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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. OL. XIX, No. 25 CITY NEWS Mrs. Peter Bell is not quite so well this week. Mrs. E. N. Warren is still ill at her home on Fourteenth Street Place. Mr. John Spencer of Grinnell, a successful business man, was in our city last Friday on business. Mr. Albert Walker, a successful business man of Marshalltown, Iowa, was in our city on business Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Guy of Buxton were among the Capital City visitors last week to attend the Smart Set. The Misses Geneva and Cecil Harris arrived in the city Tuesday morning from Chicago for a short visit with relatives and friends. The Rev. and Mrs. T. M. Brumfield enjoyed a 6 o'clock dinner at Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bell's on Thanksgiving evening. Mr. Ruben Gains, Jr., and sister, Mrs. Hill of Buxton, visited the Smart Set, the guests of Mrs. Adam Dixon on Day street. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Holt entertained Wednesday evening informally in honor of Mrs. Holt's sisters, Misses Geneva and Cecil Harris, who are visiting in the city from Chicago. Mrs. J. W. Fields entertained Mr. Al Walker of Marshalltown at a 6 o'clock dinner in company with Blind Boone Concert Co. A very enjoyable time reported. Joseph H. Shepard of Clive was a Capital city visitor Saturday. He has practically regained his former good health, lookin' z well and feeling good. He raised a good crop of corn this year. Wm. Wim Hampton of Red Oak, Iowa, is in the city attending the federal court as bailiff for Judge Smith McPherson. He is at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Warren. Mrs. J. L. Courtney served a breakfast Wednesday morning in honor of Mr. Al Walker of Marshalltown, IA., Blind Bone and his concert company. A very delightful time reported. Mrs. L. E. Perry of St. Joseph, Mo., arrived in our city this week to be at the bedside of her daughter's children, who are very sick with aphasia. The child's mother, Mrs. Oscar Glass, has taken sick this week. The drama and concert given by the intermediate Sunday school of Union Congregational church last Tuesday evening under the supervision of Catherine Hunter and her success. The program was well rendered. The drama was "Courtship of Miles Standlash," and the young lad showed that they had been well trained by Mrs. Turner. Mrs. C. S. Cary, Mrs. Chas. Thomas and Mrs. J. R. Drew left Tuesday morning to be the guests of Mrs. John Wells. They will visit Wisconsin and Illinois before returning. The Dramatic Art club met Tuesday afternoon at the residence on Mrs. J. H. Brown and completed the study of Job. Meet next Tuesday with the Job Hammie. Begin the study of "The Turn of Life and works of Dante, Mrs. Warricks. Mrs. Wm. Bailey, assistant postmistress at Buxton, and her husband, who is weightman at the mine, and her sister, Miss Gertrude Luce, a teacher and day and Sunday in our city attending the Smart Set. They were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Thompson while here. Mr. and Mrs. John Spencer of Grinnell spent Thanksgiving in our city, the guests of Attorney J. B. Rush and wife on West Twentieth street. They were entertained in the evening by Mr. and Mrs. John L. Thompson informally. The Pioneer Draught club will meet next Tuesday night at Mr. J. E. Mathews', 421 W. Ninth street. All members are urged to be present, as it is the election of officers. John L. Thompson, Pres. H. C. Brown, See'y'. The little son, Pierson, of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Glass died Thursday morning at 9:30 of diphtheria. He was a bright little child of about 3 boys the oldest child and one boy in this house. Their little girl is improving. The family have the heartfelt sympathy in their sad hour. The Union Thanksgiving services held at the Corinthian Baptist church were indeed largely attended and Rev. B. U. Taylor of the A. M. E. church, who preached the sermon, was at his best and around the large crowd to their full duty of giving thanks to Open Every Tuesday Evening From 8 to 11:30 East Side Dancing Academy EAST SIXTH AND LOCUST STS, B. J. HACK, Mansger. Music by ADMISSION L. McGuire's Orchestra 38c Almighty God for the many blessings that we have so often received each day of our life. Mr. G. Gibbs and wife left Thursday for Terre Haute, Ind., to live indefinitely. He came to our city from St. Joseph, Mo., and is one of the spirits in the organization of religious sect known as Sanctified Saints, and successful meetings on East Sixth and Court avenue. Mr. H. G. Darden is the leader of this bend and is doing well. On Monday evening, November 25 at the residence of Mr. Kush, the Dramatic Art club entertained the presidents of the local federated clubs at a literary reception. It was one of the most brilliant affairs of the season. The program was without equal both in subject matter and in audience. The study of some women were present to receive the intellectual treat. And all expressed a desire for another one in the near future. The dramatic club was founded two years ago and since that time has been involved in the study of some of the most difficult products of classic literature. THE LYCEUM The Des Moines Negro Lycceum held their annual Thanksgiving program at the residence of B. N. Hyde last Tuesday evening. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Mamie James at 127 Irigart street, Lake Park, on Thursday. Dr. J. A. Jefferson and Dr. J. A. Jefferson and Mr. Rufus Jackson will discuss the Balkan war situation, and business of importance will be transacted. NUPTIALS. The surprise of the week was the marriage of Dr. J. A. Jefferson to Mrs. Anna Clark, both of this city, which was witnessed at the bride's place. Mrs. Clark was in Place. The wedding was held at 7:50 p. m. Wednesday. The home was nicely decorated and well arranged. Promptly at the above named time the bride party marched into the church, followed by John L. Thompson, best man and Mrs. Ea Iewing, as bridesmaid, followed by the bridal couple. Rev Taylor performed the ceremony in a very imposing and beautiful manner, happy all one. After congratulations the guests, numbering about thirty-five, were served to refreshments. Many useful presents were received and, with their other gifts, wished them have a success in the marriage voyage through life. MRS. J. H. BROWN who plays the leading role, that of Zoe in the Octooroon, a drama to be given by local talent at the Union Congregational church on Thursday evening, December 12, under the management of Harrison Gould. The Octooroon is a beautiful southern play based upon southern life in Louisiana, actually describing the thrilling and sensational event as it occurred on a southern plantation. EDITOR'S OBSERVATIONS St. Joseph is the largest and chief city in northwestern Michigan, with a population of 75,000 people, of which 14,000 are colored. They have three public schools and one high school for the education of the Negrd youth. These schools are well conducted and instructed by a corps of efficient teachers, and the high school, Prof. B. T. Perkins principal of one of the public schools. He is an old veteran in the educational field. He owns a beautiful home. Prof. J. A. Endicott is another principal of many years' experience, a ripe student. He has a lovable brother, who takes of the higher studies in colleges and universities. R. L. Scott, formerly a teacher, is U. S. government meat inspector here. He owns a lovely new home and is doing well. Dr. Edward W. Thompson, the druggist, owns a very beautiful drug store on the campus and Franck is an ordinary young man, a graduate of the Iowa State university and his drug store is one of the finest colored drug stores in the state and the only one owned by our race in St. Joseph. So all the people should support our worthy enterprise. Aviation is a favorite physician. He is doing well, a great race man. Dr. Ricketts is a practicing physician, very popular among Masonic circles. Dr. J. A. Crossland is the oldest practicing physician in the city, an able practitioner in the city, he was sent as minister to Monravia, Africa. He is now practicing four now practicing in St. Joseph, is Dr. F. N. Goodson, a young man formerly from Carrollton, Mo. He is a nice young DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1912. SEND SAMPLES OF DRESS GOODS "Please send me right away samples of your spring dress goods. I'm very busy and can't get into town for several days. I will select what I want and send in the order at once. I wish you would send the goods just as soon as possible." The successful merchant pays particular attention to telephone inquires, They frequently come from the best customers and mean future orders. IOWA TELEPHONE COMPANY man. Dr. R. A. Beshears is the only dentist, a graduate from the Iowa State university. He has a nice suite of rooms and is doing well. Mr. L. E. Perry is a successful second hand furniture store man. Mr. G. W. Kelsey was a nice lunch and confectionery store at 609 N. Third street. He is a race man and has been very successful in life. As we have a regular correspondent from this city we will still hear more from that locality. BURLINGTON, IOWA. Mr. Hardy Johnson is visiting in Sloux City for an indefinite time. Mr. L. Bland is very poorly at this writing. The entertainment given Tuesday by the G. G. club was nicely attended and a neat sum realized. Mrs. Marie Leslie and Miss Gertrude Cowden were visitors in Monmouth, IL, at the home of Mrs. Sister Leslie. Mrs. Cowden will spend Thanksgiving in Des Moines with her sister, Mrs. V. Saunders, and Bessie. The funeral of Mr. H. W Bird was held last Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. from Drugh's chapel, Rev. B. P. Renn officiating. Mr. M. J. Burton preached at the U.B. Church Sunday, two inspiriting sermons. Sunday, December 1st will be "Dollar Rally Day," at St. Johns A. M. E. church. Members and friends please come, bring a dollar and just as much more as you can spare. B. R. Penn spent several days this week in Champaign, Il. The Art Industrial club held its semi-monthly meeting on last Thursday evening. Eight new members were enrolled, and the following officers elected: President, Mrs. Josie Bland; Vice president, Mrs. Squire Henderson; secretary, Mrs. L. M. Ash; treasurer, Mrs. Otho Smith; treasurer, Mrs. Cora Palmer; chapain, Rev. B. R. Penn. QUINCY ILL. Mrs. T. L. Smith and daughter, Miss Elizabeth, returned home from Springfield, Ill., last Tuesday, after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Smith. There will be in the near future in Springfield, Ill., a motion picture theater called, "The Lincoln." This movie will be by the colored people for the colored people exclusively. Capt. R. A. Byrd is one of the three of the incorporation. Culture club will have its Thanksgiving program Sunday. Mr. McKinley Martin of Chicago, Ill., passed through the city en route to Foley, Mo., to visit relatives. Mr. Martin spent a few hours with his aunt and Mr. Wm. Wright is in the hospital as result of serious accident, which he met with at work on the street railway, at Twelveth and Maine. The funeral of Mr. Cicero Goodrich was held at the home of his mother, Mrs. Delia Goodrich, Saturday afternoon. The Current Event club met at the home of S. B. Golden and did the regular routine of business last Tuesday. Next meeting at Madam H. A. Longress. The U. B. of F's and M. S. T. held memorial services at Eighth and Church for late Grand Master Gordon Chavis on last Sunday afternoon. Why Not Invest Your Money in a Negro Enterprise SEND SAMPLES OF I "Please send me your spring dress gown and can't get into town will select what I want at once. I wish you just as soon as possible. The successful merchant telephone inquires. They customers and mean future or IOWA TELEPHONE COMPANY GARLAND STANCE 111-4 PHONE BELL SYSTEM MIDWEST TELEPHONE & ELEPHONE CO. Presiding Elder Moore will spend Thanksgiving in this city, Sunday, December 1, 1912, he will conduct a regular quarterly meeting services. NORTH STAR Pacific Temple Association (INCORPORATED) pay you 5 per cent interest SHARES $5 EACH information and application blanks M. L. JONES, Sec., 519 East Court Ave. Des Moines, Iowa ADDRESS GOODS I right away samples of goods. I'm very busy own for several days. I not and send in the order would send the goods ale." It pays particular attention to frequently come from the best orders. Thanksgiving December the regular vices. Rev. F. Baptist clo to Kansas the death sympathy Missan Oakland but are burted by A misc at the h Tuesday tended by We are Lansing N fortune of improving Mr. A spend T Wyoming Joe Bake Missan and daugh Susie Lee Red Oak the home berton. Mrs. M for pres visit with Mrs. C sen, Mr. and daugh guest of ton of R ENT ($) Mr. W guest of and Mrs. Mrs. A this writ painful a caught her cloth gusted. The de the wife Harry M company's community lady, well While she the end eral was Rev. Franklin, pastor of the Second Baptist church of this city, was called to Kansas City, Kans. , Friday, by the death of his son. He has the sympathy of his community. The Sundays Josephine King and Otto Baker have both been very sick, but are better at this writing. A miscellaneous shower was given at the home of Miss Callie Arnett Tuesday morning in the community by Miss Katie Johnson. We are glad to note that Master Lenard Nowlings, who had the misfortune of getting his leg broken, is improving rapidly. Mr. Andrew Baker expects to visit the surviving in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the guest of his son, Mr. Joe Baker and family. Mr.-and.Mrs. Walker Dickerson and daughter, Bertha May, and Miss Susie Lee will leave Wednesday for Red Oak to spend Thanksgiving at home of Mr. and Mrs. Theo Perbenthal. Mrs. Martha Wright left Monday for Forest City, Mo., for an extended visit with her grand-daughter. Mrs. Carrie Reed, Mr. Albert Cassen, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Pemberton and daughter, Virginia, will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Theo Pemberton of Red Oak, Thanksgiving. Mrs. Geo, Thomas met with a very painful accident last week. Her dress caught fire from the light and burned her clothes a good deal before extinguished. She was a nurse of Mrs. Henry Madden, the wife of our well known citizen, Henry Madden, who is a clerk in the company's store, was a shock to the community. She was such a nice lady, well liked by everyone, that she has been sick a long time, the end came Saturday and the funeral was held from the Baptist church Monday, of which she was an active member, conducted by Rev. S. Butes of Des Moines. A large crowd and many friends fainted on the public furlows many friends. TELEPHONE COMPANY many be her many John I only and Bystande What scatters. ST. PAUL BUDGETARIAN. ST. PAUL BUDGETMAN, We had our first snow of the season Saturday, November 23, and it reminded us that winter was at hand. The Excelsior club of St. James church announces the Grand Baby Show, January 10, 1918. A little premature, yet, nothing like getting your bid in on time. Miss Edith Leaver, under the immediate direction of its wide awake president, Miss Edith Leonard, conducted the services at St. James A.M. E. church Sunday evening, to the satisfaction of the large audience present. The choir assisted in the singing. And Mrs. Thos Steele of 244 W. Central avenue entertained at whist Thursday evening. Orchestra music was played throughout the evening. Those present to enjoy Mr. and Mrs. Steele's hospitality were: Mr. and Mrs. Steele's family, Hicks, Edward and Hicks. A pleasant time was had until a late hour when the guests left for their homes. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Valley of Charles street are the proud parents of a fine boy, born on the 20th. Mother and son are born on the 20th. The tickets are being sold for the Harrison Dramatic Recital at St. James church on the 18th of December. Mrs. Bert Adams of St. Anthony avenue was hostess to the Home Economics department to complete the inclementity of the weather, a large number were present. The Charity entertainment, under the auspices of the Elks, to be given at Hiwata Temple Thursday evening, to complete the inclementity of the weather, a large number were present. The proceeds will go to furnish Christmas dinners to the worthy poor in our city. Mr. Geo. Duckett of St. Anthony avenue is able to be out, after a very short time, a recent wreck, while his run. Everybody is busy preparing for Thanksgiving. Mrs. Mabel Southall is home from New Orleans and is with her mother, Mrs. Anna Mofta, of Arch street. Queen of Sheila Chapter, No. 29, O. E. S., will present another fine drama entitled, "Terry Arm and the Vampire of Adagio," Mattie Hicks and Gertrude Barber. Watch for the date and place. Mrs. R. B. Chapman, who is sojourning in Texas in search of health, writes from Paris that she is getting along exceedingly well and expects to return soon. The wedding bells are being oiled up so as to be in readiness to ring for one of our dashing widows, "just keep smiling," and listening, for they are certainly going to ring, for she said so. Subscribe and pay for the Bystander, no of the best negro journals in this country. MT. PLEASANT, IOWA. Mr. George Route of Minneapolis is visiting with his mother, Mrs. Rena Logan. Mrs. Ed Williams of Burlington spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. Ralph Burnaugh. Miss Agnes Mason is indisposed at this writing. Mrs. A. Carter has returned from a ten days visit in Monroe City, Mo. Mrs. Hedge Hedge left last week for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. M. Williams in Wisconsin. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. CNen and Mr. and Mrs. rebuilding of their home after Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station the loss. Mrs. Geo. Harris entertained the Kensington at her home last Thursday afternoon. A delightful hour was spent, after which dainty refreshments were served. DUBUQUE IOWA Dr. Henry Rose has been confined to his home for a few days with a stomach trouble. He is much better at this writing. Miss Gretta McDavis of Iowa City will be the guest at the parsonage City. The Missionary society gave a social for the purpose of raising their Bishop Coppings fund. They were more than successful. They were the first to send in their money, so the treasurer says. Mr. and Mrs. Wells are expecting a visitor to Des Moines for Thanksgiving Misses Carey, Drew and Mrs. Thomas. Miss Harry Rose will eat her Thanksgiving dinner (Thursday) with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thornton of Donagiac, Mich., Mrs. Rose has not been home for three weeks. Hope she will have a splendid visit. The A. M. E. church have organized a chair composed of the following persons, Mrs. Gentry, Mrs. Rose, Misa Ida Green, Miss Lavern Martin, Messens Jack, Mrs. Gentry, James, Brooks, and Clarence Mitchell, the singer. Mrs. Stansberry as organist. Mr. Harry Rose was in doors all day Friday, suffering with neuralgia, and of course feeling much worse, because his wife is going away for a few days. Mr. and Stewardess gave a neck-tie Social Thursday night, last. The good people of East Dubuque were over in a body. All had a fine time and they cleared a goodly sum. Mr. Guy Green has left us again for Newton, Iowa, where he says he has gone to work, but we think dif-ferent. He is claiming his attention more than work. Look out for the wedding bells. Mr. and Mrs. Isa Jones have lost another son from the home nest, in the person of Everett, who has gone to Chicago to make his home with his brothers. Mr. and Mrs. Jones has now three sons in the Great Metropolis of the West. They are thinking of moving there themselves in the spring, when the weather is cool and hate to dispose of it. Rev. S. W. Stansberg is all smile now, the reason why, the trustees have let out the contract of digging a well to Mr. McGregor, and he wont have to carry any more water. CLARINDA IOWA The Ladies Study club met at the home of Mrs. Laura Jones Monday-afternoon. Miss Susie Lue was elected as delegate to attend the session to meet with business matters were discussed, a two course luncheon was served by the hostess. Wedding bells are again ringing in the morning. Rev. Dunden or Kansas City, Kans., was the guest of Rev. Morgon of this city last week. He delivered an able sermon at the A. M. E. church Fri. Baptist church Sunday evening. He left Monday for Des Moines, where he will visit his daughter, Mrs. J. B. Crush. Rev. Morgon is conducting a series of meetings at the A. M. E. church thursday. ENTERPRISE JOTTINGS. (Special to Bystander.) Mr. Bessie Jackson was the guest of Mrs. Bessie Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. John Steele on Sunday. Mrs. A. W. Rhodes is very sick at this writing. John L. Thompson, editor of our only and popular race journal, the Bystander, was in our town Monday. Greek Proverbs. What the wind gathers the devil retreats. State Capitol Diog Historical Room 2. P BASS CONTINUED AS LEGISLATOR Militant Race Leader Receives Large Popular Vote. CAPABLE PUBLIC SERVANT. Mark of Rare Distinction For the Hon. Harry W. Bass In Being Elected For the Second Time to the Pennsylvania Legislature — Only Afro-American Lawmaker In America. BY WHITTIE H. WRIGHT. Philadelphia—Hon. W. B. Wass of this city has the unusual distinction of being the only Afro-American in America to be a member of a state legislature. In the recent election, while all other Afro-American candidates in other parts of the country were defeated, Mr. Bass was overwhelmingly elected. He is therefore the state's representative from the Sixth district of the First congressional division of the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania, proving beyond a doubt that he is a true "representative of the people." This is by no means the first time that Mr. Bass has been the choice of the people in an official capacity to the HON. HARRY W. BASS. halls of the state legislature. He now serves and has served them effectually, unselfishly and earnestly since 1910. He has always taken a deep interest in the welfare of the people of the community and has rendered service of great benefit in their behalf. Mr. Bass was very successful in getting the state legislature to pass a bill appropriating $20,000 toward the holding of the celebration of the emancipation proclamation, marking the fifty years of freedom of the Negro in America, to be held in this city in 1913. As might be expected, Mr. Bass is a lawyer by profession and is very much respected by the bar of Philadelphia. He was born in West Chester, Pa., Nov. 4, 1868. He received his early training in his bachelor's degree and subsequently attended the celebrated Lincoln university. He then attended Howard university, completed the full law course and also graduated with credit in 1896 from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania. During the time of practice Counselor Bass has built up a large clientele. He is without doubt one of the leading lawyers in the country, is generally recognized as a forcible and safe leader; hence his services are in constant demand. MOTHER DREXEL'S SCHOOL. Parochial institution For Indians and Afro-American is Succeeding. Katherine Drexel, mother superior and founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament For Indians and Colored People and a member of the Drexel family of Philadelphia, has established a parochial school for colored children in One Hundred and Thirty-second street, New York. The school is supported out of the income of an estate of $5,000,000 left to the mother superior by her father. When Mother Drexel learned a short time ago that there were 60,000 colored people in Harlem she decided to make that neighborhood the chief field of labor for her institution. She has rented a house in One Hundred and Thirty-second street. The work, which opened a school about two months ago, is meeting with gratifying results. The purpose of the Order of the Blessed Sacrament is to teach Indians and Negroes to care for and to visit the slick. Cardinal Farley has consented to the admission of the order to the diocese. The Fathers of the Holy Ghost will assist in the religious education of the colored people in Harlem at the Church of St. Mark the Evangelist, in One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street. Register J. C. Napier's New Assistant. The new assistant register of the United States treasury, J. P. Strickland of Arkansas, who was recently appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Cyrus Field Adams, has begun his duties like a veteran and is measuring up to the requirements of his office. Mr. Strickland was recommended for the position by Republican National Committee General Powell Chayton --- Price Five Cents. MOLINE, ILL Miss Drew丝娜 Thomas was quietly married last week. We wish them a happy and joyful life. Estella Shelton is improving rapidly. We wish her a speedy recovery. Mrs. Lydia Gormon left Wednesday evening for Peoria, where she will spend Thanksgiving holidays with Mara Harper. Mrs. Tolmes of 25th ave is on the sick list. We wish her a speedy recovery. Saintford Daily is on our sick list and wishes all friends to call and visit, with him. Miss Manie Ritchie is on the sick list. The young people of St. Paul's A. M. E. Sunday school are getting ready for a concert to be held on the 6th day of December. The school would come out and see what we can do. Tickets are out. Only 15 cents. Come one and all help the Sunday school out. We are starting a program for Missouri. Thursday evening, MASON CITY IOWA We are sorry to report that the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bradford is ill. Mr. Wm. Chicago is running in the city as second cook on the Milwaukee railway. Mr. Alfonzo Kimbrough of Oskaloosa, Iowa, is in the city as a guest of Mrs. Walter Davis of Warren street. Mr. J. A. Durrough of Farrein street is ill at this writing. Miss Mae Virden of Ft. Dodge is expected in the city Wednesday as guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. Durrough, 116 West Farrer street. Miss Bernice Davis, accompanied by J. Kelly, was over Sunday visitors from Ft. Dodge with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Davis, of Warren street. Sir Knights of Tabor will give a prize entertainment at the Woodman hall on Main street, Tuesday, Novembrer. Mr. J. Banning and Mr. Clark will open up a barber shop and safe at 325 Main street. They will have a grand opening Thanksgiving eve. Mrs. Kennedy of Ottawa, Iowa, is in the city with her daughter, Mrs. Pearl Davis, Tuesday, Mrs. Thomas Allen of 123 E. 7th street entertained Mr. Fred and Harry Mitchell for supper Friday evening. The Union Memorial Literary held an old time spelling match at the church Friday evening, which was a success. Mrs. H. Cabbell entertained the Ladies' aid last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Jones will entertain Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Stratton and Mr. and Mrs. W. Sattler Stratton, and Mrs. S. Stratton, and other relatives from Kentucky for Thanksgiving dinner. The Ladies' of the church and Literacy society will give a play and bazzar Thursday evening at the church. Two young men of our city has opened up a boxing school, where they are training the latest style, Knock out blows illustrated free, Complete coarse $9.35. Miss Nora Williams is expected home this week* from Ft. Dodge, where she has been employed. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Warren will entertain Miss Mary, Pearl, Cecil and Miss Mary, Pearl, at a knockout Thanksgiving day. Mr. and Mrs. John Roberts and family will spend Thanksgiving in Buxton, Iowa, with friends. ANNUAL CERTIFICATE FOR PUBLICATION State of Iowa, office of Auditor of State. Des Moines, Iowa, Nov 20, 1912. Whereas, the Cabe and Rutgers company, located at New York, in the state of New York, has filed in this office a sworn statement of its condition on the thirty-first day of December, 1911, in accordance with the law of the Code Title 9. 8 of the Code of Iowa, relating to insurance companies; and whereas said statement shows that said insurance company has complied with the law of this state relating to insurance. In pursuance of law, I, John L. Bleakley, auditor of state, do hereby certify that said insurance company is authorized to transact the business of fire insurance in the state, and is authorized to be hired by law, until the first day of March, A. D. 1913. I further certify that the statement shows: 1st-The actual amount 3d—The aggregate amt. of liabilities of said company, including the amount required to safely reinsure all outstanding risks, Dec. 31, 1911, to be 4dth—The aggregate income of said company for the year 1911, to be 5th—The aggregate expenditures of said company for the year 1911, to be 3,127,824,41 In testimony whereof, I have here- usonsubserved my name and affixed office the day and date above written. In case of a burn or scald what would you do to relieve the pain? Such injuries are liable to occur in any family and everyone should be prepared for them. Chamberlain's Salve applied on a soft cloth will relieve the pain almost instantly, and unless the injury is a very severe one, will cause the parts to fall without leaving a scar. For sale by all Iowa State Bystand BYSTANDER PUB. CO. Publishers DES MOINES . . . IOWA BEING CARELESS WITH LIONS Story of Intrepid Hunter Who Paid for His Contempt of the Beast With His Life. When the author of "The Journal of a Sporting Nomad" was in Africa he ascended the Pungwe river to Beira and engaged a professional hunter named Kopping to take his short trips in the immediate vicinity, for at the time buffalo, hartebuck, lions, quagga and bushbuck could be obtained by going out from the hotel and returning the same evening. Lions, especially, were plentiful, roaring continually all around the camp; "That night the lions roared incessantly quite close to camp; one of them must have been within fifty yards of us. I took the precaution to make my 577, which seemed to amuse Kopping, who told me he never loaded his old Martini. At night, he said, if a lion came for us it would be like to shoot. I differed from him, for I would have been grapping around in the dark looking for cartridges when by a little foresight the rifle could be loaded and ready for an emergency. "We argued the matter for some time and I happened to say he would pay the penalty one day for his carelessness. little dreaming that within a month this man would be killed by a lion, the whole tribe of which he so openly scorned. It happened that, after he had been out in this part of the velvet with Lord Enniamante, accompanied