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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. VOL. XX NO. 8 CITY NEWS Mr. John Wilkinson is seriously ill at his home 223 East 13th street. Mrs. Alex Wilburn, who has been sick, is better. WANTED—A first class barber, L. J. Shelton, 213 Fifth street. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Shepard of Clive spent Saturday in our city shopping. Mr. Clark Wilson spent a few days in Buxton last week visiting among relatives and friends. Mr. John L. Thompson and son, John Nelson, spent Sunday in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Miss Lenora Brooks went to Moberly, Mo., to attend the Emancipation celebration. Mrs. Wm. Wilkinson left for Lincoln, Neb., to visit her sister, Mrs. L. Holmes, there. Mrs. C. B. Woods is able to be up and out again, which is good news to her friends. Mr. Samuel Ewing returned home from a visit to Missouri, his native state. He reported a splendid visit. On July 31 an eight pound baby boy arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Manuel, 1417 Fremont street. Mrs. Gus Watkins left last week for Chicago, Ill., to pursue a course in dressmaking and to get the newest and latest creations on the art. Mrs. Jessie Sparks and littie son, Delos, of Oaklaoska City, Kans., arrived in our city to visit her sister, Mrs. McGuire, 1064 Park street. When visiting in Omaha, Nebraska see D. G. Russell for neatly furnished rooms—all modern up-to-date houses Phones, residence Douglass 5038; Office Doug'ass 3199 1918 and 1922 Cummins street. Miss Graham of Kansas City passed through this city Thursday en route to Canada. She spent a day at the old setters' picnic. Misa Marie Graham of Topeka, Kans., was in the city Thursday, the guest of Misses Gertrude and Adah Hyde. She was en route to Canada to spend the winter. Mrs. A. Ducket of St. Paul, Minn., passed through our city last Friday en route home from the Woman's Missionary meeting at Ottumwa. She is one of the active missionary ladies of the Badger state. Editor John L. Thompson, Grand Master of Masons of Iowa and Atty. S. Joe Brown, Grand Senior Warden of this city, will visit the Grand Lodge of Missouri which will convene in St. Joseph, next week, the guest of the Missouri Grand Lodge. The Knight Templar Conclave of Grand Commandry and Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Illinois and Iowa will hold their 18th annual session in Rock Island, Ill., August 11th to 13th. There will be a meeting of members of North Star Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M. next Monday at their hall, 10th and Centr, to talk over the affairs of the Masonic Temple Association and to see what is best for said Association. All members are urged to be present. Rev. James E. McDaniels of Kansas City, Mo., is in our city representing the Enterprise Industrial Institute of Chicago. Rev. McDaniel is a brother to the president of the Institute. They are both Iowa men and are succeeding Mrs. Katherine D. Tillman of St. Joseph, Mo., will arrive in the city Saturday evening and while here will be the guest of Mrs. S. Joe Brown. The Richard Allen Aid society met last Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. R. N. Hyde and perfected arrangements for a reception to be given Tuesday evening, the 12th, at the residence of Mrs. J. Alvin Jefferson, 12 Day street, in honor of Mrs. Katherine D. Tillman, to which all the club women of the city and their husbands are invited. Mrs. H. J. Rogers of 225 Arthur avenue has returned home from a three weeks' visit with her husband in Lovell, S. D. Sh ewas very much impressed with the country and thinks it a fine place to live. The newly elected officers of the Mary Church Terrill club are: President, Mrs. W. H. Perkins; vice president, Mrs. Edith Strawers; secretary, Miss Gertrude Hyde; assistant secretary, Mrs. Jessie Davis; treasurer, Mrs. H. R. Graves; critic, Miss Adah Hyde; chaplain, Miss Marie Bell. The next meeting will be held at the residence of Mrs. W. H. Perkins, with the following program: Paper, Miss Adah Hyde, to be discussed by members. Quotations from Emerson and current events. Mrs. R. Johnson of Fourth Street Place has been sick the past few weeks and does not improve very fast. The Golden Leaf Club will give their first grand ball on Monday evening, August 18th at Namur's Rink, 11th and Walnut. This is the first time that the colored people have had a chance to enjoy themselves in the largest hall in Des Moines. The National Baptist Convention meets in Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17th to 22nd. A great emancipation celebration will be held in connection with the meeting. The L. & N. R. R. will run a National Baptist Special from St. Louis, Leaving St. Louis Sept. 16th at 11 p. m. arriving at Nashville Sept 17th at 8:15 a. m. round trip from St. Louis $12.75. Special sleeper and tourist car rates. Miss Marie Payton has been somewhat indiposed this week. The L. C. Club will meet Saturday Aug. 16th at the home of Mrs. Kitchen on 11th street. Mr. R. C. Payton, plastering contractor, now has eight men in his employ. Miss Bertha Rone entertained a birthday party at her home on Crocker street on the 4th of this month. Mrs. E. L. Green and three little daughters spent Monday of last week in Clive at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Shepard. Mesdames C. A. Cleggett, J. T. Blagburn, L. J. Lewis and W. T. Jones spent Tuesday of last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Shepard in Clive. Furnished Rooms—I have just the thing for light housekeeping, 3 single rooms altogether and 1 single room. Will rent single or double with bath, gas and kitchen furnished with cooking utensils. Rooms $2 and $3 per week. N. Wiley, 1108 Center streets Mrs. James Garrett of St. Louis, Mo., and her little cousin, Bertha O'Neal of Louisville, Ky., arrived in our city Wednesday to visit with her sister, Mrs. C. B. Woods. Order of Eastern Star. Mrs. Anna Harris, Grand District Deputy for the state of Minnesota organizes, install and sets up subordinate chapters of the order. Residence 285 Ronda street, St. Paul, Minn. We have just received word that Rev. T. M. Brumfield, pastor of Union Congregational church, will return from his vacation this week and will preach at his church both Sunday morning and evening. All members, friends and strangers are invited to come out Sunday on time. Mrs. Mary Holmes and daughter, Maxine of Lincoln, Neb., who has been visiting for the past six weeks with her mother, Mrs. Jeffers, in Knoxville, Ia., and her two sisters Mesdanes Wm. Howard and Wm. Wilkinson of Des Moines, returned to her home Monday evening accompanied by her sister Mrs. Wilkinson. The International Order of Twelve will convene at Buxton Aug. 12. The following named delegates from Des Moines will leave Monday morning to be in attendance: Mrs. M. Brooks, D. G. H. P. Wm. Walker, C. M. Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Bryant, Rev. S. Bates, Mrs. Stella Trent, J. R. Roberts, Mrs. B Hanger, Hattle Carey, Mr. Davis, Mrs. Geo. Stanton, Mrs. Vina Rodgers and Geo. Henry. A very large crowd was initiated into the ancient mysteries of the chapter and commandery last Thursday and Friday nights. Those from out of the city that took the degrees were I. P. Johnson of Muscatine, Rev. I. M. Bess of Osceola and J. Newman of Chariton. Bishop B. F. Lee, presiding bishop of this Fourth Episcopal district, of Wilberforce, Ohio, passed through our city last Friday en route from Ottumwa, Iowa, to St. Paul, Minn, where he had attended the annual meeting of the Woman's Missionary society. While in the city he was the guest of Rev. B. U. Taylor and wife. We are glad to have such a distinguished prelate even though for a short time. Come again, Bishop Lee. Mr. J. H. Roberts, the deputy chief member of the Knights of Tabor of Iowa, was called to Buxton last week to revive the Taborianism by setting up a lodge there. There were about twenty-four taken in. They had a grand time and a banquet was given for Mr. Roberts. Their annual meeting will be held there in August and a large crowd is expected to come. The members of the Des Moines Negro Lycum association were entertained last Tuesday evening by Mra. Ggo. M. Patten at her very pleasant home at 1540 Twenty-fifth Street. On account of the recent death of the vice president, Miss Chenna Graves, the regular program was dispensed with and resolutions of condolence read and adopted, after which the hostess served a dainty past. Mrs. W. H. Lowey and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Brooke visitors at this session. The next week's meeting will be omitted on account of the lecture by Mrs. Katherine D. Tillman, hence the next meeting will be with Mr. B. N. Hyde at 823 Thirteenth street, Tuesday evening, August 19th. Mr. W. F. T. Chandler, one of the successful business men of St. Paul, Minn., who runs a first class café at 317 Watah avenue, passed through our city at Kansas City for a few days' visit; then back to Joseph, where he will attend the annual meeting of the Missouri grand chapter, grand-commander and grand lodge. He stopped off Thursday and visited the old settlers' picnic, the guest of John L. Thompson. He is deputy grand master of the Masonic lodge of Minnesota. He is favorably impressed with our city and citizens. MT. PLEASANT, IOWA. Rev. G. W. Jackson has accepted the call of the Baptist church in New Boston. Mr. Alfred Hill of Monmouth was in the city visiting with his wife. Mr. Herald of Ottumwa was a Sunday visitor at the home of Rev. Eaves. The many friends of Mrs. McNeal are glad to know that she is able to be out again. Mrs. Dora Rice and son, George, left Thursday for their home in Omaha. Mrs. Robt. Anderson has returned from a visit with her mother, Mrs. Clark of Clinton. The A. M. E. Sunday school gave a picnic last Tuesday in the city park, which proved to be a very delightful outing. Mrs. Geo. Harris entertained the Kensington last week at her home on East Madison street. Delicious refreshments were served and all report an enjoyable afternoon. Mrs. Mary Brook and Miss Anna Reecker were Burlington visitors this week. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher of Galesville meeting will be omitted on account of the lecture by Mrs. Katherine D. Tillman, hence the next meeting will be with Mr. B. N. Hyde at 823 Thirteenth street, Tuesday evening, August 19th. Mr. W. F. T. Chandler, one of the successful business men of St. Paul, Minn., who runs a first class café at 317 Watah avenue, passed through our city at Kansas City for a few days' visit; then back to Joseph, where he will attend the annual meeting of the Missouri grand chapter, grand-commander and grand lodge. He stopped off Thursday and visited the old settlers' picnic, the guest of John L. Thompson. He is deputy grand master of the Masonic lodge of Minnesota. He is favorably impressed with our city and citizens. STOVall and Dr. Robb among the invited guests of Mr. Eather Stovall. T. B. Stovall, has been during past care of Dr. R. Tayler and we are glad to be better. Prof. Richard B. I. Cage, Ill., our taller cage, Mitchell and daile Alice Thompson of I attended Bethel A. M. day morning. Prof. Mrs. Thompson after services, each making and instructive A program was rechurch Sunday night read by Miss Hazel S. V. Bean and rida Hastings and a Hastings excellent music. SIOUX CITY Presiding Elder R. will be in the city quarterly conference. The annual picnic club will be held Fri Mrs. Katherine D. Tillman, A. M., who speaks at St. Paul's A. M. E. church next Monday evening, is the wife of Rev. Geo. M. Tillman, who formerly pastored the A. M. E. church in Dayport, Keokuk and other important points in Iowa, more recently of Pasadena, California, but who is now the presiding elder of the St. Joseph district of the North Missouri conference. Mrs. Tillman is herself a very remarkable woman, having written several volumes of poems, many of which have been published in some of the best magazines of the country, and also several plays, one of which, "Thirty Years of Freedom," having been produced in almost all of the larger cities. She has also been quite active in club work, having organized and presided over local clubs in a number of cities where her husband's work has called her, and having also served as president of the State Federation of California and chairman of the ways and means committee of the National Association of Colored Women. OUR CITY CHURCH SERVICES. 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 p. m. Evening services at 8 o'clock p. m. Corinthian Baptist church, corner of Fifteenth and Linden streets. Rev. T. L. Griffith, pastor. A series of sermons on letters to the Seven Churches of Asia. Sunday August 10th. A. M. "The Letter to the church at Ephesus." A. M. "Overcoming Grace," a sermon by request. 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. Union Congregational church, corner of Tenth and Park streets. Rev. T. M. Brumfield, pastor. Morning services at 10:45. Sunday school at 12 o'clock noon. 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. Costly Treatment. "I was troubled with constipation and indigestion and spent hundreds of dollars for medicine and treatment," writes C. H. Hines, of Whitlow, Ark. "I went to a St. Louis hospital, also to a hospital in New Orleans, but no cure was effected. On returning home I began taking Chamberlain's Tablets, and worked right along. I used them for some time and am now all right." Sold by all dealers. M.T. PLEASANT, IOWA. Rev. G. W. Jackson has accepted the call of the Baptist church in New Boston. Mr. Alfred Hill of Monmouth was in the city visiting with his wife. Mr. Herald of Ottumwa was a Sunday visitor at the home of Rev. Eaves. The many friends of Mrs. McNeal are glad to know that she is able to be out again. Mrs. Dora Rice and son, George, left Thursday for their home in Omaha. Mrs. Robt. Anderson has returned from a visit with her mother, Mrs. Clark of Clinton. The A. M. E. Sunday school gave a picnic ast Tuesday in the city park, which proved to be a very delightful outing. Mrs. Geo. Harris entertained the Kensington last week at her home on East Madison street. Delicious refreshments were served and all report an enjoyable afternoon. Mrs. Mary Brook and Miss Anna Reezer were Burlington visitors this week. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher of Galesburg spent a few days at the home of the latter's father, Mr. Mitchell Nunnelly. Samuel McCracken left for Minnesota last week for a visit with her sister. Messrs. Ed and Joe Rickett left Sunday for Sheridan, where they intend to work for a while. Mrs. Lowery attended the missionary meeting in Ottumwa. Sunday evening after the regular services at the Second Baptist church occurred the wedding of Miss Maud Arbuckle and Mr. Wm. Pickett, both of this city. Beatrice Pickett, a sister of the groom, and Allie Jones, a niece of the bride, acted as flower girls. Rev. Eaves officiated. The bride was gowned in white embroidery and the groom was attired the same. The couple will apply a complete will make their home in this city and have the best wishes of their many friends. Mrs. Scott Jones and children of Burlington were here to attend the marriage of her sister. DAVENPORT NOTES. The marriage of Miss Pearl McGau, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scott McGau, to Mr. Ninnerver Williams, formerly a member of the Tenth Vermont cavalry at Fort Ehman Allen, Vermont, took place at 8 o'clock p.m. Monday evening, Rev. A. Boyd of St. Paul's A. M. e Church, Moline, Ill., officiating. The bride was attended by her sister, Mrs. R. E. Lyons, of Galesburg, as matron of honor, and her brother, Mr. Henry McGau as best man. The bride was beautifully attuned in French lawn with valenciennes lace and carried bride's roses. Irene Cormack, of Galesburg, married me and Miss Otie McGau sang Oh, Promise Me. The house was beautifully decorated for the occasion and about thirty-two of the family's most intimate friends were present. After the ceremony a four-course wedding supper was served. The bridal couple will be at home to their friends after August 18th at the Iowa flats. The couple received many beautiful and useful presents. Out of town guests were Mrs. A. Boyd and Miss E. Bradley, Moline, Ill., Mrs. F. E. Harbor and Mrs. R. E. Lysons of Galesburg, Ill., Mrs. Agnes Pennington and Miss T. Pierson of Rock Island, Ill., and Mrs. S. V. Bean of Crystal City, Mo. All extend best wishes. Boston, Mass, will arrive in our city Tuesday and will spend her summer vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will O'Neil. Rev. T. B. Stovall was called to Washington, Iowa, by long distance phone Sunday to attend the funeral of Mr. Hall, who died Sunday morning. He will return home Tuesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Merchant, Messrs. Clifford Culberson, Geo. Young, Major Culberson, Logan Marshall, Floyd Brandt and Mrs. A. Shelton attended the celebration at Clinton, Iowa, Monday, August 4th. All report a good time. Mr. Geo. Young, one of Davenport's most popular young men, attended the Sunday school picnic at Clinton, Iowa, Friday and brought home a prize for winning a running race. Hurrah for Geo. Mrs. C. Harris of the Third Baptist church will leave us August 4th. We are sorry to see her go, as she was a faithful worker and a good teacher. She was much beloved by the teachers and children. Mrs. L. A. Porter, formerly Davenport, now of St. Paul, Minn., visited Mrs. E. Fugua of 723 Eastern State Saturday. The missionary society of the Third Baptist church will give a lawn social at the home of Mrs. P. Baker at 720 Iowa street on Wednesday evening, August 6th. The Carnation club of the Third Baptist church will give a trolley party to extend through the tri-cities on August 15th. Estelle Jackson, who has been making her home with her aunt, Mrs. C. Harris, will leave this week for her future home with her father in Missouri. The E. L. D. club gave are outing at Suburban park Wednesdays afternoon in honor of Mrs. S. V. Bean of Crystal City, Mo. Twenty-five guests were present. Six o'clock dinner was served in courses. Messrs. Eugene Green, Wallace Ballard, D. S. Johnson, Clarence Gamble, Rev. T. B. Stovall and Dr. Robert Taylor were among the invited guests. Mrs. Esther Stovall, wife of Rev. T. B. Stovall, has been very much indisposed during past week, under the care of Dr. R. Tayler. At this writing we are glad to say she is much better. Prof. Richard B. Harrison of Chicago, Ill., our talented elocutionist, Mrs. Mitchell and daughter and Mrs. Alice Thompson of Muscatine, Iowa, attended Bethel A. M. E. church Sunday morning. Prof. Harrison and Mrs. Thompson attended the evening services, each making very interesting and instructive remarks. A program was rendered at Bethel church Sunday night. Papers were read by Miss Hazel Busey and Mrs. S. V. Bean and remarks by Mrs. Sadie Washington and Mr. R. T. Hastings. The chair rendered some excellent music. SIOUX CITY, IOWA. Presiding Elder Rev. S. B. Moore will be in the city Tuesday to hold quarterly conference. The annual picnic of the A. I. P. club will be held Friday afternoon at North Riverside. Mrs. Elnora Wilkinson will entertain the Mite Missionary society Thursday afternoon. An emancipation celebration and barbecue was given August 4th as Seney's ball park, under the auspices of Rev. M. H. Spencer and Prof. Lindell of Quindaro college. In the evening an interesting program was rendered to a large and appreciative audience of both races. The speakers were Prof. Cyrus Lindell and Rev. M. Spencer. Miss D. Mae Lee, of Buxley (now, rendered some of Dunbar's poems). Messrs. M. Askew and C. Gross have purchased Dr. J. W. Norris' interest in the Central barber shop. Messrs. Wilfred Gordon and Jesse Page left last Wednesday for Minneapolis. COUNCIL BLUFFS. IOWA. The last quarterly meeting of this conference year for Bethel A. M. E. church will be held August 10th, having the presiding elder with us, Rev. S. B. Moore, also Rev. Osborn of Omaha, Neb, who will preach the 3 o'clock sermon. Mrs. Redric and children, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Herndon, left for their home in Salt Lake, Utah, August 3. Mrs. Johnson of Wichita, Kansas, is visiting Mrs. Inez Gibbs, 1408 West Broadway. Rev. Garrison, members and friends of Bethel A. M. E. church expect to have with them Bishop Lee soon. At this writing Mr. Brahm of Twenty-eighth street and Avenue A is quite sick. The infant babe of Mrs. Cook died early Sunday morning. Buried Monday at 2 o'clock at 1220 Seventh avenue. Rev. Garrison officiated. Remember the time, date and place. What? Why, a chicken supper, Wednesday, August 13th, at Bethel A. M. E. church. The A. M. E. church of Omaha, Neb, will give a picnic in Council Bluffs at Fairmount park on August 14th under the auspices of Rev. Osborn, pastor. Mrs. Chas. Davis delightfully entertained at a 6 o'clock dinner in honor of her daughter, Irma's 16th birthday. Covers were laid for five. Mrs. H. Walker has been quite ill CLINTON, IOWA. The picnic held at Eagle Point park on August 1st was a grand success. A large crowd was in attendance. The day was perfect and everything tended to pleasures. At noon the contents of the heavily laden baskets were spread under the shady trees, and again at twilight when the throng was increased by several who came to enjoy the evening meal. During the day fourteen contests were had. Aside from the regular events the special prizes for ladies and gents, a $5.00 skirt and a $0.00 dress, were awarded to Sanford Junkins and Gladys Jackson. Mrs. Z. Mitchell and daughter juju. Mr. M. Mitchell and day for a short visit. They returned to their home in Muscatine on Tuesday. The Misses Lavern Martin and Ida Green, with their brothers, Guy and Eddie, of Dubuque were guests at the home of the Misses Culberson, coming to attend the August 1st picnic and barbecue August 4th. Curtis C. Bush left Tuesday morning for Chicago, where he will spend his vacation. The barbecue and which took place August 4th at Eagle Point park was a success. During the day addresses were made by R. M. D. Smith and Rev. Thompkins and the several amusements occupied the attention of all. In the evening dance juju. Included by a large number to the strains of one of Clinton's leading orchestras. Miss Lillian Lynch of St. Louis is a guest at the M. O. Culberson residence. The following persons were in Clinton the past week for the Sunday school picnic and barbecue: Mrs. G. H. Merchant, Miss Hallie Bucker, Marshall Logan, Geo. Young, Carl Culberson, Major Culberson, Clifford Culberson, Frank Cook, Davenport; Luvena Mluvern, Miss Ida Green, Guy Green, Eddie Martin, Dubuque; Mrs. Alice Thompson, Muscatine; Mrs. Asa Williams, Buxton; Z. W. Mitchell, wife and daughter, Musca- Miss Murda Beason of Waterloo is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Richardson. Mrs. Missouri Slater attended the Mite Missionary convention in Ottumwa last week. She reports a good time. The two delegates were unable to attend. Clinton gets one of the class banners as a result of the financial showing. Mrs. Slater has worked earnestly the past few weeks to make a creditable report. The large sales of the Crisis, the proceeds of which was credited to the missionary fund, greatly assisted her. Mrs. L. C. Jones, wife of Prof. L. C. Jones of Piney Woods school, was in Clinton the past week. Bethel Sunday school was afforded a great treat when she gave them a beautiful talk, telling of the manner in which the boys and girl: of the south are cherished that they may become good citizens morally and intellectually collection by the school was evoked the cause of which she represents. Subscribe for The Bystander. MONMOUTH,LL Mrs. Francis James, Mrs. Ardella Washington and Mrs. Garnett McGruder of Macomb spent several days in the city, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Stellar Williams. Miss Florence Brown visited Sunday in Knoxville with Mr. and Mrs. Pruit and friends. The social and musical given by the Frederick Douglass Literary society at the home of Miss Marie Saunders was well attended and quite a success. Miss Mabel Bland, who has been the guest of Miss E. Niel for the past two weeks, left last Wednesday for a few days' visit with friends in Galesburg, tence to her home in Keokuk. A large number of the Maple City folk attended the celebration August 1st at Maley's grove in Galesburg. A fine time was reportel. Mrs. W. A. Searcy started last Tuesday to attend the A. M. E. missionary convention in Ottumwa, Iowa. Mrs. Searcy, in writing, reports a very excellent meeting. She remained after the convention to visit her parents and other relatives and friends. Messrs. Jno. Long, Edward Skinner and Bertram Searcy were among the party who made an overland trip Monday evening to Galesburg in Mr. T. Zugman's new seven passenger touring car. Mrs. E. L. Scruggs of Macon, Mo, is in the city visiting her husband, Dr. E. L. Scruggs, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Wallace. Large bills are out announcing the Grand Union picnic and barbecue to be held August 14th at Norwood grove, under the auspices of the A. M. E. churches of Galesburg and Monmouth. Special cars and rates have been secured on the Rock Island Southern line. Two baseball games and other amusements will be enjoyed and music will be furnished by the Galesburg colored band, which is composed of ladies. This band is an organization of several years and has enjoyed playing a most excellent reputation. It is hoped that a large attendance will be had from neighboring cities as well as local. We urge again that all persons in the city with news for The Bystander oblige us by calling us over the telephone, 2664. OLD SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION. Yesterday was a great day in Des Moines, as it was the annual meeting of the old settlers of Polk county. About 800 people enjoyed this picnic. Those from out of the city were W. F. T. Chandler of St. Paul, Minn., Miss Graham of Kansas City, Mrs. Jefferys of Knoxville, Mr. and Mrs. B.-F. Given of Knoxville, Mr. and Mrs. J. Shapard of Glipper, Mr. and Isabell Chicago, Mr. Fields of St. Louis, Mo., Mrs. James Garrett of St. Louis. Some of the old familiar faces were missing from the annual old setters' picnic at Union park for the association's twenty-fifth annual outing. Many new faces were among those that took part in the games and looked on during the contests that were among the features of the day. The park presented a great sight when those assembled found places at the long table. The baseball game between the Walker Shoe company team and the Inviincibles, which resulted in a tie, 2 to 2, was called on account of darkness. "Cannonball" Jackson and "Cy" Barker occupied the mound for their respective aggregations and each hurled great ball; the prize, a ball and bat, will be awarded the winner of the playoff next Sunday. During the afternoon the 'potato race, egg race and running races were held with the following persons as winners: Children's race (under 5 years), Doris Race and Nelson Thompson, the Girl's race, Mildred Griffin, first; boys' race (under 10), James Williams, first; boys' race (under 18), John Drink, first; young women's race, Miss Mary Perkins, first; fat women's race, Mrs. Blaine Thompson, first; old men's race, E. Winn, first; 100-yard dash, Emery Jackson, first; old women's race, Mrs. W. H. Warriors, first; 100-yard dash, Carl Jones, first; potato race, Miss Gerada Clay, first; Miss Olive Smith, second; egg race, Emery Jackson, first; Ren Smith, second; guessing contest (for women), Mrs. Albert R. Hall, first; Miss Olive Smith, second; guessing contest (for men), E. Tracy Blagburn, first; M. Noling, second; ball --- Price Five Cents. throwing contest (for women), Mrs. E. Dimmitt, first; Misa Cary, second. Other events that afforded amusement and close competition were a series of tennis and croquet matches. The election of officers resulted in R. N. Hyds being re-elected president; John L. Thompson, secretary, and Jefferson Logen, treasurer. A WORTHY INSTITUTION. Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 6, 1913. Editor of the Iowa State Bystander, Des Moines, Iowa. My Dear Mr. Editor: We are regular recipients and readers of your newspaper. It occurs to us some of your readers would like to know more of the Iowa Children's Home Society; hence the following: We receive children at the hands of either parent, who is unable or unworthy children into approved family homes. We cannot receive all children who are offered to us, neither do we accept all applicants for children. It is our desire to suit the child to the home that applies. At present we have several colored children, girls and boys, in the nursery and up to 12 years of age. Some of those are partially pledged, but we desire to find acceptable homes for all. Full information will be given by calling at the Home or by addressing the Home Society, 2240 East Ninth street, des Moines, Iowa. Very sincerely yours. A. T. Burnell, Superintendent. OTTUMWA, IOWA. The thirteenth annual session of Chicago Conference Branch of Mite Missionary society convened in Otumwa on July 30th at the A. M. E. Mt. Zion church for a two days' session. The 30th and 31st of July there were thirty delegates in attendance an fifteen members. The sessions were opened with sunrise prayer meeting and was largely attended, and those present entered into the spirit of the meeting and each received a blessing. Our president, Mrs. B. Grazys, being absent, the first ice president, Mrs. L. Steward, and the third, who felt keen the absence of our president the vice president nobly filled the chair. The papers read at the different sessions were inspiring and instructive. Especial notice was given to the paper by Mrs. M. Griffin, Echoes From the World in Chicago. Those who followed Mrs. M. Griffin in her reading surely can see the need of a deeper interest in the missionary work. Mrs. S. Allen of Galesburg, a visitor, gave the society a splendid talk on Temperance and classed intemperance as one of the greatest evils of today and asked us women as a race to combine our forces and fight old King Alcohol. Mrs. Allen is an eloquent speaker and is known for carved mementos in her effort. Bishop J. N. L. also visited and gave a heart to heart talk to the ladies and instruction on different lines of their work that will be a great benefit to them. Presiding Elders Rev. Daniels and Rev. Moore were visitors and seemed to be greatly interested in the meeting and each gave a soul-suirking talk to the ladies. Rev. Daniels said if the ladies were divided from the men the men would come to them. Rev. Wharton and Rev. Butler were visitors. The stewardesses and assistant stewardesses entertained the ladies at the church with dinner and supper and were highly complimented for their splendid services. The young minister of the church served as waitresses and did their part to help. The ladies departed for their homes praising Ottumwa. The Mite Missionary society of Chicago branch will hold their next meeting in Milwaukee, Wis., July 30 and 31, 1914. Mrs. G. Alexander of Topeka, Kan., is visiting in the city, the guest of Mrs. M. Clark. Mrs. M. Griffin is visiting in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. Wagner. Mr. E. McGill of Galesburg is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Owens. Mr. and Mrs. H. Owens entertained Sunday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Kate Owens of Keokuk, Iowa, and Earl McGill of Galesburg. Mr. and Mrs. E. Wagner entertained Monday evening at their home in Mrs. M. Griffin of Chicago and E. McGill of Galesburg. The evening was spent in readings from home talent and singing. The Faithful Few society meet with Mrs. H. Owens on Thursday evening. Mrs. Laura Schoolfield of Oskaloosa is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Coots. She returned to her home Tuesday evening. While in the city she attended the missionary convention and was highly elated over the meetings. The Mite Missionary society met Tuesday afternoon at the residence of Rev. and Mrs. M. I. Gordon. The report of the committee on entertaining the annual session of Mite Missionary society of Chicago Conference branch was made. The ladies donated 298 meals to delegates and members of convention and the ladies of this society extend their thanks to the citizens of Ottumwa in their cooperation in entertaining the convention. Mrs. O. Williams entertained at dinner Tuesday Mrs. G. Alexander of Topeks, Kan, and Mrs. L. School-fold of Oskaloosa. In View of Subsequent Happenings, Counsel Might be Pardoned for Doubtting Court's Statement. Lawyers in New York scanned the plans of the new court house eager for one detail which has been overlooked in the general discussion of the case. In order to deal with the administration of justice than with the prevention of crime, the judicial ermine might be hung where the moths might eat it, or thieves might break in and steal—but what of counsel's hat and overcoat? In short, what the learned attorneys of New York city desired was ample cloak-room facilities for the repose of their surplus garments in winter time. That has been a real problem in the antiquated county court house, and more than a few lawyers have curved, not the staircase, into the city's old building that structure in the halcyon days of Tweed, but the stealing from counsel in later days, when overcoat and hat must find precarious storage in open court room. There was the case of the lawyer who appeared before the supreme court last winter. He was earnestly interested in his case. The plaintiffs on the other side were nothing short of "hold-up men," who had instigated suit against his clients only for the purpose of making a proposition to be "bought off." Counsel's indignation was fully aroused, your honor," he said in his argument, "that the courts of this state will not permit an act of theft before their very eyes." The court interrupted. "The courts of this state," announces the judge, ponderously and politically, "are here for the punishment of the wrongdoer, no matter what his estate may be. The court's eyes are far-seeing. Every upright citizen is the eye of this tribunal, for the detection of theft and crime of every sort," etc. Counsel, for his part, was gratified that the institution of justice, and the justice of the people weal, and would prevent theft no matter how remote, etc. So the case wound its way to a dreary end. Decision was reserved. The counsel turned to the chair just behind him to gather up his hat and overcoat. They had both been in the court the day before of the court.-New York Evening Post. Always Suspect. "The trusts are in the position of the man whose wife has gone to the country—no matter what they do, it lays them open to suspicion." The speaker was Charles M. Schwab. He resumed: "The man whose wife is in the country, or at the shore, or on the mountains, is always a suspect." "For example, one woman said to another, on the plaza of the Hotel Salt Breeze." "What! Leaving today? Why, I thought you were staying on till the end of August!" "I did intend to,' explained the other woman, 'but my husband has just sent me a five-hundred-dollar check without a murmur." Much Pumice Used The pumice produced in the United States last year amounted to 27,146 short tons, valued at $86,687, according to the United States Geological Survey. This was an increase of 6,457 tons in quantity and a decrease of $1,712 in value compared with 1911. In quantity the production is the largest on record, but the average price per ton and the total value were less than those of the two preceding years. Need Never Stop. John Purroy Mitchell, the new collector of the port for New York, was congratulated on his success the other day at a luncheon. "And you'll go still further, sir," said an enthusiastic ally. "You're young yet." "Well," said Mr. Mitchell, modestly "I shall certainly try to go further." He smiled and added: "The beauty about fortune's ladder is that it has no top, and no man ever need stop climbing for want of an other rung." Guard Secrets of Beverage. The famous Hock Cup, which is a feature of all court festivities at Buckingham palace, has its counterpart in the equally celebrated "Hohenzollern punch." After such entertainments as state ballads and opiums at the palace, the genial custom previews of serving the guests with a stirrup cup of this excellent beverage, made from a recipe dating back 150 years, the secret of which is as jealousy guarded by successive cellarmen as is that of the English hock cup. To Start a Camp Fire Campers will find butter and sugar not only valuable as food, but when a fire is almost gone a little butter placed on damp twigs is invaluable in starting it up again. A half tea-spoonful of sugar will start a smoldering fire, and it is entirely safe. Business Rivalry. A matter-of-fact dressmaker, not to be outdone by a rival milliner, who styles herself a "bonnet architect," has hung her sign on the outer wall as "Mrs.—dress builder." Shifting the Responsibility. Miss Rockey—Oh, ppm, why do you wish me to marry the kind of man who can get money out of the other fellow? Old Rockey—Because, dear, then he won't be trying to get it out of "William says he can learn foreign languages easily." "Don't you believe him. The trouble in learning all foreign languages is pronounced." --- SCHOOL AND HOME Department Organizing Branch Whereby it is Hoped to Bring Parents and Teachers Nearer Together—4,000,000 Mothers to Help. Washington.—Before another school year rolls around Uncle Sam will have invited more than 4,000,000 mothers of the country to join in the work out of a co-operative plan whereby it is hoped to bring home and school nearer together, to help the parent to get the viewpoint of the teacher on one hand and the other to help on the other little Johnny or Mary along lines of thought and work which will make the child a greater help in the home and assist it to develop into a better citizen in the nation. During the hot months of summer, when both grown-ups and children are giving more attention to vacation plans than to school matters, experts in the United States bureau of education have just begun the organization of a new division to direct this new co-operative work, which will aim at the upbuilding of two of the most important American institutions, the school and the home. For the want of a better name, the new brand of the bureau has been created, a division which might suggest that the purpose of the government is to turn homes into schools. The encouragement of co-operation between parent and teacher, however, is the sole purpose of the division, and in no manner will its work conflict with the activities of the school. The National Congress of Mothers of the United States is responsible for the establishment of the new branch of the bureau of education. The division now being organized will not be provided for out of government funds, but will be maintained by virtue of a co-operative arrangement with this large mothers' organization, which will provide financial backing for the work, which will be directed and supervised by experts of the bureau of education. This method of providing for the work is similar to the plan followed by the government in conducting the co-operative farm demonstration work in the south, which is made possible largely by funds provided by the general education board, part of the Rockefeller Foundation, the government cooperation with semi-private institutions in operation in financing the new rural organization service of the department of agriculture, congress providing $50,000 for part of the work and the general education board subscribing larger amounts to extend the lines of investigations. The new division of home education will enable the government to give official sanction to the important work of the parent-teacher associations which have been encouraged by the National Congress of Mothers, and which are now organized in most of the large school centers of the country. The purpose in organizing the divisions is to extend the same idea of school in the rural and small town communities which the parent-teacher associations have developed in the large cities. With this end in view, Commissioner P. P. Claxton of the bureau of education has just mailed to a list of 4,000 county superintendents of schools a letter asking their cooperation in the work about to be taken up by the division of home education, requesting the names of the schools under their supervision in the open country, villages or small towns, and the names of at least two women of intelligence and influence in the vicinity of every elementary or high school, probably mothers, will be asked to cooperate in the work of the home education division by organizing parent-teacher associations for the discussion of the care and training of children in the home both before and after school age. In the entire country it is expected that there will be named at least 4,000,000 mothers who will cooperate with the government in the work of connecting up school and home to the mutual advantage of both. The announcement made a few days ago that the pure food law has been the United States has brought in many inquiries from persons who want to know why the same law will not be used to cover the traffic in other dangerous habit-forming drugs. Among the drugs about the control of which inquiries have been made are opium, morphine, codein,氢ionin, peronin and several others. The reason which has been given by officials at the treasury department and the bureau of chemistry is that the importation of opium and its derivatives, such as morphine and other drugs, is now regulated, to a greater or lesser extent, by the special opium law of 1909. While this law does not give as thorough control of the traffic in these drugs as the new treasury department does, it does not control the control of cocaine, cocos and its derivatives, it was not considered wise to include opium and opum preparations for the reason that the administration of the new regulation might conflict with the operation of the opium law of 1909. If it is found that the new regulations works well on the control of cocaine it is possible at Washington. Some 50 years ago he received a bag of valuable silver bullion and the owner has left it with him ever since. This gold and silver has been a great nuisance to the accounting officers of the federal government, who do not know what to do with it. that a request will be made for the repeal of the optum law and the application of the pure food law to all habit-forming drugs. The new cocaine regulation will make it necessary for an affidavit to be filled out and signed for every sale of cocaine from the time it reaches the importer at one of the large ports until it reaches the hands of the ultimate consumer. These affidavit will have to be made by the dealer, and both sales book and affidavit kept on file for regular inspection by government officials. Plans are now being made for printing the forms of affidavits which will have to be signed by each importer and purchaser of cocaine, and also the forms of record which each dealer will have to keep and submit to the bureau of chemistry in January of each year. The start which the government has made in controlling the use of dangerous habit-forming drugs, which has been pursued by a number of foreign countries which has restricted the sale and use of these drugs most rigidly for a number of years. Nothing in the government's regulation will restrict the use of cocaine in legitimate medical practice, for it is recognized, of course, that only the indiscriminate and promiscuous use of cocaine, opium, morphine and other drugs is dangerous and that the administration of these agents by skillful hands contributes to the relief of pain and suffering. Senator Jones of Washington is the earliest member of a bird. Just when the Senator. Runs the Elevator. for forty winks more he's down at his desk, already elbow-deep in the day's work. The first morning Senator Jones appeared in the senate building at the grusome hour of half-past seven in the morning, all sed, shaven and eager for the day's work, the elevator was to sleep. The only thing allowed to represent the majesty of the United States was the antique negro watchman. The senator's office was two flights up and he was in a hurry. "Here, you," he exploded upon the solitary darky, "can you run this elevator up to my office!" "No, boss, I can't," replied the startled attendant. "Then I can!" rapped out Senator Jones. "Open that door!" The darky looked at the wildewind doors of the western senator, opened up the elevator. The senator grabbed the levers; there was a whirr—and they had arrived! Every morning since Senator Joase steers that restive elevator along its devious course from the basement to the second floor, carrying as a passenger the elevator, the elevator whose