Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XVIII, No. 35 CITY NEWS Mrs. McCoy of Keokuk, Iowa, was a visitor in our city this week. Mrs. Emma Harris is improving very slowly from her paraletic stroke. Remember the Bystander's great prize contest begins Monday. Are you ready to do your part? Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Hicks gave a very nice dinner last Sunday complimentary to Mr. and Mrs. H. Kilbert. Mrs. Matilda Hughes is very sick at her home the past week. Her friends are much alarmed at her condition. Mrs. James H. Woods and sister, Miss Cecil Harris, will leave Saturday for a short visit to their old home in Keokuk. Mrs. A. Fulton of So 9th and Section avenue, has been suffering the past week with neuralgia but is sooner better at this writing. The Rose Temple, Daughters of Elks will hold a bazaar Feb. 22nd, 28rd and 24th at their hall on 6th and Walnut streets. All are invited. Mrs. W H. Birnley, who met with the misfortune of falling on the ice last week and sprained her limb is improving as fast as can be expected. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Hicks 1341 Buchanan St., gave a dinner last Thursday evening in honor of Rev. S. Bates and wife; also Mrs. McCoy of Keokun, Iowa. A delightful time was reported. Rev. J. E. Roberts of Sioux City and family have moved toour city to make their future home He is formally from Kansas City, Mo. He is doing evangelistic work among the people of all denominations. They are stopping at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Jones on W. 14th St. Place. He is an old veteran of the civil war and an earnest christian worker, full of zeal. He preached last Sunday at Colfax, Iowa. We welcome him to our city. Mr Geo. H. Woodson of Buxton, Isspent Wednesday in our city on business, also to attend the Negro Bar Association's annual meeting. His friends in Monroe county are going to present his name as a candidate for the legislature at the coming primary. We will soon make his full announcement. George is one of the best qualified men in Monroe county for that office. Mr. Frank J. Weaver, a successful business man of Kansas City, Mo., who is a real estate and employment agent and also owns the Hotel Dunbar and Weaver Hotel, was in our city a few days this week on business. He stopped with Mrs. Wm. Coalson. Mr. Weaver is of the leading race man in Kansas City and is a success financially. He made the Bystander office and the Canadian Employment office pleasant calls, as he was personally acquainted with Chas. Cousin and J. L. Thompson. The Mission Circle of the Corinthian Baptist church is meeting this afternoon with Mrs. B. Rush. The circle is preparing to present the "Slabtown Convention" in the near future. This promises to be a very novel entertainment. The meetings are open to all who are interested in Missions. Rev. and Mrs. T. L. Griffith were hostesses to the circle last Friday afternoon. At the meeting of the Intellectual Improvement club held at the residence of the president, Mrs. S. Joe Brown, an interesting paper was read by Mrs. Harvey Brown on the Life and Work of Francis E. W. Harper, the Negro poetess, and a pleasing address was delivered by Mrs. P. S. Ervin who was a visitor at the meeting. The committee who recently visited Mrs. J. W. Holmes, one of the members who is ill at her home in Colaf, reported her condition quite critical and a special prayer was offered for her speedy recovery. The meeting this afternoon will be devoted to the observance of the anniversaryes of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, and will be held with Mrs. O. L. Glass on W. 10th and Chestnut Sts. WONDERFUL RESULTS ON SHORT NOTICE I have used your Pomade. It is the best thing I ever used for making curly hair lie smooth. I have not finished my first bottle, but can see wonderful results, writes Mrs. Louise E. Hayes of Pineville, S. C. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for harsh stubborn and unruly hair and Ford's White Skin Lotion for the combo. Ask your drugstret for them, and get the genuine (Ford's) manufactured by the Ozonizer® Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Henry Lewis of Buxton returned home last week after a fortnight's visit with Mrs. John Drew in Lake Park. The Midland Jubilee Singers will give a concert at the A. M. E. church next Tuesday evening, Feb. 19th. Admission 25c. All are invited to come out. There will be services next Sunday morning at the Union Congregational church. Preaching by Rev. J. E. Roberts, evangelist. Subject: Good Confession, Matt 15.13. All are Invited. Mrs Henry Lewis of Buxton and Mrs. John Drew of Lake Park was entertained last Saturday at 6 o'clock dinner by Mr. and Mrs. Adam Dixon on Day street. The J. U. B. O. W Club will give an evening with Fredrick Douglass at Union Congregational church, Monday, Feb. 19th, for the benefit of the Sunday school. The address of the evening by Atty. S. Joe Brown, A. M. L. L. D. Mrs. Anna Dangerfield and daughter Miss Alberta, a graduate from the high school of Kansas City, Kansas, visited our city last week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Eva Jones 668 19th street. Mrs. Jones also gave a beautiful dinner party in their honor last Monday. The Corinthian Aid Society met last week at the residence of Mrs. Hilton, the president, who has returned from her extended visit in the East. She reports an excellent time and we are glad to have her back in our midst. On the 13th of February the Aid will give a 6 o'clock dinner at the church. Adjourned to meet with Mrs. Griffith next Friday. One of the most interesting and hospitable meetings of the Mother's Congress was held Saturday afternoon in the Y. M. C. A. parlors. Regardless of the extremely cold weather, a large crowd was out to hear the addresses on "Sanitation in the Home," and "The Problem of Our Girls" by Dr. A. J Booker and Atty. J. B. Rush, respectively. There will be Memorial services next Monday evening at the Union Congregational church in honor of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, at 6 o'clock. The ladies will serve a supper in the parlor and at 8 o'clock the following program will be rendered: Song, "America," invocation, Rev. Henry McCraven; Song, "Marching Through Georgia." Ten minute addresses, Rev. U. B. Taylor; reading of Lincoln's proclamation by L. W. Wilhote; singing; address W. H Stiles, Adjunct of Crocker Post, Of What was the Union Army Composed Of? Ten minute address, Rev. T. L. Griffith; Ten minute address by Rev J. E. Roberts, an old soldier, Music by L. J. Shelton and J. H. McDowell, orchestra; original poem by Clifford Williams. Old soldiers are especially invited. Corinthian Baptist Church Announcement 10:30 a. m. Sermon by pastor, subject, "The Spirit in the Wheels." 12:00 m. Sunday School. 6:30 p. m. B. Y. P. U. 7:30 p. m. Sermon by Rev. W. Crane, representing Chinese Mission work in New York city. T. L Griffith, T. pastor. V. C. M. C. A. NOTES. One of the best addresses of the season was that of County Treasurer Dobson before the popular meeting last Sunday afternoon. He spoke of the need of Missionary work in China and Africa. On next Sunday Dr. E. A. Lee our popular dentist will speak on the "Gospel of Good Faith." All men and boys invited. Good music. A Batchelor Party. Mr. Jefferson Logan, one of our best known citizens of East Des Moines, gave a party last Tuesday evening to a few of his colored friends and associates Mr. Logan is one of the colored settlers in this city and he and his oldest son, George, keep back in their well kept little home on East Lyon St. Those fortunate enough to be present enjoyed themselves nicely and all declared Jeff and son good entertainers. Birthday Party. Little Emola Vera Thompson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Thompson gave a birthday party last Friday, Feb. 2, in honor of her ninth birthday. Sixteen of the little girls complied to the invitations and was present from four to six o'clock and oh! what a delightful bunch of little girls. For those two hours school songs and plays were their amusements. Refreshments were served and all left their joy reluctantly after leaving a nice little birthday present to little Miss Emola, who will never forget this birthday. NEGEO BAR ASSOCIATION. The Iowa Negro Bar Association, composed of the Negro lawyers of the state, hold its tenth annual annual banquet Wednesday evening at the residence of Attorney J. B. Ruald, "No of this city. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1912. M. F. J. Weaver, real estate dealer of Kansas City, Mo., were out of town visitors with several home people guests. After an elegant three course lunch as served by Mrs. W. H. Humburd, sesquicameral P. S. Joe Brown introduced and addresses were made by Attorney Rush on "Reminiscences of Harvard Law School," by Attorney Woodson on "Race Legislation in Iowa," by Mr. Weaver on "Negro Property Taxes in City of Chicago," by Griffith "The Law and the Gospel," by Dr. Booker on "A Physician's View of the Lawer," and by Mrs. S. Joe Brown on "The Lawyer's Wife." Mrs. J. B. Rush, president of the Iowa Federation of Ocidental Women's Club, Griffith unanimously adopted a resolution of which the following is a part: Resolution on the Candidacy of Atty. Woodson. Whereas, the candidacy for membership in the Iowa State Legislative Assembly, of Attorney Geo. H. Woodson, president of the Iowa state, and president of this association has been brought to our notice; and, while this association is in no sense a political organization; yet, because of the fact that the 15,000 Negro citizens of Iowa are not now and never have been represented in the state, and because of their own race; and, because of the very efficient service he has rendered to the state in general and to our race in particular through out the state during his more than fifteen years, that we, the members of the Iowa State Convention and the fourth convention assembled, do hereby give to the Hon. George H. Woodson our most hearty endorsement as a candidate for membership in the Thirty-fourth General Assembly of the State of Iowa and do hereby commend him to the voters of Iowa, who seek to represent as being a man who is both capable and reliable as a representative of all classes of citizens of said county and of the state at large. After which the following were chosen officers for the ensuing year: B. B. Hughes. Chairman Legislative Committee, S. Joe Brown. Our Prizes Offered. The prizes that we are offering have never before been offered by a colored newspaper. It is open to ALL to enter, any prize is worth your effort, and if per chance you should win any of them you would and should feel proud. Everybody should subscribe for the Bystander, for it is good, newy and reliable. You need not be afraid to ask your white friends to subscribe; they will ask you to subcribe for their paper. Then if you only secure us a club of 12 subscribers or more you get a cash premium of $5.00. The Savoy Cafe First Class Restaurant. Meals and Lunches served at all hours Home cooking. You are invited to give us a call. 27th Annual February Sale Naturally the selections are better now than they, will be later on. So, if you contemplate the purchase of anything for the home, do not delay, but visit our store during the next few days. We have just received a message of the death of Mr. Frank Anderson of Baton Rogue, La., who died Saturday morning, Jan. 27. Mr. Anderson was one of the most prominent and influential citizens of Louisiana. He was 75 years, 5 months and 26 days old. A high Mason, having had nearly all the offices in the gift of the fraternity in the state. He was buried with full Masonic rites and ancient ceremonies. It will be remembered by many of our Des Moines people that he was here once to visit his nice, Mrs Lizzie Palmer and was entertained by North Star Lodge at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Gould. OLARINDA ITEMS Sunday, Feb. 12th will be Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church, Rev. S. B. Moore, Presiding Eldar, will be present and conduct the services 'trot the day. A special program will be rendered by the Christian Endeavor League in the evening. Mrs. Emma Johnson and daughter Miss Mable of Gravity attended the funeral of Thomas Jones of this city Saturday. Mr. Thomas Gordon Jones, Sr., who had been ill for the past two weeks, departed this life last Thursday. The deceased was born in 1836, and has lived in this county for a number of years and had been a long and faithful member of the Second Baptist church of this city where he was taken ill two weeks ago on Monday night at a business meeting. He was taken to his home two miles West of town and in a few days after, was moved to the home of his son. Allen Jones of this city on W. Garfield St., he wound, thursday, Thursday, 1. 1912. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Eliza Jones, three sons, Allen and fred, of this city and Thomas, Jr., of Red Oak also two daughters-in-laws and a host of other relatives and friends to mourn their loss. He will be greatly missed throughout this vicinity as he was well known, and liked by everybody, and the church has lost one of its pillars which can not be filled as has been in the past. He was a big hearted, public spirted man, always taking an active part in the celebration held in this city, splitting neither energy or expense on his part to make the most success. The funeral services were held from the Second Baptist church, Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the presence of a large concourse of friends and the floral tributes were elaborate and beautiful Rev. S. Bates of Des Moines officiated, assisted by Rev. River, pastor of the A. M. E. church of this city. The beavered family has the sympathy of the entire community in their sad loss, but our loss is Heavens gain. The body was laid to rest in the Clarinda cemetery. Rev. S. Bates of Des Moines was called to this city last Saturday to p. each the funeral services of the late Thomas Gordon Jones, Sr. CORRESPONDENCE WANTED - A refined christian lady, very light, straight black hair, age 29, would like to correspond with a refined gen'lman. References exchanged. Miss Mary Clifton, Springfield, Ill., Gen. Del. BUXTON BRIEF'S. Mrs. Samson Johnson was in Des Moines last week having her eyes tested. Miss Elenor Eubanks returned from Des Moines after a two week's sojourn Born to Mr. and Mrs. B. A. James, a girl, but the infant only lived 15 hours. We extend our sympathy. News comes from Ottumwa that Miss Beatrice Downey and Mr. Robt Bibbs were married a few days ago. Miss Downey lived in Buxton about a year. Miss Victoria Medley was in Okalooa and Des Moines last week on a combination business and pleasure trip. We now have in Buxton "The J. F. Baker Printing Co." who are prepared to do all kinds of job work. Mr. Baker was first man the "Buxton Gazette," a weekly paper that was once published here by the Buxton Publishing Co. He is a good printer and a reliable Christian gentleman. Any work will be appreciated. Mrs. Rose Jekls has been placed on the soprano row in Mt. Zion Baptist church choir. Mrs. Eya Burns who, a few weeks ago was operated upon at University hospital, Iowa City is rapidly improving Miss Veseta Step is copiousleasing. W. A. Cooper, shot-fierer in No. 16 mine was seriously hurt last Friday afternoon by coming in contact with a shot that had been lighted by Thomas Watson. It was reported that Cooper, after finishing the firing on his entry, came around to assist Mr. Watson as was his custom. Mr. Watson had been in the room in which Cooper was entering and just as Cooper entered the room the shot fired. He was badly cut on the head, a piece of coal passed through his right arm between the elbow and shoulder and he received cuts on his left knee and right foot. He is still unconscious and it's very doubtful if he recovers. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rhodes are the proud parents of a fine boy. Mother and son laugh nicely. Mrs. J. G. Baker and Mrs. D. D. Horne were on the sick list last week. Dr. Robinson stepped out of his buggy last week on a piece of glass and cut his foot severely. He is using his cane as he continues to make his calls. Hubert London is home from Des Moines where he has been attending school. An appeal from the Matron at Western college, thru W. A. Brown, Jr., for cups and sucers to replainish the cupboard shelves, was responded to by the ladies of Mt. Zion Mission circle with two dozen beautiful cups and saucers. They were forwarded Wednes day. The Mission circle was entertained in the home of Mrs. Green Martin Thurs day last. Splendid program. Thos. Warren has been confined to his home about two weeks with lapispe. He is out again but is left with a stiff neck. Mt. Zion Baptist church choir will have song service Sunday evening, Feb. 11th Members and friends are cordially invited. The tenth anniversary of Mt. Zion church will be celebrated next Sunday. Rev. Woodard will preach the anniversary sermon at 11 a.m. Don't forget the song service next Sunday evening. CARD OF THANKS We wish to return sincere thanks to our neighbors, friends and the members of the Rose Temple Lodge for their kind help and sympathy during the sickness and death of our dear husband and father, also to return thanks for the beautiful floral offering. SIoux CITY ITEMS The evangelist, Rev. J. D. Wharton of Council Bluffs arrived in the city Tuesday to resume the revival meeting at the A M E. church for an indefinite time. He is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hudson while here. The Silver Leaf club of the Mount Zion Baptist church gave a Leap Year party last Thursday night. A nice program was rendered, after which refreshments were served. It was a success both socially and financially. The trustees of the A. M. E. church gave a sacred concert sunday evening. Mrs. Alberta Murray has returned home after being absent for eight months. She has spent most of the time in Omaha visiting her mother-in-law. A dance was given last Tuesday evening at Thompson's hall by the young men. Quite a large number of dancers attended. All reported a jolly good time, when home sweet home was played. L. H. S. BROWN JACK DAVIS Brown & Davis Headquarters for Cigars and Tobacco Billiards and Pool Phone Walnut 2314 220 Third St ```markdown ``` Price Five Cents. Mrs Gill returned to her home at Omaha Tuesday. The estate of her deceased cousin is still in an unsettled condition. Married in our city Saturday Feb. 3, Mr. Kid Williams and Miss Lizzie Smith, both of our city. The marriage ceremony took place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Jones, Rev. J. W. Dowden officiating. They expect to take up their residence in our city. May their marriage life be a long and happy one. February the second was said to be ground hog day I believe it was a ground hog case, for the old fellow must have seen his shadow for our weather so far has told the tale. The ladies of the A. I. P. club will give a Valentine social at the A. M. E. church on Wednesday evening Feb. 14, proceeds for club and A. M. E. pastor. Mrs David Shores is confined to her home with rheumatism. iowa Boys Making Good in the Fast We was always pleased to announce the good things our people are doing to overbalance the bad things, and especially are we pleased to announce that our young fellow boy, Mr. Baker Dixon on the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Dixon of this city, stood first in a Plumbing contest and the only Iowa boy in the class of forty students, even some students was in the class from Tuskegee and all parts of the country. He also joined the W. B. C. Military Band. One of the coming young mer. of Iowa is William J. Prince of Colin, In., who attended the Torkio college, Mo., then entered the great University of Illinois, at Champaign, was elected to the National Honorary Fraternity for debaters and orators, known as the Delta Sigma Rho. He represented the University of Illinois in their debates with Wisconsin and won. This is the first time a colored man ever represented this University in a forenic contest. We congratulate Mr. Prince. Abraham Lincoln. On next Monday Feb 12th, this Nation will be called upon to commemorate the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the greatest citizen that this Nation has yet produced whose life and act was the embodiment of honesty, loyalty, and equality, born as he will of parents in a one-room log cabin, on the barren plains of La Rue county, Kentucky, Feb. 12, 1899, raised in the school of poverty, rocked in the cradle of adversity; yet amidst all of these adverse circumstances, and through the hardships and trials, this son of the common people, toiled onward and upward and like the bright star that guided the wise men of the old to Bethlehem, he guided this Nation to the harbor of safety, penned the immortal proclamation of Emancipation which freed the bondsmen and united the Union of States, and preserved the old Flag. So let us lay the choicest flower upon his grave and revive his memory in song and poetry. An Old Citizen Gone. Last week we announced the death of Mr. Jones of Clarinda, Iowa, but could not give his write-up until now. Mr. Thomas Gordon Jones was born in Putnam county, Georgia, April 9, 1983, age 75 years, 9 months and 22 days, raised a slave on the Griggs farm, Yearning for freedom, while plowing one day with an ox team, he broke the yoke from the Ox team freed them, then struck out himself to the Union army, was captured by the rebel army, made a prisoner at the battle of Chattanooga. The Union army released the prisoners. He joined the 11 Alabama Colored regiment and remained until the end of the war. He then came to Mercer county, Mo., and in 1867, came to Page county, Clarinda Iowa, went on a farm as a work hand in 1869. He married Miss Eliza Jane Saunders and later bought 10 acres of land where he lived till his death; to this union 10 children was born of which only three survives; Allen, Fred and Thos. G. Jr. He was highly respected, a public spirted man. For forty years he was an active member of the Baptist church, an officer all this time. Thus a giant oak, a pioneer, a useful man, a good father, a christian gentleman has gone. City Convention The 1911 City Literary Convention held its last session at the residence of the chairman, and after closing up the business of the past year the convention adjourned club, but recommended that each literary club in the city elect a new set of delegates to meet at the Y. C. M. C. A. rooms on the first Monday evening in March for the purpose of organizing the convention for the year 1912. All societies will please take notice and govern themselves accordingly. By order S. Joe Brown, Chairman for 1911. ENTERPRISE IOWA Revival meeting began here Sunday night, conducted by Rev. J. Roman. May victory over sin crown our success. Mrs. T. Taylor has been on the sick list for some time, is convalescing. Mrs. W. D. Miller entertained a few of her intimate friends at dinner, Saturday, in no no of his sister. Mongolia is a Land of Magnificence of Middle Ages Mingled With Equator. When the bumping tantasset rolls across the Chinese frontier into Mongolia it enters a kingdom of the middle ages fung down into the twentieth century. Fedral guards, lords of armies who lived with spear and bow, tax and drive to the corvee their nomad serfs. A hierarchy of priests, whose divine head lives in a palace at Holy Urga, swears the multitude of superation-stepped Mongols, and receives the homage of pilgrims wending their way from the Volga, from Tibet, from all Mongolia, to their Canterbury of Lalamis. In prostrate devotion the penitents girldle the Sacred City, before whose beggars begged dispute with dogs their common curishment, and in whose compound incurses of the rains of Gengkh's Khan, with armies of retainers, live bedless, battlesh, lightless, in the felt huts of their race. Squalid magnificence and good humored, kindly hospitality are linked to utter brutality. Sable furs and silks cover sheepskins worn until they drop from the body. Here and there among the natives in Chinese trading caravansary, alien, wired, peculiar, stands as of old the Hands of the Gods guilds and far-brought caravan goods. The Russian advance has been always eastward, toward an ice-free port on the Pacific. Cut off by the Japanese, the one outlet now for Russia is through Mongolia, striking straight for Pekin and the heart of China. This is the century-old road of the sea trade. Here is the shortest route from Europe to the East. Here, through the deepest, the bright foothills of the Gobi plain, lies the future redemption of the great untested land route to north China. The Chinese are themselves advancing to anticipate it. They have all ready built into Kalgan. To this traddling center across the pale a Russian railway may yet pass, and her color nists make fruitful the 'unpeopled wilds of Mongolia. A way of adventure and strange adventures may take the old road of the Golden Horses, leading down past the ancestral homes of the Turks to the Great Wall—"The Russian Road in China." Where Dickens Saw Life It was on the roads round about Gadhill, where Charles Dickens lived before his death, that he made the acquaintance of the various tramps and showmen we read of in his works—the tales of their lives, and lives so often made up of many sorrows. The great novelist's knowledge of gypy wanderers and doers was unbound, and many a half hour he spent in their company within a stone's throw from the town square, a wonderful chapter on tramps in "The Uncommercial Traveler," he had in mind the high road at Gadhill—"The Land That Was Dickens," Oscar Frietet, in National Magazine. He Knew. In one of New York's public schools the other day this sentence appeared in the reading lesson: "The king and his escort passed by." "Now," said the teacher, "who can tell me what is meant by an 'escort'? A small, freckled-faced boy raised his hand, and in the vernacular of the East Side said: 'It's a feller what's got a girl and he takes her out walking.' Glamor of the Great The following anecdote is told by Joseph Jackson in the World's Work. On one occasion when Dickens had a few of his choice spirits to dinner, as they passed into his apartment the clerk of the hotel, who seems to have been a great lover of literature, but tontobosed Bo's secretary long enough to exclaim with a kind of reverential awe: "Good heaven! Mr. Putnam, to think what the four walls of that room now contain! Washington Irving, William C. Bryant, Fitz-Greene Haleck and Charles Dickens!" Adultization on Old Crime "Champagne and claret will doubtless be produced in large quantities this year, despite the general failure of the French vineyard," says the London Chronicle. "The art of making wine without grapes is an ancient one. As far back as 1427 one hundred pipes of wine were seized in London because no trace of grape juice could be found in them. The citizens flocked to see the public stairing in of the pipes and the unusual watering of the streets which followed thereupon." Custom Very Old The practice of making eunuchs is supposed to have had its beginning under Semiramis, the semimythical queen of Assyria, the reputed builder of Babylon, and was commonly adopted by Oriental monarchs in the case of the guardians of their harems. The Clothes Are the Thing. "What on earth'd you keep clapping for?" That last singer was grulful. "I know; but I liked the style of her clothes, and I want to have another look at them." Nature Always Different Nature always different Nature, never rhyme her children, not makes two men alike. When we see a great man we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. -Emerson family run? Genealogist--That's for you, to do dee. We'll go as far back as you wish to pay for, or judge. Society for Historical Research Hears Subject Discussed. LEARNED OPINION BY LOCKE IN PHILOSOPHIC ADDRESS SAYS THE DESIRE TO PRESERVE THE PAST CONNECTS US TO A RACIAL CONSCIOUSNESS—RACE STANDS BETWEEN TWO HERITAGES. Yonkers, N. Y.