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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 select all your local news—Ed.) Mrs. Emma Harris continues to improve Christmas wagons at Dawson's Hardware. Christmas gift to all of our subscribers. Mrs. Mary Bryant of Osceola is in the city to spend the holidays with her sons—Samuel and Charley. Mount Mariah Tabarnacle No. 567 will give an Xmas entertainment at the hall, 8th and Mulberry on the evening of December 29th. Mr T. Edwards, who has been seriously ill with pneumonia at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Bryant, is improving and is able to be out again. Remember the best and most appreciated Xmas present is to send us a $1.00 and order the Bystander sent to your friend for one year for one dollar. The Corinthian Aid society met last week with Mrs. Sperry After the general routine of business, the hostess served a lovely repast. Adjourned to meet with Mrs. Goggins, Friday evening. Clothes wringers at Dawson's Hardware. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Coleman of Paris Ky., arrived in our city last week to stay indefinitely. They are relatives of Mr. J. Clifford Williams. They are stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Wood, 1617 Vine St. Rev. P. S. Irvin, wife and daughter, spent last Sunday, in Orsailor and reorganized the Mite Misionary club, a combination of the Women of both Orsailor and Carney, and they hold regular meetings Wednesday noon. BMailrds and Poel On next Sunday Mr. D. S. Patterson who has had several years of experience with the largest grocery firm in the city will speak on "The Negro in the Commercial World," and it is hoped that he will have an audience that is larger, but equally appreciative as that of last Sunday. Mr. Geo. J. Wilson, our popular and highly respected headwaiter at the Kirkwood cafe: has been very sick the past three weeks. He was taken to the Mercy Hospital for an operation last week, and is doing as well as could be expected. He returned home last Monday. George is one of our most substantial citizens. He has been at the Kirkwood hotel for fully 16 years. He also owns a poultry farm in Southwest Des Moines. The Des Monnes Negro Lyceum meet last Tuesday with Mrs. S. Joe Brown, residence 1068 6th St. A goodly number was present and much enthusiasm and interest taken over the annual meeting of the Inter State Association to be held in Wichita, Kansas, Dec. 27-29; also the election of the Lyceum officers for the next six months; Refreshments was served. They adjourned to meet with Miss Hazel Cousins, 2816 Fourth St., Tuesday, Jan. 9th at which time the following program will be rendered: Echoes from the Inter State Literary and Installation of the following officers: Pres. Mrs. Hattie Warricks; Vice-Pres. Gus Durden; Sec. Miss Iva McClain; Asst. Sec. Miss Haze Cousin, Treas., Atty. S. Joe Brown; Constitutional advisor, Atty. J. B. Rush; Gritie, Mrs. J. B. Rush. Accompanied, Mrs. C. C. Johnson; Reporter, President, Arthur W. Branham, Executive Committee: Mrs. S. Joe Brown, Geo. H. Mason and Wm. P. Warrick. The Savoy Cafe 204 W. GRAND AVE. W. GRAND AVV. First Class Restaurant. Meals and Lunches served at all hours Home cooking. You are invited to give us a call. Charles Tweedsworth, Prop. Bex Molles, Ia. WONDERFUL RESULTS ON SHORT NOTICE I have used your Pomade. Its the best thing I ever used for making curly hair lie smooth. I have not finished my first bottle, but can see wonderful results, writes Mrs. Louise E Hayes of Pineville, S. C. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for harsh stubborn and unruly hair and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion for the complexion. Ask your duggist for them. Be sure and get the genuine (Ford's manufactured by the Ozonized) Ox marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. Mr. J. H. Shepard spent Sunday at Clive, Ia. Mr. Wilhoite, of Culpper, Va., arrived in our city last Wednesday to make the Capital city his future home. He came directly from Albia, Ia. The Dramatic Art club presents the newest play out, Satan's Revenge, at Y. C. M. C. A. hall, Monday, Jan. 1st. There will be several visitors. Don't miss it. The Dramatic Art club met Tuesday with Mrs. Avery. They meet next Tuesday with Roxana Durden, 1026 16th St. Continued Book VI of Paradise Lost. Miss Lee of Clarinda, one of the high school graduates will spend the holidays in our city, the guest of Miss Bessie Reeves of Highland Park. Mir. Geo. O. Terrell, of Colfax, Ia., was seen on the streets of our crowded Tuesday at the pride, Ia., to attend to some matters about the I. O. Ia. of which he is the district grand master of Iowa Odd Fellows. Mr. Chas. Stewart, the noted newspaper correspondent and lecturer spent two days in our city Sunday and Monday. Sunday he spoke at all the colored churches during the day and Monday afternoon at Maple St. Baptist church and in the evening in a lecture at the A. M. E. church. All of his meetings was well attended considering the snow storm which was the first of the year. He is a very able man and gave some splendid advice. Come again V. C. M. C. A. NOTES. The address on Property Rights and Obligation at Atty. S. Joe Brown last Sunday afternoon was equivalent to a brief course in Commercial Law and was listened to with wrap attention by the small but appreciative audience present Christmas skates at Dawson's Hardware. CITY LITERARY NOTICE. All deligates and other persons desiring to go on the special car from Des Moines to Wichita, Kansas, to attend the Inter-State Literary meeting must purchase their tickets at the office of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., at 315 W. 7th St., and report to Attorney S. Joe Brown over 607 Mulberry street, before 12 o'clock on noon of Tuesday, Dec. 26, as the car will not be set in until report is thus received 12 persons who have purchased tickets. The train will leave from the Union Station, Tuesay evening at 10:25. Fare for the round trip, $17.20. By order of Des Moines City Literary Convention, S. Joe Brown, Chairman, Mrs. J. B. Rush, Secy. Christmas carving sets at Dawson's Hardware. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our neighbors and members of the St. Paul A. M. E. church who so nobly help us gave some of our things during the fire which destroyed our home. Mrs. Elizabeth Howard, Mrs. M. L. Davis and Mrs. Mary Howard. Mr. E. T. Banks has started out on his annual Masonic visit of the local lodges of this state. Mrs. Amanda Baldwin of Creston arrived in our city this week to visit her daughter, Mrs. B. J. Hack, who accompanied her from Creston, where she had spent a few days visiting. The Kirkwood Social club will give their grand New Year's Ball, at Kromer's New Dreamland Hall, 6th and Locust streets, Jan. 11, 1912. Mrs. J E Mathews will leave this week to spend the holidays at Avoca, the guest of Mr. Jackson, a farmer. Watches.... That you be pard to carry and at price that you can afford to buy. Come in and see the wonderful showing we are making on $10.00 to $32.00 watches. If you are thinking of buying a watch now or later, your chance is here now. You will have no better opportunity this Spring. Come in now and pick it out Schlampp's The intense itching characteris. of these ailments is almost instantly played by Chamberlain's Salve. many severe cases have been cured by it. For sale by all dealers. FIRE DESTROYED THE HOWARD HOME. The nice home of Mrs. Elizabeth Howard, the Executive Director, 1807 Ohio street, was destroyed by fire early last Sunday morning and surrounded in mistery. There was but shroude in mistery. There was but few of the household things saved, and Mrs. Howard, once it was Howard's mother and slater, Mrs. M. L. Davis, narrowly escape being burned. Mrs. Howard at the time was in Chicago, Ill., conducting revival meetings. However, she came home once again, and she had great loss to those people who had struggled to build up a nice home. Apply the Remedy. In the last few weeks the attention of the reading public has been called to several more of these so called hold ups committed by Negro women in De Moines. No one deplores this unpleasant state of affairs any more than the respectable colored citizens themselves—but how can this evil be stamped out when the men of other races seek the association of these scarlet women who escort them to the nearest alley and while engaged in acts of lewdness, they relieve them of their money and make good their escape. After this, these men report the matter to the police department, admitting that they were committing an indictable offense at the time they were robbed. If these men were prosecuted as any other criminal would be and the woman when apprehended likewise, this would have a wholesome effect in wiping out this class of crime. One of the perplexing problems is to apprehend the woman in the case. Every honorable means should be employed to break up this nefarious practice which has a deterrent effect upon the colored people and an insult to decency which should be stopped. BUXTON BRIEFS The Self-Culture club suspended their meetings for two weeks and the next meeting will be held in the home of Mrs. Myrtle Stewart. Elden Steele of Moline, Ill., is visiting his mother Mrs. Ruth Steele of No. 10 Junction. Rev. Butler visited his members at No 10 Junction last week. Mrs. Harry Gaines of Des Moines visited with Mrs. Lewis Gibson a few days week before last. Jas. Foster Chestham, secretary of Mt. Zion B. Y. P. U. and a very many young fellow met with an accident last Friday in which he received a broken leg. He was endeavoring to hold a loaded car of coal on an incline in No. 12 mine and the load proved too heavy for him and gave his leg a twist that resulted in a break. James is quite a favorite with nearly all who know him and him and his many friends are hopeful for his early recovery. Mrs. Crawford of Ottumwa is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Buck Williams this week. Mr. Frank Blakey and Miss Leatha Doyle were married last week. Rev. Woodard officiating. Mr. Joe Sorrell is much improved. He is able to be out on crutches. Mr. Adolph Jones received a very beautiful Christmas present last week. It was the form of a bride in the persons Miss Alice Graves. Adolph is a groom and his bride is barely 18, but they seem just as happy as old folks. We hope their happiness will continue through life. Mr. Jas. F. Guy wishes to thank the friends for the many beautiful presents given to him Friday evening Dec. 8, the occasion being his 38th birthday. Jas. doesn't care how many years he remains on the earth as long as his friends are kind enough to come and see on his birthday. The ladies of the Household of Ruth gave a very nice surprise party Wednesday evening in honor of Mrs. Albert Rhodes. They assembled at Mrs. Amanda Lawson's and marched over to Mrs. Mary Miles, daughter of Mrs. R's—and with whom Mrs. Rhodes is visiting, and gave her a very pleasant evening, after which a two course lunch was served to those present. The Executive Board of the Iowa Nebraska State association met in the Mt. Zion Baptist church Dec. 12-14. Those present were Rev's Boling, Bates and Sanders, Burton and Woodard. Total amount of money raised during the quarter was $138.00 of which $7.33 was raised during the meeting. The Executive Board of the S. S. Union met office evening, Dec. 18, to state its offices for the next six months, which are as follows. W. W. Jones, Pres., R. G. Potter, Vice-Pres., L. J. Parkey, See'y; Marshall Lowery, Tries; James Grimes, Chaplain; Miss Tallie Cox, organist; and Miss Ruth Loey, Choriester. The officers will be installed the second Sunday in January. Don't forget the Boys reception to be given to all of the boys of the town between 10 and 18 years. Plenty of nice things to eat and coco and water to drink. OTTUMWA, IOWA. Mrs. Anna Casen, Meadow street, has returned to her home after visiting her mother in Pearl, Ia. Mrs. R. Johnson, Oakalosa, visited with Mrs. H. Spotte. ted with Mrs. McCarthy, Mr. McCarthy, of Eldora, was an over Sunday visitor. Mrs. Cort, Jones of, Oskaloosa, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. C. H. Wilson, for a few days. Mr. Levt Anderson entertained a number of friends last Sunday evening. The host赠送 a delicious lunch to Mrs. Smith of Fairfield, spent a few days with Mrs. Smith's sister, Mrs. Henry Williams. Mrs. Harry Horne, of Cedar Rapids, is visiting at the home of her mother, Mrs. Henrietta Horne. She visited very suddenly Saturday evening at 7:30. She was returning to her home in South Ottawa and died on the steps before anyone heard her cries for help. She was a member of the A. M. E. church, Lily of the Valley and a member of the Rev. M. I. Gordon preached the funeral. The Eastern Star paid their tribute to their deceased sister at the church and the Court of C. paid their tribute at the cemetery. She leaves a husband to mourn her loss. She leaves young folks from Osakaloa, were in town Wednesday evening. About a dozen young people are planning to go to Fairfield Sunday afternoon. They will be the guests of the A. m. Mrs. Ann W. Smith, who resides in Osakaloa. Mrs Margaret Putum was in Fairfield Sunday. The Faithful Few will meet with Mrs. S. Bibha Thursday evening. Mrs. S. Bibbs Thursday evening. Don't forget the Xmas tree and