astonishment at the versatile genius of the pilot is growing daily. until March 4, had personal histories that were curiously interwoven. Mr. Humphreys is the son of Brig. Gen. Benjamin G. Humphreys of Confederate fame, and Mr. Ames, the son of Maj. J. Gen. Adelbert Ames and the grandson of "Ben" Butler. Mr. Humphreys' father was made governor of Mississippi in 1865, the year the present congressman was born, but the family had enjoyed the shelter of the executive roof only two or three years when Mr. Ames' father came along and evicted them. General Ames, aided by federal soldiers descended on the Humphreys, successfully ejected the governor and his family, and took possession of the mansion under the authority of "military governor." Nother of the sons of the famous soldiers treasures any animosity over the occurrence, however. Both are veterans of the Spanish war, where they served under the same flag. The 1,300,000 boys and girls in the high schools of the United States constitute the greatest force of any nation in the world for social uplift and advancement of civilization, in the opinion of Dr. T. J. Jones of the united bureau of education. In a paper issued by the doctor Jones declares that with the teachers of social science and history in these schools rests the responsibility of developing this force for national good. "Good citizenship should be the direct aim of the high school courses in social science and history," says Doctor Jones. "Good citizenship is the test that must be applied to every topic in these courses. Facts, conditions, and situations which do not contribute directly to the appreciation of methods of human betterment have no claim on the mind of the high-school pupil. "Every pupil should know, of course, how the president of the United States is elected, but he should know that the president of the health officer in his community." Here it is. Representative Willis of Ohio, champion speller of Congress, the other day received a word which he admitted he could neither spell nor pronounce. It_was the name of a Chicago Greek confectioner and was sent to Willis by his brother. Here it is: "James Papaetheodorokoumourtgeotopoulos." In 1856, H. J. Peters brought $127.87 worth of gold bullion to the San Francisco mint; in 1858, Joseph Baker presented $333.27; and in 1863, J. M. Souther handed over $156.96. They never returned. In 1882, Thomas F. Davis took to the New York assay office to be made into fine silver bars and has not been seen since. Life holds taw far greater tragedies than being missed by the ice man. SOCIETY MATRON WORKS TO PREVENT STRIKE EX-KING MANUEL HAS SUCCUMBED TO CUPID REP. BORLANDWOULDBUILDSUMMERCAPITAL INEZ MILHOLLAND MARRIES RICH HOLLANDER R was the hand and mind of a woman that planned and worked out a way to bring about an attempted adjustment of the difficulties between the em employer and the forty-two eastern railroads. MARY It was the work of a woman who brought together at the White House the representatives of three branches of the military, the heads of the railroads and the masters of the railway employed organizations in conference It was Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, society matron, wealthy social leader, friends of President Wilson, a mother, a worker in social betterment lines, a student of economics and adjuster of troubles between capital and labor, who really and actually postponed, if not prevented the 100,000 railroad employees of the forty-two eastern railroads from going out on strike. The story of how Mrs. Harriman, alone and unaled, started the ball rolling, which resulted in the employees and employers getting together. The story shows her to be more than a student of social work, and a The greatest heart-breaker and first in Europe at last has been caught in M. After many a hard fought love affair, in which several have been woried, Cupid has been successful in piercing the heart of the romantic and the royal King Manuel of Portugal. He has been fortunate in winning the heart and hand of Princess Augustina Victoria, who is both young and attractive. She is twenty-seven, tall, and athletic looking, has bad athletic features and a great fitness. The engagement took place in Sligmaringen castle, the home of 'the princess' father, where Manuel was visiting. The rumor of their impending betrothed has been afloat ever since it began to be noticed that the former king was spending so much time in Sligmaringen. At times it even reached the ears of the girl's parents, but they never have taken the Unrest at the certainty of a whole summer in the torrid climate of Washington has started legislators to considering the feasibility of a settlement of a "Summer Capital." JOHN BURKE With the temperature driving the mercury into the neighborhood of the 100 degree mark and the evident determination of the leaders to hold congress "on the 520" throughout the heated term, and, furthermore, the recollection that for the last five years every session has run well into if not clear through the "Dog-days." Representative Borland of Missouri is considering the desirability of laying plans for the midsummer transfer. in future years, of the place of holding the seasonal session, at least during June, July and August, to some spot in the mountains contiguous to Washington. Miss Inez Mihilando was married at the registry office in London the other day to Eugene Van Boisevain, to the utter surprise of her parents and friends. Neither her mother, who at present is in London, nor her father, who is in New York. had the slightest suspicion of her intention. A The other afternoon noon b母 mothen had the following startling tele- gram: "Married this morning. Will arrive with hus- sage. band for dinner at 7:30. Leaving for Holland at 8:30 p.m.—Inez Von Boisevain." At first the family almost thought it a joke, but knowing Miss Inez' original and independent character, they concluded it genuine. Most Extraordinary. "Extraordinary, most extraordinary!" said Mr. B. as he deflected the house and gasped open-mouthed at the house over the way. "What is it, Oliver?" inquired Mrs. B, resting from the labor of sweeping the front porch. "Look over there! See that! most singular proceeding." "Well!" said the lady with the broom, encouragingly. "That's the third time in the last ten minutes," said Oliver. theorist. It shows she possesses that which hundreds of thousands of men crave—a practical mind and will to operate it. After it became known that the employees of the railroads were in a mood to take drastic steps to force the railroads to meet their demands for increased wages, and before any of the leaders of this great army of employees, or any of the male managers of the various organizations seeking peace between capital and labor gave thought to the question of how the employer and employee could be brought together and induced to adjust their differences without injury to the general public, Mrs. Harriman conceived her plan. Joseph P. Tumulty, was at Avon, N. J. It was about dinner time. He was with his family. His telephone bell rang. He answered it. Mrs. Harriman was on the line, the other end of which was in New York. Mrs. Harriman told Mr. Tumulty that the trouble between the railroad managers and the employees was serious. The result was that a long telegram went to the president at Cornish, N.H., where he was spending a few days with his family, telling him of the situation and pointing out the desire of all parties concerned to avoid an open conflict such as a strike. The president after reading the telegram from his secretary, instructed the latter to ask Secretary of Labor Wilson to arrange the conference. friendship seriously. They knew of the romantic nature of Manuel, and that his most desperate affaires deoeur had not ended seriously. Even when the young people announced their engagement their friends refused to congratulate them, for the young ex-king is supposed to be without any fortune and with many heavy debts resting on his shoulders. Since his banishment from his kingdom he has been leading a democratic life in Paris and London, consorting with artists, singers and other types of bohemlans. Although Princess Augustine is not of the reigning family, her father was in direct succession to throne of Roumania. He renounced his right at Baden Baden. The present prince of the family has remained quiet most of the time in his historic castle, pitched on a high craig rising above the town of Sigmarlingen in Hoheneltern. Though Kaiser Wilhelm and Prince Wilhelm are both Hohenelterns, they belong to the same family. Thus the prince "cousin," but the blood relationship between them antedates the present generation. Therefore the marriage will not bring the former king into closer relationship with the kaiser. "It would be a perfectly feasible thing," said Mr. Borland. "Few people seem to realize when we are swettering here in the torridity of a Washington summer that not more than an hour's run by express train there runs a range of beautiful foothills averaging in altitude more than 1,500 higher than Washington itself. "The Blue Ridge is by far fifty miles away. A lesser range, the Catoctins, are a scant forty miles distant from Washington. It would seem to me to be a house, a room, a cool, and healthful sort of a place, to be built with a view to housing both branches of the national legislature and not at great expense, might be built." "It would not be necessary to transfer the whole legislative plant to the mountains. A building of concrete and steel with two legislative chambers and the necessary committee rooms could be constructed for a limited amount of money, probably for as little as $250,000, and certainly well with in the half-million mark. The plan is feasible enough, and 88 in the house of representatives is enough to make one think seriously of this proposition, which I would like to see investigated." It is understood that they are acquainted very slightly, if at all, with Eugene von Boisselmein, whom Inez had only met a short time ago, casually in New York before he was their fellow passenger on the trip over. After a family reunion, the bride and bridegroom left for Amsterdam to visit the bridegroom's family, to whom the marriage came with a great surprise. Mrs. Boisselmein was seen at her father's house in London after she had been to dinner, followed by a theater, with a party consisting of her husband, his brothers, Mrs. Milholland, Miss Veda Milholland and Mr. Marconi. Mrs. Boisselmein, looking radiantly happy and beautiful, said: "We were married at the registry office in Marloes路, Kensington. I had to be married at that office because it is in the parish where I reside. I do not know how the report gof about that we were married last year, because we could my father then be married. We had to tell him that it had taken place because we knew he would object otherwise." "Yes, the third time they've brought the baby to the front window. First it was the mother, and now they're joined by the father, and now they're joined by the maiden aunt and I see the next door neighbor is going over. Extraordinary, most extraordinary. "Not at all," said Mrs. B. "Eh? No?" "Not at all, they've just discovered that the baby is cutting his first tooth." HABITS OF INSECTS NATURE'S SCHEME Ants Are Curious Little Creatures, and One Always Sees Something New In Their Habits If Willing to Study Them Patiently. A scientist recently took a strange photograph, using this compound eye of an insect as his lens. When the plate was developed, there appeared 150 separate and distinct photographs of the same object—one for each of the 150 eyes which make up the complex seeing organ of the tiny creature. Some insects have a thousand such eyes and what it must mean to look at a single enemy and see it multiplied into a company or a regiment! exclaims the New York Press. Among scientists there is much debate as to just how much or how well insects as a class are able to see. It is fairly certain that a species of wasp is quite dependent on its sense of sight in finding its way to its nest. It has been observed to study carefully the sticks, stones and leaves of grass which are close to the entrance to its nest, and, on returning from a flight, to hunt up and identify these landmarks before entering. If the surroundings are disturbed it sometimes has difficulty in locating its home. It is also certain that occurrences of the most trivial character, from the human standpoint, are to myriads of insects catastrophes of world shaking horror. A farm wagon drives up the lane from the stable. Its wheels throw out bits of clay and small stones which fall in overwhelming masses on the bodies and houses of vast communities of ants. A whole ant city may be wiped out in an instant, the laborious work of weeks instantly destroyed, by an ordinary incident of this sort. A woman, working with her trowel in the garden, empties a handful of earth into the path where an ant ory has set up its home. The little pile, two or three inches in height, is the rocky mountains to the ants. But, as it lay between their home and a rotting pear, the sweetness of which they were taking back to the ant city, they built a straight road up and over the mountain and went back to their labor. Insects belonging to the higher orders often take advantage of little things about their nests, which things from a human standpoint would be of no importance whatever. A clear case of this nature was recently found by Prof. Paul Griwold Holmes, upon which the insects of small red ants had chosen small natural holes in the otherwise solid rock as entrances to their houses. Indeed, they may have used these holes for their entire nests without going to the usual trouble of excavating long tunnels in the earth. Being of solid stone, the communities were entirely protected from many natural enemies that are ever present and destroy their natural abodes in the ground. These ants were indeed insect cliff dwellers, living in tiny natural caves high above the common road of insect travel. Not only were they making use of the caves, but also of tiny cracks in the rock. They served as smooth, level roadways for the burdened and even free insects of the colonies, and no doubt saved many an hour which might have been spent in trying to scale the perpendicular side of the cliff, who then proceeded shorter routes to the need by many an insect mile, and in the course of a season would make quite a difference in the amount accomplished by a colony of "cliff dwellers." Ants are curious little creatures, and one always sees something new in their habits if willing to study them patiently. They seem to have regular times set aside for recreation, during which time Professor Holmes has watched them going through the motions of an apparently frightful battle. Again he has seen one insect flat upon his back while another combed and brushed it with the tiny combs which actually exist upon the forelegs of the insect. This recreation hour is usually held about