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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XVII, No.1 OUR BOYS AND GRILS. Graduates from the Iowa High Schools. In this article we have tried to get the names of every colored graduate from the high schools of Iowa. Of course, it is not accurate, for doubtless we will have missed some, but it will be the best list ever printed and the most authentic yet published. Albia high school—Edward Ferguson was the first; Mrs. Jennie Ferguson, Mrs. Carrie S. Thomas, (Griffith), Miss May Francis Davis, Burdett Jones, Henrietta Jones, William Hollworthing, Nellie Grayson (Esters), and Wallace Monroe Davis. Fort Madison graduates—Mrs. Nellie McClellan Parker, 1892; Miss Susie Johnson, 1896; Mrs Lottie Carer (Carer), and Pearl Davis, 1900; Miss Anna Harper, 1905; Miss Irene Jackson and William Harper, 1908; Miss Jennie Harper, 1911. Albia high school. Thad S. Ruff, Mrs. May Ruff (Johnson). Albia high school—Miss Luck Good, (deceased); Edward W. Thompson, Mrs. Bertie Pugh (Lee). Debutur high school—Mrs. Lillian Taylor (Neal). Newton—Mrs. Josie Whitsett (Waldron), Mrs. Vergie Whitsett (White), Mrs. Lottie Blackwell (Taylor), Mrs. Lottie Green (Shirley), Mrs. Ella Maves (Lacas), Mrs. Eldora Green (Holmes) Miss Jessie Moore, Mrs. Genevieve Green (Tolliver), Fred Green, last two deceased. Coffax high—Mrs. Mable Douglas (Dillinger), Mrs. Beatrice Terrell (Crane), Misses Lessie and Ethel Terrell, she also graduated from the Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo.; J. Owen Redmon, 1909. Mt. Pleasant—Samuel R. Burnaugh, 1875; Susan Moseley (Grandison), 1881; Agnes M. Mason, 1883; Ida M. Fidler (Hackley), 1878; Wm. T. Mason, 1888; Luther Mason, 1889; James E. Mosley, Ida Godfrey, Maude Dorch (Spots), 1894; George Mason, 1895; Lyda Bartlett, Ione Mason (Burnaugh), 1898; Frec McCracken, 1898; Hattie Tailor (Poor), 1898; Nora Bartlett (Burnaugh), 1900; Onida Hedge (Watson). 1900; Mcra McCracken (Gaters), 1900; Cora Taylor (Mason) 1900; Rose Irish, 1901; Harris, Mora Harris, Mora Harris, 1902; Mora Barbuckle, 1902; Bartlett Hills 1902; Bertha Hawkins 1906; Holt 1905; Elizabeth Hawkins, 1906. Debutur high school reports Mrs. Anantha Stewart, 1905; Miss Estella Bush, 1908; Mrs. Missouria Dozier (Slater), 1908; F. P. Akens, 1900; Miss May Taylor, 1906; Miss Maude Beason, 1907; Miss Ida Taylor, 1901; Miss May Taylor, also graduate from the Chicago University in 1910. From the Lyons high school F. P. Alkens, 1896; Louis A. Alexander. Charinda—Mrs. Flora Knight (deceased), Miss Eliza Brown (deceased), Miss Mary Nash, Emmett Moss, 1910; Nellie Brown, Miss Susie Lee, 1911; Essex high school—Miss Lillian F. Wilkinson, 1900. College Springs high school gives us the Misses Florencee and Sarah Black, and Miss Anna Wanstreet. Coin high school reports Willie Prince, now a student in the North-Western University, Chicago; Langston Prince, now a student in the Omaha, Nebraska, college. Bodford high school reports Miss Roberta Laeus, 1905. From Gravity high school comes Miss Mahal Johnson, 1907; Fred Johnson, 1908. Creston——Miss Minnie Martin (deceased). Sioux City——Leland Washington, Erni Hackley. Those reporting from Washington: Mrs. Hattie Black (Jackson) 1872; Lucy Lindsay, 1878; Stella Black (Jacob) 1888; Mrs. Ophelia Jackson past 10 days, curate to Cairo, Ill, to Wilson) 1005; James Jackson, 1890; Nora Motts, 1898; Theodore Turner, 1900; Thomas Motts, 1901; Robert Motts, 1905; James Crump, 1906; Leon Motts, 1907; Howard Motts, 1901. The first graduate named here is also the first colored child born in Davenport, Iowa, in 1855 and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Black. Those reported from Ottumwa are Mrs. Eva. Crump (Harris) 1891; S. Joe Brown, 1894; Miss Blanch Horne (Bell), 1898; Miss Edna Fowler (Martin), 1898; Mrs. Bessie Owens, 1901; Miss Lorine Vincent, 1909 from the Osakowe are Freeman Williams, 1886 (deceased); George Blagburn 1898; John Lewis, 1890; a physician and druginist in Chicago; James Dameron, 1801; Eddie Carter, 1900; Willie Ringo stenographer in Cleveland, Ohio; Miss Bertha Strauthers, 1910; Edhul Terrel and Helen Strauthers, 1910; Des Moine in High Isaac E. Williamson the first colored, also first mail carrier now in Washington, D. C.; John Jackson, 1892; N. L. Black, 1886; H. W. Hughes, 1899, a mail carrier; MissSarah Porter, a teacher in Kansas City, Mo, Miss Blanch Renix, 1898; Branham N. Hyde, 1907; Miss Adah F. Hyde, 1908, a senior next year in the regular course at the State University; Geo. McCraven, 1908; William P. Warrick, 1909; Miss Zelma Stanton (Brown), 1903; East High Luella D. Davis (Wilburn) William Jackson; Luther Abey; Miss Jella Davis; deputy county Recorder; Mrs. Clara Smith (James); James Davis; Misses Nettie, Pearl and Tolliver; Mrs. Francis Walker (Hall); Miss Nettle Woods; Miss Stella Wilburn (deceased); Robt. S. Bruce. North Des Moines High School, Oak Park; Leonard and Archie Alexander, the former now a student in full course in State University 1912, a great athlete a football ball man on the regular football school. North Des Moines High School; Reeves deceased; Lotta Carey, mason at 1012; State University; Miss Ann Reeves Those from Marble Rock: Miss Jillia Baily, 1907; Miss Mamie Baily, 1902; August Baily, 1910. Red Oak give to us Lola Graves, 1904; Bulah Burton, 1906; (deceased) Chas. Alexandra, with a concert company in Chicago; Andy Reed; Dave Reed. Marshalltown, I.: L. C. Jones, 1903, now president of Piney Woods Ind. Institute of Braxton, Miss. Wanango; J. - Iowa Lottie Mills were quietly married Monday evening at the residence of the bride's sister, Mrs. Bynum, on South Scott street. Marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. T. B. Stovall. Mrs. A. D. Sumlins friends will be glad to know that she is fast recovering and will soon be out among them again. ```markdown ``` HILLON NEW HOME. This is the ne whome Mr. H. K. Hillon purchased this spring and has recently moved into. Mr. Hillon of Omaha, Neb., is grand treasurer of the Iowa Masonic Lodge and Jurisdiction. He came to Omaha in 1886 with only $3 in money, leaving his family back in St. Paul for lack of means. The net year he went into the tonsorial business for himself and by honest labor, good workmanship and courteous treatment and judicious investment he has saved and bought two other houses and lots besides this beautiful one just purshaered at a cost of $3,000. It has eight rooms, completely modern, with a beautiful east front and plenty of shade and large lot. It is at 2902 N. 26th St. Mr. Hellon is a good business man and has n intelligent wife who is a church and secret society worker. BROADWAY BAND BUXTON CONCERT BAND. Our famous Buxton Concert Band of 41 pieces is the finest colored musical organization in the great middle east. This famous band has delighted the hearts of many thousands within the past 20 years. Its present manager is Prof. Richard Oliver. It is now very busy making dates with churches, societies, etc., for the summer engagements. He has developed a fine body of players that will please any audience. This band won first prize in the K. of P. contest five years go back in Philadelphia. They are a member of the National Musical Union. Write to Prof. Richard Oliver, Buxton, Iowa. of this sketch I was born near Frank, in 1857. He was edu- public schools of Nash- er attended the Central College (now Walden Uni- ficient in Anatomy, thus fitting him- self scientifically for the training of atheletes, in which he is very suc- cessful. He is a graduate of Chin- cody, and in these he enjoys a lucrative among the best people of his community. He is a "race" man and believes that by sane methods, intellectual, moral and material, progress and justice alone will in time solve the problem of recial differences or antiphles. Dr Norris is compiling a book to be published a book of the American Nation." His suit is 237 and 238 Lute Block Sioux City. He came to Iowa in March 1902 settled in Sioux City May 1902 in Chropody and Scientifice massage, with trade he now has a large practice, a complete modern office and several assistants. The Third Baptist church is very active just now planning to raise two hundred and fifty dollars with which to meet pressing obligations. Sunday is their rally day. Mrs. David Underhill is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. George Larrison are both on the sick list. Mr. Ed Barnes is very sick at this writing. Mr. George Washington who has been quite ill is now on the mend. The A. M. E. church will hold their children's day exercises this year t 9.30 A. M. The children will be treated to ice cream t the conclusion of Wesley Thompson, 1899. Hendrick High School: Margaret Mason (Lowery). In Muscatine high school we find A. G. Clark, Jr. high Susie Clark (Holly), Miss Clark (Applegate), Mr. William Greenway, Miss Nora Taylor, Miss Eilee Greenway, Miss Gertrude Lee (Shackelford), Lee Greenway and Mary Fairy, Fairy. HILLON NEW HOME: This is the ne whome Mr. H. K. Hillon purchased this spring and has recently moved into. Mr. Hillon of Omaha, Neb., is grand treasurer of the Iowa Masonic Lodge and Jurisdiction. He came to Omaha in 1886 with only $5 in money, leaving his entire estate in the same means. The net year he went into the torsorial business for himself and by honest labor, good workman- Our famous Buxton Concert Band of 41 pieces is the finest colored musical organization in the great middle west. This famous band has delighted the hearts of many thousands within the past 20 years. Its present manger is Prof. Richard Oliver, who is now very busy making dates The subject of this sketch by Wilbur Norris was born near Franklin, Tennessee, in 1857. He was educated in the public schools of Nashville. He later attended the Central Tennessee College (now Walden University) where he received higher education. He taught at Norris for a number of years, taught school in his native state, and for a while held the chair as Professor of Mathematics in the Hot Springs branch of Shorter University. He served on the reportorial staff of a Southern Daily the only Negro reporter on the paper. He is the author of the "Condensed Record," and "Class Record" of the A. M. E. Church. He studied at the American School of Osteopotomy at Kirkville, Missouri, where he became pro- DAVENPORT NOTES. Esther day of the Eastern Star Chapter had their annual sermon at the A. M. E. church Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Lillian F. Phillips preached an elegant sermon from the text I Kings 7-22. And upon top of the pillars was the work of Mrs. Phillips finished. "Mrs. Phillips reviewed the history of the order, painting a beautiful picture showing the worth of the society to humanity and proving the value of virtue and purity and how it beautifies and regulates all society to the glory and admiration of God. Mr. Jesse J. Buckner and Mrs. the programme. Dr. C. C. Jones a returned missionary from Libria is spending a few days in Davenport in the interest of his work in Liberia, Africa. Dr. Moore has pictured the white churches of the city and has awakened quite an interest in favor of his work. Bethel A. M. E. church has devised the church into clubs representing the Twelve Tribes of Israel. This is an indevoer to raise money to finish the interior of the church. Mr. Earl Bert a porter at the Davenport Hotel met with quite a painful accident monday afternoon, having his left foot caught between the third floor and elevator. Notes. The Third Baptist realized $300.00 from their rally which was concluded with three big services last sunday. Mr. James M. Marr, city clerk and ademan of Mound Bayon Miss., addressed the W. C. Federation Tuesday afternoon at Bethel. A. M. E. church Mr. Marr gave a clear and concise address full of enthusiasm and inspiration painting a beautiful picture of the opportunities and possessions of the land. Rev. Rov with delegation of five Sunday School workers left Tuesday morning for Des Moines to attend the Iowa, Nebraska S. S. convention of the Baptist Church. The Tri City S. S. Association was royally entertained at the 3rd Baptist Church. A. E. Who was six times elected District Superintendent of A. M. E. Sunday Schools; was the founder and-first editor of the "Iowa Colored Woman," the official organ of the Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs; also founder and ex-president of the Intellectual Improvement Club of Des Moines; chairman of the Educational Committee of the Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs; member of the Ways and Means Committee of the National Association of Colored Women, and also o member of the Order of the Eastern Star. 1st church, monday evening with a well arranged programme and refreshments. Mrs. C. H. Marshall entertained Rev. and Mrs. T. B. Stovall and Mr. Marr of Mound Bayon, Miss., at luncheon, Tuesday. The childen's day observed at Bethel, A. M. E. church Sunday morning proved to be quite a unique affair at the conclusion of the program School, parents and friends, were all served to ice cream and cake. Rev. Stovall presided an able sermon Sunday morning from the parents and gardens from the statues of the Lord, Deut. 6-7. The parents and gardens was made to feel the weight of their responsibilities. Mrs. L. Cunningham is quite sick. Mr. J. S. James of S. Harrison St. met with quite a painful accident last week, having two of his fingers badly mashed between the chimes of a heavy loaded barrel and a wagon bed. Mrs. G. W. Harrison remains quite sick. Prof. O. W. Burnett a teacher in the public schools of East Continued on page 4 IOWA NEGROES ARE PROSPEROUS They Own About One Million Taxable Property. Reports of S. Joe Brown, Statistician of Afro-American Council Gives Interesting Report—15,000 Negroes in the State. Editor Bystander:—After having examined both the state and national statistics and finding that they contained practically no information regarding the members of our race as such in Iowa, we set about it to take a census of our own and through the kind assistance of the other officers and friends of the council we have collected the following which is the best information we have been able to find from the thirteen counties of the state containing the three counties of our race. Boone county (Boone, county seat)—Has 300 negroes; 5 business enterprises; 1 farmer; 3 professional men; 10 high school graduates; 20 home owners; homes valued at $5,000; church property valued at $6,500; (negroes reported to be the most law-abiding people). Cerro Gordo county (Mason City county)—Has 300 negroes; 5 business enterprises; 1 beauty parlor; 2 barber shops; 3 high school graduates; 3 home owners; home valued at $7,000; church property valued at $100. Lee county (Keokau, county seat)—Has 2,000 negroes; 1 doctor; 6 business enterprises; 26 farmers; 6 high school graduates; 50 home owners; homes valued at $10,000; church property valued at $30,000. Linn county (Marlon, county seat)—Has 450 negroes; 4 business enter- THE NEW YORK TIMES THE HOME OF THE MOTHER OF THE FAMILY A. E. prices; 2 restaurants; 2 carpet cleaning machines; 1 farmer; 5 high school graduates; 21 home owners; homes valued at $48,400; church property valued at $10,000; people reported to be generally good. Monroe county (Albia, county seat)—Has 400 negroes; 2 drug sto s; 1 general house furnishing sto e; 2 groceries; 1 hotel; 4 restaurants ; post office; 20 farmers; 2 doctors; 10 teachers; 5 high school graduates; 50 home owners; homes and farms vaulted at 300,000; church C. F. WILLIAMS. The above cut is one of Iowa's hustling business men, Mr. C. F. Williams of Sioux City, Ia., who is manager of a rug manufacturing and carpet cleaning establishment. His office and factory is at No. 704 W. 7th, and he owns the building and ground. THOMPSON'S HOME. This very beautiful and expensively built home is owned by Mr. and Mrs. John L. Thompson, editor of this paper. It was built last year THE MEMORIAL MRS. J. B. RUSH. This picture is a likeness of Mrs. James B. Rush, of our city, the newly elected president of fthe Iowa State Colored Women's Clubs, which was recently held in Cedar Rapids. She was born in Kansas, educated there, came property valued at $15,000; Y. M. C. A. building valued at $25,000; also have 1 deputy sheriff; 3 justices of the peace; 3 constables; 12 public school teachers and the only negro postmaster in the northwest. Marshall county (Marshaltown county seat.)—Has 500 negroes; business enterprises; baskets; 12 farmers; 14 home owners; homes valued at $50,000; church property valued at $1,200; negroes claim to own property per capital than any other in the state. Polk county (Des Moines, county seat.)—Has 5,000 negroes; 30 business enterprises; 1 grocery; 1 undertaker; 1 electric carpet cleaner; 1 newspaper; magazine: 1 real estate office; 1 employment office; 6 barbershops; 6 restaurant; 3 law offices; 1 doctor; 1 dentist and 6 pool halls; 30 high school graduates; 250 home owners; homes valued at church property valued at $55,000; Y. M. C. A. property $1,000. We also have the following which we consider worthy of note; 2 stenographers; 1 assistant city engineer; 1 deputy recorder; 2 policemen; 2 firemen; 2 court balliffs and 2 trained nurses; 2 mail carriers. Page county (Clarinda. county seat) has 24 Negroes; 1 general store; 29 farmers; 1 mail carrier; 1 veterinarian; 17 high school graduates; 36 home owners; homes valued at $14,000; church property valued at $14,000; more plenty of work and are contented. Van Buren county (Keosuaquon county seat) has 48 negroes; 2 plasterers; 1 sign painter; 3 farmers; 2 ministers; 3 high school graduates; 15 home owners; homes values at $1.1. Condition of the people very good. THE NEW YORKER a two-story building. He first entered the fruit and ice cream business in Topeka, Kans., and in the fall of 1889 came to Sioux City, where he entered said business and it is estimated to be worth $5,000. His wife is a great helpmate and assistant to him. They are real race people. and is 8 rooms completely modern, beach floors down stairs and hard wood up stairs, cement basement, lot 60 by 150 feet, east front on street car line. to our city with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Durden, where she married Atty. J. B. Rush. She is an active worker in literary and club society. She has been attending the Des Moines Baptist college. She has put on several plays with success. Wapello county (Ottumwa, county seat) has 1,600 negroes; 19 business enterprises; 5 barber shops; 2 restaurants; 1 loundry; 2 dress makers; 1 hair dresser; 1 caftress; 3 expressmen: 1 poultry farm; 1 brick layer; 1 general contractor: 4 professional men: 7 high school graduates; 29 home owners; homes valued at $70,000; church property valued at $18,000; county seat (Washoula, county seat) has 118 negroes; 1 printer; 5 barbers; 1 blacksmith; 2 cement workers; 1 hair dresser and 2 custodians of banks; 3 farmers; 2 high school graduates; 16 home owners; homes valued at $25,000; church property valued at $2,500. Informant adds that there is not a negro in the country poor house nor in the county jail and not a negro loafer in the county. Woodbury county (Sioux' City, county seat) has 1000 negroes; 1 grocery; 2 barber shops; 2 restrooms; 1 stockman; 1 veterinarian; 2 bath houses; 1 dentist; 1 chiropodist; 1 osteopathist; 4 high school graduates; 20 home owners; homes valued at $15,000. Informant thinks this a good field for one good lawyer and another physician. Worth county (Northwood, county seat) has only a half dozen negroes but of these 2 are owners of farms, 4000 and two others are farm renters. Summary of Report. A summary of these reports shows that there are in Iowa about 1500 negroes, conducting about 100 business enterprises, about 75 farms, and owning about one million dollars worth of taxable property and about $100-100 worth of church property and that among them are about 100 high school graduates and about 100 professional men, including ministers, lawyers, doctors, teachers, newspaper men, one postmaster, one undertaker and three dentists. Respectfully submitted, S. Joe Brown, Statistician. BENJAMIN J. HACK. W. M. elect of North Star Lodge No. 2 A. F. & A. M. BURLINGTON ITEMS The Golden Gate club gave a Rose social on Tuesday evening, June 1st., at the residence of Mrs. A. Pleasant. The house was beautifully decorated with various varieties of roses, and each lady and gent was presented with a rose. There was a large attendance and a delightful time. The I A. club was entertained by Mrs. H. Earlie, last week. Mr. and Mrs. H. Irvin very delightfully entertained Mr. and Mrs. J. Ray and son, James, at dinner, Sunday, June 13th at the residence of Mrs. R. Brooks of S. Hill. Mrs. N. Harrison of New London, Ia. is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. L. Anderson, of Lewis street. Mrs. J. Gains and daughter Miss Daisy Douglass of Louisiana, Mo., were the guests of Mr. Bert. Washington, last week. Mrs. L. Washington entertained a company at breakfast last Sunday. Mrs. J. Trent who was indisposed last week, is able to be out again. One of the most enjoyable events of the season was the picnic given May 31st by the Optanates. Quite a number of friends joined them and enjoyed a very delightful outing. Mr. and Mrs. Tucker of Carthage, Ill., was the guest at the Trent residence, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Clayburne of Aledo, Ill., have returned to Burlington, Iowa, after a years absence to make their future home. Mr. Ben Green of Aledo and R. Catlin were visiting in the city last week. The G. G. club will give a feast in the Wilderness, Tuesday evening. OTTUMWA. Esther Chapter No. 4, O.E. S. will hold their annual Esther day service Sunday, June 18, at three o'clock, at the A. M. E. church. Rev. and Mrs. L. J. Phillips will deliver the sermon. You are cordially invited to be present. Mr. Loren Bradford was baptized on Sunday afternoon by Rev. J. C. Reid, at the second Baptist church. Sunday, June 4th, Mrs. Earl Wagner entertained about fifteen guests in honor of her sister, Miss Nellie Jackson. Mr. Wm. Jackson entertained a few friends at a theatre party. Afterward they were served with light refreshments at the home of Miss Alberta Horne, in honor of Miss J. Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. George McGill of Plum street are the proud parents of a baby girl. The entertainment at the Second Baptist church Thursday evening was a great success. The singers deserve great credit. Raymond E. Clark, 118 West Division street, entertained about forty guests Thursday evening in honor of Miss Josephine Jackson of Delavin, Illinois, Music, cards, dancing and games were enjoyed by all. Light refreshments were served. About twenty of our young people enjoyed a hayrack party Friday evening in honor of Miss Nellis Jackson. Miss Lorene and Lorenzo Vinson, and Mr. Roscoe Gums, left Sunday night for a few days' visit in Chicago. A party of merry makers enjoyed a boat ride to Rock Blues Sunday evening, June 11, in honor of Miss Josephine Jackson. There will be a social at the Second Baptist church Thursday, June 15th, after the band concert. All are welcome. The Children's day exercises were held at the A. M. E. church Sunday afternoon. A memorial service was held at the Second Baptist church Sunday night for Mrs. Jennie Winston. Don't Miss the box party to be given at Second Baptist church Tuesday evening, June 20. Miss Josephine Jackson has returned to her home in Delavin, to spend the rest of her vacation with her parents. Iowa State Bystander BYSTANDER PUB. CO., Publishers DES MOINES. IOWA Experimenters are developing the stingless bee. The season for Sunday accidents is at hand. Look out! The coinage of a two-and-a-half cent piece would mean cheaper campaign cigars. At a bull fight in France a bull kill- ed a torader, but usually the result is less gratifying. The world is certainly growing bet- ter. Nobody has killed this year's peach crop yet. Mary had a little lamb, and in this respect she stood one ahead of the Wall street of today. Advocates of long sheets on hotel beds think that a tall man should not be punished for his size. The season is arriving at the pivotal date for prices of coal to go down and prices of ice to go up. A Pennsylvania man filled his pipe with gunpowder, thinking it was tobacco. And then it happened. At any rate, infant paralysts does not appear to have made much headway among our infant industries. Baseball can be played in any language, though some noisy persons in the bleachers will never believe it possible. One out of every ten couples married in Iowa in 1910 were divorced. Evidently marriage is not always a failure. The news that there is $300,000 lying in the government treasury unclaimed is sure to start a new crop of claims. Archery is going to be revived this summer, but among girls with thin arms it will be no more popular than playing on the harp. Mankind has been raising chickens for 6,000 years or so, and has not yet produced a king of the poultry yard with a soporific voice. An insane old maid in Brookoklyn has been found to possess $1,000,000, so doubtless she is an old maid by choice and not by insanity. How big London is is illustrated again, by the fact that the city's total debt is officially reported to be a little more than $555,000,000. One of the deplorable features of the British coronation is that it will cause a flock of alleged poems to be perpetrated on the innocent public. A child labor law which would make it illegal for a boy to drive home the cows would undoubtedly be quite popular among the youth of our rural districts. Boston women school teachers ask higher pay than men because it costs them more to live. If that is not a sign of the times we are painfully mistaken. Not less important and worthy of ceremony than the christening of the baby, the amateur gardener thinks, is the arrival of the first mess of radishes. A Chicago woman wants a divorce because her husband called another lady "Morning Glory" and "Honey Bunch. The "Morning Glory" might have been overlooked, but "Honey Bunch!" Oh, putty! Thieves in Harlem stole a grand plano from a house. There must have been harmony in the gang to get away with a prize like that, and probably there was music in the air when the owner discovered his loss. Flies and mosquitoes are to pass a strenuous summer, if all the plans for crushes against them are carried in effect. What they are preparing for the public may only be surmised, but unless the plans materialize it wh, also be something strenuous. Scientists say files hate blue paint and will not remain where the walls have been coated with it. If your kitchen is painted blue and files continue to congregate there it is probably because your files are color blind. London is to have a dock that will accommodate vessels 1,000 feet long. Of course Germany will have to proceed to construct one for 1,100 foot vessels. But that is more sensible than the Dreadnaught competition, since the docks will be useful for other purposes than those of destruction. A noted philanthropist, in denouncing "the devil of sneering cynicism" who sits in the editorial chairs of modern journalism, declares that newspapers need young men who prefer $15 a week and to stay honest than $50 a week to doing otherwise. Why newspapers alone need a band of such noble martyrs he does not specify. An Ohio woman in a divorce suit claims that her husband has not spoken to her in seven years. Possibly the poor fellow never got a chance. Seventeen Baltimore medical students offered to submit themselves to inoculation with cancer, in order to test a supposed remedy. That showed the proper spirit. The doctor making the experiments with the supposed remedy has refused their offer. That also showed a proper spirit. Baseball has a woman club president, and now comes a report that the game may acquire a professional woman pitcher. And so, in a new and startling direction, the feminine conquest looms up again. ```markdown ``` IOWA BANQUETS DRY Hotel Men Believe No Liquor Can Be Served Now UNLESS PATRON HELPS SELF Law Probably Will Allow Convivial Frequenters of Hotel and Cafe To Carry In His Own Liquid Refreshments. Des Moines.—Has a hotel the right to serve the customary cocktails at private banquets held in the securi- private dining halls? Can a man purchase a bottle of liquor at a bar and take it into a café to drink the contents with his meal? These are among the questions that are bothering the hotel men and sauna keepers of the city following the decision of the district court in the test case at Sloux City of H. H. Sawyer vs L. H. Frank. All Des Moines cates have stopped the practice of sending waiters out for intoxicating liquor for the accommodation of patrons. The management of the leading hotels have notified their waiters to refuse such requests. "I acknowledge that a man would have to be rather hard up for a drink to bring liquor into the cafe with him," said T. E. Veitch, manager of the Kirk wood hotel, "but I do not think that he could be prevented from doing so under the law. No such instances have come under my observation in our cate. I think that the decision will prevent serving liquor at banquets." W. L. Beattie, manager of the Savery hotel, holds the same opinion so Mr. Veitch. "I do not think that we could refuse to serve meals to a man who brought liquor into the cafe himself," said Mr. Beatty. "We have given orders to our waiters to refuse to go after liquor for patrons. I do not think that the decision will hurt our patronage to any extent. "The question concerning banquets is a difficult one. The committee in charge of the banquet could not give us the money to purchase the liquor. The saloons cannot deliver liquor outside their places of business. The banqueters, however, might bring it in themselves." Des Moines...Iowa bankers will likely enter a unanimous protest on the excessive bank taxation laws of this state when they convene at Mason City, State Secretary P. W. Hall of the Bankers' association says that the bankers are becoming nervous over the raise in taxation on bank stocks. This raise was incorporated in a recent law passed by the legislature. Seek to Close On Bonds Des Moines.—Seeking authorization to close $80,000 worth of mortgage bonds issued by the Centerville Waterworks company, of Centerville, Ia., the Fidelity Trust company of Buffalo, N. Y., filed a petition in the federal court, asking appointment of a receiver to settle the business of the waterworks concern. Fight Saloons Turned Eight Saloons. Des Moines.—With one sweep the city council revoked the licenses of eight Des Moines saloons, ordering that they be permanently closed. The thirst parlors that fell before the councilmanic action were all licensed after April 15, 1969, making the grants issued then in conflict with the Moon law. Accused of Sale of Fire Water. Des Moines.—H. M. Wyler, of Tama, was arrested by Deputy United States Marshal Wayne Morse, on a charge of selling liquor to an Indian, George Ward, a charge of the government on the Indian reservation at Tama, declares that Wyler sold him a jug of whisky. Wilton Light Plant In Flames Wilton—Fire starting in a box of waste damaged the Wilton Light and Water plant. The city will be without light for several days, but the water supply is unimpaired. The plant is owned by the city. The loss is estimated at $2,500. Grand Lodge Mesange Nivet Cedar Rapids—Nearly 1,000 delegates were present when the sixty-eighth annual grand lodge of Iowa Masons was opened here. It is expected the attendance will be increased by at least 200. Britt Editor's Son Marries Mason City,—Joel D. Bailey, son of E. N. Bailey, of the Britt Tribune, has married Miss Grace Hartzell. Vinton Woman Kills Self. Vinton,—Mrs. Elizabeth Atwater, despondent, because of ill health, hanged herself. Horse Kills Its Rider Fairfield—Ira Grammer, a well-known horseman of Birmingham, was instantly killed when a horse which he was riding fell over backward on him. Grammer was taking a bunch of horses from Fairfield to Birmingham. Cedar Rapids Burglar Nabbed. Oskalosao—John Mattock, wanted by the police of Cedar Rapids on a charge of burglary, was arrested here by J. E. Muir, an Iowa Central railway detective. Let Masonic Contract Tuesday Des Moines.—The contract for the new Masonic temple to be built in Des Moines at an approximate cost of $200,000 will be let next Tuesday. The committee having charge of the affair decided upon the postponement in order to give bidders more time. Commander Dver Very III. Mason City.—H. A. Dyer, commander of the Iowa G. A. R., is ill at his home here, and he is feared he cannot state employment at Muscating this month. New Marshallownet Marshallhill—A deal has been closed whereby the Union Stoneware company of Red Wing, Minn, will sell their abandoned plant in this city to the Marshallown Virtified 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. Francois Granted at Keokuk Keokuk.-Two twenty-five-year public utility franchises were vested to the Stone & Weaver company of Boston, at a special election. The franchises were for the establishment of lighting and street railway systems in Keokuk. The Stone & Ware company is financing the new Keokuk water power dam, now in process of construction. Seek to Close On Bonds Des Molnes.—Seeking authorization to close $80,000 worth of mortgage bonds issued by the Centerville Waterworks company of Centerville, Iz., the Fidelity Trust company of Buffalo, N. Y., filed a petition in the federal court, asking appointment of a receiver to settle the business of the waterworks concern. Bank Cashier is Missing Cedar Falls...Louie Bourquin, cashier of the State bank at New Hartford! has disappeared. Before departing, Fourquin took $1,500 belonged to himself, together with some life insurance policies and mortgages from his safety deposit box. Grain Buyer Disappears Storm Lake.—George Devire, who has been stationed at Alta for the past ten years as grain buyer for the Western Elevator company, has mysteriously disappeared and all attempts to locate him have failed. Madden Arraigned on Murder Charge. Des Moines.—William Madden was arraigned in the criminal court charged with the murder of Mrs. Florence Durril last Thursday. He waived preliminary hearing and his case was sent to the grand jury. Clear Lake Man Injured Clear Lake Main injured. Mason City, M.-M. V. Score, of Clear Lake, had his shoulder crushed when hit by a Minneapolis & St. Louis train at Forest City, while driving an auto, Mrs. Hught, who was in the machine, escaped severe injury. Grinnell Head Gets a Raise. Grinnell—President J. H. T. Main, of Grinnell college, received an increase which raises his annual salary to $5,000, according to the action of the board of trustees, who met at Grinnell. Association of Postal Clerks. Dubuque—The annual convention of the Iowa Association of Postoffice Clerks and Carriers closed with a banquet in the Wales hotel. Des Moines was chosen as the next place of meeting. Hart Purchases Bank Malvern—E. E. Hart, Council Bluffs banker and national republican commiteean, has bought the Malvern bank. W. H. Guyer will remain as cashier. Man, 70, to Wed Nurse, 40. Sloux City—Frank H. Seidel, 70 has secured a marriage license to wed Mrs. Linda Hafling, 40. She was formerly a nurse in his home at Anthon. Endsuparers Hold Meeting Endevourers Held Meeting. Waverly. The twenty-third annual convention of the Christian Endeavors of the fourth district was held here this week and was largely attended. President of Lutheran Synod. Washington, D. C.—Ev. Dr. J. B. Remensnyder of New York was elected on the first ballot president of the general synod of the Lutheran church. Deere Buys 2 Large Plants. Davenport, Deere & Co. has purchased the Davenport Wagon company plant and the Syracuse Chilled Plow plant at Syracuse, N. Y. Altoona Young Man Killed by Train. Logan, J.-E. Bisting of Altoona, aged 25, was run over and killed in the railroad yards at Missouri Valley. Creston.—The city council has increased the saloon license from $1,500 a year to $2,100. The new ordinance goes into effect July 1. Toledo Youth Shoots Self. Toledo—Despondent because he was backward in his studies, John Walkowski, 18, shot himself. Let Contract for Y. W. C. A. Cedar Rapids.—A contract has been let for the new Y. W. C. A. building here, to cost $60,000. Tired of Being Hunted Des Moines.-Tired of being fugitives from justice, William J. Connors and Irvie Dunn, indicted in connection with the Mabray gang of swindlers, came to Des Moines and gave themselves up to the federal authorities saying they were tired of being hunted. Charles Citation 89 Years Old Charles City - Father Lacian M. Poster is celebrating his ninety-ninth birthday. He was born in New York state and is still hale and hearty. Kick of Horse is Fatal Washington.—Arthur Wittig, 20 years old, of Noble, was kicked by a horse and instantly killed. He had taken Miss Mable Kephart drawing and after helping her from the berg, turned to unhitch the team of bronchos. He was kicked in the left side and died instantly. Nearly Drowns In Well Greeley.—Falling through a well platform, 30 feet down the shaft of a deep well at Sweet Home, Irene Fisk, 14, was nearly drowned. IF MY CROWN ON STRAIGHT? BLAWST ME ROOMIN' ROBY CHICAGO INTERN UNION Russell Haston TO QUIZ ROOSEVELT EX-PRESIDENT AND J. P. MORGAN MUST TESTIFY, SAY STEEL PROBERS. F. B. Kellogg, Government Prosecutor In Standard Oil Case, Admits He Is Counsel for Subsidiary Companies in Steel Combine. Washington.—Ex-President Roosevelt and J. P. Morgan will be summoned to appear before the Stanley steel investigating committee to give testimony on how certain railroads owned by the steel trust are able to declare enormous dividends on small capitalization. Chairman Stanley made this known when he declared there was so much in connection with the steel corporation he desired cleared up that he intended bringing before the committee everyone who could throw any light on the subject. Colonel Roosevelt will be asked about his tacit assent to the absorption of the Tennessee Coal & Iron company by the steel corporation, and Mr. Morgan will be queried concerning the panic of 1907 and the financial transactions preceding and consummating the deal through which the Tennessee company stock was turned over to the steel corporation. Frank B. Kellogg, special counsel of the government in suits for the dissolution of the Standard Oil, admitted to the committee that his law firm is counsel for subsidiary companies of the steel corporation. He said he had no apology to make to the American people for this connection. Since 1907, Mr. Kellogg has been prosecuting the Standard Oil under engagement by the department of justice. Before that he had been employed by the government to make arguments in suits against the paper trust and the Union Pacific railroad. Attorney General Wickersham knew of his connection with the steel corporation. Mr. Kellogg said he had never been asked by anyone connected with the government as to his views as to the legality of the steel corporation under the Sherman law, or the legality of any of its acts or methods of operation. He was incensed by criticism of his connection with the steel corporation. James Cayley, former vice-president of the steel corporation, told the committee there had been an understanding during many years between the railroads and steel rail makers as to the price of rails. He had never heard of apportioning the tons of the rails among the rail makers or a territorial division of the business. He said there was no duty of an iron ore famine because of the vast supply not only in the United States but throughout the world. In 1907 and 1908 he attended the famous Gary dinners, but never heard any discussion as to prices or business territory. He gravely stated the only discussions he recalled covered such points as abolishing Sunday labor and improving the welfare of the workingmen, together with talk as to general business conditions. Varsity Honors Clews Ada, O.—Henry Clews, the New York banker, has been honored by Ohio Northern university with the degree of doctor of philosophy. Bust of Sherman Complete Washington.—A marble bust of Vice-President Sherman has just been completed and will be placed in the capitol. The likeness, which shows the vice-president wearing spectacles, has been accepted by the government. Gould Party Buys Texas Road. Palestine, Tex.—A committee said to represent the Gould interests purchased the International & Great Northern railroad at receivership sale here. The road sold for $12,645,000. Wcman Lives 123 Years Old. Bakeenfield, Cal.-Mrs. Mary Rodriguez, a native of Mexico, died here at the reputed age of one hundred and twenty-three years, seven months and eleven days. She asserted she was born November 1, 1788. Tries to End Life Nagara Falls, N. Y.-Harold L. Cobb, who says his father is a clergyman at Decatur, Ill., was found here shot in the head. He said he had tried to kill himself. He may not recover. RECIPROCITY BILL IS REPORTED WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION. Adverse Reports Are Submitted by La Follette and McCumber—Gore Offers Amendment. Washington.—The Canadian reciprocity bill was returned to the senate, with several reports setting forth the diverse views of members of the finance committee. The majority report was noncommittal—neither for nor against. Senators Williams, Stone and Kern, Democrats, submitted a statement indorsing the measure as "half a loaf," and therefore better than no tariff revision at all, and urging its acceptance without amendment, declaring proposed additions to the bill intended to bring about its defeat. Senators La Follette and McCumber presented reports in opposition to the measure. "When I want two things I want both, but if I can't get both, then I want the one I can get." Mr. Williams said. "Not only is it true that I would, as original propositions, favor most of the amendments offered, but I could easily write down several hundred others that I would like to put upon the statute books, reducing the burden of tariff taxation upon the people. "But I see no sense in refusing to kill a rattlesnake because I cannot at the same time kill an anaconda." Mr. Williams favors the house "farmers' free list bill," but is not in favor of it as an amendment to this bill, because he thinks the result of putting it on would be to defeat the bill. Mr. La Follette says the bill makes the farmer the scapegoat in the interest of the railroad, the miller, the packer, the newspaper publisher. MRS. NATION LEFT $10,000 Last Testament Filed in Washington, D. C., Which She Claimed Her Home. Washington.