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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. State Capital Bldg. Hist. reel Rece 1OV VOL. XIX NO. 50 CITY NEWS. The Maple Street Baptist church held regular services Sunday. Mrs. Chas. Turner who has been seriously ill is able to be out again. The Missionary Circle met Friday at the home of Mrs. S. Bates. Mrs. Joseph Stone, who has been indisposed for several days, has greatly improved. Rev J. W. Morton left Sunday for Danville, Va., where he was called on account of the illness of his father. Mr. Frank P. Johnson, who has been quite ill at his home on Thirteenth street, is reported much better at this writing. Rev. and Mrs. S. Bates entertained at dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Ben H. Johnson, and Mrs. H. Rodgers of Lake Park. Mr. W. H. Mason who recently returned from the West, is now employed at the McCurnin Drug Co., in the luncheonette department. The Benjamin club met last Thursday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Murray, 1447 Fremont street and gave a home social which netted a neat sum. Mr and Mrs. J. G. Cavis of 1722 W, 8th street are happy over the arrival of a 7½ lb. baby girl at their home May 17, 1913. Mother and child doing well. The Dramatic Art club met Tuesday with Mrs. C. G. Johnson. Next meeting June 3rd with Mrs. Laws, study Cantos XII and XIII of Purgatory. The Get Busy club met Tuesday night at the Maple Street Baptist church and realized a neat sum from an entertainment, Pres. S. Rodgers; Sec. Mrs. B. Campbell, There will be a special meeting of the Mother's Congress Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. R. N. Hyde. All members are urged to be present as there is important business to be transacted. Rev. F. C. Bolling of Enterprise will occupy the pulpit of Corinthian Baptist church Sunday morning and evening. the pastor, Rev. T. L. Griffith will be in Topeks, Kan. to deliver the Baccalaureate sermon at the Industrial and Educational Institute. Monday night the Carnation club met with Mr. and Mrs. R. White, 751 11th street, and was entertained by A. J. Warricks. After the transaction of business refreshments were served. Pres. Mrs. S. Bates; Sec. Mrs. S. Trent. Mr. C. W. Strawther, one of our industrious young men who is messenger at the Citizens National Bank, recently purchased property at 947 14th Street Place and mov-d into it this week. We are always glad to hear of our young men making a move like this NOTICE All Des Moines delegates to the I. S. F. J. W. C. will leave via of C. R. J. R. R. Monday at 7:30 a.m. and arrive in Davenport at 1 p. m. in time for the Board meeting at 3 p. m. Mrs. Lucy Shull and Mr. Grower Shull wish to thank their many friends for kindness shown them during the sickness and death of their husband and brother; also for the many beautiful floral offerings. Monday evening twenty boys and girls had a pleasant surprise party on Mrs. Thomas Harris at the residence of Mrs. Shackleford. The occasion being Mrs. Harris's birthday she received some beautiful presents. The evening was spent in music and games. A lovely repast was served and just before departing the group had flashlight pictures taken. All report a lovely time WANTED—At once a barber at Cedar Rapids, Ia., Address J. B. Nelson, 202 N. 1st street. STUDENTS WANTED—I want about 6 students to act as waiters during their vacation, at Hyerion Field Club House. Good opportunity for young people who have to work their way thru school. Some experience desired. H. C. Brown. Care Bystander office. Neatly furnished rooms, 82 per week and up. Nice locality. N. Wiley 1008 Center at, phone red 1387. PROPERTY FOR SALE I have 12 houses and lots, also some vacant lots and acreages for sale reasonable, on easy terms. Call at the Bystander office or see John L. 1homp- Sold Miss Ceel Harris, who has been living in Chicago, was brought home last week and taken to the Methodist hospital, where she underwent an operation. The last reports are that she is getting along as well as could be expected. Mrs. Price Alexander, who has been critically ill for several days, was removed to the Methodist hospital to undergo an operation. Her many friends are greatly alarmed over her condition and hope she will soon be on the road to recovery. Mrs. J. W. Fields entertained Monday evening in honor of her daughter, Mrs. Margurite Lee, of Minneapolis, Minn., who spent a few days in Des Moines the first of the week. Mrs. Lee was accompanied by her husband. One of the most interesting and novel entertainments ever presented by the children at Union Congregational church was given last Thursday evening in the auditorium of the church. The play, which was entitled "The Merry Month of May," was composed by Mrs. H. E. Jacobs, who deserved great credit and who was assisted in drilling the children by Misses Daisy Jacobs and Lillian Neal. The stage was decorated with trees, grass and flowers, with a beautiful May basket hung in the center, which was presented by Mr Charles Stewart. The crowded house was fully appreciated, the proceeds of when went for the benefit of the Sunday school. Federation Club Women Delegates Take Notice We are in good shape to serve you good meals or lunches at all hours E. Green, 114 E. 5th street. The same restaurant which served the Grand Masonic lodge last summer. You are invited here. E. Green Proprietor. OUR CITY CHURCH SERVICES. Corinthian Baptist church, church of Fitzgerald and old streets. Rev. T. Griffith, minister. Morning services at 10:30. Sunday school at 12 o'clock. B. Y. P. Union at 6:30 p. m. Evening services at 7:30 p. m. Union Congregational church, corner of Tenth and Park streets. Rev. V. M. Brummfield, pastor. Morning services at 10:45. Morning services at 10:40. Subject, "The True Life and Its Secret." Sunday school at 12 o'clock noon. Evening service at 8 o'clock. Subject, "Christian Gratitude." Asbury Methodist Episcopal church, 777 West Eleventh street. Rev. W. L. Lee, pastor. Morning services at 11 o'clock a.m. Sunday school at 10 o'clock a.m. Epworth League at 7 o'clock p.m. Preaching services at 8 o'clock p.m. St. Paul's A. M. E. church, corner of Second and Center streets. Rev. B. U. Taylor, pastor. Morning services at 11 o'clock. Class meeting immediately after services. Sunday school at 3 o'clock p.m. Allen C. E. at 6:30 o'clock p.m. Evening services at 8 o'clock p.m. Maple Street Baptist church, between Eighth and Ninth street on Maple street. Rev. S. Bates, pastor. Morning services at 11 o'clock a. m Sunday school at 1 o'clock p. m. B. Y. P. U. at 6 o'clock p. m. Prayer meeting at 7 o'clock p. m. Preaching at 8 o'clock p. m. Reliable Jewelry Graduation Present for your friends from a good reliable firm that will guar- antee all their goods We do all kind of repair work. Our prices are reason- able--come and look over our large stock of the latest designs SCILAMOPY All the Corner of the big Clock LOCUST STREET AT SIXTH AVE. Cure for Stomach Disorders. Disorders of the stomach may be avoided by the use of Caamberlain's Tablets. Many very remarkable cures have been affected by these tablets. Sold by all dealers. DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1913. EDITOR'S OBSERVATIONS 1913. (By John L. Thompson.) Again on bicycle with pen in hand we have started out upon our regular annual collecting trip incidentally to observe the changes and improvements that have been made among our race in each community, town or city that we might visit. I sometimes think that these lessons become a bore or monotonous to our readers, yet after all and after a lapse of a year we are glad to hear of the progress that the race is making in their community, which to some degree is encouraging because they are so many towns and so many individuals that are deserving of space that we must necessarily condense the articles even though we would like to do otherwise. still here working at her business, doing well. The tri-cities will be our next stop. (Special to the Iowa State Bystander) The official program for the Colored Women's Federated Clubs of Iowa, which is to meet in Davenport, May 28th to 28th, 1913, seems to be quite a bit mixed up and misleading in the main. The erroneousness of the official program is causing some dissatisfaction. The official program is persistent in stating that the federation is to be held at the Third Baptist church, which statement is not true. Bethel A. M. E. church, southeast corner of Ripley and Eleventh streets, is the place of meeting. Bethel A. M. E. church asked for the meeting long before the Federation voted Davenport its meeting place for 1913. I told the ladies who went up to Sioux City to tell the Federation if Sioux City to tell the Federation for their next visit. ceased are extern sympathy of sorrow. We glad to I. T. Rush, who left months ago with a elsewhere, has done home, he having a position with the dry Co. Mrs. Lulu Lamb M. Geo. Gowf of tended the Odd of Union Baptist churc They were entertained the home of Rev. Bowles, 1308 High Rev. Samuel John African Baptist churc baptizing on the I. Olive Baptist churc The services were a source of the loyal members tions. Mrs. Susan Cham Mo. visited recently. Oakalaose, Iowa, the "Quaker City," was our first stop. This town bears an Indian name and was one of the oldest settlements in Iowa by a band of Quakers from Pennsylvania. In fact Oakalaose is today unique in Iowa, as it has the only Quaker college in the state and the only Holiness college in Iowa. In fact it has three colleges with a population of about 1000, of which about 600 are colored people, who have two churches, the A. M. E. presided over by our friend, Rev. John H. Bell, who is making a success, and the M. E. church, pastored by Rev. A. A. Tolson, a new minister recently assigned here. He is now a pastor, and upon his work, Mr. A. Hardy is one of the oldest and substantial men of our race. He is doing well, A. G. Clark is still operating his torsional parlor. Frank Moore is assisting him. Mr. Clark is our grand custodian of the Masonic lodge. E. J. Jones is working at the same place. Mr. Henry Coleman is still at Boldworth's dry goods store. He has worked there for more than twenty-one years. H. J. Hackady is still running his barber shop. Mr. Lloyd is running the barber shop in Mr. George Jones' old shop, doing nicely. Rev. M. G. Newman is a very busy man at his trade, that of a carpenter. Robt. Franklin is still here. Mr. Frank Allen is perhaps the most successful of any of the men here. He owns a beautiful home and has several men working for him. He owns a beautiful home and is a hustler, highly respected. Robt. Johnson is employed by the Standard Oil company as a driver of the oil wagon. Robert is a fine man, a real race man. The new subscribers from here are Hannah Williams, L. T. Tolson, H. J. Anderson, A. L. Cooper, Frank Allen, Julia Taylor, Rev. A. A. Tolson, Robt Johnson and W. Crum. Washington, Iowa, being our next stop. Here we are told that the people are about as usual. I think perhaps a larger per cent of our race here own our own homes than any other town in Iowa. Our agent, Mr. N. L. Black, had done his duty as a real agent. He had collected most all the subscription dues. Rev. W. D. Brown, pastor of the A. M. E. church, the only colored church here, is doing well. He is improving the church both on the interior and exterior preparatory to entertaining the district Sunday school convention on the 25th of June. The ladies of this city have a nice club, recently organized, and the men of the city have also organized a club for social and commercial advantages. Both organizations are doing well. Mr. Joe Daniels still holds the city contract to do the street sprinkling. He is the most successful business man here. Mr. Horace Spencer is a cement contractor in this city. He is neither a brother of John Spencer, the con- director of Grinnell. Mr. Geo. Black is the oldest colored barber in Iowa. He has been barbering in Iowa since 1852 and Ye Editor is indebted to Mr. Black for some manuscripts and early history of the first colored colonies in Iowa, which we are compiling to some day print a history of Iowa colored men. Mr. Mott, the barber, is one of the best fixed financially here. Mr. Rhodes is still working at the depot. Iowa City was our next stop. Dwells but a few families. Mrs. Ella Moore and her daughter, Daisy Fannie, are in the hair dressing and manicuring business. They have got a nice business. Mrs. Moore at one time lived in Des Moines. Rev. B. F. Hubbard, our good friend, is the pastor of the only colored church here, the A. M. B. He is doing nicely. Wesley Thompson, our work here, will be trained to succeed financially. He is a fine young man. There are about sixteen colored students here attending the university, Mr. J. W. Morton, formerly of Des Moines, is here doing nicely. Our next stop was in Muscatine. Here lives about 500 colored people. Mr I. P. Johnson and Arthur Manley i. P. own very valuable acreage garden farms near the city limits. Wm. Thompson is doing well. His wife. Mrs. Alice, is improving from a spell of sickness. Miss Fannie Gooms is still matron at the court house. The three Greenway boys and father are still running a first class barber shop. They have recently bought a seven- passenger automobile. John McElroy is head chef at the Kimball hotel. D. A. Disham is still running his bar- shop, as also is Frank A. Walker. Mrs. A. L. Jamieson runs a boarding house. Mr. Robt. and W. L. Seay are two of South Muscatine's good citizens. Miss Maude Owlesy is still here working at her trade, doing well. The tri-cities will be our next stop. (Special to the Iowa State Bystander) (Special to the Iowa State Bystander) The official program for the Colored Women's Federated Clubs of Iowa, which is to meet in Davenport, May 26th to 28th, 1913, seems to be quite a bit mixed up and misleading in the main. The