Iowa State Bystander

IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XIX NO. 31 CITY NEWS Mrs. J. R. Drew has been sick for a few days, but is some better. Mrs. Mattie Brooks of 1623 Searle street is very sick this week. Little Enola Thompson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Thompson, is sick this week. Mr. A. C. Payton has been sick at his home, 952 Fourteenth Street Place, this week. Mrs. J. A. Jefferson is slowly recovering at the Methodist hospital from a severe attack of la grippe and spasmodic asthma. Mr. Granvall Henry left this week for his home at Hiawatha, Kansas. Mr. Henry has been visiting in the city at the home of Miss Helen Brown. Mrs. J. L. Clark of Chillicothe, Mo., arrived in our city this week to visit with her niece, Mrs. E. Winn, 912 Pleasant street. Miss Lillian Neal left Thursday for Decatur, Iowa, to visit her sick parents there. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Griffin left for their home Saturday morning, after a very pleasant visit with relatives and friends. Mr. H. R. Graves left Monday evening for Danville, Va., for a visit with relatives and friends. Mrs. E. T. Banks has returned from a visit in South Dakota and reports a good time. She said that they had no snow up there when she left this week. Mrs. Major Barber and grandson returned home, after spending a very pleasant visit with her daughter, Mrs. O. S. Cary, and Mrs. Lottie Williams. The sad death of Mrs. Harry Henderson was a great shock to the club of which she was a member. The paper that Mrs. O. S. Cary was to have read at the funeral as a token of respect was not announced, hence not read. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Turner entertained twenty-five of their friends last Friday at a card party in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Griffin and Mrs. Mitchell of Evanston, Ill. Dainty refreshments were served and a very enjoyable time by all. The Mary Church Terril club will be entertained Monday evening by Mrs. H. R. Graves at the home of Mrs. J. B. Rush. The report of the interstate will be given and the following program rendered: Vocal solo. Mrs. H. R. Graves; instrumental selection, Miss Marie Bell. All members are urged to meet early. The Misses Julia and Manicie Baily of Marble Rock, Iowa, returned home last week. They are both young school teachers in a white school in that vicinity. While here they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Rush. Mrs. Fennie and daughter, Ora, of Macon, Mo., and the Misses Luella and Aurrous Brooks were the invited guests at a luncheon last Tuesday at Mrs. Catherine Mease's, 1040 Fourth Street Place. WOMAN'S POLITICAL STUDY CLUB The Woman's Political Study club met Thursday evening, December 17, at the residence of Mrs. W. H. Warricks. The evening was devoted to the study of equal rights for woman. The next meeting will be Thursday, January 23, with Mrs. Gus Watkins. The topics for discussion will be: Civil Rights, by Mrs. Watkins, and Class Legislation, by Mrs. Rush. DRAMATIC ART CLUB The Dramatic Art club met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. N. H. Marshall and reviewed the first four cantos of Dante's Inferno. Meet next Tuesday with Mrs. C. C. Johnson at 1066 Thirteenth street. Study cantos V.VIII. The Iowa state legislature will open next week and there are many candidates gathering in our city for the various offices. Among the colored aspirants are: In the senate, Jeff Logan of Des Moines, Chas. Comley of Webster City, Scott Johnson of Centerville, P. Irwin of Des Moines. In the house are R. N. Hyde of Des Moines, Henry McCraven of Des Moines and W. H. Jones of Keokuk, and we are in formed that there are about fifteen in the field for governor's messenger under the new governor. Those that now seem to be in the lead are John Wilkinson, Douglass Miller, J. Theodore Bell, Richard Windsor and W. H. Jones, Jr. of Keokuk. On Monday last in the afternoon the interior of the Corinthian Baptist church was almost entirely destroyed by fire. The fire originated in the basement, from what cause is entirely unknown. On Sunday preceding the church had held a celebration in honor of the pastor's completion of eleven years of service. The officers and workers are arranging for a harmonious and arduous year's work. The fire has put the church out of doors for several weeks to come. The frame of the building and the roof seemed to be saved. And much credit is due the firemen for their heroic work. But for this the loss would have been entire. The church carried some insurance. In the last twelve months improvements to the extent of $1,200 had been made on the property, to say nothing of new carpets that had been laid by the Aid society at a cost of $400. UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. For Sunday, January 12, 1913. Morning service at 10:45. Sermon by pastor Subject, "Tarrying For Power." Sunday school at 12 m. Evening service at 7:30. Sermon by pastor. Subject, "The Faithful Few." On Wednesday evening the church elected its officers for the present year. The officers are as follows: Clerk—Mrs. J. W. Jackson. Financial Secretary—Mr. H. E. Jacobs. Treasurer—Mr. John L. Thompson. Chorister—Mr. L. J. Shelton. Organist—Mrs. H. W. Hughes. Sunday School Supt.—Mr. F. P. Johnson. Deacon Board—Mr. John L. Thompson, Mr. H. E. Jacobs and Mr. C. S. Stewart. Deaconess Board—Mrs. C. S. Stewart, Mrs. J. W. Jackson. Much praise is due the outgoing officers for their devoted, Christian service during the past administration. With their continued assistance and co-operation the present administration, under a corps of enthusiastic officers, is expected to accomplish much good for the church and community. A hearty welcome is extended to all to share and aid in making the year profitable, not simply for the church, but mostly for the Kingdom of righteousness and Christ. The chorister requests all those who desire to become members of the choir to meet at the church Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. T. M. Brumfield, Pastor. THE LYCEUM. At the meeting of the Negro Lyceum Association at the residence of Atty. S. Joe Brown last week reports of the recent Inter-State Literary meeting at Topeka were made by Atty. and Mrs. Brown. Mr. Jesse Graves, Misses Nellie Leftage, Susie Lee and Gertie Hyde, all of whom attended the Topeka meeting. Mrs. Mary Hatcher of St. Paul and Miss Georgia Blagburn of Buxton were also present and addressed the meeting. At the conclusion of which Mrs. Brown served a dainty repast in honor of her tenth wedding anniversary, which happened to fall on that same date. On next Tuesday, January 14, the semi-annual installation of officers will be held at the residence of W. H. Warricks, 1006 W. Thirteenth street. Corinthian Baptist Church Corinthian Baptist Church ANNOUNCEMENTS. Services Sunday morning and Sunday night in the Capital City Commercial College building at Tenth and Walnut streets. Enter from Walnut street and take the elevator. A large auditorium with all conveniences has been secured. We hope to see all members at their posts on Sunday. Let every on ebe loyal in this crisis. Morning subject, "The Call of the Deep." Sunday school at the usual time. B. Y. P. U. at 6:30. Evening subject, "The Bright Side of the Cloud." T. L. Griffith, Minister. MASONIC GRAND LODGE NOTES. M. of Iowa and jurisdiction. The The Iowa State Bystander is the official organ of the Most Worshipful United Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. grand officers are: Grand Master—John L. Thompson, Des Moines. J. G. W.—M. O. Culbertson, Clinton. G. Treasurer—W. H. Milligan, Cedar Rapids. G. Secretary—W. W. Gross, Keokuk. G. Custodian—W. G. Clark, Oskaloosa. Chairman of Committee of F. C.—Geo. L. Suitor, Marshalltown. The Grand Custodian, A. G. Clark, has divided the jurisdiction into the following district: First district, consisting of Keokuk, Burlington, Ottumwa, Buxton, Oskaloosa and East Des Moines. Second district, West Des Moines, Marshalltown, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Clinton and Davenport. Third district, Sioux City, Council Bluffs and Omaha, Neb. The schools of the First district will be held in Ottumwa, the Second in Cedar Rapids and the Third in Omaha, Neb. The Grand Master's official visits will be as follows: Tuesday, January 14, at Sioux City; Wednesday evening, January 15, at Council Bluffs; Thursday, January 16, at Omaha, Neb.; Tuesday, January 21, at Cedar Rapids; Wednesday, January 22, at Clinton; Thursday, January 23, at Dubuque; Friday, January 24, at Davenport; Monday, January 27, at Keokuk; Tuesday, January 28, at Burlington; Wednesday, January 29, at Ottumwa; Thursday, January 30, at Buxton. tertained at dinner Monday Mr. D. Sherman and on Friday Mrs. F. F. Lowery, Mrs. H. Raspberry, Mrs. A. G. Jackson and Mrs. H. Perkins spent the day and report a pleasant time. Little Marshall Caulder is convalescent. Mrs. H. Raspberry spent Xmas day visiting in Iowa City. Mrs. J. Robinson also made a flying trip to Iowa. City one day last week. cial hour that was highly by all. At the annual election evening the following one elected in the choir: Mr. King, organist; Miss S. chorister; Mrs. Cora Pa. Mrs. Cyrene Trent, sec. B. R. Penn, treasurer. ITEMS FROM QUINC Miss Adelaide price NOTICE. In answer to several queries as to the connection of the J. F. Baker Printing Co. with the Buxton Leader, we take this method of informing the public that there is none whatever. Joseph F. Boken, Mgr. KEOKUK NEWS. The stork is being kept quite busy these days, his latest visit being at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Fields, leaving a baby daughter. A repetition of the play, "Among the Breakers," that was given by several of our talented characters a few months ago at Association hall, is scheduled for January 7th. It is hoped that a good number will be out to enjoy this classical home talent production. The proceeds are for the benefit of Bethel church. The eight-course dinner that was given by Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Snoddy on Xmas day at their home was greatly enjoyed by twenty-five invited guests. It was one of the most elaborate social functions of the Yule-tide season. There is much sickness prevalent at this writing, among them being Mrs. Sallig Thomas, Mr. Wm. Weldon, Mrs. Belle South, Mr. Arthur Weldon and Mrs. Jane Goins. Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Burton entertained a company of friends at their home on Xmas day in honor of their daughter, Miss Eldora Burton, who is at home from Des Moines, where she is attending school. Miss Gertrude Alexander, nee Hawkins, is at home for a visit with her parents. Mr. Austin Freeman left last Tuesday for Galesburg, Ill., for an indefinite stay with his daughter, Mrs. Sadie Waggoner. Revival meetings are still in progress at the First African Baptist church. Much interest is being manifested. Mr. Thomas Brown was in the country last week plastering the eight-room residence of Mr. Arnold Bone. The Xmas tree entertainment that was given at Pilgrim's Rest church was a financial week. The sum of $37.20 was realized. Mr. Wm. Phillips of Hannibal, Mo., visited with his father, Rev. Dr. T. H. Phillips, a few days last week. Mr. Fielding Johnson, who has been employed as a substitute mail carrier, has now entered upon his duties as a regular carrier. This is a well deserved promotion. Miss Madah Lewis spent a few days during the holidays with friends in Fort Madison. Mr. Ralph Teebau expects to leave next Friday for Macon, Mo., to resume his studies. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Teebau entertained in honor of their son, Ralph, last Sunday at dinner several friends of the latter. Cupid is now enjoying a few days' rest, but latest information says that active duty is liable to be resumed at any time. It is with a source of deep regret that friends of Mr. Chas. Eubank of Fort Madison learn of his demise. Mrs. Catherine Strothers, 626 Mechanic street, entertained in honor of Mrs. Tina Abner at a 4 o'clock dinner Sunday, December 22. Covers were laid for twelve and they did justice to the sumptuous dinner prepared by the hostess. Mrs. Tina Abner left Monday morning for Oklahoma City to join Dr. Abner. She will spend several days in Oklahoma City and thence to Wenoka, where Dr. Abner is engaged in educational work and the real estate business. The eleventh anniversary celebrated by the Benevolent club last Thursday was a great success, both financially and socially. The members of the Second Baptist church are preparing to burn the mortgage Wednesday, January 1, in connection with the celebration of the fifteet anniversary of the Emancipation. CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA Mrs. A. Williams of Macomb, Ill., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. C. P. Harrison. Rev. R. Holley, W. H. Milligan and Mrs. H. Raspberry are suffering with la gripe. Mr. Wm. Martin is reported better since being removed to the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. Warren. French Perkins is confined to his bed. Mrs. Della Marshall of Davenport passed through our city on her way to Mason City to attend her sister, Mrs. Smith, who is seriously ill. If Mrs. Smith can be moved she expects to take her to Davenport with her. Mrs. H. Flowers is enjoying a visit from her mother, Mrs. Thorp, of Macomb. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Milligan en- tertained at dinner Monday Mr. D. Sherman and on Friday Mrs. F. F. Lowery, Mrs. H. Raspberry, Mrs. A. G. Jackson and Mrs. H. Perkins spent the day and report a pleasant time. Little Marshall Caulder is convalescent. essent. Mrs. H. Raspberry spent Xmas day visiting in Iowa City. Mrs. J. Robinson also made a flying trip to Iowa, City one day last week. Rev. F. J. Peterson is having quite a success with his church. The congregation is improving and much interest is being manifested. We are sorry to learn Marshall's restaurant will be moved to 212 Third avenue East, his lease having expired, the ground being sold, and in the near future a four-story building will be erected on the ground. Marshall intends to purchase his new location; says he has let too many good chances slip. CLARINDA, IOWA. Mrs. Luella Banks, who had for many years lived in this city, but recently moved to Omaha, Neb, died at that place Tuesday, December 31, after a short illness of pneumonia fever at the age of 41 years. She had been a faithful member of the A. M. E. church of this city, at which place the funeral was held Thursday, January 2, 1913, at 2 p. m., conducted by Rev. Morgan. She leaves to mourn her loss a devoted husband, seven children, father and a host of other relatives and friends. The remains were laid to rest in Rosedale cemetery. The bereaved family has the sympathy of the entire community. Mesdames Etta Jones, Phalbia Pemberton and Mr. Perry Leneer of Red Oak attended the funeral of Mrs. Banks in this city Thursday afternoon. Messrs. G. N. Nowlings and Galard Nash are on the sick list this week. Miss Mabel Nash and daughter, Iola, are visiting friends in Kansas City. Mr. Ewell Montgomery and Miss Callie Arnett spent New Year's in Red Oak. Mrs. Jessie Carlson and Miss Winnie Johnson were visitors in Omaha on New Year's day. Messrs. Wm. Stevens and Glen King left Tuesday for Centerville for an indefinite stay. Miss Susie Lee has returned from Tonga, Kans. Instead of Mrs. G. W. Williams being ill, as stated last week, it was Mrs. L. W. Williams. On December 20 in their hall, Silver Leaf Chapter, No. 5, O. E. S., installed the following officers: Sister A. G. Jackson, W. M.; Bro. Callie Johnson, W. P.; Sister Jennie Robinson, W. A. M.; Bro. W. H. Milligan, treasurer; Sister C. P. Harrison, secretary; Sister J. E. Milligan, conductor; Bro. Wm. Robinson, warden; Bro. L. D. Lowery, sentinel; Sister A. Marshall, Adah; Sister H. Raspberry, Ruth; Sister M. F. Lowery, Esther. After the installation the members repaired to the parlors below, where all enjoyed the banquet which awaited them. An enjoyable time was had. The Golden Jubilee celebration at the A. M. e. church Wednesday evening promises to be one of the big events of the season. The Church Decoration Club No. 1 will call on each person to help in their new enterprise, so don't refuse to give 6 cents a week to help in beautifying the church. Clyde Washington of Burlington was visiting parents and friends last week. Mr. John Nelson is suffering with lumbago. BURLINGTON, IOWA. Mrs. T. A. Mead of Chicago was called to Keokuk last week to the death, bed of her father, Mr. George Rideout. On her return trip she spent several hours in our city at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Henry Moore. Mrs. M. Ross entertained on New Year's day at 6 o'clock dinner in honor of Mr. and Mrs. William Ashly. Covers were laid for ten. Mrs. Claude Bland of Hamilton, Ill., Miss Kitty Owens of Keokuk and Mr. J. W. Holmes of Colfax were among the guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter King during the holidays. Rev. Lewis H. Owens, Jr., of Fairfield was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Powell on New Years' day. Mr. Charlie McGinnis of Aledo, Ill., has been slightly indisposed the past week and has been trying to recuperate at the cheerful little home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Palmer, 310 S. Plane street. Mrs. C. Lewis is very ill at the home of Mrs. Lyda Bender, 823 Washington street. Mrs. Squire Henderson entertained on last Saturday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Burdette of Monmouth, Ill. A week of prayer which lasted from December 31 until January 9th was well attended and enjoyed by all. The Art Industrial club will meet at the home of Mrs. Agnes Lamb on Thursday evening. All members are kindly requested to be present. After a business meeting on Tuesday afternoon the Willing Workers served refreshments and spent a so- cial hour that was highly appreciated by all. At the annual election on Tuesday evening the following officers were elected in the choir: Master George King, organist; Miss Lola Brooks, chorister; Mrs. Cora Palmer, leader; Mrs. Cyrene Trent, secretary; Mrs. B. R. Penn, treasurer. ITEMS FROM QUINCY, ILL. Miss Adelaide rrice has returned to Wilberforce to resume her studies. Mrs. Cora Harris and Mrs. Mary Mitchell are about up and around the room at this writing. Miss Iola Allen left Saturday night for Kansas City, Mo., to visit with her sister, Mrs. Sarah Brown. Rev. Smith of Canton, Mo., was in the ecity Sunday. Mrs. Lucy Moore is on the sick list. The Quincy colored band gave another one of their fine concerts on New Year's night at Bethel A. M. E. church to an appreciative audience. On January 2nd, Thursday evening, the culture club of Eighth and Elm Street Baptist church celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and the following program was rendered: Chorus, Culture choir; prayer, chapain; chorus, Culture choir; the Emancipation Proclamation, Mrs. J. Douglass; instrumental duet, Messrs. Ewing and Bynum; Boyhood of Lincoln, Miss M. C. Warrick; piano and drum duet, Messrs. Berry and Noil; trio, Messrs. Fields, Harris and Morgan; vocal solo, Master Orville Watts; The Policies of Lincoln, Mr. Wm. Schlagenhauf; instrumental solo, Mrs. O. Wilson; vocal solo, Mr. James Wilson; vocal solo, Mr. Robert Cook; How To Celebrate Emancipation, Prof. R. A. Roberts; selection, Peerless Quartet. Miss Oneta Gordon returned Sunday a. m. to Jerseyville, ill., to resume the duties of her school there. Mr. Wm. Lillie is still on the sick MT. PLEASANT, IOWA. Mr. and Mrs. Wicks and two daughters of Eldon spent a few days with relatives. She was accompanied back by her mother-in-law, Mrs. James Wicks. The executive board, composed of Revs. Bates, Burton and Palmer, met here to officiate at the ordination of Rev. Eaves. Rev. Bates preached a very interesting sermon. After this an entertainment was given at Mrs. Sarah Berry's, which proved a success. Rev. Palmer preached a very good sermon on Sunday following the ordination. A social was given at the A. M. E. church on last Friday night. It was a success. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brown and Bernice and Mr. M. Kelly of Burlington spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Burnaugh. Harry Johnson of Keosauqua spent Xmas here with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Clay Reed. Mrs. Irene Neal left last Friday night for Peoria, Ill. Mrs. M. McNeal returned from Peoria, after a three weeks' visit with her children. Mrs. Ralph Burnaugh and Miss Myrtle were in Burlington shopping. Mrs. M. Jackson spent Sunday in Albia. Among those who attended the dance in Burlington on Xmas were Mr. and Mrs. Lucian Carter, Miss Leona Palmer, Messrs. M. Wicks, H. Brooks, C. Logan and W. and A. Burnaugh. Mrs. Alice Colston of Keokuk spent Xmas here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Wicks. Mr. M. Wicks of Eldon spent Xmas at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wicks. On Tuesday evening an interesting program was given at each of the churches, which were enjoyed by all and were well attended. The programs were good and the children deserve much credit. Mrs. George Colston spent a few days in the city visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. E. Richmond. With all our Xmas pleasure we found some sadness, for on Monday evening Mrs. Addie Greene passed away suddenly while visiting a neighbor. Her demise was a terrible shock and cast much gloom over the community. During the day she had been in good health and about her daily tasks as usual. She was about 53 years of age. She leaves to mourn her loss a husband, two daughters, five sons and two brothers and a host of relatives and friends. The funeral was held Friday afternoon from the A. M. E. church, of which the deceased was a member. Rev. Lowery officiated. All of the family were present except one brother. Mr. Levi Washington of Sioux City was in the city to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Greene. Mr. Miles Greene of Des Moines was called here on account of the death of his mother, Mrs. Greene. Mrs. Mathews of Burlington attended the funeral of her aunt, Mrs. Greene. Mrs. M. Carter of Callaway county, Missouri, is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. N. Palmer. Mr. Pearl McGill of Fairfield was a M. Pleasant visitor. Misses Jilla Gay and Leona Palmer attended the banquet in Centerville on Friday, December 27. State Capitol Blog virtual room T AND Mr. and Mrs. Watts and daughters, Genevieve and Hazel, have returned from Centerville. Mrs. P. Larley and Miss H. Hunt are visiting in Des Moines. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gaiters and daughters are visiting at the parental home of the latter Mr. and Mrs. S. H. McCracken. Miss Janie Pickett and Mr. Preston of Monroe City, Mo., are visitors at the Carter home on West Henry street. Miss Jessie Prentice of Fairfield and Mr. Armstrong of Wyoming spent Xmas at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. Page. One of the greatest social events of the holiday season was a four-course dinner given by the King's Daughters last Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the house of Mesdames Amanda Bartlett and Ralph Burnaugh. The parlor and dining room were artistically decorated in holly wreaths and Xmas bells and other red and green draperies. The guests found their seats by dainty hand-made place cards. Covers were laid for twelve, the especially invited guest being Mrs. S. N. McCrackan and Mrs. E. H. Gaiter of Ames. The afternoon was pleasantly passed with music and conversation. Sachet bags were given as souvenirs, that the ladies might have sweeter thoughts of the last meeting of the year. The following menu was served: Grape fruit, roast turkey, dressing, jelly, cream gravy, mashed potatoes, creamed French peas, celery, hot rolls, butter, novelty salad, chocolate and vanilla ice cream, assorted cake, cocee, mints. AN OBSERVER, FORMER JOUR NALIST AND EXTENSIVE TRAVELER. Comments Upon Our Recent Jubilee and Race Possibilities. Apropos: The recent jubilee festivities, celebrated in this city under auspices of the most representative and active citizens of my race extraction, I cannot help but, where possible, express self. It has been my God-given privilege and premise to, in some manner or another, attend every function of import somewhere and at time that has ever taken place in this or other countries concerning the welfare of my own race of people during the past twenty-six years. Yet, with and despite all, never have I witnessed such a uniform, able, clock-like and euphonious program as was that rendered by the citizens and tainent of Des Moines at the Congregational churches on last New Year's day. Very true the writer may have been fortunate in meeting and mingling with this citizenship upon a gala and holiday, but it remains to be said that his witness is such that where like precepts are carried out and adhered to success and emolument are to crown our every effort. The philosophy which affects to teach that we are to continue the unmanly, baby-like, harping and nagging at one another is to be and must be done away with if we ever expect to rise above the mediocre in life and into its gracious work. The tendencies to develop along only singleness of line are to be nullified; the disposition to worship along the emotionalism—the ostentatious and showy is to cease and the material and real is to be substituted therefor. The pulpit orator, the scholar, the farmer, laborer and mechanic all are to come into their own and the desired through this recent example set channel of unanimity of action by our citizenship and people. Very true, the millenium has not come, nor has the mirage of the promised land fully dawned. Yet both seem near at hand where like festivities are felicitated. Our cloth as yet has not fully ceased (in denominations) to hearken and tacitly yield to the superstitious and selfish thoughts of that they are the only ones sacrificing, yet they are happily showing toward that end. Too much credit cannot be given the committee and the directing spirit and hand which guided it (coupled with the handiwork of God) for their intellectual treat and revelations. The writer's comments are but mild and limited to what his feelings are. "Honi soit que mal' pense." Evil is he who evil does. In Latin translated we cry out: "Let justice be had though the Heavens may fall." T. H. Jones. ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY Nothing is so soothing and pleasant to our race of people than is the meeting of class amongst them. This surly is to be found and met at Mickel's Rooming House 507 Grand Avenue Transients and strangers always welcome. Price Five Cents. Wednesday evening, December 18, at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Sardy Clark, occurred the marriage of Mr. O. J. Smith and Miss Ora Littls. Rev. S. L. Birt performed the ceremony Mr and Mrs. Smith received many handsome and useful presents. They will reside in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Present from out of the city were Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Cooper, Mrs. Anna Pitts and Miss Ella Neil of Monmouth. (This Week.) Mrs. Belle Carter has returned from a visit in Davenport. Mrs. Douglass and brother, Mr. C. Hedge, are guests of Mrs. I. Greene. Fifty years of freedom was fittingly celebrated New Year's day at Allen chapel A. M. E. church. The program began in the morning and continued during the day. At night a program of excellent merit was rendered. The speakers, white and colored, were of the best talent in the city and held their audience spell-bound. The affair was a success financially. Mrs. Henry Wilder is on the sick list. After a brief illness from pleurisy Mr. Jerry Mason passed away at his home on December 27. Mr. Mason was one of the pioneers of Galesburg and was well known and highly respected. Funeral service was held Tuesday from the Baptist church, in charge of Rev. W. W. Williams. The Masonic lodge had charge of the services at the grave. Present from out of the city were Pearl Mason, a son, of Denver, Mr. and Mrs. Turpin of La Grange, Mo., and Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins of Galvo. The death of Mr. Mason takes three of the older citizens in the last few weeks, the other two being Mrs. McKenzie Castleman and Mr. Geo. McAtee. When in Des Moines stop at Mrs. Jake Smith's rooming house for good rooms, neatly furnished. 