—The will of Carrie A. Nation was filed in the probate court here. It was dated in 1907 and in It Mrs. Nation declared herself a resident of Washington. It is estimated the estate disposed of by the will is valued at $10,000, consisting of houses and lots in Guthrie and Shawnee, Okla., an account of $1,000 in an Alexandra (Va.) bank, and a life insurance policy. To the Woman's Christian Temper ance union of Kansas Mrs. Nation bequeathed her "Book of My Life" and all rights thereunder. Charlion A. Mc Nab. her only child, is bequeathed $60 a month if not in an insane asylum After the death of Mrs McNab her children are to receive $500 each. The remainder of the estate is to be given to the Carrie Nation Home for Drunkards' Wives and Widows at Kansas City for a home for children twelve years old and under. Medals Given to Six Tara Washington.—President Taft presented medals of honor to six members of the crew of the warship North Dakota and spoke in praise of their heroic deeds whe: on September 8, 1910, an oil fuel explosion on the North Dakota killed three men, put in jeopardy the lives of scores of others, and placed the battleship itself in danger. In addition to the medals of honor, a gratuity of $100 was given to each man. Gives Parrot $3,500 in Will Oklahoma City, Okla.—A will leaving $3,500 for the support and maintenance of a pet parrot has been drawn by Thomas Billingsby, a capitalist of this city. The parrot is twenty years old. Billingsby was a sailor for many years, and came into possession of the parrot in Polynesia. Two Asphyxiated in Well. London, Ont.—Two farmers, Ellias and Warren Hicks, were asphyxiated at the bottom of a 75-foot well near here. Both are dead. Chicago Has Biggest Bank. Chicago.—The Continental and Commercial National bank has absorbed the Hibernian Banking association. The amalgamation gives Chicago the greatest bank in the United States, with assets of $265,000,000. The National City bank of New York boasts of deposits of $181,000,000. Ex-Congressman Dead. Salt Lake City, Utah—George W. E. Dorsey, former congressman from Nebraska and well-known mining man of this state, is dead. HELD FOR SWINDLING HEAD OF AMERICA ELECTRIC FUSE COMPANY ARRESTED. Frank G. Jones is Charged With Having Forged Notes Aggregating $800,000. Muskegon, Mich.—It is believed by the creditors of Frank G. Jones, president of the American Electrical Fuse company and a director of the Hackley National bank of this city, that he has, through fraudulent operations, swindled them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Jones was arrested on a warrant sworn out by officers of the Old National Bank of Grand Rapids, charging him with obtaining $50,000 under false pretenses. An under sheriff took him to the Grand Rapids jail. In the Grand Rapids federal court a petition in bankruptcy was filed by George A. Hume, Thomas Hune and John G. Emery, three Muskegon creditors with claims amounting to $33,999. Referee Wicks appointed Paul S. Moon of Muskegon as receiver. It is alleged the liabilities of the concern are $750,000 and the assets $150,000. Banks throughout the central states are believed to have been victimized in sums of $20,000 to $50,000. Jones was a Chicago lawyer before he went to Adrian to establish the company. In Adrian the company got into trouble through some checks it sent out. Many of the stockholders are Muskegon people, quite a number of them employees of the company. The receiver has discharged all the high salaried officials, keeping only a small working force. The plant will continue in operation. RAIL LOOT TRIAL IS ON Chicagoue Being Made Scapegoat to to Protect the Big Four Is Charge. Cincinnati—Charles W. Baker, attorney for Edgar S. Cooke of Chicago, who is on trial here charged with embezzling $24,000 from the Big Four railroad, in his opening statement declared that his client was being made a scapegoat by officials of the company to protect the road from punishment for giving rebates. Baker said that officials of the Big Four railroad were suspected of taking millions of dollars from the treasury and paying it in violation of federal laws to favorite shippers. "If the truth were known," said Baker, "Warriner did not take $643,000, as charged, but he probably took $1,643,000 or $2,643,000, but he took it for the purpose of the railroad." The Big Four, he said, did not make any charges against Comstock, the former treasurer of the railroad. He said they induced Warriller to appear without counsel and plead guilty, and then had Cooke indicted for embezzlement. He said the Big Four railroad had not made any demand upon the American Surety company, which signed Cooke's bond, and that P. A. Hewitt, auditor at the time, covered in the indictment of Cooke, had been promoted since. DIRECT ELECTION BILL WINS Resolution for Popular Election of Senators Is Approved by Senate. Washington.—By a vote of 64 to 24, the United States senate, after a day of sharp debate, adopted a resolution to submit to the states an amendment to the constitution for the election of senators by direct vote. The Bristow amendment, which reserves to the federal government the right to control the senatorial elections in the states, was adopted before the final vote, 44 to 44, with Vice-President Sherman casting the deciding vote. The resolution as amended must pass the house of representatives by a two-thirds vote, and then be ratified by three-fourths of the states. LORIMER CASE IS DELAYED Hearing in New Inquiry Postponed Until June 22 Because Senator's Counsel is Otherwise Engaged. Washington. — Announcement was made by the special senate committee of eight which is to conduct the second investigation into the election of Senator William Lorimer of Illinois that the first hearing will be held in Washington on Thursday, June 22. The committee had previously determined that the first hearing would be held on June 19, but the change was made after a lengthy conference with Senator Lorimer, who said that his counsel, Judge Elbridge Hanecy, is engaged in the trial of a case in Chicago and will probably not be in a position to appear until June 22. Judge Hanecy represented Lorimer at the previous investigation. Held as White Slayer White Plains, N. Y.—William Simon, engineer of the New York Central, is under arrest here pending an investigation of the alleged murder of his wife, who was found dead, a towel and pillowcase bound around her neck. Found Guilty of Embezzlement. Washington.—For the second time John Barton Miller, former secretary and treasurer of the First Co-Operative Building association of this city, has been found guilty of embezzlement of $135,000. Fears Banks; Loses $4,700 in Fire. Troy, N. Y.—Because he had no confidence in banking institutions, Myer Daniels of Hoosick Falls, Renskeer county, is mourning the loss of $4,700, burned when his house was destroyed by fire. U. S. in Need of Sailors Washington.—The United States navy soon will need a large number of sailors and orders have been sent out by the navy department to begin recruiting at the new office in Chicago July 1. KNOX SHIFTS BLAME TRACES $5,000 PAYMENT FOR DAY PORTRAIT TO HAY AD- MINISTRATION. Secretary of State Tella Hamlin Committee if Receipt Has Been "Doctored" There Will Be Some Vacancies in His Department. Washington.—That the scandals that have turned up in the state department cannot properly be laid at his door, Secretary Knox made clear to the Hamlin committee of the house, but belong to past administrations. He explained the $5,000 payment to young Mr. Hale, which Eilhuh Root contracted for, and the affair of the Rosenthal portrait was traced to the administration of John Hay. At the same time Secretary Knox resented what he regarded as an imitation that perjury had been committed by some of the present clerical force of the state department. The committee has not succeeded in solving the riddle in connection with payments made to Albert Rosenthal for the Day portrait and the recovery of the voucher for that payment. Secretary Knox gave the committee the original voucher and the explanatory memoranda attached to it. As companying the latter was a receipt from Rosenthal which the latter has no recollection of giving. There was a letter from Consul General W. H. Michael, former chief clerk of the department, written in answer to Secretary Root's request for information, in which Michael says the balance of $1,600 was given in cash to Secretary John Hay and used by him in connection with Chinese affairs under Mr. Rockhill. "Don't you think," asked Mr. Hamlin of Secretary Knox, "that this receipt was prepared since this hearing began?" "Are you charging anyone with perjury?" remarked Mr. Knox. "I am not, but I think this suspicous," said Mr. Hamlin. "If you can ascertain," retorted Secretary Knox, "that since you got your letter from Rosenthal that some one in the department fixed this up there will be some vacancies." "I may do Secretary Root an injustice," said Davis, "but I think he said the voucher was in two parts. This is all one document." Secretary Knox—"I gave it to you in the shape in which I received it." "With these papers is a letter signed by Rosenthal referring to a portrait of Secretary Day. It is signed March 23, 1906, and addressed to no one. Do you know anything about it?" asked Hamlin. "Nothing," said Secretary Knox. "As soon as this affair developed I ordered a search for the voucher. I found the affairs of the department in an chaotic condition. I have reorganized it and will endeavor to install business methods." MEXICO CITY IS MENACED Rebel Head of Strong Force Demands That Madero Remove Military Commander of District. Mexico City.—General Jose Vera commanding 4,000 rebel soldiers, the flower of Madero's army in the federal district of Mexico, sent an ultimatum to Madero declaring that If Madero did not make a change in the commander of this military zone he would take Mexico City within twenty-four hours. Madero's agents here have sent back word to Vera parleying for time. Vera is reported to be a bandit like Zapala, but has a strong force of the best, most daring of all Madero's men. He cannot take this city, but might begin a hot battle on the outskirts. Madero named Emilio Sobrino to command all the forces in the state of Mexico. Now Vera has risen against Sobrino. SEAMEN'S STRIKE IS BEGUN Walkout is Called at British, Belgian and Dutch Ports—Vessel Owners Are Not Worried. London.—The seamen's strike was formally declared at London, Glasgow, Liverpool, Cardiff, Bristol, Southampton and other British ports, and also at Belgian and Dutch ports, but the chances of any real international strike being declared seem remote. Indications show the confidence of the shipping federation is well placed, for at hardly any of these ports was enthusiasm displayed for the strike, and the shipowners maintain an attitude of indifference, semingly satisfied that they will have no trouble in filling the places of the strikers. The men demand chiefly a conciliation board and the establishment of a minimum wage, and complain bitterly of wholesale employment of Asiatics. Mint Becomes Warehouse Washington.—The historic New Orleans mint will cease to exist as such after July 1. It will be conducted henceforth as an assay office and a storage place for 22,000,000 silver dollars. Only one of its old vaults is considered burglar-proof at present. Kills Self When Son Weds. Kansas City.—Despondent because her sixteen-year-old son married against her wishes, Mrs. Nettie Supernana nawed herself in the basement of her home in this city. Score Drown in Mexican Flood. Chihuahua, Mexico.—Rain has caused an overflow of the Chuviscan river, damaging much property in the lowlands. The village of Santa Eulalia is reported to have been washed away and twenty persons drowned. Albany, N. Y.—Seven men were injured seriously and Frank S. Adams superintendent of the Albany Chemical company, is missing as the result of an explosion in the company's plant at Van Rempsseler island. --- Kadeshbarnea A Sermon And we came to Kadesh-barnea.— Deuteronomy, 1:19. Kadeshbarnea was the place of the Israelites, greatest opportunity to possess the "promised" land of "Canaan," and their failure to do so at this particular time and place brought great sorrow to the heart of Moses, their leader, and caused the Israelites themselves to wander in the wilderness 40 years trying to recover that which they might have won in a single day if their faith in God had been sufficient to make them follow his commands. Opportunities come in the life of the Israelites if they are not embraced in many instances they are irrevocable—therefore we should ever be on the watch for the "Kadeshbarnea" of life. The past, present and future of Israel met at Kadeshbarnea and made a supreme moment in the life of the individual and nation. They had marched many miles, had toiled and struggled and denied themselves of many comforts to reach this very place, the threshold of the promised Canaan, upon the threshold they failed. Every day is not a time for a nation and many nations are not toys to be played with, for it is possible, as in the case of Israel, to reach the margin of a glorious destiny and then for lack of moral strength or living faith turn and go wandering in the desert. Kadeshbarne is to be a place of difficulties, and difficulties always bring forth either "fath" or "unbelief," and in this instance only two men (Caleb and Joshua), after listening to the stories of the spies about the great difficulties to be encountered, stood firm in their faith; all of the others lost their grlp on God and began to make excuses for not undertaking the conquest of the land. Notwithstanding the fact that they had already endured hardiness in the war to Kadeshbarne, they would have to endure in their march to Canaan, yet their belief apprised their courage and left them with all kinds of prudential fears, turning them practically into cowards. Their belief begins to grow by their cowardly fears and stage after stage in their spiritual life begins to unfold. The unbelief of the people that God would not fulfil his promise caused them to act foolishly; they had been seeking a crown, a crown that was indeed hard to win. It was the crown of their liberty, their happiness and their cowardly fears. They stood at Kadeshbarne, with their courage to go up and possess the land they view to the crown of their follomose journey from Egypt and with foolish unbelief that God would fall them they deliberately destroy the crown so hard to win. The faith of Caleb and Joshua attempt them to wake up the people, but unbelief, like a poison, has enervated them, their spiritual life is changed, and the golden opportunity of Kadeshbarne is lost forever to the entire generation and the younger generation to endure 40 years wandering in the wilderness that might have been the promised land of Canaan. Their unbelief practically maligned behovah himself. They doubted the promise of God and gave no heed to his warnings, and in doing so they made God a liar. Such unbelief is the essence of blasphemy, the seed of misery and the germ of hell. The law of the New Testament concerning unbelief is the same as the law of the Old Testament. Because, says the writer of the epistle to the Hebrews, "of the unbelief of the people at Kadeshbarne God that they should not enter into his rest no longer has sworn that those who are unbelievers shall enter into the heavenly Canaan, the rest of the people of God." When people say to God "Depart from me" there is a severe but equitable retribution when God says to the people "Depart from me." When opportunities come, though they may be surrounded by many difficulties, if we do not accept them the punishment of losing them is greater than the hardships of the fight to win them. When the Israelites at Kadeshbarne said "We will not march to Canaan, for the journey is too rough and stony," then God said "Theunity is lost; there is another way to途途 in desert;" so for 40 years they wandered around the place of rest, but never set foot upon it. They paid dear for their unbelief, and like Esau, who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, sought it afterward with many tears, but found no place for its redemption. So with this generation of Israelites. Only Caleb and Joshua lived to set up the banner of victory in the land flowing with milk and honey. Many of them, no doubt spent day after day the banner of loss lost opportunity, but God did not help them; they moved dreadfully to "nowhere"—their lives as empty as the desert over which they walked. There is a solemn lesson in our text. The great leader of the nation, before his own departure for the heavenly Canaan, tells those who were too young to remember the splendid opportunity of the Israelites at Kadeshbarnea, the sad event in their history, and as the she rehearses we can imagine we hear his voice trembling as he says: "And then we came to Kadeshbarnea." For to Moses the name of that place was but another name HISTORIC BEAUTIES The famous beauties of the world are wise when they leave no portraits of themselves. Take Marguerite of Valolis. She was an immoral, dishonorable, criminal, scheming, unscrupulous villainess, but she was lowered with such charm that there was not a faller or an enemy she could not charm when she tried. No, nor a woman—an not even the wives of her lovers. Men came from every country, taking year long tourneys, only to see her. . for "irrevocable," "disappointment," "might have been," and the "weary marches of 40 years had printed in the sand of the desert "Opportunity and unbelief equals forfeiture of rest." The place of the brightest promise now becomes the place of the most solemn warnings, the place of happy hopes—the place of painful despair, the threshold of rest becomes the portals of restlessness. "And we Kade-dash-beas-ness what? Faith? What faith or Joshua, with the unbelief of a generation? If we come with the former, we will gain a Canaan; if with the latter, a wilderness. WHAT LIFE IS CLAIMING SOMETHING AS YOUR OWN, FINDING IT, IMPROVING IT To locate a claim! Why, that's what life is! Claiming something as your own, finding out exactly where it is, then going to work on it to improve it. Many a boy begins to locate his claim before he is in the high school. We say he has a "bent" toward this or that. He has literary tastes. His claim is the world of books. Or he has mechanical genius. Another has an ability to speak easily standing on his feet. His claim is the world of speech and oratory, persuasion in the courts for the sake of justice, or in the pulpit for human uplift. These are great claims, and it's a splendid thing to feel that one is naturally drawn to come one of these large lines of activity. If he has this large early in life, and is conscious of it, he saved much hunting in the dark to "find a job," and he wards off that bad state of mind when one must wonder what he is really going to do to make an honest living. For pay our way we all surely must. That great man, Thomas Carlyle, said. "Blessed is he who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessedness." Which is as much as to say, Blessed is he who has located his claim. I know a man today who is over fifty years old who has gone to farming in the last two years. He is struggling very hard, and I admire him for that, but it is such a hard struggle that I am sorry for him. I know he can never be a successful farmer, because he off-beginning until too late. He defiin't care for calm easily enough. The men who have helped the world most are those who have worked long at one thing, even though they might play at many smaller things. And the only way to work long at a thing is to begin early. George Washington became leader of the American army because, many years before, he located that claim by hard service in the French and Indian war. I once saw a small boy running down the hill to reach the ferry, going across the river. But he was just too late. Well, mtl boy, I said, "it's too bad; I was a small boy. Oh yes, I ran fast enough," he said, didn't start soon enough." He was a wise boy. To locate your claim, start soon. It's better than running fast. George L. Parker in St Nicholas. THE LORD'S PRAYER. By Miss Grace B. Berry. Our—gracious Lord who lives and reigns on high. Father—of all, beyond exalted skies. Who art in Heaven—and earth forever the same. Hallowed be—thy blessed Holy Name. Thy name shall ring o'er land from shore to shore. Thy kingdom shall be sought forever. Come gracious Lord with all thy Heavenly power. Thy will be done on earth each coming hour. As 'tis around thy holy righteous throne. In Heaven which splendor here was never known. This day our sins beyond all years to come. Our daily bread like Heavenly manna send, And grant us peace with these our brethren. Forgive us every vain and idle thought. Our trespasses, oh, Lord, remember not; As we forgive wilt thou forgive the same. Those who trespass against us. In Jesus' name. Lead us forever by thy side. Not into temptation may we ever able. But deliver us when weakened by earth's trial. From evil when we're tempted to denial. For thine is, the world and all its treasure: The kingdom, the power and the glory Forever and forever will remain. SALTED RAILWAY SLEEPERS. Railway sleepers used in south Russia are sailed for preservation. The discovery of the efficacy of salt for the purpose was made accidentally some twenty-five years ago. The telegraph poles of Sebastopol soon rotted below the ground, and one of the stair tried the experiment of putting a pool of salt into the hole prepared for the reception of the base of a