Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BY STANDER. IN B I you have relatives or orders, sitting in the city or going to a visit, please inform us; we ask your all local news. -Ed.) Mrs. Emma Harris is improving. Our sincere wish is a happy New Year to all of our subscribers and friends. Mrs. Fred Jones and children spent Less in Bethany, Mo., with her parents. Mr. S. Rickett of Gallatin, Mo., is in our city spending few days with his brother, Clay Lewis. The best New Year's present that is on the market at a reduction is the butterfly, $1 for one year. Little Mae Stanton is spending the holidays with her auntie and grand mother at Brookfield, Mo. Miss Stella Stanton is spending this week in Boone, Iowa, the guest of Miss Colene Parker. The annual ball given last Wednesday by the Masonic Lodge boys was well attended and an enjoyable time reported. Mrs. Katie Hutchinson of Ourlabor passed through our city last Saturday enroute to Chicago where she intends to spend several weeks visiting her sister and other friends. Miss Georgia Blackburn one of our teachers who is teaching in Buxton arrived in our city last week to spend the holidays visiting with her parents and sister. Miss Lillian Neal spent Xmas in Deestar, Iowa, visiting her parents on the farm. Mr. H. C. Brown accompanied her down. They returned Wednesday reporting a very pleasant visit. The Bystander twelve months for $1. Miss Mary Jenkins were united in marriage to M. E. M. Buckner last Saturday at the residence of Rev. Le Roy Woolrich, who very impressively tied the fabled knot, which made the happy couple man and wife. They are both known in our city and will make their home at 1302 Park St. Jessie Graves, a former Des Moines boy who has been spending several months working in Chicago, came over to spend the holidays visiting with old friends and renewing acquaintances. Jessie likes old Des Moines. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Reynolds were greatly shocked last Sunday morning to learn that they had the misfortune to lose practically all their household effects in a fire of unknown origin at their home 1641 Ease Walker street, last Saturday night. Sidewalk Scrapers—Dawson's The Des Moines delegation to the Inter-State Literary association left Tuesday night for the 21st annual session, which convenes at Witchita, Kansas, Wednesday evening. Those will appear on the program are: President S. Joe Brown and wife; Mrs. E. R. Hall, Mrs. Chas. Turner, Miss Vivian Warriors and Miss Nellie Leffridge. The other delegates are Mrs. E. B. Ehlston, Mr. H. Gould, Mr. E. R. Hall, W. P. Warricks and Miss Lona Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Dixon and son Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Price Alexander and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jackson left on the early train Christmas morning for Indiana, Iowa, to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Flummer. Their daughter Marie is attending Willforce College, also came to spend the Xmas at the parental home. The event will long be remembered as they were royal entertained. Snow Shoes—Dawson's Hardware. 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 stabborn and unruly hair and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion for the com- plexion. Ask your druggist for them. Be sure and get the genuine (Ford's) manufactured by the Ozonized On Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. Rev, F. Durden has accepted the pastorate of a large Baptist church in Topeka, Kana., the one Rev. Mendenhall hall of Buxton resigned from. He left at hall once to his new field. Dr. A. J. Beeker, who was taken ill was taken to the Methodist Hospital for an operation where he is improving as fast as can be expected. Mr. John D. Midgett, a young man living at 1013 Crocker street, the home of his mother, died Thursday morning at 9:30. He was only 23 years old. His body will be taken to Chillicothe, Mo., for interment. The Mother's Congress will meet next Saturday, Jan. 6 at the Y. C. M. C. A. a 2 oclock. An interesting program is being arranged to which all married women and mothers of the city are invited to be present. Money Saved—Dawson's Hardware. Mesdames Frank Johnson and S. Joe Brown representatives of the Intellectual Improvement club which recently gave the dinner for the benefit of the association were present and Mrs. Johnson, in a very fitting address presented the association with the sum of $20.00 the net proceeds from said dinner for which sum the association is indeed very grateful. On next Sunday the address will be by Dr. E. A. Lee, our efficient Dentist who will give some helpful suggestions in Oral Hygiene. All men and boys are cordially invited. The Christmas exercises at Carney last Saturday was good Mrs. Madden the Superintendent managed things nicely. The church was handsomely decorated, Rev. P. S. Ervin of Des Moines, was present and he preached Sunday, and on Monday night the Baptist held their Christmas tree at Orelabor, only about one mile from Carney and a splendid time reported and many useful and valuable presents was given the children. Rev. White their minister made a splendid address. Rev. Child's is Sudderintendent the Union Labor organization made a donation of $25 to the two churches. Corinthian Church Notes Sunday December 31st, 10:30 a.m. pastor's subject. Weal or Woe, Which? 12 m. School, School, 7 m. B. Y. P. U., 8 p. m. subject. Balancing Accounts. 'Watch meeting at close of sermon. T. L. Griffith, Pastor. Y. C. M. C. A. NOTES. Mr. D. G. Patterson, who has for several years past been employed by H. S. Chase & Co, the largest grocery firm in the city, gave a splendid address at the Men's Meeting Sunday afternoon on the "Negro in the Commercial World" which was well received by all who heard it. Sleds, Cheapest—Dawson's Hd'ware. The Savoy Cafe 304 W. GRAND AVK. First Class Restaurant. Meals and Lunches served at all hours Home cooking. You are invited to give us a call Charles Townsend, Pro. Des Moines, Ia. REVIEW OF SPECIAL EDITIONS. The month of December brings forth more special holiday editions of the different newspapers than any other time, for two great reasons: First, this season is the easiest time to get advertising, hence it is a financial gain. Second, we know everybody looks for something new or different from the ordinary. This year we have received many congratulations upon the special edition that the Bystander got out and here I must pause long enough to just mention one of our enthusiastic supporters, who lives in Kookuk, Iowa. He sent a very nice letter stating that he admired our struggle and he enclosed a one dollar bill and said "Smoke on me," and signed his name. Bill, we were greatly elated and encouraged by such expressions at that. We sus- Watches..... That you will be proud to carry and at prices that you can afford to buy. Come in and see the wonderful showing we are making on $10.00 to $32.00 watches. If you are thinking of buying a watch now—or later, your chance is here now. You will have no better opportunity this Spring. Come in now and pick it out Schlampp's Mixh and Locust St. peet that that man had some experience in newspaper work and knows what the real needs are with colored newspapers. Well, the first newspaper that came to our office dressed up in its Silver Anniversary was the St. Paul Appeal. It is far the finest edition that came to our office. In 1982 cuts of some of the homes. In 1983 cuts of olls people. Indeed they are beautiful homes. For 25 years that old and brainy man, John Quincy Adams has appealed to the people in the northwest through the Appeal and for more of the newspaper business, he arrives in southeastern ville, Ky. He is a splendid type of the Afro-American citizen and for more of an outspread Silver Jubilee number, a credit to any race. The Dallas Express came to us with a 20-page holdout of newspapers besides hundreds of inches of other advertisements illustrated with cuts and write up of leading colored people of the lone star state. The Detroit Leader came out clothed in colored paper with Sata Glaus in colored pages. The Indianapolis Freeman gives us a 20 page holiday issue, illustrated with cuts of our leading theatrical and stage people nicely arranged. They ought to have had more of our men in other lines than the theatrical and stage pieces. The 20 page issue very beautiful illustrated with our race men in all lines. A fine issue indeed. Our next attraction was the New Amsterdam News of New York with her 20 page good edition. The Los Angeles Eagle a beautiful magazine from paper well gotten up. We congratulate you boys. THE MOON LAW The law which forbids joint ownership of saloons no doubt was enacted for the purpose of suppressing the saloons. But it falls short of accomplishing the sim of its supporters, in that it opens up another avenue to cause men seek to evade the law. What difference does it make if a saloon is owned jointly or by a single individual? so long as they are legalized by law. In commercial law; silent partnership is recognized as being a legal method of doing business. It is obvious that this method may be used, which would defeat the purpose of this law. The question of how many men are joint owners of a single saloon is not an important one, but rather the number of saloons in operation in any community. THE FERGUSON CASE. On last Tuesday morning about two o'clock a burgular call was turned in from the residence of the Mr. L. Walters 1352 Walker street, Sergeant Breeding with officers, Badgly McMillen, Allen Dellinger went out to look up the matter. After tracking a man through the snow to the home of Grant Ferguson from this piece Ferguson returned and told Mr. Walters that he had broke the window, that he was drunk at the time he did it. He was landed in jail on a charge of robbery. Ferguson is the colored man that saved two, out of a party of four white men that went over the dam at the foot of Center street three years ago. This reminds us of the cow that gave a rich pail of milk and then proceeded to kick it over. ALBIA NEWS. Mr. and Mrs M. Brown of Hocking was in Albia Sunday. Mrs. E. Jeffers came down from Des Moines Christmas morning to visit a few weeks in Albia and Hocking with her children. The neighbors and friends tendered a surprise on Mr. and Mrs. John Washington, Tuesday of this week. Mrs. Virgia Burns of and her cousin Miss Burns of Hocking was in town shopping Saturday. Mr. Bert Allen went to Des Moines Thursday to spend Christmas. Mrs. Ellen Bristo returned to her home in Enterprise on Wednesday. Mrs. W. H Hawkins has returned to Albia from Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Robeson of Hocking was in Albia shopping today. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Grayson and son, Ben, spent Xmas week in Albia. Mr. and Mrs. Lou Morris of Ogden have moved to Albia. A. M. E. Sunday school had their Christmas tree at the A. M. E. church on Christmas night. Song services on Sunday evening. DAYENPORT NOTES The Stowardesses' day at Bethel A. M. E. church was as usual a success. The following persons add grace and dignity to the occasion. The pastor preached at 11 a. m. Subject: "The Diving Law." After an effective Allan-league meeting in the evening, led by the vice president, Mrs. Nora Sheppard, the Stewardesses continued their program, devotionals being led by the president. The Stella Neal and Mr. Preston Miller were quietly married at the groom's residence December 14th. Rev. Stovall's performed the ceremony. The Christmas sale at Bethel A. M. E. church, given by the milling Workers' group, proved to be a good affair both financially and socially. Quite a number of Davenporters attended the installation of King Solomon Lodge, No. 20, A. F. and Ai M., in Rock Island Monday evening, Devoted to the installation, and the officers of the five departments of the order were duly installed by P. G. M. Burris, Mr. John YOUNKER BROTHERS AFTER XMAS CLEARANCE In The Economy Basement affords great saving opportunities. See our announcements in the daily papers. Mrs. Wm. O'Neal will spend the holidays in Evanston, Ill. The fuel and light committee of the A. M. E. church is arranging to have a mock trial the latter part of January. KEOKUK Special to Bystander. Obituary of Mrs. Sidney A. Campbell. In the sudden demise of Mrs. Sidney A. Campbell, of Washington, Ia., the citizens have lost a worthy member of selety, a woman whose qualification denied her to all who knew her. She was an example of the community in which she lived, a faithful wife, a noble mother and a Christian. Below is a poem written by her sister: Dear Savor, I am weary and my life is incomplete. But I bring the tangle meshes and lay them at thy feet Thou knowst I intended to make by life complete. But heavy grow my hands and heart, and weary grow my feet. Dear Savior, I will trust thee, for thy weary feet have trod The rough and thorny pathway which leads me up to God. And by thy precious life and death I'm freed from every sin, I'm only waiting now to hear thy welcome call, come in: And on the cold and dreary November, her precious spirit fed. All the trees were bare and leafless, all the flowers were dead. Left our sad hearts oh, so lonely on life's wintery shore. For a home among the angels left us evermore; Folded up her tired fingers, closed her weary eyes, Lad her down in awkeless slumber, awke in parisie. MRS. M. DAVIS. AN IDEAL POLICEMAN In this enlightened age, society is demanding honest, intelligent and trustworthy men for guardians of the peace and welfare of the community. Citizens are fast loosing their hold on these important positions, which they should never have been allowed to control in the first place. Chicago, with a force of nearly 6,000 citizens, has been the most important that this class of men have no place. COLFAX NOTES. Rev. James Bowles has resigned as pastor of Bethel Baptist church to take effect, Jan. 1st. We regret very much to lose the Rev. and his estimable wife who have been instrumental in doing much good for our community. They will take change to Pt. Madison Baptist church. Mr. J. J. Beasley is a victim of tonsilitis this week. Messers. S. A. Spencer and Louis Banks were Capital City visitors Christmas day. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dean entertained a number of their friends in a delightful but informal manner Xmas day. A most enjoyable time' was had by all present. Mr. and Mrs. Ashford entertained the following persons in a most delightful manner Christmas day. Rev. and Mrs. James Bowles and their guest, Mrs. Jas, Battles of Enterprise and Miss Bettie Berkley of Hittman. BURLINGTON, IOWA. Christmas day was marked this year by delightful weather. The breaking of the day reminded one of one more approaching spring. Mrs. L. Washington entertained with an elegant Christmas dinner, the tuxedo serving as the center piece. The usual good time was enjoyed by all. Mrs. James Brooks, of West Hill, also entertained with a dinner party. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Trent, of Washington street, had as their guest at dinner Christmas Mr. and Mrs. Tucker, of Carthage, III, and Miss Bessie Eckert. The Christmas draw box was the festival at the Union Baptist church and afforded great pleasure for the youngsters. Misa Ida Palmer reports a delightful visit while in Chicago. She returned Saturday. She left left last week for Frankfort, Mo, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Martha. Spears of Minneapolis. They will spend Christmas with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. T. Saunders, of Dew Mineapolis, will be the holidays with Mrs. Saunders mother and sisters, Mrs. V. Leolio and daughters. KEOKUK NOTES. Miss Daley Ware, our talented vocalist, of whom we feel proud, sang in Milwaukee last week. Messrs. Alden and Caldwell, former residents of this city, who now reside in Milwaukee, visited his sister, Mrs. Ethel Wadkins. Mr. McKinley Broks, of Quincy, IL, visited his sister, Mrs. Ethel Wadkins. A large audience greeted Santa Claus at Bethel church last Saturday night. The work of the Sunday school is rapidly progressing, as was readily even by the number of children. Young, the superintendent of Mrs. who's heart is in the work. The progrum was arranged by Mrs. Lea Porter, who was assisted by Mrs. Anna Alden and Mrs. P. A. Jones. The children all deserve special mention because of their endeavor to make the evening one of success. The Xmas tree was a thing of beauty in its artistic array of heavily laden gifts to be distributed among the happy recipients. Santa Claus, Rev. Brewer explained in a brief way the growth of the Sunday school within the past few weeks. Mr. Aleck Morton feels very grateful to relatives in the south land who have presented him by express with thanks. Santa Claus is a bachelor, all such gifts are doubly appreciated by him. Mr. Thomas Roberts and sister, Miss Anna, of Hocking, Iowa, are in the city visiting their grand parents, Mr. Emery Burns, also of Hocking, is in our city visiting Friends. The Xmas tree entertainment at Pilgrims Rest church last Monday night was one that reflects great credit upon the Sunday school superintendent, Mrs. J. E. Phillips, and her worthy assistants. The children all were indeed a rare treat to see who was indeed a rare treat to see with a spirit that few older people exhibit. Much time was consumed in the distribution of gifts, which were many that adorned the tree. An original composition upon the birth of Christ was presented by Jennifer At the conclusion of the exercises lunch was served and everybody seemed to have spent an enjoyable Xmas evening. Miss Verna H. Beamon is spending the hilday vacation at Ft. Madison as guest of the Misses Harper and Morgan Wilson, who is a young girl in the public school. Too much credit cannot be given our young people when they take the lead in such matters. Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Morgan, of Carthage, Ill., are the guests of Mrs. Sarah Holland, who entertained in their honor last Sunday night at luncheon. The invited guests were: Mrs. Izella Yales, Mr. and Mrs. H. Dixon, Mr. and Mrs. Wren, Taylor, Mr. and Colleen, Mrs. and Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. and Mrs. Chas. Teheen and Wren, Brown. Mrs. Wm. Coleman entertained a club that constitutes four with her membership, last Saturday evening at her home. A bountie repast was served in a very informal way it being the occasion of the hostess' birthday. The couple themselves as regretting the awaiting of another twelve months before the return of another similar occasion. return of another summer occasion. During sermon last Sunday morning upon the birth of Christ. The young Men's club had charge of the program in the evening. Wm. Wm. Martin, the energetic and wide awake president, that do things, is deserving of a few mentors, a bouquet of the splendid gifts of talent that was presented, Mr. B. L. Anderson, who must be classed with the men who is a natural born orator, held the large audience with one accord by his masterful eloquence. Mrs.狄姆斯, who able to an abduction of the girl, was her best in recital. An original compostin on Xmas was read by Mr. Jennie Freeman. Between each number the sweet strains of the choir appealed to each heart. The topics of race review were very effectively diagno- tized. The audience was we were favored by having in our midst Mr. Clyde Glass, of Des Moines, whom we know of as the boy wonder, who rendered two beautiful instrumental selections, he being asked by request to respond to an en- gagement. We offered and surprised old acquaintances by his plausible fervent appeal. Wood sawing contest at Pilgrim Rest church next Thursday night. Miss Marie Jackson is one of the competitors. Mrs. Rose Bowman, who's illness Mrs. Ross Bowman, a few weeks ago, is already improving, but as yet no change for better is noted in the condition of Mr. Olle Walker and Mr. Ben. Harris. M. J. Burton, state Baptist missionary, is home with his family for the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ware are comfortable settled in their new home, located at 13th and Morgan street. The Grand Master, E. T. Banks of Bank of America, Lodge No. 1, a visit Tuesday evening, was greatly appreciated. M. Banks has proved himself an efficient officer by producing laws which made all the boys sit up and take notice. After the ceremony, the flooded freshments were served. M. Banks, the guest of Wm. Gross while in the city. An annual society event which is looked forward to with much pleasure by many, and which is heartily enjoyed when the time does finally come. The event which was given Christmas night at Union Lodge hall by Union Lodge No. 1, A. F. and A. M. A large gathering participated in the event. A splendid program was rendered, after the event, which the freshments was served by the committee. F. D. Fields and M. Garnett, Tebeau, and Johnson furnished music for the occasion. Wm. Dixon, who was 182 years old, who simply need 1627 Times street, the city used Mrs. Margaret Stewart and children of Chicago, who has been visiting all the home of her parents, the Mrs. Margaret Stewart, returned to her home one day last, empaneled by her mother, Mrs. Bruce, who will spend the holidays in that city. Mrs. F. D. Bland is visiting friends in Davenport during the holidays. Paris, Mo. Special to Bystander. The church, schools, secret societies and citizens celebrate the home coming and official visit of Mrs. Nee-Ann H. a grand matron of The Heroines of Jerico of Missouri and its jurisdiction. PARIS, Mo., Dec. 16, 1911. 0 For three days in succession the citizens of Paris were busily engaged in entertaining this executive head, dressed in a white coat. Tuesday night she was highly entertained by the Heroines of Jerico. She gave them valuable and wholeome instructions on the good of the order and predicted a bright future for the race. She made aaking of a dainty repose, she was the recipient of several presents from Court and members as a ticker of sincerity and affection. Wednesday night the Royal House of the S. M. T.a opened its doors to court and entertain this honored guest. She was intelligently introduced to the audience and spoke with power and feeling of the present conditions of the race and gave some valuable and hopeful remedies for its weakness. After a general handdaking and banqueting, the entertainers adjourned only for recreation and preparation for its final climax, and lifting of gates the following night. Thursday night a banquet was given to the citizens of Jerico, and E. church by the citizens and schools. the visitors and schools. The visitor was seated at the trance by the Paris high school band. At this junction a grand program was rendered by citizens and guest. Music furnished by the high school choir. In this final gathering, Mrs. Kinner was strongly introduced to the citizens by Prin. Prof. T. B. Bur. taught spoken intelligently and powerfully, and taught the wonderful achievements of the race. She stated that the race was not hatched, as painted and that it possessed optionally good qualities of character and culture. She urged that the race encourage the leaders and instructors in order that they may grow stronger and lift the advancement to a more rapid rate of advancement. Several times during her lecture she was interrupted by applause. She encourages better care of health, more industry, less idleness, more economy and a general renewal of ideas and good thoughts, etc. This meeting was a pleasant one and ended well. Prof. T. B. Burris, chairman; G. A. Donaldson, instructor band and cholr; Miss Mabel Grump, organist; Rev. W. P. McAllister, pastor. Every family has need of a good, reliable liniment. For spralsa, bruises from cuts and burns, a mastic patra there is none better than Chamberlain's. Sold by all dealers. Woman Had Made Only a Few Unimportant Mistakes in Harnessing the Horse. Three men ran out and grasped the bridle of the excited horse. The horse, it might be said, was more scandalised and amused than frightened. "Oh what's the matter with him?" walled the lady in the buggy. One of the men walked about the horse and inspected her. "he said, dryly, "that if we turned the bridle around so the blinders wouldn't clap him under the chin, and took this trace from under his hind leg, and untwisted the breech, he'd feel a little more comfortable." The lady glared at him. "I hiltchrd that horse up myself," she said; "it was just exactly the way they showed me." The man said nothing, but busied himself in straightening out the harness. "I guess, he said, "Td best take him out of the chair," the breast-colored hand, and the saddle eight to be pulled up a foot forward." The lady withered the good Samaritan with a glance. "Is anything on right?" she inquired. The man considered. "Why yes," he said; "the hacking straps are all right. They were fastened to the shafts and you snap 'em on—" "I knew you all was right!" the lady said, "just some little unimportant things wrong. Thank you. Come up! And the old horse trotted placidly away, the lady sitting very erect. "Now—what do you think—of that?" inquired the helpful man standing in front of her and shaking his hand back after the driver. "The wonder is" said one of the less helpful, "that more people don't get killed. I've seen some fools get into an automobile and try to run it first pop. Often you see people who can't run into a boat and sit backward in it to push the oars." "But the worst of all," a third man said, "is the fellow who tries to sail a boat before he knows one sail from another, or what they're used for." The helpful man looked full of chances, he said. "Maybe that lady will get home all right." "Sure she will," another assured him. "A special providence watches over women who hitch up their own horses." - Galveston News. Boxing an Ancient Sport. Although boxing and pugilism, occupying much attention at the present time, were popular in classic Grease, men were trained to Middle English, and it was not upheld the end of the seventeenth century that we find references to boxing as a regular English sport. Boxing, as distinguished from pugilism, may be said to data from 1896, when the Amateur Athletic club was formed and the Queenberry rules drawn up. The boxing glove, however, has been invented about a century before by Brongdon. The "father of English pugilism," who used them in his practice bout. But you will remember boxing glove described by Virgil, was a terrible instrument of offense. They had been having a little tiff. "Oh, of course," he said, wrathfully, "I am always in the wrong." "Not always," said she, calmly. "Last week you admitted that you were the wrong." "Well, that got to do with it!" he demanded. "Nothing, except that you were perfectly right when you admitted it," she replied—Harper's Weekly. No Mountain Laurel, Please. Crusaders for a national flower come, grow, fade and depart as regularly and as sweetly as the flowers themselves. Wherefore we do not take with too great seriousness the campa- sion said to have been started to make the mountain laurel blossom the special emblem of these United States. But why, when we are choosing a national flower, do we not at least try to fine one that has some familiar con- nection with our daily life? The山 mountain laurel campaign reminda as of the day we came down town and announced that he had named his son Algeron. "Why," asked his old ma- man sadly, "why don't ye give the poor kid a name he can get work with"—Chicago Post. Happy Thought. Mr. Newcash—Son says in this letter that he's workin' on some wash drawin' at the art school. Mrs. Newcash—Now, that's real sensible. When they get dirty we can send 'em to the laundry with the rest of our wash goods, instead of havin' 'am cleaned by an expert like we did our hand painin' s. "Unquestionably; he has an aim in this for which devotes most of his time." Newsboy-Aw, him and me's work together for years. He's the editor or o' one o' my papers—Life. Extremely Cutting. "Pudgers said a mean thing about Tewksley last night." "What was it like?" "He said it would sap Tewksley's intellect to write the book for a musical comedy." No Danger. Mrs. Willis—You don't mean to say you're going to let little Percy play football when he goes to college? Mrs. Gillis—Oh, yes; but of course we would never think of letting him play the charity team—Puck. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Editing a newspaper in some respects is a good deal like preaching. The gospel truth must be presented in the form of generalities or some fellow will get hit and howl, says a recent writer. Few persons like truth, even in homeopathic doses, if it hits them. But while preachers and editors are criticised for giving them do say, no one thinks they credit for what they do not say, let us examine themselves the major portion of what they know about people. Very many people harbor the belief that newspapers are eager to publish derogatory things. It's a mistake. There isn't a newspaper that could not spring a sensation in the community at any time by merely telling what it knows. There is not a newspaper that does not keep under the lock of secrecy scores of derogatory things which never meet the public air. Declaring what not to print is the most troublesome part of newspaper work. How many good stories are pressed for innocent and the public good nobody outside of a place where no idea of an idea. In some instances he who flies into a passion because a newspaper prints something about him which he considers uncompensatory has every reason to feel profoundly grateful to the newspaper for publishing so little of what it knows of him. And oft times the loudest bluffer is the most vulnerable to attack. A big noise is often a device employed to cover teeproduction. Newspapers put up with more bluffing than any other agency would endure. It is not because they lack courage; it is because they unwilling to use their power to destroy or ruin unless it demands it. It might be well for some people to reflect upon these truths and in silent gratitude befall mild admonition, lest worse befall them.—Minnesota Argus. The editor of the Minnesota Argus speaks boldly and truthfully when he states that the editor of a paper is not eager to publish "derogatory things." Each weak, we could publish after column of things we know on the big and little fellows, attacking their homesty and derogating acts. We can also derogate the deriving actions of those in high places are not brought to light, but for the sake of one's family and other relations, the editor withholds such matter, taking the view that in the final analysis, it will do no good. But let it be understood that while a newspaper man knows and learns much of an individual that is disgraceful; yet if he is a menace to society and the people of a community, there is no editor that lacks courage to denounce him. The duty of the editor to speak of all wrongs committed against society, yet he must be full of human sympathy, love of fair play and loyal to the highest ideals of American freedom and liberty. The people of today have ceased to patronize the paper that thrives on scandal and lies, but are supporting those that are clean, decent and honorable. As the editor, so the newspaper. As a result of the recent conference of governors relative to low price of cotton, which conference considered ways and means by which the farmer could get a better price for his stale cotton, he has been arranged by which a loan of $50,000.00 is to be made to the farmer at the rate of $25 per bale. He will be allowed to hold his cotton till the price reaches 12 cents and will be required to sell when it reaches 13 cents. The plan looks good on paper and may benefit a large number of farmers. But it will fail to benefit the large number of farmers who belong to the credit merchants. When a farmer goes in in January and gives a mortgage on his crop and then buys all he can on credit against it, he will have to market his cotton in the fall just as fast as he can get it out—if it surplus, he will buy it. And the farmer who happens to come out with a surplus about once in ten years and then whirls in and invests that surplus in chips and wistles stones, $250 mules, and $50 saddles, rubber tacks, and sliny wagons, and then has to buy his provisions at credit prices. Such a man is bound to unload as soon as he gets out his cotton. He couldn't wait even if the millennium was just around the corner and signaling to him to hold on! This is the way the farmer gets for cotton when a large per cent of cotton raisers are hog-tied to some one else, is about on a level with the effort of Jack Cade and his followers to fix the price of bread when they were without any of the ingredients with which bread is made. And the plan to reduce the acreage will prove about as successful as that of two lovers who met at the home of their lady love. Neither could have full and decent clothing, as seventh both came to the conclusion out of the same time to return home. Each bade good night to her and proceed on different streets to their respective homes. One had not gone far before he de- If the parents would lecture their children oftener upon the importance of street decorm on the way to and from school it would help greatly in the creation of the healthy public sentiment we are needing more and more small matter to parents and each one of them may take it for granted that his children are so trained at home as to need no such lecturing; but, if those who think this way could see the actions and hear the talk of the children, as we often do in the vicinity of the cided to steal a march on the other one by quietly returning to the lady's home. When he got there he found that his rival had conceived the same plan and had put it over him by several minutes. As pointed out by the Dallas News some time ago, the only way to get the farmer in position to get a good price for his cotton is to get the farmer out of debt! He can materially assist in this process by concentrating his smoke house and corn crib at home instead of having them scattered up in Kansas City and St. Louis-Dallas Exc A new administration in Hayti always has to face the troublesome question of its foreign debts. The debts are incurred, for the most part, by the destruction of the property of foreign residents by warring revolutionists, and, money borrowed of foreigners by them to prosecute their revolutions. The successful party has to assume its own obligations as well as those of the parties which came and went before. The new president, Gen. Le Conte, has asked the Joint Mixed commission for an extension of time for the payment of the claims pled up against his administration by his predecessors. The taxpayers pled up to be pitted. They get practically nothing but revolution revolution, excepted of them. Their leading men appear to value their government only as a means to secure enough to live in Paris, or some other European capital, where life is gay and easy to those who have big names and bank accounts. Patriotism in Hayti seems to be confined to the poor, uneducated people, who have defended it in times past with a valor worthy of any people. How can they be protected from their educated soldiers and statesmen? They would like to know. San Domingo has more trouble. Gen. Ramon Caceres, president of the republic, was murdered while leaving the residence of a relative on November 20. He was a very large man physically, and good natured as a boy. He had been president since 1908, and dictator since 1906, of the turbulent little neighbor of Haytı, and, it is said, the country prospered under his dictorship. But he was a marked man. He killed President Heureaux in cold blood because Gen. Heureaux had killed his father in cold blood, and in his turn was killed in cold blood by friends of President Heureaux. So the kind feud becomes a running issue, in which, among those concernin- it, no man can tell the how he will be overcaked by the hunger. It must be a condition in which to live die. The finances of the country have been under the United States customs receivership about six years and that fact may be responsible for the peace which the country has enjoyed during that period. If a new president should succeed Gen. Caceres without a revolution it would be a very unusual but gratifying event—New York Age. One of the most impressive exhibits in the Tuskegee boots at the recent Macon county (Georgia) Negro fauna was a newly made grave mound covered with ears of corn. At the head of this grave was placed a beveled topper head-board on which this epitaph could be read: An old colored indy, seeing this exact replica of a grave and being unable to read, exclaimed: "Dah, dah! Somebody come here and died! De Lawd giveth and the Lawd taketh, Who was de man? And how came dye to bury im here, right in de Faiir? It was long, long before they could exhibit that and that the exhibit only represented the burial of the chattel crop mortgage, and to show the way all crop mortgages should go. Do you own an automobile? Not! Well, the increase in the automobile business is one of the most remarkable in the history of any one of our many comparatively new industries. In 1904, for example, 22,800 automobiles were produced, capitalized at $23,084,000, while in 1908, 127,287 were produced, capitalized at $175,827,000, according to the federal census bureau. The capitalization of the whole business, that is, all parts of it, in 1904, $30,034,000 and $249,202,000. The automobile is fast displacing the horse. It is ceasing to be a vehicle in the reach of the public, and is becoming one of service within the reach of people of ordinary means. It has opened a splendid field of employment for negroes, as drivers, which is a better and less barbarous term than chauffeurs, and in all the large cities they are operating garages as owners or managers. The number of our business and professional men who own automobiles is large and steadily increasing. public schools most numerically attended by negroes, they would get a different view of the matter. And the contientious spirit of many of the youngsters would indicate that they come to a long line of soldiers and are practicing for the time when, as men they will also become soldiers.—New York Age. A friend is about the dearest thing we've got, because the thinks he's privileged to borrow whenever the notion strikes him. MORE APPROPRIATIONS FOR INDIAN THAN NEGRO President Thirkield Gives Figures in Howard University Report. THE NEGRO'S GREAT NEED EDUCATOR SAYS COLORED MEN SHOULD BE TAUGHT SCIEN- TIFIC FARMING—85 PER CENT. OF RACE FOLLOW AGRICULTURE. Washington, D. C.—Criticism of alleged discrimination toward Indians at the expense of colored citizens is made part of the annual report of Howard university, forwarded to the secretary of the interior by President Thinktler in 1980, that for 100,000 Indians in the United States the government last year spent $1,430,000, while for the 10,000,000 colored persons only $100,000 was appropriated. "Yet colored teachers in the common and high schools," the report continues, "are expected to meet the requirements of the state authorities. To practice medicine the colored man is required to pass the same examination before state boards as the white physicians. So in also other professions and pursuits provision must be made for these students of the colored man; it will mean the blind leading the blind and both falling into the ditch at great cost to society and the state." In order to further emphasize the greater need of aid from the government, Doctor Thirkleid, in his report says: "While the Rockefeller fund of a million dollars is available for the eradication of the hookworm disease, yet there is the negro race with tuberculosis. The black man has diseases wiping out tens of thousands and lowering the vitality and physical efficiency of a race. "At the same time," he continues, "their condition is a positive menace to the white race, with which it is so closely bound up. It is a question of national interest. Here is a race, multitudes of whom are still the prey of the voodoo doctors and conjure men and given to patent nostrums. The pressing need is for the training of men for the instruction of the ignorant and suspicious of the knowledge and broad views of medicine, men who can put medical knowledge in simple form before the masses and through preventive medicine raise the vitality of a race that is being decimated by disease." Doctor Thirltead adds that the great need of the colored men today is more practical study in matters of agriculture. Nearly 85 per cent. of the population of 10,000,000, he says, are engaged in agricultural pursuits. Yet there is not a single school for colored persons in the United States. The report shows that 1,672 students attended the Howard university during last year, coming from 37 states and 11 foreign countries. In describing the need for more dormitories he says: "There has been no increase in dormitory accommodations since the original buildings were erected, over forty years ago. Of the nearly 1,500 students in attendance, four-fifths of whom are men, only one in five can be accommodated in present dormitories. "One of the pressing needs of the institution is an assembly hall large enough to at least seat the student body. The only assembly hall of the university, with 1,500 students, is the Rankin Memorial chapel, which was built especially for religious services, and seats only 600." ADVISES INTENDING EMIGRANTS TO TAKE ALONG PLENTY OF MONEY. Baltimore, Md.-Reed Palge Clark, the new receiver general from Liberia, was commissioned by the president in Washington. The following day he took the oath of office in this city before Dr. Ernest Lyon, consul general to this country for Liberia. As aceiver, general Mr. Clark will have charges of the collection of Liberian customs, which amounts to about $1,500,000, and will probably devolve upon Mr. Clark to arrange for the payment of this loan, when due. His salary will be $5,000 a year. Consul General Lyon, who spent eight years in Liberia as American minister, is thoroughly conversant with the needs of the little republic, and predicts a bright future for it. "Along with Mr. Walker," said Mr. Lyon, "I would advise those who wish to work in Liberia to some capital, as it is largely an indeveloped country, and money, along with initiation and push is needed there. I stand ready to advise anyone who desires to go there to live. Late advises to me state that the One man would have it that a collie dog is the most sagacious of dogs, while the other stood up for the setter. "I once owned a setter," declared the latter, "which was—very intelligent. I had him on the street one day and he acted so queerly about a certain man we met that I asked the man his name, and—" "Oh, that's an old story," the collie's advices broke me, sneezing. people of that country are preparing to make the inauguration of Daniel Howard as president a big occasion in January. All elements of the population, even the aborigines, will be repatriated. He will be one of the True Whig party and a most promising new looms up for Libera." PRESENTS DEEDS TO CHURCH WILLIAM W. SMITH, NOTED PHILANTHROPIST OF POUGHKEEPSIE, MAKES GIFT TO COLORED CITIZENS-DEDICATION EXERCISES NOTABLE-MR. SMITH IS PRAISED AND IS VISIBLY AFFECTED. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-It was a big day for the members of the New Zion church when the handsome brick and cement building, located at Cottage and Smith streets, was formally dedicated, on which occasion the deeds, covering both ground and edifice, were handed over to the congregation by the donor, William W. Smith, the noted philanthropist of Poughkeepsie. Accompanying Mr. Smith were an wife, son and grandson, and many of the girls from his establishment, Market street, which was severely affected by the sincerity of the homage paid him, and particularly by the ovation tendered him at the close of the services, when it became impossible for him to leave the church for some time, so expressive were those in the audience in their desire to thank him individually for what he had done for the colored people. The little church, which is a two-story brick structure surmounted by beffry, was packed to the doors, and many well known business men of Poughkeepsie were present. The dedicatory sermon was delivered by Rev. L. G. Mason, P. E., who selected as his text for occasion, "Upon a strong and forceful sermon reaches the hearts of the people. Following the offertory, when over $100 was collected, the Hon. W. W. Smith, ascending the platform of the church which he was to present to the small, but enthusiastic congregation, in a short though impressive address, congratulated the colored people of Poughkeepsie upon the successful culmination of the years of labor leading up to the present dedication. He said he had followed the rising fortunes of the old church from its very inception, through its many visi-tudes, until the time arrived to erect a new church when, feeling that owed something to the colored people of Poughkeepsie he remarked to the pastor if he would consult with an architect and later make known what he wished done, he (Mr. Smith) would assist the church in the furtherance of their plans. With high compliments to the present pastor for his zeal and personal interest in the church's welfare, Mr. Smith presented the deed of the property, free and clear of all encumbrances, with the hope that the edifice would be used for the advancement of the colored race and the spreading of the Kingdom of God in this world. In concluding his remarks, Mr. Smith said that he would desire the young people take an interest in the church and make it a gathering place and their guide to surer and more noble lives. Responding to this hearty appeal for the interest of the race in furtherance of religious devotion, Rev Benjamin Judd pronounced the donor, William W. Smith, as among the greatest men he had ever met—not alone on account of his bigness of heart and generous spirit of philanthropy, but because of his inherent love of fellowman. He said that he found W. W. Smith pre-eminently a man among men, willing at all times to put aside personal prejudice and meet all men upon an equal footing. Never had he visited the residence of his friend, William Smith, and Rev Judd, when he had been denied an interview, nor had any benefits been solicited from him that were not more generously complied with than the mere request had urged. Never was he tired of helping a worthy cause and sufficiently high tribute could not be voiced in words expressing the appreciation of those benefited by the magnanimous gift just presented to them. Upon the subsidence of applause greeting the completion of these remarks, the Hon. John C. Dancy, formerly recorder of deeds for the government-at Washington, arrose, and on behalf of the colored people present introduced a public resolution of thanks to the donor, which the congregation voiced unanimously by a standing-vote. INCREASE AT WILBERFORCE. Wilberforce, O.—There has been a very large increase of students this year at Wilberforce university. The new dormitory for girls on the college grounds is now in course of erection; another has just been completed for the senior girls on the state side. Those who have last returned from London, where he attended the international Race congress as a delegate, addressed the Y. M. C. A. in their new quarters recently. $10,000 MORE FOR TUSKEGEE. Tuskegee, Ain. — The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute, of which Booker T. Washington is principal, has just received a legacy of $10,000 from the estate of the late Maria Blanchard of Philadelphia. "The man's name was Partridge, of course, and because of that the dog came to a set. Hol! Hol! Come again." "You mistaken," replied the other savely. "The dog didn't come quite to a set, though almost. As a matter of fact, the man's name was Quayle, and the dog hesitated on account of the spelling." — Lippincott's. When a woman gets all wrinkled up in talking about the workers of beauty, she's taking, don't that date you NEW ENGLAND GREETS EDUCATOR ADDRESSES LARGE BODY OF STUDENTS AT HARVARD UNION CLUBHOUSE ON "NEGRO PROGRESS." Boston, Mass.—Dr. Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Institute, has been in and about Boston and New England, bustly engaged delivering a series of thousands a message and bringing to the students a message of optimism regarding the future of the negro in America. The leaders of thought and opinion in this section have been thrilled by the eloquence and saneness of his utterances, and everywhere he has been enthusiastically received. The educator was the guest of honor at a luncheon given at the Twentieth Century club, an organization composed of the most prominent business and professional in the Hub City, and one of the two beds two bevy of entertained President Lowell of Harvard university. Doctor Washington spoke under the auspices of the Heptorian club, the most exclusive women's literary organization in Somerville, Mass., and one of the largest women's clubs in New England. The climax of Doctor Washington's series of triumphal meetings was reached when he addressed the largest student at the Harvard Union clubhouse, in the large living room of the union was packed with students, professors and their friends, and standing room was at a premium. The subject of Doctor Washington's address was "Negro Progress." Taking the figures of the last census, he showed the wonderful progress made by the negro in the last ten years. His talk was full of wit and wisdom, and time and again he was cheered to the echo, and at the conclusion given an ovation such as only college students know how to give. A Harvard professor who was present was heard to say: "Doctor Washington's address was one of the finest I have ever heard anywhere, and I have heard all the great orators of our time. In the matter of holding an audience and arousing their enthusiasm, I consider Doctor Washington the peer if not the superior of any living orator." CONGRESS GOES TO TUSKEGEE SEVENTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE SUNDAY, SCHOOL CONGRESS, JUNE 5-10—BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S INVITATION ACCEPTED BY SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS. Nashville, Tenn.—Dr. Booker T. Washington, Wizard of Tuskegee, will entertain the seventh annual session of the Sunday school congress at Tuskegee Institute, Ala., the first week in June, according to the decision of the officials of that body and members of the board at its last session. The actions of the board are the authority of the Sunday school congress and confirmed by the chairman of the meeting as well as by the members of the boards. While the Congress was in session at Meridian, Miss., last June, Dr. Washington wired an invitation, stating that he desired to entertain the great gathering of Sunday school workers at Tuskegee Institute. Invitations were also received and considered from the chamber of commerce at Washington, D. M.; Chicago, Ill.; Cincinnati, O. St. Louis, Mo.; Atlantic City, N. N.; Chicago, Ill., and Binghamton, N. Y., for the next session of the Sunday school congress. "Our needs along the Sunday school line in keeping the intelligent young people in the Sunday school, as well as attracting those out of the school room to the future church, have long been known," said Henry A. Boyd, secretary of the Congress Movement, "and this movement has proven one of the most helpful in the denomination's history. It has made that because of the popularity of the Movement and the fact that it goes to Tuskegee, it will draw the largest attendance of any Sunday school meeting ever held in the United States. "DANGER A8SURED." An Englishman was recently invited by a New Yorker to accompany him on a hunting trip on Long Island. "Large or small game?" laconically asked the Briton, who had hunted in every quarter of the globe. "You do not expect to find lions and tigers on Long Island, do you?" queried the New Yorker. "Hardly," responded the other, with a laugh: "but I like a spice of danger in my hunting." "If that's the case," answered the American with a grin, "I'm your man, all right. The last time I went out I shot my brother-in-law in the leg!"—London Telegraph. MARKETING FARM PRODUCTS. The establishment of a bureau of markets in the department of agriculture is proposed in a bill introduced by Representative Wickliffe of Louisiana. The purpose of the bureau would be to investigate the marketing of farm products, recommending the fairest and most direct methods by which the market reach the consumer from the products and keeping the public informed through ports of the best methods and the best markets. LOOKS LIKE JOHNSON IS THROUGH WITH PRIZE RING San Francisco, Cal.-When Jack Johnson first talked of retiring many thought it was merely one of the champion's whims, and that he would be back in the game with both feet the first time "proper inducements" were made to him. New corrobitive testimony is forthcoming that Jack is through with the frivolities of the ring and that he is plagued with ennui to the extent that he does not care a continental who succeed to the t'.' He waives all right to a voice in the bestowal of the prize and says he has no suggestions to make as to the bestsellers' best fitted to wear them. This is bad. It means there will be a cloud on the heavyweight championship for years—that the man who assumes the prerogative without liking Johnson, will be regarded as a pretender, a jackal masquerading in a lion's skin. There must be continuity in a thing of this kind. Each succeeding champion is merely a link in a chain of destruction. The newest man—or the latest model, one might say—licked a champion who licked another champion and so link by link, we trace our latest prize ring here back to some dim and distant "champ" just as a race horse traces to the Byerley Turk, or the Darley Arabian. When a broken link appears, there is a blot on the esculcheon of the man whose reputational pedigree we can be if Johnson escapes from the game, unlicensed and some one grabs his title. This line of argument is easily proved sound. John L. Sullivan defeated Paddy Ryan, who defeated Joe Lewis; Jim Corbett defeated Sullivan; Jim Jeffries defeated Jim Corbett; Jim Jeffries defeated Bob Fitzsimons and Jack Johnson didn't do a thing to Jeffries. Just think of the mental suffering of the sporting editors of the future while trying to explain to old subscriber and constant reader that the old line of champions ended with Johnson, and that the new breed is only a kind of a Manchu dynasty. Something must be done to stall of the confusion that threatens the fastie historians of the coming years. We must drag Johnson back at any price—and this "goes both ways," as this slangster says—and have him trounced to the queen's taste. It should be done to keep the record straight, and come to think of it, "will be merely what some call "poetic retribution." The Jeffries that Johnson licked was merely the husk of the Jeffries that used to be, and Johnson has as much right to hearken to the "come back" cry as Jeffries had, especially if he prizes his right. There's another angle to the question which is bound to engender bitterness of spirit. I refer to the racial angle. If Johnson is allowed to rest in peace there will come a time—and then succeeding time—in which the men with the dark pigment beneath the cuticle will say: "The first negro that was given a chance became the champion of the world. They couldn't defeat him, and so as not to block the wheels of progress, he stepped aside and allowed them to arrange a fresh deal. The chain of destruction which began with Figg and Mendoza ended with Jack Johnson." Joeanne Tennesse, through his manager, Dan McKetrick, is the first to lay claim to crown left on the jackstorm. McKetrick says that he has shown himself superior to Sam Langford on various occasions, and that it wasn't so much Australian gold as a desire to evade Jeannette that sent Langford scurrying to the land of the Kangaroo. This is the first shot in the new campaign and Jeannette probably has as much right to fire it as any other man. But how are things to be brought to a focus? With Johnson on the retired list, astute Hugh McNeltnish is sure to bill the impending Sam Lankford-Sam McVea fight as a world's championship struggle, and who is to galsaym him? Maybe the best thing for Jeannette to do is begin weeding out at his end. Let him hook up with Jim Flynn, who seems to be regarded as the best of the heavies, and let the team of that affair journey to Australia or conax the winner of the McVen-Langford bout back to the city. Then he will begin to get a line on the situation. Tom O'Rourke, or some one back in New York, has expressed the opinion that a white man would be champion of the world again before long. It is not easy to see how the conclusion is arrived at. If there is a white