erroneousness of the official program is causing some dissatisfaction. The official program is persistent in stating that the federation is to be held at the Third Baptist church, which statement is not true. Bethel M. A. M. church is southeastern on Ripley and Eleven street, is the place of meeting. Bethel A. M. E. church asked for the meeting long before the Federation voted Davenport its meeting place for 1913. I told the ladies who went up to Sioux City to tell the Federation if they chose Davenport for their next meeting place that we extended them a cordial welcome to the Federation in Bethel A. M. E. church. Now I understand that this invitation was accepted by the Federation. The federated clubs of Davenport all understood that Bethel A. M. E. church is the meeting place of the Federation, which convenes in our city May 26th to 28th. We also have a number of men by the name of Stovall, and some of them are reverends. I notice that a Rev. Stovall is to make a welcome address on behalf of the Federation. I would like to know the gentleman's full name and where he is from, etc. I think this is due anyone who is placed upon a program of this kind. and oblige. Yours for the Federation T. B. Stovall, Pastor, Bethel A. M. E. Church, Davenport. WASHINGTON, IOWA, NOTES. J. L. Thompson, editor of The Bystander, visited in our city May 14th and at night addressed a large audience at the church. His talk was instructive and interesting. Mr. and Mrs. Armistead, bride and groom, arrived last Sunday from Fairfield and will make their home in this city for an indefinite time. Mrs. Julia Currie has returned from Chicago and was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Major Brown, who will make an extended visit at the H. Spencer home. She is here to recuperate and the change is proving effective. The Intellectual Improvement club had charge of the evening services at the A. M. E. church last Sunday evening and an interesting program was rendered. The speakers of the evening were G. W. Black and John Taylor of Jacksonville, Ill. A good audience was present. Regular meeting of the Intellectual Improvement club at the A. M. E. church next Tuesday evening. A good attendance is desired, as a good program is to be rendered. Iris Ruth Black is visiting at the house of her aunts, Mrs. Will Jeffers and Mrs. Henry Hockedy in Oksaloosa. Rev. and Mrs. D. W. Brown spent several days this week at Keokuk and Fort Madison. Mr. Mason visited at Davenport recently. Lewis H. Wallace was indisposed a portion of this week with a lame back. He is better now. Mrs. A. L. Hall, who was sick, is convalescing. Mrs. Daniel Haynes, who had her right eye operated on for cataract, now has to have her left eye operated on for the same thing. She expects to go to the Iowa City hospital soon. Mrs. Emma Black and Mrs. Eliza Redd expect to represent the Christian Culture club at the Federation meeting at Davenport next week. The young ladies of the A. M. E. church gave a social in the lecture room Thursday evening, which was a success in all ways. Mrs. John Taylor will join her husband here next week and will spend the summer here. Mrs. Helen Anderson and Thos. Bradford of Ottumwa, who were guests at the H. Spencer home, left for their home last Tuesday week. The Christian Culture club met Thursday at the home of Miss Nettie Campbell. The meeting previous, when the delegates were elected for the Federation meet, was held by Miss Geneva Murray at the home of Mrs. Frank Walker. KEQKUK NEWS On last Tuesday evening Miss Eileen Bland and York Anderson were confirmed at St. Mary's church. Confirmation exercises were conducted by the Rv Rev. Harry Sherman Longley, D. D. (white), bishop suffragan of the Iowa diocese, who paid his first visit to the church of St. Mary the Virgin. After the exercises at the church an informal reception was tendered the new bishop suffragan at the parish hall, at which time he was greeted by a large number of the parishioners and friends. Friends of Mr. Albert Ganiel, who worked on a government boat here, and Mr. David Easley, which occurred recently in Poorls, IA. His remains were taken to Canton, Mo, his former home, for interment. Mr. W. H. Dixon, Mr. Geo. Kellas, Mr. David Easley and Mrs. L. Krepter attended the funeral obsequies. Mrs. Ritchie Johnson returned from Shelbina, Mo., last week, where she attended the funeral of her brother, Mr. Austin Lewis. Relatives of de ceased are extended the heartfelt sympathy of sorrowing friends. We are glad to know that Mr. W. T. Rush, who left our city a few months ago with a view to locating elsewhere, has decided to return home, he having accepted a responsible position with the Weinburg Laundry Co. Mrs. Lulu Lamb of New Boston and Mr. Geo. Fowler of Summitville attached the Odd Fellows service at Union Baptist church the 11th inst. They were entertained at dinner at home on June 13 and Mrs. J. H. Powell of 1839 High street. Rev. Samuel Johnson of the First African Baptist church conducted the baptizing on the 11th inst. at Mr. Olive Baptist church, New Boston. The services were well attended and were a source of much inspiration to the loyal members of this congregation. Mrs. Susan Chambers of Lagrange, Mo., visited recently with her daughter, Mrs. Ollie Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Young of Peoria, Ill., are at present in our city. Mr. Young is the hustling auctioneer that is so well known throughout the state. Mrs. Mary Bland and M. E. Dixon left last Monday morning for Buxton, Iowa, to attend the sixth annual meeting of the Grand Chapter O. E. S. A carnival that was held in our city last week attracted quite a number of visitors from Fort. Madison. Mr. Raymond Black was the chauffeur for a crowd of sightseers that came down last Friday evening. Mrs. Ina Lawson of near Hannibal, Mo., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Buckner. Mr. Richard Cutwright has bought the restaurant of Mr. Jno. Hampton near Tenth and Maine treets. The converts' banquet at Pilgrim's Rest church will be on the 22nd inst. Mr. Lawrence Bryant is now greatly improved from the effects of an operation recently performed. The annual thanksgiving sermon of the Illinois jurisdiction of S. M. T.'s will be held at Bethel church Sunday afternoon May 25th. Services conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. H. Sims. The sad news announcing the tragic death of Mr. Ed Vinson, who is quite well known here, was received by friends in our city last Saturday morning. Mr. Vinson met his untimely end by being shot three times by Harry Medford (white) at Frankfort, Mo. Our daily papers state that the authorities refuse to arrest the assailant, whom they claimed act in self-defense Mr. W. H. Taylor of our city was despatched for after the tragedy and was present with Mr. Vinson when the end came. Decreased Mr. Vinson's number, Mr. Mo. He has one son living in Quincy, Ill, and is reputed to be worth several thousand dollars. Mrs. Maud Amous Scott has returned home from a very pleasant four weeks' visit with relatives and friends in Chicago and Evanston, Ill. Mr. Jno. Tucker of Farmington, Iowa, passed through our city last Thursday en route to Missouri, where his sister, Miss Ola Tucker, closed a very successful term of school. Polico Officer Thos. Freeman is enjoying a week's recreation. Officer Freeman is one of the oldest men in point of service on the force and has the distinction of not having one mark to his discredit. Miss Louise and Naomi Harper of Fort Madison spent last Sunday in our city as guests of Miss Verna Beamon. Mrs. Harriet Dade witnessed the baptizing at Canton, Mo., on the 11th inst., also visited with relatives. Mrs. Emma Brown recently sustained a very painful injury while attempting to board a street car. We hope it may not prove serious. Mrs. Ethea Goin was called to Wayland, Mo., last Monday evening, because of the illness of her sister, Mrs. Louisa Webster. DAVENPORT NOTES. Rev. S. K. Nicholson of Chicago, Ill, prescheated at the Third Baptist church Sunday morning. Rev. G. L. Harrise, secretary of the B. Y. P. U. of Nashville, Tenn., prescheated at the Third Baptist church Sunday evening. Rev. S. B. Walkup of Moline, Ill., prescheated at Bethel A. M. E. church Sunday morning. Rev. T. B. Stovall prescheated morning and evening at the A. M. E. church, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on the occasion of Rev. F. J. Peterson's rally. Grand Master Hon. J. L. Thompson lectured at Bethel A. M. E. church Sunday evening. Subject, Their Fare Parents. The lecture was simply fine and ought to be given often to the young people everywhere. Mrs. E. S. Hoskins of W. Eleventh street left for Fort Madison to be at the bedside of her mother, who is very sick. Mrs. Ruth Bright, G. M. of the Order of the Eastern Star, and Mrs. Jennie Johnson, W. M. of Naomi chapter, No. 1, left for Buxton, Iowa, Sunday morning. Health a Factor in Success. The largest factor contributing to a man's success is undoubtedly health. It has been observed that a man is seldom sick when his bowels are regular—he is never well when they are constipated. For constipation you will find nothing quite so good as Chamberlain's Tablets. They not only move the bowels, but improve the appetite and strengthen the digestion. They are sold by all dealers. MARSHALLTOWN ITEMS. The A. M. E. church held a rally Sunday, May 18. Quite a large sum was raised toward the debt on the bank. John Spencer of Grinnell was in the city Sunday to attend the rally. While in the city he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Brown. Mr. Carl Brown was host at a dinner Sunday. Covers were laid for twelve. Those from out of town were Mr. Fred Simms and Albert Greene of Toledo, Miss Bertha Carter and Mrs. C. Starks of Cedar Rapids. Rev. I. H. Kiney entertained the A. M. E. Missionary society Thursday, the 15th, at the home of Mrs. Carrie Wheeler. Mrs. Morris (white) continued her story of Jacob Kenny, a colored missionary to Africa. After the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Addie Sutter the last Thursday in June, a three-course dinner was served by Mrs. Wheeler assisted by her daughter, Mrs. Beulah. A delightful time was had by all present. Mr. Tom Robinson of State Center was in the city over Sunday, the guest of Miss Hardenia Gilmore. At the end of the school year there was a graduation and four in high school Mrs Beulah Wheeler is in junior year. Those who will leave Monday for Davenport to attend the Iowa State Federation are Mrs. I. L. Brown, Mrs. R. Roman, Miss Wilda Warn and Miss Jessie Walker. Mrs. I. L. Brown will meet her sister, Mrs. S. W. Greene, who will also attend. at Tama City. NOTICE The Iowa-Nebraska Baptist Sunday School Convention will hold its twenty-eighth annual session with the Mt. Zion Baptist Sunday school, Buxton, Iowa, June 12, 13, 14 and 15, 1913. Dear Brethren and Co-Workers: The call is loud and the field is extensive. We urge you to come to Buxton not only with determination, but with enthusiasm for God and His cause. Let us make this the banner year of the convention. Yours for the cause. NOTES OF GRAND CHAPTER. The sixth annual grand session of Electa Grand Chapter, State of Iowa, are in session at Masonic hall at Buxton, Iowa, with Guiding Star Chapter No. 11, with Worthy Grand Matron Ruth B. Bright of Davenport presiding. The following grand officer were present: W. G. M. Ruth B. Bright, W. G. P. S. Joe Brown of Des Moines, W. G. A. M. Lizzie Green of Burlington, W. G. Treas. Emma Miliigan of Cedar Rapids, W. G. Sec. Mary F. Bland of Keokuk, G. C. Cora E. Jones of Oskaloosa, G. A. C. Addie Johnson of Buxton. Misses Jennie Koger, P. W. M., and Eva Abbey of Pride of the West Chapter, No. 30, of Minneapolis, Minn., are visiting Electa Grand Chapter. On Monday evening Guiding Star Chapter, No. 11, invited Electa Grand Chapter to dedicate their hall. Miss Jessie Walker of Marshalltown is visiting the Grand Lodge. Members of Electa Grand Chapter are being royally entertained at the Hotel Buxton. MASON CITY NEWS. Master Harry Hawkins, who has been on the sick list for the past three weeks, is reported much better. Mrs. J. R. Beverly and Mrs. Scott Davis made a flying trip to Forb Dodge on Sunday and returned the same day. Mrs. E. J. Penney of Manly, Iowa, was an over Sunday visitor in Mason City. Mrs. L. W. Tyler, who has been real sick for the past week, was able to be out again Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Stratton and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mitchell formed a party of four and went to Saunders' Cafe for a special Sunday dinner. Mrs. Midget and daughter, Margretta, are visitors in the city at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Green for an indefinite time. Their home is in Chillicothe, Mo. Mr. Redman is also a visitor in Mason City from Fulton, Ill. The Old Plantation play given by the Lared Aid was a success, having a success in spite of the stormy weather, which each of the ladies feel very proud of. Sunday was rally day at the Union Memorial church and a neat sum was realized to help complete the auditorium of the church. The Tabernacle will have an afternoon shower at the residence of Mrs. Dave Howard on Thursday in honor of Mrs. Howard's baby. Rev. F. D. Woodford is suffering this week with a severe cold. John C. Crawford, teacher of class No. 3 of Union Memorial M. E. Sunday school, gave an informal party Monday, May 18th, in behalf of his scholars. The evening was passed pleasantly by playing games. A two-course luncheon was served by Misses Freda and Clara Alexander of Mitchell, S. D. Candy maid, Miss Florence Wright. Mrs. and Mrs. Williams entertained Mr. and Mrs. Paul Scott for dinner last Sunday. As we go to press we received the sad news of the death of Mrs. Lena Richmond of Mt. Pleasant. Subscribe for The Iowa State Bystander. ```markdown ``` Price Five Cents. LEADERS IN THE CONTEST. Measure Known as House Bill No. 28 intended to Prevent Intermarriage between Races Failed of its Purpose by a vote of More than one-half. Big Victory For the People. Columbus.