—The year-end meeting of the Negro Research society held recently at the residence of the president, Mr. John Edward Bruce, in the city of Chicago, made by the president of Alain Le Roy Locke, who is a graduate of Oxford university. He bears the distinction of being the only member of the race to win one of the Rhodes scholarships. Mr. Locke was the principal speaker on this occasion, and a reception was given in his honor by the society in view of the distinction that he is to return in January to complete his studies. Mr. Locke's subject was "The Negro and a Race Tradition." He spoke in part as follows: A historical society stands principally as the expression of a practical duty toward a corporate past, and a negro historical society stands therefore for an avowed duty toward a racial past. The negro has special duties and specific problems with race, but however special and special these duties and problems are, the duties and problems of any people in their acquisition of historical mindedness in the establishment of tradition. Although the American negro faces what all thoughtful observers must admit to be a historical dilemma, he can avoid it by the wishes. He can get what he needs from his past or as much of it as he deems wise and consistent to forget and repudiate. As an American, indeed, he can claim the high but dangerous privilege of taking large liberties with his past both in the direction of adoption and that of repudiation. As an American he can exercise the rights of a mental republican. He can begin anywhere and the only reason he is before whether or not the negro wishes to have a separate history, apart from the general history of this country, or what justification there is other than the purely sentimental reasons he sometimes gives himself and the wholly justifiable reasons usually given him for having a separate tradition in contrast or addition to the tradition he can enjoy playing theoretically at least all of the benefits of free education and democratic institutions. For very different reasons and very diverse hopes, then, the speaker found himself forced, to believe in a race history and a race culture. The desire to preserve our past commits us to a racial consciousness and requires us to the development of a sense for our corporate interests and demands and facts which treaten the solidarity and perpetuity of a distinct negro tradition in this country may prove the ultimate stumbling blocks in the way of our progress. The historical dilemma of the American negro is the painful position of standing between two heritages, one lost, the other not fully acquired; the one something for which we have a need and the other something which must not have permanent satisfaction for us. This situation is both the price and the reward of the negro's unique history. Here he may be as anxious to take the advantages of the alternatives as he is at present to escape the disadvantages of this situation. Our intellectual and spiritual problems have a different point of origin from social or political economic issues we face, and they are as likely to have a different solution. History and culture, at all events, are known only as the attributes of nations and races. Any one who surveys at all closely the estate of culture or the field of history will find that it has its fences and proprietary rights, quite as material in their way as the fences and property deeds of any civilized community. They will see that no people has acquired a passport to culture, citizenship and the exchange civilities of civilization until it has cultivated its own land, its own tradition and evolved its own culture. A people whose civilization is threatened under the present facts at least with the fate of mental pariads. Race is not only the key to history, as Disraeli said; it is the most legitimate and indefinable claim to education and culture. We as negress need to distinguish sharply between the claim of education and the claim of mental birthright. It may even be that we shall have to choose between them on certain occasions. Certainly we must always bear the distinction in mind. The very accidents of our birth and history make for us a claim upon a civilization and a more universal claim upon a culture of mental liquefaction and self-sought mystification can conceal from us as not ours in the same literal sense that it is the hereditary culture and history of Aryan peoples. It requires considerable vigilance to keep insects from destroying cabbage. The cabbage plant furnishes almost an ideal place for insects to hide from the gardener and continue their destructive work. Do not permit them to injure your plants. Mustard has a pungent taste and usually attracts insects by its peculiar smell. It is sometimes advisable to plant mustard as a trap crop to catch insects and keep them from destroy- This is the crux of the problem from the side of education and culture. Sooner or later if he persists in ignoring this distinction the Afro-American of culture he is an anomaly; finds that he is sharing and participating in a culture that is his only by right of acquisition and not by right of inheritance. To be mindful of the distinction does not necessarily make the civilization claim to share any the less ours, but it does make it ours in a different way. This is the contention that with the proper approach and reservations the frank admission that we participate in an alien culture justifies us in a certain historic and actual pride of acquisition in having made our own what was in the beginning not ours. Further, such an admission should enable us by way of contrast to realize rather than derivations and allegiances, and to help us to build up in addition a tradition worthy of our united loyalties. Instead, therefore, of belittling it the great contrast of Aryan culture should make it more meaningful to be a negro. The negro's attitude toward his past has hitherto been a sentimental and mistaken one. There are grave dangers and difficulties in achieving a new attitude, but a new one must be achieved. We might in time succeed in getting the first slave ship into a historical perspective, which would make it a spiritual Mayflower of freedom from the handicap of a tropical climate, but better than this would be an attitude which would upon the arrival of the colonists dition it to race. As a patriot the American is satisfied to go back as far as the Mayflower, but as a scholar he is forced to go back a little farther. We have then the phenomenon of Anglo-Saxon tradition, Anglo Saxon civilization, Aryan culture! It should be—indeed, it must be—the same with us. The American negro must in time change his attitude toward the artist. The stamp of the artist experience and appeal is still upon us. It deserves to be an indelible memory. But the sentimental ties which bind us to the abolition period of our civilization must not be the attitude of the colonists. A generation that has not lived through such a time can never be expected to care for race history in exactly the same way. Already the younger generation is lapping from that sentimental attitude, and it is well, since the attitude which freed us physically will never free us mentally. It binds us fast to what is, after all, only one period in the race life. It keeps us from the dispassionate, the scholarly, attitude toward history. It chains us to remain in the vicious circle of early American isolation, the hopelessly Quixotic whim of a people that wishes to begin to recover. We cannot afford to let our regard for our immediate past blind us to the remote racial past, a past which stands in need of patient and painstaking scholarship to recover, but even more perhaps in need of a worthier historical attitude to accept it. American thought and scholarship are in process of broadening out in the name of culture, and for the sake of tradition a period of reconstructive scholarship is beginning, a period that will retrieve the necessary damage of the democratic secession. This is being done that the American of culture need not have to pay the culture. Our situation is parallel. Our involuntary transportation is analogous to the colonial Americans' voluntary revolution. We must, like them, go back to claim as tradition and culture all we have broken with as government and authority. There is for us no alternative to turning back toward an African and racial past. But such a course need no more interference with our culture than of liberal education than race loyalty to Anglo-Saxon civilization interferes with American patriotism. America, standing, as it does, for the common ownership of the utilities of civilization, cannot stand for the amalgamation of cultures. America, at all events, is not sure of her own mental nationality, and behind the traditional uniformities of American life and thought it is significant to find certain latent racial traits and traditions in process of development and assertion. The fear that the acknowledgment of the birth claim to ideas undermines the republican claims to free institutions, the fear that a sense of race history and tradition仕子 one out from an impersonal and more inclusive participation in general history culture, can only be achieved by standing the trend of American institutions. Indeed, freed from national responsibilities and governmental ambitions, racial pretensions are free in this country to develop without opposition or misconstruction. Certainly America has offered this to other races. Not only have certain Irish ambitions and hopes impossible of realization elsewhere been realized in this country;"but their realization, while contributory largely and patriotically to the sum total of American achievement, has reacted upon the whole status and welfare of that race in its native home. The Jewish communism in this country further has contributed to the realization and stands today as the champion of some of its most significant reform movements. America affords the unique possibility of a race life and propaganda existing without contradicting national and patriotic loyalties and responsibilities. The historical dilemma of the American negro is a great culture problem. It is also a great American problem.ug other plants. When the insects have made a raid upon the mustard the plants may be sprayed with poison or pulled up and destroyed. A LEGAL NOISE. "What is that noise?" asked the presiding judge, when a witness' voice was nearly drowned by a rasping nproar outside the court. "My lord," said the counsel for the defendant, "think it is the plausible Its solution will prove or disprove whether or not culture by adoption is possible and whether a race can exist within a nation without disrupting the nation or contradicting itself. If we accept the burden of being an experiment in this land of experiment it is because we have additional reasons. These additional reasons are the desire to solve our own problems, to convert invidious distinctions into others rational and respected. THE NEGRO IN BUSINESS That the negroes of America are making great progress and are going forward by leaps and bounds along all lines of human endeavor cannot be denied. But while he has been making progress the world about him has also been making progress, and having started in the lead, his white brother keeps the lead. Particularly is this true in the business world. The negro merchant, broker, banker, or whatnot is not only handcapped lack of experience, and of capital, but also of experience, and of race, but greater than all these is the handcap he is under by reason of the lack of confidence is the ability of his own race to do big business and his lack of patroltion which would make him suffer present temporary inconveniences, and losses, if need be, in order that conditions may be made better for his posterity. The scarcity of large business enterprises among the negroes is not due so much to the lack of colored patronage of negro businesses, as to the lack of those negroes who have been patronized by the masses, to co-operate with one another in the production of larger businesses. The business and professional sectors of large corporations among the negroes, and the use by white corporations of most of the capital possessed by the race. There are among the negroes