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IOWA STATE BYSTANDER. State Capitol Blvd Hist neat Room 10W VOL. XX NO. 36 CITY NEWS. For Sale—Household goods. Leaving city soon. Mrs. A. L. Richardson-Taylor, 726 West Tenth street. Mrs. C. R. Roy, who has been quite sick with tonsillitis the past week, is reported better. Miss Burnie McDowell of 909 Bightth street, who has been very much indisposed for the past week, is not much improved at this writing. Dr. A. J. Booker will leave Tuesday morning for Mason City, where he will lecture to the Ladies' Aid society on tuberculosis. Mr. Clifton Miles of Buxton was in the city last week, the guest of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Rhodes, of 1409 Crocker street. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Warricks of Canton, S. D., former of our city, are the proud parents of an eight and one-half pound daughter, born February 17th. Mr. J. H. McGrew, of Buxton, Iowa, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., was in the Capital City last Saturday on business pertaining to Y. M. C. A. work. Mr. L. Goodrich, Mr. Harry Allen's son-in-law, who was seriously injured last week at the hospital by falling slate, was taken to the hospital. He is no better and but little hope is held out for his recovery. Editor John L. Thompson left Monday to spend a week along the Mississippi river in Iowa in the interest of Masonry and making his official visit as Grand Master. This month has given us more real winter weather than all the other months combined this winter. So good by February and good by ground hog. Next Sunday at the Union Congregational church is communion Sunday and may be the last communion that will be held by Rev. T. M. Brumfield as the pastor. Everybody invited. Friends here received the sad news that a baby boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas of Newton only lived a few hours. Mrs. A. C. Fisher of Des Moines is acting as nurse. Mrs. Thomas was formerly Miss Emma Hughes of this city. Mrs. L. W. Gregory arrived in our city last week from Indianapolis, Ind., to join her husband, Lawrence, who came here last summer. She was accompanied by her only child, a boy of 9 years. They have gone to housekeeping temporarily in Highland Park. The Intellectual Improvement club was entertained by Mrs. J. L. Edwards last Friday. An excellent paper was read by Mrs. A. Winn and discussed by the members. Mrs. White, chairman of the Ways and Means committee of the Federated Clubs of Iowa is present and made some remarks in regard to her department. Refreshments were served by the hostess. Dr. A. J. Booker, who has studied several months abroad, will give at Union Congregational church Friday evening, March 6th, an interesting lecture on "Paris." He will have his stay there and bring out many points of interest concerning the customs and characteristics the people who reside at the gay French capital. Dr. Booker, a keen student of sociology, will ably entertain all those who attend, especially those who are interested in history and travel. They will be special music for the occasion. Admission only 15 cents. Mr. James Davis who has resided in Des Moines for the past twenty-five years, died at his home, 512 Crocker street, Monday, February 23, at 3:45 o'clock. Mr. Davis was a bricklayer and plasterer by trade and had been ill about a year. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his death. The funeral services were held from the residence Wednesday afternoon. Rev. Idleman of the Central Christian church officiated. Interment in Glendale cemetery. DRAMATIC ART CLUB. The Dramatic Art club met tuesday afternoon with Mrs. R. N. Hyde and finished the study of the state outlines. Meet next week with Mrs. H. R. Graves and study Act I of "Cyrano de Bergerac." DISTRICT BOARD MEETING. The first district of the Iowa State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs held a very interesting board meeting in Des Moines on Saturday, February 21. Nearly all of the officers in the district were present. An interesting program was the closing feature of the meeting. Several recommendations were submitted. The same will be sent to the chairmen of the other districts; also to the various clubs in this district. SUFERAGETTE CLUB The Des Moines Sugragette club will hold its monthly meeting Friday, March 13. at Union Congregational church. Discuss municipal ownership ```markdown ``` of the water works, also a drill in voting. The masquerade party given by the members of Mount Olive Court, No. 4, H. of J., was largely attended. The hall was beautifully decorated for the occasion. The out of town visitors were from Marshaltown, Buxton and Colfax. The costumes of all nations committee wishes to thank all who patched, also for the good music furnished by Prof. Thyron's orchestra. ..... UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Morning worship, 10:45. "The Cross Triumphant." Sunday school at 12 m. Evening worship at 7:45. "The Shut Door." Sunday was visited by a heavy snow storm and at the St. John's A. M. E. church there was but one brave soldier to brave the storm and attend evening services, Mrs. Emma King, the youngest convert of St. John's church. ...Mr. Eckman, the chorister of St. John's church, is on the sick list at this writing. Mr. Peter King, who has been on the sick list, is reported at work again. Mrs. Everett Kinley is on the sick list at this writing. Mrs. Belle Washington on Eighth street entertained last week the missionary society and a full four-course dinner was served. All report a delightful time. Mrs. Everett Kinley entertained Rev. Penn and family and A. McDowell at dinner Monday, February 23. Mrs. Eubanks of Fort Madison is in Burlington on Thursday on business. OTTUMWA, IOWA. Rev. Rhinehart passed the 77th milestone Sunday, February 22. The past. Rev. A. N. Webb, and many masters of the congregation remember him by a liberal donation Monday evening. Rev. Rhinehart has given fifty years of his life in the service of the Lord and we hope that he will live many more years in which to work for his Master. Mr. Paul Beal of Canada was a visitor in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Bradshaw on the South S. Mrs. Q. B. Taylor's condition is growing worse, but her many friends are hoping and praying for her recovery. Mr. James Johnson is slowly improving, but is still confined to his home. The meeting at Mt. Zion A. M. E. church will continue and Rev. S. B. Church will conduct the meetings this week. There has been three conversions, three concessions and at present twelve at the anxious seat. The meetings are taking on great interest and Rev. Moore is preaching some wonderful sermons. We are having a feast on the true gospel. March 1 is go to meeting Sunday. We hope that both churches will be filled to their utmost capacity and that each member will be able to bring three or four to the house of the Lord. This is a world-wide movement. Let us Christians get in line. Mrs. N. Fine is still very sick at the hospital. John Chessure was taken suddenly sick Saturday, but is some better. His wife is improving, but is not able to be out. Palmer, the little son of Rev. T. Carr, is sick with la gripe. The Benevolent club will meet with Mrs. Sarah Thompson on East Division street. The program for the evening is History of Society. Dr. Beckk, secretary of the national Baptist field, gave a sermon and lecture at the Second Baptist church. He is an able speaker and spoke of the growth of the Baptist churches and colleges. Mr. George Jackson, all an around musician, has joined a musical troupe. He left for Breckinridge, North Dakota, and expects to be gone until June. The troupe is under the management of Mr. Overstreet, who gave a concert at the M. E. church, corner of Market and Fourth streets. We wish Mr. Jackson success, as he is very earnest in his profession. MASON CITY, IOWA. Mrs. Doshia Beverley is reported on the sick list this week. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Spencer has moved from 715 South Willow street to South Cedar street. Mrs. Victor Wright and little daughter will leave for Sioux City, Iowa, where they intend to make their future home. Mr. Victor Wright will join them about the first of April. Mrs. Martha Dixon has moved from 421 West First street to 715 South Willow street. Mrs. Mary Rodgers returned to Mason City this week, after spending three months in Des Moines with friends. Miss Mabel Stratton of Manley, Iowa, is a visitor in the city at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Elli Mitchell, who has been on the sick list. The Jolly Boys' club will give a party at the Woodman hall next week, under the management of Mr. Willie Wiginton. Mrs. Brewton entertained for sup- Julia Taylor, Berthert Bauer, Maude Wilkinson, Committee A hearty welcome to all. BURLINGTON NEWS OTCUMWA IOWA MASON CITY IOWA DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1914. per last Wednesday evening Rev. W. H. Wheeler of Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. J. D. Reeler, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Penney of near Manley, Rev. W. J. De Boe of St. Joe, Mo., and Mrs. J. E. Penney of Fort Dodge, Iowa. A three-course luncheon was served. Miss Pearls and Eunice assisted with the serving. A pleasant evening was spent. Mrs. Bernice Eaton has returned home, after a pleasant week's stay in the country at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Warren. Mr. Harry Mitchell has accepted the assistant as assistant porter in the 5 and 10 cent store. The Sunday school superintendent appointed a committee of three to act as boosting committee to boost the Sunday school. The committee was named as follows: Mrs. Maggie Carter for the junior department, Mrs. Maud M. Brewton for the senior department and Mr. Thomas Allen for the adult department. The superintendent, Mrs. J. D. Reeler, was then elected to meet with the state Sunday school board to help prepare the program for the year. The two infant children of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bradford are reported on the sick list for the past week, but is reported better at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Stratton are preparing to move from near Manley on their farm which they bought this fall just four miles south of the city. enjoyed themselves exceedingly well. Miss Corinne Pickett, a student of W.C. spent a few days at her home on account of illness. On account of the disagreeable weather Miss Lucile Harris was unable to attend school a few days. Miss Zona Blakely has returned to resume her studies at W.C. Mrs. Lucy Routte passed through Macon en route for her home in Huntsville, Mo. Rev. G. W. Cross preached an excellent sermon Sunday morning and evening. MOLINE ILL. NEWS. Mr. Tom Turk, who has been sick, is able to be out again. The play, entitled "The Pullback," and concert given by the H. Q. B. club at the Masonic hall was quite a success, both socially and financially. Refreshments were served and over $20 was cleared by the ladies. The next entertainment will be a mask ball at the Masonic hall on Thursday, March 5th. Prizes will be awarded the best dressed man and lady and the most comically dressed man and lady. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Stewart entertained members of the choir on Friday evening at their home on Eighteenth avenue. The evening was delightfully spent in music and refreshments were served by the hostess. Prof. J. Hayes is on the sick list. Mrs. Henry Wood left Saturday for ALBIA NEWS. Presiding Elder S. B. M here over Sunday and assis Manly with his quarterly Mrs. Mosely, who has sick at the Miners' hospital Wednesday and her body was her former home in Ohio. Rev. Nealy was in to services Sunday. Mrs. Roper was a visitor loosa a part of this week. Mrs. Burns of Hocking b shopping Wednesday. A number of Hibernant paper to order of Hibernant M. Hitman was her home. Quito a cold wave passed town Saturday and Sunday week. COLFAX, IOWA The Ladies' Miss Meet with Rev. Evans and Thursday. A very interesting was held. Mrs. Sam Dean was call many friends in Buxton Mr. and Mrs. John Robins ton were visiting his parent Mrs. Linsey Robinson, fading away. They leave their house in Buxton. Mrs. Kate Hutchison from was in our city from attending to business. Misses Rosa Miller and M son were shopping Saturday Capital City. They have lifted the quarantine card from the residence of Mrs. A. Renix and Mrs. Henry Cabble. We are all glad to see them out again. COUNCIL. BLUFFS ITEMS. Rev. Ferribe of Bethel A. M. E. church preached the 3 o'clock service for Rev. Osborne of St. John's in Omaha, Neb., February 23, quarterly meeting, where he met Rev. Owens, the presiding elder. The entertainment given by the choir on the 14th of February realized the sum of $10. The entertainment given by Mrs. Richardson on February 23 as a birthday entertainment proved quite successful. Mrs. Susie Robinson has returned home from Carrollton, Mo., where she went to bury her nephew, Wesley Anderson, who died in Kansas City, Mo., February 12th, the body being taken to Carrollton, Mo., his home, for burial. Mrs. J. H. Garrison and Mrs. Mansfield Askew of Sioux City, Iowa, were the guests of Mrs. Fredonia Green of 1108 South Eighth street. While in our city Mrs. Garrison and Mrs. Askew were entertained at the various homes—Mrs. Brockman, Herndon, Hall, Richardson and Robinson. Mrs. Berry of 1115 West Broadway is still on the sick list. Mrs. Fannie Ashford and son, Clyde, left for St. Louis last week, their home. EORT MADISON IOWA. Mrs. Mary Windsor was hostess to the ladies of the Progressive Art club Wednesday, February 18th, at her home, 1311 Thirty-sixth street. The lives of Washington and Douglas were discussed by the members and many interesting incidents were told of each. After a very delicious lunchon the club adjourned to meet the first Wednesday in March with Mrs. Alice Burriss. The ladies of the Progressive Art club are planning a hard times social, to be given the 25th of March. Lincoln's birthday is fittingly observed. The ladies of the Unity needle Workers club at the home of the president, Mrs. Anna Harding, 1117 Thirty-seventh street. The hostess served refreshments. The club adjourned to meet the fourth Thursday in February with Mrs. Effe Jackson. Reason Enthroned. Because meats are so sasty they are consumed in great excess. This leads to stomach troubles, biliessness and constipation. Revise your diet, let reason and not a pampered site control on your diet. Choose one of the 's Tablets and you will soon be well again. Try it. For sale by all dealers. MACON NEWS. Sunday and Monday was observed as two of the worse days in the year of 1914. Snow was said to be about two feet deep. Captain George Thompson spent a few days in Macon on business. Miss Jewell Cabbell was the guest of Mr. Euell Clark on Sunday. Miss Nellie Clark remains very ill at her home on Broadway street. Misa Margaret Oliver entertained at a candy pulling Tuesday. Sunday, March 1st, will be set aside as go to church day the V. and B. church. The Sunday school is progressing. The total collections for the week was $11.50 and the attendance was only fair on account of the disagreeable weather. Mr. Raymond Houston is on the sick list. Little Edith and Edward Harris are on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bass spent a day in Macon. The musical program which was rendered Friday night by the pupils of Western college, under the auspices of Miss Russell, the instructor of music, was highly appreciated. The Sewing Circle met at the residence of Mrs. Earnest Fine. A three-course lunch was served and all enjoyed themselves exceedingly well. Miss Corinne Pickett, a student of W. C., spent a few days at her home on account of illness. On account of the disagreeable weather Miss Lucille Harris was unable to attend a few days. Miss Zoe Pickett has returned to Miss Zona Blakely has returned to resume her studies at W. C. Mrs. Lucy Routhe passed through Macon en route for her home in Huntsville, Mo. Rev. G W. Cross preached an excellent sermon Sunday morning and evening. MOLINE III. NEWS Mr. Tom Turk, who has been sick, is able to be out again. The play, entitled "The Pullback," and concert given by the H. Q. B. club at the Masonic hall was quite a success, both socially and financially. Refreshments were served and over $20 was cleared by the ladies. The next entertainment will be a masked ball at the Masonic hall on Thursday, March 5th. Prizes will be awarded the best dressed man and lady and the most comically dressed man and lady. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Stewart entertained members of the choir on Friday evening at their home on Eighteenth avenue. The evening was delightfully spent in music and refreshments were served by the hostess. Prof. J. Hayes is on the sick list. Miami Wood for cannery for Chicago, where she will visit her daughter, Mrs. Frank Rogers. The Tri-City Art club met with Mrs. Clarence Epps on Thursday afternoon. The afternoon was spent in fancy work. Refreshments were served. Mrs. Mabel Curtis was pleasantly surprised by a number of tri-city young people Saturday evening, the occasion being her birthday. The evening was spent in music and gamse. A two-course luncheon was served. Mrs. Curtis was the recipient of many beautiful and useful presents. Mr. Lum Johnson stopped over in our city a few days, en route for the west, where he is going for his health. His many friends here will remember him. He was employed at the Manufacturers hotel. Miss Alice Mauia entertained a number of her friends at dinner Sunday. The "midget wedding" given by the ladies of the Baptist church was quite a success. The little one drew forth much laughter and applause. Mrs. S. B. Walkup had the misfortune to be knocked down by a street car Saturday week at Twenty-third street fourth avenue, Boak Island. We are glad to report that Mrs. Walkup escaped without any serious injuries. Little Raymond Stewart is ill with the mumps. FORT MADISON NOTES Miss Naomi Harper, a senior in the high school, is confined to her home this week with a severe cold. The students Toller is indisposed at this writhing. I miss Iyv Kebo of Keokuk was in the city last week as the guest of her sister, Miss Blanche Kebo. Miss Bessie Buckner, who has been seriously ill, is somewhat improved. Mrs. Daniel Isom, who has been quite ill, is much better at this writing. Mr. Curtis Herdson has returned from Marcaline, Mo, where he has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herdson. DAYENPORT IOWA The entertainment at Bethel A. M. e. church February 23rd, under the auspices of the fuel and light committee, was indeed a unique affair. The participants deserve high praise. Mr. Eugene Green and Mrs. Eunice Hawkins are on the sick list. Little Rex Henry remains quite ill. Mrs. Ruth Bright and Mrs. Lemona Shepard are down with the la gripe. The T. L. O. club will give a novelty entertainment on St. Patrick's day, March 17th, at the residence of Mrs. Jennie Johnson, 636 Laurel street. Mrs. Munson of Monmouth, Ill., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. John Harris on Wells street. Mrs. Harris has recovered from her recent illness. A fine program has been arranged for Peter Ogden day, which will be observed at Bethel A. M. e. church Sunday evening, March 1st. March 8th second quarterly meeting at Bethel A. M. e. church. The Phyllis Wheatly Dramatic club met at the home of the president. Mrs. Wm. Brooks, 415 West Ninth street. A very interesting panel on politics was well read by Mr. George Young, followed by discussion from members of the club. Mr. Branton John, returned missionary from South Africa, spoke at the Third Baptist church Sunday morning. Mrs. Tule will be in the tricies for some time and will lecture Wednesday evening at the Third Baptist church. March 18 and 19 Kookuk district conference at Bethel A. M. e. church. ALBIA NEWS. Presiding Elder S. B. Moore was here over Sunday and assisted R. B. Manly with his quarterly services. Rev. Nealy was in to quarterly services Sunday. Mrs. Roper was a visitor in Oskaloosa a part of this week. Mrs. Burns of Hocking was in Albia shopping Wednesday. A number of Hitman people came over to see the burial of Mosly. Hitman was her home. Quite a cold wave passed over our town Saturday and Sunday of this week. COLFAX IOWA. The Ladies' Home Mission Circle met with Rev. Evans and wife last Thursday. A very interesting meeting was held. Mrs. Sam Dean was calling on her many friends in Buxton this week. Mr. and Mrs. John Robinson of Buxton were visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Linesy Robinson, for several days. They leave tonight for their home in Buxton. Mrs. Kate Hutchison from Oralabor was in our city the first of the week attending to business. Misses Rosa Miller and Metta Johnson were shopping Saturday at the Capital City. Mr. Milton Welch of Des Moines was in our city Sunday visiting his father and sister of this place. Mr. Jeff Lucas, who has been quite sick, is much improved and able to be out again. Mr. Robinson is sick at his home this week. Mr. J. W. Holmes was attending the Masonic lodge in the Capital City the past week. WASHINGTON, IOWA, NOTES. (Last Week.) The P. E. G.'s (Presiding Elder Girls) gave a Valentine entertainment in the lecture room of the church last Friday night and a large crowd was present to enjoy the festivities and the girls made a goodly sum for their treasury. Luther Brown of Clarinda is now employed at the Colenso hotel. Robt. Greaver is out again, after a three weeks' siege of the smallpox. Little Miss Alma Daniels is convalescing, after a very sick spell. Allen Day was celebrated last Sunday night at the A. M. E. church in a very appropriate manner. The Friends here of Rev. R. Holly of Cedar Rapids were sorry to learn of his death last week. He was pastor of the church here at one time and will be remembered by all the older residents. A. L. Hall visited in Muscatine last Friday. Mrs. Nola Van Kleck of Muscatine visited at the F. D. Motts home recently. Jas. Red has opened up a barber shop on South Avenue. A. L. Hall has purchased property on South Avenue D and Henry Rhodes has purchased property on South Avenue C. At the next meeting of the Intellectual Improvement club will be the election of officers and all members are requested to be present. The Howard family is quarantined on account of smallpox. T. L. Burnett's have moved from West Madison street to South Seventh avenue. Mrs. Burnett, who was sick, is better now. Philip Rushing is now assisting at the Washington Steam laundry. The A. M. E. church people will give a dinner in the lecture room of the church February 26th. On Monday evening, February 16, the Christian Culture club gave a social at the home of Mrs. Henry Rhodes on South Avenue B, to which everybody was invited, and a goodly number of the people availed themselves of the opportunity to be present and partake of the delicious vandals the ladies of the club had so specially prepared for that evening. Mrs. Walter Williams is confined to her bed on account of illness. A speedy recovery is hoped for. Methodist Minister Recommends Champlainhiser's Cough Remedy. Rev. James A. Lewis, Milaca, Minn. writes: "Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been a needed and welcome guest in our home for a number of years. I highly recommend it to my fellows as being a medicine worthy of trial in cases of colds, coughs and croup." Give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy a try. You will find it very effectual and continue to use it as occasion requires for years to come, as many others have done. For sale by all dealers. BRUNSWICK MO (Special to Bystander.) Our little city is progressing nicely, with a population of three or four hundred Negroes. We have some energetic, race-loving, progressive people who are a credit to any town. Our enterprises are in a healthy condition. Our school, the B.K. Bruce high school, is moving along nicely. The school has undergone quite a revolution in the last three years, making it good in a Nogro school as we have in other towns. On the 10th last, we held Patron's Day exercises, with a large and appreciative audience, at the school building in the afternoon. The audience was ushered into the manual training room, where they inspected the wood work of the boys and the needle work of the girls. We are proud to state that the school had on display several pieces of well made furniture and a number of smaller designs, which showed that the boys are deeply interested in this department. The girls had on display a number of dresses, aprons and other articles, which showed their deep interest in needle work. In the evening at 8 p.m. the audience reassembled at Union hall, where a musical and literary program was rendered by the school as another treat to the audience. The A. M. E. church of this city is preparing for an educational program on the 21st inst. We all look forward to a great event and hope to make this a grand success. SIoux CITY, IOWA The A. Q. P. club were hosts to about seventy-five friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilbur Norris on Friday, February 20th, in honor of their fifth anniversary. It was one of the most brilliant and charming functions of the season, the rooms being attractively decorated in the club colors, purple and white, while the tables bore adornments of pink and white roses. Music, conversation and brief remarks by Rev. J. H. Garrison furnished the diversion for the evening, but the guests also two courses luncheon was served. Double funeral services were held at Westcott's chapel Thursday afternoon for Virginia Mack, aged 5, and William Cousins, aged 3, children of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mack, Rev. J. H. Garrison officiating. The remains were taken Friday morning to Yankton, S. D., for interment. Mrs. Richard Cowan, who underwent an operation Wednesday at St. Joseph's hospital, is reported to be improving. Mrs. J. H. Garrison and Mrs. M. Askens returned from a visit to Council Bluff, Iowa. They report a spastic quad. The Art and Culture club met Friday afternoon with Mrs. T. J. Bell at her home on Riverside avenue. At the close of the business session the hostess served a two-course luncheon. SIoux CITY, IOWA. The Valentine social and chicken supper given by the Servo club of the A. M. E. church for the benefit of Shorter's hall was well attended and quite a success. About fourteen dollars was raised. A sublime concert will be given at the Mt Zion Baptist church Thursday, February 19th. A masquerade social will be given by the A. M. E. chair March 6th at the Odd Fellows hall. Everyone is invited to attend. Prises will be awarded to the three best masked persons. A disaster occurred in the city Monday morning that came as a great shock to the community, when the little children of Mrs. and Mrs. Wm. B. Mack were suffocated in a fire which it is thought they set, in a search for peanuts in a closest of their home, in the mother's absence. As a result of the unfortunate event little Henry Couzins is dead and his little half sister, Virginia Mack, lies in a precarious condition. Mrs. M. Askew and Mrs. J. H. Garrison left Saturday morning for a visit in Council Bluffs. Mrs. T. H. Sturgis, who has been quite ill, is reported to be convalescent. Mrs. A. J. Hogg has gone to Chicago to a two weeks' visit. Mrs. Cora Harrison is still on the sick list. Easter will be rally day at the A. M. E. church. The object and purpose of this endeavor will be to raise funds to settle claims pertaining to Rev. J. W. Dowden. CLARINDA NEWS. Rev. Mitchell, pastor of the Baptist church, is holding a series of meetings in Orgen, Mo., with great success. The Ladies' Missionary Circle met at Mrs. Laura Jones' last week and this week at Mrs. Addie Ables'. Mrs. Callie Arnett has returned home and we hope for her a speedy recovery. Mr. Charlie Baldwin of Creston is visiting at Mr. K. D. Black'. Mr. R. Williams, grand chancellor, made a business trip to Ottumwa and Des Moines and Friday goes to Centerville to install the Daughters of the Court of Calantha. The Study club gave a 6 o'clock dinner to their husbands on February 21. A three-course dinner was served, after which games were played and all enjoyed themselves highly. Rev. N. R. Morgan is enjoying a visit from his son from Ottumwa. Mrs. O. Newby who has been ailment is much improved. Mrs. Allie Jones is on the sick list. The O. E. S. club met at the home of Mrs. L. Headley on Monday. The Sewing Circle, under the auspices of Mrs. Etta Gipson, gave an entertainment Saturday night. Mrs. Essa Bowlen of Deadwood, S. D., is visiting relatives in town. A bazaar by the ladies of the Baptist Sewing Circle was given last week. A neat sum was realized. For That Terrible Itching Ezema, tetter and salt rheum keep their victims in perpetual torment. The application of Chamberlain's Salve will instantly allay this itching, and many cases have been cured by its use. For sale by all dealers. Are you a subscriber to the By-Subscribe for Iowa State Bystander, Price Five Cents. OLD HOMESTEAD OF DOUGLASS Why the Property Is Under Heavy Mortgage. NEW LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT Will of the Great Anti-slavery Agitator Was Not Properly Drawn—Death Defeated the Good Intentions of Mrs. Douglas—Time For Race Loyalty to Assert Itself. Washington.