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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. CITY NEWS N B. I you have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we solicit all your local news.—Ed.) For Rent—2 rooms for light housekeeping; all modern conveniences. Mrs J. T. Blagburn, 379 School st. Mr. Thomas Harvy cannot work. A fine eight pound girl put in her appearance. Mother and baby doing nicely. Mrs. E. T. Hicks of Minneapolis will arrive in the city Saturday for a week's visit, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. Gould. Rev. A. J. Carey, D. D. of Chicago will preach Sunday morning and evening at St. Paul's A. M. e. church, 2nd and Center street, and will lecture Monday evening. All are cordially invited. On account of the City contest the Des Moines Negro Lyceum will postpone their meeting Tuesday, but will meet Tuesday, June 20th, with Att'y and Mrs. S. Joe Brown, on Fifth street, Program to be announced later. Please don't forgot the Lawn Social June 12th, next Monday night at the residence of Mrs. Nelson, 1923 Easton Boulevard. Let every one come out and help us do make a success. Given by the Corinthian Aid Society. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Cottoms of 960 W. 22d St., spent the fore part of the week in their old home town, Marshallthown. While in the city they were the guests of Mrs. A. W. Walker and sister, Miss Jessie Walker. The Wesn End Bridge club met last Wednesday evening with Miss Ida Davis at her home on Fourteenth and Crocker. At the conclusion of the game refreshments were served. Two new members were added to the club roll in the persons of the Misses Ida Hyde and Emerald Hamilton. Mrs. Wm. Gray will be hostess next Wednesday evening. The City Convention, Tuesday evening, June 12th, will occur the much talked of city contest. There will be contestants in oratory, music and poetry from eight different clubs of the city. Much interest is being manifested among the literary inclined of the city, as the winners Monday night will represent Des Moines at Witchita next Xmas. The Grand Court of H. of J. of Iowa and Jurisdiction, will convene in their twenty-first annual session, at Masonic hall, 10th and Center streets, Tuesday, 9:30 a.m., June 13-14-1f. On the evening the Grand Court will hold their Welcome exercises at Greenwood Park Pavilion at 8 p.m. The public is invited. Memorial exercises will be held at Union Congregational church. Public invited. Thursday evening the Grand Court will hold a grand reception at Kromer's hall, The woman of today who has good health, good temper, good sense, bright eyes and a lovely complexion, the result of correct living and good digestion, wins the admiration of the world. If your divination is faulty Chamberinian's Stomach and Liver Tablets, will correct it. For sale by all dealers. DO YO KNOW That we can do' Expert Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing, Dying on all kinds of work. Our prices are reasonable. Work called for and delivered. Use the phone. All work guaranteed. SKIRTS HATS Made to Order. Blocked and Cleaned Oxford Dress Club 920 Center Street Residence Phone, Store Phone, 4767 Red. 1740 Walnut SIMON COEN, Manager. Watches..... That you will be proud to carry and at prices that you can afford to buy. Come in and see the won- derful showing we are mak- ing on watches. If you are thinking of buying a watch now— or later, your chance is here now. You will have no better opportunity this Spring. Come in now and pick it out. Schlampp's Sixth and Locust St. Mr. C, M. Richardson, who is so very low, is but slightly better at this time. Mrs. James Mitchell is very sick at her home. She will soon be taken to the hospital to be operated upon. Mrs. Julia Morgan and daughter Ethel of Fairbery, Neb., passed through our city Monday night enroute to Chicago, for a week. The Mt. Olive Court will give a grand entertainment at the Cycling Hall, Thursday night, June 16th, for the benefit of the Grand Court of Iowa, then in session in our city. Kromers Orchestra will preside and a very swell social evening is anticipated. Invitations have been sent out. Mr. H. E. Jacobs is beautifying his lovely home on Twentieth and Carpenter Ave., by re-painting his residence, put down cement walk and papering the interior, which adds greatly to the value and beauty of his home. Miss Lillian Neal of Decatur, Iowa, arrived in our city last Saturday to remain indefinitely. She has been employed by the S. A. Strapp Grocery Co., at 1012 Center St., as a clerk. Lillian is an experienced woman as she has clerked in Buxton, Iowa, several years. Hon. Jerry Sullivan, former candidate for Governor of Iowa will address the meeting of the Young Colored Men's Christian Ass'n at the Ass'n Rooms, Ninth and Park Streets, Sunday afternoon at 4:30. All men invited. Dr. A. J. Booker addressed the Minister's Alliance at its regular meeting, Monday afternoon June 5, 1911, at St. Paul A. M. E, church upon matters of vital interest to the race. After listening to the address and discussing the matter some the Alliance decided to take up the subject at its next meeting for further discussion and action. Union Congregational church will hold regular services Sunday, June 11. Preaching by the pastor, Rev, H. R. Pinckney, as follows: Preaching 10:30: Subject: First Steps toward a revival. Preaching 7:30. "Modern Pharisaism, Sunday School 12 M. Junior Christian Endeavor Society, 5 p. m. Mrs. J. H. McClain of the International Improvement club acted as matron during the hours for ladies and girls at the reading rooms and gymnasium of the Y. C. M. C. A. yesterday. Some member of the Callanan Industrial club will preside next Thursday from 2 to 6 p. m. Mothers come and bring the girls. Y. C. M. C. A The officers and members of the Young Colored Men's Christian Association is pleased to be able to announce that a special meeting of the membership held at the Ass'n Rooms last Wednesday evening, a plan offered by the Des Moines Ministerial Union, comprising the colored pastors of Des Moines and vicinity, looking toward a more perfect organization that will have the hearty support and co-operation of the colored pastors as well as full affiliations with other Y. M.C. A. organizations throughout the country, was unanimously approved; and a committee appointed to co-operate with the ministers in placing said plan into operation. The committee are H. Gould, Pres.; Att'y S. Joe Brown, Attty J. B. Rush, and Messrs. Wm. Midgett, D, L. Patterson and O. L. Glass. Quarterly Conference. The Third Quarterly Conference for St. Paul A.M. E. church, Rev. I. N. Daniels, pastor, and Rev. M. I. Gordon, Presiding Elder, convened Sunday, June 4th, with an excellent sermon by the Presiding Elder, at the 11 o'clock service. At the afternoon meeting Rev. L. Woolrich, pastor of Burns Chapel, Methodist Episcopal church, delivered a strong and vigerous sermon from St John 15:6 "If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered, and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned." From the hearty amens in every part of the house it was evident that the sermon was highly appreciated. The communion services were held after the sermon, and one hundred and ten persons communed. The business session of the conference was held Monday evening, and it was a splendid Quarterly Conference. The report rendered from the church department was good. The session closed afterwards of commendation, and encouragement from the Presiding Elder of the work done by the church and pastor. Ice Cream, Cones, Pop, Lemonade, Cigars, Tobacco, and Sandwiches. Luther H. S. Brown, Prop. Miss Olive Lawton, Clerk. APPEAL TO RACE PRIDE Capt. Asa Turner of Farrar, Iowa, who commanded a Company of Colored soldiers during the civil war, in an address last Thursday evening in Des Moines, offers to give to the Finey Woods Industrial school, Braxton, Mississippi, a dollar for every dollar the colored will people raise here or elsewhere during the next two weeks. This school was founded by one of our own boys, Lawrence C. Jones, the first colored graduate of the Marshalltown High School and graduate of the State University, Iowa, 1907. From a dilapidated log cabin, thru sacrifice and labor he has developed a substantial institution of two large buildings, seven trades, five teachers and one hundred and thirty-five students enrolled for next year. Now is your time to help, your dollar counts for two. You can help to show your race pride and patriotism by sending from a dollar up. Remember every dollar you give means two for the Negro uplift! Show your color. This is a test. The opportunity is yours. The Bystander will publish a list of those who push this matter to the front. The following have responded. Will you be on roll in the next issue? A full list will be published in the next issue. Every church Woman's Club, Missionary society, and literary organizations ought to join this movement and demonstrate the motto: "Lifting as we climb." This appeals to every reader of the Bystander everywhere. A booklet of views of the school will be sent to all who respond to Prof. Jones. Address any member of the committee in care the Bystander. Editor's Observations Caught on the Fly. Crossing the "Big Muddy" into my native commonwealth, leading into the City of Council Bluffs where we found a hustling little city of about 40,000 people. The colored people are doing fairly well, not so well as they should. Chas, Davis, who runs a first-class restaurant and saloon, is managing a big truck farm of one hundred acres within the city limits. He owns ten acres of this beautiful bottom land. He has a splendid crop this spring; he has two hired hands. T. S. Britt is still head chef at the Grand Hotel. Rev. Wm. A. Moore has charge of the A. M. E. church. They are in the midst of a rally, to raise money to build the Auditorium, as they have been worshiping in the basement for years. J. L. Tannahil is conducting a first-class restaurant. They are old setters here and doing nicely. Mr. S. Davis is still employed on the railroad. They own a nice home. We next rode our wheel in the streets of Red Oak for two hours here. We found Mr. P, S. Everhart still in the music store, selling pianos and organs. He has been here about twenty years, and enjoys a large trade. Wm. Hampton, the U. S. Federal court bailiff lives here; only colored bailiff in Ia. Oscar Conn, the pioneer barber, is in poor health, but is working at his trade. He wishes to be remembered by his old acquaintances. Mr. H. S. Martin formally lived in Des Moines, is still working at the same barber shop. He is married and doing nicely. C. W. Campbell has bought him a home and is living in comfort. T. G. Jones is a hustler now fact. Our next stop found us in Clarinda. Here lives about five hundred colored people; most of them owning their own home. Mrs. Laura Jones owns a nice home and doing well. N. H. Pemberton is on the mail force as a carrier, and is more than making good. He is a hustling young man, and owns a valuable corner lot in the uptown district, Edward, his brother is doing well. H. H. Cook is still in the carpet cleaning business and is doing a rushing business. Allen Jones owns a beautiful home; he is still blacksmithing; a good trade to make money. His wife and her mother had about 350 chickens. Mr. Jones says his mother out on the farm has over 400 young chicks. Miss Eva Parker is our news gleaner here. Rev. John W. Evans is administering to the wants of the Baptist people while Rev. John H. Bell is preaching to the Metodist flock. Both are active, live, energetic ministers with a bright future. E. B. Cook is still running his grocery store. H. A. Farrer is doing well. Mr. Montgomery, who lives on his farm South of town is making money. He owns a good farm and began in this money as a hired man without money, now he is well fixed. Dr. Gibson, the Vetenarian doctor is still here doing well. Our next stop was in Shenandoah. Here are only three colored families. Mr. R. P. Caldwell, the faithful hotel porter, then Mr. L. Collins, who owns a nice place, has lots of chickens. His son is in high school. He recently has been appointed custodian of the New Postoffice. Our next stop was in Gravity; here we enjoyed a real good substantial country dinner at the hive home of Mr. Henry Johnson, who is a Rural Route Mail carrier, has been for the past seven years. His only son has also a regular route and his wife is his assistant; they own 80 acres of good land, being against the city limits. His brother Richard, also owns 80 acres of land near the city limits. He runs the finest barber shop in town. His daughter is a pupil in the Bedford High school and a son in the Gravity High school. He owns beautiful city property. Our next stop was in Creston. We first met the familiar face of G. F. Burnaugh, still porter at the Summitt Hotel for more than a quarter of a century. He owns a nice home. The Baldwin Bros. still own a farm of 80 acres of beautiful land within two miles of Creston, and they rent 300 acres more. They have 140 acres of corn out, 80 head of cattle—will soon ship a car of cattle and two of hogs. They are real farmers. Three young single men living with their mother. No place like the farm. One of the most beautiful receptions that ye editor has been permitted to attend in many moons was that given by the Ladies Industrial Art club in honor of Miss Susie Lee, who just graduated from the Clarinda High school, at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Pemberton. The out of town guests were; Miss Mable Johnson of Gravity; Miss Anna Reeves and Editor John L. Thompson of Des Moines. A very sweet 5-course dinner was served. The other visitors were Fred Jones, Earnest Moss, Geo. Jones, Wm. Pemberton, Miss Pearl Nash, Miss Anna Baker. Great credit must be given this club for they are entertainers. ALBIA, IOWA. The meeting at the City Party, on Sunday, June 4th, was very nicely arranged. They had the old basket dinner. After which they had speaking. by Rev. Rice, of the Presbyterian church of Albia and Rev. Wiland of the United Presbyterian. Mr. Edward Butler was master of ceremonies. There was also some few strangers present. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Grayson of Hocking was in town Saturday. Mrs. Roper has returned from Oksaloosa, accompanied by little John Lewis who will spend a few days in Albia with relatives. Rev. Butler of Buxton was in our town this week. Mrs. Bristo of Des Moines is visiting in this city for a few days. Mrs. Kate Green, D. M. G. from Keokuk, visited the A. of Ruth in Albia, Thursday, tee guest of Ruth in Albia, the guest of Nellie Esters. Mrs. Esters entertained the Dunbar club at her home fn Tuesday afternoon. After business a nice lunch was served. The entertainment given at the A. M. E. church Monday evening under the management of Mrs. Johnson and Rev. Manley and the remaining committee was a success. Several nice selections were given. One feature of these were they were of Negro writers, Paul Lawrence Dunbar. The song selections were all sacred. Mra. Averies of Des Moines is the guest of her brotuer, Mr. S. E. Franklin, this week. A Friend to Negroes Lew Arntz, the well known Doctor of Optics, believes in treating the colored people the same as whites. This is evidenced by the fact, he offers to sell or rent to black or white alike, his residence at 3215 Fourth St., Highland Park, which contains city water, sewer, gas, barn, etc., for $1250, on monthly payments of $10. tf Remember our special edition How the Des Moines Water Co. Secures and Purifies its Water Supply ```markdown ``` and low cost and numbers of a water water Company in very quality, ma- vive times the no- west cost to the service. Item of "Infiltrat- tion underground" Thus all of the own process of s and extensive de- vice with the best d of contamination infounded with t of these most water pumped int it leaves the p the company's darmful constitu- tions that no dis- ivery condition can r. Boiling of t at all times spring water (e disonable or sane ed. ion, the labra- tus in the past, invites intell Quality, quantity and low cost are the essential features demanded by the consumers of a water supply. The Des Moines Water Company is the purveyor of water of the highest sanitary quality, maintaining in reserve a pumping capacity of five times the normal rate of consumption, and all at the lowest cost to the consumer consistent with the quality of the service. An extensive system of "Infiltration Galleries" collects the supply from the deep underground flow in the gravel beds of the Raccoon Valley. Thus all of the water is thoroughly purified by Nature's own process of slow filtration and long contact with the deep and extensive deposit of sand and gravel, identical in purity with the best deep well-gravel water, absolutely impossible of contamination from surface impurities and must not be confounded with the Raccoon water itself. However, in spite of these most foverable natural conditions every drop of water pumped into the mains is mechanically sterilized before it leaves the pumps, as an additional sanitary safeguard. Daily analysis by the company's expert water specialist proves the absence of harmful constituents, so that the company can assure its patrons that no disease-bearing organism, or any other unsanitary condition can reach them through the agency of the water. Boiling of the city water as a safeguard is as unnecessary at all times as it is a waste of fuel; and the use of bottled spring water (either of themselves or in the bottling of questionable or sanitary quality) is an expense that may be spared. The pumping station, the laboratory, and the daily records of analyses are, as in the past, cheerfully open to the public and the company invites intelligent inspection of its property and product. Mr. Carl Pugh and Miss Eva Morris were quietly married some time recently, but the fact has just been made known to the public. We wish them success as they sail on life's sea. Mrs. W H London was called to Lexington, Mo., last week where she attended the funeral of her sister's husband. Mrs. Jas. Shade, Sr., who has been sick for a number of months, departed this life early Sunday morning, and will be buried Tuesday from Mt. Zion Baptist church Rev. Calloway left for Kansas City last Tuesday. Rev. M. J Burton, State Missionary, preached at Tabernacle Bstist church last Sunday morning and was with Rev. Woodard in the afternoon and evening. The Eastern Star had their Easter service Sunday afternoon in the Masonic Hall. Rev. F. B. Woodard preached the sermon. The Junior Mission circle rendered a nice little program last Thursday evening at Mt Zion church. They were endeavoring to raise their portion of a pledge of $5.00 for the Western convention work. It is very commendable in the children to work and help with the different phases of this great work of the Negro Baptists. A Big Carnival is in town this week under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. Miss Ora Spears who has been visiting in Kansas City for the past month or six weeks, has returned to Buxton. The Mission Circle of Mt. Zion church met at the church last Thursday mrning and discussed the subject: "Am I doing God's Work Systematically or Sposmatically?" Led by Mrs. Mattie Marce. Mrs. Nelson Walker who has been BUXTON BRIEFS. Des Moines Secures and Water Supply New cost are the essential features of a water supply. Company is the purveyor of water city, maintaining in reserve a the normal rate of consump- tion to the consumer consistent "Infiltration Galleries" collects ground flow in the gravel beds all of the water is thoroughly access of slow filtration and long sensitive deposit of sand and grav- e best deep well-gravel water, mination from surface impuri- dation with the Racoon water itself. The most foverable natural con- mpeted into the mains is mechan- ies the pumps, as an additional Company's expert water specialist constituents, so that the com- ant no disease-bearing organism, tition can reach them through ing of the city water as a saf- times as it is a waste of fuel; water (either of themselves or or sanitary quality) is an ex- e laboratory, and the daily re- ne past, cheerfully open to the its intelligent inspection of its quite ill is much improved at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Brown were entertained last Tuesday afternoon in the home of Mrs Samuel Burkett in honor of her son Robert and his new bride. Mr. E. C. Strong and J. F. Baker are enjoying a week's vacation from their labors at Monroe Mercantile Company store. Mrs. Susie Spicer made a three week's visit to Chicago with her sister's Mrs. Flowers and Eubanks, returning last week. Mr. Scott Stribbling and Mr. Robt. Southers each of whom had one leg broken in the mine recently, are doing nicely at this writing. Mr. L. W. Tucker made a flying trip to Albia last week on business. The B. Y. P. U. was led by Wm. A. Brown, Jr., last Sunday. Subject: "Lessons from Great Lives" - Samuel The new offices recommended by nominating a committee for leaders of the S. S. Union for the next six months were as follows: Mr. T. J. Parkey of the Tabernacle Baptist church, Secretary, Mrs. M. Lowery of Mt. Zion Baptist church, Asst. Sec'y, D. W. Carter of Mt. Zion church; Chaplain, Mr. R. A. Booker of Tabernacle church; Treas., Miss Tallie Cox of Mt. Zion church, Organist; W. A. Brown Chorister. The next meeting of the Union will be held on the fourth Sunday in this month at Mt. Zion church. The trustees of Mt. Zion church have put a new fence around the property and things are looking much better on the hill. Stand Up and be Counted. Every Negro who calls himself a man who loves his race has an opportunity State Capital Blog Historical Room Price Five Cents. to stand up and be counted by responding to the proposition that Capt. Turner has made to our people. It is one thing to talk about who we are and what we would or could do, it is another thing to do. Such an opportunity to get dollar for dollar may not ever again be offered. It goes to our race to be used, in a colored school, that is employing our boys and girls and educating others. If this does not appeal to every Negro to the extent of at least one dollar, then what will? Stand up and be counted. The uniform success that h as attend ed the use of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has made it a favorite everywhere. It can always be depended upon. For saleby all drug- gists. PROGRAM IOWA-NEBRASKA BAP- TIST S. S. CONVENTION. Maple Street Baptist Church, June 15 to 18, 1911. Thursday. 9:30 to 10:00—Devotional meeting led by Rev. James Bowles. 10:00 to 10:40—Misses of welcome: On behalf of the city, Mayor Jas. R. Haun. On behalf of city Baptists, Rev. Joseph Wells. On behalf of Minister's Alliance, Rev. I. N. Daniels. On behalf of Corinthian Sunday School, Attenborough 10:50 to 11:00—Response by Mrs. Hattie Hoskins, Davenport, Iowa. 11:00—Announcement of committees on enrollment and new schools. 11:00 to 12:00—Institute Lecture—Scripture Exposition. Rev. E. M. Cohron, D. D., St. Joseph 1:30 to 2:00—Devotional meeting, led by Mrs. S. Bates and Mr. Schuyler Jones. 2:00 to 2:10—Reports of committees on enrollment and new schools. 2:10 to 2:30——President's annual address. 2:30 to 2:45—Reports of secretary and treasurer. 2:45 to 3:00—Announcements of other committees. 3:00 to 4:00 - Children's Hour, conducted by Mrs. F. G. Goggins. 4:00 to 5:00 - Institute Lecture, Sunday School Methods, Dr. Cohran, Collection - Adjournment. 7:30 to 8:00 - Devotional services led by Mr. James Eaves and Mrs. Harriet Smith. 8:00—Annual sermon, Rev. W. F. Botks, Omaha. Neb. Omaha, Neb. Collection—Adjournment. Fidray. 9:30 to 10:00—Devotional services, led by Mrs. C. C. Calloway and a delegate from Evans. 10:00 to 11:00—Reports from Sunday Schools. (Each school has three minutes in which to report the condition of the school. Each school or its delegation will choose the one who is to make the report. Letters will be put into the hands of a committee on digest of letters. Schools will report in the order of enrollment on page 30 of the minutes of 1910. 11:00 to 12:00—Institute Lecture. Scripture Exposition. Dr. Cohron. 1:30 to 2:00—Devotional services led by Mrs. G. H. Jackson and Mrs. John Broadus. 2:00 to 2:30—Final reports of schools and announcement of result of baner contest. 2:30 to 2:54—Paper, "How to Build a Good Sunday School Attendance," Supt. Chas. F. Topson, Corinthian Sunday School. 2:45 to 3:00—Paper, "Appearance of a Teacher Before the Class," Mr. George O. Terrell, Colafax Sunday school. 3:00 to 3:15—Paper, "The Securing of Efficiency in the Work of Teachers," Mr. W. A. Brown, Buxton, Mt. Zion Sunday school. 3:15 to 3:45—Topic, How can the Pastor be of the largest service to the Sunday School? Discussion opened by Rev. J. L. E. Burr. Three minute talks. 3:45 to 4:00—Paper, "Methods of Developing the Missionary Interest in the Sunday School." Mr. H. L. Anderson, Omaha, Neb. 4:00 to 5:00—Institute Lecture. Sunday School Methods. Dr. Cohran. Collection—Adjournment. 7:30 to 8:00—Devotional services led by Mrs. Bertha Long and Rev. R. P. Palmer. 8:00—Sermon by Rev. W. D. Carter, D. D., and Educational rally. Saturday. 9:00 to 9:30—Devotional meeting led by Rev. A. Taylor Kookuk and 11:00 to 12:00—Institute lecture, Scripture exposition, Dr. Cohron. Saturday Afternoon—B. Y. P. U. meeting. Saturday Evening—Platform meeting and reception in charge of Maple Street Sunday School. Sunday. 9:30 to 11:00—Sunday school conducted by Rev. J. W. Evans, Clarinda Sermon by Rev. J. C. Reid, Ottumwa. 3:15—Mass meeting and Foreign Mission rally. 7:30—Devotional meeting led by Rev. J. J. Adams. 8:00—Closing sermon by Rev. F. B. Woodard, Buxton. Appointments to city churches will be made by the committee on Divine services. T. L. GRIFFITH, PRESIDENT MRS. JAS. BOWLES, COR. SECY. It is worse than useless to take any medicines internally for muscular or chronic rheumatism. All that is needed is a free application of Chamberlain's Liniment. For sale by all dealers. --- Fdiray. class. Iowa State Bystander BYSTANDER PUB. CO., Publishers DES MOINES. . . . IOWA Get ready to swat the fly. Vassar college is 50 years old, but doesn't look it. Dead artists are appreciated, while the living are ignored. Fishhooks are ripe, and you can dig bait while spading the garden. A baseball team's winning stride will do it no good if it never strikes it. Farmers should welcome the aeroplane. They won't have to turn out for it. The strawberry always makes good in the shortcake. It is the national berry. So if you go to the coronation, you cannot watch the baseball games here at home. The shrinking violet has plenty of cause to shrink or even to shrivel if it prefers to do that. A Chicago doctor has found dangerous microbes in the whiskers of cats. Don't kiss your cat. "Let a woman have the last word," says one of our jurists in advising mere men. Superfluous advice. Berlin boasts of a talented canine who can talk. His education is probably progressing in dog Latin. Another kind of optimist is the man who expects to find the garden trowel and rake where he put them last fall. A Newark (N. J.) attorney is suing for $500 for his services in reading a bundle of love letters. Cheap at that. It is estimated that over $5,000,000 will be spent by Americans at King George's coronation. Why not have it over here? Wealthy men cannot always do as they please. A judge wouldn't allow Cornellus Vanderbilt to cross his legs in court. We agree with the police that a burglar who upset a lighted lamp should be tried for criminal carelessness at least. A friend of E. H. Harriman says it was thinking in bed that killed him. And where else do any of us get a chance to think? Litigation over a $17,000 estate in New York cost $13,000, and now they are wondering how the lawyers overlooked the $4,000. A California judge declined to recognize poker as the great American game. It goes on, however, without judicial recognition. Mme. Rique, the prophetess, says that the breath