too many separate places of business doing the same kind of business. Both economy and efficiency demand that a large number of these small places be combined and one big business made instead of many small failures. The tendency among our professional men to look up a white corporation in which to invest the money they have made from colored people is too great. Those who can should think and having thought, should act. There is no good reason why the more than two millions of dollars possessed by the negroes of Chicago should not earn as much, or more, if invested so as to give the race full benefit of the fruits of their labor and loyalty, than the money earned by investing in white institutions whose power, created in part by this very negro capital, is used against him and his children which will come after him. Colored men of brains and means, "it is up to you to make good"—Chicago Chronicle. CARBOLIC AGID ANTIDOTE TINCTURE OF IODINE, IT IS CLAIMED, GIVES REMARKABLE RESULTS. Among cases of accidental poisoning those caused by carbolic acid are the most frequent. These generally arise through mistaking a solution of carbolic acid for some medicine or, as occurs very often, for some alcoholic liquor. The remedies generally employed in dealing with this kind of poisoning consist in washing the stomach with alkaline water or the pure glycerin, followed by the ingestion of alkaline phosphate or the eggs beaten up. Some years ago, however, Dr. Mabler showed that tincture of iodine, administered in fairly large doses, may give much better results. On one occasion when called in to attend a young negro who, thinking he was drinking whisky, had swallowed a quantity of a strong solution of carbolic acid and who consequently was severely burned about the lips and throat, had swallowed a teaspoonful of tincture of iodine in a cupful of water. A few minutes after theward was able to swallow some milk without any difficulty, speaking became easier, and he very soon completely recovered. The same immediate and complete effect was obtained on administering five drops in water in the course of a year-old boy who had just swallowed some carbolic acid. Similar success, was met with in a third case of carbolic acid poisoning, the victim being a child of two years of age. In this instance the iodine treatment could not be begun till 30 hours after the ingestion of the poison. The alarming symptoms soon disappeared under the influence of tincture of iodine given every four hours in doses of five drops in a teaspoonful of water. The little patient was cured. The structure of iodine neutralizes the carbolic or phenic acid by forming with it an iodophenate, insoluble and therefore harmless—European Edition New York Herald. NO PITY NEEDED. Pastor—I was so sorry for your wife during the sermon this morning, doctor. She had such a dreadful fit of coughing that the eyes of the whole congregation were fixed upon her. Doctor—Don't be unduly alarmed. She was wearing her new hat for the first time. Louise—Is your new cook troublesome? Julia—Troublesome! She couldn't answer if she were a near relative. -Harper's Weekly. Harduppe - Is Wigwag honest? Borrowwell - Well, he came around to my house the other day and stole an umbrella I had borrowed from H. C. B. Fry, publisher of the new Fry's Magazine, London, England, thinks that the negro is constitutionally a better scraper than the Caucasian, and says: We in England have no anti-color feeling, and we do not excite ourselves much about Jack Johnson having beaten J. J. Jeffries in America; and as to the more recent boxing event at home we do not take sentimental sides over Langtford's defeat over Lang. As a nation we have recently rediscovered our latent and deep-rooted interest in the ring which I for my part, older than myself, do not much like not having a man who is either champion of the world or thereabouts. One of our own blood, I mean—a white man. I did not see the Langford-Long fight, but I have met dozens of men who did, and they saw an exhibition of eminent superiority on the part of the colored man. One of them came away with the settled conviction that it is all U-P with the white man against the colored man in boxing. He tells me that he made up his mind (and he has seen much fighting) that the black man has it over the white man in two vital points—quickness and nervous insensibility. Quickness, of course, means hitting power, not only in frequency, but in force, for speed is a main component in nervous insensibility being natural capacity for not being affected by punishment. Other things being equal, the man who can hit harder than his opponent, and be less affected by the blows he receives must in general be the winner. Few people recognize what quickness in athletics means, and that in many forms of athletics it is what they miscall strength. This is particularly noticeable in cricket. Indian, Malay and West Indian negro. All three were quite distinctly quicker with a cricket bat than any white man I have ever seen. The Indian was the quickest, the Malay and the West Indian negro about equal. But the Indian was much quicker, quite closely allied by distant descent with the same forefathers. The negro is of a different stock. As to nervous insensibility, I doubt whether the best white man is inferior by race to the best green in natural endurance under punishment; and I am strongly of the opinion that he is superior in the will-made endurance we call pluck. But I have seen some remarkable examples of the man who was a Kaffir. I saw a Kaffir in the Aranakist district in South Africa, with his foot literally cut in half, and calmly hobbling off, after casually tying it up with a rag. He reminded me of a feline animal—his insensibility was inhuman—he hadn't even winoed. It is, of course, a curious fact that one black man will survive wounds that would kill five white men. A surgeon who was not insensitive once, or to some not notable instance, but a black man will die of an attack of measles which a white child would not be very ill with. IRON IN WATER IS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL FLAVORING AGENTS KNOWN. What would you consider one of the most powerful agents with which to flavor water? Would it be iron? A half part per million of iron in water is detectable by taste, and more than four or five parts make a water repellent. In the national appalachian iron is the constituent which imparts a medicinal value to the water, but ordinarily it is undesirable. More than 2.5 parts per million in water and for laundering makes a stain on clothes. Iron must be removed from water from which ice is made or a cloudy discolored product will result. An iron content of over two or three parts per million in water used in the manufacture of paper will stain the paper. Iron is harmful in water used for steaming, for it is in equilibrium with acids, which inside the boiler become dissociated with the result that the free acids corrode the boiler plates, but the amount of iron carried in the water is not enough so that the damage it does to steam boilers generally amounts to little. Waters having high iron content have in some places caused an immense amount of trouble and expense when used as city supplies, for they favor the growth of cremothrix to a degree that the water pipes become clogged with the iron sheaths of the boiler or iron from water is sometimes easy to sometimes very difficult—Geological Survey Bulletin. NOT DOING WELL. "How did you come on with your study of the Russian language?" "Not well. While I was trying to pronounce a few words our family physician me used to take all kinds of medicine to break up a cold." "Washington Star." A DUTY. "Look here, Ben, what did you shoot at me fer? I ain't got no quarrel with you." "You had a feud with Jim Wombat, didn't ye?" "I did, but Jim's dead." "I'm his executor."—Lippincott's. BUSINESS LEAGUE ELECTION. Chicago, Ill.—At the annual election of officers of the local branch of the Negro Business league, held in this city, Dr. George C. Hall was re-elected president. The other officers are: S. Lang Williams, vice-president; William D. Neighbors, secretary, and George P. Smith, treasurer. UP TO DA. and the Su wore "Have you a fire Mason, Le No: have I've got REAL PROGRESS AT MOUND BAYOU REAL PROGRESS AT MOUND BAYOU BY CHAS. STEWART. Mound Bayou, Miss.—Representative men and women were in Mount Bayou from all parts of the state, and many from Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana, attending a conference which was called by Hon. Chas. Banks, cashier of the Bank of Mount Bayou, and first vice-president of the National Negro Business league. In this he was backed by some of the leading citizens of the state. Mount Bayou is the oldest negro town in the United States and has a population of nearly 100% industrial citizens. Growth and progress of the city has caused many of the leading colored people in various parts of the country to invest their money in land and the business enterprises. There are many groceries, mercantile establishments, meat markets, shoe stores, 2 drug stores, 1 photograph gallery, 1 newspaper and plant, 3 insurance agencies, 1 bank, 3 schools, headquarters for the Knights and Daughters of Tabor, headquarters for the Masonic Benefit association, 1 public library and assessment ball, four other enterprises are being conducted in Mound Bayou. The people have erected some good homes and public buildings, and within a short time an ice plant and lightning plant is to be launched. Employment is furnished hundreds of young men and women who have graduated from various schools and colleges. The meeting was held in the assembly room of the Carnegie library, and was presided over by Rev. A. A. Cosey, D. D., pastor of the Green Grove Baptist church, and the opening prayer was made by Rev. J. H. Greer, Hon. Chas. Banks made a speech in object of meeting, and this was followed by a number of other short addresses. In his opening remarks Mr. Banks called attention to the fact that the race was about to enter a new field, by establishing an oil mill at a cost of $5,000. The buildings were complete and machinery was being installed. The main building is a two-story brick structure 50x220, and the seed house and ware-room was a large frame structure 50x344. The modern improved machinery had been installed, and the promoters had been so careful in constructing the buildings and purchasing the machinery that the promoters may pay a dividend. They were only $12,000 in debt. After the address of Mr. Banks several others spoke, and Dr. W. A. Attaway started the ball to rolling by subscribing $250 additional to the stock which he had already, and issued his check to pay for the same. Others fell in line. A number of short addresses were delivered at night. HOW TO DESTROY YOUR RACE PONDER WELL THE THINGS ENUMERATED BELOW AND SEE HOW MANY OF THE WEAPONS MENTIONED ARE YOU USING IN RACE DESTRUCTION. Just keep on telling your children that they are bad. Stop courting your wife as soon as you marry her. Keep on opposing and fighting your young men. Neglect bathing often and keep filthy homes. Don't associate with good or wise people. Don't be careful about how you entertain strangers. Don't be kind, courteous and polite. Don't respect your parent nor other aged people. Allow a few or no babies homes. Which one of these weapons are you using to destroy your race? If you are God and your race will bless you; if you are guilty, you shall reap what you sow, in time and in eternity unless you change and repent—Ethiopian Observer. WOULDN'T LOOK WELL. A slight accident had happened in repairing the track, and Murphy was sent to the office to report it. He was handed a blank to fill out and going along all right he came to the section headed: Remarks. "If you please, sorr," he said, backoning to the clerk. "What's the trouble Murphy?" he was asked, "Well, y' see, sorr, it was Bill's big toe he crushed wrist the hammer, an' Old just as soon not put on the raymars Bill made."—Boeh WIT AND HUMOR IN PRAISE OF MODESTY. Reginald De Koven told at a musical in Chicago a pretty story in praise of modesty. "A group of tourists," he said, "visited in Bonn Beethoven's house. One of the tourists, a girl of twenty or so, sat down at Beethoven's piano and played a Moonlight Sonata, none too well. Beethoven's own work, in his own room, on his own piano! "When the girl had finished she rose and said to the Old caretaker: "I suppose lots of famous musicians have been here and played on this instrument?" "Well, Miss," the caretaker answered, gravely, "Paderewski was here last year and his friends urged him to play, but he shook his head and said: "No, I am not worthy."—Washington Star. LITTLE SISTER KNEW Manager Ellis, head of a local motor car tire agency, halls from Richmond, Ind, which is in the heart of the Quaker belt of Hoosierland. His father was a Quaker minister, whose duty it often became to preach the sermon at Quaker marriage ceremonies in Richmond being the custom themselves, to "enary themselves," the minister garnishing the ceremony with a little sermon. On one occasion the father was to deliver the sermon at a Quaker wedding and at the dinner table that day the son took occasion to inquire what his subject would be. Before the father could answer up spoke the little sister. The son told the brother, what it ought to be" she said. "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do."