onen clear days. Often the same spot will be used day after day for these games, and one oocycle sees seven ants lying in the sagittal face, while the brothers are sporting and undoubtedly "shouting" their merriment close by. Our authority once found one of these playgrounds of the ants which consisted of a sun warmed stone close to a small brook, the flat area of the top being the popular resort. Gas Buoy's Long Drift. One of the strangest cruises ever taken by a gas buoy is recorded by the government of Canada. The buoy in question, located near Levis, opposite Quebec, on the St. Lawrence river, was carried away by ice in the spring of 1911. It was believed to have sunk. In the spring of this year it was picked up on the coast of New South Wales, Australia, a distance of 18,000 miles. During its two years' twisting it was never reported as being seen, although its height above the water was fully 15 feet. Caught by the currents of the North Atlantic, it must have traveled south until picked up by the equatorial currents, then have been carried to the southern end of the continent, and thence around Cape Horn to the distant point where it was finally thrown ashore—Popular Mechanics. Glad Consent. "Do you consent to my marriage to Sam father?" "Yes, my daughter," said old Jacobs, "but I can not let you leaf me. You are mine only child, and you and Samuel must lift ride here vid də old folks. You are mine only child, and second-story front room for $200 a reek." — Lippincott's Magazine. Mrs. Malaprop. "All my linen," said Mrs. Twickembury, "is marked with illigible ink." Why Differences in Animals Are Continually Perpetuated. Color Proves Safeguard and Baby Seals, White in the North, Become Brown as They Drift Southward, Zebra's Strikes Protect Them. Did it ever occur to you to wonder why, as between animals of much the same general form and size—as between the zebra, the horse and the mule—the should exist such marked differences, and differences which are perpetuated, generation after generation. The problem which puzzled the early scientists has come, within the last few decades, to be quite well understood, Felix J. Koch writes in Dumb Animals. The answer is that these changes are all part and parcel of nature's great scheme for the protection and, in case of the wild creatures, for enabling them to avoid their enemies and to gain a livelihood. For example: There formerly roamed the African deserts a little creature much like the giraffe, but with just a little more here and there he can oversee the desert, feeding on the succulent leaves the palms that were within easy reach. One year a blight tell on the palm trees; they withered and the leaves dropped off, beginning with the lowest and gradually running up to the top. Along with their passing went the food of the short-necked giraffes. By and by there were only the top leaves left to eat. The smaller animals could not reach these and so perished for want of food. Only those giraffes whose necks were high enough to reach the leaves high up survived. Now as provision for just that thing it is one of nature's inflexible laws that not only does like produce like, but individual characteristics are accounted. Here were only the extra long-necked giraffes left to interbred. Only this sort would appear among the young, and that breed appeared with necks longer than any giraffes had known before. Throughout nature one finds, therefore, the gradual adaptation to locality and conditions. Every year on the coasts of Labrador and Newfoundland thousands of near-seal are slaughtered for their hide, which is a substitute for shoe leather. The baby seal or "pups" as they are called, are snow white with the brown spots. Were these baby seals the dull brown or black of the adults and cavorting here and there on the ice fields, don't you see, they would stand out in relief. Bears and other ores would see them, make for them and devour them. But against the white ice the white seal pup is almost invisible even at a very close distance. The seal is very hard to see, these babies are born, has broken loose, and caught in the currents, is drifting southward. It meets the gulf stream and melts. The baby seal must then put to sea. If, there, it were a snow white object such as it was before—to be seen swimming in deep blue waters, its foes would spy it at once and devour it forthwith. But by the time it was born, the gulf stream the baby's cost has turned brown and he's safe. How does this happen? Here is the probable explanation. Once on a time, in a heard of seal, some few were a bit lighter colored than others. Now in the course of time, the seals fell afoul of their foes. The bear, let us suppose, saw the darker skinned babies and destroyed them, but the lighter had the more chance to escape. So the lighter, only, were left to interbreed, and this seeming "fault" of a white skin at birth became accentuated, perpetuated. The American buffalo is a notable specimen. See how that great broad forehead is built to withstand the gale that sweeps the prairies. See the shaggy growth just over the eyes, as he lowers the head, from the sand and dust that drive over the plain. Verily mother nature equipped this child to withstand anything save the man-made bullet. Look at the zebra, and in his mottled coat you see the shadows cast by palm fronds on the sands of his native desert. Set in the edge of the palms the baby and mother are hard to tell from the wavering background of shrubbery. And so nature protects. Throughout the animal kingdom these adaptations star one in the face, so to speak. The wonderful coat of the deer, white in winter, making him almost invisible against the snow; horns, in form and color; the branches of trees—what better cloak could conceal him from unfriendly eyes? Descend to the humber forms and on our trees you will find, if you look sharp, the walking-stick, a wedge bit of an insect that, for a all the world, resembles a few twigs thrown together. On the bark, too, there may rest a butterfly or a night moth, with wings so nearly the color of the wood that only when striped like shadows of the desert it proceeds to stir does one recognize it as a thing apart. Gentle Hint for Teacher. Percy is a shrewd little fellow, not at times above mild schemes for his own pleasure. The other day his music teacher commended him for a well-learned, leason. "The little girl next door," Percy asks, with an angelic smile, "has a man teacher. An' when she gets a good lesson he takes her to a show." Necessary Life of Leisure. Mrs Wickmire--Don't you ever make the slightest attempt at manual labor? Dismal Dawson--"Mum, I am living the war am on a bet. I got a reward of $5,000 up that I kin live eighty years without workin'--Indianapolis Journal. "Here comes Welterdo. He insists on shaking hands every time we meet." "Well, why should you object?" "That is not the way I'd prefer to AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS There is power in numbers unified if directed to a purpose; and great achievements may be wrought through its agency, if confidence is secured. It is a mighty defense against attack, and a protection to individuals as well as support to bodies. It would be better for the situation of every man, in his material affairs, if he should realize its importance, and strive to improve his condition by practice. It has ever been somewhat strange, that the negro effort is so much greater than the ability of mankind in pushing forward the movements of the world through the force of combination. Fear, begotten of suspicion has ever kept him in the rear ground of civilization because his aspirations are crippled, thereby. Nothing is gained without venture; and he who hesitates to take the first step will never be able to walk. That which has been accomplished by one may likewise reward the labor of the other; but a lack of endearment will always妨碍 the completion of any design. Feeble efforts are the results of half-hearted attachment, which usually, swerves aside when actual service is demand. Ignorance makes man unaware of the dangers to be fallen a victim to its wiles; and jealousy. There are, therefore some reasonable causes for the dissensions which tend to weaken the ties of union; but, in nature, there exists a remedy for each. Human struggles cannot be borne in severalties; and whenever it is undertaken the end, thereof, is destructive. Of course, no man foresees his destiny; nor can he determine what his end will be; yet, to aim high to dare and do, will often bring fruits to chivalry. That general who fails to prepare because ignorant of the outcome of the struggle, will ever succeed in gaining his reward for wisdom because he refuses to make an attempt. Defeats are not always shameful; for out of them very often great victories are born. The stigma arises when once defeated he falls to come again. Capt. James W. English and Mr. Samuel M. Inman have given generous amounts toward the establishment at Atlanta, Ga., of a school, the purpose of which is to train the willing Negroes of the city to meet the present demand for competent labor along the lines for which there is the most demand. The school, if developed on the plans described, will mark the first practical step to solve the co-called servant problem in Atlanta and will prove a factor of usefulness to both races. The plan is to train the students to meet the demands of the life which surrounds them. Every feature of the curriculum will relate to a community activity and a chance will be given the man or woman in service who may not have had the right kind or any training. In this latter department of the school the housekeepers of Atlanta are urged to co-operate. It is asked that the servant who may wish to better train himself or herself for any branch of domestic service be allowed one hour a day, three times a week, for lessons in any of the branches of household service. The school is the earnest effort of Richard D. Stinson, who is a Negro educator of excellent training and one who has made a close study of the conditions of his race as they are today. On a trip to North Carolina Editor Chase of the Washington Bee found the southern Negro industrious, progressive and happy. He says the charge is untrue that the Negroes of the country shattered and lay. The south now is like the other sections of the country in most respects. With us it is also a matter of "root hog or die." A miniature force pump has been invented in France to humanely force food down the throats of geese to produce the principal ingredient of paté de fole gras. In Germany there has been invented a method of electropolating silver upon porcelain, producing table ware as beautiful, less costly and lighter than solid silver. According to insurance experts sawdust is a more efficient extinguisher of small fires, particularly, burning liquids, than sand. Mike, Tetrazinis has a life-like doll which is equipped with a phonograph record of the singer's own voice. Healthy chicks are hatched only from clean eggs laid by mature and healthy hens. Bran will be found a good basis if hens are given a soft food for breakfast. More than fifty thousand women in Chicago earn five dollars a week or less. Try to keep your hens lean in the winter, since fat hens are rarely profit- able. The brewing of beer ranks third in the thirteen leading industries of Mont- ans. People who are afraid of themselves and run away from themselves, and who expect other people to respect them when they are prosperous and to assist them in their troubles, always get left at the post of life, like a biky horse in a race. They are in a room with the little girl in rag time who stands in the little boy in the following couplet: "You can't swing on my front gate! You can't play in my back yard! You can't kiss me on my cheek!" Because—I don't love you any more!" Having no little boy to do it with her she has to do it with herself, all by her lonesome, and that is a mighty unsatisfactory and unprofitable way for little folks or big folks to do anything, from "coming through the rye" to building a tunnel under the North and People, great and small, have got to work with them to accomplish anything. They can't get others to work with and for them they have to work with and for themselves. The readers of The Age are under obligation to Prof. Kelly Miller for his splendid story. "A Comparison and a Contrast," printed in The Age, in which the high development of Mound Bayou, Miss., under the wise direction of Hon. Isiah T. Montgomery and Mr. Charles Banks, was never and helpfully pictured by words. What a rich city has accomplished, with wise direction, and which many of them are accomplishing." As The Age has pointed out, and will continue to point out, the negroes of Mound Bayou are making congregation pay them. They don't care whether white folks swing on their front gate or not; indeed, they prefer to swing on their own front gate, as it pays them better; that is to say, it pays them better to attend their affairs than to have the white folks to attend their selves than for white folks. The fool notion so prevalent among negroes that white folks only can do things has killed more negroes than have fever and ague—New York Age. Dr. G. H. Glover says the artificial conditions under which the horse is placed and the unusual demand exacted of him result in almost every case in diseased conditions which make him incapable of doing the work he would otherwise do. Shoeing, which places him under artificial conditions, combined with the hard roads, overwork and improper feeding, soon produces a result that may result in side bones, ring bones, coffin joint, lameness, cracks in the hoof wall; contracted heels; and a great many more diseases too numerous to mention. In many cases the horse must be shod; but there certainly is far too much shoeing done. It is surprising how much work the horse can do under most conditions without shoes if he be brought gradually to the point where he must be exercised in this matter during the first three or four years of the colt's life. As long as horses that have weak or defective feet are used for breeding purposes, just so long will there be horses with predisposition to these things, and money will accordingly be lost on them. A horse with fairly good feet will not need to be shod unless he be worked on the premises or in municipal districts. It is a mistake to allow the blacksmith used to buttress on the soles of the feet or the rasp on the outside. Shoes should not be allowed longer than four weeks on the horse without resetting. An Ohio inventor has brought out a laundry machine that bleaches clothing by electricity at the same time they are being washed in hot water. Andrew Carnegie has promised $10,000 to Meharry Medical college, Nashville, Tenn., if the school will raise a like amount. A Pennsylvania woodworking plant is using the largest drill ever built to bore through six feet of boards at a single operation. New York must this year spend $1,100,000 for repairs