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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. CITY NEWS (N B. I you have relatives or friends visiting in the city or going to make a visit, please inform us; we solitall your local news—Ed.) Messra. W. H. Humburd and J. H. Shepard are reported better this week. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Glass are the happy parents of a baby girl, born last Tuesday. Miss Daisy Jacobs has been quite ill with tonsillitis at her home on 20th street the past week. Rev. Dr. J. E. Ford, of Jacksonville, Florida, will presch at Corinthian Baptist church, Tuesday morning and evening. Mrs. E. N. Hyde and Mrs. Frank Pryor of Chicago were dinner guests of Miss Tabitha Mash, at her country home. The Old Settlers will picnic at Union Park next Thursday, Aug. 3. Everybod invited. Bring a basket and spend the day. Mrs. H. McCraven returned home Monday from a three weeks visit in Chicago with Mrs. H. H Hooker, formerly of this city. Wrs. Mw. Buckner of 1047 18th st. entertained Thursday evening complimentary to Mrs. D. A. Basfield of Colorado and Mrs. Chas. S. Ruff of Peoria, Ill. The West End Bridge club was entertained by Mrs. Ida Davis, Wednesday evening. Several progressions of bridge was played, after which the hostess served dainty luncheon. Messers. A. L. Smith, L. Green, H. Gould, Jr., and Temp Rhodes are attending the K. P. Grand lodge session at Centerville this week. Mrs. C. A. Cleggett, 1007 12th street gave an informal Wednesday in honor of her sister, Mrs. D. A. Basfield, and her daughter, Leone, who are visiting relatives and friends in the city and state before returning to their home in Colorado. The Corinthian Aid society will meet Friday, at the residence of Mrs. J. C. Bolthis, Aug. 4th. The Aid society wishes to thank all members and friends who helped in our carpet rally last Sunday. We realized the sum of $56.25. Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Hyde entertained at luncheon Sunday, Messrs. and Medames Watkins, Tracy Blackburn. Harper of Peoria, Mrs Maa Ruff of Peoria, Mrs. Frank Pryor of Chicago, Miss Tabitha Mash of Kansas City and Miss Zoe Richardson. Orchestra concert and rally at Union Congregational church Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Program: Cornet Solo, John Faucett. Vocal Solo, Mrs. Ethel Jackson. Selection, Selection. Solo, Miss Louise Williams. Instrumental Solo, Mrs Ada Cleggett Address, Rev. Pinkney. Solo, Miss Leone Bassfield. Orchestra. Vocal Duett, Mrs. Chas. Turner and Miss Beatrice Turner. A very pleasant surprise party was given last Tuesday evening in honor of Mrs. M. Thomas birthday. On coming home that evening from a supper she found her home all beautifully lighted up and her lawn with Japanese lanterns and about fifty guests awaiting her return. She was surprised and pleased to know in the midst of her bereavement they had not forgotten her. Sprains require careful treatment. Keep quiet and apply Chamberlain's Liniment freely. It will remove the soneness and quickly restore the parts to a healthy condition. For sale by all dealers. A Good Meal, I Ice Cream, Soft Drinks, A Picture Framed, Human Hair Goods Just See R. E. PATTEN Red 5296 Patten's Novelty Co. 1010 Center And, when you are out for a walk and get hot, don't forget to stop at dog 1-2 East Walnut Street, where you can get. ICE CREAM, AND COLD DRINKS. CANDY AND FRUIT. Water Melons on Ice REV. G. SAUNDERS, Prop. The Des Moines Negro Lycum meet Tuesday, 25 July at the host of Att'y J. B. Rush, on 20th street. The program for the evening was the study of Longfellow and his works, in which all the members of the society took an active part. The Lycum adjourned to meet Tuesday, July 1st with Mrs. S. Joe Brown, 1088 Fifth street, at which time the following program will be rendered: Life and Works of Alexander Duas—Mrs. McDowell. The benefits of our market place—Att'y S. Joe Brown Current events. Report of Critic. All members are urged to be present as the Inter-State delegates will be selected at this meeting Program for July 30th. 1. Singing-Congregation. 2. Invocation—Rev. S. Bates. 3. Scripture Reading—Rev. N. B. Jones 4. Music. 5. Address—The History of the Colored Young Men's Christian Assn., Atty S. Joe Brown. 6. Music. 7. Address—"The Need for a Y. M. C. A. in Des Moines. 8. Address—Rev. Le Roy Woolrich. 9. Music. 10. Appeal for Finance—Rev. T, L. Griffith. Rev. I. N. Daniels, Master of Ceremonies PALACE BILLIARD AND (Successors to Andy Fulton.) (Successors to Andy Fulton.) We desire to call the attention of the sporting class of young colored men that we have the best equipped Billiard and Pool Hall of any Negroes in the city. We have four brand new pool tables and one full size Wellington billiard table of the best quality. We have a full line of diggers and tobacco, also cold pop, showing gum and candies. We are running a clean, respectable place where even those who do not play, can come and watch those of superior ability, contest with each other. We expect, in the near future, to put on one of the best Tournaments ever pulled off by Negroes in Iowa. Watch for special announcement in the next issue of this paper. We are going to open an information bureau for the benefit of Negroes visiting the city so that they may be able to locate any person or place by simply coming to our place of business and making inquiry—there will be no charge for this service. We also wish every secret society man in Iowa to make this his retreat, as nothing but the best of order will be preserved at all times. We are going to add a shining parlor to our business in the next few weeks. We earnestly solicit your patronage and favor. Very Sincerely yours, LUTHER H. S. BROWN & CO. Luther H. S. Brown, Mgr. OBITUARY Mary. Mrs Vaughn, wife of Benjamin Vaughn, died July 15th at 1871% West 7th street. She was born in Cumberland county, Kentucky, Jan. 10. 1862. Her midden name was Qusley. She was married to Benjamin Sept. 9, 1877. This union was born three children, all of whom died in infancy. She united with the Baptist church in her girthhood days and lived a consistent christian life over thirty years. She leaves to mourn her death, a husband and two sisters, Sophia Burnside of Des Moines and Anna Austin of Los Angeles, Cal., and a host of friends. Rev. L. Woolrich, of Burns Chapel M. E. church, has been appointed as one of the four delegates to represent the St. Joseph Dist., in the great educational and Missionary convention of the church in St. Louis, August 9-13th. This is a deserved recognition of the ability, standing, and worth of this faithful member. The Savoy Cafe 304 West Grand Ave. First-class Meals Good Lunches at all Hours MRS. MINNIE NEAL PROPRIETOR. The public invited. Courteous treatment to all persons. DO YOU KNOW That we can do Expert Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing, Dying on all kinds of work Our prices are reasonable. Work called for and delivered. Use the phone. All work guaranteed. SKIRTS HATS Residence Phone, Store Phone. 4767 Red. 1740 Walnut SIMON COEN, Manager. BURLINGTON ITEMS. Mr. J. A. McCullough, the Afro-American supply man has been in our city for a week canvassing and has met with great success. His work consists of pictures as some of our most prominent men of Booker T. Washington and others. He also carries a line of sacred pictures of our race something never brought before the public. Mr. McCullough is truly a race man, and should meet with success everywhere. He will visit in Ft. Madison and Keokuk the first week in August. Rev. Palmer was in Kookuk Thursday on business. Little Everett Anderson, who was accidentally burnt by fire works on the 4th of July, is rapidly recovering. The S. S. picnic, given by the Baptist church at the Galaway farm, Wednesday, was largely attended and a delightful time enjoyed. The Rev. Brown of San Francisco filled the pulpit at the Baptist church Sunday in the forenoon and evening. The Rev. is delivering a series of lectures this week at said church. Mr. Jordan Earle entertained Rev. Palmer and Dr. Brown at 6 o'clock dinner, Thursday. Mrs. R. Brooks entertained Dr. Brown and Dr. Palmar Sunday at dinner. The G. G. club gave a social at the residence of Mrs. A. Pleasant, Tuesday evening. Mr. Dean, a waiter at the hotel, Burlington, gave a very elaborate birthday party at the residence of Charles Badgett last week to a large number of his friends. A delightful time was enjoyed by all. Mrs. Hannah St. Davis is entertaining her sister of St. Louis, Mo Misses Agnes Johnson and Lena Green, of Galesburg, Ill., attended the Tri-City picnic. Thursday. While in the city they were the guests of Miss Clara Tarver. Little Sarah and Roberta Pollard left Thursday for Chicago to join their parents, who have been residents there for the past three months. Mr. John L. Thompson, editor of the Bystander, made his annual calls in Moline, Friday Miss Mable Tarver departed Saturday for Chicago, where she has accepted a position as cashier Mrs. James Colquit entertained at an eloquent dinner, Saturday, Father Grisom. Miss Mamie Richardson of Galesburg is the guest of Miss Clara Tarver, Miss Richardson, also attended the annual Tri-City picnic. Mrs. Beecher Maxie and daughter Alice are visiting Georgia. Mrs. James Colequit entertained at an eloquent 3-course dinner party, Friday evening at the home 1129, 12th ave. The honored guests were Messrs Mayme Richardson, Mabel and Clara Tarver, and Messrs Lancelot Wilson and Bert Bates. All declare Mrs. Colquitt a unique entertainer. Mr. Garfield Martin of Davenport was a Moline caller Sunday evening. Mrs. John Belt of Galesburg, Ill., is visiting her husband and son, Arthur. visiting her husband and son, Arthur. Mr. John Haggard was the guest of his mother, Mrs McDudley two days last week, returning to Chicago, Thursday evening. Rev. W. A. Searcy of monmouth, Ill. ex-pastor of Moline accompanied by his wife and little son, Delois, attended the Tri-City picnic last Thursday. Lavigus Garnett, noted lecturer and dramatic reader, claimed the attention and held spell-bound a very large audience at St. Paul church on Monday night. Her subject being the Growing Need of Spiritual-Awakening and Development in intellectual minds. After the splendid lecture a contribution was taken up. While in the city Madam Garrett will lecture Thursday evening in Davenport. Mrs. Garrett is the guest of Mrs. Tarver. KEOKUK NOTES Mrs. Anna Alden and son Clarence, left Tuesday night for Calaway county, Mo., to attend the funeral of her stepfather, Mr. David Cave who died very suddenly, Tuesday morning, July 18th. They will be gone about two weeks. A very delightful affair was the party given, Monday night, July 10th, by Miss Margueritte Thomas, at her home 16th and Franklin street, in honor of Claud and Oliver Buckner of Ft. Dodge About 18 young friends were present; games were indulged in until a late hour after which dainty refreshments were served. Miss Elsa Neal of Chicago, formally of Monmouth, Ill., who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Ashley, 1807 Morgan street. left Saturday for her home in Chicago. Mrs. J. H. Huesting of Hannible, Mo. left for her home Saturday, after a pleasant visit with her sister, Mrs. Henry Johnson, 1321 Morgan street. Miss Huazel Lee of near Musette, Iowa, who has been visiting at the home of Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Bruce, 14th and High street, left for her home Tuesday. Quite a number of Keokuk people attended the annual plenic given at Helfast last Friday, July 21st. Those who had the pleasure of enjoying this outing were Messara John Craig, John Bland, Charles Davis, Misses Mable and Myrtle Davis, Francia Reeder and Miss Katie Owens, who also visited over night in Farmington. Another pleasant affair was the picnic given at Rand Park, Friday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Jenny Thompson of Peoria, Ill., who is the guest of Mrs. Norah Clemens and Mrs Laura Settles of St. Louis who was the guest of Mrs. Wm. Taylor. Rev Wm. Henderson and wife of California was in the city a few days last week visiting his mother and other relatives. Mr. Henderson delivered a very excellent sermon Sunday morning at the A.M. E. church. Rev. Palmer, formerly of Keokuk, but now of Burlington, was in the city a few days last week on business. There will be a grand Emancipation celebration given Friday, August the 4th at Kilburn park, under the aureoles of Bethel A. M. E. church. The committee will spare no pain to make this one of the grandest events of the season. There will be speaking by some prominent men of the race. Music by Keoku Cornet Band, also a quartette will sing Program will begin at 3:00 in the afternoon. Mrs. Watkins will read the Proclamation. Addresses by Rev. H. Gravens of Evanston, Ill., Rev J. W. Brown, Rev. A. Taylor and Rev. Bruce U. Taylor of Keoku. Dinner will be served and other refreshments. Committee: W. S. Burns, Lewie Lowe, W. Green, Everett Holmes. Everybody is cordially invited to come and have a good time. Mrs. Nichols, a former resident of Keoku, is the guest of Mrs. George Snoddy, 14th and Orleans street. Mrs. Geo. Foster, who was so seriously injured last week in an auto accident, is resting quietly and there is considerable hope entertained for his recovery. Mrs. Adelia Wilson give a picnic in honor of her cousin, Mrs. Willis Weeden of Burlington, Iowa. They were to to Cedar Glen, but owing to the inclementity of the weather they retired to the home of Mrs. M. E. Dixon and there they spread a bountiful feast. A good time was had by all present. Miss Lottie Ragdale came down from Des Moines last Thursday to spend a few days at home with her parents and friends. She retreated Wednesday. Miss Lottie Blaney of St. Louis arrived in the city last week to visit her mother who was very ill at the time, but is much improved at this time. Miss Blaney returned to St. Louis, Friday. Mr. Peter Carey was taken to the hospital in Des