—Louisville Times. VERY LIKELY. IMPOSSIBLE POLITICS "Would you vote for your husband if he ran for office?" asked Mrs. Baring-Banners. "Of course," replied the very young woman. "But I don't think I'd care to have a lot of other women trying to fatter him by voting for him." INFORMATION SURPRISED HER. Mrs. Parkins - I called on Mrs. Upperson yesterday and she showed me her old masters. Mrs. Pvenue—Her old masters! Dear me, I didn't know she was in service. SQUELCHING HIM. Mr. Hoopah- You's de unliest girl I ever loved, Delia! Miss Cole- You kin set heah n' say dat till you turns black in de face, but I ain't g'winter b'leve you! -Puck. IMPROVEMENT NEEDED "What you want, I suppose, is to vote, just like the men do." "Certainly not," replied Mrs. Baring-Banners. "If we couldn't do any better than that there would be no use of our voting." STEADY HABITS. "We had a fine sunrise this morning," said one New Yorker to another. "Did you see it?" "Sunrise!" said the second man. "Why, I'm always in bed before sunrise." A VIRGINIA DINOSAUR. The long drought exposed the bed of a creek near Petersburg, Va., and in the bottom of it was found imbedded the skeleton of a prehistoric animal known as a sauropodus dinosaur, about 40 feet in length. LIKE CURES LIKE. "This bill of fare offers so much rich food that it fairly gives me indigestion to look it over." "You can remedy that in the same way. Read this advertisement about a dyspepsia pill." GAVE HIM A JAR. "Am I required to exchange wedding gifts in the department from which they were purchased?" "Not at all," said the floorwalker. "Thank you. I should like to exchange a rose jar for a frying pan." THE ETERNAL QUESTION. "My wife made me what I am!" "Have you forgiven her yet?" LOOKING AHEAD. "I wish to get a permit to dig up the pavement on Main street." "Why, we can't give you that. There isn't any pavement in Main street." "I know; but I want the permit so that we can dig up the pavement as soon as there is one." In this world of compromise, not to be keenly unhappy is a condition of happiness for some. The Farm Some interesting observations were made in France with reference to the power of a species of amaryllis grown in the central part of that country to resist cold. One year spring opened in that region unusually early, and by the last of February one of these little plants blossomed in the garden of the observer. On the 1st of March a cold wave passed over the country, and the thermometer fell in the night to 12 degrees Fahrenheit. The next morning the flower found bent to the earth, apparently dead. Strangely, as the sun rose higher in the heaven, and the temperature reached the amaryllis arose from the earth, resumed its usual upright position and was evidently none the more for its untimely refrigeration. The following night, too, was extremely cold; the same movement on the part of the flower was repeated, and a closed examination showed that it was undoubtedly a measure of self-preservation. The bell-shaped corolla touched the earth lightly, but closely, and was cemented to the soil by the moist moisture around its rim, thus moistening the stamens and other important organs of the flower in a temporary tent, as it were, and protecting them from the outside cold. This movement was repeated for our successive nights of cold. On the fifth night, the temperature moderated, and the snow fell, the flower and stalk remained in their upright position; and in due time the flower withered and produced seed. These remarkable spontaneous movements of the plant seem almost to be called to those of certain low forms of animal life, and are extremely difficult of explanation, as is also the remarkable resistance to low temperatures of many other early flowers, such as the snowdrop and the crocus. THE HEN THAT LAYS. It is the hen of vigor that lays; without constitutional vitality she will not lay. That is undoubtedly true. A hen may have egg-laying capacity, but without vigor she will not produce eggs. On the other hand, the hen may have vigor without egg-laying capacity. She may have constitutional vitality and lay less than 20 eggs a year. The point is that by using vigor alone will not make rapid progress in the development of strain of heavy layers. Although vigor is one of the main things, we must select both vigor and egg capacity. The hen that lays 200 eggs a year has good vitality, so that a high egg record is an indication of high vitality. It is possible that the 200 egg hen will not produce chicks of good vigor. It is also possible that her eggs may not be fertile. This is not the case in poor layer. It also possible that her eggs may have her breeding qualities. That is a debatable point, but the fact remains that the hen that lays 50 eggs or more a year has good vitality, and it is such hens that one must depend on to increase egg production and make poultry keeping more profitable. A high egg record indicates constitutional vitality and stamina. The nest best, therefore, selects for vigor as egg-laying capacity. If such stamina is not sufficient, it is practical way, without doubt in a few years it would add millions of dollars to the profits of poultry keepers; and at the same time help solve the nation's food supply. THE "BAG WORM." Frequent inquiries are received regarding the "bag worm," whose peculiar sacks or bags are frequently seen during the winter attached to various trees and other objects. If these sacks are examined some will be found to contain a large number of eggs within a mass of yellow, fuzzy material. The empty cases are the items that were occupied by the male larvae past growing season, while the larvae, containing the mass of eggs, were found inside the females. The females, after fertilization leave the cases, and after fertilization by the small male moth the eggs are formed, as already described. From these eggs are hatched, in the spring, the larvae, that begin feeding on the leaves of at once and soon form about themselves the larvae mature, until it engorges as the larvae mature, until it becomes too large for them to carry. Then it is attached to the limb, while the larvae are eating, and is removed to another place when the food supply is there once. Every one of these cases should be removed from the trees during the winter and burned, as otherwise the larvae are certain to destroy a good number of shade trees in the spring. Ducks can not digest hard grain so readily as other fowls, because they do not eat so much sharp grit. They eat sand or coal cinders. There is not much range of overtaxing a duck's digestion plenty of sand and cinders are available. The capon is very dooile and is often used to brood chickens. He has no desire to fight, though his spurs keep up their growth. He does not have the appearance of a rooster, as his comb and wattles are small. His head seems very small in comparison with his body. As to feed, it is content with what is given him, and if it be at hand, like in hoppers, he fill himself, digest it and fill himself again, as a continuous per- HOW HORSES ARE BISHOPED Thousands of horses are annually sold under false representations. Some of these fakirs have become so skilled in their tricks and wiles that it requires quite an experienced horseman to catch them. This is especially so in the doctoring tricks practiced by them in order that they may dispose of a and animal to the best advantage. The fakiring is also known as "blaspheming" as a man named Bishop, who, during the eighteenth century, secured a reputation for making old horses appear young. Bishop's method was in relation to the teeth of the horse. At full age a horse has forty teeth, and not until the fifth year are all visible. Six months later the nippers or front teeth become marked by a natural cavity, and the presence or absence of these marks tells the animal's exact age. As the horse becomes older these marks become more pronounced that Bishop set to work to make fresh cavities as found in a horse at the age he wished to represent. The surface of the teeth was cut out with a steel tool, and the back lining of the groove, which must be visible, burnt in with nitrate or some other chemical. In this way horses of eight or nine years of age were sold as five-year-olds. In endeavoring to play the trick of increased age, a three-year-old, for instance, was transformed into a five-year-old by means of chiseling out the teeth. The teeth are furnished to their third year, when they are supplanted by permanent ones. The extraction of the former brings on the latter much quicker than would be the case in the natural order of things, thus making a horse appear much older than it really is. TRAP NESTS NECESSARY. The conversion of a flock that barely pays for the feed it eats into one which will lift the mortgage from the home farm is largely a matter of elimination of the "star boarder" and the conservation of the 200-ega-year hens. Those who have made special study of this subject are firm believers in the trap nest. To discover the best egg producers one must use the trap nest, or some method of sleeping in the hens. The trap nest is about the best thing that has been discovered in the poultry business. There will be but slow improvement in breeding without an egg record for each hen in the flock. The objection to the trap nest is that it requires too much labor for the farmer. That is true in the majority of cases. Not many farmers can give the necessary time. It is here that the state or experiment station should and can be a great aid. There should be a breeding station or several in every state, where the farmers and poultry rulers count to secure the food engagling pedigree to mate with their flocks. It would not take so very long to furnish those farmers who had improvement of their flocks in view with a male bird whose ancestry for two generations had an egg record of 150 eggs a year or more. PREVENTING HORSE COLIC. A common cause of colic is allowing the horse to partake of large drafts of water immediately after finishing a feed of oats. The reason being that when a large quantity of water is thus drunk it has the effect of carrying with it out of the stomach and into the intestines some of the freshly eaten oats. Being still in a raw and undigested condition, the grain is apt to cause colic in the intestines, which is the immediate cause of colic. It is the best plan to always water horses before a meal, or some time after. In the case of colic the following treatment is recommended by a veterinary surgeon: Administer a dose consisting of one ounce of laudanum and two ounces of sweet spirits of nitre, along with half a pint of whisky in some hot water. Very often simple cases of colic yield to the administration of a couple of ounces of cooking soda, diluted with water, and given as soon as the first symptoms of the attack are noticed. Should the administration of this cooking soda fail to give the desired relief no time should be lost in following it up with the laudanum. THE DUCK HOUSE While ducks are waterfowl and do not require roosting perches, they must have a comfortable, dry house. The duck house should be built on high ground, and so erected that no water can run in where the ducks may nest. The essential requirements of the house are protection from rain and snow, and exclusion of fowl-loving animals. If the building is a large one, partition into pens. The floor in every pen should be well bedded with straw or other suitable material. This bedding should be clean and be removed frequently. Nest boxes need not be bought or made; ducks prefer to lay in the bedding on the ground. formance, and will make twice the growth on the same feed that a turkey does.—Rural World. THE BEST FERTILIZER. The Virginia experiment station reports that stable manure increases the yield 43 per cent above commercial fertilizer alone. Stable manure and carbonate of time increased the yield 100 per cent. Carbonate of time increased the yield 39 per cent above commercial fertilizer and manure. The Sunday School Lesson FEBRUARY 11, 1912. THE BOY JESUS IN THE TEMPLE. Golden Text—How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be in my Father's house?—Luke 2:49. Lesson Text—Luke 2:40-52. Commit vs. 46, 47. 