—There have been a number of inquiries, says Ralph W. Tyer of this city, as to the existing mortgage on the old home here of the late Frederick Douglass. Many cannot understand why the home should rest under a mortgage when Mr. Douglass had to have been quite well off at his death. The estate of Mr. Douglass did mount up to quite a sum at his death. A*defective will, made defective by an insufficient number of witnesses, caused the property to be distributed according to law rather than according to the will of the testator. The widow of Mr. Douglass desired that the old house, containing a museum of anti-slavery and Douglass relics, the furniture, books, manuscripts and curios of the great author, publicist and slave leader should be bequeathed to the race as a mea- sure to her husband. To do this it was necessary for her to buy in the home from the other heirs that she might have a clear title to it. This she did, giving $15,000 for the old honestest on Cedar hill. In order to make the purchase, however, it was necessary for her to borrow money with which to purchase the equity of the other heres. She died before she could pay off that mortgage. In her last will and testament she bequeathed the home, with all its rich and priceless possessions, to the race Mr. Douglass had fearlessly championed and served. She might have bequeathed it to her own relatives, but she choose to will it to the THE DOUGLASS HOMESTAD. race with which her husband was identified. This tells how that mortgage happened to be placed on the old home of the great leader. By act of congress a board of trustees was created to have charge of the home, but it came to these congressionally provided administrators with a mortgage and without funds to even keep up repairs, the result being that the once handsome home, the once fine old estate, is rapidly passing to decay and the mortgage is pressing for payment. Several attempts have been made to arouse sufficient interest on the part of the race to pay off this mortgage and put the home in proper repair in order first to save the home to the race and to preserve the historical relics, etc., it contains, but not sufficient has been contributed to even keep up the interest on the debt. It is figureled that if $15,000 is raised by the mortgage it will be sufficient to pay off the mortgage and restore the building and estate to its former beauty and make of the home a historical and memorial site to be visited by thousands each year, just as the old home of George Washington at Mount Vernon is maintained as a historical retreat. There are fifteen acres in the Donggale estate, and it occupies the most beautiful point in all Washington, overlooking the Potomac, as it does, and being within ten minutes' ride of the White House or the halls of congress. But unless the race responds to the last appeal, and responds quickly, the old home may be lost. By the terms of the will it can be no other than a memorial to Mr. Donggale, free to the public, and consequently has no earning power. Oncecessed property should be foreclosed—the old homestead homestead will pass from the race. As the legal owners of this estate it is the duty of the race—every man, woman, child, church or organization, fraternal or otherwise—to respond with contributions to pay off this debt and this response should come quickly. Indian Citizenship Day at Hampton. The twenty-seventh annual celebration of Indian citizenship day was observed by the Indian students assisted by the colored students at Hampton institute on Sunday, Feb. 8. The program consisted of several addresses by the Indians, interspersed with music and poetry. The land of the Sky Is Blue Water" and "The White Dawn Is Stooling". Mr. Arthur C. Parker was the orator of the day. POTATO FOOT ROT New Disease of the Sweet Variety is Discovered. It Attacks Primarily the Lower Part of Stem From the Soil Line to Four or Five Inches Above It. Washington—A new disease, the boot roth of the sweet potato, has recently been discovered by the pathologists of the United States department of agriculture, which threatens to materially restrict the production of the crop in certain localities. It was first observed on sweet potatoes growing in the vicinity of the Dilma Swamp, Virginia, during the summer of 1912. At that time it was believed to be very limited in its distribution, since search for it elsewhere was unsuccessful. The next summer, however, it was found in other parts of Virginia, namely, at Cape Chape and Keller. At Cape Chape, the plants were destroyed. At all of these places considerable damage was done to the crop, and in some fields as much as 60 to 95 per cent. of the plants were diseased. The disease is known as foot rot and attacks primarily the lower part of the stem from the soil line to four or five inches above it. The fungus kills the plants by the destruction of the epidermis or bark of the stem. Sometimes the organism may attack the vine several feet from the hill, usually where the leaf is attached, and from there spreads in both directions. Small black bodies about the size of a pin point and just visible to the maked eye are formed on the diseased apots. These are the fruiting bodies of the fungus. From the destruction occasioned by this disease the stem of 1812 and 1813 is not unlikely that it may be a serious menace to the crop in localities where it occurs. To what extent it may spread cannot be foreseen, but it is likely to be confined to somewhat humid regions. The disease may be distributed in several ways. It has been found in the hotbeds on the slips and is probably carried on them to the field. It has been shown also that the growing organism will grow from the affected potato onto the slips growing there. Furthermore, the fungus will grow from the diseased slips onto the potato. The organism causing the disease lives over the winter on the dead vines in the field and may infect healthy plants when set out in the spring. The sale and exchange of potatoes or slips is another method of distributing the disease from one farm to another, or from one locality to another. This disease, like many others of a similar kind, may be distributed on farm implements, on the feet of cattle or on the hands of a field to another. The spores may even be carried with dust during strong winds. In view of these facts, it is apparent that sanitary methods should be employed in controlling the disease. These should consist in the careful selection of only sound, healthy potatoes for seed. The soil for the hotbed should be obtained two or three feet below the surface after throwing off the top layer, or from woods where there is no possibility that it might be infested. Healthy slips produced by these methods should be planted on ground where sweet potatoes have never grown, or at least where there is no possibility that they will become diseased. Neither seed sweet potatoes nor plants should be purchased from localities where this disease is prevalent. The disease will likely increase each year if sweet potatoes are planted continually on the same ground. NEW NATIONAL FOREST. The secretary of agriculture has just designated a new area in the southern Appalachians in which he thinks that lands should be purchased by the government for forest purposes in accordance with the provisions of the Week's law. It includes in northwestern Alabama and includes 152,990 acres at the headwaters of the Warrior river in Lawrence and Winston counties. For a number of years extensive improvements by the government have been under construction on the Tombgee and the Warrior rivers, and a system of locks and dams to provide for 360 miles of navigable stream is now near completion. This improvement gives a direct water route for the shipment of coal from one of the southernmost coal fields direct to gulf waters, by means of the Panama canal, to points on the Pacific. The presence of a forest cover to protect the headwaters of the streams and to help equalize their flow is considered extremely important by Secretary Houston, and it is for this reason that he thinks it advisable to locate a government forest area in the region. The new area in which purchases will be made is at the extreme southern portion of the Appalachian region, about 150 miles from the nearest lands which the government has purchased bitherto in Polk county, Tenn., and Fannin county, Georgia. The woods are almost completely covered with forest; and there has never been cleared, and of the eight per cent. upon which clearing has been attempted three per cent. has been abandoned and is reverting to forest growth. There is a merchantable stand of hardwood and pine In my opinion we are all growing to think more about the ethical values of daily life, and take more stock of our inner selves. There is much hypocrisy about so-called educational drama, for it would be difficulty for a play of any pretensions not to be an another, even if it is often not worth while. It is not by education that we get advanced ideas, generally speaking. The ideas are there in the first place, though education may enable timer, but there has been on great amount of lumbering because the locality has been too far from transportation facilities. One striking thing about the region is that, although it has been settled for considerably more than a hundred years, the land is still public domain. Fully 9,000 acres have never been taken up by private owners under the various land laws. These lands have now been withdrawn from settlement, and Secretary Houston will request that they be set aside as a nucleus for the proposed national forest. The purchase of private lands will also be undertaken, and as such will build up another national forest of sufficient size for economical protection and administration. ALASKA'S REINDEER INDUSTRY. There are not less than 30,000 domesticated reindeer in Alaska today, according to estimates of the department of agriculture. This means that the reindeer industry is by far the largest agricultural proposition in Alaska at this time, and more stringent government measures should be taken to prevent the rapid destruction of these animals. The industry under scientific management should develop rapidly, according to experts, and the present herds form a very promising basis upon which a great industry may be built. It appears that there have been instances of cross-breeding domesticated reindeer and the native wild caribou in thought that the latter would be of the superior breed if good advantage in building up the reindeer herds. At present the domesticated deer seem to decrease in size and otherwise degenerate because of the lack of careful selection of breeding animals. The caribou are superior in size and vigor, but are not of so wild a nature as to make their domestication impracticable. HIGHEST POINT IN OHIO. That exploration and discovery in the actual meaning of the word are not confined to the unchartered wilds of Alaska is shown by the fact that a new record altitude has been determined for Ohio. Until recently the highest point in Ohio, according to the United States geological survey, was near Mansfield, in Richland county, the elevation of which is 1,479 feet above the surface of the topographic surveying last summer by the survey a point was found whose elevation is 1,550 feet above sea level, or nearly 1,000 feet higher than the surface of Lake Erie. This place is about two and one-half miles east of the city of Bellefontaine, in Logan county, and is locally known as Campbell's Hill. It is stated to be unlikely that there is any higher point in Ohio, as nearly the whole state has now been topographically surveyed. The town of Bellefontaine is on the Ohio river and has an elevation of 425 feet; the average elevation for the whole state is not far from 850 feet. DID REAL WORK. Congressman A. J. Sabath of Chicago, along with half a dozen other congressmen, had an exciting time reaching the capitol in time to answer to the roll call at the initial session of the regular session of the Sixty-third congress. Mr. Sabath got to Baltimore on schedule time to help his trouble begin to trip from Baltimore to Washington should have taken about one hour. Instead it took four. Three engines broke down in the course of the trip, and there were as many transfers to other trains. "I had a good idea of how congressmen would look as 'actors on the road.'" said Mr. Sabath. If these particular congressmen don't work hard during the day, they certainly their constituents, they certainly did while they were lugging their suitcases and other impediments from train to train." Waa Taking a Vacation That charity without discretion is readily abused is aptly exemplified by the story of Georgiana Simpson, an old colored woman, who was always employed by a southern family whenever extra help was needed. There never had been any difficulty in securing her services, and therefore, when three postal cards failed to bring a response one of the family called upon Georgiana G. to found Georgiana well and happy, and she welcomed her mistress very cordially. "I sutty is mow'pful glad to see you, Miss G." said Georgiana. "An is de damy all tolable well jest now?" "Yes, we are all well, Georgiana," said Mrs. G." But I want to know why you didn't come when I wrote to you. We felt sure you must be ill." "Oh, no, deed, Miss G." — the colored woman, Miss G. — the head lady, "joinir 'h' bes' ob health, an' de Charty's society done 'stablish a bread, soup an' coal fund up at de corner, none ob us ladies in de street has to work dis yeah." Loud Patterns "That young Gadby is an amable fellow." "eee. He has to be amable to counteract the irritating effect of the clothes he wears." Always Out "Jonesey seems to be a man who takes things for granted." "That's true. I can't keep enough smoking tobacco on hand to fill mr. pipe." us to develop them. It is a pity that the advanced theater is often confused with the abnormal, the morbid and the sensational—Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, in the Century. His Literary Work. Rymely Bardley—Have you ever contributed anything to the cause of literature? Farmer Greenhaw—Yeou bet I hew. You're the fourth poet that's stayed here all summer an isn't been able to pay me board. GIVE YOUR MACHINE SUNSHINE Will Prevent it "Running Hard" and Also Add Much Time to its Length of Usefulness. I am a visiting dressmaker, said a women recently, and in this capacity go from house to house. In my time I have worked, of course, at sewing machines without number. My verdict is that not one in a hundred women knows what causes the machine to "run hard" or how to remedy it. The first idea of most women in whose homes I find entry is to oil the machines with kerosene, and—well, this treatment does ease them for a few hours. But the means of kerosene is by no means a happy thought, for machine oil and kerosene in combination make a paste, which soon results in a friction that is harmful for the complicated parts of the machinery. My advice to the unknowing is that she should move her