typifies the spirit. And she might add that cloves don't seem to make much difference. An Iowa man is out with a demand that all dogs be killed. Perhaps he didn't know of any other way of attracting attention to himself. An American actress has become the wife of an Egyptian prince, and will have some justification for it if she wishes to wear a harem skirt. The bed slat, urged for household correction, sounds too much like organized assault. The hair brush remains unequaled for pinch hitting. An American actress has married an Egyptian prince and she will now be forced by an Egyptian fashion of long standing to wear a harem skirt. The secretary of the treasury is in favor of discontinuing the coinage of $2.50 gold pieces. He could do so without causing many people to miss them much. A Massachusetts scientist is going to attempt to breed stingless bees. If he succeeds, his next boon to humanity ought to be stingless and soundless mosquitoes. A Chicago man bought a rare old book at the Hoe sale for $21,000. But there are publications from which he can get much more information at a bargain price of 21 cents. Prince Henry came down in a hurry when his acclimatw went wrong. Royal personages have no more influence with the laws of gravitation than they have with time and tide. It is said that the English explorers in Jerusalem have found Solomon's crown, his ring and his sword. His wisdom, unfortunately, is still beyond the reach of modern research. Manufacturers have decreed that the hobble and the harem skirts must go. And yet it seems hardly possible that their banishment will be followed by an era of common sense fashions. News that an Italian count has been arrested in New York on a charge of snugglng leads us to believe that foreign noblemen do not depend entirely on American heiresses for a means of livelihood. A Rhode Island man run over by an automobile climbed into the machine and punched the chauffeur. Next time that chauffeur may be expected to be more careful in seeing that the job is complete. All men may be liars, as the good book says, but the baseball umpire is a burglar, highwayman, a safe blower and an undesirable citizen besides. His villainy is proclaimed unto the world from the idees of April until the idees of October. Electricity to be Secured From Southeastern Iowa Rivers WILL DEVELOP MUCH POWER Company Already Has Opened Negotiations to Furnish Current for Commercial Use to Several Cities On Circuit. Mount Pleasant. — Electricity for both light and power in three or four counties of southeastern Iowa from power stations erected along Skunk河, seems assured. Three dams are being built along that stream, one at Augusta, one at Lowell and one at Oakland Mills. Already wire is being strung from Oakland Mills to this city, where the company has begun negotiations to furnish the current to the state hospital for the insane and also for city use. When the three dams are completed a circuit will be established which will take in Burlington, Mount Pleasant, Wapello, where a dam will be built on the Iowa river, as well as other towns. A steam plant will be built here to supplement the water power in case of accident to any of the stations and for use in times of low water. Des Moines. — Speeding around Four-Mile curve to make up lost time, Rock Island eastbound passenger No. 8 struck George Barbers and Tom Minors, two laborers, operating a section handcar. Barbers was instantly killed and Minors, who was taken to the Mercy hospital with a broken shoulder and rib and a crushed lung is not expected to live. Take Thirty-third Degree. Clinton.—G. M. Curtis, former congressman from this district, and W. S. Gardiner, formerly postmaster here, were given the thirty-third degree of Masonry at the Scottish rite cathedral. Inspector General Alverson conferred the degree. Barely Escapes Drowning Lake City.-Mr. Charles Winters, of this place, was rescued from drowning while bathing in the Coon river near Lanesboro. He dived off a spring board into water ten feet deep and was sinking for the third time when a boy made the rescue. Accused of Bank Robbery. Carlisle.—Harry Bowen, accused of the robbery of the bank of Carlisle two years ago, was recently captured in Minneapolis. Officers have been on Bowen's trail ever since the robbery, but until a few days ago they were not able to run him down. I. S. S. A. Meets. Cedar Rapids.—The forty-sixth annual convention of the Iowa Sunday School association was held here this week. Delegates from all parts of the state were here and several men and women nationally prominent in the work were in attendance. Fireman Seriously Hurt Mason City.—Struck by a switch stand while his train was running at full speed, Lewis Cole, a fireman on the Milwaukee road, was seriously injured at Calmar; his face was crushed. He was leaining from the cab to get fresh air. Newton Limits Extended. Newton.—The election on the question of extending the city limits has carried. This will extend the limits about a quarter of a mile in each direction and make the population more than 5,000. Without Home Kills Self West Liberty.—Because he had been chased out of town as a tramp and had no place to go, an unknown man threw himself under the wheels of a Rock Island train two and a half miles west of here. Scout Boys on "Hike." Harlan—Twenty-five boy scouts, Rev. A. S. Heck, scoutmaster, started from here with two loads of baggage, to march to Wall Lake, 60 miles. They return after two weeks' outing. Two Hundred Man Jobless Dubuque.—Officers of the Standard Lumber company, which has lost $600,000 in two big incendiary fires will not rebuild its plant. Two hun dred men are thrown out of employment. Bluffs Saloons In Dang Council Bluffs.-The Anti-Saloon league is after all the saloons in Council Bluffs, claiming they have all been started since the Moon law went into force. Car Burns While Running Atlantic. While driving along a country road, Albert Brehmer noticed a fire under his automobile. He stopped the car immediately, but was unable to extinguish the blaze and the auto was entirely destroyed. Manufacturer Is Bankrupt Iowa City.—William F. Main, once a rich manufacturer worth $35,000, has been adjudged a bankrupt by the federal court. Main's liabilities are $8,000, and it is doubtful if he will pay 5 cents on the dollar. Farm Hand Kills Self Hampton. — William Marsh shot himself on his farm three miles west of Bradford with a .22 calibre rifle. He was missed at dinner, and as a result of a search by neighbors, his body was found in a field. Two Drowned in a Day. Waterloo.—Peter Olson, of Waterloo, was drowned in Black Hawk creek while bathing. Harold Marquis, 14 years old, son of Clarence Marquis, was drowned in Cedar riv- Appointed Trustee of Defunct Bank Sheldahl—R. F. Graeber, of Sheldahl, who has been serving as receiver for the defunct Penfield bank at Kelley, has been named by the federal court as trustee of the bank. He will sell the property and distribute the proceeds proportionately among the creditors. It is estimated the assets will aggregate about $10, 000. Will Have Postal Bank Centerville.—A postal savings bank is to be established here, at once. The postoffice does a large foreign and domestic money order business, originating mostly among the miners in this vicinity. For this reason it was regarded, as a favorable place at which to establish a postal savings bank. L. L. Cadwell Withdraws. Decorah.—L. L. Cadwell, who was an announced candidate for the office of department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, has been compelled to withdraw. He is recovering from the effects of two serious operations, and is not able to stand the race. Jefferson Masons Celebrate Jefferson—The semi-centennial celebration of Morning Star lodge No. 159, Masonic, was celebrated Wednesday with W. F. Cleveland, of Harlan, as the speaker of the day. The original charter for the Morning Star lodge was issued fifty years ago. Railroad Settles Claims for Deaths. Mason City.—It cost the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company $3,340 to settle with Henry Becker and Peter Kollash for the death of their children. The wagon in which the children were riding was struck by a train at Whittemore on May 3. Work Begins on Tuesday. Dubuque.-J. W. Snyder, of Chicago, has been awarded the contract for the erection of the buildings of the Brunswick-Balko-Collender company, which when installed will be the largest manufacturing concern from the standpoint of employees in the city. Stores Retain Permits Charles City—In the cases against six drug stores, four at Charles City, one at Rockford, and one at Nora Springs, for the illegal sale of liquor, the stores were allowed to keep their permits upon condition that in the future liquor is sold in them only legally. Burlington Wins Next Meeting Clinton.—Burlington won the 1912 convention of the Iowa United Commercial Travelers' association over Des Moines. The following officers were elected: grand councililler, Hugh Doran of Ottumwa; grand junior councililler, D. P. Thomas of Burlington. Albia Will be Headquarters. Oskaloosa.—The permanent headquarters and the new temple of the Iowa branch of the United Mine Workers of America will be located in Albia, that city having defeated Des Moines by a vote of the locals in the state of 4,850 to 4,507. Dr. Osborn Goes To Chicago Des Moines.—Loren D. Osborn, for many years the president of Des Moines college, from which position he resigned some time ago, will be editor-in-chief of a new international encyclopedia to be issued by a large Chicago publishing house. Body Found On Railroad. Boone.—The dead body of a man about 35 years old was picked up by a Northwestern freight crew at the east end of the Boone viaduct. The only identification was a card addressed to P. E. Clawson, Dayton, Iowa. Gregory Goes to Washington. Iowa City—Prof. Charles Noble Gregory, dean of the University of Iowa College of Law, has accepted a chair at the George Washington law college at Washington, D. C. Lightning Paralyses Man. Marshalltown—Samuel Baker, 38, a farmer, is paralized in both legs and can not walk as a result of a bolt of lightning striking the ground close to him. Held on Charge of Murder. Keokuk.—Joseph D. Samuels, charged with first degree murder, is on trial here. Though accused of killing his wife he will plead insanity. Accidentally Shot Self. Webster City.-Jacob Haley, a prominent farmer living near Stanhope, accidentally shot himself with a revolver. He probably will die. Hunts for "Handcuff" Kind Anamosa—Warden Barr is looking for Jack Harper, a "handcuff" king, who escaped. Clare Salesnet Sales Life Cedar Rapids—City Solitaire chamberlain has rendered the opinion that the city could have only thirty-two saloons after July 1. An ordinance was thereupon introduced raising the license from $1,500 to $2,000. German Loses Savings Algona.—Frank Preus, a German shoemaker of Algona, fearing banks, carried a wallet containing $1,800 and either lost it or was robbed while attending a German wedding five miles in the country. Pioneer Physician Dies. Oskaloosa.—Dr. Norman R. Hook, a pioneer physician of Oskaloosa, died suddenly at his residence from heart trouble. Dr. Hook was an old soldier, having been a second lieutenant in Company C, Thirty-third Iowa. Falls Through Building Mason City. The big two-ton clock in the court house tower in Mason City, fell, going through four floors and landing in the basement. The floors of solid steel and concrete formed no obstacle. LOST BALL Kansas City Star TAFT IS ATTACKED UNDERWOOD PRESENTS REPORT ON WOOL TARIFF REVISION BILL TO HOUSE. BOARD ALSO GETS SCORING Minority Members of Ways and Means Committee Declare Measure is "Cold Blooded" and Brought Forward for Purely "Political Reasons." Washington.—The long expected wool tariff revision bill was presented to the house by Chairman Underwood of the ways and means committee. The long report accompanying it attacks President Taft and the tariff board. quoting President Taft's addresses after the passage of the Payne-Aldrich bill, in which he declared that "the woolen schedule is indefensible and I propose to say so," the report says. Had the president made these public admissions earlier, while the tariff of 1909 was under consideration, by congress, his declarations would have been of real service to the people and would have enabled them to protest against the betrayal of the public welfare to private greed. The president's silence at that time and his approval of the act of 1909 make it impossible for him to evade his full share of responsibility for the failure of revision which he now admits. The report deals at some length with the attitude of the administration in not communicating to congress data on the "steel trust" and other industries now being investigated, and the failure of the tariff board to communicate data on the woolen industry. "the position of the tariff board appears to be," says the report, "that they, in conference with and under the sole control of the president, shall be the sole judges to what part of the data they collect may be likely to be of service for purposes of legislation; and this situation must be considered with reference to the viewpoint of the president concerning tariff legislation. "It is, therefore, not impossible that there may be some such delay in the communication to the congress of statistical information collected by the tariff board concerning wool and woolen goods as there has been in communicating to congress or making public the data by the bureau of corporations concerning investigations of the steel and other industries." The report maintains that any further delay in the revision of the wool and woolen schedule would be objectionable to the public. In explaining the determination of the committee not to put raw wool on the free list, to but reduce the present duty to 20 cent. ad valorem, the committee insists as the Democratic caucus did that the duty "is not to be construed as an abandonment of any Democratic policy." A minority report is signed by Messrs. Payne, Dalzell, Needham and Longworth. "For purely political reasons," it says, "this cold-blooded measure is brought forward. If it could become a law it would slaughter sheep as in 1894 and close the mills much more universally." Denies Slayer Rehearing. Springfield, Ill.