pole. The wood laid under the pole was usual, and the experiment was repeated and linked to railway sleepers, a sea salt, such as is recovered along the Crimean coast, is used. and went away after a little glimpse, saying they had "seen loveliness it self." Then one sees her portraits Too much forehead, not a man's brow, a woman's pensive eye, on one picture a lovely mouth) — and that is all. Mary, queen of Scotts, was very lovely—three king doms battled because of her beauty—and yet her pictures leave one cold. Fouche said her portrait showed a very young woman, a type that was before he knew whose picture he criticised—London Truth. SOUTH AMERICA NO PLACE FOR THE POOR MAN Periodically up bobs a "header of colored people who talks very loudly about South America as a possible home of the American Negro. From the other side there comes now and then the same word. For South America we have always entertained the liveliest feeling of rasset, beaten, and bruised by hoarshears and zozwa the traveling people that race prejudice is there almost unknown and that many dark persons are 'way up in the civil and social scale. But let us settle on a territory as a land of promise, and sure as grass grows there is the man who will turn the medal. We have an example of that before us. A mayor of an Illinois town in South America. At the Wolcott he gave an interview, from which we take the following sentence: "South America is a revelation. We in the states don't know what there is in store here, nor do we know how to get our share of it. At the same time South America is not a place for a poor man. A farmer had better stay in this country. But a man who can go there with $25,000 and purchase a large hactienda and work it with peons can make money. The man who wants to work his own place is lost and had better stay away. There is a great opening for capital for investment in manufactures. Since South American countries import everything they use. It is only recently that they have begun to manufacture their own boots and shoes, and all the machinery that is going in for this purpose is American." No place for a poor man? Then it is no place for American Negroes, for those who would seek it as a free land would also seek it as a land of labor. Few negroes have $25,000 to invest in a hacienda, and no Negro wants to be a peon. If there is not the widest opportunity in South America for free labor that will bring a living wage, there is no hope for the American Negro, who when he works lives by the sweat of his brow, and lives well. So it goes. Prejudice, proscription, injustice, inequality and the bitter gall of cruel words bow us to the ground, but after all, there is no promise "land of the free," and there is no promise "as held out to us and to all in the "home of the brave." The civil opportunities that are said to be in South America we will make in our own country by the worth of us that cannot longer be hidden—New York Age. CHEYNEY UNIVERSITY GET GIF Andrew Carnegie Gives Institution $10,000 Building Which Will Be Used by Agricultural Department—School Making Progress. Andrew Carnegie has given another building to the training school for coloring the flowers. The time it is a building for the agricultural department and will cost $10,000. It will contain the usual laboratories for scientific work in agriculture. The school offers professional courses for teaching the industrial subjects and hopes to correlate these subjects with the agricultural Three-fifths of the graduates are now teaching in the former slave states. The Institute for Colored Youth was organized in Philadelphia in 1837. In 1903 the management decided to reorganize the work as carried in the city of Philadelphia and to concentrate their efforts and funds in a first-class normal school with this aim: To give the young people the industrial and industrial, that will prepare the young people for teachers of the various industrial subjects and graded school work. The courses are so arranged as to permit a large portion of the time to be given to the actual work belonging to the different subjects. The institute claims now to translate the advanced and approved educational methods of instruction to the present condition of the niger child. The school has developed and published a leaflet "Daily Menus for the School Year and a Dietary Study for October," and a set of record sheets for the keeping of storeroom and dining room accounts. Mention of the leaflet has been made in the U. S. A. Experiment Station Record of 1910. The daily menus have received the commendation of experts, hotel managers, stewardesses of boarding schools and many other prominent authorities. The menus are especially commended for their variety, wholesomeness, economy and scientific arrangement. HIS APOLOGY. A recent refusal by a member of the English parliament to withdraw "one comma" of what he had said about a member of the government recalls the fact that Richard Brinsley Sheridan once declined to punctuate an apology. In the house of commonmen, Sheridan said he opposes the lie directed. Called upon to apologize, the offender remarked: "Mr. Speaker, I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it." The insulted party was not satisfied and said so. "Sir," retorted Sheridan, "the honorable member can interpret the term of statement according to his ability, and he can put punctuation marks where it pleases him." EDUCATION NEEDED Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the states in which they live, the safety of the whole republic, the dignity of the elective franchise—all the bonds of ignorance shall be unloosed and broken and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free—Robert C. Winthrop. TO MAKE GOOD CAKE SOME RULES THAT SIMPLY MUST BE OBSERVED. Proper Temperature of Oven One of the Most Important Points—Different Confections Require Varying Degrees of Heat. First attention should be given to the oven, making sure that the fire is not too hot to reach. Repeat even until the baking is done. Unless you have control of your fire do not attempt to bake cake. Loaf cake requires less heat than thin cakes. If the oven is too hot at first or is suddenly cooled while the cake is baking the cake will be heavy. Loaf cake should bake as long again as the cake is baking into quarters. The first quarter should show a rising, with the edges higher than the center; the second a continued even rising, with a slight brown tint; the third a deeper brown, and the last a shrinking and settling. If your cake rises and cracks in the center, are using too much four; when it browns before rising, the oven is too hot. How to Put Butter Cake Mixture Together—Cream the butter with hand or a large spoon, add sugar and a cream again until very light. When the proportion of butter is small it may be put in with the eggs and sugar. Beat the yolks until light yellow, add to butter and sugar and beat again. Add flavoring and then a little milk, then a little flour, a little milk again, and so on until the milk and flour are all used, and beat vigorously until your mixture is smooth. Add lastly the beaten whites. Fruit should be added last, and fruit cake mixtures should be a little stiff with flour. Large Cake Mixtures—Beat the yolks until they are a light yellow and creamy and slowly beat in the sugar. Add flavoring and liquid and beat again. Beat the whites until stiff and fold it without beating. Add flour lastly with as little stirring as possible, as it makes the cake tough. Always follow these directions and cake failures will never be known. ALL AROUND the HOUSE Turpentine will remove tar from any kind of fabric. To remove iron rust from white goods molten spot, cover with cream of tartar, put in a basin of water, simmer gently for an hour. Rinse and dry. To clean linoleum, place some fresh skim milk in a basin, and with a clean cloth dipped in the milk wipe over the floor, and the linoleum will look as new. To officially clean a dirty bottle, half fill the bottle with slack coal, add just enough water to cover, and shake vigorously. Then empty out, and rinse in several waters. Sweep your carpets thoroughly to remove all dust and dirt. After an hour slightly dampen a broom, and again sweep over the whole surface. In this way an old carpet will look clean and fresh, however faded it may be. Glass is an ideal shelff for a kitchen enclose, as it can be kept clean so easily. If this is too costly paint the shelves white and give a coat of enamel. This is easily scrubbed, and does away with the necessity of papers. The walls of a kitchen quickly look dingy and for this reason should be prepped with a spray bottle. When gray with soot dust with a soft brush covered with cheesecloth, then wipe with a cloth wet in cold water. Hot water has a yellowish effect. Chocolate Fruit Tarts Make the tarts of puff pastry, leaving as large a space as possible for the filling. In each tart place canned peaches or apricots from which all the juice has been drained away, and pour over them a chocolate sauce. The sauce is made as follows: Boll one half pint of milk and grate three ounces of chocolate. Mix a little of the milk with the chocolate until it is smooth; add the rest of the milk and let it boil up; then add one ounce of sugar and a teaspoonful of vanilla. If the tarts are to be used hot, pour on the sauce as soon as it is finished and serve immediately, covering the top with whipped cream. The tarts may also be used cold, and in that case the sauce must be cold, when poured over them—Harper's Bazar. Strawberry Puffs. Cream puffs and eclairs, filled with crushed and sweetened strawberries instead of the usual cream, are delicious. Into a granite saucepan put one cup of water or milk, one-half cup butter (scant measure) and boll. Then add one cup flour, stirring continually, until the mixture is smooth. It should be smooth and velvety. Re move from fire and, when cool, beat in four eggs, one at a time. Beat ten to twenty minutes, then drop by spoonfuls upon buttered tins and bake in a hot oven for 20 minutes. While still warm coat with strawberry icing made by adding strawberry juice to a sugar powder or confectioner sugar, then drizzle on the baking. When cold cut open and fill with crushed and sweetened strawberries. Lentil Salad Take some boiled lentils and let them get quite cool. Drain them with care and mix them with about a fourth of their weight of cooked onions or celery or the two mixed. A pile should then be made in the middle of a dish and then put into the pot and be put around it. Pour some salad dressing over and serve. Molasses Cookies. Two and one-half cups sugar; two cups molasses, one tablespoon ginger, one tablespoon cloves, one tablespoon cinnamon. Let this come to a boll. When coolen in four eggs and one tablespoon medal, add the milk to roll out next day. Moderate ogen. NATIONAL ORGANIZER OF THE NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE VISITS GALVESTON, TEXAS The National Business league meets in Little Rock, Ark., in August, this year. Hon. Emmett J. Scott of Tuskegee is corresponding secretary. A SIMPLE LUNCHEON MENU. Now that Lent is passed and the spirit of hospitality may once more find natural expression the woman who entertains is thinking of inviting her friends in for a luncheon or tea. This does not mean that she must spend a great deal of money upon the meal. A menu of simple food dainty served is in much better taste and is sure to be more appreciated than one of extravagant and querely concocted dishes whose ingredients are matters of doubt because of the mixture of flavors and seasonings. The meal may be prepared by the home cook or by the maid of all work: Masked French lamb chops Pea patties. Fruit salad. Coffee. Trim French chops neatly. Have ready some nicely seasoned mashed potatoes, beaten light. Broll the chops quickly for five minutes, and while they are warm heap the potatoes on one side of the lean portion of each chop. Dip into beaten egg, sprinkle thickly with flour, plump up the hot fat. Decorate the buns with paper and place attractively on the chop dish. GEMS OF THOUGHT The rank is but the guinea's stamp The man's the gowd for a that. —Burns. As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejection do we sink as low. —Wordsworth. While Memory watches o'er the sad review Of joys that faded like the morning dew. —Campbell. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The cant-saying so popular now in the slang of the day, "they all look good when they're far away," has pressed and vital application in the discussion as to whether America or Europe is to be preferred by the American colored citizen. The number of dissatisfied and disgruntled colored people in this country is growing daily, and the much heralded freedom from color prejudice of the old world has caused not a few strong and sensible colored men to ponder seriously the question as to whether they should not flee from the color prejudice of New York yet come forth to deny the assertion that Europe is far less prejudiced than America. But if Booker T. Washington may speak through the notable series on "The Man Farthest Down," in the Outlook, the United States is infinitely better as a home for the black man than any country in Europe. On his recent trip abroad he was imported, he reacts, by many Americans, both white and colored, to assist them in getting passage back home. A colored citizen especially bemoaned their fate, declaring there was no work in England for his race. Nor would Mr. Washington have us believe that the colored man on this side is only better off than the colored man in the opposite. We declare that the colored man here is infinitely better off in his chances for work, life and enjoyment than the white man of his same station there. In short, the distance of Europe lends almost her only enchantment. Singularly enough, George Clemenceau, former premier of France, recently in his series in the New York Times, gives complete collaboration to the words of the Tuskegeean. In studying conditions in Brazil on his travels, he tells his "French brethren in shiny threadbare sleeves," that the black people of Brazil are better off in the Coachella Valley than "young men, in shiny threadbare sleeves, who make your way nightly homeward to the close dams around the Sacre Coeur; and see and see these black coffee planters, men, women and children, living close to nature on the outskirts of civilization, and compare your own wretched quarters furnished by Dufayel on the 'Hire' system that has cost you such anxious moments, with the blissful nudity of these cabins and tell me where you are living among the newly emancipated Africans or at home under your own roofs"? To all those colored men grooming with discontent at American conditions and yearning for Europe, we suggest that they follow those series by France's great statesman and America's great industrial educator. Yet to those same men we do not urge that they abate by one jot or little their fight to have America give their race the rights and opportunities of equal rights. The colored citizens of right. The colored citizens of their citizenship, unworthy possessors of the great heritage of freedom and equal rights handed down to them by 200,000 of their heroic fathers, if they did not press the battle to the gates until they are admitted to an equal place in their fatherland. And for this reason, too, they should stay here. Europe is settled with her faded clines and her poverty. This is still the land of wealth and opportunity. It is for America's colored citizens to make the most of it—Editorial: Amsterdam (N. Y.) News. Several weeks ago a hundred teachers visited Tuskegee Institute. They were amazed at what they saw. All men are amazed at Tuskegee, in many respects the thing wonderful, in America. Among the number there were several Ohio teachers and the editor of the Ohio Teacher. The editor puts in his journal his impression of the things he saw, and we venture the easiest paragraph for a layman's eye: "We might as well admit in the outset that Booker T. Washington has been doing for years what many a white educator has talked about and conjectured he would do some day. During the past five years prominent educators have discussed the pay of teachers in the school at Tuskogee has been motivating for a quarter of a century, and during the past ten years has solved many a pedagogical problem relative to manual training, vocational studies, the correlation of motor and sensory activities and the social efficiency of the individual. While many of us work in schools and other things, Dr. Washington, born in slavery, has been modestly working them out for his race." That is too much for our usual willing hands, and we spread it on the minutes of general achievement, with the rather ragged translation that Tuskegee is the model American university, that it came out of the brain and struggle of a Virginia slave, that it is the beacon light for educational effort everywhere, and that Booker Washington is the prophet of useful learning. If that translation proves not the purpose, it is no fault of ours.—N. Y. Age. The negro must not be a consumer but a producer. He can only be a strong factor in a community in proportion as he purchases real estate and engages in business enterprises. The young women of the race must be given employment in business enterprises as well as in professions. The negro is not contending for social equality in this country. He wants equal rights along all walks of life. With these he would be well contented. --- A London professor has found that the white race is doomed to die off the face of the earth, and he has discovered that the original color of man was brown. While the information brought to us by the London truth-seeker is of great human interest, it is not altogether informing. We do not believe that the white race will ever die off the face of the earth, and its life by fusion, or by the art of combining with all other races against what is still the undiscoverable purpose of time. What the white race may lack in vitality may be supplied by the blue bloods of our own southern states, as represented by the first families of Carolina, led by Tillman; the first families of Arkansas, led by Jefferson Davis, and the first families of Mississippi, led by Jeems Katyldy Vardman. No formula or discovery, and the first defenders of the earth and heated defenders of the white race that their time of passage from the earth will ever come. We side with them. We should have so much to give up white people, for they have their place in the civilization of the world and oggett not to be disturbed by professors and uncoach scientists. As for the color of original man, we have known all along that it was a color other than white, for that color is out of all harmony with nature, but have faced to claim that we should be shouldered its plant form. We are willing to compromise on brown, the most engaging of all the colors, and which fits so well in all scheme and shadings. The whites, as this London professor points out, may be unable to fit in tropical climates, but they have fitted in well enough in Africa to gobble up all the lands and riches of that continent, and in most all other climates, tropical or otherwise, where they have settled. There may be races that go to the races of the earth, their color, shadings, varying constitutions and organisms, such as Boaz of Columbia presents, but that one race will ever completely die away and another race alone survive, give no stock in the fact. It is, let us take our own country, that both white and black, yellow and brown, are increasing year after year, increasing by hundreds of thousands. The group of people called negroes, for example, started out 50 Today, a fair count would give them 12,000,000. So it is with the American whites, with this advantage for the blacks, however, that their increase, except through a handful of West Indians, who do not affect the native colored population numerically, is altogether continental, while the whites are constantly receiving recruits from Europe. We hope the professors and the scientists will give the whites a chance. They are needed and, with prophecy, will be able to all lands and governments. Here in our own country we are doing all we can with them to make them yield up something in the way of equality and justice to men and women of other colors. If they are put off the earth, what are we to do? To whom we are to appeal? How lonely it would be—New York Age. The courts have recently decided that if a person has one-sixteenth negro blood in his veins, such person is to be classed as a negro. We thank the court for that decision; it solves a historical doubt that has been worrying us for many years. We've always admired the glory and achievements of black ethnologists who knew they were colored, but the racially ethnologists whom we studied always denied us the pleasure of thinking they were negroes. The courts have transferred a large section of brilliant history to our side of the house. We wonder what will the Hon. Tom Watson, the greatest master of style that this country has produced, says about this? Won't he have to release some of these black subjects? When Mr. Watson goes again on this theme we are going to cite the decision of learned judges.