Moines last week to undergo an operation. It is reported that Mr. Earnest Bradshaw and Miss Gay Childs were quietly married last week. Miss Childs came here from Des Moines about a month ago with the intention of making a short visit with friends here, having met Mr. Bradshaw prior to this time. Mr. Bradshaw undoubtedly concluded that there was no better time to tie a knot than when the string was in hand so the matrimonial knot was tied. We wish the young couple many years of sailing on life's sea. Mr. J Martin departed this life last Sunday after a brief illness. He was buried from Mt. Zion church, Monday afternoon, Rev. Woodward officiating. Mr. Chas. Jones, better kewn as "son" and some times called "Zeko" is in the city a few days visiting his sister and other relatives. Miss Bessie Coleman, one of Saint Louis public teachers is spending her vacation in Buxton with her brother, Fred, and is doing a little canvassing here. Should she call on you give her an order, as she is quite a worthy young lady. The Mt Zion church choir will give a sacred song recital next Sunday evening, July 30. You are cordially welcome. Subscriptions were being taken from the members of Mt Zion church last Sunday for the purpose of elevating the bell and making some other necessary improvements. Nearly $100 was subscribed and Rev. Woodard plans to keep the list open until a sufficient amount has been pledged to the work. Every member and well-wisher of the church should give their $5.00 and $10.00, and let the house of God be beautified. Mrs. W. A. Brown is on the sick list this week. Mrs. John Rowlett was very pleasantly surprised by a visit from her brother, mother and one sister who came unexpectedly last week. Mr. James Neal went to Belle Plaine several months ago to work in a garage He has learned quite a little about automobiles and now has a position in Lincoln. Nebraska driving a car. He left Wednesday for that city At the meeting of the Western Baptists in St. Joseph, Mo., last week, Iowa raised more money than any of the states for the Women's work, and Mt Zion circle in Buxton raised more money than any other Mission circle in the state, so Mrs. W. A. Brown brought home the banner, which will remain. with the Buxton circle until the next annual meeting, which will be held in Kagasan City, 1912. Miss Tibia of Chicago with her brother is visiting her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Neesley. They will remain about two weeks longer. Miss Florence Green, who has been visiting her sister and brother in Cedar Rapids returned home last Wednesday. She reports a pleasant trip. Miss Hill, an evangelist from Chicago preached at the Y. M. C. A. building last Sunday afternoon. Presiding Elder Gordon was in the city last Sunday. Rev. Butter was collecting. Dollar money last Sunday. Mr. Spears, on East 3d street, received an injury by getting three of his fingers mashed in the mine last week. Joe Nicholas is still caring for his wounded fingers, but he is much improved at this writing. Mr. Suthera is getting on nicely on his cratches; we hope he will soon be able to lay them down. Editors Observations These observations should have been printed three weeks ago. They were written and manuscripted last week, but I will endow to re-write them once more. St. Paul is a large city of fine buildings. While not founded by the Apostle Paul, yet named after him, Wehave a about 6,000 colored people. Many are transient and railroad men; some making big money, but we fear are saving very little of it. Rev. H. P. Jones, one of the ablest ministers in the A. M. E conference has charge of the church. He is having crowded houses, ashe is an earnest, eloquent divine; able to grace any pulpit. Rev. McDonald, a new man, is pastor of the Baptist church, while Father Lealted is rector of the Episcopal church. Mrs. Blanch Charleston, the Grand Matron of the court owns a beautiful home; so does Mr. Crawford. He has a beautiful home on Rondo street. Mrs. R. C. Coleman, formerly Mrs. A. O. Smith of Des Helen is doing well. Mrs. Mattle Hick, the old Minnesota Budgetarian writer will chronicle the St. Paul news this year. Lawyer F. L. McGee is doing well. We next stopped in Dubuque and found Ed. Martin working at the Julian hotel. Mr. C. C. McGregor has bought a new home and moved from the boat house. Jim Martin is still at the Elk's club. Wm. Bolder is still with him. Uncle B. Johnson is working at the barber shop. He entertained ye editor at rev. B. Rev. F. Hubbard has charge of the A. M. E. charch. He is a hardworking minister. J M Logan is still running a barber shop on Julian avenue. John C. wells is working for the Electric Co. John Cockrane is still at the same place. Dr. Rose is at his post of duty. We next stop in Clinton for only a few hours, not long enough to give our roaders any facts so as there is a good correspondent that keeps you in touch with Clinton. We observe nothing here. Passing down to the Parlor C车, Cedar Rapids. Here we found W. H. Milligan in the midst of his cherry and berry picking season. All of his fruit was very good, as also was in his line, carpet cleaning; as was also A. Perkins. Thos. Jackson is still in the torsional business. Wm. Robinson, a former Dea Woines man, has bought a nice home at 1010 N. Eighth street. He is doing work in the heck line business. Rev A. Ford and Rev R. Holly, both retired from the ministerial work from the A. M. E church, are each living nicely and enjoying health. The former is an old soldier. The latter owns a thoroughbred colt. Rev Farribee has charge of the A. M. E. church. Mrs. Brooks owns valuable property. She is a sister to the late Hon. John L. Waller. Mr. R Hicks has been sick, but is at work again. He owns several lots and is a hustler. Mr and Mrs. Lavelle owns a nice home Our old friend E. C Thomas is still working as a mechanist for the railroad ships in the Northwestern. He owns a nice home, and is building another house on his lot. Mrs. Lowry has just lost her husband. Her son is the only colored mail carrier in this city. He is a fine young man. They own a nice home. Marshall Perkins is still running a first-class restaurant with success. On to Iowa City. We found Mrs. Ella Moore still in the hair dressing business doing well. She formally lived in Des Moines J. W. Thompson, formally a student, at the State University has charge of one of the large flats, and is doing nicely. He is a model young man W. T. Patterson is truck farming. Miss W. Elizabeth Bell is quite sick—she owns property. Mr. T. Davis is head chef at the hotel. His home is in Cedar Rapids. The Iowa State University is adding more new buildings and looks fine and is a credit to proud Iowa. Beginning our journey at Oskaloosa we found this Quaker town quiet is usual. There are only a few colored people here now, in fact very few iwaka bounty. At one time the county had more colored people than any other Iowa county; now several are ahead of that county. Rev. M. G. Newman has the A. M. E. church doing well, as also is Rev. W. L. Lee, who is the pastor of M. E. church. He has been here four years. Mr. A. Hardy is one of the old successful pilers; he is still husteling. His daughter keeps house for him. Robt. Franklin is still working in the mines. His daughter Lulu is the Bystander agent. Mr. H. J. Hockey is still running his barber shop, also Alex Clark and G. J. Jones. The latter is Vivian's father, our popular undertaker. E. J. Jones is still working at the bank. The widow Ringo family is doing well. We next spent the night in quiet Washington, with W. M. H. Roades, formerly a farmer, Mr. Geo. W. Black, Frank Walker and Fred Mott; all own and run separate barber shops, and doing nicely. The former is one of the first colored men to come to Iowa, the latter is a brother to Robert Mott of Chicago, who recently died, the founder of the Pekin theater. M. L. Black is still manager of the printing office of the Evening Journal. His wife runs the only hair dressing parlor in the city. J. D. Daniels is a successful business man. He has the contract of sprinkling the streets. He owns a beautiful and valuable home on Marion avenue. The twins, Hosie and Harold Spencer are the cement contractors. They do most of the city work and are very busy men, employing all colored help. They are brothers to John of Grinnell, who also is a cement contractor. Dan Haynes is an old soldier and an interesting character. He is an invalid, but a race man. Rev. W. W. Williams is the pastor of the M. E church. A. L. Hall is still hustling. Rob. Greaver and Theo. Turner are coming young men. On to Muscatine. We rambled to find the people about the same as usual. The Greenway boys, Wm. and Lee are successful business men. They are men of this age. They run a first class tennison shop, which their father started nearly half century ago, and is still with the boys. They own a beautiful home, also a business block, recently purchased, costing $10,000. I. P. Johnson still lives on his beautiful country home in the out edge of the city. His wife has been very sick for more than a year, with but little hopes of improvement. A. O. Manly owns a nice farm just out of the city limits. He is farming it. It's like Mr. Johnson's farm, covered with fruit. Mr. Wm. Thompson is still assistant baggage man at the Rock Island depot. Miss Fannie Grooms has been appointed matron of the ladies restroom at the court house—a responsible place. She is a hustling Rev. owns some valuable rev. Rev. A. C. Payton is the pastor of the A. M. E. church, a nice man. Their annual picnic was the day we was there attended in the evening and enjoyed several games of coquett —of course ye editor and his partner won. It was only amatures playing by the old rules. Next week will observe Davenport. ALBIA NEWS Mrs. Arthur Estes entertained a company of ladies at her home on Thursday evening in honor of Mrs. H. Snoddy and Mrs. Andrew Golns. Mrs. Jessie Carey and Mrs. Ida Morris returned to their homes after a few weeks visit at the parental home of Henry Harris. The sister of Mrs. Burt Allen and her daughter, of Chicago, Ill., is visiting at the Allen home. Mrs. Lula Miller is visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. F. L. Griffith in Des Moines this week. Mrs. Tom Washington entertained the ladies of the trustee society on Wednesday afternoon. A delightful lunch was served. Mrs. Eva Parker of Clarinda, Iowa, is visiting at the home of Mrs. Eliza Hays this week. Mrs. Snoddy and A. Gaines of Seattle, Washington, are visiting in Albis, with their many friends. Rev. Wm. Brown returned from Centerville, Monday. Mrs. Henry Bowman was in Duffy a part of this week at her sisters' Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Marshall, their father is sick. Mrs. Virgie Burns of Hocking was in Albia this week. Mrs. Ed Butler entertained at dinner Sunday, Rev. and Mrs. Manley and Mrs. H. Snoody and Andrew Gaines. MrsWill Kandolph of Hiteman was in Albia, Friday. Quite a number of strangers in town the past week. Mr. Alfred Grayson spent this week in Hocking with his grandson, Mr. Roy Grayson. Elected Third Time. For the third time Mrs. Bell of Leavenworth, Kansas, was elected president of the State Federation of the Colored Women's clubs of Kansas. The next meeting will be held in Topeka, Kans. OSKALOOSA NOTES. Miss Edna Jones has gone to spend her vacation at the home of her sister, Mrs. Theo. Turner of Washington, Ia. Mrs. Lena Bates of Ogden, Iowa, spent over Sunday, visiting her mother A. M. Cabbage and grandfather, A. Ford, on Sixth street. Mr. and Mrs. Chess, Wilen of Ottum wa, were over Sunday visitors at the house of Mrs. E. Jones, her mother. Mrs Etta Creek of Chicago is spending the summer with her mother, Mrs. J. Williams. The W. E. Methodist church had their baptizing, Sunday, at the river, Rev. Lee had some fruit for his labor, the number he baptized. Roscoe Jones is home again for awhile — we are glad to welcome him back. Editor J. L. Thomson was here last Tuesday in the interest of his paper. Tuesday in the interest of his paper. Mr. Hick has gone to Hockeye to work, but his family will remain here for awhile. The Union picnic was postponed until Aug. 10. COLFAX NOTES. Mrs. Wm. Jackson is on the sick list, Her many friends hope she may soon recover. The entertainment given by Mr. Sam Dean Saturday evening was largely attended and all report a good time. Mrs. Wm. Jackson has come to Buxton where he expects to make his future home. We regret very much to lose him from our midst. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wilkinson of Des Moines were over Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Holmes. Mr. W. D. Miller, who has been suffered the attack of pleurisy, is much improved. Medames Stockard and Mathias were shopping in Des Moines last Wednesday. The ladies Mission Circle will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Henry Banks. Mrs. Lonnie Brooks and baby Joseph were guests at the parental home last Saturday. Mrs. Houston of Des Moines is a guest at the M. R. Welch home. The reception last Friday afternoon, given by Mrs. J. I. Bealey at her home, in honor of her sister Mrs. Estes, was a delightful affair. About thirty students attended from 2 to 4 p.m. The hostess served an elaborate three course luncheon. The Benevolent club at the J. W. Holmes residence Tuesday evening and perfected plans for the autumn work. Mrs. Estes, having a membership of fourteen. Mrs. Sam Dean is a Burton visitor this week. DAVENPORT NOTES Work on the A. M. E. church is progressing nicely. The outside cement work is all finished except the finishing of the foundation. On the first Sunday in August all the colored tiles of the church are laid together at Bethel church and rally to raise the $500 to pay for the work that is being done. There will be important services August 6th as follows: 10:45 a. m., 2:30 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. At 2:30 p. m. there will be a number of volunteers for the Tri-Cities. For the convenience of the out of town people and all who may desire the accommodation the A. M. E. stewardesses will serve lunch and refreshments-from 12 m. to 1:30 p. m. in the dining hall of the church. As we go to the church the best in the history of the Union this year. The day was an ideal one. Quite a number of out of town people were seen in the park, having a delightful time with the Tri-Cities folks. As we go to press there are quite a number of people in the South Island in honor of Mrs. Martha Burkley of Washington, Iowa, and Mrs. Perkins of Quincy, Ill. The Third Baptist church is arranging for a Dollar Rally on the second Sunday in August. The Baker entertained a party of friends from Moline, IL, Tuesday for dinner. Attorney W. G. Mott is quite busy nowadays, since the colored people have decided that he can attend to their business as well as the other attorneys. It is indeed a fine thing to consider our own people. The other fellow does business with us. The business men of the city said to a colored gentleman the other day that he was ready to help the colored people when he saw them helping themselves. Well, we ought to stop doing some things and commence doing other things. We talk too much about what we are and do too little with what we have. Never leave home on a journey without a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is a must certain to be needed and cannot be obtained when on board the car or steamships. For sale by all dealers. 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 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. Iowa State. Bystander BYSTANDER PUB. CO., Publishers DES MOINES. IOWA It is the early bird, too, that gets a look at the bird-men. Antole France says that all war is deemed to perish. Meanwhile, swat the fly! Speaking of high society, a six foot New York man is to marry a seven foot girl. There are worse occupations, too, on a hot day than that of eating iced cantaloupes. In 100 years the summer clad man will look back with horror on the coated man of today. Anybody who wants a coat of tan this summer ought to be able to achieve his heart's desire. Why swat the flies yourself when you can keep a pet toad to attend to the fly swatting department? Danger from rabies would be greatly minimised if all dogs were given plenty of cold water to drink. Austria is to charge its tobacco smokers $15,000,000 more a year. Its object is not to cure them of smoking, either. A Massachusetts man was choked to death by his celluloid collar. Another argument for the modern, up-to-date rag stifter. A New York judge has decided that a woman is not entitled to alimony when she makes her husband cook his own breakfast. Hooray! Senator Clark has a $125,000 pipe organ in his mansion, but when it comes to music we have no doubt that the senator prefers ragtime. A kind-hearted New Jersey yardmaster held a freight car five weeks in a siding because a thresh had built her nest on one of its trucks. A professor of chemistry stopped a runaway horse by dashing ammonia into its face. There's a device that might be tried on runaway husbands. "Wheat from an ancient Egyptian tomb" has been successfully planted in Colorado, so good wheat must have been by the outie Arab guides who put it in the tomb. Because her husband kissed her only twice a day during their honeymoon a New York lady has applied for a divorce. Probably they were stingy little kisses, too. Out at Omaha a debating society has decided that the horse is more desirable than the automobile. The society must be made up of people who get wages instead of salaries. The kaiser's only daughter is 18, of a sunny disposition, and will marry whom she chooses. Other recommendations may be had by addressing her father at his Berlin residence. A New Jersey woman is said to have been inoculated with rabies by being hit by a bullet which passed through a mad dog. Fast thing; the germ that can hook into a bullet. The people of Charleston, S. C., are jubilant because fifteen babies were born there in one night recently. Charleston may be expected to immediately apply for the taking of a new census. A "punch in the jaw" delivered by a wife laid her husband up for twenty-two weeks. With a passion, for exact detail, he also reports that the third vertebra was displaced one-sixteenth of an inch. A Philadelphia woman gets a divorce rather than live in Chicago. Quoting George Ade: "Somebody must live here." However, the time from Philadelphia to New York has been cut to less than two hours. A Chicago doctor is quoted as saying that 60 per cent of the dogs that lite people are infected with rabies. Then the popular impression that being bitten by a mad dog is fatal seems to be pretty thoroughly refuted, insuch as no rabies epidemic among human subjects has been reported. A man in New York who has achieved an international reputation as an inventive engineer while on ball on a charge of larceny, now goes to jail for two years and six months. The state can well afford to see that he has leisure in captivity to go on with his inventions. Certain vague allusions in the papers lead to the suspicion that Kookuk is building a dam across the Mississippi which will conserv all the water of that eccentric old stream that is not needed for the maintenance of its catfish. Kookuk hitherto has been the gate city." Heicoroff it will be known as—but this is merely conjectural. A physician tells us that yawning is good for the health. At any rate people who are in the habit of yawning rarely break down from overwork. A Frenchman who recently visited this country says that he found many climates in America. Quite true, and now and then they have a habit of coming all at once. Five hundred women and children arrived in New York a few days ago and they are now in the house to join their husbands and fathers who have become farmers in Minnesota, Saskatchewan and other states and provinces between there and the Pacific. This is one of the explanations of the decrease of Scotland's population. PRESIDENT TAFT REFUTES CONTROLLER BAY CHARGES Message to the Senate Fully Explains the Transaction and Denounces the Attack on Chief Executive and His Brother as Wiful and Malicious Falsehood. MAP OF CONTROLLER BAY Prepared by direction of the President at the Office of the Cover and Sewardic Survey July 1911 Soundings in Galveston at mean water level water OP - Originally proposed administration. 842 - Sanford and Aguayo. TT - Terraunal Town Rated Dec 24, 1918. 844 - Arnaud L. Schauer. 845 - Fran F. Borg. Source: Map Washington—President Taft sent to the senate Wednesday a message that recalled some of those received from his predecessor. It was in reply to a resolution of the senate that the president sent to the senate all the documents relating to the elimination from the Chugach national forest, in Alaska, of land fronting upon Controller bay. Mr. Taft seizes, the occasion occasion to make a vigorous defense of his own honor and that of his brother, Charles Taft, against the attacks related to this Controller bay "scandal." The president sent in all the documents asked for, and more, and quotes the executive order in question, by which 12,800 acres were eliminated from the national forest. His message describes the importance of Controller bay as a railway terminal and relates the operations of the Copper River railroad, owned by the Morgan-Guggenheim interests, whose terminal is at Cordova. Ryan's Application investigated. In December, 1909, Richard S. Ryan applied for the Controller bay elimination, afterward granting statist approval as a Controller Railroad and Navigation company. Mr. Talt tells how this application was referred to the district foresters at Portland, Ore., and in Alaska and was approved by Chief Forester Ganges Catchment Wingham 1 M38—11. (To see page 8.) Graves; how the navy department stated it did not desire to use Controller bay as a reservation; how the matter was considered fully by the forestry bureau, the secretary of agriculture, the secretary of the interior, the general land office and the general office of the view between the president and Mr. Ryan, an order was drafted eliminating $20 acres. Meanwhile Mr. Ryan had satisfied the president and other officials that he and his associates had no connection with the Morgan-Guggenheim interests and were engaged in an independent enterprise in good faith to build an independent railroad. The question again came before the caballeros, and the proposal of the secretaries of the Interior and agriculture, changed the order so that it eliminated 12,800 acres, with sufficient room for a railroad town. The message says: "I was willing to do this because I found the restrictions in the law sufficient to prevent the possibility of any monopoly of either the uplands or the harbor or channel by the Concession Company or any other person or concern." These restrictions the president sets forth at length, and shows that the Ryan company has not the slightest opportunity for exclusive appropriation of the harbor facilities unless congress by by future act deliberately and voluntarily confer it. "The Dick to Dick" Letter. Concession Company's side of the matter, Mr. Taft says: "Before closing, I desire to allude to a circumstance which the terms of this resolution make up and relevant it is a widely published statement at Many housekeepers spend a lot of time cleaning their baths. Here is a way to make the work less strenuous: Cut a piece of unbleached muslin in the size of the tub and round off the edges to fit it, a hose facing it then stitched round the cover, and through this a piece of tape is run. When the tub is not used the cover is put on and tape drawn tightly under the edge. It is easy enough to wash, and spares an incredible lot of wear and tear on baths. Let the Children Be Happy Do you try to make men of your boys or women of your grief adored Orison Sweet Marden in Success Magazine? It is not "natural" Love them. Make home just as happy a place as possible and give them rein freedom. There is nothing sadder in life than the child who has been robbed of its childhood. The Real Consideration. The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as where we are going—Holmes. tributed to a newspaper correspondent that in an examination of the files of the interior department a few weeks ago a postscript was found attached to a letter of July 13, 1910, addressed by Mr. Richard S. Ryan to Secretary Ballinger—and in the present record—urging the elimination of land enough for terminals and post-war civilization company. The postscript was said to read as follows: "Dear Dick: I want to see the president the other day. He asked me who it was I represented. I told him according to our agreement, that I represented myself. But that didn't seem to satisfy him. So I sent for Charlie Taft and asked him to tell his brother, the president, who it was really represented. The president made no objection to my claim. Your DICK." Uses Strong Language. "The postscript is not now on the files of the department. If it were, it would be my duty to transmit it under this resolution. Who is really responsible for its wicked fabrication if it ever existed, or for the vicious false statement made as to its authenticity, is immaterial for this communication. The purpose of this communication is the intention of the fabricator was, to make Mr. Richard S. Ryan testify through its words to the public that although I was at first opposed in the public interest to granting the elimination which he requested, nevertheless through the undue influence of my brother, Mr. Charles P. Taft, and the disclosure of the real persons in interest, I was induced improperly and for the promotion of their private gain, to make the order. "The statement in so far as my brother is concerned—and that is the chief feature of the postscript—is utterly unfounded. He never wrote to me or spoke to me in reference to Richard S. Ryan or on the subject of Controller Bay or the granting of any privileges or the making of any orders in respect Alaska. He has no interest in Alaska, even though and known thing of the circumstances connected with this transaction. He does not remember that he ever met Richard S. Ryan. He never heard of the Controller Bay railroad until my eaglegram of inquiry reached him, which, with his answer, is in the record. "Mr. Ballinger says in a telegram in answer to my inquiry, both of which are in the record that he never received such a postscript and that he never received such a postscript when it was said to have been written. "Mr. Richard S. Ryan in a letter which he has sent me without solicitation, and which is in the record, says that he never met my brother, Mr. Charles P. Taft, and that so far as he knows, Mr. Charles P. Taft never had the slightest interest in Controller Bay, in the Controller Railway and Navigation company, and he utterly admired an Alaska company, and he utterly admired an alleged postscript. The utter probability of his writing such a postscript to Mr. Ballinger at Washington, when Asked what was the bravest deed be and ever seen, Lord Roberts and he be remembered that while he was on his way to Lucknow his force was prized by a walled inclose. A little soldier, A punjab Mohammedan, seeing the difficulty, endeavored to open the door which barred their way. When he tried to draw the bolt one of his hands was cut off by one of the enemy; then he managed to unhit the bolt with his other hand, which was subsequently nearly severed from the wrist. Substitutes for Meen. Moss is not used in Japan for filling mattresses or upholstering fur mats. Bamboo shavings are used for such purposes, and it is cheap as cheap as a suitable material could be. Kapok, imported from Java, is also used; it is clean, durable and sanitary. Microbes of a Kiss. A Pittsburg scientist declares that every kiss has a miscrobe. We should judge so. And dangerous ones, too— in Pittsburg. the latter