511 West Third street, Des Moines. Phone, Red 6589. Mrs. Fannie Lee and Ora Roberson of Chicago were the guests of Mrs. Hardin through the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Haggard are visiting Mrs. Dudley, Mr. Haggard's mother. They expect to spend the winter here. Miss Mamie Ritchie entertained Mr. Clarence Williams at dinner Sunday. Mrs. Mollie Roberson and Mrs. Holmes are still on the sick list. Mrs. Bessie Roberson entertained a dozen young people Friday evening at a taffy pulling. Mrs. Crittie Brown is the guest of her parents through the holidays. Mrs. Alice Garnett entertained Mrs. Catherine Bell and Mr. Tiffen at dinner Sunday. Mrs. Albert Settles and son of Chicago spent a few days with her mother-in-law, Mrs. R. B. Settles. Miss Clara Tarver and sister, Mabel, were at home through the holidays. Miss Mabel surprised a great many of her friends by being married. We wish Mr. and Mrs. Curtis a happy and long life. Mrs. Clifford Harding of 2718 Ninth avenue entertained about twenty-five young people Monday evening in honor of Mrs Lee and Mrs. Roberson. (This Week.) Mrs. Ora Roberson departed for her home Tuesday afternoon. Miss Clara and Mabel departed for their home, after visiting a week with their parents. Miss Mayme Richardson is the guest of Miss Mamie Ritchie for a few days. Miss Alice Maxie spent the holidays in Muscatine with her auntie, Mrs. Alice Thompson. Mrs. William Maxie has been on the sick list. Miss Miranda Ritchie has been sick with the la gripe. Mrs. Boyd is ill with an attack of la gripe. We wish her a speedy recovery. Fever Sores. Fever sores and old chronic sores should not be healed entirely, but should be kept in healthy condition. This can be done by applying Chamberlain's Salve. This salve has no superior for this purpose. It is also most excellent for chapped hands, sore nipples, burns and diseases of the skin. For sale by all dealers. When you want a reliable medicine for a cough or cold take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It can always be depended upon and is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by all dealers. Here is a remedy that will cure your cold. Why waste time and money experimenting when you can get a preparation that has won a worldwide reputation by its cures of this disease and can always be depended upon? It is known everywhere as Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and is a medicine of real merit. For sale by all dealers. If your children are subject to attacks of croup, watch for the first symptom, hoarseness. Give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as soon as the child becomes hoarse and the attack may be warded off. For sale by all dealers. DOGS PROVED THEIR WORTH Recent Tests of Bloodbounds in Eng land Have Shown Tnm In- valuable as Trackers. Two bloodhounds, Moonlight and Flair, which tracked and led to the capture of a man accused of rick burning in Sussex, are the property of Caget. Hool Llewellyn, who has been training them for three years on principles of his own. Captain Llewellyn believes that bloodhounds are invaluable for detective work if property breed and trained. Much harm has been done by injudicious crossing with forthounds, which results in the loss of that slow, ponderous movement, full of sagacity, perseverance and thoroughness which is the great quality of the true bloodhounds. His own bounds pick up the line of their quarry on the ground without depending upon a garment of the hunted man to give them the accent. The event of the day at the annual trials of the Bloodhound Hunt club recently was the performance of Mrs. G. A. J. Oliphant's dog. Started on a trail fourteen hours old laid over night in a rather difficult place, the hound worked well and unearthed his quarry in half an hour—London Mail. Appeal For Help. My sister-in-law dropped in on me, the other day and left her three-year-old boy in my charge, while she went to Topeka to attend a sufficie meeting. Thereby that cause bot one vote, and I would like to have the following questions, which were put to me seriatim by my nephew, answered promptly and succinctly as possible: "Where are you, feelings?" "Where are your feelings? "How does a dog wag its tail? "What God put oxyters' bones on the outside? "Idea, Jesus, love Democrats." "Diana Jesus love Democracy" "What becomes of a rooster's crow when you eat him?" "Do false teeth ever ache?" "What makes my nose red?" "What should I do now?" "Where did God stand before he made something to stand on?" "I will take it as a personal favor if I can get the answer by return mail, as I begin to fear that the kid thinks I don't know much—Kansas City Star." "House" for Baby. Spread a rug down for a "house" and with chalk mark off different rooms, garden, etc., and have the children cut from papers and catalogues furnishings for them. A space of a quarter of an inch should be left at the base, splashed up to the picture, and the points thus formed bent forward and back to constitute a support, making the furniture stand upright. Small pasteboard boxes serve as closets, trunks, etc., and when the play is finished may be converted into moving vans and the house furnishings moved into the woodbox or waste "basket." This is a pleasant way to teach children to be orderly. A "garden" may be made the same way from old catalogues—Harper's Bazar. For Lighter Coins in Australia The Australian commonwealth authorities propose soon to go into the question of providing smaller and lighter coins, probably of nickel, as substitutes for the existing copper pennies and half pennies. The prime minister (Mr. Fisher) believes the copper coins now in use far from convenient either in weight or size. Australian public opinion seems generally to be in favor of the use of nickel. This metal is hard and light, is not liable to oxydation, and is not in any way poisonous. The great objection to it appears to be its similarity to silver. Girl Horsewhipped Highwayman. Confronted by two masked highwaymen, each armed with a revolver, five girls were saved from being robbed a mile beyond the end of the Manitou car line when Miss Katherine Langeloha, aged nineteen, who was driving the buggy in which they were riding, slashed one of the outlaws across the face with her whip. The highwayman cried under the blow and fled into the brush. His companion shouted to the girls to cease calling for help and then followed his pal into the brush—Spokane correspondence Portland Oregonian. French Woman of Business Madame Alice Blanche is a French woman who makes $50,000 a year with moving pictures. She was the originator of the photodrama or pantomime play. She is now the owner of an American company and her husband, in the same business, is president of another organization. She thinks in tthree days of simplified housekeeping a woman can attend to her home and an office without injury to either. The Silm Craze "I don't thing she ever had a gown that exactly suited her." "She admits that she never had. Her ambition is to attire herself in an umbrella cover, and she'll train down to it, too, one of these days." His Chief Concern. "I must tell old Klosephist I saw a young man on his front porch hugging his daughter." "Don't trouble yourself; he'd much rather have them do that than burn his coal and gas." Mr. Yeast—What do you understand by "righteous indignation," dear? Mrs. Yeast—Why, I suppose it is when a man gets indignant and doesn't swear. A Baseball Reason. "Why was Napoleon so successful?" "He managed from the field," ventured a voice from the rear of the class. "The kings he went against managed their campaigns from the --- OPERATED AT LOSS Postal Savings Institution Is Not Paying Expenses. Uricle Sam's Banking System Not Self- Supporting and Federal Appropriation May Be Necessary—Claimed American System Simplified. Washington.—The postal savings system of the government is not paying expenses. After something more than a year of operation, this government venture gives indication of needing a Federal appropriation to make it come out even. Its hope of independence lies in the future. Theodore L. Wesel, director of the postal savings system, thinks the system will be self-supporting when the deposits aggregate $100,000,000. The deposits now aggregate close to $28,000,000. One of the important questions about the inauguration of any new government service, especially one which is more or less paternalistic in nature, is whether it is likely to become a burden upon the federal treasury. The attempt of the responsible officials, like Mr. Weed, has undoubtedly been to establish a postal savings system which may be conducted with reasonable economy. It is claimed, for instance, that the American system has been greatly simplified by the elimination of pass books. However economically the system may be conducted, it is not difficult to perceive the certainty of a deficit, at least for the immediate future. The entire income of the postoffice department from the postal savings system is derived from the 21s per cent inter- J. B. Theodore L. Weed. est paid by the banks upon deposits of funds. Of all the funds deposited with the postoffice department, 55 per cent is turned over to the banks; 5 per cent is kept as a working balance. The government pays individual depositors 2 per cent interest. The net income of the department is thus a little less than one-half of 1 per cent of the total deposits. Upon the press aggregate deposits of $28,000,000 therefore, the government's net income is less than $140,000. This net income is doubtless more than consumed by the clerical force employed in this city. The average salaries of government clerks is in excess of $1,000 a year, and it is safe to say that the salaries paid to Washington employees in the postal savings system are upwards of $16,000 in the aggregate, which, in itself, creates an apparent deficit of a little more than $20,000 a year. Probably other charges ought in fairness to be made against the postal savings system. Great expense is involved in producing the necessary stamps and certificates. That the postal savings system has met a public need there can be no question. The deposits continue to grow at the rate of 6 to 8 per cent, a month, at which rate it will not be many years before the aggregate on deposit will exceed $100,000,000—the figure at which the system is supposed to become self-supporting. The history of such government enterprises, however, is that the expense increases unexpectedly, and it is open to question whether, upon the present income, the postal savings system can ever become self-supporting. Taking the Ocean's Temperature Among the records of the hydrographic office in Washington are some five and one-half millions of memoranda of the temperature of sea water in all parts of the world and at all seasons. They have been noted and sent in by mariners for the last 60 years. Twice as many such notes are stored in Hamburg, besides millions elsewhere. The tabulation of them, supplemented by observations of a more scientific sort upon temperatures at various depths, have been of decided value to navigation as well as of theoretic interest. The comparative warmth, as well as the onward flow of the Gulf stream, was noted by some of the earliest voyagers to this side of the Atlantic; and the restless curiosity of Benjamin Franklin led him to make as careful observations upon it on his trips to Our suffragettes are not to have a monopoly of conscientious jail-following Australian boys are preferring prison rather than comply with the new compulsory military service law of the commonwealth. At Broken Hill, the great silver mining city, a boy was ordered by the court to put in his statutory number of drills and pay the costs of his prosecution or to jail. He promptly accepted sentence would give no undertaking to parade and refused to permit his father to and from Europe as his means permitted. His common sense saw how helpful this current might be to ships, and he urged captains to use the thermometer to ascertain when they reached it and to enable them to keep within its influence when going east or to steer clear of it in coming west. Lieutenant Maury, who was the founder of hydrographic science, used such temperature memoranda as were available in his examination of ocean currents. By following his directions shipmanagers of half a century ago shortened the voyage between North America and England by ten days, that from New York to California by about 16 days, and that from England to Australia and back by two months. Helland Hansen, the Norwegian geographer, declares that the profit from the use of Maury's charts by British owners on the East India route alone amounted to $10,000,000 yearly. Litterly the usefulness of the thermometer in indicating the neighborhood of ice has been emphasized among mariners - Harper's Weekly. Woman's Power at Washington Shown in Many Ways Only those who have given the subject close consideration and have been familiar with it personally can have even a remote idea of the power of the women connected with a presidential administration, meaning the wives of the president, vice-president and the cabinet officers. This power of the women first began to be marked in President Andrew Jackson's time and it has continued almost unabated up to the present hour. It is an unseen power. It is not proclaimed from the house tops. It contributed, according to the heat authorities, to the downfall of Benjamin Harrison's administration. It takes some time for the wives of the cabinet officers to reach a fair footing with the wives of the president and vice president and among themselves. They come from different sections of the country and most accustom themselves to a vastly different environment, the official life of Washington. In a thousand little ways and in as many big ways