—Old Hickory. Some weeks ago we read an abj) written editorial in one of the on the very important subject, "Are Preachers Overpaid?" The writer concluded that they are not. But isn't there another side to the question? We think so. And as it is a settled "habit" with us to look for the other side of questions that have been set down and marked Q. E. D., we propose at the first opportunity to look for the other side of this question, to examine into it "with the cold neutrality of impartial logic," extinguishing nothing and setting down naught in malice. "Shall draw the thing as he sees it, for the God of things as they are." _Dallas (Tex.) Express. If you see your neighbor progressing, help him rise by giving him a lift. Do not pull him down. We need race co-operation more than any existing race. We scatter too much. In union there is strength. MUST "MAKE GOOD." The man errs who believes a woman he has jilted forswears love on account of him; the real' truth of the matter is that he never made love sufficiently attractive to be interesting, consequently she wants no repetition of a game that didn't seem worth the candle. SHAVEN LITTLE ONES. The heads of all Chinese babies are shaved when they a month old. THE PARK SOME OF THE IOWA STATE FAIR GROUND SCENES. [Image of two men in formal attire, one with a mustache and the other with a short haircut]. R. N. Hyde and B. N. Hyde, dealers in real estate, have a large number of bargains. Any one would do well to call on them. They have houses, lots and acreage. Also a list of houses to rent. Their terms of commission for selling and trading property are as follows: per cent on the first one thousand, $2\frac{1}{2}$ per cent for all about that. Our rental rattes are: For WASHINGTON, IOWA. June 13—Children's day was observed at the A. M. E. church at Sunday in a fitting manner. The church was nicely decorated with a profusion of flowers and in the afternoon a program of recitions and songs and analogues and music under the direction of Mrs. G. W. Black was carried out by the Sunday school. The pastor, Mr. John, attended the day for church extension. The pastor, Rev. Williams, preached both morning and evening. The many friends in the state of John W. Lewis, R. Ph., M. D., physician and surgeon, of Chicago, a torner Oksalsoa boy, and a particular friend of the writer, will be glad to know of his advancement in the commercial world in that he has organized and established a business of his own in connection with his profession. He is now at the head of the "West Side Drug and Supply Co." at No. 1753 West Lake St. Everything necessary to be carried in a drug and prescription house is in stock and efficient pharmacists and to take care of the trade are in evidence on every hand. Success to the new venture. We wish to call the attention of the readers of this paper to the interesting articles of race progress which appear on the inside of the paper, generally on page 3. The management should be congratulated on the product. Let every reader be a booster and the effort will result in time that the whole paper will be filled with interesting articles of race doings. Mrs. Milligan of Ottumwa is a guest at the home of Henry Rhodes. Miss Marie Redd is visiting at the A. G. Clark house in Osakaloa. A. G. Clark home in Oskaloosa. Last Tuesday evening the young fellow of the School Park for Miss Iona Phillips, who left Wednesday morning for Clinton, Iowa, to remain with relatives during her school vacation. John Spencer of Grinnell visited at the Horace Spencer home last week. The stewardesses of the A. M. E. church held a social at the A. L. Hall home Tuesday evening for the benefit of the church and a neat little sum was made. The school picnic was held Thursday on the banks of the classic Crooked creek and a goodly number availed themselves of the chance for the outing. Mrs. Anderson and Miss Goodin of Ottumwa visited at the Horace Spencer home last Sunday. Fred Williams was a Burlington visitor last Sunday. Mrs. Curry and Mr. Horace Spencer visited in Ottumwa last week. cer visited in Ottumwa last week. Mrs. Sarah Davis and Mrs. Chas. Berkley expect to go to Davenport next week to visit at the Rev. L. J. Phillips home. Quarterly meeting at te A. M. E. Echurch will be July 2. Chas. Hughes of Champaign, Ill. was in the city last week canvassing for a farmers' book. Spencer Bros. were a prominent factor in the bidding on the paving of a street in the city recently. They had the wishes of their many friends renting a house we charge the owner $2, but we charge the renters nothing. We are old and established in the city. R. N. Hyde has been here in business since 1876. B. N. Hyde was born and educated in this city and at Ames college. Our office is 120 W. Grand avenue. Phone Walnut 793. R. N. HVDE and B. N. HVDE. that they might be successful. Frank Leland's Chicago Giants baseball team of Chicago played ball here Wednesday and defeated the home team in a well played game by the score of 7 to 3. The Giants making 4 scores in the ninth inning. success. "He has achieved success who has lived long, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men, and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty nor failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory beamediction."—Bessol A. Stanley. 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Marr of Mound Bayon will give an address in the evening which will be the chief number on the Stewardess program M. M. Marr will tell about the Mound of Mound on a high resident in it, with a community of over 6,000 negroes don't fail to hear this address, at 7:30 clock Sunday June 18. The trustees of the A. M. E. church has awarded the contract for the completion of the plastering and cementing of the A. M. E. church to Mr. G. W. Luckey of Clinton Iowa. Mr. Luckey being the lowest bidder out of five considered If You Want A Good Meal, Ice Cream, Soft Drinks, A Picture Framed, Human Hair Goods Just See R. E. PATTEN Red 52% Patten's Novelty GO. John Carter If You Want A Good Meal, Ice Cream, Soft Drinks, A Picture Framed, Human Hair Goods Just See R. E. PATTEN Ref 5200 Patten's Novelty CO. John Cutter Stomach Troubles Many remarkable cures of stomach troubles have been effected by Cham- berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. One man who had spent over two thou- dand dollars for medicine and treatment was cured by a few boxes of these tablets. Price, 25 cents. Samples free at drug stores. ```markdown ``` [Image of a village with houses, fields, and a river] BIRDS EYE VIEW OF BUXTON. READ w the Des Moines Water Co. Secures its Water Su Des Moines Secures and How the Des Moines Water Co. Secures and Purifies its Water Supply quantity and low cost are the essenlity the consumers of a water supply. Moines Water Company is the purveest sanitary quality, maintaining capacity of five times the normal rate 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 steralized 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. The Leader June Sales Offers amazing values for all. For tomorrow and next week these wonderful bargains are here for you. Of course early selections gives you first choice--that's why we advise it. $1.95 Men's $3 Oxford at $1.95 Men's patent leather, gun metal or tan Oxford, Oxford, positively $3.00 values—Sale price, pair. $1.48 Ladies' $2.50 Oxford at 1.48 Ladies' Oxford or Pumps, veryobby lasts in all desirably leather. Sale price, per pair. $1.48 MEN'S Dress Shirts, coat style, neckband or collar attached, all sizes—values to $1. 50c BOYS' Wash Knee Pants, sizes 6 to 14—a pair at only. 9c Boys 50c Waists at 25c BOYS' Blouse Waists, with separate collars to match, at. 25c CHILDREN'S Rompers, sizes 2½ to 7, in our June sale at. 15c Men's Summer Underwear 21c Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers in colors and black, extra fine garments—shirts or drawers. 21c Boys' Suits 50c LARGE showing of Boys' Wash Suits, sizes 3 to 8. Positively $1.00 values going at. $ 8.95 MEN'S and young Men's Suits—that embody the highest standard of excellence in fabric, style and workmanship. All desirable fashionable colorings, also blue serges are here. Choose any suit fully worth $15 at the low price of only $8.95. The Leader 514 East Locust Street MEN'S pure Worsted Pants, blue serges included in the lot, values here to $4. All go at, pair. . . . Shoes For Men Women and Children JOHN A. BROWN Rev J. C. Reid of Ottumwa, Iowa, one of the leading Ministers of the Baptist denomination. He is Secretary of the State Association and President of Afro-American council and a real race man who will be heard from soon. He has an able helpmate in his wife. FORD'S HAIR POMADE THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINKY OR CURLY HAIR. IT'S USE MAKES STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLAINABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO COMB AND PUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT. WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MAKES SHORT, KINKY HAIR 'GROW LONG AND WAVY. BEST POMADE ON THE MARKET FOR DANDRUFF, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GENUINE, PUT UP IN 25* AND 50* BOTTLES WITH CHARLES' FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE. • SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU, WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES, SMALL SIZED BOTTLE, 25* LARGE SIZED BOTTLE, 50* THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 216 LAKE ST. DEPT. 235 CHICAGO, ILL. AGENTS WANTED. M EN'S Khaki Pants, excellent in every respect, sell in all stores at $1.25 a pair, sale price, pair during our June Sale..... The Lead 14 East Locust S Announcement Patten's Novelty Co., a Consolidated Under N Announcement Extraordinary. Announcement Extraordinary. Patten's Novelty Co., and Brown Bros. Pub. Co., Consolidated Under Name of Pattens Novelty Publishing Company. The Patten Navelty Co., represented by Mr. R. E. Patten, and Brown Bres. Pub Co., represented by Mr. R. E. C Brown, came on terms of consolidation for the purpose of conducting a co-operative business method. Co-operative plan is the only method of doing business and the principle by which we shall conduct this company will appeal to anyone. Competition drives the small dealer out of business but by co-operation we can secure all advantages. $2,000 invested by twenty men in which all may assist actively, will produce four times the result it would if invested by one man. At present we maintain a magazine and publish the progress our people are making along all lines and sue classics stories that you will take delight in reading during your leisure hours, will be the policy of this magazine to publish its monthly issue as is the custom with other publications before the month announced on the cover. We have consequently cancelled Many and June numbers in order to make the change PATTEN'S NO R. E. Patten and H Phone Red. 5296. Clydesdale horses in a harness Iowa Company in Spanish-American War—Under Capt. Brandt M EN'S ribbed or Mesh Union Suits, sizes 36 to 44 Very special, at ..... Extraordinary. d Brown Bros. Pub. Co., name of Pattens Novelty Company. Those subscribers who have paid their subscription will receive their full number of copies. We conduct a restaurant where you can get good service and quality meals at reasonable prices; ice cream porter with sauce dainnes that will appeal to any one. We conduct a printing office with all equipments to do good work at a reasonable price. We frame picture pictures and are dealers in human hair goods. On the first of July we shall move to a larger building on the corner of Eleventh and Center streets, which will be equipped for rendering better service and doing a large business. Will you become a member of this company to make it a success? If not a member you will patronize it on the principle of getting quality goods at a cheaper price than elsewhere. It will not only mean success to the managers or stock holders but success to every negro in Des Moines. If you agree with us "come across." --- Clothes for Men and Boys Des Moines, Iowa CITY NEWS IN. B. If you have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we collect all your local news.—Ed.) Screen Doors, Windows and Wire, Dawson Hardware Co., 417 Sixth ave. Miss Daisy Jacobs has been employed by the Harris-Emery company. Mrs Mary Miller of Newton, Iowa is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. B Hack. Mrs. C. B. Woods, while here attending the grand session. Mrs. Emma Harris, who has been sick, was able to be out again, which is good news to her friends. Mrs. Curd of Davenport, Iowa, is the guest of Mrs. Julia Taylor. Mrs Emma Teabeau of Keokuk, Ia., is the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fields of Park street Rev. Wm. A. Searcy, G. W. J. of J. Monmouth, Ill., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs J. B. Michell. Mrs. Naomi P. Fields, G. C. S. of Keokuk, Iowa, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Wilkinson. Mrs Ella Walkup, G. M. A. M. of Moline, Ill., and Mrs Ella Tarver, G. C. T. of Davenport, Iowa, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Woods. Mr. Wm. Mathews, 421 Ninth street left Monday for Colfax, Iowa, for a few days visit to recuperate his health. Save the Lawn's. Lawn hose and sprinkler's. Dawson's Hardware 417 Sixth avenue. Mrs. L.C. Graves of Minneapolis was visiting in our city last week, the guest of Mrs. Wm. Shackelford. Mrs. Anderson Perkins of Buxton, Iowa, was a visitor in our city this week enroute from Colfax, where she was visiting with old friends Mrs. Mary Durden of Buxton is in our city visiting the Baptist Sunday School. While here she is the guest of Mrs. Minnie Neal. Rev. H. R. Pinckney left last week for Kansas City, Mo., to attend the Central High school, graduating exercises in which his son graduates. He will return this week. A reception given by Mr. and Mrs. John Wilkinson of No. 223 Thirteenth street for the general offices, visitors and delegates Thursday evening from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. The Junior Christian Endeavor society will give a Musical and Literary entertainment at the Union Cougregational church Tenth and Park streets, June 20th, at 8 o'clock. Admission 10c Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Perry of Enterprise, have moved to our city. He built a new house in May at 3118 N. Union street, where they are pleasantly located. Cherry seeders of all kinds at Dawson's Hardware, 417 Sixth avenue. Mrs. Naomi Fields of Keokuk, is in our city, the guest of Mrs. J. H. Wilkerson. She is a delegate to the Grand Court. She made a pleasant call at the Bystander office, as she is our news gatherer for Keokuk. Mrs. Mattie Hickes of St. Paul, arrived in our city last Saturday to spend a fortnight, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Gould. She is well known in our city, having visited here before. She made a pleasant call at the Bystander office. Best mixed paints, varnish, etc. Dawson's Hardware, 417 Sixth avenue. The annual Sunday school picnic of Union Congregational church will be held at Union Park Tuesday, June 27. Every one invited to come and bring your baskets, well filled, also bring the children. There are several of our ladies taking the advantage of the Drake University summer school and have enrolled. Among the new ones are Miss Georgia Blackburn, teacher of Buxton, Miss Nellie Leftage, teacher in Enterprise, Miss Maude Pierson of St. Joseph, Mo., and Mrs. R. E. Patton, of this city. We wish for them success. The Dawson Hardware Co., have moved to 417 Sixth avenue, just south of Cleland's grocery store. Watches... That you will be proud to carry and at prices that you can afford to buy. Come in and see the wonderful showing we are making on $10.00 to $32.00 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. Lawmowmers Mowers and Grass Catchers at Dawson's Hardware 417 Sixth avenue. Mr. Chas, Richardson, who is very sick with paralysis does not improve very much. He remains just about the same, with slight improvement. Mr. Gus Watkins returned from Albany, Mo., where he has been at the sick bedside of his father; he reports that while his father is a very sick man, but he thought him somewhat improved. Mrs. Georgia Caldwell of Keokuk is in our city, having come to remain indefinitely, the guest of her brother, Mr. Charles Wilson, on Arthur street Miss Anna Reeves, who has been visiting in Colorado, the guest of Miss Susie Lee, came home last week, accompanied by Mrs. Susie Lee of that city, who recently graduated from the High school to visit among her friends awhile. Rev. J. C. Reid and wife of Ottumwa, are in our city this week, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore J. Bell on East Maple street. They are delegates to the Iowa and Nebraska State Annual S. S. convention. The International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor's Thanksgiving services will be held next Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p. m. at the Maule Street Baptist church. Sir Knights will leave hall at Eighth and Mulberry streets at 1:30, headed by the new Tabour Band. The Daughter's will meet at the church at 1:30 ard fall-in ranks with the Sir Knights at the church. Mrs. Katie Green, D. M. N. G. of Household of Ruth of United Order of Odd Fellows of Davenport, Iowa, was in our city last week, on her official visit to the Household of Ruth, No. 339 of this city. After a meeting and ritual work, she left for Colfax, Iowa. While in the city she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bryant, on West Eighth street. Mrs. Richard Oliver of Buxton, visited in our city this week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Shackleford She also visited in Colfax, Iowa, with her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Terrell and spent Thursday, June 1st, in Oskaloosa to see her niece graduate from the High school. Her husband, Prof. Richard Oliver joined her and; spent Sunday in our city. He sang at the Corinthian Baptist church, also A. M. E. church. He is the Buxton band leader. They made a pleasant call at our office Monday. Rev. A. J. Carey, D. D. of Chicago, Ill. spent Sunday in our city, preaching both evening and morning at the A. M. E. church. Dr. Carey was a very busy man while here. He spoke before the Minesteral Association and Tuesday, Iowa and Nebraska State Union and Deacon's associations. Tuesday. He lectured at the A. M. E. church. He called at the Bystander office and enjoyed looking over the exchanges as he is an editor of the Chicago Conservator. He complimented our office. He will be here again this fall at the Annual conference. He has his eye on one of the Bishop's of his connection. The house party given by Mr. and Mrs. Gus Watkins gave the opening reception Thursday evening, invitations were issued to many and a very delightful crowd greeted the young girls Thursday evening. It was a very pretty reception, everything in style and up to date. The young ladies composing the party are Laura Pierson and Marguerite Perry of St. Joseph, Mo. Edith Comley, Webster City, Bernice Davis, Mason City; Julia and Mamie Baily, Marble Rock, Iowa; Adah Hyde, Cathine Windsor, Adah Clegger, Nellie Leftage, Marguerite La Court, Alice Mitchell, Lorna Wilson, of this city. There are an equal number of young men who are assisting in entertaining, but as we were unable at this writing to get the names of all the boys we will not publish any at this time. THE CITY CONVENTION. The city convention will hold their regular monthly meeting Monday, July 3, at the home of Mrs. E. R. Hall, 817 Maple street. All delegates are urged to be present, as much important business will be transacted at that time. THE DES MOINES NEGRO LYCEUM The Des Moines Negro Lycceum will hold their semi-annual election of officers and nominees, June 20th, at the home of Attorney and Mrs. S. Joe Brown, 1058 5th street. All members are urged to be present. V. C. M. C. A. The members and friends of the Young Colored Men's Christian Ass'n were fowored with a rare treat last Sunday in the form of addresses by Hon. Jerry Sullivan, former Gunbatorian candidate and Rev. Dr. A. J. Carey, pastor of Industrial A. M. E. church, Chicago. On next Sunday Rev W J. Brown, pastor Seventh St. Baptist church of Keokuk, who is in attendance at the Baptist State S. S Convention will deliver the principal address. Other addresses will be delivered by Rev Dr. J. C. Ried, pastor Second Baptist church of Ottumwa and president of the Iowa Afro-American Council and also by other prominent ministers of said convention. All men and boys are cordially invited. Whooping cough is not daugerous when the cough is kept loose and dangerous when the cough is kept loose and expectoration ersy by giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It has been used in many epidemics of this disease with perfect success. For sale by all dealers. --- THE WORLD'S FIRST WOMAN S. JOE BROWN, A .B., A. M., LL. B Attorney at Law and Notary Public Des Moines, Iowa. A graduate of three colleges of the State University of Iowa; formerly professor of English in languages in Boston; Marianth in New York; de- putte of the Iowa Negro Bar, Associs THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES REV. T. L. GRIFFITH. This cut is Rev. T L. Griffith, who is president District Association and recently received the degree He is the eldest Minister of Des Moines in point of power, able, Christian Ministers. Always ready to This cut is Rev. T L Griffith, who is president