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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XIX NO. 43 CITY NEWS. Mrs. E. T. Blagburn who has been very sick is much better, which is good news to her friends. Mrs. Harrison Gould, who underwent an operation, is able to be taken home and is doing nicely. Dr. A. J. Jefferson will give a short address on hygiene next Sunday evening at the St. Paul A. M. E. church. Mrs. Henderson of East Des Moines left Tuesday for Decatur, Iowa, as a nurse for Andy Thompson, who is real sick there. The Corinthian Aid society will meet Friday, April 11th, at the home of Mrs. C. Roane, 1420 Crocker street. Jessie Graves is up and able to be out again on the streets, which is good news for his friends. Harry W. Hughes formerly a mail carrier, has been appointed as a deputy clerk in the county clerk's office this week to take the place of R. L. Patton who resigned. Mr. John W. Jackson, one of our good and influential citizens, was appointed jitoritor of the city hall last week and entered upon his duties. He is worthy man and we congratulate the city in securing his services. Chesterfield Pentecost Mission will have its sacrament Sunday at 11 o'clock. We would be glad to have all the people of God to come and be with us. Pastor Rev. H. M. Rivers. Fred Jones is spending a few days down in his old home, Bethany, Mo. His wife, Mrs. Bin, has just returned from there this week. Mr. Alex Birney is very sick, with but little hopes for his recovery. His daughter, Miss Edith, of St. Louis, Mo. was called here last week. She arrived last Thursday and is at his bedside. Mrs Julia Hudin was called from New York City this week to the sick bedside of her father, Mr. Louis P. Blagburn, who is now reported improved at this writing. The Young People's Progressive Lyceum club will hold their weekly meeting at the Maple Street Baptist church Tuesday evening at 7:30. A good program will be rendered. Everybody is invited. We extend an invitation to any young people's organization in the city to debate on any subject, either at this church or elsewhere. Held under the leadership of Sister S. Bates and Brother Ed Mason. The Clay Hill club will soon issue invitations for a May party to be given in the armory of the Coliseum on May 1, 1913. Miss Alice Bell of Los Angeles, Cal., who was called home on account of the serious illness of her mother, left Thursday for her Pacific home in the Golden Gate city. Mrs. Channey Cotton, the mother of Mr. N. Wiley, proprietor of the Get Busy Dress club, who has been visiting with him all winter, left Thursday for her home in Greenboro, N. C. She will make short visits in Chicago, Louisville, Ky., and Roanoke, Va., before reaching home. She likes Iowa real well. Mrs. H. B. Cottoms of 960 West Twenty-second street is confined at the Methodist hospital, where she underwent an operation for a tumor on Tuesday afternoon. She is getting along nicely. Morning worship at 10:45. "The Master at the Door." A cordial welcome is extended to all. Sunday, April 6. Services next Sunday will be held in the auditorium of the church. Covenant meeting at 10:30 a. m. Sunday school at noon. B. Y. P. U. at 6:30. Preaching and Lord's supper at 7:30. Help Wanted A competent colored lady cook in a small hotel. Wages $ 8.50 per week. Middle age lady preferred. write Mrs. A, A. Howell, Moulton, Ia. $10.00 A DAY AND MORE TO LIVE AGENTS: 100 per cent profit; sells to every colored man and woman on earth; this is the quickest kind of money, send 155 coins or coin for 500 francs and terms; money back if not satisfied at the time. International Specialties Co. Bombardier Phi Jia. INTERNATIONAL SPECIALIZES CO., REPUBLIC Bldg. Chicago, Ill. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION Editor John L. Thompson was called home this week by a telegram stating that his father was worse. At this writing he is no better, with but little hope. His many friends in Decatur county are alarmed. His son, Dr. Edward W. Thompson, of St. Joseph, Mo., was called home this week. Little Helen Ruth Green, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hayden Green, 1210 Center street, died last Wednesday morning April 2, of tuberculosis after an illness of two weeks. She was 9 years, 8 months and 7 days old, she was a cheerful little girl and a member of the A. M. E. and Union Congregational Sunday Schools. At her request the funeral was held from the Union Congregational church, conducted by Rev. T. M. Brumfield and Rev. B. U. Taylor. The infant Sunday School class at Union Congregational church of which she was a charter member, under Miss Mayrie Bell was escort of honor. The Corinthian Aid Society gave an April Fool entertainment at the residence of Mrs. Richard Johnson, 1200 Park street. Refreshments were served, also a very interesting program was rendered in which the following poem dedicated to the Aid was recited and written by Mrs. Mollie Patterson: So let us stand together in our work Tried and true, That Christ may crown the efforts In what ever right we do. We are just a band of workers Trying to do our best In aiding in our christian work As we think we should. So let us work with main and might. As christian soldiers do With cheerful hearts and willing hands At what ever we may do. And when our life work is ended And we have done our best, Will find our reward in heaven. In that rest—sweet rest. IOWA GIRL ON THE SOUTHLAND Below we publish a part of a very interesting letter written to Ye Editor. As it was so interesting to the people in the middle west I thought I would publish a part. The young lady is well known here and a Des Moines product. We are proud of her—The Editor. Memphis, Tenn., March 31, 1913. Mr. J. I. Thompson, Des Moines, La. Mr. J. L. Thompson, Des Moines, Ia. It affords me great pleasure at this moment to write you a few lines in regard to my southern home and tell you a few of the interesting things which I have seen since my arrival. I must first tell you how much I appreciate the Bystander. It is really the only consolation I get, in the way of news, to know what my people at home are doing. I was indeed glad to know that your pastor's wife had given birth to such a baby boy, You please tell them that I hope mother and baby get along fine. I truly would lost without a copy of it (your paper). Now referring back to my southern visit, I must say that I have enjoyed myself immensely since my arrival and the people, as a whole, are so very friendly to me that I haven't found time to become homesick. I have visited three churches since I have been here, but have not been fortunate enough to attend the Congregational church, but I hope to Sunday. Of course you know that the congregations here are five and six times larger than at home. The most of the churches have a membership of at least a thousand and from there on up. The Sabbath schools are well conducted and the pupils and teachers seem to be well up on the study of the Bible. I had the pleasure of attending Howe Institute Sunday afternoon and I was indeed well pleased with the school. It seems to be conducted in the same manner as a northern school, with the exception of teachers, which are all colored. This building takes up quite a large space of ground and is situated directly across from the chapel. The class rooms and study rooms are neatly furnished and the teachers are very intelligent looking, that the Negroes here have excellent intelligence, industrious, but I don't think that their homes are any grander than our Des Moines homes. Taking the commercial side of Memphis, they are far superior as to our people up north. In fact our people spend a great deal of their means on themselves, and these people here invest their money in property and growing stocks. I To Rent A large furnished room at $18 E. 5th street, Mrs. J. G. Dellenger. Three small cottages for rent. Call at Bystander office. PHONE RED 318 W. 3rd St 3027 Rooming House at 316-218 3rd St. understand the population of Negroes here are one hundred thousand. This of course is many times larger than our population. We have quite a few young people employed in colored places of business, such as bookkeepers, clerks, etc., but there seems to be very few stenographers. I don't know why, but the field is so very scarce. There are plenty of school teachers here. In fact most of the young ladies are school teachers and they do fine. I haven't been to a colored school, but I hope to go before the ten is out. The prejudice here is very strong, much stronger than in the north. Of course the jim crow laws exist in this section of the country, but I haven't gotten use to riding back and forth on the cars, so I don't mind that so much. There are many places of amusement, but our people are completely barred. The Mississippi river is another thing of interest, as I enjoy going to the boat house and looking at the immense boats which will soon be in operation. The colored people are allowed to ride in the large steamer on Monday evening only, but I don't think I'll take advantage of this opportunity. Main street, met with a serious accident, by getting his finger caught in the door and mashing the little finger so it was necessary to amputate it at the first joint, and is doing nicely at this writing. Mr. Charlie Armstrong, who was stabbed last night night two weeks ago, by Ethel Cowell, is able to be at his work again. Mrs. Walton Davis of Warrer; street entered for dinner last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Claud Caw and family and Mrs. Williams of Des Moines. Mr. Sol Carter, who has been quarantined for smallpox, is better and the quarantine has been taken down. We are indeed glad to hear of him getting along so nicely. Mrs. Roy Bates is also reported on the sick list. The Union Memorial Literary society held their election of officers last Friday, evening, which was as follows: Mr. C. B. Smith, president; Mr. J. D. Reeler, vice president; Mrs. Maud M. Brewton, assistant secretary; Mr. O. J. Stevenson, treasurer; Mr. Paul Scott, chaplain; Mrs. E. Williams, sargent-at-arms. The Ladies' Aid society will meet Friday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Reeler. Each member is urged tor Mary has brought again through his ma. We have a great gift for aporting a cold the death of late Mot tor and Mary. Rov visiting in Kansas and there are quite a few in the city look places to live. I houses are so scarce some of our money and women build flat. There is a splice for some one to emmey business. CENTERVILLE The coal miners of holding their annual April 1st, of the vic hood day motion. We are glad to sa passed over Centerville any serious damage the loss of life. The revival meeting Baptist church is on March 24th and it bright for the saving Rev. T. J. Carr of arrived Monday evening. KEOKUK NEWS Rev. J. P. Sims and Mr. Whalen Greene left last Tuesday to attend the district conference at Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Ida Mitchell, proprietress of the ice cream parlor at Twelfth and Maine streets, has been under the care of a physician for the past few weeks, but at present is convalescent. Mr. Ollie Brown, who has been seriously ill for several months, is seemingly improving. The baptizing of about thirty candidates was the closing scene of a most successful revival of Pilgrim's Rest Baptist church, just Sunday after a like number having been reclaimed. The baptismal sermon was delivered in the morning by Rev. Jno. Goins, Missouri state missionary, who has for the past few weeks so ably assisted the pastor in charge, Rev. J. H. Helm. The young people near the vicinity of Summitville and New Boston perfected a literary organization last Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. a.dNridge. The officers elected were as follows: Miss Volive Bally, president; Mr. Berl Anderson, vice president; Miss Jennie Harper, Fort Madison, secretary; Mr. Izetta Clark, treasurer. The next meeting will be on April 20th at the home of some of the number, at which time will be decided upon and a talk will be made by Mr. Henry Barlow. Subject, "The Christians of This Life Are Like the Passengers At Sea." Mrs. Rebecca Wright has returned from Missouri, where she visited her niece, Mrs. Laura Ledbetter. Mr. and Mrs. David Lasley were called to Hannibal, Mo., several weeks ago because of the illness of Mr. Lasley's mother and brother, George. We are glad to note Mrs. Lasley's convalescence, but deeply deplore the seriousness of Mr. Lasley's condition. Mrs. Orange Fields was hostess at cards to a company of her friends last Friday afternoon. Delicious refreshments were served to Mrs. Louisiana, Mo., conducted the Sunday evening service at Bethel the 30th alt. Miss Clark is a member of the North Missouri conference and has been holding series of meetings throughout this state with much success. A letter received by relatives of Mrs. Addie Thomas of Omaha states that her home was encircled by the tornado, but herself and family miraculously escaped. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Tebau have built an addition to their home and remodeled the interior. As a beginning of a special effort made by the pastor and members of theFirst African Baptist church a few Sundays ago about $75 dollars was realized at the Sunday offering. The management of the Bystander asks that all old accounts be collected as the new list is soon to be made out. So if delinquent subscriptions kindly give greatly appreciated. Your agent is desirous of maintaining our standard and by keeping up with our subscriptions we can demand it. Anyone wishing to pay telephone 1402 Red and I will call upon you. Also thank you for important news items. A merry crowd of young people tried to surprise a friend last Monday evening, but got surprised themselves, as they did not find their friend at home. Came very near being an April fool. MASON CITY NEWS Mrs. Wm. Carter on East Ninth street is seriously ill and her friends are much alarmed. Mrs. Leona Ewing, who has been on the sick list, is reported able to be out again. F. D. Woodford left Monday evening for Mexico, Mo., where he will attend general conference. Master Melvin Carr, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Carr of East Main street, met with a serious accident by getting his finger caught in the door and mashing the little finger so it was necessary to amputate it at the first joint, and is doing nicely at this writing. Mr. Charlie Armstrong, who was stabbed last Sunday night two weeks ago, by Ethel Cowell, is able to be at his work again. Walter Davis of Warres, street entertained the dinner last Sunday Mrs. Claud Carr and family and Mrs. Williams of Des Moines. Mr. Sol Carter, who has been quarantined for smallpox, is better and the quarantine has been taken down. We are indeed glad to hear of him getting along so nicely. Mrs. Roy Bates is also reported on the sick list. The Union Memorial Literary society held their election of officers last Friday evening, which was as follows: Mr. C. B. Smith, president; Mr. J. D. Reeler, vice president; Maud M. Brewton, assistant secretary; Mr. O. J. Stevenson, treasurer; Mr. Paul Scott, chaplain; Mrs. E. Williams, sargent-at-arms; the Ladies Aid society will meet the residence of Mrs. Reeler. Each member is urged to be present, as business of most importance. Come on time. Mrs. Fred Wright is able to be out