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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XIX NO. 40 CITY NEWS Mrs. W. C. Cottames will entertain the members of the R. C. Embroidery club at her home at 960 Twenty-second street, Saturday, March 15th. Mr. Miles Cary who underwent an operation at his home last week we are glad to say he is much improved. The B. D. C. met in a business meeting with Mrs. Dellenger and adjourned to meet with Mrs. J. R. Drew, 255 Shardin avenue. Mrs. Sarah Gray, mother of Dr. E. A. Lee, was called to Indianaola last week on account of the death of her niece, Miss Marie Flummer. Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Wilson who have been in quarantine for several weeks, are out again. Their many friends are glad to see them again. Mrs. Cass Lambert of Rock Island, Ill., was called to our city this week by the illness of her little grandson, Master Sidney Fulton. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Jefferson will soon be domiciled in their new home, 1522 Day street, where they will be glad to meet their friends. The Tents of Israel will meet at their hall Saturday, March 22, at 12 o'clock to go to Mrs. Fisher's for a social repast. Mrs. C. S. Cary accompanied her sisters, Miss Deborah Barber and Mrs Williams, home after a two weeks visit with her parents down on the farm. She returned home much pleased with the grand old farm. Mrs. E L. Morgan formally of Buxton, Iowa, but now of Milwaukee. Wis. is taking an active part in church work She led a shower party to their pastor's home, Rev. Geo. Fox of Calvary Baptist church, in that city last week. The Des Moines Silver Leaf Lodge 9075 G. U. of O. F., will give a Fish Fry at their hall, 6th and Walnut, Thursday evening March 20th, 1913. Music by the Des Moines Silver Leaf orchestra. Refreshments will be served. Everybody are invited. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Drew had the misfortune of having their house catch fire Monday morning at about 8 o'clock but owing to the quickness of the fire department, the damage done will amount to about a hundred and fifty dollars. Nothing in the house was damaged. Mr. James and Tolbert Woods left Wednesday for Chicago, called there by the death of their father. George of Omaha passed through here Tuesday en route to Chicago. The Intellectual Improvement club will not hold a business session this week, but Friday evening Mrs. Gibbs will deliver a lecture, "Some Demands Upon Afro-American Women." Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Adams have purchased a new home at 2621 Chester avenue and moved there Tuesday, where they will enjoy life under their own vine and fig tree. Miss Lillian Coalson, one of our stenographers and office girl for Dr. A. J. Booker, left this week for Memphis, Tenn., to accept a position there. We are sorry to lose such a promising young lady, yet Tennessee might well be proud to secure her services. We wish to thank our many friends for their assistance during the illness and death of our beloved father, also the members of Union Congregational church for the use of their church to hold the funeral in. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bryant. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Edwards. FOR SALE Carner lot, 4th and Corning avenue, next to Cominsky's grocery store. Good corner for business. Cash only. Address owner, M. R. Grigge, Liberty- ville, Ill. The Young People's Progressive Lyceum club cordially invites every- body to attend their meetings every Tuesday evening. Programs consist- ing of debates, songs, recitations, mock trials and bible readings. Club consists of young people between the ages of 8 and 18 years. Myrtle Johnson, assistant manager; Sister Bates, advisor; Brother Simmons, chairman; Nathan Smith, Secretary; Ed Mason, president. Jones Cafe The Old Reliable Place to get your meals PHONE RHD 318 W. 3rd St. 3027 Rooming House at 316-318 3rd St. The Dramatic Art club met with C. C. Johnson and begin the study of purgatory, studying Canto 2. They will meet with Mrs. Geo. Law and discuss the book of Exodus, Tiber River and planets. Mrs. Gibbs will be the guest of Mrs. S. Joe Brown while in the city and will be tendered an informal reception by the Intellectual Improvement club Saturday afternoon from 2 to 5 p. m. at the home of Mrs. J. B. Rush, the other guests being the federated clubs of the city. Maple Street Baptist Church News Maple Street Baptist Church News The Maple Street Baptist church held regular services Sunday which were well attended The collection for the day being over $50.00. Rev. S. Bates preached both morning and evening. There were two additions to the church The Women's Home and Foreign Mission Circle met in their regular monthly meeting last Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Hicks, 1341 Buchan street. Visitors present Mrs. Mammile Armstead, Mrs. Frank Bush and Mr. J. W. Mathews. After the business meeting a successful entertainment was given and a neat sum realized. Mrs. Bates, Pres. Mrs. Reynolds, Sec. The Carnation club gave a Shoe Tip entertainment at the church Monday evening which was a success and quite amusing. Tuesday evening the Get Busy club met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. ChasTrent, 1017 15th Court, and after the routine business luncheon was served by the hostess. Mrs. D. Rodgers, Pres. Mrs. Charles Trent, Sec. The Get Busy club met Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Marie Johnson, on 14th and Fremont. Mr. C. Petticrew, Pres. Mrs. Elora Redman, Sec. Rev. S. Bates left Tuesday for Marshalltown to attend the Executive Board of the Iowa-Nobraska Association. The Get Busy club will give a musical entertainment at the church Tuesday evening the 18th The Mission Circle will meet **Friday** at 1:30 with Mrs. J. Smith, 511 W. 3rd street Rev. Bates and wife were entertained at dinner Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Phillips on East 8th street. Mr. S. Carnell entertained a few of his friends at a four course dinner Sunday at 761 West 10 h street. After dinner the party repaired to the home of Miss Adah Hyde where the rest of the afternoon was spent. At the late meeting of Princess Oziel Chapter, O. E. S., Grand Patron S. Joe Brown installed for the ensuing year the following officers: Mrs. S. Joe Brown, worthy matron; Mrs. C. French, French matron; Mrs. Wm. Winn, conductress; Mrs. D. T. Mosley, associate conductress; Mrs. John Jackson, treasurer; Mrs. J. P. Mody, secretary; J. H. Reynolds, worthy patron; Mrs. Chas. Cousin, Adah; Mrs. J. H. Reynolds, Ruth; Mrs. J. H. Holland, Esther; Mrs. C. C. Johnson, Martha; Mrs. A. Robinson, Electa; Mrs. E. M. Hendricks, chapain; Mrs. C. E. Trent, warder; Mrs. A. C. Payton, sentinel; Mrs. A. May, organist, and Mr. T. H. Raleigh, marshal. CHURCH NOTICE. The fourth quarterly meeting of Asbury Chapel, 777 Eleventh street, will be held Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, March 18 and 19. These meetings will be held in the evening. Rev. Wm. H. Wheeler, district superintendent, will be present and conduct the service. A cordial invitation is extended to all the members and friends of the church. This meeting is being held in the week on account of the district superintendent being pressed for time. Special services will be conducted at Asbury Chapel M. E. church during the week beginning with Sunday, March 16th, and ending with March 23rd, Easter Sunday. Rev. Wm. H. Wheeler of Kansas City, Mo., will conduct these services. UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Sunny school at 2:10. Evening worship at 7:30. The Holy House of Vision. We cordially welcome all those who worship with us. T. M. Brumfield, Pastor. Laborers Wanted I want a good first class all round cement worker. One who can finish work. Either colored or white, former preferred. Good wages for the right parties. Write John Spencer, Contractor, Grinnell, Iowa, P. O. Box 162. To Rent Furnished rooms to rent with or with out board at Mr. D. T. Moseley, 1032 East 15th street. Only one block from Walker street car line. Help Wanted A competent colored lady cook in a small bore. Wages $6.00 per hour. Middle age lady preferred write resume. A. A. Merville, Mount La. RESOLUTIONS OF CONDOLENCE Whereas, it has pleased the All Wise Father of the Universe through the direction of His Divine Providence to remove from among us one of our most faithful members, Mrs. Carrie Porterfield; Be it resolved by the members of the Des Moines Negro Mothers' Congress that we share with the beweaved husband the feeling of deep regret at this, the loss of his devoted wife; be feel confident that our loss is Heaven's gain. We resolved that a copy of these resolutions be sent to her husband, a copy to the Iowa State Bystander and a copy spread upon our minutes. Signed on behalf of the "Des Moines Negro Mothers' Congress" by OBITUARY—EDWARDS DEAD. Mr. Tobey Edwards, an old and highly respected citizen, died last Saturday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Samuel Bryant, on West Eighth street, of dropsy, after a long illness of several months. He was born in Florence, Ala., March 19, 1839. Moved to Osceola, Iowa, many years ago and moved to this city a few years ago, where his wife died about a year ago. He was an exemplary man, had been a Christian for forty years, a member of the Corinthian Baptist church. The funeral was held from the Union Congregational Sunday morning at 11 o'clock conducted by R. S. Bates, fifth, assisted by Rev. S. Bates and B. U. Taylor and T. M. Brumfield. The floral offering was very numerous and beautiful. The remains were taken to his old home, Osceola, Iowa, for interment. He leaves a loving daughter, Mrs. Samuel Bryant, and a son, Elmer, both of this city, with a host of friends to mourn his loss. WOODS DEAD We just received notice of the death of Randolph Woods (better known here as Papa Woods), who died this week over in Chicago, Ill., where he had gone to spend the winter with his daughters. He has lived in our city for many years, coming here from Corning, Iowa. He leaves three sons, James and Tobert, who live here, and George of Omaha, Neb., and two daughters, Mrs. Eliza and Othelia of Chicago. COUNCIL BLUFFS ITEMS. Attendance was out of the ordinary Sunday et Bethel A. M. E church which was seated to its utmost capacity. The church is preparing a very extensive program for Easter. Prof. Braham has kindly consented to train the choir for special Easter services morn and evening. The Sunday School will have Easter exercises in the afternoon at 1:30 o'clock to which all are invited to come. The total collection Sunday was $15. A very successful poverty entertainment was given by the Stewardess and other ladies assisting. Prizes were awarded to the following persons for impersonating real poverty: H. Berry 1st prize; Sadie Davis 2nd prize and Mr. Earl Davis for blind shrewdness 1st prize. Rev. T. H. Garrison has been suffering from a severe attack of tonalitis of which for awhile proved to be quite bad. His friends are glad to know he is better and able to preach again. Mrs. R. V. Robinson is at home from the hospital and is reported improving nicely. Mr. Lee Burgess is still in the hospital, quite sick. Mrs. Arthur Douglas has also returned from the hospital after a serious operation. She is reported improving. The pastor of Bethel A. M. E church with assistance of his trustees are arranging to start the remodeling of the parsonage and which will be made almost a new building at a cost of several hundred dollars. Bible Hand will meet at regular meeting Sunday evening at 6:30 o'clock at Tabernacle Baptist church Ladies Sewing Circle met with Mrs. Goodens and Mrs. Weir Thursday after noon. Home Missionary Circle will meet with Mrs. Ealine Walker Tuesday evening. Golden Rule club will meet with Mrs Albert Turner Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. C, J. Field of 8th avenue and Mrs People were visitors at Rev. W. F. Botts church of Omaha. Mission Circle will meet at praise service Friday evening and have election of officers. All are cordially invited. Many thanks and a murmur of appreciation is heard from members and friends of Tabernacle Baptist church for the watchfulness of Rev. J. H. Garrison. He has from time to time appointed and brought his members for prayer service with us. In unity there is strength. His kindness showth the fulness of his heart. Mrs. Berry Thomas and Mrs. Palmer Nealy of Chicago who are here at the bedside of their mother with other relatives, have given her the best of care and God is awarded them for their uniting efforts, for at this writing she is improving very fast. Mr. Pat McLeowen is able to resume his duties with the Rock Island Co. Mr. Samuel has taken a position as sheff with the Union Pacific. Rev. J. H. Garrison and wife were dined at dinner with Prof. Branham Saturday evening. ENTERPRISE, IOWA (Last Week.) Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ousley entertained Rev. F. C. Rolling at dinner Sunday. Mrs. Robert Brown is still on the sick list. The Progressive club met with Mrs. Frank Johnson on Tuesday. The Mission Circle will meet with Mrs. Henry Edmond on Friday. Is every body glad that Wilson is in the White House now? ALBIA NEWS Mrs. C. W. Cathron of Hiteman was in Albia for Sunday services. The Missionary Society held their business meeting at Mrs. Charles Washington and Sunday evening was their services at A. M. B. church. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Grayson and children of Hocking were in town Saturday. The Sewing Circle club met at the home of Mrs. Wm. Bennings on Monday afternoon, Both clubs are planning for an entertainment for the benefit of the church in the near future. Quite a number has been on the sick list the past week. 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I trust the 15,000 colored people in the state I love scell well, and made sacrifices for the good of our people, will awaken new interest in you loyal women and women who tell laboriously for fair play, and sing the praises of encouragement that you might be inspired to deeds of further valor and conquest. Give Mr. U. G. Whitney of City晃民 City praise for his equity of justice. I know his qualities. You is every inch a man. I am doing you service in the heart of the black belt of the south, but I am none the less a man. I shall be glad to visit my old state in the future and tell the people all about it, first handed. You cannot imagine the real depths of our problem unless you come in personal contact with the great machinery that furnishes the motive power. I am hopeful. I will conquer. I will survive, because God is on the side of the oppressed wronged and despised. 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The young people' committee gave a box social at the church Saturday evening, one of the most successful events of the season. Mr. Schylar Jones, one of the newly elected trustees of the church, assisted by Mr. Teddy Taylor, had charge of the box lunches. At their table from twelve boxes they realized $8. Evans, pastor of the Second Baptist church, left Tuesday morning to attend the executive board meeting at Marshallitown, Iowa, the 11th, 12th and 13th. Master James Tompkins entertained at dinner Sunday, Deforest and Theodore Evans at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Tompkins, of West Jackson street. Don't forget the big Easter rally on Sunday, March 23. Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Gooding of East Wilson street entertained the box office. Saturday evening. Rav. Ward of Hawkeye, Iowa, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. William Price on Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Irene McDonald left Tuesday morning for Des Molines, Iowa, to attend to some official business for the Court of Calantheas of the Iowa jurisdiction. Mr. Earnest Wesley, brother of Miss Myrtle Wesley of Buxton, Iowa, made a flying trip here last Wednesday, returning back Thursday. While here he was the guest of his aunt and cousin, Mr. Schuyler Jones and his mother, Mrs. Clara Jones of West Garfield street. Mr. Cwb of East Jackson street will leave early this week for Chicago, Ill., to visit with relatives. QUINCY, ILL. The following persons are on the sick list: Mrs. Fannie Coffee, Mrs. Wesley Perkins, Mrs. Mary Anderson, Mrs. Sarah Gilliam, Mrs. Jennie Payne, Mrs. Amanda Wamlsley. The revival meetings closed Sunday night at Union Baptist church, after several successful weeks. Mrs. Mary Cole is out, after a long siege of illness. The quarterly meeting was quite good at both Bethel and Wayman chapel this quarter. Rev. Simons held quarterly meeting in Macomb on Sunday, returning to Quincy on Tuesday. Mr. Wm. A. Lillye is able to be out, after several weeks' sickness. Preparations are being made for Easter in both the church and Sunday schools of all the churches. Educational rally at Bethel A. M. E. church on March 23rd. Miss Cora Ball is still confined to her home. The recital given at Bethel A. M. E. church was quite a success. Everyone enjoyed the program rendered by Miss Daisy Ware, who is an accomplished singer, and the local talent. The wedding of Miss Mary Sims, formally of Paris, Mo, and Mr. Wm. Peterson of Port, W. Va., occurred Sunday at 3 o'clock p.m. at the home of the bride's mother, Rev. L. Smith officiating. Home Protective Record wishes Mr. and Mrs. Peterson a long and successful journey through life. The wedding of Mrs. Annie Myers of Macon, Mo, and Mr. Wm. Johnson of this city occurred last Tuesday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Viola Jackson, Rev. Wm. Bates performing the ceremony. Mr. H. Clay Howell and daughter, Mrs. Mamie Moody left Monday evening for Kirksville, Mo., called there by the death of Mr. U. Eubanks, a son-in-law of Mr. Howell. Mrs. Belle Clerk is convalescing. Some clerk is contending. The members of Star of Bethlehem Temple present the most worth- princess, Mrs. F. P. Monroe, with a beautiful gold bracelet in honor of her birthday. She was completely surprised. Our race in this stat* was pleased to hear last week that the "JinCrow" bill was killed in the committee, and since the legislature is supposed to adjourn on the 20th inst., it is conceded that it will not be introduced again at this session. Dr. Rickett, Rev. Gregg and W. H. Whitsey of this city and Prof. West of Jefferson City were the only Afro-Americans present to protest against the bill when it was being considered by the railroad committee, to which it had been referred. The Bystander commends that committee for their action in defeating such an unjust and useless proposed law. Nick Chiles, editor of the Topeka Plainlander, gave a few days of last week in the city. Mr. Chiles, John of Oliver of 121 North Eighth street gave a whist party last Thursday night in honor of Miss Reed. About thirty guests were present to enjoy playing progressive whist. After the stipulated number of games had been played it was announced that Miss Reed had secured the most points and she was awarded the first prize, a china plate. Mrs Ben Hill secured the "booby CENTERVILLE NEWS. QUINCY, ILL. ST. JOSEPH, MO. --- Price Five Cents. prise" for the ladies and Dr. Beahears received the "booby prize" for the men. Miss Myrtle Reed after a fortnight visit in this city, the guest of Miss Zelma Endicott, returned to her home at Colorado Springs, Colo., last week. She was the recipient of a number of social parties during her brief visit. Miss J. Redmon of 702 Dewey avenue entertained a of her lady friends at a 6 o'clock dinner last Tues day evening. After the dinner, the number of guests were increased by the addition of several young men. Whist and dancing was enjoyed until a late hour. Assorted ice cream and cake was served. The hostess was assisted by Miss Francis Fields in receiving and serving. Mrs. S. Ann Ramsey, an evangelist has been assisting Rev. De Boe in the revival at his church for the past two weeks. All the services are well attended and a number of conversions will no doubt be secured the meeting. Dr. R. P. Beahears has returned from Iowa City, Iowa, where he has been attending the annual Alumni Dental Clinic. He says there are about 15 Afro-American students attending the Iowa State university this year. The Progressive club gave a carbaret luncheon last Saturday night at the home of Mr. W. A. Hill, 1523 Savannah avenue, in honor of Dr. Rickets and Attorney J. H. Kelley. A very unique program was rendered. All the members of the club gave some quotation from some distinguished colored person, and as the guests of honor are fluent speakers, on that occasion they maintained their record. A mandolin club furnished the music. The membership of this club contains some of the best of city, and if they continue in the future, as they have in the past, it can be of good service to our race of this city. W. A. Hill is president, W. F. Niel, secretary. A number of young people spent Sunday afternoon and evening at Savannah, the guest of Mr Powell. Mr. Brooks, the artist of Kansas City, spent part of this week in our city. "I have used Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Shampoo, Hair Grower and Pressing Oil and will testify with the utmost truth that it is wonderful discovery. My scalp was covered with dandruff, and nothing ever relieved it before; my hair was harsh and short. After using two sets of XXth Century Hair Preparations I can sing praise for the good results I have received. I have no dandruff, my hair is soft and growing nicely. I am willing that this be published for the benefit of others who are troubled with dandruff and short hair." Mrs. Jenfitte Griffin, 2325 Woodland Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. MOLINE NEWS. (Last Week.) Mrs. Bessie Roberson was taken to the city hospital last Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Mollie Roberson is on curk sick list. We wish her a speedy recovery. Mrs. Fannie Lee of Chicago, Ill., is in the city. She is going to stay until her sister, Mrs. Roberson, is somewhat better. Mrs. Beatrice Bassett celebrated her birthday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs Kelso of 606 Xitxn street on Wednesday evening. Music and games were enjoyed, after which a three course lunch was served. Many useful presents were received by Mrs. Bassett. Miss Henrietta Settlers entertained, Mr. Moss at dinner Sunday. (This Week.) Leona Bishop is ill with the pneumonia. Miss Pansy Bishop has also been on he sick list. Mrs. Robertson, who was taken to the city hospital last week, underwent a serious operation, and is doing nicely at this writing. We wish her a speedy recovery. About twenty friends of Mrs. Alice Garnett surprised her Monday evening and helped her celebrate her birthday. Many useful presences were received. Music and dancing was enlunch was served. Mrs. S. B. Walker is ill at residence, 3103 Eleventh avenue, with a gripe. Master Perry Garnett celebrated his third birthday Wednesday afternoon from 2 until 5 o'clock. Ten girls and boys being present. Mrs. Lulu Walkup departed for Chicago, Ill., Tuesday evening for a two weeks' visit with her aunt and uncle. From-her she will journey on to Pittsburgh, Pa., her home. Died, in the city, Friday, March 7, 1913, Mary Holmes, of 1918 Eighteenth avenue, after a prolonged suffering from complications. She was born in Washington, Iowa, November 1, 1849, and has lived in Ill., for the past fourteen years. Surviving here are son, Orison Tiffen of Moline and one daughter, Mrs. William Steward. The funeral was held Monday at 2:30 p.m. from the St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. Boyd officiated. Interment was at Riverside cemetery. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has won its great reputation and extensive sale by its remarkable cures of coughs, colds and croup It can be depended upon. Try it. Sold by all dealers. Iowa State Bystander Every Important Nation on the Globe Has Its Own Idea of How Bank Note Should Look. The bank of England notes are simply printed in black ink, on Irish linen water-lined paper, plain white, with ragged edges. A badly scrolled or worn bank of England note is rarely seen, for the reason that notes which in any way find their way back to the bank are immediately canceled and new ones issued in their stead. The notes of the bank of France are made of white water-lined paper, printed in black and white, with numerous mythological and allegorical pictures. South American notes resemble those of our own country, except that cinnamon brown and slate blue are the prevailing colors. German notes are printed in green and black. The one-thousand-mark bills are printed in silk fiber paper. It has been averred that it takes an expert or a native to distinguish a Chinese bill from a laundry ticket if the bill be of low denomination, or from a freeracre label if the bill be of a large denomination, the print being in red on white, or yellow on red, with much gilt and many gorgeous devices. Italian notes are of all sizes, shapes and colors. The smaller bills are printed on white paper in pink, blue and carnine ink. The most striking paper currency in the world is that of Russia. Its one-hundred-rule note is barred from top both with all the colors of the rainbow, blended as when a sun ray passes through a prism. In bold relief in the center stands forth a finally executed vignette in black. The remainder of the engraving is in dark and light brown ink. Bettled All Dispute. One of our best known astronomers was talking about the difficulties and intricacies that astronomy presents to the lay mind. "For instance," he said, "there is the story of the meteorite that fell on an Eusex (England) farm a year ago. It was a valuable meteorite and the landlord brought it once. "All minerals and metals on the land belong to me," he said. "That's in the lease." "But the tenant demurred. 'This meteorite,' he said, 'wasn't on the farm, you must remember, when the lease was drawn up." "This was certainly a poser, but the landlord was equal to the occasion, for he promulgated retorted: 'Well, then, I claim it as flying game.'" "But the tenant was ready for him, 'but neither nor ncr feathers,' he said. 'Therefore as ground game it is mine.' "How long they would have continued their argument I cannot say, for if that moment a revenue officer came up and proceeded to take possession of the meteorite. 