Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. Mr. J. G. Davis, a delegate to the S. 3. Convention, left Wednesday for Mt. Pleasant. Mrs. Smith who has been quite ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Chas. Roy, is convalescing. Miss Adah Hyde is spending a few days at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Hyde. The condition of Mr. Willie Roy remains unchanged. Mr. Wm. Mathews, who has been a steward on a private car for eight years and the past year at the Kirk- wood Hotel, has accepted the position as headwaiter at the Hyperian club. Mr. R. N. Hyde went to Chicago Thursday, June 18th to attend the Rep- ublican National Convention. Mr. M. Fields Jr. of St. Louis, Mo. a junior Law Student of the State University was in the City Wednesday enroute to his home. While here he was a guest at the R. N. Hyde home. Mr. C. W. Weeks of New York city, a former Des Moines boy, was in our city over Sunday visiting rela- tives and friends. Window Screens—Dawson's Hardware. Mr. Robert Johnson of Kirksville, Mo. is visiting her mother, Mrs. Lew- Greater at 225 Ymcleft street. The Corinthian Aid Society met last week with Mrs. Harris. Rev. Murk the missionary met with us. His talk of his work was very interesting. Mrs. Blakey was elected a delegate to the Northwestern association. Mr. John Walker, who spent last week in Oceania attending the holliness meeting and visiting friends, returned home with Mrs. U. Taylor was entertained last Sunday at dinner, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Theodore Bell. Please be in mind the Corinthian Aid ball team will play against the officers of the church July 4th at Lake Park. Let everyone come! Rev. Geo. W. Slater of Clinton,迎迎 to our city Sunday and spoke at the Holiness meeting at Greenwood Park Sunday afternoon, and in the evening he presided at the St. Paul's A. M. E. church to an appreciative audience. Mr. Henry Lee entertained a few of his friends at his birthday anniversary at the home of his sister, Mrs. Wm. Shackelford, 622 Tenth street, bridged by Jude Glass. Whist was played for prizes, Mrs. J. Massey was the winner; after which an elegant luncheon was served. Mr. M. A. Propps has accepted a position as Matron of the Missionary Training school at the Tennessee, and will leave the latter part of the month for that city to take up her duties there. Mrs. Propps is one of the most missed by her friends. Mr. and Mrs. Price Alexander delightfully entertained Friday, June 14, at their home, 3835 Cornell St., in honor of their son Archie, who graduated Wednesday, June 12, at Allegheny University, also Miss Audrey Lindsay and sister Leanne of Deaver, Colo. Mr. Bertrand Brent of Everett, Washington passed through our city Wednesday, June 10, to work port where the Grand Court also represent of the Grand Court of Heronies of Jericho of Everett, Wash. Mr. Brent is a brother-in-law of Atty. S. Joe Brown of this city. Attorney and Mrs. S. Joe Brown entertained informally Sunday afternoon from four to eight in honor of Mr. Bertrand Brent of Everett, Wash. brother-in-law to Attorney Brown and who left Monday morning for Davy to attend the Grand Court of Heronies of Jericho of Everett, guest of honor were Iva McClain recent graduate of West High school, Chester Frederick of North High and Valetta and Hubert London of East high; also Mrs. Miss Bessie Brooks, a rector of Graduate of Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo. Mrs. Mo Berta Perna, a student at Western University, Kansas City, Kan. The afternoon was spent in music as the band played, which a dainty replay, the singer Vacum Sweepers-Dawson's Hardware. Rev. Moore, presiding elder of the Des Moines district, held quarterly meetings at Carney, Iowa, and Oralab Sunday, June 9th. The meetings were well attended and the Elder preached two very impressive services; he also spoke very highly of the work that Rev. C. S. Erwin has done. I have used-your Pomade. Its the best thing I ever used for making curly hair air smooth. I have not finished my first bottle, but can see wonderful results, writes Mrs. Louise E. Hayes of Pinerville, S.C. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for harsh stubborn and unruly hair and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion for the complexion. Ask your druggist for them. Be sure and get the genuine (Ford's) manufactured by the Ozonizer Ox Martrow Company, Chicago, Ill. Screen Doors-Dawson's Hardware. Through an oversight, we neglected to mention the names of Mr. and Mrs. Watkins with Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Jagburn with the opening of the new Utopia. We wish to extend thanks to them, also Mr. and Mrs. McGuire, Props. Rev. G. S. Erwin received the sad news of the death of his oldest sister, Mrs. Annie Robinson at Straunpla, Va. The news was received too late for him to be in attendance. We extend to Rev. Erwin our deepest and heartfelt sympathy in his benefaction. Say! Why go to Younker's Base or Olson's Ice Cup, Den to be refused? We serve everything up to you courteously and your patronage. Try us! UTOPIA CAFE. Rev. B. U. Taylor and Harrison Gillman with Mrs. W. Russell Jackson and Mrs. E. B. Ellison will attend the District Conference and the Sunday school convention which convenes at Oakaloosa, June 11 12, 13, and 14. Mrs. John Wilkinson and Mrs. E. B. Ellison left this city to attend a three days' session of the Grand Court of the Heroines of Jericho which convenes at Davenport, Iowa. Rev. T. L. Griffith left Tuesday, June 11th, to attend the Ministers and Deacons' Union and Iowa-Nebraska Baptist Sunday school Convention time for the regular Sunday services. Mr. and Mrs. Price Alexander and son Leonard attended the graduation exercises of their son and brother, and the Iowa State college on Wednesday, June 12. Mr. Archie Alexander is a Des Moines boy and we are all proud of him or any young man who takes a stand for education. He graduates from the civil engineer school at Iowa State college. Iowa State college, one of the best colleges our state co. boast. The M. C. T. club met last Monday evening at the home of Mrs. J. H. Perkins. After the report of the delegates of Iowa State Federation the following officers were elected for the next six months: President, Miss Gertrude Hye; Vice President, Mrs. J. H. Perkins; Sereteyk, Miss Mayie L. Bell; Assistant Secretary, Miss Letha Johnston; Treasurer; Mrs. Arthur Jones; Chaplin, Mrs. L. Green; Cricic, Mrs. H. R. Graves. Daisy refreshments were served and the club adjourned to meet next Monday with Mrs. Theodore J. Beth 1651 Lyon at, at which time officers will be installed. I desire to thank my friends for what they did for me in my campaign. I feel very grateful to them and take this opportunity of thanking them. I do not get the support that I expected and should have gotten. Of course that was due principally to the lack of organization among Negro voters. I feel that if such organization had been perfected as is sublimely characteristic of all other nations we have been no chance for my defeat. This was the best chance that the race has had for twenty years to go on record as a potent factor in politics in Polk County and we as a race should feel keenly the importance of perfect organization. Clothes Wringers—Dawson's Hardware. WESTERN BAPTIST CONVENTION Western Baptist Convention will meet with the Second Baptist church, Kansas City, Mo. Dr. S. W. Bacole, pastor, July 16th to 21st, 1912. All Baptist pastors and church workers are urged to be present. Churches are requested to represent contributions for Home Missions, Christian Educational and Foreign Missions. Prominent denominational workers will be present. T. L. GRIPFITH, President, Des Molines, Iowa. J. GOINS, Cor. Sec., Jefferson City, Mo. New Lunch Room First Class Lunches and Meals will be served to the public at Utopia, 211 West 9th St. Spesial and Private Dinner Parties Solicited. Music from 12 m. to 2 and from 6 to 8 p. m. Prof. L. Morgan J. H. McGUIRE, Prop. Screen Wire—Dawson's Hardware. L. H. S. BROWN JACK DAVIS Brown & Davis Headquarters for Cigars and Tobacco Billiards and Pool Phone Walnut 2314 229 Third St DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1912. OTTUMWA NEWS. Mrs. B. F. Lewis and daughter Miss Mildred and Ora Lewis have returned to their home in Albia after attending the funeral of the late M. J. Johnson. Mrs. Tena Turner of Burton is in Ottumwa with Mr. Turner who has been ill. Mrs. Cason was brought home last week from Rock Island where he suddenly took ill. He is able to be out a little at present. Rev. M. G. Newman of Oakaloosa is in the city this week. He was accompanied by Mr. S. D. Jackson, also of Oakaloosa. Miss Bertha West of Kirkville, Mo. is visiting a few, days with her sister Miss Frances West of South Ottumwa. Mrs. F. Husen was born in school here and will graduate from the grammar school soon. Mrs. W. Smith and family, formerly of Fairfield left here Wednesday for their new home in Keokuk. The Guideon Band met with Miss Alberta Horne Monday to arrange for an entertainment to be given at the院. Mr. John Henderson of Bloomfield was an over Sunday visitor in the city. Mrs. Myrtle Anderson of Kansas City has returned to her home after attending the funeral of her grandmother Mrs. M. J. Johnson and visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Davis and other relatives of Mrs. Husen. Mrs. W. Ocaloosa spent Wednesday, Decoration Day in Ottumwa. While here he was the guest of Miss Edith Williams. Mr. Roy Clark entertained at a 6 o'clock dinner Decoration Day in honor of the Misses Ethel and Maude Mc Leonard out-of-town guests were Mrs. Thomas of Kansa City, Mo. and Mr. Homer Johnson of Ockaloose. Mr. and Mrs. Wm McLean and two children of Memphis, Mo. have returned to their home. They were called McLean and Mrs. McLean and McLean's mother, Mrs. M. J. Johnson. Rev. Carr, pastor of the 2nd Baptist church is out of town on business. He expects to be absent about two weeks. Mrs. Oscar Thompson and little son of Cilton are expected to arrive this week. He expects to be a mother, Mrs. Annie Foster and other relatives and many friends. Mrs. Thompson was formerly Miss Mattie Foster of this city. Mrs. Jess Smith of Cedar Rapids visited in Ottumwa last week. Mrs. Thompson have returned home after a few days visit in Newton; the guests of Mr. Thompson's sister, Mrs. Wm. Wine. CEDAR RAPIDS NEWS Sunday was Rally day at Bethel A. M. E. Church. The subscribers did well, raising over two hundred and fifty dollars which was real good for a starter. The next rally will be in June. There was quite a large congregation at Sunday to listen to a very able discourse delivered by Slav. Stier. The choir rendered a fine program both afternoon and evening. Mrs. H. Florences, pianist, Mrs. E. C. Thomas, chorister. Mrs. Alice Thompson of Muscatine was a visitor in our city Sunday on her way home from the State Federation of Teachers. One of the greatest events of last week was the public school field meet. A feature of the exhibition was the runs and jumping of Harry Lavelle a 16 year old colored lad who will enter High school next fall. He won the hundred yard dash in 10:3-5 seconds, a better record than that of the 16 year old. The bread burgundy his record was 19 feet and 2 inches, a remarkable record for so young an athlete. Bergh Martin of Red Oak, In., returned home last week after six weeks visit with his grand mother Mrs. Martin Brooks and aunts Mrs. Jessie Smith and Miss Helen Martin. Mrs. Jessie Bergh go, as he was a dear little fellow and loved by all. We all hope he will come again soon. ST JOSEPH MO NEWS Mr. Frank Jackson of Atchison, Kas, spent a few days of last week in our city. Miss Mamy Hundley one of the teachers at the Bartlett school last week for Indianapolis, Ind. to spend the week meeting the various lodges of that order. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Whitsey of 505 N. 25th st. gave a dinner party last Wednesday evening, complimentary lunch at the Lawrence, Kan. The former has been one of the teachers at Douglass school the past year and her sister came up to visit her and attend the closing exercises of the school. They returned to their home last Saturday. As stated in a recent issue of the KSAT, the last week was the closing day for the schools until September. The principals report a very successful year but the daily attendance was not quite as large during the winter months as it was last year owing to the extremely deep snows and cold weather. Mr. Helena, Ark, president of the National Baptist Convention spent last Sunday in this city and delivered an address at the Francis Baptist church, he was accompanied by his son who is cashier of one of the banks of Helena. The Mesdames Geo. W. Walker and Ida Walker have returned from the annual meeting of the H. of J., which met on June 18. The following teachers of the Lincoln school whose homes are not in this city, the Misses Chew, Fields, Shreeve, have made their departure. Miss Chew going to Nashville, Tenn., Miss Fields to Maryville, for a few weeks and then to Nashville, Tenn., Miss Shreeve to Atchison, Kans. Several of the young men are slightly depressed since there has been such an oxodus of the young ladies. Quarterly meeting was observed at Telephoning the Florist Two Dozen American Beauties FLOWERS for dances and theatre parties birthdays and weddings, flowers to cheer the sick and comfort those who mourn may be ordered fresh from the florist at the last moment by the Bell telephone. The goods will be on the way before you could have reached the first store if you had gone in person. Bell service may be used in a mayriad of ways that are just as helpful. Anyone, anywhere within its sphere of operation, has ample opportunity to appreciate this fact. Local and Long Distance Bell service is accessible to 20,000,000 people. the Ebenezer A. M. E. church last Sunday, Rev. Beal, P. E. assisted the pastor Rev. Gregg. Mr. Joseph Perry of 1918 Frederick ave. left last Sunday morning for Des Moines, Ia, for a two weeks visit with relative. Geo. Cohon a student of the Baptist College at Atlanta, Ga, has returned home to spend the summer with his parents Rev. and Mrs. Cohon. BURLINGTON ITEMS Miss Mary Brooks and sister Mrs. M. Sidney very delightfully entertained with a four course dinner last Saturday the Mrs. A. Pleasant, J. Bradden of Miss Maud Bunsey of Cameron, Mo. Mr. John Earley of Earquine, Ill. arrived in the city last week for a visit with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Earle. Mrs. Lizzie Green and Pauline King returned this week from Des Moines where they attended the Grand Chapter. Sunday was quarterly meeting, the P. E. duly arrived and the meeting was largely attended. Quarterly conference convened Monday evening. Don't forget the grand rally at the Sunday in June, the Eastern Star services will be hold at the evening service. Mr. A. Pleasant spent Sunday out at the Ashby farm. During her visit Mrs. Ashby had the fortune to loose one of her valuable driving horses. Mrs. Pleasant reports the Ashby farm very successfully. The I. A. club enjoyed a delightful meeting at the parsonage last week with Mrs. McDowell as hostess. Mrs. J. F. Trent departed for Hannibal last week for an indefinite visit. Mrs. Stella Bradden of Kansas City, Mrs. B. Bradden of Kansas City, her arrival in our city some few weeks ago, is raidily gaining her health. Mr. Robert Wilson recently returned from a visit with his daughter Mrs. Rosa Lewis of Shelbyville, Mo., having been absent from his old home for a week. Mrs. Lewis will treat for this aged war veteran who has lived more than his four score years to visit the scenes of his youthful days. The reminiscence of his early life is remarkable and interesting. Mrs. Geo. Mott of this city is a daughter of Mr. Wilson. Ms. Chas. Bucker of New Boston has been home after a prolonged period of ten weeks at the bedside of her son Col. Buckner of Kansas City who was striken with typhoid fever. Apparent evidence of his ultimate recovery is now visible. During her stay there Mrs. Buckner had the pleasure of meeting and shaking hands of our distinguished Booker T. Washington. Rumor has it that Mr. Bedel Lamb of New Boston (formerly), was recently united in marriage to a young lady of Kansas City. Ms. Lena Porter is visiting friends and relatives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ms. George Harper and daughter Louise visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Freeman a few days last week. Mrs. Freeman was trained at an elaborate course dinner last Sunday by Mrs. Wm. Coleman and daughter Miss Medah Lewis. Ms. Brooks of Des Moines who is Grand C. P. of the Tauernacle daughters, is expecting to arrive in the city this week; while here she will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baily who moved from 12th and Morgan sts. into their own residence, they recently purchased on 15th and Blouden. Miss Grace Frazier of Chicago is expected to arrive in this city next Thursday to beautify and decorate the graves of her deceased parents Mr. and Mrs. Moses. Miss Frazier will remain for a few days guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Freemann. Mr. Geo. Dade whose illness was noted a few weeks ago, is now greatly improved. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Hawkins May the 14th a ten pound boy. There is no need of anyone being troubled with constipation. Chamberlain's Tablets will cause an agreeable movement of the bowels without any unpleasant effect. Give them a trial. For sale by all dealers. Telephoning the Fl FLOWERS for dar birthdays and cheer the sick and com may be ordered fresh last moment by the B The goods will be on reached the first store if you Bell service may be used just as helpful. Anyone, an ation, has ample opportunity and Long Distance Bell se people. IOWA TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM IOWA TELEPHONE & TELEPHONE CO. Dr. Dilemma, a native african preached quite an interesting sermon at Bethel church last Sunday night. He will lecture on the 28th. Rev. J. E. Abbott received the sas number of the dept. for his only sister who lived in Missouri. The report that Mrs. Wm. Taylor was ill with pneumonia as noted a few weeks ago was a mistake. It was later learned that it was a serious heart attack. However we're glad that he was among the Keokuk number to attend the General Conference at Kansas City. The sad death of Zethia Cartmill who committed suicide by drowning in the river at Ft. Madison is deeply deplored by a number of friends here. He grims Rest church here last Sunday week. Burial was in Oakland cemetery. KEOKUK NEWS Obituaries of the late to Fraser, who died at Kookuk May the last at his home 717 N. 13 street of Dropy and Brights Deasease. But little is known of the long eventful life of our departed friend and brother Cato Frazier, or of his birth and youthful career, only as through natives related to him. He was depended entirely on the kindness and the sympathy of those who could realize his desolate condition. He was born at Hiltonhead, Va., in the early years. As he had no career, he was depended entirely on the growth in slavery, later he met the Union Army and entered the service and at the close of the war he came to St. Louis from the Keokuk, Iowa where he has lived ever since. He labored in many capacities and acquired some farm and city property. He and his trusty citizen. He married at Keokuk and lived very comfortably with his wife having no children. Mr. and Mrs. Frazier were among the ledged colonies of Keokuk and had many friends. A few years ago his wife was dead and he helped as his eyesight had ended to fail him which in a short time dependent, as he was unable to work or care for himself and had only his home to depend on. Mrs. M. Davis came to often realised and seemed to enjoy life. He took to his bed about a month previous to his death. His disease was dropy and kidney trouble, and he had a hard to overcome. He never complained of pain at any time, but felt he was a sick man. He loved to hear the bible read and was much in prayer and trusted in god and was strong in the faith. He was ever grateful to those who cared for him. He joined the kindness to the last. He was much attached to Mrs. Davis and her family and seemed to realize that there friend ship was sincere. He requested to be buried from his home, and no flowers be placed on his grave. Burt Anderson Special to the Iowa State Bystander Citizenside, May 19, 1918 Chirinda, 18, May 19, 1972. The Third quarterly meeting of the A. M. E. church held Rev. B. M. Moore presiding elder of the Des Moines district prescheduled afternoon and evening, the pastor Rev. H. M. Riwers preached in the morning at 2 P. M. Rev. Moore baptized 3 persons, the used Christian church. A large crowd was in attendance. Monday the quarterly conference was held, reports showed the church in progress circumstances. Rev. H. M. Riwers is working hard to bring the hite brown fox umped over the lazy brown rabbit. The three of the members of the A. M. E. church and one of the First church (the baptized went from Chirinda over to Gravity and spent the day in the home lorist Two Dozen American Beauties nces and theatre parties weddings, flowers to comfort those who mourn h from the florist at the Bell telephone. the way before you could have had gone in person. in a mayriad of ways that are anywhere within its sphere of oper- to appreciate this fact. Local service is accessible to 20,000,000 A TELEPHONE COMPANY of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johnson. The ladies who accompanied the porter were Mrs. Howard Moore, Mrs. Henry Fere, Mrs. Lizzie Robinson and Mrs. Mary Bolden. In the evening the ladies returned to Clarinda while Rev. Moore and Rivers visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Johnson of Gravity and after staying all night in room set over to Bedroom to hold two nights of rev. Rivers returned to Clarinda while the P. E. Rev. Moore went to Oceola to hold meeting after having spent two nights in Bedford. Mower's Sharpened - Hodder's Hodware. ALBIA NEWS. Attorney Jas. Spears of Buxton was in Albia on Friday of this week. Mrs. Virginia Burns and Miss Ethel Burns of Hocking were in Albia Tuesday. Mrs. Luke Mosely of Hiteman was in town Saturday. Attorney Geo. H. Woodson of Buxton was in town on business Friday. Attorney Geo. H. Woodson of Hocking was in town Friday. Mrs. Thomas Johnson and her son Sam Johnson of Buxton were in town this week. Mrs. Grayson Jeffers of Des Moines has been busy the past week lunching and being entertained by her many friends in Albia. Mr. W. H. Bowman has returned from springs, where he has been taking treatment for the past two weeks. Mrs. E. Grayson Jeffers returned to Des Moines on Monday afternoon. Constable Watson of Buxton brought him and placed them in Monroe county jail, charged with bootlegging whisky. Colored people of Albia picnic at the city Park on Sunday having their annual picnic. BUXTON BRIEF8. Mrs. Elnora Johnson left Tuesday for Cedar Rapids to spend a few months. Mr. L. B. Coleman, who visited Cedar Rapids last week, McDowell, a few days, left Tuesday for his home in Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Jas. Walker entertained the Mission Circle of Mt. Zion Baptist church last Thursday morning. After a very fine program he been rendered cake by the hostess. Mr. Richard Stewart, C. C., was in Ottumwa Sunday visiting Mr. Ben Abney a member of the lodge who has been hospital there. Mr. Abney has been hospitalized and is much improved at this writing. Rev. Wm. Beckham, Field Secretary for the National Baptist Convention, will be in Buxton June 19th at Mt. Zion Baptist church. You will be able to see a rare treat. He is known as the "Baptist talking machine" and is undoubtedly the best informed man in the denomination and can tell more about the work of the Baptist than any other in the world. A wonder. Don't fall to hear him. Mrs. E. E. Whitfield, who is to the Women's work of the National Convention what Rev. Beckham is to National Convention proper, was in our room at Zion church at 11 o'clock, the Tabernacle at 3.39 P. M. and St. John's A. M. E. church in the evening. Sister Whitfield is a very forceful speaker and a consecrated woman who is doomed to die. She pleased earnestly for National Training school for Colored women and girls, located at Lincoln Heights, Washington, D. C., and for that cause, the church gave $1.00 and $1.00 from Tabernacle church. We were unable to get the results of the meeting at St. John's church. Mrs. Anna Crackdock arrived in the city last Monday to spend about two hours with parents, other relatives and friends. Miss Elina Enbanks left for Kirkville, Mo. Monday where she will attend the S. Convention and visit her father. She was given by Mrs. Samson Johnson in honor of Little Jas. Carter last Tuesday afternoon; the occasion being his eleventh birthday. About twenty of his little friends were present and they enjoyed the moon in childish games and plays. Mrs. Julia Lewis of Chicago is visiting her cousin Mr. L. W. Strother and family. and Mrs. T. T. Lewis have moved to the east end of Twelfth street in one of the Jones houses. Their many friends will be glad to call on them in this beautiful location. Rev. Woodard left Tuesday for Mr. Pleasant to attend the Ministers' and Mrs. Pleasant to be in session there this week. Mr. Marshall Lowerg, Mrs. W. A. Brown, Misses Fannie Woodford and Reola Buford left Wednesday for Mt. Pleasant to attend the Sunday school convention and B. Y. Convent. Mr. Lowery and Miss Woodford are delegates to the S. S. Convention, Mrs. W. A. Brown, State President of the B. Y. P. U. and Miss Buford are delegates to that organization. Misses and Misses are assigned an automobile and is prepared to take passengers to and from Albia and Hamilton. T. B. Carey is the chauffeur. Misses One Webb and Andrey Logan are the St. Kate delegates to the A. S. S. Convention at Oksaloosa this week. They left Tuesday. *Tabernacle Baptist Church News:* On Tuesday evening, June 7, the Woman's Home and Foreign Mission Societies under the leadership of Mrs. Clara Tate, president, gave a reception in honor of Mrs. C. H. Menken, president of the Women's Ethell Ternel of Coltax and Mrs. Joanna Johnson of Oralabor, Iowa, in connection with Mrs. M. E. Oliver, Mr. Paris Williams, Deacons Tate, Mrs. Ethell Ternel, Mrs. Joanna Johnson, very helpful and profitable lecture to our Mission Society and friends at the church Sunday afternoon. Our prayers are for her and the work in which she is engaged that she may be suc- ```markdown ``` Price Five Cents. Theporter Henry Mrs. the Rev. Rev. some of Gra light in hold msrs re. Rev. meeting sts in R. was was was Eth. Albia was Bux. day. son town was week by burned Mendenhall gave some very splendid addresses. At the close of the remarks the committee served a supper. All report a pleasant time. Mrs. Joanna Johnson left last week for her home in Oralabor after having spent a pleasant visit with her sister Mrs. Alma. Mrs. Grimes was taken very seriously ill last Tuesday but is reported much improved at this writing. We trust he will soon recover. Rev. Samuel Johnson was the guest of Mendenhall over Sunday and preached a diddid sermon at the evening service. Bro. Ed. Clay preached in Albia Sunday, June 2d. Mrs. E. E. Whitfield, field secretary of the Mendenhall over Sunday, Rev. C. H. Mendenhall left Tuesday for Mt. Pleasant to attend the S. S. Convention. Mrs. C. G. Green is on the sick list. The Mission Circle is progressing nicely and is having some very helpful discussions each week. Mrs. Angeline Logan who has been for more than a year departed this life last Thursday. The funeral was held church Sunday P. M. and the body was taken to Shelbins, Mo., for burial. She has been a member of sald church and choir for many years, also a member of Hermoin Court No. 16. The funeral the church had charge of her remains. Rev. Woodoff articulated at the funeral. Under the auspices of the Progressive Lodge No. 16, there will be a grand celebration here July 4th. The principal speakers of the day will be Gov. Clarke, Hon. Geo. H. Woodson, Dr. E. A. Carr. Further announcement will be given. Little "Dear Talkeet" accompanied her grandfather and deceased grandmother to Shelbins, Mc, where Mrs. Logan is to be hurled. Stomach Trouble Many remarkable cures of stomach trouble have been effected by Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tables. One man who had spent over two thousand dollars for medicine and treatment was entirely cured by a few boxes of these tablets. Price. 25 cents. Free samples at any drug store. OBITUARY. Mr. Hayes Dead. James F. Hays died Sunday morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Fisher, after an illness of many months. He was janitor at Adams Express office. He was taken very ill a month ago, and was taken to the home of his niece, Mrs. A. C. Fisher. Takent to his bed Monday week, he departed from this life to that beoym Sunday morning at 2:10. His niece said he was so bright and seemed so happy all day long. About 2:30 Saturday afternoon he asked Mr. Fisher for the Bible and his glasses and reading a chapter in John said he was feeling fine. Mr. Hays was born in the state of Missouri, on Feb. 15, 1854. He came to Newton, Isa. when a boy. He was married to Miss Belle Williams who departed this life in 1906. He is survived by a step father, Anderson Hays a brother, a sister-in-law, Mrs. L. Mays; niece and nephews who were at his bedside when he passed away. Rev. Bates of Des Moines conducting the funeral services, assisted by Rev. Taylor, Mrs. Fisher and daughter, Violet, Mrs. Emma Morton, Mr. George Lee, accompanied the remains to Newton, Ia., where it was laid away in the family yard. CLINTON. Rev. G. W. Slater arrived home a few days ago from a five weeks' trip in the lecture field in the East. Part of last week he spent in Cedar Rapids, where he filled engagements, going from there on a tour of the park for an engagement at Hampton, Va., the last of July before a convention. In the class which graduated from the grammar school last week were Miss Esther, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Esther, and former Rev. Rivell and Mrs. G. W. Slater. They no doubt will take up the high school course in the fall. The Rally at the Second Baptist church last Sunday netted that society $50,00. over which they are paying. They attended at the afternoon service was very pleasing. Those appearing rendered special service and were the Men's Chorus of the First Baptist church, an address by Rev. Rogers, pastor, also of that church, and Miss Murda Beason, who read a beautiful preface. Mrs. G. W. Slater visited last week in Cedar Rapids the guest of her husband who is filling an engagement. Children's Day was observed at Bethel A. M. E. church Sunday by the children of the Sunday school who rendered a program of recitations and songs. Clifford Culbertson spent last week at home, on the initial trip for the season of the Morning Star on which he was employed. He was unfortunate when the heat of the day ruined the heart's down trip last Friday. Recent advices from John L. Thompson are that he will be in the city in a few days in the interests of the Bystander on his annual college fund. If you please bear this in mind so that he will not be put to any inconvenience. The local agent will call on you at an early date, so be ready to pay up your obligation. A supper will be given on July 3d under the auspices of the Stewards of Bethel A. M. E. church. Beach age of our lives has its joys. Old people should be happy, and they will be if Chamberlain's Tablers are taken to strengthen the digestion and keep the bowels regular. These tablers are gentle and especially suitable for people of middle age and older. Fore sale by all dealers. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Vampires of the street, they should be called; these animals whose unbridled passions make them prey on any living creature and leaves no man safe from their attacks. It should be a man's privilege to live in protection, when he will or will he, so long as his will does not conflict to hindrance of society, but in this city of the free, a man may is mistaken for liberty, a man may not leave his home with any assurance of returning if his way happens to lead him in certain districts of our city. Here a many ma yn not express his opinion without a challenge which may result in his death. Here he may need to rectify some mistake less some prowler of the street make him pay for the privilege with his life. Where are our laws, where are our courts, where our police that this crase of affairs continues unchallenged, unchecked? Never a week passes over our head but some life has paid the forfeit to another's life passion. Scarcely a day passes but some man has taken judgment and justice in his own hands and blotted out some other to satisfy his malevolence. To many the sacredness of individual rights has no meaning. To them the home ties have no value; and for much the majesty of the law has no terrors. The time has come when because of the technical skill of the lawyers, the film firm practiced in the courts, the criminal no longer fears the penalty of his crime. Those who should be vigilant to rid society of these men are indifferent or careless. Laxity in the court room leaves no home free from fear that some of its members may be violently taken away because of the prey of some street tramp or lawless individual. In this enlightened city, there is a reign of terror and crimes likened to the days of the middle ages. Let the wholesale murder be stopped at any cost. Let our feelings not be constantly satisfied with crime. Let the men who have committed murder be dealt with according to the law on the statutes of our states. Let the criminal feel the real force of the punishment he invites. Punishment is the only antidote for heinous crimes. The man who is so hardened that he can ruthlessly take the life he cannot give is also so hardened that there is but little hope that a lenient sentence will help him. When crime ceases to go free because of sentiment or money crime will stand in fear of punishment and will fill him with a reign of terror, which has been on the increase for the past year. The duty of the court is to protect the citizens, their rights, their property and their lives. It is not its duty to lay a premium on crime abrogating punishment. We beg the judges on the bench, the state's attorney and the honorable lawyers at the bar to aid the crusade against crime by sternly setting their faces light sentences and easy discharges. We have brought before them—Illinois Chronicle. We have noted this striking difference between the white press and the negro press in their comment regarding the frightful tragedy of the Titanic! Colored writers invariably infer or pre-suppose it to have been the work of God, or at least that God in some way had some hand or purpose in bringing it about. The white man discusses the matter without any such inference or prepossession. So far as can be judged from this latter's writings, it was not in it either directly or indirectly. Man alone was responsible. Were there enough collapsible boats? Enough life preservers? Neglect to provide binoculars? Anything wrong about the mechanism of the wireless apparatus? If so, man was responsible, the error can be corrected and the banner of progress can be planted higher up the heights. But if God did it, then there is no need to try again. Let the army of God move the men to move a step further. Such is the legitimate consequences of two radically different ideas when traced to their logical conclusion. But what has always puzzled us is this, is it a necessary law of mind, that' the under man habitually thinks of any unforeseen tragedy happening to the man in advance as having been sent by some power above. But this much is certain, had the man in advance continued to think like the man farthest down both would today have been nearer the jungle than they are. All the progress known today has been made possible by cultivating the habit of looking for the cause of defeat and victory in the only world known to man. It is by reason of this success that the world. He never would have done so he held to the silly belief that his misfortunes, defeats, reverses and tragedies were sent upon him by some God or Devil. Mankind will benefit in countless ways by that frightful ee-tragedy which we all deplore. Nobody would be benefited, however, if the masters of thought and ef- "Dixie Kid," the colored welterweight champion, added another victim to his list the other night when he stored away Bernard, the Frenchman, in the tenth round in a bout in Paris. In Hutchinson, Kan., a jury composed entirely of colored men has been trying a case. Charles Fulton, deputy probate judge, remarked that he never saw a finer set of men on a jury than those six colored men, one of them a doctor, another a minister fort beloved for a moment that a God sent that superb ship to the bottom of the deep in order to show his power. Foolish ideas of that sort dominated the human mind during that night of a thousand years known in history as the Dark Ages. The baneful effects of those ideas are traceable in all of the occupations of man from farming to pharmacy. No race is capable of leading in the march of the world today that is not first able to divest itself of these ceremonies and grave-clothes of the mind—Dallas Express. In a news article published some weeks ago attention was called to the fact that a movement was on foot to have a national conference of waiters to consider the subject of negro waiters throughout the country. This is important, vastly important, and we hope it will be done. The fact that all classes of working people as well as captains of industry are constantly holding conventions to consider their condition with a view of improving that condition. People who manufacture wall paper hold conventions; people who manufacture picture frames hold conventions; people who manufacture wall clocks; people who manufacture clocks hold conventions; people who raise pigs, cows and chickens hold conventions. While all this has been going on among the white people the negro has been thinking far too long that he could benefit himself by simply holding conventions declaring in favor of "manhood rights" and all the rest of it. We have gone on with this nonsense until the negro waiters have begun to lose their bread and butter. By all means let us have conventions of negro wafters—New York Age. The St. Louis Argus is fighting a condition not a theory that exists nearly everywhere. It says: People who sweat their eyeballs out to earn a small sum and then pour it all back into the coffers of those who offer no means of getting any of it back save the most mental and poorly paid work, will never be able to get a foothold economically. Remember, that every dollar spent with a negro business or professional man has ten chances to reach you again to one chance for the dollar spent with the other fellow. Negro grocers, physicians, lawyers, dentists, druggists and what not are almost unanimous in saying that the people who can best afford to pay for high class service are from the mass of "just ordinary" that the negro business and professional man receives his support. If these negroes will not patronize negro enterprises, then let them be put out of the service of negroes. Keep them on them, and when the time comes to fill a place, put in a negro who will spend his money among his own people. There have been few undertakings on American soil wherein the negro has not borne a praiseworthy part. Mr. Hensen at the north pole with Peary is a case in point. Notwithstanding the intense cold he bore his part in this perilous dash to the pole with all the heroism of his companions and has written his name next of Peary in his great exploit. It is an indication of remarkable qualities of Hensen's mind that he has written and published a book on his experiences in the far north. In the years to come these two records, that of Peary and Hensen, will remain the only literary monuments of the first successful dash to the pole. A colored man was brought before a police judge charged with stealing chickens. He pleaded guilty and received sentence, when the judge himself lined up the agged to lift those chickens right under the window of the owner's house when there was a dog in the yard. "Hit wouldn't be of no use, judge," said the man, "to try to 'spain dis thing to you all. If you was to try it you like as not would get yer hide full o' shot an' get no chickens, nuther. If you want to engage in any raciality, judge, yo' better stick to de bench, whar yo' am familiar."—Zion's Advocate. Jack Johnson introduced his talk before a theater audience in Chicago to see how he celebrated white folks celebrating on July 4 but that the colored people never had much to rejoice or to touch off fireworks, and the like. That's why he changed things for them and gave merry on that big day, which, he said, should always be remembered as the time when one great athlete of the colored race defeated a white man. While some people are discussing and some are "cussing" him, he can "saw wood and say nothing." Just strive to educate head, heart and hand, and reach the highest mental, moral, physical and industrial development possible and get the elements so fixed in him that all the world can stand up and say, "This is a mnn." and a third a law student, and all of them men who have good education and character. It attracted a lot of attention, being a very unusual occurrence in Kansas legal circles—The Crisis. Colored people may taxes on nearly $1,000,000 worth of property in Savannah, Ga. Courtesy can never be out of place, no matter how intimate two souls may be, since it's a soul's gift. Negroes of America Own in Rea Estate Alone Many Millions. WONDER OF THE AGE—HAS MADE GREATEST PROGRESS EVER MADE," SAYS DR. HAWKIN. Send the negro back to Africa? Absurd, impossible. More than a billion dollars worth of United States real estate which he owns in his own house, he easily can be taken from him. Besides, the negro is not an African—he is an American. "African" is a misnomer. Why try to send him to a country which is not his own? So says Dr. J. R. Hawkins of North Carolina, secretary and commissioner of education for the African Methodist Episcopal church, a delegate to the general conference, at the Allen chapel, according to the Kanaka tribe. In his study the business status of colored people in connection with his regular work as one of the foremost educators. NEGRO PROGRESS IN HALF A CENTURY "It probably will startle the world when it realizes that we have acquired in the last 50 years over $1,000,000,000 in real, estate," Dr Hawkins said. "And that is only the beginning of the rapid forward march which the negro is making as a business man. The negro could not help manners, manners, manners, rounded with the years of his slavery. He was taught how to drive a bargain in horses or real estate, even if his master didn't teach him how to read and write. "There are 400 support-papers, daily and weekly, owned and published by negroes in the United States; 3,000 physicians have been graduated from negro and white schools and are now practicing among them. This year he has been admitted to the bar in the United States courts of justice and 380 authors are found among our race. AFRICA A FAIRY TALE. "We own 41 schools and colleges, representing an investment of $38,000,000, and $45,000,000 has been spent in church property for negroes. Negro men own and control 51 banks, which are prosperous and flourishing, and $650,000 has been invested in negro libraries. And it is significant that in the southland negroes own 180,000 farms on which 50 years ago they toiled to the crack of the slave whip. "The negro is a born American, and he forged it is his country. Africa has no call on him. It is as a fairy tale to him. Pestilence and disease are not uncommon in Africa, but gospel, the reformers and teachers of the youth are argued to warn and instruct that better conditions may be brought to pass. Criminal instincts cannot be attributed to all who break the law and the idea of no material gain and of swift and terrible retribution will destroy in many cases the tendency and thought toward the committing of crime. Holdup men are never at ease and seldom wealthy. FARM PROPERTY AMONG NEGROES The value of farm property owned and rented by colored farmers has, in the southern states, increased from 50 per cent. to 225 per cent. in the last ten years. In Texas, for instance, it has gone from $55,000,000 to $113,000,000; in North Carolina from $29,000,000 to $18,100,000; and in Georgia from $48,000,000 to $158,000,000. Nor has this been merely increased in the value of the same land. In these ten states the Negroes controlled, in 1910, 3,638,154 more acres than in 1900. It is not yet possible to separate the land that the owners of the renters. We only know that the owners of eight states from 125,413 to 149,235 in these ten years. We dare affirm that no class of white peasants in any European state has in the face of the most favorable ordinary conditions paralleled this record which the colored people have made—The Crisis. MAKE FAVORABLE IMPRESSION. Tuskegee, Ala.—Among the delegates to the recent International Conference on the Negro, held at Tuskegee institute, were three distinguished representatives from Barbadades, British West Indies. These gentlemen were: Washington Harper, shipwright; A. R. Parkinson, teacher, and Elliot Durant, journalist, all of Bridgeport. Little interesting thing about the selection of these gentlemen as delegates is that the governor of Barbadoes called a special meeting of the people to select these delegates and co-operated in every way in the matter of arranging for these men to visit the Tuskegee school. Mr. Harper, who calls himself a shipwright, is a most eloquent speaker, and all of the delegates were keenly alive to the needs of the little island in the Caribbean sea. During their visit to the east they have met many old friends, among others Dr. R. H. Russell, a Yorker who was a fellow teacher in Barbadoes with Mr. Parkinson. Reports which come to Tuskegee are to the effect that no others in attendance at the recent conference were more helpful and made a better impression than these three men from Barbadoes. FREEDMAN HOBPITAL NURSES GRADUATE. Washington. — The annual commencement exercises of the Freedmen's Hospital Training school were held in Rankin chapel, Howard university. The diplomas were conferred by Dr. William A. Warfield, surgeon-in-chief, Mississippi University, Misses Carrie Onetia Abner, Marguerite E. C. Butler, Elizabeth F. A. Carter, Estella A. Christian, Sarah E. Eaton and Mary A. Simmons. NO LONGER DOUBT OF WIDE SPREAD RACIAL CONSPIRACY. Havana—There is no room for doubt of the existence of a negro conspiracy extending to all the provinces of the island, with the apparent intention of taking up arms against the government today, which was the tenth anniversary of the Cuban independence. The negroes appear to have been driven by the denial of what need to them their just political reward for services rendered in the war of independence, in which they constituted a great majority of the Cuban forces. The feeling against the government has been intensified by a law denying negroes the right to organize a political party. The principal trouble now is in the vicinity of Sagua in Grande, where two armed parties are operating, and in Ortega province, where several negroes are on guard against City, with the same purpose of making a display of force at that place. The rural guard dispersed one small party and captured two others. **Troops Are Ordered Out.