on the street again, but is still under the doctor's care. COLFAX ITEMS Rev. W. H. Clark leaves Wednesday for South Dakota, possibly to be gone all summer. Mr. Morris still remains quite poorly. Rev. Morton preached two excellent sermons Sunday, which were well taken by his hearers. Mr. James, the old corn doctor, who is stopping at the Battle house, visiting our city the past week, has returned to the Capital City. Mrs. Lulu Edgar still remains on the sicklist. Mr. G. O. Terrell is improving nicely from his accident he received in the mine and was able to be out to church Sunday. Mr. J. J. Beasley was a Capital City visitor one day last week. Mr. Mat Banks, who has been taking treatments of one of the Capital City doctors, was in our city Monday between trains, looking much improved in health. The B. P. U. P. randered an excellent program at the church Sunday evening. A large crowd was present. Mrs. Minnie Alexander and sister, Mrs. Ella Pinka, spent Saturday in the Capital City. Mr. L. Robinson is quite sick at his home with pneumonia. Miss Hattie McKee returned from Ohio, where she has been visiting. Mr. Wm. Churchill was removed one day last week from Dr. Porter's hospital to the Methodist hospital in the Capital City. MONMOUTH. ILL. The members of the T. S. I. club were entertained by Mrs. Emmet Birteld at the Lyric theater on Wednesday afternoon. One of its members, Mrs. Jessie W. Graves, is the pianist at the Lyric. A number of Monmouth young folk attended the Easter ball in Galesburg on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Granville Cooper has gone to the Macomb hospital, where he is to be operated upon. Sunday was rally day at the St. James A. M. E. church. Miss Genevieve Searcy was able to fill her place in the choir School, having been absent because of illness. The T. S. I. club will hold its regular meeting Thursday at the home of Mrs. James Hardin. Miss Lulu Graves is in the city again. Golden Rule Missionary society of the A. M. E. church met with Mrs. Jennie Saunders on Friday afternoon. A pleasant time was enjoyed by those present. The children's exercises Easter Sunday were very good. Miss Mary Brown was in charge of the program and deserves much credit. The Frederick Douglas Literary society held its regular meeting Tuesday night at the A. M. E. church. Rev. S. J. Williams lectured at the Calvary Baptist church Tuesday evening. Rev. Williams was a former resident of Monmouth, but now lives in Springfield. DAVENPORT NOTES Mr. and Mrs. Charles Enochs of Moline, Illinois, took dinner with Mrs. R. Corbin on Sunday. The City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs will meet in their regular monthly meeting Wednesday evening, April 9, 1913, at the residence of the president, Mrs. Francis Baker, 1720 Iowa street. All members are requested to be present. Business of importance. The Phillis Wheatly Dramatic club rendered a splendid program at Bethel A. M. E. church Monday evening, March 21, 1913. East production was indeed fine. This club will appear again at Bethel A. M. E. church in a play, "Out In the Streets," April 11, 1913. As we go to press Rev. Stovall and Mr. D. S. Johnson, steward of Bethel A. M. E. church, are leaving for district conference at Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Ed Berry is able to sit up. Mrs.-Clara Oddy, who has been sick for the past six months, is able to be out. Four or five white doctors have failed on her case, but our good Doc tor Taylor has brought her to health again through his medical skill. We have a great field here in Davenport for a good colored lawyer since the death of late Attorney W. G. Mott. Mr. and Mrs. Rosburn Curtis are visiting in Kansas and Indiana. There are quite a number of strangers in the city looking for suitable places to live. It is too bad that they are so scarce here. Why not some of our moneyed colored and women build flats for colored people. There is a splendid opportunity for some one to embark in the confectionery business. CENTERVILLE NEWS The coal miners of this vicinity are holding their annual holiday today, April 1st, of the victory of the eighth-day day system. We are glad to say that the storm passed over Centerville without doing any serious damage to property or the loss of life. The revival meetings at the Second Baptist church are in progress since March 24th and the future seems bright for the saving of many souls. Rev. T. J. Carr of Ottumwa, Iowa, arrived Monday evening, the 31st, and had a large audience, taking for his text the 17th verse of the 14th chapter of St. Luke. We are glad to announce that the entire republican ticket as announced was re-elected, with no changes of the past administration. The Iowa Central Traction company has completed the laying of its track to the public square on West State street. Hurrah for Centerville! ALBIA NEWS Nella Nellie Estis was a Hocking visitor on Tuesday of last week. Business meeting of the Mite Missionary society on Thursday afternoon. The junior class of the A. M. E. church have meetings at the church every Saturday afternoon. The Sewing Circle club met at the home of Mrs. G. A. Davis on Monday afternoon. Quite a number of the members were present. Lunch was served by Mrs. Davis after business. Mrs. Robinson of Hocking was in town to the meeting. The R. B. M. Literary society is preparing another debate and program for the near future. Nora Nora Grayson of Hiteman was in Albia at the parental home on Sunday. Mrs Hayes is not much improved at this writing. Mr. Mealy presented at the A. M. E. church on Sunday morning. He is from Lovilla. CEDAR RAPIDS NOTES Rev. Peterson's wife is much improved in health at this writing and we were glad to see her out on Sunday. Mr. Clarence Maples of Champaign, Ill., is in our city looking for a location for his family. He is stopping with Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Thomas. Several of our young men have begun working at the Rock Island yards and they are taking on more every day. Spring has begun and there is going to be lots of work. There is a great many strangers in our city and they all seem to find employment of some kind. Mrs. Pauline Huston is sick at this writing, also Mrs. Adalene Flowers. We hope for their speedy recovery. Mrs. Lowery's son of Indianola is no better. In last week's notes we forgot to make mention of little Erma Lavelle's singing in the Easter exercises, but she is a very sweet little singer and we look forward for a bright future for Erma. HAWKEYE ITEMS Our pastor, Rev R. P. Palmer, conducted a very successful revival meeting and through the blessing of God we had a wonderful success. The meeting closed Sunday night and the collection for the thead totalled $22.23. At 7:30 o'clock p. m. the pastor and his co-worker in Christ, Rev. Dickerson, entered theostrum. The scripture was read by Rev. Dickerson, selected from 104 Psalms, after which the pastor preached a soul-stirring sermon that shall be long remembered. During the meeting there were seventeen added to the church. On Monday at 12:30 o'clock the Woman's Home and Foreign Mission and also the Willing Workers met in a joint meeting and transacted business in a proper form. OTTUMWA, IOWA The surprise birthday party given on Rev. Carr at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Elliott in Fairview was a very pleasant social event, despite the fact that it was a stormy night. The Rev. was the recipient of some very nice presents. A most enjoyable evening was reported. LOOK TO YOUR PLUMBING. You know what happens in a house in which the plumbing is in poor condition—everybody in the house is liable to contract typhoid or some other fever. The digestive organs perform the same functions in the human body as the plumbing does for the house, and they should be kept in first class condition all the time. If you have any trouble with your digestion take Chamberlain's Tablets and you are certain to get quick relief. Ror sale by all dealers. Wendell Johnson of South Ottumwa is on the sick list. Mr. King, who has spent the winter with his son in Minneapolis, Minn., attended services at Mt. Zion A. M. E. church. His many friends were glad to meet him. Despite his advanced age he enjoys fairly good health and is quite active. Mr. L. W. Mitchell, wife and daughter are in the city for a few weeks stopping at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Williams on Panama street. Mr. Mitchell will spend part of this week in Oskaloosa. Mr. Geo. Young have been visiting at the home of Mrs. H. Spotts on Main street. Mr. Young left for Albia this a. m. Fred Critchfield is confined to his home with sickness. Mrs. Queen Taylor of South Moore street, who has been quite ill for the past four or five weeks, was able to attend divine services Sunday. Mrs. Abbie Campbell of Plum street, who has been sick for some time, is improving. Miss Luella Franklin and Miss Esther Kinein of Oskaloosa were over Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pirree Barquet. The Faithful Few society will meet with Mrs. Frank Henson on Frank street. April 6th, will be quarterly meeting at Mt. Zion A. M. E. church. Rev. Moore, P. E., expects to be present. Mr. and Mrs. Roy McCallister, niece Smith, of Chicago, are the proud parents of a baby boy. Mr. Wm. Fine of Cedar Rapids visited his wife Saturday, who is ill at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Thompson, of South Ottumwa. Mr. and Mrs Graves of St. Paul visited at the home of Mrs. Horn last week. They departed Thursday for St. Louis to visit relatives. Mrs. James H. Caison of Marion street is quite sick at her home. Rev. T. J. Carr is holding revival meetings in Centerville this week. Mr. Robinson of Chicago, a porter on the Milwaukee railroad, who was held up in January, is here this week attending court, the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Gordon. The stewardesses of the A. M. E. church gave a bazaar and social Tuesday evening. CLINTON, IOWA. The Easter program that was given by the Sunday school of the Second Baptist church was a success, Rev. Sanders was a greedily surprised recently when he was presented by themembers of his church with a pair of trousers, which he appreciates very much. The choir of the Second Baptist church is progressing nicely under the management of Miss Goldie Holliday as organist. Mrs. M. O. Culberson arrived home Sunday from a two months' trip in California. Rev. G. W. Slater and M. O. Culberson are arranging to attend the district conference at Cedar Rapids the week before. Friends in Clinton regretted to hear of the death of Attorney [W. G. Motts, which took place in Davenport a few weeks ago. Rev. Sanders left last week for St. Paul, accompanied by his little daughter, Cecil, where he will visit for a week with his mother and sister, whom he has not seen for a number of years. The trustee rally came to a close formally Monday night, the result of which is very gratifying to the members, some of whom have worked diligently for success. A 6 o'clock supper was served. A fair number was present. Later the reports of the two captains and social committees were presented. $300 was raised. After paying the paving assessment the trustees have a neat nest egg in the bank to be used next year. COUGH MEDICINE FOR CHILDREN Too much care cannot be used in selecting a cough medicine for children. It should be pleasant to take, contain no harmful substance and be most effectual. Chamberlain's Cough medicine meets these requirements and is a favorite with the mothers of all children everywhere. For sale in all dealers. --- Price Five Cents. BELIEVES IN RACE UPLIFT. Many Sided Life of a Kentuckian Who Worked His Way From Humble Surroundings to Positions of Honor and Responsibility-Public School Teacher, Tax Collector and Politician. New Orleans, LA.-Entering life just at the close of the war and using as his guide industry, honesty, thrift and reliability, A. O. Smith has pushed his way to the front and now ranks as one of the foremost and best known men of the race in this section of the country. He is directly connected with many enterprises for the development and uplift of the race. Mr. Smith was born in the hills of Kentucky years ago, his mother belft a year with seven children to develop into manhood and womanhood, he being the youngest. As soon as he was old enough he was placed in school, where he made rapid progress in his studies. Just how much time was spent in school is not known. Teaching school was to him a high position, yet he decided that he wanted to be of more service to his people; hence he found his way into Iowa and soon became well known. He took part in politics, believing that it was the avenue through which to help his people. Step by step he advanced and was recognized for his worth. During the deadlock in the legislature of 1888 he was chief doorkeeper, and so well did he discharge his duty that at a time he faced many hardships and holds today many testimonials to the men who made up the legislature. In Des Moines, Ia., he was recognized for service rendered and made assistant tax collector, which was up HON. A. O. SMITH. to that time the highest position ever held by a member of the race in that section of the country. It was a position of honor and trust, which he filled well, making many friends both in the city and out. His best recommendation was his word, for when he told a man a thing was going to be done it could be relied upon, and this went long toward making him a place in the world. In 1894 he conceived the idea that he could be of more service to his people in another section of the country where he could perhaps better serve their needs, hence he plunged right into the south, going to make good. He did not come to idle away his time and, not finding what he desired at the time, he went into the railroad service as a porter, which position he held for three years, then later into the hotel business, making a success of it and at the same time taking hold of everything that meant the uplift of his race. He is proprietor of the Chicago hotel in this city. Mr. Smith has some very original and practical ideas on how to conduct large business enterprises which will afford an opportunity to the public to secure more profitable employment. He is working on plans now for several lines of business which he hopes may prove of value to the race in several of the major cities of the country when put into effect. He is widely known in the south and west and has many friends among the foremost white men in public and private life. In speaking of his plans Mr. Smith said: "I consider that if the colored people of the United States and the countries south of us are to be anything they must do something. They must not expect to sit down and have others do for them what they should do for themselves. "We are turning out from our schools and colleges every year thousands of boys and girls, and if they are to have something to do it is up to us to make places for them. With 10,000,000 people all spending money, they can demand more recognition by uniting them, and they can seek them to seek them, and the stores that now close their doors to negroes will seek them for the money they spend." BYSTANDER PUB. CO., Publishers. DES MOINES. . . . IOWA American Visitor in London Got His Shave and Added Good Story to His Collection. The barber's parlor is not nearly