'Because, said he, 'it is an article introduced into this country without payment of duty.'" That Military Air When Sir John French was in command of the cavalry at Canterbury he chanced one day to meet a rather slouching young recruit. "The man," he said the new chief of the general staff, "does this city belong to you?" The military fledgling saluted and blushingly replied: "No, sir." "Never mind," said French, genially, "straighten yourself up, pull your together and look as though it'd Tolumned Oxes Obstacles Henry E. Lantus, an interesting figure in the present legislature of Pennsylvania, is blind. He was a reporter for a news bureau during the Spanish-American war, but quit the field to become a metal worker. An accident in a steel mill cost him his eyesight. He learned the blind language and with the aid of his wife kept him occupied with the life. They became an expert upon soil and the markets. Then he bought more land and entered politics. He is a magnetic speaker. No Joy Visit. A Glasgow juristial who was careless of his personal appearance was assigned to write something about a show at a leading Glasgow theater. He presented his card at a box office. The manager came out and looked at the disheveled visitor dubiously. He came to write about the day—to work" he asked. "Do you think I'd come to your theater for amusement?" asked the journalist as he stalked out—Saturday Evening Post. Preoccupation. "What's the matter with that man's farm?" "He's too enthusiastic," replied Mr. Corteztoel. "He gets so interested reading agricultural literature that he forgets all about tendin' the crops an' the stock." Appreciated Pastime. "What is your favorite game?" asked Mrs. Flimgilt. "Cheese," replied Mr. Growcher. "It always puts my wife to sleep when she tries to play it." Our Need. "There is some great force lacking in this country today," observed the faga. "Yes," commented the Wise Guy. "What this country needs is a foolkiller who will stay on the job."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Higher Education. Gertrude—come on out to the house tonight after supper and play music for us. Daisy—Gee, I ain't got no time! I motta do my Latin—Judge. MUCH FOOD SEIZED In Several instances Cases Reported for Criminal Action Based on Shipments of Seized Goods Found to Be Poliohous Ingredients. Washington—Fourteen hundred and fifty-nine violations of the federal pure food law were reported to the department of justice for action in the last year. Of the total number of cases, 991 were criminal and 467 were recommendations for the seizure of adulterated or mibranded foods and drugs. There were 741 cases prosecuted by United States attorneys in the year. Of the criminal cases prosecuted, 381 resulted in convictions and twenty-three were decided adversely to the government. These were imposed in the criminal cases amounting to more than $14,000, and in addition costing $6,250, generally against the defendants. Of the cases prosecuted, 407 were pending in the courts at the close of the year, and 376 were under consideration by the department of justice. The first all sentences for violations of this act were imposed last year, and there was a tendency on the part of the courts to impose larger fines for first offenses. The maximum fine of $200 was imposed in twelve cases, and there were also imposed one fine of $150, 36 of $100 each, fines of $75 each and fines of $100 each. The maximum fine of $200 was imposed in 16 cases, and there were imposed four fines of $150 each, one fine of $125, 26 fines of $100 each, one fine of $75 and 33 fines of $50 each. There was also imposed a fine of $400 in three cases prosecuted, where several adulterated and misbranded articles were contained in one shipment. While there was a slight decrease in the number of fines imposed, there was a substantial increase in the number of cases in which fines of $100 and $50 were imposed. In the seizure cases decrees of condemnation and forlence were entered against 294 shipments of adulterated and misbranded goods. In accordance with the usual practice, whenever seized articles of food were found to consist of filth, decomposed or putrid substances, or to contain poisonous or deleterious ingredients which might render them injurious, the seizure was insisted that orders be entered directing the destruction of the goods. One hundred and three shipments of this class were destroyed. On the other hand, in the class of cases where the adulteration or misbranding was such that it could be cured by relabeling, the courts have usually released the seized goods to claimants after relabeling, whenever claimants have appeared and consented to the entry of decree of condemnation of the proceedings and filed bond, as provided for by Section 10 of the act, that the goods would not thereafter be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to law. One hundred and sixty-two shipments of this class of cases were released in the year after relabeling and the filing of satisfactory bonds. There were seized and condemned shipments of sardines, figs, herring, dried apples, dried cherries, dried apples, dried apples, olives, olives, soft drinks, candies, cordials, chemsutus, oysters, tomato pulp, frozen eggs, bottled water, apples, peanuts, turpentine, sparkling burgundy, brandy, vanilla extract, dried black berries, dried eggs, liquors, butter, vinegar, prunes, witch hazel and hazy In several instances cases were reported for criminal prosecution based on shipments of seized goods found to consist of filth, decomposed or putrid substances, or to contain added poisones or deleterious ingredients which might render them injurious to health. Our cases were discontinued because of the severity of the injury in the eighteen cases seizures were not made because the goods had been disposed of prior to the filing of libels. In one seizure case the court refused to issue process, and in another the proceedings were dismissed. SUGAR CONSUMPTION. Each person in the United States fast year has used 7 pounds of sugar, the per capita consumption of this article having increased from 80 pounds in 1910, 59 pounds in 1900 and 39.5 pounds in 1880, says statistics gathered by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. The total sugar consumption this year will exceed 8,000,000,000 pounds, whereas in 1900 only 4,500,000,000 pounds were used. The cost of sugar to the consumer this year will approximate $400,000,000, which is more than $1,000,000 a day. One-fourth of this sugar can come from the United States proper, another fourth from Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and the remainder from foreign countries, chiefly Cuba. The large increase this year in the production of beet sugar in this country is noted, 1,400,000,000 pounds having been raised, against 1,000,000,000 pounds in 1910 and less than half that amount in 1906. Sharper Than He Thought. Nell—He actually told me I was dull. Belle—I suppose you convinced him to the contrary. Belle—Certainly. I've cut him ever since. Hearth Words From the Beech Harah Words From the Bench. "You remanded me of a piece of pickle behind me. It was a long time in pickle," said the West London (Eng.) magistrate to a red-faced horse dealer who burst into tears when charged with being drunk. That Took Time. "Why do you keep me waiting on this corner two hours?" demanded the irate husband. "You said you were merely going to stop in to see how Mrs. Gabble was." "Well, she insisted on telling me." BUSINESS SYSTEM REORGANIZED The United States treasury on Feb. 1 revolutionised its business system and placed the ordinary fiscal transactions of the federal government on a modern basis. The change, it is declared, will prevent in large measure the temporary tying up in the vaults of the sub-treasuries of a large amount of money available for circulation without increasing the deposits of the government in the banks. The daily government receipts from customs, internal revenue and other sources are combined with the national bank depositories to the credit of the treasurer of the United States. All checks of government disbursing officers are drawn on the treasurer and will be payable at any sub-treasury or national bank depository in any part of the country. A national bank depositary paying one of these checks may immediately reimburse its specified government account from daily receipts of customs or internal revenue deposited with it and forward to the nearest sub-treasury, only the remainder will be charged. While the clearing house principle to the government's business system. In the past all receipts in the shape of checks for customs duties or internal revenue taxes have been forwarded to the sub-treasures for conversion into actual cash. This process, which, it is said, drew money into the treasury unnecessarily for a limited time at least, will now be avoided. The change will obviate the payment by pensioners and others of exchange on government checks. NAVY RECRUITING GAINS The navy department has announced that hereafter it will be possible for applicants for enlistment in the navy to be examined in cities where there is a marine recruiting office, but no navy recruiting office. The new order will apply in Pearlia, Ill.; Rock Island, Ill.; Lansing, Mich.; Tiffin, O.; Front Royal, Va.; Grand Forks, N. D., and St. Joseph, Mo. There will be no recruiting in the marine corps because the complement of the marine corps is filled. Men whose preference is for the navy may apply in any of the cities mentioned and be given a preliminary examination. If accepted they will be sent at government expense to the nearest recruiting station to complete their enlistment. The navy now is short about 5,000 men, or between 9 and 10 per cent of its authorized strength. The British navy is short about 12,000 men, or about the same proportion as the great difficulties cause their large number must be drawn from areas in which recruits previously have been gathered and are thus practically exhausted. Recruiting in the United States navy is found to show a decided gain, the greatest single factor in enlistments, according to navy officials, being the recommendation of men in service or who have been discharged. RETAIN THE LARIAT. The larafit has been retained by the cavalry equipment board as a part of the new equipment of mounted troops. As cavalry marches for a considerable period of years repeatedly have traversed regions affording facilities for rail transportation of forage, and at the plenty of forage is laid down on the picket lines in maneuver camps, a great many officers accept these conditions as those that probably always will prevail. As a natural result many have grown accustomed to subisting horses in the field under circumstances that always have prevailed in war and probably always will—lack of transportation. There are those that have maintained that the growth of rail and water transportation in every direction during recent years has created the probability that our cavalry in future wars can look confidently to the sample supply of forage, and therefore a resort to grazing will be unnecessary. This view has been disturbed as recently as last year, when for several months our cavalry occupied fronted by the possibility of service in Mexico, a country strikingly, hard to transport facilities in most districts. It is for these reasons that the lariat has been retained, in order that horses under restraint may be put out to graze. Making an Impression Upon Him. Bob Dwyer, fresh from college, opened a real estate office in an attractive suburban neighborhood and hoped to make his fortune. For days he sat undisturbed in life, office, staring out at the dirty roads or twirling his hat. On the afternoon of the fourth day he saw a man crossing Ogden boulevard diagonally, headed for his door. Surely this was a customer. He must be made to feel that business was flourishing. As the man stepped over the threshold Bob had the telephone receiver at his ear and was talking earnestly into the transmitter. "That's correct," he said as the man stuttered to his right. "We will accept your fifteen cash tomorrow and let the thirty thousand remainder stand on a ten year mortgage. What? Yes, I'll bring the deed around at 11 tomorrow morning. Good morning." Bob hung up the receiver and turned an important vignage to the visitor. Why. I just came over." said the man grinning, "to connect your telephone instrument with the wires."