us to See the Cricket!" ARCHIBALD'S AGATHA BY EDITH HUNTINGTON MASON AUTHOR OF "THE REAL AGATHA" COPYRIGHT ONE BY W.A. CHAPMAN. DISCLAIMED IN GREAT BRIAN Archibald Terhune, a popular young bachelor of London, is suddenly acused by the press, by the starting news from the law firm of Barnes, Woolbygh & Son, that he is the heir to a sheep farm in Australia and the bequest comes from an aunt, Mrs. Georgiana James of Essex. She makes an appearance within ten days or forget the legacy to a third cousin living in America. The story opens at Castle Wychork, where Lord Vinnage a wife within the slotted time. It hung, are discussing plans, to find Terhune, a wife within the slotted time. It becomes a person named Agatha, all whom have been close girlhood chumma. She decides to leave the castle and have Agatha there as one of the guests. Archie accepts the invitation and the Vincent discusses his prospects in the two cities. Their descriptions of the two Agathas and decides that the sixth shall be his arrive at the castle. Agatha the Sixth strikes Archie as a handpainted beauty. Agatha First is a breezy American girl. Archie and cure a bride. Lady Vincent tells her husband that Agatha the Sixth already cares for both girls unaware of the urgency of the arrest. Archie gains from Agatha Sixth the admission that she cares for both girls's month's time fully to make up her mind. CHAPTER IV.—Continued. "And I see that you aren't on my side any more, Mrs. Wilfred," said Terhune bitterly. "I thought you wanted to help me!" "I do," she answered, turning on him earnestly; "that's just what I want to do most in the world! Only you don't understand the world! I want to help you." "And I don't care!" he replied eagerly, "if only you'll use your influence with Agatha Sixth to make her cut short the period of my probation and make it only as long as the remaining days of this week! Ah, do, Mrs. Wilfred! Dear Lady Vincent, do! I know you can!" and he caught her hand entreatingly. "But I shaltn't—anything of the sort!" she said, putting it away again; "you're too much in need of a lesson! I believe me, it's for your own good. Besides, she also added, "it would be so much easier to speak to her! I couldn't give her a reason for trying to hurry her decision. I can't tell her about your Aunt Georgy and the property in Australia, can I?" "Thunder, no!" I answered for Terhune; "that would never do! She wouldn't like that part of it, at all!" "Naturally, nem. She wouldn't like to think you only wanted to marry her for a reason as mercenary as that! I don't wonder you wish to keep your real motive from bet!" As she said she would have with a scornful and penetrating glance. "He hung his head, and I confess I felt a bit dashed myself. Women always have the most intensely romantic notions of honor, and that sort of thing, and it makes I fellow feel awkward. You can explain to 'em, you know. "But that isn't the only reason," he began, and put his hand to his short mustache nervously, as he does when he genuinely moved. "Very well, then," the my wife wrote, "the case you sure to come out all right in the end! You've only to prove your other reason to Aratha Smith, that's all!" "Do you mean because you think she'll change her mind and give Arch his answer in time?" I shouted after her, for she had already started back toward the house, I knew instinctively to find Agatha Sixth. "No," she called back over her shoulder, "for the comfort, because I think Arch will be man enough to change it for her!" And you had to be content with that. The Castle Wyckhoff house-party were assembled on the east terrace, and it was the fourth day of the ten which were to decide Arch's fate. Arch himself, with a countenance as anxious and troubled as if he had not been able to prove good faith from Agatha Sixth which we had all probability to insure his inheritance for him, was leaning gloomily against the broad stone railing of the porch and gazing somberly by the white peacocks that strutted in self-conscious magnificence about the close-cut lawn. Agatha Sixth, who should undoubtedly have been at his side, was sitting in the tween something in the nature of an engagement understood, was seated as far away from him as possible in a low rocker at my wife's feet, across the terrace from him. As for Agatha First, she was knocking a golf ball around on the velvet lawn and absolutely ignoring the humble attentions of young Leslie and whom we had at length succeeded in foisting upon her as cavalier. I thought the party was too dull for ten o'clock in the morning of a rippin' June day, and I threw the cigarette I'd been smoking over the railing and set myself to rousing them all to a more becoming state of jollity. "I say, you people!" I cried cheerily, "what do you want to do today? It couldn't be finer weather. What do you want to do to Northbury to see the cricket? Northbury and Lowshire are going to play." These were two crack teams and I expected to extract enthusiasm from Arch if not from the girls, because I knew he was as keen on cricket as I. But he only made me the most indifferent kind of assent while noge of the others took up the idea at all. I looked rather reproachfully at Dearest. She usually backs