they can make or mar, help or hurt, hasten or retard the policy of a president's administration. They raised old hob in Jackson's time by attempting to boycott the wife of a cabinet officer. Mrs. Eaton; but old Hickory, though not a ladies' man himself, stood rallantly and gallantly beside Mr. and Mrs. Eaton and declared that the wives of his other cabinet officers shouldn't rule his administration—"No, not by the Eternal" Jackson's favorite phrase in negativing a proposition. Coal Supply to Last Thousands of Years. The known coal fields of the United States embrace a total area, according to the United States geological survey, about 32,000 square miles, to which may be added something more than 160,000 square miles of which little is known, but which may contain workable coal, and about 32,000 square miles where the coal lies under heavy cover, and is not considered available under present conditions. The supply of coal before mining began is estimated to have been 3,076,192,000,000 short tons, of which 1,922,257,000,000 tons were believed to be easily accessible and 1,153,225,000,000 short tons to be either so deep of the beds so thin that they are accessible only with difficulty. Classified according to the character of the coal, the original supply consisted of 21,000,000,000 short tons of anthracite, 1,651,457,000,000 tons of bituminous coal, 650,157,000,000 tons of subbituminous coal and 743,590,000,000 tons of lignite, the supply of bituminous coal being somewhat more than that of all other grades combined. The total production of coal to the close of 1911 has amounted to 2,270,788,737 short tons of anthracite and 788,472,736 tons of bituminous coal, or an aggregate of 68,739,572,427 tons. This total production to the close of 1911 represents, including the waste of coal mining, an exhaustion of the beds equal to 14,181,956,000 short tons, or something less than 0.5 per cent. of the original supply. In other words, the quantity of coal still remaining to be mined amounts to 3,062,022,020,000 short tons, or a little more than 99.5 per cent. of the original supply. The annual rate of exhaustion at the present time as represented by the production in 1910 and 1911 is 0.25 per cent. of the supply. The quantity of coal still in the ground at the close of 1910 was 6,000 times the production of that year, or, estimating a half ton of coal lost for every ton recovered, the supply is equivalent to 4,000 times the present annual rate of exhaustion. Government Printing Office Issues Big "Check List." What is declared by literary experts to be one of the most remarkable documents ever published by the government has just been issued by the government printing office. The publication, known as the "Check List," records every publication of the government from its foundation down to and including 1909. The work is a voluminous document and contains more than 1,800 pages. Approximately fifteen years were required in its preparation. The work was done by Miss Mary A. Hartwell, an assistant to August Donath, superintendent of documents. The "Check List" will be placed in every important library in the United States. pay the cost. An Australian Freedom league has been formed to oppose this law and obtain its early repeal—London Chronicle. Choice of Evils. "Well, she would rather do than help her mother with the dishes." SPANISH OFFICIAL STUDIES COURTS AND HIGHWAYS Dr. Fernando Cudalde, the inspector general of prison in Spain, is making a study of the courts, penal institutions and the systems of highways in this country. M. His government is especially interested in juvenile courts, including to establish one in Madrid within a year. For six months I have been in various cities of the United States," said Dr. Cadalo, "and in every city where they have a juvenile court I have made a point of visiting it several times when my schedule permitted it. "The courts of this kind in San Francisco, Salt Lake, Chicago and several other cities that I have visited are very well organized, indeed, the doctor continued, but I was particularly impressed with the juvenile court of Denver, Judge Ben Lindsay is well known to us even in Spain, and I was especially glad of an opportunity of seeing the working of his court. "The court in Washington. Dr. Cadalo said, referring to the juvenile court, "I have only seen for a few hours so far, and I would not like to express an opinion before I have an opportunity to fully observe it. I am surprised, though, that the juvenile court in the capital city of the United States is housed in such a building." When asked to give his general impressions of the city of Washington, Dr. Cadalo said: 'I came here after seeing a great deal of the country, and have some knowledge of the greatness of the United States in area, industry, population and other ways. Your one state of Texas is larger than most European countries. Bearing all of this in mind, and with a mental picture of the great rulers palaces in Madrid, Paris, Berlin, London and other capitals, I was agreeably surprised at the modesty, beauty and simplicity of the White House. "In most of the countries I have visited the capital city is a great commercial and trade center, and the metropolis of the country. In the United States the cities of New York and Chicago occupy that position, and Washington is the true home of the government, which is, in my opinion, as it should be. "To see green trees lining the streets in an American city is something worth going a long way to see. The parks, the general plan of the city, the beautiful government edifices and the undeniable fact that it is the cleanest city in the world are what most impress a perfect stranger on his first visit to Washington I should say. "Each city I have visited in the United States has some special characteristic which impresses one on his first visit to them. I would say that the predominant characteristic of New York is the business-like manner of nearly one one there. The men there are all what you, in this country, call 'bustlers.' "The city of Chicago gave me the impression of rapid growth along the right lines. In Denver I was considerably impressed with the fact that the people there seemed happier than in most other cities, and have built an unusually large number of places of entertainment, most of them very beautiful buildings. In Salt Lake I received the same impression. What impresses me most is the cosmopolitan population, and the general culture of nearly every one that I have met." MRS. FRANK GOULD WEARS HER $300,000 PEARLS Around Mrs. Frank J. Gould's throat in New York, the other night. were twined for the first time the famous "rope of pearls," three strands of lustrous gems, matched and graduated. A Paris dealer in precious stones, commissioned by Mr. Gould, has been perfecting the "rope" for three years. The cost of collecting this the first time the famous "rope of pearls," three strands of lustrous gems, matched and graduated. A Paris dealer in precious stones, commissioned by Mr. Gould, has been perfecting the "rope" for three years. The cost of collecting this wonderful necklace is estimated at $300,000, but only Mr. Gould knows. Mrs. Gould went to a small party given by the William Guggenheim and adorned herself with the new jewels. It contained more than 300 pearls. Strawberries in Jersey Strawberries in December, grown in the open and nice, juicy and sweet, were picked from the vines on the farm of Henry Herman in Belleville, N. J. Herman distributed a pint of the fruit. He also produced several blossoms that he picked from the vines. The farmer expects to have a strawberry shortcake for Christmas instead of a plum pudding. In some parts of the town roses and dandelions were in bloom. Lark Song. Yeast—Did you hear the song of the lark in the early hours of the morning? Crimsonbeak—Why, yes. You mean, "We Won't Go Home Till Morning," don't you? Watching His Words A district leader went to Sea Girt before the recent election to see the Democratic candidate for president. In the course of an animated conversation, says Everybody's Magazine, the visitor, noticing that Governor Wilson's eye-glasses were perched perilously near the tip of his nose, remarked: "Your glasses, governor, are almost on your mouth." "That's all right," was the quick response. "I want to see what I'm talking about." GRAND DUCHESS VLADIMIR ON A PUZZLING ERRAND There is much speculation regarding the read object of the recent visit to London of the Grand Duchess Vladimir. Being an aunt of the Russian czar, her mission naturally is supposed to have great importance, although announced unofficially. A She herself proclaimed the fact by accepting the constant escort of Anthony Drexel and allowing him to make up intimate little dinner parties where she met people who are fashionable and entertaining but not usually selected to dine informally with royalty. On her partiality for Mr. Drexel more will be told further on. There is a belief that the Russian visit really was concerned with grave questions of state involved in the precarious condition of the little care-vitie. His eventual recovery seems to be accepted as impossible. Who will become the heir apparent in case of his death? Grand Duchess Vladimir was supposed to be in England to secure the personal support of King George and Queen Mary for her son, Grand Duke Cyril, who is next in succession to the Russian throne after the cearwitch and the cears only brother, Grand Duke Michael. Cyril married a cousin of King George and his own cousin, an English princess, daughter of the duke of Edinburgh, who married one of Cyril's aunts. Grand Duchess Vladimir had her second son, Grand Duke Boris, with her, and some presume he was brought to England with matchmaking intent, and the fact that the gay young man (as New York can testify) conducted himself in an exemplary manner, hardly leaving his mothers side, leads to the inference that the mother fancies Princess Mary might be available for his wife. The very thought of that match would be enough to make Queen Mary's hair stand on end. But the more probable assumption is that the grand duchess' main object in going to London is in the interest of her eldest son, Grand Duke Cyril, who is already by marriage in the British royal family. MRS. JOHN T. BRUSH IS NOW A BASEBALL MAGNATE Mrs John T. Brush now is owner of the majority of the stock of the New York Giants as the result of the death of her husband, John T. Brush, recently. She is the second woman to fall heir to a National league franchise, the first having been Mrs. Helen Britton, owner of the St. Louis Cardinals. M. Mrs. Brush's inheritance, based on its income producing power, is worth $3,000,000, according to baseball experts. Mrs. Brush's son-in-law, Harry Hempstead, has been selected as president of McGraw's great baseball machine. Hempstead was closely associated with Mr. Brush. Ghosts! "When." went on Pippa. "you let a man make love to you just a little—not too much—just enough to be exciting, with one eye on the door lest some one come in unexpectedly—you are making a ghost!" "How can you?" cried the woman, looking away. Pippa knew that she had judged her fairly "When you go somewhere with a man, to dinner or supper—all right in itself, but something that you don't exactly want to tell your sister or your husband, or your best friend about, just the same—you are making a ghost." The woman was looking frightened. "How did you know?" she whispered, and bft her lips for having said it. "Every single time," the older woman an went inexorably on, "that you let yourself go a little, even though you have no real intention of wrongdoing, you are making ghosts. And as surely as I sit here, ghost-ridden, in front of you this afternoon—they will come back to haunt you some day."—Anna Alice Chapin, in Alnside's. Frederick's Fear of Coffee In 1777 Frederick the Great turned this loose: "It is sickening to see what quantity of coffee is being used and how much good money goes out of our country for it. Everybody is drinking it, but this must be stopped. We must all drink beer instead. His majesty was raised on beer, and so were his forefathers and his officers. Big battles have been won by soldiers brought up and strengthened on beer, and the king believes that coffee-drinking soldiers cannot be depended on to endure hardships or to successfully fight enemies if another war comes up." Real Test. Adorer—You still doubt me? Test my love. Bid me attack wild beasts, defy savages, find the north pole, descend into a volcano—anything, no matter what, I will do it. Doubting Girl—Go ask papa. Another Point of View. "The boys in my neighborhood broke a window last night." "The playful exuberance of youth, of course!"" "Nothing of the sort. It was my window."