was away for his vacation for two months, must impress everyone. Places the Blame. "The person upon whose statement the existence of what has been properly characterized as an amazing postscript is based, is a writer for newspapers and magazines, who has permission by Secretary Fischer, after consultation with examine all the files in respect to the Controller Bay matter—and this under the supervision of Mr. Brown, then private secretary of the secretary of the interior. After the examination, at which it is alleged this postscript was received from the hand of Mr. Brown, the correspondent prepared an elaborate subject of this order and Controller Bay, which was submitted to Mr. Fisher, and which was discussed with Mr. Fisher at length, but never in the conversation between them or in the article submitted did the correspondent mention the existence of the postscript. Mr. Brown states that he was so in shock postscriptly, in the papers he should them to the correspondent and that he never saw such a postscript. Similar evidence is given by Mr. Carr and other custodians of the records in the interior department. "Stronger evidence of the falsity and maliciously slanderous character of the alleged postscript could not be had. Its only significance is that it was used to examine and vomom of some who take active part in every discussion of Alaskan issues. Scandal-Mongering Denounced. "I am in full sympathy with the concern of reasonable and patriotic men that the valuable resources of Alaska should not be turned over to be exploited for the profit of greedy, absorbing and monopolistic corporations or syndicates. Whatever the attempts which have been made, no one, as a matter of fact, has secured in Alaska any undue profit from the under the control of congress. I am in full agreement with the view that every care, both in administration and in legislation, must be observed to prevent the corrupt or un MAP OF CONTROLLER BAY Prepared by direction of the President at the Office of the Court and Academic Survey July 1951 Sandwings in Galway at mean water level OP - Originally proposed administration 842 - Johnson J. Hayes TT - Terminal Trust Aid Dec 1952 844 - Arendt K. Schaefer 846 - Thomas F. Mares fair acquisition of undue privilege, or right from the government in that district. But everyone must know that the resources of Alaska can never become available either to the people of Alaska er to the public of the United States unless reasonable opportunity is granted to those people to cure a return proportionate to the risk run in the investment and reasonable under all circumstances. "On the other hand, the armistry of spirit and the intense malice that have been engendered in respect of the administration of the government in Alaska and in the consideration of measures proposed for her relief and the wanton recklessness and engerness with which attempts have been made to besmirch the characters of high of government, and even of persons not in public life, present a condition that calls for condemnation and requires that the public be warned of the demoralization that has been produced by the hysterical suspicions of good people and the unscrupulous and corrupt misrepresentations of the wicked. The helpless state to which the credulity of some and the malevolent, scandal-mongering actions of Alaska in their struggle for its development ought to give the public pause, for until a juster and fair view be taken, investment in Alaska, which is necessary to its development, will be impossible, and honest administrators and legislators will be embarrassed in the advocacy and putting into operation of those policies in regard to the territory which are necessary to the security of property. WILLIAM H. TART *The White House, July 26 1831.* A familiar story is that of Samponpe pulling down the pillars of the temple of Gaza, whereby the roof fell upon the Phillistines' How Samponpe was able to do this is now known. Kwanzactions on the site of Gaza show that the pillars of the temple were of wood, and rested upon foundations of stone without being fastened thereto. The strong man had, therefore, merely to push these pillars of their supporting stones; when down would come the out of the whole building Nemely Sitter, "I don't know what to do about this portrait," said the artist. "Can't you get the likeness?" Oh yes. But I'm doubtful about how far to go. If I don't make it look like him the critics will roast it, and if I do he'll refuse to pay for it." Long in One Service. Seventy years with one firm was the record of an aged cloth worker who has just died at Trowbridge, Wilta, England. He began work, when he was eight and one-half years old. FINDS OLD PAPERS Minutes of the School Board Meeting in 1864 REMINDER OF WAR TIMES Shows That A Confederate Raid Was Excuse Given As the Reason For Delay In Building High School. Des Moines.—The civil war played a part in the establishment of the first high school in Des Moines, according to the minutes of a meeting of the board of school directors, dug up by Sup. W. O. Riddell, of the Des Moines public schools. On May 5, 1864, the members of the school board agreed that a high school was needed in Des Moines and a committee was named to arrange a course of study. The committee made no report from time to time, but finally made its excuse for not submitting a building and curriculum proposition on the ground that the rebels had made a aid. The report was not, made until war conditions in Iowa had calmed and then the proposed course of study included McFauffe's third reader, Ray's arithmetic, Montiell's fourth part geography, Pineo's analytical grammar and Wilson's history. Three Thousand Dollars Found. Three Thousand Dollars Found, Belle Plaine—Frank Bobinet, who a few months ago bought the lot where the Catholic church formerly stood, while excavating found a tin chest about a foot below the surface of the ground containing over $3,000 in gold, silver and paper money. The theory is that it was buried by Father Dement, a Catholic priest, who was drowned near Chelsea, Iowa, some six or eight years ago. Kendall Gets Plum. Grimnell.-The United States government has sent its official acceptance of the site at the corner of Broad street and Fifth avenue for the new postoffice building. Representative Kendall, of the Sixth Congressional District, announces that he will ar once introduce a bill appropriating $100,000 for the construction of the building. Fire Sweeps Hat Field. Creston.-While threshing the latter part of the week, Will Scherer, living near Afton, lost his entire crop of oats by fire which started from sparks from the thresher outfit. All the grain in stacks was destroyed. Williamsburg Pioneer Dead. Williamsburg.-Mr. Richard W. Thomas is dead at his residence here, aged 82 years. He had been a farmer near town for nearly forty years, and by good management had become quite wealthy. No Crop Failure In Iowa. Marshallthwalt.-With winter wheat averaging twenty-five bushels an acre and oats forty bushels, farmers in central Iowa believe they are faring pretty well for a dry season. Sues Railway Company. Cedar Rapids—George H. Smith has brought suit against the Cedar Rapids & Marion City Railway company for $15,000 damages, for being struck by a car while riding a bicycle over a bridge. Woman Appointed Rural Carrier. Iowa Falls—Mrs. Carrie E. Clapp has been appointed rural mall carrier out of Alden by the United States government, succeeding her husband who recently died. Iowan to Teach in India. Corning—Prof. Rosa L. Wilson former teacher in Corning academy has sailed for India. He has accepted a position as instructor in the college at Lahore. Boone Bank is Opened Boone—Boone's postal savings bank has opened. An expert from the postoffice department was here explaining the system to the local employee. Grief for Child Leads to Death. Oksalcao—Mrs. Edward Garring, wife of a prominent farmer, living nighteast of the city, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. Is Killed By Fall. Keokuit—Fred Ensor, a local structural iron worker, was killed when he fell from the top of the power dam, a distance of sixty feet. District Postmasters Meet. Marshallownay—A call has been issued for a meeting of Third and Fourth class postmasters here on August 8 and 9. Private Electric Plant. Belle Plaine—August Shields, a farmer living near here, has dammed a small stream and installed a water wheel which runs an electric lighting plant for his house and barn, the first private plant in this vicinity. Loaded Cigar Causes Suit. Waterioo—Claiming that Larry Lannigan on July 1 gave him a loaded cigar, which later exploded and injured his face and eyes. Frank Jensen has filed a suit against Lannigan for $3,000 damages. Des Moines—Clayton Dayster, a paroled prisoner from the Anamox penitentiary who was implicated in the theft of the general store at Oralabor, July 4th, will be sent back to prison for violating his parole. Creston Gate Postal Bank. Creston—Creston will have a postal savings bank after August 19th. Postmaster Skinner received this information recently. It will be under the supervision of Assistant Postmaster F. George Brotherton. Co-operative Plant Des Moines — Organized labor in Iowa has four co-operative stores in the state, according to information sent to A. L. Urick, president of the Federation of Labor. Besides stores at Council Bluffs and at Waterloo, one recently has been organized at Marshalltown, and one is in the process of organization at Oskaloosa. Found Dead in His Bad. Mt. Pleasant—John McCulley, an octogonian, and a healthy farmer, was found dead in his bed at his home. McCulley deeded $100,000 worth of land to the Presbyterian church two years ago. The district court threw out the deed, following a suit alleging senile dementia. Find Drowned Girl's Body. Find Drowhes Davenport.—The body of May Foley, 17-year-old Davenport girl, who disappeared, was found in the Mist River. Near Linwood, eight miles below Davenport. Last Thursday at midnight's persons on the government bridge here heard a scream and a splash from the river. Lived 90 Years. Logan. — The Hon. D. M. Harris has started on his 91st year of life. He established the Missouri Valley Times forty-three years ago, and is still connected with the newspaper. Mr. Harris formerly represented Harrison county in the Iowa legislature as a democrat. Are Threening in Grundy. Grundy Center. — Threening has commenced in this locality, one field of oats yielding forty-five bushels to the acre. The average yield will be about thirty-five bushels. The outlook for corn is good, but more rain is needed for it, potatoes and pastures. Robert Long Has Close Call. Hampton. — The lightning struck a milk house on the Long farm. Robert long was in the building at the time, and it tore his clothing into shreds and set him on fire. He succeeded in putting out the fire with his hands, but not until he had been badly burned. Manila to Have Home-coming. Manila — the speakers' committee has received word from Senator Kenyon, that he has accepted the invitation to deliver the address at the opening of the quarter centennial and home-coming at Manila, to be held on Sept. 6, 7 and 8. Rich Farmer Hangs Self. Council Buffa—Fred Shields, 70 years old, committed suicide at his home near Mineola, Mills county, by hanging. Members of the family found him dead in the granary. Shields was well known and well-to-do. Scalp Torn From Head. Mason City—Charles Gutterman, at Garner, fell from the top of a lumber pile and had his scalp completely torn from the side and top of his head. He was missed for four hours before being found. Mother of Iowa Publisher Dead. Creston—Mrs. Christiania Stivers, aged 91, mother of Henry Stivers, of Osceola, former editor of the Des Moines Leader, and Thomas Stivers, publisher of the Burlington Gazette, is dead here. Thomas Grey Is Killed. Mason City — Thomas Gray, well-known capitalist and politician, of Wesley, and brother of the late William Gray, of Clear Lake, was killed instantly in an automobile accident near Britt. Attacks Water Works Company. Keokuk — W. J. Roberts has startled an attack on the validity of the Water Works company. His attack was made at the meeting of the school board of which he is a member. Another Raid at Keokuk. Keokuk — Nine persons were caught in a gambling house by the police. The raid caused a sensation and is supposed to have been inspired by Attorney General Cosson. Prominent Miner Missing. Centerville — Sam Crase, a coal miner, attended the state meeting of miners at Des Moines in June and has not been seen since. His wife is making a search for him. Menlo Pioneer Dead. Menlo — John Lewis, the oldest man in this section, is dead. He was born in Indiana, April 25, 1813, and came to Scott County, Iowa, while Iowa was still a territory. Conductor Weeks Dead. Boone — Conductor H. C. Weeks, one of the best-known men in the service of the Northwestern company, is dead after a lingering illness. Famous Keokuk Saloon Quita. Keokuk—Theo. Hultz, proprietor of a famous Keokuk saloon, managed by the democratic politician Tim Hickory, has surrendered his license and directed his attorney to dismiss the injunction suit. Iowans Killed By Train. Loumoor—George Mostavich, 45, was instantly killed and Joseph Sammish was probably fatally injured here when they were run down by a Chicago and Northwestern passenger train. Normal Training Course. Des Moines—The Guthire' county high school, located at Panora, and the high schools of Greenfield, Oscola and Creston will probably be the first high schools in the state to get the new normal training course provided for by the Adams law. Fire Origin Incendiary. Iowa City—Fire provided to have been of incendiary origin destroyed one car of the Iowa City Street Railway company and damaged another, causing a loss of $1,200. Des Moines, July 23—Jack and Jack, Des Moines' most famous fire team, possibly the most famous fire team in the world, will get back in to the limelight of a fireman's tournament for a brief space of time this afternoon, including the imminent friends of the veteran team. Fire Chief William Burnett last night allowed it to be announced that the two horses would be the Des Moines entry in the bunk hitch event today. The old stars, which in their day could show their heels to any pair of fire horses in the world, but whose muscles have worn under the stress of training, they will be sent into the stable to hang up a new record in the hitch and fifty yard dash. The followers of the team, most of whom never saw the team lose, believe that the veterans, lean and agile, white starred foreheads and tightening stamina will be able to win where the other teams of the city have failed. Despite the fact that they had been forced into the society of ex-champions by the whirlwind Clinton team, the Mack camp came back with the bunk hitch training second day and established a freeord which stands unique to the freeord for all bunk hitch, one half mile run, and nozzle coupling contest. The ex-champions set the time of 1 minute and 15 seconds for the event without the use of a whip. The performance by Fred and Mack resulted from one of the many accidents which featured the second afternoon of the tournament. As the Des Moines team dashed from the bunk house after making a perfect hitch, Driver David was passing it to Captain Wilkins. Urged on only by the gong and the excited applause from the fifteen thousand people who crowded the grandstand and lined the railing on either side of the track, the black and bay team accomplished a feat unique in the annals of stats firemen's tournament. AGE AND YOUTH PLAN UNION Woodburn Man Procuree License is Wed Girl Fifty-four Years His Junior. Onoola, July 28.