man in the lists at present who is capable of defeating Jeanneette, Langford and McVea, he is kept under cover. No, sir! So far as the palefaces are concerned, there is little hope in the outlook right now. And his shadow of Johnson is liable to fall and thwart the prospect and fortune during the next five years. Forries on the occasion of his first retirement, said he would back into the game if a foreigner ever won the championship from America, and Jack Johnson will make up his mind to do his paint again if the supremacy of the black race is threatened. "You say that a hot summer indicates a cold winter" "Yes," replied the amateur weather prophet prophet. "And that a cold winter indicates a hot summer!" "Always." Then all you need to do is to make one prediction and stand pat"—Washington Star. The road to success is as easy as the road to rain—Benjamin Franklin — Ee a pada et ive AGRICULTURAL © LABORERS IN SICILY ING jarmet FROM BOOKER | T, Pancras FORTHCOM. SiWa 800K, *THE MAN ee ARTHEST DOWN.” "© (Used By Permission) jays previoualy discussed the "goo of the agrlouitural Isborer By and Hungary. In the present Pravar 1 sball continue the discus eeiey whe agricultural conditions Pero ‘Burope by telling what | Me of tne conditions of - country Bon fo Sicily. Mr was late In September when | Imari Catania, on the eastern aide MP sicly. The clty les at tho toot Mp. Aotna on the edge of the sex {hore ft looms the vast bulk of the Hfieaso: ite slopes girdled with gar ‘Jor sod vineyards that mount one amco above the other, until they ‘jge themselves tn the clouds, Mfusoush it was Sunday morning ‘oat ihe bells in & Bundred ‘churches “ere calling the people to prayers, Tre was very little of the Sunday “pati had somehow expected tc fee. Most of the shops were open, every part of the clty men were Giiag in thelr doorways or on the farenent in front of thelr little cell: Bis douses, busily at work at thet ‘weutomed trades, Outside the oitern gate of the olty « thrifty ‘perchant had set up a basty wine ‘bop In order to satiety the thirst of Beans ot people who were pase Tag to and out of the ity, and In or er, perhaps, to eacape the tax which fie city !mposes. upon all sorts. of provisions that enter the clty from fie surrounding country, Out of tho southern gate of the iy, which loada {nto the fertile vine cad plain, a dusty and perspiring pro- euloo—litle two-wheeled carts, Yeailflly carved and decorated, car rig great catks of grape juice; iit Me donkeys with a pigskin filled with vise on elther flank and a driver trot- thg slong beside them—pushed and qorded Ite way into the city. At fly samo timo a steady stream of yauiants on foot, or city people in qarlages, mingled with tho carts and a peck-animals, poured out the gate aoog the dusty highway, dividing and fvindling, unt the stream lost tt pul among the cactus hedges that park winding roads, twas at this gate that I observed me day, 0 peasant women haggling vith the cusiom oMeer over the tax a reso pay for the ortilege. of fog her produce to town. She mis barefoot and travelstained and midently came some distance carry: bg ber little stock of frult and vege: wiles in a sack slung across her Hck It seemed, however, that she ad hidden, in the bottom of the mck, a few pounds of muta, covering Mem over with frult and vegetables. jnething in her manner, I, suppose, eirayed her, for the custome offer mised on thrusting bis hand down @ the very bottom of the sack and mooght up trfumphantly, at last, © tle handful of smuggled nuts. 1 mld no. understand what the woman al, but I could not mistake - the leng expression with which she etned the officer to let her and her le produce through, because, aa she seated, showing him her empty cs, se dd not have money to.pay 1¢ deman. Uhed heard and read great deal tout the hardsbips and\\ welties of be taritt in ‘America, but! confess ut the best argument for free trade it T exer met was that offered by M spectacle of this poor woman, ith her Uitte store of fruit and nute, ming to get to: market with her Not ter outside-the elty, the high: Wy runs close beside a cemetery. rom the road one can tee the ele- ant and imposing monuments that Ave been erected to’ mark the final wting places of the wealthy and die- arulshed families of the city The md to this cometery’ passes through Marble archway which Ya closed, a8 Temember, by massive fron gates: landing by this gate, 1 noticed one oY 8 young peasant woman allently teplog. She stood. there for a long me, looking out across the flelds as fhe were waiting for some one who 4 not come, «while the tears reamed down her face, She seemed helpless and hopelons that 1 asked gulde who was with me to go ots the. street and find out what Ms tho matter. I thought there was, haps, something that we could do a ¢ guide, with” the vltenese of hin race, epproacted K woman and asked her ‘what her buble was, She did not. move or ange expreasloD, but, while th ar still streamed down ‘her face, ted to a alr. of high hoeled slip: me Vilch the had taken of and beside het on he. ground, they hurt my feet,” she said, and et the smfled a little for she, too that there wana certain element or tn es ‘situation, ie southern part of the United ates the colored people aid fons maage he nay. A colored women wil buy & or nowt om Saturday tat is often lzes too small. for: ber rants eels but she will watk Ris Stee ter hand and ‘only ‘puts then ee foot a R88 tly pute them on sett iat before sho gota tm alent the church, She alts in misery, ENLIGHTENING THE COURT, Zt oar expat Natice aaked the witness, “Tedge,” be Teplied, ain't you gtt: tin’ Jest "a leetia too" ussonal? Have 1 wot to give my living away’ before this here Ron‘able court?" axo%,Hinrd the question,” said the tke. “and you,niagt anever {tr ‘What 4 yon do for @ living?" ae ‘slr, 7D font make belt : 7OU—aence ‘seems ‘to ne Bein ine arttane heen ce ee ppondinn the city, The corre- | 8P0nding region outside of Palermo Ia given up to orange and lemon groves Dut around Catanta all the large es- tates apparently are devoted to. the culture of the vine, ‘A large vineyard In the autumn and [at the the of the grape harvest pre- ents one of the most Interesting sighta I have ever seen. The erapes, {in thick, tempting clusters, hong 80 heavy on the low vines that it seems they ‘must fall to the ground of thelr own welght Meanwhile, troops of barefooted girls, with deep baskets, rapidly strip the vixes of thelr trult, Diliog the clusters in baskets. | Whet all the baskets are full, they lift them to thelr heads or shoulders and, torm- ing in lime march slowly in ¢ sort of fastal procession tn the direction of the wine press. The pross, which was a large, round, shallow tublike vat, 1 found ‘high up under the roof in the rough wine house. In this vat four or five men, with thelr trousers rolled up ‘above thelr knees and thelr shoes and stockings on, were trotting about in a circle, and, sigging as they went, trampling the grapes under thelr feet. Through: an open epace or door at the back, T caught « glimpse now and then of ‘the procession of girls and men as they mounted the litle stairs at the back of the wine house to pour fresh grapes into the press. Tn the light that came in through this open: Ing, also, the figures of the men trampling the grapes, thelr legs stained with wine, atood out clear and distinct. At the ‘same Ume, | the fames, which arose from the grapes, filled the wine house so that thy alr, {t almost seemed, was-red with thelr odor, It is sald’ that the men who work in the wine press, not intre quently, become Intoxicated trom merely ‘breathing the alr saturated with this fermenting grape fulce As I watched these mon and Instened to the quaint and melancholy little song they sang, while the red wine gushed out from under thelr trampling feet, 1 was reminded of the songs the slaves sang at those times, 1 was reminded of {t the more as I noticed the way in which the leader in the air g dowed his head and prested th temple, fat an T nave fteen it donb before by the one who led the singing at the corn buskings. T'recall that ax s boy, the way this leader or chorlater bowed bis bead ‘and pressed tls hands against bis temples made a deep impression. ‘AN! this was strangely interesting and even thrilling to me, the more 90, pethaps because (t scemeg somehow 8 It T bad. seen or known all. thle somewhere before. Nevertheless atter watching these men, stained with wine and sweat, crushing the grapes under shoed and stocklnged feot, T bad oven lees desire to drink wine than ever before. It :yould not have hoon no bad. perheng, i the men had not worn thelr socks, Ong thing that impressed me in.all that T saw was the secondary and. al most menial part. the women took Jn the work. They worked directly under an overseer who directed. all thelr movemente—dtrected them ap- parently with a sharp switch which he carried in his band. There was no laughter or singing and apparent: ly ttle freedom among the women, who moved slowly, silently with the ‘wetry and monotonous precision in ‘thelr work I have frequently noted in ‘gang labor. They had little if any hare in fhe kind of pleasurable ex ‘cltement which helped to lighten the ‘work of the men Once or twice every yesr, at the time of the grape and olive harvests, the g(rle and women come down from thelr mountain villages a share with the men in the work of the field. For these two brief perlods, as 1 under- stand it, the women of each one of these Nitle country. villages, will be organized into gang, just an (s true of the wandering harvesters In ‘Austria and Hungazy. T had seen, on the. Sunday I-arrived in. Catania, crowds of these women trooping, arm nd arm, through the atreets of the city. A party of them had, in fact, encamped on the pavement in the Ittle open: square at the southern sate of the clty. They were there nearly all day and I euppose al) night, algo. I was Interested to observe the patience with which they" sat\ for hours on the curb or stops, with thelr heads on thelr bundles, walting ntl the negotiations for hiring them were Anished. ‘This brief period of harvest time te almost the only opportunity that the majority of these country women have to got acquainted with the outside world, For the remainder of the year It seems, they are rarely allowed to Yenture beyond the limits of the street or village in which they live. In the: course of my journey across the Island, I had seen, high up in the mountains rome of these inaccessible ttle nests trom whlch, perhaps these sinlivhad come. Ih one or two cases, and especially, at the time I visited the sulphur mines, 1 bad an oppor. tunity.to see something of the Hfe of these mountain villages. Now that T have come to speak of especially the women of the lsboring and agricul tural classes, 1 may an well tell here what T'saw and learned of the way nay live “tn: thal odie, tng, I'm prophesyin’ weatber, an’ when the weather don't fall right I'm elther wkillin’ of alligntors an‘ asellin” of hattlesnake buttons, or attendin’ cam- paign barbecues an’ votin’ around."— Atlanta Constitution. SOME OBSERVATIONS. Every earnest man in every senera- tion has pald the. price of individual. ty You ean't dodge. ear “The greater you are, the greater the Her there ty @ sione hearts upon which: the ccokiag is dono, when there ix anything to cook. An there {sno chimney, the smoke fters out through the tle roofing. { remember well a pleture I saw tn Passing one such house. In front of ‘the house, a woman was standing hold: ing in ber arms a pertectly naked child. Another ehild, with nothing on Dut a shirt, was standing beside her, holding her skirt. Through the open door I could see the whole of the sin- ssle room In which this family. lived. ‘Back of the living room and connected ‘with ft was a stall for the cattle. This wan typical of miny other homes that I saw. ‘A Gorman author, Mr. 8. Wermert, who bas studled conditions ciosely in Sicily and has written a grest book on the. sooial and economical conditions of the people, says, In regard to the way the people live in the little vil- lages: “Im the south, as is well known, peo- ble live for the most part ott of doors. ‘Ono sits in the street before the house door; there the craftsman works at is trade! there the mother of the family carries on her doniestic labors ‘At evening, however, all crowd into the cave, parents and children, the mule or the donkey. The fattening pig which decorated with a collar has been tied during the day in front of the house, where with all the affection of a dog, ft has glided about among the children, must also find a place in the house, ‘The cock and hens betake themselves at sunsot into this same space, in which the air Is thick with amoke, decauso thero fs no chimney. to the house. All breatho this air. One ‘can Imagine what a fearful atmos phere pervades the place. Every né- cessity of physical cleanliness and ‘moral decency 1s. lacking. In the cor- ner ls frequently only one bed, one bunk, upon which the entire family sleeps, and for the most part it con- sists of nothing more than a heap of straw, In the flerce heat of the sum- mer every one naturally sleeps with- out a cover; tn winter every one seeks to protect himself under the covers. Ben when there are separate sleep. ing places, all the most intimate secrets of familly Ife become known to the children at an early age., Brothers and slsters almost always sieep in the same bed. Frequéatly a girl sleeps at the feet ‘of her parents. The degres of stupidity and coarseness of such familly existence is beyond description. ‘There is naturally no such thing as a serlous conception of morality among. & people that for generations bas grown up without education. For that reason, ft frequently happens that the most unspeakable erimes are commit- ted. I! {s,, therefore, frequently dim- cult determine with exactness the parentage of children born in the fam- fy, The saying of the Romans, that “pateroly. fs. slwaye uncertain” holde good here. In fact, It ls quite possible that. this legal conception owes ite Srigin to observations In regard to the condition of the rural population of ‘hat period. It ts, however, probable that in the couiitry districts of Sicily Sonditions have changed very little ‘since Roman times.” From all that 1 can learn;:the