—Harner's Weekly. After Material Editor—"Why do you persist in coming here? I tell you I don't buy fiction." Author—"Oh, I don't wish to sell any of my stories. I am writing about short serial, entitled," "The Ugliest Man on Earth," and I came in merely to obtain local color." Soothing. "Nan," said Fan, "I've got a gown exactly like that one of youroes, and I just hate it. It looks all right on you, though, because you're so thin that the pattern doesn't show." MUCH MYSTERY IN DR. FRIEDMANN'S 'CURE' SAID TO'BE THE OLDEST MASON IN AMERICA MAKER OF STATUES FOR U. S. GOVERNMENT Warner Miller, Penniless! To the youngsters who have u who have broken into the political game in the last few years this announcement. In the papers a few days ago didn't mean anything beyond the statement that another man had gone broke; to politicize and personify whose memories go back 30 or 40 years it up the game in the late few years this announcement in the paper a few days ago didn't mean anything beyond the statement that another man had gone broke; to politicians and other persons whose memories go back 30 or 40 years by virtue of the faded picture of one of the most interesting figures in the political life of the state. United States senator, a power in Republican politics for years, a splendid orator, Civil war veteran, an inventor of machinery that revolutionized paper making, a man of scholarly acumen, a businessman, York's big businessman, Warner Miller at 75 finds himself in the deepest financial straits, broken in health, all but forgotten in the state where once his name was a household word. Hundreds of persons who followed his picturesque career until he dropped alone will regret to hear of the reversal he met with in his declining years. Senator Miller—he is still called Senator—has been making a brave The offer of Charles E. Finley of New York of A1,000,000 for Dr. Friedmann's tuberculosis serum has caused a stir in medical academy in Berlin, Friedmann's home, and in America. A. H. DF Friedmann said recently that he would give the Gorman government his discovery, but up to a few days ago he had not done so. On 1 February 19 be called for New York. Just before leaving he said: "I am going to America to earn that $1,000,000 offered by Mr. Finley. My time there will be rather limited, as I must be back to Berlin, where work awaits me." Privy Medical Councillor Kirchner, the head of the Prussian health department, stated to a newspaper correspondent that Dr. Friedmann had not given his culture to the government, but had merely asked for an interview. Dr. Kirchner said he was not prepared to say whether the government would accept the remedy until after it had made an investigation of the entire matter. Dr. Friedmann's friends say they cannot understand his actions and bl member of a Ma- United States today, it is claimer, resides in Platte City, Illinois. retired attorney, William M. Paxton, aged 94, still active with his pen, and still teaching a Sunda- tary school class of aged men who have been 68 years since he became a Mason. He is also a Knight Tenn resides in Platte City, Mo. He is a retired attorney, William Parnes, and 94, still active with his pen, and still teaching a Sunday school class of aged men every Sabbath. It is 68 years since he became a Mason. He is also a Knight Tenniar and a Royal Arch Mason, belonging to the bodies at Platte City. Mr. Paxton was born in Mason county, Ky. Ky. on 2, Augusta college, Ky. St. Zavier's college, Cincinnati O., and Center college, Kentucky. In 1839 he was licensed as an attorney. He can, therefore, claim a professional life of over There is but one woman who has ever made a statue for the capitol at Washington. Yet this one of the greatest statues of the many young bronze and marble of that great building—the statue of Lincoln, the man of sorrows. Four years ago this sculptor received a commission for the end official statue for the capitol, a representation of this one of the greatest statues of the many forms of bronze and marble of that great building—the statue of Lincoln, the man of sorrows. Four years ago this sculptor received a commission for her second official statue for the captol, a representant for the warrior chief executive of Iowa. That statue is nearing completion and now she has received an additional commission for the figure, likewise to be placed in Statuary Hall. This last work is at the behest of the state of Oklahoma and is to be the statue of Se- "Nobody ever gets the best of Wombat." "I once saw him get the worst of a business deal." "Never." "Fact. He had put a penny in a slot machine and it refused to give up." Where Dog Takes Second Place. There's one thing you may notice occasionally: A woman wearing a gingham dress can propel a dimpled baby through the town and look straight in the eye any silken-robed daughter of Eve who fondles a poodle dog.-Houston Post. Burst. "What a pity we have no artists who can paint like the old masters!" "But, replied Mr. Camron, who had just acquired a spurious signature, the great trouble is that we have." fight to get back on his feet, but his financial troubles have been too much for even a man of his determination to overcome. They have been piling up for years. In January, 1908, he made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors to Ernest L. Constan, an attorney, but the schedules were not filed in the county court office until a few days later. The papers show how the liabilities are greatest of his assets. Senator Miller makes his home with one of his children. While his health is feeble his mind is as clear as ever. Entering political life in an accidental way, he forged rapidly to the front in the councils of the Republican party and continued to take a leading part in the political affairs of the state and nation for many years. Always in the thick of the Republican fray, he is best remembered as uncompromising attitude and Platt, an attitude that itself soon became his campaign to get control of the Republican organization of the state. Miller and Platt locked horns on numerous occasions, but Platt was "coming" and Miller was "going," and the result was not long in doubt. Platt was instrumental, in defeating Miller for re-election to the United States senate in 1887, and in defeating Miller's position, which began to decline. Unfortunately speculation is responsible for Senator Miller's financial difficulties—Exchange. premature announcements. They can only attribute them to the fact that he is chiefly a laboratory man, has little knowledge of dealing with people and is not a practical business man. No one knows where his laboratory is and the culture, it is said, is prepared by a young women laboratory assistant, who is the only person he really seems to know. Eighteen American patients are being treated in Berlin by Dr. Friedmann. Some of them declare that they are getting excellent results and are improving rapidly, while others express antipathy to Dr. Friedmann personally and criticize his institute. Mrs. Walter Powell of Boston, the first American patient to be treated by Dr. Friedmann, left a few days after the first inoculation. Her husband said that while he believed the remedy had worked, Dr. Friedmann personally did not inspire any confidence, perhaps because he does not know how to deal with Americans. While his terms for treatment are generally considered reasonable, averaging perhaps $25 for inoculation and $10 for consultation, some Americans here declare they are very high. One patient claims to be paying $1,000 for the entire treatment. Dr. Friedmann is the custom of German physicians to vary their charges in accordance with the ability of the patients to pay. ST MASON IN AMERICA 73 years and is perhaps the oldest living lawyer in Missouri. In 1874-5 Mr. Paxton became deaf and had to give up his hucurative practice of law. He engaged in other activities and prospered, but in 1907 found that the infirmities of age demanded retirement. Blindness has since velled his eyes, and he can walk only in familiar paths. His fable pen is daily at work, however, notwithstanding the weight of 94 years. All his life Mr. Paxton has been deeply devoted to the church and Sunday school. In 1824, four years after the formation of the Sunday school on the island of Colon, Q. who was perhaps the Sunday school in the Middle west. On the first day of January, 1850, he or organized the first Sunday school in Platte City, Mo., and since that day, sick or well, in warm or cold, for more than 3,000 consecutive Sabbaths he has failed never to attend some Sunday school. quoyan, the great Indian who invented the alphabet which resulted in making a record of Indian speech possible. The woman who has been thus honored by the federal government and by the representatives of two states at Washington is Mrs. Vinnie Ream Hoe. She is the only woman who has ever received such hands of the government. In fact there is no man who has ever been called upon for so much important sculpture for the capitol building as has this little woman. Mrs. Hoxie has been a famous figure at the national capital since the Civil war. For a generation her home has been the gathering place for men and women who have won fame in art and literature and public life. As Mrs. Hoe seems to increase and the note of earlier days that is sounded in her entertainments lends them a peculiar savor of distinction. Rescue De Luxe. "Hurry up and save that girl!" bawled the fire chief. "Why don't you hurry?" The fireman bent over and whispered down three stories. "I'll have her on the ladder in a minute, chief. I'm waiting for her to curl her hair." When Friendship is Needed. If a man's own foyl has brought him to a bitter pass, the more he needs the rallying loyalty of his friends, for fear despair may add its poison to his grief and self-loathing complete the ruin begun by what was perhaps but a moment of weakness. Beware. A Chicago News paragrapher gives a pretty clear idea of platonic love: "It is a good deal like a gun that you didn't know was loaded."—Toledo Blade. TRIP MADE TROUBLE But Pa and Ma Stubblins Had a Long Journey Before Them, and It Was Their First. Mrs. Melvina Stubbins threw up both four hands in horror. Pa had fallen over something in the woodshed. The cat shrieked in pain. Then another crash added consternation to the startled woman. Mrs. Stubbins rushed into the woodshed. Pa was down on the floor with a load of stone wood about him. His nose was bleeding and the water from the overturned pail on the wash bench was dammed against his overalls. The cat cowered under the washing machine, licking tenderly at her bruised tail. "Joiah Stubbins, what be you adoin?" shrieked Melvina solicitously, grasping the prostrate man determinedly by the shoulder and striving to raise the groaning heap. "We was—just a-thinkin" about that trip to curn," he panted, gaining his footing over the wrath thoodack. Then the gul-darned cat got in my way, an' I went down." Mrs. Stubbins waved her hands despairingly, and stirred. "I'm so fidgety now from jist think in' of gn' travelin'," she admitted, "thet i ain't good for nothin'—an you're worse," heaping it onto Josiah mercilessly. "Sometimes I reckon it ain't wuth' th' candle—all this fusin' an' stenw' an' packin' an' plannin'," he walled, wiping the blood from his hickory shirt and lookingased "whisky be better off, I reckon if they stayed thee was comfortable." "An 'never seen' nothin' at all!" agreed Mrs. Stubbins, turning the wash bench right side up and pouring a liberal helping of water into the basin. "Wash yerself. It looks like a murder." Josiah went out on the barn, feeling ruefully of his nose. It was evident that htes were perilous days in the Stubbins cycle. Getting ready to go traveling was sadly interrupting the even tenor of life on the proposed country, but the farmed trip was time, for the local correspondent of the Advocate had chronicle the news weeks ago. As the gala day approached, Pa and Ma Stubbins packed and unpacked, increasing the tension until neither of them slept at night for apprehending train wrecks. The train was due at 8:40 in the morning, but, in their anxiety not to be late, the couple arrived at the depot before 7, flustered and fidgety. "Better to be a little airy," commented Melvina, fluttering into a seat in the big, barn-like station, where the drum stove valiantly gave out its redolent coal-smoke odors. Josiah took up his stand before the closed ticket window and waited impatiently. As the minutes passed and the agent busied himself beyond its portals, their nervously increased. Josiah cobbed apprehensively at Mel and shifted his big form onto the other foot. "Gittin' most time, ain't it, pa?" asked Mrs. Stubbins, wiping his sharp nose with a polka-dot handkerchief. Josiah consulted his watch. "I wish this here window would open up," he complained restlessly. "We ain't got more n' 45 minutes." Finally Josiah could hold himself no longer. He stepped determinedly up to the ticket-shelf and rapped loudly on the window. The sounds from beyond stopped. The agent approached and asked the agent, "—er—could ye wait on us?" Josah asked apologetically. "Which way you goin'?" queried the agent, none too affably. "East," replied Josiah. "I wuz afeared it wuz gwitn late." "Huh!" grunted the railroad man. "Plenty of time! Where to?" "How fur is it to Harpersville?" questioned Mr. Stubblins, looking the agent in the eye. "All right. Gimme two tickets—an return," with the air of a man about to take Niagara. "Melvina an' me air goin' travelin'!" Globe-trotting is only relative, after all.—Judge. Early Siege of Turkish Capital Constantinople has been threatened before by the Bulgarians, the most memorable of the early attacks having been made in 813, when the barbarian Krum arrived before the city's walls. The siege, it is related, was begun with high ritual, but before more than a demonstration had been made, the Byzantine emperor came to terms. While the negotiations were going on Krum was nearly killed, a peril which so enraged the founder of the Bulgarian empire that he laid waste the suburbs and retired with a host of captives. Fortunately for Constantinople, when the Bulgarian prince returned to take a fuller revenge he was seized with apoplexy and died. Parcel Post. "What is that chirping sound in the closet?" "Young chickens," gasped the husband guiltily. "You forgot to mail that dozen eggs I gave you three weeks ago." Must Re. "No question of it. He can get coal on credit."