one by one two boys. Chancing to come upon a lion, a many one, too, he wounded it, and had no time to reload his rifle before the beast came for him, killing him almost instantly." "Had he been accompanied by an other white man, or been armed with a double barrel rifle, the story might have had quite another ending. He had the greatest contempt for lion and paid the penalty of that contempt." "I should always keep my rifle loaded in a country fairly swarming with these beasts, and I proved later on the truth of my conviction." Burglar Properly Punished An interesting and amusing story of a struggle between a woman and a burglar, in which the midnight intruder came off second best, was told at Kilkenny (Ireland) quarter sessions, when Patrick Byrne was charged with entering the rural postoffice at Corlindy with burglaries intended to enter the postoffice through the chimney, awakening the postmaster and his wife. The postmaster grappled with the intruder, and his wife went to assail him with a poker. The postmaster, giving evidence in the case, said the prisoner appealed to Mrs. Lucas, an old womend, for help. "Whereupon," added the witness, amid laughter, "my wife gave him a good liking with an asplant." Invalid's Tray. Oysters and clams are most delicious when well served, and never are they so inviting as when placed on the crushed ice upon the new glass oyster plates. They are just the same shape as chalice, but they are much larger in glass, or may be had in pressed glass. They are especially adapted for use with beautiful service plates, for the color and decoration glisten through the clear edge and contrast with the frosty crushed ice most delightfully. They are of moderate cost, in plain glass being priced at $2.99. The most beautiful design they are $24 a dozen. For an invalid's service tray they would tempt the weariest appetite. Bleasure Deferred Somebody was talking to a newly-married couple who were spending their honeymoon at Scarborough. "You mustn't leave Scarborough till you've seen the cemetery," he said; "it's well worth a visit!" They said they would go, but they forgot about it until too late. Then the young wife reproached her husband. George" she said, "you haven't taken me to the cemetery yet." "Well, dear," was the reply, "that is a pleasure I must have in the future!"—Pearson's Weekly. Ban Press With Motor Car A newspaper, known as the African Standard, is said to have been recently published at Nairobi, South Africa, under unusual circumstances. Owing to the breakdown of the electric supply the printing machinery was stopped, but the ingenuity of the proprietors was equal to the occasion. They harnessed a motor car to the printing press and ran off the edition at the expense of a considerable quantity of petrol, the paper appearing at the usual time without a hitch. Substitute for Pickwickian. "I understand that you have called me a liar." "Merely in a political sense, sir—merely in a political sense." "Oh, that being the case, have a cigar." Warranted. "Are these genuine goldfish" asked the customer. "Yes, 'ma'am, 14 karat," thoughtlessly replied the clerk, who had recently resigned his position in a jeweler's shop. Natural Explanation. Prosecuting Attorney (testily)—You say the candidate wasn't running for alderman or councilman or for any city office; then what was he running for? Witness (stupidly)—I dunno—"nless it might be he seen a cop comin' round the corner."—Judge. All That's Going. Friend—Miss De Style has so much colour. Mrs. Comeup-Then I'm going to buy our Maria some. COAL EXPORTS BIG Important Factor in Trade of the United States. Product Has Taken Leading Place in Nation's Commercial Advancement Within Last Twenty Years — Canada Best Customer. Washington — Coal is rapidly becoming an important factor in the export trade of the United States. The value of the coal sent to foreign countries last year was $2,600,000, against $1,000,000 in 1902 and $3,333,000 in 1892, having thus increased over 500 percent in the last decade and 150 per cent in the last decade. Even these larger figures of more than $50,000,000 worth of coal sent to foreign countries in the fiscal year 1912 do not include the value of that passing out of the country in the form of "bunker," or fuel coal, laden on vessels engaged in the forestry, or in the mining industry, or $23,000,000 in value, making a total of more than $75,000,000 as the value of the coal passing out of the United States in the fiscal year 1912. The quantity sent to foreign countries in 1912 was, according to figures compiled by the statistical division of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, 17,500,000 tons. against 7,000,000 in 1902 and 2,500,000 in 1892. The quantity exported in 1912 is seven times as much as in 1892 and the value more than six times as much in 1912 as in 1892. Coke exports also show a decided growth, the value in 1892 having been but $112,000 and in 1912 practically $3,000,000. A comparison of the quantity and value of coal placed for fuel purposes on board vessels engaged in mining, be made with comparatively recent years, the figures of bunker coal laden vessels in 1912 being 7,932,212 tons, valued at $2,802,876, against 6,003,794 tons, valued at $15...71,781 in the fiscal year of 1909, the earliest date for which complete figures of bunker coal movements are available. The amount sent to foreign countries has increased 150 per cent, both in quantity and value, during the last ten years, that the total value of exports to foreign countries plus the value of that leaving the country as bunker coal now aggregates more than $75,000,000 suggests that the total value of the coal passing United States in a six year will soon reach the hundred million dollar line. The movement of coal out of the United States is comparatively few countries. Of the 2,979,192 tons of anthracite coal exported in the fiscal year 1912 all except the 14,709,847 tons of bituminous coal exported in that year 10,671,982 tons went to Canada, 1,121,580 tons to Cuba, 692,534 tons to other West Indies and Bermuda, 611,802 tons to Panama, 344,712 tons to Mexico and 1,500,000 tons to all other countries. While the total exports of coal to other parts of the world is at the present time small, the growth in the movements to certain European and South American countries has been rapid. The quantity of bituminous coal used in South America was 1,641 tons in 1907 to 276,467 tons in 1912; to France, from 4,037 tons in 1907 to 43,222 tons in 1912; to Argentina, from 9,827 tons in 1907 to 156,792 tons in 1912; to Brazil, from 1,610 tons in 1907 to 307,125 tons in 1912; and to French territory in Africa, from 500 tons in 1907 to 102,498 tons in 1912. The total exports of coal from South America were from 87,512 tons in 1907 to 404,905 tons in 1912, and to South America, from 65,906 tons in 1907 to 580,161 tons in 1912. WHITE HOUSE SENSATION The sensation of a recent White House garden party was the puffing of cigarettes by an Austrian woman, the first to ever smoke at a White House function; that is; the first to ever smoke at a White House function within the memory of living witnesses. Dolly Madison, the beautiful Dolly, whose fame has deligated two continents, probably smoked a pipe there; at any rate, she rubbed snuff, which is ten times worse. LIKES UNCLE SAM'S LAUNDRY Helirich Wollheim, a representative of the Imperial Bank of Germany, who came to Washington to inspect the operations of the bill-washing machine, and who graved and printed, has expressed his entire satisfaction with the device. He will return to Germany within a few days, and will submit a report to the Reichsbank for one of the machines to purchase one of the machines for use in Germany. Icelandic Ponies. Icelandic ponies, which are being impressed into the service of the Swiss army, aroused the admiration of the great traveler, Mme. Ida Pfeifer. "In spite of scanty food," she wished, they have marvelous powers and can move easily. The 35 to 40 miles per diem for several consecutive days. They know by instinct the dangerous spots in the stony wastes and in the moors and swamps. On approaching these places they bend their heads toward the earth and look sharply round on all sides. If they cannot discover a firm resting place, they must sit on itones and cannot be urged forward without many blows." Deduction. "I wonder what that slender young woman works at?" says the man with the vibrant ears. "The must be a school teacher," an eye-witness says with the deep-set eyes. "I overheard her say that she tans vary quickly"—Judge's Library. Rare Chance. "I met Pantoufe just now. He's awfully bad; can hardly eat anything and has a nose that she—And didn't you like to invite him to dinner—Pelle Mele. SCHOOLS IN PHILIPPINES Under the administration of President Taft, industrial education in the Philippines has made rapid progress. For the last four years industrial instruction has been prescribed in the primary course for both boys and girls, and the work is systematically carried on in an advanced manner in intermediary grades. Twenty-six trade schools have been established in Manila and the provinces; there is a college of agriculture at Los Hosnes, and a college of engineering has been added to the University of the Philippines. The civil government finds its duties much less onerous now that the military invasion of the islands has been supervised by the educational. in certain lines, particularly lacemaking and embroidery, the school has not only competed with the work of the famous French and Swiss experts, but promise to compete with them successfully in the world's markets. The whole system of education in the islands is based on the principle that the children should receive training that will prepare them directly for the life they are to live. In the lowest grades they _make_ articles that they can use and sell, both in their own localities and elsewhere. The most important industry taught the boys is hat weaving. The schools do not attempt to replace hand machinery with modern apparatus, for it is recognized that there is a real demand for the products of the dining hand-workship, a red marr, made at the Philippine School of Arts and Trades in Manila, recently sold for $200 at a carnival. The first thing the Filipino girl does in the sewing class in school is to make herself a complete outfit of clothing. This work she usually begins in the second grade, but sometimes in the first. Armed with an embroidery frame, in most cases made by the boys in the same school, she learns how to sew, through the various grades; bumming and embroidering cotton squares, fine linen, handkerchiefs, waistts and so on. The more expert girls turn out masterpieces in French net and embroidery. In lace they make all varieties of "Pillow lace," including "torchon" (Spanish lace), maltese, Ceylon, Irish crochet, and so forth. Battenberg is also made for local use. With 200,000 pairs of enagements in some kind of industrial work in the islands. UNCLE SAM SHOWS WAY Great Britain has asked a leaf from the book of United States as the pioneer in systematically destroying derelicts or floating wrecks along the coast, which are a menace to navigation and a peril to lives at sea. The information sought for the benefit of the London board of trade, which controls Great Britain's maritime regulations, has just been furnished to the British embassy by the state department. The British government said that the reservation service performed this important task for the United States. One revenue cutter, the Seneca, was especially built as a derelict destrover. At numerous international maritime conferences the construction of derelict destroyers has been recommended, but the United States is the only country which has adopted the suggested rule. The revenue cutter service destroyed or removed 45 derelicts. Of wrecked vessels towed to port there was saved an aggregate money valuation of $166,175, including ships and cargoes. The state department estimate that the revenue cutter service located 75 per cent. of the derelicts operated off coast, and off office, maritime exchanges and ships at sea, all working in co-operation to clear the paths of transportation. ALL KINDS OF DOGS. The following advertisement appeared in a local paper the other morning: Lost or strayed, from the Russian Embassy, 1701 K street, a gray Bear. For a long time, the old swering to the name of Bobby. If found and returned, no questions will be asked, and a handsome reward will be given. The dog was lost about Oct. 1. A stream of persons accompanied by dogs started toward the Russian embassy. Every sort of dog, from a ten-ounce spit, to a two hundred pound mastiff, was presented for inspection. Long before the Bahraini staff and Mime, Bahrainese were Bahraini gallen had been passed upon by attaches. Yet at sunday, Bobby had not been found. Removing Ink Stain From a Book You can quite effectively remove the ink stain from an injured volume by applying a dilute solution of oxalic acid, tartaric acid, or citric acid. Any of these acids take out ordinary writing ink, but do not interfere with the print. You would achieve results slowly by just molestening the spot with a sponge and spriniline or a cotton-tarart, laver and repeat. If acid solution is used it should be quite dilute and applied with a damp sponge. Doctor Knew "Doctor, my husband is losing his mind, I fear. He continually mumbles and mutters to himself." "Is it possible?" "Yes; he mutters to himself, and when you speak to him he stares at you blankly." "I know what the trouble is," said the doctor, smiling. "He's memorizing some lodge work. I belong to the same lodge." Compromise. Country Vicar (returning from service)—Is parliament sitting now, my dear? Wife—I don't know. Vicar—Nor I; that's why I said the prayer for parliament in such a low voice—Punch. Liberality. "You should weigh your words," said the cautious friend. said the cautious "I do," replied the energetic campaigner; "but I invariably throw in a lot of extra ones for good measure." MRS. FREDERICK HATTON ON HOW TO TRAIN GIRLS MRS. FREDERICK HATTON ON HOW TO TRAIN GIRLS "I don't agree with him. He seems to me an unjust judge." Mrs. Frederic Hatton referred to the Connecticut justice who said he was injured couple should be compelled to remain together for one year, whether they wished or not. He is of the opinion that if he was home crying to mamma she should be bundled Hattion referred to the Connecticut justice who said that every married couple should be compelled to remain together for one year, whether they wished or not. He is of the opinion that if a bride comes home crying to mamma she should be bundled back home without more aid, and that a husband's presence at his own fireside should be compulsory for the first twelve months. "The first year is the trial year of marriage," was the justice's conclusion, "and if a couple weather that there is a good chance for the permanence of marriage. It is the period of adjustment to each other's faults and habits, and impatient natures rebel against the adjustment. That is the reason there are so many divorces growing out of the difficulties in the first year. I am tired of these and shall and shall order them to stand each other for a full twelve month." Mrs. Hatton, twice wedded and the mother of three children, a woman of social position in