1. At twelve he stopped at Jerusalem amid the great passover throngs, passed in and out of the magnificent temple and had the meaning of its parts and services explained to him, saw the thousands of innocent lambs slain, and then gathered with his own family around the roast lamb and bitten great reeds that looked back to Israel's lamb in the past and forward to the world's greater redemption through the slaying of himself some twenty years hence. Jesus saw deeper than any one else into the significance of all these things, for he had pondered the Scriptures and the Holy Spirit had interpreted to him even as a boy their innermost meaning. Jesus enjoyed being in the temple. He felt move at home there than any place he had seen in the house ("vs. 49, R. V.") How many of us have that deep, consuming longing for the place where the Father dwells and manifests himself? (Ps. 27.4) When our human parents left he could not but stay behind where his real parent was. When his parents had taken the time there and they ought to find them in the first place (v. 49). The most likely place to find a true child of God. (Mk. 14.49) He made himself very much at home in the temple. He was "sitting" there, no passing visitor or sightseer. He was there to learn or sightseeer. He was there to learn—he was in "the midst of the doctors (teachers)," and he was "hearing" and "asking them questions." The questions displayed great wisdom (v. 47), but they were not told to display his wisdom, he wished to learn. The teacher from the wisest world the world has ever known, and he was infinitely the wisest scholar; but he felt there were things that he could learn even from them. There is no suggestion that he criticized his teachers. He was a model Bible class scholar. He answered questions as well as asked them (v. 47). And his answers were so profoundly intelligent as to amuse "all that heard him." It was man who had been so interested in asking questions in the temple, and so owed the "understanding" he displayed not so much to his inherent dis POETRY of and by Our People EMANCIPATION ODE READ BY MI58 LILLIAN C. MACK, AT THE EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION AT MANNING, S. C., JANUARY 1, 1912. Come, Oh, Muses! Lend the spirit, of your song for this I pray: Not for tears, to make the sake, Of some hushed and saddened lay, Like to that our fathers chanted, When beneath Oppression's away; Not a song of wild disparing, In the tone we sing today. But awake a sweeter cadence! Song of joy! Hero! grand! The gladiator's story, To a treer, better land. Let no thought of wrong or sorrow. In its raptous ringing: Bird of the night, sorrow Naught but gladness as we sing! Journ'ing on like destined Pilgrims, In our land ahead; Here, while yet the morning lingers, On the pathway that we tread; Let us pause, On how worn traveler Of the earth, On its wormy journey; Burn our incense to the mem'ry Of a dark but sacred Past! And that incense calm ascending— To the akes a silent prayer, All the hopes and deep emotions Of the earth, On its wormy journey; Burn our incense, Our Nation, And unite with stronger bands, All its nobler aspirations; All the good for which it stands. Sees now the curtain lifted! With its lengthened folds apart! The earth, On its wormy journey, And by seeing again take heart! For 'tis not the distance followed, That denotes the distance gained; Bird of the night, sorrow Required, By the depths from which we came! Grim Injustice; now we see the thee! With the mind's reflective eye! Wyatt has the armor of the warp! Deeming not how soon 'twill He, Like some shameful object growling the karpoil must be rebellished, While the carpoil must be rebellished, To the God in which we trust! Stern Oppression, we well know thee! We have seen the face to face; Frowning the monster weak benighted Race! But the day of wrath soon ended; Strong, yet weak, how grate thy fall! There is no defeat to the blow that ended all! Yes, we see it all so plainly- Shapes and shadows grim and gray; There behind that parted curtain, There behind that parted play; Visions of an ene vanished; NO BARGAINS. Having fixed the rate for a fight on the field at $50 a punch, President Lynch was besieged to issue a schedule. "Can't you make it three punches for $100?" somebody asked. The league head pondered a moment. "No," he said. "I won't do that. I don't mind a little baseball scrap, but a bargain fight is a terrible thing"—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. vinity as to his Spirit-guided study of the word of God (Pa. 19:19; Luke 24:27; Jno. 3:84). Mary herself, who had watched and listened to him for twelve years, was astonished. Deptha were now revealed into which even she had never been allowed to peer before. Even Mary, though his mother, had not understood Jesus. There seems to be a tone of complaint if not abruptices in the question Mary put to Jesus. Mary was a wonderful woman (Luke 1:28), but she was not divine and not faultless. She was not a god of legend and adoration. While Mary and Joseph were surprised that he was in the temple, Jesus was surprised that they should search for him at all instead of coming right there fully assured that he was there. There is no note of apology or regret in Jesus' reply. Though the most dutiful, tender and obedient of sons (v. 51; Jno. 19:26, 27), he was conscious that he was more than "the son of Mary" (comp. Jno. 2:3, 4), and that Mary must for own sake be made to realize this fact. He points her from the human reputed (ch. 3:23) parentage to the divine real parentage of the first recorded utterance of Jesus, and like the last (ch. 23:46), its central thought is "God is my Father." Neither Mary nor Joseph understood Jesus even yet (v. 50). Need we wonder, do we understand him? II. Jesus Obeying and Growing, 51. Having made this needed assertion and given this clear proof of his deity, Jesus fell back into his place as the son of Mary and Joseph. He doubtless helped his father about the carpentering (Mk. 6:3) and his mother about her domestic work, and he was just as truly "about his Father's business" when carrying water and making fires in Nazareth as when in Jerusalem, where nearly twenty years longer, he remained in the humble obscurity of Nazareth. He did not chafe at that commonplace life, though conscious of power to fill a vastly larger sphere. That quiet life was a necessary preparation for the work the Father had given him to do. During these years Jesus was growing. If we are too in a humble sphere where there seems to be little else to do we can at least grow. Jesus could grow because he was a real human being. He had voluntarily put aside divine glory to become a real man (Phil. 2:6, 7; Mark 18:32). He was perfect as a babe and manhood is a higher form of perfect manhood, a perfection of childhood, and more pleasing to God. He "be increased in favor with God" as he grew from perfect boyhood into perfect manhood. Leading Questions...In what ways do we see in these verses the real manhood of Jesus? In what ways do we see his deity? In what points was his a model boyhood? Why is Luke the one evangelist that dwells upon the infancy and boyhood of Jesus? What does the lesson teach us about Mary? What is the most important lesson? Visions of a faded Past... But whose import reaching onward, who can measure? Who can grasp? There's a message down the ages, There's a fragrance in that message, That floats on from land to land: Has a lesson heed the warning: Has now we, who you are, but wrong can make men bondsmen, Naught but Truth can make men free! Truth eternal! Ever blooming! Sweet flow'r of modest mold! Lazy flow'r of damn and gold! Let but empires rise and flourish, Kingdoms loom and pass away, Yet will immortal flow'r still live on eternally. So again we see her rising, Grandly in that darkened night! I will be there, clothed in cloak in the clouds of cruel night! And as calm her face fainted, bend and as rough and troubled sea, Lo! the storming scent the acopte! And Injustice bent the knel! Day of Borrow! Gone, forgotten! Vanquished be forewarned! Let no more darkened visage! Cast a shadow 'cross our way! But as long as Truth's eternal, Let thy gharly form lie buried Deep beneath the sordid dust! Oh, Fair land! Designed for freedom Born sweet Justice to command! Thoe wert ordained to cower. A blush of wrong or shame! Thanka, Scoring deep that guilt and blame, Thou difft lift the fallen banner, And inscribed the noble name! 'Tis enough! That record's ended; There no time for idle tears! Thera turnum tears at it, Broured for forgotten years! Drop that crotail, softly, gently! Leave the dead Fast where it lies- Sanded in forgotten saws! When See the sun of Truth is beaming! Lighting up a firmament! As the sun long obscures him Jump and Jump and Jump! Lol! Two forces long opposing. Now extend a friendly hand! Once they met as slave and Master; Now as strong armed man to man! Oh! Supreme, divine forgiveness! Oh! Supreme, divine forgiveness! Where can record witness stronger, To a nation's deepest truth! Now the lion and the lambkin, Pearl and the pearl! Ah! Tortoise is blind and human, But 'tis God-like to forgive! Swift the day of Truth advances! Soon she'll face the western slopes! Bearing on her burnished bosom, All our fears and joys and hopes! Laughing and laughing! Have you tarried here today? Right about! and faces skyward, Start again your rugged way! Oh! Be strong and brave and noble! You've a mission to fulfill! Lie back into space into the hill! Keep your feet ward of the hill! There beyond those distant borders, Lies the land you would behold; Ransomed children, look not backward! WHY WEST WAS ELECTED. Governor West of Oregon is the youngest governor in the United States. He is only thirty-seven years old. Needless to remark, his appearance is decidedly youthful. Addressing an audience at Buffalo, he said: "There is a great chance for young men in Oregon. That is how I happened to be elected. My opponent was so young that the voters were afraid he could not be trusted."—Judge. Of Interest to Our Women THE MOTHER'S CORNER. Accidents in all forms come as a shock to everyone. Almost every man, woman and child has read or has been told what to do in case of fire, or drowning or the hundred and one other accidents that are likely to occur any day in the year. But when it comes to putting into practice the theories that have been studied the average person is totally at sea. Mothers especially are apt to lose their presence of mind in case of danger to their dear ones and forget all the essential reliefs that should be administered without delay. If every mother confronted with an accident that may prove fatal to her child she would have senses more children would live to reach an age of self-reliance. Of course, knowing just what to do is that all-important thing, and next comes the ability to keep one's head. In case of burning, if it be serious, the first thing to do is to send some one for a physician while the child is being place in a tub of warm water. The temperature should be at blood heat (88 degrees Fahrenheit), and there the child should be kept until the arrival of the doctor. The greatest care should be taken in burning the burn when they have started to heal and the discharge has stopped. One teaspoonful of sterile or clean boric acid ointment, mixed with an ounce of vaseline, should be spread on antiseptic gauze or old soft linen, and the whole bandage should be fastened tight with a few twists of the cloth. This dressing should be changed daily. When the burn is slight the most soothing treatment is to keep on the tender places bandages ointed in the skin of vaseline or bicarbonate of soda to a pint of water, or in boric acid solution. The mother should see to it that the bandages are always wet. A very common accident among little children is the swallowing of pins, buttons, coins, etc. In cases like this do not give the child a cathartic, as it may result in serious injury. If left alone the article will gradually become too heavy and be doing no harm. Do not change the baby's diet in any way, unless it be an older child. In that case let the little one eat as much cereal and mashed potatoes as possible for a few days. When the baby seems to be choking while eating, or if he has "swallowed the wrong way," seize him by the feet and let him hang head downward while two or three smart slaps are given the back with the palm of his hand. This will relieve the Double. In case of bleeding nose let the child sniff ice cold water up his nostrils. Ice packages at the back of the neck and at the top of the nose sometimes help to stop the bleeding. If it continues in spite of this, put little wads of cotton up the nostrils, or press the lower part of the nose between the fingers for a few moments. Do not allow the child to touch its nose for some hours after the bleeding has ceased. The mother should never try to remove any object which has fallen into the child's ear. The thing to do is to call the doctor meditatively. Serious trouble has resulted from ill-advised attempts on the part of mothers to doctor their children's ears without professional aid. Any cut or scratch from a rusty nail, broken glass, splinters or jagged bits of it should receive immediate medical attention. The only thing the mother can do is to wash the spot carefully with peroxide of hydrogen and put wet bandages over it. Do not neglect to call a physician, no matter how slight the wound may be, as lockjaw has often resulted from negligence. When a cut bleeds too freely press cotton firmly over the spot until it ceases. For the minor accidents, such as insect stings, bruises, sunburn, etc., where some little momentary pain is felt, the relief is simple and will allay the sting of the moment. For the bite of a hard object, an alcohol or drop a little ammonia on it, or on a bandage of witch hat. If the little one's finger has been caught in a door or otherwise badly jammed, put on an laced or very hot compress and tie the fingers tightly. If the child is badly burned, alcohol, diluted half and half with water will bring relief, or compresses of witch hazel are an excellent remedy. ALL ABOUT HEADGEAR. Now that we are all sc eastern for the time being, Oriental effects are greatly in request, and our heads are wrapped up in turbans which closely resemble the Indian puggere, while a center jeweled ornament rests upon the brow. Again, Juliet gem-studded caps are much in vogue, from which a fringe falls all round on to the neck and over the ears, leaving the forehead and eyes only uncovered. This is varied by side caselocks which fall at each corner, and the vagaries of these adornments are endless, and in some cases we might dispense with the