so common in London as in American cities. An American tourist was looking about for a place to get shaved and on one of the side streets found a place which he will hate to barber shop. When he stepped inside he found a young man leisurely reading the morning paper. The place was small and there was only one barber's chair. "Can I get a shave?" said the American. "Yes, sir, I can shave you," said the young man. The American proceeded to get himself comfortable in the chair when the young man said: "Would I be putting you to too much trouble, sir, if asked you to lie down on your back and put your head on your shoulder of sitting up in the chair? I am sure I can make a better job of it, sir, and it will be quite as comfortable for you, sir." The American was lazy enough to comply without protest and the shaving exercises proceeded very comfortably. When the barber had finished and had received his sixpence the American said, "Would you mind telling me why you prefer the couch to the chair?" "It's just this way, sir," said the young man, "I'm not the regular barber here, but the proprietor, and we have quite a trade in shaving corpse, sir, and I am out nearly all the time doing this work and I sort of got out of the hang of shaving in a chair, sir; and I beg your pardon, and I hope you don't mind, sir." The American didn't mind. It was worth it, for he has already told the story a thousand times. Absent-Minded Professor. In a Washington club a member of the senate started to light a cigar, but became so engrossed in some other thought that he forgot the burning match in his hand until the flames reached his fingers. Whereas Attorney General Wickersham smiled. "A case of absent mindedness," he remarked, "that reminds me of the experience of a certain professor. One evening on returning home to dinner the professor was met at the door by his wife, who led him into the house with a reproving glance. "Do you know, John," said she, just a little poutfully, "that you went away this morning without kissing me goodby? "You don't really mean it?" returned the professor. "You must be mistaken. "Oh, no, I'm not," declared the good woman. "Not a single kiss did you give me. "Is that so," responded the professor, with a thoughtful expression, "then who in the deuce did I kiss?" Most of the rainfall of the United States comes from cyclonic storms sweeping across the country toward the east, according to definite routes, according to the time of year. But in past times there has been a shifting of the coast along the current Bulletin of the American Geographical society by Ellsworth Huntington. In the case of Mexico, Mr. Huntington finds an explanation for the magnificent ruins of an ancient civilization in the dense forests of Yucatan by reference to the shifts in the area of these cyclonic storms, according to empirical tests to overrun the formerly drier and habitable lands. Company was calling, and mamma, who had been compelled to retire to her room, to change her gown, sent her little girl down to entertain the lady. The child took her place on a stool, nursing her knee, and talking quite volubly. When recently the conversation lagged, the little girl racked her brain, then with a sudden stroke of inventive naivete, she look-up, saying: "My name's Helen. Yes, ma'am, and sometimes they call me He'f for short." Necessary. The bishop was examining a class of girls. "What's the best preparation for entering the state of matrimony?" he asked. "A little courting, sir," was the reply of a simple-looking girl—P. I. P. Kitty-What? To shoot himself! Marie-Oh, worse than that. He said he'd never propose to me again. Rapped. "Didn't you think he had a rapt look on his face while he was talking to her last night?" "Yes, he had a rapt look on one eye after he had met her sweet-heart later in the evening." Bull and Bear Gavette. "You have never suffered from financial reversal?" "No," replied Dustin Stax. "Finance is like dancing. When the market turns round and goes the other way you must reverse with it." She Had Help. Gibbs-So your wife quarreled with you. I thought you said she was blind to your faults. Dibbs-She was blind to them, all right, but she wasn't deaf and the neighbors posted her. Preserving an industry. "The team is blazing the auto-moto blues violating the speed limits for more than a week," said the constable. "What'll we do?" "Arrange to lower the speed limit" replied the aberrif. --- LUCKILY WAS NOT SQUEAMISH Absent:Minded Professor Rainfall In United States Possibly With Reason. Necessary. Awful. Ranned --- Results of First Year's Operation of Weeks Law. More States Co-operate With Federal Government During the Coming Year—The Allotment is Figured at $70,000. Washington—Results in forest fire protection after the first year's operation of the Weeks law have been completed by the forest.service. The Weeks law called for co-operation between the federal government and the states in protecting the water sheds of navigable rivers from forest fires. A lump sum of $20,000 was appropriated to be expended in fire protection in the aid of such states as had fire laws and a protection to be spent of their property to be spent the general government was to be not greater than the amount appropriated by the several states. Co-operation was invited by the government as soon as the money was available. Eleven states took part in the work last year. Maryland was the most southern of these states. Most of New England participated, and Wisconsin, Minnesota and Oregon also took part. The total state expenditure was $101,200, and the federal expenditure $38,000. The allotment to the states was larger than but, all of the money was not expended. The results were so good, however, that more states have passed forest fire laws, and more will co-operate with the federal government during the coming year. The allotment for this co-operation is figured $70,000. The argument that was used by the forest service in urging the co-operation of the states was the immense fire loss annually in the forests of the country. It is estimated that there are 10,000,000 acres of forest burned annually in the United States, and the loss averages $20,000,000. The loss in some of the states is enormous. In Wisconsin, for instance, in 1908, there were more than a million acres burned, and the loss was more than $9,000,000. In 1900 in the same state the loss sank to $104,000, but the next year it rose to $5,000,000. Under the operation of the Weeks law the fire patrols were strengthened and the system was finer, telephone offices was improved. The patrolmen in the woods put out small fires left by campers and fishermen and warned all the parties that they met of the danger of leaving any sort of fire. More than 4,000 such warnings were given. Many of the private timber owners have seen the advantage of this sort of fire insurance and have organized mutual fire protective associations and are contributing materially to their support. It is hoped that the best state has forests having forests will organize and participate in the work, because it is said that the material returns from such investment are very large. under one head, have just gone out, and every one of the more than 300,000 due in February was in the mall on time. "The crucial test, the one which we were not sure whether we would be able to pass successfully, has been made without a hitch," said Dr. Alvah H. Thompson, in charge of the disbursements the other day, after the last pensioner's check started on work involved in bringing in all these agencies with their voluminous records, it was feared there might be some delay the first month, but such happily is not the case." One of the things that please him most about the new method of payment, Dr. Thompson declared, is that all the checks, are drawn on the treasury of the United States. In days of stringency or money panic, he says, this would tend to keep money from constructing, writing to the thousands of people around the town, would be called on to cash pension checks, totaling many millions annually, would be able to keep their actual cash at home. *Tuberculosis* will exterminate the mature proportion of A la caja l. in t. ha Alaskans Face Extinction. source of sixty to seventy years if not eradicated at once." says Dr. Emil Krulish of the public health service, reporting to the United States commissioner of education. "I am of the opinion that 15 per cent of the entire population is infected with tuberculosis in either the active or the latent stage, and that the white population into the territory the disease contracted his diseases, with the result that tuberculosis and other diseases are degenerating and depopulating the race." Dr. Krulish has just returned from a seven-month trip through Alaska, where he went on special detail to examine the physical condition of the natives. He found the home conditions responsible for much of the mystery that has existed. While in some cases he was able to identify those of white people, Dr. Krulish tells how in the crowded, unventilated rooms of most of the villages all eat from the same dish, drink from the Eggnog for Invalids Separate the yolk from the white of an egg, beat the yolk thoroughly and then beat the white to a froth, add a heaping teaspoonful of sugar, a trifle of salt. Stir these into the yolk and then add the white. Add enough milk to fill the glass and stir. Add either one or one-half spoonful of sherry. The salt offsets the flavor of the egg. John Adams' Treatment for Cold. In a letter dated May 12, 1774, John Adams wrote to his wife: "My cold same teapot spout, use the same towel and expectorate on the same floor. It is under conditions like these that the native population of Alaska decreased 14.5 per cent between 1900 and 1910. The situation is by no means hopeless, however, if further remedial measures are taken at once, according to Dr. Krulish. He points out that in Sikta, where for the five years preceding 1912 Dr. M. H. Foster of the University service found an annual death rate of 88 and a birth rate of 72, or a net loss of 13 per thousand, the death rate during the past year was but 29 per thousand. While giving due credit to the present medical service, Dr. Krulish declares that it is entirely inadequate to the demand. "At present there is no appropriation available for the erection of hospitals," he asserts, "although these institutions are necessary for the proper treatment of cases of sick patients, but many working at a disadvantage in rented buildings that are unsuited for the treatment of the sick, while many of them have no hospital facilities at all, but even with this equipment good results are being accomplished. The present medical work should therefore be extended and placed upon a firm and permanent basis." The summer cruise of the midshipmen at the naval academy will begin Summer Cruise of the Middies On that date the ships of the Atlantic battleship fleet will arrive at Annapolis to take on board the midshipmen. The first and second classmen will be distributed among the ships of the active fleet, on which they will make their practice cruise. The members of the third class will be assigned to the battleship Illinois. The foreign ports to be visited by the Illinois have not as yet been selected. With their allotments of midshipmen on board the vessels of the fleet will return to Narragansett Bay for further maneuvers and fleet exercises. They will leave Annapolis June 9 and are due at Narragansett June 13. En route an elaborate war game will be played. The midshipmen will remain on board the battleships until August 30, when they will be assigned to the battleship during the period of July 4 celebrations the ships of the fleet will be dispersed among various ports of the North Atlantic coast. Big Demand for Bulletins has demonstrated the need of brief, inexpensive publications, which convey useful information to practical people in plain everyday English. At first the growth was comparatively slow, but at this time the number of bulletins has reached five hundred, and the total output is more than ninety-eight million copies. The growth of the popularity of this series of bulletins is not more clearly illustrated by the total number distributed than by the fact that the annual distribution has been increased from 150,000 to nearly eleven in 1912, with an unsatisfied demand for at least five million more copies than the money at the department's disposal could supply. Schools of all grades and institutions of higher education are using them in connection with their courses of instruction—a use that it is extremely desirable to encourage by a generous response to the increasingly large demand. There was a net decrease of five officers and a net increase of 4,455 en Strength of Regular Army nual report of Brig. Gen. George Andrews, adjutant general of the army, made public recently, shows that the present strength of the army is 4,650 officers and 87,965 men. There are 1,017 officers on the retired list. The regiments having the lowest percentages of desertions were the Tenth cavalry and the Twenty-fifth infantry, both colored organizations. The Tenth cavalry has been one of the two regiments having the lowest percentages of desertions for the past three years. Artificial Flowers The artificial flower which started in with a popularity that bespoke a passing fad, is still retaining its popularity with no suggestion of the fad. Indeed, it seems here to stay. And no more attractive ornamentation for an evening gown can be imagined than a single La France rose, the like of which was seen in an exclusive millinery shop the other day. So perfect was it that it is doubtful if a real rose would have had an advantage over it and the price was only $1. Gardenias may be bought in the same shop at the same price. By the way, there is a new arrangement of these artificial bouquets that is causing a deal of comment. It is called the Lavalière and consists of a strip of ribbon three-quarters of a long length, and a strip of ribbon three-quarters of a wide strip attached to the bouquet and hangs from it. The most startling thing, however, is that no effort is made to have the ribbon match the gown in any way. To a conservative person this does not sound very attractive, but, nevertheless, it is being well received. Is the most obstinate and threatening I ever had in my life. However, I am unwearied in my endeavors to subdue it and have the pleasure to repeat it. I will rise at 5, walk three miles, keep the air all day, and walk again in the afternoon." Makes Quite a Difference. Mason—"Do you think it's unlucky to have 13 at table?" Brown—"Not if eighteen is paying for the dinner." WOMAN JUDGE HEARS HEART-TEARING TALES HOHENZOLLERN - GUELPH UNION ENDS OLD FEUD CLOSEST DESCENDANT OF FATHER OF COUNTRY JAMES H. BRADY OF IDAHO NOW A SENATOR There is a new and striking force at work in the army of sociology since of sociology' sides of the branch of the Chicago juvenile court over which M. Bartelme presides as associate Judge Pingkew. A. The new court hears all cases involving girls in the presence of a child in custody only. Only a few cases have been heard so far, but the result has been atounding in that little girls who suddenly refused to talk of their experiences before a man judge and in the presence of men court officers, in the presence of