—The supreme court denied the petition for a rehearing of Dr. Haldane Cleminson of Chicago, who is under sentence of life imprisonment in the state penitentiary at Joliet for the murder of his wife, whom he poisoned. Ex-Premier of France Dies Paris, France.—Senator Maurice Rouvier, twice premier of France, died here. He was born at Alx in 1842. He became known early as an enemy of the empire. Atlanta Invites Gaynor New York.—Mayer Gaynor is invited to the dedication of a monument at Atlanta, Ga., October 9, commemorating the visit of the old guard of that city to the north 32 years ago on a fraternal mission. D. Frank; Lloyd J. Dead New Haven, Conn.—D. Frank Lloyd, assistant United States attorney general at New York, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Leander J. Russell, in this city. He has been in ill health for some time. BARES FIREBUG PLOT CLOTHING MERCHANT MAKES CONFESSION THEN SUICIDES. Leopold Dreyfus Reveals to Chicago Police Names of Arson Band Which Caused Many Fires. Chicago—Search for members of a regularly organized "arson trust," who have grown wealthy by setting fires to buildings at stipulated prices, has been started by the police and detectives working under the direction of Fire Attorney Michael Sullivan. The existence of the alleged "firebug ring" was revealed by Leopold Dreyfus, president of L. Dreyfus & Co., wholesale clothiers, 232 South Market street, who committed suicide after confessing that he hired agents of the "arson trust" to set fire to his place of business. The man named by Dreyfus as the head of the organization which made a business of arson, is a well-known resident of the north shore and a heavy property owner. The names of all the principal members of the band are known to Fire Attorney Michael Sullivan, who has announced their arrest will follow soon. Dreyfus, his brother, Lazarus Dreyfus, and Max Cohen, their bookkeeper, were arrested by detectives, charged with starting a fire in their store last Saturday which resulted in $12,000 damage. After an examination of the two brothers and the bookkeeper in the office of the fire attorney they were taken to the Harrison street police station, where they made a complete confession, to which they signed their names. The revelations made were: That the fire in their store was started by agents of a "firebug" ring which makes a business of destroying business houses for a percentage of their insurance. That many well-known business men are either members of or have made use of the services of the ring. That the sum Dreyfus agreed to pay the ring was $2,000. He paid $300 down, and the balance, $1,700, was to be paid when the insurance was collected. WRECK OF THE MAINE RISES Visible Part of Ship Practically the Same as Before It Sank Into the Mud. Havana—The first stage of the actual work of uncovering the wreck of the battleship Maine was completed when pumping operations ceased after the water level within the great cofferdam built around the wreck had been lowered five feet. This leaves the portion of the wreck visible above the water practically the same as on the night of the disaster, before the hull had time to become imbedded in the mud. There is now visible a long stretch of the starboard side of the quarter deck. Boy Pirates Sieze Schooner Cuxhaven, Germany.—Two youths of seventeen years, who had carefully prepared an expedition of piracy, seized a fishing schooner here. They were armed with rifles and were plenitively supplied with ammunition, and when the owner of the vessel attempted to recover his boat they shot him dead. Big Garment Strike On Cleveland, O—Six thousand union garment workers went out on strike The strike is an exact duplicate, it is said, of the one in New York a year ago—not so much a question of dollars and cents as a demand for recognition of the union. Eats Beans: Weds at Ninety-Tw Eats Beans, Eats At Ninety- Two. Muldrow, Okla.—A. D. Dutton, ninety-two years old, who attributes his longevity to his habit of eating beans, was married to Miss Rebecca Jane Gnallow, twenty-four years old. Seventeen-Year Locust Appears Haitings-on-Hudson, N. Y. —What naturalists say is the 17-year locust is here in full force. Trees throughout the town are alive with the insects. The characteristic "W" is noticed at the tip of the insects' wings. Colquitt Is Threatened. Austin, Tex.—Governor Colquitt, leader of the "wets," is going to Fort Worth despite a letter warning him that he may be killed if he attends an anti-prohibition rally there. He has received many, other threats. ASK LORIMER GUIDE BODY WANTS AID OF HIGH-CLASS ATTORNEY IN NEW PROBE. Testimony Gathered by Helm Body at Springfield, Ill., is Presented. Washington—An evidence of the thoroughness with which the special senate committee intends to probe the Lorimer scandal is given in the fact that it is considering several famous lawyers for counsel. It is probable that either former Secretary of War Dickinson or Louis D. Brandis of Boston will be retained. The committee expects that the witnesses and corporations from whom testimony and books are sought will fight every step of the way. It may even be necessary to make examples of some of the refractory witnesses and punish them for contempt. It is the present intention of the committee to meet the issue wherever raised and to force the fighting if there is to be any. There is already on the committee Senator Kenyon of Iowa, who has had more experience than any other one man in the country with the law relating to the authority of the government to force the production of books and papers from unwilling witnesses. Senator Kenyon hesitates, however, to devote himself exclusively and singlehanded to that phase of the legislation and it is understood would greatly prefer to assist some other lawyer in such matters than to foreign participation in other important phases of the investigation with which he is equally familiar. Carrying out the program agreed on by the senate committee on privileges and elections, Senator Dillingham introduced in the senate a resolution authorizing a subcommittee of eight members to relinvestigate the charges against Senator Lorimer of Illinois. The subcommittee is authorized by the resolution to sit when and where it pleases, to employ stenographers, counsel and accountants; to send for persons, books, records and papers; to administer oaths, and report as early as practicable to the senate. The committee is instructed specially to inquire fully into the sources and use of the alleged "jack-pot" or any other fund affecting the election of Mr. Lorimer. The resolution named Senators Dillingham, Gamble, Jones, Kenyon, Johnston, Fletcher, Kern and Lea and directed them "forthwith to investigate whether Mr. Lorimer is now entitled to retain his seat." In all probability Senator Lorimer will be the first witness to be called and his examination may take several days. The senate also received formally the printed testimony taken by the Lorimer investigating committee of the Illinois state senate. Upon motion of Senator Dillingham it was ordered indexed and upon motion of Senator Cullom it was ordered printed as a senate document and referred to the senate committee on privileges and elections. ROOSEVELT IS FOR TAFT Full Assurance Is Given President of Support In 1912. Washington.—Former President Theodore Roosevelt has assured President William H. Taft of his unqualified endorsement and support in his (Taft's) candidacy for the nomination for president in 1912. This is the best political news Mr. Taft has received in many months and it comes to him in a manner that leaves no doubt as to its authenticity. The information that Colonel Roosevelt, under no circumstances, will allow his own name to be presented to the Republican national convention, was conveyed to the White House several days ago, but it did not become known until now. That Colonel Roosevelt feels the Taft administration should be continued was brought out partly as the result of a cordial greeting between the two men at the Cardinal Gibbons jubilee in Baltimore. Whether the Roosevelt approval of Mr. Taft's candidacy will go far enough to take the former president into the campaign as an active stump speaker is problematical, but that the force of his personality will be with the president is assured. LYNCH THROWS OUT GAME President of National League Decides Dispute in Favor of Chicago Team. New York.-The Chicago Cubs, as a result of a decision in a protested game handed down by President Lynch of the National league, are in first place in the pennant race. The president sustained the protest of Manager Chance of the Chicago team, over the result of a game with Pittsburg on the morning of May 30, in which Umpire Doyle, now suspended, called out the wrong base runner. Ballot Box Is Stuffed Scranton, Pa.—The discovery that a ballot box had been stuffed created a sensation at the convention of the state organization of the Ladies of the G. A. R. is being held here. The discovery was made after the vote for state president had been cast, and invalidates the election. Illinoisan Retires as Rear Admiral. Washington—An order issued retires Rear Admiral Kossuth Niles June 14. He is now on duty in this city. Admiral Niles is from Illinois. Prince Ja In Shipwreck Tokyo.—The Russian volunteer feet steamer Ryazan, while bound to Vladivostok ran ashore on a reef near Nagasaki. All the passengers, including the crown prince of Slam, were saved. The Japanese warship Iwate was sent to assist the Ryazan. Ohio Solon Admits Beijing Columbus, O.—Representative Evans of Stark county pleaded guilty to soliciting a bribe of $100. Judge Kinkead immediately fined Representative Evans $500. 63 DEAD IN QUAKE MANY SOLDIERS AND THEIR WIVES AMONG VICTIMS AT MEXICO CITY. Only One Foreigner Loses Life. All though the Damage is Widespread — Seventy-Five Persons Injured — Property Loss Estimated $100,000. Mexico City.—The net result of an earthquake which rent this city is 63 killed, 75 injured and property damage $100,000. When the work of searching the ruins is completed it is possible the list of dead will be lengthened, as hiding here and there throughout the city doubtless are many wounded who, with traditional fear of the authorities and government hospitals, are anxious to evade discovery. The property loss is based upon calculations made by owners and contractors. More than half of the dead accounted for were soldiers. They were caught beneath the falling walls of the artillery barracks in San Cosma, a locality near the Mexican central station. Another place where the earthquake took its toll of death in considerable numbers was at the power plant of the street car company. Here six were killed and six injured. The death list was made up mostly of single cases, or, in some instances, of two or three caught beneath falling walls in the poorer buildings of the district most seriously affected. No personal property of Americans was damaged, and with the exception of one Chinese killed no foreigner was injured. In the barracks where the soldiers were killed 12 women also lost their lives. They were the wives of the artillerymen. These women have the privilege of spending the night within the walls of the barracks. The barracks was an old structure, built a generation or more ago, but unlike many of the older edifices in the city, its walls were comparatively thin. Seventy-two soldiers were sleeping in the house. Approximately half were quartered on the first floor. The outer wall fell away and the roof, crashing down on the sleeping men on the second floor, hurled them down on to their comrades below. The bodies of 30 soldiers have been recovered. Three are missing and 16 are injured, a few dangerously. Those who escaped at once began the work of rescue. The fury of the shock was spent in the northwestern and western parts of the city. The most damage done was in the quarter known as Santa Marla, although cracks in the pavements and walls topped over serve to mark its course as far to the south as Colonia Roma, a district inhabited largely by Americans. The water mains of the city were practically uninjured and the light and power company suffered little inconvenience in operations. Notwithstanding the chaotic condition of the city, Francisco I. Madero, conqueror of Diaz, entered the seat of government amid the acclamations of the terror-stricken populace. The demonstration was the greatest the capital has known in a generation, despite the earthquake. Business was practically suspended, and the streets through which the revolutionary leader made his triumphal way were gay with flags, bunting and flowers, while from the throats of tens of thousands came roars of acclaim. The noisy welcome began when the great crowd at the railway station first caught sight of the bearded face and stocky figure as Madero emerged from his private car and stepped quickly into a waiting carriage. Shouts of "Viva Madero!" swelled into a great chorus as the cry was taken up along the streets leading from the railway station throughout the city. GIRLS SHOOT W. E. D. STOKES Proprietor of Ansonia Hotel at New York Badly Wounded in Quarrel With Women. New York.—William Earl Dodge Stokes, millionaire proprietor of the Ansonia hotel, was shot three times and badly wounded by two girls whose apartment on the fourth floor of the fictional Varuna, at Broadway and Eightieth street, he was visiting. The young women were Lillian Graham, aged twenty-two years, a singer, and Ethel Conrad, eighteen years old, an artist. Each fired three shots, Miss Graham's bullets inflicting two wounds and Miss Conrad's one. The possession of a package of letters, both the girls and their victim agreed, furnished the motive for the shooting. The letters, it is said, were written by Mr. Stokes to Miss Graham before his second marriage, which occurred last February. Laughter Kills Artist Salem, Mass.