** The situation is considered sufficiently grave or the report要求 to dispatch Camp Columbia, composed of cavalry and infantry, with field and machine guns, bound for Santa Clara and Oriente provinces. Near Sagar la Grande a squad of rurales had an engagement with an armed band of negroes. One of the guards was killed and the negroes escaped. From Cruces comes the report that residents of the surrounding country are fleeing to the city where the officer reported to have held up a locomotive and stolen many horses. A dispatch received by the government from Lajas, Santa Clara, says that a negro band headed by Silmon Armenteros, destroyed the telegraph station at the Santissima plantation at Trinidad, in Santa Clara, and also burned a bridge of the railway from Sagua la Grande to Clerufos. Armenteros declares that it is his intention that it is utmost to destroy foreign property. At Mariano, 8 miles from Havana the rural guard exchanged shots with a party of negroes, capturing one of them and also nine rifles. GIVE US BACK OUR WHITE NEGROES There is much discussion going on in the white newspapers of this section over what seems to be a decrease in the per cent. of increase of the population of the negro race, comments the author. We would respectfully call their attention to the fact that whatever increased is made in the negro population is perfectly "natural." for there is practically no immigration of blacks from other countries to the United States. On the other hand there are hundreds of thousands of who come to this country each year. We would also call the attention of the whites who seem to be a little happy over the situation to the fact that there are thousands of negroes going over to the white race each year. Many negroes move from one state to the other and send their children to white schools and join white churches. Conductors on street cars and trains can't tell whites from negroes sometimes. We have seen negroes with whom we were well acquainted pass for white right in the city of Montgomery. When the census is being taken all such negroes are counted in with white people and the totals are made up in published showing that whites are raceless. If they will give us back our white negroes, we will make a better showing in 1320. There are laws against the intermarriage of whites and blacks; and other laws against whites and blacks sitting together on trains and in street cars, and a thousand other barriers, but this whitening process is still going on. TALKS ON SURFACE UNDER DRAINAGE PROBLEM. Normal, Ala. — Concluding the course of lectures which he has been delivering at the Agricultural and Mechanical college at Normal this year, Ben P. Hunt discussed in a most effective way the "Surface Underdrainage Problem," now before the south and the southern farmer. He declared that this is one of the greatest industrial problems which confronts the south and the American people. Speak further along this line, he said in part: "It is importance of this subject has been brought to my mind and impressed by the recent overflows and terrible damages in several of the southern states through the unusual rainfall for the past few months. It is the big problem and its successful solution will require the co-operative work of the federal government, the states and the counties interested." GET TOGETHER ON A DEFINITE PLAN. The negro newspapers are gaining in influence. And in this dark period it is incumbent upon the negro pub lishers of newspapers to get together and in an impassionate way counsel what they believe to be the best poli- ties for purge. But the newspaper is against lynching, says the Nashville Globe. As is well known, the late Justice Peckham was a Democrat, while Justice Harlan was a Republican. They were the best of friends. One day they were discussing the fear of death. Justice Peckham said to Justice Harlan: "You are not afraid to die, are you?" Then after a moment's reflection, Justice Harlan replied: "No, not exactly. My only fear is that I might bring up at Democratic headquarters." —New York Sun. WORK OF MEGRO SCHOOL PROVES SOUTH IS THE PLACE QUARTO-CENTENNIAL OF WATERS NORMAL INSTITUTE AT WIN TON, N. C., ATTENDED BY THOUSANDS. (By GEO. F. KING.) Winton, N. C.—(Special.)—The recent quarto-centennial celebration of Waters Normal Institute, this town was an event that forcefully portrayed the fact that the south and especially the rural district is the place for the masses of Negroes. Thousands of representative farmers and a number of business men of the race from every section of the state and parts of Virginia contiguous to Winton were present. The history of the institution is interesting and is an encouraging and important direction in the right direction. The central figure of the occasion was a man who is silently doing a work that rightly places him in the galaxy of true leaders. During the summer the year of 1884, the dr. Dr. Tupper, founder and president of Shaw University, Raleigh N. C., exhibited his great characteristics by becoming profoundly interested in Negroes in Eastern North Carolina to the extent that he gave $10,000 to the Rev. Dr. C. S Brown, who had just graduated from that university and who so近 this latter began a work that later proved a whole some factor in the lives of thousands. He came and began his work in the woods and among a large number of the race who were cursed by whisky. At this notable rural gathering hundreds of graduates of this energizing institution of learning, progressive farmers and other successful men and women who have become a constructive force in their respective communities because of the training received at this school and the helpful and far-reaching work in building a thirty settlement around the school revealed in a concrete manner what the honest, energetic and well trained Negro can accomplish in the south. Located in a strictly rural center where nature deals boundlessly to those who persistently and intelligently vex the soil, the growth of the school has undoubtedly been remarkable. Starting only with $10,000 Dr. Brown today has established a plant worth $25,000 and its stimulating propaganda is felt in every section of the state. It has created a new life here and dethroned superstitious and many other evils so woefully affecting the Negro in many other sections of the state. It has prima highly praised its worth and the leading people of that race say that its influence upon the community is hard to estimate by a monetary standard. This they claim is due to the same leadership and character of Dr. Brown, its founder and principal and prominent in many movements for the uplift of the Negro. A commendable feature of the work is that the hundreds of graduates and thousands of undergraduates of same are imbued with the mission of the institution and they are at work in various sections of the south of its founder and reaching those of the race who needs instruction. A distinguishing feature is that its first graduate has spent years working in Africa to help helpend Africa. Thousands of farmers made the celebration an educational source of good for them, and the exhibits of the students inspired them. Contributing to the success of the week was the Chowan Educational association that convened here. This was largely attended. The presence of Dr. Chas. S. Meserve gave impetus and hundreds gave him an ovation during his address to them. Many phases of the Negro's activities were strongly touched upon and he gave undeniable facts showing why the Negro should remain in the south. He married many affluent men, who dangered the race by entirely too large a number of same leaving the country and crowding the cities. The address to the graduating class by Hon. John C. Scarborough, superintendent of education for this county, was practical and wholesome. A splendid revelation of what the school is doing in causing the farmers to increase their property holdings and saving accounts was brought out in the statistics of Dr. Brown in making his annual report to the trustee board, composed of leading farmers, business men and a number of preachers of Negroid descent. He aroused pronounced enthusiasm as he pointed out the way that the farmer of color shares his chances for promotion by sticking to the soil. The report showed the school to be in an excellent condition. The farmers raised several thousand dollars in their rally for the school. ILLITERACY DECREASING IN GEORGIA. M. L. Brittain, state superintendent of schools for Georgia, is authority for the following statement as to the reduction of illiteracy in his state: The statistics of 1860 show white illiteracy in George to have been 12 per cent. The census figures of 1910, recently made public, show that the negroes have been reduced of Course, in 1870 during the lean years, the illiteracy crept up to 25 per cent, but it has been reduced steadily. In 1800 was 11 per cent. Illiteracy among the negroes has decreased from 22 per cent in 1860 to 30 per cent in 1910. The illiteracy among negroes in 1900 was 52 per cent. DEGREE CONFERRED ON PROFESS SOR LANE. Nashville, Tenn.—The degree of doctor of philosophy was conferred upon Prof. J. F. Lane, president of Lane college, Jackson, Tenn., by Walden university at the commencement just closed. Professor Lane is one of the youngest executives at the head of a colored college. He is a native of Nashville. He is a member of Bishop Isaac Lane of the Colored Methodist church. SHAW COMMENCEMENT THIRTY YOUNG DOCTORS AND FOUR PHARMACISTS TURNED OUT THIS YEAR BY THE UNIVERSITY—EXERCISES ATTENDED BY REPRESENTATIVE GATHERING. Raleigh, N. C.—The largest assembly of cultured colored men and women ever seen together in this city attended the commencement exercises of Shaw university. All sections of our great country were represented on the spacious roost. When President Meserve arrose, surrounded by his faculty and many friends both from the south and far distant New England, the chapel was full to overflowing. Shaw university has done a great work among negroes for more than fifty years. It has been a great and leading exponent in the higher and industrial education of the Young men and women graduating from this school and graduating great work for the election and Christianizing of the race in all parts of the world. Thirty young doctors and four pharmacists received their degrees. The following young men received prizes for excellence in study during the four years of their school life: The Lewis prize, S. P. Sebastian, honorable mention, A. D. Brown and F. D. Brown; the Tuskegee prize, S. R. Vass, honorable mention, A. D. Brown and F. D. Brown; the McKee prize, A. B. McKenzie; the Knox prize, J. W. Kay; the battle prize, J. S. Thompson of second year; honorable mention, Dennis Branch, second year. The music was under Mrs. Lovey. Bachelor of theology, William M. Morris, Latta H. Powell and Washington Scott. If six young men received the degree of证书 of Arts and 22 received certificates of graduation from the normal department. Honorary degrees were conferred by the board of trustees as follows: Charles R. Frazier, Master of Arts; Rev. W. R. Pettiford, Birmingham, Ala. L. L. D.; Rev. A. B. Vincent, Raleigh, N. C. D. D.; Rev George O Bullock, Winston, N. C. D. D. NO SUFFRAGAN BISHOP BUT THE DELEGATES TO SOUTH CAROLINA DIOCEESA COUNCIL OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH APPROPRIATED $500 FOR NEGRO ARCHDEACON. Beaufort, S. C.-By a vote of nearly four to one, the South Carolina diocesan council of the Episcopal church decided against creating the position of suffragan bishop, to be held by a negro, at this time. As a substitute for the negro suffragan, the council appropriated money for the maintenance of a negro archdeacon for work among the negro members of the church in this state. The resolution against the suffragan bishop proposal was adopted without debate, the council considering the winter's open discussion of the matter sufficient to enlist the delegates. The resolution was adopted after the presentation of the majority report of the committee, favoring the plan, the minority report opposing it. The resolution offered by the Rev. W. H. Burnwell of Stateburg, read as follows: Resolved, that this council is not in favor of the election of a negro suffragan bishop at this time." The majority report in favor was read at the morning session by the Rev. Walter Mitchell and the minority report against the Negro suffragan by R. I. Manning. Both were referred to the council, sitting as a committee of the whole, in the afternoon; counsel took up the reports in executive session. After passing on the suffragan bishop, $500 was appropriated for a negro archdeacon for work among the negroes of the state. This is a new departure in this diocese. BIG.NEGRO EXPOSITION ALMOST ASSURED A great question like an appropriation for an Emancipation Exposition for American Negroes would naturally precipitate acrimonious debate on the race question in the United States senate. Before unanimously passing, on April 2, a bill by Senator Bradley of Kentucky appropriating $0,000,000 for a big Negro show probably in Savannah. Ga., to celebrate the semi-centuryation of the signing of the emancipation proclamation, asperity of temper by some of the Negro-despising element and a surprising vein of broad-minded cordiality had to be turned loose in the senate for sensational press matter. All of it made good reading. Senator Root of New York delivered a passionate eulogy of the achievement of the Negro race; Senator Decline of favor of race separation; Senator Bradley minded his colleagues that southern Negroes unselfishly protected the white women and children of that section during the Civil war; Senator Hitchcock could see the appropriation misused to give Negroes jobs merely to spend government money. But finally they got together on the proposition and voted in favor of it. If Senator Tillman's pitchfork had not been beyond hope of being repaired, could you imagine a United States senate voting unanimously on such a question? But wait! Members of the house of representatives have yet their chance to create a scene while considering the bill. DEFER. VOTE. ON SUFFRAGAN BISHOP. Savannah, Ga.