machine on a sunny day to a window and open it. The sun's rays can't be too warm. Then let her fill her oil can with clean machine oil and place it in a pan of water on the stove until it beats to boiling point. This arrangement is both safe and easy. Now the already warmed machine should be treated with hot oil. Every point, from the bobbin winder to the "foot," should be carefully oiled. After the superfluous oil has been wiped off the machine will keep in good condition for six months. ALL AROUND THE HOUSE Some of the best cooks hake only the crust of tarts and fruit pies, putting in the filling of cooked fruit when they are cold. Paste the owners' initials over each towel used on a large family towel rack. A tongue for boiling is best fresh from the pickle. Tomatoes with the skin removed and hollowed out, then filled with minced fish or chicken and a little mayonnaise, make a delicious salad. A good lunch dish is made of the ground and stewed tomatoes left from the night before. Heat them over again together and serve, or pour into a baking dish, cover with bread-crumbs, and bake till brown. A bad scorch may respond to a mixture of fuller's earth, powdered soap, and vinegar formed into a paste and spread over the scorch. After drying, the plaster should be brushed away and repeated, if necessary. For savory baked potatoes, wash and scrub the potatoes thoroughly clean, then wipe dry. Bake one hour in a steady oven. Break open and dress with salt, pepper and cream. Move in the jackets in a fringed napkin. When making a cake always mix the ingredients with powder with water before it begins to cook. For a Warm Bed. There are lots of people who say they can't sleep with their windows open wide at night because, no matter how many blankets are on the bed, they become chilled from the air during the inght. You need simply and easily remitted. The chilling comes from beneath the bed. The mattress and the linen or cotton sheet retain little heat and are easily r-catered by the air from the window. Try spreading a woolen blanket underneath the bottom sheet. The blanket beneath will keep the body's heat from escaping downward, as the blanket is not as thick as the lying above. You will be surprised to see how snug and warm the bed becomes. Frozen Eg Pudding This is a delicious frozen fig dessert. To make it, melt four tablespoonfuls of sugar in a saucepan and cook it until it is a thick caramel, like molasses, but do not burn. Then add a cup of water and boil until all the sugar is dissolved. Add two cups of milk, a cup and three-quarter(s) of granulated sugar and sugar (or water). Stir the caramel into it and add a pound of dried figs, cut in pieces not larger than raisins. Freeze until thick and then pack in a mold. Put in salt and chopped ice for two and a half hours. Fried Veal. Take a cheap cut of veal and have it cut in thin pieces. Then take one slice of fat salt pork, cut into dice and fry until crisp. Put veal in fat and fry until dark brown all over, season and cover, put in oven or on back range for about 30 minutes or longer, and it is a dish fit for a king. Before covering I put on a cup of boiling water. This, with mashed potatoes and dandelion salad, a nice dessert and coffee, is a fine, nourishing meal. To Make Wine Jelly Soak one-half box of gelatine in one-half cup of cold water for an hour; put into a saucepan two cups of boiling water, one cup of sugar and some thin slices of lemon peel. When the sugar has dissolved add the gelatine and stir until that has dissolved; remove from the fire, and when partly cool add the juice of one lemon and three-quarters of a cupful of sherry wine. Pour into molds and set to cool. Serve with whipped cream. For the Kitchen. A small but helpful little tool imported from Germany is in the shape of a small olive stoner. We all know how inconvenient it is to pit olives by hand when they are needed for salads and other dressings. So this little device, which looks like a miniature punch, will be welcomed. It is so arranged that the bowl is placed under the pitter, which quickly and easily removes the entire stone. Sugar in Starch. When making starch, add one table- spoonful of sugar after it boils. The clothes will be much easier to iron, and the irons will not stick DUTIES OF THE COMPTROLLER OF CURRENCY FUTURE KING OF ENGLAND IS A SAD PRINCE HONORED BY INFORMAL CALLS OF PRESIDENT SARAH BERNHARDT RECEIVES GREAT HONOR --- IOWA STATE BYSTANDER Upon the application of disburse- ers, or the head of any depart- or disburse d of any department or other mobilization not under the executive departments, the controller of the currency is required to render his decision upon any question involving a payment to be made by them or under them. This decision when renamed shall be the auditor and controllor in the settlement of the account at issue. C. A. A. A. P. For instance. not instance, government laborer abuses icehouse renters a bill for pair of rubber boots. The government is asked to pay for them on the ground that for work in icehouse rubber boots are tools and not wearing apparel. The comptroller has approved such expenditures under the appropriation for tools, but has been obliged to disallow the expenditure for some other article of dress which would be available for use of the employ when off duty. The determination of just where traveling expenses, for instance, cease to be public expenses and become personal expenses is constantly asked in. In general, the officials of the government are constantly striving to stretch the authority under which money has been appropriated by congress and the comptroller's duty is to maintain intact the restrictions. You very often hear people commenting on the fact that the prince of Wales, whenever he is seen (and that is not very often), looks as if he had not found life to contain a single joy. He is entirely devoid of the spirits of the warrior, the English boy, to say nothing of his fellow students, whose pranks are endless. 1900 The explanation is easy enough to find. The future king of England is by nature exceedingly quiet and retiring, a boy who should in every way be encouraged to strike up friendships with boys of more exuberant disposition and take part in their pursuits Mrs. Joseph P. Tumulty is the only woman in Washington who is ever who honored by an informed call from president of the United States. President Wilson not infrequently "just drops in" at her house in the course of an afternoon's automobile ride, to ask after Mrs. Tumulty's health, to chat a moment with her husband, his sec retary, and most especially to pass the time of day with the Tumulty children. A. B. When the Wine House car draw up in the front door of the Tumulty home the scamper of 12 little feet from the nursery to the front door. For the six Tumulty children are on intimate terms with the president and with every member of his family. When Jessie Wilson was married to Francis B. Sayre last November, little Mary Tumulty was about as keenly interested in the details of the wedding preparations as was the bride herself. She received, at the particular request of Miss Wilson, an invitation ad- Had not the chancellery granted the decoration of the Legion of Honor to Sarah Bernhardt, President Poli- care himself would have creat- ed the actress arbitrarily a chevalier of the legion. She is the one hundred and ninth living actress in decoration. The action of the chancellery, be-lated as it was, has met with a widespread demonstration of popular approval, says a Paris special cable dis- President Poincare himself would have created the actress arbitrarily a chevalier of the legion. She is the one hundred and ninth living woman with this decoration. The action of her chancellery, related as it was, has met with a widespread demonstration of popular approval, says a Paris special cable dispatch to the New York World. Now that the Divine Sarah has actually got the distinction, her friends feel free to bear her long indifference to the honor. That indifference was due to her feeling that the One on Mark Twain. Mark Twain brought out "Joan of Arc" anonymously. The book was one of his failures, but he was proud of it. Before he acknowledged its authority he sometimes failed for compliments about it. One evening at dinner Mark Twain said earlessly to a senator: "Are you a novel reader? Yes, a great novel reader. You're a great novel reader. You're following that anonymous new series" Joan of Arc" "Indeed I am, through every installment." "What do you think Advance decisions by the comptroller are in the nature of precautions and prevent much misunderstanding and confusion. They remain law, to all intents and purposes, unless later modified or revoked, but sometimes a comptroller upon the submission of new evidence, or perhaps through a court decision affecting the controversy, will acknowledge himself wrong. The men who are big enough lawyers to be successful comptrollers usually have not hesitated to acknowledge error. John Sherman said in 1894 that the comptroller of the treasury had been acquainted and better lawyers than the questioners of the treasury since the beginning of the government. Alexander Hamilton pronounced the comptrollership the "second trust" of the treasury, evidently placing himself first. If under an appropriation headed "carriages and harness" the head of a department desires to purchase an automobile, and the disbursement officer feels doubt as to the legality of the transaction, he is required to seek a decision from the comproller. In just such case the comproller hold that the reference to harness indicated that congress designed the appropriation for horse drawn vehicles. But in another department's appropriation bill a certain attorney has been voted for the bill, which the comproller felt, showed a congressional effort to broaden the authorization, and would permit of the purpose to broaden the authorization, and would permit of the purchase of an automobile. About 100 advance decisions are rendered every month and about 130 decisions upon appeal from the rulings of authors. and pleasures, but instead of this he is kept continually under the thumb of his mentor. His only pleasure is in his motor, which he drives as cautiously as an old man. Together with two of his college friends, young Lord Stanley and another, he had planned to use this car for an excursion to Switzerland to enjoy a couple of weeks' bobsleighing and tobogganing during the mid-winter recess. During Christmas he cautiously broached the matter to his royal father and paternal grandmother, assuring him that perfectly willing to clear of Paris and also to take a couple of equeries to look after him, but the result was just what the prince had feared. King George and Queen Alexandra both agreed that his desire was a most natural one and, while perfectly harmless, might do him a lot of good, but the matter never got any further, as the king immediately saw the hopelessness of trying to get Queen Mary's consent. dressed especially to her tiny self. And when the hour for the wedding arrived Miss Tumulty, white-frocked, blue-red-bibboned, her blond curls in order, her eyes shining with excitement, was one of the most interested of spectators. If one approaches Secretary Tumulty on a busy day at the executive office of the school, and asks him or the names of all his children, he is as likely as not to call on one of the under secretaries for assistance in setting them down with the respective ages opposite. Mrs. Tumulty, however, knows the list by heart, and can even say it backward, for the main business of her life is the rearing and educating of their six children. Her position in Washington's official life, as wife of the secretary to the president, gives her entree to that cosmopolitan society at the capital which the average woman would find irresistible little for it. How the only functions which she and Mr. Tumulty have thus far attended during the present season were the White House wedding and cabinet dinners. Since going to Washington, Mrs. Tumulty has not allied herself with any social or philanthropic organizations. She declares that any woman who is a member of the band and six children has 12 hours a day of her time already engaged. decoration meant nothing unless it was granted solely in recognition of her as an actress. This was a kind of claim on the legion which the chancellery did not recognize, and she knew it. The knowledge helped to reconcile her to seeing many less famous women decorated. Her exclusion from the legion had nothing to do with her private life, which was blameless from the French point of view. Adelina Patti and the three other women of the stage who got the legion of honor before Madame Bernhard did were given the decoration for reasons not connected with acting —for teaching, or for services to the state outside of their theatrical work. That this was realized by Mdame Bernhardt and that she felt the rule was to be applied even to her is shown by the fact that at a recent luncheon with some of her foreign friends she referred to the possibility of the decoration bestowed upon her, remarking that many people said it was her unique distinction to have spread the French language and French theatrical culture abroad. of it? Is it good?"" "That's hardly a fair question to ask me," the senator replied the knew the real author). "You see, I wrote 'Joan of Arc' myself."—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Expert Opinion. "Is marriage a failure?" asked the inquisitive bachelor. "Oh, no," replied the experienced divorce lawyer. "It is merely an opportunity to follow that good old rule. If at first you don't succeed, then try, try again."