—Frank Paine, the well-known artist, died of heart disease in a street car. The attack was brought on by hearty laughter at a story told by a friend who was sitting beside Mr. Paine. Rushlight Portland Mayor. Portland, Ore.—A. G. Rushlight, regular Republican, was chosen mayor of Portland in the municipal election. Joseph Simon, Independent Republican, was defeated by about 4,000 votes. German Prince Under Knife Berlin—Prince Joachim, the youngest son of Emperor William, whose knee was badly injured during sham battle exercises on May 30, was operated on to let out the blood from under the knee cap. Quantin Roosevelt Awarded Prize Quentin Roosevelt Awarded in Cambridge, Mass.-Quentin Roosevelt, the thirteen-year-old son of Theodore Roosevelt, has been awarded a prize at the Groton school for being the second smartest scholar in his MISS SELINA LUE and the Soap-box Babies by MARLA THOMPSON DAVIESS Illustrations by Magnus G. Kettner COPYRIGHT 1909, THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY Miss Selina Lue, spinter guardian angel of River Bluff, presides for the babies of the neighborhood in the rear of her groomy, Babcie. The fact that she is single makes her an object of sympathy to the mother of her daughter, P daughter of Widow Page, Cynthia visits Miss Selina and learns that she is a young artist who wishes to establish a studio in her barn. Blosoma Kent, a young artist who wishes to this is very fond of, shows an evident preference for Alan. When he is in danger of losing the old homestead, a near-ruckus. Alan admires Cynthia and the place and start the haven for little ones. CHAPTER IV. The Wonderful Barn Loft "They can't nobody tell what a mortgage and a Golf Club will do." —Miss Selina Lue. "Now, Bennie, run home as quick as you can, for I know your mother is in a hurry for the things. Here's the nickel head of a chicken and take the sack of meal in your hand. See if you can't carry the potatoes on the other arm and the piece of bacon in your other hand. Instead of the sorghum molasses she sent for, I am going to send three-for-ten cakes of soap, she's forgot to buy a bit for more a week, and I am sure she would rather have it. Mr. Smith has a boy, and your mouth for this snap, and go careful but fast." —And Miss Selina Lue steered the heavily-loaded youngster down the steps and started him toward home. As she came up again she paused, and, resting her hands on her hips, leaned out to look far up the street. There was the shadow of anxiety on her usually unruffled brow, and she sighed as she picked Blossom out of the cracker-box and put her far back on the counter, hemming her in for safety with two brooms. "I feel like I don't seem Miss Cynthia for a year," she said "and it has been more'n a week since she came down." The cook comes after things she says the child ain't sick, so she ain't got no cause to worry; but I'm jest hungry to see her. Seems like she is a kind of a frosted cake—the more you git of her the more you want." "with, thick with frosting, and white and cold; it's good to—look at." remarked Mr. Alan as he seated himself on an upturned peck measure and reached to head Clemille off from a pile of scrubbing brushes she seemed bent on chewing. "Well, I've got a feeling in my bones she'll come today, and I'm going to expect her anyway. Mis' Kinney's bones always gives her notice of trouble, but I've got mine trained so they ache for the coming of good." Miss Selina Lue's wisdom was an unconscious adaptation of one of the principles of a very modern thought. It was at the lull time at eleven o'clock, when the Bluff dinners were all in the pot, and Miss Sina Lua could get a breathing spell until the afternoon rush for supper provender. The Bluff bought supplies a meal at a time and brought the nickels and satchels she had no need of a bookkeeper —she put her money in a cracked vinegar jug behind the counter. Nor did she ever have enough to make bank deposits, as her stock was bought on much the same principle as that on which it was sold, a little at a time and cash down. "For," she c Counseled her neighbors, "having on hand, most of times means wasting, and the piece of meat euchar go in the pot according to what you know you ought to buy, and you think you want. Lots of folks stinkmins ain't greedy as they is." Mr. Alain had come in for his dinner a little before the time. He spent most of his mornings down at the ferry sketching the roustabouts as they loaded the early boats; but when the wharf was deserted, he found it pleasant to come and chat with Miss Selina Lue as she prepared the simple meal he shared with her. He liked to talk about the grocery before their noon naps, for the floor and low-lying regions of the store offered unlimited opportunities for adventure to creepers, and it always interested him to see what they could manage in the way of exciting catastrophes. Miss Selina Lue at such times fairly radiated with good cheer and interest and he felt constrained to do likewise. In fact, Miss Selina Lue in life had the buds in the springtime, and her views of life were sound if unusual. The non-appearance of Miss Cynthia was uppermost in her thoughts, and she seemed possessed of an inexhaustible store of admiring anecdotes of that disturbing young person. There was in his mind a sneaking suspicion, a shame-faced certainty, of her being the cause of her being neglect of Miss Selina Lue, and his consonance hurt him. Bother the girl! Why should she pass him in the lane as if he were nonexistent and manage to convey an impression of his utter obnoxiousness every time he so much as caught a slime of her in the distance? Or the aimeeities thereof, and he was not in the way of being trodden under even a very pretty pair of "first family" feet. His pride rebelled. He was something of a "first family" himself, and was in the habit of receiving unlimited expressions of regard from the fair sex, especially those who were entrusted through the sacred wards of her. And, forsooth, what had no done to arouse such animosity? it really seemed an old-fashioned need of feelings over his place in the affections KET. "I Belleve He's Mad 'Cause We Didn't Name the Puppy for Him—Boo-Hoo." of Miss Selina Lue and the soap-boxers. She felt decidedly annoyed that anyone should presume to question his rights in the River Bluff Grocery household. Indeed, he felt entitled to call himself a soap-boxer if he chose—and he was about to say so aloud when he was interrupted by a glad cry from Miss Selina Lue as she hurried down the steps and waved her hand to the inspiration of his disturbing thoughts, who was leisurely approaching from up the street, surrounded by a group of small adorers. Miss Dobbs, having deposited his packages at home, we backing before her with upturned bodies and Luella Kinney and Ethel Maud pressed close to her side, while her arms held young Jim Peters, carefully regardful of his youngness. She was smiling at Bennie, who held a small and very active puppy up for her to see, and Ethel Maud and Luella were joining voicelessly in her admiration of the recent Dobbs acquisition. He was about to step to the door, really excited at the sight of so much animation, when suddenly he felt himself an alien and alone. Clemble had crawled to the top step and was leaning out, enraptured at the uproar, and Blossom hung over her broom fences and gurgled at the glimpse she could get through the window of the highheld, squirring puppy. They had all forgotten him; he was a stranger who had no right even to look on at the triumphal return of the queen to her realm of babies and puppies, with smiling Miss Selina Lue and proud Mrs. Jim in the background. He seized his hat and sketching kit and slipped out of the back door and off to the kitchen, and determined to go deeper, though not exactly deciding whom he would injure by such a proceeding. Both the girl and bother and bother the eyes that toned with the hat that toned in with her cheeks, the sky! As he disappeared behind the barn he heard Bennie's shrill voice high up "I Belleve He's Mad 'Cause We Dic Ho in the scale saying: "Oh, Miss Cynthie, we've named him for Mr. Flarty'cause he got him for us, but the first puppy he has we are going to give it to you." "If it's a boy puppy you can name it for Mr. Alan, too," chimed in Ethel Maud, with boundless enthusiasm showing in the tone of her voice shining through the dirt on her little face. "Ain't he just the cutest puppy?" By this time they had arrived at the steps and were, figuratively speaking, in the hospitable arms of Miss Sellina Lue, though young Jim soon occupied that position literally, as she seated herself on the steps the better to enjoy his company. She looked up at Miss Cynthia with shining eyes. "Honey," she said. "I was thinking I had got to making you out my mind preset, but I see it, was 'other way round. Where it have never kept yourself for more'n a meet." Miss Cynthia answered her from the top step where she had settled down in affectionate embrace with Blossom, whose flower head nestled against her friend's cheek with a contented little sigh. "I have been busy, Miss Selina Lue, come down," I ried. I came down, hoping for a comfy place with you. You—you always seem so busy—and entrained these days that I—I—"Why, Miss Cynthia, child, what ever do you mean? I ain't never too busy for bothers to be told to me, and I always have been entertained from five o'clock, when I get up to shake up the stove and the back door, but the lmp at night. But night or day I want to know what might you have to say." "I know you do, Miss Selina Lue and I wanted to come, but—" 'Looks like they're a special sort of string tied 'twixt you and me. and my hungering for you must have drawn you this morning. I was jest O *stelling Mr. Aim…way where we go so all of a sudden.* And Bennie and Ethel Maud and Luella after him, I will be bound! If Blossom and Jim here could walk they would be hanging on him somewhere." Miss Selina Lue was intent on a shifting of young Jim's swaddling bands and failed to catch the expression on the fair face bent over Blossom's yellow head, which was anything but acquiescent. "Is Blossom then so fokle a person that she only stays with me because she hasn't the locomotive powers to run away? Why. Miss Selina Lue think of the affection I have—lavished on." Law, child, I was just *a* running on; but I guess Blossom is like the rest of women folk, *a* folloring the smiling eye of a man as far and as long as he'll let her. What all Ethel Bethel now?" From around the barn appeared the three deserts, Bennie and Luella in the lead with Ethel Maud trailing sobbing behind. "Taint nothing the matter with her," announced Bennie with scorn. "She's jest bawling bawle Mr. Alan couldn't take us up the river with him. He says he ain't coming here. He says he Lua and don't want no dinner or nothing." "I believe he mad 'cause we didn't name the puppy for him—boo—hoo—" wailed Ethel Maud, whose intuitions were most truly feminine. "Hen't tall! Didn't you tell him that Miss Cynthia was a going to name the one we're going to give her her him? It was jest because you hung on his leg and cried so; I heard him say something about 'bothering girls' So shut up and let's take the puppy down and see if Mr. Leeks thinks it's time to cut his tail off." "Oh—ho—ho, Miss Selina Lue, don't let him cut off his tail, please! What would the poor little dead tail do without the puppy? Oh—oh—oh—" "Now, Ethel Maud, don't cry, honey. Bennie shall cut off the puppy's tail until the time comes, and then you'll have to stand it like we all stand afflictions what has to come. Don't you want to carry Jim across the street to his mother? Will you be right careful with him?" Ethel Maud, instantly pacified, reached out and clutched the bundle offered her with an inarticulate, caressing murmur; Miss Cynthia gasped with remonstrance; worry, child; Ethel Maud nurses every baby on the Bluff regular, and I seen Mist Peters let her tote Jim down to Spout Spring only yesterday. We Bluff folks has to trust the baby to the good Lord a heap of n't Name the Puppy for Him—Boo- the time, though I must say some of the mothers seem to leave 'em on His hands more'n is fair." The children trooped down the street, and with a little sigh of absolute concern, he head on for head on Miss Cynthia's arm and closed her long, fringed lids over her wondering baby eyes. Miss Selina Lue tenderly regarded the picture the girl and the rocy baby made in the open doorway, and said as she moved a step nearer, "Honey, what's been a bothering you? Would it help to tell me? Is your ma (TO BE CONTINUED.) A. Strange Situation "Humor is a funny thing," said Binks. "It ought to be," said the philosopher. "Oh, I don't mean that it way," said Binks. "I mean that it is a strange thing. Now, I can't speak French, but I can always understand a French joke; and I can speak English, but I can't best if I can see an English joke." "Most people are," said the philosopher. "Are what?" said Binks. "Blest if they can see an English joke," said the philosopher. "It is a man who keenly keen vision."