—Detroit Free Press. Can Write His Name 394 Ways. Probably no surname has undergone a major change as that of Sir Harry Stapleton Mainwaring (prior to Mannering). At Peover hall, his Cheshire home, there is a paper showing the name written in 394 ways.—London Mall. Dally Thought. We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow. —Henry Ward Beecher AS BEAST OF BURDEN Buffalo Made Use of in the War in the Balkans. Slow Traveler, but His Greater Strength Makes Him More Valuable Than the Ox—is Fierce Fighter on Occasions. The pictures and reports of the war in the Balkans have brought into prominence the quadruped which, though well known as a domestic animal in the east, is very un familiar to western eyes—the buffalo. If mentioned at all this beast is generally thought of as a savage brute, but in the war areas we saw him says the London Standard, doing away with transport animal equally with the familiar ox, from which he is easily distinguished in the illustrations by his low set, downcurving horns and muscle carried almost straight forward. People who have to travel by buffalo lo cart are to be pitied, for the buffalo is the slowest of all beasts of draught. It is his great strength that gives him the advantage over the ox. The load that a single yoke of buffaloes will pull is something astounding, and in India they are always given the kind of load which is assigned to dray horses here, ordinary horse work—except passenger traffic—being there performed by the humped oxen known over here as zebus. India, indeed, is the native home of the buffalo, and it still exists there as a wild animal. Very mild, indeed, it is, too, and an old bull is very apt to attack unprovoked, contrary to the usual custom of almost all wild animals, whose name descends retain plenteous of spike in a hood they do not fear the tiger and a recog-nized method of getting "stripee" to bolt when he has taken cover is to drive a herd of buffaloes to rout him out, which they will do to a certainty if they set on his/accent. Even tame buffaloes can make themselves very unpleasant to people they do not know, and they are not at all safe for a European to approach in India; but—and here the more attractive side of their character comes out as well. They are faithfulness one usually associates rather with dogs than with cattle. The true Indian buffalo is really to a great extent an aquatic animal, and when off duty likes nothing so much as to lie up to its ears in water, but, like the duck, it can if necessary resign itself to existence without a bath. That an animal so nearly naked of the earth is so vulnerable to climate as is that of eastern Europe is a remarkable fact of acclimatization. Its presence in Italy is less surprising, but even there its introduction seems to be merely of medieval date. Scientifically the tame buffalo is of interest as having, like the ass, varied so little from the wild type. Pied buffaloes are as rare as pled donkeys, though white and fawn colored varieties occur as well as the natural black. Like the ass also, the buffalo is a very adaptable animal yet in local habitats both beasts may surpass their more artistic relatives, the horses and ox, while in intelligence and force of character they are certainly far superior. Hugo's Events of Gastronomy Mme. Judith has some good stories to relate of Victor Hugo, although there are few among them that increase our respect for the great novelist. She was especially struck by his gastronomic feats, as she may well have been. Upon one occasion, she says, he "put a whole orange, rind and all into his mouth and then managed to thrust as many pieces of sugar as possible into his cheeks. This achieved, he began to scrunch it all up with his lips tightly closed. In the midst of this operation he swallowed down two liquor glasses of Kirsch and a few minutes later opened his mouth wide. It was empty! No one made any attempt to imitate him." Hugo's complacency was as great as his other powers. When somebody at table quoted De Musset he replied, "Yes, he has immense talent. He boasts that there are some who consider him as good a post as I am." Natural Coke and Graphite Coke is made in nature as well as in brick ovens. When hot volcanic material comes into contact with a coal bed under the proper conditions it makes very good coke indeed, although not in sufficiently large amounts to be commercially used. Such coke is found by the geologist or the prospector. Graphite is also manufactured out of coal by volcanic heating, and in this case, the product is commercially important. Graphite is nearly pure carbon. In geologic examinations of the deposits of the Raton coal fields in New Mexico Geologist Lee four some excellent examples of coal had been metamorphosed into graphite by comparatively intense intrusions of the coal, the combustion of the coal being prevented by the absence of air. Man is now manufacturing graphite as well as coke out of coal—Scientific American. Told Her "Now, I have given you a good meal, perhaps you can tell me how I can get some of that wood cut up over there?" said the lady at the back door to the tramp. "I cert'nly kin, ma'am," replied the itinerant, his hat in his hand: "I seed in de papers' dayt aan electric-driven machine to split kindling wood is on de market." Freak of a Vowel. Grigg—"This morning I caught a fragment of conversation between a native and a foreigner. The former was saying: 'The "o," remember, is pronounced like "i" in Jim.' What word do you suppose he referred to?" Briggs—"That's easy! 'Women,' of course." Just Before It Happened. Bellshazar (at the famous feast)—Well, that's a nice surprise! The dinner committee has arranged to have some moving pictures!—Puck AFRO-AMERICAN *CULLINGS Down at St. Augustine, Fla., a young, colored woman, Mary Carson Langton, has established for herself a successful hairdressing business, but she finds time also to do philanthropic work among people of her race. Her latest enterprise is a library for the colored boys of the town. She spends three nights a week at the library, in a room in Temperature hall. She conceived the plan last year and on Christmas the little library was formed, opened at start, and was filled with books she has a double interest in the work, because aside from her desire to do good she is herself a student and has written poetry. Some of her forefathers were Seminole Indians. Her efforts to encourage her people to improve their minds are due to the fact that she realizes that as education is not compulsory in Florida many colored boys are growing up in ignorance. During the summer, which she spent at her trade in a fashionable resort, she enlisted her customers in her enterprises and accumulated books and magazine subscription lists. For the library, the women of St. Augustine who have charge of the free public library for white people are helping her. Many of the boys who use the library are caddies, flower peddlers or messengers. A girl who has been engaged three or four times may look as hopeless as a woman who I- married. When the emancipation proclamation commiserion of Pennsylvania celebrates in Philadelphia in September the fiftieth anniversary of the freedom of the negro through the issue of Lincoln's famous emancipation proclamation and the long and hard-fought Civil war which set free 4,000,000 slaves, there will be present Thomas B. Patterson, one of the most industrious negro farmers in Pennsylvania - a man among the most advanced African Americans - of 400,000 negroes who own farms in the United States, and who has reached this goal with the motto, "Show the world that the negro has the same ability as the white man, if he only gets the chance to prove it." Patterson got "the chance to prove it" on a 60-acre down farm, near Weslake, in the Hegins valley, Schuylkill county, and with Mrs. Patterson he proved that the motto was a truism. Patterson was appointed a member of the emancipation proclamation commission, who through Harry W. Bass, of the first colored member of the Panthers of the Confederacy, at the last session, succeeded in getting $20,000 appropriated for the coming anniversary; and Patterson, as chairman of the committee on agriculture, will show by exhibits, made by the negroes of the state, that their work has not been in vain. If every young man could see the girl he is in love with eating her dinner when nobody is watching her, the crop of old bachelors would increase. Twenty Negro farmers around Fairhope, Alabama, have signed up to form a co-operative packing association. The object is to kill and pack hogs killed in their community. A member of the firm will attend to the selling and shipping of the packed meat and the profits will be divided at the end of the season. The company will start with a capital stock of $6,000. An adaptation of the cylinder tubes has been developed to tell from the outside whether the sparks wanted on the inside of a motor cylinder are being produced properly. Two enterprising Negroes of Austin, Texas, have organized and chartered "The Texas Colonization and Development Company." They have purchased 10,000 acres of land in Houston county, which is being sold in tracts of ten, twenty, fifty and one hundred acres to Negroes only. Some of the farmers have purchased tracts and built the town of Oldhom in I. and G. N. R. R. The founders and present officers are Rev. L. L. Campbell and Dr. W. H. Crawford. Near Boston an engineer obtains electric power for his extensive suburban estate by means of a windmill which is a close copy of the most modern steam turbine. A new railway in Mexico is expected to make available 500,000,000 tons of iron ore, heretofore unprofitable to mine because of a lack of transportation facilities. No girl is quite sure there are microbes in kisses until she has practically worked out the theory. Some of us never talk about other people, because we are too busy talking about ourselves. Don't jump to the conclusion that a man is well-bred just because he has a little bun. The man who borrows trouble generally gives his peace of mind as security. One way to avoid being bothered by your relations is to be poorer than they are. It's a wise son that knows his own father, but never says anything about it at home. Retribution is something we expect eventually overtake other people. The move temper a man has the move he is inclined to blame it on his wife. During the coming summer will occur the fiftieth anniversary of the great *l.a.*coln's immortal proclamation freeing the negro slaves held in bondage in the southern states, then in rebellion against the country in an attempt to secede from the Federal Union and set up an independent省 although all of them were collegiate institutions of the old slave states of America. Those were days that tried men's souls sorely, but now at the end of a half century, probably the people of the south are vastly more satisfied over their own failure than the victors in the northern states. Of course, the negroes are the people who gained all there was to gain in the Lincoln proclamation. There are said to be 25,000 people of the African race in and near the city of Chicago, an industrial and lawabiding man and have proved their rights to their freedom almost universally by a proper use of their opportunities. These people of American race are planning a great jubilee festival on the fiftieth anniversary of their liberation, and in a meeting of a preliminary kind held recently in Los Angeles, one of the speakers announcing the negroes were giving thanks to Almighty for the blessings bestowed upon the race during their fifty years as freedmen. He referred to Booker T. Washington and his thirty years of educational effort at Tuskegee, where an institution costing $3,000,000 has been built up. This speaker went on to say: "In fifty years we may proudly be told that more than 100,000 high school students, more than 100,000 church members, more than 100,000 farmers, 100,000 farms, 2,000 physicians and progress in various other lines."