program at the A. M. E. church Monday evening. Invitations are being issued for the wedding of Miss Mary Dean Beverly to Mr. George Jackson, two well-known young people of Ottumwa. They will be married January 1, 1902. Rev. R. H. Hhinehart visited friends in Alba last week. Mrs. Wm. Smith, of Fairfield, returned to her home this evening. Miss Lessie Terrill. She is Instructor of Domestic Science. Miss Lissie Terrell is of Iowa's soil by birth, but a Missouri educational product by choice, having taken her Normal course at Lincoln Institute. When she graduated she bore President Allen's stamp of approval and has succeeded in measuring up to his expectations. Miss Terrell has been a member of Lincoln school faculty but one year and is beginning her second year, but her work in domestic science and sewing speaks for itself. She is one of the coming young teachers of Missouri, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. GEO. O. Terrell of Colfax, Iowa, formally, he was justice of the peace of Buxton and now District Deputy Grand Master of the Old Fallows of Iowa. In the magnificence of its splendor, As the last rays sank to rest; The radiance of its grandeur Cast a crimson Hue against the crest Of the distant horizon. I could hear the roar Of the cataract in the distance, As its waters dashed o'er The rocks in its course, Down the mountain side To the chasm below, Where they whirled and swered As they onward go. The birds had flown Amid the branches of the trees To their rest; The eagle had taken its flight To its nest; It had swooped and swared to the hleght O the mountain's crest. While I lestened to the soft lowing of the cattle on the hills, All nature seemed quiet and still; It had sunk into repose, And I stood alone amid the shadows. My thoughts were carried back to childhood's years. Each hour and each moment, And my eyes filled with tears, As I counted them o'er and o'er again. I thought of the little white cottage Covered porch, amidst garland of roses, at stuoy entwined Themselves around the pillars, mingling with the verdant vines. Creeping on and on, until They reached the eaves of The thatched covered roof still Creeping along. The hours I spent at the fireside Beside my mother's knee. The prayers I learned there Are still fresh in my memory. I was a child again, Playing in the meadow Beside the brook, Tossing little pebbles Into the water to hear it splash, And to see the tiny billows Foam and dash As they would rise and fall. Mary C. ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY! PROF. O. W. FRANKLIN, the only living Negro Dog Trainer, will present his marvelous Dog Show entertainment at the Y C. M C. A. Hall 9th and Park Sts, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, Dec. 26th and 27th. A Wonderful Troupe of educated Canines, each and every one possessing and showing actual human intelligence in their acts. Conceded by all animal experts to be the most phenominal dog performance in the country. Hear Madam Sisseretta Jones The greatest of all dog Prima Donas— She actually sings. See them in their Minstrel First Part, Police Court, Church Services, Charlot Racing, Rope Jumping Dancing Contest and Hurdle Racing. Admission: Adults 25 Cents; Children 15 Cents BYST EMBER 22, 1911 And watch the little brook Wend its way, in and out, Among the crevices of rock, O'er the shining sand; Rushing on to the river, Out to the ocean and Lost into the mighty deep. Special to the Iowa State Bystander, Boone, Dec. 18, 1911. Rev. W. H. Stark, pastor of the A. M. E. church off Boone, with the assistance of Sister Mae Addis, an evangelist and lady student off the Boone Bibleical college, held a great meeting Sunday evening in the A. M. E. church, Sister Addis brought the message, "Jesus Is Coming." At the close o the sermon two sisters from the college sang a duet Sister Addis gave the invitation for mourners. Several same forward, and before the meeting closed six souls had to be Jesus, and others were interested. May the good work go on. Rev. Stark is a student in the same college for the winter term. He is the Coleman, an old and well respected businessman. West Boone is quite sick at this writing. We pray for his speedy recovery. Our people in Boone thank that master for health and prosperity. They are a healthy lot of people. CLINTON. Master Claude Heron is convalescing from an attack of tonsillitis, and is attending at Bethel A. M. E. church for the past two weeks, closed Sunday night with a stirring discourse. While the meetings were not largely attended, those who attended speak in the highest degree of interest. While in the city Rev. Winston made quite a favorable impression with the business men of the city with whom he came in contact. As a minister he proved himself a faithful and logical. He will remain in the city during the week, and on Friday evening, December 22nd, will give a recital at the Y. M. C. A. under the auspices of Bethel A. M. E. church in an "Evening With Negro Post." We congratulate the Bystander on the exceedingly pleasing Christmas number recently from the press. It would have been well if it could have been possible to have had it in the Afro-American Iowa and vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Fine, of Rock Island, spent Sunday in Clinton, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Thompson. The annual Christmas exercises will be held at Bethel A. M. E. church Monday night by the scholars of the Sunday school, after which the presents will be distributed. B. F. Cooper, of Buxton, was in Chicago, putting the home of his mother. He is the same old Frank as of vore. MRG. EOWARD THE ENGLISHIST MRS. HOWARD, THE EVANGELIST. The above cut represents Mrs. Eileen HOWARD of the city is and evangelist that is having great success for several years in all parts of this country, an yet she is but it-taken known to the people of Des Moines, for she is out of our city most of the time. In her work her efforts has been crowned with success this year. She has caused 346 conversions. She has been under the auspices of the A. M. E. church until recently, when she severed her con- ANNOUNCEMENT PROF. O. W. FRANKLIN, the Trainer, will present his marriage at the Y. C. M. C. A. Hall and Wednesday evenings, Dec. A Wonderful Troupe of educ one possessing and showing their acts. Conceded by all an phenominal dog performance in Hear Madam Si Why not when making your resolutions for the New Year, resolve to ask up that delinquent subscription? you will have accomplished a good purpose. KEOKUK NOTES. Miss Maude Jefferson, of Chicago, is at home for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Jefferson, Mrs. M. Davis has returned from Washington, Iowa, where she was born, and of her sister, Mrs. Henry Campbell. Mr. Jno. Wilson will leave on the 21st inst. for his old home in Thornton. Miss, to spend the holidays with friends and relatives. Friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Buckner, of Davenport, Miss, to spend the week announcing their marriage, which occurred in city on December 12th. The groom is quite well known here, being very prominent in society circles prior to his going to Davenport a few years ago. The bride has many acquaintances and friends over the years ago. We desire to extend to them our hearty congratulations. The Sunday school at Bethel will have their Xmas tree, entertainment the 2nd inst. A program will be rendered on Sunday night under the auspices of the Sunday Lecture club. Mrs. M. Davis will attend in Indiana, Ia, and Mrs. Margaret Mitchell, of Moline, Ill, were the guests of a few days last week. A party was tendered them last Friday evening by several members of the social set, games were indulged in, light refreshments were served and a most engaging dance was performed. Navarro, of Ft. Madison, Ia, will appear in song at A. M. E. church on New Year's night in connection with the Coleridge Taylor musical entertainment. The Seventh Baptist church Xmas tree entertainment will be on Xmas night. A program suitable for the children under the supervision of Miss Imegie Wilson. Rev. Dr. Saunders, of the First Baptist church (white), addressed the young men's Sunday Club lecture at Bethel last Sunday afternoon. In glowing terms the speaker gulled the better use of the many sources of evil to eliminate the many sources of evil that exist among us. Dr. Saunders referred to the many crimes we read of that are perpetrated in the South, he saying that we live in the South and we live in the surrounding community, but by such persons of a degraded type that tramp from place to place. He reprimanded young men and women who congregate on the street corner or in the street and were reprimanded that the negro race was the only race that had ever lived side by side with the Anglo-Saxon race and maintained their life. In all, it was an address that was brought forth much applauded at intervals. It was highly appreciated O nection with that denomination and has united with the A. M. E. Zion connection, having joined that church in Chicago, where she is now conducting a series of meetings at Waters A. M. Zion. She has held successful meetings in the large church in New Orleans, La., Nashville, Tenn., Allen Chapel, Kansas City, Mo.; Bethel in Chicago, St. James in Atlantic City, Bethel in Philadelphia and Emmuelen in Charleston, and elsewhere. We wish her continued success in the new denomination. EXTREORDINARY! the only living Negro Dog relovelous Dog Show entertain- all, 9th and Park Sts. Tuesday 26th and 27th. located Canines, each and every actual human intelligence in animal experts to be the most in the country. Price Five Cents. by all present. The violin solo by Mr. F. D. Fields, with Mrs. Garnet Johnson accompanist, was received with a great deal of enthusiasm. Dr. Stacy Flournoy read a paper, Sub-committee meeting on "The R. F. Sentiment," which was interesting and full of practical thought. Miss Edna K. Henderson favored the audience with an original composition on "The Re-Education of Morals." The Young Men's Lecture club, with Mr. Edna K. Henderson as president, is doing a great work. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dixon have mived to 1627 TIME street. The Xmas tree entertainment at Pilgrims Rest church will be on Xmas night. Mrs. J. E. Phillips, the Sunday school superintendent, will have charge of the program, and Mrs. Edna K. Henderson spent last Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. W. S. Rush. A wood saw contest at Bethel the 21st inst. for ladies only under auspices of the Young Men's club. The turkey supper given by the Sunshine club was a decided success. A dancing school at Association hall. The number of young people that are desirous of learning how to trip the fantastic toe have increased to such and extent that it has become imperative to have two evenings in the town. Mrs. Georgia Coleman and daughter, Mrs. Georgia Coleman, very delightfully entertained Mrs. Thos. Freeman and her house guests, Miss Jennie Harper, of Ft. Madison, Ia., and Mrs.玛瑟特Margaret of Moline, Ill., last Sunday at 1 o'clock junecheon. Miss Missella Scott will appear on program at the R. F. P. U. next Sunday night at Pilgrims Rest church. A new auxiliary has been recently organized at Bethel to aid in securing funds for the removal of the parsonship, which is now well under way, a task of the church now cated now on the church grounds. This auxiliary is known as the Coleman building fund and will keep open doors at the church on New Year's day. Mr. Selby Johnson, who recently began taking treatment at HP Phillips for rheumatism, now expresses himself as being practically cured, having made several trips to hot springs in search of health, used various patent remedies and tried medical skill but to no avail. He began taking treatment of Dr. Phillips and he feels like a well man. This is but one of the many similar cases cured by this wonderful genius. The collector for the Bystander will be around sometime during the holiday week and visit all the deliminary mentions he has made back home, and wishes to straighten the books for the year. MT. PLEASANT NOTES. Mrs. Carrie Picket, who has been sick for some time, is slowly recovering. Her many friends hope she will soon regain her usual health. Mrs-Merlier Gates and children, of Ainsley, will be at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. & M. Crackin. The Christian Endeavor was lead last Sunday evening by Myrtle, a missionary journeying around the world. Mission in the West Indies, a missionary spending the day last Wednesday in Burlington visiting at the homes of Madames King and Williams. WASHINGTON, IOWA, NOTES. (Last, Week.) The Misses Pearl and Una Cecile and Iota Phillips visited in Fairfield last Sunday. Miss Nora Motts is home for a short stay from her duties as a nurse at Sigourney. Harry Spencer came up from Eldon and visited over Sunday at the Horace Spencer home. Mr. Howard Motts is in Fairfield, having charge of the shoe polishing parlor recently established by Walter Williams and himself. He reports doing nicely. Mr. Horace Spencer and Mrs. Carris are home from their Thanksgiving visit at the parental Spencer home at Jacksonville, Ill. Messra. Harvey Spencer, Fred Williams and Roy McCallister is the trio that are running a pantidorium at Eldon. The boys are making good and everyone is glad of the start they have made. Mrs M. Davis who has been a guest at the Henry Campbell home since the death of her sister, Mrs. Henry Camp-Campbell, returned to her home at Keokuk Tuesday. The trustees of the A. M. E. church have promoted a movement to build an addition or lecture room to the rear of the church; 25x26 feet are the dimensions. A good move in the right direction. John Griffin of near Des Moines occupied the A. M. E. pulpit last Sunday night and gave a very interesting discourse. He left Tuesday foroncon for his home. He was here visiting his sister Mrs. G. W. Turner, Dr. Daniel Haynes has been in poor health for the past few weeks, necessitating the assistance of a nurse. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rhodes have moved into their new home in the northeast part of the city. Mr. Samuel Hall, Sr., goes to Rock Island, Ill., shortly for a visit with his daughter and other relatives. Every family has need of a good, reliable liniment. For sprains, bruises soreness of the muscles and rheumatic pains there is none better than the linen liniment, as confidently to a baby as to an adult. Sold by all druggists. BYSTANDER rJB. CO., Publishers. DES MOINES. . . . JOWA Self-Rellant Young Woman Resented Actions of Man Who Picked Up Her Watch. It was late on Sunday afternoon when a handsome young woman of the self-reliant, suffragette type, walking brisly up Fifth avenue, chancec to drop her watch in a puddle of sort mud at a street crossing, says the New York Times. She passed on without noticing her loss; but a ten young fellow, standing on the hurried, pickled it out of the mike and hurried after, fetching up with her, he raised his hat. "Tay beg your patron, Mia, but I "I beg your pardon, Miss, but I should like to—" She shot a contemptuous glance at him, then one in the opposite direction, and walked on as if she had not heard him. She stood again. "Beg your pardon, Miss, for speaking to you—" but this time she interrupted him, and snapped: "Don't you dare to address me, sir!" "I'm sorry, but you see you—" "I don't see anything, except that you are an exceedingly impartinent person. If I had the time I would like to speak to you, but I do not speak to you, who will speak to a perfect stranger merely because she is alone. It is contemptible. If I had my way—" "But don't you see—" "I can tell you what I do see. I see that policeman over there. And if you do not leave me immediately, you will hear you yelled. I never heard of such innocence—and in 'brood daylight'!" "Very well, man'm. Good afternoon." And the young man walked away with a grin on his face, and lady's gold watch, thick with mud, tickling merrily in his pocket. The next day he answered an advertisement in the paper, offering a gift of lady's gold watch, lost on Fifth avenue, no questions to be asked—and he was still grinding. Bome Famous Dunes. BONE PAMUCK BOOK Literature and travel provided with instances of topright and uninteresting boyhood. Gibbon was pronounced "dreadfully dull" and the utmost that was predicted of Hume in his youth was that "he might possibly become a stendy merchant." Adam Clark, afterward so deeply skilled in oriental languages and antiquities, was pronounced by his father to be "a grievous dunce," and of Bolleau, who became a model for Pope, it was said that he was a youth of little understanding. Dryden was "a great numskull," who went through a course of education at Westminster, but the "stimulating properties of Dr. Burby's classical ferrule were thrown away upon the drone who was to be known as Glorious John." There's One Style We Set. "Using the letters of the alphabet and numbers to designate streets is called here," says a Berlin letter, "the letters of the alphabet are also important of the system has many advocates, but apparently these have no voice in the matter, because the popular idol—royal, heroic, religious, scientific or commercial—still has the first call. Many of the names are exasperatingly long, and when we think that the most impossible one has been discovered we always find another just a little worse. Recently we saw two letters addressed to Vienna—one to a person in Klosterneuburgstrasse, and the other to a woman in Marabilfergrasse. How much time would be saved if these streets were numbered or lettered! Happiness. It was Wim, Nordica who when asked a few days ago what was the secret of happiness in marriage, replied, "Politeness." Sounds absurd, does it? Politeness is supposed to be all saved up for outsiders. up for outsiders. ) In many families. Of course there are exceptions. People who believe in the old ad- age that polleness is cheap have no excuse for not practicing it at home. Perhaps Mme. Nordica has a good deal of truth on her side. When the hotel porter picked up a stray Boston terrier and nobody appeared to claim the dog he used to keep him. Then the man from Milwaukee came and wanted such a dog with a pedigree, and the porter found one, and charged him $90 for the outfit. He then bought for his trouble, and the porter charged him an additional ten dollars for getting the dog ready to ship. Dogs Do Sentry Duty. The dogs which helped the British forces against the Abors by performing sentry duty are by no means the first to figure in the British army. When the earl of Essex went to Ireland to suppress the rebellion in the reign of Elizabeth, his forces in Ireland took control of the track down furtives after the battles; and in all our wars with Scotland the bloodhound was largely used for the same purpose. That metaphor of unloosing the "dogs of war" has its justification—London Chronicle. Studying Agriculture. "My son has started in at an agr- cultural college." "How is he getting along?" "Must be getting along fine. Says they are going to let him take care of center garden next spring"—Louis- ville Courrier-Journal. Juvenile Pessimist. Willis—Did baby come from hea- ness nurse? Nurse—Yes, dear Willis—Fool kid! He didn't know when he was well off AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Had this occurred anywhere south of the Ohio river the verdict would have been an international scandal. The press and pulpit of the north would have made it so. It would have been thundered from editorial columns that even the governor of Washington, philanthropist, was not safe from violence at the hands of the southern men, and that he could get no redress in southern courts of law. It would have been insisted that the jury was influenced wholly by race prejudice and that the charge laid against Dr. Washington by his assistant was too fantastic to be considered with the life work of Dr. Washington, with his character and mental calibre. In the view of the Courier-Journal the charge made by the defendant in the case just settled was as fantastic as it would have been if it had been laid against any equally noted white educator and philanthropist in America. To believe that Booker T. Washington would descend to be peeping through to believe that he is mentally defective, and he has been the anesthetic agitator of the negro question, white or black, who has achieved prominence as a specialist upon the race question since the abolition of slavery. If the ministers of the gospel would set aside a time, free from seelah motives, and throw the church doors open to the people in a general meeting and preach a sermon on race unity, race patronage of business enterprises, and show to the masses their plain duty, they would be carrying out the plan of "Earthly Salvation," which would create an everlasting harmony with the spiritual plan. To do this the minister must be right; he must set the example; his sermon will have no effect if he tells the masses about race patronage and race unity tonight, and in the morning calls the white grocer, the white coal dealer and the white laudryman to fill orders for his household. No general plan of action is effective which has a negative strain—St. Louis Central Afro-American. Negro newspapers everywhere are preaching business, business, business—go into business! Let them also begin urging our schools to give us young people with thorough business training. We must have competent help along with the necessary accessories with which to go into business, or each venture will ultimately become a force. We do not want any business sold from him—in pardeness like the True Reformers' Bank failure—Bx There never was nor will there ever be a thing that is worth having that is gotten by no effort nor exertion. That which tends to development only comes after the struggle to obtain it. That which the possession of makes the best-built obtained only after the battle for it. And for one to give up the fight is but to give up hope of ever obtaining that which is for one's good—Portland (Ore.) Advocate. Pay your honest debts. Quit lying and stealing, shun the dives, treat your neighbor's family (each of them) as you want them to treat yours, honor the respectable women and girls, discourage the other kind, stop gathering on the streets to tell your troubles and try not to be so noisy on the street cars, and we will get along better. We will—Indiana-polis Plaindealer. And when this is all realized and the first water connection between the Atlantic and Pacific is an established fact, we shall one and all, without regard to political creed or affiliation, give three cheers for the great American, Theodore Roosevelt, who made it a possibility—Charleston Messenger. The Orgen Realty company has had us puzzled for years. We've been trying to discover where it got its name from. We discovered the secret a few days ago. "Orgen" is "Negro" spelled backwards. Good!—Dallas Express. A recent writer said of Henry Ossawa Tanner: "He should no longer be classed as the foremost negro painter, but rather as que of the greatest artists America has produced."—Milwaukee Free Press "The woman in every house makes the moral and mental atmosphere of that house, just as decidedly as the man in an affect the natural atmosphere outside of it."—Exchange. Both white and colored people are beginning to believe more strongly that the negro who does not own a home will have to be watched—Inspegia (Ala.) Messenger. Men may die daily, but the church must live on and on—yea, even unto the coming of the Lord—Pittsburgh Courier. The world respects a man with convictions—Danville (Ky.) Torchlight. Jack Johnson says he be intended retiring after the scheduled flight in London with Wells, even though English clergymen had not succeeded in blocking the fight. His retirement any time soon, remains to be seen. Often a free flow of cash into the box office from farewell tours, and flattering offers by speculators to public announcements, brings on a cheerful retirement, bring on a cheerful start saw the perennial desire of humankind to "come back" Bernardt, Jeffries, et al.—do you remember then?—Southern Magazine The world outside does not know what we are doing in Texas in a newspaper way and here's some much needed information. There are in Texas 25 periodicals—the Austin Herald, Galveston City Times, Galveston New Ide, Houston Texas Freeman Houston Western Star, Houston Church of God Reviver Marshall, Waukee Conservative Counsel, Paul Quinn Weekly, Waco; Cleburne Eastern Star, Waco Helping Hand, Beaumont Enterprise, Dallas Dallis Metropolitan, The Ennis Cimeter, The Hustler, San Antonio; San Antonio Inquirer, Wiley (School) Reporter, Bishop College (School) Student, Marshall; Masonic Quarterly, Fort Worth; Denton Odd Fellow Budget, Dallas Reporter and Masonic Society; these organizations have job printing concerns in connection. They represent a capitalization of something like $25,000 and employ about 250 persons. One is issued daily, one quarterly, two twice a month, six monthly; the remainder weekly. The Masonic Quarterly has a circulation of 8,000 copies, the Dallas Express 10,000. They are all loyal to the country in general and the negro particularly. They are the only American newspaper published in the state; that is to say, they are the only papers which make character and worth the measure of the man, and who believe in equal rights to all and special privileges to none.—Dallas Express. It is that friendship that when dark forebodings come creeping into the soul, driving the light from the eye and the smile from the face; when the head is bowed down and the spirit is broken with the heavy weight of adversity, and man and angels, yea and God himself seems to have turned away and bid his face from the poor mortal, that can even then throw about the broken body and fainting soul the arms of love and sympathy, and lift him up and speak words of comfort and cheer that shall cause again and once more stand upright as a among men. This friendship has its own reward in a fullness of joy that only those can know who have carried it into everyday life, and solved the problem of genuine friendship in practical work of good for men.—Georgia Broadax. From an ambitious struggling young man Dr. Dan. Williams has become eminent in every line of medicine and surgery, until today in surgery he isalled throughout the land as a master mind. Twenty-five years he has studied and experimented, twenty-five years he has toled and accomplished until he has been the "open sesame" to unexplored fields of research and the means of giving to the medical world a wider knowledge and a better understanding. The laws governing the human body. Not only thus has he been of inestable benefit to his race but also by the precedent which he has established and by the example which he is giving to all young men of ability.