—The plan to elect a colored suffragan as bishop in charge of work among the negroes was approved in the report of a committee of the Episcopal diocese of Georgia at the annual convention. However, considerable opposition developed during the convention. The convention finally decided not to take action this year upon the matter of a suffragan pyggo bishop. AMERICAN BOY IS SPOILED However, He Is Nearly Always Amusing, Even When He Is Most Exasperating. "The great American boy," said the West Side woman, "is so badly spoiled that about half the time he is an offense instead of the joy he might be, but he is so thoroughly 'on' that he nearly always is amusing, even when most exasperating. It is needful when dealing with him, or even when meeting him causally, to be, he says, the most important or also to have a sense of humor that you enjoy to enjoy a laugh at your own expense. A few days ago I found it necessary to take a taxi at a quiet street corner. A few boys gathered instantly, to supervise the proceeding. As the chauffeur closed the door and prepared to mount his seat one of the boys called to him in the most indescribable tone of languid hater—intended to represent a lady doing the top limit of the society act—Home John. The chauffeur grinned, though the driver of armed lest his fare might be annoyed, and could share his appreciation. I took pelins not to let the boys see me. I should think actors might learn innumerable things by studying street urchins." "One Sunday not long ago," said the man to whom she was talking. "I was on my way to church and was walking along upper Seventh avenue with a lady of my acquaintance. I wore a skirt hat and the usual clothes for such an occasion. I was talking earnestly with my companion, not noticing my surroundings. Suddenly a small boy, who was sitting on a tiny cart and pushing it along with one foot, darted right between my feet and attempted to force a passageway to the beeyard; nearly was overturned for forced entry of the most instantaneous and inexhaustible gymnastics of my life and regained my balance only with extreme difficulty. The scrap of human, who was causing my distress, glared up at me wreatfully and yelled, 'Hey, you guy wud de silk hat on, why don't yer look wur' yur goln!" Keeping Baby Cool. Mothers of little babies that suffered much from the intense heat in the early part of July last summer will be interested in the success of the "baby tent" scheme adopted in some of the big cities. The tents were placed on flat roofs & tall buildings and in open lots, with eight little cradles or cots in each tent. When all was ready mothers of babies under two years were invited to leave them at the nearest available location, and the youngest in addition to enjoying the privileges of sleeping out of doors, could also receive the attention of trained nurses and doctors free. Some of the tents have a perforated iron pipe extending along the ridge pole and connected with the city water supply. On very hot nights the water was turned on and allowed to stream down over the canvas. By evaporation it greatly reduced the temperature inside the tents. Some of the tents were also kept cool by the use of large blocks of ice in tubs before the entrance. Electric fans blew the cold air from the ice into the tents sufficiently to keep the babies comfortably cool. This is the way some of the poor babies are being cared for, but the ideas could be utilized by any one who had the welfare of the baby at heart. Woman Prison Warden. The newly-appointed warden of the prison for the Canton Wandland in Switzerland is a woman, Fraun Fanny Porchet. In her application for the post, she said that in the course of her husband's administration as warden, and particularly during the illness which caused his death, she had acted as warden and found that she was in every way competent to fill the place. Knowing that there might some doubt as to her physical ability to handle obstreperous prisoners, she offered to meet the strongest man on the police force in wrestling contest. She was invited to appear before the appointing board and made such a favorable impression that she was appointed without demonstrating her strength. She is 41 years old—New York Tribune. Selling Faked Butterflies. One of the meanest frauds on record is that which is said to have been practiced recently on entomologists. It appears that there is a systematic trade in forged butterflies carried on by continental dealers. The method as described is to cover the moths after setting up a heavy coat of powder, which is then tinted with color colors to suit the taste of amateurs. Not content with imitating the rarer species, the forgers have recently been improving on nature and selling hitherto unknown varieties at unheard-of prices. One expert was for a while taken in with a red butterfly with blue polka dots, but this bold piece of imagination ultimately led to the exposure of the fraud—London Letter to the New York Sun. A Choir Singer 63 Years. A Choir Binger 63 Years The world's record for continuous public singing probably is held by Mrs. George V. Johnson, of Shippeburg, Pa. For more than sixty years he has been singing solos in the Presbyterian church of that town. Mrs. Johnson is a descendant of the Nevin family, among whom there have been such talented sons as the composers, Ethelbert Nevin and his brother Arthur. She entered the choir of the Presbyterian church in 1849, when about twelve years of age. She is now seventy-five. Mrs. Johnson has outlived and outsung generations of choir singers and has seen a complete evolution in church music. She is still hale and active and air voice as sweet and clear as it was three years ago.—Leslie's Weekly. Ireland's Era of Properity Ireland expires last year exceeded Irish expire for the first time on record. The amount of money on deposit in the joint stock banks was the bittest ever recorded. TUSKEGEE'S NOTED PRESIDENT PREACHES WHITEWASH AND PAINT AS SYMBOLS OF CIVILIZATION BY ARTHUR M. EVANS. Tukeguee, Ala.-Whitewash and paint are two of the most expressive symbols of civilization, according to the teachings of the French adage that a nation is known by its art. It is given an application. The students here are taught that the paint pot is superior to the soup kettle, that the bathtub outranks the soup tureen, that the scrubbing brush is an advance agent of progress, and that volumes of wisdom and ages of experience are condensed in the five words, "Cleanliness is next to illness." This first one, often political doctrine, is far more faithful. It preaches that material comforts are one index to mental and moral status, that squatness is no temple for the soul, that ethics and gastronomy are not strangers to each other, that improved environment means higher standards of thought, that a kitchen garden is a heavenly messenger as well as a temporal comfort, and that the content to substance is far advanced, that the content to substance is a healthy diet of fat pork and condensed the year round, when fresh vegetables are fairly aching to be grown. These ideas are drilled into the students day and night as accessories of the manual training and the classroom work. They are reiterated in some form or another nearly every time Booker T. Washington addresses the student body or speaks to the colored farmers of the south. They are sent out in the form extended leaves contained by boys from adresses to the 1700 boys and girls at Tuskegee. The paint and whitewash of advancement has taken such a hold during the years it has been exploited that nowadays," when Mr. Washington prepares to visit a community, the residents make ready to demonstrate that they have made it part and parcel of their faith. The Tuskegee Messenger prints many items like the following: "Rev. S. Moss and Messrs. S. W. White and L. Pollard of Shiloh community, Notasuga, Ala., are planning to paint their houses by the time Washington is planning to have their houses whitewashed by that time. Miss E. Lamar, the teacher, is having her schoolhouse repainted." Trivial items like these carry great significance between their lines, despite the appeal they make to the rabilities, for they show the spread of the Tuskegee ideas, which are in the background of the demeaness, all for the advancement of standards of living. At chapel a few nights ago Mr Washington preached to the students. At the morning exercises the instilte chaplain had taken the theme of Samson and Dellahil for his sermon, but at the night services Mr. Samson as his text white wash and paint. "One of the best lessons in civilization you can teach anybody," he said, "is to be uneasy and unhappy when a doorknob is even loose. In spite of all its antiquated and, in some cases, almost heathenish methods, it is hard to free ourselves from the slavery of the old-time book education. Every good citizen, whether he be teacher or is engaged in any other occupation, has something, should have something to do with the education that is going on in his community. Whenever you get an opportunity to exert the slightest influence, see to it that the house in which the teachers and children are assembled is inside clean—clean inside, clean out doors well swept, swept thoroughly, well swept. So to it that every piece of furniture is put in the very best repair; see to it that, wherever it can be done, the paint brush or whitewash brush is used on the inside. "A great many people are content to put up a house and let it stand without paint, its weather boards cracking and warping, a symbol of sloveniness. The whitewash brush and the paint pot are indexes of civilization. When you leave here, see that your homes and your farm buildings and your schools are fit to live in. You can't afford paint, use whitewash and you can't afford school as a teacher, take a week's time to clean up. See to it that the yard is cleaned up, every piece of paper picked up, every paling, put where it should be on the fence; that the gate hinges are all right, and all the broken window glasses are put in, then begin using the whitewash or the paint brush around the schoolhouse, on the building, on the fence, on the gate, everywhere, to make the schoolroom an inviting, beautiful place. One that is sit for man beings to live in. Your pupils to be unhappy when one window pane gets a little cracked, and if a window pane is out, dismiss the school if necessary until that window pane is put in place. After you go away from here I want to see you keep up this same idea, this same idea of activity and of keeping all your surroundings at all times under all circumstances, in you are not farmers unless the house which you live is whitewashed or mud. See to it that when it begins to take a little out of repair, when it set off, or the paint begins to set off, a little more, see to it that a new whitewash, a more whitewash in place. See to it that everything Two men, who had not been in the wilds of Mississippi long enough to know the dangerous cases in the swamp, started out one warm day in early spring with mindes—and bats—to catch some fish. They had not gone but one of them came upon what he thought to be an unusually high level of terra firma, overgrown with water grass. He planted his feet firmly upon this spot only to be precipitated headlong you touch, every point in life that you touch, you keep in good repair, beginning with your own bodies, with your own dress, then with your surroundings in school and out of school. Be sure that you try to keep in good repair, in good shape, and then you will feel vigorous, you will feel that you can do anything. "I don't believe it is possible for a person to be a good Christian with one suspender off, going around the country trying to wear one suspender. It lops him all over. He is one-sided from the time he gets up in the morning until he goes to bed at night. There is something wrong. He cannot act straight, he cannot think straight. There is something out of order all the time. A person does not want to wear suspender, the highest civilisation, who is satisfied to let a single button be off his clothes. "Keep the grease spots off your clothes. I remember I had occasion some time ago to call a doctor in—and it was not a doctor here, I am glad to say, or anywhere near here—but I noticed he had a button off and he had two or three grease spots on his clothes. I do not know how much medicine he knew, but that button off and those grease spots perfectly disgusted me in reference to that man. Keep the grease spots off your clothes. I remember no person who has the highest idea of civilization can go through life without being in proper repair in these respects. "Make a study of the preparation of food. See to it that a certain ceremony, a certain importance, be attached to the partaking of the food, a certain time when each meal is to be served; then see to it that the food is not only prepared in the most tempting way, but that it is served in the most attractive and beautiful way. In most cases, as you know, the place where the food is taken is the most dismal, the most gloomy place in the whole house, and people want to get out of it just as soon as you can. It is time you build your own home the dining room is the most beautiful, the most convenient, the most tempting room in the whole house." As is the case with all educational institutions, one of the first questions asked by the visitor to Tuskegee is what becomes of the graduates. An investigation made by Monroe N. Work of the division of records shows that about two-thirds of the 1,615 graduates and three-fourths of the students who did not finish are engaged in some form of industrial work. They are working as farmers, architects, bakers, blacksmiths, bookkeepers, brick masons, cabinet makers, carpenters, carriage makers, cooks, firemen, barns makers, horsemen, millers, molders, trained nurses, painters, plumbers, printers, millers, shoemakers, tailors, tinsmiths, wheelwrights and wood turners. In addition numbers are teachers. In the thirty years of its existence the institute has given two years of training to approximately 9,000 persons. The average earnings of persons trained at Tuskegee is about $7000 a year. Before attending Tuskegee they earned on an average about $100 a year. Thus the institute has increased by about 600 per cent the earnings of all who have taken its courses. The earnings of the average negro is placed at about $300 a year. The economic value of the institute to the entire south has been estimated. The average length of time the 9,000 students have been out of the school is fourteen years, during which their earnings have been $88,200.00, or an ordinary ducrial trailing the 9,000 would have earned in the fourteen years only $12,600,000. So that the south, where most of the 9,000 are located, has had the advantage of an increase of $75,600,000 in the economic value of the 9,000 alone, to say nothing of what Tuskegee has done in improving the conditions of the negro outside the school walls by teaching the dignity of labor and improving the skills to sobriety, discipline, order, a better family life, and a higher standard of living in general, all items of economic value. TURKISH DELIGHT. Among the imported candy this is a favorite, its price alone prohibits it from wide popularity. When made at home it is comparatively inexpensive. To make it, boil two and one-half pounds of loaf sugar with one and fourths plums of water. When this becomes clear add 65 drams of starch that has been dissolved in a little cold water. Stir until it becomes a thick paste, and then add 25 drams of water and one cup of chipped almonds. Flavor with lemon, rose or any fruit, extract, and then pour into buttered cinnamon and dip each cup into squares and dip each into confectioner's sugar. Put into tin boxes these will keep a long time. FOSS WENT ONE BETTER. When in England Governor Foss of Massachusetts had luncheon with a widely known Englishman noted for boasting of his ancestry. Taking a coin from his pocket, the Englishman said: "My great-great-grandfather was made a bord by the king whose picture you see on this shilling." "Indeed!" replied the governor, smiling, as he produced another coin. "What a coincidence! My great-great-grandfather was made an angel by the Indian whose picture you see on this cent."