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Then the Barber Began Shaving. "You are very bald," began the barber. "Do you know what is the cause of it." "I don't know," replied Mr. Fenlocks, "but I suspect that my hair falling out had something to do with it." AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Walving the question about the northern negro's being a fool, since we can't get anywhere on that line, let us ask if there be any other reason for this divergence in conduct between the northern negro and his southern brother in this matter of race patronage. First, we must admit the humiliating and somewhat anomalous fact that the negro would rather trade or do business with anybody else on earth than with a negro Why? Probably the correct answer lies in the fact that he was for two and a half centuries a slave and because of his having emerged from that condition only yesterday so to speak. He has never yet learned the dynamic force of massed dollars, massed strength or purpose, nor has he the inclination to think comprehensively regarding race welfare or even of his children's welfare. This, too, traces back to slavery. Now, why is the New York negro so much of a delinquent with respect to patronizing race enterprises than is his Houston brother? Is it not largely due to difference in environment? Would the Houston negro, or the southern negro be any better than the northern negro in this respect if he were not forced by surrounding circumstances to be so? After all, does he possess any more race pride and race inequality than the northern negro? Isn't it a fact—a damning fact—that nineteenth of the negro business enterprises in the south, including restaurants, would be forced to the wall if the white man were to relax in his prejudices and discriminations? Of course he isn't going to do so, and were not at all sorry that he isn't. The rizor of this prejudice and discrimination and universal disdain toward the negro is developing in him many of those sterling virtues of which slavery robbed him—Dallas Express. We are glad that the Houston Negro is different from his New York brother. In New York when a Negro wants a glass of beer, he goes to a white saloon. If he is not properly treated in the first saloon he goes to another white saloon, and keeps it up until he finally gets a glass from a white saloon. There are Negro salons in old New York, but they just manage to pay rent. The average northern negro will walk ten blocks out of his way to spend a dollar where he is not welcomed, and the well dressed fool will not patronize his own business, though it is next door to him. The Houston Progress. The bright days are the ones we remember the longest. Whenever we read of a group of negroes elsewhere than in negro towns there is this trace of a disinclination on his part to do business with his own people. Always it is the desire to get away—away from the race in every way possible. Had not the white man set up innumerable barriers against us, there would be small hopes for us as a race. But by reason of those barriers we're turned back upon ourselves and in the phrase of Macbeth. "We're tied to the stake and bear-like must fight the course." It is said that one reason why Moses kept the children of Israel forty years in the wilderness was to bring about that race consciousness, race solidarity, which Egyptian slavery had effaced. Let us hope that one great purpose runs through, all the ages. A college professor who can translate Greek, Syriac and read Sanscrit without spectacles nearly lost his life because he could not climb down a fire escape; yet some men still deny that higher education fits a man for action. There are some who contend that the life of the grapevine is longer than that of the oak. It is rare that a wild grapevine is found that has died of old age. Pliny mentions a vine 600 years old. There is a vine at Hampton Court, England, planted in 1769, while here in America there is a wild grapevine on the shores of Mobile bay, within a mile of Daphne, Ala., commonly known as the "General Jackson" vine, more than six feet in circumference at its base. There is a grapevine in Carpenteria, Cal., under which more than 800 persons may stand. Its trunk is eight feet in diameter at the base and it has borne as high as ten tons of fruit. It is said that this vine was planted in 1842. Boston frames a humiliating indictment against us. She calls her troleys "pre-payment cars." When you can not think of anything else to do, think of how much you have to be thankful for. There are people who expect to step into heaven on the old shoes they send to the rummage sale. When we find out what God is able to do for us we know what he is willing to do. The man who will go out of his way to kick a dog isn't desired anywhere. A woman's love is often a misfortune; her friendship is always a boon—Lord Meezler. If all women's faces were cased in the same mold that mold would be the grave of love.—Marie Francois Xavier Bichat. Wrong thinking is harder to stop than wrong doing. The less a man understands what he's voting for the more excited he gets over an election. Some while back (writes a Calais, Egypt, correspondent of the Paul Mulligan Garette) it was announced that a little worm had been discovered which was a deadly enemy of the redoubtable cotton worm and invariably deformed in Aprapos of this the following is rather amusing: The editors of the Mokavam hearing that specimens of this little pest had been found on their cotton estates, caused three of them to be sent to them in Cairo, so that the authorities might examine them. The specimens were sent off from Benaa in a sealed box, which duly reached its destination intact. Judge of their astonishment when, on opening the box, only one specimen remained, there was absolutely no trace of the other two, so there could be but one conclusion—I. e., that the solitary innate had eaten up his two companions. This was confirmed by the "post-mortem" examination, and now the question presents itself as to whether the alleged devourer of the cotton worm will, when bred in quinacres as the authorities intended to do continue to show its "cannibal" tendencies and so defeat its own end, or whether it will afford the assistance to the cotton worm campaign which before this little episode, the agricultural authorities claimed for and expected from it. We should like to see a picture of the man who can always please himself and his wife at the same time. Trees in watersheds have a beneficial effect, according to the last annual report of the board of water commissioners of Middleton Conn., in which it is recommended that 45,150 trees be set out at Highway reservoir. The benefits to be derived from a growth of trees on the watershed of the reservoir are said to be the following: The roots of the trees hold the soil and to a great extent prevents its wash into the reservoir the leaves and twigs that fall form a covering on the ground that protects the soil from the wash of the rainfall; they also absorb a large quantity of water and let it flow off gradually to the reservoir, thus continuing to be a benefit to a water supply for a long time and after a cleared land would be dry; the foliage of the trees forms a canopy which serves to lessen the effect of evaporation upon the surface of the ground. Success seldom comes to a man until late in the game. By the time he is in a position to get all the ple he wants he is a dyspeptic. The man that is always so anxious to avoid his own people, in public places; the one that refuses to live in localities populated by his own color; the business man that neglects to patronize his colored brother who is in business, are all made to feel the snubs, insults and scorns of the white man he would ape, and made to plainly feel that so far as he (the white man) is concerned he has nothing for the black man other than to get his money at a great per cent of profit and a higher rate of interest and sometimes even his money is not wanted. It is time that colored people stood together at all times on all issues and conditions. No one is fit to be called a man who is ashamed of his race. It is absolutely imperative that we stop and reason on the adage. "Union there is strength." and get together and stay together—The Detroit Leader. --- What color would it not have given to my thoughts, and that thrice washed whiteness to my words, had I been fed on women's praises.—Oliver Wendell Holmes. In order to indicate to our brethren in the north what progress is being made in this neck of the woods, our correspondent desires to make it known that for three weeks in succession the Atlanta Constitution, the leading white daily paper in this section of the country, has devoted four to eight pages to exhibiting the progress of our people in Atlanta and vicinity. The colored business concerns in Atlanta had large display advertisements in same paper. A man who is known to have broken many hearts is naturally invested with a tantalizing charm to women who have yet hearts to be broken.—Hialmar Hjorth Boyesen. Typhold fever, it is estimated, costs Americans about $100,000,000 a year and no person who has had the disease will ever say it is worth the money. Too many preachers seem to forget that the devil is still going to church. Diffuse knowledge generally among women and you will at once cure the conceit which knowledge occasions while it is rare.—Sydney Smith. A lady who has not learned discretion by experience and came to an evil end.—Oliver Wendell Homes. Between a woman's "yes" and "no" I would not venture to stick a pin.—Miguel De Cervantes. A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.—Countess of Blessington. Anyhow, Adam didn't complain that the pies were not as good as those his mother made. A man can always trace his worst faults to his ancestors. The man who has on the whole armor of God will have plenty of opportunities to go into battle. Eleven-Year-Old Boy Serving Long Term for Matricide. Little Murderer Not Allowed to Mingle With Other Prisoners—Plays Outside Walls in His Striped Suit—No Regret for Killing. Boise, Idaho.—James Whittaker, scarcely eleven years old, is serving term of from ten to 50 years in the Idaho state penitentiary for the murder of his mother. Clad in the regulation prison garb a straped suit made with knee trousers, the child is confined not far from the cell of Harry The young convict is not allowed to associate with the convicts in the prison yards, but is kept in the library, where, under the direction of the warden and the librarian, the little follow daily studies and recites his lessons in much the same manner as he did before he was taken from the schoolroom. The librarian, who is known as a "trusty," is the only prisoner with whom the boy is permitted to associate. Whitaker has been a prisoner at the institution only two months, but he has unusual privileges. Although prison measurements have been taken and he has been photographed and numbered "1949," the warden and the guards do not believe for a moment that the boy prisoner will try to escape. The ordinary prisoner must have served the greater part of his sentence before receiving the freedom of the prison grounds outside the walls, but Whittaker's case is a singular one, and when the boy is not studying or reciting his lessons, he may be seen about the outside of the walls playing hide and seek, or the warden's child amusing himself by teasing the bloodbounds. Not every liberty has been granted to the boy, however, for at five o'clock, when the gong sounds, he files through the great iron gateway. In a clear, shrill voice he gives his number to the turnkey, who counts him as one among the 260 prisoners. Young Whittaker, in August, 1912, shot and instantly killed his mother on a ranch near Sarilda, Freemont county. The woman was doing so insufficient strength with which to turn the wringer. She asked her son to help her. He refused. His father spanked him and ordered him to do the work. He did not turn the wringer fast enough to suit his mother, so she spanked him. Shortly afterwards she left the house. When she returned the child had procured his father's shotgun. Without saying a word, he pointed the weapon at his mother and fired. Specialists believe that the child's mind is unbalanced, although at all times he appears to be rational. What is considered the strangest feature of the case is that the boy shows no feeling of remorse for having killed his mother. BLUFFS HIM OUT OF SHOES Methodist Minister Takes Off His Footwear to Give to Beggar, Who Accepts Proffer. Portland, Ore.-The Rev. Benjamin Young, of the First Methodist church, has been bluffed out of his shoes. a wanderer "on his uppers" accosted Dr. Young at his home. As he received a contribution his eyes rested covetously upon the shoes that covered the minister's feet. Dr. Young said: "You need a pair of shoes." "You bet I do," was the reply. "Would you wear these if I offered them to you?" "take 'em off and give me the chance." Dr. Young wouldn't back out. He sat on the steps and took off his shoes and soon the visitor was going merely down the street, well-shod. The minister looked at the shoes left behind for a moment, and then, in the view of the whole neighborhood, pattered up his front steps in his stocking feet and went quietly in search of a pair of carpet slippers. Has Fit When Told to Wash Has Fit When Told to Wash, Chicago—Leonard Harris, aged twenty-nine, who says he has no bone in mind taking a bath. He meetly had a fit the other day when informed by the Hyde Park police, whose unwilling guest he was, that he would have to wash his face. It took fifteen minutes to revive him and another half hour to induce him to make his ablutions. The police had considered forcing him to take a complete bath, but after this experience they decided to leave that task to the bridgewell authorities to whom Harris was sent. Fourth Victim in Murder Series. New York—A man found murdered on the Forest park golf links, in Queensborough, is the fourth mysterious case of murder in Brooklyn within ten days, with the victim in each case and tallah. The body was hidden in derer across the breast and an ice pick nearby. The body had been stabbed many times. Ninety-Year-Old Man a Father. Bartlewis.—A daughter has been born to the wife of William Castlebury, ninety years old and almost blind. Mrs. Castlebury is fifty-six years old. Obdurate Lawyer In Jail Obduplicate Lawyer in Jail. Denver.—Rather than pay a $4 dog license, Duncan McPhail, a lawyer, prefers to肩 his declining years in jail. Three courts have decided that he should pay the tax, but he is obdu- rate. Marriage Unites 31 Children. Texarkana, Tex.