—Sixty-eight and fourteen years are the ages as giver by themselves of the principals in would-be wedding ceremony, which was to be performed here next Sunday. A license was issued last Monday to J. W. Terhune, 68 years old, to marry Rosa May, 15 years old, by County Clerk W. E. Morrow. As soon as county officials learned the true condition, County Sheriff R. L. Eggleson was sent after the license. He took it away from Terhune W. S. Hedrick, county attorney, has started an investigation, with a view he declares, to instituting proceedings against Terhune. The would-be bride and groom both reside near Woodburn, this county. Terhune at one time was a prominent stock trader. He has been married twice before, the authorities declare. Stranger Murdered and Burned: Dubuque, July 28.—crutally murdered by highwaymen, and his body placed in a bonfire and partly cremated, was the fate of an unidentified man in the Illinois Central yards here last night. Three other men were held up and robbed at about the same time. First Iowa Infantry to Meet Koekuk, July 28—Plans are per- fected for the annual meeting of the veterans of the First Iowa Infantry to be held here August 10, the fifte- nth anniversary of the battle of Wilson's Creek, in which the regiment took part. Capt. J. S. Clark of Des Moine is president. Chautauqua Drawe Many. Perry, July 28—Big crowds attended the first day's session of the Chautauqua yesterday and the indications are the program during the coming six days will be the best ever held in the city. Death Caused by Lockjaw. Fort Madison, July 28—Glenn Boby, 25 years old, an undertaker at Hillsboro, died in a local hospital from lockjaw, caused by a motor cycle accident two weeks ago. Found Dead in Roaming House. Cedar Rapids, July 28—J. Under- wood, son of S. Underwood, the well- known Ames attorney committed suicide in a rooming house here by baking carbolic acid, but his body was not found until last night. He leaves a young wife. Coroner Will Investigate. Carroll, July 28—Fred Reimer of Templeton was found dead on a couch in his dining room by his wife. The coroner's jury is making an in- vestigation. Ministers Will Act. Cedar Rapids, July 28.—The ministers are tired of waiting for the authorities to investigate the Whitney, O'Connell prize fight held near here and propose to employ an attorney and make an investigation themselves. Plan New Fire Station. Mason City, July 28.—Plans for the erection of a fire station to be of solid concrete, two stories high and 6x44 feet, have been submitted to the city council for its approval. The structure will cost $65,000 to $75,000. MISS SELINA LUE and the Soap-box Babies by MARIA THOMPSON DAVIESS Illustrations by Magnus G. Kettner COPYRIGHT 1905, THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY Miss Helina, Lue, splinter guardian angel of Rives Bluff, presides over an impromptu day nursery for the babies of the neighborhood in the rear of her grocery. Her children were known as the Bones. The fact that she is single makes her an object of sympathy to the mothers. One of her friends is Miss Cynthia Page, daughter of Widow Page. Cynthia Page, Miss Vina and the others are taken another "Soap-Boxer" in Alan Kent, a young artist who wishes to establish a studio in her barn. Blossom, Miss Lue's adopted baby, and one Cynthia Page found after an experience for Alan. When Cynthia leaves, Alan hears that her mother is in danger of losing the old homestead. A near ruskus, Alan admires Cynthia. Selina feels how she came to locate in the place and start the haven for little ones. She suspects that Cynthia is responsible for Alan's neglect of herself. Sale of the mortaged Page place considered. Alan's price is very low, she disdained to be a branch, Cynthia's close friend, shows interest in Alan Kent. Cynthia relieves Selina for a day, cooks dinner for Mr. Kent and makes a sorry mess of it. Alan de- She was very fond of her. The Bluff follows Cynthia overhears his confessions of love. An afternoon tea is arranged, it proves a grand affair and Alan escorts Cynthia's home. CHAPTER VII.—Continued. "Miss Selina Loe," said Mr. Alan, his eyes dancing with delight, "I think you asked me a question first; I claim first answer. I do—I do feel hungry when I look at her. I feel that I could without invovocation eat—" "Miss Selina Loe," broke in Miss Cynthia hastily, "I am really getting alarmed; and though Mr. Kent looks cool and afternoon-tea—and grand, I begin to think he may be more ferocious than he looks. Lions—are—" "Run, run! Mr. Alan, for that's the car to catch Miss Evelyn on the switch—the ougher be here now in five minutes. Come on, Bennie, and git all the children in line! Tell everybody to come here to the grocery steps and listen to the speech first thing—there's Mr. Bradford now. My, my Miss Cynthle, don't everybody look fine? Miss' Kinney don't pink cotton crape goes so nice with Miss' Dobbe purple, but I'm back up in the band." Miss Selina met her guests at the foot of the steps and welcomed them with enthusiasm Miss Cynthle helped do the honors and shared in the general excitement. "Howdy everybody!" said Miss Selina Lue. "We sure make a fine show. She is going to make hands right here with us all and then go and see the pictures before it gits dark, and then come the refreshments. Mys Cynthia, you don't juggle hold Blossom, but you jest will do it and muss your dress. Now, Ethel Maud, hold Clemence careful till her mother gits here, and I will carry the twins as we go down to meet her. I feel like the babies ougheter see it all--you can't begin on manners for entertainments too young." And so the honored, guest found them, an exotic-colored aggregation of palpitating excitement in gala attire and more gala humor. It often hapten and that the coin of human intercourse is amplified, entertainment does not buy for tenderness much in the way of real pleasure, but on the Bluff it was otherwise, Joy, real, effervescent, sparkling joy filled every cup to the brim and ran over. The Bluff took Miss Evelyn to its arms and caressed and admired and publated over her to its heart's content. She was greeted in flowery phrases by Mr. Si Bradford, whose oratorical acrobatic feces were as astonishing as the triple handsprings that Bennie Dobbs turned in her path at every possible opportunity. It was well that her fund of enthusiasm was adequate to supply long drafts. Miss Cynthia stood by and watched her with awid pride and delight. She enthused over young Jim Peters in stiff and uncomfortable attire, and his rosy, blushing young mother in soft muslin. She admired all six Tithemen was especially interested in Ethan Hine, marked nose. She expressed starvation at the home of Mrs. Kinney's pies and listened with rapt attention to Luella recipe a choice piece in nine verses, nor did she fall to handle the heirloom teapot with becoming reverence when it was transported into her presence wrapped in an old flannel petticoat. "My, myt!" said Miss Selina Lue in an aside to Mr. Alan. who had taken his stand by her at the grocery door just one step below that on which stood Miss Cynthia with Blossom in her arms. "Ain't they having a good time? I do hate to break it up by asking her to look at pictures, but Mr. Krause is a going to play her a tune on her keyphone, and as soon as it's over I will go to the barn and keep the crowd down here to help me set out the refreshments. 'Sposen, Miss Cynthia, you run on up there now so as to be there when Mr. Alan gits her up. I am sorry you won't let me take Blossom away from you, though I know if I try there will be a holering, and it do seem a pity. o mix any tears in this Blossom gurgled and clung to Miss Cynthia in the suggestion of her possible disloyalty was being strengened by the lady of her adornments. "Well, Mr. Alan, you'd better go 'long with em' and hand her up the ladder to Miss Cynthia. Then hurry back so you will be here when the piece is finished. Now he's tuning up." And obedient to instructions and the exigencies of the case, Mr. Alan hurry—only one long. Miss Cynthia knelt on the loft floor and reached down for the Blossom he held to her from the ladder and her face was the hue of the roses and her eyes were twin stars—and tender. A moment she held the rapturous baby to her beast and smiled down at him over the head and head—and Mr. Alan ran for the strains of "Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailley?" as executed by Mr. Leeks, his k-l art lent wings to his feet. The hour the four of them spent in the studio with the picture was deified for Evelyn looked into Miss Cynthia's face, moment, then kissed her on both cheeks and—was merciful and charming. The pictures so absorbed all three- nay, all four, for from the first time Blossom had been transported to the studio she had gazed at them with wide-eyed wonder that had overjoyed the artist—that when Miss Selina Lue's beaming face appeared above the ladder they could scarcely realize how the time had flown. "Well, well, what a nice time you all do seem to be having! Such a day as never was on the Bluff before, and everybody so happy! I declare, Mr. Alan have smiled so much since morning that he's sitting fat. They ain't nobody said a cuss word or slapped a child since sunup. But come down everybody, for the crowd has sung MOTHER AND CHILD N. And So the Honored Guest Found Them. and laughed itself hungry and I can't hold 'em back no longer. Miss Cynthie, honey, did you notice the wreath of larkspur Mr. Alan and Bennie Dobbs tied around Charty's neck? Don't she look dressy and proud? And she's kinder switching her tail perk. Trust a woman, if she is jeal a cow, to skitter some in finery. But I'll go on, and you follow as fast as you can." founder around and I the matter with a ba painful. But this you you and Miss Cynthie clacer with babies, with with my helping him it is pneumony with side to issue, it what being threatened with it was one of the T The refreshments were appreciated to their limit, and so enticing were their appearance and flavor that Miss Evelyn first chose "cross-barred," then accepted "open-faced," and finally begged for "kivered," to Mrs. Kinney's manifest delight. In fact, when the tale was told, there remained only one of each persuasion, which Miss Selina Lue had packed in a basket to send to Mrs. Jackson Page, whose regrets had been profuse though formal. "You walk on up the hill with the girls, Mr. Alan, and carry the basket," said Miss Selina Lue as they began after unnumbered farewells to take the picture of the girl, Miss Evelyn. You've got friends here on the Bluff all to stand you to the rest of your life, and for them you can't come too often. Now, Mr. Alan, hand them pleas to Mis' Page yourself and don't trust 'em to the girls, for they are having so much good time I am skewed to risk "em." And so Mr. Kent appeared for the first time before Mrs. Jackson Page bearing a gift of rare spices; and though at first welcomed illy, after an hour's conversation in which transpired, by her maneuveruphing, his parentage, and the social and financial standing thereof, he was invited most cordially to dine. "Law, Miss Seliny Lue, where can Mr. Alan be?" questioned Mr. Klinney, as she sat for a few minutes on the grocery steps in the moonlight. "It's after ten o'clock and the girls showed how he took them girls home. He must have on his tar-pants sedin!" Colting oughtn't to be gave in such hunks; broken doses is better." "Well, now, Miss' Kinsey, honey!" answered. Miss Selina Lue dreamy, her eyes resting in the long shadows the hackberry cast. across the street, "you know folks git married for a long year, and it do seem like coot ought go on quite a spell 'fore they go through the door from which they ain't no returning unless by death- or divorce, which is wusser. And then, too, ain't it jest one of the best times they is to life? So if one of the dents, it be drawn out into the densa, though strong as number forty cot- The Wilted Blossom "Don't nothing, put the heart in a broke-down woman like a cat." Miss Lella Lue "Bennie, honey, run up the hill and tell Miss Cynthia that I wistht" she would come right down, for Blossom sn'tn so well; and stop In and ask Mike Kinney to