up any propositions of mine, but I saw that she was busy explaining the intricacies of some stitch or other to Agatha Sixth and forgave her. I did not break it; it would be sport! I asked, walking over to her and putting my hand on her shoulder. "It's such a bully day for a drive!" "Yes!" she cried, turning to me at once, all animation. "I do think it would be sport! Come, let's all get ready and go. When's the match game?" "Eleven thirty," I told her, "and shall we motor take the drag?" "Oh, motor!" she said, "by all means! Driving's too slow! But just as we had succeeded in fetching Agatha First and Freer from the lawn and had won a lukewarm assent to the plan from them and a more enlightened attitude, he began to realize in spite of his anxieties that cricket was cricket after all, something occurred which changed the formation of our party most unexpectedly. That something was a wire for Terhune, stating that his presence was absolutely necessary in London that day and signed by the head partner of Terhune with which Terhune was connected. "O, what a nuisance!" said my wife when Terhune had informed us in general terms of the necessity for his immediate departure for town. "What a hanged shame!" was my more forceful comment. Agatha Sixth said nothing at all, but Agatha First came forward with more show of involvement, and then he exhibited over anything the beginning of her stay with us. "You won't be gone long, will you, Mr. Terhunne?" she asked anxiously. "O, no. I can be back for dinner, but I don't want to not to look please by her solitude. "It's not a matter that requires much time," he added to me in an undertone. "I should be able to dispatch it this afternoon." "Then you can't go with us to see the cricket!" continued Agatha First, interrupting our aside by her approach, as if just realizing what Terhune's absence really meant. And again I felt the interst in Arch's goings and comings should have come not from her, but from Agatha Sixth, who had said nothing. And when Agatha First added: "Well, if you must go, you must. But be sure to be back in time to show that you have moved chos gamen." Then laughingly, "Remember, it's a date!" I thought so more than ever. Terhune, redening slightly, muttered something and left us to pack his bag. Left us, and without so much as a word to Agatha Sixth. Frankly, I didn't like the look of it. And I know Dearest felt the same way. We had observed with some anxiety, not to say surprise, that during the last day or two Terhune and Agatha First had struck up an extraordinary intimacy. Extraordinary of course in the light of the affect that befell Terhune and Agatha First, though not Agatha First could not have been aware of that. I had told Dearest when we had first observed this new stake in our matching venture, that it was explained by Agatha Sixth's action in delaying her answer when Terhune had proposed. Feeling that things were now "up to her," as my American brought up wife would say, the old boy had rejoiced in her marriage, much alone. And I couldn't blame him, thought his friendship with Agatha First rather a judgment on Agatha Sixth for playing with him in that manner. But not so Dearest! When I had advanced this idea she had withered it to a look and had declared it to be her opinion that an attachment that couldn't stand the fire of a little conventional coquetry, but not a little allenable of women's rights, was not worth having, and that I could not excuse or explain Arch's conduct in that way. However that may be, when Agatha First and young Freer had romped out of sight in the direction of the garage for the 'fun of telling the men themselves to send the electric runabout around, Agatha Sixth rose slowly from the little rocker where she had sat through all the talk as if she were not at all concerned in it, and clenched her sewing in one small hand, walked past us in silence toward the house. "Are you going to get ready, dear?" ventured my wife to the small rigid back. "We start right away, you know." There was a moment's silence, and then at the door she turned the bravest little face toward us you ever saw. "Yes," she said sweetly. "I'm going to get ready. You needn't think I shall stay at home just because he's not going." The "he's" was emphasized. "I'd rather go without him anyway." And she vanished into the house. My wife and I stared at each other, "Well, what do you think of that?" I exclaimed. "I think she's a little heroin!" the secretary—I mean Dearest—answered. "As for that man!" she stopped, but her expression was such that I was glad Terhune wasn't there to see it. "Well, it is a shame!" I conceded. "He ought not to treat the poor little girl so! What can he be about, anyway? If he doesn't take care he'll jeopardize his life!" "Yes, if you mean the girls by stools," agreed Dearest, "and serve him right, too—the old firt! But Wilfred," and she fxed me with a look that I secretly trembled before because it means an unpleasant duty to be performed by me, "you must find out what he's up to!" But before I could reply we were in the midst of hurried farewells to Terhune, who if he were in disgrace, was also out of place. "In the little runabout to catch his train, without a word