Athy promisculty of these crowded houses ‘and dirty streets have made the Sictl- {ao rural villages breeding places of vices and crimes of a kind if which the rural negro populétion in the southern states, for example, probably never heard, Even in those parts of the southern states where he bas been least touched by civilization the negro seems to me to be Incomparably better off In his family life than Is true of the agri- cultural classes in Sletly. ‘The negro {is better off in bis family fe tn the first place, because, even when bis home is litle more than a primitive one-room egbln, he {s at least living im the open country in contact with the pure air and freedom of the woods, and not in the crowded village where the air and the sot! have for centuries been polluted with the accumulated refuse and offscanrings of a crowded end slatternly population. In the matter of bis religious tite, In spite of all that has been sald in the past about the Ignorance and even !m- moralty of certain of the rural negro preachers, | am convinced, from what T learned’ while I was tn Stelly, that the negro has a purer religion and @ better and more earnest class of min- {gters than 1s true of tbe masses of these Sicillan people, particularly tn the country districts, Im this connection, it should not be forgotten also, that the negro is what he is because he has never had’ a chance to learn anything Better. He is going forward. The people of Sicily, who have been Christian almost since the time that the Apostle’ Paul landed in Syracase, have on the other hand, gone backward. All kinds of barbar- ous superstitions ‘have grown up in connection with thelr religious life and have crowded out, to large extent, the better elements. ‘While the condition of negro educa- tion In, the southern states fs by no moans perfect, the negro, aad particu larly: the negro. woman, hes\some nd- vantages whicb ‘are 20 tar. beyond the reach of the peasant girl in Stclly that che ‘bas never treanied of possessing them, For example, every negro girl has the same opportuaities for educa: tlon that are given to negro boys, She saiay anter (ha Lidubtrigviechaarofiohe: penalty of your progress, The Yarther you go, the wider you range, the more you increase the points of con: tact with hich you must reckon, and, therefore, you multiply’ your battles ‘against misconception and slander and envy and) malice, You can't avold or évade your allot. ted destiny—you ean only hold down your sbare of trouble by holding back, In every sphere men gibe and meer—even the peace of’ the ditch. digger te threnteped by the unem- ployed loborer who covets tis job, country villages In Siclty | venture to ‘say not one git! Ina bundred ever Teams so much as to read and write. ‘To: understaid the difference in the position of women In Sicily from that of other parts of Europe, | learned that fone had to gp back to the Greeks and the Saracens, among whom women hela a much lower position and were much less free than among the pres- éat people of Europe. Not only that, Dit T met persons who professed to be able to distinguish among women of Slclly the Greek end the Saracen types. I remember having my atten- tion called at one {ime to e group of women, wotring very black shawls over thelr heads, who seemed more shrinking and lees free tn thelr actions than other women I had seen in Sicily. Twas informed that these women were of the Saracen type and that the habit of wearing these dark shawls over their heads and holding them tight under thelt chins was a custom that had cume from the Arabs. The shawls, T suppose, took the place in a sort of way of the vall worn by orlental women, ‘The Sleilian women, who are looked upon by the men as nferlor creatures and guarded by them as a species of property, live Uke prisoners in thelr own villages. Bound fast on the oné band, by agelong oustom, and, on the other, murrounded by a wall of Ig- norance which shuts out trom them all knowledge of the outer world, they live Ja a sort of mental and moral slavery under the control of their hus- bands and of the Ignorant and pos- aibly viclous village’ priests. For this reason the fourney to Amor- Jon 1s for the women of Sicily a real emantcpation. In fact, I do not know of any more important work that is going on for the emanfepation of wom- fon anywhere than that which is beftx done, directly and indirectly, through the emfgration from Sicily and Italy to the United States. NOTABLE GATHERING j AT TUSKEGEE | THE TUSKEGEE NEGRO CONFER. On Wednesday and Thursday, Jan- uary 17 and 18; 1912, the twenty-first ical scour tp rites Far sean wil atead ae ramos oan Wetntelay, tu ri day, tl be actpia etsais epee or a pees gli coon are aor We nel cries) saree wil be held tn tbe el for ti cos eee ne ater i aahe hee eee eaimergrige tericer ns tt hy el bo take Bre ahem at ne aires eee re reste cad peer soars a and laboring classes from all over the south. ; pul vidhe roe afford a broad ylew of actual condt- tions and. of what the people them. eprom vite noe trun thir aie’ anaes fe one core nea te Sins any oil te ageeled ea xe fet ta yates ee tae ecm necec in aaa oat eeteceanes esety acme ras aaiean feu Ghee ee femeseltsi nc tis werk ta eas cress saa gir ieee Sica ahi mio esr ere eames ie a ae Pe eeu ees eee at oie ee re anes alee Sil bo Sow lay We Bucctrage th Frtctte of Baring: Aces Nemes? Leet eons ee atte paurtne oppress fl free aud bap deuaon See a. “I wish to see the lady of the house." said the tramp at the back door “Iam she," answered the lady “Go on—send-me thé missus.” said the hobo. “Look here. you !mpadent creature! 1am the Indy of this"house dnd Its mistress, You can't stand bere insult- ing me by’ pretending’ you ‘think I'm a hired girl, elther. You get right out of this—" “Softly, madam." interrupted the bum, “you mistake my. mistake You look 0 independent, so bappy. #o auto- cratic) madam, that T thought you ‘were the cook: { hope you will par don me—the error was natural, as vou must confess."—Cleveland Plain ‘Deal- THE PRIVILEGED, CLASS. Rudyard Kipling (6, ap antl-suttrag: Int, and to.a New York woman who re- cently attempted to win bim over to the suffragist cause be wrote tren: antly: as “T don’t see by. women want their rights, If only had thelr privileges!” —New York Tribune. ‘OFF THE LIST. “After aman his invested in one of your getrich-quick schemes do you keep on tending him, lterature for your new enterprises?” “Certainly not,” answered the pro. moter. “What's the use of, wasting portage stamps on a man who Is broke?”—Washington. Btar. UNREASONABLE. He—So your tather thought I want- ‘ed to marry you for your money. did het | She—Yes; and when 1 explained ‘that you didn’t care a snap aboitt money. he sald that you must be a tool, then.—Varlety Life (80 long a8, you aspire, others wil! consplre—ed tong és you try, others ‘will vie. % You'll bave: hostility to face in every ‘place and at every pace. Go straight to your goal, So long Aa your consclence isn't ‘ashamed to ‘acknowledge you as 4 frfend, don't you ive 8 rap for your enemies. .. Some people are floaters, others fare sinkers; without an anchor or » Mfedelt either sinks. THE SALVATION OF THE COLORED MAN 1S IN THE SOUTH Fhlg ia @ point blank statement, a ft can be bucked up by facta, Not Bauch i wards but a the very cn tion ot the eolored peop to remain fo the south thove who are dong well tnd do-tot Fuh tothe north, Coupe Uton ive great inthe nord that Trees out thane tat feally dont ur derstand the underground methods Cant are paltg carted on hove Now withstanding the. great opportunites tnd advantages tht tho colored, Deo ple have in the south, many of the Welltodo onge along’ them pick up bag and baggage and go elsewhere Among theoretic trenda in the nor saat or wort ify per cant ot tbe colored pean. tn the’ wouth. toany have been to some other section of the. county tive. Many’ at thea have sayed in those pats fv tong a8 ne of two yearend ‘tome, even Tanger They" have gone, to. these pacts with capital tod with te iter tion of Inventog their captal andi cating permanently, Some have gone to attond various untveratles tnd colleges nad’ others to seek employ Bont We are fre to go'amay two to dear, but the tact that 98 per Cent. of tone who go way trom ths fouth either to the north, eu ot Mont return; they ‘return with all ‘hey nave and dle and are buried here Tn the clsite ao rigid away. (rom so soutn that colored people cannot tana it? Is cmployreat 90. sease that to, people cantor And anything todo?” Are colored people eo few it ‘hone otter actions Cat the sotthern Colored people cantot ‘tnd ea} assoc Moa? Bo tie whites of. the nord, tant or west drive: tho southern eat red ‘people: away? Then why 0 ‘ene (alk simost” faverably” return home to the souiht There” are #0 Tiany aye’ to necount for tle home fst, but at stant be Hen Dut aside in, that atone the many ret tons tor the return of the colored peonls tot soutland ts tat Inthe communities where they once. ved Chey eam ‘ways oun of geting & hearing and employment tfom tte ‘white people among whom they have lived, "Where there Bave beet ral Cone of a personal nature borwert 6 White man and a colored man a0 the tro know each ciher walle hae bees demonst?ated time and again that that Colored man can get asitance tom that white men when o member of ha ‘own ace Will refuse him. Then, too, ‘colored tan Will go to'a white man before te il to © member ot is ‘awn ace, the exceplonal caren not Srithstanding, ‘Tue’ incvidanl cases that are kagwn pola to thousands ot ther Claes 10 whloh re concetied tn Dorourcontence and: watch Bespeak ine Gaoper measure. "the geneine {rlendahi that exins between the one ‘an aod the otter fn the nouth Witt the preseat form of sentiment well founded inte nouth coward tae Colored tan, ts bite trend cow | serves to the good" of both, trout | ontdoncen well guarded. "Wit al So may na¥ abot the cord rele tone eating betweot” the races ta thet vecions of the conuty tae be thing a true, nowtere else fa this | country are. tho. races required, to Sout euch other any ater ay, tce to ace, the offeee, tomes, anova thd other thoroughfares in aaythteg tke the numbers, de inthe south and thie le'onetmanter in wife the tert tay ev apolied qe the neces ot race feta. There in lees race ristion charleston today tan there sn New on Fis retson’ tor" tev eeeeal trowtois! oman rey caei sooo fenoe of ace troubles te avuth te day. (othe deep. footed trandstip thal th ‘nivel watts man feel toward the individeal colored. an tod. vioe Nore. This fa Vow of tho suation fom « mere glance and witnoutauing up & long tie ot on: dence itt ie that many of os who talk boat tig Gots and tt wah superior Mivantages for te “etlorat poop Wake upto tho truth of thle cuestion he onl salvation ot the colored man today We tn the south Toe tes ie lke thove days of lf Fharean, ‘the Egyptian king, who held’ the Chil- Gren f inmel in tonaage:" The Irae: tton wnted to.go away of talt ows soon, Bat bad wait unt Gods Sopoiied time, They stayed in the ‘iderness‘and worked out thelr own Ttvaton? ence" aeodlondrantp ana oustaah devotion to: God, there trend et all mankind, At nay, wate’ tha can (po tats uae iy better for Alm nthe north, ugh to go there and ay, there. we wil nave; remson to Deleve so ta TineereccA” B"Polte 18 Ohaierten seneeuels : BLAME THEM ON THE PRINTER. A certain edit. had cause to ad- monish bissbn on account of his re- Iuctance to attend school, says the Sacred Heart Review. "You must go regularly and leam to be a great scholar,” sald the fond father encouragingly, “otherwise you can never be an editor, you know. What would you do, for instance, if your paper came out full of mls takes?” ‘The oy looked’ up tato his parcat’s face wita childish thnocencs, “Father,” be sald solemnly. “ra blame ‘etn on the printer!" ‘And then the editor foll upon, his son's neck and’ wept teara ‘ot foy.. He knew tip hada successor for the ed- ttorlal ebabess : |S RAGCARPETO,” Bach sesson these quaint, old-tash- Joned floor coverings stow more popu. lar, They are so\attractive—come. tn such pleasing colorings, and designs that ft {5 email wonder women Ike them. And they are not. expensive elther, and not to be despiaed ‘on ao. count of their wearing qualities: For: summer bedrooms these rag raga and carpetw are espectally pleas. Ing. With white furniture and floors they ate very cod! and Inviting ta- POETRY, i of and by Our People i ‘There ts & land, ef every land the pride, Beloved By Reaven, o'er all the word be: Where. brighter, suns dispense serener ight, And milder. moons imparadise the night: ‘Aland of beauty, virtue, valor, truth, ‘Mme-tutored age, the joverexalted youth, ‘The wandering mariner, whose eye ex: iploree ‘The wealthleat ines, the most enchanting Views not & realm so bountiful and tale, Nor breathes the spirit of a purer alr: In avery ellme the magnet of bis soul, Touched by remembrance, ‘tremblen, to ‘that pole. For In'this land of heaven's pecullar ‘tne Teritage of blest e Heritage of nature's noblest race, ‘There ia a spot on earth supremely Blest, A dearer, sweeter spot thansall the reat, Where man, creation’s tyrant, casts aalde His sword ‘and scepter, pageantry and pride, While tn his sottened looks bentgnly Blend ‘The aire, the son, he husband, brother, oe fled, / Here woman reigaa; the mother, daugh- ter, wite, Strews with freah fowers the narrow way of ite; Jp the clear heaven of her dallshtul aye ‘An angel-guard of loves and gracea tle; ‘Afound har knees domestic duties meet, ‘And freaide pleasures gambol at hor fest. ‘Where shall that land, that apot of earth ‘be, found? Art thou a mant—a patriot?