Chicago and well known in New York, has the wisdom drawn from the well of experience. "The first year of married life should be, and generally is, the happiest," she said. "It has the charm of early romance. It is an afterglow of the courtship. Many couples who are blissfully happy then get on badly afterward, for when the first flush of romance has faded it takes well-grounded character to make marriage a success. The Connecticut man goes back far far enough. It takes three generations to make a good wife. A girl's mother and grandmother and great grandmother should have been trained for happy and efficient wifehood. "First and last in all the arts of housewifery, no man will be content unless his home is well kept. But even if a girl's mother is incompetent, the girl need not despair. The poorest can learn household arts in one of the public training schools. "A girl should have a good education, so that she can start on a company basis with her husband, their marriage, and after that she should continue her education by keeping herself informed about current events. "The reason I spoke of the three generations required to produce a good wife is not one of snobbery. But the good wife . . . considerate, and three generations of consideration make the exercise of that grace easy. That is why I am so familiar with a member of one's own family". Mrs. Hatton's expressive dark eyes laughed. "My mother and I have always been formally polite to each other. She insisted upon it, and I've grown to like it. "The three generations are more or less necessary for another quality in happy wifehood. That is the preservation of our children. They are overeducated. They are educated until all trace of natural feeling is trained out of them. Too high education or too much of it has snapped the home ties for them. A girl goes to the ordinary girl's school, then to a finishing school, then to college, and she isn't through until she is twenty-five or twenty-six years old. That is why I am so confident that it is easy to give her time to learn the other things she needs to know "Summing up the training of a girl for happy wifehood I should say she ought to know and be many things. A woman, especially a wife, is like an actress of many parts. She should be veratile, and verattility can be trained as well as born. One form of verattility is tact, and a loving, tacful wife of a worthy husband has no reason to fear what his honor of Connecticut calls the trial year of marriage." VISCOUNTESS ESHER AND ARTS OF THE KITCHEN Viscountess Esher's scheme for instructing women in the arts of cook ery and house- keeping commenced in London a few weeks ago. Ethes Eather and friends seriously into the work, and they attend the Mayfair branch of the County of London Voluntary association fully engages in real hard work in the arts of the keeping commenced in London a few weeks ago. Lady Eesher and friends are entering seriously into the work and they stand the Mayfair branch of the County of London Voluntary Aid association fully equipped for real hard work in the kitchen. In addition to cookery they are classes on home nursing and first aid and kindred subjects. It is from Aper aun saap omn opnemen aand a Esher has inaugurated her ambulance classes. She thinks that the women of England should be ready to do their part in case of emergency, just as the men should be ready to fight. She wishes, too, to save some of the many infant lives that are lost yearly through the incapacitation of the mothers, the affections, and even classes in cooking and keeping, but, from the relative attendance, it would appear that these subjects appeal more to the woman of leisure than to the business girl. Wanted to Know: New Boarder (gently)--Hann't this butter rather—er—a peculiar taste, Mrs. Slimdiet? Mrs. Slimdiet—That? That's rollutter, sir. New Boarder—Yes—er—I suppose io; but where have they been rolling k?—New York Weekly. Business Success "You needn't turn up your nose at as fashionable dairy business." "#by not!" "It gets the cream of the trade." MRS. HARRIMAN GUARDIAN OF IMMENSE FORTUNE MRS. HARRIMAN GUARDIAN OF IMMENSE FORTUNE From a home-loving and comparatively unknown woman. Mrs. Mary Averill Harriman, the widow of the great American financier of our railroad king, Edward H. Harriman, has joined the front ranks of the great army of women who wield a powerful influence in the business and philanthropic world today. No woman ever received the widow of the great American financier and famous railroad king, Edward H. Harriman, has joined the front ranks of the great army of women who weld a powerful influence in the business and philanthropic world today. No woman ever received a higher tribute to her business acumen than was paid to Mrs. Harriman by her late husband, when he trusted his entire fortune into the care and keeping of his wife. When he placed in her was attested by the drawing up of his now famous will, which reads: I. Edward H. Harriman of Arden, in the state of New York, do make, publish and declare this as and for my last will I give, devise and bequeath all my property, real and personal, of an Aunt Harriam, to be her absolutely and forever, and I do hereby nominate and appoint the said Mary W. Harriam executor of the will. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this eighth day of the year in the year of nineteen hundred and three. Edward H. Harriman. This will, containing less than a hundred words, bestowed property upon Mrs. Harriman valued at $149,000,000 or at the rate of over a million dollars a word. To the public this remarkable document appeared very curious. But E. H. Harriman knew well the executive ability of the woman in whose hands he trusted his millions. Indeed, it was a well-known fact, that there was but one person in the world who possessed Mr. Harriman's entire confidence, and that one was his wife. Mrs. Harriman has manifested a remarkable capacity for business. Her suite of offices on Fifth avenue, New York, occupies comparatively the entire second floor. Here she may be found cally, actively engaged in administering the affairs of the vast Harriman estate—the directing of every detail connected with the management of that great fortune is entirely under her supervision. She has been a long-time banker, an can accomplish. Today she is accredited as being the greatest woman banker in the country. The recent changing a state bank in which the late Mr. Harriman had been a large stockholder, to a national institution, was brought about through the influence of Mrs. Harriman. It is generally considered by railroad men that their business is a "man's game," a profession of which a woman has little influence; but in the railroad world today Mrs. Harriman is striking an even more powerful role, she is recognized as a most influential and powerful factor in the affairs of the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific roads. HON. ALBINA BRODRICK SEEKS AMERICAN IDEAS The Hon. Albina Brodrick, a sister of the Viscount Middleton and widely known in Ireland for her charitable work among the poor, Balthiccoa, her home, arrived in America a few days ago, and will devote the next few months to a study of American hospitals. A. Miss Broderick is the founder of a small hospital at Ballinacoona and, in the capacity of head nurse, devotes her entire time to the institution. Her services are given without pay, and she said on her arrival, that she never, while at the hospital, apent more than a dollar a week for herself. The greater part of even that small sum she declared went for books, mostly volumes on nursing and hospital. She Brodrick was a second cabin passenger on board the steamer. She engaged a first class stateroom a month before she left England, but subsequently arranged for second class accommodation and devoted the difference in cost to her hospital in Ireland. While in America much of her time will be spent at Columbia University, New York, where she will enroll as a special student for the course on nursing. She said that she would be far in advance in this country, and she felt that her studies here would be of inestimable benefit when applied at her hospital in Ballincoona. How the Finest Caylar Is No Harmony There Miss Fussanfeather—I think your wife has such good taste. Mr. Styles—Do you, really? "Yes, I really do. Everything she has seems to harmonize with the surroundings." "Well, I guess not. I happen to be part of the surroundings, and her dog and I don't harmonise worth a cent!" Inclusive. "Everybody smokes in the Latin room." "Directly, even the volcanoes." TOLD BY PASSPORTS NOT A POETIC SOUL Cards Signified Much to Those Initiated. French Minister of Foreign Affairs Under Loula XVI Devised Ineng- lious System, Described by a Writer in the Century. The mysterious cards employed by the Count de Vergennes, who was minister for foreign affairs under Louis XVI, in his relations with the diplomatic agents of France exhibit great ingenuity in their arrangement and show what the political leaders at that time to require such precautions, writes John H. Haswell, who in culture, describes many forms of "secret writing." The count was a great friend of America, and it was largely through his influence that the treaties of amity and commerce and of alliance of 1778 were used in letters of recommendation or passports which were given to strangers about to enter or depart from France; they were intended to furnish information without the knowledge of the bearers. This was the system: The cards given to a man contained only a few words, such as "Alphonse de Comte de Vernéau" or the marquis de Puysegur, Ambassadeur de France à la cour de Lisbonne." The card told more tales than the words written on it. Its color indicated the nation of the stranger. Yellow showed him to be English; red. Spanish; white. Portuguese; green. Dutch; red and white; Italian; red and green. Swiss; green and green. The people of the card was expressed by the shape of the card. If it was circular, he was under 25; oval, between 25 and 30; octagonal, between 30 and 45; hexagonal, between 45 and 50; square, between 50 and 60; an oblong showed that he was over 60. Two lines placed below the name of the bearer indicated the bearer, lean, the lines were waving and parallel; tall and stout, they converged; and so on. The expression of his face 'was shown by a flower on the border. A rose designated an open and amiable countenance, while a tulip marked a pensive and aristocratic appearance. A fillet round the border, according to its length, told whether the man was bachelor, married or widower. Dots gave information as to his position and fortune. A full stop after his name showed that he was a catholic; a semicolon, that he was a Lutheran; a comma, that he was a Calvinist; a dash that he was a Jew; no stop indicated him as an atheist. So also his morals and character were pointed out by a pattern in the angles of the cross. The man could tell all about his man, whether he was a gamester or a duellist; what was his purpose in visiting France; whether in search of a wife or to claim a legacy; what was his profession—that of a physician, lawyer or man of letters; whether he was to be put under surveillance or allowed to go his way unmolested. Reduced Mortality From Cancer Reduced Mortality From Cancer. "Cancer has at last, by a streny and uniform increase year after year, reached a mortality after eight thousand deaths in New York state department of health reports. "Cancer as a disease has increased more rapidly than tuberculosis. The comparison with tuberculosis shows that in the preceding 20 years there have been 270,000 deaths from that cause and 100,000 from cancer." The bulletin adds: "Comparison with tuberculosis is particularly mortality of consumption, it would appear that within another 20 years there will be more deaths from cancer than consumption." Machine to Write Music A German musician has invented a machine which, he states, automatically registers the notes emitted by the piano. The new machine, Harper's Weekly states, has the same object as one invented by an Italian and used by Mascagni in writing his operas, but it is a larger instrument and is operated by electricity. Into the machine is inserted a roll of paper and the composer seats himself before the piano and executes the composition that he desires to give to the public. The machine faithfully registers every note produced, so that the musician does not have to depend upon his memory. Novela and Playa. An English writer describing the difficulties that lie in the way of a successful novelist becoming effective as a playwright notes that a novelist is free while the playwright is limited by the stage, and adds: "In a play it all has to take place in somebody's chambers and all the women of the play have to be got there somehow. The method mostly adopted is to take away their characters because then you can put them where you like." Fostering Canal Traffic In order to take care of the traffic on the New York state barge canal, which will be completed in 1915, an expenditure of $18,800,000 has been authorized for canal terminals in New York city and other cities along the canal. In New York city there will be 14 canal terminals, costing altogether $9,740,000. The remainder of the money will be spent in building terminals at 21 different cities and towns. To Teach Automobile Bas The University of Southern California has instituted a chair of automobile science, being the first university in the country to recognize the im- plement of the subject of technical study and invest- ment from the engineering standpoint. Mischievous Disposition "Does your boy play football" "Not much," replied Mr. Growcher. "What what he enjoys is putting on the uniform and frightening his mother." Maiden Might Be Classed as of the Earth. Earthy. Simple Narrative Which Further Provez That Love Must Endure Many Hardship in Its Search for a Kindred Feeling. He was a very poetic and impressionable youth, and, though she was a very prosaic maid, there was something very attractive about her and he often asked her to accompany him on moonlight walks along the country. He was always netted at her interruptions, but, lost in raverie as he often was, he allowed her to prattle on until he recovered the thread of his discourse. They were crossing a small bridge over a creek, when he said: "Don't you admire a little bridge—" "Yes, she interrupted; "bridge is a great game. I often play with Mrs. Van Duser as my partner—" As she gossiped on he became lost in meditation. Coming to a broad river they paused at the margin and he exclaimed: "How wonderfully entrenching this is! Just to see the gloom on the waters! Don't you like the moonlight dangling—" "Yee," she chimed in, "dancing in the moonlight is so fine! I attend all the hops at the hotel, and there, on the broad, open platform—" He betrayed no disappointment at her lack of interest in their surroundings as they stood by the edge of the stream, and he wandered on with her into the open country. She lingered in the scene as he said, impressed by the scene: "How wonderful is Nature in all her aspects! How inspiring the lofty trees and the grassy levels! Is it not a boon to get away from the city's heat? I pine so for the country sephyrs! Do you not feel a yearning in you for a cool—" "Yee," she said, "I'd ever so much like to have an ice—" And sadly he took his way back with her to the hotel, and eve long the day before, he now comes out of his room, to get what comfort he could from his poetic musings—Nathan M. Levy in Judge. Thundering Legion. The Thunderding Legion was the twelfth legion of the Roman army under Marcus Aurelius, acting against the Quadi in the year A. D. 174. The legion was shut up in a defile and reduced to great strafs for want of water, when a body of Christians, enclosed by a wall, not only was rained on, but the thunder and lightning so terrified the enemy that a complete victory was obtained, and the legion was ever after called "The Thunderding Legion." According to Brewer, the Theban Legion, i.e. the legion raised in the Thebals of Egypt, and composed of Christians, was also called "The Thunderding Legion." Brewer, however, states that the term existed before either of these two were so called, but he gives no further explanation of the origin of the name. "Cleanliness is Next to Godliness." The author of the phrase, "cleanliness is next to Godliness," quoted by John Wesley in his sermon on "Dress," and again in his journal (February 12, 1772), is not known. Long before Wesley Bacon the author of the words, "Cleanliness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a de reverence to God," and Aristotle, still further back, into "Cleanliness is half a virtue." But even long before Aristotle this well-known English phrase had been taught by the Rabbits of the Talmud, both as a religious principle and sanitary law in the doctrine of the Christian church, resolved into vigorousness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness." Typical Cross-Examination Counsel—Do you know Julius Caesar? caesar? Itsmen—No, sir. Counsel—Have you ever met him? Witness—No, sir. Counsel—You remember that you are under oath? Witness—Yes, nr. Counsel—Then, if you have never met Julius Caesar, how can you say on your oath that you do not know him? Justice—I think we have had enough of this style of examination. Counsel—Your honor will please note my exception to your coming to the resistance of the witness. Justice—If you say that again I shall have you expelled from the courtroom.