—larger's Weekly. The Best Way. When you resist the temptation to go the Sour Way, don't go too far and go the Sweet Way. Some people have such sweet dispositions that they are always quiet. The Quiet Way—to let people alone as much as possible—Atchison Globe. Saf. *n Chill The salt beds C. Chill could supply the world with salt for ages to come, the mineral being found in large deposits 99 per cent pure. GIVE TIME TO JUM Judge Refuses Plea of Twelve Men to be Dismissed No Evidence of Possible Verdict In Sight When the Jurors Re tired at Nine O'clock Last Night. Des Moines, June 9—Judge Bradshaw of the criminal division of the district court yesterday held that there is still a possibility of an agreement in the O'Callaghan case and as the result of his decision the twelve men who are battling to determine the guilt or innocence of the former deputy county treasurer, who is charged with complicity in the recent attempt to blow the vault in the office of County Treasurer George L. Dobson, spent last night in the jury bedroom at the court house. The case was given to the jurors at 5 o'clock Wednesday evening. All day yesterday they fought to arrive at a verdict and at 9 o'clock last night, when they were put to bed, it is believed that they were as far from reaching a conclusion as they were when they started to ballot on the case. The twelfth ballot showed six for conviction and six for acquittal, according to rumor. That there is absolutely no chance for the jurors to reach an agreement in the case is evidenced, according to attorneys, by the fact that yesterday morning they asked Judge Bradshaw of the criminal court to be excused from further scrutiny. It is probable that if the jury has not reached a verdict by 9 or 10 o'clock this morning that they will be discharged. James O'Callaghan, a former deputy in the office of the county treasurer, is charged with having participated in the attempt made on the night of March 31 to blow the vault in the county treasurer's office. Al Rhodes, in a confession in which he admitted having had a part in the affair, implicated O'Callaghan. Rhodes and O'Callaghan were seen together on the night of the robbery and an attempt was made on the part of the defense to dispute the fact. O'Callaghan declared that it was purely by accident that he was robbed on the night of the robbery. While he was with Rhodes when he met Tom Hatch and Peter Juh, the prime movers in the crime, on the night of the robbery, he declared he was ignorant of their identity and that it was not until the morning after the crime that he appreciated he had been in bad company. GIVE $250,000 TO CHILDREN Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gronau Divide Large Fortune Between Children and Will Take Life Easy. Denison, June 9—Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gronau of this city this week deeded to their daughters property valued at $250,000. The recipients are Mrs. B. I. Silbert of Denison and Mrs. John D. Sleivers of Los Angeles. Cal. Mr. Gronau came to Denison as a wagon maker thirty-five years ago. His savings, the result of close economy, he placed in lands and finally became possessed of much property. Counties South Dakota, South Dakota, Stuts man and Burdleigh counties, North Dakota. The Gronau have yet plenty of means for their comfort through life. New Marshalltown factory Marshalltown, June 8—A deal which will result in a big new industry for this city, was closed yesterday day whereby the Red Wing Union Stoneware company of Red Wing Minn., will sell their abandoned plant in this city to the Marshalltown Vitrified Sewer Pipe & Tile company Capitalists will incorporate the company here for $300,000 and will spend $75,000 in getting the plant ready for operation within ninety days. The company will employ one hundred men. Hundred Teachers Graduate Cedar Rapids, June 9.—State-normal graduated a class of 166 here Wednesday, the largest number of teachers ever turned out at the same time in the state. F. C. Ensign, Iowa, then elected president of the alumn. Solon Man Nearly Killed Solon, June 9—John Adams was shot at from ambush by unknown men he thinks the shots were fired by blasted bullets. He told a difficult trouble unless he paid them $1,000. Train Kills Iowa Woman Carroll, June 9—Mrs. Peter Brackend endorf died as the result of injuries received at the Northwestern station. While standing on a platform she failed to notice the approach of an engine, which was running backward. County Superintendents Meet. Ames, June 9—A three days' conference of county school superintendents of Iowa is in session here today with nearly every county in the state represented. State Superintendent A. W. Deevis is preside. Fewer Druggists in Association Davenport, June 9.—The Iowa Pharmaceutical association has a membership of 462, showing a loss of 101 since last year, according to the report of Secretary J. M. Lindy of Winfield, submitted at the convention today. Cedar Rapids Burglars Na Cedar Rapidsburgar Nabed. Osakalao, June 9—Jon Mattock, wanted by the police of Cedar Rapids on a charge of burglary, was arrested here last night by J. E. Maufu an Iowa Central railway detectiv NEGRO MINERS SUPPORT SCHOOL Corona, Ala. Normal and Industrial Institute Is Unique School. WHITEB ATTEND EXERCISES—PROMINENT CITIZENS OF CORONA, ALABAMA, SEE NEGRO GRADUATES AWARDED DIPLOMAS. Corona, Ala. (Special).—A large number of prominent white citizens of this community attended the closing exercises of the Corona Normal and Industrial institute for Negroes, which is supported by negro miners by the payment of a monthly tax, among whom was Belton Glireath of Birmingham, well known as a philanthropist. Other presenters were Dr. D. B. Chilton, H. P. Gibson, superintendent of Corona mines; J. W. Hartkins, superintendent of the mines; Rev. J. E. Kilgore, president of the school board; J. T. Savage of the Corona mines; A. Carpell, W. F. Flesh and R. C. Lollar, merchants of Corona. Mr. Gilreath was introduced by L. B. Musgrove, president and general manager of the Corona corporation, who paid a high tribute to the faithfulness of the negroes of this section in maintaining the institution for the education of their children. "You have been faithful in many things," he said. "This corporation could not have been the success it has without a call to help for any kind without a ready response, and in my heart I appreciate it." In the beginning of his address, Mr. Gilreath commented on the infrequency of crime in this district as compared with that of other mining districts and declared it to be due in a large measure to the influence of the institution. The work of William H. Council, who laid the cornerstone of the first building here, and whose graduates for the most part have carved on the work, was given high praise, and the usefulness of the dead educator to the state of Alabama and to dwelt upon at length. In the course of his remarks Doctor Gilreath said: "The negroes of this section of Alabama have a great opportunity. Two-thirds of the ore mining is done by them, whereas, when I first came to Alabama it was done entirely by white miners. Negroes are learning to do things. Mr. Musgrove in his work here is a great agent for the people. He pays you a high compliment when he admits that you are colocators with him. God put you here for a purpose. He had a motive for it, for he is behind all race movements. If the white people are ahead of you in any way, remember they have great responsibilities by reason of that fact that you do not have. "You have with them, however, the same chance to read the Bible; the same chance for development; the same chance to character and character, and your race is doing far more than you perhaps think; and yet there is a great work for you to do. The white people have the same trouble raising money for their institutions that you have, and you have no need to be discouraged at all. "The same God that laid down the principle that out of the sweat of the brow shall man be fed, also laid down the principle that all men were created out of one blood. It is not a question of color. It is a question of what man is doing. You have great race leaders. Take their advice, emulate their example, and you will have learned that to succeed in any work means to become an artist. A cook is an artist; so is the good miner, the good farmer. To develop this school here as you have begun, I want you to work in harmony with your trustees, with your principal, and above all, for yourselves, save your money and buy property." In closing, Mr. Gilcreath pald a high tribute to the efficiency of the work of the principal, M. H. Griffin. Superintendent J. Harkins declared that the work of the miners of the tax they paid for the support of the school, and that in the work of the men he could see the good influence of the school. REFORMERS "COME BACK." Richmond, Va.—(Special)—After a remarkable campaign the Grand United Order of True Reformers have succeeded in rehabilitating itself. Insurance Commissioner Joseph Button, for Virginia, has renewed the license of this great organization and it is now beginning a new era for itself. Throughout the country there is great elation over the "coming back" of the organization, because it shows that the negro capable of conserving his master's degree of karma for the conservation of certain economic forces conducive to the material progress of people of negroid descent. WISE ROSALINDI Reginald—Darling, I see by the papers that a food expert says that it is possible for a family to live on $4 a week. Do you think it possible? Rosalind—No, dearest, but I'll be a sister to you!—Cleveland Leader. That life is long which answers life's great end.—Young. True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner mortals kings. — Shakespeare. The mind is its own place, and in it self. Can take a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. — Milton. GOVERNOR MANN OF VIRGINIA ADDRESSES COLORED PEOPLE GOVERNOR MANN OF VIRGINIA ADDRESSES COLORED PEOPLE TELLS HIS AUDIENCE SERVANTS' WHITE CAP AND APRON ARE AS HONORABLE AS COLLEGE CAP AND GOWN. Richmond, Va.—One of the busiest sessions ever held by the Virginia Baptist State convention. Dr. R. H. Bolding presided and the praise services were conducted by Revs. P. C. Paterson, A. A. Green of Swanboro and J. S. Minor of Beulah. "Home Life of the Negro" was the theme of the address delivered by President Bowling to the convention. "One of the things that we must teach our people in this world," he said, "is the importance of getting homes and paying for them, educating their children and bettering their own condition and helping them, and this will mean racial progress. "Education must go a long way toward helping our people. I want that we shall do all in our power to wipe out our illiteracy, ignorance and crime. Every state in the Union should do this. The men of both races who make the most trouble are responsible for the crime, here let me speak against crime and criminals. They are produced by loafers. Loafers of any race are dangerous and we are willing to join with the lawmakers to reduce loafing. "Teach them that all labor is honorable; that the white cap and apron of the servant are as honorable as the college cap and gown. Teach them the rules of the game and the hoe are as honorable as the pen and more honorable than the sword. Teach them to tell the truth, pay their debts, to give their words as hostage for their lives, and that crime, criminality, loafing, stealing, gambling, swearing, are the things which bring disgraces to race or indulgence in the Virginia Baptist State convention and for higher manhood and womanhood." Prof. W. T. B. William, field secretary of the Slater fund and secretary of the Negro Organization society, was presented to the convention and delivered an address. He said he was delighted to see the wonderful progress being made in the convention and felt that it meant much for the future of the organization. We cannot not sit down and wait, but must be ever up and doing something." When Governor W. H. Mann entered the Fifth Street Baptist church accompanied by a committee consisting of Revs. W. F. Graham, Walter H. Brooks, B. Tyrell, W. B. Reed, M. B. Hocles, J. Madison Young and W. B. Hood, he was given an enthusiastic ovation by the fifteen hundred members of the congregation. W. F. Graham, D. D., pastor of the church, introduced his excellency the governor, who addressed the convention. Governor Mann said in part: "Having text assigned me, I feel that I am here for two or three purposes. I want to show the people of Virginia and the people of Richmond where I stand. I stand to push forward the good of the people and I was elected governor for that purpose. I speak to you as a layman who believes that Jesus Christ came to save sinners, of which I am one. "If I could give a word of advice to this body of representative preachers who have assembled here from all parts of the state of Virginia and District of Columbia, I would use the words of the apostle Paul, "that I know nothing about you save Jesus Christ and him crucified." The people who come to church come to hear the gospel. They care nothing about your theories and science, but they want to know what Jesus Christ did." I have seen men's whole course of life changed in a moment by the Spirit. Now, have you got this religion? I hope you have. The religion that will make a man better. You can come to the throne of grace asking for loved ones, as Moses did. "Why are you here, preachers? Preaching for money? No. I can make more money at anything else, but I am preaching because I am compelled to preach. Do you fall into error sometimes? Yes; but then what would you do? Do like the man who stumps his toes. Get up and go on serving God. Look up. Cling to the higher things in life. Read the life of Christ and that's all you need to do. You will never find a single instance where Christ did for man what he could do for him. When he healed someone from the dead some one had to remove the stone, because man had to do that for himself, but Christ had to raise the dead. "I want to impress on you that God does not turn his back on human beings, but man turns his back on God. The prodigal son who left his home, left his father and went away from home. His father remained at home. Do not go away from God." Rev. R. C. Wood responded to the address of the governor. Among others who spoke during the day were Revs. I. Francis Walker, of Cincinnati; Granville Hunt, of New York; R. W. Young, of Upper Zion, Va.; Prof. J. S. Lee, president of the State Sunday School convention, and A. W. Holmes, president of the Order of True Reformers. A JUDICIAL REPROOF. A justice once reproved a would be suicide thus: "Young man, you have been found guilty of attempting to drown yourself in the river. Only consider what