of the Western Baptist District Association and recently received the degree of DD by two colleges. He is the oldest Minister of Des Moines in point of pastorate He is one of our strong, able, Christian Ministers. Always ready to assist any worthy person. EDITORIALS. Under the auspices of Union Congregational church, Mine, E. Azalia Hackley of Philadelphia, the greatest prima donna of the race, gave a song recital at the church, Thursday evening, June 8th, which captivated the audience. She has a charming stage presence and an agreeable personality. Her voice is rich and powerful and splendidly trained. Before she recited the song, she explained to the audience the meaning of the composers. And indeed it might be said that between songs she gives musical lectures which helps the audience to a clearer knowledge of music, and hence one who makes no pretensions as to musical knowledge can better appreciate the concert. She explained how as a race we had trained musical powers not possessed by other races, and that if we would one day be able to perform alentons which God has given us, we could sing ourselves to wealth. She emphasized the fact that there were three requisites in singing. The first requisite is brains, the second breath and the third voice. To be a fine singer she said required an education. By proper intellectual training one can grasp that he is being taught, and wisely direct the vocal powers. She gave a most interesting explanation of the muscles of the voice, and how they are formed, and demonstrated clearly how these muscles are exercised and used by great singers. Mme. Hackley is a great race woman, and is deeply concerned as to our future. She told of her struggles and trials to reach the high eminence to which she has attained, and inspired the audience to high hopes by her noble counsel and an earnest representation of the race, and in recognition of her great musical ability, we would do ourselves honor as a people to take the first steps toward the establishment of a National Afro-American Musical Conservatory, at some central point in this country, at the head of which this famous singer and great teacher has been active, and which can go on and sit at the feet of this noble instructor and race lover and learn race patriotism and inspiration from this musical fountain of knowledge. --- HACKLEY. tion; president of the District Normal Institute of the A. M. E. church; statistician of the Iowa Afro-American Council; founder and honorary president of Des Moines Negro Lycum Association; president Inter-Literate Literacy Association; president of the West Worshipful Master of Doriate No. 30, A. E. & A. M. JPS no is president of the Western Baptist given the degree of DD by two colleges. in point of pastorate He is one of our days ready to assist any worthy person. NEGRO BAPTISTS MEET. Iowa-Nebraska Union Holds Session at East Side Church. The Iowa-Nebraska Ministerial and Deacon's union of the colored Baptist churches, closed its sessions at the Maple Street Baptist church last night. The union meeting was preliminary to the state Sunday school convention, which will begin today and continue throughout the week. President John W. Evans of Charinda, presided over the sessions. Among the speakers were the Rev. A. J. Carey, pastor of a large A. M. E. church in Chicago, the Rev. L. N. Daniels, and Rev. G. W. Sims. Among the delegates to the union convention are Rev. J. W. Evans of Charinda, Rev. R. J. Palmer of Burlington, Rev. W. F. Battis, B. S. T. of Omaha, Rev. W. Clark of Marshalltown, Rev. James Bowles of Colfax, Rev. J. Cornelius Reid of Ottumwa, Rev. F. B. Woodward of Baxton, Rev. L. J. Burr of Davenport, Rev. M. J. Burton, missionary; Rev. S. Johnson, Rev. G. Saunders, Deacon F. B. Bowman of Colfax, Deacon L. M. Brown of Des Moines, Deacon J. Evans of Ottumwa, Deacon Rivers Officers of the Iowa-Nebraska union were elected last night as follows: President, J. W. Evans of Clarinda; first vice president, F. B. Brown of Colfax; second vice president, James Evans of Ottumwa; secretary, M. J. Barton of Kookuk; treasurer, G. E. Saunders of Des Moines; executive board, C. Brown of Des Moines, C. Cookson of Omaha, J. Reynolds of Des Moines. The officers were installed by the Rey, W. D. Carter. CITY WATER COMPANY OWNER SHIP On next Monday the city voters will be called upon to express their desires as to the purchase and owning of the city water plant. At one time we favored municipal ownership, but upon a more matured judgment and more experience, leads us to believe that it is not the best thing for our city, because if the city owned the water company there would come such a graft and corruption that would disgust the honest voter and run our city into a greater debt, thereby enhancing our taxes or raising the city water still higher. Therefore, we had better let well enough alone. We now have a fine water system, economically managed. OUR UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE GRADUATES Who They Are, Where They Are And What They Do The Compulsed Their Course One of our very interesting features of the Iowa Special Edition is to name and locate all the colored men and women who have completed their course and graduated in the various colleges, universities and academies of Iowa in the last half century. To our knowledge man has ever attempted this task, therefore we submit these names as a part of the graduates, perhaps not all, but the next attempt will we must be more thorough and complete. Thus the Iowa heyres real part of the Iowa heyres the article contains only the graduates who attended higher courses than high schools, which we will deal with in another section. Perhaps the first colored person to graduate in Iowa is L. Blackshurst, Ph.D., of Tabor College, Tabor, Iowa, now president of the State Normal at Prairie View, Texas. The next one was H. T. Kensington, A. M., of Tabor, now president of the Western University of Quincy, Kansas, and Tabor has shown out one other colored man, Karen Spouse, now a minister in the A.M. church. Tabor is one of the oldest colleges in Iowa, founded by the Those who have graduated from the Iowa State University at Iowa City are Hon. Alexander Clark, St. Olaf, while in the consular service to Liberia; Austin H. Higgs, now of Marshall Mo., M.; S. Joe Brown, now of Des Moines, Iowa; H. H. Hirsch, now of Belo Harte, Venezuela; Edward A. C. Rayon, Iowa, physician; Lawson C. Jones, president of Piney Woods institute, Braxton Miss.; Edward W. Thompson, Guthrie, Okla., pharmacist; Wm. T. Redan, St. Joseph Mo., lawyer; Rufus P. Beshears, St. Joseph, Mo., dentist; Geo O. C. Campbell, Columbia, Mo., pharmacist; St. Julien O. Drayton, Columbia, S. C. pharmacist; Blaine Dau, Laurea La; Geo. Overstreet of Kentucky, both of these are Pikin High School, Iowa City who bears the distinction of being the first colored student to receive the degree from the College of Applied Science. Those graduating from Drake University at Des Moines are Edward E. Johnson, physician, Indiana, Indiana; Albert Bell, lawyer, Sheehan, Wye; Miss Lulu Gaines, teacher; W. Kansas City public schools; W. Kansas City public schools; D. C.; Goo L. Hott, law and music and music; Des Moines; John L. Thameson, lawyer and editor, Des Moines; A. E. Lee, dentist, Des Moines; Luther L. Henderson, professor of histology, State University, Langston, Okla.; Nanael Sawyer, wife of Dr. Luther Sawyer, professor of topica, Kans.; Miss Edith Cowley, from the College of Oratory and Education of Webster City. Those coming from the state col DOSONS. Clearance Sale day, June 17.. throughout the Month USEFURNISHINGS and DRAPERIES S and GAS STOVES. STOCK and VERY REDUCED REDUCTIONS. Calling events of the year at Davidsons, namely Craftsman furniture, Globe- on which factories place a stipulated ons will prevail throughout the entire not the essential feature of David- portance—and Quality and Low Price price, through the medium of which we ncts of thousands throughout Des time to our store at any time during good furniture at lower prices than at any time during the remainder of DAVIDSONS. June Furniture Clearance Sale Begins Saturday, June 17. and Continues Throughout the Month FURNITURE AND HOUSEFURNISHINGS RUGS, CARPETS and DRAPERIES REFRIGERATORS and GAS STOVES. OUR ENTIRE STOCK and VERY UNUSUAL and PRONOUNCED REDUCTIONS. This is one of the greatest selling events of the year at Davidson's. With the exception of a few lines, namely Craftsman furniture, Globe-Wernicke Office Furniture, etc., upon which factories place a stipulated price, exceptionally strong reductions will prevail throughout the entire stock. Remember that low prices is not the essential feature of Davidson's sales. Quality is of equal importance—and Quality and Low Price form a combination in this instance, through the medium of which we appeal to the money-saving instincts of thousands throughout Des Moines and vicinity. Watch the daily papers. Come to our store at any time during the last two weeks of June and buy good furniture at lower prices than you will be enabled to secure it for at any time during the remainder of this year. DAVIDSON'S IOWA'S LARGEST FURNITURE STORE 414-414-416-418-WALNUT-ST. and Straightening Oil C. H. H. The most wonderful hair preparations on the market. When we use Magic we do not compete, as you can see result results in the few treatments. We guarantee Magic Hair grower to stop the hair once from falling out and to walking, making hair shinier hair and silky. Magic Hair grower grows hair on hard points of the head, and you use these preparations once you will never be without them. Magic Hair grower will also assist you to maintain it maintained only by Macdonald South & Johnson. MAGIC HAIR GROWER SOO. STRAIGHTENING OIL 01267 SHORTCAST NO. 0124 All orders must be paid by check, send live for delivery, or pay by money pany all orders ATTENTIONS WANTS Written Recommendation We carry everything in the latest fashionable hair goods at the lowest prices. 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. BYSTANDER ANNIVERSARY. Our eightth anniversary having come we extend greeting to our thou-sands and thousands of readers throughout this country. We have struggled along for this many years trying to encourage and inspire the latent power with new hope and zeal. We are meeting a longfelt want among our people in the middle west. The Bystander is now giving our readers more news clean, clear and wholesome, than it has in the past and with your co-opers in the present and future to place our race before the civilized world, in their proper sphere. Then, as吏forteon with your help, let us pull onward and upward, lifting our brother's burden and give hope and encouragement to the race. THE IOWA SPECIAL EDITION This week we have attempted to give to the world in brief what some of our most important citizens are going to, what the children of our country are going to done within the past 15 years of their freedom. There are many worthy examples and people that we could not mention this time. We find worthy examples of members of our society in all parts of Iowa, working among their white brothren, making a good law adding citizen, and helping to develop Iowa in all her diversified industries and agricultural parents. We are very much indebted to our many friends and all our neighbors who are a worthy one. We thank you one and all and would urge that our readers patronize those who advertise in our paper, hoping that every reader who may scan this issue will find something to encourage and inspire him in the race of Life to higher ideals. COLORED BOY WINS FIRST PRIZE The Spaulding Contest at Grinnell. For the first time in the history of old Grimdl College the Spaulding prize of $20 and a scholarship was won by Redmon of Colfax, Iowa, the subject of his oration being "The African in America." There were five contestants, the second place was won by W. H. Young, subject "Elijah P. Lovejoy, the Martyr." Young Redmon is the only colored student at present in this college. Our fellow citizen and old friend Harry Crews has been appointed to a position in one of our city parks by the superintendent of public instruction, J. Wesley Ash. Mr. Ash has more colored men working in his department than any other head of departments. To our knowledge Charley Schramm has none, neither Helen Hill nor Shawn. It seems the wise for our colored voters to think about those things when next city election comes around. All we ask is an equal chance in the political position and a square deal. Mr Crews is a good man and a worthy man for the place. MME JOHNSON & SOUTH --- ```markdown ``` --- Lage at Ames, George W. Carver, professor of agriculture at the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.; P. C. Parks, Clark University, Atlanta, Ga. Those graduating from the Iowa Westeyan University, Mt. Pleasant, are Mrs. Susan Mosely Grandison of Pleasant; Louise Mason, Mt. Pleasant; M. Mason, Mt. Pleasant teacher in the public schools of Kansas City, Mo.; Miss Agnes Mason, a teacher in Illinois. The Iowa College of Grinnell is Lo Welker, physician, Chattanooga, Tenn. He took a post graduate course at Yale, the first Iowa man of color to receive a degree from Yale. The ncolell college gives us us Frank Coleman Institute and Henry Coleman of Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Ark. Those holding diplomas from Coe College are Wm. Bruce, lawyer of Color Rapid, mail carrier; Linton U. Martin, Minneapolis, Minn. (state University). Penn college gives us Miss George Blackburn, teacher in the public From the Memorial University at Mason City comes James Loggett and from College Spring Academy comes Upper Prince (groceryman) in Coin, Iowa; Miss Florence Black. Simpson College gives us James Shackelford, Colorado Blaine Park National College reports the following: W. J. Weitheer, pharmacy, Chicago; Mrs. Mattle Dickinson, pharmacist; at Baxton; Meet Nina Field, music teacher in Worcester, Okla., and Ralph Armstrong, J. G. Groves, business course, Kansas. The Upper Iowa University reports C. W. Lewis, teacher in a white school in Fayette county, Iowa. The town Business College gave a diploma to John L. Thompson, and the Capital City Commercial College graduated Miss Zella Davis and Kenneth Haltzall. The City Contest The City convention held their annual elimination contest, Monday evening June 12th, at St. Paul A. M. E. church. Eight different literary clubs of the city were represented in the various contests. The winners and subjects of the compositions are as follows: Oratory—1st. "The Way to Victory" – Miss Nellie Leidridge. Dramatic Art Club—2d. "Power of Unity" – Mr. J G Dillinger—Des Moines Nogee Lyceum Association. Poetry - 1st. "Spring." - Miss Vivian Warrick - Warrick's Choral society. 24-Mrs. H. W. Hughes--Intellectual Improvement club. Music--"Sad Heart"--Prof. W. H. Warrick--Des Moines Negro Lyceum Association. Nectly Furnished Rooms and Good, Board at Reasonable Prices at ELLA EPPERSON 1125 West Walnut Street. Des Moines. Phone, Red 4076 IMPORTANT COMING EVENT FOR CITIZENS OF ST. LOUIS. Educators to Hold Eighth Annual Convention There July 26-30. Unusual interest is being taken at this early date in the forthcoming eighth annual convention of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, to be held in St. Louis from Wednesday, July 26 to 30, inclusive. The convention will be the guest of the city teachers, who will act as a reception committee. Professor R. H. Cole, principal of the Simmons school, is chairman of the committee. Summer high school, in which the sessions of the convention will be held, is admirably adapted for such gatherings. The fact that Dr. Booker T. Washington is to be one of the principal speakers has created new interest in the work of the association, and the attendance will doubtless exceed that of former years. The officers of the association are: President, W. T. B. Williams, agent of the Slater fund, Hampton, Va.; vice presidents, Inman E. Page, president of A. and M. college, Langston, Okla.; N. B. Young, president of A. and M. college, Tallahassee, Fla.; L. S. Clark, president of Baton Rouge college, Baton Rouge, La.; F. L. Williams, principal of Summer high school, St. Louis, and I. M. Terrell, supervisor of schools, Fort Worth, Tex.; secretary, Ida C. Plummer, city schools, Washington; assistant secretary, Mrs. J. E. Porter, city schools, Okmuglee, Okla.; corresponding secretary, J. R. E. Lee, director academic department, Tuskegee institute, Tuskegee, Ala.; treasurer, J. A. Martin, principal city schools, Jackson, Miss.; registrar, G. H. Garvin, principal city schools, Winchester, K.; chairman executive committee, M. W. Dogan, president Wiley university, Marshall, Tex. Young Afro-Americans of Real Worth. The race takes pride in the success of the following young Afro-Americans who will graduate from the several departments of the University of Pittsburgh this summer. They are Hubbard Hollenworth, Riley Lettwick and Ray H. Wooten, collegiate and engineering department; William Writt, Jr. and S. Rosemond Davis, medical department; Loe P. Phillips and Mr. Primus, pharmaceutical department, while Daniel W. Hall gets his certificate for a special course in the industrial arts from Carnegie Technical schools. Sore Nipples. Any mother who has bad experience with this distressing ailment will be pleased to know that a cure may be effected by applying Chamberlain's Salve as soon as the child is done nursing. It 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. ache “ el eR a if hi tO ard the. Soapbox Babies lagnus G, Atrer Pearse sense GCE tnST, Star BLU Presi evey pabies ‘of | houses that clustered about the gr AEE nahiee A Ace ahs | Had Deon Dullt for the teams that fthens. One of her friends ia Miss Cyn: | nad become the property of the gn ha! Bonk e" citee tua aif wfahen £6 | that had brought the horses and me (tablish & studio In her barn, ‘Blossom, | to the settlement was finished. Tt Mie teeny ee of thats as eviders | AMF had moved on, leaving the bar Pieterence: for Alan, When Cynthia | and the grocery in a sort of guardia: Geaets AP Tod Neh onektcaa’ 'k | Ship of the few families which elect fins. fells new ane came, t, ovate tein | over in the city, Only the HIN Ma CHAPTER 1V.