—look around! Of'thou shalt find, Rowe'er thy footateps ‘Phat land thy country, and that spot thy ‘ome Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, In every varying lime, Deems his own land of every land the ‘pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world be- side: Hla home the spot of earth mupremety leat, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. Shames Montgomery. ‘THE GARLAND OF STARS. Some night, I think, if you should walk ‘with me ‘nore she tall treee tke ferns on the sway slowly. in the blue deep of the moon's food, [ would put up my hands through that ‘mpalpable sea And'tear & branch of stars from the aky, aa once I tore Abranch ‘of ‘apple-blossoms for you ~ pte Apr wood. And T would bend the dewy branch of tare above your little head mill they. flamed with pride to be ax ‘blossoms amid your halt: But T would laugh (o see them x0 pale, ‘being near your eyes. [ would say to you: “Love, the Immor- tal Ones ave hovering about your head ‘They laugh at the dimnems of stare ia the luminous “nient of your ‘1 would tous that weeping branch back Yo the mourntul skew. : Eehaemas O'sneet. IN THE FIRE-HOLE. The captain's fine in his cont of blue, The mate ia ble and handsome, too, But of the hundrede in the crew {te the coolles who make her go! Bight hours off and four hours on, Shoveling coal. till the voyage ts done, Stirring. the flame till the raco la. wor Bweat the coollea who make her got Not even a name on the ship's pay: gays Humber to take ita toll, fist small miten inthe human whole Naked coolles who make her go! No hint about what's below, Keeping allve the Mery glow, Driving the engines fast or alow Yellow coolles who make her go! Tymble ‘em: up from the hell in tht hola, See how they shiver out In the cold, Byes like a cat's and faces of gold, These, the coolles who make her go! ‘“Bon'c. Belts, in Harper's Weekly. FOR OVERCOMING GRACE. Tm striving hard ‘gainst inbred sin, buh aston Cet ar are ae have not apprehended yet. ive things eked me form, ie ae, Sta vate ci ee A glenda te asd ope phe earemegears sue things 1 ain etd, 1 06 Pia taste Ger de ns Se eee ew pines PQ ea Ted esas ae tees ng Sees tate pane Bex eee tae wt ats, Been Sen ery Bea ee coe! Ras tote erratey wie 358 at ae ras ae : min. bial WHAT AVAIL8 THE SILENT TEAR? raat vat ita, ere a ina in ek wr iced ed sant sue eee et aa Nought ts gained by plans deterred oa grind Paes treats a eee ae mice A oree Tent apne: ade eel eee ale mat et ta ate eect aioe wesal teeta un tate ‘ee how ‘oa Tita ernest Seavent sree aha actu SS ene fa gee Sedo he ata eines a eta fot la EE, alteay Pea itn a eIOOHS x ‘Above the smothering town ahe sails re ‘mote, ‘80 cooly'#0 fat, wo carelees, so apare, she eary so ery from "ny choking throat ‘he Knows no mad appeal nor ‘breaking heart, Strained, tired oven trom this aim, tor- tured place, We Miye—poor delvers im the citys ‘To sve reflected tn her alivern face Some dreaming garden’ loss wheren ithe shines, <Anina. Allee Chapin, th Heroes © CAVALIER OF THE DESERT With a Good Horse and « Good Vole Life Was Sweat to All of the ‘Cone of Freedom, ‘Ail was @ son of the sheik, and was ‘® handsome young cavalter, although the desert sun had burned him ule most as black as a negro, His costume was that of a regular Turk Ish soldier—a dirty blue coat with tarnished brass buttons, dirtier biue trousers Just short enough’ to show = considerable amount of dirty brown ‘ankle above the dirty yellow slippeis. But, as m freo son of the devert All Tefused to woar the fox of Turkish ‘supremacy, and bound his flowing kaf- uyyeb with the horsehair ring of the Arabs, A long scimitar, {nland with ailver and gold, clattered bravely <saluat the saddio-bags, and a raln~ Dow-hued sash was stuck fall of an- tique platols and short, sharp kaives. There was nothing servile or shod- dy, however, about Sholk All's bear Ing; no false regrets for the boule- vards and ‘buses of an effete civiliza- lon; but a supreme content with Iife as Allah had ordered it. All had two chfef assets: a good horse and a good volce, ‘The former ho rode at a breakneck. ace, with his accoutrements rattling Uke the pans of a runaway peddler. Once in @ while, however, All would graciously walt for the carriage and, after inquiring anxiously concerning Our distinguished healths, would can- ter along with us for a few rods, sing- tng to bimtolt ta pathetic minor ey. ‘They“wore no hackneyed music hall aittles that he sang, for every Arab {s 8 poet and an {mprovisator. A mo- ‘ment of intense, frowning thought, and. then AU! would ralso his head and gurgle out a now distich of Arablo gutturals. Ho sang of the speed of is horse and of the barley in the Khan at Jericho; he sang of the beat tiful weather—it would have been about a hundred in the shade, if thee had been any shade—he sang of the ‘magnificent honorableness of the Eng lezee gentlemen; and especially he praised the Immense oakraheesh which the generous travelers would surely bestow at the end of his jour ney.—Lewis Gaston Leary in Serib- ner’s Magazine. . SP enOe: Mt a: BOSS'S : Deauiments., Not more frequently than once in the span of a man’s life does the court of clatma at Washington contribute anything to add to the gayety of na- tlons, but there is something of the ght ‘of humor stowed away in one of the documents which accompany the court's findings in the matter of the claim of Edward Cruselle, helr-atiaw of Thomas Cruselle, deceased, against Uncle Sam: ‘Mr, Cruselle made a claim for pay- ment for certain supplies furnished to the United States by the testator “for use for the suppression of tt—“ bellion.’” aa the legal docu stated ft. ‘The goods which Mr. Wr. ‘Selle owned and which were selzed by the government aia —evoiM@ntly used by the Union troops as"& means of cruthing their Confederate brethren were “‘sixty-seven boxes of fine chew: Ing tobacco.” The specific brands of ammunition were - “Early Dew,” “Chole Gem” and “Peach Leat.” ‘The members of the court rather odged the tobacco issue, They aim- ply found that Mr. Cruselle was loyal to the United States and that the “Barly Dew,” “Peach Leaf" and the Fest were selzed under General Sher ‘man's famous “forage liberally on the country” order. Manufactured: ta: United’ Otetne: A preliminary summary of the man- uufacturing Industries In continental ‘United States for the year 1909, just Jssued by the United States Census Bureau, shows increases.in all the items at thie taking of the 13th census ‘as compared with those of 1906, ‘There were 268,491 “establish: ‘ments"—the word meaning one or ‘more plants controlled or operated by one person or corporation—an in- ‘crease of 62,311 or 24 per cont, ‘The capital employed was $18,428, 270,000, a gain of 45 per cent.; value of products $20,672,052,000, an in- crease of 40 per cent; the cost of ‘materials $12,141,291,000, a gain of 43 per cent.; the value added by man- ufacture $8,530,761, a gain of 36 per cent.; salaries and wages, $4,365,613,- (000, and increase of 34 per cent.; num- ber of salaried officers and clerks 700,267, a gain of 62 per cent.; the ‘umber of wage-earers 6,615,046, an Imerease of 21 per cont. Miscellane- ous expenses amounted to $1,945,676, or 34 per cent. more than in 1904, Malia’ Bane le ee enn ot COOperaeon HAS Deen: formed by two boys in Mercer thet is proving profitable to the bays, ae wall fs a great pleasure. They each own 4 pate of steers. Barton Walton, the 1syear-ld son of J. B. Walton, has a yoke thet {sa year old. About the ‘time that Burton got his steers work- ea to the yoke Emest Holmes, the young son of Herbert Holmes,’ was Deginning to break his yoke of tix: monthe-old ‘steers. Ernest a quite young and the steors are somewhat unruly. Burton and Ernest got thelr heads ‘together one day and. they MMtehed Ernest's steers on ahead of the Biggor pair and thus were ablo to keep the unruly pair subdued. They now bitch thelr steers to a wagon and have become very useful with, them, ‘They drive into the village and can haul quite a load, “This ‘winter they plan to break the roade and to haul ood with them—Kennebec Journal, peg es ‘ ‘Smallest Nation, The smallest nation’ tn the! world 1 San Marino, a republic in central Italy. Its origin 1@ ascribed to St. Ma rinus, @ hermit, whovis sald to have resided there in the fifth century. Ite independence was lost for a short time to Cassar Borgia, about 1608, but was confirmed in 1817. A convention with Italy, March 27, 1873, secured its per. manent. een. eae Jae bee a Population of 8,000 or 10,000, and an Area of $3 square miles. The little re- public ia governed by a “great coun- cil” of 60 members, 20 members each, from the nobles, burgesses and rural land owners. The principal Industrie are farming and stock raising, — Mrs. A. W. Rhodes left for Enterprise, Saturday after a three weeks visit with her daughter, Mrs. Mary Miles. Louis Garland, Earl Watson, Lucy Rhodes and Thelma Sheldon all of whom are attending school at Western College, Macon, Mo., are some for Christmas. Tabernacle Baptist church held their Christmas exercises and tree Saturday night. Mrs. Anna Humbles will go to Des Moines to spend New Years with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Carey. L. C. Curry, an old time Buxtonians, who left here about a year ago, returned to spend the holidays with friends, bringing with him a handsome bride. L. C. is a jolly fellow and his many friends were glad to welcome him and his new bride. C. A. Jones, D. D., of McKinney, Ky., is in the city in interest of the McKinney-Polytechnic Institute, a normal and industrial school for Negroes. He will lecture before leaving Buxton, on the work they are trying to accomplish. While here he is the guest of Miss Elmer Eubanks. Mrs. H. M. Hutchinson, Boxton's only female pharmacist, left last Saturday for Peoria and Decatur, Illinois, where she will visit her husband's relatives and on her return will visit her relatives in Chicago. Miss Lelia Downey left Monday for Ottumwa, where she will visit her mother, sister, and other relatives and friends for Christmas. Miss Beatrice, her sister, will probably return with her to spend New Year's in Buxton. Miss Gertrude Lucas, one of Buxton's teachers spent Christmas at her home in Bedford, Ia. Miss Georgia Blackburn, principal of No. 2 school, spent Xmas with her relatives. Prof Hermes Zimmerman who was in our city for about two weeks selling the Encyclopedia of the Bible left Saturday for his home in Quincy, Ills., to spend Christmas. Miss Jennie and Alka Steele are home for Christmas from Des Moines, visiting mother and other relatives. Mrs. Elvira Newsome left Saturday for Chillocothe, Mo., to visit at the home of Rev. Jones. Geo. Lee left on the same train for the same city to visit his wife who has been there several months with her parents. Misses Laura Jackson and Viola Tarner, Buxton girls, but who are now sojourning in Omaha, are spending Xmas surely agrees with Miss Laura as she is much stouter than when she left. Mannie McDowell is taking Xmas with relatives and friends in Buxton. He is a Buxton lad also. Miss Sarah A. Porter of Kansas City, one of the teachers in the public schools there, is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Carter during the Xmas holidays. It will be remembered by some, that Miss Porter was a teacher in old Muchikincko before the army moved to Buxton and many of the Muchikinchians were glad to see her. The Church Organ club of St. John's church served dinner in the Y. M. C. A. building last Saturday a neat sum being realized. Mr. L. W. Tacker received a double-barrelled shot-gun for Christmas. All ye rabbits, squirrels, wolves and other large game beware. Mrs. Sarah Johnson who has been visiting in portions of Missouri for several months, returned Saturday to remain awhile with her children, Mesdames Devoort and Walker and Miss Bea. Mr. Morris and Miss Georgiaanna Deleet entertained at Christmas dinner Miss Mabel Cheatham, W. A. and Mrs. Brown. There will be baptizing at Mt. Zion Baptist church next Sunday morning, Dec. 31. Mr. Louis Garland being the candidate. The splendid Xmas exercise by the children under the management of Mrs. W. A. Brown was held at Mt. Zion Baptist church. Monday evening. Miss Murda Beason spent Christmas at her home in Clinton with parents. DUBUQUE NOTES The Misses Henrietta and Ella May Hatcher of Nachus, Ill., are visiting their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McGregor. Mr. and Mrs James Martin entertained at dinner Sunday, Rev. Lowery and mother. Watch night services will be held at the church next Sunday, beginning at 10:30 p. m. A social hour will be enjoyed from 8 to 10:30, light refresh- FORD'S HAIR POMADE MAKES WIGGLE, KNOW OR CLEAR HAIR CLOOSY, SAFETY AND MORE PLAIN, THE LENGTH HAIL POMADE RECREATED FOR PREVENTION AWAY FROM FALLING OUT, BURNS AND MORNING OF SCALE RELEASE OF INSTITUTIONS, GET THE BURNS, UP IN EAR AND 50-INCHES WITH CHARLES FORD'S HAIR POMADE ENJOY PACKAGE THUR FYR'S RITUAL WHILE SKIN LOTION FOR THE COMPLEXION OF SKIN BROKEN UP UPON APPLICATION, WILL NOT IMMITATE THE MOST DELICATE SKIN, UNDECEILLED FOR ECZEMA, SALT RHEUM, PIMPLES, ROUGH SKIN AND FRECKLES. • • SOLD BY DRUGSTORE. IF YOUR DRUGSTORE CANNOT SAVE YOUR SKIN, PLEASE MAKE A SALE. SAVE SKIN SKIN THE GERIZED ON MARROW CO. BEST SALE ST. DET. 27 CHICAGO, IL ments being served free by the Stewartard board from 9 to 10. FOR THAT DULL FEELING AFTER 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 bowels. They are far superior to pills but cost no more. Get a free sample at all drug store and see what a splendid medicine it DAVENPORT NOTES. The annual Christmas breakfast given by Mrs. Chas. Caine at her residence on Harrison street, was as usual a grand feast. Mrs. Cain has been giving these feasts for the past twenty years, and each year adds something that makes the occasion more beautiful. This year seemed to be the year of climax, as everything that heart and appetite could desire, in the way of good things to eat were at hand. Indeed it was like eating at the Kings table. The Xmas tree at the Third Baptist church Saturday evening was quite well attended. The program was well redered. The A. M. E. school gave a fine Christmas programme Monday evening. All the classes acquitted themselves well. After the program the school and its friends were treated to a banquet in the dining hall. Mrs. Sarah Bean, who is teaching school in Missouri is home for holidays. Mrs. Mary Bland of Keoknin, Iowa, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. R B Bright. Mrs. A. D. Sumilin, who holds a position on McDaniels training school in Chicago is home for few days. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harrison entertained Mrs. C H. Marshall, Mrs. Sarah Bean for Christmas dinner, Monday. Mrs. D. S. Holmes returned from Burlington, 25th inst, where she was called to the bed-side of a very sick uncle. Mrs. Elizabeth Archie is quite sick at her home on South Main St. Mr. E. S. Housekins remains unable to go out on his run. The E. L. D. club entertained all the rest of the city clubs Tuesday afternoon from 3 to 5 o'clock p. m. at the at the residence of Mrs. D. S Johnson at 636 Laurel street. The feature of the evening was a guessing content. First prize was awarded to Mrs. Daisy Merchant. The Booby prize will be decided later, as is a tie between Mrs. J. Christiana and Mrs. Ida Cunningham. Mr. and Mrs James A. Bailey are rejoicing over the arrival of a fine boy. Mother and son are doing well. Mrs. L. F. Phillips filled the pulpit at Bethel A.M. E. church Sunday evening. Subject: There was no room in the Inn. Matt 2-7. Mr. Percy Garnett of Detroit, Mich. is visiting his sister, Mrs. L. F. Phillips- FOR ECZEMA, TETTER AND SALT BREUM. The intense itching characteristi- of these alliments is almost instantly Many severe cases have been cured by it. For sale by all dealers. Salve allayed by Chamberlain's Salve. COLEALE COLFAX Mesdames Jeff Lucas and Oscar Miller spent Xmas with capital city friends. Mrs. W. H. Battels, of Enterprise, spent Xmas in our city, the guest of Rev. and Mrs. James Bowles. Mrs. Norris Bryant was called to Enterprise last week by the illness of her sister, Mrs. W. H. Jackson-Steward returned Saturday. Mrs. Lorea Hitteman, is a guest of her uncle, Rev. Bowles. Mr. and Mrs. Denning, of Carny, were guests of the ladies' mother, Mrs. Lar. Morris, during the holidays. Miss Hattle McKeen entertained a number of friends at 6:30 dinner Xmas day. Little Essie, of Buxton spent Xmas with her mother in this city, and they spent a few days in Ora Labor. Mr. Elijah Mille was a guest of his mother's day. Miss Myma Smith, of Evans, is a guest in the Frank Brown home this week. Mrs. R. D. Stockard is on the slick Mr. Frank Madison, of Des Moines, is a guest of his brother Jake this week. Mrs. Harris, of Des Moines, spent Xmas visiting her grand children, Mabel and Milton Welch. Mrs. Toney, of Enterprise, has returned to her home in Enterprise after a delightful visit with Cofax friends. Owen Redman, of Iowa College at Grinnell, is a guest of his many friends and relatives during the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Holmes and babies, of Des Moines, were holiday visitors in their parental homes. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Robinson spent Xmas in Des Moines. Mr. D. J. Johnson, of Des Moines, was a guest Xmas day with his host of CoFax friends. Mr. G. O. Terrell made a business trip to Enterprise last week in the interest of the G. W. O. of O. F. Mrs. J. T. Johnson and Numa, of Burlington, spent a visit in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lou Morris. Her son Earl accompanied her. Mr. Mack Banks was a capital city visitor several days last week. The W. F. and H. Mission circle will meet Thursday with Mrs. Jeff Jones & Lucas FUNERAL DIRECTORS The very best service guaranteed. Prices the lowest - - - - - - Calla answered promptly day or night. No extra charges for distance—Reverse all phone charges. Phone Maple 2548. Office 919 East Court Des Moines Ia Only A Few More Days of this Big Bankrupt Sale Prices down almost to nothing while this sale lasts on high grade Clothing, Gent's Furnishings, and Shoes. The Plymouth Clothing Co., of 419 Walnut, and the Economy Clothing and Shoe Co., of 403 Walnut, are now in the hands of The New York Brokerage Co. which must be and will be disposed in a hurry to realize cash. Crowds are getting to be bigger and bigger in both stores. People are finding out the great values they are getting during this Bankrupt Sale. People are finding out the great values they are getting selling at high prices. No more high prices on high grade clothing in the city of Des Molnes while this Double Bankrupt Sale lasts. If you haven't attended, be sure to hurry. Delays are dangerous; as it means dollars to you. See a few prices quoted below which means only about one per cent of our bargains which will be found in our store. A big lot of Men's Suits, while they last at _____ $2.95 $3.95 Values from 10.00 to 12.50. The lot which goes at _____ $5.95 They are worth more than double the money. Fine Business Suits, Bankrupt Sale Price _____ $7.95 Not one in the lot worth less than 15.00. Your choice of our 20.00 Hand Tailored Suits, only _____ $8.95 All the high grade Suits, values up to 60.00 go for one-half and less their actual value. Trouser are almost given away Hats Fine Business Suits, Bankrupt Sale Price ..... 7.95 Not one in the lot worth less than 15.00. Your choice of our 20.00 Hand Tailored Suits, only ..... 9.55 All the high grade Suits, values up to 60.00 go for one-half and less their actual value. Trousers are almost given away Hats Are the very latest and the prices are wonderfully low to anyone knowing values. Remember the Plymouth Banc The N Remember the place the Plymouth Bankrupt Sale The New M. L. 403 a Remember the place. Dont be misled. At 419 Walnut, where the Plymouth Bankrupt Sale and the Economy Clothing and Shoe Co. now in the hands of The New York Brokerage Co. M. L. 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DES MOINES IOWA) Overcoats, Fur Lined Coats, Plush Lined Coats Must be disposed of regardless of what they bring. The Finest Fur Lined Coats, valued up to for less than one-half their actual values. Trunks & Suit Cases Almost your own price. A Messers Timothy and Barker, students of Iowa State university, were guests of Mrs. W. B. Battle, who is an aunt of the former. The hostess entertained a number of young people as a courtesy to her guests Xmas day. A delightful time is reported. The Benevolent club will meet with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Holmes Friday evening. The club is preparing to give an old folks' concert Jan. 6th. Rev. and W. H. Clark were host and hostess to a number of friends at a four-course breakfast Xmas day. Covers were laid for six and a very pleasant time was had. One of the most elaborate social functions during the holidays was the dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Terrell at their home on Fern Hill Sunday, the guests numbering twenty-five, being received by Mrs. Ben Crank. The house was artistically decorated in holiday colors. An elegant five-course dinner was served. The hostess was assisted in serving by her daughter, Miss Ethel, and Miss Gertrude Broadus and Edna Jackson. The guests departed at a late hour. When your feet are wet and cold, and your body chilled through and through from exposure, take a big dose of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, bathe your feet in hot water before going to bed, and you are almost certain to ward off a severe cold. For sale by all drugstores. OTTUMWA NEWS. Mrs. Bell, of Chicago, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Horne, on Fellows street. Mrs. E. E. Horne, of Cedar Rapids, is visiting at the parental Horne home on Center avenue. Mrs. Henrietta Horne and family had a reunion Xmas at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna Rose, who resides on Fellows street. Mrs. James Johnson, of South Otumwa, is on this week's sick list. Mrs. Cecil Osborn of Chicago, is spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wells Fowler, on Plum street. Miss Lella Downey, of Buzton, is spending Xmas with her sister, Miss Bridice Downey, and her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of Canada, spent a week with Mrs. Brown's sister, Mrs. John Cheshire, on mechanic street. The Faithful Few met with Mrs. Scott Bibb on Fellow street Thursday evening. A good program was rendered and they adjourned to meet with Mrs. Frank Clark, West Division street. Misses Edith Williams and Hazel Clark spent Sunday afternoon in Fairfield, Ia., the guests of Miss Williams' aunt, Mrs. Wm. Smith. Miss Bleuford Robinson, Grant street, is visiting relatives in Fairfield this week. Mr. Lea Anderson, West 2nd street, is spending the week in Chilcote, Mo. Mss Maude Buckner, West 4th street, is spending the holidays with her parents in Keosauqua. Mss Frank lark, West Division street, entertained at dinner Sunday. coworked for twelve. Mrs. Sunday school pupils rendered a splice program Monday evening, and after the program was over, two Xmas trees were filled were awaiting the crowd in the lecture room. Refreshments were served and a neat sum was realized. Mr. John Henderson of Bloomfield was a Xmas guest in Otumwau. The Trustees Aid will give a social in the lecture room of the A M E Heavy fleeced Underwear for Men ..... 33c Values up to 75c. Ribbed fleeced Underwear ..... 33c Worth double the money. Extra heavy Men's Work Shirts or Black Satseens ..... 33c Heavy Denam Overalls ..... 33c Fine Sunday Dress Shirts ..... 33c Fancy fleeced Underwear ..... 33c Men's Sweater Coats ..... 33c One big lot of 75c Caps ..... 33c Rockford Sox ..... 03c Extra heavy Rockford Sox ..... 06c 15c fancy Sox ..... 07c 20c grade Sox ..... 11c 35c Grade Sox ..... 19c Wool Hose ..... 09c The 25c grade Hose ..... 13c And everything in our store goes accord- ingly at the same sacrificed prices. At 419 Walnut, where I Shoe Co. now in the hands of Merage Co. 'g'r, Street BOSTON MAP Greatest Variety in the Choice Meats, Fish and Delicacies. We Strive to Please with CITY OF NEW YORK When we deal began our wonderful work of growing all kinds, all qualities all lengths, and all conditions of hair, even to the growing of hair on bald places of the head, many persons scorned the idea that such a thing was possible but we have grown the hair for hundred rapidly achieving success. The proof of the value of our work is that we are being imitated and largely by persons whose own hair we have actually grown and the further fact that they have very frequently mentioned on when trying to sell their goods (saying that theirs in the same or "just as good") or referred to PORO. We advise you to use only PORO Hair Grower, (the oldest and best of its kind.) See that the name PORO is on every ban, not genuine without it. Prepared only by Man A. M. PUPE. Furnishings church Thursday evening, December 28th. there will be a play given at the Second Baptist church Thursday night. The B. Society of Oskaloosa are expected to arrive in the city next week, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Owens, Mill street. "I had been troubled with constipation for two years and tried all of the best physicians in Bristol, Tenn. I was very ill, and I wrote Thos E. Williams, Middleboro, Ky. "Two packages of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets cured me." For sale by all dealers. NEWTON, IOWA. Special to BRAIDER The members of St. Paul's A. M. E. church were pleased to have with them Sunday their pastor, Rev. M. G. Newman, of Osakaloa, who delivered two sermons during the day, and made a few helpful and encouraging remarks to the Sunday school. He remained in our city until Tuesday morning, having taken part in sweeny to go to interment Christmas program given to the members of St. Paul's A. M. E. Sunday school Monday evening. There was a tree, good old Santa Claus (who had something for every Official paper of the M. W. U. Grand Lodge of Iowa, A. F. & A. M., and International Grand Congress of Herolines of Joricho of America, and Western Baptist Association. Published every Friday by the Bystander Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa. Office in Chemical building, corner Seventh and Mulberry streets. Iowa phone, Waukut 899. JOHN L. THOMPSON, EDITOR. J. H. SHPARD, MANAGER. Entered at the postoffice as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year ..... $1.50 Six months ..... 78 Twelve months ..... 88 All subscriptions payable in advance. Send money by postoffice order, money order, express or draft, to the Iowa State Bystander Company Des Moines, Iowa. We are prepared to do first-class job work at reasonable prices. All of our work is guaranteed. WE SEND SWITCHES and COIFFURES All over the United States, Prepaid ON APPROVAL (Examination Free.) HIGH CLASS HAIR GOODS MODERATE PRICES ```markdown ``` Send sample of hair with a few particulars; we will make an artistic selection and guarantee satisfaction. We send the hair to you prepaid on approval. If you find it perfectly satisfactory and a bargain remit the price. If not return at our expense. We offer a 22 inch switch, like cut, of natural wavy human hair to match any ordinary shade..... $1.98 The quicker a cold is gotten rid of the less danger from pneumonia and other serious diseases. Mr. B. W. L. Hall, of Waverly, Va., says, "I firmly believe Chamberlains' Cough Remedy to be absolutely the best preparation on the market for colds. I have recommended it to my friends and they all agree with me." For sale by all dealers. one), and the usual treat of candy, etc. We must not forget to mention that at first it was thought our pastor's wife would not be with us, but the careful planning of Mrs. H. Miller, one of the teachers of the Sunday school, it was finally arranged and she was telephoned to, so that she also was with us. Newman was the recipient of a pair of shoes given by the young men of the Sunday school, while Mrs. Newman seemed delighted with her gift, which was given in the form of money. There was something for the daughter also. Both showed their appreciation by words of thankfulness to the Sunday school. When you have a cold get a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It will soon fix you up all right and will monia. This remedy contains no opium or other narcotic and may be given as confidently to a baby as to an adult. Sold by all druggists. FOR SALE. A dandy 8 room house, modern except heat; barn, shade and fruit, $2500.00. $500 cash, balance monthly payments. Mathis Realty Company 300 Capital City Bank Bldg Phone 300 Maple Bldg MARKET Co. in the City of Fish, Poultry e with the Best of Service E 765 Des Moines, Iowa. THE ORIGINAL HEIR GROWER We Grew Our Hair Now Let Us Grow Yours with PORO TRADE MARK REGISTERED work of growing all kinds, all qualities, er, even to the growing of hair on hold and the idea that such a thing was good and rapidly achieving success. The that we are being imitated and largely by grown and the further fact that they trying to sell their goods (paying that referred to PORO) We advice you to best and best of its kind.) See that the e without it. Prepared only by Mr im limitations.