—The second week in April records the defeat of Ohio's separate marriage measure known as house bill No. 27. The fight against the permissible proposition was won after a severe Ohio, which lasted for several weeks. Ohio. Afro-Americans, male and female, with the aid of their influential white friends, protested vigorously against the measure, which was intended to humiliate the race in the state in particular and in the nation in general. The Cleveland delegation, known as the "militant warriors," led by the HON. HARRY C. SMITH. brave and experienced Harry C. Smith, was composed of Dr. H. C. Bailey, Theodore B. Green, Madama Bianche Glinore, Beside Kilzmiller and Mollie C. Green, gave their leader the most loyal support throughout the tedious struggle which culminated in a sweeping victory for human rights regardless of race or color. The vote stood thirty-two for and sixty-six against the passage of the separate marriage bill. Thus Ohio registers her protest against discrimination on account of race in no uncertain terns. This makes the sixth state to vote down measures of this kind. The other states are Iowa, Kansas, New Jersey, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The Hou. Mr. Smith has been three times elected to the state legislature, though not a speaker, and to support which members of the race gave him in this recent brilliant fight has greatly encouraged him to continue in the work for racial uplift. On Nov. 7, 1805, when Mr. Smith was a candidate for re-election, he received 3,000 votes more than the Republican candidate who was running for common pleas judge. In September, 1809, Mr. Smith was renominated for the second time and was elected by a large vote. There were thirty candidates, and Mr. Smith's plurality on election was the most popular work, personal and newspaper, in the interest of the race and the Republican party for a period of more than twenty-eight years is well known. His most conspicuous work as a legislator in the interest of the race during his first term (in 1804) was the passage of the Ohio civil rights law. His "mob violence or anti-punching" law, which is now on the statute books of the grand old state, overshadows all his work in the general assembly of Ohio. For four years, during the time Senator Foraker was governor, and as a result of his favor, Mr. Smith was a deputy state oil inspector. His bond of $5,000 was signed by three of Cleveland's oldest and most highly respected colored citizens. Though born in West Virginia in 1853, he has lived since 1851 in Ohio at Cleveland, where he attended the public schools, graduating from the Central high school. No other Negro legislator the state has ever bad has such a splendid record for work done, and he has been the best benefit to the race. No other is more highly respected in Ohio than Mr. Smith. Indeed, he is the only Negro legislator who has ever accomplished such work for the race. Mr. Smith has always wielded a fearless and able pen for right and truth. He has fought squarely in behalf of his race, demanding for it recognition wherever denied. Though at times he has been severely criticized, he has never yelled from what he considered his duty. Unique Business Capacity Prospera. The Farmers and Consumer league, located in the heart of the wholesale district in Philadelphia, is designed to reduce the high cost of living by a new system by which the farmer deals directly with the consumer through the league. The project is succeeding. Messrs. C. E. Brown and Charles A. Hopkins are the promoters of the Maharaja in Diplomatic Eastern Way Soothes Insulted Governor and Apologizes for Delay. A great deal of talk, some indignation and much amusement have been caused in Calcutta by the marriage of the heir of the Maharaja of Jyorep to the daughter of the Maharaja of Balaramore. To this ceremony a large number of European guests, including the lieutenant governor of the United Provinces, had been invited. They assembled at Bairaimpure two days before the date fixed for the arrival of the bridegroom. Up to the eve of the wedding day, the bridegroom had not arrived. One hundred and twenty elephants, with richest trappings of silver and gold, troops and officials were at the railway station to receive him—yet he tarried. It was announced that he was ill. On the morning of the wedding day the bridegroom appeared. In the meanwhile the carefully prepared program had been altered from hour to hour. The culmination of this course of what was believed to be a murder of the wedding procession would not start for an hour after the time fixed. The result was that the lieutenant governor did not go to the ceremony. Great indignation prevailed for a time, but this has now been changed into amusement by the explanation which the Maharaja of Jeyore has published. After stating that his son, the bridegroom, was taken ill, he says: "For reasons which are more immediately Indian than to be a European, I was helpless. Till 9 p. m. according to my priests and astrologers, there was an inauspicious time—what they call Bhadra—and till then preparations for the procession could not be commenced. "One has no control over the sacramental part of the ceremony; there the priest is the master. Then, the guests are never punctual, and among the guests you have certain relatives whose participation is absolutely necessary, and to whose whims you are accustomed to find most of your own cherished desires." The Maharaja apologizes to the lieutenant governor and the guests, and puts all the blame on the stars. Romances of Spring. To every one of the flowers that bloom in the spring there clings a romance or a poem. Job's tears, purple and petite, appear for a few hours and are gone. The bellwort hangs for a while on its delicate stem. There is the lily-of-the-valley, which is a fragrant flower. There is the family of flags and an other of pinks, there are meadow sweets and wild roses, there are the laurels of the mountain side and the daisies of the fields, morning glories and forget-me-nots, there are blacked-Susan and the nneewe weed, that large family of thistles and the rat-tattle plant. There are flowers that bloom in the summer of one year, and the tales of them go on forever. Why Dream of Falling Dr. William Brown of King's college psychological department, who supports Freud's theory that every dream is the fulfilment of some wish, recently gave an explanation of the dream of falling from a great height. It was a recurrence, he said, of the dream of falling from a subconscious aware of the danger of falling from the mother's arms—London Mail. Quite Sensible. A good story is told of a late Dublin doctor, famous for his skill and also his great love of money. He had a constant and enriching patient in an old shopkeeper in Dame street. This old lady was terribly rheumatic and unable to leave her sofa. During the doctor's visit she kept a one-pound note in her hand, which duly went into Dr. C—s pocket. One morning he found her lying dead on the sofa. Sighing deeply, the doctor approached and taking her hand in his he saw the fingers closed on his fee. "Poor thing," he said, as he pocketed it; "sensible to the last!" Looking Out for Business The thriving sole undertaker of a small western town took his little boy to the theater. The play was rampant melodrama, and the villain dispatched his victim with all alliance evidences of success. When the curtain descended upon the thrilling scene the undertaker arose to seek refreshment. The child, not comprehending the situation, amused his neighbors by inquiring in a shrill whisper: "Are you going around to get the body, pa?" Severe Attack. "What's the matter, spring fever?" "Yes, and got it bad this time, too." "Hate to work, oh!" "Worse than that. Not only do I hate work, but I've started to think that I ought to get married also."—Detroit Free Press. Jack Was "On." "Alice is telling her girl friend that she could have got Jack—if she'd only said 'Yes.'" "That's what Jack thought, so he never gave her the chance to say it." Getting Him Located. "What section of the country does that man with the peculiar makeup come from?" asked the reporter. "I don't know," replied the absent-minded editor, "realize it's the comic section." No Questions. Clark (to office boy, after senior partner has told poor joke)—Why don't you laugh, too? Olcee Boy—I don't need to; I'm leaving on Saturday—London Punish . FRONT DOOR·GUARD One of the Most Coveted Positions at Capital Post at White House Greatly Desired by Members of the Police Force—Men of Rare Qualities Are Required for the Service. To be "on the front door" of the executive office at the White House is the most coveted police assignment. it is much of a "three post," and the police hold it down year in and year out, whover may be president. So their less favored associates on the force may feel incumbents are happenings of once in a decade. The front door is guarded during the day by two privates and a sergeant. The sergeant comes on duty early in the morning and remains until the force of the executive office goes home. The two subordinate alternate in the early and late tricks, one coming before the sergeant arrives, and being relieved in the middle of the day by the man who must stay until after dark. The sergeant has been stationed at the White House for over fifteen years. One of the privates got his assignment eleven years ago, and his companion has had the post for eight years. They were chosen for special qualification. They stay because they have "made good." The futilness, gratiousness, gentleness—characteristics which are not expected of the average policeman engaged in quieting down disorderly persons—and a wide familiarity with the faces and names of public men are required of the men on the front door. Sergt. C. L. Dalylemp—he ranks as desk sergeant—is remarkable for the number of men he knows by sight and name. He has a most retentive memory. His brand of courtesy is Chesterfieldian; he is anxious to sat down and listen to the visitor to accomplish the end he seeks, and goes out of his way to please and accommodate. The executive offices are sometimes the scene chosen for disorder by men with a grudge to exploit; or with an insane idea of some sort. Sergt. Dalylemp has dealt with such incidents with the violence with which he meets the situation. The person who insists on seeing some one who is not to be seen is allowed, as long as he or she is unobtrusive, to sit in the anteroom until their persistence wears out and they are ready to move on. Where insistence becomes of the belligerent sort, the disturber is coaxed to the door on some sufficient pretext, and persuaded to go about his business. The crank is treated in much the same way, but is gotten quietly into the custody of the policemen stagnated about the grounds, who disposes of the case in the orthodox way. —he was a more high private in those days—was assigned to the White House in 1898, when McKinley was president. He performed duty on the outside, around the White House grounds, for three years before he was called inside, in 1901. Two years after that, in 1903, he was "put on the front door," and has stayed put ever since. NOT THAT KIND. Key Pittman, new senator from Nevada, did much of his primary campaigning in an automobile, the auto being the recognized mode of conveyance in that state of few railroads. Far out in the wilderness one day the machine broke down, Pittman and his fellow-spellbinders wrestled with it without avail. They needed more tools than the box contained. A hundred yards from the roadway stood a little shack. Pittman halted it. A hundredoid Swede emerged. "Hey," called Pittman, "have you got a monkey wrench?" "Hub?" said the Swede. "I said, have you got a monkey wrench?" "No; this no ban monkey ranch; this ban sheep ranch," and he slammed the door. THIRD LARGEST IN WORLD. The foreign trade of Argentina last year, totaling $400,000,000, which was $120 for each person in the country, was the third largest per capita trade among the nations of the world, according to a statement just issued by the Pan-American Union, Holland and Belgium along made better records. In comparison, the statement points out that the per capita trade of the United States is approximately $40. Paris Women Dialike Motors Paris Women Drink Motors. In virtue of a municipal decree that came into force recently the famous Paris women school closed to all but horse-drawn vehicles up to July 14—throughout, that is, the whole of the Paris season. In this happy innovation—or reaction, if you prefer—we scent feminine initiative. En auto my lady's most fetching and or costume was simply lost. Admiring glances could not keep pace with her clothes. It was more than useless for her pretty shoes and stockings, for one could see them. But in victoria or laceau she will have space and leisure to be admired. Paris Letter to the London Telegraph. Fame. "Who was Monomor" asked the Sunday school teacher. Sunday school teacher. "He was the greatest ladies' man that ever lived," spoke up the new boy, seeing that no one else seemed to have an answer ready. A Large Contract. "I would box your ears," said a young lady to her stupid and three-some admirer, "if—" "if what?" he asked anxiously, "what is it?" he asked. box large enough for the purpose." NEW BRANCH OF EDUCATION. "The municipal university is comparatively new in this country, and its development will be watched with interest," said Dr. P. P. Clarkton, United States commissioner of education the other day, in discussing the University of Cincinnati. "There are certain significant differences in how tend to know how valuable such an institution may be to a community. Consider