—William Mosely, seventy-three years old, father of 19 children as two previous marriages and Mra Mattie Russell, fifty-five, mother of 12 children by two other marriages, have been married. Young Kansas Girl Is a Victim of a Strange Malady. Slightest Jar or Movement Means a Fractured Ankle, Thigh or Arms to Margaret Williams of Mudora—Legs Have Been Broken Seventy Times. Hutchinson, Kan—The victim of a rare disease of the bones, Margaret Williams, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy farmer living near Medora, has suffered seventy fractures of the legs and more than a dozen of the arms. Ever since she has been old enough to walk the bones of her legs and arms have snapped at the slightest jar or quick movement. Her legs and arms are gnared from the numerous fractures. Physicians who have treated the girl say her bones lack some element. They and spongy. Her leg bones are not snapped enough to support her and the least, jar or shock results in a fracture. When she was barely two years old, just beginning to walk, her leg bones first broke. Her parents believed she had fallen too heavily. Later, as she was growing, every now and then a bone would break. Sometimes it was the shin, more frequently the thigh, and occasionally a bone of the foot. Fortunately for the girl, she did not suffer as much pain from these fractures as do others under normal conditions, but as she grew older the fractures became more painful and she suffered greatly. It was necessary to treat the fractures the same as in other cases and the child spent fully one half of her time lying helpless with her legs in splints. Her arms were offered initially. But the arms were not broken as often as the legs, however, as they did not bear her weight. But every little jar or push with her hands means a fractured arm or wrist. The parents of the girl say they do not know how many times their daughter's bones have been fractured. They know of seventy times that her legs have been broken, but they have kept no count of the other breaks. Margaret now rides in an arm wheel chair. It is dangerous for her to take a step. The last time her legs were broken was about three times to cross a room. Both legs gave way under the weight of her body. That was almost too much for the bone-broken little girl, but now she is cheerful again. SCOTCH COLLIE HUSKS CORN Farmer Owns Dog Which, Standing on Hind Legs, Tears Ear Off With Teeth. / Stanberry, Mo.-H. P. Allen, a farmer living near here, is the owner of a Scotch, colle dog which he highly values because it is a good corn husker. The animal will go out in the field with Allen's employees and keep up with many of them in corn husking. When the season opened the dog followed the wagon and with apparent interest watched the process of husking. Finally the animal ran to one of the corn stalks and, standing on his hind feet, pulled down the stalk, grabbed the ear and broke it off with his teeth. With teeth and forepaws he husked the ear and then ran and yielded it to his effort. He was thrown into the effort. Highly pleased with his first efforts, the animal ran to another stalk and repeated the operation again and again. The dog is a year and a half old and this season Alen clams he has husked hundreds of bushels of corn. Only one trouble has arisen: the animal's claws are beginning to wear down from the husking and Allen is considering fastening some kind of a husking peg on his front feet so the animal can husk the corn and not wear down his claws. New Nose From a Rib. St. Louis, Mo.—James Wilson of this city has ordered a new nose. The requisition was put in at the city hospital, where Wilson is a patient, and was honored by Wilson himself. This was so because the material for the nose is to come from one of Wilson's ribs. "It's a question of having plenty of ribs, as it were—and not enough nose," said the philosophical part. "I think I can get along without part of them. Adam gave up an entire rib when he wanted a wife." Wilson's nose was injured eighteen months ago. Eagles Carried Away Stock Eagles Kingfisher, Oka. —Vigilantes, organized the farmers after pig, lambs and other small stock had been carried off, captured four enormous golden-headed eagles and killed a fifth. Recently an infant child disappeared and gypsies were blamed. The eagles are now considered the culprits. Death In Drinking Feat. Jollet, Ill.—George Houser, a teamster, wagered that he could drink a schooner of beer at one swallow. He drank a bottle of fall dead on the saloon. Robins on a "Tear." Lyerly, Ga.—Thousands of robins have been made drunk by eating china berries. They lie around to sleep off the offer, and the return hurriedly the china berry tree. State Job) for Women Oklahoma City, Okla.-George H. Hodges, governor-elect of Kansas, declares that women are going to get their share of the appointee offices at his disposal. He is carried by a large majority at the last election. Cells Women Scatter-Brained Cambridge, Mass.-Ninetenths of women are "scatter-brained and don't know how to think," according to Mrs. Marsh Thompson Chapman, noted MAY BE HELPFUL TO COOK Some Hints as to the Best Methods of Preparing Foam for the Hair When fish of unpronounced flavor is to be boiled it is improved by the addition of vinegar to the water. If the fish is inclined to be tasteless half a pint of vinegar to an ordinary kettle of water will not be too much. An old New England housekeeper has a cupful of hot, hot cream ready to stir into the baked beans when they come from the oven and before they go to the table. Creamed toast in one family is prepared in this way: The bread is toasted and kept hot in a covered dish. Then a white sauce is made in the oven and served with rich milk or cream to a tablespoonful each of butter and flour, with salt to season. At the last, when the sauce is thick, two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese are stirred in, a teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce and a dash of paprika. It is poured over the toast. To prepare a rice omelet as one cook does it, make a white sauce with a cupful of milk and two level table-spoonfuls of each of cornstarch and butter. Stir in three well-beaten yolks and a cupful of hot boiled rice. Fold in the stiffly-beaten whites of three seasons, season with paprika and fennel, and cook in the regular omelet jar. Serve with red currant jelly. RIGHT WAY TO PULL CANDY Confection May Easily Be Made Tough If It Is Wrongly Handled— * Here is a recipe that pulls well when rightly done. Molasses Candy—One cup of molasses, three cups of sugar, one cup of water, one cup of vinegar. When boiled up, one-half cup of melted butter. When done take off the stove and put one-half even teaspoon of soda in and stir briskly, turn at once in greased pan, watch the edges and turn into the center as it cools. In the course of the process proceed to above. Test in the usual way when done. Drop a little in cold water, and when brittle it is done. Home Helps. To clean laqueed brass wash in hot water, using soap if necessary. Pollshes should be applied to unlaqueed brass only. Folded newspapers should be kept handy in the kitchen, and these placed under pots and kettles. If this is done every day when the pans are taken from the stove no grease spots will mar the kitchen table. Avoid open shelves as a kitchen, as the dust soon gathers there. A wide shade is splendid to keep out the dust, and far more sanitary than a curtain. Croquettes to be fried in deep fat should stand for 15 minutes in the warm kitchen before being cooked. This will help the browning process. Date Cake. One cup brown sugar, one cup shortening, one-half cup warm water, two cups rolled oats, two and one-half cups flour, one tablespoonful soda. Filling.-Stone one pound of dates and cook with one-half cup water and one cup granulated sugar until soft. Spread dough in thin layer on bottom of pan. Bake in oven for 15 minutes and cover with another thin layer of the dough. When baked, cut in three-inch squares. To Clean Mica. To clean the darkened sheets of mics in your coal heat, await a time when the fire is out or very low. Then sponge them off with a soft piece of sponge dipped in diluted vinegar. If the black does not come off at once let it soak a little. Touch very gently as they break easily. Even though badly smoked they will become quite clear by this treatment if a little patient care is given. Let them dry gently before exposing to the heat of the fire. Mock Rabbit. Mix pound of raw chopped beef, and as much lean veal, also chopped, with four eggs, one cup breadcrumbs, a little salt, pepper, nutmeg, parsley, thyme and a spoon of onion juice. Beat all well and shape on a dish into an oval bowl. Cover with egg and breadcrumbs. Pour into a large bowl. Work; bake it in oven while baking it. Bake forty minutes. Serve hot, or cold in slices. Baked Apple Dumpling Cream one cupful of sugar with one quarter of a cupful of butter, add one cr ee egg, one-half a cupful of milk and one and a half cupful of flour mixed and sifted with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Half fill a buttered deep earthen dish with sliced tart apples, pour the batter over the top and bake about an hour. Serve with hard sauce. Reed Birds. These fat, plump bits of delicous game are roasted or broiled and served on buttered French toast with cress or parsley garnish. When broiling place about three on small skewers before broiling them. When dredge with salt and pepper, pour melted butter over them and add a sprinkle of minced parsley. Serve a brown gravy when they are roasted. Spoon Corn Bread. Sir one-quarter cupful of cornmeal into one cupful boiling water and steam 20 minutes, add one-half teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of butter, one-third cupful milk, one egg well beaten, and two-thirds cupful of cornmeal sifted with one teaspoonful of baking powder. Bake 20 minutes in a buttered baking dish and serve from the dish in which it was cooked. Good Idea. A woman noted for her careful housekeeping has the inside of all her bureau drawers painted white and then treated with a coat of cream colored enamel. This, she declares is more sanitary than any lining pad could be, and when cleaning is necessary all that is required is to wipe them out with a damp cloth. Newly Signed Manager of the Cincinnati Reda. Newly Signed Manager of the Cincinnati Reds. BASEBALL There will be no deal for Hauser, shortstop of the St. Louis Cardinals. Catcher Drummond of the Vernon club was bought by the Boston Braves. Jakk Stahl's trouble is he has to carry 200 pounds on a pair of long lega. The Baltimore International league team will train at Fayetteville, N. C., next spring. The first string catcher of the Brooklyn Dodgers, may be sent to Nashville next season. Peter Kelly has not made any final arrangements to go to the St. Louis Nationals as secretary of the club. Moxie Manuel, the ex-Southern league pitcher, recently was married to Miss Mamie Shaw of Dillville, Ill. One baseball expert in Washington says if the Senators land Dovlin they will play Eddie Foster at second base Pat Flaherty, formerly a Southern league player, has landed a job as manager of the Lawrence (Mass.) team. The Louisville Colonels have passed up the Cubs as a source of playing material and will try to hook up with Pittsburgh. Christy Mathewson is working as earnestly at his insurance business this winter as he does at baseball in the summer. HORSE RACING "Pop" Geers has put 27 trotters in the 2:10 list, adding 5 during the closing season. Ralph Wick. 2:13½ one of the veteran trotters of the country, is being trained for the Canadian ice circuit. Young Sweet Marie, by Blingen. Sweet Marie, is at Lexington, where she will be given her lessons by Roy Mantle. A Sydney, Australia, dealer recently shipped twenty-five well-bred geldings to the International Race club at Shanghai. Evelyn W. is giving Lady Maud C. a hard pace for the honor of breaking the greatest number of records held by pacing mares. elkwood park, near Long Branch, is mentioned as the place New York horsemen will hold a grand circuit race meet next year. Amy, 2:17¾, that Cox was forced to win a heat with the Michigan horseman figure in the Cleveland matinies next season. Racing stands so well at Hartford that a new grand circuit stand and other improvements are to be made to the old Charter Oak park. Pretoria M. ce. 2124, has done most of her racing on the two-lap ovals, but will stick to the big rings next year. The team will be in the in-his, collection at, indianapolis. SKATING At a meeting of the executive board of the Western Skating association at 174 West Washington street last night the following officials were announced for the season of 1913: Racing board—Carl Carlson, chairman; William A. Hackett, Harry Hairman; Roy E. Dawley, Lester Johnson, Hugh Baker, William C. Faehse, H. H. Erlant, M. W. Leedy, Dr. M. J. Lamer, Peter Backer and S. Husey. Registration and membership—Julian T. Fitzgerald, chairman. The remaining members of this last committee to be chosen at the next meeting of the board will be also choose fifteen governors of state bodies, twenty standing committees and outside boards. It was announced that hockey would be revived this winter, and that a schedule would shortly be issued for the many clubs that have sent in requests. PUGILISM Lew Glowney of Detroit outpainted Billy Hughes of Canada in an eight round bout at Flint. "Tack Britton of Chicago easily outpainted Frankie Nelson of Hoboken in a ten-round bout in New York. Britton punished Nelson in every round after the fourth. Kubik of Philadelphia was awarded the decision over Carl Morris of Oklahoma at the end of their ten-round bout at Atlanta, Ga. Kubik landed two blows to Morris' one, but none of them seemed to seriously inconvenience the Oklahomaan. WRESTLING Zbyszko, Polish wrestler, who recently arrived in this country from Europe, is booked for several bouts in the principal cities in the United States and Canada, but says he will cancel any or all engagements if Frank Gotch will meet him for the championship of the world. The International league will open April 15 for a 154-game schedule. AQUATIC The rowing committee of the University of Pennsylvania will retain Coach Ward until his contract expires at the close of the approaching season. His Majesty, King George V of England, was elected an honorary member of the New York Yacht club at the meeting of the club. Dallas B. Pratt was chosen commodore, succeeding C. Ledyard Blair. Edward Harms, commodore of the Pearla Yacht club, has received a telegram from President E. S. Osborn of the Western Power Boat association, stating that Pearla had been awarded the 1913 regatta of that organization to be under the joint auspices of the Pearla and Illinois Valley Yacht club. The races will be run under the new rules laid down by the Pearla club, which were accepted by the association. The