—Continued. nillared verandas and spreading wing “No, Miss Selina Lue, not worse; i's the mortgage agal.. Mr. Everson was out Monday, and he says the— the whole place will have to be sold. He has a good proposition from the land company, which wants to pave and improve the whole tract and push it on the market for us; but they must have the house too, for the situation 1s valuable and they can sell It to the Golf club, which will Insure the sale of all the lots. If we don't take their offer, ft means we shall have to sell it all at a disad: vantage and perhaps only make the mortgage. Mother refuses to decide it for herself and has left {t to me. What shall I do? I don’t want—to sell—my home, but there seems no way to keep it.” Miss Cynthia's lips quivered, but her eyes smiled bravely down at Miss Selina Lue. “Honey, my heart ts jest a-aching fer you, but there ain't nobody can tell what a mortgage and a Golf club will do. If worst comes to worst, we can build another room by tearing down some lumber offen the barn, and you can bring your ma right here to live with me. I would admire to have her." Miss Selina Lue made her oer with herofe eagerness, for she and the fnvallded Mrs. Jackson Page had fafled to find the accord which existed between the grocery owner and the scion of all the Jack- sons and Pages, albelt their few inter- Mews had been marked by great cor- @iality for the sake of thelr common interest In the conductor thereof. “Miss Selina Lue, you are a darling and I would rather be a soap-boxer than almost anything; but we shall have a small competency if we sell now in the right way. It's giving up the home—I'm afraid it will kill her— she worries so.” “No, it won't, honey, not when she's Bot you—you'd be a set-off against any Kind of trouble. Leaving an old home 1s a wrench, as T found when 1 hitched up and started down from Warren county; and, Miss Cynthie. I left graves behind me that I might not never see again in this world. Tut it looks like the Lord floated mine and Charity’s mother's ark on the Het mountain, and He'll do the same by you and your ma. Now, don’t 0 ind mistrust His wisdom In selecting mountains." ‘Oh. Miss Selina | ne, T knew you Would say the right thing about ft all What would 1 do without you?" and Miss Cynthia's slim white hand stole in Miss Selina Lue's strong brown one, whose sympathetic clasp was only rendered the closer by the smudge of sorghum off the Kinney molasses pitcher which held their fingers tight together, “Looks lke 1 couldn't hardly stand ft if T couldn't git even tho edge of my shoulder under any burden you Was wearrying, honey. Now, I've got Something to show you that'll take Your mind fen all distractments. Lay Blossom in her box and come along of me to the barn.” Considering its relation to the gro- cery and the Bluff in general, the hern wos a most ostentatious struc | on the brow of the Bluff overlooking the river, while the little handful of houses that clustered about the gro- i cery seemed stranded at its feet. It had been buflt for the teams that had worked on the dam up the river, and had become the property of the gro- cery owner for a song when the work that had brought the horses and men to the settlement was finished. The army had moved on, leaving the barn and the grocery in sort of guardian. ship of the few families which elected to stay and find work on the river or over in the city. Only the Hill Man- sion of Mrs. Jackson Page farther up the river on the Bluff had any such outlook, and for all its wide, toll- pillared verandas and spreading wings It falled entirely to dwart the impos- ingness of the barn. “Is {t a new calf, Miss Selina Lue?” demanded Miss Cynthia as they en- tered the door together. “Lands alive, child, the little spotted ‘one ain't more'n two months old. what's sold to Mr. Si Bradford's cousin on ‘count of the richness of Charity’s milk to raise from.” “I beg your pardon, madam,” sald Miss Cynthia with elaborate courtesy. as she threw Charity a bough of sugar- maple leaves she had pulled for that exact purpose on the way up. Charity gave her tail a friendly switch and her large soft eyes roamed over the radiant visfon by her stall with placid appreciation. “Don't you and Charity gossip too tong.” called Miss Selina Lue from halfway up the ladder. “Mind your dress don't get snagged on that nail there.” ‘A little breathless, Miss Cynthia pushed her head up through the open- ing and cautiously swung herself to the floor above; then halted and stood spellvound, ‘The barn loft had become another world! A large window that stretched half across the end, opened out to the blue hills across the valley, and the river wound through the pic: ture like a silver thread. On the walls were rough sketches and some pictures. hold and startling, and in the middle of the room stood an easel on which was a huge canvas. A cot with one of Miss Selina Lue's old patchwork quilts covering {t stood in one corner, and a familiar gray coat hung from a peg. With horror Cynthia realized that she was in the camp of the enemy, and her first inclination was for pre: cipitous fight, but Miss Selina Lue’s bright eyes held her, and for the life of her she could not voice her dismay to that plainly overjoyed lady. “Now, there!” she _ exclaimed. breathless from the climb and from delight. “I've got you here at last. and I can see how happy you are from your face. Ain't it a surprise to have a art gallery Jest sprout up ‘at your back door unbeknownst to ‘you or anybody else? It do beat all how that boy can paint! Now come here and get a good light on this fone here in the middle. You would think that any light up here would be ‘a good one, with that big window he Knocked in the wall there—Mr. Plarity: ‘helping him of nights and Mr. Dobbs a-putting In the glass—Dbut It ain't, and you've got to step around to git Jest the right view of them.” Miss Cynthia stood before the ean: vas, lost, unable to utter a word. He had painted the sunset hour on the wharf and the roustabouts unloading bales of hay from up the river in the mellow light, It was a tremendous, decorative thing of which Miss Cyn thia had never seen the equal. “It’s a order for a big building in Chicagy, and, Miss Cynthie, what do you think? It’s to be hung on the walls of a room where workingmen can go and have meetings, and some big rich men are going to pay him ten thousand dollars for this one and to be ubout the doing of something, and I think it will be mighty uplift ing to men that has to work as hard fas them men does to have a great artist paint pictures of the doing of it. He says this one is his best—has got more climate than the others.” “More climate?” asked Miss Cynthia fn a small voice. “Yes, climate all around {t: lke that sunset light on the prow of the boat and the men's backs and sich.” } “Didn't he call {t atmosphere?” ven tured Miss Cynthta delicately. That's it! T knew it had some thing to do with the weather. Any. way Tam learning to know it when I see ft, like out the back door at early sun-up when I take in the Flar ity twins. It seems Ike all the men in the Painters’ Union tries to paint with ft. Once along come a man named Singer and painted it better’ any of ‘em ‘cause it’s borned In some folks, like the making of pies and cake and sich. ‘That's a copy of the picture the man done of his own mother. over there by the cot. Mr. Alan always takes it with him ‘eauso lie ain't got no pleture of his own mother, who had the mischance ta jae when he was boned. He says the picture means everybody's mother anyway—and 1 think it do.” “Oh, Whistler's mother! — How Beautiful! I wonder If he made the copy himself?” “Yes, he done it over xcross the ‘ocean-—in Jerusalem, T think. And the man's name is Whistler instead of Singer. 1 remember it was some kind of a musicianer, He talks ard tells me all about every kind of art-thing and sometimes I am kinder slow at catching on, but T like it and I feel like 1 was shearing a person come back from heaven and atelling about what's over there. And Mary Ellen Dobbs and Mis’ Kinney and the rest feels the same about ft. him being Jest as kind about telling and showing them as cai be. Mary Ellen left Ethel Maud to watch the pot for din her the other day while she come over here to see a picture he had painted of her back yard and clothes line I was wtelling her about, and the child let the bacon and cabbage burn and then tasted ‘em! When her mother got back she ran screech ing something orful with a burnt tongue. Mr. Alan put some of his own tooth-wash on ft to make her hush; he’s such a hand with children as I never saw often.” ‘As Miss Selina Lue talked. Miss Cynthia was looking from one picture to another, rapt in delight. The rough sketches of men and draft horses and great loaded carts and straining mule teams were awein- spiring. bit were relieved by tender bits of landscape and quick sketches of the children in charming character- istic poses. How strange it seemed to find them hanging on the walls in the old Bluff barn! And yet perhaps no stranger than to find the painter himself coming and going among the Bluff people in perfect sympathy and friendship. For a moment her heart was abased before nim in admiration —and could 4t have had a touch of longing?—when Miss Selina Lue pre- cipitated the old enmity upon her again. “And this here picture of you, Mist cynthie, is jest done to a turn, When I first seen it I took such a fit over it that he promised to do a real big like- ness of you some day. But whatever made bim paint the back of you I dort &now. It was on the river road, wasn't it?" And Miss Selina Lue picked up a small sketch that stood against a pile of bsoks on the table. ‘The recently melted blood in Miss [cynthia’s veins froze again stif and hard as she gazed on the picture in Miss Selina Lue’s hand, It was a bit of the river road with the forked tree In the distance, and retreating down the vista was a back view of herself, skirts switching, ribbons flying. snd roses on her hat as stiff as possible Every line in the figure breathed stift ness and snubbery, and it was the cleverest bit of work she had ever seen, Oh, why had she passed him stonily there in the lane, only to give him such a chance? The wretch! And under the picture was a line that added injury to the Insult—“What care I how fair—" Her face burned and an explosion was imminent, but was cut off in the fuse by Miss Selina Lue. “I think the writing under it 1s so sweet and good, and like him; for of course he means he likes you Jest as much with your blue eyes and yellow hair, even if it ain't the style he most- ly admires. Looks don’t make no difference in his liking; though a heap of men Is all for looks, and nice goodness In women don't interest them noways. Not that you ain't got looks in plenty of your own kind. Dearie me, If I aln't left the grocery to mind itself! [must hurry on down, but you come along when you're done looking. He says his friends are always wel- come to come up and look and 1 know he means you more'n anybody.” Miss Selina Lue paused as she gath- ered her stiMy starched gingham skirts about her preparatory to de- scending the Indder. “Fioney.” she sald, “I've jest got to tell you what he's s-going to do for me. You know that little, old, faded tintype I've got. what fs all that’s mortal left to me of Adoniram Millsaps? Well, he's going to make was: Hitpataed Hikeneas 06k, No Acrobat. Smith—I say, my good fellow, do you know you have your board upside down? T cannot read it like that? Sandwich Man—Well, ef you thinks I'm agoin’ ter walk abart on me giddy ‘ead ter please the kes o' you, you're folly well mistook.—Tit-Bits, Wis ict Gosbp Officers Named for Imaginary Army Postal Clerks Ask Right to Organize Would Label the Unspoken “Speeches” Auto-Suggestion Way of Keeping Cool [fticwr Fours) Sang ~ ‘= FORARD We fe Rint AB ER a | SB i} LAG W \SHINGTON.—An army that does not exist is being officered by the sear Gapartieent in abgalewee to th GANGpte of corgveme’ ALY cad more men versed In the profession of arms te alrendy on the eligible let for com {Bison n"this army. Three. nex boards of army officers, composed of seasoned colonels, experlenced majors, Jcaptaina and Orat apd secood Howton ul, were roceutly Rasaed to pare upon {ie qualiacetipus of ether eondlante ambitfoun fo dlrect fmaginary malar bees Arterous Ward's shoulder strap com pany of wivinee aaunleg to take Dart in he big family feud of 1864-8, had at least one private—the bumor- iat Mdneelt, whe wan 18 command; but the army of the Ualled states volun teers is to have none. Don Quixote armed with a big stick, bis head pro- fected by a “Malbring helmet: mount aon his charger, "Wosinante”” an followed by the faithful Sancho Panza Ee ses oF the poate coe particularly the men employed it te railway mail braneh, are making 8 determined fight for legislation under which they may organize and affiliate with the Ameriean Federation of La or. Samuel Gompers, president of the federation, Is supporting the move ment. Many men formerly in” the postal service, but who were let out because they were active In encouraging em ployees of the service to organize, have {old the committee. of the. wrons which they assert are done the em ployees. In a general way, the griev tnce of the employees is that men ar frequently dismissed for purely polit feal reasons, men let out of the serv fee have no recourse, “Tea potnted out that the postome ‘department now forbids the fndividua employee from laying any complain jhe may have before. his senator” 0 [member of congress. The elvil servic ConiHan bee Bois IA fer wanes ‘s [THAT WAS A Say cam yrnerry C000 Ges ake eT aE torr vie 5 Se aos PS, M@bins’, B ee rts ee a RepREseNTanives vicron wun, DOCK, Insurgent Tepubiiean. of Kansas; Swager Sherley of Kentucky and Frank Clark of Florida, both Dew erate, have been fighting. to. have orecy ‘unspoken “apeen priu(ed i the Congressional Record labeled tomething ike thie: “Mot delivered f the house ol tepesenttran” ‘Thewe men believe that the Record aa nee tonven the peste porvoteete Sad tu ibe taunel trary Gime ita Sur tha Gougaamae Us {Ivana (hs tolloving tpcch oa: much gate, when all Congressuian ——— Sia waa a gel petanine (> Ile Ae ae Oo vicvarad qiadl A WILTED representative, Join J. Fitzgerald of Brooklyn, N. Y., chairman of the house appropriations committee, 1s the first distinguished convert to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley’s theory with respect to the effect of auto-suggestion on the temperature of the body. Mr, Witzgerald sat at his desk all through a sizzling, swelter- ing day, wearing a smile of perfect peace. His coat was buttoned tight: ly, the collar of {t turned up around his neck, and every now and then he shivered with unseasonable delight. Right in front of Mr. Fitzgerald a large person with bushy black whis: kers lay on his stomach on a snow. bank squinting through a transit or some other funny looking instrument of that sort, To his right another large person, clad in furs, sat on a cake of ice and scribbled busily In a notebook. In the middle distance three Eskimo dogs fought over a dead fish, In the background dozens of stately Ice barges floated round casu- ally. “['m certainly happy that I found ene ; Wihietle te Dodee Sergs. These are the days when icebergs worry the transatlantic steamship skippers, It Isn't pleasant to run along through @ fog on a murky night and smash into one of those floating moun- tains of ice. The 'ner captains iiave a way of finding ice that at first strikes the landsnian as curious, When it ts suspected there are bergs In the neigh- vorhood the whistle is kept going. If there Is an echo the navigator slows down and keeps a sharp eye out, for echoes don't grow In the open ocean. Unique Lighthouse. Lighthouse keeping from the matn Jind Is posstble in the case of a now light heuse on the coast of Guernsey. one of the Channel Islands. The light house contains a powerful fog siren. ‘ag well as an acetylene light, and the lighthouse keepers are stationed a8 the electrical plant on the shore, moro than a milo distant Trlumph of Nature, ‘Thera Is not go contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.—Locke. ‘was @ more real, more tangible and more formidable force than the ghost ly army of United States volunteers. It's a joker tn the Dick militia bill, en- acted Into law by congress on May 27, 1908. ‘The Dick bill originally provided for an actual army of United States volun- teers similar to the volunteers who en- Usted for the Spanish-American war after state organizations were found to be troublesome. ‘The bill also provided for a separate section for an eligible list from which officers were to be commissioned when the army of United States volunteers, subject only to the will of the com- mander-in-chief af the armies of the Untied States, might be called into be ing In a condition of war. ‘The secton providing for the vol unteer army was stricken from the bil in the course of a legislative wrangle over the privilege of the states to on ganize volunteers. ‘The authority cre ating the army was thus destroyed, but the contingent section bringing into ex istence the list of eligibles for the army's commissioned offificers was not disturbed. The bill thus passed con- gress, disembodying the army but pro- viding officers for It. ‘That i» why tho war department fs now qualifying men as eligibles. Zh haa \mey Fae Se, 2 Sy us FoR Pegesce SO tert rene 4 yo TaN ee ae LOPS” Bt Witt ae is eee of domine ed in the grievances of the postal em. Meee ond inthe sonmitce onc uscript Intended for the consumption of his constituents, at the expense of the United States government, “It is the only honest way,” de clared Murdock to the correspondent, “The Record, under the present sys- tem, {s not a true report of the pro- ceedings of the house. It may well be that an article of value, prepared by a member of congress, should be printed in the Record, but {t should be 80 designated. “The first result of labeling things in the record by their right names would be the abandoning of the pres- ent abuse by Individual representa. tives, When @ man’s constituents be gin to ask him, ‘Did you really deliver this speech, or did you Just have it printed?’ he will quit the practice. “Congress could not possibly afford the time that would be necessary tor the delivery of all the speeches that appear in the Record. ‘Therefore, speeches will have to be shortened, ‘and they ought to be. fred [TL SSS (THs 1S A ZA GREAT u qe \ ocd — 1 folie \BELIEVE fo) hae |e 2 (copyRicn”| Ses this painting of the ‘Farthest North of the Greely expedition,” sald Mr. Fitzgerald, referring to the enormous canvas In’ front-of him, which, mas sively framed, covered most ot the west wall of the blg appropriations committee's room. "Dr, Wiley ts right when he say's this worrying about the heat 1s largely the result ot one's mental attitude. I've bem sitting here looking at this pleture for an hour and Iam thinking of resuming my winter flannels, t wish I could carry {t around with me.” “This autosuggesting business 1s fine.” Mr. Ftlzgerald remarked to a visitor. “I'm going to install a plc ture of the burning of Rome in my homie next winter and see how much | can save on coal bills.” Considerable Halibut, A ballbut caught recently tn Thurso bay measured seven and one-half fect iong and over three feet broad, and welghed over two hundred and’ fitty pounds, It was far the biggest Hah caught off the north of Seotlaad tor many yeurs, and was sold for over £4 gis. gma. ‘The old notion that women are more emotional than men has bean disered: ited by a celebrated authority of Eu rope. An Old Maine Bear Trap, TB. F, Bates of Oakland basa bear trap made by a Lubec blacksmith In 1787 to catch bears. ‘The present own- er has also used It for this purpose, ‘The trap has cwo Iurge springs, one ‘on each side of tho Jaws; on one of ‘the jaws are five large teeth and on the other side six. ‘The Jaws bave an opening of 12 by 14 inches.—Lewiston Journal. ‘One of Nature's Wonders, A bee can carry twice ita own weight in honey. Miss Morgan’s Message was damesten eek acre SISGsGn, was deserted, and moved slowly on. | It scemed impossible that a girl of such refinement could be deliberately beckoning to him, a total stranger, yet once more before be moved on ‘the gesture had been repented. Then someone had come and led the girl away from the window. All that day Caspar Casscells per- formed his duties in a mechanical sort of fashion while bis mind re- volved the happenings of the morning. He regarded himself as a keen judge of human nature and thts girl at the window did not seem to be the sort of person to indulge In a vulgar firta- ‘tion with an unknown man. And yet ‘ho could have wworn that she had thrice beckoned to him. He detested such things and he strove to put her from his mind, yet his dreams wero all about a girl with great masses of golden halr piled upon her shapely head. Her features bore every Indication of gentle breed: ing and, constantly in hls dreams, she beckoned to him. It was the same the next day. As he came from his office the girl was standing In the sunshine at the win- dow and again the beckoning gesture was repeated, while a merry smile displayed the full red tips and fiash- Ing teeth He went up the street with a curt ous sense of disappointment. He felt fan interest in the girl that he could not explain and still less susceptible [of explanation was the fact that he [could feel an interest In any woman who would flirt with a stranger in the street. He was genuinely glad when one morning the face did not show at the window and the front stoop was boarded up. He told himself that now |he could give his entire attention to his business again, but he soon found out his error, for sleeping or waking he thought only of the girl who beck oned, In the end he was forced to confess to himself that he was in love with the girl. It preyed upon him until at last 2 vacation became {mperative and, turning his patients over to another practitioner, Casscells went to the mountains, He arrived shortly before supper time and as he passed down the broad corridor toward bis room, he [nme to an abrupt halt, while beads of perspiration stood out pon his brow. Directly before him was the gir who had beckoned and not until she came close and Casscells could see that she was actual flesh and blood did bis fears subside. He had though for one horriblo instant that she was fan apparition conjured up by his dis eased brain. He met her after supper and a! | she gave her slim, cool hand into bi | fevered grasp, he breathed a praye of thankfulness that he at last knew her. ‘Are you the Dr. Casscells of Gor don?" she asked. He bowed his af firmative and she went on. “I re member a sign across the street from us, I live in Gordo, too. We moved there just before we came to thé mountains.” “L think I have seen you,” he said staggered for an instant by het frankness, Could she b9 trying t recall to his memory hgr frantle <* forts to attract bis attention? “1 think T have ween you once oF twice," she sak carelessly; —“yo% must be more neighborly when we re turn.” Grace Morgan turned her attentior to one of the othe men who formed her little court and presently Cass cells slipped away to ponder over the meeting. If she had beckoned to him, he reference to having s en him was t¢ recall the fact, yet even now he could not bring himself to believe that he was right in bis deductions, For twé weeks he puzzled over the situation while be devoted bimself to Miss Mor gan. He made rapid headway in gaining | Net affections and though he was no |a vain man, he felt that he had onl to speak, Yet again his dislike of a ‘common filrtation deterred him. It was near the end of his stay tha the situation cleared. He had beer down to the postoffice in the light drizzle that kept most of the guests Indoors, and as he came across. the wet grass he discerned Miss Morgan standing at one of the dining room windows and sho was making the same gesture that had first attracted his attention, ‘As she caught his eye, she thren up the window and called out an in vitation to enter. Divested of his wet things he sought the dining room. Grace was still making that beckon ing gesture, but as he entered she gave a little cry of triumph. “Tye got him,” she called excitedly. “please, doctor, will you raise the cover of that box, 80.” ‘Sho dropped the imprisoned fly Into the tiny cage and watched a chame Teon as {t seized ups the Insect, “'m getting to be quite an expert fly catcher.” she ald as she turned bnek to the window to resume her “bunt, “I got this Ite fellow when we were In Florida last winter, and Tre done nothing tut cates ilies ever since for him.” “You were catching flies for him the first time T ever saw you.” he Buying a Suit. “If madame will pardon me, this sult does not mateh her complexion as well as the other.” “The sult {s all right, I want it to ‘match a bull pup.” Hotel Proprietors Suddenly Come To Relief of Thirsty Patrons WILL FIGHT COURT RULING Hotel Owners Apply for Rehearing land Declare Intention of Tak: ing Case to United States Supreme) Courts the Kirkwood, resumed serving liq- That many more days will be added | ‘The supreme court has indicatea [for @ rehearing until the September tied until that time, so far as the PAROLE IS DENIED PRISONER The Parole Board Refuses to Show Mercy Upon the Plea That Pris- oner Has Suffered Enough. Des Moines, June 16—The hopes of an imprisoned man were blasted today when the parole board refused to parole L. R. Van Tassel, serving fa life sentence for killing his young Wife fifteen years ago. The crime was committed near Ionia, in Chickasaw ‘county. A skilled Chicago detective ‘claimed to have secured a confession from Van Tassel (who always, clalm- ed his innocence), and upon the evi- ‘dence of the detective and cireum- stantial evidence, Van Tassel was convicted, The parole board, review: ing the case, says that the evidence shows that Van Tassel committed the murder, disregarding the alleged con- fession, and that “the law is the ae "The board refuses to show merey on the theory that Van Tassel has suffered enough and should be allowed to enter the world and live a life of usefulness. MASONIC MEETING CLOSES The Retiring Grand Master Fred W. Craig of Des Moines Is Giv- en Fine Jewel. Cedar Rapids, June 16.