the student body. Something like 22 per cent of the students are fatherless. Of the fathers of the others, less than one-fourth are in the so-called professions. Over three-fourths are in nonprofessional, commercial or mechanical pursuits. As a further indication of the class reached by the university, 85.5 percent followed gainful occupations before coming to college", and 74 per cent of them work regularly for a part of the time during the year. "Although the municipal university may be more or less of a novelty in this country, it is by no means so rare abroad. Any one who has studied at Leipzig knows that the university in Leipzig is the most prestigious university, but is first and foremost the University of Leipzig—a municipal institution." SMITH WAS PERPLEXED. GREAT INFLUX OF IMMIGRANTS The inflow of immigrants into the United States for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1913, will probably be greater than that for any other year in the history of the country. Judging from the reports now being received by the commissioner general of immigration, the arrival of aliens in this country by the end of June will pass the high water mark of 1907, when approximately 1,200,000 immigrants landed on the shores of America. Statistics received by Commissioner General Keefe show that for the first nine months of the present fiscal year, which ended March 31, 1916, 888,888 immigrants arrived in this state at ports of entry. If this ratio should keep up, it is estimated that at least 420,000 additional will arrive during the last three months of the year, which will bring the grand total up to 1,308,888, the highest mark ever reached, according to the records at the immigration bureau. EXPERIENCE ONLY WAY. More than 40 per cent, of all the farmers interviewed by government representatives believe that experience is the only way to learn how to farm. This percentage told agents recently sent out by the department of agriculture that they took no stock in farmers' institutes, demonstration agents, farm papers or department of agriculture publications as aids in helping to make the soil more productive. Starting on motorcycles or on foot four department agents have traveled through 13 states, visiting every farmer along the way and asking questions. This inquiry created the fact that the farmers who got department of agriculture bulletins, 84 cents read them, and 48 per cent followed the suggestions contained therein. Of those who attended farmers' institutes it was learned that 54 per cent, practiced the methods advocated there. COLLECTION OF RARE BIRDS. A collection of more than 2,000 rare birds has been presented to the Smithsonian institution as the result of an expedition through Africa by Maj Edgar Mearns, U. S. A., retired, of the army medical corps. The birds are now being classified and cataloged Major Mearns accompanied Colonel Roosevelt on his famous African tour, and he was asked to make a second trip with an expedition fitted out by Childs Frick, son of the steel magnate He also represented the Smithsonian institution on this expedition. Hot Sun No Aid to Grass. Farmers will be interested to learn on the authority of a French scientist that just as good harvests can be expected after a dull summer as after a long spell of sunshine. He says that the value of the burning orb's rays in helping crops is greatly overestimated. Observations show that crops were just as good after the summers of 1810 and 1912 when the skies generally were overcast, as after the universally sunny summer of 1811. The reason for this, he says, is that only a moderate quantity of light is necessary to assimilate the carbon gas in the air. Heart in an Office. Dibba—I say, Gibbs, let's go some where tonight. The wife got every thing torn up, housecleaning. Gibbs—Nay, nay, old man! Things are ditto at our place, but as the poet says: "Be it ever so tumbled, there's no place like home." Gasoline, Victim. Hiram—The doctor says Erra is sur- fering from auto-intoxication. Silas—Guess that it's, bgoh! The foller acted just like anyone else until he got that automobile—Judge. PRINCESS MARY MAY FOLLOW HOUNDS SOON EX-GOVERNOR IS PURSUED BY LOVELORN GIRLS EX-FEMPRESS EUGENIE IS AGAIN IN LIMELIGHT WEARS $363.400 IN GEMS TO GRAND OPERA Young Princess Mary's fondness for horsesmanship has already been re already been referred to in many publications. Now comes the announcement that she is likely to follow the bounds fairly regularly next season. She has been out with the Garth pack on two or three occasions late and early, and she covered the experience. Few are aware that by the time terrified to in many publications. Now Owen is the new announcement that she is likely to follow the hounds fairly regularly next season. She has been out with the Garth pack on two or three occasions lately and has greatly enjoyed the company. Few are aware that by the time the prince of Wales attains his twenty-first birthday he will be one of the wealthiest unmarried princes in Europe. Ever since the present king of England came to the throne the greater part of the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall has been allowed to accumulate for the benefit of the heir apparent. A sum of more than has just been placed on the hands of the king for the ultimate benefit of the prince of Wales, and this will be most carefully invested. From the time that the king became duke of Cornwall he devoted a large amount of care and thought to the development of his suit that the revenues have gradually Cupid is still giving merry chase to Albert W. Glehrich, ex-governor of Florida, now a citizen of Waycross, Ga. And he has the degree of the married females throughout the United States. Hardly a week passes the former executive does not receive a proposal from someone. Two mrs. would-be brides are out-att citizen of Waycross, Ga. And he has the active connivance of unmarried females throughout the United States. Hardly a week passes the former executive does not receive a proposal from some woman. Two more would-bride are out after the bachelor governor since he left the executive chair. One of the most recent proposals the retired executive has received came from a sixteen-year girl in Wisconsin. She had been the governor state of the single-blessedness, and thought he might approve of a miss of her inches and style. She sent Governor Gilchrist her latest photograph, and informed him in a delicate but very evident manner that her intentions were really serious. She cautioned the governor to --- An historic figure is the ex-Empress Eugene, who is now in her eighty- eighth year. She is now at her villa at Cap Martin, France, and she has given permission to a well-known sculptor to reproduce her features once more in the form of a bust. There are really very few good pictures of the empress in existence. The best known is the is now at her villa at Cap Martin, France. and she has given permission to a well-known sculptor to reproduce her features once more in the form of that she are really very few good pictures of the empire in existence. The best known is the simple profile which Winterhalter painted of her for her mother, the Countess of Montjolte. This was in 1863. There is also another with a big hat and flowing cinchline, one picture, among several other pictures in walking, and all at a garden party. The late Mr. Healy, who painted 'Louis Philippe, and an exhibition of whose pictures was recently made at Chicago, has also a portrait of her. ```markdown ``` Mrs. Clara Baldin wint Stocker, $1,600. 600 heirs of the jute "Lucky" Baldin win. was the other day called the "Jewelled Lady of the Coast" and the "precious stones" valued at more than a quarter of a million dollars, beautifully gowned, she created a sensation at the grand opera at Los Angeles. MARY BROWN There were Clamonds on her gold satin pumpe, diamonds on her imported embroidered gildish net stockings, diamonds on her hands, her ears and her hair, all offset by a $55,000 collar and diamond star drop. And that was not all which caused the gasp from the opera lovers. Her gorgeous decolletie dress of golden satin was slit up on one side to a few inches below the base. Her mother's collection of jewelry is rated as among the most valuable in the country. She has spared neither time or expense in collection them and admitted they were the "joy of my existence." "Diamonds are my joy," said Mrs. Stocker, "I love them and will never cease loving them. I also like to show A fine tribute to the late Lord Wesley will be found in the autobiography of Sir William Butler. Wesley, wrote Butler, who served under him in many campaigns, had "the best and most brilliant brain I ever met in the British army. He was possessed of courage equal to his brain power. His body had been mauled and smashed many times, and torn his thigh to shreds. In the Crimes a shell snapped his face and blinded one eye. grown from a little more than $250,000 a year to their present figure, and this despite the fact that large sums have been expended for the improvement of the duchy. The king has just received a sum of $220,000 as the annual revenue of the duchy of Mantezier, and another, unexpended. It is understood that the Princess Royal will not be seen in society for another year. At the same time her daughters, the duchesse of Fife and Princess Maud, are not to be debarred from entering into the gayeties of the season, and will be chaperoned by the queen herself. The king said to be exceedingly fond of his two young nieces and very much interested in their future lives and welfare. It was the intention of Queen Alexandra to give her grandchildren a pleasant time this summer, and it was even hinted that there was to be a dance at Marlborough house for them. The tragic death of the king of Greece, however, put a stop to all these pleasurable possibilities, and has been very disconcerting to their royal highnesses themselves, who, of course, had no amusement last season owing to the death of their father, the duke of Fife. Both princesses are very fond of dancing, and they inherit the love of music which characterizes most members of the English royal family. write to her as though they had met before and were old friends, advising him that this was in order to keep her parents from "raising the mischief with her" in case they should run across any of the correspondence. In his letter of declination to one of the four, who had made him an out-and-out proposal of marriage, Governor Glihrtish told the lady that his campaign expenses had eaten up all of his salary as governor, and that his financial condition was such that he was unable to purchase the necessary hats, pins, ribbons and hair usually needed by a woman. Her reply politely informed him that she was a woman of means, and amply able to provide her own hair and other feminine nails. She also informed her governor that she was well attracted to him and did not want him to think for a moment that she desired to marry him merely for his money. To prove her assertion, she sent in her letter a list of property she said she owned. However, the governor has not yet investigated the lady's alleged holdings, and the chances are that unless he comes over him he will do so. Mr. Healy was one of the most fashionable American portrait painters of his day and in 1559 and 1860 he visited his native land when in the height of his fame and there are numbers of his works in existence in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington and in the south and west. He also published an interesting book of memoirs of the days of the empire. One of the last pictures of the empress was in a large painting in the possession of the late Dr. Evans of Paris and it represented that gentleman adding the empress in enclosure. Whilst, during the first days of the Commissary. As this incident, although never absolutely denied, has been questioned and Dr. Crane, Dr. Evans' assistant, has been said to have been the hero of that occasion, this canvas, although painted by a great master, has not much historical value and the figure of the empress was said to have been copied from one of Winterhalter's studies. However, Dr. Evans is entitled to the benefit of whatever doubt there may be, as he certainly was a factor. them. It is vanity, I suppose, but what are they for if hot for display?" Mrs. Stocker has been the target of many of the usual sort of begging letters. Whatever she may do in a charitable way is through regular channels, but in order to remove the temptation to thelvery Mrs. Stocker has consigned all of her treasures to a strong box in one of Los Angeles' greatest banks. Table Refuse Made Into Stock Food. From the table refuse of German's cities of more than 200,000 inhabitants—a total population of 9,000,000—M Hansen would get a new food for farm stock worth $2,500,000 a year. In Charlottenburg the food remains are kept separate from other waste, and are collected, ground, pressed, dried and converted into so-called "bread meat." Of more than three months this meal gave good results as a food for milk cows. It has a considerable nutritive value, but the large amount of bones in table waste gives it a high proportion of ash. "No passes accepted on this railroad." "What's the matter with you, young man? My father left me that pass and he inherited it from his father. Three generations have traveled on that pass." But no man who rode beside Wolseley could ever have imagined he had only half the power and sight with which he started life. I never knew him tired. I never knew his eye deceived. Why Not? "The point seems to be to get the hats at bideous as possible." "Well," said the woman coldly, "what is it you want to say?" "Why don't you pit hats on 'em instead of birds?" PERILS OF AIRMEN LONG OCEAN TRIP Freak Currents of Air Imperil the Lives of Navigators of the Clouds —Atmosphere Full of "Pockets" and Raging Wind Eddies. The apparently calm atmosphere above abounds with air pockets, eddies and treacherous gusts ever ready to tose the unwary airman and his machine to earth. At the cost of many valuable lives a number of these death traps set by the experienced but although the experienced airman knows they are there, he is never really certain of emerging uncaught from such encounters. One of the best-known and most dreaded air traps is the air pocket or "removal," as it is called in flying pressure. This is an air hole in the air of irregular shape, which remains no support, and can propel a aerospace other than can propel blades "grip" in those portions of the atmosphere. These pockets are often to be found over wooded country or in valleys surrounded by irregular ranges or hills, says a London correspondent. But they are mainly formed by the sun shining on damp ground. The shape of the solar rays draws the moisture in and dots the atmosphere around with patches of vacuum. This is why airmen always light shy of flying in bright sunlight. Airmen are always nervous of flying low over wooded country, although a low altitude is often necessary, if landmarks are to be picked out and the proper flying route taken. After a short period of throwing off treacherous air currents, which may easily spell disaster to the airman. A breeze near the ground, as it strikes the tree branches, is directed straight up through the air. The airman flying low over the tree catches the upward current under one of his wings, which pushes the machine over at a dangerous angle, and the inevitable side slip intervenes. The one great precaution against air currents of this description is high speed, which gives the aeroplane sufficient stability to withstand diverse currents of this kind. For similar reasons, no aviator, unless forced to do so, will fly low over a congested airplane. The uprising smoke factory shafts, sends up powerful currents of air, which are certain to wreck his machine should they strike it unaware. The skillful airman can now fly his machine in high winds of 30 to 40 miles an hour with amazing ease, but the danger of such flying is that once let a strong wind get behind the aeroplane, then trouble is pretty certain to come. It requires airmanship of the highest merit to turn an aeroplane when the wind catches the machine swings around the wind catches it broadside on and robs it of the speed necessary to stability. The aviator who is caught by a strong wind in this way is in a sorry plight. Without big risk he cannot land with the wind behind him, as the speed at which he would hit the ground would probably cause the machine to stand on its head. The only thing to do in such circumstances is to turn with a circle of several miles of circumference by slowly edging the machine around un it can land in the teeth of the rule. Even the most expert aviator has an attack of "cold feet"—the name given to nervousness in flight circles—when making a sharp right-hand turn in the air. A machine, when turning to the left, travels with the whirling blades of the propeller, but when swinging around in the opposite direction, the whole force that the blade applies upward. The result is that the machine of the machine drops in alarming fashion, and, unless the aeroplane is a fast one, it is likely to slide downward to earth tail first. On the other hand, if the machine is a fast one, a sharp right-hand turn causes it to bank over at so steep an angle to the ground that directly a sudden wind gust comes around it is harried sideways through the air, out of all control of the pilot and very likely happening, inued, for "sudden gust" are one of the most troublesome tricks of nature that alarms them to guard against. One of the unwritten laws of the air is that flyers should not pass each other nearer than 20 feet or so. The powerful draft of a ten-foot propeller whizzing through the air leaves a vacuum behind an aeroplane that provides no support for machine or man may be following. As a result in the case of machines passing near to each other in the air, the pilot who catches the other's backwash is in for big trouble. Reacher Equal to Occasion. A Mr. Hawke was entertaining a shooting party at lunch when he observed a poacher crossing his turpill field. "Halloo, you there!" he cried. "Stop." Unconcerned, the man pursued the even tenor of his way. "Stop, you there! Don't you hear? You are trespassing on my ground. My name is Hawke." "Ah, well," replied the man, "you are not the bird I am looking for." And on he walked, to the intense amusement of the company and the chagrin of Mr. Hawke. The Situation. "Which is the best town to locate in Pinkville or Yankah?" "I dunno. Both have their peculiarities. Pinkhill has an unusually odoriferous glue factory, and Yaphank has an amateur stock company." The Result. "I'm said that he intended to defy the blows of fate in going out for the dust." "Well, what happened when he went out for the dust?" "Give it it!" Gasoline Motor Bottle 35 Feet Long Makes Remarkable Record—Voyage Completed in Less Than Two Months From Home. When the stanch motor boat Detroit set out from the city whose name it bore, with St. Petersburg, Russia, as its final destination, wires scareh their heads at the idea of so diminutive a craft, propelled by a gasoline engine, being able to make the voyage. But the croaking prophets were mistaken, the Technical World says. For while the Detroit was buffeted about by wind and wave until at times the dotters mariners confessed sharing the fears of the wiresacres, the launch was little more—poked into the water to encumber the harbor, with scarcely a sign of hard usage, just 21 days a day and 16 hours after setting out from New York. This was the longest continuous trip ever made by a motor boat, and until then regarded as an impossibility, if for nothing else than the inability to carry a sufficient supply of fuel. The Detroit was not designed for beauty, strength and seaworthiness being the chief considerations. It was 35 feet over all, with nine-foot beam, five-foot six-inch draft, and a displacement of about 12 tons when fully equipped and loaded. It had a two-ton capacity and developed 6 horsepower and capable of ing the boat a trifle more than six miles an hour. In addition it was fitted with a 32-foot mast and sufficient sail if occasion should arise. The question of fuel supply was solved through the installation of seven tanks, with a combined capacity of 1,233 gallons of gasoline, two of these tanks being located on deck amidships, and one on the side, like this under foot, every precaution had to be taken to guard against fire. Captain Day was the only man to carry matches, and smoking was positively prohibited. Cooking was done on a stove heated from the exhaust to the engine, the device proving entirely satisfactory. Only once on the entire trip was there danger on fire, and then the blaze was ruinished before any harm resulted. A few days out from New York the Detroit was caught in a blow, and the shaking up revealed the fact that the 250 gallon freshwater tanks had not been properly cleaned before filling, the stock becoming brackish. Once on the voyage a big transatlantic liner was halted and requisitioned for a supply of drinking water. Aside from this, and continued rough weather that repeatedly sent even the most seasoned to their bunks, no inconvenience was experienced by the three men who assisted the captain as crew. The boat did not prove to be a good heavy seas, but men were up for all this when the crew came to lying to and shipped heavy seas. The low midship deck provided a defect, for the boat shipped water on slight provocation, although this did not interfere with the motor's operation. The Detroit cleared from Detroit, running across Lake Erie, through the Erie canal, down the Hudson and to New York, where several days were spent in preparation for the dash across the Atlantic. Quezon town was reached three weeks later, between the two ports being exactly 21 days 16 hours. A few days at Queenstown and the Detroit proceeded to Cowes, thence to St. Petersburg by the way of the English channel, the North and Baltic seas. The Russian capital was re-mapped in less than two months the departure from St. Petersburg. Something more than 7,000 miles was in this remarkable voyage of nearly one-third the distance around the earth. Just Fishing. Capt. George, Walker, an amateur yachtman of Savannah, says he used to have a dark hand on his Georgia plantation who loved ease and fishing. When he wasn't fishing he was looting. One night there was a rain almost heavy enough to be called a cloudburst the next morning all the low places on the plantation were flooded two feet deep. Passing the negro's cabin, Capt. Walker found him seated in an easy chair at the kitchen door, fishing in a small puddle of muddy water that had formed there. "Henry, you old fool," said Capt. Walker, "what are you doing there?" said Henry, "I see jest fahin' a little." "Well, don't you know there are no fish there?" demanded Capt. Walker, "Yas, suh," said Henry, "I know dat. But dis here place is so hand!" "Arguing the Soul." As a rule the Polish people are very fond of their pastor. They would love him still better "if he was not obliged to attend the dying, a service the soul rewards by following him." Therefore, when a paasant meets his pastor anywhere outside of the village he steps behind him and throws a bit of card or a handful of hay on the shadow of the clerical gentleman. This is called "arresting the soul." For or soul "get entangled in the cord or hay and can no longer follow the priest entering houses, gardens, etc, where it might do mischief." Ambition. Chief of Police—No, there hardly a vacancy in the department just now. We could use one or two more workers, we perhaps. plain clothes men, Applicant—Great Scott, chief ite because I'm everlasting tired of wearing plain clothes that I want a job on the force! None Better Known. "So you've bought a new painting for your hall. Is it by some artist with a well-known name?" "Yes, his name is Smith." AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS It was late last summer when the thirteenth annual convention of the National Negro Business league was held at Chicago. The press reports of it were inevitably fragmentary and did not carry information of the proceedings much beyond local limits. A complete and official report has now been published, and the pages that are as interesting as a romance. In fact, though a mirror of actual experiences, they bear not a little of the spirit of romance. The convention lasted three days. It was composed of delegates from all over the country, representing all kinds of business and the several professions. The farmers were perhaps in the majority, but there were mergerists, doctors and ministers, the unction of whose prayers and the eloquence of whose addresses have rarely been surpassed in gatherings of that kind. These conventions are to a very significant extent barometers of progress. It is eleven years, since the league held a previous one in Chicago a year over a decade. At that time it was in the experimental stage, but emerged from that a considerable increase in the number of the an occasion for looking hopefully to the future. On the return to the western metropolis there were scores of guests and delegates who had gratifying personal records of progress to present. About fifty different enterprises were listed on the programme. As stated by the compiler of the report S. Laing Williams, assistant United States attorney at Chicago and of actual experience growing confidence were never so great at any previous convention of the league." It was an experience meeting of the most interesting kind. Stories of coming up from nothing to independence, to popularity and even to affluence were told with the quaintness of speech that we expect from the shrewd negro who has gained his education in the rough school of experience, and the compiler has not corrected his syntax or attempted to translate his idioms into conventional phrase. That would have extracted some of their choicest flavor. That the audience derived the keenest enjoyment from these recitals was evident from the frequency with which applause was produced, and pictures the various life stories that ought to be an inspiration to the younger members of the race. Nothing is wasted upon such a gathering. It is as quick to recognize humor as it is ready to give close attention to serious counsel. The only remarkable thing about that first Chicago convention, says the compiler, "was the wide vision and splendid optimism of its president, Dr Booker T. Washington." He is still its president and conducted the latest deliberations. Since the league was launched there has been an outgrowth of scores of affiliated leagues, all of the agencies of negro progress. It is one of the children of Booker Washington's wise enterprise and consecration to the welfare of his people. When his service for the race shall come to be measured it is not alone Tuskegee that must be taken into the account. Smile and your friends will join you. Be a grumbler and you'll have no friends—The People's Recorder. Helena, Ark., is opening another Negro drug store. A colored woman is said to be the proprietor. At the funeral in New York city of 3. Pierpont Morgan, the mighty man in the field of American finances, last Monday, no edulgies were pronounced as the deceased had objected to that before his death; but in accord with Mr. Morgan's wishes, only the ritual service of the church and some hymns he had selected, made up the funeral program. Among the hymns Mr. Morgan requested while alive, that if "Calvary" was sung by Harry Burleigh, the Negro bartone, whom he had heard often and of whom Mr. Morgan was an admirer. Burleigh lives in Atlanta, Ga. The magnate and the Negro were friends. The one had great fortune, the other had great talent. Whover said that there is a remedy for every ill never was a dancer and lost a leg. To sing chickens hold them over a saucer of burning alcohol. It does not leave soot on the flesh. It is a good scheme to keep the children's overshoes together with clothes pins. Mr. Richard O. Tanner, who represents the race with such distinction in the field of art, is now in this country from France letting the American public see some of his paintings. He was recently in Indianapolis with a collection of his pictures; some of his paintings are which are to be charmingly beautiful, and some of his sober religious subjects, which are highly praised by art critics for conception and execution, are in his collection. He who forgives ends the quarrel. Topeka, Kan. has several four-hour- negro groceries. Among these are the M. E. Williams, the Fair Grounds, and the Square Deal groceries. The one colored real estate firm of Topeka, Kan. is that of Stew- art & Bryant. They are also money lenders. A new firm known as the Colored Real Estate Company has opened offi- ces in Newport News, Va. Gossip is a cartridge fired from the gun of idle curiosity. Atlantic City, N. J.