—Town Topics. Suppression of Oldest Newspaper. The president of the Chinese republic, Yuan Shai Kai, recently suppressed the newspaper King-Ingo, which undoubtedly was the oldest paper in the world. For 100 years it has reported the more important news not only of China, but also of foreign countries. At the time when the art of printing and journalism was unknown in Europe, the Chinese Gong-Chung invented a means for making types from lead and silver, and in the year 400 A. D. the paper King-Bao was printed, and has since been issued regularly until recent. The first edition was printed on ten sheets of yellow silk, neatly together, and was thus sent to all the high officials of the Chinese empire. Nervy. First Flatter—My alarm clock never Second Flatter—Well, the noise is wasted; it wakes me every morning. First Flatter—Is that so? Say, would you mind running down and pounding on my door when you hear The Limitations. "Hitch your wagon to a star" "If she's like the usual run of stars, it will have to be a buzz wagon, then." AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Ladies living away from Chicago should think twice before allowing their husbands to take them there to live. In Chicago, husbands like riches, frequently take wings and fly away—or they get away somehow. I met a number of women who had been deserted by their husbands in a very short time after they had reached that city. Wife desertion in Chicago surpasses that in any other city. Courts of the city, husbands caught they are imprisoned, and are paroled only on promise, that they will support their families. Often the courts collect the money from the employer of a paroled husband and pay it over to the deserted families. Last year the courts there collected and paid it $75,000. But by reason of lack of prominence the colored brother, bent on deserting his family, finds it easy to make his get away. And he is rarely ever found, and never returns, although he may be having a high old block time. And then the corner in another block. And then the discovery of discovering the wanderer (if white) and of persuading him to return home. They advertise for him in the daily papers, especially in the Sunday editions. His children write touching letters begging him, if alive, to return. These letters, often accompanied by the children's pictures, are printed in the papers. In many instances the man finds that there is only one of two things to do, either return home or get off the earth. Concealment in the white light of such publicity is out of the question. But such a man could prove not only in the case of nine-tenths the absconding colored brothers. Hence their families spend the weary years in silent suffering looking as do shipwrecked sailors for a sail which they know will never return. One woman ran a little lunch counter near the place where the league met. She was trying to make money enough to get back home down in Dixie. She said that when they moved there from the far south, the husband soon became fast, the town was fast, and the two had left her stranded and far away from home. The husband had never been seen since he left, pretending to be going to his job. Hundreds of them never "come back." Another woman was running a shoe shining stand, and while she polished my shoes she told me her ladies of woes—husband had been for years, leaving her to work and support the children who in a few years had also disappeared. Therefore, gentle manner, before you move, with your husband, see to it that you have his "adoption tried," and that you have his heart attached to you "with hooks of steel." For in this naughty city old-fashioned love is regarded as a species of criminal madness.—"Old Hickory." A flag for the negro race has been designed by Bishop J. Lennox of the Zion African Evangelical church. Flags represent nations, not races. It is all nonsense to try to have the negro race adopt a specially designed flag. The only flag that can be carried to the isle of the Stars and Stripes. Negroes have volunteered in many of our country's wars to shed their blood that the honor of Old Glory might be upheld. The song, "Every race has a flag but the coon," simply displays ignorance, and the bishop displays his ignorance There is no football being played this year at Meharyar Medical college and Pearl High school in Nashville, Tennessee, by decision of the faculties of these two schools, because the young men have openly and flagrantly bet and gambled on the results of the games. This is to be regretted. The all-time form, is a necessity, especially in American school life. Of itself the sport is not bad. It does see to us that plans could have been devised and a compelling moral crusade carried on to eliminate these bad practices, thereby retaining the game. If the sport was abolished without an effort first having been made to suppress the evils been attributed upon it the students would go abroad that the course decided on an acknowledgment of weakness on the part of the powers who refrained from attempting to regulate instead of abolishing. --- If he is poor, he is a boor; if he is well to do, he has the "ozar microbe," but if he is wealthy, he has that amirable characteristic of getting what he wants, when he wants it. Many prominent whites are frankly expressing the view that their race is responsible to a large degree for the American negro's condition, and are endeavoring to awaken more active interest in the work of American negro redemption and conservation. Our people have felt that way about the matter all along. Getting married costs much less than being married. Man proposes and hopes the woman opposes. "How do you like your new son-in-law?" "Well, I've just put him on the list of my poor relations—Detroit Free Press. Having to go places where you don't want to go, is easier than having to stay in one place where you don't want to stay. The channel of pleasure runs very wide these days, but often very shallow, which gives more people a chance to wade in. The new attitude which southern college men are assuming toward the matter of race relationship is most encouraging. In the tolerant, broad-minded friendliness of the rising generation of college men lies the hope of the negro race. Eighteen months ago the Young Men's Christian association launched a movement for a detailed study of this problem of the negro by white college men. Our most sanguine hopes did not lead us to believe that we would be able to get more than 2,000 southern college men studying this question within the first year. In fact, so timid were we that at our student conference, where we gathered in college of definite study the southwest, we planned to invite personally a group of more mature and broad-minded students to enter this study. We felt that if they be genuinely interested each man could go back to his college and start a similar study group. We had no hope that we would compete more than 15 or 20 men in this conference for this study, and was nounced as one of the seven courses in the study of home and foreign missions, and what was our amazement when we found that more than one third of the students in the conference enrolled in the class for negro study. These men going back into various colleges so encouraged the study of this problem during the term in college, and were some 4,000 college men in small groups in the study of this question. During the present college year of 1911-1912 we have already enrolled some 6,000 men. Thus it will be seen that in the last 18 months 10,000 white college men have given some genuine study to the mB race relationship in the south.—W. D. Weatherford in the Southern Workman. --- Fred M. Johnson, negro globe trooper, who fought at San Juan Hill, has invented a belt feed rifle that, it is asserted, will fire 300 shots without stopping at the rate of 20 shots a second. Johnson says he has received word from the war department that his rifle is considered one of the wonders of the age, and that it soon will receive a trial. The Johnson gun is used much like an ordinary rifle, being about the same weight and length, but instead of the regular stock, the rifle is equipped with a brace which fastens to both shoulders, bringing the barrel to a level with the eye. A small crank fitted on the side of the barrel opener he bolt the cartridges are carried to the chamber, dicharged and the shells ejected simply by turning the crank. Johnson is now a resident of Cleveland, O. John H. Ceboll, 532 Camp street, Indianapolis, Ind., through his attorney here, William L. Houston, has been granted a patent by the patent office on his invention of a non-puncturable tire for automobiles. His patent tire can be punctured with a six or eight penny nail without necessitating stopping for repairs. It is so constructed that no matter how badly the outside rim is punctured the inside rim mains intact. The invention will be a boon to automobile owners, and ought to prove a fortune for the inventor. Every man in a crowded trolley car wonders why the other men do not give up their seats to the women who are standing. Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft are the last nine men elected to the presidency of these United States. Of this number, three were assassinated—Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. An attempt has been made on Roosevelt's life. Thus nearly half of the men who were fired by irresponsible enemies of government. If it is necessary to safeguard the lives of crowned heads in Europe, it is more necessary to protect our governmental leaders far better than they have been protected. for America is almost an unrestricted mecca for those who have failed in their insane and fantastic attempts to have all forms of government abolished. Everyone has some part of his work that he can cheerfully part with, and the boy who starts to work without specially defined duties, is apt to soon find himself the busiest person about. The human family acquired the habit of running one another down long before the motor car did it. He who lives to regret has not lived in vain. A twenty-year-old Kansas colored girl stood six civil service examinations and held first place in five out of the six. He and stood second in the sixth one. Here is a fine example of negro pluck, intelligence and education. The man who gets in late in the morning and leaves on time with his desk cleared isn't a genius so often as a papa's pet. When a man stops his newspaper it is because some blundering reporter has printed the truth about him. The success of the dining car for negroes, operated by negroes, on the Southern Pacific railway, may open up the way for better all-round accommodations for colored people in time on all the prominent railways where poor service for them is given at present. The matches that are made in heaven never strike fire. PREPARING SALAD AND FRUIT Methods That Are Not New, But Have Successfully Withstood Test of Time. Escalloped Squash.-Cut the squash into small pieces and boll until tender, but not soft enough to mash. Butter a baking dish and cover the bottom with a layer of squash, over which sprinkle a little salt, a little sugar and a few bits of butter. Keep doing this until the dish is full. On top, in addition to the seasoning, add a little grated nutmeg. Pour in about a quarter of the eggplant and bake in a moderate oven. Serve hot. Egg Plant Salad.-Cut the eggplant in quarter-inch slices, pare, sprinkle with salt and pepper and saute them quickly in hot butter. Batter on cheese cloth; when cold, cut them in dice, sprinkle on them some minced watercress and cover with a cream salad dressing made by stirring three teaspoons of grated horsemarchal, three tablespoons of lemon juice, one-half cup of lemon juice, one-half cup into one cup of thick whipped cream. Baked Quinces.-Core and pare eight ripe, juicy quinces. Put them into a buttered baking dish and fill the cavities with sugar. Sprinkle the remains of three-quarters of a cup of sugar over them and add one and a half cups of water. Cover and bake until soft in a moderate oven, basting Quinces a long time for cooking. Serve hot with butter and sugar. Red and White Pickle.