-Chicago (III.) Chronicle. We agree with Dr. Washington that negroes in Birmingham have such opportunities to do big things as are not enjoyed by a like number of negroes elsewhere in this country. But to do these things negroes must sink their personal differences. If they are men worthy of the name, they will. If they are not men, they will continue the asinine policy of making faces at every movement, be it ever so grand, that is introduced by a man or set of men against whom is harbored some petty spite—Birmingham (Ala.) American. "As a man thinketh so is he." Now then what do you think about yourself? You think you're good; the other fellow thinks likewise of himself. But to set you right and put you straight don't think if you are crooked all of us are crooked; not necessarily so, in the case of the last mentioned it "your cussed self." So think right—San Antonio (Tex.) Inquire" There are fewer children from white and negro parents now than there were twenty years ago. Race consciousness on both sides is largely responsible for this result. This tendency will doubtless become more pronounced as the negro race becomes more respectable in its own eyes—Durham (N. C.) informer. The white man is blind or pretends so, when it comes to classing the negro. He classifies all of us with the tall bird, habitual transgressor and the lowest type of the race—Pascaline (Tex.) Plaindealer. We have no objection to the bad side of the negro's life being advertised if the good side is advertised also—Helena (Ark.) Interstate Reporter. Don't throw your money away. Educate your children and buy homes. It is a Christian's duty to religiously educate his child—Sunday School Union Voice. When one sees the amount of enthusiasm manifested in the remarks of a speaker, you are forcibly impressed with the lack of effort on the part of the enthusiasts to do something worth while. It would be surely refreshing to see a body of colored people of the city of Dayton get together for the promotion of some commercial enterprise; not a church, not a museum, not a museum of charity or public benefaction, but an enterprise backed and supported by the money and brains of colored men—Dayton (O.) Record. WASHINGTON COMMENTS ON U.S. CENSUS FIGURES Mississippi and South Carolina Have More Negroes Than Whites RACE IS NOT DYING OUT NEGRO CONSTITUTES 10.7 PERC. OF POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES—MANY CHANGES IN PAST THIRTY YEARS. Tuskegee, Ala.—Dr. Booker T. Washington has furnished to the Associated Press for publication a statement bearing on the figures issued by Dana Durand, director of the United States census bureau which is very interesting. The review of the census figures shows that negroes occur in the south where the negroes exceed the whites in population—South Carolina and Mississippi. The number of negroes in the so-called southern states are as follows: Delaware, 31,181; Maryland, 2,342,249; District of Columbia, 94,446; Virginia, 671,096; West Virginia, 64,173; North Carolina, 697,843; South Carolina, 835,843; Georgia, 1,767,987; Florida, 308,893; Kentucky, 261,657; Tennessee, 1,964,951; Illinois, 1,009,487; Arkansas, 442,891; Louisiana, 713,734; Oklahoma, 137,612; Texas, 600,020. Dr. Washington says: "The director of the census issued on November 9 a preliminary statement of the white and negro population in the United States as shown by the thirteenth census. According to the returns there were in 1910, 91,972. 266 persons in the United States subscribed to the census, 1,172,657; or 89.9 per cent; negro, 9,828,294; or 10.7 per cent; all other persons, 411,285; or 0.4 per cent. The increase of the negro population for the ten years 1900-1910 was less than for previous decades. From 1880 to 1890 the increase was 13.5 per cent; from 1890 to 1900 the increase was 18 per cent; and from 1900 to 1910 the increase was 11.3 per cent. We must not, however, infer that because there is a decreasing rate of increase of the negro population that there is a danger of the negroes dying out in the United States; for should the per cent. of increase fall until it was only two per cent, there would still be for each decade a considerable increase in the number of negroes. The census figures also show that exclusive of immigrants, the percentage of whites this decrease, however, is apparently not as great as for the negroes. The natural rate of increase of whites was from 1880 to 1890, 20 per cent; from 1890 to 1900 slightly more than 16 per cent; from 1900 to 1910, 15 per cent. "During the past thirty years there has been a considerable change in the proportion of whites and negroes in the south. In 1880 the whites constitute 63.9 per cent. of the population and the negroes 36 per cent.; in 1900 the whites constituted 67.4 per cent and the negroes 32.3; in 1910 the whites constituted 69.9 per cent and the negroes 29.8, 87.49,390, or 89 per cent of the negroes, live in the south, 1.078,948, or 10.9 per cent. outside of the south. In 1900 10.9 per cent of the total negro population lived outside of the south. "In West Virginia, Arkansas and Oklahoma the negroes had a higher rate of increase than the whites. In Delaware and Virginia there has been only a slight increase in 1.0 per cent in each of the states. In Maryland tucky and Tennessee there has been since 1900 an actual decrease in the number of negroes." STRAIGHTENER OF KINKY HAIR JAILED YOUNG MAN WAS HARVESTING MONEY BY OLD DODGE. Pittsburgh.-Charged with having pointed out 63 straight and narrow paths to immediate riches, Samuel Andor is in jail here, while postal inspectors are hearing the plains of victims. Andor advertised as one of his schemes his wonderful secret for straightening out Ethiopian kinks. "Do you live in a town of 200 or more population?" runs the advertisement. "If so you can make $50 to $200 a month." His wonderful secret tells kinky hair can be made to grow perfectly straight and part in the middle. Andor is only 25 years of age but is said to have a harvest. His kinky hair conquerer brought him plenty of agents. THE FACETIQUS FARMER. "I am an actor out of work. Can you give me employment on your farm?" "I can. But a day on a farm is no 20-minute sketch." "I understand that." "All right. Yonder is your room. When you hear a born toot about 4 a.m., that's your cue."—Chicago News. Young Author—Ah. I can read you like a book! Sooty—Well. If you can read in the way your book has been read, I have nothing to fear—Judge. HIS SINCERE SORROW. "Did I ever bring back your ladder that you lent me a week ago?" "No, you certainly did not." "I borrowed it in to borrow it again."—"Technical World. DR. GRAHAM TAYLOR'S ADDRESS AT TUSKEGEE DR. GRAHAM TAYLOR'S ADDRESS AT TUSKEGEE NOTED CHICAGO EDUCATOR SPOKE TO FACULTY AND STUDENTS AT COL- ORED INSTITUTE. Tuskegee, Ala.—Dr. Graham Taylor, professor of civics in the University of Chicago, was a member of the part that accompanied Mr. Julius Rosenwald to Tuskegee institute recently. One of the most helpful talks made to the students and teachers during the visit of Mr. Rosenwald and others to the school that was made by Dr. Taylor. Dr. Taylor has been connected with every movement for the social uplift of Chicago. I lived in the Hull House district and was a member of the re- cent Chicago vice commission, whose report stirred the country, because of its exposure of social conditions in Chicago. He spoke as follows: "You would not expect one of my age, speaking in public on the stage, to be the instructor of some of these venerable teachers of yours—the chapain and pastor of this great congregation, Mr. Whittaker; the man who has charge of your library, Mr. Wood, and the man who is sizing up your work and your social relations, Mr. Work, but I am not not concerned of these students, but I had something to do with their valuation, though I must confess that all of my students have taught me quite as much as I have ever taught them. "I want to congratulate you, not only on having such a principal as has been described here by Mr. Rosenwald, Dr. Hirsch, Mr. Cooley and others, and I would even add to the description, if I had the time and the tongue, but I would like also to congratulate you, for a major achievement. These men and women, who are like the cabinet of the president of the United States, who are like the staff of the general of an army, for a general is not much good after all without an army and without a staff in between him and the rank and file, so I am not going to take anything from Mr. Washington, not a bit, but I think he will rather agree with me, because this institution helps to make the institution, and that without them and the gradual accumulation of training and discipline and study, neither Tuskegee nor any other institution would be possible, so I congratulate all of you students on the men and women who are teaching you, and they, with you, will congratulate themselves and yourselves upon the splendid work you do, and you will congratulate you, not only you, however, but who is leading a whole lot of us all over this land into a larger vision and into a higher life. "You need not think that all the race problem is down here. You can not even have a monopoly of that, even if you want to. I come out from as fierce a race struggle as any of you are in. I live in one of these great cosmopolitan wards of Chicago—25 different nationalities are around me in that great apartment house, all speaking different languages, a perfect Babel, and I wish to assure you that there is quite as deep a race feeling between the Irish and the Italian, or the Pole and the Greek as you will find between—well, I will not mention whom,—this side of Dixie-land. There was an immigrant who met in our parlor one evening with a man to men to men, that is, they thought they were, and he said: "You men here seem to think that I and my race are a problem. He further said, 'I deny that we are a problem at all. We are a solution of the problem. You seem to think you have given us work. We have not only created the industry by which we live, but by which a whole lot of you fellows live besides." "I shall never forget the tremendous and direct confusion that followed that charge by that Russian Jewish neighbor of mine. It was quite true that the race had really created this great industry, and I can never fail to lee the thrill of gratitude and appreciation when creators of industries, and better still, possessors of spirit, such as you and your race have always shown against provocation that has sometimes seemed to me intolerable. Yet through all that terrible upheaval of the war, through all that dreadful reconstruction period, this race of yours never raised a hand of disloyalty. though they might have had much against that flag waved over their heads, though they might have hung their heads for deep resentment. Their patience was inexhaustible. I have never stood more like Moses at the burning bush with bare bare as in the presence of Almighty God, as I have before the divine patience of your race. You have taught us and all other races how to be patient an God is patient. "As Dr. Hirsch was speaking of God's great creative work, I thought of that Gaillene who said: 'My father worked and I work, and so work is one of the common denominators of the race problem or any other problem in civilization; but more than work is the right spirit toward God and fellowman, the spirit of patience, the spirit of forgiveness. The spirit of everlasting and neverfalling love is the common denominator which will solve all the great factors of our great problem, and no nation has a great problem that has been solved in its own phase of the problem only as a phase of the one great, mighty problem that has been placed by God on America as on no other land. The mixture of our population, the tidal wave of immigration A MODEL HUSBAND. Wife—I saw the loveliest race spreads today, only two dollars and a half, and I wanted them awfully, but I knew you wished to economize, and so I didn't get them. Husband-That's too bad, my dear; you could have got them. Anything which adds to your happiness and brings gladness to your eyes, anything which lightens your domestic care and glids the lowering clouds, anything which boots with sweeter. ever breaks over us there in that tenement house ward and yet the finest and strongest fibers of our American citizenship are being selected by a wonderful, natural and spiritual selection from the strains that run through all the races of the world to be woven into an international citizenship, into a great cosmopolitan community, the like of which the world has never seen. Foolish are we, if we reject any part of the racial inheritance of that world-wide heritage. We need it all. "We need the folklore songs—this original contribution which you, and you only, have made from America to the music of the world, as Rabbit Hirsch remarked when you were singing. You are the only ones who have actually added any real contribution to the musical composition of America by these wonderful folklore songs that you sing. We cannot afford to lose the glow from the land of America cannot afford to lose even the turbulent love of the Pole. As all of our nationalities meet and or jar and jangle, whichever you please to call it, somewhere or other it seems to me, that something is in the making, some wonderful thing is coming to pass in this new and last continent, to be opened to freedom and the march of civilization. "Let us be patient with each other. Let us await God's almighty time, and then at the end none of us will be sorry that the others have made the contribution that their past has invested them with. This great and glorious composite people who will yet lead the world, because we have our roots in every path, the tangle of every soil is in us, the life of every nation meets us, the veins of our veins are through whom you have sang so long and whom you in your lowly and loving way are following, will lead us into a land of the richer promise, when we have passed through this wilderness which God knows is thorny enough when the race lines are drawn—but beyond is the land of promise. "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." NEGRO TURNED WHITE; DOCTORS ARE PUZZLED CASE TO BE REPORTED TO THE NATIONAL MEDICAL SOCIETY. Chilicothe, Mo.