—Judge. HAVE QUEER MANIAS Pere Noel, a French Cigar, Thief Filched 1,250,000 "Weeds"—Crock Made Rubber Mats a Specialty —Other Instances. Ten thousand cigars, all of excellent brands, were discovered in the house of a handsome, white haired, well dressed criminal who is known to the French police as Pere Noel (Father Christmas). Finding himself certain to be sentenced, the thief proudly confessed that he had lived for years by steling cigars, and that during the last 15 years he had stolen at least 1,250,000. All his clothes were full of secret pockets and there seems little doubt but that his confession was no more than that he had done. The tendency nowadays in all trades and industries is toward specialization, and criminals have followed the example of honest men, remarks Pearson's (London) Weekly. There is a burglar—sill at large, by the way—who takes nothing but old silver. He also ransacked over thirty houses in the West end, most of them in aristocratic districts, such as Queen's Gate and Grosvenor, and many of them that of the Spanish ambassador. Here plies of silver were found collected on a table, yet the only thing that was missing was a silver vase of great age and worth many times its weight as precious metal. The man must have a very considerable knowledge of old silver and its marks. He never makes a mistake, and the police say that he has a couple of thousand pounds a year. At Surrey quarter sessions a man was sentenced for stealing bicycles. So many were found on his premises that a large furniture van was required to bring them to the court. This thief seems to have been a very clever mechanic, for handle-bars, name plates and pedals were altered all around, and he was known to matter. So far as known he stole nothing, but bicycles. India rubber mats were the special prey of a man who was sentenced to a year's imprisonment at the Guildhall. Twice before the man had been convicted of a similar offense, yet the moment he was out of prison he went back to the same form of crime. Some of the mats weighed half a hundred weight and were worth $25 apiece. A satan man mantlepiece went to live in a house which they had purchased close to Cavendish square. The house was notable for several beautiful Adam mantlepieces. Imagine their disgust when they found that three of these had been removed bodily. This was London's first taste of the unscrupulous collector of antique mantlepieces. A few weeks later an unoccupied house in Mansfield street was similarly bereft of its most cherished piece of Adam mantlepiece, and on top of this a Georgian mantlepieces disk appeared from a house under repair in Lincoln's Inn Felde. In each case the theft was accomplished by men atired as workmen, who drove up boldly and entered the house without any pretense of concealment. Cemetery thieves form a class apart. Their prey is the artificial wreaths placed by sorrowing relatives on the graves of their loved ones. From thedings Park, between 10 and 15 taken in one night, and 1200 in a little over a year. The City of Loudon cemetery lost a similar number within seven months. Some of these wreaths, including their cases, cost as much as $25 each. The question is how the thieves dispose of their plunder. Every second hand book shop knows the book thief. The man who steals books rarely interferes with any other form of property. Only a year ago one of these gentry was sentenced at Peterborough to three years' penal sentence, the property to gold books to the value of $500, the property to the dean and chapter of Peterborough cathedral. At Kew and other botanical gardens watch is always kept for the plant thief. One caught at Kew in May, 1912, had two small email of water fassiline his watercooler for the purpose of keeping his stolen cuttings alive. First Woman Chloroformed. the death of Mrs. Agnes Thomson, the first woman to inhale chloroform, occurred recently at Streatham, at the age of eighty-three. She was a niece of Sir J. Y. Simpson's wife, and, with her father, Commander of the Queen's present at Queen's street, Edinburgh on the eventful night, November 4, 1847, when the great discovery was made of the use of chloroform by Sir James (then Professor) Simpson. On that occasion, after Sir James and his assistants had recovered from the effects of the experimental doses upon themselves, Miss Petrie came forward to be experimented upon, and proved a most happy subject under the influence of the drug, as whenfallen from it, to remark: "I am an angel, a beautiful angel. How are you all down there?" Dolly Up-to-Date "What's the matter with this doff?" asked the toy salesman. "Do you possibly interest my children?" replied Flingigt. "It doesn't wear a slashed skirt." Appropriate Location. First Congressman—Did you see where the suffragists are going to march seven times around the walls of the capitol? Second Ditto—I wish they'd go to Jericho. A Trouble Maker. "I see they are thinking of putting meters on the telephone." "It will only cause trouble." "How so?" "My wife will insist every month that she never said that much." Some Strange Tales of Hidden Gold and Jewels. Pirates* Loot is Elusive, But Not a Few Have Dreamed of Digging Spanish Doubloons From the Earth-Only Dreams. What child is there who cannot recall hearing at mother's knee stories of buried treasures. And who has not dreamed of digging from damp, dank earth Spanish doubloons or golden nuggets? Nor were they in childish fancy tainted, though hid by some swashbuckling pirate who rowed the main with plank ever set for luckless seafarers who came his way, the Kansas City Star states. But the generations have come the story of who totoe the valents and buried them, and there is nothing to disprove the theory that he then but conformed to common custom. A farmer digs a well, the drift strikes metal, and a pot of gold is unearthed. In the walls of a dismantled house a black box is revealed and its shiny treasure makes the finder a rich man. Haven Cohen comes the story of an Italian woman digging the foundation ditches for this modest home, disinterested enough golden guenneas to clear his place from debt. Few towns away from the prairie country but have their treasure caves, and veteran river men will point in passing to where some vessel treasure was found. The owner of the fresh water David Jones, Egc. At New London, Conn., townpeople still narrate a weird tale of treasure which disappeared from a Spanish vessel there 150 years ago. In 1763 to be exact, the galloon Stas, Jose y Elena, gold laden and bound from Mexico to Spain, was disabled in southern water and carried northward. After weeks of idle drilling, the boat was sighted by a relief and towed to port at New London. When repairs had been made and the ship was ready to sail it it was learned that from its hold the bullion had disappeared. There was but one conjecture. The gold had been stolen and buried along the water front close by. Townspaces kept close watch over the ever-current burglar, hiding places. Something more than half a century ago came there a secreess, who gave directions as to the whereabouts of the buried riches. Two youths gave credence to her powers and, their story goes on, on a murky night she led them to a cache where stood a chest marked plainly "Jose y Elena," but that when they tried to lift it the rusted handles broke away under their grip. The quest for the night, they returned the following day, but never again were they able to locate the mysterious box. Not far from Buffalo an island in the Niagara river is said to be the trove of a French refugee and fairly dotted with boxes of jewels and pots of gold. Many prospectors have sunk their picks about the reputed site of the exile's cabin, but not one ever has discovered any treasure. Once in 1838 at untimely low water, 1837 were found at the very edge of the island. It is known that Gardner's island was once the rendezvous of baccaeens, and many rumors tell of buried treasure there, long hidden host of pirates. Nor is the rumor of treasure trove confined to the Atlantic seaboard or the east, for from Oregon to Lower California beach dwelling for them and retell the stories of their father to the old colony of growers and finding the great stores of gold along the Pacific coast. Even along the lower Mississippi there is a tale of $300,000 gold buried near Natchez, and a classic of Colorado is the legend of Peg Leg Smith, whose vast wealth died with him for all the world is concerned, no ever having located the cache of one-legged miner with huge trading with nuggets of large size. The Three Hills regions there are some who still seek the cache where Peg Leg hoarded up his wealth—some indeed have perished in the search—but no one ever found the rumored gold. Nearer home there is the wartime tale of buried silver amolets stuck to their brim, and family jewels and American gold coin and in ditches in the valley, where owners, frightened, fled before the soldiery of the Civil war which came foraging. Exceptions Foote, the comedian, dined one as at a country inn, and the landlord asked how he liked his fare. "I have dined as well as any man in the country," Foote. "Except the mayor," cried the land- lord, "except nobody." said he. "I except nobody," screamed the host. "But you must!" screamed the host. "I won't!" "You must!" At length a petty magistrate took Foote before the mayor, who observed that it had been customary in that town for a great number of years always to "except the mayor," and accordingly fined him a shilling for not conforming to ancient custom. Upon this decision, Foote paid the shilling, at the same time observing that he in the landlord the greatest fool in Christendom—except the mayor—Christian Register. Foe of the Short Cat. "Where did the phrase 'The longest way round is often the shortest way home' originate," replied the man with a doctor. "Probably with a traffic policeman." Parental Pride. "So your youngest baby has learned to walk!" said the admiring relative. "Walk nothing!" exclaimed the fond parent. "Some of the steps it takes look exactly as if it were inventing a new fancy dance." AFRO-AMERICAN.CULLNES In an address delivered at the Audi. torlum at Houston, Tex,, H, L. Black: shear, tho head of the ‘Prairie View Normal and Industrial College for Col ored Youths, had,this to way concern: ing the reasons Why the negroes of Houston are specially interested in the movement to build a general hospital fa Houston. The plan contemplated ‘does not seek to make one hospital do for both races. They will be separate fand distinct tnetitutions; but there Is to be a hospital for both, and upon the ‘basis that in caring for his own health Interests the white cltizen must pro- tect the colored as a matter of “Sate- ty Prat” Following ie the address delivered: Rev. Mr. Pevoto of tho Baptist san tarlum of Houston in a visit to Prairie View on a recent Sunday used the Sab- bath school lesson of the day as the basis of his romarks. It was the les- son of the Good Samaritan, and the speaker eaw in this parable the germ ‘of the modern hospital. And indeed, how true fs it that this spirit of the Good Samaritan, who picked up a help: less stranger, wounded and sore, and bound up his wounds and placed him in the Eastern inn for care and pro: tection exemplifies the spirit of Christ, now manifested in modern hospltale, and In the Red Cross system of nation: al and international relief, Regard. less of race, nationality or ered, the Red Cross spirit, the modern hospital spirit, takes hold of helpless sutter- ere and gives them relief and medical and sanitary attention. ‘The spirit of Christ 1g not the secular spirit and pride of nationality or race so well ex- empliiied in the classic elvilizations of Greece and Rome, but 1t {8 the spirit of humanity, the spirit of the Golden Rule, the spirit of human sacrifice for human good, the spirit of the Good ‘Samaritan, ‘The colored people as a part of God's common humanity need the help of modern medical eclence and sani- tation, From the standpoint of selt- protection, the municipality owes its colored population sanitary conditione, for bacterial diseases are no respecter fof race or color once they find lodg- ‘ment; and bacterial infection or con- tagion, originating from unwholesome conditions among colored people may Uhrust their fatal hand even Into the mansions of wealth and culture, It fs of interest to the whites that the bodies and hands and homes of those ‘of the colored people who cook the food and wash the clothing and dress and handle the children of the white people should be clean, wholesome and sanitary. Speaking generally, insani- tary conditions and disease among the negro people weaken the efliciency of the city's labor and entail a loss upon Invested capital, which is fruitless without efficient Inbor. In the older days faithful slave women were the nurses of the south. ‘They sat in humble patience at the bedside of the stricken mistress or her children, the dueky Samaritans of an alien race. Just as my grandmother, Aunt Harriet of Mongomery, Ala., was ‘4 type of the cooks of olden days who, Midaslike, turned whatever cooking material they touched to the gold palatableness, go my wife's grandmoth- er, Aunt Celia of Grenada, Miss, was a lype of the nurses of old, who was In truth a Good Samaritan in black, and, for miles around, was sent for to nurse tho afflicted white women and children back to health and happiness. Retail dealers in Hongkong are dis- covering the advantages of window- dressing after the American plan. ‘The honor of class oratory, assigned to a negro at Harvard, is indeed a creditable achievement, though elo- quence in this fervid and Smaginativ® race fs not an unusual endowment, many negro preachers having manl- fested this moving quality. It is stated that thia graduateto-be has it in mind to devote his life to the uplift of his Face. There ts ample opportunity for many lives to be so devoted. The freed race has progressed unevenly, individual specimens attaining to a high degree of knowledge and culture, whfle the mase of blacks are as much the wards of elvilization as ever they were in the days of bondage. Not till individual culture begins to bear frult im community uplift can work among the negroes be said to show adequate results, A curious tree of the tropies, the ‘matapalo, grows only with the aid of another tree, which It gradually envel- open and kills. Before an American hoefress who marries a foreign nobleman places him on exhibition she removes the price mark, Sixty thousand dollars a day is the estimate of the loss due to the recent strike at Dublin, Ireland. It io estimated that the Uruguay wool crop this season will reach a value of $25,000,000. Natural gas consumed in the United States last year was equivalent to 20, 00,000 tons of coal. ‘Tho diamond output of German South Africa Is boing regulated to maintain prices. ‘Tho French military authorities have succeeded in making a man-ear- rying kite ‘The smoke nufsance costs the ‘Amerlcan people nearly $50,000,000 every year. Labrador has an area of \200,000 ‘square miles, but the population ts only 4,000, “In 1913 there were 1,344 murders in the 20 leading cities of the United \Btates. “Tm v0 professional agitator for temperance,” sald Booker Washington, tn a recent nddress, “but keep whisky away from the negro. In the counties fand states where thore are no open Darroome the negro 18 60 per cent. bet- ter off. I don't believe that prohibition Increases drunkenness, as one to often hears. Certain men will got whisky anywhere—but in probibition counties you hear of the ten men who do get Whisky—and you don't hear of the 100 ‘men who do not. “There are 200,000 colored people al- ways elek from preventable causes," sald he, “Some one is paying the bill Not the colored mun directly—for he can't” He opposes segregation in citice— “not because the colored man objects to associating with his own people, He 4s proud of his race, He wants to ae: soclate with his own