men court officers, in the presence of men court officers, ready landed several men in cells to await action by the grand jury. Judge Bartelme did not sit on an elevated bench when she began her session. She sat in a chair at a table so that the little white-faced babies brought in charged with all sorts of incomprisibility could creep up all close to the woman judge with the kindly face and understanding eyes was Jennie. Poor Jennie is only thirteen. She had no mother and her father is missing. She has had no regular home. Cupid has won in a battle with Male, and the love god practically has god practically has banished the war god in the German and British mind. But it can hardly be said even by a stretch of the imagination that the engagement of the Prince ofria Louise, the only daughter of the kaiser, and Prince Ernest of Great Britain and Ireland, duke of god in the German and British mind. But it can hardly be said even by a stretch of the imagination that the engagement of Princess Victoria Louise, the only daughter of the kaiser, and Prince Ernest of Great Britain and Ireland, duke Brunswick-Lueneburg, son of the duke of Cumberland, is a love match Despite the often reported statement that the kaiser's daughter would follow the dictates of her heart, and would never be sacrificed on the political altar, the impression prevails that the alliance is largely, if not entirely, a man "practical marriage," an alliance wherein the heart's inclination may not be excluded but where love probably figures less than high politics, just as many marriages in other strata in German society were practical questions in regard to property, society and business are usually considered first and are regarded as well on which love will sprout later. The alliance of the young couple will bring a practical solution of the The one living American to whom the anniversary of Washington's american to whom of Washington's birthday means more than any other man. D. Washington, in whose veins, according to the generally accepted verdict of genealogists and the opinion of many of the Washington family, is the blood of Gen. Washington's father than is to be birthday means more than any other is Bushrod D. Washington in whose veins, according to the generally accepted verdict of genealogists and the opinion of many of the Washington family, flows more of the blood of Gen. Washington's father than is to be found by any other individual. Mr. Bushrod Washington, who is well past middle age, is living quietly near Goodman, Mo., on a modest scale, he is living, in so far as, country surroundings are concerned, much the same life passed by his famous relative, though his life is by no means either so luxurious or so primitive as that of the old plantation. He served in the Union army during the Civil war, and in the campaigns in the far south conducted himself with signal bravery. With many of the branches of the Washington family, this particular one will come to an end with the life of Mr. Bushrod Washington, for he has but one child, a daughter. James H. Brady was the other day sworn in as United States senator from Idaho to fill out the unexpired term of the late Weldon B. Heyburn. He succeeds immediately Senator I. K. Perky, Democrat, who was appointed to serve until the Idaho legislature elected. JOHN B. HARRIS Mr. Brady is a Republican and has been chairman of the Re publican state committee and governor of the state of Idaho. He is a native of Pennsylvania, from which state also came his predecessor, Senator Treating a Cold. We like to think that we are much wiser, much more sensible and much further advanced than our ancestors, and so we are perhaps in many ways. Yet almost a hundred and forty years ago John Adams, who was working for his country like many other men and who had no idea that he would one day be president, and that his sayings would be worth quoting, prescribed the most important treatment for a cold—plenty of fresh air. The child shivered as though with cold. The judge took the little girl in her arms and cuddled her. Jennie burst into tears. Judge Bartelme whispered into the little girl's ears and crooned over her. It was a most unjudicial proceeding. Then Jennie sobbed out her story. It was a story that ought to get half a dozen roars of the South side whipped with a lead-tipped cat and then imprisoned for three years "old," commented the judge, as poor Jennie was taken away to a place where there are some more motherly women—"just a babe in arms, that's all." Then there was Mary - Golden-haired Mary with the frightened eyes. "I want to be good - I want to be good," the child sobbed. "Just give me a chance and see if I don't." A few minutes later Mary had related another story of the way that little girls are made over into evil women. Bertheme was twice and twice papers that may land some of the girl's tutors behind bars. "And are you telling me the truth, Mary?" Miss Bartelmie asked. "Every word is true," answered the child "You are the first person I have ever told all the truth to since I was old enough to tell a lie." "There is no doubt of the emacacy of the new plan," Bartelmie children will not tell their troubles to men. Most of these poor children have no conception of the horrors they relate." Guelph question and will end the 40 year feud between the English Guelph house and the house of Hohencollen. Prince Ernest is the grandson of the English king of Hanover, blind Guelph who was deposed in 1866 by Prince Bassamck and the kaiser's grandfather. Hanover was annexed to Prussia, because King Géorge refused to join Prussia in the war against Austria. Prince Ernest's mother is a sister of Queen Alexandra of England. The death of Prince Ernest's elder brother in an automobile accident in 1912, when the kaiser expressed his concolences in an unusually sympathetic manner, was followed by Prince Ernest calling on the imperial family at Lottsdam to thank the emperor, which was one of the first steps in closing the gulf between the Hohencollenes and the irreconcilable Guelph duke of Cumberland, who still maintained his claim to the Hanoverian arane Princess Victoria Louise will be 21 in September. She has been much petted, but has not been spoiled. She is a favorite with the imperial family. She cannot be termed beautiful, but is attractive, and has a certain charm. She is a favorite with the German people, because of her girlish simplicity and affectionate manners with her eldest son, her eldest mother, the empress. This fondness for her mother has always appealed to German women. Mr. Washington's closeness of relationship to the founder of Mount Vernon is due to the fact that he traces his descent from Augustine Washington, the father of George Washington, along three lines. Twice in the line of his ancestry the Washington blood descended from Augustine, the rage of cousins, who were also descended from Augustine Washington. This, it is thought, is true of no member of the family other than Mr. William De Hertburn Washington, and it is said that in his case one of the cousins was more remotely descended from the common ancestor. The whole subject of Washington's relationship is in dispute, however, a dogmatic statement can be justified. In the city which bears his name, three, at least, of Washington's relatives are known to reside, and there may be others. Those known to live here are Lawrence Washington, library house reading room in the library of Mount Vernon, Washington and T. B. Washington, both connected with the navy department. Mr. Lawrence Washington has eight sons and four daughters to carry on the blood of Augustus Washington. Mr. Lawrence Washington and all his brothers and sisters are in Mount Vernon, and this often causes them to be considered the nearest relatives of George Washington. Heyburn. For several years he was a resident of Kansas and he attended school in that state. He went to Idaho in 1894. Senator Brady is chairman of the advisory board of the National Council of Women Voters and is an honorary member of the Panama-Pacific International exposition, and other organizations. Before he had served in the senate 15 minutes his vote as a Republican was of material assistance to the Republicans of the senate. He voted with the other Republicans in favor of an executive session. The motion was carried, 35 to 34. Had Senator Perky still been serving him, as a Democrat, would have voted with the Democrats and the motion for an executive motion would have been lost by a die vote. "Tramps lead a vegetable sort of life, don't they?" "Of course they do. Aren't they beats?" Daily Thought. To cultivate kindness is a great part of the business of life—Samuel Johnson. One Day. One day, with life and heart, is more than enough to find a world—James Russell Lowell. WORK IS PLEASING KILLING OF DEER Social Leader Sells Hats for a Living. Friends of One of Newport's Younger Set Surprised to Learn She Is "In Trade"-Husband's Business Reverses the Cause. When the friends of Mrs. Newton Adams, leader of Newport's younger set, opened their mail the other morning and glanced over their heap of invitations as they sipped their tea they were surprised to learn that their one-time companion in social gayeties is now holding daily receptions in the military department of the John Wanamaker store. The tall, handsome and well-known young matron who was one of the most popular hostesses of the summer colony is helping to fill the family purse because of financial losses which came recently to her and her husband. She is working the regular hours of any vendue and is earning a very acceptable salary selling hats in the little French shop called Marcelie Demay. Old friends of the family do not know that Mrs. Adama's brother, Francis H. Potter, nephew of the late Bishop Potter and formerly secretary of the American legion in Madrid, Spain, is another employee of this house. Mr. Potter began his business after a short time before Mrs. Adams entered upon hers. In fact, it was Mr. Potter who paved the way for his sister's entry into the world now and strange to her. "It's ever so much nicer to be selling hats than to be making boudou caps and pink satin pins cushions at home," Mrs. Adams acknowledged, when she chatted about her new work. "Some of my friends thought I should do something at home instead of going into business. I prefer this because there is more money in it and it is pleasant." I adore hats. They have always been my fad. And really I am enjoying this new work more than anything else I ever did. "Do I find the customers disagreeable? Not at all. If you are pleasant to those who come into the shop they are pleasant to you." But as Mrs. Adams is the embodiment of charm and graciousness, that may have something to do with the pleasant reception she constantly meets. "We are sending out cards to let my friends know where I am." Mrs. Adams resumed. "Of course, my intimate friends have come to see me, and I hope the others will when they receive the announcements." "Why didn't you try a tea room or a shop of your own?" the reporter asked. "That takes capital. And as I had no capital it would have meant borrowing. Then, besides, you are burdened by so much responsibility and worry I am not sure where we shop I am from worry and every one is charming to me—they all were, even before they knew anything more about me than that I was a newcomer. And I am learning rapidly. "I've learned that if a woman comes in and wants a blue hat, which you haven't in stock, and she goes out having purchased a red one, you have made a good sale—good unless she returns the hat the next day. And I am learning other things, too. "But seriously, this is the place to study human nature and to get in close touch with human beings. I have seen more women who devote their time to society would go to work. The training is excellent and it's more interesting than teas and bridge." "Work is work, and it is rather silly to think that you should try to do something you cannot do merely because it is considered a little bit nicer than something else. And don't you think that well-bred women are more and more going into business. There is room, and they are well paid, especially in a shop like this." Mrs. Adams is the mother of a baby nine months old which she leaves at home with a maid. A Spark-Making Alloy. It is a curious fact that when 70 per cent. of cerium is alloyed with 30 per cent. of iron, the metal thus produced, possesses the remarkable property of giving off a shower of sparks when struck lightly by steel wheel. This substance has been used, for making auto-igniters for gas burners, minihome lamps, and other devices. It has been proposed to utilize it for igniting motor headlights, and even to employ it as a substitute for electric ignition in the cylinders.—The Sunday Magazine. Touch of Nature The little boy took his wagon and went out in the street to coast. He was too young to know how to guide, so the wagon ran into the curb, and his head was bumped. As he ran to his mother for comfort, he sobbed: "Oh, muver, that old hill's so scorching. You may hardly believe it, but a few of us older children take the same view of our unsets. The Result. "What was the result of that popularity contest?" The dispositions of a whole lot of fellows who thought they ought to have won the prize." Painful Operation She-"John, why on earth are you wearing those goggles?" John-"Only a moment, dear, until I finish this grapefruit." Daily Thought. As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity—Ovid. To Whom It May Concern. Ambrose Crossels says: "Ev'ry once in a while the eyes of the law need specs."