—The case of a negro who turned white is to be reported to the National Medical society with the hope that something may be learned of the peculiar skin disease which has baffled physicians of northwest Mississippi for several years. The negro, who is dead here, was Dudley Payne, coal black and typically African in feature. The splotches on his face were later interposed to the upper part of his body. The change came gradually. At the time of his death Payne's face and the upper part of his body were white as those of any Caucasian. THE TUSKEGEE NEGRO FARMERS CONFERENCE. There is always deep interest manifested in the Tuskegee Negro Farmers and Workers' conference, and this year will be no exception to the rule. The sessions open January 17 and continue two days. The simple stories of the manner in which the colored farmers acquired their lands and developed their crops is encouraging to every one who knows the value of the crops. In doing, and the Workers' exchange of views on the second day, when representatives of the schools, churches and business forces get together for practical discussion, is a highly profitable affair. A goodly contingent will go to Tuskegee Institute from the east, and they invariably return enthusiastic over all they have seen and heard. Visitors to the conference are enter- ticipants in the Booker T. Washington will give them a warm welcome in person, as he makes it a rule to be present at these meetings each year. With the Sunday School congress to come to Tuskegee next June and the National Medical association to follow in August, 1912, promises to be a banner year at this great institution. WITNESS DOWNED THE LAWYER. A noted attorney was questioning a witness, and be insisted that the witness reply to his question by saying either yes or no. The witness protested because of the manner in which the question had been put he could not answer it intelligently with a yes or no. "There is no question but that can be answered intelligently with a yes or no," said the attorney. "I can ask you one question that you cannot answer intelligently with either yes or no," said the witness. "Put your question," said the attorney. "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" asked the witness—Mack's National Monthly. Charles M Schwab, like most successful men, has no belief in luck Mr. Schwab, in a recent address in his native Loretto, told: "I advise my young Loretto friends to rely on their brains and muscles, and to put all thought of luck away from them. "A Loretto boy said to me the other day: "Mr. Schwab, what is luck? "Luck!' I replied, 'is the thing to which we give the credit for our successful friends' hard work." ers the thorny paths of duty and appeals pleasantly to your esthetic nature, making life more worth living home a paradise, you are welcome doubly welcome to, my angel, if it doesn't cost more than two dollars and a half. Physician—I do not think any local treatment will do you any good madam. Patient—All right. I'll go to a spe- cimen in New York—Better Amor tice. FOUNDER A. L. E. WEEKS OPENS A CAMPAIGN ON THE ATLANTIC SEAHOUND WEEKS RENDERS ABLE AS- SISTANCE. Washington—"The Tuskegee of North Carolina" has occupied the spot light in the district during the past ten days. Rev. A. L. E. Weeks, president and founder of the Newbern College industrial institute, which has come to be known by the foregoing title, has been in the city for several years. He is a professor about a school and emphasizing the face of the thorough courses of instruction in agriculture, industries, domestic science, theology and the various branches that make for the practical uplift of the young colored women of the south. Dr. Weeks was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. A. L. E. Weeks, assistant principal and teacher, who has spoken at several of our leading chancellors of the liberal institute. They are opening what is a vigorous campaign of the Atlantic seaboard, to raise within the next month a much needed sum of money to insure the erection of three buildings at the school for dormitories and class rooms. The institution is now crowded to its fullest capacity and additional space is required to accommodate many students who would like to attend the liberal opportunities it has to offer. Prof. Dr. and Mrs. Weeks go to Philadelphia, New York and Boston, and they expect the Thanksgiving period to be one of harvest for the Newbern College institute. The Institute's Splendid Showing. The Industrial Collégiate institute is located at a new negro settlement, established by Dr. Weeks, called Booker, in honor of Dr. Booker T. Washington, after whose marvelous Alabama municipality it is modelled, and it is surrounded by 1,000 acres of rich land, with a river running through it is cleared. Booker is three miles west of Newbern, finely situated on the Neuse river, with an advantageous water front. "Our school has a great future," said Dr. Weeks. "We have in view, not only the development of a big school, but it is our purpose to build a settlement of comfortable homes, where our young people can make permanent opportunities for themselves in the various industries which we teach. With the institute as a nucleus, a manufacturing and industrial center can be developed, furnishing an independent living for hundreds and thousands of thrifty negroes. For instance, we have made this year over 400,000 brick in our brick yard, and have contracted for the building that will be completed by December 1. For lack of facilities we were compelled to refuse a contract calling for 450,000 brick, in addition to the above. We are now booking orders for the spring delivery, and the firms we have supplied say the brick is a superior grade." "We have a swimm, also, and the receipts from our lumber have reached a gratifying figure. Our 62 boarding students hall from North Carolina and neighboring states, and are combining a literary training with a solid experience in the fundamentals of the art of making a living in the woods. We have raised $13,275 in North Carolina alone, and assurances of increased aid from state and county sources are coming in all the time. On this campaign we are trying to raise an immediate $5,000 which is needed to push the work on three dorsitory and class-room buildings, each costing $15,000. When completed our work will go on with boom. In the next month we will be working on the race in Philadelphia, New York and Boston. At New York Rev. J. T. Kerr, our northern financial agent, has made an excellent impression, and is meeting with success in securing cash donations from substantial business men. "Our faculty embraces a number of thoroughly equipped instructors. The instructor in brick making is Thomas M. Moreland; in brick laying, we have Julius F. Freeman; at the head of the farm is that skilled agriculturist, W. W. Hayes. All three of these are graduates of Tuskegee institute and come highly recommended by Dr. Washington B. Hayes, a graduate of the North Carolina StateORM school, G. R. Whitfield and R. Norma J. T. Kerr, both graduates of Lincoln university; Mrs. Alice B Kerr, from Scotia seminary, and Mrs Weeks and myself, are members of the faculty. Mrs. Weeks teaches domestic science when not in the field lecturing for the school. "When we return home for the Christmas holidays we shall have some good news for all lovers of race progress." MONEY FOR LIBERIA SOON. Washington—The negotiations for floating a loan to rehabilitate the Republic of Liberia, on the west coast of Africa, are almost completed. The state department has been advised that the legislature of Liberia as ratified the loan agreement made with an American banking syndicate Heed Pigele Clark of New Hampshire will be appointed general receiver of the Liberian customs. Mr. Clark will has for some time been receiving instructions preparatory to assuring his new work, expects to leave. Washington shortly for Monrovia. He will stop in Europe to make final banking arrangements. ONE GOOD QUALITY. Mrs. Minks—There's one good thing about these matches. They always make a noise when one steps on them. Mr. Minks—Yes, they are just as safe as rattlesnakes. Mrs. Frontpue (to me) - Why is your husband ing for money, money, money Minister's Wife (wear come it's because he never ra Fy - 2 The Farm | ine rarm i sv, peANS IN UNITED STATES.| = WHY NOT A FARMER? gaetatve articles on the immense n'tean trade of Manchuria bave fen ttle camera a Wiriur and trade reports, and fn: ‘Gee ave also reached the bureaa Gnnufsctures as to the progress [hoa made ia producing them in tho Stites. It has now become a etlerablo crop in the maddle part jie south. D. A. Carpenter, a Ten- Fowe tarmer, writes for the South- Brie In regurd to the growing of spy dean a follows: hyigow the mammoth yellow va fay, planting in rows $6 tnehes jar tnd cullvating about the same ween. I cut with a mower when fe sod allow them to lle on the Hpmst for « couple of days, After fas 10 shock for ten days, they aro fet to tho shed and threshed. We Feadier tho bean straw, after the fans are threshed, as fully equal to ear ‘ot Fedtop for a feed for cat . ‘Fer late summer pasture 1 cov ‘vik a wheat drill and one and one- pat bubela to the nore, Mt ain noy {itis dest cattle and hogs on soya Daas and my dairy animals are pro {eins more milk than ever before o2 [eat ratlon. Of course, other feeds fmemized with tho bean, as soya are fuer rich when fed alone. “The mammoth yellow grows here fra three 1 five fest high, accord by to cultivation, and yields 30 tela of wed per acre,, which will Yrog around $8 and $3.50 per bushel “There {sno fuer improver of the sol than the soya bean. I have tried muy other legumes, but none bas fren such uniform bigh quality bay te returned such Jarge amounts of siogen to the soll. I consider tho fmt bean the greatest crop ever tn- foiuced Into this part of the country, wh a8 a money crop and aa a soll tsprover.” ‘Hott $100,000 worth of soya bean dl was sbipped last year from Man: dura to the United States, against usost none the year before. From Hall England, shipments last year d.soya bean oll to the Upited States torutted to $140,000. ° This was guihel from the Manchurian beans, Gusléerable shipments of soya bean el vere also made in 1910 trom Kobe, Te ty the Gathad: States FEEDING VALUE OF CORN. | One frequently hears it said that “srain varieties of corn have a great He feeling value than other varleties “Grperimental data does not show Is fo bo the case. In the feed lo “thi fiat and dent varieties both give fa) returns, but enalysia shows the fat cora to be slighty richer in pre a. There has been considerable contro ew over the difference in value o ‘U4 wilte and yellow vareties, but ‘olar as experimental fonding ts con timed no difference has been found {a tier value for feeding stock. Swett corm has «higher feeding ‘alts than any of the otter Varieties, ‘its not only rleher in protein, but Ty decldedty 20 in fat. The very generally accepted opin fu among feeders is that new corn eu not have the feeding value of éidcora that has been cared for. Tus ts easily understood because f the decrease in moisture which likes place during the atorage of the ti There ts, no doubt, quite a difter Gee In the taste of corn, this undoubt ‘ily is a8 apparent to the stock that i It as It to ourselves. {2 Nell preserved. sample of corn ‘asa more or less fiinty texture, and Wepectaly’ rich in what might be femed a nutty flavor. This kind of ‘fom comes only from a crop that has me fully matured and well pre el ln reterente to corn meal appear és do not alwaye give the actual Sexton of the product. Tt may vary ‘treat deal tn taste, ax it 18 liable ‘ater circumstances to become rancid Corn.and cob meal has its highes! ‘alse when tt te ground fine. If too Sotrte It {8 not likely to be an easly Mested an thet of a fine. taxture— Journal of Agricaiture. VALUE OF SILO. The silo practically Increases the Protucing capacity of the farm at least Wer cent., and often more. -A 160. Aste tarm with atlo will produce as Much revenue as one of 180 acres Witlout. ‘Therefore the frst cost of & tloilke