—Lippincott's Magazine. into a sink hole, the like of which exists not out of Mississippi. His friend ran to a nearby farmhouse and excitedly asked for a spade, with which to dig his friend out of the mud. The old farmer looked at him in astonishment and asked: "How deep is he in?" "He's up to his ankles!" he shouted, excitedly. "Oh, well, then, why don't you lead him out?" "Faith an 'I can’t–he’s in wrong end up." -Mack's National Monthly. WILL THE SOUTH BECOME IN- DEPENDENT OF NEGRO LABOR? Current Lifeture summarizes the tremendous progress the southern states have made and are making since the emancipation and certain conclusions as to southern labor that are of the greatest interest to the readers as embodying a retrospect based upon facts and figures that admits of no controversy and a perspective that is always problematical and that seldom justifies in results the forecasts that make them. "The best laid plans of men and mice aff gang agles." Mr. G. Grosvenor Dawe, managing director of the Southern Commercial congress, for example, glories in the fact that the south has 969,900 square miles of land and water; 300,000,000 acres of cultivated land, half of which has not felt the touch of the plow, with vast mineral wealth and incomparable climatic conditions "transforming the vital fluid of rain through the chemistry of plant life into gifes that make glide the heart of man and the soul of man," and so south a veritable "garden of the Lord." If "only man is vile" there, we ask, whose is the fault? On the other hand, Mr. Philip K. Keller, in Uncle Remus' Home Magazine, takes no stock in Dr. Washington's hopeful outlook, in the North American Review, of the negro's future in the south, as indicated in 1910, by his ownership of 900,000 farms. While Mr. Kellar shows that the south produces annually $6,010,000 worth of agricultural, forest and mineral products, with $21,500,000 invested in manufactures, he is of the opinion that negro labor is still a necessity in southern fields, but it is not such a necessity as it was in the years following the close of the war; and the last 10 or 20 years show that white men not only can work in the southern fields, but that they do better work and get larger yields than under the old systems of slave and negro contract labor. In other words, by the same token, are getting better results under newer systems of cultivation, and negro laborers are receiving a wage as independent workmen, with right to save their earnings and buy land, that was not true of the slave conditions. "The lazy man's country is where the lazy man is. The lazy man is disappearing rapidly from the south, and with him is going the idea that the south is a lazy land," says Mr. Kellar. Negroes who are disposed to be lazy, to work half time, to work on farm, to work on the land they make from year to year on their backs and stomachs, therefore, take warning from Mr. Kellar's view of the lazy man and lazy country business. The white south is wildewake; the black south cannot afford to sleep on its opportunities. The mines and factories of the south are full of workman from Europe who save their money and buy land in small parcels. They are agriculturists by education and preference, and as soon as they make enough in mine and factory work to purchase and stock farms they abandon mine and factory work to others of their countrymen, of whom there is always an unfalling supply. The southern negroes should be able to work in the foreigners among them, and profit by it. The south is no longer a lazy man's country. Its agricultural, forest and mineral lands will go finally to those who are not lazy men. The Age desires to impress these facts upon the minds of its southern readers now, in the accepted time, when land is cheap, wages reasonable and right to save money and buy is as much their privilege as of the white man. PLANTS MUST BE PROPERLY FEDA In the matter of plant food it stands to reason that each species would have its own characteristic way of attacking soil ingredients, even though the supply required to produce a crop may be almost the same with a number of species. But their method or habit of taking this food may be so different as to make it urgently necessary to rotate in order to prevent robbing. Each plant must have food adapted to itself, just the same as animals, and it is not difficult to see why it is reasonably rich in plant food and yet a certain crop will not thrive on it to that extent that they will produce profitable returns. The diversification of crops for the purpose of distributing labor throughout the year needs little if any comment. However, it is doubtful if the full benefits of scientific diversification are attained in every instance. We have known men who would put in a large variety of one variety of oats or a variety of wheat, whereas labor could be used much more advantageously if more than one variety were used, so the harvest time could be extended over a longer period. One reason why winter wheat is increasing in popularity is because it ripens early, thereby enabling it to grow a larger quantity to help to harvest a larger crop during the year than would be the case if only spring grains were seeded. ENCLOSE THE PONDS. Farmers should have one pond devote entirely to the use of domestic ducks and geese and running swine to which they can have free and constant access. All other ponds should be inclosed from stock and poultry. COLLARS MADE OF FLOUNGING. Very attractive colors for wear with linen and lingerie frocks may be made of wide embroidery fouling, the embroidery being mitted into sharp point at the back so that the collar reaches to the waist-line where it be pinned fast, to give trim, neat lines. At the front, the collar may be pointed, or in square ends and at the V-shaped neck opening should be placed the flat bow of dark velvet or ribbon now so fashionable. General Farm Notes The object in tilling is to expose fresh portions of the soil, which, during the growth of the previous crop, have been somewhat deprived of air, and have in consequence become sour; to regain, some sweetness, and to allow the elements of the air, which are more powerful in winter than in any other season, to do their part to soften any particularly hard substance which, after digging, would lie on the surface. The plants should continually receive nourishment from the substance in the soil, and these, though present, are useless unless they can be dissolved in water and absorbed by the root hairs. Ground left to take care of itself would be inclined to become so solid that it would find its way through the surface with considerable difficulty. Should it remain on the surface for a long time, the soil below would naturally become cold, so that growth would be impeded. Again, the substances in the soil necessary for plant life require not only water to make them soluble, but oxygen to form compounds to enable them to become useful, and as the air is to a certain extent, roughly about one-fifth, composed of oxygen gas, the free admission of air to the soil is absolutely necessary. It is better, on a heavy soil, to put the ground in ridges for the winter digging; it on the flat after digging. The rougher the soil is left the better will be the exposure to the air. The spring rains will readily flow through a ridged-up soil, and, without much further labor, it will be ready for planting. The use of a rake will be sufficient to prove that the weathering agents of the air have materially assisted in making a capital tilt. When, in fall, the lumps are hard they can now be crumbled quite easily by the touch of a fork. But on light ridging is unnecessary, trenching of the soil out is required to Light trenching, however, would not be sufficient year after year for good returns. When a piece of ground is broken up for gardening purposes for the first time the process must be gradual. The soil properly so called may not extend in depth more than 2 feet, and then something of a totally different nature might appear. The might poison a crop. It is better to expose it to the atmosphere for at least four or five months, to be thoroughly sweetened as the ground is broken up. But an inexperienced person will readily see that full trenching must pay in the long run, if the soil is not to be sick or harren. ALFALFA MEAL. Alfalfa in all forms as a stock feed has become generally recognized. It is an especially good feed in the green or cured state for dairy cows and hogs, as well as poultry, and of late years is being fed extensively to horses. For quite a number of years ground alfalfa hay, called alfalfa meal, often mixed with molasses, has been offered for sale. The meal is often mixed with corn, oats and a number of other grains and ground feed, being offered for sale as a mixed feed for city trees. Alfalfa as a hay for all classes of protein has of being rich in protein more than twice as rich as timothy has in this flesh-forming compound, and nearly equal to wheat bran, pound for nound When alfalfa hay is ground into meal its feeding value is not increased, yet it is perhaps some easier to handle, and there is not apt to be so much waste in feeding. At the present writing, alfalfa meal, mixed with molasses, with large dealers in St. Louis, is isling for farmers and alfalfa hay about ordinary years the meal sells for slightly more than the hay. The meal is put up and sold in 100-pound bags, and it is convenient to handle and use in feeding. One advantage in this line is that it hangs together well in the bag, especially when mixed with molasses, and hence there is very little waste through breaking of the bage in freight and storage. It is moist and most ground feeds. The meal is highly relied on by all classes of stock. By several scientific tests, alfalfa meal has shown rather a lower per cent. of feeding value for producing dairy cows, hence for this purpose it is not economical to use, unless it can be purchased for from $3 to $4 less per ton than bran. However, for hog, horse and poultry feed, it is perhaps equal or superior to wheat bran. It is an excellent mixture in slops for brood sows and growing pigs, as well as for laying hens in winter, either dry or in a wet mash. At the present prices of other feeds, alfalfa meal this spring is an economical feed to be used in a mixed ration for horses and hogs. THE SEARCH FOR THE HUMAN. Clever people and dull people are common enough; very often both these descriptions will apply to the same person, but people who are simple are much less likely to be like—in a word, human—are not so easy to find—Kebt Howard. OSTRICH PLUMES. To clean white ostrich feathers, make a solution of four ounces of white soap (cut small) and four quarts of rather hot water. Beat this into a lather with a paddle or clean large spoon. Dip the feather in this and rub it gently but well for five or six minutes. Then wash in clear water as hot as the hands can bear and shake until dry. Frills are the gilt frame to a good picture. MADE A GREAT HIT THE AMATEUR PIANIST WHO THOUGHT ALREADY BUSTINEN, An orchestra leader who conducted for Rubinstein when the great musician was on tour, tells of a joke played in one city on an amateur pianist. "The amateur father was the owner of a large hall, and he offered to it to Rubinstein. There were three in a piece for four pianos, and the amateur was to play one of the instruments. I was the leader. I thought Rubinstein would have a fit when I told him that the amateur couldn't play three straight notes. He is sure to throw us all out," said I, "and ruin the performance," but no one made a joke, but "two good. The bills were out and he must keep faith. "At last I hit on an idea. The amateur came down to rehearsal and we praised him up until he thought he was to be the star of the night. As soon as he left we took the hammers out of his piano and made it dumb as if he gushed he would never know the difference with three pianos going at once. "And, just as I thought, that amateur and his friends never discovered the trick. No, sir; he just sailed in and pounded on that piano as if it was the worst enemy he ever had. He was bound to show off among so many good pianists, and he hammered on his keyboard until the perspiration came off. No, and he looked at him approvingly to give him fresh courage, and every time that I did he gave the piano a lick that nearly made matchwood of it. "His friends all around three bouquets at him till he looked like a wedding arch, and when it was all over his fond parent fell on his neck in the green room and slipped a fat check into his hand. "Didn't he do splendidly?" said he to me. "I never heard an amateur do so well in public," said I, and, what's more, I meant it." CANE FODDER FOR STOCK. The use of sorghum cane for fodder causes many to want to know about its cultivation, and the consensus of opinion of those who have made a success of raising and feeding it, is that it is necessary to plant the seed of an edible variety to obtain the best results of the variety ripeen seed within 90 days from the time of planting. Seed should be ripe by the time of the first frost, because the cane should be cut right after the frost and seed should be matured when the cane is cut. Cut the next day after frost whether the seed of the cane is matured of 80 days or grow small stalks the size of a lead pencil or a little larger. About 200 pounds of seed should be planted to an acre and should be planted in rows about 24 inches wide, which need never be cultivated. The rows will be cut with a binder and the bundles shocked as soon as cut. Shock the bundles with the at the top at once whether dry or not, as the tips will dry out and the shocks drain out and not mold. Do not plant cane fodder on good ground, but on the poorest, sandy or clay land that you have, and remember that no manure or fertilizer is to be used on land that is to grow sorghum or soybean or alpaca or sheep. Store the fodder by laying the bundles horizontally, as it will surely heat, but stand the bundles either on end or on top of each other in preference to placing them on their sides. The larger the bundle the more apt it is to heat, especially if bound tightly. The cane can be shocked as soon as cane fodder is greatly relished by all stock and there is very little waste to it, as hogs like the seed as well as the cane stalks. Dairy cows fatten too quickly on it if fled in much quantity. Hogs fatten on it rapidly. It should be fed so that the stock can get just what they can clean up if it becomes too moldy and does not mature as well as when sown in rows of certain widths. ENCOURAGE JENNY WREN The little house wren is one of the season's birds that likes to build near the house, and as she is an industrious worm and caterpillar killer, her presence should be encouraged. One method of doing this is to tack up little nesting boxes on trees or under the eaves of the outbuildings. A box five or six inches in size each way is plenty large, and at the top on one side a hole should be bored that is from an inch to an inch and a quarter in diameter. The birds will build the boxes season after season. Be sure to bore the entrance hole to the nest box small enough to prevent the entrance of the larger-bodied English sparrow, a pest not to be encouraged. A DELICATE SAVORY. Here is a delicate savory easily made. Take out the stone of a fine French prune and insert a small stoneless olive. Wrap it round with bacon and grill it. Lay it on buttered toast or serve it with dry toast. BETTER STILL. Eva — No; she got a six-footer— Judge. TO WASH KHAKI SUITS. When washing tan colored clothes or stockings or the khaki colored suits put a little brown dye in the rinsing water and in the starch. One 10-cent package of dye, dissolved in boiling water and then bottled, will last a whole season. Add only a little to the water. Using the dye prevents that washed out look so common to the khaki colored suits after laundering. In search of health, lots of folks meet folly. WIT AND HUMOR MISSED HIS CUSTOMER. "When I was a cub reporter, struggling along on a minute salary," said George Ade, "I had just one asset in life which enabled me to tide over" that period in every week when poverty seemed to be staring me in the face. This consisted of a handsome gold watch, keepsake of college days in Indiana. Tuesday was pay-day at the newspaper office. By then I would wold take the watch over to the pawnshop of a man who conducts a handsome jewelry shop in State street. On the watch I obtained $5, and by administering my affairs carefully I managed to worry through until pay-day. Then when I had received my salary I would hurry to the pawnbroker's and release my watch. "Finally, after this had gone along for many years, I received a raise in pay. I was entended to the salary of pawning my watch regularly. So I visited the pawnshop no longer. "One afternoon about ten years afterward I was accosted in State street by a man. I recognized my old pawn broker friend, now the prosperous jeweler. "What's the matter, George?" were his first words. "Did you lose that watch?" IN AND OUT. Soon after Martin W. Littleton was elected to congress he went to Washington and spent several hours watching the senate and house in action. He happened in the senate while a western senator, one of the parties to a filibuster which closed the last regular session, was in the midst of a speech that had no bearing on the case at issue. His sole object was to kill time. "Great Scott!" said Littleton, "I was never so bored in my life. Why do they allow a man to take up the time of the senate in this manner?" "Why, whispered a member of the house, did you not realize that he was drinking steadily between paragraphs." "Yes, I saw him drinking water from time to time," replied the New Yorker, "but what effect could that have upon the case?" "That wasn't water. It might have looked like it from a distance, but it was Scotch highballs he was taking to stimulate himself," he was the reply. "Well," said Littleton, "all I have to say is that what went in was a good deal stronger and better than what came out."