—Juda. Closed Season for Two Years the Only Thing That Will Save It From Extinction is the Declaration of Expert. So great has been the slaughter of deer in Arizona and New Mexico the past season that a movement is on foot to have a law enacted by the next legislature in both states closing the season for hunting deer for two years. W.P. Geary, chairman of the Arizona corporation commission, returned from a bounty of a month in Canyon County district, declares that if the killing is not stopped deer will be almost extinct in this state within a few years. "I am most emphatically in favor of closing the season on deer for two years," says Geary. "Not only have the hunters, who ought to know better, availed themselves of the remoteness of the hunting grounds to exceed their rights in the number killed, but the animals have been poached to a frightful extent. There are some white men in that section who have been doing this, and the Indians up there have been doing it constantly. "So great have been the ravages in that section on deer that have few bucks remaining, and those left are of the scrub variety. The great, big-antlered beasts that used to the herds seem to have disappeared entirely. I am told that there are a few in the almost inaccessible reaches of the Canyon Country, but I failed to see any on my trip. "There are a large number of does this season, and if the deer are left alone for two years I am sure they will increase so rapidly there will be plenty for hunters within the bounds of reason. One advantage of closed cages is that they are in that it would be a comparatively easy matter to convict poachers. The possession of deer meat would then be regarded as prima facie evidence that it had been illegally obtained. It is a matter of recent history that elk and antelope were put inside an enclosure, but no deer have been hunted. Unless something is done protect the deer they certainly are doomed to extermination." Arizona this year has been the most popular hunting ground of the southwest. Hundreds have come from Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Kansas and California. Some of them have gone into the fastestes of the furthermost regions and found deer almost innumerable. One of the largest of these parties was that headed by Robert Dunlops, state treasurer of Oklahoma, who is said to be training for a big hunt in Africa under direction of the Sulphurian局. He parted ways even into the mountains 150 miles from Holbrook. They were probably the most scientific hunters of the season, and their bag was well within the limits of the state lew. Reports from the Nacimiento mountain country of northwestern New Mexico are to the effect that the Pablo Indians have slaughtered deer and other game without regard to law. They have literally combed the woods for their quarry, butchering everything they found. The Navajos for merely gave the authorities considerable trouble in this region, but they have not hunted in these mountains this year. Brave Women Exiles Some day some one will tell the tale of woman's loyalty and heroism as revealed by the convict settlement of Siberia. The man who was sentenced to Siberia was legally dead. His heirs might share his property—unless they were confiscated by government. His wife was free to marry again. She could best escape police espionage by such a marriage, as it would tend to that she had no part in her husband's plotting against the government. But in a great majority of cases the wife, instead of using her freedom, asked permission to follow her husband into exile. Some wives of exiles were compelled to remain in Russia by family considerations. Many were held back by the police. But of those who could, an immense majority took the Siberian trail. They made this choice when two-thirds of the exiles died on the road. They went to the hardships of frontier life on the edge of the Arctic Circle. They faced cold, privation, sepplication, to be with their husbands. There is no finer chapter in the history of the sex; and none which historians and romancers have more unaccountably neglected. Generous Rebuke Nicholas Wain, one of the great men of the time described in "The Colonial Homes of Philadelphia and Its Neighborhood," had a wit as whimsical as Lamb's, although there was less of it. Annoyed by repeated depredations upon his wood pile, he bought a cart load of wood, and sent it to the of fender. "Friend," was the courteous explanation that accompanied the wood pile. It was afraid the woe would hurt itself, so they my wood pile "Youth's Companion." Diplomacy. Diplomacy is the practical application of strategy, but lots of people term it the double cross. -Milwaukee Sentinel. The Secret Out. Fried eggs were originally the same as boiled eggs were before they were boiled. -Cassell's Journal. Detachable Detachable: "Is her hair a crown of glory? "Yes, and every night she abdicates" —Town Topics. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Take up the Black Man's burden—'send forth the best beet breed!' Do not tell the black man about the black man's work and needs. To set down naught in malice, In hate or prejudice. To tell the black man about him. To pass him as he is. Take up the Black Man's burden— And might make right as only It does no weak race wrong. Make all his chances equal; Then "hands off" he be my motto, And he will do the rest. Take up the Black Man's burden—'don't curse him in advance. He cannot lift a white man's load. Without a white man's load, He can't work and workshop. From courting room and store; By castle and labor unfons Is closed Industry's door. Take up the Black Man's burden—'Don't crush him with his load; By scuffle and jeers that goad. The haughty Anglo-Saxon Was savage and untaught; Of a wondrous change of form. A wondrous change has wrought. Take up the Black Man's burden— Black men of every clime; The city that is too heavy, Tourism but darkly shine? Stoop with a freeman's ardor, Lifelong a freeman's head, Stand with a freeman's breast, March with a freeman's tread. Take up the Black Man's burden— Forth the best of the world? To tell the world you're rising To preach, to pray, to plead, Live the good people, Be the making of good men, The raising of the lowly To noble thought and aim. Take up the Black Man's burden— Black freemen! stand alone If need be, Gird your armor To contend with the storms When weighted to be not found wanting, But find or make your way To honor, fame and fortune, To God and destiny. Kansas City, Mo. Scout, spy, war nurse, "underground railroad" manager, a memorable figure of the City that period has passed away in the death of Harriet Tubman Davis at Auburn, N. Y. Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Maryland, Of Ashantee blood, descendant of tribal chiefs, she possessed an unconquerable spirit and immense physical strength, surpassing that of most men. To avoid being "sold south" in her youth, she followed the north star to freedom, but soon was back teaching other negroes the road she had trod. Rewards amounting to $40,000 were offered in Virginia and Maryland for her arrest. Harriet Tubman was invaluable as an "underground-railroad" agent in the north. While in this work she led the mob that rescued Charles Nalle, a fugitive slave, in Troy. Though beaten upon the head by policemen's billies, she thrashed two of them and aided the rescue with her mighty muscles. The mob, with the financial support of William H. Seward she sent away many a refugee to Canada. Appointed as a nurse to Colonel Shaw's famous negro regiment in 1863, she soon appeared in a new capacity as a scout for the Union troops. In 1896 she founded the Harriet Tubman Davis Home for Indigent Aged Negroes, at the supposed age of ninety-eight. Why despair of the future of a race that can exhibit such courage, devotion and capacity for leadership in one of it lowliest members? Though fashionls may come and go, though weaves vary and dress goods of many and various kinds be adopted by that whimsical personage, Dame Fashion, broadcloth is always in favor. It is one of the aristocrats of the dress goods realm, and its place is always assured. This year the tendency in broadcloth is towards those with a very high luster—the more brilliant and satiny the sheen, the better madame will like her cloth. Smart autumn suits are of broadcloth elaborately trimmed—frequently with banded silk, often with rich and deep-toned velvet. But not alone for suits and tailored costumes is broadcloth in demand. For handsome wraps, street coats, evening garments and afternoon toilets, broadcloth will be fashionable. The National Benefit association of Washington, District of Columbia, headed by Samuel W. Rutherford, employs upward of 500 colored persons. In Beaufort, S. C., the postmaster, clerks, carriers and other postoffice employees are all colored. A preacher who is not little and narrow, a preacher who is upright and does not lie, a preacher who does not backbite and practice deceit, a preacher who is not envious and full of dirty tricks, is an honor to his church and the race and will always be respected by men—The Tri-State News. Precedents continue to be established. One worth noting was that set by the absconding bank cashier, who took his wife, instead of another woman, when he ran away. Getting down under a stalled automobile doesn't impress the man who has curried horses as an exasperating chore. If a politician is expert in estimating the weight of a live-hog he can poll a good many votes in a farming community. There is some objection to the whisker, but the man who offends her sanitation and art is the one who is the most likely to two-weeks' growth of stubble on his skin. The real labor and problem for the negro in the south is not getting opportunities to work, but in making the most of the opportunities that he has for working. A striking example of this recently took place in the Newport News shipbuilding yard. There are employed in this shipyard about 4,750 persons, almost half of whom are negroes. There are twenty-nine different trades and occupations, in all of which except two, bell hangers and incumbers, negroes are working in greatest numbers. There is a tributation of white and colored workmen in the various trades at this shipyard are as follows: As anglemenhite, white 33, colored 84; as blacksmiths, white 46, colored 60; as bell hangers, white 63, colored 0; as boiler makers, white 143, colored 103; as sheet iron workers, white 69, colored 4; as brass machinists, white 101, colored 10; as copersmiths, white 36, colored 6; as drillers, white 20, colored 16; as electricians, white 76, colored 0; as fitter, white 12, colored 0; as copersmiths, white 91, colored 24; as joiners, white 150, colored 14; as lumber yard laborers, white 11, colored 11; as common laborers, white 12, colored 13; as engineers, White 196, colored 91; as outfitters, white 50, colored 11; as painters, white 94, colored 233; as pattern makers, white 42, colored 14; as plumbers, white 138, colored 15; as power house workers, white 12, colored 22; as riggers, white 103, colored 260; as riveters, white 150, colored 635; as carpenters, white 148, colored 160; as carpenters, white 61, colored 156; as steam engineers, white 174, colored 14; as teamsters, white 1, colored 25; as yard men, white 1, colored 29; as foundrymen, white 6, colored 80; as civil engineers, white 36, colored 24. Total employed, white 2,522; colored 2,138. The weekly pay roll for the employed employees is $25,000. The New York Evening Post, in charging that the barrier of race has kept colored musicians, with but few exceptions, in the music halls, and in its effort to induce the public to give the negro music of today serious consideration refers to the observations of Kurt Schindler on the compositions of Will Marion Cook, which follow in place. This revelation came at once on the concert given under the auspices of the New York Musical Settlement for Colored People. There were a great many representative white musicians and the entire New York musical press present, and there was a stir when the orchestra started to play the fascinating rhythms of Cook's "Swing Along," followed by a storm of applause. The audience was amazed that did not feel that for once he had heard the "real thing," the true southern negro idiom, worked out with clever musicianship and genial verve into a truly artistic manifestation. This pleasurable surprise was equaled if not surpassed when the second part of the program brought another composition of Will Marion Cook's The Rain Song. To this defensively, we have to deem poem the composer has found a melody well-night perfect in its idiomatic charm and in its close adaptation to the vocal inflections of the colored dialect. The musical form given it (calling for six solo singers to rise from the middle of the orchestra and say their little verse in turn with the in chorus) makes it as it was natural and appropriate. This is music very close to nature indeed in its sources. Newport wa, Va.-Members of the race are accustomed to think of labor problems among negroes as arising where there is a lack of opportunity for work, or where there is a threatened reduction of wages, or where, because of prejudice or other reasons, they are prevented from getting or working in the labor force, a great deal about the negroes being denied opportunities to work at skilled trades. As a matter of fact, the opportunities for negroes to work at skilled trades in both the north and the south are increasing. In all parts of the south negroes are being sought for to work at skilled trades. Labor unions are becoming more friendly to negroes, and are doing more than they were doing in their workingmen. Out of the over 100 labor organizations, only about nine or ten, principally connected with the railroads, now bar negroes. The feat of the New York actor, who has just married his eleventh wife, doesn't constitute a record. The only way an actor can establish a matrimonial record is to marry one wife. This is an age in which efficiency is demanded in every avenue of endeavor. The man who can accomplish the task of making a motion of the hand what requires three steps or motions in another is the sort of man the world is looking for. A new negro undertaking firm has been chartered at Los Angeles, Cal. Its name is Smith-Williams & Company. A married man often starts to tell a story, after which his wife finishes it. The People's Savings Bank and Trust company, of Nashville, Tenn., shows an increase of $21,000 in resources for the past year and $6,000 increase in capital stock. The Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance company is reporting a surplus of $28,096.54, with $13,000 bonds and an annual income of $200,000. There seems to be no explanation for the rule that a boy baby is considered more desirable than a girl baby. SPORTS WRESTLING Jesse Westerguard of Des Moines won from Julius Nelson, chaupon wrestler of Montana, in straight falls. at St. Paul, the frat in 16 minutes and the second in 26 minutes. Stanislau Sbyzko, the Polish wrestler, won his match at Pittsburgh with Paul Samson, the German giant. He won in 16 minutes, 10 minutes and then in eight minutes. Both falls were won on body holds. AQUATIC Oxford won the annual boat race with Cambridge on the Thames by a quarter of a length. Dick Arnst, ex-professional sculling champion, has challenged Paddon, who beat Felton, for the Australian title. The American regatta is scheduled to be held over the Henley mile and 550-yard course on the Schuykill river, Philadelphia, on Saturday, May 31. FOOTBALL Yale men are deep in the problem of what has held back Old Eil's football team for the last two years. Not meaning to be feecious, but possibly they might inquire at Cambridge, Mass., and be enlightened. Candidates for line positions of the University of Pennsylvania football team have started practice under the direction of Gus Ziegler, the former All-American guard, who has been appointed assistant to Coach Brooke. HORSE RACING Indiana has passed a racing bill, but unless all sign fail Chicago gamblers will be persona non grata. The American Trotting association has dropped the rule requiring drivers to weigh at least 150 pounds. Robert K. $2:10\frac{1}{2}$, is dead. Raced over the half-mile track, this trotter won 16 races in 1911 and 1912. San Francisco horsemen plan two light harness horse meets in 1915, with purses aggregating $225,000. Philip T. Chinn, a Kentucky horseman, has announced that he has sold to John E. Madden of New York the ballon Stallion for $30,000. Except the grand circuit events at Fort Erie the richest harness racing fixture in Canada this year will be the $5,000 2:10 at Winnipeg. According to the cover of the Supreme Court track tickets may be issued. Which is only another deterrent to those who still cherish the sport of kings. The French Jockey club, with the idea of improvig the class of horses in the army have scaled to institute 26 special races, to be called Prix de Cavalerie, the endowments of which will amount to $24,000. The new grandstand at the Vienna (Austria) race