—With the installation of ‘the new grand off! cers and the presentation of a hand- some jewel to the retiring grand master, Fred W. Craig, Des Moines, the sixty-eighth annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Towa Masons has Closed. Burlington is making elubor- ato plans for the next annual meet ing when a bronze tablet will be um veiled to commemorate the founda Hiou of the first lodge in Towa in 1837, "The Youngest June Bride. Des Moines, June 16.—-Winnie Lew: is, 12 years old, is the youngest June ‘pride in Des Moines, Last. Sunday, with the full consent of her parents, Winnie, who is a pupil at Seott school, and Frank Bishott, 20 years old, were married at the home of her aunt in Williamsburg. Winnie's moth: er is not quite 37 years old and is the grandmother of au S-vearotd boy. Thousand at Meeting. Mason City, Tune 16-—-Over 1,000 Towa bankers are here attending the twenty-fifth amual ‘meeting and. si ver jubilee, The address of welcome was by C,H. MeNiger, president ot tho First National of this city. Prof, J. Lawrence Laughlin, Chicago uni versity, speaks toMy. ‘Seite Varied Whew [is dis hansla. St. Louis, Mo. June 16.—Losses. conservatively estimated at more than $1,000,000 were sustained in a fire which’ raged for four hours last night in @ manufacturing district bordering for four blocks the terminal railroad yards In the southwestern part of the vity, lowa Stockman Killed in Chicago. Chicago, June 1.1. Sehiesselman, Stockman, aged 0 years, supposedly from Vietor, lowa, was killed by an auto truck last nist, Another Murder at Mason City, Mason City, Jame 16—Cheis) Pape bas, a Greek interpreter employed at the Lehigh cement plant, was killed during the night near his home here. His body was found in an alley, with three bullet wounds, Rebekahs Meeting in Boone. Boone, June 16.—Twelfth annual couvention of the Rebekahs of Boone and Story counties is in session here. Mrs. Kua A. Cadd is presiding, Mrs, Helen Prescott, state president, is present. OO 5 as a cad pe tects se og emanates - pe eae pt] Sa ee sae a z ey are i id Fae Re al | ee seiner se at: Ere ae ie > S ee “Hh pe a Ar Oe Pape Cee ae Tay tA EL ape a me. eg ae ech Te cree Se ka wae Se a See go 5 bares) 4 i pitty AS ae ph ei ceca alee te ie peieen me a patent ree \Y eho, a ea | emer ee Pi “or Ce Pee owe ee (Te arr A SUCCESSFUL MEETING Heroines of Jericho Meet in Whi bailaae Todas Dos Moines, Iowa. ‘The Grand Court of lows aid ja distion held their Taenty-Fitet” An wand Convention im this city, dbus 1 Tiyand 15 at North star Lotae ATR G AML Hall, With wns ontoe The Gtand Mo As AL Sister Ella Wels Diy Maline, Wi called te Grant Ce Hauler Resbans: oeisealied tee ehich' stvaeed all” Gebnd (Oiler fas, ihe GoM Ae ke tas peso GM. AL Me proceeded to op Grand Cre Gy due tora) Rous telat Iie Tae ‘ies nl hy estoy tie Ge MLS AL eailed he Gr tHe die Me Ae Scanned sh fola Tie juation the tie SE Ae Me ja ended to neal her” auiwual billvee Which wae delivered in her unnal ee €elleat. Manner, Tt wae full of seep Ge Groat We de ire WA Nom Meninaith, Wi, frueedes to rend h oud counsel and luvlug thobghte snl called thom tsber te recreation. ad Bar Lodge Not A. Bek A ML at fitten Wood ark petillian dure Ve fia P, M.A large attonstance of la dies, gentlemen hw with, the ofr huestbere amd. sisters haul. ascemMbel 3 Sulen.id programe was well gendered eg Roa, Taviecatl le X, tue Misi Tague Stanilin Chat ANGE WE Wetec Slerer Ale Wools Masi Taylor Mandi Put Aclisess Gut Masons, North stat tba Niky Mr, abn Ie "Thomen Mavi Taslor Slamtedin Cha Resjonoe sister Navini Fiche, Kos kak, low. Response an _Addreny: sister 84 Watkoje Moline, Ul Mow Taslor Mandolin 4 Adltzess, Mou, J. Me Musi, Pryce af Vea Federation of cols Women Chats Coniag ‘Remurhe, ev, We'd, Bevery Momiuthy ti Weinestay, "June 14, 9:30 a, my proaptiy the GM. Al Meeatied a2 Gran Court in by wpeniog oder sat er alive, while we mech “Which ie conposition of Sister Ta. Aetate Demjeey of Chiragos Mt ti, MLA. A Miindis and regular’ session of ths Grand Court at 2 po an, Wednesday and dine Tith of the election wf te Grand (ieee aint rested te follog Sister Maude M.Wilkinca. GM ALM eden MSIE fier Sister Enna Teabeais Ve G, M.A AM, of Keokok lows Wel. Wan Ns Senne, a WL a Monieath, Th Sister Naomi I. Fiehis G2 8, af! Keckuk, Sister Elle ‘Tureen, G0, Taf dn | caport. cellent sacred program rendered, | Reaular seweiom al Ral repante cy | hit ers and closing of the twenty first | inal ou vention of taut caiet or ha and it Fapiadetions ello | arf State Guart and baiting | ath Cieen oy ae ee eee pike of de. Msle furnishes Ve Kern f her's Call orehoctrn, { ‘There is one medicine that every fam- ily should be provided with an} especi- ally during the summer months; viz: Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar- rhoea. Remedy. It is almost eertain to be needed. It costs but a quarter. Can you afford to be without it? For sale by all dealers, SIOUX CITY ITEMS. The sity srhools lias closed f: - th Fats wway t the fishing pools and ti the swimming pools for pieacare ‘Phe Aid soriety of the Mt. Zion Boss: fist church will give a lawn sovial. i the chursh ‘Thursday evenings une ih. The Mt, Ziow Baptist church wil give a rally on the first Sunday i duly for the benefit of the church debs, it being under the head ot the White Baptist church of whieh Rev, Mr. Ste vena ty pastor, Mics Birlie Dowdy is stil) confined to Ner home with illness Little Lenora, the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mre. €. B. Watkins, is. quite iM ‘with the tousilitis, The AT. Pe club met with Mrs J W, Patterson Friday afternoon, The WoC. T. Us society met at the Mt. Zou Baptist church Puesday evn ‘The Mite Missionary society snet with Nirs, J. We Hadsow Thursay att ernoon, Martied in the city Tuesday, dune Oth, at the A.M. E. parsonaze, Mr Walker Dickinson and Miss “Mange Lanare, Rev. J. W. Dowden. perfor cd the ceremony. The bride ‘x quite & popular young Indy in the city, and is well kuown, and liked by ail! whe know her. She has quite a number of relations in the city. ‘The room ‘i vuite a nice young man, and gained many friends in the short time he hut been in the city. Only a few were present at the ‘marriage. May. thels Ras ds ae b ye a Ui ee | Sh se ' a eae oral - = | | Oza eres Ee aie ce A OUNKERTROIRIRS UCN EES Ep Rae AER Specials for Men and Boys in the Basement Meh's Un‘on Suits soc. Open Mesh or derby ribbed with short or long sleeves, knee or 3 ankle length. Sizes 34 to 46. =i, Special 5 «8 50c fii, {) Men's Open Mesh and balbriggan shirts and ye i drawers. Short or long sleeves, knitted ee i neck, all sizes, at, SS oe garment, . w . w, QC F f Underwear 7sc suit, Men's balbriggan shirts Ba and drawers. Shirts have a long or short pe. | sleeves, Drawers have double seat. All m Sizes. Regular 50c grade. es garment, 39, Suit. . . 71§c »/ ‘Night robes 0c. Men's fine white real cam- e bric night shirts, Cut extra full and hh trimmed in blue, red or white washable ti} braid, Made without collars. A 75¢ value, in all sizes, 15 to19 at . . §Qc Men’ soft shirts 39c. Plain white. plain cream, and light grey soft shirts with at- tached collars. Our regular fifty cent shirts, all sizes 14% to 17. For Friday and Saturday, oly,» . ew ee ee OQ New negligee shirts 75c. Our best line of neilue shirts. Allsizes. Cuffs attached, choice, . - 7§c woried life be bright and happy is Arche eis ae rte nea a mane ae eum inaies Sine | (4 ud. a. Vi yi er ae é 3 i ee on, 0 it 19 '@ pleasure to present to our sy readers the likeness of Rev 1 “Pinckney, D. Dy who has t= ¥ been called t0 the pastorat~ oF Coon Congregatioaal chureh. He wxs raised) in Maine and) attended tie publi schools there, He receiv Kis literary training at Howard ais rly and Lineoly University: Os: 1 Chester county, Pa. and iis Mogieal degree from the Proshy- Goan seminary at Tuskwloosa, Als I+ “then pastored a_ Coagregtiona! cvoreh at Wiehita, Kans. He cin tight sehool in the south, He has a [ovely family. who will soon join ho He is a highly edueated Cina ak “cektiaan: 4 ij 2 eae 4 mp > Seen ef $ Lee eee ‘ : N | Bey / Pee Pf fee Lae | 7 \ eos g ” “ ap f% uf (a o 4 i +e pee JOSEPH NORRIS. quarters with two wail ‘The subject of this sketch with the especial ussistance of his wife, Mrs Sedic, is conducting one of the best hosiaesses of any colored person in Iowa, “The Woman's Exchange.” They began July, 1908, with Mrs. Sadie Norris and one waiter. In six months they had to move into larger CLINTON HAPPENINGS. Mr. Roscoe Jackson of Port Byron Vi, spent Sunday in Clinton recently, the giest of Miss Estelle Hush. Two live are scheduled to take ple iy the near future at Bethel A. ME, Sunday, June sth, one STN he leit for the pastor, on the Ist sutay in July, ome will be held for the trustees, Miss fora Philips is in Ctintoa where she oXpwets te spend the simmer the guest of Mrs, Herun and sister Miss Sayles, Chiblreus day was appropriately ob servedat Betliel ALM. ROS. S, eausist ng of singing and recitations hy: the allowing scholars, Nellie Chiy. Ade Wotheral, Bessie Stewart, Fredabelle umd Luviile Aikens, A trie by Nellie Clay, Christina Carter and. Claude Heron, Addreses by) Mrs. Finley af Buxton, Miss Murua” Beason, | Mrs Emerson aust Mr. RL D, Smith were Curtis Bush visited for a short Hime Sunday in Port Byron, Hh Subserihe for the Bystander, Miss Ida Taylor has returned from a ( IR A GR: AT_EIGHTH Snappy June Bargains ————_—_—$——— Every bit new, fresh stock. Lay in your full supply now—you'll not get chances like this often. Odd Pattern Table Cloths at a Reduction of \s Less Than Regular Price. Ry Odd Pattern cloths we mean cloths without Napkins to match, When We buy Pattern Table Cloths, we get about half the amount of Napkins to match, We have sold all Napking to match these cloths; therefore the reduction. Thoes cloths run in lengths from one to four yards, all sizes, 2 yards . wide. Table Linen, Warranted All Pure Linen---Special Yard 49e. Your choice of Full Bleached Irish Satin Damask Tablelinen, Silver Bleached German Damask ‘Tablelineny Heavy Un- <)) leached Scoteh Damask Tablelinen. Theso threo different vig _-STades of Tablelinens are the best values which can be found, as there is very little Tablelinen which is guaranteed all pure lineu, whieh is sold for less than 76c a yard. Restaurant Table Damask, Yard 25c. Restaurant Table Damsk, yd. 25e, As a special inducement to Restaurants, we will sell 12 pleces of 60 inch Mercerized Finished Table Damask, a 40¢ quality at a reduction of 15¢ per yard, $1.50 and $1.25 Double Damask ‘y Table Linen, Yard 98c. Not so-called $1.50 and $1.25 values, but out regular stock of this price Tablelinen at such a big reduction. Our stock is too heavy—that's the reason—some pieces with Napkins to match. EL S$ JUNE TOWEL SALE! — = You always need Towels. Bleached an Unbleached Bath Towels, Cotton and Linen Towele—Individual, Glass, Dish, Hand, and Face Towels—all at these very epecial June Prices, Be each Be each Te each 8c each 1246 each © for 25¢ B5e dozen Te dozen $1.00 doz. 6 for 70c 15 each 19c cach 5c each 29 each 2 for 25¢ Gfor $1.00 6 for $1.25 $3.00 doz, BEDSPREADS, SHEETS, ETC. ——_—_— We buy these goods direct from the mills---car- load lots---buy them for less---sell them for less-=- 1 CASE WHITE CROCHET BED- foreads, Very speclay CAH sone eeeecuesessessesd DO 1 CASE OF FULL WHITE BEDSPREADS, Speclal at, e8Ch vesvsstrirrine te essen se DOS $3.00 AND $2.00 VALUES OF MARSEILLES Bedapreads, tteesverseescew reeset Bb OS SHEETS, FULL SIZE, AT 98¢, 79¢, 59c, 45¢ Mid vescsseioiimctr or tere ia Oe CASES, REGULAR SIZE, AT 250, 19¢, 15¢, 12: 3 PIECES OF DOUBLE FLEECED HEAVY Tablo Padding, yard sa ssewectetcs cs ssas me me DS Special Notice! Gur wholesale connections enable us to supply restaurants and hotels with goods in our line for less money---Let us figure with you and quote you prices. Se Our June Clearance of Curtains is a great success, anda great many are now laying in their Fall Supply--- 25 pe reent discount on all Cretonnes —————E mah Cretonnes 20 per cent discount on all Nets. oe on all Nets, 33% per cent discount on Fine Lace Curtains are Cscount on Fine Lace Curtains d 20 per cent discount on all Portieres — Per cent discount on all Portieres_ quarters with two waiters, a cook and herself and last. summer they again had to move into larger quar- ters: They now employ 3 waiters, two cooks, a silver man, a dish washer, laundry woman, errand boy. besides’ herself and husband. They now serve from 19 to 200 meals per day, all to white people, This busi- ness is “fast solving the race prob- [visit of two weeks in Cairo, TL, the iuest of her sister Miss Mary.” who ein teaeher in the schools of that city Ihe wae accompanied by. the latter, (who will spettd the summer vacation in hinton with her parents, Mee MTL Pinleg: who has been the Sanest of Miss Burda Beason for the Fact ten sdaye returned Tuesday morn ing te her home in Buxton. Sirs, Aubrey, Route vas reported on the sick Hist this week. AON Bish iand son Cartis spent sunday in Dasenvort and Rock fe Tutu with friends, They: als witnesseal the iicits of the aviators which as a Hewsinng spoetatcle We lose more wall your attention ta he annual val! of the wltestor, The iitieial volloetir of Lie Bystander is ott frnk may teach The ity swent, psy the Feqt gent at ene tht fie ay he Mle ta settle: all eligations “readily liv hee ave Mee. Martha Washington wf Minne Ayutie, Minty Tris been the gtiest of How. i Pu 'Faybor and tamil for the ase 10 days entaute: tu Cairo, Ty te eet kee dnuihiter Mis. 8. A, Walesa DO YO KNOW That we can 40 Expert Cleaning, Pressing, Repsiring, Dying on all Kinds of work, cau hrarddelietel® tea the pine, All work guaranteed. SKIRTS HATS Mae to Order, Blocked and Cleared Oxford Dress Club 920 Center Street Residence Phone, Store Phone, TP ite 320" Watt Simon CoEN, Manager. Boston Market Where Quality Counts Modern and Sanitary 320 SIXTH AVENUE ————— _ 304 West Grand Ave Se First-class Meals Cood Lunches at all Hours MRS. MINNIE NEAL, PROPRIETOR —_—_—_—————— The public invited Courteous treatment to all persons. - For Guaranteed Summer Comforts. ee ee ae Gas Water Heaters = SEE? Des Moines Gas Comphny Estee come sienna FOR ALL KINDS OF DENTAL WORK SEE DR. E. A. LEE 755 NINTH STREET PotnTERS—Graduate of Drake Univer- versity. The only licensed colored anteed to be first class. PHONE WALNUT 3558, -POOI! POOL! Fulton Pool Hall SS A good place to spend your idle moments in Games and rest, Corteous treatment All are invited ANDY FULTON, 229 THIRD STREET gro aesemeses eee e SA SMOKERS $ € 4 GbhEE CLUBS 9 A new organization for men é 8 only to mect for social and politi- 8 cal purposes where strangers and § @ friends may meet and enjoy the @ @ fellowship of men. Up stairs § 9 over 300 WaLxun STREET, é 8 A L. SMITH, Pret. and Treas. @ 4 A FULTON, Vice-Pres. and See, 3 bbb Mid Ria oma ce. 5! For 200, $250 & 275 We guarantee to give you the best abtainable anywhere at the prices, er Our Line Includes Steinway, Haddorff, Behn- ing, AB. Chase, Ivers & Healy, Washburn and Clar- endon. We make terms to suit your convenience and we allow you the privilege of ex- chonge for a better grade any time within two years. Call or write for catalogue and terms, Successor to Early Music Hovse, 611 Locust St., Des Motnas, Iowa, lowa State Bystandes BYSTANDER FUB. CO, Publithen OER MOINES. + + tow FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1911, ae ee Oilcal payer of We M, WG Orag Lodge of toa A. Fs @ Av igeTaad Tarernational “Grand Congest Herolues ef. Serleho. of Ace and Wevtcrn Baptist Assecwete Puldianed avery, RILIGY by. tna Be ‘stander Publishing Company, RX Moines, lowa, Office tn C hen eet building, corner Seventh and” berry sireols, lows phones ai hut 899. JOHN L. THOMPSON, EDITOR” J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER, —Butered at the postotier aa we ond. class_matter. pid clans mantle Advertising rates Tor Waplay aay 2o'cente per inch, for each Insertie Three to six months’ contract, 1 cents. per inch. Local advertijag To'eonts per line for each inverts counting seven words to a line. Fay churches aud secret soctetles whe’, admigsion Is. charged, one-halt the above-mentioned rates, For pro. fessional, legal and announcemen, cards, yearly contracts, ete tere, are given on application. All ad. fertifing is to he bald in advan We are prepared to do irate job work at reasonable prices au Se eer ree mtentany N. B.—Correspondents: Pleas maii your letters that contain news for publicaticn not later than Tues day night to insure publication for the current week: and sign. your name, not for publication, but that we may know who writes the neve ‘Communications must be writtey on one side of the paper only ang be of interest to the public. “Brey. ity is the soul of, wit,” remember We will not return rejected may. useript, unless accompanied by por tage stamps, TEMS OF SUBSCRIP AON. ONE Year .ciscccsmarrerewiSld Six momtha vse. vvvevereerseee te Three monthe 20.0707 7 1 ay ‘AML subscriptions payable in at vance. Send money by postoffice order. money order, express or draft, the Iowa State Bystander Compan Des Moines, Iowa. Monmouth, 11... Georgia Nevwoed Galesburg, IN.!/Mayme Richardsos Cedar Rapids........Mrs. H. Horne Peoria, Ill.........-..Miss Bell La Davenport. .....Mrs.C. H. Marshall St. Paul. v sss. .Mrs. Qi Hike Minneapolis 0000.0... HK. Gitte Keokuk. 0.000000. ALS. Fields Rock Island! /Xirs.” W. H. Moore Moline, TH, ...J.Miss. Mable’ Tarvet Sioux City. /.0.0...Mles Etta Grant Clinton 02 eee Ae Bash Ottumwa ....’ Miss Lorena Vincest The [own State: Senet Se Ee: oldest Afro-American Journal pub lished in Towa, It was established in 1894, and is read by nearly all the colored people of Towa. We nave correspondents in the follor- Se anes Albia ..............Miss May Dart Ft. Madison. //!Miss Tula Wititame Oskaloosa... Luella’ B, Franklin Washington 1020..0....N. UL. Blak Burlington. ...//Mrs. "J.B. Johns Moberly, Mo..JMrs. M. Etta Boldea Mt PHEASAM oes c wees eose ceceesese Mise “Maudiin’ Burman AGENTS WANTED. Colored men and women solicitor wanted in every city for a strictly legi- timate proposition, paying good coms sions; easily transacted and agreeable work, Must have education, ener acquaintance and good address and furnish good references. This isan oF portunity worth investigating. Ab dress Lock Hox 244, Topeka. Kansas. HOPKINS BROS. CO, We will have the Big Stocks of... Fire Works SE THIS YEAR Special pieces and assort- ments given special atten- tion, 618-620 Locust St. “DES MOINES, IOWA. ~~ orruMwa. Ae Eee Mrs. Earl | Wagner returned let week from a two weeks? visit with het parents at Milan, Mo, Mrs, Wagntt was accompanied’ home by her sistey Miss Nell Jackson, : ‘Miss Josephine Jackson of Delavity Il, is the guest of Miss Alberts Morne and her brother, Mr. Wm. Jack son, Spencer Brothers of Washingt Towa, will give a concert at the Se fond Baptist chureh ‘Thursday evening Mr, Forest Harris entertained frien! at his home on South Meehanie street Sunday afternoon, From there the Ph ty enjoyed a boat ride to Rock ‘Bluffs Miss Lelia Downey of Buxton, 16 turned home Friday, after visiting bet mother, Miss Beatrice Downey entertaint’d 2 for friends in honor of her sister, Mis Lelia, Thursday evening. Mr. Orville Spots has. been rea nently appointed railway mail let by the government, Mz. Roscoe Gunn will leave Suny evening for Chieago to visit his m0! er, Mrs Ida Stevens. it ‘The faithful few met at the home! Mrs. Frank Clark, 118 West Divisie street Thursday, June Ist, The net meeting will be at Mrs. M. I. Gor don’s on Meadow street, ‘Thursitt June 22, It is worse than useless to take #Y medicines internally for muscular 0” chronic rheumatisin. All that is needed is a free application of ‘Chamberlain's Liniment. For sale by all dealers.