-W. Forrest Cozart, one of the best known colored waiters in the United States, and who has been greatly interested along with thousands of other readers in the articles on "Why Colored Waiters Are Losing Out." In an interview save the views on the subject. Mr. Cozart is an ex-head waiter, having had twenty years' experience as head waiter in large hotels jocated in every section of this country. He is author of the "Waiters' Manual," the first book of its kind published in America, and is one of the founders of the Head and Second Waiters' Benefit association, and was the organization's first presided over. Mr. Cozart, in discussing the subject, said: "I desire to submit the following reasons why colored waiters are losing out: "First. Owing to previous conditions and race prejudice he is not only held within certain bounds, but many avenues heretofore open to him are now being closed. The influx of foreigners of many nationalities is producing a labor crisis in all branches of labor, therefore they are crowding out the colored workingmen all along the line. "Second. $\Gamma$ have no knowledge of the individual cases cited a few weeks before. But B. P. Connolly convinced that the greatest drawback to the colored waiter is the lack of a sufficient number of competent head waiters. "That I have not hastily embraced this conclusion may be known by presenting the following facts: The colored waiters are facing the same condition today that confronted them twelve or fifteen years ago. At that time a general movement seemed to be unfolding among colored waiters. Matters became very serious, especially throughout the middle states and northwest. About this time a few progressive head and side waiters rose to the emergency and aroused their fellow-craftmen all along the line and accomplished much good. Having heard many hotel proprietors claim that they were not ready to how to give good service, I published the "Waiters' Manual," a treatise on dining-room service. CONSUMERS COME BACK. An old farmer had a daughter who was seized with an ambition to study high art. She dingledong at him until he agreed to send her to Paris. She went, but do not conceive any notions about what happened, for you will miss it. She lingered in gay Faree and stood for lessons from the flat-chested arteworks for a year and two months. She learned to draw so well that one could tell her Ben Davis apple from a Hubbard squash. One day she hung a good sized canvas over the head of a mashy artist and came home. In addition to various trinkets which she picked up, she brought back an idea. She injected high art into the produce marketed from the ranch. Vegetables, butter, eggs and poultry went to market in fancy packages patterned strictly on rules of art, which in plaid hats and shirts looked good to the eye. She named the place and put the farm trade-mark on every package. In two months she was getting a premium on all the good stuff the farm could turn out. The consumers were coming back and asking the retailer for goods made on this farm.—Denver Field and Farm. NURSERIES SPREAD SCALE. Professor Bentley of the Tennessee state station says that San Jose scale spreads chiefly by means of infected nursery stock. When once introduced it is only a short time before multitudes appear. When the scale are young and active they crawl upon the feet and legs of birds and insects and are thus transferred from tree to tree. Strong winds and beating rains frequently cause the young scale to be carried some distance. Young fruit trees that were planted in the autumn of last year, or in the spring of this year, should be examined carefully. Any dead twigs should be removed with a sharp knife. All very thin or delicate looking limbs that seem to be in the shape of stronger ones should be removed. Fame is made up of four letters, but how much spirit. A whispered rumor generally becomes a rumble of nosip. Brush pie crust with cream to insure a rich brown color. It is hard to reach the "so-called" big Negro with a newspaper, unless his name is in print. This same Negro will pay advertising rates for news matter (society notes) in a big white daily, then buy thirty or forty copies to mall to others of his kind, so as to allow them to know how he stands with the white folks.—Nashville Clarion. The great plison-bearer (the snake) goes about with bowed head; the little poison-bearer (the scorpion) goes about with tail aloft. The farmer who keeps one eye on his acres and the other on market quotations prospers. The man who means right and never does so is to be pitted, but not to be relied upon. Optimism is the new religion, ever needed in this hour of theological contentions. The farmer at his case has more case anyone riding on tires on the street. BASEBALL Connie Mack is carrying ten pitchers on his roster. Lee Magee of the St. Louis Cardinals is a fast man. Mike Donlin has announced that he is through with the game. "Up and at 'em, boys!" is the spirit Chance has instilled in his Yankees. Joe Jackson is ready to try for big league base-stealing honors again this year. We know that you'll be glad to learn that Brief still lingers with the Browns. When it rains just console yourself with the thought that the home team can't lose. There have been numerous extra inning games in the National league this spring. Bobby Wallace of the St. Louis Browns has been in the big leagues seventeen years. With the bases loaded, Buck O'Brien recently walked a man and handed a game to the Athletics. Howard Shanks and Ray Morgan have won regular berths for themselves with the Senators. Acosta, the sixteen-year-old Cuban who is with the Washington team, is looked upon as a coming star. The tendency of the time is to use as many pinch hitters as possible. About one in ten seems to deliver. Nick Altrock and Germany Schafer are still rehearsing their vaudeville act and coaching between times for Griffith's Senators. Bobby Besucher of the Reds is the star base stealer in the game today. Bobby not only possesses speed, but knows how to use it. Pitchers Johnson of Cincinnati, Mayer of Philadelphia, Steele of St Louis and Demarce of New York have twirled three-hit games. Manager Charley Carr's baseball college is to cost $750,000. Carr will have many star players of the majors as instructors in his school. Manager Jennings is doing his old stunts on the coaching lines this year and everything about the Tiger team is much the same as last year. Manager McGraw has decided to keep three recruits on his staff, Gaulat, Demaree and Schupp are the lineup candidates for the regular turn in the box. Chapman, one of the recruit catchers of the Reds, is attracting the attention of Manager Tinker because of the way he handles himself behind the bat. Vean Gregg, Cleveland's star south-paw hurler, thinks that a red shirt is a jinx, and says there will be nothing doing in the fery garment line for him this year. A Cincinnati sport writer says that Tinker has a good team. "All he needs is one more star twirler; the other portions of the team will do," says the oribe. Pitcher Fuchin, who has made a first-class with the Nashville team in practice, cost Nashville $30, that being the price paid to the Beatrice club for his release. Foster, the young pitcher who is showing up splendidly with the Red Sox, was once with the Browns, and last season was the star heavier of the Houston, Texas, team. Grit has decided that Ray Morgan will cling to second base. Frank Laporte is to be the utility infielder and pinch hitter of the Nationals. Beauty before age did it for the veteran. Sidney W. Challenger, of Bridgeport, has been elected president of the newly organized Eastern Baseball Writers' association, whose members will report Eastern association games. And now Connie Mack doesn't think that the Senators will cut much of a caper in the American league pennant race. Either the Athletics or the Red Sox will attend to the winning stuff this season, avers Connie. --- The New York Sun states that "camera fiends have become so numerous at major league ball parks that a halt may be called. Some of the club owners believe that persons are using cameras as a stall to get past the gate tenders for nothing." When the Nape face the Yankees on the afternoon of June 2 at the Polo grounds it will be Larry Lajoel's first appearance at the historic ball yard since 1901. Larry hopes he will bat as well there as he did in the old days, when he was a National league slugger. Harry Lord is regarded as a comeback in baseball this year. He was taken off third base last summer, but put back there this spring because he had recovered his stride. When Griff's Nationals licked the Glants in an early exhibition game, McGraw criticized Griff for instructing Johnson to go at top speed. "Weather didn't even work up a awe," was the Old Fox's reply. "If we ever get into a world's series with the Glants, he will show them a lot more than MANAGER FRANK CHANCE Leader of the New York Highlanders is much satisfied with his team and sanguine of finishing near the top in the race for the American league pennant despite the fact that from the very start of the season many of his best players were kept out of the game by reason of injuries. Leader of the New York Highlanders is much satisfied with his team and sanguine of finishing near the top in the race for the American league pennant despite the fact that from the very start of the season many of his best players were kept out of the game by reason of injuries. This promises to be a good year for Eddie Collins. Manager McGraw intends to make speed the main factor in the work of his players again this year. Another collegian who may break into the majors is Costello, the Georgetown indefender, who obtained gridiron fame last fall by booting the field goal that beat Virginia. Cleveland looks better as a pennant contender than in years; in fact, since that memorable race of 1908. The Forest City infield is one of the strongest it has ever boasted. Baseball traditions hold that in the spring the pitchers get the big end of it, pitching few hit battles, while along in June the batmen get on to them and begin to smash the pill. Jim Thore is taking the very best care of himself, according to the Giant players. He is far from being a finished ball-player, yet they claim he is learning to hit the ball good and hard every day. --- The smoothness of the workings of the Polo grounds as a home for the Glants and the Highlanders this season has revived the talk of the two big leagues doubling up on grounds in some of the other cities. SPORTING WORLD Cleveland has declared off both of the free-for-all events because of the scarcity of entries. Big money on the half-mile track is keeping a lot of horses from the grand circuit this year. Havis James has a three-year-old pacer by Hedgewood Boy that has worked a mile in 2.12¾. Koji Yamada, the Japanese expert, has challenged Willie Hoppe for the 18.2 balk line billiard championship. Gunboat Smith, with 183 pounds of heft, is the lightest heavyweight now in the limelight, but he has the stiffest punch. Shattuck of California hurled the sixteen-pound-hammer 175 feet 10 inches, setting a new mark for the intercollegiate. Harvard breathes a sigh of relief at last. Haughton has signed his three-year contract. The Crimson is now ready to sit up and take notice. The French champion cross-country runner, Boun, is ambitious of beating Watkins's record of 71 miles, 1,286 yards in an hour before retiring. Tom Burrows, the Australian, made an attempt to beat the record of 112 hours of continuous club swinging in London a few days ago, but failed after 108 hours of effort. The interstate tournament committee has appointed its committee to allot the grand American handicaps Guy Dearney, Ed Cain, Charles Newcomb, Harvey Dixon and F. M. Edwards. Henry Ordeman, the Minneapolis heavyweight wrestler, defeated Charley Cutler of Chicago in straight falls at Minneapolis. The first was made in forty-one minutes and the second in eleven minutes. Swedish athletes who won championships at the Olympic games in Stockholm last summer are to be invited to participate in the American Olympic games to be held here from June 28 to July 6. Charles Williams of London, the world’s racquet champion, beat Jack Soutar of the Racquet club, Philadelphia, four out of six games in the first half of their $2,500 a side match at the Queen’s London. Forrest Smithson, the Pacific coast athlete, who won the 116-meter high hurdle race at the London Olympic in 18 seconds, has started out as a professional coach, take charge of the Santa Clara college track team at Santa Clara, Cal. The Berlin Olympic stadium will be