on its capitol building in Albany. The introduction of porcelain heels will not cheapen the shoe. It is a fashion fad. The shoveler is doing the most effective work when he handles a 21-pound load. In one of the western states newspapers have been legally defined as public utilities. The public debt of this country per capita at the last calculation was $10.74. Women are always expressing wishes—but the charges are seldom prepaid. A western trolley line distributes individual drinking cups among its patrons. A "magicians' club" of 200 persons has been recently formed in London. A Binghamton railway company gives its employees free life insurance. A Spanish prison expert is in this country studying our prison system. The value of farm animals in this country last year was $5,008,149,600. A motorboat made of tin cuts the cost of outings on the water. KEEPING DOWN THE ICE BILL Home-Made Refrigerator Will Reduce Excess of That Summer Necessity at Least a Third. Now that summer is here, all who are not fortunate enough to have an ice house of their own, but must depend on the ice company for it, with no competition to keep prices down, will be glad to know of a way to lessen the construction of this most necessary article. The plan proposed is really a money saver. While a refrigerator and ice chest are not built the same, the "wrinkle" works in both. Procure a piece of thick felt, such as harness makers use. You can get it in white, gray or other colors, and it should be one-half inch thick. Buy also a piece of coarse wire, such as ash-sleeves are made of, about one yard wide, or according to the length of your ice-box. Measure the bottom of the box and cut the wire and felt about one inch smaller all around, and put it in a box and pad so that the air will have free circulation. Have two pieces of wire and one piece of felt, the same size. Soak the felt thoroughly, place it between the wires, place it in the chest, put the ice on top of it, and in fifteen minutes you will have one of the coldest ice-chests imaginable; that is, you will if the plan works the same for you as for me. It cuts the ice bill at least one-third. I have heard women advocate wrapping ice in blankets or paper to keep it from melting, and I always smile. It is the same way that the ice that cools the chest, and those who put their ice in overcoats to save it lose more than its price in food unless they adopt a device such as I have suggested.—R. A. Bird. RECIPE FOR ENGLISH PICKLE Astonishing Number of Ingredients in This Cakelet Popular in Around the Water One good-sized cauliflower, three dozen hergarins, three quarta green tomatoes, one head celery, four peppers chopped fine, two charts very small white onions, one-quarter pound mustard, two ounces white mustard seed, one ounce turmeric, one cup flour, one cup sugar, one gallon vinegar, one half ounce of clove, allspice and pepper (whole). Cut the vegetables in pieces, cover with salt and water in large stone jar and let stand 24 hours, or longer. After draining this off, when ready to proceed, put the spices in a bag, add to the vinegar the turmeric and mustard seed; allow to boil up in boiling water mixed with boiling water with cold vinegar, put in all the vegetables and let them scald until tender and yellow. Skim out the vegetables, add flour made thin and smooth with cold vinegar. Allow it to boil up once, and add one cup sugar. Return the vegetables to this and bottle when cold. Delicious Picnic Eggs. Six hard-boiled eggs, three table-spoonsful of lemon juice or vinegar, one half cup chopped celery or meat, one teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of onion; rice and a few grains of cayenne. Boll the eggs 20 minutes to make a yolks meal. When cooked place in a pan of cold water, crack the shells and leave for five minutes, and then pour into the egg mixture of the shells. After filling the eggs pierce the two halves with a toothpick and wrap each egg in a piece of white tissue or paraffin paper, twisting the paper at both ends to keep in place. Cook a Tough Chicken. A chicken which is too tough for roasting can be cooked and made most delicious by cooking it like a pot roast of beef. Let a good tablepoonful of butter brown in the bottom of a kettle. Brown the chicken thoroughly in the butter, turning it until it is well browned on all sides. Cover the bottom of the kettle with about two inches of butter until the chicken is tender. A large chicken will require about three hours. An otherwise quite inedible fowl can be utilized in this way. It will have none of the flat boiled taste. Pressed Flank of Beef. Wipe, remove superfluous fat and roll a fank of beef. Put in a kettle, cover with boiling water, and add one tablespoonful salt, one half teaspoon peppercorns, a bit of hay leaf and a bone or two which may be at hand. Cook slowly until meat is in shreds. There should be but little liquor in the kettle when meat is done. Arrange meat in deep pan, pour over liquor, cover and press with a heavy weight. Serve cold, thinly sliced. Cherry Water Ice. Wash a quart of sweet red or black cherries, pound them so as to break the stones, and press the juice through a strainer into the broken cherry pulp, with some sugar and water, in order to extract the flavor from the kernels, and pass that also through a strainer. Add a pint of water and about three quarters of a pound of sugar, and freeze. Do not use whites of eggs as a stiffener in this ice, as the color is not good unless it is frozen naturally. It makes an attractive ice for the third color in a Neapolitan. Pineapple Peel Juice. Cut the peel of the pearapple in small pieces, weigh and take the same weight of sugar. Make a syrup by adding one cup water to each pound of sugar, then boil fruit in the syrup, 15 minutes, slow, steady boiling. Let stand over night, then strain and squeeze in a sugar bag. Bottle and put on ice. This makes a fine pudding sauce and is delicious on boiled rice. Thousand Island Dressing. Take one cup mayonnaise dressing, mix with one-half cup of whipped cream, and add one teaspoon of the one-half teaspoon of the perilal sauce, then chop one hard pimble, one green pepper, one pimble, one pinch chives, mix well together and squeeze the juice of one lemon before serving. This sauce can be served with any kind of salad. BASEBALL Jack Knight, who is covering the initial sack for the Highlanders, is far from being all in. Jack seems to be able to hit the pill as well as ever, and he doesn't need any advice as to how to play his position. A college course in baseball at Harvard is a suggestion made in all seriousness by William F. Garcelon, graduate manager of athletics. He says that a football course also would not be amiss. Pitcher Rube Benton of the Reds is becoming quite a hitter. In a recent game he poiled out three bingles, scored three runs and, best of all, turned a squeeze play and then beat the ball to first. --- The pasing of Letty Leifeld from the national league marks the going of a pitcher who was one of the best left-handers of his time. He helped the Pirates win many a game. For once Manager McGraw got the worst of it in a trade. Both Josh Devore and Groh are playing a brilliant game with the Reds, hitting and fielding in superb style. A Demaree, the Giants' reruit pitcher, broke into the majors by beating the Boston Braves and it seems to have become a confirmed habit with him since. Chicago has six players in the .300 class. They are Tommy Leach, "Red" Corridon, Bert Humphries, Heine Mimmerman, Joe Benz and Johnny Beall. Walter Johnson has a reach of 82 inches, or just two inches less than in feet. His great length of arm is said to be a factor in his tremendous speed. --- Whenever the Nap wrecking crew comprised of LaJole and Jackon, fails to connect, the team is of second order, according to a Clevelder crilic. --- --- This year the Athletics are said to be the greatest drawing card on the American league circuit, supplanting the Tigers and Tyrus Cobb in that respect. Walter Hirsch, the Cotton States pitcher whom the Reds bought a year ago, but never used, has been made manager of the Meridian (Miss.) club. Danny Murphy, captain of the Athletics, can't see how anybody is going to stop the White Elephants. "It's going to be a walkaway," said Danny. It is reported that Bill Brennan will be the National league umpire with the Glants and Sox on their tour around the world next winter. The rumor that is going the rounds now is Sheckard was let out by Miller Huggs because he feared the veteran Cub would get his job. Ted Sullivan is busy making preparations for the tour around the world of the Glants and White Sox, of which he is the director general. Another Larry Cheney will join the majors. This one hails from Youngstown, Ohio, and has been signed up by the Boston Rew Sox. Jimmy Johnston of Frisco is not only showing them the way to steal bases on the coast, but he is beginning to climb in hitting. Schulte, who started off the season for the Chicago Cubs as if he were going to lead the league in hitting, has taken a big slump. Christy Mathewson has turned play-wright. He has written a baseball play called "Fair Play," which will be produced next fall. Hy Jasper, who has just been purchased by the White Sox from the DuBue (iowa) Three I league team, is a spitballer. Ward Taylor Miller, the Cubs' outfielder, is older than most fans imagine. He has passed his twenty-eighth yearstone. Misbehavior and dissension in the ranks of the Phillies get the blame for their recent sad showing in some quarters. Joe Tinker is shaking hands with himself for his faith in one Mordecai Brown's ability to come back. Amos Strunk, the former association player at Milwaukee, has become one of the Athletics' standby. Eddie Colline is the leading American league infielder at starting double plays. He has launched 16. Shortstop Maranville of the Braves continues to shine as one of the bright stars of the season. Eddie Plank and Chief Bender have landed nearly half of the games won by the Athletics. Connie Mack declares his pitching staff is as good as any corps in the league. Hay Chapman of Cleveland has the house of leading the sacrifice hit colu- mn. Milan, Collins and Moeller are the three leading base runners of the ma- jor. 5. President Jimmy McAleer of the Boston Red Sox says he is going to be one of the party to go around the world next fall with the Sox and Glants. He could not get on the last world's tour, he says, and does not propose to get left out this time. The frequent additions of new stars to the White Sox team indicates Manager Callahan has made up his mind to get a winning combination if such a thing is possible. Nick Altrock gets credit for most of the success of the sensational young Joe Bohling, and he now has taken the boy southpaw, Harry Harper, under his tutelage. McCormick of the Glants is one of the greatest pinch hitters in the business, but when placed in the game as a regular he seems to lose his batting eye. --- Rariden, the Boston catcher, has been rapidly advancing in the batting averages, and his rival, Whaling, seldom gets a chance these days. Manager Griffith says he will never again try to build up a team with veterans from other clubs. He will not buy any more cast-off players. Age isn't showing up old John Titus a great deal. The veteran fielder is hitting at a .330 clip and is Stallings' most dependable player. Fred Clarke tried out 28 men for his team this year before he found a combination that could win. The Buffalo team of the International league is first in fielding and last in batting in the league. The remarkable improvement of Steve O'Neil behind the bat is the talk of the Nap camp. Umpires are often roasted alive in this country and little comment is made. SPORTING WORLD Since the adoption of the Poughkeepsie-Highland course on the Hudson river by the Eastern Intercollegiate Rowing association in 1895, 52 races have been held, including variety and freshmen eights and varsity fours. Cornell has been successful 33 times and in addition Cornell holds every record for the last course. Syracuse has won eight races, Pennsylvania six, Wisconsin two, Columbus two and Yale one. --- Harry Payne Whitney, who captained the polo team which again successfully defended the America cup against the challenging English squad, will, it is reported, build a $100,000 tennis court on his country estate. It is to be glass rooted, electric lighted and steam heated. ... Leo Friend of the Manhattan Canoe club was successful in defending the international canoe challenger trophy for the New York Canoe club against Ralph B. Britton of the Gananoque boat, Bottle Club, the Canadian challenger. . . . Naughton still believes that if Ad Wolgast would forsake city life and take to training seriously, that he could make himself a dangerous contender for the lightweight title Ritchie wrung from him on a foul. The profits of the initial round of the Davis cup matches between the United States and Australian tennis teams played in New York amounted to $12,000. Axtoll, 2:12, earned upward of $150,000 in the stud. He was bred to 768 mares and got 549 fouls. For four years his stud fee was $1,000. The eastern intercollegiate cross-country run will be decided over the Van Cortlandt park course, New York city, on November 22. Philadelphia has 105 playgrounds and will give free swimming instruction to children under fourteen years this summer. San Francisco plans to hold light harness racing in 1915 and give $20,000 purses, open to the world. The new Imperator ocean liner includes a running track in its equipment. The French army has mounted boxing as a new kind of physical exercise. BESTOW PRAISE NOW FOR HER HAPPINESS Nothing Gained by the Putting Qff of Timely Word. Greatest as Well as Lowest of Mankind welcome the Spoken or Written Phrase That Shows Enthusiastic Appreciation. How often after a play, a sermon, a concert that has stirred us we feel the impulse to make known to actor, preacher or musician what it has meant to us! Yet how often the impulse perishes as the warm glow of the instant's inspiration wanes—like a rill of water that runs aimlessly to waste in desert sands and is lost. It is so easy to let the world of enthusiastic appreciation remain unspoken—perhaps by a trivial accident, such as the shave pen and ink to serve our inclination. But had we written, had we said the word, it might have been just the lift that was needed toward the light and the air and life itself for a soul that struggled. We think the eminent men and women so strongly poised, so independently secure, so braced and fortified that they need no limping phrase of ours to bring them succor; but it is not so. Just because most people do not think—or else think and then forget—the one who gives generous rein to the feeling aroused, in the presence of the one who has aroused it, is a man who is strong and a victorious allure than is realized except by the tired, grateful heart that is comforted. "Encouragement" literally means putting a heart in a