kind, But ex: Derlence has taught him that where he is soxrexatod the street lights are dimmer and the streets muddler and the sidewalks more full of holes and the police service moro {aditferent than tn other parts of the same tows— but that he is made to pay bis cull share of the bills.” Nor Is he in sympathy with the prop- sition to plant immigrants on the soll of the south. ‘The qplored man, he thinks, is already fitted to his environ: ment. If he is given a fair chance he is the most satisfactory laborer the southern employer can have, But he wants a little of the comforts of life, He wants good church and school and social facilities in the country dis- trlets. “The white folks of Dallas county," said he, "held a meeting in the court house one night to discuss the ques- ton of immigration. Old Jake, the col ored janitor, was @ very curious old chap. He always tried to find out what was golyg on—but this meeting stumped him. After tt was over he met the sherift. “"Cunnel Jones,’ said he, “wat you Wilte folks up to now?” “Colonel Jones explained. But Jake could not understand that word im- migration. Jones had to make it clear. “What do you think of the plan of bringing more white folks to Dallas county, Jake?" asked Colonel Jones. “Boh de Lord's eake, Cunnel Jones, said he, ‘we Dallas county niggers got Just as many w'ite folks as we can eup- See aoe” “There are only 300,000 American Indians,” sald a prominent negro, “and the government appropriates $10,000, 000 to, $12,000,000 each year to feed and clothe and educate them. And they're dying off. There are 10,000, 000 of us, and the government Isn't called on to do a thing for us, as a race.” Of the negroes, 9,000,000 are in the southern states, and 85 per cent. of these in rural districts or villages. He thinks that the negro’s best chance Is in the south. Tho southern white ts more tolerant of the negro's differ ‘enees from the white race. He is more inclined to give the negro a chance. “That's all we want,” he said. “Just a chance. I saw the other day that $50,000,000 Is being spent annually to rescue Great Britain's drunkards from the diteb.. We're not in the diteh— but help us keep out of it” ‘The negro, he thought, 1s worse off in the cities, especially in the north- ern elties, More than one-half of the money de rived from England's income tax is collected from Londoners. In the region between Yorktown and Williamsburg there is a district, where much of the land has long been elther owned or tenanted by colored people; but it is a "back country” far from the river and penetrated by few good roads, so that it fe and always has been a region of wretched poverty, miserable cabin and neglected soll very different from the farming dis trlet on the eastern shore of Virginia for example, where there are many wellcultivated farms owned or ten ‘anted by colored men. In this Inttor region the large estates are being cut tp into farms of from 60 to 100 acres, provided with complete outfits of farm dulldinge, and rented, or sold in many instances, to colored men. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Nor way and other European nations have for many years beon making provision for Industrial and technical instruc tion in public schools. In England the Smiths are the most numerous of all families, but in Ire land they are content to rank fifth, after Murphy, Kelly, Sullivan and Walsh, More than 50 per cont. of the sheep of this country are on the large ranches of the west. In the last year Iowa produced 96, 953,183 pounds of butter, which was ‘sold for $28,286,240. In Melbourne no Sunday papers are permitted: no hotels are allowed te open their bars. In a year 7,707,000 clgars and 14- 000,000 cigarettes Were smoked in the United States. Panama in 1912 abipped $128,660 worth of cocoanuts to the United States. State government annually costs New York $6.57 per capita. ‘A clock has been invented which runs by {ts own wolght. One fire in every four in New York 16 of incendiary origin. ‘Whales are estimated to livo 1,00¢ | years. BAKED RABBIT IS EXCELLENT Many Who Have & Prejudice Against This Form of Food Wilt Binley the Dich. ‘Tt not dressed at the market, re move the skin and head and all the silmy Inner akin and the entrails Let it soak a few minutes in snited water. Save the heart and liver for the stuffing, and also what blood may ‘come from the rabbit in the dressing to put In the gravy. Stew the liver and heart, and then chop fine. Soak one pint of bread crumbs In cold wa: ter and crumble fncly. Add the chopped giblets, also two tablespoone of fine chopped salt pork and soanon It with mixed poultry seasoning aud fa ite chopped onion. Add a few ‘rratings of nutmog, If you like, and a tablespoon of minced parsley. Fil the cavity and sow the edges secure Wy. Skewer the legs forward #0 1 ‘may be kept in a good position, and ‘cover the surface with thin allces of ‘fat salt pork. Put {t Into a hot oven ana this pork will baste it sufficiently for a while. When tt begins to brown ‘uk! one cup of bolling water and bate frequently. “It should cook from one ‘hour to one and a half, When neatly one remove the pork and dredge with flour, and let this take on a good rch brown, When done remove to a hot dish and pour off the fat and gravy, leaving not more than two tablespoons: Add two tablespoons of flour and let them cook together until well colored then reduce with boiling water of stock from the giblets, and whes smooth strain it {nto the gravy boat Remove the skewers and strings and arrange the rabbit on a hot platter garnish with lemon quarters snd Darsley and serve plum Jelly or eran berry sauce as a relish. When carr Ing Rqueeze some of lemon julce inte the flesh—Mary J. Lincoln. ha aa | A g00d, tasty dish Is clam water. Wash and thoroughly scrub with small brush 13 dozen clams, Rinse very often. Cook in a tight-covered kettle, with three tablespoons water. no more, until shells open, Remove clams, strain liquor through double sugar bag in placo of cheese cloth. Re. heat aid put in one large teaspoon of whipped, unsweetened cream. This 4s both delicious and tasty If your pa tlent cares for clams. Would advise you to get some from the clty, if pos sible, and be sure to tell dealer they are for a sick person. Go to some good market, and 1 feel {t will repay you, Oysters, too, are another fish that make a pleasing change. Take your own glass jar and have them opened while you walt. My husband goes down where the big markets are ‘and thero are several places where ‘you can get real fresh’ sea food.—Bos- ten Gone f gaan minieiasa Pare and cut the potatoes length- wise In very thin slices, dropping them as sliced in a pan of very cold water. After soaking for at least halt ‘an hour, drain and dry them thorough- ly on soft cloths. Have on the fire two kettles partly filled with fat, one hotter than the other. Spread a few of the slices in a wire basket and plunge into the cooler fat, cooking ‘until they become soft but do not col ‘or. Lift out, drain and set aside for few minutes until partly’ cooled, then plunge into the other kettle of fat, which should bo smoking hot. They should swell almost immediately and become a golden brown. Drain on un- ‘slazed paper and send at once to the table. Do not be discouraged if you fall at first, as it Is conceded by most persons who have tried it that this, though seemingly easy. is a dificult dish to prepare successfully. Fricasseed Veal. Divide into bits of say the size of your (wo fingers a couple of pounds of veal, and make it quite free of fat bone and skin. Dissolve a couple of ‘ounces of butter ina stexpan, and Just as it begins to boll lay in the veal and shake the pan until the meat fs firm, but uncolored. Stir in a table spoon of flour, and when it Is well mixed with the cutlets pour gradually over them, shaking the pan often, enough hot veal stock or gravy to cover them. Stew them gently until they are perfectly tender—this may be Atty or sixty minutes, or longer. ‘Add salt, a quarter of a pint of rich ‘cream, and, If you likosa few strips of lemon rind. Two-or three dozen mush- room buttons added 20 minutes before {it fs served will Improdve tho fricas ‘a v ‘To Carve # Fowl. Begin by sticking tho fork Into the wing and drawing it toward the leg ‘with the point of the carving knife un demeath; tako off the wing at the Joint. ext sllp knife between the eg and body on that same side, down ‘to the joint; with the fork turn the lex ack and the joint, with the knife, may be easily separated; then divide the og and second Join. These should be ald at once at ono end of the platter ‘as cut or on a hot plate In front of the host. Slice the breast or white meat from the sarge side. If this is suf clent for the’ first serving do not carve any more; If not, proceed as af rected with the other side. Bran as a Cleaner. Dry bran will clean light furs and ‘make them flufty. It will also clean velvet flowers such as aro now very fashlonable for dress garnitures, a3 well as for miilinery: and it fs sald to also take the soll from woolen material, Rub the bran on the article, ‘and then shake and brush it off. Try cleaning light kid gloves, that would ose thelr color {0 gasoline, with French chalk. Good Floor Duster. / Buy two yards of outing flannel, fold into an oblorig shape 16x18 inches; sew through the center, atid cut out the cloth in atrips onedalt Inch wide toward the center. Fit Into a mop handle; use Mquld veneer, and run the contrivance over the floor. tt will pick up all of the dust and shine the floor at the same time. “aie Gilseninn. ‘When boiling new potatoes always place them in bolling water, to which add a little salt and milk This pre vente them from turning black. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER \ | | ie \ aA AUN | SWIMMING | Couch Robinscu's Purple natators detested the Chicago evininiag team, in thotr at meetin the Patten sya naslum, 19% To. 18%. | BOWLING Wiliam Cordes of the Orand Cen: tral Horllog academy of Brooklyn wl tives $1000 setomebile and 19 otber Prites to high scores inthe Indlvigeal toumen whieh be ib ooseuy on i Aleve. 1 will bern. on Narch {and Sectien tine matin } BILLIARDS. {| Ben Allen, champion pocket billiard: tat wil pay Baward f, Dll ot Highs town, Node for the champlonship the tat week in: March in Philadelphia, ‘Tho national class A 182 balk. tne cbaroplonship tourensioat way award: fa to the Amateur Dillard club of Now York at a meeting of the exeeativ committee of tho National Asvoclation or Amateur, Uiliard. Payers, The fmatehes wil! begin March 9 and the tutrles"cose a week carer, i GOLF | Jerome D, Travers, tbe national amaateur golf champlen, ts to sal fo rope about the middie of Marek. A. Johnson of the Mintkahaaba cb of Minneapolis. won the, aunt faldwinter golf tournament at the Het Springe (APR) Golf and Country club. 1K fe latereoting to note that. Fran cis Ouimets 70 le the record for th Souree at Manchester, Ves Ia view the tact that Bhwanck haw been ax signed the amateur golf championship for i814 t AQUATIC} Joseph Wright, excaptain and now coach ot tho Argonaut Rowing. club SItoronto, bee been lected restaent St the Canadian Rusby union of foot Pall teams Guy Nickala, the old Orford onre rman ‘and‘eeuch of the London crew, ae cabled’ bis armel acceptance o the ner to ansist in oomching’ the ale orem arvard’s frst and second crows willow in dhe navel scndemy sigh Tr'asotvolis during the spring raex thos april “The Set race wil prob aby be Apel 28, ‘Tho Queen City (Toronto). Yack club has commenced tho organization Sta 4anoon company to erect 0 nev ub Seve on the club's gw ste ne Warde inland. "Werk on the bulling SA ihag be comemnend eat !hogSE RACING | Ringaras have won more than $100, sane oe ve sia iva ecniy a Von ee ee ae ea aa Se ee praia naga 6 eanaamy oC wee ee sta segues a Sees a sci ge geet cutee Sour ans ioe een De taeate ot vt Se er etioe ine, ise Dante a pct tate eal cane pee eecrermg rae se ee Se eee igeauent caoedh hage beacons Reggie anger are fo snpeee as areata a ee ret coe hile tapas uarevearce eee See ae ae ee ee ewer ee oe ieeeparetaaaboty [RASEBALL Manager Jennings has decided to switeh George Moriarty to the toitial sack and allow Billy Purtall to hold down third. a 3 y Joe Tinker is planning to play some ‘exhibition games while on the train: Ang trtp this spring in order to help ‘out on the expenses. ‘Ty Cobb will break his old custom ‘and will favor the Detroit players with ‘his presence at Gulfport, Miss., where the Tigers train this season. Std Smith, who some seasons ago was a member of the St. Louis browns, has signed again to catch for the Columbus club of the American association. a Most of the college leaders now fa: ‘vor summer baseball. Captain Blos. om of Yale favors summer baseball ‘and says It {8 bound to come. Ban Jobnson says that Branch Rick- ey ‘9 © smart young man and he thinks ho will torn out a winner fn St. Louls with some assistance. Chief Johnson, pride of the Winne- ‘bago tribe, pitcher for the Reds of Cincinnatl, says he always goes to ebureh—because his wife compels pn i _ CARPENTIER IS CHAMPION yt ay A ae aeig =) aay Ca FS cs ) ty be Ne oy a GC a Crd j AN Georges Carpenter, the Ficnch heavyweight. boxer, who wll "a000 Celebrate. his twveniloth birthday” a0 niversary, In now. the ackpowledged champion of Europe. His latest vlc- tory wea a deciaive. win. over” Dow. andlor Walls tho Big Britaber \"FooTBALL. | Wisconsin has signed Juneau to conch the cloven again next fall. ‘The old Badger star has been giving them | winning teams in the far north, Coach Hrocke of the Pennsytvanta ‘football squad. was operated upon for ‘appendiciti, The operation was sue ‘censful, and Fapld recovery in looked ‘or. /ahmer , Dusen, captain of the Can Usle eleven In 1914, 1s a coppercolor ed Indian of the Pome (ribe und halls from California, where his home is at Potter valley, ‘Annapolis will be permitted to play more than one game away from the ‘neademy grounds during the football ‘reason it'a bill now If congress 1s ‘passed, Games with the University ‘of Pennsylvania aro on the program for 1814, n addition to the anual con: test with (he ary pocencssamaccnmecrereeicsy f PUGILISM | Rob Fitzsimmons will teach boxing Pa cern mew eae iiihy aber AGB sete oth, oes ote Lie foe io ombesdie, "Wala Biecled oe Se Necrvwe alt Fa ore a wae ound aioier ot adie ghee sales i Petes ie ince too Se aan te Hida me, th trian noni Att Geany ‘chee sea ie ae unseen Ante ering sts ta pibeaviohign maine cuit aera itsosered wort $0 Te ee es aca OS eae ee a canats ecru sone’ ofsie:Non, Void Pacem ricer eyr ce se ee ee ee ee er ae eaniee ae Him tailed RUS een eh a Ne eae ee ea ean Roar eee ererne re ee rem rr Be, oe cet weal oe goes lMiscentangcous | Princeton's hockey team defeated Yalo at New Haven, 6 to 3, in an xelting overtime gama ‘Those who saw the Maroon-Badger baskotball game unite