that of a dwelling house, & turn ot team—ahould be considered Har of the original investment. And, ‘Wone’s capital ts Umited. it is better {o boy a farm smaller by 10. per cent. Talker than dispense with a slic. ‘The Producing value of w silo on $80 land Yeuld be equal to that of 20 acres tded to the 160-acre farm, or $1,000: £2 M00 tana, tt woutd be $2,000. ‘Tots H.2 low estimate, for the stockcarry. RE cavaclty of the farm often will be secreased fully 25 per cent. by the = of @ silo. As compared with Producing value, the cost of cor tireting the allots small. Round fantes silos cost trom $1.60, 10. $3 PRtO% of capacity; those. of stone Bek or cement. trom $2 to $4—Min Beiota ‘Bulletin. eee FEEDING FLOOR FOR Hoas, ‘A good floor for feeding market bogs Mil pay tor iteett tn a very short time. The balk of the corn tn fed on. the toe 3 shelled, and in rainy weather the hog usually 1s compelled to eat trie, less dirt with the corn, end dry woather dust will necesarily be ‘alen. With a good feeding floor the RBA be fed with no waste [Phetuer wet or dey. “Cement concrete AS the best material hs Mga PUDONG, and a floor of this "4 tt taget @ lifetime. WHY NOT A FARMER? The Missourt Rural Life Conference 4s to meet at Kirkaville inte this month to lnaugurate a. movement sop tho townward drift fromthe country. A Kirksville dapatch says, "Among the speakers will be Henry Wallace editor af tarm paper a ‘Des Moines, Ia.; H. J. Waters, dean of the Kansas State “Agricultural Col lege; Prot. F.C. Bistop of the fowa Slate Agricultural College; K. T, Pale hil alate superiatendent of pubile instruction of Kanne. and Dr. W. P Cutler of issounl, state food and drug commissioner. Excelent gentlemen, no doubt. But why not put a few practen! tarmers on the platform? Surely there are plenty of fords of the soll in Missour ‘who could unfold tales that would in terest audleaces the Missour! Rural Life Conferences wishes to convert. Euitors, educators, chemists and men of other callings or professions ‘uy have a great deal to. aay about the profia and. pleasures of ugric: ture, but men who bave tekied the tertile aoll of Misour! with too and ‘plow end harrow ‘and geen it emile ‘with golden harvests in response ought to have something to say that would bo'ta the point. “A successful farmer Who cultivated ax well as a cull Yator, and who can ‘tell how ft ts done as well as do ft, is valuable at a backtothefarm rally not merely for what he can say. The popular idea ih mae clint fo at farmer somewhat like the pletures of Riram Wayback and’ bis neighbors made by the cartoonists In’ our. strenuously funny comle weeklies ‘That the well todo farmer’ wears as. welltailored clothes an the average business ‘man, reads as good literature, basa food a grap of public questions and {san much "a “gentleman” te mor fenerlly known in the rural section of such states as Missourt than In town. And nothing Is better calcu lated to interest town audience i country life than to correct the im pression that’ farmer” necossaily Wears a billygoat beard, a blekor Shirt, Jeans trouners and a. concen *simmy" saven days in the week and an converse upon 0. mubject_ but Gropss-Laulsville GourierJourial COUNTRY SCHOOL SPOILs GooD FARMERS, Vacation training 1s enlisting as never before the interest and effort of Duéiness men and educators in sey. eral western states. For two years certain bankers in Minnesota have pro moted it very actively, their commer cial interest tm farm properties and people leading them to do #0, They have found that of 435,000 schoo! chil dren, educated at x ,cost of $14,000, 000 annually, fewer than 1,800 attend agricultural schools. In a state which has only onethird of the tillable land within {ts 84,00 square miles under cultivation, 80 per cent. of the chil dren are being trained to be consum- ers and only 410th of 1 per cent. to be producers, The present school system, even in the country, was thus yound to be educating children away from the farms, “spoiling good farm- érs and not making good city men.” ‘The bankers offered prizes for the best answers to the question, Why am { going to leave the farm? The boy who won first prize lald stress on the fact that “most of the ‘school arms’ are town Bila or Girls trom town ‘schools and don't. like country Wfe. Their attitude helps to sow dls satistaction among the pupile.”—Sur vey. FEED AND BREED. Any feeding system that will keep the chicks growing trom the egg to maturity 1s good, but ft does not mean that {t could not be improved upon Study the diferent feeding systems presented from time to time and add to yours those different articles which are obtainable in your section. Variety {8 what makes the food appetizing, ‘and the more we can induce the fowls to eat the more rapid will be the de velopment. ‘The average poultry breeder often wonders why he does not have the ‘success of other breeders who contin: ually produce superior birds. ‘This 1s easily answered: by his inability to ap: ply the laws of breeding A few tn- Aividuals. will continue to breed .av- perlor birds, the price of which will remain high. Too many are anxious to’ produce many varteties of; individ: vals, and as long as they continue to do that they will not succeed tn pro- ducing those individuals that stand at the head of thelr variety. Ono breed properly handled {s enough to tax the energy and brain of the best of ua— Missourl and Kensas Farmer. acs IN WINTER. Kéep hens laying during cold weather by warm feed, in.which a Ub- ‘eral quantity. of ‘cayenne, or red, pep- per bas beon mixed. Fill a large Ket- tle with milk, beat ft and put in table craps or any dry feed, also the red pepper; then pour into the troughs. ‘They will enjoy st, Glve them: plenty of gravel and itme ‘Feed them parched corn, and make them scratch for tt. HINTS FOR THE SWINE BREEDER. It will only take about balf as much grain and other feed to raise a litter ot pigs if they are given pasture. Fine halr denotes good quailty tn a pig nearly as much as It does ina norse, {f you are thinking of buying a boar at the, fairs this fall do not se- Teot ote thal 1s overfat because fat does aot mean, quailty. ‘A hog that can be fattened while young will be the most profitable one tu hieed: DUG DRILLED WELLS VERY DAN: GEROUS. | Almost every community to which wells have been drilied can boast of 1 ‘umber of combination dug and dritted wells. The owners congratulate them Selves on their wisdom tn utillzing up old dug well 15, 20 or 80 feot in depth ‘and drilling through the bottom of this {0 a°good flow of deep water. The cost of drilling that 20 or 0 feot has been ‘saved, certainly an economy worth considering. As a matter of fact, this combined dug and drilled well ts a particularly dangerous type It may readily breed malarial tever or even typhold fever, which ts more prevalent in the country than even fn the overcrowded clties, in spite of the supposed pure water supply of nearly all farming sections, Such a well Is all the more dangerous because {t fs fancied to be safe. Although the wa ter encountered by the deep well may bbe perfectly pure at the start, contam ination may take place almost tmmied! ately by tho entrance, especially after rains, of seepage water Into the open well and thence Into the casing of the drilled well. The remedies are obvi ous. Either the casing should be car led to the surtace of the outside ground, or at least above the highest evel ever reached by the water, or ‘the open well should be converted inte a watertight system by applying « thick coating of cement over both sides and bottom.—Government Bulle ‘tin, STILL IN THE STONE AGE. Dr, Waiter E. Roth points out that fn northern Australia there are today many communities of primitive people wearing no clothes, unable to scount beyond three, and still making and us {ng the implements and weapons of the stone age. Dr. Roth bas seen these people making thelr stone Im plements. They manutacture “celts,” Scrapers, knives, saws, bandpleks, gouges, pounders, hammers and grind ers from stone. They also use svells and teeth for scrapers and drills, and tone for awls and stilettos. He does not share the opinion that these peo ple, and other savages, are stupid be ‘cause they express no surprise at the miracles performed im thelr presence by white men. Once, when he had struck luelfer matches before the Australian savages, and thoy showed no astonishment, be asked his inter preter what they thougat of it. “He says," replied the interpreter, “what for no give it him? You'fool throw it away.” A CHICKEN CLUB FORMED. ‘The American Silver Spangled Ham- burg club is the latest of American poultry organtzations. It was com- pleted October 25, most of the work being done by correspondence. ‘The officers are: W. 8. Binkley, Clay Cen ter, Mo, president; V. E. Ware, El Paso, Tex, vice-president: J. J. Wohlgemuth, 703 Pine street, St Louls, ‘secretary; ‘Thomas B. Elliott of St. Louls, treasurer Binkley, Ware and Woblgemuth are prominent breed. ers of the silver spangled Hamburg. ‘The directors are: C. D. Tudor, Den- ‘yer, Colo.; William L. Clark, Sullivan, Ohio; J. L. Le Seur, Nashville, Tenn.; . 8. MoWilliam, Galt, Ontario; Bjorlin, Duluth, Minn, 7 The elub1s a life member of the ‘american Poultry association. A hand- ‘some oll painting Is offered by the ‘club for the best sliver spangled Ham. burg cock shown at the St. Louls poultry show, November 27 to Decem- ber 2. ‘A PAYING CROP. ‘The potato onion is a money maker fer the market gardener or the spe clallzer. It produces no seed and Is al- ways grown from bulbs, which when planted, increase in size and produce a cluster of bufbs around the one planted. This variety 1s fast gaining favor as a bunching onion to be mar- Keted while young or in the: green state By the division of the bulp as many as 12 or 16 stems or stalks are secured from each; which are tied In bunches of six to ten stems and are ready for market by the time the com- mon sets, grown from seed, may be planted, ‘The potato onion should be put out in the fall, Then it will get & good start before freezing weather comes on. During our mild and open winters It will grow and produce fine stems for market as early as the frst of April. FAST HORSES. “Horses!” sald the Yankee, “Guess you can't talk to me about horses. had an old mare, Malzypop, who onge eked our best express by a couple of miles on a 30-mile run to Chicago “That's nothing,” sala the Canadian, “| was out on the farm one day about 50 molles from the house when a frightful storm came up, 1 turned the pony's head for bome, and, do you know, ho raced the storm s0 close for the last ten miles that I didn't feel a rap, while my dog, only ten yards be- hind, ‘tad to/swim the whole ais. tance!"—Tit Bits, SALT FOR POULTRY. ‘The right amount of salt aids diges- tlon and ls Delp in Keeping the fowls strong and. vigorous, but tf given to excess will cause inflamma- tlon of the mucous membrane and bowel trouble. Put some salt in the masn An ounce of salt is sufficient for 100 nens. Ht water Is used in molstening the mash it ts best to dissolve the salt tn ft, as thin way {t will be more evenly distributed, A good rule fs to salt the mash as muchas you would tf preparing for table ute. ‘Salt keeps the system in good work. ing order, freeing the blood from puritien sod 10 helping to avola. die case. > CARE FOR Pics. Feed and water regularly and see that every pig comes to bis feed, If any of the Uttle fellows seem to be sick, put them out and give a small ration fora white, and the chances are that they will come out all right with. out any further treatnent. The Sunday | School Lesson Tainan Ata a rnniea Ane on HL REBUKING | AN! Golden Text—“Return unto me, and 1 will return unto you, sith the Lord of hoste,”—Mal. 3:7. Malach! $:7-18. Commit 8:16, 17. ‘me—480 B. C. Place—Jerusalem. Exposition—L, ‘The guilt and folly ‘of robbing God, The prophecy of Mal ‘ach! was ocoasioned by the unfaithful ness of the people toward Jehovah. ‘They were blind to thelr unfalthtul neas; when Jebovah brought) his charges, they constantly replied with “Wherein” have we done this or that (eh. 16, %5 2:44, 1, $27, 8, 18, RVD. Malach! was speaking tor God. in the earlier part of this chapter God had declared that he would send bis messenger to prepare tbe way for Mmself and the character of the mos- senger and his work (vs. 15). Tho Lord was coming to execute judgment upon various classes of sinners and to be a swift witness against them (v. 6). All through bis dealings with Israel God had called thom to repentance ‘and promised them pardon (¥. 