your feeling would have been had you succeeded." -Green Bag. WORD FROM BRE'R WILLIAMS: Watch out fer de smooth folks. Satan himself is mighty civil wan he lookin' fer sinners tery fry. De wise man sometimes acts foolish, an' den is de time dat de town cool keeps a still tongue, shakes his head an' looks wise. Onless you kin beat de meat trust it don't do no good terc it out; an' nence you can't make de sun stan' still der ain't no use in de worl' er swearin' at the gas bill. ABYSSINIA NOW HAS 15-YEAR-OLD KING Prince Lidj Jeassu Succeed His Grandfather Menelik. NEW RULER WAS MARRIED TWO YEARS AGO TO PRINCESS ROMANA ONOK, WHO WAS THEN SEVEN YEARS OLD. Abyssinia has a new emperor in the person of Prince Lidj Jeasu, grandson of Emperor Menelk. The proclamation, according to dispatches was made May 14, and the coronation ceremonies will take place later. Prince Lidj Jeasu was proclaimed heir to the Abyssinian throne when he was thirteen years of age. Two days before he had been married to Princess Romana Onok, the seven-year-old granddaughter of the late emperor John, and nice of Empress Tatui At the same time Ras Tessanna, who had taken over the affairs of the emperor Menelk, was appointed guardian of the heir apparent. The regent died on April 13 last. Newborn was in 1844 and has long been in ill health. Several times during the past two years there have been reports of his death, always followed by official denials. Of the two states in Africa which are independent, Morocco and Abysinia, the latter is the more powerful. For many years the death of the sovereign has been followed by civil war and anarchy, and since 1841 no sovereign has been deposed. The throne. The young emperor is the son of Menelk's younger daughter. His father is Ras Michael, a powerful prince and governor of three provinces. He has been educated by European tutors and speaks English, French and German. His union with Princess Romana was of political portance, as it united the two dynasies, and the families of powerful clerks. There will be much interest in the attitude of Empress Tupa toward the new regime. She has exercised a remarkable influence over Menelik, but in recent years is said to have quarreled with him over the succession and to have intrigued against Prince Lidj Jeassu. Ras Tasem was appointed regent to prevent the interference of the empress in the affairs of state, as well as to assume the duties of Menelik, but he did not long survive. The empress is credited with a powerful following. EXHIBITION FOR GLOURED PEOPLE STATEWIDE MOVEMENT FOR DISPLAY OF THE PRODUCTS OF MANUAL TRAINING IN THE FALL. Frankfort, Ky.-The board of trustees of the State Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored People decided to hold an exhibition this fall of the products of manual training and of professional farming, or to put it more plainly, the shop products and farm and field products. The colored people of the whole state will be asked to take part in this exhibit, which will be held at the institute building here. Suitable prizes and awards will be provided for all classes of workmanship and all kinds of farm products and it is expected to be a notable affair for the colored people of the state. The trustees believe that this is the best method to encourage the colored people to take more interests in manual training and professional farming, both of which branches are taught at the institute. The date of the exhibition has not been determined, but will not be enough in the fall for all crops to have matured and be ready for exhibition. SAYING THE RIGHT THING. "I don't seem to be able to say the right thing to women," a bashful young man confided to us the other day, "and that's why I don't shine in society. I'll tell you an instance of it. Not long ago I met a woman I hadn't seen for years, and I could see that she was trying to keep young, so I thought I'd say a graceful thing to her. "You carry your age remarkably well, says I. "Well, the moment I said it I could see that I was in wrong. She was looking chilly and getting red, so I said. "Don't mind my little jokes. I never mean what you say. As a matter of fact, you don't carry your age a bit well. "And then she killed me with a haughty look and sailed away without saying goodbye. Say, how should I have put it?" ONE MAN'S THEORY. "No, I don't think women will ever succeed as railroad engineers." "Why not?" "They would lose too much time holding up their trains at crossing."—Boston Transcript. WHAT DELAYED HER. The coming woman was probably delayed by her hobble skirt.—Puck AWARDED PRIZE FOR FRENCH ESSAY. James Bertram Clarke, a junior in the college of arts at Cornell university, has been awarded the pride d'honneur for a French essay on a literary topic and a translation from a French author. Mr. Clarke is a native of Castries, in the West Indies. The honor was conferred upon Mr. Clarke by the Society of French Professors America. THE CITY CONVENTION. The city - convention will hold their contest Monday evening, June 12, 1911, at St. Paul's A. M. E. church. Much interest is being manifested by the various clubs of the city, because the winners in the contest are the Des Des reprezentants at Wichita at Chickens. The programs for the contest is as follows: Song ..... Congregation Invocation ..... Rev. S. Bates Poem, "Spring"— Poem, "Our Origin" Miss Jennie Storey Callanan Industrial Club Music, Miss Lalah Brooks Cosmopolitan Literary Society Oration, "Power of Unity" ... Mr. J. G. Dellinger Negro Lyceum Association Poem, Mrs. H. W. Hughes Oration "Evolution of Progress" Miss Gretzky Hyde Mary Church Poem ... Mrs. Wm. Shackleford Dramatic Art Club Oration, "Woman, A Factor in Civilization" ... Mrs. Elbert R. Hall Coamopolitan Literary Society Music, "Sad Heart" ... Prof. Warricks Negro Lyceum Association And Warrick's Chirol Society Poem ... Mrs. H. R. Graves Mary Church Terrell Club Oration ... Mrs. J. W. Holmes Intellectual Improvement Club Music ... Miss Bertha Allen Phyllis Wheatley Club Poem, "Waiting My Reward" ... Mr. D. G. Patterson Cosmopolitan Literary Society Music ..... Miss Marie I. Belf In Oratory—Prof. L. C. Jones, Braxton, Miss; Rev. Leroy Woolrich, and Atty John L. Thompson. In Poetry—Miss Georgia Blackburn of Buxton, Iowa; Miss Martha Loefler and J. Clifford Williams. Ushers—Mesdames J. H. Brown and E. Pyrex; Mesrs Gee S. Logan and Finesse Bledsoe. Attorney S. Joe Brown, president Interstate Literary Association of Kansas and the West, will preside. COLFAX NOTES Messrs. G. O. Terrell, Creed Taylor, J. H. Broaddus and W. Holmes, attended the funeral of the late J. Childers in De Moines, last Sunday. Mrs. J. J. Beasley has returned from a pleasant visit with friends in the Capitol City. Mrs. Perkins of Buxton is a guest at G. O. Terrell home. Rev. James Bowels of Enterprise has accepted the call to the pastorate of Bethel Baptist church. He and his wife arrived in our city last week and the Rev. was installed last Sunday. We extend a hearty welcome to them and hope their stay among us may be crowned with success. J. Owen Redman of Iowa College attended the annual class reception at the Mason house last Saturday evening. Mr. Phillip Bell returned to his home in Virginia last Sunday after an extended visit at the home of his son Wm. Messrs. Charles Miller, W. D. Miller and J. W. Holmes, were visited on Decoration day. Miss Lessie Terrell who has been teaching in the public school of Sedalia, Mo., returned home last week to remain during the Summer. Mr. Geo. Bowles has gone to Lake Okaboji, where he is employed for the for the summer. Mr. Ed. Clark of Des Moines is a guest at the parental home. Messrs. Joe Smith and C. H. Holmes of Des Moines were Spring City visitors last Sunday. Mrs. Sam Dean entertained a number of young people last Saturday evening in honor of Mr. Horace Cold's 70th birthday. The evening was pleasantly spent in music and games after which the hostess served a delightful 2-course luncheon. Mr. and Mrs. George Terrell attended the graduating exercises of the Oskasoosa High school last Thursday eve. Their youngest daughter, Miss Eheh was a member of the class. Her many friends extend congratulations. Mr. Louis Straughter of Buxton spent several days in our city last week attending to business and visiting his numerous faiends. CLARINDA NOTES. (Special to Bystander). Mr. John Saunders of Omaha, Neb., was in Clarinda a few days last week visiting his sister, Mrs. T. G. Jones and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Williams of Creston are spending a few days in our city this week. Mrs. Williams returned home Monday accompanied by her grandmother, Mrs. Martha Wright. Miss Hattie Johnson returned home Monday after a few days visit in Creston and attending the Carnival. Mr. and Mrs. Williams of Boone, Ia., have moved to our city to locate Miss Alice Lucas of Bedford is visiting friends in our city this week. Miss Jessie Baker, formerly of Clarinda, but now of Buxton is home, called here by the illness of her mother. Mr. Fred. D. Jones entertained a company of young friends at the beautiful home of his brother, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Jones. Monday evening in honor of Miss Anna Reeves of Des Moines. The evening was spent in games and music. The hostess served a 3-course luncheon, and at a late hour the guests departed, declaring Mr. Jones a royal entertainer. Every denomination busy fixing to help entertain the District Conference and S. S. convention, which meets here June the 20th, at the A. M. E. church. Rev. J. 2. S. Swaney was called home Monday to preach the funeral of Mr. Lawson Kitchen, whose remains arrived home Monday night, on midnight train from Kansas City, Mo., where he had been staying for some time. He was killed there Saturday night. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Kitchen. Brother A. W. Page has taken a change for the worse. He grows weak all the time; has been sick for near three years. Miss America Reed died. Funeral at her church by pastor, Rev. G. W. Leach, assisted by Rev. J. S. Swancy of Iowa Baptist church. They both paid a loving tribute to her memory. The floral offering was beautiful. Our hearts run out to the grief stricken parents and brother. She was just in the bloom of life, graduated, prepared to help in every vacation; a church and scholar lover and worker; a faithful member from girlhood, but God called her to work in the church triumphant. Fare-the-well, America, thou hast left us, and our loss we deeply feel. It was God that has bereft us; he can all our sorrows heal. Prof. E. Perkins of Macon, the grand lecturer of the Masonic fraternity lectured here Friday night. All Masons went to the hall and enjoyed the lecture. The Prof stopped with Mr. W. T. Moss while here. Mrs F. G. Mundy of Quincy, Ill, Miss Ella Logan and cousin of St. Joe, Miss Gertie Hughes, Mr. G. W. Harne of Philadelphia, Penn., are visiting Mrs. L. L. Hairgrow. Mr. B. Mansfield of Huntsville, Mo., to the delight of his many friends, stopped off Sunday for a a few hours visit with Salisbury friends. Mr. E. M. Hicks of Huntsville, drove up and spent the day, Sunday with his mother-in-law. He was accompanied by his wife. Stomach Troubles Many remarkable cures of stomach troubles have been effected by Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. One man who had spent over two thousand dollars for medicine and treatment was cured by a few boxes of these tablets. Price. 25 cents. Samples free at drug stores. CLARINDA ITEMS. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Dickinson, who have been employed at the Lindman hotel, left last week for Kansas City. They were accompanied by the latters parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson, Mrs. Elsie Linrod was seriously injured last week by a runaway, is reported better at this writing. Miss Alice Lucas of Bedford is visiting in this city Mrs Ella Crochan visited relatives in this city last week. Little Mildred Linrod was taken suddenly ill Saturday night. Miss Jessie Baker was called home last week by the illness of her mother and sister. Mrs. Mayme Bolden who has been in Omaha for several months, has returned to her home in this city. Messrs. John Williams and Fred Chavios of Creston spent Sunday in this city. Mr. and Mrs. David Black were called to College Springs last week by the death of the formers mother, Mrs. Sallie Black. Miss Sallie Able who has been ill is able to be up again. Miss Katie Johnson returned from a short visit in Creston, last week. Mr. L. W. Williams and son of Boone Iowa, has opened up a first class icecream parlor and lunch counter on Garfield street. Mesdames Eliza Jones and Jesophine King, attended the funeral services of their sister in College Springs, last week. Mrs Lottie Williams and daughter of Creston, is visiting in this city. Mr. G. N. Howling has been very ill the past week, but is better at this writing. Mrs. Georgia Howe and children of Bedford visited with relatives in this city, last week. Little Ollie Pemberton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pemberton has been very ill but is improving at this writing. Mrs. Rose Chavios of Burlington is visiting relatives in this city. A number of the citizens of this city attended the funeral services of Mrs. Sallie Black in College Springs, last week. There is one medicine that every family should be provided with and especially during the summer months; viz. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea. Remedy. It is almost certain to be needed. It costs but a quarter. Can you afford to be without it? For sale by all dealers. Chance to Make Up "We have parted forever. He writes me to send back the ring." "Tell him to call for it," advised the experienced friend.—Louisville Cooier-Journal. 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. More Earthquakes in France. Toulon—Slight seismic shocks occurred again Monday in Draugnain, anclouse and Puy-Se-Reparade. No damage is reported, but the residents were panic-stricken. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS. Will Hold Interesting Meetings in Meridian Beginning June 7. Meridian, Miss.—"The Sunday school must play an important part in the solution of the much talked of race problem in this country" is the declaration made by Henry Allen Boyd of Nashville, Tenn., corresponding secretary of the national Baptist Sunday school congress and Chautauqua, which will meet in this city June 7 and remain in session six days. This promises to be the largest convention of Sunday school workers ever held in this section of the country, and the people are getting ready to entertain 3,000 delegates from almost every state in the Union, and it is understood that several foreign delegates will be present. Every phase of Sunday school work will be discussed by expert Sunday school workers. Secretary Boyd in writing about the congress says: "The inauguration of the national Baptist Bible classes, HENRY ALLEN BOYD. known as the Metoka of young men's Bible class and the Geleda, the young women's Bible class, both having as their motto 'Fellowship,' will complete the organization of a widespread adult movement. The movement has been indorsed by the home mission and publishing boards. Its launching at the Sunday school congress will be a great occasion. "The railroads leading into Meridian have authorized a round trip rate of one and a third fare plus 25 cents, which will assure a large attendance. In the Southwestern Passenger association a fare and a half plus 50 cents is authorized. We are looking for a large crowd. "The daily sessions will be held in the chapel of the Meridian academy, which is the largest auditorium in the city. "The people are arranging a high entertainment for all who attend the meeting. A sufficient number of homes have been secured for all who attend, and the local committee is hard at work completing all arrangements. The watchword all over the country is, 'On to Meridian.' The favorite song for this year will be, 'Hall the Baptist Congress.'" IMPORTANT COMING EVENT IN EDUCATIONAL CIRCLES. State Teachers' Association to Hold Annual Session in Athens. Athens, Ga.—The twenty-ninth annual session of the Colored State Teachers' association will be held in this town for three days, beginning Monday, June 19. Unusual interest in the coming meeting has been awakened because of the heavy cooperation in the work by some of the leading white educators of the south, two of whom will deliver addresses. They are Mrs. Walter P. Hill and Professor E. C. Bronson, president of the State Normal school. Everything is being done by the colored teachers to express the appreciation of the race for this timely assistance so willingly given by the white educators of the south. Much interest is also being manifested in the subject of agriculture, which will be presented in an attractive and helpful manner by Professor G. Crosby of the department of agriculture in Washington. Professor Crosby's views of the subject will be elaborated on by Dr. H. F. Stockbridge of the Southern Ruralist. Dr. Stockbridge has given much attention and study to the subject for years, especially in its relation to teachers. As a result of the work of Director P. O. Parks of the agricultural department of Clark university the colored teachers have been greatly helped and are giving more time and study to the many new features of this phase of industrial training. The meeting of the association at this particular time will do much in the way of bringing about a better understanding between the white and colored teachers as to the best methods and systems to adopt in literary and industrial training. Summer Work of Patriciarie No. 39. Beginning on May 30 Patriciarie No. 39. Second patriciarie regiment, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, will conduct a series of concerts and receptions in Continental hall, Pittsburgh. The committee has engaged Beauty's orchestra of twelve pieces to furnish the music for the series. Members of the committee are: L. L. Thomas, chairman; Samuel Cox, vice chairman; J. W. Morgan, secretary; E. D. Brown, assistant secretary; E. T. Belt, treasurer; H. E. Lewis and S. L. Duncan Rehearsals are being regularly held. Whooping cough is not daugerous when the cough is kept loose and dangerous when the cough is kept loose and expectation eray by giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It has been used in many epidemics of this disease with perfect success. For sale by all dealers. WANTED—Colored lady who under stands cooking and general housework in country hotel. Address "Jones" care this paner. Magic Hair Grower and Straightening Oil MME. JOHNSON & SOUTH The most wonderful hair preparations on the market. When we say Magic we do not exaggerate, as you can see great results in the first few treatments. We guarantee Magic Hair grower to stop the hair at once from falling out and breaking off, making hairy stubborn hair soft and silky. Magic Hair Grower grows hair on bald places of the head. If you use these preparations once you will never be without them. Magic Hair Grower and Straightening Oil are manufactured only by Mesdames South & Johnson. We also do scalp treating. MAGIC Hair Grower SOC STRAIGHTENING OIL 35C. All orders must be placed before the money must accompany all agents' AGENTS-WARHAT- Any mother who has bad experience with this distressing ailment will be pleased to know that a cure may be effected by applyinB Chamberlain's Salve as soon as the child is done nursing. Wipe it off with a soft cloth cloth before allowing the babe to nurse. Many trained nurses use this salve with best results. For sale by all dealers. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &c. Anyone sending a sketch and description of a patent for another all intention is probably patentable. Communities strictly consider patented or patented self-fruit. Great agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Very popular newsletters. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 628 F. St., Washington, D.C. No More Gold Lace for Afghanis. The ameer has published an edict which applies to all parts of Afghanistan, prohibiting the import into the country of all kinds of gold lace, including embroidered kullas lungis and embroidered shoes. The ameer is evidently actuated by a desire to prevent his subjects from spending their hard earned money on show dress. It is the poorer classes who are notoriously addicted to this extravagance which his majesty has decided to check. The gold laced coat of the Afghan is decidedly handsome, and although the ameer is acted wisely in bringing into general use clothing less costly, his majesty's orders will doubtless be received by his subjects with rather mixed feelings. Proper Bestowal of Charity. Proper: Dickens: There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs; and hence it is that diseased sympathy and compassion are every day expended on out-of-the way objects, when only too many demands upon the legitimate exercise of the same virtues in a healthy state are constantly within the sight and hearing of the most unobservant person alive. In short, charity must have its romance, as the novelist or the playwright must have his. PLEA FOR SELF-RELIANCE Charles G. Dawes' Good Advice to Young Men in Business. This is a hard world in business. B always has 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 adversity, but in the time of need you will not find them among the men who tried to get you to embark in speculation with your little surplus, and to sell you something which would help you to "easy money." Be self-reliant. Make your own investtion into investments. When you cannot, put your money in a good savings bank. Distrust the financial demagogues as you distrust the political demagogue. Keep your hand on your pocketbook as you travel life-first, to give always in proportion to your means to those who are poor; second, to hold from those who would take through force or fraud what you need for yourself and yours. You will then, writes Mr. Dawes in the Saturday Evening Post, have your hand where most of the others have only their eyes. 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We make switches, puffs, transformation curls, coronet braids, and combings made to order, matching all shades a specialty. Send sample of hair with all orders. 2405 Blondo Street Phone Webster 880. Omaha, Nebr. A When we first began our wonderful work of growing all kinds, all qualities all lengths, and all conditions of hair, even to the growing of hair on hair places of the head, many persons acorned the idea that such a thing was possible; but we have grown the hair for hundreds; rapidly achieving success. The proof of the value of our work is that we are being imitated and largely by persons whose own hair we have actually grown and the further fact that they have very frequently mentioned us when trying to sell their goods (saying theirs is the same or "just as good") or referred to PORO. We advise you to use only PORO Hair Grower, (the oldest and best of its kind.) See that the name PORO is on every box, not genuine without it. Prepared only by M. A. M. POPE. Rectal Diseases Cured Without a surgical operation. No Chal oform, Ether or other general anaesthetic used. CURE GUAR ANTEED to last. EXAMINATION FREE. Write for book Piles and Rectal Diseases with names and testimonials (FREE). DR. C. Y. OLEMENT Cor. 5th and Locust St. (Marguardt Bldg.) DES MOINES, IOWA PATENTS Book on patents. "Hints to inventors." "Inventions needed." "Why some inventors fail." Send rough sketch or model for search of Patent Office records. Our Mr. Greeley was formerly, Acting Commissioner of Patents, and as such had full charge of the U. S. Patent Office. AGENTS WANTED. Colored men and women solicitors wanted in every city for a strictly legitimate proposition, paying good commissions; easily transacted and agreeable work. Must have education, energy acquaintance and good address and furnish good references. This is an opportunity worth investigating. Address Lock Box 244, Topeka, Kansas. Rose Washington Portrait Rare Washington Portrait A rare and curious mzeitotint portrait of George Washington in the library of the late Lafayette S. Richardson of Lowell, Mass., was auctioned on last year in Boston. It is entitled "George Washington, late president of the United States of America, etc." and was published March 14, 1801, by J. Hinton Linden. It is a small foli 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 mzeitotint has 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 Christadoro, an expert on flour and grains, sounds the keynote to 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 so 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 dection is far-reaching."—National Food Magazine Willing to Oblige. "When you feels any temptations comin' along," said the friend and ad viser, "you mus say: 'Get thee behin me, Satan.'" "Da's what I done said," answered Mr. Erastus Pinkley, "an' den I maggiez i hyuhs Satan answer me back: 'Da's all right. We's both gwine de same way, howon, no' dien' make so diffence to me which leads de subcession.'" French Dressing. Mix one-half level teaspoon of salt a dash of paprika with three table spoons of olive oil, one-half table spoon each of vinegar and/ or lemons juice. Lemon Sauce. Three-quarters cup sugar, one-quarter cup water, two teaspoonful butter, one tablespoon lemon juice. Make a syrup by boiling sugar and water eight minutes, remove from fire; add butter and lemon juice. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy During the past 36 years no remedy has proven more prompt or more effectual in its cures of Coughs, Colds and Croup than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. In many homes it is relied upon as implicitly as the family physician. It contains no opium or other marcocarp, and no alcohol. It is also easy to an adult. Price: 25c; Price size: 80g Official paper of the M. W. U. Grand Lodge of Iowa, A. F. & A. M. A. International Grand Congress, Heroines of Jericho of America and Western Baptist Association Published every Friday by the Brist stander Publishing Company, De Manton, Iowa. In Chemical building, corner Seventh and M berry streets. Iowa phone, W nut 899. JOHN L. THOMPSON, EDITOR J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER Entered at the postoffice as a ond class matter. Advertising rates for display and 20 cents per inch, for each insertion. Three to six months' contract, 10 cents per inch. Local advertising 10 cents per line for each insertion counting seven words to a line. For churches and secret societies where admission is charged, one-half of the above legal, legal and announcement cards, yearly contracts, etc. are given on application. All advertising is to be paid in advance. We are prepared to do first-class job work at reasonable prices. All of our work is guaranteed. N. B.—Correspondents. Please mail your letters that contain new for publication to the American Trust, night to insure publication for the current week; and sign your name, not for publication, but that we may know who writes the news. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the public. "Breezy is the soul of wit." remember. The Iowa State Bystander is the oldest Afro-American journal published in Iowa. It was established in 1894, and is read by nearly the colored people of Iowa. We have correspondents in the following towns: Albia . . . Miss Mav Daw Ft. Madison . . Miss Lulu Willis Oskaloosa . . Luella B. Franklin Washington . . N. L. Blad Burlington . . Mrs. J. E. Johns Moberly, Mo. Mrs. M. Etta Boldt M. Pleasant. ..... Miss Maudlin Burnau Willing to Oplize "When you feels any temptation somin' along," said the friend and viser, "you mus' say: 'Get thee behin' me, Satan." "Da's what I done said," answer Mr. Erastus Pinkley, "an 'den i magnes I imagines my Satan answer me back: 'Da's all right. We's both give de same way, nowoh, an' it don't man' no diffences to me which leads to exhuccession." We Grew Our Hail Now Let Us Grow Yours with