regatta will be held late in July or early in August. Yale's rowing policy for next season has been outlined by Captain Snowden, who stated that Harvard probably would be the only opponent the Ell varsity would tackle. The annual race will be scheduled for June 19 on the Thames. Yale has never before received so many challenges. Cornell, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Annapolis have sent invitations for matches, all of which Yale declined. Yale's determination to limit the crew is due to the backwardness of the English stroke. The second crew will be allowed to enter the American Henley races on the Schuylkill and the freshmen may again book Princeton for an early race. FOOTBALL Minnesota will meet Nebraska next year in football at Lincoln, the date to be determined later. Stuents of the University of Pennsylvania are fubilant over the selection of T. Truxton Hare as head coach of the football squad in 1913. The memory of the father of the English Association Football league, the late William McGregor, is to be perpetuated in Birmingham by the erection of a drinking fountain. The Prince of Wales, who is a student at Oxford university, is a good association football player and is especially clever at long distance running. He also likes to play lawn tennis. Vincent Pazzett, Leigh's crack quarterback and football captain, is a candidate for the basketball team and gives promise of developing into one of the most capable performers of the team. The Canadian Association Football league has been admitted into membership by the International Federation. The Canadians plan to bring over two eleven from Great Britain next season to play a series of games. In memory of the late_Henry Schoeckopf, a graduate of Cornell university, who committed suicide in Milwaukee recently, and who was one of the greatest football players the university has produced, he will be buried on alumni field will be erected. BILLIARDS James Maturo will be the next opponent of champion Alfredo de Oro for the pocket billiard championship. The contest may be played in Cuba or New York, about December 16. Joe Wood is not only a great pitcher, but probably the pool champion of the big leagues. Joseph is very little behind D Oro, Keogh and others in their class when it comes to the fifteen-ball game. New York took the final game of the series from Kansas City in the National Billiard league three-cushion tournament, when George Moore for the Larry Hinson forport of Kansas City by a score of 20 in 47 innings. Moore's high run was 5. Davenport's 6. The three-game series stood: New York, 2 games won; Kansas City, 1. Clarence Jackson, twenty-two years old, seems to be the rising star in the billiard firmament. In a practice game at Chicago the other day he made his 500 points in six innings for an average of 83-13. His innings were 2, 28, 159, 54, 87 and 170. His final run of 170, unfinished, wound up being the most cluttered that he looked certain that he would have been able to make the run 200 had the game not been over. His opponent scored only 5 points against him. ICE BOATING The two Long Branch ice boating clubs have elected officers for 1913. Capt. Charles L. Edwards is commodore of the South Shrewsbury club and Capt. Edward W. Reid of the Long Branch club, formerly the old Shrewsbury club. Both are boat owners, Commodore Reid having salined Florence A. Reid years ago, and Edward the Ray, two clubs have about 400 members enrolled, including not a few New York, Newark and Philadelphia summer cottagers, who annually spend several weeks at the shore during the ice yachting season. The big attraction, one that has held the center of the stage for years, is the Board of Trade cup. It is now held by the Long Branch club. The trophy has been going on since the other, for the past eight years. It must be won three times in succession before it can be claimed. TENNIS It is estimated that since the offering of the Davis cup the contesting nations have spent more than $1,000. 000 on the tennis matches waged for its holding. As the America's cup is to yachting and the Westchester cup is to poie, it is emblematic of the highest tennis honors in the world. The Cincinnati Reds have purchased Pitcher Rudolph from Toronto. BELONG TO FICTION EQUAL TO OCCASION Writers Have Stretched Truth in Tales of Elephants. Really the Intelligence of the Animal So Widely Believed In, Has Strong Limitations, as Observers Can Testify English writers who have dwelt in India assert that the many curious tales with reference to the superior intelligence of the elephant are apt to produce a distinctly incorrect impression. Like that of the horse, the intelligence of the elephant is said to be superior. There is an instance of authentic record in which the populace of a small town near Madras were frightened out of their wits by a runaway elephant which broke from its mahouts control and ran through the town, smashing everything that lay beneath it. The elephant was frightened by the patterning of raindrops on its rider's umbrella. An English official in Burma, on a tour of inspection, became tired of riding his elephant and procured a pony in one of the villages. He was careful to make sure that the pony was not afraid of elephants, but it never occurred to him to ascertain whether or not the elephant might be afraid of his ponies. Early the next morning he sent his baggage and servants off on the elephant with orders to halt for lunch at a village ten miles away, and when he had finished his meal, he was a mile or so from the hailing place he saw the elephant "hunching along" in advance. The Englishman rushed up to hasten the mahout's pace. As he approached, the mahout began to gestulate. The Englishman and his servants, who were Bengali, knew no diermese, and the Burman knew no tongue but his own. The Britisher guessed, of course, that something was the matter, and, breaking into a gallop to see what it might be, he was astonished to see the elephant start off at a run. Three times he was stopped in stopping the beast after a run of a mile or so, and three times did the Englishman ride up to see what was the matter, only to observe with astonishment that the elephant rushed off each time. Finally the unhappy mahout steered the animal off the road into swampy ground, and thus shaking off the pursuit, plowed his way back on foot to the halting place, where he found an interpreter to explain that the elephant had been terrified by the pony's approach—Harper's Weekly. Ruled Sultan by His Love. Uskau, the capital of the old Seriana empire, now for the moment restored to the new Servia, is associated with one of the few real love affairs of a Turkish sultan. It was here, after the fatal field of Kossovio, that Balajze, arranged terms of peace with the Seriana king Stephen. One of the most important stipulations was that Stephan the Lady Despina, as wife to the sultan, it was a lucky deal for the Servians, for it is written that "of all his wives the sultan held the Lady Despina dearest, and for her sake restored to her brother the city and castle of Semendria and Columbarium, in Servia. she allured him to drink when forbidden the Turks by their humiliated cause him to delight in humorous which his predecessors never did." Adventure With a Centipede. **Aventure** E. G. Cormier, who rescued the captain and crew from the wrecked barkentine Klikitat, on the coast of Hawaii island, has reached here after an experience he will not soon forget, a Holonu letter to the New York Tribune states. Johnson was climbing down a cliff 125 feet high, with the aid of creepers and jutting rocks. As he swung out, holding to a creeper, a large centipede crawled from the vine to his arm and toward his face. He dared not let go the vine with his other hand to try to knock off his the insect in his hand, a shoulder he hit it with his head. The centipede hit him, and in desperation Johnson swung from the vine by one hand and with the other killed the insect. Then he climbed the rest of the way down as best he could. Ruling Passton. The taxicab driver was about to receive his sentence. "Prisoner," said the judge, "I am satisfied there is no reasonable doubt of your guilt. The evidence shows that you drove the deceased about the city in your taxicab for two hours, then took him to a secluded place and strangled him and stole his watch. Have you anything to say before sentence is pronounced?" "Yes, your honor?" "What is it?" "I'd like to know, your honor, who is going to pay the cab hire?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Only Way. The late Wilbur Wright put safety above all else in airplane construction. Mr. Wright was once watching with critical eye the flight of a very swift, very cranky airplane, when a little girl said to him: "Uncle can you get to heave one of those machines?" "Not by going up," replied the great airman, "but if you have lived a very good life you may do so by coming down."—Washington Star. Dog Shoots Master. The eagerness of a hound owned by Albert Bailey of Hagerstown, MD, to go after rabbits cost the life of his master, a well-to-do farmer. The animal always seemed to enjoy the shooting clothes the dog playfully ran to the corner and setzed Bailey's gun in his mouth. The weapon had been left loaded. Bailey feared an accident and tried to dodge into another room. The gun struck a chair and the weapon fell. The truck struck Bailey and he died soon after. --- How Youthful Preacher Won His Congregation. Turned Effort to Disconcert Him Into Advantage and Delivered Sermon as He Construed Wishes of His Hearers. "Ministers may come and go, but we go on forever," was the unexpressed opion of a small, rather irreligious western town. What the people of that community wanted was a preacher, a man who could talk. Numerous clergymen attempted to fill the bill but one by one had departed, never to be heard from again. Finally one young man burning with zeal and enthusiasm and just out of the theological school applied for the place. The townsmen looked him over dispassionately, then told him calmly that the next day being Sunday he could preach in their church and the kind of sermon and the way he delivered it would decide his fate. Accordingly every one turned out and went to church on Sunday. The aspiring minister arose in the pulpit and said, "I have been asked to preach to you. I have am a stranger among you and I do not know just what your needs are. So I am going to let you select the subject of my sermon. Write on a slip of paper whatever you wish me to talk on and lay it on the pulpit." He then bowed his head in silent prayer while a self-constituted committee formed in the vestibule to determine the nature of the deeding man. After some time of the pulpit and placed therein a folded piece of paper. I concealed grins might have been noted on the faces of many. The young minister looked first on one side of the sheet of paper and then on the other. A gleam came into his eyes as he held the paper up so all might see and spoke gravely. "My dear friends, there is nothing written on either side of this paper. Named God, God made the world! The subject of my sermon this morning therefore will be on the creation of the world." It is on record that he stayed to preach another sermon. Collecting a Debt. A sea captain living in a small Massachusetts town had loaned money to a neighbor, who, after the loan was a year or so old, made no effort to pay it. The captain began to look upon it as lost. Arriving home from a voyage, he heard of a debt-collector who was noted for sticking to a delinquent until some result was obtained. The captain called upon this person, told him the circumstances, and said: "Now if you will collect that debt, I will give you half of it; or if you don't collect but half of the bill, I divide that with you." The collector nodded. "I guess I can get half of it, anyhow. If I don't, it should be for want of trying hard enough." The captain sailed away, and on his return, again sought out the collector. "Hello, Mr. Blank!" said he. "How about that bill?" Have you collected it yet?" "Well," replied the man, "I can't collected the hull on it; but I did elect my part 'bout as soon as you gin me the account, and he ain't paid me a cent since. I keep after him, but 'it's just as you said when you give me the bill; he don't have any conscience about it. Good day!" and brisk collector disappeared, leaving the captain valyly gaging after him. Her Wide Acquaintances Margaret sat on the lowest step of the stairway leading down, from the cottage, and as the foot passengers passed she nodded and spoken to them, irrespective of age and condition. And, irrespective of age and condition, they nodded and smiled in return, and in many cases stopped and exchanged a word with the golden-haired little girl who had not yet learned about introductions. Decidedly, she found Atlantic City an amusing place. That night, as Margaret mother woke her mother, she asked her how she liked the seashore. "Oh, it's just lovely, Mamma!" replied Margaret. "And it's remarkable how many people I seem to know here."