better than either the London or Stockholm building, the team prepares for the feet by 112 feet; the cinder track will be 1,125 feet by 19 feet, and the cycle track will measure 2,160 feet by 83 feet. TEMPTING DISH FOR EITHER DINNER OR LUNCHON. Secret of Old-Time Famous Philadel phia Caterer Revealed for the Beneft of Those Who Wish to Try IT. One of the most appetizing and tempting dishes one could wish, for either a good dinner for the family or for a most elaborate lunchon may be made by following the directions given below, which is one of the secrets of a famous Philadelphia caterer of twenty-five years ago. Drain the liquor off one can of salt malt vinegar and add asideth. Then remove all the skin and bone from the meat, plucking it up into small pieces with a silver fork and put on to boil in the liquor for ten minutes, if there is not sufficient liquor add a little boiling water, but a half cupful of liquor is sufficient. Bring to the boiling point one-half pint of milk, then stir into it a thickening made by rubbing together a tablespoonful of butter and two tablespoons of sour cream to four inches. Then add two beaten eggs, the juice of a good-sized onion, a teaspoonful of parsley, a dash of cayenne pepper and salt to taste. To the salmon add one cupful of cucumber pickles, sliced fine, and two sliced hard-boiled eggs, also the juice of half a lemon. Stir this well and pour over it the cream dressing, mix all together thoroughly and cook two minutes, then pour into an enamelled baking dish and cover with bread crumbs and bake one-half hour or until the cheese is melted, ramekins or individual fish shells and cover with bread crumbs and bake. To prepare this dish for twenty-five people use three cans of salmon, four beaten eggs, four hard boiled eggs and double the other ingredients. For two cans double only the milk and use three eggs boiled hard and more pickles, otherwise use the same quantities as given in the first recipe. At first reading this recipe may sound very complicated, but if the ingredients are brought out and set they then should be done in the order it is written and the entire dish prepared in fifteen or twenty minutes. Hamburg Roast Take two pounds of beef (top of the round is best); one-third (or more) cup of soft breadcrumbs; one egg well beaten; one teaspoonful of salt; one teaspoonful of expressed onion juice or finely minced onion; one tablespoonful of chopped parsley; one of chopped red peppers, if at hand, or a pinch of red pepper, and one fourth teaspoonful of ground glove (if desired). Mix all together thoroughly, and shape into a compact roll. Put into a baking pan with a slice of bacon or fat salt pork above it and baste with dripping as it cooks. Bake for 30 or 40 minutes. Have prepared the meat in ready, and after the meat has been seared on the outside by about 10 minutes in a very hot oven, drain the potatoes from their salt water and set them around the roast, basting both vegetables and meat with the hot fat as they cook at a slow even heat till done. Hominy Gems. One-quarter cup hominy, one-half teaspoon salt, one-half cup boiling water, one cup scaled milk, one cup white corn meal, one-quarter cup sugar, three tablespoons butter, two eggs, three teaspoons baking powder. Add hominy and salt to boiling water and stand on back of range until water is absorbed. Add milk to cornmeal then add butter and sugar. Mix well and add hominy. Cool. Add egg yolks well beaten and whites beaten stiff. These gems are delicious. Buy hominy (ground) and white cornmeal in five-pound bag. To Remove Marks From Furniture. To remove the white marks caused by the dampness from a flower-pot standing on your polished sewing machine, rub the spot with a cloth moistened with lined oil and turpentine blended together in equal parts, then polish immediately with a clean dry cloth till all traces of the treatment is removed. A cloth moistened in ordinary coal oil will often have the desired effect, depending on the kind of finishing varnish used on the article. Mending Gloves I used to find mending kid gloves more trouble than they were worth until a friend told me to mend them in the following manner: First, buttonhole all around the edge of the tear (not quite so close as when making an ordinary buttonhole); then overcast, taking up the edge of the buttonhole, and draw the two edges together.—Exchange. Little Plum Cakes. One cup sugar creamed with half a cup of butter, add three well beaten eggs, a teaspoon of vanilla, four cups sifted four, one cup raisins, one cup currants, half a teaspoon of salatier sauce, half a teaspoon of salt, enough to make a stiff batter. Drop on well buttered tins and bake in a quick oven. Corned Beef Balls Two teacups freely chopped corned beef, one onion minced very fine, three teacups mashed potato, salt and pepper to season, one egg; beat all together well, form into bails, roll well in floor and fry in deep fat, as you would dry-dried potatoes—gratin with water or celery leaves and serve hot. To Wax Hardwood Floors. Boll one half-weight of potash with the same weight of water and add one pound of beeswax; apply to the floor while hot. This makes an excellent finish for any waxed work such as inside finish of dwellings. Old Bedspreads Used. A bedspread too old for use makes very nice bath towels. Cut them the size desired and ham all around. THE BROKEN COIN ALWAYS UP TO DATE Aunt Betty, who is not really an aunt at all, but only a very dear friend of mother's, has made her home with us for over 20 years. She had been with us ever since she lost her little boy and her husband in a forest fire in Canada. One of her ideas was that some day her son would come back, alive and strong, and that he would marry Dorothy. She kept the half of a coin that had been her since her courtship days. The other half had been tied round the neck of her husband, who had vanished in the smoke. She would fetch it out of its hiding place every little while and fiddle it, saying: "My husband, I shall see you again, but my son will be here, the other half of this coin for Dorothy, as his father brought it to me." Dorothy, who is my sister, took it all in good part, and never let Aunt Betty catch her smiling at me when her future husband was mentioned. One would have thought that Chadwick was the last of people to cause any disturbance in our quiet, well-ordered life. He was an ideal chauffeur, a clean, upstanding American of far above the average intelligence. Mother liked him because he never drove too fast for her. I liked him because he had sane views on the tire question. And Dorothy liked him, she said, because he had a perfectly straight nose. As a matter of fact, there was nothing about Chadwick's nose to call for the comment which used to exasperate poor Cyrano de Bergerac. Nevertheless, either the nose or the fascination for motorising made Dorothy sadly neglect her horses for the sake of the automobile. None of us thought anything of it until one day Dorothy said she was going to see the Johnsons, who lived about 20 miles away, and went off with Chadwick in the automobile. About half an hour later he met Betty and she would like to go to the Johnsons' also. I borrowed Tony Spencer's machine and took her along. About ten miles from home we came up with our own car standing empty in the road. I pulled up and jumped out to find what was the matter. We could see no one. But it was a warm summer day, and the soft breastcare a low murmur of voices from some bushes a few yards from the road. I walked over to them, and came upon a scene I shall never forget until by dying day. Dorothy and Chadwick were both seated on the ground. He had his arm around her waist, and she had a luncheon basket in her lap. "Good heavens!" I cried. They both looked up, and then, seeing who I was, they scrambled to their mercy. "Mercy sakes!" cried Aunt Betty, who had followed me. After that there was a silence which Dorothy was the first to break. "I don't care," she said. "I love him." I was wild with rage. "What right have you to touch her, to so much as look at her?" I asked Chadwick. "You—a greasy mechanic, with your hands and clothes slimy with the oil of machines. What sort of a home could you give her? A stucco dwelling in a back street, with the neighbors' children clambering over the front porch—the neighbors' weekly wash flapping in the back yard!" He heard me out without finching, though I could see every word it uttered hurt. When I stopped for breath, he began to speak. "My God, Miss Henderson. You don't have to tell me all that I've been lying awake nights thinking about it. But what are we to do? We love each other. I swear to you I meant no harm. I want to on the thing I was most sacred." He was gigging at his neck as he spoke, and then he drew from under his shirt the half of a coin exactly like Aunt Betty's. "Where did you get that?" screamed Aunt Betty. "I've had it since I was a boy I remember my father putting it round my neck just before he fell exhausted from smoke on the banks of a river. Before he died he put me on a sort of blanket and floated me on the stream. I remember his saying, 'Go, take the old token to your mother, lad.' I was picked up further down the stream. I don't even know who my father was, but I have been trying to find my mother ever since." "My son, my son!" cried Aunt Betty, and she fainted in his arms. I shall never forget the expression on my mouth face when I brought Chadack down the river and introduced him as Aunt Betty's son and Betty's fance—Buffalo Express. Owed Good Dinner to Fish The valuable contents of a pike recently furnished the means for a festive supper to more than four hundred poor persons at Fuenfkirchen, near Budapest, Hungary. The fish, a fourteen-pounder, was purchased in the fish market of Josef Abazon, the manager of the municipal charity kitchen, and in its stomach was found a leather purse, containing gold, silver, and nickel coins. The mayor directed that part of the money should be expended on a meal to the poor, and a generous supper was served in which the voracious but luck-bringing fish formed the leading course. Mutual Confidences "Whenever I propose anything at all, my wife invariably throws cold water on me." "That's better than the way my wife does." "What's that?" "Keeps me in hot water." In the Background. "I didn't hear you sing or speak at the strawberry festival. Why don't you come forward and show some public spirit at these affairs?" "I did play a minor part. I donated the strawberries." His Means. "That jockey we were speaking of beat all records." "He was in the habit, though, of punishing his mount rather severely." "Naturally, when he wanted to beat records, he used a whip." MODERN BURGLARS MEN OF SCIENTIFIC ATTAINMENTS. Latest Inventions Utilized by the Learned Raffles in His "Profession"—Many Spend Years in Special Study. Science, while aiding mankind in all sorts of benefent ways, is at the same time aiding the crackman to pursue his nefarious work with much more neatness and dispatch, and with less danger to himself, than ever before. The modern burglar now spurs the clumsy outfit of crowbar, fimmles, and skeleton keys. He knows a trick worth a dozen of those. He carries a compound of nitro glycerine cylinder two of oxygen and acetylene, and a blowpipe. With these easily concealed tools he can force his way through the toughest steel. The blowpipe is the deadly enemy which the safe manufacturer is now trying, with the aid of science, to circumvent. Under the intense heat that it generates the strongest steel crumplies up like paper. A circle some two feet in diameter can be cut through the metal, even if an inch thick, in a few minutes. A shell from a 4.5 gun fails to dent will fall an easy victim to a few cubic feet of oxygen and acetylene gas in combination. When the thermite process for welding iron was discovered, advantage was immediately taken of this for the purpose of burning through plates of steel. Deadly forces must be handled with care and an exact knowledge of the power of which they are capable. It is not for the reckless or the bungler to toy with the blowpipe or nitro-glycerol. To handle it, you need to acquire a scientific knowledge and skill of manipulation that, if put to some legitimate use, might open up to him an honorable career. Quite recently a safe-breaker, whose successful career was suddenly halted by the law, fairly amazed expert scientists by the completeness of his library, which comprised a valuable collection of books in French and German written by scientists for presentation to technical societies. He made a specialty of the subject of the force of the blowpipe on metals. He admitted that he had spent three years in this study. A laboratory adjoining his library was small and compact, but for completeness of equipment would have done credit to a science school. In this laboratory he discovered some tremendous force than he must to work to counteract that force in the hands of the criminal. It is said that recent experiments have produced a steel that will even withstand the blast of the blowpipe. -Harper's Weekly. Appearances Are Deadtiful An amusing comedy of errors is reported from England. A titled lady was expecting a wealthy and well known man at her country residence and sent her carriage to meet the train. At the station the coachman saw only two people—a shabby old man and an immaculately groomed woman. When he arrived later if he were going to the house, which was two miles away. He was, and drove up in state. Then came the comedy. The gentleman was asked to see her ladyship in the drawing-room, and she realized at once that a mistake had occurred. "No mistake at all, your ladyship," was the reply. "Here is my card." He was the piano tuner! The coachman asked him to meet the shabby old man covered in mud and lamenting loudly at having to walk a mile and a half in the rain. Executiona for Witchcraft Executions for witchcraft were common in England in the seventeenth century. In 1616 nine women were hanged in Leicestershire for witchery, and at Newcastle, in 1650, fifteen persons were put to death for a similar offense. Barrington estimates the "judicial murders" for witchcraft in England have two hundred to 30,000 in the space of two hundred years and has been computed that from first to last not fewer than nine millions of persons have suffered for witchcraft under the Christian regime. The last persons judicially executed in England for witchcraft were a woman and her daughter, nine years of age, who were hanged at Huntington in 1718. The last judicial execution in Scotland for witchcraft was carried out by who was condemned to death by the Sheriff of Sutherlandshire. The penal acts against witchcraft were repealed in 1738 in the reign of George II. Sixteen Weddings in Ninety Minutes. Sixteen young couples were married in an hour and a half at St. Luke's church, Victoria, Docks, Canning Town, the other morning. Some walked to the church, some came in taxicabs, and two or three in carriages drawn by pairs of grays. Two brides were in white with veils, and several wore bright costumes and enormous hats and feathers. Some of the bridegrooms had no collars; others wore tall coats and ambitious walstcoats. "I officiate on an average at five hundred marriages a year," said the vicar (Canon J. C. Buckley). "I have married more than 6,500 couples since I came here and solemnised 40,900 baptisms."