person. That is what the timely letter or spoken words may do. A young man whom fate laid by the heels and compelled to take a protracted rest-cure was frankly discouraged. The busy life that eddied and seethed about him seemed to have no use, no place for him. The future was black as the board of the company that the golden culminator of promise—seemed to have relegated him among the failures and the unfit. Then there came a friendly, human, sympathizing letter. It was from an old man, a good man, a man of experience, fit to be an apostle and a philosopher. It reminded him of the fine saying of Henry Vaughan, "I climb when I lie down," and bade him to be the stronger, like Anteaux, for the contact with the earth. It concluded with the prayer that all his dreams with patience and waitment might come true. He then wrote and the will to proceed, and comforted the chafing, rebellious spirit. He recovered and went back to his work again after the complete restoration to health and happiness. Any one may leave unsaid the timely word. Blessed is that man or woman who says it—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Knew What He Wanted. A roughly dressed man went into a drug store and presented a doctor's prescription to the clerk. This paper was written when the drudgist proceeded to do up the prescribed amount his customer objected. "Here, I want you to put that quinine on this prescription," he said; "and I want a lot more'n what you've weighed out, too!" "But your prescription calls for only ten grains," exclaimed the clerk. "Nover you mind; you dump all the quinine you got one more on the doc gave me. I know what he said. I told him I wanted some quinine for a cold, and he says. You take this paper right over to the druggist and get it filled!" McKinley's Stolen Stein The abstemious habits of President McKinley led to an amusing incident during the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia to America. Desiring to honor the prince with a beer fest, he placed the White House behind making the necessary equipment, the president ordered ten dozen stems from a local saloon. When Prince Henry "took the first observation" through one of these stems he found engraved on the bottom the words: "Stolen from Ernst Gerstenberg" in collecting patrons had laid the saloonkeeper under such heavy tribute that he had been forced to adopt this method of protecting his property. Taken at His Word "Silk" O'Loughlin, the illustrious originator of "Strike Tuh," is not slow in his retorts to players who object to his decisions. Hal Chase was at bat, and failed to offer at a pitch in front of his eyes and which O'Loughlin called a strike. "What's the matter? That was over my head," said Chase, from "Silk." The next ball pitched came speeding in a foot over Chase's head. "Right in the same place," said Hal, smiling. "Oh, was it? Well, then, that makes two strikes."—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Nature's Benign Way. "Ah," remarked Professor Lickopher, in a voice admirably adapted for uttering didacticisms, "how well nature has equipped her offsprings for occupancy of the spheres in which she has placed them!" "Yap! agree the old Codger. 'For terminal facilities the hofman!' His terminal facilities are not extensive, but they are in every way ample for the purpose.'" Judge Whaling at Natal. The whaler Egeland the other morning brought in the first humpback whale captured in Natal this season. It was a good whale and very fat. On a second visit to the ocean the same whaler captured a blue whale 70 feet long, which landed in the evening. Apparently the baleen whales are early this year—Natal Mercury. Pessimistic. The best luck any man can have is never to have been born; but that seldom happens to anyone Story That Contains a Moral to Be Heeded by the Socially Ambitious. It was a very happy life in the small town when the husband's salary was $75 a month and the unpretentious white house set back among the trees was their own. The house was full of laughter and love in those days. The wife's parlor was the pilot around which the town's social life revolved. Her sway was unquestioned. Yet it was she who urged her husband to go to the city. She had friends in the city. Some of her friends were on the outer edge of what is termed society. But she found that that fact did not put her on the outer edge. Her husband's income was five times what it was in the small town; yet it was not large enough. The apartment is pretty apartment, and the servant, but that was not enough—in the city. She could not do the things she wanted to do. She could not buy the things she prized. "I if had your chances," she would sigh, "I could make more money. I could do more for my wife." That was her refrain; that was her grief. She belonged to that great army of nobodies who long to be somebodies. Her end and aim was to be " among those present." For did nothing to matter. She simply had to fret. She had no resources within herself nor did she care to have any. "If we are to be anybody at all, we must have an automobile," she told her husband at dinner one night. "But, Leola, dear, it is pushing me pretty hard to meet our necessary expenses." "An automobile is a necessity these days, Ralph." "But, my dear—" Looking up, the man saw the frattling lines in the car and the hunger in her voice went to his heart. "I'll do the very best I can," he replied slowly. In a month they had an automobile. Yet Leola was not satisfied. She must have a chauffeur. She was perfectly right. The car was of little use to her without somebody to run it. In another mouth there was a chauffeur. The husband was frequent. He had noticed that fact; she was often late to dinner herself. There were tired, anxious lines in his face, but the woman hardly noticed them. There were tired lines in her own face, come from trying to do "what was expected of her." "Really, I can't entertain in this little apartment," complained Leola. "I must have a larger and more modern apartment or a house." "Leola, we have watched our limit. I must have another cent honestly." Then make it dishonestly, but make it," the woman smiled half-heartedly, half-eagerly. Her husband looked at her long and earnest. He saw the feverish desire in her eyes; he saw the ambition-racked plea of her mouth. When he took her in his arms, a privilege for which he found little time now, he felt the quiver of her nervous little body. A month later they moved into a fifteen-room apartment in a huge apartment building, topped with a magnificent roof garden and where the twentyth floor was given over to a playground for the children and the nineteenth floor harbored a swimming pool, Turkish baths and other proper fittings for the wealthy. But Leola was unhappy. Still she had not pierced the magic circle that so attracted her. "Talbah, we must have a country place," she coaxed. "It is absolutely impossible," replied the husband. "We are hopelessly in debt. I am involved in a transaction now that makes me blush to think of—and just because I must have the money. I can't go a step farther, little girl." It was seldom that he called her "little girl" now. Old pet names seldom crossed his lips these days. "But, Ralph, nobody stays in town in the summer, and the Glesys have a place at Sweet Forest, and if we mean to keep it too, we must be fooled. Couldn't we save a little somewhere else to make up for it?" Ralph Blair smiled faintly, kissed his wife gently on the forehead and went downstreet to figure it out. "Your signature means just $20.000," said the dark-haired, sharp-eyed man. "But I can't sign it honestly," said Ralph. "I think your scheme is unlawful. I think it is thievery." I think you give me thousand for your giveaway, purred soft, persuasive voice, and I will see that those notes that are bothering you at the bank are taken care of." Ralph paused. Other men that he knew did question things and they were accounted responsible, honest citizens. Why not he? A vision of a worried, unhappy face rose before him. His wife's plea for a country place tugged at his sleeve. His back was against the wall. He was fighting for—her happiness. "I'll think it over," breathed Ralph Blair hoarsely, while beads of perspiration stood on his forehead. He was not a writer. Mumbling in incerberity over a photograph of an unpretentious little white house set back among the trees in a country town—Buffalo Express. Stage's Loss Literature's Gain. England's censorship of the drama caused Fielding to turn from playwright to novel writing. Fielding began his literary career as a dramatist, and by his political satires brought about the establishment of the censorship in 1737, the bill being introduced by Walpole, one of Fielding's victims. With playwriting thus barred to him, he turned his attention to the novel. Surely Sufficiently Governed to satisfy the duty of government to fair principal forms of government. HEALTH HINTS By Dr. A. J. Booker We have spoken at some length upon the physical condition of children. Of course the nerves and physical condition are so closely related that it is difficult to imagine a sickly child, or one handcapped by some "trifling aliment," having good nerve force. As an example we know that sick children are cross an irritable. But there is danger of impairing a well child's nerve force. Babie should not be handled too much, very young babies of course should be turned first on one side then the other, but this is readily and easily accomplished at feeding times. The habit of jumping babies, of taking them up, holding them, and of encouraging them in the habit of being rocked to sleep is not good. Later the habit of "showing them off" before company has the effect of making them self conscious and develops moods, which are not best for after life. The whole plan in developing children is to have them grow up naturally and with as little physical and nervous strain as possible. A companionship of child and parents is the saving grace of the child and will bring less grief to parents. To spoil children is to cause regret later. Not only are the sins of the parents visited upon the children, but the sins of children are visited upon the parents; and usually it is some faulty training in youth that brings bad results later. Children hope to grow up and the sooner they learn obedience, truth and are brave because they know it is best, and the better their chances are. Some people love (?) their children so well that they ruin them. MUSCATINE, IOWA. Muscatine's motto, "We never sleep." Dry weather will not let the grass grow under our feet. We are enjoying the launch club carnival for a week. The Cadillac auto was well filled and seemed to be enjoying the first evening of the carnival. Mrs. Alice Thompson and Miss Mitchell celebrated the 4th at Clinton. The crow hop was well attended on the Emancipation day night. The colored cement, workers of Cedar Rapids are doing good work here. Prof. Richard B. Harrison of Chicago the colored worker, spoke at the Y. M. C. A. and was enjoyed by all present. Mr. Jeff Thompson's entertained his sisters from Cedar Rapids at their home. We expect to enjoy the Wild West show August 22nd, which will then appear in our city. Mr. I. P. Johnson made a business trip to the Capital City. Mr. A. Robinson of Drumquin, Ontario, has been troubled for years with indigestion, and recommends Chamberlain's Tablets as "the best medicine I ever used." If troubled with indigestion or constipation give them a trial. They are certain to prove beneficial. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect. Price, 25 cents. For sale by all dealers. FORT MADISON NOTES The Second Baptist Sunday school held their annual picnic at Denmark last Tuesday and a large crowd attended. Plenty to eat and a social time was enjoyed by all. Miss Alma McCoy of New Mexico and little sisters are visiting their aunt, Mrs. Johnson, on East Third street. The White Rose club is preparing to give a lawn social and concert August 21 and 22 for the benefit of the church parsonage. Mrs. E. J. Thomas attended the morningstar annual picnic at Rand park, Keokuk, Friday and report a fine time. Everything good to eat and a social time with friends. Rev. and Rev. Bowles are in this week. Rev. Bowles hold services at the Second Baptist church Sunday and will return to Keokuk in a few days to hold servies with the Union Baptist church on Sunday, the 10th. Little Katherine Anderson gave a birthday party to her little friends. Those present were Viola Murphy, Vincent Shepard, Dorothy Wyatt, Dolly Black, Lucile Anderson, Mildred Rush, Milia Printile, Lloyd Anderson and Gertrude Anderson. A three-course luncheon was served. All had a good time and wished little Katherine many more birthdays. The Willing Workers met Tuesday night with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thomas. Subject for discussion, Moses and Aaron. Mr. Frank Hober of Galesburg and Mr. Frank Wedley of Port Madison opened a cleaning parlor the Antique hotel building and are prepared to do cleaning and pressing. Fancy French dry cleaning ladies' garments a specialty. We wish for them success. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Robinson stopped over in our city from Marceline, Mo., for a short while, en route to Keokuk to visit his father, Mr. Ed Roberson, 1721 Maine street. Mrs. Elli Mitchell, who has been on the sick list for some time, is much improved at this writing. The bazar and entertainment given last Wednesday evening by the Ladies' Aid was witnessed by a large number and a neat sum was raised for the benefit of the Aid. Mrs. Edward Mansfield of Washington, Pa. was called to the bedside of her sick daughter, Mrs. J. Crawford, last Wednesday evening. Mrs. Mansfield will remain in the city for an E. Harris of Milwaukee, who has been married only a short while, is in the city on her honeyman, stopping at the residence of Mrs. Dave Howard. Magic Hair Grower and Straightening Oil MME. JOHNSON AND SOUTH The most wonderful hair preparation on the market. When we say Magic we do not exaggerate, as you can see great results in the first few treatments. We guarantee Magic Hair Grower to stop the hair at once from falling out and breaking off; making harsh, stubborn hair soft and silky. Magic Hair Grower grows hair on bald places of the head. If you use these preparations once you will never be without them, Magic Hair Grower and Straightening Oil are manufactured by Meadames South and Johnson. We also do scalp treating. Magic Hair Grower, 50c. Straightening Oil, 95c. All orders promptly filled; send 10c for postage. Money must accompany all orders. Mrs. H. D. Green entertained Mrs. J. W. Fisher for dinner Sunday and a pleasant time was reported. The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Durrough last Tuesday evening, leaving a baby girl. Both mother and child doing well. Mrs. H. D. Green received a telegram Sunday stating the death of her aunt, Mrs. Dean Wolfscale, at Chillicothe, Mo. Mrs. S. Midgett left Monday for Chillicothe to attend the funeral services. The musical entertainment given Wednesday evening at Woodman hall by Mrs. Bernice Eaton and Mrs. Berlin Warren and Miss. Artivia Warren was indeed a man and affair and who missed it caused a good treat. Eaton performed their part without a flaw and a large sum was cleared for the benefit to defray the expenses of Rev. F. D. Woodford going to conference, which will be held August 6th to 10th at Malt Bend, Mo. He will leave for that place Sunday evening. Mrs. Maude M. Brewton, who was elected last Sunday as a delegate from the Sunday school to attend the conference which will be held August 6th, will leave Saturday evening also for Malta Bend, Mo., and will stop off at Moberly, Mo., to attend the big celebration August 4th. Mrs. Bernice Eaton left Mason City for Fort Dodge to join her husband, who has accepted the stewardship at the Elks club. CENTERVILLE NEWS ITEMS. Rev. G. E. Saunders of Clinton, Iowa, preached at the Second Baptist church last Wednesday evening. Rev. Saunders was licensed from this church some four years ago and many friends that heard him then and heard him last Wednesday evening speak in the highest praise of his wonderful improvement and pray for his future success in the master's cause. Misses Edna and Grace Hicks were Mystic visitors last week at the home of Mrs. Elmer Baker. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Baker were the guests of Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Evans a few days last week. The entertainment given under the chairmanship of W. S. Tompkins and T. H. Ridding at the Second Baptist church on Saturday evening, the 26th was a success and a neat little sum was realized. Mrs. Julia Taylor of Osakaloa, Iowa, was in our city last week visiting with her sister, Mrs. Nathaniel Jeter, of East Walden street. Mrs. Dorothy Mash of Des Moines is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Bessie Grant, of South Eighteenth street. Mrs. Warren Meldcott made a flying trip to Jerome, Iowa, last Saturday. The Centerville colored ball team, known as the Iowa Brownies, are doing some wonderful playing this season. They defeated the Mystic Wonders (white) in the city ball park in a game recently played by the two contending teams. The Brownies won by a score of 9 to 5. They also defeated the high school team with a score of 14 to 8. They are scheduled to play Unionville, August 20th at the Old Settlers' reunion. All Centerville people are looking forward to the annual gathering of the Iowa and Nebraska association in this city September 9 to 14. Granulated Sore Eyes Cured. "For twenty years I suffered from a bad case of granulated sore eyes, says Martin Boyd, of Henrietta, Ky. "In February, 1903, a gentleman asked me to try Chamberlain's Salve. I bought one box and used about two dollars. I bought a bottle and given me any trouble since." This salve is for sale by all dealers. MASON CITY IOWA Mr. A. H. Mays and J. D. Reeler returned last Saturday from Buxton, where they went to attend the K. P. grand lodge. J. D. Reeler was successful to be elected a member of the financial board for three years. Both report a fine time. When in Rock Island, Ill, go to Williams Restaurant For good meals and short orders at all hours. Barber Shop and Bath in connection G. W. Williams, prop. 2125 3rd Ave. Magic Hair Grower MME. JOHNSON AND SO The most wonderful hair preparation on we say Magic we do not exaggerate, as you sit in the first few treatments. We give Grower to stop the hair at once from fall off, making harsh, stubborn hair soft and Grower grows hair on bald places of these preparations once you will never Magic Hair Grower and Straightening O by Meadames South and Johnson. We also Magic Hair Grower, 50c. Straight All orders promptly filled; send 10c for p THE MISSING MAN Rev. Wilton R. Boone, representative of the Noxubee Industrial school of McLead, Miss., was in the city Monday soliciting for his school. While here he was the guest of Mrs. Mattie Dixon, Rev. F. D. W. being absent. Erma Caldwell left Sunday afternoon for Omaha to visit with her sister, Mrs. Gertie Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Spencer of South Willow street entertained Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Shaw for lunch Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bates of East Ninth street gave a picnic party in the city park Sunday in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Reeves, who leave here for Omaha on Tuesday, their future home. We regret to have them leave us. Mrs. Mattie Dixon has bought out the J. W. Banning cake on South Main street and will open the place for business this week. Mrs. Dixon is a first class cateress and wishes all who want a good meal to give her a call. Remarkable Cure of Dysentery. 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Mr. Bennie Crank has resigned his position as head chef at the Victoria hotel and accepted a much better one at Hotel Colaf. Rev. and Mrs. Roberts of Des Moines spent Sunday in our city and the Rev. preached to a good audi- Jönes Cafe The Old Reliable Place to get your meals PHONE RED 318 W. 3rd St 3027 Rooming House at 216-218 3rd St. A good place to get Rooms and Board down town is at Mrs Ella Epperson 507 Grand Avenue Meals are Served to the Public Phone Red 4076. MRS. ELLA EFFILION, F.C.P. REASONABLE RATES PUBLIC INVITED Hotel Buxton A new modern steam heat- ed hotel—Everything first class O. PETERSON, Phone 261 Proprietor Buxton, Iowa and Straightening' Oil --- We carry everything in the latest fashionable hair goods at the lowest prices. We make switches, puffs, transformation curls, coronet braids, and combings made to order, matching all shades a specially. Send samples of hair with all orders. 2416 Blonde Ste. Omaha, Neb. Phone: Webster 880 ence in the morning and administered the sacrament in the evening. Mr. Chas. Miller from Waterloo visited his wife, Mrs. Miller, and returned Sunday evening to Waterloo. Miss Leslie Terrill, who went off several weeks ago to travel Jubilee Singers, has returned home. Mr. H. Miller from Newton was in the morning to train trains Saturday calling or by his many friends. Mrs. Mamie Oliver from Buxton in our city visiting her sister, Mrs. G. O. Terrell. Mr. J. W. Holmes was an over Sunday visitor in the Capital City. Mr. Creed was a Capital City visitor and attended church and listened to an elegant sermon. Rev. Lipson from Enterprise made a flying trip to our city between trains Monday. Mr. Taylor from Des Moines were in the city the latter part of last week and plastered a house for Mrs. Battle. Mr. Roy Pierson drove overland from Greenfield with a car and visited his brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Pierson, in the Capital City, and then Mr. and Mrs. Pierson and Mrs. Luther Hanger accompanied Roy and he drove to Colfax and spent the day and visited his sister, Miss Stella Pierson. The merry crowd with the company of others drove over the city and in the evening Miss Pierson accompanied the crowd back to the Capital City. Mr. Geo. White had a severe attack of fever list week, and he was unable to work at the garage for several days the past week, but at this writing he is much improved and able to be out again. Good news to all his friends. 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Monday evening he also spoke at the Wilberforce jubilee rally at the same church He left Tuesday noon for Oksalaone accompanied by Rev. Wharton While in the city the bishop was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Humbles. Mrs. Aiddle Johnson was hostess to a nicely arranged 9 o'clock breakfast Tuesday morning in honor of Bishop Lee. Others present were Mesames Minnie B. H. London, Mary Robinson of Lexington, Mo., Mattie Hicks and little Miss Opal Wade of St. Paul, Rev James L. Wharton and Lawer Geo. H. Woodson. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. London entertained in their beautiful home a progressive whist party Wednesday evening in honor of Mrs. Matte Hicks of St. Paul. A very pleasant guest until a late hour, when it was announced the prize belonged to Mr. Dr. E. A. Carp second to Mr. W. H. Bailey, while Mr. Townsend was awarded the booby. Delightful refreshments were served. The choir of St. John's church pincked down the river Friday. They went on a hayrack, leaving at 5 a.m., driving twelve miles. They returned late in the evening, after a most enjoyable day spent in the woods. The Self-Culture club entertained the Fannie Barrier Williams club at a garden picnic Wednesday at the beautiful picnic of Mrs.' Wm. Humbles. About fifty were present, including several visitors. Dr. and Mrs. E. A. Carter entertained at 1 o'clock lunch Tuesday in honor of Mrs. Hicks of St. Paul. Miss Edith Jones entertained several little misses Sunday afternoon at her home in honor of Miss Opal Wade of St. Paul. After dinner the girls enjoyed a two hours' ride over the city. Others in the party were Misses Martha Lucas, Georgia Williams and Josie Roberts. NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF THE VAN VLIET-FLETCHER AUTOMOBILE COMPANY. To Whom It May Concern: Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the stockholders of the Van Vliet-Fletcher Automobile company, held in the city of Des Moines, Iowa, on the 1st day of August, 1913, at the office of said corporation, called for the purpose of considering dissolution and ceasing business, at which meeting all of the stock was present and voting, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved that this corporation be dissolved by mutual consent from this date by the secretary is hereby authorized to have published the proper notice of dissolution as by law provided." Notice is therefore given that this corporation has been dissolved and its corporate existence has ceased and determined. Datel at Des Moines, Iowa, this 1st day of August, 1913. C. G. Van Vliet, President. C. G. C. Fletcher, Secretary. How the Trouble Starts. Constipation is the cause of many ailments and disorders that make life miserable. Mitigate it, keep your bowels regular and you will avoid these diseases. For sale by all dealers. ALBIA NEWS. Rev. R. B. Manly, Mrs. Manly, Mrs. Allie Bowman, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Butler attended the missionary meeting in Ottumwa this week. Mrs. Walker of Huntsville, Mo., passed through Albia en route to Dubuque on Monday for several weeks' visit with her daughter, Fannie Tomlin. Mrs. M. Bell and Dorcia Bell of Oskaloaca are visiting at the home of Mrs. Nellie Estes. Mr. Washington of Ottumwa is in Albia over Sunday. Mr. Monroe Davis left Albia Sunday for Wiggins, Colo., to stay indefinitely with his daughter, Miss Delia. Davis, and to Denver with his sons, Charlie and Wallace Davis, and other friends. Mr. and Mrs. Headspeath of Hocking were in Albia over Sunday. Miss Davis of Ottumwa has been visiting the past week in Albia. J. Dough Morgan Tent Theater has been playing in Albia the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Rdy Grayson and children Sundayed in Albia. A number of Hocking people were in town the past week. ORIGINAL NOTICE In the district court of the state of Iowa, in and for Polk county, September term, 1913. Mrs. Lucile Towne vs Frank Towne. To the Above Named Defendant: You are hereby notified that the petition of the plaintiff in the above entitled cause will be filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of Iowa in and for Polk county on or before the 16th day of August, 1913, claiming of you an absolute divorce from the bond of matrimony now existing between you, on the ground of willful desertion without a cause. For further particulars see petition when on file, and that unless you appear and defend before noon on the 2nd day of the September term, 1913, of said court, which will begin and be held in the court house in Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, on the 8th day of September, 1913, default will be entered against you, and judgment and decree rendered thereon. Attorney for Plaintiff. ORIGINAL NOTICE In the district court of the state of Iowa, in and for Polk county, September term, 1913. Mrs. Phillomena Small vs. John Small. To the Above Named Defendant: You are hereby notified that the petition of the plaintiff in the above entitled cause will be filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of the state of Iowa, in and for Polk county, on or before the 16th day of August, 1913, claiming of you an absolute divorce from the bond of matrimony now existing between you, on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment and habitual drunkenness. For further particulars you will see petition on on file, and that unless you appear and defend before noon on the second day of the September term, 1913, of said court which will begin and be held in the court house in Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, on the 8th day of September, 1913, default will be entered against you and judgment and decree rendered thereon. J. B. Rush, Attorney for Plaintiff. 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To Whom It May Concern: You are hereby notified that at a meeting of the stockholders of the Van VLIET-Braidt Motor company, held in the city of Des Moines, Iowa, on the 3rd day of January, 1913, at the office of said corporation, called for the purpose of considering dissolution and ceasing business, at which meeting all of the stock of said corporation was present or represented and voting, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: "Resolved that this corporation be dissolved by mutual consent from this date and the secretary is hereby authorized to have published the proper notice of dissolution as by law provided." Notice is therefore given that this corporation has been dissolved and its corporate existence has ceased and determined. Dated at Des Moines, Iowa, this 1st day of August, 1913. W. J. Bradt, vice president C. G. Van Vliet, See.y. and Trees. RESOLUTION OF GONDOLENCE Wheres, it has pleased the Supreme Ruler of the Universe to remove by the relentless hand of death Miss Chenne Graves, a young woman of exceptional qualities of both mind and heart, and who was a beloved member and vice president of the Des Moine Negro Lycme association. Be it resolved that we, the members of the said society, do mourn the loss of this, our friend and officer; for in her departure we lose a faithful member and an efficient officer, whose vacancy it will be difficult to VIVIAN L. JONES Funeral Director The very best service guaranteed Prices the lowest Calls answered promptly day or night No extra charge for distance—Reverse all phone charges PHONE: Maple 2549 Residence Black 1699. Office 519 East Court Ave Des Moines DES MOINES AUGUST 20 TO 28, 1913 New Barber Shop and Bath Room We have just opened a firs-class Barber Shop and Bath Room—both shower and tub bath. 409 5th Street J. W. NORRIS, Pres. M. ASKEW, Treas. C. A. GROSS, Sec. 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