come and sell the suppers for me, 'cause I don't want to leave the baby'." "Oh Miss Seliny Lue, is she much sick?" Bennie's freckled face drew up into a knot with anxiety, for Blossom was the core of the green apple that at his age passes for a heart. "Yes, honey, she's pretty bad, and I feel I must see Miss Cynthale a bit. Now run along; and if you see Mr. Alan, send him to me, too." Miss Seline Lue's strong face was grave and sweet, but had none of the disfiguring with his nose and angry many countenances. As the turned Mr. Alan entered the back door. "How's the Blossom?" he asked anxiously as he deposited his kit in the corner. "Looks like I can't even want a thing in my heart without when I open my eyes there it is," said Miss Sellina Lue softly. "The baby isn't so well, I am afeared, and I was just mean and selfish enough to send for Miss Cynthia to come down and worry with me. I never did hold with sharing worries, but I didn't expect you back till dark, and it just seemed like I had to have one or other of you a white." "What did the doctor say?" asked Mr. Alan as he came and stood by her in the door. "There was strength and comfort in the very sight of him, and Miss Sellina Lue brightened visibly as she answered." "Well, Mr. Alan, it do beat everything to me to see a man-doctor J. founder around and hunt for what's the matter with a baby. It's plumb painful. But this young feller, what you and Miss Cynthia say is a specialist with babies, done pretty well, with my helping him along. He says it is pneumony with a long-named side issue to it, what I call jest plain being threatened with bad croup. If it was one of the Tynesnes now, or Laulla Kinney, I would think I could pull 'em through; but Blessed that she isn't meant to be the same impressions on the Bluff, and somehow—"Miss Selina Lue's voice faltered for a moment. Mr. Alan took her hand in his and said gently: "She is a very special sort of flower is the Blossom, and we all feel that. Did the doctor say he would rather have the trained nurse?" I asked him faithful 'cause I nurse him. The jealousy he felt and he said there isn't any sick munching as she had to be bought in the city. And course he knows about you walking her nights* and Miss Cynthia a-spelling of us both. Looks like to me, too, that they ain't no nursing in the world that can do as well as what comes from the hand of love—if used by common sense." "Yes, but skill still is needed in some—" "Well, silt skill another name for common sense? I've done bad experience with the lack of 'em both. When Ethel Maud was six months old, Mis' Dobbs fed her a little strawberry preserves, and I thought her time had come when I seed the spasm she went into. After a spell when I got her emptied out and full of hot ginger tea, she would quieted down but her mother set her afire with a candle she was holding to see if she was a breathtakingly beautiful girl, most burned to death 'fore I could her out. And what with the strawberry poison working on her at the same time she almost passed from us. And then she is alive and meeting by Blossom as quiet as a mouse to call me if she stirs--baby-loving and tending was born in that child." "Miss Selina Leye," called a small frigatehead voice, which was followed by a boarse cough. "Watch for Miss Cynthia and bring her back to my room. There comes Miss Kinney to sell the supplers! Can't you kinder keep you kicking out here? She do not know so." "TO BE CONTINUED." During a furious storm in Paris a janitor was struck on the shoulder by a small but heavy tin box which had fallen from an upper story of a house in the Rue I'Quest. The box was found to contain $5,000 in gold and notes. It was claimed at the police station by an elderly woman, who said that the money constituted her entire savings, which she had hidden by tying the box to the drain pipe outside her window. NEGRO'S STATUS EXACT AND SURE In Eloquent Address to Wash Ington High School Congressman Taylor Takes High Position. READING THE STIRRING RECORDS OF ADVANCEMENT, STATESMAN BIDS THE YOUNG TO TAKE COURAGE—DO NOT SPURN THE SOIL. Washington, D. C.—A class of 85 was graduated this afternoon from the four-year academic course offered at the M Street High school, the exerci- tement theater before an overflow audience which had gathered in large num- bers, not only because of the inspir- ing spectacle, but also because the commencement address was delivered by the Hon. E. L. Taylor, at present a member of the house of representatives from Ohio, and recognized as one of the greatest friends of education effort in behalf of the negro in the country. It had recently been made known that it was very largely through the efforts of Mr. Taylor in congress that the sum of $80,000 was appropriated for the purchase of a site for a new M Street High school for colored students, and that the congressman had exerted himself to such good purpose for two years that appropriations had been made on more than one occasion based on the work of the Washington as compared with the white population which is nearly one-third. The congressman was given an ovation when he stepped upon the platform and another when he had concluded his eloquent remarks. The exercises were presided over by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, and the diplomas awarded the graduates by Rev. W. V. Tunnel, both members of the Washington board of education. Congressman Taylor's address is still the chief talk among the people. "I consider it a distinguished honor to have been invited here today by the officers of this school, to meet with and address for a few short minutes the graduating class and so many of the representative colored citizens of the District of Columbia. An audience like this is an inspiration to any one, and particularly one who, unlike myself, may be inclined to possess this interest in the progress and future of the American citizen's negro persuasion. I am further honored by being permitted to speak to a class graduating as it does today, from the oldest high school in the city of Washington. The M Street High school has compelled my interest from the time I took up my duties as a congressman, representing the African-American intelligent negro population residue. I was gratified to learn that there are now more than 15,000 young colored people enrolled into the various grade schools of the District of Columbia, and more than 1,600 enrolled into the high and normal schools. SCHOOL TYPICAL OF HACE The growth of the M Street school typifies the development of the race. Starting as it did with but one teacher, it has grown to be represented by thirty-five teachers and an enrollment of seven hundred and forty young American citizens, determined to prepare themselves properly to take up life's duties according to the bent of their individual ambitions, and this not including that splendid institution, the Armstrong Manual Training school, the outgrowth of the old business course of the M Street High school. The effects of a high school education upon your pupils seem to have been to inculcate courage, ambition and a desire to rise as educators, ministers, and teachers, and to avocation to which you are individually suited. For I find that out of the class of 1910, at which time eighty young men and women graduated, 25 per cent are now pursuing a higher education in colleges or professional schools, and about 55 per cent are furthering their usefulness by a course in the normal school. PURSUING HIGHER THINGS. "This total of 80 per cent who, not含含 with the education resulting from a course of study, propose to still further, fit them, selves for useful lives in an effort, not only toward self-protection, but a more laudable desire to help better the conditions of others who will follow them. It has been my good fortune to have kept in close touch with the negro citizenship of my native state in particular, and having from both in school and in the race, both in school and in the race, been at all times, even when others both colored and white, were discouraged and inclined to pessimism, ardently optimistic as to the future of that portion of our citizenship, whose ancestors came to this country under the unfortunate circumstances of servitude. SAMPLE OF GOOD FAITH. "One has but to look back a very short cycle of time, less than century, to see that the negro has accepted his duties of citizenship in good faith, with true courage, and The construction of the English language must appear most forbiddable to a foreigner. One of them looking at a picture or a number of vessels said, "See what a flock of ship! He has told what a flock of sheep! He has told what a flock of sheep was called a flock. And it was added for his guidance in mastering the intricacies of our language that a flock of girls is called a berry. rising above more obstacles than any other nationality, has cheerfully and patiently progressed in education, business and other honorable pursuits as rapidly as any other race was ever known to do. When we consider the evolution of the negro from a bonded slave to a free man in history which should stand as a beacon of encouragement to every one of us. EDUCATION THE GREAT SOLUTION "You have realized as a race that education is the great solution, the basis essential, of good citizenship. Education and Christianity go hand in hand. To carry to the less fortunate the light of wisdom more than 30,000 of your people, men and women, have earnestly striven through secondary schools and colleges, to teach them the skills and title them to do their shares in the splendid work of a people's uplift. I understand that practically all of the teachers in the district schools, training the minds and morals of more than 15,000 school children, are graduates of this splendid M Street High school. I have said that education leads to good citizenship. Education is any keystone to learning. In education and any development, you as a people, as soon as the opportunity was given you, eagerly sought the advantages of an education. The colored schools rapidly advanced from the old Freedman's Bureau to include in their number such splendid schools as Hampton and Tuskegee, Howard university, Plask university, and other great parts of the education system. We open the door of opportunity to every colored child to receive an education fitting it to cope in every walk of life with their white neighbor. MUST GO INTO BUSINESS. "These are only necessary incidents to successful racial progress and development. While you have more than a thousand ab e lawyers practicing throughout the United States two thousand or more physicians, and hundreds of bankers, brokers, architects, musicians and other professional men, do not for a single minute think that it is not equally as honorable to go into business, into farming, into mechanics, into any honorable labor, and do it well. "I hardly need admonish the negro of the great importance of tilling the soil. It is an acknowledgment fact that the real future of this country, its very backbone, depends upon agriculture. You as a people have recognized this as readily as have the whites, and today more than 2,000,000 negroes are engaged in agricultural pursuits, and ten years ago owned over $200,000,000 worth of farms. And in the great majority of these at least a report from the auditor of the state for 1904, the negroes of the state increased the value of their property more than $1,100,000 in nine years, thus making their total property holdings in that state alone $19,600,000. ALL SIDES NEED ATTENTION. I fear that I weary you with these statistics, but I am trying to impress upon you the fact that I am as proud of the fact that millions are engaged as farmers, as I am that thousands are engaged in professional pursuits. Both classes of citizens are needed to properly solve the future of your race. I am proud of the fact that over 275,600 negroes are engaged in mechanical and manufacturing pursuits. Too many are prone to the mistake that education is not necessary for manual labor, agriculture, and occupations other than professional. Let me say this: this point that the best the best the best educated. The best lawyer, doctor, professional man or woman is the one who has the best trained mind, and this rule applies with equal force, for wherever you find an educated farmer, mechanic or laborer, there will you find the best equipped of his class. The hands are but the instruments of the brain, and a well developed brain will produce the more skillful manual labor. One cannot pursue any vocation successfully with his brain dormant. One can reach a high degree of proficiency in his chosen line only by a high degree of development of his mental processes. We cannot all be teachers, we cannot all be lawyers. If such were the case it would be a great calamity. COURAGE AND FAITH. And now the one thing that I believe we must remember most of all. It is naturally customary with young people, going out into the world as you are today, no longer gulped, instructed and aided by your preceptors, entirely dependent upon your own abilities, courage and resources, to feel that the world is at your feet, when in fact unless you clothe yourself in an abiding faith, an undying courage, and an unshakeable faith, you will face to face with difficulties and discouragement, you are at the feet of the world, and will be trodden upon unless there is in you the stamina which will force recognition of your merits, be those the merits of a teacher, doctor, lawyer, minister, business man, mechanic, nurse, farmer, laborer, or domestic servant. I place no one of these occupations above the other; ALL LABOR HONORABLE. they are each equally honorable and an honest ambition to be the best of your kind will make your life a success, for success is not measured by the greatness of the individual, but if a man or a woman be the best, or equal to the best, in their chosen life's work, their ambition is as well rounded out as is the ambition of the greatest man or woman of your race. You cannot all be leaders. One must excel the other. that a bovy of wolves is called a pack, and a pack of thieves is called a gang, and a gang of angels is called a host, and a host of propheses is called a shoal, and a shoal of buffaloes is called a herd, and a herd of children is called a troop, and a troop of partridges is called a covey, and a covey of beauties is called a galaxy, and a galaxy of beauties is called a star, and a star of rubish is called a heap, and a heap of oxen is called a drove, and a drove of blackguards is called a mob, and a mob of whales The same standard applies to the colored people that applies to the white, that all work is honorable and necessary. There must be manufacturers as well as senators. There must be good business men as well as politicians. There must be fine artisans as well as litterateurs. There must be good laborers in the field as well as millionaires. And I wish to impress upon you that the success of your race, the future of your race, does not lie in the success of a chosen few, but in the success of all. Work with the hands is just as honorable as work with the brains, and the best workman is the man who has his hands and brain both trained. **EXCELSIOR.