In saying that Wisconsin bas about the fastest bunch of fives along the Ine. ‘Tho University of Pennsylvania swimming team defeated Columbia unt oral 18 to 18. Jn the water polo cot Test Columbia won, 24 to 22 Capt. Charts 0. Parker of the Unt versity of Chleago track toam will not Compete with the Maroons this season by order of the Midway deans. James A. Hunter, Ifnols star quar tenmiler, toon to. leave for. Pekin, Ching, ( tench the Chinese collegiaas Stbletica under ¥. M. C. A. ausptces. Johnny Hayes, the hero of the Lom: on Olymple games of 1908 and the first American to. win an Olympla marathon contest, has joined tho array of Amertean trainers, ‘The British Olympic fond has not panned cut as expected. ‘The sponsors Br tho fund started ovt to raise $800, 00 by nationdl subscription, but the responses to thelr appeals were Dot rery encouraging. Coach Tilly Queal of the Yale de tance runners, recently defeated A. E Wood. holder of the world's protee Monat record of 1 hour 18-minute nd 18 soconds for 16 miles, In a 1% milo rnco in Nova Scot. Coach Harry Hillman of Dartmoath college has been elected prosident of {ho Fecontly organized Professional ‘Trainers’ Association of America, which Includes many of the bes Kowa coaches of colleges and club pauads of this country. Goorgotown and Virginia have sew ored athletic relations, At leaat Goorgotown says they will not meet Virginia, has questioned the athletic probity. of the Weahington._tnstite ‘thon, which prefers not to emter into ‘a range ty tenzing. JUMPING INTO A FIRE NET ‘There ta No Danger to Bones If You ‘Only Manage to Do It the : Right Way. At a recent fire in the Corona dle trlet of New York, saya the Sun of that city, Mra. Martha Henning Jumped from her rooms on the third atory of her residence into a fire net ‘with her baby to her arma. She was ‘lightly hurt, but tho baby was untn: jured, ‘The bystanders marveled at the happy ending of the feat, but the firemen declared thera was’ not the Teast danger. ‘The fact In that the net will save persona absolutely without a scratch provided the Jumper does not tose his head. Somehow the fear that bones will be broken seoms to cause the Jumper to turn oF twist In such « man- ter that Injury Is bound to ensue Others who undertake the high win dow leap with confidence in the re ‘sult are raroly even Jarrod badly. AU a rocent Fiftyalath atreot tene- ment fire in New York that resulted in more of & smoke alarm than a blaze a man and his wite were seen to get out on the ledge of a fifth story window. The firemen told them to walt a moment, that thero might be no need to Jump. ‘The man erled that they were suffocating and must jump. ‘Tho firemen stretched the net and shouted for them to polse themsolves properly and jump one at a thme, But even while the firemen were shout Ing the instructions the couple klsued each other, locked arms and leaped. ‘Thoy came down straight and sure as a plummet right into tho net. ‘They rebounded about fitteen fect and fell In the net again in a sitting posture. ‘The firemen let them gently down to the sidewalk. ‘They still sat there Tooking at each other incredulously ‘They were told there was not even a good fire to justify their jump. 1 had all been smoke from a smoldering ot of rags and other rubble. The man and wite heard the news with ox- pressions of wonder, thankfulness and condemnation of thelr silliness. Jumps of eight and nine stories without Injuries have been recorded: Tho makeup of the Jumper Is. what counts. The firemen have to be pre pared for all kinds, Sometimes thoy have to shift a few Inches qulckly be ‘cause of the bad Judgment of distance shown by the jumper. ,But in most ‘canes the leap to the net saves life. + wan hobbina the Robber. re wae pada at the Cano cont"? ork and mn Canter ear moeing hows ih ioatly"enneoge Heme abe Men'win's pth woo deatnded 3 hfe The worker banat the none “Sow alt he, “inywite wil io that Fe pambed or Sak went ye shoot a Hole In my coat, so that I can prove thet T 'won" ached a8 Pate MWh. crtaly 0” anewored th other he worker ld oot it coat i wile the ener pctured 9h Se. "ther" begged the worker, a tne ater fred aga SAotien a8 there wat arabe nota toe atest, eter a desir ets athe eaten Te got sald te tober Aa ac cagen you'r gl nl the worn ching ipa Toc he five back hat moneys "hand ot Sour pata and waster eee Fo Apel to have" Natonst Most. ere |. The tocsin had sounded and the /aopn ot oar had been unictabo, Th /satonat urd d been ordered io tont'and Colonel Hounds wi tat acrooe the breaitast table pensive yeas at her husband, “George.” she sald, “don't you think yout beter" "Retizn’™ the colonel broke _ tn “what nomen, ny dear. You thos to made ofateracr stat Women I Wartime “snoul bo heroes, puting Thott counttye good before” te tea otipersonat loss That let tbat 1-as slag 0 ask George” nig wife replied. as fea soln to ack i you had btir take et that your ie Insurance dues are aI pale” Bohemia fn London vgunten Sohn, th brillant sod ee conti putter, whom hi. admirer Sai tka gentoo dratuman’ in Be ‘pest hea orusized a Bohenlan cab wera onden, The drat ombers thi new night lub. wore veeate thom the Chlaca art coterie and th eons of the Slade school "Augue {he John, with he ervngs, velvet coat ta gloaive "eet upe mw mat to treniog tigre io discovered Pan tant ene etiar French poempree sate ig yenve belo. they "were own’ ta Enylaed and Tong before te ume was applied to them. ee King Albert of Belgium ts not only anandoot motorist but he is devoted {0 mochanice, Willing the automobile ‘Siam at Brsecls recently, he became Serintarcoted Inn special type of cat that he intoted on taking i to pleces Blmecit and putting it together again, ‘to the great didcomfiture of the head [the exhibiting fram who was com ‘State to confers that he himsett ha ‘not mastered the intricactes of his ma cine. Saran © rita Army Movies. dn extraordinary fim, showing, the mating and working of tho British ‘emg, i being exhibited io London, ‘Twenty-five thousand officers and meu ‘Rgure in th fm, Ceremonial parades artillery and cavalry drills, the flying ‘orpe and fold maneuvers are lo fered, ‘An immediate result of the ex bition fe te enrolling of recruts fo Thelarmg, recatting alers beg ata Moved athe theaters where the Alm ba being displayed. |The Reason. syn} i th" asked the feminist ora ‘tor, “that the majority of women, will not make big, determined strides towards freedom?” Tuono” volunteered one of ‘her hearers, “because their hobble skirts ‘won't let em.” STRICT LAWS OF THE SEA Mariners, According to Old Portus ‘guess Manual, Seemed to Have Little Rights on Shipboard, Some remarkable advice to seater era fs given in an old Portuguese book. ‘Published for the guldance of mario. ‘era, Amongat other things It deals with the rights of captains to assault ‘allors, and the methods In which the Attacks are to be logally met. ‘Tho sailor fy advised to bear calmly any verbal abuse that an irate, skip- Dor may hurl at him, but if words passed to blows he was to run away into the bows and firmly take bis stand beside the anchor chain, Should an Infuriated master, armed with a belaying pin or other lethal ‘weapon, chase him to his stronghold, the mariner was to slip round to the farthor side of the chain. Should he still be pursued, he was to call ha messmate to witness that the master hhad broken the rules by circumvent. {ng the chain ‘Then, at inst, he was to defend himself—and let us hope he would do it well! Other little matters of dle cipline are set out, and they show a noble effort to make the punishment At tho crime. ‘Tho ship's clerk, a privileged per- Son who acted ax bookkeeper, purser. and cargo-master, was liable to be branded ta Uke forehead, to lose his right hand, and to fortelt all hie prop- erty If he made a wrong entry tn tbe ship's book, or connived at such an entry. A seaman who fell asleep on bis watch was only put on a diet of bread and water, unless the offense was committed in hostile waters. In that case he must bo stripped naked, flogged by bis messmates, and ducked thrice In the sea. It he were an officer, however, he would only lose all food except bis bread, and have a pail of water flung over him from the head downwards, Example the Best Teacher. ‘Thero is only one comprehensive rule for rearing childron, and that ts that we must honestly rack our reluc- tant minds until they give us back something of our own forgotten emo- tions; that we must give in measure as x0 expect to receive: that we must ‘acknowledge the child's mind and emotions to resemble our own in scarcely Mmited counterpart. Sub- Jective teaching Is the only’ teaching worth while, und sympathy the only Kind of love which will buy us the best. Children learn most by example and they throw open the doors of thelr hgarts to those who have shown them that hearts have doors, The old quar- rel Is the most wasteful and unnéces- sary one. It Is human to destre some friendship, and those of us who have children, and in whom the desire Is strong, may really know at least one ‘or two men aud women a decade or 80 from now.—From “Our Children,” by Wells Hastings, in the Century. Claseified Mall. | OOS OORNES SEC TORRS Wee ‘sald as she stepped to the window at the postomice. “Is there a letter for mo today?” “1 look,” the clerk answered, ‘The young woman blushed a little ‘and she added: “It's a business let- ter, ‘The man Inside the window took up ‘a handful of letters and looked over them hastily. Then he informed the customer that there was nothing for her, and with great disappointment ‘on her lovely features she turned away—this time blushing more furl ‘ously than before. "II decelved you.” sho stammer- ed. “It wasn't a business letter was expecting, Will you please see it there {s anything for me among tho love letters?"—Philadelphia Publio Ledger. Motions Misunderstood. ‘An organ grinder had been playing before the house of an irascible old gentleman, who furiously and: am{a Wild gestlculations ordered im to move on. ‘The Italian stolidly stood his ground and played on, and at last was arrest- fed for causing a disturbance. In the court the magistrate asked him why he did not leave when he was request: ed. . “Me no understan’ mooch Ingelese," was the reply. “Well, but you must have under- stood by his motions that he wanted you to go,” sald the magistrate. “T Unk he como to dance,” was the rejoinder. sate ak Gaccns inidiae Jones was telling what.an excellent cook his wife was. Smith boasted that hig wife was a splendid dressmaker, find Robinson proudly stated that his ‘wife was an unusually clever arist. ‘Brown was ot to be outdone, #0 be remarked: “aly wife {8 great linguist." No one seemed impressed. ‘There ‘was a moment's sllenee, then Robineon poke up. “Hiumpb,” be exclaimed, “they all are!"~-Youth's Companion. Soft Answer, They asked for my Impressions of wall. street, and 1 immediately thought of the ragged little youngster ftanding under the statue of Wasbing- fon, and of « something about im compelling me to cross tho. street that day and. force a conversation, “How old are you, my Ittle boy?” “ive” “When will you be_ six?" My next birthday.” platinum May Become Cheaper, /rlusola produces nenrly all of the ‘world’s supply of platinum, about 18, 260 pounds annually. In 1882 tt cost $80 a pound and it Is now worth $488 R pound, Extensive deposits found. In Gormany will, Is hoped, considerably oroase the world's supoly. Eagle Beat Express Train, ‘An express train traveling ftom Nico to Macon, France, was . beaten by tweive minutes by an eagle which raced it over a alstance of eighteen oe . Te ee no anos ee ST Seen American motor cara aro. overcom: ‘ing the prejudice felt, against there ta ‘the Madras district of India, WELL QUALIFIED FOR LIFE'S WORK MAN OF LIBERAL TRAINING. Success of a Former Instructor at Gilber Academy In Louisiana, Wives Forsoak the Trades For a Professional Career—Author of Several Books and Poems of Merit. Mobile, Ala.—H. Rogers Williama M. D. one of the most progressive men of his profession in this city, was born of slave parents on a sugar plantation in Franklin parish. La. While quite a lad he was taken north by a family of white people and given a high school education. He is a splendid example of a positive character, a liberal education, coupled with good common sense and backed by a strong Christian character. Although he labors under the usual disadvantages of race discrimination and the sentiment which generally prevails against members of his race in this section, he has by persistence and honesty devoted himself to the work of racial uplift in this community for the past fourteen years. He is highly respected by his mentor's trade in connection with his literary training, which gave him a practical knowledge along business lines. In 1887 Dr. Williams was appointed to teach printing in Gilber academy, Balwin, La., which is just five miles from the place where he was born. During his spare hours he pursued the preparation course for college. It was during the fall of 1880 that he had his first blow, because at this time his mother died. With a determination to better prepare himself for usefulness, he resigned the position at Gilber academy and went to Walden university, Nashville, Tenn. for the purpose of pursuing a college course and a course in medicine. Just as soon as he had completed the college course he was admitted to Meharry Medical college. After faithfully applying himself to his studies he graduated in 1900 as a doctor of medicine. He came to Mobile shortly after graduating and located after taking the state board examination. Dr. Williams married Miss Fannie Brandon, who was then a teacher in the public schools of Huntsville, Ala. Two children have blessed their union. During the many years he has been practicing medicine in Mobile he has made many friends among his own people and some of the best white people. He has invested in real estate and now owns some of the best property in the heart of the city. Dr. Williams is an enthusiastic optimist. He is known for doing the impossible, impossible shapes or makes him. He is a firm believer in the ultimate survival of the fittest and looks at everything from a philosophical viewpoint. His success has been phenomenal, and he has been honored in a great many ways. Being a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, he was elected as a delegate to the general conference of his church which met in Los Angeles in 1894. For the past three years he has served as president of the Emancipation association in succession and is state grand medical director for the Order of the Court of Calanthe, the female branch of the Knights of Pythias, and holds a like position with the Knights of Honor and the Knights and Ladies of the Order of the Knights for the Knights of Pythias and several other societies. In the uniform rank of the Knights of Pythias he is assistant surgeon general on the brigadier general's staff. Dr. Williams urges the members of his race to help solve the problems that confront them by thorough preparation, home training, education, business and commercial endeavor, which alone will make them indispensable in the economic needs of the nation as well as the professional, a safe leader, a sound adviser, a thoughtful, farseeing philosopher and worthy of the highest respect and admiration of the public. He is the author of several books and poems of real merit, a gifted speaker and stands in the front rank in all good movements for the betterment of the community. His rare literary attainments have given him recognition and public prominence in his chosen field which are known from early shown to a man as young as he in professional life. He is popular in secret societies and well known in religious circles. He believes in his race and gives encouragement to the efforts put forward for its welfare. May Start Mercantile Concern Again. John H. Atkins, former head of the Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty company, which failed a few years ago, is making an attempt to reorganize the concern, which has had branches in Baltimore and other cities. In speaking to Mr. Atkins, Mr. Atkins is reported as saying that the concern received (presumably) in money for stock, $455,000; that $100,000 was lost on the building the company had in Forty-sixth street, New York, and that the stockholders owed the company $200,000. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. This remedy has no superior for coughs and colds. It is pleasant to take. It contains no opium or other narcotic. It always cures. For sale by all dealers. Mere Earthquakes in France. Toulon—Slight seismic shocks curred again Monday in Draguignac, Franche-Comté. Fames in reported, but the residents are numbled. HEALTH HINTS. A. J. Booker, M. D. If there is one class of people above another who should be interested in the conservation of health it is Negroes. The trend of the times is toward preventive medicine; people are learning to spare themselves the useless expenditure time of nerve force and the nomic loss incident to preventable diseases. A. There is a sentimental side of the question as well as the more practical and rational. For any race to aspire to the point of gaining supremacy, its physical strength must be the first requisite. The proper conception of the enormous waste of vital force, as a resulting nervous stability after an attack of illness, must be ever in mind; for this reason children must be properly guarded. By being guarded we do not mean making hot house plants of them, but rather the opposite, hardening them, making them rigorous by plenty of pure fresh air and good food. After the nursing period there is little danger of children eating too much. The growing orgasm is always hungry; children are more apt to be underfed than overfed. The food should be a mixed diet, although there is no definite scientific objection to a vegetable diet so long as this does not exclude dairy products and eggs. Candy is a rational and needed article in the dietary of children, especially. So long as by candy we understand it to mean sugar. Every one who knows anything about the human digestive system with the general direct for sweets. It is true that if given before meals sweets often decrease the appetite, which only means that we must use common sense in all our affairs. Eating between meals is not a bad habit if a child is well. Of course no child should be set to eating a jar of preserves, but jelly or preserves with bread and butter is ideal food, furnishing energy for immediate use and helps the child store up some flesh and fat. It is the undernourished child that succumbs most readily to infections. The same argument may be laid down for grown people so far as the judicious use of sweets is concerned. Liking sweets is no sign in itself of diabetes, which, by the way, is not a kidney disease. Sugars are a direct source of energy, and easily handled in the human economy. Every obese person knows that sweets do not decrease fat, because they conserve the fat and keep it from being used for energy. It is a well known fact that great candy eaters are not given to great use of alcoholics; acting on this well known observation many have said that the use of alcoholics was but the attempt to satisfy the natural craving of the body for what we can carbohydrate, and foods, of which class the alcoholic constitute a member. The sugars and alcohols are not distantly related chemically nor physiologically. After they get teeth give the children all they want of food which agrees with them. Keep them well nourished. It is better to spend it with the grocer and the butcher than with the doctor and the druggist. NOTICE TO REDEESI FROM TAX SALE. To F. Cooper, the person in whose name the real estate described below is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Iowa, on December 6, A. D. 1909, the following described real estate, toit: Lots four (4), five (5), eighteen (18), nineteen (19), twenty (20), twenty-one (21), all in block four (4), Jack's plat, an addition now in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold to F. H. Noble for the payment of the taxes for the year 1908, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, now lawfully held and owned by him. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for said lot will be issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, unless redemption from said sale be made within ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Dated this 23rd day of February, 1914. F. H. Noble. By J. C. Meredith, His Agent and Attorney. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To Allen Larison, the person in whose name the real estate described below is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Iowa, on December 9, A. D. 1910, the following described real estate, towit: Lot eight (8), block fifteen (15), Larison Place, an addition now in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, of F. H. Noble for the payment of the taxes for the year 1909, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, therefor, which certificate is now lawfully held and owned by him. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for said lot will be issued to him by the landlord. The landlord will unless redemption from said sale be made within ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Dated this 23rd day of February, 1914. F. H. Noble. By J. C. Meredith, His Agent and Attorney. A Good Rooming House Down Town is at Mrs Ella Epperson 507 Grand Avenue Phone Red 4076. QUINCY ITEMS. The following persons are on the slick list: Mr. Wm. Lilly, Mrs. Maris Hughes, Mrs. Amy Johnson, Mrs. Georgiana Moon, Mrs. C. A. Summers and Mrs. Sarah Young. The attendance Sunday at the churches was small on account of the stormy weather. Little Mildred Cobb was indisposed this week. The Busy Bee Sewing Circle met in an all day meeting at the home of Mrs. J. B. Harris and quilted on their quilt. Mrs. Sarah Young was slightly indisposed this week. Miss Lillian Humphrey and Mr. J. W. Monroe were in Springfield recently on business pertaining to the U.B. of F's and S. M.'s W. B. Hoover, who has been on the slick list, is much improved. Mrs. Anna Wells was in Hannibal, Springfield and St. Louis recently with her hair goods, which she is now selling. The Current Event club met at the home of Madame N. B. Hall. The regular routine of business was transacted. A dainty luncheon of three Madame N. B. Hall and Madame S. L. Roberts will entertain the club in a fortnight. Don't You Believe It. Some say that chronic constipation cannot be cured. Don't you believe it. Chamberlain's Tablets have cured others—why not you? Give them a trial. They cost only a quarter. For sale by all dealers. Joyes Cafe The Old Reliable Place to get your meals PHONE RED 318 W. 3rd St 3027 Rooming House at 216-218 3rd St. How Is Your Boiler? It has been stated that a man's stomach is his boiler, his body is his engine and his mouth the fire box. Is your boiler (istomach) in good working order or is it so weak that it will not stand a full load and not able to supply the needed energy to your engine (body)? If you have any trouble with your stomach Chamberlain's Table, you should and able it to do its work strengthen and invigorate the stomurally. Many very remarkable cures of stomach trouble have been effected by them. For sale by all dealers. WASHINGTON IOWA, NOTES. The election of officers of the Intellectual Improvement club resulted as follows: President, Theo. Turner; vice president, H. Rhodes; secretary, Samuel Hall, Jr.; assistant secretary, Mrs. Myrtle Rhodes; treasurer, Mrs. Theo. Turner; corresponding secretary, Horace Spencer; chaplain, G. W. Black; sergeant-at-arms, Thos. Lewis. The club is now one year old and has grown much to the time, unchanged in the past president, Mr. Horace Spencer. Mr. Philip Rushing is sick with pneumonia. Mrs. Henry Green, who has been sick with rheumatism, is convalescing. A. L. Hall visited at Muscatine, Davenport and West Liberty last week, returning home Sunday night. The election of officers for the Sunday school of the A. M. E. church resulted as follows: A. L. Hall, superintendent; Hayes Crayton, assistant superintendent; secretary, Mary Marie Whaley; assistant secretary, Miss Catharine Turner; treasurer, Miss Catharine Illustrator; Reynold Hall; choirist, Illustrator H. H. Bell; organist, Miss Helen Motts; superintendent cradle roll, Miss Helen Motts; missionary treasurer, Miss Margaret Campbell; delegate to Sunday school convention at M. Pleasant in June, Supt A. L. Hall; alternate, Miss Helen Motts. The Sunday school has an enrollment now of about thirty-seven and five classes, which speaks pretty good for a congregation no larger than ours here. A Nervous Woman Finds Relief From Suffering. A Nervous Woman Finds Relief From Suffering. Women who suffer from extreme nervousness, often endure much suffering before finding any relief. Mrs. Joseph Snyder, of Tifinf, O., had such an experience, regarding which she saws; "Six months I was bedfast with nervous prostration. I had sick spells, a cold, clammy feeling. -- the I slightest noise. At times I would almost飞 to pieces; stomach very myak. Myak. I would insist on being insisted on my taking. Dr. was bedfast with nervous prostration. I had sinked in a cold clammy feeling. could not stand the slightest noise. At times I would almost fly to pieces; stomach very sore before I had finished the first bottle until I was entirely cured." MRS. JOSEPH SYNDER. 263 Hudson St. Tiffin, Ohio. Many remedies are recommended for diseases of the nervous system that fail to produce results because they do not reach the seat of the trouble. Dr. Miles' Nervine has proven its value in such cases so many times that it is unnecessary to make claims for it. You can prove its merits for yourself by getting a bottle of your druggist, who will return the price if you receive no benefit. MILES MEDICAL CO. Elkart, Ind. IOWA STATE BYSTANDER Patronize THE Mystic Theater Where You are Welcome 11th and Center Sts. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The Bystander Co. has been trying to collect from her subscribers the 1913 subscription dues since last May, but babish it is now February, 1914, and some of you have not paid us one cent. We have written to you or called on you last summer, we have written you last fall, we have written you this winter, still no response from some of you. Now we shall turn your names over to our collection agency, so we can when we return dun from them, for we have begged with you and done all that we can to have you pay up. It is a just debt and you should be honest and pay. Remember this notice only applies to those who are back more than one year. NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE. To G. H. Cheek, the person in whose name the real estate described below is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Iowa, on December 9, A. D. 1910, the following described real estate, toit: Lot No. thirteen (13) in block No. sixteen (16) in Brown's official plat of the northeast one-fourth (1-4) of section thirty-six (30), township seventy-nine (79), range twenty-four (24), now in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold to Oswald Lorenz for the payment of taxes for the year 1909, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was daily issued to him by the township of Des Moines, Iowa, for which certificate is now lawfully held and owned by F. H. Noble. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for said lot will be issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, unless redemption from said sale be made within ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Dated this 23rd day of February, 1914. F. H. Noble. By J. C. Meredith, His Agent and Attorney. 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The Bell Telephone is so essential to business and social life that being with- out a telephone is almost like being out of the world. Every Bell Telephone is a Business Builder. IOWA TELEPHONE COMPANY ```markdown ``` NOTICE TO REDEEM FROM TAX SALE To H. E. Haycroft, the person in whose name the real estate described below is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Iowa, on December 6, A. D. 1909, the following described real estate, toit: Lot twenty-five (25) in block thirteen (13), East Place, now in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold to F. H. Noble for the payment of the taxes for the year 1908, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, having certificate is not lawfully held and owned by him. That the time for redemption from said sale will expire and a deed for said lot will be issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, unless redemption from said sale be made within ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Dated this 23rd day of February, 1914. F. H. Noble. By J. C. Johnson. His Agent and Attorney. NOTICE TO REDÉEM FROM TAX SALE To the Hart Oil and Well Co., the person in whose name the real estate described below is taxed: You are hereby notified that at a regular tax sale held in and for Polk county, Iowa, on December 6, A. D. 1909, the following described real estate, toit: Lot No. twenty-four (24) in Capitol addition, which addition is now in and forming a part of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, was sold to F. H. Noble for the payment of the taxes for the year 1908, thereon, and a certificate of purchase was duly issued to him by the treasurer of said Polk county, Iowa, therefor, which certificate is now lately held by owned by him. 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