of rebuke." Not half an hour later we were standing on the steps of the side entrance to the castle in our automobile togs, with Agatha Sixth and Leslie Freer, waiting for Agatha First, or Miss Endcott—to use her proper name once in a while—to join us before starting on our trip, to see the cricket. Freer, a pale-eyed, sandy-haired young chap, was enveloped in one of the coats that go with the machine for the convenience of chance guests, and was promising us that he would be quite comfortable, though one no one seemed particularly solicitous. "I wonder why Miss Endcott doesn't come—she's so slow," he remarked for the twentheth time, at least. It wasn't until I had quite finished tussling with the machine, a six-cylindered touring car, having gone over every part of her with the chaufeur, and was beginning to get a bit impatient, that the young lady who was responsible for the delay appeared in the hall entrances. But to our astonishment she did not wear so much as a linen duster over the white frock she had worn that morning to indicate that she intended to motor with us that day. "Good gracious, Aggle, dear!" expostulated Dearest from the tonneau where she and Agatha Sixth were already ensconced, "aren't you going to wear anything warmer than that? It's cold motoring, you know, even in June." "But I'm not going, Agatha," replied the girl pleasantly. "I've decided to wear it." "Decided not to!" echool her hostess, a little taken shack, and why, please?" While Freer added a drawing, "O, I say, Miss Endicott, that's a shame! We can't go without you, you know!" to her exposition. "No, I can't go," explained Agatha First, coming down a step or two. "You see—you see—" she passed a strong brown hand across a fine, sun-burnt forehead, "I don't feel very well. I've the worst headache! Knocking that ball around in the sun so long this morning, I guess," she added, looking severely at the young man from the village, much as if it were his fault. (TO BE CONTINUED.) WAS HE A HERO? Had any of his chums been there to see they would have jeered at the idea. Floyd Grant, 25 years old, and of the city, and one of the latest guests at the Mountain Top house, has raised his hat to the chambermaid on his shoulder, encountered her at the door of his room. It came about through a sort of instinct or intuition. He somehow felt that he was in the presence of a lady, and up went his hat. Two minutes later the elevator had landed him on the office floor and he was puxing over it a bit. The mystery was solved an hour later when he overheard one woman calling to her office and were working their way through college had taken places in the hotel as chambermaids for the season. Ethel Davis, daughter of a widow who was none too well off, was one of the ten. When taking the situation the clerk of the hotel had said to her: "No airs, now. You are coming as a woman, you will be expected to dress and do the work of one. You can't be a college girl here." At nine o'clock the next morning the same young man came up from breakfast just as she was finishing his room, and looked in and saw her and raised his hat and backed out. Next day, in front of the elevator, the hat was lifted for the third time, and she quietly guzzled giggled and the elevator boy dared to wink at Miss Ethel. Her cheeks burned and her eyes faded, and she almost decided to go to the management and enter complaint. If there was a fourth time she would do so. There was a fourth time, but she didn't do what she thought she would. The manager and hotel detective were in company with Mr. Grant when he was dusting, and although he, alone of the trio lifted his hat, she was too confused to more than notice it. "Miss Davis," began the manager, with the voice and attitude of a magistrate, "a sum of money has mysteriously disappeared from this room this morning. Mr. Grant rose earlier than usual to take a walk before breakfast, and left a purse with $200 in it under his pillow. When he returned it was missing. You were on this floor and you were going to have two who duplicate keys to the room." "And I wish to say, Miss Davis, salf!" Mr. Grant, "that not the slightest suspicion attaches to you. I merely reported the loss at the office." "But—but what is it?" asked the surprised girl. "I didn't see the gentleman go out. I was not in the room until a quarter of an hour ago. Surely—" "Miss Davis, you have duplicate keys," insisted the manager. The girl grew so weak that she sat on the desk, looking at one and then at the chair, and her trembling lips were trying to frame a question or protest when Mr. Grant suddenly started and said: "What an absent-minded idiot I am! Why, I tossed that purse into my trunk before leaving the room, and there it is, fast locked, as we all can see! Miss Davis, we came simply to question you as regards others. The house is full of guests, and there are people who might be suspicious of. I am sure I beg your pardon for the trouble we have given you." "But was it thought I took the purse?" demanded the girl as her voice came to her all at once. "Surely not." Miss Davis gave notice and the girl left the hotel. She felt that she had been suspected, and she could not stay. Mr. Grant touched his hat to