track, which cost nearly $1,000,000, is 1,000 feet long. The royal boxes in the center are the entrance line, the marble, with gold mold ornamenting the railing on side of the steps. Two other stands of 500 feet in length will be built. BASEBALL Captain Bill Sweeney of the Boston Braves will teach the youngsters how to slide. It is reported that the major league clubs' training expense will reach something like $500,000. For the first time in the history of baseball the Washington fans are claiming the pennant. Dixie Walker, formerly with the Washington Senators, will wear a St. Louis uniform this season. Manager Griffith claims that Calvo, his Cuban outfielder, will be a sensation during the coming campaign. The New York Glants seem to have a real hitter in Outfielder Burns. This fellow poles out homers nearly every day. Jack Powell has experienced a change of heart about retiring, and has signed to pitch for the Louisville Comets. George Stovall, leader of the St Louis Brown, believes he has enough material on hand for a first division team. Bobble Vesch, the outfielder secured by the Tigers' from Indianapolis last season, is regarded as a regular by the Detroit fans. Johnny Kling has issued a statement that Jimmy Archer is the best catcher in the big leagues and never has had a superior. Dick Padden, the old major league player, is on whereby he has to get the Wheeling franchise in the Interstate league. In Jimmy Williams, Hobe Ferris and Rube Waddell, John Cantillon has three players who started out with Stoney McDyllen's old man. Lew McAllister, "Gabby" Street and Charley Schmidt, three old-time big league, backstops, will work in the Southern league this season. Marty Walsh, a younger brother of Ed Walsh of the Sox, has signed a contract to the New York State club of the National League. Barney Dreyfus claima there isn't a pitcher in the National league, with the exception of Mathewson, who is getting more than $5,000 a year. Manager Hughle Jennings of the Tigers likes the way Outfielder High takes care of himself, and believes that the youngster will make good. June 3 has been the date set for the American league championship flag raising day at Boston. The Sox will flag the Bostonians on that day. JOE BENZ PHOTO BY PAUL PROMWICK, AK One of Manager Jimmy Caliahan's recruits of last year, who proved him self worthy of a berth in major league company, is reported as having shown much improvement this spring. BILLIARDS 1 During the year 1912 billard parors were opened in Texas at the rate of nearly one and one-third a day. Calvin Demarest is reported to have accepted a position as billard instructor at the University club, Chicago. New York made it three straight over Pittsburgh in the National Three. Cushion Billard league, winning the championship in 1912, in the two previous games, 50 to 47. Pittsburgh increased its lead in the National Billard league tournament for the three-cushion championship when Charles McCourt of that city defeated Alien Mason of Boston, 50 to 47. H. A. Coleman of Milwaukee is the new national amateur class B champion at 18.5 ball-line billards. In the championship of 1912, he featured Charles P. Conway of New New York, 300 to 243. PUGILISM Teddy Maloney defeated Lew Tra cey in six fast rounds at Philadelphia. Matty Baldwin saved the decision over Ray Wood in a fast bout at Salem, Mass. Johnny Marto outfought Harry Donohue of Pekin, in a ten-round bout at Ray Bronson knocked out Lee Kelly in the second round of their bout at St. Louis. Jake Abel of Chattanooga lost an eight-round contest to Joe Sherman at the Phoenix Athletic club in Memphis. Frank Klaus, the durable Pittsburgh, secured the decision over Billy Papke in a fifteen-round bout in Paris. Tommy Langdon of Philadelphia was too clever for Terry Brooks of New York at Philadelphia in their ten-round bout. Frank Moran, the Pittsburg heavy, weight, who had a successful fight campaign in California, is anxious to meet Luther McCarty. Mickey Sheridan of Chicago was entitled to a decision on points in a fast ten-round bout at Jackson, Mich., with Patty Drouillard of Windsor. Rudy Unholz has taken to the warpath. He wants to fight all the available lightweight and prefers to start on by beating Nelson. Hary Donahue of Pekin, weighing 13, met Jimmy Javis of Yorkville, who scaled 143 pounds, and gave the latter an unmerciful beating at New York. Jess Willard, the Kansas white hope, knocked out Jack Leon, a former wrestler, in the fourth round of a scheduled ten-round bout at Fort Wayne. MISCELLANEOUS The 1916 Olympic games at Berlin will include golf. Yale university has broken ground for its stadium, which will seat 60,000 Columbia defeated Dartmouth at hockey in a very thrilling finish by a score of 29 to 21. Georgetown is this year to be represented by one of the fastest relay teams in the history of that institution. Miss Dorothy Ballantyne of Detroit defeated Miss Helen Barnett of New Haven in the final play of the annual club championship tennis tournament for women. Feminism, the Denver golf is the new Florida golf champion, succeeding R. H. McWelew, whom he defeated in the final round, 3 to 2. Mr. Fairbanks also took the qualification honors, with a card of 71. In Epping Forest, one of the English athletic fields, there are playing pitches for 171 football teams and 130 cricket clubs have creases. In addition there are also in the forest two golf courses and 19 tennis courts. One of the most severe losses to the Cornell track team as the result of examinations in recent years is reported in the Cornell camp. No less than 11 men of varsity caliber have been lost to the team. Coach Mackley, the most Makley's chances this year most uncertain. Coach Jack Mackley, of Cornell university, has placed himself on record as opposed to the hammerthrowing events in the intercollegiate sports. Mackley prefers a three-mile race, though the team would like to see a walking event added to the program. ALL SAVE LABOR IN KITCHEN Little Helps That Will Leave the House. Day's Work is Ended. A sabbit back of the kitchen table on which to place cups, spoons and small vessels that are used frequently, the wash basin, within reach of the roller towel, a drinking cup near the water pail, all save needless exertion and time that may be utilized for something else or rest. The very best stove holder can be made of an old stocking by cutting off the foot at the ankle and folding it into the leg, fastening it well as it is folded over and over until it is the square shape of the common ironing holder. A brass ring in one corner is a great convenience for hanging and such a holder can be large enough to hold your patterns should have their place of quick and easy access and if each one is marked it will often prove a blessing. A bag fastened on the lower part of the sewing machine for scraps will likewise be a comfort, and sharp scissors and a work table are absolute necessities. OLD BREAKFAST TABLE DISH Spanish Omelet, When Properly Made, Deserves All the Popularity It Has Attained. Cut four ounces of bacon in very tin slices and then into one-half inch squares. Fry gently until crisp, then add one small onion, a medium size bacon, and fry until the meat is all chopped rather than with a freshly clove of garlic upon the spoon for stirring while cooking 15 minutes. Meanwhile break six eggs into a bowl, season with a saltspoonful of salt, one fourth saltspoonful of white pepper. Give them a dozen good strokes and turn into a perfectly smooth frying pan, in which a teaspoonful of butter has been melted, and well spread. Do not stir, but shake constantly until the omelet is nearly set. Spread the omelet into a square bowl of omelet, fold over and set it in the oven for about one minute. Then slip it upon a hot platter and serve at once. White Potato Soup. Pare enough potatoes to make a quart, and boil them tender in four quarts of water. Skim out the potatoes, mash fine, add large tablespoonful of butter, and salt and pepper to suit the taste. Add to the potatoes two medium sized onions minced fine, or a bunch of white celery prepared in the same manner. Put the onions or celery into the water the potatoes are boiled in and cook for a quarter hour. Add the potatoes to the store and quickly stir in two fresh eggs, beaten very light. Mix in a cup ful of sweet cream or very rich milk and let the soup heat up but not boil again before serving. Our Cook Sava That in filling a cake pan it is well to remember that the center of the cake is the part which will be the highest. If the batter is spread as much to the sides as possible, leaving a depression in the center, then the cake when baked will be level. That a cheap and durable toaster for a gas stove is a piece of sheet iron. Over this is a five-cent fire toaster can be used without danger of burning or blackening the bread. That in filling potato potatoes, chips can be baked in a pan in the oven, steak broiled underneath or pudding or pie cooked at the same time. It saves gas. Warm Slaw Select a nice solid head of winter cabbage and cut it up very fine. Put into a hot frying pan a piece of butter, the size of a walnut, and when melted put in the cabbage with a very little water; let it simmer till well done. Then beat up one egg very light and stir in slowly; lastly, add one-half cup of sour cream; salt and pepper to suit the taste. Another method, also called "shaw" is to simply add a boiled dressing of egg yolks, two tablespoons of sugar, two tablespoons of sour cream, one cup of vinegar, and a rounded teaspoonful of butter, and pour this over the finely-cut cabbage. Black Bean Soup. Soak two cuptails of black beans over night. In the morning put on to boil in two quarts of cold water with a small onion and a cupful of tomato meat. Simmer about five hours or until the tomato water as it boils away. Drain and rub through a sleeve; add a tablespoonful of flour and two of butter, rubbed smooth. Add some o': the soup to it gradually until it is dissolved. Season with one full teaspoonful of pepper, two chiles of cayenne and a salt pepper. Simmer until the haives and put into a tureen with two hard-boiled eggs cut in thin slices. Rice and Peaches. Boll one cup of carefully washed rice in a quart of salted milk which was heated before the rice was added. Cook until the rice is tender and the liquid is well absorbed (more milk may be needed). Now add four tablespoonfuls of butter, a quarter of a cup of sugar, and milk thickly. Place the mold and place in a hot oven for ten minutes. Turn out on a platter, cover with perfect halves of preserved peaches and pour peach syrup over all. To Restore a Faded Carpet To revive the colors in faded carpet which is still good for further wear. Take half a pail or warm water and add to it either a handful of salt or a half cup of turpentine, or half a cup of vinegar, or a good-sized lump of alum, or on dark colors, four tablespoons of ammonia, any of which helps to brighten the floor. Wring a cloth of cloth and wife of a whole surface of the carpet without really wetting it through, and let it dry thoroughly before using. Beet Salad. Shrub a head of lettuce or the leaves, or also a tender cabbage. Arrange round the rim of plate. Chop freshly cooked or the canned beets. Fill the center of the plate and cover with mayonnaise or French dressing. She had known Frank Green only a short while; they had been together but half a dozen times, yet she felt this sunny afternoon that she more than liked him. He had come to go sailing with them—Betty Deaver and herself; but while Betty was a very young girl, she never therefore not to be feared. Her fiance was going with them this afternoon. They were all in the best of spirits, and none more so than Helen. As they left the porch she caught sight of a girl approaching down the road. Then she stood quite still, and her eyes grew dark with apprehension. "Here's Mary Buckingham now!" a note of dismay in her voice. "I sent her a card last night, you know. Bettie. 'Oh, didn't she use to come to the library—when we were out at the Carnegie?' But Mary had halted them. How stunning she looked as she crossed the grass, her white tallored dress and soft panama hat shining bright in the rays of the sun. Helen felt cheap in her stiff blue straw and shirtwat and skirt, and her heart sank at sight of the go-in-to-win look in Frank's eyes. It was bad from the start. He found he knew Miss Buckingham well by hearss, and one after another muscled in a was dragged forth to put on a firm footing. Only when the party reached the boat did relief come, in the necessity for the men to get busy and cast off. As guest of honor Mary must sail And of course, she required much attention. Often she, had to "come a little this way" or "bear off into the wind", and there were exciting moments of luffing and tacking when the tiller went over with a bang, and it took a stronger hand than hers to right it. At such moments Helen felt savage. She would introduce subjects as foreign as possible to Mary—intimate things and otherwise she would make her friends silent. And sometimes the old look was still in Frank's face—and then Helen would be reassured. But Mary generally managed to join in somehow, if only with a question. The other two had made their way forward and were sitting close together in the bow. What could be more exasperating than this three-sided conversation, Helen wondered? She wouldn't try to keep it up any longer. There was one grain of comfort at any rate—it was only for this afternoon. Mary might have him now, but once on the train for home she'd be safely disposed of, and things would go on as before. Would the time never pass? Helen thought she would appeal to Butty for help, and tried to draw the couple up front into the conversation, where they were both occupied, but they would and the attempt fell through of its own weight. How selfish engaged people were! Or rather hw heedless, for these two were totally unconscious of all that was going on behind them. She must do something. Her hands resting idle in her lap made her feel altogether "out of it." Besides, the helm was indeed the center of the boat. She must get the tiller into her own hands. "Aren't you tired of sailing, Mary?" she suggested. But Mary assured her she was not, and it was not till later, and after more insistent insight, that she finally concluded that she was. Then at last they changed places. And the center of interest changed with Mary. True, Frank still lent a hand at the tiller, but not so frequently nor at all unoccasionally, and often it was with head turned to speak to Mary. But gritted her teeth mentally, and forced a smile now and then, with a few words. The sun was getting low, and she hoped it was time to go home. "I'd love to have you stay to tea, of course, Mary, but you say you can't—and you told me not to let you miss the 5:30," she apologized as she asked one of the boys for the time. Neither of the men had brought a watch, however, so it was up to them to hail a passenger boat. There were several such in sight, but none with hailing distance. So they started off in pursuit of the nearest; and had almost come up with her when she suddenly started on her to tack. When she tacked, path of the behind her and were able to make themselves understood by the jolly crowd on board. "It's just 6:30," came across the water if answer to their