-Select one large or two small heads of cauliflower, break into bits. To add one half pint of small onions, two red peppers. Dissolve one-quarter pint of salt in sufficient vinegar to cover vegetables. Let stand over night, drain the juice and place in a bowl and two tablespoons of mustard until it bolts, put in vegetables, boil 15 minutes, bottle and seal. SEEK WELL-BALANCED DIET Of the Uttmost Importance to the Health and Welfare of All the Family. It is the duty of the housewife to furnish a well balanced diet to the members of her family. By taking something from each group of food materials she will be able to supply all of the five food substances—protein, fat, carbohydrates, minerals and water—which are necessary. The correct proportions of each, however, must be determined by the individual environment and peculiarities. Appetite, age, sex, occupation, climate and season must all be considered when making a well-regulated diet for the normal person. "It should always be remembered that 'the ideal diet is that combination of foods which, while imposing the least burden on the body, supplies it with exactly sufficient material to meet its wants," and that any disregard of this standard must in the present moment be best development of our powers." The vegetable foods—peas, beans lentils and nuts, particularly peanuts—that may in a measure supplant meat should often be found on the table. The peanut paste or butter made from finely-ground nuts is pleasing to the taste and very nutritious. Peanut-butter sandwiches make a wholesome lunch for school children. Cooked for Cooked Food Cupboard I use it for several years a homemade food closet which has proved to be a great convenience writes a contributor. In warm weather, as I have no ice, I cook often, and place the food, until wanted, in the closet, which is well ventilated and safe from files and ants. It stands in a cool room with open windows. It is four feet high, five feet long and two feet wide with three shelves. It has four short legs which rises it from the floor about six inches. The legs stand in small pans. The shelves are the knee high. Two doors with panels of the food netting occupy the entire front. The food closet is neatly painted and varnished and in both ornamental and useful, not only in summer, but in cool weather find it a safe and handy place to keep cooked food Beef Balle. Cut beef from top of round in strips, and scrape. Season this with salt and form into small balls, using as little pressure as possible. Cook the balls for one minute in a very hot frying pan, shaking the pan constantly to keep them rolling. The little balls will be lightly browened all over, looking very nice. Reserve oven, then gently pile a few on a pretty plate, in a tiny pyramid, with a sprig or two of parsley, and narrow strips of crisp toast. Creamed Walnuts One pound of white sugar, half a teacup of water. Put on the stove and boll until it threads. Flavor with vanilla. Remove from the fire and stir until white and creamy. When cool enough to handle roll into balls the size wanted, press walnut halves into the sides, and dip into granulated sugar. Dates may be used the same way. Handy Stick. A smooth, strong stick, about forty inches long, with a notch in one end. is a useful thing to have in the house. With it pictures may be lifted by the from their houses and replaced without climbing up and down a step ladder. Apple Float Press one quart of nice stewed apples, from which all surplus liquor has been drained, through a sieve. Add juice of one lemon and sugar to taste. Beat into it the whipped whites of three eggs. Serve at once with cream. Raw Beef Sandwiches Cut stale bread very thin, butter slightly, remove crusts, spread half the bread with scraped beef well salted. Serve in sandwich form, cutting the sandwiches small. In Advocacy of Kindness. "Deal gently with the old, for they have come a long way; and be kind to the young, for they have a long journey before them." -Selena MODERN OYSTER SHELL-MACADAM ROAD THE ROAD The Illustration Shows a Modern Oyster Shell-Macadam Road Between East Newmarket and Mt. Holly in the State of Maryland. GOOD ROADS CUT OUT ROAD CONTRACTOR Nothing More Than Figureheads an County Pays Them Big Profit for Their Bare Signatures. (By ISAAC L. TOTTEN, in the Farm An Fireside.) In this state (Indiana) we have what is termed "the three-mile gravel road" law. Under the provisions of this law we freeholders of a township may petition the county commissioner to establish and construct three miles of gravel road at any place within the bounds of that township providing the road is to connect with a township-line road or another gravel road at either of its terminals; and the road may be established and but if the township is not already owed bonded, and if the bonds for the new To those who are about to work up the highways, as is often done in some counties of the state in the fall, we would say, "Don't!" Autumn is a beautiful season, but when we see a force of men "working" in the road and plowing up the old road-bed late in the fall, it makes us think that the melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year. There is an element of this sort that lingers all winter over such a section of road. It is bound to be cut full of deep ruts in mild weather. This is why we need to Dublin when the ground is frozen. The only aim in working roads at this time of the year should be to keep them hard and well drained, says the Wisconsin Agriculturist. No loose dirt, clods or vegetable matter such as weeds and grass sods should be left on the road-bed. Sod and weeds make it easier to tumble, and however it creates a hump, cultivated soils, it is a mighty poor road building material. Clay roads should be packed and smoothed with the road drag, and not loosened up at any time of the year, much less just before winter sets in. Muddy and sandy tracts may be graveled or macadamized. Tile drains and culverts are seen to be in good condition for draining away the ditch water. But places can well be hard-surfaced or cut to provide access for gravel-covered roads and scrape loosely soft material up on to the roadway is not good highway engineering for November. It is better to leave fairly firm road surfaces as they are, than to fill in with unpacked material at this season of the year. Good Jerary Roads The New Jersey legislature and state officials, aroused to their responsibility as producers of the best interests of their commonwealth, have voted millions of dollars to be used in constructing an ocean boulevard, to run the entire length of the coast. In order to create a already famous for its roads this will undoubtedly be the finest driveway in America and will be a superb addition to the already wonderful attractions of the Jersey coast. With the assistance of the United States government the state has also appropriated money for the dredging of an inland water way through the maze of bays, creeks and inlets from Bay Head to Cape May, which will provide the most accurate and precise between the resorts with absolute safety at all times—National Magazine. Mud Hole Is Costly. The ravages of the boll weevil in Texas are estimated at millions of dollars annually, but the mud hole has been a more costly fee to millions of dollars in trying to find a way of eradicating the boll weevil but we do not have to spend money to dig mud, indicate bad roads—build good ones. The boll weevil in destroying cotton decreases production and consequently increases the price of the remaining products, but bad roads levy their deadly toll against the producer and destroy the value of the remaining Study Road Needs While marketing the hogs and other crops is a splendid time to study the needs of road improvement, but it's a poor policy to let the matter go untreated. It is easy to accomplish the improvement is to put plans into definite action. Have Roads 4 1:3 Per Cent. Don't have grades on the road over 4-1-3 per cent; for if you do it will be necessary to build V-shaped surfaces or "Thank-you-mama"* across the road. Nothing More Than Figureheads and County Pays Them Big Profit for Their Bare Signatures. (By ISAAC L. TOTTEN, in the Farm and Fireside). In this state (indiana) we have what is termed "the three-mile gravel road" law. Under the provisions of this law may petition the county commissioner to establish and construct three miles of gravel road at any place within the bounds of that township, providing the road is to connect with a township-line road or another gravel road at either of its terminals; and the road may be established and built if the township is not already overbonded, and if the bonds for the new road can be sold. This is a very elastic law and permits dissipating of a very large amount of county money, because of the fact that the work is let to contractors. Of course the construction work of the roads is let to the lowest bidders; but there are so many hooks and crooks—mostly crooks—in connection with the work, when placed in the hands of a contractor that the cost of constructing the roads is greatly in excess of the benefits. After the county commissioners have established the road for which the fifty freeholders of the township have petitioned, they appoint a superintendent, whose duty is to see that the proper grade is made for the road, and also to see that the right kind of road is built and applied according to specifications. The one who usually gets the job of being superintendent is some one to whom the commissioners owe political obligations, and in many instances he is not in the least competent to supervise the work. I had an opportunity recently to observe how some of the road work was handled. I was one of the gravel haulers employed. The gravel -or what was supposed to be gravel -was hauled from curs, a fence, a roadside along the dirt time I was working. This alleged gravel was obtained from the gravel pits belonging to the contractors. The superintendent, who was employed by the county to see that the contractors carried out the work according to specifications, engineered all of the work, with the exception of managing the teams and keeping the work while the contractors loaded around the saloons in town making themselves good fellows with whoever they thought would play into their hands. Although the superintendent was employed and paid by the county, he asked the contractors for compensation for the work he did of setting boards and helping level the gravel. The contractors were nothing more than figureheads. The county was paying them a good, round profit merely for their signature on the contract; the county was doing the work for them, and not the contractors doing the work for the county. A pretty way to work with this kind of work be handed direct by the county, state or national government and so eliminate the contractors? It would save millions of dollars. One contractor told of how the "bid game" was worked when bids were placed on a certain piece of work. He said that the contractors usually got together and arranged their bids, and the one who wanted the job would give the others a bonus and have them put their bids on the board. The contractors were high enough to give him a chance to so place his bid as to bring in a sum large enough to pay the bonus and besides that a handsome profit for himself. The King Drag. One might write a poorer eleventh commissioner, but the Klemens Klemens Kring to keep it Louay Cows. If your cows are lousy, each winter, get some of the prepared dip and use it before cold weather sets in. You don't need a dipping vat; simply mix it according to directions and put it on the cows with a wide paint brush Plow Sheep Pastures. Sheep pastures on which sheep have been running for some time should be plowed in order to prevent the land becoming so infected with worms that the sheep will be constantly troubled with them. BANDITS' TRAGIC END|WORLD OF REPTILES? NOT VERY BOLD OR BLOODY; JUST TWO LITTLE BOYS. Bad Fate of "Rattlesnake Jack" and "Bill the Bitter" When Their "Robbers" Roost" Caved in and 8 smothered Them. New York—Two of the bandits are dead. They were caught in their own cave by the fall of the cave roof and were crushed to death. But these were not very bold or bloody bandits; no pooses rode the plains after them, no warrant, sworn to by Bell and Book, was out against them. Just two little boys, Johnnile Pecorella and Billy Blum, and their robbers' cave, where they met their deserter on the night, was in a vacant lot at 163 Hopkins avenue, East New York. It was two other bandits who made the discovery of the tragedy in the cave early the next morning, and that is what made it all the more terrible for all the bold bandit who infect the mountain fastnesses about Hopkins avenue and Hull street. They took shovels, these scared bandits, and they dug frantically until they came on a shoe and a little patch of stocking, and then—the grew sick with frost. And then—had he died? Now, the bandits numbered fifteen or twenty youngsters, varying in age from 8 to 14 years. Before ever they dug their cave in the vacant lot on Hopkins avenue they took fearsome names to themselves. Johnny Pecorella, 12 years old, who lived at 194 Rockaway avenue, was "Rattlenka Jack"; Billy Blum, 9, was "Bill the Bitter," when he was not tucked in his own bed at 50 Hull street; little Johnny Good was "Rob Roy," and George Good was "Red Eye Mike." The bandits here and by terrifying him were "Rattlenka Jack" had all their names, signed in blood, in an old oil can safe down in the cave. The cave was a perfect robbers' stronghold. It was eight feet wide, the same number of feet long and about six feet deep. Over the top boards were laid; then tin and on all of that dirt was spread, so that every bit of light was kept out of the cave. To get into the cave a robber had to drop on his knees and crawl through a tunnel. When a deputy sheriff could be murdered at one blow with the dirk the cave was fitted up inside with strips of carpet and a packing case seat for the chief of the bandits, who was old "Rattlesnake" Johnny Pecorella himself. Candies, "swiped" from home, gave light. For several days the bandits had feared "Deadwood Dick," the trusty deputy sheriff, was on their trail and that he would loot their cave of evidence in their absence on some foray. So when word came that Deadwood was already coming do the deputy sheriff with his trusted pose, the chief of the bandits and "Bill the Biter," otherwise Billy Blum, decided they would have to spend the night in their cave to guard it. Early the other morning "Battle snake Jack's" father noticed his son was not at the breakfast table, also that his bed had not been slept in during the night. Pecorella, senior, inquired of his son, Tony, as to Johnny's whereabouts. Tony, who is also a bandit, admitted guiltily, that Johnny had spent the night guarding the cave. He was deprived Instantly, before bring the trunk home. Tony picked up Johnny Good and Montrose Buder and George Woods on the way to the cave. All of the bandits felt little nervous thrills of anxiety; they knew that their trusted chief and "Bill the Biter" had spent the night in the cave. When they arrived at the vacant lot they saw where the cave should be a sagging hole, with the splintered ends of beams and old strips of tin protruding. Johnny Good ran and brought help and the bodies of the two boys were unearthened. Then the bandits forgot all about being bandits. They are just little boys again, very sad and very frightened. FIGHTING BULLS CHARGE AUTO Four Persons Lose Their Lives In Attacks From Animal Angry Animals. Liebon—The famous fighting bulls of Portugal displayed their aversion to motor cars recently, when an automobile omnibus with ten passengers was proceeding along a country highroad near Cintra, Portugal. A herd of fighting bulls from a celebrated breeder's establishment suddenly appeared around a, corner. Frightened by the throbbing of the engine, the bulls got out of hand and charged down on the vehicle. The driver hastily turned his machine and fled, pursued by the herd of infurred animals, but being injured of the neighborhood, drove the heavy vehicle over a brecicle into a ravine 89 feet below. The driver and three passengers were killed outright, while the others were all seriously injured. Flight Overs Woman's Body Chicago--Following a quarrel between two undertakers over the possession of Mrs. Helen Westland's body, one embalmer broke down the morgue door at Passavant hospital and seized the "prize." Shoots a College Negro Raleigh, N. C.