possession of any hair at all, and for these close-fitting, helmet-like caps completely cover it up. SOME NOVELTIES Enamel *mandarin* pendants are among the eastern novelties. Notable among the enamels of the season there are long earl rings in various dainty shades with pearl pendent drops, and there are enamel watches on flexible chain bracelets set in pearl. For the writing table there are perforated encanders in silver and enamel with ivory tables, and menu holders are produced in enamel in the form of bitterles. USE OF FUR AND LACE ON MIDWINTER HATS Trimmings of fur on hats are noted almost without limit. Both the long and short haired varieties are in use. The fur of the skunk is frequently imitation seal is frequently seen, and ermine and mole are much used, in addition to real seal on high-class models. Skunk and opossum are employed in wide and narrow hands, the narrow bands being used like a fringe on the edge of the brim and to outline the edges of loops or donkey ears of velvet, lace, maline, etc. Previously use in many narrow rolls of skunk, opossum, mole or ermine around the crown, with a flat bow of the same fur at one side of the crown. Not only are small turbans and close-fitting hats shown in fur of all kinds, but large trimmed models are noted entirely covered with one of the short-haired furs. In the very large picture shapes the crown and upper brim are covered while the lower brim is faced with velvet, silk mallace, lace or such material. A French model with broad brim and low, crown crown had the crown and upper side of the brim covered with imitation seal, while the under brim was faced with cerise-colored velvet. Gold roses with cerise velvet hearts formed the only trimming. Many models are shown with crown of fur and a flange of the same edging the brim. In addition such fur hats, leather, ear, trunk, opossum, fox, lynx, etc., the more novel furls like raccoon, leopard skin and clivet cat are also being employed. One has but to visit the theaters to witness the popularity of lace in millinery and to learn what chic effects may be produced by a bit of lace detaily disposed here and there on velvet, beaver or gatin hats, with perhaps no other ornamentation. Fur, combined with gold or silver lace, is an attractive combination. Velvet hats show the crown covered with gold lace, or an edge of lace will be appliqued on either the upper or under side of the hat, which a band of lace is placed around the crown and edge loops of velvet ribbon or ears of heavy lace, velvet, satin or other material. The white or scruce lace which is used for hats is usually of the heaviest variety, such as macrame, Venise, Irish, irish, etc., while the black laces are favored in the lightest varieties, such as Chantilly and the shadow laces. A large French model in black velvet had a flounce of black shadow lace gathered around the base of the crown, permitting the edge to fall over the brim. Around the base of skunk, while a narrow strip of skunk, while a second strip encircled the upper side of the brim midway between the crown and edge. At the side was a bunch of black paradise衍格es. A HINT ABOUT SPRING FASHIONS A lingerie gown which forecasts a fashion for summer is extreme in its simplicity. In English embroidery on fine lawn, the foundation of silk and dress material proper have an interming of deep pansy, purple chiffon, which give a pretty gray note to the dress. Folds of the chiffon enclose the wedge above the drapes of the wedge above with tiny white buttons, and chiffon is again used for sleeves and yoke, where the embroidered material is lapped up from neck to elbows, and looped together with strands of purple ribbon velvet. A pretty idea of a summer gown is a dress made of white open-work embroidery over white satin. The dress has a dainty little coat of daffodil-yellow ninon, belted at the waist with yellow Ottoman, and a dainty hematitched edge of yellow satin with gold threads near the clasp of black velvet which has rows of yellow and blue buttons, and the collar, with frill down one side of the front, is of the embroidery edged with Valenciennes. Unless apples are very juicy it is not necessary to dredge them with flour before frying. Apples and bacon are particularly tasty at this time of year. Apples, cored, the cavities filled with chopped nuts and raisins, and baked, are delicious molded with lemon jelly. Put each apple into a mold, or castard cup, and pour over lemon jelly. When cold, turn out and serve with sweetened whipped cream. Gloves will last longer is they are taken off, wrong side out, then turned and pulled into shape. Do not put them away folded. Mayonnaise will keep for many days, especially in cool weather. A jar of mayonnaise and a jar of boiled salad dressing on hand in the refrigerator fortifies the housekeeper against an unexpected guest. By means of these a salad for lunch is quickly prepared. Vells should be rolled when not in use, but there is a right and wrong way to do this. Always roll them in the opposite direction from which they have been worn. An excellent use to make of the discarded felt hat is this: Cut small diks of the felt and glue them to the chair leg, to prevent it from moving. On the chair tables and other movable furniture, not provided with casters, should be similarly treated if one would avoid unnecessary noise about the house. TWO CARB ON ROCK ISLAND ARE LOOTED BY FIVE BANDITS, WHO ESCAPED. ACT IS CLEVERLY PLANNED Mail and Express Cars Are Cut From Passenger Coaches and Run to Rendezvous Near Hurtubk, Ark, and $75,000 Secured. Memphis, Tenn.—Five train robbers looted the mail and express cars of the Rock Island train. No. 43, near Hurtubk, Ark., and got away with from $60,000 to $75,000 consigned to a bank in Oklahoma. The money was taken from the safe of the Wells-Fargo Express company and the robbers escaped with their booty long before an alarm was spread. The holdup was planned so cleverly and was executed with such precision that note of the train employee could resist and few of the passengers knew anything had happened until awoke to find the train stalled. The train left Memphis about midnight. After it cleared the western terminus of the Mississippi river bridge it was boarded by two masked men. They climbed over the tender, covered the engine crew with guns, then the train was halted. The enginelifted the train to a ditch. The fireman ran the train on several miles until it was signaled to a hait at a campfire alongside the track, where three other bandits waited. Here the baggage and mail cars were detached from the passenger coaches, and before any of the train crew knew what was happening the locomotive with its light load was hurrying farther into the country. While one of the bandits held gun over the bandit four of the band clambers into the express and mail coaches and covered the messengers and clerks. The engine with the two cars meant while proceeded to a point a mile east of Huriburt, Ark. Then the robber ran scavenged from the Wells-Rohr express car, gathered their plunder and made off in the darkness. MEXICAN REVOLT IS FEARED Loyalty of Gen. Orozco is Questioned —United States Prepared to Act in Emergency. *Washington* —Another uprising in Mexico is impending, according to official dispatches, which cast grave doubt on the military of General Orozco to President Maduro and intimate that Orozco is about to begin a new rebellion and declare the independence of the state of Chihuahua. An Chihuahua borders on Texas, its separation from Mexico would be a matter of deep concern to the United States. So complete are the military preparations that it is said nothing remains to be done but to send one to every department in the country to insure the prompt assemblement of a sufficient number of troops on the Mexican border to prepare the United States for any emergency that might arise there. M'GOWAN SAYS HE GOT $300 Canadian Tells Lorimer Committee He Received Money to Compensate His Loss. Washington. — Charles McGowan, the young Canadian who is alleged to have confessed to detectives that he received $1,500 to testify for the defense in the Lorimer case last summer, took the witness stand before the investigating committee and made a sweeping denial of the charges made by Detective William J. Burns and his operatives. McGowan admitted that he was paid $300, but he insisted the money was given him to reimburse him for the loss he sustained as a result of his well-drilling machine being idle the five weeks he was in Washington. PENSION BILL IS PASSED Measure Abolished Seventeen Agencies Maintained in Various Cities—Hits Non-Residents. Washington—The pension appropriation bill, carrying about $185,000,000, passed the house by a vote of 245 to 33, after several southern Democrats had demanded a roll call vote. A provision excluding pensioners who live out of the United States was defeated by 169 to 188. The bill abolished 17 pension agencies which have been maintained in different cities. Italian Turkey Banks Close. Constantinople, Turkey—The Turkish cabinet has decided to put into force the order for closing all Italian institutions in Turkey, including private banks, insurance companies and the orphanage at Scutari. Washington.—The ordinance department of the army 'is about to place a contract for 60,000 aluminum canteens, designed to lighten the soldiers' equipment and for use over the camp fire in emergencies. Buch Opera Gift $50,000. St. Louis.—Adolphus Buch, now as his winter house in Pasadena, Cal. has offered to subserve the $50,000 to the erection of a $500,000 opera house in St. Louis, providing the remainder of the fund be subserved within six months. Leaves 834 Decendants. Spring Valley, Utah.—Five hundred in the fifth generation, survive Mrs. Sylva A. Sandford, who died here, are nine, seven years. Positively One Day Only, Tomorrow, Sat., Feb. 10th FREE!! J Remember Tomorrow Saturday Is the Day None given free after the sale closes. Don't come Monday and expect to get these Free Pants for there will be none. Remember Tomorrow Saturday None given free after the sale Monday and expect to get these will be none. A regular $25 and $30 Suits order, and an extra $5 to All For $15 FREE MEANS FREE—No prices it indelibly borne in mind that you to $7.00 TrousersAbsolutely Free. unchanged and exactly as they have the extra or gratis garment in no way which remains $15 for Suits to Or you get the same good workmanship service—now and always. It's the 506 West Locust British WOOLEN Open Saturday Until A regular $25 and $30 Suit tailored to your order, and an extra $5 to $7 Pants Free! All For $15 FREE MEANS FREE—No prices changed. We wish it indelibly borne in mind that you get the extra $5.00 to $7.00 TrousersAbsolutely Free. All prices remain unchanged and exactly as they have been all season—the extra or gratis garment in no way affecting the price, which remains $15 for Suits to Orders. Furthermore, you get the same good workmanship and the same good service—now and always. It's the British. 506 West Locust British WOOLEN CO 506 West Locust Open Saturday Until 10:30 p.m. Rev. L. N. Daniels, P. R. was the ALBIA, IOWA. Evangeliat L. V. Schoolfield of Oskaloosa, spent two days of this week in Albia on business and visiting friends. Blind Boone and his Concert company played at Kings Opera house, on Tuesday of this week. The R. B. M. Literary society did not meet on Tuesday evening on account of the members attending Blind Boone's Concert, at their meeting for Feb. 14. The debate will be: Resolved that the States that seceded from the United States should have been given to the Negroes. Mr. Harte of Oskaleosa is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Oscar Roper, in Albia, a few days this week. Miss Cleo Cary is in Buxton taking care of her mother, who is sick this week. Mrs. Walter Beasly went to Hocking to spend Tuesday Mr. Brown, Messrs. W. H. Gordon, Lewis Edmond and others of Hocking, attended the Leap Year party at the A. M. E. church, Thursday evening. The family of Mr. B. F. Lewis are on the sick list this week. Mrs. Eliza Hays is on the sick list. DAVENPORT NOTES. Rev. M. Tumor of Oklahoma is conducting a weeks meeting at the Third Baptist church commencing Feb. 5. Rev. J. Burton preached at the Third Baptist church Sunday morning and evening He left Monday morning for Ottumwa, Iowa. Mrs. Francis Baker who has been sick for a few days is able to be out again. Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church, Sunday was a decided success, both spiritually and financially Rev. Sims of Moline, Ill., preached an able sacramental sermon. Rev f. N. Daniels, Presiding Elder was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Hawking while in the city. NOTE: We guarantee these trousers to be worth not less than $5 to $7. New Saturday Is the Day the sale closes. Don't come at these Free Pants for there 30 Suit tailored to your $5 to $7 Pants Free! no prices changed. We wish that you get the extra $5.00 by Free. All prices remain they have been all season— in no way affecting the price, its to Orders. Furthermore, kmanship and the same good, It's the British. British EN CO 506 West Locust Until 10:30 p.m. guest of Mrs B. Bright for dinner Sunday. The A. M. E. Stewards will celebrate the 152d anniversary, Feb. 20th. (Special to Bystander.) AGENTS WANTED. The Mission Circle met Thursday at the residence of Mrs. W. B. Battles. The Benevolent club met with Mrs J. Brodus Friday evening had a large attendance. The Benevolent club gave a Surprise Donation party on Mr. and Mrs. Low Morse Friday evening. The evening was spent in music, games. The hostess served a delightful two-course luncheon. Covers were laid for twenty. All reported having a nice time. The February in the ECONOMY BAY provide un economies in d merchand Northern Artificial MANUFACTURERS OF Rev. Roberts of Sloux City preached Sunday at Bethlehem Baptist church. He is an able talker. Mr. Franklin is visiting Miss Bertha Strother in Buxton this week. Mrs. J, W. Holmes is improving slowly at this writing. Miss Rush (white) spoke at Bethel church, Wednesday evening. She is quite a fluent orator. A Miner Slugged and Robbed. James Lumaden, an English miner of the Highbridge mines, living with a sister on Clifton Heights, was found by patrolman Dellinger near the Rock Island tracks, at East 9th street, Saturday night, with his face badly beaten up and almost frozen. When examined at the police station he said he had been robbed of five dollars by two men. He says he can identify them. He says he went into a saloon at East Fifth Court avenue, and the two started him out for "a good time;" led him up a stairway and beat him with a sledge hammer. Quarterly meeting was held Sunday, Jan. 21st, Rev. I. N. Daniels, P. E., was with us preaching two beautiful sermons in the evening. Rev. Geo. W. Slater of this city delivered a pleasing discourse. All services were fairly well attended. Monday evening quarterly conference was held which was well attended by the members of the church, taken all in all everything was a success. Arrangements are under way for an entertainment on the evening of Feb. 14th for the benefit of the steward department at Bethel A. M. E. church under the direction of Mrs. E. W. Mann, a program will be rendered. Those who knew of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Wesley J. Gains were pained to hear of his passing away a few weeks ago at his home in Atlanta, Ga. His career was a long and successful one laboring long and earnestly for the cause which he represented Items of interest gladly received at any time by the correspondent. Send Hello! Walnut 2735? Call us up if you need money in a hurry GRAND List of Prizes to be given EIC Prize No. 1. Sewing " " 2. Bicycle GRAND PRIZE CONTROL If Prizes to be given, also Rules governing GRAND PRIZE CONTEST List of Prizes to be given, also Rules governing the Contest Prize No. 1. Sewing Machine (standard make.) " " " 2. Bicycle (lady's or gentleman's) " " " 3. Winchester Gun (take down.) " " " 4. Scholarship (Drake University, teach " " " 5. Round Trip to Chicago Any point East of or West of the Ohio " " " 6. Gold Watch (lady's or gentleman's) " " " 7. Gold Ring (lady's or gentleman's.) " " " 8. Set of Silver Knives and Forks (star A cash premium of $5.00 in Gold will be given to anyon subscribers. RULES 1st. Any person over 10 years old, church, society, or enter by simply sending their names to the IOWA STATE noon, Saturday, February 10th, 1912. 2nd. Any prizes will be given unless 20 or more New S 4. Scholarship (Drake University, teacher's s 5. Round Trip to Chicago Any point East of the Mise or West of the Ohio River. 6. Gold Watch (lady's or gentleman's) 7. Gold Ring (lady's or gentleman's.) 8. Set of Silver Knives and Forks (standard premium of $5.00 in Gold will be given to anyone secu " " 4. Scholarship (Drake University, teacher's summer course.) " " 5. Round Trip to Chicago Any point East of the Missouri River or West of the Ohio River. " " 6. Gold Watch (lady's or gentleman's) " " 7. Gold Ring (lady's or gentleman's.) " " 8. Set of Silver Knives and Forks (standard make.) A cash premium of $5.00 in Gold will be given to anyone securing 12 or more new subscribers. any person over 10 years old, church, society, club or only sending their names to the IOWA STATE BYSTATE, February 10th, 1912. no prizes will be given unless 20 or more New Subscribers most one above 20 subscribers will secure the first Grant prize, and so on. every new subscriber for One Year will count 150 votes " " " " " 6 months " " 60 " " " old " renew or pay up 1 years subscription to other fractional year or payment will count in the one standing of each contestant will be published from the contest, three prominent, disinterested persons will announce the winners. the contest will open Monday, February 12th, and 1st. Any person over 10 years old, church, society, club or organization may enter by simply sending their names to the IOWA STATE BYSTANDER office before noon, Saturday, February 10th, 1912. 2nd. No prizes will be given unless 20 or more New Subscribers shall be secured and the highest one above 20 subscribers will secure the first Grand Prize, and second highest, 2nd prize, and so on. 3rd. Every new subscriber for One Year will count 150 votes. " " " " " 6 months " " 60 " " " old " renew or pay up 1 years subscription will count 75 votes. No other fractional year or payment will count in the contest. 4th. The standing of each contestant will be published from time to time and at the close of the contest, three prominent, disinterested persons will be selected to count the votes and announce the winners. 5th. The contest will open Monday, February 12th, and close Monday noon, April 15th, 1912. CLINTON HAPPENINGS. or phone Miss Estella Bush. A. A. Bush and son Curtis attended the funeral of Mrs. Eliza Wilson in Port Byron, Ill., Sunday Jan. 21st. Deceased was an old and well known citizen of that town belonging to the only colored family. The funeral was largely attended by the friends of deceased of Port Byron and the Tri-cities. Mr. M. O. Culberson was elected dele- The February Sale in the NOMY BASEM provide unusual nomies in dependa merchandise. YOUNKER BOWERS provide unusual economies in dependable merchandise. Northern Artificial Limb Company Artificial Limbs Trusses, Shoulder Braces, Artificial Arms, Apparatus for Elevated Feet and Shortened Limbs, all kinds of Brace Work for Deformities. Crutches and Elastic Goods. Phone Walnut 5347 312-314 W. Seventh St. Des Moines, la. WE LOAN MONEY LOOK AT THESE RATES $5.00 cost you 25c $10.00 " " 50c $25.00 " " $1.25 $60.00 " " $2.25 $100.00 " " $4.00 amounts same proportion. No other Open Saturday Evenings till 8:30. A NEW COMPANY Star Loan Co., "The Firm That Saves You Money." 107-108 Manhattan Bldg. on Walnut and Locust on West Fifth Phone Walnut 2735. ZE CONTEST No Rules governing the Conte on furniture, pianos, horses, wagons real estate, personal property etc. Other amounts same proportion. No other charge. Open Saturday Evenings till 8:30. A NEW COMPANY EIGHT GRAND PRIZES A University, teacher's summer course. Milwaukee Any point East of the Missouri River or West of the Ohio River. es or gentleman's.) or gentleman's.) es and Forks (standard make.) be given to anyone securing 12 or more LES church, society, club or organization IOWA STATE BYSTANDER office 0 or more New Subscribers shall be RULES (2) gate to the Dist. Conference which will be held at Fairfield, Iowa, in March representing Bethel A. M. E. church, of this city. A movement was put on foot for a novel entertainment, Feb 22d, to be known as a leap year social; the ladies to furnish the supper. The gentlemen to purchase the basket of the lady who may be his escort. The affair is looked January Sales the BASEMENT unusual dependable andise. A boy holding a stick and a boy standing with his hands on his knees. urses, wagons real estate. HESE RATES last you 25c “ “ 50c “ “ $1.25 “ “ $2.25 forward to with pleasure and it is hoped to make it a big event. This will be preliminary to the rally which will take place in March for the trustees. The election of trustees of Bethel A. M. E. church was held Tuesday night with the following result: Re-elected, J. T Culberson, Wm. Henderson, Geo, Robinson, Rev. P. P, Taylor, A. A. Bush, Chas. I. Thompson, Rev. G. W, Slater. Mr. Jesse Hazel is suffering from an attack of typhoid fever. While on her way to see her sister, Mrs. Easley, Mrs. Myra Hardin stepped and fell severely injuring herself. She will be confined to her home for some time. The Autumn Leaf club met with Mrs. Bryant Gregsey at her home, Thursday. Fellowing the business meeting light refreshments were served. Mrs. Alice Dunoway is on the sick list. Mrs. Mason Drury and Marion Anderson were called to Chicago by the serious illness of Mrs. Mellvina Totten. The many friends of Mr. Cornelius Carter were pained to learn of his sudden death Sunday. Mr. Carter has been a suffer from heart disease for some time, and it is supposed he over exerted himself while at his work as baggeman. While on his way to the depot he was seen to fall backward into his wagon and when help reached him life was extinct. He is survived by his wife, two sons and a host of relatives. Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Baptist church. BOSTON M Greatest Variety Choice Meats, and Delicacies We Strive to Please Goods and Prompt I PHONE N MARKET Co. Variety in the City of Meats, Fish, Poultry Facies. To Please with the Best of Prompt Service PHONE 765 All Rectal Curets cured without a surgerial operation. 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Lincoln's birthday will be observed by the members of the Baptist church, Feb. 11. A program of exceptional merit is being prepared to which the public is invited. The Culture Club met with Mrs. Nora Leonard, Tuesday afternoon. The early afternoon was spent with fancy needle work, after which a splendid program was rendered. Dainty refreshments were served. Miss Irrena Fletcher was the guest of the afternoon. KEOKUK IOWA The members of Morning Star society No. 11feel very grateful to Mr. Edward Roberson, who so delightfully entertained them at his commodious ice cream parlorls last Thursday afternoon. Excellent music on the pinola was furnished at intervals throughout the afternoon. Remarks and social discussions by the different members were heard, after which an elegant 2-course luncheon was served. The hospitality of the host shall long be retained as a pleasant memory by the happy recipients. It is not expected that Mr. Roberson will remain a widow much longer since his ability as a cook is unquestioned. Then too, this is leap year. The death of Mr. Will McCutcheon was reported last week, but it proved to be only a severe sinking spell. However grave fears are entertained. Mrs. Carrie Goins Crump is quite ill with appendicitis at her home in Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. Nat. Cheatham, an old resident of this city and a veteran of the civil war, died recently. Burial occurred in the National cemetery. The only immediate surviving relative is one son, Harry, whose whereabouts is unknown. Miss Blanch Williams of Chicago is in the city, called here to attend the fu- 320 Sixth Avenue Piles Official paper of the M. W. U. Great Lodge of Iowa. A. F. & A. M. in International Grand Congress, Herolines of Jericho of America and Western Baptist Association Published every Friday by the B stander Publishing Company, B Moines, Iowa. Office in Chemie building, corner Seventh and M berry streets. Iowa phone, wn nut 899. JOHN L. THOMPSON, EDITOR J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER Entered at the postoffice as a on class matter. neral of her grand-father, Geo, W. iams. Mr. Earnest Summers and Mr. W. Coleman, two of Mr. Jas. Cameron two sons, valued employees have be off from work the past week on acco of illness. We earnest hope thie may soon be able to resume their du Mr. Henry Johnson, who has not gone a long and serious siege of illi is yet confined indoors, but friends main hopeful for an ultimate recovery Mrs. Lucretia Reuben has been ported quite ill, but is now convicent. We are sorry to note that Mr. L. L. Anderson, who it was thought steadily gaining in health, is again fined to his bed. The program given by the Gar Kimbrough Concert company last Thursday night at Bethel church, was attended considering the extreme weather. Mr. Chas. Owens announces the ding school Thursday night at Association hall. The young people are looking forward to the masquerade ball Feb. 14th Masonic hall. It is expected that so stunning costumes will appear. The funeral of the late John Wink took place at Bethel church last Sunday afternoon. He leaves a wife and four children. This death is extremely sad as only a few mouths ago one the children was thrown from the stair of a wagon, driven by Mr. Wilson died as a result of its injuries. Mr. Wm. Rush, who is running pantatorium at 413 Main St., is doing splendid business. He has now instilled one of the new 20th Century Pring machines, which is working fit Mr. Rush is an energetic young man with lots of business qualities. Subscribe for the Bystander now COLPAX NOTE Miss Stella Pierson, head chef of Rest Home, enjoyed a large birth Post Card shower, which occurred J. 29th. Unexpectedly some of her fries found out the day of the month of birthday and a few days before Jan. every mail brought cards until the were numbered at forty, and they were Ex-President McKinley and red nations being the president's favor flower, she received two dozen and card saying "wear flowers for his birthday" and yours. Many beautiful useful presents were received and M Pierson has been in our city for a past year. She is highly respect young lady liked both by white black, and her many friends of be sexes didn't forget to help her keep day. A Friend Des Floines, Iowa. We Grew Our Hait Now Let Us Grow Vours with