-Thid Sunday Magazine. Petroleum Prior to the year 1850, the petroleum springs which existed in various quarters were mainly regarded as natural curiosities. In fact that year E. L. Drake of Titusville, Pa., bored a well which was to start the petroleum trade. Drake was regarded as a dreamer when he began to bore, but he kept on, and when the bore reached a depth of some seventy-five feet he found that he was the possessor of an "oil well" with a capacity of twenty-five barrels a day. After that the future of petroleum was assured, and with leaps and bounds the trade went on to its present huge proportions. Sure Sign. "It's almost certain that she'll marry that good-for-nothing chap." "Has the engagement been announced?" "Let's get. But they'll get married all right." "What makes you think so?" "Her mother and father have both started to knock him." Spared One Horror Shakespeare was just about to tell the stage manager to announce the first act of "As You Like It," when a terrible comeback in front made him suspect that all was not right. Hastening out, he discovered a group of speculators about to begin business, and hastily calling the queen's guards, in eight minutes by the clock he had them all thrown into the Thames. "Our stage business," remarked William, sententiously, "may not be up to date, but at least this horror of future generations is not for us." OKLAHOMA, KYA. (Special to Bymanite) The revival meetings that have been conducted at Shuster's Church, A. M. E. church by Mrs. Delia Turrer Cary of Chicago have closed. The meetings have accomplished much good for the church and community. During the meeting there were eighten additions to the church and the church has been greatly revived. Mrs. Cary is an earnest and sincere evangelist and much credit is due for the good work done here. ENTERPRISE IOWA Harrad for the New Year. What is your resolution? We have decided that to have beautiful faces we must wear the light of a beautiful spirit there. The church was full Tuesday night of miners as well as Christians watching the passing of the old year and the coming of the new year. Enterprise is mourning the loss of Sister Adaline Griffith, aged 78, who departed this Ms. Tuesday morning at 6 o'clock. She left four sons, one daughter, seventeen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She was buried from Mr. Olive Baptist church on Monday, Rev. F. C. Bolling having charge of the services. Our缸 list still continues. ```markdown ``` Mrs. Frank Allen was taken to the hospital Tuesday for treatment for rheumatism and other complications. She returned to her home Friday, where treatments will be continued. Frank Moore and son, Carl, spent New Year's day with relatives in Washington. Will Kingo, who has been visiting his mother and sister for the past month, returned to Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday. "Bud" Gilbert of Lovilla spent Wednesday and Thursday in the city. Mrs. Ida Henderson, an company with her daughter and two children, left Wednesday for Thurday, Texas, where Mrs. Henderson will visit at the homes of her children who reside there, while her daughter is returning home after a two month' visit with her mother. Miss Naomi Kimbrough was a Des Moines visitor last week. Russell Koiner, after spending a week with his parents at Beacon, returned to Ewart, Iowa, Friday evening. Mrs. Mitchell and daughter of Carthage, Mo., are visiting at M. G. Newman home. Mr. and Mrs. Robin Franklin and son, Horace, returned to Hoover on Thursday morning, after having spent the holidays at their home in the city. Mr. Franklin spent last week visiting his mother and old time friends in Boneville, Mo., it being his first visit to his home in twenty-seven years. He says he found many changes and much improvement in the old town, met many new faces and was surprised to see so many of the old ones still alive and well. He was entertained royally by the Masonic lodge and Eastern Star chapter, being the special guest of Past Grand Master Williams at both receptions. Mrs. Kate Ogden of Graalabor was a visitor at the home of her mother, Mrs. Jordan Wilson. Misses Edna Jones and Luella Franklin entertained a company of young people Tuesday evening in honor of the Misses Kioner of Cleveland, Ohio, and Misses McDonald and Newson of Bushnell, Ill. Harry Walker of Peoria spent a few days visiting at the home of his aunt, Mrs. Rohh Johnson. Mrs. Anna Clump is visiting in Ottumwa at the home of her brother. Miss Luella Franklin, assisted by the Misses Kioner and others of our young people, managed a pleasant entertainment at the A. M. E. church Wednesday evening. John Harris of Chicago spent a few days in the city on his way to Burton. Persons troubled with partial paralysis are often very much benefited by massaging the affected parts thoroughly when applying Chamberlain's Liniment. This liniment also relieves rheumatic pains. For sale by all dealers. QUIBUQUE ITEMS. The superintendent of St. Peter's A. M. E. funday school says she has never witnessed in her life the Christ spirit in the hearts of men and women as it was manifested this Xmas-tide. Those who were unfortunate not to have children of their own tried to make someone else's child's heart glad. Mrs. Brooks of East Dubuque is still quite ill at the family hospital. Rev. Stansberry and family were invited out to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rose's for their Christmas dinner. Nearly everybody was remembered on this Xmas-tide. Even the dear old church was not forgotten. "She received a new carpet for the pulpit and a new chancel. Mr. Harry Grose, the only colored barber in Dubuque, is very sick and had to close his shop and was taken to Mercy hospital. Mr. Ed Martin, Jr., had his sister, Lavern, and Miss Ida Green out driving. New Year's day. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McGregor had Rev. Stanberry and family out to their beautiful home for a New Year's dinner. The Missionary society will hold their first monthly program Sunday evening, January 12, 1913. KEOKUK NEWS. Queen Eather, a sacred cantata, will be presented at Association hall some time before Lent by the members of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin. The chorus, which is composed of our best musical talent, will be under the directorate of Mr. Frank E. Fuller of St. John's church (white). Mrs. Jane Taylor, a very aged and highly respected woman, who has been a resident among us for a number of years, is at St. Joseph's hospital suffering from the effects of a broken arm she received in a fall. Mr. Henry Wilkinson spent New Year's day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Clark near Ambroise. Mrs. Alice Clark of St. Paul, Minn., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gun Fox. We recently learned of another visit from the stock. The happy parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. Locks Warwick, who are in our city for a few weeks at the home of Mrs. Warwick's grandmother, Mrs. Mary McCinnis. An Epiphany party, under the auspices of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin was scheduled for last Monday evening. The invitation that was extended by Rev. Simeon of Bethel church to join in the Emancipation celebration on New Year's day was responded to by the citizens in general, representatives of each church being present and appeared on the program, each another being exceedingly good. Mrs. Lawrence Bryant and son are visiting Mrs. Bryant's mother at Hammill, Mo. Miss Ella Scott spent New Year's day at Canton Mo., visiting friends. Miss Easter Pinkett and Miss Ella Reunion were visiting friends in Mr. Pleasant last week. Mr. Arthur Frye and Mr. Chase Owman, the proprietors of the New Year's hall given last Thursday evening, announce their annual Easter bell for Tuesday evening, March 25 at Woodman hall. Those present from Mt. Pleasant last Thursday night to enjoy the festivities were the Misses Burnsage, Misses Parkell. From Mr. Madison, Mr. Geo Smart, Mr. Raymond Black, Miss Lillie Woods and Miss Grayce Smith. From Moontown, Mr. Bertram Beary, and others from Burlington whose names we did not learn. Mr. and Mrs. Tucker of Carriage, Ill., were also present and Misa Benny Miracle of Bowling Green, Mo., who was a guest of Mr. Arthur Frye. The revival meetings are still in progress at the First African Baptist church. Rev. Lee of Topeka, who was assisting Rev. Johnson, was called away for a few days, but has now returned. Nearly $400 was raised by the members of the A. M. E. church during the first quarter. Another of the venerable and highly respected citizens has answered the final summons, Mr. Geo. Rideout, who had lived in this city for a number of years, with the exception of a short time spent in Chicago. Of recent years he embraced a hope in Christ and was looked upon as one of the faithful members of Bethel church. Uncle George, as he was best known, was loved by the white people as well as by his own people. His was a familiar figure upon our streets, that will be sadly missed. He is survived by one daughter, T. T. U. Mead, of Chicago, who has the heartfelt sympathy of friends. Mrs. Rideout died in Chicago five years ago. Say, what is the matter with the Jolly Bachelors. Don't be so melancholy; you will have to wake up now. Leo year is over. A fire at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Watkins recently caused little damage, but much excitement. Don't forget W. T. Rush for ladies' and gents' cleaning and pressing. He appreciates your patronage. The Misses Baily and Bros of Vincennes were in our city to help celebrate on New Year's day. Mrs. Edward Bundy is on the sick list. A surprise party at the home of Miss Verna Beamon in Messengerville on New Year's evening was the celebration that was enjoyed by a joly crowd of the younger set. Miss Eldora Burton of Des Moines was present and was tendered the position of guest of honor. A. M. E. Church Notes The writer has been so busy eating Xmas and New Year's dinner, learning how to skate and riding the Court of Calanthe goat that she failed to get in any news the past week. The Xmas tree was very nice and many received valuable presents. The Sunday school children rendered a beautiful program under the direction of Mrs. Alberta Lee. The Organ club made Rev Wharton a present of a bank check, which was presented by Mrs. J. T. Johnson. The Pastor's Aid society will meet Thursday at the home of Mrs. Sadie Smith. Miss Minta Johnson, who is attending school at Colfax, spent the holidays here in the parental home. Miss Marguerite Robinson of Colfax has been visiting with her brother, John Robinson, the past two weeks. We are glad to have Mrs. J. W. Shepherd cast her lot with us. Mrs. Anna Humbles has been entertaining Mrs. Ella Pinky of California for the past two weeks. Mrs. Myrtle Stewart, president of the Ald society, has been visiting in Chicago during the holidays. Mrs. Anna Humbles gave a social at her residence last Saturday night. It was well attended and enjoyed by all. The Ladies' Progressive club will meet Wednesday in the home of Mrs. Miller on Ninth street. The celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation was held at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium Wednesday, January 1. A grand literary, musical and feature program was rendered. A series of short addresses by Prof. Hicks, Dr. Carter, Rev. Pettit, Secretary McGrew and Rev. Wharton. The Proclamation of 1863 was read by Mrs. Ella Lucas. Special musical numbers by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Brown and son, William; a double quartette and the band furnished by musicians of Local No. 388. The Christian Endeavor was led last Sunday by Attorney Jan. A. Spencer. The Organ club and Aid society served dinner at the Y. M. C. A. on New Year's day and had a very appetizing dinner, and it also was a financial success. ST JOSEPH MO Mr. H. Johnson, formerly of Munkopen, Oka, will spend the winter in our city. Mr. and Mrs. White, Gen. Gaither of Des Moines, who spent part of the holidays at Troy, Kane, with the latter's parents, were the guests of Miss Gaither of this city when an route home. Miss Elise Lear of Troy, Kane, who was the guest of the Misses Hughes while in our city, has returned to her home, after a very pleasant visit. She was the recipient of a number of parties. Mr. Anthony Morrison, 1121 Main street, assisted by his niece, Mrs. Cora Haucky, entertained a few friends at Wednesday night. Mr. J. H. Kelley, an attorney of time city, is a candidate for register of the treasury during the term of President-alert Wilson. Mr. Kelley as well prepared for such a position, as he possesses an excellent education, very quiet and sedate and precise with his business transactions, and should the new administration decide to select a man from this state, we trust Mr. Kelley will be appointed. Mr. Jones of Wichita, Kant, was the guest at the home of Mr. Emesx Allen, 615 N. Twenty-third street, the latter part of last week. The Misses Eventa and Ada Wheatley, 617 Pendleton avenue, entertained a number of their friends last Wednesday evening. The guests were the younger set and there were more present than at any other parties that was given during the holidays, and all the young ladies looked very charming. A number of vocal and instrumental acts were rendered during the evening and near midnight refreshments were served. As the evening had been one of gaiety and pleasure the guests were reluctant about making their departure. At the annual meeting of the State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, which met at Hannibal from the 27th to 29th oll., the following were elected as officers: Mrs. Ida Walker of this city was unanimously re-elected as president; Mrs. Ida L. Garnett of Macon, first vice president; Miss Arsonia Williams, St. Louis, second vice president; Mr. Josie E. Williams, Booneville, third vice president; Mrs. Effie B. Chinn, Glasgow, secretary; Mrs. Mary E. Coins, Jefferson City, corresponding secretary; Mrs. C. R. McDowell, Hannibal, treasurer; Mrs. N. H. Kenner, marshal; State Organizer Mrs. Dollie Stevens, Hannibal, chairman of executive committee. They will meet at Jefferson City this year. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Robinson of 1824 North Eighth street entertained a few of their friends last Monday evening at an elaborate luncheon, which consisted of several courses. Mrs. Prince McCaugh left last Tuesday for Bethany, Mo., her former home for a few weeks' visit. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Simms, 1994 Clay street, entertained a few friends last Friday night complimentary to their son, John, who returned Sunday to resume his studies at the University of Nebraska. Alzo Price spent the latter part of last week visiting relatives and friends at Richmond. Miss Zeila Endicott, 628 Pendleton, gave a farewell party in honor of her sister, Ruth, last Saturday evening. Progressive whistle was played after the conclusion of the games. Mrs. Benjamin Hill received the first pride, Miss M. Perry the second prize, W. E. Coffee the "booby" prize. 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