the new chambermid who was also a college student, but thought of the other. Some one had got his money. He had deliberately led to shield Miss Davis. The purse could not have been produced had the manager asked that the trunk be unlocked. He was not sure to give her honor, but whether she believed he lied for her sake. One morning, a week later, Mr. Grant arose at an early hour for another stroll. From his position behind a bowler on the mountain he saw a man leave his room and walk along the balcony of the fire escape and enter another. The second room belonged to the young man. Half an hour later the robber-guest was under arrest and had made a wifey confession. That same day, with a copy of the confession in his pocket, the victim started for the home of Mrs. Davis, a hundred miles away. The "chambermaid" opened the door to his ring, and as she looked into his eyes she asked with a weary smile: "Have you come to arrest me?" "No, but to talk with you and your mother. The real thief has been found, and I have his confession here with me." "Then you lied when you said the purse was in the trunk. Believing me guards it lied." "Believing you innocent, I loded!" "I—I don't know—it's all so queer." sobbed the girl, with her face to the wall. "Not a bit queer. All plain as day. I'm going to ask your mother if I may pay my addresses to you, and sometime, when I know you love me, I shall ask you to be my wife. Wouldn't be at all queer if we should be at the Mountain Top next year as man and wife." She Knew Her Mrs. Ullings—Whenever Mrs. Guisep calls I entertain her as near to the front door as I possibly can. Mrs. Failinger—Why? Mrs. Ullings—Because when she has to pass the better it is for me. At every door she comes to she lingers for half an hour to talk. "Do you mean to tell me that cheap loafer is a model husband?" "No, I said he was a model's husband." LORIMER IN DEFENSE ASSERTS HE DID NOT BUY OR AUTHORIZE BUYING OF VOTES IN LINOIS LEGISLATURE. HITS AT GOVERNOR DENEEI Senator Declares He Secured Support From Democrats in His Elector Through Friendship—Gained by His Deep Waterway Plan. Washington.—Before a vast assemble, blage of spectators and a full attendance of members Senator William Clinton may be invited on the floor of the senate that he had punched or authorized the purchase of votes in the Illinois legislature to encompass his election. Throughout Mr. Lorimer's final exposition of his defense, he strove to make it plain that the mysterious Democratic votes which enabled him to get his senatorial seat were given as the gifts of life-long friendship. The defense offered embraced the following questions, as announced by Lorimer at the opening of his speeches "Did I organize the Illinois legislature against Hopkins?" "Did I make Shurtleff speaker in order that I might be able to senate?" "Did I make Owl Brown my agent?" "Why did I stay in Springfield during the contest? "For what purpose did I talk to Shepherd in the speaker's room?" "Why did the Democrats vote for me?" "Some of the answers given these questions by senators on this floor have been fanciful theories; some more guesses and surmises," said Lorimer. Mr. Lorimer then stated that an effort had been made to cover the case with a cloud of suspicion, and to make it appear that some man of great ability had prepared a plan to organize the legislature of Illinois for the purpose of defeating Hopkins and electing some one else United States senator. Mr. Lorimer dealt with this part of his text by reciting his whereabouts prior to the election in question and detailing the dates when he was ill with blood poisoning, with the intention of showing that on account of absence from the state and the condition of his health, he could not have taken any part in organizing the legislature in his text. Mr. Lorimer* engaged in a short tilt with Senator Crawford, who disputed his course. "Edward Shurtlef was elected speaker because of a condition which arose there and if a similar condition had arisen anywhere in the country, the re-sult would have been the same," said Lorimer. "Governor Deneen was opposed to the re-election of the speaker, and said that some one else must be elected. Under no circumstances was any Republican to vote for Shurtlef Representative Brady, who had pledged his support to Shurtlef, was told that if he did not join in with Deneen's plans every employee with had obtained his position at Brady's recommendation would be forthwith dismissed. In other words, the governor of our state undertook to dictate who should be Senator Crawford interrupted. "If this statement is true" he said, "why was not Governor Deneen called as a witness in order that he might have the opportunity of making reply to this charge?" "It would have been impossible for Governor Deneen to have been called to refute that statement," said Lorimer, "as the cause for making it was not suggested until, the senator from South Dakota, Mr. Crawford, made it on the floor a short time ago." Senator Lorimer then took up consideration of the Democratic vote which he received and the incident of his presence in Springfield. He told the story of his interest in the lakes-to-the-gulf deep water water plan and his effort