question. The party was struck with consternation. "Why I had no idea it was so late!" came from Mary. "Neither had I." chimed in Frank. "I've missed the last train in time for dinner!" exclaimed Mary. "Oh that's all right!" Frank quickly answered, "I take you up in my car." "No, indeed you won't." Helen struck in most emphatically; "she must stay for dinner, now she's missed the train. You will, not you, Mary?" she asked cagely. "Do stay. I'm glad you missed it—" she went on breathlessly. Frank turned to Mary. "How about it, Miss Buckingham? Is it go, or stay?" "I'm afraid the folks think we're drowned if I don't come back to dinner," was the demure reply—Buffalo Express. Inculcating Right Views. Some people hold that children should hear sad things to cultivate their sympathy. Might it not be just as effective to teach them to sympathize with gladness? Is it not much easier to weep with those that weep than it is to really rejoice with those who do rejoice? It is a very hardened heart that is not softened at the sight of pain and distress, while it requires something higher and nobler to be glad when another has some pleasure or happiness greater than we possess. --- ALL DEEDS AND HAPPENINGS OF THE UNIVERSE RECORDED. Waves Flashing Eternally Through Space Forever Continue to Carry the Comparatively Brief Story of Man and His Doings Not the least of the wonders of light is the truth that, through its agency, ordinary deeds and ordinary happenings, as well as all other kinds of affairs in this buoy world of ours, are immortalized. We are accustomed to the idea that souls are immortal, that energy cannot be annihilated, that matter cannot be destroyed, but what of an extraordinary immortal deeds? Since that is reflected or given off from an object carries an image, a picture of the object, with it on its travels, no matter how long the journey or whether it may tend. When these image-carrying light waves enter the eye, the picture they bear is revealed, whether the waves have been only the infinitesimal fraction of a second in coming from the earth, or whether they reached the eye after a jaw through space from the flashing scillations of a far-off star. Even as we see our nearest star neighbor not as it is today, but as it was four years ago, the light that is reflected to this star from our planet carries pictures of the earth as it was 48 months ago, and any person, if at that distance from the earth and earth, sees the light waves, would see events and deeds that had transpired on this earth in the year 1908! Suppose we had such an apparatus and could out-travel light. We could journey to the Pole star, 60 light years from the earth, and behold! we should see the earth as it was in the year 1852! If we journeyed nine years of light waves farther in toward the earth, we would intercept the light pictures showing the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861. Even though every book and every manuscript and every monument should be destroyed, the gallant charge of Longstreet, and the incomparable bravery of our northern and southern soldiers, are written. Long after the crull of the heavens. Long after the earth with its jumps and vanities has crumbled to cosmic dust, or vanished into some other system, the light waves flashing eternally through space will continue to carry the comparatively brief story of man and his deeds. If we traveled still farther out into space, and caught up with the light waves that left us, say 420 years ago, we would see Columbus discovering American. The waves that left us about 700 years since would give the picture of Runnymede, with John, surnamed Lackland, signing the Magna Charta. Nearly 2,000 years from the earth speed the waves that bear the story of the war was Rome's. Still further out, hurtling through the eternity of unending space, is a picture from far back in the dusty corridors of time, a picture of the earth when it was void and without form, ages and ages before that wonderful creature, man, had entered the arena of life. Soft Fabric From Stone. A manufacturer in the north of Russia claims to be making a fabric from a gray stone of Siberian origin. This stone is susceptible, it seems of being drawn into a fiber, and the cloth woven from it is said to be soft, durable and presentable. One report has it that the peasants of the district are generally wearing clothes made from it. This necessarily calls attention to the glass cloth industry. The fabric woven from spun glass, however, are more costly than the plain resemble an English mannequin. An English mannequin is doing something more to the point in weaving cloth from old ropes. In the sandwich islands a fabric in common use is made from the mulberry plant. More interesting still, in India and Jamaica the natives understand a process by which banana skins may be reduced to a fiber that may afterward be woven into cloth. Not Much Out of the Way Mrs. Rush is a zealous and loyal wife and intends to avoid exaggeration, but has a strong tendency in that direction. "It's perfectly wonderful," she said to a patient friend, "to see the way Mr. Rush counts bills at the bank. I think they are so loacky to have him. He'll take a great pile of five and ten and twenty dollar bills and make his fingers fly just like Lightning and never make a mistake." She asked the friend, who knew Mrs. Rush's weakness and could not forbear the question. "Well—no—at least," stammered Mrs. Rush, "why, perhaps he might get five or ten cents out of the way, but not any more, ever." Americans Control Pitch Supply. On the beautiful island of Trinidad, chief source of the world's supply of pitch, the article has been put to overuse. Powerfully the streets of the Port of Spain were lighted by torches of pitch, but the people objected to the odor. "Nothing, however was done to develop the pitch and oil industry until recent years." This indifference to its value has been credited to the fact that the Trinidadians had so many other resources, such as their cocoa, coffee and sugar, from which to gain an abundant living that they were content to leave Pitch lake alone. Americans now control its output. It's Dangerous, Being a Songster. "I notice," said Mrs. Pozzolez, "that a choir solist in Greenwich, Broke an 'artery' while singing a high note. I never heard of an accident such as that before, but I have often feared Mr. Pozzolez might rupture himself singing the low notes in "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep." Of all human things, nothing is more honorable or more excellent than to deserve well of one's country.—Cicero. THE NAITIAN PORTFOLIO. Indiana Politeknik Indore Dr. J. B. Oliver For Important Foot. Brazil, Ind.-White and colored Indians of both parties have given their indemnity to Dr. J. B. Oliver of this city for the United States ministry to Haiti. Dr. Oliver is a native of Virginia. He received his early training in the public schools of Boston and in two institutions for higher learning in Massachusetts. After completing a three years' course in the theological seminary at Howard university, Washington, he went to Mississippi as a representative of the American Missionary society. Later he studied medicine at Howard university. He has built up a A. B. DR J. R. OLIVER good practice in this city and is regarded as well to do. He has been a Democrat for years. In 1898 he ran for police judge on the Democratic ticket. The same year he was appointed township physician. He is also a member of the Indiana bar. Dr. Oliver has been a delegate to various county and state Democratic conventions. He has spoken for Bryan, Alton B. Parker and Woodrow Wilson—in fact, few colored men of the west worked more ardently for the election of President Elect Wilson than be. Dr. Oliver is a son-in-law of John H. Murphy, publisher of the Baltimore Afro-American Ledger. WRIGHT OUTLINES PLANS FOR COMING EXPOSITION. Enlightens Philadelphia's Mayor on Some Phases of Race Progress. In his speech outlining the plan of exhibits for the forthcoming emancipation proclamation exhibition to be held in Philadelphia next September Dr. R. R. Wright, director of exhibits, told Mayor Rudolph Blankenburg that the educational and moral progress of the race will be shown by pictures, charts, models and statistics representing in compact form the experiences of race development. Samples of the actual work in our public schools and colleges will be of general interest. Special exhibits of social organization work, such as churches, labor, fraternal and secret organizations, will be made. The endeavor will be made to have the government install in full the entire exhibit of inventions by Negroes and a library of books written by Negroes. In the industrial field it is expected to have every industry represented in which Negroes are engaged. Agriculture will occupy a large place in order to show the possibilities of the colored man on the farms of this state and New Jersey. Several acres of land will be devoted to space for an exhibit of landscape and truck gardening. A dairy will also be in daily operation. The mechanical trades and manufacturing on the farm. We shall build a house, construct an engine, picture a picture, serve a dinner, all in the presence of those who come. A great concert with smaller recitals will show the progress of Negro music. It is hoped to have a chorus of 5,000 voices to sing daily the old Negro plantation melodies, while the drama will be represented by a play entitled "Fifty Years of Freedom," by a Negro author. Church Honors Memory of Lincoln. Sunday, Feb. 16, was known as Lincoln Memorial day at the Plymouth Congregational church, Charlestown, S. C. Rev. Abraham L. De Mond pastor. Special exercises were held, in which the name and good deeds of the great emancipator were lauded. Dr. De Mond is doing a great many people of his parish and a finds time for many outside calls. He is a writer as well as a preacher, "Education In South Carolina" is the subject of an interesting article which appeared in the Cortland (N. Y.) Standard in January, contributed by Dr. De Mond. Work of Ushers' Literary Association. The Ushers' Literary association of the Cherry Memorial Baptist church in Philadelphia will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary on Wednesday evening, Feb. 26. The primary aim of the association is to work among the boys of the church. The officers of the association for 1913 are Arthur R. James, president; W. J. Fisher, vice president; H. A. Fisher, secretary; G. A. W. Johnson, assistant secretary; H. V. Snydam, Sr., second assistant secretary; H. T. Mills, treasurer; W. E. Page, chaplain, and Ellijah D. Thomas, sergeant at arms. DUBUQUE, IOWA. Mr. John Wella has been on the sick list for a long time, suffering with the rheumatism. He is some better at this writing. Mrs. Mabel Bolten has been confined to her home with an abcess on her face. Dr. Henry Rose has been feeling very poorly all winter with one thing and another. For the last week he has been suffering with neuralgia. The Evangelist Sister, D. E. Carey spent two weeks in our city. If she hasn't done any more, she has set the --- Open Every Tuesday Evening From 8 to 11:30 East Side Dancing Academy RAST SIXTH AND LOCUST STS, B. J. HACK, Manager. 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Pelky for the support they gave her in making Easter what it should be to all, (Joyous Easter-tide. Annie Green is on the sick list also. Mrs. C. C. Evans, daughter and grandson, have been visiting her all winter. Mrs. Jack Cohn and children are all down with heavy colds. FOUND A CURE FOR RHEUMA- TISM. "I suffered with rheumatism for two years and could not get my right hand to my mouth for that length of time," writes Lee L. Chapman, Mapleton, Iowa. "I suffered terrible pain so I could not sleep or lie still at night. Five years ago I began using Chamberlain's Liniment and in two months, and have not suffered with rheumatism since." For sale by all dealers. QUINCY. ILL. Mrs. America Beck is quite sick at this writing. The marriage of Miss Settilla Rudd and Mr. Jas. Gillam occurred Monday evening at 7:30, Rev. Wm. Bates performing the ceremony. Rev. Sandy Osborn received the sad news last week that his brother, Mr. John Osborne, of Grand Tower, Ill., died Thursday. Mrs. Sarah Gillam is on the sick list. Mrs. America Jane Beek died Tuesday, April 1st, at 7:30 a.m. m. at theion of her mother, Mrs. Louise Wilson, age 41 years, 9 months and 25 days. Her husband, Mr. J. R. Beck, preceded her in death about two years ago. Mrs. Beck has been in poor health for two years. She leaves to mourn her loss a loving mother, four brothers, two aunts and a host of other relatives and friends. Mrs. Beck was a member of Council No. 83 of the Home Protective associations of Hannibal. Brief funeral service was held on Thursday morning at the home of her mother, Mrs. Louise Wilson. Interment at Clarksville, Mo. Messrs. Wallace and Ivy Gordon spent Saturday and Sunday visiting friends in Monroe, Paris and Moberly, Mo. STRAIGHT AT IT. There is no use of our "bating around the bush." We might as well out with it first as last. We want you to try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy the next time you have a cough or cold. There is no reason so far as we can see why you should not do so. This preparation by its remarkable cures has gained a world wide reputation, and people everywhere speak of it in the highest terms of praise. It is for sale by all dealers. MT. PLEASANT. IOWA Last week the correspondent neglected to write up the Easter program. They were as follows: At 3 p. m. the Baptist Sunday school rendered an excellent program, which was well attended and appreciated by a large audience. At 7:30 p. m. the A. M. E. Sunday school and choir rendered a very good program, which was no less appreciated and attended. Mrs. G. W. Jackson returned from Albia last Saturday. She was accompanied by her sister and niece, Mrs. F. Parker and daughter. Mrs. Cutler Robinson and children of Centerville are visiting at the home of the former's mother, Mrs. Nellie Palmer. Sunday afternoon at 3 p. m. at the First Baptist church twenty-eight converts were baptized by Rev. Eaves, assisted by Rev. Palmer. Mrs. S. Turner Cary of Chicago left last Wednesday for her home, after a two weeks' stay. Mrs. Jane Clark of Clinton is here visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robt. Anderson. Miss Bernice Cage is still improving. Mrs. Vollie Thompson is quite ill so this writing at this writing. The many friends of Mrs. John Greepun are sorry to learn she is poorly again. A Healing Salve For Burns, Chapped Hands and Sore Nipples. As a healing salve for burns, sore, sore nipples and chapped hands Chamberlain's Salve is most excellent. It allays the pain of a burn almost instantly, and unless the injury is very severe, heals the parts without leaving a scar. Price, 25 cents. For sale by all dealers. MASONIC GRAND LODGE NOTES. The Iowa State Bystander is the official organ of the Most Worshipful United Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. M. of Iowa and jurisdiction. The grand officers are: Grand Master—John L. Thompson, Des Moines. D. G. M.—A. A. Bland, Keokup. S. G. W.—H. E. Williams, Ottumwa. J. G. W.—M. O. Culbertson, Clinton. G. Treasurer—W. H. Milligan, Cedar Rapids. G. Secretary—W. W. Gross, Keokuk. G. Custodian—A. G. Clark, Oskaloosa. Chairman of Committee of F. C.