—London Mall. Resonance of Mind Sound Him PRESENTS OF MIND SAVED HIM Locked in the ice chest, Levi, a ninth-grader at the Azalea School, calls the name is a mystery, escaped death in a downtown hotel, the other day by turning off the entire beer and ale supply of the establishment. Levi went into the ice chest on an arrand when some one accidentally locked the big door behind him. He shouted and pounded in vain for help, when he thought of turning off the beer and ale supply as a means of attraction. The results were immediate and excited investigators found Levi nearly frozen. Mrs. R. E. Wilkerson has been on the sick list. Mr. Clarence Baker is out of our city on a visit. Mr. Charles Parrot visited Ed Baker and family a few days. Mr. Bob Jones does not seem to improve at all. He still lays low. improve my skills in the classroom. Mrs. Myrtle Hickman is in Corning this week. Mrs. Laura Miller from Nebraska City is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Moss. P. E. Moore is in our midst. Sunday was quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church. Three very spiritual sermons were preached by Elder Moore. Mr. Gaylord Nash has been very ill. Quite a few of our colored people are you repainting their homes. It speaks well for the colored people and better to the community in which they live. Mrs. Eliza Cason, who has been making her home with her son, Willi Lison, on the farm, was taken to Glenwood by her daughter, Mrs. Furches, to live. Mrs. Trudie Pemberton and baby left for Omaha, after a week's stay with her father, Mr. Bob Banks. Our Gravity mail carrier, Mr. Johnson, with wife, wife and daughter, visited our city Sunday. Rev. Morgan leaves Tuesday for Ottmann to visit his daughter. Mrs. L. Blythe has been on the sick list. Mrs. T. G. Jones visited her son and family in Bed Oak, a fc wdws. Mr. Albert Cason visited his mother in Glenwood a few days. Mrs. Rose Chavis of Twin City, Ill., is the guest of her niece, Mrs. E. Stewart. Mr. Virgil Lewis is at present on his trap drum. He expects to make that city his home in the near future. Mrs. Alice Stewart and three children of Stanton visited friends a few days. The Ladies' Study club met with Mrs. Carrie Reed last week. FORT MADISON NOTES. The Willing Workers club will meet at the home of Mrs. George Mack. Paper will be read by Mr. Hickenbotam. Subject, What Benefit Will the Colored Race Derive From the Democratic Administration? There was baptizing Sunday at the Second Baptist Church. Two candidates and three restored members were added to the church. The church is doing a good work with Rev. J. W. Bowles as pastor. There occurred the marriage Saturday at noon, May 17, 1913, of Mr. William Tolliver and Miss Blanche Malloney. They were united in marriage at the house of Mrs. G. Stewart on Sixth street by Rev. J. W. Bowlens, pastor of the Second Baptist church. The groom is one of Fort Madison's splendid young men and the bride is from Carrollton, Mo. They marched from the beautiful sitting room unattended into the parlor, decorated for the occasion, while the wedding march was played by Miss Agnes Stewart, dressed by Mrs. G. Stewart and daughter, Miss Agnes. Covers were laid for twelve, only near relatives and friends being present. Mr. and Mrs. Tolliver will make their future home at the beautiful residence of the groom, 1603 Sixth street, this city. We join in wishing them long life, happiness and prosperity. The White Rose club will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. James Sardew on Fifth street. The members of the Second Baptist church are planning to build a parsonage on the church lot in the near future. Eliza Jackson was able to at church Sunday, after being confined at home for several weeks. CEDAR RAPIDS NOTES. Last Sunday was rally day at the A. M. E. church. There was realized $64, and there will be another rally on June 1st. Rev. Peterson is having splendid success and we hope for a most prosperous year. On the 9th of May, Bethel A. M. E. choir gave their annual choir supper, having as their guests Mr. and Mrs. Milligan and Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Perkins. It was a very enjoyable affair and was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Nelson. Mr. Clarence Maples of Champaign, Ill, has moved his family to our city. Ill, has most beautiful young man and we are proud to have such citizens as that come among us. Mr. Everett Purgison of Kewanee, Ill, expects to move his family here soon, which will also be a credit to the colored population for they are very nice people. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Perkins of Omaha are stopping at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Thomas. They also are thinking of locating here, so you can see that Cedar Rapids is on the boom. The apron bazaar given Monday evening by the ladies of the Culture club was quite a success. Rev G. V. Brown of Quincey, Ill., was a visitor in our city last week. There were quite a number of strangers in church Sunday evening. Rev Stowall of Davenport prescheduled an able sermon and pet performance. Mr. James Mobley and Mr. Walter Pettigrew joined church. We hope more of the young men will do so, as we need them in the church. ```markdown ``` COLFAX, IOWA. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Brous entertained at Sunday dinner Rev. and Mrs. Morton and Mr. Creed Taylor. Misses Gertrude and Violet Brous gave a party Saturday night in honor of Mr. Oscar Redman from Des Moines. The guests numbered twenty-three and a two-course luncheon was served, and at a late hour when they came to say good night they all said they had spent a very pleasant evening and that Misses Gertrude and Violet Brous were royal entertainers. The out of town relatives that attended the funeral services of the late Mr. Morris were Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Johnson and family and Mr. Arthur and Chas. Hill from Buxon, Iowa, Mesames Mamie and Beulah Nesbitt, Mr. and Mrs. Weeks and son, Mrs. Hattie Adams a nd Mr. E. L. Johnson of Des Moines and Mr. Elmore Demby of Severs. Mrs. Lula Edgar entertained a number of friends Sunday evening, May 18, in honor of Rev. and Mrs. Morton. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. H. Banks, Mr. and Mrs. Brodus, Mr. Creed Taylor, Mrs. Laun Banks and Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Oralabor. All report a delightful evening. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dean entertained at a four-course dinner Sunday, May 18th, in honor of their nephew, Mr. Owen Redmond, and four of his classmates of Grimellin college. Miss Brown, sister of Mrs. Dr. Shurban, was also a guest at dinner with the boys. All report an enjoyable time. Mrs. P. D. Goodlow and Mrs. Ellis Adams of Des Moines spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dean. Mr. and Mrs. Beasley took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Dean on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Banks entertained at dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Smith from Oralabor. Word has been received from Mrs. Murff that she and the Rev. are located in Washington, D. C., and that the Rev's health still continues poorly and he expects to undergo an operation the coming week at one of the hospitals at that place. Died—At his home in Colfax, May 13, 1913. Mr. Lewis Morris, at the age of 73 years, 9 months and 9 days. He was married to Flora Hull in 1888. He leaves to mourn his death a wife, two stepsons, three stepdaughters and a host of friends. He was a member of the Methodist church. The funeral was held at the Bethel Baptist church Friday, May 16, at 3 p. m. and the church was filled to its utmost to pay the last respect. The floral offerings were beautiful. A precious item in his gone, voluminous dress is still. A place is vacant in our home. Which never can be filled. Mr. J. J. Beasley was a Capital City visitor one day last week. Mr. Chas. Jackson left the latter part of last week for Detroit, Mich. to be gone a month or six weeks. Mrs. Linzie Robinson had a very bad accident, which occurred Saturday, May 17, by riding behind a vicious horse, which became frightened and began to kick and she jumped out of the buggy and sprained her ankle Most Prompt and Efectual Care For Bad Colds. 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Refreshments were served by a selected committee of the Misses Edith Williams, Zella Clark and Lilia Downey. They left at a late hour, wishing him many more happy birthdays. The Sewing Circle will give a May musical Friday, the 23d, at the Second Baptist church. They are looking forward for a grand success and every one is welcome. The Ottumwa colored baseball rats played with the South Side giants on Sunday. The team won 10 to 7 in favor of the rats. There were many baseball fans out of both colored and white. Mrs. M. F. Clark, Mrs. Addie Elliot and Mrs. Josephine Fowler left Monday morning for Buxton to attend the Eastern Star convention. All of the graded school colored boys took part in the track meet held at the Myrtle street baseball park May the 19th. Mrs. Oscar Williams entertained the Faithful Few society May 15th in honor of Mrs. Mitchell and daughter. Beulah. There was no business, so the evening was spent very enjoyably. There were many visitors present. Mrs. Harry Owens favored them with a solo. The hostess served a delicious two-course luncheon. About twenty-five departed at a late hour for their "home, declaring Mrs. Williams a royal entertainer. The society of the A. M. E. church met at the home of Mrs. Harry Owens on Mill street Thursday afternoon. A very pleasant afternoon was spent. They adjourned to meet at the residence of Mrs. Frank Henson on Frank street the 22d. The Missionary society gave an entertainment at the A. M. E. church Monday evening. The affair was a success. The Sunshine Workers of the Second Baptist church gave an entertainment last Monday night. It was also a success. Anyone wishing to put news in the Bystander please call up 644 X. New phone. The Sunshine Workers will meet at the residence of Miss Lottie Greaver on Tuesday evening, May 20th. Miss. Harry Owens left last Saturday for Galesburg, Ill., on a few days' visit with relatives and friends. 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Mrs. Ella Johnson accompanied her husband as far as Des Moines to visit friends a few days, as Mr. Johnson is returning to Burton, Iowa. Mr. Owen Redman will finish his fourth year in college in Grinnell on June 10th. We wish for him an abundance of success. The Household of Ruth expect to give a "Feast in the Wilderness" at the hall May 24th. Everybody invited. Mrs. Nelson was a Capital City visitor Monday. Mrs. Chas. Miller, who has been an employee at Dr. Porter's hospital, resigned her position the first of the week. MARSHALTOWN NEWS. Hon. Geo. H. Woodson of Buxton, Grand Custodian A. G. Clark of Oakaloa and Mr. John Spencer of Grinnell were in the city Tuesday evening, the guests of Eureka lodge, No. 20, A. F. & A. M., who passed and raised six candidates. Mrs. Addie Suter left Monday morning to attend Grand Chapter, which convenes at Buxton on Tuesday morning, May 20th. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sutor entertained Hon. A. G. Clark of Osgaloa and Mr John Spencer of Grinnell at 6 o'clock. Mr Al Walker and sister, Jessie, entertained at 6 o'clock dinner Hon. Geo. H. Woodson and Prof. Z. W. Mitchell of Oakland, Cal. Rev. Kinney raised a large sum of money to help pay off the debt on the church Sunday, May 18th, being rally day. We wish you success, Rev. Kinney. Rev. Roman of the Baptist church spoke before a large audience Sunday evening, which was well received. Mr. Albert Green of Toledo spent Sunday in the city. ALBIA NEWS. Miss Jessie Parker of Burlington was in Albia the first of the week at the home of Mrs. Hayes. She returned Thursday and Mrs. Fannie Parker came up from Burlington. Mr. Udell Lewis of Oskaloosa is in Albia this week at the parental home. His little son, William, is, with him. Mr. Edmond of Hocking was in Albia on Sunday. Miss Jessie Lewis, Udell Lewis and John. Edward Lewis were Otumwa visitors Sunday, also Miss Mildred Lewis is visiting in Otumwa. Mrs. Roy Grayson and children spent a part of the week at the parental home in Albia. 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