to make it a non-partisan proposition. In this way, he, he gained the friendship of the Democrats. His presence in Springfield was caused by his vote for himself in the race for the senatorship, was the line of Lorimer's argument. "It has always struck me that if a man wants the votes of the legislators he has a right to go where the votes are," said Mr. Lorimer. Senator Lorimer closed his speech with an impassioned appeal. "No man has ever dared to charge that I was even remotely guilty of bribery or corrupt practices. I never did, not only in this nor in any other election, use one dollar or allow the use of one dollar, or have the remotest idea of the use of one dollar—the corrupt use of it. "I say on my word as a man and on my word as a senator that I am not guilty—that I have no knowledge and that I had no knowledge in the remotest degree—that bribery and corrupt were used in securing my election." Iowa Moves to Stop Treating. Des Moines, Ia.—The Moore anti-treating bill, forbidding treating in saloons, passed the house of representatives 67 to 9 Wednesday. The bill also provides a penalty for the bartender if he permits treating. Nicaragua Has Gunbust Siren. Puerto Cortez, Honduras.-The former United States gunbate Siren, whose recent mysterious movements have caused alarm in Central American circles, arrived here Wednesday flying the Nicaraguan flag. Vote Fraud Probe Haited. Danville, III—Owing to the serious illness of Foreman Isaac Woodyard the grand jury which is investigating the alleged corruption through the buying and selling of votes in this (Vermilion) county, adjourned Monday until February 27. Doctors to Become Lieutenants. Washington—President Taft sent to the senate the nominations of sixty-seven prominent Illinois physicians, to be first lieutenants of the medical reserves corps. WASHINGTON GOSSIP Have Hopes for Lakes-to-Gulf Canal Uncle Sam Would Have Us Eat Venison Men Hold Trump Card in Social Game Men Hold Trump Card in Social Game Increase in Our Foreign Criminals Increase in Our Foreign Criminals I BELIEVE A CANAL WOULD BE ABOUT THE PROPER THING GULF OF WATER ROUTE LAKE MICHIGAN WASHINGTON—The fact that congress continues to nurse various projects for artificial waterways may probably be taken to indicate that sooner or later some of these canals harbor harbors bill, as amended by the senate, and as it will probably stand when finally passed, directs the national waterways commission to make a careful study of the advisability and feasibility of the proposed canal from Lake Michigan to the southern end of Lake Michigan, and of a canal from the Ohio river, at a point near Pittsburg, to Lake Erie. The commission is also directed to look into the feasibility and practicability of a canal to connect the Anasazi and the Mississippian with Chesapeake bay, or some tributary of that bay. In the case of the proposed canal from the Ohio river to Lake Erie, the bill provides that the expense of impounding the canal will be practicable shall be borne by the lo- I DON'T JUST SEE WHERE I M GOING TO BE BENEFITED BY THIS SCHEME UNCLE JIM WILSON, of the department of agriculture, hopes to put venison, that luxury of the fish on the table, even when in our country, and at a less cost than that of beef. He aims to accomplish this by convincing farmers that they can raise small herds of deer or elk or antelope on land that is at present absolutely valueless and with practically no attention after the start is once made. In many parts of the country there are aspects of land which can be more profitably used for raising venison than any other purpose. The propagation of game is as legitimate a business as the growing of beef or mutton, and, according to the department, the producer should be permitted under reasonable regulation, to dispose of his product at an time appropriate for food. This some of the state laws now prohibit. WHICH SHALL IT BE! THERE is a story abroad in Washington, whether true or not, that the pampered men of the capital go about accepting invitations and then at the last moment turn a flipflop if they get a card from a hostess where there is apt to be more fun going Washington who hold all the trump cards in the social game, as one may infer from this declaration of a dashing young American baroness who left here not a great while ago: "Sorry to go to Turkey? Sorry to set up housekeeping in Constantople? Not a bit of it! Why, my dear, things will be changed completely. Over there I do not have the skillful friend undergoing whether I'll have men enough to go around if I give a dance or a dinner—no, indeed, it will be just the other way about. I'll be THIS is the land of the free and the home of the brave. It is the haven of the down-trodden and the hope of the oppressed. It is the asylum of the homeless and the opportunity of the willing. Millions in overcrowded Europe cast longing eyes hitherward and annually hundreds of thousands succeed in reaching eur shores. We have room for them. There are work and opportunity here for each of them—if they are of the right sort. Our broad acres and our prosperous cities can care for another hundred millions as easily as we care for those who are all we ask is that they be earnest