—Geo. L. Suitor, Marshalltown. The Grand Custodian, A. G. Clark, has divided the jurisdiction into the following district: First district, consisting of Keokuk, Burtown, Bington, Ottumwa, Buxton, Oskaloosa and East Des Moines. Second district, West Des Moines, Marshalltown, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Clinton and Davenport. Third district, Sioux City, Council Bluffs and Omaha, Neb. The schools of the First district will be held in Ottumwa, the Second in Cedar Rapids and the Third in Omaha, Neb. £14,000 SHORTAGE. Fort Worth, Texas.--(Special to Bystander).--Nothing has been awaited with as much interest as the official version of the $14,000 shortage in the Masonic grand lodge of Texas. Even the members of the grand lodge have not known with certainty the sum and circumstances. W. M. McDenald, grand secretary of the Texas jurisdiction and editor of the Masonic Quarterly, in the current issue of that paper gives what urports to be the grand lodge's side of Texas. McDonald says: "Dr. Bluitt of his own accord tendered to the grand master October 5, 1912, his resignation as grand treasurer, and admitted that he was due the grand lodge $13,397.26 (which was afterwards found to be $13,918.06), none of which he stated he could pay. Grand Master McKinney officially suspended Grand Treasurer B. R. Bluitt on December 2, 1912, and on December 30, 1912, notified the Oklahoma Bonding company to pay him the $25,000 for the grand lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Texas, $13,918.06; and that he would look to them to pay that amount. The Oklahoma Bonding company had made a $25,000 bond for Grand Treasurer Bluitt. When will the bond be collected? I don't know. I don't think a living BAST SIXTH AND LOCUST STS, OZONO KING OF ALL HAIR DRESSINGS Needed-- An Extension Telephone "A Call for You" When the telephone rings in your place of business, does someone shout across the room or down the hall for the person wanted? Extension station service places another tele- phone where it is needed and cuts out useless steps and confusion. Do You Have an Extension Telephone? IOWA TELEPHONE COMPANY 401-IT man can answer that question. I cannot find it in my heart to excuse or justify the deliberate acts of Past Grand Treasurer B. R. Blutt." McDonald is the cashier of the Fratral Bank and Trust Co. of this city and the leading Negro politician in Texas; Dr. Blutt is the leading Negro physician in the state and his home in Dallas is said to be the most palatial of any colored man in Texas. He and McDonald have been fraternal, political and personal friends for years. FOR CONSTIPATION: Mr. L. H. Farnham, a prominent druggist of Spirit Lake, Iowa, says "Chamberlain's Tablets are certainly the best thing on the market for constipation." Give these tablets a trial. You are certain to find them agreeable and pleasant in effect. Price, 25 cents. For sale by all dealers. Mrs. A. M. Pope—Turnbo Results of "Poro" Treatment "PORO COLLEGE" Largest dormitory in the world. 200 YORK STREET, ST. LINN, OH. Please note that the dormitory is not open to students who are not registered with the University of Pennsylvania. Students must register with the University of Pennsylvania and pay the required fees to be admitted to the dormitory. The University of Pennsylvania reserves the right to charge additional fees for students who are not registered with the University of Pennsylvania. # Chance for a Bargain An Irishman who had begun to prize photography went into a shop to purchase a small bottle in which to mix some of his solutions. Seeing one he wanted, he asked the chemist how much it would be. He said it would be as it is but: "you want anything in it, I won't charge you for the bottle." "Thus, said Pat," "just a cup in it." Willing to Unflee "When you feels any temptation somin' along," said the friend and advisor, "you muu say: 'Get the beehin' me, Satan." "Da's what I done said," answered Mr. Erastus Pinkley, "an' can I imagine I byhls Satan answer me each? I all right. We both realize same way, nowoh, as it don' make so diffrence to me which leads to exhcasion." REASONABLE RATES PUBLIC INVITED Hotel Buxton A new modern steam heated hotel—Everything first class Cigars, Soft Drinks, Lunches etc Open Day and Night O. PETERSON, Phone 261 Proprietor Buxton, Iowa When in Sioux City Iowa go to Mayo's Restaurant for good meals and lunches at all hours Also Good Rooming House at 917 4th Street- New Phone 4084 A good remedy for sleepiness is to wet a towel and apply to the back of the neck, pressing it hard up against the base of the brain and fastening over this cloth to prevent too rapid evaporation. The effect will be prompt and pleasant, cooling the brain and inducing a sweet and peaceful sleep than cold for the purpose. This remedy will prove useful to people suffering from overwork excitement or anxiety. Willing to Oblige "When you feels any temptations comin' along," said the friend and advisor, "you must say: 'Get the beehm me, Satan.'" "Do's what I done said," answered Mr. Erasus Pinkley, "an den des magno his right. He's right. We both swine de same way, notoh, as it'd mans so diffence to me which leads to subassession." Bars Weahington Portrait Rae Washington A rare and curious mesotin portraits of George Washington in the library of the University of 8. Richardson of Lowell, Mass., was auctioned on last year in Boston. It is entitled "George Washington, late president of the United States of America, etc." and was published March 14, 1801, by J. Hinton Linden. It is a small folio and is colored by hand. It looks as much like George III. as it does the Father of His Country, Baker, who wrote the "Engraved Portraits of Washington," says that only one impression of this mesotin has come under the notice of the writer. It was in neither the Clarkson nor the Carson sale of Washington portraits. Insist on Yellow Flour. Charles Christador, an expert on flour and grains, sounds the keynote of the new situation brought about by the bleached flour decision when he says in a communication to the editor commenting on the bleached flour decision: "The housewife will now insist on yellow tinted or creamy flour, and will learn to realise that a natural flour very well suits the creamy or yellow flour in so far as glutens and muscle building values are concerned. "As t-m m8 to 90 per cent, of the large four mills of the country were using this bleaching process, the decision is far-reaching."—National Food No More Gold Lace for Afghanans. The amuer has published an edited which applies to all parts of istan, prohibits import into istan, prohibits all kinds of gold into istan, insults embroidered kullus langleg and embroidered shoes. The amuer is evidently actuated by a desire to prevent his subjects from spending their hard earned money on showy dress. It is the poorer classes who are notoriously addicted to this extravagance which his majesty has decided check. The royal court of the Afghanghan is indulgent indoors, and although the amuer has acted wisely in bringing into general use clothing less costly, his majesty's orders will doubt less be received by his subjects with rather mixed feelings. Bronze Bestowal of Charity: Proper Sentiment of Charity Dickens: There are not a few whom the discipline requires in their reposition, scarcely less exertion than the votories of pleasure in theirs; and hence it is that diseased sympathy and compassion are every day expended on out-of-the way objects, when only too many demands upon the legitimate exercise of the same virtues in a healthy state are constantly within the sight and bearing of the most unobservant person alive. In short, charity must have its romance, as the novelist or the play wright must have his. PILE and RECTAL BOOK SENT FREE Explains the Mid-Medical Treatment for all Rectal Diseases. Contains information from person cured year ago with whom you may correspond correctly. Has been devoted to the exact study and treatment of Rectal Disease. Motes for book today. DR. C. Y. CLEMENT Marquette Bldg. Dresden, N. PILE and RECTAL BOOK SENT FREE Explains the Mild Medical Treatment Contains scores b of testimonial Contains scores b of testimonial with whom you may correspond or go to see. My professional life is involved in a research study and treatment of Recalc Diseases in Des Moines. DR. C. Y. CLEMENT Harvard Journal of Medicine in USA Ancient Uses of Bloodbounds. Although the use of bloodbounds for tracking criminals still survives, another ancient use of these dogs seems to have died out. Bloodbounds were at one time often called upon to assist an army in the field, the forces with which the earl of Essex suppressed the Irish rebellion in the time of Elizabeth, for insufface, being accompanied by 800 dogs. In the Scotish clan feuds and the threat of England and Scotland bloodbounds were regularly employed in tracking warriors, warriors, and both Wallace and Bruce were hunted in this manner. Wallace is said to have baffled his pursuers by killing a follower and leaving the corpse for the hound to find. While Bruce adopted the less cruel plan of wading some distance down a stream and ascending a tree which overhung the water. THE TIME FOR PRECAUTION. The chill of winter makes it necessary, in the spring, to use something on the scalp which will have a tonic effect, if you would have a and keep good hair. Chill and cold has the same effect on the hair and scalp that it has on other parts of the person; yet, in the spring you take a spring tion to get the body in condition without giving a thought to the hair and scalp. When your hair begins to break and fall out you are surprised, never thinking that by the use of a little precaution you could save your worry and your hair too. Suppose you give your hair a chance this spring by using Madam P. M. Dahney's XXth Century Hair Preparations. XXth Century Shampoo will not only clean the scalp, but will prepare it for the beneficial processes of XXth Century Hair Grower and Pressing Oil. Madam P. M. Dahney's XXth Century Hair Grower rids the scalp of dandruff, relieves that itchy condition, produces a beautiful growth of hair and stops it from falling out and breaking off. A six weeks' treatment of Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Preparations sent on receipt of P. O. money order for $1.25, or a single package of XXth Century Hair Grower, Pressing Oil or Shampoo sent for 50c. Liberal terms to agents. Write today to Madam P. M. Dabney's XXth Century Hair Preparations Co., 1806 E. 24th L. Kansas City, Mo., Dept. 30. Would Seem So. Crawford-Do the rich know no the other half live? Crabshaw—After taking their money, from them they must be able toors some idea of how they are compelled to live.—Puck ORIGINAL NOTICE. In the district court of the state of Iowa, in and for Polk county, May term, A. D. 1913. Lillie Cole, plaintiff. vs James Cole, defendant. To the above named defendant: You are hereby notified that the petition of the plaintiff in the above entitled cause is now filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of the state of Iowa, in and for Polk county, Iowa, claiming of you a divorce from the bonds of matrimony on the ground of desertion, also asking the care, custody, and control of her minor child, Taft Cole, during his minority. For further particulars see petition, and unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the next term, being the May term of said court, which will commence at Des Moines on the 5th day of May, 1913, default will be entered against you and judgment and decree ren- dered thereon. Woodson & Brown, Attorneys for Plaintiff. VIVIAN L. JONES Funeral Director WE are the only Importers and Manufacturers of keen Colored People's Hair. Also Wear We absolutely guarantee our hair to stand combing and washing and to retain its color and crimp. Wigs, Plates, Brides, Transformations, and more are available at Straightening Coatings and Toilet Articles. Send twocent stamp for Price List. The Old Reliable Mine. 456 8th Avenue 11-10-2-16 Between YOU CAN' W. L. HARRISON, Prop Phone Would Seem So. ORIGINAL NOTICE James Cole defendant. Woodson & Brown Attorneys for Plaintiff The very best service guaranteed Prices the lowest - - - - - - - Calls answered promptly day or night No extra charges for distance —Reverse all phone charges PHONE: Maple 2548 Residence Black 1658. Office 519 East Court Ave Des Moines A. B. JOHN L. THOMPSON, EDITOR J. H. SHEPARD, MANAGER Published every six days by the bystander Publishing Company, Bea- lmont, Iowa. Office in Chemical building, corner Sears and Hatha Brewery. Town phone, Was- nut 899. Official paper of the M. W. U. G. Lodge of Iowa, A. E. A. M., and International Grand Congress of Heroes of Jericho of Ameri- and Western Baptist Association Entered at the postmaster as noon class matter. 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Sign all articles, write only upon one side of paper, write a plain hand and spell accurately. Do not use abbreviations or contractions or receptions nor send in programs to be published before or after the event. Do not give an eulogy or write your personal comment upon the event. Simply tell the news or event in a brief, simple manner. Write the Bystander of all classes, all societies, all religious dominations, irrespective of your personal whims or ideas. N. B.—Correspondents: Please mail your letters that contain news for publication not later than Wednesday to insure publication for the current week; and sign your name, the name of the person but that we may know who writes the news. Communications must be written on one side of the paper only and be of interest to the public. "Brevity is the soul of wit," remember. The Iowa State Stynder is the oldest Afro-American journal published in Iowa. We established its office in 1945 is read by only all the colored people of Iowa. We have correspondents in the following towns: Albia ..... Miss May Davis Oskalosaa ..... Luella B. Franklin Washington ..... N. L. Black Burlington ..... M. Mrs. L. Black Mt. Pleasant ..... Mrs. M. Burnsaga Montmouth. II ..... Georgia Colafx ..... Miss Stella Pierson Minneapolis ..... Chas. F. Nasl Clarinda ..... Mrs. Eva M. Stevens Keokun ..... Mrs. A. J. Fields Mrs. Jennie Freeman Ottumwa ..... Miss Hazel F. Clark Galesburg. II ..... Mayi Richardson Davenport ..... Mrs. C. H. Marshall St. Paul ..... Mrs. Q. H. Hicks Rock Island ..... Mrs. Chas. Wendorf Moline, II ..... Mrs. Geo. H. Warner Buxton ..... W. A. Brown Sloux City ..... Miss Etta Grant Clinton ..... A. A. Bash Council Bluffs ..... Mrs. F. C. Walker Centerville ..... J. W. Evans Macon, Mo. ..... Lucy Harris Mason City ..... Mrs. Maud Brewton Quincy, Ill ..... Mrs. Mattye Lillie Subscribe for The Iowa State Eystander. Protective Device When a telephone line is electrically charged the telephone acts as a condenser. The winding serves as one plate of the condenser, the frame of the receiver as the dielectric and the person who is holding the receiver to his car as the other plate of the condenser. In order to prevent this condenser from discharged through the person, a German inventor provides a grounded metal cover for the receiver, the capacity of which is somewhat greater than that of the body. Hot Home-Made Bread all day with those delicious home cooked meals. When in Chicago, Ill. Everybody eats at the