** A good rule to follow is to foster an undying ambition to excel all in so far as possible, and while the men or women who constantly endeavor to excel in all things will find others who by natural ability and adaptability, pass them in the race, yet the one who strives to excel the others is certain of excelling the greatest majority. We are too prone to measure success by wealth. As a rule, the wealthy man is termed the successful man, and yet this is absolutely sophistication. A man whose entire success is an accumulation of money, and who has given nothing to posterity, has paid small tribute for the privilege of being wealthy, and the accumulation of wealth is not a thing to be proud of. But there are other things which spell success in more brilliant letters. I believe in all persons being thrifty, but do not lose your better self in a wild race for wealth alone. We must have producers of wealth. We must have scholars, diviners and thinkers. GOLD IS NOT ALL. The man who with his brain and the skill of hand and muscle, can contemplate a beautiful structure of which he took part in the building; the woman who can look upon hundreds of the earth, who can look upon their minds and their morals have been under her control, that she has taken part in their training for a future life of usefulness, even though both draw a mere day's wage, and live in comparative obscurity, can be just as proud of their achievements as can the millionaire who gazes gloatingly upon his accumulated millions in stocks, bonds and gold. Each has been a producer. Each has contributed to the development of his country and to the betterment of his people. It is wrong for a person to willingly live in poverty simply through lack of ambition to rise above it. But a man or woman who devotes his or her life to the betterment of the people and fails to accumulate fortune, yet industriously labors through his need feel no relief. If he should be counted among those who lack in wealth. On the other hand, the man or woman with talent, either undeveloped or latent, who sluggishly sits by and lets opportunity take wings, nad fails to lift a hand or use his or her intellect to benefit the peope, or produce something of value, is a sluggard and should be treated with utter contempt. KNOW THYSELF. First let me urge that you commune with yourselves. Do not foster an ambition to be that which you cannot be. Je brave enough to map out your life within the scope of your abilities. I urge an unfaltering ambition to succeed and progress, but misplaced ambition attempt that in which you cannot succeed is not an ambition, but a delusion. You admire the admiration of Shakespeare "The ambition which off of oerleaps itself and falls on the other side." And an other old philosopher says that "He who knows his height may have chips in his eyes." I do not say this by way of discouragement, but I have seen too many good men and women fall through misplaced effort, through thoroughly misunderstanding their own limitations, and the man and woman is assured of success who is courageous enough to analyze himself and frankly acknowledge his shortcomings. You will find much of discouragement, but that only gives zest to the great delight of living a successful, upright, future life. BE PROUD OF YOUR RACE. Let me admonish you, and I speak from the bottom of my heart, never be ashamed that you were born of colored blood. Go out into the world full of pride of race, and take not with you race prejudice and race hatred. Pride of race is proper, but one of the instructions to the prograss of your race has hatred and prejudice, both among the whites and the negroes. You are here by right. You are entitled to equal rights under the law. This is guaranteed by you by the Constitution. You cannot unmake in a day secessional prejudice, but you can by patiently striving toward good citizenship, by industriously working to create something of the brain or the hand that the people want, bring about more rapidly than by any other means, a proper understanding with which to deal with allities, living under the same flag. You have no cause to be ashamed of the past history of your race. The record of the last fifty years should send you forth full of encouragement and enthusiasm of the future. When you take up your life's work, do so as American citizens. OUR EXACT STATUS. This is your exact political and economical status in this country. Every man, woman and child born under the flag of our country, is an American citizen, and you have your ambition, and will if I read your faces right today, to by American citizens that other American citizens, regardless of race or color, will be compelled to take pride in. is called a school, and a school of worshippers is called a congregation, and a congregation of engineers is called a corps, and a corps of robbers is called a bank, and a bank of locusts is called a swarm, and a swarm of people is called a crowd." "I wonder if these rulns are very ancient," murmured the professor. "Not so very," said the experienced member of the party. "They have been put up since I was last here"—Pittsburgh Post. HIT REAPER TRUST CHARGE IS MADE THAT MORGAN AND HARVESTER INTERESTS UNITED. Townsend Report on Which Former Attorney General Bonaparte Failed to Act Goes Before Investigators—Wickham is a Witness. Washington.—That charges were made to Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte during his term of office that the United States Steel corporation gave refund of three dollars a ton to the harvester combine companies was revealed to the house "steel trust" investigating committee. Representatives of the committee, a Kentucky man of the committee, introduced into the proceedings a voluminous report on the harvester trust made to Mr. Bonaparte in 1908 by Burdette C. Townsend, a special investigator of the department, now assistant district attorney of Oregon. In describing the organization of the group of larger companies in the Harvester combine the McCormick, Ghearing, Ilano, Glashauer, and the Milwaukee Harvester companies, Mr. Townsend reported to Mr. Bonaparte: "It appears that there was an unusual concentration of the capital stock of these five companies. It was all owned and controlled by four families, the McCormicks, the Deering, the Joneses and the Glessners. The pooling of their holdings was all that was necessary to create a trust. All these people lived in Chicago. "Another fact is interesting. Harold McCormick (one of the heaviest stockholders of the McCormick company), is a son-in-law of John D. Rockefeller. The McCormick company was therefore already distantly related by marriage to the American family of the trust architect usually interested. "He is a good builder and receives fabulous fees for his work. George W Parking is his associate." Attorney General Wickersham, summoned as a witness, testified that he had never seen the Townsend report before. He promised that Townsend would testify later. He did not know why the harvester case was not pressed in 1908-09. "I surmised, he added, that he had received the Supreme court decisions in the tobacco and Standard Oil cases involving the same points." Mr. Stanley announced that a subpoena had been issued for Mr. Bonaparte, who is now in Canada, and that an effort would be made to ascertain from him and from other government officials why there had not been a prosecution of the International Hortexer company upon Townsend's charges. Mr. Stanley endowed to show a close connection between the United States Steel corporation and the International Harvester company. Mr. Townsend in his report particularly referred to the price paid to J. Pierport Morgan & Co. in the harvester deal, declaring that "$5,000,000 is a very high price for the simple service of suggesting to persons how they can agree in a legitimate transaction. It is not unusual," said "in illegal transactions such as creat- tion, which can evade the laws. Doubless, if proceedings were instituted against the International Harvester company, the manner of its defense will demonstrate that the fee was earned." FIVE NEW CHOLERA SUSPECTS Two Ships From Italian Ports and One From Mexico Are Detained at Quarantine. New York. — The steamship Oceania arrived from Genoa, Palermo and Naples with three cases of suspected cholera on board. It was detained with its 129 cabin and 468 steerage passengers. The steamship San Glorio, from Naples, in got without any passengers, but it had a stowaway who was a cholera suspect, and so that ship, too, with its crew, was detained at quarantine. Another cholera suspect was found on the steamship Kfbry Bank, which docked at Perth Amboy after arriving from a Mexican port. Eight Shot by Crazed Hindu. Chicago—A man wearing a soldier's uniform and carrying a modern Springfield rifle wore suddenly insane in front of the Chicago opera house, Washington and Clark streets, and shot eight persons, none fatally. After a terrific struggle the man was arrested and said he was M. Husian, a Hindu. He said he had determined to kill 40,000 persons and had just started. Husian gave the police a terrible fight before he was subdued. Miners Hit Ownership Plan. Butte, Mont.—The convention of the Western Federation of Miners adopted a report which characterised as impracticable the suggestion of President Moyer in favor of ownership of mines and smelters by labor organizations. Says She in Widow of Five. Atlanta, Ga.—Claiming that she is the widow of five men, all of whom fought in the Civil war, a woman of Waiten county has filed a petition for five pensions of $400. "Not Guilty" Gemsmere Pla. Washington—in lieu of formal answers to the contempt charges against them, Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor or oral pleas of "not guilty" before Justice Wright of the District Supreme court. Indianian Slain: Rival Accused. Evansville, Ind.-Noah Russell, aged twenty-one, was shot and killed, and Elbert Meridith, aged thirty, is accused of the crime. He is missing. The men were rivals. Mr. J. L. Thompson, editor of the Erystander, was in our city last Thursday and Friday, collecting and getting new subscribers for his paper. He reached here on a very enjoyable day for the Rock Islanders. About one thousand of them had gathered in the beautiful Longview Park in Tri-City Sunday School picnic and we were glad to have the editor join us. Quite a splendid quarterly meeting was held at the Wayman A. M. E. church. Rev. Phillips, presiding elder, prescheduled in the morning in spite of the unfavorable weather. Rev. Stovall of Davenport prescheduled the communion sermon. Four churches were represented and all seemed to feast from the good things that were said. Mrs. Garnett, the evangelist, was also a noted visitor at our Sunday afternoon services and was introduced by Rev. Sanders of Moline. Mrs. H. E. Burns, Mrs. Agnes Burns Phoenix, Mrs. Bassett and Mrs. Pollard leave next week to attend the S. M. T. Grand session, held in Quincy, Ill., August 8 to 12. McKinley Rescue Club will give an entertainment to the residence of Mrs. Ilesa, South Rock Island, Tuesday night. The socials given by this club should be closely watched and well attended for these young men are doing a great work trying to pay the indebtedness of 'air church. Mr. Chas, Golden, Jr., and mother are visiting in Chicago, the guests of Mrs. Harris. Mrs. Jas. Leggons is also visiting relatives in Chicago. Messrs. Edmund and Albert Burrs have installed a fine new press in their office and are in position to do all kinds of printing. Let us natronize them. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Patterson of Chicago were passing through to visit his parents in Iowa City and stopped off here and were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Moore at dinner on Sunday. Mrs. H. W. Harding is able to be out again. The Progressive Art club will meet with Mrs. Chas. Dangerfield the first Wednesday in August. All members are requested to be present. Mr. John Hill and the Fulton grandchildren who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Cass. Lambert, have returned to their home in Des Moines, leaving the older sister, Irene Fulton, with Grandma Lambert for a longer visit. Help for Those Who Have Stomach Trouble. After doctoring for about twelve years for a bad stomach trouble, and spending nearly five hundred dollars medicine and doctor's fees, I purchased my wife one box of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, which did her so much good that she continued to use them and they have done her more good than all of the medicine I bought before.