7 of. Lav. 26:40-42; Dow. 4:29:91; 8:14; 1 K. 8:47-49; Neb. 1:8, 9; Ina. 05:6, 7; Jor, 2:12-14, 22; Bek, 18: 30-92; Hos WH14: Zech, 1:8; Acts 3:1921, RVs; Jas, 4:8), From the days of thelr Tathers Israel bad gone astray from God's ordinances, and from the days ‘of the fathers God's constant cry was, “Return unto me and 1 wil) return unto you" (v, 7). In the blind self righteousness of thelr hearts the peo- ple asked, “"Whereln shall we return?” ‘With similar pretense of gulltlessness, those who refect Christ touay are say- ing, “Wherein shall we return?” It fo a startling question that God puta in verse 8, “Will a man rob God?” ‘Then God goes on to tell how, In “tithes and offerings.” The law of tithes in the letter of it belongs to the Old Covenant, but we are under moral obligations higher than the Jew, and the man who does not set a proper portion of his income apart for God's work is robbing God. Do you give as much as you ought for foreign mle: ‘lone? We Tob him in the uso of our time, talents, our strength, our use of the Lord's Day, ete. The result Is appalling “Ye are cursed with a curse” (v. 9). The curse of God rests fpon the nation and {t rests upon tho individual who robs him. Does tt rem upon you? TL “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,” 1012. When the whole tithe is brought into the storehouse s0 the needa of Got's work aro fully sup: piled then the windows of heaven are opened and a blessing paured out that exhausts all our capacity to recelvo (ef, Matt. 6:33; 2 Cor. 9:6, 8;_ Phil 4:15, 19; Deu, 28:12-1 K. 1846; 1 Joo 2:16-22f Let any one who doubts ft prove God by trying him. Destroying Insects bad been sent into thelr land destroying thelr harvests, because of thelr forgetfulness of God (et. Amos 4:9; 7:43; Hag. 1611; 2:17). Ut they repented, Jehovah’ promised. to rebuke the devouring Insects (ef Joel 2:20); and promised them abundant harvests in fleld and vineyard, but the better reward was that all nations should call them blessed (v. 12: ef Deu. 4:6, 7). The time {s coming when Israel shall retura: and when ‘ail nations shall call them blessed (ise. 61:9; Jer. 33:8; Zeph. 3:19, 20: Zech. §:23), and the time {8 coming ‘when thelr land “shall be a delight: some land” (v. 12: ef. Deu. 8:7-10; 11:12; Dan, 11:41; Brek. 86:83. 38: Jer. 31:27: Zech. 8: 25) TIL “Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord." 13-16. God adds charge to charge against his guilty people. Not only bad they been faithless tn thelr conduct, they had been defiant in their words (¥. 13), There are not few today. who do not healtate to speak against God, they crlticlee bie demands and bis providential dealings with them What presumption! « (ef. Rom, 9:20: 11:93). There ate those today who say, “It te vain to serve God.” and ‘that there ts no profit in obedience to him and that his religion {s a mourn. ful thing (¥. 14). And there are those today who cil the proud happy and regard the wicked as the ones who are bullt up. Malachi’s indictment of the people of his own day fts exactly many today both in. and out of the church, ~ TV. “They that feared the Lord spake often one to another.” 1618. Im the darkest days God always bas 4 faithful remnant (¥. 16). They soci find one another out and speak ont to another, Jehovah: {s pleased and hearkens and hears and pata tt down in hfs book of remembrance. There 1s a, book of loving record. Kept of those who fear the Lord and think upon bis name. They are God's pe cullar treasure (¥. 17, RV. cf Ex. 19:6: I Pet. 2:9, R. V.). The time ts coming when God's people sball re turn and discriminate “between the righteous and the wicked, between ‘him that serveth God and’bim that serveth him not” AN ENVIABLE MORTAL. First Visitor (to museum)—Did you ‘seo that man dining on carpet tacks ‘and nalls and things? Second Visltor—Yes How I envied him! “Bavled him?” ‘Sast think how be must enjoy shad.” COULDN'T LIVE THERE YEAR ROUND. Sunday School _Teacher—What! Don't you want to go to heaven when you die? Little Emma—Well, you see, our family: couldn't think of living In one place the whole year round.—Puck That ltenaver seemed to nave dit ftoulty tn getting to shore,” “Yes, He took a terrible chance, Ho jumped overboard. wearing all bie ‘hero madala”—Washldgton’ Star’ Of Interest to Our Wornen HINTS TO HOMECOMING ‘TRAVELERS. Frult, says a great doctor, Is the best of let for travelers. The system, more particularly ot delicate people, 1s liable to become heated by a rallway Journey, and while meat sandwiches and the lke will probably increase the tendency to dis- ‘arrangement, fruits, more especially those containing a delicate acid, are fovaluable tn thelr cooling and refresh- ing properties. Sandwiches of sponge cike with a layer of some farorite fruit petween the slices aro very palatable, but they must be carefully packed, or will not look tempting. Grapes aro the most refreshing fruit of all on a journey. They should be fine hot house ones if posslble. Peaches, nectarines and pears are excellent frufte to eat om a journer. since they supply both food and drink. Packed in baskets, thew should be lit erally covered with fresh green leaves, ‘A allver pocket knife wherewith 10 peel off the skin {s, of course, a DP- ‘cesstty as an accompaniment to thete or any other fruit of the kind. Grape fruit 1s perhaps the mest wholesome and the most digestive ‘and thirat quenching af all fruita, But ‘no one ean deny that it {s cumbermme to take about in its original form. it 4s best, therefore, to squecze the futce carefully through coarse muslin, and pour it into a bottle with a little sugar added at the last moment. Dtluted “with plain soda water it makes » del! clous beverage for the traveler. ‘A green apples proves a sovereign remedy sometimes, if slowly nhewed by him or her who ts a bad sfllor. A fine drink for the traveler 1s cold tea made rather strong and flavored with Jemon. It counteracts headathe, and soothes the system in a wonderful NOTES ON NECKWEAR. ‘The jabots, plisses and rabats are more important than ever in the deco- ration of separate blouses aad bodices of one-piece frocks. Here are some notes taken at a showing in one of the well-own Mngerle shops not far from Paquin's: ‘The larger the better. This seems to be the rule for fashloning frills of either lace or linen. J Onesided effects predominate. A central strip of lace, tucked material or embroidery 1s flanked on one side by an {mmense frill. Beading, eyelet embroidery, lace heavy and fine, may be used at the line of function, and ball fringe has mado Its appearance on some novelties, Black buttons of satin or velvet are iatroduced on lace. Pleatings of net are edged with lace motifs in heavy Oriental weaves ot fine valenclennes. Sometimes @ pleat. ed frill will be edged with two or three other frills of pleated lace ‘The possibilities of variety ere unlimited. Jabots or pellsses are extremely wide and long. In the majority of cases they extend to the waist line and over as far as the shoulder The shape {s generally broader at the top than at the bottom, NOVEL PLACE CARDS. Attractive place cards are a g00d- sized paper doll dressed in-eatin and tulle yell and enrrying a bride's bow quet. These are fastened to oblong paper standards so they can siand erect at each plate. Sometimes a fx. ture of the groom ts used for the atrls, bat the modern male. costume of a different period. This will not be hard {f period fashion books are found in a good Ubrary. Another pretty Idea In a big square of chiffon or thin lace tied into a bag with narrow ribbon and orange blos- soms, Lay it open on a table filled with rose petals or rice to be thrown after the departing couple, then tle the ends so they drop sn four points. The name of the guest can be stuck fn the top of these folds, ‘Simple cards, painted with orange blossoms or other appropriate flowers can have tied to them charms of tiny silver wedding bells or bride slippers AFTERNOON GOWNS. The Present vogue for rosewood and gray, the '"” ~ being designed tn a soft smoke * vill continue well on Into the winter. and some beaut! ful tollettes in these pleasantly sub- dled tints are boing prepared. Atter- noon frocks in ninon and velvet com: bined are among these, the linon be- ing of the two shades in question, while a deep hem of gray velvet ap- petra at the foot of the gown, an: other band of the same belng used to form the lower portion of the corsage, With these afternoon gowns a special fancy ‘6 that of bordering the edge of the vest where It meets the material of the gown itself with large, smooth beads the color of the fabric, in some cases the beads being shot to represent the two-color Idea. TO TEST DRINKING WATER. Fill a pint bottle three-fourths full of water Dissolve halt a teaspoonful of granulated sugar in the water and cork the bottle Set it In a warm place tor two days, and {f at the end of that time ft becomes cloudy tt ts unt for use: It ft remains clear ft ta sate. é FLOWERS WORN ON SLEEVES. Every year or so brings back the fad of wearing flowers on tho sleeves, ‘and this fall has seen the rivival once more. At the‘present tlme the cor rect thing (s to wear a bouquet of ‘blooms on the right sleeve, near the shoulder. Orehids, the Japanese irls, small roses and California violets are chosen, They aré made of satin and mingled with malden-talr fern. The fad will probably gain vogue as the winter comes on. TASTY NEW-OLD DISHES. There are many variations of cull- nary standbys which make a new dish of the old favorite with Increase of taste and almost If not quite with- out extra trouble or time taking. For instance, for a quick dessert, put a macaroon in the bottom of each ttn mold, hawng as many of the molds as there will bo caters, end fl with a custard made by the ordinary bousehold recipe. Sot the tins in a Pan of water In the oven as usual and Dake until a knife can be inserted and withdrawn without any of the custard adhering. They are then rendy to be removed, cooled and well chilled in the refrigerator. When turned out each little macaroon Is on top. ‘As 0 change from the usual cream- ed potatoes try baking the tubers in milk. Pare a dozen of them for an ordinary family meal and alice tn pleces crosswise. Cut up in slices two large onfons and add about balt a cup of fresh, finely choped parsley. Arrange the whole in an earthenware or agate pudding dish and cover with milk, dotting the top over with bite of butter. Bake in an oven for balf fan hour’ Do not season until just defore serving, as salt and pepper have a tendency to curdie the milk. Canned tomatoes’ may be substituted for the milk in this formula from to time. Cauliflower te very tasty prepared In the following way, whicb contains some elements of difference trom the ‘usual method of cauliflower au gratin: Soak for a few bours as usual In cold water, then boll until tender In boll ing salt water, drain and sprinkle with the following: A few drops of vinegar mixed with enough salt and pepper to senson to taste. Arrange In a baking dish and cover with soft bread crumbs which have been fried ‘ti brown fn.a Little good butter. CULINARY MAKESHIFTS, Canned tomato soup ean masque rade as a delicious puree if it ts mix: ed with half {te bulk of cream or milk. Season highly and add the cream before the soup Is heated. a8 ft {8 less likely to curdle. For variety, Darley or cut-up spaghett! can be added, ‘The mixture that fs left In the bot tom of the casserolo after the meat ‘bas been removed can be utilized for anotber meal, Add about half the quantity of water, cup up dice of po- tatoes, and make dough balla, stewing the mixture until the potatoes are tender. When making apple float try roast: ‘tng the apples Instead of stewing them. The pulp {s removed from the skins and mixed with the whites of eres. Leftover. spaghettl or macaroni ts nice cooked ina baking dish with a cream sauce and shredded green and red peppers cut over the top. Some times cheese 1s added to the mixture, again bread crumbs HINT FOR THE HOME. If more women realized the charm: ing effect of a growing plant or two In the bome they would vielt the flor {ste with greater regularity. Tt may only be a bright colored gerantum. a tiny tree of starry dalsies or a low Aish of ferns'on the Ifbrary table that gives the note of greenery to the room, but the result 's so homey and 0 altogether desirable that the wom- en who bave not already practiced this little household diplomacy should hasten to do ao. Walking into room in which a growing plant ts dis- creetly placed, there comes the feel Ing at once that the place 16 livable. ‘that some one who has the home love as placed {t there. The plant need not be of an expensive variety. in fact the most effective ones at {his season’ are the least expensive. ALFALFA SEED, $30 PER ACRE, A feature of this month's crop news Is the story: of big prices being re- celved for crops of alfalfa seed. It appears that not only is the seed bringing a good price, but conditions {n many localities bave favored ripen- ing a good crop of seed. Here is a story from near the Kansas capitol which is typical of many that bave been printed: "George Kriepe near Tecumseh, sold alfalfa seed to the extent of near- ly $1,000 off 80 acres, and besides that cut three crops of hay off the same field. His seed averaged close to for and one-half bushels to the acre and brought approximately seven dollars a bushel on the local market, or a iit tle over $20 an acre from the acreage of alfalfa.