—New York World. SURPRISE FOR THE WEATHER PROPHET. A century and a half ago people used to depend upon the weather prognostications of Partridge's Almanac. One day Partridge himself put up at a country inn for dinner. The hostler advised him to stay the night, as it would certainly rain. "Nonsense!" said Partridge, and proceeded on him to a country inn where a yellow shower fell, which so impressed the traveler that he instantly rode back to the inn and offered the hostler half a crown if he would tell him how he knew the rain was imminent. "Well," said the man, with a grin, pocketing the coin, "the truth is we have Partridge's Almanac here, and he's such a liar that whenever he promises a fine day we know it will be foul. Today is set down as fine." The weather prophet, like many other weather prophets before and since, passed on discontinued—Strand Maga. A NOBLE FOOTMAN. Billy Hitt, a well-known society man in Washington, was late one evening for dinner at the home of Larz Anderson. Springing from his automobile, he rushed into the house, struggling out of his big fur overcoat as he went. Inside the door he saw a foot man at whom he hurled the coat, exclaiming: "That's all right. Never mind the check." But as he was disappearing into the dining room he was stopped by a storm of outlandish language coming from the prostrate form that had been knocked down by the impact of the fire, which emerged from the covering of fur the face of Count von Bernstorf, the German ambassador—Washington Star. DIDN'T BLAME HIM. Pete Daily one time was playing in Chicago at the head of his own company. At another theater there was a German comedian being starred in a musical comedy. One afternoon Daily and the German comedian were walking along State street when the former spoke to a man who passed. "Who was that?" asked the German comedian. "Is my support," replied Daily. "What?" said the German comedian, showing surprise. "Do you speak to the members of your company on the street?" "To be sure," replied Dally. "I don't speak to the members of mind." "Well," said Pete, "I wouldn't either. If I had your company." HIS GUIDE POST. "What's the matter with you?" "Got dyspepsia?" "Don't you enjoy your meals?" "Enjoy my meals?" snorted the indignant dyspeptic. "My meals are merely guide posts to take medicine before and after." Even false hair turns some girls jealous. Lobsters are born, then thoroughly done. ```markdown ``` MAKE DESSERTS LOOK PRETTY Numerous Fancy Designs in Molds That the Woman of Taste Can Use to Advantage. A good-looking dessert has sponge cake or cottage pudding batter baked in oval rings, large or individual, the center filled with Charlotte russe or Bavarian cream dotted with whipped cream in fancy design; a similar design is arranged around the base of the cake. For a dessert that can be filled with fruit, taplac, orange or pineapple. Many of the hollow ring molds have fancy shapes, cones, turrets or flowers, but where pennies count the plain ones are more practical for all uses. Moreover, it takes a skillful cook to empty the contents of a fancy mold without marring it. For special occasions there are varions molds to suit. Hearts can be had in all sizes, both hollow rings and plain. Stars are easily found, and for card parties there are forms to hold the cards, a shiny alpine spades. Almost any flower used in decoration can be duplicated in a mold, large or individual. For mousses it is easy to find a mold suited to its kind. Thus there are tin molds shaped like a small ham, others represent fish, straight and coiled, big and little, while some have a small chicken arranged to appear on the top when inverted. These are rather bisarre and not practical for the housekeeper with small income. Any one who has tried to serve spinach appetizingly will welcome a new mold, star-shaped, with a pre-made sauce. The lightly chopped green when dressed is put in the mold, the water pressed out through perforated bottom, which can then be lifted out for easy serving. NICE DISH FOR LUNCHEON Asparagus Omelet is Something New, Easily Worth Trying Worth Trying Something nice for a lunch or supper is asparagus omelet. Reserve three stalks of asparagus whole, the others cut into pieces about an inch long and let all simmer in boiling salted water until tender. Melt three tablespoons butter and cook in three tablespoons flour, a scant half-teaspoon salt and a dash of black pepper. When frothy add one cup and a half of the water in which the asparagus was cooked (cooked for the purpose), wash the flour and add it in a tablespoon of butter and add the asparagus. Have ready yolks of four eggs beaten and the whites beaten dry. To the yolks add a teaspoon each of salt and pepper, then turn them over the whites and cut and fold the two together. Melt a tablespoon of butter in a hot omelet pan, turn in the egg mixture and when set on the bottom put the pan into the oven and let cook until no uncooked egg clings to a knife thrust into the center of the omelet. Put some of the asparagus on half of the omelet and turn onto a hot platter. Put the three stalks of asparagus on top of the omelet and the rest of the asparagus and some around it. Serve at once. POINTS ABOUT TEA MAKING Beverage to Be Good Should Be Brewed in Earthen Pot, Never in a Bowl Women who pride themselves on their tea making that tea to be good should be made in an earthen pot. never in a metal one. Tea is never good when long standing. but in some cases it cannot be helped. It should be poured off the leaves into another heated pot and covered with a "cozy." If cream is taken a less expensive grade of tea may be used than when lemon is preferred. An old fashioned idea is to drop a few shavings of dried orange peel into the pot in which the tea is made. Some like this, while others believe that it spoils the flavor of the beverage. Bits of cinnamon and two or three cloves dropped in are other ways of varying the flavor of the cup that cheers. A Floor Mop. An excellent floor mop may be made from old stockings in this manner: Lash them in strips an inch wide, forming a fringe. Stitch several thicknesses of this to a strip of cloth three inches wide and ten inches long. Machine stitching is best. Saturate this with a good furniture polish and fasten in a mop stitch. By using this daily upon hardwood floors, they are kept free from dust and given a beautiful polish. Boot Cleaning Made Easy Brush the boots well to remove all mud and dust, then rub some glycerin into the leather with a piece of soft rag. When they are nearly dry rub well again with a clean duster. This will give the boots an excellent polish, which they will retain for several months. Occasional brush. They will also be soft and comfortable and keep a good color. No blacking is required. Hamburg Roast Two ponds of bottom of round beefsteak put through meat chopper; three-fourths cup of milk, two well beaten eggs, one onion, one-half cupful melted meat or bacon fat, salt and poutry dressing to taste good; one-half cupful of rolled cracker dough in large in large loaf; small piece of butter on Bake in good oven one hour. Baste often and make gravy. For Pressing. In pressuring clothes where creases are desired spread good wrapping paper on ironing board, place garments in proper position and cover with same quality of paper. Then sprinkles paper and immediately use hot iron. It will be found a most satisfactory way and also result in retaining creases, a greater length of time than if pressed between cloth. Mrs. Florence Jackson was a guest of Mrs. Jessie Wilder Saturday. Mrs. Eva Carter has returned from a visit in Pooria. Mrs. Scarophne La. Place of Natchiothse, La. arrived last week and will spend the summer with Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Patton. The Curec club met with M. L. C. Carter, Jr., Tecseday afternoon. Mrs. Daisy Walker Booker was present and Eleanal Eastal Neal of Momghost was a guest. Miss Addie Johnson has returned from a visit in Monmouth. Among those, who attended the G. A. R. encampment at Peoria last week was Medames C. Wells, M. Crew, T. Waters and B. Mitchell. Revival meetings continue at the Second Baptist church. Quite a number are taking advantage of hearing Rev. Webster. Mr. E. P. Mason is improving from his recent illness. The Thimble circle was delightfully enriched by Mrs. Crewford at the home of Mrs. Lydia Lewis. Mrs. Bryant Greysby and Miss Helen Wilson charmingly entertained Monday evening at their home in honor of Miss Flora Wilson who graduated Friday from High School. Various amusements caused the time to pass quickly. Dainty refreshments were served the guests with Miss Nettie Perry at the punch bowl. Mrs. John Bell, who was injured by a fall while in Rock Island, is slowly impinging. Mrs. Cora King has returned from Marshall, Texas, where she has been teaching school. Mrs. A. Hawkins and daughters are visiting in Aurora. Electric Washers-Dawson's Hardware. ALBIA NEWS. Rev. Butler of Buxton was in Albia on Saturday June 1 on business. Prof. Hicks of Buxton schools and candidate for city auditor was in Albia Monday and with a number of other candidates spoke at A. M. E. church on Monday evening. Mrs. Roper of Buxton was visiting her son Oscar Roper of Albia this week, she returned Friday and took little Lee Roper to Buxton for a visit. Mrs. Elizabeth Grayson Jeffers of Des Moines is visiting her children and friends in Albia this week. Mr. W. Roper spent a few days in St. Louis. She was there for Decoration Day and returned Saturday. DEGRENSDAY, May 11 Mary Waler Bensley has been in Hooking the past week visiting her mother Mrs. Carthon. Mr. and Mrs. Bardolf of Hiteman was in Albia to services Sunday. Clay of Buxton preached for the Baptize people Sunday, they are organizing a church in Albia. The citizens and members of the A. M. E. church invited a few of the candidates to the A. M. E. church on Monday evening and they spoke to them on the political issue of the day. The ladies served a nice supper. All report a nice time. Miss Carey and Mother of Buxton was in Albia Saturday. Mr. Henry Bowman went to Colfax this week to be treated at the springs of that place and drink the Colfax Mineral Water. Times are getting good in Albia all of W. G. Griffin boards are finding work. The Passion play in mowing pictures was given at the A. M. E. church on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Nellie Ellis entertained at dinner on Sunday in honor of Mrs. E. Jeffers. Madam Bening, Hollingsworth, Grayson, Bennings, Messr. Hollingsworth, Grayson, Bennings and Bennie Grayson and Harold Bennings. Mr Oscar Roper left Saturday for Okalaloosa. Her father is quite sick at present. Quite a number of strangers in Albia. BURLINGTON ITEMS. The pastor Rev. McDowell and members of the A. M. E. church extend their many thanks to the friends who assisted in the Trustees rally Suhday as it was quite a success. The A. M. E. choir will give a sociable Tuesday eve, at the church. Rev. McDowell delivered the Eastern Star sermon Sunday eve. There was a large attendance. Mrs. A. Pleasant will be hostess for Mrs. A. Pleasant will be hostess for the J. A. club this week. Mr. W. H. Dixon of Keokuk was a Burlington visit Sunday and Monday. Mr. W. H. Dixon of Keenan is Burlington visitor Sunday and Monday. Mrs. Henry Smith of South Hill received the sad intelligence of the death of her brother the late Fate Martin, whose death occurred at his home in Chicago last week. Mrs. Cara Moore has returned from a very pleasant visit in Springfield. This Tuesday eve, the G. G. club gives a social at the residence of Mrs. A. Pleasant. Those contributing news to the Bystander ring 630 R 1. Mrs. A. Pleasant. Best Paints-Dawson's Hardware CLARINDA NEWS Sunday was Rally day at the A. M. E. church. A neat sum was raised for the benefit of the repairs of the church. The Allen's Club gave a lawn social at the parsonage and the attendants reported Thursday was decoration day, which brought many strangers to our city. The day was beautiful and the flowers which was laid around the graves of our beloved ones were numerous. Mr. Fred. Johnson of Gravity spent Wednesday in our city and was the guest of the Arnett home. Mrs. Washington of Corning is visiting at the George Able home for a few days. Mr. E. B. Cook is remodling his home on 16th street and when complete his home will be very nicely arranged. Mr. John Frankling of Vilisca was seen on the streets the later part of this week. Mr. Jewett Exlander of Creston was over Sunday visitor in our city. Mrs. B. T. Parmer of Morville, Mo. is visiting at E. B. Cooks home. She expects to home in a few days. Roy, J. W. Evens expects to leave soon for St. Joe, M. where he will be accompanied by his wife. Mr. Evens who has been in the hospital for some time. We will be glad to see Mrs. Evens improving rapidly as we miss her among social gatherings. Any mother who has had experience with this distressing aliment will be pleased to know that a cure may be effected by applying Chamberlain's Salve as soon as the child is about two months old, the baby to nurse. Many trained nurses use this salve with the best results. For sale by all dealers. The best laundry service possible. We employ only the most experience help and use only the most modern machinery. If you want only the best you'll call maple 1447 and let us call for your next bundle. 