—Los Angeles Times. Throwing the rays of pure white arc lights on white silk over a stage, a Spanish engineer devised a most perfect substitute for diffused daylight in theaters. In North Carolina two charters were issued from the office of the secretary of state. The Royall & Borden Company, a partnership of George C. Royall and John L. Borden of Goldsboro, authorizes itself to $100,000 and pays in $28,000. The company is located in Goldsboro but has a local business in Raleigh. The National Cooperage Company, with H. A. Punkett, W. C. Walters, A. M. Rea, J. W. Biddle, and others starts a business in New Berne. from a literary point of view when she reads the last chapter of a novel first. When the will of Caleb Nelson, a former slave, was probated some time ago in Allentown, Pa., it was found that he had an estate of upwards of $10,000. Born in the south, Nelson was valet of an officer in Pemberton's army and was captured at Vickburg; during the rest of the war he was a valet on General Grant's staff. For many years he was head waiter at an Allentown town. He died aged 50. There are no elevators in the great house of ambition. Step by step up the long stairway, brother! A number of educators and clergymen of Louisville, Ky., have begun a movement to form a co-operative stock company for the purpose of establishing a bank. They are endeavoring to raise a capital of $50,000. Several Negro leaders in Tennessee, California, West Virginia are interested in the movement. This is the first attempt to establish a Negro bank in Louisville and it is expected that the plan will succeed. For hunting at night there has been invented a storage battery electric lamp that may be strapped to a gun barrel to illuminate a weapon's front sight. In Germany there has been patented a waxy compound for finishing concrete floors, applied with hot irons and giving a durable, dust proof surface. Our neighbors will believe that one good turn deserves ten others. Apparatus for generating ozone in moderate quantities by a high pressure electrical discharge for purifying the air of rooms has been placed on the market. It's a mistake to suppose that all women are the same. Even one woman isn't the same for any length of time. The one time a woman always keeps her word is when she says she wouldn't marry the best man living. Lots of people spend half their lives overdoing things, and the other half doing them over. The man who starts to ride a hobby should at once equip himself with an emergency brake. Some people are always too busy to do anything but talk about how busy they are. Sometimes a married woman gets so hungry for a loving word that she talks to herself. A man may not be honest, although he refuses to take a hint. Firl and the world flirts with you; marry and you sit at home. Most people think it more foolish to give than to receive. Food for reflection is often adulterated. SPORTS WRESTLING Penn's wrestler won the first of the two dual meets with Princeton in Weightman hall, four bouts to three. Al Wasem of St. Louis won from N. Collins, known as the Gotch, of Chicago, in a wrestling match. HORSE RACING A bill calling for the appointment of a racing commission has been introduced in the Missouri legislature. Oral betting at race tracks was held to be legal by the Appellate division of the state Supreme court of New York. Baldy McGregor, 2:06%, after Colorado E., regarded as the best 3-year-old trotting golf in America, has been sold to an Austrian buyer for $16,000. AQUATIC N. T. Guernsey, Yale '81, a veteran of the Blue shell, says that the fault with Yale rowing lies outside the boat. He puts the weakness of the Blue squerely up to the coach. The call for candidates issued by Coach Jim Rice of the Columbia University crew was responded to by 72 students. Aside from the work at the rowing machines in the gymnasium, they are put through a long distance cross-country log each day. FOOTBALL Coach Zuppke's program for Illinois football candidates is as follows: Monday and Wednesday, running-spirits and distance; Tuesdays and Thursday, wrestling; Friday and Saturday, football and basketball, and American football, the ideal game could be produced, says Coach Shaughnessy of McGill university. The principal change which he suggests in the American game is to abolish the line of scrimmage, allowing men to be outside within certain limits. The passing or kicking of the ball while a player is running is another situation that he believes would result in constant action. PUGILISM Jack ("Twin") Sullivan of Bufalo, N. Y., and Jeff Clark of Joplin, Mo., fought ten fast rounds to a draw at Joplin, Mo. George Decker was badly used up at the end of a six-round bout with Harry Davis at Philadelphia. Davis had all the best of it. Johnny Kibane, featherweight champion, and articles to go round-the-world barmortmoring tour of Curley's fighters. Bert Fagin of San Francisco won the decision from Bud Daley, the Columbus (Ohio) middleweight, in a four-round bout at Venice, Cal. Frank Whithe, the fighting carpenter of Cedar Rapids, and Joe Thomas of New Orleans fought ten vicious rounds to a draw at Atlanta, Ga. The fifteen round bout between Jack Dillon of Indianapolis and Bill McKinnon of Boston at Providence, R. I., was declared a draw by Referee Joyce. Carmen Ferns of Kansas City and Billy Walters of Chicago fought fifteen rounds at St. Joseph, Mo. No decision was given, but the newspapers called it a draw. The New York boxing commission collected all 60 of its referees—those left since the last blacklist was issued—and told them how to referee fights. Al Palzer landed in England from New York. He was seasick all the voyage. He is suffering from malaria. He said he expects to fight Johnson in Paris June 25. Frankie Snyder's manager, George Dye, threw the towel into the ring in the fifth round of a scheduled ten-round bout at Superior, Wils, with Pat Brown. Tommy Sherhan clearly outclassed Steve Gardner. Young Kurt, the Philadelphia middleweight, took Philadelphia, Jack O'Brien's $50,000 beauty, Jack McCaren, into camp at New York. McCaren showed无比凄厉 nothing except that he decisive manner in which Jimmy Clabby of Hammond outpointed Chicago in their ten round encounter at Milwaukee stamps the Hoosier as a strong contender for the middleweight title. Gunbob Smith gets the first crack at Luther McCarty. After that bout is over big Jesse Willard is the man who can legitimately sit back and take a wallop at the man he actually outfought in his ten-round bout at New York. The twelve-round bout at Lowell, Mass., between Joe Thomas of Lowell and Blind McCloskey of Philadelphia was so one-aided an affair that he called the contest at the end of the eighth round and awarded the decision to Thomas. The split between Ad Wolgast and his manager, Tom Jones, which has been at a breaking point several times during the past two years, seems to have actually happened. A bill in the Massachuset state legislature would provide a commission to regulate boxing similar to the New York law. It provides for no decision bouts with six-round gloves. According to Jim Coftroh, Bob Fitzsimmons is the greatest of all fights because he won in two classes. Bob found it easy to step from one division to another and still remain a champion. Hugh Duffy. Veteran baseball star, former manager of the Chicago White Sox and the Milwaukee Brewers, has been awarded the Fall River franchise in 2012. It is expected that the team will be moved to Portland, Maine. BILLIARDS Charles McCourt of Pittsburgh defeated Charles Otis of Brooklyn in a National Billiard league game, 50 to 46. John Layton of St. Louis in a match game with C. Lawton broke the world's record high run, with 78, under the new style of scoring in continuous pool. Martin Phillips of Chicago ran 74. BASEBALL Forrest Cady, the Red Sox star backstop, is said to be some wrestler. Bert Shotton, the Brown's speedy young outfielder, was given a big boost in his salary. Great Falls of the Union association is going to try out a young second sacker named Finout. June 2 has been set as the date when Toronto will raise the International League pennant. Captain McBride of the Senators thinks the Athletics have the best chance in the 1913 race. The "perfumed notes" are not responsible for Art Shafer's retirement from professional baseball. Huggins says Slim Sallee, his south-paw, will be the sensation of the whole show the next season. Cleveland fans pick Tuck Turner as one of the club's brightest prospects for the coming campaign. The Fordham baseball schedule this season consists of 27 games. Of this number 20 will be played at home and 17 will be played at many St. Louisans as the proper man for Mrs. Britton to select as the Cards' president. Dr. Frank Sexton, Harvard's baseball coach for the past three years, has signed again to direct the Crimson nine. Bert Shotton, the Brown's young outfielder, says he is tired of playing major league ball for a minor league baseball. Elia Fletcher, the Giant shortstop, ranks the lowest among the National league shortstops, making 56 errors during the season. Beals Becker goes to Cincinnati, the first of the champions of 1912 to pass from the National League club, whose flag he helped win. The Madison baseball directors are after Harry Bay, once a member of the Cleveland Naps, to act as playing manager for the 1912 team. Wilbert Robinson has sold out his business interests in Baltimore and this year he will have his entire time to enjoy the Giant pitches. Eddie Williams and Archer Reilly have been turned over to the Springfield, Ohio, team by the Indianapolis club of the American association. Portland of the Pacific Coast league has purchased Pitcher Stanley of the Atlantic Cify team in the Tr-State league last season. MISCELLANEOUS The Federation of American Motorcyclists has 20,000 members. Penn cricketers this season will be seen in Canada, and next year will meet the crack collegiate teams of England during an European tour. Jack McDermott, the American open golf champion, will spend two weeks in the south before his invasion of England. At Pinehurst he will test his strength with Tom McNamara, former professional. Swimming trainers apparently have woes unknown to the men who have to condition other athletes. Duke Kahanamoka, the Hawaiian swimmer, has been bitten by an eel and is afraid of resultant blood poison. Lee Hummel the Denver pilot, is the man to flash across the motorcycle horizon. Hummel circled the mile lap at the Plaza Del Rey in Los Angeles in 30 seconds, clipping four-fifths of a second off Ray Seymour's record. "Hobey" Baker, the sensational star of the Princeton hockey team, was tendered the re-election to the captaincy of next year's team, but refused to accept, and endorsed W. S. Kuhn, the Pittsburgh boy, who was the unanimous choice. The Krebs-Coburn team won the six-day bicycle race at St. Louis. The Loftus-Camon combination was second, and DeMara and Diefenbacher third. They made a flat 886 miles in forty-eight hours of racing. Forest Smithson, a Olympic winner at the 1908 and regarded as one of the best hurdlers in America, was taken off the spiked shoes, forever and definitely announced his retirement from the cinder path. Perry McCollvray, the 100-yard champion swimmer, has developed a younger brother who is supplying him with keen competition in the water. FINE FOR SUNDAY BREAKFAST Fishballs, to Be Served With Mustard Sauce, May Well Be Prepared the Night Before. Two-thirds of one pint of salt fish after it is picked fine but not soaked. Fill up the quart with thin sliced potatoes. Put in a kettle with three pints of cold water and boll till potatoes are done. Put in a colander and shake. Put back in the kettle and mash with a wooden potato masher. Add two yolks of eggs without beating them, one teaspoon thick, heat hard. Shape like an egg and dry in very hot hard. Do not make them smooth. They should be lightly shaped. Serve at once with the following sauce, which should be cold: Mustard Sauce—Two teaspoons dry mustard, one saltpaste salt, one teaspoon sugar, one teaspoon flour, one teaspoon soft butter, two tablespoons vinegar. Mix in the order given in a granite saucepan, add half a cup of boiling water and stir over the fire till it thickens and is smooth. Makes a delicious Sunny breakfast batter. Be piled and put in cold water Saturday night and in the fish shredded but not soaked, as boiling it with the potatoes takes all the salt out. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS A teaspoonful of turpentine boiled with your white clothes will greatly aid the whitening process. If moths have attacked a carpet, work powdered borax into the carpet wherever there is a sign of the insects. When using oil for frying, the oily taste can be taken away by making the oil very hot, and then fry a piece of onion in it. When brown take it out. Vinegar in which home-made cucumber pickles have been preserved should not be thrown away but used in and treating. The flavor is delicious and cannot be gained in any other way. To have boiled potatoes fluffy, pour the water off when they are done, then let them stand in the dish they were cooked in on the back of the stove for a few minutes, giving them an occasional shake. When you are boiling rice, take care not to throw away the water. The stove is hot, and you will find it makes a most excellent starch. This starch may be used either hot or cold. Two or three drops of turpentine are an improvement. Fillet Tea Cake Covers. Of the same dimensions as the old-fashioned glass layer cake covers, are very dainty shields for afternoon tea sandwiches. Their sides are composed of a half dozen squares of embroidered white flat lace firm wired at the four edges and joined to form a rectangular piece topped by a flat six-sided piece of embroidered fillet. The contrivance perfectly protects the contents of a sandwich plate from germs and furnaces dust without concealing the "goodies." Spanish Roast. Take six medium-sized red peppers one good-sized onion, three, table spoons vinegar, one-half teaspoon salt Boll the peppers in water until you can scrape the pulp from the skin Chop the onion very fine, mix onion pepper, vinegar and salt together, mix with garlic and spread with above mixture, roll again let stand all night and roast the next day, basting very often. This is delicious for those who like Spanish cooking. The gravy is delicious. Short Cuts. A quick way to warm plates in cold weather is to dip them in hot water. Dry in a dish rack or with a towel. Invert the handles of knives, forks and spoons in a pitcher of hot water to warm them. When covers lose the original knobs, replace them with others that are for 10 cents per dozen at a novelty store. The flavor of fish is greatly improved if fried in fat saved from a former frying. Crystalized Orange Peel Wake the peel of three oranges and cut in strips. Four cold water over them and let come to a boll until the peel is tender. Take two cupfuls of sugar and one cupful of water and boll to a heavy syrup. Put orange peel in and cook until clear. Have the sugar melted from syrup and roll in sugar, and place in sun to clarify. The syrup can be kept in a jar and used again. Marmalade, Budding Put into a basin three-quarters pound* bread crumbs, add quarter pound chopped suet, one tablespoonful sugar, one teaspoonful baking soda, half a pound of marmalade and mix, then add enough buttermilk to wet the whole. Pour into a greased pudding mold, cover with buttered paper and steam for two hours. Serve with sweet sauce. Stocking Help I have found a way of keeping my silk stockings free from the "run" made by garters, writes a contributor to Good Housekeeping. I cut off the tops (about two inches deep) of a pair of silk stockings. I cut them under the tops of the silk stockings. This little plan has saved me many tedious hours of daring "run." Washing Muddy Skirts To make a muddy skirt wash easily and look white, take some sour milk, dilute with water and soak the skirt in it over night; then wash in the way. It will be soaked that the skirt washes more easily and looks whiter. Talcum Alde Sewing. Talcum powder is a useful help in sewing. It keeps the palms and inside of the fingers from becoming sticky and does not injure any fabrilla. BLOWS UP A FORT WEST POINT MEALS Germany Spent $650,000 Target Fortification. Dummy Village Was Also Erecte And Then Bombarded, While Engl land Once Pounded Fortress to Show How Good It Was. Near Okehampton, Germany, the other day, a dummy village that had been especially built for the purpose was blown to pieces by shell fire from a battery of heavy guns placed some distance away, the object of the curious and costly experiment being, of course, to find out exactly what would happen to a real village in similar circumstances. Another of these costly experiments involved the construction of an exact model to scale the village. In Okehampton, Germany. The model was not a toy, but a real fort in miniature, covering over four acres of ground and covering $650,000 to build. Walls, bastions, glacis, redoubts, were all solidly and substantially made. A powder magazine, in which some scores of barrels of powder were stored, was placed in exactly the same position as the real powder magazine occupied in the real fortress. Even at Spandau, "a deed in kept at Spandau, ever since 1874, the sum of $30,000,000 in coin for the purpose of immediate use in case of war, was duplicated, and dummy "treasure chests," filled with steel ingots, were placed inside it. When all was ready the bombardment was commenced. Four hundred shots were fired, but the magazine remained unexploded, although every effort was made to demolish it. However, ever was wrecked and the "treasure" was scathed in all directions. A far more elaborate experiment, *Jo* conducted by Germany, was made in 1869, when Blamarck and Molkite together were planning to attack France. A scale model of Paris was built to the fortifications and principal buildings out. These were then bombarded at various distances, and the effects carefully noted. As a result, when the real Paris came to be bombarded in grim earnest some two years later, the German artillerymen were able to place their shells within the doomed city exactly where they were filled, having previously got the ranges by experimenting on the model. England upon one occasion actually bombarded in grim earnest one of her own forts, a proceeding never attempted by any other nation. This happened at Plymouth in 1868, when a great storm of popular excitement arose because it was said that the enemy then nearly erected a huge incapable of resisting the attack of a hostile fleet. In order to settle the matter one of the recently built forts was subjected to a ferocious bombardment by heavy guns firing 600-pound shells. The result was a triumph for the military authorities. For, although the whole of the other works were totally destroyed, the inner kernel, containing the magazine, big guns and the casemates for the artillerymen, was not even penetrated by so much as a single shot. Twentleth Century Girl. That the young girl of the present age differs in almost every respect from the girl of two, or even one, generation back there can be no two opinions. How this transformation has come about it is perhaps rather difficult to put definitely into words. But the fact remains. "Everywhere you hear the same cry, and mothers and fathers look to look at them on the "freedom" that their daughters take (not that they are granted) quite as a matter of course. Thus these young ladies go about how and when they please, make their own amusements and appointments independently, and altogether look upon their mothers and fathers as "old fashioned." They do not at all see why they should defer at all to their parents' wishes or study them in any way whatever. Parents have simply done their duty, brought them into the world educated and otherwise cared for them or themselves "grown up." Many at the age of sixteen or seventeen think that they are quite capable of managing their own affairs and of leading their own lives. This is not a natural state of things, and doubtless there are, happily, still many mothers who have not had this experience. Dinners of the Savage Club. Darwin's friend, William Tegetmeier, who has just died in his ninety-seventh year, remembered the time when the Savage club dinners were less elaborate than they are now. He was present at the first club dinner, which took place at the Crown in Vinegar yard, a court of Drury lane, demolished when Aldwych was laid out. On this occasion the members regaled themselves at a cost of 4d aplece, for which they were supplied with bread and cheese, porter and screws of teabacco. When the club moved to the Nel Gwynne Tavern, which they were supplied with, the members fared better, "Our dinners," relates Tegetmeier, "consisted of a joint and a pie of some sort, the price being 8d. Our refreshment was beer, and our table was always set out with beer and pipes."—London Chronicle. Famillar. The Spinster—"Your face is so familiar to me, professor, I'm sure we've met before." Distinguished Foreigner—"Very likely. I vos in its country ven I vos a young chap!"—London Opinion. Paul the Better Choice. "So you are thinking of calling your baby boy Peter. I wouldn't;' I'd call him Paul." "Why so?" "He would have a better chance in life. It's Peter, you know who is always being robbed to pay Paul." --- Records Are Kept to Show Supplies issued and the Disposition Made of the Material—Absolutely No Food is Wasted. West Point's famous kitchen is the secret of the ruddy cheeks, the upheld heads and bright eyes of the sturdy young cadets, the Housekeeper asters. An enticing menu for breakfast, dinner and supper is daily furnished at an average cost of one cent per day paired with the cents a day includes besides the foodstuffs the wages and board and service for fifty-six help, the table linen, china pots and pans, breakage and wear and tear and laundry, everything save, rent for the building, light and heat. The average housekeeper struggling with increased prices will inquire wearily "How?" Well, West Point does not do it by economy—that is, as economy is generally understood. It buys the best of everything, and serves everything in unlimited quantities. Steaks served with pork or poultry are prime ribs, and milk are the finest the market affords. Of course, the institution gains an advantage by purchasing in large quantities. The cold storage rooms running off on all sides of the main kitchen always boast a full supply of meats, butter, eggs, vegetables and fruits, while the dry storage rooms hold a still greater supply of dry foods. Usually there is at least $15,000 worth of food on hand. But the saving effected by buying in large quantities is negligible when compared with the saving effected by good manners. How many newives keep an account of wasted food, of spoiled food, of damage done to pots and pans and linen? West Point records show every day the supplies issued to steward, baker, chef, peeler. They note the food spoiled and condemned and destroyed, its weight and value, the weight and value of all wastage, the wear and tear on machinery, the breakage of china. An account of all food an average of the day's actions the record for service is also carefully made out. With fifty-six help the service for the cadet mess is coating 95-150 cents a day. This sounds, in ordinary phraseology, like more bother than it is worth. But this enormous kitchen has but three men to run it and one is frequently away on army business. A set of carefully planned record cards and two small books comprise the bookkeeping supplies, and it takes the sergeant in charge but a small part of his day to keep things up to date. And such records breed thrift. And the men who use them being too much with butter. The officer in charge, Capt. C. G. Etes, and his assistant, Sergt. George D. Kees, put their heads together to decide upon reducing the supply. They wanted the cadets to have all the butter they desired, but they thought the amount used enormous. At that time the butter was served in large lumps on a platter and the men helped themselves. Then the officers had the butter cut in the kitchen, but the dishes proved so faulty that much time was lost. Market was searched for a suitable dish, and found. So these officers, recognizing an emergency, designed a dish, had it made of tin, found it successful, they had it made of china. The butter is cut in the kitchen. Every man has all he wants. But West Point is saving $341 a month on butter. "Throwback." When William Faversham went to live in his present summer home in England he had some difficulty making his employees understand that a man could be a gentleman and work at the same time. It was a shock to them if he wanted to drive a nail or saw a piece of wood. "He was only a mystery to the neighborhood, but a positive scandal" states Mr. Faversham, recalling some of the amusing experiences he had before the natives learned his ways. A friend one day overheard the following conversation which took place between two of my gardeners and two of the table men of a 'big top' who lived next door: "'E haint no gentleman,' the stableman said. 'Why,' e works. "Yes 'e his, said my man, 'e's of a good family,' said his mother. But the man has spilled him." "E be of a good family,' said the stableman, sticking to his guns, 'but 'e's a throw back.' I was like some of the early barbatic members of the family, he meant." Safeguarding the Young. A clause in the government measure for the reform of the criminal law in Germany and the establishment of special courts for juvenile offenders provides children who are publicly charged with severe misdemeanors with the services of advocates or assistants. For the latter appointments women as well as men are eligible, and feminine inmates be exempted out of these courts. German courts will differ from those already established in Australia and America, as special juries drawn from state school teachers (who are otherwise exempt from this duty) and other male persons who have first hand knowledge in the training of the young will be impaneled. Many Rite A peddler in London who hawked five-pound notes about the street, offering to sell them at a penny each, could sell only two, owing to the suspicions of the public the bank and corporate that promises to pay a dividend of 50 per cent. Electrified Water for irrigating Electricizing water that is used in irrigating plants has brought promising results to a New York expert. OTTUWKA NOW. The baby son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Thompson, who are visiting relatives, has the chicken pox. A. W., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gooden, has the scarlet fever, and with his mother is quarantined at their home. Commissioner C. W. Mitchell, America's noted specialist on racial conditions, gave a lecture at the A. M. E. church last Sunday night. To the delight of all that heard him, he is magical and forceful, we trust that he made an impression that will bring forth fruit. The A. M. E. Sunday school are rehearsing and preparing for their Easter program. They are looking forth to a great day. Besides their regular program there will be baptising of several and a reception of members into the church. The Faithful Few society will meet the 20th with Mrs. Mary Green. Rev. Durden of Kansas City, Kansas, filled the pulpit at the Second Baptist church Sunday and left Monday morning for Chicago. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Robinson are sick with the measles. The Benevolent club will meet next Thursday night with Mrs. Katherine Strothers, 626 Mechanic street. Mrs. Frank Henson of Frank street will entertain the ladies of the A. M. E. Stewardess board Friday, March 21. Mr. Kipper is the leader of the B. Y. P. U. lesson next Sunday evening. Mrs. McMann is still quite ill at her home in Fairview. The Sewing circle of the Baptist church will meet Friday afternoon with the president, Mrs. Organ, on Jay street. W. Mendell Johnson was on the sick list last week. Mrs. M. I. G.ordon, D. B. Johnson and Mrs. Harry Owens are on the sick list this week. Mrs. Wm. Fine of Cedar Rapids is seriously ill at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Thompson, of South Ottumwa. Mrs. Fine was accompanied here by her sister, Miss Minnie Thompson, who had been visiting her. Mrs. Anna Cason and children of Neton are also visiting per parents, called here by the serious illness of her sister, Mrs. Fine. Mrs. Cora Hennington was greatly surprised by a company of friends on Monday evening. The event was to celebrate her birthday. They left at a late hour, wishing her many happy birthdays. A PLEASANT PHYSIC. When you want a pleasant physic give Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets a trial. They are mild and gentle in their action and always produce a pleasant cathartic effect. Call at all dealers for a free sample. CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA. Cedar Rapids is not dead, but very busy. Circle No. 2, under the leadership of Mrs. Ella Johnson, gave a fine concert on March 6, with a chorus of thirty voices, besides the duets, duets and recitations. It was well attended and the proceeds were turned over to the pastor to be applied on his support. The district conference meets in this city in April, to which every one is looking forward to a good time. Tom Searcy still remains very sick. Mr. William Martin is up and around, but does not mend very fast. Mesdames Thomas, Lowery, Martin, Brooks, Gomer and Miss Lacle Crawford were callers at he home of Mr. and Mrs. Morris on Oak Hill, Sunday afternoon. They all report a good time. Mrs. Fannie Hawkins entertained Sunday afternoon Master Robert Martin, Leonard Lavelle, Mayo Perkins, Forest Martin and Ivil Green. The boys were given a good time. Monday, the 3rd of March, was Mrs. Martin Brooks birthday, and a few of her friends spent the afternoon with her. They report a good time. The Bethel A. M. E. church is being repaired and will be open for Easter Sunday. We are having beautiful winter and it looks as if spring would soon be here. MACON NEWS. Mrs. Lydia Harper and niece of Peoria, Ill., are in the city, the guest of her mother, Mrs. Young. Mrs. C. C. McCann entertained at a dinner Sunday at her home on Missouri street. A delicious five course dinner was served. The guests departed at early hours, lauding Mrs. McCann and excellent hostess. Mrs. Hattie Davis is very ill at her home on Missouri street. Mrs. Era Patric of St. Louis, Mo., was called to the bedside of her sister. Mr. Julius Thompson and Verdie Buckner spent Sunday in Macon. Miss Pauline Adam is very ill at her home with acute rheumatism. Mr. Coldie Davis has returned to his home in Des Moines, Iowa. Miss Ella Carter was met with a surprise party Saturday evening by the members of her Sunday school class. A two weeks' revival at the Second Baptist church, conducted by Rev. W. H. Young of Fulton, Mo., resulted in twelve souls saved. Mrs. E. L. Scruggs entertained at a five o'clock dinner Tuesday the following. Rev. B. R. E. Gales, Rev. G. W. Cross, Rev. W. H. Young, Dr. J. H. Garnett and family and the faculty of Western college. Mrs. Roy Ford and little daughter of Moline, Ill, were called to the bedside of her aunt, Mrs. Hattie Davis. Mrs. Chas. Johnson was called to Knovville by the death of her brother. Mrs. Alice Crews and sister, Miss Lucile Harris spent a few days in Quincy, III, the guest of their brother, Mr. J. B. Harris. Mr. Frank Brooks of Brookfield, Mo., sent Monday in the city. . An Honest Remedy. Has Given SATISFACTION For More Than Thirty Years. Straihens Kinky, Troublesome, Refractory Hair. 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The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Howard Saturday morning, leaving a fine baby girl weighing eight pounds. Both mother and child are doing nicely. Mr. J. R. Roberts left Friday for a business trip to Buxton for a few days. Mrs. Ida Smith of Steward avenue had a narrow escape from what could have been a serious accident Saturday by dropping an electric light, the globe busting and some of the glass hitting her in the eye, leaving a slight wound. MT. PLEASANT. IOWA Rev. V. S. Cooper of Chicago came to our city on last Monday and has been holding revival meetings at the Baptist church. Within a week fourteen have taken a decided stand for Christ. We are looking forward to even greater work through the earnest appeal to those out of Christ. The many friends of Rev. Eaves are sorry to learn that she suffered a relapse Tuesday evening, but we hope for better results soon We are glad to know that Mrs. Lowery is recovering, after several days of illness. Miss Bernice Page is able to be out again after an attack of pluerys. Mrs. Emma Pickett is still in poor health. We hope she will soon be her self again On last Tuesday, at the A. M. E. church many of the concerts gave an entertainment, which proved a decided success. Miss Louise Mason entertained the King's Daughters at her home last Friday afternoon. Mrs. M. Atkins has been quite sick at her home west of town. Miss Winifred Hedge has been suffer with an abcess on the throat for the past few days A great deal of interest is being taken in the Normal class conducted by Rev. Lowery. OF INTEREST TO MOTHERS. "I am only too willing to give praise to your wonderful XXth Century Hair Preparations. " by little girl's hair was rough, harsh and so thin that I was discouraged. After using two boxes each of your Hair Grower and Pressing Oil and one bottle of your Shampoo I could see the new growth and her hair is now as soft, glossy, straight and pretty as can be. I will never be without it. 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Mr. Henry Banks went to Orlabor Saturday to see a grandaughter, which was reported ill, and returned Sunday evening. Mrs. Susie Vertrees expects to leave Thursday morning for Enterprise to visit with her mother, Mrs. R. A. Nelson, who expects to leave Saturday for Chicago, to begone two months. Mrs. Lulu Edgar still remains on the sick list. Nearly all diseases of the skin, such as eczema, tetter, salt rheum and barbers' itch, are characterized by an intense itching and smarting, which often makes life a burden and disturbs sleep and rest. Quick relief may be had by applying Chamberlain's Salve. It allays the itching and smarting almost instantly. Many cases have been cured by its use. For sale by all dealers. GALESBURG, ILL. Mrs. Bell Carter was pleasantly surprised Friday evening by about thirty of her friends. Mrs. Carter's friends took this occasion for a farewell as she intends to make Davenport her home. She was presented with several pieces of hand-painted china. This pleasant affair was planned by Medames Chas. Anderson, Walter Bell and Mason Drury. Mrs. Carter is spending a few days with her mother in Monmouth. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Anderson entertained at dinner Saturday in honor of Miss Elmira Shelton and Mr. Bert Walker of Davenport. Mr. Charlie Berry died at the hospital Monday, following a short illness. Mr. Berry suffered an injury to his foot some days ago and gangrene caused his death. Mr. Berry will be held at Allen Chapel. Mrs. Pauline Anderson has returned from a six weeks' visit in Lagrange and Quincy. Mr. Chas. Brown is confined to his home by a serious injury to his foot, which was injured while at work, at Frost's foundry. Mrs. C. Kipper received word Tuesday of the death of her daughter, Mrs. Lena Sims, of Bemidjj, Minn. Mr. Baxter Harmon is on the sick list. Mr. Ed Skinner has returned from a trip to Chicago. The musical given by the choir of the musicals quite successful Over $28 tickets taken in at the door. The concert was in charge of Mr. Geo. Fletcher, who expects to give another musical soon. Mrs. Ella Brown entertained the D. D W. C. W. Tuesday afternoon. A short program was enjoyed and the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. L. C. Carter, J. Rev. Cato has arrived in the city and will conduct revival meetings at the Allen chapel MASON CITY. ( Last Week.) We are indeed sorry to report that the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. J. Stephenson is on the sick list. Mrs. Fred Wright of 515 East Eighth street, who has been on the sick list for the past three or four weeks, is reported better at this writing. Mrs. Josie Watson of St. Paul, formerly of this city arrived in the city last week to visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. D Reeler for an indefinite period. Rev. G. L. Lucius of Buxton, Iowa, is in the city. Rev. Lucius has decided OZONO KING OF ALL HAIR DRESSINGS to move his family, which he expects this week. The entertainment given at the church Monday night by the trustees, was well attended and a very interesting program was rendered, which all enjoyed. Much credit is due Mr. Virgil Warren, Mr. J. C. Crawford and O. J. Stephenson for their earnest efforts, which was a success financial. The Tabernacle will give a box social at the Woodman hall Tuesday, March 11th. All are invited. The May Power club will be entertained at the home of Miss Artivia Williams on East Leate street Thursday afternoon from 4 until 6 o'clock. Whittenburg of Chicago is in the city, home of W. L. Jones, and will open up a manicuring parlor on Main North street in a few days. Mrs. Martha Dixon, who has been in the city visiting for the past week with Mrs. M. M. Brewton, will leave for her home in Des Moines. The Memorial Literary society will meet every Friday evening at the church. All are invited to attend and take a part. The Ladies' aid society will meet Friday afternoon at the church. Rev. G. L. Lucius of Buxton filled the pulpit Sunday evening in the absence of Rev. F. D. Woodford and delivered an aled sermon. The body of little Raymond Davis was shipped here Tuesday evening and buried Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Davis. The flower-offering was beautiful. Mrs. Bernice Eaton returned to her home in Ft. Dodge Wednesday, who was called here to attend the funeral of her little nephew. Children are much more likely to contract the contagious diseases when they have colds. Whooping cough diphtheria, scarlet fever and consumption are diseases that are often contracted when the child has a cold. That is why all medical authorities say beware of colds. To the quickest benefit will come better than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It can always be depended upon and is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by all druggists. ROCK ISLAND, ILL. McKinley Baptist church are still carrying on revival meetings. There has been several added to the church. The Progressive Art club met last Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. S. Johnson on Dearborn street. The next meeting will be with Mrs. H. W. Harding, 1117 37th street, at which time a program will be rendered. The Unity Needle Workers club met last Thursday afternoon with Mrs. H. W. Harding, 1117 37th street. The afternoon as pleasantly spent in setting. The stewardess of the Wayman A. M. E. church held services all day Sunday. The afternoon services being especially interesting. The collection for the entire day was $7.26. The Tri-city Sunday school association held its regular monthly meeting at the Wayman A. M. E. church. Owing to the illness of the president, Mrs. Bassett, the vice president, Mrs. L. B. Tarver, opened the meeting in the usual way. Three new members were added to the roll. 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Hall, Sr., Moses Hall and Mrs. Anna Ceil attended the funeral of Mrs. Mary Holmes at Moline Monday. Last Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, pursuant to a call by Horace Spencer, about twenty-five of the people met at the A. M. E. church to organize a society or club for a closer proximity of the people, for the discussion of the principal topics of the day, and for the furtherance of bettering the conditions of the race. Horace Spencer was made president, N. L. Black, vice president, Theo Turner, secretary, Henry Rhodes, treasurer, Lewis H. Graceau, chaplain and Robt. G. Wallace, sergeant-at-attns. The children of Mr. and Mrs. H. Rhodes are about well of the messes. Mrs. Howard had quite a sieve with the measles, but is getting all right now. Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church March 30th You judge a man not by what he promises to do, but by what he has done. That is the only true test. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy judged by this standard has no superior. 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