in the desire to be good Americans capable of self-support, healthy of mind and body. But, unfortunately, in our generous hospitality we are imposed upon. This great country of ours in fairness to ourselves should not be made the victim of our own incompetent, the physically incapable, the morally perverted, and against The richest man in our acquaintance is one who, although in middle dollars, has not accumulated a thousand dollars. His character is so lotty and gentle and his heart so genuinely true that his friendship carries with it a wonderful wealth of helpfulness and courage and those other qualities which lift men into high things; these are things that money cannot buy. cal interests affected. No such provision is put in with respect to the investigation of the proposed canal connecting Lake Erie with Lake Michigan. By the terms of the new rivers and harbors bill, the waterways commission is to have two years from the 4th of March in which to investigate these projects. In making the investiture commission is authorized to call upon the engineer corps of the army to furnish data. Nearly every observer with a large range of vision is convinced that sooner or later, a canal connecting Lake Erie with the lower end of Lake Michigan will be built, and that a canal will eventually connect Lake Erie or Lake Michigan with the Ohio river. Persons who have devoted some study to this subject of artificial waterways are disposed to believe that when the country is ready for connecting the ground with one canal the demand will be for a canal extending from Lake Michigan, through Indiana to the Ohio river. There are many reasons for believing that as soon as the Panama canal is completed, the building of artificial waterways here at home will be undertaken on a large scale. It is generally assumed that the lakes-to-the-gulf waterway will be the first of the projects put through. The flesh of young antelope is said to be much superior to ordinary venison. That of mature animals, particularly the males, has a strong flavor; but this may be greatly improved by domestication. The weight from 100 to 125 pounds, and will dress from 65 to 80 pounds. The deer family stands next to the cattle and sheep family in general utility. The flesh is a valuable food. Venison was more common than beef on the tables of medieval Europe and was the flesh most commonly eaten by early settlers and frontiersmen in North America. The meat, in the fact that it is especially adapted to invalids who require a nourishing, yet easily digested food. The American elk, with all its claims of attention, is fast disappearing from the earth, with scarcely an effort for its preservation or domestication, the department declares. By domestication it does not mean simply taming, but a course of intelligent breeding and protection. A species that has furnished the scientists with sufficient evidence to say confidently that this business may become of great importance to the country. picking and choosing, and each dear man will be fidgeting properly as to whether I'll choose him or his brother. Turkey for me! The men here are spotted foolish. To be sure, you have enough of 'em and to spare; the only trouble is if they so genetically conjunct their own convenience without regard to the anxiety they cause the women who entertain." This baroness enjoyed the reputation of scaring the wits out of the other dames who were contemplating dinners or dances. For "pity sly," they used to walk, "does anybody know if the Baroness Blank has an notion of doing any other manchure in French night? If has, away will flock the men to her side—it will never do to pick the night she hits upon for any of her doings." Wherefore, putting two and two together, the baroness' departure was not accompanied with more grief than one could weep for—even though she did things up so beautifully, she did not feel very kind and considerate personage when the debtantes and near-debutantes were concerned. these objectionables the barriers should be made higher and more nearly impenetrable. We try at Ellis Island to maintain some sort of supervision of immigration and we do turn back many whose lives are threatened by a burden. But we should go further than this. What stronger object lesson of the necessity for careful enspionage on immigration do we need to the report of the New York state superintendent of prisons, Cornelius V. Collins? He tells us that, notwithstanding the fact that our prison population is increasing rapidly; that our state prisons are shockingly overcrowded, and that—here the point—more than 54 per cent. of this prison increase is directly traceable to the trend of foreign criminals to the United States. Our government can do nothing more than the country than to prevent the incoming of foreigners of criminal record or tenancy. Roller Skate an Old Device. Roller skates were patented and used in France as early as 1819. Skates similar to those now in use were invented and patented by Plympton of Boston in 1865. Originality. People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength and will. If I could give an account of all that I own to great predecessors, I would be but small balance in my favor—Goshev.