—Missour! Ruralist, EARTHWORMS AND PLANT FOOD. Foreign experimente Indicate that earthworms do not appear to bave any marked direct effect on the pro- duction of plant food. Organte matter ‘Seems to decompose with formation of nltrates equally quickly whether they are present or not. They are rich {n nitrogen, containing about 1.6 to 2 per cent, and they decompose rapidly and completely; thus they (ur- ‘nish & certain amount of plant food in the coll when they dle. Their chief work 1s to act as cultivators. foosening and mulching the soll, ta- cliftating aeration and drainage by thelr burrows. WHITE GAITERS ARE WORN. ‘The woman who bas pumps and does not wish to get high shoes until late Jn the winter can now use ber cloth galters and be very much ‘n style. White ones are quite the fash: fon and thelr rivals are pear! gray ‘These are worn with the black shoes with all Kinds of gowns that are ‘short and for the street. Out of aheer stupidity lots of nice girla and doting men are making the: ‘salves unhappy. a a Defense Questions Mabray Cone cerning Relations with Marks MANY SENSATIONAL ANSWERS Witness Admite Guilt In More Than Hundred. Swindlee In Difterent ‘lites Aggregsting. Nearly faare: Mallia Council Bluffs, Dec, 22—Ciimax fatter climax occurred in the trial of Ben Marks, charged with conspiracy tn connection with the Mabray swin- @lo syndicate operations. J, C. Ma bray was still upon the witness stand, having put in three days, two of which have been devoted to a severe cross-examination, when court ad- journed, ‘The defense closed a short UUme before court adjourned for the day, and the prosecution has asked fow questions on redirect examina. tion, For the first time since the crom examination begun two days ago, the defense this afternoon began up- on ¢he relations between Marke and Mabray, and from that moment until court ‘adjourned disclosures were made that were startling and sense tonal and sensational to a high de gree, First off the: defense introduced a supposed perfect Uist of the swindle: which the Mabray organization had eon connected with here, at Seattle, and at New Orleans, about one hum dred in all, and aggregating a total of $454,295, In addition {t was shown that victims of the organization were swindled at Davenport, Ia; Denver, Colo; San Francisco, Cal.; South Bond, Ind., and elsewhere. 1OWA & OMAHA, SHORT LINE Financial Matters of Road Arranged ‘and There Is No Doubt of the Project Going Through. Council Bluffs, Dec, 22.—J. J. Hess, attorney for the lowa & Omaha Short Line, has just returned trom Philadelphia, and brings back word that every doubt of the deal for the taking over of the Short Line and the Atlantic Northern & Southern road by a London syndicate, represented by former Secretary Leslie M. Shaw, has now been removed. “It 1s simply ‘a matter of detail from now on. There ts no longer the faintest doubt of the project a8 a whole going through.” He added, that it was a highly Im portent matter because it meant an- other road from Colinell Bluffs to ‘Des Moines, and that immediately. MYSTIC, IOWA, HAS BIG FIRE Several Business-diouses Burned Out With Severe Loss to the Vark ‘ous Occupanta, Ottumwa, Dec. 22—iA defective due ‘tm the racket stor of Edward Webb at Mystic caused a bleze that dam- aged the establishment to the extent of $10,000 yesterday, The losses are A. R, Scott, owner of the Mystic ‘Telegram and three buildings, $5,000; ‘Wobb's store, $10,000; Scott and Min- er's clothing store, $7,000; Cole's ‘taflor shop, $160; Mystlc barber shop, $300; 1. Fleldman’s shoe store, $500, & total of $23,000. ; Wakd.* Bcapinne” Dina alas Wapelio, Dec. 22—N. E. Utt of the firm of Utt Bros. of Chicago was tn the city looking over the site of the proposed power dam. It 1s the inten- lon of the firm to construct a raco and power plant on the Iowa river st this polnt and furnish power to the olty and nelshboring towns. Stand In Line at Saloons. Sioux Clty, Dec, 22—Soventy-six of Sioux City’s serenty-cight saloons till remained closed 20 the result of Jowa supreme court’é ruling in the ‘Moon law. The two “oases” that re- mained open did an immenso busl- ness, crowds standing in line to ae cure drinks, ; Bullet Hole In Heart. Wiote, Dec. 2—The body of man, supposed to be P. Sandabarbai- as of South Omaha, Neb, was found yesterday near bere with a bullet ‘Wound through the heart, ‘The siran- ger had been seen in Wiota the day Defore and had purchased a 22 call- ber rift, Eight Horeca Burned. Ottumwa, Dec. 22—Fire of un Known origin destroyed Jackson Bros, livery barn and some adjoining prop: erty with a total loss of $11,000 yes: terday. Eight horses were cremated ‘and the Duggles, wagons, harness and ealire equipment of the barn destroy. la. Rewana kev Oacaa. Winfleld, Dec. 22.—Seven hundred dollars reward was offered today by citizens for the apprehenslon of tho three men who attacked Dr. Lucy Bowman, and taking her to the out skirts of town, held her captive for two hours, Manual Training Added, Monticello, Dec. 22.—Through the offorts of K. D, Miller, elty superin~ tendent of schools, 8 course: In: man- val training has teen added to the course of study. Visite: Parente at Boone, ‘Boone, Deo. 22—Dr. M. J. Exner of ‘Shanghai, China, arrived here yester- day to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs, F, Exner of this city. Dr, Exner has (been engaged in ¥. M. C. A. work in, China for a number of years, Holds Husking Record, Towa Falls, ‘Dec, 22—When it ‘comes to @ husking record for a: man 1 yours old, it probably ts held by ‘W. R. Mason. During the season jut” closed Mr. Mason has to his credit 1,260 bushels. ? ALHIA NEWS. (Last Week) Mrs G. A. Davis has been sick for the past week. Mr. Alfred Grayson spent the week in Hocking. Mr. Oscar Roper is still very sick, improving. Mrs. R. B. Manley entertained the Stewards board at the parsonage on Monday afternoon. Light refreshments were served. Mrs. W. H. Hawkins of Hocking went to Missouri to spend Christmas. The R. B. Manly Literary Progressive club gave a very nice entertainment Tuesday evening. They will assist the Sunday school in their Xmas entertainment. Mr. Lou Morris of Ogden is in Albia. He expects to locate here. Mr. Roy Grayson and son, Ben, of Hocking was in town Saturday. Madam Virginia Burns, Joe罗leson and Messr. Lewis Edmond, W. H. Gordon of Hocking, attended church in Albia Sunday evening. INTER-STATE LITERARY AN- NOUNCEMENT. To the Presidents and Members of all Literary Societies of the Middle West: This comes to inform you that the Inter-State Literary Association of Kansas and the West will hold its 21st annual session at Witchita, Kansas, Dec 27-29, 1911. Any literary society that has been regularly organized for a period of three months, and has held at least twelve regular meetings this calendar year, is entitled to and is hereby invited to elect and send three delegates, one of whom may appear on the program, provided there are not more than three such societies in the same city. In cities where there are more than three such societies, the delegates from these societies must select and select three of their members to appear on the program. The membership fee for new societies is $1.50; for old societies, $1.00. Board and lodging 750 per day. Contests in oratory, original poetry, original music, and in declamation will be held and cash prizes awarded as follows: Oratory, first, $10; second, $5. Music, first, $6; second, $4. Poetry first, $6; second, $4. Declaration first $3; second $2. No graduate in any subject will be admitted to that particular contest. No paper or oration shall be more than ten minutes in length. Please bear this in mind when writing your produc- tion. A special train will carry the delegates from Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. It will probably leave Des Moines sometime on Tuesday evening; December 28th, and it is carnely defoliated by the party either at Des Moines, St. Joseph, Kansas City, Topeka, or some other point along the route. For further information address: Attorney S. Joe Brown president, 507 Mulberry街, Des Moines, Iowa; Dr. J. R. A. Crossland, chairman 300 Frederick avenue, St. Joseph, Mo.; Mrs. W.-L. Grant; corresponding secretary, executive committee, 1964 N. Fourth street, Kansas City, Kan. COLFAX NOTES. Last Week's Home Mr. Louis Banks was a guest of friends in the Capital City last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Miller of Enterprise were guests of their host of friends in their city the first part of the week. Mrs. Sam Dean was a business visitor in Des Moines last Tuesday. Mr. Creed Taylor had his foot mashed while working in No. 8 mine, last Friday. While it caused him much pain still he is grateful that the accident was not more serious. Mr. H. W. Hughes of Des Moines was a business visitor in our city last Monday. The many friends of Mr. George Law regret to hear of the serious accident with which he met last week while working in the mine at Ogden, and we hope for his recovery soon. Mrs. J. J. Beasley was indisposed several days last week. The death of Mr. Louis Mayes of Newton last week came as a shock to his friends in Colfax, who extend their heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family. One of the most pleasing events of the season was the "Old Folks" concert at Bethel church, Monday evening. The program was a decided "hit" and the large and appreciative audience hope it may be repeated in the near future. It was a financial success. The following officers were elected by the B. Y. P. M. last Sunday evening: President, Gertrude Broadus; Secretary, Hattie McKee; Treasurer, Stillgo Madison; Reporter, Laura Banks. For that dull feeling AFTE EATING. I have used Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for some time, and can testify that they have done me more good than any tablets I have ever used. My trouble was a heavy dull feeling after eating—David Freeman, Kempt Nova Scotia. These tablets strengthen the stomach and improve the digestion. They also regulate the liver and be able to help people to pill, but cost no more. Get a free sample at all drug stores and see what a splendid medicine it is. Christmas sleds at Dawson's Hardware. One of the prettiest home gatherings that has been in Cedar Rapids for a long time, was the choir that gathered at the home of Mrs. Martin Brooks, who is a members, but will leave Wednesday morning, the 20th for Red Oak, Iowa, spent the winter with her son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Mar- tin. There were quite a few other of Mrs. Brooks' friends invited. After spending a few hours in singing and convention, luncheon was served in two courses, then Mrs. Thomas, president of the choir, made a few remarks in the behalf of the choir and friends regretting the departure of Mrs. Brooks as she has long served the church as an alto singer by her faithfulness Mrs. Brooks also received some lovely Xmas presents from her lady friends in the choir. Her little son Forest will go with her and attend the Red Oak school this winter. FOR ECZEMA TETTER AND SALT REUM. 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Rodgers and family of Buxton is here with us now, and give a fine lecture at the Pilgrim Baptist church Sunday night. Subject: Turn On the Light. Everyone enjoyed it; also he will teach night school at this place. Rev. J. W. Morton arrived home Monday morning from Orlabor, where he held services Sunday. All friends and well wishers are invited to come to our town ENTERPRISE, IOWA Mr. Percy Jackson spent Sunday in Des Moines with Mr. and Mrs. Tosson. The Ald Society gave an entertainment and raffle at the church last Monday night. Mr. Harry Allen held the lucky number and he was awarded the beautiful quilt. The K. of P. held an installation in the Redman's hall last Tuesday night. After the installation a dance was given. Every one seemed to enjoy themselves. The ten young ladies and gentlemen who were in the play entitled 'The Advertised Wife' was a great success with their play last Wednesday night. Mrs. C. Ray has returned home from Hiteman where she has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Frank Hawkins. Mrs. Frank Johnson and Mrs. Frank Brent are preparing the children for an excellent christmas program. We wish everybody a merry christmas. SIOUX CITY ITEMS The subscribers and agent extend a merry Christmas and a happy new year to the Iowa State Bystander staff and may the year of 1912 be a prosperous one for your paper. Rev. Dr. B. E. Abner, A. M., went to Sioux Falls, S. D., last Thursday to look over the field and see if the prospects were favorable to organize a Baptist church at said place. He returned home Monday. The masquerade social given for the benefit of the A. M. E. choir, last Thursday evening, at Thompson hall was a success both socially and financially. It was largely attended. Cason's orchestra furnished music during the evening. The prizes were awarded to those who stayed masquered the longest and was won by Miss Irene Hill. First prize a hand painted plate, second prize to Mrs. Berry. Mrs. J. H. Hudson was the hostess at a delightfully informal luncheon on Tuesday evening. The center piece of flowers which graced the table where places were laid for twelve guests, was in harmony with the dainty name cards and the appointments of the table, following the serving of the course menu, the guest spent the evening in an informal manner. Mrs. S. S. King of Minneapolis was the out of town guest. Mrs. John W. Patterson returned home last Sunday after being absent for several weeks visiting relatives and friends at her home in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was accompanied home by her little daughter, Helen. The reception given by the C E. of the A M. E. church last Tuesday, was a success, socially and highly enjoyed by all present. A nice programme was rendered the first part of the evening, after which a nice 2-course luncheon was served by the members. 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