—Samuel Boyer, Folsom, Iowa. This medicine is for sale by all dealers. ST. PAUL BUDGETARIAN. There has been a decided change in the weather here in the past twenty-four hours. It feels as if winter is coming on. Mrs. J. Kinnebreu, an old and respected citizen or our city, passed away last Saturday morning, after a brief illness. Her funeral was held Monday afternoon from Pilgrim Baptist church of which she was a member. Mrs. Jas. R. Jones of Charles street entertains at a reception Friday afternoon from 5 to 8 p. m., in honor of her guests, Mrs. Baker and the Misses Baker of Glencoe, Lilian Spears and Rachel Elliott left for their home in Des Moines Sunday evening, after a three weeks' visit in our city, the guests of afr. and Mrs. L Hicks, 463 Thomas Street Miss Bentley left for her home in Memphis, Tenn., Sunday night, after a pleasant visit with Mrs. Wm. Blackburn of Thomas street. Rev. Jones of St. James A. M. E. church is quite busy nowadays looking after his dollar money and other conference claims. Miss Bessie Lucas left Sunday night for a visit in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Belleseen left Sunday night for a two weeks' visit in Atchison, Kansas. Mrs. J. B. Turner of Sherhurne avague remains quite ill. The members of the Union Benevolent club were entertained at a social session Thursday evening of last week by Mr. George Mercer and other male members. Refreshments were served and a delightful time was enjoyed by all present. The Self Culture club meets Wednesday with Mrs. Nora Covington on Charles street. Mrs. Eliza Wilkins left Saturday morning for her home in Chicago, after a brief visit with her brother, Mr. Richard Anderson and wife of Gaultier street. The orchestra adds much to St. James church services on Sunday mornings. Mrs. Frank Boyd is visiting in Chicago. A large crowd attended the Episcopal picnic at Spring Park, Lake Minnetonka last Thursday. Mr. W. T. Francis is in Philadelphia attending the Grand Lodge of the Odd Fellows. St. Paul gets the National Education Association convention in 1912. There are those here now who remember this convention meeting here just twenty-one years ago when several noted Negro educators were in attendance. Mrs. Blanche Charleston last week for a visit in Chicago and other places. Mrs. Phil Anderson is visiting her sister in Detroit. Mich. Subscribe and pay for the Bystander, one of the best Negro journals pub- lished. TRI-STATE ALL HOME PHONE 2718 COOKING The St. Louis Kitchen Mrs. Julia Binson, Prop. Elegant Regular and A La Carte Meals for Ladies and Gentlemen Meals 25c up 135 East Third St St.Paul, Minn. ELLA EPPERSON 1125 West Walnut Street, Des Moines, Phone, Red 4076 Iowa When in Mason City go to the Smart Set Barber Shop and Pool Hall Run by the TYLER BROS. 725 Washington Avenue South Many other fashionable styles. Booklet upon request. Send draft money or express order. Cash and stamps at send-er's mail. NATT & CO., Dept. 32 Union Square East, New York The Faithful Pew society, which met at the home of Mrs. Mary Greene on Cherry street, had a very pleasant meeting. Mr. B. J. Fuller of Fairfield, oak, talk, asked, "What is the name of this town." His remarks were very encouraging and beneficial. Mr. O. B. Fuller has returned to his home in Fairfield, after visiting friends in the city. The Second Baptist Sunday School picnic was held at Caldwell Park, July 20th. A large crowd was present. All who attended the picnic report an enjoyable time. Mra. Helen Anderson is going to give a picnic for the young people and they will meet at her residence on West Second street at 11 n. m. They will then go to Rock Bluffs and enjoy a picnic dinner. The A. M. E. Sunday School picnic with Thursday, July 27th. The Japanese social given by Miss Clara Cook at the Mt. Zion A. M. E. church was a success in every way. The seven Jap young ladies, including Miss Cook, were dressed in the Jap style. The program was enjoyed by those present and afterwards the Jap ladies were treated to Jap tea. The Jap decorations were very pretty. On the evening of July 25th Mrs. G. B. Taylor will give a lawn social at her residence on South Moore street. We hope it will be a success. The "Faithful Few" will give a lawn social at Mrs. Essex Horne's on Center Avenue, Thursday, August 3rd. Preparations are being made to make it a successful moonlight social. Quite a number of Ottumwans are planning to attend the barbecue and ball at Cedar Bandis, August 4th. Mr. Robinson and Mr. Wilson are on this week's slick list. Happiest Girl in Lincoln. A Lincoln, Neb., girl writes, "I had been ailing for some time with chronic constipation and stomach trouble. I began taking Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and in three days I was able to be up and got better right along. I am the proudest girl in Lincoln to find such a good medicine." For sale by all dealers. Nearly Furnished Rooms and Good Board at Reasonable Prices at American House For First-class Meals and Lunches at all hours. Rooms and Lodging. Mrs. Frederick Wright Proprietor 505 East 8th Street. Across street from Iowa Central depot FOLLOW THE CROWD when in Minneapolis and you will go to the Right in your busiest season when you have the least time to spare you are most likely to take diarrhoea and lose several day's time, unless you have Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy at hand and take a dose on the first appearance of the disease. For sale by all dealers. FREE FREE This Handsome Gainsborough BARRETTE With every one of our latest style Cluster Puffs 24 small puffs to a set, made from long natural hair, for $1.00 SWITCHES and COIFFURES All over the United States, Prepaid ON APPROVAL 1 Send sample of hair with a few particulars; we will make an artistic selection and guarantee satisfaction. We send the hair to you prepaid on approval. If you find it perfectly satisfactory and a bargain remit the price. If not return at our expense. We offer a 22 inch switch, like cut, of natural wavy human hair to match any ordinary shade..... $1.98 THE OLIVE HAIR CO., 608 Nic. Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. For summer diarrhoea in children always give Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and castor oil, and a speedy cure is certain. For sale by all dealers. WASHINGTON, IOWA, NOTES. Walter Williams went to Muscatine Sunday evening for a short visit with his wife who is visiting at the Wm. Greenway, Sr., home. Mrs. Emma Bassfield of Des Moines is a guest at the N. L. Black home. Mrs. Anna Cissell spent last Sunday with friends and relatives at Fairfield. Invitations have been received by friends in the city from Mrs. Helen Anderson and Miss Jesse Gordon of Ottumwa, inviting them to a dinner at Rock Bluff at 12 o'clock, July 30th. Mrs. Henry Rhodes is in Chicago, a guest at the home of her aunt, Miss Lucy Lindsey, 4110 Calmet Avenue. Mrs. Rhodes' name was inadvertently omitted from the list of heirs in the obituary of Robt. T. Motts, which appeared in these columns last week. The estate of the late Robt. T. Motts is estimated to be $100,000. A congregational meeting of the A. M. E. church is called for Tuesday evening, August 8th. The chapel organ has been put in the A. M. E. church and a new choir organized under the direction of Mrs. Currie. The members of the choir are: Mrs. Currie, director and high soprano; Helen Motts, organist. Other members: Nettie Campbell, Pearl and Una Cassell, Marie Whale, Harvey Spencer, McAllister, Hall Jr., Leon Tyler, Roy McAllister. The young choir is doing fine and should be encouraged by everyone. A choir and musical program is to be given at the A. M. E. church Sunday evening, August 6th, for the benefit of the trustee department of the church. The colored Invineibles, a base ball team of Des Moines, crossed bats with the Washington nine Tuesday afternoon and were beaten 15 to 4. F. D. Motts is in Chicago in connection with the settlement of the estate of the late Robt. T. Motts. During his recent visit here John L. Thompson was a guest at the Henry Rhodes home. Twenty-Five Cents is the Price of Peace. The terrible itching and smarting, incident to certain skin diseases, is almost instantly allayed by applying Chamberlain's Salve Price 25 cents. For sale by all dealers. Toulon—Slight seismic shocks occurred again Monday in Draguignan, Vancluse and Puy-Ste-Reparade. No damage is reported, but the residents were panicked. FORD'S HAIR POMADE THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINNY OR CURRY HAIR. USE MAKES STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLIABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO COME AND PUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT. WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS MEMORABLE REMEDY MAKES SHORT, KINNY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAVY. BEST POMADE ON THE MARKET FOR DANDRUFF, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. 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EXAMINATION FREE. Write for book Piles and Rectal Diseases with names and testimonials (FREE). DR. C. Y. CLEMENT Ger. Bth and Locust St. (Marguard Bldg.) DES MOINES IOWA PATENTS Prize Offers from Leading Manufacturers Book on patents. "Hints to inventors." "Inventions needed." "Why some inventors fail." Send rough sketch or model for search of Patent Office records. Our Mr. Greeley was formerly. Acting Commissioner of Patents, and as such had full charge of the U. S. Patent Office. Rare Washington Portrait. A rare and curious messy portrait of George Washington in the library of the late Lafayette S. Richardson of Lowell, Mass., was auctioned off last year in Boston. It is entitled "George Washington, late president of the United States of America, etc," and was published March 14, 1801, by J. Hinton Lindon. It is a small folio and is colored by hand. It looks as much like George III, as it does the "Father of His Country," Baker, who wrote the "Engraved Portraits of Washington," says that only one impression of this mezzotint he come under the notice of the writer. It was in neither the Clarkson nor the Carson sale of Washington portraits. Charles Christadoro, an expert on flour and grains, sounds the keynote if the new situation brought about by the bleached flour decision when he says in a communication to the editor commenting on the bleached flour decision: "The housewife will now in stat on yellow tinted or creamy flour, and will learn to realize that a natural flour very white can in no manner compare with the creamy or yellow flour in so far as glutens and muscle building values are concerned. building "As from 25 to 90 per cent. of the large flour mills of the country were using this bleaching process, the declon is far-reaching."—National Food Magazine Willing to Oblige. "When you feels any temptations comin' along," said the friend, and ad viser, "you mus' say: 'Get thee behin me, Satan.'" "Do's what I done said," answered Mr. Erastus Pinkley, "an' den I naghee I hyuhs Satan answer me back: 'Da's all right. We's both gwine do same way, nowoh, an' it don' make so diffence to me which leads de subcession." "Senator Foraker's Political Life is an Open Book." The Foraker Cafe M. G. RUTLEDGE, Sr. Prop. and Mgr. 214 Third Street South. Electric Lights. Meals Served at all Hours. Agency for Colored Magazines and Journals. Telephone N. W. Main 537. Established 1908. Minneapolis, OPEN ALL NIGHT Min. ORIGINAL NOTICE In the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk County, September Term, A. D. 1911. Chas. A. Simms, Plaintiff, v8. Idia Simms, Defendant. To the above named defendant: You are hereby notified that on or before the 1st day of September, A. D. 1911, the petition of the plaintiff in the above entitled cause will be filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk County, Iowa, claiming you a divorce from the bonds of matrimony on the ground of desertion, and unless you appear and defend before noon of the second day of the second day of the next term, being the September term of total Court time, you may Des Moines on the 11th day of September, 1911, default will be entered against you and judgment and decree rendered thereon. S. JOE BROWN, Attorney for Plaintiff. ```markdown ``` Official paper of the M. W. U. Grand Lodge of Iowa, A. F. & A. M., and International Grand Congress of Heroines of Jericho of America and Western Baptist Association Published every Friday by the Br stander Publishing Company, De Molines, Iowa, Office in Chemical building, corner Seventh and Mab berry street, Iowa phone, wn nut 899. JOHN L. THOMPSON, EDITOR J. H. 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We will not return rejected manuscript, unless accompanied by postage stamps. All subscriptions payable in advance. Send money by postoffice order, money order, express or draft, to the Iowa State Bystander Company, Des Moines, Iowa. Monmouth, Ill. Georgia Northwood Galesburg, Ill. Mayme Richardson Cedar Rapids. Mrs. H. Horns Deerfield, Ill. Miss Bell Lea Deerfield, Ill. Miss Bell Lea St. Paul. Mrs. C. H. Marshall Minneapolis. Mrs. Q. H. Hicks Keokuk. A. J. Nielsen Rock Island. Mrs. W. H. Marshall Moline, Ill. Miss Mable Trawl Stoux City. Miss Etta Grace Clinton. A. A. Bunk Ottumwa. Miss Lorena Vincent The Iowa State Bystander is the oldest Afro-American journal published in Iowa. It was established in 1894, and is read by nearly all the colored people of Iowa. We have correspondents in the following towns: Aliba ..... Miss Mav Dav Ft. Madison ..... Miss Lulu Wilhuis Oskalaosa ..... Luella B. Frank Washington ..... N. L. Bhd Burlington ..... Mrs. J. E. Johns Moberly. Mo. Mrs. M. Etta Baden Mt. Pleasant ..... Miss Maundil Burrae A Friend to Negroes Lew Arntz, the well known Doctor of Optics, believes in treating the colored people the same as whites. This is evidenced by the fact, he offers to help or rent to black or white alike, his residence at 8215 Fourth St., Highland Park, which contains city water, sewer, gas, barn, etc, for $1250, on monthly payments of $10. We Grew Our Hail Now Let Us Grow Yours with