-Gordon Rhodes, Baptist university freshman, was too popular with the girls. Two masked students waylaid him to have him. He shot him. The man ran Rhodes is held under heavy ball. Race Bulicide Threatens M. D. of A. R. Kansas City, Moe.-"Mace Raid" is threatening the Missouri daughters of the American revolution, according to a news conference here. Only one new "daughter" was born in the last year. ```markdown ``` VENUS PICTURED AS BEING THE ABODE OF MONSTERS. French Astronomer, Supposed to Be Flammarion, Paints Lurid Scenes of Young Planet—Covered With Stifling Mist of Air and Hot Water. Paris—"Life on the Planet Venus" is the title of a remarkable article which has just appeared in the Paris magazine, Lectures Pour Tous, and has attracted widespread attention from the boldness of its theories. According to the writer, who, although anonymous, is believed to be his friend Flammarion, has been familiar with the earth and older than Mercury, is now passing through the equivalent of what is called the secondary period by geologists. "It is," he says, "a nightmare planet, a nest of reptiles, and a swarm of monsters. Under the stifling mist of air, saturated with hot water, lies a vast miry swamp, covered with rotting vegetable matter. In this spring of toadstools and forms a high date with earth and flowers in which all creeping and silly creatures that are vermin here take gigantic proportions. "Insects are monsters there." Centipedes a yard long trail on their soft feet. Enormous spiders, black and velvet, possess jaws like wolftails, filled with poison. "In the prairies of giant mossgrass," continues this writer, "lives the diplococcus, as high as a house, always endeavoring to appease its insatiable hunger and keeping a lockout for a swift onslaught of the carnivorous triceratops, which it cannot hope to escape. "Everywhere are sinister croakings, wiltlings, forked tongues and the slaughter of giantaurians, which fight for the supremacy of the world. There are no flowers among the riotous fern-like vegetation and no birds, but in the fiery air are seen constantly the membranous wings, ten yards across, and the snapping jaws of oterodactyls. "The hot seas, filled with floating weeds, are above all full of innumerable living beings, octop, with vivid tentacles, colossal fish and zoophytes like living flowers, while here and there in the maddened whirlpools fearful dragons rise from the abyss, raising the masts over the spasmant necks surrounded by vipers' heads. "Twilight on Venus is blood red. The angry sun, as big as a millstone, descends to the horizon in the smoke of volcanoes and' storm clouds. And black night comes, lighted by no moon and full of clamors and horrors. "But when the ichthyosaur rises on the crest of the waves to roar in the darkness he reflects in his eyes, pupilless and hard as glass, a beautiful star swims through the point which is the queen of heaven of Venus. It is our earth and the moon, her satellite. "This writer thinks that owing to the relative warmness of the poles of Venus while this period of evolution is proceeding in the torrid zone, which occupies the greater part of the surface of the planet, it is possible—that at the poles species are already appearing which did not come until after the secondary epoch on the earth, such as great pachyderms covered by rocks. And perhaps near those poles dwells already in caves a hairy being with projecting jaws, brutal and savage, but within whose thick skull pass some glimmerings of reason, and who is busily engaged in striking sparks from flints to protect his food from great, carnivorous animals." ONE STANDARD OF HAPPINESS It May Be Plain to the Ethiopian, but is a Puzzle to Magistrate. Pittsburg, Pa.—Just what the true Ethiopian standard of humor may be is still puzzling Magistrate Louis Alpern, at No. 2 police station. If a pair of colored persons of opposite sex, bound together by marriage vows, take a notion to wallop each other vigorously and the good wife nonchalantly inserts with force the sharp edge of a hatchet in her helpmeet's cranium and then saws out a chunk of his nose with the sharp corners of a broken plate—well, Mr. Alpern is rather inclined to believe it is "rough stuff" At any rate, Mr. and Mrs. Washington of Poplar alley, when they were dragged before the magistrate the other day, explained that they had explained that they had only been playing when the strenuous manicuring took place. Washington protested that they absolutely never did fight and that their conubial life couldn't possibly be any happier Mrs. Washington agreed vociferously. She appeared greatly mystified that any policeman should drag them into police court when they were 'jes' havin' a little fun". It required a total of ten stitches to get Washington out of the court and then the magistrate discharged them. He admonished the pair to be a trifle less demonstrative with their play in the future and to quit-firing with the morgue. To Send Time From Parla Paris—The exact time at a given moment in America and Europe will be established shortly by wireless telegraphy. Condemned Man Respects Friends. Westfield, Conn.—George Redding, New Haven actor and playwright hanged here recently, refused to invite personal witnesses to his execution because he was superstitious that it might bring bad luck to them. Used Her Husband's Teeth. Cindyknad—William Miller, a Civil war veteran, has been granted a divorce from Mrs. Caroline Miller. He said that when his wife left him she took his false teeth and used them herself. FARMERS HOLD ANNUAL FAIR Hundreds Respond to Invitations Sent Out by Messe, Frissell and Graham For Conference and Exhibition of Agricultural Products—Ambition of Mrs. Harris Barrett. Hampton, Va.—The Negro farmers' conference and fair, held annually at Hampton institute, bring together several hundred enterprising and prosperous Virginia farmers and homemakers who are eager to improve their soil, increase their yields per acre and secure better homes and a more satisfactory community life. Over $300 will be distributed this year in prizes for farm products, domestic art, domestic science, manual training and public school exhibits. Invitations to the farmers' conference, held at the institution Nov. 20 and 21, were widely distributed. They were issued in the name of Dr. H. H. H. H. Principal, and Mr. Charles K. Graham, director of the Hampton institute agricultural department. The large school gymnasium, which accommodates over 1,500 people, is filled at the conference time with interesting exhibits sent to Hampton institute from all parts of Virginia. The Hampton farmers' conference is a toll-free phone number and progress of Virginia Negroe. It is an encouraging indication of what is being quietly done for race lift through the co-operation of many agents—the preacher, the teacher, the industrial supervisor, the farm demonstration agent, the business man and the homemaker. Using classification list of premium will suggest the wide scope of the exhibition of farm home and HONEYMAKERS AT HAMPTON. school products: Grains, forage and forage crop seeds, vegetables and roots, cotton, tobacco and peanuts; fresh and dried fruits, cured and smoked meats and poultry, domestic arts and domestic economy, dairy products, handmade doormats and ax handles and public school work. An interesting exhibit of canned fruits and vegetables, cakes and pies, children's and handwork of various kinds was prepared for the farmers' conference by the Homemakers' club of the Locust street social settlement, which is under the direction of its founder, Mrs. Harris Barrett, who was graduated from Hampton University with excellent results of the Negro Garden association work, which was begun in 1911 by Mr. Jackson Davis, a southern white man who is the state supervisor of elementary schools in Virginia, were shown at the conference. Helpful addresses were given by Hampton workers and other experts. Interesting demonstrations were given for the benefit of all who are interested in home and farm life. That the Hampton farmers' conference and fair are most helpful to the colored people of Virginia is unquestioned. Yearly they give the Hampton workers and students, as well as those who attend the conference from distant points, the opportunity of seeing what has been done to improve the condition of people on the soil and renewed inspiration for increased effort in pushing forward the Hampton idea of education. Pretty Home Wedding in New York. One of the most interesting marriages of recent date among the younger social leaders in New York was that of Mr. Charles C. Allison and Miss Lulu贝丽 Vilhiam, both placed at the bride's mother. The one Hundred and Forty-fourth street. The ceremony which made the young couple man and wife was performed by the Rev. Dr. W. P. Hayes, pastor of the church. The bride was attended by Miss Madeline C. Allison, and Mr. Charles C. Allison, was Mr. Allison's Mr. and Mrs. who drove the recipients of many tokens of esteem from their friends. KEOKUK NEWS. Mrs. Pearl Johnson has departed for Macomb, IL, where she expects to permanently reside. Her daughter, Miss Cecil, will be greatly missed in the Coleridge School. Her institution she has always taken such an active part. Mr. McKinley Brooks of Quincy, Ill., it expected to spend Thanksgiving holidays with her sister, Mrs. Wakey Watkins. Ethan hope that our Kookin sub- currents will exercise due patents if our news articles do not appear each week. In every instance it is not the fault of your correspondent, who is desirous of chronicling all news of importance. In this behalf I solicit your hearty co-operation. Don't turn the agent over to me regarding the happenings of your circle. With your assistance we can make our letter interesting. Telephone 2514 Hub. phone. Through the columns of the Bystander we want to let our friends out of the house and happenings in Water Power City. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Harvey Holt, who were married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Frye, on the eve of the 30th, are now located in their new modern home at 1504 Blondeau street. We are sorry that our letter give way to the fact that it was not given publication, as it was one of the prettiest weddings of recent occurrence. Mr. Holt is an employee of the First National Bank and is one of the very few young men that previously prepared a home for him. The best friend of the host of friends are showered upon them. Another wedding of much prominence occurred at the home of Dr. and Mrs. T. H. Phillips on November 6th, at 10 oclock a.m., when Rev. J. P. Sims of Bethel church united Miss Sousie Clark and Mr. Bruce Conway Armstrong. These two were notable people that were born and reared in our midst and have the well wishes of their many friends, who are numbered by the score. The basement interior of the Pilgrims Rest Baptist church is being remolded. A cement floor, having been laid, the walls will be plastered, the ceiling furnished, which will add greatly to the appearance. Rev. Helm and congregation are to be congratulated for their untiring efforts in the beautifying of their church edifice. Mrs. Ethel Brooks Watkins is the promoter of a play entitled, "Tempest Tossed," that will be staged at Xmas. Several of our talented Watkins are possessed of remarkable originality and is an elocutionist of exceptional ability. The musical that was given at Bethel church under auspices of the Coleridge Taylor Music club was greatly enjoyed by all present. Mrs. Anna Holmes, the president, should have her offices off the arouse interest toward the development of our musical talent. Mr. Ed Roberson, grand chief mentor of the Iowa jurisdiction of Sir Knights and Daughters, has just returned from a trip to Centerville and Des Moines in the interest of the order. Mr. Mary Bland was hostess at a party given recently in honor of Mrs. Geo. Young of Pooria, who will probably make her home in Keokuk for the coming season. Mr. Scott Mottley of Humboldt, Tenn., visited last week with his aunts, Mrs. Chas. Buckner of New Boston and Mrs. Rufus Dandridge of near Summitville. As they had not met now a year for thirty-five years, hence it was quite a meeting. A wave of crime seems to be prevalent in Keokuk for the past few months, but fortunately it is not all confined to our race. One of the most heart-rending of scenes was enacted last Monday at the noon hour at Cameron's transfer barn, when Enoch Hawkins and Frank Lewis became engaged in an alteration that resulted in the death of Mr. Lewis, caused by the inflicting of a knife wound by Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Lewis recently moved here from Missouri and has a wife and seven children. Mr. Hawkins is one of our home boys, who has heretofore borne a good reputation. He has a wife and one child. It is not thought that Mr. Hawkins is a murderer at heart, as the men had previously been good friends. Sympathetic friends of both deplore the calamity of such a sad fate. Deepest sorrow by many friends is expressed over the death of Miss Millie and Minnie Buckner, who were twin sisters, their demise having occurred only a few weeks apart. The family moved here from Missouri a few years ago. Of near surviving relatives they leave a father, mother and three sisters. The death of Jimmy Allen, which occurred last week at the home of his mother, Mrs. Cox, on North Ninth street, is mourned by relatives and friends of deceased. His sisters, Mrs. Price of Omaha, Neb., and Mrs. Price of Minn., were here to attend the funeral. Another visit from the death angel called from our midst Bro. David Cross, a venerable and highly respected citizen of our community, and a member of Bethel A. M. E. church and one of the old local preachers. His death, which he has been known to have largely due to the infirmities of old age. His son from Mississippi and grandson from Arkansas were in attendance at the funeral. Bro. Cross was considered by some to be somewhat eccentric in his ideas, which perhaps was occasioned by the disadvantages of his youth. He leaves an address in houses and lots, several hundred dollars in bank, together with a life in The members of the First African Baptist church and their pastor, Rev. Samuel Johnson, are the pastors. They are certainly doing a good work. The spirit of earnestness seems to prevail among Bro. Cross of Mississippi, who is a Baptist preacher, preached for them last Sunday morning and even The members of Bethel church are working earnestly. The painting of the parsonage is now well under way and every one seems encouraged for a bright future. The members of the Union Baptist church are working with an enthusiastic spirit under the leadership of their pastor, Rev. Jas. Bowls. The ladies of St. Mary's Irish Aid served a supper in St. Mary's church (white dress, evening ages). Prostitute were for the benefit of St. Mary's church. Miss Volive Bailey of Vincennes, Iowa, was in our city last week to confer with Dr. B. F. Dornan, general obstetric and surgical A social function of high prominence in which many of our readers will be interested occurred at the home of Mrs. Lulu Lamb near New Boston last Saturday ycomplimented to Mr. Reed D. Lamm. Mrs. Mabel Lamm. They were massed City on the 20th inst. about sixty guests responded to the infiltration of the hostess. The day wasstone spent in a most pleasurable way. The dinner was a most elaborate one, consisting of everything in season. Mrs. Lamb is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ward of Kansas City, formerly of Davenport Mo., loved because of quiet, unassuming disposition and manner. Mr. Lamb is the son of Mrs. Lulu Lamb of New Boston, and is an industrious young man. "It is a pleasure to tell you that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the best cough medicine I have ever used," writes Mrs. Hugh Campbell, of Lavonis, Ga. "I have used it with all my children and the results have been highly satisfactory." For sale by all dealers. BUXTON BRIEFS. Mrs. Sarah Williams left Friday evening for Clarinda, Creston and Omaha, after spending about two weeks in Buxton. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bailley, Miss Grace and Miss Veeta Step were in Des Moines attending the Smart Set Sunday night, reporting a pleasant trip and a good show. Milton Aktinson met with a slight accident in No. 15 mine last Wednesday. He is able to be out again. Mrs. Grace and Miss Veeta wharton of t the A. M. E. church, this city, and F. B. Woodard of Mt. Zion Baptist church and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Guy were the guests of Mrs. Maggie Downs at 6 a'clock dinner last Wednesday, evening. Rev. Carr, Carr Saturday for Omaha, having assisted Rev. Woodard in a splendid revival meeting, in which there were thirteen converts and several restored to the church. Rev. Carr is a splendid preacher and labors very* earnestly while engaged. The meeting will continue this week and Rev. Bigglee, Mo., will assist Rev. Woodard. Thanksgiving was observed at Mt. Zion church with special services. On account of the illness of the pastor the members of Tabernacle Baptist church joined in the service. Brown is on the sick list this week. The Mission Circle met in the home of Mrs. Ed Howell last Thursday and listened to a very splendid program rendered by some of the members. A dainty lunch was served afterward. The naked, hodes, who was hurt in the mine several weeks ago, is getting around on crutches and is almost as noisy as he used to be. Business must be picking up "sure enough" when you see the young man going shopping with the young lady. You must about ready to talk. Ask "Ed" if you want to know any more about it. The Church Aid society of Mt. Zion Baptist church celebrated their first anniversary last Sunday afternoon with a sermon and show program. The church has two four members, they are still encouraged and feel that are long they will have the majority of the members enrolled. It is a splendid organization for the church and it is hoped that they will have ideas that the church people must belong to a secret organization or they will get no attention when sick. Every member of the church should be a member of the aid society. Membership fee $1.00, and 15 cents per month. Tabbernacle Church News. Rev. Mendenhall will leave Tuesday for Hot Springs, Ark., for his health. Little Myrtle Garrett is confined to her bed this week. Marytle Garrett and children left Wednesday for Enterprise to spend Thanksgiving with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Pendleton. Mrs. Chas. Simmons left Wednesday for Des Moines. The Mission Circle will meet Thursday, with Mrs. Ada No. 8 East Twelfth street. The entertainment given by the church Saturday night for the benefit of the pastor was a success. Mrs. Laura F. White will leave Friday for a short visit with friends in Centerville visiting friends, Miss Liliana Simmons returned home, reporting a pleasant stay. Revs. Garrett and Green preached for Tabernacle congregation Sunday. Rev. Garrett preached the morning and Rev. Green in the evening. Subscribe for the Bystander. THE WEEKLY NEWS 3100 Pine St. St. Louis, Mo. THE "PORO" SYSTEM of Scalp and Hair treatment is based on the la- test scientific and sanitary methods, and is promoted by a promotion a growth of beautiful hair. The "Poro" preparations used in connection with the treatment are made and sold exclusively by myself, having no knowledge of the preparation, I know the secret of the composition that bears that name. Our claim has always been that when the hair begins to grow as the result of treatment, it should be done 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 hair loss, for it is a fact that hair in an unsanitary condition carries the germs of disease which often prove fatal to innocent persons coming in contact with them. For treatment, call on me address: Mrs. Mollie Whitney 726 108 st. Des Moines any books or periodicals published by Afro-Americans? If not, send the price of a year's subscription and get your name on the mailing list. Brief Account of the Labor of a Native Mississippiian Who by Presidency Has Attained Distinction In Many Fields of Usefulness In the North—Authority on Dunbar. By CLEVELAND G. ALLEN. Boston.—One of the most highly trained literary men of the race is Professor Charles Alexander, the well known lecturer and formerly the editor and publisher of Alexander's Magazine. Mr. Alexander has had a long career as a literary critic and served in many capacities which have called for the exercise of the highest academic training. For a number of years he was employed in the capacity of reporter, night desk man and exchange editor of the Boston Daily Standard and the J. B. Philadelphia Times, two of the largest and most influential white dalles of the country. Professor Alexander was born in Mississippi. He was educated in the public schools of his native city and of New London, Conn., where he went at an early age. After the completion of his education he returned south and began his career as teacher in the Agricultural and Mechanical college at Normal, Ala., where he remained for four years. He also taught at Tuskegee and Wilberforce university, in Ohio, where he also remained for four years. He is published in a publisher, having published in Boston the Monthly Review and Alexander's Magazine. He has also published the Wilberforce Student and the Normal Index. While editing Alexander's Magazine in Boston he ran in connection with its publication a successful job printing plant. For the past few years Professor Alexander has been giving lectures on the life of Paul Laurence Dunbar. He is recognized as an authority on Dunbar, and his lectures, which have been given before large and representative audiences of both races throughout the country, have been pronounced by critics to be one of the highest tributes that has ever been paid the lamented poet. Professor Alexander in his lectures has been recognized as the genius of Dunbar. He has reviewed books for some of the largest publishers of the country and has been recognized as an expert along that line. He takes a keen interest in all movements having for their aim the betterment of the race. He is also the field agent of the National Religious Training school of Durham, N. C. Professor Alexander is a man of pleasing address and gives evidence of wide culture. He is one of the most interesting lecturers of the race. He has a wide acquaintance with the most prominent men and women in the world. He is best known, he wields wide influence in the intellectual life of the city. Order of Eastern Star Prosperous. The Masonic fraternity was well represented in connection with Ethet chapter No. 7, Order of the Eastern Star, as the entertaining body at the fourth annual convoction of the grand chapter of the order by Penguin Publishing held in Pittsburgh on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 21 and 22. The reports show that the order was in a prosperous condition. Mrs. Agnes Goldson is the royal matron of Esther chapter. Banquet In Honor of Bishop Walters. Under the leadership of Attorney James L. Curtis as chairman a committee of prominent men has arranged to give a testimonial reception and a memorial service of Bishop Alexander Walters on Wednesday at Dec. 4. The affair will take place at Young's Cushio, West One Hundred and Thirty-four street and Park avenue, New York. PETER BURTON WOODSON DEFEATED. In the recent general election just held Hon. George H. Woodson of Monroe county, the regular republican nominee, was overwhelmed by the democrats. We are indeed sorry to note that Mr. Woodson has not past feelings or petty differences that may have existed between him and a few of our races; it was too bad. As to qualifications he had no equal on either the democrat or socialist tickets. We are not of the white republicans. They knifed him in every precinct in the county and even in Albia, where we would think there would be less prejudice, he was cut the most. It has always been the case that the candidates would send for Geo. Woodson and try to get Buxton's aid and them that they should register the largest vote against Mr. Woodson and the Buxton candidate is indeed worse than hypocrisy. Other candidates were indeed except Mr. Woodson and the county attorney. Below we will give our readers the vote on Woodson at the primaries and at the election: Woodson's vote at the June primaries: Woodson, Sloan, Barnes. Albia, 1 st ward 40 83 74 Albia, 2 st ward 54 73 42 Albia, 3 st ward 36 86 41 Albia, 4 st ward 42 81 70 Avery 9 21 9 Bluff Creek 113 98 63 Buxton, No. 1 276 20 21 Buxton, No. 2 310 2 16 Cormoran 14 11 12 Poster 6 26 8 Franklin 10 20 11 Georgetown 15 17 9 Hilton 7 26 18 Hiteman 70 39 22 Hocking 78 37 28 Hynes 2 18 18 Jackson 2 24 4 Lockman 16 14 8 Mantua 16 20 24 Pleasant 10 25 16 Troy 26 65 37 Ulton 25 35 22 Urbana 6 17 10 Ward 8 6 3 Wayne 5 11 10 Totals.....1,177 929 535 Woodson's vote at election: Woodson, Clark. Oakley. Albia, 1 st ward. 160 15 Albia, 2nd ward. 76 109 21 Albia, 3rd ward. 46 109 22 Albia, 4th ward. 70 196 30 Albia.....24 46 94 Bluff Creek.....122 168 94 Buxton No. 1.....287 50 10 Buxton No. 2.....292 13 7 Cedar.....31 113 9 Franklin.....20 94 5 Foster.....26 28 10 Coworktown.....14 77 4 Hiteman.....54 49 333 Hilton.....25 74 10 Hocking.....39 64 10 Hynes.....17 43 105 Jackson.....26 181 20 Lockman.....26 19 28 Mantau.....29 22 14 Plantau.....30 89 10 Troy.....47 115 19 Union.....65 123 20 Urbana.....31 87 3 Wayne.....15 90 2 Ward.....9 48 41 Totals.....1,473 2,281 892 ST. JOSEPH, MO. Mrs. J. Kenner of Marshall, Mo, Grand Matron of the H. of J., spent several days of last week in this city. She was elected at their last annual meeting. Hence this was her first official visit to that society. Mr. and Mrs. Kenner have been living at Marsh for a number of years and being in good financial condition they have been able to afford the meals and and is a pleasure to meet Mrs. Kenner, as she is a good lecturer and highly educated. Miss M. Fitzhugh, the blind dramatic soprano, gave a concert at the U. B. F. hall last Monday night. The full effect of her singing was marred by the poor condition of t he piano, which was not in tune, and she grogged as she sang as she compelled to use such a dilapidated piano. The persons who had charge of the concert should have secured a piano in good condition. Miss Fitzhugh was born in St. Louis and educated in our state school for the blind. She plays the piano, recites pantomime, and plays music by the Braille system and travels alone, and is making a tour of the western states. Mr. Prince McGaugh of 2805 Mary street was in Richmond a few days last week to attend the funeral of his aunt, who succumbed to a stroke of apoplexy. The indoor carnival that was given by a Masonite lodge at their hall from the 18th to 23d inst. to replein the treasury of their building fund, was very successful. The attendance was very good and as their expenses were not very much they must have secured a good sum of money for that. The treasury went to Lincoln Neb., last week to perform an operation. Mr. Geo. Kerkord of Atchison, Kas. spent Sunday in our city. He is the junior member of Kerkord & Son, manufacturers of crushed Moose. Frank Madison of Moose a former member of this city, spent Sunday and Monday with relatives and friends here. Robt. Sweeney was in Excelsior Springs the latter part of last week. Mr. Whit Gassaway was in Atchison, Kas., a few days this week. A number of people from this city spent Sunday in Kansas City and Toukea Kans. Next Sunday is the regular monthly meeting for the "special program" at the Y. M. C. A., at which time women will be admitted, and the committee has prepared a program that will begin promptly at 4 p.m., and a cordial invitation is extended to the public. The K. of P. band gave a concert at the New Hope Baptist church last Monday night to an appreciative audience. The 21st inst. at 202 N. Twenty-second street about 100 guests were present to witness the marriage of Miss Lottie Hicks to Mr. William Washington. Her sister, Miss Minnie, and Mr. Minnie, and Rev. E. M. Cohron performed the ceremony. They were the recipients of a number of pretty and useful presents. The groom has been employed for a number of years at the Bradley Hotel. The bride came to Plattsburg, Mo., but was resident of this city for several years, and we, with their many friends, extend our congratulations. It was the prettiest late autumn wedding of the season and the A question, but don't disregard the truth in answering it. Do you read 一 BY CLEVELAND G. ALLEN. 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Sweet, and Lampher, Skiner & Co., above named, defendants: You, and each of you are hereby notified that the petition of the plaintiff in the above entitled cause is now on file in the office of the clerk of the district court of Iowa, in and for Polk county, claiming of you the sum of $594.88, with eight per cent interest per annum on said sum from August 1, 1912, as justly due plaintiff upon the promissory note for $700.00 dated the date of January 1, 1908, made by Hilli V. Healivilin and Healivilin, bearing seven per cent interest per annum from February 1, 1908, payable semi-annually, and due and payable in the following installments, towit: $100.00 on February 1, 1909; $100.00 on February 1, 1910, and $500.00 on February 1, 1911, which note remains wholly unpaid, except the sum of $100.00 paid thereon April 12, 1909, and the sum of $50.00 paid thereon May 19, 1910. On April 10, 1911, the said note was renewed and extended to February 1, 1912, at 8 per cent interest from February 1, 1911. The said note is made payable to the plaintiff, to fill the holder thereof, and to fill also the judgment for $8.00 paid by him for insurance upon the building situated on the real estate hereinafter described, and for the sum of $10.00 expended by him for continuation of abstract of title to said real estate, with eight per cent interest on said several sums from August 1, 1912, and for the costs of this action, including attorney's fees. Also asking the foreclosure of the certain mortgage of even date with said note and securing the same, upon the south 28 feet of lot 3, in block 31, in the Town of Demoine, now in and a part of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, and claiming that the lien of said mortgage is prior and superior to the rights or interests of each and all of the defendants. No personal judgment is asked except against the defendants, Lillie L. 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