617 PHONE East Grand Ave. Maple 1447 ENTERPRISE NEWS. Three of the converts were baptized last Sunday in the reservoir by Rev. Bowelden. There was no B. Y. P. U. last Sunday on account of the baptizing. The B. Y. P. U. choir will render a children's day program Sunday. The Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. have bought a very pretty library for the church. Mr. P. Scott was hurt in the mines Saturday by falling slate. We hope he is not serious injured. Quite a number of young men who have been away doing the suspension, have returned. We are very glad to have Miss Nettie Hunter up and out with us again. We weekly of Des Moines spent a few days visiting Allie Divers. She returned home Sunday. The Missionary circle meets every Friday at the church, but ginee they have started to work they will begin to meet at the homes ladies. The Progressive Society meets every Tuesday, they are doing nicely. Mrs. W. D. Miller spent a few days in Newton last week. Des Moines, Iowa, June 4, 1912. To Iowa State Bystander— Mr. Editor: Dear Sirt:—Allow me 1 few words in your paper. I feel it my duty as a brother minister to say a few fords in defense of Rev. L. W. Bess of Fairfield in record to an article in Washington, Ja. News. With justice to all concerned the correspondent did an unjustice to Rev. Bess. He did not know the particulars of the case, if he had he would not have written what he did. I am in possession of the facts and herewith present you with them you can read them and judge for your self. Since the article came through your paper I feel you are willing to do justice to all. I have known Rev. Bess and say he is a christian and minister of the gospel and we as ministers have a hard time at the best and as your paper is read far and near I feel it no more than right to correct the statement. 1508S S. B. MORES, P. E. Des Moines District A sprained ankle may as a rule be cured in from three to four days by applying Chamberlain's Lainment and each bottle. For sale by all dealers. DAVENPORT NOTES. The officers and members of Bethel A. M. E. church have plans perfected to raise money to finish their church. The 12 tribes of Israel will represent the whole church in a righteous war. The following captains have been chosen to lead the tribes in their order: 1. Reuben, Capt. C. P. Jones. 2. Simeon, Capt. E. Green. 3. Levi, Capt. W. J. O'Neal. 4. Judah, Capt. Mrs. Daisy Merchant. 5. Zebulum, Capt. Mrs. Alice Speaks. 6. Issachar, Capt. Mrs. Mattie Leenis. 7. Daniel, Capt. D. S. Johnson. 8. Gad, Capt. Mrs. Lulu Watts. 9. Asher, Captain Miss Hattie Richardson. 10. Naphtali, Capt. Geo. W Hawkins. 11. Joseph, Capt. Thos. B. Stovall, Jr. 12. Benjamin, Capt. Mrs. Clara Shepard. Each of this tribes are to bring in $4.00. by the 15th of July 1912. The tribe of Gad will give a trolley party to the Watch tower June 20th. A good time is anticipated. Rev. S. B. Walkup preached at the A. M. E. church Sunday evening. The following Davenporters returned from the Iowa state F. of C. W. c, which met in Sioux City last week. Mrs. B. Bright, Mrs. D. S. Johnson, Mrs. Clara Shepard and Mrs. C. B. Lewis. All of whom bring back good news from the convention. Davenport will be the next meeting place. Children day exercises will be observed in the churches Sunday June 9th. Bethel school will have their exercises at 8 o'clock P. M. Mrs. Florence Howard entertained the E. L. D. club Monday afternoon. A two course luncheon was served. Mme. Annita Patti Brown' will appear in a Recital at the 3d Baptist church June 12th 1912. Richard B. Harrison the distinguished Negro reader will return for a reading at Bethel A. M. E. church on or about July 5th '12. Those who heard Mr. Harrison last fall are anxious to hear him again. Lawn Hose—Dawson's Hardware FORD'S HAIR POMADE MAKES HUGH, NURRY ON CLEMAL HAIR GLOSSY, SOFTEN AND MORE PLAIRE, EASY TO CND AND PUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT, UNEXCEILLED FOR PREVENTION HAIR FORMING, AND WITH WINDOWS GET THE GENIUS, PUT UP IN 20S AND 30 BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S MAKE ON EVERY PACKAGE ❖ TRY FORD'S ROYAL WHITE SKIN LOTION FOR THE COMPLEXION. MAKES THE SKIN WHITE IMmediately UPON APPLICATION. WILL NOT IRRITATE THE MOST DELICATE SKIN. UNEXCEELLED FOR ECZEMA, SALT RHEUM, PIMPLES, ROUGH SKIN AND MULTIPLE PACKAGES. BY PURCHASING IT YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 822 LAKE ST. DEPT. 877 CHICAGO,ILL. AGENTS WANTED. CLARINDA MEUSE. Rev. Burton, the missionary evangelist, passed through our city on Tuesday of last week and prescheduled at the Second Baptist church. The Baptist Sunday school gave an entertainment at the church last Wednesday evening under the management of Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. W. Williams. The children did very nice in helping to raise the money to send the delegate to the convention, which convenes in Mount Pleasant. The Art club met at the home of Mrs. H. Farrier on last Wednesday afternoon, this being the first meeting after the Colored Women Federation club which made the meeting very interesting. Mrs. Maud Jones, the president of the club, was a delegate and she took much interest in the club and bring-back a good report. The ladies also have the honor of having the Federation meet with the last Friday in September. After business was over Mrs. Farrier served a light repast which was much enjoyed by the members of the club who were present. Sunday was Children's Day in many places and we are all part in the exercises when ever it comes their turn and be useful in our church work. Mrs. Mannie Baldon who has been visiting the past week in Omaha, Neb., has returned home and reports a very pleasant stay while in the city. Rev. G. W. Evens returned home, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Evens, from St. Joe, Mo., where Mrs. Evens has ben in the hospital for some weeks, which pleases their many friends, and on their return home they spent a few days at Bedford. Mr. John Franklin of Villisca spent Sunday in our city. Rev. G. W. Evens and Miss Anna Baker left this morning for Mount Pleasant to represent the church and Sunday school at the convention which convenes this week. They were sent as delegates by the members of the Second Baptist church of this city. Rev. Brother Burton the evangelist was entertained to dinner at the home of and Joyce working. He also took lunch at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Jones the same evening. Mr. Fred and Miss Mable Johnson of Gravity spent Sunday in our city visiting relatives and friends. Aunt Eliza Jones entertained Aunt Martha Wright and Josephine King, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Jones and Mr. Glen King, Miss Jesse Parker to dinner Sunday which was very much enjoyed by the guests. The table was well filled with good things which gave them all an appetite. Ralyn Lash was who has been very ill is able to be up and about the house again. Mr. Allen Jones had the misfortune to lose the dog "Teddy" but Mr. Jones found out that he could not do without a dog so he succeeded in finding another dog "Teddy". When your child has whooping cough be careful to keep the cough loose and expectation easy by giving Chamberlain's Cough Ramedy as may be required. This remedy will also liquify the tough mucus and make it easier to expectorate. It has been and is safe and sure. For sale by all used successfully in many epidemics dealers. PRESIDING ELDER SCHEDULE. For the balance of this conference year of the A. M. E. church for Des Moines District, Rev. S. B. Moore, Presiding Elder, 1041 E. South St. Galesburg, Ill. Rt. Rev. C. T. Shaffer, M. D. D. D. Presiding Bishop. July, 1912. Ottumwa ..... July 7 Albia ..... 14 Centerville ..... " 17 Mystic and Hawkes ..... 18 Oskaloosa ..... 21 Sloux City ..... 28 Sloux Falls ..... 30 August, 1912. Yankton ..... August 4 Council Bluffs ..... 11 Clarinda ..... 18 Bedford ..... 21 Oseocea and Chariton ..... 22 1 "Poro" College 3100 Pine St. St. Louis, Mo. THE "PORO" SYSTEM of Scalp and Hair treatment is based on the latest scientific and sanitary methods, effecting a healthy scalp thus promoting a growth of beautiful hair. The "Poro" preparations used in connection with the treatment are made and sold exclusively by myself, having the exclusive right to that name; and I, alone, know the secret of the composition that bears that name. Our hair begins when the claim is taken when the hair begins to grow as the result of the use of "PORO," it will continue to do so if only the scalp and hair be kept clean. This sanitary method of treatment is also having the desired effect in helping to prevent the spread of diseases, for it is a fact that hair in an unsanitary condition often moves fatal to disease which often moves contact with persons coming in contact with them. For treatment, call on or address: Mrs. Mollie Whitney 726 10th St. Des Moines Mesdames P. A. Jones, Emma Teatbean, and Naomi P. Fields will attend the Grand Court of Iowa, which convenes in Davenport June 11-13, 1912. Miss Pearl Ashby of 1307 Morgan street is ill with the mumps. It is now well known than not more than one case of rheumatism in ten requires and internal treatment whatever. All that is needed is a free application of Chamberlain's Liniment and massaging the parts at each application. Try it and see how quickly it will relieve the painful soreness. For sale by all dealers. DES MOINES AT HOME. St. Joseph—May 9, 10, 11, 12. Lincoln—May 13, 14, 15, 16. Wichita—May 17, 18, 19, 20. Topeka—May 21, 22, 23, 24. Denver—May 25, 26, 27, 28. Lincoln—May 29, 30, 31. AT Tupelo, Lincoln, Denver Wichita, Omaha, St Joe. Sloux City-Juria 26, 27, 28, 29. Omaha-June 30, July 1, 2, 3. Denver-July 7, 8, 9, 10. Wichita-July 11, 12, 13, 14. At Lincoln Topeka - July 19, 19, 20, 21, 22. St. Joseph - July 23, 24, 25, 26. At Topeka, Wichita, Denver. Topeka - August 8, 9, 10, 11. Topeka - August 12, 13, 14, 15. At Lima At Lueber Denver—August 20, 21, 22, 23. Sloux City—August 31, Sept. 1, 2, 2 At Wichita, Denver, Omaha, St At Topeka. Joe, Sloux City. Lincoln—Sept. 7, 8, 9, 10 Omaha—August 24, 25, 26. St. Joseph—August 27, 28, 29, 30. the sick Sunday in Henry Har- returned Mo., after preparing children in Iowa State Federation of Colored Woman's clubs will be held in Sioux City, Iowa, May 28 to 30 inclusive. The Iowa State Chapter of O. E. S. Grand Chapter will be held at Des VIVIAN L. JONES Funeral Director PHONE: Maple 2548 Residence Black 1658. Office 519 East Court Ave. Des Moines H. H. H." 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Miss Lillie Woods has been con- firmed to her home for several weeks. Her many friends hope, to see her out again soon. Mr. Black one of our young men is sick. We will be glad to see him out again. Miss Lula Williams and Miss Anna Harper have returned from Illin- shire, where they have been teaching. Rev. and Mrs. Bowler left Tuesday for Mt. Pleasant to attend the Sunday school convention of Iowa and Nebraska. The Willing Worker club met with Mr. Charles Thomas Monday evening to arrange for a concert to be given at the Second Baptist church June 20th. Mrs. Anna Wilson is on the sick list. Mrs. E. J. Thomas is spent Sunday in Keokuk, the guest of Mrs. Henry Harris, 1501 Morgan street. Mrs. Katie Williams has returned to her home at St. Louis, Mo., after a pleasant visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. A. L. King. The Sunny schools are preparing to have an outing for the children in July. KEOKUK NOTES (Last Week) Friends in the city will be pained to know that Miss Francis Reeder who was so seriously ill a few weeks ago will have to undergo an operation. We hope that she may soon recover. WeMitchell,Ind., is in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Fields at 323 N. 13th street. Write Quick for Terms. Piles DE8 MOINES AT HOME IOWA CONVENTIONS. The very best service guaranteed Prices the lowest - - - - - Calls answered promptly day or night No extra charges for distance-Reverse all phone charges Kinky Hair Straighten at Once Falling Hair Stopped Immediately Dandruff Removed and Itching Stopped Money Back if Not Satisfied. Dept. 19 Old South Building Boston, Mass. Live Agents Wanted. MADAME T. D. PERKINS Scientific Scalp Specialist Madame T. D. Perkins, of Denver. Col., who has spent five years in study of the scalp, is now interesting women all over the globe in the care of the hair and scalp. 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I need a personal history of your hair and scalp and your physical condition. All mail promptly answered when four-cent stamp is enclosed. I am the only woman of the race growing hair to-day who can show the public the real length my hair was when I first began treating it. Send for booklet if you mean business. You can secure these preparations only from me. None like them made in the world. T. D. P. Scientific Scalp Preparation, Madame Perkins sole agent Invest Your Money in Land COME TO OKLAHOMA Homes, Lands and Opportunities in Plenty Fifteen Cents a Day Makes You the most rapidly growing city in the southwest. 600 per cent increase in population in last ten years Choice Lots in Our Addition to This Magic City on very Easy Terms. Well located, close in, all city improvements handy. Certain to increase in value promptly. Take advantage of this right now. Write and ask us to send you literature and reserve a lot for you. No obligation to take it if you don't like it. 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What I did for my hair I am do for you with my Matchless Scientific Scalp falling hair or breaking off, cures split causes the hair to grow long, no matter thick, no matter how thin; straight. First treatment will show wonderful interested in your hair. I give treatment Write me at once. I send booklet of ink taking my treatments when four-cent st. I need a personal history of your hair at All mail promptly answered when four-woman of the race growing hair to-day my hair was when I first began treating ness. You can secure these preparation in the world. T. D. P. Scientific Scalp Prepar BOSTON M. Greatest Variety Choice Meats, and Delicacies. We Strive to Please Goods and Prompt S PHONE 320 Sixth Avenue Invest Your M COME TO OKL Homes, Lands and Op Fifteen Cents a a Property Owner Entered at the postoffice an ond class matter. Published every Friday by the B- stander Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa. Office in Cemicals building, corner Seventh and Neb- berry streets. Iowa phone. Wan- nut 899. We are prepared to do first-class job work at reasonable prices. All of our work is guaranteed. N. B.—Correspondents: Please mail your letters that contain news for publication not later than Tuesday night to insure publication for the current week; and sign your name, not for publication, but that we may know who writes the news. D. PERKINS Help Specialist Denver, Col Denver, Col., who has spent five new interesting women all over the scalp. No matter how dark your mass Scalp Preparation and scientific gag, beautifying and growing the scalp is no physical ailment to prevent. But where all others have failed, and you want hair like her own, close a four-cent stamp and write if you expect a reply. Don't write it wanted. SIT! Listen! Read Is a Glory to Her:—I Cor., 11-15 What Glory if She Wishes It broned hair, but soft, long, beau-the dresser on retiring. Do youate for particulars to Madame T. Specialist, of Denver, Colo., whowonderful art of growing hair. With these treatments my hairmained one length (four inches) for 15mong for hundreds of others, and will do help Preparations. My treatment stopminds, removes dandruff and scalp scurf,how short; soft, no matter how harsh;from the bulbs, no matter how kinky.improvement. Do not wait if you are all over the United States by mail,formation, and testimonials of those stamp is enclosed. I do not have agents, and scalp and your physical condition.ent stamp is enclosed. I am the onlywho can show the public the real length. Send for booklet if you mean busin-only from me. None like them made MARKET Co. in the City of Fish, Poultry with the Best of Service 765 Des Moines, Iowa oney in Land AHOMA opportunities in Plenty Day Makes You